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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... ...embered that the Dutch (who first settled New Y ork), the English, and the French, all gave appellations to the tribes that dwelt within the country w... ... this book, fully a quarter of a century since, it occurred to us that the French name of this lake was too complicated, the American too commonplace,... ..., it was ascertained that a tribe of Indians, called “Les Horicans” by the French, existed in the neighborhood of this beautiful sheet of water. As ev... ...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... ...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...

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... but no longer very bitter against ours. She had a very good-natured, easy French director, Monsieur Gauthier by name, who was a gentleman of the worl... ...with his young pupil. 9 Thackeray The gazetteers and writers, both of the French and English side, have given accounts sufficient of that bloody batt... ... slain or wounded (the Allies lost twice as many men as they killed of the French, whom they conquered): and this dreadful slaughter very likely took ... ...more dangerous, and was hit by a spent ball just above the place where his former wound was, which caused the old wound to open again, fever, spitting... ...land that is independent in all but the name, (for that the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twenty years... ...en made up, and with a ruffian so low, base, profligate, and degraded with former crimes and repeated murders, that a man of such renown and princely ... ...er feelings might have been of anger or of sorrow, (and I fear me that the former emotion was that which most tore her heart,) she would take no confi...

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...iant company my dear Becky is mov- ing. She became a constant guest at the French Embassy, where no party was considered to be complete without the pr... ... de- clared, according to the wont of their nation (for who ever yet met a Frenchman, come out of England, that has not left half a dozen families mis... ...ul, sumptuous, solemn, and in diamonds. They talked in English, not in bad French, as they do in the novels. They talked about each oth- ers’ houses, ... ... 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... ...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 ... ...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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...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... ...ooms were as clean as scrubbing and whitewash could make them; with simple French prints (with Spanish titles) on the walls; a few rickety half-finish... ...fan and mantle; to them came three or four dandies, dressed smartly in the French fashion, with strong Jewish physiognomies. There was one, a solemn l... ...y choose his trade,” our little informant said, who addressed us in better French than any of our party spoke, whose manners were perfectly gentlemanl... ... 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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...t it is now urgent to know whether we meet as friends or foes. They may be French.” “One hail will soon satisfy us on that head,” returned Cap. “Stand... ...hese parts, and perhaps one of my names may have reached your ears. By the Frenchers and the redskins on the other side of the Big Lakes, I am called ... ... has fi’t only on the side of right,” returned the Pathfinder; “and as the Frenchers are always wrong, and his sacred Majesty and these colonies are a... ...; “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... ...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...

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...one moment he understood it all. The enemy were advancing, to surprise the French army, and would be upon them when night was further advanced. That m... ...the self-devotion of the chevalier; for, among the new war-steamers of the French fleet, there is one that bears the ever-honored name of D’Assas. THE... ...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 ... ...and character would be more like that of the modern Welsh, or of their own French descendants, small, alert, and dark-eyed, full of fire, but, though ... ...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,... ... 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...

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...o come in, Miss Sharp ad- vanced in a very unconcerned manner, and said in French, and with a perfect accent, “Mademoiselle, je viens vous faire mes a... ...iselle, je viens vous faire mes adieux.” Miss Pinkerton did not understand French; she only directed those who did: but biting her lips and throwing u... ...ve been made to tend the little girls in the lower schoolroom, and to talk French to the Misses, until I grew sick of my mother tongue. But that talki... ...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... ...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...

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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... ...old and lifeless state of public religion prevailed up to the American and French Revolutions. These great events gave a shock everywhere to the medit... ...om Methodism. This last effect became more conspicuously evident after the French Revo- lution. The church of Scotland, which, as a whole, had ex- hib... ...ous organization of irreligion, which gave its most fearful aspects to the French Revolution. Other evils are in the rear as likely to arise out of th... ...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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...friend received it, he had accepted a Government appointment in one of the colonies, and was already on his way to the scene of his official labours. ... ... studied mathematics.” “Stuff! I dare say you have.” “I can read and write French and German.” “Hum!” He reflected a moment, then opening a drawer in ... ...mething that may enable you to earn your board and lodging: since you know French and German, I will take you as second clerk to manage the for- eign ... ...ide of the fireplace; having glanced at my translations—he could read both French and German—he went out again in silence. CHAPTER III I SERVED EDWARD... ...fficile, monsieur, quand on n’en a plus l’habitude.” “You had the habitude formerly, I suppose? Now answer me in your mother tongue.” “Yes, sir, I spo... ...omfort they could not drain, a pillar of support they could not overthrow: formerly, when insulted, she wept; now, she smiled. The public reading of o... ...heard with a grim calm very different from the petulant pleasure they were formerly wont to excite. For a long time Pelet bore with my frigid demeanou...

