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...ir enterprise would one day, with an army more powerful than any in Europe (except, perhaps, the French) and a revenue greater than that of Great Br... ... had married. THE CURSE OF KALI 3 England 1854 It was a beautiful autumn day when Sir Terence French informed Helen of the family’s wish that sh... ...e had already made up her mind to accept this strange, arranged marriage. To be the wife of Gavin French, whom she had loved secretly from the tende... ...h THE CURSE OF KALI 47 century. It, too, is a handsome building, more European than Indian in architecture.’ John MacGregor pointed with his rid... ...ure Moghul palace. Helen was surprised at the incongruity of such a building amidst the European architecture of the Residency until Isabel explaine... ...scovered that François was part Huron, North American Indian from his mother’s side and like all colonials, my father refused to dilute our French b... ...rs are hardly likely to love the French any more than the British, Gavin. We, too, are a Western colonial power in their country,’ explained the Co...

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...may be very hard to exclude people from Madame Bovary. Imagine a Napster for French literature; everyone could have Madame Bovary and only the first pu... ...duce during exams, it seems perfectly clear. If handwriting truly showed the architecture of the soul, then Jefferson’s would conjure up Monticello or... ...birthday poem. It is one of the reasons that the central moral rights in the French droits d’auteur, or author’s rights, tradition resonate so strongl... ...art of the literary moral rights tradition to the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution. In France before the Revolution, as in England before ... ...et must approach perfect control, both in its legal regime and its technical architecture. Like any attractive but misleading argument, the Internet T... ...ans that we should pause before increasing the level of rights, changing the architecture of our communications networks, creating new crimes, and so ... ...uit of happiness—enunciated in the context of indignation at relatively mild colonial policies of taxation and legislation. How could a man who though...

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...n Lady ]Mary proves untrue. Finally his royal identity is disclosed hy the French ambassador,and as LouisPlnlippe, I he leaves his unfaithful fiancee,... ... English 2, English 14, German 1, Latin 1, Meteorology; Entrance, English, French. Wednesday, April 3, 1907,2.30 p. m., 4 H. H.—College, Art 1, Chemis... ...2.30 p. m., 4 H. H.—College, Art 1, Chemistry 1, Economics 2, Eng- lish 8, French 1, French 2, Frencli 3, French 3 b, Greek 1, Latin 2: Entrance, Germ... ...er receiving his degree from Williams he at- tended the Columbia School of Architecture and after graduation became a partner in the firm of Squires &... ...undecided, Joeokel will enter., the Harvard law school. Johnson will study architecture at the University of California. Continued in the next isme. M... ...omething about the services in our chapel. We have a building which by its architecture and its associations naturally, and it would seem, should irre... ...ior of East College by the construc- tion at each of the four entrances of colonial marble porches similar to those added to South College last year. ... ...ternities. The Zeta Psi fraternity began last spring the construction of a colonial house at the south- east corner of Main and South streets. The stu... ...ty and is now occupied by thew. The house is a frame structure of sim- ple colonial architecture through- out. A two-story portico with columns adorns...

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...the memory of that light, white American, Kimberly Debecrois--or something French--pulling away from his grasp of her hands disconcertedly, half blind... ...uccessfully that he began to believe it himself. On canvas, distorting the French-American into an Asian half-breed and a lady of the night, he brough... ... be perceived as another wealthy and indolent foreigner (usually German or French but not always so) suffering and despondent because of a katzenjamme... ...n extended vine of green bananas dangling above the sidewalk near a French colonial building used by a Laotian government ministry. Although a normal,... ...hat direction would lead to government buildings, which were in the French colonial architecture, and then to the river; at least that was what the ma... ...tion would lead to government buildings, which were in the French colonial architecture, and then to the river; at least that was what the map indicat...

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...rogress and enlightenment wherever they are. This is a pernicious rendition of the colonial White Man's Burden and it is coupled with disdain and c... ...xception). Moreover, to compare the dissemination of knowledge and enlightenment to colonialism is, indeed, a travesty. We, the Jews, are proud of... ...le-faced, dissemblers. Zionism is an extension of this pathological narcissism as a colonial movement Judaism is not missionary. It is elitist. But... ...tal sin by transforming itself into an outpost and beacon of Western (first British-French, then American) neo-colonialism. As the representative of... ...y are likely to prefer old age to youth, old habits to new, old buildings to modern architecture, etc. This preference of the Elders (a term of vene... ... time. Napoleon justified his gory campaigns by claiming that they served to spread French ideals throughout a barbarous world. Kipling bemoaned th... ...ation is preserved. A collapsing bedpost (as in Maury's famous dream) will become a French guillotine, for instance. The message conserved: there i...

