...hour I remem- ber portions of Belzoni’s Researches and Franklin’s terrible American adventures, and they bring back tones of my father’s voice. As an ... ... like a fresh spring wind dispers- ing vapours. He had gained an excellent scholarship at Brazenose, and came home radiant with triumph, cheering us a... ...hers thought she made as much fuss about it as if there had been a hundred scholars. However, between remonstrances and offers of undertak- 59 Yo n g... ...ke attempted to abscond, but he was brought back as he was embarking in an American vessel; and he then confessed the whole,—how speculation had led t... ... as Ellen Fordyce. Poor Griff, he had been idle and impracticable over his legal studies, which no persuasion would make him view as otherwise than a ... ...nclusion, especially in Scotland, where hasty private marriages were still legal. What an exchange! Only had Griff ever comprehended the worth of his ... ...we thought and puzzled over church doctrine, and tried to impart it to our scholars. We I say, for Henderson had made me take a lads’ class, which has... ...nly not while no one can read this document.’ ‘It would simply outrage his legal mind,’ said Martyn. ‘Then what is to be done? Is the injustice to be ...

...searches, they are all of them entirely unknown, except to a few elaborate scholars. We purpose to collect from these obscure, but most interesting me... ...and extensive ravages by fire, such as now happen, not unfrequently in the American woods, (but gen- erally from carelessness in scattering the glowin... ...f Roman life; for such was the sanc- tity of law, that a father created by legal fiction was in all respects treated with the same veneration and affe... ...overruled by the necessities of the public service, in breaking down those legal barriers by which a peculiar dress, furniture, equipage, &c., were ap... ... fabric was the surest pledge of its virtual suppres- sion by means of its legal restriction (which followed inevi- tably) to the use of the imperial ...

...tion, nor to the hazard of fortune by which the only 16 Louis Lambert two scholars of V endome, of whose fame V endome ever hears, were brought toget... ...k him. She found him, with- out a guide, making her way alone in the North American wilderness, reaching him just in time to save his life. Louis had ... ..., by acquiring some privilege of position or of self-advertisement, either legal or ingeniously contrived, purchase the right of taking day by day out...

... failed. She was made slightly uneasy by what she had heard. She knew that scholars married any one—girls they met in farms on reading parties; or lit... ...life. Nothing’s been quite so vivid since. It’s the philosophers, it’s the scholars,” he continued, “they’re the people who pass the torch, who keep t... ...or hip-bones?” enquired Hughling Elliot. He knew by this time exactly what scholarships and distinction Hirst enjoyed, and had formed a very high opin... ...“which shall it be?” “Balzac,” said Rachel, “or have you the Speech on the American Revolution, Uncle Ridley?” “The Speech on the American Revolution?... ...Out in Wiltshire lay on Arthur’s knee, while Susan deciphered tight little legal hands which rarely filled more than a page, and always conveyed the s... ... she darted and ejaculated he gave Rachel a sketch of the history of South American art. He would deal with one of his wife’s exclamations, and then r... ...essness to think or to look. She was turning over the slippery pages of an American magazine, when the hall door swung, a wedge of light fell upon the...

...annot now recall to mind the face of its good conductor, nor of any of his scholars; but I have before me a strong general image of the interior of hi... ... a time under Mr. R—— to become as great a proficient as he made his other scholars, and which my awkwardness has prevented me from attaining in any c... ...HAPTER V A PROFESSION Here, then, is a young soul, brought to the years of legal majority, furnished from his training-schools with such and such shin... ...effectual for so satisfying the manual multitude as not to over- throw all legal security.... “Of other persons whom I saw in London,” continues he, “... ...a disastrous shadow hanging over it, not to be cleared away by effort. Two American gentlemen, acquaintances also of mine, had been recommended to him...

...may rely both on his honour and my vigilance that all is done securely and legally.” “Oh! I know that,” said Aurelia, blushing; “but it is so sudden! ... ...while the parties plighted their troth before witnesses, was sufficient to legalise the union; nor did any shame or sense of wrong necessarily attach ... ...carriage with grace. It was only countrified misses, bred by old-fashioned scholars, who attempted to go any farther, such as that lusus naturae, Miss... ..., and easily produced them. Mr. Wayland handed them to Mr. Belamour, whose legal eye was better accustomed to crabbed old documents. A con- versation ... ...Their father will provide 270 Love and Life for them, and they will marry American settlers in the for- ests. What should they do with court jewels? ...

...of a far more formidable description than was commanded by the adventurous American. Time and circumstances change the character of nations and the fa... ...ient family, and somewhat embarrassed fortune; a scholar, according to the scholarship of Scotchmen, that is, his learning was more diffuse than accur... ...e exerted himself to so much purpose to remove and soften evidence, detect legal flaws, et cetera, that he accomplished the final discharge and delive... ...r perhaps to a very general Scottish fashion of giving young men of rank a legal education, he had been bred with a view to the Bar. But the politics ... ...th all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumben... ... accepting it implied a promise of fidelity, and an acknowledgement of the legality of the government. ‘ A rash promise,’ answered Fergus, ‘is not a s... ...re than he himself could have expected; but it is men- tioned of the North American Indians, when at the stake of torture, that on the least intermiss...

