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...emingly so aimless rambles, planting new standards, founding new habitable colonies, in the immeasurable circumambient realm of Nothingness and Night!... ...tional, or any other of those patriotic Libraries, at present the glory of British Literature;” might work revolutions in Thought; and so forth;—in co... ...uch title and vocation, it were perhaps uninteresting to say more. Let the British reader study and enjoy, in simplicity of heart, what is here presen... ... us to that joint-stock ve- hicle of publication, “at present the glory of British Lit- erature”? If so, the Library Editors are welcome to dig in it ... ... towards failure, or towards success! The latter thou sharest with us; the former also is not all our own. BOOK II CHAPTER I GENESIS I n a psychologic... ...emporary, youthful, yet still afflictive derangement of head? Alas, on the former side alone, his case was hard enough. “It continues ever true,” says... ...or false, either seraphic or demoniac, Inspiration or Insanity. But in the former case too, as in common Mad- ness, it is Fantasy that superadds itsel...

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...nly is imposing. The present building was, I think, commenced in 1815, the former Capitol having been de- stroyed by the English in the war of 1812-13... ... about through the Patent-office I also found a hospital for sol- diers. A British officer was with me who pronounced it to be, in its kind, very good... ...a, and Mount Vernon are in Virginia. The River Potomac divided the two old colonies, or States as they afterward became; but when Washington was to be... ....” The President and the Constitution fared no better in men’s mouths. The former did noth- ing—neither harm nor good; and as for the latter, it had b... ... impede the celerity of the work to be done, and that a closer copy of the British model might not on the whole increase the efficiency of the America... ... Committee on Foreign Affairs, which position is as near akin to that of a British minister in Parliament as can be attained under the existing Consti... ... latter alone is clear enough on the subject, but is strength- ened by the former in proving that under the latter no State could possess the legal po... ...land has been seeking to do any time since her subjection; as the revolted colonies of Great Britain suc- ceeded in doing in 1776, whereby they create... ...is, I presume, universally known that the citizens of the Western American colonies of Great Britain which re- volted, declared themselves to be free ...

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...tar origin, his eyes have not. Climate may have had great influence on the former, but it is difficult to see how it can have produced the substantial... ... three lan- guages, properly speaking, among all the numerous tribes which formerly occupied the country that now composes the United States. They asc... ...lly, the bloody arena, in which most of the battles for the mastery of the colonies were contested. Forts were erected at the different points that co... ...elevation on which it had been placed by the talents and enterprise of her former war- riors and statesmen. No longer dreaded by her enemies, her serv... ...e danger into which he was heedlessly running, saved the rem- nants of the British army, on this occasion, by his decision and courage. The reputation... ...ng of a summer sun. The 10 The Last of the Mohicans loyal servants of the British crown had given to one of these forest-fastnesses the name of Willi... ...ay call for some slight changes, yet does this version which we use in the colonies of New England so much exceed all other versions, that, by its ric... ...t gets into them, in com- pany with that runner, for the best rifle in the colonies. They are full of outlying Iroquois, and your mongrel Mohawk knows... ...or- tage with his savages, every yell and whoop from whom rang through the British encampment, chilling the hearts of men who were already but too muc...

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... minute the father of the family walked in, rattling his seals like a true British merchant. “What’s the matter, Emmy?” says he. “Joseph wants me to s... ...ad the cour- age; if George and Miss Sedley had remained, according to the former’s proposal, in the farther room, Joseph Sedley’s bachelorhood would ... ... late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward and claime... ...of Dobbin’s hand, acted over the scene, to the horror of the original per- former, and in spite of Dobbin’s good-natured entreaties to him to have mer... ...r, to make a little heap for Rebecca. And going to her Papa, that generous British merchant, who had promised to give her as many guineas as she was y... ...the heart, had been called into requisition—Rebecca and Amelia parted, the former vowing to love her friend for ever and ever and ever. CHAPTER VII Cr... ...et except his own; and it is with grief and pain, that, as admirers of the British aristocracy, we find ourselves obliged to admit the existence of so...

