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...d fain do the little in our power towards introducing him favorably to the American public. The ensuing tale is a translation of his “Beatrice; ou la ... ...rst of ill success, a higher fortune than their abilities could vindicate; writers, actors, painters, the pets of a day, but whose laurels wither unre... ...d too powerful for his inward nature, and have drawn him into the arena of political tu mult, there to contend at disadvantage, whether front to fron... ... 103 Hawthorne thousandth time, and never worth using, with which romance writers (and myself, no doubt, among the rest) have so overpeopled the worl... ... reader a few desirable particulars about Drowne himself. He was the first American who is known to have at tempted—in a very humble line, it is true...

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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... ...rong feeling for the beauties of nature, as displayed in the solitudes the writers have left at home, breathes through its pages like wholesome villag... ...s might do it.’ ‘Does that ever do it?’ ‘Why yes, that’ll do it sometimes. Political friends’ll do it sometimes. It’s pretty often done, one way or an... ...ry? I saw in them, the wheels that move the meanest perversion of virtuous Political Machinery that the worst tools ever wrought. Despicable trickery ... ...and kept in very good and clean repair. It is a matter of deep regret that political differences should have run high in this place, and led to most d... ...en in his time, and did his utmost to correct it. I cannot hold with other writers on these subjects that the prevalence of various forms of dissent i...

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... and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colors highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for color is a little dull?...

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...f whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colours highl... ...res whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred for misery and ruin. The American portion of this story is in no other respect a carica- ture than a... ...or the most part (Mr. Bevan ex- pected), of a ludicrous side, only, of the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from ... ...mon capacity or accomplishments, I think! Am I, or am I not?’ ‘You are the American aloe of the human race, my dear Chiv,’ said Mr Tigg, ‘which only b... ...ng case; and the interesting Arkansas dooel with Bowie knives; and all the Political, Commercial, and Fashionable News. Here they are! Here they are! ... ...were on missions from neighbouring States; one on monetary affairs, one on political, one on sectarian. Among the ladies, there were Mrs Pawkins, who ... ...rpose, which you may hear any hour in the day; simply because we began our political life with two inestimable advantages.’ ‘What were they?’ asked Ma...

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...e generally begins with a truism; and I may set out with the admission that it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and his surviving friends are apt to show more zeal than discretion in dragging forth from his c...

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... it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite a... ...afford entertaining and even profitable reading to the later generation of writers whose pleasant fortune it is to charm one another and the public. I... ...st, has ventured in some manner to disregard the modern canons which debar writers from betraying towards their cre ations any warmer feeling than a ... ...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 ... ... 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... ... this wretched business, and there had been a scheme at once religious and political to wrest the estate and the lovely lady from the for tunate heir... ... have held such position as this title denoted in the fiercely con tested political struggles of the new democracy. “Do you know, Mr. Redclyffe, that... ...don newspaper of the preceding day; Lillebullero, Chevy Chase, and the old political ballads; and, what a little amused Redclyffe, the three volumes o...

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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... ...Paul is not going to be inferior to the rest of the apostles. Some secular writers put Paul’s boasting down as carnal pride. But Paul had no personal ... ...ader is reminded that all this has no bearing upon civil laws, customs, or political matters. Civil laws and ordi- nances have their place and purpose...

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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... ... Stevenson, has preferred to leave the task unattempted. There are in fact writers as to whom we make out that their refuge from this is to assume it ... ...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... ...be firm,” the old man rejoined; “they’ll not be affected by the social and political changes I just referred to.” “You mean they won’t be abolished? V... ...e, as it were, had presumed to do. What she felt was that a territorial, a political, a social magnate had 117 Henry James conceived the design of dr... ... no answer to the question. Another idea had come into his head. “Is it my political opinions? Do you think I go too far?” “I can’t object to your pol... ...own by return of post: she’s tremendously fond of distinguished people and writers. She writes herself, you know; but I haven’t read everything she ha...

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... the un- known painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or less do- cility , have followed. For a long time no c... ...purpose. And when such as had come in contact with Strickland in the past, writers who had known him in Lon- don, painters who had met him in the cafe... ...y the reader is safer of entertainment in their hands than in those of the writers who take a malicious pleasure in rep- resenting the great figures o... ...hbour on the left during the roast, sweet, and savoury. They talked of the political situa- tion and of golf, of their children and the latest play , ... ...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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...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...ounted on his fingers eight residual natives. Or take the valley of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Ha... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; consider the disgraceful history of missions in Hawaii itself, where (i... ... on an official visit. In the green court, a very 50 In The South Seas ragged gentleman, his legs deformed with the island el- ephantiasis, saluted u... ...s; but when the door was opened all had disappeared. They were gods from the field of battle. Now these reports have certainly significance; it is not... ...s have been deported are mainly four: cheating Tembinok’, meddling overmuch with copra, which is the source of his wealth, and one of the sinews of hi...

