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... reason because he was a German and she had heard the Germans were rich in culture. He won- dered what form of culture Mr. and Mrs. Day had brought ba... ...Another thing, as he learned, that you knew the self- made girl by was her culture, which was perhaps a little too restless and obvious. She had usual... ...oad. All of which quite applied to Pandora Day— the journey to Europe, the culture (as exemplified in the books she read on the ship), the relegation,... ...the most definite—about the yellow sheen of the Potomac, the hazy hills of Virginia, the far-gleaming pediment of Ar- lington, the raw confused-lookin...

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...ty-four. In the Old Dominion—in the Demo- cratic and aristocratic State of Virginia—there were a few more mulattoes than the Census-takers found in Ne... ...vision and allowing them to have slaves. A report made by Mr. Randolph, of Virginia, himself a slaveholder, was directly against it, and the action wa... ...essed that idea. That same idea was expressed by the Richmond Enquirer, in Virginia, in 1856,—quite two years before it was expressed by the first of ... .... I don’t think that you can discover that Douglas ever talked of going to Virginia to “squelch” out that idea there. No. More than that. That same Ro... ...little wonder- ful; but that wonder is heightened when we see that Wise of Virginia, a man exactly opposed to them, a man who believes in the divine r... ..., the latter are co-operat- ing with them in establishing civilization and culture on the American continent. Such being the general principles which ...

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...e white trash here? And of more direct lineage than the New Englanders And Virginians of Spoon River? Y ou would not believe that I had been to school... ...MY valiant fight! For I call it valiant, With my father’s beliefs from old Virginia: Hating slavery, but no less war. I, full of spirit, audacity, cou... ... That’s my son. Hamilton Greene I WA S the only child of Frances Harris of Virginia And Thomas Greene of Kentucky, Of valiant and honorable blood both... ...e looks like Apollo’s At others it has a trace of Lincoln’s.” There was no culture, you know, in Spoon River And I burned with shame and held my peace... ...e day of Y orktown. And then my search for Rebecca, Finding her at last in Virginia, Two children dead in the meanwhile. We went by oxen to Tennessee,... ...ers And queens, and nothing but storing honey— (Material things as well as culture and wisdom)— For the next generation, this generation never living,... ... came to us for vengeance. More’s at stake Than triumph for New England or Virginia. And whether rum be sold, or for two years As in the past two year...

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...nality of the master minds, he is ready to give you all the secrets of his culture and hammering Force, in a few easy lessons that will not in- terfer... ...d indicated what a Solid Citizen and Regular Fel- low ought to think about culture by mail. He began with hesitation: “Well—sounds as if it covered th... ...aph contented them; their store of jazz records made them feel wealthy and cultured; and all they knew of creating music was the nice adjustment of a ... ... jealous!” Chum Frink agreed, “That’s so. But what I mind is their lack of culture and appreciation of the Beautiful—if you’ll excuse me for being hig... ...one will our sons and daughters see that the ideal of American manhood and culture isn’t a lot of cranks sitting around chewing the rag about their Ri... ...our vertebrae. Well, my guest to-day is from such a place, Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in the beautiful Southland, with 226 Babbitt memories of good ol... ...ntity. He recalled their high lights the sum- 302 Babbitt mer vacation in Virginia meadows under the blue wall of the mountains; their motor tour thr...

