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... uncertain, restless, and advancing as the frontiers of her all-conquering empire. It is false to say, that with Cæsar came the destruction of Roman g... ...te her wild virginity to the state best fitted for the destined “Mother of empires.” Peace, then, rhetoricians, false threnodists of false liberty! ho... ...a few outlying rulers, of unknown names and titles upon the margins of his empire, there were tributary lieutenants and barbarous reguli, the obscure ... ...cts of disdain. But these feudatories could no more break the unity of his empire, which embraced the whole oichomeni;—the total habitable world as th... ...graphy , or recognised by the muse of History—than at this day the British empire on the sea can be brought into question or made conditional, because... ...d; and protected himself from plots only by living in the very centre of a nomadic camp. Six years had passed away in this manner, when a mere acciden...

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...wald. An indepen- dent principality, an infinitesimal member of the German Empire, she played, for several centuries, her part in the discord of Europ... ... continually sounding in the ears of gipsies, and to whose inspiration our nomadic fathers journeyed all their days. The hour, the season, and the sce... ...d that habit of middling actions which we call common sense, resumed their empire; and in that changed mood his eye lighted upon two bright windows on... ...favour with a certain party of wood-merchants from vari- ous states of the empire, who had been drinking together somewhat noisily at the far end of t... ...hether you please or not, within the week. For I hardly fancy the fu- ture empire of Grunewald is yet ripe to go to war with England. I conceive I am ... ...l, with the statesman’s eye. So long as he had a right to inter- fere, the empire that may be was still distant. I have not entered on this course wit...

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...h express and im- plied, was incessant with him; and gave his young life a nomadic character,—which surely, of all the adventitious tendencies that co... ...urse, from Reece at Cowbridge to Trollope in Christ’s, which was passed so nomadically, under ferulas of various color, the boy had, on the whole, sna... ...is individual young radical, with his swift, far-darting brilliancies, and nomadic desultory ways, is of all men the most averse and unfitted. No prof... ... Era, it was clear that only one completely suited Sterling,—the anarchic, nomadic, entirely aerial and unconditional one, called Lit- erature. To thi... ...ended him in them, and loyally marched by his side through the changes and nomadic pilgrimings, of which many were appointed him in his short course. ... ...ress towards it,—we have a cycle of thoughts which was the whole spiritual empire of the wisest Pa- gans, and which might well supply food for the wid... ... of the nineteenth century; but saw not how, except in some German-English empire of the air, he was ever to realize it on those terms. In fact, it be...

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...four- fold fountain at its base. All Roman works and ruins (whether of the empire, the far-off republic, or the still more distant kings) assume a tra... ...f broken rubbish, thrown into the great chasm between our own days and the Empire, 83 Hawthorne merely to fill it up; and, for the better part of two... ...nter and wavering course, in the early morn of Christendom, when the Roman Empire had hardly begun to show symptoms of decline. At that ven- erable di... ...ficed to establish as a kind of system; it is so natural for mankind to be nomadic, that a very little taste of that primitive mode of existence subve... ...esponds to the spell of ruin that has been thrown over the site of ancient empire. He wandered, as it were, and stumbled over the fallen columns, and ... ...surviving through all manner of calamity, ever since the days of the Roman Empire. For a few afternoons of early spring, this mouldy gayety strays int...

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...h nothing in them (not so much as an inkstand) but a model of a theatre before the curtain, where, in the Italian Opera season, tickets at reduced pri... ...l a squalid little trench, with rank grass and a pump in it, lying between the coffee-house and South- square, be wholly given up to cats and rats, an... ... primitive habits, and (convertible terms) the not having much to do, is, the abounding of Love. The Klem species are incapable of the softer emotions...

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...nd active, there is no temptation so great as the opportunity of acquiring empire over the human spirit; nor any idea more seductive to a young man th... ... of locomotion are destined to bring us 215 Hawthorne around again to the nomadic state. You are aware, my dear sir,—you must have observed it in you...

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... He hated digging, and when he was given a bas- ket of stuff to deliver, a nomadic instinct arose irresistibly, it became his pack and he did not seem... ...sh and his last was to see his invention the privilege and monopoly of the Empire. Only— It was there the difficulty began. Mr. Butteridge, it became ... ...e acquisition of the priceless secret of aerial sta- bility by the British Empire. The exact particulars of the simi- larity never came to light, but ... ...ne in which, for all one could tell to the contrary, the key of the future empire of the world resided. And presently, to the great consternation of i... ... T own story, “bringing me Moth- erland the secret that would give her the empire of the world. And what do I get?” He paused. “I am sniffed at by eld... ... of formality and red tape! There are nations that will not fling away the empire of earth in order to slight an un- known man and insult a noble woma...

