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...d it is extremely unlikely that a new translator would, by suppressing his name, have allowed Shelton to carry off the credit. In 1687 John Phillips, ... ...s’s. It was not published until after his death, and the printers gave the name according to the current pronunciation of the day. It has been the mos... ...as household words in English mouths, it seems to me that the old familiar names and phrases should not be changed without good reason. Of course a tr... ...sk, who and what manner of man was this Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra whose name is on the title-page; and it was too late for a satisfactory answer to... ...pon his life as they could find. This, however , has been done by the last-named biographer to such good purpose that he has superseded all predecesso... ...r, not for the world; for once alone with me, he would ray me like a Saint Bartholomew.” “He will do nothing of the kind,” said Don Quixote; “I have o... ...he same oak and gave me a fresh flogging, that left me like a flayed Saint Bartholomew; and every stroke he gave me he followed up with some jest or g...

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...mpared with these queens, she looked like an old woman. He saw women whose names will appear in the history of the nineteenth century, women no less f... ...s, great by her intellect, great no less by her beauty. He over- heard the name pronounced by those who went by. “Ah!” he thought to himself, “she is ... ...traveling companion.” “Ah!” said the Marquise d’Espard, “I never hear that name without thinking of the Duchesse de Langeais, poor thing. She vanished... ... Distinguished Provincial at Paris “He can scarcely fail to have heard the name of a great man of whom we are proud,” said Mme. de Bargeton. “Quite la... ..., had as much right to the appellation of Rubempre as a Jew to a baptismal name. Lucien’s father was an apothecary named Chardon. M. de Rastignac, who... ...w the class of people that we have to do with!” exclaimed Cavalier. “Saint Bartholomew would suit better,” continued Fendant. “Catherine de’ Medici, o...

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... great Frankish victory or defeat was gained or avoided; and in order to commemorate the epi- sode, Charlemagne commanded a city to be built there, wh... ...de, Charlemagne commanded a city to be built there, which he named Frankfort—the ford of the Franks. None of the other cities where this event happene... ...German alphabet; or at least of the German word for alphabet—BUCHSTABEN. They say that the first movable types were made on birch sticks—BUCHSTABE—hen... ...lay, as he shall prefer. If he elects to work, he finds a large list of lectures to choose from. He selects the subjects which he will study, and ente... ...sident calls for volunteers from among the membership to offer battle; three or more respond—but there must not be less than three; the president lays... ...nd a group of white beeches is leading a footpath animated by travelers.” “A learned man in a cynical and torn dress holding an open book in his hand....

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... (as he called them in after days sometimes), and learned as many military names as he could. In these studies the excellent Mrs. O’Dowd was of great ... ...her friend’s coolness. “I think Emmy has become prouder since her father’s name was in the—since Mr. Sedley’s misfortunes,” Rebecca said, softening th... ...he was not suspi- cious of what all his acquaintance were perfectly aware— namely, that he was carrying on a desperate flirtation with Mrs. Crawley. H... ...ll which a noble Duchess gave at Brussels on the 15th of June in the above-named year is historical. All Brussels had been in a state of excitement ab... ... not well. Take me home.” She did not know she called him by his Christian name, as George was accustomed to do. He went away with her quickly. Her lo... ...he Reverend Mr. Irons to her instantly. Jane, write a line to the Reverend Bartholomew Irons, in the third person, and say that I desire the pleasure ... ...r heart to be freed now and again from the dreary spouting of the Reverend Bartholomew Irons, and the serious toadies who gathered round the footstool... ...down gave away his sister—she was married by a Bishop, and not by the Rev. Bartholomew Irons—to the disappointment of the irregular prelate. When they... ...e was an officer of the great Duke and distin- guished in the famous Saint Bartholomew conspiracy. During the whole of Mary’s confinement, the house o...

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... slightest vexa- tion. His talk of renowned prime-donne by their Christian names, and the way that he would catalogue emperors, states- men, and noble... ...w not exactly what, save that it was some- thing so wide that it had not a name, and so high in the air that no one could see it. They knew assuredly ... ...ius whom they longed for to illumine their household, before they knew her name. Cornet Wilfrid Pole must have chuck- led mightily to see them depart ... ... in the brain, easily put aside conventional rules. “But we don’t know her name,” they said, when they had taken the advice of the gentlemen on what t... ... Gosstre scanned the room, while Adela, following her ladyship’s eyeglass, named the guests. “You get together a quaint set of men,” said Lady Gosstre... ...rdock, the left-handed cricketer and hard-hitter, being leader; with Peter Bartholomew, potboy, John Girling, miller’s man, and Ned Thewk, gardener’s ... ...eedingly hind-ward- set when the march was resumed. It followed that Peter Bartholomew, potboy, made irritable objections to that old joke which finis... ...Not quite, my lad,” interposed Ned Thewk, though Peter 79 George Meredith Bartholomew was reeling in confirmation. His blow at Jim missed, but came s...

