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...ll who know him declare that they have never met, not even in the Egyptian museum at Turin, so agreeable a mummy. In no country in the world did paras... ...her “speeches” something of the so- 62 An Old Maid lemnity with which the British enunciate their patriotic ab- surdities,—the self-conceit of stupid... ...nd the pleasure of an old age is now on exhibition in a species of private museum. If the dead could know what happens after them, the chevalier’s hea...

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...f national prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our British school- boys value a battle. Painful it is to add, that this is the... ... am satisfied there was in this particular instance. Mr. White possessed a museum—formed chiefly by him- self, and originally, perhaps, directed simpl... ...en, cultivate the most enlarged and liberal curiosity; so that Mr. White’s museum furnished attractions to an unusually large variety of tastes. I had... ...o was a mummy; the other was a skeleton. I, that had previ- ously seen the museum, warned Lady Carbery of both; but much it mortified us that only the... ... Thomas de Quincey Had Mr. White, indeed, furnished us with the key of the museum, leaving us to our own discretion, but restricting us only (like a c... ... Or do we grind her still?” Pretty much the same authority it is which the British public of this day has for its craze upon the subject of English op... ...ling of amateurship. Several great collections have been bequeathed to the British Museum, for instance—not chiefly as a na- tional institution, and u... ...“House;” he is offi- cially brought into connection with all orders of the British aristocracy—often with royal personages; and with the younger branc... ...aven prevent!—the German tenure of professorships were substituted for our British one: that is, if for independent and liberal teachers were substitu...

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... Simpson, Mr. Levett, Captain Garrick, father of the great ornament of the British stage; but above all, Mr. Gilbert Walmsley, Register of the Preroga... ... who had practised his own precepts of oeconomy for sev- eral years in the British capital. He assured Johnson, who, I suppose, was then meditating to... ... and disputed very warmly with Johnson against the well-known maxim of the British constitution, ‘the King can do no wrong;’ affirming, that ‘what was... ...revented from passing his life as he pleases?’ Sir Adam. ‘But, Sir, in the British constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the ... ...Saturday, May 9, Mr. Dempster and I had agreed to dine by ourselves at the British Cof- fee-house. Johnson, on whom I happened to call in the morning,... ...e that his prejudice was not virulent; and I have deposited in the British Museum, amongst other pieces of his writing, the following note in answer t... ...hnson and Garrick. But I found he was averse to it. We went and viewed the museum of Mr. Rich- ard Green, apothecary here, who told me he was proud of... ...lding a man 339 Boswell’s Life of Johnson of war, as of collecting such a museum.’ Mr. Green’s obliging alacrity in shewing it was very pleasing. We ... ...that wealth can give. ‘An eminent foreigner, when he was shewn the British Museum, was very troublesome with many absurd inquiries. “Now there, Sir, (...

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...ages, in the days of the public examination of late Di- rectors of a Royal British Bank. But, I submit myself to suffer judgment to go by default on a... ...aboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly South Sea gods in the British Museum might have supposed themselves at home again. Nothing to see... ...h that enlightened strictness, that the ugly South Sea gods in the British Museum might have supposed themselves at home again. Nothing to see but str... ...hing which neither he nor anybody else knew anything about. On these truly British occasions, the smugglers, if any, made a feint of walking into the ... ...ozen years of constant suit and service, he had been enrolled in the Great British Legion of Honour, the Legion of the Rebuffed of the Circumlocution ... ...buffed of the Circumlocution Office, and had been decorated with the Great British Order of Merit, the Order of the Disorder of the Barnacles and Stil...

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...ages, in the days of the public examination of late Di- rectors of a Royal British Bank. But, I submit myself to suffer judgment to go by default on a... ...aboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly South Sea gods in the British Museum might have supposed themselves at home again. Nothing to see... ...h that enlightened strictness, that the ugly South Sea gods in the British Museum might have supposed themselves at home again. Nothing to see but str... ...hing which neither he nor anybody else knew anything about. On these truly British occasions, the smugglers, if any, made a feint of walking into the ... ...ozen years of constant suit and service, he had been enrolled in the Great British Legion of Honour, the Legion of the Rebuffed of the Circumlocution ... ...buffed of the Circumlocution Office, and had been decorated with the Great British Order of Merit, the Order of the Disorder of the Barnacles and Stil...

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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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... know.” “You mean his idea for his native place?” “Yes—the collection, the Museum with which he wishes to endow it, and of which he thinks more, as yo... ...moment of its course?” “Oh it’s all right,” said Bob Assingham. “Go to the British Museum,” his companion continued with spirit. “And what am I to do ... ...f its course?” “Oh it’s all right,” said Bob Assingham. “Go to the British Museum,” his companion continued with spirit. “And what am I to do there?” ... ...lease from the bondage of ugliness he was in a position to measure—in this museum of museums, a palace of art which was to show for compact as a Greek... ...ore money than he has ever seen. I’ve been, my dear,” she went on, “to the British Museum—which you know I always adore. And I’ve been to the National... ...y than he has ever seen. I’ve been, my dear,” she went on, “to the British Museum—which you know I always adore. And I’ve been to the National Gallery... ...its feet, and a trumpet in its ears, and a bottomless bag of solid shining British sovereigns—which was much to the point—in its hand. Courage and goo... ...the treasured past which hung there behind them like a framed picture in a museum, a high watermark for the history of their old fortune; the summer e... ...pera no matter who was singing and sudden outbreaks of curiosity about the British drama. The good couple from Cadogan Place could always unprotesting...

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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...

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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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...stairs, rushes into his Hansom, and directs the driver to be up and at the British Public, and to charge into the City. Meanwhile T wemlow, in an incr... ...grapple, sir, or she flies! —that is to say, regarded in the light of true British Oak, for such you are explain, Mr V enus, the expression “papers”!’... ...n. ‘The natural curiosity which forms the sole ornament of my professional museum,’ he resumes, ‘hereupon desires his Secretary—an individual of the h...

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... creature making a bar of his arm. T wo ideas are generally present to the British mind during these cer emonies; first, that it is necessary to make... ...al affront, which the government at home ought instantly to ‘take up.’ The British mind and body becoming heated by these fantasies, delirious answers... ...puts a placard outside her house announcing her possession of that curious British instrument, a ‘Mingle;’ or when a tavern keeper pro vides accommod... ...en MaClise subdues it to his genius,) it fills my soul with terror at the British Institution, it lures young artists on to their destruction. Go whe... ...Interest, for instance, and from me. Just what they gain, we lose. Certain British ‘Gents’ about the steersman, intellectually nurtured at home on par... ...or Field? Inspector Field is, to night, the guardian genius of the British Museum. He is bringing his shrewd eye to bear on every corner of its solita...

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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 ...