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...nd if he were not asked to be chairman he would refuse the use of it for a political meeting. Josiah Graves told Mr. Carey that he might do as he chos... ... , and his almond eyes almost closed as he did so. There were two or three American men, in black coats, rather yellow and dry of skin: they were theo... ...hange of yokes; he had been expelled from Geneva for it was not known what political offences. Philip looked upon him with puzzled surprise; for he wa... ... tall and slim. He held himself with a deliberate grace. Weeks, one of the American students, seeing him alone, went up and began to talk to him. The ... ...one, went up and began to talk to him. The pair were oddly contrasted: the American very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trou- sers, thin a... ... look like his old rooms at the Hall. He had ambi- tions that were vaguely political, he described himself as a Whig, and he was put up for a club whi... ...t them out and ar- range them alphabetically according to the names of the writers. “I’ll take you to the room in which the articled clerk generally s... ... came out in The Y ellow Book.” They looked upon him, as painters often do writers, with contempt because he was a layman, with tolerance because he p... ...o oc- cupy themselves with the entertainment which is provided for them by writers, painters, and poets.” Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He h...

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...ONS of such a place as Albaro, the suburb of Genoa, where I am now, as my American friends would say, ‘located,’ can hardly fail, I should imagine, t... ...sed to view a little wooden doll, in face very like General Tom Thumb, the American Dwarf: gorgeously dressed in satin and gold lace, and actually bla... ...te Campagna in one direc tion, where it was most level, reminded me of an American prairie; but what is the solitude of a region where men have never... ...arriages on the Chiaji, or walking in the Public Gardens; and quiet letter writers, perched behind their little desks and inkstands under the Portico ... ...g their productions to their friends; inscriptions chalked upon the walls; political squibs, advertisements, rough drawings by schoolboys; everything ...

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...variously during the troubles of the seven- teenth century. In many places political reasons had dictated 14 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V ... ...ountries, a cold and lifeless state of public religion prevailed up to the American and French Revolutions. These great events gave a shock everywhere... ...he other hand, largely to fertilize the many occasions of agitation, which political fermentations are too sure to throw off. Let this chance turn out... ...s adul- terating with her principle, to an issue not merely dangerous in a political sense, but ruinous in an anti-social sense. The artifice of the F... ...cide with the opportunities for ob- taining accurate information; when the writers were so few, 85 Thomas de Quincey and the audience so limited and ... ...nxiously prepared the means. And it is certain, that, although some German writers have attempted to fasten upon Charlemagne a charge of vexatious inq... ...entire tribes of those savages, and, upon a scale still more awful, to the American Indians. In such cases, mere strangers would 132 Theological Essa...

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...idence to style it), and of abusing the female sex. I find likewise that the writers of those bundles are not agreed among themselves; for some of the... ...recommends to an historian: I would hide the frailties and deformities of my political mother, and place her virtues and beauties in the most advantag... ...; or of the barbarous customs and idolatry of savage people, with which most writers abound. However, I thanked him for his good opinion, and promised... ...proposes some improvements, which are honourably received. I n the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained; the professors appearing... ...as by the licentiousness of those who are to obey. For instance: whereas all writers and reasoners have agreed, that there is a strict universal resem... ...ed, that there is a strict universal resemblance between the natural and the political body; can there be any thing more evident, than that the health... ...ies I treat of would be as easy as those of Ferdinando Cortez over the naked Americans. The Lilliputians, I think, are hardly worth the charge of a f...

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..., Doria, Van Tromp, Jean Bart, the long line of British Admi- rals and the American Decaturs of 1812 become obsolete with their wooden walls. Neverthe... ... mat- 22 Billy Budd ter of what era—history, biography and unconventional writers, who, free from cant and convention, like Montaigne, honestly and i... ...s were as a dyke against those invad- ing waters of novel opinion, social, political and other- wise, which carried away as in a torrent no few minds ...