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...e nature of his eye. ‘I’ll tell you what I want you to do now. I want your name to this bill for three months.’ Sexty Parker opened his mouth and his ... .... His friend Mr Lopez was indeed applying to him for the assistance of his name in raising a loan to the amount of the sum named. This was a kind of f... ...sign it.’ ‘Oh, I ain’t afraid,’ said Sexty, taking his pen and writing his name across the bill. But even before the signature was finished, when his ... ...a leisurely way, folding it and putting it into his pocket-book. ‘Have our names never been together on a bit of paper before?’ ‘When we both had some... ...single Vice-Chancellor’s Court which was much better known by Mr Wharton’s name than by that of the less eminent judge who now sat there. His had been... ...thought you were already in the army,’ said the Duke. ‘So I am,—was on Sir Bartholomew Bone’s staff in Canada for two years, and have seen as much of ...

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...Excerpt: Predictions for the year 1708. Wherein the month, and day of the month are set down, the persons named, and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from being farther imposed on by vulgar almanack- makers....

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... YEAR 1708 Wherein the month, and day of the month are set down, the persons named, and the great actions and events of next year particularly relate... ...do not lurk in the dark; I am not wholly unknown in the world; I have set my name at length, to be a mark of infamy to mankind, if they shall find I d... ... nine at night with great obstinacy, but no very decisive event. I shall not name the place, for the reasons aforesaid; but the command- ers on each l... ... here at home; that near the end of this month much mischief will be done at Bartholomew Fair, by the fall of a booth. September. This month begins wi... ... to bring me a better light, for this is but a very dim one. Sir, says I, my name is Partridge: Oh! the Doctor s brother, belike, cries he; the stair-... ... far the wicked spirit of envy, malice and resentment can hurry some men, my nameless old persecutor had provided me a monument at the stone-cutter s ... ...c to shew within, or was forced for a livelihood to turn retailer to May and Bartholomew Fairs. Therefore, if Her Maj- esty would but graciously be pl...

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...of the wave, as to sink a stone to the bottom. The reader who has seen the name affixed to the head of this article scarcely expected to be entertaine... ...ch. We know not if Mr. Cruikshank will be very well pleased at finding his name in such company as that of Clown and Harle- quin; but he, like them, i... ...rman nursery-tales, and Cruikshank’s illustrations of them? We coupled his name with pantomime awhile since, and sure never pantomimes were more charm... ...he days when the work ap- peared we firmly believed the three heroes above named to be types of the most elegant, fashionable young fellows the town a... ... come up with the honest Dutchman? It serves him right: why did he put his name to stamped paper? And yet we should not wonder if some lucky chance sh... .... They visit London professionally once a year, and that is at the time of Bartholomew fair. How one may speculate upon the different degrees of rasca...

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...self in that unhappy religious war the signal for which was given on Saint-Bartholomew’s day, had been grievously wounded at the siege of Rochelle. Th... ...n day. When a military expedition, having a private object, was led in the name of the King or of the League, one or other of these parties ap- plaude... ...ion arose on a topic which in those days of ignorance was thought amusing: namely, the legitimacy of children coming into the world ten months after t... ...s of sorcerers who are still called in parts of France “bonesetters.” This name belonged to certain untu- tored geniuses who, without apparent study, ... ...eatment of serious cases. But not only had Maitre Antoine Beauvouloir (the name of the present bonesetter) a father and grandfather who were fa- mous ... ...e did not like his station as bone- setter and wished to rescue his family name from the posi- tion in which the prejudices of the times had placed it...

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...ay, shout and scream in the same by night, call waiters by their Christian names, and do various other acts and deeds of an equally face tious descri... ...len carelessly. ‘Very,’ said Bob Sawyer, with his mouth full. ‘I’ve put my name down for an arm at our place,’ said Mr. Allen. ‘We’re clubbing for a s... ...his thoughts from worldly matters, by the ingenious process of carving his name on the seat of the pew, in corpulent letters of four inches long. Cha... ...each containing a printed copy of the strip of parchment with blanks for a name; and having filled up the blanks, put all the five documents in his po... ...usiness. If you’ll show me Mr. Pickwick’s room I’ll step up myself.’ ‘What name, Sir?’ said the waiter. ‘Jackson,’ replied the clerk. The waiter stepp... ...se collar. ‘You’re late, Jack?’ said Mr. Benjamin Allen. ‘Been detained at Bartholomew’s,’ replied Hopkins. ‘Anything new?’ ‘No, nothing particular. R...

