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41934Have n''t you been in love since you came to Paris?
41934How many years was it before I learned to dislike Thackeray or Tennyson as much as I do now?
41934What is more subversive of a sultan''s dignity than pinching his leg? 41934 What is this grave which the world was coming in its heart and in its daily practices to treat as final?
41934What will become of me if I surrender wholly to the Saviour? 41934 (Mother, Is It Thou?").
41934("What is Modernism?").
41934And why does guilt of ours thus waste us?"
41934And, now that this admission has been wrung from unwilling man and imposed upon governments one after the other, what kind of a life do we wish?
41934Are we content further to tolerate the infirmities and impotency of present- day education?
41934Are we willing to yield supinely to the tyranny of state or of money?
41934But in what way has it espoused the sacred cause of the lowly, the best- beloved of Him who died that eternal happiness might be vouchsafed us?
41934But what is a typical American?
41934But who are the spokesmen?
41934Do the meek inherit the earth?
41934Does any one rejoice and be exceeding glad when men revile him and persecute him and say all manner of evil against him falsely?
41934E perchè nostra colpa si ne scipa?"
41934From whence did this venom emanate?
41934Have they inherited it?
41934He worshipped Strickland, who reviled him, kicked him, spat upon him; Stroeve, who naïvely asks,"Have I ever been mistaken?"
41934Her best- known poems are"Il Canto dell''Ironia"("The Song of Irony"),"La vecchia Anima sogna..."("The Old Soul Dreams"),"Mamà, sei tu?"
41934How can any one possibly know what would have been the result of our entrance into the war at that time?
41934How else could we be so pleasure- seeking and pleasure- displaying as we were in those agonal days of the war?
41934I have often asked myself, What is the Italian''s most dominant characteristic?
41934If the former was of such a nature, why does not the latter partake of it?
41934In what way will it be better and more satisfying than the one that existed previous to the war?
41934Is not truth in reality synonymous with belief, individual or collective, or both?
41934Is there any such thing as literal truth?
41934Shall we be content with the concentration of property or of private capitalistic enterprise?
41934Shall we be willing to submit to the restrictions that are put upon us by law and covenant concerning marriage and its entailments?
41934Shall we bow down to autocratic governments whose rulers claim, and apparently have their claims allowed, to have divine guidance?
41934Shall we continue to close our eyes to the hypocrisies of the church?
41934Suppose we grant that the Sermon on the Mount is not to be taken literally, but symbolically, of what are these mandates symbolical?
41934The only thing that can be said is that it is well told, but what does it advantage one to read it?
41934The question that has fatigued the human mind since time immemorial,"What shall man do that he may live again?"
41934The question was-- would it be satisfactory to other governments?
41934Was it an instrument consistent with the new liberty?
41934Was it not at variance with what was going to be considered a fundamental right of the people, the principle of self- determination?
41934What are our sane and legitimate aspirations?
41934What are our visions?
41934What are the benefits that will flow from the sacrifices that have been made?
41934What are the mercies that will be vouchsafed us for our deeds of commission and of omission?
41934What are the rewards that will follow the labor and effort expended to win the war?
41934What constitutes a state or a nation?
41934What deep symbolism attaches itself to this attempt to stay nature in gathering the ashes of Petronius to their ultimate destiny?
41934What delivery of thought, idea, conception, execution has he ever made that entitles him to be heard, not to say believed?
41934What had he done, by commission or omission, that such treatment should be accorded him?
41934What is his most conspicuous idiosyncrasy?
41934What was the cause of this distrust?
41934What was the genesis of this display?
41934What was the purpose of it, what benefit did it mediate, what enlightenment flowed from it?
41934What will this new world that is arisen from the destruction of empires and from the ashes of tyrannical institutions be like?
41934When he is found, how can he possibly know?
41934When is a Futurist not a Futurist?
41934Where is the man in the United States of America to- day who has revealed the Jove- like mind that entitles him to make such sentient statement?
41934Why does one not give the same heed to these commands as he does to"Thou shalt not kill; thou shall not commit adultery"?
41934Why not about war?
41934Why should any one take the trouble to deny any of these?
41934tante chi stipa Nuove travaglie e pene, quanto io viddi?
41934who shall tell in few the Many fresh pains and travails that I saw?
35792What would be the use?
35792''Indeed?
35792And since your youth Were you by love inthralled?
35792Barbaricone esse est pejus sub nomine, quam sub Moribus?
35792But what was the burden of his song?
35792Chi batte?