...eir titles. This done, he commenced proceedings at once in order to obtain legal recognition of his right to the dignities he had thus got possession ... ... after this, feeling that billiards three times a week interfered with his legal duties, he surrendered part of them, and thus left himself more free ... ...ce to be broken on the wheel. Montgeorges managed so well, that he was not legally crimi- nated. When Ticquet heard the sentence, he came with all his... ...whose permanent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek h... ...ious building erected there for more than a hundred Jesuits and numberless scholars. A church was there nearly finished, of rotunda shape, of a grande...

...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE FI... ...ghtforward advice of that nature. The books and tasks of these smallest of scholars, were adapted, in the same judicious manner, to their childish pow... ...ould most likely be lounging among the most distinguished ornaments of the legal profession, whispering sugges tions in his counsel’s ear, or making ... ...ng a worthy member of society. I am by no means a wholesale admirer of our legal solemnities, many of which impress me as being ex ceedingly ludicrou... ...erhaps the richest edifice of modern times. But the bequest is involved in legal disputes, and pending them the work has stopped; so that like many ot...

...the port, who followed the East and West Indian, the African and the South American trade, it was supposed that this odd philosopher was in the habit ... ... a sixpence and shakes his horse whip at him. Had the grim Doctor been an American, he might have had the vast antipathy to rank, without the trace o... ...write, and cipher; which, to say the truth, was about as far in the way of scholarship as little Elsie cared to go. But towards little Ned the grim Do... ...n his infancy and youth. He was a gem of coarse texture, just hewn out. An American with a like education would more likely have gained a certain fine... ... very quiet and undisturbed way that, during his withdrawal from duty, the scholars had been distributed to other instructors, and consequently he was... ...awyer of the town, a man of classical and anti quarian tastes, as well as legal acquirement, and some of whose pursuits had brought him and Doctor Gr... ...f distin guished among the grimy order of your commonalty, all with equal legal rights to place and eminence as itself, it must needs be because ther...

...as owing to the one-sidedness of the examiners that she had not gained the scholarship. Magdalen had heard of such exam- iners before from the mothers... ...s eye lighted with enthusiasm, as did those of several others of the elder scholars and younger teachers, as these high aims were unfolded to them. Th... ...eir surroundings at the Goyle. And when letters arrived from Hubert at the American Vale Leston, asking questions requiring some research in books, ei... ..., V era?” said Wilfred, with an indifferent air. “We aren’t unlucky Sunday scholars, Mysie, to be jumped upon! Good-bye, Vera, au revoir!” He sauntere... ...ngland, and put in hand the writing of inquiries for the purpose, from the legal authorities at Brisbane, for which purpose Angela had to be consulted... ... fleeting visit from Hubert Delrio, who had fin- ished his frescoes at the American Vale Leston, and came for a day or two to Mr. Flight’s. She had so... ...ng between Londonderry and Bristol. He, with another, who proved to be the American captain of the Afra, were at the gate of the hospital, where an am...

... of the district in which the parish is seated. Thus far the steps, merely legal, of the pro- ceedings, were too definite to be easily disturbed. Thes... ... than theatrical ostenostentation. Mr. C. requires a good deal of critical scholarship, Mr. D quar- rels with this as unsuitable to a rustic congregat... ...ance. 13 Thomas de Quincey This act, then, of Lord Aberdeen’s removes all legal effect from the ‘call.’ Common sense required that. For what was to b... ...e Non-intrusionists? Why suffer a schism to take place in the church? Give legal effect to the ‘call,’ and the original cause of quarrel is gone. For,... ...ountries, a cold and lifeless state of public religion prevailed up to the American and French Revolutions. These great events gave a shock everywhere... ...s,) of translating the Scriptures into languages scarcely known by name to scholars, of converting Jews, of organizing and propagating education. T ow... ...the verb devoir, in all tenses, that eternal stumbling-block to bad French scholars, is uniformly mis- translated. As an instance of ignoble language,... ...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...

... is, to those who love thee, what the characters of a lost language are to scholars. De Balzac. 4 Modeste Mignon CHAPTER I THE CHALET AT THE BEGINNIN... ...tudes. Some houses standing at the summit have a finer position or possess legal rights of view which compel their opposite neigh- bors to keep their ... ...iant hedge. On the other side of the road the opposite house, subject to a legal privilege, has a similar hedge and paling, so as to leave an unobstru... ...al; to him therefore he offered the little dwelling. Dumay, a stickler for legal methods, insisted on signing a lease for three hundred francs for twe... ...d Dumay to his wife, mak- ing her sit close by him. Madame Dumay, a little American about thirty-six years of age, wiped her eyes furtively; she adore... ... richest com- mercial house in Havre. Madame Dumay, a rather pretty little American, had the misfortune to lose all her children at their birth; and h... ...d Dumay, “and you shall be a notary and the successor of Latournelle.” The American wife took the hand of the poor hunchback and pressed it. “What! yo...

