Full Text Search Details
...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE FI... ...eral Circulation by Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE FIRST CHEAP EDITION OF “AMERICAN NOTES” It is nearly eight years since this book was first publishe... ...ight years, and could disre gard for eighty more. LONDON, JUNE 22, 1850. American Notes – Dickens 3 PREFACE TO THE “CHARLES DICKENS” EDITION OF “A... ...of my kind come glowing on my heart, and wished to God there had been many Atheists in the better part of human nature there, to read this simple less...

Full Text Search Details
...rgely made up for by the good will and generous efforts of the English and American press. An interesting monograph might be written upon these variou... ...ut out a bed of begonias. In Paris I met a charming 50 War and the Future American writer, the wife of a French artist, the lady who wrote My House o... ...nally into the writer’s study there come to hand drifting fragments of the American literature upon the ques- tion of “preparedness,” and American pap... ...ce to the initiatives of Mr. Diplock; they have approximated rather to the American caterpillar. As I suspected when first I heard of these devices, t... ...s. Some people in London the other day were pretending to be shocked by an American who boasted that he had been in “two bully bombardments,” but he w... ...God, those who doubt like Huxley the Agnostic, those who deny him like the Atheists but who do at least keep his place vacant, and lastly those who ha...

Full Text Search Details
... women he has met. They have been people of very various origins; English, Americans, Bengalis, Russians, French, people brought up in a “Catholic atm... ...d of * It is not so generally understood as it should be among English and American readers that a very large proportion of early Christians before th... ...RNAL REALIT 3. GOD IS AN EXTERNAL REALITY Y Y Y Y IT MAY BE ARGUED that if atheists and agnostics when they set themselves to express the good will th... ...t in the unguarded self-revelations of the most se- vere and conscientious Atheists. Now, the Stoics, like many other schools of thought, drew an argu... ...re existed solitary animals that are not gregarious, pure individualists, “atheists” so to speak, and as though this ap- peal to a life beyond one’s o... ...beliefs. One may find within the An- glican communion, Arians, Unitarians, Atheists, disbeliev- ers in immortality, attenuators of miracles; there is ...

Full Text Search Details
...d the Episcopalians Mil lerites and the Millerites Hindus, and the Hindus Atheists, and the Atheists Spiritualists, and the Spiritualists Agnos tics... ...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...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...

Full Text Search Details
..., and at the word terminology I should insinuate a comment on that eminent American bi- ologist, Professor Mark Baldwin, who has carried the language ... ...ing the obverse side, and a head thereon—of Newton, as I live! One detects American influ- ence here. Each year, as we shall find, each denomination o... ...*But see Gidding’s Principles of Sociology, a modern and richly suggestive American work, imperfectly appreciated by the Brit- ish student. See also W... ...machinery. He is the great primitive of modern Utopias, and Bellamy is his American equivalent. Hitherto, either slave labour (Phaleas),** or at leas... ...one, one expects a person as precise and insistent and in- structive as an American advertisement—the advertisement of one of those land agents, for e... ...you can say about Herbert Spencer, vivisectors, mate- rialistic Science or Atheists, applies without correction to me. Begbie away! But now you think ...

Full Text Search Details
...mo; but apart from the locality, and that a pretty wide one (all the South American Continent), the novel and the story have nothing in common, neithe... ...n with that feeling of superiority the success of our cause inspired in us Americans. I suppose I re- ally despised him because he was an old Castilia... ...rds made himself master by surprise of two more ships, one English and one American. “It was rumoured at the time that he dreamed of setting up a navy... ...timism flinched. He doubted and be- came lost. You have heard of converted atheists. These turn often into dangerous fanatics, but the soul 89 Joseph... ...n island as big as a small province, lying in the estuary of a great South American river. It is wild and not beautiful, but the grass growing on its ...

Full Text Search Details
...la?’ He shows me the paper. It is an old scrap of print, the picture of an American patent door-spring, with directions: ‘Fasten the spring either end... ...ten the spring either end up. Wind it up. Never unwind.’ It is laconic and American. The signore watches me anx- iously, waiting, holding his chin. He... ...e few women slip away home. In the little theatre bar the well-to-do young atheists are having another drink. Not that they spend much. A tumbler of w... ...and thin and somewhat German-looking, wearing 99 Twilight in Italy shabby American clothes and a very high double collar and a small American crush h... ... Giovann’, who was evidently a figure of repute, in his sordid, degenerate American re- spectability. Meanwhile, this figure of repute blew himself re... ...rched collar made one aware that his neck and his ears were not clean, his American crimson tie was ugly, his clothes looked as if they had been kicki...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...f his virtues or his splendor, he does not care to face his fellows. Among atheists—Christians being without the question of suicide—among atheists, w... ... things I promised myself to see in Paris. We, in Spain, do not believe in atheists. There is no country but France where one can have such opinions a...

