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...d he was the only gentleman so engaged, except the two clergymen—the other male teachers being a formal, grave, little baker, and one or two monitors.... ... own brother. It was believed that the Alcestis was destined for the South American station. “A three years’ business,” said Dr. May, with a sigh. “Bu... ...es, joys, and incen- tives shone out more and more upon her in this blithe stage 281 Yo n g e of her life. She knew there was a dark side, but hope a... ...r surprise is likely to be very much like Blanche’s birth- day presents, a stage aside.” “No, I am going to keep it to myself.” T wo or three days aft... ...hinking Cocksmoor was the excuse!” “Spectators are more philosophical than actors, Ethel. Oth- ers have not been tying parcels all day.” “I had rather... ...le plump arms, her eyes grew wide with wonder, and she felt, at least, two stages nearer womanhood. Flora had omitted no one. There was a Paris presen... ...ut in a way that seemed to have called for the reproof of the more earnest actors. “Ethel! Ethel!” screamed the children, with one voice, and, while t... ...e enough, and they saw our signal of distress!” The vessel proved to be an American whaler, which had just parted with her cargo to a homeward bound s... ... hunt him up.” Flora supposed he meant a directory; and all possible South American merchants having been overlooked, and the Mack- intoshes selected,...

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... of women when she learns that she has destroyed the peace of mind of some male victim, there was a hard, haggard expression in Julie’s face—a look of... ... the carriage as escort. At nightfall, as they changed horses for the last stage before Blois, Julie grew uneasy. All the way from Amboise she had hea... ...ly.” 65 Balzac “Such devotion would be highly creditable to one of us old stagers; but Lord Grenville was a youngster and—an En- glishman. Englishmen... ...s countenance and to play an actor’s part. They know the side-scenes where actors may retire to calculate chances, shed their tears, or pass their jes... ...system. Italy at any rate is the land of sharp contrasts. Woman there is a malevolent animal, a dangerous unreasoning siren, guided only by her tastes... ...ich even in our literature we affect to hold this land of ours, and poured maledictions on the pitiable plutocrats who fall out of love with fair Fran... ...s of him; but a few days before Spain recog- nized the independence of the American Republics, he wrote that he was coming home. 141 Balzac So, one f... ...rcelain vases painted by Madame Jacotot; tiny South 150 A Woman of Thirty American birds, like living rubies, sapphires, and gold, hov- ered among th... ...ne had tasted danger without shrinking; how could she return to the pretty stage, the superficial circumscribed life of society? It was the captain wh...

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...lish-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more... ...e aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more com- plete than American thought is yet prepared for, but that is a difference not of quali... ...ed develop principles of primary importance in the fundamen- tal schism of American politics between the local State gov- ernment and the central powe... ...e countryside. Moral qualities that were a disad- vantage in the dispersed stage become advantageous in the city, and conversely. Rugged independence ... ....* * This aspect of New Republican possibilities comes in again at another stage, and at that stage its treatment will be re- sumed. The method and po... ...r. Stuart Menteath also makes a most admirable suggestion with re- gard to male and female geniuses who are absorbed in their careers. Although the ge... ...direct cost of rear- ing. Obviously the minimum wage for a civilized adult male should be sufficient to cover the rent of the minimum tene- ment permi... ...no specific prohibition of pro- vincial intonations. In the pulpit and the stage, moreover, we have ready to hand most potent instruments of dissemi- ... ... vernacular teaching, one finds in the schools—at any rate the schools for males—over a large part of the world, a second element, which is always the...

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...ne another. Father, sister, son, and brother,” opens to receive the vilest malefactor; by which the church symbolically expresses her maternal willing... ...pens that Lear was one of the few Shakspearian dra- mas which had kept the stage unaltered. But it is easy to see a mercenary motive in such an artifi... ...han to quote from the common form of the play as then in possession of the stage. It was there, be- yond a doubt, that a fine gentleman living upon to... ...o speaks of him in his Il Penseroso, as the tutelary genius of the English stage. In this transmission of the torch (greek: lampadophoria) Dryden succ... ... dignity, brought into stronger relief by the mercenary employments of her male connections, and the feminine gentleness of her voice and manners, exh... ...ng Shakspeare’s childhood. One or two of the most respectable metropolitan actors were natives of Stratford. These would be well known to the elder Sh... ...otorious that mere legal necessity and usage would compel all companies of actors, upon coming into any town, to seek, in the first place, from the ch... ...e, and the Mahommedan consecration of its threshold against the ingress of males, had been trans- planted from Asia into Greece thousands of years per... ...he whole weight of his name and personal responsibility, (M Simond, now an American citizen,) records the following abominable scene as one of no unco...

