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... “Beneath low hills, in the broad interval Through which at will our Indian rivulet Winds mindful still of sannup and of squaw, Whose pipe... ...t appears to have been properly named Musketaquid, or Meadow River, by the Indians. For the most part, it creeps through broad meadows, adorned with s... ...lains and valleys of the substantial earth with the moccasoned tread of an Indian warrior, making haste from the high places of the earth to its ancie... ... Shad, and Alewives were formerly abundant here, and taken in weirs by the Indians, who taught this method to the whites, by whom they were used as fo... ...k there, you would go there again.” C HANNING. “The Indians tell us of a beautiful River lying far to the south, which they cal... ... is such a despatch in them. Compared with these, the grave think ers and philosophers seem not to have got their swaddling clothes off; they are sl... ...ain of the Indian sect of Gymnosophists, and he had told them of those new philosophers of the West, Pythagoras, Socrates, and Diogenes, and their doc... ... of genius, but to have lived with too passive a regard for the laws.” The philosophers of the West are liable to this rebuke still. “They say that Li... ...Asiatic anxiety , in that state in which it appeared to their minds. These philosophers dwell on the inevitability and unchangeableness of laws, on th...

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...ld become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall? Even some sects of philosophers have felt the neces sity of importing the woods to themselv... ...tation of man. We are told that within three miles of the center of the East Indian city of Singapore, some of the inhabitants are annually carried of... ... counted the rising cit ies, gazed on the fresh ruins of Nauvoo, beheld the Indians moving west across the stream, and, as before I had looked up the... ... koodoo and other antelopes raw, as a matter of course. Some of our northern Indians eat raw the marrow of the Arctic reindeer, as well as various oth... ...low—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius... ... proportions unknown everywhere else.” I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger ... ... begrimed with the dust of many a hard fought field. The very winds blew the Indian’s cornfield into the meadow, and pointed out the way which he had ...

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...ermines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self emancipation even in the West Indian provinces of the fancy and imagina Walden 7 tion what Wilberforce... ... Walden 13 lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which ... ...r literature, or art. There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable ... ... I have Walden 17 not set my heart on that. Not long since, a strolling Indian went to sell baskets at the house of a well known lawyer in my neigh... ...he asked. “No, we do not want any,” was the reply. “What!” ex claimed the Indian as he went out the gate, “do you mean to starve us?” Having seen hi... ...mmer, it was formerly Walden 25 almost solely a covering at night. In the Indian ga zettes a wigwam was the symbol of a day’s march, and a row of th... ... first how slight a shelter is absolutely necessary. I have seen Penobscot Indians, in this town, living in tents of thin cotton cloth, while the snow... ...nation that lived simply in all Walden 52 respects, that is, no nation of philosophers, would com mit so great a blunder as to use the labor of anim... ...of animals. True, there never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be. Howeve...

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...f France” is said to be “a great resource for the wild boar.” Not only the Indian, but many indigenous insects, birds, and quadrupeds, welcomed the ap... ...limit. HOW THE WILD APPLE GROWS B UT THOUGH THESE ARE INDIGENOUS, like the Indians, I doubt whether they are any hardier than those back-woodsmen amon... ...rd at last, and drops its perfect fruit on the ungrateful earth. Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up in the country pastures, and outl...

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... in the discussion of the Negro problem. Two or three de- cades ago social philosophers and statisticians and well- meaning philanthropists were still... ...ent was being tried for the first time, by General Armstrong, of education Indians at Hampton. Few people then had any confidence in the ability of th... ...dians at Hampton. Few people then had any confidence in the ability of the Indians to receive education and to profit by it. General Armstrong was anx... ...tern states over one hundred wild and for the most part perfectly ignorant Indians, the greater proportion of whom were young men. The special work wh... ... which the General desired me to do was be a sort of “house father” to the Indian young men—that is, I was to live in the building with them and have ... ...g to Hampton, I took up my residence in a building with about seventy-five Indian youths. I was the only person in the building who was not a member o...

