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...ychological inepti- tude of the Germans, it is probably the clumsiest. The French Maison de la Presse is certainly the best organisation in exist- enc... ...e of the “treacherous” English who allied themselves with the “degenerate” French and the “barbaric” Russians; nonsense about “the freedom of the seas... ...e allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, to name only the bigger European allies, are con- cerned in setting... ...o. I evaded a suggestion that I should go in 1915. I travel badly, I speak French and Italian with incred- ible atrocity, and am an extreme Pacifist. ... ...clination to a dramatic and logical interpretation. The caricatures in the French shops show civilisation (and particularly Marianne) in conflict with... ...in British military circles because he had “had no military train- ing”? A Canadian expressed the new view very neatly on be- ing asked, in consequenc...

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...imited range of produce; but Progress came shoving things into his window, French artichokes and aub- ergines, foreign apples—apples from the State of... ...ing. The latter had an ivory plate bearing “statoscope” and other words in French, and a little indica- tor quivered and waggled, between Montee and D... ...t him thinking about lan- guages and trying to recall his seventh-standard French. “Je suis Anglais. C’est une meprise. Je suis arrive par accident ic... ...nnique, s’il vous plait,” he would say, for he was by no means ignorant of French. In the meanwhile, he found the intimate aspects of Mr. Butteridge a... ...irectly Great Britain and France declare war, wrecked the country upon the Canadian side for nearly ten miles inland. They began to bring up men and m... ...rge marbled with froth and then away to the west the great crescent of the Canadian Fall shining, flickering and foaming in the level sunlight and sen... ...the wounded one by one into the nearest of the large hotels that faced the Canadian shore. The hotel was quite empty except that there were two traine... ...mpt to save Niagara. 177 H G Wells Round they swooped once again over the Canadian Fall, over the waste of waters eastward, until they were distant a... ...of the power-house. Some similar busi- ness went on among the works on the Canadian side. Mean- while more and more airships appeared, and many more f...

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... English teacher, and talked with her in that language almost exclu sively; French has been her everyday speech for more than seven years among her p... ...ith the possessor of that great name. Buf falo Bill’s horse! Known from the Canadian border to the deserts of Arizona, and from the eastern marches o... ... gentlemen, preachers, En glish ladies, gentlemen, preachers, German ditto, French ditto, and so on and so on, all the world represented: Span iards...

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... where there were no ob- ject lessons, and the studies of book-keeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken) under the guid- ance ... ...washbuckling carriage. And then came the glorious revelation of that great French- man whom Mr. Polly called “Rabooloose.” The Three Ps thought the bi... ...ing, land- ing and time-keeping for the hirers of two rowing boats and one Canadian canoe, baling out the said vessels and conceal- ing their leaks an... ... detailed interpretation of the phrase “Kick you ugly .” There’s a sort of French wrestling in which you use and guard against feet. Watch the man’s e...

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...ners might truly say of us. I 7 Trollope shall never forget the look of a Frenchman whom I found on a wet afternoon in the best inn of a provincial t... ...ed private sitting-room. No eloquence of mine could make intelligible to a Frenchman or an American the utter deso- lation of such an apartment. The w... ...he utter deso- lation of such an apartment. The world as then seen by that Frenchman offered him solace of no description. The air without was heavy, ... ...any sideboard orna- mented with inverted glasses and old cruet-stands. The Frenchman had come to the house for shelter and food, and had been asked wh... ...oyalty. If the Canadas were to rebel now, I should be for putting down the Canadians with a strong hand; but not the less have I an idea that it will ... ...ot obliged to reach that place via Montreal. Quebec is the present seat of Canadian government, its 52 North America V ol. 1 turn for that honor havi... ... a separation shall ever take place, I trust that it may be caused, not by Canadian violence, but by British generosity. Such a separation, however, n... ...es from a richer to a poorer country. When I have said so, I have heard no Canadian absolutely deny it; though in refraining from denying it, they hav... ... staff in Canada than in the States. “I do not know that we are richer,” a Canadian says, “but on the whole we are doing better and are happier.” Now,...

