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... his War and the Future, that if mankind goes on with war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World f... ...paper and cane as Tom had done, but with a penny packet of Boys of England American ciga- rettes. His language shocked his father before he was twelve... ...t was that particularly impressed Bert Smallways. “If them Germans or them Americans get hold of this,” he said impressively to his brother, “the Brit... ...id impressively to his brother, “the British Empire’s done. It’s U-P . The Union Jack, so to speak, won’t be worth the paper it’s written on, T om.” “... ...r and cigarette shop opposite dis- played such placards as this:— REPORTED AMERICAN ULTIMATUM. BRITAIN MUST FIGHT. OUR INFATUATED WAR OFFICE STILL REF... ... was a vulgar little creature, the sort of pert, limited soul that the old civilisation of the early twentieth century produced by the million in ever... ...own, but now he was beginning to realise that the military rather than the civil arm was concerned about him. He was quite involuntarily playing that ... ... city, and men hurrying in the unwonted darkness across City Hall Park and Union Square came upon the dim forms of soldiers and guns, and were challen... ...ion of the Wetterhorn—for that is the only possible word for the act—above Union Square, and not a mile away from the exemplary ruins of City Hall. Th...

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...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... ...ind, men who would shed a grace upon, and do honour to, any society in the civilised world. Many of the resident gentry in Boston and its neighbourhoo... ..., or parrot: it was an immortal spirit, eagerly seizing upon a new link of union with other spirits! I could almost fix upon the moment when this trut... ...nctly rec ognized. There are no grim door keepers to dole out their tardy civility by the sixpenny—worth; nor is there, I sincerely believe, any inso... ...t in the fulness of time, even deans and chapters may be converted. In the civil court an action was trying, for damages sustained in some accident up... ...iagara; where the stars and stripes of America flutter on one side and the Union Jack of England on the other: and so narrow is the space between them... ...nk together, after the Spartan model, at a great public table. There is no union of the sexes, and every Shaker, male and female, is devoted to a life...

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...Excerpt: There was a large, brilliant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that ev...

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... attended a meeting of the men on the bank. He was secretary to the Miners Union for his colliery, and had heard a good deal of silly wrangling that l... ...ecause a lot of ignorant monkeys want a monkey of their own sort to do the Union work, and jabber to them, they want to get rid of you, and you eat yo... ...you. If you cared for your wife and children half what you care about your Union, you’d be a lot better pleased in the end. But you care about nothing... ...cks was very red, the mangle with its put-up board was white-scrubbed, the American oil-cloth on the table had a gay pattern, there was a warm fire, t... ...o quiet, they had the dangerous impassivity of the Bohemian, Pari- sian or American rather than English. “Cigarette, Julia?” said Robert to his wife. ... ...ing that proud, rather stiff bend of her head was. She had some aboriginal American in her blood. But as she looked, she pursed her mouth. The artist ... ...n’t you think it all works out rather stupid and unsatisfying?” “Ah, but a civil war would be different. I’ve no interest in fighting Germans. But a c... ... don’t agree,” cried Josephine. “You’d feel you were doing something, in a civil war.” “Pulling the house down,” said Lilly. “Yes,” she cried. “Don’t ... ...aught: that warm and luxurious house. Heaven bless us, we who want to save civilisation. We had better make up our minds what of it we want to save. T...

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...er, “did not keep posses sion of the chair a great while. His opinions of civil and reli gious matters differed, in many respects, from those of the... ... fierce were the dissensions that it was feared the conse quence would be civil war and bloodshed. But Winthrop and the ministers being the most powe... ...e were the dissensions that it was feared the conse quence would be civil war and bloodshed. But Winthrop and the ministers being the most powerful, ... ...colonies of Massachu setts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven formed a union, for the purpose of assisting each other in difficulties, for mutual ... ...e French colony was then signed.” “Did England allow Massachusetts to make war and peace with foreign countries?” asked Laurence. “Massachusetts and t... ...t independent of the mother country,” said Grandfa ther. “There was now a civil war in England; and the king, as you may well suppose, had his hands ... ...rs to the charge of treason. During the reign of Charles II., however, the American colonies had but little reason to complain of harsh or tyran nica... ...eason for their apprehen sions. King James caused the charters of all the American colonies to be taken away. The old charter of Massachusetts, which... ...n her, together with the immense wealth of which they had robbed the South American kings.” “Why, Grandfather!” exclaimed Laurence, “what magnifi cen...

