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...must come to the club.” “What club?” “The Occidental. You will see all the Americans there; all the best of them, at least. Of course you play poker?”... ...ville.” 25 Henry James “What is Trouville?” “The French Newport. Half the Americans go.” “Is it anywhere near the Alps?” “About as near as Newport is... ...roads, and a hopeless fizzle in oil.” “It is very disagreeable to know how Americans have made their money. Now you have the world before you. You hav... ...y deeper than where any definition of mine can reach it. He mistrusted the European temperament, he suffered from the European climate, he hated the E... ...e suffered from the European climate, he hated the Euro- pean dinner-hour; European life seemed to him unscrupu- lous and impure. And yet he had an ex... ...ere shawl. “You are an American?” she said presently. “I have seen several Americans.” “There are several in Paris,” said Newman jocosely. “Oh, really... ...orgotten them now, it is so many years ago. Since then I have seen no more Americans. I think my daughter-in-law has; she is a great gad-about, she se... ...not to inhale the odor of democ- racy. Newman was far from being versed in European poli- tics, but he liked to have a general idea of what was going ...

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...Great Brit- ain, and a vigorous continental spirit of independence against European intervention be aroused all over the American continent; that this... ...his despatches for revision and amendment with- out a murmur. The war with European nations was no 38 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One longe... ...nt the recognition of the Southern Confederacy as an independent nation by European powers; that, slavery being abhorred by the moral sense of civiliz... ...; that, slavery being abhorred by the moral sense of civilized mankind, no European government would dare to offer so gross an insult to the public op... ...ise him which they have since never ceased to do—as one of the greatest of Americans and the best of men. 56 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol On... ...pular govern- ment, as illustrated by the life of the most American of all Americans. I therefore offer no apology for asking your attention to Abraha...

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...nd effective service from the servants? Y.M. Oh, hear yourself talk! Those European servants? Why, you wouldn’t get any of all, to speak of. O.M. Coul... ...d drinking habits acquired at sea and in the sailor boarding houses of the European and Oriental ports, was a common rough in Hong Kong, and What Is ... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...e, I do not now remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very we... ...that is all it amounts to, isn’t it? A prince is not to us what he is to a European, of course. We have not been taught to regard him as a god, and so... ...ter interest the next time. We want a fresh one. But it is not so with the European. I am quite sure of it. The same old one will answer; he never sta...

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...these remarkable men, and is still rising toward highest rank among living Americans, are abundantly laid bare in the book before us. Like the autobio... ...ame on page 148, remarking that the profile, “like Napoleon’s, is superbly European!” The nearness of its resemblance to Mr. Douglass’ mother rests up... ...late its noble example. You may do like- wise. It is an American book, for Americans, in the fullest sense of the idea. It shows that the worst of our... ...nd to acknowledge it at all times and in all places; but toward fugitives, Americans are not honest. When I ar- rived at New Bedford, my name was John... ...within came out. And of all the faces, expressive of chagrin, those of the Americans were preeminent. They looked as sour as vinegar, and as bitter as... ...red in England, did I ever allow myself to address En- glishmen as against Americans. I took my stand on the high ground of human brotherhood, and spo...

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...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...red Dr. Themison’s ear with the narrative of his momentous expedi- tion of European Emissaries, to plead the cause of their sev- eral languages at the... ...for the adoption of the language it may choose among the fore- most famous European tongues. Japan becomes the word for miraculous transformations of ... ...enellan had written his opinion, that all these delegates of the different European nationalities were noth- ing other than dupes of a New-York Syndic... ...ng village, likely one hundred years hence to be a place of pilgrimage for Americans and for Australians. Age, he said, improves true beauty; and his ... ...t New York, behold, another adventurous representative and advocate of the European tongues has joined the party: Signor Jeridomani: a philologer, of ... ...fully extraordinary to our couple, they find in the frigid attitude of the Americans toward their ‘com- mon tongue’; together with the rumour of a des... .... Further, he discovered in astonishment the subordination of all literary Americans to the decrees of their literary authorities; marking a Transatla...