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...t troubles that rise before me are those of the back-board and the stocks, French in the school-room, and Miss Simmonds’ “Lady Ursula, think of your p... ... till long after. Bertram was starting out on a sporting expedition with a Canadian gentleman, when about ten miles from Montreal they halted at a far... ...- iar, and blunt—but very kindly and friendly, was at work there with some French-Canadian labourers. Bertram’s friend knew him and often halted there... ...and blunt—but very kindly and friendly, was at work there with some French-Canadian labourers. Bertram’s friend knew him and often halted there on hun... ...ole. It seems that her name was Faith Le Blanc; she was half English, half French-Canadian, and lived in a village in a very unsettled part, where Cap... ... seems that her name was Faith Le Blanc; she was half English, half French-Canadian, and lived in a village in a very unsettled part, where Captain Tr... ...er married this sturdy American, Joel Lea, who had bought some land on the Canadian side of the border, and her mother came home to live with them. Th... ... position in society. In fact, he persuaded her that he was of a noble old French family, and ought to be a count. How we laughed when we heard of it!... ...d cast off Fulk, and there was a pale changed look about her; and the rich Canadian, who could buy a baronetcy, and do anything she asked, tempted Mrs...

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...he river and across the portage.” “But the squaw?” asked Louis Savoy, the tall French Canadian, becoming interested; for he had heard of this wild dee... ...r and across the portage.” “But the squaw?” asked Louis Savoy, the tall French Canadian, becoming interested; for he had heard of this wild deed, when... ...too tempting, and they objected strenuously. The Kid was conversant with their French patois, and followed it anxiously. They swore that the dogs were... ...at cabin all winter, — a mighty long, dark winter. Kilkenny cats, — well?” The Frenchman in Baptiste shrugged his shoulders, but the Indian in him was... ...o of them were sprawled upon Malemute Kid’s bunk, singing chansons which their French An Odyssey of the North 55 forbears sang in the days when first ... ...handsome looking fellow putting 56 JACK LONDON the capote under his head is a French half breed, — you heard him talking; he does n’t like the two In... ...w that in that direction the Arctic Cir cle cut its forbidding way across the Canadian Barrens. This stream in which he stood was a feeder to the Cop... ...from Lake The Wit of Porportuk 215 Le Barge, and, beyond, a half dozen French Canadian voyageurs, grouped by themselves. From afar came the faint cri...

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...ks into the newspapers, nothing new does ever happen in for eign parts, a French revolution not excepted. What news! how much more important to kno... ...e acquainted with them. I know a woodchop per, of middle age, who takes a French paper, not for news as he says, for he is above that, but to “keep h... ... says, for he is above that, but to “keep himself in practice,” he being a Canadian by birth; and when I ask him what he considers the best thing he c... ... cried up, unless it be in Milwaukee, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, etc., gathered from all quar... ...ad so suitable and poetic a name that I am sorry I cannot print it here a Canadian, a woodchopper and post maker, who can hole fifty posts in a day, ... ...d greet me with a laugh of inexpressible satisfaction, and a salutation in Canadian French, though he spoke English as well. When I approached him he ... ...e with a laugh of inexpressible satisfaction, and a salutation in Canadian French, though he spoke English as well. When I approached him he would sus... ...nd Walden 135 somely written in the snow by the highway, with the proper French accent, and knew that he had passed. I asked him if he ever wished t...

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...r the idle read, the litera ture of the Russians and the Chinese, or even French phi losophy and much of German criticism. Read the best books first... ...ce. Hussein Effendi praised the epistolary style of Ibrahim Pa sha to the French traveller Botta, because of “the difficulty of understanding it; the... ... of the opium, betel, and tobacco chewers. Mount Saber, ac cording to the French traveller and naturalist, Botta, is cel ebrated for producing the K... ...aimed it.” 105 HenryDavidThoreau not been effectual? “ Assuredly,” says a French translator, speak ing of the antiquity and durability of the Chines... ... he was so old and gray headed that his scalp was worth nothing, since the French Governor offered no bounty for such. I have stood in the dent of his... ... a naturalness, an un pretending and cold life in this traveller, as in a Canadian winter, what life was preserved through low temperatures and front...

