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... need the earnings of child- ren. Hut investigation shows that in New York city, for example, out of the total population, but inO parents need such a... ...nb 245-3 OBITUARIES '57 —Simeon Howard Calhoun, a former mayor of Nebraska city, died in Denver, -Col. on March 4, at the age of 73. Mr. Calhoun was b... ...the first senate of the state of Nebraska, and later as mayor of .Nebraska city. Mr. Calhoun was chairman of the statedemocratic central committee. '5... ... an educator, his rank is high. He took the broader view that the study of ancient languages should have as its purpose the enlarge- ment of the stude... ...a language, and held to the rather questionable doctrine that the study of ancient Greek should be approached through modern Romaic. He adopted a tuto... ...es, interest in the subject being revived after the lOfh century A. D. The ancients wore entirely igno- rant of the soionce of bacliteriolo- gy, thoug... ...ch are the Column of Trajan and the famous "Caloseum at Rome, the Forum at Pompeii, and several views of Preek theatres, notably the one at'Syraouse. ...

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...s and the universal propensity to prepare for and recover from war. Plato’s city-state and Bacon’s island state were too small to be useful as model... ...th no national debt and a huge oil income, the main hospital of its capital city finds people bedded in the halls, set off from the passers-by by sc... ...tion, infanticide and suicide for millennia. Whether it was the Spartans of ancient Greece exposing their babies on the hill letting the elements de... ...he was entranced by the sparkling quilt of lights that covered the sleeping city. On clear windy days he would cut his college classes and drive to G... ...y buried a few thousand people under the lava at Herculeneum and the ash at Pompeii. Krakatau’s eruption in Indonesia in 1883, an eruption that had ... ...oving drive to make the world a better place. “I’m driven by that ancient Native American reminder that ‘We have not inherited this world ... ...f Jews and ‘niggers.’(11) “The free speech of Socrates was muted in ancient Athens, when his gadfly bite forced those who were able—to think...

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...logical problems. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancien... ...blame others. A few years ago an attorney, whose practice earned a half million dollars a year, lost over a million at the tables in Atlantic City a... ...l minstrels stirred desires with the ideas of what boy-girl love could be. The Kama Sutra graphically describes love-making techniques of the ancien... ...tion.‖ --―That sounds so sensible. In the U.S. it seems that so often it is a matter of chance. For example, if we were to look at two inner city b... ...th another type of problem, ‗This air pollution bothers me as much as it does the rest of the family. I think I‘ll take that job away from the city. ... ...ll billions—maybe all of us! The minutes of warning to the Titanic passengers, or the hours of notice to the tsunami victims or the people of Pompei...

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...torical evidence we have to account for the bias of the author. Then with ancient historical documents we have to be concerned with the biases of th... ...cism is also made of the Bible, of the works of Josephus and of all other ancient texts. Sometimes it is a question as to whether the authors to whic... ...on that there is uniformity in nature. Science cannot give certainty. The ancient Greek "scientists" could look at the sky and realize that the sun ... ...istan might come out as best. If it is Catholic then the God-based Vatican City might come out on top. -- ―I see another problem. When a l... ...es. Cut culture—the orchestras, zoos, museums. But keep the limos for the city council members. Just cut health care and furlough employees. ... ...‖ ---―Right. I think it is more likely that God was upset with the city because its professional football team was called the Saints. And the... ...ric cave paintings in France had naked cows, the paintings and statues of Pompeii portray naked people.‖ 456 —―How do you define pornog... ...ests of the artist or the shopper? Was it art or pornography? ―When Pompeii was excavated in the 1860s the Victorian English swept away the vol...

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...s it), I found none so fit as him that peopled the beautiful and far-famed city of Athens, to be set in opposition with the father of the invincible a... ...ns, to be set in opposition with the father of the invincible and renowned city of Rome. Let us hope that Fable may, in what shall fol- low, so submit... ... of whom named Pittheus, grandfather to Theseus, was governor of the small city of the Troezenians, and had the repute of a man of the greatest knowle... ...ry in Crete; that the Cretans, in former times, to acquit themselves of an ancient vow which they had made, were used to send an offering of the first... ...oddess had the name of Epitrapia. When he arrived at Crete, as most of the ancient histori- ans as well as poets tell us, having a clue of thread give... ...ary , which name signifies purification, and the very day of the feast was anciently called Februata; but its name is equivalent to the Greek Lycaea; ... ...ame with the Romans. Of the other two, one was common to the whole family, Pompeii, Manlii, Cornelii, (as with us Greeks, the Heraclidae, and Pelopida...

