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...hout their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original series. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of your individual house, the Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, according to the amplest extent of any power to make such a transfer that I may be found to possess by law or custom in America....

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...nal se- ries. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of your individual house, the Messrs. TICKNOR & FIELDS, accor... ...rations of men, even though far below the higher efforts of human creative art—as, for example, the “De Imitatione Christi,” or “The Pilgrim’s Progres... ...for this is one of the cases in which we all felicitate ourselves upon the art and gift of forgetting; that art which the great Athenian* noticed as a... ...the gift—that she should be embalmed as perfectly as the resources in that art of London and Paris could accomplish, and that once a year Mr. White, a... ...erer, as being equal in guilt to a fraud upon one’s neighbor, or to direct appropriation of another man’s purse. I, on my part, held, that government,... ...ising from the vast diffusion of trade and the higher branches of mechanic art, have gradually caused these func- tions of the order (even where the l... ... of intellectual delight, for too short a time, to have mastered the whole art of managing its resources. All these were rea- sons for studying Demost...

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...never have described a blind man as attaining the utmost perfection in his art, if he had been conscious that the memory of the bard was onlv maintain... ...scussions respecting whether the poems were written or not, or whether the art of writing was known in the time of their reputed author. Suffice it to... ...mentioned above, and whose reputation for humour seems to have invited the appropriation of any piece of ancient wit, the author of which was uncertai... ...efore the palace gate (Sad spoils of luxury), the suitors sate. With rival art, and ardour in their mien, At chess they vie, to captivate the queen; D... ...e, And the new friend with courteous air embraced. “Stranger, whoe’er thou art, securely rest, Affianced in my faith, a ready guest; Approach the dome... ...th of seas, a toilsome length, in vain. For, voyaging to learn the direful art To taint with deadly drugs the barbed dart; Observant of the gods, and ...

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... not accustomed to the use of language of eulogy: I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I 94 The Writings of Abraham Linco... ...nd Tompkins. Y ours truly, A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO JOHN WILLIAMS. W AR DEP ART - MENT, W ASHINGTON CITY , April 25, 1864. JOHN WILLIAMS, Springfield, ... ...ritings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven TELEGRAM TO GENERAL MEADE. W AR DEP ART - MENT, W ASHINGTON CITY , April 25, 1864. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of... ...t I have neither time nor means to ascertain this equitable amount, or any appropriation to pay it with if ascer- tained. If the Quartermaster at New... ...reto by the fourth section of the act of Congress, entitled “An act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtiet... ...e, the admission of members into Con- gress and whatever might require the appropriation of money. 240 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven Th... ...xchanged at Brussels on the twenty-fourth of June last; and I recommend an appropriation to carry into effect the provi- sions thereof relative to the... ...nd when peace should be made, Congress must nec- essarily act in regard to appropriations of money and to the admission of representatives from the in...

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...ce made by an author so profoundly versed in the different branches of his art. By fixing, then, the date of my story Sixty Years before the present 1... ...nity of acquiring habits of firm and assiduous application, of gaining the art of controlling, directing, and concentrating the powers of his mind for... ..., and concentrating the powers of his mind for ear- nest investigation,—an art far more essential than even that intimate acquaintance with classical ... ... very same time. Miss Stubbs had indeed summoned up every assistance which art could afford to beauty; but, alas! hoop, patches, frizzled locks, and a... ...onger necessary, and when the Scottish architects had not yet acquired the art of designing a domestic residence. The windows were number- less, but v... ...ver think shame upon.’ ‘But what can this end in, were he taken in such an appropriation?’ 115 Sir Walter Scott ‘T o be sure he would die for the law...

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...ver have described a blind man as attaining the utmost perfec- tion in his art, if he had been conscious that the memory of the bard was only maintain... ...scussions respecting whether the poems were written or not, or whether the art of writing was known in the time of their reputed author. Suffice it to... ...ntioned above, and whose reputation for humour seems to have in- vited the appropriation of any piece of ancient wit, the au- thor of which was uncert... ..., which masters everything besides, can never attain to this. It furnishes art with all her materials, and without it judgment itself can at best but ... ...erials, and without it judgment itself can at best but “steal wisely:” for art is only like a pru- dent steward that lives on managing the riches of n... ...o which the invention must not contribute: as in the most regular gardens, art can only reduce beauties of nature to more regularity, and such a figur...