35792Cossa avì fâ dell''altra mezza?
35792Cossa avì fâ della cagnòla, Figliuol mio caro, fiorito e gentil?
35792Cossa avì fâ della cagnòla?
35792Did any human beings ever plaster their faces with such stuff as Amiria gravely recommends?
35792Did he so contrive that the contemporary repute of the_ Innamorato_ should serve to float his_ Furioso_ and then be forgotten by posterity?
35792Ero dalla mia dama;''L mio core che se ne và.-- Che ti diènno da cena, Caro mio figlio, savio e gentil?
35792Figlio, occhi giocondi, Figlio, co''non rispondi?
35792Figlio, perchè t''ascondi Dal petto o''se''lattato?
35792Hath thy sacred bay Lost her inviolable rights to- day?
35792He cried:"Oh, who hath slain my perfect knight?
35792He was seated awake by the fireside, sorrowing for his young bride''s loss: Andonne alla finestra e aprilla un poco: Chi è là?
35792Here is the Scotch version from Lord Donald: What will ye leave to your true- love, Lord Donald, my son?
35792Here, for example, is Raphael''s_ Lo Spasimo_ in words[431]: Oimè, figliuol, è questo il viso Ch''era tanto formoso e tanto bello?
35792Him will they fix on you, Him who hath ne''er transgressed?
35792How came it that he included Florentine among the peccant idioms, and maintained that the true literary speech was still to seek?
35792How could''st thou bear to see thy love, thy pride, Thus thunder- smitten?
35792Io son la tua Ginevra; Non m''odi tu?
35792Is it likely then that Phoebus, when I call him, will quit Delphi for this den?
35792Is it rational to adopt the hypothesis of Alberti''s plagiarism?
35792It contains the famous lines: Come deggio sperar che surga Dante Che già chi il sappia legger non si trova?
35792Love, Love, Love, Love, how shall I bear this ache?
35792Magdalen scoffs:"Why should I be damned because I do not follow your strange life?
35792Methinks I am dropping in swoon or slumber; Am I drunken or sober, yes or no?
35792Midas treads a wearier measure: All he touches turns to gold: If there be no taste of pleasure, What''s the use of wealth untold?
35792O Piero Strozzi,''ndù son le tue genti?
35792O Piero Strozzi,''ndù sono i tuoi soldati?
35792O soul, so full of sins, what shalt thou do?
35792Of what ingredients are black- puddings made all?
35792On the road they wonder, will the booth be too full for them to find places, will they get hot by walking fast up hill, will their clothes be decent?
35792Or is it my brain that reels away?
35792Perhaps I ca n''t cheat, cozen, swindle, bawl?
35792Quando sarà quel dì, cara colonna, Che la tua mamma chiamerò madonna?
35792Quando sarà quel dì, caro amor mio?
35792Quis ex vobis centum oves habens, Si forte unam ex illis perdiderit, Nonne nonagintas novem dimittens Et illam querit, donec ipsam invenerit?
35792See, I have emptied my horn already; Stretch hither your beaker to me, I pray; Are the hills and the lawns where we roam unsteady?
35792So thralled, what heart from love shall hope to flee?
35792Son, wherefore dost Thou shun This thy own mother''s breast?
35792Son, who hath thee suppressed?
35792Son, who hath torn thee hence?
35792Son, who shall shed upon My anguished bosom rest?
35792Son, who thy body slew?
35792Son, why did this wild place, This world, Son, thee detest?
35792Son, why hath thee undone To death this folk unblessed?
35792The Divine Comedy found fewer imitators than the_ Canzoniere_; for who could bend the bow of Ulysses?
35792The first Canto opens thus: O Philippo Maria Anglo possente, Perchè mi strengi a quel che non poss''io?
35792The same version furnishes the episode of the poisoned hounds[356]: Coss''avì fâ dell''altra mezza, Figliuol mio caro, fiorito e gentil?
35792Then Malagigi answered:"In what part Are Ricciardetto and Rinaldo now?
35792This exordium makes one regret that the painter of the young knight in our National Gallery( Giorgione?)
35792Through the two centuries which followed Jacopone''s death( 1306?)
35792Thus: Cui don|o il lep|ido| nuovo| libretto?
35792To folly ne''er turned he, Jesus, the hope of me: How did they him arrest?
35792Vuoi tu ch''io sia ludibrio d''ogni gente?
35792Was this due to the desire of burying Boiardo''s fame beneath his own?
35792What are these weights my feet encumber?
