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...ounted on his fingers eight residual natives. Or take the valley of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Ha... ...r of the Nyanza, Captain Dewar, I should find a man of the same country and the same county with myself, and one whom I had seen walking as a boy on t...

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...use of Mignon, where the Kellers had placed him to learn the principles of maritime commerce, no one at the Chalet had ever asked him to do the smalle... ...tating interest of others would have seemed quite poetic. Nowadays romance-writers arrange such effects; and it is quite within their province to do s... ...ears which, it is said, were lacking in those of the wittiest of En- glish writers. Modeste existed for some time on a comprehension, not only of the ... ...tter as yours addressed to a poet of whom you know nothing personally. All writers are not angels; they have many defects. Some are frivolous, heedles... ...your innocence, have not suspected. There are as many natures as there are writers. I am deeply flattered that you have judged me capable of understan... ...demoiselle, that letters, more or less true in relation to the life of the writers, more or less insincere,—for those which we write to each other are...

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...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... ...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-... ... gardens of Versailles, and Monsieur de Colbert busy with the direction of maritime affairs. You must admit that in a banker of the nineteenth century...

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...hile they did it, with a kick to send them down the rock into the sea. The writers of 11 Plutarch’s Lives Megara, however, in contradiction to the re... ...every nine years a tribute of seven young men and as many virgins, as most writers agree in stating; and the most poeti- cal story adds, that the Mino... ...ates, when he carried off Helen, who was yet too young to be married. Some writers, to take away this accusation of one of the great- est crimes laid ... ...as found lying on the bier. And many such improbabilities do your fabulous writers relate, deifying creatures naturally mortal; for though altogether ... ...ere eager to interfere again in Egypt, and to disturb the king of Persia’s maritime do- minions. Nay, there were a good many who were, even then, poss... ...housand men at arms, openly declared that they had undertaken this distant maritime expedition for the sake of Alcibiades, and that, if he was ill-use... ...ncertain about the place, 485 Plutarch’s Lives because there was a little maritime town of Laconia called Leuctron, and near Megalopolis in Arcadia a... ...d, some brief appearances of a war against the king’s lieuten- ants in the maritime provinces, but they all quickly vanished; before he could perform ... ..., which he summoned, as he sailed by, out of all 805 Plutarch’s Lives the maritime towns, except those suspected of piracy, he sailed for Cyprus; and...

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...eparations, resolving with a high hand to dispossess the Spartans of their maritime supremacy . Lysander was eager for the opportunity of going over a... ...vantage. For Sardis itself, the chief seat of the barbarian’s power in the maritime provinces, and many other considerable places were surrendered to ... ...by the Gre- cians. Encouraged by this accident, he proceeded to reduce the maritime parts of Cilicia and Phoenicia, and passed his army along the sea-... ... But the great battle of all that was fought with Darius, was not, as most writers tell us, at Arbela, but at Gaugamela, which, in their language, sig... ...oked homeward, and had no design to reside among the barbarians. Thus some writers give their account of this action, while others say it was done del... ... this he dispatched Nearchus again to his fleet, to carry the war into the maritime provinces, and as he marched that way himself, he punished those c... ... were then celebrated, a feast at the first institution belonging, as some writers say, to the shepherds, and having some connection with the Arcadian... ... various parts of the sen- ate-house, several of the most expert and rapid writers, whom he had taught to make figures comprising numerous words 348 ... ... of respect and gratitude by royal persons, and that one who lent money on maritime usury was likely to be thus indiffer- ent, is what we cannot asser...

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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... ... in the mud—our 25 Charles Dickens two colliers (our watering place has a maritime trade em ploying that amount of shipping) have not an inch of wat... ...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... ...but, whatever one asserts, the other contradicts. They are both voluminous writers, indicting more epistles than Lord Chesterfield in a single week; a...

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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 ... ...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... ...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... ... lower-deck, and thence up to the light of day again, and to my former sta- tion. Surely, an extraordinary people in their power of self-ab- straction... ...entlemen themselves seemed conscious of their inferiority, and to know submissively that they could never hope to hold their own against the Pensioner... ...icularly droll, and was an oddity of which I certainly had had no adequate experience in life until I turned that curi- ous fly-leaf. My old acquainta...

