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...torioj. Nur malrapide, kiel ankaŭ en Britujo, oni ekkomprenas, ke la angla civilizado estas nur negranda parto de la greko- latina civilizado. Certe a... ...ts of E” , 1906; oni disdonis 100.000 e-rojn. En 1907 verkis lernolibron “ American E Book”; 40.000 e-roj estis disdonitaj. Trad. en 1907 la Komunista... ...ngvo. La vorto “Basic” formiĝis el la unuaj literoj de la vortoj “British, American, Scienti c, International, Commercial” . La bazo de la sistemo es... ... 11 okt. 1889. Aŭtoro 93 de la fama lmromano “Ukrazio” (pri la epoko de civil-milito en Ukrainlando 1919) kaj de la teksto por opero “Ferenĝi” , mu... ...a. La ideo de la verko: montri, kiun lokon okupas E inter la Iingvoj de l’ civilizita mondo. Etiopujo. (Afriko.). Laŭ UEA1928 la “unua E-isto estis Ka... ... de la hispana partio, kaj la unua gazeto estis ,E', Revista Mensual Ibero-Americana. Red. Andres Bravo del Bario en Santander marto-okt. 1902 — laŭ B... ...aciaj militrezistantoj starigis la Internacionalon de Kontraŭmilitistoj („ War Resisters' International“) religie kaj politike neŭtralan. Ĝiaj membroj...

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...and time seemed reassuringly cognate. With the memory of that light, white American, Kimberly Debecrois--or something French--pulling away from his gr... ...ully that he began to believe it himself. On canvas, distorting the French-American into an Asian half-breed and a lady of the night, he brought to hi... ...inating, he thought about how each year for his birthday she had fixed her American born, but not raised, angel food cake burnished in icing, and brou... ...an in the same way. "How did you hurt your paw," asked the Laotian "An old war injury," sighed Nawin. "In Thailand?' That sounds a bit peculiar. You a... ...lk about--some type of fight with a guy where you acted like a coward or a civil war in your own home that-" "Hard to explain," interrupted Nawin. "Ok... ...ut--some type of fight with a guy where you acted like a coward or a civil war in your own home that-" "Hard to explain," interrupted Nawin. "Okay, wh... ...will sell my sister at a special discount for you if it doesn't cause more war injuries." These were mere words, flippant wisps of air to fill the vap... ...ld within him once believed would continue forever--had been nothing but a civil war of sadists, should never have been. She, as his new family, had l... ... vile for primitive actions of primate forefathers had led to the present. Civilization and all that was refined was constructed on the backs of those...

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...the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East in 1883, within two or three decades of the American Civil War, the Indian Mutiny and the end of Japan's isolation from the western world. Lucy was one of the most influential journalists of his day and, as Toby M.P., a noted humorist in Punch magazine. His acute power...

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...(New York: George E. Wood, 1850), and Cooper received $100 for it. The story was reprinted a few years later in a similar volume called ?Specimens of American Literature? (New York, 1866). It was published in book form in 1932 in a slipcased edition limited to 450 copies (New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1932) with an introduction by Robert F. Spiller....

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...y was reprinted a few years later in a similar volume called “Specimens of American Literature” (New York, 1866). It was published in book form in 193... ...a supposed Seneca Indian legend, is in fact political satire commenting on American political dema- gogues in general, and in particular on the then (... ...d causes such as aboli- tionism, were leading America towards a disastrous Civil War. Coo- per probably obtained his local lore about Seneca Lake whil... ...es such as aboli- tionism, were leading America towards a disastrous Civil War. Coo- per probably obtained his local lore about Seneca Lake while visi... ...movable attitude. “Oneida?” demanded Fuller, while he doubted if any young war- rior of that half-subdued tribe could retain so completely the air and... ...Swimming Seneca = though I have been unable to discover any genuine Native American origin for this legend, a detailed varia- tion of it can be found ... ...ons, and a mistaken appreciation of the comparative advantages between the civilized condition, and those of a life passed in the forest and on the pr... ...cable efforts to attain an impos- sible perfection, and all the evils of a civil conflict are forgotten or blindly attempted, in order to raise themse...

