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...n the planet hold. Every family owns an attractive high technology house. Parks and recreation facilities are found throughout the cities. The high i... ...ingaling has gladly joined it. Research is speeding along on Alzheimer’s, Parkinsons, many cancers, diabetes, and a number of other diseases and han... ...ATION CONTROL SINGAPORE’S PROBLEM —“Lee Kuan Yew was the greatest national leader of the last few centuries. In his 31 years as Singapore‟s ... ...e and incomes for more gum chewing. Just look at your country. Would your national debt be less, your stock market higher, your dollar worth more, y... ...ntries, the drop in death rates and the typical high birth rates showed a national growth rate of 3.4% with an additional 1% from immigration . This... ...ction in taxes or that the tax money could be spent for other things like parks and recreation activities, free higher educational opportunities for ... ...overished or unsuccessful male. Successful women, rich countries, dashing heroes all strike terror into the hearts of the great majority of males wh... ...best response to a frustrating situation. A second factor may be that the heroes are rewarded for their violent actions. A third factor is that when... ...t stop the flow of endorphins. Few athletes hold the status of idealistic heroes anymore. It‟s not only their outrageous salaries but also their bad ...

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...Contents LECTURES ON HEROES ............................................................................................................... 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS P...

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...y Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publ... ...the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle, the Penn... ...State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents LECTURES ON HEROES ....................................................................... ... seventy thousand times! Very curious: if one sought for “discrepancies of national taste,” here surely were the most eminent instance of that! We als... ... so far as writing goes, as badly as almost any book ever was! So much for national discrepancies, and the standard of taste. Yet I should say, it was... ... Fifth and the others, which is worth remembering. He calls them a kind of National Epic. Marlborough, you recol- lect, said, he knew no English Histo... ...tful compound-interest. I am not sure but he had better have lost his best park of artillery, or had his best regi- ment drowned in the sea, than shot...

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...Preface: In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names? ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them....

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...H IT IS PROVED that, notwithstanding their names’ ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our r... ... as were rich gave in addition a part of their money; and a vast number of heroes of that gallant period may be cited who would neither have won their... ...d have much greater pleasure in meeting on the field of battle than in the park at Windsor of the corridors of the Louvre—all which, however, will not... ... the foliage of two or three linden trees which formed a group outside the park. There could be no doubt that behind this little window, which threw f... ... thought there was in that cellar one of those famished ogres—the gigantic heroes of popular legends, into whose cavern no- body could force their way... ... they had as yet but partisans; and he, Richelieu—the French minister, the national minister—would be ruined. The king, even while obeying him like a ...

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...itten by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, and created a false sympathy for the vicious and criminal....

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...the injurious influ- ence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, and created a false sympathy for the vic... ...endant, the corporal, were used to travel through the country, seeking for heroes to fill up the gaps in Cutts’s corps,—and for adventures to pass awa... ... in Shrewsbury) were occupied very much in the same manner with Farquhar’s heroes. They roamed from Warwick to Stratford, and from Stratford to Birmin... ...es.’ Which he did in a twinkling, and off we rode. “We did not go into the Park, but turned off and cantered smartly up towards Kilburn; and, when we ... ...mily squabble, in which two or three people are engaged, as well as a vast national dispute, argued on each side by the roaring throats of five hundre...

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...the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, -- the city of the Hague, the capital of the Seven United Pr...

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... People ON THE 20TH OF AUGUST, 1672, the city of the Hague, al- ways so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, wi... ...who insulted or ridiculed him to their hearts’ content, although it must be said that they generally used French refugees for the mouthpiece of their ... ... national pride held him up as the Mithridates of the Republic. The brothers De Witt, therefore, had to strive against a double difficulty, — against ... ...ull of spite and malice, and with no particular plan settled in his mind, was one of the foremost, being paraded about by the Orange party like a hero... ...yden overflowed with schol- ars. In like manner Haarlem was devoted to the gentle pur- suits of peace, — to music and painting, orchards and av- enues... ... and all Haarlem, swelled by her neighbours, was gathered in the beautiful tree-lined streets, determined on this occasion not to waste its applause u...

