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...eties IV. Of Diverting and Diversions V. Upon some Verses of Virgil VI. Of Coaches VII. Of the Incommoditie of Greatnesse VIII. Of the Art of Conferri... ...ly commended and much bemoaned of all; but yet of none so greatly as of a Germane lord, called Raisciac, as he that was amased at so rare vertue: his... ...to prove I need not labour for home examples) seemeth in my opinion cosen-german to this, that is, when one is ever ready to breathe his last, caref... ...n hee was afterward, when having lost a battel, under Quintilius Varus in Germanie, all in a rage and desperate, he went up and downe beating his be... ...lreadie given good testimonie of his worth and forward valour, playing at tennis, received a blow with a ball, that hit him a little above the right... ...the sounder, I had rather my scholler had imployed his time in playing at tennis; I am sure his bodie would be the nimbler. See but one of these our... ...om a victorious combat, from wrestling, or riding of a horse, than from a tennis-court or dancing schoole, with the prize or honour of such exercise... ...r was anciently wont to be to ride upon an elephant; the second to goe in coaches drawne with foure horses; the third to ride upon a camell; the las... ...nt to receive alms: how carefully they will avoyd the shocke of Carts and Coaches, even when they have roome enough to passe by themselves. I have s...

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...ew York Cutting School Spring Street, Wlllamstown Prank L. Siazenger Golf, Tennis and Hockey Supplies 8 West 28th St., New York H.E, Kinsman& Go. Coll... ... delivered. Q. 5. Azhderian Dealer in Pine Footwear, Gent's Furnish- ings, Tennis, Athletic and Gymnasium Goods. Agent for Collins and Fairbanks' Cele... ...r Surgeon to City Hospital. Oowlin Block Nertli Adams WRIGHT & DITSON Lawn Tennis Football Basketball Hockey Sticks Hockey Skates Skating Shoes Sweate... ...a; Entrance, History. Tuesday, April 2, 1907, 2.30 p, m., 4 H. H.—College, German 2. German 4 a, German 4 b, German f). Philosophy 1; Entrance, Greek.... ...esday, April 3, 1907, 9.00 a. m., 4 H. H. —College, English 2, English 14, German 1, Latin 1, Meteorology; Entrance, English, French. Wednesday, April... ... 8, French 1, French 2, Frencli 3, French 3 b, Greek 1, Latin 2: Entrance, German; Entrance, Mathematics liii part i, Wednesday, April 3, 1907. 7.30 p... ...for over two weeks and will stay here through the season. Other grad- uate coaches will assist Dr. New- ton for short periods during the season- Moreo... ...all. They were gained as the result of an intimate acqaaint- auce with the coaches and the play- ers of our baseball teams. The average number of i)Ia... ... force in this college since 1SS)7. Since 1.S1I8 wo have had four baseball coaches, all profe-siouals. each of which has spent between two and three m...

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...grips with some previously non-experienced part of their cultural past. Take Germany and its flawed attempt to bury its recent past. Now German ch... ...en mostly whitewashed and deleted from their history books. Now: enlightened Germans are forced to re-experience a painful part of their cultural pa... ...size. So; three round rocks, equals three round eggs. Which is crazy. In a German Concentration camp: the difference between having three eggs as ... ...frustration, and misery. The only reason there is any fun at all in playing tennis is because one of the rules is that you can only keep on playin... ... the lines of the court. If that rule did not exist, then nobody would play tennis to ‘win’ or play anything competitively. THE PATH OF SPLITNESS... ...world actually refused to compete with the other half… What if you went to a tennis court and nobody wanted to play to win at all… What if all they... ...me that it won’t catch on like wild fire. And oops. You’ll have to fire all coaches, the coordinators and the playbook specialists, who sit on top ... ...sed not to see who wins, but to see the jokes being played on the Empire… The coaches tearing their hair out and screaming instructions during the p... ...sed not to see who wins, but to see the jokes being played on the Empire… The coaches tearing their hair out and screaming instructions during the p...

