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...lion (1986 est.) Monetary conversion rate: official rate 30.214 kwanza=US$l; black market rate reportedly 1,200-1,500 kwanza=US$l (December 1986) Fisc... ...nality: noun Anguillan(s); adjec- tive Anguillan Ethnic divisions: mainly of black African descent Beligion: Anglican, Methodist, and Catho- lic Langu... ... noun Antiguan(s); adjec- tive Antiguan Ethnic divisions: almost entirely of black African origin; some of British, Portuguese, Lebanese, and Syrian o... ...5% Nationality: noun Bahamian(s); adjec- tive Bahamian Ethnic divisions: 85% black, 15% white Religion: Baptist 29%, Anglican 23%, Boman Catholic 22%,... ...olutionary Movement (MNR), placed second in the popular vote to center-right Hugo Banzer, head of the Nationalist Democratic Action (ADN); however, th... ...ADN), continue to have a tactical alliance; MNR, Victor Paz Estenssoro; ADN, Hugo Banzer; Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), Jaime Paz Zamora; ... ...Abeliuk; Christian Democratic Party (PDC), Gabriel Valdes; Republican Right, Hugo Zepeda; Socialist Party, Ri- cardo Nunez; the PR, PSD, PDC, Republi-... ...Party (PDC), Jose Antonio Morales Erlich; National Conciliation Party (PCN), Hugo Carrillo; Democratic Action (AD), Ricardo Gonzalez Camacho; Salvador... ...obar Garcia; Social Democratic Party (PSD), Mario Rene Roldan; Patria Libre, Hugo Barrera Voting strength: Legislative Assembly PDC, 33 seats; ARENA, ...

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... their structure and internal processes. Programming objects, in other words, are "black boxes" (an engineering term). The programmer is unable to ... ...ent. In short: much closer to reality as described by modern physics. Though these black boxes communicate - it is not the communication, its speed... ...and to their limitations. Yet, the Chinese Room purports to say something about the black box that we call "mental states". It says that we can know... ... The smooth curves of Einstein gave way to the radiating singularities of Hawking's black holes. These black holes might eventually violate conserva... ... individual. Decoherence – See: Measurement Definition The sentence "all cats are black" is evidently untrue even if only one cat in the whole uni... ...umma Theologicae", Francisco de Vitoria (1548-1617), Francisco Suarez (1548-1617), Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) in his influential tome "Jure Belli ac ... ...; nor can reason rule unless herself be ruled by God, and be obedient to Him." (Hugo Grotius) The narcissistic leader is the culmination and rei...

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... their structure and internal processes. Programming objects, in other words, are "black boxes" (an engineering term). The programmer is unable to ... ...ent. In short: much closer to reality as described by modern physics. Though these black boxes communicate - it is not the communication, its speed... ...and to their limitations. Yet, the Chinese Room purports to say something about the black box that we call "mental states". It says that we can know... ... The smooth curves of Einstein gave way to the radiating singularities of Hawking's black holes. These black holes might eventually violate conserva... ... individual. Decoherence – See: Measurement Definition The sentence "all cats are black" is evidently untrue even if only one cat in the whole uni... ...umma Theologicae", Francisco de Vitoria (1548-1617), Francisco Suarez (1548-1617), Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) in his influential tome "Jure Belli ac ... ...; nor can reason rule unless herself be ruled by God, and be obedient to Him." (Hugo Grotius) The narcissistic leader is the culmination and rei...

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...er; He is an ellipse with two foci. Facts are one, ideas are the other. -- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, vii An idea is taken for granted in the s... ...han 350 articles he has worked to communicate the message that most poor whites and blacks and working-class whites are healthy in mind and courageou... ... models for people to either follow or recognize. The conscious attempt to employ black actors in TV commercials may be even more important than the... ...n general; political philosophies, such as the feeling on the part of some militant blacks that population control is basically genocidal" (p. 114). ...

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...short term thinking, truncated attention span, soundbite mentality, and dangerous, "black and white", simplism. In its heartland, America is isolat... ...short term thinking, truncated attention span, soundbite mentality, and dangerous, "black and white", simplism. It is also a sign of short-sightedne... ...hich lasted till 1350. Byzantium was reduced to penury by these events and by the Black Death of 1347. It fought with Venice against Genoa only to... ...emonstrated the unbridgeable divides in American society between rich and poor and black and white. But this time, the rift runs deeper. The Bush a... ...This interview represents his personal views only and not those of his employer. On Black Tuesday, 11th September, he was in Kyrgyzstan, on his way... ...umma Theologicae", Francisco de Vitoria (1548-1617), Francisco Suarez (1548-1617), Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) in his influential tome "Jure Belli ac...

