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...Caspian to the Red Sea, was marshalling his forces against the little free states that nestled amid the rocks and gulfs of the Eastern Mediterranean. ... ...mpire was about to launch his countless host against the little cluster of states, the whole of which together would hardly equal one prov- ince of th... ...as held at the Isthmus of Corinth, and attended by depu- ties from all the states of Greece to consider of the best means of defense. The ships of the... ...d marched to battle under the command of one of the con- suls. Many little States or Italian tribes, who had nearly the same customs as Rome, surround... ...ime it is not under the bright Italian sky, but under the grey fogs of the Baltic sea. It is not the stately marble gateway of the Milanese Basilica, ... ...ache de St. Pierre. The City of Palmyra, in Tennessee, one of the Southern States of America, had been occupied by a Federal army. An officer of this ...

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...“Whether it be wise in men to do such actions or no, I am sure it is so in States to honour them.” – Sir Will- iam Temple. T HERE IS ONE STORY of the ... ...rld than these four at that moment. If it was worth thousands to be at the Baltic, I wish a Benthamite arithmetician would calculate how much it was w...

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...hing like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “Whaling V oyage by One Ismael. “Bloody Battle in Affghanistan.” Th... ...pon which Linnaeus would fain have banished the whales from the waters, he states as follows: “On account of their warm bilocular heart, their lungs, ... ...He’s no more afraid than the isle fort at Cattegat, put there to fight the Baltic with storm-lashed guns, on which the sea-salt cakes! 4th Nantucket s... ...ow? Or, to the unread, unsophisticated Protestant of the Middle Ameri- can States, why does the passing mention of a White Friar or a White Nun, evoke... ... majestic Satan thrusting forth his tormented colossal claw from the flame Baltic of Hell. But in gazing at such scenes, it is all in all what mood yo... ...domineering fortresses which guard the entrances to the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and the Propontis. Unlike the Danes, these Orientals do not demand ... ...zed by legisla- tive enactment, was that of Holland. It was decreed by the States-General in A.D. 1695. But though no other nation has ever had any wr... ...the Turk? What India to England? What at last will Mexico be to the United States? All Loose-Fish. What are the Rights of Man and the Liberties of the...

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...hing like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL. “BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN.” Th... ...pon which Linnaeus would fain have banished the whales from the waters, he states as follows: “On account of their warm bilocular heart, their lungs, ... ... He’s no more afraid than the isle fort at Cattegat, put there to fight the Baltic with storm lashed guns, on which the sea salt cakes! 4th Nantucket s... ...snow? Or, to the unread, unsophisticated Protestant of the Middle American States, why does the passing mention of a White Friar or a White Nun, evoke... ...n majestic Satan thrusting forth his tormented colossal claw from the flame Baltic of Hell. But in gazing at such scenes, it is all in all what mood yo... ...mineering fortresses which guard the en trances to the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and the Propontis. Unlike the Danes, these Orientals do not demand ... ...rized by legislative enactment, was that of Holland. It was decreed by the States General in A.D. 1695. But though no other nation has ever had any wr... ...the Turk? What India to England? What at last will Mexico be to the United States? All Loose Fish. What are the Rights of Man and the Liberties of the...

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...ching, leaving still behind Something of which its masters are afraid, States to be curb’d and thoughts to be confined, Conspiracy or Congress... ...es, making history change its tune, Then spur away o’er empires and o’er states, Leaving at last not much besides chronology, Excepting the po... ... finish’d by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage; The future states of both are left to faith, For authors fear description might ... ... Of murmuring Liberty’s wide waves, which blend Their roar even with the Baltic’s — so you be Your father’s son, ‘t is quite enough for me. To... ... mankind’s trump card, To be produced when brought up to the test. The statesman, hero, harlot, lawyer—ward Off each attack, when people are... ...nd Russian, Maintain’d with all the due prevarication With which great states such things are apt to push on; Something about the Baltic’s n... ...h which great states such things are apt to push on; Something about the Baltic’s navigation, Hides, train oil, tallow, and the rights of Thetis...