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... are probably not consciously decided. But we hope that as we become more humanized we are more able to think for ourselves. ―Studies in German... ... 20 in authority told them it was acceptable.(3) I guess that we shouldn‘t be surprised when young German... ...ng those who threaten us with their own brand of power--different gang colors, a policeman's uniform, an expensive car, or even a new pair of tennis... ...but even in the countries that lead the way in stamping out harassment and abuse in sport are not clean. Norway, Canada and the US still have coache... ...ort are not clean. Norway, Canada and the US still have coaches practicing sexual harassing and abusive tactics. There are even Olympic level coache... ...I wondered about the Western countries. I found evidence of sexual harassment and abuse in every country. Young girls have been raped by their coache... ...a Venetian shell hit it and exploded the ammunition that the Turks had stored there. I experienced the spectacle in English, Greek, French and German...

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...ualified and justified reason. We are charitable, but not stupid! Look at Germany where two-thirds of the men have retired before the legal age throu... ...y where you fear the reduction of your Anglo population. The Britons, the Germans, the French, the Chinese all espouse the wish to keep their populat... ...portant for the health of a society than a parent. Certainly teachers and coaches are important, but no one approaches the parent in terms of being e... ... We aren‟t encouraging what the Chinese are doing, like identifying table tennis talents at age 4 or 5 then sending them on to special schools to dev... ...ndia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Latvia, Norway, Finland, Liberia, Mozambique, Germany, Ireland, UK, Argentina and the Philippines. Only Saudi Arabia and... ...casm. As an old coach I have often been appalled by the behavior of youth coaches. It seems that if they can‟t teach, they scream out of frustration.... ...t if they can‟t teach, they scream out of frustration.. Those who are good coaches will understand the theory and fundamentals of the sport and the p...

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...r occupation. When you take courses in art history, music appreciation or tennis you are preparing to enjoy your non-working life. When you are faci... ...y years. But that doesn‘t explain the relatively high number in France or Germany. And Norway, with its state religion of Lutheranism, is quite athe... ... of France. The gonorrhea rate is 75 times higher than that of France and Germany. The syphilis rate is more than triple the European rate. ... ...ope. The teen abortion rate is 3 times that of France and 8 times that of Germany. And while Americans start their sexual experiences only a few mont... ...t color. ―A few years ago a fatwa was issued against a female tennis player who was a Muslim because she wore short skirts, but no fatwa... ... doctors ever advocating smoking—even though many used to smoke. Athletic coaches have always warned their charges against smoking. Schools have adv... ...er that chickens and cows experience pain when they are killed. And sport coaches should tell their athletes that they may feel excruciating pain wh... ...ut arrests of scout leaders, camp counselors, religious leaders and youth coaches. To what degree are child pornography viewing and pedophilia linke...

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............................................................ 61 CHAPTER VI OF COACHES ...................................................................... ...sed it in a thing of so great importance to him? He had word sent him from Germany that if he thought fit, they 5 Montaigne would rid him of Arminius... ...nd constrained to the ends of government, 12 Essays: Book III “Veri juris germanaeque justitiae solidam et expressam effigiem nullam tenemus; umbra e... ...us utimur;” [“We retain no solid and express portraiture of true right and germane justice; we have only the shadow and image of it.”—Cicero, De Offic... ...t tesseras;” [“Let them reserve to themselves arms, horses, spears, clubs, tennis, swimming, and races; and of all the sports leave to us old men card... ... on board.]—They formed the front of their battle with three thousand such coaches, and after the cannon had played, made them all pour in their shot ... ...if their effeminacy—[Which Cotton translates: “as if the insignificancy of coaches.”]—had not been sufficiently known by better proofs, the last kings... ...s triumph. Consider, that even in vain and frivolous actions, as at chess, tennis, and the like, this eager and ardent engaging with an impetuous desi... ...ntation: men are only puffed up with wind, and are bandied to and fro like tennis-balls. He pro- posed to himself no vain and idle fancies; his design...

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... transmit my orders or translate my censures. And with all this, honest, sober, industrious, miserably smiling over the miserable issue of his own un-... ...d. (Remember that the last third of my road, about a mile, is all made out of a bridle-track by my boys—and my dollars. )It was supposed a white man h... ...lked late, and it was arranged I was to write up for Fanny, and we should both dine on the morrow. On the Friday, I was all forenoon in the Mission Ho... ...engeance. But what an end to one chosen for her beauty and, in the time of peace, watched over by trusty crones and hunchbacks! EVENING. Can I write o... ...great deal more warfaring, and no great issue. (When Sosimo came in this morning with my breakfast he had to lift me up. It is no joke to play lawn 1... ...s Graham, it suits all our fam- ily; others it does not suit at all. It is either gold or poison. I rise at six, the rest at seven; lunch is at 12; at... ...y are the best of the thing such as it is. If it has a merit to it, I should say it was a sort of deliberation and swing to the style, which seems to ...

