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...ves of foreign lands were very numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The... ... Go”ttingen, to fight with a Go”ttingen expert; if he is victorious, he will be invited to other colleges, or those colleges will send their experts t... ...only with the white corps, while we were their guests, and keep aloof from the caps of the other colors. Once I wished to examine some of the swords, ... ... little thread-like streams of water can be caused to descend; and 47 A Tramp Abroad in case of need, this discharge can be augmented to a pour- ing ... ... idea—that storm—and royally carried out. But observe the moderation of the King; he did not insist upon his encore. If he had been a gladsome, unrefl... ... were arrested “two weeks after the inquest.” What a home sound that has. That kind of police briskness rather more reminds me of my native land than ...

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... automobiles, aeroplanes, waterplanes, and such-like, mobile purposes. The American Kemp engine, differing widely in principle but equally prac- ticab... ...the world until the twentieth century. Then, the growing impatience of the American people with the monstrous and socially paralysing party systems th... ... to become a military power, and maintained a small standing army upon the American model that was said, so far as it went, to be highly efficient, an... ...ith no calling by which he could earn a living. He tried teaching and some journalism, but in a little while he found himself on the underside of a wo... ...dy; the children in the streets knew them. And yet the world still, as the Americans used to phrase it, ‘fooled around’ with the paraphernalia and pre... ... touch with that gigantic childishness which was the characteristic of the American imagination. For the Americans also were among the simple peoples ...

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...ume picked up outside a second-hand book-shop. It was the life story of an American sea- man written by himself with the assistance of a jour- nalist.... ...os—the “beautiful Antonia.” Whether she is a possible varia- tion of Latin-American girlhood I wouldn’t dare to affirm. But, for me, she is. Always a ... ...earch. The story goes also that within men’s memory two wandering sailors— Americanos, perhaps, but gringos of some sort for certain—talked over a gam... ...gn; on the march to Rome he had lassoed his beef in the Campagna after the American manner; he had been wounded in the de- fence of the Roman Republic... ...the quadrangle below, whose paved space is the true hearthstone of a South American house, where the quiet hours of domestic life are marked by the sh... ...th. I mean some effective truth, for which there is no room in politics or journalism. I happen to have said what I thought. And you are angry! If you... ...again lean- ing out over the quiet street. “This is the quintessence of my journalism; that is the supreme argument,” he said to Antonia. “I have inve...

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...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain.... ...rst of endless points of resemblance between them and the commoner sort of American girl. When some years ago I paid my first and only visit to Americ... ... the teeming uproars of reality. There was not a dozen people all told, no Americans and scarcely any English, to dine in the big cavern of a dining- ... ...with her hostess when it became clear she wanted to write, not novels, but journalism, and then she set every one talk- ing by taking a flat near Vict... ... sufficiently present in his mind for my purpose al- ready. Huge stacks of journalism have dealt with Handitch and its significance. For the reader ve...

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... reply. What was there for a bishop to object to? There was that admirable American widow, Lady Sunderbund. She was enor- mously rich, she was enthusi... ...The English were indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world was the “White man’s Bur... ... under three hundred pounds a year, and that his experi- ments in cultured journalism made it extremely improbable that the most sedulous literary wor...

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...viewed in no unfavorable light; finding indeed, ex- cept the Outrooting of Journalism (die auszurottende Journalistik), little to desiderate therein. ... ...orld was now- ise so faultless, and many things besides “the Outrooting of Journalism” might have seemed improvements, we can readily conjecture. With... ...as articulately perhaps as the case admitted. Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and battle wit... ...onsiderably involved in haze. To the first English Edition, 1838, which an American, or two American had now opened the way for, there was slightingly... ... pacificated. ’ Here is a” ...— Sun Newspaper, 1st April, 1834. III. NORTH—AMERICAN REVIEWER. ... “After a careful survey of the whole ground, our bel... ...ill less as outweighing so much evidence of an opposite character.”— North-American Review, No. 89, October, 1835. 216 Sartor Resartus IV. NEW ENGLAN...

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...e worked for my bread. I had thoughts of America. I fancy I can write; and Americans, one hears, are gentle to women.’ ‘Ah, Tony! there’s the looking ... ... inducement she had received to embark her money in this Company: a South- American mine, collapsed almost within hearing of the trum- pets of prospec... ...ome news, with the leaders on them, identically dull. Behold the effect of Journalism: a witty man, sparkling overnight, gets into his pulpit and pros...