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...ld Atlantic’s weltering gloom, Earth-clasping seas of North and South, The Baltic with its amber spume, The Caspian with its frozen mouth; The broad P... ...he greatest beggar for his pelf; While noble things in darkness grope, The Statesman’s aim, the Poet’s hope; The Patriot’s impulse gathers fire, And g... ...ire to dicing with the Fates. ‘Now at this time,’ says History, ‘those two States Stood ready their past wrestling to renew. They sharpened arms and s... ...ak and the claw 207 As plain as the land of bread, But Cities and martial States, Whither soon the youth veered his theme, Were impervious barrier-ga... ...ewed his great ideas gone to smoke; His policy confirmed amid the surge Of States and people fretting at his yoke. And lo, the fleet brown-flocked on ... ...ind diversities of masks, For rule of men the choice of bait or goads. The statesman steered the despot to large tasks; The despot drove the statesman...

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...cient times in the towns of Brittany. Most of these towns have fallen from states of splendor never men- tioned by historians, who are always more con... ...tions were as momentous to her simple soul as the fury of revolutions to a statesman. Camille Maupin was Revolution itself in that calm and placid hom... ...nd en- couraging the imagination we end in tears, and sometimes in serious states of illness or disorder. The fancies of women are not the action of t... ..., my friend, it is a soul. When its song replies to certain ideas, certain states of feeling difficult to describe in which a woman sometimes finds he... ...e, which is to touch at Croisic for a cargo of salt on its way back to the Baltic. I shall thus escape the fatigue and the cost of the land jour- ney.... ...rrange the future. They reached Les T ouches in the most delightful of all states of mind, entering by the garden gate, the key of which Calyste had t...

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...ome time the capers were either afraid to take them, or their masters, the States, were afraid they should, and forbade them, lest the plague should b... ... and Portugal, Italy and Barbary, as also Hamburg and all the ports in the Baltic, these were all shy of us a great while, and would not restore trade...

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...esistance. If the unhappy prince gave implicit faith to the professions of statesmen holding such notions, which is implied by his whole conduct. 11 ... ...swork says that he believes he was very familiar with your father, whom he states to have been called Ralph Latimer of Langcote Hall, in Westmoreland;... ... father; ‘and you, who are acquainted with the forms, know that the client states the cause to the agent—the agent to the counsel’— ‘The counsel to th... ...wart could steer through the Pentland Firth though he were as drunk as the Baltic Ocean,’ said Robin Hastie; and instantly tripping downstairs, he spe... ...miss his ears next morning, or be sent to seek them in the Solway. He is a statesman, [A small landed pro- prietor.] though he keeps a public; but, in...

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...ne by their Christian names, and the way that he would catalogue emperors, states- men, and noblemen known to him, with familiar indiffer- ence, as th... ...’am, when a man has his eye on the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic, and the Baltic, and the Black Sea, and half-a-dozen colonies at once, he—you—” “Wel...

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...at held this wine. Why, when the Charming Sally went down in the—‘ ‘In the Baltic Sea, in the dead of night; five-and-twenty minutes past twelve when ... ... dead body was to be seen upon the floating fragments. Log of the Defiance states, that a breeze springing up in the night, the wreck was seen no more...

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...ead the Book........................18 Beginning My Studies.........................18 Beginners............................................19 To the States.......................................19 On Journeys Through the States..........19 To a Certain Cantatrice.......................20 Me Imperturbe....................................20 Savantism...........................

