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... to follow the sea for a living. In the year 1684 he happened to hear of a Spanish ship which had been cast away near the Bahama Islands, and which wa... ...he expenses of his voyage. But, before he returned, he was told of another Spanish ship, or galleon, which had been east away near Porto de la Plata. ... ...h attention, and thought this a fine opportunity to fill his treasury with Spanish gold. He appointed William Phips to be captain of a vessel, called ... ... nearly two years in the West Indies, endeavoring to find the wreck of the Spanish ship. But the sea is so wide and deep that it is no easy matter to ... ...couraged, and gave up all hope of making their fortunes by discovering the Spanish wreck. They wanted to compel Captain Phips to turn pirate. There wa... ...“There began the mischief which now threatens to rend asun der the British empire. The sedi tious harangues of demagogues in Faneuil Hall have made r...

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...fers. Her incomparable attractions of mind and person exercise the natural empire of beauty. But she will none of them. I call her the Fair Suicide. S... ...ow the incense of a victim to heighten her charms; like the treasure-laden Spanish galleon for whom, on her voyage home from South American waters, ou...

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... first, under the magnanimous King of Denmark, during his wars against the Empire; afterwards under the invincible King of Sweden, during his Majestie... ...tain, being, as I suppose, in the situation you describe, retired from the Spanish service also?” “You are to consider, my lord, that your Spaniard,” ... ...use there was an unco difference between an anointed King of Syria and our Spanish colonel, whom I could have blown away like the peeling of an ingan,... ... the meeting of Chiefs resembled not a little those an- cient Diets of the Empire, where the smallest frey-graf, who possessed a castle perched upon a... ...eign prince, and a seat according to his rank among the dignitaries of the Empire. The followers of the different leaders were separately ar- ranged a... ...he King of Sweden, and, after his example, even the haughty Princes of the Empire, had found themselves fain, frequently to compound with their dignit... ...and the other cure—a prop- 211 Sir Walter Scott erty belonging neither to Spanish pike, brown-bill, partizan, halberd, Lochaber-axe, or indeed any ot...

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...t widowed Dame de Fontenai, brown beautiful woman, daughter of Cabarus the Spanish merchant,—has softened the red bristly counte- nance; pleading for ... ...and Host over the Western Scotch Whigs; Jamaica Planters got Dogs from the Spanish Main to hunt their Maroons with: France too is bescoured with a Dev... ...210 The French Revolution - V olume Three of the most scarped description; Spanish Field-officerism struck mute at such cat-o’-mountain spirit, the ca... ...g round, the Citoyens, in frugal Love- feast, sit there. Night in her wide empire sees nothing similar. O my brothers, why is the reign of Brotherhood... ...! Deputy Feraud, stretching out his hands, baring his bosom scarred in the Spanish wars, obtests vainly: threatens and resists vainly. Rebellious Depu... ...al Sin; Earth, Heaven, and thou Outer Limbo, which men name Hell! Does the Empire of Impos- ture waver? Burst there, in starry sheen updarting, Light-...

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...n the army, that he was eldest son of the hereditary Grand Bootjack of the Empire, and the heir to that honor of which his ancestors had been very pro... ...ishments, that he was not. I am of one of the most ancient families in the empire; I have had my education at a famous school, and a famous university... ...elephant, and a mole-hill, as we know in King William’s case, can upset an empire. When Tusher in his courtly way (at which Harry Esmond always chafed... ...nch, and Italian poets came under his eyes, and he had a smattering of the Spanish tongue likewise, besides the ancient languages, of which, at least ...

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...!’ said the Queen. ‘See what you say when he has cased those fair hands in Spanish gloves. You ladies should know better than to fall out with a merce... ...ch guest found at his or her place a beautiful fragrant pair of gloves, in Spanish leather, on the back of which was once more embroidered, in all her... ...lked up to James, ‘I have found my signet. It was left in the finger of my Spanish glove, which I had not worn since the beginning of winter. Thanks t... ...rb the little seignoralties that lay so thick in these border lands of the Empire; and what he desired above all, was to keep them from either passing...

