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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...the ocean, and at last the blood-red sun stood full and round in the level East, and the long sea-day began. Breakfast over, the first thing attended ... ..., and found the yards braced sharp up on the larboard tack, with the South East Trades strong on our bow. The captain was no better; and we were off f... ...picture loses not its attractions. It is no exaggeration to say that, to a European of any sensi- bility, who, for the first time, wanders back into t... ...f manliness, no wonder the Tahitians re- garded all pale and tepid-looking Europeans as weak and feminine; whereas, a sailor, with a cheek like the br... ...e church, and extremely conscientious about what Sabbath he kept, was more liberal in other matters. Learning that I was something of a “mick-onaree”... ...ne of the inducements which brought us here; and so, finding Rartoo rather liberal in his religious ideas, we disclosed our desire. At first he demurr... ... of the husk of the cocoa-nut, and woven into an exceedingly light sort of network, forming its elastic body. Spread upon this was a single, fine mat,...

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...; in making Belgium the battle-ground in a coming struggle between the mid-European Powers and the rest of Europe; and (he believes) in foretelling a ... ...erial progress, the killing of a large moiety of the males in nearly every European country, and universal loss and unhappiness?” We are going to deal... ...n States of the world as they are at present; the resistance of a gigantic network of Government organisations, interests, privileges, assumptions. Ag... ...th the present United States. The thing has been ably advocated already in South America. Whatever appearances of separate sovereignties are kept up a... ...ue to the failure of the Russian munitions. Then for a time the war in the East was mobile and precarious while the Rus- sians retreated to their pres... ...thened line of supplies, and Bloch is back upon his pedestal so far as the Eastern theatre goes. Bloch has been equally justified in the Anglo-French ... ...e the traffic across. Beyond that point one is struck by the fact that the south side is considerably higher than the north, that storm water must run... ...hy established the tradition of her diplo- macy. Illiberal at home, it was liberal abroad; Great Britain was the defender of nationality, of constitut... ... freewomen upon the general social atmosphere will be, I venture to think, liberalising and relaxing in certain directions and very brac- ing in other...

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...glish, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, to name only the bigger European allies, are con- cerned in setting up a legend, as the Germans are... ...pecimens of some species of Ammonites unknown to me, from the hills to the east of the Adige, partially wrapped in a back number of the Corriere della... ...le piece of woodland in the eye of God and the aeroplane. I went about the network of rail- ways and paths under the trees that a modern battery re- q... ... able from this position to get a very good idea of the lie of the Italian eastern front. I was in the delta of the Isonzo. Directly in front of me we... ...pid storm of the mountains to the north-west of it and of the Carso to the south-east, that they made no fight in the town itself. As a consequence wh... ...ess planet. Still more desolate was the scene upon the Carso to the right (south) of Goritzia. Both San Martino and Doberdo are destroyed beyond the l... ...ection, “in that matter of Pecunia non olet; there used to be fusses about European loans in China. And one of the favourite themes of British fiction... ...atin idealism she has taken her place by the side of those who fight for a liberal civilisation against a Byzantine imperialism. 43 H G Wells As I ca... ...obsolete now in war as the masks and shields of an old-time Chinese brave. Liberal- minded people talk of the coming dangers of militarism in the face...

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... but we shall come a smash in a minute!’ Far ahead I saw the grey sheds of Eastchurch and people strolling about apparently unaware of our disaster. T... ... looks up into the sky. It is very interesting to note how at a place like Eastchurch or Brooklands the necessary discretion trails the old visceral f... ...bstantial clearness. The jungle that bordered the little encampment north, south, and west seemed to have crept a little nearer, enriched itself with ... ...anned, but he had many walks that bristled with impressions. Northward and southward, eastward and west- ward a dreaming young man could wander into a... ...Conservative party. But it was pointed out to him that just at present the Liberal party was the party of a young man’s opportunity; sooner or later t... ...swing of the pendu- lum which would weed the Conservatives and proliferate Liberals was bound to come, there was always more demand and opportunity fo... .... But Washington, they say, isn’t as bad as it used to be—since T eddy has Europeanized ‘em….” Even the Reverend Harold Benham took a subdued but thou... ...again with a queer little worn book, a parallel vocabulary of half-a-dozen European languages. He turned over the pages and pointed to a word. “May! A... ... active intervention. The two men left their carriage and plunged into the network of unlovely dark streets in which the Jews and traders harboured… ....