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...rogress and enlightenment wherever they are. This is a pernicious rendition of the colonial White Man's Burden and it is coupled with disdain and c... ...xception). Moreover, to compare the dissemination of knowledge and enlightenment to colonialism is, indeed, a travesty. We, the Jews, are proud of... ...le-faced, dissemblers. Zionism is an extension of this pathological narcissism as a colonial movement Judaism is not missionary. It is elitist. But... ...tal sin by transforming itself into an outpost and beacon of Western (first British-French, then American) neo-colonialism. As the representative of... ...y are likely to prefer old age to youth, old habits to new, old buildings to modern architecture, etc. This preference of the Elders (a term of vene... ... time. Napoleon justified his gory campaigns by claiming that they served to spread French ideals throughout a barbarous world. Kipling bemoaned th... ...ation is preserved. A collapsing bedpost (as in Maury's famous dream) will become a French guillotine, for instance. The message conserved: there i...

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...ccumulation in the present makeup of human culture. This can be seen today in architecture: where modern buildings are still built with facades and ... ...es: suddenly became allies. He was defeated not once, but twice. And the French Bourbon King was re-instated. Yet, in a very short time, The B... ...iving the masses any actual power at all. If you study the history of the French Revolution without obsessively focusing on the leaders: you will... ... badly every time his armies were larger than the armies of his enemies. The French Revolution is an obvious illustration of the pendulum Dynamic. ... ...is towards increasing duplication and identicality. Look at the evolution of architecture, look at the evolution of cars, look at how people are dr... ...ing demands for equality with the upper class. At the same time that Europe’s colonial empires were crumbling: in each European nation their masses ... ...ger as majestic and powerful as they had been. Basically, their addiction to colonial power turned all of them into imperial power junkies. Left w... ...or of War, was conveniently whitewashed, and made attractive. The battles of colonial empire-building were fought overseas. The Europeans did not ... ...plitness Chapter Seven: Entities and the Alternative The entire ancient architecture of temples and large decorated buildings: screaming out th...

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...e said that the military cost of their civil wars were the result of Western colonial boundaries fusing incompatible tribes into nations, keeping Afri... ...r business and from a window in one of the walls they would place orders for French Cream Cheese sandwiches. They were the oddest creatures in the Lau... ...t instead to go on vacation outside of it. In the morning as she was burning French toast for the boy she told him that they would go to the beach. A... ..., pasta, and scrambled eggs that usually came out all right and pancakes and French toast that had a 50 percent chance of being burnt beyond recognit... ... starvation drives him over the holy earth" --Iliad Chapter Twenty-six A colonial sofa with an arched wooden back; the dark drapes absorbing the l... ...iel stepped off the school bus and went inside. She was seated on her white colonial chair as superciliously cold, hard, and beyond human frailties a... ...ere somewhat agreeable because of their adjacent bullfight arena and Spanish architecture. The unbearable dust colonias (poor suburbs) with the maquil...

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...he passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to express, in the purest French then spoken in France: ?There is Monsieur returning from hunting.? And that was all....

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...y the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a s... ...which falls back again into the wells — a sad, funereal, solemn sound, which strikes the ear of the child and the poet — both dreamers — which the Eng... ...ned in 1643, just after the death of Louis XIII., he called to him his son, a young cook of great promise, and with tears in his eyes, he recommended ... ... once you are engaged —” “Y es, that concerns me. I know what I am about; never- theless, I will freely consult with you.” “You do me great honor; but... ...ular, had undergone great changes; the ancient host of the mus- keteers, having become tolerably rich for an innkeeper, had closed his shop, and made ...

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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... ...on. They are affable. I had but recently had an encounter with an imported Colonial statesman, who was being adver- tised like a soap as the coming sa... ...unding in old castles and villas, Vicenza is a rich mu- seum of Palladio’s architecture and Bassano is full of irre- placeable painted buildings—one f... ...alf a century; England gave her Heligoland and stood out of the way of her colonial expansion, Italy was a happy hunting ground for her busi- ness ent... ...hed by the quality of the ordinary British soldiers in our new armies. One Colonial colonel said something almost incredible to me—almost incredible a...

