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...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ...icago. Norwegians and Germans owned stores. The social leaders were common merchants. Sell- ing nails was considered as sacred as banking. These up- s... ...’t worth fulfilling. Shopping was a delight of brisk conferences. The very merchants whose droning she found the dullest at the two or three parties w... ...e people liked her. She had gone to the women at afternoon-coffees, to the merchants in their stores, with so many outpouring comments and whimsies th... ...er to impress the ordinary class of people than just a plain old-fashioned colonial house, such as you describe. And that would be the proper cen- ter... ...ht here in the Thanatopsis. And as for trying to make a whole town in this Colonial architecture you talk 142 Main Street about— I do love nice thing... ...iped, after Carol’s appeal: “I see. You think the New England villages and Colonial houses are so much more cunning than these Middlewestern towns. I’...

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...ob of it, and save it. Lay hold of the proper agencies, and secure all the Americans you can, at once. I do hope, on closer inspection, you will find ... ...poll- books of the Edwardsville precinct, and take the first hundred known American names. Then quietly ascertain how many of them are actually going ... ... other agencies to work which shall compensate for the loss of a good many Americans. Don’t fail to check the stampede at once. Trumbull, I think, wil... ... were convenient for me to remain in your city long enough to consult your merchants and manufacturers; or, as it were, to listen to those breathings ... ...riginal ones passed into the Union even before they cast off their British colonial dependence; and the new ones each came into the Union directly fro...

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...commendation, and when I was barely twelve I got a scholarship at the City Merchants School and was en- trusted with a scholar’s railway season ticket... ...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... ...garettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upon the City Merchants School. Usually I caught the eight-eighteen for Victoria, I had a... ...discover them all making off, a ragged flight, footballing my cap, my City Merchants’ cap, amongst them. I leapt to my feet in a passion of indignatio... ...nse of effective contact; we boasted, it is true, an under secretary and a colonial governor among our old boys, but they were never real to us; such ... ...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....

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...here was less apparent glory in ministering. A widespread district of very colonial 8 The Trial colonists, and the charge of a college for their uncu... ...e who cannot deal with money matters; and see, on the other hand, what our merchants and men of business have done for the Church, and do not scorn “t... ...ow could he suppose that any man could be crazed enough to prefer to be an American citizen, when he might remain a British subject? Repugnance to Ame... ...hate to see it, and to hear people say my roses will surprise the delicate Americans. Fancy, in a shop in London I met an old school-fellow, who was d... ... owns she does not know half so much as Cora!’ This regular declaration of American independence con- founded the two sisters, and made Averil recall ... ... tion tour. Oh, fancy old June a venerable archdeacon!’ ‘You don’t think a colonial archdeacon is like one of your great portly swells in a shovel hat... ...trimness to go to the early service at the Minster; but he was full of the colonial nil admirari principle, and was quite above being struck by the gr...

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...n duly ratified and carried into execution. It is believed that, so far as American ports and American citizens are concerned, that inhuman and odious... ...Y AND NICHOLS. GENTLEMEN : The number for this month and year of the North American Review was duly received, and for which please accept my thanks. ... .... The world has never had a good definition of the word lib- erty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for lib... ...and intimate neighbor. It is a haven of shelter and re- freshment for our merchants, fishermen, seamen, and other citizens, when on their lawful occa... ... and Pensacola have been opened by proclamation. It is hoped that foreign merchants will now consider whether it is not safer and more profitable to ... ...I desire, however, to be understood while making this state- ment that the colonial authorities of Canada are not deemed to 230 The Writings of Abrah...

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...ne towards the street Over the entrance hovers an enormous specimen of the American eagle, with outspread wings, a shield before her breast, and, if I... ...d, when Salem was a port by itself; not scorned, as she is now, by her own merchants and ship owners, who permit her wharves to crumble to ruin while ... ...nds, perhaps, were all alive before his intellectual sense. Meanwhile, the merchants and ship masters, the spruce clerks and uncouth sailors, entered ... ...touch of his finger, make the in comprehensible as clear as daylight. The merchants valued him not less than we, his esoteric friends. His integrity ... ... highest rank, he still held an honourable and influential place among the colonial magistracy. Another and far more important reason than the deliver... ...n the square cast of countenance and large physical development of the new colonial magistrates. So far as a demeanour of natural authority was concer...

