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...The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication T... ...ty university. 3 Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane CHAPTER I THE COLD PASSED reluctantly f... ...sity. 3 Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane CHAPTER I THE COLD PASSED reluctantly from the e... ... 3 Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane CHAPTER I THE COLD PASSED reluctantly from the earth, ... ...d disappeared forever. From his home his youthful eyes had looked upon the war in his own country with distrust. It must be some sort of a play affair...

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...re interested. The laying a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defend... ...d in favour of hereditary succession, is, that it pre serves a nation from civil wars; and were this true, it would be weighty; whereas, it is the m... ... which time there have been (includ ing the Revolution) no less than eight civil wars and nineteen rebellions. Wherefore instead of making for peace... ...ward, who in his turn was prisoner to Henry. And so uncertain is the fate of war and the temper of a nation, when nothing but personal matters are th... ...d the same idle ground. In absolute monarchies the whole weight of business, civil and military, lies on the king; the children of Israel in their req... ...engrossed the commons? In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nat... ...er lived. “Common Sense” Thomas Paine 25 THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF AMERICAN AFFAIRS IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES I offer nothing more than simpl... ...all it. France and Spain never were. nor perhaps ever will be our enemies as AMERICANS, but as our being the sub jects of GREAT BRITAIN. But Britain ... ...t brought to their doors to make THEM feel the precariousness with which all American property is possessed. But let our imaginations transport us far...

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...ow at the bar of public opinion—not only of this country, but of the whole civilized world—for judgment. Its friends have made for it the usual plea—”... ...stances; it is, moreover, a noble vindica- tion of the highest aims of the American anti-slavery move- ment. The real object of that movement is not o... ...r the first time in the world’s history, brought in full contact with high civilization, must prove his title first to all that is demanded for him; i... ...ion—vault into the high places of the most advanced and painfully acquired civilization. Ward and Garnett, Wells Brown and Pennington, Loguen and Doug... ...these remarkable men, and is still rising toward highest rank among living Americans, are abundantly laid bare in the book before us. Like the autobio... ...nly would his own history have had another termina- tion, but the drama of American slavery would have been essentially varied; for I cannot resist th... ..., like one possessed by a demon. Most evidently, he was a wretched man, at war with his own soul, and with all the world around him. To be overheard b... ...he subject of Catholic Emancipation, Lord Chatham’s speech on the American war, and speeches by the great William Pitt and by Fox. These were all choi... ...bject. Mr. Gardiner was, that season, engaged in building two large man-of-war vessels, professedly for the Mexican government. These vessels were to ...

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...ceived private proposals, and then present his treasures out of hand to an American city, not unknown to ; aesthetic fame, in which at that time there... ... Roderick Hudson air of apathetic homesickness, and she played her part in American society chiefly by having the little squares of brick pavement in ... ...t reserve to the great national dis- cipline which began in 1861. When the Civil War broke out he immediately obtained a commission, and did his duty ... ...rve to the great national dis- cipline which began in 1861. When the Civil War broke out he immediately obtained a commission, and did his duty for th... ...deal preci- sion. He had disentangled himself from business, and after the war he felt a profound disinclination to tie the knot again. He had no desi... ... from his brother, and in his way, I imagine, a very fine fellow. When the war broke out he found that the New England blood ran thicker in his veins ... ...- tience to get out of it. Is one’s only safety then in flight? This is an American day, an American landscape, an Ameri- can atmosphere. It certainly... ...l three years of disinterestedness. He ushered them in by talking composed civility until he had brought Miss Gar- land back to her companions. He saw... ...on. But it ‘s very likely. You are, in the literal sense of the word, more civilized. I dare say,” added Rowland, “that Miss Garland would think so.” ...

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... university. 3 Henry James A Little Tour In France by Henry James WE GOOD AMERICANS—I say it without presumption—are too apt to think that France is ... ...modern Gaul, and yet are still left vaguely unsatisfied by that epitome of civiliza- tion which stretches from the Arc de Triomphe to the Gymnase thea... ... hundred scars and bruises and mutila- tions, but the visible marks of the war of 1870 have passed away. The country is so rich, so living, that she h... ...f the inns, which are very decent and tidy, and in which every one is very civil, as if in this latter respect the influence of the old regime pervade... ...e were still content to sit awhile and exchange remarks upon, the superior civilization of France. Where else, at a village inn, should we have fared ... ... of old furniture, as all apartments should be through which the insatiate American wanders in the rear of a bored domestic, pausing to stare at a fad... ...had not come over the spirit of the people. They seemed to me as silent as Americans when Americans have not been “introduced,” and infinitely less ad...