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..............18 Beginners............................................19 To the States.......................................19 On Journeys Through the S... .............................................244 France (the 18th Year of these States) ....................................................246 Year of M... ...Ballad (1854).....................278 Europe (The 72d and 73d Years of These States)...........................................280 A Hand Mirror......... .............290 Offerings...........................................290 To The States (To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad).........291 BOO... ..............413 My Picture Gallery............................414 The Prairie States..............................414 BOOK XXV............................ ...he beautiful bay of Nagasaki land lock’d in its mountains, The spread of the Baltic, Caspian, Bothnia, the British shores, and the bay of Biscay, The ... ...es and nomads, Served the long distant Kelt, served the hardy pirates of the Baltic, Served before any of those the venerable and harmless men of Ethi...

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...apers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued in England. In the States, it has not been thought advisable to reproduce the whole; and the memoir appearing alone, shorn of that other matter which was at once its occasion and its justification, so large an account of a man so little known m...

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...hole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued in England. In the States, it has not been thought advisable to reproduce the whole; and the m... ...t was impossible to take up our buoy. The ELBA recommenced rolling in true Baltic style and towards noon we ran for land. ’27th, Sunday. ‘THIS MORNING...

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...tavus Adolphus. — Swedish Army. — Gustavus Adolphus takes his leave of the States at Stockholm. — Invasion by the Swedes. — Their progress in Germany.... ...by their adhesion, it on the other was indispens- able to their interests. States which hitherto scarcely concerned themselves with one another’s exis... ...een citizen and citizen, and be- tween rulers and subjects, so also entire states were forced by it into new relative positions. Thus, by a strange co... ...he mouth of the Scheldt, and from the banks of the Po to the coasts of the Baltic, devastated whole countries, destroyed harvests, and re- duced towns... ... recog- nize herself as a community of nations; and this intercommunion of states, which originated in the thirty years’ war, may alone be sufficient ... ...cession of the French crown. The Dane crosses the Eider, and the Swede the Baltic, to break the chains which are forged for Germany. It is difficult t... ...d be placed at the head of the confederacy. The kings of the Sound and the Baltic, the natural allies of this circle, would not see with indiffer- enc... ...oland gave weight to the promises of the King of Sweden. The shores of the Baltic were full of the name of Gustavus. But the fame of his rival excited... ...mperor by sea and land. Wismar was taken, and a firm footing gained on the Baltic. Ships were required from Poland and the Hanse towns to carry the wa...

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... SUTTEE T SUTTEE Not many years ago a King died in one of the Rajpoot States. His wives, disregarding the orders of the English against Sutt... .... Six oceans had their will of us To carry all away — Our galley’s in the Baltic, And our boom’s in Mossel Bay! We’ve floundered off the Texel, Awa... ... tell the tale anew Of a hidden sea and a hidden fight, When the Baltic ran from the Northern Light And the Stralsund fought the two. ... ...a stovepipe stuck from a starboard port and the Russian flag at her fore. (Baltic, Stralsund, and Northern Light — oh! they were birds of a feather — ... ...three seal-thieves together!) And at last she came to a sandy cove and the Baltic lay therein, But her men were up with the herding seal to drive and ... ...e Northern Light drove into the bight and the sea-mist drove with her. The Baltic called her men and weighed — she could not choose but run — For a st...

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...s of eternal justice (and recent friendship), does not apply to the United States of America. There, if one may believe the long and helpless indignat... ...ds the introductory chapter of the story which, as the author’s dedication states, has inspired an admirable draughtsman and a skilful dramatist, each... ...ct he seems to depart from his sceptical philosophy. But as an illustrious statesman, now no more, a great prince too, with an ironic mind and a liter... ...nicate him with a big stick. The truth is that the ex- autocrat of all the States does not like rebels against the sullen order of our universe. Make ... ... wisdom and counsel of men who sel- dom reap the reward of gratitude. Many States have been powerful, but, perhaps, none have been truly great—as yet.... ...endencies of the other partner in iniquity. And, be- sides, the way to the Baltic provinces leads over the Niemen and over the Vistula. And now, when ... ...cession of steamers. They went on and on as if in chase of each other, the Baltic trade, the trade of Scandinavia, of Denmark, of Germany, pitching he...

