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...the, Schiller, Zschokke, Jean Paul Richter; in English there were works on Political Economy. I examined no further, for Mr. Hunsden himself recalled ... ...hat they 48 The Professor said—yet French, in the mouths of Frenchmen, or Belgians (I was not then sensible of the horrors of the Belgian accent) was... ...!” said I. “But,” asked he, “do you understand French well enough to teach Belgian boys English?” Fortunately I could answer this question in the affi... ...ch circumstance, all who are in any degree acquainted with the ongoings of Belgian schools, and who know the relation in which professors and pupils t... ... is said; and so I often thought when looked at my boys and remembered the political history of their ancestors. Pelet’s school was merely an epitome ... ...ntly penetrated and possessed the mean- ing of more ardent and imaginative writers. Byron excited her; Scott she loved; Wordsworth only she puzzled at...

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...e first clerk to the articled gents, from the articled gents to the ragged writers and white- faced runners, in clothes too tight for them, as he sate... ...could only speak English, Dobbin procured for Jos’s party a swarthy little Belgian servant who could speak no language at all; but who, by his bustlin... ...mmand of the little colony at Brussels, with Amelia invalided, Isidor, his Belgian servant, and 49 Thackeray the bonne, who was maid-of-all-work for ... ...t to meet the Emperor Napoleon. This lover was a native of Brussels, and a Belgian hussar. The troops of his nation signalised themselves in this war ... ... under the auspices of Mr. Wilberforce, and for a time was a credit to his political spon- sor, and decidedly a serious young man. But words cannot de...

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...ces on the hangings, where they were caught back by ropes of pearl. A warm Belgian carpet, thick as turf, of a gray ground with blue posies, covered t... ...w the strange upheavals which the year 1830 was destined to produce in the political condition, the fortunes, and the customs of France? Had any one p... ... the school of life—men who have gone round the circle of disillusionment, political and amorous—are capable of following out a course like this. Feli... ...e this. Felix, however, found in his work the same pleasure that painters, writers, architects take in their creations. He dou- bly enjoyed both the w... ...ring to defend itself against an apathetic indifference (the result of the political drama) by producing works more or less Byronian, in which the onl... ...eceived illustrious artists, leading financial personages, dis- tinguished writers; but only after subjecting them to so rigid an examination that the... ...r salon, brought there by one of the wittiest, but also one of the laziest writers of that epoch, Emile Blondet, celebrated behind closed doors, highl...

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...nt reason from society, and ceased to take any active interest in affairs, political or do- mestic. His wife, thus left mistress of her actions, felt ... ...vast, lurking ambitions that plunged him at a later day into the storms of political life. A face that might be called insignificantly pretty and care... ... as that nowadays. Mortifications and want only fall to the lot of unknown writers; as soon as a man’s name is known, he grows rich, and I will be ric... ... finally, paint Charles IX. for us as he really was, and not as Protestant writers have made him. Ten years of persistent work, and fame and for- tune... ...and fact. His friends were learned naturalists, young doctors of medicine, political writers and artists, a number of ear- nest students full of promi... ...His friends were learned naturalists, young doctors of medicine, political writers and artists, a number of ear- nest students full of promise. D’Arth... ...y a Liberal if it was well reviewed by the Opposition papers; but then the Belgian pirated editions were not as yet. The preparatory attacks made by L...

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...y before the last polished phase of the stone age was over he had become a political animal. He made astonishingly far-reaching discoveries within him... ...of the judges and threaten the very existence of the otherwise inattentive political machine. The world was so little governed that with the very com-... ...utward and visible intima- tions of profounder anachronisms. The legal and political organisation of the earth in the middle twentieth century was ind... ...t came to be called the ‘Modern State’ movement, and a galaxy of brilliant writers, in America, Europe, and the East, stirred up the world to the thou... ... of civilisation, shattered, it seemed, almost irrepara- bly. He found the Belgian hills swarming with refugees and desolated by cholera; the vestiges... ...lities, a pal- impsest of inherited dispositions. It was the habit of many writers in the early twentieth century to speak of competi- tion and the na... ...one comes to the latter nineteenth and the earlier twenti- eth century the writers are much more acutely aware of secu- lar change than their predeces...

