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...reat fly which this spider had subtly entangled in his web. But, in truth, naturalists are acquainted with this spider, though it is a rare one; the B... ...he estate and the lovely lady from the for tunate heir; and how this grim Italian priest had instigated them to use a certain kind of torture with th... ...se? There are pistols; they lie on the coffer! There is a curiously shaped Italian dagger, of the kind which in a groove has poison that makes its wou... ...ave good ale brewed in his house; having himself no taste for anything but Italian wines, wretched fellow that he is! He might make himself an English... ...sh honors should be enjoyed by foreigners. This, then, is the gentleman of Italian birth whom you have mentioned to me, and of whom there is a slight ... ...an English trait in his face, and as little in his manner. His civility is Italian, such as oftentimes, among his countrymen, has offered a cup of poi...

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...“Thalaba”, Locke “On the Human Understanding”, Bacon’s “Novum Organum”. In Italian, Ariosto, Tasso, and Alfieri. In French, the “Reveries d’un Solitai... ...enomenon alluded to at the conclusion of the third stanza is well known to naturalists. The vegetation at the bot- tom of the sea, of rivers, and of l... ... _150 All things which live and are, within the Italian shore; Who spreadest Heaven around it, Whose woods, rocks, waves, s... ...and the bowers Of solitary wealth,—the tempest-proof Pavilions of the dark Italian air,— Are by its presence dimmed—they stand aloof, _15 ... ...ree persons; and he was often seen on the Arno in it, to the horror of the Italians, who remon- strated on the danger, and could not understand how an... ... its being finished, and it was falling into ruin. He had (and this to the Italians had seemed a glaring symptom of very decided madness) rooted up th...

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...ion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Moham... ... her tongue took to languages with an easy facility. She never allowed her Italian, French, and German to get rusty through neglect. The telegrams of ... ...in five minutes’ time, at no cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten them all, transcended them all, outstripped them a... ...ing little suns distributed over it. Think of it—it was by command of that Italian loafer yon der on his imperial throne in the Geneva prison that th... ...day night the life of the President of the French Republic was taken by an Italian assassin. Last night a mob surrounded our hotel, shouting, howling,... ... explorers, adventurers by land and sea, bankers, financiers, astronomers, naturalists, claimants, impostors, chemists, biologists, geologists, philol...

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...th enthusiasm, and the other raven dropped everything and came. The two sat side by side on the limb and discussed me as freely and offensively as two... ...gend, too, but I should not feel justified in repeat- ing it because I doubted the truth of some of its minor de- tails. Along in this region a multit... ...a. It did no other harm, but we took to the water just the same. It seems that the heavy work in the quarries and the new railway gradings is done mai... ...undertaker-furniture and paying no sort of attention to his frequent and humble little efforts to do something for her comfort. Then the train halted ... ...n must surely read a good deal, for it has more book- stores to the square rod than any other town I know of. And it has its own share of military fol... ...lling all the information I could about Italy, from tourists. The tourists were all agreed upon one thing—one must expect to be cheated at every turn ...

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...eno had for his oath the same interjection at this time in use amongst the Italians, Cappari! Pythagoras swore By water and air. I am so apt, without ... ... respectful, more timorous, more coy, and secret love of the Spaniards and Italians pleases me. I know not who of old wished his throat as long as tha... ...lso the Romans, kept this exercise in great honour in their academies; the Italians retain some traces of it to this day, to their great advantage, as... ...at he has observed that our legs are gener- ally smaller than those of the Italian gentlemen, and attributes the cause of it to our being continually ... ... “Ogni medaglia ha il suo rovescio.” [“Every medal has its reverse.”—Italian Proverb.] This is the reason why Clitomachus said of old that Carne... ...hemselves upon them, and so have more credit with the laws than I have: we naturalists I think that there is a great and incomparable preference in th...

