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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigato...

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... CHAPTER I. The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human rac... ... effeminacy of the Cubans -- The burning of an heroic chief -- Settlements and cities founded in Cuba -- Cortez the hero/of a love adventure -- Expedi... ...Montezuma anticipates his fate -- His offer to become a vassal to Charles V -- Cities of the great Mexican Valley -- A scene of bewildering splendor -... ... to the North Pole 513- 520 CHAPTER LI. Story of a Starving Crew. -- Northwest Fox -- Founding of the Hudson Bay Company -- Everything frozen -- Looki... ...iately turned into stone. He noticed on the island also such animals as bears, foxes, hares, crows, falcons, and other birds and quadrupeds, and also ... ...charms; a bit of the sea calf's skin protects him from the lightning, though a fox tail, a gull's wing or an eagle's beak is almost equally good; he l... ...ith in all the East India islands. The bats spoken of by Drake were the flying foxes, not quite so large as a hen, but which had a formidable appearan... ...ey possessed for scraps of iron. The articles which they offered were skins of foxes, deer, coons, martens, polecats, sea-otters, bows, arrows, spear... ... the Atlantic to Denmark where they were received as from the dead. NORTH-WEST FOX. Twelve years later the search was resumed by Luke Fox, better know...

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...The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pg 706 Incrementalism Cont’d Pg 709 Cities Pg 711 The Effect of Reverse Pyramidality in Human Values Pg 7... ... of cultural insanity which is getting progressively worse.. People living in cities covered with concrete and pavement no longer feel any connectio... ...ey define themselves by both an outer and inner enemy. The overpopulation of cities merely intensified this cultural tribal tradition… which changed... ...your partner to hit the ball back to you. As a result, most fledgling tennis players get disgusted at not having a chance even to touch the ball and... ...ult ability and can control the ball with their racquets enough to beat other players who have wasted most of their lives trying to win… Competiti... ...ecting some athletic feat is everywhere in mass culture. Surfers, basketball players, skate boarders and roller-bladers waste years of their life t... ...r coal, metals, whole mountainsides despoiled… all the cougars and wolves and foxes and marmots and deer and elk and moose and thousands of smaller c... ...o warn the farmer of approaching raiders? Or robbers? Or hungry animals, or foxes or bears or wolves? Or predators?… Just at the time when they a...

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...Where the Lions-skinne will not suffice, wee must adde a scantling of the Foxes;' the most ordinarie occasions of surprises are drawne from this htt... ...ut that it was the fashion of his nation to march thus: as having neither cities, nor houses, nor manured land to defend, or to feare their enemies s... ...ry man makes himself a God of what be pleaseth: the hunter of a Lion or a Fox; the fisher, of a certaine kinde of Fish; and frame themselves Idols o... ...usbandry, and how to grow rich; some replied unto him, that he did as the Fox, because he could not attaine unto it himselfe; which hearing, by way ... ...n institution have produced so admirable effects. Some say, that in other Cities of Greece they went to seeke for Rhetoricians, for Painters, and fo... ...im what great summes of money he had gained, especially in certain little Cities and small townes of Sicily, by keeping schoole, and teaching letter... ...ing and deliverie of two twins. A simple lad of Lacedemon having stolne a fox (for they more feared the shame of their foolishnesse in stealing than ... ...soules endure, Blood-thirstie soules he doth to Beares enure, Craftie to Foxes, to Woolves bent to rapes; Thus when for many yeares, through many s... ...aigne's Essays Why followes violence the savage Lyons race? Why craft the Foxes? Why, to Deere to flye apace? By parents is it given, when parents f...

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.................................................................. 144 LITTLE FOXES ........................................................................ ...en tongues of Continental streets that reminded them of their own polyglot cities. In England all men spoke one tongue, speciously like Ameri- can to ... ...silence—not even hostility! The game was up to 21 Kipling them; the other players hid their cards and waited. Sus- pense, she felt, was in the air, a... ...ail. I had admired him dis- tantly for more than a year; and Vixen, my own fox-terrier, knew him too, but did not approve. “‘E’s for you,” said my fri... ...Umballa in the hot misty dawn, four or five men, who had been working hard fox eleven months, shout- ing for our dales—the two-horse travelling carria... ...erve, hurrying to make their departure from Bonavista with sable and black fox for the insatiable markets. We overcossed Keewatin liners, small and cr... ...sion of taxes, but, as far as I can see, the whole country’s stinkin’ with foxes. Our trouble will be choppin’ ‘em in cover. I’ve got a list of the on... ...,” said the Governor after breakfast. “We got it, though—everything except foxes. Have you seen May Queen’s nose?” said the Inspector. “And Mystery’s ... ...ut of the drive, and the air was gay with the merry outcries of the tennis players. As twilight drew on they all went away, and I was left alone with ...

