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... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/gr... ... address). Simpson's first husband was Earl Winfield Spencer. The King met her on January 10, 1931 but was not impressed. Even in the months af... ...d invited them to his country retreat - she did not captivate him. He did take her on a cruise, two years later, unaccompanied by her husband. He t... ...(musical) The musical "Chicago" won 6 Academy awards (Oscars) in March 2003. It is based on the true story of Belva Gaertner and Beulah Annan, two ... ...ompetition. Less than one quarter of southern families owned slaves in 1861. Slave-based, mainly cotton raising, enterprises, were so profitable th... ...t the prints of two individuals would match at 1:64 billion. This calculation was based on 35-50 "Galton details" - features related to ridges in ... ... game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies in July 1941. Soap operas followed in February 1947 (DuMont TV's A Woman to Rememb... ...recast as subversively anti-Austrian and nationalistic. A series of successful operas - such as Rigoletto (1851), Il Trovatore (1853) and La Tr... ...frequently clashed with censors due to the bold subject matter and librettos of his operas. But he gave rise to so much beauty that his personal foi...

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...her?” My eyes scanned the silent faces of the stable hands as I laid my hand on Josephine’s steaming neck, listening to the black mare suck hard to g... ...s an equestrienne trainer and performer. Horses were frequently used in the operas and Josephine was my gentlest mare, a beautiful Dutch Friesian. ... ...demoiselle Claire, it was me,” said Giraud, the chief hand. “I was bragging on Josephine to some friends at the tavern, that you could ride her with... ... her over a jump, and she couldn’t take it. She would have won.” His gaze on me grew defiant. “I lost twenty sous.” “You fool,” I cried. “Josephi... ...e stone floor. “I presume you’ve read of the Roman caldariums. This bath is based on the design,” he said, moving a few brass knobs. Steaming water... ...es’ homes; I have paid my calls. I have tried to talk about books, and the plays or ballet. But they just shut me out.” Having been an immigrant m... ...s safe little home to see me. We ate our meal amidst discussion of books and plays. It reminded me of the old days in Paris, when we would all talk ...

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...FARE STATE 207 The Welfare State is Moral from a self-centered point of view 208 From a self centered point of view it is immoral. 209 Moral from God based assumptions 210 Immoral from God based assumptions 211 Moral for society based assumptions 211 Immoral from a societal point of view.212 HUMAN RIGHTS 213 Moral from a self-centered point of view. 217 Immoral from a self...

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...was in philosophy but we knew each other socially. Then I got a ‗post doc‘ at Stanford and she got one at Berkeley. Nowadays we are often put on the... ...afraid we won‘t be seen as logical. People are more likely to do something from a psychological need for power, then rationalize their actions based ... ... we won‘t be seen as logical. People are more likely to do something from a psychological need for power, then rationalize their actions based on the... ...e who is less powerful than I am. I feel good. My rationalization for why I did it may be societal, ‗he is in a different gang.‘ It may be God based,... ...values. Now we are going to discuss another source of our motivations.‖ —―Right. Hopefully with your psychological input and her ideas on val... ...oices.‖ —―Well Ray, we like to think that we can think for ourselves and our quest for a religious afterlife and our civil laws are based ... ...itors for the younger girls and women. You can imagine that this brings forth jealousy in many wives who each want to be number one. So power plays ... ...s I‘ve had. Seeing Aida in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. The greatest voices from La Scala, camels and elephants, one of the Verdi‘s finest operas...

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...XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

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..................................................................... 37 GOD BASED ASSUMPTIONS ............................................................ ......................................................... 233 Moral from God based assumptions ............................................................ ....................................................... 234 Immoral from God based assumptions ............................................................ ................................................................. 330 Spying on the citizens has value from a self centered point of view ................. ... sleep anywhere and you don‘t have to worry about the weight of your body on a mattress. I had trouble sleeping on my bed in California, but these ai... ... something about living more healthily these last few days. But let‘s get on with why I came to Kino—to meet and talk with you. Your work on human v... ...luable to a society, should we give tax breaks to symphony orchestras and operas and to their musicians and singers? How about secular private schoo... ...he percentages relative to the chances for success of different offensive plays or defensive stunts, they didn‘t understand the kicking game, they d... ...rom a self centered viewpoint —―Well let‘s look at how free speech plays out according to some people‘s self centered morality. What if I wan...

