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...cus, they say, was ever esteemed a man of the greatest sanctity of all the Greeks; and Cychreus, the Salaminian, was honored at Athens with divine wor... ...s to the sword. The government by this means falling to Ariadne, he made a league with her, and received the cap- tives of her, and ratified a perpetu... ...ow husbandry; and from this coin came the expression so frequent among the Greeks, of a thing being worth ten or a hundred oxen. After this he joined ... ... too, showed respect to Romulus; the Ancient Latins sent, and entered into league and confederacy with him. Fidenae he took, a neighboring city to Rom... ... in the basin, the suitor was rejected, so desirous were they that all the members of the company should be agreeable to each other. The basin was cal... ... farther use of the priests, and that was to give people directions in the national usages at funeral rites. 114 V olume One Numa taught them to rega... ...mbly, lowered these also to the people, to show, in the strongest way, the republican foundation of the govern- ment; and this the consuls observe to ... ...y his choice of 179 Plutarch’s Lives him as his model in the formation of republican institutions; in reducing, for example, the excessive powers and... ...rwise, you must make use of others to intercede for you, for it is not the national cus- tom here for the king to give audience to anyone that doth no...

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...— invaluable fellow—with some Italian workmen, im- ported to work upon the National Central Railway, was at hand, and managed to snatch him away—for t... ...s that ever came to Sulaco with a general cargo before the building of the National Central. He left her on account of some very respect- able friends... ...n Costaguana. The old man, full of scorn for the populace, as your austere republican so often is, had disregarded the preliminary sounds of trouble. ... ..., muttering pious invo- cations to all the saints of the calendar. The old republican did not believe in saints, or in prayers, or in what he called “... ...e of the En- glishman who managed the silver mine in the moun- tains three leagues from the town. She was the only Englishwoman in Sulaco. Giorgio Vio... ...n the guest of the Le- gation, and had been kept busy negotiating with the members of Don Vincente’s Government—cultured men, men to whom the conditio... ... father desired ardently to “tear and fling into the faces” of presidents, members of judicature, and ministers of State. And this desire persisted, t... ...ida had reported that from the porch of the posada in Rincon, only a short league from the town, the lights on the mountain were visible, twinkling ab... ...chooner was anchored opposite the New Custom House, with its sham air of a Greek temple, flatroofed, with a colonnade, Captain Fidanza went pulling hi...

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...ntly, the last election of Francois Keller had been dis- turbed by certain republicans, whose red caps and long beards had not, however, seriously ala... ...he information of countries so unfortunate as not to know the blessings of national repre- sentation, and which are, therefore, ignorant by what intes... ...d not been the son of an ardent Bonapartist, he belonged to a family whose members had justly incurred the animosity of the Cinq-Cygne family, owing t... ... Grevin’s brother-in-law, a miller named Laurent Goussard, the head of the republicans of Arcis, the two assistant mayors, the printer and publisher o... ...om they consulted, advised them to give their son for patron a saint whose Greek name might signify the municipality,—for the child was born at a peri... ...ry made a commercial campaign of 1814 with splendid but ignored courage. A league or two behind where the army advanced he bought up caps and socks as... ... that Madame Mollot saw. Maxime had a very handsome forehead, blue eyes, a Greek nose, a pleasant mouth, and a well-cut chin; but the circle of his ey... ...entary discussions, salons, elections, railways, the Cafe de Paris and the National Guard—what time have we, if you please, to go to work?” “Beautiful... .... Here we find as its leader the Comte de Gondreville, your husband’s col- league in the Chamber of peers. Closely allied to the count is a very influ...

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...reality till the alarm-clock rang, at seven-twenty. III It was the best of nationally advertised and quantitatively produced alarm-clocks, with all mo... ...about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party. They included a fountain pen and a silver pencil (always ... ...ding from the chain was a large, yellowish elk’s-tooth-proclamation of his membership in the Brotherly and Protective Order of Elks. Most signifi- can... ...d four hundred thousand inhabitants now—he could see the top of the Second National Tower, an Indi- ana limestone building of thirty-five stories. Its... ...pite his strange learnings he was as strict a Presbyte- rian and as firm a Republican as George F. Babbitt. He confirmed the business men in the faith... ...ees who had his own faith that he was going to make sales. There were nine members of the staff, besides Babbitt and his partner and father-in-law, He... ...l you the name of every kind of tree, and some of their 93 Sinclair Lewis Greek and Latin names too! Besides, we owe the Joneses a dinner. Besides, g... ...ell, I guess he called up the Credit Association and the American Security League to see if I was all right— he certainly took long enough—or maybe he... ...his Dora Gibson Tucker that runs the Child Welfare and the Americanization League, and the only reason she’s got Drew beaten is because she has got so...