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...ially if it is a question essentially mechanical—is shown by the work of a Frenchman all too neglected by the trumpet of fame—Clement Ader. M. Ader wa... ...ce in the roads and rail- ways and shipping it will be for the worse; that architecture, domestic equipment, and so on, will be fortunate if in 1924 t... ...g of a renewal of the struggle, it becomes impossible for the British, the French, the Belgians, Russians, Italians or Japanese to think any longer of... ...s gifted Pole made his forecast of the future. Perhaps it is more, for the French translation of his book was certainly in exist- ence before the Boer... ...ry scrap of territorial advantage she has gained; she may lose most of her Colonial Empire; she may be obliged to complete her modernisation by abando... ...d anyone with money from any- where may come in and buy. Great supplies of colonial ores were found to be cornered by semi-national German syndi- cate... ...he new age, will be desir- ous of a restoration of the now vanished German colonial empire, vindictive, intriguing, and unscrupulous, a mere se- ries ...

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...ainst the sky. She was riding to her anchor in the bay, and proved to be a French corvette. This pleased our captain exceedingly, and, coming on deck,... ...e a long strip from his girdle of white tappa, and handed it to one of the French officers, who, after explain- ing what was to be done, gave it to Je... ... him to stay where he was. By this time the officer of the deck aboard the Frenchman had noticed our movements, and hailed to know what had happened. ... ...n the middle of all were two square, wooden columns, denominated in marine architecture “Bowsprit Bitts.” They were about a foot apart, and between th... ...bound passage. In this way, his country- men frequently enter on board the colonial whaling vessels. There was a man among us who had sailed with the ... ...orted to be, “the affidavit of John Jennin, first of- ficer of the British Colonial Barque Julia; Guy, Master;” and proved to be a long statement of m... ...not far from the Calabooza Beretanee. It was esteemed the best specimen of architecture in Tahiti. Of late, they have built their places of worship wi... ...k cheek and black whiskers. According to his own ac- count, he had lost a colonial armed brig on the coast of New Zealand; and since then, had been l...

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...Deutsch wohl’ and he found him- self talking to a German on one side and a Frenchman on the other. His letters throughout his foreign travels are more... ...would feel interrupted by the overflowing notes on painting, sculpture and architecture which fill the corre- spondence, yet without them, it is scarc... ...ve all impressive in the ex- traordinary loveliness of the early decorated architecture, and the space and loftiness of the choir. The whole, pre-emin... ...ake fresh holidays on the Continent and enjoy those de- lights of scenery, architecture, art and music, which he loved with an appreciation and enthus... ... tower-like masses of the Norfolk pine on the shores, was at that time the French Bishop of New Caledonia, the Oul, as the natives called him and his ... ..., just as a common horse halter hanging from Abraham’s bookshelf, betokens colonial life. Our rooms are quite large enough, bigger than my room at Fen... ...and books, is really fatiguing. Yester- day and to-day are just samples of colonial work. Thursday, 7.30, prayers in chapel; 10.30, Communion service ... ...te so much time for writing as you have, I dare say, in spite of music and French and history and geography and all the rest of it. But I do dearly lo... ...of New Zealand, full in whose track it lay. The matter was referred to the Colonial Secretary, and in the meantime Bishop Selwyn adhered to his purpos...

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...o come in, Miss Sharp ad- vanced in a very unconcerned manner, and said in French, and with a perfect accent, “Mademoiselle, je viens vous faire mes a... ...iselle, je viens vous faire mes adieux.” Miss Pinkerton did not understand French; she only directed those who did: but biting her lips and throwing u... ...ve been made to tend the little girls in the lower schoolroom, and to talk French to the Misses, until I grew sick of my mother tongue. But that talki... ...th martial splendour; a rare old city, with strange costumes and wonderful architecture, to delight the eyes of little Amelia, who had never before se... ...as been promised an appointment any time these six months. Mr. Martyr, the Colonial Secretary, told him yesterday that it was made out. That unlucky a... ...s of our colonies, and we have no doubt that the gentleman selected by the Colonial Office to fill the lamented vacancy which has occurred at Coventry... ... his means. When the Marquis of Steyne came abroad after his accident, the Colonial Secretary bowed up to him and congratulated him- self and the Serv...

