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...nstruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their soci...

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.... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors are grateful for permission to use material from the following: Joseph Epes Brown (ed.), The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s ... ...in Eranos 24-1955, © Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. The quotation from this paper that appears in the text is reprinted with kind permission ... ...n Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. The quotations from this paper that appear in the text are reprinted with kind permission ... ...ms Acknowledgments The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238 The People The Dreaming Totems And Increase Sacred Knowledge The Present Concl... ... us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture ... ...o list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many people these terms have come to lose nearly all meaning except to identify ... ...come to a steep sand bank and then to some red banks of clay on the road’s south side. For a year I live here, experiencing the change of seasons, pic... ...during the years 1896-1914, the physician at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota where many members of the Oglala division of the Lakota Sioux ... ...eas about energy, which is a process. Benjamin Whorf found in his study of south-west Indian people that where English commonly uses substantives (nou...

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...re, holborn and the strand 101 the city 121 east end and the docklands 135 southbank 151 knightsbridge, chelsea, kensington and notting hill 182 subwa... ...y 121 east end and the docklands 135 southbank 151 knightsbridge, chelsea, kensington and notting hill 182 subway, cabs and double-deckers Ades Web Ma... ...o n d o n Ades web magazine the docklAnds - o 2 (former millennium dome ) from blAckwell 134 L o n d o n Ades web magazine Southbank the london eye... ...former millennium dome ) from blAckwell 134 L o n d o n Ades web magazine Southbank the london eye 136 L o n d o n Ades web magazine the london eye... ...Ades web magazine shAkespeAre 's globe 138 L o n d o n Ades web magazine southwArk cAthedrAl 139 L o n d o n Ades web magazine london dungeon 140 L... ... london bridge 150 L o n d o n Ades web magazine Knightsbridge, Chelsea, Kensington and Notting Hill knightsbridge - hArrods 152 L o n d o n Ades w... ...ightsbridge - brompton rd - night 153 L o n d o n Ades web magazine south kensington - nAturAl history museum 154 L o n d o n Ades web magazine sout... ...n d o n Ades web magazine south kensington - the serpentine And hyde pArk from the ring 166 L o n d o n Ades web magazine south kensington - hyde pA... ... work could not have been the same without the amazing contribution of the people i’m grateful to: francesco bettelli, my family photos, production an...

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... found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned ourselves people of the educated class and some of us talk and lecture and write with considerable confidence....

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...eelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned ourselves people of the educated class and some of us talk and lecture and write with... ...and made what it could of them. And after that was over I let myself loose from limits of time and length altogether and have ex- panded these memoran... ...ty. And it is not only the claim of the specialist that I would repudiate. People are too apt to suppose that in order to dis- cuss morals a man must ... ...so and I think it may interest a certain number of simi- larly constituted people. I am not teaching. How far I suc- ceed or fail in that private and ... ...ICS HYSICS HYSICS AS A PRELIMINARY to that experiment in mutual confession from which this book arose, I found it necessary to consider and state cert... ...g at once difficult and fruitless, as an idle system of en- quiries remote from any human interest. I suppose this odd misconception arose from the vu... ...-bitten iris leaves and then the sea, greatly wrinkled and astir under the south- west wind. There is a boat going out which I think may be Jim Pain’s... ...ugh at it as absurd. If one sits on a popular evening in that long room at South Kensington which contains Raphael’s cartoons, one remarks that perhap... ...me mother-of-pearl-eyed painted and carven monster from the worship of the South Sea Islanders. And the Miltonic fable of the offended creator and the...

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...Excerpt: Landfall and departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman?s life and of a ship?s career. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term ?Landfall? is more easily understood; you fall in with the land, and it is a m...

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...TURE mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman’s life and of a ship’s ca reer. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship’s earthly fate. ... ...cise definition of a ship’s earthly fate. A “Departure” is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term “Landfall” is more easily understood... ...phere. 4 The Mirror of the Sea The Departure is not the ship’s going away from her port any more than the Landfall can be looked upon as the synonym ... ...all that, as long as the coast she was about to leave remained in sight, a southern-going ship of yesterday had not in the sailor’s sense begun the en... ...of the land on the part of a sailor. It is the technical, as distinguished from the sentimental, “good-bye.” Henceforth he has done with the coast ast... ...hole year of more or less hard life before one, because there was hardly a southern-going voyage in the yesterday of the sea which meant anything less... ...ding out into the world with nothing solid to speak of between her and the South Pole, the anchors are got in and the cables disappear from the deck. ... ...goes on to point out, with insight and justice, that for a great number of people (20,000, I think he says) it is a means of liveli- hood—that it is, ... ... kind man in his way, and had made a point of introducing them to the best people in the town in order that they should not fall into the bad company ...

