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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... ....................................................... 30 TRADITION AND MALE POWER ................................................................... ...e on the lower end of the scale to voluntarily undergo sterilization. For males or females with no children for every point on the IQ scale that a ... ...ing jobs to become barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. Marriage for the male university graduates was more likely to be with less educated women. ... ...less pay than men. Another option is working in the public sector. Half of Swedish women work in the public sector. Compare this with 30% in the UK a... ...of dollars and to accord celebrity status to people playing ball games or actors who are only pretending to be somebody else. Why is it in the West ... ... to make money by entertaining others. But that‟s not us. Pro athletes and actors should be paid less here than janitors because their contributions ... ...aying professionally for Arsenal in the Premier League. And we have three actors who have left for professional careers abroad, two in India and one...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...ever had a more tasty or a healthier breakfast. Seaweed salad with curry, Swedish sennaps sild, soy cakes, rice bran cereal, half the time I didn‘t ... ...saying one thing while doing something different? Why don‘t more American males wear condoms if they are going to have sex. ―Look at the risin... ...ier church council seriously debated whether females even had souls. If a male fetus younger than four weeks old is aborted, was it a human life? ... ... come from valid basic assumptions. But, as with the case of the Taliban, male supremacy reduced women and non-believers to a nearly non-human status... ...0 years. This gives a false picture of Norway‘s economy. The Finnish and Swedish economies have not been moving, and when they move it is often back... ... unemployment increased by 500%. If it had not been for Finnish Nokia and Swedish Ericsson mobile phones or Norway‘s oil these three countries would ... ...hange. The situations change. The rationalizations for the actions of the actors change. It is in the reporting of the actions, actors and oratory t... ...ediate. This certainly seems to legalize child pornography, except for the actors in the films or other depictions. The court might rule differently ... ...ike Claude Monet; musicians like John Lennon, Elton John; and a number of actors and actresses. Aren‘t we lucky that those people didn‘t choose a qu...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...nd the ability to feel pain? Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche, and Aquinas) rejected the idea of animal rights. Th... ...sitizes us to human suffering and makes us more prone to using violence on humans. Malebranche augmented this line of thinking by "proving" that an... ...and suffering, as we all know, are the exclusive outcomes of Adam's sins. Kant and Malebranche may have been wrong. Animals may be able to suffer a... ...pts and tenets. Consider this sample of outstanding issues: Unlike other economic actors and agents, governments are accorded a special status and... ...ic behaviours. h. Explanatory Powers – It must explain the behaviour of economic actors, their decisions, and why economic events develop the way... ...dict future economic events and trends as well as the future behaviour of economic actors. j. Prescriptive Powers – The theory must yield policy ... ...stances and the parameters and characteristics of the universe that we inhabit. The Swedish Count Wallenberg imperilled his life (and lost it) smugg...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...nd the ability to feel pain? Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche, and Aquinas) rejected the idea of animal rights. Th... ...sitizes us to human suffering and makes us more prone to using violence on humans. Malebranche augmented this line of thinking by "proving" that an... ...and suffering, as we all know, are the exclusive outcomes of Adam's sins. Kant and Malebranche may have been wrong. Animals may be able to suffer a... ...pts and tenets. Consider this sample of outstanding issues: Unlike other economic actors and agents, governments are accorded a special status and... ...ic behaviours. h. Explanatory Powers – It must explain the behaviour of economic actors, their decisions, and why economic events develop the way... ...dict future economic events and trends as well as the future behaviour of economic actors. j. Prescriptive Powers – The theory must yield policy ... ...stances and the parameters and characteristics of the universe that we inhabit. The Swedish Count Wallenberg imperilled his life (and lost it) smugg...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...pts and tenets. Consider this sample of outstanding issues: Unlike other economic actors and agents, governments are accorded a special status and... ...mic behaviours. h. Explanatory Powers – It must explain the behaviour of economic actors, their decisions, and why economic events develop the way... ...edict future economic events and trends as well as the future behaviour of economic actors. j. Prescriptive Powers – The theory must yield polic... ...evements, hierarchy, ruthlessness, drive - are both social values and narcissistic male traits. Social thinkers like the aforementioned Lasch specu... ...omics, 1997 Location Choice and Employment Decisions: A Comparison of German and Swedish Multinationals - SO Becker, K Ekholm, R Jäckle, MA Muend...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