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...nd admired by men instead of children,—all the pomps and vanities of great cities, have shown me no revelation of glory such as did that crowded schoo... ...ach house of his appointed Parish would be to him what each of those great cities was,—a place where he would bend his whole being, and spend his hear... ...m from its turning on the characters and acts of gods and genii, lions and foxes, Arabs and Affghauns. On the contrary, for philosophic inquiry and tr... ...arvest Rome offers, which is reck- oned the peculiar produce of Rome among cities under the sun; to all galleries, churches, sistine chapels, ruins, c... ...h Sterling had been warmly welcomed by the well-known Quaker family of the Foxes, principal people in that place, persons of cultivated opulent habits... ...esent. The general date is “Tor, near Torquay:”— To Mrs. Charles Fox, Falmouth. Tor, November 30th, 1840.—I reached this place on Thurs- day... ...ssion of public feeling, it would come rather dear.”— To Mrs. Fox again. “December 22d.—By the way, did you ever read a Novel? If you eve... ...all circle of acquaintance, the ready and constant centre of which was the Fox family, with whom he lived on an altogether intimate, honored and belov... ...ing in this, if not much in any other respect. Doubt- less his friends the Foxes were at the heart of that lectur- ing enterprise, and had urged and s...

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...erous than in that opening summer of 1815, when its green fields and quiet cities were enlivened by multi- plied red-coats: when its wide chaussees sw... ...s flushed: the great game of war was going to be played, and he one of the players. What a fierce excite- 48 V anity Fair – V olume Two ment of doubt... ...d the gratification of making the ac- quaintance of the great and good Mr. Fox, a statesman whom, however much he might differ with him, it was imposs... ... saved Pitt Crawley in Lady Southdown’s opinion, whilst his admiration for Fox and Napoleon raised him immeasurably in Miss Crawley’s eyes. Her friend... ...k a dozen bottles of claret, the old spinster could have pardoned him. Mr. Fox and Mr. Sheridan drank claret. Gentlemen drank claret. But eighteen gla... ...or bargains with the per- tinacity which now distinguishes them. The great cities of Eu- rope had not been as yet open to the enterprise of our rascal... ... the breed of horses must be kept up in the country, and that the breed of foxes must therefore be looked to, and for his part, if his friend, Sir Hud... ... and Diamond, and of the state of the country and of the wretched breed of foxes. Sir Huddlestone presently appears mounted on a clever cob and rides ... ...s Spinney, Tom,” says the Bar- onet, “Farmer Mangle tells me there are two foxes in it.” Tom blows his horn and trots off, followed by the pack, by th...

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... Sylvie was reduced to wan- dering from table to table as an onlooker, the players glanc- ing at her with scornful eyes. At Madame Julliard senior’s ... ...ors, were not found exclusively in Paris. It is as difficult for towns and cities as it is for commercial houses to recover from ruin. Nothing is left... ...te’s pres- ence, were studied by Vinet and the colonel with the caution of foxes preparing to enter a poultry-yard and disturbed by seeing a strange f... ...oun- drel close to a dupe, and that fools are magnets to clever men of the fox breed.” As soon as the “Courrier” was fairly launched on a radius of fi... ...esmanship, “Let us divide!” for each wanted the whole prey. The two clever foxes of the Opposition made the mistake of pulling the first trigger. Vine...

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...of puppy dog, and another of kit- tens, and bird’s-nest soup; and then the players will come and act part of the nine-night tragedy, and we will look ... ...ing, flying almost fast enough to take away her breath, and leaving birds, foxes, and any creature she saw for one instant, far behind. And— what was ... ...s and light hair. “Are you busy, too?” “Oh, yes; we are learning the chief cities of the Fatherland.” Lucy felt like the little boy in the fable, who ...

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...rte table resounded more than once in the ears of the more peaceful boston players, who were watching Philippe surreptitiously. The exile showed such ... ...r handed him a card and a pin; he always inquired of certain well-seasoned players about the chances of the red or the black, and staked ten francs wh... ...mes, three hours apart, and each time for only ten minutes. Thorough-going players, ever since 1786, the time at which public gaming-houses were estab... ..., with a sharp voice, a rough skin, im- placable eyes, and the visage of a fox as he licks his lips of the blood of chickens, bounded like a tiger whe... ...ER VII ISSOUDUN, be it said without offence to Paris, is one of the oldest cities in France. In spite of the historical assumption which makes the emp... ...un, therefore, according to the researches of this an- tiquary, like other cities of France whose ancient or modern autonym ends in “Dun” (“dunum”) be... ...- toms. There is no opposition of social forces, such as that to which the cities of the Italian States in the Middle Ages owed their vitality. There ... ...d to God that which is God’s. My scheme is only a reproduction of Samson’s foxes, as related in the Bible. But Samson was an incendiary, and therefore... ... most despaired of the Bridau cause. “Your adversaries have the cunning of foxes,” he said to Agathe. “In all my days I never saw a man carry things w...

