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...with a deeper entry; and the Casco, haul- ing her wind, began to slide into the bay of Anaho. The cocoa-palm, that giraffe of vegetables, so graceful,... ...plunged a canoe was already pad- dling from the hamlet. It contained two men: one white, one brown and tattooed across the face with bands of blue, bo... ...and, with cries of wonder and delight, rub herself bare-breeched upon the velvet cushions. Biscuit, jam, and syrup was the entertain- 10 In The South... ... put on Toma, Hoka’s adoptive father, and in his own eyes the right- ful chief of Anaho. In the first place, we did not call upon him, as perhaps we s... ... came and went with us daily; but, alone I believe of all the countryside, neither Toma nor his wife set foot on board the Casco. The temp- tation res... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...was planted by means of the ignorant, the neglected, the despised. Such was the introduction of the word of the Almighty God into this group of Nuuhiw...

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...picture loses not its attractions. It is no exaggeration to say that, to a European of any sensi- bility, who, for the first time, wanders back into t... ...f manliness, no wonder the Tahitians re- garded all pale and tepid-looking Europeans as weak and feminine; whereas, a sailor, with a cheek like the br... ...e. Arrived at the consular office, we found Wilson there, and four or five Europeans, seated in a row facing us; probably with the view of presenting ... ...ere far from being valueless; for, among the poorer T ahitians, everything European is highly esteemed. They come from “Beretanee, Fenooa Pararee” (Br... ...eam of our best raiment, for the purpose of looking tidy, and visiting the European chapel in the village. Every Sunday morning it is open for divine ... ...er person all the foreigners she could. Her partiality for the English and Americans was well known; and this was an additional ground for our an- tic...

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...cating, so deeply rooted in the very souls of all my species; especially the Europeans. I have other complaints to make upon this vexatious occasion; ... ..., at high water, it was seventy glumgluffs deep, which is about six feet of European measure; and the rest of it fifty glumgluffs at most. I walked ... ...writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right, like the Europeans, nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians, nor from up... ...ox on the left ear, as Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 75 would have felled an European troop of horse to the earth, ordering him to be taken from the t... ...e the most horrible spec Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 96 tacle that ever a European eye beheld. There was a woman with a cancer in her breast, swell... ...ies I treat of would be as easy as those of Ferdinando Cortez over the naked Americans. The Lilliputians, I think, are hardly worth the charge of a f...

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...ather had never guessed, had a high esteem for the latter’s origi- nality. Americans, rightly or wrongly, are commended for the ease with which they a... ... however, give me a hint of where you see your duty.” “In showing her four European countries—I shall leave her the choice of two of them—and in givin... ...ctly in advance what her opinions would be and to how many objections most European institutions lay open. When she heard that Isabel was coming she w... ... often been struck with—the fact that, of all the people in the world, the Americans were the most grossly super- stitious. They were rank Tories and ... ...the world, but his recollections of it appeared to encourage the idea that Americans in England would need to have a great many things explained to th... ...actly that of the copybooks which our heroine remem- bered at school) was “Americans and Tudors—Glimpses of Gardencourt.” Miss Stackpole, with the bes... ... of me?” “She told me she thinks there’s something very low in the tone of Europeans towards women.” “Does she call me a European?” “One of the worst.... .... “I’ve got a fear in my heart that she’s going to marry one of these fell Europeans, and I want to prevent it. “Ah, I see,” cried Ralph; “and to prev... ... remedy would be as bad as the dis- ease, for you’re the typical, the fell European from whom I wish to rescue her. No; I wish you to take an interest...