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...r the practise of the arts or the tense stalking of a thing called General Culture. In her class there were two or three prettier girls, but none more... ... corker— not a better man in the state to go hunting with; and if you want culture, besides Vida Sherwin there’s Reverend Warren, the Congregational p... .... He passed the stewed apricots effusively. “There are a great many bright cultured people here. Mrs. Wilks, the Christian Sci- ence reader, is a very... ...—have you met him? —oh, you must!—he’s simply a darling—intel- ligence and culture and so gentle.) But I don’t care so much about the ugliness. That w... ... for farmers’ wives. And they do take such an inter- est in refinement and culture. So—in fact, so very unique.” Carol was disappointed—by nothing ver... ... coaxing to all persons over forty-five, Carol got them into a waltz and a Virginia Reel. But when she left them to disenjoy themselves in their own w... ...prettiness of Maud Dyer, and Vida was noisily in- terested in getting up a Virginia Reel. Without seeming 261 Sinclair Lewis to watch Kennicott, she ... ...tan Apollo nameless and evasive—building a house in the Berk- shires or in Virginia; exuberantly buying a chair with his first check; reading poetry t...

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...f the world, sees it plain enough, but he can’t cure it, you know, so the best is to leave it and seek a sphere which is more in harmony with his tast... ...k, from style. Baltimore. Hot buckwheat cakes. Prairie-hens, from Illinois. American toast. Clear maple Mis- souri partridges, broiled. syrup. Possum.... ...ks, first and last, to a careful and critical study of this tongue, and thus have acquired a confidence in my ability to reform it which no mere super...

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...ce, had wisely resolved to plunge him into the cares of property, into the culture of a garden, in short, into all the infinitely petty concerns and n... ..., and not Joseph Bridau; his book 52 The Lesser Bourgeoisie was “Paul and Virginia.” The greatest living poet for him was Casimire de la Vigne; to hi... ...words “compound interest,” which evidenced a cer- tain amount of financial culture, la Peyrade looked at this Antigone with increased attention. “In s...

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...r way to the fields, a bookseller’s stall on which lay a copy of “Paul and Virginia.” She had a fancy to buy it for the sake of the engraving, and her... ...could be more childlike and innocent and pure than the history of Paul and Virginia? But the warmth of the tropics, the beauty of the scenery, the alm... ...ong will that condition last? For a certain length of time the magnificent culture which you are about to introduce will, let us hope, belong to only ... ... have a monopoly of milk in Paris, for her climate, happily, forbids grape culture. We shall soon see a curious phenomenon in the progressive rise in ... ...llows, osier, alder, ash, the aspen of Hol- land, the poplars of Italy and Virginia, hawthorns and roses, acacias, birches, all choice growths arrange...

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...d and mixed discordantly together, one use with another, and no world-wide culture of toleration, no cour- teous admission of differences, no wider un... ...it is not, therefore, to be the development of any special race or type of culture, as Plato’s developed an Athenian-Spartan blend, or More, Tudor Eng... ... to render possible the exten- sion and consolidation of such a world-wide culture as me- diaeval Christendom and Islam foreshadowed. The first on- se... ...ent quality—the true racial differences—from artificial differences due to culture. No lesson seems ever to be drawn from history of the fluctu- ating... ...sique, moral prepossessions, and so forth, due to their entirely divergent cultures, there remains, no doubt, a very great difference be- tween the av... ...ness of the half-breed is best to be learnt from a drunken mean white from Virginia or the Cape. The half-breed, one hears, combines all the vices of ...

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...ile man, by a law that has yet to be sought, has a tendency to express his culture, his thoughts, and his life in everything he appropriates to his 4... ...ssian, Julie d’Etanges, My Uncle Toby, Werther, Corinne, Adolphe, Paul and Virginia, Jeanie Deans, Claverhouse, Ivanhoe, Manfred, Mignon, than to set ...