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...ited with strength of body an equal vigor mind; and of the two most famous cities of the world the one built Rome, and the other made Athens be inhabi... ... month Pharmuthi, between the second and third hour. For the for- tunes of cities as well as of men, they think, have their cer- tain periods of time ... ...like manner were defeated in battle, and sur- rendered up to Romulus their cities to be seized, their lands and territories to be divided, and themsel... ...nian children go about their stealing, that a youth, having stolen a young fox and hid it under his coat, suffered it to tear out his very bowels with... ..., There are some knaves besides; nor is it only mine that fails, But other foxes have lost tails. — When the citizens of Athens began to listen willin... ... “For where the lion’s skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox’s.” Such is the conduct recorded of him in the business about Miletus; ... ... Hunting the wolf, observe the utmost bound, And the hill Orchalides where foxes most are found. By the words, “the utmost bound,” Delium being intend... ...nto the camp. On this occasion, Carbo was heard to say, that he had both a fox and a lion in the breast of Sylla to deal with, and was most troubled w... ...t clear, as much as ever man did, of that trite saying, Lions at home, but foxes out of doors; and ever maintained a sober, truly Spartan, and well di...

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... his wife…. The rest of the pullets were headed off by the other cro- quet players, and went through the vicar’s kitchen garden into the doctor’s fiel... ... out by Huckster’s Farm heard a squealing in the night that he thought was foxes, and in the morning one of his lambs had been killed, dragged halfway... ...im. He tried to persuade himself that he had heard the distant squeal of a fox—or perhaps a young rabbit gripped by a ferret. Swish, swish, swish, pit... ...turdy expeditions—never to those who live the life of the sober citizen in cities. After Cossar had taken his axe away and set him to carry wood he we... ...ks on the building of houses and palaces; he shall plan rooms and in- vent cities— “I think I must give him a little theatre. “Then there is music!” R... ...h the window from the ladder would be a very respectable feat for a flying fox, and it was rather with the idea of a decent suicide than in any hope o... ...e our houses, smother our churches, smash and destroy all the order of our cities, and we shall become no more than a feeble vermin under the heels of...

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... the other. 12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. 13 But the men of S... ...h brimstone and re from the LORD out of heaven; 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that ... ... as the smoke of a furnace. 29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the m... ...though I do them a displeasure. 4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took rebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a rebrand in t... ...iah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall. 4 Hear, O our God; fo... .... Psalms 695 10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes. 11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him... ...ings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary. 25 The singers went before, the players on in- struments followed after; among them were the damsels playin... ...ice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. 15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender gr... ...: for Herod will kill thee. 32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and th...

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...regard, but evenly pursuing the path of duty, lead it through solitudes or cities, he held on his way along the lower deck until he chanced to come to... ...hose who think that in new countries, where the wolves are killed off, the foxes increase. Pausing at this spot, the stranger so far succeeded in thre... ... im- mediately threw a damp upon the frolic benignities of the pitch-penny players. But that these suspicions came from one who himself on a 12 The C... ... you. A fresh and liberal construction would teach us to regard those four players—indeed, this whole cabin-full of players—as play- ing at games in w... ...me,” luxuriously laying himself back, and cast- ing a free glance upon the players, “fares all paid; digestion sound; care, toil, penury, grief, unkno... ...the herb-doctor’s face, “look you!” “At what?” “At this coon. Can you, the fox, catch him?” “If you mean,” returned the other, not unself-possessed, “...

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... time, and those mutations which age produces 64 V anity Fair in empires, cities, and boroughs, Queen’s Crawley was no longer so populous a place as ... ... very same philosophical bitterness with which, in a certain apologue, the fox is represented as speaking of the grapes. Having passed through Gaunt S... ...ce, and most energetically of the rights of women. She had pictures of Mr. Fox in every room in the house: when that statesman was in opposition, I am... ...id Sir Pitt. “Who’d ha’ thought it! what a sly little devil! what a little fox it waws!” he muttered to himself, 147 Thackeray chuckling with pleasur... ...erous than in that opening summer of 1815, when its green fields and quiet cities were enlivened by multi- plied red-coats: when its wide chaussees sw... ...or bargains with the per- tinacity which now distinguishes them. The great cities of Eu- 375 Thackeray rope had not been as yet open to the enterpris... ... the breed of horses must be kept up in the country, and that the breed of foxes must therefore be looked to, and for his part, if his friend, Sir Hud... ... and Diamond, and of the state of the country and of the wretched breed of foxes. Sir Huddlestone presently appears mounted on a clever cob and rides ... ...s Spinney, Tom,” says the Bar- onet, “Farmer Mangle tells me there are two foxes in it.” Tom blows his horn and trots off, followed by the pack, by th...

