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...ut seven-ninths; the Lena, Amoor, Hoang-ho, Yang-tse-kiang, and Nile, fiveninths; the Ganges, less than one-half; the Indus, less than one-third; the Euphrates, one-fifth; the Rhine, one-fifteenth. It exceeds in extent the whole of Europe, exclusive of Russia, Norway, and Sweden....

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... ninths; the Ganges, less than one half; the Indus, less than one third; the Euphrates, one fifth; the Rhine, one fifteenth. It exceeds in extent the... ... so while he was still a little boy he was sent to “one of them old, ancient colleges”—he couldn’t remember which; and by and by his father died and h... ...the Mississippi Mark T wain 106 Red Church 1 39 Bonnet Carre 2 38 College Point 3 50(half) Donaldsonville 4 59 Plaquemine 7 05(half... ...for thoroughness as any similar institu tion in Missouri. There was another college higher up on an airy summit—a bright new edifice, picturesquely a... ...said that Cape Girardeau was the Athens of Missouri, and contained sev eral colleges besides those already mentioned; and all of them on a religious ... ...was a man of good parts, and Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 151 was college bred. His loose grammar was the fruit of careless habit, not igno...

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..., in the persons of their children, meeting for study at the same schools, colleges, military academies, &c.; by what furious forgetfulness of the rea... ...s that of purification. Be thou my huge cloaca, says infant Babylon to the Euphrates, says infant Nineveh to the Tigris, says infant Rome to the Tiber... ...apter), this noble foundation secured a number of exhibitions at Brasenose College, Oxford, to those pupils of the school who should study at Manchest... ...ve, the German term Bursch,—that is, a bursarius, or student, who lives at college upon the salary allowed by such a bursary. Some years ago the edito... ...o this day unanswered. The scene of it was a house on the west side of the College Green, which is in fact that same quadrangle planted with trees, an... ... in a northern county, still remains a riddle in the south. When I saw the College Green house in 1809-10, it was apparently empty, and, as I was told... ...hundred. For example, in Asia Minor, all the way from the sea coast to the Euphrates, towns were scattered having a dense population of Jews. Sometime...

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...d beneath one roof, pouring out the honest wares that would be sold up the Euphrates and across the veldt. 4 Babbitt The whistles rolled out in greet... ..., but Lord! you’re get- ting as fussy as Verona. Ever since she got out of college she’s been too rambunctious to live with—doesn’t know what she want... ...worker or some damn thing! Lord, and Ted is just as bad! He wants to go to college, and he doesn’t want to go to college. Only one of the three that k... ...e a movie actor and—And here I’ve told him a hundred times, if he’ll go to college and law-school and make good, I’ll set him up in business and—Veron... ...,” said Ted judicially. “Ever since somebody slipped up and let you out of college, Ammonia, you been pulling these nut conversations about what-nots ... ...gagements! In high school!” “Oh, ain’t we select since we went to that hen college! Let me tell you there isn’t a private school in the state that’s g...

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...er that after three years’ stay he might secure a scholarship at Brasenose College, Oxford. He remained there—strongly protesting against a situation ... ... De Quincey was brought home and finally allowed (1803) to go to Worcester College, Oxford, on a reduced income. Here, we are told, “he came to be loo... ...(or nearly all) in early manhood. In most universities there is one single college; in Oxford there were five-and-twenty, all of which were peopled by... ... generation; not boys, but men: none under eighteen. In some of these many colleges the custom permitted the student to keep what are called “short te... ...at empires—as here, for in- stance, or in the desert between Syria and the Euphrates— there is an inevitable tendency, in minds of any deep sensi- bil...

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... reign which was notoriously favorable to the arts generally. She lived in College Green, with a single maid-servant, neither of them having any prete... ...t empires, as here, for in- stance, or in the desert between Syria and the Euphrates, there is an inevitable tendency, in minds of any deep sensi- bil... ...wo thousand resident 3 in Oxford, and dis- persed through five-and-twenty colleges. In some of these the custom permitted the student to keep what ar... ...n Oxford, about 1804-5, there was a general move in the dinner hour. Those colleges who dined at three, of which there were still several, now dined a...

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...entum) to Augustus. It is an anecdote of not less curiosity, that a whole ‘college’ of kings subscribed money for a temple at Athens, to be dedicated ... ...as afterwards erected to his memory, at the junction of the Aboras and the Euphrates. Great obscurity, however, clouds this part of history; nor is it... ... had fallen; and the Persian arms were now triumphant on both banks of the Euphrates. Valerian was not of a character to look with indifference upon s... ... common language in this great emergency; and Valerian marched towards the Euphrates with a fixed purpose of driving the enemy beyond that river. By w... ...t in vain, upon the Persian frontier. But he was not destined to reach the Euphrates; and it is worthy of *Zenobia is complimented by all historians f... ...ill pay you wages for your immediate abstinence; and on the other side the Euphrates you shall pay yourselves.” Such was the outline of the contract; ...