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...teness and brevity. ?Luther is still the greatest name in Protestantism. We want you to help us publish some leading work of Luther?s for the general American market. Will you do it??...

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... want you to help us publish some leading work of Luther’s for the general American market. Will you do it?” “I will, on one condition.” “ And what is... ...t is that?” “The condition is that I will be permitted to make Luther talk American, ‘streamline’ him, so to speak—because you will never get people, ... ... actually to read Luther unless we make him talk as he would talk today to Americans.” I illustrated the point by reading to Mr. Zondervan a few sente... ...alley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain. In civil life obedience to the law is severely required. In civil life Gospel,... ...s vanish in His presence. Christ abiding in me drives out every evil. This union with Christ delivers me from the demands of the Law, and separates me... ...essing in Christ. The reader is reminded that all this has no bearing upon civil laws, customs, or political matters. Civil laws and ordi- nances have... ... place and purpose. Let every government enact the best possible laws. But civil righteousness will never deliver a person from the condemnation of Go... ...re all differ- ences in doctrine and preserve unity at all cost. But their union- istic dreams cannot be realized without loss to the pure doc- trine ...

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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as few words as possible-- planted ...

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... of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situ... ...“arranged for”; its first appearance was from month to month, in the North American Review during 1903, and I had been open from far back to any pleas... ...sibly a question of Mr. Waymarsh of Milrose Connecti- cut—Mr. Waymarsh the American lawyer. “Oh yes,” he replied, “my very well-known friend. He’s to ... ...sketched to himself his impression of her as: “Well, she’s more thoroughly civilized—!” If “More thoroughly than WHOM?” would not have been for him a ... ...sness of the bearing of his comparison. The amusement, at all events, of a civilisation intenser was what—familiar compatriot as she was, with the ful... ...of the sort that did come to him—that these were the acci- dents of a high civilisation; the imposed tribute to pro- priety, the frequent exposure to ... ...everything, the great clear architectural street, they turned off in tacit union to the quarter of Strether’s hotel. “Of course,” Chad here abruptly b... ...face at last; you’re made for each other—vous allez voir; and I bless your union.” It was indeed, after he had gone off, as if he had been partly seri... ...other night, in this very place, that you were proposing to me a different union altogether.” ‘’Mademoiselle de Vionnet?” Well, Strether easily con- f...

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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... ...nt cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I expect it w... ...s- tion that the existence of slavery was incompatible with freedom in the Union would hazard the political chances of any public man in the North. Bu... ...n among them, he saw no alternative but to admit such a Territory into the Union. He declared further that, while he should be exceedingly glad to see... ...ld not be like a foreign war, exciting a united national enthusiasm, but a civil war, likely to fan to uncommon heat the animosities of party even in ... ...wed in his inaugural ad- dress, and pursued during the first period of the civil war, was far from satisfying all his party friends. The ardent spirit... ...break the oath in using that power. I under- stood, too, that, in ordinary civil administration, this oath even forbade me practically to indulge my p...

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......................................................... 131 Song of the Red War-Boat ..................................................................... ...will not call them), who are now at large and working more piracies in his American ocean, which the Pope gave him. (He and the Pope should guard it, ... ...she hit it. ‘She showed ‘em all. I told ‘em that this was no time for open war with Spain. If by miracle incon- ceivable they prevailed against Philip... ...e’s but next-above-fool to the man that can’t do nothin’. That’s where the Unions make their mistake.’ ‘My thought to the very dot.’ Dan heard Hal sla... ...p his tight- hosed leg. ‘I’ve suffered ‘in my time from these same Guilds— Unions, d’you call ‘em? All their precious talk of the myster- ies of their... ...ke me, you’ve found yourself hin- dered by those—Guilds, did you call ‘em?—Unions, we say.’ ‘You may say so!’ Hal pointed to a white scar on his cheek... ...shore. None’ll hinder you. They’re all gone mad on these coasts—French and American together. ’Tisn’t my notion o’ war.” Pierre was an old King Louis ... ...s are a seemly, quiet people, and they’d had trouble enough from white men—American and English—during the wars, to keep ‘em in that walk. They lived ... ...moment he gives me leave I’ll claim the money.” ‘He had a hard fight to be civil, but he come out smiling. ‘“Monsieur,” he says, “I beg your pardon as...

