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...ery numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The Anglo-American Club, compo... ...to neither of the opposing corps placed himself in a good position to umpire the combat; another student stood by with a watch and a memorandum-book t... ...on about it somewhere, for these free men, so far from resting upon the privilege of the badge, are al- ways volunteering. A corps student told me it ... ...m. Mr. X said he had not known, before, that there were people honest enough to do this miracle in public, but he was aware that thousands upon thousa... ... XIII My Long Crawl in the Dark WHEN WE GOT BACK to the hotel I wound and set the pedometer and put it in my pocket, for I was to carry it next day an... ...t him. Then we sat down to polish off the perspiration and ar- range about what we would do with him when we got him. Harris was for contributing him ... ...first remains were found, a Chamonix guide named Balmat—a relative of one of the lost men—was in London, and one day encountered a hale old gentleman ...

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... founda- tion for the wit to come in a people; and undoubtedly the diarial record of an imputed piece of wit is witness to the spouting of laughter. T... ...tly, over-discreetly; and pictures the trial, tells the list of witnesses, records the verdict: so the case went, and some thought one thing, some ano... ... is a creature of the chase. Let her escape unmangled, it will pass in the record that she did once publicly run, and some old dogs will persist in th... ...ter Is- land there was a public Ball, to celebrate the return to Erin of a British hero of Irish blood, after his victorious Indian campaign; a mighty... ... not take it as the compensation for their departure.’ The Bull’s Head, or British Jury of T welve, with the wig on it, was faced during the latter ha... ... of the yacht. A stout champion in the person of T om Redworth was left on British land; but for some reason past analysis, intermixed, that is, among... ...e sent to the post. Her boxes were piled from stairs to door. She read the labels, for her good-bye to the hated name of Warwick:—why ever adopted! Em...

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...r, a subject of curious inquiry at the present day, to look into the brief records of that early period, and observe how regular, and with few excepti... ...ure maintenance. Major Effingham, in declin- ing the liberal offers of the British ministry, had subjected himself to the suspicion of having attained... ...n what is or what ought to be the substance of Christianity, but merely to record in this place the opin- ions of Major Effingham. Knowing the sentime... ...that is heard without being attended to, we will not undertake the task of recording his diffuse discourse, The instant that Remarkable Pettibone had ... ...d shrewd looks; “and Dr. T odd understands Latin, or how would he read the labels on his gailipots and drawers? No, no, Miss Hollis ter, the doctor un... ...gain, there was a hole under your lee-quarter big enough to hold the whole British navy.” “Oh! for massy’s sake! and wa’n’t you afeard, Benjamin? and ... ...matter, can talk the language almost as well as myself, or any native-born British subject. Y ou’ve forgot your schooling, and the young mistress is a...

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...as a Sowerby’s Botany also, with thousands of carefully tinted pictures of British plants, and one or two other important works in the sitting-room. I... ...orant and wretched and the under-equipped and under-staffed Na- tional and British schools, supported by voluntary contribu- tions and sectarian rival... ...ns. Mahometanism with its fierce proselytism, has, I suppose, the blackest record of uncharitableness, but most of the Christian sects are tainted, ta... ... social phenomenon, the German official, so differ- ent in manner from the British; and when one woke again after that one had come to Bale, and out o... ... will say with a note of approval that I was learning to conquer myself. I record that much without any note of approval… . 183 H G Wells For some ye... ...o squares to represent constituencies and were busy stick- ing gummed blue labels over the conquered red of Union- ism that had hitherto submerged the... ...n- ism that had hitherto submerged the country. And there were also orange labels, if I remember rightly, to represent the new Labour party, and green... ...hat at last lost their energy through sheer repetition, whenever there was record of a Liberal gain. I don’t remember what happened when there was a L...

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... these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, a... ...t of boot-trees the perfect realization of Captain Somebody, of the Royal British Navy, in danger of being be- set by savages, and resolved to sell h... ...more, especially as neither Roderick Random, nor that Captain in the Royal British Navy, had ever cried, that I could remember, in trying situations. ... ..., he took my various dimensions, and put them down in a book. While he was recording them he called my attention to his stock in trade, and to cer- ta... ..., and to rinse and wash them. When the empty bottles ran short, there were labels to be pasted on full ones, or corks to be fitted to them, or seals t... ...y-bottles burst; thirdly, that I was alone in the world, and much given to record that circumstance in fragments of English versification. On the day ...