35792What became of your bloodhounds, Lord Randal, my son?
35792What became of your bloodhounds, my handsome young man?
35792What can be prettier than the ballad of roses made for"such a night,"by Angelo Poliziano?
35792What doleful mystery lies hid beneath?
35792What gat ye to your dinner, my handsome young man?
35792What heart from love her fortress shall defend?
35792What historical basis can be found for the Carolingian myth?
35792What is the advantage of wearing fine clothes and being bowed to in the market- place, if people point you out behind your back as thief and traitor?
35792What is there left for me?
35792What is there worth a struggle?
35792What profit is there in much pearls and gold, Or power, or proud estate, or royal reign?
35792What remained but to make a new start?
35792What will ye leave to your true- love, my jollie young man?
35792When comes the day, my staff, my strength, To call your mother mine at length?
35792Whence are you come, and why?
35792Where am I?
35792Wherefore cease to sing?
35792Who shall be so rude and wild As to spurn thee, Maid?
35792Whoever heard so strange a story told?
35792Why art Thou silent?
35792Why breaks my heart through thee, My heart which burns with Love?
35792Why didst thou so wound me?
35792Why do I cling so to that place, you ask me?
35792Why do our scholars Latinize their names of baptism, changing Peter into Pierius, and John into Janus, or Jovianus?
35792Why is it that learning and infidelity go hand in hand?
35792Wilt thou my Son undo?
35792[ 239] We have still to ask who could the author of the_ Governo_, if it was not Agnolo Pandolfini, have been?
35792[ 356] This is the Scotch version, with the variant of Lord Randal: What gat ye to your dinner, Lord Randal, my son?
35792[ 599] Ippolito is said to have asked the poet:"Dove avete trovato, messer Lodovico, tante corbellerie?"
35792[ 614] Does it greatly signify, he asks Ercole Strozzi in one of his Latin poems, whether we serve a French or an Italian tyrant?
35792[ 629] Thus: Cui do|no lep|idum| novum| libellum?
35792_ Christ._ Mother, why wail and chide?
35792_ Christ._ Mother, why weep''st thou so?
35792_ Mary._ Nay, how could this thing be?
35792_ Mary._ O cross, what wilt thou do?
35792_ Mary._ Son, who hath twinned us two?
35792and how did it happen that the Italians preferred this legend of French Paladins to any other of the feudal romances?
35792i. p. 333: Quid nostra an Gallo regi an servire Latino, Si sit idem hinc atque hinc non leve servitium?
36448Bundle of guts, hast thou no shame to show Thy visage to the eyes of living wight? 36448 Think''st thou the Benedicts, Pauls, Anthonies, Gave rules like thine unto their neophytes?
36448To Thee, and not to any Saint I go; How should their mediation here succeed? 36448 [ 533]"What have we to do with words which, however once in common use, have now passed out of fashion?
364481, 2, on his own style: Oscuri sensi ed affettate rime, Qual''è chi dica mai compor Limerno?]
364482):_ Ap._ Dilettasi ella dar prova a filare, O tessere, o cucire, com''è usanza?
364486, 15---- Monte di Pietà,_ The Entombment_( by Giorgione?
36448A little lower down Nicomaco trusts the decision of Clizia''s husband to lot:_ Pirro._ Se la sorte me venisse contro?
36448Accurséd fear, why camest thou?
36448Again, Messer Maco asks:"Come si dice male?"
36448Are universals or particulars prior?
36448Are we justified in assuming its existence as an incorruptible and everlasting self?
36448Assuming that the Individual is a complex of form and matter, are we to regard the matter or the form as its essential substratum?
36448But pray inform me whom they imitated?
36448But what, then, becomes of matter in itself, which, though recognized as unintelligible, is postulated as the necessary base of individual substances?
36448Can the primitive ethnology of the Ligurian and Iapygian stocks be used to explain the silence of the Genoese Riviera and the Apulian champaign?
36448Concerning others he asks for further information:"Come si diventa eretico?
36448Could not their recent acquisitions be carried over to the account and profit of the vernacular?
36448Dare we connect the Tuscan aptitude for art with that mysterious race who built their cities on Etrurian hill- tops?
36448Did the population of Calabria, we ponder, really inherit philosophical capacity from their Greek ancestors?
36448Do we collect the former from the latter; or do the latter owe their value as approximate realities to the former?
36448Do we require all our painters to follow one precedent?
36448Falchettus boasted a still stranger origin:[427] Sed quidnam de te, Falchette stupende, canemus?