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...land in the neighbourhood of Toledo. On one of his acquisitions, about two leagues from the city, he built himself a castle which he called Cervatos, ... ... Salamis was bent on being the Aeschylus of Spain. He was to found a great national drama, based on the true principles of art, that was to be the env... ...ucate the public taste until it was ripe for tragedies on the model of the Greek drama—like the “Numancia” for instance—and comedies that would not on... ... listen to most of his biographers one would suppose that all Spain was in league not only against the man but against his memory, or at least that it... ...his, the most cosmopolitan book in the world, is one of the most intensely national. “Manon Lescaut” is not more thoroughly French, “Tom Jones” not mo... ...tury. Its work was done when Granada fell, and as chivalry was essentially republican in its nature, it could not live under the rule that Ferdinand s... ...ant; for they under- stood about as much of them as if he had been talking Greek, though they could perceive they were all meant for expressions of go... ... and middle; on the contrary, they construct them with such a multitude of members that it seems as though they meant to produce a chimera or monster ...

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...n country districts, intrenched in municipal councils, un- der arms in the national guard of every canton in France,— one result of the year 1830, whi... ...this letter in the morning, let your mind travel, as you lie in bed, fifty leagues or thereabouts from Paris, along the great mail road which leads to... ... I have found gigantic ivies, wild arabesques which flourish only at fifty leagues from Paris, here where land does not cost enough to make one sparin... ...ck-towers and sundry modern turrets, with galleries and vases more or less Greek. No harmony there, my dear Nathan! These heterogeneous erections are ... ...s in the air. ‘I’ve the good tobacco, it never shall be thine,’ that’s the national air of the rich man, hey? The peasant will always be the peasant. ... ...Right enough, too,” replied Fourchon. “As Pere Niseron says (and he stayed republican long after everybody else), ‘The people are tough; they don’t di... ...f bell-ringer, beadle, grave-digger, sexton, and clerk, in defiance of his republican opinions,—I mean the grandfather of the little Genevieve whom yo... ...ection rather difficult to trace through family ramifica- tions which make members of the middle classes in all the smaller towns cousins to each othe... ...erests of Blangy, enabled him partially to understand a third idyll in the Greek style, which poor villagers like Tonsard, and middle-aged rich men li...

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... Confederation Generale du Travail, feminism vs. haremism, Chinese lyrics, nationalization of mines, Christian Sci- ence, and fishing in Ontario. She ... ...arn artistic. Probably the lum- ber-yard isn’t as scrumptious as all these Greek temples. But go to it! Make us change!” “I would like to. Some day!” ... ...their telephones and bank-accounts and automatic pianos and co-opera- tive leagues. And for all its fat richness, theirs is a pio- neer land. What is ... ...king to pieces, 37 Sinclair Lewis then recovered and rattled away. In the Greek candy- store was the whine of a peanut-roaster, and the oily smell of... ...grounds. 40 Main Street The State Bank, stucco masking wood. The Farmers’ National Bank. An Ionic temple of marble. Pure, exquisite, solitary. A bras... ...the next weekly bridge of the Jolly Seventeen. IV The Jolly Seventeen (the membership of which ranged from fourteen to twenty-six) was the social corn... ...n anarchist, too. Everybody who doesn’t love the bankers and the Grand Old Republican Party is an anarchist.” Carol had unconsciously slipped from her... ... good sound be- lief in hell, like we used to have it preached to us.” The Republican Party, the Grand Old Party of Blaine and McKinley, is the agent ... ...nd put in tenant farmers. The Dauntless lies to us about the Nonpar- tisan League, the lawyers sting us, the machinery-dealers hate to carry us over b...

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...rsted-leggined wood-carver of the Tyrol, had handed down the talent of the national in- dustry, to reappear in this strangely distorted guise. She mad... ... ing it up from his lips, causing his face to assume the ap- pearance of a Greek mask. She would curl it around ei- ther forefinger, drawing it to a f... ...on developed into quite an affair and began to assume the proportions of a Republican po- litical machine—he found he could make a little, a very litt... ...ound out—I told them of my contriv- ance for binding books, and one of the members of the firm came up to look at it. He offered me quite a sum if I w... ...ng, heard nothing. The emptiness of primeval desolation stretched from him leagues and leagues upon either hand. The gigantic si- lence of the night l... ...ound Gold Mountain in the Armagosa hills, barred off from the world by the leagues of the red- hot alkali of Death Valley. “They” would hardly reach h...

