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...t -- The Polos attached to the Royal Court -- Marco is educated for the Khan's service -- Appointed governor of Yunnan when only twenty -- Denial of r... ...to judgment -- Illusions of the desert -- Whispering fiends -- Strange funeral customs -- A surprisingly degrading practice -- Travellers permitted to... ... Objection to Buccaneer government -- Henry Morgan the sea bandit -- His first service, when a boy, as servant to the Buccaneer commander -- A man of ... ... -- Capture of the Spanish fortress 297- 306 CHAPTER XXVIII. Rewards fixed for services and for injuries. -- An expedition up Chagres River -- 1200 me... ...ics of the natives of Utopia -- Among the New Guineans -- Their appearance and customs -- A fight with the natives -- The timidity of Tasman prevents ... ...and Booton -- Among the people of Java -- Description of the natives and their customs -- The return trip from Java to England 367- 373 CHAPTER XXXV. ... ...age, the Vega, was manned by two officers and seventeen men, volunteers of the Swedish navy. It was a staunch whaler of two hundred and ninety-nine to... ...d that progress was almost impossible. In this far off corner of the world the Swedish explorer came near meeting one of his countrymen, a whaler name...

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...a life of new hope and success. All so strange this new country, adapting to customs unknown, spellings so odd and funny, shorthand and typing, too, a... ...issolving, a first marriage ending, but then war - a reprieve, distinguished service, mentioned in dispatches, family honor retrieved. Part of the Bri... ...the call to the front, years of happy fathering cut short, though for active service he's too old and a weak stomach won't stand the rigors of war. Ye... ...tic with friends from school, thrown into the sea, all possessions gone, but Swedish rescuers arrive in time, fishing him from bitterly cold water, fi...

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...of its outlandish subject, the sketch may find readers. It has been a task of difficulty. Speed was essential, or it might come too late to be of any service to a distracted country....

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...of difficulty. Speed was essential, or it might come too late to be of any service to a distracted country. T ruth, in the midst of conflicting rumour... ...all be the less surprised to find Samoan war defaced with some unpalatable customs. The childish destruction of fruit-trees in an enemy’s country crip... ... of proprietors can only be illustrated by examples. We have a girl in our service to whom we had given some finery, that she might wait at table, and... ...t back the boat to be repaired and re- painted by the original owner. Such customs, it might be argued, being double-edged, will ultimately right them... ...man war-flag over Mulinuu; the American consul (in a sudden access of good service) had flown the stars and stripes over Samoan colours; on either sid... ...clause: “and his successor shall be duly elected according to the laws and customs of Samoa.” The right to elect, freely given in one sentence, was su... ...rs in the month. Lieutenant Ulfsparre and Dr. Hagberg (the chief justice’s Swedish friends) drew in the same period one hun- dred and forty and one hu...

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... and to adventure, all conduced to lead the Scots abroad into the military service of countries which were at war with each other. They were distingui... ...lier of honour, in search of his fortune, might, for ex- ample, change his service as he would his shirt, fight, like the doughty Captain Dalgetty, in... ...g chid- den him, did promise to reveale him unto me, as he did after their service. The sergeant being called before me, and ac- cused, did deny his a... ... service to command. It is a name you may have seen in Gallo Belgicus, the Swedish Intelligencer, or, if you read High Dutch, in the Fliegenden Mercoe... ..., sir,” said Lord Menteith, “that you should have continued so long in the Swedish service, than that you should have ultimately withdrawn from it.” “... ...em. I was often obliged to run my head against my old acquain- tances, the Swedish feathers, whilk your honour must con- ceive to be double-pointed st... ...uce strangers among the Celtic tribes, to destroy by degrees their ancient customs and mode of government, and to despoil them of the inheritance of t... ...nd glen in the Highlands, as well as 199 Sir Walter Scott the manners and customs of every tribe. Go therefore to Hay, on the right wing; he has inst...

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...rposes, with no clear purpose but this of still trying to do His Majesty a service, Bouille waits; struggling what he can to keep his district loyal, ... ... all Con- stitutional men run to the same tenor. A solemn National funeral-service, for the Law-defenders slain at Nanci; is said and sung in the Cham... .... With such gradual mild levelling on the one side; as with solemn funeral-service, Cassolettes, Courts-Martial, National thanks,—all that Officiality... ...by the old laws of chivalry, her Knight? He will descend on fire-wings, of Swedish musketry, and deliver her from these foul drag- ons,—if, alas, the ... ...nce? From South to North! For actually it is ‘the common cause of Kings. ’ Swedish Gustav, sworn Knight of the Queen of France, will lead Coalised Arm... ...ss, at all moments! Thoughts are growing; forms of Speech are growing, and Customs and even Costumes; still more visibly are actions and transactions ...

