"...Schopenhauer, qui a sur toutes choses des th ories, en pr sente une assez ing nieuse, quoique tr s contestable, sur la participation de chacun des parents dans la constitution morale de l'enfant, et il l'appuie sur nombre de faits int ressants emprunt s l'histoire. Selon lui, ce qu'il y a de fondamental et de premier, le caract re, les passions, les tendances, sont un h ritage du p re; l'intelligence, facult secondaire et d riv e, proc de essentiellement de la m re. Au reste, le caract re et l'intelligence donnent lieu, par leurs r actions mutuelles, des combinaisons impr vues et trop complexes pour qu'il soit toujours ais de faire la part des deux l ments associ s; mais cette th orie, qui tient aux principes m mes de sa doctrine, Schopenhauer se flatte d'en trouver au moins une confirmation irr cusable dans sa propre histoire, et il y a quelque chose de sp cieux dans cette pr tention. Il est ombrageux comme son p re, spirituel et subtil comme sa m re. Le voil d s pr sent tel qu'il demeurera jusqu' la fin, et l'on peut entrevoir d j quels pourront tre les caract res de sa philosophie..."
"Phantasmagoria" is a poem written by Lewis Carroll and first published in 1869 as the opening poem of a collection of verse by Carroll entitled Phantasmagoria and Other Poems. The collection was also published under the name Rhyme? And Reason? It is Lewis Carroll's longest poem. Both the poem and the collection were illustrated by A.B. Frost."Phantasmagoria" is a narrative discussion written in seven cantos between a ghost (a Phantom) and a man named Tibbets. Carroll portrays the ghost as not so different from human beings: although ghosts may jibber and jangle their chains, they, like us, simply have a job to do and that job is to haunt. Just as in our society, in ghost society there is a hierarchy, and ghosts are answerable to the King (who must be addressed as "Your Royal Whiteness") if they disregard the "Maxims of Behaviour". Ghosts, our Phantom tells the narrator, fear the same things that we often fear, only sometimes in the reverse: "Allow me to remark That ghosts has just as good a right, In every way to fear the light, As men to fear the dark."... Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem The Hunting of the Snark, all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life. Dodgson's family was predominantly northern English, with Irish connections, conservative and High Church Anglican. Most of Dodgson's male ancestors were army officers or Church of England clergy. His great-grandfather, also named Charles Dodgson, had risen through the ranks of the church to become the Bishop of Elphin.His paternal grandfather, another Charles, had been an army captain, killed in action in Ireland in 1803 when his two sons were hardly more than babies.The older of these sons - yet another Charles Dodgson - was Carroll's father. He went to Westminster School and then to Christ Church, Oxford. He reverted to the other family tradition and took holy orders. He was mathematically gifted and won a double first degree, which could have been the prelude to a brilliant academic career. Instead, he married his first cousin Frances Jane Lutwidge in 1827 and became a country parson. Dodgson was born in the small parsonage at Daresbury in Cheshire near the towns of Warrington and Runcorn, the eldest boy but already the third child of the four-and-a-half-year-old marriage. Eight more children followed. When Charles was, his father was given the living of Croft-on-Tees in North Yorkshire, and the whole family moved to the spacious rectory. This remained their home for the next 25 years. Charles's father was an active and highly conservative cleric of the Church of England who later became the Archdeacon of Richmond and involved himself, sometimes influentially, in the intense religious disputes that were dividing the church. He was High Church, inclining to Anglo-Catholicism, an admirer of John Henry Newman and the Tractarian movement, and did his best to instil such views in his children. Young Charles was to develop an ambiguous relationship with his father's values and with the Church of England as a whole..... Arthur Burdett Frost (January 17, 1851 - June 22, 1928), was an American illustrator, graphic artist and comics writer.
An enthralling, powerful story reviewer's say everyone should read. Emotional at times.Art knows how difficult life can be. He leaves school and starts work at age eleven, proud to be able to help his family. When the Second World War war looms he and his friends enlist. He becomes a paratrooper, but is captured after one disastrous mission. His life after WW2 is hard and you'll discover the complexities involved inside his family life. A moving read. His experiences as a POW shape the person he will become. He tries to survive the harrowing conditions, then attempts an escape.Home from the war, Art dabbles in several jobs to support his wife and children, and is successful at everything he tries. But internally he is lost, struggling to beat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder at a time when the condition is largely unsupported. While his working life improves, his family life is in crisis, as he battles his demons.Told over several decades, this tale of one family's life encapsulates the period in compelling detail, including the difficulties faced by many returned soldiers, both then and now. The author pays tribute to all who have experienced war and to all families and friends who experience the effects of their personal War and Peace.
Arthur King had lived in London his whole life. He had lots of friends, played sports, and for the most part was as normal as humanly possible. But strange things begin to happen to Arthur after he is forced by his parents to move over seas to their new home in Chicago. Suddenly Arthur is thrust into the world of King Arthur, and is tasked with proving himself as the true heir to Arthur's throne. Will Arthur be able to prove himself worthy, or will he meet a gruesome end at the hands of one of the Arthurian world's terrible monsters? Who said the life of a king was easy?
"The Disintegration Machine" is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in January 1929. The story centers on the discovery of a machine capable of disintegrating objects and reforming them as they were. This short story is a part of the "Challenger series", a collection of stories about the wealthy eccentric adventurer Professor Challenger.
Rodney Stone is a Gothic mystery and boxing novel by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1896. The eponymous narrator is a Sussex country boy who is taken to London by his uncle Sir Charles Tregellis, a highly respected gentleman and arbiter of fashion who is on familiar terms with the most important people of Great Britain. The novel interweaves Rodney's coming-of-age story with that of his friend Boy Jim's boxing endeavors, and a large portion of it deals with the famous bare-knuckle boxers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, such as Jem Belcher, John Jackson, Daniel Mendoza, Dutch Sam, and others. The book includes vignettes of a number of historical personages, notably the Prince Regent, Lord Nelson, Sir John Lade, Lord Cochrane and Beau Brummell.
The novel opens after midnight on a hot summer night, when many of the residents of the Jago, likened to "great rats", prefer to sleep in the street to avoid the oppressive heat and stench of the closely packed houses. A man lured into a dwelling by a woman is brutally coshed, robbed and dragged unconscious into the street where others remove his boots. Dicky Perrott, 8 or 9 years old (the uncertainty is telling) makes his way home to the single room in which his family dwells, where he finds his mother, Hannah Perrott and flea-bitten baby sister, Looey, but only a crust of bread to eat. As dawn breaks his father, Josh Perrott, returns home with a club sticky with blood and hair, suggesting another robbery.