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... from outward force; the Republic of Plato stood armed ready for defensive war, and the New Atlantis and the Uto- pia of More in theory, like China an... ...on. Two, I think, for to face a strange planet, even though it be a wholly civilised one, without some other familiar backing, dashes the courage over... ..., and at the word terminology I should insinuate a comment on that eminent American bi- ologist, Professor Mark Baldwin, who has carried the language ... ...hing refined, with some knowledge, perhaps, of the minor pains and all the civil self-controls; he has read more than he has suffered, and suffered ra... ...s we may transgress in coming down these mountain places. And yet, just as civil liberty itself is a compromise defended by prohibitions, so this part... ...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... ... born—abominably, and reared in cruelty and folly; there is a thing called war, a horror of blood and vileness. The whole thing seems to me at times a... ...for example, were to strip for gymnastics like men, to bear arms and go to war, and follow most of the masculine occupations of their class. They were...

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...llo! What have we here?’ “‘I want to see Mr. Powell, please,’ I said, very civil but firm; I would let nothing scare me away now. This was the Shippin... ...the sense of a mishap. Not in the least. Fyne was a good little man in the Civil Service. By acci- dent I mean that which happens blindly and without ... ... ran away in conventional style and, as if disgusted with the amenities of civilization, threw himself, figu- ratively speaking, into the sea. The dau... ...ishment. Its consort The Sceptre collapsed within the week. I won’t say in American parlance that suddenly the bottom fell out of the whole of de Barr... ...y! But Mrs. Fyne’s fervent “thank goodness” turned out to be a bit, as the Americans—some Americans—say “previous.” In a very short time the odious fe... ...an will willingly put himself in the way of moral damage. I did not want a war with Mrs. Fyne. I much preferred to hear something more of the girl. I ...

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... the great lakes that date as settlements as far back as many of the older American towns, and which were the seats of a species of civilization long ... ...many of the older American towns, and which were the seats of a species of civilization long before the greater portion of even the older States was r... ...erful means by which Providence is clearing the way for the advancement of civilization across the whole American continent. THE P A THFINDER CHAPTER ... ...e is clearing the way for the advancement of civilization across the whole American continent. THE P A THFINDER CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER ... ...eeping top, the rich varieties of the maple, most of the noble oaks of the American forest, with the broad-leaved linden known in the parlance of the ... ...ful in a redskin; but that he is wise, and has the cunning which becomes a war-nor. Arrowhead, there, knows what I mean.” While the Pathfinder was del... ...ess; and I will confess that one gets no venison at sea. Mas- ter Western, civility to girls, at your time of life, comes as easy as taking in the sla... ... a difference.” “He would be but a poor Indian if he didn’t. No, no; it is war-time, and no redskin is outlying without using his senses. Every skin h... ...had fairly started, and half a minute more would have left him without the war-lock. When 27 James Fenimore Cooper the Mohican squeezes my hand, and ...

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...air of repressing and saving her strength, as she stood with her hands folded before her, and her eyes slowly rolling, biding her time for catching or... ...Surely a dear Theatre, then? Because there were in Lon- don (not very long ago) Theatres with entrance-prices up to half-a-guinea a head, whose arrang... ...plauded the agreeable fact. In an allegorical way, which did as well as any other way, we and the Spirit of Liberty got into a kingdom of Needles and ... ...g come but the jug of ale and the bread, you implore your waiter to ‘see after that cutlet, waiter; pray do!’ He cannot go at once, for he is carrying... ...lsion to live in worse than swinish foulness. Accord- ingly, when any such Circumlocutional embellishments of the soldier’s condition have of late bee... ... as they sit within, drink- ing their mugs of beer, their relinquished scythes and reap- ing-hooks glare out of the open windows, as if the whole esta... ...posted, while struggling for life against the virtuous Richmond. It was within those walls that I had learnt as from a page of English history, how th... ...as already in the un- commercial line. This was a man who, though not more than thirty, had seen the world in divers irreconcilable capacities—had bee... ... at every violent roll, becomes the regular blast of a high pressure en- gine, and I recognise the exceedingly explosive steamer in which I ascended t...

