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“The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.” Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto · insight
“Such, my friend, I said, is the fair and glorious beginning out of which springs tyranny.” Plato, The Republic · observation
“Oh for you Plains, and Spercheius, and Taygete, By Spartan maids o'er-revelled!” Virgil, The Georgics · vivid
“the sins of mistresses entail this mischief among others; they make themselves the slaves of their own servants, and are obliged to hide their laxities and depravities” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote · insight
“For my sake, therefore, among many greater reasons, take care, dear Madam, of your health, spare no expence, and want no attendance that can procure ease, or preserve it.” James Boswell, Boswell's Life of Johnson · precept
“Have mercy upon me, O Lord, have mercy upon me. 'To thy fatherly protection, O Lord, I commend this family.” James Boswell, Boswell's Life of Johnson · observation
“It is I, Ulysses, who am here. I have suffered much, but at last, in the twentieth year, I am come back to my own country.” Homer, The Odyssey · observation
“You are insolent and cruel, and think yourself a great man because you live in a little world, and that a bad one.” Homer, The Odyssey · wit
“There was no beast that could flee from him in the deep places of the wood, when he was in pursuit; for even on a track he was the keenest hound.” Homer, The Odyssey of Homer · observation
“Hear me, ye lordly wooers, who have vexed this house, that ye might eat and drink here evermore… I will set forth for you the great bow of divine Odysseus.” Homer, The Odyssey of Homer · precept
“And it is not likely all thy life To standen in her grace, no more than I” Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems · insight
“And oh that you had sooner seen me or heard of me as a corpse! Oh that I could have left you to survive, not my life merely, but my undiminished rank!” Marcus Tullius Cicero, Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero · vivid
Pepys attends the King and Duke at Greenwich and Woolwich shipworks, observes court discourse, reports plague deaths and expanding sickness in his parish, and considers reorganizing his household affairs for “soul and body.”
about his coming over; and I have sent this night an order from the Duke of Albemarle for a ship of 36 guns to go to Calais to fetch him. 26th. To Greenwich to the Park, where I heard the King and Duke are come by water this morn from Hampton Court. They asked me several questions. The King mightily pleased with his new buildings there. I followed them to Castle's ship in building, and there met Sir W. Batten, a…
Pepys reflects affectionately on his wife washing clothes and making coal fires, admires the King’s new medall, hears of country impoverishment from high taxes, and records rumors about Buckingham and other political changes.
are, as they swear, in absolute ignorance how this fire should come; which is a strange thing, that so horrid an effect should have so mean and uncertain a beginning. 25th. Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hand for me, poor wretch! in our little room at my Lord Sandwich's; for which I ought for ever to love and admire h…
Pepys attends Gresham College, dines with officials, plans merriment for his own dinner, buys household items, and discusses inventions and fashionable household life.
altar, there to lie for ever: and there was a sermon made to them upon this text, "Arida ossa, audite verbum Dei;" and a most eloquent sermon, as they say. 17th. To the Excise-office, where I met Mr. Ball, and did receive my paper I went for; and there fell in talk with him, who being an old cavalier do swear and curse at the present state of things, that we should be brought to this, that we must be undone and can…
In the suitors’ conversation Telemachus identifies Minerva-disguised Mentes as a Taphians’ leader, then the suitors go to sleep while Telemachus broods upstairs with Euryclea preparing his bed.
and young, and some other may take the lead among them; nevertheless I will be chief in my own house, and will rule those whom Ulysses has won for me.” Then Eurymachus, son of Polybus, answered, “It rests with heaven to decide who shall be chief among us, but you shall be master in your own house and over your own possessions; no one while there is a man in Ithaca shall do you violence nor rob you. And now, my good …
After their evening feast, Telemachus asks for sleep, servants prepare beds in the gatehouse, and at dawn Menelaus questions Telemachus’s voyage and hears the complaint that suitors eat his household and harass Penelope.