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... pleasant bright things, the dessert and glasses and napery of the dinner we had shared, making them for the time a bright little world quite cut off from every-day realities, I saw it all as frankly incredible. ?He was mystifying!? I said, and then: ?How well he did it!? It isn?t quite the thing I should have expected him, of all people, to do well.?...

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...e had shared, making them for the time a bright little world quite cut off from every-day realities, I saw it all as frankly incredible. “He was mysti... ...ll he did it!… It isn’t quite the thing I should have expected him, of all people, to do well.” Afterwards, as I sat up in bed and sipped my morning t... ...alk at an abnormally early age, and he was so sane and “old-fashioned,” as people say, that he was permitted an amount of initiative that most childre... ...ld to this attraction. He insisted upon it as a curious thing that he knew from the very beginning—un- less memory has played him the queerest trick—t... ...quality and promise of heart’s desire. And there were many things and many people, some that still seem to stand out clearly and some that are a littl... ...d of me, and so march me home. Sobbing, conspicuous and frightened, I came from the en- chanted garden to the steps of my father’s house. “That is as ... ...hafts that have been made in connection with an ex- tension of the railway southward. It is protected from the intrusion of the public by a hoarding u... ...seemed but a pale yellow ghost of itself, hanging huge in the sunset. In a South African City a great man had married, and the streets were alight to ... ...g population of their valleys. And along the coast of Argentina and up the South Atlan- tic the tides were higher than had ever been in the memory of ...

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...the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the ?new people? whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acoustics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for ...

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...- ished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the “new people” whom New Y ork was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the ... ...ost masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. When Newland ... ...her, leaning against the wall at the back of the club box, turned his eyes from the stage and scanned the op- posite side of the house. Directly facin... ...ared on the setting, which was ac- knowledged to be very beautiful even by people who shared his acquaintance with the Opera houses of Paris and Vienn... ...l pen-wipers made by female parishioners for fashionable clergymen, sprang from the moss beneath the rose-trees; and here and there a daisy grafted on... ...onnection between the Mingotts (through the Thorleys) with the Dallases of South Carolina, and that of the relationship of the elder branch of Philade... ...er mysteriously discredited, and neither money nor position enough to make people forget 10 The Age of Innocence it, had allied herself with the head... ...ca’s most honoured families; she had been the lovely Regina Dallas (of the South Carolina branch), a penniless beauty introduced to New York society b... ... he perceived that the only visible specimen had stopped. He knew that the southern races communicated with each other in the language of pantomime, a...

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...reeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast ha...

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...ere are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself delightful. Those th... ...perhaps the chief source of one’s enjoyment of such a scene at such an hour. From five o’clock to eight is on certain occasions a little eternity; but ... ...d his cup in his hand; it was an unusually large cup, of a different pattern from the rest of the set and painted in brilliant colours. He disposed of... ... privilege; they smoked cigarettes as they continued to stroll. One of them, from time to time, as he passed, looked with a certain attention at the e... ...f one’s being too fond of pleasure.” “Daddy’s very fond of pleasure—of other people’s.” The old man shook his head. “I don’t pretend to have contribut... ...n here so long without our knowing it.” “Your mother told me that in England people arrived very quietly; so I thought it was all right. Is one of tho... ...osure, the most vivid object within sight was the big red pillar post on the southeast corner. “Henrietta will ask him to get into the cab and go with... ...the will was read—used up by his fatigue and anxiety and hurrying off to the south. He’s on his way to the Riviera and I’ve not yet heard from him. Bu... ... the day for her departure and by the middle of February had begun to travel southward. She interrupted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at ...

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...Excerpt: Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible....

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...ved at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could ... ...ain and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the cor ... ...tion of Transylvania there are four dis tinct nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the D... ... the East and North. I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns. This may be so, for when the Magyars conquered ... ...eep the outside edge of a river clear. At every station there were groups of people, some Chapter 1 5 times crowds, and in all sorts of attire. Som... ... the seventeenth century it underwent a siege of three weeks and lost 13,000 people, the casu alties of war proper being assisted by famine and dis ... ...tly talking of me, for every now and then they looked at me, and some of the people who were sitting on the bench outside the door—came and listened, ... ...n the castle. I went out on the stairs, and found a room looking towards the South. The view was magnificent, and from where I stood there was every... ... went up the stone stair to where I could look out towards the Chapter 3 42 South. There was some sense of freedom in the vast expanse, inaccessible ...

