...t occasion. Conceive it! Filmer! Our obscure unwashed Filmer, the Glory of British science! Duchesses crowd upon him, beautiful, bold peeresses say in... ...e could get to the floor whenever he wanted, which was sim- ply to put the British Encyclopaedia (tenth edition) on the top of his open shelves. He ju... ...y that lay through the trees. It was clear to me they didn’t take me for a British citizen, whatever else they thought of me, and for 84 Twelve Stori... .... The truth I dare not tell. I have consulted a number of law-books in the British Museum, and there is not the slightest doubt that I have connived a... ...uth I dare not tell. I have consulted a number of law-books in the British Museum, and there is not the slightest doubt that I have connived at and ab... ...ough pictures and sculpture galleries, immense crowded churches, ruins and museums, Judas trees and prickly pears, wine carts and palaces, they admire...

...or an answer. ‘Yes. Every house without a signal will be fired upon by the British troops. No harm will be done to the others. No harm at all. Those t... ...try at home, as the distinguished gentleman who is now its Minister at the British Court sustains its highest character abroad. I visited both houses ... ...dical College; and the Battle Monument in memory of an engagement with the British at North Point; are the most conspicuous among them. American Notes... ... accommodated, as the spectators usually are, in one of those locomo tive museums of penny wonders; and the ladies being partitioned off by a red cur... ... the great things to be seen there. When I told him of that chamber in the British Museum wherein are preserved household memorials of a race that cea... ...at things to be seen there. When I told him of that chamber in the British Museum wherein are preserved household memorials of a race that ceased to b... ...tever, between the social fea tures of the United States and those of the British Pos sessions in Canada. For this reason, I shall confine my self ...

... not help seeing how small his attainments were beside the American’s, his British pertinacity , his wounded vanity (perhaps they are the same thing),... ...rth while to go back to Barnes for the interval between the closing of the Museum and his meal in an A. B. C. shop, and the time hung heavily on his h... ...th hair - dressers and garcons de cafe; I translate wretched books for the British public, and write articles upon contemptible pictures which de- ser... ...thed himself in a tweed suit and a Trinity Hall tie. He looked grotesquely British. The others were elaborately polite to him, and during the soup the... ...usted the notices he saw a glass door which led into what was apparently a museum, and having still twenty minutes to spare he walked in. It was a col... ...ting on for eleven.” “ We’d better try to find it.” They walked out of the museum into a long, dark corridor, with the walls painted in two shades of ... ... end of the lecture the boy who had spo- ken to Philip in the pathological museum and sat next to him in the theatre suggested that they should go to ... ... would boom. The only thing was to wait patiently . What they wanted was a British reverse to knock things down a bit, and then it might be worth whil... ...o read, he wanted to sit alone and think. He made up his mind to go to the British Mu- seum. Solitude was now his only luxury. Since he had been at Ly...

... minute the father of the family walked in, rattling his seals like a true British merchant. “What’s the matter, Emmy?” says he. “Joseph wants me to s... ...r, to make a little heap for Rebecca. And going to her Papa, that generous British merchant, who had promised to give her as many guineas as she was y... ...et except his own; and it is with grief and pain, that, as admirers of the British aristocracy, we find ourselves obliged to admit the existence of so... ...ng, the fives court, and four-in-hand driving were then the fashion of our British aris- tocracy; and he was an adept in all these noble sciences. And... ...hat he really thought he was one of the most deserv- ing characters in the British army, and gave himself up to be loved with a good deal of easy resi... ...h contained a number of useful and valuable little things—in which private museum she placed the one note which Messrs. Jones and Robinson’s cash- ier... ...of age, twenty-four of which he had passed in the corps, he had a singular museum. He was one of the best shots in England, and, for a heavy man, one ... ...of ancient and modern times and languages. He took the boys to the British Museum and descanted upon the antiquities and the specimens of natural hist... ...of the Gaunt or Regent’s Own Regiment of Militia, a Trustee of the British Museum, an Elder Brother of 673 Thackeray the Trinity House, a Governor of...

...nsider- able action and reaction between the two classical churches of the British soil. Such was the varying condition, when sketched in outline, of ... ... as one section in that general extension of religious machinery which the British people, by their government and their legislature, have for many ye... ...r than France. But, gen- erally speaking, the case may be stated thus: the British na- tion is, by original constitution of mind, and by long enjoy- m... ...on of moment to any future tourist is, what may be the present value, at a British insurance office, of any given life risked upon a tour in Greece? M... ...s captivity, and reserved from slaughter only by the prospect of ransom; a British nobleman’s son from death or the consequences of Italian barbarity;... ...e overgrowth into forms of nature—yet in Athens only is there a great open museum of such monuments. The Athenian buildings, though none of them Homer...

