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... Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been removed, to the extreme regret of all weak-kneed lovers of the fine arts, but the gentleman in question had taken serene possession of its softest spot, and, with his head thrown back and his legs outstretched, was staring at Murillo?s beautiful moon-borne Madonna in profound enjoyment of his...

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...e been removed, to the extreme regret of all weak-kneed lovers of the fine arts, but the gentleman in question had taken serene possession of its soft... ...e glance toward her ad- 6 The American mirer. The cultivation of the fine arts appeared to neces- sitate, to her mind, a great deal of byplay, a grea... ...ful eyes and nodded several times with a world of sadness. “She has had an education—tres-superieure! Nothing was spared. Lessons in pastel at ten fra... ...for economy’s sake. When I was a girl I was put into a convent here for my education, while my father made the tour of Europe. It was a silly thing to... ... made Newman a most respectful curtsey and expressed her gratitude for his liberality in a wonderfully graceful little speech. It annoyed him to have ... ...imself little of the opportunities for impres- sive seclusion which are so liberally offered in Europe to gentlemen who travel with long purses. When ... ...s that you require—what are they?” “Goodness, beauty, intelligence, a fine education, per- sonal elegance—everything, in a word, that makes a splen- d... ...Newman wondered whether he was hurting her; he could not imag- ine why the liberal devotion he meant to express should be disagreeable. He got up and ... ...upon the table-service. The marquis appeared to have decided that the fine arts offered a safe subject of conversation, as not leading to startling pe...

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... to construct a literary work that might live, it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such an employment. ?As subsidiary to this preparation, he undertook to record, in verse, the origin and progress of his own powers, as far as he was acquainted with them. ?That work, addressed...

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...that he should take a review of his own mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such an employment. “As subsidiary to this... ...n Flying, found shelter in the Fortunate Isles, And left their usages, their arts and laws, To disappear by a slow gradual death, To dwindle and to pe... ... perceive, and not that we have made. 220 To thee, unblinded by these formal arts, The unity of all hath been revealed, And thou wilt doubt, with me l... ...ons, suppers, wine and fruit, Smooth housekeeping within, and all without 45 Liberal, and suiting gentleman’s array. The Evangelist St. John my patron... ... To instantaneous service; should at once Have made me pay to science and to arts And written lore, acknowledged my liege lord, A homage frankly offer... ...f all acquisitions, first awaits On sundry and most widely different modes Of education, nor with least delight On that through which I passed. Attenti... ...IMAGINATION AND TASTE, HOW IMPAIRED AND RESTORED (concluded) 207 The name of Education, have to do With real feeling and just sense; how vain A corres...

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... Department, which in these days had charge of the scientific and artistic education of the mass of the English population, and had thrown himself int... ...aff and spirit survive, more or less completely digested into the Board of Education. The world does move on, even in its government. It is won- derfu... ... of the State to remember that the very beginnings of public 17 H G Wells education lie within my father’s lifetime, and that many most intelligent a... ... at this time was mitigated, if I remember rightly, by making graduates in arts and priests in the established church Science Teachers ex officio, and... ...th and came into contact with him, but honest, simple and very eager to be liberal-minded. He was bald, with an almost conical baldness, with a grizzl... ...beard, small featured and, under the stresses of a Zeitgeist that demanded liberality, with an expression of puzzled but resolute resistance to his ow... ...indeed figured our project modestly as a manuscript magazine of satirical, liberal and brilliant literature by which in some rather inex- plicable way... ... and Margaret tried to en- gage Britten in a sympathetic discussion of the Arts and Crafts exhibition. But Britten and Esmeer were persistent, Mrs. Mi...

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...t remote extraction being American, while our more recent construction and education have taken place in Europe. When I speak of the “earliest account... ...the management of a legitimist, while the other invaded the dominions of a liberal. Neither of these persons had any concern with us, we being under t... ...es of our locales. While the legitimist read nothing but the Moniteur, the liberal read nothing but Le Temps, a journal then recently established, in ... ...soned, swore by his oaths, and finally arrived at all his conclusions. The liberals had the best of it as to numbers, and possibly as to wit, the Moni... ...he state of trade were loud and deep among those who lived by its innocent arts. Still, the holidays were near, and hope revived. If revolutionized Pa... ...nious substitute, as the following little dialogue will show, but my early education un- der the astronomer and the delicate minded Adrienne, has ren-... ... qualified for such a duty, either by native capacity, or, its substitute, education.” “Oh! that makes no great difference—half the corps is ex- actly...