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... elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--?Scientists.? They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and characteristic paper, it is as carefully excluded as if it were--that other word which is the basis of all really bad language in this country. But th...

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...e extremely to be called—“Scientists.” They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and ... ...ectionists time after time. And they had led lives of academic distinction from their very earliest youth. They were of course quite undistinguished l... ...ich I believe was the voice of Professor Redwood, and there was a sizzling from the lantern and another sound that kept me there, still out of curiosi... ...s not under- stand it either. But really you know many of these scientific people understand the meaning of their own papers quite well: it is simply ... ... it, because as a general rule I do not think it is at all interesting for people to tell each other about their dreams. By a singular coincidence Red... ...e from the weekly storm of cleaning she would not forego. And having known people addicted to drink, she re- garded his solicitude for distinction in ... ... labora- tory of his flat with farm hunting up and down the lines that run southward out of London, and his peering spectacles, his simple baldness, a... ...ead…. VIII VIII VIII VIII VIII When the unfortunate Skinner got out of the South-Eastern train at Urshot that evening it was already nearly dusk. The ... ...etending not to know anything or to have any authority, in the way dear to South-Eastern officials when they catch you in a hurry. “Pity they can’t sh...

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...

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...a State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND .................................................. ... II. OL. II. SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FROM OM OM OM OM THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHURCH OF CH OF CH... ...antime these great disturbances are not understood in England; and chiefly from the differences between the two nations as to the language of their se... ...intedly exposed. Now, having made that explanation, we go on to inform the Southern reader—that an old traditionary usage has prevailed in Scotland, b... ...ginal act of invitation. And yet, in defiance of that notorious fact, some people go so far as to assert, that a call is not good unless where it is s... ... inoperative, is and must be moonshine. Yet be- tween two moonshines, some people, it seems, can tell which is the denser. W e have all heard of Barme... ...ady, who cannot bear to be mixed up in any common charge together with low people, abomi- nates such words as ‘sin,’ and wills that the parson should ... ...s a question exclusively spiritual. And by whom was it thus published? The Southern reader must here not be careless of dates. At present, viz. in 184... ... off. Let this chance turn out as it may, we repeat for the information of Southerns—that the church, by shutting off the persons of particular agitat...

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...eries of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume....

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...pace and Time, no short story of mine of the slight- est merit is excluded from this volume. Many of very ques- tionable merit find a place; it is an ... ...ears I have made scarcely one a year. The bulk of the fifty or sixty tales from which this present three-and-thirty have been chosen dates from the la... ...well as to myself, and in spite of the kindliest encouragement to continue from editors and read- ers. There was a time when life bubbled with short s... ...sh, and Mr. Frank Harris was not only printing good short stories by other people, but writing still better ones himself in the dignified pages of the... ...d better sort of pay that the short stories of the ‘nineties were written. People talked about them tremendously, compared them, and ranked them. That... ...me. I make no claims for them and no apology; they will be read as long as people read them. Things written either live or die; unless it be for a pla... ...’s mother, the milliner, and William had made a party to the Art Museum at South Kensington, I think. Anyhow, Jane had calmly but firmly accosted them... ...e through the sky- light. The patch of stars he saw was in Sagittarius and south- eastward; the door was north—or was it north by west? He tried to th... ... in the same direction. Presently it came up over the horizon again to the south-westward about. The afterglow of sunset was well over now and the dim...

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...rceived by the patronising; but when I take the little measure of my course (a fidgety habit, for it?s none of the longest yet) I count my real start from the evening George Corvick, breathless and worried, came in to ask me a service. He had done more things than I, and earned more pence, though there were chances for cleverness I thought he sometimes missed....