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... Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham. Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley; here were fought many of the most desperate battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses; and here also flourished in ancient times those bands of...

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...e wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham. Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of W a... ...head of such forces as might 4 Ivanhoe enable him to make a figure in the national convulsions which appeared to be impending. The situation of the i... ...parate people subsequent to the reign of William the Second; yet the great national distinctions betwixt them and their conquerors, the recollection o... ...netrated his breastplate, and inflicted a wound in his side. CHAPTER XIII “Heroes, approach!” Atrides thus aloud, “Stand forth distinguish’d from the ... ...elves from the yoke of the Normans, or at least to elevate themselves into national consequence and independence, during the civil con- vulsions which... ...dmaiden to Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert, after the fashion of patriarchs and heroes of the days of old, who set us in these matters a wholesome example.... ...r; “in our valour only we are not degenerated from our predeces- sors, the heroes of the Cross. But brother Brian came into our Order a moody and disa... ...astle of Coningsburgh, as right was; and thither had I gone, but for Mabel Parkins, who—” “Ay, dead was Athelstane,” said the old man, shaking his hea...

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...f a thing: the Commune (Municipality) of Paris, which is already here; the National Convention, which shall in few weeks be here. The Insurrectionary ... ... lucky!) the Electors shall begin electing Deputies; and so an all-healing National Convention will come to- gether. No marc d’argent, or distinction ... ...ry rendezvous for them; in that void Palace of the Tuileries, now void and National, and not a Palace, but a Caravansera. As for the Spontaneous Commu... ... Royalist turn, will join them- selves; with Stofflets and Charettes; with Heroes and Chouan Smugglers; and the loyal warmth of a simple people, blown... ... lucency of the Nether-fire sort; very different from that of our Bastille Heroes, who shone, disputable by no Friend of Freedom, as in heavenly light... ...ir cruel fate abolished it? Pity only survives. So many excellent souls of heroes sent down to Hades; they themselves given as a prey of dogs and all ... ... Tannery! What, for example, is this that Engineer Chappe is doing, in the Park of Vincennes? In the Park of Vincennes; and onwards, they say, in the ... ...nnot continue. Hast thou considered how Thought is stronger than Artillery-parks, and (were it fifty years after death and martyrdom, or were it two t...

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... short Tom Cobb the general chandler and post office keeper, and long Phil Parkes the ranger, both of whom, infected by the example of their companion... ...lerk very readily as signed to him. ‘A highwayman!’ whispered Tom Cobb to Parkes the ranger. ‘Do you suppose highwaymen don’t dress handsomer than th... ...nger. ‘Do you suppose highwaymen don’t dress handsomer than that?’ replied Parkes. ‘It’s a better business than you think for, Tom, and highwaymen don... ...heir character from those intensely vulgar sentiments which are called the national character. Apart from any natural prepossession in my own favour, ... ...paired to the riverside. Here they were joined by a corporal and four more heroes, of whom two were drunk and daring, and two sober and peni tent, bu... ...h all men knew that if they were successfully effected, there must ensue a national bankruptcy and general ruin. It was said that they meant to throw ... ...the midsummer of the following year, an appeal to the commiseration of the National Assembly of France, which the English minister refused to sanction...

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...n country districts, intrenched in municipal councils, un- der arms in the national guard of every canton in France,— one result of the year 1830, whi... ... the Marquis de Ronquerolles and the Comte de Soulanges, whose castles and parks and villages, seen in the distance from these heights, give the scene... ...e the less beau- tiful for that. At the end of each ha-ha the walls of the park, built of rough-hewn stone, begin. These stones, set in a mortar made ... ...ns of the sandstone, in many a fantastic shape. As you first enter it, the park is gloomy, the walls are hidden by creeping plants and by trees that f... ...with hortensias at their feet. In short, the place is the Invalides of the heroes of horticulture, once the fash- ion and now forgotten, like all othe... ...roes of horticulture, once the fash- ion and now forgotten, like all other heroes. A chimney, with curious copings, which was sending forth great volu... ...s in the air. ‘I’ve the good tobacco, it never shall be thine,’ that’s the national air of the rich man, hey? The peasant will always be the peasant. ... ...on the battle-field ought to teach us that the worst scoundrels may become heroes. But here in this place you are living under exceptional circumstanc... ...olution; the man who gave them possession of the soil and sold to them the national domains. His anointing was saturated with that idea.” “An idea to ...

