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...– THE ELEMENTS OF DISCORD: NATIVE T HE STORY I HAVE TO TELL is still going on as I write; the characters are alive and active; it is a piece of contem... ... are the contemporaries of our tattooed ancestors who drove their chariots on the wrong side of the Roman wall. We have passed the feudal system; they... ...rks the race alone among Polynesians; terms of ceremony fly thick as oaths on board a ship; commoners my-lord each other when they meet – and urchins ... ... to the conclu- sion that he is hereditary and absolute. Hereditary he is; born of a great family, he must always be a man of mark; but yet his office... ...ak sense) is held on good behaviour. Compare the case of a Highland chief: born one of the great ones of his clan, he was sometimes appointed its chie... ...an summon parliaments; it does not follow they will assemble. If he be too flagrantly disobeyed, he can go to war. But so he could before, when he was... ... like the scales of a balance, one down, the other up. Tamasese raised his flag (Jan. 28th, 1886) in Leulumoenga, chief place of his own province of A... ...cross the Mulivai, and “had the coolness” (German expression) to hoist his flag in Apia. He was asked “in the most polite manner,” says the same accou... ...riot on the Emperor’s birthday. The rest shall be silence; only it must be borne in view that Tamasese all the while continued to strengthen himself i...

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...eon by William Makepeace Thackeray Writing as “Michael Angelo Titmarch” I. ON THE DISINTERMENT OF NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA. MY DEAR ——,—It is no easy ta... ...deceiving bodies, and turned out stark naked as they were before they were born— what a strange startling sight shall we see, and what a pretty figure... ...ancy,—but we must not fancy such a scene at all, which would be an outrage on pub- lic decency. Should we be any better than our neigh- bors? No, cert... ...ow in fashion for four thousand years. And so, my dear, history is written on fig-leaves. Would you have anything further? O fie! Yes, four thousand y... ...illis chez toutes les nations;” in English, “under the riddled rags of the flags that have been culled or plucked” (like roses or buttercups) “in all ... ...ificent imperial mantle brought from Paris, the four corners of which were borne by Generals Bertrand and Gourgaud, Baron Las Cases and M. Marchand. A... ... assumed the usual signs of deep mourn- ing: their yards crossed and their flags lowered. Two French merchantmen, ‘Bonne Amie’ and ‘Indien, ’ which ha... ...le. ’ The forts of the town, and the houses of the consuls, had also their flags half-mast high. “On arriving at the entrance of the town, the troops ... ...o the right-about, before the wretched misbe- gotten imperial heraldry was born, that was to prove so disastrous to the father of it. It has always be...

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...Mints, were introduced only a short time previous to the appearance of man on the globe. It appears that apples made a part of the food of that un- kn... ...es of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.” And again, “Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples.” The noblest part of man’s noblest feature... ...thence to * The stories of the early Scandinavians. **An English authority on the culture of orchards and gardens. 5 Henry David Thoreau England, the... ...omed the apple-tree to these shores. The tent-caterpillar saddled her eggs on the very first twig that was formed, and it has since shared her affecti... ... autumn. The sward is com- monly strewed with little ones which fall still-born, as it were,—Nature thus thinning them for us. The Roman writer Pallad... ...olled far down the hill amid the rocks. The owner knows nothing of it. The day was not observed when it first blossomed, nor when it first bore fruit,... ...only gnawed by squirrels, as I perceive. It has done double duty,—not only borne this crop, but each twig has grown a foot into the air. And this is s... ...eter. No doubt many of these are already old trees, if you reckon from the day they were planted, but infants still when you consider their developmen... ...atin and Greek languages, if they were used, and make the lingua vernacula flag. We should have to call in the sunrise and the sunset, the rainbow and...

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...nd, to prevent themselves from being hurt, they had helmets or brazen caps on their heads, with long tufts of horse-hair upon them, by way of ornament... ...ts of horse-hair upon them, by way of ornament, and breast-plates of brass on their breasts, and on their arms they carried a sort of screen, made of ... ...e of strong leather. One of them carried a little brass figure of an eagle on a long pole, with a scarlet flag flying below, and wherever the eagle wa... ...m carried a little brass figure of an eagle on a long pole, with a scarlet flag flying below, and wherever the eagle was seen, they all followed, and ... ...t with the Britons. It was fifty-five years before our blessed Saviour was born that the Romans came. So at the top of this chapter stands B.C. (Befor... ...p it as long as the world lasts. It was about 400 years after our Lord was born that the Romans were going and the English coming. 10 Young Folk’s Hi... ...ng up to the shore, with a serpent for the figure-head, and a raven as the flag, and crowds of fierce warriors with axes in their hands longing for pr... ...d it. The Parliament has, ever since, been made up of great lords, who are born to it: and, besides them, of men chosen by the people in the counties ... ...ssible. They all wore red crosses on their sleeves, and put up a red-cross flag over the houses where they were taking care of the sick and wounded, a...

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...NSED PRINTING TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND This is true liberty, when free born men, Having to advise the public, may speak free, Which he who can, ... ...covenant of his fidelity; and that his loyalest affection and his hope waits on your proceedings. His highest praising is not flattery, and his plaine... ...reopagitica Milton 6 after to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do ... ...th; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed me n. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as ... ...se condition than a peccant soul, should be to stand before a jury ere it be born to the world, and undergo yet in darkness the judgment of Radamanth ... ...nders to learning, but the free and ingenuous sort of such as evidently were born to study, and love learn ing for itself, not for lucre or any other... ...y deceased author, though never so famous in his life time and even to this day, come to their hands for li cence to be printed, or reprinted, if th... ...lks abroad at eight, and leaves his kind entertainer in the shop trading all day without his religion. Another sort there be who, when they hear that ... ... let him be girt 74 With all the griesly legions that troop Under the sooty flag of Acheron, Harpies and Hydras, or all the monstrous forms ‘Twixt Af...