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...ds which said noth- ing but answered all things,—progress, steam, bitumen, National guard, order, democratic element, spirit of associa- 33 Balzac ti... ..., the democratic element, but refuses in conversation all compact with the republican spirit. The republican spirit to him means 1793, rioting, the Te... ...partment on the third floor, with the furniture rigorously required by all members of his noble profession,—for the guild of barristers admits no brot... ...o protect even its most devoted servants (witness the Gisquet affair), the republicans have ended by ruining Cerizet. I tell you this to explain how i... ...ter a service of thirty-six years. In 1832 he had led his battalion of the National Guard to the attack on Saint-Merri, but his neighbors had previous... ...and also the council of at- torneys, exercise severe discipline over their members. A bar- rister liable to go to Clichy would be disbarred. Consequen... ... own name, if we wanted to discuss it, might be said to be a loan from the Greek language.” “Very likely; at any rate we have the advantage of being k... ...on, attracted by the noise of the bell, and attired in a dressing-gown and Greek cap, came out of his study to inquire what was the matter. After a sp... ...refore, in pres- ence of the perilous honor conferred upon him by his col- leagues of the general Council, he sat down terrified by his solitude and h...

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...s, their father’s busi- ness ally and fellow-speculator; Mr. Pericles, the Greek, the man who held millions of money as dust compared to a hu- man voi... ... every possible kind interpretation of his atrocious bad manners. He was a Greek, of Parisian gilding, whose Parisian hat flew off at a moment’s notic... ... burden, as if he had no longer force to sustain it. By-and-by some of the members of the company issued forth. Carriages were heard on the gravel, an... ...g deliciously,” they dismissed her, and referred to dresses, gaucheries of members of the company, pretensions here and there, Lady Gosstre’s walk, th... ...harmless practices of this description. He offers to turn the current of a Republican’s brain, by rest- ing a coronet on his forehead for just five se... ...nch mind, and the French habit of quick social intercourse, have made them nationally far richer in language. Let me add, individually as much poorer.... ...nd summoned its brethren of the band to give their various versions of the National Anthem. “Can’t they be stopped?” Emilia murmured, clenching her li... ...ssed Adela. “Wilfrid’s meaning is now explained,” said Cornelia. “He is in league with papa; or has given in his adhesion to papa’s demands, at least....

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... from the ground, shot out hori- zontally , immediately beneath the living members of the tree, sat a bird, that in the vulgar language of the country... ...casion, while in command on the western frontier of Pennsylvania against a league of the French and Indians, not only his glory , but the safety of hi... ...ic equipage shouted aloud “Draw up in the quarry—draw up, thou king of the Greeks; draw into the quarry , Agamemnon, or I shall never be able to pass ... ...ssly declared that they were again men. But, in a government so peculiarly republican as the Indian polity, it was not at all times an easy task to re... ...lers had united, according to the Christian custom, his baptismal with his national name, and to them he was generally known as John Mohegan, or, more... ...been many battles fought lately,” continued Marmaduke, “and the infuriated republicans are too often vic- torious. I cannot say , however, that I am s... ...n knows, in a dozen languages; mayhap in the Bay of State lingo; mayhap in Greek or High Dutch. But dost it know what it means itself? canst answer me... ...youth, he was an In- dian warrior; or, what is the same thing, a white man leagued with the savages; and it is thought he has been concerned in many o... ... a lawyer—’but Can communicate nothing further at present’—hum, hum. “ The national convention ‘— hum, hum—’ unfortunate Louis’—hum, hum—’ex- ample of...

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...the Cage Fields, and presently extended right up the London Road. A single national school in an inconve- nient situation set itself inadequately to c... ... to man’s estate and developed a more and more com- prehensive view of our national process and our national needs, I am more and more struck by the o... ...things. We joined in the earnest acquirement of all that was necessary for Greek epigrams and Latin verse, and for the rest played games. We dipped do... .... Within, we were taught as the chief subjects of instruc- tion, Latin and Greek. We were taught very badly because the men who taught us did not habi... ...nd princes were usurpers and knew it, religious teachers were impostors in league with power, the economic system was an elaborate plot on the part of... ...e new reorganisation!” We planned half in earnest and half Utopianising, a League of Social Service. We talked of the splendid world of men that might... ...easy, but its shifting audience, the comings and goings and hesitations of members behind the chair—not mere audience units, but men who matter—the de... ...iated masses, the proletarians, Labour. Change Conservative and Liberal to Republican and Democrat, for example, and you have the conditions in the Un... .... If the King backs the Lords—and I don’t see why he shouldn’t—you have no Republican move- ment whatever to fall back upon. You lost it during the Er...