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... engrafted clerical peculiarities about him, imputable to that adventurous maritime life he had led. When he entered I observed that he carried no umb... ...g terrible events, — as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi; but, in maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors abound, whe... ...the land in this matter, so the whale fishery surpasses every other sort of maritime life, in the wonderfulness and fearfulness of the rumors which som... ...ed by two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East, dot... ... incident to the Cinque Port territories become by assignment his. By some writers this office is called a sinecure. But not so. Because the Lord Warde... ...eaning may lurk here. There are two royal fish so styled by the English law writers — the whale and the sturgeon; both royal property under certain lim... ...compile a lexicon to be used by a whale author like me. One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an o...

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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... ...five hundred years after.” [Note: Letters to Phileleuth; Lips.] Two French writers—Hedelin and Perrault—avowed a similar scepticism on the subject; bu... ...leading outline, the Iliad may be true to historic fact, that in the great maritime expedition of western Greece against the rival and half-kindred em... ...uniform, not only in their bor- rowed phraseology—a phraseology with which writers like Bœthius and Saxo Grammaticus were more charmed than ourselves—...

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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... ...leading outline, the Iliad may be true to historic fact; that in the great maritime expedition of western Greece against the rival and half kindred em... ...o uniform, not only in their borrowed phraseology—a phraseology with which writers like Boethius and Saxo Grammaticus were more charmed than ourselves... ...t, in an ultra refined and consistent abandonment of good taste, that few writers of the present day would question the capabilities of the same gent...

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... engrafted clerical peculiarities about him, imputable to that adventurous maritime life he had led. When he entered I observed that he carried no umb... ...ing terrible events,—as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi; but, in maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors abound, wh... ...he land in this matter, so the whale fishery surpasses every other sort of maritime life, in the wonderfulness and fearfulness of the rumors which som... ...ed by two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our nu- merous territorial colonies from the East, d... ...ncident to the Cinque Port territories become by as- signment his. By some writers this office is called a sinecure. But not so. Because the Lord Ward... ...compile a lexicon to be used by a whale author like me. One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their sub- ject, though it may seem but an...

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...and overlooking a wide extent of country: or settling still farther in the maritime Apennines, at Massa. Several of his slighter and unfinished poems ... ...s for his po- etry by associating it with the compositions of more popular writers; and also because he might feel shackled in the free expression of ...

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...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... ... for decoration, even here. And as seamen frequent these haunts, there are maritime pic tures by the dozen: of partings between sailors and their lad... ...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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...from entering into ex- planations concerning their origin and purposes. As writers of travels among barbarous communities are generally very diffuse o... ...d singular pleasure. Y our delightful books carry the imagi- nation into a maritime period so remote that, often as you have been in my mind, I could ... ... hesitate to employ, with all his patriotism, toward many renowned English writers. Dana is, indeed, great. There is nothing in literature more remark... ... pirated copies. Beside Hawthorne, Mr. Richard Henry Stoddard, of American writers, specially knew and appreciated Herman Melville. Mr. Stoddard was c...

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...ever so insignificant in- trinsically, have for most part plenty of Memoir-writers; and the curious, in after-times, can learn minutely their goings o... ... deliver her from Slavery and Cimmeria. And have they not done it? Through Maritime Alps, through gorges of Pyrenees, through Low Countries, Northward...

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...espondence be- tween this, government and foreign powers with reference to maritime right , I transmit a report from the Secretary of State. ABRAHAM L... ...ish you with copies of letters in my possession without the consent of the writers. No impression has been made on my mind against the honor or integr...

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...iscuss affairs connected with their trade. Already Dantes had visited this maritime Bourse two or three times, and seeing all these hardy free-traders... ...has remained invisible to my eyes, although present to my heart. A hundred writers since Socrates, Seneca, St. Augustine, and Gall, have made, in vers...

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...tingly. The situation was exactly of a sort for one of his German phantasy-writers to image the forest jeering at him as he flew, blind, deaf, and unr... ...act guineas from “old ocean” like salt. Precious few barristers understand maritime cases. The other day I was in Court, and prompted a great Q.C. in ...

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...e first clerk to the articled gents, from the articled gents to the ragged writers and white- faced runners, in clothes too tight for them, as he sate... ...ns,” “Cease Rude Boreas,” “Rule Britannia,” “In the Bay of Biscay O!”—some maritime event is about to take place. A ben is heard ringing as the curtai...

