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...ase him from prison, she paid all his debts; a mountain of bills, with the lawyers piled above—Pelion upon Ossa, to quote our poets. In fact, obeying ... ...the treasure-laden Spanish galleon for whom, on her voyage home from South American waters, our enter- prising light-craft privateers lay in wait, she... ...o money let me not hear it to-night,’ she replied. ‘I can only say that my lawyers have instructions. But my lawyers cannot pay you in gratitude. Do n...

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... sea cockfight it is, and of the hottest; where British Serapis and French-American Bon Homme Richard do lash and throttle each other, in their fashio... ...s of Federates, of this Fed- eration, will have enough to do! Harangue of ‘American Committee, ’ among whom is that faint figure of Paul Jones ‘as wit... ...ffete Scutcheons, Emblazonries and Genealogy-books; nay better still, with Lawyers’-bags, ‘sacs de procedure:’ which shall be burnt. The Thirty seat-r... ...fore the evolutions are gone through. The very Mai with its Scutcheons and Lawyers’-bags is for- 240 The French Revolution—V olume Two gotten, stands... ...ournalist Carra, Camille Desmoulins, Alsatian Westermann friend of Danton, American Fournier of Martinique;—a Committee not unknown to Mayor Petion, w...

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...tenance. A Decree much noised of by Diplomatists, Editors, Interna- tional Lawyers; such a Decree as no living Fetter of Despo- tism, nor Person in Au... ...uses broken into (by a tumult of Patri- ots, among whom red-capped Varlet, American Fournier loom forth, in the darkness of the rain and riot); had th... ...ll chief Republicans, ranged in a line there; the most eloquent in France; Lawyers too; not without friends in the auditory. How will Tinville prove t...

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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... ... at all: ocular delusions on the largest scale are common. What’s a court? Lawyers have no better eyes than other people. Their physics are often out ... ... 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... ...ly, from this dependence upon careless readers. This is Bentley’s case: as lawyers say: ‘My lord, that is my case.’ It is possible enough to write cor... ...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. ... ...earned professions. We have now, it is alleged, no great and comprehensive lawyers like Coke: and the study of medicine 189 Thomas de Quincey is subd...

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...anat, the Re- ceiver-General’s wife, spoke with some enthusiasm of a young American owning an immense fortune, who had fallen pas- sionately in love w... ... de Villaine, the husband of the Count’s second daughter, “you do not like lawyers either; so that if you refuse men of wealth who have not titles, I ... ...s, as wily as judges—crowds the ballroom at Sceaux with numerous swarms of lawyers’ clerks, of the dis- ciples of Aesculapius, and other youths whose ...

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...and in a land that is independent in all but the name, (for that the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe... ...ely, and bringing but a single servant with him; and he requested that the lawyers of Gray’s inn might be invited to meet him with their account, and ...

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... do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have lived t... ... you?” “Valerie,” said the official, “my child, that cousin of yours is an American cousin—” “Oh, that is enough!” she cried, interrupting the Baron. ... ...ttorney, now retired, who told me that for fifteen years past notaries and lawyers have distrusted their clients quite as much as their adversar- ies.... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white...

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...estined and prophetic history of the one confederated people 3 of the North American Union. They had been the settlers of thirteen separate and disti... ...te and distinct English colonies, along the margin of the shore of the North American Continent; contiguously situated, but chartered by adventurers o... ...e English colonies on this continent. This was the first signal of the North American Union. The struggle was for chartered rights—for English lib Or... ...ampden—for trial by jury—the Habeas Corpus and Magna Charta. But the English lawyers had decided that Parliament was omnipotent—and Parliament, in it... ...al by jury and the Habeas Corpus, enacted admiralty courts in England to try Americans for of fences charged against them as committed in America; i... ...nce—a work in which the Orations of John Quincy Adams 9 people of the North American Union, acting under the deepest sense of responsibility to the S...

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...youth of missionary parents, earned enough money to pay his expenses at an American college. Equipped with this small sum and the earnestness that the... ...he distinction of translation into more languages, I think, than any other American book; and I suppose that he has as large a per- sonal acquaintance... ...this country, who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of American slavery, are in a stronger and more hopeful condition, materially,... ...id so with the expressed determination to pre- pare themselves to be great lawyers, or Congressmen, and many of the women planned to become music teac... ...here was a need for something to be done to prepare the way for successful lawyers, Congress- men, and music teachers. I felt that the conditions were... ...e spoke the English language. As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared. The man who was t... ...ses of my race when I say that in no way have the value and manhood of the American Negro been more fittingly and generously recognized than by the ma...

