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... UNITED STATES 3 INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON TO BILL CLINTON George Washington FIRST INAUGURAL ... ...ed by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilec tion, and, i... ...d not but overwhelm with despondence one who (inheriting inferior endowments from nature and un practiced in the duties of civil administration) ough... ...minion of man over physical nature has been extended by the invention of our artists. Liberty and law have marched hand in hand. All the purposes of h... ...mperish able glories of the ancient republics. The roads and aq ueducts of Rome have been the admiration of all after ages, and have survived thousa...

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..................................................................................................................................................... 11 From the Hymn of Empedocles .................................................................................................................................... 12 Immortality.....................................................

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...Beach ................................................................................................................................................... ...nce ..................................................................................................................................................... ... spring by their road; Then on to Olympus, Their endless abode. —Whose proase do they mention? Of what is it told?— What will be f... ...l’d her eagles, snapp’d her sword, And laid her sceptre down; Her stately purple she abhorr’d, And her imperial crown. “She broke her flutes, she st... ...ch shall their coffin be, when dead! The library, where tract and tome Not to feed priestly pride are there, 42 Matthew Arnold To hymn th...

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...ft, a window, by which is a small sofa with a work-table in front of it. At the back the room opens into a conservatory rather smaller than the room. From the right-hand side of this, a door leads to the garden. Through the large panes of glass that form the outer wall of the conservatory, a gloomy fjord landscape can be discerned, half-obscured by steady rain....

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... the back the room opens into a conservatory rather smaller than the room. From the right-hand side of this, a door leads to the gar- den. Through the... ...there will be a lot of fine folk here tomorrow. Parson Manders is expected from town, too. Regina: What’s more, he’s coming today. 5 Henrik Ibsen Eng... ...you, well enough. But dreadfully tired after his journey. He came straight from Paris without a stop—I mean, he came all the way without breaking his ... ... filial of him; because there must be many more attractions in his life in Rome or in Paris, I should think. Mrs. Alving. Yes, but he has his mother h... ...istic circles. Oswald. So it has. Manders. And chiefly amongst the younger artists. Oswald. Certainly. Manders. But I imagined that those gentry, as a... ... immoral. No; but do you know when and where I have met with immorality in artists’ circles? Manders. No, thank heaven, I don’t! Oswald. Well, then, I... ...here to have a bit of a look round on their own account, and have done the artists the honour of looking them up in their humble quar- ters. Then we h...

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...er such questions, and to reckon up the value of external things, is not far from forget- ting what manner of man he is. Why, what is it that you ask ... ...as he ought, with this thought, that we are all in an especial manner sprung from God, and that God is the Father of men as well as of Gods, full sure... ... and men, is the foremost and mightiest and most comprehensive of all: that from God have descended the germs of life, not to my fa- ther only and fa... ...s to pass among men? Shall kinship with Caesar, or any other of the great at Rome, be enough to hedge men around with safety and consideration, withou... ... XXIV XXIV XXIV If we were as intent upon our business as the old fellows at Rome are upon what interests them, we too might perhaps ac- complish some... ...ng. I know a man older than I am, now Superin- tendent of the Corn-market at Rome, and I remember when he passed through this place on his way back fr... ...carest not of what sort thou shalt show thyself to be? Yet how different the artists and their workmanship! What human artist s work, for example, has...

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...graphy blindly in, but enter considerately, or, if we see good, keep aloof from it altogether. Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but ... ... in the depths of his own con- sciousness, or be betrumpeted and beshouted from end to end of the habitable globe. These are plain truths, which no on... ...oice, how feeble soever, how unheeded soever, against the common delusion; from which, if he can save, or help to save any mortal, his endeavours will... ...usting as they were, in perfect horror. On the other hand, the Roman Hill (Romerberg) was a most delightful place for walking. The way to the New-T ow... ...of these principles, he employed for many years the whole of the Frankfort artists,—the painter Hirt, who excelled in animating oak and beech woods, a... ... same, they could not meet in the streets without disputes arising, as in “Romeo and Juliet.” Thus I also was then a Prussian in my views, or, to spea... ...ather, who accompanied him; and when he heard that the greater part of the artists were still living, and resided in Frankfurt and its neighbor- hood,... ...ng the very first days of the count’s residence with us, all the Frankfort artists, as Hirt, Schütz, Trautmann, Nothnagel, and Junker, were called to ... ... that the Archduke Joseph would be elected and 173 Goethe crowned king of Rome. An event so highly important was not to be expected without preparati...