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... Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a stream of ... .... Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the Britis... ...n of the population whose in- terests go beyond the State. Politicians and statesmen, being the last people in the world to notice what is going on in... ... . Wells a contented acquiescence in the rivalry of Germany and the United States for the moral, intellectual and material leader- ship of the world? ... ...alues the commonplace virtues of mediocre men. One of the greatest Liberal statesmen in the time of Queen Victoria never held office because he was as... ... a fleet of Super-Dreadnoughts will be ineffective either in Thibet or the Baltic shallows. All our present stuff, indeed, will be on the scrap-heap t...

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...blic liberty and happiness. The barbarians who came from the shores of the Baltic, and settled in the rest of Europe, brought with them the form 30 L... ...pe, brought with them the form 30 Letters on England of government called States or Parliaments, about which so much noise is made, and which are so ... ...he King of Spain of the treasures of the West Indies; and a third into the Baltic, to prevent the Northern Powers from coming to an engagement. At the...

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...n say that the dwarfed condi- tion of shells in the brackish waters of the Baltic, or dwarfed plants on Alpine summits, or the thicker fur of an anima... ... Compare the sev- eral floras of Great Britain, of France or of the United States, drawn up by different botanists, and see what a surprising number o... ...e trees now growing on the ancient In- dian mounds, in the Southern United States, display the same beautiful diversity and proportion of kinds as in ... ...tinct genera. We see this in the recent extension over parts of the United States of one species of swallow having caused the decrease of another spec... ... yet we hear from an excellent horticulturist, Downing, that in the United States smooth-skinned fruits suffer far more from a beetle, a curculio, tha... ... two varieties of the wolf inhabiting the Catskill Mountains in the United States, one with a light greyhound-like form, which pursues deer, and the o...

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...of men of learn- ing, but upon the public conduct of princes and sovereign states. I have endeavoured, in the fourth book, to explain as fully and dis... ...er part of it. There are in Africa none of those great inlets, such as the Baltic and Adriatic seas in Europe, the Mediterranean and Euxine seas in bo... ...e sea. The navigation of the Danube is of very little use to the different states of Bavaria, Austria, and Hungary, in comparison of what it would be,... ...f the world, I believe, the avarice and injustice of princes and sovereign states, abusing the confidence of their subjects, have by degrees diminishe... ...ir original value. By means of those operations, the princes and sovereign states which per- formed them were enabled, in appearance, to pay their deb... ...al quantities of gold and silver at different times. Princes and sovereign states have frequently fancied that they had a temporary interest to dimini... ... never afforded any before. The woods of Norway , and of the coasts of the Baltic, find a market in many parts of Great Britain, which they could not ... ...ountries, to France, to Holland, and, to the countries which lie round the Baltic and Mediterranean seas. But that part of the capital of Great Britai... ..., and Nor- 601 Adam Smith way, all the countries on the north side of the Baltic, were ex- empted from their exclusive charter. The conduct of those ...

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...ning mud-banks, and another for the navigable canal, and the exit into the Baltic is in C sharp major, pianissimo.” “What do the overhanging warehouse... ...ir scampering herds of deer; of the river and its quaint entrance into the Baltic Sea; of the Oderberge, only three hundred feet high, from which one ... ...at Friedrich Wilhelms Bad, Rugen, where beech-trees hang over the tideless Baltic, and cows may contemplate the brine. Rather unhealthy Mrs. Munt thou... ...ad no intention of telling. Perhaps he could not have told, for his mental states became obscure as soon as he had passed through them. He misliked th...

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... no Vermont, in our business. There’s jest two kind o’ horse in the United States—them ez can an’ will do their work after bein’ properly broke an’ ha... .... Get aboard the Kite, mon, as soon as ye can. I’ve clean forgot there’s a Baltic charter yammerin’ for you at Lon- don. That’ll be your last voyage, ... ...eak that Jewfirm, an’ God be thankit I’ll do it now.’ “The Kite was in the Baltic while the auld man was warkin’ his warks, but I know the assessors v... ... par- ticulars from ours. And do you always stop trains in this way in the States, Mr. Sargent?” “I should if occasion ever arose; but I’ve never had ...