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...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ..., just as a common horse halter hanging from Abraham’s bookshelf, betokens colonial life. Our rooms are quite large enough, bigger than my room at Fen... ...and books, is really fatiguing. Yester- day and to-day are just samples of colonial work. Thursday, 7.30, prayers in chapel; 10.30, Communion service ... ...of New Zealand, full in whose track it lay. The matter was referred to the Colonial Secretary, and in the meantime Bishop Selwyn adhered to his purpos... ...t comforts, numbers of tradesmen, and others working under them, aye, even merchants, manufacturers, and commercial men of all sorts, would be to some... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave... ...tion, a sugar plantation has not been found a very advanced school for the American or West Indian negro, and as a matter of fact, the islander who ha...

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... love- liness, it would achieve what pencil (the pencils, at least, of the colonial artists who attempted it) never could; for, though the dark eyes m... ... she had previ- ously formed of her, as a daughter of one of the principal merchants, who were then, as now, like nobles in the land, that the stock o... ...old leafless oak, that formed with its roots an obstruction very common in American streams; but, throwing his line with involuntary skill as he passe...

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...therwise iden tical with it. She was dressed as simply as possible, in an American print (I think the dry goods people call it so), but with a silken... ... with the conservatives, the writers of “The North Ameri can Review,” the merchants, the politicians, the Cambridge men, and all those respectable ol... ... fall 133 Hawthorne in love with Priscilla. In society, indeed, a genuine American never dreams of stepping across the inappreciable air line which s... ...or a chamber and a closet had been a stately habitation in its day. An old colonial governor had built it, and lived there, long ago, and held his lev...

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...600, that most esteemed of English monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I, read the document prepared by her merchants and, with the flourish of her famous sig... ...eat highway is as ancient as India, itself, and has for centuries been used by conquering armies, merchants and pilgrims, not to forget the great re... ...avy riding skirt for a divided doeskin garment (copied from women’s riding fashion in the former American colonies) and knee-high leather boots. Thi... ... rain and the Nawab had made a good profit selling the bountiful produce of his valley to Indian merchants. Gavin had pointed out to Mohammed Hassan... ...ritish have left us very little leeway on this sub-continent, so we must concentrate on our South American colonies,’ he laughingly told Gavin. A f... ...riage and they would have consented, but my father discovered that François was part Huron, North American Indian from his mother’s side and like al... ...scovered that François was part Huron, North American Indian from his mother’s side and like all colonials, my father refused to dilute our French b... ...rs are hardly likely to love the French any more than the British, Gavin. We, too, are a Western colonial power in their country,’ explained the Co...

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...le INTRODUCTION TO THE EDITION OF 1892 BY ARTHUR STEDMAN Of the trinity of American authors whose births made the year 1819 a notable one in our liter... ...tsfield, Mass., ‘boarding around’ with the families of his pupils, in true American fashion, and easily suppressing, on one memorable occasion, the ef... ...e remained for four months, employed as a clerk. He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way a... ...ly experienced by his brother. Murray brought it out early in 1846, in his Colonial and Home Library, as ‘ A Narrative of a Four Months’ Residence amo... ...lu, the metropolis of the Sandwich Islands!—A community of dis- interested merchants, and devoted self-exiled heralds of the Cross, located on the ver...

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... great livery-stableman’s most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want ... ...nch fiction, and architectural incentives to immorality such as the simple American had never dreamed of. That was how women with lovers lived in the ... ...n Wardian cases, made macrame lace and wool embroidery on linen, collected American revolutionary glazed ware, subscribed to “Good Words,” and read Ou... ...andfathers and great-grandfathers were just respect- able English or Dutch merchants, who came to the colonies to make their fortune, and stayed here ... ...d Skuytercliff, the great es- tate on the Hudson which had been one of the colonial grants of the Dutch government to the famous first Governor, and o... ...dapting Georgian types, and protesting at the meaningless use of the word “Colonial.” No- body nowadays had “Colonial” houses except the millionaire g...