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...spread of mental acquirements, and the increasing taste for literature and art, 14 Democracy in America opened chances of success to talent; science ... ...f luxury, the elegance of taste, the pleasures of wit, and the religion of art. On the other was labor and a rude ignorance; but in the midst of this ... ...rtions: he takes a part in every occurrence in the place; he practises the art of govern- ment in the small sphere within his reach; he accustoms him-... ...ic functionaries before the ordinary tribunals – How they use this right – Art. 75 of the French Constitution of the An VIII – The Americans and the E... ... constitution was drawn up in which the following clause was introduced: “ Art. 75. All the agents of the government below the rank of min- isters can... ...concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer T erm than two yea... ...other. No Money shall be drawn from the T reasury, but in conse- quence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular State- ment and Account of the Re...

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...h remark, Hardy had a good deal to say concerning the manner in which that art was practised upon the island. Throughout the entire cluster the tattoo... ...tattooers of Hivarhoo enjoyed no small reputation. They had carried their art to the highest perfection, and the profession was esteemed most honoura... ...udiously inclined, he would take great pleasure in teaching such the whole art and mystery of navi- 75 Melville gation, including the gratuitous use ... ...t-of-Leave-Man was a practised bruiser; but the savage knew nothing of the art pugilistic: and so they were even. It was clear hugging and wrenching t... ... latest improvements. I was quite amazed to see on what high principles of art some exceedingly simple things were done. But your Gaul is scientific a... ...n of Ta- hiti. On the contrary, as before hinted, we expected to swell the appropriations of bread-fruit and cocoa-nuts on the Civil List by filling s... ...s of note had actually agreed, for a stipulated bribe, to acquiesce in the appropriation of their country. But subsequent events have rebutted the cal...

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... Gonzalo, above mentioned, it may be readily conceived, did not relish the appropriation by his brother of a name to which he himself had an equal rig... ...it, the wine-skins at the bed-head, and those notable examples of hostelry art, Helen going off in high spirits on Paris’s arm, and Dido on the tower ... ...n. He was to found a great national drama, based on the true principles of art, that was to be the envy of all nations; he was to drive from the stage... ...nze statue in the little garden of the Plaza de las Cortes, a fair work of art no doubt, and unexceptionable had it been set up to the local poet in t... ...38 Don Quixote ORLANDO FURIOSO To Don Quixote of La Mancha SONNET If thou art not a Peer, peer thou hast none; Among a thousand Peers thou art a pe... ...ng a thousand Peers thou art a peer; Nor is there room for one when thou art near, Unvanquished victor, great unconquered one! Orlando, by Angelic...

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... Gonzalo, above mentioned, it may be readily conceived, did not relish the appropriation by his brother of a name to which he himself had an equal rig... ...it, the wine-skins at the bed-head, and those notable examples of hostelry art, Helen going off in high spirits on Paris’s arm, and Dido on the tower ... ...n. He was to found a great national drama, based on the true principles of art, that was to be the envy of all nations; he was to drive from the stage... ...nze statue in the little garden of the Plaza de las Cortes, a fair work of art no doubt, and unexceptionable had it been set up to the local poet in t... ...ine he cheat—. ORLANDO FURIOSO To Don Quixote of La Mancha SONNET If thou art not a Peer, peer thou hast none; Among a thousand Peers thou art a pe... ...ng a thousand Peers thou art a peer; Nor is there room for one when thou art near, Unvanquished victor, great unconquered one! Orlando, by Angelic...

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...ntive bent, And locks flung back, and lips apart, Like monument of Grecian art, In listening mood, she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the stra... ...llant’s sigh, And leading star of every eye, And theme of every minstrel’s art, The Lady of the Bleeding Heart!’ XI. ‘Fair dreams are these,’ the maid... ... chorus wild, the Chieftain’s name; While, prompt to please, with mother’s art The darling passion of his heart, The Dame called Ellen to the strand, ... ...nd rain. It might have tamed a warrior’s heart To view such mockery of his art! The knot-grass fettered there the hand Which once could burst an iron ... ...n, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and forever! XVII. See Stumah, who, the bier beside His master’s ... ...st page of the 1st ed.: “The author has to apologize for the inadvert- ent appropriation of a whole line from the tragedy of Dou- glas: ‘I hold the fi...