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... and his labor culminated finally in the invention of a new system for the Civil Service of government. Know- ing the people with whom he had to do, h... ...stra- tive horizon. This tale, which is evolved from the very heart of the Civil Service, may also serve to show some of the evils of our present soci... ... Chamber, with their ten or a dozen ambi- tious and dishonest leaders, the Civil Service officials has- tened to make themselves essential to the warf... ... seemed to Rabourdin, in the first place, natural to unite the ministry of war with the ministry of the navy. To his thinking the navy was one of the ... ... the navy. To his thinking the navy was one of the current expenses of the war department, like the artillery, cavalry, infantry, and commissariat. Su... ...ce throughout France to five thousand men, exclusive of the departments of war and justice. Under this plan the clerks of the court were charged with ... ...ed an enor- mous bunch of old trinkets, among which in 1824 he still wore “American beads,” which were very much the fashion in the year VII. In the b... ...ling his cane and of flinging the sort of glance which Bixiou told him was American. He smiled to show his fine teeth; he wore no socks under his boot... ...nd China (where all government officials steal), also that of Austria, the American republics, and indeed that of the whole world, to the fact that fo...

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...xcept to be married; as to his private principles, he kept them within the civil code; all that the law did not forbid or could not prevent he conside... ...nder the famous Derville. He bore some resemblance to a retired chief of a civil service office; he had the peculiar face of a bureaucrat, less sallow... ... and for human reason to have to say that a science contem- poraneous with civilization, cultivated by Egypt and Chaldea, by Greece and India, met in ... ...ng settled here. Monsieur de Kergarouet intended to get him a place in the War office; but this imprisonment for debt will paralyze such efforts. You ... ... 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... ...ousand francs, a gift from Havana, which city, at the time of the American War of Independence, he had protected from an attack by the British, bringi... ... rank. Nevertheless, if I study three months at T oulon, the minis- ter of war can send me to sea as master’s mate; then after a cruise against the Al...

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...seem to have lost all idea of respect for whites. What we want is a man-of-war – a German, if we could – they know how to manage Kanakas.” “I am taboo... ... I was just a hair put out by the excitement of the commons, but the quiet civil appearance of the chiefs reassured me, all the more when their spokes... ...of a big chief at home; and I’ve come here to do them good, and bring them civilisation; and no sooner have I got my trade sorted out than they go and... ...He looked at me with a signal in his eye; and the five chiefs looked at me civilly enough, but kind of pointed; and the people looked at me and craned... ...hing he did was to count his money; the sum was exact – forty-nine dollars American money, and one Chili piece. “That looks like the truth,” said Keaw... ...save my lover. What is this you say about a cent? But all the world is not American. In England they have a piece they call a farthing, which is about...

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...ued the other. 5 “Sentiment does not move me very easily. Old Dunster was civil to me of course, but he did not even inquire how I was getting on wit... ...ll me why I was invited yesterday. For young Dunster never thought of this civility before… .” “Our Willie,” said the popular journalist, “never does ... ...ty offered, the firm 22 used to send them on to Malata either by a man-of-war schoo- ner going on a cruise, or by some trading craft proceeding that ... ...though, Cloete; for company; liked to talk to all sorts there; just habit; American fashion. “So Cloete takes that chap out more than once. Not very g... ...hough. As far as I can make it out, he was an officer on board a sloop- of-war. There’s nothing strange in that. At all stages of the long Peninsular ... ... in that. At all stages of the long Peninsular campaign many of our men-of-war of the smaller kind were cruising off the north coast of Spain—as risky... ...ness as far north as the Gulf of Tonkin. Neither did he disdain a spell of civilisation from time to time. And it was while loafing and cadging in Sai...

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...ole. This is the device by which the nobles of Provence elude the infamous Civil Code of M. de Bonaparte, a code which will drive as many girls of goo... ... known youth, but passed straight from his mother’s arms to the embrace of war, and from the joys of his country home to the frosts and forced labor o... ...le like Miss Griffith’s, it belongs to his in- ner nature; he forces us to civility because his own manners are so perfect, and holds us at a distance... ...e room, where I found the Duchess and Macumer. There was an interchange of civilities. I replied quite simply that if my father and M. Henarez were of... ...letter told Marie that he had been ap- pointed Captain in the navy of some American republic, and exhorted him to hope for better days. Alas! since th... ...ousand times, yes, it is true that nature and society are at one in making war on absolute happiness, because such a con- dition is opposed to the law... ...o warm me, was made. My jealousy, exposed in all its nakedness, had led to war and all its stratagems between Gaston and myself. Jealousy , dear, has ...