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...ighting them all round. This was during the decay of his party, before the Liberals were defined. A Liberal deprived him of the seat he had held for f... ...rant him his not unreasonable argument upon his property in game, he was a liberal landlord. No tenants were forced to take his farms. He dragged none... ...ill there were grumbling tenants. He swarmed with game, and, though he was liberal, his hares and his birds were immensely de- structive: computation ... ...s; with this difference, however, that these decried the woman’s vi- cious arts, and Mistress Elizabeth Mary Beauchamp put all the sin upon the man. S... ...of a former beauty who has ceased to rouge, or wipe away traces of her old arts,’ she said, straining for common talk, and showing the strain. ‘Wait; ... ...e loses the vulgar art of walking in her complaisant attention to the fine Arts. I weary my poor child.’ Renee protested in a rapid chatter. ‘Must I a... ...for the second and in that young season the stronger nature grafted by her education fixed her to the religious duty of obeying and pleasing her fathe... ... is the word. I am your born representative! I have completed my political education on salt water, and I tackle you on the Land question. I am the he... ... in your class?’ ‘Please to say yours too.’ ‘I’ve no class. I say that the education for women is to teach them to rely on themselves.’ ‘Ah! well, I d...

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... little at her death; but she had given him that too common and incomplete education which produces so much ambition and so little ability. A few days... ...sed the elements of that apparent superiority which pleases the world; her liberal edu- cation enabled her to speak to every one in his or her own lan... ...the fam- ily, for dress precedes everything; then see what remains for the education of the children (a girl of eight and a boy of nine, whose mainten... ...ul as the other in an arena outside of which each lords it in his own way. Education, equally distributed through the masses, brings the son of a port... ... family, remarking to the pretty woman at his side, “That’s my chief.” The Liberals call this state of things Progress; Rabourdin thought it Anarchy a... ...difficult undertaking is the rehabilitation of the Civil Service while the liberal cries aloud in his newspapers that the salaries of clerks are a sta... ...ministration of justice, the household of the king, and all that concerned arts, sciences, and belles lettres. All patron- age ought to flow directly ... ...affair to a happy conclusion. Moreover, he really liked literature and the arts; he collected autographs, obtained splendid albums gratis, and possess... ...ld become of any of us? They give strength to bear the res angusta domi of arts and the beginnings of all science by inspiring us with faith. Illusion...

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...tion of our territory. Let us show a true patriotism which shall put these liberals, these damned intriguers, to the blush; hein? Do you think I don’t... ... the blush; hein? Do you think I don’t love my country? I wish to show the liberals, my enemies, that to love the king is to love France.” “Do you thi... ...id, “if you love me, let me be happy in my own way. Neither you nor I have education; we don’t know how to talk, nor to play ‘your obedient servant’ l... ...terbalanced by his desire to make his fortune; if he lacked cleverness and education, he possessed an instinctive rectitude and delicate feelings, whi... ... and Fall of Cesar Birotteau nearly twenty thousand francs a year, and the education of Cesarine, an only daughter, idolized by Constance as well as b... ...y, dismissed him. During the Hundred Days Birotteau was the bugbear of the liberals of his quarter; for it was not until 1815 that differ- ences of po... ...r to win adherents and rally to the Bourbons the various trades and men of arts and sciences, included Birotteau in the coming promotion. This honor, ... ... architecture 64 Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau is the union of all the arts. We will not enter through the shop,” he added, opening the private do... ...archi- tect know that the perfumer’s daughter was not ignorant of the fine arts. When Grindot came in to measure the bedroom he was surprised and take...

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... masses through the inspi- ration of religious feeling, and by means of an education other than that of a lay university. In the “Scenes from Military... ...ed from her mother. Pious, though far from sanctimonious, she had no other education than that given to women by the Church. Judged, by ordinary stand... ...ship in the Imperial Lyceum, and the Emperor paid the whole costs of their education from his privy purse. He gave Madame Bridau a pension of four tho... ...a painter, a picture such as may be 17 Balzac seen at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; if a musician, a cantata; if an architect, the plans for a public bui... ...se cold and cheerless buildings, and taken to the elegant Palais des Beaux-Arts, which stands near by. From the windows of Madame Bridau’s new abode, ... ...T exas is to-day a republic, with a future full of promise. This scheme of Liberalism under the Restoration distinctly proves that the interests of th... ...ty thousand francs when it ought to have yielded five or six millions. The Liberal leaders soon found out that they were playing into the hands of Lou... ...is noble nature, his energy, the fall of the Emperor, the duplicity of the Liberals, and the rancor of the Bourbons against the Bonapartists. During t... ...he Pont Neuf for the two sous it would have cost him to go by the Pont des Arts to the Palais-Royal, where he consumed regu- larly two glasses of bran...