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...nswered Riderhood. Do what Bradley Headstone would, he could not keep that former flush of impatience out of his face, or so master his eyes as to pre... ... sought for a new turn of speech, but could find none so expressive as his former one, repeated in a confidential tone, ‘—that it won’t do. If I could... ..., looked out for a moment, and turned round quite coldly. ‘You have had no former cause of complaint on the senti- mental score, Alfred, and you will ... ...of referring for advice and support to a sage volume entitled The Complete British Family Housewife, which she would sit consulting, with her elbows o... ...nt- ress poring over the Black Art. This, principally because the Complete British Housewife, however sound a Briton at heart, was by no means an expe... ...s by no means an expert Briton at expressing herself with clearness in the British tongue, and sometimes might have issued her directions to equal pur... ..., I have had an idea, Mortimer, of taking myself and my wife to one of the colonies, and working at my vocation there.’ ‘I should be lost without you,...

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... remote county, he was enabled to draw them from among the increase of the former colony. Although the settlement of this part of Otsego a little pre-... ...man of middle age and the other a female just entering upon womanhood. The former was of a large stature; but the 11 James Fenimore Cooper precaution... ...tion from the easy gliding of the sleigh by the sound of their voices. The former was thinking of the wife that had held this their only child to her ... ...t 22 The Pioneers wealth with them into the new settlements of the middle colonies. The consequence of an emigrant into these provinces was generally... ...ortunes of the two extremes of society, in the peaceful and unenterprising colonies of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, The posterity of Marmaduke did not... ...f Edward Effingham. They were one of the few families then resident in the colonies who thought it a degradation to its members to descend to the purs... ...ure maintenance. Major Effingham, in declin- ing the liberal offers of the British ministry, had subjected himself to the suspicion of having attained... ...gain, there was a hole under your lee-quarter big enough to hold the whole British navy.” “Oh! for massy’s sake! and wa’n’t you afeard, Benjamin? and ... ...matter, can talk the language almost as well as myself, or any native-born British subject. Y ou’ve forgot your schooling, and the young mistress is a...

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... characters, and families—just as the Joneses do about the Smiths. Becky’s former acquaintances hated and envied her; the poor woman herself was yawni... ... enough to take the management of her own house. It has been narrated in a former chapter how the benevolent nobleman had given his protegee money.to ... ... began to treat with even less than that semblance of respect which he had formerly shown towards that gentleman. It never entered into the head of Mr... ...terms the habit of play-act- ing and fancy dressing as highly unbecoming a British female, and after the charades were over, took his brother Rawdon s... ...ery, but men of administrative talents to superin- tend the affairs of our colonies, and we have no doubt that the gentleman selected by the Colonial ... ...d Greek, and a set of super- cilious dogs that pretended to look down upon British mer- chants and gentlemen, who could buy up half a hundred of ‘em. ... ...authors of ancient and modern times and languages. He took the boys to the British Museum and descanted upon the antiquities and the specimens of natu... ...mmedi- ately parted company with the reprobate. Those who know the English Colonies abroad know that we carry with us us our pride, pills, prejudices,...

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...ies on the leading issues of this contest, as I understand it, is that the former consider slavery a moral, social and political wrong, while the latt... ...eople with negroes.” There, my friends, you have briefly what I have, upon former occasions, said upon this subject to which this newspaper, to the ex... ...cover that judge Douglas himself says a controversy between the Ameri- can Colonies and the Government of Great Britain began on the slavery question ... ...t subsequent to the Revolution, regarded the people of the Territories and Colonies as politi- cal communities which were entitled to a free and exclu... ...ty. I do not propose, in regard to this argument drawn from the history of former times, to enter into a detailed ex- amination of the historical stat... ...cuments of the Revolutionary times, tending to show that the people of the colonies were desirous of regulating their own concerns in their own way, t... ... were desirous of regulating their own concerns in their own way, that the British Government should not interfere; that at one 50 The Writings of Ab... ...50 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five time they struggled with the British Government to be permit- ted to exclude the African slave trade,—if... ..., Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, was acquired first, I believe, by the British Gov- ernment, in part at least, from the French. Before the estab- ...