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...of shells, the work of the steward’s love, when the time hung heavy in the southern seas, was quaint rather than ugly. Twisted shells with red lips li... ...rliament. For that purpose the Latin countries did very well, although the East, of course, would have done better. “Expect to hear of me next in Pete... ...ll from the steps of the Travellers’ . But a disease had broken out in the East, there was cholera in Russia, and he was heard of, not so romantically... ...m. Imagination, Miss Vinrace; use your imagination; that’s where you young Liberals fail. Conceive the world as a whole. Now for your second point; wh... ...oolf one to talk to, with the image of a vast machine, such as one sees at South Kensington, thumping, thumping, thumping. The attempt at communicatio... ... of your old widows in soli- tary lodgings!” Rachel considered. “Are you a Liberal or are you a Conservative?” she asked. “I call myself a Conservativ... ...en pasture lands, where none but natives had ever trod. Before the dawn of European art he believed that the primitive huntsmen and priests had built ... ...e nodded his head at the tables where a very miscel- laneous collection of Europeans were now engaged in eating, in some cases in gnawing, the stringy... ...d blue eyes now shallow and watery, the bloom of the cheeks congealed to a network of dry red canals. 253 Virginia Woolf Helen turned to her. “Did yo...

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...ey urged, therefore, that, with- out direct allusion to the manners of the Eastern tribes, and to the romantic conflicts of the period, the title of a... ...did I labour under the incapacity of ignorance—in which, as far as regards Eastern manners, I was as thickly wrapped as an Egyptian in his fog—but my ... ...nd Saladin, on the other hand, displayed the deep policy and prudence of a European sovereign, whilst each contended which should excel the other in t... ...o have suffered less from fatigue than the charger 24 The Talisman of the European knight. The sweat hung still clammy on the limbs of the latter, wh... ...ng Roman chiefs of old, the Scottish would admit no superiority, and their southern neighbours would brook no equality. There were charges and recrimi... ... fortune.” “Strange!” again ejaculated De Vaux; “the North vouches for the South—the Scot for the T urk! May I crave of you, Sir Knight, how you becam... ...en him leave to keep the hound, so there is an end of it. Be not, however, liberal of your licenses among those knights adven- turers who have no prin... ... which stood by the bedside, he next drew forth a small silken bag made of network, twisted with silver, the contents of which the bystanders could no... ...ination of the German for the pleasures of the table, and particularly his liberal indulgence in the use of wine. For these, and other personal reason...

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...ics of the rabid sort. He was a fanatical Radical—a So- cialist—or typical Liberal, as they used to call themselves,-of the advanced school. Energetic... ...” said the youngster. “Boscastle, in the old Duchy of Cornwall—it’s in the southwest country beyond the dairy meadows. There is a house there still. I... ...anced up to see whence he came, and beheld through the glassy roof and the network of cables and girders, dim rhyth- mically passing forms like the va... .... The western sky was a pallid bluish green, and Jupiter shone high in the south, before the capitulation was accomplished. Above was a slow insensibl... ...merica, after two hundred years still jealous of New York, London, and the East, had risen almost unanimously two days before at the news of Graham’s ... ...he Pool thereby beneath the very feet of the workers. Faint and dim in the eastward between earth and sky hung the clustering masts of the colossal sh... ...and Asano made him explain. The Chinese spectre had vanished. Chinaman and European were at peace. The twentieth century had discovered with reluctant... ...an was as civilised, more moral, and far more intelligent than the average European serf, and had repeated on a gigantic scale the fraternisation of S...