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... least smattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca, but all to no purpose. After about two hours ... ...rds the whole kingdom. The word imports what the Latins call nanunculus, the Italians homunceletino, and the English mannikin. To her I chiefly owe m... ...g very offensively; and I could easily trace that viscous matter, which, our naturalists tell us, enables those creatures to walk with their feet upwa... ...em called out in a clear, polite, smooth dialect, not unlike in sound to the Italian: and therefore I returned an answer in that language, hoping at l... ... whenever he pleases. For the highest clouds cannot rise above two miles, as naturalists agree, at least they were never known to do so in that countr... ...al diadems, I saw in one family two fiddlers, three spruce courtiers, and an Italian prelate. In an other, a barber, an abbot, and two cardinals. I h...

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...th century; I mean Latin. If I am mistaken, I can but try Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, or Hebrew. But the savants of the sixteenth century gener- ... ...ters the vertical coils of its tail. Its jaw is enormous, and according to naturalists it is armed with no less than one hundred and eighty-two teeth.... ...nt appellet-on cette Montagne, mon enfant?” Silence still. “Now let us try Italian,” said my uncle; and he said: “Dove noi siamo?” “Yes, where are we?... .... It would not have been wise to tell how we came there. The superstitious Italians would have set us down for fire-devils vomited out of hell; so we ...

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...wn with thorns.” “All these incomplete indications but serve to torture us naturalists.” Thus speak of the whale, the great Cuvier, and John Hunter, a... ...s (Pig-fish and Sow-fish of the Coffins of Nantucket) are included by many naturalists among the whales. But as these pig-fish are a noisy, contemptib... ...the second species of my Folios? It is the Great Mysticetus of the English naturalists; the Greenland Whale of the English whalemen; the Baliene Ordin... ...ethodization formed upon such a basis. On this rock every one of the whale-naturalists has split. But it may possibly be conceived that, in the intern... .... But possessing all the grand distinctive features of the leviathan, most naturalists have recognised him for one. He is of moder- ate octavo size, v... ...intended when the device was first introduced. It was introduced by an old Italian pub- lisher somewhere about the 15th century, during the Revival of... ...mberless straight marks in thick array, something like those in the finest Italian line engravings. But these marks do not seem to be impressed upon t... ...ng that hard- scrabble scramble upon the dead whale’s back. Y ou have seen Italian organ-boys holding a dancing-ape by a long cord. Just so, from the ... ...y reveal of the divine love in the Son, the soft, curled, hermaphroditical Italian pictures, in which his idea has been most successfully embod- ied; ...

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...wn with thorns.” “All these incomplete indications but serve to torture us naturalists.” Thus speak of the whale, the great Cuvier, and John Hunter, a... ...ongs (Pig fish and Sow fish of the Coffins of Nantucket) are included by many naturalists among the whales. But as these pig fish are a nosy, contemptible... ...the second species of my Folios? It is the Great Mysticetus of the English naturalists; the Greenland Whale of the English whalemen; the Baleine Ordin... ...ethodization formed upon such a basis. On this rock every one of the whale naturalists has split. But it may possibly be conceived that, in the intern... .... But possessing all the grand distinctive features of the leviathan, most naturalists 2 Why this book of whales is not denominated the Quarto is very... ... intended when the device was first introduced. It was introduced by an old Italian publisher somewhere about the 15th century, during the Revival of L... ...umberless straight marks in thick array, something like those in the finest Italian line engravings. But these marks do not seem to be impressed upon t... ...ing that hard scrabble scramble upon the dead whale’s back. You have seen Italian organ boys holding a dancing ape by a long cord. Just so, from the ... ...y reveal of the divine love in the Son, the soft, curled, hermaphroditical Italian pictures, in which his idea has been most successfully embodied; th...

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... the best chronometers. I have divided it into twenty-four hours, like the Italian clocks, because for me there is neither night nor day, sun nor moon... ...f phosphate and carbonate of lime, with a little gelatine; and lastly, for naturalists, it is sim- ply a morbid secretion of the organ that produces t... ...tain amount of education, are easily domesticated, and I think, with other naturalists, that if properly taught they would be of great service as fish... ... poulp on which a regiment of cavalry could manoeuvre. Lastly, the ancient naturalists speak of monsters whose mouths were like gulfs, and which were ... ...easure two yards in length. Besides, according to the calculations of some naturalists, one of these animals only six feet long would have tentacles t...