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... an ancient founda- tion. This man had been appointed to his situation by— College, Oxford, and was a sound, well-built scholar, but (like most men wh... ... sound, well-built scholar, but (like most men whom I have known from that college) coarse, clumsy, and inelegant. A miserable contrast he presented, ... ... patrimonial property, the income of which was sufficient to support me at college, wished to be sent thither immediately. I made earnest representati... ...s in London, having come thither for the first time since my en- trance at college. And my introduction to opium arose in the following way. From an e... ...ble, from my torments, than with any distinct purpose. By accident I met a college 40 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater acquaintance, who recomme... ...of time; nor can any man fail to be awed by the names of the Ganges or the Euphrates. It con- tributes much to these feelings that southern Asia is, a...

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...on of Hasrah, keeper of the ward robe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect. 23 And she answered them, T... ...ed the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him. 21 But he sent ambassadors to h...

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...able. Not long after Pompey overtook him again near the banks of the river Euphrates, and encamped close by him; but fearing lest he should pass over ... ...y one that should apprehend him, he passed by the head-waters of the river Euphrates, and fled through the coun- try of Colchis. Pompey in the meantim... ...gave Pompey a meeting about the river Araxes, which rises near the head of Euphrates, but turning its course and bending towards the east, falls into ... ...ve young Tigranes, as his son- in-law, given up to him, and that the river Euphrates should be the boundary of the empires. Pompey replied, that for T... ...say, was persuasive enough to divert his course, that was designed towards Euphrates, if it were so in- deed that any counsel of Pompey’s, and not som... ...is attaining manhood, had such a reputation, that he was admitted into the college of the augurs, and that in consideration more of his early virtue t...

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...ing on across the wilderness, as yet unnamed, unseen: here, too, as in the Euphrates and the Ganges, is a vein or veinlet of the grand World-circulati... ... than usually Sibylline: fragments of all sorts: scraps of regular Memoir, College- Exercises, Programs, Professional Testimoniums, Milkscores, torn B... ...Y “Thus nevertheless,” writes our Autobiographer, appar- ently as quitting College, “was there realized Somewhat; namely, I, Diogenes Teufelsdrockh: a...

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...ts; nay with leaden badges, for the Mu- nicipality licenses them. A Sacred College, properly of World- 30 The French Revolution—V olume Two rulers’ H... ... thou art better than nothing, and also worse! Young Boarding-school Boys, College Students, shout Vive la Nation, and regret that they have yet ‘only... ...en him, ’—Time is not sleeping, nor Time’s seedfield. That sacred Herald’s-College of a new Dynasty; we mean the Sixty and odd Billstickers with their... ...Fair. (Toulongeon, i. 256.) What say we, Frankfort Fair? They have crossed Euphrates and the fabulous Hydaspes; wafted themselves beyond the Ural, Alt... ...al if the Bourne-stones and Portable chairs remain silent; if the Herald’s College of Bill-Stickers sleep! Louvet’s Sentinel warns gratis on all walls...

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... deep, ‘neath merry jest. TO ORIGINALS. A FELLOW says: “I own no school or college; No master lives whom I acknowledge; And pray don’t entertain the t... ...wn creation may Wake his glowing passion; But it is our joy to court Great Euphrates’ torrent, Here and there at will to sport In the W at’ry current.... ... A feast was in a village spread,— 308 A fellow says: “I own no school or college; 282 A master of a country school 314 A plan the Muses entertain’...

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...to be made to play in the future, the road to Asia through Egypt or by the Euphrates, made feasible by recent discoveries, will kill England, as in fo... ...his intellect, which was thor- oughly Gallican, would enlighten the Sacred College. Horace Bianchon returned to Paris; before departing, he came to bi...

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...re of Greek words. I don’t know whether I ever told you that when I was at college I was rather — rather strong in Greek.” “He spoke the Romaic langua... ...executed, but I think I was rather intoxicated that day, for I had quitted college the same morning, and we had passed the previous night at a tavern.... ...best hashish which grows in the East — that is, between the Tigris and the Euphrates. These two ingredi- ents are mixed in equal proportions, and form... ... the world, and would not be believed. You sent him for his education to a college in one of the provinces, and now you wish him to complete his educa...