him, nor yet his own iron courage. But now, sir, be pleased to send us all to bed, that we may lie down and enjoy the blessed boon of sleep.” On this Helen told the maid servants to set beds in the room that was in the gatehouse, and to make them with good red rugs, and spread coverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for the guests to wear. So the maids went out, carrying a torch, and made the beds, to which…
After sleeping, Eumaeus goes outside to watch his pigs while Ulysses rests, and Eumaeus prepares himself with sword, cloak, goat skin, and a javelin for protection.
front of the fire. Here Ulysses lay down, and Eumaeus covered him over with a great heavy cloak that he kept for a change in case of extraordinarily bad weather. Thus did Ulysses sleep, and the young men slept beside him. But the swineherd did not like sleeping away from his pigs, so he got ready to go outside, and Ulysses was glad to see that he looked after his property during his master’s absence. First he slung …
Penelope decides she will reward the stranger if he speaks truth, and Ulysses tells Penelope to wait until sundown for his account, promising only truth about her husband, while Telemachus arranges household safety and evening amusements continue.
No estate can stand such recklessness, for we have now no Ulysses to protect us. If he were to come again, he and his son would soon have their revenge.” As she spoke Telemachus sneezed so loudly that the whole house resounded with it. Penelope laughed when she heard this, and said to Eumaeus, “Go and call the stranger; did you not hear how my son sneezed just as I was speaking? This can only mean that all the suito…
Ulysses challenges the suitor Eurymachus to work and fight tests, threatens his escape if he flees his house, and after a stool incident Telemachus calms the uproar and the suitors resume drinking and leave.
you go, then? Not you; for you have got into bad ways, and do not want to work; you had rather fill your belly by going round the country begging.” “Eurymachus,” answered Ulysses, “if you and I were to work one against the other in early summer when the days are at their longest—give me a good scythe, and take another yourself, and let us see which will last the longer or mow the stronger, from dawn till dark when t…
Ulysses, with Minerva’s help, and Telemachus move the weapons inside and hide them from the suitors, while Telemachus shuts Penelope’s women away and proceeds by torchlight.
TELEMACHUS AND ULYSSES REMOVE THE ARMOUR—ULYSSES INTERVIEWS PENELOPE—EURYCLEA WASHES HIS FEET AND RECOGNISES THE SCAR ON HIS LEG—PENELOPE TELLS HER DREAM TO ULYSSES. Ulysses was left in the cloister, pondering on the means whereby with Minerva’s help he might be able to kill the suitors. Presently he said to Telemachus, “Telemachus, we must get the armour together and take it down inside. Make some excuse when the s…
Telemachus organizes preparations as the suitors approach: he challenges servants’ treatment of the stranger, sends for household cleaning, and receives assistance from Euryclea while Telemachus takes control of where Ulysses sits.
dine in the house of Ulysses. They have worn me out with labour of grinding meal for them, and I hope they may never have another dinner anywhere at all.” Ulysses was glad when he heard the omens conveyed to him by the woman’s speech, and by the thunder, for he knew they meant that he should avenge himself on the suitors. Then the other maids in the house rose and lit the fire on the hearth; Telemachus also rose an…
Penelope publicly challenges the suitors: anyone who strings Ulysses’s bow and shoots through twelve axes may marry her, while Antinous and Telemachus oversee the orderly setup and trials.
stood by one of the bearing-posts supporting the roof of the cloister, holding a veil before her face, and with a maid on either side of her. Then she said: “Listen to me you suitors, who persist in abusing the hospitality of this house because its owner has been long absent, and without other pretext than that you want to marry me; this, then, being the prize that you are contending for, I will bring out the mighty…
Outside the palace, Ulysses reveals himself to Eumaeus and the stockman, shows his scar from Mt. Parnassus, instructs them to manage witnesses and doors, and returns to the bow trial.