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...p! But I know well enough whom I have to thank for this. It is that damned American boat. Those fellows ex- pect to get work done here the way they ar... ... And for an example of it, we need look no farther than at the crew of the American ship that is lying here just now. Rorlund: Oh, I would rather not ... ...out to the right.) Bernick (who has read the telegram): This is thoroughly American! Absolutely shocking! Mrs.Bernick: Good gracious, Karsten, what is... ...there are the rest of them, with the horses and animals! And there are the Americans, too! All the sailors from the “Indian Girl”! (The strains of “Y... ...n go to sea the day after tomor- row. Bernick: At last. But what about the American ship, the “Indian Girl,” which has been laid up here for five week... ...n. I heard it at the club when I looked in there. They say that one of our lawyers has quietly bought up, on commission, all the forest land, all the ... ...have strangers putting their fingers into our pie—and one of our own local lawyers lending himself to such a thing! And now it will be outsiders that ...

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...in the outset, the people would not have con sented to this measure. This American government—what is it but a tradi tion, though a recent one, ende... ... not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have ... ...s man in power? Visit the Navy Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black a... ...monly es teemed good citizens. Others—as most legislators, poli ticians, lawyers, ministers, and office holders—serve the state chiefly with their h... ... Duty of Civil Disobedience How does it become a man to behave toward the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be as... ...ly one. Does not America offer any inducement for men to settle here? The American has dwindled into an Odd Fel low—one who may be known by the deve...

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...ccurs to the reader that some pastors are wolves in sheep’s clothing. “The American Board of Commissioners for For- eign Missions” even, might dare to... ...n, might dare to protest against that wolf. I have heard of boards, and of American boards, but it chances that I never heard of this particular lumbe... ...n, and the equal of any and all governments. In that sense he was the most American of us all. He needed no babbling lawyer, making false issues, to d... ...se issues, to defend him. He was more than a match for all the judges that American voters, or office-holders of whatever grade, can create. He could ... ...rced upon you, and which ever pass your understanding? I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend ... ...ance, it is of no consequence whether a man breaks a human law or not. Let lawyers decide trivial cases. Business men may arrange that among themselve...

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...they were at the time understood, he was tried by a court of clergymen and lawyers before the bishop, and, if convicted, was—according to the cruel cu... ...s will, and then the fifty who were left appointed a court of officers and lawyers to try the king. Charles was brought before them; but, as they had ... ...is death; and fresh peerages are given as rewards to great generals, great lawyers, or people who have deserved well of their country. When a law has ... ...d there was a heavy duty laid upon it when the king wanted money. Now, the Americans got their tea straight from China, and thought it was unfair that... ...ne thing, and at first a few French gentlemen came over to fight among the Americans, and then the king Louis XVI., quarreled with George III., and he... ...George III., and helped them openly. There was a very clever man among the Americans named Benjamin Franklin, a printer by trade, but who made very cu... ..., homely dressing man; and when he was sent to Paris on the affairs of the Americans, all the great ladies and gentlemen went into raptures about his ... ...ime, the war went on between America and England, year after year; and the Americans became trained soldiers and got the better, so that George III. w... ...s looks in those days, they had left off wigs— except bishops, judges, and lawyers, in their robes. Men had their hair short and curly, and wore coats...

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...map. Con trast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race before... ...t perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whoop ing cough. A... ...unless it be in Milwaukee, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, etc., gathered from all quarters both o... ...onopoly of the subject, who could not bear all kinds of opinions; doctors, lawyers, uneasy housek eepers who pried into my cupboard and bed when I was... ...o thin these trees, which are wont to grow up densely. The hares ( Lepus Americanus ) were very familiar. One had her form under my house all winter... ...nd not like the azure ether beyond. Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared Walden 2...

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...lt St. Pierre, all looking prosperous and comfortable, and a young farmer, American in his ways—free-spoken, famil- iar, and blunt—but very kindly and... ... ork (as T oronto was then called), but was badly wounded in repulsing the American attack on the Lakes in 1814. “Not dead?” she asked, with her cheek... ... woods to a place of safety, and there her child was born. It was over the American frontier, and it was long before she could write to her husband. S... ...t became of her letter, but the hunter friend, Piers Dayman, showed her an American paper which mentioned Captain T revor among the officers killed in... ...a bear hunting expedition. Not very long after, Hester married this sturdy American, Joel Lea, who had bought some land on the Canadian side of the bo... ...l hoped it would all come to nothing. We stayed on at the London house—the lawyers said we ought, and that possession was “nine-tenths,” &c. Besides, ... ...posed some arrangement would soon be made, and Fulk said he should see the lawyers at once about it, and arrange for the personal guardianship of Lord...