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...ar a red cross on his arm, and help to take care of the wounded in the sad war between the French and the Germans. But he had left Mother Bunch behind... ...s as the missionaries had been to, and had made the people more gentle and civil.” “T ell me all about it,” said Lucy, following the old woman hither ... ... does, but that will show that I am brave. When father comes home from the war he paints himself white.” “White?” “With lime made by burning coral, an... ...d it up to her; and when Lucy shook her head and said, “No, thank you,” as civilly as she could, the woman tore it in two, and handed a lump over her ... ...my lessons in the afternoon.” “You are a maiden,” said the little boy with civil superior- ity; “your brothers study more hours.” “More; yes, but not ... ...rful Globe CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVI THE AMERICAN GUEST THE AMERICAN GUEST THE AMERICAN GUEST THE AMERICAN GUEST THE... ...MERICAN GUEST THE AMERICAN GUEST THE AMERICAN GUEST THE AMERICAN GUEST THE AMERICAN GUEST NO; wishing very hard did not bring poor little French Coral... ...ut when I’m at home, I’m at Bos- ton. I am Leonidas Saunders, of the great American Republic.” “Oh, then you are not real, after all?” “Real! I should... ...ore Americans and En- glish, and with flags with stars and stripes or else Union Jacks all over it; and whenever they came to a French sentry, or afte...

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...d included in “Imagination; A T ale for Y oung Women. With Other T ales by American Authors” which also included “The Block-House”, by William Leggett... ...arge than otherwise. Miss Emmerson had been educated immediately after the war of the revolution, and at a time when the intellect of the women of thi... ...o forte was already sending forth its sonorous harmony from one end of the Union to the other, while the glittering useful- ness of the tambour-frame ... ...ure; and skies of sunny brightness, that mocked the golden hues of even an American sun. The experience of Miss Emmerson went no further than the simp... ...r friend, in all of which she dwelt with rapture on the moment of their re-union, and never failed to mention Antonio in a manner that added new fuel ... ... and she waited in feverish suspense to hear more. “He must be steady, and civil, and sober, and expert, and tender-hearted,” said Miss Emmerson, who ... ...at, I’m sure.” But Charles, accustomed to the backwardness of the com- mon Americans to receive more than the price stipulated, still extended his han... ...fying conviction that she was utterly indif- ferent to every thing but the civility of the act. CHAPTER III IT WA S QUITE EARLY on the following morni... ...rous, warm feelings deceive you. She is accustomed to show gentle and kind civilities to all around her, and you mistake habit for affection.” “She is...

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...lue frock in its place, and another, actuated by the same desire to make a civilized mortal of me, flourished about my head a great pair lie imminent ... ...g to the commander of the corvette, had recently gone ashore there from an American whaler, and were desirous of ship- ping aboard one of their own co... ... a single soul, without ties, reckless, and impatient of the restraints of civilization, who are occasionally found quite at home upon the savage isla... ...arcely any price too dear which will purchase his darling “tot.” Nowadays, American whalemen in the Pacific never think of carrying spirits as a ratio... ...ptain died, the mate was in duty bound to navigate the ship to the nearest civilized port, and deliver her up into an English consul’s hands; when, in... ... had thrown the sailors, now brooked no restraint; and one of them—a young American who went by the name of Salem—dashed out from among the rest, 70 ... ... well to windward of the mouth of the harbour, we bore up for it, with the union-jack at the fore. No sign, however, of boat or pilot was seen; and af... ...ter running close in several times, the ensign was set at the mizzen-peak, union down in distress. But it was of no avail. Attributing to Wilson this ... ...s, together with the ill- advised conduct of the missionaries, prevented a union upon some common plan of resistance. But the great body of the people...