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...e a girdle. The same remark applies to the He- brew women, who, during the nomadic period of their his- tory, had been accustomed to wear no night-che... ...lace in the Jewish toilette, is evident, from its being ranked, during the nomadic state of the Israelites, as one of the most valuable presents that ... ...ities in the Hebrew dress, had its origin in a circumstance of their early nomadic life. It is usual with the Bedouins to lead the camel, when dispose... ...ned with golden moons, which also decorated the necks of the emirs of that nomadic tribe. These appendages were not used merely by way of or- nament, ... ... and stars, the most natural of all modes of idolatry, and especially to a nomadic people in flat and pathless deserts, without a single way-mark or g... ...ly in Lord Amherst’s progress through the northern provinces of our Indian empire, &c. we read con- tinually of the Khelawt, or robe of state, as a pr... ...arlemagne; with a Sketch, and History of France from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Rise of the Carlovingian Dynasty. By G.P .R. JAMES, Esq. VOL.... ... lived to lay in ruins even his personal interest in this great edifice of empire; and that entirely by his own desperate presumption, precipitance, a... ...but the more proclaim the grandeur of the mind which had reared a colossal empire, that sunk under any powers inferior to his own. If the empire itsel...

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...nter and wavering course, in the early morn of Christendom, when the Roman Empire had hardly begun to show symptoms of decline. At that ven- erable di... ...ficed to establish as a kind of system; it is so natural for mankind to be nomadic, that a very little taste of that primitive mode of existence subve... ...esponds to the spell of ruin that has been thrown over the site of ancient empire. He wandered, as it were, and stumbled over the fallen columns, and ... ...surviving through all manner of calamity, ever since the days of the Roman Empire. For a few afternoons of early spring, this mouldy gayety strays int...

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... for a boy of twelve, to change heavens; to cross the Atlantic, for a man of twenty-four, is hardly to modify his diet. But I was now escaped out of t... ... back of that, the Governor in Papeete issued a decree: All land in the Paumotus must be defined and registered by a certain date. Now, the folk of th... ...pleased to hear as he to tell, as pleased with the story as he with the belief; and, besides, it is entirely needful. For it is scarce possible to exa... ...deed 145 Robert Louis Stevenson from but a few years back. A princess of the reigning house died; was transported to the neighbouring isle of Raiatea... ...he clutch of Tembinok’. And fear of the same Gorgon follows and troubles them at home. Maiana once paid him tribute; he once fell upon and seized Nonu...

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...far altered with the altered habits of Mr Boffin’s life, as that the Roman Empire usually declined in the morning and in the eminently aristocratic fa... ...thing on table showy and gaudy , but with a self-assertingly temporary and nomadic air on the decorations, as boasting that they will be much more sho...

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...his globe about their little affairs, serene in their assur- ance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infu- soria under the microscop... ...details. He thought of all those si- lent, expectant guns, of the suddenly nomadic countryside; he tried to imagine “boilers on stilts” a hundred feet... ...o lurk and watch, to run and 124 The War of the Worlds hide; the fear and empire of man had passed away. But so soon as this strangeness had been rea...

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...ffin slightly disappointed. ‘His name is Decline-And- Fall-Off-The-Rooshan-Empire.’ (Mr Boffin went over these stones slowly and with much caution.) ‘... ..., this is the gentleman that’s a going to decline and fall off the Rooshan Empire.’ ‘And I am sure I hope it’ll do you both good,’ said Mrs Boffin. 5... ...u right in, only something put it out of my head. I think you said Rooshan Empire, sir?’ ‘It is Rooshan; ain’t it, Wegg?’ ‘No, sir. Roman. Roman.’ ‘Wh... ...r 7 MR WEGG LOOKS AFTER HIMSELF SILAS WEGG, BEING on his road to the Roman Empire, ap- proaches it by way of Clerkenwell. The time is early in the eve... ...cended, much pre-occupied in mind by the uncertainties besetting the Roman Empire, and much regret- ting the death of the amiable Pertinax: who only l... ...thing on table showy and gaudy , but with a self-assertingly temporary and nomadic air on the decorations, as boasting that they will be much more sho...

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...Excerpt: The incident recorded in this sketch took place towards the end of the month of November, 1809, the moment when Napoleon?s fugitive empire attained the apogee of its splendor. The trumpet-blasts of Wagram were still sounding an echo in the heart of the Austrian monarchy. Peace was being signed between France and the Coalition. Kings and princes came to pe...

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...he end of the month of November, 1809, the moment when Napoleon’s fugitive empire attained the apogee of its splen- dor. The trumpet-blasts of Wagram ... ...wing-rooms of Paris. Intoxication seemed to have turned the brains of this Empire of a day. All the military, not ex- cepting their chief, reveled lik... ...lisses, and aiguillettes, which so fascinated the fair sex. Hearts were as nomadic as the regiments. Between the first and fifth bulletins from the Gr... ...erhaps all these reasons, which the future historian of the manners of the Empire will no doubt amuse himself by weighing, counted for something in th... ...rance, with an eye to favors to come, the most important personages of the Empire, and even a few princes, were at this hour assembled in the wealthy ... ...iches, challenged the splen- dor of the generals and high officials of the Empire, so re- cently gorged with orders, titles, and honors. These grand b...

