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... Branch, against the colossus of the North, perfidious Albion, against all enterprises, good or bad, of the government. Thus we see that the word prog... ...ostly partitions, that injure the sale of products, would be a magnificent enterprise, which, in its results, would attain to the height of statesmans... ...mes, great families, the old and the new peerage are rushing hot-foot into enterprises and partnerships,” said Achille Pigoult. “Francs attract the Fr... ...of course, a chambre- 147 Balzac ardente. In the middle of it on a raised platform surmounted by a baldaquin, lay a thing, the most hideous and grote... ...oll- parrot.” 301 Balzac “Why, no,” said Jacqueline, “not at all; with my Javanese face” (she was born on the island of Java), “oriental things set m...

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... an open enve- lope, addressed to the commander of any British ship in the Java Sea. The paper was thick, had an em- bossed heading: “Schooner-yacht H... ... battling with a heavy monsoon in the Bay of Bengal, lying becalmed in the Java Sea, or gliding out sud- denly from behind a point of land, graceful a... ...“Whom did I not know? I knew Sentot when he was King of the South Shore of Java and the Dutch offered a price for his head—enough to make any man’s fo... ...OR TWO YEARS, Lingard, who had thrown himself body and soul into the great enterprise, had lived in the long intoxication of slowly preparing success.... ...gs had gradually emerged from the Shallows. They stood for a moment on the platform looking down on the deck as if about to step into the unknown, the... ...e risk was incurred mostly for his sake—so that the prospects of the great enterprise should not be ruined by a quarrel over the lives of these whites... ...rom whom trustworthy information can be obtained by the lead- ers of great enterprises. Lingard did put several ques- tions to him, but in this instan...

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... clinging to the granite rock and placed himself at the edge of the narrow platform on which they stood, whence his eyes plunged to the depths of the ... ...ations between two human beings, one of whom may be here, and the other in Java, that they can at the same instant feel the same sensation, and be con... ...ce of the Sieg accompanied the thoughts of the three beings united on this platform of projecting rock, but separated in soul by the abysses of the Sp... ...her strength and rising to her feet. She advanced to the edge of the rocky platform, whence her eyes took in the scenery of that grand and glorious la... ...g to which man clings. Unless you do this you are but half-hearted in your enterprise. “Do for God what you do for your ambitious projects, what you d...

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...research could not be, any more than any other research can be, a solitary enterprise, but he delayed expres- sion; in a mighty writing and stowing aw... ...retion, he declared, must remain; a sense of pro- portion, an “adequacy of enterprise,” but the discretion of an aristocrat is in his head, a tactical... ...bad, from panic fear at one extremity down to that mere disinclination for enterprise, that reluctance and indolence which is its lowest phase. These ... ... tour in Japan, and then I would sail in a sailing ship down to Borneo and Java and set myself up as a Ranee— … And then I would think what I would do... ...ied Cambridge,” he said. But at every stopping station he got out upon the platform ethnologically alert…. Theoretically Benham was disgusted with Pro... ...kers. The whole big square was astir, a swaying crowd of men. A ramshackle platform improvised upon a trolley struggled through the swarming straw hat... ...s some speaking. At first it seemed as though military men were using this platform, and then it was manifestly in possession of an excited knot of la...

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...on grounds of gentility, I fear), and is too full of physi- cal energy and enterprise to take readily to sober parochial life. His ardour is a gallant... ...eously at the station, and the passengers were getting out on the opposite platform. The Doctor made a dash to cross in the rear of the train, but was... ... line the same instant, but the blank was his. Up and down the gas-lighted platform he looked in vain among the crowd, only his eye suddenly lit on a ... ...up in a regular rage! Only look at his eyes—and Henry just like Gertrude’s Java sparrow in a taking—’ ‘It must not be,’ cried Ethel, starting up to at... ...e pier; and so they walked the length of 373 Yo n g e Weymouth, paced the platform, and took their places in the train. Just as they had shot beyond ... ...years, partook of the exhilara- tion enough to delight in an extraordinary enterprise, and as nothing remained but a little sweeping up, they left thi...

