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... automobiles, aeroplanes, waterplanes, and such-like, mobile purposes. The American Kemp engine, differing widely in principle but equally prac- ticab... ...the world until the twentieth century. Then, the growing impatience of the American people with the monstrous and socially paralysing party systems th... ... to become a military power, and maintained a small standing army upon the American model that was said, so far as it went, to be highly efficient, an... ... ag- gression. For example, Barnet describes the London crowd as nois- ily patriotic when presently his battalion came up from the depot to London, to... ...ow partially transformed into enrolment offices, and were centres of hotly patriotic excitement. At every convenient place upon the line on either sid... ...till for the most part an illiterate peasantry, passionately if confusedly patriotic, and so far with no practical knowledge of the ef- fect of atomic... ...e-making. Down there,—under the clouds, the lovers foregather. I know your songs, Kahn, your half-mysti- cal songs, in which you represent this old ha... ...s not a common evil,’ said Karenin. ‘It is you poets, Kahn, with your love songs which turn the sweet fellowship of comrades into this woman-centred e...

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...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ... it publicly—fellow like myself, a State U. graduate, it’s only decent and patriotic for him to blow his horn and boost the Alma Mater—but smatter of ... ...is to get your fool son-in-law, Babbitt, to put it over. He’s one of these patriotic guys. When he grabs a piece of property for the gang, he makes it... ...the sob-stuff,” said W. A. Rogers genially. “You boys know I’m the village songster? Come on now sing up: Said the old Obadiah to the young Obadiah, ‘... ... and restrained, in the hotel lounge, while a young woman violinist played songs from the German via Broadway. Then Babbitt’s own mother came down fro... ...n- dered if Doane could possibly have been converted and turned decent and patriotic. “Why, hello, Doane,” he said. Doane looked up. His voice was cur... ...ed with people whom he despised! To have said foolish things, sung idiotic songs, tried to kiss silly girls! Incredulously he remembered that he had b...

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...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ...ale beer, and thick voices bellow- ing pidgin German or trolling out dirty songs—vice gone feeble and unenterprising and dull—the delicacy of a min- i... ...n MY busi- ness!” Mr. Elder was growing more excited, more belligerent and patriotic. “I stand for freedom and constitutional rights. If any man don’t... ...mplicity of voting one’s self a me- tropolis. Why not? She was a proud and patriotic citizen, all evening. 134 Main Street II She examined the city h... ...u, Carrie, but I don’t propose for one second to stand your saying I’m not patriotic. You know mighty well and good that I’ve tried to get away 303 S... ...er start back now?” He mused, “You’re younger than I am. Your lips are for songs about rivers in the morning and lakes at twilight. I don’t see how an... ...e Haydocks…I think I could. “I’ll take back the sound of Yvette Guilbert’s songs and Elman’s violin. They’ll be only the lovelier against the thrummin...

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...ume picked up outside a second-hand book-shop. It was the life story of an American sea- man written by himself with the assistance of a jour- nalist.... ...os—the “beautiful Antonia.” Whether she is a possible varia- tion of Latin-American girlhood I wouldn’t dare to affirm. But, for me, she is. Always a ... ...earch. The story goes also that within men’s memory two wandering sailors— Americanos, perhaps, but gringos of some sort for certain—talked over a gam... ...g the earth, blasted the rocks, drove the engines for the “progressive and patriotic undertaking.” In these very words eighteen months before the Exce... ...animation. “I am impressed. I didn’t mean to be disparaging. You seem very patriotic.” “The place is lovable, if only by its situation. Per- haps you ... ...g friend’s hand, extended with a smile, he continued to expatiate upon the patriotic nature of the San Tome mine for the simple pleasure of talking fl... ...ada of the Mexican Domingo; or to sit in the place of honour, listening to songs and looking at dances, made it appear to him as a town that had no ex... ...land. The labouring gangs returned to port every evening, sing- ing chorus songs in the empty lighters towed by a harbour tug. For the moment he had n...