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... at any rate.’ ‘What are they?—painters, musicians?’ ‘Painters, musicians, writers—hangers-on, models, ad- vanced young people, anybody who is openly ... ...ound the logs that flickered on the marble hearth. The talk was very often political or sociological, and inter- esting, curiously anarchistic. There ... .... The sense of talk, buzzing, jarring, half-secret, the endless mining and political wrangling, vibrated in the air like discordant ma- chinery. And i... ... of dawn began. There were several people in the compartment, large florid Belgian business-men with long brown beards, talking incessantly in an ugly... ...only he could call a world into being, that should be their own world! The Belgians left, the train ran on, through Luxembourg, through Alsace-Lorrain... ...all, who can take the nationalisation of Ireland seri- ously? Who can take political Ireland really seriously, what- ever it does? And who can take po...

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...tly imperfect in the eyes of the ineffable company of pure esthetes. As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by th... ...t interesting spot through the upsetting of a canoe. The first was a young Belgian officer, but the acci- dent happened some months before my time, an... ...tten. I have only a vague notion that it might have been one of Trollope’s political novels. And I remember, too, the character of the day. It was an ... ...ver to meet again in this world. V IN THE CAREER of the most unliterary of writers, in the sense that literary ambition had never entered the world of... ...ith marked emphasis by the heirs of the French Revolution, which was not a political movement at all, but a great outburst of morality. He had no imag... ... else. It is M. Anatole France, the most eloquent and just of French prose-writers, who says that we must recognize at last that, “failing the resolut... ...tion, or simply 77 Joseph Conrad from weariness, induces, I suspect, some writers of criticism to conceal the adventurous side of their calling, and ...

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...tly imperfect in the eyes of the ineffable company of pure esthetes. As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by th... ...interesting spot through the upset- ting of a canoe. The first was a young Belgian of- ficer, but the accident happened some months be- fore my time, ... ... ten. I have only a vague notion that it might have been one of Trollope’s political novels. And I remem- ber, too, the character of the day. It was a... ...et again in this world. Chapter V I N THE CAREER of the most unliterary of writers, in the sense that literary ambition had never en tered the world o... ...e heirs of the French Revolu- 90 Some Reminiscences tion, which was not a political movement at all, but a great outburst of morality. He had no imag... ...lse. It is M. Anatole France, the most elo- quent and just of French prose writers, who says that we must recognise at last that, “failing the resolu-...

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...order to clear up the muddle in my own mind about in- numerable social and political questions, questions I could not keep out of my work, which it di... ...not already a little interested and open- minded with regard to social and political questions, and a little exercised in self-examination, you will f... ... has seen. It is now our terrestrial experience that whenever economic and political developments set a class free to travel, that class at once be- g... ... seems the case in the “No- where” of Morris also. Compared with the older writers Bellamy and Morris have a vivid sense of individual separa- tion, a... ...e most brilliant of modern discoveries by a certain school of sociological writers, who seem totally un- able to grasp the modification of meaning “sp... ...ines of the popular logic. The depopulation of the Congo Free State by the Belgians, the horrible massacres of Chinese by European soldiery during the...

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...d. Before de- scribing this house it may be well, in the interest of other writers, to explain the necessity for such didactic preliminar- ies,—since ... ... tint, learned the means of irradiat- ing its smoky atmosphere through its political vicissitudes, which brought it under the successive dominion of B... ...Nourho, though the Claes alone had a legal right to it. But the pride of a Belgian burgher was superior to the haughty arrogance of Castile: after the... ...ent of her husband’s debts put a stop to the current gossip; moreover, the political vicis- situdes to which Flanders was subjected, the war of the Hu... ...eur Conyncks of Bruges is your nearest rela- tive; but he has now become a Belgian. You ought,” contin- ued Pierquin, addressing Balthazar, “to write ... ...amily sought to enliven him, was the reading of newspa- pers, to which the political events then occurring gave great interest. Monsieur Claes listene...

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...o Hecataeus. For there was an hereditary feud between them, arising out of political differences, and Eumenes had more than once been known to denounc... ...ppearance he seemed far distant from Rome, entangled in the affairs of the Belgians, Suevians, and Britons, in truth he was working craftily by secret... ...cret practices in the midst of the people, and countermining Pompey in all political matters of most importance. He himself with his army close about ... ...f all Greece. Thirdly, Pompey’s transgressions of right and justice in his political life were occasioned chiefly by his relations with other people, ... ... But the great battle of all that was fought with Darius, was not, as most writers tell us, at Arbela, but at Gaugamela, which, in their language, sig... ...oked homeward, and had no design to reside among the barbarians. Thus some writers give their account of this action, while others say it was done del... ... were then celebrated, a feast at the first institution belonging, as some writers say, to the shepherds, and having some connection with the Arcadian...

