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...is certainly no method by which the shadowy out lines of departed men and women can be made to assume the hues of life more effectually than by conne... ...r it was for New England to have such settlers. They were the best men and women of their day. Among the passengers was John Winthrop, who had sold th... ...used to hold lectures in Boston once or twice a week, at which most of the women attended. Mrs. Hutchinson presided at these meetings, sitting with gr... ...rs to the charge of treason. During the reign of Charles II., however, the American colonies had but little reason to complain of harsh or tyran nica... ...eason for their apprehen sions. King James caused the charters of all the American colonies to be taken away. The old charter of Massachusetts, which... ...n her, together with the immense wealth of which they had robbed the South American kings.” “Why, Grandfather!” exclaimed Laurence, “what magnifi cen... ...he merchants as an exchange. In the upper stories were the chambers of the judges, the representatives, and the governor’s council. The venerable coun... ...ht soldiers were tried for murder. But none of them were found guilty. The judges told the jury that the insults and violence which had been offered t... ...hard Saltonstall, nor of the famous Hugh Peters, nor of those old regicide judges, Whalley, Goffe, and Dixwell. Yet I have borne the weight of all tho...

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... on the train by which I was to travel. There was a babel of bewildered men, women, and children. The wretched little booking-office, and the baggage-... ... coffee was always exhausted before I could elbow my way to the counter. Our American sunrise had ushered in a noble summer’s day. There was not a clo... ...w, I consulted him upon a point of etiquette: if one should offer to tip the American waiter? Certainly not, he told me. Never. It would not do. They ... ...but I did not wish to go to bed. And this, it appeared, was impossible in an American hotel. It was, of course, some inane misunderstanding, and spran... ...tood awaiting us, and I soon concluded that this was to be set apart for the women and children. The second or central car, it turned out, was de- vot... ...a matter of fact, the young Chinese man is so like a large class of European women, that on raising my head and suddenly catching sight of one at a co... ...ve pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet pre- served this lovely ...

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...the port, who followed the East and West Indian, the African and the South American trade, it was supposed that this odd philosopher was in the habit ... ... a sixpence and shakes his horse whip at him. Had the grim Doctor been an American, he might have had the vast antipathy to rank, without the trace o... ...n his infancy and youth. He was a gem of coarse texture, just hewn out. An American with a like education would more likely have gained a certain fine... ...t of every window in those dusky , mean wooden houses were thrust heads of women old and young; forth out of every door and other avenue, and as if th... ...t my business in life does not lie with grown up and consolidated men and women; and so, not to be useless in my day, and to gain the little that my ... ...nd had all the man ners and pre eminently uncriticisable tenets proper to women at her early age. She had made respectable advancement in study; that... ...dern times when it served as a gallows for one of James II.’s bloodthirsty judges to hang his victims on after Monmouth’s rebellion.” On one side of t...

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...stances; it is, moreover, a noble vindica- tion of the highest aims of the American anti-slavery move- ment. The real object of that movement is not o... ...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... ...nly would his own history have had another termina- tion, but the drama of American slavery would have been essentially varied; for I cannot resist th... ...ecture desk. A visit to England, in 1845, threw Mr. Douglass among men and women of earnest souls and high culture, and who, moreover, had never drank... ...truder. It was intolerable. Children have their sorrows as well as men and women; and it would be well to remember this in our dealings with them. SLA... .... Great houses loomed up in different directions, and a great many men and women were at work in the fields. All this hurry, noise, and singing was ve... ...oving, democratic, Christian America, the seats of justice are filled with judges, who hold their office under an open and pal- pable bribe, and are b...

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... in any way concerned in public life to feel that the highest ambition any American can possibly have will be gratified just in proportion as he raise... ...ong men of great origi- nal genius or of an heroic type of character.” The American people should feel profoundly grateful that the greatest American ... ...ncoln: V ol One the leader, Lincoln, at least should remain a real, living American. No matter how clearly, how directly, Lincoln has shown himself in... ...ttor- ney in any case should have carried, not only to juries, but even to judges, almost a presumption of right on his side, and that the people bega... ... and broad culture and association with the wisest and the best of men and women can give, and enters upon some form of pub- lic service on the road t... ...rters shot. As surely 73 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One as the women of the culprit’s family could get at him he always gave way. Certainl... ... want in all cases to do right; and most particularly so in all cases with women. I want, at this particular time, more than any thing else to do righ... ...It is in these words: “I have now shown, in the opin- ion of two competent judges, that the handwriting of the forged assignment differed from mine, a... ... interests of the State. The Supreme Court of the State was organized, and judges appointed, according to the provisions of the Constitution, in 1824....