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...are over the shed. We were being filtered out into the river boat for Jersey City. You may imagine how slowly this filtering proceeded, through the de... ...on which we count too obvious for the purposes of art. The landing at Jersey City was done in a stampede. I had a fixed sense of calamity, and to judg... ...ts to the station of a different railroad. Chicago seemed a great and gloomy city. I remember having sub- scribed, let us say sixpence, towards its re... ...to the nature of man; rather, indeed, honourable, since it depends on wrongs ancient like the race, and not personal to him who cherishes the indignat... ... the bend; and Monterey itself is cosily ensconced beside the barb. Thus the ancient capital of California faces across the bay, while the Pacific Oce... ...s, no moving thing. I have never been in any place that seemed so dreamlike. Pompeii is all in a bustle with visitors, and its antiquity and strangene... ...r capital; and yet both it and they hold themselves apart and preserve their ancient customs and something of their ancient air. The town, when I was ...

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...the Carthaginians in war, the other totally ruined and destroyed them; the city of T roy was the first time taken by Hercules for the horses promised ... ...ercome their enemies. Quintus Sertorius was of a noble family, born in the city of Nursia, in the country of the Sabines; his father died when he was ... ...e Roman gen- eral, and wintered in the country of the Celtiberians, in the city of Castulo, where the soldiers enjoying great plenty, and growing inso... ... there was a man, named Diopithes, at Sparta, who had a great knowledge of ancient oracles, and was thought particularly skillful and clever in all po... ...ian expeditions against them. Out of the fore- sight of which it was, that anciently Lycurgus, in three sev- eral laws, forbade them to make many wars... ...ficient to recover the glory of it, and to raise it to 82 V olume Two its ancient greatness. For as we see in human bodies, long used to a very stric... ...y pleasant seat at Arpi, he had also a farm near Naples, and another about Pompeii, but neither of any great value. The portion of his wife, Terentia,...

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... will, in one of the before men tioned steamboats, in eight hours. What a city Lyons is! T alk about people feeling, at certain unlucky times, as if ... ...tten as old cheeses, and as thickly peopled. All up the hills that hem the city in, these houses swarm; and the mites inside were lolling out of the w... ... before us, that same afternoon, the broken bridge of Avignon, and all the city baking in the sun; yet with an under done pie crust, battlemented wall... ...retched from house to house. Bright stuffs and handkerchiefs, curiosities, ancient frames of carved wood, old chairs, ghostly tables, saints, virgins,... ...istian spirit may dictate the observance. Hard by the cathedral stands the ancient Palace of the Popes, of which one portion is now a common jail, and... ... anecdote, quite appropriate to itself, connected with its adventures. ‘An ancient tradition relates, that in 1441, a nephew of Pierre de Lude, the Po... ...ful and impressive is it, viewed from the ghostly ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii! Stand at the bottom of the great market place of Pompeii, and look... ... pleasantly, at noon, 159 Charles Dickens in the open air, by the gate of Pompeii, the neighbouring rivulet supplies thick ice for our wine. But, the... ...thick upon the summit of Vesuvius, or that we have been on foot all day at Pompeii, or that croakers maintain that strangers should not be on the moun...

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...st as we are accused of being too apt to think that Paris is the celestial city. This is by no means the case, fortunately for those per- sons who tak... ...nd he started, one rainy morning in mid-September, for the charming little city of Tours, from which point it seemed possible to make a variety of fru... ...s that it is surrounded by a land of fruits. It is a very agreeable little city; few towns of its size are more ripe, more complete, or, I should supp... ... is contradictory. If the tenement se- lected for this honour could not be ancient and embrowned, it should at least have been detached. There is a ch... ... barrack which is ornamented with a rugged mediaeval tower, a relic of the ancient fortifications, known to the Tourangeaux of today as the Tour de Gu... ...re de Tours. All this part of the exterior of the cathedral is very brown, ancient, Gothic, grotesque; Balzac calls the whole place “a desert of stone... ... to a pil- grimage to the strange old hill town of Les Baux, the mediaeval Pompeii, of which I shall give myself the plea- sure of speaking. The eveni... ...he weather was not prom- ising, but it proved a good day for the mediaeval Pompeii; a gray, melancholy, moist, but rainless, or almost rainless day, w... ...hey had lately been papered and painted: in this respect, at the mediaeval Pompeii, they were rather a discord. They were, at any rate, the newest, fr...

