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...X: CHAPTER X: CHAPTER X: CHAPTER X: CHAPTER X: THE THE THE THE THE W W W W WAR A AR A AR A AR A AR AGAIN GAIN GAIN GAIN GAIN ............................ ... and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christ- mas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace.... ...n Sisson, this was home, this was Christmas: the unspeakably familiar. The war over, nothing was changed. Yet everything changed. The scullery in whic... ...cks was very red, the mangle with its put-up board was white-scrubbed, the American oil-cloth on the table had a gay pattern, there was a warm fire, t... ...o quiet, they had the dangerous impassivity of the Bohemian, Pari- sian or American rather than English. “Cigarette, Julia?” said Robert to his wife. ... ...ing that proud, rather stiff bend of her head was. She had some aboriginal American in her blood. But as she looked, she pursed her mouth. The artist ... ...n’t you think it all works out rather stupid and unsatisfying?” “Ah, but a civil war would be different. I’ve no interest in fighting Germans. But a c... ... don’t agree,” cried Josephine. “You’d feel you were doing something, in a civil war.” “Pulling the house down,” said Lilly. “Yes,” she cried. “Don’t ... ...aught: that warm and luxurious house. Heaven bless us, we who want to save civilisation. We had better make up our minds what of it we want to save. T...

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...................................................... 146 Chapter 3.4.II. In Civil War. ................................................................... ................................................ 146 Chapter 3.4.II. In Civil War. ......................................................................... ...lches, what have you invented?’ This?—Poor old Laporte, Inten- dant of the Civil List, follows next; quietly, the mild old man. Then Durosoy, Royalist... ...ing Galleries; Prussian Brunswick, ‘over a space of forty miles,’ with his war-tumbrils, and sleeping thun- ders, and Briarean ‘sixty-six thousand’ (S... ...winds: and, in brief, for years coming, such a suite of scenes as glorious war has not offered in these late ages, not since our Albigenses and Crusad... ... we, with Maton’s eyes, transiently saw haranguing, in the Court called of Nurses, Cour des Nourrices. On the other hand, cruel Billaud, likewise in s... ...emark with praise: the force of Politeness. To such depth has the sense of civilisation penetrated man’s life; no Drouet, no Legendre, in the maddest ... ...uses broken into (by a tumult of Patri- ots, among whom red-capped Varlet, American Fournier loom forth, in the darkness of the rain and riot); had th...

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...y, to an acute issue. In addition to the various business men, solicitors, civil servants, and widow ladies who lived in the Morningside Park Avenue, ... ...ount of warping and delay, they were pursuing these. One was in the Indian Civil Service and one in the rapidly devel- oping motor business. The daugh... ... Mr. Stanley’s acquaintance in the train and shown him one or two trifling civilities. He was an outside broker and the proprietor of a financial news... ...-making. For a time he heard no more, and stared with stony eyes at a Book-War proclamation in leaded type that filled half a column of the Times that... ...said Ann Veronica. “It has been proved,” said Miss Miniver, and added, “by American professors.” “But how did they prove it?” “By science,” said Miss ... ...up and unlocked the door. Her aunt did not object to capital punishment or war, or the industrial system or casual wards, or flogging of crimi- nals o... ...at down by the pa- per-rack with a general feeling of resemblance to Vivie War- ren, and looked through the Morning Post and Standard and Telegraph, a... ...s off, dear, but it’s dirt. “The white unaggressive woman who corrects and nurses and serves, and is worshipped and betrayed—the martyr- queen of men,...

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...WTH RATE 146 REAL WEALTH PER PERSON 147 BORROWING 147 BUDGET DEFICITS AND NATIONAL DEBTS 148 CRIMEANDITSCOSTS 150 FOREIGN AID AND GLOBILIZATION 152 4 WAR OR PACIFISM 152 THERE ARE NO ANSWERS 153 THINKING EFFECTIVELY155 HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING...

