...otel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestried with great-coats and railway wrappers is set apart for me, no house of publ... ... the Charles Dickens 42 male sex, in a checked shirt and without a coat, reading a newspaper; now, it was a man crimp and a woman crimp, who always i... ...ghbourhoods and small shops, is the fancy of a humble artist, as exemplified in two portraits representing Mr. Thomas Sayers, of Great Brit- ain, and ... ...oods and small shops, is the fancy of a humble artist, as exemplified in two portraits representing Mr. Thomas Sayers, of Great Brit- ain, and Mr. Joh... ...ystem of for- tifications. Fifty times a day, I got down to harangue an in- furiated soldiery about the Bottle. Through the filthy degra- dation of th... ...th the young and ardent which it were more than heresy to doubt, can scarcely have failed to discover that I love your adorable daughter, deeply, devo... ...legs, and the firmness with which they sustained the different positions, was truly remarkable. The broadsword exercise over, suddenly there was great... ... no premium at all? That they are also much esteemed in the Royal Navy, which they prefer, ‘because everything is so neat and clean and or- derly’? Or... ...sion that the Spirit of the Fort, direct- ing his remarks to a certain floating iron battery lately lying in that reach of the river, enriched my mind...

...h has been written by M. Pierre Clement, in a volume crowned by the French Academy, is very wonderful and interesting, but I have no space to go into ... ...s which are only houses. The trouble with the domestic architecture of the United States is that it is not scenic, thank Heaven! and the good fortune ... ... are only houses. The trouble with the domestic architecture of the United States is that it is not scenic, thank Heaven! and the good fortune of an o... ...al good faith which is not the commonest feature of French art, and which, united as it is in this case with exceeding knowledge and a remarkable sens... ...e quiet waters, during the wars of religion, had swelled with a formidable naval power. The Rochelais had fleets and admirals, and their stout little ... ...tion” with the establishment across the way, al- though the two places are united (if old Carcassonne may be said to be united to anything) by a vague...

...ntly at Veronique as she returned to her seat from the altar where she had united herself with God,—a moment when she appeared to all the parish in he... ...f all chance of the episcopate. 38 The Village Rector This eminent priest united in himself great Christian mod- esty and a noble character. Without ... ..., ended at a little wall, from which small columns rose at equal distances united by a railing, more, however, for ornament than protection, for the b... ...on the right to choose the career that pleased me most,—either military or naval engineering, artillery, or staff duty, or the civil engineering of mi... ...Paris to the first suspension bridge built by an engineer, a member of the Academy of Sciences; a mel- ancholy collapse caused by blunders such as non... ...ld have smothered him. How many men from the Ecoles are to be found in the Academy of Sciences? Pos- sibly two or three. The man of genius develops al... ...magnificent phase of public works, which is destined to change the face of States and nations, to double human life, and modify the laws of space and ... ...ble human life, and modify the laws of space and time. Belgium, the United States of America, England, none of whom have an Ecole Polytechnique, will ... ...wenty years has not elected out of its tide of mediocrities a single great states- man. My observation makes me detect, as I think, an er- ror which v...

...iends and his community have at heart if he would be liked — especially as a statesman; and both as business man and statesman I wanted to study the t... ...and stature of the individual who wears it; and, besides, I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and th... ...ed to frighten me. One of my deepest secrets was my West Point — my military academy. I kept that most jealously out of sight; and I did the same with... ...academy. I kept that most jealously out of sight; and I did the same with my naval academy which I had established at a remote seaport. Both were pro... ...y. I kept that most jealously out of sight; and I did the same with my naval academy which I had established at a remote seaport. Both were prosperin... ...and. This little relaxation of sternness had a good effect upon the queen. A statesman gains little by the arbitrary exercise of iron clad authority u... ...ree sects, so that they will police each other, as had been the case in the United States in my time. Concentration of power in a po litical machin... ...ts, so that they will police each other, as had been the case in the United States in my time. Concentration of power in a po litical machine is ba... ...at, I reckon. Well, Scot land and Ireland were tributary to Arthur, and the united A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 162 pop...

...urth, of the line of Y ork, the two royal lines of Lancaster and Y ork are united, to the most desired tranquillity of England. The most illustrious p... ...pleases. On the outside is this inscrip- tion: Fair Catherine is at length united to her lord. A.D. 1437. Shun idleness. The tomb of Henry III., of br... ...s colleges. Cantaber, a Spaniard, is thought to have first instituted this academy 375 years be- fore Christ, and Sebert, King of the East Angles, to ... ...ong time more in the auxiliary part, and assistance of foreign princes and states, than by in- vasion of any; till common policy advised it, for a saf... ...y way of division, had, at her coming to the crown, supported the revolted States of Holland, so did the King of Spain turn the trick upon herself, to... ... for three or four years together, much about twenty thousand, besides the naval charge, which was a de- pendant of the same war; in that the Queen wa... ...clude him in his lance;* he was sent Governor by the Queen to the revolted States of Holland, where we read not of his won- ders, for they say he had ...

...pe, brought with them the form 30 Letters on England of government called States or Parliaments, about which so much noise is made, and which are so ... ...e arose the grandeur of the State. T rade raised by insensible degrees the naval power, which gives the English a superiority over the seas, and they ... ...ngue, the Elogium of Sir Isaac Newton, which M. de Fontenelle spoke in the Academy of Sciences. M. de Fontenelle presides as judge over philosophers; ... ...cal way of reasoning of the Aristotelians; Mr. Sorin in the Memoirs of the Academy of 1709, and Mr. de Fontenelle in the very eulogium of Sir Isaac Ne... ...e of the prism, that light is a composition of coloured rays, which, being united, form white colour. A single ray is by him divided into seven, which... ... LETTER XXIV.—ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND OTHER ACADEMIES T HE ENGLISH had an Academy of Sciences many years before us, but then it is not under such pru...