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...ater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruth- less, self-denying, and self-de... ... to be characteristic. It is generally believed that the Aborigines of the American continent have an Asiatic origin. There are many physical as well ... ...ld do, being compelled to set bounds to fancy by experience; but the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that o... ...aid. They were of hostile tribes, brought together by the influence of the American government; and it is worthy of remark, that a common policy led t... ... mutually exhorted each other to be of use in the event of the chances of war throwing either of the parties into the hands of his enemies. Whatever ... ..., who disappear before the advances, or it might be termed the inroads, of civilization, as the verdure of their native forests falls before the nippi... ...state. Of all the tribes named in these pages, there exist only a few half-civilized be- ings of the Oneidas, on the reservations of their people in N... ...ncidents we shall attempt to relate occurred, during the third year of the war which England and France last waged for the possession of a country tha... ...dle it, not only without fear, but with the ut- most familiarity. A large, civil cocked hat, like those worn by clergymen within the last thirty years...

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...tober 28, 1863. GENERAL JOHN M. SCHOFIELD: There have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three commun... ... like of them ever will be announced or decided. TELEGRAM TO W. H. SEWARD. WAR DEPART- MENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., November 1, 1863. HON. W . H. SEW ARD... ...a House of Representatives which will really support the Government in the war. If the result shall be the election of himself as Speaker, let him se... ... proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so de... ... of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven visions are all who are or shall have been civil or diplomatic officers or agents of the so-called Confederate Governm... ...n duly ratified and carried into execution. It is believed that, so far as American ports and American citizens are concerned, that inhuman and odious... ...ed a minister to that Republic. Incidents occurring in the progress of our civil war have forced upon my attention the uncertain state of internationa... ...Y AND NICHOLS. GENTLEMEN : The number for this month and year of the North American Review was duly received, and for which please accept my thanks. ... .... The world has never had a good definition of the word lib- erty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for lib...

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...this custom or approve it. He leaned over the bulwarks of the Donau as the American passen- gers crossed the plank—the travellers who embark at Southa... ...- session of his post. He was a model character for such a purpose—serious civil ceremonious curious stiff, stuffed 4 Pandora with knowledge and conv... ...d at Southampton were not of the greasy class; they were for the most part American families who had been spending the summer, or a longer period, in ... ... be an aspect to study, like every- thing else. He had known in Dresden an American family in which there were three daughters who used to skate with ... ...ginia. She told Vogelstein that she was always hearing about it during the Civil War, ages before. Little girl as she had been at the time she remembe... ... She told Vogelstein that she was always hearing about it during the Civil War, ages before. Little girl as she had been at the time she remembered al...

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...ves of foreign lands were very numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The... ... word, the deluge of blows began, but before long the surgeon once more inter- fered—for the only reason which ever permits him to inter- fere—and the... ... Go”ttingen, to fight with a Go”ttingen expert; if he is victorious, he will be invited to other colleges, or those colleges will send their experts t... ...only with the white corps, while we were their guests, and keep aloof from the caps of the other colors. Once I wished to examine some of the swords, ... ...bering him in his needs and delivering sun- dry such cargoes into his hands at times when only special providences could have relieved him. He was a d... ... the cause of humanity, and so find a worthy death and a blessed reunion with the brave true heart whose love had more honored him than all his victor... ...er at Allerheiligen and Baden-Baden. She ought to be an Empress, but she may be only a Duchess; it is the way things go in this way.” If one asks a Ge... ... in evening dress. We watered the caravan at the cold stream which rushes down a trough near the end of the village, and soon after- ward left the hau...

