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...low. So you see, by this main accident of time, we lost our traffic with the Americans, with whom of all others, in regard they lay nearest to us, we ... ...e was Joabin. He was a Jew and circumcised; for they have some few stirps of Jews yet remaining among them, whom they leave to their own religion. Whi... ... may the better do, because they are of a far differing disposition from the Jews in other parts. For The New Atlantis – Bacon 25 whereas they hate ... ... inferior to his divine majesty, yet they are far from the language of other Jews. And for the country of Ben salem, this man would make no end of co... ...an would make no end of commending it, being desirous by tradition among the Jews there to have it believed that the people thereof were of the genera...

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..., and at the word terminology I should insinuate a comment on that eminent American bi- ologist, Professor Mark Baldwin, who has carried the language ... ...ing the obverse side, and a head thereon—of Newton, as I live! One detects American influ- ence here. Each year, as we shall find, each denomination o... ...*But see Gidding’s Principles of Sociology, a modern and richly suggestive American work, imperfectly appreciated by the Brit- ish student. See also W... ...machinery. He is the great primitive of modern Utopias, and Bellamy is his American equivalent. Hitherto, either slave labour (Phaleas),** or at leas... ...one, one expects a person as precise and insistent and in- structive as an American advertisement—the advertisement of one of those land agents, for e... ...tions are all complex mixtures of numerous and fluctuating types. Even the Jews present every kind of skull that is supposed to be racially distinctiv... ...eme fairness in Holland—and a vast mental and physical diversity. Were the Jews to discontinue all intermarriage with “other races” henceforth for eve...

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...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; consider the disgraceful history of missions in Hawaii itself, where (i... ...ssions in Hawaii itself, where (in the war of lust) the American mis- sionaries were once shelled by an English adventurer, and once raided and mishan... ...er—only refused to join him in his boat. A white is a white: the servant (so to speak) of other and more liberal gods; and not to be blamed if he prof... ... one of his colleagues, Kekela, a missionary in the great cannibal isle of Hiva-oa. It appears that shortly after a kidnapping visit from a Peruvian s...

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...ceived private proposals, and then present his treasures out of hand to an American city, not unknown to ; aesthetic fame, in which at that time there... ... Roderick Hudson air of apathetic homesickness, and she played her part in American society chiefly by having the little squares of brick pavement in ... ...- tience to get out of it. Is one’s only safety then in flight? This is an American day, an American landscape, an Ameri- can atmosphere. It certainly... ...d with the occasion, and he declared that he was above all an advocate for American art. He did n’t see why we should n’t produce the greatest works i... ... the spot, to embrace it—to be the consummate, typical, original, national American artist! It ‘s inspiring!” Rowland burst out laughing and told him ... ...but I shall not try any more of the Old Testament people. I don’t like the Jews; I don’t like pendulous noses. David, the boy David, is rather an exce... ...essing it! I have raised money on that girl’s face! I ‘ve taken her to the Jews and bade her put up her veil, and asked if the mother of that young la...

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...g to the commander of the corvette, had recently gone ashore there from an American whaler, and were desirous of ship- ping aboard one of their own co... ...arcely any price too dear which will purchase his darling “tot.” Nowadays, American whalemen in the Pacific never think of carrying spirits as a ratio... ... had thrown the sailors, now brooked no restraint; and one of them—a young American who went by the name of Salem—dashed out from among the rest, 70 ... ...ng on the island more than two years, he finally escaped in the boat of an American whaler, which landed him at Valparaiso. From this period he had co... ...ts bowsprit; which, from its posi- tion, looked nearly upright. She was an American whaler, a very old craft. Having sprung a leak at sea, she had mad... ...ts construction as swarmed over the scaffolding of the great temple of the Jews. Much less time, however, was expended. In less than three weeks from ...

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...ONS of such a place as Albaro, the suburb of Genoa, where I am now, as my American friends would say, ‘located,’ can hardly fail, I should imagine, t... ...lings going on, and some profits realising; for there were arcades full of Jews, where those extraordinary people were sitting outside their shops, co... ... goal is reached; the prizes are won (they are given, in part, by the poor Jews, as a compromise for not running foot races themselves); and there is ... ...erground, high up in St. Peter’s, out on the Campagna, and stifling in the Jews’ quarter, Mrs. Davis turned up, all the same. I don’t think she ever s... ...sed to view a little wooden doll, in face very like General Tom Thumb, the American Dwarf: gorgeously dressed in satin and gold lace, and actually bla... ...te Campagna in one direc tion, where it was most level, reminded me of an American prairie; but what is the solitude of a region where men have never... ...able houses, walled, and shut in by barred gates, is the quarter where the Jews are locked up nightly, when the clock strikes eight—a miserable place,... ...rly uncomfortable, with the eyes of Heaven knows how many English, French, Americans, Swiss, Germans, Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, and other foreigne...