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...een attention that it merits, and would at times dismiss the whole British Empire with a puzzled, if reverent, sigh. Not out of them are the shows of ... ... the Tuileries. Peace came—it was all very immense, one had turned into an Empire—but he knew that some quality had vanished for which not all Alsace-... ...cts than do the learned men of England. They collect facts, and facts, and empires of facts. But which of them will rekindle the light within?” To all... ... well 109 EM Forster be proud. No wonder England has become an Em- pire. “Empire!” “I can’t bother over results,” said Margaret, a little sadly. “The... ...ttle sadly. “They are too difficult for me. I can only look at the men. An Empire bores me, so far, but I can appreciate the heroism that builds it up... ...ignity, whereas the modern ownership of movables is reducing us again to a nomadic horde. We are reverting to the civilisation of luggage, and histori... ...d not saved her from the sense of flux. London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilisation which is altering human na- ture so profoundly, and th...

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..., lie folded already in the first man. Ep- och after epoch, camp, kingdom, empire, republic, de- mocracy, are merely the application of his manifold s... ...must sit solidly at home, and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires, but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the gov... ...e two antagonist facts. The geography of Asia and of Africa necessitated a nomadic life. But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or ... ...rth, south, 23 Emerson east, west, to the centre of every province of the empire, making each market-town of Persia, Spain and Britain pervious to th... ...train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his gen... ...rmy, not so good as a peace. It is a gradu- ated, titled, richly appointed empire, quite superfluous when town-meetings are found to answer just as we...

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...ther of Maine or of the Granite State, or the Narragansett Bay State, or the Empire State, Yet sailing to other shores to annex the same, yet welcomin... ... the Greek seaman sailing out of Egina bay. 6 I see the site of the old empire of Assyria, and that of Persia, and that of India, I see the falli... ...e the tumuli of Mongolia, I see the tents of Kalmucks and Baskirs, I see the nomadic tribes with herds of oxen and cows, I see the table lands notch’d... ...you are! You daughter or son of England! You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you Russ in Russia! You dim descended, black, divine soul’d Afri... ...n lands, lands of the Western shore, To the new culminating man, to you, the empire new, You promis’d long, we pledge, we dedicate. You occult deep vo... ...chant copious the islands beyond, thick as stars in the sky, I chant the new empire grander than any before, as in a vision it comes to me, I chant Am...

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...hich could only exist in that fierce fifteenth cen- tury, and in that half-nomadic corner of Europe, when the whole of Southern Russia, deserted by it... ... which he had heard rumours as indistinct as though they had concerned the Empire of China. There he dined, casting proud glances at the other visitor... ...t true geniuses arise at the epoch of brilliancy and power in emperors and empires, but not in the time of monstrous political apparitions and republi...

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... to palace; from the capricious chase to agriculture and stored food; from nomadic life to stable government and concentrated au Mark T wain 61 thor... ...xt one, and so on: the de struction of the republic; the founding of the empire; the breaking up of the empire; the rise of Christianity upon its ru... ...ng is universal and genuine, the consternation is stupefying. The Austrian Empire is being draped with black. Vienna will be a spectacle to see by nex... ...se sane and highly gifted prince, like Rudolph, throw away the crown of an empire and snuff out his own life. All the whole list of desires, predilect...

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................................................................. 20 WILL THE EMPIRE LIVE? ................................................................. ................................................ 151 THE SCHOOLMASTER AND THE EMPIRE ....................................................................... ...ttle inadequate, I thought, as a basis for confidence in the future of the Empire. We have still our Derby Day, of course.... Apart from these patriot... ...tish Coronations is past. What new phase in the life of our nation and our Empire does this tremendous ceremony inaugurate? The question is inevitable... ...rthened indeed, but not overwhelmed, by the gi- gantic responsibilities of Empire, a little relaxed by wealth, and hampered rather than enslaved by a ... ...large areas of thin pasture this agricul- tural community may verge on the nomadic; at another, in proximity to consuming markets, it may present the ... ...the desperate reliefs of war and the invasion of alien localities. And the nomadic and adventurous spirit of man found reliefs and opportunities more ...

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...of gregariousness; but in nineteenth century nations and twentieth century empires the determi- nation of every man to be rich at all costs, and of ev... ...arge allowances for them. To such allowances the ablebodied pauper and his nomadic variant the tramp are equally entitled. Further, the imaginative ma... ...y. And this, the chronicle concludes, shows the great- ness and majesty of empires, and the littleness of the van- quished. Over such battles the peop...