The Cosmopolitan Volume 27, Nos. 1-6
The Cosmopolitan Volume 27, Nos. 1-6

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9781230004952

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...nity, they marked adecade in the social world ancestors, and that it required only encouragement to develop wit and originality. She accordingly founded a literary club of ladies, who met biweekly in the parlors of the members, at which each one was expected to contribute an article from her own pen, to lie read before her confreres and discussed by the society. The wisdom of this social leader has been well proved by the success of the modest little society which she founded, and from w h i ch have sprung many others of more or less d istinction, the original society being an exclusive association to which few are admitted, and to attain entrance to w h i c h confers a certain social distinction. This society is so quietly conducted that but few people know of its existence, beyond the circle of old-fashioned New Yorkers. the metropolis. Up to the middle of the century, the subject of wealth was one that was little considered or discussed. Every one lived in about the same simple style; cverjr one was supposed to have the same number of servants, that was increased only when one family was larger than another and required more service. It was considered the height of vulgarity to spend money lavishly on unnecessary luxuries, simply for the sake of making a display and thereby exciting the envy of others. Quiet, unostentatious hospitality marked the character of each household in which the wit and education of the hosts were the standard of excellence and not the size of their bank account. Families were well known in all their branches and ramifications, and there were but few persons in society who had not been born and bred in the city. Photograph by Path Hi other. MRS. ARTHUR KEMP. that had a more durable effect than they of whom it...

The Cosmopolitan Volume 5, Nos. 1-6
The Cosmopolitan Volume 5, Nos. 1-6

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9781230032429

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...his arm and led her away. When so distant as to be unobserved, he said in strong emphasis, "Miss Baron, I take off my hat to you. Not to a princess would I pay such homage as to the woman who could wake the feeling with which these poor people regard you." She blushed with the deepest pleasure of her life, for she had been repressed and reprimanded so long that words of encouragement and praise were very sweet. But she only said with a laugh, "Oh, come; don't turn my poor bewildered head any more to-night. I'm desperately anxious to have uncle and aunt think I'm a very mature young woman, but I know better and so do you. Why, even Uncle Lusthah made me cry like a child." "Well, his words about you brought tears to my eyes, and so there's a pair of us." "Oh!" she cried delightedly, giving his arm a slight pressure, " I didn't know that you'd own up to that. When I saw them I felt like laughing and crying at the same moment. And so I do now--it's so delicious to be free and happy--to feel that some one is honestly pleased with you." He looked upon her upturned face, still dewy from emotion, and wondered if the moon that night shone on a fairer object the world around. It was indeed the face of a glad, happy child no longer depressed by woes a few hours old, nor fearful of what the next hour might bring. Her look into his eyes was also that of a child, full of unbounded trust, now that her full confidence was won. "You do indeed seem like a lovely child, Miss Baron, and old Uncle Lusthah told the whole truth about you. Those simple folk are like children themselves and find people out by intuition. If you were not good-hearted they would know it. Well, I'm glad I'm not old myself...".

The Cosmopolitan Volume 17, Nos. 1-6
The Cosmopolitan Volume 17, Nos. 1-6

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9781230041520

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...line of trees and buildings leading to the great avenue, and, at the very end of it all, the hamlet, her cherished creation. She never saw Trianon again. The 16th of October, 1793. The Place de la Concorde is black with human beings; a tumbrel, escorted by soldiers, forces its way through the crowd; seated upon a bundle of straw, the queen, dressed in white, seems lost in her last thoughts. The cart reaches the foot of the scaffold, and Marie Antoinette ascends it with firm, quick steps. When she reaches the guillotine, she casts a glance toward the Tuileries. As in a rapid vision, she sees once more her happy days: the Trianon fetes, where she shone in such incomparable beauty; but most fondly her last sojourn with her children, in that enchanted park. Her children! What will become of them? This is her last, her very last thought, before, heartbroken at the prospect that may await them, she bends under the blade of the guillotine. To-day, thousands of visitors daily throng the park of Trianon; they visit the little chateau, so simple in its architecture; but most eagerly they walk in the charming paths, follow with delighted eye the meanderings of the brooks that flow under the trees planted by Marie Antoinette's orders, and examine with keenest interest the village, whose every house is still standing.. At the beginning of this century, Trianon was let to a restaurant-keeper, who used it to give public concerts and balls! To-day it has been restored to its former state. The visitor often feels that he is making a pilgrimage in remembrance of the martyred queen, and at each tree and shrub half expects to see appear, in her simple lawn dress, the unfortunate princess whose memory is so closely identified with Trianon. IF you travel...

Political Theory of Global Justice
Political Theory of Global Justice

Author: Luis Cabrera

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2006-02-03

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780415770668

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This book offers a moral argument for world government, claiming that not only do we have strong obligations to people elsewhere, but that accountable integration among nation-states will help ensure all persons can lead a decent life.

The Cosmopolitan Volume 13, Nos. 1-6
The Cosmopolitan Volume 13, Nos. 1-6

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9781230034676

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...to hunt up a snake for dinner. Upon an island near his cave he was wont to find a toothsome variety of serpent; but on this occasion a flood had swelled the river and swept away his stepping stones. The poor fellow was in a bad plight, and while he was rummaging about for consolation in the pathetic winds he discovered that the storm had uprooted an enormous pine tree and hurled it across the torrent. Using this for a footpath, our friend, to use an Irishism, passed over upon dry ground. Such was the inception of the historic bridge. There can be no doubt that the first means used by primitive man to cross rivers and streams were stepping stones, fallen trees or beams of timber. When the stream was too wide for one plank to reach across it the stepping stones would be used for piers and several beams thrown over them, thus making a continuous bridge. Little progress in the art of bridge building was made in the dreary millenniums between the rude barbarian and the cultured Egyptian, Grecian and Roman. Owing to the savage spirit of perpetual warfare, in earliest times a bridge would have been as much an invitation to an invader as it is now to commercial greatness. Alexander's pontoon bridge over the Ganges, those of Darius over the Bosphorus and the Danube; that of C;esar over the Rhine, of Xerxes across the Hellespont, and Trajan's great structure in Dacia, all meant slaughter and spoliation. History ascribes to the beautiful and romantic queen, Semiramis, the credit of building the first important and useful bridge, when, seeking to make Babylon the peer of Nineveh, she threw her famous structure across the Euphrates in 783 B.c. This bridge had a wooden superstructure and was 500 furlongs in length. It had stone piers, which were built...

Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics
Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics

Author: Christian Wirth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-15

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1351606360

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Grounded in extensive empirical research, Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics addresses the major issues of geopolitics in the region that have been and will continue to shape the international politics of the Asia-Pacific for years to come. Covering the nation-states of China, Japan and South Korea, it includes an examination of the key island disputes, as well as analysis of the North Korea–South Korea clashes in the Yellow Sea, controversies in Japan’s relations with both Koreas and the so-called ‘history disputes’, including recognition of World War II atrocities across the region. In doing so, this book explores a range of themes from the ecological environment to the globalized nature of shipping and therein links the East Asian maritime sphere directly to the dynamics and developments in the domestic politics of each country. Thus, it serves to demonstrate how several controversial debates in the international politics of the Asia-Pacific are ultimately and inextricably intertwined. A timely contribution that furthers our understanding of contemporary politics of the Asia-Pacific, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, international relations and the Asia-Pacific region in general.