...e taught by Dr. Groodall to delight in the peculiarly elegant and accurate scholarship which was the characteristic of the highest education of their ... ... cial Bench could reckon a larger number of men distinguished not only for legal ability but for the highest culture and for the substantial qualities... ...r to lead to close and friendly intimacy, especially on the circuits. When legal etiquette forbade the use of any public conveyance, and junior barris... ...his time attained, may contend in the public examination for the Newcastle scholarship, just before the Easter holidays, and it is a great testimony t... ...ate friends and associates, two collegers, who ultimately became Newcastle scholars and medallists. ‘That the most popular oppidan of his day should h... ...re while still in the prime of life for work, you would publish some great legal book, which should for ever be a record of your knowledge on these su... ...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave... ...tion, a sugar plantation has not been found a very advanced school for the American or West Indian negro, and as a matter of fact, the islander who ha...

...to this the country has continued to flourish. It is a singular feature in American life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of... ...al use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The latter draw a distinction between a sled, or sledge, and a s... ...construction used for temporary purposes in the new countries. Many of the American sleighs are elegant though the use of this mode of conveyance is m... ...Richard, who had his services for a time,* and who, of course, commanded a legal claim to the respect of the young negro. But when any dis- pute betwe... ...o travel different roads. At the end of that period, Dr. Todd attained his legal majority. He then took a jaunt to Boston to purchase medicines, and, ... ...nded for the great divisions of education, viz., the Latin and the English scholars. The former were never very numerous; though the sounds of “nomina... ...and savages, but never so much as looked into a book, or larnt a letter of scholarship, in my born days. I’ve never seen the use of much in-door work,... ...t in the country can affect my title.” “Doubtless, sir, your title is both legal and equitable,” returned the youth coldly , reining his horse back an... ...“No, no, John,” said Natty I was no chief, seeing that I knowed nothing of scholarship, and had a white skin. But it was a comfortable hunting-ground ...

...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ... poets and explorers, read- ing a paper to an association of distinguished scholars. V The last faculty reception before commencement. In five days th... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ... that Gopher Prairie was a city. From Kennicott she discovered that it was legally orga- nized with a mayor and city-council and wards. She was deligh... ... which suggested Guy Pollock. On the green felt of the table-desk, between legal blanks and a clotted inkwell, was a cloissone vase. On a swing shelf ... ...’d put off the Minneapolis trips till I simply had to go there on a lot of legal matters. “A few years ago I was talking to a patent lawyer from Chica...

...said. “In Brixton. She doesn’t do particularly badly—or well. I live on my scholarship. I have lived on scholarships since I was thirteen. And you see... ... talking of Eugenics and the “family”—Benham was almost knocked down by an American trotter driven by Lord Breeze. “Whup there!” said Lord Breeze in a... ...uestrian… .” That night some malignant spirit kept Benham awake, and great American trotters with vast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncon... ...ast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncontrollable, hard-mouthed American trot- ters, pounded over his angry soul. “Prothero,” he said in ha... ...erspectives and light-soaked blue sky, seemed cool and quiet. A flavour of scholarship pervaded them—a little blended with the flavour of innumerable ... ...of spending the summer, the sort of soft holiday a man learns to take from scholars and literary men. A man like Sir Philip, he thought, ought to have... ...eral voices spoke. These things were illegali- ties that might some day be legal; there were the records of loans and hidden transactions that might a...

...nsiderable appetite for commendation, and when I was barely twelve I got a scholarship at the City Merchants School and was en- trusted with a scholar... ...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ...ity colleges sprang into 54 The New Machiavelli existence correlated, the scholars went on to the universities and came back to teach the schools, to... ...e- nagerie.” Never once since Codger began to display the early promise of scholarship at the age of eight or more, had he been outside the bars. His ... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain.... ...e old Liberal definition of liberty was a trifle uncritical. Privilege and legal restrictions are not the only enemies of liberty. An uneducated, unde...