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..."drama queen" temper tantrums - he resorts to emotional extortion, straight blackmail, abuse, or misuse of his authority, and criminal or antisocial... ... can reason rule unless herself be ruled by God, and be obedient to Him." (Hugo Grotius) The narcissistic or psychopathic leader is the culmination... ...r can reason rule unless herself be ruled by God, and be obedient to Him." Hugo Grotius Being in a position of authority secures the uninterrupted... ...eeded supply – the narcissist might resort to emotional extortion, straight blackmail, abuse, or misuse of his authority. The temptation to do so, t... ...he narcissist is one-track minded (not to say obsessive). His is a world of black (being unknown and deprived of attention) and white (being famous...

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...y mediocrity, those ones accumulate a quantity of lines in a process that Hugo Friedrich qualifies generally with modern expressions such as: excell... ... of the meaning, progressing then merrily through an absorbing and fatal “black hole”. But paradoxism - as Constantin M. Popa observes - does not tr... ...“Public opinion was used to think in fixed, opposite categories - white - black, good - evil, friend - enemy, Romanian - stranger, patriot 53 - ... ...essions Non-biographical autobiography Puzzle in the novel The flag (black, of course) drawn in the novel Blank pages turned upside down Err... ...se is an antinomic universe: matter and spirit, plus and minus, white and black, all and nothing. Just on the line, it can be mathematized: C · Non-C...

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...or will turn to secrecy instead, hiding the details of her innovation behind black box technologies and restrictive contracts, so that society never g... ...ho was the grandson of a third bookseller, who had bought the copyright from Black Frank, the Doctor’s servant and residuary legatee, in 1785 or 1786.... ...a novel that did not exist before I wrote it? One hundred years later Victor Hugo echoed the same thoughts in a speech to the Conseil d’Etat and point... ...enterprise.” 49 This is the flip side of the arguments that Diderot and later Hugo put forward. Perhaps the romantic author does not create out of thin... ...n the Sony case. Thus while Judge Kaplan’s discussion of the looming digital Black Death is nicely apocalyptic, it does not seem very accurate. How ma... ...Finally, he exploded. I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family, it says, “They’re looting.” You see a white family, it says... ...it’s been five days [waiting for federal help] because most of the people are black....S o anybody out there that wants to do anything that we can help... ..., 91. 42. Quoted in Hesse, Publishing and Cultural Politics, 100. 43. Victor Hugo, speech to the Conseil d’Etat, September 30, 1849, quoted in Bernard... ...–212, 275, 287, 290, 291, 292, 292n2. Hughes, Justin, viii, 36, 262n51, 271. Hugo, Victor, 31–32, 261n43. Hunter, Dan, 286. Hurricane Katrina, 124–126...

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...e place of their habitation. Strange coincidence! If I had been Mr. Victor Hugo, my dear, or a poet of any note, I would, in a few hours, have made an... ...y a time have they patted the cheek of poor Josephine, and played with the black ringlets of her hair. She is dead now, and cold, poor creature; and s... ...s of thousands of eyes upon it, from houses and housetops, from balconies, black, purple, and tricolor, from tops of leafless trees, from behind long ... ... of pale funereal urns, of discharging odors amidst huge volumes of pitch- black smoke, THE GREAT IMPERIAL CHARIOT ROLLS MAJESTICALLY ON. The cords of... ...ors. Some of these sheds were hung with 38 The Second Funeral of Napoleon black, such as one sees before churches in funerals; some were robed in vio... ... the first lines of architec- ture, was hung with violet; beyond this with black. We saw N’s, eagles, bees, laurel wreaths, and other such imperial em...