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...goose Gobel, for example,—or Go(with an umlaut)bel, for he is of Strasburg German breed, be a Con- stitutional Archbishop? Alone of all men there, Mir... ...cases, is fellowship; soul mystically strength- ening soul! The meditative Germans, some think, have been of opinion that Enthusiasm in the general me... ...nd then out of doors, consider at the Hotel-de-Ville how Bailly, the great Tennis-Court swearer, again swears, to- wards nightful, with all the Munici... ...t the solemnity;— since the Centre Grenadiers rather grumble. Harangue of ‘Tennis-Court Club,’ who enter with far-gleaming Brass- plate, aloft on a po... ... Club,’ who enter with far-gleaming Brass- plate, aloft on a pole, and the Tennis-Court Oath engraved thereon; which far gleaming Brass-plate they pur... ...spread among them. Bouille is firm as the adamant; but what shall he do? A German Regiment, named of Salm, is thought to be of better temper: neverthe... ...se), still rumbling, or at rest, on the streets of Paris. But of all Glass-coaches, we recom- mend this to thee, O Reader, which stands drawn up, in t...

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...nt gentlemen’s seats, whose owners went frequently to London town in their coaches along the very tolerable high-road. The church was big enough to ho... ...d been an ill-defined horse-track to Do- ver, only passable by adventurous coaches in dry weather, became the Dover Road, and was presently the route ... ...r Road, and was presently the route first of one and then of several daily coaches. The High Street was discovered to be too tortuous for these awaken... ...re at the omissions from our cur- riculum, and particularly at our want of German. More- 58 The New Machiavelli over, four classes still worked toge... ...on’t wish to innovate unduly,” he used to say. But we ought to get in some German, you know,—for those who like it. The army men will be wanting it so... ...vy, the Bank and other advan- tages) against a royalist army—reinforced by Germans—ad- vancing for reasons best known to themselves by way of Harrow a... ...uld have seen to it effectually enough that they didn’t get at croquet and tennis with the vicarage daughters and discover sex in the Peeping Tom fash... ... and Moskowski, with great decision and effect, and hovered on the edge of tennis foursomes where it was manifest to the dullest intelligence that my ... ...nd nineteen, but a Cambridge “man” of two and twenty with a first and good tennis and a grow- ing social experience, is a fair contemporary for two gi...

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...als, permitted her to experiment with her perilous versatility. She played tennis, gave chafing-dish parties, took a graduate semi- nar in the drama, ... ...t, very dusty. There is no smug Pullman attached to the train, and the day coaches of the East are replaced by free chair cars, with each seat cut int... ...ver his order-blanks. But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty. They were ... ... hundred and fifty inhabitants, at which the train was stopping. A bearded German and his pucker-mouthed wife tugged their enormous imitation-leather ... ...treet From them a stink of stale beer, and thick voices bellow- ing pidgin German or trolling out dirty songs—vice gone feeble and unenterprising and ... ...te flannel trou- 341 Sinclair Lewis sers. He suggested the ocean beach, a tennis court, any- thing but the sun-blistered utility of Main Street. A vi... ... Erik was independent and, without asking for her inspiration, planned the tennis tournament. It proved that he had learned to play in Minneapolis; th...

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...s by the alliance with the ancient phantom of the forest mountain in North Germany. The playfulness of the scene is the very evoker of the solemn reme... ...dealizes.] Ascend with me on this dazzling Whitsunday the Brocken of North Germany. The dawn opened in cloudless beauty; it is a dawn of bridal June; ... ...to its departure. 9 “Everlasting Jew.”—Der ewige Jude—which is the common German expression for “The Wandering Jew,” and sublimer even than our own. ... .... Having ac- cidently thrown a ball beyond the prison bounds in playing at tennis, or some such game, Sir Sidney was surprised to observe that the bal... ...biographic Sketches favorable in their results to the insurgents. The mail coaches, agreeably to the preconcerted plan, had all been intercepted; thei... ...or Birmingham? Sim- ply because Birmingham, under the old dynasty of stage coaches and post chaises, was the centre of our travelling sys- tem, and he... ...urg, who had been violently dispossessed by Wallenstein, upwards of eighty coaches mustered at a short notice, partly from the territorial nobility, p...

