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...ld they foresee that that same Company would influence more than 200 years of British and Indian history and found the greatest Empire the world has... ...ocable fact that the story of the Honorable East India Company will vi forever be part of the history of both Great Britain and that vast and glo... ...gal firm in India, who refuses to divulge the names of Chandra Lal’s heirs. However, whatever the history of the statue, the family believes that It... ... sailed into the lovely, deep-water, island- studded harbour of Bombay. Helen recalled its strange history. This city in 1661 had formed part of the ... ...therine of Braganza, on her marriage to Charles II. From a small fishing village and a chequered history as a base for pirates, Bombay had grown int... ...len was fascinated throughout the journey - the golden temples and stately mosques; the beautiful architectural monuments of Moghul power - particul... ...l-pink beauty magnified by the clear blue sky and the shimmering waters of the lake. ‘Indeed, an architectural jewel,’ said Helen in awed admiration...

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...or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravitat... ...we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philosophies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of In- toxicating Liquors? Man’s whole... ..., though you see them alive, and feel certain enough that they must have a History, no History seems to be discov- erable; or only such as men give of... ...ous operations of the mind. In all his Modes, and habilatory endeavors, an Architectural Idea will be found lurking; his Body and the Cloth are the si... ... world an Ag- glomeration of four limbs,—will depend on the nature of such Architectural Idea: whether Grecian, Gothic, Later Gothic, or altogether Mo... ... enough in its secret constitution and procedure, a valuable de- scriptive History already exists, in that language, under the title of Satan’s Invisi... ... bushel-breeches, counted shoes, or other the like phenomena, of which the History of Dress offers so many, escape him: more especially the mischances... ...bs: of which 67 Thomas Carlyle fashion how little could I then divine the architectural, how much less the moral significance!” More graceful is the ... ...Philosopher from the very threshold of his Science; nothing even of those “architectural ideas,” which, as we have seen, lurk at the bottom of all Mod...

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... communed with the genius of Buonarotti!” He seemed deeply versed in local history and tradition, and he expatiated con amore on the charms of Florenc... ... not only rich in its posses- sions, but peculiarly fortunate in that fine architectural accident, as one may call it, which unites it—with the breadt... ...ards her as a lad in his teens feels to some beautiful older woman with a ‘history.’ She fills you with a sort of aspiring gallantry.” This disinteres... ...ed with tears. It moved him apparently with the desire to expatiate on the history of the drawing, for he rose and made his adieux to our com- panion,...

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...e wild beasts and guil- lotined at the first chance. At the time when this history begins he was vicar of the cathedral of Tours, and had only once le... ... at each rumor of the reverses or successes that marked this period of our history. Monsieur Ragon, formerly perfumer to her maj- esty Queen Marie-Ant... ... opposition, and gave him a certain importance. * * * Such was the history of this household, lastingly happy through its feeling, and agitate... ...ot to admit them into their households. Joseph Lebas cited with horror the history of his step-sister Augustine’s marriage with 35 Balzac the painter... ...ts in which he deals. Birotteau, perfumer, did not know an iota of natural history, nor of chemistry. Though regarding Vauquelin as a great man, he th... ...at there were two book-cases in Cesar’s room, which enclosed an alcove,—an architectural surprise to her father. Cesarine flung all her girlish saving... ...with double doors, divided into square panels, in the centre of which were architectural ornaments in cast-iron, painted. This style of door, since be... ... vast hall of the Pas Perdus, and at the other to the Sainte-Chapelle,—two architectural monuments which make all buildings in their neighborhood seem... ... character; and, in point of act, it is neither dwarfed nor crushed by the architectural splendors on either side of it. Possibly the mind is sobered ...

