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...ory conclusion concerning it. I can compare it to nothing but a large door mat, ornamented at the edges with little tinkling tags something like the s... ...s round an Indian moccasin. There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, as you see the same in South Ameri- can ponchos. But could it be possi... .... But could it be possible that any sober harpooneer would get into a door mat, and parade the streets of any Christian town in that sort of guise? I ... ...; nothing about that deadly skrimmage with the Spaniard afore the altar in Santa?— heard nothing about that, eh? Nothing about the silver cala- bash h... ..., these two mariners, darting their long whaling-spades, kept up an inces- sant murdering of the sharks,* by striking the keen steel deep *The whaling... ...ring your mind to bear on it, the other will be utterly excluded from your contemporary consciousness. How is it, then, with the whale? True, both his... ...lle first day after the venison season, and that particular venison season contemporary with an unusually fine vintage of the vine- yards of Champagne... ...very learned man, professor of Low Dutch and High German in the college of Santa Claus and St. Pott’s, to whom I handed the work for translation, givi... ...fore at any one period of time, several distinct adult generations must be contemporary. And what that is, we may soon gain some idea of, by imagining...

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...loor cov- ered irregularly with patched and defective oilcloth and a dingy mat or so and a “surround” as they call it, of dark stained wood. Here and ... ...tand, but he seemed always to be waving his hand to- wards it,—just as his contemporary T ennyson seems always to be doing—he belonged to his age and ... ...o correct his harsh egotisms, broaden his outlook, give him a grasp of the contemporary developments he will presently be called upon to influence and... ...ake about the county boundary I adopted Surrey for my loyalty, though as a mat- ter of fact we were by some five hundred yards or so in Kent. It did q... ... to one another that we had never read Lucretius. We thought every one who mat- tered had read Lucretius. When I was nearly sixteen my mother was take... ...lity to order, a constant escaping from control. The current of living and contemporary ideas in which my mind was presently swimming made all in the ... ...n which we were benighted) into Italy, and by way of Domo D’ossola and the Santa Maria Maggiore valley to Cannobio, and thence up the lake to Locarno ... ...t the keen interest I took in them, and then as we came over the pass from Santa Maria Maggiore to Cannobio, my secret preoccupation took me by surpri... ... our vision of nymphs and satyrs dancing for the joy of life amidst inces- sant sunshine. We had laid hands upon the wonder and glory of bodily love a...

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...earranged. The next— White returned from an unprofitable digression to the mat- ter before him. 14 14 14 14 14 The first of Benham’s early essays was ... ...f London out to the shipping at Greenwich and the towed liners, the inces- sant tugs, the heaving portals of the sea…. His time was far too occupied f... ... issues again. There must be endless people of a mind with himself in this mat- ter. And even if there were not, if he was the only man in the world, ... ...him no sane man need be jealous, men often of forty or more, but one was a contemporary, Sir Philip Easton, a man with a touch of Spanish blood and a ... ...ter forgotten. It didn’t convince. It had never worked things out. In this mat- ter just as in every other matter that really signified things had sti...

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...oing to mess about with the thing,” he said at last, and sat down upon the mat- 46 The War in the Air tress. “I’m not going to touch it …. I wonder w... ...an intimation of the extraordi- nary and quite important things of which a contemporary may go in ignorance. He had always clung to the illusion that ... ...ting to eat in the presence of the “German Alexander”—that great and puis- sant Prince, Prince Karl Albert, the War Lord, the hero of two hemispheres.... ...ever entered their heads. They did not, so far as one can judge from their contemporary literature, think that they meant anything to their personal l... ...ude of the mother country to her great daughter was constantly compared in contemporary caricature to that be- tween a hen-pecked husband and a viciou... ...ing themselves with wonderful and wonderfully illustrated accounts of such mat- ters as:— THE SECRET OF THE THUNDERBOLT AGED SCIENTIST PERFECTS ELECTR...

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...ecause his personal appearance was not prepossessing. He is described by a contemporary as “a little man with legs too short for his body. He walked c... ...ecumbent position in the anteroom; which circumstance ended by causing his mat- tress to become as ragged and as thin as a wafer. In addition to his l... ...ughout the winter. But these dead souls of which I speak are quite another mat- ter, for in this case you have put forth no exertions—it was merely Go... ...he turned back, and, in so doing, once more exhibited a back as shiny as a mat, and having adhering to it, in one spot, a chicken’s feather. As soon a... ...weeks at the most he had so thoroughly got his hand in that he was conver- sant with Customs procedure in every detail. Not only could he weigh and me... ...y to the pupil, “Forward!”—that word which has be- come so familiar to the contemporary Russian, that word which has worked such wonders upon his sens... ... pronounced, but immature, opinions who culled the bulk of his wisdom from contemporary newspapers and pamphlets, he found, as time went on, that thes...