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...led to interest him. It was one of those cross streets peculiar to Western cities, situated in the heart of the residence quarter, but occupied by sma... ....” “Ah, rats!” returned the other. McTeague kept silence. The two billiard players departed. The huge music-box struck into a fresh tune. “Huh!” excla... ...ght the excitement and began to bark. A waiter rushed in, the two billiard players returned, a little crowd formed. There was a veritable scene. All a... ...e, and paint it with a ‘non-poisonous’ paint—Vandyke brown for the horses, foxes, and cows; slate gray for the elephants and camels; burnt umber for t... ...in pipe and drinking his beer. He never joined any of the groups of piquet players around the tables. In fact, he hardly spoke to anyone but the barte... ...strated News,” the subject of each picture inevitably involving very alert fox terriers and very pretty moon-faced little girls. Back of the bedroom w... ...oom, with its framed lithographs of round-cheeked English babies and alert fox terriers, and came out into the brick-paved kitchen. The kitchen was cl... ...ffled roar which disengages itself from all vast bodies, from oceans, from cities, from forests, from sleep- ing armies, and which is like the breathi...

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...ys into acquiescence. Among other of his tricks, he put about four hundred foxes, old and young, into Rose’s park. It may be imagined what disorder th... ...and the surprise of Rose and his servants at an inexhaustible ant- hill of foxes come to one night! The worthy fellow, who was anger and vehemence its... ...ated everything that had taken place, concluding with the adventure of the foxes. The King promised that he would speak to M. le Prince in a manner to... ... that the said King had always a singular horror of the inhabitants of the Cities of the Plain; and yet M. de Vendome, though most odiously stained wi... ...a private cabinet, when D’Antin arrived from Versailles. He approached the players, and asked what was the position of the game, with an eager- ness w... ...his arrival. This is at least what was publicly said in the two courts and cities, and nearly every- body believed it. But to return to the peace. The... ...what we had seen, saying that this lackey played very well, and that chess-players played with everybody. M. de Chevreuse had not come to contradict h... ...essity; so that despite its incomparable extent, Paris is inferior to many cities of Europe. Saint-Germain, a lovely 645 Saint-Simon spot, with a mar... ...often had nothing to shoot at, and we still less. Nevertheless, I killed a fox, but a little before I ought to have done so, at which, somewhat ashame...

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... And now he has earthed him- self here, in a den just befitting such a sly fox as himself.” “May I ask you, Master Lambourne,” said T ressilian, “sinc... ... with, this many a month past.” “And yet,” said Lambourne, “I have been in cities where such learned commodities would have been deemed too good for s... ...e;” said Lambourne, “here is enough done and more than enough; put up your fox and let us be jogging. The Black Bear growls for us.” “Off, abject!” sa... ...nto comparative neglect, since men will rather throng to see these roguish players kill each other in jest, than to see our royal dogs and bears worry... ... all sides; or, as they say, ‘fight dog, fight bear.’ And in behalf of the players, I must needs say that they are witty knaves, whose rants and jests... ...ver, madam,” said the Dean of St. Asaph’s, an eminent Puritan, “that these players are wont, in their plays, not only to introduce profane and lewd ex... ...morrow, and change my course and place of resi- dence as often as a hunted fox. I should like to see this little Puritan, too, once more. She looks bo... ...a sick soul to purgation ’— ‘A draught of water from the valley of Baca’— ‘Foxes and fire- brands’—what gear call you this, maiden?” “Nay, madam,” sai...

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...,” replied Sancho, “but something to govern and rule, and better than four cities or four judgeships at court.” “For all that,” said the housekeeper, ... ....” To which the devil, stopping the cart, answered quietly, “Senor, we are players of Angulo el Malo’s company; we have been acting the play of ‘The C... ...shows us more faithfully what we are and ought to be than the play and the players. Come, tell me, hast thou not seen a play acted in which kings, emp... ...it bore the inscription “Castle of Caution.” Four skillful tabor and flute players accompanied them, and the dance having been opened, Cupid, after ex... ...common people! It would be a nice business indeed if all these illustrious cities were to take huff and revenge themselves and go about perpetually ma... ... in great numbers in her country; and if, instead of wolves, they had been foxes, she would have been called the Count- 230 Don Quixote – Part II ess... ... this present death. I was not born to be a governor or protect islands or cities from the enemies that choose to attack them. Ploughing and digging, ... ...would write under it, ‘This is a cock,’ for fear they might think it was a fox. The painter or writer, for it’s all the same, who published the histor...

