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...e. Part I. -12- prize, more precious than any galleon which was ever carried into a British port; this parish priest received from a Catholic fr... ...I might best defend from the storm which would be raised against it on all hands by the British inquisition, whose ignorance of truth I knew to be e... ...very thing which touched the infallibility of their idol, PUBLIC OPINION. I mean by the British Inquisition, that court whose ministers and agents c... ...at it is useful, yea, and of the utmost usefulness. Wherefore all venerable divines and writers of the best times, are ever wont to place the USES o... ...les, and so carried the question into the arcana of Christian antiquities, of classical writers, and the authority of the fathers, whither the great ... ... William Huntingdon, two most able preachers, and, as it seems to me, two of the purest writers after the scriptural type; nor do I mean to say that ... ...s the following, which in substance are to be met with in every class of ecclesiastical writers who have written upon this side of the question duri... ...- allegorical interpreter,’ and in other places ‘our allegorist’), but by ecclesiastical writers of every name, both ancient and modern; which interp...

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...re is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little harm to womankind as the stone of an urchin...

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...wit: ‘an unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of h... ...o cheer his progress; a little to posterity, and to our country. Dozens of writers will be in at yonder yawning breach, if only perusers will rally to... ...ter Is- land there was a public Ball, to celebrate the return to Erin of a British hero of Irish blood, after his victorious Indian campaign; a mighty... ... capital descriptions. The best English letter- 30 Diana of the Crossways writers are as good as the French— You don’t think so?—in their way, of cou... ... questions that clamoured for instant solution. By dint of read- ing solid writers, using the brains they possessed, it was re- vealed to them gradual... ... not take it as the compensation for their departure.’ The Bull’s Head, or British Jury of T welve, with the wig on it, was faced during the latter ha... ... of the yacht. A stout champion in the person of T om Redworth was left on British land; but for some reason past analysis, intermixed, that is, among... ...NCESS EGERIA’ LONDON, say what we will of it, is after all the head of the British giant, and if not the liveliest in bubbles, it is past competition ... ...dly used. Society is big engine enough to protect it- self. I incline with British juries to do rough justice to the victims. She has neither father n...

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...itical, or as anything more than the expres- sion of the artist’s national British idea of Frenchmen. It must be confessed that for that great nation ... ... Cruikshank shrugging shoulders, and queer hair and mustachios. He has the British idea of a Frenchman; and if he does not believe that the inhabitant... ...dfire, Squire Jenkins, and Captain O’Shuffleton, are made to show the true British superiority on every occasion when Britons and French are brought t... ...man af- fairs and the evanescent nature of reputation, we have been to the British Museum and no less than five circulating libraries in quest of the ... ...at regiment of heroes is “marching to divine service,” to the tune of the “British Grenadiers.” There they march in state, and a pretty contempt our a... ...r see the objects unless they were enormously exaggerated. How many of our writers and de- signers work for the galleries? 39 Thackeray the passage d...

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...e anecdote is trivial, but it shows the power of Julia Jowler over me. The writers of marine novels have so exhausted the subject of storms, shipwreck... ...ng rather as it appeared that they had any strength to fight a battle, the British Government, ever anxious to see its en- emies by the ears, by no me... ...rvice, and inflaming the minds of the various na- tive princes against the British East India Company. A number of these entered into Scindiah’s ranks... ...y quarrel with Jeswunt Row Holkar, and never thought of an invasion of the British terri- tory, the Company all of a sudden discovered that Shah Allum... ...n the hurry and confusion of this struggle, the oys- ter remained with the British Government, who had so kindly offered to dress it for the Emperor, ... ...d most ferocious animals, and the rest, awed by the indomitable majesty of British valour, shrank back to their dens. Thomas Higgory, a private, and R...

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...Jeremiah (it is only my witty way of calling Tom and Jerry), I went to the British Museum the other day on purpose to get it; but somehow, if you will... ... not pleasing to me; I even thought it a little vulgar — well! well! other writers have been considered vulgar — and as a description of the sports an... ...stmas week? A great philosopher was giving a lecture to young folks at the British Institution. But when this diversion was proposed to our young frie...