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...ob of it, and save it. Lay hold of the proper agencies, and secure all the Americans you can, at once. I do hope, on closer inspection, you will find ... ...poll- books of the Edwardsville precinct, and take the first hundred known American names. Then quietly ascertain how many of them are actually going ... ... other agencies to work which shall compensate for the loss of a good many Americans. Don’t fail to check the stampede at once. Trumbull, I think, wil... ...of the 13th was received some days ago. The fight must go on. The cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one or even one hundred... ...n this principle; and I am misunderstood if it is supposed that I have any war to make upon that principle. Now, what is judge Douglas’s popular sover... ... States. Not only so: I presume he insisted that this was a declaration of war between the free and slave States, that it was the sound- ing to the on... ...ree and slave States, that it was the sound- ing to the onset of continual war between the different States, the slave and free States. This charge, i... ... the nation—in behalf of the present and future of the nation—in behalf of civil and religious liberty for all time to come, most gratefully do I than... ... law upon this subject, ought not all the safe- guards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced, so that a free man be ...

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...ad times in the middle of the seventeenth century, when Englishmen were at war with one another and quiet villages became battlefields. We hear a grea... ...arry ye on a bit further for the Cause.” “You are welcome to a draught for civility’s sake,” said Kenton, making a sign to his sons, who ran off to th... ...ng and they will not hurt Jeph,” said Patience, to whom Jeph was the whole war. “There’s no firing to-day. Maybe they are making it up,” said Steadfas... ...d fellows had burnt the farm and made an end of all of you, but I find ‘em civil enow, and I’m happy to see ’twas all leasing-making.” “It is true, mi... ...of the Parliament soldiers, who were misbehaved to Church ministers though civil enough to women; while these new comers were just 44 Under the Storm... ... see that saddest of all sights, a battlefield at night. A soldier used to war would perhaps have scorned to call this a battle, but it was dreadful e... ...nment in London, he had been trans- ported to the plantations, namely, the American settlements, and had fallen in with friends, who took him to Virgi...

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...this district of coun- 4 The Pioneers try, so far as it is connected with civilized men, is soon told. Otsego, in common with most of the interior of... ...nce of New Y ork, was included in the county of Albany pre- viously to the war of the separation. It then became, in a sub- sequent division of territ... ...ellation grew out of the meetings that were held at his council fires; the war drove off the agent, in common with the other officers of the crown; an... ...the cellars of the authors paternal residence. Soon after the close of the war, Washington, accompanied by many distinguished men, visited the scene o... ...to this the country has continued to flourish. It is a singular feature in American life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of... ...al use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The latter draw a distinction between a sled, or sledge, and a s... ...construction used for temporary purposes in the new countries. Many of the American sleighs are elegant though the use of this mode of conveyance is m... ...es that he felt he could no longer perform. The ministry proffered various civil offices which yielded not only honor but profit; but he declined them... .... There he con- tinued serving his country during the struggle, in various civil capacities, and always with dignity and usefulness. While, however, h...

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...ggled, momentary victor in the greatest of Great Wars, which is the family war. Ted looked at her hope- lessly, then shrieked at Tinka: “For the love ... ...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ... period were somewhat less elaborate than the plans for a general European war. He fretted to Miss McGoun, “What time you going to lunch? Well, make s... ...des? Why do you suppose so many Substantial Citizens jumped right into the war? Think it was all pa- triotism?” Babbitt snorted, “What do you expect? ... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...ld codgers lack the subtlety that you got to have to-day.” This advance in civilization could be carried too far, Babbitt perceived. Noel Ryland, sale... ...Lincoln. At that moment a G. A. R. veteran was dying. He had come from the Civil War straight to a farm which, though it was officially within the cit... ...re-tour among the small towns, and he chuckled, “Awful good to get back to civilization! I certainly been seeing some hick towns! I mean—Course the fo...