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...stignac is the late lamented de Marsay’s direct heir; he will make his way politically as well as socially,” commented Blondet. “But how did he make h... ...le chattel, but a wife takes a second place in the high-pressure life of a political leader and great capi- talist. He once said in my hearing that Bo... ...arried the coffin over the stone floor. “There are poets and romancers and writers that say many fine things abut Parisian manners,” continued Bixiou,... ...pail of water. You take a man’s life, you are guillotined. But if, for any political conviction whatsoever, you take five hundred lives, political cri... ...our- ney to Belgium; he had been arranging, it was said, with a well-known Belgian firm to resume the working of some coal- pits in the Bois de Bossut...

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...e first clerk to the articled gents, from the articled gents to the ragged writers and white- faced runners, in clothes too tight for them, as he sate... ...could only speak English, Dobbin procured for Jos’s party a swarthy little Belgian servant who could speak no language at all; but who, by his bustlin... ...mmand of the little colony at Brussels, with Amelia invalided, Isidor, his Belgian servant, and the bonne, who was maid-of-all-work for the establishm... ...t to meet the Emperor Napoleon. This lover was a native of Brussels, and a Belgian hussar. The troops of his nation signalised themselves in this war ... ... under the auspices of Mr. Wilberforce, and for a time was a credit to his political spon- sor, and decidedly a serious young man. But words cannot 3...

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... I said certain things to him about the difference in com- plexity between political life in Great Britain and the colo- nies, that he was manifestly ... ...of its difficulties and perplexities. Here on the Adriatic side there were political entangle- ments that by comparison made our western after-the-war... ...oubt if English people fully realise either the economic sturdiness or the political courage of their Italian ally. Italy is not merely fighting a fir... ... those great architectural wrecks that seem most to impress con- temporary writers. I have seen the injuries and ruins of the cathedrals at Arras and ... ...es that have happened to all these arms. Before this war began speculative writers had argued that infantry drill in close formation had now no fighti... ...is the happiness of a few thou- sands of the Herero, a few millions of the Belgians—whose numbers moreover are constantly diminishing—when we might we... ...Another is Blight the solicitor, who goes about bewailing the fact that we writers are “holding out false hopes of higher agricultural wages after the... ...r the fine and generous. It leaves out the French and the Italians and the Belgians and all our blood brotherhood of allies. It has no compelling forc...

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...t or marvel pre- tending to amuse us. Temple and I cantered over the great Belgian battlefield, talking of Bella Vista tower, the statue, the margravi... ...ve to be speaking French in an hour.’ ‘German, Richie, German.’ ‘But these Belgians speak French.’ ‘Such French as it is. You will, however, be engage... ...l I should become efficient in German to amuse her, but the dulness of the Belgian city compared with her lively German watering- places compelled her... ...an distinguished even in Germany for scholarship, rather notorious for his political and social opinions too. The margravine, with infinite humour in ... ...rt of sagacity. I am not prepared to contest the statement that you have a political instinct. Here it is chiefly social. You worship your so-called a... ...tingly. The situation was exactly of a sort for one of his German phantasy-writers to image the forest jeering at him as he flew, blind, deaf, and unr... ...y. The dinner, virtually a German supper, ended in general conversation on political affairs, preceded and sup- ported by a discussion between the Pru...

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...ast, the king’s highway of progress. Here, in England, too many painters and writers dwell dis- persed, unshielded, among the intelligent bourgeois. T... ...minous; and in both are tall and ancient trees that have outlived a thousand political vicissitudes. But in the one the great oaks prosper placidly up... ...and pleasant fact is this, that they were never needed. Painters, sculptors, writers, singers, I have seen all of these 62 Across the Plains in Barbi... ...s ironically called the free town of Frankfort-on-the-Main ; nor the Franco- Belgian frontier; nor the inn at La Fere; last, but not least, he is pret... ...ining-room at Siron’s. CHAPTER V RANDOM MEMORIES I. – THE COAST OF FIFE MANY WRITERS HAVE vigorously described the pains of the first day or the first...