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...f London lies a small neighborhood, consisting of a cluster of narrow streets and courts, of very venerable and debilitated houses, which goes by the name of Little Britain. Christ Church School and St. Bartholomew?s Hospital bound it on the west; Smithfield and Long Lane on the north; Aldersgate Street, like an arm of the sea, divides it from the eastern part of the city;...

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...eets and courts, of very venerable and debilitated houses, which goes by the name of Little Britain. Christ Church School and St. Bartholomew’s Hospi... ...ses, which goes by the name of Little Britain. Christ Church School and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital bound it on the west; Smithfield and Long Lane on ... ... room is taken up with a bow window, on the panes of which are recorded the names of previous occupants for many generations, mingled with scraps of ... ...e of the most important of the former is a tall, dry old gentle man, of the name of Skryme, who keeps a small apothecary’s shop. He has a cadaverous ... ...etropolis through a telescope, and en deavoring to descry the steeple of St.Bartholomew’s. Not a stage coachman of Bull and Mouth Street but touches ... ...once a week at a little old fashioned house, kept by a jolly publican of the name of Wagstaff, and bearing for insignia a resplendent half moon, with ... ... the landlord. The club which now holds its weekly sessions here goes by the name of “The Roaring Lads of Little Britain.” They abound in old catches,... ...ents which produce great stir and sensation in Little Britain; these are St. Bartholomew’s Fair, and the Lord Mayor’s Day. During the time of the fair... ...e dignity of the Cross Keys Square, and the Trotters for the vicinity of St. Bartholomew’s. Thus is this little territory torn by factions and interna...

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...s of mud into the Gulf of Mexico—which brings to mind Captain Marryat’s rude name for the Mississippi—’the Great Sewer.’ This mud, solidified, would m... ... astronomical measure ments, and cataloguing the colors by their scientific names;— as a result, you get the bald fact of the sunset, but you don’t L... .... When De Soto took his glimpse of the river, Ignatius Loyola was an obscure name; the order of the Jesu its was not yet a year old; Michael Angelo’s... ...ath; eleven years before the burning of Servetus; thirty years before he St. Bartholomew Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 7 slaughter; Rabelais... ...n; a hun dred long years must still elapse before Englishmen would hear the name of Oliver Cromwell. Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi ... ... that if the Virgin would permit him to dis cover the great river, he would name it Conception, in her honor. He kept his word. In that day, all expl...

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...y to the party that set them up. They are known to the world under several names; as disputes, ar guments, rejoinders, brief considerations, answers,... ...re you, and be d d? Do you think I have nothing else to do (in the devil’s name) but to mend and repair after you?” “Good words, friend,” said the bee... ...e issued forth, from a squadron of their heavy armed foot, a captain whose name was Bentley, the most deformed of all the Moderns; tall, but without s... ...AR 1708. WHEREIN THE MONTH, AND DAY OF THE MONTH ARE SET DOWN, THE PERSONS NAMED, AND THE GREAT ACTIONS AND EVENTS OF NEXT YEAR P ARTICULARL Y RELA ... ... not lurk in the dark; 1 am not wholly unknown in the world; I have set my name at length, to be a mark of infamy to mankind, if they shall find I dec... ...ere at home: that near the end of this month much mischief will be done at Bartholomew Fair by the fall of a booth. September. This month begins with ...

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...d it is extremely unlikely that a new translator would, by suppressing his name, have allowed Shelton to carry off the credit. In 1687 John Phillips, ... ...s’s. It was not published until after his death, and the printers gave the name according to the current pronunciation of the day. It has been the mos... ...as household words in English mouths, it seems to me that the old familiar names and phrases should not be changed without good reason. Of course a tr... ...sk, who and what manner of man was this Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra whose name is on the title-page; and it was too late for a satisfactory answer to... ...upon his life as they could find. This, however, has been done by the last-named biographer to such good purpose that he has superseded all predecesso... ...r, not for the world; for once alone with me, he would ray me like a Saint Bartholomew.” “He will do nothing of the kind,” said Don Quixote; “I have o... ...he same oak and gave me a fresh flogging, that left me like a flayed Saint Bartholomew; and every stroke he gave me he followed up with some jest or g... ...l you the whole of them without missing an atom; for last night the son of Bartholomew Carrasco, who has been study- 414 Don Quixote ing at Salamanca...