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...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... ... Oh, the world! Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but colonial, scarcely any intercourse but colonial, was carried on between Eur... ...ame purpose that frankincense is carried to St. Peter’s in Rome. Some wine merchants drop a few grains into claret, to flavor it. Who would think, the...

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...as been promised an appointment any time these six months. Mr. Martyr, the Colonial Secretary, told him yesterday that it was made out. That unlucky a... ...s of our colonies, and we have no doubt that the gentleman selected by the Colonial Office to fill the lamented vacancy which has occurred at Coventry... ... his means. When the Marquis of Steyne came abroad after his accident, the Colonial Secretary bowed up to him and congratulated him- 63 Thackeray sel... ...to read an authentic de- scription of vice than a truly refined English or American fe- male will permit the word breeches to be pronounced in her cha... ... of above five hundred scudi was invited to the balls which this prince of merchants gave during the winter, Becky had the honour of a card, and appea... ...orts of people were col- lected; Tyrolese glove-sellers and Danubian linen-merchants, with their packs; students recruiting themselves with butterbrod...

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...ial; just as there are soldiers, artists, artisans, mathematicians, poets, merchants, men who un- derstand money, or agriculture, or government, and n... ...ed an enor- mous bunch of old trinkets, among which in 1824 he still wore “American beads,” which were very much the fashion in the year VII. In the b... ...ling his cane and of flinging the sort of glance which Bixiou told him was American. He smiled to show his fine teeth; he wore no socks under his boot... ...des Lombards, the Maison Matifat, which made its fortune by that identical colonial product.” Baudoyer [entering]. “Monsieur Chazelle, I see, is not h... ...nd China (where all government officials steal), also that of Austria, the American republics, and indeed that of the whole world, to the fact that fo...

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...and extensive ravages by fire, such as now happen, not unfrequently in the American woods, (but gen- erally from carelessness in scattering the glowin... ...the progeny of those whom the last generation had purchased from the slave merchants. These people derived their stock chiefly from Cappadocia, Pontus... ...ullest and amplest form upon their final discharge, viz. in the shape of a colonial estate—large enough to rear a family in com- fort, and seated in t...

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...e with Maule’s malediction in The story. Furthermore, there occurs in The “American Note-Books” (August 27, 1837), a reminiscence of The author’s fami... ...nt of lands in Waldo County, Maine, owned by the Pyncheon family. In the “ American Note-Books” there is an entry, dated August 12, 1837, which speaks... ... was simply a general reproduction of a style of architecture belonging to colonial days, examples of which survived into the period of his youth, but... ...ide of his ancestral residence. It was the custom of the time, indeed, for merchants to store their goods and transact business in their own dwellings... ... and, in this inclement weather, were de- serted by the ordinary throng of merchants, laborers, and sea- faring men; each wharf a solitude, with the v...

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..., and trained up many good scholars; among them, one of England’s princely merchants, Nicholas Randall, whose effigy knelt in a niche in the chancel w... ... own brother. It was believed that the Alcestis was destined for the South American station. “A three years’ business,” said Dr. May, with a sigh. “Bu... ...e enough, and they saw our signal of distress!” The vessel proved to be an American whaler, which had just parted with her cargo to a homeward bound s... ... hunt him up.” Flora supposed he meant a directory; and all possible South American merchants having been overlooked, and the Mack- intoshes selected,... ... up.” Flora supposed he meant a directory; and all possible South American merchants having been overlooked, and the Mack- intoshes selected, he next ... ...s daughter! Brought up as she has been—to expose her to the roughness of a colonial life, such as I should hesitate about for your sisters.” “It is he...

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... a pool of refugees, waiting in a political refugee camp in Turkey to get the American visa, a% have the chance to be accepted – where a varies in t... ...ierarchy come the Brahmins (priestly class), Kshatriyas (warriors), Vaishyas (merchants and artisans) and Sudras (slaves). Outside this caste-Hindu ... ...s only a transfer of power from the British to the Brahmins and north-Indian merchants (Baniyas). The Congress Government of Madras Province banned... ...f the caste system's brutal suppression of rights? 4. The last link of the colonial chain was snapped in 1947.But this was colonialism from the o... ...mparative Study. In Proc. of the 18 th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, by NAFIPS, New York, (1... ...e, F., A Unifying Field in Logics: Neutrosophic Logic, Preface by Charles Le, American Research Press, Rehoboth, 1999, 2000. Second edition of the ...