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...barren of sentiment, I suppose — or poetry, in other words. My father was a blacksmith, my uncle was a horse doctor, and I was both, along at first. ... ...d in stunning colors, in the other. The floor was of big stone flags laid in black and white squares, rather battered by age and use, and needing rep... ...frightful way; and their hair, their faces, their clothing, were caked with black and stiffened drenchings of blood. They were suffering sharp physic... ...his eye, and saw that a very old and white—bearded man, clothed in a flowing black gown, had risen and was standing at the table upon unsteady legs, ... ... tell the king that at that hour I will smother the whole world in the dead blackness of midnight; I will blot out the sun, and he shall never shine... ...w can I bear it? I would I might see him die — a sweet, swift death; oh, my Hugo, I cannot bear this one!” And she fell to sobbing and grovelling abo... ... what? The man’s death? I could not quite get the bearings of the thing. But Hugo inter rupted her and said: “Peace! Ye wit not what ye ask. Shall I... ...ing Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 96 she found she was going to have neither Hugo’s life nor his property. But I told her she must bear this cross; th...

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...ess be- ing replaced by symbols, signs, and pictures in colored inks, red, black and blue. Old Sechard, who could neither read nor write himself, had ... ...nt. His lank, sleek gray hair, cut in somewhat ecclesiastical fashion; the black trousers, black stockings, black waistcoat, and long puce-colored gre... ...cess-server, will act under Cachan’s directions, and he will lay on like a blacksmith. A word to the wise is sufficient. Now, young man?—” An eloquent... ...scutcheons of the court, with the word “Bailiff ” printed thereon in large black letters, hung outside on the house wall on either side the door. Both... ... short jacket that he wore was considerably the worst for his journey, his black trousers were whitened with dust, and a pair of worn boots told suf- ... ...never talked about. “Let Franche-Comte boast of giving the light to Victor Hugo, to Charles Nodier, and Cuvier,” ran the article, “Brit- tany of produ...

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... ber, over the gateway, but the honour of naming it is unde- cided between Hugo de Morville, who murdered Thomas a Becket, and his namesake, the first... ...adrangle where the sun never shone, and full of echoes; the large hall and black wainscoted rooms, which the candles never would light up. It is a fit... ...having little of the dressing-room but the name, and a toilet-table with a black and gold japanned glass, and curiously shaped boxes to match; her roo... ...rry,’ there suddenly appeared a large beautiful spaniel, with a long silky black and white coat, jetty curled ears, tan spots above his intelligent ey... ...rilliant, the whites tinted with blue, and the lashes uncommonly thick and black; the eyebrows were also very dark, and of a sharply-defined angular s... ...ulting, not feeding, only stalking about, with drooping wings, and solemn, black cloaks.’ ‘You have found a flattering simile,’ said Laura, ‘as you kn... ...be a characteristic portrait. In the corner of the pic- ture was the name—‘Hugo Morville. Æt. 20, 1671.’ Guy stood holding up his light, and looking f...

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... to it the Oxford phrase of going out as Grand Compounder), always assumed black silk stockings and pumps; nor would he on any account have degraded h... ... she was kneeling before the fire-grate, which she had been polishing with black lead. That part of her task was finished; and she had passed on to an... ... full disguise. This very night, if he will shave off his yellow hair, and blacken his eyebrows, buying, when morning light returns, a dark- colored w... ...re ex- hausted and footsore. In this condition it was easy to stop them. A blacksmith had silently reconnoitred them, and com- pared their appearance ... ...t, they are due to servile ratifications of old ones. When Sue, or Balzac, Hugo, or George Sand, comes before an English au- dience—the opportunity is... ...r of a Mahratta trooper, pain- fully gathering chout, or a cateran levying black-mail, or a decent tax-gatherer with an inkhorn at his button-hole, an...

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...tion and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? -- 4. Scripting Symbols of Shape-Scripting symbolic images lets man communicate over space and time. Balan...

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...? Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast tow... ...ge from the Mediterranean into the huge depression we know today as the Black Sea? Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues? In prehistoric times—an... ...surged from the Mediterranean into the huge depression known today as the Black Sea. Driven from their homes by that fearsome flood, survivors disp... ...n word, nobody from that era has left us proof one way or another. This Black Sea-genesis account dovetails with conclusions outlined in Noah’s Flo... ... line that runs roughly from Scandinavia to Greece and almost touches the Black Sea. The eastward migration from the Black Sea left tongue-print... ...rce greater than an idea whose time has come.‖ —Victor Hugo. ―A people cannot hope to be both ignorant and free.‖ ...