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...ally comparing things to each other, continually gaining a better perspective on the larger context, continually understanding things better. It is... ...ings of Civilization Pgs 704-1469 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1470-1868 Chapter 7: Entities an... ...7 Incrementalism Chapter Six ‘B’: Civilization The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pg 706 Incrementalism Cont’d Pg 709 Cities Pg 711 The ... ...o admit that Einstein’s famous prediction of the lunar eclipse of the sun was based upon a completely false premise. Here is a crude representation... ... for Everythingness to exist at all. Our Trialistic Universe came into being based upon pre-existing Dualistic Conditions which had to exist before... ...tic Conditions which had to exist before it could exist. It came into being based upon the pre-existing Condition of Connections and Separations wh... ...u their true face. This is precisely the level of human corruption most Soap Operas mimic. This is precisely what most literature and fiction is o... ...even more unhappy than the majority of consumers. The boring idiocy of soap operas is based upon an endless tearing away of secrets, and lies, and ... ... underneath all of this but even more secret nastiness and corruption. These operas sell the idea that people are supposed to live their lives as s...

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...glected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – On Volatility IV. The Friendly Trend V. The Merits of Inflatio... ...e Fabric of Economic Trust XIX. Scavenger Economies, Predator Economies XX. Notes on the Economics of Game Theory XXI. Knowledge and Power XXII.... ...ns or procrastinate because they place greater importance (i.e., greater "weight") on the present and the near future than on the far future. This ... ...ining of data for emerging patterns, rules, and "laws"? On the one hand, patterns based on limited - or, worse, non-recurrent - sets of data form ... ...orm a questionable foundation for any kind of "science". On the other hand, models based on assumptions are also in doubt because they are bound to... ... irrational, and arbitrary - but because ... (and here follows a causal explanation based on an economic model). If you were to do this or that the ... ...vailable by alternately over-optimistic and over-cautious financial intermediaries plays a crucial part. Fiscal policy - which affects investment a... ...nevitable consequences of his deeds and misdeeds. The self-destructive narcissist plays the role of the "bad guy" (or "bad girl"). But even this i... ...s derelict economies and destitute people to the kitschy glamour of the tacky soap operas that flooded their television screens. Bedazzled by the a...

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...with the regu- larity of clock-work, always passing along the same streets on his way to the ministry: so neat was he, so formal, so 4 Bureaucracy st... ...so 4 Bureaucracy starched that he might have been taken for an Englishman on the road to his embassy. From these general signs you will readily disce... ...r, a woman to whom luxury was everything, always elegantly dressed, always on pleasure bent, whose beauty seemed to him miraculous and whom he very se... ...ay that Mariette danced badly. The devil! haven’t we all played our little plays; and which of us knows what will become of him in times like these? Y... ...he or- chestra of a theatre; others like du Bruel, write vaudeville, comic operas, melodramas, or act as prompters behind the scenes. We may mention a... ...r good reasons, in the same house as Florine, an actress for whom he wrote plays. Du Bruel, or to give him his pen name, Cursy, was working just now a... ...e household costly.” This friendship, how- ever, consolidated by time, was based on feelings and on facts which naturally explained it; an account of ... ...istrative genius,— I mean the law of promotion by average. This average is based on the statistics of promotion and the statistics of mortality combin... ...r to estimate. Figures are, moreover, the convincing argument of societies based on self-interest and money, and that is the sort of society the Chart...

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...endants of long dead Doges whose names are older than those of sovereigns. On some bridge, as you glide past it, if you are ever in Venice, you may ad... ... nothing more intolerable than the stale reminiscences of those who insist on talking about V enice after so many great poets and petty travelers. The... ...e Republic, condemned for various crimes more or less criminal. The branch on whom this nominal principality then devolved, the Cane Memmi, sank into ... ...tring of his violin. The old ape sits on my knee, takes his instrument,—he plays fairly well,—he produces the notes, and I try to imitate them. Then, ... ...g humiliated. Conversation sparkles with a delicate and subtle satire that plays gracefully with familiar facts; and instead of a compro- mising epigr... ...y does not substitute her favorite show piece, as is very commonly done in operas. “ And now comes the most striking movement in the score: the duet b... ...re are two kinds of music: one, petty, poor, second-rate, always the same, based on a hundred or so of phrases which every musician has at his command...

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...nning to fade and disappear. Modern industry, working for the masses, goes on destroying the creations of ancient art, the works of which were once as... ...es in the minds of painters, artists, thinkers who have visited the slopes on which this splendid jewel of feudality lies proudly posed to command the... ...lars along the banks of the moat to shade the promenade. It excused itself on the ground that the long and beautiful esplanade of the fortifications f... ...re are no forfeits in the basket each player puts in a trifling sum. If he plays and wins a trick he is paid pro rata to the stake; that is, if there ... ...I did not know you, I should think you were out of your head.” “She writes plays, and books,” continued the baroness. “Books?” said the baron, looking... ...ris, she studied harmony and thorough- bass, and composed the music of two operas which have had great success, though the public has never been admit... ...as never been admitted to the secret of their authorship. Ostensibly these operas are by Conti, one of the most eminent musicians of our day; but this... ...is with Conti, the great musician, for whom she wrote the librettos of two operas. But she had no more illusions, and she became, at heart, unknown to... ...ress at the same moment,’ and the speech cut him in all his vanities. Love based on petty senti- ments is always pitiless. I have questioned him; but ...