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...at that time there prevailed a good deal of fruitless aspiration toward an art-museum. He had seen himself in imagination, more than once, in some mou... ...n her plenty to think about, and she has induced him, by some mysteri- ous art, to abide, nominally at least, in a profession that he abhors, and for ... ...e occasion, and he declared that he was above all an advocate for American art. He did n’t see why we should n’t produce the greatest works in the wor... ...t that lay at hand, and before Rowland could interfere, in the interest of art if not of morals, dealt a merciless blow upon Mr. Striker’s skull. The ... ...he outset with the instinctive quickness of his obser- vation and his free appropriation of whatever might serve his purpose. He had not been, for ins... ...ry James young sculptor was a man to regard all things in the light of his art, to hand over his passions to his genius to be dealt with, and to find ...

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...ginal series. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of your individual house, the Messrs. TICKNOR, REED, & FIELDS... ...d to ask for a more determi- nate adjudication on their claims as works of art. At present, I feel authorized to make haughtier pretensions in right o... ...he grave, the coffin, the face are sealed up forever and ever. Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humbl... ...y illumination (from the sun) mingling with the earthly emblazonries (from art and its gorgeous coloring) of what is grandest in man. There were the a... ... his death, which shall be—mighty and essen- tial solitude! that wast, and art, and art to be; thou broodest, like the Spirit of God moving upon the s... ...within the gates of death. O mighty and essential solitude, that wast, and art, and art to be, thy kingdom is made perfect in the grave; but even over...

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...er,— Loose not the wine-skin foot, thou chief of men, Until to Athens thou art come again. Pittheus, therefore, taking advantage from the obscurity 7... ...fore. And this he did without having either prac- ticed or ever learnt the art of bending these trees, to show that natural strength is above all art.... ...Medea, having fled from Corinth, and prom- ised Aegeus to make him, by her art, capable of having chil- dren, was living with him. She first was aware... ...y of drawing schemes and tables, and was thought to be a proficient in the art; to him Varro propounded to cast Romulus’s nativity, even to the first ... ...quire firmness and get a temper by it, like steel. There was much care and art, too, used by the nurses; they had no swaddling bands; the children gre... ...by him the common people were first encouraged and led on to such evils as appropriations of subject territory; allowances for attending theaters, pay...

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...one is not quite clear whether he lives in Europe in order to cultivate an art, or culti- vates an art as a pretext for living in Europe. Mr. Leath’s ... ...ecret gratification in being appealed to as an authority on the histrionic art. His interest in it had hitherto been merely that of the cultivated you... ...nce. Surely it was time to infuse new blood into the veins of the moribund art. He had the impression that the ghosts of actors were giv- ing a spectr... ...nificance through all the artificial accretions with which his theories of art and the conventions of the stage had clothed it, and saw it as he had n... ...al had to offer, and her curiosity ranged from the official temples of the art to its less hallowed haunts. Her searching enquiries about a play whose... ...ng on her governess’s arm, pressed herself closer with a little gesture of appropriation; and Miss Viner laid her hand on her pupil’s hair. Darrow fel...

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...inction very carefully in an excellent article contributed to the Scottish Art Review. In a prefatory note to ‘Mardi’ (1849), Melville declares that, ... ...e captain will come to his senses. I wish thee no harm, Pedro; but as thou art doomed, sooner or later, to meet the fate of all thy race; and if putti... ...pen hostility. The islanders looked upon the people who made this cavalier appropriation of their shores with mingled feelings of fear and detestation... ...SI- TORS—A WARRIOR IN COSTUME—A SAVAGE AESCULAPIUS—PRACTICE OF THE HEALING ART—BODY SERVANT—A DWELLING-HOUSE OF THE VALLEY DESCRIBED—PORTRAITS OF ITS ... ..., and a most industrious old lady she was. If she did not under- stand the art of making jellies, jams, custard, tea-cakes, and such like trashy affai... ...rained to answer that it was not. But the practitio- ners of the barbarous art, so remorseless in their inflictions upon the brawny limbs of the warri...