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...the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The Anglo-American Club, composed of British and American students, had twent... ... a dozen of them sat to- gether and a lady or a gentleman passed whom one of them knew and saluted, they all rose to their feet and took off their cap... ...but he knows what he knows—it is not be- fogged with uncertainty, it is burnt into him so that it will stay. For instance, he does not merely read and... ...endid gamblers are gone, only her microscopic knaves remain. An English gentleman who had been living there several years, said: “If you could disguis... ...y insolence here. These shopkeepers detest the English and despise the Americans; they are rude to both, more es- Mark Twain 102 pecially to ladies o... ... them.” “This is divine. Go on—it is not possible that you forgot to inquire into her politics?” “No, I thought of that. She is a democrat, her husban... ...? Why have you used all this Chinese and Choctaw and Zulu rubbish?” “Because I didn’t know any French but two or three words, and I didn’t know any La... ...ignifying “Spare me 229 A Tramp Abroad your callow enthusiasms, good friend.”) Yes, I know, I know; you go to cathedrals, and exclaim; and you drag t... ...ork. The Alpine glaciers move—that is granted, now, by every- body. But there was a time when people scoffed at the idea; they said you might as well ...

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...Brissago, beheld in Geneva at the other end of Switzer- land a poor little League of (Allied) Nations (excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russi... ... recognition of the idea of a human commonweal as something overriding any national and pa- triotic consideration, and that is in the working class mo... ...ocial revo- lution. If world peace is to be attained through labour inter- nationalism, it will have to be attained at the price of the completest soc... ...t out of this great institution in favour of modern methods; and he learnt Greek and Latin as well as he had learnt German, Spanish, and French, so th... ...n’ who ‘spoke Latin with a Wiltshire accent and manifest discomfort, wrote Greek letters with his tongue out, and seemed to think a Greek sentence a c... ...ays I hope to place things in the hands of a more efficient caterer….’ The members of the new world government dined at three long tables on trestles,... ...n the verge of destruction, only ten, indeed, remained unwounded, when the republicans burst in to the rescue…. 105 H G Wells S S S S Section 6 ectio... ...nd super- intelligences into the control of affairs. It was teachable, its members trailed ideas with them to the gathering, but these were the conseq...

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...verett Wharton at a new club, called the Progress, of which they were both members. The Progress was certainly a new club, having as yet been open har... ...nd smoked and played billiards and pre- tended to read. Some few energetic members still hoped that a good day would come in which their grand ideas m... ...ch and German are very use- ful. I have a prejudice of my own in favour of Greek and Latin.’ ‘But I rather fancy I picked up more Greek and Latin at B... ...lives less safe, their general position more debased, and their chances of national success more remote than ever.’ ‘Y ou can never teach them, except... ...he old Duke, among whose theories of official life forbearance to all col- leagues and subordinates was conspicuous. The withdrawal was therefore allo... ...ea there was so much pride about the Duke,’ Mr Boffin said to his old col- league, Sir Orlando. ‘Is it pride?’ asked Sir Orlando. ‘It may be shyness,’... ...lently,—I mean openly, to my face. But he based his objection solely on my nationality,—national- ity and blood. As to my condition in the world, fort... ...tion of his intention to live out the remainder of his period of office in republican simplicity. ‘We have tried it and it has failed, and let there b...

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...arrier’s blouse, and how shall you recognize the god- like creature of the Greek or Roman chisel? The eyes note and compare before the heart has time ... ...ous beings, whom the newspapers treated with as much gravity as matters of national interest. To be a dramatic au- thor, to have a play produced on th... ...e and their genius, stands 65 Balzac a third, Michel Chrestien, the great Republican thinker, who dreamed of European Federation, and had no small sh... ...ra- tion scheme was more dangerous to the aristocracy of Eu- rope than the Republican propaganda; it was more feasible and less extravagant than the h... ...autiful youth come down from the hills of the Latin Quarter. Glorious as a Greek god, Lucien took a cab, and reached the Cafe Servel at a quarter to s... ...ant analysis, seemed so far greater in his eyes than the grave and earnest members of the brotherhood. And besides all this, he was reveling in his fi... ...t back a box of 223 Balzac tumbled artificial flowers. The more incapable members of the party were grotesquely tricked out in these blossoms, and a ... ...ropen- sities, and spoke of the forthcoming Archer of Charles IX. as “anti-national” in its tendency, the writer siding with Catholic cut-throats agai... ... “But even so, you must live and sleep on the way. Even if you walk twelve leagues a day, you will want twenty francs at least.” “I will get them toge...

