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...he prince of bric-a-brac died before he could gain an entrance to the Pons museum, the one private col- lection which could compare with the famous Sa... ...the one private col- lection which could compare with the famous Sauvageot museum. Pons and M. Sauvageot indeed resembled each other in more ways than... ...kes and brokers’ men, was a crime of lese-bric-a-brac in Pons’ eyes. Pons’ museum was for his own delight at every hour; for the soul created to know ... ...om doing heedless damage in the sitting-room and study which did duty as a museum for Pons. Schmucke, wholly absorbed in music, a composer for love of... ...day she dressed Cecile herself, taking as much pains as the admiral of the British fleet takes over the dressing of the pleasure yacht for Her Majesty... ... Balzac Pons and Schmucke, on their side, cleaned, swept, and dusted Pons’ museum rooms and furniture with the agility of sailors cleaning down a man-...

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...nd any Animal in him, blindfold, Mr Boffin.’ ‘And here’s Kirby’s Wonderful Museum,’ said Mr Boffin, ‘and Caulfield’s Characters, and Wilson’s. Such Ch... ...nd forgot,’ said Mr Boffin. ‘Why the bookseller that sold me the Wonderful Museum—where’ s the Wonder- ful Museum?’ He was on his knees on the floor i... ...jog his attention: ‘You could hardly have been out parrot-shooting, in the British climate, sir?’ ‘No, no, no,’ said V enus fretfully. ‘I was down at ... ..., sir!’ ‘—And looking for a nice pair of rattlesnakes, to articulate for a Museum—when I was doomed to fall in with her and deal with her. It was just... ...ne with the calmest indifference; ‘but I dare say he was there. Come! Be a British sportsman and enjoy the pleasures of the chase. It will do you good...

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...ectly) that the Saudis were sharing Tayyib’s information with the U.S. and British authorities. 86 At almost the same time, cell members learned that ... ...nt spoke to the congressional leadership from Air Force One, and he called British Prime Min- ister T ony Blair, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif... ...l attaché in Lon- don had promptly forwarded it to his counterparts in the British government, hand-delivering the request on August 21. On August 24,... ...t 28, the CIA sent a request for information to a different service of the British government; this communication warned that Moussaoui might be expel... ... the end of August.The FBI office in London raised the matter briefly with British officials as an aside, after a meeting about a more urgent matter o... ...4). 142. NYPD interview 6, ESU (Feb. 19, 2004). 143. New Y ork City Police Museum interview of Kenneth Winkler,Apr. 17, 2003 (videotaped); NYPD inter-...

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... Throughout the eighties at least, and probably for some years before, the British Museum reading room was used daily by a gentleman of such astonishi... ...out the eighties at least, and probably for some years before, the British Museum reading room was used daily by a gentleman of such astonishing and c... ... course of which he kept me pretty closely on the track of his work at the Museum, in which I was then, like himself, a daily reader. He was by profes... ...d about the forgeries of the Pentateuch which were offered for sale to the British Museum, and about litera- ture and things of the spirit generally. ... ...the forgeries of the Pentateuch which were offered for sale to the British Museum, and about litera- ture and things of the spirit generally. He alway... ... ture and things of the spirit generally. He always came to my desk at the Museum and spoke to me about something or other, no doubt finding that peop... ...sumption that he was to me a mere name among the thousands of names in the British Museum catalogue. Therefore I make it clear that I had and have per... ...ppose they are merely a record of observed fact. John Stuart Mill told our British workmen that they were mostly liars. Carlyle told us all that we ar... ...incorporation of Whig principles of individual liberty. Shakespear and the British Public I have rejected Mr Harris’s view that Shakespear died bro- k...

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...n- ers of Patents. Here is, in accordance with the name of the building, a museum of models of all patents taken out. I wandered through it, gazing wi... ... about through the Patent-office I also found a hospital for sol- diers. A British officer was with me who pronounced it to be, in its kind, very good... ...ure that name of Romanesque which it has assumed. The building is used for museums and lectures, and was given to the city by one James Smithsonian, a... ... impede the celerity of the work to be done, and that a closer copy of the British model might not on the whole increase the efficiency of the America... ... Committee on Foreign Affairs, which position is as near akin to that of a British minister in Parliament as can be attained under the existing Consti... ...vo- lution is indisputable. It is written on the whole record of our race, British and American history is made up of re- bellion and revolution. Hamp... ... cotton fields have spread themselves. And then came emancipa- tion in the British islands. Under such circumstances and with such a lesson, could it ...

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... having been during the course of his life pretty generally engaged in the British service, he had a tolerably fair claim to the majestic title of Bri... ...least, we will have nothing that shall be mistaken for virtues. And if the British public (after calling for three or four editions) shall give up, no... ...y with the Whigs; and this Enlistment Act, which, in order to maintain the British glories in Flanders, dealt most cruelly with the British people in ... ...atisfaction. It will be necessary to explain the reason of it. We gave the British public to understand that the landlady of the “Three Rooks,” at Wor... ...existence, by a disease which has exercised considerable ravages among the British youth. By consulting the authority above mentioned, we find that Ha... ...not the 126 Catherine: A Story Burney collection of music, at the British Museum, afford one an ample store of songs from which to choose? Are there ...

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... Clapham that is what they call by the senseless name of Free Love. In the British Empire we have unlimited Kulin polygamy, Muslim po- lygamy limited ... ...nations in the eyes of many worthy persons. Not only may the re- spectable British champion of marriage mean any of these widely different institution... ...th, if not sooner; but it is very seldom brought to that test. The typical British husband sees much less of his wife than he does of his business par... ...t to be wondered at that the mere mention of the marriage question makes a British Cabinet shiver with apprehension and hastily pass on to safer busin... ... than men. Now though polygyny prevails throughout the greater part of the British Empire, and is as practicable here as in India, there is a good dea... ...ly alive woman who has always been rich among poor people. In a historical museum she would explain Edward the Fourth’s taste for shopkeepers’ wives. ...

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...her mind was duty above every other feeling!— so strong may it be in every British maiden!) the lovely girl kept her promise. “My former engagements,”... ...ver his head, and putting his arms a-kimbo, “we have learned that from the British, to whom we are superior in everything: and I’d have your Majesty t... ...essons. If your reglars jine General Washington, ’tis to larn from him how Britishers are licked; for I’m blest if yu know the way yet.” Tatua said, “... ...tershire have still many a legend of fear to tell; and the children of the British fishermen tremble even now when they speak of the terrible “Repudia... ...of our country, the chance of the combat might have been in fa- vor of the British vessels. It was not until the “Elector” blew up, at a quarter past ... ...famous instrument and palladium of our liberties at present in the British Museum, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury—the Magna Charta. His name does no...

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...ghteous and happy, world without end. Amen.’ And who can look twice at the British Parliament and then seriously bring it such a task? I am not advanc... ...and the body which is to regulate their administra- tion no wiser than the British Parliament. So that upon all hands we may look for a form of servit... ...ss the claims of debating societies. It is as a means of melting down this museum of premature petrifactions into living and impres- sionable soul tha...

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...ise in a large way of practice over both England and Scotland, nor had any British engineer anything approaching their experience. It was about this n... ... life, and humours the caprices of the tyrant. But the potentate, like the British in India, pays small regard to the character of his willing client,... ..., like Stonehenge, are still afoot, the rest clean vanished. It may be the Museum numbers a full set; and Mr. Ionides perhaps, or else her gracious Ma... ...but it is an old, insu- lar, home-bred staginess; not French, domestically British; not of to-day, but smacking of O. Smith, Fitzball, and the great a...