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...an distinguished even in Germany for scholarship, rather notorious for his political and social opinions too. The margravine, with infinite humour in ... ...rt of sagacity. I am not prepared to contest the statement that you have a political instinct. Here it is chiefly social. You worship your so-called a... ...tingly. The situation was exactly of a sort for one of his German phantasy-writers to image the forest jeering at him as he flew, blind, deaf, and unr... ... soit peu philosophe, a ce qu’on dit; a traveller. They say he has a South American complexion. I knew him a boy; and his passion is to put together w... ...y. The dinner, virtually a German supper, ended in general conversation on political affairs, preceded and sup- ported by a discussion between the Pru...

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...patience seems to have been due to a needless panic, Bootle, the notorious American scientific quack, having made an announcement that Filmer interpre... ...equate advertisement may be obtained—had paid. The latter was one of those writers who can throw a convincing air of unreality over the most credible ... ...ying that game for years, that big laborious game, that vague, mon- strous political game amidst intrigues and betrayals, speech and agitation. It was...

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...took part in a series of scenes such as the taming of wild ponies upon the American prairies, or the conduct of a vast ship in a hurricane round a bla... ...white ball. From the surrounding walls the heads of three famous Victorian writers sur- veyed this entertainment, and slips of paper pasted be- neath ... ...- 84 Night and Day self once, in his youthful days, to make a speech at a political meeting, and went there ablaze with enthusiasm for the ideals of ... ...ht of a farthing dip. But the romance which fell upon the figures of great writers and illumined their pages was no false radiance in her case. She ca... ... with historical il- lustrations, that such reverses had happened in every political campaign of any importance. If anything, his spirits were improve... ...ith relief, and she had merely to shake hands with Rodney and to greet the American lady who had come to be shown the relics, before the talk started ... ..., and the polite alacrity with which he was answering the questions of the American visitor. It was certainly a sight to daunt any one coming in with ...

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...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...e first clerk to the articled gents, from the articled gents to the ragged writers and white- faced runners, in clothes too tight for them, as he sate... ... under the auspices of Mr. Wilberforce, and for a time was a credit to his political spon- sor, and decidedly a serious young man. But words cannot 3... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was...

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... improved for over 4 million years… the technique of separation, or to use the politically correct term; tool-use. THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Cha... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...s have a saying of how things which they create, take on a life of their own. Writers speak of how a character they create takes on a life of its ow... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ...e which will impregnate the female planetary-egg. The entire, international political race to get to the moon first: was merely a mechanical recrea... ... that word as an excuse for refusing to listen to any new idea; it is just the politically correct code-word for saying: ‘I am afraid of any kind of ... ...hey just know it happens. Throughout the Ages: religious fanatics, leaders, writers, people in all walks of life have noticed this worsening of af... ...whether a plan to steal it back was being hatched. Do you think the sport writers might love this? For once; all their sports connections would ...

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...the dual equivalent of weakly interacting five-branes (solitons) (Duff, Scientific American, February 1998). Later, a duality between solitonic and... ...nducted at the Parapsychology Laboratory of North Carolina's Duke University by the American psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine and in the more recent ... ...e Shattered Identity The Matrix Return Turing Machines and Universes In 1936 an American (Alonzo Church) and a Briton (Alan M. Turing) published... ...stitions are less concerned with the physical Universe and more with human affairs. Political falsities - such as anti-Semitism - supplanted magic ... ...erology, or other esoteric "systems". The emergence of "relative", New Age, and politically correct philosophies rendered science merely one opt... ...ew theory is invented. Incorporation is the sworn enemy of parsimony because it is politically motivated. It keeps everyone happy by not giving up ... ... it as a road to the same kind of broad and deep understanding of human nature that writers possess. " Anna F reud Towards the end of the 19th...

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... women he has met. They have been people of very various origins; English, Americans, Bengalis, Russians, French, people brought up in a “Catholic atm... ... the muddle was at its very worst, the church was con- fronted by enormous political opportunities. In order that it should seize these one chief thin... ...d of * It is not so generally understood as it should be among English and American readers that a very large proportion of early Christians before th... ...hly thought out than those of any other of 63 H. G. Wells these sceptical writers I have quoted. On that account they are perhaps more typical. He sp... ...MODERN RELIGION 1. MODERN RELIGION 1. MODERN RELIGION 1. MODERN RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RE... ... RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION T HE CONCEPTION of a young and energetic God, an Invisib... ...ious,” or they become murderous, or they become suicidal. All these letter-writers in confinement have con- vinced their fellow-creatures by some extr...