36448From what infernal valley didst thou soar, O ruthless monster, plague of mortals, thou That darkenest all my days with misery o''er?
36448How can I contend with them in presents to the fair?
36448How far may the qualities of each district have endured from remote antiquity?
36448How much of the repulsion he inspires can be ascribed to altered taste and feeling?
36448In the history of the Italian peninsula can we regard the ascendancy of Rome as a gigantic episode?
36448In the last line but one, ought we not to read_ mostreratela_ or else_ mostrerollavi_?]
36448Is He meant to be immanent in the universe, or separated from it?
36448Is a Teutonic strain discernible in the gross humor of the Mantuan Muse, or in the ballads of Montferrat?
36448Is it a misprint for Fulicanus?
36448Is it perishable with the body, or immortal?
36448Look you at yonder poor waiting man, tortured by the cold, consumed by the heat, standing at his master''s pleasure-- where is the fire to warm him?
36448Ma che dirò di te, spirito illustre, Ariosto gentil, qual lode fia Uguale al tuo gran merto, al tuo valore?
36448Numquid vis fieri Frater Monachusve, remotis Delitiis Veneris, Bacchi, Martisque, Jovisque, Quos vel simplicitas, vel desperatio traxit?...
36448Of what use is life unless we love?
36448On what, then, if these criticisms are just, is founded his claim to rank among the inaugurators of historical and political science?
36448Or, after all, had Aretino some now occult splendor, some real, but now unintelligible, utility for his contemporaries?]
36448Ought they not rather to be left among the things the world would willingly let die?
36448Quid tibi lascivis, puer o formose, sub undis?
36448Sostrata, accustomed to follow her confessor''s orders, and not burdened with a conscience, clinches this reasoning:"Di che hai tu paura, moccicona?
36448Tal carità volendo ad altri dare la gloria in sè,(?)
36448The decisive fact of Italian history in all its branches at this epoch is the resurgence of the Latin, or shall we rather say, of the Italic spirit?
36448The edition I quote from is that of Mantua(?)
36448The paladin''s curiosity is roused, and he determines to advance: Di che debbo temer, dicea, s''io v''entro?
36448The question always presents itself: how, given certain circumstances, ought a republic or a prince to use them to the best advantage?
36448Think''st thou that''tis for nothing thou dost owe Thy calling to Christ''s sheepfold?
36448To what extent may they have determined the specific character of Italian production in the modern age?
36448To what extent, it may be asked, was Berni responsible for these consequences?
36448Voi dovete forse avere a pigliarvi piacere col naso?
36448Was all this a mere convention?
36448Was he worse, was he not even in some respects better than his age?
36448Was it a name or an entity?
36448Was it a simple conception of the mind, or an external and substantial reality?
36448Was it evoked by fear and desire of being flattered in return?
36448Was more Needed than Love''s keen shafts to make me bow?
36448What did Aristotle really think about it?
36448What dost thou, beauteous boy, beneath the wanton waves?
36448What ears would there have been in Italy for Marston''s prologue to_ Antonio and Mellida_ or for Milton''s definition of the poet''s calling?
36448What else can you do?
36448What gifts shall I find for my Faustina?
36448What had Emperors and Kings to gain or lose by Aretino''s pen?
36448What have we to do with other people''s property?
36448What is the link of connection between Machiavelli and Pomponazzi, the two leaders of Italian thought at the height of the Renaissance?
36448What then, it may finally be asked, was Aretino''s merit as an author?
36448What was the secret of his power?
36448What, indeed, does it matter to the_ Farsa_?
36448When Pirro demurs to Nicomaco''s proposals, on the score that he will make enemies of Sofronia and Cleandro, his master answers:"Che importa a te?
36448When he falls ill, what chamber, what stable, what hospital will take him in?
36448Where the light dreams, that with a wavering tread And unsubstantial footing follow thee?
36448Where, where is Silence, that avoids the day?
36448Who could doubt it?
36448Who is to be held responsible for this fraud?
36448Who was the presumptuous enemy who did such injury to Berni?
36448Why do we allude to him at all in writing the history of sixteenth- century literature?
36448Why fiercer now than at the first, Now when thy venom runs my veins throughout, Bring''st thou on those black wings new dreams accurst?
36448Why should he attend to the unities, or be careful to send the same person no more than five times on the stage in one piece?
36448Why will ye wash the outside of the platter?
36448[ 205] Why should he make Romans ape he style of Athens?