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...S POWER ................................................................................................................................... 41 WAR AN... ...ng conscious choices.‖ —―Well Ray, we like to think that we can think for ourselves and our quest for a religious afterlife and our civil ... ...id backwards while Kino and Singaling have taken over the values which once made us great. This saddens me, but it was to be expected. ―All civili... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ...eas here. ―The physiological, safety, love and esteem needs are called ‗basic needs‘ by Maslow. These needs should be easily met in any civili... ...Let‘s look at the case for some vitamins. ―The Danes found that when they sold butter to other countries during and after the World War. ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...mit that violence in films, TV programming and video games, helps to make better soldiers—where killing is an ideal form of behavior. In World War I ...

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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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...o any European eye, it is well known that the navy (especially, in time of war, the commercial navy) of Christendom is the sure receptacle of all the ... ...alified to act as ‘able’ sea- men: but at all times, and especially during war, only a small proportion (or nucleus) of each ship’s company consists o... ...was an old man above seventy, and was well fitted for his situation, being civil, and not at all morose, but, at the same time, firm in maintaining or... ...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ...urke’s generation, were pretty nearly as broad distinctions, and as much a war-cry, as English and French, Roman and Punic. Now, however, all this is ... ...ployed to make an index, introduced Milton’s name among the M’s, under the civil title of—‘Milton, Mr. John.’ 8 ‘Louis Baboon:’—As people read nothin... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ... kingly rights are almost inevitably carried too high in ages of imperfect civilization: and the well-known laws of Henry the Seventh, by which he eit... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ...

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...riends under the tents, who like a jolly fellow, and laugh at a melancholy war- rior always sighing after Dulcinea at home. Both the ladies of Castlew... ...re- sistance, such as had never met us in the course of their ag- gressive war. Had the battle been more successful, the con- queror might have got th... ...rightful day of carnage, the general cry was, that there was enough of the war. The French were driven back into their own boundary, and all their con... ...olland! Despot as he was, the French monarch was yet the chief of European civilization, more venerable in his age and misfortunes than at the period ... ... towards the Hanoverians, cautious with the Imperialists, and particularly civil and polite towards the Chevalier de St. George. ’Tis certain that mes... ...ch of which his sovereign, many of his family, and the greater part of the civilized world, were members.” And his lordship added a postscript, of whi... ...ng to live in a lodging, and turn the mutton at a string whilst your honor nurses the 31 Thackeray baby? Fiddlestick, and why did you not get this no... ...and in a land that is independent in all but the name, (for that the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe...

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...re?’ asked Maude, to whom it was as good as a story. ‘Yes, indeed. She was civil, of course, because they were father’s sisters, but I know she couldn... ...elf would take charge of the chil- dren. Whereupon there was a whoop and a war-dance of jubilee, quite overwhelming to Dolores, who could not but priv... ...ng about it!’ ‘They can’t mend,’ said Mysie. ‘Besides, do you know, in the American war, all the sewing-machines in the Southern States got out of ord... ...it!’ ‘They can’t mend,’ said Mysie. ‘Besides, do you know, in the American war, all the sewing-machines in the Southern States got out of order, and a... ...cent invention,’ said Dolores. ‘Oh! you didn’t think I meant the great old War of Inde- pendence. No, I meant the war about the slaves—secession they ... ... neat footpath, where numer- ous little children were being exercised with nurses and perambulators. At first it was bordered by fields on either side... ...l to you?’ ‘Far be it from me to say she is not exemplary in her per- fect civility to all her husband’s relations. Ada thinks her charming; but oh. L... ...that a person answering to his description had embarked at Liverpool in an American-bound steamer. This idea, though very uncertain, was a relief, at ... ...ublin it had been necessary on her husband’s account to give and take such civilities, she had kept out of the exchange at Silverton. But, on the othe...

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....................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .................................................................... ........................................ 189 CHAPTER XIII: AN APOLOGY FOR THE WAR .......................................................................... .... I have not allowed the division among the States and the breaking out of civil war to interfere with my intention; but I should not purposely have c... ...ve not allowed the division among the States and the breaking out of civil war to interfere with my intention; but I should not purposely have chosen ... ... subject in its present condition, and being so forced I must write of the war, of the causes which have led to it, and of its probable termination. B... ...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 done somewhat in mitigating that grief which the 11 Trollope horrors of civil war and the want of cotton have caused to us in England. Such certain... ...ow regrets the loss of the revolted American colonies; who now thinks that civiliza- tion was retarded and the world injured by that revolt; who now c...

