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...of our domains before the dew was off, and found that the ground hemlock, or American yew, was the prevailing under shrub. We breakfasted on tea, hard... ...itude; and as for “ornamentation,” one of those words with a dead tail which architects very prop erly use to describe their flourishes, there were th... ...ot the invention of historians and poets. It was a purely wild and primitive American sound, as much as the barking of a chickaree, and I could not un... ...f Maine, foreigners are not allowed to kill moose there at any season; white Americans can 84 The Maine Woods kill them only at a particular season, ... ...decidedly and refreshingly different from those of any of the upstart Native American party whom I have seen. He was no darker than many old white men... ...t right have you to celebrate the virtues of the man you murdered? The Anglo American can indeed cut down, and grub up all this waving forest, and mak...

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...e shall hereafter see) to an analogous conclusion with regard to the South American ostrich, the females of which are parasitical, if I may so express... ...t from their habits. The Saurophagus sulphuratus is typi- cal of the great American tribe of tyrant-flycatchers. In its structure it closely approache... ...Bra- zil, nothing struck him more forcibly than the splendour of the South American vegetation con- trasted with that of South Africa, together with t... ...elan, certainly three, and probably five species of rhinoceros; and on the American side, two tapirs, the guanaco, three deer, the vicuna, peccari, ca... ...the wild plains of Northern Patagonia: and first for the largest, or South American ostrich. The ordinary hab- its of the ostrich are familiar to ever... ...ents; yet what will that tell against the accumulated labour of myriads of architects at work night and day, month after month? Thus do we see the sof... ... small limit of depth at which the effective corals can live: — the little architects having built up their great wall- like mass, as the whole sank d...

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...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation. In our North American and West Indian colonies, not only the wages of labour, but the in... ...me manner as that upon gold, or to give up working the greater part of the American mines which are now wrought. The gradual increase of the demand fo... ... be uncertain, whether, to the general market of Europe, the whole mass of American gold comes at a price nearer to the lowest for which it is possibl... ...tter class, our merchants and manufacturers have been by far the principal architects. In the mercantile regulations which have been taken notice of i...

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...map. Con trast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race before... ...ould do so to the exclusion of my thinking for my self. True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least poss... ... equal ado were made about the ornaments of style in litera ture, and the architects of our bibles spent as much time about their cornices as the arc... ...t perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whoop ing cough. A... ...unless it be in Milwaukee, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, etc., gathered from all quarters both o... ...o thin these trees, which are wont to grow up densely. The hares ( Lepus Americanus ) were very familiar. One had her form under my house all winter... ...nd not like the azure ether beyond. Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared Walden 2...

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...the map. Contrast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race befo... ... he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself. True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least po... ...f an equal ado were made about the ornaments of style in literature, and the architects of our bibles spent as much time about their cornices as the a... ...; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. A... ..., unless it be in Milwaukie, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, &c., gathered from all quarters both ... ...der to thin these trees, which are wont to grow up densely. The hares (Lepus Americanus) were very familiar. One had her form under my house all winte... ...h, and not like the azure ether beyond. Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with t...

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...ften that I could wish there were a closer parallel between myself and the American aloe. It is particularly agreeable and ap propriate to know that ... ... set fire to the House of Commons; the two houses were re duced to ashes; architects were called in to build others; we are now in the second million... ...of that good blacksmith, as it was written of another of his trade, by the American poet: “Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes;... ...ne, which seems to my mind to have a certain application. My friend was an American sea captain, and, therefore, it is quite unnecessary to say his st... ... to say his story was quite true. He was captain and part owner of a large American merchant liner. On a certain voyage out, in exquisite summer weath... ... which obtains by far the most exten sive circulation, these words of the American nation:—”I know full well, whatever little motes my beamy eyes may...

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.... With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing its part and passi... ...or backward towards me to listen, With eyes retrospective towards me. 3 Americanos! conquerors! marches humanitarian! Foremost! century marches! ... ...with you is heroism upon land and sea, And I will report all heroism from an American point of view. I will sing the song of companionship, I will sho... ...raph stretching across the continent, See, through Atlantica’s depths pulses American Europe reaching, pulses of Europe duly return’d, See, the strong... ...treet or on the ship’s deck give a kiss in return, We observe that salute of American comrades land and sea, We are those two natural and nonchalant p... ...s of the portraits of the past users also, The primal patient mechanics, the architects and engineers, The far off Assyrian edifice and Mizra edifice,... ...ll certainly come in use, When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear. I swear to you the architects shall appear witho... ...hip new I sing, You captains, voyagers, explorers, yours, You engineers, you architects, machinists, yours, You, not for trade or transportation only,...