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...; the lighter minded may read and mark the temper of Professor Case in the British Encyclopaedia, article Logic (Vol. XXX.). I have appended to his bo... ...on. T o us, clad as we are in mountain-soiled tweeds and with no money but British bank- notes negotiable only at a practically infinite distance, thi... ...where it is not the history of the theory of property, is very largely the record of the abuse, not so much of money as of credit devices to supplemen... ...and amended each other’s initial propositions that, indeed, except for the labels still flutteringly adhesive to the implicated men, it is hard to cho... ...m wage,” which threw a chance light on the labour prob- lem—by perforating records for automatic musical ma- chines—no doubt of the Pianotist and Pian... ...ntains to lecture in Saxony, lecturing on the way, to perforate a lot more records, lecturing the while, and so start out lecturing again. He was undi... ...f labour. This most excellent idea does, as a matter of fact, underlie the British institution of the work- house, but it is jumbled up with the relie...

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...ontain Autria four times, Germany or Spain five times, France six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river ... ...rd of it. That was always a confusing fact to me, but it is according to the record, any way. She was dismally slow; still, we often had pretty exciti... ...” did it in three days and ONE hour. This last is called the fastest trip on record. I will try to show that it was not. For this reason: the distance... ...orities add 1 hour and 16 minutes to this. 102 that has ever been made. THE RECORD OF SOME FAMOUS TRIPS (From Commodore Rollingpin’s Almanack.) FAST... ...s—says: “There now, smell them, taste them, examine the bottles, inspect the labels. One of ‘m’s from Europe, the other’s never been out of this count... ...n out the whole thing—clean from the word go— in our factory in New Orleans: labels, bottles, oil, everything. Well, no, not labels: been buying them ... ...e nation to cel ebrate the battle of New Orleans—Jackson’s victory over the British, January 8, 1815. The war had ended, the two na tions were at pe... ...y friend went on summer vacation up into the fishing regions of our northern British neighbors, and carried this sermon with him, since he might possi...

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...andahar, ridin’ two an’ two. —Barrack-Room Ballad. ‘I’M NOT ANGRY with the British public, but I wish we had a few thousand of them scattered among th... ...ghting for the dear life, in a town called Khartoum. There were columns of British troops in the desert, or in one of the many deserts; there were yet... ...sed and thrilled and interested, whether Gordon lived or died, or half the British army went to pieces in the sands. The Soudan campaign was a picture... ...ling From the beginning he told the tale, the I—I—I’s flashing through the records as telegraph-poles fly past the traveller. Maisie listened and nodd... ...at artists do?’ ‘They draw the things in red and black ink on the pop-shop labels.’ ‘I dare say. I haven’t risen to pop-shop labels yet. Those are don...

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... of bottles she had ordered to be brought up, and which all bore honorable labels; after care- fully verifying the names written on little bits of pap... ...her “speeches” something of the so- 62 An Old Maid lemnity with which the British enunciate their patriotic ab- surdities,—the self-conceit of stupid... ... excused them, kept the din- ner waiting. One was Monsieur du Coudrai, the recorder of mortgages; the other Monsieur Choisnel, former bailiff to the h... ... rived; it was first necessary that all present should put them- selves on record. So the whispers went round from ear to ear:— “You have heard?” “Yes... ...anted before me as mum as a post—” “Which doesn’t think at all!” cried the recorder of mort- gages. “I caught your words on the fly. I present my comp...

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... ment to him it was felt to be one more act of folly in poor Medora’s long record of imprudences. But folly is as often justified of her children as w... ...ated by pre-revolutionary mar- riages to several members of the French and British aristocracy. The Lannings survived only in the person of two very o... ...I like it for just that—the straight-up-and-downness, and the big hon- est labels on everything!” He saw his chance. “Everything may be labelled—but e... ...ith an air of such impenetrable reserve, that they had almost achieved the record of never having exchanged a word with a “foreigner” other than those... ...everything go by the board but the supreme need of thus putting himself on record. Archer considered. “May I ask,” he said at length, “if this is the ...