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...ly by coming to earth, the native earth, was it enabled to soar. Coming up from Little Russia, the Ukraine, with Cossack blood in his veins, Gogol inj... ....” Russian history gives him no plea- sure, and he separates it definitely from Ukrainian history. He is “ready to cast everything aside rather than r... ...e Thucydides of Little Russia.” How completely he disasso- ciated Ukrainia from Northern Russia may be judged by the conspectus of his lectures writte... ...a day to de- mand the rent for his rooms, then did the luck of the wealthy artists recur to his hungry imagination; then did the thought which so ofte... ...is better, to tell the truth, than the portraits by any of the fashionable artists? Why do I worry, and toil like a learner over the alphabet, when I ... ...tricks, uttering various odd sounds and humming to himself now and then as artists do when immersed heart and soul in their work. Without the slightes... ...himself from his friends and relatives, and had hastened to that wonderful Rome, at whose very name the artist’s heart beats wildly and hotly. There h...

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...rk, she did not even care to understand it. But that did not pre- vent her from regarding it as a matter of great impor- tance. And then she knew thei... ...But I say,” Stepan Arkadyevitch said to him one day after he had come back from the country, where he had got everything ready for the young people’s ... ...s of the Holy Apostolic Church?” the priest went on, turning his eyes away from Levin’s face and folding his hands under his stole. “I have doubted, I... ...en traveling for three months together in Europe. They had visited Venice, Rome, and Naples, and had just arrived at a small Italian town where they m... ...they were the worse he found them) of looking at the works of contemporary artists with the sole object of being in a position to say that art is a th... ...t could not develop for want of education—the common defect of our Russian artists. But the picture of the boys had imprinted itself on their memories... ... you must find our poor Peters- burg horrid. I can fancy your honeymoon in Rome. How about the divorce? Is that all over?” Vronsky noticed that Betsy’... ...ograph that was next to her son’s (it was a photograph of Vronsky taken at Rome in a round hat and with long hair), she used it to push out her son’s ...

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...hy with vagabonds and talkers who try to reform society by taking men away from their regular productive work and making vagabonds and talkers of them... ... his belief in many things, true and false, that in no way distinguish him from other Syrians of that time. But such common beliefs do not constitute ... ...p, or believing that the earth is flat and that the stars could drop on it from heaven like hailstones. Chris- tianity interests practical statesmen n... ...eping them quiet, on the formal plea that he had committed treason against Rome by saying that he was the King of the Jews. He was not falsely accused... ...s Pilate, or even Pontius Pilate himself in council with all the wisdom of Rome, could have worked out applications of Christianity or any other syste... ...l of persons of similar income; and beauty and health become the dreams of artists and the advertise- ments of quacks instead of the normal conditions... ...gland school, finds himself pay- ing taxes not only to endow the Church of Rome in Malta, but to send Christians to prison for the blasphemy of offer-...

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... all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, w... ...ts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. Ep- och ... ...n riddle. If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from indi- vidual experience. There is a relation between the hours of our ... ...hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded b... ...ust transfer the point of view from which history is com- monly read, from Rome and Athens and London, to him- self, and not deny his conviction that ... ...vail to keep a fact a fact. Babylon, Troy, Tyre, Palestine, and even early Rome are passing already into fiction. The Garden of Eden, the sun standing... ...upon, and to make that for the time the deputy of the world. These are the artists, the orators, the lead- ers of society. The power to detach and to ... ...ch the work evinced in the artist, and its high- est effect is to make new artists. Already History is old enough to witness the old age and disappear... ...the due effect. Too feeble fall the impressions of nature on us to make us artists. Every touch should thrill. Every man should be so much an art- ist...

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...e of conversa- tion that you have just accepted the living—” “Yes, I heard from mother so last week. She didn’t know that I knew you at Tunbridge Well... ..., and round by Settignano, or something of that sort.” “No!” cried a voice from the top of the table. “Mr. Beebe, you are wrong. The first fine aftern... ...ope that people will be nice.” “I think he is; nice and tiresome. I differ from him on almost every point of any importance, and so, I expect—I may sa... ...t—hard. Enshadowed, it sprang into tender- ness. She saw him once again at Rome, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, carrying a burden of acorns. He... .... “And the news?” asked Miss Bartlett. “Mrs. Vyse and her son have gone to Rome,” said Lucy, giving the news that interested her least. “Do you know t... ... Vyses. So clever—my idea of what’s really clever. Don’t you long to be in Rome?” “I die for it!” The Piazza Signoria is too stony to be brilliant. It... ...theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as we...