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...he people in front of the grave-yard, of whom much the greater number were women, carrying satchels and par- cels, projected themselves upon it in a c... ...menon was repeated ev- ery three minutes, and the supply of eagerly-moving women in cloaks, bearing reticules and bundles, renewed itself in the most ... ...he young man, and he broke into the most ani- mated laughter. “Is it those women scrambling into the omnibus?” asked his companion. “What do you suppo... ... and he went about laughing at everything he saw. You would have said that American civilization expressed itself to his sense in a tissue of capital ... ...r; but he was not. My poor father was born in Sicily, but his parents were American.” “In Sicily?” Gertrude murmured. “It is true,” said Felix Young, ... ...little girl, a cousin of theirs, a very pretty creature; a thorough little American. And then there is the son of the house.” “Good!” said the Barones... ...d Gertrude. “I only say she will think of Robert; and she will!” “Gertrude judges by herself!” Acton exclaimed, laugh- ing. “Don’t you, Gertrude? Of c...

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...continent, in what relates to immigration and territorial origin. When the American enters on the history of his ancestors, he is driven, after some t... ...ography of a Pocket-Handkerchief with us, our most remote extraction being American, while our more recent construction and education have taken place... ...d anecdote. Under these limitations, I have ever consid- ered my family as American by origin, European by emigra- tion, and restored to its paternal ... ...on a subject of which one would think none of us very well qualified to be judges, was owing to a circumstance of such every-day occurrence as al- mos... ...yself whether I could afford to pay you fif- teen sous, when so many young women who have been regu- larly brought up to the business are willing to w... ...s infernal circuits, by the light of miserable tallow candles. But all the judges are alike for that, keeping a poor shirt up sometimes until midnight... ... dark-looking 71 James Fenimore Cooper men, and of the flounces of pretty women. These two slight faults repaired, New Y ork society might rival that... ... Mr. Shoreham,” put in Julia, with vivacity, if not with spirit, “that our women do not dress as women of rank sometimes dress in Europe; but, on the ...

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...n the eighteenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumsta... ...ca thirty years before, had brought with him, at the top of his baggage, his American physiog nomy; and he had not only brought it with him, but he h... ...dered, placidly. “Well, I guess I’ll wait and see.” He had, in speaking, the American tone. “Are you cold?” the son enquired. 4 Portrait of a Lady Th... ...o fall in love,” he added, by way of explanation, to his father. “The pretty women themselves may be sent flying!” Lord Warburton ex claimed. “No, no,... ...us by means of telegrams, and her telegrams are rather inscrutable. They say women don’t know how to write them, but my mother has thoroughly mastered... ...cher. He slightly inclined himself, smiling; he had an excellent manner with women. The girl appreciated it in an instant; she had not forgotten that ... ...ibe him coarsely. He wished to describe him impersonally, scientifically. “He judges and measures, approves and condemns, altogether by that.” “It’s a ... ...Oh, I take care; never perhaps more than when it appears least. Your husband judges you severely.” Isabel made for a moment no answer to this; she fel...

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... the beasts and the rest of mankind. (But they were forbidden to touch the women of the tribe, they had to go out and capture women for themselves, an... ...awyers and town craftsmen and territo- rial lords and rulers doctors, wise women, soldiers and sail- ors in Egypt and China and Assyria and south-east... ...must have seen steam, seen it incuriously for many thousands of years; the women in particular were always heating water, boiling it, seeing it boil a... ... automobiles, aeroplanes, waterplanes, and such-like, mobile purposes. The American Kemp engine, differing widely in principle but equally prac- ticab... ... so aggressively established as to invade even the dingy seclusions of the judges and threaten the very existence of the otherwise inattentive politic... ...ively barbaric times. The horse-hair wigs and antic dresses of the British judges, their musty courts and overbearing manners, were indeed only the ou... ...the world until the twentieth century. Then, the growing impatience of the American people with the monstrous and socially paralysing party systems th... ... to become a military power, and maintained a small standing army upon the American model that was said, so far as it went, to be highly efficient, an...