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... and this was natural enough; but he had much to say of modern theories in Germany which they had never heard of and received with misgiving. He talke... ...Rule. They realised that he was a Liberal. Their hearts sank. He talked of German philoso- 70 Of Human Bondage phy and of French fiction. They could ... ...hree years spent in a French lycee, to teach French to the upper forms and German to anyone who cared to take it up instead of Greek. Another master w... ...iversity where I shall try and get a chair of philology . And I shall play tennis and go to tea-parties.” He interrupted himself and gave Philip, very... ...bathe and when he came home ate a magnificent din- ner. They were having a tennis party at the vic- arage in the afternoon and Miss Wilkinson put on h... ...on her face 179 W. Somerset Maugham was very becoming. Philip was fond of tennis. He served well and as he ran clumsily played close to the net: notw... ...expense. I should like the hearse to be followed by a long string of empty coaches, and I should like the horses to wear tall nodding plumes, and ther... ...s with long streamers on their hats. I like the thought of all those empty coaches.” 536 Of Human Bondage “As the cost of the funeral will apparently...

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...suited to her rank, and had even carried it so far as to go about with two coaches and many liveried servants. With this state one day she met in the ... ... in the streets the coach of Madame de Bouillon, which the servants of the German woman forced to give way to their mistress’s. The Bouillons, piqued ... ... of the Duchess were thoroughly thrashed—the harness of her horses cut—her coaches maltreated. The Duchess made a great fuss, and complained to the Ki... ...mself in the matter. She was so outraged, that she resolved to retire into Germany, and in a very few months did so. My year of service in the Muskete... ...of the last houses near the Porte St. Honore, and at the noise made by the coaches, put, her head to the window, and coolly looked at the whole of the... ...aint-Simon to Versailles, and sent off a large detachment of the army into Germany. The surprise of the Marechal de Luxembourg was without bounds. He ... ...ndome. Tournai was near. The Duc de Bourgogne went there to have a game at tennis. This sudden party of pleasure strongly scandalized the army, and ra... ..., as long as he could make use of them. He had excelled in dancing, and at tennis and mall. On horseback he was admirable, even at a late age. He like... ...used himself at Fontainebleau during bad weather by seeing good players at tennis, in which he had formerly excelled; and at Marly by seeing mall play...

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...ra, and others; also all the princes and noble strangers, both Italian and German, who were then residing at his court in great numbers. These all bei... ...mn occasion, when he was starting, March 25, 1552, for his expedition into Germany, Henri II. declared Catherine regent during his absence, and also i... ...to great vassals, whose way of living was superior to that of the greatest German rulers, such as the Duke of Bavaria and the Elector of Saxony. The k... ... their servants and torches (under Louis XIV. the 212 Catherine dé Medici coaches of none but dukes and peers were allowed to pass under the peristyl... ... into their scabbards.” “Sire,” said the Comte de Solern, “the fatigues of tennis and hunting, your toil at this forge, and—if I may say it— love, are...

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...week, Mrs. Shonts,” said Sophie, “but I never get any further than tipping German waiters.” “These men are not the true type,” Mrs. Shouts went on. “I... ...se as herrings in the long grey underbodies which our G.P .O. still calls “coaches.” Five such coaches were filled as I watched, and were shot up the ... ...already done so without effect, and begins to relieve her mind about cheap German enamels for collar-bearings. The Frenchman assents cordially, cries ... ...dt & Bleamers’ boats,” says Captain Hodgson. “Serves ‘em right for putting German compos in their thrust-blocks. She won’t be in Fayal to-night! By th... ...to short- lived triumph. I had never before seen a Law Lord dressed as for tennis, with a stump-leg barrel-organ strapped to his shoulder. But it is a... ...overed residence. A verandah at the south side gave on to a garden and two tennis courts, separated by a tasteful iron fence from a most park-like mea... ...s on the lawn of young men and maidens appropriately clothed, playing lawn tennis in the sunshine. “A pretty scene, ain’t it?” said Mr. M’Leod. “My go...