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... kings, each with a different part of the island and as they were often at war with one another, they used to steal one another’s subjects, and sell t... ...dom as best he might. The King of Denmark died in the midst of his English war; but his son Cnut went on with the conquest he had begun, and before lo... ...th a fighting man em- broidered upon it. Then the Normans rode up on their war- horses to attack him, one brave knight going first, singing. The war-h... ...nd gunpowder for her husband’s army—for things had come to pass now that a civil war be- gan. A civil war is the worst of all wars, for it is one betw... ... for it is one between the people of the same country. England had had two civil 94 Young Folk’s History of England wars before. There were the Baron... ...op Sharpe was dragged out of his carriage and killed, and then there was a civil war, in which the king’s men prevailed; but the Whigs were harshly tr... ...d there was a heavy duty laid upon it when the king wanted money. Now, the Americans got their tea straight from China, and thought it was unfair that... ...ne thing, and at first a few French gentlemen came over to fight among the Americans, and then the king Louis XVI., quarreled with George III., and he... ...George III., and helped them openly. There was a very clever man among the Americans named Benjamin Franklin, a printer by trade, but who made very cu...

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... nineteen and a half centuries younger than we know them; but you would not guess that from their appearance. Below them are two notable drawbacks of civilization: a palace, and soldiers....

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... guess that from their appearance. Below them are two notable drawbacks of civilization: a palace, and soldiers. The palace, an old, low, Syrian build... ...ly as Buckingham Palace; and the officers in the courtyard are more highly civilized than modern En- glish officers: for example, they do not dig up t... ...g about cowardice, these Romans: they fight to win. The pride and honor of war are nothing to them. PERSIAN. Tell us the tale of the battle. What befe... ... a lion when the field is full of sheep, except for the pride and honor of war, of which these Romans know nothing. So we escaped with our lives; and ... ...oldiers have car- ried her out of Caesar’s reach, then the priests and the nurses and the rest of them can pretend she is a queen again, and put their... ... O subtle beyond thy years. THE PERSIAN. Cleopatra’s brother Ptolemy is at war with her. Let us sell her to him. 9 Caesar and Cleopatra THE GUARDSMEN... ...express it, poor, bare, ridiculous and unhomely. For T ottenham Court Road civilization is to this Egyptian civilization as glass bead and tattoo civi... ...all. One more illustration. Is the Englishman prepared to ad- mit that the American is his superior as a human being? I ask this question because the ... ...ds appear almost medieval to the up-to-date Chicagoan. This means that the American has an advantage over the Englishman of exactly the same nature th...

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...ly. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the no ... ...es; lying, flattering, voting, con tracting yourselves into a nutshell of civility or dilat ing into an atmosphere of thin and vaporous generos ity... ...e to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross neces saries of life and... ...ket; to keep yourself informed of the state of the markets, pros pects of war and peace everywhere, and anticipate the tendencies of trade and civili... ...map. Con trast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race before... ...t perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whoop ing cough. A... ...unless it be in Milwaukee, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, etc., gathered from all quarters both o... ...o make this fre quent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the so ciable, and about the fires... ...in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day. They lay ming...

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... life of ours is stuck round with 9 Emerson Egypt, Greece, Gaul, England, War, Colonization, Church, Court and Commerce, as with so many flowers and ... ...the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Pluta... ...ame power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses. Civil and natural history, the history of art and of lit- erature, must be ... ...n, because of the perils of the state from nomadism. And in these late and civil countries of England and America these propen- sities still fight out... ... by so much virtue as they contain. Commerce, husbandry, hunting, whaling, war, eloquence, personal weight, are somewhat, and engage my respect as exa... ...th, let us at least resist our temptations; let us enter into the state of war and wake Thor and Woden, courage and constancy, in our Saxon breasts. ... ... idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. They who made England, Italy, or Greece venerable in the imagina... ...r of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done ... ...s he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,—whip him.” Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate per...

