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...done.” “It wouldn’t be a bad idea to hand him over to some public body—the British Museum Trustees, or the Royal College of Physicians. Sounds a bit o... ...It wouldn’t be a bad idea to hand him over to some public body—the British Museum Trustees, or the Royal College of Physicians. Sounds a bit odd, of c... ... city. And underneath these wandered the countless flocks and herds of the British Food Trust with their lonely guards and keepers. Not a familiar out... ...d; the whole world dwelt in cities; the whole world was property. Over the British Empire and throughout America his ownership was scarcely disguised,... ...th-west wind. And here and there were patches dotted with the sheep of the British Food T rust, and here and there a mounted shep- herd made a spot of...

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...fully indicate it; for the preparation, wet or dry, is a dead thing, and a museum is but a mortuary. Fielding’s men and women, once more let it be sai... ... it is high time to amend it: or else it is easy to foresee that Roman and British liberty will have the same fate; for corruption in the body politic...

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...the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been removed, to the extreme regret of all weak-kneed lovers of the fine arts, but the gentleman in question had taken serene possession of its softest spot, and, with h...

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... divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This com- modious ottoman has since been removed, to ... ...dge of English, and his accent was oddly tinged with the cockneyism of the British metropolis. But his learning had grown rusty with disuse, and his v... ...78 The American glish without an accent, or rather with that distinctively British accent which, on his arrival in Europe, had struck Newman as an alt... ... Bellegarde looked hard at him, and returned his hand-shake with a sort of British positiveness which reminded him that she was the daughter of the Ea... ... whiskers were fair and glossy, and he had a large dimple, of unmistakably British origin, in the middle of his handsome chin. He was “distinguished” ... ...the progress of the young lady herself. He went one afternoon to the great museum, and wandered through several of the rooms in fruitless quest of her... ...very now and then, having learned from Newman that he had been through the museums of Europe, he uttered some pol- ished aphorism upon the flesh-tints... ... been a sufficient assurance that she was not a Frenchwoman; a cap of pure British compo- sition. She had a pale, decent, depressed-looking face, and ...

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...o the consumption of beer by her maid- servants; and she affirmed that the British laundress (Mrs. Touchett was very particular about the appearance o... ... Lady puzzled him. She questioned him immensely about En- gland, about the British constitution, the English char- acter, the state of politics, the m... ...o amused themselves, time and again, with talk- ing of the attitude of the British public as if the young lady had been in a position to appeal to it;... ... if the young lady had been in a position to appeal to it; but in fact the British public remained for the present profoundly indifferent to Miss Isab... ...sabel presently found herself in the singular situation of de- fending the British constitution against her aunt; Mrs. Touchett having formed the habi... ...ferent fitted parts of him as she had seen, 132 The Portrait of a Lady in museums and portraits, the different fitted parts of armoured warriors—in p... ...d go afterwards to the play; they would frequent the Abbey and the British Museum and find out where Doctor Johnson had lived, and Goldsmith and Addis... ...nable to accept or to refute. The party went more than once to the British Museum and to that brighter palace of art which reclaims for antique variet... ...—when people are not idiots.” “You do it delightfully. As cicerone of your museum you appear to particular advantage.” Mr. Osmond, in return for this ...

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...t occasion. Conceive it! Filmer! Our obscure unwashed Filmer, the Glory of British science! Duchesses crowd upon him, beautiful, bold peeresses say in... ...e could get to the floor whenever he wanted, which was sim- ply to put the British Encyclopaedia (tenth edition) on the top of his open shelves. He ju... ...y that lay through the trees. It was clear to me they didn’t take me for a British citizen, whatever else they thought of me, and for 84 Twelve Stori... .... The truth I dare not tell. I have consulted a number of law-books in the British Museum, and there is not the slightest doubt that I have connived a... ...uth I dare not tell. I have consulted a number of law-books in the British Museum, and there is not the slightest doubt that I have connived at and ab... ...ough pictures and sculpture galleries, immense crowded churches, ruins and museums, Judas trees and prickly pears, wine carts and palaces, they admire...