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...nd Janet, though without much chance of distinguishing it, was reading the labels with a strange, sad fascination, when, long before she had expected ... ...elf did so, with a view to accounts; but he should advise all professional records to be destroyed. It may be feared that the two executors did not re... ...had taken a great fancy. “I shall learn the habits of the genuine species, British farmer,” said he, as his mother kissed him, and declared him the be... ...r gossip on the way home! O mother, there’s another item for the Belforest record. Mr. Barnes has sent off all his servants again, even the confidenti... ...s fully kept au courant with this wonderful siege, which had hitherto been recorded in inter- lined copy-books, or little paper books pasted together,... ... pers or to bestow his time somewhere—in the picture galler- ies or in the British Museum, where he had a reading order; but it was always uncertain w... ...it was shy, it clung beautifully.” “Then the helmet.” “That was out of the British Museum.” “Has Grinstead seen it?” “No, I kept it for my own public ...

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...of becoming personally ac quainted), that I may have the gratification of record ing my humble tribute of admiration and respect for his high abilit... ...meth good, is strongly illustrated by these establishments at home; as the records of the Prerogative Office in Doctors’ Commons can abundantly prove.... ...ommon use, such as knives, forks, spoons, keys, &c., and pasting upon them labels with their names printed in raised letters. These she felt very care... ...nes key, as the spoon differed from the key in form. ‘Then small detached labels, with the same words printed upon them, were put into her hands; and... ...es which she could handle; and she very easily learned to place the proper labels upon them. It was evident, however, that the only intellectual exerc... ...or an answer. ‘Yes. Every house without a signal will be fired upon by the British troops. No harm will be done to the others. No harm at all. Those t... ...er: this is the index of his history. Beyond these pages the prison has no record of his existence: and though he live to be in the same cell ten wear... ...try at home, as the distinguished gentleman who is now its Minister at the British Court sustains its highest character abroad. I visited both houses ... ...dical College; and the Battle Monument in memory of an engagement with the British at North Point; are the most conspicuous among them. American Notes...

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...eans of the magazine page of the half-penny newspapers or by cinematograph records. But it was brought home very insistently, and in those days if, ev... ...lishman. I’ll talk to you all to-morrow.” Foggy snapshots still survive to record that incident. His assistant struggles in a sea of aggressive young ... ...d to keep his secret safe from any further risk of leak- age. He faced the British public now with the question whether they wanted his secret or not;... ...sual dimensions and irregular circumstances and the still largely decorous British public learnt with reluctance and alarm that a sympathetic treatmen... ...exclusive acquisition of the priceless secret of aerial sta- bility by the British Empire. The exact particulars of the simi- larity never came to lig... ...-vivisection, and its pulsating dis- sepiments’ adorned with emphatic flag labels. Confronted they were, and there was no getting away from it. He wou... ...m seventy to two hundred tons. How many Germany possessed history does not record, but Bert counted nearly eighty great bulks receding in perspective ...

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...t occasion. Conceive it! Filmer! Our obscure unwashed Filmer, the Glory of British science! Duchesses crowd upon him, beautiful, bold peeresses say in... ...e could get to the floor whenever he wanted, which was sim- ply to put the British Encyclopaedia (tenth edition) on the top of his open shelves. He ju... ...raphs beside the mantel mean- while. The little black notebook in which he recorded the orders of his daily round projected stiffly from his breast po... ... to be a ‘lark,’ and here it was, nothing but another failure added to his record! He proclaimed himself an utter out-and-out failure. He said, and I ... ... a football, and been thirty-five minutes under water, you don’t break any records running. I ran like a ploughboy going to work. And half way to the ... ...y that lay through the trees. It was clear to me they didn’t take me for a British citizen, whatever else they thought of me, and for 84 Twelve Stori... ...200, one in 900, and one in 2000, distinguished by yellow, pink, and white labels respectively. No doubt its use renders a great number of very extrao... ...s Winchelsea observed; his Gladstone bag was of good pleasant leather with labels reminiscent of Luxem- bourg and Ostend, and his boots, though brown,...