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...and contributes toward placing their author in the foremost rank of French writers.” Louis de Rouvroy, who later became the Duc de Saint- 4 Saint-Sim... ...idant. M. de Noyon had furnished on my return another subject for the song-writers, and felt it the more sensibly because everybody was diverted at hi... ...s running, without success, and were obliged to retire with much loss. The maritime year finished by a terrible tempest upon the coast of Holland, whi...

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...in the world were a source of proud and unholy joy unto some of the modern writers. That frame of mind is not the proper one in which to approach seri... ...n their droll way, but are by no means so momen- tous and profound as some writers—probably for the sake of Art—would like to make us believe. There i... ...tless as the eyes of any wise generation that has in its hands the fame of writers. Yes, they are seen, and the man who is not an artist is seen also ... ...t does not matter (unless to the solemn and naive mind), Maupassant of all writers of fiction demands least forgiveness from his read- ers. He does no... ...ent that Maupassant looked upon his man- kind in another spirit than those writers who make haste to submerge the difficulties of our holding- place i... ...pon the sea with the same covetous steadiness, for he has become of late a maritime eagle, and has learned to box the compass. He gazes north and sout... ... Peace with Honour, had long forgotten the war episodes belong- ing to its maritime history. It was a peaceful coast, agricultural, industrial, the ho... ...ping watch on Brest, an Ameri- can, perhaps Fulton himself, offered to the Maritime Prefect of the port and to the French Admiral, an in- vention whic...

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...ith no less than six foreign nations, and all of them, except Prussia, are maritime, and therefore able to annoy and injure us. She has also extensive... ...ent countries and ages, and has received the sanction of the most approved writers on the subject of politics. The opponents of the plan proposed have... ...cord, and the miserable objects of universal pity or contempt. Some of the writers who have come forward on the other side of the question seem to hav... ...cter of America, has already excited uneasy sensations in sev- eral of the maritime powers of Europe. They seem to be ap- prehensive of our too great ... ...stant, to create a navy which, if it could not vie with those of the great maritime powers, would at least be of respectable weight if thrown into the... ...ight exist and might operate with success. It would be in the power of the maritime nations, availing themselves of our universal im- potence, to pres... ...n from the Northern hive. The necessity of naval protection to external or maritime commerce does not require a particular elucidation, no more than t... ...d, and have most liberally received, the applauding suffrages of political writers. This exceptionable principle may, as truly as emphatically, be sty... ... with such an excess. If it be true, as has been insinuated by some of the writers on the other side, that the difficulty arises from the nature of th...

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...ion they stand to each other, which circumstance, we are informed by those writers who describe different parts of the world, does sometimes happen; f... ...it is entirely surrounded by a navigable ocean which washes almost all the maritime parts of that country, and is not far distant on the one side from... ... what sort of government is best fitting for all cities: for most of those writers who have treated this subject, however spe- ciously they may handle... ...s a democracy. This subject has been al- ready treated of by one of those writers who have gone be- fore me, though his sentiments are not the same a... ...war, added firmness to their administra- tion; and, on the other hand, the maritime force, composed of the commonalty, having gained the victory at Sa... ...where they are most powerful, which they may do while they possess both. A maritime situation is also useful for receiving from others what your own c... ...hould correspond with her actions. As for that multitude of people which a maritime power creates, they are by no means necessary to a state, nor ough... ...us we determine concerning the country, the port, the city, the sea, and a maritime power: as to the number of the citi- zens, what that ought to be w... ...e will refer those who desire a very particular knowledge therein to those writers, and shall only treat of it in general terms, without descending to...

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...t a very ample commentary, of which Thomas Aquinas, and the other scholastic writers, availed themselves, before the Greek originals of Aristotle and ... ...heir friendship is related. From the character given of him by contemporary writers his temper was well formed to assimilate with that of our poet. “... ... xvi. st. 21. It would be endless to refer to parallel passages in the Greek writers. v. 64. This of the seven kings was one.] Compare Aesch. Seven ... ...om a castle so called in the neighbourhood of Brittonoro. Cervia is a small maritime city, about fifteen miles to the south of Ravenna. Guido was th... ...st. l. xxx. and Lucan, Phars. l. iv. 590. Dante has kept the latter of these writers in his eye throughout all this passage. v. 123. Alcides.] The co...