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............................................ 104 Chapter 1.5.III. Broglie the War-God. ..................................................................... ...................................................... 455 Chapter 3.4.II. In Civil War . .................................................................. ................................................ 455 Chapter 3.4.II. In Civil War . ........................................................................ ...thout rule or rein; sav- age itself, yet with all the tools and weapons of civilisation; a spectacle new in History. In such a France, as in a Powder-... ...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ...ious shadow of him hovers long in all heads and hearts. Neither, while the War yet lasts, will Gibraltar surrender. Not though Crillon, Nassau-Siegen,... ...persons, that finding one military victim to have been imprisoned for real civil crime, they returned him to his cell, with protest. Why new military ... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...ning forth perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Con- gress, do the arrangements seem perfect. A Senator has not hi...

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...went too far; that Religion, being a great sanc- 12 Autobiography tion to civil morality, is of use for keeping society in order, at least the lower ... ... noblest men have, even from the beginning, warring with the very evils we war with, both made and been what will be vener- ated to all time? A wide a... ... he was destined to fall under it in a special manner. In the Seven Years’ War, which was now raging, France took the side of the empire against Frede... ...cene in Auerbach’s cellar. Egmont was also begun under the stimulus of the American Rebel- lion. A way of escaping from his embarrassments was unex- p... ...eginning to take an interest in German literature. Before the Seven Years’ War the whole of German culture had been French. Even now German writers fo... ... the only memorial left from ancient times of the precautions due from the civil govern- ment to its citizens. The beautiful stream above and below br... ... way the poor things are brought into a sad strait between the natural and civilized states, and, after restraining themselves for a while, break out,... ...Huguenots, who settled there after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.— American Note. 235 Goethe me. Her ill health kept her constantly at home. ... ...g class of men in England or America, which would justify an English word.—American Note. 328 Autobiography tained; which he very soon managed to gai...

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...d go. All the ways dis- covered so far lead to the horrors of our existing civiliza- tions, described quite justifiably by Ruskin as heaps of ago- niz... ...hat all enjoyment consists in undetected sinning; and in certain phases of civilization people of this kind are apt to get the upper hand of more amia... ...: they win everything on condition that they are afraid to enjoy it. Their civilizations rest on intimidation, which is so necessary to them that when... ...their sisters carry them, as our own spoiled children sometimes make their nurses, out of mere laziness, because sisters in the East and nurses in the... ...of Moses, and the speeches and pamphlets of the people who want us to make war on Germany, and the Noodle’s Orations and articles of our poli- ticians... ...set free, to be anything else than the slave he actually is, clamoring for war, for the lash, for police, prisons, and scaffolds in a wild panic of de... ...which he has been brought up to consult his own honor. As a Sportsman (and war is fundamentally the sport of hunting and fighting the most dangerous o... ...no- cent and beneficial. Also it is childish, being a continuation of what nurses call “taking notice,” by which a child becomes experienced. It is pi... ...ry art. The reason why the con- tinental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized En-...

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... for instance, the manufacture and care of arms and ac- coutrements and of war canoes, the dressing and handling of horses, dogs, and hawks, the prepa... ...e. The men are exempt from these vulgar employ- ments and are reserved for war, hunting, sports, and devout observances. A very nice discrimination is... ...ment it survives only in employments that are not classed as industrial, — war, politics, sports, learn- ing, and the priestly office. The only notabl... ...on who is to be propitiated. This holds true to an extent also in the more civilised communi- ties of the present day. The predilection shown in heral... ... in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men’s eyes. This direct, subjective value of leisure and of other... ...g sense of the indignity of the slightest manual labour is familiar to all civilized peoples, as well as to peoples of a less advanced pecuniary cultu... ...h to a greater extent than the latter. So it comes, for instance, that the American farmer and his wife and daughters are notoriously less modish in t... ...s the French peasant-pro- prietor parsimonious and frugal, and induces the American millionaire to found colleges, hospitals and museums. If the canon... ...l of the corset is not infrequent among the higher social classes of those American cities, for instance, which have recently and rapidly risen into o...