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...ven the greenness of a tree. The southerly heights, when I came here, were black with people, fishers waiting on wind and night. Now all the S.Y .S. (... ...ats put out to go home to the Hebrides, the girl here told me there was ‘a black wind’; and on going 5 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 out, I... .... 1 out, I found the epithet as justifiable as it was picturesque. A cold, black southerly wind, with occasional rising show- ers of rain; it was a fi... ...e south, however, is as fine a piece of coast scenery as I ever saw. Great black chasms, huge black cliffs, rug- ged and over-hung gullies, natural ar... ...narrative. Seven P .M. found me at Breadalbane Terrace, clad in spot- less blacks, white tie, shirt, et caetera, and finished off be- low with a pair ... ...rning. Everything wintry. I am very jolly, however, having finished Victor Hugo, and just looking round to see what I should next take up. I have been... ...a nice long letter (four sides) from Leslie Stephen to-day about my Victor Hugo. It is accepted. This ought to have made me gay, but it hasn’t. I am n...

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...hat his rifle is all in pieces in the gun-case. Behind everything rose the black frame of the Kashi Bridge—plate by plate, girder by girder, span by s... ... round the tattered dwelling of a sea-priest—one who had never set foot on black water, but had been chosen as ghostly coun- sellor by two generations... ...e, I think, suffi- ciently heavy.” “Nay, Sahib. It is thus. At sea, on the Black Water, we have room to be blown up and down without care. Here we hav... ...had settled all his plans. Opium has more effect on the white man than the black. Peroo was only comfortably indifferent to accidents. “She cannot liv... ...cle under the tree filled with the shifting shadows of beasts. There was a black Buck at the Bull’s heels—such a Buck as Findlayson in his far-away li... ...e English language stops short. French only, the caryatid French of Victor Hugo, would have described it; so I mourned while I laughed, hastily shuffl...

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... ink. Nor can we dwell on the deer which left their bones and horns in the black, boggy soil near the river, for unfortu- nately these were disinterre... ... clay in one barrow—of early British make, very coarse, all either full of black earth or calcined bones, and all inverted and very rough in material,... ...nd curates at this time, the vicar being really what we now call a curate. Hugo de Welewyck, styled Clericus, succeeded in 1296 on the resignation of ... ...inally Chaloner’s Ford, where numerous trees, bearing quantities of little black cherries called merries, used to grow, and where parties used to go a... ... children of William Downe of Otterbourne Farm are distinguished by double black lines below their names. Oliver Cromwell, according to an old village... ...ll his elder brothers. The origin of this tenure, according to Sir William Blackstone, is very remote, it being his opinion that it was ‘a remnant of ... ...r d. 1279 Paganus de Lyskeret, Rector 1280-1296 John de Sta. Fide, Vicar Hugo de Welewyck, Rector 1296-1348 Henry de Lyskeret, Vicar Roger de la...

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...iat, but in the part played by Christian mission- aries in reconciling the black races of Africa to their subjuga- tion by European Capitalism, we can... ...efuses to prosecute a drunken ruffian; she converses on equal terms with a black- guard whom no lady could be seen speaking to in the public street: i... ...ure it must be pointed out that the situation is only partly novel. Victor Hugo long ago gave us the epic of the convict and the bishop’s candlesticks... ...he grip of the facts and of his own conscience, and may find his taste for blackguardism permanently spoiled. Still, I cannot guarantee that happy end...

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... outwear. XXXVII The French came foremost battailous and bold, Late led by Hugo, brother to their King, From France the isle that rivers four infold W... ... rivers four infold With rolling streams descending from their spring, But Hugo dead, the lily fair of gold, Their wonted ensign they tofore them brin... ...n his wicked arts both oft implores Help from the Lord, and aid from Pluto black; He, from deep caves by Acheron’s dark shores, Where circles vain and... ... earth I should depart with him. LIV “Of close escapes the aged patroness, Blacker than erst, her sable mantle spread, When with two trusty maids, in ... ... in an ugly veil Of shadows dark, was hid from mortal eye, And hell’s grim blackness did bright skies assail; On every side the fiery lightnings fly, ... ... no man say, So was the place with darkness overgone, The night her mantle black upon its spreads, Hiding our losses and our valiant deeds. 184 Jerus... ... speech, thus said, approaching nigh: “What, Godfrey, knowest thou not thy Hugo here? Come and embrace thy friend and fellow dear!” VI He answered him... ...ght in his folded arms but air and wind. 318 Jerusalem Delivered VII Lord Hugo smiled, “Not as you think,” quoth he, “I clothed am in flesh and earth... ...e mortal bonds unknit, Shall I in peace, in ease and rest there sit?” VIII Hugo replied, “Ere many years shall run, Amid the saints in bliss here shal...