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...nd a small island, recognised in 1801 by Captain Crespo, and marked in the ancient Span- ish maps as Rocca de la Plata, the meaning of which is The Si... ...iles, its undulating line of mountains being occasionally relieved by some ancient ruin. The 5th of February we at last entered the Gulf of Aden, a pe... ...t which shelters here and there some verdant date-trees; once an important city, containing six public markets, and twenty-six mosques, and whose wall... ...,” said I, “this sea is quoted as one of the worst, and in the time of the ancients, if I am not mis- taken, its reputation was detestable.” “Detestab... ...on again, long lines of sunken walls and broad, deserted streets—a perfect Pompeii escaped beneath the waters. Such was the sight that Captain Nemo br... ... an oriental town, with innumerable mosques and mina- rets; there a fallen city thrown to the earth, as it were, by some convulsion of nature. The who... ...their encampment. After examin- 226 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ing this city of morses, I began to think of returning. It was eleven o’clock, and, ...

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...d by my earliest footsteps, are completely lost to my memory; and of those ancient walls among which I began to breathe, I retain no recollection more... ... as his brother had already been, was sent to Glasgow University, in which city their Mother had connections. His brother and he were now all that rem... ... of an exact scholar, or technical proficient at any time in either of the ancient literatures. But he freely read in Greek and Latin, as in various m... ...h the set of the air going south- ward,—southward, and so draping with the city-smoke not you but the city. Here for hours would Coleridge talk, conce... ...ticking ostrich- like your head into fallacies on Earth, equally as by the ancient and by all conceivable methods,—is forever for- bidden. High-treaso... ... Malaga; has to run ashore at a place called Fuengirola, not far from that city;—the guardships seiz- ing his vessels, so soon as he is disembarked. T... ...ozzuoli, to Baiae, round the Promontory of Sorrento;”—above all, “twice to Pompeii,” where the elegance and classic simplicity of Ancient Housekeeping... ...usual wonders,—the Paestan Temples being to me much the most valuable. But Pompeii and all that it has yielded, especially the Fresco Paintings, have ... ...d not find unless in the great original works from which these sketches at Pompeii were taken. Yet with all my much increased rever- ence for the Gree...

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...ch a pre- tension had once been made for Jerusalem, and once for a Grecian city; and both pretensions had become ridiculous, as the figure of the plan... ...rnings I went with the rest of my family to church: it was a church on the ancient model of England, having aisles, galleries, 12 organ, all things a... ...in this instance greatly aided to my own feelings by the alliance with the ancient phantom of the forest mountain in North Germany. The playfulness of... ...ne that the hand of man has cre- ated, is represented, on the authority of ancient traditions, to have uttered at sunrise, or soon after as the sun’s ... ... reason unknown to me, and much to my astonishment, he located his capital city in the high latitude of 65 deg. N. That fact being once published and ... ...it was necessary to know the original and secret name of the belea- guered city; and this, therefore, was religiously concealed. 100 Thomas de Quince... ...a fine build- ing,” said this Jesuitical guide,—as if it had been some new Pompeii, some Luxor or Palmyra, that he had unexpectedly lit upon amongst t...

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...f the Spanish knight who, while Fernando and Isabel lay before the Moorish city of Granada, galloped out of the camp, in full view of besiegers and be... ... in full view of besiegers and be- sieged, and fastened to the gate of the city with his dagger a copy of the Ave Maria. It was a wildly brave action,... ... the true weight. Such duty kept the senti- nel at his post at the gate of Pompeii, even when the stifling dust of ashes came thicker and thicker from... ... how woman’s ministrations of mercy may be carried on, not only within the city, but on the borders of the camp itself—’the lady with the lamp’, whose... ...tangle them from the fable that has adhered to them; and, at any rate, the ancient Greeks believed them, and gathered strength and nobleness from dwel... ...n them the foremost parts in that army with which David was to fulfill the ancient promises to his people. There were his three nephews, Joab, the fer... ...ese stories may not be true; but that they should have been current in the ancient world shows what was the char- acter of the man of whom they were t...