Then the swineherd and the stockman left the cloisters together, and Ulysses followed them. When they had got outside the gates and the outer yard, Ulysses said to them quietly: “Stockman, and you swineherd, I have something in my mind which I am in doubt whether to say or no; but I think I will say it. What manner of men would you be to stand by Ulysses, if some god should bring him back here all of a sudden? Say w…
Athena/Dawn enables Odysseus to plan the next step: he orders Penelope to guard the household, warns her to ask no questions, arms himself and summons Telemachus, Philoetius, and Eumaeus to sally out in darkness.
raiment in great abundance. This was the last thing about which he told her, for here a deep sleep took hold upon him and eased the burden of his sorrows. Then Minerva bethought her of another matter. When she deemed that Ulysses had had both of his wife and of repose, she bade gold-enthroned Dawn rise out of Oceanus that she might shed light upon mankind. On this, Ulysses rose from his comfortable bed and said to P…
Odysseus and his men reach Laertes’ farm in Ithaca; after ordering Telemachus and the servants to kill a pig, Odysseus tests whether his father recognizes him by speaking as a stranger while Laertes gardens alone.
the best pig that you can find for dinner. Meanwhile I want to see whether my father will know me, or fail to recognise me after so long an absence.” He then took off his armour and gave it to Eumaeus and Philoetius, who went straight on to the house, while he turned off into the vineyard to make trial of his father. As he went down into the great orchard, he did not see Dolius, nor any of his sons nor of the other …
Antinous blames Penelope for the delay, claiming she spent three years weaving and unweaving a shroud, and argues Telemachus should compel her remarriage while warning that the suitors will not leave until she marries.
pity fell on all the people. Then all the others held their peace, and none had the heart to answer Telemachus with hard words, but Antinous alone made answer, saying: “Telemachus, proud of speech and unrestrained in fury, what is this thou hast said to put us to shame, and wouldest fasten on us reproach? Behold the fault is not in the Achaean wooers, but in thine own mother, for she is the craftiest of women. For i…
Telemachus returns to the hall despite wooers’ mockery, declares his intent to sail on a borrowed ship, stores provisions in the treasure chamber with Eurycleia’s help, and makes her swear secrecy until he departs.
So spake he in prayer, and Athene drew nigh him in the likeness of Mentor, in fashion and in voice, and she spake and hailed him in winged words: “Telemachus, even hereafter thou shalt not be craven or witless, if indeed thou hast a drop of thy father’s blood and a portion of his spirit; such an one was he to fulfil both word and work. Nor, if this be so, shall thy voyage be vain or unfulfilled. But if thou art not …
Menelaus describes how he would have settled Odysseus’s son in Argos if Zeus had granted their return, and the company responds with widespread weeping for Odysseus and past losses, including Antilochus.
he hath none to stand by him. Even so it is now with Telemachus; his father is away, nor hath he others in the township to defend him from distress.” And Menelaus of the fair hair answered him, and said: “Lo now, in good truth there has come unto my house the son of a friend indeed, who for my sake endured many adventures. And I thought to welcome him on his coming more nobly than all the other Argives, if but Olymp…
Eumaeus provides sleeping arrangements and extra clothing for Odysseus, while he goes to guard the boars and arms himself with sword, mantle, javelin, and goat fleece against dogs and men.
one coat. But when the dear son of Odysseus comes, he himself will give thee a mantle and doublet for raiment, and send thee whithersoever thy heart and spirit bid.” With that he sprang up and set a bed for Odysseus near the fire, and thereon he cast skins of sheep and goats. There Odysseus laid him down and Eumaeus cast a great thick mantle over him, which he had ever by him for a change of covering, when any terri…
Telemachus agrees to take Theoclymenus aboard, and the ship departs; later Odysseus, testing Eumaeus, proposes begging in the city and entering Penelope’s household to serve the wooers.
perished by an evil fate. Wherefore I have taken my company and a black ship, and have gone forth to hear word of my father that has been long afar.” Then godlike Theoclymenus spake to him again: “Even so I too have fled from my country, for the manslaying of one of mine own kin. And many brethren and kinsmen of the slain are in Argos, the pastureland of horses, and rule mightily over the Achaeans. Wherefore now am …
Eumaeus explains Argos’s former hunting strength and how slavery and distance from a master ruin servants, then Odysseus-in-disguise is seated by Telemachus, who orders him given bread and treated as a beggar.