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...aiths comparable to that. So nevertheless had the world then construed the mat- ter. Had they not so construed it, how different had their hopes been,... ...eight Sections, lift up voices; sono- rous Brewer, or call him now Colonel Santerre, is not si- lent, in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. For, meanwhile, t... ...sailles! Here in this poor Tuileries, a National Brewer-Colonel, sonorous Santerre, parades officially behind her Majesty’s chair. Our high dig- nita... ...serve no trust at all. Were 116 The French Revolution—V olume Two Patriot Santerre, indeed, Commander! But the sonorous Brewer commands only our own ... ...s was lit for an Accepted Consti- tution, there had risen, and was burning contemporary with it, quite another variegated Glitter and nocturnal Fulgor...

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...ful skill of needlework; and the stitch (as I am assured by ladies conver sant with such mysteries) gives evidence of a now forgotten art, not to be ... ...k devices A revela tion, he could almost say, had been granted to him. It mat tered little for his object, whether celestial or from what other regi... ...some of whom had known Hester Prynne, while others had heard the tale from contemporary witnesses fully confirms the view taken in the foregoing pages...

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...a little while, and then through the rolling-mills, where amidst an inces- sant din the deliberate steam-hammer beat the juice out of the succulent ir... ...onscience, for she was a good girl, and pain- fully aware, from Ruskin and contemporary fiction, how entirely men’s activities are determined by women... ... it lit. He did, and perceived it burning in the midst of his toilet-table mat. He caught it up hastily, and it went out. His perception of pos- sibil... ...ndow of her little room. It was moonlight, and down the street a man sang “Santa Lucia” with almost heart-dissolving tenderness… She sat very still. S... ...of doors you’ll go up and up.” I waved an arm upward. “They’d have to send Santos-Dumont after you to bring you down again.” “I suppose it will wear o... ... a magic shop, and all the prancing precedence Gip would have taken in the mat- ter of mere toys was wanting. He left the burthen of the conversation ...

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...n so great an army, you should scarce find common soldier lie on a coarser mat- tress, than Agesilaus; he was so indifferent to the varieties of 64 V... ...ccusers, yet the loss annoyed him, and he was vexed with himself about the mat- ter, as he had designed them not so much for a proof of his own fideli... ... of kingly power, and the senate itself submitted to receive his advice in mat- ters of difficulty; nor did he advise anything that might dero- gate f... ...ut received gifts from her and presented her again. Those who were conver- sant with her, were much interested, when she pleased to entertain them wit... ...ank with Cimon, Thucydides, and Pericles. Certainly amongst those who were contemporary with him, Phocion, though he appeared on the less commendable ...

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...m, college, tree, horse, or iron shoe,—the roots of all things are in man. Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter’s are lame copies after a divine mode... ... pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under! But compare the he... ...such keen satis- faction, by his fidelity to new revelations of the inces- sant soul. He must hate father and mother, wife and child. Has he all that ... ...eap- est, say the prudent, is the dearest labor. What we buy in a broom, a mat, a wagon, a knife, is some application of good sense to a common want. ... ...an is not better who strives with temptation. But there is no merit in the mat- ter. Either God is there or he is not there. We love charac- ters in p... ...s sit in their clouds, and from age to age prattle to each other and to no contemporary. Well assured that their speech is intelligible and the most n... ... only a lyrist but a poet, we were obliged to confess that he is plainly a contemporary, not an eternal man. He does not stand out of our low limitati... ...y or Fashion, which seems so fair and picturesque to those who look at the contemporary facts for science or for entertainment, is not equally pleasan...

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...tral power. So much of apology and explanation I owe to the reader, to the contemporary spe- cialist, and to myself. 5 H G Wells These papers were fi... ...th its past. The spirit and idea of the whole thing was intensely real and contemporary; one could believe only that those who took part in it regarde... ...s Huxley Lecture to the Anthropological Institute in 1901* puts the whole mat- ter as vividly as it ever can be put. He classifies humanity about the... ...g to define the elements in inherit- ance, although it is absent from much contemporary discus- sion, was pretty evidently in mind in the very strikin... ...ould greatly in- crease the apparent failure of the lower class. And these mat- ters of height and weight are only coarse material deficien- cies. The... ...know how atrociously English is taught, but proclaiming that will not mend mat- ters a bit, it will only render matters worse by making school- master... ...y, to counteract the system’s universal, inces- 152 Mankind in the Making sant teaching, its lesson of limited effort within defined pos- sibilities....

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...in’s hounds have been out to-day, will readily surrender all care of these mat- ters to a gentleman of your experience.” Then, bending gracefully from... ...alto- gether causeless anger; “an the quean had gien it to ony suffer- ing sant, or to ony body ava but that reaving, lying, oppress- ing T ory villai... ... rade in the wicked troop of militia when it was commanded out against the sants at Bothwell Brig by the auld tyrant Allan Ravenswood, that is gane to... ...nded to them the charge 230 Bride of Lammermoor of the dead body of their contemporary, an office which they willingly undertook; intimating to him a... ...ey both fell. Thus hard pressed, the Master offered to ride forward to get mat- ters put in such preparation as time and circumstances admit- ted; but...