36448[ 206] Why should he shackle his style with precedents from Petrarch and Boccaccio?
36448[ 207] Why condescend to imitation, when his mother wit supplies him with material, and the world of men lies open like a book before his eyes?
36448[ 297] What remained to be said or sung about bees after the Fourth Georgic?
36448[ Footnote 300:"But what land is that where now, O glorious Francis, the husbandman may thus enjoy his labors with gladness and tranquillity in peace?
36448_ Ap._ Di che piglia piacer?
36448but: Did Aristotle maintain the immortality of the soul?
36448i frati, eh?
36448quod volui misero mihi?
36448taken in conjunction with her argument to Caterina:"I frati, eh?
36448where is the water to refresh him?
52356But what, after all, is this appeal that we make to posterity? 52356 How is it these countries are now deserted,"said Momus to Prometheus,"though they were evidently once inhabited?"
52356--Children, children, what game are you playing at?
52356A life at hap- hazard, and of which you would know nothing beforehand, as you know nothing about the New Year?
52356A mistress chaster than Penelope?
52356Again, how many people in the present day read the writings of Francis Bacon?
52356Again, will the affections, imagination, and intellect of men be, as a rule, more powerful than they are at present?
52356Almanacs for the New Year?
52356Am I not right?
52356Am I the nurse of the human race; or the cook, that I should look after the preparation of their food?
52356An empire as large as that of which Charles V. dreamt one night?
52356And does not death seem natural to you?
52356And for what reason?
52356And how can I take enough food to prevent my dying of hunger a few years before reaching the Sun?
52356And how is it you know my name?
52356And how long will your singing or speaking last?''
52356And how will they protect themselves against the cold?
52356And if so, why not some other intelligent animals instead of men?
52356And if the thought of such separation be nothing to us, ought we not to consider their feelings?
52356And meanwhile?
52356And now I would ask you why you imagine we are nearer perfection than our ancestors were?
52356And on my complaining to him of such ill- treatment, he replied:"Dost thou think I made this house for thee?
52356And pray of what use to the Goblins are the mines of gold and silver, and the whole body of earth, except the outer skin?
52356And seest thou, or hast thou ever seen, happiness within the boundaries of the world?
52356And since death is our greatest good, is it remarkable that men should voluntarily seek it?
52356And the book that you carry?
52356And what is to be done about your book?
52356And who does not know that most pleasures are due to the imagination rather than to the inherent qualities of the things that please us?
52356And why also should I keep these slaves of mine alive, if it were not that from time to time they give me children to eat?
52356And yet life is a fine thing, is it not?
52356And your inhabitants, are they mostly happy or unhappy?
52356And, apart from anything else, do we not instinctively fear, hate, and shun death, even in spite of ourselves?
52356And, since I owe it to you that I am here, ought I not to rely on you to assure me, if possible, a life free from trouble and danger?"
52356And, supposing it to have land and water like the other, why may it not be uninhabited?
52356Are facts deniable, simply because they are not in harmony with words?
52356Are these truths, which I merely express, without any pretence of preaching, of primary or secondary importance in philosophy?
52356Are you much disturbed by the dogs that bay at you?
52356Are you so puffed up because of the Czar''s visit,[1] that you imagine yourselves no longer subject to the laws of Nature?
52356As happy as last year?
52356As the year before?
52356At least, you can tell me if your inhabitants are acquainted with vices, misdeeds, misfortunes, suffering, and old age; in short, evils?
52356Beading the following from Cicero''s"Paradoxes"--"Do pleasures make a person better or more estimable?
52356Besides, how could there be an acute sensation at the time of death?
52356Besides, who can say that he has reached your standard of purity?
52356But do you distinctly confess that you do not love the human race in general?
52356But do you not think it is a great failing in women that they prove really to be so very different from what we imagine?
52356But had he no friend or relative to whom he could entrust his children instead of killing them?
52356But have you, or have you not, changed your opinions?
52356But how could a shadow fulfil any promise, much less induce the Truth to descend to earth?
52356But how did you perceive at length that your soul had left the body?
52356But how do you know I am a Canon?
52356But how is it these rogues have disappeared?
52356But how is it they have not already mentioned it?
52356But how shall we do it?
52356But how shall we know in future the news of the world?
52356But how?
52356But if they did wish to die, what should deter them from fulfilling their desire?
52356But if you had to live over again the life you have already lived, with all its pleasures and sufferings?
52356But in what then are we superior to the men of primitive times, who were perfectly unacquainted with philosophy?
