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...ns of Manhattan will be first entitled to rank with the larger capitals of Europe. So obvious, rapid, and natural has been the advance of all the plac... .... Seventeen years since, the writer returned home from a long residence in Europe, during which he had dwelt for years in many of the largest towns of... ...re he was, as well as its great need of change to raise it to the level of European improve- ment—ventured to say that, in his opinion, speak- ing of ... ...his opinion was deemed extravagant, and was regarded as a con- sequence of European rather than of American rea- soning. If the same opinion were utte... ...n that day , it looked as if this speculative importation of laborers from Europe was to form a material part of the domestic policy of the Northern S... ...rers from Europe was to form a material part of the domestic policy of the Northern States. Now the negro is a human being, as well as an apprentice o... ...in that the measure would lead to an escape of most of the slaves near the northern frontiers of the Southern Confederacy , as well as of a vast num- ...

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...don, 1894). 5 The V olsunga Saga INTRODUCTION It would seem fitting for a Northern folk, deriving the greater and better part of their speech, laws, ... ...ving the greater and better part of their speech, laws, and customs from a Northern root, that the North should be to them, if not a holy land, yet at... ...g found refuge and was kept in being. In England, Germany, and the rest of Europe, what is left of the tradi- tions of pagan times has been altered in... ...; but Iceland held to the old tongue that was once the universal speech of northern folk, and held also the great stores of tale and poem that are slo... ... freebooters. 6 The V olsunga Saga when Bishop Percy translated Mallet’s “Northern Antiqui- ties”, was anything known here of Icelandic, or its liter... ... destroy. The Scando-Gothic peoples who poured southward and westward over Europe, to shake empires and found kingdoms, to meet Greek and Roman in con... ...utlands, Iceland, the Faroes, the Orkneys, and Ireland. The whole coast of Europe, even to Greece and the shores of the Black Sea, the northern shores... ...whole coast of Europe, even to Greece and the shores of the Black Sea, the northern shores of Africa, and the western part of Asia, felt the effects a... ...er, began to shake off the stupor her ill-hap had brought upon her, and as European attention had been drawn to her, she was listened to. Newspapers, ...

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...ough Sparta was safe below the Isthmus, had no intention of abandoning his northern allies, and kept the other Peloponnesians to their posts, only sen... ...nders of Scotland. They had gradually spread themselves over the middle of Europe, and had for some generations past lived among the Alpine moun- tain... ...- tains, whence they used to come down upon the rich plans 39 Yo n g e of northern Italy for forays, in which they slew and burnt, and drove off catt... ...al with.’ The Gauls, since the time of Brennus, had so entirely settled in northern Italy, that it had acquired the name of Cisalpine Gaul, and they w... ... fought out his struggle for power at Rome, and subdued Egypt, Pontus, and Northern Africa—and all the time the brave Gaul re- mained closely watched ... ...ttacks came from the wild nations who poured out of the centre and east of Europe. The Franks came over the Rhine and its 91 Yo n g e dependent river... ...ous host came down into Italy, and after horrible devasta- tion of all the northern provinces, came to the gates of Rome, no one dared to meet him but... ...uld be paid to him. He 93 Yo n g e then retreated, and, to the joy of all Europe, died on his way back to his native dominions. But with the Huns the... ...ack to his native dominions. But with the Huns the danger and suffering of Europe did not end. The happy state described in the Prophets as ‘dwell- in...

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... of exceeding good repute, whither Irish ladies of strict virtue, and many northern lasses of the same predicament, were accustomed to resort in their... ... miracle of this kind might have engaged all the Academies des Sciences in Europe, and perhaps in a fruit less inquiry; yet the reader, by barely rec... ...ones hath privately added a third. Upon this income he lives in one of the northern counties, about 200 miles distant from Lon don, and lays up £200 ...

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...een spent in Egypt, in the practice of medicine, and the frigid summers of Europe scarcely warmed his blood. His memory flashed for an instant upon th... ... also in bindings of calf and pigskin, treasure from half the bookshops in Europe; and there were huge folios like Prussian grenadiers; and tiny Elzev... ...hanging, they reached Venning. She had expected a greater coolness in that northern country; but there was a hot blight over the place, and, as they w...

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...y, any where about the Cape de Verd, where I was in hope to meet with some European Ship, and if I did not, I knew not what Course I had to take, but ... ...Islands, or perish there among the Negroes. I knew that all the Ships from Europe, which sail’d either to this Coast of Guiney, or to Brasil, or to th... ...my Plantation; for the first thing I did, I bought me a Negro Slave, and an European Servant also; I mean another besides that which the Captain brough... ...retch over for the African Coast, when they came about 10 or 12 Degrees of Northern Latitude, which it seems was the manner of their Course in those D... ... about 12 days time, and were by our last Observation in 7 Degrees 22 Min. Northern Latitude, when a violent Tournado or Hurricane took us quite out o... ...of dry’d Goat’s Flesh, which we liv’d much upon, and a little Remainder of European Corn which had been laid by for some Fowls which we brought to Sea... ...ther I found Daniel Defoe 41 about Thirty six Pounds value in Money, some European Coin, some Brasil, some Pieces of Eight, some Gold, some Silver. I... ... at first; so that when I came near the Island, I found my self open to the Northern Shore of it, that is to say, the other End of the Island opposite ... ...s too thick for us to travel; and being not hard frozen, as is the Case in Northern Countries: There was no going without being in Danger of being bur...

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...means they died at the rate of ten or fifteen thousand a week, whereas the Europeans or Christian mer- chants, who kept themselves retired and reserve... ...As to foreign trade, there needs little to be said. The trading nations of Europe were all afraid of us; no port of France, or Holland, or Spain, or I... ... be among them, which made them fare the better. For the security of those northern traders, the coal-ships were ordered by my Lord Mayor not to come ...

