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..., in truth they had both sighed to back amongst the 4 The Duke’s Children war-trumpets. They had both suffered much among the trumpets, and yet they ... ...three of four,— of English gentlemen who had come up from a former Carlist war, bearing the title of colonel, without any con- tradiction or invidious... ...llope quiet;—but then you wished me to be in the House. They were all very civil to me at Silverbridge, but there was very little said. ‘Your affectio... ...ing that they would like to lick the Russians, or to get the better of the Americans in a matter of fisheries or frontiers. But he invented a pseudo-p... ... said you came to see me, you know. Have you met Miss Boncassen yet?’ ‘The American beauty? No. Is she here?’ ‘Yes; and she particularly wants to be ... ... standing there amidst a crowd, and to Miss Boncassen. Mr Boncassen was an American who had lately arrived in England with the object of carrying out ... ...aiden- head. Mr Boncassen had looked about for some means of returning the civilities offered to him, and had been insti- gated by Mrs Montacute Jones... ... myself. I’m as honest as another man. ’ ‘That’s of course, said the Major civilly. ‘But if I don’t keep my mouth shut, somebody’ll have my teeth out ... ... hope, that I should make no inquiry into the matter, unless I felt myself war- ranted in doing so by what you had yourself told me in London. ’ ‘I un...

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...e with Maule’s malediction in The story. Furthermore, there occurs in The “American Note-Books” (August 27, 1837), a reminiscence of The author’s fami... ...nt of lands in Waldo County, Maine, owned by the Pyncheon family. In the “ American Note-Books” there is an entry, dated August 12, 1837, which speaks... ...n Gables, antique as it now looks, was not the first habitation erected by civilized man on pre- cisely the same spot of ground. Pyncheon Street forme... ...nswered Phoebe, and added, with a little air of lady-like assumption (for, civil as the gentleman was, he evidently took her to be a young person serv... ...ess still in his garb and mien, and a red-coated officer of the old French war; and there comes the shop-keeping Pyncheon of a century ago, with the r...

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...ith restrained eagerness, as she tried to curb her tone into the requisite civility. “Good-morning, Ethel, good-morning, Flora,” said the prim, middle... ...ck, and all Margaret’s work will be un- done. No notice to us—not even the civility to wait and see when she gets better.” “If we left them now for Co... ...were over!” said Norman, with a yawn, as expressive as a sigh. “That’s not civil, on the third day,” said Margaret, smiling, “when I am so glad to hav... ...k- ing that he deemed it, as he tried to do himself, merely the fortune of war, and was sensible of no injury. And, for Norman himself, when the first... ... own brother. It was believed that the Alcestis was destined for the South American station. “A three years’ business,” said Dr. May, with a sigh. “Bu... ... up.” “Wrong?” said Ethel. “Of course. It would be against the articles of war,” said Harry, opening his door another inch. “But, Ritchie, I say, do t... ...cussed the delightful probability, that this might have been raised in the war with Caractacus, whence, argued Ethel, since Caractacus was certainly A... ...e enough, and they saw our signal of distress!” The vessel proved to be an American whaler, which had just parted with her cargo to a homeward bound s... ... hunt him up.” Flora supposed he meant a directory; and all possible South American merchants having been overlooked, and the Mack- intoshes selected,...

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...id Blondet; “but we, and we alone, can comprehend that this means bringing war into the financial world. A banker is a conquering general making sacri... ...self, ‘It is silly to care so much about other people.’ But while I was in civil service, I was fool enough to take a personal interest in the houses ... ...ngen had purposely and with his eyes open invested his five millions in an American investment, foreseeing that the profits would not come in until it... ...on has lost us more victories here in France than the vexatious chances of war. I once spent seven years in the hulks of a government depart- ment, ch... ...air dancing saloons at the barriers; him he engaged to play the part of an American captain staying at Meurice’s and buying for export trade. He was t... ...to the woolen weaver and rushed upon the stock. After that, no more of the American captain, you understand, and great plenty of caps. If you interfer...

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...e) the arrival of a nephew whom she had not seen since the outbreak of the war with Spain, the old lady took off her spectacles with alacrity, shut th... ...was detained, like 25 Balzac all his fellow-countrymen, by Bonaparte when war broke out. That monster cannot live without fighting. The young English... ...- fices of inclination demanded by its laws? If you accept the benefits of civilized society, do you not by implication en- gage to observe the condit... ... woman, and springs per- haps from a natural virtue which neither laws nor civilization can silence. And who shall dare to blame women? If a woman can... ...he vast fortunes of great houses now brought low beneath the hammer of the Civil Code. 66 A Woman of Thirty Should any artist or dreamer of dreams ch... ...ded. And so they went, and the father returned to his home again. Then the war began. He had letters from Fleurus, and again from Ligny. All went well... ...s of him; but a few days before Spain recog- nized the independence of the American Republics, he wrote that he was coming home. 141 Balzac So, one f... ...rcelain vases painted by Madame Jacotot; tiny South 150 A Woman of Thirty American birds, like living rubies, sapphires, and gold, hov- ered among th...

