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...hink too that those who are now growing up to take our places in the great enterprise of mankind, will need many such narratives as mine for even the ... ...ver with a treacly blue enamel and further decorated by a fringe of pinked American cloth insecurely fixed by tacks. Below this was a little table tha... ...rble’s “Scepticism Answered,” and drawn my attention to the library of the Institute in Clayton. The excellent Burble was a great shock to me. It seem... ...emely poor one, and to hammer home that idea the first book I got from the Institute happened to be an American edition of the collected works of Shel... ...r home that idea the first book I got from the Institute happened to be an American edition of the collected works of Shelley, his gassy prose as well... ...d world. Upon them, in successive layers of paste and paper, all the rough enterprises of that time joined in chromatic discord; pill vendors and prea... ...sh. “There’s hard times coming,” said Parload. “Next winter.” “Sooner. The Americans have been overproducing, and they mean to dump. The iron trade is... ...sal quality, that vigor with consider- ation, that judgment with confident enterprise which shine through all our world, were things disintegrated and...

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... in any way concerned in public life to feel that the highest ambition any American can possibly have will be gratified just in proportion as he raise... ...ong men of great origi- nal genius or of an heroic type of character.” The American people should feel profoundly grateful that the greatest American ... ...ncoln: V ol One the leader, Lincoln, at least should remain a real, living American. No matter how clearly, how directly, Lincoln has shown himself in... ...ingular power and original- ity. An address delivered by him in the Cooper Institute in New York, before an audience containing a large number of impo... ...l men at the Bar of Illinois, even in those early days, whom the spirit of enterprise had carried there in search of fame and fortune. It was by const... ...he East. When Mr. Bryant presented him, on the high platform of the Cooper Institute, a vast sea of eager upturned faces greeted him, full of intense ... ...sire to see the time when education— and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise, and in- dustry—shall become much more general than at present, ... ...:—Feeling, as you know I do, the deepest solicitude for the success of the enterprise you are engaged in, I adopt this as the last method I can adopt ...

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...ee months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like “Roderick” and like “The American,” it had been designed for publication in The Atlantic Monthly, wh... ...e eigh- teenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumstanc... ... thirty years before, had brought with him, at the top of his baggage, his American physiognomy; and he had not only brought it with him, but he had k... ...wo should travel together. She had been obliged, however, to postpone this enterprise. She thought Isabel a glorious creature, and had spoken of her c... ...to luncheon, and Isabel had had five minutes’ talk with him—time enough to institute a search for a rich ecclesiasticism and give it up as vain. The m... ...f things which appeared to Miss Stackpole to indicate a deplorable want of enterprise. “If I were on the other side I should call,” she said, “and tel... ... to visit those countries assured her they offered a great field to female enterprise. Isabel did him justice, but she wondered what his purpose was a...

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...Guenegard and its junction with the rue de Seine, behind the palace of the Institute. The high gray walls of the college and of the library which Card... ...or of a house standing at this damp, dark, cold corner. Opposite, rose the Institute buildings, in which were the dens of ferocious animals known to t... ..., he saw a pupil drawing a caricature of some professor on the wall of the Institute, and stopped short with admiration at the charcoal sketch, which ... ...ery day be- yond the round tower built by Francois I., to look out for the American packet, enduring the keenest anxieties. Moth- ers alone know how s... ...Order at midnight for a magnificent supper, in the course of which a great enterprise would be arranged. The feast of welcome given by old Hochon to h... ...the old man, “that’s just like you pious women.” “God would never bless an enterprise undertaken in a sac- rilegious spirit,” said Madame Bridau. “Use... ...ent. Betrayed once more, the conspirators had the wit to reduce their vast enterprise to the puny proportions of a barrack plot. This conspiracy, in w...

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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... ...d- erly shook their heads. Better had a serious cheerfulness been; for the enterprise was great. Fond pair! the more triumphant ye feel, and victoriou... ....’ (Revolutions de Paris (in Hist. Parl. viii. 440).) One of the strangest Institutes, this of Cham- pion Boyer and the Bully-killers! Whose services,... ...plain the phenomenon? Surely, to repair the Castle of Vincennes was of all enterprises that an enlightened Mu- nicipality could undertake, the most in... ...foes, dismount; and retire in, with heavy indignant heart; giv- ing up the enterprise. Maison-bouche may eat that cooked dinner themselves; his Majest... ...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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...eir surroundings at the Goyle. And when letters arrived from Hubert at the American Vale Leston, asking questions requiring some research in books, ei... ... They want me to give a course of lectures on electricity at Bexley to the Institute and the two High Schools, and I particularly want a skilled assis... ... all manner of passing excitements. Oh, dear! love of sheer fun and daring enterprise, and amusement, in shocking every one, even my very dearest, who... ... 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...