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..., in like manner, search as we will in these multi-form innumerable French Records, darkness too frequently covers, or sheer distraction bewilders. On... ... 21 Septembre, Annee 1er (1792).) Lastly con- sider this: that there is on record a Trial of Charles First! This printed Trial of Charles First is sol... ...irty-eight years four months and twenty-eight days. (Newspapers, Municipal Records, &c. &c. (in Hist. Parl. xxiii. 298-349) Deux Amis (ix. 369-373), M... ...ce stood. ‘Three thousand birds’ are let loose, into the whole world, with labels round their neck, We are free; imitate us. Holocaust of Royalist and... ...Jean-Jacques: not one of the least afflicting occur- rences for the actual British reader of French History;— confusing the soul with Messidors, Meado...

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...st Association and eloquence were beyond all bounds of belief. Therefore I record the fact that all that portion of Martin Chuzzlewit’s experiences is... ...n this country as I have hinted at to-night. 6 Martin Chuzzlewit Also, to record that wherever I have been, in the smallest places equally with the l... ...is remarkable that as there was, in the oldest family of which we have any record, a murderer and a vagabond, so we never fail to meet, in the records... ...h of Mr Brick’s articles had become at that time the most obnoxious to the British Parliament and the Court of Saint James’s?’ ‘Upon my word,’ said Ma... ...espondent. 250 Martin Chuzzlewit ‘Oh! The depressing institutions of that British empire, colonel!’ said Jefferson Brick. ‘Master!’ ‘What’s the matte... ...amily of the splendour of that brilliant festival (comprehending the whole British Peerage and Court Calendar) to which they were specially invited, a... ...he torn leaves, and had pasted up the bro- ken backs, and substituted neat labels for the worn-out letterings. It looked a different place, it was so ...

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...ed down in London. I am English.” “Y ou are! Are you? Eh?” “A natural-born British subject,” Mr V erloc said stolidly. “But my father was French, and ... ...before they came widely open. “If you’ll only be good enough to look up my record,” he boomed out in his great, clear oratorical bass, “you’ll see I g... ...s of an `agent provocateur’ is to provoke. As far as I can judge from your record kept here, you have done nothing to earn your money for the last thr... ...ach other in silence. “Of course,” said the latter, “the department has no record of that man.” “Did any of my predecessors have any knowledge of what... ...r man had seen the luggage being put on the cab. There were some old Paris labels on one of the bags. Somehow I couldn’t get the fellow out of my head... ... would be an easy way for a young man to go down into history? Not so many British Ministers have been assassinated as to make it a minor incident. Bu... ... And this was strange, since the Italian res- taurant is such a peculiarly British institution. But these people were as denationalised as the dishes ...

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...int. We have no official statement of the facts which the reader will find recorded in the next chapter, but they have been carefully collated from le... ...artly to read, and partly to relate, the following incident, which we find recorded on the T ransactions of the Club as ‘The Stroller’s Tale.’ THE S... ...ack—dead!’ IT WOULD AFFORD us the highest gratification to be enabled to record Mr. Pickwick’s opinion of the foregoing anecdote. We have little dou... ...ass over the chimney piece, with delightful rows of green bottles and gold labels, together with jars of pickles and preserves, and cheeses and boiled... ...ound, formed by mixing together, in a pewter vessel, certain quantities of British Hollands and the fragrant essence of the clove. ‘And what sort of a... ...d several ticketed bundles of dirty papers, some old deal boxes with paper labels, and sundry decayed stone ink bottles of various shapes and sizes. T... ...in Magna Charta, sir,’ said Mr. Jinks. ‘One of the brightest jewels in the British crown, wrung The Pickwick Papers 322 from his Majesty by the baron...

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...New England port during the war of 1812, she had been captured at sea by a British cruiser, and, after seeing all sorts of service, was at last employ... ...h we afterward used for cups. On the second day nothing happened worthy of record. On the third, we were amused by the following scene. A man, whom we... ...its. But, asserting his privilege as physician to the first reading of the labels, Doctor Long Ghost was at last permitted to take possession of the b... ... It purported to be, “the affidavit of John Jennin, first of- ficer of the British Colonial Barque Julia; Guy, Master;” and proved to be a long statem... ...hips touching in her harbours. It is a significant fact, and one worthy of record, that while the influence of the English missionaries at T ahiti has...