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...in the foot, thick in the leg,” for all they had endured. A neat packet of American cloth behind the saddle contained his change of raiment, and the b... ... avern with a steak Mr. Hoopdriver ordered, done to a cinder long ago, his American-cloth parcel in a bedroom, and his own proper bicycle, by way of g... ...t him, I hope I may explain, be- cause his night-shirt was at Bognor in an American-cloth packet, derelict. He yawned a third time, rubbed his eyes, s... ...e, of three and a half faces— for the edge of the door cut one down—and an American cloth-covered table with several glasses and a tan- kard. And he a... ... unsettled,” said Jessie. “You are thinking of writ- ing Books?” “Or doing journalism, or teaching, or something like that.” “And keeping yourself ind...

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...ls, walls hung with an olive-green paper, and otherwise decorated with the American Declaration of Independence, a portrait of Bonaparte as First Cons... ...schemes which since have poured their crowded battalions into the arena of journalism, for which they have created—oh, mighty revolution!—the paid adv...

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... great livery-stableman’s most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want ... ...nch fiction, and architectural incentives to immorality such as the simple American had never dreamed of. That was how women with lovers lived in the ... ...n Wardian cases, made macrame lace and wool embroidery on linen, collected American revolutionary glazed ware, subscribed to “Good Words,” and read Ou... ...he words “To meet the Countess Olenska,” in accordance with the hospitable American fash- ion, which treats strangers as if they were royalties, or at... ... Medora’s many peculiarities to flout the unalterable rules that regulated American mourning, and when she stepped from the steamer her family were sc... ... career; but an insatiable taste for letters had thrown the young man into journalism, then into authorship (apparently unsuccessful), and at length—a... ...tion, one’s critical independence? It was because of that that I abandoned journalism, and took to so much duller work: tutoring and private secretary... ...rth breathing. And so I have never regretted giving up either diplomacy or journalism—two dif- ferent forms of the same self-abdication.” He fixed his...

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...t it. We do of course know that there are several comparatively old dates in American his tory, but the mere figures convey to our minds no just idea... ...it, he adds perspective and color, and then realizes that this is one of the American dates which is quite respectable for age. For instance, when the... ... country back again!—make restitution, not to the owners, but to their white American heirs. The voyagers journeyed on, touching here and there; ‘pass... ...alities the serious business of my life! The boundless vastness of the great American desert is my en closed property, and I bury my dead on my own p... ...r, in the aggregate, sixty seven miles. In my own time a cut off was made at American Bend, which short ened the river ten miles or more. Therefore, ... ...sh Fort. The telephone is everywhere. One of the most notable advances is in journalism. The newspapers, as I re member them, were not a striking fea... ...e pas senger trains arrive and depart daily. In this place, as in St. Paul, journalism thrives. Here there are three great dailies, ten weeklies, and...

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.... MONDAY , 31ST? NOVEMBER. Near a week elapsed, and no journal. On Monday after- noon, Moors rode up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in... ... up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in the evening to the American Consulate; present, Consul-General Sewall, Lieut. Parker and Mrs. ... ...as all forenoon in the Mission House, lunched at the German Consulate, went on board the Sperber (German war ship) in the afternoon, called on my lawy... ... yesterday’s work before the sun had risen. Then I sat and thought, and 41 V ailima Letters sat and better thought. It was not good enough, nor good;... ...ding after all is only fun, the amount of its utility small, and the thing capable of being done faster and nearly as well by a hired boy. In the even... ...ived a plan. How if he should put dynamite under the gaol, and in case of an attempted rescue blow up prison and all?He went to the President, who agr... ...e-handling Chapter IV . of the Samoa racket. I do not go in for litera- ture; address myself to sensible people rather than to sen- sitive. And, inde... ...ely sentimental, but the second has some rows and quar- rels, and winds up with an explosion, if you please!I am just burning to get at Sophia, but I ... ...efrain from going to him. It was a fine feeling to have finished the History; there ought to be a future state to reward that grind!It’s not lit- erat...

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...losed by every phrase, made her communications as impersonal as a piece of journalism. It was as though the state, the world, indeed, had taken her of... ...ame de Sabran—” But Glennard insisted. “I want something modern—English or American. I want to look something up,” he lamely con- cluded. The libraria... ...o, scrupulously vigilant in the management of the household, preserved the American wife’s usual aloofness from her husband’s business cares. Glennard...