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...nd Spanish journals of high au- thority. It is seldom the case that French writers err by pro- lixity. They have done so in this case. The present nar... ...ou know, though not flotsam, because it would not float, was certainly, by maritime law, ‘jetsom.’ It would be the idlest of scruples to fancy that th... ...ide of Peru, but, of course, somewhere on its outside—and the outside of a maritime land must be the shore; so that, if she kept the shore, and went f... ...o grandeur to him who has no space in the theatre of his own brain. I know writers who report the marvels of velocity, &c., in such a way that they be... ...: for it takes the shape of a dream; and this most brilliant of all German writers wanted in that field the severe simplicity, that horror of the too ... ...n. The haddock, again, amongst marine animals, is supposed, throughout all maritime Europe, to be a privileged fish; even in austere Scot- land, every... ...he peremptory assurance of Sully and other Protes- tants, countersigned by writers both historical and contro- versial, that not only was he prepared,... ...e, giving slang translations from Tom Brown, L’Estrange, and other jocular writers— had put down the verb sterben (to die) with the following worshipf... ...ance, the law which regulates the rights of shipping, sea- faring men, and maritime commerce—how slow was its de- velopment! Before such works as the ...

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...t a very ample commentary, of which Thomas Aquinas, and the other scholastic writers, availed themselves, before the Greek originals of Aristotle and ... ...heir friendship is related. From the character given of him by contemporary writers his temper was well formed to assimilate with that of our poet. “... ... xvi. st. 21. It would be endless to refer to parallel passages in the Greek writers. v. 64. This of the seven kings was one.] Compare Aesch. Seven ... ...om a castle so called in the neighbourhood of Brittonoro. Cervia is a small maritime city, about fifteen miles to the south of Ravenna. Guido was th... ...st. l. xxx. and Lucan, Phars. l. iv. 590. Dante has kept the latter of these writers in his eye throughout all this passage. v. 123. Alcides.] The co... ...o XX. 40. v. 69. Trajan the Emperor. For this story, Landino refers to two writers, whom he calls “Heunando,” of France, by whom he means Elinand, ...

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...er! Fitter! Stoker! Help I’m choking,” it gasped. “Never in the history of maritime invention has such a calamity over-taken one so young and strong. ... ...men who went on shooting expeditions and never came back; factors, agents, writers, and ensigns of the Honourable the East India Company by hundreds a... ...ore. For there lay scattered over the landscape, from the burst cars, type-writers, sewing-machines, bicycles in crates, a consign- ment of silver-pla... ...s for lockin’ him up by some patent legal process he’ d found in a book o’ maritime law. An’ a’ that week South American freights rose an’ rose. It wa...

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...nd the gulfs of Arabia, Persia, India, Bengal, and Siam, in Asia, to carry maritime commerce into the interior parts of that great continent; and the ... ...n, and have been more frequently taken notice of by histori- ans and other writers. We must generally, therefore, content our- selves with them, not a... ...mpence, however, seems to have been considered as the whole of it, by many writers who have collected the prices of labour and provisions in ancient t... ...requently at this day a matter of controversy in the wine countries. Their writers on agriculture, indeed, the lovers and pro- moters of high cultivat... ...rticular years, which have generally been recorded by historians and other writers, on account of their extraordinary dearness or cheapness, and from ... ... price of the fiars of each year, than at any certain fixed price. But the writers who have collected the prices of corn in ancient times seem frequen... ...ich are 275 Adam Smith brought either from foreign countries, or from the maritime prov- inces of France, for the consumption of the great city of Pa... ...the scheme and project of a few individuals, is sometimes established in a maritime city, and sometimes in an inland town, according as their interest...

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...interprets the age of chivalry by his own age of chivalry, and the days of maritime adventure and circumnavigation by quite parallel miniature experie... ...ow. This agrees well with that high philosophy of Beauty which the ancient writers delighted in; for they said that the soul of man, embodied here on ... ...luminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers. Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing ... ...iced with the frantic passion and violent coloring of inferior but popular writers. For they are poets by the free course which they allow to the info... ...res, but the Muse makes us free of her city. Well, the world has a million writers. One would think then that good thought would be as familiar as air... ...reative, so that there are many competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books. But some of the conditions of intellectual const...