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...e praises of his schoolmaster Socrates (without all question the prince of philosophers), amongst other discourses to that purpose, said that he resem... ...nstructed by Aristotle, who at that time was highly renowned above all the philosophers of Greece. After the same manner I tell you, that by this only... ..., that those commonwealths are happy, whose rulers philosophate, and whose philosophers rule. Then 143 Rabelais caused he their wallets to be filled ... ... a knotted cord- work of gold embroidery, everywhere garnished with little Indian pearls. They always carried a fair panache, or plume of feathers, of... ...ntries that were under it, burning a great part of the heav- ens which the philosophers call Via lactea, and the huffsnuffs St. James’s way; although ... ...ar as unto Mount Caucasus, passed along the Scythians, the Massagetes, the Indians, and sailed 242 Gargantua & Pantagruel over the great river Phison... ...rtition of breadth by the diaphragma, as was that woman consecrated to the Indian Venus whom the Tyanean phi- losopher did see between the river Hydas... ... those of his territories at home should come to the certain notice of his Indian victo- ries, and himself be perfectly informed of the state and con-... ... a huge fly-flap fan of crimson satin and a bunch of feathers of some East-Indian ostrich serving to give chase unto the flies all round about; whilst...

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...es. Refulgent gold, and silver thrice refin’d, And scarlet grain and ceruse, Indian wood Of lucid dye serene, fresh emeralds But newly broken, by the ... ... fire: nor I alone, but these All for thine answer do more thirst, than doth Indian or Aethiop for the cooling stream. Tell us, how is it that thou ma... ...re as more they rose, Were such, as ‘midst their forest wilds for height The Indians might have gaz’d at. “Blessed thou! Gryphon, whose beak hath neve... ...ivine Comedy of Dante Purgatory 111 v. 65. Three men.] The great moral philosophers among the heathens. v. 78. A crag.] I have preferred the r... ...eater moderation” v. 39. Its tresses.] Daniel, c. iv. 10, &c. v. 41. The Indians.] Quos oceano proprior gerit India lucos. Virg. Georg. 1. ii. 1... ...roprior gerit India lucos. Virg. Georg. 1. ii. 122, Such as at this day to Indians known. Milton, P. L. b. ix. 1102. v. 51. When large floods of ra...

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...n which the Dorian dwelt. The Chinese pagoda is plainly a Tartar tent. The Indian and Egyptian temples still betray the mounds and subter- ranean hous... ... path of science and of letters is not the way into nature. The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer’s boy stand nearer to the light by ... ...nsistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing ... ...l and of *St. Augustine, Confessions, B. I. 59 Emerson its moral aim. The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics; and it would seem impossible for ... ...out railing or precision his living is natural and poetic. John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, drank water, and said of wine,—”It is a noble, generous liq... ...d or liter- ary,—between poets like Herbert, and poets like Pope,— between philosophers like Spinoza, Kant and Coleridge, and philosophers like Locke,... ...e. This circumstance gives a value to the Egyp- tian hieroglyphics, to the Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols, however gross and shapeless. They denote... ... drives men of every class to the use of emblems. The schools of poets and philosophers are not more intoxicated with their symbols than the populace ... ... partialist, and himself a universalist? I talked yesterday with a pair of philosophers; I endeavored to show my good men that I love everything by tu...

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...for a holier counsellor than himself: agreeing with Aristotle, the chief of philosophers, who shows (in the 3rd and 6th books of his Ethics) that al... ...hich is the most delectable of all our virtuous activities, as the prince of philosophers declares in the tenth book of the Ethics, on which account i... ...lent tyranny of madness. O cruel spectacle! where you may see the Phoebus of philosophers, the all wise Aristotle, whom God Himself made master of the... ...s of Greece; the charms of the Chaldaeans; the observations of the Arabs and Indians; the ceremonies of the Jews; the architecture of the Babylonians;... ...e may reveal herself to all mankind. We see that she has already visited the Indians, the Babylonians, the Egyp tians and Greeks, the Arabs and the R... ...stores. As Rome, watered by the streams of Greece, had earlier brought forth philosophers in the image of the Greeks, in like fashion afterwards it pr... ... principles in speculative science or axioms in mathematics, as the chief of philosophers, Aristotle, points out in the seventh book of the Ethics. An...

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...ce, will, I fear, find himself mis- taken. Such kind of general propositions are seldom men- tioned in the huts of Indians: much less are they to be f... ...l answer:—Because the public requires it, and the Levia- than will punish you if you do not. And if one of the old philosophers had been asked, he wou... ...eings that needed something to inhere in, were forced to find out the word substance to support them. Had the poor Indian philosopher (who imagined th... ...b- stance would have done it effectually. And he that in- quired might have taken it for as good an answer from an Indian philosopher,—that substance,... ...it is, is that which supports the earth, as we take it for a sufficient answer and good doctrine from our European philosophers,—that substance, witho... ...ubt that God has existed from all eternity, but there is no real matter co-extended with infinite space; yet those philosophers who are of opinion tha... ...prefer the griping of an hungry belly to those dishes which are a feast to others. Hence it was, I think, that the philosophers of old did in vain inq... ...he were demanded, what is it that solidity and extension adhere in, he would not be in a much better case than the Indian before mentioned who, saying... ...out of which body and shape are excluded. And that way of speaking would agree yet worse with the notions of those philosophers who allow of transmigr...