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...cuted in the Caucasus (especially from 1895 to 1898) for refusing to learn war. About seven thousand three hundred of them are settled in Canada, and ... ...s the Law Court?” Nekhludoff asked of an atten- dant. “Which? There is the Civil Court and the Criminal Court.” “I am on the jury.” “The Criminal Cour... ...with great animation. This man was talking about the trial going on in the Civil Court as of a case well known to himself, mentioning the judges and a... ...ent in the corridor increased. The people crowded most at the doors of the Civil Court, in which the case that the dignified man talked about was bein... ...litary man is, on the contrary, proud of a life of this kind especially at war time, and Nekhludoff had en- tered the army just after war with the Tur... ...f, wel- comed him this time more warmly than ever. Dmitri was going to the war, where he might be wounded or killed, and this touched the old aunts. N... ... on the newly-revived grass, children and dogs ran about, playing, and the nurses sat merrily chattering on the benches. Along the streets, still fres... ...nd this is a thing not only we but many have been considering. There is an American, Henry George. This is what he has thought out, and I agree with h... ...lova’s would shape if she were acquitted. He remembered the thought of the American writer, Thoreau, who at the time when slavery existed in America s...

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..., even in Europe; and which has never been quoted, to my knowledge, by any American — if we except, perhaps, the author of the “Curiosities of America... ...y increasing sound, like the moan- ing of a vast herd of buffaloes upon an American prairie; and at the same moment I perceived that what seamen term ... ...n. I studied him in his own works as well as in those of his European and American ech- oes. The ‘Charles Elwood’ of Mr. Brownson, for example, was p... ...Dr. F — took leave with a promise to return at daybreak. Mr. L — l and the nurses remained. We left M. V aldemar entirely undisturbed until about thre... ...grow upon the soil and are voiceless—is a stain upon the land- scape—is at war with the genius of the scene. I love, indeed, to regard the dark valley... ...ould not do less than offer him the service of my own; and he accepted the civility. Having obtained an oar at the water-gate, we pro- ceeded together... ...is that of extent; the worst phase of extent, that of dis- tance. It is at war with the sentiment and with the sense of seclusion—the sentiment and se... ...wagged his tail, but absolutely offered me his paw-afterward extending his civilities to Ponto. As no bell was discernible, I rapped with my stick aga... ...myself with Mr. Landor— for this, I afterwards found, was his name. He was civil, even cordial in his manner, but just then, I was more intent on ob- ...

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...48 are taught neither by the education nor the experience of En- glish and American gentlemen-amateurs, who are almost al- ways political mugwumps, an... ...akes him mightier than ever. You can see the process for yourself in every civilized country today, where millions of people toil in want and disease ... ...claims Alberic as an old acquaintance. But the dwarf has no faith in these civil strangers: Greed instinctively mistrusts Intellect, even in the garb ... ...he idea of forming a heroic bodyguard. He has trained his love children as war-maidens (Valkyries) whose duty it is to sweep through battle-fields and... ...called the Neidings, upon whom he and Wolfing thenceforth waged implacable war until the day when his father disappeared, leaving no trace of himself ... ...d Act So far, Wotan’s plan seems prospering. In the mountains he calls his war-maiden Brynhild, the child borne to him by the First Mother, and bids h... ...n empire for it. He knows the pedigree of the child left on his hands, and nurses it to manhood with great care. His pains are too well rewarded for h... ...y is a cave, in which he hides from the light like the eyeless fish of the American caverns. Before the cur- tain rises the music already tells us tha... ...at such a price, is the first question that would occur to anyone except a civilized man, who would be too accustomed to that sort of mania to be at a...

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..., and 20 Sons & Lovers his meals were a misery that day. She spoke to him civilly, and never alluded to what he had done. But he felt some- thing fin... ...itable. His work seemed to exhaust him. When he came home he did not speak civilly to anybody. If the fire were rather low he bullied about that; he g... ...impersonal. He stood and glared at her without moving a muscle. “I asked a civil question, and I expect a civil answer,” he said affectedly. “And you ... ...s mother do it? He wouldn’t. So, of course, he’ll suffer in there with the nurses. And I didn’t like leaving him. I’m sure, when I kissed him an’ came... ... followed the manufacturer into a grubby little room, upholstered in black American leather, glossy with the rub- bing of many customers. On the table... ...s. Polly was curt and businesslike. The two depart- ments were for ever at war, and Paul was always finding Fanny in tears. Then he was made the recip... ... the army. They’re deadly poor, and life’s deadly slow. So they hope for a war. They look for war as a chance of getting on. Till there’s a war they a... ...ing on. Till there’s a war they are idle good-for-nothings. When there’s a war, they are leaders and commanders. There you are, then— they want war!” ...