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...ot write a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit per se. Its profits, like its labor, belong to me: its morals, its manners, its philosophy, its influence on the young, are f...

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...ss of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis; Napoleon on his Imperial Throne – 1806: Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Domin- ique (1780-1867)... ...or, belong to me: its morals, its manners, its philoso- phy, its influence on the young, are for you to justify. You were of mature age when you made ... ... have a conscience; and conscience is always anx- iously explanatory. You, on the contrary, feel that a man who discusses his conscience is much like ... ...s of that rare and useful, but unedifying variation, an energetic ge- nius born without the prejudices or superstitions of his con- temporaries. The r... ...misgovernment, will ruin us if our citizens are ill bred. When we two were born, this country was still dominated by a selected class bred by politica... ... effusive loyalty, this officious rising and uncover- ing at a wave from a flag or a blast from a brass band? Impe- rialism: Not a bit of it. Obsequio... ...whether his adolescence belonged to the sixties or to the eighties. He was born, as a matter of fact, in 1839, and was a Unitarian and Free T rader fr... ...vanced as ever I was. I defy you to prove that I have ever hauled down the flag. I am more ad- vanced than ever I was. I grow more advanced every day.... ... of the garden and look uphill, our horizon is the stone balus- trade of a flagged platform on the edge of infinite space at the top of the hill. Betw...

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...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State Electronic Classic... ...ics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...ansmission, in any way. Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University... ...tented; and hardy horsewomen who slept at the first chord of Schumann were born, horribly misplaced, into the garden of Klingsor; but sometimes one ca... ...son pour encourages les autres, and the passionate penny collecting of the Flag Days was brought under some sort of regulation. Madness in Court The d... ...t up to care; and a sense of the national importance of the theatre is not born in mankind: the natural man, like so many of the soldiers at the begin... ...the cupola of an observatory. Between the ob- servatory and the house is a flagstaff on a little esplanade, with a hammock on the east side and a long... ...f the human animal for its offspring is six years. My daughter Ariadne was born when I was forty-six. I am now eighty-eight. If she comes, I am not at... ...s Lady Utterword lying voluptuously in the hammock on the east side of the flagstaff, in the circle of light cast by the electric arc, which is like a...

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...in the Publication. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c. I Was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of t... ...Life of Ease and Pleasure. He told me it was for Men of desperate Fortunes on one Hand, or of aspiring, superior Fortunes on the other, who went abroa... ...d, that Kings have frequently lamented the miserable Consequences of being born to great things, and wish’d they had been placed in the Middle of the ... ...y or Mind, as those were who, by vicious Living, Luxury and Extravagancies on one Hand, or by hard labour, Want of Nec essaries, and mean or insuffici... ...nd, or by hard labour, Want of Nec essaries, and mean or insufficient Diet on the other hand, bring Distempers upon themselves by the natural Conseque... ...ecipitate my self into Miseries which Nature and the Station of Life I was born in, seem’d to have provided against; that I was under no Necessity of ... ...oles in the Form of Rafters lean ing against the Rock, and load them with Flaggs and large Leaves of Trees like a Thatch. December 10th, I began now ... ...USOE lay upon the Beach of the Sea, with his Hands and his Feet ty’d, with Flags, or Things like Rushes; and that he was an European, and had Cloaths ... ...dead. While my Man Friday fir’d at them, I pull’d out my Knife, and cut the Flags that bound the poor Victim, and loosing his Hands, and Feet, I lifted...

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... a cause (in most cases, the freedom of a group of people). They base their claims on history - real or hastily concocted, on a common heritage, on... ...on heritage, on a language shared by the members of the group and, most important, on hate and contempt directed at an "enemy". The latter is, almo... ...go trip of sending others to their death. They are the stuff martyrs are made of. Borne on the crests of circumstantial waves, they lever their un... ...p of sending others to their death. They are the stuff martyrs are made of. Borne on the crests of circumstantial waves, they lever their unbalanc... ...amb and Grey Falcon" in 1940. Goce Delcev (Gotse Deltchev) was a teacher. He was born in 1872 in Kukush (the Bulgarian name of the town), north o... ... 'flying column' saunters out to hunt an elusive rebel band, or ... to punish some flagrant act of defiance ... The village may have ... resented t... ...ng Macedonian question led directly to the reform of Turkey itself by the Macedonia-born officer Ataturk. And it facilitated the disintegration of t... ...tical opponents and their execution, the closure of patriotic sports societies, the flagrant interference in the work of the ostensibly independent ... ...bond that formed, fostered by a common vision and shared hope - is intact. Albanian flags fly over Albanian municipalities in Kosovo and in Macedoni...

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...ness might reduce us to a statistic of the dead or injured in tomorrow's newspaper headline in today's fidayeen attack. If left unabated it might one day engulf all of us in the Third World War. And thus the significance of any exercise aimed at improving our understanding of the involved issues cannot be overemphasized. Possibly in a new non-fiction genre, this thought-pr...

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...his life. That was, notwithstanding his gusty libido. Needless to say, it reveals a rare strength of character and a great ability for self-sacrifice born out of a strong personal conviction. And, for all that, it might have been for a purpose. But, whatever it was, that served him well in sustaining his creed in spite of odds. The very fact that in his otherwise well re...