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...ed an enor- mous bunch of old trinkets, among which in 1824 he still wore “American beads,” which were very much the fashion in the year VII. In the b... ...ling his cane and of flinging the sort of glance which Bixiou told him was American. He smiled to show his fine teeth; he wore no socks under his boot... ...he prime of life; he trimmed and shuffled under all his difficulties,—with journalism, which at this period it was thought advisable to repress in an ... ...ting it extravagantly; and together they laughed over the absurdi- ties of journalism. “Madame, you really must give the countess and myself the pleas... ...nd China (where all government officials steal), also that of Austria, the American republics, and indeed that of the whole world, to the fact that fo...

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... Lewisham was to rise at five, and that this was no vain boasting, a cheap American alarum clock by the books on the box witnessed. The lumps of mello... ... was going to dis- course of “Woman under Socialism,” and he brought a big American edition of Shelley’s works and a volume of Tennyson with the “Prin... .... If you don’t do that, my dear chap, we can’t do any- thing for you. It’s Journalism, or London docks. Well, con- sidering your experience,—say docks... ...pen—something a little dis- agreeable—somewhen if things go on as they do. American schools keep on getting better—German too. What used to do won’t d...

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...y among busy public men; and enjoyed, in the questionable form attached to journalism and anonymity, a social consideration and position which were ab... ...a disastrous shadow hanging over it, not to be cleared away by effort. Two American gentlemen, acquaintances also of mine, had been recommended to him...

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......................................................... 21 Chapter 2.1.IV . Journalism. .................................................................. ... sea cockfight it is, and of the hottest; where British Serapis and French-American Bon Homme Richard do lash and throttle each other, in their fashio... ...his red-blue impassive visage waxing hardly a shade bluer. Chapter 2.1.IV. Journalism. As for Constitutionalism, with its National Guards, it is doing... ... probably not mean. One Sansculottic bough that cannot fail to flourish is Journalism. The voice of the People being the voice of God, shall not such ... ...unningly try it. (See Bertrand-Moleville: Memoires, ii. 100, &c.) Great is Journalism. Is not every Able Editor a Ruler of the World, being a persuade... ...ain there; saying mildly, with a Sage Bias, Omnia mea mecum porto. Such is Journalism, hawked, pasted, spoken. How changed since One old Metra walked ... ...s of Federates, of this Fed- eration, will have enough to do! Harangue of ‘American Committee, ’ among whom is that faint figure of Paul Jones ‘as wit... ...ournalist Carra, Camille Desmoulins, Alsatian Westermann friend of Danton, American Fournier of Martinique;—a Committee not unknown to Mayor Petion, w...

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...Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission, the of... ...sion, the office of the English newspaper, the English church, and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a larger river, the Vaisin... ...ven theirs are not immaculate. It was an ambiguous business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an America... ...friendly sovereign) was kidnapped and de- ported, on the requisition of an American consul, by the captain of an English war-ship. I shall have to tel... ...sion of Stuebel, was in the market supplying him with weapons; so were the Americans; so, but for our salutary British law, would have been the Britis... ...scretion of the Samoa Times. Yet the editor, Cusack, is only an amateur in journalism, and a carpenter by trade. His chief fault is one perhaps inevit...

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... coffee was always exhausted before I could elbow my way to the counter. Our American sunrise had ushered in a noble summer’s day. There was not a clo... ...w, I consulted him upon a point of etiquette: if one should offer to tip the American waiter? Certainly not, he told me. Never. It would not do. They ... ...but I did not wish to go to bed. And this, it appeared, was impossible in an American hotel. It was, of course, some inane misunderstanding, and spran... ...onstrous exigency. He refused, and that with the plainness of the West. This American manner of conducting matters of business is, at first, highly un... ...is bread, we consider him for the time be- ing our hired servant. But in the American opinion, two gentlemen meet and have a friendly talk with a view... ...times (above all at wrong times) to falsify a talent, and by the practice of journalism a man runs the risk of becoming wedded to cheap finish. This i...