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...s house stable. But we do make the doctor the judge, and fine him anything from sixpence to several hundred guineas if he de- cides in our favor. I ca... ...le of strong medicine. In this predicament most people, to save themselves from unbearable mistrust and misery, or from being driven by their conscien... ...e necessarily malicious or corrupt malprac- tices (an inevitable deduction from the postulate that the doctor, being omniscient, cannot make mistakes)... ...t to spend on his 19 GB Shaw wife. Such cases are not confined to eminent artists. Unsuc- cessful, unskilful men are often much more scrupulous than ... ...another celebrated experiment: one in sanitary reform. In the days of Nero Rome was in the same predicament as London to-day. If some one would burn d... ...oners would be considerably pro- longed. Nero argued in the same way about Rome. He em- ployed incendiaries to set it on fire; and he played the harp ... ...n the old Hebrew legend, God lost patience with the world as Nero did with Rome, and drowned everybody except a single family. But the result was that...

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...ed by throwing herself one stormy night into a rather deep and rapid river from a high bank, almost a precipice, 4 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV – Part I a... ...means of some deed of conveyance. He would probably have succeeded, merely from her moral fatigue and desire to get rid of him, and from the contempt ... ...f remarkable physical strength. Fi- nally, she left the house and ran away from Fyodor Pavlovitch with a destitute divinity student, leaving Mitya, a ... ...31 Dostoevsky painted above and on the sides of the gates. “When you go to Rome you must do as the Romans do. Here in this hermitage there are twenty-... ...lorosa embracing it, and several foreign engravings from the great Italian artists of past centuries. Next to these costly and artis- tic engravings w... ...n very many of its de- partments. In reality this was bound to happen. But Rome as a State retained too much of the pagan civilisation and cul- ture, ... ...ear in it completely. So it seems at least in Lutheran coun- tries. As for Rome, it was proclaimed a State instead of a Church a thousand years ago. A...

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...entertaining than the report of this Com- mittee. Its full title is REPORT FROM THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE HOUSE OF COMM... ...se. The number of the Bluebook is 214. How interesting it is may be judged from the fact that it contains verbatim reports of long and animated interv... ...turb the ex- isting state of things. How this was effected may be gathered from the recommendations finally agreed on, which are as follows. 1. The dr... ...entally managers and men of business: primarily they are highly cultivated artists, quite ca- pable of judging for themselves anything that the most a... ... Committee, no doubt recognizing the absurdity of calling on distinguished artists to give their views before it, and then refusing to allow them to s... ...as for some time forbidden in Vienna, and more recently it gave offence in Rome at a moment when popular feeling was excited as to the relations of Au...

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...to explain as clearly as I am able grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on soci... ...ing, they are subjected to a set of logical requirements totally different from those ex acted from other people. In all other cases, burthen of proo... ...o complain of them; first, use it would be useless; they are insepa rable from having to contend through people’s understandings against the hostilit... ...y be said of domestic slavery. It was quite an ordinary fact in Greece and Rome for slaves to submit to death by torture rather than betray their mast... ...t that they may gain their living or their social consequence by it. Women artists are all amateurs. The exceptions are only of the kind which confirm...

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...ony Motteux The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initia... ...on (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initialled ‘M.’ are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translato... ...(as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by Ozell. 4 Gargantua & Pantagruel Introduction ... ...tissac, Bishop of Maillezais, to whom in 1535 and 1536 he ad- dressed from Rome the three news letters, which alone have been preserved; and in 1534 h... ... from Lyons his edition of the Latin book of Marliani on the topography of Rome to Jean du Bellay (at that time Bishop of Paris) who was raised to the... ...al sins. The Sciomachie of 1549, an account of the festivities arranged at Rome by Car- dinal du Bellay in honour of the birth of the second son of He... ...r Street he held dispute against all the regents or fel- lows of colleges, artists or masters of arts, and orators, and did so gallantly that he overt...

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...ch or common methods, that your allowance and approbation of the design of this Treatise will at least preserve it from being condemned without readin... ...th some of those large and comprehensive discoveries you have made of truths hitherto unknown, unless to some few, from whom your lordship has been pl... ...gh, if your lordship permit me to boast, that here and there I have fallen into some thoughts not wholly different from yours. If your lordship think ... ...ies of gold may be without mal- leableness; since it is certain that gold itself will be some- times so eager, (as artists call it), that it will as l... ...timony of unsuspected witnesses, there our assent is also unavoidable. Thus: that there is such a city in Italy as Rome: that about one thousand seven... ...sted; which by inquiry is to be learned, v.g. whether there was one thousand seven hundred years ago such a man at Rome as Julius Caesar: in all such ... ...nt or suspend our assent: but can a man versed in modern or ancient history doubt whether there is such a place as Rome, or whether there was such a m...