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...ess, would cry, “Come, come, let us go to bed; I am more a child than thou art.” I soon acquired, by this dangerous custom, not only an extreme facili... ...ty, for never did so promis- ing a Caesar so quickly become a Laradon. The art itself did not displease me. I had a lively taste for drawing. There wa... ...ansported at having the trifles in my possession, and imagined I stole the art with its productions. Besides what I have mentioned, his boxes con- tai... ...on, for which journey he took care to be well rewarded. This drole had the art of ingratiating himself with the priests, whom he ever appeared eager t... ...ntenance, and no sorrow. “Poor child!” said she, in an affectionate tone, “art thou here again? I knew you were too young for this journey; I am very ... ... would be a theft: from the strong to the weak, it is nothing more than an appropriation of property, without a right. With respect to the pecuniary a...

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... diploma young ladies I am consid- ered quite passee—” “My dear! With your art, and music, and all!” “T oo true! And while I was digesting a polite hi... ...ng on.” “Ah, the Delrios! Are they here?” “Yes, poor Fred did not make his art succeed when he had a family to provide for, and he is the head of the ... ...resent desires. Magdalen thought of the rules of convents forbid- ding the appropriation of personal trifles, and wondered if it were wise, if stern; ... ...s fixed, and then Magdalen showed some of the advertisements of tuition in art, music, languages, and everything imaginable, which had begun to pour i... ...id, “and we pro- vide for her lessons amongst us, except for the School of Art, and calisthenics at the High School, which is under superior managemen... ...ycle for practice, and one bicycle on which Vera and Paula might learn the art. The choice was a long one, and left only just time for a peep into the...

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...at were the strength of Scotland, as well as her bane. Either by nature or art, the rock had been scarped away on three sides, so that the walls of th... ...y master. These are his foes, as well as those of all honest men. Ha! thou art as glad to be at them as I myself.’ By this time he had exchanged his c... ...and—’ He held up the deadly little dagger called the misericorde. ‘And who art thou, caitiff land-louper,’ muttered Walter, ‘to put to oath knights an... ...much at a distance as possible, chiefly on the Welsh marches, learning the art of war under Hotspur and Oldcastle; and when the father and son were br... ...over, James him- self felt the necessity of gaining some experience in the art of war. Theoretically he had studied it with all his might, from Caesar... ...ng that which he afterwards carried out successfully, i.e. the capture and appropriation of a whole instalment of King James’s ransom, on its way acro...

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...r, the crisp upward wave of her hair—was it ever so slightly brightened by art?—and the thick planting of her straight black lashes. Everything about ... ... time—and you won’t meet any bores.” Her colour deepened—she still had the art of blushing at the right time—but she took the suggestion as lightly as... ...midity might serve her purpose better than too much assurance. She had the art of giving self-confi- dence to the embarrassed, but she was not equally... ...nd where he was initiated with becoming reverence into every detail of the art of accumulation. As far as Lily could learn, this had hitherto been Mr.... ...Carry Fisher, with all the energy of eye and gesture with which nature and art had combined to endow her, pressed on him the duty of taking part in th... ...lo- quy with her host, had stepped between them with a little ges- ture of appropriation. The observance of Sunday at Bellomont was chiefly marked by ...

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...ed as A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 14 works of art; battle pieces, they were, with horses shaped like those which child... ...King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 34 without my suspecting it a passion for art had got worked into the fabric of my being, and was become a part of ... ...wouldn’t have held a dog without upsetting. I always ad mired to study R.’s art, it was so fresh and unconventional. There wasn’t even a bell or a s... ...aught in that Factory —” “I? I would give blood out of my heart to know that art. Why, I will be your slave, your —” “No you won’t, you won’t be anybo... ...ut play this little jest with hope to surprise you into some display of your art, as not doubting you would blast the guards with occult fires, consum... ... scrofulous, when not dead, you would understand that the annual king’s evil appropriation was just the River and Harbor bill of that government for ...