certainly if he have speed with this beauty, or if he be comely only, like as are men’s trencher dogs that their lords keep for the pleasure of the eye.” Then didst thou make answer, swineherd Eumaeus: “In very truth this is the dog of a man that has died in a far land. If he were what once he was in limb and in the feats of the chase, when Odysseus left him to go to Troy, soon wouldst thou marvel at the sight of hi…
Penelope and the suitors discuss marriage terms, gifts offered by leading Achaeans, and the transition from daytime feasting to evening torchlight, with Odysseus quietly directing women servants inside.
wooers were loosened, and their hearts were enchanted with love, and each one uttered a prayer that he might be her bed-fellow. But she spake to Telemachus, her dear son: “Telemachus, thy mind and thy thoughts are no longer stable as they were. While thou wast still a child, thou hadst a yet quicker and more crafty wit, but now that thou art great of growth, and art come to the measure of manhood, and a stranger loo…
Penelope explains how she delayed remarriage for three years by weaving and then unweaving a funeral robe for Laertes, until the wooers overpowered her in the fourth year.
the Achaean women in the land count it blame in me, as well might be, were he to lie without a winding sheet, a man that had gotten great possessions.’ “So spake I, and their high hearts consented thereto. So then in the daytime I would weave the mighty web, and in the night unravel the same, when I had let place the torches by me. Thus for the space of three years I hid the thing by craft and beguiled the minds of …
Odysseus prays for an omen and receives Zeus’s thunder plus a mill-worker’s warning voice; Telemachus then prepares to go to the assembly, while servants tidy the house for the wooers’ feast.
some one I pray of the folk that are waking show me a word of good omen within, and without let some sign also be revealed to me from Zeus.” So he spake in prayer, and Zeus, the counsellor, heard him. Straightway he thundered from shining Olympus, from on high from the place of clouds; and goodly Odysseus was glad. Moreover a woman, a grinder at the mill, uttered a voice of omen from within the house hard by, where …
Penelope orders the retrieval of Odysseus’ bow and stages a test for the wooers: whoever can string the bow and shoot through twelve axes will win her and leave the house with her.
went to the wars, but the bow was laid by at home in the halls as a memorial of a dear guest, and he carried it on his own land. Now when the fair lady had come even to the treasure-chamber, and had stept upon the threshold of oak, which the carpenter had on a time planed cunningly, and over it had made straight the line,—doorposts also had he fitted thereby, whereon he set shining doors,—anon she quickly loosed the…
Outside the gates, Odysseus speaks to the neatherd and swineherd to test their loyalty, reveals his identity and wound token, and instructs them to bar doors and hold positions during the coming fight.
they were greatly lacking of such might. And Antinous still held to the task and godlike Eurymachus, chief men among the wooers, who were far the most excellent of all. But those other twain went forth both together from the house, the neatherd and the swineherd of godlike Odysseus; and Odysseus passed out after them. But when they were now gotten without the gates and the courtyard, he uttered his voice and spake t…
Telemachus rejects others controlling the bow, sends Penelope to her chamber, then the servants bring the bow to Odysseus while the wooers mock the swineherd and Telemachus warns the older generation.
defend him against dogs and men, and a two-edged sword and sandals to bind beneath his feet, and I will send him whithersoever his heart and spirit bid him go.” Then wise Telemachus answered her, saying: “My mother, as for the bow, no Achaean is mightier than I to give or to deny it to whomso I will, neither as many as are lords in rocky Ithaca nor in the isles on the side of Elis, the pastureland of horses. Not one…
After love and sleep, Odysseus instructs Penelope to care for his wealth and keep silent while he goes to the farm to see Laertes, telling her the town will hear news of the wooers’ deaths.
wooers, whom I slew in the halls. Wherefore ascend with the women thy handmaids into the upper chamber, and sit there and look on no man, nor ask any question.” Therewith he girded on his shoulder his goodly armour, and roused Telemachus and the neatherd and the swineherd, and bade them all take weapons of war in their hands. So they were not disobedient to his word, but clad themselves in mail, and opened the doors…
Du Bois describes teaching and neighborhood visits in rural Black communities, including a week of simplified Cicero, bedtime routines in Doc Burke’s cabin, and his changing stays with different farming families.
