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...D PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER VI - RANDOM MEMORIES................89 CHAPTER VII - THE LANTERN-BEARERS........97 CHAP...

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...ES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO “AN INLAND VOY- AGE”............................................................ ...sphere preserved a sparkling freshness till late in the afternoon. It had an inland sweetness and variety to one newly from the sea; it smelt of woods... ...irates, and belong to the most despised and dangerous class in the Celestial Empire. But if this be so, what remarkable pirates have we here! and what... ...of the ocean. A great faint sound of breakers fol- lows you high up into the inland canons; the roar of water dwells in the clean, empty rooms of Mont... ... to left across the sheet, writes home the news of Monterey to the Celestial Empire. The woods and the Pacific rule between them the climate of this s... ...out of the town and up the slope, the night will be dry and warm and full of inland perfume. MEXICANS, AMERICANS, AND INDIANS THE HISTORY OF MONTEREY ... ...ess reproduc- tion. [1882.] 68 Across the Plains CHAPTER IV EPILOGUE TO “AN INLAND VOYAGE” THE COUNTRY WHERE they journeyed, that green, breezy val- ... ...nd moon; and the harmless art of knucklebones has seen the fall of the Roman empire and the rise of the United States. It may still flourish in its na... ...ke his very trifling enterprise with a gravity that would befit the cares of empire, and to think the smallest improvement worth accomplishing at any ...

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...ay. “An elegant woman will be more or less of a countess—a countess of the Empire or of yesterday, a countess of the old block, or, as they say in Ita... ... can pass through a door without any need to widen it for their hoops. The Empire saw the last of gowns with trains! I am still puzzled to understand ... ...cesses of its landed estates, where it has hidden itself to die—emigrating inland before the march of ideas, as of old to foreign lands before that of... ...uld make a magnificent history. Organize, for instance, is the word of the Empire, and sums up Napoleon completely.” “But all that does not explain wh... ...o, and of Metternich, diplomatists whose death would have saved the French Empire, and who seemed to him of greater weight than thousands of soldiers;... ...e, a good husband and a good father. In short, he improvised public works, empires, kings, codes, verses, a romance—and all with more range than preci...

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...se of the war was fairly lucky; the forecast of an alliance of the Central Empires, the opening campaign through the Neth- erlands, and the despatch o... ... of scientific knowledge, separate sovereign states and separate sovereign empires are no longer possible in the world, that to attempt to keep on wit... ...alleys of the Nile, the Euphrates, and the great Chinese rivers, the first empires and the first written laws had their beginnings. Men specialised fo... ...story of Europe is the history of the victory and breaking up of the Roman Empire. Every ascendant monarch in Europe up to the last, 10 The World Set... ...pathy. There were great religious and moral changes throughout the period, empires and republics re- placed one another, Italy tried a vast experiment... ...ops were given bread, dried fish, and boiled nettles at Dover, and marched inland to Ashford and paid off. On the way thither they saw four men hangin... ... which Mt. Blanc might be plunged and hidden. Here are icefields as big as inland seas on which the tumbled boulders lie so thickly that strange littl...

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...sh and his last was to see his invention the privilege and monopoly of the Empire. Only— It was there the difficulty began. Mr. Butteridge, it became ... ...e acquisition of the priceless secret of aerial sta- bility by the British Empire. The exact particulars of the simi- larity never came to light, but ... ...ne in which, for all one could tell to the contrary, the key of the future empire of the world resided. And presently, to the great consternation of i... ... T own story, “bringing me Moth- erland the secret that would give her the empire of the world. And what do I get?” He paused. “I am sniffed at by eld... ... of formality and red tape! There are nations that will not fling away the empire of earth in order to slight an un- known man and insult a noble woma... ...we shall seize, and zen 87 H G Wells we shall establish a depot—a sort of inland Gibraltar. It will be—what will it be?—an eagle’s nest. Zere our air... ...clare war, wrecked the country upon the Canadian side for nearly ten miles inland. They began to bring up men and material from the fleet off the east...