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... James Coleridge, of Heath’s Court, Ottery St. Mary, Devon, Colonel of the South Devon Vol- unteers. He was the eldest of the numerous family of the R... ...he long vacations were spent some- times with the Judge’s relations in the Eastern counties, some- times with Lady Patteson’s in the West. Landwith Re... ...d in the public examination for the Newcastle scholarship, just before the Easter holidays, and it is a great testimony to a boy’s ability 26 Life of... ...wish you many years of health and happiness, of success and honour in your liberal profession; the duties of which have been and are and I trust ever ... ...k and Anschauungswerk of the Orientals, which is so different from that of Europeans or their language. How hard are the meta- phors of the Bible for ... ...mbers. He threw himself into the work with hearty zeal; he supported every liberal proposal. T o his loyal fidelity and solid common sense is largely ... ... and seriously considered of offering himself to assist in the work in the Southern Hemisphere. He discussed the matter seriously with his friend, Mr.... ...l, in 1826, a sandal-wood trader named Dillon found in the possession of a European, who had lived since 1813 in Ticopia, the silver guard of a sword,... ... each animal. It gives trouble when one wants to break it up, it is such a network of roots; but once out of the ground and the soil clear, and it wil...

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...s on the celi- bacy of the unbeneficed clergy. But when at an election the Liberals had written on his garden fence in large blue letters: This way to... ...e, he had been very angry , and threatened to prosecute the leaders of the Liberal party in Blackstable. He made up his mind now that nothing Josiah G... ...aid, “that’s the place where our blessed Lord was born.” She showed him an Eastern town with flat roofs and cupolas and minarets. In the foreground wa... ...opposite 39 W. Somerset Maugham page. It was a romantic narrative of some East- ern traveller of the thirties, pompous maybe, but fragrant with the e... ...who generally accompanied them on their rambles, had set out for a tour of South Germany . Philip was left a good deal to himself. Hayward sought his ... ...igno- rant and very humble. By the end of August, when Weeks returned from South Germany, Philip was completely under Hayward’s influ- ence. Hayward d... ... with humanity , they seemed to bring an air of mystery. They were clad in European, shabby clothes, their thin great- coats were threadbare, but each... ...an of five- and-forty , with badly dyed hair; she had a yellow face with a network of small red veins all over it, and yellow whites to her pale blue ...

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..., differs not only on different ships, but on the same ship according as her head is to the east or west. In my own experience, the principal differen... ...ternoon he had carried her books home for her. I do not know if this story will be plain to southern readers; but to me it recalls many a school idyll... ...from a diet which was palatable to myself. Words I should have disregarded, or taken with a liberal allowance; but when a man prefers dry biscuit ther... ...n English peasant the conclusion would be tenable. But Mackay had most of the elements of a liberal education. He had skirted metaphysical and mathema... ...s of T yne, and was married to a Scots wife. A fisher- man in the season, he had fished the east coast from Fisherrow to Whitby. When the season was o... ...nutes afterwards I had refused a drink from the propri- etor, and was going on, in my plain European fashion, to refuse a cigar, when Mr. Mitchell ste... ...f stimulating details—vast cities that grow up as by enchantment; the birds, that have gone south in autumn, returning with the spring to find thousan... ...will seem well— and yet, in the air of the forest, this will seem the best—to break all the network bound about your feet by birth and old companionsh... ...erful voice of the public road, the gay, fresh sentiment of the road.’ But out of the great network of ways that binds all life together from the hill...

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...o their party. It was not fair to him to pretend that the atmosphere was a liberal and inquiring one, when the young man who had sat still and dormant... ... militancy of human nature. It was a day under 18 The Soul of a Bishop an east wind, when a steely-blue sky full of colourless light filled a stiff-n... ...and it was an upheaval very different in character from the radicalism and liberalism of the Victorian days. There were not only doubt and denial, but... ...hasized the contrast between that dear England of hedges and homes and the south-west wind in which his imagina- tion lived, and the crude presences o... ...the two species. They haven’t even a common speech between them. One looks east and the other looks west. How can you expect them to agree? Of course ... ...nding preoccupation. He would have liked to discuss with some one else the network of perplexities in which he was entangling himself, and more partic... ...pan had sent that day to China, claim- ing a priority in many matters over European influences they were by no means sure whether it was a wrong or a ... ...“Here is something that goes a little beyond that.” His pointing hand went southward until they saw the Af- ricanders riding down to Windhuk. T wo men... ... saw how unfair it was to them in a light that has only shone plainly upon European life since the great interlude of the armed peace came to an end i...