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... truly and greatly a sovereign. But that a foreign despotic Prince, out of Germany, who happened to be descended from King James the First, should tak... ...thought an English king out of St. Germains was bet- ter and fitter than a German prince from Herrenhausen, and that if he failed to satisfy the natio... ...n under Queen Bess’s hatchet. And our proud English nobles sent to a petty German town for a monarch to come and reign in London and our prelates kiss... ...beheld him for the first time? The young king, in a flannel jacket, was at tennis with the gentlemen of his suite, crying out after the balls, and swe... ...ds were assembled, having come by parties of twos and threes, riding or in coaches, and were got together in the upper chamber, fifty-three of them; t... ...reen before Kensington Palace, the Palace gate (round which the Ministers’ coaches were stand- ing), and the barrack building. As we were looking out ... ... the Bishop were inside; she gave a little scream when she saw us. The two coaches entered the inn almost together; the landlord and people coming out...

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... saw through an iron bar.” “Then my lord does not know that there are eight guards about him, four in his chamber, four in the antechamber, and that t... ... and wooden forks, pretending that as he had been informed that the duke was to pass all his life at Vincennes, he was afraid of his prisoner attempti... ...er leave him alone an instant.” La Ramee became, therefore, the duke’s dinner guest by compulsion—an eternal keeper, the shadow of his person; but La ... ...at country you are,” said the young man, in the purest Castilian. “Ich bin ein Deutscher,” replied the prisoner. “What in the devil does he say?” aske... ...e devil does he say?” asked the prince. “What new gibberish is that?” “He says he is German, my lord,” replied Raoul; “but I doubt it, for his accent ... ...e, we are going forward to look for lodgings.” D’Artagnan started off for Saint Germain, followed by Porthos. “We will go on, gentlemen,” said the que... ...gnan started off for Saint Germain, followed by Porthos. “We will go on, gentlemen,” said the queen. And the royal carriage drove on, followed by the ...

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...smond – Book One which turns its stone back upon St. Paul’s, and faces the coaches struggling up Ludgate Hill. She was neither better bred nor wiser t... ...than the Court Gazette and the newspapers which we get thence. There was a German officer of Webb’s, with whom we used to joke, and of whom a story (w... ...ing James the First; and being of a military disposition, remained long in Germany with the Elec- tor-Palatine, in whose service Sir Francis incurred ... ... Cambridge, spend- ing two pleasant days upon the journey. Those rapid new coaches were not established, as yet, that performed the whole journey betw... ... comrade’s sight. They sported together, they drank, they played bowls and tennis: my Lord Castlewood would go for three days to Sark, and bring back ...

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...ncle became the husband of my aunt, and their children were doubly cousins german. Before a year was ex- pired, both had the happiness to become fathe... ...t he suddenly disappeared, and we learned some time af- ter that he was in Germany, but he never wrote to us, and from that day we heard no news of hi... ...ough 146 The Confessions he had experienced inconceivable difficulties in Germany; for not understanding a word of German, Latin, or French, he had b... ...ht be nearer at hand, I left my hotel at Quentin, and went to lodge at the Tennis Court, Rue V erdelet, which leads into the Rue Platiere, where M. Du... ... daughters, all except her eldest daughter, married to the director of the coaches of Augers, came to Paris. Everything I did for Theresa, her mother ... ... from Paris. The state of my finances not permitting me to pay for hackney coaches, at two o’clock in the afternoon, I went on foot, when alone, and w...

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... round, of five inches high, to prevent accidents. And I have often had four coaches and horses at once on my table, full of company, while I sat in m... ... and his train alighted from their horses, the empress and ladies from their coaches, and I did not perceive they were in any fright or concern. I lay... ...nes gave me such cruel bangs all over the body, as if I had been pelted with tennis balls; however, I made a shift to creep on all fours, and shelter ... ...ose and throat, and their language approaches nearest to the High Dutch, or German, of any I know in Europe; but is much more graceful and significan...

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...ton wagon umbrella, Presley recognised Hooven, one of Derrick’s tenants, a German, whom every one called “Bismarck,” an excitable little man with a pe... ...ce of hops. “Hops ought to be a good thing,” Harran told him. “The crop in Germany and in New York has been a dead failure for the last three years, a... ... ranch as Magnus’s tenant. It needed only Harran’s recommendation that the German should remain to have Magnus consent upon the instant. “You know mor... ...sudden passion for stamped leather work and had made a quantity of purses, tennis belts, and hat bands, which he presented to young ladies of his acqu... ...ith a deafening clamour, and a swirl of smoke, in a long succession of way-coaches, and choco- late coloured Pullmans, grimy with the dust of the grea... ...n the street-railway cars, upon the ferryboats, on the locomotives and way-coaches of the local trains, she was reminded of her father’s death, and of...