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... of railways, and was most pathetic upon the virtues of the slow going old stage coaches. Now I, entertaining some little lingering kindness for the r... ...ften that I could wish there were a closer parallel between myself and the American aloe. It is particularly agreeable and ap propriate to know that ... ... equally accustomed to predict by certain little signs and portents on the stage what is going to happen there. When the young lady, an admiral’s daug... ...ion, although he may not adopt the dramatic form, writes in effect for the stage. He may never write plays; but the truth and passion which are in him... ...be more or less reflected in the great mirror which he holds up to nature. Actors, managers, and authors are all represented in this company, and it m... ...of that good blacksmith, as it was written of another of his trade, by the American poet: “Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes;... ... of 25S. extending over a period of five years, entitles a subscriber—if a male—to an annuity of 16 pounds a year, and a female to 12 pounds a year. N... ...ne, which seems to my mind to have a certain application. My friend was an American sea captain, and, therefore, it is quite unnecessary to say his st... ...r sitters, to idle pens, unchecked reckless rumours, and undenounced lying malevolence. Charles Dickens 194 I cannot forbear, before I resume my seat...

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...they betray. Cry, False! on them, and there is an instant echo of bleeding males in many circles, like the poor quavering flute-howl of transformed be... ...nt chilled the prospect, considered in its genial appearance as a feast of stages; having luminous extension; so, to ease his client’s mind, he ventur... ...acific Islands, but they will soon be snapped up by the European and North American Govern- ments, and a single one of them does not offer space. It w... ...d to the outer world by the opening of her mouth; chiefly then, though not malevo- lently to command: as the portal of some snow-bound mon- astery ope... ...ere ‘s your music?’ said the captain, twinkling for an adversary among the males, too distant or too dull to distinguish a note of challenge. ‘You’d b... ...time.’ ‘I have been in America.’ ‘We are not exactly on the pattern of the Americans.’ Philip hinted a bow. He praised the Republican people. ‘Yes, bu... ...ived from the Mattock family. It is a love resembling the affection of the stage-box for a set of favourite performers, and Patrick, a Celt who had sc... ...nds of English performances, lends ear to foreign airs, patronises foreign actors, browses on reports from camps of foreign armies. He drops his head ... ...e laden emotions of her nature brought her round by another channel to the stage neighbouring sight, where facts, dimly recognised for such—as they ma...

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... with their pasteboard coulisses, thunder-barrels, their kettles, fiddles, stage-wardrobes, portable larders (and chaffering and quarrelling enough); ... ...ndemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ (Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, i. 15-22.) And, alas, now not so much as Baron Holbach’s Athei... ...ons, it is said, What a spectacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Plenipotentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane somew... ...de Figaro; which now (in 1784), after difficulty enough, has issued on the stage; and ‘runs its hundred nights, ’ to the admiration of all men. By wha... ... Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes there may be more than one patriotic Malesherbes, whose rule is conscience and the public good; there are clearl... ...he heavier; for did it not employ the working- classes too,—manufacturers, male and female, of laces, es- sences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever cou... ... His- torical Scene; and so singular a man as Lomenie de Brienne still the Stage-manager there. Behold, accordingly, a Home-Secretary Breteuil ‘beauti... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...as Carlyle perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Congress, do the arrangements seem per- fect. A Senator has not hi...

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... with their pasteboard coulisses, thunder-barrels, their kettles, fiddles, stage-wardrobes, portable larders (and chaffering and quarrelling enough); ... ...ndemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ (Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, i. 15-22.) And, alas, now not so much as Baron Holbach’s Athei... ...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... ... Figaro; which now (in 1784), after difficulty enough, has is- sued on the stage; and ‘runs its hundred nights, ’ to the admira- tion of all men. By w... ... Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes there may be more than one patriotic Malesherbes, whose rule is conscience and the public good; there are clearl... ...he heavier; for did it not employ the working-classes too,— manufacturers, male and female, of laces, essences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever could... ...er Historical Scene; and so singular a man as Lomenie de Brienne still the Stage-manager there. Behold, accordingly, a Home-Secretary Breteuil ‘beauti... ...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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...yes first of all men. She talked frankly of her cousins and friends, young males. She could have replied to his bitter wish: “Had you asked me on the ... ...ere and there, all around, she was yielding her hand to partners—obscurant males whose touch leaves a stain. Far too generally gracious was Her Starri... ...ke me pity it.” He smiled at her youthfulness. “I have passed through that stage. It leads to my sentiment. Pity it, by all means.” “No,” said she, “b... ...; out of which a breath of peace drew her to revolt again in gradual rapid stages, and once more the aspect of that singular day of merry blackness fe... ...ay not be lasting. Applied to Sir Willoughby, as to thousands of civilized males, the touch- stone found him requiring to be dealt with by his betroth... ...he while she laughed, as at a vile theatre whereof the imperfection of the stage machinery rather than the per- formance is the wretched source of amu... ...re not ‘calculating’. More offensive than debris of a midnight banquet! An American tour is in- structive, though not so romantic. Not so romantic as ... ...ook of the vestry, they enter into an engagement with a body of provincial actors to join the troop on the day of their nup- tials, and away they go i... ...t and sisterly. But taking a glance at the others of her late com- pany of actors, she compresses her lips. T o return to the Electronic Classics Seri...

