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...towed them all away in a shrewd intellect and a vigorous memory. He was an American born, was Captain Jorgan,—a New-Englander,—but he was a citizen of... ...world, and a combination of most of the best qualities of most of its best countries. For Captain Jorgan to sit anywhere in his long-skirted blue coat... ...of nothing,—which was pretended to be found out, I believe, by one of them Latin critters,” said the captain with the deepest disdain; “as if Adam had...

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... seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter....

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...ns of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two continents, wer... ...- tion of the day. How could I be otherwise? I had read and reread all the American and European papers without be- ing any nearer a conclusion. This ... ...ofes- 11 Jules Verne sor, and not give too much cause for laughter to the Americans, who laugh well when they do laugh. I reserved for myself a way o... ...friends and collections—and accepted without hesita- tion the offer of the American Government. “Besides,” thought I, “all roads lead back to Europe; ... ...ed, I tried to remember my first lessons, and to narrate our adventures in Latin, but with no bet- ter success. This last attempt being of no avail, t... ... twentieth time. “We speak to those rogues in French, English, German, and Latin, and not one of them has the politeness to answer!” “Calm yourself,” ... ...he, in a calm and penetrating voice, “I speak French, English, German, and Latin equally well. I could, therefore, have answered you at our first inte... ...ertain to meet sharks, is quite another thing! I know well that in certain countries, particularly in the Andaman Islands, the negroes never hesitate ... ...It was plain to me that this Mediterranean, enclosed in the midst of those countries which he wished to avoid, was distasteful to Captain Nemo. Those ...

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...paper and cane as Tom had done, but with a penny packet of Boys of England American ciga- rettes. His language shocked his father before he was twelve... ...t was that particularly impressed Bert Smallways. “If them Germans or them Americans get hold of this,” he said impressively to his brother, “the Brit... ...r and cigarette shop opposite dis- played such placards as this:— REPORTED AMERICAN ULTIMATUM. BRITAIN MUST FIGHT. OUR INFATUATED WAR OFFICE STILL REF... ...ever the twain shall meet. Instead of which, Egypt, India, and the subject countries generally had produced new generations in a state of pas- sionate... ... Even more pacific than the British Empire were France and its allies, the Latin powers, heavily armed states indeed, but reluctant warriors, and in m... ...the whole world was at war, that he formed any image at all of the crowded countries south of these Arctic solitudes stricken with terror and dismay a... ...n across France, Belgium, Germany, England, Ireland, and a number of other countries. It was an interesting thought and suitable for conversation, but...

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...ion flowering away at home, feeding rankly on rumour; Opinion in neu- tral countries; Opinion getting into great tangles of misun- derstanding and inc... ...rgely made up for by the good will and generous efforts of the English and American press. An interesting monograph might be written upon these variou... ... in their task. The aim of the national intelligence in each of the allied countries is not to exalt one’s own nation and confuse and divide the enemy... ...re of the risk Italy has faced in undertaking this war for an idea. With a Latin lucidity she has counted every risk, and with a Latin idealism she ha... ...ut out a bed of begonias. In Paris I met a charming 50 War and the Future American writer, the wife of a French artist, the lady who wrote My House o... ...nally into the writer’s study there come to hand drifting fragments of the American literature upon the ques- tion of “preparedness,” and American pap... ...ery complicated appliances and mu- nitions now needed for its prosecution. Countries like Mexico, Bulgaria, Serbia, Afghanistan or Abyssinia are no 7... ... would seem that in each case England displays the finer developments. The Latin mind is directer than the English, and its standards—shall I say?—mor... ... situation. Nothing on the same scale is percep- tible in the press of the Latin allies. A great movement on the part of capitalists and business orga...