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... talking of Eugenics and the “family”—Benham was almost knocked down by an American trotter driven by Lord Breeze. “Whup there!” said Lord Breeze in a... ...uestrian… .” That night some malignant spirit kept Benham awake, and great American trotters with vast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncon... ...ast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncontrollable, hard-mouthed American trot- ters, pounded over his angry soul. “Prothero,” he said in ha... ...hero had talked into possibility. Sometimes he was sim- ply abreast of the patriotic and socially constructive British Imperialism of Breeze and Weste... ...ompliment. “Oh!” said Amanda, rolling over. The soloist obliged with three songs, and then, just as day was breaking, stopped abruptly and sprawled su...

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...nt to the nervous woman writ- ing under a sharp necessity for payment. Her songs were shot off on the impulsion; prose was the heavy task. ‘To be poin... ... present the hero of her blood an agreeable change; and he too expressed a patriotic satisfaction on hearing that the faces most admired by him were o... ...them in reference to his aban- donment of his Profession, for here she was patriotically wrong-headed. Everybody knew that he had sold out in or- 41 ... ...er, and an orderly subject. That was a somewhat el- evated standard to the patriotic Emma. Only she would never have stipulated for an average to espo... ...e worked for my bread. I had thoughts of America. I fancy I can write; and Americans, one hears, are gentle to women.’ ‘Ah, Tony! there’s the looking ... ... vocal. Diana sang alone for the credit of the country, Italian and French songs, Irish also. She was in her mood of Planxty Kelly and Garryowen all t... ...cular persons famous for inspiriting. It sticks and clogs. The improvising songster is missed, the convivial essayist, the humorous Dean, the travelle... ... inducement she had received to embark her money in this Company: a South- American mine, collapsed almost within hearing of the trum- pets of prospec...

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...f Parliament—a zealous, an Rudyard Kipling intelligent, and, above all, a patriotic person, anxious to do the most good in the shortest possible time... ...t term. “Well, he won’t be as bad as her, I hope. Stalky, are you properly patriotic? Because if you ain’t, this chap’s goin’ to make you.” “Hope he w... ... little tales of a heady and bewildering nature, interspersed with unusual songs— Peacock was that writer’s name; there was Borrow’s “Lavengro”; an od... ...ed the mob in the dining-hall, which resembled the storm-centre of a South American revolution. “‘Hellish dark and smells of cheese.’” Stalky elbowed ... ...h other’s rooms, talking, calling, shouting, and anon waltzing by pairs to songs of Dick Four’s own devising. There were sixty years of mixed work to ... ...ad- parties went to work, as per Political survey.” “Had some rippin’ sing-songs in camp, too,” said T ertius. “My pup”—thus did Dick Four refer to hi...

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...first edition, the “ Globe “ edition, and about a dozen others English and American. I found many misprints and corrup- tions in all except the editio... ...Sir John the Graeme, the faithful and undaunted partaker of the labors and patriotic warfare of Wallace, fell in the unfortunate field of Falkirk, in ... ...pine. “The song itself is intended as an imitation of the jorrams, or boat songs, of the Highlanders, which were usually composed in honor of a favori... ...he snood, nor advanced to the graver dignity of the curch. In old Scottish songs there occur many sly allusions to such misfortune; as in the old word... ...ous Danish ballad which occurs in the Kaempe Viser, a collection of heroic songs first published in 1591, 183 Sir Walter Scott and reprinted in 1695,...

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...intance about a generation ago, and the effect of it was, like Swinburne’s Songs Before Sunrise, Mazzini’s Duties of Man, and other congenial document... ...ved his youth without forgetting its pangs, joys, mortifications, and love-songs. In Nejdanov it is another picture of that youth which we see—youth r... ...en any one dared to annoy him, or to upset his religious, conservative, or patriotic principles. Then he became merciless. All his elegance vanished l... ...t the piano and played, rather in- differently , several of Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without Words.” Charmant! Charmant! quel touché! Kollomietzev called ... ...contained nothing but a few painted wooden chairs and a couch covered with American cloth. There were pictures everywhere of an indifferent variety . ... ... more respect to your elders, especially when they give expression to such patriotic senti- ments as those you have just heard from the lips of your b... ...ands. They are not heroes, not even ‘heroes of labour’ as some crank of an American, or Englishman, called them in a book he wrote for the edification...