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...ours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter....

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... in the interior of conti- nents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe an... ...- tion of the day. How could I be otherwise? I had read and reread all the American and European papers without be- ing any nearer a conclusion. This ... ...ofes- 11 Jules Verne sor, and not give too much cause for laughter to the Americans, who laugh well when they do laugh. I reserved for myself a way o... ...ercantile Gazette, the Lloyd’s List, the Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and Colonial Review, all papers devoted to insurance companies which threatened... ...friends and collections—and accepted without hesita- tion the offer of the American Government. “Besides,” thought I, “all roads lead back to Europe; ... ...osed by this historical lesson. “I will continue. This is what passed. The merchants of Cadiz had a privilege by which they had the right of re- ceivi...

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...ned, lugging in a large pair of scales. They were such a pair as wholesale merchants use for weighing bulky commodities; and quite a bulky commodity w... ...rs to the charge of treason. During the reign of Charles II., however, the American colonies had but little reason to complain of harsh or tyran nica... ...eason for their apprehen sions. King James caused the charters of all the American colonies to be taken away. The old charter of Massachusetts, which... ...n her, together with the immense wealth of which they had robbed the South American kings.” “Why, Grandfather!” exclaimed Laurence, “what magnifi cen... .... 61 Hawthorne Next comes a class in arithmetic. These boys are to be the merchants, shopkeepers, and mechanics of a future period. Hitherto they hav... ...ther here explained some of the circumstances that made the situation of a colonial governor so difficult and irk some. There was not the same feelin... ...At a little distance from the throng might be seen the wealthy and pompous merchants whose warehouses stood on Long Wharf. It was difficult to touch t... ...sman Hutchinson. It was by their advice that the king had acted in all the colonial troubles. But the day of recompense was come. “See the old tory!” ...

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...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... ...on. They are affable. I had but recently had an encounter with an imported Colonial statesman, who was being adver- tised like a soap as the coming sa... ...alf a century; England gave her Heligoland and stood out of the way of her colonial expansion, Italy was a happy hunting ground for her busi- ness ent... ...l influence against the development of native Italian business; that their merchants are not bona-fide individuals, but members of a nationalist consp... ...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... ...hed by the quality of the ordinary British soldiers in our new armies. One Colonial colonel said something almost incredible to me—almost incredible a... ...s that interest them, are public functions. Money-lenders and speculators, merchants and gambling gentlefolk may think in terms of profit; capable bus...

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... in any way concerned in public life to feel that the highest ambition any American can possibly have will be gratified just in proportion as he raise... ...ong men of great origi- nal genius or of an heroic type of character.” The American people should feel profoundly grateful that the greatest American ... ...ncoln: V ol One the leader, Lincoln, at least should remain a real, living American. No matter how clearly, how directly, Lincoln has shown himself in... ...harged a cargo of African slaves at Jamestown in Virginia: All through the colonial period their importation had continued. A few had found their way ... ...cultured of his party in New Y ork editors, clergymen, statesmen, lawyers, merchants, crit- ics. They were all very curious to hear him. His fame as a... ...it from clime to clime, and the winds wafted it from nation to nation; and merchants bought and sold it, by wholesale and retail, with precisely the s... ...- nishes. In short, we have been too long subject to the policy of British merchants. It is time we should become a little more Americanized, and inst...

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...res not only in Holland, but in Norway and Sweden and Denmark? It’s mostly merchants who buy them, and rich tradesmen. You can’t imagine what the wint... ... so fair that you could not see them. He reminded you of those jolly , fat merchants that Rubens painted. When I told him that I meant to live in Pari... ...een dying, but the houses had the homely state- liness of their time. Rich merchants, sending their wares to the distant Indies, had lived in them cal... ...e finest country in the world, sir , and he felt a lively superiority over Americans, Colonials, Dagos, Dutchmen, and Kanakas. But I do not think he w... ...untry in the world, sir , and he felt a lively superiority over Americans, Colonials, Dagos, Dutchmen, and Kanakas. But I do not think he was a happy ... ...elu, whither came ships’ captains in search of a man. He was married to an American woman, obese and slat- ternly , fallen to this pass by Heaven know... ...pan- iards, pleasant-looking fellows from a French cruiser, negroes off an American tramp. By day it is merely sordid, but at night, lit only by the l...

