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...reprinted in 1910 and 1924." Additional material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presen... ..., and how a received law should not easily be changed XXIII. Divers events from one selfsame counsell XXIV. Of Pedantisme XXV. Of the Institution and ... ... collecting; and this was to Montaigne like Bacchus, closed in, or loosed from his great Iupiters thigh) I the indulgent father invited two right Hon... ...ding themselves, covenanted to receive them as friends unto the people of Rome, and to enter their Citie as a place confederate, removing all feare ... ... sword. But to come to later examples, yea in our memorie, the Lord Iulio Romero at Yvoy, having committed this oversight to issue out of his holde,... ...y, where these foolish predictions so much possesed the Italians, that in Rome there were laid great wagers, and much money give n out upon the exch... ...hose of the kingdome of Mexico were somewhat more encivilized, and better artists, than other nations of that world. And as wee doe, so judged they,... ...nversa est: 'Onely wisedome is wholy turned into it selfe.' I leave it to Artists, and I wot not whether in a matter so confused, so severall and so...

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...e of any rank, character, or nation; and in this way he diverted attention from the Prince, and sometimes gained admission for the pair into strange s... ... me,” said the Prince, “and I have all the will in the world to rescue you from this dilemma, but upon one condition. If my friend and I eat your cake... ...d them with a bow apiece. For some sec- onds he stood looking at the purse from which he had just paid his assistants, then, with a laugh, he tossed i... ...– that of time; and a spendthrift with only a few crowns is the Emperor of Rome until they are spent. For such a person to lose his money is to suffer... ...ds as he did so. “Sir, I salute you. May I inquire what is your charge for artists?” inquired Berthelini, with a courtesy at once splen- did and insin... ...uired Berthelini, with a courtesy at once splen- did and insinuating. “For artists?” said the landlord. His countenance fell and the smile of welcome ... ... landlord. His countenance fell and the smile of welcome disappeared. “Oh, artists!” he added 237 New Arabian Nights brutally; “four francs a day.” A...

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...t Blanc in the Rue d’Odessa, near the Gare Montparnasse, where a number of artists were in the habit of dining; and from then on I dined there every n... ...e Montparnasse, where a number of artists were in the habit of dining; and from then on I dined there every night. I have described the place elsewher... ... Paris to return to London. Once, long after wards, I received a telegram from him which ran as follows: ‘Please send twenty five pounds at once. Mot... ...s lips broke into a smile, and it was so tender that his thin face, sallow from long exposure to subtropical suns, was transfigured. He no longer stru... ...d make expressive the out ward form, the animalism of Greece, the lust of Rome, the mysticism of the Middle Ages, with its spiritual ambition and ima... ...in, and the mind that contemplated them was burdened with the decadence of Rome and with the passionate vice of the Renaissance; and it was tortured, ... ...ind. Susie and her companion had made up their minds to pass some weeks in Rome; and here, to her astonishment, Susie had news of Haddo and his wife. ...

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...aped upon this young man’s head. His first step forward in life had arisen from his having been sent, while still very young, as a private pupil to th... ...de; and it ended in Mark going back to Exeter with a letter full of praise from the widowed peeress. She had been delighted, she said, in having such ... ... means inclined to throw away any advantage which might arise to his child from such a friend- 4 Framley Parsonage ship. When, therefore, the young l... ...to entitle it to be considered as classical. Her mouth, too, was very fine—artists, at least, said so, and connois- seurs in beauty; but to me she alw... ... of that sort; so you will find yourself quite at home. ’ ‘We are going to Rome, ’ said Griselda majestically. ‘I suppose Mr Tickler will come to the ...

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...E THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING OUR KNOWLEDGE FROM AUTHORITY 176 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 181 FAITH 182 REASON 184 BUT WE ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL BEINGS 185 THE PROCESS OF REASONING 185 OPINIONS AND SEEKING EXPERTISE 189 SEMANTICS 191 CONFLICTSINVALUES 199 MORALS OR ETHICS ARE NOT ...