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...did, they 7 GB Shaw would write parts for heroes with twenty arms like an Indian god. Indeed the actor often influences the author too much; for I ca... ...e! Let me tell you I would not give a rouble to have the brains of all the philosophers in France. What is our busi- ness for today? NARYSHKIN. The ne...

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...cquiescence was by no means foreign to my present designs. W ould that the Indians also would believe me to be a god! (36) Wars are carried through by... ...as we have said, to love God, I have called it a law in the same sense, as philosophers style laws those general rules of nature, according to which e...

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...ld be quite lost if they were not in leading-strings devised by lawgivers, philosophers, 24 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet prophets and poets for th... ...London last year, might now entertain very seriously a proposal to exclude Indians from them, and to suppress the play completely in Calcutta and Dubl... ...they are prostitutes, soldiers in uniform, gentlemen not in evening dress, Indians, or what not; but when disorder is stopped, disorderly persons will...

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...he returns not only empty-handed, but with his mind perverted. 22 Heathen philosophers who went astray in seeking for the truth. 23 Sabellius denied... ...hom the tune is not caught, thus from the lights 8 “Concerning the GaJaxy philosophers have held different opinions.”—Convito, 115. 9 From arm to ar... ...ts own accord, so that this eclipse answered for the Spaniards and for the Indians as well as for the Jews. Flo- rence hath not so many Lapi and Bindi...

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...d-times more cunningly devised poetical turning-loom, than that of Swift’s Philosophers in Laputa. Johnson’s prose is true, indeed, and sound, and ful... ...how to rise above it. Governments naturally at- tempt the first expedient; Philosophers, in general, the second. The Poet, says Schiller, is a citizen... ... I will also mention that I saw Diderot’s “Father of a Fam- ily,” and “The Philosophers” of Palissot, and still perfectly remember the figure of the p... ...d as in religion a like faith in the inscru- table, must have a place, the philosophers appeared to me to be in a very false position who would demons... ... the less I could make of it. I could not clearly see what the first Greek philosophers would have. Socrates I es- teemed as an excellent, wise man, w... ...f handwriting, before the crow-quills were provided and cut into pens, and Indian ink was rubbed, whole weeks passed, without the least bit having bee... ...thing it was to write down a verse on Dutch paper, with the crow-quill and Indian ink; what time, talent, and exertion it required, which ought not to...

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...ess they are dead at once, and naturally. Your po- ets too are dying, your philosophers, your musicians, to whom Europe has listened for two hundred y... ...e.” Margaret asked who Dolly’s people were. “Fussell. The father is in the Indian army—retired; the brother is in the army. The mother is dead.” So pe... ...tiful and more lively, but “the Miss Schlegels” still remained a composite Indian god, whose waving arms and contradictory speeches were the product o... ...e London party only numbered eight—the Fussells, father and son, two Anglo-Indian ladies named Mrs. Plynlimmon and Lady Edser, Mrs. Warrington Wilcox ... ... hat. Then Mrs. Warrington herself, leading the quiet child; the two Anglo-Indian ladies were always last. Maids, courier, heavy luggage, had already ... ...s hilarity here. Evie, in a petticoat, was danc- ing with one of the Anglo-Indian ladies, while the other was adoring yards of white satin. They screa... ...ted years. No Pa- gan he, who lives for the Now, and may be wiser than all philosophers. He lived for the five minutes that have past, and the five to...

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...philosophy; only a simple knowledge of the secret that has puzzled all the philosophers, baffled all the lawyers, muddled all the men of business, and... ... the needy and the out- cast: you love the oppressed races, the negro, the Indian ryot, the Pole, the Irishman. Do you love the Japanese? Do you love ...

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...he buttered-bun dishes crashed against each other in the hearth. The other philosophers were crouched in odd shapes on the sofa and table and chairs, ... ...awful!” “Wicked, intolerable boy!” She turned on the elec- tric light. The philosophers were revealed with un- pleasing suddenness. “My goodness, a te... ...ause it brings in no return. I think I’m a great philosopher, but then all philosophers think that, though they don’t dare to say so. But, however gre... ...e door of Herbert’s study: boys’ grubby feet should not go treading on her Indian square. It was she who always cleaned the picture-frames and washed ...