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...ing to the Elbe, either at Gluckstadt or at Hamburgh, he took shipping for East Friezland: what 18 he could want in East Friezland no man has ever di... ... In a note on this passage, a reference is made to Fryer’s T ravels to the East Indies, 1672, who speaks of “that enervating liquor called _Paunch_, (... ...seur is more refined in his taste; and from our art, as from all the other liberal arts when thoroughly cultivated, the result is—to improve and to hu... ...e A ine A ine A ine A ine Ar r r r rts ts ts ts ts DOCTOR NORTH: You are a liberal man: liberal in the true classical sense, not in the slang sense of... ...degree to disturb the deep solitude of the region; many enough to spread a network or awning of Christian sanctity over what else might have seemed a ... ... a conjuror’s leger-de-main, such as may be seen every day for a shilling. Southey’s “Joan of Arc” was published in 1796. T wenty years after, talking... ...y’s “Joan of Arc” was published in 1796. T wenty years after, talking with Southey, I was surprised to find him still owning a secret bias in favor of... ...y odd remark upon Thomas à Kempis: which is, that a man of any conceivable European blood—a Finlander, sup- pose, or a Zantiote—might have written Tom... ...The English corresponding term is luncheon: but how meagre a shadow is the European meal to its glowing Asiatic cousin! Still, gloriously as tiffin sh...

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...-bitten iris leaves and then the sea, greatly wrinkled and astir under the south- west wind. There is a boat going out which I think may be Jim Pain’s... ...lar relation to the world of fact. For the rough purposes of every day the network picture will do, but the finer your purpose the less it will serve,... ...ugh at it as absurd. If one sits on a popular evening in that long room at South Kensington which contains Raphael’s cartoons, one remarks that perhap... ...ngs the thing quite within the his- torical period. There is not a western European palaeolithic or neolithic relic that is not a family relic for eve... ...nto those regions that are now Russia, about the time of Pericles, to link east and west in that matter; one Tartar chieftain in the Steppes may have ... ...ppes may have given a daughter to a Ro- man soldier and sent his grandsons east and west to interlace the branches of every family tree in the world. ... ...f Western Europe, but that we are legitimately entitled to call upon extra European peoples to join with us in that attitude of filiation to the Catho... ... but con- forming clergy. Now this was all very well for the Individualist Liberal of the Early Victorian period, but Individualist Liberalism was a m... ...r those whom accident or scruples do not debar. I do not think your modern liberal thinkers quite appreciate the finer aspects of this, the one univer...

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...window-shutters to reveal the dusty sun-glare and blaz- ing colours of the East; Mr. Barrie had demonstrated what could be done in a little space thro... ...’s mother, the milliner, and William had made a party to the Art Museum at South Kensington, I think. Anyhow, Jane had calmly but firmly accosted them... ...e through the sky- light. The patch of stars he saw was in Sagittarius and south- eastward; the door was north—or was it north by west? He tried to th... ...gh the sky- light. The patch of stars he saw was in Sagittarius and south- eastward; the door was north—or was it north by west? He tried to think. If... ... hours’ work just on account of a centipede. I hit him about rather.” * No European is known to have seen a live Æpyornis, with the doubtful exception... ...e forehead, as if his brain had been twisted round in the reverse way to a European’s. He was short of stature and still shorter of En- glish. In conv... ...usual way I was taking, for commonly I used to cut through the intervening network of back streets. I turned into Uni- versity Street, to discover tha... ...hey had the faintest grasp of the idea of compromise, they would simply be liberal churchmen. And, moreover, this memory poisoned his regard for Miss ... ...age of the streaming river, up which the throbbing engines beat. A certain liberal heathen deity, in the shape of a demi-john, held seductive court af...

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...interpreted by the spirit in which I offer it, may express my sense of the liberality manifested throughout this transaction by your honorable house. ... ...Bible, not the little book which, in past times, came next to the Bible in European diffusion and currency, 1 viz., the treatise “De Imitatione Chris... ... his deafness, it matters not a straw whether he belong to a northern or a southern journal. Here is one evil of journal writing—viz., its overmasteri... ... myself at all with a reforming journal. And far more, who would have been liberal enough to disregard that objection, naturally lost sight of me when... ...eatedly re- turned to England, and met my mother at watering-places on the south coast of Devonshire, &c. But I, as a younger child, had not been one ... ...ou shall see Lord Cornwallis; for that man who has given peace both to the east and to the west—taming a tiger in the Mysore that hated England as muc... ...rangements of their conspiracy against the existing govern- ment, but that network of organization, delicate as lace for ladies, and strong as the har... ...tually succeed so far in hoaxing the cabinets of Europe, that one third of European kings put down their names, and gave their aid, as conspirators ag... ...ly from the greater insurrection so recently crushed in the centre and the east. “It is a circum- stance,” says he, “worthy of particular notice, that...