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... review the social organisation in a different way, to con- sider it as an educational process instead of dealing with it as a thing with a future his... ...osition of all peoples, white, black, or brown, a natural disposition that education seeks to destroy, is to insist upon uniformity, to make publicity... ...cluse and defensive, that too the Utopians will have escaped by their more liberal breeding. In the cultivated State we are assuming it will be ever s... ...s return. It is essential to the mod- ern ideal of life that the period of education and growth should be prolonged to as late a period as possible an... ...ill tend to make clothing, ornamentation, imple- ments, books, and all the arts finer and more beautiful, be- cause by buying such things a man will s... ...share the secret of one’s little concealment. T o the eighteenth-cen- tury Liberal, to the old-fashioned nineteenth-century Lib- eral, that is to say ... ...ld-fashioned nineteenth-century Lib- eral, that is to say to all professed Liberals, brought up to be against the Government on principle, this organi... ...ats, if you will—where the ruling council of the world assembles. Then the arts will clus- ter round this city, as gold gathers about wisdom, and here... ... the wisdom of the statesman with his own energy, the origi- nal genius in arts, letters, science, and every department of activity to the cultivated ...

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... imperial throne. Monsieur de Fontaine discovered too late how utterly the education of the daughter he loved had been ruined by the tender devotion o... ...lling his truffles twice over. This accusation, started by certain mocking Liberals, who made up by their flow of words for their small follow- ing in... ...to attract the attention of the imperturbable stranger. None of her little arts succeeded. Mademoiselle de Fontaine then followed the direction in whi... ...to strike his horse, and touched the young fellow’s shoul- der, saying, “A liberal citizen is a reasoner; every reasoner should be prudent.” The young... ...nd his niece immediately began to try the ever-new power of her coquettish arts. Long familiar with the secret of cajoling the old man, she lavished o... ... of a man of the world, it was easy to discern that he had had a brilliant education, and that his knowledge was as thor- ough as it was extensive. He... ...the silence into which she had retired. Emilie generally displayed all her arts for the benefit of newcomers, her witty prattle, and the inexhaustible... ...o, was being studied, and that made her endeavor to remedy the defects her education had encouraged. Was not this her first homage to love, and a bitt...

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...the bedroom. Neither husband nor wife knew how to read,—a slight defect of education which did not prevent them from ci- phering admirably and doing a... ...the department, and she can do what she pleases with Graslin.” Veronique’s education, her religious ideas, and her bound- less affection for her paren... ...ploy to bear the weariness of their solitude. She gave herself that second education which most women derive from a man, but which she derived from he... ...reater rigor than ever, even the smallest religious practices. On this the liberals of the town classed Madame Graslin among the devotes, the ultras. ... ...ion he re- mained at his post and did his duty in the midst of perils. The liberals of the town were ignorant of the motives of his con- duct; they cl... ...t his wife on an allowance of a hundred francs a month, and boasted of his liberality in so doing. The office-boy, who liked flowers, was made to take... ...ssentially bad; bad not only in science, but wher- ever it is employed, in arts, in all selections of men, of projects, of things. If it is a reproach...

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...wn, and who has compromised with none of the lofty principles of a saintly education. Young girls are indeed a formidable public, for they ought not t... ...ful? If yes, in what way can the harm be warded off.” The Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences at Metz, to which Minoret belonged, must possess this dis... ... of the expense he would be to them at a school in Paris, where, she said, education costs so much. The doctor obtained a half-scholarship for his gre... ...d the abbe was the Fenelon of the Gatinais. Both had had a wide and varied education; the man of God was the only person in all Nemours who was fully ... ...the sources of his authority and power. Minoret took three newspapers,—one liberal, one minis- terial, one ultra,—a few periodicals, and certain scien... ...ear in taxes, and refused, impartially, to subscribe to either royalist or liberal demands. His known horror for the priesthood, and his deism were so... ...d the “Discours du General Foy.” Such tolerance seemed inexplicable to the liberals of Nemours. The doctor’s three collateral heirs, Minoret-Levrault ... ...s a mental eclipse when he is surrounded by igno- rant persons. In all the arts we must receive from the souls who make the environment of our souls a...