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...must come to the club.” “What club?” “The Occidental. You will see all the Americans there; all the best of them, at least. Of course you play poker?”... ...ville.” 25 Henry James “What is Trouville?” “The French Newport. Half the Americans go.” “Is it anywhere near the Alps?” “About as near as Newport is... ...roads, and a hopeless fizzle in oil.” “It is very disagreeable to know how Americans have made their money. Now you have the world before you. You hav... ...y deeper than where any definition of mine can reach it. He mistrusted the European temperament, he suffered from the European climate, he hated the E... ...e suffered from the European climate, he hated the Euro- pean dinner-hour; European life seemed to him unscrupu- lous and impure. And yet he had an ex... ...ere shawl. “You are an American?” she said presently. “I have seen several Americans.” “There are several in Paris,” said Newman jocosely. “Oh, really... ...orgotten them now, it is so many years ago. Since then I have seen no more Americans. I think my daughter-in-law has; she is a great gad-about, she se... ...not to inhale the odor of democ- racy. Newman was far from being versed in European poli- tics, but he liked to have a general idea of what was going ...

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...e finest country in the world, sir , and he felt a lively superiority over Americans, Colonials, Dagos, Dutchmen, and Kanakas. But I do not think he w... ... he lived, unmindful of the world and by the world forgotten. I suppose to European eyes it would have seemed astonishingly sordid. The house was dila... ...and his vagaries were accepted with tolerance. To these people, native and European, he was a queer fish, but they were used to queer fish, and they t...

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...ng streets of commonplace shops and houses, such as are to be found in any European town; there were busy people, equipages, ordinary walkers to and f... ...rly uncomfortable, with the eyes of Heaven knows how many English, French, Americans, Swiss, Germans, Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, and other foreigne...

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... were not their lawful wives; behind him 221 W. Somerset Maugham he heard Americans loudly arguing on art. His soul was thrilled. He sat till very la... ... said Philip. “They might have stepped out of the Vie de Boheme.” “They’re Americans,” said Miss Price scorn- fully . “Frenchmen haven’t worn things l... ...fully . “Frenchmen haven’t worn things like that for thirty years, but the Americans from the Far West buy those clothes and have themselves photograp... ..., they’ve all got money . ” Philip liked the daring picturesqueness of the Americans’ costume; he thought it showed the romantic spirit. Miss Price as... ...ad been in the morning, and there was not the preponderance of English and Americans; nor were women there in so large a proportion. Philip felt the a... ... with humanity , they seemed to bring an air of mystery. They were clad in European, shabby clothes, their thin great- coats were threadbare, but each...

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...asse—but that looks as if one hadn’t any other reason for being there: the Americans who don’t know any one always rush for the best food. And the Duc... ...usly. “Can they cook terra- pin? It just shows,” he continued, “what these European mar- kets are, when a fellow can make a reputation cooking peas!” ... ...ay that nearly everybody can. And the London market is so glutted with new Americans that, to succeed there now, they must be either very clever or aw...

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...he date of the very first action fought between the British troops and the Americans. That, for these reasons, the jury, being a loyal jury (as he kne... ...rgraduates as a sort of tolerated smuggler who drove a contraband trade in European lan guages, instead of conveying Greek and Latin through the Cust...

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...amage and destruc- tion of about half the windows. These buildings were of European type and were on the reverse side of a steep hill. At the same dis... ... are Ger- man. We finally quiet him down. He thought that we might well be Americans who had parachuted down. Rumors of parachutists were being bandie... ..., however, of what nationality we were. They, too, feared that we might be Americans who had parachuted in. When we arrived in Nagatsuka, it had just ... ... ill effects. None of us in those days heard a single outburst against the Americans on the part of the Japanese, nor was there any evidence of a veng... ... discovery to a further stage and were about to initiate such bombing. The Americans were reputed to have learned the secret from the Germans, and the...

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... women he has met. They have been people of very various origins; English, Americans, Bengalis, Russians, French, people brought up in a “Catholic atm... ... is anti-religious, and he is anti- religious because to him as to so many Europeans religion is confused with priest-craft and dogmas, is associated ... ...a seem disposed to give up life and the effort of life. Just as readily as Europeans, do the Asiatics reach out their arms to that fuller life we can ... ...s; they would have a com- mon courtliness. The Quran is but little read by Europeans; it is ignorantly supposed to contain many things that it does no... ...sources and to form original congrega- tions, especially among people with European traditions. These dispositions mark a relapse from understanding. ... ...ts probable obligations to Eastern thought are less readily estimated by a European writer. Modern religion has no revelation and no founder; it is th...