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...still back, three hundred years and more, the fathers transmitting it to the sons and so preserving it. It may be history, it may be only a leg- end, ... ...looked one to the other in deep tribulation for counsel. But behold, here was a dead wall, and nothing in English history to tell how to get over it. ... ...d bakers, and what- not, who had occupied the same old premises for five or six hundred years, and knew the great history of the Bridge from beginning... ...ed view of marching columns. Men born and reared upon the Bridge found life unendurably dull and inane elsewhere. History tells of one of these who le... ...hunder of London Bridge. In the times of which we are writing, the Bridge fur- nished ‘object lessons’ in English history for its chil- dren—namely, t... ...people, the other portions of these galleries and balco- nies being cut off from sight by intervening pillars and architectural projections. We have i...

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...h renegade, who treated her well, and to whom she gave her watch. Algerine history confirms what is said of his treatment. Louis XIV. had bombarded th... ...ut sent seven men on board the prize and took it in tow. Curiously enough, history mentions the very tempest which drove the tartane apart from her ca... ...account of these captors was a great difficulty, till in the old Universal History I found a description of Algeria which tallied wonderfully with the... ... All this perfectly explains the sufferings of Mademoiselle de Bourke. The history of the plundering, the threats, the savage treatment of the corpses... ... adventures. The account of the Marabout system comes from the Uni- versal History; but the arrival, the negotiations, and the de- sire of the sheyk t... ...ill produced by the Marabouts. Certainly no one present could doubt of the architectural skill and taste of the Algerines, and Mr. Thompson declared t...

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...ublic edifices were erected. It seems to me to have been the period in all history when society was the least natural, and perhaps the most dis- solut... ...nset with a pleased, withered old face, he gave me a little account of his history. I take it he is in nowise disinclined to talk about it, simple as ... ...is princely income. Is it breaking a confidence to tell Lieutenant Bundy’s history? Let the motive excuse the deed. It is a good, kind, wholesome, and... ... full of good old books (none of your works of modern science, travel, and history, but good old useless books of the last two centuries), and nobody ... ...or pelting Aristides with holy oyster-shells—all for Virtue’s sake; and a “History of Dulness in all Ages of the World,” is a book which a philosopher... ...othic architec- ture is Catholicism carved in stone—(in which case, and if architectural beauty is a criterion or expression of religion, what a disma...

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... to tell. The state-making dream is a very old dream indeed in the world’s history. It plays too small a part in novels. Plato and Confucius are but t... ...adult reflection to correct. And at home permanently we had Wood’s Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, I... ...arden the happiest of men after a day or so of disregard, talking to me of history perhaps or social organisation, or summarising some book he had rea... ...me try and give something of the quality of Bromstead and something of its history. It is the quality and history of a thousand places round and about... ...t be- hind it lay revelations, the irresistible stimulus to a new phase of history. That was long ago. A new great world, a vaster Imperialism had ari... ...and one treads unwarned into thick soft Thames mud. They seem to be purely architectural steps, they lead nowhere, they have an air of absolute indiff...

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...ell to describe their characteristic differences, in order to give to this history the vivid local coloring to which so much value is attached in thes... ...se to this request a new law had been pro- mulgated a few days before this history begins, organizing into regular legions the various weak and scatte... ...he disturbing news from La Vendee, was attempting on the morning when this history begins, to make a forced march on Mayenne, where he was resolved to... ... so warlike that we shall use them from time to time in the course of this history. “She is a famous ‘garce’!” was a compliment little understood by M... ...culture. These will further be shown with all their dangers in our present history. The picturesque lay of the land and the superstitions of the inhab... ...s 152 The Chouans narrow footways. Here and there the rocks push out like architectural adornments. Streamlets issue from the fissures, where the roo...

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...ng passed away, in the dining-rooms of Paris, be it understood. Here’s the history of my Arcadia. In 1815, there died at Les Aigues one of the famous ... ...almost impossible to describe Les Aigues; and without this description the history of the horrible events that oc- curred there would certainly be les... ...ls like a waterspout upon his little wife; so that the end of this present history may be like the end of all modern dramas, —a tragedy of the bed-cha... ...ns things higher, or lower. Expect no scenes of passion; the truth of this history is only too dramatic. And remember, the historian should never forg... ...d eyes beheld one of those landscapes that ought to be described, like the history of France, in a thousand volumes or in only one. We must here conte... ...r on this magnificent estate. Montcornet’ s savings were soon spent on the architectural work and the exquisite new furniture sent from Paris. Les Aig...