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...arents’ wish not to expose him to the dreadful chances of 4 Louis Lambert war; and, indeed, his taste for study and precocious intelli- gence gave gr... ...le in Greece, but grow weaker under the progress of suc- cessive phases of civilization? “Is it to this time-honored spirit that we owe the mysteries ... ... strange state of affairs inevitably and in fact placed us on a footing of war with all the other boys in our division. Forgotten for the most part, w... ...k him. She found him, with- out a guide, making her way alone in the North American wilderness, reaching him just in time to save his life. Louis had ... ...tem of government—for the Books of Moses are a reli- gious, political, and civil code—that character bears the au- thority of terror; convulsions of n... ...epicts the state of his mind as it was struck by the spectacle of Parisian civilization. His feelings, perpetually wounded no doubt in that whirlpool ...

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...Excerpt: Preface To The American Edition. On the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two consider...

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...evenson Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. ON THE DEATH OF FLEEMING JENKIN, his family and friends d... ...ll out, took refuge in the Marines, and was lost on the Dogger Bank in the war-ship Minotaur. If he did not marry below him, like his father, his sist... ...e, 64, that the lad made his only campaign. It was in the days of Rodney’s war, when the Prothee, we read, captured two large privateers to windward o... ...r of medicine, so that when the crash came he was not empty-handed for the war of life. Charles, at the day-school of Northiam, grew so well ac- quain... ...h laugh at us a little, and call out Goddam in the streets; but to-day, in civil war, when they might have put a bullet through our heads, I never was... ...self. Whatever virtues Fleeming pos- sessed, he could never count on being civil; whatever brave, true-hearted qualities he was able to admire in Mrs.... ... the morrow of his return. She had been used to the society of lawyers and civil servants, moving in that circle which seems to itself the pivot of th... ...s.’ A TELEGRAM OF JULY 20: ‘I have received your four welcome letters. The Americans are charming people.’ VI. AND HERE TO MAKE AN END are a few rando... ...phonograph which to our great joy talked, and talked, too, with the purest American accent. It was so good that a second instrument was got ready fort...

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...le English; she tells me she had to learn it in order to converse with the Americans who come in such numbers to this hotel. She has given me a great ... ... if I should gain all I desire. 6 A Bundle of Letters I meet a great many Americans, who, as a general thing, I must say, are not as polite to me as ... ...gentlemen— are much more what I should call attetive. I don’t know whether Americans are more sincere; I haven’t yet made up my mind about that. The o... ...ey call it, is rather odd, and exceedingly foreign; but she is wonderfully civil, and is perpetually sending to my door to see if I want anything. The... ...o care what my nationality is, and I am treated, on the contrary, with the civility which is the portion of every traveller who pays the bill without ... ... the very definite image the German personality pre- sented to them by the war of 1870, they have at present no distinct apprehension of its existence... ... has more of the freshness and vigour that we suppose to belong to a young civilisation. But unfortunately she pro- duces nothing but evil, and her ta...

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...lish-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more... ...e aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more com- plete than American thought is yet prepared for, but that is a difference not of quali... ...ed develop principles of primary importance in the fundamen- tal schism of American politics between the local State gov- ernment and the central powe... ...ccess or failure with that unending stream of babies is the measure of our civilization; every in- stitution stands or falls by its contribution to th... ...c to so many of our innovations. I believe that if a canvass of the entire civilized world were put to the vote in this matter, the proposition that i... ...s that have had fermented drinks the longest are also those that have been civilized the longest. The passage of a 40 Mankind in the Making people fr... ...d training “gentlemen.” When they met them socially no doubt was meant; in war the disadvantage might prove the other way about. 157 H G Wells the st... ...races are making our struggle in our turn. Slavery still fights a guerilla war in factory and farm, cruelty and violence peep from every slum, barbari...

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...wenty-six years after Shakspeare’s death commenced the great parliamentary war. This it was, and the local feuds arising to divide family from family,... ...even if we extend its duration to the surrender of the last garrison, that war ter- minated in the spring of 1646. And the brief explosions of insurre... ...battle of Worcester, more than five years after. This is true; but a short war will do much to efface recent and merely personal memorials. And the fo... ...o house, gleaning those personal re- membrances which, even in the fury of civil strife, might long have lingered by the chimney corner. But the fierc... ...sion, amongst his almost idolatrous supporters, a great king distracted by civil wars, a mighty republican poet distracted by puritanical fanaticism, ... ...he whole weight of his name and personal responsibility, (M Simond, now an American citizen,) records the following abominable scene as one of no unco... ...urse. But to him, and, as he sincerely hoped, to his son, the strife after civil honors was sternly barred. Apostasy only could lay it open. And, as t...