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...le affairs, that he could think of no hope for our country outside of a sudden and complete political subver- sion. Down must go Lords and Church and ... ... I should get on. How? They had no idea. Why? Because—because— well, look at America! To be politically blind is no distinction; we are all so, if you... ... politics, though it appears in many shapes, and that is the question of money; and but one political remedy, that the people should grow wiser and be... ...e less tell stories to the child on her lap in the cottage at Great Missenden, nor the good Belgians light their candle, and mix their salad, and go o... ... a great chorus of grateful voices have arisen to spread abroad its fame. Half the fa- mous writers of modern France have had their word to say about ...

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...ully hand over the management of our daily lives and the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited. Politicians ... ...t closer to the right. Anarchism is an umbrella term covering disparate social and political theories - among them classic or cooperative anarchism... ...n), and communitarian anarchism (Daniel Guerin). The narrow (and familiar) form of political anarchism springs from the belief that human communiti... ...s. Read more about Europe after communism - click HERE to download the e-book "The Belgian Curtain". Many articles about Europe and the European Un... ...ows for immediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires... ... it as a road to the same kind of broad and deep understanding of human nature that writers possess." Anna Freud Towards the end of the 19th c...

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...ully hand over the management of our daily lives and the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited. Politicians ... ...t closer to the right. Anarchism is an umbrella term covering disparate social and political theories - among them classic or cooperative anarchism... ...n), and communitarian anarchism (Daniel Guerin). The narrow (and familiar) form of political anarchism springs from the belief that human communiti... ...s. Read more about Europe after communism - click HERE to download the e-book "The Belgian Curtain". Many articles about Europe and the European Un... ...ows for immediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires... ... it as a road to the same kind of broad and deep understanding of human nature that writers possess." Anna Freud Towards the end of the 19th c...

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...- OPM). This, together with the ulterior motives of members of the ruling political echelons (the infamous American Paranoia), a lack of variety and... ...usiness sector has to mollify the God of public opinion with offerings of political and social nature. The Internet is an affluent, educated, yuppie ... ...the registered book (often, a class of books) for a number of years - but politically restricted printable content, often by force. Freedom of the p... ...ialog. For low volumes of messages, this is a good thing. But top-selling writers could not handle email from thousands of dedicated fans. Even in ... ...e copyright law to collect a levy on PCs sold within their territory. The Belgian, Finnish, Spanish and French authorities are still debating the is... ...mediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires a gyroscop... ...mediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires a gyrosco...

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...e lines of the war news, diplomatic disputations, threats and accusations, political wranglings and stories of hardship and cruelty that now fill our ... ...e sufficiently occupied by the affairs of the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the se... ...Is Coming? it means that there lies ahead a period of extreme economic and political dislocation. The credit system has been strained, and will be str... ...al of the struggle, it becomes impossible for the British, the French, the Belgians, Russians, Italians or Japanese to think any longer of settling th... ...considered worthless and impracticable. But it is manifest now that if the Belgian and French fron- tiers had been properly prepared—as they should ha... ...nce of machine guns, a significance thoroughly ven- tilated by imaginative writers fifteen years before, was being grasped by the conservative but by ... ... large a proportion of its mem- bers to the front; the scientific men, the writers, have been begging to be used in any capacity at any price or none;... ...ne of the many corrupting lies in British intellectual life. English comic writers never weary of sneering at the Hindu who claimed to be a “failed B.... ...ss, but a warm welcome back to the comity of nations. The French, British, Belgians and Italians, and every civilised force in Russia would tumble ove...

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...nsecrated function, of publishing and diffusing through the land the great political events, and especially the great 12 Memorials, and Other Papers ... ...th social philosophy. At Laxton, indeed; it was that I first saw Godwin’s “Political Justice;” not the second and emas- culated edition in octavo, but... ...the shal- lowest, manual of itself. And thus it happens, for example, that writers so laborious and serviceable as Birch are in any popular sense scar... ...broad evidences of the credulity with which we have adopted into our grave political faith the rash and malicious sketches of our novelists. With Fiel... ...etfulness of the realities belonging to the case, has it been possible for writers in public journals to persist in arguing national questions upon th... ...insisted on in 1800; that is, forty years earlier than any of these German writers had turned their thoughts in that direction. Had I, then, really al... ...ra- ture by translating and improving the work of Tenhove the Dutchman (or Belgian?) upon the house of the De ’ Medici— a work which Mr. Roscoe consid... ...ts the patronage of France; and in effect that same remark which a learned Belgian (Van Brouwer) has found frequent occasion to make upon single secti...