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...l, after the fashion of Peacock’s (and Mr. Mallock’s) develop- ment of the ancient dialogue; but this encumbered me with unnecessary characters and th... ...aces of the thing that perhaps might be, to the pro- jection of a State or city “worth while,” to designing upon the sheet of our imaginations the pic... ...t Western Repub- lic, Hertzka’s Freeland, Cabet’s Icaria, and Campanella’s City of the Sun, are built, just as we shall build, upon that, upon the hyp... ...ntrusive to forbid a central garden plot or peristyle, such as one sees in Pompeii, within the house walls, and it is almost as difficult to deny a li... ...this with him and that; and my first wanderings along the brown streets of Pompeii, an experience I had antici- pated with a strange intensity, was sh... ...the gorge, and old memories turn us off the road down the steep ruin of an ancient mule track towards it. It is our first reminder that Utopia too mus... ...in its ascent. In the Modern Utopia he will have set himself to change the ancient law. No longer will it be that failures must suffer and perish lest... ...ion 6 ection 6 ection 6 ection 6 ection 6 London will be the first Utopian city centre we shall see. We shall find ourselves there with not a little a...

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...t of an immemorial sleep to find himself in a vast chamber, in a great and ancient house, a great and ancient house high amidst frozen and lifeless mo... ...eadership is disputed. The darkness even of the room you are in is full of ancient and discarded but quite unsubjugated powers and purposes…. They thr... ...pleasing thoughts. He addressed the little car as a person; he referred to ancient disputes and temperamental incom- patibilities. His anger betrayed ... ... it, saw the Romans and the Saxons through, and for a time it was a Norman city. Now it is pasture for sheep. Latest as yet is Salisbury,— 84 The Sec... ...en bank there just coming into sight must be Old Sarum. The little ancient city that faded away when Salisbury lifted its spire into the world. We wil... ...completeness of Salisbury. From the very beginning it had been a cathedral city; it was essentially and purely that. The church at its best, in the fu... ...art of Bath you will find yourselves in just the same world you visited at Pompeii. Bath is Pompeii overlaid by Jane Austen’s England.” 137 H G Wells...

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...he Sun in scorn of mortal power Have piled: dome, pyramid, and pinnacle, A city of death, distinct with many a tower _105 And... ... _105 And wall impregnable of beaming ice. Yet not a city, but a flood of ruin Is there, that from the boundaries of the sky Rol... ... _70 12. 12. 12. 12. 12. Sudden, from out that city sprung A light that made the earth grow red; T wo flames that each wit... ...gation of his tiny craft with eagerness—or repeating with wild energy “The Ancient Mariner”, and Southey’s “Old Woman of Berkeley”; but those who do w... ...es, as once before it flew, O’er thine isles depopulate, And all is in its ancient state, Save where many a palace gate ... ...e frail bark of this lone being) Pass, to other sufferers fleeing, And its ancient pilot, Pain, Sits beside the helm again. Other flowering isles must... ...LES. O NAPLES. The Author has connected many recollections of his visit to Pompeii and Baiae with the enthusiasm excited by the intelli- gence of the ... ... my suspended blood; I felt that Earth out of her deep heart spoke— Line 1 Pompeii.—Shelley’s note. 146 V olume Two I felt, but heard not:—through wh...

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... the Old Man should be roused. All the world over, even to this day, these ancient inevitable taboos can be traced.) And now instead of caves came hut... ...om the Franciscans silenced—of his kindred. Such a man again in an earlier city was Hero of Alexandria, who knew of the power of steam nineteen hundre... ...ountry-side and concentrating in hitherto unthought- of masses about a few city centres, food was coming to them over enormous distances upon a scale ... ...ut us to fragments; if I could turn it into the machinery that lights this city, it could keep Edinburgh brightly lit for a week. But at present no ma... ...aths, walks in the summer sunlight and tales by the winter fire- side, the ancient sequence of hope and acts and age perenni- ally renewed, eddying on... ...licately beautiful facade, along the South Bank of the Thames opposite the ancient dignity of Somerset House. Such thought was interwoven with the ver... ...ris and the centre of Berlin into blazing miniatures of the destruction of Pompeii. And the news, when it did come, came attenuated. ‘We heard there h...