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...OCCURRED TO ME that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake a journey through ... ...n the soft spring weather, but at the last moment we changed the program, for private reasons, and took the express-train. We made a short halt at Fra... ...inction—it is the birthplace of the German alphabet; or at least of the German word for alphabet—BUCHSTABEN. They say that the first movable types wer... ...hearts. This is a legiti- mate result of habit and education. Our nation will like the opera, too, by and by, no doubt. One in fifty of those who atte... ...be able to talk knowingly about it. The latter usually hum the airs while they are be- ing sung, so that their neighbors may perceive that they have b... ...ss of a train to a breach of good manners and the discomfort of being unpleasantly conspicuous during a stretch of three or four hours. CHAPTER X How ... ...s- tently each city repeated its same death-rate month after month. The tables might as well have been stereotyped, they varied so little. These table... ...lleries are open, and whether a permit is required, and where you are to get it, and what you must pay for it; or when the theaters open and close, wh...

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...as almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that evening....

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...ow into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that evening. Aaron Sisson was the last man on the little b... ...l home from work. He was late because he had attended a meeting of the men on the bank. He was secretary to the Miners Union for his colliery, and had... ...t it a beauty!” repeated Millicent. “Ay!—lop-sided though.” “Put something on, you two!” came the woman’s high im- perative voice, from the kitchen. “... ... and live with Scott. She had carried on a nervous kind of amour with him, based on soul sympathy and emotional excitement. But whether to go and live... ...ny of them,” said Josephine tartly. “What does he do?” “Writes—stories and plays.” 68 Aaron’s Rod “And makes it pay?” “Hardly at all.—They want us to... ...aron’s Rod Garden. We came back from London last week. I enjoyed Beecham’s operas so much.” “Which do you like best?” said Aaron. “Oh, the Russian. I ... ...ian,” said Francis. “The hired sort,” said Angus, “most probably.” “But he PLAYS—he plays most marvellously. THAT you can’t get away from, Angus.” “I ... ...th, namely, young, well- to-do Englishmen. And he had a faint premonition, based on experience perhaps, that fellow-passengers in the end never forgiv... ...yes, not a shadow of doubt about it. They take the initiative, and the man plays up. That’s how it is. The man just plays up.—Nice manly proceeding, w...

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...rain yourself, or so, And tumble downward like the flying fish Gasping on deck, because you soar too high, Bob, And fall, for lack of moisture... ... Excise. You’re shabby fellows — true — but poets still, And duly seated on the immortal hill. Your bays may hide the baldness of your brows— ... ...ty. For me, who, wandering with pedestrian Muses, Contend not with you on the winged steed, I wish your fate may yield ye, when she chooses, ... ... winds creep From leaf to leaf; ‘t is sweet to view on high The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 26 ‘T is ... ...dition, and to facts, To newspapers, whose truth all know and feel, To plays in five, and operas in three acts; All these confirm my statement... ...s, To newspapers, whose truth all know and feel, To plays in five, and operas in three acts; All these confirm my statement a good deal, B... ...think one Shakspeare puts the same thought in The mouth of some one in his plays so doting, Which many people pass for wits by quoting. Then the... ... billiards; cards, too, but no dice; Save in the clubs no man of honour plays;— Boats when ‘t was water, skating when ‘t was ice, And the h...

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...und the tea-table for less than twenty minutes, the anima- tion observable on their faces, and the amount of sound they were producing collectively, w... ...empty space of the drawing-room, all silver where the candles were grouped on the tea-table, and ruddy again in the firelight. With the omnibuses and ... ...ly people were mellowed, at some distance from each other, and had a bloom on them owing to the fact that the air in the drawing-room was thickened by... ...velock to the Relief of Lucknow, and when they were not lighthouses firmly based on rock for the guidance of their generation, they were steady, servi... ....” “Oh, I grant you I should be bored if I did nothing. But I should write plays.” “H’m!” “I should write plays,” he repeated. “I’ve written three- qu... ...ard friendship, such as hers was with Ralph, which, for two years now, had based itself upon common interests in impersonal topics, such as the housin... ...ended upon the variety of measures in which the personages speak, Rodney’s plays must have chal- lenged the works of Shakespeare. Katharine’s ignoranc... ...en about to deliver his more profound cogita- tions, “is that they are not based upon sufficiently intel- lectual grounds. A mistake, in my opinion. T... ...ckly than usual about the possibility that some of the 279 Virginia Woolf operas of Mozart would be played in the summer. He had received a notice, h...

