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...s to the sword. The government by this means falling to Ariadne, he made a league with her, and received the cap- tives of her, and ratified a perpetu... ... too, showed respect to Romulus; the Ancient Latins sent, and entered into league and confederacy with him. Fidenae he took, a neighboring city to Rom... ... great losses, did not venture to oppose, but, humbly suing to him, made a league and friendship for an hundred years; surrendering also a large distr... ... hundred and thirty years after the death of Lycurgus. Elatus and his col- leagues were the first who had this dignity conferred upon them, in the rei... ...ned of all the priests; from whom, as Plato says, getting knowledge of the Atlantic story, he put it into a poem, and proposed to bring it to the know... ...Solon, having begun the great work in verse, the his- tory or fable of the Atlantic Island, which he had learned from the wise men in Sais, and though... ... men’s delights, are also mine. Plato, willing to improve the story of the Atlantic Island, as if it were a fair estate that wanted an heir and came w... ... so Plato, amongst all his excellent works, left this only piece about the Atlantic Island imperfect. Solon lived after Pisistratus seized the governm... ..., that they come hither with an army, from the Pillars of Hercules and the Atlantic Sea, to hazard themselves for the 417 Plutarch’s Lives establishm...

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... may be prejudiced, but 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 p... ...their telephones and bank-accounts and automatic pianos and co-opera- tive leagues. And for all its fat richness, theirs is a pio- neer land. What is ... ...nd put in tenant farmers. The Dauntless lies to us about the Nonpar- tisan League, the lawyers sting us, the machinery-dealers hate to carry us over b... ...icott were snatched from Gopher Prairie and in- stantly conveyed to a town leagues away, he would not realize it. He would go down apparently the same... ...’t any `re- form program. ’ Not any more! The trouble is spiritual, and no League or Party can enact a preference for gardens rather than dumping-grou... ...ese smart-aleck move- ments to let the unions and the Farmers’ Nonpartisan League kill all our initiative and enterprise by fixing wages and prices. T...

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...f course Zilla keeps rooting for a nice expensive vacation in New York and Atlantic City, with the bright lights and the bootlegged cocktails and a bu... ...ell, I guess he called up the Credit Association and the American Security League to see if I was all right— he certainly took long enough—or maybe he... ...his Dora Gibson Tucker that runs the Child Welfare and the Americanization League, and the only reason she’s got Drew beaten is because she has got so... ..., dad, you certainly did show up that poor boot when he got flip about the League of Nations!” “Well, the trouble with a lot of these fellows is, they... ...lows. Some guy back East has organized a society called the Good Citizens’ League for just that purpose. Of course 298 Babbitt the Chamber of Commerc... ...hat they can’t attend to this one problem properly. But the Good Citizens’ League, the G. C. L., they stick right to it. Oh, the G. C. L. has to have ...

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...find my bride) Went forth again with both my friends. We rode Many a long league back to the North. At last From hills, that looked across a land of... ...tion crabbed and gnarled. Better to clear prime forests, heave and thump A league of street in summer solstice down, Than hammer at this reverend gent... ... day.’ She spake With kindled eyes; we rode a league beyond, And, o’er a bridge of pinewood crossing, came On flowery lev... ... but oft Clomb to the roofs, and gazed alone for hours On that disastrous leaguer, swarms of men Darkening her female field: void was her use, And s... ...ream As some of theirs—God bless the narrow seas! I wish they were a whole Atlantic broad.’ ‘Have patience,’ I replied, ‘ourselves are full Of social ...

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...eived their loads. A train de- parted roaring. Before midnight it would be leagues away boring through the Great Northwest, carrying Trade— the life b... ... the building began clicking off the news to the whole coun- try, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Mackinac to Mexico, that the Chicago marke... ...o reason, and the motives for this final and supreme effort to conquer the league of circumstances which hemmed her in were obscure. She did not even ... ...outhwest, St. Louis, Omaha, and Kansas City contributed to the volume. The Atlantic Seaboard, New York, and Boston and Philadelphia sent out their tri...

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...vorable consideration the subject of an international telegraph across the Atlantic Ocean, and also of a telegraph between this capital and the nation... ... also of a telegraph between this capital and the national forts along the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico. Such commu- nications, establish... ...cessity of such a navy-yard, so furnished, at some suitable place upon the Atlantic seaboard has on repeated occasions been brought to the attention o... ...raham Lincoln: V ol Seven REPL Y TO A DELEGATION FROM THE NA- TIONAL UNION LEAGUE, JUNE 9, 1864. GENTLEMEN—I can only say in response to the remarks o... ...hich has been accorded to me, both by the conven- tion and by the National League. I am not insensible at all to the personal compliment there is in ... ... which I may lay hold of as being the opinion of the convention and of the League, that I am not entirely unworthy to be intrusted with the place I ha... ...133,000,000 acres of surveyed land. The great enterprise of connecting the Atlantic with the Pa- cific States by railways and telegraph lines has been... ...gift, the capture of Savannah. When you were about leaving Atlanta for the Atlantic coast, I was anxious, if not fearful; but feeling that you were th...

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...I have got them up to that; but they will want to make it a bureau of this League of Nations, and I have the profoundest distrust of this League of Na... ...“You are more at home here still than in that new country of ours over the Atlantic. But it seems to me now that I do begin to remember building this ... ...that particular mo- ment. Two gentlemen were coming towards her across the Atlantic whose minds, it chanced, were very busily occupied by her affairs.... ...arly morn- ing now, even when he was in the strong and soothing air of mid-Atlantic, and thinking of V .V . because she had a way of coming into his m... ...The imaginations of Mr. Gunter Lake, two days behind Mr. Grammont upon the Atlantic, were of a gentler, more ro- mantic character. In them V.V. was no... ...y the window. “Beautiful oranges.” She had been preparing them, poor Trans-atlantic exile, after the fashion in which grape fruits are prepared upon l...