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...little. “T ea,” however, we had in abundance; though, I dare say, the Hong merchants never had the shipping of it. Beside this, every other day we ha... ...g to the commander of the corvette, had recently gone ashore there from an American whaler, and were desirous of ship- ping aboard one of their own co... ...arcely any price too dear which will purchase his darling “tot.” Nowadays, American whalemen in the Pacific never think of carrying spirits as a ratio... ...bound passage. In this way, his country- men frequently enter on board the colonial whaling vessels. There was a man among us who had sailed with the ... ... had thrown the sailors, now brooked no restraint; and one of them—a young American who went by the name of Salem—dashed out from among the rest, 70 ... ...orted to be, “the affidavit of John Jennin, first of- ficer of the British Colonial Barque Julia; Guy, Master;” and proved to be a long statement of m... ...hapless goats. In one year, three thousand of their skins were sold to the merchants of Honolulu, fetching a quartila, or a shilling ster- ling apiece... ...k cheek and black whiskers. According to his own ac- count, he had lost a colonial armed brig on the coast of New Zealand; and since then, had been l...

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...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ... of late gone wrong with the luckless old gentleman. V entures had failed; merchants had broken; funds had risen when he calculated they would fall. W... ... wild with excitement, and prophesying the tri- umph of their Emperor. The merchants closed their shops, and came out to swell the general chorus of a... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was... ...as been promised an appointment any time these six months. Mr. Martyr, the Colonial Secretary, told him yesterday that it was made out. That unlucky a... ...s of our colonies, and we have no doubt that the gentleman selected by the Colonial Office to fill the lamented vacancy which has occurred at Coventry... ... his means. When the Marquis of Steyne came abroad after his accident, the Colonial Secretary bowed up to him and congratulated him- self and the Serv... ... of above five hundred scudi was invited to the balls which this prince of merchants gave during the winter, Becky had the honour of a card, and appea...

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...is time, when there’s sae little money stirring in Scotland wi’ this weary American war, that somebody may get the land a bargain—Deil be in them, tha... ...who was to usher him to the man of law. The period was near the end of the American war. The desire of room, of air, and of decent accommodation, had ... ...ation of Mrs. Bertram’s mother, who, having a good stock in trade when the colonial war broke out, trebled the price of his commodity to all the world... ...hly, deserved; yet his pride and interest, like the for- titude of a North American Indian, manned him to sustain the tortures inflicted at once by th... ...e smugglers will come aff, and where they’re to land, better than the very merchants that deal wi’ them. And then, to the boot o’ that, she’s whiles c...

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...g was known but that she was a Miss Otway, and that he had met her in some colonial quarters. The old lady, with whom the little girl had been left, w... ...me coloured, and white, flowering trees. “They said they would show me the Americans,” she said. “Why was it, mother? I thought Americans were like th... ...es, and a pond, and statues standing round it, and I don’t think they were Americans, for I know one was Diana, because she had a bow and quiver. I wa... ...landed gen- try in quest of my coat of arms and genealogy, also three wine merchants, a landscape gardener, and a woman with a pitcher of goldfish. Em... ...hen the family were alone, than of finding himself in the midst of what an American guest had called Mrs. Brownlow’s surprise parties. They were 451 ...

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...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... ...orld in the name and under the immediate orders of the Crown;* this is the colonial system adopted by other countries of Europe. Sometimes grants of c... ...they must shortly disappear. The sons of these opulent citizens are become merchants, lawyers, or physicians. Most of them have lapsed into obscu- rit... ...espect to the Indians, it is neces- sary to consult, 1st, “The Laws of the Colonial and State Governments relating to the Indian Inhabitants.” (See th... ... connection with those States, and of gradually filling their markets. The merchants of the United States could only forfeit these natural advan- tage... ...oubtedly able to act as their in- termediate agents cheaper than any other merchants. They will therefore retain that employment, for cheapness is the... ...dence. But this is an error: the population increased as rapidly under the colonial system as it does at the present day; that is to say, it doubled i...