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...ay. Why should we be more fastidious and severe than they were? Their high contemporary appreciation gives much food for thought. 12 Gargantua & Pant... ...Gargantua and Pantagruel were before the sixteenth century. In a book of a contemporary of Rabelais, the Legende de Pierre Faifeu by the Angevin, Char... ...the holy relics of Laurezay, with a thousand other jolly little sancts and santrels. Some died without speaking, others spoke with- out dying; some di... ...at Thou Wilt; because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conver- sant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that promptet... ...and seed, which is done by a progeny issued from us in the lawful bonds of mat- rimony. Whereby that in some measure is restored unto us which was tak... ... time and money, and can nevertheless find neither brim nor bottom in this mat- ter, for the more we study about it the less we understand therein, wh... ...t wind, and we must think so, seeing that the sergeant hath propounded the mat- ter so far above my reach, that the clerks and secondaries could not w... ...in one of its two members. O the cozening prattler that he is! I wonder if Santiago of Bressure be one of these cogging shirks. Such was of old, quoth...

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...ry produced at the Belforest farm agent’s? T o these, and many other small mat- ters, Caroline was quite relieved to plead guilty, and to prom- ise to... ...e tiresome. Y ou have more sense than Janet. Her father was Vice-consul at Sant Ildefonso, one of the Antilles.” “But, my dear, I am afraid that is no... ... warm it for him.” “No,” stoutly said the little boy; “there’s nothing the mat- ter, and mother must not know.” “Take my word for it,” said cook, “tha... ... Janet had not long been seated, and was only just getting immersed in her Contemporary, when she received a greeting which gratified her. It was from... ...he world was the same. Allen was a good deal struck when he understood the mat- ter. He said it explained a good deal to him which the others had been...

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...should turn to righ- teousness. His conviction of these truths was no mere mat- ter of belief; it had the ardor and certainty of faith. They had appea... ... bush, which was weeping through its bleeding breaks in vain. “O Jacomo of Sant’ Andrea,” it was saying, “what hath it vantaged thee to make of me a s... ... companions, afflicts us greatly with his words.” 2 Nothing is known from contemporary record of Borsiere, but Boccaccio tells a story of him in the ... ...ugh we ascended it, 2 The year 1299-1300, from Christmas to Easter. 3 Of Sant’ Angelo. 4 The Capitoline. 5 His own sister; the unseemly tale is kno... ... 2 One of the chief magistrates of Lucca, whose special pro- tectress was Santa Zita. 3 A corrupt official, selling justice or office for bribes; in...

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...n the United States; I hope that our people may become in all these higher mat- ters even as one people; and that the peculiar philo- sophic temperame... ... literature, has written: “Whether facts be moral or physical, it makes no mat- ter. They always have their causes. There are causes for ambition, cou... ...n to impugn the value of works of genius in a wholesale way (such works of contemporary art, namely, as he himself is unable to enjoy, and they are ma... ...ething inside of me which is above me is glad of it all.” [37] The supreme contemporary example of such an in- ability to feel evil is of course Walt ... ...ar upon the nerves” of some of the members of this academic audience. Such contemporary vagaries, you may think, should hardly take so large a place i... ...we were fluids pent within the cavity of a jar. The influence is so inces- sant that it becomes subconscious. All of you, for ex- ample, sit here with... ...th, and whenever the thought would come over me I would have to get up, no mat- ter what time of night it was, and stand for a minute in the cold, jus...

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...y betimes, the whole Parlement, once more set on wheels, is rolling inces- santly towards Troyes in Champagne; ‘escorted,’ says History, ‘with the ble... ...t his cloth-shop hard by, and stepped forth, one need hardly speak. Nor of Santerre, the sonorous Brewer from the Faubourg St. Antoine. Two other Figu... ...nly clouds of spray. Individuals of classical knowledge propose catapults. Santerre, the sonorous Brewer of the Suburb Saint- Antoine, advises rather ... ...stead of Bakers’- queues, why not to Aristocrats’ palaces, the root of the mat- ter? Allons! Let us assemble. To the Hotel-de-Ville; to Versailles; to... ...e Placard Journal conserved it for one day; some Books conserve it for the mat- ter of ten years; nay some for three thousand: but what then? Why, the... ...biding with Bouille. Brave Bouille, though he puts a most firm face on the mat- ter, knows his position full well: how at Nanci, what with re- belliou... ...ees was lit for an Accepted Constitution, there had risen, and was burning contemporary with it, quite an- other variegated Glitter and nocturnal Fulg...