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...compliances of Christ with the Jewish prejudices (partly imported from the Euphrates) as to demonology , witchcraft, &c. By the way, in this last word... ...ld not think that of Dr. Wordsworth. He was a D.D.; he was head of Trinity College, which has my entire permission to hold its head up amongst twenty ... ...which has my entire permission to hold its head up amongst twenty and more colleges, as the leading one in Cambridge, (provided it can obtain St. John... ...ed to Trinity, but I wish to un- derstand it. The total pretensions of the College can be known only to its members; and therefore, Phil. should have ... ...inity. Suddenly it strikes me as a dream, that Lord Bacon belonged to this College. Don’t laugh at me, Phil., if I’m wrong, and still less (because th... ...by the vast empire that for thousands of years occupied the Tigris and the Euphrates. In the twinkling of an eye, at a sudden summons, as it were from... ...eated in a region so fertile as Mesopotamia, and on a great river like the Euphrates. But allow this possibility—allow the natural disappearance of Ba... ... for determining a casuistical question. The question was this:—An English College, but we cannot say in which of our universities, had been founded i...

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...uring on across the wilderness, as yet unnamed, unseen: here, too, as in the Euphrates and the Ganges, is a vein or veinlet of the grand World circula... ...re than usually Sibylline: fragments of all sorts: scraps of regular Memoir, College Exercises, Programs, Professional Testimoniums, Milkscores, torn ... ...R WAY T HUS nevertheless,” writes our Autobiographer, apparently as quitting College, “was there realized Somewhat; namely, I, Diogenes Teufelsdr¨ ock... ...aries,” says he, “including those of Con stantinople and Samarcand: in most Colleges, except the Chinese Mandarin ones, I have studied, or seen that ...

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... mighty rivers, shall flow on for ever, immortal as thou, Nile, or Danube, Euphrates, or St. Lawrence! and ye, summer and winter, day and night, where... ...trength, that some railway potentate, having taken a fancy for the ancient college of Glasgow, as a bauble to hang about his wife’s neck, (no accounti... ...ere anxious about a friend, Rabbi Samuel, six hundred miles distant on the Euphrates. Whilst talking earnestly together on this subject in Palestine, ... ... These words they received as a Bath-col: and the next horse- man from the Euphrates brought word accordingly that Rabbi Samuel had been gathered to h... ... that Rabbi Samuel had been gathered to his fathers at some station on the Euphrates. Here is the very same case, the same Bath-col substantially, whi... ...ry detach- ment was entering at some point of Syria from the desert of the Euphrates. At the head of the whole array rode two men of some distinction:... ...hree (if not four) of the reverend gentlemen at that time attached to Eton College. Mathias, no very great scholar himself in this particular field, m...

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... honors, that he obtained a grant of arms from Clarencieux of the Heralds’ College. On this occasion he declared himself worth five hundred pounds der... ...ate the majesty of the subject. When we are seeking for the sources of the Euphrates or the St. Lawrence, we look for no proportions to the mighty vol... ...assist his father in obtaining a re- newed grant of arms from the Herald’s College, and there- fore, of course, to re-establish his father’s fortunes.... ...o more. The next event of importance in Goethe’s life was his re- moval to college. His own wishes pointed to Goettingen, but his father preferred Lei...

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...ds for your Messiah! You thoughtful Armenian pondering by some stream of the Euphrates! you peering amid the ruins of Nineveh! you ascending mount Ar... ...oom, lodging room, Labor and toll, the bath, gymnasium, playground, library, college, The student, boy or girl, led forward to be taught, The sick car... ... to India! Cooling airs from Caucasus far, soothing cradle of man, The river Euphrates flowing, the past lit up again. Lo soul, the retrospect brought...

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... thriftily educated; he had brisk Camille Desmoulins for schoolmate in the College of Louis le Grand, at Paris. But he begged our famed Necklace- Card... ...ts; nay with leaden badges, for the Municipal- ity licenses them. A Sacred College, properly of World-rulers’ Heralds, though not respected as such, i... ... thou art better than nothing, and also worse! Young Boarding-school Boys, College Students, shout Vive la Nation, and regret that they have yet ‘only... ...ten him,’—Time is not sleeping, nor Time’s seedfield. That sacred Herald’s-College of a new Dynasty; we mean the Sixty and odd Billstickers with their... ...Fair. (Toulongeon, i. 256.) What say we, Frankfort Fair? They have crossed Euphrates and the fabulous Hydaspes; wafted them- selves beyond the Ural, A... ...al if the Bourne-stones and Portable chairs remain silent; if the Herald’s College of Bill-Stickers sleep! Louvet’s Sentinel warns gratis on all walls...