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...ore de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage Dedication T o Monsieur Victor Hugo, It was your birthright to be, like a Rafael or a Pitt, a great poet a... ...ing with the full de- velopment of his whole frame. With his thick crop of black hair, his fleshy, high-colored, swarthy face, supported by a thick ne... ...than a little revolution. Who was responsible for it? Lamartine and Victor Hugo, Casimir Delavigne and Canalis, Beranger and Chateaubriand. Davrigny, ... ...rn of the Bourbon Lilies; she loved M. de Chateaubriand for calling Victor Hugo “a sublime child.” It depressed her that she could only know genius fr... ...at lady. Mme. de Bargeton, following a new fashion, wore a coif of slashed black velvet, a head-dress that recalls memories of mediaeval legend to a y... ...le straps that kept them in shape. He wore pumps and thread stockings; the black ribbon of his eyeglass meandered over a white waistcoat, and the fash... ...at, and the fashion and el- egance of Paris was strikingly apparent in his black coat. He was indeed just the faded beau who might be expected from hi...

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...nd still had very thick hair and a full beard, both of which had once been black. His eyes were grey , large and luminous, but strikingly promi- nent.... ...t of the coarsest 8 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV – Part II linen showed almost black with dirt, not having been changed for months. They said that he wore... ...at all, you may as well know. And I’ll crush Mitya like a beetle. I squash black-beetles at night with my slipper; they squelch when you tread on them... ...ide. He was about ten years old, pale, delicate-looking and with sparkling black eyes. He kept an attentive and anxious watch on the other six, obviou... ...d. Alyosha went up and, addressing a fair, curly-headed, rosy boy in a black jacket, observed: “When I used to wear a satchel like yours, I al... ...ght on the stage. In those days it was done in all simplic- ity. In Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris an edifying and gratuitous spectacle was provide...

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...lliot, pac- ing vigorously up and down the room, and more and more did her black dress seem a mockery. “In some ways you ought to be consulted: nearly... ...tors. They start and quarrel and jabber. Fingers burst up through the sand-black fingers of sea devils. The island tilts. The tourists go mad. But jus... ...r she nearly died of it. Her feet hurt, her limbs were cramped in a canoe, black spots danced before her eyes from eating too much mayonnaise. But sti... ...hers, and picked and picked out his feathers, till he was perfectly bald. ‘Hugo, look,’ said I. ‘This is the end of Parsival. Let me have no more surp... ... half-past six. From her low chair Agnes could see the trees by the drive, black against a blackening sky. That drive was half a mile long, and she wa... ...ard, one of those sixpenny books tells Podge that he’s made of hard little black things, another that he’s made of brown things, larger and squashy. T...

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...locks. They come at his summons; and he and the castle are hidden by their black legions. Froh, the Rainbow god, hastens to his side. At the stroke of... ...the Rainbow god, hastens to his side. At the stroke of Donner’s hammer the black murk is riven in all directions by darting ribbons of lightning; and ... ... that sticks in the tree; but he does not see it; and the embers sink into blackness. Then the woman re- turns. Hunding is safely asleep: she has drug... ...rns to V alhalla in despair. Whilst Brynhild is watching the course of the black thundercloud that marks her sister’s flight, the fires of Loki again ... ...nd that still makes him impossible in French politics as it was for Victor Hugo to bombard Napoleon III from his paper battery in Jersey. It was also ...

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...pacious mouth with full lips, between which could be seen little stumps of black decayed 19 Dostoevsky teeth. He slobbered every time he began to spe... ...e hooks, on pur- pose for me alone, for, if you only knew, Alyosha, what a black-guard I am.” “But there are no hooks there,” said Alyosha, looking ge... ...pposite wall on four mahogany chairs, cov- 33 Dostoevsky ered with shabby black leather. The monks sat, one at the door and the other at the window. ... ...active, and always dressed with taste. She was rather pale, and had lively black eyes. She was not more than thirty-three, and had been five years a w... ...s old but very thin and wasted, with a face not merely sunburnt but almost blackened by exposure. She was kneel- ing and gazing with a fixed stare at ... ...ght on the stage. In those days it was done in all simplic- ity. In Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris an edifying and gratuitous spectacle was provide...