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...h, fruits, and the like. Without the city are some theatres, where English actors represent almost every day tragedies and comedies to a very numerous... ...velvet, in some of which were woven history pieces; in others, Turkish and American dresses, all extremely natural. In the hall are these curiosities:... ...Baron Stourton. Nevill, Baron Latimer, died some years since without heirs male; the title controverted. Lumley, Baron Lumley. Blunt, Baron Montjoy. O... ...ed, both the blood and inheritance of the eldest brother for want of issue males, by which accumulation the house within few descents mounted, in culm... ..., not factious and ambitious of fame; such as came not to the House with a malevolent spirit of contention, but with a preparation to consult on the p... ...to that refined wit which since hath acted a disastrous part on the public stage, and of late sat in his father’s room as Lord Chancellor; those that ...

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...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ...f them had a physiognomy of its own; and as they had already attained that stage of civilization at which men are led to study themselves, they have t... ...hts must be granted to no one. For na- tions which are arrived at the same stage of social existence as the Anglo-Americans, it is therefore very diff... ...well as everywhere else, the people is the only source of power; but in no stage of government does the body of citizens exercise a more immediate inf... ...hreatened by the frenzy of the mob was to throw them into prison as common malefactors. But even this precaution was ineffectual; the mob collected ag... ...sewhere. Hence, whilst these nations are de- sirous of enrolling the whole male population in the ranks of the army, they have the power of effecting ... ...f the United States, with the exception of the State of Vermont, where the male heir in- herits a double portion. (Kent’s “Commentaries,” vol. iv. p. ...

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...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 has quite put out the Desert Island passion, which used to be a regular stage in these children’s lives. Every voyage we have taken, somebody has c... ...ne; she has not learned to be laughed at yet, and has not come even to the stage for being taught to bear it.’ ‘She looks fit to turn the cream sour,’... ...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 ... ...he French original existed in the house, and Fly started the idea that the male performers should speak En- glish and the female French; but this was ... ...olute best.’ The performance went off beautifully—at least so thought both actors and spectators. The dignity of the Bailli and the meddling of the dr... ...and the least successful personation was that of Gillian, who had a fit of stage-fright, forgot sentences, and whirred her spinning- wheel nervously, ...

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..................................................................... 182 THE AMERICAN POPULATION .......................................................... ...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...lf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics... ...getting up. We wrote with vast gravity about “starting rails” and “landing stages,” and it is still true that landing an aeroplane, except upon a well... ...hen coasted round to Spain and into the Mediterranean. And so by leisurely stages to India. And the East Indies.... I find my study unattractive to-da... ...imum of 5s., may be clever, but it is certainly not politic in the present stage of Labour feeling. To stamp violently upon obscure newspa- pers nobod... ...tinual repetitions. Now this human over-life may take either beneficent or maleficent or neutral aspects towards the general life of hu- manity. It ma... ...uality of this American tradi- tion of unconditional freedom for the adult male citizen. I have shown that from the point of view of anyone who re- ga... ...ion. It may be that this is incorrect, and that in devotion to an accepted male and his children most women do still and will continue to find their g...