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...Some few are mountebanks. Others more particularly be- long to the race of philosophers. The greatest portion, how- ever — those especially who belabo... ...at a screaming of beasts! what a tinkling of instruments! what a parcel of philosophers!” Come let us be off. “Stay a moment! I see a vast hubbub in t... ...nerally descriptive account of the large fulvous Ourang-Outang of the East Indian Islands. The gigantic stature, the prodigious strength and activity,... ...What he stated was, in substance, this. He had lately made a voyage to the Indian Archipelago. A party, of which he formed one, landed at Borneo, and ...

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...han those which had made her acquainted with the works of Greek and German philosophers long before she under- stood the English into which she transl... ... ruddy gold hair, now shaded by a large, untrimmed straw hat. Her dress of Indian muslin, with half-sleeves terminating at the elbows in wide ruffles,... ...o the round drawing-room, where she found Mr. Parker examining a trophy of Indian armor, and presenting a back view of a short gentleman in a spruce b... ...ear her, “if your paragon should turn aside from her friends, the artists, philosophers, and statesmen, to give herself to an illiterate prize-fighter...

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... now growing, are partly petrified. This is a star- tling fact for natural philosophers, and must cause them to modify the existing theory of petrific... ...the air. *He observed a flock of pigeons passing betwixt Frankfort and the Indian territory, one mile at least in breadth; it took up four hours in pa... ...heless, had been un- pleasantly warm. A smoky mist, resembling that of the Indian summer, enveloped all things, and of course, added to my un- certain...

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...rrence. Nothing but foreign force would in duce a tribe of North American Indians to submit to the restraints of a regular and civilized government. ... ...al phenomena depend, are not ame nable to the direction of politicians or philosophers. The government of a country, it is affirmed, is, in all subst... ...hese councils are composed of persons who have pro fessional knowledge of Indian affairs, which the governor general and governors usually lack, and ... ...obably destined to perish in the general holocaust which the traditions of Indian government seem fated to undergo since they have been placed at the ... ...introduction in this country, and is still so imperfectly carried out, the Indian service being as yet nearly the only case in which it exists in its ... ...ount of benefit to India from the control 227 J S Mill exercised over the Indian government by the British Parlia ment and people. It is not by atte...

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...ing of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie. The East Indian and Chinese markets, the colonisation of America, trade with the c... ..., in that country, had just begun its contest with feudal absolutism. German philosophers, would be philosophers, and beaux esprits, eagerly seized on... ...al significance, and assumed a purely lit erary aspect. Thus, to the German philosophers of the eighteenth century, the demands of the first French R...

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...rt than of the whole; of one or two States than of the Union. Not a single Indian war has yet been occasioned by aggressions of the present federal go... ... federal govern- ment, feeble as it is; but there are several instances of Indian hostilities having been provoked by the improper conduct of individu... ...itory which, either by actual possession, or through the submission of the Indian proprietors, was sub- jected to the jurisdiction of the king of Grea... ...er the rest of mankind as created for her benefit. Men admired as profound philosophers have, in direct terms, attributed to her inhabit- ants a physi... ...pensable, if it should only be against the ravages and depredations of the Indians. These garrisons must either be furnished by occasional detachments... ...t may be added that some of those posts will be keys to the trade with the Indian nations. Can any man think it would be wise to leave such posts in a... ...factory precision, by all the efforts of the most acute and metaphysi- cal philosophers. Sense, perception, judgment, desire, voli- tion, memory , ima... ...s well as numerous, they are known to have a double effect. In a nation of philosophers, this consid- eration ought to be disregarded. A reverence for... ...iently inculcated by the voice of an enlightened rea- son. But a nation of philosophers is as little to be expected as the philosophical race of kings...

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...l Health.” There was Sir Positive Paradox. He observed that all fools were philosophers, and that all philosophers were fools. There was Æstheticus Et... ...he gutta percha now in common use. This caoutchouc was occasionally called Indian rubber or rubber of twist, and was no doubt one of the numerous fung... ...es, who looked upon him as merely an ingenious sort of madman, because the philosophers (?) of the day declared the thing impossible. Re- ally now it ... ...publican government could never be any thing but a rascally one. While the philosophers, however, were busied in blush- ing at their stupidity in not ... ...eadful business that of the Bugaboos, wasn’t it?—dreadful creatures, those Indians!—do turn out your toes! I really am ashamed of you—man of great cou... ...ere were, I well remember, many very successful experi- ments in what some philosophers were weak enough to de- nominate the creation of animalculae. ...