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... as Babbitt defined it, “getting some good out of your expensive col- lege education till you’re ready to marry and settle down.” But now said Verona:... ...r a man’s spent his lifetime trying to give his kids a chance and a decent education, it’s pretty discour- aging to hear them all the time scrapping l... ...hing in the world except babies, cooking, and motors. He was a Bachelor of Arts of Blodgett College, and a Doctor of Philosophy in econom- ics of Yale... ...ade tree, swell neighborhood, handy car line. $3700, $780 down and balance liberal, Babbitt- Thompson terms, cheaper than rent. DORCHESTER.—A corker! ... ..., I guess I can get Lyte here to loosen up for a building-mortgage on good liberal terms. Heavens, man, we’d be glad to oblige you! We don’t like thes... ...nt, and appreciated Sidney Finkelstein as “a mighty smart buyer and a good liberal spender,” it was to Vergil Gunch that he turned with enthusiasm. Mr... ...ted Ruler. He was a jolly man, given to oratory and to chumminess with the arts. He called on the famous actors and vaudeville artists when they came ... ...gy and foresight of American commerce have con- tributed to the science of education. The first displayed the portrait of a young man with a pure brow... ...cs and religion this Sane Citizen is the canniest man on earth; and in the arts he invariably has a natural taste which makes him pick out the best, e...

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...regu- larity and good conduct. Though you have had eighty pounds a year (a liberal salary), you have not spent a shilling more than your income, as ot... ... things! it was merely on account of their hair, and his love for the fine arts. As for the poor artist, my dear, some people said it was the profuse ... ...; and that not one of them is there but has an interest in procuring, at a liberal commission, other persons to join the ranks of our As- sociation. b... ...ause I came of a better family than most of them; had received a classical education; and espe- cially because I had a rich aunt, Mrs. Hoggarty, about... ..., sir,” says I, “is the Tory solicitor, and Messrs. Hodge and Smithers the Liberals.” I knew them very well, for the fact is, before Mary Smith came t... ...r, Tidd.” “He was a tailor, sir,—but what of that? I’ve had a Univer- sity education, and have the feelings of a gentleman; as much— ay, perhaps, and ... ...rty’s peculiarities as well as anyone, madam; and aware that those and her education are not such as to make her a fit companion for you. I know you d...

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... Edgeworth’s novels stepping from their covers, Or Mrs. Trimmer’s books on education, Or ‘Coelebs’ Wife’ set out in quest of lovers, Morality’... ...stands. ‘T is pity learned virgins ever wed With persons of no sort of education, Or gentlemen, who, though well born and bred, Grow tired... ...alry, In case our lord the king should go to war again, He learn’d the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress — or a nu... ...is studies she inquired, And so they were submitted first to her, all, Arts, sciences, no branch was made a mystery To Juan’s eyes, excepting ... ..., especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse, The arts, at least all such as could be said To be the most remote from c... ... to little Juan — I can’t but say that his mamma was right, If such an education was the true one. She scarcely trusted him from out her sig... ...they wish’d to see: But if it gives them pleasure, be it so; This is a liberal age, and thoughts are free: Meantime Apollo plucks me by the ea... ...d the balance of the world? Who reign O’er congress, whether royalist or liberal? Who rouse the shirtless patriots of Spain? (That make old ... ...— Jew Rothschild, and his fellow Christian, Baring. Those, and the truly liberal Lafitte, Are the true lords of Europe. Every loan Is not a ...

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..., was struck with Moreau’s evident loyalty, and showed his satisfaction by liberal gifts. But after the birth of Moreau’s third child, a daughter, he ... ...t social accident, that sub-providence, having willed that they be without education and devoid of the talent of observation, it follows that they are... ...nce. He began to hum the chorus of a song lately brought into vogue by the liberals, which ended with the words, “’Tis Voltaire’s fault, ’tis Rousseau... ...ate it successfully,” said Joseph Bridau. “No. Without being neglected, my education was purely commercial; but I have so profound and delicate a sens... ...o the “demi-bourse,” or scholarship, by which he (Oscar) had ob- tained an education, was due to the Comte de Serizy. Most of this would now cease. Mo... ...ugh nothing was then left of the latter but the waistcoat. But such little arts did Oscar more 105 Balzac harm than good when practised on so sly an ... ... his parents. Consequently, we hereby record with the high- est praise the liberal conduct of Madame Clapart, widow, by her first marriage, of Monsieu... ...russol, were enjoying a modest competence. It was to this protector of the arts—to use the consecrated phrase— that the theatre owed the brilliant dan... ...dies of the Opera, Florine, and also poor Coralie, torn too early from the arts, and love, and Camusot. As old Cardot had by this time acquired five a...