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...sted, or what was the decisive stroke which finally, after a lapse of time recorded in minutes by the clock, in hours by the precipi- tate beat of her... ...take part must proverbially forego. No one could have kept a more accurate record of social fluctuations, or have put a more unerring finger on the di... ...cigar smoke, and near it stood one of those intricate folding tables which British ingenuity has devised to facilitate the circulation of tobacco and ... ...with the decanters, was bend- ing over the latter to decipher their silver labels. “Here, now, Lily, just a drop of cognac in a little fizzy wa- ter—y... ...e more as the “beautiful Miss Bart”in the interesting journal de- voted to recording the least movements of her cosmopolitan companions—all these expe...

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...ed in tears, which she let no one see, not even Aunt Ada, and proceeded to record in her letter to India that those dreadful boys were quite ruining F... ...at Alethea would ever be Lady Liddesdale. She would have shown Gillian the record, but received the ungracious answer, ‘I hate swells.’ ‘Let her alone... ...uly admired all Fergus’s geological specimens, and even undertook to print labels for them. Mysie would have liked to begin lessons again with her; bu... ...nough as well as enthusiastic love to make her quail at the thought of her record of self-will. There was, however, no disappointment in the sight of ... ...ive sightseeing, Aunt Jane and Gillian. They had not been ashamed of being British spinsters with guide-books in their hands; nor, on the other hand, ...

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...olitical doctrine that shall be equally available for applica- tion in the British Empire and in the United States. T o that we must come, unless our ... ...incial in proportion to our new and wider needs. My instances are commonly British, but all the broad project of this book—the discussion of the quali... ...ading and English-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic demo... ...ind is of the modern cast, who has sur- veyed the vistas of the geological record and grasped the secu- lar unfolding of the scheme of life, who has f... ...d none of these vociferated “cries,” 22 Mankind in the Making these party labels, these programme items, are ever pro- pounded to us in that way. I c... ...the slenderer, slower intercommunication, and, above all, the insufficient records of human communities; but the time has come now—or, at the worst, i... ..., spends days watching his school matches, and thumbs and muddles over the records of county cricket to an amazing extent. But these things are indeed...

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...re. Tickets gradually appeared in the windows; then rolls of flannel, with labels on them, were stuck outside the door; then a bill was pasted on the ... ... hence, and the antiquary of another gen- eration looking into some mouldy record of the strife and passions that agitated the world in these times, m... ...ll into a train of reflection as we walked homewards, upon the curious old records of likings and dislikings; of jealousies and revenges; of affection... ...d to the sowing of seeds, and sticking little bits of wood over them, with labels, which look like epitaphs to their memory; and in the evening, when ... ...n con- structed since the days of the Ark—we think that is the earliest on record—to the present time, commend us to an omnibus. A long stage is not t... ...away. Whether, at the expiration of the period we have just mentioned, the British Government required Mr. Barker’s presence here, or did not require ... ...e mathematical problems; some pickle-jars, some surgeons’ ditto, with gilt labels and without stoppers; an unframed portrait of some lady who flourish... ... and brooches, fas- tened and labelled separately, like the insects in the British Museum; cheap silver penholders and snuff-boxes, with a masonic sta... ...tracted our notice, by sitting op- posite to us in the reading-room at the British Museum; and what made the man more remarkable was, that he always h...

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...as nothing to offer but a liberal allowance of damp mortar and new lime. I record these little incidents of home travel mainly with the object of incr... ... is a naturalist, and has made and pre served a collection of the eggs of British birds, and stuffed the birds: who is now a conchologist, with a ver... ... your feelings. But I have no such chance. Just as a nation is happy whose records are barren, so is a society fortunate that has no history—and its p... ...ich was utterly and wholly untheatrical, used to comfort his conscience by recording a vow that he would abstain from the theatres for a certain time.... ... wonderful interest in their affairs— mostly very complicated—and sticking labels upon all sorts of articles. I look around—there he is, in a station ... ... London, and having a great desire to see the famous read ing room of the British Museum, was assured by the En glish family with whom she stayed th... ...ng the streets in long melancholy rows under the escort of that surprising British monster—a beadle, whose system of in struction, I am afraid, too o...