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...s acting is not recorded. As for me, what I have always wanted is a pit of philosophers; and this is a play for such a pit. I should make formal ackno... ... masters. The conception of Mendoza Limited I trace back to a certain West Indian colonial secre- tary, who, at a period when he and I and Mr Sidney W... ...veryman was no mere artist, but an artist-philosopher, and that the artist-philosophers are the only sort of artists I take quite seriously, will be n... ... thought in pre-eminent degree. They are often saner and shrewder than the philosophers just as Sancho-Panza was often saner and shrewder than Don Qui... ...e were battles, bombard- ments, stratagems to save our scalps from the red Indians. You have no imagination, Ann. I am ten times more de- structive no... ...aking to it. MENDOZA. That is true, sir. A movement which is con- fined to philosophers and honest men can never exercise any real political influence...

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...es. Touching pattern—a carpet should not be bedizzened out like a Riccaree Indian— all red chalk, yellow ochre, and cock’s feathers. In brief— distinc... ...lming principle, as I have already described it to you, it occurred to our philosophers that a laudable curiosity might be gratified, and, at the same... ...the most sovereign contempt. That they have followers proves nothing— “‘No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows.... ... †The Hyacinth. 198 EA Poe And the Nelumbo bud that floats for ever‡ With Indian Cupid down the holy river— Fair flowers, and fairy! to whose care is... ... dream’d for thy Infinity A model of their own—* ‡It is a fiction of the Indians, that Cupid was first seen floating in one of these down the river ...

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... Dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pigmean Race Beyond the INDIAN Mount, or Faerie Elves, Whose midnight Revels, by a Forrest side O... ... Hills where Flocks are fed, flies toward the Springs Of GANGES or HYDASPES, INDIAN streams; But in his way lights on the barren plaines Of SERICANA, ... ...rather oft then elsewhere seen, That stone, or like to that which here below Philosophers in vain so long have sought, In vain, though by thir powerfu... ...se The Figtree, not that kind for Fruit renown’d, But such as at this day to INDIANS known In MALABAR or DECAN spreds her Armes Braunching so broad an... ...e, a Pillard shade High overarch’t, and echoing Walks between; There oft the INDIAN Herdsman shunning heate Shelters in coole, and tends his pasturing...

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...Xenophon’s Cyropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonic... ... Control, without having their force much weak ened, his real opinions on Indian subjects. In his History he had set forth, for the first time, many ... ...story he had set forth, for the first time, many of the true principles of Indian administration: and his despatches, following his History, did more ... ...had ever been done before to pro mote the improvement of India, and teach Indian officials to understand their business. If a selection of them were ... ...red from reli gion, were very much of the character of those of the Greek philosophers; and were delivered with the force and decision which characte... ... sures. Accordingly, temperance, in the large sense intended by the Greek philosophers—stopping short at the point of moderation in all indulgences—w... ...y. This source of anxiety may, perhaps, be thought to resemble that of the philosophers of Laputa, who feared lest the sun should be burnt out. It was... ...ssing ideas which had long been in my mind (some of them gener ated by my Indian experience, and others by the international questions which then gre... ...involving the general superintendence of all the correspon dence with the Indian Governments, except the military, naval, and financial. I held this ...

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...on the part of the very persons who, as university professors, historians, philosophers, and men of science, were the accredited custodians of culture... ...ical instruments, saucers of wa- ter color, a tumbler of discolored water, Indian ink, pencils, and brushes on it. The drawing-board is set so that th... ...ng wrathfully]. Now before high heaven they have given this innocent child Indian tea: the stuff they 42 Heartbreak House tan their own leather insid... ...k we were filled with notions that might have been all very well for pagan philosophers of fifty, but were certainly quite unfit for respectable peopl... ... have seen in her eye. She will break it off. Take my advice: marry a West Indian negress: they make excellent wives. I was married to one myself for ...

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...ed. She, while her lover pants upon her breast, Can mark the figures on an Indian chest; And when she sees her friend in deep despair, Observes how mu... ... puddings smoked upon the board. 360 Asleep and naked as an Indian lay, An honest factor stole a gem away: He pledged it to the knight;... ...his country; a monster, that will, one day, shew as daring a soul as a mad Indian, who runs a-muck to kill the first Chris- tian he meets. 170 Anothe... ...of these apprehensions, she is secured by a hearty address from the minute philosophers and free- thinkers, one of whom speaks in the name of the rest... ...is that of Descartes; the second, of Hobbes; the third, of some succeeding philosophers.—P . W . 433 ‘Bright image:’ bright image was the title given...