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...asin belongs to by the make of it. Name it in horse talk, and could do it in American if I had speech. I know some of the Indian signs — the signs the... ...A scout horse that has a reputation does not play with it. My mother was all American — no alkali spider about her, I can tell you; she was of the bes... ..., and she has her father’s vivacity and cheerfulness and pluck and spirit of enterprise, with the affectionate disposition and sincerity of both paren... ...’s only disputing, and bragging, the way children do. They want her to be an American, but she can’t be any thing but a Spaniard, she says. You see, ... ...rd it.” “Where did you overhear it?” “Years ago. I was with the Philadelphia Institute expedi tion in the Bad Lands under Professor Cope, hunting mas...

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...m, a still swifter and swiftest Court of the Second, and of September, has instituted itself: enter not Paris, or that will judge you!—What shall hot ... ...2.II. The Executive. May we not conjecture therefore that round this grand enterprise of Making the Constitution there will, as here- tofore, very str... ...the grand First-Parent of all the ques- tions, controversies, measures and enterprises which were to be evolved there to the world’s astonishment, sho... ...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... ... Measures, with decimal division; Institutions, of Music and of much else; Institute in general; School of Arts, School of Mars, Eleves de la Patrie, ... ...utiny, that evil is nigh. Mutiny is a thing of the fatallest nature in all enterprises whatsoever; a thing so incalculable, swift-frightful; not to be...

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...ool curriculum he was still intensely curi- ous. He had cheerful phases of enterprise, and about thir- teen he suddenly discovered reading and its joy... ..., provided they were also adventurous. He got these chiefly from the local institute, and he also “took in,” irregularly but thoroughly, one of those ... ...ight beds, and this into a third apart- ment with yellow grained paper and American cloth tables, which was the dining-room by day and the men’s sitti... ...o have known that woman. At Canterbury, too, he first to his knowledge saw Americans. His shop did a good class trade in Westgate Street, and he would... ...ed with Johnson before church time about the tangle of struggling building enterprise that constituted the rising urban district of Easewood. Johnson ...

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...d Louis XIV . to build Versailles, or that makes men rush into any ruinous enterprise—into convert- ing the miasma of a marsh into a mass of fragrance... ...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ... ...st founder of a business just to keep him above water till his drowned-out enterprise is safely landed— in short, in all the great battles for money-g... ...iscov- ery, or of some legalized robbery. The lower grades of mer- cantile enterprise have retorted on the perfidious dealings of higher commerce, esp... ...eving fraternity, for more than twenty years were the Court of Appeal, the Institute of Learning, and the Cham- ber of Peers of this community. These ...

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...g the dining-room. CHAPTER VI EXCITING DISCUSSIONS ABOUT AN UN- PARALLELED ENTERPRISE At these words a cold shiver ran through me. Yet I controlled my... ...tific world who envy my success, and many would be ready to undertake this enterprise, to whom our return should be the first news of it.” “Do you rea... ...f a savant; it is a good thing for a man to be distinguished by some great enterprise.” “What, Grauben, won’t you dissuade me from such an un- dertaki... ...France alone, but in England and in Germany. Several savants of the French Institute, and amongst them MM. Milne-Edwards and de Quatrefages, saw at on... ...waters which were carrying us away exceeded that of the swiftest rapids in American rivers. Its surface seemed com- posed of a sheaf of arrows hurled ...

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...al, in the city of Barchester. Nor can it be forgotten that a law-suit was instituted against him on the matter of that charity by Mr John Bold, who a... ...on derivable from such an ar- rangement that Dr Proudie would be forced to institute into a living, immediately under his own nose, the enemy 118 Bar... ...ew but one way to overcome these difficulties at the very threshold of her enterprise, and to this she resorted. Low as were the domestic funds at Pud... ...osted the precious note which he had in his pocket, and then pursued other enterprises in which we must follow him in other chapters. Mrs Proudie, hav... ...g and was now very old, but the exploit gave him a character for political enterprise and secret discretion which still availed him as thoroughly as i... ...find a sufficiency of proper pabulum. Just then there was no talk of a new American president. No won- derful tragedies had occurred on railway trains...

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...Secretary of the Embassy, from his occasional excursions into the field of American humour, had formed a special notion of that class of mechanic as t... ...his having been once assistant demonstrator in chemistry at some technical institute. He quarrelled with the authorities upon a question of unfair tre... ...In this immoral atmosphere the Assistant Commissioner, reflecting upon his enterprise, seemed to lose some more of his identity. He had a sense of lon... ...it was with an aspect of hopeless vacancy that he gave up his intellectual enterprise. “Not for that?” he mumbled, resigned but surprised. “Not for th... .... He had it much at heart to begin. He walked slowly home, meditating that enterprise on the way, and thinking over Mr V erloc’s psy- chology in a com...