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...er 25, taking himself very seriously, but still in some awe of his mother, from childish habit and bachelor shyness rather than from any weakness of c... ...at all, mother. LADY BRITOMART. Bring me my cushion. [He takes the cushion from the chair at the desk and arranges it for her as she sits down on the ... ...th my father? LADY BRITOMART . My dear Stephen: where is the money to come from? It is easy enough for you and the other children to live on my income... ...ds on. In a proper state of society I am sober, industrious and honest: in Rome, so to speak, I do as the Romans do. Wots the consequence? When trade ... ...d all the lawyers, muddled all the men of business, and ruined most of the artists: the secret of right and wrong. Why, man, you’re a genius, master o...

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...ed by throwing herself one stormy night into a rather deep and rapid river from a high bank, almost a precipice, and so perished, entirely to satisfy ... ...means of some deed of conveyance. He would probably have succeeded, merely from her moral fatigue and desire to get rid of him, and from the contempt ... ... of remarkable physical strength. Finally, she left the house and ran away from Fyodor Pavlovitch with a destitute divinity student, leaving Mitya, a ... ...31 Dostoevsky painted above and on the sides of the gates. “When you go to Rome you must do as the Romans do. Here in this hermitage there are twenty-... ...lorosa embracing it, and several foreign engravings from the great Italian artists of past centuries. Next to these costly and artis- tic engravings w... ...n very many of its de- partments. In reality this was bound to happen. But Rome as a State retained too much of the pagan civilisation and cul- ture, ... ...ear in it completely. So it seems at least in Lutheran coun- tries. As for Rome, it was proclaimed a State instead of a Church a thousand years ago. A...

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...ing the Doukhobors, a sect who were persecuted in the Caucasus (especially from 1895 to 1898) for refusing to learn war. About seven thousand three hu... ...Prevention is better than cure,” and I would rather help people to abstain from killing and wounding each other than devote the money to patch up thei... ... duty. The jailer, rattling the iron padlock, opened the door of the cell, from which there came a whiff of air fouler even than that in the corridor,... ...and from all the rest must be got. Oh, to breathe freely, to go abroad, to Rome and work at my picture! He remembered the doubts he had about his tale... ...“Well, never mind; only just to breathe freely. First Constantinople, then Rome. Only just to get through with this jury business, and arrange with th... ... he just devours me with his eyes,” she said, shak- ing her head. “Regular artists.” “Yes, that’s so,” said the watchman’s wife, and ran on in her mus... ...ould you come on Saturday? You will meet men of science, literary men, and artists at my house, and then we might discuss these general questions,” sa... ...dox faith in Western Russia among the Uniates (who acknowledge the Pope of Rome), and who have the Greek religion en- forced on them. An official who ...

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...ar, before he won The Latian realm, and built the destin?d town; His banish?d gods restor?d to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line, From whence the race of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majestic Rome....

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...’d gods restor’d to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line, From whence the race of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majesti... ...om whence the race of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majestic Rome. O Muse! the causes and the crimes relate; What goddess was provok’d, ... ...l combin’d T o kindle vengeance in her haughty mind. For this, far distant from the Latian coast She drove the remnants of the Trojan host; And sev’n ... ...ffending foe, The bolts of Jove himself presum’d to throw: With whirlwinds from beneath she toss’d the ship, And bare expos’d the bosom of the deep; T... ... martial tow’rs the founder shall become, The people Romans call, the city Rome. T o them no bounds of empire I assign, Nor term of years to their imm... ...all join, T o cherish and advance the Trojan line. The subject world shall Rome’s dominion own, And, prostrate, shall adore the nation of the gown. An... ...e Aeneid Virgil 18 Admir’d the fortune of the rising town, The striving artists, and their arts’ renown; He saw, in order painted on the wall, What...

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................................................................ 121 VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU. ................................................................ ................................................................. 143 EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. ............................................................. ...atue beside those of the acknowledged masters of English poetry. But apart from this, we do think that Lord Carlisle has exaggerated the “De- cline an... ...mass of smoked gumflowers. Compare for fancy the speeches of Mercutio, in “Romeo and Juliet,” the “Rape of the Lock,” if we would see the difference b... ...at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. ’Tis well—but, artists! who can paint or write, To draw the naked is your true delight. Th... ..., encumber’d villainy! 50 Could France or Rome divert our brave designs, With all their brandies, or with all their w... ...nation may be sold: Glorious ambition! Peter, swell thy store, And be what Rome’s great Didius 35 was before. The crown of Poland, venal twice an age... ...chase what he ne’er can taste? Not for himself he sees, or hears, or eats; Artists must choose his pictures, music, meats; He buys for Topham 45 draw...