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..., who was young, handsome, and much in love, but she shrank from the plain name of Madame Rabourdin. Monsieur Leprince assured his daughter that Xavie... ...ier was of the stock that statesmen came of. Celestine answered that a man named Rabourdin would never be anything under the government of the Bourbon... ... to the higher ranks of the adminis- tration, possessed of a fortune and a name bequeathed to him in a certain will of which he, Monsieur Leprince, wa... ...ioneer saw his son-in-law disappointed of the hopes they had placed on the nameless protector, he tried, for the sake of his daughter, to repair the s... ...ance under the form of written action; they created a power of inertia and named it “Report.” Let us explain the Report. When the kings of France took... ...hout too roughly jarring the existing state of things or incurring a Saint-Bartholomew of clerks, Rabourdin considered that an evolution of twenty yea...

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...ection for Valentine; it therefore only now remains for us to tell you the name of the young man for whom she is destined. It is one of the most desir... ...personal qualification likely to ren- der Valentine supremely happy, — his name, moreover, cannot be wholly unknown to you. It is M. Franz de Quesnel,... ...watched the old man’s countenance. When Madame de Villefort pronounced the name of Franz, the pupil of M. Noirtier’s eye began to dilate, and his eyel... ...re of me, and what document is it that you wish to be drawn up?” Valentine named all the letters of the alphabet until she came to W . At this letter ... ...s.” “Have you an exact idea of the amount of your fortune?” “Yes.” “I will name to you several sums which will increase by gradation; you will stop me... ...ich Charles IX. put to Catherine de Medicis, after the massa- cre of Saint Bartholomew, ‘How have I played my little part?’” “To what do you allude?” ...

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...spel the loathing and disgust caused by another Don Quixote who, under the name of Second Part, has run masquerading through the whole world. And he w... ...not dare to come out into the open field and broad daylight, but hides his name and disguises his country as if he had been guilty of some lese majest... ...Turpin in his ‘Cosmography.’ All these knights, and many more that I could name, senor curate, were knights-errant, the light and glory of chivalry. T... ... Roland, or Rotolando, or Orlando (for the histories call him by all these names), I am of opinion, and hold, that he was of middle height, broad- sho... ...in his dress, or pure in his morals. Of Alexander, whose deeds won him the name of Great, they say that he was somewhat of a drunkard. Of Hercules, hi... ...l you the whole of them without missing an atom; for last night the son of Bartholomew Carrasco, who has been study- ing at Salamanca, came home after...

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......................................................... 366 CHAPTER XLVI OF NAMES ........................................................................ ...ttled, not only on account of the loss to his family, but also to his good name. He thanked me for my kindness; and after a little reflec- tion, as if... ...could harbour any inclination for it—nay, I believe that you hold the very name in abhorrence. Dear daughter, farewell.” All in the room were weeping ... ... Mademoiselle de la Boetie. But, an hour or so afterwards, he called me by name once or twice, and then with a long sigh expired at three o’clock on W... ...igent of my duty if I failed, to the utmost of my power, to prevent such a name as his, and a memory so richly meriting re- membrance, from falling in... ...d by the 80 Essays: Book the First English in the Castle of Commercy, and Bartholomew de Brunes, who commanded at the Leaguer, having so sapped the g...

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...ght cough;—they would not have been so intimate with that surgeon from St. Bartholomew’s who dined with them twice at the Albion; 4 George Walker at ... ...oming to Suez with the Robinsons. Somebody about the place had asked me my name, and I had told it plainly—George Walker. I never was ashamed of my na... ...ly on circumstances which are in themselves trifling. But the value of his name depends on the way in which he is known at his bank. I have never deal... ...nown at his bank. I have never dealt in tea spoons or gravy spoons, but my name will go as far as another name. “George Walker,” I answered, therefore... ...visitors into the room, I heard him pronounce some sound similar to my own name, and per- ceived that he pointed me out to the most prominent 9 Antho... ...procession entered the room, that one of my friend’s followers—my friend’s name, as I learned afterwards, was Mahmoud al Ackbar, and I will therefore ...

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... of their being in season; as may appear by three rivers in Monmouthshire, namely, Severn, Wye, and Usk, where Camden observes, that in the river Wye,... ... Nay, the smaller birds also do the like in their par ticular seasons, as namely the Laverock, the Tit lark, the little Linnet, and the honest Robin ... ...a little contemptible winged creature, an inhabitant of my aerial element, namely the labori ous Bee, of whose prudence, policy, and regular govern ... ...sion. You are to note, that they are usually distinguished into two kinds; namely, the long winged, and the short winged Hawk: of the first kind, ther... ...orked Kite, the Bald Buzzard, The Hen driver, and others that I forbear to name. Gentlemen, if I should enlarge my discourse to the observation of the... ...ou and your friends have a mind to more sport. From St. James’s tide until Bartholomew tide is the best; when they have had all the summer’s food, the...