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... intellectual manifesta- tions which they encouraged him to exhibit on the platform or in the lecture desk. A visit to England, in 1845, threw Mr. Dou... .... But his sojourn in England was more than a joy to Mr. Douglass. Like the platform at Nantucket, it awakened him to the consciousness of new powers t... ...Journal, in New Y ork City; probably not less than one hundred news- paper enterprises have been started in the United States, by free colored men, bo... ... March, it was repeated before them at their busi- ness meeting in May—the platform, par excellence, on which they invite free fight, a l’outrance, to... ... by wading, digging and raking for them. Here was a field for industry and enterprise, strongly inviting; and the reader may be assured that I entered... ...France; teas of various flavor, from China; and rich, aromatic coffee from Java, all conspired to swell the tide of high life, where pride and indolen... ...ortable dwellings in it, but the place, as a whole, wore a dull, slovenly, enterprise-forsaken aspect. The mass of the buildings were wood; they had n...

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...he young man himself too was nothing loth to leave the poisonous shores of Java, and the meagre comforts of the parental bungalow, where the father gr... ...lly known, Lingard had adopted, was having her educated in some convent in Java, and spoke of her as “my daughter.” He had sworn a mighty oath to marr... ... dim light twinkling through bamboo walls, or a smoky torch burning on the platforms built out over the river. Further away, where the island ended in... ...inck, and that he himself was going to Europe to raise money for the great enterprise. “He was coming back soon. There would be no difficulties,” he w... ...ad he left any papers, documents; any indications or hints as to his great enterprise? Meantime he had found amongst the rubbish in one of the empty r... ...customed sight of men lolling on the shady side of the houses, on the high platforms; of women busily engaged in husking the daily rice; of naked brow... ...had consented to be rec- onciled with Lakamba, who gave his support to the enterprise on condition of sharing the profits; he had sacrificed his pride... ...the south-west monsoon she slept dreamlessly under the bright stars on the platform built outside the house and over the river. Inside they slept too:...

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...m put out to sea in a big boat. Matara and I watched him from the fighting platform behind the pointed stakes. He sat cross-legged, with his gun in hi... ...ountain and lowlands stretching away in sunshine from west to east. It was Java. We said, ‘They are there; their time is near, and we shall return or ... ... . . Why? She was always by our side. . . . We starved. We begged. We left Java at last. “We went West, we went East. We saw many lands, crowds of str... ...ade; an icy draught mingled with acrid fumes swept the whole length of the platform and made a tottering old man, wrapped up to his ears in a woollen ... ...hose two had been engaged in a conspiracy against his peace— in a criminal enterprise for which there could be no sanction of belief within themselves... .... The white man began to climb the rude ladder giving access to the bamboo platform before the house. The juragan of the boat said sulkily, “We will c...

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...nrise and a sunset. And that harpoon— so like a corkscrew now—was flung in Javan seas, and run away with by a whale, years afterwards slain off the Ca... ...Likewise upon the extreme stern of the boat where it was also triangularly platformed level with the gunwale, Starbuck himself was seen coolly and adr... ... rooted in the keel, and rising some two feet above the level of the stern platform. It is used for catching turns with the whale line. Its top is not... ...rit, the Pequod still held on her way north-eastward towards the island of Java; a gentle air impelling her keel, so that in the surrounding serenity ... ...im, as well as to the thousand con- curring accidents of such an audacious enterprise, eight or ten loose second irons may be simultaneously dangling ... ...ng which no Physiognomist or Phrenologist has as yet under- taken. Such an enterprise would seem almost as hopeful as for Lavater to have scrutinized ... ...cks, my friend. CHAPTER 82 The Honour and Glory of Whaling T HERE ARE SOME ENTERPRISES in which a careful dis orderliness is the true method. The more... ...a continuous line from that peninsula stretch the long islands of Sumatra, Java, Bally, and Timor; which, with many others, form a vast mole, or rampa...

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...te behind. And then death. China was lit glowing white, but over Japan and Java and all the islands of Eastern Asia the great star was a ball of dull ... ... in spite of the urgency of his porter, and even while he was still on the platform I noted how ill he seemed. He dropped into the corner over against... ...into my body. It didn’t hurt, you know. It didn’t hurt at all.” The yellow platform lights came into the field of view, pass- ing first rapidly, then ... ...ble-stones, came to my ears. A truckload of lighted lamps blazed along the platform. “A darkness, a flood of darkness that opened and spread and blott... ...the wealthy and the well-advertised, re- proach me silently for my want of enterprise. I sometimes think I might at least have risked five pounds. 78...

