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...moke had darkened the whole city with soot, and when, according to the old writers, there really was bright weather. The fleets of caiques bustling al... ...e moored everywhere, showing their flags, Rus- sian and English, Austrian, American, and Greek; and along the quays country ships from the Black Sea o... ...issaries, with silver maces shining in the sun. ’Twas the party of the new American Consul-General of Syria and Jerusalem, hastening to that city, wit... ...lem, so as to be on the spot in readiness. When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe... ...ard conduct was more touching, whose sincerity was more evident, and whose religious feeling seemed more deep, real, and reasonable. 109 Thackeray On... ...mo- rial accorded to the Christians of the Latin rite in Syria. All French writers and travellers speak of this protection with de- lightful complacen... ...e. But I have never been able to edify myself with their devotion; and the religious outpourings of Lamartine and Chateaubriand, which we have all bee... ...more than are made by our own Episcopal establishment. But if the latter’s religious victories are small, and very few people are induced by the Ameri... ...I would urge, humbly, however, is this—Do not let us be led away by German writers and aes- thetics, Semilassoisms, Hahnhahnisms, and the like. The l...

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...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...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... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; consider the disgraceful history of missions in Hawaii itself, where (i... ...gotten delicacies. Pierre Loti may like to know that he is M. Aussel’s favourite author, and that his books are read in the fit scenery of Hatiheu bay... ...haps shyly thinking his own statuary result enough; and was al- together a pattern of the missionary layman. CHAPTER VIII—THE PORT OF ENTRY THE PORT—T... ... other end of the town from the Resi- dency, beyond the buildings of the mission. Her house is on the European plan: a table in the midst of the chief...

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... university. 3 Henry James A Little Tour In France by Henry James WE GOOD AMERICANS—I say it without presumption—are too apt to think that France is ... ... rich and powerful, till it was known at last as one of the most luxurious religious houses in Christendom, with kings for its titular abbots (who, li... ...e left, rises the famous winding stair- case (plausibly, but I believe not religiously, restored), which even the ages which most misused it must vagu... ... of old furniture, as all apartments should be through which the insatiate American wanders in the rear of a bored domestic, pausing to stare at a fad... ...had not come over the spirit of the people. They seemed to me as silent as Americans when Americans have not been “introduced,” and infinitely less ad... ... than the manner of this excellent woman when she ar- rived; yet her small religious house seemed a very out-of- 157 Henry James the-way corner of th... ...d. I was unable to trace the configuration of the castle as plainly as the writers who have described it in the guide-books, and I am ashamed to say t...

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...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...e of men bent over the bowls inset along a prodigious slab of marble as in religious prostra- tion before their own images in the massy mirror. Voices... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...rce, just as the priests of the Presbyte- rian Church determined his every religious belief and the senators who controlled the Republican Party decid... ...en a bath-tub, never read any book save the Bible, McGuffey’s readers, and religious tracts; and he be- lieved that the earth is flat, that the Englis... ...e to ruin this business than all the plots and stuff that these fool story-writers could think up in a month of Sundays.” That afternoon, when the old...

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...ob of it, and save it. Lay hold of the proper agencies, and secure all the Americans you can, at once. I do hope, on closer inspection, you will find ... ...poll- books of the Edwardsville precinct, and take the first hundred known American names. Then quietly ascertain how many of them are actually going ... ... other agencies to work which shall compensate for the loss of a good many Americans. Don’t fail to check the stampede at once. Trumbull, I think, wil... ...ir example before long. So it will be seen that slavery is agitated in the religious as well as in the political world. Judge Douglas is very much afr... ...n—in behalf of the present and future of the nation—in behalf of civil and religious liberty for all time to come, most gratefully do I thank you. I d... ...prayer, and fasting to be observed by the people of the United States with religious solemnities and the offering of fervent supplications to Almighty... ...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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... and lay preacher in the lumber camps who is of noble character and deeply religious. An earnest and practical laborer in the New York slums comes up ... ...t is in him, though it cost him his life. An other man, just as sincerely religious, but of different tem perament, will fail of that duty, though r... ...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...n—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And when you know the man’s religious complexion, you know what sort of reli gious books he reads when... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ...vity contains either What Is Man and Other Essays 154 wit or information. Writers of this school go in rags, in the matter of state directions; the m... ...plined service. Over and over again, where such knowledge is unexampled in writers unlearned in the law, Shakespeare appears in perfect possession of ...

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... great livery-stableman’s most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want ... ...nch fiction, and architectural incentives to immorality such as the simple American had never dreamed of. That was how women with lovers lived in the ... ...n Wardian cases, made macrame lace and wool embroidery on linen, collected American revolutionary glazed ware, subscribed to “Good Words,” and read Ou... ...nflicting it; and by the uniform wording of the notes, in all of which the writers “regretted that they were unable to accept,” without the mitigating... ...ght matter, and dining there with a Duke who was their cousin was almost a religious solemnity. It pleased Archer to think that only an old New Y orke... ...ht have resented; and 138 The Age of Innocence he was struck again by the religious reverence of even the most unworldly American women for the socia...

