...nd lost. My darling son would have been sixteen on Christmas-day next. He was a most amiable and obedient child, early taught the way of salvation. We... ...for Jack. At any rate, Jack did not show in very great force even here, though the house was one to which he much resorts, and where a good deal of mo... ...toes, and some other sensible things, adoption of which at home would inevitably be shown to be fraught with ruin, some- how or other, to that rickety... ...cise, broad-sword exercise, wres- tling, and other such feats. I went in, and some of the sword- play being very skilful, remained. A specimen of our ... ...p- portunity serve. Nothing in shy neighbourhoods perplexes my mind more, than the bad company birds keep. Foreign birds often get Charles Dickens 92... ...g, with a wave of his sleeveless arm towards the window, im- Charles Dickens 184 porting, ‘Entertain yourselves in the meanwhile with the other curio... ...hed entirely in sage-green, from which I infer a defectively educated taste on the part of her respected parents, who were necessarily unacquainted wi... ... cheapness, cleanliness, convenience, or picturesqueness, can compare with the belted blouse. As to our women;—next Easter or Whitsuntide, look at the...

...terms the habit of play-act- ing and fancy dressing as highly unbecoming a British female, and after the charades were over, took his brother Rawdon s... ...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 ... ...d Greek, and a set of super- cilious dogs that pretended to look down upon British mer- chants and gentlemen, who could buy up half a hundred of ‘em. ... ...authors of ancient and modern times and languages. He took the boys to the British Museum and descanted upon the antiquities and the specimens of natu... ...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... ...arl of Bareacres, one of the number—yet I assure you that the board of the British merchant was to the full as richly served, and his reception as gra... ... that magnificent round of beef, and the silver tankard suggestive of real British home-brewed ale and porter, which perennially greet the eyes of the... ...of the Gaunt or Regent’s Own Regiment of Militia, a Trustee of the British Museum, an Elder Brother of the Trinity House, a Governor of the White Fria...

...t has got notice of what is going on; the Spanish Envoy, and of course the British Foreign Sec- retary, and of course also the Thames Police. Armed me... ...r,—his poor followers reduced to extremity of impatience and distress; the British Gov- ernor too, though not unfriendly to him, obliged to frown. As ... ...o anything. The fated, gallant-minded, but too headlong man. At length the British Governor himself was obliged, in official decency and as is thought... ...tter ending. It is said, he offered Torrijos and his people passports, and British protection, to any country of the world except Spain: Torrijos did ... ...d no- ticed them; it was from the Spanish Consul, next morn- ing, that the British Governor first heard they were gone. The British Governor knew noth... ... for the encouragement of the arts in that region; it has its Library, its Museum, some kind of Annual Exhibition withal; gives prizes, publishes repo... ...ries and antiquities, Bay and Mountain, by no means forgetting Art and the Museum: “to Pozzuoli, to Baiae, round the Promontory of Sorrento;”—above al...

...orts of men, from sober traveling mission- aries and deserters flying from British Regiments, to drunken loafers who threw whisky bottles at all who p... ... “You’re another,” and Mister Gladstone is calling down brimstone upon the British Dominions, and the little 59 Rudyard Kipling black copyboys are wh... ... guing with a policeman outside a door marked Private in a corridor of the British Museum. All I demanded, as politely as possible, was “the Greek ant... ...ith a policeman outside a door marked Private in a corridor of the British Museum. All I demanded, as politely as possible, was “the Greek antiquity m... ...e Greek antiquity man.” The policeman knew nothing except the rules of the Museum, and it be- came necessary to forage through all the houses and offi...

...on: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1895. 9. E. T . MASON. Personal T raits of British Authors. New York, 1885. [4 vols. The volume subtitled Scott, Hogg,... ...for shelter? Is a prison the safest retreat? or a lunatic hospital? or the British Museum?” I should have replied, “Oh no; I’ll tell you what to do. T... ...ter? Is a prison the safest retreat? or a lunatic hospital? or the British Museum?” I should have replied, “Oh no; I’ll tell you what to do. Take lodg... ...e it must go undone. The bet- ter men that I meant were the sailors in the British navy, every man of whom mends his own stockings. Who else is to do ... ... of Post- Office conveyance, and of locomotive machinery generally, in the British Islands. The result was a scheme for supersed- ing, on the great ro... ...the great French admiral who in 1780- 1781 inflicted so much loss upon the British. 70 10 MAGNANIMOUS JUSTICE OF ENGLISHMEN: As Professor Hart observe...