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...rniture had been removed except the curtains to the windows, the ornaments on the fireplace, the chandelier, and the tea-table. An Aubusson carpet, ta... ...ree arm-chairs behind the tea-table, which was covered with a green cloth, on which she placed a bell. Old Colonel Giguet arrived on this battle-field... ...the mo- ment when his sister bethought herself of filling the empty spaces on either side of the fireplace with benches from the antechamber, disregar... ...hose of Antonin Goulard, had received a like refusal, three years earlier, based on the difference of ages. Consequently, the two officials were on te... ... “and Mademoiselle is more beautiful than—” “Oh! if you are going to quote operas and opera beauties!” said Herbelot the notary, naively, having finis... ... clines to his perfect innocence. Nothing proves that the love I suspected plays any part in this curious affair; and I will allow you to think that I... ...eep out of the mud that he has gone to the other extreme. Every evening he plays domi- noes, like any bourgeois, in a cafe near the Prefecture, and Su...

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...THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT by H. G. Wells (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) ON FEAR AND ARIST ON FEAR AND ARIST ON FEAR AND ARIST ON FEAR AND ARIST ON ... ...nobility, we take refuge in our sense of humour and congratulate ourselves on a certain amiable freedom from priggishness or presumption, but for Benh... ... are still after much experienced handling, an indigestible aggre- gation. On this point White is very assured. When Benham thought he was gathering t... ...ink of Parliament as a career, and of a mingling of aristocratic socialism based on universal service with a civilizing imperialism as a purpose…. But... ...e had been several times to the opera and to a great number and variety of plays, he had been attentively inconspicuous in several really good week-en... ... well- known publicist, whose very sound and considerable repu- tation was based on the East Purblow Labour Experiment, met Benham at lunch and propos... ...e you are,” he said, “first-rate social position, nothing to do, theatres, operas, pretty women, colour, life. The best of good times. Barring Washing...

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...liant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the... ...the sort of vigor that is commonly known as “toughness.” But his exertions on this particular day had been of an unwonted sort, and he had performed g... ...al completeness with which he filled out the national mould. The gentleman on the divan was a power- ful specimen of an American. But he was not only ... ..., on the other hand, wore a fixed smile. The marquis said that among light operas his favorite was the Gazza Ladra. The marquise then began a series o... ...tle with a crack in it; but he had grown to have a kindly feeling for her, based on the fact of her owing conjugal allegiance to Urbain de Bellegarde.... ...ou have shown yourself that al- ready, and what we have done is altogether based upon your being so. When one must submit, one must. Since my daughter... ...ossip, talked of General Packard and Miss Kitty Upjohn, enumerated the new plays at the theatre, and inclosed a note from her husband, who had gone do...

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...vel is seen narrowing in; the Ticino and the Sesia waters, nearest, quiver on the air like sleepy lakes; the plain is engulphed up to the high ridges ... ...oors of vapour; and the mountain of piled pasturages is seen with its foot on the shore of Lago Maggiore. Down an extreme gulf the full sunlight, as i... ...re of Lago Maggiore. Down an extreme gulf the full sunlight, as if darting on a jewel in the deeps, seizes the blue-green lake with its isles. The vil... ...i, on Lago Maggiore, where he will have a troupe of singers, and per- form operas, in which I believe I may possibly act as prima donna. The truth is,... ...re exterior agencies at work: a stout wind blew. The ordinary reckoning is based on calms. Without the operation of disturbing elements, the spider-th... ...les chattered of England, and Hagar’s ‘Addio,’ and ‘Camilla.’ What cabinet operas would he not give! What entertainments! Could an emperor offer such ... ...man, little donkey zat she is! We accept it as a destiny, my Powys. And he plays false to her. Good; I do not object. But, imagine in your own mind, m... ... which he had passed during the days of his dis- grace, signifying one who plays with two parties. Lena’s maid heard them arrange to meet within an ho...

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...he visitors, after saluting the old man and speaking to Barrois, a faithful servant, who had been twenty-five years in his service, took their places on either side of the paralytic....