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...t it. We do of course know that there are several comparatively old dates in American his tory, but the mere figures convey to our minds no just idea... ...it, he adds perspective and color, and then realizes that this is one of the American dates which is quite respectable for age. For instance, when the... ... peculiar fashion; Margaret of Navarre was writing the “Heptameron” and some religious books,—the first survives, the others are forgotten, wit and in... ... country back again!—make restitution, not to the owners, but to their white American heirs. The voyagers journeyed on, touching here and there; ‘pass... ...Indians, near the site of the present city of that name, where they found a ‘religious and political despotism, a privileged class descended from the ... ...believe it, but many steamboat clerks al ways carried a large assortment of religious tracts with them in those old departed steamboating days. Indee... ...free man and may speak the whole truth, regardless of his parish’s opinions; writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankl... ...was supposed that there was collusion between the association and the under writers, but this was not so. The latter had come to compre hend the exc...

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...ock. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” Cr... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ...reat original — the Tyre of this Carthage; — the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nantucket did those aborig... ...wards night fall; for I cherish the great est respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my h... ...hat all men’s minds and opinions but Loose Fish? What is the principle of religious belief in them but a Loose Fish? What to the ostentatious smuggli... ... 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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...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ...HUMAN SCIENCE Y HUMAN SCIENCE Y HUMAN SCIENCE IT IS SOMETIMES SAID, that a religious messenger from God does not come amongst men for the sake of teac... ... mission. The spiritual mission, therefore, the purpose for which only the religious teacher was sent, has now perished altogether— overlaid and confo... ...in its strongest light, when we recur to the fact of his astonishment at a religious princess refusing to confer a bishoprick upon one that had treate... ...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... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ...

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...ack. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” —C... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ... great original— the Tyre of this Carthage;—the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nan- tucket did those abor... ...towards night-fall; for I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my ... ...hat all men’s minds and opinions but Loose- Fish? What is the principle of religious belief in them but a Loose-Fish? What to the ostentatious smuggli... ...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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...y as though it had been true. The pious atmosphere of the vicarage and the religious tone of the school had made Philip’s conscience very sensi- 57 W... ...assion equal to his own. The boy’s tempera- ment seemed to him essentially religious. One day he broke off suddenly from the subject on which he had b... ... of the hilltops. What had happened to him when first he was seized by the religious emotion hap- pened to him now. Because he felt so keenly the beau... ... , and his almond eyes almost closed as he did so. There were two or three American men, in black coats, rather yellow and dry of skin: they were theo... ... tall and slim. He held himself with a deliberate grace. Weeks, one of the American students, seeing him alone, went up and began to talk to him. The ... ...one, went up and began to talk to him. The pair were oddly contrasted: the American very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trou- sers, thin a... ...t them out and ar- range them alphabetically according to the names of the writers. “I’ll take you to the room in which the articled clerk generally s... ... came out in The Y ellow Book.” They looked upon him, as painters often do writers, with contempt because he was a layman, with tolerance because he p... ...o oc- cupy themselves with the entertainment which is provided for them by writers, painters, and poets.” Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He h...

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... is to witness a service that they have learnt to appreciate as Anglicanly religious. On the step of the return to their Indian clime, they speak of t... ...t- featured, correct in costume, appearance, deportment, sec- ond son of a religious earl and no scandal to the parentage, he was less noticed by Nest... ...treat precipitately into the nooks where waxen tapers, carefully tended by writers on the Press, light-up mysterious images of our national selves for... ... it suited her mezzo-so- prano tones; and it rang massively of the martial-religious. T o what heights of spiritual grandeur might not a Huguenot Fran... ... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...nt of commercial matters: rivalries of Banks; Foreign and Municipal Loans, American Rails, and Argen- tine; new Companies of wholesome appearance or s...

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...lined and uncoordinated minority of inventors, experi- menters, educators, writers and organisers has achieved this development of human possibilities... ...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ... un- imaginative temperament or her mind was greatly occupied with private religious solicitudes, and I remember her talk- ing to me but little, and t... ...ooks as confederated old ladies. My mother was also very punctual with her religious du- ties, and rejoiced to watch me in the choir. On winter evenin... ...milat- ing to itself all the phrases and forms of patriotism, diverting my religious impulses, utilising my esthetic tendencies, my dominating idea, t... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain.... ...of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East Indians, here a p... ...ut I went on talking. It’s the grim irony in the lives of all politicians, writers, public teach- ers, that once the audience is at their feet, a new ...

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...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ...Dave Dyer, a sallow woman with a thin prettiness devoted to experiments in religious cults, illnesses, and scandal-bearing, shook her finger at Carol ... ..., Lamb, De Quincey, and Mrs. Humphry Ward, who, it seemed, constituted the writers of English Fiction and Es- says. Not till she inspected the rest-ro... ... don’t know the things that go on under cover. This town—why it’s only the religious training I’ve given Cy that’s kept him so innocent of—things. Jus... ...ng enough to read Robert J. Ingersoll clean through. Ingersoll? Oh, he’s a religious writer. Sure. You’d like him fine.” When he drove off he waved to... ... I guess the feminine mind is too innocent to understand all these immoral writers. I’m sure I don’t want to criticize Bernard Shaw; I understand he i...