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...neral reigned supreme, she now opened her salon to the notabilities of the liberal party in Arcis. A woman accustomed to the advan- tages of salon roy... ... Vanity is the most tenacious of all habits. Bonapartist, and afterwards a liberal—for, by the strangest of metamorphoses, the soldiers of Napoleon be... ...r, the chief physician of Arcis, brother-in-law of Grevin, and a few other liberals. “If our dear boy is not nominated,” said Madame Marion, having fi... ...ed under a deluge of commonplaces his native incapacity, his total want of education, and a weakness of character which can only be expressed by the o... ...son presented of romantic charm. Still, a husband capable of reforming her education and effacing the traces of provincial life, might still evolve fr... ...econd, he did not conceal from himself the imperfec- tions of a provincial education which he should have to un- make, but this was no serious objecti... ...my dear Madame de Camps, that in 1831 you and I went together to the Beaux-Arts to see the exhibition of works which were competing for the Grand Prix... ...unterpart of that institution in a cafe long known as that of the Cafe des Arts. Two or three times a week I spend an evening there, where I meet seve... ... face I saw that of a man in whom I recognized my listener at the Cafe des Arts. But that is not all: behind him came the semblance of a hu- man being...

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...ppeal to the broader-minded, more progressive type of parent, he became an educational reformer, and wrote upon modernizing the curriculum with increa... ...s wife. He had been an early vic- tim to that wave of philoprogenitive and educational enthu- siasm which distinguished the closing decade of the nine... ...de of the nine- teenth century. He was full of plans in those days for the education of his boy, and the thought of the youngster played a large part ... ...Conservative party. But it was pointed out to him that just at present the Liberal party was the party of a young man’s opportunity; sooner or later t... ...swing of the pendu- lum which would weed the Conservatives and proliferate Liberals was bound to come, there was always more demand and opportunity fo... ...o come, there was always more demand and opportunity for candidates on the Liberal side, the Tar- iff Reformers were straining their ministerial major... ... mind. They were so distin- guished, so dignified, they took their various arts with so admirable a gravity that the soul of this young man recoiled f...

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...t. We make him an allowance to live on. He is not stupid. Had quite a good education, thanks to my father. But he has gone quite off the track—I think... ...agin asked with a smile. “I may venture to say that I am well known for my liberal and progressive opinions. On the contrary, what you said the other ... ...n talk things over further. I should like to tell you a few of my views on education. We can also decide when to start.” Sipiagin took Nejdanov’s hand... ...pretty girl who died on the day of Nejdanov’s birth. He received his early education in a board- ing school kept by a certain Swiss, a very energetic ... ...er severe style, but quite in keeping with the dignity of a states- man of liberal views. The gentleman himself was sitting be- fore an enormous burea... ...t of a reserved first-class compartment, side by side with this same wise, liberal politician, being borne along to Mos- cow on the jolting lines of t... ...as beginning to play such an important part; where his wife patronised the arts, gave musical evenings, and founded charitable cook- shops; where Koll...

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...less than an exposure of all Russia—what would foreigners think of it? The liberal elements, however, the critical Belinsky 6 Dead Souls among them, ... ...er “knaves and blockheads.” But the “Westerner” Belinsky and others of the liberal camp were mistrustful. It was about this time (1847) that Gogol pub... ... as my corrector. Do not despise the task, for, how- ever superior be your education, and however lofty your station, and however insignificant, in yo... ...t book, I implore you to do as I have said. And you too, O reader of lowly education and simple status, I beseech you not to look upon yourself as too... ...of life, some person who stands remote, 12 Dead Souls both by life and by education, from the circle of folk which I have pictured in my book, but wh... ...said, Chichikov went on to deliver himself of a very telling indictment of Liberalism and our modern young men. Yet in his words there seemed to lurk ... ...and turned his attention to a third bookcase, which contained books on the Arts. Extracting a huge tome in which some by no means reticent mythologica...