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... tottered – went over on its side again like a shot, and behold the end of our labour. Y ou see, I have been roughing it; and though some parts of the... ...id-winter for cold, and rained incessantly so hard that the livid white of our cold-pinched faces wore a sort of inflamed rash on the windward side. I... ...chooner ashore. B the salmon house. She was a Norwegian: coming in she saw our first gauge- pole, standing at point E. Norse skipper thought it was a ... ...ically however: that will come, I suppose, like grey hair or coffin nails. Our pole is snapped: a fortnight’s work and the loss of the Norse schooner ... ... that is a feature in art which seems to have come in with the Italians. Y our old Greek statues have scarce enough vitality in them to keep their mon... ...len- der reed, and troll a few staves of Panic ecstasy – but fy! fy! as my ancestors observed, the last is too easy for a man of my feet and inches. A...

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...our too, when Damiens wounded Royalty ‘slightly, under the fifth rib,’ and our drive to Trianon went off futile, in shrieks and madly shaken torches,—... ...ot we; which we can work with, and live amidst,—and model, miraculously in our miraculous Being, and name World.— But if the very Rocks and Rivers (as... ..., King by the Grace of God, what sounds are these; muffled ominous, new in our centuries? Boston Harbour is black with unexpected Tea: behold a Pennsy... ... ler-throne, and with clanging armour and hearts, said sol- emnly: Be thou our Acknowledged Strongest! In such Ac- knowledged Strongest (well named Ki... ...n it); till it also had grown world-great, and was among the main Facts of our modern existence. Such a Fact, that Louis XIV., for example, could answ... ... separate verification being clearly the proper consti- tutional wisdom-of-ancestors method;—as they the No- blesse will have much pleasure in demonst...

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...ill probably be more.” “My! isn’t it wonderful? By gracious! luck has come our way at last, after all the hard sledding, Aleck!” “Well?” “I’m going to... ...d: “Don’t be impatient. We are prospering; we can wait; there is no hurry. Our small dead certain income increases all the time; and as to futures, I ... ...ly to its enchant ments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fanta sies—oh... ...elves with their beguiling fanta sies—oh yes, and how soon and how easily our dram life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused tog... ... and each in its turn vanished away; until now in these latter great days, our dreamers were in fancy housed, in a dis tant region, in a sumptuous va... ... that of Squire Valeer . For my life I 109 Mark Twain cannot see that my ancestors are inferior to those who are so bitterly opposed to my marriage ... ...ies that have been fulfilled. I will remark here, in passing, that certain ancestors of mine are so thoroughly well known in history by their aliases,... ...to me. My own history would really seem so tame contrasted with that of my ancestors, that it is simply wisdom to leave it unwritten until I am hanged...

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...ut in each case it will be found that their authentic- ity, their right to our attention and credence, ultimately rests upon the biographical element ... ...y the small portion which we have of the table-talk and other anecdotes of our cel- 20 Boswell’s Life of Johnson ebrated writers is valued, and how e... ...long in this country, as to the virtue of the regal touch; a notion, which our kings encour- aged, and to which a man of such inquiry and 25 Boswell’... ...ith David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this char- acter of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man! I am disappointed by that... ...i- ous awe, which made it necessary to have re- course to such devices. In our time it has ac- quired an unrestrained freedom, so that the people in a... ...nce. He took delight in hearing my description of the romantick seat of my ancestors. ‘I must be there, Sir, (said he) and we will live in the old cas... ... speech of Juliet, in which she figures herself awaking in the tomb of her ancestors. Some one mentioned the de- scription of Dover Cliff. Johnson. ‘N... ...land?’ I said, ‘I should not like to be so long absent from the seat of my ancestors.’ This gentleman, Mrs. Williams, and Mr. Levet, dined with us. Mr... ...on,) I should like to stay here four-and-twenty hours. We see here how our ancestors lived.’ ‘TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. ‘DEAR SIR,—I heard yesterday of ...

