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...before, and thought she would like to sleep in it that night, and wake, as formerly, with her mother smiling over her in the morning: Then she thought... ...uaintances that he and William Dobbin were by no means so much together as formerly. George avoided him in public and in the regiment, and, as we see,... ... been so happy, as, during the past few months, his wife had made him. All former delights of turf, mess, hunting-field, and gambling- table; all prev... ...d stories. He described the different pugilistic qualities of Molyneux and Dutch Sam, offered playfully to give Lady Jane the odds upon the Tutbury Pe... ...eir own country. She must get him a place or appointment at home or in the colonies, and she determined to make a move upon England as soon as the way...

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...tar origin, his eyes have not. Climate may have had great influence on the former, but it is difficult to see how it can have produced the substantial... ... three lan- guages, properly speaking, among all the numerous tribes which formerly occupied the country that now composes the United States. They asc... ...sed by the 5 James Fenimore Cooper whites. When it is remembered that the Dutch (who first settled New Y ork), the English, and the French, all gave ... ...lly, the bloody arena, in which most of the battles for the mastery of the colonies were contested. Forts were erected at the different points that co... ...elevation on which it had been placed by the talents and enterprise of her former war- riors and statesmen. No longer dreaded by her enemies, her serv... ...ay call for some slight changes, yet does this version which we use in the colonies of New England so much exceed all other versions, that, by its ric... ...d man. The blood of chiefs is in my veins, where it must stay forever. The Dutch landed, and gave my people the fire-wa- ter; they drank until the hea... ...t gets into them, in com- pany with that runner, for the best rifle in the colonies. They are full of outlying Iroquois, and your mongrel Mohawk knows... ...e Delaware term of the Five Nations. Maquas was the name given them by the Dutch. The French, from their first intercourse with them, called them Iroq...

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... remote county, he was enabled to draw them from among the increase of the former colony. Although the settlement of this part of Otsego a little pre-... ...man of middle age and the other a female just entering upon womanhood. The former was of a large stature; but the 11 James Fenimore Cooper precaution... ...tion from the easy gliding of the sleigh by the sound of their voices. The former was thinking of the wife that had held this their only child to her ... ...t 22 The Pioneers wealth with them into the new settlements of the middle colonies. The consequence of an emigrant into these provinces was generally... ...ortunes of the two extremes of society, in the peaceful and unenterprising colonies of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, The posterity of Marmaduke did not... ...f Edward Effingham. They were one of the few families then resident in the colonies who thought it a degradation to its members to descend to the purs... ... pronounced the word “English,” or “Yengeese.” New York being originally a Dutch province, the term of course was not known there, and Farther south d... ...y , on the fertile borders of that beautiful stream. The Germans, or “High Dutchers,” as they were called, to distinguish them from the original or Lo... ...tchers,” as they were called, to distinguish them from the original or Low Dutch colonists, were a very peculiar people. They possessed all the gravit...

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...emingly so aimless rambles, planting new standards, founding new habitable colonies, in the immeasurable circumambient realm of Nothingness and Night!... ... with a certain horror at myself and mankind; almost as one feels at those Dutch Cows, which, during the wet season, you see grazing deliberately with... ... towards failure, or towards success! The latter thou sharest with us; the former also is not all our own. BOOK II CHAPTER I GENESIS I n a psychologic... ...emporary, youthful, yet still afflictive derangement of head? Alas, on the former side alone, his case was hard enough. “It continues ever true,” says... ...or false, either seraphic or demoniac, Inspiration or Insanity. But in the former case too, as in common Mad- ness, it is Fantasy that superadds itsel... ...hile, the question of questions were: What specially is a Miracle? To that Dutch King of Siam, an icicle had been a miracle; whoso had carried with hi... ...nowing at least as much of what is going on in the literary way in the old Dutch Mother-land as our brethren of the fast-anchored Isle; but thus far w...

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...he robber is on board he will no doubt get off at Suez, so as to reach the Dutch or French colonies in Asia by some other route. He ought to know that... ...board he will no doubt get off at Suez, so as to reach the Dutch or French colonies in Asia by some other route. He ought to know that he would not be... ...followed them. The visa procured, Mr. Fogg returned on board to resume his former habits; while Passepartout, according to custom, saun- tered about a... ...try, as well as the manners and distinc- tions of race, is daily changing. Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cum- brous methods o... ...you—” “Be so good, landlord, as not to swear, but remember this: cats were formerly considered, in India, as sacred animals. That was a good time.” “F... ... a confused mass of ships of all nations: En- glish, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trad- ing vessels, Japanese and Chinese junks, sempas... ...cutta, were mixed crowds of all races, Americans and English, Chinamen and Dutchmen, mostly merchants ready to buy or sell anything. The Frenchman fel...

