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...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ratus of honour—is, I sub- mit, addressed to, and could be adopted by, any English- reading and English-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inqui... ...l revision. These papers have indeed been honoured by letters from men and women of almost every profession, and by a really very considerable amount ... ...al manner. But neither of these I believe is the most abundant type in the English- speaking communities. My impression is that with most of the minds... ...ld-world wisdom, the ultimate mystery of Oriental philosophy is to contemn women and offspring, to abandon costume, cleanliness, and all the de- cenci... ...nd he has also proposed that “diplomas” should be granted to young men and women of high class—big S and upward—and that they should be encouraged to ... ... outside their range. Certain things that have been rather well treated by poets and artists (for the most part dead and of Academic standing) they re...

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...Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill is... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way . The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill, the Pennsylvania State University , Electronic... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...qual opportunity university . Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL CHAPTER I THE OBJECT OF THIS E SSAY is to expl... ...would have permitted their first establishment. Less than forty years ago, Englishmen might still by law hold human beings in bondage as saleable prop... ...queen; the thing seems to them so unnatural as to be almost incredible. To Englishmen this does not seem in the least degree unnatural, because they a... ...istinguished success. The Greeks always accounted Sappho among their great poets; and we may well suppose that Myrtis, said to have been the teacher o...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... near Brattleboro’, Vt., and here Mr. Kipling brought his bride. The young Englishman was so impressed by the Ver- mont scenery that he rented for a t... ...a mad city—inhab- ited for the most part by perfectly insane people, whose women are of a remarkable beauty. Contents At the Golden Gate ................ ...red thousand white men. Think of it! Three hundred thou-sand white men and women gathered in one spot, walking upon real pavements in front of plate- ... ...s, and talking something that at first hearing was not very different from English. It was only when I had tangled myself up in a hopeless maze of sma... ...or no names. It was enough that the pave- ments were full of white men and women, the streets clang- ing with traffic, and that the restful roar of a ... ...hought beyond the enjoyment of a good time. As certain, also, of their own poets have said:— “Man is fire and woman is tow, And the devil he comes and...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...t of all upon the antiquity of love, which is proved by the authority of the poets; secondly upon the benefits which love gives to man. The greatest o... ...into an inspired hero. And there have been true loves not only of men but of women also. Such was the love of Alcestis, who dared to die for her husba... ...kind of love, which is a love of the body rather than of the soul, and is of women and boys as well as of men. Now the actions of lovers vary , like e... ...reating of the origin of human nature. The sexes were originally three, men, women, and the union of the two; and they were made round—having four han... ... soul creates not children, but conceptions of wisdom and vir tue, such as poets and other creators have in vented. And the noblest creations of al... .... But effeminate love was always condemned as well as ridiculed by the Comic poets; and in the New Comedy the allu sions to such topics have disappea...

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...ing stu dent publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...at last the oracle irrefut able. When I left the politicians, I went to the poets; tragic, dithyrambic, and all sorts. And there, I said to myself, y... ...than they did themselves. That showed me in an instant that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are lik... ...lso say many fine things, but do not understand the meaning of them. And the poets appeared to me to be much in the same case; and I further observed ... ... to whom the Athenians themselves give honor and command, are no better than women. And I say that these things ought not to be done by those of us wh... ...at Trojan expedition; or Odysseus or Sisyphus, or numberless others, men and women too! What infinite delight would there be in conversing with them a...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...rane of some huge lobster, invisibly manipulated by thirty thousand men or women, of whom each individual occupies a space of six square feet, but has... ...fectioner, where there’s a pretty girl.” Rambling about Paris is, to these poets, a costly luxury. How can they help spending precious minutes be- for... ...less fingers, ah, then! and we say it in the interests of young and pretty women, that woman is lost. She is at the mercy of the first man of her acqu... ...elf that he will ever be understood? We all die unknown—’tis the saying of women and of authors. At half-past eight o’clock one evening, in the rue Pa... ...e the glance avows it. Auguste, poet after the manner of lovers (there are poets who feel, and poets who express; the first are the happiest), Auguste... ...e by society, which makes no inquiry as to what there may be of great men, poets, intrepid 31 Balzac souls, and splendid organizations among these va... ...e with claws, scissors, impudent as a Spanish woman, snarling as a prudish English woman pro- claiming her conjugal rights, coquettish as a great lady... ... husband to eau de Melisse for faintness, sugarplums for the children, and English court-plaster in case of cuts. Jules studied all. He looked attenti...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Copy... ...robably some elements of Plato remain still unde tected in Aristotle. In English philosophy too, many affini ties may be traced, not only in the wo... ...mitation thrice removed from the truth, and Homer, as well as the dramatic poets, having been con demned as an imitator, is sent into banishment alon... ... force in the opening scene, and will not “let him off” on the subject of women and children. Like Cephalus, he is limited in his point of view, and ... ...gument, and who refuses to let Socrates pass lightly over the question of women and children. It is Adeimantus who is the respondent in the more arg... ...which I should like to ask of you who have arrived at that time which the poets call the ‘threshold of old age’— Is life harder towards the end, or w... ...r proper to him—that is to say, evil. Simonides, then, after the manner of poets, would seem to have spoken darkly of the nature of justice; for he r... ...k, do so, and I will answer ‘Very good,’ as they say to story telling old women, and will nod ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’ Certainly not, I said, if contrary to ...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...thout some disdainful remarks of Socrates on the practice of introducing the poets, who ought not to be allowed, any more than flute girls, to come in... ...but both, when Protagoras begins to break down. Against the authority of the poets with whom Protagoras has ingeniously identified him self at the co... ...overbial philosophers and those mas ters of brevity the Lacedaemonians. The poets, the Laconizers, and Protagoras are satirized at the same time. Not... ...ich they have taught them. And in Lacedaemon and Crete not only men but also women have a pride in their high cultivation. And hereby you may know tha...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...n. To tell the truth, it had not entered my head, so much more practical are women than we men in the solution of the problems of daily life! “Poo... ...to Russia, capital will be created and the bour geoisie will spring up. The English political and literary paper, The Times , in an article the other... ...tly. “If I am celebrated here, I wish her to be celebrated there. Sa vants, poets, philosophers, foreign mineralogists, statesmen, after conversing i... ...t for the revision of the tariff and the encouragement of the importation of English cloth, which is stronger and so will withstand Nature longer when... ...van Matveitch hasten to express himself before me, like feverish weak willed women who, as we are told by the proverb, cannot keep a secret. All that ...