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... ...............................................................................................................................103 RETREATING FROM R... ...study our field—to throw suspicion off ourselves. ―We are afraid we won‘t be seen as logical. People are more likely to do something from a... ...nnings of psychology to begin to focus seriously on our motivations. Just as the great religious leaders seem to be climbing the same mountain from d... ...people do rather foolish things, like suicide bombings, burning books and defacing art—like was done to Michelangelo‘s Pieta in St. Peter‘s in Rome, ... .... When a person finds meaning in life, or searches for meaning, it is a sign of being psychologically healthy and happy. One might look at the artist... ...choose? Maslow quoted Child (21) to back up his thesis that the highest achievers in a ‗human area‘ think similarly. Child found that the best artist... ...ke some basic needs for the love and the esteem of others in order to live alone and quietly meditate on the mysteries of nature. And how many artist... ... ship to touch down in!‖ —―My mind is flooding with joy filled peak experiences I‘ve had. Seeing Aida in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. ... ...20,000 eager minds devouring some of Verdi‘s tenderest morsels, the music of the Muses. The language of angels filled the warm summer air, as Romeo ...

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...ew moments, was already absorbed in a book. The gentleman had not even needed to sit down to become interested: apparently he had taken up the volume from a table as soon as he came in, and, standing there, after a single glance round the apartment, had lost himself in its pages. He threw it down at the approach of Mrs. Luna, laughed, shook hands with her, and said in answ...

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...eded to sit down to become interested: apparently he had taken up the volume from a table as soon as he came in, and, standing there, after a single g... ...resenting himself with rather a work a day aspect. Mrs. Luna glanced at him from head to foot, and gave a little smiling sigh, as if he had been a lo... ...hair, perfectly straight and glossy, and without any di vision, rolled back from it in a leonine manner. These things, the eyes especially, with thei... ...nt, Chapter 4 23 lessons in drawing, orders for portraits, for poor foreign artists, as to the greatness of whose talent she pledged herself without ... ...ena would never think seri ously of a frivolous little man who fiddled while Rome was burning. This did not prevent Olive from making up her mind that... ...,’ at his mother, at Messrs. Andrews and Stoddard, at the illustrious men of Rome, at the universe in general, to which, as he lay on his back on the ... ...ent. ‘I am going to Florence.’ ‘Don’t be afraid!’ he replied. ‘I shall go to Rome.’ ‘And you’ll carry there more impertinence than has been seen there...

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... sense of honour and independence, and an obstinate refusal to take advice from those who really wished to befriend him; nor should it be forgotten th... ...The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew 5 Rousseau The... ...n its shadows and blemishes; let us not, then, seek to “draw his frailties from their dread abode.” His greatest fault was his renunciation of a fathe... ... as she really is, not as she was misrepresented by the modish authors and artists of the age. Some persons seem shy of owning an acquaintance with th... ...situations in- compatible with these sentiments. Incessantly occupied with Rome and Athens, conversing, if I may so express myself with their illustri... ...y into my good graces. He had a taste for drawing, and was acquainted with artists. He was of service to me relative to the engravings of the New Eloi... ...nfortunate people, whose rising virtues already promised to equal those of Rome and Sparta, I had spoken of the Corsicans in the ‘Social Contract’ as ...

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... the ground floor and the first floor were three dormer windows projecting from a slate roof; on the peak of the central one was a new weather-vane. T... ...of pleasure that seemed to have something rather sad in it; his eyes roved from the kitchen to the roof, with a motion that showed a deliberate purpos... ...ions. As he finished the first couple, the singer, who never took his eyes from the attic curtain, saw no signs of life. While he sang the second, the... ...eetest of all consolations to suffering souls, to mar- 81 Balzac tyrs, to artists, in the worst of that divine agony which ha- tred and envy force up... ...e satisfaction of conscience, in the invisible ideal palm gathered by true artists from the con- tentment which fills their soul after accomplishing a... ...To give that truth its true proportions we must transport the scene to the Rome of the middle ages, where a sublime young girl, Beatrice Cenci, was br...

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...Woolf The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf Chapter I A s the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk... ... beyond the reach of malice and unpopularity. In his guess one might guess from the moving lips that it was thought; and in hers from the eyes fixed s... ...it was sorrow. It was only by scorn- ing all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently pain... ...d. “I may be treading on dangerous ground; but what I feel about poets and artists in general is this: on your own lines, you can’t be beaten—granted;... ...s; we may be clumsy, but we do our best to get a grasp of things. Now your artists find things in a mess, shrug their shoulders, turn aside to their v... ...alloway, who, while her hus- band spoke, had been thinking. “When I’m with artists I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little... ...as reading the third volume of Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of Rome by candle- light. As he read he knocked the ash automatically, now and...