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...k have been deeply indebted—he had neither a mother’s care, nor a mother’s culture, save that which slavery grudg- ingly meted out to him. Bitter nurs... ...uch off- spring! How susceptible he was to the kindly influences of mother-culture, may be gathered from his own words, on page 57: “It has been a lif... ...incy, William Lloyd Garri- son, and other men of earnest faith and refined culture, Mr. Douglass enjoyed the high advantage of their assistance and co... ...ed the high advantage of their assistance and counsel in the labor of self-culture, to which he now ad- dressed himself with wonted energy. Yet, these... ...pted to promote the comforts and conveniences of its inmates. A few rough, Virginia fence-rails, flung loosely over the rafters above, an- swered the ... ...old and gone To the rice swamp dank and lone, From Virginia hills and waters— Woe is me, my stolen daughters! The ... ...ible. They are mere hucksters of the surplus slave produce of Maryland and Virginia coarse, cruel, and swaggering bullies, whose very breathing is of ... ...en held. She made her way to the bridge, but had not reached, ere from the Virginia side there came two slaveholders. As soon as they saw them, her pu... ... soon as they saw them, her pursuers called out, “Stop her!” True to their Virginian instincts, they came to the rescue of their brother kidnappers, a...

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...ou say—of Northampton, Massachu- setts?” “He lives here, but he comes from Virginia.” “Is he a sculptor by profession?” “He ‘s a law-student.” Rowland... ...very remarkable?” “Why, my dear cousin,” Rowland answered, “Mr. Hudson, of Virginia, is an extraordinary—” Then suddenly stop- ping: “Is he a great fr... ...ns and needles about her son. She had some property herself, and married a Virginian gentleman of good estates. He turned out, I believe, a very licen... ... out he found that the New England blood ran thicker in his veins than the Virginian, and immediately obtained a commis- sion. He fell in some Western... ...tilled his restless pulses. He was ruminating the full-flavored verdict of culture. Rowland felt an irresist- ible kindness for him, a mingled sense o... ...ly tamed, and he remained at most points the florid, rather strident young Virginian whose serene inflexibility had been the despair of Mr. Striker. A... ...himself, was a trifle cold and conscious, her purity prudish, perhaps, her culture pe- dantic. But since he was obliged to give up hopes of Mary Garla... ...bject I have already fixed upon. I desire an allegorical representation of Culture. Do you think, now,” asked Mr. Leavenworth, encouragingly, “you cou... ...h, with calm unconsciousness, proceeded to fire the mine. “And now for our Culture!” he said in the same sono- rous tones, demanding with a gesture th...

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...the nobler benefits of wealth, with extra means of health, of intellectual culture, and of elegant enjoyment, on the other hand, we knew nothing of it... ... The school which professes to teach grammatica, professes, therefore, the culture of lit- erature in the widest and most liberal extent, and is oppos... ...dioms, and verbal peculiarities belonging to the primitive ages of Ro- man culture were to be found still lingering in the old Ro- man settlements, bo... ...ed that she is the person de- scribed by Miss Edgeworth, under the name of Virginia, in the latter part of her “Belinda.” How that may be, I cannot pr... ... and the same docility to any chance impres- sions, which characterize the Virginia of Miss Edgeworth. She was a reputed daughter (as I have said) of ... ...aily bread has made all ridicule of female literary 302 Thomas de Quincey culture not less ridiculous than would be the attempt to ridi- cule that sa...

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...ds in Caesar’s breast flowed hitherward, and that pure little rivulet from Virginia’s bosom, too! Vir- ginia, beyond all question, was stabbed by her ... ... egar. Yet all these vineyard scenes, and the processes connected with the culture of the grape, had a flavor of poetry about them. The toil that prod... ...rs of ripening grapes in the interval between. Under such careless mode of culture, the luxuriant vine is a lovelier spectacle than where it produces ... ...answered Hilda. “But what have I done that a girl of New England birth and culture, with the right sense that her mother taught her, and the conscienc...

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...iving by copying music. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, the author of ‘Paul and Virginia’, who became acquainted with him in 1772, has left some 9 Roussea... ...re and philosophy, which began to ferment in my brain, and only waited for culture and emulation to spring up, found in him exactly what was wanting t...