... The Internet used to be an English, affluent middle-class, white collar, male phenomenon. It has long lost these attributes. The digital divides th... ...r labels - George Michael had to fight Sony to do just that) and very few actors come close to deriving subsistence level income from their professio... ... have English, Latin, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portuguese, Old Dutch, Bulgarian, Dutch/Flemish, G... ... authors actually live by their pen. Even fewer musicians, not to mention actors, eke out subsistence level income from their craft. Those who do ca...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...emale of which is superstitiously believed to lay her eggs on the back of the male who flies about with them until they are hatched; he watched the p... ...s usually their custom. As soon as they occupied the city, they seized all the male population and locked them Tip in the churches, then issued a proc... ...h from the outside. "As soon as one of the family had been selected all of the male members were looked upon as devoted to the same horrid purpose. It... ... possible to distinguish the different movements; though one might suppose the actors were now almost tired, as their performance had lasted nearly ha... ...age, the Vega, was manned by two officers and seventeen men, volunteers of the Swedish navy. It was a staunch whaler of two hundred and ninety-nine to... ...d that progress was almost impossible. In this far off corner of the world the Swedish explorer came near meeting one of his countrymen, a whaler name...

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In the South Seas

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...id, is uppermost in the mind of the Marquesan. It would be strange if it were oth- erwise. The race is perhaps the handsomest extant. Six feet is abou... ...tted. They must not sit on the paepae; they must not go up to it by the stair; they must not eat pork; they must not approach a boat; they must not co... ...ublic festival. The body was accordingly divided; and every man retired to his own house to consummate the rite in secret, carrying his proportion of ... ...icety of his inflections, the elegance of his gestures, and the fine play of his ex- pression, told us that. We, meanwhile, sat like aliens in a playh... ...e bell agoing in the small belfry; and the faithful, who were not very numerous, gathered to prayers. I was once present: it was the Lord’s day, and s...

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Seraphita

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ce of stone, wood alone is used for all fences, even those of fields. This Swedish house, thus pro- tected against the climate, stood on rising ground... ...rough which she had been passing. Seraphitus seemed to be laying aside his male force and the too keen intellect that flames from his eyes. Pres- entl... ... left the house. A few moments later he reached the great courtyard of the Swedish villa. An old servant, over eighty years of age, appeared in the po... ...r some moments, watching the light which shone from all the windows of the Swedish dwelling. “What is the matter with me?” he asked himself. “No, she ... ... and harmoniously marshalled by the poets, and whose personages, imaginary actors to men, are real to those who begin to penetrate the Spiritual World...