and getting as far into the cabin as possible, I put Cicero “pro Archia Poeta” into the simplest English with local applications, and usually convinced them—for a week or so. On Friday nights I often went home with some of the children,—sometimes to Doc Burke’s farm. He was a great, loud, thin Black, ever working, and trying to buy the seventy-five acres of hill and dale where he lived; but people said that he would…
Du Bois explains why cabins stay poor and crowded—legacy of slavery, low demands shaped by habit, landlords’ failure to invest, and the labor incentives produced by tenancy—then describes how labor and economics break family groups.
a cabin kept scrupulously neat, with merry steaming fireplaces and hospitable door; but the majority are dirty and dilapidated, smelling of eating and sleeping, poorly ventilated, and anything but homes. Above all, the cabins are crowded. We have come to associate crowding with homes in cities almost exclusively. This is primarily because we have so little accurate knowledge of country life. Here in Dougherty County…
Paul gives moral instructions on purity, rejecting deceit, making the most of time, worshipful speech, mutual submission in marriage, and household order for husbands, wives, children, and servants.
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, either unclean person, or covetous person (which is the worshipper of images) hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ, and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words. For thorow such things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of unbelief. Be not therefore companions with them. Ye were once darkness, but are now light in the lord. Walk as children of light. For …
Paul continues Colossians with moral exhortations, urges love and thanksgiving, gives household rules (wives, husbands, children, servants), calls masters to justice, and instructs prayer, wise speech, and sending Tychicus with Onesimus.
after the image of him that made him, where is neither greek nor jewe, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarous or Sithian, bond or free: But Christe is all in all things. Now therefore as elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercy, kindness, humbleness of minde, meekness, long suffering, forbearing one another, and forgiving one another (if any man have a quarrel to another) even as Christ forgave you, e…
Paul, writing to Philemon, urges him to receive Onesimus as a beloved brother, explains Paul’s personal interest and bondage, and ends with a list of greetings sent from Rome.
Grace be with you and peace, from God our father, and from the lord Iesus Christ. I thank my God always making mention always of thee in my prayers, when I hear of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the lord Iesu, and toward all saints: so that the fellowship that thou hast in the faith is fruitful thorow knowledge of all good things, which are in you by Iesus Christ. And we have great joy and consolation ov…
Aeneas arms again, carries Anchises and leads Ascanius, while servants bring Trojan relics to a temple of Ceres; during the flight through the dark streets he loses Creusa permanently.
tender child! These omens are your own, And you can yet restore the ruin’d town. At least accomplish what your signs foreshow: I stand resign’d, and am prepar’d to go.’ “He said. The crackling flames appear on high. And driving sparkles dance along the sky. With Vulcan’s rage the rising winds conspire, And near our palace roll the flood of fire. ‘Haste, my dear father, (’tis no time to wait,)…
He describes family dwellings built for convenience, walls of red earth, reed thatched roofs, separate houses for wives and sleeping areas, slave quarters, building assistance by neighbors, and furniture and beds of skins and plantain materials.
which thrown into the fire diffuses a most powerful odour[D]. We beat this wood into powder, and mix it with palm oil; with which both men and women perfume themselves. In our buildings we study convenience rather than ornament. Each master of a family has a large square piece of ground, surrounded with a moat or fence, or enclosed with a wall made of red earth tempered; which, when dry, is as hard as brick. Within …
Equiano begins Chapter II by introducing his birth context, describing his family life and training in war, then narrating his childhood kidnapping with his sister, their separation, and his subsequent enslavement.
or an instinct of nature, I still look back with pleasure on the first scenes of my life, though that pleasure has been for the most part mingled with sorrow. I have already acquainted the reader with the time and place of my birth. My father, besides many slaves, had a numerous family, of which seven lived to grow up, including myself and a sister, who was the only daughter. As I was the youngest of the sons, I beca…
“In meuum regnum accepi” is interpreted not as a legal adoption but as Micipsa bringing Jugurtha into his palace to be raised among his children.