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...f the threatened departments by giving the responsibility to the loyal and patriotic portion of the inhabitants. In fact, the government in Paris, hav... ...er escort of the Blues. It may not be superfluous to add that these finely patriotic Directorial decrees had no re- alization beyond their insertion a... ... few days later the government despatched to Mayenne so strong a force of “patriotic conscripts,” that Hulot was able to fill the ranks of his brigade... ...her, and her lips seemed to quiver on the verge of pronouncing it. Like an American Indian, she watched every muscle of the face of her enemy, tied, a... ...riend; you have too much imagination for a soldier; you ought to be making songs at the national Institute.” “If I’ve too much imagination,” retorted ...

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...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... ...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... ...ow their ages, while the colored children were ignorant of theirs; and the songs of the slaves grated on his inmost soul, because a something told him... ...ntiment, there was ever a tinge of deep melancholy. I have never heard any songs like those anywhere since I left slavery, except when in Ireland. The... ... was much affected by them. It was during the famine of 1845-6. In all the songs of the slaves, there was ever some expression in praise of the great ... ...er with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.” That men should be patriotic, is to me perfectly natural; and as a philo- sophical fact, I am ...

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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... ... warn’t sorry, neither. “But next night about half past nine, when there was songs and high jinks going on, here she comes again, and took her old roo... ...he half naked crews of perspiring negroes that worked them were roaring such songs as “De Las’ Sack! De Las’ Sack!”—inspired to unimaginable exaltatio... ... it is with evident reluctance and restraint, excepting where motives purely patriotic urge him to state roundly what it is for the benefit of his cou... ... lodges.’ So he sat down. Then, in turn, they took the drum, and sang their songs, and closed with a feast. The youngest told them not to whisper the...

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...d* miles— *“Three hundred”:—Of necessity, this scale of measurement, to an American, if he happens to be a thoughtless man, must sound ludicrous. Acco... ...less man, must sound ludicrous. Accordingly, I remember a case in which an American writer indulges himself in the luxury of a little fibbing, by ascr... ...o an Englishman a pompous account of the Thames, constructed entirely upon American ideas of grandeur, and concluding in something like these terms:— ... ...ilous station at the right hand of kings? The He- brew boy inaugurated his patriotic mission by an act, by a victorious act, such as no man could deny... ...of rest which she had secured for France. She never sang together with the songs that rose in her native Domrémy as echoes to the de- *“Arc”:—Modern F... ...ghroad itself, with its rela- tions to centres so remote, into a manual of patriotic duty. The situation, therefore, locally, of Joanna was full of pr... ...ould now and then trespass over the frontier of decorum, it then becomes a patriotic duty in me to assure M. Michelet that we have such ardent females... ... the streets, &c., and the burden of one of the most popular revolutionary songs, ‘Ça ira, ça ira, ça ira.’”— MASSON. 8 18 ALL MORALITY,—ARISTOTLE’S, ...

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...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... ...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... ... own clothes; both could clean up everything about them in an orderly and skilful way, the girls having womanly household knowledge superadded. Order ... ...’ Book Depot, 30, Florence-street.’ Some copies were handsomely bound; the plainer were the more in request, and many were bought. The title ran: ‘Sac... ...ry desir- ous for a Hymn Book adapted to their faith and worship, that they might sing the truth with an understanding heart, and express their praise... ...sion was composed of a series of smaller pro- cessions, which had come together, each from its own met- ropolitan district. An infusion of allegory be... ...f the Sur- rey Canal, on which stormy station I had been given to un- derstand no lifeboat exists. Thus I deduced an allegorical meaning, and came to ... ...ists. Thus I deduced an allegorical meaning, and came to the conclusion, that if patriotic Peckham picked a peck of pickled poetry, this was the peck ...