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... (a fidgety habit, for it’s none of the longest yet) I count my real start from the evening George Corvick, breathless and worried, came in to ask me ... ...o me to prepare for The Middle, the organ of our lucubra- tions, so called from the position in the week of its day of appearance, an article for whic... ...judged—that he should catch the night-mail to Paris. He had had a telegram from Gwendolen Erme in answer to his letter offering to fly to her aid. I k... ..., publicly demand if she hadn’t been right. The party was large—there were people from outside as well, but I had never seen a table long enough to de... ...Vereker’s door. He occupied in those years one of the honest old houses in Kensington Square. He received me immedi- ately, and as soon as I came in I... ...lready of opinion that he saw much further into a certain affair than most people. He was quite as fired as I had been at Bridges. He was moreover in ... ...land for an indefinite absence, as the news- papers announced—going to the south for motives con- nected with the health of his wife, which had long k... ...ecome the familiar tor- ment of my days and my nights. There are doubtless people to whom torments of such an order appear hardly more natural than th... ...lovers supremely united? It came back to me in a mystifying manner that in Kensington Square, when I mentioned that Corvick would have told the girl h...

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...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A cri...

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...ONE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON in late September, Ann V eronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excite- ment and quite resolved to have th... ...that this novel has to tell. She had a compartment to herself in the train from Lon- don to Morningside Park, and she sat with both her feet on the se... ...ore them, and she was so lost in thought that she discovered with a start, from a lettered lamp, that she was at Morningside Park, and thought she was... ...id to herself… . Morningside Park was a suburb that had not altogether, as people say, come off. It consisted, like pre-Roman Gaul, of three parts. Th... ...about her seemed to be—how can one put it? —in wrappers, like a house when people leave it in the summer. The blinds were all drawn, the sunlight kept... ...ng subsidiary devel- opments, such as flirtation and “being interested” in people of the opposite sex. She approached this field with her usual liveli... ...into the lamp- lit obscurity and slimy streets. She turned a resolute face southward. She followed Oxford Street into Holborn, and then she inquired f... ...ack and walked round the circle about the Royal Botanical Gardens and then south- wardly toward W aterloo. They trudged and talked, and Man- ning stru... ...3 t 3 FOR A TIME they walked in silence through the back streets that lead southward from the College. Capes bore a face of infinite perplexity. “The ...

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...ion. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the veil from men?s motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental r...

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.... They were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit s... ...le memory. I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home centred intere... ...d in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the d... ...ation as I could desire about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, ... ...that. When you raise your cry of fire, it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin y... ...one direction and the loungers in the other, while a number of better dressed people, who had watched the scuffle without taking part in it, crowded i... ...ment. “I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in his hair had ... ...may rest here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from the south west, I see.” “Yes, from Horsham.” “That clay and chalk mixture w... ...e of a brave soldier. Others were of a date during the reconstruc tion of the Southern states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had ev...

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...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of children, but only Imperial R... ...wall and rather tattered is a large yellow-varnished geological map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and se... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...The Science and Art Department has vanished altogether from the world, and people are forgetting it now with the utmost readiness and generosity. Part... ...ose particular words, yet exactly in that manner, as he slouched along the southward road, with resentful eyes becoming less resentful as he talked, a... ...vailed over the original Bromstead thatch, the huge space of Common to the south was extensively en- closed, and what had been an ill-defined horse-tr...

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...e too late for that crowning revolution in human potentialities. And apart from this pro- crastination of over forty years, the guess at the opening p... ...excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), meeting obscurely amidst a world-wide disre- gard t... ...ttain- ment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire- making animal. From the outset of his terrestrial career we find him supplementing the nat... ... of burning and the rough implement of stone. So he passed beyond the ape. From that he expands. Presently he added to himself the power of the horse ... ...ors, wise women, soldiers and sail- ors in Egypt and China and Assyria and south-eastern Eu- rope at the beginning of that period, and they were doing... ... it boil away, seeing the lids of vessels dance with its fury; millions of people at different times must have watched steam pitching rocks out of vol... ...e corn ships of imperial Rome, a petty inci- dent; and a huge migration of peoples between Europe and Western Asia and America was in Progress, and—no... ...nise the prices cur- rent of his geographically distributed investments in South Africa, Japan, and Egypt, and tell the two children he had begotten (... ...tellectual routine and the habitual life, in Europe, in America, North and South, in Japan, in China, and all about the world. It was in 1910 that the...

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...ck Hotel.? Mr. Crump, the landlord, had, in the outset of life, performed the duties of Boots in some inn even more frequented than his own, and, far from being ashamed of his origin, as many persons are in the days of their prosperity, had thus solemnly recorded it over the hospitable gate of his hotel....