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.................................................................. 166 SCENES FROM “POLITIAN” .............................................................. ...rr in their patterns and colours. The soul of the apartment is the carpet. From it are deduced not only the hues but the forms of all objects incumben... ...y of American house- hold decoration—an error easily recognised as deduced from the perversion of taste just specified., We are violently enamoured of... ...t offends. No one having both brains and eyes will use it. A mild, or what artists term a cool light, with its consequent warm shadows, will do wonder... ...—have we lived to see the day when a blaspheming and idolatrous upstart of Rome shall accuse us of appropriating to the appetites of the flesh the mos... ...perceive, the fundamental doctrines in his metaphysics.” “Were you ever at Rome?” asked the restaurateur, as he finished his second bottle of Mousseux... ... executive power—at that time, Monsieur Bon-Bon—at that time only I was in Rome, and I have no earthly acquaintance, consequently, with any of its 77...

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...union is often found in practice to be as tyrannical and as hard to escape from as the worst legal one. We may take it then that when a joint domestic... ...ome means of dissolu- tion. The conditions of dissolution may vary widely, from those on which Henry VIII. procured his divorce from Katharine of Arra... ... command- ment, which English women will one day succeed in obliter- ating from the walls of our churches by refusing to enter any building where they... ...f their capacities. Compared with statesmen, first- rate professional men, artists, and even with laborers and artisans as far as muscular exertion go... ...te a different matter. The comparatively few men who work at home—writers, artists, and to some extent clergy- men—have to effect some sort of segrega... ...isuse. The private con- tract stage of this process was reached in ancient Rome. The only practicable alternative to it seems to be such an exten- sio... ...e Ritu- alism, I hope, Alfred? 90 Shaw THE BISHOP . Oh no. I mean ancient Rome. [He seats him- self on the edge of the table]. Ive just come to the p... ...riven out of the registry office; and we shall have the history of Ancient Rome repeated. We shall be joined by our solicitors for seven, fourteen, or...

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...occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger. Without this communication of ideals, hopes,... ...ut this communication of ideals, hopes, expectations, standards, opinions, from those members of society who are passing out of the group life to thos... ...tion is found in the fact that such emphasis is a means of getting us away from an unduly scholastic and formal notion of educa- tion. Schools are, in... ...mbers have little or no direct contact with one another, like the guild of artists, the republic of letters, the members of the professional learned c... ... enough to impress beginners, and often to take them captive. Meth- ods of artists in every branch depend upon thorough ac- quaintance with materials ... ...the instrumen- talities of an expanding and controlled experience, and the artists and poets who have celebrated his struggles, triumphs, and defeats ... ... of Greek thought. It arose partly because of the fact that the culture of Rome and of barbarian Europe was not a native product, being borrowed direc...

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...7 Selected Writings incidents which prompted them, that he also suf- fered from an excess of nervous emotionalism. Nine times out of ten, what is the ... ...ketches of brutal customs with an element of delicate scorn, preserves him from coarseness. It is this constant and involuntary antithesis which gives... ...or who is growing old and an ob- scure junior, whose renown is increasing. From 10 De Maupassant generation to generation, envy reascends no less tha... ...nted have come to be history. Just as it is im- possible to comprehend the Rome of the Caesars without the work of Petronius, so is it impossible to f... ...the whole image of the country than the “Satyricon” was the whole image of Rome, but what their au- 14 De Maupassant thor has wished to paint, he has... ...g covered with a close mask of thick oilcloth. Naturally, like other great artists, he was not un- derstood by the crowd, who confounded him with vulg... ...ered about from Genoa to Venice, from Venice to Florence, from Florence to Rome, from Rome to Naples. Then I traveled over Sicily, a country celebrate...

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...nack of mine which happens to amuse the British public distracts attention from my character; but the character is there none the less, solid as brick... ...ction. That is why we insist on beauty in our performers, differing herein from the countries our friend William Archer holds up as examples of seriou... ...f seriousness to our childish theatres. There the Juliets and Isoldes, the Romeos and T ristans, might be our mothers and fathers. Not so the English ... ...rama with which the experienced popular author instinctively saves himself from failure. But what did you want? Owing to your unfortunate habit—you no... ... morality. Yet we must get an electorate of capable critics or collapse as Rome and Egypt collapsed. At this moment the Roman decadent phase of panem ... ... artist-philosopher, and that the artist-philosophers are the only sort of artists I take quite seriously, will be no news to you. Even Plato and Bosw...