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...only provoked violent tumults. The young Prince of Conde, coming home from Germany flushed with victory, hated Mazarin extremely, but his pride as a P... ...ly after he had placed me in my little house at Nancy, to join the army in Germany under Marshal Guebrian. I lived through that time by the help of th... ... he only hated being troubled about the matter, wanted to go to a match at tennis, and thought it good taste to imitate the Duke of Enghien in contemp... ...r marched up and laid standard after standard before the Altar, heavy with German blazonry, or with the red and gold stripes of Aragon, the embattled ... ... ended, and we all had to take our places again in one of the thirty state coaches in which the company had come to the christening. I saw Madame van ... ... to listen, though the Duke of Anjou thought everything dull except cards, tennis, and gossip. The King was even beginning to read to himself. ‘And,’ ...

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... that being so, the usage should in justice extend to all nations, and the German poet should not be undervalued because he writes in his own lan- gua... ...flicted come in quest of you from lands far distant and remote, and not in coaches or on dromedaries, but on foot and fasting, confident that in that ... ...ave him with him that he would not have changed places with the emperor of Germany. On taking leave he kissed the hands of the duke and duchess and go... ...nd him on a stout mule as black as jet! for in those days they did not use coaches or chairs, as they say they do now, and ladies rode behind their sq... ... said the page, “must not travel along the roads alone, but accompanied by coaches and litters and a great number of attendants.” “By God,” said Sanch... ... there I was anxious to see all I could. I crossed into Italy, and reached Germany, and there it seemed to me we might live with more freedom, as the ... ...ruth is, I came to the gate, where some dozen or so of devils were playing tennis, all in breeches and doublets, with falling collars trimmed with Fle... ... more was that books, apparently full of wind and rubbish, served them for tennis balls, a strange and marvellous thing; this, however, did not astoni...

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...he real, between the spirit of poetry and the spirit of prose; and perhaps German phi- losophy never evolved a more ungainly or unlikely camel out of ... ...ld, too, that Don Fernando de Guevara did not go in quest of adventures to Germany, where he engaged in combat with Micer George, a knight of the hous... ... that being so, the usage should in justice extend to all nations, and the German poet should not be undervalued because he writes in his own lan- gua... ...flicted come in quest of you from lands far distant and remote, and not in coaches or on dromedaries, but on foot and fasting, confident that in that ... ...nd him on a stout mule as black as jet! for in those days they did not use coaches or chairs, as they say they do now, and ladies rode behind their sq... ... said the page, “must not travel along the roads alone, but accompanied by coaches and litters and a great number of attendants.” “By God,” said Sanch... ...ruth is, I came to the gate, where some dozen or so of devils were playing tennis, all in breeches and doublets, with falling collars trimmed with Fle... ... more was that books, apparently full of wind and rubbish, served them for tennis balls, a strange and marvellous thing; this, however, did not astoni...

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...ind hard again, parching it. But suddenly he laughed aloud. Why, it was in German. He was being got ready to kill men who said that. If anyone said th... ...gs and old women in peasant costume. There were hisses and catcalls when a German flag was seen, and as the troops were pic- tured advancing, bayonett... ...ife, but by God, I’m going to. I’d give a lot to rape some of those goddam German women.” “I hate ‘em too,” came another voice, “men, women, chil- dre... ...ian fa- thers, and its billets doux written at little gilt tables, and its coaches lumbering in covered with mud from the provinces through the Porte ... ...ais ne vous derangez pas,” she said. A man with white flannel trousers and tennis shoes and a man in black with a pointed grey beard and amused grey e...

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...eing rather small amongst the long English, the lank Americans, the rotund Germans, and the obese Russian Jewesses, I should stand there, tapping a ci... ...e into his eyes, balancing the possibilities, looking over the ground. The German Captain, Count Baron Idigon von Lelöffel, was right up by 20 The Go... ...er their goal posts, coming with the ball in an easy canter in that tricky German fashion. The rest of the field were just anywhere. It was only a scr... ...ntimacy of solitude. He had gone, intending to talk about polo-ponies, and tennis-racquets; about the temperament of the reverend Mother at the conven... ...he neglected gardens between the unpruned espal- iers. Or they played lawn-tennis or fives in an angle of a great wall that surrounded the garden—an a... ...uence, his ignorances, the crammings that he received at the hands of army coaches—I dare say that all these excellent influences upon his adolescence...