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... end of twenty he knows, or knows something about, every Englishman in the Empire, and may travel anywhere and everywhere without paying hotel-bills. ... ...I would write to the Society for Psy- chical Research—I would paralyze the Empire with the news! But I would, first of all, put eighty miles of assess... ...seshoe, I could wade across, turn the flank of the crater, and make my way inland. Without a moment’s hesitation I marched briskly past the tussocks w... ...ld tales of things he had seen and done, of out-of-the- way corners of the Empire into which he had penetrated, and of adventures in which he risked h... ...ne-bell is ringing madly, and Kings are being killed on the Continent, and Empires are saying, “You’re another,” and Mister Gladstone is calling down ... ...cording and reporting the better for the peace of the subscribers. But the Empires and the Kings continue to divert themselves as selfishly as before,...

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... like a Snake renew Her Winter Skin outworn: Heaven smiles, and Faiths and Empires gleam Like Wrecks of a Dissolving Dream. PR PR PR PR PROL OL OL OL ... ... and each pot-bank squatted rebellious in a volcanic coronet of light. The empire of the day broke into a thousand feudal baronies of burning coal. Th... ...nother. The press—those newspapers that are now so strange to us—like the “Empires,” the “Nations,” the Trusts, and all the other great monstrous shap... ...outcry tranquil- ized, lost, amid the serene assumptions, the overwhelming empire of that brightness. The noise of my shots, the impact upon things, h... ... the glare. Once I remember the persistent barking of a dog from somewhere inland of me, and several times I took out and examined my revolver very ca... ...hore, that went down in disaster with all their sleep- ing hands, nor how, inland, motor-cars rushed to destruction upon the roads, and trains upon th... ...eadings beginning, “Great Na- val Battle Now in Progress. The Fate of T wo Empires in the Balance. Reported Loss of T wo More—” These things, one gath...

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...eatest pride, and in which she will in time excel the whole world. The great empires of the east are mostly inland, and consequently excluded from the... ...will in time excel the whole world. The great empires of the east are mostly inland, and consequently excluded from the possibility of rivalling her. ... ...ith held the other; to America only hath she been liberal of both. The vast empire of Russia is almost shut out from the sea: wherefore, her boundles...

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... _315 With Death’s omnipotence. Thou hast beheld His empire, o’er the present and the past; It was a desolate sight—now gaze on ... ...ir dark and blasting ministries. 31 31 31 31 31. ‘In the world’s youth his empire was as firm As its foundations...Soon the Spirit of Good, Though in ... ...es are laid. 34 34 34 34 34. Nor are the strong and the severe to keep The empire of the world: thus Cythna taught _965 Even in the vis... ...and fanes, _2270 While T ruth with Joy enthroned o’er his lost empire reigns!’ 51.52. 51.52. 51.52. 51.52. 51.52. Ere she had ceased, the ... ...aiming through the living and the dead, ‘The Monarch saith, that his great Empire’s worth _4155 Is set on Laon and Laone’s head: He who but one yet... ...h they be, Were dearer than these chestnut woods: Those heathy paths, that inland stream, And the blue mountains, shapes which seem ... ...ar the deep, _580 And beasts hear the sea moan in inland caves. Darest thou observe how the fiends torture him? P P P P PANTH... ...ll spirits on that secret way; _45 As inland boats are driven to Ocean Down streams made strong with mountain-tha... ... And down the streams which clove those mountains vast, _345 Around their inland islets, and amid The panther-peopled forests whose shade cast Darkne...

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...political charac- ter and the laws of the country, and that it has no less empire over civil society than over the Government; it creates opin- ions, ... ... all classes are equally cultivated; the State becomes democratic, and the empire of democracy is slowly and peaceably introduced into the institution... ...atever crossed its path, and has shaken all that it has not destroyed. Its empire on society has not been gradually in- troduced or peaceably establis... ...on went on. The religious and political passions which ravaged the British Empire during the whole reign of *The emigrants who founded the State of Rh... ...pierce the woods, scare off the beasts of prey, explore the courses of the inland streams, and make ready the triumphal procession of civilization acr... ...hey would soon create foreign powers upon their own territory. A system of inland custom-houses would then be established; the valleys would be divide... ...Washington now stands; but the great body of the people is now advanc- ing inland and to the north, so that in twenty years the ma- jority will unques... ...h Washington now stands; but the great body of the people is now advancing inland and to the north, so that in twenty years the majority will unquesti... ...daily means of communication between the different points of the coast. An inland navigation of unexampled rapidity conveys commodi- ties up and down ...