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...o wild water at a remove; and a reddish Northern cheek of curdling pipeing East, at shrilly puffs between the Tower and the Custom House, encountered ... ... of meditation, to direct his gaze off the bridge along the waterway North-eastward without beholding as an eye the glow of whitebait’s bow-window by ... ...ld like to think of the lengthened tide-flux of pedestrian citizens facing South-westward, as being drawn by devout attraction to our nourishing lumin... ... London. ‘You do?’ Fenellan hazarded a guess at having heard en- lightened liberal opinions regarding the sex. ‘Right!’ ‘Many!’ ‘I back you, Mr. Carli... ...t the taint of gambling, a beneficent speculator. The Montgomery colony in South Af- rica, and his dealings with the natives in India, and his Rail- w... ... of furniture, and the practise for the great August Concert. He dealt her liberal en- couragements, up to the verge of Dr. Themison’s latest hummed w... ...red Dr. Themison’s ear with the narrative of his momentous expedi- tion of European Emissaries, to plead the cause of their sev- eral languages at the... ...for the adoption of the language it may choose among the fore- most famous European tongues. Japan becomes the word for miraculous transformations of ... ... one;—I am the chief person to deceive. If only he had waited! We are in a network of intrigues and schemes, every artifice in London—tempting one to ...

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...CHAPTER I JUST AFTER PASSING Caraher’s saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ranch from that of Lo... ... Tulare County, all the vast reaches of the San Joaquin Valley—in fact all South Central Califor- nia, was bone dry, parched, and baked and crisped af... ...ey from the Coast Range in the west to the foothills of the Sierras in the east. As Presley drew near to the point where what was known as the Lower R... ... years old, and had graduated and post-graduated with high honours from an Eastern college, where he had devoted himself to a pas- sionate study of li... ...be gone a year, but returned at the end of six weeks, fulminating abuse of European cooking. Nearly his entire time had been spent in Paris; but of th... ...ra and Propo,” remarked Harran. “We’ve got our best results with that, and European millers like it to mix with the Eastern wheats that have more glut... ...een. The whole map was gridironed by a 225 Frank Norris vast, complicated network of red lines marked P. and S. W. R. R. These centralised at San Fra... ...u know we approached Mr. Shelgrim for a donation to help along. Oh, such a liberal patron, a real Lorenzo di’ Medici. In the name of the Pacific and S... ...rom the magazines in which they had first appeared. Presley had received a liberal offer for the publication of these verses in book form. “The Toiler...

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...irl controlled his look. “You see, Mercedes,” said the young man, “here is Easter come round again; tell me, is this the moment for a wedding?” “I hav... ... MORNING’S SUN rose clear and resplendent, touching the foamy waves into a network of ruby-tinted light. The feast had been made ready on the second f... ...side and dainty morsel within, the clovis, esteemed by the epicures of the South as more than rivalling the exquisite flavor of the oyster, — all the ... ...the violent and vindictive passions that then agitated each dweller of the South, where unhappily, for five centuries religious strife had long given ... ...nd had also picked up a little of the Romaic dialect during voyages to the East; and by the aid of these two languages he easily comprehended the cons... ...ceeded to make his final adieus on board The Young Amelia, distributing so liberal a gratuity among her crew as to secure for him the good wishes of a... ..., and I will en- deavor to repay you, as far as lies in my power, for your liberal hospitality displayed to me at Monte Cristo.” “I should avail mysel... ...sufferer. Ah,” added the count, in a contemptuous tone, “do not tell me of European punishments, they are in the infancy, or rather the old age, of cr... ...oes its honors with the most consummate grace, and thus their fetes have a European celebrity. Franz and Albert had brought to Rome letters of introdu...