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...nhabited by myself and my young charges (it was the Palazzo Poniatowski at Rome, and Messrs. Spillmann, two of the best pastrycooks in Christendom, ha... ...and re- ceiving the letter which announces to His Majesty a proposed visit from Prince Bulbo, heir of Padella, reigning King of Crim Tartary. Remark t... ...suffice it to say, V aloroso was alone. He rushed to the cupboard, seizing from the table one of the many egg-cups with which his princely board was s... ...were his own brother, King Savio, alive, he would certainly will the crown from his own son in order to bring about such a desirable union. Thus easil... ...at Blombodinga, and became all the fashion, to the perfect rage of all the artists in Paflagonia, where the King used to point to the portrait of Prin...

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...oss The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I ACROSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDA... ...; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of the passengers from these four ships was concentrated on the train by which I was to tra... ...misery and danger. I followed the porters into a long shed reaching downhill from West Street to the river. It was dark, the wind blew clean through i... ...ers made a fortune in the mines? Were they all bound for Paris, and to be in Rome by Easter? It would seem not, for, whenever we met them, the passeng... ...elieve that the name of Hills had become famous. Siron’s inn, that excellent artists’ barrack, was managed upon easy principles. At any hour of the ni... ...subsequent achievement appears dull and earthly in com- parison. We were all artists; almost all in the age of illusion, cultivating an imaginary geni... ...u may remind me, even with unfaltering and delighted industry, many thousand artists spend their lives, if the result be regarded, utterly in vain: a ...

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...R I JUST AFTER PASSING Caraher’s saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ranch from that of Los Muer... ... the faint and prolonged blowing of a steam whistle that he knew must come from the railroad shops near the depot at Bonneville. In starting out from ... ...he day seemed always at noon, and the sun blazed white hot over the valley from the Coast Range in the west to the foothills of the Sierras in the eas... ...ovatore” were her beau ideals of literature and art. She dreamed of Italy, Rome, Naples, and the world’s great “art-centres.” There was no doubt that ... ...her heart hour by hour, year by year. And with it all, when was she to see Rome, Italy, and the Bay of Naples? It was a different pros- pect truly. Ma... ...ir, such as one sees in the saints and evan- gelists of the pre-Raphaelite artists, hung over his ears. Presley again remarked his pointed beard, blac... ...a for the entire Fake. The decayed professors, virtuosi, litterateurs, and artists thronged to the place en masse. Their clamour filled all the air. O... ... furthermore caused the poem to be illustrated by one of the paper’s staff artists in a most im- pressive fashion. The whole affair occupied an entire...

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...t, and beast in manhood tame, Follow we their silver flame. Pride of flesh from bondage free, Reaping vigour of its waste, Marks her servitors, and sh... ...eet in her disregard of aid Divine to conquer or persuade. A fountain jets from moss; a flower Bends gently where her sunset tresses shower. By guerdo... ...s as heavenly light to hearing, heard Through shelter leaves, the laughter from her throat, We answer as the midnight’s morning’s bird. She laughs, sh... ... struck on sight, when quick with dews, Like music of the very Muse. Great artists pass our single sense; We hear in seeing, strung to tense; Then hap... ... singer and anointed sage. Greece was my lamp: burnt out for lack of oil; Rome, Python Rome, prey of its robber spoil! All structures built upon a na...

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.......................................................................... 72 From the Mountain. ........................................................... ......................................................................... 256 FROM ‘THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER.’ ......................................... ......................................................................... 258 FROM AN ALBUM OF 1604. ....................................................... ... streets! Wilt thou not, Genius, awake? All that thy sacred walls, eternal Rome, hold within them T eemeth with life; but to me, all is still silent a... ...mor’s temple alone, where the Initiate may go. Thou art indeed a world, oh Rome; and yet, were Love absent, Then would the world be no world, then wou... ...d yet, were Love absent, Then would the world be no world, then would e’en Rome be no Rome. * Do not repent, mine own love, that thou so soon didst su... ...w’d spot. Thou dost honour still more the worthy relics created By the few artists—whom I loved in their studios to seek. I ’twas fashion’d those form...