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...a good social position. You’ve only to say one word, and I’ll work for the Civil Service. I’m good enough to get in high.” Mr. Ansell liked money and ... ...d the tree. “What do you think of him?” she immediately asked. He murmured civilly. “Has he changed since he was a schoolboy?” “In a way.” “Do tell me... ...kie’s face. The horror disappeared, for, thank God, he was now a man, whom civilization protects. But he and Gerald had met, as it were, behind the sc... ... visit to your rooms, and you see nothing but dark plots and challenges to war.” “War!” cried Ansell, crashing his fists together. “It’s war, then!” “... ...decide. The Thompson family knew it to be far older than the Franco-German war. It was the property of Government. It was full of gold and dead soldie... ...there are the sons of the men here, and have come back to the old country. War’s horrible, yet one loves all continuity. And no one could mind a shep-... ...tely clear, and beside it stood his mother and the sweet family life which nurses up a boy until he can salute his equals. He was ashamed, for he reme... ...e of criticism is quite a thing of the past. Have you seen the illustrated American edition?” “I don’t remember.” “Might I send you a copy? I think yo...

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...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controve...

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...call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some... ... the delicate dressing of the old knight, came on him almost like gracious civilities. There was no love lost between the Chevalier and the chap- lain... ...resence at the table; and Berenger, though his kinsman’s patronage secured civil treatment, felt much out of his element, confused, unable to take par... ... Roy,’ but ‘Vive l’Amiral,’ and more than once the cry was added, ‘Spanish war, or civil war!’ The heart of France was, if not with the Reformed, at l... ...ut ‘Vive l’Amiral,’ and more than once the cry was added, ‘Spanish war, or civil war!’ The heart of France was, if not with the Reformed, at least aga... ...g himself from the thraldom of his mother, and engag- ing the country in a war against Philip II. Sidney listened, but Berenger chafed, feeling only t... ...son should bear. Such baptisms were not unfrequently per- formed by French nurses, but Eustacie exclaimed with a sound half dismay, half indignation. ... ...in general the scum of the nation—were apt to comport themselves more like American buccaneers than like champions of any form of religion. La Sableri... ...treet. The two lads had made up their minds to encumber themselves with no nurses, or womanfolk. The child should be carried, fondled, and fed by her ...

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... and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but the Combine that had shivered beneath his knife gave him all the honours of war: Gunsberg himself, full of condolences, came to the steamer and filled the Chapins? suite of cabins with overwhelming flower-works....

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...he Combine that had shivered beneath his knife gave him all the honours of war: Gunsberg himself, full of condolences, came to the steamer and filled ... ...ve a good time in her. You were—” “Well, I discovered I was too much of an American to be content to be a rich man’s son. You aren’t blaming me for th... ...riage!” Sophie exclaimed, a little awed; for to them the joke, which to an American means work, was only just beginning. “If it’s took in a proper spi... ...as his present keen interest. They set off to look at it, and the imported American scraper which had blighted the none too sunny soul of “Skim” Winsh... ... Cry, which to a bee of good blood should be what the trumpet was to Job’s war-horse. In spite of her immense age (three, years), it rang between the ... ...d out how to steer dirigible balloons. Magniac invented his rudder to help war-boats ram each other; and war went out of fashion and Magniac he went o... ...w score of persons of both sexes, controls this planet. “Transportation is Civilisation,” our motto runs. Theoretically, we do what we please so long ... ...d by the way,” said he to her, stepping forth in sunshine under the hat of civil life, “I saw young Williams in the Mark Boat. I’ve asked him to tea o... ... your cannibals to work for you?” asked Strickland. “They got converted to civilization after my Chief smashed Ibn Makarrah—just at the time I wanted ...