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...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 ... ...ess horrible emblem,—he resumed his tale. He said that, a long time ago, a war broke out in the old country between King and Parliament. At that perio... ... 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... ...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... ...ides, it was a very rude epoch, just when the country had come through the war of the Revolution, and while the surges of that commotion were still se... ... can you feel a heart’s love for a mere political arrange ment, like your Union? How can you be loyal, where per sonal attachment—the lofty and nobl... ...to, in the little time that he had been in England, Redclyffe had received civil and even kind treat ment from the English with whom he had come casu... ... do not see an English trait in his face, and as little in his manner. His civility is Italian, such as oftentimes, among his countrymen, has offered ... ...clyffe looked with great interest at these deer, who were at once wild and civilized; retaining a kind of free forest citizenship, while yet they were...

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... coffee was always exhausted before I could elbow my way to the counter. Our American sunrise had ushered in a noble summer’s day. There was not a clo... ...w, I consulted him upon a point of etiquette: if one should offer to tip the American waiter? Certainly not, he told me. Never. It would not do. They ... ...y, separated myself from my companions, and marched with my effects into the Union Pacific Hotel. A white clerk and a coloured gentleman whom, in my p... ...but I did not wish to go to bed. And this, it appeared, was impossible in an American hotel. It was, of course, some inane misunderstanding, and spran... ...and transverse benches upon either hand. Those destined for emigrants on the Union Pacific are only remark- able for their extreme plainness, nothing ... ...difficulty with me; perhaps, like some ladies, I showed myself too eager for union at any price; but certainly the first who was picked out to be my b... ...not, in con- sequence, predict the length of the passage within a day or so. Civility is the main comfort that you miss. Equality, though conceived ve... ...nk of that lad coming and going, train after train, with his bright face and civil words, I see how easily a good man may become the benefactor of his... ...ts; or at least it contained, as I passed through, one person in- completely civilised. At North Platte, where we supped that evening, one man asked a...

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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... ...ant exceptional look—the air of a happy tem- perament fertilised by a high civilisation—which would have made almost any observer envy him at a ventur... ...of forgiving them much bad painting for the sake of the subject. While the Civil War went on she was still a very young girl; but she passed months of... ...that I prefer them immensely. Miss Stackpole knows I detest boarding-house civilisation, and she de- tests me for detesting it, because she thinks it ... ...our at this junc- ture, it was not the conception, even unformulated, of a union with Caspar Goodwood; for however she might have resisted conquest at... ...as no just comprehension of Mr. Bantling.” “There’s no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding. But it ought not to be so difficult t... ...ell she herself, should she only give her mind to it, might criticise this union of her own! She had other employment, however, and Ralph was welcome ...

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...suppose I should ever have set down my recollections if the hazards of the war had not taken me to Ta- hiti. There, as is notorious, he spent the last... ...t friendly disposed to one another. The Army and Navy Stores are a bond of union between all who dwell between the river and St. James’s Park. Mrs. St... ...lected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to “take in,” that civilised man prac- tises a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercis... ...ises had not been incorrect. Mrs. Strickland was the daughter of an Indian civilian, who on his retirement had settled in the depths of the country , ... ...t the desire for approbation is perhaps the most deeply seated instinct of civilised man. No one runs so hurriedly to the cover of respect- ability as... ...o give my story co- herence I should describe the progress of their tragic union, but I know nothing of the three months during which they lived toget... ...e finest country in the world, sir , and he felt a lively superiority over Americans, Colonials, Dagos, Dutchmen, and Kanakas. But I do not think he w... ...elu, whither came ships’ captains in search of a man. He was married to an American woman, obese and slat- ternly , fallen to this pass by Heaven know... ...pan- iards, pleasant-looking fellows from a French cruiser, negroes off an American tramp. By day it is merely sordid, but at night, lit only by the l...