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... to go to sea voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon one an other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end,... ... refusing duty after a month of weary battling with the gales of the North Atlantic. Books are an integral part of one’s life, and my Shakespearian as... ...e for a pony: a quarter of a mile at most, hedged in by hundreds of square leagues of virgin for- est. But who knows? The importation of that Bali pon...

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...ed to go to sea voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end,... ... refusing duty after a month of weary battling with the gales of the North Atlantic. Books are an integral part of one’s life and my Shakespearean ass... ...e for a pony: a quarter of a mile at most, hedged in by hundreds of square leagues of virgin forest. But who knows? The importation of that Bali Pony ...

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...tless islands, and imbedded in mountains, the “holy lake” extended a dozen leagues still fur- ther to the south. With the high plain that there interp... ...een mentioned that the distance between these two posts was less than five leagues. The rude path, which originally formed their line of communication... ...d body. These prac- tices have nearly disappeared among the Indians of the Atlantic states. *The hunting-shirt is a picturesque smock-frock, being sho... ...scout alludes to a tradition which is very popular among the tribes of the Atlantic states. Evidence of their Asiatic origin is deduced from the circu... ...en the former, it would be necessary to traverse the forest for many weary leagues, each step of which was carrying him further from the scene of the ... ...c head- lands, and dotted with countless islands. At the distance of a few leagues, the bed of the water became lost among moun- tains, or was wrapped... ...trail, and, rely on it, we find the other, though they should be a hundred leagues asunder! Gently, gently, Uncas, you are as impatient as a man in th...

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...ub- marine Romance,” but Blix had disapproved. “It’s too ‘T wenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,’” she had said. “Y ou want something much more digni... ...rated from her father, nor from Howard and Snooky. That huge city upon the Atlantic seaboard, with its vast, fierce life, where beat the heart of the ... ... you will be here on the shores of the Pacific, and I on the shores of the Atlantic, but the whole continent can’t come between us.” “And we’ll be tog...

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...Brissago, beheld in Geneva at the other end of Switzer- land a poor little League of (Allied) Nations (excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russi... ... ever believe anything of the sort….’ Yet that boy lived to fly across the Atlantic and edit his father’s reminiscences. S S S S Section 7 ection 7 ec... ... fight a fleet of battleships, or drive one of our giant liners across the Atlantic; but we should also have a clue that would enable us at last to qu... ...n to receive responses of a more and more hopeful type. He came across the Atlantic to Italy, and there he gathered in the promises for this congress....

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...s, held his attention; and then his eyes went westward to the dark rolling Atlantic across which, as the edge of the night was drawn like a curtain, m... ...he like- ness of a captain and a king; all the governments of men, all the leagues of men, their debts and claims and possessions, must give way to th...

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...d world was so upon you that you faced not merely Westminster, but the icy Atlantic and America, which one could yet fancy was a land of Englishmen—En... ...chelsea, beating T aper by nine votes, and there had been a new cut in the Atlantic passenger rates. He was expected to be interested and excited by t... ...loak. And this April night air had a knife edge. Early ice coming down the Atlantic perhaps. It was wonderful to be here on the top of the round world... ... and St. Petersburg and Rome take sides as though these beastly tribes and leagues and superstitions meant anything but blank, black, damnable ignoran...

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...d not the whole Hun- garian Nation rise, like some tumultuous moon-stirred Atlantic, when Kaiser Joseph pocketed their Iron Crown; an implement, as wa... ...: otherwise impossible; except as Armed Neutral- ity, or hollow Commercial League. A man, be the Heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet ...

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...other moment he could not have been harder to find, under that toss- ing sea of life, if its billows had been the Atlantic’s and he a lost sixpence. H... ...might I show that I was not in Islington that day; so also might I show that at that hour they name I was above a league away, seeing I was at Wapping...

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...l T reaty now did what Universal Empire had aforetime done, and that among Atlantic barbarians now, as among the Scythians of old, an offender would f... ...d reality of this white hand which had drawn him thither away thousands of leagues in an eye-twinkle. Hark, how Ariel sang overhead! What splendour in... ...n your Horatian.” “He knows all!” thought Richard, and instantly drew away leagues from his father, and threw up fortifications round his love and him... ... and busy contractors measure time by inches, and the air hums around: for leagues as it were myriads of bees, so the house and neighbourhood of the m...

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...al-times, and in the evenings at least, and that will be better than being leagues away and never seeing you at all.’ ‘But, my love, I cannot let you ... ...arge at early dawn, take the coach to M-, flee to the port of -, cross the Atlantic, and seek a quiet, humble home in New England, where I would suppo... ... his gentle kisses. He was here, then, safely clasped in my arms, and many leagues away from his unworthy father! Broad day- light illumined the apart...

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...ess. The next morning, she found out that it was not the world that was in league against her, but that she had fallen into the condition which she ha... ...s he had been upon the wildest sea-coast, exposed to the full sweep of the Atlantic storm! She set him off upon his own scenery, to the destruction of... ...to smother you like giants—and not into your 284 Yo n g e own broad, cool Atlantic, laughing up your own sparkles of light.’ ‘We inland people can ha... ...e timid Gilbert. His individual story was thus:—He safely rode the ‘half a league’ forward, but when more than half way back, his horse was struck to ...

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...ssed Adela. “Wilfrid’s meaning is now explained,” said Cornelia. “He is in league with papa; or has given in his adhesion to papa’s demands, at least.... ...e. But, my God, ma’am, when a man has his eye on the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic, and the Baltic, and the Black Sea, and half-a-dozen colonies at o...