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...thing is hidden from their inquisition, and their families mutely rule our city. Perhaps George expected, when he entered Mr. Higgs’s apart- ment, to ... ...hearers: beautiful rides, all enlivened with martial splendour; a rare old city, with strange costumes and wonderful architecture, to delight the eyes... ... entertaining peers and peeresses actu- ally came to Osborne’s ears in the City. Those who know the present Lieutenant-General Sir George Tufto, K.C.B... ...ith something like regret. The old troop- ers were glad to recognize their ancient officer and dandle the little colonel. Colonel Crawley found dining... ... kept away from the gloomy spot, where the bones of the descen- dant of an ancient line of knights and gentlemen lay, awaiting their final consignment... ... of such good blood as the Malonys or Molloys, let me tell ye, she’s of an ancient family that any nobleman might be proud to marry into.” But before ... ...ck velvet; there is a little banqueting-room taken from Sallust’s house at Pompeii, and painted by Cosway—a little private kitchen, in which every sau...

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...ers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always wandering here and there from my rooms in Covent-garde... ... Aldgate Pump, and had got past the Saracen’s Head (with an ignominious rash of posting bills disfiguring his swarthy countenance), and had strolled u... ...hey had sung an hymn,’ Some one (not in a beautiful garment) went up into the Mount of Olives. It made my heart ache to think of this miserable trifli... ...xpediency of lunching at that establishment. He beheld nothing to eat, but butter in various forms, slightly charged with jam, and languidly frizzling... ... had closed his eyelids under a heavy blow, but was going immediately to open them, shake his head, and ‘come up smiling.’ Oh what this large dark man... ...e aunt (a rigor- ous reduced gentlewoman who has the charge of offices), and I perceive that worthy relative to poke him in the side, with the corruga... ... it is kept by Giovanni Carlavero. I touch my hat to the figure in the cloak, and pass in, and draw a stool to a little table. The lamp (just such ano...

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...pened slowly, to show the hound, his nose white with milk, in charge of an ancient of days clad in a blue linen ephod curi- ously gathered on breast a... ...to the dead fields behind. “Somehow,” said Sophie, sitting exhausted on an ancient well-curb—”somehow one wouldn’t insult these lovely old things by f... ...om were real oak. Don’t you like us exploring things together— better than Pompeii?” George turned once more to look at the view. “Eight hun- dred acr... ... Sophie always feared he would break his neck. The path was undoubtedly an ancient right of way, and at 10.45 P.M. on Saturdays Skim remembered it was... ...ay General Call (all Mark Boats) out for: Jane Eyre, W. 6990 . Port Rupert—City of Mexico Santander, W. 6514 . . Gobi Desert—Manila Y. Edmundsun, E. 9... ...els in this column. BEGINNER—On still days the air above a large inhabited city being slightly warmer—i.e., thinner—than the atmo- sphere of the surro... ...ng-irons, winches, haw- sers, snaps, shackles and mooring ropes, for lawn, city, and public installations. Detachable under-cars, aluminum or stamped ...

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...ut on Sambo’s arm, as happy and as handsome a girl as any in the whole big city of London. Both he and coachman agreed on this point, and so did her f... ...est of all Dr. Swishtail’s young gentlemen. His parent was a grocer in the city: and it was bruited abroad that he was admitted into Dr. Swishtail’s a... ... We call him Figs because his father is a Grocer—Figs & Rudge, Thames St., City—I think as he fought for me you ought to buy your Tea & Sugar at his f... ...troduced by the patronage of his grandfather, Lord Binkie, by studying the ancient and modern orators with great assidu- ity, and by speaking unceasin... ... Miss Wirt their gov- erness, that raw-boned V estal. They took her to the ancient concerts by way of a treat, and to the oratorio, and to St. Paul’s ... ... gusty, raw day at the end of April—the rain whipping the pavement of that ancient street where the old Slaughters’ Coffee-house was once situated—Geo... ...ck velvet; there is a little banqueting-room taken from Sallust’s house at Pompeii, and painted by Cosway—a little private kitchen, in which every sau...

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...rmless, who had tumbled down and lay in an un- natural posture, the naked, ancient wooden sculpture of the body on the naked, living rock. It was one ... ...are ter- race of cobbled pavement, that was worn like the threshold of the ancient church. Round the terrace ran a low, broad wall, the coping of the ... ...truding jaw, which, with his gesticula- tions, always makes me think of an ancient, aristocratic mon- key. The signore is a gentleman, and the last, s... ...he south, to the lake and the mountain oppo- site, seem more terrible than Pompeii in their silence and utter seclusion. The grape hyacinths flower in... ...day afternoon, drinking Bitter Campari and watch- ing the swarm of Italian city-men drink and talk vivaciously, I saw that here the life was still viv...