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... hours’ work just on account of a centipede. I hit him about rather.” * No European is known to have seen a live Æpyornis, with the doubtful exception... ...e forehead, as if his brain had been twisted round in the reverse way to a European’s. He was short of stature and still shorter of En- glish. In conv... ...ollecting-net, and pen, and almost entirely with reference to Pawkins. The European reputation he had won had come as an incident in that great antipa... ...hi’s pigtail in his hand. The life of a Chinaman is scarcely sacred like a European’s. The cunning little face of Chang-hi, first keen and furious lik... ..., 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... ...st world left the star unheeded. And yet, when at last the watchers in the European States saw the star rise, an hour later, it is true, but no larger...

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... lady who lived there—a foreign lady—a person older than himself. Very few Americans— indeed, I think none—had ever seen this lady, about whom there w... ...e. Winterbourne, laughing, answered that he had met Germans who spoke like Americans, but that he had not, so far as he remem- 9 Henry James bered, m... ...aid. “They are very common,” Mrs. Costello declared. “They are the sort of Americans that one does one’s duty by not—not accepting.” “Ah, you don’t ac... ...lo that he had spent the afternoon at Chillon with Miss Daisy Miller. “The Americans—of the courier?” asked this lady. “Ah, happily,” said Winterbourn... ...t Mr. Winterbourne! He knows plenty of Italians, but he wants to know some Americans. He thinks ever so much of Americans. He’s tremendously clever. H... ...who, while residing abroad, make a point, in their own phrase, of studying European soci- ety, and she had on this occasion collected several speci- m... ...o invite her; and they intimated that they desired to express to observant Europeans the great truth that, though Miss Daisy Miller was a young Americ...

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...t now my primary object. Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well- known and successful ... ...may perhaps be able to add something to the familiarity of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subj... ...’s door. Nothing that I can say with reference to the social habits of the Americans can tell more against them than the story of that Frenchman’s fat... ... else to remain neutral between them. I had heard this matter discussed by Americans before I left England, and I have of course heard it discussed ve... ...ok learning—is no doubt infinitely higher in a new American than in an old European town. Such an animal as a beggar is as much unknown as a mastodon.... ...jured by it. It is rapid, but has not the beautifully bright color of some European rivers— of the Rhine, for instance, and the Rhone. But what is wan... ...ent meth- ods of populating young colonies. There may be, and to us on the European side of the Atlantic there will be, a certain amount of absurdity ... ... brains in their fingers, whereas “common people”—alluding by that name to Europeans—had them only, if at all, inside their brain-pans. And then he in... ...nce of four or five men well known to fame on the American and also on the European side of the ocean. President Felton’s* name is very familiar to us...

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...im a saying which somebody had related of an American savage, who, when an European was expatiating on all the advantages of money, put this question:... ... a man to their tables who has stood in the pillory.’ Johnson attacked the Americans with intem- perate vehemence of abuse. I said something in their ... ... said so harsh a thing. Johnson. Because, Sir, you made me angry about the Americans.’ Boswell. ‘But why did you not take your revenge directly?’ John... ...d to go to America; Johnson. ‘I hope he will go to America.’ Boswell. ‘The Americans don’t want oratory.’ Johnson. ‘But we can want Sheridan.’ On Mond...

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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... ... 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,... ...features of the time is the evident desire of the Labour movement in every European country to take part in a collateral conference of Labour that sha... ...ppoint its international representatives. And here, again, I turn from any European precedents to that political outcome of the British mind, the Cons... ..., T udor, Stuart, and Hanoverian monarchist tra- ditions and urgent merely European necessities, a patch-up that has been made quasi-democratic in a s... ...ing represented for ever by President Wilson. We cannot always look to the Americans to express our ideas and do our work for democracy. The foolery o... ... be appealed to to terrify the patriotic souls of the British will be the “Americans.” Are we men of English blood and tradition to see our affairs co... ...population of Africa is now rotten with diseases intro- duced by Arabs and Europeans during the last century, and such African statesmen as Sir Harry ... ... is really a question for the German to consider; he can come in as a good European, he cannot come in as an imperialist brigand. Whether, too, any ot...