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...me you know, on the fair land of France, in the character of a smuggler of war material. However, they had never arrested or expelled him, since he wa... ...ried, astonished. “Y ou can’t bribe the French Customs. This isn’t a South-American republic.” 13 Joseph Conrad “Is it a republic?” he murmured, very... ...r any remark. He inquired with extreme politeness what did I know of South American republics? I confessed that I knew very little of them. W andering... ...ooks are nothing. I discovered that I had never been aware before that the Civil War in America was not printed matter but a fact only about ten years... ...re nothing. I discovered that I had never been aware before that the Civil War in America was not printed matter but a fact only about ten years old. ... ...as furious, too,” Blunt continued dispassion- ately. “But he was extremely civil. He showed her all the ‘trea- sures’ in the room, ivories, enamels, m... ...ese were the first words with which the world greeted her, or should I say civilization did; already both her native mountains and the cavern of orang... ...re- spect. It was even said that the inspiration and the resolution of the war going on now over the Pyrenees had come out from that head… Some of the... ..., Madame Leonore,” I said, amused by her expression of disgust. “That’s an American.” “Ah! Un Americano! Well, never mind him. It was her that I went ...

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...” “We will send the coachman down to inquire,” added Rachel. “He is only a civilian, and the Major always chooses our horses,” said Conrade. “And I am... ... “Mamma never made him spell;” also muttering something depreciating about civilians. Rachel was a woman of perseverance. She went to the 30 The Clev... ...s property, but 34 The Clever Woman of the Family he might have been more civil. Now shake hands, and have done with it.” “Not shake hands with a low... ...d not gone back far enough to establish that he had not died in the Indian war. It was fear that predominated with her, there were many mo- ments when... ...see how entirely he had recovered.” “Then you went through all that Indian war?” “Yes; with Sir Stephen.” “You must show me all your medals! How much ... ...elong to it?” “No, indeed,” answered Rachel, rather indignantly , “I think war the great purifier and ennobler of nations, when it is for a good and g... ...ossible to read, also the neat writing and thin wavy water-marked paper of American professors and phi- lanthropists in high commendation of his abili...

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...y diffuse a better knowledge of it, and a higher love for it, all over the civilized world. I take leave to say, in the presence of some of those gent... ...led within the last twelve months, as strides in the path of the very best civilization, and chapters of rich promise in the history of mankind. I do ... ...ll periods of time. The scholar and the statesman, men of peace and men of war, have agreed in all ages to delight in gardens. The most ancient people... ...ften that I could wish there were a closer parallel between myself and the American aloe. It is particularly agreeable and ap propriate to know that ... ...dinary sagacity in a com mercial assembly to appreciate the dire evils of war. The great interests of trade enfeebled by it, the enterprise of better... ... by which I am surrounded would be sufficient to appreciate the horrors of war. But there are seasons when the evils of peace, though not so acutely f... ...of that good blacksmith, as it was written of another of his trade, by the American poet: “Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes;... ...birth, but I ask it as part payment of a great debt which all sensible and civilised crea tures owe to art, as a mark of respect to art, as a decora ... ...ne, which seems to my mind to have a certain application. My friend was an American sea captain, and, therefore, it is quite unnecessary to say his st...

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...- 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 ... ... times, when the inge- nuity of man has multiplied the power of weapons of war, it was possible that, without the knowledge of others, a State might t... ...ers, a State might try to work such a formidable engine. But the idea of a war machine fell before the declara- tion of Governments. As public interes... ... halberd, but with a real spur, as the armoured frigates, or the `rams’ of war, whose massiveness and motive power it would possess at the same time. ... ...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; ... ...placed on the table, and we took our places. Undoubtedly we had to do with civilised people, and, had it not been for the electric light which flooded... ...ight?” “It might be the right of a savage,” I answered, “but not that of a civilised man.” “Professor,” replied the commander, quickly, “I am not what... ...n.” “Professor,” replied the commander, quickly, “I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone...

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...the whole lamp family. As Barbox Brothers (so to call the traveller on the war- ranty of his luggage) took his seat upon the form, and warmed his now ... ...their part, and such contribution of their several dex- terities towards a civilising end, did not deteriorate them as it was the fashion of the super... ..., you be good, and tell me that story I taught you.” With the tremors of a Civil Service examination upon him, and very uncertain indeed, not only as ... ...people. Or is he then a slave? Or idiot?” Another time, a merry, wideawake American gent had tried the sawdust and spit it out, and had tried the Sher... ...re,” says Our Missis, “I claim your an- griest sympathy,—attention, common civility, nay, even politeness!” Me and the young ladies regularly raging m...