...or of a woman whom he had known in possession of millions, obtained a half-scholarship for her son, Oscar Husson, at the school of Henri IV .; and he ... ...which the paying pupils put upon those who hold scholar- ships, unless the scholars are able to impose respect by supe- rior physical ability. This mi... ...h due allowance, to that of Mistigris, consisted of a shabby surtout coat, American-green in color, much worn, but clean and well-brushed; a black wai... ... cost him nothing to oblige me. It concerns a claim I wish to press on the American government. I should be glad to obtain information about Monsieur ... ...ed boy! and ask pardon of him who gave food to your mind by obtaining your scholarship.” 95 Balzac Oscar, his face to the ground, was foaming with ra... ...rack; he must go straight through with it. Ha! I know how to help you. The legal business of land-agents is quite important, and I have heard of a law... ... details, had put himself in Desroches’ office for the purpose of studying legal procedure, and of training himself to take a place as head-clerk in t... ...me. We must explain the perennial joke of this book, then much in vogue in legal offices. In a clerical life where work is the rule, amusement is all ...

...To suppose of a man cherishing the name of Ormont, that he would bestow it legally on a woman, a stranger, and imperil his race by mix- ing blood with... ... assured of his being, as she called him, “a sphinx.” His behaviour to his legally wed- ded wife confirmed the charge. She checked her flow to resume ... ...hamed of her! My darling Aminta, a month of absence for reflection on your legally-wedded husband’s conduct increases my astonishment. For usually men... ...red an impressive sermon from his desk to the standing up boarders and day-scholars alike, vilifying the in- fidel Greek word ‘antagonist.’ ‘Do you re... ...he work, doesn’t dispirit. Otherwise, one may say that an African or South American traveller has a more exciting time. I shall manage to keep my head... ...is boys: English, French, Germans, Italians, a Spaniard in my time—a South American I have sent him— two from Boston, Massachusetts—and clever!—all em...

...ne towards the street Over the entrance hovers an enormous specimen of the American eagle, with outspread wings, a shield before her breast, and, if I... ...he anticipated execution of some rioted culprit, on whom the sentence of a legal tribunal had but confirmed the verdict of public sentiment. But, in t... ... of rank and office, it was safely to be inferred that the infliction of a legal sentence would have an earnest and effectual meaning. Accordingly, th... ...ions of his fellow clergy men, eminent as several of them were. There are scholars among them, who had spent more years in acquiring ab struse lore,...

... the pleasure and honour of helping papa, even though it was copying a dry legal opin- ion, instead of gliding about on the smooth hard ice, in the br... ...son about his travels. A sailor just returned from four years on the South American coast, who had doubled Cape Horn, shot condors on the Andes, caugh... ... am sure I shan’t care if we do win.” “And the prize,” said Beatrice, “the scholarship!” “I have no heart to try for it now! I would not, if Uncle Geo... ...he old collegiate courts, the painted windows of the chapel, the surpliced scholars,—even the very shops in the streets had their part in his descript...

...that came from the female bud. Then he went in among the desks, to see the scholars’ books. Ursula watched his intent progress. There was a stillness ... ...y syllable distinctly. She looked at the cover, to verify herself. ‘An old American edition,’ said Birkin. ‘Ha!—of course—translated from the French,’... ...e, and a liaison was only another kind of cou- pling, reactionary from the legal marriage. Reaction was a greater bore than action. On the whole, he h... ...hy should you want my opinion? I’ve got no opinions. I’m not interested in legal marriage, one way or another. It’s a mere question of conve- nience.’... ... way irrevocable.’ ‘Yes, I agree,’ said Birkin. ‘No matter how one regards legal marriage, yet to enter 350 into the married state, in one’s own pers... ...iked the West Afri- can wooden figures, the Aztec art, Mexican and Central American. He saw the grotesque, and a curious sort of me- chanical motion i...

...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...ut solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in es- tablished usage... ...rty years ago, which papers have been reprinted in a collective form by an American house of high character in Boston; but in part they are to be view... ...re, or of its adjacencies, but has occupied the researches of our Oriental scholars. AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I C... ..., on my side, to all hopes of enduring peace, for here was established, in legal phrase, a lien forever upon my island, and not upon its margin, but i... ...lied. It was notorious that Mrs. Lee had no protector or guide, natural or legal. Her marriage had, in fact, instead of imposing new restraints, relea... ...r is the Sovereign of Japan. 4 For the sake of those who are no classical scholars, I ex- plain: Voice and language are restored to him only to the e... ...t is below the Rome of T rajan. It has long been a settled opinion amongst scholars, that the computations of Lipsius, on this point, were prodigiousl...