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... servant, who had been twenty-five years in his service, took their places on either side of the paralytic. M. Noirtier was sitting in an arm-chair, w... ...ible, he could see all who entered the room and everything which was going on around him. M. Noirtier, although almost as immovable as a corpse, looke... ..., perceiv- ing at once, by their ceremonious courtesy, that they were come on business of an unexpected and official character. Sight and hearing were... ...d what are his claims to the peerage?” “He has composed two or three comic operas, written four or five articles in the Siecle, and voted five or six ... ...oice,” said he, “and Mademoiselle Eugenie a splendid soprano, and then she plays the piano like Thalberg. The concert must be a delightful one.” “They... ... a spring.” “How do you know?” “Yes, which catches the thief in a trap and plays a tune. I was told there were such at the last exhibition.” “He has s... ...use of the abominable crime of their father. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus is based on this legend. 319 Alexandre Dumas love her; and I ask God and you ... ...ur That. And so — being, beautiful, witty, somewhat talented, as the comic operas say, and rich — and that is happiness, sir — why do you call me unha...

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...or arpens of land.” —Holland’ s Pliny. “Scarcely had we proceeded two days on the sea, when about sunrise a great many Whales and other monsters of th... ...on- strous size. ... This came towards us, open-mouthed, raising the waves on all sides, and beating the sea before him into a foam.” —Tooke’ s Lucian... ...of one whale.” —Ibid. “History of Life and Death.” “The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti for an inward bruise.” —King Henry. “V ery like a wh... ...In fact, the artist’s design seemed this: a final theory of my own, partly based upon the aggregated opinions of many aged persons with whom I convers... ... upon which to ground a radical distinction. It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments of natu... ... that the Egyp- tians were a nation of mast-head standers, is an assertion based upon the general belief among archaeologists, that the first pyramids... ...nd him unbent from the vast corpulence of his dignity, and kitten-like, he plays on the ocean as if it were a hearth. But still you see his power in h... .... A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it. But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable brevity of it, ... ...ls and jails, and walks fast crossing graveyards, and would rather talk of operas than hell; calls Cowper, Y oung, Pascal, Rousseau, poor devils all o...

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...s or arpens of land.” Holland’s Pliny. “Scarcely had we proceeded two days on the sea, when about sunrise a great many Whales and other monsters of th... ... monstrous size. * * This came towards us, open mouthed, raising the waves on all sides, and beating the sea before him into a foam.” Tooke’s Lucian. ... ...of one whale.” Ibid. “History of Life and Death. ” “The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti for an inward bruise.” King Henry. “Very like a whal... ... In fact, the artist’s design seemed this: a final theory of my own, partly based upon the aggregated opinions of many aged persons with whom I convers... ... upon which to ground a radical distinction. It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments of natu... ...nd that the Egyptians were a nation of mast head standers, is an assertion based upon the general belief among archaeologists, that the first pyramids ... ...nd him unbent from the vast corpulence of his dignity, and kitten like, he plays on the ocean as if it were a hearth. But still you see his power in h... .... A Loose Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it. But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable brevity of it, ... ...s and jails, and walks fast crossing grave yards, and would rather talk of operas than hell; calls Cowper, Young, Pascal, Rousseau, poor devils all of...

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...following year, during a stay of several weeks made in Venice. I had rooms on Riva Schiavoni, at the top of a house near the passage leading off to Sa... ...it by that enormously, but to do so we must either be quite off duty or be on it in her service alone. Such, and so rueful, are these reminiscences; t... ...in her service alone. Such, and so rueful, are these reminiscences; though on the whole, no doubt, one’s book, and one’s “literary effort” at large, w... ...ets the benefit—since it could be assured to him, really, but by criticism based upon perception, criticism which is too little of this world. He must... ...eed be a great change.” “Well, she’s very charming,” said Isabel. “And she plays beautifully.” “She does everything beautifully. She’s complete.” Isab... ...admira- tion. Like his appreciation of her dear little stepdaughter it was based partly on his eye for decorative character, his instinct for authenti... ...cts with that sufficiency with which she followed those of the fashionable operas. This went far enough for attention to the music and the barytone. H...

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...at sense of leisure still to come which is perhaps the chief source of one?s enjoyment of such a scene at such an hour. From five o?clock to eight is on certain occasions a little eternity; but on such an occasion as this the interval could be only an eternity of pleasure. The persons concerned in it were taking their pleasure quietly, and they were not of the sex which is...

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...ne’s enjoyment of such a scene at such an hour. From five o’clock to eight is on certain occasions a little eternity; but on such an occasion as this t... ...furnish the regular votaries of the ceremony I have men tioned. The shadows on the perfect lawn were straight and angular; they were the shadows of a... ... the shadows of an old man sitting in a deep wicker chair near the low table on which the tea had been served, and of two younger men strolling to and... ...ndeed be a great change.” “Well, she’s very charming,” said Isabel. “And she plays beautifully.” “She does everything beautifully. She’s complete.” 1... ...his admiration. Like his appreciation of her dear little stepdaughter it was based partly on his eye for decorative character, his instinct for authen... ...bjects with that sufficiency with which she followed those of the fashionable operas. This went far enough for attention to the music and the barytone....