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...cceed each other like the magic-lantern pictures of a doze; and in certain states of dull forlornness Dorothea all her life continued to see the vastn... ...actitioner, having increased Middlemarch practice in that direction. Great statesmen err, and why not small medical men? Mr. Wrench did not neglect se... ...re, snatches of diction which he associated with various points of view or states of mind; and whenever he had a feeling of awe, he was haunted by a s... ... been meditating on the needs of the English people or criticising English states- manship: he would probably have been rambling in Italy sketch- ing ... ... Le- vant, where some of your Middlemarch goods go—and then, again, in the Baltic. The Baltic, now.” Plying among his recollections in this way, Mr. B... ... had a wicked choice of the words it over- took. By the time it said, “The Baltic, now,” the laugh which had been running through the audience became ... ...tinging sense that his lost exordium was coming back to fetch him from the Baltic. “That reminds me,” he went on, thrusting a hand into his side-pocke... ...ade a sort of weather-glass to his vexation and fore- boding. These latter states of mind had one cause amongst others, which he had generously but mi...

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...cceed each other like the magic lantern pictures of a doze; and in certain states of dull forlornness Dorothea all her life continued to see the vastn... ...ti tioner, having increased Middlemarch practice in that direction. Great statesmen err, and why not small medical men? Mr. Wrench did not neglect se... ...re, snatches of diction which he associated with various points of view or states of mind; and whenever he had a feeling of awe, he was haunted by a s... ... been meditating on the needs of the English people or criticising English statesmanship: he would probably have been rambling in Italy sketching plan... ...e Levant, where some of your Middlemarch goods go— and then, again, in the Baltic. The Baltic, now.” Plying among his recollections in this way, Mr. B... ...it had a wicked choice of the words it overtook. By the time it said, “The Baltic, now,” the laugh which had been running through the audience became ... ...tinging sense that his lost exordium was coming back to fetch him from the Baltic. “That reminds me,” he went on, thrusting a hand into his side pocke... ... made a sort of weather glass to his vexation and foreboding. These latter states of mind had one cause amongst others, which he had generously but mi...

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...answer you all at once?” said Prince Andrew. “Besides, in the actions of a states- man one has to distinguish between his acts as a private person, as... ...e conversation again turned on the war, on Bonaparte, and the generals and statesmen of the day. The old prince seemed convinced not only that all the... ...a and mamma are now provided for—I have arranged that rent for them in the Baltic Provinces—and I can live in Peters- burg on my pay, and with her for... ...d Speranski’s famous laugh, and this ringing, high pitched laughter from a statesman made a strange im- pression on him. He entered the dining room. T... ... express his devotion to his monarch except by cruelty. In the organism of states such men are necessary, as wolves are necessary in the organism of n... ...ring not only of nobles but also of the merchant-class—les etats generaux (States-General)—evoked in him a whole se- ries of ideas he had long laid as...

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...t the university. Young Shtcherbatsky went into the navy, was drowned in the Baltic, and Levin’s relations with the Shtcherbatskys, in spite of his fr... ...emarkable man,” said the am bassador’s wife. “My husband says there are few statesmen like him in Europe.” “And my husband tells me just the same, bu... ... friends would never allow me to fight a duel—would never allow the life of a statesman, needed by Russia, to be exposed to danger? Knowing per fectly... .... . ” The conversation passed to the misuse of political power in the United States, but Anna quickly brought it round to another topic, so as to draw... ... afraid of wrecking his negotiation by this, he changed the words) “not as a statesman” (which did not sound ` a propos), “but simply as a man, and a ... ...rowd usu ally does to kill time was done now for the benefit of the Slavonic States. Balls, concerts, dinners, matchboxes, ladies’ dresses, beer, rest...