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...A poor result that. A very poor result.” He stood for awhile on the lowest platform of the steps, the light of the lamp falling on the upturned face o... ...Lingard’s own river rippled softly amongst the piles supporting the bamboo platform of the little watch-house before which they were ly- ing. Behind t... ... keep off an occasional and wandering mosquito that, rising as high as the platform above the swarms of the riverside, would settle with a ping of tri... ... in his young days: wealthy, resolute, courageous, reckless, ready for any enterprise! But why lament the past and speak about the dead? There is one ... ...ted dwelling. “All’s well!” muttered Almayer to himself, taking some loose Java tobacco from a drawer in the table. “Now if anything comes out I am cl...

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...ake part in the counsels of all these people captivated by the sentimental enterprise of a declared love. On taking Miss Moorsom’s hand he looked up, ... ...ng the island on this trip to town. Like many men ready enough for arduous enterprises Renouard was inclined to evade the small complications of exist... ... all these notions himself into her empty head… What your husband wants is enterprise, a little audacity. Y ou can encourage him best, Mrs. Dunbar… Sh... ...danger on account of the dollars. He told her, he said, that there were no Java-sea pirates nowa- days except in boys’ books. He had laughed at her fe... ... been up that creek, where no European vessel had ever been seen before. A Javanese passenger he had on board offered him fifty dollars to call in the... ...e where there was water enough to float a soup-plate. “Davidson landed his Javanese plutocrat, and, as he had to wait a couple of hours for the tide, ... ...y lightfooted. He climbed the seven steps or so, stepped across the bamboo platform quietly, but what he saw through the doorway stopped him short. “F...

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...a Member and a Professing Philanthropist. Then, you were to pay up your subscription, get your card of membership and your riband and medal, and were ... ...ould manifestly have been advanced by dispossessing him. A gloomy person with tangled locks, and a general air of having been reared under the shadow ... ... very much after the manner of the sporting publicans, that the intended Resolutions might have been Rounds. In an official manager of these displays ... ...better than I do,’ returned the Minor Canon very quietly. ‘But I interrupt your explanation.’ ‘Murder!’ proceeded Mr. Honeythunder, in a kind of boist... ...treet, near the General Post Office. It is hotel, boarding- house, or lodging-house, at its visitor’s option. It announces itself, in the new Railway ...

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... be the heir of a great English house. He had played a part in a revolt in Java, had languished in Dutch fetters, and had risen to be a trusted agent ... ... party, and the can- vass conducted largely (it is said with tears) on the platform at prayer-meetings. It resulted in defeat. Without any de- cency o... ...ngers. Day after day the German blue-jackets were employed in the hopeless enterprise of beating the forests for the fugitive; day after day they were... ...y Mataafa I stoutly disbelieve; the German flag and sailors forbidding the enterprise in Mulinuu. So that we may call this false intelligence the begi... ...uld stand to be exposed upon so poor a quarrel, or lives cast away upon an enterprise so hopeless. News of the affair reached Apia early, and Moors, a...

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...s, with their means and funds, should have left it to private humanity and enterprise, to enter on an attempt to improve that class of per- sons—since... ...he had crowded into that one day—but entertain a strong misgiving that his enterprise was doomed. Rash and ill- considered as it had often looked on s... ...oser than ever when they entered the Hall, got by that means upon a little platform of tables at the upper end; where an armchair was set for the Gene... ...red from the conversation of these worthies, that they were embarked in an enterprise of some magni- tude, in which they addressed the public in gener... ...e car of Juggernaut had crushed him, and also that the deadly Upas tree of Java had blighted him. His name was Moddle. Towards this most unhappy Moddl...