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...The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by George Bernard Shaw is a publica- tion of the Penn... ...elec- tronic transmission, in any way. The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by George Bernard Shaw, the Penn- sylvania State Univ... ...er of Shakespeare would equally demur to my placing his popular catchpenny plays, of which As You Like It is an avowed type, below true Shakespearean ... ...n plays like Measure for Measure. I cannot help that. Popular dra- mas and operas may have overwhelming merits as enchant- ing make-believes; but a po... ... music-plays of which it is built have become popular throughout Europe as operas. We shall presently see that one of them, Night Falls On The Gods, a... ...tory of the matter is as follows. All Wagner’s works prior to The Ring are operas. The last of them, Lohengrin, is perhaps the best known of modern op... ...hists—will share the fate of China. It is also true that our criminal law, based on a conception of crime and punishment which is nothing but our vind... ...surdity. Even the modified form of anarchy on which modern civilization is based: that is, the abandonment of industry, in the name of individual 63 ...

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... Mathias, who was inclined to —or at any rate did—give into the new ideas. On his return the Comte de Manerville found his possessions intact and well... ...ult 4 The Marriage Contract was the fruit produced by grafting the Gascon on the Norman. Madame de Manerville died in 1810. Having learned the import... ...idered that to know the art of fenc- ing and the use of arms, to ride well on horseback, to play tennis, to acquire good manners,—in short, to possess... ...clerks; he is the notary who goes to balls and theatres, buys pictures and plays at ecarte; he has coffers in which gold is received on deposit and is... ...r notary had seized, in the main, the future ef- fect of the new proposal, based, as it was, on the self-love of both parties, into which his client h... ...vangelista understood as yet, to its full extent, this scheme which he had based on reasons that were undeniable. “Well, Monsieur Mathias,” said the w... ..., erect between yourself and Paul the barriers of society; go to balls and operas; go out in the morning, dine out in the eve- nings, pay visits const... ...piness. Amuse yourself; continue your habits of luxury; go to theatres and operas, enjoy society and balls; I leave you free for all things. Dear ange... ... an insult. Did you think I could not live without fine dresses, balls and operas and social triumphs? Am I so frivolous a woman? Do you think me inca...

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... My Studies.........................18 Beginners............................................19 To the States.......................................19 On Journeys Through the States..........19 To a Certain Cantatrice.......................20 Me Imperturbe....................................20 Savantism..............................................21 The Ship Starting.........

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......................19 To the States.......................................19 On Journeys Through the States..........19 To a Certain Cantatrice.......... ...ar Bird....................270 Aboard at a Ship’s Helm...................271 On the Beach at Night.......................272 The World below the Brine... ...Night.......................272 The World below the Brine................273 On the Beach at Night Alone............274 Song for All Seas, All Ships..... ...arge or small summ’d, added up, In its eidolon. The old, old urge, Based on the ancient pinnacles, lo, newer, higher pinnacles, From science... ... dried grass of the harvest time loads the slow drawn wagon, The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged, The armfuls are pack’d to ... ... strew’d threshold I follow their movements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms, Overhand the hammers swing, overhand ... ... loftiest gods, Alboni’s self I hear.) 4 I hear those odes, symphonies, operas, I hear in the William Tell the music of an arous’d and angry peop... ... Endow me with their throbbings, Nature’s also, The tempests, waters, winds, operas and chants, marches and dances, Utter, pour in, for I would take t... ...of thee, Thee in thy democratic fetes en masse, thy high original festivals, operas, lecturers, preachers, Thee in thy ultimate, (the preparations onl...

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...er will we plunge * Witness Le T asse, Drame par Duval, and the Criticisms on it. See also the Essays in the Globe, Nos. 55, 64 (1826). 4 Autobiograp... ...- low a multitude to do evil’ even when that evil is excess of admiration; on the contrary, it will behoove him to lift up his voice, how feeble soeve... ...ss and consistency which it has attained in our own thoughts, Goethe were, on our part, sufficiently recommended to the best attention of all thinking... ...ary and childless, became the parent of an innumerable progeny of chivalry plays, feudal delineations, and poetico-antiquarian performances; which, th... ...ave made his name famous. He was ten years younger than Goethe. The Räuber plays the same part in his literary history as Götz plays in that of Goethe... ...the advent of former centuries. It proceeds from three pipers, one of whom plays an old shawm, another a sackbut, and the third a pommer, or oboe. The... ...d future king; that the proceedings of the college of electors, which were based on the last electoral capitulation, were now going forward rapidly; a... ... throughout, but we suffered ourselves to be carried away by them; and his operas, set to music by Hiller in an easy style, gave us much pleasure. Sch... ... unfinished, especially in the towers. Finding that this building had been based on old German ground, and grown thus far in genuine German times, and...