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...; 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 ... ..., but he had come from Boston, he had lived among poets and socialists and Jews and million- aire uplifters at the University Settlement in New York, ... ...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... ... in slant for- age caps and rattling sabers. It suggested to them a common American past, and it was memorable because they had discovered it together... ...essed her. They were so stolid. She had always maintained that there is no American peasantry, and she sought now to defend her faith by seeing imagin... ...moral than a chapel organ; that some poets do not have long hair; and that Jews are not always pedlers or pants-makers. “Where does she get all them t...

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... the Strand or thereabouts, to see a piece that was having a run. The productions he always preferred were the really good ones—Shakespeare, Th- ompso... ...e expressed at a venture the hope that she had had her fill of Cocker’s. She was finally able to turn back. “Oh quite. There’s nothing going on. No on... ...by the ele- ments of her charming commerce. The City men did in short go in for flowers. There was a certain type of aw- fully smart stockbroker—Lord ...

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...more favored individuals did credit to Miriam’s selection. One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the ot... ...adle. According to a third statement, she was the off-spring of a Southern American planter, who had given her an elabo- rate education and endowed he... ... time, leaving it to be the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, and people of ever... ... indeed, I am afraid you would never come down among us again.” This young American girl was an example of the freedom of life which it is possible fo... ...t English accent on her tongue, but much that is not English breeding, nor American. Nowhere else but in Rome, and as an artist, could she hold a plac... ...whether the seven-branched golden candlestick,—the holy candlestick of the Jews, which was lost at the Ponte Molle, in Constantine’s time, had yet bee... ...ugliest part of Rome. In that vicinity lies the Ghetto, where thousands of Jews are crowded within a narrow compass, and lead a close, unclean, and mu...

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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... ...gn; on the march to Rome he had lassoed his beef in the Campagna after the American manner; he had been wounded in the de- fence of the Roman Republic... ...the quadrangle below, whose paved space is the true hearthstone of a South American house, where the quiet hours of domestic life are marked by the sh... ... his power- ful limbs lost in the vulgarity of a brown tweed suit, made by Jews in the slums of London, and sold by 449 Joseph Conrad the clothing de...

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... , and his almond eyes almost closed as he did so. There were two or three American men, in black coats, rather yellow and dry of skin: they were theo... ... tall and slim. He held himself with a deliberate grace. Weeks, one of the American students, seeing him alone, went up and began to talk to him. The ... ...one, went up and began to talk to him. The pair were oddly contrasted: the American very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trou- sers, thin a... ...rtain disinclination for society. Fraulein Hedwig was gone, and Weeks, the American who generally accompanied them on their rambles, had set out for a... ...y under Hayward’s influ- ence. Hayward did not like Weeks. He deplored the American’s black coat and pepper -and-salt trousers, and spoke with a scorn... ...or the day; the keen air gave a fillip to their weariness. There were many Jews, stout ladies in tight satin dresses and diamonds, little corpu- lent ...

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...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... ...uke and his cousin, being Pennsylvanians by birth, were not Yankees in the American sense of the word. 48 The Pioneers CHAPTER V “Nathaniel’s coat, s... ... nation as their grandfather The former was generally called, by the Anglo-Americans Iroquois, or the Six Nations, and sometimes Mingoes. Their appell... ...ady; “sure, it was the Lord who was with ‘em; for he always sided with the Jews, before they fell away; and it’s but little matter what kind of men Jo...

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...ver with a treacly blue enamel and further decorated by a fringe of pinked American cloth insecurely fixed by tacks. Below this was a little table tha... ...r home that idea the first book I got from the Institute happened to be an American edition of the collected works of Shelley, his gassy prose as well... ...sh. “There’s hard times coming,” said Parload. “Next winter.” “Sooner. The Americans have been overproducing, and they mean to dump. The iron trade is... ...nization. Through their want of intelligent direction the great “Trust” of American ironmasters, a gang of ener- getic, narrow-minded furnace owners, ... ...im. This opera- tion of spasmodic underselling was known as “dumping.” The American ironmasters were now dumping on the Brit- ish market. The British ... ...ring amidst folds and wrinkles. He made his confes- sion for his race. “We Jews,” he said, “have gone through the system of this world, creating nothi...