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...of skill—poker. He had been the aptest pupil of a steady-eyed, sententious American, who had drifted mysteriously into Macassar from the wastes of the... ... Dutch Excellency down in Batavia ever will be when some day a lazy man-of-war blunders at last against the river. I mean to keep the Arabs out of it,... ...d to Willems with a grim smile. “That’s Abdulla’s voice,” he said. “Mighty civil all of a sudden, isn’t he? I wonder what it means. Just like his impu... ... isn’t he? I wonder what it means. Just like his impudence! No matter! His civility or his impudence are all one to me. I know that this fellow will b... ...and silent creeks, they could hear the cheering of the crews of the man-of-war’s boats dashing to the at- tack of the rover’s village. Aissa, sitting ... ... with characteristic perverseness, a grievance of his unconcern. From cold civility in their relations, the two men drifted into silent hostility, the... ...ll the only trader here; the master here. Do you bring me a declaration of war? Then it’s from yourself only. I know all my other enemies. I ought to ...

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...y as well be called feudal En- gland, or chivalrous England. If in western civilized Eu- rope, there does exist a nation among whom there are high sig... ...shamsbury as fast as post- horses could carry him. Then, indeed, there was war in Barsetshire. If there was on Dr Thorne’s cranium one bump more devel... ...ot, indeed, in his own name, but in that of a brother doctor; and then the war raged merrily. It is hardly too much to say that Dr Fillgrave never kne... ...ation, morning, noon, and night, without ob- jection; but having begun the war, he was constrained to go on with it: his brethren would allow him no a... ...e very words; but Mr Gresham never did, and never will receive with common civility anything that comes from me.’ ‘I know, Rosina, he never did; and y... ...y acquitted of that vice, was certainly guilty of every other known in the civilized world. ‘I know he used, ’ said Lady de Courcy, looking very wise,... ... dishonesty—an act of dishonesty both to Scatcherd and to that far-distant American family, to that father, who, in former days, had behaved so nobly,... ...al of red beard beneath his chin, cut in a manner to make him look like an American. His voice also had a Yankee twang, being a cross between that of ... ...rican. His voice also had a Yankee twang, being a cross between that of an American trader and an English groom; and his eyes were keen and fixed, and...

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...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...c transmission, in any way. What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...rld peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provision made even for... ... the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no mo... ... so suicidal a possibility. America too, it may be, will develop some Pan- American equivalent. Probably the hundred millions of Latin America may ach... ...the State; it employs all the savings of surplus income that the unrest of civil enterprise leaves idle; it has an effect of creating property by a pr... ...come up for a moral judgment, on whose verdict the whole future of Western civilisation depends. If they cannot achieve a considerable, an unprecedent... ...ficials, any “conscription” of land or railways or what not for the urgent civil needs of the State. They will have fight- ing against these tendencie...

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...ience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. So...

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................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...ng agitations and the un- conquerable impatience of my nervous malady. 2. “War.”** —In this paper, from having faultily adjusted its proportions in th... ...ngs of his- tory, to show that the criminal (because trivial) occasions of war are not always its trifle causes, or to suggest that war (if resigned t... ...ld, Gustavus Adolphus* in modern days, fighting for the *The Thirty Years’ War, from 1618 to the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, was notoriously the last... ...en vindictive impulse, but in cold blood, to a simple case ap- parently of civil disobedience or revolt. Now, when we con- sider how intimate, and how... ...form; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whatever th... ...rent quarters,—what we both knew of Laxton, the barbaric splendor, and the civilized splendor,—had natu- rally an interest for us both in their contra... ...s, our sea-ports, and our universities, all so many recurring cen- tres of civility, it is not very easy to imagine such a thing in an island no large...