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...e of creative skill, we can- not call to mind any instance in the range of European fic- tion where the typical artist mind, on its lighter sides, has... ...ing, rather vulgar, has already succeeded in mak- ing the round of all the European theatres, an opera, well- known among Russians, La Traviata. The s... ... of the French school; he has had a great many orders from the English and Americans. Of late, there has been much talk about a Bac- chante of his; th...

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... Relentless Law we did not believe in for a moment, that no modern western European can believe in. We thought of the characters in the unconvincing w... ...college system with strong faculties in modern philosophy, modern history, European literature and criticism, physical and biological science, educati... ...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... ... the teeming uproars of reality. There was not a dozen people all told, no Americans and scarcely any English, to dine in the big cavern of a dining- ... ... hos- tility to wealth and hostility to public expenditure… . Every modern European state will have in some form or other these three parties: the res... ... since those days out of the urgency of that apprehension. I still think a European war, and con- ceivably a very humiliating war for England, may occ... ...al and irrevo- cable destruction truncating all my schemes. At the most, a European war would be a dramatic episode in the recon- struction I had in v...

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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 ... ... 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... ...se a vigorous continental spirit of independence on this continent against European intervention. And, if satisfactory explanations are not received f... ...act that has not yet been officially communicated to us—namely, that other European States are apprised by France and England of their agreement, and ... ...them. Y ou will take no notice of that or any other alliance. Whenever the European 236 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five governments shall ... ...aged, a war may ensue between the United States and one, two, or even more European nations. War in any case is as exceptionable from the habits as it... ...vitable part of the discipline of nations. The dispute will be between the European and the Ameri- can branches of the British race. All who belong to...

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...l.) Jack’s an ass. There’s enough brass on this to load a mule—and, if the Americans know anything about anything, it can be cut down to a bit only. ‘... ...f life their preachers lead; speak to the Racine Gospel Agency, those lean Americans whose boast is that they go where no Englishman dare follow; get ... ...lling some new thing,’ he went on. ‘My friend, has your God ever smitten a European nation for gossiping in the bazars? India has gossiped for centu- ... ...ten attacked, for the rioters had sense enough to know that the death of a European would not mean one hanging but many, and possibly the appearance o...

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..., and only flung out, in return for Darrow’s bribe, the statement that the Americans had gone to Joigny. To pursue them there at that hour was manifes... ... off, she said. “I don t know, of course; but people say it’s owing to the Americans. Certainly my waiter had a way of slapping down the dishes...they... ...of this question she continued in a tone of suppressed indignation: “Until Americans get used to the fact that France is under water for half the year... ...iner. She somehow regards the match as a protest against the corruption of European morals. I told Owen that was his great chance, and he’s made the m...

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.... But Washington, they say, isn’t as bad as it used to be—since T eddy has Europeanized ‘em….” Even the Reverend Harold Benham took a subdued but thou... ...mplicity. Only the heroes of romance, and a few strong simple clean-shaven Americans have that much emotional integrity. (And even the Americans do at... ...again with a queer little worn book, a parallel vocabulary of half-a-dozen European languages. He turned over the pages and pointed to a word. “May! A... ...his is perhaps the innate disposi- tion of the human mind, at least of the European mind— for I have some doubts about the Chinese. Theology drives ob... .... The Manchus crippled them, spoilt their roads and broke their waterways. European intervention paralyses ev- ery attempt they make to establish orde... ...his host, a man robed in marvellous silks and subtle of speech even in the European languages he used, and meanwhile Prothero, it seemed, had gone dow...

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...pan had sent that day to China, claim- ing a priority in many matters over European influences they were by no means sure whether it was a wrong or a ... ...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... ... saw how unfair it was to them in a light that has only shone plainly upon European life since the great interlude of the armed peace came to an end i...