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...f heroes, and then proceeded to create the vast politico-religious organisations of the Muhammedan world which are one of the great forces with which Europe and the East have to reckon to-day....

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...tions of the Muhammedan world which are one of the great forces with which Europe and the East have to reckon to-day. The secret of the power exercise... ...hammedan world has somehow been arrested, but research has shown that what European scholars knew of Greek philosophy, of mathematics, as- tronomy, an... ...o that of the ancient Hebrew prophets, but there is much in the book which Europeans usually regard as faulty. The tendency to repetition which is an ... ...gious con- victions, they had conquered Persia in the seventh century, the northern coasts of Africa, and a large portion of Spain in the eighth, the ... ...e Fostât, Baghdad, Cordova, and Delhi, attest the power at which Christian Europe trembled. And thus, while the Ko- ran, which underlays this vast ene... ...hes by the arms of the victo- rious Muslims, it must not be forgotten that Europe, in the middle ages, owed much of her knowledge of dialectic phi- lo...

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...for he who addressed the most brilliant com- 12 Thackeray pany of wits in Europe was little more—emptied the contents of the brandy-flask into a silv... ... where the huts are squatted by the Niger, under the palm-trees; where the Northern Babel lies, with its warehouses, and its bridges, its graceful fac... ...e affairs of the world represented here, and Holywell Street the centre of Europe—when three knocks of a peculiar nature were heard, and Mendoza start... ...ed. His lance bore everything down before it. The most famous champions of Europe, assembled at these joustings, had dropped, one by one, before this ... ...he Hemperor to death in Saintyleany, the artful dodges who wish to smother Europe with their cotton, and can’t sleep or rest heasy for henvy and hatre... ...n ringlet of beauty, the red lock from the forehead of the Scottish or the Northern soldier, the snowy tress of extreme old age, the flaxen down of in... ...the southern gate; Athelstane’s banner, the bull rampant, was still on the northern bartizan. “An Ivanhoe, an Ivanhoe!” he bellowed out, with a shout ... ...e said “hoe!” “Ivanhoe! Ivanhoe!” a shrill voice cried from the top of the northern bartizan. Ivanhoe knew it. “Rowena my love, I come!” he roared on ... ...nterior of the prison. These decorations, knowing several gentlemen of the Northern Circuit, Sir Wilfrid of Ivanhoe eas- ily procured, and with feelin...

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...Molokai Ahina,’ the ‘grey,’ lofty, and most desolate island– along all its northern side plunges a front of precipice into a sea of unusual profundity... ...he people to revolt. He displayed some documents purporting to be from the northern Covenanters, and stating that they were prepared to join in any en... ...ct bodies fly – Where T ruth in person does appear Like words congealed in northern air.’ But none of them seem to find any relish for their studies– ... ...able jealousy with which he sees Duncan embracing Banquo. He may have some northern poetry of speech, but he has not much logical understand- ing. In ... ...r heard in his memory, as it were their harmonies, joy-bells clashing in a northern city, and the acclamations of a multitude, the cries of battle, th... ...the only king in that king’s race.’ He ground his teeth. ‘The only king in Europe!’ Who else? Who has done and suffered except me? who has lain and ru...

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...emancipators of the slave—who have wea ried every Court and Government in Europe and America with our protests and remonstrances, until we goaded the... ...acrifices of what they think their interest. At present all the nations of Europe have sympathized with us; have acknowledged that we were injured, an... ...ce the Tr e n t out rage, and when we are no longer feeling towards the Northern Americans as men feel towards those with whom they may be on the p... ...wishing what ought to have been wished, regarding the contest in which the Northern States are engaged with the South. In considering this matter, we ... ...ould have been made, ostensibly, to the opinions and wishes of Continental Europe. We expected anything, in short, which would have been weak and timi... ... number, gave the hideous de tails of the burning alive of an unfortunate Northern huck ster by Lynch law, on mere suspicion of having aided in the ... ... by Mr. Carey), the Slave States are intersected in the middle, from their northern frontier almost to the Gulf of Mexico, by a country of free labor—... ...tutions. With no one of these propositions can I agree. Whether or not the Northern Americans will succeed in reconquering the South, I do not affect ... ...own terms, leaving it half the Territories, and that it is acknowledged by Europe, and takes its place as an admitted member of the community of natio...

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... had made discoveries that gave him a reputation with the learned throughout Europe. In politics he proved very able both as an administrator and as a... ...have since found that it has been trans lated into most of the languages of Europe, and suppose it has been more generally read than any other book, ... ...gine, an itinerant doctor, for there was no town in England, or coun try in Europe, of which he could not give a very particular account. He had some... ...e similarity of our studies. He at length proposed to me travelling all over Europe together, support ing ourselves everywhere by working at our busi... ... effects upon your vast and rising country, as well as upon England and upon Europe) that it should stand respectable and eternal. For the fur theran... ...ord and Edinburgh; returns to America. 1763 Makes a five months’ tour of the northern colonies for the Purpose of inspecting the post offices. 1764 De...

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...ners on many common provocations. A Scotchman may tramp the better part of Europe and the United States, and never again receive so vivid an impressio... ... curious, the sons of chieftains were often edu- cated on the continent of Europe. They went abroad speak- ing Gaelic; they returned speaking, not Eng... ...of all possible accommoda- 55 Memories and Portraits tion, pitched on the northern inlet as the scene of opera- tions. For it was no accident that ha... ...here cheek by jowl, with our feet upon our baggage, in a beautiful, clear, northern summer eve. And behold! there was now a pier of stone, there were ... ...he year 1818, the grandson of Thomas Smith, first engineer to the Board of Northern Lights, son of Robert Stevenson, brother of Alan and David; so tha...