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...pon the creation of parish clergymen. This new scruple was, in relation to former scruples, a perfect linch-pin for locking their machinery into cohes... ...r orders.’ Now, having stated the practice of Scottish induction as it was formerly sustained in its first stage by law, in its second stage by usage,... ...ses the whole review of that topic; and because it reflects light upon the former practice—the practice which led to the whole muti- nous tumult: ever... ...nsider- able action and reaction between the two classical churches of the British soil. Such was the varying condition, when sketched in outline, of ... ... as one section in that general extension of religious machinery which the British people, by their government and their legislature, have for many ye... ...r than France. But, gen- erally speaking, the case may be stated thus: the British na- tion is, by original constitution of mind, and by long enjoy- m... ...ribe of Wallachian shepherds, descended (it is sup- posed) from the Dacian colonies, Romans intermingled with natives, founded by the later Caesars; t... ...me Two the traveller passing along the public track; and when the pastoral colonies, as is often the case, occur at frequent inter- vals, the nuisance... ...s a matter of some moment for Homeric disputes—were these habits of Ionian colonies, or exclusively of Greece Proper? But enough of the repulsive feat...

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...from Beyrout, or Malta, or Algiers, has twice the interest now that it had formerly),—that I can’t but recommend all persons who have time and means t... ...we found ourselves again in the great stalwart roast-beef world; the stout British steamer bearing out of the bay, whose purple waters had grown more ... ...Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and set there to guard the passage for its British mistress. The next British lion is Malta, four days further on in t... ...- ging up the hideous perpendicular place, you were to find regi- ments of British grenadiers ready to plunge bayonets into your poor panting stomach,... ... into mili- tary residences, and masked so that you would never know their former pious destination. Y ou walk through narrow white- washed lanes, be... ...ects than with his- tory and fortifications:as far as I can understand the former, Gibraltar is the great British depot for smuggling goods into the P... ..., Germans, Spaniards, and Greeks; on the deck were squatted several little colonies of people of dif- ferent race and persuasion. There was a Greek Pa...

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...from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the British Navy;’ the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Registrer, and th... ...of the Eastern Mediterranean. Already had his might devoured the cherished colonies of the Greeks on the eastern shore of the Archipelago, and every t... ...r land fall a prey to the conquerors. T rue it was that ten years back the former Great King had sent his best troops to be signally defeated upon the... ...osed of the patricians, or citizens of highest birth, and of those who had formerly been consuls. They decided on peace or war, and made the laws, and... ...at the end of the day, and they were but poorly armed. He told them of the former aid that had come to their fathers in extremity, and made them bold ... ...d houses built round courts that were in use among the Ro- mans, and Roman colonies had been established in various 72 A Book of Golden Deeds places,... ...nd other curious plants of the newly won land; here was the breastplate of British pearls that Caesar dedicated to Venus. A band of flute-players foll... ... of higher rank were enrolled as Roman citizens, their chief cit- ies were colonies where the laws were administered by mag- istrates in the Roman fas... ...after, were successfully de- fended against the French by a small force of British troops under the command of Colonel Hugh Gough, better known in his...

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...; “and as the Frenchers are always wrong, and his sacred Majesty and these colonies are always right, I take it the Sergeant has a quiet conscience as... ...lt near him. Arrowhead and his wife occu- pied places forward of both, the former having relinquished his post aft. Mabel was half reclining behind he... ...t like snakes, with their arms prepared for service, while the wife of the former bowed her head between her knees, covered it with her calico robe, a... ...swimming. As soon as this fact was certain, the Delaware rose, resumed his former station, and began to think the moment for action was come. One less... ... which we are writing, Oswego was one of the extreme frontier posts of the British possessions on this conti- nent. It had not been long occupied, and... ...of the oldest sergeant. A few young officers also, who were natives of the colonies, were to be found in the corps. The fort itself, like most works o... ... of Sergeant Dunham, many Americans had joined it since its arrival in the colonies. As a matter of course, the provincials were generally the most ex... ...ualities, as it might be.” “A French master is but a poor instructor for a British sailor, notwithstanding.” “I beg your pardon, sir: Jasper Eau-douce... ...honor’s leave.” “It’s a d——d lingo, and never did any one good—at least no British subject; for I suppose the French themselves must talk together in ...