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...ere ahead of him or even now breakfast- ing somewhere in Guildford. In the former case he might loiter as he chose; in the latter he must hurry, and p... ... 97 H G Wells “Well—guess,” said Mr. Hoopdriver. “You come from one of the colonies?” “Dear me!” said Mr. Hoopdriver, veering round to the new wind. “... ...rked, in a flash of sexual pride, “a man is freer than a woman. End in the Colonies, y’know, there isn’t half the Conventionality you find in society ... ...ruly, and had further given her a volume of Emerson’s Essays and Motley’s “Dutch Republic,” to help her through the rapids of adolescence. Jessie’s fe...

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...friend received it, he had accepted a Government appointment in one of the colonies, and was already on his way to the scene of his official labours. ... ...ived, very pictur- esque; she reminded me of the female figures in certain Dutch paintings I had seen in other years at Seacombe Hall. I repaired to t... ...e those of a Low Country Madonna; many a “figure de Vierge” have I seen in Dutch pictures exactly resembling hers; there were no angles in her shape o... ...fficile, monsieur, quand on n’en a plus l’habitude.” “You had the habitude formerly, I suppose? Now answer me in your mother tongue.” “Yes, sir, I spo... ...omfort they could not drain, a pillar of support they could not overthrow: formerly, when insulted, she wept; now, she smiled. The public reading of o... ...heard with a grim calm very different from the petulant pleasure they were formerly wont to excite. For a long time Pelet bore with my frigid demeanou... ...to each other, as a pair of human beings, our positions were reversed. The Dutchman (he was not Flamand, but pure Hollandais) was slow, cool, of rathe...

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...from Beyrout, or Malta, or Algiers, has twice the interest now that it had formerly),—that I can’t but recommend all persons who have time and means t... ... into mili- tary residences, and masked so that you would never know their former pious destination. Y ou walk through narrow white- washed lanes, be... ...ects than with his- tory and fortifications:as far as I can understand the former, Gibraltar is the great British depot for smuggling goods into the P... ..., Germans, Spaniards, and Greeks; on the deck were squatted several little colonies of people of dif- ferent race and persuasion. There was a Greek Pa... ...nts the day on the canal passed away, as harmlessly as if we had been in a Dutch trackschuyt. Towards evening we arrived at the town of Atfeh—half lan...

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...t along the paths of greatest usefulness.” Neither sort tempted Carol. The former seemed insincere (a favorite word of hers at this era). The earnest ... ...portu- nity for sympathy.” Dr. Kennicott launched into a heavy, “Oh, these Dutch farmers don’t want sympathy. All they need is a bath and a good dose ... ...tt’s sleeve. “You wouldn’t call this a not-so-bad town, would you?” “These Dutch burgs are kind of slow. Still, at that—See that fellow coming out of ... ...ou sometimes, Carrie. Let him? They can’t help themselves! He’s a dumm old Dutch- man, and probably the priest can twist him around his finger, but wh... ...ack, as though she had bought it second-hand and was afraid of meeting the former owner. They were shy. It was “Professor” George Edwin Mott, superint... ...an, Dr. Will Kennicott. All present spoke of the many charms of the bride, formerly Miss Carol Milford of St. Paul. Games and stunts were the order of... ...l workers and the women and the farmers and the negro race and the Asiatic colonies, and even a few of the Respectables. It’s all the same revolt, in ...

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...he Seventh. It no doubt con- tributed to her social reinstatement that her former husband was entirely devoid of social importance, while, on the othe... ...- rialism, they reduced it to a shabby conspiracy of the British and their colonies against foreign industrialism. They were violent for armaments and... ...ning for me. There is pride in the latter group of impulses and not in the former; the former are always a little apologetic. Fear, Indul- 180 The Re... ...th Sea; it rose upon them again as they sat over the cakes and cheese of a Dutch breakfast in the express for Berlin. Prothero filled the Sieges Allee... ...vants to wait up for her. Benham went into the study that reduplicated his former rooms in Finacue Street and sat down before the fire the butler lit ...

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...ween the Tinleys and the Poles; and when Mr. Pericles entirely gave up the former, the latter rewarded him by spreading abroad every possible kind int... ...his quondam self—the pleasant boonfellow! He forgets, in fact, that he was formerly led by his nose, and sacrificed his deeper feeling to a low disgus... ... the difference between the aris- tocracy and the bourgeoisie is, that the former choose their sets, and the latter are obliged to take what comes to ... ...ean, and the Atlantic, and the Baltic, and the Black Sea, and half-a-dozen colonies at once, he—you—” “Well, it’s a precious big eye he’s got, Pole,” ... ...ght. He’ll lie till he gets cold in the feet, and then tuck them up like a Dutch doll, and perspire cold till his heart gives a bound, and he’ll jump ...