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...inding passages, to the rear- gate; where, in the gray of the morning, two Coaches with Exempts stand waiting. There must the victims mount; bayo- net... ...es-de-Cachet) to depart, and exile itself: but on the mor- row, instead of coaches getting yoked, the alarm-bell bursts forth, ominous; and peals and ... ...nt Bailly, aided by judicious Guillotin and others, has found place in the Tennis-Court of the Rue St. Francois. Thither, in long-drawn files, hoarse-... ... Strange sight was this in the Rue St. Francois, Vieux Versailles! A naked Tennis-Court, as the pictures of that time still give it: four walls; naked... ... us;—and now it is time to go to dinner. This, then, is the Session of the Tennis-Court, famed Seance du Jeu de Paume; the fame of which has gone fort... ... Chateau- Vieux come up,—which can fight, but can hardly speak ex- cept in German gutturals; let soldiers march, and highways thunder with artillery-w... ... that seeks to issue, is stopped there, and dragged to the Hotel-de-Ville: coaches, tumbrils, plate, furni- ture, ‘many meal-sacks, ’ in time even ‘fl... ...goose Gobel, for example,—or Go(with an umlaut)bel, for he is of Strasburg German breed, be a Constitutional Arch- bishop? Alone of all men there, Mir... ...ike ostrich-egg, to be hatched of Chance—into an ostrich- eater! Jewish or German Freys do business in the great Cess- pool of Agio; which Cesspool th...

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...sed for the basis of more than one narrative, not inac- curate, in French, German and Spanish journals of high au- thority. It is seldom the case that... ...Spanish blood, a native of Spain; the second, a Roman born in Spain. So of Germanus and Germanicus, Italus and Italicus, Anglus and Anglicus, &c.; an ... ...s memoirs dwells upon the theme. She united, he says, the sweetness of the German lady with the energy of the Arabian, a combination hard to judge of.... ..., whether he would or no, to think of nothing but post-office clocks, mail-coaches, and book-keep- ers. Regularity may be beautiful, but it excludes t... ...com- pany kicked about the poor diabolic writer’s head as if it had been a tennis-ball. Coleridge, the yet unknown criminal, absolutely perspired and ...

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...ssons than those which had made her acquainted with the works of Greek and German philosophers long before she under- stood the English into which she... ...ciently for the game to make myself proficient. You were equipped for lawn-tennis, I think, when I saw you yesterday. Miss Goff is a celebrated lawn-t... ... Australian champion!” he repeated. “And who may HE— Oh! you mean the lawn-tennis champion. T o be sure. Well, Miss Goff, I congratulate you. It is no... ...rs. The occasion will be a special one, as Herr Abendgasse, a remark- able German socialist and art critic, is to deliver a lecture on ‘The T rue in A... ... a train by comparing it with a stage-coach; and I know something of stage-coaches—or, at least, of diligences. Their effect on the men employed about... ... then, if you care to come. At nine o’clock, Herr Abendgasse, a celebrated German art critic and a great friend of mine, will read us a paper on ‘The ... ...r ability, or they are men of pleasure, which means that they are dancers, tennis-players, butchers, and gamblers. I leave the nonentities out of the ...

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... is wholly a notable business; and France, without doubt, is big (what the Germans call ‘Of good Hope’): we shall wish her a happy birth-hour, and ble... ...winding passages, to the rear-gate; where, in the gray of the morning, two Coaches with Exempts stand waiting. There must the victims mount; bayonets ... ...tres-de-Cachet) to depart, and exile itself: but on the morrow, instead of coaches getting yoked, the alarm-bell bursts forth, ominous; and peals and ... ...nt Bailly, aided by judicious Guillotin and others, has found place in the Tennis-Court of the Rue St. Francois. Thither, in long- drawn files, hoarse... ... Strange sight was this in the Rue St. Francois, Vieux Versailles! A naked Tennis-Court, as the pictures of that time still give it: four walls; naked... ... us;—and now it is time to go to dinner. This, then, is the Session of the Tennis-Court, famed Seance du Jeu de Paume; the fame of which has gone fort... ...iss Chateau-Vieux come up,—which can fight, but can hardly speak except in German gutturals; let soldiers march, and highways thunder with artillery- ... ... that seeks to issue, is stopped there, and dragged to the Hotel-de-Ville: coaches, tumbrils, plate, furniture, ‘many meal-sacks, ’ in time even ‘floc...