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... officer. The impressions made upon Tolstoy during this pe riod of active service gave vivid reality to the battle scenes in “War and Peace,” and ar... ...ents of his tory, geography, and science. Little leisure remained for the service of Art. The history of Tolstoy as a man of letters forms a separate... ... addition, a medium by which Tolstoy emphasised his abhorrence of military service, and prob ably for this reason its production is absolutely forbid... ...kolaevich had married at an earlier period, while still an official in the Customs. His wife, who belonged to an old noble family, was an orphan, and ... ... had another guest, a Swede. He talked of his work, his people, the latest Swedish novel. Some how, she herself did not know how that terrible fasci ... ...covered his senses he found himself in a small Leo Tolstoy 154 room – the customs office. The dead body of a man, with a thin grizzled beard, an aqui...

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...r many years, gloomy for ever, and broken by continual storms—was now by a Swedish trans- formation all at once bright, genial, heavenly. So sudden an... ...time availed to re-establish the child in conva- lescence. These practical services, and the messages of ma- ternal sympathy repeatedly conveyed from ... ... little contemplating either of these results, Agnes had done a prodigious service to the poor desolate mother by breaking the force of her misery, as... ...e qualification was of more summary importance to us—did us more ‘yeoman’s service’ at a crisis the most awful—than other qualities of greater name an... ... we produced the official paper nominating his son to a small place in the customs,—not yielding much, it was true, in the way of salary, but fortunat... ...s of life they were effectually reclaimed from roving, and from the savage customs connected with so unsettled a life. They gained also in political p... ...y but myself, he immediately gave us a summary account of their habits and customs; and told us by the way, that in the word Algiers, the g ought to b...

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...h his own hand. A lively old teacher of Italian, called Giovinazzi, was of service to him in this work. The old man, moreover, did not sing badly, and... ...e intrusted for a time to some kind friends, who had already offered their services, and sent to a public school. This transition was rather unpleasan... ... without leading us back into past times, and informing us of the manners, customs, and feelings of those early ancestors who were so strangely made p... ...tunatus,” with the whole race down to “The Wandering Jew,” were all at our service, as often as we pre- 55 Goethe ferred the relish of these works to... ...er of time, and preserved with reverence, as a treasure of native laws and customs. The portraits of Frankforters, which existed in great number, were... ...bliging; and, even to the tenacity with which they clung to their peculiar customs, one could not refuse one’s respect. The girls, moreover, were pret... ...Hofrath Pfeil, author of the “Count von P .,” a continuation of Gellert’s “Swedish Countess;” Zachariä, a brother of the poet; and Krebel, editor of g...

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...’s knowledge of the French language, obtained during several years’ heroic service, con- sisted for the most part in “Sar var,” “Sar marche,” and “Dee... ...also a veuve. How pleasantly they talk, of la guerre, of Paris, of the bad service; talk in agreeably modulated voices, lean- ing a little forward to ... ...that great port of the Mediterranean, where one has new colors and strange customs, and where the people sing when they talk. But how extraordinary to... ...e subjects. As I suspected, he had been not always a gendarme. He had seen service among the Arabs. He had always liked languages and had picked up Ar... ...ted as I lay Dutch, Bel- gian, Spanish, Turkish, Arabian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, German, French—and English) at distances varying from 51 e e cumm... ...h us, tell- ing of his father and brother in Mexico, of the people, of the customs; and—when we were in the cour—wrote the entire conjugation of tengo... ...tments of two nations superficially somewhat unrelated—that is, as regards customs and language. I fear Bill didn’t appreciate the intrinsic useful- n...

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...nce, cursorily; not dwelt on with minute near scrutiny. In a word, that no service the Notables could now do were so obliging as, in some handsome man... ...two of them: a bolt for D’Espremenil; a bolt for that busy Goeslard, whose service in the Second Twentieth and ‘strict valuation’ is not forgotten. Su... ...e for him! In these cases, not invitation but com- mand has usually proved serviceable.—The Queen stood, that evening, pensive, in a window, with her ... ...by the old laws of chivalry, her Knight? He will descend on fire-wings, of Swedish musketry, and deliver her from these foul dragons,—if, alas, the as... ...ance? From South to North! For actually it is ‘the common cause of Kings.’ Swedish Gustav, sworn Knight of the Queen of France, 314 The French Revolu... ...ss, at all moments! Thoughts are growing; forms of Speech are growing, and Customs and even Costumes; still more visibly are actions and transactions ... ... were perhaps edifying to remark, on the other side, what a singular thing Customs (in Latin, Mores) are; and how fitly the Virtue, Vir-tus, Manhood o... ...er, one the most authentic products of the Pit you would say, once give it Customs, becomes War, with Laws of War; and is Customary and Moral enough; ...