... Ausonii Epistola, xvi. 75 80. 10 Both these publications are in the British Museum, and are placed in the library in cases under glass, for t... ...sonii Epistola, xvi. 75 80. 10 Both these publications are in the British Museum, and are placed in the library in cases under glass, for the in s... ...liam Shepherd. Liverpool. 1801. 14 Professor Theodore Bergh. See Classical Museum, No. viii. July, 1849. 15 Vavassor’s treatise, entitled “De Ludic...

... too. Ho! ho! Onct Dad has a jedgment, he’ d sooner dip his colours to the British than change it. I’m glad it’ s settled right eend up. Dad’ s right ... ... “Wa-al, Enoch Fuller he made a model o’ the old Ohio, and she’ s to Calem museum now . Mighty pretty model, too, but I guess Enoch he never done it f... ... a retired dory full in the front yard and a shuttered parlour which was a museum of oversea plunder. There sat a large woman, silent and grave, with ...

...ed to the westward ‘Beach-la-Mar,’ comes easy to the Polynesian; it is now taught, besides, in the schools 9 Robert Louis Stevenson of Hawaii; and fr... ...urprise. Her Majesty was often recognised, and I have seen French subjects kiss her photograph; Captain Speedy—in an Abyssinian war-dress, supposed to... ... mentioned; and the agents of the farmer blush for their employment. Those that live in glass houses should 53 Robert Louis Stevenson not throw stone... ...ses should 53 Robert Louis Stevenson not throw stones; as a subject of the British crown, I am an unwilling shareholder in the largest opium business... ...ear of the same Gorgon follows and troubles them at home. Maiana once paid him tribute; he once fell upon and seized Nonuti: first steps to the empire... ...is art. To feel, to use his power, to embellish his island and the picture of the island life after a private ideal, to milk the island vigor- ously, ...

... naturalists are acquainted with this spider, though it is a rare one; the British Museum has a specimen, and, doubtless, so have many other scientifi... ...ists are acquainted with this spider, though it is a rare one; the British Museum has a specimen, and, doubtless, so have many other scientific instit... ...his own shape! It were well that our townsmen tarred and feathered the old British wizard!” And, as he got further off, two or three little blackguard... ...ish, and become more American than the Americans themselves in repudiating British prejudices or principles, habits, mode of thought, and everything t... ...migrated to this part of America, then a wilderness, and long afterwards a British colony. He was on ill terms with his family . There is reason to be... ...ed castles, churches, cathedrals, the seats of nobility and gentry; Roman, British, and Saxon remains, painted windows, oak carvings, and so forth. An...

...but more faded; and she had the effi- cient air, as though she carried the British Em- pire in her pocket, which the wives of senior of- ficers acquir... ...g any. I missed a wonderful chance. Most of them have found their way into museums, and the rest are the treasured possessions of wealthy amateurs. I ...

...e on, nothing daunted, proceeded to entertain him with an ordinance of the British Government, regulating the state he should preserve, and the furnit... ...uld gaze upon the favourite comic scene of the travelling English, where a British nobleman (Lord John), with a very loose stomach: dressed in a blue ... ...ladder and this man, something like (I should think) a charge of the heavy British cavalry at W aterloo. The man was never brought down, how ever, no... ...lls in the roofless cham bers of both cities, or carefully removed to the museum at Naples, are as fresh and plain, as if they had been executed yest...

... instead of going straight back to the office to-day, Mary turned into the British Museum, and strolled down the gallery with the shapes of stone unti... ... of going straight back to the office to-day, Mary turned into the British Museum, and strolled down the gallery with the shapes of stone until she fo... ...it, and filled her eyes with brightness. Nevertheless, before she left the Museum she was very far from saying, even in the privacy of her own mind, “... ...the rightness of her own thought as to wish to bring the population of the British Isles into agreement with it. She looked at the lemon-colored leafl... ...ed upon sufficiently intel- lectual grounds. A mistake, in my opinion. The British public likes a pellet of reason in its jam of eloquence—a pill of r... ...atharine in possession of some of the fundamental distinctions between our British trees. She then asked him to inform her about flowers. To her they ... ...ne of her willing, but confronted with wet pavements and only some belated museum or Tube station for shelter, she was forced, for Ralph’s sake, to fa...