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...re. Tickets gradually appeared in the windows; then rolls of flannel, with labels on them, were stuck outside the door; then a bill was pasted on the ... ... hence, and the antiquary of another gen- eration looking into some mouldy record of the strife and passions that agitated the world in these times, m... ...ll into a train of reflection as we walked homewards, upon the curious old records of likings and dislikings; of jealousies and revenges; of affection... ...d to the sowing of seeds, and sticking little bits of wood over them, with labels, which look like epitaphs to their memory; and in the evening, when ... ...n con- structed since the days of the Ark—we think that is the earliest on record—to the present time, commend us to an omnibus. A long stage is not t... ...away. Whether, at the expiration of the period we have just mentioned, the British Government required Mr. Barker’s presence here, or did not require ... ...e mathematical problems; some pickle-jars, some surgeons’ ditto, with gilt labels and without stoppers; an unframed portrait of some lady who flourish... ... and brooches, fas- tened and labelled separately, like the insects in the British Museum; cheap silver penholders and snuff-boxes, with a masonic sta... ...tracted our notice, by sitting op- posite to us in the reading-room at the British Museum; and what made the man more remarkable was, that he always h...

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... a brush and dust-pan. She used in the old days to sing hymn tunes, or the British national song for the time being, to these instruments, but latterl... ...e green things… “I sold the bones to a man named Winslow—a dealer near the British Museum, and he says he sold them to old Havers. It seems Havers did... ...e little map fluttered and the voices sank. A fine story for two, stranded British wastrels to hear! Evans’ dream shifted to the moment when he had Ch... ...unlike his usual minute characters. There remain only two curious facts to record. Indisputably there was some connection be- tween Eden and Elvesham,... .... The third photograph represents him at one-and- twenty, and confirms the record of the others. There seems here evidence of the strongest confirmato... ...r photographic apparatus and spectroscope, and this appliance and that, to record this novel, astonishing sight, the destruction of a world. For it wa... ...s Winchelsea observed; his Gladstone bag was of good pleasant leather with labels reminiscent of Luxembourg and Ostend, and his boots, though brown, w... ...200, one in 900, and one in 2000, distinguished by yellow, pink, and white labels respectively. No doubt its use renders a great number of very extrao...

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... protests, not against the opinions it expresses, but against the facts it records. There are people who cannot bear to be told that their hero was as... ...Gold score was completed to the last drum tap. These facts are on official record in Germany, where the proclamation summing up Wagner as “a political... ...s way in which all his boasted power is tied up with the laws and bargains recorded on the heft of his spear, which, says Alberic truly, would crumble... ... must none the less fight for your life. It seems hardly possible that the British army at the battle of Waterloo did not include at least one English... ...d of the com- position of Night Falls On The Gods are those which are mere labels of external features, such as the Dragon, the Fire, the Water and so... ...ngle orchestral rehearsal, than by ten years reading in the Library of the British Mu- seum. Wagner must have learnt between Das Rheingold and the Kai...

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... Lomenie’s by adoption. Not in vain has Lomenie studied the working of the British Constitution; for he professes to have some Anglo- mania, of a sort... ...led off to Troyes in Champagne; and nothing left but a few mute Keepers of records; the Demosthenic thunder become extinct, the martyrs of liberty cle... ...ont, to have these late obnoxious Arretes and protests ‘expunged’ from the Records, are received in the most marked manner. Monsieur, who is thought t... ...itting streaks of fire? A sea cock- fight it is, and of the hottest; where British Serapis and French- American Bon Homme Richard do lash and throttle... ..., till death, jusqu’a la mort.’ Third, and most im- portant, that official record of all this be solemnly delivered in to the National Assembly, to M.... ...ce stood. ‘Three thousand birds’ are let loose, into the whole world, with labels round their neck, We are free; imitate us. Holocaust of Royalist and... ...f Jean-Jacques: not one of the least afflicting occurrences for the actual British reader of French History;—confusing the soul with Messidors, Meadow...

