Passions, interests, and Hobbits

Forces Driving Third World Military Industrialization: Interests and Passions

Third World states are driven to pursue programs of military industrialization by both their interests and their passions. Interests are defined in instrumental terms, and I examine their importance in explaining the behavior of leading Third World arms producers. An analysis of time-series cross-section data for five countries from 1970 to 1990 suggests that domestic arms production has been m...

Dickens and the passions.

There was a fiction that Mr. Wopsle "examined" the scholars, once a quarter. What he did on those occasions was to turn up his cuffs, stick up his hair, and give us Mark Antony's oration over the body of Caesar. This was always followed by Collins's Ode on the Passions, wherein I particularly venerated Mr. Wopsle as Revenge, throwing his blood-stained sword in thunder down, and taking the Warde...

Reasons and Passions

L'Âme et ses passions

Commentarius), which is frequently mentioned in his other writings. The latter work, too, is preserved only in fragments. A long passage from the third book was initially published by Daremberg in 1848 and was subsequently edited in the CMG in 1934 by Schroder and Kahle. In this book Larrain demonstrates that the reading of MS. scor. graec. 4-HI-l 1 (Revilla 230) pp. 123w -126w, whose subjectma...

Insect passions

reintroduce some of the recently lost British species to the grounds of Chartwell but these were put on hold as the country went to war with Germany. But it was a mission he returned to after the end of the war in 1945. Although he was unsuccessful at introducing lost species, he reared many native species in cages in his butterfly house. And, on the occasion of grand garden parties at Chartwel...