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... who deserve a special word of condemnation. One of them was Scots; the other claimed to be American; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born i... ...ne, for instance, the composition of which he had bought years ago for five dollars from an American pedlar, and sold the other day for a hundred poun... ...ead break in the course of our enjoyment. STEERAGE TYPES WE HAD A FELLOW on board, an Irish-American, for all the world like a beggar in a print by Ca... ...he children came to their full age they fled the house, and established themselves in other countries; some did well, some not so well; but the father... ...y father’s library was a spot of some austerity; the proceedings of learned societies, some Latin divinity, cyclopaedias, physical science, and, above... ...akes one undivided chamber; here are set forth tables on which to model imaginary or actual countries in putty or plaster, with tools and hardy pigmen... ...e taste; and that the best school for a lover of nature is not to the found in one of those countries where there is no stage effect—nothing salient o...

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...ignificance remains. You may perhaps look with a smile on the profusion of Latin mottoes – some crawling endwise up the shaft of a pillar, some issuin... ... the Orkneys; nor so much as a poor, over-driven, Covenanting slave in the American plantations; but can lay claim to a share in that memorial, and, i... ...song he affected, carry your mind ‘Over the hills and far away’ to distant countries; and you have a vision of Edinburgh not, as you see her, in the m...

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...ject in the light of contrasts. It is absurd for an Anglo Saxon to say: “The Latin is this or that” unless he makes the mental reservation, “or at lea... ...esemblance to the original. Lastly, the use of the labels “Anglo Saxon” and “Latin,” for purposes of easy antithesis, must be defended and apologised ... ...ecific instances. There fore, when he had laid down the principle that every American’s ruling passion is money making, he cast about for an instance,... ... strong in death seems to establish once for all the good old truth that the American cares only for money making; and it was clever of the critic to ... ...an ones as well. It is probable that not a day passes in which the observant American new to France does not reach conclusions as tempting, but as wid... ...change of experience than now that a great cause has drawn the hearts of our countries together while a terrible emergency has broken down most of the... ...s the extraordinary politeness of all the people who are often rude in other countries: post office and railway officials, customs offi cers, policemen,... ...ength and breadth of France, the most fruit loving and fruit cultivating of countries, the same queer conviction prevails, and year after year the gr... ...at ugliness, untidiness and squalor. When industrialism came to the wise old Latin cities—Paris, Lyons, Bor deaux, Florence —their river banks were a...

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...rld peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provision made even for... ...hat does not destroy in these “possessions” the national preference of the countries that own them and 10 What Is Coming? that does not prepare for t... ...tainly, however, thousands of intelligent people in those great Eu- ropean countries who believe themselves ardent for a world peace will be staggered... ...“possessions” are like tar- iffs, like the strategic occupation of neutral countries or se- cret treaties; they are forms of the conflict between nati... ... the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no mo... ... so suicidal a possibility. America too, it may be, will develop some Pan- American equivalent. Probably the hundred millions of Latin America may ach... ...ll develop some Pan- American equivalent. Probably the hundred millions of Latin America may achieve a method of unity, and then deal on equal terms w... ...th a concen- tration and intensity unprecedented before the war, is specu- lating how it can contrive to get a different sort of ruler and administrat... ...t educational process has consisted. Its backbone has been the teaching of Latin by men who can read, write, and speak it rather worse than a third-ra...

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...R X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .......................................................................................................... 169 CHAPTER XII: BUFFALO TO NEW YORK ..........................................................................

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....................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .................................................................... ...t now my primary object. Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well- known and successful ... ...may perhaps be able to add something to the familiarity of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subj... ...logistic; and though true, not offensive. Who has ever traveled in foreign countries without meet- ing excellent stories against the citizens of such ... ...the very one which has made shipwreck so many attempts at freedom in other countries. It argues that confusion between social and political equality w... ...f its kind, and from thence he will take a light wagon, so called in these countries. And here let me pre- sume that the traveler is not alone: he has... ...to understand the cold hearts, correct eyes, and cruel ambition of the old Latin race. In Switzer- land he will surround himself with a flood of grand... ...y interference which is signified to the world by those two unintelligible Latin words. A man’s body shalt not be kept in duress at any man’s will, bu...

