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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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...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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...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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...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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...,” 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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...ly prescribes the rule of competency. Thus all the questions which concern maritime commerce evidently fall under the cognizance of the Federal tribun... ... jurisdiction, the national courts can only hear causes which originate in maritime affairs. The Constitution comprises under one head almost all the ... ...y the executive and legislative authorities, to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdic- tion, and in general to all points which affect the law ... ...he number of the public prints that, even if they were a source of wealth, writers of ability could not be found to direct them all. The journalists o... ...of seamen, and they have nothing which corresponds to the French system of maritime conscription; the navy, as well as the merchant service, is suppli... ...y service. But it is not easy to conceive how a people can sustain a great maritime war without having recourse to one or the other of these two syste... ...h the Americans can only learn from strangers or from experience. If great writers have not at present existed in America, the reason is very simply g... ...ce of their political institutions. America has hitherto produced very few writers of distinc- tion; it possesses no great historians, and not a singl... ...al- though new laws are perpetually enacted in the United States, no great writers have hitherto inquired into the general prin- ciples of their legis...

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...rd his voyages in this world of storms. So did many a hundred of religious writers. And what won- der should there be in this, when the main qualifica... ... Book of an English Opium-Eater much wonder in that, when we see professed writers on the subject—bulky writers—writers of Answers and Refutations, di... ... an unclassical tipple; but perhaps not. Xenophon, the most Attic of prose writers, mentions pointedly in his Anabasis, that the T en Thousand, when r... ...t? Neither in the Decemviral Tables, nor in the Code of Justinian, nor the maritime Code of Oleron, nor in the Canon Law, nor the Code Napoleon, nor o... ...ooked by those who either write En- glish history or comment upon it. Most writers of or upon English history proceed either upon servile principles, ... ...s pretensions are at stake. Pretty much under the same feeling have modern writers written with a rancorous party spirit of the political struggles in...

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...resolute sound, ought to be good enough for the newspapers of the greatest maritime country in the world. “The fleet anchored at Spithead”: can anyone... ...ny homes ashore, and opens the door of speculation in the market of risks. Maritime risks, be it understood. There is a class of optimists ready to re... ... Indeed, I suspect that, leaving aside the pro- testations and tributes of writers who, one is safe in saying, care for little else in the world than ...

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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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...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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...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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...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...

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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... ...ot by the laws of any individual State. All questions of admiralty law and maritime jurisdiction, and cases affecting ambassadors or consuls, are ther... ... ef- fect that decisions given by American judges as to inter- national or maritime affairs affecting English interests could not be trusted, because ... ...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... ...f literature in America without thinking of the readers rather than of the writers. In this matter their position is different from that of any other ... ... ever-widening circle of readers to whom he writes. I should have said the writers of English literature, seeing that the privilege is of course share...

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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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...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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...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...