[114] The marks of favor which proceed from you--*Beneficia vestra.* Offices of state, civil and military. [115] A greater disgrace to lose, etc.--_Quod majus dedecus est parta amitere quam omnino non paravisse._ [Greek: Aischion de echontas aphairethaenai ae ktomenous atychaesai] Thucyd. ii. 62. [116] These times please you less than those, etc.--_Illa quam haec tempora magis placent,* etc. "*Those times_, which i…
A narrator wanders from Bow toward Bromley, Blackwall, and the water-stairs, where he meets a poor waterman describing shuttered, mostly dead houses and his own family’s sickness.
my curiosity in that point, I turned away over the fields from Bow to Bromley, and down to Blackwall to the stairs which are there for landing or taking water. Here I saw a poor man walking on the bank, or sea-wall, as they call it, by himself. I walked a while also about, seeing the houses all shut up. At last I fell into some talk, at a distance, with this poor man; first I asked him how people d…
He recounts cases where family members unknowingly infect whole households and others reach the “brink of death” before noticing symptoms, making shutting up the sick ineffective against hidden spread.
know what ailed them, and have been found, to their great surprise, at the brink of death: the tokens upon them, or the plague grown up to an incurable height. It was very sad to reflect how such a person as this last mentioned above had been a walking destroyer perhaps for a week or a fortnight before that; how he had ruined those that he would have hazarded his life to save, and had been breathin…
Douglass explains that the “old master” functions as chief butler and administrator, and that Aunt Katy is his authorized agent over children, using brutality and controlling food allowances.
shop, wheelwrights’ shop, blacksmiths’ shop, and shoemakers’ shop. Besides the care of these, he often had business for the plantation which required him to be absent two and three days. Thus largely employed, he had little time, and perhaps as little disposition, to interfere with the children individually. What he was to Col. Lloyd, he made Aunt Katy to him. When he had anything to say or do about us, it was said …
He contrasts his life in the North with plantation life by describing his home, his children’s schooling and safety, and his condemnation of slaveholding as a moral assault on mothers and children.
need not tell you that the opinion formed of you in these circles is far from being favorable. They have little respect for your honesty, and less for your religion. But I was going on to relate to you something of my interesting experience. I had not long enjoyed the excellent society to which I have referred, before the light of its excellence exerted a beneficial influence on my mind and heart. Much of my early d…
Nicias is depicted as socially reserved and hard to access, working late and relying on Hiero to manage his public image and claimed devotion, with Nicias’s life likened to Agamemnon’s “vain pomp.”
A noble man he was, I well can say, Nor walked like Nicias, cowering on his way. So cautious was he of informers, and so reserved, that he never would dine out with any citizen, nor allowed himself to indulge in talk and conversation with his friends, nor gave himself any leisure for such amusements; but when he was general he used to stay at the office till night, and was the first that came to the council-house, a…
After provincial appointments, Pompey gains popularity through opening games at his theater and spectacles like lion hunts and elephant battles, but he also delegates governance to friends and spends time with his wife, who later miscarries, then dies in childbirth.
baiting of wild beasts, and combats with them, in which five hundred lions were slain; but above all, the battle of elephants was a spectacle full of horror and amazement. These entertainments brought him great honor and popularity; but on the other side he created no less envy to himself, in that he committed the government of his provinces and legions into the hands of friends as his lieutenants, whilst he himself…
Aspasia, called the “Wise,” is described through her relationship with Cyrus and then Darius, including Persian restrictions on princes’ concubines, Atossa’s forced marriage politics, and Teribazus’ grievance when Darius takes Aspasia.
She was by birth a Phocaean, of Ionia, born of free parents, and well educated. Once when Cyrus was at supper, she was led in to him with other women, who, when they were sat down by him, and he began to sport and dally and talk jestingly with them, gave way freely to his advances. But she stood by in silence, refusing to come when Cyrus called her, and when his chamberlains were going to force her towards him, said,…
Paine proposes public support for children through parish ministers certifying school attendance, arguing it reduces poverty and ignorance, then turns to a two-stage plan for people aged fifty to sixty and beyond.
arithmetic; the ministers of every parish, of every denomination to certify jointly to an office, for that purpose, that this duty is performed. The amount of this expense will be, For six hundred and thirty thousand children at four pounds per annum each L2,520,000 By adopting this method, not only the poverty of the parents will be relieved, but ignorance will be banished from the rising g…
Leonela admits a prior affair, Camilla fears damage to her honor, and Leonela clandestinely brings in a lover, prompting Lothario—jealous—to confront Anselmo before Anselmo’s morning rises.
