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...le INTRODUCTION TO THE EDITION OF 1892 BY ARTHUR STEDMAN Of the trinity of American authors whose births made the year 1819 a notable one in our liter... ...tsfield, Mass., ‘boarding around’ with the families of his pupils, in true American fashion, and easily suppressing, on one memorable occasion, the ef... ...e remained for four months, employed as a clerk. He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way a... ...rough the dust. But it as well repaid. I intro- duced myself as a Hawaiian-American, and soon found my- self in full tide of talk, or rather of monolo... ...ily wish you many years yet of health and vigour. Your books I have in the American edition. I have ‘T ypee, ‘Omoo,’ ‘Redburn,’ and that noble piece ‘... ... consideration in which the ever-adorable sex is held by the men be—as the philosophers affirm—a just cri- terion of the degree of refinement among a ...

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...he sun, 10 “Three hundred.” Of necessity this scale of measurement, to an American, if he happens to be a thoughtless man, must sound ludicrous. Acco... ...less man, must sound ludicrous. Accordingly, I remember a case in which an American writer indulges himself in the luxury of a little lying, by ascrib... ...o an Englishman a pompous account of the Thames, constructed entirely upon American ideas of grandeur, and concluding in something like these terms:— ... ...onishing distance of one hun- dred and seventy miles.” And this the candid American thinks it fair to contrast with the scale of the Mississippi. Now,... ... in the extent of soil which it drains: yet, if he had been so absurd, the American might have recollected that a river, not to be compared with the T... ... arose, did people (but observe, very great people) advance to four, P .M. Philosophers, who watch the “semina rerum,” and the first symptoms of chang...

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...and passion are two different conditions which poets and men of the world, philosophers and fools, alike con- tinually confound. Love implies a give a... ...ded, holding out a hand, which he kissed. “We will be like two grey-headed philosophers who have learned how to enjoy life to the last moment. I will ... ... island, 128 The Duchesse de Langeais and the crew of the vessel were all American sailors, who spoke nothing but English. One of M. de Montriveau’s ...

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... genial manner, a ready laugh, a long pair of sandy whiskers, a dash of an American accent, a close familiarity with the great American joke, and a ce... ...to time, arrested the flight of my own pen; for women, such as she, are no philosophers, and behold the concrete only. And women, such as she, are ver... ...‘All your what?’ asked Alexander. ‘Stamps—money,’ explained John. ‘It’s an American ex- pression; I’m afraid I contracted one or two.’ ‘I have some,’ ...

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...Philadelphia, whose sympathies, alike with his native land and its liberal philosophers, he evinced by naming his ships after Voltaire, Diderot, and s... ..., Doria, Van Tromp, Jean Bart, the long line of British Admi- rals and the American Decaturs of 1812 become obsolete with their wooden walls. Neverthe...

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...s she met with chapters full of romance and poetry. They were the works of philosophers of the middle ages, such as Albertus Magnus, Cornelius Agrippa... ...d fain do the little in our power towards introducing him favorably to the American public. The ensuing tale is a translation of his “Beatrice; ou la ... ...e—Nature’s generals, her lawgivers, her kings, and with them also the deep philosophers who think the thought in one generation that is to revolutioni... ... reader a few desirable particulars about Drowne himself. He was the first American who is known to have at tempted—in a very humble line, it is true...

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...’ll have to stop here,” said the clerk; “my keys are no good here. It’s an American lock. I’ll get out and slam the door behind me and see if I can fi... ...emocracy, and Secular Education, and Sky Scrapers, and Motor Cars, and the American Invasion, the Scrappy Reading of the Public, and the disappearance... ...a general air of remon- strance. “Giant wasps! What’s the world coming to? American jour- nalists, I suppose! Hang these Novelties! Giant gooseberries... ...ese forces of the New … I don’t know of course. I’m not one of your modern philosophers—explain everything with ether and atoms. Evolution. Rubbish li... ... hi, hi,” bawled the omnibus-drivers, threading a dangerous way. A drunken American sailor wandered about tearfully inquir- ing, “What’s he want anyho...

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...n with Latin for my benefit. It turned upon scientific questions as befits philosophers; but Professor Liedenbrock was excessively reserved, and at ev... ...d in this immense conservatory the antediluvian plants which the wisdom of philosophers has so sagaciously put together again.” “It is a conservatory,... ...waters which were carrying us away exceeded that of the swiftest rapids in American rivers. Its surface seemed com- posed of a sheaf of arrows hurled ...

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...y the most relevant objections. Besides, was he not educat- ing the boy? And education, philosophers are agreed, is the most philosophical of duties. ... ...is an argument exactly suited to your intellectual level – many of them are English and American. Where else should we expect to find a thief? – And n... ...ning life with mountebanks and thieves, passing onward to the society and friendship of philosophers, he may be said to have skimmed the volume of hum...

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...th. Give a thing time; if it can succeed, it is a right thing. Look now at American Saxondom; and at that little Fact of the sailing of the Mayflower,... ... heartily in earnest. In earnest, if ever man was; as none of these French Philosophers were. Nay, one would say, of an earnestness too great for his ... ...appily into the region of Dreams and the Picturesque!—T o such comfortable philosophers, the Three Days of July, 183O, must have been a surprising phe... ...ave it made good; will have them- selves shot, if it be not made good. T o philosophers who had made up their life-system, on that “madness” quietus, ...