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... faces of Parisians, sated as they are with every possible sight. A saying recorded of Hyacinthe, an actor celebrated for his repartees, will explain ... ...all change; and as far as others were concerned, he was satisfied with the labels they bore, and never plunged a too-curious hand into the sack. This ... ...or ever by the fabulist’s masterpiece, the revelation of his soul, and the record of his dreams; those three words were set once and for ever by the p... ...day she dressed Cecile herself, taking as much pains as the admiral of the British fleet takes over the dressing of the pleasure yacht for Her Majesty... ...’s destiny over his whole outward and visible form, if a man’s body is the record of his fate, why should not the hand in a manner epitomize the body?...

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...e labored in collecting his material. He speaks frankly of his methods. He recorded the talk of Johnson and his associates partly by a rough shorthand... ...ars; as I acquired a fa- cility in recollecting, and was very assiduous in recording, his conversation, of which the ex- traordinary vigour and vivaci... ...be the illustrious character whose various excellence I am to endeavour to record, and Nathanael, who died in his twenty-fifth year. Mr. Michael Johns... ... Simpson, Mr. Levett, Captain Garrick, father of the great ornament of the British stage; but above all, Mr. Gilbert Walmsley, Register of the Preroga... ... who had practised his own precepts of oeconomy for sev- eral years in the British capital. He assured Johnson, who, I suppose, was then meditating to... ... and disputed very warmly with Johnson against the well-known maxim of the British constitution, ‘the King can do no wrong;’ affirming, that ‘what was... ... art. He had all the articles accu- rately arranged, with their names upon labels, printed at his own little press; and on the stair- case leading to ...

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...ages, in the days of the public examination of late Di- rectors of a Royal British Bank. But, I submit myself to suffer judgment to go by default on a... ...aboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly South Sea gods in the British Museum might have supposed themselves at home again. Nothing to see... ...hing which neither he nor anybody else knew anything about. On these truly British occasions, the smugglers, if any, made a feint of walking into the ... ... the interposed screen, the torn-up papers, the dispatch-boxes with little labels sticking out of them, like medicine bottles or dead game, the pervad... ...o Arthur that a far more elaborate and taking show of business—such as the records of the Circumlocution Office made perhaps—might 263 Little Dorrit ... ... Dorrits of Dorsetshire.’ He then went on to detail. How, having that name recorded in his note- book, he was first attracted by the name alone. How, ... ...from influential quarters; and one venerable archdeacon even shed tears in recording his testimony to her perfections (described to him by persons on ...

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...hey were one and all about to describe the gentleman on the heading of the records baldly (where brevity is most complimentary) as a gentleman of fami... ...ers, through an act of heroism of the unpretending cool sort which kindles British blood, on the part of the modest young officer, in the storming of ... ...ble was the description of his namesake’s deed of valour: with the rescued British sailor inebriate, and the haul- ing off to captivity of the three b... ...e said. “You have luggage.” Flitch jumped from the box and read one of the labels aloud: “Lieutenant-Colonel H. De Craye.” “And the colonel met the la... .... One might lie down one’s self and keep sweet here.” Of all our venerable British of the two Isles professing a suckling attachment to an ancient por... ...now- ing she deserves them.” He had spoken it, and it was an oath upon the record. Desire to do her intolerable hurt became an ecstasy in his veins, a... ... been exposed enough.” “You cannot blot out the past: it is written, it is recorded. You loved me devotedly, silence is no escape. You loved me.” “I d...

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...died. She only sur- vived her husband eleven days, a coincidence which was recorded on their tombstone. Such, in substance, was the story which Rickie... ...dship office, where the mar- riage of true minds could be registered. “Why labels?” “To know each other again.” “I have taught you pessimism splendidl... ...closed more turnips, and in the middle of the pattern grew one small tree. British? Roman? Saxon? Danish? The com- petent reader will decide. The Thom... ...omestic joke. XX ANSELL WAS IN HIS FAVOURITE HAUNT—the reading-room of the British Museum. In that book-encircled space he always could find peace. H... ...nd meanwhile he turns into stone. Two philo- sophic youths repining in the British Museum! What have we done? What shall we ever do? Just drift and cr... ...cribed with delicate irony his difficulties as a landlord; but she did not record the love in which his name was held. Nor could her irony touch him w...

