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... his daughter’s education and by the time she was fifteen, Helen could speak French, Spanish and Portuguese fluently. Her interest in science and ma... ...Bombay. Helen recalled its strange history. This city in 1661 had formed part of the dowry of the Portuguese Princess, Catherine of Braganza, on her... ...herself aloud. Isabel was half Indian. She had told her last night that her birthplace was Goa, a Portuguese colony in Southern India, and that her ... ... down for breakfast. She breakfasted lightly and then made her way to the strange chaatri of the former Khan’s mistress. The door to the little monu... ...usual heavy riding skirt for a divided doeskin garment (copied from women’s riding fashion in the former American colonies) and knee-high leather bo... ...g skirt for a divided doeskin garment (copied from women’s riding fashion in the former American colonies) and knee-high leather boots. This was the... ...n wives and borne children of mixed blood in the early years of the Company. She recalled that a former Resident to the Court of Hyderabad, Lt. Col.... ...ve left us very little leeway on this sub-continent, so we must concentrate on our South American colonies,’ he laughingly told Gavin. A farewell d...

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...mmands another expedition. -- A fleet despatched to avenge the massacre of the Portuguese -- A motley crowd of sailors -- The bloodthirstiness of da G... ... in history -- Miserable end of the barbarous voyagers -- The red trail of the Portuguese butchers -- Da Gama sent again, as viceroy of India -- He di... ...s -- Da Gama sent again, as viceroy of India -- He dies of poison -- Demon and Portuguese synonymous terms in India -- Da Gama's ghost, pursued, by th... ...of the Grand Alliance -- The ex-bandit becomes Judge Morgan -- He punishes his former compatriots with merciless severity -- How he rebuked his partne... ...inventions, ambitions, occupations, disappeared with scarcely a relic of their former existence. Not only are changes, violent, destructive, epochal, ... ...n. As ruins of what were once great cities give indisputable evidence of their former existence, though history may not tell us how they were destroye... ...nd, and sailed in quest of new lands. They soon also distributed themselves in colonies on the islands that were then known as the Faroes, Hebrides, O... ...e of the several vessels which he had laden with provisions for trade with the colonies was driven by a storm so far south-westerly out of its course ... ...rosperous intercourse with both Iceland and Vinland, there is no record of the colonies after the close of communication with those who had settled in...

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.... At every split, every new Condition of Splitness retains within it all the former Conditions which it split out of. No Conditions are lost. Lit... ...e call Time, Space and Energy are merely Trialistic fractions of the previous former basic Conditions of Totality and The Path of Splitness Chapte... ...Because both are trying to curve around a flat 2-dimensional Condition of the former 2-dimensional Universe that is Infinite in Length and Width. T... ... families. Where do you think the custom of All Empires neglecting their own colonies, and leaving them to fend for themselves comes from? Onl... ...es of North America so exactly it is amazing. Every major migration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English i... ...ous, these tectonic plates arrived in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is ... ...he exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely not a coincidence… In fact ... ...de and colonization until these two small states were the envy of Europe. The Portuguese and the Dutch people were small enough as a population and l... ...re frustrated because their Age of Imperial Colonization was dying out. Their colonies had failed.. Their colonies were dwindling. Their power and...

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...seemed to have got it right once more. The web's own virtual mall and the former darling of Wall Street has diversified into micropayments. The I... ...ey do on the their print books. The latter are here to stay alongside the former. With the proper pricing and a modicum of trust, e- books may even e... ...and philosophical differences between physical and virtual libraries. The former are based on the tried and proven technology of print. The latter on... ... infringers of emerging intellectual property rights. Later, the American colonies became the world's centre of industrialized and systematic book pi... ...nch, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portuguese, Old Dutch, Bulgarian, Dutch/Flemish, Greek, Hebrew. We have te... ...poses other than pilfering intellectual property digitally. The Italians, Portuguese and Dutch haven't even considered the option. Hardware manufa...