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...ns. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former pro motes our POSITIVEL Y by uniting our affections, the latter ... ... and our authority in the last; and as both disable us from reassuming some former state and privilege, it unanswerably fol lows that original sin a... ... “THEY WILL LAST MY TIME.” Should a thought so fatal and unmanly possess the colonies in the present contest, the name of ancestors will be re member... ...he argument, and inquire into some of the many material injuries which these colonies sustain, and always will sustain, by be ing connected with, and... ... I have heard it asserted by some, that as America hath flourished under her former connection with Great Britain that the same connection is necessar... ... i. e. that Pennsylvania and the Jerseys, and so on for the rest, are sister colonies by the way of England; this is certainly a very round about way ... ...cordage are her natural produce. W e need go abroad for nothing. Whereas the Dutch, who make large profits by hiring out their ships of war to the Spa...

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...ng brocards of law. [The Hall of the Parliament House of Edinburgh was, in former days, divided into two unequal portions by a partition, the inner si... ... a modern bazaar. From the old play of The Plain Dealer, it seems such was formerly the case with Westminster Hall. Minos has now purified his courts ... ...nd has hitherto been so. No long trial, you will say. He lays the blame of former inaccuracies on evil company—the people who were at the livery-stabl... ...t thine own indi- vidual self, with all thy motions, like those of a great Dutch doll, depending on the pressure of certain springs, as duty, reflecti... ...rm our separate destinies. I am doomed to see, act, and tell; thou, like a Dutchman enclosed in the same diligence with a Gascon, to hear, and shrug t... ...n jacket and trousers of the blue cloth commonly used by seamen, and had a Dutch case-knife, like that of a Hamburgh skipper, stuck into a broad buff ... ...ntry think about the dis- turbances that are beginning to spunk out in the colonies?’ ‘Excellent, sir, excellent. When things come to the worst; they ... ...rnestness upon the Stamp Act, which was then impending over the Ameri- can colonies, and upon other political subjects of the day, but said not a word...

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...ary KETOS, GREEK. CETUS, LA TIN. WHOEL, ANGLO-SAXON. HV ALT, DANISH. W AL, DUTCH. HW AL, SWEDISH. WHALE, ICELANDIC. 4 Moby Dick WHALE, ENGLISH. BALEI... ...ise a great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, appeared. Among the former, one was of a most mon- strous size. ... This came towards us, open-... ...ck. Another version of the Whale-Ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover... ...as not the only strange feature of the place, borrowed from the chaplain’s former sea-farings. Be- tween the marble cenotaphs on either hand of the pu... ... all sorts of scales; see what we whalemen are, and have been. Why did the Dutch in De Witt’s time have admirals of their whaling fleets? Why did Loui... ...irst broke through the jealous policy of the Spanish crown, touching those colonies; and, if space permitted, it might be distinctly shown how from th... ...r, who in certain conjunctures pro- vides him with a fresh lance, when the former one has been badly twisted, or elbowed in the assault; and moreover,... ...eenland Whale, and incidentally for the re-discovery of the Lost Icelandic Colonies of Old Greenland;” in this ad- mirable volume, all standers of mas... ...ic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our nu- merous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are fr...

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...w. ^ o& , Greek. CETUS, Latin. WHAEL, Anglo Saxon. HV AL, Danish. WAL, Dutch. HWAL, Swedish. HV ALUR, Icelandic. WHALE, English. BALEINE, French. ... ...ise a great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, appeared. Among the former, one was of a most monstrous size. * * This came towards us, open mo... ...ck. Another Version of the whale ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover... ...as not the only strange feature of the place, borrowed from the chaplain’s former sea farings. Between the marble cenotaphs on either hand of the pulp... ... all sorts of scales; see what we whalemen are, and have been. Why did the Dutch in De Witt’s time have admirals of their whaling fleets? Why did Louis... ...first broke through the jealous policy of the Spanish crown, touching those colonies; and, if space permitted, it might be distinctly shown how from th... ...eer, who in certain conjunctures provides him with a fresh lance, when the former one has been badly twisted, or elbowed in the assault; and moreover,... ...eenland Whale, and incidentally for the re discovery of the Lost Icelandic Colonies of Old Green land;” in this admirable volume, all standers of mas... ...ntic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are fr...