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...or an answer. ‘Yes. Every house without a signal will be fired upon by the British troops. No harm will be done to the others. No harm at all. Those t... ...try at home, as the distinguished gentleman who is now its Minister at the British Court sustains its highest character abroad. I visited both houses ... ...dical College; and the Battle Monument in memory of an engagement with the British at North Point; are the most conspicuous among them. American Notes... ... accommodated, as the spectators usually are, in one of those locomo tive museums of penny wonders; and the ladies being partitioned off by a red cur... ... the great things to be seen there. When I told him of that chamber in the British Museum wherein are preserved household memorials of a race that cea... ...at things to be seen there. When I told him of that chamber in the British Museum wherein are preserved household memorials of a race that ceased to b... ...tever, between the social fea tures of the United States and those of the British Pos sessions in Canada. For this reason, I shall confine my self ...

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... not help seeing how small his attainments were beside the American’s, his British pertinacity , his wounded vanity (perhaps they are the same thing),... ...rth while to go back to Barnes for the interval between the closing of the Museum and his meal in an A. B. C. shop, and the time hung heavily on his h... ...th hair - dressers and garcons de cafe; I translate wretched books for the British public, and write articles upon contemptible pictures which de- ser... ...thed himself in a tweed suit and a Trinity Hall tie. He looked grotesquely British. The others were elaborately polite to him, and during the soup the... ...usted the notices he saw a glass door which led into what was apparently a museum, and having still twenty minutes to spare he walked in. It was a col... ...ting on for eleven.” “ We’d better try to find it.” They walked out of the museum into a long, dark corridor, with the walls painted in two shades of ... ... end of the lecture the boy who had spo- ken to Philip in the pathological museum and sat next to him in the theatre suggested that they should go to ... ... would boom. The only thing was to wait patiently . What they wanted was a British reverse to knock things down a bit, and then it might be worth whil... ...o read, he wanted to sit alone and think. He made up his mind to go to the British Mu- seum. Solitude was now his only luxury. Since he had been at Ly...

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... minute the father of the family walked in, rattling his seals like a true British merchant. “What’s the matter, Emmy?” says he. “Joseph wants me to s... ...r, to make a little heap for Rebecca. And going to her Papa, that generous British merchant, who had promised to give her as many guineas as she was y... ...et except his own; and it is with grief and pain, that, as admirers of the British aristocracy, we find ourselves obliged to admit the existence of so... ...ng, the fives court, and four-in-hand driving were then the fashion of our British aris- tocracy; and he was an adept in all these noble sciences. And... ...hat he really thought he was one of the most deserv- ing characters in the British army, and gave himself up to be loved with a good deal of easy resi... ...h contained a number of useful and valuable little things—in which private museum she placed the one note which Messrs. Jones and Robinson’s cash- ier... ...of age, twenty-four of which he had passed in the corps, he had a singular museum. He was one of the best shots in England, and, for a heavy man, one ... ...of ancient and modern times and languages. He took the boys to the British Museum and descanted upon the antiquities and the specimens of natural hist... ...of the Gaunt or Regent’s Own Regiment of Militia, a Trustee of the British Museum, an Elder Brother of 673 Thackeray the Trinity House, a Governor of...

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...nsider- able action and reaction between the two classical churches of the British soil. Such was the varying condition, when sketched in outline, of ... ... as one section in that general extension of religious machinery which the British people, by their government and their legislature, have for many ye... ...r than France. But, gen- erally speaking, the case may be stated thus: the British na- tion is, by original constitution of mind, and by long enjoy- m... ...on of moment to any future tourist is, what may be the present value, at a British insurance office, of any given life risked upon a tour in Greece? M... ...s captivity, and reserved from slaughter only by the prospect of ransom; a British nobleman’s son from death or the consequences of Italian barbarity;... ...e overgrowth into forms of nature—yet in Athens only is there a great open museum of such monuments. The Athenian buildings, though none of them Homer...

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...y father led me before the cathe- dral monuments, talking in a low tone of British victories, and commending the heroes to my undivided attention. I u... ... father’s elo- quent talk of ruling a realm, shepherding a people, hurling British thunderbolts. The day’s discipline was, that its se- lected hero sh... ... that child’s father worrits about his learning to speak the language of a British gentleman,’ Mrs. Waddy exclaimed. ‘Before that child your h’s must ... ... the House of Commons; and my father, though he complained of the decay of British eloquence, and mourned for the days of Chatham, and William Pitt (o... ...id, ‘Richie, the notion of training you for a General commandership of the British army is a good one, but if you have got the winning tongue, the woo... ...gravine’s tentatives for gossip of this and that of the German Courts. His museum, hunting, and the Opera absorbed and divided his hours. I guessed hi... ...en. Sarkeld visibly expressed satisfaction. One remark, ‘We shall have his museum in the town!’ left me no doubt upon the presumed object of his visit... ...ed me honestly, was to study certain editions of Tibullus in the Brit- ish Museum. When he deigned to speak of Sarkeld, it was to say that Prince Herm... ...ulein. The Margravine and Prince Ernest were absent. Hermann worked in his museum, dis- playing his treasures to Colonel Heddon. I sat with the la- di...