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...po- Formio and saw the white-faced inn at which Napoleon dis- membered the ancient republic of V enice and bartered away this essential part of Italy ... ...ey are the ruins of Dusseldorf, Cologne, Berlin, or suchlike modern German city. Anxious as I am to be a systematic Philistine, to express my preferen... ...oooo—Bang! One would be irresistibly reminded of a Sunday afternoon in the city of London, if it were not for those unmeaning explosions. I went to th... ...and some were down. And it was as still and empty as a summer afternoon in Pompeii. No train has come into Arras for two long years now. We lunched in... ...ine what the listening Germans made of it. We passed the old gates of that city of fear, still tooting vehemently, and then with shoul- ders eloquent ... ...per, the English would have fought on passionately to restore her. That is ancient history now. Now the English still feel fraternal and fraternally p...

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...nour in the fighting tradition of Englishmen. He was a fair linguist, this ancient survivor of the Liberating armies. A trick of smoothing his long wh... ...n in love. He had hardly ever spoken to a woman, beyond his mother and the ancient negress of the household, whose wrinkled skin was the colour of cin... ... gone away somewhere else. But one evening, as I was hastening towards the city, I saw again some- body in the porch. It was not the madman; it was th... ... like besotted revellers. At the corner we stopped a four-wheeler, and the ancient driver looked round from his box with morose scorn at our efforts t... ...e mainland, across twenty miles of discoloured muddy water, there stands a city whose name, let us say, is Horta. But the most interesting characteris... ...und floor containing the famous collection of bronzes from Herculaneum and Pompeii: that mar- vellous legacy of antique art whose delicate perfec- tio... ...n fact. Only unlike the magnates of ancient Rome, he had no affairs of the city to call him away from these moderate delights. He had no affairs at 2...

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...ill fall in love with a man because another woman has chosen him; like the city madams, poor things, who copy our milli- nery, and hope thereby to acq... ...ac, exploring the recesses of her drawers and boxes (known respectively as Pompeii and Herculaneum), having brought to light a fair piece of cambric w... ..., and wear a mask on entering into this game of grim earnest, where, as in ancient Sparta, you must snatch your prize without being detected if you wo... ...ith every sauce this hour or more. It is one of the privileges of the good city of Paris that anybody may be born, or live, or die there without attra...

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...sceptible to cold; and, after duly dwelling on the marvels of Vesuvius and Pompeii, the travellers went on to Rome. There the sculptures were Coley’s ... ...d party at home. I feel as if it were very selfish to be in this beautiful city, and to have been spending so much money at Florence. Neither did Joan... ...t. I am heartily glad that you should acquire languages, modern as well as ancient. You know I have often pressed the former on your and Jem’s notice,... ...rhaps transferring himself to Manchester, Liverpool, London, or some large city, where there was need of mission work among the neglected. His father ... ... there was need of mission work among the neglected. His father was on the City of London Charter Commis- sion, and was in London from November to Feb... ...ative mind a false im- pression, it may be for ever. ‘Remember, we have no ancient customs nor time-hallowed usages to make up for personal indifferen... ... Preserver of all. ‘Viewed indeed from that position which was occupied by ancient philosophers, the existing contrarieties between na- tions might we...

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...ctly up the ascent, between houses, some meanly modern, some picturesquely ancient, with stone steps outside to the upper story, but all with far too ... ...Winifred as very like the mouth of a well, and the paper showed patches of ancient damp. One maid was hastily laying the fire, the other shaking out t... ... every- thing proposed to her was distasteful, and her answers were in the ancient surly style. If attempts were made to probe the malady, her reserve... ...tching its mailed arms into the sea—the roofs of the knightly old monastic city rising in steps from the bay crowded with white sails—and even those a... ... bad Cice- rone. I am sure Sophy could never have done either V esuvius or Pompeii without his arrangements; and as long as he had a victim for his ca...

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... of baseness: and yet this was the brief analysis of a devotee amongst the ancient Ro- mans. Now, considering that the word religion is originally Rom... ...ustered to such a derivation: but the last of the three is conclusive. The ancients never did view morality as a mode of obligation: I affirm this per... ...hronism. It is the anachro- nism of unconsciously reflecting back upon the ancient reli- gions of darkness, and as if essential to all religions, feat... ... together with all the dependencies of Rome, and, briefly, every state and city that adorned the imperial islands of the Mediterranean, or that glitte... ...ty by re modellings of old forms. It is remarkable, indeed, that this very city of Alexandria founded and matured this new principle of remodelling ap... ...hy and criticism. And, con- sidering the activity of this great commercial city and port, which was meant to act, and did act, as a centre of commu- n... ...s, that in Armenia, or in a Graeco-Russian monastery on Mount Athos, or in Pompeii, &c., some authors hitherto [Greek text] may yet be con- cealed; an...

