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...t it. We do of course know that there are several comparatively old dates in American his tory, but the mere figures convey to our minds no just idea... ...it, he adds perspective and color, and then realizes that this is one of the American dates which is quite respectable for age. For instance, when the... ... country back again!—make restitution, not to the owners, but to their white American heirs. The voyagers journeyed on, touching here and there; ‘pass... ...ive. But he probably died or forgot, for he never came. It was doubtless the former, since he had said his parents were wealthy, and he only traveled ... ...de, and therefore we must hug the bank, up stream, to get the benefit of the former, and stay well out, down stream, to take advantage of the latter. ... ... hundred miles long, whose channel was shifting every day! The pilot who had formerly been obliged to put up with seeing a shoal place once or possibl... ... than 150,000 Catholics in the town; the other 250,000 must be classified as Protestants. Out of these 250,000, according to this questionable tele g...

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...Waverly Novels did for Scotland, turning its mountains, lakes and islands, formerly regarded with aversion, into a fairyland peopled with crea- tures ... ... a tree in another spot, and frequently recollected the catastrophe of the former, repeating with a significant emphasis, an aqueduct! an aqueduct! Ti... ...s, I confess, are not very amusing, but they serve to demonstrate that the former part of our education was well directed, since being, at such an ear... ... to believe, that could I convince them of their errors, they would become Protestants; they did not find, therefore, that facility in the work which ... ... regard to will and knowledge from the opinion they had entertained of me. Protestants, in general, are better instructed in the prin- ciples of their... ...hough not baptism, is very similar, and serves to persuade the people that Protestants are not Christians. I was clothed in a kind of gray robe, decor... ... with mine. T o prove this by experience, I taught music gratis to a young American lady, Mademoiselle des Roulins, with whom M. Roguin had brought me... ...ly connected with him to pass his name over in silence. M. du Perou was an American, son to a commandant of Surinam, whose successor, M. le Chambrier,...

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...afterwards the famous Cardinal Dubois), whose history was singular. He had formerly been a valet; but dis- playing unusual aptitude for learning, had ... ...erred it upon the Comte de T oulouse, giving to the friend and heir of the former the successorship to the government of Guyenne, by way of recompense... ...he ground floor. Our festivi- ties finished by a supper that I gave to the former friends of my father, whose acquaintance I had always cultivated wit... ...ttached to the Catholic religion, and strove hard to convert to it all the Protestants with whom he spoke. M. de T urenne, with whom he was intimately... ...whose permanent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek h... ...asy to persuade him that a decisive and tremendous blow struck against the Protestants would give his name more grandeur than any of his ancestors had...

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... coffee was always exhausted before I could elbow my way to the counter. Our American sunrise had ushered in a noble summer’s day. There was not a clo... ...w, I consulted him upon a point of etiquette: if one should offer to tip the American waiter? Certainly not, he told me. Never. It would not do. They ... ...but I did not wish to go to bed. And this, it appeared, was impossible in an American hotel. It was, of course, some inane misunderstanding, and spran... ...nged-hands. The Mexicans, you may say, are all poor and landless, like their former capital; and yet both it and they hold themselves apart and preser... ...ain fact. Their merits and their faults contributed alike to the ruin of the former landholders. It is true they were improvident, and easily dazzled ... ... may see Ameri- cans bound in the same chains with which they themselves had formerly bound the Mexican. It seems as if certain sorts of follies, like... ...(as you may read in Knox’s jeering narrative) under the knives of true- blue Protestants, and to this day (after so many centuries) the current voice ...