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... seemed to him to be an arm issuing from the lake of Maeotis. However, the naturalists were better informed of the truth, and had given an account of ... ..., the philosopher. Diophanes was a refugee from Mitylene, the other was an Italian, of the city of Cuma, and was educated there under Antipater of Tar... ...o was not full seventeen years old; another gave the same right to all the Italians in general, of voting at elections, as was enjoyed by the citizens... ...ween the citizens and their confederates, and underhand to be inciting the Italians to rebel; though there was little other evidence of the truth of t... ...s, under the command of Menas, the pirate, and Menecrates, so infested the Italian coast, that no vessels durst venture into those seas. Sextus had be...

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...how dreadfully like a rascal is to an honest man. The man who murdered the Italian boy, set him first to play with his children whom he loved, and who... ... once a man who had a mysterious exhibition of an animal, quite unknown to naturalists, called “the wusser.” Those curious individuals who desired to ...

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...ante traductions, amongst those even that have not escaped the search. The Italian translations are said to be thirty. As to mere editions, not counti... ...live fast—he is a slow coach. I believe it is generally understood amongst naturalists, that the crocodile is a blockhead. It is my own impression tha...

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...e cracks and crevices where the eye de- lights to wander. Here you see the Italian pine, the stone pine, with its red bark and its majestic parasol; h... ...-room. The eye is first attracted to the ceiling, painted in fresco in the Italian manner, where lightsome arabesques are frolicking. Female forms, in... ... of the old parliament; hammers have demolished Montmorency, which cost an Italian fol- 13 Balzac lower of Napoleon untold sums; Val, the creation of... ...et little Genevieve on the road in a miserable condition, you cried out in Italian, ‘Piccina!’ The word became a nickname, and is now cor- rupted all ... ...fects agriculture, horticulture, and all earth products, we must know that naturalists like Latreille, the Comte Dejean, Klugg of Berlin, Gene of T ur... ... till some time later, but she did not wish to lose the first night of the Italian Opera, and moreover she was lonely and bored; she missed Emile, who...

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...iar who created the prophetic 13 Hawthorne Brazen Head. All these antique naturalists stood in advance of their centuries, yet were imbued with some ... ...re she beheld the beautiful head of the young man—rather a Grecian than an Italian head, with fair, regu lar features, and a glistening of gold among...

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...on houses and ships, when the first are to be burnt and the second dround. Naturalists say they are very sagacious creatures, and I beleeve they are s... ...struments, each playing his own favourite tune with such a din, that if an Italian musician had lain buried within ten miles of them, he must have ris... ...ar to moun- taineers. One officer of the Covenanters alone, trained in the Italian wars, made a desperate defence upon the right wing. In every other ...

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... some way, artificially stuck on. But let nature, to the perplexity of the naturalists, produce her duck-billed beavers as she may, lesser authors, so... ...hoary captive in your chamber, then will you, something like the dungeoned Italian we read of, gladly seek the breast of that confidence begot in the ... ... that of a shriveled berry. Nothing could exceed his look of pictur- esque Italian ruin and dethronement, heightened by what seemed just one glimmerin...

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... and the living world about him—thought and fact. His friends were learned naturalists, young doctors of medicine, political writers and artists, a nu... ...voc of Joseph’s heart, he might have continued the traditions of the great Italian masters, though, for that matter, the last word has not yet been sa... ...se. No Frenchman can hope to rival Petrarch; for the language in which the Italian wrote, being so infinitely more pliant than French, lends itself to... ...vorites and great lords. The original inventor was Pietro Aretino, a great Italian. Kings went in fear of him, as stage-players go in fear of a newspa...

