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...s on the hills, where a day of Italian sky, or better, a day of our breezy South-west, washed from the showery night, gives distantly a tower to view,... ...d acres, ex- tending across the ridge of the hills to the slopes North and South. Seven counties rolled their backs under this command- ing height, an... ...so well a sentimental clothing. His pride was in being very English on the Continent, and Diana’s instances of his lofty appreciations of the garden o... ...bjects, his talk was passable. The subjects treated of politics, pictures, Continental travel, our manufactures, our wealth and the reasons for it —ex... ...West wind blew, and gave her a view of the Downs beyond the Weald from her southern window. She thought it even possible to drive there and reach the ... ...ing on the hob: over the steadiest of furnaces too. And the oceans and the continents, as you know, are perpetual and copious contributors, either to ... ...r rather too briskly, contrived the next minute to break a precious bit of China standing by his elbow; and Lady Pennon cried out, with sympathetic an... ...is head: ‘As long as it is we who are the cracked.’ ‘Did we not start from China?’ ‘We were consequently precipitated to Stamboul.’ ‘You try to elude ... ...ting the world. He was witness of Mr. Hepburn’s pre- sentation of a costly China vase, to repair the breach in her array of ornaments, and excuse a vi...

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....’ ‘P,’ of course, stands for ‘Papier.’ Now for the ‘Eg.’ Let us glance at our Continental Gazetteer.” He took down a heavy brown volume from his shel... ...t this morn ing with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing Cross for the Continent.” “What!” Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin ... ...anual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I ... ...h the smooth patch near the elbow where you rest it upon the desk?” “Well, but China?” “The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right wr... ... have tattooed immediately above your right wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small study of tattoo marks and have even contribu... ...ment. “I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in his hair had ... ...al adviser and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is strange and biz... ...may rest here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from the south west, I see.” “Yes, from Horsham.” “That clay and chalk mixture w... ...e of a brave soldier. Others were of a date during the reconstruc tion of the Southern states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had ev...

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...or at him, I should say. He’s right: if we won’t learn that we have become Continentals, we shall be marched over. Laziness, coward- ice, he says.’ ‘O... ...ld like to think of the lengthened tide-flux of pedestrian citizens facing South-westward, as being drawn by devout attraction to our nourishing lumin... ...t the taint of gambling, a beneficent speculator. The Montgomery colony in South Af- rica, and his dealings with the natives in India, and his Rail- w... ...f- rica, and his dealings with the natives in India, and his Rail- ways in South America, his establishment of Insurance Of- fices, which were Savings... ...tin. I must beg of you you write it down. It is orally incomprehensible to Continentals.’ ‘We are Islanders!’ Colney shrugged in languishment. ‘Oh, yo... ...ons, was inspected; and another, where clerks were busy over miscellaneous Continents. Dudley Sowerby hoped he might win the maiden. He and Victor wal... ...er to her mother described them, they were like a pair of pieces of costly China, with the settled smile, and cold. She saw but the outside of them, a...

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...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all t...

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...qual opportunity University. 1821 DON JUAN by George Byron DEDICATION BOB SOUTHEY! You ‘re a poet — Poet laureate, And representative of all th... ...to cry aloud for me. Europe has slaves, allies, kings, armies still, And Southey lives to sing them very ill. Byron’s Don Juan “Dedication” 5 ... ...ve in Milton, Dryden, Pope; Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey; Because the first is crazed beyond all hope, The second dr... ... closed the repast, And Mocha’s berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine China cups, came in at last; Gold cups of filigree made to secure T... ... Constantinople is, Or seen Timbuctoo, or hath taken tea In small eyed China’s crockery ware metropolis, Or sat amidst the bricks of Nineveh... ...ve a coruscation Like gold as in comparison to dross, Match’d with the Continent’s illumination, Whose cities Night by no means deigns to glos... ...ess. Man In islands is, it seems, downright and thorough, More than on continents— as if the sea (See Billingsgate) made even the tongue more ... ...he tongue more free. And yet the British ‘Damme’ ‘s rather Attic: Your continental oaths are but incontinent, And turn on things which no aris... ...aw Have fill’d their papers with their comments various, Society, that china without flaw (The hypocrite!), will banish them like Marius, ...