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...in a judging God, but act quite differently in real life. Some have cited former U.S. Congressional; leader Tom DeLay who in 2006 resigned his congr... ...logy of their research, much of the reasoning seems to revolve around the former required atheism of the USSR, which when it ended allowed some of t... ...ort for religions and work done by religions. Its co-presidents include a former fundamentalist minister who became an atheist. ―It makes ... ...quality. We‘re going to get into that dichotomy when we get to the United Colonies. We are scheduled to meet Dr. Kelsi Konnor there. Do you know her... ...zens. We are going more into exploring equality when we get to the United Colonies and speak with Dr. Konnor. It is 231 generally popular with t... ... countrymen. This is normal, but it impedes integration. Whether it is the Portuguese or Italian areas of Toronto, the Cuban areas of Miami, the Moro...

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...ords, military conflicts based on religious differences plague Lebanon and former Yugoslavia. When this chapter was first formulated, nine years of wa... ...e at Lourdes. Another well-known ap- pearance was to three children in the Portuguese village of Fati- ma in 1917, which also led to the building of a... ... Mary to three children is claimed to be taking place at Medjugorje in the former Yu- goslavia. These apparitions began in 1981. Numerous pilgrim- age... ...ledge but I really had none. It is only now that I have acquired it. In my former life I was like one blind and deaf. My heart ached when I thought of... ...ment, and land shortage, and the early Puritan settlers thought that their colonies would solve these problems. The immediate depopulation of Indians ...

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...,” a straight- forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgium, on the one hand, or in the conclu... ...Germany makes sudden proposals af- fecting native labour that win over the Portuguese and the Boers? There are a score of such points upon which we sh... ...y possess it. And, more- over, this idea queries the adjective of Belgian, Portuguese, French, and British Central Africa alike, just as emphatically ... ...ood stamping out infectious disease in Nyasaland while it is being bred in Portuguese East Africa. And if there is a Disarmament Commission already co... ... The 42 In the Fourth Year manifest solution of the problem of the German colonies in Africa is neither to return them to her nor deprive her of them... ...or else Germany has to cease to be an aggressive military imperialism. The former alternative is dismissed by most responsible statesmen. They declare... ...human unity by a league of existing states or by an Imperial Conquest. The former is now the declared Aim of our coun- try and its Allies; the latter ...

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...ast continental possessions of Spain in America, and the loss of her great colonies. He had seen that these revolutions were accomplished almost witho... ...ty, but fear now extorts a larger tribute of obedience than that which was formerly paid by reverence and by love. I perceive that we have destroyed t... ...ich controls it, and his egotism is no less blind than his devotedness was formerly. If society is tranquil, it is not be- cause it relies upon its st... ...me of them attack it openly, and the remainder are afraid to defend it. In former ages slavery has been advocated by the venal and slavish-minded, whi... ...e Revolutions of the Globe – Shore of the Atlantic Ocean where the English Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of South A... ...ndustry were made. The tongue of arid land was the cradle of those English colonies which were destined one day to become the United States of America... ...reat colonies which were founded in South America by the Spaniards and the Portuguese have since become em- pires. Civil war and oppression now lay wa... ...constitute flourishing and enlightened nations. But when the Spaniards and Portuguese of South America begin to feel the wants common to all civilized... ...ers, the English, occupy with regard to the Ital- ians, the Spaniards, the Portuguese, and all those nations of Europe which receive their articles of...

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...ns. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former pro motes our POSITIVEL Y by uniting our affections, the latter ... ... and our authority in the last; and as both disable us from reassuming some former state and privilege, it unanswerably fol lows that original sin a... ... “THEY WILL LAST MY TIME.” Should a thought so fatal and unmanly possess the colonies in the present contest, the name of ancestors will be re member... ...he argument, and inquire into some of the many material injuries which these colonies sustain, and always will sustain, by be ing connected with, and... ... I have heard it asserted by some, that as America hath flourished under her former connection with Great Britain that the same connection is necessar... ... i. e. that Pennsylvania and the Jerseys, and so on for the rest, are sister colonies by the way of England; this is certainly a very round about way ... ...who make large profits by hiring out their ships of war to the Spaniards and Portuguese, are obliged to import most of their materials they use. We ou...

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... now taught, besides, in the schools 9 Robert Louis Stevenson of Hawaii; and from the multiplicity of British ships, and the nearness of the States o... ...the living. Another superstition I picked up through the troubled medium of Tari Coffin’s English. The dead, he told me, came and danced by night arou... ...dent Polynesian trembled for the fu- ture. We may accept some of the ideas of Mr. Darwin’s theory of coral islands, and suppose a rise of the sea, or ... ... most idle, invention in a race the least progressive, this grim, pagan salvation-army of the broth- erhood of Oro, the report of early voyagers, the ... ...pposite island of Tauata slew, and carried home and ate, and were there- upon accounted mighty men of valour. Of one such exploit I can give the accou... ...fforts have been even heroic. Like Nakaeia of Makin, he has owned schoo- ners. More fortunate than Nakaeia, he has found captains. Ships of his have s...