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...the demand that action should be taken increased. The literature of church history and the controversies aris- ing out of doctrinal development became... ...eled over like a ship that founders. Through the swiftest, tensest week in history Europe cap- sized into war. 6 6 6 6 6 The first effect of the war u... ... countless minds that for the first time they realized the epic quality of history and their own relationship to the destinies of the race. The flimsy... ...ediate surroundings and employments, so absorbed by great events, that his history if it were told in detail would differ scarcely at all from the his... ...a special service and address upon that doubly glorious day in our English history, the day of St. Crispin, was of Diogenes rolling his tub. It was a ... ...ere was to be music, she said, “a gate invisible o’gan,” hidden amidst the architectural de- tails, and pouring out its sounds into the dome, and then...

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...ly there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber. Discretion, required in a history of contemporaneous man- ners and morals, dictates this precautionar... ...s for family interests, a whole region for a man.” Simon then reviewed the history of the Arcis elections for the last twenty years. While approving t... ... and position had been frankly declined when, about six months before this history begins, he had privately pre- sented himself to Madame Beauvisage a... ...its splendid situation. VIII IN WHICH THE DOT, ONE OF THE HEROINES OF THIS HISTORY, APPEARS ENTERING THE BEAUVISAGE HOUSE we find a versatile, at the ... ...hist. “My legal brother,” said Achille Pigoult, “is not very strong on the history of the middle ages.” “Come, Malvina!” said the stout notary to his ... ...have the honor to present to you.” This “card” was a charming sketch of an architectural de- sign placed in a landscape. Beneath it was written “Plan ...

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...toms of the old Breton family, a social state existing no longer except in history, and the transition pe- riod of the vieille roche as it passed into... ...ns, who are always more concerned with facts and dates than with the truer history of manners and customs. The tradition of this splendor still lives ... ... but recently the present family! If you go to Guerande after reading this history you cannot fail to quiver when you see that blazon. Yes, the most c... ... bitter sadness. About six o’clock on the evening of the day on which this history begins, the baron, who, according to ancient custom, had finished d... ...ciences. His education had been limited to geography and the circum- spect history of a young ladies’ boarding-school, the Latin and Greek of seminari... ...the European streets of Amsterdam, Milan, Stockholm, Lon- don, and Moscow, architectural steppes where the wind rustles innumerable papers on which a ...

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...onomic drawbacks which were as- sociated, in their tradition, with unusual architectural felicities. “I should never believe I was living in an old ho... ... at first because it did worry me—annoyed me, rather. But it’s all ancient history now. Y our correspondent must have got hold of a back number of the... ... I was the fashionable painter.” “Ah, poor Stroud—as you say. Was that his history?” 89 Wharton “That was his history. She believed in him, gloried i... ...v- ering from a previous heart attack. Just a note! But it tells his whole history. There are years of patient scornful persistence 91 Wharton in eve...

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...uare to whether they, and not she, would look well. It is a point on which history has not been explicit, but the assumption is warrantable; it was in... ...y resembled, were supposed, forty years ago, to embody the last results of architectural science, and they remain to this day very solid and honourabl... ...t longitu- dinal thoroughfare—the look of having had something of a social history. It was here, as you might have been informed on good authority, th... ... has told me a great deal about himself—he has told me, in fact, his whole history. But I don’t think I ought to repeat those things. He would tell th... ... of two volumes, two shining folios inscribed in letters of greenish gilt, History of England. If Morris had been pleased to describe the master of th... ...sfaction. Even, how- ever, had she been able to narrate to him the private history of his daughter’s unhappy love affair, it would have given her a ce...