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...ee months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like “Roderick” and like “The American,” it had been designed for publication in The Atlantic Monthly, wh... ...e eigh- teenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumstanc... ... thirty years before, had brought with him, at the top of his baggage, his American physiognomy; and he had not only brought it with him, but he had k... ...fall in love,” he added, by way of explanation, to his father. “The pretty women themselves may be sent flying!” Lord Warburton exclaimed. “No, no, th... ... by means of telegrams, and her telegrams are rather inscrutable. They say women don’t know how to write them, but my mother has thoroughly mastered t... ...er. He slightly inclined himself, smiling; he had an excellent manner with women. The girl appreciated it in an instant; she had not forgotten that th... ... him coarsely. He wished to describe him impersonally, scientifically. “He judges and measures, approves and condemns, altogether by that.” “It’s a ha... ...I take care; never perhaps more than when it ap- pears least. Your husband judges you severely.” Isabel made for a moment no answer to this; she felt ...

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... wind barbed on Norwegian peaks by the brewers of cough and catarrh—horrid women of the whistling clouts, in the pay of our doctors. He braved them; h... ...ong those wheels; and his nerves clutched him, like a troop of house- hold women, to keep him from the hazard of an exposure to the horrid crunch, pit... ...hey let slip of their secrets, and the point of it for penetrating yours”:—women. But no; my dear souls didn’t prick and bother. And they dealt with a... ...the state of sin, as she calls it, if it pleased her.’ ‘She might try. Our Judges look suspiciously on long de- layed actions. And there are, too, wom... ...aks,’ Colney added. And Fenellan improved on him: ‘Or a magnified Bench of Judges at the trial of your caerulean Phryne.’ 72 One of Our Conquerors Th... ...ho decline the use of the gloves, to disperse their humours; not excluding Judges and Magis- trates: he could hardly be in earnest. He spoke in a cler... ... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...nt of commercial matters: rivalries of Banks; Foreign and Municipal Loans, American Rails, and Argen- tine; new Companies of wholesome appearance or s...

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... to be characteristic. It is generally believed that the Aborigines of the American continent have an Asiatic origin. There are many physical as well ... ...ld do, being compelled to set bounds to fancy by experience; but the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that o... ...aid. They were of hostile tribes, brought together by the influence of the American government; and it is worthy of remark, that a common policy led t... ...int to be obtained is to know one’s own mind. Once sure of that, and where women are con- cerned it is not easy, the next is, to act up to the decisio... ...ad fashion, a man, who is too conscientious to misspend his days among the women, in learning the names of black marks, may never hear of the deeds of... ...’t all do, having suffered their cunning enemies, the Maquas, to make them women—but when they will fight at all, look to a Delaware, or a Mohican, fo... ...urned Montcalm, with much apparent indifference, “whom their leader wisely judges to be safer in their works than in the field.” It was now Heyward’s ...

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...egregious sentimentalities, they get into mighty tangles and troubles with women, and he has had his troubles. You will hear of them, for that is the ... ...rst to the limitations of human possibility as we know them in the men and women of this world to-day, and then to all the inhumanity, all the insubor... ...hes, antagonistic diseases, and inimical beasts and vermin, out of men and women with like passions, like un- certainties of mood and desire to our ow... ..., 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... ...eir hands; all our head teachers and disciplin- ary heads of colleges, our judges, barristers, employers of labour beyond a certain limit, practising ...

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...ght have exulted if he had gone back far enough to explain that mystery. The women he had hitherto known had been mainly of his own soft clime, and it... ...er quality, her destiny; nothing could be more distinctly written. There are women who are unmarried by accident, and others who are unmarried by opti... ...celebrated—?’ ‘Yes, the celebrated; the great apostle of the emancipation of women. She is a great friend of Miss Birdseye.’ ‘And who is Miss Birdseye... ...herself. There was a lithographic smoothness about her, and a mixture of the American matron and the public character. There was something public in h... ...and helpless miseries grow greater all the while? I am only a girl, a simple American girl, and of course I haven’t seen much, and there is a great de... ... an idea that in leaving them simply planted face to face (the terror of the American heart) she had so high a warrant; and presently Basil Ransom fel... ...ch my heart!’ Mr. Burrage ob jected, gallantly. ‘Well, I don’t know but she judges you young men fairly,’ said Mrs. Tarrant, with a sigh. Verena, div... ...on’t know the colour of his vest—but he has a kind of fawning manner. Verena judges from that that he is in love with her.’ ‘Perhaps he is,’ said Rans...