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...red the T rojans, so that they could not shut them soon enough; and of two cities which take their names from the most agree- able odoriferous plants,... ...s, when he commanded his army to take up their winter quarters outside the cities, and to pitch their camp in the suburbs; and when he himself, first ... ...and the making of all sorts of warlike engines, by which means he kept the cities in due obedience, showing himself gentle in all peaceful business, a... ...speed. Sometimes, for sport’s sake, as his journals tell us, he would hunt foxes and go fowling. When he came in for the evening, after he had bathed ... ...ity to them. For his alone, of all the Greek or royal armies, had no stage-players, no jug- glers, no dancing or singing women attending it, but was f... ...s, who were shamefully refused admittance, while it was filled inside with players, jugglers, and drunken flatterers, upon whom were spent the greates... ... all munitions necessary for war, so was it also proclaimed that all stage-players should make their appearance at Samos; so that, while pretty nearly...

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...if I am, you must not laugh at me for being so. In the country people alter; one gets to like, with- out knowing it, all those beautiful objects that ... ...THESE PROJECTS were being formed by the Duc de Beaufort and Grimaud, the Comte de la Fere and the Vicomte de Bragelonne were entering Paris by the Rue... ...er Another shot of a carbine was heard. It was Musqueton, who was obeying his master’s command. “On! on!” cried D’Artagnan; “all goes well! we have th... ...y extended from Cassel to Courtray; and as there was no species of violence or pillage it did not com- mit, the poor people on the frontier quitted th... ... several ineffectual attempts, “Athos, I cannot imagine how you can talk to us in that way. You cannot understand the position we are in. In this kind... ... minute directions as to their route. “Ah! my dear friend,” exclaimed Athos, “how I should admire the resources of your mind did I not stop to adore t... ... “we will kill the sentinel and we shall have his arms.” “Y es, but before we can kill him—and he will be hard to kill, that Swiss—he will shriek out ...

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...rs, had been divested of all political power, a like fate had befallen the cities, the free constitutions of Castile and Aragon had been swept away, a... ...ins of Leon and Old Castile are bald and dreary, they are studded with old cities renowned in history and rich in relics of the past. But there is no ... ... his departure; he fights in the war, conquers the king’s enemy, wins many cities, triumphs in many battles, returns to the court, sees his lady where... ...man without heart or conscience to let the wolf loose among the sheep, the fox among the hens, the fly among the honey. He has defrauded justice, and ... ...d the crown in the hand; but if so, may be there is within some company of players, with whom it is a common thing to have those crowns and sceptres y... ...n when they are so far from it; and if the authors who write them, and the players who act them, say that this is what they must be, for the public wa... ....” To which the devil, stopping the cart, answered quietly, “Señor, we are players of Angulo el Malo’s company; we have been acting the play of ‘The C... ... in great numbers in her country; and if, instead of wolves, they had been foxes, she would have been called the Count- 598 Don Quixote ess Zorruna, ... ...would write under it, ‘This is a cock,’ for fear they might think it was a fox. The painter or writer, for it’s all the same, who published the histor...

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...quares of level turf and clipped alleys, afforded excellent scope both for players and spectators, and numerous games had been set on foot, from all o... ...were not in murmurs discussing the ghastly tidings of mas- sacres in other cities, and the fate of acquaintances. On that same day, the Queen sent for... ...ry has done all a barber or a sick- nurse could do; and he got us past the cities by showing the papers in my Lord’s pocket, so that we got safe to th... ... our hands again. I have spoken with, or written to, every governor of the cities she must pass through, and not one will abet the little runaway. At ... ...ve been a sort of vagrants of late, and I’ll be bound’ twas no four-legged fox as took Gaffer Shepherd’s lamb.’ The peroration was broken off, for wit... ...one?’ Sir Francis smiled. ‘We do not set lads of your age to cope with old foxes,’ he answered; ‘and it seems to me that you used far discretion in th... ... than, that with which the lads had taken aim at a wolf, or ridden after a fox. Scal- ing-ladders were planted and hurled down again; stones were cast...