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...d in many other businesses besides that of his trade; for, as I ob- served formerly, necessity arms us for all employments. My cargo, as near as I can... ... all acquainted with the persons engaged in it; I presently recollected my former circumstances, and what condition I was in when taken up by the Port... ... my former circumstances, and what condition I was in when taken up by the Portuguese captain; and how much more deplorable the circumstances of the p... ...for I knew what it was to be set on shore in a strange country; and if the Portuguese captain that took me up at sea had served me so, and taken all I... ...een at Barbary, the mere being sold to a Mahometan excepted; and perhaps a Portuguese is not a much better master than a T urk, if not in some cases m... ...r my going away is so very remarkable, and has so many incidents which the former part of my relation will help to understand, and which will in most ... ...he several im- provements, plantings, and management of the several little colonies, the two men had so far out-gone the three, that there was no comp... ... and do the like for them; so that when I came to see the two Englishmen’s colonies, they looked at a distance as if they all lived like bees in a hiv... ...eir habitation to the same place; and so the island was divided into three colonies, and no more – viz. the Spaniards, with old Friday and the first s...

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... I have received from many quarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing a far pr... ...ive my vote (and, if I had a thousand votes, to give all my votes) for the former. Fresh from such a training as this, and at a time when his addition... ...” I settled that, henceforwards, it must go through the post office. In my former captures, there had been nothing special or worthy of commemoration ... ...-presence of malice in the agent; but others, as appeared from my father’s Portuguese recollections, ascribing the same horrid power to the eye of cer... ...at an abstract desire of kicking seized him always after hearing good per- formers on particular instruments, especially the bagpipes. 88 Thomas de Q...

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...which was Lieutenant Collonel to an En glish Regiment of Foot in Flanders,formerly commanded by the famous Coll. Lockhart, and was killed at the Batt... ...ns of being swallow’d up by the Sea being forgotten, and the Current of my former Desires return’d, I entirely forgot the V ows and Promises that I ma... ...t me at that time, I was in tenfold more Horror of Mind upon Account of my former Convictions, and the having returned from them to the Resolutions I ... ... immediately saw not only the Ship, but what she was, (viz.) that it was a Portuguese Ship, and as I thought was bound to the Coast of Guinea for Negr... ...n about three Hours time I came up with them. They ask’d me what I was; in Portuguese, and in Swam, and in French, but I understood none of them; but ... ...o the Gentle woman with whom I had left my Money, and a Procuration to the Portuguese Captain, as he desired. I wrote the English Captain’s Widow a fu... ... our Vessel, if we should build one, for a V oyage to any of the Christian Colonies of America. So he told me, he thought it would be more advisable, ... ... to the Gallows, as soon as they came to England, or to any of the English Colonies; and that therefore there would be no attacking them, with so smal...

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...of the Eastern Mediterranean. Already had his might devoured the cherished colonies of the Greeks on the eastern shore of the Archipelago, and every t... ...r land fall a prey to the conquerors. T rue it was that ten years back the former Great King had sent his best troops to be signally defeated upon the... ...osed of the patricians, or citizens of highest birth, and of those who had formerly been consuls. They decided on peace or war, and made the laws, and... ...at the end of the day, and they were but poorly armed. He told them of the former aid that had come to their fathers in extremity, and made them bold ... ...d houses built round courts that were in use among the Ro- mans, and Roman colonies had been established in various 72 A Book of Golden Deeds places,... ... of higher rank were enrolled as Roman citizens, their chief cit- ies were colonies where the laws were administered by mag- istrates in the Roman fas... ...ry of T angier; but in 1473, two sons of Muley being made prisoners by the Portuguese, 145 Yo n g e one was ransomed for the body of Dom Fernando, wh... ... the throne. Universal honor attended the name of the Constant Prince, the Portuguese Regulus; and seldom as the Spanish admire anything Portuguese, a... ...red on the pavement, and in the midst was a fire, probably lighted by some Portuguese soldiers. Forth- with Captain Jones and the sergeant entered the...