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...t be prepared to forget many of the things he has learned, and to acquire such customs as are inherent with existence in the new land; he must abandon... ...ame hushed by blissful sucks of raw tallow), was surprised. Though he sold his services to them and agreed to travel even to the never opening ice, he... ... Eppingwell proposed the haz ardous undertaking and made him an offer for his services, he had shaken his head gravely; for it was an unknown journey... ... but he must have come far. He was badly travel worn when he got food from the Swedish missionary on Golovin Bay and asked the way south. We heard of ... ... three even decided to return to their homes by that route when their terms of service had expired, and they began to lay plans forthwith, looking for... ... unknown places. And they were without honor and respect, jeering the old time customs and laughing in the faces of chief and shamans. The League of ...

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...ty to repair a part of the wrong done to the other boy by doing a precious service for this one by undermining his foolish faith in his false gods. He... ...t. But take the case of servant tipping in Europe. You pay the hotel for service; you owe the servants nothing, yet you pay them besides. Doesn’t th... ...haps so. In case you ignored the custom would you get prompt and effective service from the servants? Y.M. Oh, hear yourself talk! Those European serv... ... stakes—with locality to help, of course. Although I am away off here in a Swedish village * and those stakes did not stand till the snow came, I can ... ...law courts; and all about sol diering, and sailoring, and the manners and customs and ways of royal courts and aristocratic society; and likewise acc... ... the law and his fa miliar and accurate acquaintance with the manners and customs and shop talk of lawyers through being for a time the cleark of a ... ...ate knowledge of law, but that he was well acquainted with the manners and customs of members of the Inns of Court and with legal life generally. “Whi...

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...on the yards and held on with all my strength. I could not have been of much service, for I remember having been sick several times before I left the... ...ives, there can be no better place to describe the duties, regulations, and customs of an American merchantman, of which ours was a fair specimen.... .... This chafing gear consists of worming, parcelling, rounding, battens, and service of all kinds—both rope yarns, spun yarn, marline and seizing stuf... ... of it. As I had now become used to the vessel and to my duty, I was of some service - 11 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana on a yard, a... ...ck up a great deal of curious and useful information in seamanship, ship’s customs, foreign countries, etc., from their long yarns and equally long... ...ls every half hour through the night, as at sea. My watchmate was John, the Swedish sailor, and we stood from twelve to two, he walking the larboard ... ...nd getting everything ready for inspection. At eight, the officers of the customs, five in number, - 38 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry D...

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...Mos- cow. The young man had not yet entered either the mili- tary or civil service, as he had only just returned from abroad where he had been educate... ...leav- ing the university and me, his old father, and entering the military service, my dear. And there was a place and everything waiting for him in t... ...never forget what you have done for us.” “I am glad I was able to do you a service, my dear Anna Mikhaylovna,” said Prince V asili, arranging his lace... ...myantsev, the Chan- cellor; Stein, a former Prussian minister; Armfeldt, a Swedish general; Pfuel, the chief author of the plan of campaign; Paulucci,... ...tions for the Emperor personally. To this semicouncil had been invited the Swedish General Armfeldt, Adjutant General W olzogen, Wintzingerode (whom N... ...uted his arguments, others defended them. Young Count Toll objected to the Swedish general’s views more warmly than anyone else, and in the course of ... ...p of the east, (2) that they should abandon all established traditions and customs, and (3) that during their military movement they should have at th... ... by step a group was 644 War & Peace formed of larger dimensions with new customs and tra- ditions, and a man was produced who would stand at the hea...

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...menmaa, the swampy re gion, of which Finland, or Fen land is said to be a Swedish translation,) is at present a Grand Duchy in the north west ern pa... ...nd Lays of the Finnish Nation). In another work edited in 1832, written in Swedish, entitled: Om Finnarues Magiska Medicin (On the Magic Medicine of t... ...neyings and difficulties faithfully in a paper published at Helsingfors in Swedish in 1834. He had the peculiar good luck to meet an old peasant, one ... ... with the Hungarian by Ferdinand Barna, and who, familiar with the habits, customs, and religious no tions of the Finns, has furnished much valuable ... ...soe’er thou willest. Well do I the day remember Where thou didst the eagle service, When thou didst the birds a favor. Thou didst leave the birch tree... ...on streamlet; Some one lives in yonder cottage, That perchance can do thee service.” Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel, Whips his courser to a gallop, Das... ...on streamlet; Some one lives in yonder cottage, That perchance can do thee service.” Wainamoinen, nothing daunted, Whips his racer to a gallop, Dashes... ... the mountain. “Thou must hence acquire new habits, Must forget thy former customs, Mother love must be forsaken, Thou must love thy husband’s mother,... ...st thou utter. “Thou must hence acquire new habits, Must forget thy former customs, Father love must be forsaken, Thou must love thy husband’s father,...