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... Prime Ministers of the day belonged. And Lord Chiltern, another master of fox hounds, two counties off;—and also an old friend of ours,—had been aske... ...to pass the winter months of December and January within the warmth of the cities. That intervening fortnight was to her a period of painful anticipat... ...he Radicals. Mr Gresham would thank his stars that he could still preserve foxes down in his own country, instead of doing any of this dirty work,—for... ...ubber,—not paying his stakes for some of the last rub- bers lost,—till the players would play with him no longer. The misfortune might have happened t... ...id Mr Monk; ‘and then what would the pheasants 662 The Prime Minister and foxes say?’ ‘It is giving almost too much for our amusements. I used to thi...

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...they missed, and what they made: who was crafty to find out what the other players held, and who never betrayed his own hand. The letters were in vari... ...lls a funeral. Now, the carriages arrive at the Bride’s residence, and the players on the bells begin to jingle, and the band strikes up, and Mr Punch... ...eared. ‘ And how , my dearest Dombey , did you find that delightfullest of cities, Paris?’ she asked, subduing her emotion. ‘It was cold,’ returned Mr... ...e that I was torn to pieces Sir the more I’ d say it though I may not be a Fox’s Martyr..’ Mr Dombey turned yet paler than his fall had made him, with... ...elds of grain shall spring up from the offal in the bye-ways of our wicked cities, and roses bloom in the fat 647 Charles Dickens churchyards that th... ... be shook away; that’ll hang to him like leeches, and slink arter him like foxes. What! He knows ‘em. He knows his old games and his old ways. If he’s... ... the mere creature of his pleasure; undeceived in his deceit, and with his fox’s hide stripped off, he sneaked away, abashed, degraded, and afraid. So...

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...ch are equivocals so absurd and witless, so barbarous and clownish, that a fox’s tail should be fastened to the neck-piece of, and a vizard made of a ... ...ld iron, be often in the dumps, and frig and wriggle it. He would flay the fox, say the ape’s paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to t... ...but willingly he would wear a great long gown of thick frieze, furred with fox-skins. Afterwards he combed his head with an Almain comb, which is the ... ...rs, slapsauce fellows, slabberdegullion druggels, lubberly louts, cozening foxes, ruffian rogues, pal- try customers, sycophant-varlets, drawlatch hoy... ...ngly the white of a capon. In that, said Gymnast, he doth not resemble the foxes; for of the capons, hens, and pullets which they carry away they neve... ...he air for want of moisture and dew wherewith to refresh them. The wolves, foxes, harts, wild boars, fallow deer, hares, coneys, weasels, brocks, bad-... ... signifying thereby that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities cannot have a surer wall nor better fortification than the prowess a... ...ves unto him, bringing him out of their own good wills the keys of all the cities where he went, the Almirods only excepted, who, being resolved to ho... ...e were his teeth. I saw also fair meadows, large forests, great and strong cities not a jot less than Lyons or Poictiers. The first man I met with the...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 iv THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS THE PLAYERS ASK FOR A BLESSING ON THE PSALTERIES AND ON THEMSELVES . . . . . . ... ...han changing of night and day, That murmuring and longing came From marble cities loud with tabors of old In dove grey faery lands; From battle banner... ...o not love too long, Or you will grow out of fashion Like an old song. THE PLAYERS ASK FOR A BLESSING ON THE PSALTERIES AND ON THEMSELVES Three Voices... ...; Queens, their eyes blue like the ice, Are dancing in a crowd. The little fox he murmured, ‘O what of the world’s bane?’ The sun was laughing sweetly... ... sun was laughing sweetly, The moon plucked at my rein; But the little red fox murmured, ‘O do not pluck at his rein, He is riding to the townland Tha... ... like a cup That somebody had drunk dry. IN THE SEVEN WOODS 81 The little fox he murmured, ‘O what of the world’s bane?’ The sun was laughing sweetly... ...heir bodies to fatten the wolves, They left their homesteads to fatten the foxes, Fled to far countries, or sheltered themselves In cavern, crevice, h... ...om mountain to mountain ride the fierce horsemen. III Come gather round me, players all: Come praise Nineteen Sixteen, Those from the pit and gallery O... ...heir bodies to fatten the wolves, They left their homesteads to fatten the foxes, Fled to far countries, or sheltered themselves In cavern, crevice, o...