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...we found ourselves again in the great stalwart roast-beef world; the stout British steamer bearing out of the bay, whose purple waters had grown more ... ...Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and set there to guard the passage for its British mistress. The next British lion is Malta, four days further on in t... ...- ging up the hideous perpendicular place, you were to find regi- ments of British grenadiers ready to plunge bayonets into your poor panting stomach,... ...” or the brave “Horse Marine,” where the people of our nation are drinking British beer and gin, you hear choruses of “Garryowen” or “The Lass I left ... ...rtifications:as far as I can understand the former, Gibraltar is the great British depot for smuggling goods into the Peninsula. Y ou see vessels lyin... ...moke had darkened the whole city with soot, and when, according to the old writers, there really was bright weather. The fleets of caiques bustling al... ...mo- rial accorded to the Christians of the Latin rite in Syria. All French writers and travellers speak of this protection with de- lightful complacen... ...I would urge, humbly, however, is this—Do not let us be led away by German writers and aes- thetics, Semilassoisms, Hahnhahnisms, and the like. The l...

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...s, the opening campaign through the Neth- erlands, and the despatch of the British Expeditionary Force were all justified before the book had been pub... ... rela- tively barbaric times. The horse-hair wigs and antic dresses of the British judges, their musty courts and overbearing manners, were indeed onl... ...t came to be called the ‘Modern State’ movement, and a galaxy of brilliant writers, in America, Europe, and the East, stirred up the world to the thou... ...ool of London University. The older so-called ‘classical’ education of the British pedagogues, probably the most paralysing, ineffec- tive, and foolis... ...would have seemed very imposing to the public of 1900. At any mo- ment the British Empire could now put a million and a quar- ter of arguable soldiers... ...euse to the English, and the troop-trains were run direct from the various British depots to the points in the Ardennes where they were intended to en... ...lities, a pal- impsest of inherited dispositions. It was the habit of many writers in the early twentieth century to speak of competi- tion and the na... ...one comes to the latter nineteenth and the earlier twenti- eth century the writers are much more acutely aware of secu- lar change than their predeces...

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...e first clerk to the articled gents, from the articled gents to the ragged writers and white- faced runners, in clothes too tight for them, as he sate... ...e “Howling Wil- derness,” the “Washerwoman of Wandsworth Common,” and the “British Soldier’s best Bayonet,” which, bent upon awak- ening her before sh... ...woke them in the morning; at nightfall they went to bed to the note of the British fife and drum: all the country and Europe was in arms, and the grea... ...ronged the town, and appeared in every public place, filled George’s truly British soul with in- tense delight. They flung off that happy frigidity an... ...from the conversation. This is a species of dignity in which the high-bred British fe- male reigns supreme. To watch the behaviour of a fine lady to o... ... Opera. It was almost like Old England. The house was filled with familiar British faces, and those toilettes for which the British female has long be...

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...laude Rivet had told them of the pro- jected edition de luxe of one of the writers of our day— the rarest of the novelists—who, long neglected by the ... ...Beatrice. As I never insisted, in such situations, on the blankness of the British domestic, I reflected that he had the making of a servant (and I ne...

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...g many words on the mere amenities of life. This was my first contact with British mankind apart from the tourist kind seen in the hotels of Zurich an... ... Tower Hill on the steps of the St. Katherine’s Dockhouse, a master in the British Merchant Service. But the man who put his hand on my shoulder at th... ...ver to meet again in this world. V IN THE CAREER of the most unliterary of writers, in the sense that literary ambition had never entered the world of... ... else. It is M. Anatole France, the most eloquent and just of French prose-writers, who says that we must recognize at last that, “failing the resolut... ...tion, or simply 77 Joseph Conrad from weariness, induces, I suspect, some writers of criticism to conceal the adventurous side of their calling, and ... ...ut I had thought to myself that if I was to be a seaman, then I would be a British seaman and no other. It was a matter of deliberate choice. He nodde... ...iterranean and in the West Indies. I did not want to present myself to the British Mer- chant Service in an altogether green state. It was no use tell... ...s with measured steps. It was a fact, I said to my- self, that I was now a British master mariner beyond a doubt. 94 A Personal Record It was not tha...