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...AVOISIER (1743 - 1794) French Chemist 295 JOHN DALTON (1766 - 1844) English Chemist 295 JONS J. BERZELIUS (1779 - 1848) Swedish Chemist 295 JOSEPH BLACK (1728 - 1799) Scottish Chemist 295 HENRY CAVENDISH (1731 - 1810) English Chemist and Physicist 296 JOSEPH PRIESTLEY (1733 - 1804) English Chemist 296 KARL W. SCHEELE (1742 - 1786) Swedish Chemist 296 DANIEL RUTHERFO...

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...ast and weep, utter ing no word. Did my mind stop to mourn with that nude black sister of mine? No—it was far away from that scene in an instant, and... ... call the children back and hear them romp again with George—that peerless black ex slave and children’s idol who came one day—a flitting stranger—to ... ...sonally is that I would not be here now, but somewhere else; and probably black—there is no telling. What Is Man and Other Essays 88 Very well, I am... ...rone and dispossessed the Lancastrian dynasty. Edward V .; one third of a black square. ( Image not avail able—ed.) His uncle Richard had him murder... ...g over his head, which is a last—shoemaker’s last. Mary; five squares of black paper. ( Image not available— ed.) The picture represents a burning m... ...ns to see. It is somehow not the same gaze that people rivet upon a Victor Hugo, or Niagara, or the bones of the mastodon, or the guillotine of the Re... ...appease and satisfy the thirst of a lifetime. Satisfy it—that is the word. Hugo and the mastodon will still have a de gree of intense interest therea...

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... of Journal des débats. There has been lots of talk on the origins of the French novel of the 19th century: Stendhal, Balzac, Dumas, Gautier, Sand or Hugo. One often forgets Eugène Sue. Still, The Mysteries of Paris occupies a unique space in the birth of this literary genre: it entranced thousands of readers for more than a year (even illiterates who had episodes read to ...

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...tal of the “Carlton” or the “Travellers’,” is like every- body else’s; thy black coat has no more plaits, nor buttons, nor fancy in it than thy neighb... ...hich the warehouses were hung. Ringlets glossy, and curly, and jetty— eyes black as night—midsummer night—when it lightens; haughty noses bending like... ..., tawdry frip- peries, greasy spangles, and battered masks, into a shop as black and hideous as the entrance was foul. “This your home, Rafael?” said ... ... a prince in it, Mr. Lint,” pretty Rachel said, coaxing him with her beady black eyes. “It is the cheese,” replied Mr. Lint; “it ain’t the dress that ... ...afael opened the baize door by some secret contrivance, and they were in a black passage, with a curtain at the end. He clapped his hands; the curtain... ...ed attention. “We hear it stated that Mr. P . is of a very ancient family (Hugo de la Pluche came over with the Conqueror); and the new brougham which... ...d in former times; but if, in the works of Byron, Scott, Goethe, or Victor Hugo, the reader can find a more beautiful sentence than the above, I will ... ...about some silly quarrel over the wine-cup— a mere silly jape, believe me. Hugo de Brodenel would have no black bottle on the board. Gottfried was wro... ...ugh it had been a reed (it lighted three hundred yards off, on the foot of Hugo de Bunyon, who was smoking a cigar at the door of his tent, and caused...

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...th careless deprecation. “Y es, indeed you must; it would suit you—in your black dress, now,” said Celia, insistingly. “Y ou might wear that.” “Not fo... ... dog, will you?” The objectionable puppy, whose nose and eyes were equally black and expressive, was thus got rid of, since Miss Brooke decided that i... ...ig seems to me more funereal than a hearse. But then Mrs. Waule always has black crape on. How does she man- age it, Rosy? Her friends can’t always be... ... the last performance, and assuring missy that her voice was as clear as a blackbird’s, when Mr. Lydgate’s horse passed the window. His dull expectati... ... tive pauses. Do not imagine his sickly aspect to have been of the yellow, black-haired sort: he had a pale blond skin, thin gray-besprinkled brown ha... ...Baucis. Cette vieillesse la, ressemblance du soir avec l’aurore.” — Victor Hugo: L’homme qui rit. MRS. GARTH, HEARING CALEB enter the passage about te...