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...ou do? Do you know anything besides that useless trash of college learning—Greek, Latin, and so forth?” “I have studied mathematics.” “Stuff! I dare s... ...th the confidence that one would show an unlearned man a letter written in Greek; he might see lines, 18 The Professor and trace characters, but he c... ...f Brussels need wander far to search for solitude; let him but move half a league from his own city and he will find her brooding still and blank over... ...he iron of jealousy had entered into his soul. A thor- ough Frenchman, the national characteristic of ferocity had not been omitted by nature in compo... ...e of sixteen, possessing a breadth and depth of personal development truly national. It chanced that Jean was the first lad to step into the boat; he ... ...ial; I, poor, despised and powerless; so we stood to the world at large as members of the world’s society; but to each other, as a pair of human being... ...smiled. Hunsden unconsciously laid stress on the word caste, and, in fact, republican, lordhater as he was, Hunsden was as proud of his old —shire blo... ...mself tolerated the drivelling theorists; with the practical men he seemed leagued hand and heart. When Hunsden is staying alone at the Wood (which se...

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...- sion in the world was conducted by a number of unham- pered men in small Greek cities, who knew no language but their own and had scarcely a technic... ...ems that it dropped unsolved at the close of the period of 7 H. G . Wells Greek freedom, when it must get to a common and general understanding upon ... ... extensively or intensively, that is to say whether in relation to all the members of the species or in relation to an imaginary typical specimen. The... ...aste for engineering. I have no doubt that in devotion to a virile, almost national Deity and to the service of His Em- pire of stern Law and Order, e... ...e is the ruling motive in human affairs. Men band them- selves together in leagues and loyalties, in cults and organi- zations and nationalities, and ... ...selves together in leagues and loyalties, in cults and organi- zations and nationalities, and it is often hard to say whether the bond is one of love ... ...ossible development of thought and concerted action which I called the New Republicanism, and afterwards I redrew the thing rather more elaborately in... ...rganizing forces that held my Uto- pian world together. They were the “New Republicans” of my “Anticipations” and “Mankind in the Making,” much develo... ... is needed and would be helpful in self-development and self-discovery. In leagues and societies for specific ends, too, we must all participate. But ...

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...perfect specimen of manly beauty could scarcely be imagined. Lovely as the Greek girls of Cyprus or Chios, Mercedes boasted the same bright flashing e... ...e- serted from the imperial army and joined forces with Conde; and younger members of families, brought up to hate and execrate the man whom five year... ...An island situated on the other side of the equator, at least two thousand leagues from here,” replied the count. “So much the better. As Villefort ob... ...er is like the stag you refer to, for he has posted two hundred and twenty leagues in scarcely three days.” “Which is undergoing great fatigue and anx... ...ay, Ger- man, French, Italian, English, and Spanish; by the aid of ancient Greek I learned modern Greek — I don’t speak it so well as I could wish, bu... ...which evi- dently, from the ease and grace with which she wore it, was her national attire. Behind her, but in deep shadow, was the outline of a mascu... ... to give you credit for having hit upon a most capital idea.” “And quite a national one, too,” replied Albert with gratified pride. “A mere masque bor... ... accompany each other, and who are yet leagued against me, a sort of Carlo-republican alliance. I then recollected you gave a breakfast this morning, ... ... title sounded on his ear he rose, and addressing his colleagues, who were members of one or the other Chamber, he said, — “Gentlemen, pardon me for l...

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...land in the neighbourhood of Toledo. On one of his acquisitions, about two leagues from the city, he built himself a castle which he called Cervatos, ... ... Salamis was bent on being the Aeschylus of Spain. He was to found a great national drama, based on the true principles of art, that was to be the env... ...ucate the public taste until it was ripe for tragedies on the model of the Greek drama—like the “Numancia” for instance—and comedies that would not on... ... listen to most of his biographers one would suppose that all Spain was in league not only against the man but against his memory, or at least that it... ...tury. Its work was done when Granada fell, and as chivalry was essentially republican in its nature, it could not live under the rule that Ferdinand s... ...ant; for they under- stood about as much of them as if he had been talking Greek, though they could perceive they were all meant for expressions of go... ... and middle; on the contrary, they construct them with such a multitude of members that it seems as though they meant to produce a chimera or monster ... ...ho. “I mean to say,” said Don Quixote, “that when the head suffers all the members suffer; and so, being thy lord and master, I am thy head, and thou ...