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...o keep the peace in the Balkans and Asia, to establish a relationship with China, and organise joint and several arbitration arrangements with America... ...th the present United States. The thing has been ably advocated already in South America. Whatever appearances of separate sovereignties are kept up a... ...f man in conflict with mankind. It is the way to Harwich, Holland, Russia, China, and the whole wide world. Even at the first glance it impresses one ... ...e the traffic across. Beyond that point one is struck by the fact that the south side is considerably higher than the north, that storm water must run... ... is considerably higher than the north, that storm water must run from the south side to the north and lie there. It does, and the north side has rece... ...rica, and we shall be insane to im- port from Germany. America will be the continent with the long purse, prepared to buy rather than sell. Each count... ... reading. English history from the be- ginning, with occasional glances at Continental affairs, Eu- ropean history for about a century, bits of econom... ...developed, having also a common interest in maintain- ing the integrity of China and preventing her development into a military power; it is a zone wi... ...mmon interests and of its compatibility with the older idea of an American continent protected by a Monroe doc- trine from any possibility of aggressi...

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...or of the Nebraska Bill was born— indeed, before Columbus set foot on this continent. In the year 1776 it took form in the noble words which you are a... ...ecome alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes use of the above quotation, and finds a great d... ...ixty thousand mulattoes —and a large number of them were imported from the South. 17 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five FRAGMENT OF SPEECH A ... ...y is as good as freedom, and ought to have room for expansion all over the continent, if people can be found to carry it. All, or nearly all, of Judge... ...d lose the whole North, while the common enemy would still carry the whole South. The question of men is a different one. There are good, patriotic me... ...50 and of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, as well as the mem- bers of the Continental Congress of 1774., and the founders of our system of government... ...ility. This, being done, leaves but five full missions undisposed of—Rome, China, Brazil, Peru, and Chili. And then what about Carl Schurz; or, in oth... ...probably remain after sat- isfying the claims of American citizens against China, pursuant to the awards of the commissioners under the act of the 3d ... ...view to the satisfaction of such other just claims of our citizens against China as are not unlikely to arise hereafter in the course of our extensive...

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...om Bremen to New York, to anchor for several hours in the pleasant port of Southampton, where their human cargo receives many additions. An intelligen... ...s the American passen- gers crossed the plank—the travellers who embark at Southampton are mainly of that nationality—and curi- ously, indifferently, ... ...t of his mission. On the other hand the day was charming; the blue sea, in Southampton Water, pricked all over with light, had no movement but that of... ...ght, for if she was native to a small town in the interior of the American continent one of their fellow-passen- gers, a lady from New York with whom ... ... choice specimens of that American humour admired and practised by a whole continent and yet to be rendered accessible to a trained diplomatist, clear... ...palaces she had seen in Germany, where, as she said, there was nothing but china stoves and stuffed birds, that he was obliged to allow the home of Wa...

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...years old; and still from time to time Came murmurs of her beauty from the South, And of her brethren, youths of puissance; And still I wore her pictu... ...d looked the lips: but while I meditated A wind arose and rushed upon the South, And shook the songs, the whispers, and the shrieks Of the wild woods... ...wo sphere lamps blazoned like Heaven and Earth With constellation and with continent, Above an entry: riding in, we called; A plump-armed Ostleress a... ...ith her theme She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique And little-footed China, touched on Mahomet With much contempt, and came to chivalry: When so... ... her pale cheek, declared that ancient ties Would still be dear beyond the southern hills; That were there any of our people there In want or peril, t...

