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...to “The Cossacks,” and “Conjugal Happiness” for the exquisitely elaborated rural studies, which give those early romances their fresh idyllic charm. W... ...heir purpose – that of teaching young children the rudiments of his tory, geography, and science. Little leisure remained for the service of Art. The... ...e provincial head of the police, the marshal of the nobility, and also the rural councillor and the examining magistrate. They all came to his house o...

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... the year; and the herdsmen, together with their sweethearts, celebrated a rural festival with dancing and singing, with all sorts of plea- sure and c... ...carry or conduct us to such places, even in our first years; so that these rural festivals belong to the earliest impressions that I can recall. Meanw... ... Hirt, who excelled in animating oak and beech woods, and other so- called rural scenes, with cattle; T rautmann, who had adopted Rembrandt as his mod... ...s, I hummed and sang it to myself readily enough. In the same way we had a geography in memory-verses, in which the most wretched doggerel best served... ...ion a little piece of the kind, of which I can only say that the scene was rural, and that there was no lack in it of king’s daughters, princes, or go... ...notion. T o obtain matter for filling up this singular form, I studied the geography of the countries in which my creations resided, and by inventing ... ...s we ordi- narily reached winter without being properly aware of it. These rural possessions delighted us so much the more in the spring of 1763, as t...

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...o be bullied by kings or empires, but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world; he must transfer the point o... ...sia and Africa, Nomadism and Agriculture are the two antagonist facts. The geography of Asia and of Africa necessitated a nomadic life. But the nomads... ...and passengers, on the circle of house- hold acquaintance, on politics and geography and his- tory. But things are ever grouping themselves according ... ...here the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you thin... ...on and Texas, are yet unsung. Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. If... ... they call their gospel, and wasted my time. I was content with the simple rural poverty of my own; hence this sweetness; my work never reminds you of... ...ture, who made the ma- son, made the house. We may easily hear too much of rural influences. The cool disengaged air of natural ob- jects makes them e...

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...vent, had received what is called “a good education”; and so knew dancing, geography, drawing, how to embroider and play the piano. That was the last ... ...hoolmaster in a black skull- cap opened the shutters of his house, and the rural police- man, wearing his sabre over his blouse, passed by. Night and ... ... the laws, was infringing them, and so he every moment expected to see the rural guard turn up. But this anxiety whetted his pleasure, and, all alone ... ...s climbing on to a stone and tearing down the bill. But at this moment the rural guard seized him by the collar. Monsieur Homais came out of his shop,...

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...arned much from my friend Amerigo, her geographer father. When I studied geography with Amerigo, at his home, she would appear from time to time, a... ... force. I knew that there was little or no chance for advancement in this rural com- munity unless it came through politics. So, politics had to shin... ...r her has never gone away. August 14, 1863 Many times Jenny plodded my rural circuit. Usually, I gave her the reins. Every stopping place, store,... ...high office, should be above love. Some of those same people object to my rural humor. I carry Tad to his bed. I tell him stories. I linger, linger ...

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...istorted both the sex distribution in the cities - and increased the weight of the rural population (rural couples in China are allowed to have two... ...alization may prove to be more powerful than the classic left-right dichotomy. THE RURAL versus THE URBAN The enmity between the urban and the buco... ...d range of the victims, the methodology of murder, the disposal of the bodies, the geography, the sexual perversions and paraphilias - are all info...

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...em to them to consist of persons, but of artificial units, the creation of geography and statistics. Parliament must rep resent towns and counties, n... ..., having never been legally abolished, probably subsists unaltered in many rural parishes even now. There remains the plan of representative sub Parli... ...rk edly distinguished by occupation or social relations from those of the rural districts adjoining, and for whose local wants the arrangements made ... ...hould be merged in a larger circumscription. The local representa tion of rural districts will naturally be determined by geo graphical consideratio... ...to produce a set of almost el ementary questions in algebra, history, and geography, as a proof of the exorbitant amount of high scientific attainmen...

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...n other walks of life. Because a boy cannot learn arithmetic, gram- mar or geography, or not even learn to read and write, it does not follow that he ... ...ourage each other with their conversation and association were very few in rural life. The man who would violate the law must do it alone. Not only th...

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...ss gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox. “A geography lesson!” he muttered as if to himself, but loud enough to be hear... ...ed their usual way of life, in which he took his part. He could talk about rural economy with the count, fashions with the countess and Natasha, and a... ...- mas holidays and Sonya’s love, had opened out to him a vista of tranquil rural joys and peace such as he had never known before, and which now allur... ...ry to persuade her to get away as quickly as possible, and the head of the rural police hav- ing come to Bogucharovo urged the same thing, saying that... ...aw vividly before him a long-forgot- ten, kindly old man who had given him geography lessons in Switzerland. “W ait a bit,” said the old man, and show... ... history continues to be studied side by side with the laws of statistics, geography, politi- cal economy, comparative philology, and geology , which ...

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...o win their esteem and confidence, has been able to pick up as he has roamed over the face of the earth for a quarter of a century. The book is not a geography, a history, a treatise on sociology or political economy. It is a Human Interest book which appeals to the reader who would like to go as the writer has gone and to see as the writer has seen the conformations of su...