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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... ... us of so happy a distinction? Why should we abandon our babe to mercenary nurses, when we ourselves have milk enough for it? These mercenary creature... ...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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...as with the Prince of Lies and Darkness, we do at all times wage internecine war. This assurance, at an epoch when puffery and quackery have reached a... ...ous man is Decoration, as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. “Reader, the heaven inspired melodious Singer; lofti... ...as acquired somewhat of a sign post character,—I shall here say nothing: the civil and pacific classes, less touched upon, are wonderful enough for us.... ...ith them, the whole fabric of Government, Legislation, Property, Police, and Civilized Society, are dissolved, in wails and howls.” Lives the man that... ...ous sports of skill or strength, the Boy trains himself to Co operation, for war or peace, as governor or governed: the little Maid again, provident o... ...awn two ways at once, and in this im portant element of school history, the war element, had little but sorrow.” On the whole, that same excellent “P... ...t as articulately perhaps as the case admitted. Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and bat tle... ..., considerably involved in haze. To the first English Edition, 1838, which an American, or two American had now opened the way for, there was slighting... ...ed and pacificated.’ Here is a”...—Sun Newspaper, 1st April, 1834. III. NORTH—AMERICAN REVIEWER. . . . . . “After a careful survey of the whole ground,...

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... poor George, who had taken the King’s side in our lamentable but glorious war of independence. Neither my father nor my mother ever wore powder in th... ...word, and his order on his cloak, which he had from the Emperor during the war on the Danube against the Turk. Seeing the great and undeniable likenes... ...e parents watched with an intense eagerness and care; but who, in spite of nurses and physicians, had only a brief existence. His tainted blood did no... ... ann. 1686, Gentle- man Usher of the Back Stairs, and afterwards appointed War- den of the Butteries and Groom of the King’s Posset (on the decease of... ...d on Harry’s shoulder, relented to Mr. Esmond, and condescended to be very civil to him; and some days after his arrival, Harry, laughing, told this s... ...his Grace everywhere—at the Hague, Utrecht, Ruremonde, and Maestricht; the civil authori- ties coming to meet his coaches: salvos of cannon saluting h... ...ore her Majesty, as the world said, though she never could be got to say a civil word to Beatrix, whom she had promoted to her place as maid of honor,... ...ng to live in a lodging, and turn the mutton at a string whilst your honor nurses the baby? Fiddlestick, and why did you not get this nonsense knocked... ... is independent in all but the name, (for that 350 Henry Esmond the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe...

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...nobleman in the days of the first Don Juan, are now triumphant everywhere. Civilized society is one huge bour- geoisie: no nobleman dares now shock hi... ... and then disparage it as unworthy and indelicate. We laugh at the haughty American nation be- cause it makes the negro clean its boots and then prove... ... the partition of the whole of Africa and perhaps the whole of Asia by the civilized Pow- ers. Can you believe that the people whose conceptions of so... ...ng about our imperial destiny; but our eyes and hearts turn eagerly to the American millionaire. As his hand goes down to his pocket, our fingers go u... ...ighton and the south coast with the Riviera, for the spending money of the American T rusts. What is all this growing love of pag- eantry, this effusi... ... down my view of the existing relations of men to women in the most highly civilized soci- ety for what it is worth. It is a view like any other view ... ...nite grace; walks with a feather-like step; and makes every wrinkle in his war worn visage brim over with holiday joyous- ness. T o his sculptor he ow... ... illnesses and agonies and risks of death, their reti- nue of servants and nurses and doctors and schoolmasters. THE DEVIL. All this, Senor Don Juan, ...

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...here, the dark, tall statures of the Princes Metzengerstein—their muscular war-coursers plunging over the carcasses of fallen foes —startled the stead... ...said,—“we could not do at all without the women; they are the best lunatic nurses in the world; they have a way of their own, you know; their bright e... ...les, Lettres, Universal, Experimental, Biblio- graphical, Association, To, Civilize, Humanity.” Dr. Moneypenny made the title for us, and says he chos... ...making known to him the wishes of the society, he re- ceived me with great civility, took me into his study, and gave me a clear explanation of the wh... ...tion for me in all other respects, and indeed treated me with the greatest civility. His parting words made a deep impression upon my heart, and I hop... ...ut. Audacity:—Y our diddler is audacious.—He is a bold man. He carries the war into Africa. He conquers all by assault. He would not fear the daggers ... ...utter some ques- tions, and learned, among other glorious news, that civil war is raging in Africa, while the plague is doing its good work beau- tifu... ...ously laid by itself “solitary and alone” (excuse me for quoting the great American poet Benton!), as a guarantee of the magnani- mous intention. We a... ...it. The truth is, I labored under the disadvantage of having no monkey—and American streets are so muddy, and a Democratic rabble is so obstrusive, an...