10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SYBARITISM»
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sybaritism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Italian Critics of Capitalism
We might call it Sybaritism—the passion for enjoyment and luxury under all forms
, refined and gross, moral and vicious. The contrast had struck me; and it then
already seemed to me to be the essence of American life. The American Problem
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After a few minutes the German Professor was ushered into an English
nobleman's sanctum. There he sat, the elegant, worldly Lord Wharnton; his
breakfast—served in true Sybarite style—still before him, the signs of Sybaritism
clinging in ...
3
A Steam Voyage Down the Danube: With Sketches of Hungary, ...
98 • SYBARITISM. tage of its power to incorporate a complete political reform with
that of the exchequer. The imposition of a toll upon all persons, without exception,
who will pass over the new bridge about to be constructed between Pesth and ...
Michael Joseph Quin, 1836
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Slavic Sins of the Flesh: Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetite in ...
Sybaritism. Although Dostoevsky's narratives tend to privilege physical suffering (
and thus its gastronomic correlatives of hunger and fasting) over the pleasures of
feasting and satiation, there are nevertheless occasional representations in his ...
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War, Culture and Society in Renaissance Venice: Essays in ...
At first he emerges as an amiable but soft-centred youth, mysteriously in trouble
in the winter of 1871 and incurring the headmaster's disfavour: 'he has a natural
tendency to Aesthetical Sybaritism', wrote Symonds.38 But during the young ...
John Rigby Hale, David Chambers, Cecil H. Clough, 1993
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A Steam Voyage down the Danube ... Third edition, with additions
CHAPTER Xl. Sybaritism—the Count's Pursuits—Hungarian Language—Verses
on the Vintage—First Appearance of Wallachia—The Iron Gate - Servian
Gladova. Conn-r SZECHENYI was so good as to translate for me one or two of
his ...
Michael Joseph QUIN, 1836
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The British Quarterly Review
But the Sybaritism of England half a century ago, ' when George the Third was
king,' is not the Sybaritism of England now that his grand-daughter occupies the
British throne. The jolly old English inaxim was, 4 Live and let live ;' that which
best ...
Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon, 1849
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Pieces of a Broken-down Critic: Picked Up by Himself
An increasing sybaritism is a dangerous incentive to mercenary unions, and this
sybaritism, be it remembered, we owe in a great measure to the French; it is
much more a Parisian than an English or home growth. Are our morals generally
...
Charles Astor Bristed, 1858
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Russia's Muslim Frontiers: New Directions in Cross-cultural ...
A typical Eastern ruler of the patriarchal type, a man of letters, a philosopher
disposed to reflection, committed to the traditional way of life, with a
predisposition to a sort of sybaritism, Taraki was opposed by a new sort of
dictator. Amin had been ...
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Mrs. Caldwell speaks to her son: Mrs. Caldwell habla con su hijo
Chapter 187: Sybaritism You used to show a certain inclination toward sybaritism
, Eliacim, a certain fondness which could never in any case seem bad to me. The
education of children, Eliacim, ought to tend, in my opinion, to inculcate in them ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SYBARITISM»
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sybaritism is used in the context of the following news items.
Real Housewives Of Orange County Recap: Tahitian Me Crazy
For Heather Dubrow, sybaritism is forever her watchword and GOOP be guiding force. And then it's off to couples-without-couples game night. Whee! Meghan ... «Reality Tea, Jul 15»
John Maxtone-Graham, an Authority on Ocean Liners, Dies at 85
But how, he was asked, did he manage to maintain his weight during seven months of sybaritism? On the first night, he explained, he would tell the waiter, “No ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
First Letter to My President
Leave them and their sybaritism sir. People are watching, your ministers must fall in line. Don't hire any goats sir, the other set of goats nearly emptied the barn. «AllAfrica.com, Jun 15»
How to Have a Luxe Disneyland Experience
But a certain sybaritism is eminently possible—no spell required. First, check into the Grand Californian Hotel & Spa. An homage to Arts & Crafts style, the Grand ... «Los Angeles Confidential, May 15»
My Wild Night at the Playboy MansionBut Where Was Hef?
As a monument to sybaritism.” And now, yes, the celebs were beginning to arrive. My memory is good, but I do not have total recall, so I should disclose that I ... «Daily Beast, Apr 15»
Unmasking the 'Hot Tub Capitalist'
... sale, Branch opened California Cooperage, a large hot tub factory on Industrial Way, and created a product for a generation synonymous with sybaritism. «Cal Coast News, Mar 15»
Joseph O'Neill's latest novel, 'The Dog,' Falls to Poor Messaging
Maybe the plot lurks in the tension between Dubai's sleek sybaritism, never more than a text or email away, and Hans II's fruitless but irresistible dissections of ... «Newsweek, Sep 14»
The Remote Beauty of Raja Ampat
At each stage of the journey, there's adventure for those who crave it and straight-up sybaritism for those who don't. On the fourth day, we drop anchor just after ... «Condé Nast Traveler, May 14»
London's first e-cigarette coffee shop opens its doors to capital's …
... Lab on Tuesday afternoon, but presumably even City types and hipsters have commitments that preclude an outright abandonment to weekday sybaritism. «The Guardian, Mar 14»
It would be so much fun to say that Roy Jenkins remade Britain in his …
It would be ace to think that, as an MP, he shocked fellow MPs by his life of sybaritism and squire-like selfishness while sitting in a palatial dwelling in Notting Hill ... «The Independent, Mar 14»