52356But must this necessarily continue?
52356But supposing you are right, what ought I to do, if I can not be useful to my race?
52356But tell me, is greatness the same thing as extreme unhappiness?
52356But tell me: do you ever remember having been able at any moment in your life to say sincerely,"I am happy"?
52356But tell me: why am I here at all?
52356But then, if you are not incited by injuries received, nor by hatred, nor ambition, why do you write in such a manner?
52356But what does it matter?
52356But what has that to do with it, if we ourselves do not conform to nature; that is, are no longer savages?
52356But what is pleasure?
52356But what is this other novelty that I discover?
52356But what shall I say to you about men?
52356But why dost thou shun me?
52356But why is it that we live?
52356But, Excellency, how can the little fellows manage that?
52356But, apart from the fact that your heaven is scarcely an inviting place, who among the best of us can hope to merit it?
52356But, reasonably, and not imaginatively, do we really think our successors will be better than ourselves?
52356Children, do you not hear?...
52356Did I ask to come into the world?
52356Did not one of your ancient mathematicians say, that if he had standing room given him outside the world, he would undertake to move heaven and earth?
52356Did you hear that?
52356Did you not say you were inhabited?
52356Do I keep these my children and servants for thy service?
52356Do you also believe that the human race actually progresses daily?
52356Do you believe all the century believes?
52356Do you believe that forty or fifty years ago the philosophers were right or wrong in their statements?
52356Do you clearly understand?
52356Do you feel bad anywhere?
52356Do you hear the delightful sound made by the heavenly bodies in motion?
52356Do you imagine I should oppose the discoveries of the nineteenth century?
52356Do you mean to say he killed his children and himself?
52356Do you mean what you say?
52356Do you not ordain that I am to be unhappy?
52356Do you not recognise me?
52356Do you not remember any particular year which you thought a happy one?
52356Do you not remember that you are dead?
52356Do you not remember we are both born of Decay?
52356Do you not see that if there are no men there will be no more newspapers?
52356Do you not see that the soul necessarily leaves the body when the latter becomes uninhabitable, and not because of any internal violence?
52356Do you think that in these forty or fifty years the human race has changed to the opposite of what it then was?
52356Do you think they will not come unless you call them?
52356Do you think this New Year will be a happy one?
52356Do you understand these names?
52356Do you, however, think books are able to help the human race?
52356Does it not follow that all your inhabitants are animals?
52356Does it perchance hide from thee in the bowels of the earth, or the depths of the sea?
52356Does not memory, wisdom''s ally, lose strength as we advance in age?
52356Does pleasure or pain predominate?
52356Does that seem incredible to you?
52356Does your Excellency feel ill?
52356Dost thou wish for majesty surpassing that of the Atrides?
52356Even in dreams?
52356Far from here?
52356For do we not oftener see the former productive of results than the latter?
52356For do we not see with our own eyes that the needle in these seas falls away from the Pole Star not a little towards the west?
52356For have they not reached the summit of what is called human happiness?
52356For to what end do we shun death, or desire life, save to promote our well- being, and for fear of the contrary?
52356For what is implied in a state of life free from uncertainty and danger?
52356For whose pleasure and service is this wretched life of the world maintained, by the suffering and death of all the beings which compose it?
52356Had he not enlarged the world, multiplied its pleasures, and increased its diversity?
52356Had you then, like Pasiphaë, a calf for your son?
52356Has humanity progressed in strength and perfection, that the writers of to- day should be constrained to flatter, and compelled to reverence it?
52356Have we not a strong instinctive horror of death?
52356Have you felt no variation in the ennui which oppresses you, from the first day until now?
52356Have you the mandate of Beelzebub?
52356Honours and success, however wicked thou mayst be?
52356How are you?
52356How are you?
52356How can I excuse myself?
52356How can I go unless your Excellency comes?
52356How can I sit?
52356How can there be pain at a time of unconsciousness?
52356How far are these conclusions refutable?
52356How has it become so light?
52356How have I injured you, in making you happy for three or four days?"
52356How long have you been reduced to this kind of life?
52356How many years have gone by since you began to sell almanacs?
52356How should I know?
52356How should we be occupied?
52356How should we be spending our time?
52356How then can it be unnatural to escape from suffering in the only way open to man, that is, by dying; since in life it can never be avoided?
52356How then can order and virtue be said to be encouraged by your doctrine?
52356I am the first Hour of the day, and how can the day exist, if your Excellency does not deign to go forth as usual?