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... people; and his ideal of a fine showy clever rule was that of the superseded Empire. “Paris is much less attractive than in the days of the Emperor; h... ... want, and there’ll be a dark cloud over Paris, our Paris, till they get the Empire back again.” Among Mrs. Luce’s visitors on Sunday afternoons was a... ... and innocent voice. He had some charming rooms in Paris, decorated with old Spanish altar lace, the envy of his female friends, who declared that his... ... in it—you can’t do anything in London. No Louis Quinze—nothing of the First Empire; nothing but their eternal Queen Anne. It’s good for one’s bed roo... ...hat’s the positive side? What’s the virtuous? What have you got besides your Spanish lace and your Dresden teacups?” “I’ve a comfortable little fortun... ...already with Osmond, to inspect the furniture, which was of the First French Empire, and especially to ad mire the clock (which he didn’t really admi... ...y. “Yes—I like you.” They had walked to the chimney piece where the big cold Empire clock was perched; they were well within the room and beyond obser...

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... shilling)—the young stockbrokers used to tell us of im- mense bargains in Spanish, Greek, and Columbians, that Brough made. Hoff had nothing to do wi... ...—as ever had confided to them the wealth of this mighty capital and famous empire. Y ou found, sir, sobriety, regularity, and decorum; no profane song...

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...rother, I thank heaven, are no slaves. We are not to be locked up like the Spanish and Italian wives. We have as good a right to liberty as yourselves... ...d. From Thee * all human actions take their springs, The rise of empires and the fall of kings! See the vast Theatre of Time display’d,...

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... Jotuns. The friendly Powers again, as Summer-heat, the Sun, are Gods. The empire of this Uni- verse is divided between these two; they dwell apart, i... ...the brood of the Jotuns. The savages of the Ladrones Islands too (say some Spanish voyag- ers) thought Fire, which they never had seen before, was a d... ...nish- ment and incredulity of Atahualpa the Peruvian King; how he made the Spanish Soldier who was guarding him scratch Dios on his thumb-nail, that h... ...nane. Allah withdraws his hand from it, and it ceases to be. The universal empire of Allah, presence everywhere of an un- speakable Power, a Splendor,... ...from what is uttered by the outer part. The outer is of the day, under the empire of mode; the outer passes away, in swift endless changes; the inmost... ...d had ceased individually to be. Europe has made much; great cities, great empires, encyclopaedias, creeds, bodies of opinion and practice: but it has... ...inanity and futility; at bottom, he was not at all. Let us honor the great empire of Silence, once more! The boundless treasury which we do not jingle...

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...distinct stories of that order, in any solitary frontier between two great empires, as here, for in- stance, or in the desert between Syria and the Eu... ... York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Perth, Glasgow—expressing the grandeur of the empire by the antiquity of its towns, and the grandeur of the mail establis... ...ch it ministers, by the commerce which it supports, by the grandeur of the empire in which, though far from the largest, it is the most influential st... ...hat she had suffered some deep personal affliction in connection with this Spanish war. Here now was the case of one, who, having formerly suf- fered,... ...oorer, could not in the Pagan era support the expense of maintaining great empires in cold latitudes. Her purse would not reach that cost. Wherever sh... ...t well!) from the republican era. The aulic spirit was propa- gated by the Empire, but from a republican root. Having paid his court, you will suppose...

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..., if not much of the danger. He saw actually, and with his own eyes, those Spanish cavaliers and ladies whom he had 37 Thackeray beheld in imaginatio... ...on, the Marquis of Villadarias fired off another, which those who knew the Spanish thought rather the best of the two; and of this number was Harry Es... ...am sure he has a hundred things to tell us. And I’m jealous already of the Spanish ladies. Was that a beautiful nun at Cadiz that you rescued from the... ...al Collares? ’Tis better than your heady port: we got it out of one of the Spanish ships that came from Vigo last year: my mother bought it at Southam... ... festivities were taking place at which our Duke, now made a Prince of the Empire, was entertained by the King of the Romans and his nobility. His Gra... ...round, having a force supe- rior to the English, and besides the excellent Spanish and Ba- varian troops, the whole Maison-du-Roy with him, the most s...

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...adesman’s face. He looked at himself in the glass over an old clock of the Empire, and was contem- plating the general effect, when the rustle of her ... ...s not reinstated in the Commissariat till 1823, when he was needed for the Spanish war. In 1830 he took office as the fourth wheel of the coach, at th... ...Hulot dated her Hector’s first infidelities from the grand fi- nale of the Empire. Thus, for twelve years the Baroness had filled the part in her hous... ..., had overlaid the coats of all his servants with silver and gold, and the Empire included a hundred and thirty-three Departments. These ornaments, us... ...oidery department, might have set up in business on her own ac- count, the Empire collapsed. The olive-branch of peace held out by the Bourbons did no... ...completely at home, and spoilt it by producing a dress of the style of the Empire or of her old Lorraine costume. A thirty-franc bonnet came out a rag...