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...so here mention, that while the friendship of Pope and Addison lasted, the former con- tributed the well-known prologue to the latter’s “Cato.” One of... ...nd Book of Horace. In this last, he attacks, in the most brutal style, his former love Lady Mary W. Montague, who replied in a piece of coarse clevern... ...s wines as among the latter influences, and spiritu- ous liquors among the former! His last words were, “There is nothing that is meritorious but virt... ...Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 31 90 ‘Our humbler province is to tend the fair,... ...’d, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interpre... ... While fish in streams, or birds delight in air, Or in a coach-and-six the British fair, As long as Atalantis 32 shall be read, Or the small pillow g... ...pring renew Their flowery toils, and sip the fragrant dew, When the wing’d colonies first tempt the sky, O’er dusky fields and shaded waters fly, Or s...

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...of historic, no less than of topographical interest. The Vale was known in former times as the Forest of White Hart, from a curious legend of King Hen... ...d willow wand, and in her left a bunch of white flowers. The peeling of the former, and the selection of the latter, had been an operation of personal ... ... degrees their own door, the head of the family bursting suddenly into his former refrain as he drew near, as if to fortify his soul at sight of the s... ...commonplace than the original bald stark words. Conning for an hour in the British Museum the pages of works devoted to extinct, half extinct, obscure... ...as he stooped; and, presently, selecting a spe cially fine product of the ‘British Queen’ variety, he stood up and held it by the stem to her mouth. ‘... ...tical skill in the various processes of farming, with a view either to the Colonies, or the tenure of a home farm, as circumstances might decide. His ... ...l that this might be a lead in the right direction. Farming, either in the Colonies, America, or at home — farming, at any rate, after becoming well q... ...s position as a farmer on an extensive scale — either in England or in the Colonies. His father then told him that, as he had not been put to the expe... ...ery irregularity of the soil was prehistoric, every channel an undisturbed British trackway; not a sod having been turned there since the days of the ...

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...n to “Begin, and break off in the middle.” I have, perhaps, said enough on former occasions of the misfortunes which led to the dropping of that mask ... ...careless and successful levity which the consciousness of the disguise had formerly bestowed. Perhaps the Author of Waverley is now about to incur a r... ...ure invention. I found it too troublesome to turn to the collection of the British Poets to discover appo- site mottoes, and, in the situation of the ... ...oes to London, being still possessed of the palace of the sovereign, as it formerly was dignified by the residence of the principal nobility and gentr... ...abroad a conducteur; or might be compared to the sailing-master on board a British ship of war, who follows out after his own manner the course which ... ...ive tartan, and so named to distinguish them from the scarlet ranks of the British army. In this occupation she spent many hours of each morning and e... ...ed himself on the scheme, by which he drew together for the defence of the colonies those hardy Highlanders, who, until his time, had been the objects...

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...ouse, where they went in, and drunk some drams, and Alan Breck renewed the former Conversation; and the deponent, making the same answer, Alan said, t... ... was even then much depressed; since that, and with the rebel- lion of the colonies and the formation of the United States, it has, of course, come to... ...d he now begged me for a dram with such instancy and such reminders of his former kindness, that at last I handed him a pannikin with about a gill of ... ...of fifteen pounds sterling upon a first offence, and transportation to the colonies upon a sec- ond. Nor could I quite see why a religious teacher sho... ... heart. Then I understood this was an emigrant ship bound for the American colonies. We put the ferry-boat alongside, and the exiles leaned over the b... ...ve us each a sword and pistols, though I professed my inability to use the former; and with these, and some ammunition, a bag of oatmeal, an iron pan,... ... his comments on them as he wrote. “This,” says he, “is to my bankers, the British Linen Com- pany, placing a credit to your name. Consult Mr. Thomson... ... The hand of Providence brought me in my drifting to the very doors of the British Linen Company’s bank. T o return to the Robert Louis Stevenson page...