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...ame veins, though there be not so much blood in them, as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labor, which men take in ... ... for it is in effect the thing, which figured in that strange fiction of the ancient poets, which seemeth not to be with out mystery; nay, and to hav... ...in, and how, they have degenerate; but yet ask counsel of both times; of the ancient time, what is best; and of the latter time, what is fittest. See... ...ey to his inquiry. Let him keep also a diary. Let him not stay long, in one city or town; more or less as the place deserveth, but not long; nay, whe... ...re or less as the place deserveth, but not long; nay, when he stayeth in one city or town, let him change his lodging from one end and part of the tow... ...e, he said, He could not fiddle, but yet he could make a small town, a great city. These words (holpen a little with a metaphor) may express two diff... ...riting to Atticus of Pompey his preparation against Caesar, saith, Consilium Pompeii plane Themistocleum est; putat enim, qui mari potitur, eum rerum...

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...ace of five and twenty years, after running a bright career in the capital city of his native land, and challenging notice from the throne, had retire... ...ew who pro- fessed themselves followers in the retinue and equipage of the ancients, as creatures of a lower race. Boileau, as a mere imitator and pro... ...beyance; an effort of self-conquest realized in more cases than one by the ancient fathers, both Greek and Latin, with regard to the profane classics.... ...less they had found it fuming upwards like incense to the Pagan deities in ancient times, from altars erected at every turning upon all the paths of m... ...rom its sexual character, by some terrific convulsions of the house or the city, naturally it assumed the style of action suited to these circumstance... ...er what is picturesque, or the arresting what is fugitive, was born in the city of Lon- don on the 21st day of May, in the memorable year 1688; 1 abou... ...ristianity, the fall of the amphitheatre at Fidenae, or the destruction of Pompeii, had presented the same problem at the Lisbon earthquake. Nay, it i...

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... horses are in very good condition.” “I am glad. Do you know, I love those ancient French cha- teaux and farms in one, where salon windows look on pou... ...t certificate for his 100 The Egoist general chances in life. I know of a City of London mer- chant of some sort, and I know a firm of lawyers, who w... ... have to practise much simulation; they are in their way losers like their ancient mothers. It is the palpable and material of them still which they a... ...ger attentiveness, if the motive could have been con- ceived. Besides, the ancients were not decorous; they did not, as we make our moderns do, write ... ...he lava might overflow him and take the mould of him, like the sentinel at Pompeii, if he’s of the true stuff.” “He may have caught cold, he may have ... ...ttachment to an ancient port-wine, lawyer, doc- tor, squire, rosy admiral, city merchant, the classic scholar is he whose blood is most nuptial to the... ... Eleanor and Isabel. Laetitia grieved for him. Sun-rays on a pest-stricken city, she thought, were like the smile of his face. She believed that he de...

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...e you the fact is exactly the reverse, and I have com pletely baulked the ancient proverb that “a rolling stone gath ers no moss;” and in my progres... ...overb that “a rolling stone gath ers no moss;” and in my progress to this city I have collected such a weight of obligations and acknowledgment—I hav... ... of saying a few words with reference to some body else. There is in this city a gentleman who, at the reception of one of my books—I well remember i... ...nds autographically, as if no ocean rolled between us. I came here to this city eager to see him, and [lying his hand upon Irving’s shoulder ] here he... ...they have not been? Is there no Bracebridge Hall in exist ence? Has it no ancient shades or quiet streets? In bygone times, when Irving left that Hal... ...n the rail way, as I came here. In the same carriage with me there sat an ancient gentleman (I feel no delicacy in alluding to him, for I know that h... ...and the streets of Rome; another’s to the rebuilt and repeopled streets of Pompeii; another’s to the touching history of the fireside where the Caxton...