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...ncumbering the person with the hid- eous boxcoat, now finishing its career on the backs of aged hackney cabmen; but, elegant figures being in the mino... ...n the poor man’s faded eyes reached the mocker himself and froze the gibes on his lips; for all at once the thought arose that this was a human creatu... ...s which descended even to trifles. The particular manner of fixing the hat on the occiput, the triple waistcoat, the vast cravat engulfing the chin, t... ... sentimen- tal songs trilled by our mothers, to say nothing of a couple of operas, played in 1815 and 1816, and divers unpublished scores. The worthy ... ...plucked back on the threshold of death by the thought of the cafe where he plays his nightly game of dominoes. In the year 1835, chance avenged Pons f... ...pivot on which the domestic life of the nutcrackers turned; but Mme. Cibot plays so large a part in the drama which grew out of their double existence... ...Company, who, be it said, made their for- tune, hit upon the grand idea of operas for the people, and carried it out in a boulevard theatre in 1834. A... ...ore, the hypothesis upon which the various ways of divining the future are based seem absurd, the facts remain. Remark that it is not really more wond... ...ed. Behold the profound observations of human nature upon which Elie Magus based his feeling of security, for secure he felt; he left home without mis...

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...TA A A A ATE TE TE TE TE E E E E ELE LE LE LE LECTR CTR CTR CTR CTRO O O O ON N N N NI I I I IC C C C C C C C C CL L L L LA A A A AS S S S SS S S S SI... ...P P P PU U U U UB B B B BLI LI LI LI LICA CA CA CA CATI TI TI TI TIO O O O ON N N N N The French Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle... ...IS XV. Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. President Henault, remarking on royal Surnames of Honour how difficult it often is to ascertain not only... ...us Blackness, lighted on by an Era of Hope? It has been well said: ‘Man is based on Hope; he has properly no other possession but Hope; this habita- t... ...t, least blessed fact one knows of, on which necessitous mortals have ever based themselves, seems to be the primitive one of Cannibalism: That I can ... ...row. Behold the mouldering mass of Sensuality and False- hood; round which plays foolishly, itself a corrupt phos- phorescence, some glimmer of Sentim... ...uence. Satis- faction, as of one that after long voyaging had got to port, plays over his broad simple face: the innocent King! He rises and speaks, w... ...o interfere in it; but of red and blue, our old Paris colours: these, once based on a ground of constitutional white, are the famed Tricolor,—which (i... ...nfessed that the ground-tone of the noblest passage, in one of his noblest Operas, was the voice of the Populace he had heard at Vienna, crying to the...

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...e held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on social political matters, and which, instead of being weakened or modifi... ...aced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privi lege on the one side, nor disability on the other. The very words necessary to e... ...e case must lie in the insufficiency or obscurity of the grounds of reason on which my convictions. The difficulty is that which exists in all cases i... ... the same assertion in regard to the dominion of men over women is usually based, namely that there are different natures among mankind, free natures,... ...able to do. There is no law to prevent a woman from having written all the plays of Shakespeare, or composed all the operas of Mozart. But Queen Eliza... ...oman from having written all the plays of Shakespeare, or composed all the operas of Mozart. But Queen Elizabeth or Queen Victoria, had they not inher...

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...nd you know what a dread they have of moping. She was famous for her fun and high spirits besides her good looks, which you may judge of for yourself on a walk down most of our great noblemen?s collections of pictures in England, where you will behold her as the goddess Diana fitting an arrow to a bow; and elsewhere an Amazon holding a spear; or a lady with dogs, in the co...

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...d high spirits besides her good looks, which you may judge of for yourself on a walk down most of our great noblemen’s collections of pictures in En- ... ...ight arm to defend her reputa- tion with; and she would have done anything on earth to please him. There is a picture of her in an immense flat white ... ...le blue, like a pavilion, the broadest brim ever seen, and she simply sits on a chair; and V enus the Queen of Beauty would have been extinguished und... ...their tac- tics: they had a new powder, a rifle, a model musket—the latter based on his own plans; and a scheme for fortress artil- lery likely to tur... ...t forget also—Livia is affected by her distaste—that he is a gentleman. He plays with his nobility. With his repu- tation of gentleman, he has never b... ... could have found him, sir, I should not have troubled you.’ ‘Disappeared? Plays the man of his word, then plays the madman! Prize-fight the first day... ...to bite our tongues. He’s master now, but, as I believe God’s above, if he plays her false, he’s the one to be brought to shame. I talk.’ ‘Talk on, Ma... ...and though it was a quaint idyll of an affection slowly formed, rationally based while seeming preposterous, tending to bluntly funny utterances on bo... ...he patron’s 349 George Meredith homage; and who but he knew her adored of operas, or would have had the benevolent impulse to think of solacing her e...