...nd appropriated for that use: he likewise acquires the title of Snilpall, or legal, which is added to his name, but does not descend to his posterity.... ...e farmer, and presents him to the king. He disputes with his majesty’s great scholars. An apart ment at court provided for the author. He is in high ... ...did not suit the po lite style of a court. His majesty sent for three great scholars, who were then in their weekly waiting, according to the custom ... .... “It is a maxim among these lawyers that whatever has been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all... ...ies I treat of would be as easy as those of Ferdinando Cortez over the naked Americans. The Lilliputians, I think, are hardly worth the charge of a f...

... sought to assist his parents by teaching a school, and soon had plenty of scholars, but very few fees. In fact, he taught the sons of farmers for wha... ...is time, when there’s sae little money stirring in Scotland wi’ this weary American war, that somebody may get the land a bargain—Deil be in them, tha... ...er the active patronage of Mrs. Mac-Candlish, Sampson picked up some other scholars—very different in- deed from Charles Hazlewood in rank—and whose l... ...fe, untainted per- haps in morals, and fair in character, cannot affect my legal right of self-defence. I may be sorry that circumstances have engaged... ...nce of which he had occasionally acted, sometimes as partner, sometimes as legal adviser, with these persons. But the connection had been dropped many... ...pson shall go with me—he is witness to this settlement. But I shall want a legal adviser?” “The gentleman that was lately Sheriff of this county is hi... ...who was to usher him to the man of law. The period was near the end of the American war. The desire of room, of air, and of decent accommodation, had ... ...hly, deserved; yet his pride and interest, like the for- titude of a North American Indian, manned him to sustain the tortures inflicted at once by th...

...aid down at Dipwell farm for my arrival at my majority, when I should be a legal man, embarked in my own ship, as my father said. I did not taste the ... ...sins of Mrs. Waddy were forgiven her, owing to her noble resistance to the legal gentleman’s seductive speech. So I walked up and down stairs with the... ... at my expense. They praised their captain, but asked us, as gentlemen and scholars, whether it was reasonable to object to liquor because your brothe... ... knew she had a bet with the squire that she would be the first to hail me legal man, and was prepared for it. She sat on horseback alone in the hazy ... ...is strange for any of your country- men to love books.’ ‘We have some good scholars, princess.’ ‘You have your Bentley and Porson. Oh! I know many of ... ...he princess’s intelligence. He was a man distinguished even in Germany for scholarship, rather notorious for his political and social opinions too. Th... ... soit peu philosophe, a ce qu’on dit; a traveller. They say he has a South American complexion. I knew him a boy; and his passion is to put together w...

...man stepped forward for a few paces, followed by the two friends and their legal adviser. He stopped at a door. ‘Is this the room?’ murmured the littl... ...shed in twice the period of his whole life. ‘“I wish you to undertake some legal business for me,” said the stranger. ‘The attorney bowed obsequiously... ...nt and irritation, for there had been a rebellion in the town; all the day scholars at the largest day school had conspired to break the windows of an... ...elings, ma’am.’ Here Mr. Nupkins looked benignant. ‘ And then tell me what legal business brings you here, ma’am.’ Here the magistrate triumphed over ... ...f steps, leading to the house door, which was guarded on either side by an American aloe in a green tub, the sedan chair stopped. Mr. Pickwick and his... ...turn both Mr. Jingle and his attendant, down the flight of steps, into the American aloe tubs that stood beneath. ‘Having discharged my duty, Sir,’ sa...

...ess the 61 Melville unfortunate man (so he averred), besides, through the legal sympathy she enlisted, effecting a judicial blasting of his pri- vate... ... to Show Him to Be One of the Most Logical of Optimists YEARS AGO, a grave American savan, being in London, ob- served at an evening party there, a ce... ...sustained throughout an almost entire sitting; that they may not, like the American savan, be thereupon be- trayed into any surprise incompatible with... ... what I say. I speak from fifteen years’ experience; five and thirty boys; American, Irish, English, German, African, Mulatto; not to speak of that Ch... ...hrow out grapnels and hug another to it. I have indeed heard of some great scholars in these days, whose boast is less that they have made disciples t...

...or it appeared that an omnibus came round on such occasions to pick up the scholars; and Valetta thought this so delight- ful that she danced about ex... ...was getting on beautifully at Leeds, and we thought he would have gained a scholarship and gone on to be a clergyman. That was what his mind has alway... ...terested in the Whites, and was inquiring right and left about schools and scholarships for the little boys. She asked their master about them, and he... ... Caesar always hiding away his nominatives out of spite. Valetta, like the American child, evidently regarded the Great Julius in no other light than ... ...uses to a Mr. Gudgeon, letting to him their own till the completion of the legal business necessary, and therefore desiring his brothers and sisters t...

...’s Dictionary—the interesting work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a cop... ...Grammar, was compelled to remain among the very last of Doctor Swishtail’s scholars, and was “taken down” continually by little fellows with pink face... ...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...mbled daily lest he should hear that the Ribbons was proclaimed his second legal mother-in- law. After that first and last visit, his father’s name wa... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was... ...comfortably lodged, fed, and educated, and subse- quently inducted to good scholarships at the University and livings in the Church, many little gentl...