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...d refused. But she appealed to the honour of all the princes of the German Empire in behalf of her son, and appealed so well that it was accepted, and... ...then in his fifteenth year, was married to Catherine, the daughter of the Spanish monarch, with great rejoicings and bright prospects; but in a very ... ...had recovered from his grief, he thought it a pity that the fortune of the Spanish Princess, amounting to two hundred thousand crowns, should go out o... ...an, being, on the contrary, proud, overbearing, and gloomy; but he and the Spanish lords who came over with him, assuredly did discountenance the idea... ...e holiday making among the people; but they had their old distrust of this Spanish marriage, in which even the Parliament shared. Though the members o... ...were far from honest, and were strongly suspected to have been bought with Spanish money, they would pass no bill to enable the Queen to set aside the...

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... made of one death after another amongst those who supported our canopy of empire through the last most memo- rable generation. The eldest of the Well... ...istration, thus ever misapplied, or non-applied, the resources of a mighty empire, it languished for eighteen months purely through their neglect. In ... ...as little to do; having previously, in 1809, been sent Ambassa- dor to the Spanish Cortes, where there was an affinity to do, but no means of doing it... ... maxim of Oriental despo- tism, and fit only for a nation where law had no empire. Many of the illustrious patriots of the Great Parliament saw this; ... ...lication of it; and, at Mr. Wordsworth’s re- quest, I added a long note on Spanish affairs which is printed in the Appendix. The opinions I expressed ... ...h is printed in the Appendix. The opinions I expressed in this note on the Spanish character at that time much calumniated, on the retreat to Corunna ...

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...o strong was it that, as 86 Young Folk’s History of England armada is the Spanish for a fleet, it was called the Invincible Armada. It sailed for Eng... ...132 Young Folk’s History of England T urkey, and join it on to their great empire. The T urks have been getting less powerful for a long time past, an...

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... to help. Wondrous leather-roofed Floating-batteries, set afloat by French-Spanish Pacte de Famille, give gallant sum- mons: to which, nevertheless, G... ... the Night (Greek.)! But remark at least, for the first time, the singular empire of Suspicion, in those lands, in those days. If poor famishing men s... ...pe. Where the carcase is, thither will the eagles gather. Think how many a Spanish Guzman, Martinico Fournier named ‘Fournier l’Americain,’ Engineer M... ...ienna. Catherine of Russia beckons approvingly; will help, were she ready. Spanish Bourbon stirs amid his pillows; from him too, even from him, shall ... ...t widowed Dame de Fontenai, brown beautiful woman, daughter of Cabarus the Spanish merchant,—has softened the red bristly countenance; pleading for he... ...and Host over the Western Scotch Whigs; Jamaica Planters got Dogs from the Spanish Main to hunt their Maroons with: France too is bescoured with a Dev... ...ng round, the Citoyens, in frugal Love-feast, sit there. Night in her wide empire sees nothing similar. O my brothers, why is the reign of Brotherhood... ...al Sin; Earth, Heaven, and thou Outer Limbo, which men name Hell! Does the Empire of Imposture waver? Burst there, in starry sheen updarting, Light-ra...

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...xt one, and so on: the de struction of the republic; the founding of the empire; the breaking up of the empire; the rise of Christianity upon its ru... ...ng is universal and genuine, the consternation is stupefying. The Austrian Empire is being draped with black. Vienna will be a spectacle to see by nex... ...se sane and highly gifted prince, like Rudolph, throw away the crown of an empire and snuff out his own life. All the whole list of desires, predilect... ...cial aspects upon paper; that he perfected himself in French, Italian, and Spanish on the road; that he went in Leicester’s expedition to the Low Coun...

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................................................................. 20 WILL THE EMPIRE LIVE? ................................................................. ................................................ 151 THE SCHOOLMASTER AND THE EMPIRE ....................................................................... ...ttle inadequate, I thought, as a basis for confidence in the future of the Empire. We have still our Derby Day, of course.... Apart from these patriot... ...tish Coronations is past. What new phase in the life of our nation and our Empire does this tremendous ceremony inaugurate? The question is inevitable... ...rthened indeed, but not overwhelmed, by the gi- gantic responsibilities of Empire, a little relaxed by wealth, and hampered rather than enslaved by a ... ...and ideals is concerned. There are, for example, those great elements, the Spanish Catholics, the French Catholic population of Louisiana, the Irish C...