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...ex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds. Only the gloom to t... ...nknown earth! … The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empires. The sun set; the dusk fell on the stream, and lights be- gan to ap... ...o mend his fortunes. Land in a swamp, march through the woods, and in some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him,—al... ...met was full of it. They were go- 11 Joseph Conrad ing to run an over-sea empire, and make no end of coin by trade. “A narrow and deserted street in ...

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...forgot- ten. Over all this hung the oppressive shadow of the great Russian empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national hatred ... ...eing a separate organization, it took no part in the wars of the Rus- sian Empire against either Persia or Turkey. Its first campaign, against Russia ... ...ussia proper. From there they were dispersed to the dis- tant parts of the empire. On this occasion poor Mr. Nicholas B. penetrated into Russia much f... ... be regarded as seriously dangerous, even for the largest of con- ceivable empires saddled with the most sacred of responsibili- ties. And this good m... ...ous spell, the murmur of the great sea, which must have somehow reached my inland cradle and entered my unconscious ear, like that formula of Mohammed... ...her before or after I left the sea. Don’t remember ever hearing of one. An inland people, aren’t you?” I said yes—very much so. We were remote from th...

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...all this hung the oppressive shadow 31 Joseph Conrad of the great Russian Empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national hatred ... ... being a separate organisation, it took no part in the wars of the Russian Empire against Persia or Tur- key. Its first campaign, against Russia itsel... ... Russia proper. From there they were dispersed to the distant parts of the Empire. On this occasion poor Mr. Nicholas B. penetrated into Russia much f... ...t be re- garded as seriously dangerous even for the largest of conceivable empires saddled with the most sa- cred of responsibilities. And this good m... ...ous spell, the murmur of the great sea, which must have somehow reached my inland cradle and entered my unconscious ear, like that for- 103 Joseph Co... ...her before or after I left the sea. Don’t remember ever hearing of one. An inland people, aren’t you?” I said yes—very much so. We were remote from th...

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...his to recover the one poor town of Messene, after he had lost so great an empire both by sea and land, as the Spartans were possessed of, when he beg... ...a, they were also injurious to the Romans by land; for they would often go inland up the roads, plundering and destroy- ing their villages and country... ...ndred furlongs from the sea. Now there were but few re- gions in the Roman empire out of that compass; and the greatest of the nations and most powerf... ... was nothing less than to constitute one absolute monarch of all the Roman empire. For the provinces which seemed to be exempt from his commission by ... ...th Lucullus, setting a flame just now to his natural passion for glory and empire, made him feel more than usually gratified. As indeed appeared not l... ...iven up to him, and that the river Euphrates should be the boundary of the empires. Pompey replied, that for Tigranes, he belonged more to his own nat... ...isembark and pitch their camp, he would leave him as much ground in Italy, inland from the sea, as a horse could traverse in a single course. Antony, ...

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...en long to sea; and yet he was from Wales, and had been most of his life a blacksmith at an inland forge; a few years in America and half a score of o... ...s composed of individual heroisms; it stands to them as the victorious war which subdued an empire stands to the personal act of brav- ery which spike... ...mpty continents swarm, as at the bo’s’un’s whistle, with in- dustrious hands, and whole new empires are domesticated to the service of man. This is th... ...em were now on their way to America. But on the point of money they saw clearly enough that inland politics, so far as they were concerned, were re- d... ... Stevenson For many years America was to me a sort of promised land; ‘westward the march of empire holds its way’; the race is for the moment to the y... ...nformation, cleft with shallow dells, and sown here and there with farms and tufts of wood. Inland, it loses it- self, joining, I suppose, the great h... ...nd the whole invalid world huddles into its pri- vate chambers, and silently recognises the empire of the Fohn. CHAPTER XI—ALPINE DIVERSIONS THERE WIL...