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...VIII. procured his divorce from Katharine of Arragon to the pleas on which American wives obtain divorces (for instance, “mental anguish” caused by th... ... female adultery is malversation by the woman and theft by the man, whilst male adultery with an unmarried woman is not an offence at all. But though ... ...Shaw females lose their sex altogether and become workers sup- porting the males in luxury and idleness until the queen has found her mate, when the q... ...rous emergencies: in short, for treating their lives as more valuable than male lives, is not in the least a chivalrous reason, though men may consent... ...her, not by formal abolition, but by simple disuse. The private con- tract stage of this process was reached in ancient Rome. The only practicable alt... ...be said: it would be let alone as it always is let alone during the cruder stages of civiliza- tion. But the moment we refer to the facts, we discover... ...h parties as in Sweden, not to mention the experiments made by some of the American States, would have shaken society to its foundations. Yet they hav... ...ust not blind us to the fact that he is (to use the word coined by certain American writers to describe themselves) something of a Varietist. Even tho... ...avelled first class with a third-class ticket, and then tried to go on the stage. But they wouldnt have him. He called himself Egerton Fotheringay. TH...

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...e dark and grimy counter, strewed with old feathers, old yellow hoots, old stage mantles, painted masks, blind and yet gazing at you with a look of sa... ...f Illyria. “I have already drawn it,” says I, “with my spurs.” “Malheur et malediction!” roared the Marshal. “Hadn’t you better settle your wig?” says... ...f my whiskers gone; whereas at the same moment, and shriek- ing a horrible malediction, my adversary reeled and fell. “Mon Dieu, il est mort!” cried N... ...ving heart had nothing to cling to. Her splendid mansion was a convent; no male person even entered it, except Franklin Fox, (who counted for nothing,... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ...ely Antoinette flashed fire, but it played round the head of the dauntless American Envoy harmless as the lightning which he knew how to conjure away.... ...w the youth did his foes engage; and at length they went off in the Gretna stage, the high-born dame and the peasant page. W olfgang beat time, waggle... ...(Have you not remarked, dear friend, how often in novel- books, and on the stage, joy is announced by the above burst of insensate monosyllables?) “To...

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...SMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRIN- ITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE. T HE ACTORS IN THE OLD TRAGEDIES, as we read, piped their iambics to a tune, spe... ...Castlewood (the second Viscount), of King Charles the First’s time, had no male issue save his one son, Eustace Esmond, who was killed, with half of t... ...ferring the title of Marquis of Esmond on my Lord Castlewood and the heirs-male of his body; his appointment as Lord-Lieutenant of the County, and Maj... ...and tearful eyes conveyed them. Then, perhaps, the pair reached that other stage which is not uncommon in married life, when the woman perceives that ... ...not to be imagined that Harry Esmond had all this experience at this early stage of his life, whereof he is now writing the history—many things here n... ...ordingly, he took leave of Castlewood, proposing to ride to London by easy stages, and lie two nights upon the road. His host treated him with a stud-... ...fiddlers, laced clothes, fine furniture, and parasites, Jew and Christian, male and female, who clung to him. As, according to the famous maxim of Mon... ...he lobby: and as he sat on the stage more people looked at him than at the actors, and watched him; and I remember at Ramillies, when he was hit and f... ... 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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...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

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...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...Easton Police Department and relayed what he had heard. 45 Also at 8:52, a male flight attendant called a United office in San Francisco, reaching Mar... ...ss. Although the Boston Center air traffic controller realized at an early stage that there was something wrong with American 11, he did not immediate... ...ent. And, as a Palestinian, he saw Israel as the top priority for the next stage. 26 Whether the dispute was about power, personal differences, or str... ...s, missile defense, and glob- alization.Terrorism infrequently took center stage; and when it did, the con- text was often terrorists’ tactics—a chemi... ...was to land the tenth plane at a U.S. airport and, after killing all adult male passengers on board and alerting the media, deliver a speech excoriati... ...ter the move, Bayoumi used their apartment for a party attended by some 20 male members of the Muslim community.At Bayoumi’s request, Bin Don videotap...

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...n India, along much of the coast of Africa, and in the ports of China and Japan, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundred varying stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and -- setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese -- you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in the f...

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...an, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundred vary- ing stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and – setting aside t... ...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... ...h English children begin to grow up and come to themselves in life. As the stage of the Uni- versity approaches, the contrast becomes more express. Th... ...ci- plined and drilled by proctors. Nor is this to be regarded merely as a stage of education; it is a piece of privilege be- sides, and a step that s... ...- tered by another hand, came on the stage itself and was played by bodily actors; the other, originally known as Semiramis: A Tragedy, I have observe... ...tely stem. In boyhood, as he told me once, speaking in that tone that only actors and the old-fashioned common folk can use nowadays, his 38 Robert L... ...ir, an abstraction, an excuse for talk, a logical Aunt Sally, then may the male debater instantly abandon hope; he may employ reason, adduce facts, be...