...erstand- ing. ‘His ambition is to be curator of something in the Brit- ish Museum, isn’t it?’ Mr. Castleford explained that he meant the other, and my... ...ect of much regret, but I was really sorry to leave our big neighbour, the British Museum, where there were good friends who always made me welcome, a... ...uch regret, but I was really sorry to leave our big neighbour, the British Museum, where there were good friends who always made me welcome, and encou... ...to be my mainstay during this last year. He it was who fetched me from the Museum, took me into the gardens, helped me up and down stairs, spared no p... ...Stafford, who was great in county history, I hunted 39 Yo n g e up in the Museum library all I could discover about our new possession. The Chantry o... ... be packed. A chariot! You young ones have as little notion of one as of a British war-chariot armed with scythes. Y et people of a cer- tain grade we... ...corresponded with Clarence over what now seems so trite; how we viewed the British Critic and T racts for the Times as our oracles, and worried the po... ... drag, for when I could not be with the others, I had old friends, and the museum was as dear to me as ever, in those recesses that had been the parad...

...I have heard since then) the Painted Hill. Well, now it was all painted a bright yellow with our costumes; and the dress of the soldiers who guarded u... ... tool slipped! Yes, I am afraid you may go from one to another, and find a flaw in every- thing. Failures for Sale should be on my signboard. I do not... ...and she made a hasty purchase and re- joined her party. A few days after she came again. But I must first tell you how she came to be so frequent. Her... ... forgot his timidity so far as to put many questions; and at last, with another blush, informed me he was himself expecting a commission. ‘Well,’ said... ...t I was not so ill advised as to give it utterance. Every one should be flattered, but boys and women without stint; and I put in the rest of the afte... ...mpropriety. Doubtless the hen has al- ways a puritanic appearance, although (in its own behaviour) I could never observe it to be more particular than...

...it took me through the mineral and fossil galleries of the Natural History Museum, through the geological draw- ers of the College of Science, through... ...as also to be abandoned in social sci- ence. We cannot put Humanity into a museum or dry it for examination; our one single still living specimen is a... ...od, from that philanthropic admin- istrative socialism one finds among the British ruling and ad- ministrative class. That seems to me to be based on ... ... there are (or were in 1901) 21,436,107 females to 20,172,984 males in our British community seems to condemn our present rigor- ous insistence upon m...

...ds, straggling across fields. Then he caught sight of the regular array of British soldiers, filling the road with their front, and marching along as ... ... perceive. Almost at the same moment a company of 24 Septimius Felton the British soldiers wheeled from the main body, and, dash ing out of the road... ...the main body as to fire upon it. He looked and saw that the detachment of British was plunging down one side of this gap, with intent to as cend the... ... has been shut up in Boston by the siege; perhaps a daughter of one of the British officers, and her health being frail, she requires better air than ... ... as in Doc tor Dee’s magic crystal used to be seen, which now lies in the British Museum; representations, it might be, of things in the far past, or... ...oc tor Dee’s magic crystal used to be seen, which now lies in the British Museum; representations, it might be, of things in the far past, or in the ...

...ated by pre-revolutionary mar- riages to several members of the French and British aristocracy. The Lannings survived only in the person of two very o... ...In New York? But there are no churches … no monu- ments.” “There’s the Art Museum—in the Park,” he explained, as she looked puzzled. “At half-past two... ...dison Avenue, and the time the evening after Newland Archer’s visit to the Museum of Art. Mr. and Mrs. van der Luyden had come to town for a few days ... ...al reception for the inauguration of the new galleries at the Metropolitan Museum, and the spectacle of those great spaces crowded with the spoils of ... ...a long sealskin cloak moved away down the meagrely-fitted vista of the old Museum. The vision had roused a host of other associations, and he sat look... ...stion of starting the first school for crippled children, reorganising the Museum of Art, founding the Grolier Club, inaugurating the new Library, or ...