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...nce was welcome, and Miss Ward allowed him to put on her skates. She was a Canadian, and could skate well. Jane, the first to follow her, was anxious ... ...ery much in love with me; and I wish I could return it as he deserves. The French say that one person turns the cheek and the other kisses it. It has ... ... hate anyone— even your husband. Y ou must let me take off these atrocious French boots. Your feet must be perfectly dead.” By this time her voice and... ...nscanadian Railway Company, having got a great deal of spare land from the Canadian government for nothing, thought it would be a good idea to settle ...

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... the idea of imperialism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Russian imperial- ism, and we were saying this not because it wa... ...utler. Mater’s “Société des Nations” (Didier) is an able presentation of a French point of view. Brailsford’s “A League of Nations” is already a class... ...sts hate this pro- cess. So do a lot of ours. So do some of the diplomatic French- men. The German junkers are dodging and lying, they are fighting de... ...ved by the British Foreign Office and of somebody or other approved by the French Foreign Office, of somebody with vague pow- ers from America, and so... ...idea. They are morally pledged to it. President Wilson and our British and French spokesmen alike have said over and over again that they want to deal... ...now, or are we to look for the time when we, too, like the Africander, the Canadian and the Austra- lian, will be your confessed and equal partners?” ... ...imes has styled the crown the “golden link” of the empire. Australians and Canadians, it was argued, had little love for the motherland but the greate...

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...ble— to sound his praises in his own land. Let us suppose that a courteous Frenchman ventures an opinion among En- glishmen that Wellington was a grea... ...own-trodden country of slaves and pau- pers.” Under such circumstances the Frenchman would probably be shut up. And when I strove to speak of Wash- in... ...must probably be given mainly to Madison and Hamilton, Madison finding the French democratic element, and Hamilton the English conserva- tive element—... ...ordinary honesty. It is not by foreign voices, by English newspapers or in French pamphlets, that the corruption of American politicians has been expo... ... may be that our own soldiers were as badly treated in the Crimea; or that French soldiers were treated worse in their march into Russia. It may be th... ...tween us and them, it would depend mainly, I think, on the feelings of the Canadians. Neither could they annex Canada without the good-will of the Can...

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..................................................256 THE HISTORY OF THE NEXT FRENCH REVOLUTION. ........................................................... ...etty grocer’s boy you are,” she cried, “with your applepiebomenos and your French and lingo. Am I to be kept waiting for hever?” “Pardon, fair Maiden,... ...ever?” “Pardon, fair Maiden,” said he, with high-bred courtesy: “’twas not French I read, ’twas the Godlike language of the blind old bard. In what ca... ... proves him a delicate scholar,” Mr. Pope exclaimed. “He knows more of the French king than any man I have met with; and we must have an eye upon him,... ...s of pias- tres to the Seraskier; by bribing Colonel de St. Cornichon, the French envoy in the camp of the victorious Ibrahim, the march of the Egypti... ...ids me to speak, by a Sioux’s council-fire and I can patter 71 Burlesques Canadian French with the hunters who come for peltries to Nachitoches or Th...

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... ters to Atticus, my father taking the trouble to translate to me from the French the historical explanations in Mingault’s notes. In Greek I read the... .... During this resi dence in France I acquired a familiar knowledge of the French language, and acquaintance with the ordinary French litera ture; I ... ...difference between this manner of existence, and that of a people like the French, whose faults, if equally real, are at all events dif ferent; among... ... to myself, the contrast between the frank sociability and ami ability of French personal intercourse, and the English mode of existence, in which ev... ...and a year or two after the Peace. He was a man of the later period of the French Revolution, a fine specimen of the best kind of French Republican, o... ...accepted from them the task of ascertaining and removing the causes of the Canadian rebellion; he had shown a disposition to surround himself at the o... ...eared to be returning a defeated and discred ited man. I had followed the Canadian events from the be ginning; I had been one of the prompters of hi... ...nnected with Lord Durham as a politician soon vanished; but with regard to Canadian, and generally to co lonial policy, the cause was gained: Lord Du...