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...ty’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; portrait of Byron from a painting by Thomas Philips, 1814 Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania... ...sion (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version Of his new system to perplex the sages; ‘T i... ... Don Juan “Dedication” 3 You — Gentlemen! by dint of long seclusion From better company, have kept your own At Keswick, and, through still ... ...s and some thanks. He varied with some skill his adulations; To ‘do at Rome as Romans do, ’ a piece Of conduct was which he observed in Greece... ...m Which ever the destroyer yet destroy’d, Amidst the roar of liberated Rome, Of nations freed, and the world overjoy’d, Some hands unseen ... ... ‘ve stood upon Achilles’ tomb, And heard Troy doubted; time will doubt of Rome. The very generations of the dead Are swept away, and tomb inh... ...mirari’ Was what he call’d the ‘Art of Happiness;’ An art on which the artists greatly vary, And have not yet attain’d to much success. Ho... ... and now Still older mansion; of a rich and rare Mix’d Gothic, such as artists all allow Few specimens yet left us can compare Withal: it ... ...anto Sixteen” 330 But as Lord Henry was a connoisseur,— The friend of artists, if not arts,—the owner, With motives the most classical and pu...

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...t at St. Pe- tersburg and later an appointment at the university. Lived in Rome from 1836 to 1848. Died on 21st February 1852. INTRODUCTION Dead Souls... ...St. Pe- tersburg and later an appointment at the university. Lived in Rome from 1836 to 1848. Died on 21st February 1852. INTRODUCTION Dead Souls, fir... ...Souls a unique work, peculiarly Gogolian, peculiarly Russian, and distinct from its author’s Spanish and English masters. Still more profound are the ... ...n in the author’s personal character; and unfortunately they prevented him from completing his work. The trouble is that he made his art out of life, ... ...om place to place like one hunted; but really always running from himself. Rome was his favourite refuge, and he re- turned to it again and again. In ... ...upon the immensity of the same, and saying that even the Empire of Ancient Rome had been of considerably smaller dimensions. Meanwhile Sobakevitch sat... ...ouse, and the next day a banquet and generous largesse given to a party of artists and sculptors. During these seasons of scarcity (sufficiently sever...

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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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.................................... ...................... 190 A HUMANE WORD FROM SATAN ................................................................... ......................................................... ...... 210 EXTRACTS FROM ADAM’S DIARY ............................................................ .......................... ...................................... 231 Extract from Adam’s Diary ............................................................ ...rch on account of the candles and shows; and next she naturally changed to Rome, where there were cardinals and more candles. But these excursions wer... ... of a hundred cathedrals, was being gratefully welcomed and blest in papal Rome and decorated with the Golden Rose which she had so honorably earned, ... ...ali si attendono a Roma domani alle ore 15,51. Return of the sovereigns to Rome, you see. Date of the telegram, Rome, November 24, ten minutes before ... ... other. He was a perfect pet. And he was always a favorite with his fellow artists, and was a conspicuous member of their benevolent secret society, c... ...ous instructions. The ink war ranted to be the kind used by the very best artists. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories 190 A MONUMENT TO ADAM SOME...

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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...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, a...

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...t Louis Stevenson PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan... ...iderable an amount of copy. These nine worthies have been brought together from many different ages and countries. Not the most erudite of men could b... ... strain of thought in Scotland, – a country far more essentially different from England than many parts of America; for, in a sense, the first of thes... ...but we shall have the justice also to recognise in him one of the greatest artists of our generation, and, in many ways, one of the greatest art- ists... ...nd further from writing the Address to a Louse. Yet Burns, like most great artists, proceeded from a school and contin- ued a tradition; only the scho... ...e extent the moral of his own career. He was among the least impersonal of artists. Except in the Jolly Beggars, he shows no gleam of dramatic instinc... ...ime to study virtue, and between whiles to conduct the imperial affairs of Rome; but Thoreau is so busy improving himself, that he must think twice ab... ...brimful of the longing to travel, and supported him in the toils of study. Rome was the dream of his life; he was never happier than when he read or t... ...ty retire, thou dost my pity move” – “It is decreed, nor shall thy fate, O Rome;” – open and dignified in the sound, various and majestic in the senti...