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...19, 1863. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedi- cated to the propo... ...nsas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons, not less than one-... ...tly includes those consuls who, residing in Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Japan, China, and other Oriental countries, are charged with complex functions and... ...he is a patriot, I should be glad for him to be with his old acquaintances south of Virginia, but I am unable to suggest anything definite upon the su... ...pril, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, the ports of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texa... ...lant by fraud the institutions of any republican government on the Western Continent, and that they will view with extreme jealousy, as menacing to th... ...n in regard to the supplanting of republi- can government upon the Western Continent is fully concurred in, there might be misunderstanding were I not... ...re entirely satisfactory. The rebellion which has so long been flagrant in China has at last been suppressed, with the co-operating good offices of th... ...h has been instituted with the Government and people of that vast Empire. China seems to be accepting with hearty good-will the conventional laws whi...

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...acted cloudy imbroglio of Paganism,—more like a cloud-field than a distant continent of firm land and facts! It is no longer a reality, yet it was one... ...ntests” among them before the time of Mahomet. Sale says, at Ocadh, in the South of Arabia, there were yearly fairs, and there, when the merchandising... ... of a Playhouse, so that he could live without beg- ging; whom the Earl of Southampton cast some kind glances on; whom Sir Thomas Lucy, many thanks to... ...e; one of Nature’s own Poems, such as she writes in broad facts over great continents. For it was prop- erly the beginning of America: there were stra... ...nswered Mr. Pitt, when applied to for some help for Burns. “Yes,” adds Mr. Southey, “it will take care of itself; and of you too, if you do not look t... ...s precious; the very attempt how precious! There does seem to be, all over China, a more or less active search everywhere to dis- cover the men of tal... ... promulgate your system, found your sect?” “T ruly,” he will answer, “I am continent of my thought hitherto; happily I have yet had the ability to kee...

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... looks down on much green, intricate country. It feeds in the spring- time many splashing brooks. From its summit you must have an excellent lesson of... ...al- though the upper sky was still unflecked with vapour, the sea fogs were pouring in from seaward, over the hill- tops of Marin county, in one great... ...oons, a hotel of a great size, marshy pools where the frogs keep up their croaking, and even at high noon the entire absence of any human face or voic... ... perhaps Tehama County; another, a party in dust coats, men and women, whom we found camped in a grove on the roadside, all 18 ... ...s, many dialects, innumerable forms of piety, and countless lo- cal patriotisms and prejudices, part us among ourselves more widely than the extreme e... ...he bar, and turn the leaf of a newspa- per, and the resting school-ma’ams in the parlour would be recalled to the consciousness of their inaction. Bus... ...ers from 59 the post-bag, the childish hope and interest with which one gazed in all these strangers’ eyes. They paused there ...

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...lieved that this communication can be safely estab- lished either north or south of the Pamunkey River. In any event, you will be able to prevent the ... ...ollowing, to wit: (General Orders No. 11) HEADQUARTERS DEPART- MENT OF THE SOUTH, HIL TON HEAD, PORT ROY AL, S. C., May 9, 1862. “The three States of ... ...ORT ROY AL, S. C., May 9, 1862. “The three States of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, comprising the military department of the South, having del... ...n of men is to enjoy equal- ity with the best when free, but on this broad continent not a single man of your race is made the equal of a single man o... ... We look to our condition. Owing to the existence of the two races on this continent, I need not recount to you the effects upon white men, growing ou... ...fort to colonize persons of Afri- can descent with their consent upon this continent or else- where, with the previously obtained consent of the gover... ...y favorable relations also continue to be maintained with Turkey, Morocco, China, and Japan. During the last year there has not only been no change of...