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...hrown very much into the society of the nicer English. Paris, you see, was our home. Some- where between Nice and Bordighera provided yearly winter qu... ...youth. The reason for poor Florence’s broken years was a storm at sea upon our first crossing to Europe, and the immediate reasons for our imprisonmen... ...reas I am forty-five and Leonora forty. You will perceive, therefore, that our friendship has been a young-middle-aged affair, since we were all of us... ...hole sack of Rome by the Goths, and I swear to you that the breaking up of our little four-square coterie was such another un- thinkable event. Suppos... ...r crashing days at the end of nine years and six weeks. Upon my word, yes, our intimacy was like a minuet, simply because on every possible occasion a... ...e cold—was to get to Fordingbridge and be a county lady in the home of her ancestors. But Jimmy got her, there: he shut on her the door of the Channel... ...ridge, and, though he could not give her Branshaw Manor , that home of her ancestors being settled on his wife, she could at least have pretty conside... ...lf and yet letting his boys be educated in the religion of their immediate ancestors. This may appear illogical, but I dare say it is not so illogical... ...itors of his name or beneficiaries by the death 95 Ford Madox Ford of his ancestors. About the girls it did not so much matter. They would know other...

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...ntle- men who stickle for the Plague as part and parcel of the wis- dom of our ancestors, and who do their little best to keep those dwellings miserab... ...- men who stickle for the Plague as part and parcel of the wis- dom of our ancestors, and who do their little best to keep those dwellings miserable!)... ...hink so, I believe. I hope neither of us may ever have any cause to lessen our opinion of the other, Lucretia.’ ‘I am sure of it,’ returned Miss T ox.... ...at- ever my wishes might be, I could not respect them. We can- not command our feelings to such an extent as that.’ Miss T ox assented, without being ... ...at she should ever have conceived the base idea of connecting herself with our family by a marriage with Paul! T o think that when she was playing at ... ...dith,’ said her mother, ‘what you were when you were about the same age as our exceed- ingly precious Florence, or a few years younger?’ ‘I have long ...

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...nse the Boeotian poetry may be taken to have its germ in maxims similar to our English ‘Till May be out, ne’er cast a clout,’ or ‘A rainbow in the mor... ... attribution is remarkable — the veneration paid to Hesiod. Life of Hesiod Our information respecting Hesiod is derived in the main from notices and a... ...lis and settled in Boeotia. There is fairly defi- nite evidence to warrant our acceptance of this: the dialect of the Works and Days is shown by Rzach... ... Hellenic race. From the daughters of Deucalion sprang Magnes and Macedon, ancestors of the Magnesians and Macedonians, who are thus represented as co... ...s and Days” 169 a-d, and the improved readings ib. 278, “Theogony” 91, 93. Our chief gains from papyri are the numerous and excellent fragments of the... .... But you shall have no second chance to deal so again: nay, let us settle our dispute here with true judge- ment divided our inheritance, but you sei...

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...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics ...

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...smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding, fun, and friendshi... ...We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such... ...may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. 13. He Unchained Books T... ...h Language William Caxton’s print shop helps standardize The Treasure of Our Tongue, and Henry VIII’s first act as ―pope‖ orders and then funds the... ...ech—Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ―It is a matter of most importance that our government protect the right of every citizen to have access to knowle... ...he wedding of information and technology took place when our Homo sapiens ancestors first made their appearance on this planet. Somehow, that coupl... ...tands God‘s words and enunciates his own. Anthropologists say that our ancestors had been more prey than predator for millions of years before ma... ... Abstract, generalize, and synthesize. Fully articulated speech let our ancestors share the knowledge that helped them control fire and master th... ...ooks cited the evolutionists‘ Savannah theory, believing that our apelike ancestors did the following:  Moved out of the forests onto Africa‘s gr...