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... too. Ho! ho! Onct Dad has a jedgment, he’ d sooner dip his colours to the British than change it. I’m glad it’ s settled right eend up. Dad’ s right ... ... “Wa-al, Enoch Fuller he made a model o’ the old Ohio, and she’ s to Calem museum now . Mighty pretty model, too, but I guess Enoch he never done it f... ... a retired dory full in the front yard and a shuttered parlour which was a museum of oversea plunder. There sat a large woman, silent and grave, with ...

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...ed to the westward ‘Beach-la-Mar,’ comes easy to the Polynesian; it is now taught, besides, in the schools 9 Robert Louis Stevenson of Hawaii; and fr... ...urprise. Her Majesty was often recognised, and I have seen French subjects kiss her photograph; Captain Speedy—in an Abyssinian war-dress, supposed to... ... mentioned; and the agents of the farmer blush for their employment. Those that live in glass houses should 53 Robert Louis Stevenson not throw stone... ...ses should 53 Robert Louis Stevenson not throw stones; as a subject of the British crown, I am an unwilling shareholder in the largest opium business... ...ear of the same Gorgon follows and troubles them at home. Maiana once paid him tribute; he once fell upon and seized Nonuti: first steps to the empire... ...is art. To feel, to use his power, to embellish his island and the picture of the island life after a private ideal, to milk the island vigor- ously, ...

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... naturalists are acquainted with this spider, though it is a rare one; the British Museum has a specimen, and, doubtless, so have many other scientifi... ...ists are acquainted with this spider, though it is a rare one; the British Museum has a specimen, and, doubtless, so have many other scientific instit... ...his own shape! It were well that our townsmen tarred and feathered the old British wizard!” And, as he got further off, two or three little blackguard... ...ish, and become more American than the Americans themselves in repudiating British prejudices or principles, habits, mode of thought, and everything t... ...migrated to this part of America, then a wilderness, and long afterwards a British colony. He was on ill terms with his family . There is reason to be... ...ed castles, churches, cathedrals, the seats of nobility and gentry; Roman, British, and Saxon remains, painted windows, oak carvings, and so forth. An...

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...but more faded; and she had the effi- cient air, as though she carried the British Em- pire in her pocket, which the wives of senior of- ficers acquir... ...g any. I missed a wonderful chance. Most of them have found their way into museums, and the rest are the treasured possessions of wealthy amateurs. I ...

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...e on, nothing daunted, proceeded to entertain him with an ordinance of the British Government, regulating the state he should preserve, and the furnit... ...uld gaze upon the favourite comic scene of the travelling English, where a British nobleman (Lord John), with a very loose stomach: dressed in a blue ... ...ladder and this man, something like (I should think) a charge of the heavy British cavalry at W aterloo. The man was never brought down, how ever, no... ...lls in the roofless cham bers of both cities, or carefully removed to the museum at Naples, are as fresh and plain, as if they had been executed yest...

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... instead of going straight back to the office to-day, Mary turned into the British Museum, and strolled down the gallery with the shapes of stone unti... ... of going straight back to the office to-day, Mary turned into the British Museum, and strolled down the gallery with the shapes of stone until she fo... ...it, and filled her eyes with brightness. Nevertheless, before she left the Museum she was very far from saying, even in the privacy of her own mind, “... ...the rightness of her own thought as to wish to bring the population of the British Isles into agreement with it. She looked at the lemon-colored leafl... ...ed upon sufficiently intel- lectual grounds. A mistake, in my opinion. The British public likes a pellet of reason in its jam of eloquence—a pill of r... ...atharine in possession of some of the fundamental distinctions between our British trees. She then asked him to inform her about flowers. To her they ... ...ne of her willing, but confronted with wet pavements and only some belated museum or Tube station for shelter, she was forced, for Ralph’s sake, to fa...