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Twilight in Italy

By: D. H. Lawrence

... lifted and extended to view, in all his beautiful, dead youth. The young, male body droops forward on the cross, like a dead flower. It looks as if i... ...which was not herself, ultimately. 21 Twilight in Italy Even the man, the male, was part of herself. He was the mobile, separate part, but he was non... ...he flesh that is like a narcotic. But they are too strong for the men. The male spirit, which would subdue the immediate flesh to some conscious or so... ...er, the ter- rible subjugation to sex, the phallic worship. The company of actors in the little theatre was from a small town away on the plain, beyon... ...dren, sat absorbed in watching as the Norwegian drama unfolded itself. The actors are peasants. The leader is the son of a peasant proprietor. He is q... ...soul. But when one sees the perfect Ibsen, how one hates the Norwegian and Swedish nations! They are detestable. They seem to be fingering with the mi... ...al Ibsen: the same thing is in Strindberg and in most of the Norwegian and Swedish writings. It is with them a sort of phallic wor- ship also, but now... ...5th of February, so each Thursday there is a Serata d’ Onore of one of the actors. The first, and the only one for which prices were raised—to a fourp...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...f a real uncounterfeit sympathy. I have mentioned already that we had four male guard- ians, (a fifth being my mother.) These four were B., E., G., an... ...better sung; but at that time I needed nothing better. It was sung by four male voices, and rose into a region of thrilling pas- sion, such as my hear... ...ell away from her, and for- sook her house. T o them succeeded a clique of male visitors, some of whom were doubtfully respectable, and others (like M... ...e knights were to be attended by adults; and thus, from being partakers as actors, 196 Thomas de Quincey my friend and I became simple spectators of ... ... heard described, the sudden burst—the explosion, one might say—by which a Swedish winter passes into spring, and spring simultaneously into summer? T... ...Thirty Years’ war, both by the Bavarian, im- perial, and afterwards by the Swedish officers of rank. And it 247 Autobiographic Sketches marks the gre...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...gh to endure the search for a B.V.D. undershirt which had, he pointed out, malevolently been concealed among his clean pajamas. He was fairly amiable ... ... given to oratory and to chumminess with the arts. He called on the famous actors and vaudeville artists when they came to town, gave them cigars, add... ...at the Climax Vaudeville Theater this week cer- tainly are a slick pair of actors.” Babbitt, though ordi- narily his voice was the surest and most epi... ...ed into a raging hostess, she took care of the house and didn’t bother the males by thinking. She went on firmly: “It sounds awful to me, the way they... ...his wife was too busy to be impressed by that moral indignation with which males rule the world, and he went humbly up-stairs to dress. He had an impr... ...clair Lewis father reported, she had pinned up twenty-one photo- graphs of actors. But the signed portrait of the most grace- ful of the movie heroes ... ..., they were trudging off to lectures by authors and Hindu philosophers and Swedish lieutenants. “Gosh,” Babbitt wailed to his wife, as they walked hom...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...Charles, would it interrupt your undoubt- edly fascinating pursuit of that malevolent fly if I were to ask you to tell us that you do not know anythin... ...ng up some cute kids and knowing nice homey people?” It was the immemorial male reply to the restless woman. Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-... ... official. None of them made her more than pause in thought. For months no male emerged from the mass. Then, at the Marburys’, she met Dr. Will Kennic... ... now to defend her faith by seeing imagination and enterprise in the young Swedish farmers, and in a traveling man working over his order-blanks. But ... ...ll spare woman with flaxen hair trotted from the house. She was twanging a Swedish patois—not in mono- tone, like English, but singing it, with a lyri... ...rs, presenting not only a lithographic young woman with cherry lips, and a Swedish advertisement of Axel Egge’s grocery, but also a thermometer and a ... ... rants, candy. She regarded the Schnitzler play with no vast interest. The actors moved and spoke stiffly. Just as its cynicism was beginning to rouse... ... a new shock in the realization that Guy Pollock and herself were very bad actors, and that Raymie Wutherspoon was a surprisingly good one. For all he... ...t; it was the night of the play. The two dressing-rooms were swirling with actors, panting, twitchy pale. Del Snafflin the barber, who was as much a p...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...rone, he decreed that a pension should be given to the family as long as a male representative remained to bear the name of D’Assas. Poor Louis XVI ha... ...nced fearlessly within his grasp. Then in would come twelve elephants, six males in togas, six females with the veil and pallium; they took their plac... ... this slavish mimic warfare—sport to the beholders, but sad earnest to the actors. Christianity worked its way upwards, and at least was pro- fessed b... ...ick, Lord Ruthven, one of the many Scots who had won honor under the great Swedish King, Gustavus Adolphus. A sud- den charge of the Royal horse would... ...ot to irritate Rupert, desired that Ruthven should array the troops in the Swedish fashion. It was a greater affront to the General-in-chief than the ... ...ntrast to Mr. Mompesson’s moral influence! Horrible crimes were committed. Malefactors were released from the prisons and convicts from the galleys, a...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...ment) with respect to the fictitious character of the incidents and of the actors in that famous tale. Mere accident it was that had intercepted those... ...n. This innovation upon the old practice of war had been introduced by the Swedish armies, whose north- ern habits and training had fortunately prepar... ... in the imperial ser- vice, they had received cheerful assistance; and any Swedish corps, which rumor had presented as formidable by their numbers, th... ...rest Paulina, that you are with us, I would think the risk not *It was the Swedish General Kniphausen, a favorite of Gustavus, to whom this maxim is a... ...r with the numerous chapels erected in it to different saints by devotees, male or female, in the families of forgotten Landgraves through four centur... ...h a marriage went to incapacitate the children who might be born under it, male or female, from succeeding. On that account, as well as because curren...

