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...he awful crash was imminent—why didn’t that villain come! If I committed the crime of ringing a bell, I might get thrown overboard. But better that th... ...free man and may speak the whole truth, regardless of his parish’s opinions; writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankl... ...the legislature, with large powers, under the name of the Pilots’ Benevolent Association; elected their of ficers, completed their organization, cont... ...ed their of ficers, completed their organization, contributed capital, put ‘association’ wages up to two hundred and fifty dollars at once—and then r... ... had the seeds of propagation in them. For instance, all idle members of the association, in good standing, were entitled to a pen sion of twenty fiv... ...was supposed that there was collusion between the association and the under writers, but this was not so. The latter had come to compre hend the exc... ... I hit Brown a good honest blow which stretched him out. I had committed the crime of crimes—I had lifted my hand against a pilot on duty! I supposed ... ...ed to imagine what he would do to a cub pilot who had been guilty of such a crime as mine, committed on a boat guard deep with costly freight and ali...

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...n a system, esteemed by some as a blessing, and by others as a curse and a crime. I agree with you, that this system is now at the bar of public opini... ...rgive me for reminding them that the term “Caucasian” is dropped by recent writers on Ethnology; for the people about Mount Caucasus, are, and have ev... ...ace is stamped with its own pecu- liar, ironlike individuality; and though crimes, high-handed and atrocious, may there be committed, with almost as m... ...mme- diate associates, than on this plantation. Even “MAS’ DANIEL,” by his association with his father’s slaves, had measurably adopted their dialect ... ...long in finding out the true solution of the matter. It was not color, but crime, not God, but man, that afforded the true explanation of the existenc... ...as then leading, and, especially, in view of the separation from religious associations to which she was subjected, my mistress had, as I have before ... ...CT OF MASTER HUGH—SPIRIT OF SLAVERY IN BALTIMORE—MY CONDITION IMPROVES—NEW ASSOCIATIONS—SLAVEHOLDER’S RIGHT TO TAKE HIS WAGES—HOW TO MAKE A CONTENTED ...

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...with regard to Shakespeare’s sonnets, Spenser’s minor poems, and the great writers and characters of Elizabeth’s age and those of Cromwell’s time.” Fr... ...y by the poet. In reality his style owed much to the seven- teenth-century writers, such as Milton and Sir Thomas Browne. He took part with Coleridge,... ...ative skill of De Quincey that has secured for him, in preference to other writers of his class, the favor of youthful readers. It would be too much t... ...cipitation of their crane-neck quarterings. T reason they feel to be their crime; each individual carter feels himself under the ban of confiscation a... ...ened that on this night there was no other outside passenger; and thus the crime, which else was but too probable, missed fire for want of a criminal.... ...o that, reader?); and yet in their behalf, we consent to forget, not their crimes only, but (which is worse) their hideous bigotry and anti-magnanimou... ...ollision neared; all these elements of the scene blended, under the law of association, with the previous and permanent features of distinction invest...

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...with Euclid, with Bellefontaine, and with Sandusky. Chelsea, with its London associations of red brick, Sloane Square, and the King’s Road, is own sub... ...ast, the king’s highway of progress. Here, in England, too many painters and writers dwell dis- persed, unshielded, among the intelligent bourgeois. T... ... your presence; and if I may suppose the reader to have committed some great crime and come to me for aid, I think I could still find my way to a smal... ...and pleasant fact is this, that they were never needed. Painters, sculptors, writers, singers, I have seen all of these 62 Across the Plains in Barbi... ...me blatant and inane; but one and all entered at once into the spirit of the association. This singular society is purely French, a creature of French... ...ining-room at Siron’s. CHAPTER V RANDOM MEMORIES I. – THE COAST OF FIFE MANY WRITERS HAVE vigorously described the pains of the first day or the first... ...icating his complicity with Satan; nor merely because, as it was after all a crime of a fine religious flavour, it figured in Sunday books and afforde... ...Mr. Thomson. This manse of Anstruther Easter has another and a more cheerful association. It was early in the morning, about a century before the days... ...s are beautiful at least in part; and a work which dwells on the ugliness of crime and gives no hint of any loveliness in the temptation, sins against...