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...g many words on the mere amenities of life. This was my first contact with British mankind apart from the tourist kind seen in the hotels of Zurich an... ... Tower Hill on the steps of the St. Katherine’s Dockhouse, a master in the British Merchant Service. But the man who put his hand on my shoulder at th... ...et again in this world. Chapter V I N THE CAREER of the most unliterary of writers, in the sense that literary ambition had never en tered the world o... ...lse. It is M. Anatole France, the most elo- quent and just of French prose writers, who says that we must recognise at last that, “failing the resolu-... ...but I had thought to myself that if I was to be a seaman then I would be a British seaman and no other. It was a matter of deliberate choice. He nodde... ...iterranean and in the West Indies. I did not want to present myself to the British Merchant Service in an altogether green state. It was no use tellin... ...ngs with measured steps. It was a fact, I said to myself, that I was now a British master mariner beyond a doubt. It was not that I had an exaggerated...

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...lined and uncoordinated minority of inventors, experi- menters, educators, writers and organisers has achieved this development of human possibilities... ...as a Sowerby’s Botany also, with thousands of carefully tinted pictures of British plants, and one or two other important works in the sitting-room. I... ...orant and wretched and the under-equipped and under-staffed Na- tional and British schools, supported by voluntary contribu- tions and sectarian rival... ... social phenomenon, the German official, so differ- ent in manner from the British; and when one woke again after that one had come to Bale, and out o... ...“Things are being done?” “Oh!—no doubt of it. It’s one of the parts of the British machinery—that doesn’t show… . But nobody else could do it. “Two pe... ...Baileys’ one extravagance, they loved to think of searches going on in the British Museum, and letters being cleared up and precis made overhead, whil... ...of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East Indians, here a p... ...ut I went on talking. It’s the grim irony in the lives of all politicians, writers, public teach- ers, that once the audience is at their feet, a new ... ...the Brabants’ for some midnight tea before I came on here. They’d got some writers—and Grant was there.” “You have been flying round… .” There was a l...

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... were desirous of regulating their own concerns in their own way, that the British Government should not interfere; that at one 50 The Writings of Ab... ...50 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five time they struggled with the British Government to be permit- ted to exclude the African slave trade,—if... ..., Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, was acquired first, I believe, by the British Gov- ernment, in part at least, from the French. Before the estab- ... ...but a case occurring under peculiar circum- stances. The gunpowder plot of British history, though not connected with slaves, was more in point. In th... ...apoleon’s cavalry had charged again and again upon the unbroken squares of British infantry, at last they were giving up the attempt, and going off in... ...ish you with copies of letters in my possession without the consent of the writers. No impression has been made on my mind against the honor or integr...

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...metimes he was sim- ply abreast of the patriotic and socially constructive British Imperialism of Breeze and Westerton. And there were moods when the ... ...e glamour of world dominion rested wonderfully on the slack and straggling British Empire of Edward the Seventh—and Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Mr. Chambe... ...ad still to reckon with stupidity. He believed in the statecraft of leader-writers and the sincerity of political programmes. And so regarded, what an... ...ch at Croydon. The Japanese had torpe- doed another Russian ironclad and a British cruiser was ashore in the East Indies. A man had been found murdere... ... pride out of impe- rialism, they reduced it to a shabby conspiracy of the British and their colonies against foreign industrialism. They were violent... ...pared, it seemed, if they came into office, to pull the legislature of the British Isles to pieces in obedience to the Irish demand for Home Rule, and... ...ming merely an 105 H G Wells intellectual like those wordy Fabians, those writers, poseurs, and sham publicists whose wrangles he had attended? And, ...

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...greatest disciple, ‘Flesh is but an external propagation.’ To poets and to writers his presentation of the marvellous is amazing; to Seers it is simpl... ...ed spiral letters (‘True Christian Religion,’ 278). Even in the North some writers have laughed at the gates of pearl, and the dia- monds which stud t... ...ys are spent in the state of mystical contemplation which was, so Catholic writers tell us, habitual with the early Christian solitaries, in whom the ... ...ht by smell. I can give you a thousand such cases from Jean Wier and other writers.” “I admit all that, dear pastor; but to my thinking, Seraphita wou... ...our my triumphant human tide through Asia to the Ganges, and overthrow the British rule. Seven men have done this thing before me in other epochs of t...