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... a mighty fine ship,’ said he, ‘to have no money on board!’ I own I was inspired with sensible repugnance; even with alarm. The ship was mani- festly ... ...epeating mirrors of the tiny cabin, brought us a hundred visitors. The men fathomed out her dimensions with their arms, as their fathers fathomed out ... ...the cooked bread- fruit fills the air, and perhaps the lamp glints already be- tween the pillars and the house, you shall behold them si- lently assem... ...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... ... like the king? Or is not rather the repulsion mutual? and the conscientious Tembinok’, like the conscientious Braxfield before him, and many other co...

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... was crying loud for his breakfast. ‘“What is he?” says Sir Huon, when the womenfolk had drawn him under to feed him. ‘“Full Moon and Morning Star may... ...yes still on the shining stones. ‘Faith, what some men will endure at some women’s hands passes belief! If I had been a man, and a woman had played wi... ... the bedpost, young Burleigh, these kings and queens are very like men and women, and I’ve heard they write each other fond, foolish letters that 27 ... ...will not call them), who are now at large and working more piracies in his American ocean, which the Pope gave him. (He and the Pope should guard it, ... ...shore. None’ll hinder you. They’re all gone mad on these coasts—French and American together. ’Tisn’t my notion o’ war.” Pierre was an old King Louis ... ...s are a seemly, quiet people, and they’d had trouble enough from white men—American and English—during the wars, to keep ‘em in that walk. They lived ... ...ng Harold, and speaks from behind his chair. ‘“No man mocks thee, Who here judges this man? Henry of England—Nigel—De Aquila! On your souls, swift wit...

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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... ...oft, and winning effect,—in this peculiarity of needlework, distinguishing women from men. Our own sex is incapable of any such by-play aside from the... ...is incapable of any such by-play aside from the main business of life; but women—be they of what earthly rank they may, however gifted with intellect ... ...beings. Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they ... ...wishers half laughingly delighted to call her, had been pronounced by good judges incomparably the best copyist in Rome. After minute examination of h... ...ody of wealthy patrons; and these, as the artist well knows, are but blind judges in matters that 100 The Marble Fawn require the utmost delicacy of ...

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...y, in the Dred Scott case, and the separate opinions of all the concurring Judges, expressly declare that the Constitution of the United States neithe... ...e Judge thinks thus; and it so happens that there is a vast portion of the American people that do not look upon that matter as being this very little... ...other much good thereby. There are white men enough to marry all the white women, and enough black men to marry all the black women; and in God’s name... ...anation of the people or not, Judge Douglas, with the Republicans and some Americans, had greatly the argument against the Admin- istration; and while... ... Judge Douglas’s friends furnished twenty , to add to which there were six Americans and ninety-four Republicans. I do not say that I am precisely acc... ... by that of many others. Y ou seem, in pages 84 and 148, to con- sider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions,—a very dan... ...eed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with 43 The...

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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 ... ... ill-natured view of life, and he undertook constantly to believe that all women were fair, all men were brave, and the world was a delightful place o... ...- 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... ...is not a reason for his not going to seek his for- tune. Men must work and women must weep!” “Decidedly not!” said Rowland, with a good deal of em- ph... ...en grateful if Hudson’s susceptibility to the relaxing influence of lovely women might have been limited to such inexpensive tribute as he rendered th... ...who was far from being a sculptor. She was not pretty, as the eye of habit judges prettiness, but when you made the observation you somehow failed to ... ...erick; “you ‘re a better Catholic than the Pope. I shall be content if she judges fairly of me—of my merits, that is. The rest she must not judge at a... ...t. Was it something painful?” “I don’t know how, at the present moment, he judges it. He met the Princess Casamassima.” “Thank you!” said Miss Garland...

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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 ... ...tness and light, that she was more energetic than any of the hulking young women who, with calves bulging in heavy-ribbed woolen stockings beneath dec... ...thed meant to be teachers. Of these there were two sorts: care- less young women who admitted that they intended to leave the “beastly classroom and g... ...f a beautiful town remained. When she encountered an item about small-town women’s clubs or a photograph of a straggling Main Street, she was home- si... ...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... ...gs like this?” she shuddered. She saw the furniture as a circle of elderly judges, condemning her to death by smothering. The tot- tering brocade chai... ...mnly and in tune, like a shop-window of flexible toys, comic mandarins and judges and ducks and clowns, set quivering by a breeze from the open door: ...