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...misfortunes in a lower key, are not wholly undesirable, as means of stimu- lating the lazy energies, and disturbing a slumber which is, or soon will b... ...Catalina spoke: she knew by heart, from the services of the convent, a few Latin phrases. Latin!—Oh, but that was charming; and in one so young! The g... .... The amusement was of the worst kind. It consisted chiefly in conjugating Latin verbs, especially such as were obstinately irregular. T o show him a ... ...after so long a voyage, she only, out of the total crew, was thrown on the American shore, with one hundred and five pounds in her purse of clear gain... ...foot of Kate’s little account. But unhappily for Kate’s début on this vast American stage, the case was otherwise. Mr. Urquiza had the misfortune (equ... ... like the mist that sits, through sultry afternoons, upon the river of the American St. Peter, sometimes rarefying for minutes into sunny gauze, somet... ...companion reproves his want of charity, observing that travellers into far countries have always had a license for lying, as a sort of tax or fine lev... ...are crossing a man’s path on starting in the morning, has been held in all countries alike to prog- nosticate evil in the course of that day. Thus, in... ...reams. Soon after he began again to talk of journeys, of travels in remote countries, &c., and, in consequence, we repeated our former excursion sever...

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... across the sea. As the Guiding Light she was very badly wanted in a South American port for the little matter of entering harbour at full speed, coll... ...e was very nearly sunk, and her riddled hull gave emi- nent lawyers of two countries great profit. After a season she reappeared as the Martin Hunt pa... ...d for the nerves. They had kept the hardest work to the last, as boys save Latin prose, and, worn though they were, Mr. Wardrop did not dare to give t... ...ving-wheels into the brick ash-pit beneath him. 007 was an eight-wheeled “American” loco, slightly different from others of his type, and as he sto... ...ive-cent sidewalk-fakirs’ mechanical toys! Here’ s an eight-wheel coupled ‘American’ don’t know what a hot-box is! Never heard of an emergency-stop ei...

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ... ...lations, and is supposed to be specially conversant with all questions re- lating to foreign affairs. It was understood that Mr. Sumner did not intend... ...all that appertains to them, would cause us to shake and shudder. In other countries we do not see all this, but in the Western States we do. I have e... ...255 Trollope the power of drawing the line of division between the two new countries. That line, so drawn, would have given Virginia, Maryland, Kentuc... ... best effect, is the richest. On this account England is richer than other countries, and is able to bear, almost without the sign of an effort, a bur... ...d justifying a national quarrel. They cannot form a casus belli. Those two Latin words, which we all understand, explain this with the ut- most accura...

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...ng and dancing from the best profes- sors, Italian poetry, French sonnets, Latin epigrams; nothing came amiss to Sidney, the flower of English youth: ... ... meddle not.’ The Austrian priest had no common language with Berenger but Latin. He asked a few questions, and on hear- ing the answers, declared tha... ... own castle, and win fame and honour under the banner of France in the Low Countries. As the Lucy Thistlewood, she was far too discreet to feel any di... ... sitting over letter newly received from London, giving hints from the Low Countries of bloody work in France. And when he returned to his home, his w... ...onsolable for the loss of his friend, had offered to escort him to the Low Countries, whence he would make his way to England, and would present himse... ...y, in her low conventual chant, sang, almost under her breath, the noonday Latin hymn, the words of which, long familiar to Lucy, had never as yet so ... ...in general the scum of the nation—were apt to comport themselves more like American buccaneers than like champions of any form of religion. La Sableri...

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...The ex- ecutives of T wentieth Century Fox had seen Lucas’s previous film, American Graffiti, and vowed to pro- duce Lucas’s next movie. Lucas made a ... ...ces across the country and soon becoming the most successful film in North American history. In 1978, Lucas began production of the second chapter of ... ... however. The very setting of this movie is symbolic of our way of life as Americans. This movie, as its title may suggest, is set in space, a place t... ...e. This is the freedom we fight for when we send our military into foreign countries to overthrow oppres- sive regimes. And this is the soul of the na... .... We are the most diverse country in the world. We have African Americans, Latin Americans, Asian Americans Christians, Jews, Muslims, Bud- dhists, Sc...