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...ee months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like “Roderick” and like “The American,” it had been designed for publication in The Atlantic Monthly, wh... ...e eigh- teenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumstanc... ... thirty years before, had brought with him, at the top of his baggage, his American physiognomy; and he had not only brought it with him, but he had k... ...red, placidly. “Well, I guess I’ll wait and see.” He had, in speaking, the American tone. “Are you cold?” the son enquired. The father slowly rubbed h... ...re were no good ones at home. Then she’s probably engaged; 29 Henry James American girls are usually engaged, I believe. Moreover I’m not sure, after... ...ight before. “I’m drifting to a big position—that of the Queen of American Journalism. If my next letter isn’t copied all over the West I’ll swallow m... ...t to believe that Mr. Bantling took an interest in the diffusion of lively journalism and in consolidating the position of lady-correspondents as it w...

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...patience seems to have been due to a needless panic, Bootle, the notorious American scientific quack, having made an announcement that Filmer interpre... ...the New Paper, and one of the ablest and most unscrupulous men in Lon- don journalism, and Banghurst instantly seized upon the situ- ation. The interv...

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...said Ann Veronica. “It has been proved,” said Miss Miniver, and added, “by American professors.” “But how did they prove it?” “By science,” said Miss ... ...ut that, and that sort of thing, is just a day-dream. For a time I must do journalism and work hard… . What isn’t a day-dream is this: that you and I ...

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...cting Blondet’s affection. Every man who has dabbled, or still dabbles, in journalism is under the painful necessity of bowing to men he despises, of ... ...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ...

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... soit peu philosophe, a ce qu’on dit; a traveller. They say he has a South American complexion. I knew him a boy; and his passion is to put together w... ...f our management of them, in the strain of Dr. Julius von Karsteg. ‘That’s journalism, or clippings from a bilious essay; it won’t do for the House,’ ...

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...evenson Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. ON THE DEATH OF FLEEMING JENKIN, his family and friends d... ...s.’ A TELEGRAM OF JULY 20: ‘I have received your four welcome letters. The Americans are charming people.’ VI. AND HERE TO MAKE AN END are a few rando... ...phonograph which to our great joy talked, and talked, too, with the purest American accent. It was so good that a second instrument was got ready fort... ...es of poor humanity, my fault and his. I had been led to dabble in society journalism; and this coming to his ears, he felt it like a disgrace upon hi...

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...lish-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more... ...e aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more com- plete than American thought is yet prepared for, but that is a difference not of quali... ...ed develop principles of primary importance in the fundamen- tal schism of American politics between the local State gov- ernment and the central powe... ...e papers were first published in the British Fortnightly Review and in the American Cosmopolitan. In the latter peri- odical they were, for the most p... ...d, is the gist of this paper—that only a very small minority of English or American people have more than half mastered the splendid heritage of their... ...iterature, using the word in its widest sense to cover all that is good in journalism, all untechnical speculative, philosophical writing, all that is... ...or the development of that consis- tency of thought which the condition of journalism renders so impossible. This review would mean for them status, r...

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...ften that I could wish there were a closer parallel between myself and the American aloe. It is particularly agreeable and ap propriate to know that ... ...of that good blacksmith, as it was written of another of his trade, by the American poet: “Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes;... ...to abuse his trust, I confidently ask those here, the best acquainted with journalism, whether they be lieve it possible that any newspaper so ill co... ...ne, which seems to my mind to have a certain application. My friend was an American sea captain, and, therefore, it is quite unnecessary to say his st... ... to say his story was quite true. He was captain and part owner of a large American merchant liner. On a certain voyage out, in exquisite summer weath... ... which obtains by far the most exten sive circulation, these words of the American nation:—”I know full well, whatever little motes my beamy eyes may...

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...he whole weight of his name and personal responsibility, (M Simond, now an American citizen,) records the following abominable scene as one of no unco... ..., or Diogenes, one may conceive qualified for this mode of authorship, had journalism existed to rouse them in those days; their “articles” would no d...

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...ons—this was the programme that he saw before his eyes in letters of fire. Journalism and politics, the immense development of the book trade, of lite... ...o, strange coincidence! while Lucien was drawn into the great machinery of journalism, where he was like to leave his honor and his intelligence torn ... ...s’ time the de- mand for paper will be ten times larger than it is to-day. Journalism will be the craze of our day.” “Nobody knows your secret?” “Nobo... ...ill not allow L’Houmeau to be beforehand in doing honor to the poet who in journalism and literature has so gloriously repre- sented our town in Paris... ...ht me of sending a pair of moccasins given to Florine as a curiosity by an American. Florine offered the huge sum of forty francs, that we might try o...