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...es. And so it thinks the discovery of anaesthetics the crowning triumph of civilization, and cosiness and innocent amusement, those ideals of the nurs... ... people,” ran his notes, “I was astonished at the reported feats of men in war; I believed they were exaggerated, and that there was a kind of unpre- ... ...ge world of the ancient life, that now recedes and dwindles before our new civilization, that seems fated to shrivel up and pass alto- gether before t... ... talking of Eugenics and the “family”—Benham was almost knocked down by an American trotter driven by Lord Breeze. “Whup there!” said Lord Breeze in a... ...uestrian… .” That night some malignant spirit kept Benham awake, and great American trotters with vast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncon... ...ast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncontrollable, hard-mouthed American trot- ters, pounded over his angry soul. “Prothero,” he said in ha... ...ere lives, fill the world, and the spec- tacle of whole nations, our whole civilization, seems to me to re-echo this planlessness, this indeterminate ... ... These were the days when the strain and extremity of a dangerous colonial war were fresh in people’s minds, when the quality of the public consciousn... ... to unanticipated demands. The conflict of stupidities that had caused the war was overlaid and forgot- ten by a hundred thousand devotions, by countl...

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... told Up York State or in the Carolina hills. Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store,... ...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ...t’s frank- ness, but she agreed with him that in the insane condi- tion of civilization, which made the rearing of citizens more costly and perilous t... ...to franker rebuffs; they were working up to a state of painfully righteous war when they were saved by the coming of food. Though Juanita Haydock was ... ... expect me to spend it here.” “If Mr. Dashaway will kindly tell me how any civilized person can furnish a room out of the mortuary pieces that he call... ...o—lived 181 Sinclair Lewis seven miles out. He was a captain in the Civil War, and knew General Sherman, and they say he was a miner in Nevada right ... ... of virtuousness, and the procession of Decoration Day, when the few Civil War veterans followed Champ Perry, in his rusty forage-cap, along the sprin...

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...It. Encourages them to forget duties and set up preposterous claims. Class war and all that sort of thing. You gentlemen of the clergy don’t quite rea... ...lism may begin with Ruskin and end with Karl Marx. And that from the Class War to the Commune is just one step.” 5 5 5 5 5 From this conversation the ... ...ders. Through the swiftest, tensest week in history Europe cap- sized into war. 6 6 6 6 6 The first effect of the war upon the mind of the bishop, as ... ...and it seemed that France was down, France and the whole fabric of liberal civilization. He emerged from these stunning apprehensions after the Battle... ... reply. What was there for a bishop to object to? There was that admirable American widow, Lady Sunderbund. She was enor- mously rich, she was enthusi... ...us fierceness or- thodoxy would sometimes display. Nowadays atheism can be civil, can be generous; it is orthodoxy that trails a scurril- ous fringe. ... ...ng the sights I suppose like any tourist and being treated with diplomatic civilities for three terrestrial days; and on the other hand there is the t... ...The English were indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world was the “White man’s Bur...

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...on that had yet been made of the gospel of art; it was a kind of aesthetic war-cry. People had endeavoured to sail nearer to “truth” in the cut of the... ...his I had picked up, and also that Mrs. Ambient was charming—my friend the American poet, from whom I had my introduc- tion, had never seen her, his r... ...lied with my privilege long enough, I despatched to him the missive of the American poet. He had already gone out of town; he shrank from the rigour o... ...y as I had recognised himself; he appeared to know by instinct how a young American of critical pretensions, rash youth, would look when much divided ... ...she none the less quickly recov- ered herself, to express the sufficiently civil hope that I didn’t mind having had to walk from the station. I reas- ...