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...h careless depreca tion. “Yes, indeed you must; it would suit you—in your black dress, now,” said Celia, insistingly. “You Might wear that.” “Not for... ... dog, will you?” The objectionable puppy, whose nose and eyes were equally black and ex pressive, was thus got rid of, since Miss Brooke decided that... ...ig seems to me more funereal than a hearse. But then Mrs. Waule always has black crape on. How does she manage it, Rosy? Her friends can’t always be d... ... the last performance, and assuring missy that her voice was as clear as a blackbird’s, when Mr. Lydgate’s horse passed the window. His dull expectati... ...ative pauses. Do not imagine his sickly aspect to have been of the yellow, black haired sort: he had a pale blond skin, thin gray besprinkled brown ha... ...aucis. Cette vieillesse l` a, ressemblance du soir avec l’aurore.” —Victor Hugo: L’homme qui rit. M rs. Garth, hearing Caleb enter the passage about t...

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... bow, 20 A privy door Ismen unlocked at last, 235 ?A rumbling sound amid the waters deep 331 A secret place they found in one of those, 347 A shadow, blacker than the mirkest night, 370 A shepherd fair Erminia entertains, 148...

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... outwear. XXXVII The French came foremost battailous and bold, Late led by Hugo, brother to their King, From France the isle that rivers four infold W... ... rivers four infold With rolling streams descending from their spring, But Hugo dead, the lily fair of gold, Their wonted ensign they tofore them brin... ...n his wicked arts both oft implores Help from the Lord, and aid from Pluto black; He, from deep caves by Acheron’s dark shores, Where circles vain and... ... earth I should depart with him. LIV “Of close escapes the aged patroness, Blacker than erst, her sable mantle spread, When with two trusty maids, in ... ... in an ugly veil Of shadows dark, was hid from mortal eye, And hell’s grim blackness did bright skies assail; On every side the fiery lightnings fly, ... ... no man say, So was the place with darkness overgone, The night her mantle black upon its spreads, Hiding our losses and our valiant deeds. 184 Jerus... ... speech, thus said, approaching nigh: “What, Godfrey, knowest thou not thy Hugo here? Come and embrace thy friend and fellow dear!” VI He answered him... ...ght in his folded arms but air and wind. 318 Jerusalem Delivered VII Lord Hugo smiled, “Not as you think,” quoth he, “I clothed am in flesh and earth... ...e mortal bonds unknit, Shall I in peace, in ease and rest there sit?” VIII Hugo replied, “Ere many years shall run, Amid the saints in bliss here shal...

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... perhaps he was) contentedly practising many other things that to you seem black as hell. Every man is his own judge and mountain-guide through life. ... ...on at Colinton– they called out, ‘They are some of our own.’ ‘They are too blacke ‘ (I.E. numerous), ‘fie! fie! for ground to draw up on,’ cried Walla... ...nce; unless we consider as such a silly Chaldee manuscript in imitation of Blackwood, and a letter of reproof from a divinity student on the impiety o... ... they were written in Latin. He was well acquainted with the title-page of Blackstone’s Commentaries, and Argal (as the gravedigger in Hamlet says) he... ..., in the earlier work, and made it not altogether unwor- thy of its model, Hugo’s Legend of the Ages. But it becomes evident, on the most hasty retros... ... instant the net closes round the pilgrims, ‘the white robe falls from the black man’s body.’ Despair ‘getteth him a grievous crab-tree cudgel’; it wa...

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... ordinary elephant. Near the root of this trunk was an immense quantity of black shaggy hair—more than could have been supplied by the coats of a scor... ... vengeance was complete. The eight corpses swung in their chains, a fetid, blackened, 29 V olume Five hideous, and indistinguishable mass. The crippl... ...not possible to mistake. These were known by their coats and pantaloons of black or brown, made to sit comfortably, with white cravats and waistcoats,... ...mend to young men temperance in eating and drinking. Just so, too, Jacobus Hugo has satisfied himself that, by Euenis, Homer meant to insinuate John C... ...f the villain at all, and one day when he had been cuffed until he grew so black in the face that one might have mistaken him for a little African, an... ...ever- end than his whole appearance; for he not only had on a full suit of black, but his shirt was perfectly clean and the collar turned very neatly ...

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...ment the greatest that has been produced by any French writer since Victor Hugo penned ‘Les Miserables.’ Passing over the force and direct- ness of th... ...nd Rachel, the shortest of them all, a very young, dark girl, with eyes as black as ink, a Jewess, whose snub nose confirmed by exception 30 De Maupa... ...hel on to his knees, and, getting excited, at one moment kissed the little black curls on her neck, inhaling the pleas- ant warmth of her body, and al... ...ver hearts!” Thereupon Lieutenant Otto, who was a species of bear from the Black Forest, jumped up, inflamed and saturated with drink, and seized by a... ...so quickly that the glass upset, spilling the amber colored wine on to her black hair as if to baptize her, and broke into a hundred fragments as it f... ...uare, opposite the white, closed front of the mairie, the church, mute and black, showed its great oak door with the wrought-iron trimmings. Then, as ...