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... the word pity; and hence, instead of saying “sympathy with another,” many writers adopt the monstrous barbarism of “sympathy for another.” 7 ably di... ... that; but the “interfectori favil” is im- plied in the very title of this association, and expressed in every line of the lecture which I send you. I... ...was not particularly of my creation; it arose pretty much as other similar associations, for the propagation of truth and the communication of new ide... ... France has produced, one of the reputed leaders is M. Michelet. All these writers are of a revolutionary cast; not in a political sense merely, but i... ... to read, may introduce you, that have not, to two or three dozen of these writers; of whom I can assure you beforehand that they are often profound, ... ...to that, reader?] and yet in their behalf, we consent to forget, not their crimes only, but (which is worse) their hideous bigotry and anti-magnani- m... ...not better the case for his country- man; that, being an accomplice in the crime, making him- self the leader in the persecution against the helpless ... ...urthened man is in dreams haunted and waylaid by the most frightful of his crimes, and because upon that fluctuating mirror—rising (like the mocking m... ...oad, (which I will immediately mention,) through some casual or capricious association with images originally gay, yet opening at some stage of evolut...

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...any other. He always belongs to a Corresponding Society of Begging Letter Writers. Any one who will, may ascertain this fact. Give money to day in re... ... never write these letters. Nothing could be more unlike their habits. The writers are public robbers; and we who support them are parties to their de... ... seem to get a good deal of weariness for their money; and we have also an association of individual machine proprietors combined against this formida... ...n Irv ing and Benjamin Franklin may have put it in my head by an American association of ideas; but there I was, and the Horse shoe Fall was thunderi... ... question the expedi ency of advocating the revival of whipping for those crimes. It is a natural and generous impulse to be indignant at the perpetr... ...ing were possible. Mine are no new views of the noble savage. The greatest writers on natural history found him out long ago. Buffon knew what he was... ... we glide into a review of the most cel ebrated and horrible of the great crimes that have been com mitted within the last fifteen or twenty years. ... ...h, nonentities, and think to 144 Reprinted Pieces keep away the Wolves of Crime and Filth, by our election eering ducking to little vestrymen and ou... ...by whom she was surrounded; and she pathetically complained that the daily association and the nightly noise made her worse, and was driving her mad—w...

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...y wicked men are far more attractive and lovable than virtuous men; having crimes to atone for, they crave indul- gence by anticipation, by being leni... ...Well, then, do you suppose that I will ever forgive Monsieur Hulot for the crime of having robbed me of Josepha—especially when he turned a decent gir... ...e a house-warming in the Rue Chauchat, with some artists, and players, and writers.—She took me in! But I can forgive her, for Heloise amuses me. She ... ...wd of obscure and devoted toilers? In a married woman it is an inexcusable crime when she wanders from the path of honor; still, there are degrees eve... ...s. She carried the bag for the offertory, she was a member of a charitable association, presented bread for the sacrament, and did some good among the... ...ects of Socialist doctrines diffused among the lower classes by incendiary writers? In every household the plague of servants is nowadays the worst of... ...of Paris, in concert with the Arch- bishop, have formed various beneficent associations; they employ superintendents, very decently paid, whose busine... ..., the Hotel Crevel and eighty thousand francs a year. AMONG THE MANY noble associations founded in Paris by Catholic charity, there is one, originated... ...norant poverty and mis- ery driven to bay, flourish the last public letter-writers who are to be found in Paris. Wherever you see the two words “Ecriv...

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...iscursiveness, with disregard of chronological order (which is in itself a crime), with unconventionality of form (which is an impropriety). I was tol... ...he greatest devotion to his task. He is re- sponsible for what was my last association with a ship. I call it that be cause it can hardly be called a ... ...ver to meet again in this world. V IN THE CAREER of the most unliterary of writers, in the sense that literary ambition had never entered the world of... ...terer of the quoted words, had managed to exist through the violences, the crimes, and the enthusiasms of the French Revolution. J’ai vecu, as I appre... ... else. It is M. Anatole France, the most eloquent and just of French prose-writers, who says that we must recognize at last that, “failing the resolut... ...tion, or simply 77 Joseph Conrad from weariness, induces, I suspect, some writers of criticism to conceal the adventurous side of their calling, and ... ...h certificates would not qualify one for the secretaryship of a temperance association or for the post of official troubadour to some lordly democrati... ...o me a few interesting details of the transport service in the time of the Crimean War. 92 A Personal Record “The use of wire rigging became general ... ...he sea not only by situation, but also from a complete absence of indirect association, not being a commercial nation at all, but purely ag- ricultura...

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...tches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor... ...l the places—whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest—where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one sta... ...partaker of the immortal agonies of his In ferno. These reminiscences and associations, together with the tendency to heartbreak natural to a young m... ... ye guilty ones, and rank yourselves in accordance with the brotherhood of crime. This, indeed, is an awful summons. I almost tremble to look at the s... ...rst of ill success, a higher fortune than their abilities could vindicate; writers, actors, painters, the pets of a day, but whose laurels wither unre... ... 103 Hawthorne thousandth time, and never worth using, with which romance writers (and myself, no doubt, among the rest) have so overpeopled the worl... ...l horrors which punish the perpetrator of undiscovered crime. By a certain association of ideas, he at times almost imagined himself a murderer. For y...

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...iscursiveness, with disregard of chronological order (which is in itself a crime), with unconventionality of form (which is an impropriety). I was tol... ...he greatest de- votion to his task. He is responsible for what was my last association with a ship. I call it that because it can hardly be called a s... ...th Atlantic. Books are an integral part of one’s life and my Shakespearean associations are with that first year of our bereavement, the last I spent ... ...et again in this world. Chapter V I N THE CAREER of the most unliterary of writers, in the sense that literary ambition had never en tered the world o... ...terer of the quoted words, had managed to exist through the violences, the crimes, and the enthusiasms of the French Revolution. “J’ai vecu”, as I app... ...lse. It is M. Anatole France, the most elo- quent and just of French prose writers, who says that we must recognise at last that, “failing the resolu-... ...certificates would not qualify one for the secretaryship of a tem- perance association or for the post of official trouba- dour to some lordly democra... ...o me a few interesting details of the transport service in the time of the Crimean War. “The use of wire rigging became general about that time too,” ...

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...ted more to the intellectual enlightenment of mankind than any other three writers who could be named, and yet the history of all three has given rise... ...s as the enunciator of opinions as different in their tone as those of the writers who have handed them down. When we have read Plato or Xenophon, we ... ... Mr. Mackenzie has given three brief but elaborate papers on the different writers on the subject, which deserve to be consulted. See Notes and Querie... ...birth. T raditions the most picturesque, episodes the most pathetic, local associations teeming with the thoughts of gods and great men, may crowd in ... ... is well known.] is depictured, and not 31 Pope feel how much of pleasing association, how much that ap- peals most forcibly and most distinctly to o... ...terature as Homer himself is of Greek. We must not be torn from our kindly associations with the old Iliad, that once was our most cher- ished compani... ...e wrongs I bear From Atreus’ son?—Then let those eyes that view The daring crime, behold the vengeance too.” “Forbear (the progeny of Jove replies) To... ... Grecian hearts. A prophet then, inspired by heaven, arose, And points the crime, and thence derives the woes: Myself the first the assembled chiefs i... ...hy Grecian spouse appears, The friends and kindred of thy former years. No crime of thine our present sufferings draws, Not thou, but Heaven’s disposi...

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...f his own keen nature. He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occu pied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of... ...ed by none of the grim and strange features which were associated with the two crimes which I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and... ... actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime. It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it stil... ...push, the blow, the bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of writers could invent nothing more crude.” “Indeed, your example is an u... ...ylotts of Stoke Moran. The events in question occurred in the early days of my association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors in Bak...

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...t tie his hands from tak- ing his inheritance. The ape in us still resents association. From the dawn of the age of polished stone to the achieve- men... ...nous, induced him to associate the two sets of phenom- ena. It was a happy association for his inquiries. It was a rare and fortunate thing, too, that... ...ght not to publish his results, that they were premature, that some secret association of wise men should take care of his work and hand it on from ge... ..., sunlit spinning-top of man’s ex- istence…. For a time he forgot wars and crimes and hates and perse- cutions, famine and pestilence, the cruelties o... ...pled any previous record. There was an enor- mous increase also in violent crime throughout the world. The thing had come upon an unprepared humanity;... ...t came to be called the ‘Modern State’ movement, and a galaxy of brilliant writers, in America, Europe, and the East, stirred up the world to the thou... ...lities, a pal- impsest of inherited dispositions. It was the habit of many writers in the early twentieth century to speak of competi- tion and the na... ...one comes to the latter nineteenth and the earlier twenti- eth century the writers are much more acutely aware of secu- lar change than their predeces...

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...s of Madame de Chavoncourt’s drawing-room, Albert had imitated some modern writers who, for lack of inventiveness, relate their private joys, their pr... ...pointing to the little prom- ontory. “Come and dine with us to add to your associations, povero mio,” said she. “This is a great day; we are out of da... ...im, for he had heard what a capriccio might mean in an Italian. But what a crime had he committed in the eyes of a woman—in accepting a born princess ... ...to Leopold; she had several times asked herself whether, if he knew of her crime, infamous inasmuch as it necessarily goes unpunished, the high-minded... ...his friend, why should I not know what he says to her? If it is a horrible crime, is it not a proof of love? Oh, Albert! am I not your wife?” When Ros... ...difference to me to know what you wear? If your lofty brow is knit? If our writers amuse you? If Canalis’ songs delight you? I read the books 68 Albe...

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...elf-immolation of murdering me, nor destroy its fruits except by theft and crime. No King, no council, can seize and torture me; no Church, no nation ... ...lined and uncoordinated minority of inventors, experi- menters, educators, writers and organisers has achieved this development of human possibilities... ...old forgotten map after the fashion of a bird’s-eye view, representing the Crimea, that fascinated me and kept me for hours navigating its wa- ters wi... ...afternoon and then, I think, she was interested only in the more vio- lent crimes, and in railway and mine disasters and in the minutest domesticities... ...ows of Trinity Street and Petty Cury and Market Hill have their particular associations for me with that spate of confession and free speech, that alm... ...o them and joined them together. And they are all mixed up with subsequent associations, with sym- pathies and discords, habits of intercourse, surpri... ...hildless wife, unpremeditatedly makes a relentless demand for a com- plete association, and the husband exacts unthought of deli- cacies of understand... ...of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East Indians, here a p... ...ut I went on talking. It’s the grim irony in the lives of all politicians, writers, public teach- ers, that once the audience is at their feet, a new ...

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...d more to the intellec tual enlightenment of mankind than any other three writers who could be named, and yet the history of all three has given rise... ...as the enunciator of opinions as dif ferent in their tone as those of the writers who have handed them down. When we have read Plato or Xenophon, we ... ...till about Peisistratus’ time, about five hundred years after.” Two French writers—Hedelin and Perrault—avowed a similar scepticism on the subject; bu... ...birth. T raditions the most picturesque, episodes the most pathetic, local associations teeming with the thoughts of gods and great men, may crowd in ... ...the “Apotheosis of Homer” is depictured, and not feel how much of pleasing association, how much that appeals most forcibly and most distinctly to our... ...terature as Homer himself is of Greek. We must not be torn from our kindly associations with the old Iliad, that once was our most cher ished compani... ...l to the dooming gods their guilt translate, And follies are miscall’d the crimes of fate. When to his lust Ægysthus gave the rein, 30 The Odyssey of... ...eturns the prince) for mirth a time? When lawless gluttons riot, mirth’s a crime; The luscious wines, dishonour’d, lose their taste; The song is noise... ...f your blissful bowers? A man, an outcast to the storm and wave, It was my crime to pity, and to save; When he who thunders rent his bark in twain, An...

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...s expressed in my first volume, be- cause I still see it stated by English writers that the se- cession ordinance of South Carolina should have been a... ... circumstances of a divorce between man and wife, all whose belongings and associations have for many years been in common. Their children, their mone... ...ton Barracks. It may be that our own soldiers were as badly treated in the Crimea; or that French soldiers were treated worse in their march into Russ... ...iage, prepared, I presume, for those who esteemed themselves too dirty for association with the aristocracy of Cairo; and into this we flung ourselves... ...ave rebelled against the stars and stripes seems to a Northern man to be a crime putting the crimi- nal altogether out of all courts—a crime which sho... ...ious to know, not in what way they may be impeached and beheaded for great crimes, but by what method they may be kept constantly straight in small ma... ...American of- fice has not taken upon itself the task of returning to their writers undelivered and undeliverable letters. This it is now going to do. ... ...uch inclined to regard the question as one appertaining exclusively to the writers of books—not ac- knowledging as we should do that the literary char... ...for them in their rags. They were endeared to me by certain memo- ries and associations which I cannot define. But then what would those Americans thi...

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...ol, and is an asylum for neglected and indigent boys who have committed no crime, but who in the ordinary course of things would very soon be purged o... ...rong feeling for the beauties of nature, as displayed in the solitudes the writers have left at home, breathes through its pages like wholesome villag... ...e of the town, into such holes as these? Do men and women, against whom no crime is proved, lie here all night in perfect darkness, surrounded by the ... ... to everything but torturing anxieties and horrible despair. His name, and crime, and term of suffering, are un known, even to the officer who delive... ... men who, by the peaceful exercise of great abilities, shed new charms and associations upon the homes of their countrymen, and elevate their characte... ...g up in the night, it came upon me so freshly, rustling with so many happy associations, that I conceived upon the spot a special regard for all airs ... ...ainment. By way of beguiling the tedious ness of these banquets, a select association was formed at the lower end of the table, below the mast, to wh... ...en in his time, and did his utmost to correct it. I cannot hold with other writers on these subjects that the prevalence of various forms of dissent i...

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...of man this was; to what extent condemnable for imaginary heresy and other crimes, to what extent laudable and lovable for noble manful or- thodoxy an... ...f any spot I have since beheld, even though borne in upon the heart by the association of the strongest feelings. “My home was built upon the slope of... ...gement was en- tered upon; a brief connection as Secretary to some Club or Association into which certain public men, of the re- forming sort, Mr. Cra... ...pounds sterling: so much is certain. But neither the Secretaryship nor the Association itself had any continu- ance; nor can I now learn accurately mo... ... are cunning, deceitful and idle; without any great aptitude for ferocious crimes, and with very little scruple at committing others. But I have seen ... ...er, a kind of mysterious nim- bus as the principal or one of the principal writers in the Times, which gave an interesting chiaroscuro to his char- ac... ...ng, and a power of serious eloquence, far beyond that of any of these four writers; and to which indeed there is nothing at all comparable in any of t... ... German Literature, very slight at this time, limited itself altogether to writers on Church mat- ters,—Evidences, Counter-Evidences, Theologies and R... ... that nobody wants any more revolutions. There is no appearance of riot or crime; and they are all extremely civil. I was much interested by learning ...

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...ome; I thought of the many people in Australia, who would have an interest in such a shipwreck, and would find their way here when they visit the Old ... ...e stove at night heard stories of travellers who had perished within call, in wreaths and drifts of snow. One night the stove within, and the cold out... ...h heroes to go in and win; and the lark and other singing birds are observable in the upper air, ecstatically carolling their thanks to Heaven for a f... ...such Indian in the piece, and no such incident. He is a dog of the Newfoundland breed, for whose honesty I would be bail to any amount; but whose inte... ...o bitterly anathematised a poor little Circus. Similarly, in the reading provided for the young people enrolled in the Lasso of Love, and other excell... ...rt his utmost self-devotion and use his utmost efforts, to get Carlavero pardoned. If the prisoner had been a brigand and a murderer, if he had commit... ...dren played up and down all the steps, and in and out among all the people’s legs, and were beheld, to the general dismay, toppling over all the dange... ...n he was at first. There were peep-shows in this Fair, and I had the pleasure of recognising several fields of glory with which I became well acquaint... ...en I look up at them lying out on the yards, and holding on for life among the beating sails, I cannot for my life see the justice of visit- ing on th...