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...ly in physical but in mental things. A boy named Prothero set a fashion of religious discussion in the school, and Benham, after some self-examination... ... talking of Eugenics and the “family”—Benham was almost knocked down by an American trotter driven by Lord Breeze. “Whup there!” said Lord Breeze in a... ...uestrian… .” That night some malignant spirit kept Benham awake, and great American trotters with vast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncon... ...ast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncontrollable, hard-mouthed American trot- ters, pounded over his angry soul. “Prothero,” he said in ha... ...ad still to reckon with stupidity. He believed in the statecraft of leader-writers and the sincerity of political programmes. And so regarded, what an... ...ming merely an 105 H G Wells intellectual like those wordy Fabians, those writers, poseurs, and sham publicists whose wrangles he had attended? And, ... ... blotted out the heavens. He felt like one of those unfortunate victims of religious mania who are convinced they have committed the Sin against the H... ... You brought it on yourself. Well—I am—inflamed. I have no strong moral or religious convic- tions to assist me either to endure or deny this—this urg...

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...ver with a treacly blue enamel and further decorated by a fringe of pinked American cloth insecurely fixed by tacks. Below this was a little table tha... ...t in- dustrial area of the Midlands.) We had shared each other’s secret of religious doubt, we had confided to one another a common interest in Social... ...r home that idea the first book I got from the Institute happened to be an American edition of the collected works of Shelley, his gassy prose as well... ...sh. “There’s hard times coming,” said Parload. “Next winter.” “Sooner. The Americans have been overproducing, and they mean to dump. The iron trade is... ...st beyond endurance. It was clear to me that I had to think out for myself religious problems, social problems, questions of conduct, questions of exp... ... the spectacle and a great and growing awe. They were Dissenters, and very religious people out of business hours, and it seemed to them in those last... ...ence to be found in the “Twentieth Century Gar- ner” from the pens of such writers, for example, as Sidney Low. But a picture of them as a whole is wa...

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...herself. There was a lithographic smoothness about her, and a mixture of the American matron and the public character. There was something public in h... ...and helpless miseries grow greater all the while? I am only a girl, a simple American girl, and of course I haven’t seen much, and there is a great de... ... an idea that in leaving them simply planted face to face (the terror of the American heart) she had so high a warrant; and presently Basil Ransom fel... ... was discernible even to Olive’s very limited sense of humour. It was not so religious as going to evening service at King’s Chapel; but it was the ne... ...orrespondent suffered a good deal to day from the competition of the ‘ lady writers’; the sort of article they produced was sometimes more acceptable... ...ur freedom is essential, and that there is no freedom for you and me save in religiously not doing what you will often be asked to do—and I never!’ Mi... ...as yet ultimate and remote, but preceded by the solemn vista of an effort so religious as never to be wanting in ecstasy, became tremendously familiar...

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...ONS of such a place as Albaro, the suburb of Genoa, where I am now, as my American friends would say, ‘located,’ can hardly fail, I should imagine, t... ...out of this quarantine somehow or other, as he had to take part in a great religious procession in the afternoon. After this, he would come back, laug... ...tly what it was at first, and what it remains after many visits. It is not religiously im pressive or affecting. It is an immense edifice, with no on... ...sed to view a little wooden doll, in face very like General Tom Thumb, the American Dwarf: gorgeously dressed in satin and gold lace, and actually bla... ...s It is a very valuable property, and much confided in—espe cially by the religious body to whom it belongs. I am happy to know that it is not consid... ...te Campagna in one direc tion, where it was most level, reminded me of an American prairie; but what is the solitude of a region where men have never... ...arriages on the Chiaji, or walking in the Public Gardens; and quiet letter writers, perched behind their little desks and inkstands under the Portico ...

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...e and intelligent approved; and those who had the appropriate—that is, the religious interest—confessed that it was practically successful. From whom,... ...lace next week. Or again, if it should never take place, perhaps it may be religious care- lessness on the part of the parish. Many parishes notorious... ...s reaction in 1660), and secondly, that in 1688-9—did much to unsettle the religious tone of public morals. Historians and satirists ascribe a large e... ...ountries, a cold and lifeless state of public religion prevailed up to the American and French Revolutions. These great events gave a shock everywhere... ...cide with the opportunities for ob- taining accurate information; when the writers were so few, 85 Thomas de Quincey and the audience so limited and ... ...nxiously prepared the means. And it is certain, that, although some German writers have attempted to fasten upon Charlemagne a charge of vexatious inq... ...entire tribes of those savages, and, upon a scale still more awful, to the American Indians. In such cases, mere strangers would 132 Theological Essa...