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... characters, and families—just as the Joneses do about the Smiths. Becky’s former acquaintances hated and envied her; the poor woman herself was yawni... ... enough to take the management of her own house. It has been narrated in a former chapter how the benevolent nobleman had given his protegee money.to ... ... began to treat with even less than that semblance of respect which he had formerly shown towards that gentleman. It never entered into the head of Mr... ...ery, but men of administrative talents to superin- tend the affairs of our colonies, and we have no doubt that the gentleman selected by the Colonial ... ...x of the carriage, Georgy made prodigious advance in the knowledge of High Dutch, and could talk to hotel waiters and postilions in a way that charmed... ...mmedi- ately parted company with the reprobate. Those who know the English Colonies abroad know that we carry with us us our pride, pills, prejudices,...

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...; “and as the Frenchers are always wrong, and his sacred Majesty and these colonies are always right, I take it the Sergeant has a quiet conscience as... ...d so much, say there is but one nature, whether it be in the Chinaman or a Dutchman. For my own part, I am much of that way of think- ing too; for I h... ...lt near him. Arrowhead and his wife occu- pied places forward of both, the former having relinquished his post aft. Mabel was half reclining behind he... ...t like snakes, with their arms prepared for service, while the wife of the former bowed her head between her knees, covered it with her calico robe, a... ...swimming. As soon as this fact was certain, the Delaware rose, resumed his former station, and began to think the moment for action was come. One less... ...of the oldest sergeant. A few young officers also, who were natives of the colonies, were to be found in the corps. The fort itself, like most works o... ... of Sergeant Dunham, many Americans had joined it since its arrival in the colonies. As a matter of course, the provincials were generally the most ex... ...hat a youth who had been born in the colony of New York, and who coming of Dutch extraction, was the most expert of all who had yet tried their skill.... ... to tell you this is Y ork, and that is Upper Canada; and that English and Dutch and Indian are spoken in the first, and French and Indian in the last...

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...afterwards the famous Cardinal Dubois), whose history was singular. He had formerly been a valet; but dis- playing unusual aptitude for learning, had ... ...all richly freighted. This cam- 34 Saint-Simon paign cost the English and Dutch dear. It is believed their loss was more than thirty millions of ecus... ...King. Harlay, son-in-law of our enemy, was sent to Maestricht to sound the Dutch. But in proportion as they saw peace desired were they less inclined ... ...erred it upon the Comte de T oulouse, giving to the friend and heir of the former the successorship to the government of Guyenne, by way of recompense... ...he ground floor. Our festivi- ties finished by a supper that I gave to the former friends of my father, whose acquaintance I had always cultivated wit... ...e would see it. The reception, however, was to take place on board a large Dutch vessel that he was going to examine. There were two ambassadors; they... ...it, the desire came to establish, according to the example of the English, colonies in the vast countries beyond the seas. In order to people these co...

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...ature and national character vary but little; and thus, in looking back on former times, we are by turns startled by what is curiously like, and curio... ...e surround- ing high-backed chairs. There was a tent-stitch rug before the Dutch-tiled fireplace, and on the walls hung two framed prints,—one represe... ...eted her toilette, looking out into a garden below, laid out in the formal Dutch fashion, with walks and beds centring in a fountain, the grass plats ... ...their new abiding place. The house was of brick, shaped like the letter H, Dutch, and with a tall wing, at each end of the main body, projecting, and ... ... truth, Aurelia was in the eyes of the T reforth sisters, descendants of a former Sir Jovian, only my Lady’s poor kinswoman sent down to act gouvernan... ... her return; and that the Major and Betty would perhaps accompany her. The former was quite in his usual health again, and had himself written to give... ...re sometimes thus deported to become wives to the planters in the southern colonies or the West Indies, but that such a destiny should be intended for...

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...Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers were just respect- able English or Dutch merchants, who came to the colonies to make their fortune, and stayed... ...athers were just respect- able English or Dutch merchants, who came to the colonies to make their fortune, and stayed here because they did so well. O... ... Count de Grasse, and the van der Luydens, direct descendants of the first Dutch 36 The Age of Innocence governor of Manhattan, and related by pre-re... ...at es- tate on the Hudson which had been one of the colonial grants of the Dutch government to the famous first Governor, and of which Mr. van der Luy... ...of it in the triumph of the van der Luyden evening. Archer inclined to the former theory; he fan- cied that her New Y ork was still completely undiffe... ... won- der at the prodigy of the Wellands’ daughter urging him to marry his former mistress. But he was still dizzy with the glimpse of the precipice t... ...side: Newland to May, April —, 187- ) was in its place; then, resuming his former attitude, his tall hat and pearl-grey gloves with black stitchings g...