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...— invaluable fellow—with some Italian workmen, im- ported to work upon the National Central Railway, was at hand, and managed to snatch him away—for t... ...s that ever came to Sulaco with a general cargo before the building of the National Central. He left her on account of some very respect- able friends... ... Señor don Vincente Ribiera, the Dictator of Costaguana, had described the National Central Railway in his great speech at the turning of the first so... ...d it- self, with green young crops, plains, woodland, and gleams of water, park-like, from the blue vapour of the distant sierra to an immense quiveri... ...return by way of the United States through Cali- fornia, visit Yellowstone Park, see Chicago, Niagara, have a look at Canada, perhaps make a short sta... ...Antonia. “I was speaking of a man of that sort,” said Decoud, curtly. “The heroes of the world have been feared and admired. What more could he want?”...

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...em on his return with consid- erable assiduity. He drove his horses in the Park; he dined at the fashionable taverns (for the Oriental Club was not as... ... in the afternoon, he would issue forth to take a drive with nobody in the Park; and then would come back in order to dress again and go and dine with... ...four miles from Queen’s Crawley, and we made our entrance to the baronet’s park in state. There is a fine avenue of a mile long leading to the house, ... ... great chasse a l’aigle; and one of these was a British army, of which two heroes of ours, Cap- tain Dobbin and Captain Osborne, formed a portion. The... ... But as for paying your creditors in full, I might as well hope to pay the National Debt. It is madness, sheer madness, to think of such a thing. Y ou... ... any time since the conclusion of the war, and 636 V anity Fair carry the national Goddem into every city of the Continent. The congregation of hat-b... ...tle Emmy astray as to his worth. But have we not all been misled about our heroes and changed our opinions a hundred times? Emmy, in this happy time, ... ...n the street were already surrounded by per- sons smoking and drinking the national small-beer, the public rooms were in a cloud of smoke, and Mr. Jos...

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...nd hillocks, and Death and Man are at grip for the haul. There we find our nationality, our poetry, no Hebrew com- peting. We do: or there at least we... ...ll the English critics heap their honours on its brave old Simplicity: our national literary flag, which signalizes us while we float, sub- sequently ... .... An unstable London’s no world’s market-place.’ ‘No, no; it’s a niggardly national purse, not the journals,’ Mr. Radnor said. ‘The journals are tradi... ...of the spacious country-house danced him behind a sober demeanour from one park to another; and along beside the drive to view of his townhouse— unbel... ...men; still, the water-wagtail carried it, Skepsey trotted into memo- ries. Heroes conducted up Fame’s temple-steps by ceremo- nious historians, who ar... ...e pardonable foibles of friends cre- ated to amuse their fellows, operatic heroes and heroines, exhibitions of pictures, the sorrows of Crowned Heads,... ...e ‘ll try it herself. It’s a basket of medicine bottles driven to Regent’s Park pretty well every day.’ ‘Ha! Regent’s Park!’ exclaimed Victor, and sho... ... to the front; though it was only a short drive from the house in Regent’s Park; but having shaken-off that house, he had pushed it back into mists, o... ...times when royalty and nobility countenanced the manly art, our nursery of heroes, and there was not the existing unhappy division of classes. He stil...

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...ybrow to his farm. It was three miles and a half alto- gether, through the park and villages and then along the green glades of the Hickleybrow preser... ..., blackbirds, robins, finches, and many more—and in one warm corner of the park some bracken was unrolling, and there was a leaping and rushing of fal... ...an open space in the beechwoods that diversify Lieu- tenant-Colonel Hick’s park, and he was carrying his gun— very fortunately for him a double-barrel... ...ness, his curious general pinkness, and his golden spectacles had become a national possession. Reso- lute young men with large expensive-looking came... ...on, cost of enlarged desks and forms for our already too greatly burthened National Schools. And to get what?—a proletariat of hungry giants. Winds up... .... ‘So it is,’ said Bensington. And in short he proposes the formation of a National Society for the Preservation of the Proper Proportions of Things. ... ...ere some strange and desperate struggles in obscure places. The Food begot heroes in the cause of littleness … And men took such happenings into their...