...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................

...E, BY RANKING SLAVERY WITH PI- RACY AND MURDER, AND BY DENYING IT EITHER A LEGAL OR CONSTITUTIONAL EXISTENCE, This Volume is Respectfully Dedicated, B... ...stances; it is, moreover, a noble vindica- tion of the highest aims of the American anti-slavery move- ment. The real object of that movement is not o... ...these remarkable men, and is still rising toward highest rank among living Americans, are abundantly laid bare in the book before us. Like the autobio... ...nly would his own history have had another termina- tion, but the drama of American slavery would have been essentially varied; for I cannot resist th... ...his parents, that old master made a present of me; and though there was no legal form or arrangement entered into, I have no doubt that Mr. and Mrs. A... ...ve no doubt that Mr. and Mrs. Auld felt that, in due time, I should be the legal property of their bright-eyed and beloved boy, Tommy. I was struck wi... ...ur master acquainted with your con- duct”—she would say; but we were inapt scholars. Especially were I and my sister Eliza inapt in this particular. A... ...oks, and a few testa- ments; and we commenced operations, with some twenty scholars, in our Sunday school. Here, thought I, is some- thing worth livin... ...e of an old oak tree, as well as any where else. The thing was, to get the scholars, and to have them thoroughly imbued with the desire to learn. T wo...

...ack. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” —C... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ... great original— the Tyre of this Carthage;—the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nan- tucket did those abor... ...e green-skulled crews! Well, well; belike the whole world’s a ball, as you scholars have it; and so ’tis right to make one ballroom of it. Dance on, l... ...answerable charge of usurpation; and with perfect impunity, both moral and legal, his crew if so disposed, and to that end competent, could refuse all... ... the start of their former captain, had he been at all minded to work them legal retribution. “Some ten days after the French ships sailed, the whale-... ...hose ancient tongues had been really spoken in their hearing by some lofty scholars. So, to my fond faith, poor Pip, in this strange sweet- ness of hi...

... the great lakes that date as settlements as far back as many of the older American towns, and which were the seats of a species of civilization long ... ...e is clearing the way for the advancement of civilization across the whole American continent. THE P A THFINDER CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER ... ...eeping top, the rich varieties of the maple, most of the noble oaks of the American forest, with the broad-leaved linden known in the parlance of the ... ...quartermaster.” “And the four wives?” “Three, Lundie; three only that were legal, even under our own liberal and sanctified laws.” “Well, then, let it... ...e subject. “Neither you nor Mabel, brother Cap,” he resumed, “can have any legal authority with the little garrison I leave behind on the island; but ... ...ual symptoms of a revolution; for, as all well understood the Lieutenant’s legal claims to command, no one felt disposed to dispute his orders. For re... ... many lessons in the sublimest truths, generally wastes its admonitions on scholars who are little disposed to profit by them. The first proof that Ca...

...o use an expression of the peasantry) a “monsieur,” had just completed his legal studies and was about to take his degree as licentiate, preparatory t... ... yearly sum of not less than twelve thousand francs during the time of his legal studies. But for that money he had cer- tainly acquired ideas that wo... ...one or the other of three town offices,—that of clerk of the court, or the legal practice of one of the sheriffs, or that of Dionis himself. For this ... ...aris, where, she said, education costs so much. The doctor obtained a half-scholarship for his great-nephew at the school of Louis-le-Grand, where Des... ...d the problem of a universal tongue. This learned man, patient as most old scholars are, delighted in teaching Ursula to read and write. He taught her... ...h century said he had seen some,” replied the abbe. “I know all those that scholars have discussed, for I have just reread Plotinus. I am questioning ... ... three thousand francs, a gift from Havana, which city, at the time of the American War of Independence, he had protected from an attack by the Britis...