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...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... ...uence of her mother. This could have been no very flattering or pleas- ing enterprise on the part of an obscure and nameless young man; but I should n... ...ged that they should fit him—as well at least (so the tailor qualified his enterprise), as a man of such an out-of-the-way build could be fitted by me... ...argo.” In brief and undertones the two worthy associates con- certed their enterprise, and agreed at which of his haunts 246 Guy Mannering Hatteraick... ...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 ... ... Scottish lawyer [The father of Dr. Erskine was an eminent lawyer, and his Institutes of the Law of Scotland are to this day the text- hook of student... ...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...

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...ons, for Maurice’s sake,’ said her sister. ‘I can’t confound ingenuity and enterprise with wanton mischief, or crush it out for want of sympathy,’ sai... ... Caesar always hiding away his nominatives out of spite. Valetta, like the American child, evidently regarded the Great Julius in no other light than ... ...olitical meetings, entertainments to high and low, the opening of a public institute in the next town, the exhibition of tableaux in which she had an ... ...t talk of that.’ ‘I believe he is awfully rich. You know he is building an Institute for the workmen, and a whole row of model cot- tages.’ ‘Yes, Alex...

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...p thinking, he said, was what he was meant for; it suited him so exactly. “Enterprise and effort,” he would say to us (on his back), are delightful to... ...ghts as I lie here. T ake an extreme case. T ake the case of the slaves on American plantations. I dare say they are worked hard, I dare say they don’... ... it, married it, died of it. Meeting with a heavy loss in an honest little enterprise in which all the loss was intended to have been on the other sid... ..., in fact, breathlessly fetched by the active and intelligent beadle), and institute perquisitions through the court, and dive into the Sol’s parlour,...

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...p thinking, he said, was what he was meant for; it suited him so exactly. “Enterprise and effort,” he would say to us (on his back), are delightful to... ...ghts as I lie here. T ake an extreme case. T ake the case of the slaves on American plantations. I dare say they are worked hard, I dare say they don’... ... it, married it, died of it. Meeting with a heavy loss in an honest little enterprise in which all the loss was intended to have been on the other sid... ..., in fact, breathlessly fetched by the active and intelligent beadle), and institute perquisitions through the court, and dive into the Sol’s parlour,...

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...lish-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more... ...e aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more com- plete than American thought is yet prepared for, but that is a difference not of quali... ...ed develop principles of primary importance in the fundamen- tal schism of American politics between the local State gov- ernment and the central powe... ...re is a period of youth and preparation, a great insurgence of emotion and enterprise centering about the passion of Love, and a third period in which... ...ire disregard of his remoter motives, so we may judge all collective human enterprises from the standpoint of an attentive study of human births and d... ...an attentive study of human births and devel- opment. Any collective human enterprise, institution, move- ment, party or state, is to be judged as a w... ...d to its courageous propagation. His Huxley Lecture to the Anthropological Institute in 1901* puts the whole mat- ter as vividly as it ever can be pu... ...gather, about equally deadly with seventy- five per cent., and the Italian institutes run to about ninety per cent. The Florentine boasts a very beaut...

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...itution which has risen to this majestic height, they issued on a field of enterprise, the glorious end of which they cannot even now discern. Every m... ...ften that I could wish there were a closer parallel between myself and the American aloe. It is particularly agreeable and ap propriate to know that ... ...ously given by Mr. Charles Dickens on behalf of the Birmingham and Midland Institute, took place on Tuesday evening, December 27, 1853, at the Birming... ...MY GOOD FRIENDS,—When I first imparted to the com mittee of the projected Institute my particular wish that on one of the evenings of my readings her... ...r presence, and in the presence of the committee, my earnest hope that the Institute will, from the beginning, recognise one great prin ciple—strong ... ...ise too much for the working man, when I say that he will stand by such an enterprise with the utmost Charles Dickens 52 of his patience, his perseve... ...e the dire evils of war. The great interests of trade enfeebled by it, the enterprise of better times paralysed by it, all the peaceful arts bent down... ...of that good blacksmith, as it was written of another of his trade, by the American poet: “Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes;... ...ne, which seems to my mind to have a certain application. My friend was an American sea captain, and, therefore, it is quite unnecessary to say his st...

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...es by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Rudyard Kipling American Notes by Rudyard Kipling Intr Intr Intr Intr Introduction oduction... ...t in a quarrel. At twenty they are experienced in business, embark in vast enterprises, take partners as experienced as themselves, and go to pieces w... ...lk from the desert, come in to trade with the Zion Mercantile Co-operative Institute. The Church, I fancy, looks after the finances of this thing, and...