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...alled Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ tempted some of the French and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on the south co... ...ith, and was as great a King as En gland had known for some time. The old writers of history relate how that Canute was one day disgusted with his co... ...ere he then was, and where he received him as an honoured guest. Now, some writers tell us that Edward the Confessor, who was by this time old and had... ...committed upon earth than in wretched England in those nineteen years. The writers who were living then describe them fearfully. They say that the cas... ...called him), was the enemy of Sir Walter Raleigh, and also of Sir Walter’s political friend, Lord Cobham; and his Sowship’s first trouble was a plot... ...lotted to the unscrupulous ministers of bad kings. He was impeached by his political opponents, but unsuc cessfully. The King then commanded him to w...

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...lways his last resource when he found his little friend getting him into a political, social, or theological corner. But this was the origin of a seri... ... out; and with the blessing of Providence upon the harvest (natu- ral, not political), I now dismiss you. All this is true, but the Circumlocution Off... ...he opportunity.’ Such a purchase would involve not only a great legitimate political influence, but some half-dozen church presentations of considerab... ...he more he’ll impose upon you. They all do it.’ ‘All painters?’ ‘Painters, writers, patriots, all the rest who have stands in the market. Give almost ... ...It is not what it used to be; but some of our old friends (principally the writers of this letter) have the kindness not to forget us, and we retain t... ...ing, worked with beads! I have often seen these among old Dutch people and Belgians. Quaint things!’ ‘They are old-fashioned, too,’ said Mrs Clennam. ...

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...lways his last resource when he found his little friend getting him into a political, social, or theological corner. But this was the origin of a seri... ... out; and with the blessing of Providence upon the harvest (natu- ral, not political), I now dismiss you. All this is true, but the Circumlocution Off... ...he opportunity.’ Such a purchase would involve not only a great legitimate political influence, but some half-dozen church presentations of considerab... ...he more he’ll impose upon you. They all do it.’ ‘All painters?’ ‘Painters, writers, patriots, all the rest who have stands in the market. Give almost ... ...It is not what it used to be; but some of our old friends (principally the writers of this letter) have the kindness not to forget us, and we retain t... ...ing, worked with beads! I have often seen these among old Dutch people and Belgians. Quaint things!’ ‘They are old-fashioned, too,’ said Mrs Clennam. ...

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...duce now as a pair of skates in winter when the ice begins to bear. All we writers find ourselves engaged perforce in some part or other of a world-wi... ...ther of a world-wide propaganda of this the most cre- ative and hopeful of political ideas that has ever dawned upon the consciousness of mankind. Wit... ... the last year the writer has been doing what he can—and a number of other writers have been doing what they can—to bring about a united declaration o... ...om the English liberal left; but the reader must understand that these two writers seem disposed to welcome a peace with an unrevolutionized Germany, ... ...y. I follow the man who is, more than any other man, the leader of English political thought throughout the world to-day, President Wilson, in inserti... ...ware of a distinctive national character and involved in some big existing political complex, should wish to disentangle themselves from one group of ... ...gressively possess it. And, more- over, this idea queries the adjective of Belgian, Portuguese, French, and British Central Africa alike, just as emph... ...ear say—putting them in alphabetical order—the Africander, the Briton, the Belgian, the Egyptian, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Indian the Portugues... ...ell die fighting as starve. This is a far more vital issue to him than the Belgian issue or Poland or Alsace-Lorraine. Our statesmen waste their breat...

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...ngaged in “aggravating” her, Miss Flouncy screamed: at the next moment the Belgian giant lay sprawling upon the carpet; and Jeames, standing over him,... ...e anecdote is trivial, but it shows the power of Julia Jowler over me. The writers of marine novels have so exhausted the subject of storms, shipwreck... ...caping thence to England, was, under pretence of debt, but in reality from political hatred, imprisoned there also in the Tower of London. He must not... ... of Russia and family had paid their accustomed visit; and the King of the Belgians had, as usual, made his visit to his royal father-in-law, under pr... ...nce of duty and pleasure, but really to demand payment of the Queen of the Belgians’ dowry, which Louis Philippe of Orleans still resolutely declined ... ...ge to the Duke of Bordeaux. They were followed, according to their several political predilections, by the vari- ous Ministers and dignitaries of the ...