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... dishonesty—an act of dishonesty both to Scatcherd and to that far-distant American family, to that father, who, in former days, had behaved so nobly,... ...ing of white stone, lately erected at an enormous cost by one of the first architects of the day. It was an immense pile, and seemed to cover ground e... ...al of red beard beneath his chin, cut in a manner to make him look like an American. His voice also had a Yankee twang, being a cross between that of ... ...rican. His voice also had a Yankee twang, being a cross between that of an American trader and an English groom; and his eyes were keen and fixed, and... ...ave been very kind. ’ ‘And who is he, doctor? Won’t it go to some of those Americans? I am sure I never did anything kind to them; though, indeed, I d...

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...F THE PHYSICIAN AND THE SARATOGA TRUNK MR. SILAS Q. SCUDDAMORE was a young American of a simple and harmless disposition, which was the more to his cr... ...n of title. Madame Zephyrine, probably in the hope of enchanting the young American, used to flaunt by him on the stairs with a civil inclination, a w... ...en he was safely alone with a few males. The room on the other side of the American’s – for there were three rooms on a floor in the hotel – was tenan... ..., bore no signature, and in the most encourag- ing terms invited the young American to be present in a certain part of the Bullier Ball at eleven o’cl... ...k- wards, and sought to take him by the wrist; but the strain on the young American’s nerves had become too great for endurance. He avoided the Doctor... ... stood for some time gazing up at it and mentally gauging the skill of the architects and the consideration of the two families. There seemed to be no...

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...lly,’ said a voice from the darkness, ‘what 82 Under the Deodars did that American-heiress-globe-trotter girl say last season when she was tipped out... ...table, and he would never defile his hands by the apprenticeship which the architects, engineers, and manufacturers 132 Under the Deodars of England ... ...e. “Surely not; that’s a lady’s voice, and if my ears don’t deceive me, an American.” “Exactly, Dr. Eva McCreery Lathrop, chief of the new Women’s Hos...

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...that had belonged to a widow, named Science Dear, and enlarged it. Several American trees were planted in the ground by Cobbett, of which only one sur... ...ch progress had been made during these nine years in ecclesiology, so that architects who had made it their study were to be found. The design was com... ...blue, pink, or white in the water-meadows beside the Itchen, deserving the American name of May-wings. Caryophylleae Deptford Pink (Dianthus Armeria)....

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..., even in Europe; and which has never been quoted, to my knowledge, by any American — if we except, perhaps, the author of the “Curiosities of America... ...y increasing sound, like the moan- ing of a vast herd of buffaloes upon an American prairie; and at the same moment I perceived that what seamen term ... ...n. I studied him in his own works as well as in those of his European and American ech- oes. The ‘Charles Elwood’ of Mr. Brownson, for example, was p... ...l Journal” of Leipsic—a periodical of high authority and merit, which some American bookseller would do well to translate and republish, records in a ... ...ould rejoice in it but for the ex- cess of its glory. The taste of all the architects I have ever known leads them, for the sake of ‘prospect,’ to put...

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...and for reasons resting upon the same ultimate philosophy, were the mighty architects of 55 Thomas de Quincey the Greek tragedy . They also were mono... ...he whole weight of his name and personal responsibility, (M Simond, now an American citizen,) records the following abominable scene as one of no unco...

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...cene in Auerbach’s cellar. Egmont was also begun under the stimulus of the American Rebel- lion. A way of escaping from his embarrassments was unex- p... ...Huguenots, who settled there after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.— American Note. 235 Goethe me. Her ill health kept her constantly at home. ... ...g class of men in England or America, which would justify an English word.—American Note. 328 Autobiography tained; which he very soon managed to gai... ...ible marriage that perhaps ever was consummated? Is there among the French architects, deco- rators, upholsterers, not a single man who understands th...