52356I ask you if it be permissible to be unhappy?
52356I care little for the opinion of the world; nevertheless, exonerate me if you have any opportunity of doing so.... What am I?
52356I mean, why do we consent to live?
52356I should be very sorry for that; but what can I do?
52356If a friend begged you to do this, why should you not gratify him?
52356If it be peopled as numerously as our hemisphere, what proof have you that rational beings are to be found there, as in ours?
52356If it be true, why may I not lament openly and freely, and say that I suffer?
52356If man had the power to live for ever, I mean in this life and not after death, do you think he would be happy?
52356If not, why should you expect to feel any violent sensation at its departure?
52356If, however, they are different, why could not the one be separated from the other?
52356Immortal?
52356In answer to Horace''s question,"Why is no one content with his lot?"
52356In short, Don Nicolas, what do you wish to prove by this discourse?
52356In short, to sum it up in two words, do you agree with what the journals say about nature, and human destiny?
52356In what, therefore, are we more advanced than our ancestors; and what means of attaining perfection do we possess, which they had not?
52356Io chiedo al cielo, E al mondo: dite, dite: Chi la ridusse a tale?
52356Is death itself a sensation?
52356Is it not so?
52356Is it that we are better acquainted with the truth?
52356Is it that you have scruples of conscience lest the deed should be treasonable?
52356Is it true that Mahomet one fine night cut you in two like a water melon, and that a good piece of your body fell into his cloak?
52356Is it true that the Arcadians came into the world before you?
52356Is it your own flesh and blood that you are eating?
52356Is not man''s reason daily governed by accidents of all kinds?
52356Is there any one who boasts of the pleasures he enjoys?"
52356May not the same progress which exposes the wound find the salve to heal it?
52356Mine, or that of the Prince, or whose?
52356More joyfully perhaps?
52356More probably, in greater trouble and difficulty; or worse, in a state of ennui?
52356More wealth than shall be found in El Dorado, when it is discovered?
52356My own?
52356My sister?
52356Nature?
52356Not even for a single moment?
52356Now tell me, did you feel any pain at the point of death?
52356Now tell me: are all other actions of civilised men regulated by the standard of their primitive nature?
52356Now, if man be permitted to live unnaturally, and be consequently unhappy, why may he not also die unnaturally?
52356Now, if we remove the Earth from its place in the centre, and make it whirl round and round unremittingly, what will be the consequence?
52356Of a domestic, or wild animal?
52356Of course this was in reality mere fancy, since what could it matter to them when dead, that they lived in the minds of men?
52356Of course, then, you believe that this century is superior to all the preceding ones?
52356Oh, then, what are you?
52356Or am I here unnaturally, contrary to your will?
52356Or instead of land and water, may it not contain some other element?
52356Or is it a member which has to be severed or violently wrenched away?
52356Or, that once passed, they will return if you call out their names?
52356Or, why not return to our primitive condition, and state of nature?
52356Perhaps you think this very extinction of sensibility ought also to be an acute sensation?
52356Perhaps, however, it is because some few men in the present day have learnt that the truest philosopher is he who abstains from philosophy?
52356Say, how did you know you were dead?...
52356Should you not like the New Year to resemble one of the past years?
52356Tell me also: were you sensible of the moment when the soul entered you, and was joined, or as you say agglutinated, to your body?
52356Tell me, do these slaves belong to your tribe or to another?
52356Tell me: among the animals you mentioned, are there any of less vitality and sensibility than men?
52356Tell me: is the spirit joined to the body by some nerve, muscle, or membrane which must be broken to enable it to escape?
52356Tell me; are you really inhabited, as thousands of ancient and modern philosophers affirm-- from Orpheus to De Lalande?
52356Tell me; do you amuse yourself by drawing up my sea- water, and then letting it fall again?
52356That here or there it has rained or snowed, or been windy?
52356That it is hot or cold?
52356That the sun rises and sets?
52356The last hour of the office of the breviary?
52356The matter really resolves itself into this: which is the better, to suffer, or not to suffer?
52356The pleasure of a dream worth more than a real pleasure?
52356The word of honour of a good demon?
52356Then even the fleas and gnats were made for the service of men?
52356Then have you changed your opinion?
52356Then is it impossible for a man to believe that he is actually happy?
52356Then what dost thou want?
52356Then what is death, if it be not pain?
52356Then what is the meaning of this singing freak?
52356Then what life would you like?
52356Then what other life would you like to live?