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...ef magistrate of this nation, the clerks have become, in spite of our fine patriotic ideas, the subsidiaries of the government; their superiors are bl... ...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... .... All government clerks in Paris who are not endowed, like Rabourdin, with patriotic ambition or other marked capac- ity, usually add the profits of s... ...r, who works the piece into shape; and third, the toucher-up, who sets the songs to music, arranges the chorus and concerted pieces and fits them into... ...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... ...tossed off glasses of champagne without wetting his lips, and knew all the songs of Beranger by heart. He was proud of his full, sonorous voice. His t... ...ial sceptre that makes fashion in France what the navy is to England. This patriotic ardor which leads a nation to sacrifice everything to appearances... ...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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.... MONDAY , 31ST? NOVEMBER. Near a week elapsed, and no journal. On Monday after- noon, Moors rode up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in... ... up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in the evening to the American Consulate; present, Consul-General Sewall, Lieut. Parker and Mrs. ... ...as all forenoon in the Mission House, lunched at the German Consulate, went on board the Sperber (German war ship) in the afternoon, called on my lawy... ...e could not work, glory of battle swelled too high in his threadpaper breast; he had made a one-stringed harp for Austin, borrowed it, came to Fanny’s... ... danc- ing like this with the men, but I tell you, sir, these are the men that’ll fight together!’ I tell you, Colvin, the acquaintance of the men—and...

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...eason? What causes them to labour at pianoforte sonatas, and to learn four songs from a fashionable master at a guinea a lesson, and to play the harp ... ...lsewhere, as it were, in small change. Having expended her little store of songs, or having stayed long enough in the back drawing-room, it now appear... ...n of a sentimental sort, befitting the subject, was carried on between the songs, to which Sambo, after he had brought the tea, the delighted cook, an... ...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...allest drummer in the regiment, all were filled with hope and ambition and patriotic fury; and thanked the French Emperor as for a personal kindness i...

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...he chance to think I had 10 St. Ives looked at her with admiration. You cannot imagine any one of a more resolute and independent spirit, or whose bo... ...th him on that, and he made off, shaking his head. But my particular delight was to enlarge on politics and the war. None damned the French like me; n... ...at the table. You must not suppose our tete-a-tete was long, but it was a lively period while it lasted. He drank like a fish or an En- glishman; shou... ...ly presentable; and they were all Christian martyrs compared to Rowley; but they were in a frolicsome and rollicking humour that promised danger as we...

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... per- suaded it is to her I am indebted for it. She knew a great number of songs, which she sung with great sweetness and melody. The serenity and che... ...charms of her voice had such an effect on me, that not only several of her songs have ever since remained on my memory, but some I have not thought of... ...th was replacing round the root, each held the tree with one hand, singing songs of triumph. In order to water it with more effect, they formed a kind... ... 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... ... treated by persons of every descrip- tion, I entirely gave myself up to a patriotic zeal, and morti- fied at being excluded from the rights of a citi... ... great misfortunes; but I have my doubts whether, with all my ar- dent and patriotic zeal, I should have been able to effect any- thing great and usef... ...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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...of a far more formidable description than was commanded by the adventurous American. Time and circumstances change the character of nations and the fa... ...edicine, favourite texts, and portions from High Church divines, and a few songs, amatory and jacobitical, which she had carolled in her younger days,... ...memory , stored with miscellaneous snatches and fragments of all tunes and songs, which he sometimes applied, with considerable address, as the vehicl... ...ke his shadow, and we think that from him Davie gathered many fragments of songs and music unlike those of this country. But if we ask him where he go... ...re than he himself could have expected; but it is men- tioned of the North American Indians, when at the stake of torture, that on the least intermiss... ...ack for French prisoners. May repose and blessings attend the ashes of the patriotic statesman, who, amongst his last services to Scot- land, interpos...