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... A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIO... ...P ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EATER... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... having too much escaped observation, it has been the cause of much error. Poets I could mention, if it were not invidi- ous to do so, who, whilst com... ...e gods, and not their degradation, which must be ascribed to the frauds of poets. Tradition, and no poetic tradition, absolutely pointed to the grave ... ...ghout Christendom to murder harmless, friendless, and oftentimes crazy old women. Meantime the witch of Endor in no respect re- sembled our modern dom... ...rous warrant; until at last the fiery fur- nace, which they had heated for women and children, shot forth flames that, like those of Nebuchadnezzar’s ... ...it? Who first no- ticed hunger and cold as awful realities afflicting poor women and innocent children? Who first made a public provision to meet thes...

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...sed of them, you and I would fain become. And to all composers in the world, poets, orators, legislators, we hereby announce that if their composition... ...f their compositions are based upon these principles, then they are not only poets, orators, legislators, but philosophers. All others are mere flatte... ...ove, what Plato says of the loves of men must be transferred to the loves of women before we can attach any serious meaning to his words. Had he lived... ...ey cannot undertake any noble enterprise, such as makes the names of men and women famous, from domestic considerations. T oo late their eyes are open... ..., is friendship, which does not receive unmeaning praises from novelists and poets, is not exacting or exclusive, is not impaired by familiarity , is ... ...re whether the love of which Plato 30 Plato speaks is the love of men or of women. It is really a general idea which includes both, and in which the ... ... must not be forgotten in relation to this subject. In the end less maze of English law is there any ‘dividing the whole into parts or reuniting the ...