...New England port during the war of 1812, she had been captured at sea by a British cruiser, and, after seeing all sorts of service, was at last employ... ... It purported to be, “the affidavit of John Jennin, first of- ficer of the British Colonial Barque Julia; Guy, Master;” and proved to be a long statem... ...eman is being measured for a coat. While we were amusing ourselves in this museum of curi- osities, our conductor plucked us by the sleeve, and whis- ...

...n race have not been ugly, and even among those “lords of their kind,” the British, squat figures, ill-shapen nostrils, and dingy complexions are not ... ...een in comparison with the people round them. Arthur’s was a much commoner British face, and the splendour of his 246 Adam Bede new-fashioned clothes... ... idleness is eager now—eager for amusement; prone to excursion-trains, art museums, peri- odical literature, and exciting novels; prone even to scient...

...made us soldiers of fortune, have the pleas- ant recollection, that in the British service, stop where we may upon our career, it is only for want of ... ...ock, man?” “Really I had never even the pleasure to see one, except in the museum at Keswick.” “There now—I could guess that by your Southland tongue—... ...d in Holland, and I know that this name, however un- couth it may sound in British ears—” Glossin, conscious that the prisoner was now about to en- te... ...s a case pretty 451 Sir Walter Scott much in point; where the keeper of a Museum, while show- ing, as he said, the very sword with which Balaam was a...

..., on the fathers’ and moth- ers’ sides respectively, from have families of British New En- gland and Dutch New York extraction. Whitman and Van Velsor... ...t unaccountable-looking creatures, suggested to me the idea of a pictorial museum of natural history, or an illustrated copy of ‘Goldsmith’s Animated ...

...nsidered actionable, and had expressed her intention of bringing before a British Judy meaning, it was sup- posed, the bulwark of our national liber... ...d he really had been doing something, tend- ing to the annihilation of the British constitution, and the ruin of the country. Often and often we pursu... ...s if he felt himself the principal object of merit in a highly meritorious museum. That we, the neophytes, might have an excess of light shining upon ...

... ask him for two sous? He would listen to you solemnly, and tell you, with British precision that would make a slap in the face seem genial, that he p... ...ranted, of going over the Conciergerie. Just as the sight of an anatomical museum, where foul dis- eases are represented by wax models, makes the yout...

...al health Metric system Military recruiting Minimum wage Motorcycle helmet use Museums Nature conservation New york city Nuclear energy Nudis... ...ered by such institutions as libraries, post offices, YMCAs, chambers of commerce, museums, the Red Cross and so on. Offerings of nonprofit health c... ...on promoting education for Hispanics is called Aspira, Spanish for "aspire," and a museum in San Francisco calls itself The Exploratorium. Criticiz... ... mass transit for visiting several points of interest, centers of performing arts, museums and so on -the possibilities are endless. Energy conserv... ...on trialability and then segmenting the market on the basis of fear appeals. (Some British "Think Before You Drink Before You Drive" commercials pull... ... that separate ideas, goods and services. Ricklef (in Gaedeke 1977) describes how museums run gift shops and conduct festivals celebrating the cult... ... Ill. : Free Press. Pol1ay, Richard W. 1968. " A Model of Family Decision Making." British Journal of Marketirzg 33, 206-16. Pool, Ithiel De Sola, ...

...and drawings have been exhibited in more than 40 one-man shows in leading museums in the U.S. and Mexico. Archives of his work and literary correspo... ...ree hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; the majority will be Parisians and the château ... ...om Italy, I be- lieve; also a red handkerchief and books. Mary gave him a British belt buckle with lion and unicorn, a set of brushes and tubes of p... ...ok of poetry. On my last visit I bought Pope’s Essay on Man. I noticed a British copy bound in morocco. At the Potomac I have acquired some Emerson... ... The White House April 14, 1865 —rain— Mary invited Laura Keene, the British actress, to tea. She is in her forties— rather pretty. Dressed in d... ...nced in she made over him. He took to her, laughing hilari- ously over her British accent as she asked him to solve a riddle. “Say it again, pretty l... ...orty one-man shows in leading galleries, including the Los Angeles County Museum, the Atlanta Art Museum, the Bancroft Library, the Richmond Art Ins... ... Art Museum, the Bancroft Library, the Richmond Art Institute, the Brooks Museum, the Instituto-Mexicano- Norteamericano in Mexico City, and many oth...