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...to work. And in proof that he was still willing, and had prof- ited by his maritime experience, he offered to sweep the floor 20 Cashel Byron’s Profe... ... cannot picture the thing in my own mind. I wonder whether the hundreds of writers of text-books on physics, who talk so glibly of vibrations, realize... ...ver who did not seem an exceptionally intelligent mechanic, while the very writers and artists who have preserved the memory of the coaching days for ... ...he exterior of such a man as Byron. A woman accus- tomed to associate with writers, thinkers, artists, statesmen, and diplomatists could make no such ...

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...uct and vice, or is he ever the apologist of these? Many poets and romance writers, under cover of a fastidious style, without one coarse expression, ... ...g fashion. The Pleiad School he evidently knew nothing of, but kept to the writers of the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century. Thus ... ... Aristophanes and of Lucian, his intimate acquaintance with nearly all the writers of antiquity, Greek as well as Latin, with whom Rabelais is more pe... ...at, who died in 1748. He had a most thorough knowledge of the French prose-writers of the sixteenth century, and he made them accessible by his editio... ...Plinius, lib. 7, cap. 32 and 34, A. Gellius, lib. 3, c. 15, and many other writers,—to Diagoras the Rhodian, Chilon, Sophocles, Dionysius the tyrant o... ... the ships, and coasting along Galicia and Portugal, shall pillage all the maritime places, even unto Lisbon, where you shall be supplied with all nec... ...(the barbarians) of Spaniola, who had plundered, wasted, and ransacked the maritime borders of Olone and Thalmondois. All this hemisphere of the world...

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...ndisputably in charge of what remained of the MAK and al Qaeda. 27 Through writers like Qutb, and the presence of Egyptian Islamist teachers in the Sa... ...nd Mihdhar to one hotel, then went to another hotel for his meeting on the maritime attack plan. Hazmi and Mihd- har soon moved to that same hotel, bu... ...ity Depart- ment. In November 2002, both the Homeland Security Act and the Maritime Transportation Security Act followed.These laws required the devel... ...tion to other modes. Opportunities to do harm are as great, or greater, in maritime or surface transportation. Initiatives to secure shipping containe... ... appropriately screen potentially dangerous cargo in both the aviation and maritime sectors. The Protection of Civil Liberties Many of our recommendat... ...is.A detainee says that 9/11 hijacker Khalid al Mihdhar told him about the maritime operation sometime in late 1999 and credited Nashiri as its origin...

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...,” he said, making a wry mouth. “I detest all those artists, and all those writers, and all politicos who are thieves; and I would go even farther and... ...he was as new to love as he was. During their retreat in the region of the Maritime Alps, in a small house built of dry stones and embowered with rose...

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...modified and altered, and the effect thus far changed. Thus it is with the writers of fiction. The young write in full sympathy with, as well as for, ... ...cca Marina, but it was hard to believe it, for all the slope of one of the Maritime Alps lay stretched out basking in the noon- day sunshine, green an...

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...e anecdote is trivial, but it shows the power of Julia Jowler over me. The writers of marine novels have so exhausted the subject of storms, shipwreck... ...een ennuye’d to death before they could have marched from the Rhenish, the Maritime, the Alpine, or the Pyrenean frontier upon the capital of France. ...

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...d Rome, With the Kelt, the Scandinavian, the Alb and the Saxon, With antique maritime ventures, laws, artisanship, wars and journeys, With the poet, t... ... The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres, The great speakers and writers are exiled, they lie sick in distant lands, The cause is asleep, ...

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...prehend vari ance with any power, unless it proceed from a violation of our maritime rights. In these contests, should they occur, and to whatever ex... ...he Armies and Navy of the United States. If the opinion of the most approved writers upon that species of mixed government which in modern Europe is t...

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...s, Philosophie, and who knows what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Sing- ers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphletee... ...res);’ flooded and eddying again. Hot deluge,—from so many Pa- triot ready-writers, all at the fervid or boiling point; each ready- writer, now in the... ... pounds sterling, per month; what he calls ‘a staff of genius:’ Paragraph- writers, Placard-Journalists; ‘two hundred and eighty Applaud- ers, at thre... ...ever so insignificant intrinsi- cally, have for most part plenty of Memoir-writers; and the curious, in after-times, can learn minutely their goings o... ... deliver her from Slavery and Cimmeria. And have they not done it? Through Maritime Alps, through gorges of Pyrenees, through Low Countries, North- wa...