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...s; and indeed it must have weighed more than two pounds, for, according to naturalists, he who has a large heart is more largely endowed with valour t... ...ack the liveries they had given merely for show.” “What spilorceria!—as an Italian would say,” said Don Quixote; “but for all that, consider yourself ... ...prepossessing appearance and a certain gravity of look) “has translated an Italian book into our Spanish tongue, and I am setting it up in type for th... ...e of the book?” asked Don Quixote; to which the author replied, “Senor, in Italian the book is called Le Bagatelle.” “And what does Le Bagatelle impor... ...olid matter in it.” “I,” said Don Quixote, “have some little smattering of Italian, and I plume myself on singing some of Ariosto’s stanzas; but tell ... ...a?” “Body o’ me,” exclaimed Don Quixote, “what a proficient you are in the Italian language! I would lay a good wager that where they say in Italian p...

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... charges Shelton with having translated not from the Spanish, but from the Italian version of Franciosini, which did not appear until ten years after ... ... who, like Garcilaso de la Vega and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, followed the Italian wars, had brought back from Italy the products of the post-Renaissa... ...e speaks his own tongue I will put him upon my head.” “Well, I have him in Italian,” said the barber, “but I do not un- derstand him.” “Nor would it b... ...freely to attain the desired perfection, which consists in being virtuous. Naturalists tell us that the ermine is a little animal which has a fur of p... ...s; and indeed it must have weighed more than two pounds, for, according to naturalists, he who has a large heart is more largely endowed with valour t... ...ack the liveries they had given merely for show.” “What spilorceria!—as an Italian would say,” said Don Quixote; “but for all that, consider yourself ... ...prepossessing appearance and a certain gravity of look) “has translated an Italian book into our Spanish tongue, and I am setting it up in type for th...

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...ell; and she had studied the French language, history, geography, English, Italian,— in short, all that constitutes the education of a well-brought- u... ...f religion. Like most geometricians, chem- ists, mathematicians, and great naturalists, he had subjected religion to reason; he recognized a problem i... ...“Was one of my first lodgers. It was there she made ac- quaintance with an Italian, a handsome man, and rich, a political refugee, but one of the loft... ...pot of money for madame, for she managed to get im- mense sums out of that Italian. Well, would you believe that when—being just then in great need—I ... ...ose relations to the police, she gave the govern- ment a lot of papers the Italian left about carelessly, on which they expelled him from France.” “We...

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...another so strong, that for some time I cou’d not part them again. Let the Naturalists explain these Things, and the Reason and Manner of them; all I ... ...r the Remainder of my Life: To this I added a very handsom Present of some Italian Silks for his Wife, and two Daughters, for such the Captain’s Son i...

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... charges Shelton with having translated not from the Spanish, but from the Italian version of Franciosini, which did not appear until ten years after ... ... who, like Garcilaso de la Vega and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, followed the Italian wars, had brought back from Italy the products of the post-Renaissa... ...e speaks his own tongue I will put him upon my head.” “Well, I have him in Italian,” said the barber, “but I do not un- derstand him.” “Nor would it b... ...freely to attain the desired perfection, which consists in being virtuous. Naturalists tell us that the ermine is a little animal which has a fur of p...

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...sh have endeavoured to lessen the character of that great comic poet. Such Italian musicians as despise Lully are themselves persons of no char- acter... ...e in our debt) to borrow from them. Both the English and we came after the Italians, who have been our instructors in all the arts, and whom we have s... ...mmon hang- man, and himself to lose his ears. His trial is now extant. The Italians are far from attempting to cast a blemish on the opera, or to exco... ...on- temptible pieces written against the stage. For when the En- glish and Italians hear that we brand with the greatest mark of infamy an art in whic... ...o con- fine ourselves merely to a blind practice, but happy it were, would naturalists and geometricians unite, as much as pos- sible, the practice wi...

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...acknowledging the generous assistance which I have received from very many naturalists, some of them personally unknown to me. I cannot, however, let ... ... value of such studies, although they have been very commonly neglected by naturalists. From these considerations, I shall devote the first chapter of... ...and dispassionate judgment of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists entertain, and which I formerly entertained—namely, that each s... ...to the subject of reversion, I may here refer to a statement often made by naturalists— namely, that our domestic varieties, when run wild, gradually ... ...alue. I think it could be shown that this statement is hardly correct; but naturalists differ most widely 23 Charles Darwin in determining what chara... ...inherited variation. Who can believe that animals closely re- sembling the Italian greyhound, the bloodhound, the bull-dog, or Blenheim spaniel, &c.—s... ...ss, we must admit the former ex- istence of the most extreme forms, as the Italian grey- 26 On the Origin of Species hound, bloodhound, bull-dog, &c....