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...ience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. So...

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................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...form; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whatever th... ...Rusborough’s treasure lay in such coins, gold and silver, from the Spanish colonial mints. Lady Carbery at this period made an effort to teach me Hebr... ...bought, to order, by one day’s common subscription of Liverpool or Glasgow merchants, students very rarely indeed have admission to its free use. What... ...ion; yet, for all that, such was the regard to a pious inauguration of all colonial enterprises, that no one provision or pledge of pros- perity was h... ...have carried their money to Delphi. Nay, it is certain that even where the colonial coun- sels of the greater oracles seemed extravagant, though a lar... ...nesus, the emporium of its trade, and residence of the foreign consuls and merchants.” Its population was about eighteen thou- sand, of which number t... ...e they had gained a scanty subsistence as fishermen. Gradually they became merchants and seamen. Being the best sailors in the Sultan’s dominions, the...

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...tunity of being stupid. We should have in Paris ten Venices if our retired merchants had had the instinct for fine things characteristic of the Italia... ... do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have lived t... ...al calm. But with a Brazilian who has pos- sibly smuggled in some doubtful colonial produce—” “Woman is an inexplicable creature!” said Hulot. “I can ... ... you?” “Valerie,” said the official, “my child, that cousin of yours is an American cousin—” “Oh, that is enough!” she cried, interrupting the Baron. ... ...child works sixteen hours a day at embroidering costly pieces for the silk merchants, and earns sixteen sous a day—one sou an hour!—and feeds like the... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white...

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...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...uit of happiness—enunciated in the context of indignation at relatively mild colonial policies of taxation and legislation. How could a man who though... ..., 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1880), 2:339: “When a company of merchants undertake, at their own risk and expense, to establish a new tr...

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... across the sea. As the Guiding Light she was very badly wanted in a South American port for the little matter of entering harbour at full speed, coll... ...d surprised as the Power that had captured the Haliotis? It explained that colonial governors and far-away men-of-war were difficult to control, and p... ...to a man in the Educational Department, who was teaching the sons of cloth-merchants and dyers the beauty of Wordsworth’s “Ex- cursion” in annotated c... ...ving-wheels into the brick ash-pit beneath him. 007 was an eight-wheeled “American” loco, slightly different from others of his type, and as he sto... ...ive-cent sidewalk-fakirs’ mechanical toys! Here’ s an eight-wheel coupled ‘American’ don’t know what a hot-box is! Never heard of an emergency-stop ei...

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...scends towards the street Over the entrance hovers an enormous specimen of the American eagle, with outspread wings, a shield be fore her breast, and... ...gland, when Salem was a port by itself; not scorned, as she is now, by her own merchants and ship owners, who permit her wharves to crumble to ruin wh... ...ounds, perhaps, were all alive be fore his intellectual sense. Meanwhile, the merchants and ship masters, the spruce clerks and uncouth sailors, ente... ...rest touch of his finger, make the in comprehensible as clear as daylight. The merchants valued him not less than we, his esoteric friends. His integr... ...m the highest rank, he still held an honourable and influential place among the colonial magistracy. Another and far more important reason than the del... ...ed in the square cast of countenance and large physical development of the new colonial magistrates. So far as a demeanour of natural authority was co...

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...ortation from this or that particular quar- ter, passes into a question of colonial rights. Arrangements of convenience for the management of the paup... ...ication. But, in the Christian Scriptures, the rules a case of injury to a colonial child, whom the general mother was bound to protect and avenge; bu... ...that the burning of a wood, or even of a forest, which happens in our vast American *‘Integrity of the metaphor.’—One of the best notes ever writ- ten... ...der the knowledge that Obi had been set for him. Justly, therefore, do our colonial courts punish the Obeah sorcerer, who (though an impos- tor) is no... ...ch as are continually gather- ing into dark clouds over the heads of great merchants; some- times only teasing and molesting, sometimes menacing and a... ...oreigners of all nations—foreign and English students, foreign and English merchants; and he pronounced the main characteristic feature of the English...