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...as no objection to an interminable Chancery suit. It is a slow, expensive, British, constitutional kind of thing. T o be sure, he has not a vital inte... ...be in part a little library of books and papers and in part quite a little museum of his boots and shoes and hat boxes. “Sit down, my dear,” said Mr. ... ...dmiring Mrs. Snagsby the regular acute professional eye which is thrown on British jurymen. “Now, ma’am, perhaps you’ll have the kindness to tell us ... ...om that truly national work The Divinities of Albion, or Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty, representing ladies of title and fash ion in every variety... ...e market gardens, he decorates his apartment; and as the Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty wears every variety of fancy dress, plays every variety of m... ...orrow gives him a thrill of joy. To be informed what the Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty is about, and means to be about, and what Galaxy marriages a...

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...New England port during the war of 1812, she had been captured at sea by a British cruiser, and, after seeing all sorts of service, was at last employ... ... It purported to be, “the affidavit of John Jennin, first of- ficer of the British Colonial Barque Julia; Guy, Master;” and proved to be a long statem... ...eman is being measured for a coat. While we were amusing ourselves in this museum of curi- osities, our conductor plucked us by the sleeve, and whis- ...

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...n race have not been ugly, and even among those “lords of their kind,” the British, squat figures, ill-shapen nostrils, and dingy complexions are not ... ...een in comparison with the people round them. Arthur’s was a much commoner British face, and the splendour of his 246 Adam Bede new-fashioned clothes... ... idleness is eager now—eager for amusement; prone to excursion-trains, art museums, peri- odical literature, and exciting novels; prone even to scient...

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...made us soldiers of fortune, have the pleas- ant recollection, that in the British service, stop where we may upon our career, it is only for want of ... ...ock, man?” “Really I had never even the pleasure to see one, except in the museum at Keswick.” “There now—I could guess that by your Southland tongue—... ...d in Holland, and I know that this name, however un- couth it may sound in British ears—” Glossin, conscious that the prisoner was now about to en- te... ...s a case pretty 451 Sir Walter Scott much in point; where the keeper of a Museum, while show- ing, as he said, the very sword with which Balaam was a...

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...r threat of a blockade, proper apologies and a sum of money due to certain British merchants; and once during an insurrection in San Domingo, for the ... ... escape. The position was invidious; on one side were the tradition of the British flag and the state of public sentiment at home; on the other, the c... ...e evening; plenty of hard work by day; regular visits to meet- ings of the British Association, from one of which I find him characteristically writin... ... bas-reliefs, where he at last found clearness; after an hour or so at the British Museum, he was able to master ‘the chiton, sleeves and all’; and be... ...iefs, where he at last found clearness; after an hour or so at the British Museum, he was able to master ‘the chiton, sleeves and all’; and before the... ...said rightly; jubilant in victory, delighted by defeat: a Greek sophist, a British schoolboy. Among the legends of what was once a very pleasant spot,...

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... a brush and dust-pan. She used in the old days to sing hymn tunes, or the British national song for the time being, to these instruments, but latterl... ...e milliner’s mother, the milliner, and William had made a party to the Art Museum at South Kensington, I think. Anyhow, Jane had calmly but firmly acc... ...cked. I went afterwards to see the ones they have at the Natural His- tory Museum in London; all of them were cracked and just stuck together like a m... ...ifting steadily out to sea. I tell you I damned Dawson’s and Jamrach’s and Museums and all the rest of it just to rights. I bawled to this nigger to c... ...e green things… “I sold the bones to a man named Winslow—a dealer near the British Museum, and he says he sold them to old Havers. It seems Havers did... ...things… “I sold the bones to a man named Winslow—a dealer near the British Museum, and he says he sold them to old Havers. It seems Havers didn’t unde... ...e little map fluttered and the voices sank. A fine story for two, stranded British wastrels to hear! Evans’ dream shifted to the moment when he had Ch... ...ther, an eminent authority on postage stamps. She read a great deal in the British Museum. (A perfect pairing ground for liter- ary people, that Briti... ... remember rightly, I went off to see Wembly, and afterwards lunched at the British Museum with Delia. We actually spoke about our prospects, in the li...

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...mentary flare out of the candle, as that the ba- bies—Hindoo, African, and British—the ‘human warious’, the French gentleman, the green glass-eyed cat... ...ursued Mr Podsnap, with dignity , ‘Many Evidences that Strike Y ou, of our British Constitution in the Streets Of The World’s Metropolis, London, Lond... ... Mr Podsnap explained, as if he were teaching in an infant school.’ We Say British, But You Say Britannique, You Know’ (forgivingly, as if that were n... ...Honourable Boards! What is it that we call it in our gran- diose speeches? British independence, rather perverted? Is that, or something like it, the ... ...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... ...n. ‘The natural curiosity which forms the sole ornament of my professional museum,’ he resumes, ‘hereupon desires his Secretary—an individual of the h... ...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... ..., 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...