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...sonal seriousness, as if he had been a character in a novel or a figure in history; and what she said sounded as though it had been learned by heart a... ... she had found herself alone in a busy and indifferent world. Her youthful history might, in fact, have been summed up in the statement that everybody... ...rtainly” an anarchist. It was this nucleus, and its outer ring of musical, architectural and other American students, which posed successively to Mrs.... ...t was questioning him about Cerdine’s theatrical situation and her private history. On the latter point some of her enquiries were of a kind that it i... ...e; and as she sat in the autumn sun, with Darrow’s letter in her hand, the history of Anna Leath appeared to its heroine like 63 Wharton some grey sh... ... made her face more tragic. “Did I? There was nothing to tell. I’ve had no history—like the happy countries...” He waited a moment before asking: “Y o...

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...ght have been awk- ward if she had heard my name! How can we ascertain the history of this person without committing ourselves?’ Lord Kirkaldy, an abl... ...is remembering her.’ ‘Would you object to telling me what you know of this history?’ said Lady Kirkaldy. ‘I am afraid it is very painful to you, but I... ...id appre- hend symptoms of admiration, she insisted that I should tell the history, enough, as she said, to make it plain that it was impossible. Ther... ...riated crosses, interesting to those who cared for architecture and church history, as Mr. Dutton tried to make the children do, so that their ecclesi... ...rging from the shrubbery, they came in sight of a picturesque but not very architectural church, which had the smallest proportion of wall and the lar... ...ther. Mrs. Egremont was listening with actual interest and sympathy to the history of Betsy Butter’s struggles, and was inquiring the way to her cotta...

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...one proper source, there can be no mistake as to the site of the tale. The history of this district of coun- 4 The Pioneers try, so far as it is conn... ...rable fate mentioned. In a word, they were as unlike in this respect as in history , character, and fortunes. Circumstances rendered this sister singu... ... to be, among the first. We shall here close this brief explanation of the history and 29 James Fenimore Cooper character of some of our personages l... ... conspicuous objects in the view. As this roof was much the most important architectural undertaking in which Mr. Jones was ever engaged, his failure ... ...of Mr. Grant, it will be necessary to recur to times far back in the brief history of the settlement. There seems to be a tendency in human nature to ... ... proportions, the boast of the village, the study of young as- pirants for architectural fame, and the admiration of every settler on the Patent. It w... ... part of his project, he pressed the point a little warmly on the score of architectural beauty. Hiram heard him pa- tiently, and without contradictio...

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...lent firm of bathroom-fixture jobbers. His was a comfortable house with no architectural manners what- ever; a large wooden box with a squat tower, a ... ... and manners was perfect, Dr. Howard Littlefield proved it to them, out of history, economics, and the confessions of reformed radicals. Babbitt had a... ... this burg that say I’m a roughneck and a never-wuzzer and my knowledge of history is not-yet. Oh, there’s a gang of woolly-whiskered book-lice that t... ...what sets it in a class by itself; that’s why Zenith will be remembered in history as having set the pace for a civilization that shall endure when th... ...ne, smiling, content. In front of him was Professor Brockbank, head of the history department in the State University, an old man and white-bearded, k... ... it was an Ameri- canization Movement, with evening classes in English and history and economics, and daily articles in the newspa- pers, so that newl...

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...kind mystically contra-distinguished against inanimate Matter, was not the history of mankind just the history of the conquest of the one by the other... ...ld she had been, playing in Cossethay churchyard, was a little creature of history, not really herself. They were at Brussels—half an hour for breakfa... ...wall pictures, is over. As a matter of fact sculpture is always part of an architectural conception. And since churches are all museum stuff, since in... ...la to be there, as a sort of transmitter to Gudrun. ‘Do you do nothing but architectural sculpture?’ Gudrun asked him one evening. ‘Not now,’ he repli...