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...e, that he was not once the object of those epigrams which the mali- cious journalism of the day hurled at the three hundred votes of the centre, at t... ...anat, the Re- ceiver-General’s wife, spoke with some enthusiasm of a young American owning an immense fortune, who had fallen pas- sionately in love w...

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...8 The Country of the Blind on a way of settling him at last. It is a South American dodge. I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seawee... ...s a live paper, not a bag of tricks. None of your clock- work professional journalism in this office. And I can rely on your integrity——” “But I’ve co... ..., the people were supposed to be English and were dressed like fashionable Americans of the current epoch, and I fell into the natural error of suppos... ... of resignation he never no- tices. He says it is against the etiquette of journalism to write to your Editor. And when I go to see him, he gives me a... ...eboard partially covered by a black velvet cloth, and beside a decanter of American whisky. It is from 202 The Country of the Blind Mr. Wace, indeed,...

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...t. Of course that taint, that reverence for rank and title, had been in our American blood, too — I know that; but when I left America it had disapp... ... which I had heard attributed to every humorous person who had ever stood on American soil, from Columbus down to Artemus W ard. It was about a humoro... ...t anything he couldn’t turn his hand to. Of late I had been training him for journalism, for the time seemed about right for a start in the newspaper ... ...uiet. The talk of these meek people had a strange enough sound in a formerly American ear. They were freemen, but they could not leave the estates of ... ..., and that would have pleased me; and them, too, not less. I had adopted the American values exclusively. In a week or two now, cents, nickels, dimes... ...d it made him comfortable to think so; whereas, in fact, it was paid by the American people, and was so equally and exactly distributed among them th... ...t of the way about it, but now its note was discordant. It was good Arkansas journalism, but this was not Arkansas. More over, the next to the last l... ...nd up among the outlying smithies. See his ad. Of course it was good enough journalism for a beginning; I knew that quite well, and yet it was someho...

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...acific Islands, but they will soon be snapped up by the European and North American Govern- ments, and a single one of them does not offer space. It w... ...time.’ ‘I have been in America.’ ‘We are not exactly on the pattern of the Americans.’ Philip hinted a bow. He praised the Republican people. ‘Yes, bu... ...ness twists him awry. Such a man has the stuff of the born journalist, and journalism is the food of the age. Ask him, however, midway in his running,... ...gs! Rockney could not be a mild sermoniser commenting on events. Rather no journalism at all for him! He thought the office of the ordinary daily prea... ...onnell for a diversion, to appease an animus. The revolutionist in English journalism was too devoutly patriotic to belabour even a pantomime mask tha... ...to be eminently a stranger to the official duties,’ observed the captain. ‘Journalism is a maw, and the journalist has to cram it, and like anything e... ... captain applauded the fancy as a pleasing delusion of the young sprigs of Journalism. Upon this, Mr. Colesworth, with all respect for French intellig...

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........................................................ 190 Chapter 2.1.IV . Journalism. .................................................................. ...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...ning forth perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Con- gress, do the arrangements seem perfect. A Senator has not hi... ... say our new Mayor Bailly; our new Commander Lafayette, named also ‘Scipio-Americanus,’ have bought their preferment dear. Bailly rides in gilt state-... ... a ‘feast of shells!’—Diligent are the Three Hun- dred; none equals Scipio Americanus in dealing with mobs. But surely all these things bode ill for t... ...and uncracked lungs of Saint-Huruge, the Palais Royal rebellows with Veto. Journalism is busy, France rings with Veto. ‘I shall never forget,’ says Du... ...his red-blue impassive visage waxing hardly a shade bluer. Chapter 2.1.IV. Journalism. As for Constitutionalism, with its National Guards, it is doing... ...- ningly try it. (See Bertrand-Moleville: Memoires, ii. 100, &c.) Great is Journalism. Is not every Able Editor a Ruler of the World, being a persuade...