52356Then what shall you do with your book?
52356Then what sort of creatures are yours?
52356Then why has he done this thing?
52356Then would you recommence it on this condition, if none other were offered you?
52356Then?
52356Thinkest thou then that the world was made for thee?
52356To eat him?
52356To posterity?
52356To sensitive minds, what misery can exceed this?
52356Well, supposing I admit the truth of what you say, how does that alter the matter?
52356Were you ever conquered by any of your inhabitants?
52356What are these judges doing?
52356What colour are your men?
52356What do I hear your Excellency say?
52356What do you infer from that?
52356What do you mean?
52356What do you mean?
52356What do you mean?
52356What do you think of my reasoning?
52356What do you think of the feast of Bairam?
52356What do you think of those people who show you another moon in a well?
52356What does all this uproar mean?
52356What does it matter?
52356What does it matter?
52356What doest thou here, where thy race is unknown?
52356What evil have I done before beginning to live, that you condemn me to this misery?
52356What good are the sun, moon, air, sea, and country to the Gnomes?
52356What has that to do with it?
52356What have such pleasantries to do with so grave a matter?
52356What have you found?
52356What in the world has a thousandth part of the perfection with which your fancy endows women?
52356What is ennui?
52356What is it?
52356What is it?
52356What is it?
52356What is less natural than medicine?
52356What is that life we lived on earth?
52356What is this to do with me?
52356What is truth?
52356What kind of books?
52356What living being, what plant, or other thing animated by thee, what vegetable or animal participates in it?
52356What man can satisfy your inexorable judges, Minos, Eacus, and Rhadamanthus, who will not overlook one single fault, however trivial?
52356What men?
52356What misery, my child?
52356What remedy is there for ennui?
52356What savoury food have you got?
52356What then is this reward?
52356What was it to him that he might gain a reputation on that earth which appeared so hateful and contemptible to him?
52356What will be the fruit of this?
52356Whence will come these praises and honours,--from heaven, from you, or from whom?
52356Where does it dwell?
52356Where, then, is the certainty that posterity will always esteem the kind of writing that we praise?
52356Which are the more numerous among your people, virtues or vices?
52356Which do you consider the more delightful, to see the dear woman, or to think of her?
52356Which of the twenty should you wish the New Year to be like?
52356Who are these unfortunate beings?
52356Who are you?
52356Who art thou?
52356Who doubts the justice of men?
52356Who has been teaching these dead folks music, that they thus sing like cocks, at midnight?
52356Who has killed them?
52356Who troubles himself about Malebranche?
52356Who wants new Almanacs?
52356Who would think of including a little earth in the catalogue of human benefits?
52356Who, for instance, now reads Galileo''s works?
52356Why can not I do it?
52356Why did he do that?
52356Why do you like to stay on the tops of minarets?
52356Why else did I bring him into the world, and nourish him?
52356Why may it not be one immense sea?
52356Why not?
52356Why not?
52356Why not?
52356Why not?
52356Why should not the same reason govern our death which rules our life?
52356Why should this latter, which has no influence over our life, control our death?
52356Why then should suicide alone be judged unreasonably, and from the aspect of our primitive nature?
52356Why?
52356Why?
52356Why?
52356Why?
52356Will you allow it to go down to posterity, conveying doctrines so contrary to the opinions you now hold?
52356Would it not be evident that the happiness or unhappiness of such a person is nevertheless a matter of fortune?
52356Would not the very disposition they boast of be dependent on circumstances?
52356Would they then imagine that everything was made and maintained solely for them?
52356Would you not like to live these twenty years, and even all your, past life from your birth, over again?
52356Yes, what then?
52356Yet, to enable them to attain to their present imperfect state of civilisation, how much time has had to elapse?
52356You believe then in the infinite perfectibility of the human race, do you not?
52356You would throw on me the responsibility of making daylight?
52356[ 2] If immortality wrought such an effect on the gods, how would it be with men?
52356[ 3] Are your women, or whatever I should call them, oviparous, and did one of their eggs fall down to us, once upon a time?
52356[ 4] Are you perforated like a bead, as a modern philosopher believes?
52356[ 5] Are you made of green cheese, as some English say?
52356_?
52356or even uninhabitable?
52356what is this that I hear?
52356what is this?
52356what news?
52356where are you going?
52356who does not know that the world is made for the Gnomes?
52356Çâkyamuni, nearly 2500 years ago, asked,"What is the cause of all the miseries and sufferings with which man is afflicted?"