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...r wanting to make her and us presents of whatever we admired, and when she civilly praised Mab, vehemently declaring that she should have just such an... ...him. At home he was sufficient to himself, properly behaved to his father, civil to Richard, un- merciful in ridicule, but merciful in dominion over t... ...t a party; as to the rest— unprofessionals were a mistake! After that, the civil speeches with which Tom would ap- proach the piano only added insult ... ...ow could he suppose that any man could be crazed enough to prefer to be an American citizen, when he might remain a British subject? Repugnance to Ame... ...hate to see it, and to hear people say my roses will surprise the delicate Americans. Fancy, in a shop in London I met an old school-fellow, who was d... ... owns she does not know half so much as Cora!’ This regular declaration of American independence con- founded the two sisters, and made Averil recall ... ...rvid heat of the first commencements of disunion and threatenings of civil war. After the ladies had repaired to their saloon, with its grand ottomans... ...f it were safe to invest money in a country apparently on the eve of civil war? He laughed the idea to scorn. How could the rebel states make war, wit... ... contin- ued, with anxiety that he could not suppress, ‘what is this about war in America?’ ‘Not near Indiana; no fear of that, I trust. But how did y...

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...everages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes. If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be con... ...it seldom paid, and appointed the gover- nor-general and his subordinates, civil and military. But the East India Company has now passed away, leaving... ...see festival. These descendants of the sect of Zoroaster—the most thrifty, civilised, intelligent, and austere of the East Indians, among whom are cou... ...ut beyond Hong Kong, a simple warrant would be of no avail; an extradition war- rant would be necessary, and that would result in delays and obstacles... ...ame into the possession of the English by the T reaty of Nankin, after the war of 1842; and the colonising genius of the English has created upon it a... ... port he found a confused mass of ships of all nations: En- glish, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trad- ing vessels, Japanese and Chinese... ...ss of ships of all nations: En- glish, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trad- ing vessels, Japanese and Chinese junks, sempas, tankas, and ... ... run northward, and would aid us. “Pilot,” said Mr. Fogg, “I must take the American steamer at Yokohama, and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki.” “Why not?” ... ...ond capital of the Japanese Em- pire, and the residence of the Tycoon, the civil Emperor, before the Mikado, the spiritual Emperor, absorbed his of- f...

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...ume picked up outside a second-hand book-shop. It was the life story of an American sea- man written by himself with the assistance of a jour- nalist.... ...os—the “beautiful Antonia.” Whether she is a possible varia- tion of Latin-American girlhood I wouldn’t dare to affirm. But, for me, she is. Always a ... ...earch. The story goes also that within men’s memory two wandering sailors— Americanos, perhaps, but gringos of some sort for certain—talked over a gam... ...hing for the wrongs of down-trodden nations. They listened to his tales of war readily, but seemed to ask themselves what he had got out of it after a... ...s of Don Vincente’s Government—cultured men, men to whom the conditions of civilized busi- ness were not unknown. What concerned him most at the time ... ...ces had given that small adhesion a fortuitous importance. The fortunes of war served him marvellously, and the victory of Rio Seco (after a day of de... ...g) put a seal to his success. At the end he emerged General, Minis- ter of War, and the military head of the Blanco party, although there was nothing ... ...ws that came along was able to expose with force and precision to any mere civilian his titles to a sum of 10,000 dol- lars; the while his hope would ... ...les Gould observed. “Ah, yes! The religion of silver and iron. He’s a very civil man, though he looked awfully solemn when he first saw the Madonna on...

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...and garrisoned their land. (Alas! they died, no doubt through contact with civilisation—one my mother trod on—and their land became a wilderness again... ...n one universal destruction the slow growth of whole days of 13 H G Wells civilised development. I still remember the hatred and dis- gust of these c... ... Cooper and Mayne Reid and illustrated histories; one of the Russo-Turkish war and one of Napier’s expedi- tion to Abyssinia I read from end to end; S... ... and economy which he called variously Science and 26 The New Machiavelli Civilisation, and which, though I do not remember that he ever used that wo... ...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ... admission for us both to the spectacle of volunteer officers fighting the war game in Caxton Hall. We developed a war game of our own at Britten’s ho... ...y. Hatherleigh tried hard to saddle the Semitic race with the less elegant war customs of the Soudan and the northwest frontier of India, and quoted D... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain....