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...as not made use of her opportunities! Alas for the illusion dispelled! The Spanish walk and mantilla melt away; and behold! the primitive wide-mouthed... ...or uninterest- ing that Aunt Melicent distrusted. Louis made her teach him Spanish; and his insight into grammar and keen delight in the majestic lang... ... footstool and his slipper, fetch his books, each at the proper time, read Spanish with him, and make him look out the words in the dictionary when he... ...lation; but verily that may not be Lady Moon’s fault—only that of our base inventions. So I would be content to mark her—Isabel, I mean—queenly, moonl... ... path. She was veiled and mantled; but accustomed as was Mary’s eye to the Spanish figure and walk, the wonderful grace of movement and de- portment s... ...Poynings, must be a wonder of nature. The guitar—redolent of serenades and Spanish cloaks—oh! but once to see and hear it! The very rudeness of Mrs. M...

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...t part of the earth the English tongue was spoken; taken together with its Spanish American and Hindoo and Negro and “Pidgin” dia- lects, it was the e... ...ges alone held sway—German, which reached to Antioch and Genoa and jostled Spanish- English at Gdiz, a Gallicised Russian which met the Indian English... ...brought the aeropile to a more rapid perfec- tion had been withheld; these inventions had never been used in warfare. The last great international str... ... nature swept upon him. “Curse this complex world!” he cried, “and all the inventions of men! That a man must die like a rat in a snare and never see ...

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... beat upon the table with their fists; and they secrete fragments of their inventions about their persons. Mellish said that there was a Medical “Ring... ...she was doing her work in that particular fashion, you would know what the Spanish Monk meant when he said— ‘I the T rinity illustrate, Drinkin...

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...ts he presently satisfied me. As to the first, it seems he had plundered a Spanish officer of fifteen pistoles; and as to the second, he confessed he ... ...ourhood rung with several gross and scandalous lies, which were merely the inventions of his enemies, and of which the scene was laid in London since ...

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...other, Anne of Austria—a pi- ous and well-meaning, but proud and ignorant, Spanish Prin- cess—who pinned her faith upon Mazarin with helpless and excl... ...ets. 6 Stray Pearls The Queen-Regent was enraged through all her despotic Spanish haughtiness at such resistance. She tried to step in by the arrest ... ...Pearls And yet he could not but shudder as he spoke. When they had asked a Spanish prisoner how many there had been in the army, ‘Count the dead,’ he ... ...nswered. Nor could my husband abstain from tears as he told me how the old Spanish guards were all lying as they stood, slain all together, with their... ...y well at home.’ ‘Or here before I married,’ added Queen Henrietta. ‘Since Spanish etiquette has come in, we have all been on our good behaviour.’ ‘Ha... ... should be obtained by merit, never bought and sold, and many of them were inventions of the Court for the express purpose of sale. The great Cardinal...

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...erary sin the divergence will be. Very likely it is no new remark that the inventions of our time have at last brought about a change in sea-warfare i... ...story, Nelson, then Vice-Admiral Sir Horatio, being with the fleet off the Spanish coast, was directed by the Admiral in command to shift his pennant ...

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...I had the least smattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca, but all to no purpose. After about t... ...he purse, and, opening it, poured all the gold into his palm. There were six Spanish pieces of four pistoles each, beside twenty or thirty smaller coi... ...seemed to spend our whole lives in vain endeavours to supply them by our own inventions; that, as to myself, it was manifest I had neither the strengt...

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...tha Thresher showed him the bed, showed him flow- ers I had planted, and a Spanish chestnut tree just peeping. ‘Ha!’ said he, beaming at every fresh s... ...nd my poor Clara has to trudge the Continent with me to pick up the latest inventions in artil- lery and other matters, for which I get no thanks at h... ...ue which coloured my recollection of him. Wearing a black velvet cap and a Spanish furred cloak, he led us over the villa. In Sarkeld he resided at th... ...is over.’ He abruptly closed the door. His dress belonged to the part of a Spanish nobleman, personated by him in a Play called The Hidalgo Enraged, h... ... after it. With your guitar under the windows, of moon- light nights! your Spanish fopperies and trickeries! your French phrases and toeings! I was to...

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...ornaments out of coloured paper, and also for singing to the guitar in the Spanish tongue, and propounding French conundrums in country houses, passed... ...date and being considered to bore mankind by her vocal performances in the Spanish language, she retired to Bath, 388 Bleak House – Vol. One where sh... ...s, a table and cover, long necked bottle (containing wine), one flask, one Spanish female’s costume, three quarter face portrait of Miss Jogg the mode... ...gety ways. You would have supposed that I was showing her some wonder ful inventions, by her study of them; and if you had seen her, whenever I jingl...

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...onfi- dent were they generally of its long outliving any such ridicu- lous inventions, that the master chimney-sweeper at the cor- ner, who was unders... ..., a beautiful little curly secondhand key-bugle, a chess- board and men, a Spanish Grammar, a set of sketching mate- rials, and a pair of boxing-glove... ...ars by those that were of a moving nature, and really believ- ing that the inventions of yesterday had, on repetition, a sort of truth about them to-d... ...oom; and on the capital, french-polished, extending, tele- scopic range of Spanish mahogany dining-tables with turned legs, the pulpit of the Auctione... ...ther on the staircase under heavy burdens, or up- heaving perfect rocks of Spanish mahogany , best rose-wood, or plate-glass, into the gigs and chaise...

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... bricks, for the whole counting-over—putting for bricks little touches and inventions and enhancements by the way—affect me in truth as well-nigh innu... ...nno- cent voice. He had some charming rooms in Paris, deco- rated with old Spanish altar-lace, the envy of his female friends, who declared that his c... ...t’s the positive side? What’s the virtuous? What have you got besides your Spanish 376 The Portrait of a Lady lace and your Dresden teacups?” “I’ve a...

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... Greek, Latin, and the rudiments of Hebrew; in mathematics and history; in Spanish, French, Italian, and geography; in music, vocal and instrumental; ... ...awdon Crawley, that the mere truth was enough to condemn him, and that all inventions of scandal were quite superfluous pains on his friends’ parts. R... ...little European congress on her recep- tion-night. Prussians and Cossacks, Spanish and English—all the world was at Paris during this famous winter: t...

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...things and all times—weekday as well as Sunday— and i’ the great works and inventions, and i’ the figuring and the mechanics. And God helps us with ou... ...Felix Holt the Radical 1866 Novel How Lisa Loved the King 1867 Poems The Spanish Gypsy 1868 Poem Middlemarch 1872 Novel The Legend of Jubal 1874 ...

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...the Mixed Slave Commission; where negroes, cap- tured out of slavers under Spanish colours, were detained provisionally, till the Commission should de... ... A quaint, pathetic figure, this of uncle John, with his dung cart and his inventions; and the romantic fancy of his Mexican house; and his craze abou... ... while, he was pursuing the course of his electrical studies, making fresh inventions, taking up the phonograph, filled with theories of graphic repre...

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...a so exactly it is amazing. Every major migration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English is matched with a ... ...ectonic plates arrived in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely n... ...ons stealing patents from creative inventors who were legally robbed of their inventions. Today there are no individuals who invent anything new a... ...ed, harassed, intimidated, squelched, threatened, sabotaged, and all of their inventions have disappeared by the hundreds… destroyed, bought up and ... ...verything, all fighting and bickering over who-owns-what, and who-owns-who. Inventions that are too good are never developed because the only ones ... ...rons stealing patents from creative inventors who were legally robbed of their inventions. Today there are no individuals who invent anything new a... ...r mirrored pile of the accumulation which created it. In South America, the Spanish not only robbed, pillaged, murdered, killed, and raped the nati... ..., Ethiopia, Nigeria. The Germans tested their own new-fangled weapons in the Spanish rebellion. Because then Spain was the poorest and most defense... ... profit than the English did. Except most of it was funnelled into the Royal Spanish coffers. Their centralized aristocracy and religion used the ...

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...l be much to pity, So says the proverb — and I quite agree; Of all the Spanish towns is none more pretty, Cadiz perhaps — but that you soon ... ...here and there, Although her mode of speaking was not pure; For native Spanish she had no great care, At least her conversation was obscure;... ...r Oriental eye Accorded with her Moorish origin (Her blood was not all Spanish, by the by; In Spain, you know, this is a sort of sin); Whe... ... Their real lues, or our pseudo syphilis? This is the patent age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated... ...in the dark ‘T was for a voyage that the young man was meant, As if a Spanish ship were Noah’s ark, To wean him from the wickedness of earth,... ...oly ‘Trinidada,’ Was steering duly for the port Leghorn; For there the Spanish family Moncada Were settled long ere Juan’s sire was born: ... ...ich are (as I must own) of female growth, And have ten thousand delicate inventions: They made a most superior mess of broth, A thing which ...

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...difficult to disentangle the causes that have restricted the flow of these inventions. It has happened, I remark, to others as well as to myself, and ... ...ped in again than read severely through. Essentially it is a miscellany of inventions, many of which were very pleasant to write; and its end is more ... ...ts of the conversation were inaudible, and frag- ments incomprehensible. A Spanish galleon from the Phil- ippines hopelessly aground, and its treasure... ...ing, you know, knew what war was; no one could imagine, with all these new inventions, what horror war might bring. I believe most people still believ... ...big gun, and was forbidden to waste his ammunition. Holroyd was learn- ing Spanish industriously, but he was still in the present tense and substantiv... ... one night, danced with Creole girls, who found Holroyd’s poor elements of Spanish, without either past tense or future, amply suffi- cient for their ... ...ips. He appeared to be addressing some imaginary public tribunal either in Spanish or Portu- guese. Holroyd’s improving ear detected something about a... ...or so of Peruvian half-breeds fleeing from the lust and tyranny of an evil Spanish ruler. Then came the stupendous outbreak of Mindobamba, when it was...

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...ly struggle breast-high. Not to mention all the people alive who have made inventions that won’ t act, and all the jobbers who job in all the jobberie... ...g and going across the Channel, on errands about the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount and three qu... ... Friend in and out of the City , on questions of the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount and three qu... ...nd to be made late, by private information about the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount and three qu... ...loung- ing in and out of the City on questions of the Bourse and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and pre- mium and discount and three-...

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...cayed woollen. One or two strokes of a spade upturned the blade of a large Spanish knife, and, as we dug farther, three or four loose pieces of gold a... ...ticle of silver. All was gold of antique date and of great variety—French, Spanish, and German money, with a few English guineas, and some counters, o... ...woman. Could not make out what was said, but be- lieved the language to be Spanish. The state of the room and of the bodies was described by this witn... ..., and ‘might have distinguished some words had he been acquainted with the Spanish.’ The Dutchman maintains it to have been that of a Frenchman; but w... ...w of improvement, to make not only large, but the largest allow- ances for inventions that shall arise by chance, and quite out of the range of ordina... ...n somewhat over-curious, but this wood would have every, characteristic of Spanish oak, if Span- ish oak were distended by any unnatural means. In rea...

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...head, and began smell- ing her bouquet. After supper, where were plenty of Spanish and Rhine wines, soups a la bisque and au lait d’amandes*, puddings... ...t and dangled for a moment over the silk. They were talking of a troupe of Spanish dancers who were expected shortly at the Rouen theatre. “ Are you g... ...ds of preserves, vinegars, and sweet liqueurs; he knew also all the latest inventions in economic stoves, together with the art of preserving cheese a... ...mais by the button of his coat, he shouted out in the shop— “These are the inventions of Paris! These are the ideas of those gentry of the capital! It... ...stage under the velvet hangings a man appeared in a black cloak. His large Spanish hat fell at a gesture he made, and imme- diately the instruments an... ... bills representing four scenes from the “T our de Nesle,” with a motto in Spanish and French at the bot- tom. Through the sash-window a patch of dark... ...adows on the sand, the jasmines per- fumed the air, the heavens were blue, Spanish flies buzzed round the lilies in bloom, and Charles was suffocating...

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... last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them. Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which dis tract our attention from ... ...d boiled, will come out an excellent dunfish for a Saturday’s dinner. Next Spanish hides, with the tails still preserving their twist and the angle of... ...hey had when the oxen that wore them were careering over the pampas of the Spanish Main na type of all obstinacy, and evincing how almost hopeless and... ...e permanent and universal than that of gold. After all our discoveries and inventions no man will go by a pile of wood. It is as precious to us as it ...

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...y parsonage house in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of Felixmarte of Hircania, in folio, which he read quite th... ... he afterwards married, and Mr. Taylor, who by his ingenuity in mechanical inventions, and his success in trade, acquired an immense fortune. But the ... ... with that generous warmth which dictated the lines in his London, against Spanish encroachment. I expressed my opinion of my friend Derrick as but a ... ...emember that the Emperour Charles V, when he read upon the tomb-stone of a Spanish nobleman, “Here lies one who never knew fear,” wittily said, “Then ... ...to observe; his power of contrasting one mode of life with another. As the Spanish prov- erb says, “He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies,... ... 610 Boswell’s Life of Johnson languages, Latin, German, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Arabick, and Armenian, he said, he thought it unnecessary...

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...city of nature to minister to his enjoyments. Genius is free to announce its inventions and discoveries, and the hand is free to accomplish whatever t... ...ation was a patriotic celebration of the successes of the recently concluded Spanish Ameri can War. The new Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, was a... ...hange a proper policy in this regard. The policy of the United States in the Spanish war and since has given it a position of influence among the nati...

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...,’ said Mr Meagles. ‘Oh! of course I mean in England. When they take their inventions into foreign countries, that’s quite different. And that’s the r... ...hat I must have a partner who is a man of busi- ness and not guilty of any inventions,’ said Daniel Doyce, tak- ing off his hat to pass his hand over ... ...like petrified minced veal; ashes out of tombs, and lava out of V esuvius; Spanish fans, Spezzian straw hats, Moorish slip- pers, Tuscan hairpins, Car... ...g back and resting her elbow on it negligently, fanned herself with a rich Spanish fan of black and gold. The attendant gondola, having skimmed forwar... ...my love, she may find people who can match her.’ A significant turn of the Spanish fan towards Fanny’s bo- som, indicated with great expression where ... ...it.’ In the triumphant exaltation of her feelings, Miss Fanny, us- ing her Spanish fan with one hand, squeezed her sister’s waist with the other, as i...

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...nto a glass bottle I had secretly used for making that intoxicating fluid, Spanish-liquorice-water, up in my room: diluting the stone bottle from a ju... ...stick the point into me. I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads. It bega... ...g gentle- man, if I had not previously been betrayed into those enor- mous inventions to which I had confessed. Under the cir- cumstances, I felt that...

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...st vermin. The prototypic Don Juan, invented early in the XVI century by a Spanish monk, was presented, accord- ing to the ideas of that time, as the ... ...nd, those forces of middle class public opinion which hardly existed for a Spanish nobleman in the days of the first Don Juan, are now triumphant ever... ... of vegetation: even a touch of aridity in the frequent patches of stones: Spanish magnifi- cence and Spanish economy everywhere. Not very far north o... ...paniard or a Scotchman. Probably a Spaniard, since he wears the dress of a Spanish goatherd and seems at home in the Sierra Ne- vada, but very like a ... ...trained. The fact that he speaks English is not unexpected in spite of the Spanish landscape; for with the exception of one man who might be guessed a... ...nd down upon the earth lately? I have; and I have examined Man’s wonderful inventions. And I tell you that in the arts of life man invents nothing; bu...

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...the newly invented Yankee word of ‘‘loafer’’ is more applicable than to the Spanish Americans. These men stood about doing nothing, with their cloak... ...ich colors, thrown over their shoulders with an air which it is said that a Spanish beggar can always give to his rags; and with great politeness an... ...might stand too, while those who saw theirs blown off, after uttering a few Spanish oaths, gathered their cloaks over their shoulders, and started ... ...und and galloped off again. He was nearly as dark as an Indian, with a large Spanish hat, blanket cloak or serapa, and leather leggins, with a long kn... ...the firm to which our vessel belonged; and the other, who was dressed in the Spanish dress of the country, was a brother of our captain, who had been ... ...s was his delight. He had, in his chest, several volumes giving accounts of inventions in mechanics, which he read with great pleasure, and made hi...

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... by the wage-earner, it were alive with the search for new methods and new inventions, filled with the spirit of freedom, and inviting the mental as w... ...ance of the recent change in American foreign policy as illustrated by the Spanish War, the Philippine an- nexation, the Panama policy, and the new ap... ... presumed that each Guild will be continually seeking for new processes or inventions, and will value those technical parts of scientific research whi... ...ll who have sufficient ambition and native aptitude. Science, labor-saving inventions, technical progress of all kinds, may be confidently expected to...

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...would have expressed them. Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme both in longer and shorte... ...thir thoughts beyond All doubt of Victorie, eternal might To match with thir inventions they presum’d So easie, and of his Thunder made a scorn, And a... ... desire Of knowledge within bounds; beyond abstain To ask, nor let thine own inventions hope Things not reveal’d, which th’ invisible King, Onely Omni...

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...e author of his own disease. CHAPTER IV CORPUS CHRISTI—MEXICAN SMUG- GLING—SPANISH RULE IN MEXICO— SUPPLYING TRANSPORTATION EARLY IN SEPTEMBER the reg... ...but the majority accomplished the object of their youthful ambition. Under Spanish rule Mexico was prohibited from produc- ing anything that the mothe... ...public opinion—spread more rapidly and universally than good ones, and the Spanish colonists adopted the use of to- bacco almost as generally as the n... ...vered from the fire of the enemy. But the streets leading to the plaza—all Spanish or Spanish-American towns have near their centres a square called a... ...he door who, while extremely polite, declined to admit us. With the little Spanish then at my command, I explained to him that he might save property ... ...peace were carried on in the North. T owns and cities grew during the war. Inventions were made in all kinds of machinery to increase the products of ...

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...autobiographies, or other individual documents. Saint John of the Cross, a Spanish mystic who flour- ished—or rather who existed, for there was little... ...vely strong minds and characters we find quite opposite results. The great Spanish mystics, who carried the habit of ec- stasy as far as it has often ... ...d monistic in Vedanta philosophy. I called it pan- theistic; but the great Spanish mystics are anything but pantheists. They are with few exceptions n... ...e sees that order and disorder, as we now recognize them, are purely human inventions. We are interested in certain types of arrangement, useful, aest...

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...o explain or to throw light upon a dark passage of the Koran, and are pure inventions of a later age. 2 The Arabic words are not those used in later ... ...e 202 The Koran Gagnier’s Vie de Mahom. i. 362. 8 Ar. fulani (whence the Spanish fulano) identical with the Heb. p. 155, used of a person only in Ru... ...nounce the name of God: inventing in all this a lie against Him. For their inventions shall He reward them. And they say, “That which is in the wombs ...

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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... ...n its ideally illuminated space. He for his part had tossed away all cheap inventions where ignorance finds itself able and at ease: he was enamoured ... ... 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 ...

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... yet filling the world, a friend of mine was this winter on a visit to the Spanish main, and was asked by a Peruvian if he “knew Mr. Stevenson the aut... ... of his professional labours that all my father’s scientific inquiries and inventions centred; *In Dr. Murray’s admirable new dictionary, I have remar... ...rticularly to Thomas Stevenson from the great number and importance of his inventions: 61 Memories and Portraits holding as the Stevensons did a Gove... ...ny one who mingled so largely the possible ingredients of converse. In the Spanish proverb, the fourth man necessary to com- pound a salad, is a madma... ...ding foreland of Dunrossness – moving, with the blood on his hands and the Spanish words on his tongue, among the simple islanders – singing a serenad...

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...at language. I afterwards with a little painstaking, acquir’d as much of the Spanish as to read their books also. I have already mention’d that I had ... ...th me on such occasions, viz., That, as we enjoy great advan tages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others... ...fortune by it. And this is not the only instance of patents taken out for my inventions by others, tho’ not always with the same success, which I neve... ...f so many diverse and scattered types. 1738 Begins to study French, Italian, Spanish, and Latin. 1736 Chosen clerk of the General Assembly; forms the ...