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...lous astonishment. Except for the habits of the very rich during the Roman Empire, there was never the slightest precedent for this mod- ern detachmen... ...shman must needs stipulate that Westminster shall still be a seat of world Empire, one of several seats, if you will—where the ruling council of the w... ...sive year. Jesus Christ had been born into a liberal and progressive Roman Empire that spread from the Arctic Ocean to the Bight of Benin, and was to ... ...tellectual horizon al- ready nearly as wide as the world. And through this empire the flow of thought, the flow of intention, poured always more abund... ...or the year. I went with my 185 H G Wells gear by sea to Tromso, and then inland to a starting-place, and took my ice-axe and rucksack, and said good... ...gious orthodoxy, something approaching it pretty closely, and again in the inland and typical provinces of China, where even a strange pattern of hat ... ...d develop it, could be made the open and secure policy of any great modern empire now. Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possi...

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...rty. In this operation, a pebble inserted in a coin, some say of the Lower Empire, fell out of the purse, and the Saracen matron testified so much has... ...he Lake Asphaltites, where the waves of the Jordan pour themselves into an inland sea, from which there is no discharge of waters. The warlike pilgrim... ...ess brittle?” “What wouldst thou tell me?” answered the Moslem. “Y on- der inland sea thou dost point at is peculiar in this, that, by 25 Sir Walter ... ...view the world with troubled eye, Where see we ‘neath the extended sky, An empire matching thine! If the Benigner Power can yield A fountain in the de... ...is cell as one who seemed born to rule over men, but who had abdicated his empire to become the servant of Heaven. Still, it must be allowed that his ... ...ime—perhaps during the life of this en- terprising Soldan; but in the East empires arise like mush- rooms. Suppose him dead, and us strengthened with ... ...like him who would direct the Council of Princes and determine the fate of empires—but like a nov- ice, who, stumbling upon a conjuration in his maste...

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...guilt; and she went swing- ing great folds of darkness across kingdoms and empires of earth where joy was and peace of spirit; and in her track amazem... ...damsel, and entrap her from him, and have her sent even to the city of the inland sea, for no less a distance than that keepeth Ruark from her.’ And A... ...bes; and the Chief was bound and con- ducted a prisoner to the city of the inland sea, and cast into prison, in expectation of Death the releaser, and... ...ruffled by a breath. Now, when it was dawn Shibli Bagarag awoke and looked inland, and saw plainly the minarets of a city shining in the first beams, ... ...ed with determination, is’t not such as sufficeth for the over- turning of empires and systems, O my mistress, fair one, sapphire of this city? And is... ...many centuries, and his seed were the rulers of men, and the seal of their empire stamped on mighty wax the Tackle of Barbers. Now, of the promise mad...

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... and came back from the East after the Peace of Amiens. In the time of the Empire he was incorporated in the Pontoon Troop of the Guard, and was const... ...la, and after the time of Julius Caesar, Tiberius raised it into the Roman Empire; the system was embodied in one man, and all authority was centered ... ...he peace laughed softly. “Captain,” he said, “an old lawyer once said that empires began with the sword and ended with the desk; we have reached the d... ...acres of land as he wished for as little as he pleased. “While he was busy inland, where he meant to carry out some wonderful ideas of his, the Englis... ...neral. Ah! and it was a funeral, I can tell you; it was the funeral of the Empire; those smart armies of his were nothing but skeletons now.) So he st... ...e kingdom of France and Navarre, which by March 20th had become the French Empire again. On that day he found himself in Paris, and a clean sweep had ...

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...Peter of Norway Boors? Their Thomas in Finland, And Russia far inland? The Bird, whom by some name or other All men who know thee call... ...th such a dear Companion at my side. 53 Wordsworth 11. September, 1802. Inland, within a hollow Vale, I stood, And saw, while sea was calm and ai... ... 26. November, 1803. Another year!—another deadly blow! Another mighty Empire overthrown! And we are left, or shall be left, alone; The last t... ... 7 I travell’d among unknown Men, 28 In youth from rock to rock I went 5 Inland, within a hollow Vale, I stood, 53 It is a beauteous Evening, calm ...