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... women he has met. They have been people of very various origins; English, Americans, Bengalis, Russians, French, people brought up in a “Catholic atm... ...th, and that he has little to identify him with that hereditary God of the Jews who became the “Father” in the Christian system. On the other hand he ... ... one because of the Greeks, nor deny the divinity of Christ because of the Jews. They dreaded to be polytheis- tic; equally did they dread the least a... ...d of * It is not so generally understood as it should be among English and American readers that a very large proportion of early Christians before th...

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...ull of people, people who had nothing to do but to stare at one another on the great flat down. There were thou- sands of little chairs and almost as ... ...group of giggling, nudging spectators, Flora wasn’t ready to tell about her- self. She held her little court in the crowd, upon the grass, playing her... ...land was that in commemoration of the new relationship she had gone to stay with Lady Considine. This had made me take everything else for granted, an... ... on such a scale that, with a deep plunge into a great chance, I was three good years in rising again to the surface. There are nymphs and naiads more...

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...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... ...man beings; there would be great rejoicings over the conversion of alleged Jews, and ter- rible descriptions of the death-beds of prominent infidels w... ...cency. “Modesty and Decency,” said Hatherleigh, “are Ori- ental vices. The Jews brought them to Europe. They’re Semitic, just like our monasticism her... ...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.... ...rst of endless points of resemblance between them and the commoner sort of American girl. When some years ago I paid my first and only visit to Americ... ... 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- ... ...ries, here an island of South Lon- don politicians, here a couple of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, ...

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...hat he made me a present of a very beautiful piece of petrifaction – I believe the most beautiful and portable he had. Here was a man, at least, who w... ... us. One is Norse, one Celtic, and another Saxon. It is not community of tongue. We have it not among ourselves; and we have it almost to perfection, ... ...ory amused me, when I felt myself so thoroughly ripe on both sides to be duped in the same way. It is at least a curious thing, to conclude, that the ... ... character in Dickens; and the poor woman, driven to her entrenchments, at last remem- bered with a shriek that there were still some houses at the tu... ...mell of bays and nutmegs commanded themselves gratefully to our senses. One way and another, now the die was cast. Silverado be it! After we had got b... ...n “placed.” Three Lake County fami- lies, at least, endowed for life with a ship’s kettle. Come, this was no misspent Sunday. The absence of the kettl... ...other quarter of an 35 hour went by; till at length, at our earnest pleading, we set forth again in earnest, Fanny and I white... ...ce by which he held it would ran out upon the 30th of June – or rather, as I suppose, it had run out already, and the month of grace would expire upon...

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...s of self was cast away. Among these we cannot forbear mentioning the poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle... ...l bear hoisting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we hear of an American Railway collision that befell a train on the way to Elmira with pr... ...80 B.C. 180 B.C. 180 IT WA S about 180 years before the Christian era. The Jews had long since come home from Babylon, and built up their city and T e... ...y cruel to all who offended him. One of his greatest desires was, that the Jews should leave their true faith in one God, and do like the Greeks and S... ...s, and hold drunken feasts in their honor. Sad to say, a great many of the Jews had grown ashamed of their own true religion and the strict ways of th... ... of Holies, and told him all that would most des- ecrate it and grieve the Jews. So a little altar to the Roman god Jupiter was set up on the top of t... ...by the king; the walls were thrown down, and the place made desolate. Some Jews were still faithful to their God, but they were horribly punished and ...

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...e had been invited to treat, through an English lady, an Oxford acquaintance, then at Nice, who happened to know both his needs and those of the amiab... ...desperate proprieties—struck him as topsy-turvy. He had encountered nothing like them at Oxford; still less had any such note been struck to his young... ...ad once found Mr. Moreen shaving in the drawing-room), their French, their Italian and, cropping up in the foreign fluencies, their cold tough slices ... ...ck some one down once or twice a year! Clever as they were they never guessed the impression they made. They were good-na- tured, yes—as good-natured ... ...come on.” Pemberton bethought himself. “They won’t like that, will they?” “Oh look out for them!” Then Pemberton brought out his remedy. “I’ll go to t... ...Mr. Granger, and wasn’t that also precisely where one would look for them on the eve of a smash? Pemberton gath- ered that Mr. Granger was a rich vaca...

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...t a heap of illuminations you have seen! For the glorious victory over the Americans at Breed’s Hill; for the peace in 1814, and the beautiful Chinese... ...ds shake him by the hand; whilst the sailor mounts on the roof; whilst the Jews hang round with oranges, knives, and seal- ing-wax: whilst the guard i...