...ire as other men think of the soft lines 5 H G Wells and tender beauty of women. Thousands of men there are to-day almost mastered by this white pass... ...ween my world and Machiavelli’s. We are discovering 8 The New Machiavelli women. It is as if they had come across a vast interval since his time, int... ...orthy men to toil, and wasted the hours of Princes. He left the thought of women outside with his other dusty things when he went into his study to wr... ...ened with its sense of the immense, now half ar- ticulate, significance of women. They stand now, as it were, close beside the silver candlesticks, sp... ...ealisations that are going on in the world about me. I began life ignoring women, they came to me at first perplexing and dishonouring; only very slow... ...te about toys. The praises of the toy theatre have been a common theme for essayists, the planning of the scenes, the painting and cutting out of the ...

...rest of the theatre-party to appear. A great, slow-moving press of men and women in evening dress filled the vestibule from one wall to an- other. A c... ...eople increased; progress became impossible, except an inch at a time. The women were, almost without exception, in light-coloured gowns, white, pale ... ...nd satin muf- flers, and opera hats; their hands under the elbows of their women-folk, urged or guided them forward, distressed, pre- occupied, adjuri... ...he instinct of the man, no longer very young, to keep out of strange young women’s troubles betrayed itself in the uneasy glance that he shot at her f... ...t, and was one of those fortunate few who were favoured equally of men and women. The healthiness of his eye and skin persuaded to a belief in the hea... ... the Victorian poets, and soon was on terms of intimacy with the poets and essayists of New England. The novel- ists of the day she ignored almost com...

...ster Hospital, each with 1s 4d a day; that there should also be twelve old women, each with 1s 2d a day; that there should be a matron with a house an... ...ecessary. Men in the upper walks of life do not mind being cursed, and the women, presuming that it be done in delicate phrase, rather like it. But he... ...ten to his flattery, whispering religious twaddle into the ears of foolish women, ingratiating himself with the very few clergy who would receive him,... ...he uses them. Could Mr Slope have adapted his manners to men as well as to women, could he ever have learnt the ways of a gentleman, he might have ris... ...ave new troubles, which will be terrible to me. There are to be twelve old women, and a matron. How shall I manage twelve women and a matron!’ ‘The ma... ...s than any other man in his own county, and the next to it, of the English essayists of the two last centuries. He possessed complete sets of the ‘Idl...

...kroom, which raised her slightly above the class of working-girls. The two women’s slender earnings, together with Mme. Chardon’s three hundred francs... ...the beauty of the antique; the Greek profile, with the velvet whiteness of women’s faces, and eyes full of love, eyes so blue that they looked dark ag... ... denoted race; they were shapely hands; hands that men obey at a sign, and women love to kiss. Lucien was slender and of middle height. From a glance ... ...ir about her, a something that seems at first original, but only suited to women of adventurous life. So this education, and the con- sequent asperiti... ...s niggardliness, and he felt quite unequal to the struggle. Like all young women who leave the appointed track of woman’s life, Nais had her own opini... ...ks published in France for the first time between 1815 and 1821, the great essayists, M. de Bonald and M. de Maistre (those two eagles of thought)—all...

...e too tolerant of dull, well- meaning and industrious men and arrogant old women. It suffers hypocrites gladly, because its criticism is poor, and it ... ...e care that was to be taken of them, and they went down, and most of their women 38 An Englishman Looks at the World and children went down with the ... ... of industry. And then, last but not least, there is self-respect. Men and women are capable of wonders of self-discipline and effort if they feel tha... ...polygamy, monogamy still prevails as the ordinary way of living. Unmarried women are not esteemed, and children are desired. According to the dangers ... ...e hunter, there have been a number of forces and influences within men and women and without, that have produced abnor- mal and surplus ways of living... ...a classification of minds— the sort of classification dear to the Y.M.C.A. essayists, made for the purposes of the essay and unknown to psychology. Th...

...is mostly a view of the civilised society in which he lives. Other men and women are so much more grossly and so much more intimately pal- pable to hi... ...uired and means were provided. He was not a pure man in his relations with women, and the leprosy of 45 Lay Morals which he died should be attributed... ...ut dirty Damien washed it. Damien was not a pure man in his relations with women, etc. How do you know that? Is this the nature of the conversa- tion ... ...give you stale sneers at all the celebrated speakers. He was the terror of essayists at the Speculative or the Forensic. In social qualities he seems ... ...d peer through the gratings into the shadow of vaults. Just then I saw two women coming down a path, one of 136 Robert Louis Stevenson them old, and ... ... the covering were the tears of those who laid it where it was. As the two women came up to it, one of them kneeled down on the wet grass and looked l...