according to the saying, and then Tender, Veracious: X does not suit him, for it is a rough letter; Y has been given already; and Z Zealous for your honour.” Camilla laughed at her maid’s alphabet, and perceived her to be more experienced in love affairs than she said, which she admitted, confessing to Camilla that she had love passages with a young man of good birth of the same city. Camilla was uneasy at this, dre…
Outside the room, the niece and housekeeper confront Sancho, accusing him of deluding Don Quixote, while Sancho defends his claim that Don Quixote promised him an island.
WHICH TREATS OF THE NOTABLE ALTERCATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE’S NIECE, AND HOUSEKEEPER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER DROLL MATTERS p02a.jpg (159K) Full Size The history relates that the outcry Don Quixote, the curate, and the barber heard came from the niece and the housekeeper exclaiming to Sancho, who was striving to force his way in to see Don Quixote while they held the door against him, “What does th…
Sancho asks Doña Rodriguez de Grijalba, a duenna, to manage putting his grey ass into the stable; after she snaps at him as an insulted “brother,” the duchess intervenes, clarifying the duenna’s youth.
“At any rate, it will be a very ripe one,” said Sancho, “for you won’t lose the trick in years by a point too little.” “Son of a bitch,” said the duenna, all aglow with anger, “whether I’m old or not, it’s with God I have to reckon, not with you, you garlic-stuffed scoundrel!” and she said it so loud, that the duchess heard it, and turning round and seeing the duenna in such a state of excitement, and her eyes flami…
In the town square Sancho’s transformed donkey and Dapple’s mitre are recognized by the curate and bachelor Samson Carrasco; they all enter Don Quixote’s house, where Teresa Panza questions whether Sancho returns as a proper governor.
time ago, telling me that all Christians who minded omens were fools; but there’s no need of making words about it; let us push on and go into our village.” The sportsmen came up and asked for their hare, which Don Quixote gave them. They then went on, and upon the green at the entrance of the town they came upon the curate and the bachelor Samson Carrasco busy with their breviaries. It should be mentioned that Sanc…
In an unnamed village in La Mancha, a lean, early-rising gentleman with a modest income spends much of it on chivalric books, while his household includes a housekeeper, a niece, and a farm lad.
WHICH TREATS OF THE CHARACTER AND PURSUITS OF THE FAMOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing. An olla of rather more beef than mutton, a salad on most nights, scraps on Saturdays, lentils on Frida…
She says women’s duties do not require removing them from families, but that society needs women to have understanding so they can perform domestic roles properly, because sensibility is not reason.
next; so that through all eternity they will lag behind man, who, why we cannot tell, had the power given him of attaining reason in his first mode of existence. When I treat of the peculiar duties of women, as I should treat of the peculiar duties of a citizen or father, it will be found that I do not mean to insinuate, that they should be taken out of their families, speaking of the majority. "He that hath wife a…
Wollstonecraft describes how poorly educated girls become dependent on brothers and then are treated as burdens after marriage, leading to misery that sometimes pushes women toward cunning or eventual destitution.
mode of education, and the intercourse between the sexes, which I have reprobated; and that coquetry more frequently proceeds from vanity than from that inconstancy, which overstrained sensibility naturally produces. Another argument that has had a great weight with me, must, I think, have some force with every considerate benevolent heart. Girls, who have been thus weakly educated, are often cruelly left by their p…
She contrasts “fine ladies” taught to be fashionable and sentimental with “notable women” of practical sense, arguing that lack of intellectual cultivation leaves them idle and often makes them tyrannize households.
by the generous juices of spring, just raised by the electric fermentation of the season; nor to dry up the feelings by employing the mind in investigations remote from life. With respect to women, when they receive a careful education, they are either made fine ladies, brimful of sensibility, and teeming with capricious fancies; or mere notable women. The latter are often friendly, honest creatures, and have a shr…
She maintains that maternal exclusiveness and idleness weaken both education and women’s bodies, and she insists women can keep their households while improving their minds through literature rather than fashion and social rounds.