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... be no better place to describe the duties, regulations, and customs of an American merchantman, of which ours was a fair specimen. The capta... ...ming out. She hailed us, and an officer on board, whom we supposed to be an American, advised us to run in before night, and said that they were boun... ... board, and soon after, the governor, dressed in a uniform like that of an American militia officer, the Padre, in the dress of the grey friars, wit... ... of curious and useful information in seamanship, ship’s customs, foreign countries, etc., from their long yarns and equally long disputes. No man ... ...tisfaction as I ever felt at Cambridge on seeing a ‘‘bene’’ at the foot of a Latin exercise. - 37 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana CH... ...of the crew, (who indeed knew none at all,) and had been at college and knew Latin, I got the name of a great linguist, and was always sent for by the... ...on my way, and got the word from him; and then, by signs, and the help of my Latin and French, contrived to get along. This was a good exercise for m... ...r crews, in the course of a year, than the masters of vessels from Catholic countries. Yankees don’t keep Christmas, and shipmasters at sea never k...

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...were also whole fields full of ferns, now rusty and withering, which in older countries are commonly confined to wet ground. There were very few flowers,... ...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... ...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, ... ...ing at all, merely keeping up the idea. He then said that he would sing us a Latin song; but we did not detect any Latin, only one or two Greek words ... ...etect any Latin, only one or two Greek words in it, — the rest may have been Latin with the Indian pronunciation. His singing carried me back to the p... ...le midge called the No see em ( Simulium nocivum, the latter word is not the Latin for no see em), especially over the sand at the water’s edge, for i... ... carries, a sound which I had associated only with more open, if not settled countries. The area for locusts must be small in the Maine woods. We were...

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...r the kind priest’s orders. At first they read much and regularly, both in Latin and French; the Father not neglecting in anything to impress his fait... ..., my son, you may testify, with a safe conscience, that you saw me burning Latin sermons the last time I was here before I went away to London; and it... ...rooper. “Hold thy prate, and read that bit of paper,” says Westbury. “’Tis Latin,” says Dick, glancing at it, and again saluting his of- ficer, “and f... ...et mind at finding himself so cheerful. To see with one’s own eyes men and countries, is better than reading all the books of travel in the world: and... ...t was the Com- mander-in-Chief’s intention to carry the war out of the Low Countries, and to march on the Mozelle. Before leaving our camp at Maestric... ..., was a wicked wretch,” the sick sinner continued. “When he was in the Low Countries he seduced a weaver’s daughter; and added to his wickedness by ma... ... is independent in all but the name, (for that 350 Henry Esmond the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe...

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...to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity Till all his Greek and Latin learning seemed A long blast upon the horn that brought A little near... ...s perplexed. He. I have principles to prove me right. It follows from this Latin text That blest souls are not composite, And that all beautiful women... ...assed against the world. THE WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS 245 The First. American colonies, Ireland, France and India Harried, and Burke’s great mel... ...en the wolves, They left their homesteads to fatten the foxes, Fled to far countries, or sheltered themselves In cavern, crevice, hole, Defending Irel... ...en the wolves, They left their homesteads to fatten the foxes, Fled to far countries, or sheltered themselves In cavern, crevice, or hole, Defending I...

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...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...lion pages of documents and interviewed more than 1,200 individuals in ten countries. This included nearly every senior official from the current and ... ...owers of a Saudi exile gathered in one of the most remote and impoverished countries on earth. 46 THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:... ...ern islands.America is also held responsible for the governments of Muslim countries, derided by al Qaeda as “your agents. ” Bin Ladin has stated flat... ...t to be viewed as targeting persons in the United States and possibly vio- lating laws that governed NSA’s collection of foreign intelligence. 68 An a... ...binet, Clarke drew up what he called “Political-Military Plan Delenda.”The Latin delenda, meaning that something “must be destroyed,” evoked the famou...

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...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ...ficiency no better justified than the Britannic. It is so, perhaps, in all countries; perhaps in all, men are most ignorant of the foreigners at home.... ...more sharply marked within the borders of Scotland itself than between the countries. Galloway and Buchan, Lothian and Lochaber, are like foreign part... ... read little, was constant to his favourite books. He had never any Greek; Latin he happily re-taught himself after he had left school, where he was a...