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...ages, in the days of the public examination of late Di- rectors of a Royal British Bank. But, I submit myself to suffer judgment to go by default on a... ...aboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly South Sea gods in the British Museum might have supposed themselves at home again. Nothing to see... ...hing which neither he nor anybody else knew anything about. On these truly British occasions, the smugglers, if any, made a feint of walking into the ... ... the interposed screen, the torn-up papers, the dispatch-boxes with little labels sticking out of them, like medicine bottles or dead game, the pervad... ...o Arthur that a far more elaborate and taking show of business—such as the records of the Circumlocution Office made perhaps—might 263 Little Dorrit ... ... Dorrits of Dorsetshire.’ He then went on to detail. How, having that name recorded in his note- book, he was first attracted by the name alone. How, ...

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... war against the idea of imperialism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Russian imperial- ism, and we were saying this not b... ...ayle’s “Great Settle- ment” (1915), a frankly sceptical treatment from the British Imperialist point of view, on the other. An illuminating dis- cussi... ...ce with an unrevolutionized Germany, an idea to which, in common with most British people, I am bitterly opposed. Walsh’s “World Rebuilt” is a good ex... ...ees of free- dom, the agents of knowledge and efficiency. On the whole the record of British rule is a pretty respectable one; I am not ashamed of our... ...ecord of British rule is a pretty respectable one; I am not ashamed of our record. Nevertheless the case is altering. It is quite justifiable for us B... ...ver the head of a worthless man, though the latter be smothered with party labels. That is the gist of this business. The differ- ence in effect betwe... ...e talk such nonsense without reproof, but I look in vain through Hansard’s record of this debate for a single con- temptuous reference to Mr. Chamberl...

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...sible. Y.M. There must be a genuinely and utterly self sacrific ing act recorded in human history somewhere. O.M. You are young. You have many year... ...hat no man ever sacrifices himself; that there is no instance of it upon record anywhere; and that when a man’s Interior Monarch requires a thing of... ..., greatly performed. Take it to pieces and examine it, if you like. Y.M. A British troop ship crowded with soldiers and their wives and children. She ... ...M. You may answer your question yourself. O.M. That list of sects is not a record of studies, searchings, seekings after light; it mainly (and sarcas... ...y choicest; cigars which cost him forty cents apiece and bore red and gold labels in sign of their nobility. I removed the labels and put the cigars i...

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...has no back- ward pages whereon, if you choose to turn them, you will find records such as might justly cause you either bitterness or shame. I await ... ... calf Will hardly cover more diversity Than all your labels cunningly devised To class your unread authors. I N CONSE... ...rehand:—one must trust a little to Providence and be generous. It’s a good British feeling to try and raise your family a little: in my opinion, it’s ... ...ndeed, he took down a dusty row of volumes with gray-paper backs and dingy labels—the volumes of an old Cyclopaedia which he had never disturbed. It w... ...e called them—by which he tested his public and deposited small monumental records of his march, were far from having been seen in all their signifi- ... ... 467 George Eliot “Miss Garth, I suppose?” said the Vicar, examining some labels very closely. “Y es. I shouldn’t mind anything if she would have me.... ... stay a long while there in spite of professional accom- plishment. In the British climate there is no incompatibility be- tween scientific insight an...

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...nk the Congress and the President. Executive branch agencies have searched records and produced a multitude of documents for us.We thank officials, pa... ...bright Security. 13 The checkpoint featured closed-circuit television that recorded all passengers, including the hijackers, as they were screened. At... ...n keep remaining sitting.We have a bomb on board. So, sit.”The flight data recorder (also recovered) indicates that Jarrah then instructed the plane’s... ...ectly) that the Saudis were sharing Tayyib’s information with the U.S. and British authorities. 86 At almost the same time, cell members learned that ... ...nt spoke to the congressional leadership from Air Force One, and he called British Prime Min- ister T ony Blair, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif... ...l attaché in Lon- don had promptly forwarded it to his counterparts in the British government, hand-delivering the request on August 21. On August 24,... ...ng with ‘catastrophic, ’‘grand, ’ or ‘super’ terrorism, when in fact these labels do not represent most of the terrorism that the United States is lik... ...ing,” or of “con- necting the dots.” In chapter 11 we explained that these labels are too narrow. They describe the symptoms, not the disease. In each...