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...e finest country in the world, sir , and he felt a lively superiority over Americans, Colonials, Dagos, Dutchmen, and Kanakas. But I do not think he w... ... he lived, unmindful of the world and by the world forgotten. I suppose to European eyes it would have seemed astonishingly sordid. The house was dila... ...and his vagaries were accepted with tolerance. To these people, native and European, he was a queer fish, but they were used to queer fish, and they t...

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...following eyes on board those ships—Dutch, English, with a sprin- kling of Americans and a German or two—who had all hoisted their flags at eight o’cl... ...see and safe to trust, attaches only to ships moored in the docks of great European ports. You feel that they are dishonestly locked up, to be hunted ...

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...had no chart, where no Cook or V ancouver had ever sailed. If American and European men-of-war now peacefully ride in once sav- age harbors, let them ... ...thousand men before the mast employed in the Ameri- can whale fishery, are Americans born, though pretty nearly all the officers are. Herein it is the... ...different way, could not readily be found, and they were every one of them Americans; a Nantucketer, a Vineyarder, a Cape man. Now, it being Christ- m... ...ence between the Greenland whale of the English and the right whale of the Americans. But they precisely agree in all their grand features; nor has th... ...; that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case with Americans and English. Though, to be sure, from the small number of English... ...nd’s experience in the fishery, and not the thousandth part of that of the Americans, they have neverthe- less furnished both nations with the only fi... ...ted bloody chastisements they have received at the hands 366 Moby Dick of European cruisers, the audacity of these corsairs has of late been somewhat...

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... had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed. If American and European men of war now peacefully ride in once savage harbors, let them fi... ...ny thousand men before the mast employed in the American whale fishery, are Americans born, though pretty nearly all the officers are. Herein it is the ... ...different way, could not readily be found, and they were every one of them Americans; a Nantucketer, a Vineyarder, a Cape man. Now, it being Christmas... ...ence between the Greenland whale of the English and the right whale of the Americans. But they precisely agree in all their grand features; nor has th... ...; that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case with Americans and English. Though, to be sure, from the small number of English... ...and’s experience in the fishery, and not the thousandth part of that of the Americans, they have nevertheless fur nished both nations with the only fin... ...gh by the repeated bloody chastisements they have received at the hands of European cruisers, the audacity of these corsairs has of late been somewhat...

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... rate at which he did intellectual execu- tion on the general spectacle of European life, Rowland at moments felt vaguely uneasy for the future; the b... ... he made him believe in the metempsychosis, and that he must have lived in European society, in the last century, as a gentle- man in a cocked hat and... ... other evening at a large party, where some of the proudest members of the European aristoc- racy were present—duchesses, princesses, countesses, and ... ...es, I regret that Miss Light should marry one of these used-up foreigners. Americans should stand by each other. If she wanted a brilliant match we co... ... “is certainly a very degraded one in these coun- tries. I doubt whether a European princess can command the respect which in our country is exhibited...

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...s touts at an International Exhibition. If they were usually recognized as Americans it was only be- cause they spoke French so well, and because Nick... ...asked nothing better: Susy perceived that, so far, the greater part of her European experience had consisted in talking about what it was to be. “Well... ...incess— choosing the people I associate with, and being up above all these European grandees that father and mother bow down to, though they think the...

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...n with that feeling of superiority the success of our cause inspired in us Americans. I suppose I re- ally despised him because he was an old Castilia... ...template him calmly across the gulf of racial difference. He was alive and European; he had the manner of good so- ciety, wore a coat and hat like min... ...e published list. Truth to say, I never looked. At any rate, he was a good European—he spoke four languages to my certain knowledge—and a man of fortu...

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...er. You turn one of those little Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 161 European rivers over to this Commission, with its hard bot tom and clear... ... One of ‘m’s from Europe, the other’s never been out of this country . One’s European olive oil, the other’s American cotton seed olive oil. Tell ‘m a... ...nsider as one of the most remarkable traits in the national character of the Americans; namely, their exquisite sensitiveness and soreness respecting ... ...to be inferred that he has good grounds for adopting them; but he spares the Americans the bitterness which a detail of the circumstances would have p...