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...h Greek and Roman customs, law courts and expressions, and Greek and Roman writers. I do not find myself wanting in making out a stiff bit of Greek or... ...orce’s new book, and this involved an examination of the question in other writers; but lately I have laid all controversial works aside almost entire... ...d interest in all questions of philology. Both were also readers of German writers on Church history and of critical interpretation of the New Testame... ...ver thought of comparing the heathen and Chris- tian ethics, and the great writers had no charm for me. ‘Then my French. If I had really taken any pai... ..., a great portion of it on the expediency of the islands being taken under British protection, also much respecting the Church of New Zealand, which i... ...d in the midst of a heathen popu- lation, having refused protection from a British man-of-war, it gives a grandeur to the following narrative:— ‘June ... ...ecration was not by Royal mandate, as in the case of Bishops of sees under British jurisdiction; but the Duke of Newcastle, then Colonial Secretary, w... ...elanesian Islands, provided that the consecration should take place beyond British territory.’ In consequence it was proposed that the three consecrat... ... island, and his property de- stroyed. He had appealed for protection as a British subject, and Sir William Wiseman had no choice but to comply; so af...

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...hated them as English, and scorned them as heretics. The second class were British English. Of these I did not encounter half a dozen during the whole... ...ld of Rome, the protegee of Jesuistry: proud, too, was the aspect of these British girls; at once envied and ridiculed by their continental associates... ...ve described the two or three stiff, silent, decently behaved, ill-dressed British girls), the sensible, saga- cious, affable directress shone like a ... ... of Coburg.) I had passed these pairs of Britons, and the groups of pretty British children, and the British foot- men and waiting-maids; I had crosse... ...sh his honour, which he affirmed to be in a dirty con- dition, in infernal British blood. “He is either mad or drunk,” thought I, “and in either case ... ...ntly penetrated and possessed the mean- ing of more ardent and imaginative writers. Byron excited her; Scott she loved; Wordsworth only she puzzled at...

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...g in it), looking at the fashions, or reading 4 Men’s Wives Cumberland’s “British Theatre.” The Sunday Times was her paper, for she voted the Dispatc... ...o be paid down on the day of her wedding. Those who know the habits of the British tradesman are aware that he has gregarious propensities like any lo... ...bers. The West 8 Men’s Wives Diddlesex Association (W estern Branch), the British and For- eign Soap Company, the celebrated attorneys Kite and Levis... ...ey were pupils of Signor Baroski, and so get pupils of their own among the British youths, or employ- ment in the choruses of the theatres. The prima ... ...teachers.” At his next appear- ance on the stage after this controversy, a British public calls for Blazes three times after the play; and somehow the... ...r, and to remember that it has been modelled on the style of the very best writers of the sporting papers. 124 Men’s Wives * * * 4th round. C...

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...nly a minute 22 The Secret Places of the Heart or so before been a decent British citizen. He made some blind lunges at the tremulous but obdurate ca... ... labour and finance. The sooner we scrap this nonsense about an autonomous British Empire complete in itself, contra mundum, the better for us. A worl... ...d years old or even more. It is the most important historical relic in the British Isles. And the most neglected. “ They exchanged archaeological fact... ... lunched in Marlborough and went on in the afternoon to Silbury Hill, that British pyramid, the largest artificial mound in Europe. They left the car ... ...rcumvallation that was al- ready two thousand years old before the dawn of British his- tory; a great wall of earth with its ditch most strangely on i... ...esting men, rising politicians, university men of distinction, artists and writers even, men of science, men—there are still such men— active in the c...

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... As big and white as a cloud. And all we fiddlers, from highest to lowest, Writers of music and tellers of stories Sit at his feet, And hear him sing ... ... along wailing, Lengthening out the farewell to me off to the war with the British, And then the long, hard years down to the day of Y orktown. And th...