though I have always observed, that the women who thus idolize their children, seldom show common humanity to servants, or feel the least tenderness for any children but their own. It is, however, these exclusive affections, and an individual manner of seeing things, produced by ignorance, which keep women for ever at a stand, with respect to improvement, and make many of them dedicate their lives to their children …
He portrays elite entertainment and household organization as military-like spectacles: fast horses, crowds of slaves and eunuchs, closed libraries, singers replacing philosophers, and performers even while food scarcity drives out foreign scholars.
the city, over the roads paved with flint, dragging behind them large bodies of slaves like bands of robbers; not leaving at home even Sannio,[9] as the comic poet says. 17. And many matrons, imitating these men, gallop over every quarter of the city with their heads covered, and in close carriages. And as skilful conductors of battles place in the van their densest and strongest battalions, then their light-armed t…
A lengthy annotation debates slave numbers versus free citizens and argues slavery was deeply rooted in both east and west, affecting rural labor, household work, and public establishments.
persons; a degree of population which possibly exceeds that of modern Europe, 62 and forms the most numerous society that has ever been united under the same system of government. 611] ( return) [ According to Robertson, there were twice as many slaves as free citizens.—G. Mr. Blair (p. 15) estimates three slaves to one freeman, between the conquest of Greece, B.C. 146, and the reign of Alexa…
Darwin describes how Gauchos break in wild young horses using lazos to bind legs, fit a bridle without a bit, saddle them, then release and gradually ride until the horse learns the rider’s rein signals.
that the individual sheep are not dogs, but are good to eat, yet partly consent to this view when seeing them in a flock with a shepherd-dog at their head. One evening a "domidor" (a subduer of horses) came for the purpose of breaking-in some colts. I will describe the preparatory steps, for I believe they have not been mentioned by other travellers. A troop of wild young horses is driven into the corral, or large…
Darwin describes guanacos’ herd behavior and wariness, including how hunters exploit their alarm calls and curiosity, how domestication changes their aggression, and how Indian hunting can drive them into enclosures.
herds of from half a dozen to thirty in each; but on the banks of the St. Cruz we saw one herd which must have contained at least five hundred. They are generally wild and extremely wary. Mr. Stokes told me, that he one day saw through a glass a herd of these animals which evidently had been frightened, and were running away at full speed, although their distance was so great that he could not distinguish them with…
Darwin explains terrestrial Amblyrhynchus feeding and water scarcity, noting cactus consumption, bird coexistence on cactus, and stomach contents dominated by plant fibers and acacia leaves; he also reports eggs in burrows and human culinary use.
greatly astonished, and soon shuffled up to see what was the matter; and then stared me in the face, as much as to say, "What made you pull my tail?" They feed by day, and do not wander far from their burrows; if frightened, they rush to them with a most awkward gait. Except when running down hill, they cannot move very fast, apparently from the lateral position of their legs. They are not at all timorous: when att…
Darwin continues ascending after the river splits into streams, explaining how Tahitians discovered a precarious ledge-and-rope route past waterfalls, then they bivouac in a banana-filled ravine and build a house and bed.
drowned it. As soon, however, as it reached the shore, the whole population took to flight, and tried to hide themselves from the man-carrying pig, as they christened the horse. A little higher up, the river divided itself into three little streams. The two northern ones were impracticable, owing to a succession of waterfalls which descended from the jagged summit of the highest mountain; the other to all appearance…
On the eighteenth morning after the wedding, Etzel’s party rides from Vienna toward Hungary, travels via Heimburg, boards ships at Misenburg, and arrives at Etzelburg where Kriemhild rules in Helca’s stead.
and Swemmel, (10) the minstrels of the king, each gained at the wedding feast, I ween, full thousand marks, or even better, when fair Kriemhild sate crowned at Etzel's side. On the eighteenth morning they rode forth from Vienna. Many shields were pierced in tilting by spears, which the warriors bare in hand. Thus King Etzel came down to the Hunnish land. They spent the night at ancient Heimburg. (11) No one might kn…