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...atal, from first to last! Scarcely after fifteen months’ de- bating, can a Civil Constitution of the Clergy be so much as got to paper; and then for g... ... so much as got to paper; and then for getting it into reality? Alas, such Civil Constitution is but an agreement to disagree. It divides France from ... ...ere indeed becomes notable one great difference be- tween our two kinds of civil war; between the modern lingual or Parliamentary-logical kind, and th... ... 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... ...Authorities, armed National Guards, meet together; unite your goodwill; in union is tenfold strength: let the concentred flash of your Patriotism stri... ...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... ...hearts, is Lafayette’s chivalrous Amnesty. Welcome too is that hard- wrung Union of Avignon; which has cost us, first and last, ‘thirty sessions of de... ...mbered of men. Very strange Assemblages, Sanhedrims, Amphictyonics, Trades Unions, Ecumenic Coun- cils, Parliaments and Congresses, have met together ... ...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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...days with him and his Whig friends, without thinking on either side of the civil war which was then raging. When the battle of Culloden put an end to ... ...ith him and his Whig friends, without thinking on either side of the civil war which was then raging. When the battle of Culloden put an end to the ho... ...el Whitefoord’s turn to exert himself, and he wearied all the authorities, civil and military, with his solicitations for pardon to the saver of his l... ...t of my old hero Montrose, and to say to myself, that in literature, as in war,— “He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, W... ...now best known as being a place of refuge at any time from all pursuit for civil debt. Dire was the strife betwixt my quondam doer and myself; during ... ...y grandsire, the inditer of this goodly matter, was rather lengthy, as our American friends say. Indeed, I reserve the rest of the piece until I can o... ...o show that my civil occupations have been some- times mixed with those of war. Nevertheless, two idle young fellows in the vehicle, or rather on the ... ...rvade every civilized country. Amongst their mountains, as among the North American Indians, the various tribes were wont to make war upon each other,... ...Vol.III. p.306:— “The family” (of Winton) “owed its first elevation to the union of Sir Christopher Seton with a sister of King Robert Bruce. With Kin...

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...nging in the breakfast tray, with jocu- 6 The Secret Agent lar, exhausted civility, in the hoarse, failing tones of a man who had been talking veheme... ...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... ...ot placate it either by threats, per- suasion, or bribes. Moreover, I am a civilised man. I would never dream of directing you to organise a mere butc... ...d hardly be dragged in there—eh? And there are other advantages. The whole civilised world has heard of Greenwich. The very boot-blacks in the basemen... ...n the statue of one of his own princely ancestors stripped of a crusader’s war harness, and put into an ill-fitting frock coat. The Assistant Commissi... ...ourse. But she had two children. Winnie was pro- vided for by her sensible union with that excellent husband, Mr V erloc. Stevie was destitute—and a l...

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...ay here be allowed to point out the depraving effect of the necessities of war upon certain minds who venture to act in domestic life as if upon the f... ..., during his lifetime, his townsmen kept silence about him and treated him civilly. His wife, a demoiselle Descoings, feeble in health during her girl... ...e ministers who succeeded each other in that office. She put Bridau on the war-path to save her grocer. That incorruptible official—one of the virtuou... ...ridau never went to the minis- try before eleven o’clock. As long as their union lasted, his wife took the same unwearying pleasure in preparing for h... ...hat reward a soldier, the Emperor resolved to cre- ate an order to requite civil services, just as he had already created the Legion of honor to rewar... ...d ear- nest a mortal enmity to the Bourbons, never reported himself at the War department, and even refused opportunities which were offered to him fo... ...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... ...s, give us five days’ happiness and launch us ideally into all the joys of civilization? T obacco, a craving far more immoral than play, destroys the ... ... trust a man of that quality. The two found their hatred so firm a bond of union, 212 The Two Brothers that Fario put himself at Philippe’s disposal,...

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...................................................... 146 Chapter 3.4.II. In Civil War. ................................................................... ................................................ 146 Chapter 3.4.II. In Civil War. ......................................................................... ...lches, what have you invented?’ This?—Poor old Laporte, Inten- dant of the Civil List, follows next; quietly, the mild old man. Then Durosoy, Royalist... ...ing Galleries; Prussian Brunswick, ‘over a space of forty miles,’ with his war-tumbrils, and sleeping thun- ders, and Briarean ‘sixty-six thousand’ (S... ...emark with praise: the force of Politeness. To such depth has the sense of civilisation penetrated man’s life; no Drouet, no Legendre, in the maddest ... ...otz, Speaker of Man- kind, proses sad stuff about a Universal Republic, or union 73 Thomas Carlyle of all Peoples and Kindreds in one and the same Fr... ...only General: in the shrill tumult Danton’s strong voice reverberates, for union and pacification. Meetings there are; dinings with the Girondins: it ... ...e; dinings with the Girondins: it is so pressingly essential that there be union. But the Girondins are haughty and respect- able; this Titan Danton i... ...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...