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... Everard, and his uncle’s friend Stukely Culbrett, expounded the nature of Frenchmen to him, saying that they were un- easy when not periodically thra... ...of our exhi- bition of ourselves in Europe. It looked as if the blustering French Guard were to have it all their own way. And what 9 George Meredith... ...fi- culties to be overcome. As regards his qualifications for ad- dressing Frenchmen, a year of his prae-neptunal time had been spent in their capital... ...o him like a second nature, from his habit of doing as others bid him: the former smacks a voluntarily sweating forehead and throbbing wounds for witn... ...his uncle was perpetually lamenting the cowed spirit of the common English-formerly such fresh and merry men! He touched Rosamund Culling’s heart with... ...nt of their promp- titude for war. His recollections of dissatisfaction in former days assisted him to perceive the nature of it, but he was too young... ... of a venture, ‘that no educated man of ordinary sense who has visited our colonies will come back a Liberal.’ As for a man of sense and education bei...

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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... ...ble— to sound his praises in his own land. Let us suppose that a courteous Frenchman ventures an opinion among En- glishmen that Wellington was a grea... ...own-trodden country of slaves and pau- pers.” Under such circumstances the Frenchman would probably be shut up. And when I strove to speak of Wash- in... ...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... ... 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... ...must probably be given mainly to Madison and Hamilton, Madison finding the French democratic element, and Hamilton the English conserva- tive element—... ...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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...s one Alan Stewart, a distant friend of the late Ardshiel’s, who is in the French service, and came over in March last, as he said to some, in order t... ...Louis Stevenson coloured,” a costume referred to by one of the counsel as “French cloathes which were remarkable.” There are many incidents given in t... ...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... ...id the captain. “Don’t do a mischief before ye see the need of it. Ye’ve a French soldier’s coat upon your back and a Scotch tongue in your head, to b... ...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,...

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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... ...in command on the western frontier of Pennsylvania against a league of the French and Indians, not only his glory , but the safety of him- self and hi... ... Mr. Le Quoi whether there is any danger.” It was not in the nature of the Frenchman to disappoint expectations so confidently formed; although he cat... ...er a precipice, which fell perpendicu- larly more than a hundred feet. The Frenchman, who by his position had a full view of their threatened flight, ...

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...ard- ice, he says.’ ‘Oh, be hanged!’ interrupted Fenellan. ‘As much of the former as you like. He ‘s right about our “individualismus” being another n... ...to acknowledge, too late. It is a beautiful art. Captain Dartrey says, the French excel at it. But it asks for a weapon, which nature has not given: w... ... of greensward, all but touching up to the sunset to draw it to the dance. Formerly, in his very early youth, he clasped a dream of gain- ing way to a... ...hat Nature and Law never agreed. They ought.’ ‘The latter deferring to the former?’ ‘Moulding itself on her swelling proportions. My dear dear sir, th... ...e had rueful qualms. We’ll try it.’ ‘You should dine with Victor Radnor.’ ‘French cook, of course!’ ‘Cordon bleu.’ 58 One of Our Conquerors ‘I like t... ...Cordon bleu. The miracle is, it ‘s a woman that Victor Radnor has trained: French, but a woman; devoted to him, as all who serve him are. Do I say “bu... ...influence approaching to authority with her. Land-values in the developing Colonies, formed his theme of discourse to Fenellan: let Banks beware. Fene...

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...d in many other businesses besides that of his trade; for, as I ob- served formerly, necessity arms us for all employments. My cargo, as near as I can... ... all acquainted with the persons engaged in it; I presently recollected my former circumstances, and what condition I was in when taken up by the Port... ...en; for there were a great many passengers. Upon inquiry we found it was a French merchant ship of three-hundred tons, home-bound from Quebec. The mas... ... the particu- lar circumstance of that nation they belonged to: I mean the French, whose temper is allowed to be more volatile, more passionate, and m... ...r this they came running into the cabin to the surgeon, who was bleeding a Frenchwoman that had fainted, and told him the priest was gone stark mad. I... ...r my going away is so very remarkable, and has so many incidents which the former part of my relation will help to understand, and which will in most ... ...he several im- provements, plantings, and management of the several little colonies, the two men had so far out-gone the three, that there was no comp... ... and do the like for them; so that when I came to see the two Englishmen’s colonies, they looked at a distance as if they all lived like bees in a hiv... ...eir habitation to the same place; and so the island was divided into three colonies, and no more – viz. the Spaniards, with old Friday and the first s...