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... cap, though not quite the kind of feather his elders might have desired. “Journalism is a kind of native air to us,” said Mrs. Grinstead, “but from ‘... ... first time in print. As to Gerald, he had so long been bred—as it were—to journalism that, young as he was, he had caught the trick, and ‘The Inspect... ... maybe it would be worse for their hearts,” he said, with a sigh. “There’s journalism, a great power.” “Yes, but to put my name to all I could—and lon... ...ll, she said, it was not the spirits, but the tobacco, which the Dutch and American sail- ors were glad enough to exchange for her mother’s commodi- t... ... Rockquay with the tobacco-shop. She had cho- sen that place on account of American trading-vessels put- ting in there, as well as those of various fo... ...where she was to be left for a year, while Fernan with Marilda visited his American establishments, and on their return would decide whether she would... ...there was reason to think that she had been smuggled away in an English or American ship, and nothing could be done. Thus much of the story then was c...

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...ons, it is said, What a spectacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Plenipotentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane somew... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...as Carlyle perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Congress, do the arrangements seem per- fect. A Senator has not hi... ... say our new Mayor Bailly; our new Commander Lafayette, named also ‘Scipio-Americanus, ’ have bought their preferment dear. Bailly rides in gilt state... ...ons of Paris and Brabant. Brilliant, we say: for if, in that thick murk of Journalism, with its dull blus- tering, with its fixed or loose fury, any r... ...ch a ‘feast of shells!’—Diligent are the Three Hundred; none equals Scipio Americanus in dealing with mobs. But surely all these things bode ill for t...

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...reatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an idea. Three years and a hal... ...etter in Marburg’s “League of Nations,” a straight- forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgi... ...plications were fully established, that there resided a sovereignty in the American people as a whole, as distinguished from the peoples of the severa... ...rvene, but it is still chary of such intervention. And these states of the American Union were at the outset so independent-spirited that they would n... ... a common name. To this day they have no common name. We have to call them Americans, which is a ridiculous name when we consider that Canada, Mexico,... ... of sneering at things American has died only very recently out of English journalism and literature, as any one who cares to consult the bound magazi...

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...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ... been cheerless, hopeless, despondent. As young fellows both tried country journalism—and failed. Burgess didn’t seem to mind it; Adams couldn’t smile... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ...good deal like everybody in general. By and by a hearty and healthy German American got in and opened up a frank and interesting and sympathetic conve... ...erhaps we shall get along better, and I shall stop calling Waggner, on the American What Is Man and Other Essays 140 plan, and thereafter call him Wa...

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...ng, and he talked slowly with an into- nation which on some people, mainly Americans, had, I believe, a jarring effect. But not on me. What- ever he s... ..., very simply, the heights of in- spired vision. He wrote before the great American language was born, and he wrote as well as any novelist of his tim... ...Polish State is not the 108 Notes on Life and Letters gift of any kind of journalism, neither is it the out- come even of some particularly benevolen... ...ell where they were. His eldest son was about the decks somewhere. “We are Americans,” he remarked weightily, but in a rather peculiar tone. He spoke ... ...he cried under his breath. “The first German light! Hurrah!” And those two American citizens shook hands on it with the greatest fervour, while I turn... ... at last the per- mission to travel to Vienna. Once there, the wing of the American Eagle was extended over our uneasy heads. We cannot be sufficientl...

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... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...uous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American imagination as that of Edinburgh. The glories of the philosophic c... ...rd a sweet savor;” we “taste and see that he is good.” “Spiritual milk for American babes, drawn from the breasts of both testaments,” is a sub-title ... ...God:” God’s Breath in Man is the title of the chief work of our best known American mystic (Thomas Lake Harris), and in cer- tain non-Christian countr... ...o practical fruits, and the ex- tremely practical turn of character of the American people has never been better shown than by the fact that this, the... ...although I lived with him for eight years, mak- ing what money I wanted by journalism, and spending it in high carousal with any one who would sit wit...

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...ife, viewed in no unfavorable light; finding indeed, except the Outrooting of Journalism (die auszurottende Journalistik), lit tle to desiderate there... ...he world was nowise so faultless, and many things besides “the Outrooting of Journalism” might have seemed improve ments, we can readily conjecture. ... ...t as articulately perhaps as the case admitted. Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and bat tle... ..., considerably involved in haze. To the first English Edition, 1838, which an American, or two American had now opened the way for, there was slighting... ...ed and pacificated.’ Here is a”...—Sun Newspaper, 1st April, 1834. III. NORTH—AMERICAN REVIEWER. . . . . . “After a careful survey of the whole ground,... ...still less as outweighing so much evidence of an opposite character.”— North American Review, No. 89, October, 1835. IV. NEW ENGLAND EDITORS. “The Edi...