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The Deputy of Arcis

By: Honoré de Balzac

...attached to the Comtesse de Cinq-Cygne, the well-known Gothard, one of the actors and witnesses in the Simeuse affair. Poupart, though a most devoted ... ... and such was her horror for all who were connected, near or far, with the actors in the judicial drama so fatal to her family, that she strictly enjo... ...ake the money dance, and will laugh at his mother’s prejudices against the actors in the famous Simeuse melodrama.” “It would be easier for you to mak... ...le in Rome, I had been honored by the friendship of Thorwaldsen, the great Swedish sculptor, and I had often met in his studio many of his compatriots... ...e than Bixiou’s, I would have chosen it. As it was, I have profited by the malevo- lent curiosity which induces that amiable lepidopter to in- sinuate... ...him to the spirit of party; shall you silence him every time he makes some malevolent insinuation about Monsieur de Sallenauve, and denies his honor a... ...s, recalled so little the week-day Desroches, dining in cafes with all the male and female viveurs of renown, that one of them, Malaga, a circus-rider... ...star,—destined, they say, to European success; an Italian, discovered by a Swedish nobleman, Comte Halphertius, through the medium of Madame de Saint-... ...ia?” “That was what I went for,—in the character, be it under- stood, of a Swedish nobleman. He asked if her talent was known. ‘Absolutely unknown,’ I...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...au, are flung wide open to King Mirabeau, the cynosure of Europe, whom fe- male France flutters to behold,—though the Man Mirabeau is one and the same... ... working in them; and withal has quarrels enough with Dame le Jay, his Fe- male Bookseller, so ultra-compliant otherwise. (See Dumont: Souvenirs, 6.) ... ...iclers are trustworthy, as was not witnessed since the Age of Gold. Paris, male and female, precipitates itself towards its South-west extremity, spad... ...by the old laws of chivalry, her Knight? He will descend on fire-wings, of Swedish musketry, and deliver her from these foul drag- ons,—if, alas, the ... ...Spectrum and squeaking and gibbering Shadow! One of the few Royalist Chief-actors this Bouille, of whom so much can be said. The brave Bouille too, th... ...nce? From South to North! For actually it is ‘the common cause of Kings. ’ Swedish Gustav, sworn Knight of the Queen of France, will lead Coalised Arm...

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Mens Wives

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...nfluence of great men; he was an agent for half-a-dozen theatrical people, male 13 Thackeray and female, and had the interests of the latter especial... ... world, from Bond Street to Bread Street; he knew all the authors, all the actors, all the “notorieties” of the town, and the private histo- ries of e... ...to me, considering these things, it seemed that there were a hundred other male brutes squatted round about, and treated just as reasonably as Bottom ... ...ourse of study, nor, indeed, possible; for, between ourselves, none of the male Fitz- Boodles ever could sing a note, and the jargon of scales and sol... ...t. “Eglantine dressed it this very night.” “For Countess Baldenstiern, the Swedish Hambassador’s lady,” says Eglantine (his Hebrew partner was by no m...

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

... see the whole little drama, rather clearer than his words gave it me, the actors all absurdly in Hampstead middle-class raiment, meetings of a Sunday... ...ar more from a white man than a negress or pigmy woman from her equivalent male. The education, the mental disposition, of a white or Asiatic woman, r... ...e, perhaps, no more than the jealous and tyr- annous will of the strongest male in the herd, the instru- ment of justice and equality. The State inter... ...nist inclines. The second type includes, amidst its energetic forms, great actors, and popular politi- cians and preachers. Between these extremes is ... ...ng tawdry and momentary illusions of excellence; it is our experience that actors and actresses as a class are loud, ignoble, and insincere. If they h... ...- geration of implication, that no one laughs at talk about 197 H G Wells Swedish painting or American literature. And I will confess and point out t...

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Beatrix

By: Honoré de Balzac

...county or duchy conquered by the crown or divided among many heirs, if the male line failed. Disinher- ited from active life, these heads became arms;... ...of questionable morals, a writer for the stage; frequenting the- atres and actors; squandering her fortune among pamphle- teers, painters, musicians, ... ...ommits a sin in even go- ing to a theatre; but to write the impieties that actors repeat, 50 Balzac to roam about the world, first with an enemy to t... ...omankind. Just as Clara Gazul is the female pseudonym of a distin- guished male writer, George Sand the masculine pseudonym of a woman of genius, so C... ...oon, the fishermen were saying that they had seen a little vessel, Danish, Swedish, or Norwegian, in the offing.” This speech brought a flush to the c... ...uise, which will show her how much you regret not staying.” When the three actors met in the salon, and this comedy was played, Calyste felt for a mom... ...k with him, as Mariotte remarked, cartloads of books. His aunt called down maledictions on the head of Made- moiselle des T ouches; but his mother, wh...