...al curiosities, and some time or other I believe I shall present it to the British Museum. 5 The Bristol mail is the best appointed in the Kingdom, o... ...sities, and some time or other I believe I shall present it to the British Museum. 5 The Bristol mail is the best appointed in the Kingdom, owing to ...

...ll who know him declare that they have never met, not even in the Egyptian museum at Turin, so agreeable a mummy. In no country in the world did paras... ...her “speeches” something of the so- 62 An Old Maid lemnity with which the British enunciate their patriotic ab- surdities,—the self-conceit of stupid... ...nd the pleasure of an old age is now on exhibition in a species of private museum. If the dead could know what happens after them, the chevalier’s hea...

...nch the talk was all of valour and death, and the magnificent qualities of British admirals. Clarissa quoted one poet, Willoughby quoted another. Life... ...en were imported; children grew. All seemed to favour the expansion of the British Empire, and had there been men like Richard Dalloway in the time of... ...and slipped out by night, bearing within it all that was left of the great British colony, a few men, a few women, and perhaps a dozen dusky children.... ...asio during the past three months, as, for instance, that they had had the British Consul to dinner, and had been taken over a Spanish man-of-war, and... ...,” she continued. “Mouldy old pictures, dirty old books, they stick ‘em in museums when they’re only fit for burnin’ .” “I quite agree,” Helen laughed...

...done.” “It wouldn’t be a bad idea to hand him over to some public body—the British Museum Trustees, or the Royal College of Physicians. Sounds a bit o... ...It wouldn’t be a bad idea to hand him over to some public body—the British Museum Trustees, or the Royal College of Physicians. Sounds a bit odd, of c... ... city. And underneath these wandered the countless flocks and herds of the British Food Trust with their lonely guards and keepers. Not a familiar out... ...d; the whole world dwelt in cities; the whole world was property. Over the British Empire and throughout America his ownership was scarcely disguised,... ...th-west wind. And here and there were patches dotted with the sheep of the British Food T rust, and here and there a mounted shep- herd made a spot of...

...- where in that partially-explored tract of country which lies between the British Museum, and a remote village called Somers-town—for the reception o... ...in that partially-explored tract of country which lies between the British Museum, and a remote village called Somers-town—for the reception of boarde... ...ndulgence for a short 160 Sketches by Boz time—courtesy and kindness of a British audience. ’ Over- whelming applause. Exit Mr. Sempronius Gattleton,...

... might seem dishonor- able in me under my present circumstances. I owe the British Islander six louis, which I lost at cards; don’t fail to pay him— “... ...hat she ought, for the instruction of mothers, to have exhibited them in a museum. Charles became very intimate with Madame d’Aubrion pre- cisely beca...

... its concerns, the Specksynder or Chief Harpooneer reigned supreme. In the British Greenland 146 Moby Dick Fishery, under the corrupted title of Spec... ...ld, on good authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale. Now, as a vessel of war r... ...under their immediate auspices, and partly, I think, at their expense, the British gov- ernment was induced to send the sloop-of-war Rattler on a whal... ... authorities you can refer to, to test my accuracy. There is a Leviathanic Museum, they tell me, in Hull, England, one of the whaling ports of that co... ...pecimens of fin-backs and other whales. Likewise, I have heard that in the museum of Manchester, in New Hampshire, they have what the proprietors call...

..., and that at that moment she ought to be hurrying back to a dinner at the British Em- bassy, where her permanent right to such luxuries was to be sol... ...ch looked as if it had been extracted, for some ceremonial purpose, from a museum of historic vehicles. And in an instant it flashed on Lansing that t...

...t description of this monument will be found in Vaux’s “Antiquities of the British Museum,” p. 198 sq. The monument itself (T owneley Sculptures, No. ... ...ption of this monument will be found in Vaux’s “Antiquities of the British Museum,” p. 198 sq. The monument itself (T owneley Sculptures, No. 123) is ...

...fully indicate it; for the preparation, wet or dry, is a dead thing, and a museum is but a mortuary. Fielding’s men and women, once more let it be sai... ... it is high time to amend it: or else it is easy to foresee that Roman and British liberty will have the same fate; for corruption in the body politic...