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...IS XV. Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. President Henault, remarking on royal Surnames of Honour how difficult it often is to ascertain not only... ...ires de M. le Baron Besenval (Paris, 1805), ii. 59- 90.) But for the rest, on green field and steepled city, the May sun shines out, the May evening f... ...it in their high places, with France harnessed under their feet, know well on what basis they continue there. Look to it, D’Aiguillon; sharply as thou... ...us Blackness, lighted on by an Era of Hope? It has been well said: ‘Man is based on Hope; he has properly no other possession but Hope; this habitatio... ...t, least blessed fact one knows of, on which necessitous mortals have ever based themselves, seems to be the primitive one of Canni- balism: That I ca... ...orrow. Behold the mouldering mass of Sensuality and Falsehood; round which plays foolishly, itself a corrupt phosphorescence, some glim- mer of Sentim... ...fluence. Satisfaction, as of one that after long voyaging had got to port, plays over his broad simple face: the innocent King! He rises and speaks, w... ...o interfere in it; but of red and blue, our old Paris colours: these, once based on a ground of constitutional white, are the famed Tricolor,—which (i... ...nfessed that the ground-tone of the noblest passage, in one of his noblest Operas, was the voice of the Populace he had heard at Vienna, crying to the...

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...a wish ex- pressed by Captain Fitz Roy, of having some scien- tific person on board, accompanied by an offer from him of giving up part of his own acc... ...of the ex- penses of publication. I have myself published separate volumes on the ‘Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs;’ on the ‘Volcanic Island... ...s;’ on the ‘Volcanic Islands visited during the Voyage of the Beagle;’ and on the ‘Geology of South America.’ The sixth volume of the ‘Geological Tran... ...hat they are curious is certain; for if a per- son lies on the ground, and plays strange antics, such as throwing up his feet in the air, they will al... ...e party altogether closely resembled the devils which come on the stage in plays like Der Freischutz. Their very attitudes were abject, and the expres... ...re. The theory that has been most generally re- ceived is, that atolls are based on submarine craters; but when we consider the form and size of some,... ...on what have the reef-building corals, which cannot live at a great depth, based their massive structures? Numerous soundings were carefully taken by ... ... on what have the reef-building corals, which cannot live at great depths, based their encircling structures? This is a great apparent difficulty, ana... ...e was much more Anglified. There is a very pretty little theatre, in which operas are excellently performed. We were also surprised at seeing large bo...

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...as the year you were at Vienna, when one of Robert’s brother-officers died on the voyage out to China, and he sent home urgent letters for me to canva... ...h added weight. Only a parent or elder brother would, however, have looked on “Joe” as a youth, for he was some years over thirty, with a mingled air ... ...r early widow- hood had made them all in all to each other. Ten years ago, on his election to a lectureship at one of the London hospi- tals, the son ... ...Brownlow, in her neat figures, built up a pretty little economical scheme, based on a thorough knowl- edge of the subject. Caroline tried to follow he... ...rds to invitations to evening parties, though she took her young people to plays, concerts, and operas, and all that was pleasant. Her young people in... ... evening parties, though she took her young people to plays, concerts, and operas, and all that was pleasant. Her young people included Jessie. Colo- ... ...is note he was jolly beyond description.” “Well, so he is,” said John; “he plays chess with Armie, and brings him flowers and books, and waits on him ... ...e situation. Of secrets of the late Jo- seph Brownlow he said nothing, but based his application on the offer of a practice and lectureship he said he...

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...Pip, and came to be called Pip. I give Pirrip as my father’ s family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister – Mrs. Joe Gargery, who mar... ... were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father’s, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, ... ...ndebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never ta... ...Matsys was the blacksmith of Antwerp. Verb. Sap. I entertain a conviction, based upon large experience, that if in the days of my prosperity I had gon... ...to take her and the Brandleys on the water; there were picnics, fete days, plays, operas, concerts, parties, all sorts of pleasures, through which I p... ... her and the Brandleys on the water; there were picnics, fete days, plays, operas, concerts, parties, all sorts of pleasures, through which I pursued ...