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...And some day or other (but it will be after our time, thank goodness) Hyde Park Gar- dens will be no better known than the celebrated horticultural ou... ...e next day at the Club, and to compliment Mrs. Crawley in the Ring of Hyde Park with a profound salute of the hat. She and her husband were invited im... ...ine-petticoats, dia- monds, wigs, Louis-Quatorze gimcracks, and old china, park hacks, and splendid high-stepping carriage horses—all the delights of ... ... But as for paying your creditors in full, I might as well hope to pay the National Debt. It is madness, sheer madness, to think of such a thing. Y ou... ...ave invaded Europe any time since the conclusion of the war, and carry the national Goddem into every city of the Continent. The congregation of hat-b... ...tle Emmy astray as to his worth. But have we not all been misled about our heroes and changed our opinions a hundred times? Emmy, in this happy time, ... ...n the street were already surrounded by per- sons smoking and drinking the national small-beer, the public rooms were in a cloud of smoke, and Mr. Jos...

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...hristian science ever adopted. My hobby-horse is a quiet beast, suited for Park riding, or a gentle trot to Putney and back to a snug stable, and plen... ...“Groenenland’s” abrupt demise with grins of satisfaction. It was a sort of national compliment, and cause of agreeable congratulation. “The lubbers!”... ... benighted people among whom they live an opportunity to admire the spirit national. There is the brave honest major, with his wooden leg—the kindest ... ...nd reads prodigiously,—travels, histories, lives of emi- nent worthies and heroes, in his simple way. He is not in the least angry at his want of luck... ...to represent them at Wapping or Portsmouth Point, with each, under its own national signboard and language, its ap- propriate house of call, and your ... ... not charmed to be in this famous neighbourhood, in this land of poets and heroes, of whose history your classical edu- cation ought to have made you ... ...d to fight, are bred out of the same land which begot the philosophers and heroes. But the “Half-way House” is passed by this time, and behold! we are... ...hese great pleasure-grounds. The road winds round the walls; and the outer park, which is likewise planted with trees, and diversified by garden-plots... ...ots and cottages, had more the air of the outbuildings of a homely English park, than of a palace which we must all have imag- ined to be the most sta...

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...h- ter. He reasoned with her; he repeated stories known to him of civilian heroes, and won her assent to the heroical title for their deeds, but it wa... ...h he was impressed by the vibration of her tones when speaking of military heroes, she quitted the table, saying: ‘An argument between one at supper a... ...ted to the sanguine coat. The thrill of her voice in speak- ing of soldier-heroes shot him to the yonder side of a gulf. Not knowing why, for he had n... ..., to tell her of having hired a house in the neighbourhood, looking on the park. She begged to have her for guest, sorrowfully anticipating the refusa... ...his own; so we are certain to agree.’ In rain, snow, sunshine, through the parks and the streets, he was the shadow of Diana, commanding, on the whole... ...riend, Lady Dunstane.’ Mr. Sullivan Smith walked with Redworth through the park to the House of Commons, discoursing of Rails and his excellent old fr... ...ines: he secretly admired a statuesque demeanour with a statue’s eyes. The national approbation of a reserved haughtiness in woman, a tempered disdain... ..., persuasive.’ ‘Does Mr. Dacier agree?’ ‘Not always. He has the inveterate national belief that Celtic blood is childish, and the consequently illogic... ...pocrisy, soundness of moral fi- bre runs throughout the country and is the national integ- rity, which may condone old sins for present service; but w...