Full Text Search Details
...st pairts of the sea.” “O, my lamb, ye must never say the like of that!” she cried. “Ye’re to honour faither and mother, dear, that your days may be l... ...Kirstie, ye have shaved it this time, my lass?” said Clem. “Whaur were ye?” “O, just taking a dander by mysel’,” said Kirstie. And the talk continued ...

Full Text Search Details
...k him. She found him, with- out a guide, making her way alone in the North American wilderness, reaching him just in time to save his life. Louis had ... ...s and certain Saints, who, in our day, would be regarded as heresiarchs or atheists. He was rigidly calm during the ser- vices. His own prayers went u... ...scover whether we are inseparable from the future. “We have been Deists or Atheists in one direction only. “Is the world eternal? Was the world create...

Full Text Search Details
...eligious thoughts. Nay, it has been common to class him amongst deliberate atheists; and some well known anecdotes are cur- rent in books, which illus... ...farther than Cicero, and other great contemporaries, who assuredly were no atheists. One mark perhaps of the wide interval which, in Cæsar’s age, had ... ...and extensive ravages by fire, such as now happen, not unfrequently in the American woods, (but gen- erally from carelessness in scattering the glowin...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ..., 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... ...d by strap and tongue from his earliest years. Of one fact about professed atheists I am convinced; they may be—they usually are—fools, void of subtle... ...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,...

Full Text Search Details
...as a natural consequence of their eccentricities; they were, moreover, all atheists, and people should be very careful not to admit them into their ho... ...ls, walls hung with an olive-green paper, and otherwise decorated with the American Declaration of Independence, a portrait of Bonaparte as First Cons... ...says he will be a great man; he has a mind like Voltaire.” “An author? all atheists.” “Let’s put him down, papa; we want more dancers. Be- sides, he w...

Full Text Search Details
... the revolution eight hundred students, and among them several Germans and Americans. The munificence and energy of many of the Greek princes and merc... ... reported that this Messiah had arrived at a seaport near Lacedaemon in an American brig. The association of names and ideas is irresistibly ludicrous... ...e their English breed By vile participation of their honours With papists, atheists, tyrants, and apostates. _75 When lawyers mas...

Full Text Search Details
...igious ideas were almost dead, men who called them- selves deists and were atheists. The deist is an atheist lucky in classification. Minoret had a fo... ... three thousand francs, a gift from Havana, which city, at the time of the American War of Independence, he had protected from an attack by the Britis...

Full Text Search Details
...ity, to flatterers; Roman vir tue, to betrayers of their country; piety, to atheists; chas tity, to sodomites; truth, to informers: how many inno c... ...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...

Full Text Search Details
...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...e is a godless woman of the world,” would Mr. Crawley say; “she lives with atheists and Frenchmen. My mind shud- ders when I think of her awful, awful...

Full Text Search Details
...was not done in a cor- ner, and may serve as an answer to witch-advocates, atheists, and misbelievers of all kinds.—Ye must know that the wor- shipful... ...is time, when there’s sae little money stirring in Scotland wi’ this weary American war, that somebody may get the land a bargain—Deil be in them, tha... ...who was to usher him to the man of law. The period was near the end of the American war. The desire of room, of air, and of decent accommodation, had ... ...hly, deserved; yet his pride and interest, like the for- titude of a North American Indian, manned him to sustain the tortures inflicted at once by th...

Full Text Search Details
...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...e is a godless woman of the world,” would Mr. Crawley say; “she lives with atheists and Frenchmen. My mind shud- ders when I think of her awful, awful... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was... ...to read an authentic de- scription of vice than a truly refined English or American fe- 658 V anity Fair male will permit the word breeches to be pro...

Full Text Search Details
...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ...re to look when I find myself 7 Memories and Portraits in company with an American and see my countrymen un- bending to him as to a performing dog. B... ...npopulous. It is not so for nothing. I once seemed to have perceived in an American boy a greater readiness of sympathy for lands that are great, and ... ...- demned anybody else. I have no doubt that he held all Ro- man Catholics, Atheists, and Mahometans as considerably out of it; I don’t believe he had ...

Full Text Search Details
... 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... ... down into our hearts, or mine at least, and I now defy all the Deists and Atheists in the world to shake my faith in Christ.” So much for Mr. Bradley... ...ist—but as being rooted in delusion altogether, just as material- ists and atheists have always said it was. At most there might remain, when the dire...

Full Text Search Details
...w unlike To that first naked Glorie. Such of late 1115 COLUMBUS found th’ AMERICAN to girt With featherd Cincture, naked else and wilde Among t... ... all thir fame Ignobly, to the trains and to the smiles 620 Of these fair Atheists, and now swim in joy, (Erelong to swim at larg) and laugh; for...