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...t will give a monstrous importance to the illiterate millions of India and China. Ingenious statistical schemes have been framed in which the number o... ...hat one can do with Russia just now—with a note of interrogation. Some day China may be war capable— I hope never, but it is a possibility. Personally... ...ve the British arrived at common views with France, Belgium, Portugal, and South Africa about the administration of Cen- tral Africa? Suppose Germany ... ... may resent it, the two great English-speaking communi- ties, Italy, Japan China, and presently perhaps a renascent Russia, are jointly going to contr... ...he New Statesman. Then a kind of illustrative gesture would be made to the South American republics, although the in- ternal disturbances of the South... ...every side. Consider, moreover, that there are long sweeps of coast north, south, and west of the Rock, from which torpe- does could be discharged at ... ...lation from militarist pressure for a century and a quarter, a vast virgin continent, plenty of land, freedom from cen- tralization, freedom from titl...

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...an—the dog-headed, barking Baboon, who is Quite the Wisest Ani- mal in All South Africa. Said Leopard to Baviaan (and it was a very hot day), ‘Where h... ...d it has done me.’ ‘Oh,’ said the Ethiopian, ‘Baviaan didn’t mean spots in South Africa. He meant spots on your skin.’ 19 Rudyard Kipling ‘What’s the... ...y knows where they went, Or followed the track that they flew in, For that Continent Hadn’t been given a name. They ran thirty degrees, From Torres St... ...nd Magdelana, They can go there when they will! Yes, weekly from Southampton, Great steamers, white and gold, Go rolling dow... ...es. That is why they nip you with their scissors, and it serves you right! CHINA-GOING P’s and 0’s Pass Pau Amma’s playground close, And his Pusat Tas... ... your finger and show these Queens of Egypt and Mesopotamia and Persia and China that you are the great and terrible King.’ But Suleiman- bin-Daoud sh... ... if I showed off before these Queens of Persia and Egypt and Abyssinia and China, merely because they worry me, I might be made even more ashamed than...

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...” said the youngster. “Boscastle, in the old Duchy of Cornwall—it’s in the southwest country beyond the dairy meadows. There is a house there still. I... ...d, white-faced, blue-clad men pushed theat- rically past him. He noted two Chinamen. A tall, sallow, dark-haired, shining-eyed youth, white clad from ... ... Until he set to work—the workers cut each other’s throats, and murdered a Chinaman or a Labour po- liceman at times, and left the rest of us in peace... ...several others have dropped and surrendered, the rest have gone off to the Continent to find a friendly city if they can before their fuel runs out. M... .... The western sky was a pallid bluish green, and Jupiter shone high in the south, before the capitulation was accomplished. Above was a slow insensibl... ...here was urgency in mechanical ships of a smaller swifter sort. And to the south over the hills, came vast aqueducts with sea water for the sewers and... ...n he glanced “over beyond there” at the strange things that existed on the Continent, it failed him altogether. He had a vision of city beyond city, c... ...was the everyday language of two-thirds of the people of the earth. On the Continent, save as remote and curious survivals, three other languages alon... ...l?” he asked and Asano made him explain. The Chinese spectre had vanished. Chinaman and European were at peace. The twentieth century had discovered w...

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...r a casual spree on shore suffices to unfold for him the secret of a whole continent, and gen- erally he finds the secret not worth knowing. The yarns... ...ou remember, just returned to London after a lot of Indian Ocean, Pacific, China Seas—a regular dose of the East—six years or so, and I was loafing ab... ...en I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories ... ...not shake off the idea. The snake had charmed me. “You understand it was a Continental concern, that Trad- ing society; but I have a lot of relations ... ...for a second or two, I felt as though, instead of going to the center of a continent, I were about to set off for the center of the earth. “I left in ... ...ree hours they tore the bottom out of her on stones, and she sank near the south bank. I asked myself what I was to do there, now my boat was lost. As...