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Ursula

By: Honoré de Balzac

...clopaedias, and books were an attraction to a retired captain of the Royal-Swedish regiment, named Monsieur de Jordy, a Voltairean nobleman and an old... ...est not quite those of a porter, but solid. You are what I call an elegant male brunette. Your face is of the style Louis XII., hardly any color, well... ...trious Admiral de Portenduere in the house of that excellent Mon- sieur de Malesherbes, and also in that of Monsieur le Comte de Buffon, who was anxio... ...ed towards Montargis, where there happened then to be a com- pany of comic actors. A loud and ringing voice called out as they left: “To the daughter ...

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Don Juan

By: George Byron

... It seems when this allotment was made out, There chanced to be an odd male, and odd female, Who (after some discussion and some doubt, If... ...ter some discussion and some doubt, If the soprano might be deem’d to be male, They placed him o’er the women as a scout) Were link’d togeth... ...him o’er the women as a scout) Were link’d together, and it happen’d the male Was Juan, — who, an awkward thing at his age, Pair’d off with a ... ... of surrender By mowing Christians down on every side, As obstinate as Swedish Charles at Bender. His five brave boys no less the foe defied; ... ... sincerest Who are strongly acted on by what is nearest. This makes your actors, artists, and romancers, Heroes sometimes, though seldom—sages...

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Vailima Letters

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...st not stand and slouch, but do my best as best I can. But you may conceive the difficulty of a history extending to the present week, at least, and w... ...aces were all arranged with much care; the native ladies of the house facing our party; the sides filled up by the men; the guests, please observe: th... ...roubles in Samoa. That is what we want; a man that knows and likes the natives, qui paye de sa personne, and is not afraid of hanging when necessary. ...

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...e said, one only daughter. His wife dying in 1670, and leaving him without male children, he determined, however much he might be afflicted at the los... ...ney, created Peer of France in 1581. It was a peerage which, in default of male successors, went to the female, but this descendant was not heir to it... ...a few years after. The King at this time drove away the company of Italian actors, and would not permit another in its place. So long as the Italians ... ...inals gave rise to. The Bouillons wished to be recognised as descended, by male issue, of the Counts of Auvergne, and to claim all kinds of distinctio... ...u- thority and menaces, and hastened the Czar’s departure and his own. The Swedish minister, charged with protests from the principal T urkish chiefs,... ...d there and laughed at them. She herself played there Athalie (assisted by actors and actresses) and other pieces several times a week. Whole nights w... ..., of which not a soul was the dupe; not even the public, nor the principal actors, nor the Regent. The Duc and Duchesse du Maine, thanks to the perfid...

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Nostromo a Tale of the Seaboard

By: Joseph Conrad

... earnest. It is scream- ingly funny, the blood flows all the time, and the actors believe themselves to be influencing the fate of the universe. Of co... ...ir faces their impres- sion that the general must have had too much punch (Swedish punch, imported in bottles by Anzani) at 142 Nostromo the Amarilla... ...time for extending a modest man’s business. He enveloped in a swift mental maledic- tion the whole country, with all its inhabitants, par- tisans of R... ...as clear. It would be of no use to him—alone. He could do nothing with it. Malediction! The doctor would never come out. He was probably under arrest ... ...ic manner—proofs visible, sensible, and incon- trovertible of the doctor’s malevolent disposition. And Nostromo was of the people. So he only grunted ...

