Full Text Search Details
...or strawberries. 9 ―World cotton prices have never been lower but American cotton farmers earn nearly twice as much for their crops because... ...fe by the Chinese or the realities of the ill-conceived war in Iraq for the Americans and British—it doesn‟t take long for the truth to be known. The... ... price of their exports up. The Chinese yuppies are following the American way of pursuing money and the things it can bring—less free time... ...ble to love. We continue children‘s nurturing in schools by following your American pattern of teaching children to take turns. They must realize tha... ...ctual statutes rather than on the Common Law that has given Englishmen and Americans so many ways to get around the statutes enacted by their legisl... ...the way their children turn out. Did they become statesmen or thieves, the inventors or tyrants, artists or killers? Parents are, indeed, the creato...

Full Text Search Details
...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ... of his work and literary correspondence have now been established at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...world would come to an end soon. That question had to be left unanswered. Inventors of questions are every- where. I wanted to add, watch, be on guar... ...he Paul Alexander Bartlett Collection held by the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and form part of a second ... ...y of Texas, and form part of a second diversified col- lection held by the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, which also includes...

Full Text Search Details
...not want ferrymen like Charon or even like Beatrice. It wants creators and inventors that are capable of transforming the impossible and making it p... ... a type of beauty that neither time nor death can ever destroy. It wants inventors that know how to create a synthesis between life and death and ... ...orm from that synthesis that no longer must experience death. Life wants inventors that know how to get to the port of secondary beauty after leav... ...is. When, in October of 1994, a bullet killed the little seven-year-old American Nicholas Green while he was traveling with his family in Italy, ... ... first to assert this, and not long ago, Harold Bloom, one of the greatest American literary critics, said this in his most recently published book ...

Full Text Search Details
...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ...banished all good feeling from the hearts of our people, the States of the American Union, still in com- plete organization and equipped with all thei... ...de departure 8 Democracy in America from the original plan and purpose of American Democ- racy. “Local Self-Government,” independent of general con- ... ... ite productions of human industry which ensure wealth and renown to their inventors, but which are profitless in any other hands. This truth is exemp... ...ught to light; so that great dis- coveries would be frequent, though great inventors be rare. I believe, moreover, in the high calling of scientific m... ...s of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the ex- clusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoverie...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...eople asked in mono-rail trains, “When are we going to fly?” A new crop of inventors sprang up in a night or so like fungi. The Aero Club announced th... ...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... ... the French an invincible rifle, now the Japanese a new explosive, now the Americans a submarine that would drive every ironclad from the seas. Each t... ...at had upset in the sea near Heligoland. For that and his victory over the American yacht Defender, C.C.I., the Emperor forgave him and placed him in ... ...r service, the splendid genius, and patience of thousands of engineers and inventors, wealth and material beyond esti- mating; to their account we mus... ...hemently building airships and whatever approach to a fly- ing machine its inventors’ had discovered. There was no time for diplomacy. Warnings and ul...

Full Text Search Details
... 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... ...onstrous exigency. He refused, and that with the plainness of the West. This American manner of conducting matters of business is, at first, highly un... ...is bread, we consider him for the time be- ing our hired servant. But in the American opinion, two gentlemen meet and have a friendly talk with a view... ...t ripely. For now he sees why I speak of the little people as of substantive inventors and performers. To the end they had kept their secret. I will g...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...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... ...e have indubitably an end conceived and sought and achieved; but did these inventors and business organisers do more than heed certain unavoidable imp... ...ce to the initiatives of Mr. Diplock; they have approximated rather to the American caterpillar. As I suspected when first I heard of these devices, t... ...s. Some people in London the other day were pretending to be shocked by an American who boasted that he had been in “two bully bombardments,” but he w...

Full Text Search Details
...ass-Tata engine—the invention of two among the brilliant galaxy of Bengali inventors the modernisation of Indian thought was producing at this time—wh... ... automobiles, aeroplanes, waterplanes, and such-like, mobile purposes. The American Kemp engine, differing widely in principle but equally prac- ticab... ... or whether they were implicit in your paper. No doubt—after the manner of inventors—you think most things that were ever likely to be discovered are ... ...that most subsequent additions and modifications are merely superfi- cial. Inventors have a way of thinking that. The law isn’t concerned with that so... ...rned with that sort of thing. The law has nothing to do with the vanity of inventors. The law is concerned with the question whether these patent righ... ...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... ...dy; the children in the streets knew them. And yet the world still, as the Americans used to phrase it, ‘fooled around’ with the paraphernalia and pre... ... touch with that gigantic childishness which was the characteristic of the American imagination. For the Americans also were among the simple peoples ...

Full Text Search Details
...e moored everywhere, showing their flags, Rus- sian and English, Austrian, American, and Greek; and along the quays country ships from the Black Sea o... ...issaries, with silver maces shining in the sun. ’Twas the party of the new American Consul-General of Syria and Jerusalem, hastening to that city, wit... ...lem, so as to be on the spot in readiness. When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe... ... round, and in and out, and there and back again, as in a play of war. The American replied in a similar playful ferocity—the two warriors made a litt... ...orsted, challenged his adversary to a race, and fled away on his grey, the American following on his bay. Here poor sticking-plaster was again worsted... ...ting, bowing with all sorts of unfamiliar genuflexions. Had it pleased the inventors of the Sepulchre topography to have fixed on fifty more spots of ...