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...ost we could muster a few old ships, a couple of experimental ves- sels of war, and twenty-five thousand soldiers indifferently weaponed. We were in f... ...y, and said they were sure he would defend them. The men he addressed were civil. They listened to him, sometimes with smiles and sometimes with laugh... ... history. And oh, to feel for certain which side was the wrong side in our Civil War, so that one should not hesitate in choosing! Such puzzles are ne... ...ry. And oh, to feel for certain which side was the wrong side in our Civil War, so that one should not hesitate in choosing! Such puzzles are never, h... ...parrot repeating a line from some Lancastrian pamphlet. He really disliked war and the sword; and scorn- ing the prospect of an idle life, confessing ... ...ne of his heroes, and of Lancashire origin, strangely!), flew to the South American station, in and about Lord Cochrane’s waters; then as swiftly back... ...g the strong salt of his similes, likening that rascal and his crew to the American weed in our waters, to the rotting wild bees’ nest in our trees, t... ...up, he inclined to despise that black spot in the creation, with which our civilization should never have had anything to do. So he pronounced his min... ...midshipmite days, whole watches through—don’t you re- member? on the North American station, and in the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean. And that gir...

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...it is only pretended that inasmuch as they existed in the English and other civiliza tions of far later times, it is safe to consider that it is no ... ... long array of thrones: De Montforts, Gavestons, Mortimers, Villierses; the war mak ing, campaign directing wantons of France, and Charles the Seco... ...t. Of course that taint, that reverence for rank and title, had been in our American blood, too — I know that; but when I left America it had disapp... ... which I had heard attributed to every humorous person who had ever stood on American soil, from Columbus down to Artemus W ard. It was about a humoro... ...tually wanted me to put in! Well, I should smile. CHAPTER X. BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION THE R OUND T ABLE SOON HEARD OF THE CHALLENGE, and of c... ...uclei of future vast factories, the iron and steel missionaries of my future civilization. In these were gathered together the brightest young minds I... ...uiet. The talk of these meek people had a strange enough sound in a formerly American ear. They were freemen, but they could not leave the estates of ... ...ed, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literar... ...d the circus began. It was beautiful to hear the lad lay out the science of war, and wallow in details of battle and siege, of supply, transportation...

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...per trade should keep pace with the require- ments of the French system of civil government, a system by which the right of discussion was to be exten... ...a journalist, your name is well known enough. If they summons you before a civil court, come to me about it, that will be my affair; I engage to send ... ...alie about his business.” On the 28th of May, Lucien’s case came on in the civil court, and judgment was given before Desroches expected it. Lucien’s ... ...d; through their manner of conducting their case, a suit becomes a kind of war waged on the lines laid down by the first Marshal Biron, who, at the si... ...c Council; let them avoid all decisive measures, and they shall carry on a war for ever. Maitre Cachan, Petit-Claud, and Doublon, did better than the ... ... kind hearts will give Marion and Kolb a tear of sympathy? All through the war Kolb sat on a chair in the doorway, acting as watch-dog, when David had... ...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...

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...e criminal to delay any longer calling to your atten- tion a crime against American citizenship in which the French Government has persisted for many ... ...ment has persisted for many weeks—in spite of constant appeals made to the American Minister at Paris; and in spite of subse- quent action taken by th... ...e initiative of my friend, Hon. . 4 The Enormous Room The victims are two American ambulance drivers, Edward Estlin Cummings of Cambridge, Mass., and... ...thusiasm for the cause of France. Her cause was our cause and the cause of civilization; and the tragedy is that it took us so long to find it out. I ... ...e Enormous Room the accomplishment of a task so important in the saving of civilization from the clutches of Prussian tyranny was in some degree inhib... ... into six eyes which sat at a desk. T wo belonged to a lawyerish person in civilian clothes, with a bored expression, plus a moustache of dreamy propo... ...y and delicately made hand. He is a Belgian. Volun- teered at beginning of war. Permission at Paris, overstayed by one day. When he reported to his of... ...y divine host. Never have I tasted such wine. They had given me a chunk of war-bread in place of bless- ing when I left Noyon. I bit into it with rene... ... was not married, had not a little child. “The bachelors are lucky in this war”—he smiled. Now the gendarmes began cleaning their beards, brushing the...

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..., with this epitaph: Henry III., the founder of this cathedral. A.D. 1273. War is delightful to the unexperienced. It was this Henry who, one hundred ... ...tues of two giants, said to have assisted the English when the Romans made war upon them: Corinius of Britain, and Gogmagog of Albion. Beneath upon a ... ...heir fortunes, are fitter for saying their prayers than for the service of war; to each of them is assigned a pen- sion of eighteen pounds per annum a... ...coat of Edward IV ., enriched with rubies, and was preserved here till the civil war. *This is confounded with the Round Tower. 35 halls, and bathing... ...velvet, in some of which were woven history pieces; in others, Turkish and American dresses, all extremely natural. In the hall are these curiosities:... ...inaries or nursery of very many brave sol- diers, and so likewise were the civil wars of France, whither she sent five several armies. They were the F... ... sent Ambassador to France, and stayed there LEGAR long in the heat of the civil wars, and at the same time that Monsieur was here a suitor to the Que...