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...oolf A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Night and Day by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Night and Day by Virginia Woolf, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Virginia Woolf Night and Day by Virginia Woolf CHAPTER I It was a Sunday ev... ...erable celebrity, so that to- morrow one might be glad to have met him. 5 Virginia Woolf “Have you ever been to Manchester?” he asked Katharine. “Nev... ...he kept suffi- cient control of the situation to answer immediately her 7 Virginia Woolf mother appealed to her for help, and yet it was obvious to h... ... in a visit to a picture gallery, balancing his social work with an ardent culture of which he was secretly proud, as Mary had very soon divined. So t... ... was naturally right and steady, as his had never been in spite of all his culture. And then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of ...

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...ust, though per- haps not till ages hence—to the golden fertility of human culture, it would be the source of incalculable wealth to the Pyncheon bloo... ...able, therefore, that the descendants of a Pyncheon who had emi- grated to Virginia, in some past generation, and became a great planter there,—hearin... ...ion, and impelled by the splendid generosity of character with which their Virginian mixture must have enriched the New En- gland blood,—would send he... ...rted into an accomplishment, and one of the thousand modes of intellectual culture, had his more ethe- real characteristics retained their vigor. But ... ... theo- rist into the champion of some practicable cause. Altogether in his culture and want of culture,—in his crude, wild, and misty philosophy, and ...

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...r for grave debate in the Radnor family. The Duvidney ladies, Dorothea and Virginia, would have cited ancestral names, showing it to be the worst of i... ...e wealthy City merchant; young, vigorous, elegant, a man of taste, highest culture, speaks the languages of Europe, patron of the Arts, a perfect gent... ...personally fail? Fredi stays at Moorsedge for a month or two. Dorothea and Virginia Duvidney will give her a taste of a new society; good for the girl... ...NTOUS EFFECTS PRODUCED BY VERY MINOR CAUSES THE MAIDEN LADIES Dorothea and Virginia Duvidney were thin—sweet old-fashioned grey gentlewomen, demurely ... ...in urgency of it; the brief reply of Miss Dorothea and her muted echo Miss Virginia. He was rather their apologist for refusing. But, as when, af- ter... ...d man. They clasped hands. Miss Dorothea said: ‘You, Victor, always.’ Miss Virginia said: ‘You will be sure of welcome.’ He walked out upon the moonle... ...to supply the deficiency. She does not declare war upon tobacco. She has a cultured and a beautiful voice. We abstain from enlargeing on the charms of...

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...irst or senior wrangler, with every advantage that high training and broad culture and association with the wisest and the best of men and women can g... ...th had been spent in the forest or on the farm and the flat- boat, without culture or training, education or study, by the random reading, on the wing... ...ock, a Dutch ship had discharged a cargo of African slaves at Jamestown in Virginia: All through the colonial period their importation had continued. ... ...prehended from it till, by the invention of the cotton gin in 1792, cotton culture by negro labor became at once and forever the leading industry of t... ...l justice; and finally the execution of John Brown, for his wild raid into Virginia, to invite the slaves to rally to the standard of freedom which he... .... It was a great audience, including all the noted men—all the learned and cultured of his party in New Y ork editors, clergymen, statesmen, lawyers, ... ...s in the West had been balanced and paralyzed by inaction and disasters in Virginia, only partially redeemed by the bloody and indecisive battle of An...

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...writers from betraying towards their cre ations any warmer feeling than a cultured and critical indif ference: nor was his interest in human nature ... ...emed to possess all the characteristics which fine he reditary traits and culture, or many forefathers, could do in refining a human stock. And this ... ...f he even listened to them. For he was a man of singularly imperfect moral culture; insomuch that nothing else was so remarkable about him as that—pos... ...f the family, was afterwards, by the contrivances of his brethren, sent to Virginia and sold as a bond slave; and how he had vanished from that quarte... ...of life, though 31 Hawthorne probably not in his boyhood. For, though the culture had been bestowed, his mind had been left in so singularly rough a ... ...would have been difficult to distinguish him from one who had been born to culture and refinement. This sturdy Englishman, after all that had been don...