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...g student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ness to trample on the elementary decencies of marriage. He gathered loose women into his house, and car- ried on orgies of debauchery in his wife’s p... ...vant, and on one occasion broke up the revels and drove all the disorderly women out of the house. In the end this unhappy young woman, kept in terror... ...nto that kind of nervous disease which is most frequently found in peasant women who are said to be “possessed by devils.” At times after terrible fit... ...i- ably, and was very fond of cleaning his smart calf boots with a special English polish, so that they shone like mirrors. He turned out a first rate... ...n country than we are? I wouldn’t change a dandy I know of for three young englishmen,” observed Marya Kondratyevna tenderly , doubt- less accompanyin... ...hall lose it of myself, I fancy. Some drivelling consumptive moralists—and poets especially—often call that thirst for life base. It’s a feature of th... ...he wise men of the earth—rulers, chief priests, learned men, philosophers, poets—and had set them the task to invent three questions, such as would no... ...d he. ‘I shouldn’t have said it, if I had known. I should have praised it. Poets are all so irritable,’ he said. In short, he laughed at him under cov...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ... is, into the beautiful forms of life, lying ready , largely stolen from the poets and novelists and adapted to all sorts of needs and uses. I, for in... ...orties.” I hated the way in which he used to talk of his future conquests of women (he did not venture to begin his attack upon women until he had the... ..., good looking; you might love, be married, be happy... .” “Not all married women are happy,” she snapped out in the rude abrupt tone she had used at... ...hing. In those early days even quarrels with one’s husband end happily. Some women get up quarrels with their husbands just because they love them. In...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...assessor. And I’m the more please, as all the world knows that there are old women nowadays who tell fortunes.’” At this point Mr. Golyadkin gave ... ...kill two birds with one stone, as I twitted our young gentleman with the old women, I turned to Klara Olsufyevna (it all happened the same day, before... ...n it, and his nephew, our Prince Charming. They’ve joined hands with the old women and, of course, they’ve concocted the affair. Would you believe it?... ...s, about the theatre, the clubs, about Brulov’s pic ture, and about the two Englishmen who came from En gland to Petersburg on purpose to look at th... ...prison house, and finally die, following the example of some wretched German poets and novelists. Is that it, madam? But, to begin with, allow me to t...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...yosha of a strange and very opportune incident. It appeared that among the women who had come on the previous day to receive Father Zossima’ s blessin... ...onth. “What do I know about love 26 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV – Part II and women and how can I decide such questions?” he thought reproachfully, after... ... “Never trust a woman’s tears, Alexey Fyodorovitch. I am never for the women in such cases. I am always on the side of the men.” “Mamma, you a... ...n country than we are? I wouldn’t change a dandy I know of for three young englishmen,” observed Marya Kondratyevna tenderly , doubt- less accompanyin... ...hall lose it of myself, I fancy. Some drivelling consumptive moralists—and poets especially—often call that thirst for life base. It’s a feature of th... ...he wise men of the earth—rulers, chief priests, learned men, philosophers, poets—and had set them the task to invent three questions, such as would no...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...rks to which they are applied: the plural forms, which survive so oddly in English (Ethics, Politics), were intended to indicate the treatment within ... ...nt, and next, all people love most their own works, just as parents do and poets. It is not easy for the Liberal man to be rich, since he is neither a... ...mean the Brutish, as in the case of the female who, they say, would rip up women with child and eat the foetus; or the tastes which are found among th... ...ly could for him if it were animate. It is perhaps specially the case with poets: for these entertain very great affection for their poems, loving the... ...t, he does not admit men to wail with him, not being given to wail at all: women, it is true, and men who resemble women, like to have others to groan... ...ose therefore when the differ- ence though real is but slight. There is no English expression for [Greek: homonumia], “equivocal” being applied to a t...

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... have thought that in an age in which education and its improvement are the subject of more, if not of profounder, study than at any former period of English history, it may be useful that there should be some record of an education which was unusual and remarkable, and which, whatever else it may have done, has proved how much more than is commonly supposed may be taught,...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ubject of more, if not of profounder, study than at any former pe riod of English history, it may be useful that there should be some record of an ed... ... odious to all per sons of influence, and to the common run of prosperous Englishmen, in that generation than either before or since; and being not o... ...ame year in which I began Latin, I made my first commencement in the Greek poets with the Iliad. After I had made some progress in this, my father put... ...ion by no means extended to the paragraph of it in which he maintains that women may, consistently with good government, be excluded from the suffrage... ...t is due to my father to say that he denied having intended to affirm that women should be excluded, any more than men under the age of forty, concer... ...s any of those against which the Essay was directed; that the interest of women is included in that of men exactly as much as the interest of subject... ...r their influence. There have certainly been, even in our own age, greater poets than Wordsworth; but poetry of deeper and loftier feeling could not h... ...than by the measure of what he had done for me. Compared with the greatest poets, he may be said to be the poet of unpoetical natures, possessed of qu...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ................... 130 LINES SUNG BY DURASTANTI, WHEN SHE TOOK LEA VE OF THE ENGLISH STAGE. ...................... 130 UPON THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH’S HO... ... GENIUS AND POETRY OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POPE E E E E Few poets during their lifetime have been at once so much admired and so much a... ...e class. “No T ory for our translator of Homer,” cried the zealous Whigs, “Poets should be poor, and Pope is independent,” growled Grub Street. The an... ...red to put his name and statue beside those of the acknowledged masters of English poetry. But apart from this, we do think that Lord Carlisle has exa... ...Shakspeare, Young, and Spenser, is one of the four most popular of English poets. In America, too, Lord Carlisle found, he tells us, the most cul- tiv... ... In de- picting character, it is very different. His likenesses of men and women, so far as manners, external features, and the contrasts produced by ... ...istles were detached portions: the two first, on the characters of men and women, being the introduc- tory part of this concluding book.—Warburton. EP... ...nning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest, Th...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ere were numbers of tenants in the building, almost all artisans or German women who let lodgings with board and attendance. The superintendent of the... ...out him; something dominating and powerful. He was extremely attractive to women, and an intrigue with a society beauty gave him a scandalous renown. ... ...s not what one would call a poet’s. They’re pale, they say , you know, the poets, and with hair like this, you know, and a look in their eyes … like G... ...rieved, though she has no misfortune or grievance. There are many men like women in this respect, and men, indeed, by no means feeble, and who have ve... ... put him into a fine dress-coat, or something like it, and take him to the English club and call him the great landowner, count Barabanov; he’ll pass ... ...h your while. Why, it was there, in Paris, at Mme. Joubert’ s, we broke an English pier-glass.” “What did you break?” A pier-glass. There was a lookin...