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... make war. His father was feeble, and worn out, and could not resist as in former times. He fell ill, and gave up the struggle, saying he would grant ... ...en saw that harm was intended, and went with all her other children to her former refuge in the sanctuary at Westminster; nor would she leave it when ... ...e king, died while yet a boy, and Anne, his wife, not long after. Then his former staunch friend, the Duke of Buckingham, began to feel that though he... ...rs of religion to rights; and in Germany the re- formers called themselves Protestants, because they protested some of the teachings of the Church of ... ... been in Germany, and had made friends with some of these German and Swiss Protestants, and he invited them to England to consult and help him and his... ...at Mary had done; the people who had gone into exile returned, and all the Protestants abroad reckoned her as on their side. But, on the other hand, t... ...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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...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... ...ght, that really rules the world. He has to recall Brynhild; take back his former instructions; and ordain that Hunding shall slay the Volsung. But no... ...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... ...ce of these ideas that we began to hear about the joy of life where we had formerly heard about the grace of God or the Age of Reason, and that the bo... ...evelation than the Church. This was called Protestant- ism; and though the Protestants were not strong enough for their creed, and soon set up a Churc... ...ch are continually superseding the institutions which were made to fit our former requirements. When your Bakoonins call out for the demolition of all...

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...nt inhabitants, who live on the verge of it, and help raise supplies for the former; third, the hunters, mostly Indians, who range over it in their se... ...e view of the river, rippling and gleaming far beneath us. My companions had formerly had a good view of Ktaadn and the other moun tains here, but to... ...n the woods overrun with weeds, called the Burnt Land, where a fire had raged formerly, stretching northward nine or ten miles, to Millinocket Lake. At... ...of our domains before the dew was off, and found that the ground hemlock, or American yew, was the prevailing under shrub. We breakfasted on tea, hard... ...ot the invention of historians and poets. It was a purely wild and primitive American sound, as much as the barking of a chickaree, and I could not un... ...f Maine, foreigners are not allowed to kill moose there at any season; white Americans can 84 The Maine Woods kill them only at a particular season, ... ...regularly in Oldtown. According to his account, a good many of his tribe are Protestants, and many of the Catholics also are in favor of schools. Some...

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...ho gave him a position in his business. On Denman’s death he returned to his former trade, and shortly set up a print ing house of his own from which... ...nd finally developed into the University of Pennsylvania; and he founded an “American The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3 Philosophical Society”... ...ned he received a place only second to that of Washington as the champion of American indepen The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He die... ...ins. This obscure family of ours was early in the Reformation, and continued Protestants through the reign of Queen Mary, when they were sometimes in ... ...tton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly, learned Englishman,” if I remember the words righ... ...at might jus tify the slaughter. All this seemed very reasonable. But I had formerly been a great lover of fish, and, when this came hot out of the f... ...ow about to do. I must record one trait of this good man’s character. He had formerly been in business at Bristol, but failed in debt to a number of p...

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...‘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... ... 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... ... ―But we see power illustrated constantly. It may be in the cruelty of state leaders like Charles Taylor of Liberia or Slobodan Milošević, the former... ...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... ... educational and psychological abilities to have ‗power to‘ and eventually to become lovers, in the broadest and most humanitarian sense. As former... ...ith the Jews. Existing populations may fear the invasion of immigrants. Sunnis and Shi‘ites have done it to each other recently, Catholics and Protes... ...validate a societal hypothesis! ―At the bottom of the happiness scales we have such countries as Zimbabwe, Congo and Burundi and the former...

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... be no better place to describe the duties, regulations, and customs of an American merchantman, of which ours was a fair specimen. The capta... ...s sextant which was out of order. This land fall settled the matter, and the former instrument was condemned, and, becoming still worse, was never ... ...ming out. She hailed us, and an officer on board, whom we supposed to be an American, advised us to run in before night, and said that they were boun... ... board, and soon after, the governor, dressed in a uniform like that of an American militia officer, the Padre, in the dress of the grey friars, wit... ...ce piece of work. It requires some seamanship to do it, and come to at your former moorings, without letting go another anchor. Captain Wilson was ... ...ndible in California. It was kept by a Yankee, a one eyed man, who belonged formerly to Fall River, came out to the Pacific in a - 59 - Two Years Bef... ... morning, and coming off again at night, in high spirits. So much for being Protestants. There’s no danger of Catholicism’s spreading in New Englan...