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...t the lining laurel from each other’s brows, line manly Britons. The whole park was beginning to be astir and resound with holiday cries. Sir Austin F... ... Half the village of Lobourne was seen trooping through the avenues of the park. Fiddlers and gipsies clamoured at the gates for admission: white smoc... ... AS they could escape, the boys got together into an obscure corner of the park, and there took counsel of their extremity. “Whatever shall we do now?... ...n a realm vaster and more gorgeous than the great Orient, peopled with the heroes that have been. For there is no princely wealth, and no loftiest her... ...dding approaches the house. Why— who shall say? Omens are as impassable as heroes. It may be because in these affairs the fire is thought to be all on... ...to go so cheap, even to a hero. For only mark him when he is petitioned by heroes and heroines to undo what he does so easily! That small archway of D... ... the Royal British Oak has made me thrice conservative. I see now that the national love of a lord is less subservience than a form of self-love; putt... ...ival—a veteran edition of the culinary Doctor! Blind to the Doctor’s great national services, deaf to her wild music, he grasps the intruder, dismembe...

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... and blackened gate, through which they could see, in the midst of a large park, a building constructed in the style of the monasteries of old. “How t... ...ude. The main building, formerly oc- cupied by the monks, faced south. The park seemed to have about forty acres. Near the house lay a succession of g... ...an moved at all. “It is very singular!” said Philippe, as they skirted the park wall. The two friends presently reached a path in the forest which led... ...p equipages, this river would swallow only my poor pontoniers, those fifty heroes who will save the army, but who themselves will be forgotten.” The g... ... of Beresina, to destroy the buttresses of the bridges. One alone of those heroes still lives—or, to speak more correctly, suffers—in a village, total... ...o had shot the mare. It was the only jest made that night which proved the national character. Soon the great number of these poor soldiers wrapped th...

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...k place was magnificently fine. The rond-point is at the en- trance of the park of Gondreville, one of the finest estates in 6 An Historical Mystery ... ... boasts of long avenues of elms, a castle built from designs by Mansart, a park of fifteen hundred acres enclosed by a stone wall, nine large farms, a... ...eville. Since 1789 Michu lived in the hunting lodge at the entrance to the park, built in the reign of Louis XIV ., and called the pavilion of Cinq-Cy... ...hu’s father was then president. The fine domain of Gondreville was sold as national property. The head-keeper, to the horror of many, was present at t... ...e I bought it I was looking for a place to put my money, and I invested in national property as the best security. But it doesn’t suit me to keep an e... ...used of corresponding with the nation’s enemies, and delivered them to the national guards who took them to prison, the crowd shouted, “Now for the Ci... ...him—nothing simpler. Conspirators if defeated are brigands, if successful, heroes; and your perplexity seems to me very natural.” “The matter now is,”... ...ent in spite of the catastrophes which had nerved the man. Like many young heroes, kept virgin in spirit by perpetual peril, he was daunted by the tim...

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...merciful. I submit to any conditions: only let me see her. I will walk the park till morn- ing, but say that an interview shall be granted in the morn... ...ust have feared to cry in it, for his sobs were not loud. On a rise of the park-road where a fir-plantation began, he heard his name called faintly fr... ... only once: ‘Harry Rich- mond’; but he was soon out of hearing, beyond the park, among the hollows that run dipping for miles beside the great highroa... ... monuments, talking in a low tone of British victories, and commending the heroes to my undivided attention. I understood very early that it was my du... ...extreme baldness, a Greenland, untrodden by my Alfred and my Harold. These heroes lived in the circle of 26 The Adventures of Harry Richmond Dipwell,... ...almost the whole of the way back to Dipwell. Women must feel for the lucky heroes who win them, something of what I felt for mine; I kissed his bloody... ...et- mirror in his hand. I thank him from my soul for not culti- vating the national cat’s whisker. None can imagine what I suffer from the oppressive ... ...ncesses in England. ‘Oh! but,’ said she, ‘you are having a—shall I call it—national revenge on them? “I will take one of your princesses,” says you; a... ...ring,’ the squire bawled. ‘La! squire,’ said she, ‘why, don’t you know the National Anthem?’ ‘National Anthem, ma’am! and a fellow, a velvet-tongued— ...