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... la dies in the flash and stir and splendor of noble palaces and grim and ancient castles. CHAPTER II NOW CAME GREAT NEWS! Stunning news—joyous news... ...ou know, without intending anything improper, but just out of trade habit, ancient policy, petrified custom, loyalty to—to—hang it, I can’t find the r... ... at last—yes. We would make a plunge at the Four Hundred, and pull in some ancient lineage, venerable, holy, ineffable, mellow with the antiquity of a... ...away when the surface diggings gave out. In one place, where a busy little city with banks and newspapers and fire companies and a mayor and aldermen ... ... Wash ington, died yesterday at the house of Mr. John Leavenworth in this city, at the venerable age of 95 years. He was in the full possession of hi... ...ng comes out. He hurts his foot in a rut two thousand years old in exhumed Pompeii, and presently, when staring at one of the cinder like corpses unea... ...hem now, and kindly send me a marked copy. My ad dress is simply New York City—I have no other that is per manent and not transient. I will correct ...

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..., which I don’t, it would be for Fiddler’s Ranch; though it is now a great city called Violinia, with everything like everything else everywhere.” “No... ...their hearts if I uttered a profane word against it. I would as soon be an ancient Egyptian drowning a cat as move a stone of it. It is a lovely sort ... ...ient Egyptian drowning a cat as move a stone of it. It is a lovely sort of ancient Pompeii, good to look at now and then, but not to be bound down to.... ...ptian drowning a cat as move a stone of it. It is a lovely sort of ancient Pompeii, good to look at now and then, but not to be bound down to.” “Like ... ...ests on the banks of the Danube. When the quaint old semi-oriental-looking city came in sight and the train stopped, the neat English-look- ing carria... ...le hall, pillared in dif- ferent colours, rich and rare, with portraits of ancient Contes and Contessas on the walls, up a magnificent stone stair wit... ...young man to sub-edit the Lacustrian Intelligencer at Jonesville, a rising city on Lake Erie. I thought it would be worth while to look at it, especia...

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... Round by the Cornice to Genoa. Genoa Mole and Harbour. Quarantine Ground. City there; terrace gardens blushing with the bella donna. Here, Porto Fino... ...doleful bell was throbbing, jerking, tolling, as if the Plague were in the city and the dead-carts were going round. Everything was bolted and barred ... ...mals, no rare plants or flowers, no natu- ral or artificial wonders of the ancient world—all taboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly Sou... ... its bright association with some beautiful form of growth or life. In the city, it developed only foul stale smells, and was a sickly, lukewarm, dirt... ...d St Paul’s.’ He emptied and put down the wine-glass half-way through this ancient civic toast, and took up the box. It was an iron box some two feet ... ...e. How the trials were made in the presence of a board of six, of whom two ancient members were too blind to see it, two other ancient members were to... ...ages from Switzerland; morsels of tesselated pavement from Herculaneum and Pompeii, like petrified minced veal; ashes out of tombs, and lava out of V ...

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... Round by the Cornice to Genoa. Genoa Mole and Harbour. Quarantine Ground. City there; terrace gardens blushing with the bella donna. Here, Porto Fino... ...doleful bell was throbbing, jerking, tolling, as if the Plague were in the city and the dead-carts were going round. Everything was bolted and barred ... ...mals, no rare plants or flowers, no natu- ral or artificial wonders of the ancient world—all taboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly Sou... ... its bright association with some beautiful form of growth or life. In the city, it developed only foul stale smells, and was a sickly, lukewarm, dirt... ...d St Paul’s.’ He emptied and put down the wine-glass half-way through this ancient civic toast, and took up the box. It was an iron box some two feet ... ...e. How the trials were made in the presence of a board of six, of whom two ancient members were too blind to see it, two other ancient members were to... ...ages from Switzerland; morsels of tesselated pavement from Herculaneum and Pompeii, like petrified minced veal; ashes out of tombs, and lava out of V ...

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...ough, when he was one of them—and then to enchant the boys by relations of ancient exploits, especially his friend Spencer climbing up, and en- gravin... ...g lava like anything.” “But Mount V esuvius didn’t spout till it overthrew Pompeii.” “Murder!” cried Norman, “I forgot! It’s lucky you put me in mind.... ...g up a carcase, and as soon as they have done it, you shall hear me say my ancient geography, and then we will do a nice bit of T asso; and if we have... ...othing could be better news for Dr. May, who had never lost a grain of the ancient school-party-loyalty that is part of the nature of the English gent... ... said Margaret. CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XV The city’s golden spire it was, When hope and health were strongest; But now it... ...ent to his own room, for such rest as sorrow, sympa- thy, and the wakening city, would permit him. When the house was astir in the morning, and the do... ...twenty-two hours I have been here!” “What would you say if you were in the city?” “Ah! there’s no talking of it; but if I had been a fashionable Londo...