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...s INTR INTR INTR INTR INTRODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION THE ENTERPRISE of Messrs. T . Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of M... ...—no other than the Rev. James Parker and the young Prince of Bosso-Kuni in Java. I am obliged to them for certain particulars. The object of the Princ... ...te behind. And then death. China was lit glowing white, but over Japan and Java and all the islands of Eastern Asia the great star was a ball of dull ... ...show signs of stimulation, and their ambition enlarged. Their first larger enterprise was due to hunger and the negligence of Mrs. Minchin, Mr. Maydig... ...aring red. She made a prim and pleasant little figure on the Charing Cross platform, in spite of her swelling pride, when at last the great day dawned... ...shoulder, and made sly little remarks about the accumulating people on the platform, at which Fanny laughed gleefully. They were travelling with one o... ...d not want and who followed him in a steadily growing tail up and down the platform. These people seemed, indeed, to think that their one chance of re...

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...pon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ou... ...rst upon us six years ago now. As Mars ap- proached opposition, Lavelle of Java set the wires of the as- tronomical exchange palpitating with the amaz... ...hose days. People in these latter times scarcely realise the abundance and enterprise of our nineteenth-cen- tury papers. For my own part, I was much ... ...of people had assembled in and about the railway station, and the swarming platform was piled with boxes and pack- ages. The ordinary traffic had been... ...ere was a thunder- storm, and my brother reached Waterloo in a cab. On the platform from which the midnight train usually starts he learned, after som... ...quad of police came into the station and began to clear the public off the platforms, and my brother went out into the street again. The church bells ... ...s. After that no body of men would stand against them, so hopeless was the enterprise. Even the crews of the tor- pedo-boats and destroyers that had b...

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...de, and here the passenger may sleep as comfortably as he can, on a wooden platform, covered by a thin straw mat. The venda stands in a courtyard, whe... ... at the distance of five o six miles, the angular edge of a great basaltic platform When we arrived at its base we found the stream bubblin among the ... ...k- ness may be close to the Cordillera, I hav no means of knowing, but the platform there attains a heigh of about three thousand feet above the level... ...rt putrid fever; but the contagion extended to no *Narrative of Missionary Enterprise, p. 282. **Captain Beechey (chap. iv., vol. i.) states that the ... ...een known to have been washed on shore. “Seeds and plants from Sumatra and Java have been driven up by the surf on the windward side of the islands. A... ...es Darwin thence to these islands by the S. E. trade-wind. Large masses of Java teak and Yellow wood have also been found, besides immense trees of re... ...mangostin, are de- stroyed in the passage. Fishing-canoes, apparently from Java, have at times been washed on shore.” It is interesting thus to discov...

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...ny ground or cause, and from day to day pursueth his furious 107 Rabelais enterprise with that height of insolence that is intolerable to freeborn sp... ... to make a breach in your alliance; and have been so afraid of it in their enterprises that they have never dared to provoke, incense, or endamage the... ...he name and title of your alliance, they have suddenly desisted from their enterprises. What rage and madness, therefore, doth now incite thee, all ol... ...heads, play on the lute, and crack with their tails, to make pretty little platform leaps in keeping level by the ground? But now the world is 218 Ga... ...trenches, cleansed countermines, fenced themselves with gabions, contrived platforms, emptied casemates, barricaded the false brays, erected the caval... ...g through the air. T aproban hath seen the heaths of Lapland, and both the Javas and Riphaean mountains; wide distant Phebol shall see Theleme, and th...

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...pages at stations are impertinences, and the delivery of us at last on the platform is an astonish- ment, for it is not we who have done it—we have no... ...ed property. Shortly after the union, as one that has achieved the goal of enterprise, the gallant of- ficer retired from the service nor did north-we... ...ated; that she might furnish arms to her husband to carry out an audacious enterprise likely to in- volve both of them in blood and ruin? Would he not... ...ere the great big bursting end of all things for you lies crouching like a Java-Tiger—a ferocious beast painted undertaker’s colour—for a leap at you ... ...ning. You can only move them by popping at them over hedges and roaring on platforms. They’re incapable of understanding a complaint a yard beyond the... ... at a bait— it ‘s fun: the lady I mentioned, with a turn for adventure and enterprise: it’s rare fun: he ‘s nibbling, he’ll be hooked. You must make h... ...nd he is a cha- meleon.’ ‘Parliament may steady him.’ ‘It is too much of a platform for Con’s head.’ ‘Yes, there is more of poet than politician,’ sai...