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.... T o the same result, it will be found, tended the vast stream of Cæsar’s liberalities. From the sena- tor downwards to the lowest fæx Romuli, he had... ...ractice familiar to those times; that when a congiary or any other popular liberality was announced, multitudes were enfranchised by avaricious mas- t... ...te Asiatic) sat looking down upon the bravest of men, (Thracians, or other Europeans,) mangling each other for his recreation. When, lastly, from such... ...e constructed a sort of bed or sofa—protected from insects by an awning of network com- posed of lilies, delicately fabricated into the proper meshes,... ...vered, we mean—to ourselves of the western climates; since as respects the eastern quarters of Asia, doubtless America was known there familiarly enou... ...oment of great public embarrassment. The Goths were now beginning to press southwards upon the empire. Dacia they had ravaged for some time; “and here... ...ey Æmilianus. The new emperor offered to secure the frontiers, both in the east and on the Danube, from the incursions of the barbarians. This offer m... ... structure of society in the age or the country assigned. For instance, in Southey’s Don Roderick there is a cast of sentiment in the Gothic king’s re...

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...tions were conceded to En gland at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five and twentieth blessed birthday, of... ...youthful occasion of his renouncing by proxy the works of darkness, in the easterly parish church of Hounsditch, he had received the added appellation... ... parish like stray paupers without a settlement; and there was many a good south wall, not far off, on which the peaches ripened in their season. The ... ...rgraduates as a sort of tolerated smuggler who drove a contraband trade in European lan guages, instead of conveying Greek and Latin through the Cust... ...rocessions, one ever tending westward with the sun, the other ever tending eastward from the sun, both ever tending to the plains beyond the range of ... ...t, on one knee behind them, with his agitated hand always gliding over the network of fine nerves about his mouth and nose; Defarge standing between t... ...me quickest. Again: T ellson’ s was a munificent house, and extended great liberality to old customers who had fallen from their high estate. Again: t... ... and choke him for half a guinea;” Mr. Cruncher dwelt upon this as quite a liberal offer; “or I’ll out and announce him.” “Humph! I see one thing,” sa...

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... should have been written on purpose if necessary. She would not have been liberal; a courtesan is essentially monarchical. Oh, what a loss! She ought... ...ns have laid dark smears on those fine forms, when grief had furrowed that network of delicate veins. Esther’s nationality proclaimed it- self in this... ...actory lamb, just as, after eighteen centuries of exile, the spirit of the East shone in Esther’s eyes and features. Her look had no terrible fascinat... ...hite scharf, a vhite feil—a face just out of de Biple. Eyes like Feuer, an Eastern color—” “You were dreaming,” said Lucien, with a smile. “Dat is tru... ...e Braganzas—were the only family who afterwards never disowned him and his liberality. When the Faubourg Saint-Germain remembered this as a crime agai... ...les, the only possession of his family, which was highly respectable, this Southerner’s name was Peyrade. He belonged, in fact, to the younger branch ... ... the coarse desire to “get on,” which brings so many men to Paris from the south as soon as they understand that their father’s property can never sup... ...ouquetiere’s shop window, and the choice prod- ucts displayed by Chevet of European fame—the only pur- veyor who can vie with the Rocher de Cancale in...

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...struck him more forcibly from its being totally different from that of the southern countries in which D’Artagnan had hitherto resided. She was pale a... ...filling two glasses with the Beaugency wine which he had obtained from the liberality of M. Bonacieux. “That will do me great honor,” said the leader ... ...to pay?” demanded D’Artagnan. “Everything is paid,” replied the host, “and liberally. Be- gone, and may God guide you!” “Amen!” cried the young man, a... ...ening?” “Yes, just before you came.” “My dear Athos, we are enveloped in a network of spies. And do you believe he knew you again, Kitty?” “I pulled d... ...e north of the city, between Leu and Dompierre; the Duc d’angouleme on the east, from Dompierre to Perigny; and M. de Schomberg on the south, from Per... ...gouleme on the east, from Dompierre to Perigny; and M. de Schomberg on the south, from Perigny to Angoutin. The quarters of Monsieur were at Dompierre... ...ns. When he compared the public crimes of this minister— startling crimes, European crimes, if so we may say—with the private and unknown crimes with ...