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...own into your heart and brain out of the hearts and brains of centuries of ancestors. personally you did not create even the smallest microscopic fra... ...ou and I are but sewing machines. We must turn out what we can; we must do our endeavor and care nothing at all when the unthinking reproach us for no... ... we made your house your home, you were welcome to all we had, and this is our reward .” The heart of the Infidel was filled with remorse for what he ... ...aith both of us were happy. Now he is dead, —and lost; and I am miserable. Our faith came down to us through centuries of believing ancestors; what ri... ...d I am miserable. Our faith came down to us through centuries of believing ancestors; what right had you, or any one, to disturb it? Where was your ho... ...u do this cruel thing? We had done you no harm, but only kindness; we made our house your home, you were wel come to all we had, and this is our rewa... ...faith both of us were happy. Now he is dead —and lost; and I am miserable. Our faith came down to us through centuries of believing ancestors; what ri... ...d I am miserable. Our faith came down to us through centuries of believing ancestors; what right had you or any one, to disturb it? Where was your hon... ...e inflow of English and other immigrants another; their drift westward (my ancestors among them) another; the settlement of certain of them in Missour...

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... Heroic ages, ’twas of Kings and Heroes that the Poet spake. But in these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To... ...rger vehicle from the green metropolitan suburbs (the Hang- ing Gardens of our Babylon), in which every traveller might, for a modest remuneration, ta... ...ments shone upon Chepe, there stood one a century back (about which period our tale opens) devoted to the sale of Colonial produce. A rudely carved im... ...om the country of Confutzee—that heap of dark produce bore the legend “Try Our Real Nut”—’Twas Cocoa—and that nut the Cocoa-nut, whose milk has refres... ...is low; they’re fourpence-halfpenny a pound. Would ye mayhap make trial of our teas? We do not advertise, as some folks do: but sell as low as any oth... ... war, Raoul, the twenty-eighth Baron, was in no-wise inferior to his noble ancestors. That the Baron Raoul levied toll upon the river and mail upon th... ...rty score of British bows kept twanging to the chorus! O knights, my noble ancestors! and shall I never hear Saint Willibald for Bareacres through bat... ...have had none. I will endow you with the true, the real freedom. When your ancestors burst over the Alps, were they not free? Y es; free to conquer. L... ...alls of the palace; they seated the seventeenth Louis on the throne of his ancestors; and the Parisians read in the Journal des Debats, of the fifth o...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch st...

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.... . . . . . 191 BOOK I. PRELIMINARY 3 CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY C ONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has n... ...he way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravitation is as good as perfect: Lagrange, it is well kno... ...ses that it could not have been made on any other scheme. Whereby, at least, our nautical Logbooks can be better kept; and water transport of all kin... ... commodious. Of Geology and Geognosy we know enough: what with the labors of our Werners and Huttons, what with the ardent genius of their disciples, ... ...the question, How the apples were got in, presented difficulties. Why mention our disquisitions on the Social Contract, on the Standard of Taste, on th... ...ed with a true though perhaps a feeble attachment to the Institutions of our Ancestors; and minded to defend these, according to ability, at all hazar...

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...s in a dead language until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Such, moreover, is the complexity of life, that when we condescend upon details in our advice, we may be sure we condescend on error; and the best of education is to throw out some magnanimous hints. No man was ever so poor that he could express all he has in him by words, looks, or actions; his true knowle...

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...over, is the complexity of life, that when we conde- scend upon details in our advice, we may be sure we conde- scend on error; and the best of educat... ...d scattered words; the meaning re- mains buried; and the language in which our prophet speaks to us is a dead language in our ears. T ake a few of Chr... ...anguage in our ears. T ake a few of Christ’s sayings and compare them with our current doctrines. ‘Ye cannot,’ he says, ‘Serve God and mammon.’ Cannot... ...rrent doctrines. ‘Ye cannot,’ he says, ‘Serve God and mammon.’ Cannot? And our whole system is to teach us how we can! ‘The children of this world are... ...moral position. All we believe, all we hope, all we honour in ourselves or our contemporaries, stands condemned in this one sentence, or, if you take ... ...house. You belong, sir, to a sect– I believe my sect, and that in which my ancestors laboured– which has enjoyed, and partly failed to utilise, an exc... ...die, if he could have left the estates undiminished to an heir-male of his ancestors, that duty standing first in his instinctive calendar. And now he...