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...ropped upon the table as I write a modest pe- riodical called The Northern British Israel Review, illustrated with portraits of various clergymen of t... ...nts out that the absence of mist on the North Sea was of great help to the British in the autumn of 1914, and declares that it was the wet state of th... ...e cool atria of patrician mansions on the Palatine and the Pincian, in the Museum at Alexandria, and the schools which Omar Khayyam frequented, in the... ...band themselves the better to attain specific ends. T o borrow a term from British politics, there is no objection to ad hoc organisations. The object...

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... it. Having had some time at my disposal when in Lon don, I had visited the British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the library r... ...ing had some time at my disposal when in Lon don, I had visited the British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the library regarding... ... found was a great heap of gold in one corner, gold of all kinds, Roman, and British, and Austrian,and Hungarian,and Greek and Turkish money, covered ... ...s were already down, with that obedience to the etiquette of death which the British woman of the lower classes always rigidly observes. The room was,... ...nt at his weakest, and without a refuge to fly to. Van Helsing is off to the British Museum look ing up some authorities on ancient medicine. The old... ...s weakest, and without a refuge to fly to. Van Helsing is off to the British Museum look ing up some authorities on ancient medicine. The old physici...

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...ish readers should grow skittish, I ‘ve bribed my grandmother’s review—the British. I sent it in a letter to the Editor, Who thank’d me duly b... ...of those. As for the ladies, I have nought to say, A wanderer from the British world of fashion, Where I, like other ‘dogs, have had my day,’ ... ...ecruits with wives.’ ‘May it please your excellency,’ thus replied Our British friend, ‘these are the wives of others, And not our own. I am t... ...ill these great relics, when they see ‘em, Look like the monsters of a new museum? But I am apt to grow too metaphysical: ‘The time is out of ... ...en a kind of a discussion, A sort of treaty or negotiation Between the British cabinet and Russian, Maintain’d with all the due prevaricatio... ...f the sea (See Billingsgate) made even the tongue more free. And yet the British ‘Damme’ ‘s rather Attic: Your continental oaths are but incon...

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... domestic breeds, has not been exterminated even on several of the smaller British islets, or on the shores of the Mediterranean. Hence the supposed e... ...e under deep obligation for assistance of all kinds, has marked for me 182 British plants, which are generally consid- ered as varieties, but which ha... ... some zoolo- gists. Several most experienced ornithologists con- sider our British red grouse as only a strongly- marked race of a Norwegian species, ... .... Watson as doubt- ful species, but which are almost universally ranked by British botanists as good and true species. Finally, then, varieties have t... ...eties; what rank, for instance, the two or three hundred doubtful forms of British plants are entitled to hold, if the existence of any well-marked va... ..., and its hab- its have been attended to by Mr. F. Smith, of the Brit- ish Museum, to whom I am much indebted for in- formation on this and other subj... ...each other in the long roll of years! Now turn to our richest geologi- cal museums, and what a paltry display we behold! On the poorness of our Palaeo... ...tate; that the num- ber both of specimens and of species, preserved in our museums, is absolutely as nothing compared with the incalculable number of ... ...Darwin ciable by the human intellect. The number of speci- mens in all our museums is absolutely as nothing compared with the countless generations of...

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... wrote of. I must have spent days and days read ing in the library of the British Museum. The style is lush and turgid, not at all the sort of style ... ...f. I must have spent days and days read ing in the library of the British Museum. The style is lush and turgid, not at all the sort of style I approv... ...elf into the arrogant attitude of Velasquez’s portrait of Del Borro in the Museum of Berlin; and his countenance bore of set purpose the same contemp ... ...h throngs the picture galleries on holidays, they went to that part of the museum where an cient sculpture is kept. It was comparatively empty, and t... ...lle,’ answered the old woman. ‘I heard her tell the coachman to go to the British Consulate.’ The last doubt was leaving Susie. She went to the dress... ...edical men of those huge tumours which are preserved in spirit in hospital museums. Susie looked at it with an incomprehensible disgust. Sud denly sh...