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...es. I can only think as yet of having my dear girls to myself, moi, as the French would say, after having seen so little of them.” “It has been very u... ... good, for if her mother for- gave her ten times over, still that spiteful French maid would put her to bed and say she had no robe convenable,” went ... ...ve all been fun and a good story if she had not been so much afraid of the French lady’s maid. It is curious how the sight of those brown eyes brought... ...celebrities, the undergraduates, the concerts, the chapels, the boats, the architecture; all were touched on for further discussion by and by as they ... ...ey have been sitting on deck together, talking as much as they could about architecture and Italy, with their breath all blown away every moment. Ther... ... speech was, ‘a superior young man,’ not neces- sarily a gentleman.” “I am colonial enough to like him the better for the ab- sence of a hall mark.” “... ...t uncalled for fears that all the Vanderkists were hard on the poor little colonial damsel; but whether it was the air of Rock Quay, or the quiet infl... ...it was not quite the case with his wife, who did not par- ticularly esteem colonial Bishops, and still less Sisterhoods 176 Modern Broods or devotion...

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...fice as Assistant Professor in the Museum of Natural History in Paris, the French Government had attached me to that expedition. After six months in N... ...ercantile Gazette, the Lloyd’s List, the Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and Colonial Review, all papers devoted to insurance companies which threatened... ...ingular ex- pression to his face. Who calls himself Canadian calls himself French; and, little communicative as Ned Land was, I must admit that he too... ...hensible words. Then he seemed to question me by a look. I replied in good French that I did not know his lan- guage; but he seemed not to understand ... ..., standing broad upon their granite base, like the heavy columns of Tuscan architecture. Why had our incompre- hensible guide led us to the bottom of ... ...ound, from which one would still recognise the massive character of Tuscan architecture. Further on, some remains of a gi- gantic aqueduct; here the h... ...pporting the spring of the immense vault, an admirable specimen of natural architecture. Between the blocks of basalt wound long streams of lava, long...

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...oughout nearly the entire Western Hemisphere. He had read the story of the FrenchRevolution, much of which had been recently written in the blood of m... ...tand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the purest strain of blood and of the most honorable l... ... “Democracy in America,” by Alexis Charles Henri Clerel de T ocqueville, a French nobleman, born at Paris, July 29, 1805. Bred to the law, he exhibite... ...orld in the name and under the immediate orders of the Crown;* this is the colonial system adopted by other countries of Europe. Sometimes grants of c... ... delight in public rejoicings. If they repudi- ate all ornament from their architecture, and set no store on any but the more practical and homely adv... ...espect to the Indians, it is neces- sary to consult, 1st, “The Laws of the Colonial and State Governments relating to the Indian Inhabitants.” (See th... ...dence. But this is an error: the population increased as rapidly under the colonial system as it does at the present day; that is to say, it doubled i... ...of white marble, several of which were built after the models of an- cient architecture. When I went the next day to inspect more closely the building...

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...d unquestioned law of the musical world re- quired that the German text of French operas sung by Swed- ish artists should be translated into Italian f... ...e were nothing peculiar in living above Thirty-fourth Street, or in having French windows that opened like doors instead of sashes that pushed up. Eve... ...ascinated by the foreignness of this arrangement, which recalled scenes in French fiction, and architectural incentives to immorality such as the simp... ...d Skuytercliff, the great es- tate on the Hudson which had been one of the colonial grants of the Dutch government to the famous first Governor, and o... ...chances were that they were going in for Central American archaeology, for architecture or landscape-engineering; taking a keen and learned interest i... ...dapting Georgian types, and protesting at the meaningless use of the word “Colonial.” No- body nowadays had “Colonial” houses except the millionaire g...

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...ked back through Wilmette and Evanston, discov- ered new forms of suburban architecture, and remem- bered her desire to recreate villages. She decided... ...e traveling salesman had murmured, “Dentistry,” she desperately hazarded, “Architecture.” “That’s a real nice art. I’ve always said—when Haydock & Sim... ...g display-space,’ I said, `but when you get that in, you want to have some architecture, too,’ I said, and he laughed and said he guessed maybe I was ... ...to give you a chance to get settled. I am Vida Sherwin, and I try to teach French and English and a few other things in the high school.” “I’ve been h... ...’ was the most interesting pa- per we had, the year we took up English and French travel and architecture. But— And of course Mrs. Mott and Mrs. Warre... ...er to impress the ordinary class of people than just a plain old-fashioned colonial house, such as you describe. And that would be the proper cen- ter... ...ht here in the Thanatopsis. And as for trying to make a whole town in this Colonial architecture you talk 142 Main Street about— I do love nice thing... ...iped, after Carol’s appeal: “I see. You think the New England villages and Colonial houses are so much more cunning than these Middlewestern towns. I’... ...ven’t done that tonight. But normally— Can’t I be the confidant of the old French plays, the tiring-maid with the mirror and the loyal ears?” “Oh, wha...