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...ed an enor- mous bunch of old trinkets, among which in 1824 he still wore “American beads,” which were very much the fashion in the year VII. In the b... ...ling his cane and of flinging the sort of glance which Bixiou told him was American. He smiled to show his fine teeth; he wore no socks under his boot... ...mple; but above all—and 199 Balzac what I am going to say is intended for philosophers—I wish (if you’ll allow me to misquote a saying of Louis XVIII... ...nd China (where all government officials steal), also that of Austria, the American republics, and indeed that of the whole world, to the fact that fo...

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...ne of his heroes, and of Lancashire origin, strangely!), flew to the South American station, in and about Lord Cochrane’s waters; then as swiftly back... ...g the strong salt of his similes, likening that rascal and his crew to the American weed in our waters, to the rotting wild bees’ nest in our trees, t... ...midshipmite days, whole watches through—don’t you re- member? on the North American station, and in the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean. And that gir... ...ut, for the honour of it. What’s that story they tell of you in one of the American cities or watering-places, North or South? You 153 George Meredit... ...t to be visited by the guests at T ourdestelle. In common with some French philosophers and English matrons, he cherished a sentimental sad enthusiasm... ...reak- fast-table to the stables, and gallop away to the station, while the American Quaker gentleman soberly paced down a street in Paris on the same ... ... small things producing great consequences, which have inspired diminutive philosophers with ironical visions of history and the littleness of man), i... ... without ques- tion of man’s taking that which he has conquered. Poets and philosophers did the same. Again she beheld Nevil Beauchamp solitary in the...

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...over the way. ‘Such,’ thought Mr. Pickwick, ‘are the narrow views of those philosophers who, content with examining the things that lie before them, l... ...ed—take home the lady —do for T uppy.’ Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all. The shaft had reached him, ... ... or other happened, from time immemorial, that many of the best and ablest philosophers, who have been perfect lights of science in matters of theory,... ...f steps, leading to the house door, which was guarded on either side by an American aloe in a green tub, the sedan chair stopped. Mr. Pickwick and his... ...turn both Mr. Jingle and his attendant, down the flight of steps, into the American aloe tubs that stood beneath. ‘Having discharged my duty, Sir,’ sa...

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...that that stand out in life. Nothing’s been quite so vivid since. It’s the philosophers, it’s the scholars,” he continued, “they’re the people who pas... ...“which shall it be?” “Balzac,” said Rachel, “or have you the Speech on the American Revolution, Uncle Ridley?” “The Speech on the American Revolution?... ...d me than any one I’ve ever met.” 196 The Voyage Out “What about the five philosophers?” said Helen, with a laugh, stitching firmly and swiftly at he... ... she darted and ejaculated he gave Rachel a sketch of the history of South American art. He would deal with one of his wife’s exclamations, and then r... ...essness to think or to look. She was turning over the slippery pages of an American magazine, when the hall door swung, a wedge of light fell upon the...

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...y) takes his determination, votes for the six- pences, and in the emphatic Americanism, it “goes for” them. And while such an one is ploughing distres... ... yet, when one comes to think upon it calmly, the situation of these South American citizens forms only a very pale figure for the state of ordinary m... ...y at the truck, but who would climb into a sea-going ship? Think (if these philosophers were right) with what a preparation of spirit we should affron...

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...therwise iden tical with it. She was dressed as simply as possible, in an American print (I think the dry goods people call it so), but with a silken... ...banditti, than either a company of honest labor ing men, or a conclave of philosophers. Whatever might be our points of difference, we all of us seem... ... fall 133 Hawthorne in love with Priscilla. In society, indeed, a genuine American never dreams of stepping across the inappreciable air line which s...

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...ountries, a cold and lifeless state of public religion prevailed up to the American and French Revolutions. These great events gave a shock everywhere... ...t is litterateurs) and arithmeticians, the poor remains of the orators and philosophers of the past, and engaged them to accompany him from Italy to F... ...entire tribes of those savages, and, upon a scale still more awful, to the American Indians. In such cases, mere strangers would 132 Theological Essa...

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... The First Men in the Moon emption. I recalled the old Spanish monopoly in American gold. It wasn’t as though it was just this planet or that—it was a... ...s and sailing; why should the moon people?… “Well, suppose there are a few philosophers like yourself. They are just the very Selenites who’ll never h... ...at began the century, arising out an announcement by Mr. Nikola Tesla, the American electrical celebrity, that he had received a message from Mars. Hi...

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...me accordingly, with their waters and whey. In this respect physicians and philosophers differ widely from theologians; admitting the truth only of wh... ... with mine. T o prove this by experience, I taught music gratis to a young American lady, Mademoiselle des Roulins, with whom M. Roguin had brought me... ...tributed amongst all the beggars on the rampart. You are pleasant men, you philosophers, while you consider the inhabitants of the cities as the only ... ...into the company of the great, as well as that of the women, devotees, and philosophers. He knew how to accommodate himself to every one. I was greatl... ...she protected, took up the quarrel, and revenged her by the comedy of ‘The Philosophers’, in which I was ridiculed, and Diderot very roughly handled. ... ... exclusively, and that when they choose to become women, women will become philosophers. “I will communicate to you whatever Madam de Luxem- bourg may... ...ly connected with him to pass his name over in silence. M. du Perou was an American, son to a commandant of Surinam, whose successor, M. le Chambrier,...

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...ing man and woman! I have no wish to controvert what has been laid down by philosophers or legislators—they are quite capable of do- ing this for them... ...letter told Marie that he had been ap- pointed Captain in the navy of some American republic, and exhorted him to hope for better days. Alas! since th... ...s, and only shows how well we deserve the epithet of children, bestowed by philosophers on our sex.” She continued talking thus in the gentle voice yo...