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...f national prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our British school- boys value a battle. Painful it is to add, that this is the... ...if severed from the documents which attest their fidelity to facts. In the former class stand the admirable novels of De Foe; and, on a lower range, w... ...arate grounds equally interesting to us all, as the mightiest of En- glish colonies, and the superbest monument of demoniac English energy , revealing... ... Or do we grind her still?” Pretty much the same authority it is which the British public of this day has for its craze upon the subject of English op... ...ling of amateurship. Several great collections have been bequeathed to the British Museum, for instance—not chiefly as a na- tional institution, and u... ...ds of liberal knowledge and of severe science shall never grow dry. By the former it is secured that this unfailing foun- 103 Thomas de Quincey tain ... ...t present, absolutely and chimerically be- yond their means of attainment. Formerly we used to hear attacks upon the Oxford discipline as fitted to th... ...o Delphi must often have been peculiarly inconve- nient to the founders of colonies moving westwards from Greece; and the expenses of such a journey, ... ...r, would suggest this sanction as a necessity, under the following reason:—colonies the most enviably prosperous upon the whole, have yet had many har...

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... with the “outremers,”—a name given to scholars whose families were in the colonies or in foreign countries. Y ou will notice throughout how my unhapp... ...at you will, nothing can prevent the latter from talking of lovers, or the former of women. But in Paris, and especially at this particular time, such... ... consideration and seeming pleased to receive me as a guest. My father had formerly done devoted service to the Bourbons, and had played an important ... ...doomed to the an- guish of maternity without its joys—this uprising of his former into his present life, with its growth of new suffer- ings, crushed ... ...ince the Conquest, married to one of the most distinguished old men of the British peerage, it was nevertheless evident that these advan- tages were m... ...or look has reached them; to them, the people are as if they were not. The British present an image of their own island, where law rules everything, w... ...at the fall of its highest angel. Lady Dudley aban- doned her place in the British empyrean, gave up her wealth, and endeavored to eclipse by her sacr...

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... or changed them in such a manner, that I do hardly know my own work. When I formerly hinted to you something of this in a letter, you were pleased to... ...s oration, he cried out three times, Langro dehul san (these words and the former were afterwards repeated and explained to me); whereupon, immediat... ... all; twenty of them were filled with meat, and ten with liquor; each of the former afforded me two or three good mouthfuls; and I emptied the liquor ... ...arous people! But this description, I confess, does by no means af fect the British nation, who may be an example to the whole world for their wisdom... ...example to the whole world for their wisdom, care, and justice in plant ing colonies; their liberal endowments for the advance ment of religion and ... ...have any desire of being conquered and en slaved, murdered or driven out by colonies, nor abound either in gold, silver, sugar, or tobacco, I did hum...

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...board he will no doubt get off at Suez, so as to reach the Dutch or French colonies in Asia by some other route. He ought to know that he would not be... ...fficers of various grades, the latter being either attached to the regular British forces or com- manding the Sepoy troops, and receiving high salarie... ...followed them. The visa procured, Mr. Fogg returned on board to resume his former habits; while Passepartout, according to custom, saun- tered about a... ...ad unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. The British Crown exercises a real and despotic dominion over the larger por- t... ...s at Madras, Bombay, and in Bengal, and a lieutenant-governor at Agra. But British India, properly so called, only embraces seven hundred thousand squ... ...try, as well as the manners and distinc- tions of race, is daily changing. Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cum- brous methods o... ...you—” “Be so good, landlord, as not to swear, but remember this: cats were formerly considered, in India, as sacred animals. That was a good time.” “F...