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...te caps upon the water, and the iris and tama- risk are all asway with the south-west wind that was also blowing yesterday. M. Blériot has done very w... ...ST FLIGHT MY FIRST FLIGHT MY FIRST FLIGHT MY FIRST FLIGHT MY FIRST FLIGHT (EASTBOURNE, (EASTBOURNE, (EASTBOURNE, (EASTBOURNE, (EASTBOURNE, A A A A Aug... ...s of evolution by way of a start.... The waterplane in which I soared over Eastbourne this morning with Mr. Grahame-White was as steady as a mo- tor-c... ...f thousands of prosperous Americans to summer in Europe. Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equ... ...ts wholly or partially across the frontier. In every locality of a Western European country countless people are found delocalised, uninterested in th... ..., unhampered thought through every department of the national life, a King liberal without laxity and patriotic without pettiness or vul- garity. Such... ...hods and traditions is leading us towards grave dangers, intensi- fies. In South Africa the Boers taught us in blood and bitter- ness the obvious fact... ... war of which there is any manifest probabil- ity. Western Europe is now a network of railways, tramways, high roads, wires of all sorts; its chief be... ... over- values the commonplace virtues of mediocre men. One of the greatest Liberal statesmen in the time of Queen Victoria never held office because h...

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..., and distinguished among the Miusovs as a man of enlightened ideas and of European culture, who had been in the capitals and abroad. Towards the end ... ...d been in the capitals and abroad. Towards the end of his life he became a Liberal of the type common in the forties and fifties. In the course of his... ...In the course of his career he had come into contact with many of the most Liberal men of his ep- och, both in Russia and abroad. He had known Proudho... ...in our town. Three or four years after his wife’s death he had gone to the south of Russia and finally turned up in Odessa, where he spent several yea... ...t more than a hundred years old in our monasteries, though in the orthodox East, especially in Sinai and Athos, it has existed over a thousand years. ... ...ook Russia— the Tartars, civil war, the interruption of relations with the East after the destruction of Constantinople—this institu- tion fell into o... ...looked at least ten years older. His face was very thin and covered with a network of fine wrinkles, particularly nu- merous about his eyes, which wer... ..., and even that under control and this will be so everywhere in all modern European countries. But Russian hopes and conceptions de- mand not that the...

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...e we shall be landed back in the dark ages. But talking of books, there is Southey’s `Peninsular War.’ I am reading that of a morning. Y ou know South... ...large; but really life could never have gone on at any period but for this liberal allowance of conclusions, which has facilitated marriage under the ... ...e’s husband having a large eccle- siastical income was one thing—to make a Liberal speech was another thing; and it is a narrow mind which cannot look... ...rk, with a fine old oak here and there, and an avenue of limes towards the southwest front, with a sunk fence between park and plea- sure-ground, so t... ...r the setting sun. This was the happy side of the house, for the south and east looked rather melancholy even under the brightest morning. The grounds... ...d vase below, had no oppression for her, and seemed more cheerful than the easts and pictures at the Grange, which her uncle had long ago brought home... ...is sequence to Bichat’s work, already vibrating along many currents of the European mind, Lydgate was enamoured; he longed to demonstrate the more int... ...at cleverness was—what was the shape into which it had run as into a close network aloof and independent. No one quicker than Rosamond to see causes a...

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..., and distinguished among the Miusovs as a man of enlightened ideas and of European culture, who had been in the capitals and abroad. Towards the end ... ...d been in the capitals and abroad. Towards the end of his life he became a Liberal of the type common in the forties and fifties. In the course of his... ...In the course of his career he had come into contact with many of the most Liberal men of his ep- och, both in Russia and abroad. He had known Proudho... ...in our town. Three or four years after his wife’s death he had gone to the south of Russia and finally turned up in Odessa, where he spent several yea... ...t more than a hundred years old in our monasteries, though in the orthodox East, especially in Sinai and Athos, it has existed over a thousand years. ... ...ook Russia— the Tartars, civil war, the interruption of relations with the East after the destruction of Constantinople—this institu- tion fell into o... ...looked at least ten years older. His face was very thin and covered with a network of fine wrinkles, particularly nu- merous about his eyes, which wer... ..., and even that under control and this will be so everywhere in all modern European countries. But Russian hopes and conceptions de- mand not that the... ...ee years fifteen centuries ago. He came down to the ‘hot pavements’ of the southern town in which on the day before almost a hundred heretics had, ad ...

