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...me coloured, and white, flowering trees. “They said they would show me the Americans,” she said. “Why was it, mother? I thought Americans were like th... ...es, and a pond, and statues standing round it, and I don’t think they were Americans, for I know one was Diana, because she had a bow and quiver. I wa... ... scene in the cloistered court of a Moorish house in Alge- ria, adapted to European habits. The slender columns sup- porting the horse-shoe arches wer... ...ense, and had just come home from the French modiste who had adapted it to European wear. Allen started up in admiration and delight. Even Mr. Mor- ga... ... him collecting testimonials for his fitness to act as Vice-principal to a European college at Yokohama for the higher education of the Japanese. “Mot... ...ing with “M.A., Oxford, ac- customed to the best society and familiar with European lan- guages,” but though the newspapers charged highly for it, he ...

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...eforth pray to, with up- turned awestruck eye, not without hope? The white European mocks; but ought rather to consider; and see whether he, at home, ... ...l Deputy; but be sternly beckoned away. Dimmer then, far-borne over utmost European lands, in uncertain twilight of diplo- macy, he shall hover, intri... ...rnal epochs, of working and slumbering; and now, for the second time, most European and African mortals are asleep. But here, in this Whirlpool of Wor... ...ht very naturally, one after one, have glided off; and the whole course of European His- tory have been different! But he is there. List to the brool ... ... aban- doned altogether to itself. What a Paris, when the darkness fell! A European metropoli- tan City hurled suddenly forth from its old combination... ...ondins, parcel us into separate Republics, then; like the Swiss, like your Americans; so that there be no Metropolis or indivisible French Nation any ...

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...alternative,—’the Pacific Islands, but they will soon be snapped up by the European and North American Govern- ments, and a single one of them does no... ...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...

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...g.” So, we are told, the New Hol lander goes naked with impunity, while the European shivers in his clothes. Is it impossible to combine the hardines... ...h, and not like the azure ether beyond. Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with t...

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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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...choly place. This was partly owing to the despondent tone in which so many Americans then spoke of their own affairs. It was not that the Northern men... ...ke up arms to vindicate the sacred principle of liberty. Few Englishmen or Americans will deny that the source of government is the consent of the gov... ...n, or soon will be, exterminated—polished off the face of creation, as the Americans say—which fate must, I should say, in the long run attend all non... ... prevailing. By colored men I alluded to mulattoes, and all those of mixed European and African blood. The word “colored,” in the States, seems to app... ...ir of substantial, civic dignity. It must, however, be remembered that the Americans live much more in towns than we do. All with us that are rich and... ...tates- men, and sends to them messages as though from an altitude which no European politician had ever reached. At home he has affected the Prime Min... ...hich seems to be regarded as the one thing needed in the cabinets of other European nations. This has been a great blessing to the United States, but ... ...e, or those which everybody wishes to have. The total amount of postage on European letters, i.e. letters passing between the States and Europe, in th... ...n the last year, as to which accounts were kept between Washington and the European post-offices, was £275,000. Of this over £150,000 was on letters f...

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...nd effective service from the servants? Y.M. Oh, hear yourself talk! Those European servants? Why, you wouldn’t get any of all, to speak of. O.M. Coul... ...d drinking habits acquired at sea and in the sailor boarding houses of the European and Oriental ports, was a common rough in Hong Kong, and What Is ... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...e, I do not now remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very we... ...that is all it amounts to, isn’t it? A prince is not to us what he is to a European, of course. We have not been taught to regard him as a god, and so... ...ter interest the next time. We want a fresh one. But it is not so with the European. I am quite sure of it. The same old one will answer; he never sta...

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...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...lf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics... ... return in the autumn. Again, there is a stream of thousands of prosperous Americans to summer in Europe. Compared with any European country, the whol... ...f thousands of prosperous Americans to summer in Europe. Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equ... ...ts wholly or partially across the frontier. In every locality of a Western European country countless people are found delocalised, uninterested in th... ...osophical thought, or see many good plays or under- stand the contemporary European mind, German. And yet it would cost amazingly little to get every ... ... development if the thing is to be achieved. Now that, I admit, is, as the Americans say, a large propo- sition. But we are living in a time of more a... ...o maintain one during that conflict of preparation which is at present the European substitute for actual hostilities. It consumes. It produces nothin... ...pon it peculiarly urgent is the manifestly temporary nature of the present European situation and the fact that within quite a small number of years o...

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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... ...sing his august office openly in the light of day, with the authority of a European repu- tation. But then M. Jules Lemaitre is a man possessed of wis... ...nd the Augustulus of the REGIME that was wont to speak contemptu- ously to European Foreign Offices in the beautiful French phrases of Prince Gorchako... ...ound for the advent of a still larger understanding: for the solidarity of Europeanism, which must be the next step towards the advent of Concord and ... ... lies outside the stream of progress. This des- potism has been utterly un-European. Neither has it been Asiatic in its nature. Oriental despotisms be... ... necessities, or the aspirations of mankind. That despotism has neither an European nor an Oriental parentage; more, it seems to have no root either i... ...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 ...

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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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...aptain Mumford under the star of the Guelphic Order which he wore, and the Americans, with a shout, rushed up the com- panion to the quarter-deck, upo... ...ever imagined by seaman. It is this which has been so wrongly described by European annalists, and of which the British until now have maintained the ... ...reat deal faster than to the regular corps in the Company’s service. I had European officers, of course, to command them, and a few of my coun- trymen... ...te-faced-Feringhees-near-the-mango-tope-conse- crated-to Ram’) occupied by Europeans. (It is astonishing, by the way, how comprehensive that language ... ...matchless power of your indomitable arm.’ “Futtyghur is, as I have said, a European station, and the pretty air of the bungalows, amid the clustering ... ...he dollars; do you hear?” Y ou see I had her in my power—up a tree, as the Americans say, and she very humbly lighted my 178 Thackeray pipe for me, a...

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...in America, and would have made them appear vener- able in the eyes of the Europeans, were it possible for man- kind to respect virtue when revealed i... ...in his native country, went back to Penn- sylvania. His own people and the Americans received him with tears of joy, as though he had been a father wh... ...nt an uncertain evil. The English, on the other side, call the rest of the Europeans cowardly and unnatural. Cowardly, because they are afraid of putt... ... not be corrected might at least be pointed out. By this means, as all the Europeans read those works, they would teach them our language in its utmos...

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...f Maine, foreigners are not allowed to kill moose there at any season; white Americans can 84 The Maine Woods kill them only at a particular season, ... ... the period of the discovery of America, to San Salvador and the Incas, when Europeans first encountered the simple faith of the Indian. There was, ind... ... a noise in the world, — never hear of America, so called from the name of a European gentleman. There is a lumberer’s road called the Eagle Lake road...

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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...