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...g forgotten how to throb, even when a woman’s dowry was the stake. A young Italian, olive- hued and dark-haired, sat at one end, with his elbows on th... ...it? The jaded elders, the fossilized waiters, the onlookers, the fanatical Italian him- self, felt an indefinable dread at sight of the stranger. Is h... ...wakened was so great that the old gamesters laid nothing upon it; only the Italian, inspired by a gambler’s enthusiasm, smiled suddenly at some though... ...d wins,” said the croupier officially. A dumb sort of rattle came from the Italian’s throat when he saw the folded notes that the banker showered upon... ...ed his example,” said an old gamester to the others, as he pointed out the Italian. Everybody looked at the lucky player, whose hands shook as he coun... ...r our benefit. Isn’t he a kind of sponge of the polyp order, overlooked by naturalists, which should be carefully squeezed before he is left for his h...

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...or by what means, he had acquired a competent knowledge both of French and Italian, I do not know; but he was so well skilled in them, as to be suffic... ...rtainly is not suited to a series of grave and moral discourses; which the Italians have liter- ally, but ludicrously translated by Il Vagabondo; and ... ...ed, and so acquires a sooty hue. This matter has been much canvassed among naturalists, but has never been brought to any certain issue.’ What the Iri... ...their own abilities, and of the abilities of each other. The General spoke Italian, and Dr. Johnson English, and under- stood one another very well, w... ... the door waiting to carry Mrs. and Miss Thrale, and Signor Baretti, their Italian master, to Bath. This was not shewing the attention which might hav... ... upon indifferent subjects. He seemed to me to hesitate as to the intended Italian tour, on which, I flattered myself, he and Mrs. Thrale and Dr. John...

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...cro- cosm a “toylike world,” and imagine that Russian Nihilists and French Naturalists have gone beyond it. It will deceive no one who has lived for s... ...ne the works of a comic history painter, with those performances which the Italians call Caricatura, where we shall find the true excellence of the fo... ...of knowledge in the Oriental tongues; and could read and translate French, Italian, and Spanish. He had applied many years to the most severe study, a... ...lt them in his defence, had not some awe of the company, especially of the Italian traveller, who was a person of great dignity, withheld his rage. Wh... ...contending parties; and the traveller went to his repast, crying, “ As the Italian poet says— ‘Je voi very well que tutta e pace, So send up d... ...ief discovered any part of her neck, a whiteness appeared which the finest Italian paint would be unable to reach. Her hair was of a chesnut brown, an...

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...in the grass somewhere,” answered Solonet, in a low voice, replying to the Italian proverb with a French one. “Why do you make this fuss?” asked Paul,... ...de Marsay and get him to take a box for me at the Bouffons and also at the Italian opera.” “You are very kind; I should never have dared to ask for it... ...d no doubt they attribute to us their own thoughts 67 Balzac and actions. Naturalists have depicted the habits and customs of many ferocious animals,... ...your mother- in-law that I shall hear from her the reasons of the hispano- italiano hatred which she feels for you,—for you, one of the best and kinde...

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...for some days he was unable to banish [121] My quotations are made from an Italian trans- lation of this letter in the Biografia del sig. M. A. Ratisb... ...han where the controlling emotion is religious. “The true monk,” writes an Italian mystic, “takes nothing with him but his lyre.” We may now turn from... ... animals’ hab- its, and keeping up a fire of invective against the “closet-naturalists,” as he called them, the collectors and classifiers, and handle... ...ic theologians are the closet- 432 The V arieties of Religious Experience naturalists of the deity, even in Captain Mayne Reid’s sense. What is their... ... under a familiar head. If one should make a division of all thinkers into naturalists and supernaturalists, I should undoubtedly have to go, along wi...

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