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...see for a moment the shapes that surrounded him, by the vague light in the west; then all these inanimate objects were blotted out in uniform darkness... ...spend delicious days in communings with the past; I summon before me whole countries, places, extents of sea, the fair faces of history. In my imagina... ...he hour like cabs; and since Paris will always be the most adorable of all countries, the country of joy, liberty, wit, pretty women, mauvais sujets, ... ...g exercise and sea voyages as I did, and haunted by the wish to visit many countries, still child enough to play at ducks and drakes with pebbles over... ...lilies of the valley, narcissus blooms, and Bengal roses. A mat of plaited African grass, variegated like a carpet, lay beneath their feet in this lux... ... in this neg- ligent dress; she was delightful as some fanciful picture by Westall; half-girl, half-woman, as she seemed to be, or per- haps more of a...

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...llegiance. They are sometimes enervated by it: that must be in continental countries. Happily our climate and our brave blood precipitate the greater ... ... Patterne bride. Her father, Sir John Durham, was a large landowner in the west- ern division of the county; a pompous gentleman, the pic- ture of a f... ...untstuart congratulated Sir Willoughby on the prize he had won in the fair western- eastern. “Let me see her,” she said; and Miss Middleton was intro-... ...ted Captain Patterne to visit me: just pre- vious to his departure for the African Coast, where Govern- ment despatches Marines when there is no other... ...the name of men of letters?” “Philosophers.” “Well, philosophers.” “Of all countries and times. And they are the benefactors of humanity.” “Bene—!” Si... ... Middleton is in the library. I see Vernon is at work with Crossjay in the West-room—the boy has had sufficient for the day. Now, is it not like old V... ...ned a regret she had that the V eil was interdicted to women in Protestant countries. De Craye was fortunately silent; he could think of no other veil...

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...OSE of the year 1811 intensified arming and concentrating of the forces of Western Europe began, and in 1812 these forces-millions of men, reckoning t... ...s of men, reckoning those transporting and feeding the army-moved from the west eastwards to the Russian frontier, toward which since 1811 Russian for... ...rces had been similarly drawn. On the twelfth of June, 1812, the forces of Western Europe crossed the Russian frontier and war began, that is, an even... ...War & Peace by his accounts of horrors Napoleon had committed in conquered countries. The first people to go away were the rich educated people who kn... ... people because he was a great genius. And for some reason he went to kill Africans, and killed them so well and was so cunning and wise that when he ...

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...gar; and one snowy peak towered above all the rest. To the east and to the west were other such hills, and here and there smoke rose from Aouls in the... ... that there was no higher Reason controlling the universe. This man had an African slave who followed him ev erywhere. When the theologian entered th... ...oy : “The Coffee House of Surat” 222 Japan, and sets far, far away in the west, beyond the islands of England. That is why the Japanese call their co... ...oll tax. But though the people there drink and smoke as people do in other countries, there are so few of them that the King would have been hard put ...

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...But the equinoctial gales were blowing out at sea, and the impartial south-west wind, in its flight, would not neglect even the narrow Marshalsea. Whi... ... of course I mean in England. When they take their inventions into foreign countries, that’s quite different. And that’s the reason why so many go the... ...t she considered nothing so improbable as that he ever walked on the north-west side of Gray’s-Inn Gardens at exactly four o’clock in the afternoon. H... ...post of shame, the general’s station and the drummer’s, a peer’s statue in Westminster Abbey and a seaman’s hammock in the bosom of the deep, the mitr... ...ith illimitable contempt (else it would become like the Embassies of other countries), Clennam felt that on the whole they let him off lightly. The di... ...ndois, stretching out his leg and smiting it: ‘I descend from half-a-dozen countries.’ ‘Y ou have been much about the world?’ ‘It is true. By Heaven, ... ...ock up, lock up; but remember that you are, in the words of the fet- tered African, a man and a brother ever. The list of toasts disposed of, Mr Dorri...

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...But the equinoctial gales were blowing out at sea, and the impartial south-west wind, in its flight, would not neglect even the narrow Marshalsea. Whi... ... of course I mean in England. When they take their inventions into foreign countries, that’s quite different. And that’s the reason why so many go the... ...t she considered nothing so improbable as that he ever walked on the north-west side of Gray’s-Inn Gardens at exactly four o’clock in the afternoon. H... ...post of shame, the general’s station and the drummer’s, a peer’s statue in Westminster Abbey and a seaman’s hammock in the bosom of the deep, the mitr... ...ith illimitable contempt (else it would become like the Embassies of other countries), Clennam felt that on the whole they let him off lightly. The di... ...ndois, stretching out his leg and smiting it: ‘I descend from half-a-dozen countries.’ ‘Y ou have been much about the world?’ ‘It is true. By Heaven, ... ...ock up, lock up; but remember that you are, in the words of the fet- tered African, a man and a brother ever. The list of toasts disposed of, Mr Dorri...