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...of the mere merit or demerit of his poetry. “We cannot bear a Papist to be our principal bard,” said one class. “No T ory for our translator of Homer,... ... while Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Bowles, have underrated him. It shall be our endeavour, in our succeeding remarks, to steer a middle course between ... ...s in placing him on a level with Chaucer, Shakspeare, Spenser, and Milton, our remarks will show that we think it as vain as superfluous. 10 The Poet... ...l or artificial objects be better suited for the treatment of the poet. In our life of Bowles we promised, and shall now proceed to attempt, a short r... ...eaera’s hair,” far less with the “golden tresses” and “wanton ringlets” of our primeval parent in the garden of Eden. Shakspeare, on the other hand, w... ...d? Be this thy comfort, that ’tis thine t’ efface, With virtuous acts, thy ancestors’ disgrace, And be thyself the honour of thy race. But see! the st... ... old his cup extends, Which whoso tastes forgets his former friends, Sire, ancestors, himself. One casts his eyes Up to a star, and like Endymion dies... ...taken upon them to adulterate the common and current sense of our glorious ancestors, poets of this realm, by clipping, coining, defacing the images, ...

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...EST A T KENSINGTON. ....................................... 397 CHAPTER XI OUR GUEST QUITS US AS NOT BEING HOSPITABLE ENOUGH. ........................... ... regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am, Y our obliged friend and servant, W. M. Thackeray. London, October 18, 1852. ... ...NDS OF VIRGINIA. THE ESTATE OF CASTLEWOOD, in Virginia, which was given to our ancestors by King Charles the First, as some return for the sacrifices ... ...OF VIRGINIA. THE ESTATE OF CASTLEWOOD, in Virginia, which was given to our ancestors by King Charles the First, as some return for the sacrifices made... ...rly times its revenues were but small. Indeed, for near eighty years after our forefathers possessed them, our plantations were in the hands of factor... ...ds of tobacco were all the produce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored fathe... ...tary Grand Bootjack of the Empire, and the heir to that honor of which his ancestors had been very proud, having been kicked for twenty generations by... ...nce of the Don: “That he and his council had the generous example of their ancestors to follow, who had never yet sought their elevation in the blood ... ...at? Y ou who have seen Blenheim and Ramillies, afraid of the French! Y our ancestors and mine, and brave old Webb’s yonder, have met them in a hundred...

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... what they were about.” These words are reported as having been uttered in our midst not a hundred years ago, publicly, from the seat of justice, by a... ...o, publicly, from the seat of justice, by a civic magistrate. The words of our municipal rulers have a solemnity and im- portance far above the words ... ...solemnity and im- portance far above the words of other mortals, be- cause our municipal rulers more than any other va- riety of our governors and mas... ...cts, of all men’s creations, books are the nearest to us, for they contain our very thought, our ambitions, our indig- nations, our illusions, our fid... ...r ambitions, our indig- nations, our illusions, our fidelity to truth, and our persistent leaning towards error. But most of all they resemble us in t... ...enting an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors. It is a weakness of inferior minds when it is not the cun- ning ...

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...where cha- grin, crime, and folly are forever on hand to pursue implacably our hopes, nullify our virtues, and anni- hilate our wisdom. But this is no... ...un- breakable, and justly credited him with the sound- est constitution of our band, as well as with the clearest mind and the sanest reason. It was t... ....” * * * * * * * 9 Selected Writings “Alas! through all our senses slips life itself away.” This ending of the “Water’s Edge” is le... ...y finds itself in a rela- tion cruelly exact with the half-civilization of our day. By that I mean the poorly educated individual who has rubbed again... ...oil. It is enough that the critics of to-day place Guy de Maupassant among our classic writers. He has his place in the ranks of pure French genius, w... ... pro- found and delicate roots which attach a man to the soil on which his ancestors were born and died, to their traditions, their usages, their food...