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...e pangs which Nature calls upon mothers to endure. As was the necessity of British opposition to American independence, so was the necessity of Northe... ...ration gave violent offense to the North, and has been taken as indicating British sympathy with the cause of the seceders. I am not going to explain—... ...should be defined. Reticence in the matter was not within the power of the British government. It behooved the Foreign Secretary of State to declare o... ...Hall, but would, I should think, make a very good House of Commons for the British nation. Fancy the feelings of a lady when she walks into such a roo... ...olonial House of Assembly may wish, but in accordance with the will of the British Commons. Both the houses in Canada—that, namely, of the Representa-... ...e word there is to say of Sir William Logan, the creator of the Geological Museum there, and the head of all matters geological throughout the prov- i... ... The university is not well off for funds by which to increase it. The new museum in the college is also a handsome building. The edifices used for th... ...ave been erected for such a purpose. These, together with the library, the museum, and the chapel, stand on a large green, which might be made pretty ... ...ral philosopher Professor Agassiz. M. Agassiz has collected at Cambridge a museum of such things as natural philosophers delight to show, which I am t...

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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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...he Homeric Hymns, and Homerica choragic monument of Lysicrates, now in the British Mu- seum (17). Very different in character is the “Hymn to Ares,” w... ...ris, Bibl. Nat. Suppl. Graec. (papyrus) 1099 (4th-5th cent.). B London, British Museam clix (4th cent.). R Vienna, Rainer Papyri L.P . 21-9 (4th... ...2772 (14th cent.). H Florence, Laur. xxxi 32 (15th cent.). I London, British Museaum Harleianus (14th cent.). K Rome, Bibl. Casanat. 356 (14t... ...Estense iii E 11. G Rome, Vatican, Regina 91 (16th cent.). H London, British Mus. Harley 1752. J Modena, Estense, ii B 14. K Florence, Lau... ... voyage when Zeus sank them with a thunderbolt, as Alcidamas states in his Museum. Eratosthenes, however, says in his Hesiod that Ctimenus and Antiphu...

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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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...bey, Mrs. Shonts,” said Sophie, feeling his unrest as he drank the loathed British tea. Mrs. Shonts smiled, and took them in hand. She wrote widely an... ...ild- ing pillars to keep ‘em out is purely a Cypriote trick, un- worthy of British bees. In the third, if you trust a Death’s Head, he will trust you.... ... crawling Oddities, strange to the sun. “Why, this isn’t a hive! This is a museum of curiosities,” said the Voice behind the Veil. It was only the Bee... ...nded, him both ways. You see, he had slaved and exposed slaves for sale in British territory. That meant the double fine if I could get it out of him.... ... What wouldn’t I give to have here” (he mentioned a name not unhonoured in British Art). “Am- bition plucking apples of Sodom!” (the monkey had pricke...

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...National, or any other of those patriotic Libraries, at present the glory of British Literature;” might work revolutions in Thought; and so forth;—in ... ... such title and vocation, it were perhaps uninteresting to say more. Let the British reader study and enjoy, in simplicity of heart, what is here pres... ...ded us to that joint stock vehicle of publication, “at present the glory of British Literature”? If so, the Library Editors are welcome to dig in it ... ...wooden Dibble fashioned by man, and those Liverpool Steam carriages, or the British House of Commons, we shall note what progress he has made. He dig... ...Able Editor, or Com bination of Able Editors, gains the world’s ear. Of the British Newspaper Press, perhaps the most important of all, and wonderful... ...ps see it our duty ultimately to deposit these Six Paper Bags in the British Museum, farther descrip tion, and all vituperation of them, may be spare... ...ts with care: when did we see any injected Prepa ration of the Dandy in our Museums; any specimen of him preserved in spirits! Lord Herringbone may d...

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...id seemed like a specimen from a mine, or the inscription on the door of a museum which might open on the treasures of past ages; and this trust in hi... ...rehand:—one must trust a little to Providence and be generous. It’s a good British feeling to try and raise your family a little: in my opinion, it’s ... ...en she parted with him at the entrance to the Library, went on through the Museum out of mere listlessness as to what was around her. She had not spir... ... Casaubon were in Rome, until this morning, when I saw you in the V atican Museum,” he said. “I knew you at once—but—I mean, that I concluded Mr. Casa... ... stay a long while there in spite of professional accom- plishment. In the British climate there is no incompatibility be- tween scientific insight an...

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... geo- logic times is hard for our imagination—they seem too much like mere museum specimens. Yet there is no tooth in any one of those museum-skulls t... ...rs to have kept the organic connection in view. The guid- ing principle of British philosophy has in fact been that every difference must make a diffe...

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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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...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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...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...