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...pew in the church of their denomination on California Street, not far from Chinatown. By noon the family reassembled. at din- ner-table, where Mr. Bes... ... Joaquin valley—harvests that were to feed strangely clad skeletons on the southern slopes of the Himalaya foot-hills. T ravis and Condy edged their w... ...East—sandalwood, punk, incense, oil, and the smell of mysterious cookery. “Chinatown!” exclaimed Travis. “I hadn’t the faint- est idea we had come up ... ...nt, and bought some crackers and a wedge of new cheese. On the way back to Chinatown Travis stopped at a music store on Kearney Street to get her banj... ...oung yet. The lake, smooth and still as gray silk, widened to the west and south without so much as a wrinkle to roughen the surface. Only to the east... ... there around the line in those little, out-o’-the-way republics along the South American coast, and things happen to you. Y ou hold a man’s life in t... ...o they went along in that fine, clear, Western morning, on the edge of the Continent, both of them young and strong and vigorous, the Pacific under th... ... which they belonged, teeming there upon the green, W estern fringe of the continent, was young and heady and tumultu- ous with the boisterous, red bl... ... office, and “In Defiance of Authority” was sent on its journey across the continent. “Now,” she said, as they came out of the express of- fice and st...

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...s, dressed, across a large unseemly bed, upon a bedstead that has indeed given way under the weight upon it. Lying, also dressed and also across the b... ...idnight,’ the woman goes on, as she chronically complains. ‘Poor me, poor me, my head is so bad. Them two come in after ye. Ah, poor me, the business ... ... good soul, won’t ye, that the market price is dreffle high just now? More nor three shillings and sixpence for a thimbleful! And ye’ll remember that ... ...uity. So silent are the streets of Cloisterham (though prone to echo on the smallest provocation), that of a summer-day the sunblinds of its shops sca... ...he door. It is Mr. Crisparkle’s custom to sit up last of the early household, very softly touching his piano and practising his favourite parts in con... ...e in the world: in those days no neighbouring architecture of lofty proportions had arisen to overshadow Staple Inn. The westering sun bestowed bright... ...nemies, but gave him the genuine George the Third home-brewed; exhorting him (as ‘my brave boys’) to reduce to a smashed condition all other islands b...

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...ct to him, and to all inferiors, was generally over- bearing (nor does the continental domestic like to be treated with insolence as our own better-te... ...aid down her knife and fork. The windows of the room were open, and looked southward, and a dull distant sound came over the 60 V anity Fair – V olum... ...heard up the stair of the house where the Osbornes occupied a story in the continental fashion. A knock might have been heard at the kitchen door; and... ...ook at him, Amelia dear, driving into the parlour window. Such a bull in a china-shop I never saw.” And presently the pair of riders disappeared at a ... ... neighbouring places on market-days. He drove the family coach-and-four to Southampton with Miss Horrocks inside: and the county people expected, ever... ...unt, while Mr. Pitt sent peaches and grapes and venison from the Hall. The Southampton coach used to carry these tokens of affection to Miss Crawley a... ...ade an expedition into England, leaving behind her her little son upon the continent, under the care of her French maid. The parting between Rebecca a... ...e ordered and sent a box of scarfs and a grand ivory set of chess-men from China. The pawns were little green and white men, with real swords and shie... ...f a couple of generations of Lady Crawleys, and to take inventories of the china, the glass, and other properties in the closets and store-rooms. Mrs....

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...o set him up in life for ever; a pair of boots to take him to the coast of China; a hat to get him into a permanent situation under Government. He has... ...ction. A little while afterwards he was in some other strait. I think Mrs. Southcote, his wife, was in extremity—and we adjusted that point too. A lit... ...feature of our Assembly Rooms, is, that an annual sale of ‘Fancy and other China,’ is announced here with mysterious constancy and perseverance. Where... ...,’ is announced here with mysterious constancy and perseverance. Where the china comes from, where it goes to, why it is annually put up to auction wh... ... to behold only at daybreak on win ter mornings, when (in the days before continental railroads), just sufficiently awake to know that we were most u... ...arly age. Now, gas and elec tricity run to the very water’s edge, and the South Eastern Railway Company screech at us in the dead of night. But, the ... ...ich (though the General Board of Health might object) my Susan dwells. The South Eastern Company have brought Pavilionstone into such vogue, with thei... ...of his day that from informa tion he had received he had discovered a new continent; so the Detectives inform it that they have discovered a new frau...