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...to the history of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten yea... ...who play golf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in ... ...sleading smattering of physical science. Most of them never learn to speak French. Heaven alone knows what they do with their brains! The British read... ...sip—Erse, the Taal, a hundred Indian and other Eastern tongues, Ca- nadian French—but I mean that also English must be avail- able, that everywhere th... ...bring them in. If one would read honest and able criticism, one must learn French; if one would be abreast of scientific knowledge and philosophical t... ...hem that the whole next 34 An Englishman Looks at the World generation of Canadians has drawn its ideas mainly from American publications, that India... ...e French Catholic population of Louisiana, the Irish Catholics, the French-Canadians who are now ousting the sterile New Englander from New England, t...

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...society between the two heads of Order and Progress (in the phraseology of French thinkers); Permanence and Progression, in the words of Coleridge. Th... ... makes them claim to have the control of their own actions. The leaders of French phi losophy in the eighteenth century had been educated by the Jesu... ...nerally succeeded in putting an early stop to their successes. 1 With the French, who are essentially a Southern people, the double education of des ... ...ance must be ascribed to the many valuable coun teracting elements in the French character, and most of all to the great individual energy which, tho... ... and struggling Anglo Saxons, has nevertheless manifested itself among the French in nearly every direction in which the operation of their institutio... ...faction among the colonists; and this persistence in domineering cost us a Canadian rebellion before we had the happy thought of giving it up. England... ...rly lost, Sir William Molesworth, when he appointed Mr. Hinckes, a leading Canadian politician, to a West In dian government. It is a very shallow vi...

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...calmly where fools may be eager to rush. As a distinguished and successful French novelist 12 Notes on Life and Letters once observed of fiction, “C’... ...force; and he stands excused from the duty of patriotic posturing. He is a Frenchman of Frenchmen beyond question or cavil, and with that he is simple... ...say that during his sojourn in England he had the misfortune to be, as the French say, mal entoure. He was beset by people who understood not the qual... ...century was, too, a time of optimism and of dismal mediocrity in which the French Revolution exploded like a bomb-shell. In its lurid blaze the in- su... ... but little cour- age in saying at this time of the day that the glorified French Revolution itself, except for its destructive force, was in essentia... ... in this matter nor yet penal servitude for anyone. The Di- rectors of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company did not sell “safety at sea” to the people...

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...flect calls for even stronger regulation. In 1983,Attorney General William French Smith revised the Levi guidelines to encourage closer investigation ... ... more proposed operations for al Qaeda.The October 6, 2002, bombing of the French tanker Limburg in the Gulf of Aden also was Nashiri’s handiwork.Alth... ...se, this involved flying from France to Montreal using a photo-substituted French passport under a false name. Under questioning, Ressam admit- ted th... ...ria, Ressam presented officials with his genuine but fraudulently obtained Canadian passport, from which he had torn the Afghanistan entry and exit st... ...nt broker for Islamist terrorists. 22 Ressam eventually obtained a genuine Canadian passport through a document vendor who stole a blank baptismal cer... ...tificate from a Catholic church.With this document he was able to obtain a Canadian passport under the name of Benni Antoine Noris.This enabled him to... ... return to Canada. Impressed,Abu Zubaydah asked Ressam to get more genuine Canadian passports and to send them to him for other terrorists to use. 23 ... ...rt of possible attacks on seven U.S. cities, two Algerians detained on the Canadian border, and searches in Montreal related to a jihadist cell.The Ju... ...urther training that he could use to carry out a potential attack. 92 As a French national who had overstayed his visa, Moussaoui could be detained im...