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... I Take My Pen in Hand?...........................................141 To the East and to the West...............141 Leaves of Grass –Whitman 3 Somet... ............381 This Compost....................................382 To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire.384 Unnamed Land.................................... ......................480 To a Locomotive in Winter................484 O Magnet South................................485 All Is Truth....................... ...? We dwell a while in every city and town, We pass through Kanada, the North east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States, Leaves... ... through Kanada, the North east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 19 We confer on equal terms w... ...re with dimes on the eyes walking, To feed the greed of the belly the brains liberally spooning, Tickets buying, taking, selling, but in to the feast ... ...fice and Mizra edifice, The Roman lictors preceding the consuls, The antique European warrior with his axe in combat, The uplifted arm, the clatter of... ... TO A C OMMON P ROSTITUTE Be composed—be at ease with me—I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude y... ...thou not God’s purpose from the first? The earth to be spann’d, connected by network, The races, neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage, The oce...

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...me the military headquarters for the queen in 1644, when marching from the eastern coast of England to join the king in Oxford; and one such special v... ... be the central one of England, as regards the roads between the north and south; and Birmingham has long been the great central axis, 9 in which all ... ...careless plenty, and saw noth- ing in his father’s house but that style of liberal house-keep- ing, which has ever distinguished the upper yeomanry an... ...try of England. Probable enough it is, that the resources for meeting this liberality were not strictly com- mensurate with the family income, but wer... ...some share in a theatre; in 1596 he had a considerable share. Through Lord Southampton, 48 Biographical Essays as a surviving friend of Lord Essex, w... ...r one or two roads, and so far dis- turbs this decussation, by shifting it eastwards, is still in Warwickshire. NO NO NO NO NOTE 10. TE 10. TE 10. TE ... ...uinas, wasted by scholastic vigils, the affection of sleep seemed rather a network of aerial gossamer than of earthly cobweb—more like a golden haze f... ...country produced; and he, like Luther and Kepler, impresses us rather as a European than as a German mind, partly perhaps from his having pursued his ...

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... discover that they were to be found, and have been favoured with the most liberal com- munications by his friends; I flatter myself that few biograph... ...xertion he did more than any one else. His favourites used to receive very liberal assistance from him; and such was the submission and deference with... ...oster-row, booksellers; Mr. Strahan, the printer; the Earl of Orrery, Lord Southwell, Mr. Garrick.’ 82 Boswell’s Life of Johnson Many are, no doubt, ... ...ve it me; till at last in 1781, when we were on a visit at Mr. Dilly’s, at Southill in Bedfordshire, he was pleased to dic- tate it to me from memory.... ... at once answered, ‘Igno- rance, madam, pure ignorance.’ His definition of Network* has been often quoted with sport- ive malignity, as obscuring a th... ...straction; viz. New-year’s- day, the day of his wife’s death, Good Friday, Easter-day, and his own birth-day. He this year says:—’I have now spent fif... ...to be imputed to a sick man as a crime. In his retrospect on the following Easter-Eve, he says, ‘When I review the last year, I am able to recollect s... ...im a saying which somebody had related of an American savage, who, when an European was expatiating on all the advantages of money, put this question:...

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...understand—Tolstoy’s too... a si- multaneous expedition.... But what’s the southern army to do? Prussia is neutral... I know that. What about Aus- tri... ... many years, could know and discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent European military and political events. “Y ou think I’m an old man and don’... ... snaffle bridle over the horse’s head. It was evident that the ca- det was liberal with his tips and that it paid to serve him. Rostov patted the hors... ... sat Count Langeron who, with a subtle smile that never left his typically southern French face during the whole time of the reading, gazed at his del... ... political thermometer to the company that evening was this: “Whatever the European sovereigns and command- ers may do to countenance Bonaparte, and t... ... from the Council of State down to the district tribunals. Now those vague liberal dreams with which the Emperor Alexander had ascended the throne, an... ...sit down on the bed on which he lay. I made the sign of the Knights of the East and of Jerusalem, and he responded in the same manner, ask- ing me wit... ...fway lay some snow-covered piles of fire- wood and across and along them a network of shadows from the bare old lime trees fell on the snow and on the... ...ight either for or against Austria. Our political interests are all in the East, and in regard to Bonaparte the only thing is to have an armed frontie...