...her to drop her mistiness, to get out of the society of all these artists, scholars, and Montenegrins, and do like everybody else.’ ‘How am I to under... ...eloquence as he talked.) ‘Of excellent education—edu- cated in the highest legal college—excellent manners, thirty- three years old, and upper-secreta... ...r a passport—but how would it be with Elena? T o get her a passport in the legal way was impossible. Should he marry her secretly, and should they the... ... of the French school; he has had a great many orders from the English and Americans. Of late, there has been much talk about a Bac- chante of his; th...

...tch the outline of a romance laid in En gland, and having for its hero an American who goes thither to assert his inherited rights in an old manor ho... ...tance with many concerns of his people being more apparent in him than the scholarship for which he had been early distinguished. A tanned man, like o... ...h intimacy, because he was so unlike herself; having a woman’s respect for scholarship, her imagi nation the more impressed by all in him that she co... ...lous was a spider over the doctor’s head; a spider, I think, of some South American breed, with a cir cumference of its many legs as big, unless I am... ...remaining of him, any letters or written documents, wills, deeds, or other legal paper; in short, all about him. Septimius could not satisfactorily se... ...ils stretching across the gulf of a hun dred and fifty years by which the American branch of the family was separated from the trunk of the family tr... ...ritan divine, by which means Septimius could reckon great and learned men, scholars of old Cambridge, among his ancestry on one side, while on the oth...

...ry and profession, promised to speak of me, and endeav- ored to procure me scholars, saying he should not expect any money till I had earned it. His p... ...ces of such an essay had not rendered Lausanne a very agreeable residence. Scholars did not present themselves in crowds, not a single female, and not... ...ich I did not wish to hear, I preferred being silent on the subject. As my scholars did not take up much of my time, and the town where she was born w... ...4 The Confessions certainty that my brother was dead, yet, as there was no legal proof, I could not lay claim to his share, which I left without regre... ... with mine. T o prove this by experience, I taught music gratis to a young American lady, Mademoiselle des Roulins, with whom M. Roguin had brought me... ...nings on which I did not go to the theatre. I became acquainted with M. de Legal, M. Husson, Philidor, and all the great chess players of the day, wit... ...st. His death removed all my scruples upon this subject. But the want of a legal proof of the death of my brother created a difficulty which Gauffecou... ...ly connected with him to pass his name over in silence. M. du Perou was an American, son to a commandant of Surinam, whose successor, M. le Chambrier,...

...scruples were much softened by the consciousness of his superiority in the legal argument, I took care to accept my pardon as a matter of grace, rathe... ...a little more than my conscience warranted: but your defec- tion from your legal studies had driven you far to leeward in my father’s good opinion. ‘U... ...ong the minor barons. Now my father mounted a step higher on the ladder of legal promotion, being, as you know as well as I do, an eminent and respect... ... with Papists is looked over. There are plenty of priests, and stout young scholars, and such-like, about the house it’s a hive of them. More shame th... ...ght is by no means an improb- able fiction. Shortly after the close of the American war, Sir James Graham of Netherby constructed a dam-dyke, or cauld...

...hour I remem- ber portions of Belzoni’s Researches and Franklin’s terrible American adventures, and they bring back tones of my father’s voice. As an ... ... like a fresh spring wind dispers- ing vapours. He had gained an excellent scholarship at Brazenose, and came home radiant with triumph, cheering us a... ...hers thought she made as much fuss about it as if there had been a hundred scholars. However, between remonstrances and offers of undertak- 59 Yo n g... ...ke attempted to abscond, but he was brought back as he was embarking in an American vessel; and he then confessed the whole,—how speculation had led t... ... as Ellen Fordyce. Poor Griff, he had been idle and impracticable over his legal studies, which no persuasion would make him view as otherwise than a ... ...nclusion, especially in Scotland, where hasty private marriages were still legal. What an exchange! Only had Griff ever comprehended the worth of his ... ...we thought and puzzled over church doctrine, and tried to impart it to our scholars. We I say, for Henderson had made me take a lads’ class, which has... ...nly not while no one can read this document.’ ‘It would simply outrage his legal mind,’ said Martyn. ‘Then what is to be done? Is the injustice to be ...