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...he duties of Boots in some inn even more frequented than his own, and, far from being ashamed of his origin, as many per- sons are in the days of thei... ...ttle bar, profusely orna- mented with pictures of the dancers of all ages, from Hillisberg, Rose, Parisot, who plied the light fantastic toe in 1805, ... ...urs, much accustomed, one for the gentlemen of the shoulder-knot, who came from the houses of their employers hard by; an- other for some “gents who u... ...e found at the end of every week. There was Mr. Balls, the great grocer of South Audley Street, a warm man, who, they say, had his twenty thousand pou... ...gh the influence of great men; he was an agent for half-a-dozen theatrical people, male 13 Thackeray and female, and had the interests of the latter ... ... person were of that showy sort which is most popular in this world, where people are wont to admire most that which gives them the least trouble to s... ...irm is, I flatter my- self, a little more up in the market than some other people’s names.” “Do you mean to insult the name of Archibald Eglantine, si... ...girls themselves at “The Wells,” knew that Captain and Mrs. Walker were at Kensington Gardens, or were to have the Mar- chioness of Billingsgate’s box...

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...t a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. It must be, if ... ...han our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from ... ...inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only es- cape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them. A... ...ons of miles it was from us—more than forty millions of miles of void. Few people realise the im- mensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material... ...elow in the darkness were Ottershaw and Chertsey and all their hundreds of people, sleeping in peace. He was full of speculation that night about the ... ...hotograph of the planet for the illustrated paper he edited in those days. People in these latter times scarcely realise the abundance and enterprise ... ...ite, firelit smoke, and a long caterpillar of lighted windows, went flying south—clatter, clatter, clap, rap, and it had gone. A dim group of people t... ... He’s at Weybridge. Know the way?” “I do,” I said; and he turned his horse southward again. “Half a mile, you say?” said he. “At most,” I answered, an... ...e, you say?” said he. “At most,” I answered, and pointed over the treetops south- ward. He thanked me and rode on, and we saw them no more. Farther al...

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...thing of his own over and above; a good deal confined, by his infirmities, to his fireside and delighted to be found there any afternoon in the year, from five o?clock on, by such visitors as Brooksmith allowed to come up....

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... his fireside and delighted to be found there any after- noon in the year, from five o’clock on, by such visitors as Brooksmith allowed to come up. Br... ... had been too much liked—liked even by those who didn’t like it—so that as people of that sort never get titles or dotations for the horrid things the... ...ence, in some degree, it is true, of physical infir- mity—that if you wish people to find you at home you must manage not to be out. He had in short a... ... we never were a crowd, never either too many or too few, always the right people with the right people—there must really have been no wrong people at... ... and deep must such a probation have been to him, and he doubtless emerged from it tempered and purified. This was written to a certain extent in his ... ...rooksmith’s following them. I know Mr. Offord used to read passages to him from Montaigne and Saint-Simon, for he read perpetually when alone— when th... ...t she had done up for him with her own hands—being due at a large party up Kensington way. But he had never come home again and had never arrived at t... ...manner disconcert- ing enough. The poor lady was Miss Cutter, who lived in South Audley Street, where she had an “upper half” so concise that it had t... ... Her hansom had waited. “She’ll come.” Lady Wantridge did come. She met in South Audley Street, on the fourteenth, at tea, the ladies whom Mamie had n...

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...per agonies, what convulsive struggles he may take to cast the torture off from him; and then finally the last departure of life itself, and how he li... ...hat had not the force even to die. Was French Royalty, when wrenched forth from its tap- estries in that fashion, on that Sixth of October 1789, 7 Th... ..., Here shalt thou stand and not there; and can treat with it, and make it, from an infinite, a quite finite Constitutional scarecrow,—what is to be lo... ...ciences, like the King’s, and consciences hot- seared, like certain of his People’s: the whole to end in Feasts of Reason and a War of La Vendee! So d... ...the Ministry, and Necker himself whom a brass inscription ‘fastened by the people over his door-lintel’ testifies to be the ‘Ministre adore,’ are dwin... ...r there too the overloaded Ass frightfully recalcitrates. Of Cities in the South full of heats and jealousies; which will end in crossed sabres, Marse... ...est composure; remarking, rather than exclaim- ing, with outspread hands: “People, I die innocent; pray for me.” (See Deux Amis, iv. c. 14, 7; Hist. ... ... as this, Hunger, as we have remarked, can hardly fail. The Provinces, the Southern Cities feel it in their turn; and what it brings: Exasperation, pr... ...late, while there is grain, on highways or the Rhone-waters, over all that South-Eastern region,—where also if Monseigneur d’Artois saw good to break ...