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... invented Yankee word of ‘‘loafer’’ is more applicable than to the Spanish Americans. These men stood about doing nothing, with their cloaks, little... ... others which we afterwards saw engaged in the same trade, have English or Americans for officers, and two or three before the mast to do the work ... ... as well as I could see in the dark- ness, was a young looking man, in the European dress, and covered up in a large cloak, was the agent of the fir... ...e country, spoke English; and who, we afterwards learned, were English and Americans who had married and settled in the country. I also connect... ... and lined inside with silk; a short jacket of silk or figured calico, (the European skirted body coat is never worn;) the shirt open in the neck; ri... ...re gowns of various texture—silks, crape, cali- coes, etc.,—made after the European style, except that the sleeves were short, leaving the arm bare,... ...n a few weeks on shore, unless he belong to some vessel. Consequently, the Americans and English who intend to remain here become Catholics, to a ma... ...serving for half a dozen. They never take short, continuous draughts, like Europeans, but one of these ‘‘Oahu puffs,’’ as the sailors call them, ser... ...esas Islands. The night before the vessels were ready to sail, all the Europeans united and had an entertainment at the Rosa’s hide house, and ...

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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... ...receiving instruction from the living voice, as well as from the books, of European scholars, is very familiar. At my own University of Harvard, not a... ...is- iting our land. It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk. The contrary habit, of talking whilst the Europeans listen,... ...sect and vari- ous dervish bodies are the possessors of the mysti- [244] A European witness, after carefully comparing the results of Yoga with those ...

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...aration faxed early in 1998 to an Arabic-language newspaper in London. Few Americans had noticed it. The fax had been sent from thousands of miles awa... ... on these themes. 2 He claimed it was more important for Mus- lims to kill Americans than to kill other infidels.“It is far better for anyone to kill ... ...that the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans. Nothing could stop you except perhaps retalia- tion in kind.We d... ...wer:“We are certain that we shall—with the grace of Allah—prevail over the Americans. ” He went on to warn that “If the present injustice contin- ues ... ...oment. How did Bin Ladin—with his call for the indiscrimi- nate killing of Americans—win thousands of followers and some degree of approval from milli... ... contacted Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah on July 5. Hadley apparently called European coun- terparts, while Clarke worked with senior officials in the G... ...thern Philippines to Indonesia • West Africa, including Nigeria and Mali • European cities with expatriate Muslim communities, especially cities 366 T... ...nce that the Spanish al Qaeda cell, led by Imad Barkat Yarkas and al Qaeda European financier Mohammed Galeb Kalaje Zouaydi, provided any funding to s... ...nly get worse.The Muslims will for- ever be oppressed and dominated by the Europeans and Jews. ”The prime minister’s argument was that the Muslims sho...

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...n creasing. These libraries have improved the general conver sation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent as most g... ...brave man, and might prob ably have made a figure as a good officer in some European war. But he had too much self confidence, too high an opin ion ... ...h an opin ion of the validity of regular troops, and too mean a one of both Americans and Indians. George Croghan, our Indian interpreter, join’d him... ...hia, where the inhabitants could protect him. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first suspicion that our exalted ideas of the prowess of Br... ...ent state of affairs in America and discourse thereupon, he said to me: “You Americans have wrong ideas of the nature of your constitution; you conten...

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... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...ut nightfall. At no period within history can travel have presented to any European creature the same face of awe and terror as to these courageous Ja... ... women, capable and incapable, played a conspicuous part upon the stage of European history; and yet their rule, whatever may have been the opinion of...