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... Noblesse, originally of Fighters, there is a new recognised No- blesse of Lawyers; whose gala-day and proud battle-day even now is. An unrecognised N... ...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ...ng these outer courts, like a loud destructive deluge; the very Basoche of Lawyers’ Clerks talks sedition. The lower classes, in this duel of Authorit... ...ere are Merchants, Artists, Men of Letters; three hundred and seventy-four Lawyers; (Bouille, Memoires sur la Revolution Francaise (London, 1797), i. ... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...ning forth perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Con- gress, do the arrangements seem perfect. A Senator has not hi... ... say our new Mayor Bailly; our new Commander Lafayette, named also ‘Scipio-Americanus,’ have bought their preferment dear. Bailly rides in gilt state-... ... a ‘feast of shells!’—Diligent are the Three Hun- dred; none equals Scipio Americanus in dealing with mobs. But surely all these things bode ill for t... ...ete Scutcheons, Emblazonries and Geneal- ogy-books; nay better still, with Lawyers’-bags, ‘sacs de pro- cedure:’ which shall be burnt. The Thirty seat...

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... other hand, it is some- times so vague, as for example in the case of the American law against obscenity, that it makes the magistrate virtually a ce... ...e final. This proposal is not likely to be entertained by con- stitutional lawyers. It is a naive offer to accept the method of arbitration in what is... ...ough to hang you, anyway. [Going over to him threateningly]. Youre no true American man, to insult a 86 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet woman like th... ...he word of a woman of bad character. I stand on the honor and virtue of my American manhood. I say that she’s not had the oath, and that you darent fo...

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...ting place of Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in American letters. And, to sig- nify that peculiar musical quality of Poe’s ... ...s unmortified sense of independence.” And this was the tribute paid by the American public to the master who had given to it such tales of conjuring c... ...s Dickens, although they made him many enemies among the over-puffed minor American writers so mercilessly exposed by him; such poems of beauty and me... ...rds might not a Poe claim! Edgar’s father, a son of General David Poe, the American revolutionary patriot and friend of Lafayette, had married Mrs. Ho... ...m $20 monthly for two pages of criticism. Those were discouraging times in American literature, but Poe never lost faith. He was finally to triumph wh... ...tico inquirendo. He has thought it sagacious to echo the small talk of the lawyers, who, for the most part, content themselves with echoing the rectan...

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...ations, his nationality. Such a key is peculiarly necessary to English or American students of Tolstoy, because of the marked contrast existing be t... ...f the marked contrast existing be tween the Russian and the Englishman or American in these respects, a contrast by which Tolstoy himself was forcibl... ... to concentrate his thoughts on the land question. He began by reading the American propagandist’s “Social Problems,” which arrested his attention by ... ...en who sought his society, appealing to him for guidance. One of these (an American, and her self a practical philanthropist), Miss Jane Addams, ex ... ... senator with a big salary, who reads with satisfaction that a congress of lawyers has passed a resolution in favor of capital punishment. Their polit...

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...ld Noblesse, originally of Fighters, there is a new recognised Noblesse of Lawyers; whose gala-day and proud 18 The French Revolution: V ol. One batt... ...ons, it is said, What a spectacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Plenipotentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane somew... ...ng these outer courts, like a loud destructive deluge; the very Basoche of Lawyers’ Clerks talks sedition. The lower classes, in this duel of Authorit... ...ere are Merchants, Artists, Men of Letters; three hundred and seventy-four Lawyers; (Bouille, Memoires sur la Revolution Francaise (London, 1797), i. ... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...as Carlyle perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Congress, do the arrangements seem per- fect. A Senator has not hi... ... say our new Mayor Bailly; our new Commander Lafayette, named also ‘Scipio-Americanus, ’ have bought their preferment dear. Bailly rides in gilt state... ...ch a ‘feast of shells!’—Diligent are the Three Hundred; none equals Scipio Americanus in dealing with mobs. But surely all these things bode ill for t...