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The History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

By: Friedrich Schiller

...egociations. — Wallenstein deprived of the Command. — Gustavus Adolphus. — Swedish Army. — Gustavus Adolphus takes his leave of the States at Stockhol... ...the Direction of Affairs. — Death of the Elector Palatine. — Revolt of the Swedish Officers. — Duke Bernhard takes Ratisbon. — Wallenstein enters Sile... ...h. — Torstensohn takes the Command. — Death of Richelieu and Louis XIII. — Swedish Victory at Jankowitz. — French defeated at Freyburg. — Battle of No... ...armed by a secret family compact with Spain, by which, in default of heirs-male of his own body, Ferdinand bequeathed to that crown the kingdom of Boh... ...dinand now adopted, gave to the war a new direc tion, a new scene, and new actors. From a rebellion in Bohemia, and the chastisement of rebels, a war ... ...embers of the empire. This critical conjuncture found none but second-rate actors on the political stage, and the decisive moment was neglected becaus... ...he ravages of a lawless soldiery. The curse of Italy was thus added to the maledictions upon the Emperor which resounded through Ger- many; and even i... ... was threatened with ruin, by the spirit of disunion. Gustavus had left no male heir to the crown of Sweden: his daughter Christina, then six years ol... ...ebels had fired into Vienna. The same theatre of war brought again similar actors on the scene. Torstensohn invited Ragotsky, the successor of Bethlen...

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The Schoolmistress and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

...id; ‘you are already a celebrity and are beginning to win fame.’ Evidently actors or journalists of microscopic dimensions. But they are not the point... ...evilles, with singing in them, and opportunities for disporting herself in male attire, in tights. In fact it was — ough! Well, I ask your attention. ... ...ant the actresses, for I have a daughter.” 108 Anton Chekhov Next day the actors dined at the police captain’s. Only three turned up, the manager Lim... ...lively, and that was enough for him. And Masha never took her eyes off the actors. She had never before seen such clever, exceptional people! In the e... ...on by everyone as a German, though he was in reality on his father’ s side Swedish, on his mother’s side Russian, and attended the Orthodox church. He... ... mother’s side Russian, and attended the Orthodox church. He knew Russian, Swedish, and German. He had read a good deal in those languages, and nothin... ... grandmother, my father’s mother, an excellent old lady. She told me it in Swedish, and it does not sound so fine, so classical, in Russian.” But we b...

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The Kalevala the Epic Poem of Finland Translated into English

By: John Martin Crawford

...menmaa, the swampy re gion, of which Finland, or Fen land is said to be a Swedish translation,) is at present a Grand Duchy in the north west ern pa... ...on, Gout, Sterility, and Cancer.” The third daughter of Tuoni combines the malevolent and repugnant attributes of her two sisters, and is represented ... ...nd Lays of the Finnish Nation). In another work edited in 1832, written in Swedish, entitled: Om Finnarues Magiska Medicin (On the Magic Medicine of t... ...neyings and difficulties faithfully in a paper published at Helsingfors in Swedish in 1834. He had the peculiar good luck to meet an old peasant, one ... ...aracters of the Kalevala are mostly superhuman, magic beings. Even the fe male actors are powerful sorceresses, and the hostess of Pohyola, especiall... ...ers of the Kalevala are mostly superhuman, magic beings. Even the fe male actors are powerful sorceresses, and the hostess of Pohyola, especially, br... ...than the pike of Suomi, Has less fins than any female, Not the fins of any male fish, 71 The Kalevala Not the stripes of sea born maidens, Not the be...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ndemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ (Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, i. 15-22.) And, alas, now not so much as Baron Holbach’s Athei... ... Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes there may be more than one patriotic Malesherbes, whose rule is conscience and the public good; there are clearl... ...he heavier; for did it not employ the working-classes too,— manufacturers, male and female, of laces, essences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever could... ...rd to solve, even for calm onlookers at this distance; wholly insoluble to actors in the middle of it. The States-General, created and conflated by th... ...by the old laws of chivalry, her Knight? He will descend on fire-wings, of Swedish musketry, and deliver her from these foul dragons,—if, alas, the as... ...pectrum and squeaking and gibbering Shadow! One of the few Royalist Chief- actors this Bouille, of whom so much can be said. The brave Bouille too, th... ...ance? From South to North! For actually it is ‘the common cause of Kings.’ Swedish Gustav, sworn Knight of the Queen of France, 314 The French Revolu... ... ‘It is the Explosion and New-creation of a World, ’ says Foster; ‘and the actors in it, such small mean objects, buzzing round one like a handful of ...