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...d go. All the ways dis- covered so far lead to the horrors of our existing civiliza- tions, described quite justifiably by Ruskin as heaps of ago- niz... ...hat all enjoyment consists in undetected sinning; and in certain phases of civilization people of this kind are apt to get the upper hand of more amia... ...: they win everything on condition that they are afraid to enjoy it. Their civilizations rest on intimidation, which is so necessary to them that when... ...of Moses, and the speeches and pamphlets of the people who want us to make war on Germany, and the Noodle’s Orations and articles of our poli- ticians... ...set free, to be anything else than the slave he actually is, clamoring for war, for the lash, for police, prisons, and scaffolds in a wild panic of de... ...which he has been brought up to consult his own honor. As a Sportsman (and war is fundamentally the sport of hunting and fighting the most dangerous o... ...ry art. The reason why the con- tinental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized En-...

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... kings, each with a different part of the island and as they were often at war with one another, they used to steal one another’s subjects, and sell t... ...dom as best he might. The King of Denmark died in the midst of his English war; but his son Cnut went on with the conquest he had begun, and before lo... ...th a fighting man em- broidered upon it. Then the Normans rode up on their war- horses to attack him, one brave knight going first, singing. The war-h... ...nd gunpowder for her husband’s army—for things had come to pass now that a civil war be- gan. A civil war is the worst of all wars, for it is one betw... ... for it is one between the people of the same country. England had had two civil 94 Young Folk’s History of England wars before. There were the Baron... ...op Sharpe was dragged out of his carriage and killed, and then there was a civil war, in which the king’s men prevailed; but the Whigs were harshly tr... ...d there was a heavy duty laid upon it when the king wanted money. Now, the Americans got their tea straight from China, and thought it was unfair that... ...ne thing, and at first a few French gentlemen came over to fight among the Americans, and then the king Louis XVI., quarreled with George III., and he... ...George III., and helped them openly. There was a very clever man among the Americans named Benjamin Franklin, a printer by trade, but who made very cu...

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...And again, in his message of December 8, 1846, that “we had ample cause of war against Mexico long before the breaking out of hostilities; but even th... ...ally, under wholly unjustifi- able pretexts, involved the two countries in war, by invad- ing the territory of the State of Texas, striking the first ... ...ettlement by the military order of the President, through the Secretary of War. Eighth. Whether the military force of the United States was or was not... ..., or, if within such, that the inhabitants had submitted themselves to the civil authority of Texas or of the United States, and that the same is true... ...takable sign is that all the odds and ends are with us—Barnburners, Native Americans, Tyler men, disappointed office-seeking Locofocos, and the Lord k... ...JUNE 20, 1848. In Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, on the Civil and Diplomatic Ap- propriation Bill: MR. CHAIRMAN:—I wish at all time... ...onal question. In 1826 Chancellor Kent first published his Commentaries on American law. He devoted a portion of one of the lectures to the question o... ...myself, came down upon us astonishingly. He spoke in what the ‘Balti- more American’ calls the “scathing and withering style.” At the end of his secon... ...ushed for ever! Who can realize that freedom’s champion, the champion of a civilized world and of all tongues and kindreds of people, has indeed falle...

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..., with this epitaph: Henry III., the founder of this cathedral. A.D. 1273. War is delightful to the unexperienced. It was this Henry who, one hundred ... ...tues of two giants, said to have assisted the English when the Romans made war upon them: Corinius of Britain, and Gogmagog of Albion. Beneath upon a ... ...heir fortunes, are fitter for saying their prayers than for the service of war; to each of them is assigned a pen- sion of eighteen pounds per annum a... ...coat of Edward IV ., enriched with rubies, and was preserved here till the civil war. *This is confounded with the Round Tower. 35 halls, and bathing... ...velvet, in some of which were woven history pieces; in others, Turkish and American dresses, all extremely natural. In the hall are these curiosities:... ...inaries or nursery of very many brave sol- diers, and so likewise were the civil wars of France, whither she sent five several armies. They were the F... ... sent Ambassador to France, and stayed there LEGAR long in the heat of the civil wars, and at the same time that Monsieur was here a suitor to the Que...

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............................................ 104 Chapter 1.5.III. Broglie the War-God. ..................................................................... ...................................................... 455 Chapter 3.4.II. In Civil War . .................................................................. ................................................ 455 Chapter 3.4.II. In Civil War . ........................................................................ ...thout rule or rein; sav- age itself, yet with all the tools and weapons of civilisation; a spectacle new in History. In such a France, as in a Powder-... ...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ...ious shadow of him hovers long in all heads and hearts. Neither, while the War yet lasts, will Gibraltar surrender. Not though Crillon, Nassau-Siegen,... ...persons, that finding one military victim to have been imprisoned for real civil crime, they returned him to his cell, with protest. Why new military ... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...ning forth perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Con- gress, do the arrangements seem perfect. A Senator has not hi...