Full Text Search Details
...ack. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” —C... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ... great original— the Tyre of this Carthage;—the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nan- tucket did those abor... ...lagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or V ancouver had ever sailed. If American and European men-of-war now peacefully ride in once sav- age harbo... ...thousand men before the mast employed in the Ameri- can whale fishery, are Americans born, though pretty nearly all the officers are. Herein it is the... ...e call our own children after our own names (we fathers being the original inventors and patentees), so likewise should we denominate after ourselves ...

Full Text Search Details
...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ...good deal like everybody in general. By and by a hearty and healthy German American got in and opened up a frank and interesting and sympathetic conve... ...erhaps we shall get along better, and I shall stop calling Waggner, on the American What Is Man and Other Essays 140 plan, and thereafter call him Wa... ...ors, judges, lawyers, poets, dramatists, historians, biographers, editors, inventors, reformers, states men, generals, admirals, discoverers, prize f...

Full Text Search Details
...ttle straggling, incidental, un- disciplined and uncoordinated minority of inventors, experi- menters, educators, writers and organisers has achieved ... ...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain.... ...rst of endless points of resemblance between them and the commoner sort of American girl. When some years ago I paid my first and only visit to Americ... ... the teeming uproars of reality. There was not a dozen people all told, no Americans and scarcely any English, to dine in the big cavern of a dining- ...

Full Text Search Details
...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ...o adds some words to this effect—’that if the patriot of that day were the inventors of the maxim [The king can do no wrong], we are much indebted to ... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ...

Full Text Search Details
...following eyes on board those ships—Dutch, English, with a sprin- kling of Americans and a German or two—who had all hoisted their flags at eight o’cl... ...rded with honourable liberality as justice demanded; and the bodies of the inventors should have been blown to pieces by means of their own perfected ...

Full Text Search Details
...tion to (I) the production, (2) the distribution, (3) the consump- tion of American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat ... ... wear them after all. My poor little flowers.” But she showed him a single American Beauty, pinned to the shoulder of her gown beneath her cape. “Yes,... ...n his studio and regularly kow-tow to it, and talk about the ‘decadence of American industrial arts.’ I’ve heard him. I say it’s pure affectation, tha... ...od for you; you keep to that. There’s no better motto in the world for the American man of business.’ He shook my hand when he said it, and I haven’t ... ...meat or potatoes, as it is with us. The only way to do so that neither the American farmer nor the European peasant suffers, is to keep wheat at an av... ...whole half days to get but a nod and a word from the great man. Promoters, inventors, small fin- anciers, agents, manufacturers, even “crayon artists”...

Full Text Search Details
...d Dumay to his wife, mak- ing her sit close by him. Madame Dumay, a little American about thirty-six years of age, wiped her eyes furtively; she adore... ... richest com- mercial house in Havre. Madame Dumay, a rather pretty little American, had the misfortune to lose all her children at their birth; and h... ...d Dumay, “and you shall be a notary and the successor of Latournelle.” The American wife took the hand of the poor hunchback and pressed it. “What! yo... ...e heart by Modeste’s words. “Good-bye, wife,” said the Breton, kissing the American. “Take care of the mother; I go to save the daughter.” He made his... ...in- ventor, Linnaeus is an inventor, Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire and Cuvier are inventors. Such men are men of genius of the first rank. They renew, increa... ... these fluctuations were carefully remarked and commented on by the gentle American, and the excellent Madame Latournelle, and they formed the topic o...

Full Text Search Details
... ashington Irv ing and Benjamin Franklin may have put it in my head by an American association of ideas; but there I was, and the Horse shoe Fall was... ...lse can a man feel, when he is met by such difficulties at every turn? All inventors taking out a Patent must feel so. And look at the expense. How h... ...gateway in their uniforms, as if they had locked up all the balance (as my American friends would say) of the inhabitants, and could now rest a little... ...nces are obvious. The leather trade will be ruined, by the introduction of American timber, to be manufactured into shoes for the fallen English; the ...

Full Text Search Details
...ht me of sending a pair of moccasins given to Florine as a curiosity by an American. Florine offered the huge sum of forty francs, that we might try o... ...cess began to occur to him, and he passed through an agony which none save inventors can un- derstand. Going from doubt to doubt, David began to see h...

Full Text Search Details
...-discovering magnetism Mesmer came to France, where, from time immemorial, inventors have flocked to obtain recognition for their discoveries. France,... ... three thousand francs, a gift from Havana, which city, at the time of the American War of Independence, he had protected from an attack by the Britis...