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...ring tone, and the look truly of an angel, though whether of a white or of a black one might be dubious, proposed this toast: Die Sache der Armen in G... ...ast possible violence to the ear; yet all was tight and right there: hot and black came the coffee ever at the due moment; and the speechless Lieschen... ..., though the highest published creation, or work of genius, has nevertheless black spots and troubled nebulosities amid its effulgence,—a mixture of i... ...ncircled mountain pool, perhaps the crater of an extinct volcano; into whose black deeps you fear to gaze: those eyes, those lights that sparkle in it... ...ouse of Commons, we shall note what progress he has made. He digs up certain black stones from the bosom of the earth, and says to them, Transport me ... ...n extant! Deuce on it (verdammt), the little spitfires!—Nay, I think with old Hugo von Trim berg: ‘God must needs laugh outright, could such a thing b...

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...f everything is the great spectre of universal death, the all-encompassing blackness:— 140 The V arieties of Religious Experience “What profit hath a... ...n the classic period. But all the same was the out- look of those Hellenes blackly pessimistic. Stoic insensibility and Epicurean resignation were the... ... certain fate; but still he clings, and see two mice, one white, the other black, evenly mov- ing round the bush to which he hangs, and gnawing off it... ... the honey pleases me no longer, and day and night the white mouse and the black mouse gnaw the branch to which I cling. I can see but one thing: the ... ...my mind the image of an epileptic patient whom I had seen in the asylum, a black-haired youth with green- ish skin, entirely idiotic, who used to sit ... ... to be two deadly hostile selves, one ac- tual, the other ideal. As Victor Hugo makes his Mahomet say:— “Je suis le champ vil des sublimes combats:...

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...that United 93. FAA Headquarters:Y es. Command Center:There is a report of black smoke in the last position I gave you, fifteen miles south of Johnsto... ...spec- ulating, that’s speculation only. 169 The aircraft that spotted the “black smoke” was the same unarmed Air National Guard cargo plane that had s... ...t- ing that their assistance led to the October 1993 shootdown of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters by members of a Somali militia group and to the subs... ...hed a raid on Mogadishu to capture him. In the course of a long night, two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down, 73 Americans were wounded, 18 were k... ...m Congress, President Clinton soon ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces. “Black Hawk down” joined “Desert One” as a symbol among Americans in uniform... ...1, p.A6 (EPA says levels of airborne asbestos below threshold of concern); Hugo Kugiya,“Terrorist Attacks;Asbestos Targeted in Cleanup Effort; EPA’s W...

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...ontents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTER II ? SOME ASPECTS OF ROBERT BURNS.......................................................... 34 CHAPTER III ? WALT WHITMAN.......

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........................................................ 4 CHAPTER I – VICTOR HUGO’S ROMANCES .............................................................. ...the second is its most essentially national production. T o treat fitly of Hugo and Villon would involve yet wider knowledge, not only of a country fo... ...cising myself, seek to disarm the wrath of other and less partial critics. HUGO’S ROMANCES. – This is an instance of the “point of view.” The five rom... ...olly just. R. L. S. 15 Familiar Studies of Men & Books CHAPTER I – VICTOR HUGO’S ROMANCES Apres le roman pittoresque mais prosaique de Walter Scott i... ... ideal, vrai mais grand, qui enchassera Walter Scott dans Homere. – Victor Hugo on Quentin Durward. VCITOR HUGO’S ROMANCES occupy an important positio... ... like a fine lady from sleepless- ness and vapours; he would fall into the blackest melanchol- 42 Robert Louis Stevenson ies, and be filled with remo... ...by his dog; and the dog, “scouring in long excursion,” scampered with four black paws across the linen. This brought the two into conversation; when J... ...e than the merest smattering of knowledge; whereas his ac- quaintance with blackguard haunts and industries could only have been acquired by early and... ...nd an enduring and most unmanly resent- ment; Regnier de Montigny, a young blackguard of good 122 Robert Louis Stevenson birth; and Colin de Cayeux, ...