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...me with him upon the stage, and led me especially to the foyers, where the actors and actresses remained during the intervals of the performance, and ... ...tre into a concert-room, so that there were no sepa- rate chambers for the actors behind the stage. A tolerably large room adjoining, which had former... ...nor, and was generally used only by officers; although the nearness of the actors destroyed, I will not say all illusion, but, in a measure, all enjoy... ...hought myself sufficiently well dressed; but it was not long before my fe- male friends, first by gentle raillery, then by sensible remon- strances, c... ...Hofrath Pfeil, author of the “Count von P .,” a continuation of Gellert’s “Swedish Countess;” Zachariä, a brother of the poet; and Krebel, editor of g... ...to her: for, in the first place, she never thought of emulating one of the male sex; and, sec- ondly, she believed, that, in regard to religious cultu... ...to her: for, in the first place, she never thought of emulating one of the male sex; and, secondly, she believed, that, in regard to religious culture...

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Resurrection

By: Mrs. Louis Maude

...RS QUESTIONED When he had finished his speech, the president turned to the male prisoner. “Simeon Kartinkin, rise.” Simeon jumped up, his lips continu... ...sher said she might. Having got permission, she removed the three-buttoned Swedish kid glove from her plump, white hand, and from an elegant purse bro... ...e afraid of him,” said Khoroshavka, who managed to exchange notes with the male prisoners and knew all that went on in the prison. “He’ll run away, th... ..., and some military men and some civilians stood near them. The clatter of male and female voices went on unceasingly. “Enfin! you seem to have quite ... ...s the Frenchman’s name. Perhaps you’ve heard of him. He makes wigs for the actors in the big theatre; it is a good business, so he’s prospering. He bo... ...suddenly uncovered his face, and smiled a very real-looking smile, such as actors express joy with, and began again with a sweet, gentle voice: “Yet t...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... the count, with the hussar colonel on his left and Shinshin and the other male visitors on his right. Midway down the long table on one side sat the ... ...Pavlograd commander. The com- manders met with polite bows but with secret malevo- lence in their hearts. “Once again, Colonel,” said the general, “I ... ...always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time without male society, on Anatole’s appearance all the three women of Prince Bolkons... ...myantsev, the Chan- cellor; Stein, a former Prussian minister; Armfeldt, a Swedish general; Pfuel, the chief author of the plan of campaign; Paulucci,... ...tions for the Emperor personally. To this semicouncil had been invited the Swedish General Armfeldt, Adjutant General W olzogen, Wintzingerode (whom N... ...uted his arguments, others defended them. Young Count Toll objected to the Swedish general’s views more warmly than anyone else, and in the course of ... ...he higher they stand in the social hierar- chy the less are they free. The actors of 1812 have long since left the stage, their personal interests hav... ...the Kremlin and in Posnyakov’s house were closed again at once because the actors and actresses were robbed. Even philanthropy did not have the desire...

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Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...most all of them by their Christian names: old men of sixty, boys of twenty, actors, ministers, merchants, and adjutant generals, so that many of his ... ...rman work man who pushed the carriage. Close by was standing a flaxen headed Swedish count, whom Kitty knew by name. Several invalids were lingering n... ...es; I’m used to it,” said Madame Stahl, and she introduced the prince to the Swedish count. 220 Anna Karenina “You are scarcely changed at all,” the ... ... that any smile would jar on them. “Thou who didst from the beginning create male and female,” the priest read after the exchange of rings, “from Thee... ...t. All that day it seemed to her as though she were acting in a theater with actors cleverer than she, and that her bad acting was spoil ing the whol... ...e sums subscribed by the nobility of the province, the high schools, female, male, and military, and popular instruction on the new model, and finally,...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...still continues to take place in so many parts of Scot- land. Mr Kalm, the Swedish traveller, when he gives an account of the husbandry of some of the... ...the Romans who made no more distinction between elder and younger, between male and female, in the inheritance of lands, than we do in the distributio... ... can be no indisputable dif- ference but that of sex, and that of age. The male sex is universally preferred to the female; and when all other things ... ...aestus”, says old Cato, “stabilissimusque, minimeque invidiosus; minimeque male cogitantes sunt, qui in eo studio occupati sunt.” Country gentlemen an... ...orld. The Swedes established themselves in New Jersey; and the num- ber of Swedish families still to be found there sufficiently demon- 460 The Wealt... ...ying events, in which they flattered themselves they had been considerable actors. How obstinately the city of Paris, upon that occasion, defended its...

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