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...ength and completeness; nay, if we can forget for a moment, all that we in our youth learned to call beautiful, not less beautiful. A Finn is not a Gr... ... inward urging, I am ready now for singing, Ready to begin the chanting Of our nation’s ancient folk song Handed down from by gone ages. In my mouth t... ...of the times forgotten, Since we now are here together, Come together from our roamings. 31 The Kalevala Seldom do we come for singing, Seldom to the... ... cold and cruel country, O’er the poor soil of the Northland. Let us clasp our hands together That we thus may best remember. Join we now in merry sin... ...ing from the water only. Bring me too a cup of strong beer, It will add to our enchantment, To the pleasure of the evening, Northland’s long and drear... ...come to thy mother’s hearth stone, To the dwelling of thy father, By thine ancestors erected!” Straightway came great Ilmarinen To his cottage drove t... ...he master words of knowledge, Words that came from distant ages, Words his ancestors had taught him, Words his mother learned in childhood, These the ...

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...hi forced him to remember Bianchi. The enraged hero was the first to plant our flag on the wall, where he was shot by a monk. This historical digressi... ...ere my daughter I should take less precau- tions. The child is confided to our care, and I would rather die than see any evil happen to her. But how i... ...fiore in Italian. “I will keep your secret. The devil! we have generals in our army who are capable of abducting her.” Montefiore’s infatuation went s... ...fire beneath the crucible in which fortunes were melted up and the gold of ancestors and the honor of great names evaporated, proceeded from a cause, ... ...ays women of that sort had a certain rank in the world of which nothing in our day can give an idea. Ninon de l’Enclos and Marian Delorme have alone p... ...uarter of the world she may be living, when she hears of the occupation of our province by your armies, and of the siege of Tarragona, she will assure...

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... among the states of Europe, which grew out of the troubles in Bohemia, is our guar- antee for the continuance of that peace which was the result of t... ...Roman Catholics to the foundations 143 Friedrich Schiller of their common ancestors, might be strongly pleaded by them as a valid title. Besides the ... ...ntending par- ties. This prerogative he founded upon the prac- tice of his ancestors, and its previous recogni- tion even by Protestant states. Saxony... ...ne of coast in Sweden to defend. If the enemy’s fleet should escape us, or our own be defeated, it would, in either case, be impos- sible to prevent t... ... us talk no more, then, of a de- fensive war, by which we should sacrifice our greatest advantages. Sweden must not be doomed to behold a hostile bann... ...s. Fortune is change- able, and the inscrutable decrees of Heaven may, for our sins, give the victory to our en- emies. My kingdom, it is true, even a... ...ng alliance with two hos- tile powers, had no resource left but to endeav- our to put a speedy termination to their hostili- ties; and as little incli...

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...alect as in the hundred miles between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Book English has gone round the world, but at home we still preserve the racy idioms of our fathers, and every county, in some parts every dale, has its own quality of speech, vocal or verbal. In like manner, local custom and prejudice, even local religion and local law, linger on into the latter end of the nine...

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...has gone round the world, but at home we still preserve the racy idioms of our fathers, and every county, in some parts every dale, has its own qualit... ...ousins from beyond the sea; I grill in my blood over the silly rudeness of our newspaper articles; and I do not know where to look when I find myself ... ...nk in matter, insolent, gross and servile, makes a startling contrast with our own long-legged, long-headed, thoughtful, Bible-quoting ploughman. A we... ...ould have been thus forgotten. Even the educated and intelligent, who hold our own opinions and speak in our own words, yet seem to hold them with a d... ...study the intellectual power of each is plainly demonstrated to the other. Our tasks ended, we of the North go forth as freemen into the humming, lamp... ...ture, one that lies at the founda- tions of life, in which we have all had ancestors employed, so that on a hint of it ancestral memories revive, lend... ...s that I have never done or seen, it is one of that innumerable army of my ancestors rejoicing in past deeds. Thus novels begin to touch not the fine ... ... way of meet- ing other homunculos or part-men, in the persons of my other ancestors. These were of a lower order, and doubtless we looked down upon t... ...ator. 75 Memories and Portraits “a gale upon their spirits,” as our pious ancestors would phrase it; to have their wits well breathed in an uproariou...