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...either of them had performed any very conspicuous action. They were highly civilized young Americans, born to an easy fortune and a tranquil destiny, ... ...ad performed any very conspicuous action. They were highly civilized young Americans, born to an easy fortune and a tranquil destiny, and unfamiliar w... ...of building up com- mercial fortunes—the most obvious career open to young Americans. They had, indeed, embraced no career at all, and if summoned to ... ... too, that this was not the first time he had seen her. She was simply the American pretty girl, whom he had seen a thousand times. It was a numerous ... ...heir gaze at first was full and direct, but it expressed nothing more than civil curiosity. This was immediately followed, however, by the light of re... ...ive up?” She touched him with her mocking smile again. “That is not a very civil question, asked in that way.” “You mean that I seem to doubt your abn... ...nt presented itself at first to Bernard’s mind as a sort of declaration of war. The girl had guessed that she was to be made a subject of speculative ... ... hardly knew whether to regard these few words as a further declaration of war, or as an overture to peace; but he lost no time in complying with the ...

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...ething must be done, even to the extent of attempts at a reconstruction of civiliza- tion on a thoroughly uncommercial basis. Conse- quently, the firs... ...r be- cause it alluded to the part taken by Austria in the Servo-Bulgarian war. This comedy was not one of the plays suppressed in England by the Lord... ...other evils which a censorship is supposed to avert, are punishable by the civil magistrate with all the sever- ity of vehement prejudice. Morality ha... ..., would stop enlightenment, and pro- duce what used to be called a Chinese civilization until the Chinese lately took to immoral courses by permitting... ...on and the Star Chamber, which were nothing but censorships, made ruthless war on impiety and immorality. The result was once familiar to English- men... ...ical that it reveals the unac- knowledged fact that as the Servo-Bulgarian War of 1885 was much more than a struggle between the Servians and Bulgaria... ... other hand, it is some- times so vague, as for example in the case of the American law against obscenity, that it makes the magistrate virtually a ce... ...ough to hang you, anyway. [Going over to him threateningly]. Youre no true American man, to insult a 86 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet woman like th... ...he word of a woman of bad character. I stand on the honor and virtue of my American manhood. I say that she’s not had the oath, and that you darent fo...

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... very difficult for thee to refrain from laughter, when I answered all thy civilities without uncovering my head, and at the same time said ‘thee’ and... ... many other Christians for- swear themselves on the holy Gospels. We never war or fight in any case; but it is not that we are afraid, for so far from... ...d to foot, and travelled from one village to another, ex- claiming against war and the clergy. Had his invectives been levelled against the soldiery o... ...hat country. The first step he took was to enter into an alliance with his American neighbours, and this is the only treaty between those people and t... ...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... ...emolishing of a few of them. For religious rage ceased in England with the civil wars, and was no more under Queen Anne than the hol- low noise of a s... ...England, which gives the advantage entirely to the lat- ter—viz., that the civil wars of Rome ended in slavery, and those of the English in liberty. T... ...Louis XIV . for no other reason but because he was ambitious, and declared war against him merely out of levity, not from any interested motives. The ...

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...ion we speak of the life of a savage tribe, of the Athenian people, of the American nation. “Life” covers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories an... ...ture members would be capable of if left to themselves. With the growth of civilization, the gap be- tween the original capacities of the immature and... ...e and thorough transmission 8 Democracy & Education takes place, the most civilized group will relapse into barbarism and then into savagery. In fact... ...re nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn. But as civilization advances, the gap between the ca- pacities of the young and th... ...otions are aroused in him that animate the others. A tribe, let us say, is war- like. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which ... ...at the expense of others, and that his ideas turn to things connected with war. Only in this way can he become fully a recognized member of his group.... ...e members of any group while it is isolated. The assimilative force of the American public school is eloquent testimony to the effi- cacy of the commo... ...asses previously hemmed off from one another. Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peo... ...ine. The logical result is expressed with literal truth in the words of an American humorist: “It makes no difference what you teach a boy so long as ...