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...same hand directs the fight And monumental stone. Ye were the Grecian cities then, The Romes of modern birth, Where the New England husbandm... ... sat up, kept awake by the novelty of our situation, we heard at intervals foxes stepping about over the dead leaves, and brushing the dewy grass clos... ... as sweet and melodious as an instrument. The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon, may have first suggested the notes of t... ...wn stream, we gave names to them. The one on which we had camped we called Fox Island, and one fine densely wooded island surrounded by deep water and... ...sian even can never revive in London or Bos ton. And yet behold how these cities are refreshed by the mere tradition, or the imperfectly transmitted ... ...n his rising. “Homer is gone; and where is Jove? and where The rival cities seven? His song outlives Time, tower, and god,—all that then was,... ...ng side of the stream, as in the case of the countryman with his corn, his fox, and his goose, which had to be transported one at a time. Whether they... ...s. Minks, muskrats, meadow mice, woodchucks, squirrels, skunks, rab bits, foxes, and weasels, all inhabit near, but keep very close while you are the... ...esh water; and you are surprised to learn that woodchucks abound here, and foxes are found, though you see not where they can burrow or hide themselve...

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...philosopher. They were the outcome of much reading, observation of men and cities, sight-seeing, and theatre-go- ing, of which his daughter had done h... ...recurred to her as a hypocritical para- phrase of the “sour grapes” of the fox in the fable. She pic- tured to herself with a shudder the effect of a ... ...o much of a man or too little of a shot to kill pigeons, thinks nothing of fox-hunting. Do you think foxes like to be hunted, or that the people that ... ...tle of a shot to kill pigeons, thinks nothing of fox-hunting. Do you think foxes like to be hunted, or that the people that hunt them have such fine f... ...s? Look at the men that get killed or lamed every year at steeple-chasing, fox-hunting, cricket, and foot- ball! Dozens of them! Look at the thousands... ...speare’s history. He knew that he could find in the provinces many veteran players who knew every gesture and inflection of voice associated by tradit... ...ty, or they are men of pleasure, which means that they are dancers, tennis-players, butchers, and gamblers. I leave the nonentities out of the questio...

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...t as in the Roman amphitheatres, when they grew to the magnitude of mighty cities, (in some in- stances accommodating four hundred thousand spectators... ...ty. She had made herself known advantageously in sev- eral of the greatest cities of Europe, under the designation of the Hungarian Prophetess; and ve... ...opulation going on in some quarters of this great metropolis, and in other cities of the same empire, by means of a very malignant typhus. This fever ... ...season of the year he did little else than pursue his darling amusement of fox-hunting, for which indeed he had almost a maniacal passion—saying this,... ...cketing, racing, and eternal plots against the peace of the elder nuns. No fox ever kept a hen-roost in such alarm as pussy kept the dormitory of the ... ...niary difference to Urquiza. Thus stood matters, when a party of strolling players strolled into Paita. Kate, as a Spaniard, being one held of the Pai... ...higher enthu- siasm, a fact that often has occurred, of deer, or hares, or foxes, and the pack of hounds in pursuit, chaser and chased, all going head... ...s the euphuismus; but the reality understood was—to carry the knaves, like foxes in a bag, to the English soil, and there unbag them for English use. ...

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...t in order to pave the way for alliances; but Narr’ Havas had lodged there fox six months without having hitherto seen Salammbo, and now, seated on hi... ...ich they were lost. They were perhaps eighty thousand men. The two T yrian cities would offer no resistance, and they would return against Carthage. A... ...greasy , or, having been taken in nets or from among the ruins of captured cities, were green with the water or black- ened by fire. The Suffet had sp... ... whole forest that he might set it on fire and burn Carthage like a den of foxes. Spendius went on obstinately with the siege. He sought to invent ter... ...h pipes, made a shrill clashing noise; the tabourines, beaten with all the players’ might, resounded with heavy, rapid blows; and, in spite of the fur... ...o make them let go, and handed them over to the men in red. The instrument-players sometimes stopped through exhaustion; then the cries of the mothers...

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...u enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them. 7 But the LORD shall endure f... ...of the earth. 10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes. 11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him... ...ings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary. 25 The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing ... ...y thing that moveth therein. 35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in pos session. 36... ... people, that this man was born there. Selah. 7 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee. Chapter ...

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...us spake Zarathustra. XIII. CHASTITY I LOVE THE FOREST. It is bad to live in cities: there, there are too many of the lustful. Is it not better to fal... ... the conscientious, the free spirits, as lords of the wilderness; but in the cities dwell the well-foddered, famous wise ones—the draught-beasts. For,... ...ds and mother- lands. But a home have I found nowhere: unsettled am I in all cities, and decamping at all gates. Alien to me, and a mockery, are the p... ...e chances, that thou art to me a table of the Gods, for divine dice and dice-players!— But thou blushest? Have I spoken unspeakable things? Have I abu... ...ngora rabbits. And still stranger soundeth my word unto all ink-fish and pen-foxes. My hand—is a fool’s hand: woe unto all tables and walls, and whate... ...n of to-day, see just how they roll into my depths! A prelude am I to better players, O my brethren! An example! do according to mine example! And him... ...r they awaken distrust in great things, these subtle false-coiners and stage-players:— —Until at last they are false towards themselves, squint- eyed,...