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...nial. On the other hand, Rabelais has been several times trans- lated into German. In the present century Regis published at Leipsic, from 1831 to 184... ...t it would be none the less curious were some one thoroughly familiar with German to translate Fischart for us, or at least, by long extracts from him... ...s, or at least, by long extracts from him, give an idea of the vagaries of German taste when it thought it could do better than Rabelais. It is danger... ...ed the Brack, or unto the meadows, where they played at the ball, the long-tennis, and at the piletrigone (which is a play wherein we throw a triangul... ...e glorious labyrinth. Between the two other towers were the courts for the tennis and the balloon. Towards the tower Criere stood the orchard full of ... ... part, I can conceive no other meaning in it but a description of a set at tennis in dark and obscure terms. The suborners of men are the makers of ma... ...t do you think was the cause of Erichthonius’s being the first inventor of coaches, litters, and chariots? Nothing but because Vulcan had begot him wi... ...men; besides I don’t know how many litters all lined with velvet, and some coaches of Ferrara make; all this for those who had a mind to take the air....

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...y said: “What, shall I bear a tyrant, I who cannot bear wine?”] We see our Germans, when drunk as the devil, know their post, remember the word, and k... ...t and free; so delicate a palate is not required to make a good toper. The Germans drink almost indifferently of all wines with delight; their busines... ...ccustomed to, one of my train, a lusty, tall fellow, mounted upon a strong German horse, that had a very ill mouth, fresh and vigorous, to play the br... ...ntire than anywhere else: [The easiest of my amusements, the right ball at tennis be- ing that which coming to the player from the right hand, is much... ...on any sort of instrument, they could never teach me anything. In dancing, tennis, or wrestling, I could never arrive to more than an ordinary pitch; ... ...rmany, travelled two hundred miles in four- and-twenty hours, having three coaches. In the war of the Romans against King Antiochus, T. Sempronius Gra...

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... 12 Henry Esmond which turns its stone back upon St. Paul’s, and faces the coaches struggling up Ludgate Hill. She was neither better bred nor wiser t... ...than the Court Gazette and the newspapers which we get thence. There was a German officer of Webb’s, with whom we used to joke, and of whom a story (w... ...ing James the First; and being of a military disposition, remained long in Germany with the Elec- tor-Palatine, in whose service Sir Francis incurred ... ... Cambridge, spend- ing two pleasant days upon the journey. Those rapid new coaches were not established, as yet, that performed the whole journey betw... ... comrade’s sight. They sported together, they drank, they played bowls and tennis: my Lord Castlewood would go for three days to Sark, and bring back ... ... on sadly about her husband. He has been buried to- day, and a many of the coaches of the nobility went with him— my Lord Marlborough’s and my Lord Su... ...ither, by different routes, the whole forces of English, Dutch, Danes, and German auxilia- ries took their way. The foot and artillery under General C... ...beheld him for the first time? The young king, in a flannel jacket, was at tennis with the gentlemen of his suite, crying out after the balls, and swe...

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...n. He did not sympathise with it. But the fact was so, and this driving of coaches was regarded with favour. He had been a little touched by that word... ...n to him,—though racehorses were an abomination to him, and the driving of coaches a folly, and club-life a manifest waste of time, still he recognise... ...On this occasion there was to be a consid- erable infusion of royal blood,—German, Belgian, French, Spanish, and of native growth. Everybody, who was ... ...s, and there was a band, and there was a sward for dancing. There was lawn-tennis, and fishing-rods,—which nobody used,—and better still, long shady s... ...d legs. ’ ‘I don’t know about that; polo, you know, for the legs, and lawn-tennis for the arms, is hard work enough. ’ ‘But it must always be somethin... ...ord’s evening apparel. The whole of that afternoon was spent playing lawn- tennis with Miss Boncassen. Lady Mabel was asked to join the party, but she...