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...t forces of transport are already straining against the limits of existing political areas. Every country contains now an increasing ingredient of une... .... G . Wells cal life, especially State life as distinguished from national political life, is degraded because of the natural and inevi- table apathy ... ...e from the cradle to the grave. No one has yet invented any method for the political expression and collective direction of a migratory population, an... ... see what the Censor has left of our playwrights and Sir Jesse Boot of our writers, and to dine in restaurants and wear clothes. Mostly they call them... ...al process which is here given. Then first we must distinguish a series of writers and think- ers which one may call—the word conservative being alrea... ...esale ma- chinery and involving great economies. It is alleged by mod- ern writers that the permanent residence of the cultivator in close relation to... ... doubt if there is any use for more than 400,000 men upon the whole Franco-Belgian frontier at the present time. Such an army , properly supplied, cou...

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...magined in English hands? The braver exemplar for grappling with monstrous political tasks is Cavour, and he would not have hinted at the iron method ... ...e should prepare to start it cordially , cordially assist it. Thought- ful political minds regard the measure as a backward step; yet conceiving but a... ...erature will be reviewed by his lieutenant of Tramps, one of the ablest of writers!—[Frederic W. Maitland.]—The memory of it remains with us, as being... ...ht to have found Italy in greatly different condition, both as regards her political and military posi- tion. Italy is, on the contrary, in exactly th... ...ked at Naples and Civita V ecchia, comprising a strong batch of French and Belgian priests returning from a pilgrimage to Rome, well supplied with ros...

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...h a stretch of time) of really innocent attitudes: Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conrad reminiscent, Conrad controversial. Well, yes! A one-man s... ...in the world were a source of proud and unholy joy unto some of the modern writers. That frame of mind is not the proper one in which to approach seri... ...n their droll way, but are by no means so momen- tous and profound as some writers—probably for the sake of Art—would like to make us believe. There i... ...tless as the eyes of any wise generation that has in its hands the fame of writers. Yes, they are seen, and the man who is not an artist is seen also ... ...lican. He is indulgent to the weaknesses of the people, and perceives that political institutions, whether contrived by the wis- dom of the few or the... ...t also. Therefore we behold him in the dock, a stranger to all historical, political or social considerations which can be brought to bear upon his ca... ...I know what England will do” (this was before the news of the violation of Belgian neutrality arrived), “though I won’t tell you, for I am not absolut...

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... very small percentage of the whole population. 61 U. S. Grant CHAPTER IX POLITICAL INTRIGUE—BUENA VISTA— MOVEMENT AGAINST VERA CRUZ— SIEGE AND CAPTU... ...T AGAINST VERA CRUZ— SIEGE AND CAPTURE OF VERA CRUZ THE MEXICAN WA R was a political war, and the administra- tion conducting it desired to make party... ... the ad- ministration was democratic. General Scott was also known to have political aspirations, and nothing so popularizes a candidate for high civi... ...wenty years after the close of the most stupendous war ever known, we have writers —who profess devotion to the na- 89 U. S. Grant tion—engaged in tr... ... of that place. His tactics have been se- verely criticised by Confederate writers, but I do not believe his fallen chief could have done any better u... ...e not so unjust to the Union troops engaged at Shiloh as are many Northern writers. The troops on both sides were American, and united they need not f... ...o the old United States flint-lock muskets changed into percussion, or the Belgian musket imported early in the war—almost as dangerous to the per- so...

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...r consid- ered it necessary, to correct. In the midst of a conversation on political matters Anna Pavlovna burst out: “Oh, don’t speak to me of Austri... ...aw- ing nearer to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate c... .... “The execution of the Duc d’Enghien,” declared Mon- sieur Pierre, “was a political necessity, and it seems to me that Napoleon showed greatness of s... ... bound to lead to destruction. In historical works on the year 1812 French writers are very fond of saying that Napoleon felt the danger of extending ... ...e least of the transport soldiers. Moreover, the assertion made by various writers that his cold was the cause of his dispositions not being as well p... .... The Imperial army, strictly speaking, was one third com- posed of Dutch, Belgians, men from the borders of the Rhine, Piedmontese, Swiss, Genevese, ... ... they speak of that flank march. But it is hard to understand why military writers, and following them others, consider this flank march to be the pro...