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...se have I searched through all the Herald’s Books, in and without the German Empire, and through all manner of Subscriber Lists ( Pr¨ anumeranten), Mi... ... have all Eternity to rest in?’ Celestial Nepenthe! though a Pyrrhus conquer empires, and an Alexander sack the world, he finds thee not; and thou hast... ...ies there were in me to give battle, in some small degree, against the great Empire of Darkness: does not the very Ditcher and Delver, with his spade,... ... one announces himself, I doubt not, there runs a shudder through the Nether Empire; and new Emissaries are trained, with new tactics, to, if possible... ... the solitude of the North Cape, on that June Midnight. He has a “light blue Spanish cloak” hanging round him, as his “most commodious, principal, ind... ...y the wisest Soul lies a whole world of internal Madness, an authentic Demon Empire; out of which, indeed, his world of Wisdom has been creatively bui...

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...victorious Ibrahim, the march of the Egyptian army was stopped—the menaced empire of 19 Burlesques the Ottomans was saved from ruin; the Marchioness ... ...ish,” Rafael replied; “there’s a splendid clown for eight bob; but for dat Spanish dress, selp ma Moshesh, Mistraer Lint, ve’d ask a guinea of any but... ...nce de Mendoza. These bread rows; this unpopularity of Guizot; this odious Spanish conspiracy against my darling Montpensier and daughter; this feroci... ...t garden of Le Notre (from which Niblo’s garden has been copied in our own Empire city of New Y ork), and playing at leap-frog with their uncle, the C... ... in an Austrian accent; “is not my Royal Louis the first watchmaker in his empire?” The King cast a pleased glance at his repeater, and kissed with co... ...rd, who followed the royal pair, in his quality of arch-chamberlain of the empire, “I pray you look through the gardens, and tell his Excellency Docto... ... so called, because it is five feet long) which is so well known among the Spanish armies—seeing, I say, this figure, the fellows retired, exclaiming,... ...ot fight, I ran away. I am six feet four—my figure is as well known in the Spanish army as that of the Count de Luchana, or my fierce little friend Ca... ...my own history, their laugh was changed into wonder. I read them (speaking Spanish more fluently than English) every word of my story. “But how is thi...

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...e beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a religious order. That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last... ...best bargain he ever made. A pair of church pigeons for a couple of wicked Spanish fowls that eat their own eggs! Don’t you and Fitchett boast too muc... ...g us into the secret of usurpations and other scandals gossiped about long empires ago:—this world being apparently a huge whis- pering-gallery. Such ... ... podremos. Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. —Spanish Proverb. WHILE LYDGATE, safely married and with the Hospital under ... ...g money are essentially the same, and that 601 George Eliot chance has an empire which reduces choice to a fool’s illu- sion—was but the symptom of a... ...orced to cross his small boundary ditch, and what he saw beyond it was not empire, but discon- tented subjection. But it is given to us sometimes even...

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...e beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a religious order. That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last... ...best bargain he ever made. A pair of church pigeons for a couple of wicked Spanish fowls that eat their own eggs! Don’t you and Fitchett boast too muc... ...g us into the secret of usurpations and other scandals gossiped about long empires ago:— this world being apparently a huge whispering gallery. Such c... ...dremos.” “Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.” —Spanish Proverb. W hile Lydgate, safely married and with the Hospital under... ...all ways of getting money are essentially the same, and that chance has an empire which reduces choice to a fool’s illusion—was but the symptom of a w... ...orced to cross his small boundary ditch, and what he saw beyond it was not empire, but discontented subjection. But it is given to us sometimes even i...

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...n the army, that he was eldest son of the hereditary Grand Bootjack of the Empire, and the heir to that honor of which his ancestors had been very pro... ...ishments, that he was not. I am of one of the most ancient families in the empire; I have had my education at a famous school, and a famous university... ...elephant, and a mole-hill, as we know in King William’s case, can upset an empire. When Tusher in his courtly way (at which Harry Esmond always chafed... ...nch, and Italian poets came under his eyes, and he had a smattering of the Spanish tongue likewise, besides the ancient languages, of which, at least ... ..., if not much of the danger. He saw actually, and with his own eyes, those Spanish cavaliers and ladies whom he had beheld in imagination in that immo... ...on, the Marquis of Villadarias fired off another, which those who knew the Spanish thought rather the best of the two; and of this number was Harry Es... ...am sure he has a hundred things to tell us. And I’m jealous already of the Spanish ladies. Was that a beautiful nun at Cadiz that you rescued from the... ...al Collares? ’Tis better than your heady port: we got it out of one of the Spanish ships that came from Vigo last year: my mother bought it at Southam... ... festivities were taking place at which our Duke, now made a Prince of the Empire, was entertained by the King of the Ro- mans and his nobility. His G...