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...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...

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...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 ...

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...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 ...

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...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 ...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...- 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,...

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... 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...

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... 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...

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..., 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...

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...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 ...

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...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...

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...e letter, and read the address, to ‘Antony Percival Fotheringham, Esquire, British Embassy, Constantinople.’ She started to find it was the surname of... ...would have liked to linger, recognizing her old friends, and studying this museum of wonders, inlaid marble tables, cases of stuffed humming birds, an...

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...ught to regard him as a fit son of his father and a worthy specimen of the British political nobility. Struck by serious reflection of this nature he ... ...sentaneous action to carry any re- form. The reforming or Liberal party in British politics had thus stumbled,—and stumbled till it fell. And now ther... ... carrying out certain literary pursuits in which he was engaged within the British Mu- seum. He was an American who had nothing to do with politics an... ...he fall, and all the winter. Indeed father means to read every book in the British Museum before he goes back. ’ ‘He’ll have something to do. ’ ‘He re... ... and all the winter. Indeed father means to read every book in the British Museum before he goes back. ’ ‘He’ll have something to do. ’ ‘He reads by s... ...s Boncassen’s beauty for the last week, that I mean to get up a company of British females, limited, for the ex- press purpose of putting her down. Wh... ... England because it suited Mr Boncassen to spend many hours in the British Museum. But still the daughter hardly seemed to be under control from her f... ...you will come on the twentieth. Mr Boncassen is to bring the whole British Museum if he wishes. ’ Then there was a little postscript which showed tha... ...s if she hasn’t gone out too. She did talk of going with her father to the Museum. She is getting quite bookish. She has got a ticket, and goes there,...

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...t. “It will be very pleasant if he can go with you. How he would enjoy the British Mu- seum, if there was time for him to see it! Have you said any- t... ...e Dr. May went to transact some business, Norman had been with Alan at the British Mu- seum, and though he had intended to see half London be- sides, ... ...ble sight-seeing. College Chap- els, Bodleian Library, Taylor Gallery, the Museum, all were thoroughly studied, and, if Flora had not dragged the part... ...gings in London, near the old hospital, per- haps—and go and turn over the British Museum library.” “Look you here, Spencer, I have a much better plan... ... London, near the old hospital, per- haps—and go and turn over the British Museum library.” “Look you here, Spencer, I have a much better plan. Do you... .... May. “A garden the length of this one—” “But I say—I want to be near the British Museum.” “Take a season-ticket, and run up once a week.” “I shall t... ...A garden the length of this one—” “But I say—I want to be near the British Museum.” “Take a season-ticket, and run up once a week.” “I shall teach you... ... white eyebrow. Dr. May eagerly pointed out all the conveniences, parlour, museum, smoking den, while Dr. Spencer listened, and answered doubtfully; a... ...rder at each resounding shout, nor object to his conducting her to see his museum in the dark corner of the attics, most remote from the tumult. The l...

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...the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been removed, to the extreme regret of all weak-kneed lovers of the fine arts, but the gentleman in question had taken serene possession of its softest spot, and, with h...

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... divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This com- modious ottoman has since been removed, to ... ...dge of English, and his accent was oddly tinged with the cockneyism of the British metropolis. But his learning had grown rusty with disuse, and his v... ...78 The American glish without an accent, or rather with that distinctively British accent which, on his arrival in Europe, had struck Newman as an alt... ... Bellegarde looked hard at him, and returned his hand-shake with a sort of British positiveness which reminded him that she was the daughter of the Ea... ... whiskers were fair and glossy, and he had a large dimple, of unmistakably British origin, in the middle of his handsome chin. He was “distinguished” ... ...the progress of the young lady herself. He went one afternoon to the great museum, and wandered through several of the rooms in fruitless quest of her... ...very now and then, having learned from Newman that he had been through the museums of Europe, he uttered some pol- ished aphorism upon the flesh-tints... ... been a sufficient assurance that she was not a Frenchwoman; a cap of pure British compo- sition. She had a pale, decent, depressed-looking face, and ...

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...in the United States. In virtue of my office as Assistant Professor in the Museum of Natural History in Paris, the French Government had attached me t... ...ch they had pierced through and through, as a gimlet pierces a barrel. The Museum of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris possesses one of these defensive... ... follows: 12 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea To M. Aronnax, Professor in the Museum of Paris, Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. Sir,—If you will consent to ... ...nd I will not bring back less than half a yard of his ivory halberd to the Museum of Natural His- tory.” But in the meanwhile I must seek this narwhal... ...six months ago.” “In your little room, sir,” replied Conseil, “and in your museum, sir; and I should have already classed all your fossils, sir. And t... ...an hour. But I saw noth- ing, not even the Island of Perim, with which the British Government has fortified the position of Aden. There were too many ... ...s Verne than 120 miles from Ireland. Was Captain Nemo going to land on the British Isles? No. To my great surprise he made for the south, once more co...

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...ist- ence for making things clear, counteracting hostile sugges- tion, the British official organisations are comparatively in- effective; but what is... ...btle critic, calling in upon me after brav- ing the wintry seas to see the British fleet; M. Joseph Reinach follows them presently upon the same erran... ...nyone who from the perspective of Italy may seem to be a representative of British opinion. If Herbert Spencer had been alive General Radcliffe would ... ...en objects, bits of shell, cartridge clips, hel- mets; it is a peripatetic museum. It is as if he hoped for a clue. It is almost impossible, I have fo... ...p the weapon. I carry my pacifism far beyond the ambiguous little group of British and foreign sentimentalists who pretend so amusingly to be socialis... ...that preceded the war. The reckless and beautiful zeal of the women in the British and French munition factories, for example, the gaiety and fearless...

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...ss caused the gover nor and Sir Francis Wheeler, who was commander of the British forces, to give up all thoughts of attacking Canada. “Soon after th... ...r’s younger days there used to be a wax figure of him in one of the Boston museums, representing a solemn, dark visaged person, in a minister’s black ... ... a mob of the Boston people. They were so in censed at the conduct of the British Commodore Knowles, who had impressed some of their fellow citizens,... ...s of Acadia ever reached the ears of Louis XV . The exiles grew old in the British prov inces, and never saw Acadia again. Their descendants remain a... ...nt times; but not one of them had won a single important tri umph for the British arms. This ill success was not owing to the want of means: for, in ... ...in 1759, Sir Jeffrey Amherst was appointed com mander in chief of all the British forces in America. He was a man of ability and a skilful soldier. A...