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...n to the Imperial family as well as to all Moscow and Petersburg, and both cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told good ... ...your money on the cards or I may get muddled in the reckoning.” One of the players said he hoped he might be trusted. “Y es, you might, but I am afrai... ...o deal. 190 War & Peace CHAPTER XIV AN HOUR AND A HALF LA TER most of the players were but little interested in their own play . The whole interest w... ...the total of his losses on it, then he looked round for aid from the other players, or peered at the now cold face of Dolokhov and tried to read what ... ...een winter rye. The hares had already half changed their summer coats, the fox cubs were beginning to scatter, and the young wolves were bigger than d... ...d how well he looks on his horse, eh?” “A perfect picture! How he chased a fox out of the rank grass by the Zavarzinsk thicket the other day! Leaped a... ...giving tongue. A moment later he heard a cry from the wooded ravine that a fox had been found, and the whole pack, joining together, rushed along the ... ...a can- non ball that struck a cannon wheel and a man’s leg. “Now then, you foxes!” said another, laughing at some militiamen who, stooping low, entere... ...n the regiment. How is one to help feeling sad? Moscow—she’s the mother of cities. How can one see all this and not feel sad? But ‘the maggot gnaws th...

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...portsman, he had some other feelings towards women than towards grouse and foxes, and did not regard his future wife in the light of prey, valuable ch... ... better go.” Even those neighbors who had called Peter Featherstone an old fox, had never accused him of being insincerely polite, and his sister was ... ...ou will not like us at Middlemarch, I feel sure,” she said, when the whist-players were settled. “We are very stupid, and you have been used to someth... ...opened the Continent to travellers. Indeed I think it is one among several cities to which an extreme hyperbole has been applied—`See Rome and die:’ b... ...wallader, provokingly. “A coursing fellow, though,” said Sir James, with a fox- hunter’s disgust. “And one of those who suck the life out of the wretc... ...ion many had given up the “Pio- neer”—which had a motto from Charles James Fox and was in the van of progress—because it had taken Peel’s side about t... ...all their prize— Without them how could laws, or arts, Or towered cities rise? IN WATCHING EFFECTS, if only of an electric battery, it is oft... ...eal of Middlemarch company; and several lookers-on, as well as some of the players, were betting with animation. Lydgate was playing well, and felt co...

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...portsman, he had some other feelings towards women than towards grouse and foxes, and did not regard his future wife in the light of prey, valuable ch... ... better go.” Even those neighbors who had called Peter Featherstone an old fox, had never accused him of being insincerely polite, and his sister was ... ...u will not like us at Middlemarch, I feel sure,” she said, when the whist players were settled. “We are very stupid, and you have been used to someth... ...opened the Continent to travellers. Indeed I think it is one among several cities to which an extreme hyperbole has been applied— ‘See Rome and die:’ ... ...wallader, provokingly. “A coursing fellow, though,” said Sir James, with a fox hunter’s disgust. 262 Book IV — Three Love Problems. “And one of those... ...stion many had given up the “Pioneer”—which had a motto from Charles James Fox and was in the van of progress— because it had taken Peel’s side about ... ... work is all their prize— Without them how could laws, or arts, Or towered cities rise? I n watching effects, if only of an electric battery, it is of... ...eal of Middlemarch company; and several lookers on, as well as some of the players, were betting with animation. Lydgate was playing well, and felt co...

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...lls a funeral. Now, the carriages arrive at the Bride’s residence, and the players on the bells begin to jingle, and the band strikes up, and Mr Punch... ...eared. ‘ And how , my dearest Dombey , did you find that delightfullest of cities, Paris?’ she asked, subduing her emotion. ‘It was cold,’ returned Mr... ...e that I was torn to pieces Sir the more I’ d say it though I may not be a Fox’s Martyr..’ Mr Dombey turned yet paler than his fall had made him, with... ...elds of grain shall spring up from the offal in the bye-ways of our wicked cities, and roses bloom in the fat 237 Charles Dickens churchyards that th... ... be shook away; that’ll hang to him like leeches, and slink arter him like foxes. What! He knows ‘em. He knows his old games and his old ways. If he’s... ... the mere creature of his pleasure; undeceived in his deceit, and with his fox’s hide stripped off, he sneaked away, abashed, degraded, and afraid. So...