Full Text Search Details
...nd, I should say, to the sellers of invigorating electric belts and to the inventors of patent medicines. But of that last I am not sure, not having c... ...Secretary of the Embassy, from his occasional excursions into the field of American humour, had formed a special notion of that class of mechanic as t...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...champ’s Career young genius of this horde conceiving, in the spirit of the inventors of our improved modern ordnance, that it was vain to cast missile... ...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 ...

Full Text Search Details
...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ... ... thieves have theirs! “Now, I know the murderer of those two women and the inventors of that bold, strange plot; I have been told every detail. Postpo...

Full Text Search Details
...ted them and played with them. M. de Noailles and his clever wife were the inventors and promoters of these interior pleasures, for the purpose of in-... ...whose permanent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek h...

Full Text Search Details
...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation. In our North American and West Indian colonies, not only the wages of labour, but the in... ...me manner as that upon gold, or to give up working the greater part of the American mines which are now wrought. The gradual increase of the demand fo... ... be uncertain, whether, to the general market of Europe, the whole mass of American gold comes at a price nearer to the lowest for which it is possibl... ...of their respective towns. They accordingly seem to have been the original inventors of those restraints upon the importation of foreign goods, which ... ...t the interest of merchants and manu- 415 Adam Smith facturers, the great inventors of all these expedients, that the home market should be overstock...

Full Text Search Details
...ry force mov- ing the pioneers of Socialism and Anarchism, as it moved the inventors of ideal commonwealths in the past. In this there is nothing new.... ...been done under trade-union conditions, have played a considerable part in American labor struggles. Sabotage is the practice of doing bad work, or sp... ...of violence and revolution, is the work of Mr. John Graham Brooks, called “American Syndicalism: the I. W. W.” (Macmillan, 1913). American labor condi... ...fferent from any that arises in Europe. The older skilled workers, largely American born, have long been organized in the American Federation of Labor... ...ssible for these two classes to unite or to put forward any demands… . The American Federation of Labor and the Industrial Workers of the World repres... ...eir social utility entitles them. On the other hand, it often happens that inventors and discoverers, whose work has the very greatest social utility,... ...political rule. This is the essential significance of the recent change in American foreign policy as illustrated by the Spanish War, the Philippine a...

Full Text Search Details
.... With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing its part and passi... ...or backward towards me to listen, With eyes retrospective towards me. 3 Americanos! conquerors! marches humanitarian! Foremost! century marches! ... ...que to justify it. 5 Dead poets, philosophs, priests, Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since, Language shapers on other shores, Nati... ...with you is heroism upon land and sea, And I will report all heroism from an American point of view. I will sing the song of companionship, I will sho... ...raph stretching across the continent, See, through Atlantica’s depths pulses American Europe reaching, pulses of Europe duly return’d, See, the strong... ...treet or on the ship’s deck give a kiss in return, We observe that salute of American comrades land and sea, We are those two natural and nonchalant p... ...e great captains and engineers have accomplish’d their work, After the noble inventors, after the scientists, the chemist, the geologist, ethnologist,... ...ome singing his songs. Then not your deeds only O voyagers, O scientists and inventors, shall be justified, All these hearts as of fretted children sh... ...e well as they go, the heroes and good doers are well, The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguish’d may be well, Bu...

Full Text Search Details
...use the longest words they can. It is a trick that they pick up from their inventors. “That’s news,” said a big centrifugal bilge-pump. “I had an idea... ... 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... ...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... ...t till he begins to paint,’ I said. “‘That’s just what he’s done—and South American freights higher than we’ll live to see them again. He’s laid her u... ...egal process he’ d found in a book o’ maritime law. An’ a’ that week South American freights rose an’ rose. It was sinfu’! “Syne Bell got orders to ta...

Full Text Search Details
...h to a greater extent than the latter. So it comes, for instance, that the American farmer and his wife and daughters are notoriously less modish in t... ...s the French peasant-pro- prietor parsimonious and frugal, and induces the American millionaire to found colleges, hospitals and museums. If the canon... ...l of the corset is not infrequent among the higher social classes of those American cities, for instance, which have recently and rapidly risen into o... ...the most striking mark of reversion in modern communities, the case of the American colonies might be cited as an example of such a reversion on an un... ...to- wards a secularization of men’s habits of thought. In this respect the American community should afford an excep- tionally convincing illustration... ...s. Through these groups of men, then — investigators, savants, scientists, inventors, speculators — most of whom have done their most telling work out...

Full Text Search Details
...e cost of production by one-half; and he had another plan for employing an American vegetable fibre for making paper, something after the Chinese fash... ... this too,” Eve said, interrupting him; “I knew that you were one of those inventors, like my poor father, who must have a woman to take care of them....

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...etween all complications of descent from three original strands, European, American, African, the distinctions of social consideration founded on them... ...ty, having more than three hundred thou- sand inhabitants, (in spite of an American sceptic,) nearly all children of toil; and a city, too, which, fro... ...many people, could not belong to all of them: all of them could not be the inventors. Logic and common sense unite in showing us that it must have bel...

Full Text Search Details
...oing the wrong way. Blessed be the king who introduced cards, and the kind inventors of piquet and cribbage, for they employed six hours at least of h... ... 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...