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ... ...rning, in all political management and detail, it has made no advance. The merchants of our country and of that country have for many years met on ter... ...d colony, to- gether with the liberties and laws given to it under its old colonial charter. A union might be and no doubt was desirable; but it was t... ...olitical and municipal power. The lat- ter is perhaps more in the hands of merchants and men in trade than of any other class; and even the highest se... ...ut the recognized official mode of delivery is from the office window. The merchants and persons in trade have boxes at the win- dows, for which they ...

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..................................................................... 182 THE AMERICAN POPULATION .......................................................... ...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...lf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics... ...e to judge the most modern sections of the army extant are organised for a colonial war in (say) 1899 or 1900. There is, of course, a considerable amo... ...merican community is not an expanded 202 An Englishman Looks at the World colonial society that has become autonomous. It is a great and deepening po... ...y fecund, and then comes a rapid fall in the birth-rate. The proportion of colonial and early republican blood in the population is, therefore, probab... ...lass, then a large self-respecting middle class of professional men, minor merchants, and so forth, then a new industrial class of employees in the ma...

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...: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persever... ...ded to the circumstance of vicinity, and the enterprise and address of our merchants and naviga- tors, will give us a greater share in the advantages ... ... went under the name of crown lands. The States within the limits of whose colonial governments they were comprised have claimed them as their propert... ... their most specious declamations. The valuable improve- ments made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cann... ... with painful solicitude. They foresee the dangers that may threaten their American dominions from the neighbor- hood of States, which have all the di... ...nequaled spirit of enterprise, which signalizes the genius of the American merchants and naviga- tors, and which is in itself an inexhaustible mine of... ...urers will always be inclined, with few exceptions, to give their votes to merchants, in preference to persons of their own professions or trades. Tho... ...itish Parlia- ment; and which, with a few exceptions, was exercised by the colonial assemblies and the Irish legislature. It is a received and well-fo...

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...st dangerous chieftain in these parts, the Sheikh Sidi el Assif, has a new American machine pistol which fires ten bullets without loadin; and his rif... ... the Attorney and Solicitor General, who appreci- ated my influence at the Colonial Office. And so I got the estate back. “The mills of the gods grind... ...bound here who trades along the coast, and occasionally escorts parties of merchants on journeys into the interior. I understand that he served under ... ...co may send Sidi’s head with a hundred thousand dollars blood-money to the Colonial Office; but it will not be enough to save his kingdom—any more tha... ...p. (Sir Howard’s face falls.) LADY CICELY. What is it, then? RASSBOUND. An American cruiser. The Santiago. THE CADI (tearing his beard). Woe! alas! it... ...hind it, and an inkstand and paper ready for the sitter. A couple of cheap American chairs right and left of the table, facing the same way as the pre...

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...s difficulties, and in Paoli, the Corsican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like a child as I was (until set right by my ... ...sserted itself with great vigour in public affairs, by the petition of the merchants of London for free trade, drawn up in 1820 by Mr. T ooke and pres... ...n of centralization. The powerful philosophic analysis which he applied to American and to French experience, led him to attach the utmost importance ... ...he most elaborate is entitled Elements of Individualism: and a remarkable American, Mr. Warren, had framed a System of Society, on the foundation of ... ...t safe against being put to some trouble and expense in order to avoid it. Colonial governors and other persons in authority, will have a considerable...

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...m’s Sermon,” now regarded as the most famous piece of literature produced in Colonial America. Meantime Franklin was concerning himself more and more ... ...nd finally developed into the University of Pennsylvania; and he founded an “American The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3 Philosophical Society”... ... there, striving to enlighten the people and the ministry of En gland as to Colonial conditions. On his return to America he played an honorable part... ...ned he received a place only second to that of Washington as the champion of American indepen The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He die... ...tion of its value as a pic ture of one of the most notable personalities of Colonial times, and of its acknowledged rank as one of the great autobiog... ...tton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly, learned Englishman,” if I remember the words righ... ...larly, I was told, that mention being made of the new printing office at the merchants’ Ev ery night club, the general opinion was that it must fail,... ...d an industrious, thriving young man, and paying duly for what I bought, the merchants who imported stationery solicited my custom; others proposed su... ...ld, from this circumstance (there being always in the world a number of rich merchants, nobility, states, and princes, who have need of honest in str...