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..., when they purchased a farmhouse at Pittsfield, their farm adjoining that formerly owned by Mr. Melville’s uncle, which had been inherited by the lat... ...e at Pittsfield. In December, 1866, he was appointed by Mr. H. A. Smyth, a former travelling companion in Europe, a district officer in the New York C... ...ot worthy of comparison—this book has as yet met with no superior, even in French literature; nor has it met with a rival in any other language than t... ...nch literature; nor has it met with a rival in any other language than the French. The char- acter of ‘Fayaway,’ and, no less, William S. Mayo’s ‘Kalo... ...iew. In a prefatory note to ‘Mardi’ (1849), Melville declares that, as his former books have been received as romance instead of reality, he will now ... ...e, I chanced, while aboard of a man- of-war to touch at these islands. The French had then held possession of the Marquesas some time, and already pri... ...h Islands and at two or three of the Society group, there are now thriving colonies of these insects, who prom- ise ere long to supplant altogether th...

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...is to add, that this is the prin- ciple upon which our adult neighbors the French seem to value a battle. T o any man who, like myself, admires the hi... ...y man who, like myself, admires the high-toned, mar- tial gallantry of the French, and pays a cheerful tribute of respect to their many intellectual t... ...triumphs, it is painful to witness the childish state of feeling which the French people manifest on every possible question that connects itself at a... ...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... ...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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...p to inquire, when they fired a broadside, whether it hit an Englishman, a French- man, or a Turk. Nor will I stop to inquire, nor shall I hesitate, w... ...nistration men and we are allied, and we stand in the attitude of English, French, and Turk, he occupying the position of the Russian, in that case I ... ...- sion. He tells you, not in his speech last night, but substantially in a former speech, that he cares not if slavery is voted up or down; he tells y... ...t all of these men; they are men who have come from Europe, German, Irish, French, and Scandinavian,—men that have come from Europe themselves, or who... ...ns. In what do our new Territories now differ in this respect from the old Colonies when slavery was first planted within them? It was planted, as Mr.... ...Government refusing to prohibit it, and withholding from the people of the Colonies the authority to prohibit it for themselves. Mr. Clay says this wa... ...one of the great and just causes of complaint against Great Britain by the Colonies, and the best apology we can now make for having the institution a... ... can hardly be distinguished on any moral principle; and the repeal of the former could find quite as plausible excuses as that of the latter.” I have... ...egree of liberty to the people in the Territories over and above what they formerly had on the ques- tion of slavery, a question was raised whether th...

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...d at the coolness and impertinence to which the man had risen whom she had formerly despised. “Then allow me, madame, to preserve my only chance of oc... ...bring out as soon as possible les Marguerites, those divine sonnets by the French Petrarch! We must carry our friend through on the shield of stamped ... ...known the goddess of the Sire de Rubempre’s fortune: She is des Lupeaulx’s former ‘rat.’ “ A form of dissipation, now forgotten, but still customary a... ...Rastignac hesitated, recognizing nothing of the hideous being he had known formerly at Madame Vauquer’s. “The devil has enabled you to change in every... ...ing to see the priest making this girl repeat Ave Maria and Paternoster in French. “That is very fine!” said Esther, when she had repeated these two g... ...was the life of Mazarin, the Italian cardinal, than that of Richelieu, the French cardinal. Richelieu met with opposition from the great nobles, and h... ...th a passport, at the Hotel Mirabeau, Rue de la Paix, having come from the Colonies via le Havre, in a traveling chaise, as mud-splashed as though it ... ...standing for the Marquis d’Aiglemont. Since the Marquis’ departure for the colonies, she had gone wild about Lucien, and had won him from the Duchesse...

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... jolly old fellow. He has white frizzle hair and large white whiskers. The former, I suspect, is a wig. The cheering was tremendous, but behind the ro... ...Deutsch wohl’ and he found him- self talking to a German on one side and a Frenchman on the other. His letters throughout his foreign travels are more... ... was difficult to see how this latter advantage could fail to outweigh the former defect; and everybody knew that they can’t find a lawyer to fill you... ...re languages, modern as well as ancient. You know I have often pressed the former on your and Jem’s notice, from myself feeling my deficiency and regr... ... tower-like masses of the Norfolk pine on the shores, was at that time the French Bishop of New Caledonia, the Oul, as the natives called him and his ... ...t home. But we must not, even taking this view, send our refuse men to the colonies. Newly forming societ- ies must be moulded by men of energy, and p... ...te so much time for writing as you have, I dare say, in spite of music and French and history and geography and all the rest of it. But I do dearly lo... ... and conver- sant with the habits and customs of French and English in the colonies; moreover, with plenty of firmness in putting forward his cause. H... ...d more plain and homely in speech and act is our life in 239 Yo n g e the colonies—e.g., you meet me carrying six or seven loaves from town to the co...