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...s my feeling.’ ‘My father was certainly not an English gentleman. He was a Portuguese.’ In admitting this, and subjecting himself at once to one clear... ...r- tain advantage. He could not get over the fact that he was the son of a Portuguese parent, but by admitting that openly he thought he might avoid p... ...d not wish to welcome him as a son-in-law. He thought it possible that the Portuguese father might be a Portuguese nobleman, and therefore one whom he... ...nderstand more than this, and may perhaps do so, if he has ever seen those former chronicles to which allusion has been made. The Duke, before he beca... ...hip single-handed, or the watchmaker make his watch without assistance? On former occasions such as this, I could say, with little or no help from wit... ...asked to put up with the Post-office or should be allowed to remain at the Colonies,—the younger Duke did not care to trouble himself till the elder s... ...d the same grace was shown in regard to Lord Drummond, who remained at the Colonies, keeping the office to which he had lately been transferred under ... ...s, let her husband’s urgency be what it might. Another old friend, of whom former chronicles were not silent, was at the Duchess’s that night, and the... ... our poor Prime Minister’s mouth water. Lord Drummond was active among the colonies. Phineas Finn had at any rate his ideas about Ireland. But with th...

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...t the edges; ev- ery limp article of clothing looked like the ghost of its former self. The women’s dresses were faded, old-fashioned, dyed and re-dye... ... the ravages of conflicting passions, her face retained some traces of its former fairness and fineness of tissue, some vestiges of the physical charm... ...his residence in the Rue Neuve- Sainte-Genevieve he was no longer like his former self. The hale vermicelli manufacturer, sixty-two years of age, who ... ...f in con- nection with that of one of the most wealthy and distin- guished Portuguese nobles, the Marquis d’Ajuda-Pinto. It was one of those innocent ... ...Beauseant, like a well-bred man of the world, always left his wife and the Portuguese as soon as he had installed them. But M. d’Ajuda-Pinto must marr... ...now, though the bans were about to be published, and although the handsome Portuguese had come that day to break the news to the Vicomtesse, he had no... ...eon met with a Minister of War, Aubry by name, who all but sent him to the colonies. “Feel your pulse. Think whether you can get up morning after morn...

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...- sion. He tells you, not in his speech last night, but substantially in a former speech, that he cares not if slavery is voted up or down; he tells y... ...ns. In what do our new Territories now differ in this respect from the old Colonies when slavery was first planted within them? It was planted, as Mr.... ...Government refusing to prohibit it, and withholding from the people of the Colonies the authority to prohibit it for themselves. Mr. Clay says this wa... ...one of the great and just causes of complaint against Great Britain by the Colonies, and the best apology we can now make for having the institution a... ...inted out to him that by that rule he excludes the Germans, the Irish, the Portuguese, and all the other people who have come among us since the revol... ... can hardly be distinguished on any moral principle; and the repeal of the former could find quite as plausible excuses as that of the latter.” I have... ...egree of liberty to the people in the Territories over and above what they formerly had on the ques- tion of slavery, a question was raised whether th...

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... or changed them in such a manner, that I do hardly know my own work. When I formerly hinted to you something of this in a letter, you were pleased to... ...s oration, he cried out three times, Langro dehul san (these words and the former were afterwards repeated and explained to me); whereupon, immediat... ... all; twenty of them were filled with meat, and ten with liquor; each of the former afforded me two or three good mouthfuls; and I emptied the liquor ... ...d with an arrow by one of the natives. Is seized and carried by force into a Portuguese ship. The great civilities of the cap tain. The author arrive... ... or a cow should speak in England, or a Yahoo in Houyhnhnmland. The honest Portuguese were equally amazed at my strange dress, and the odd manner of... ...example to the whole world for their wisdom, care, and justice in plant ing colonies; their liberal endowments for the advance ment of religion and ... ...have any desire of being conquered and en slaved, murdered or driven out by colonies, nor abound either in gold, silver, sugar, or tobacco, I did hum...

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...from Beyrout, or Malta, or Algiers, has twice the interest now that it had formerly),—that I can’t but recommend all persons who have time and means t... ...rsist in going to see; whereas a man would have a much better insight into Portuguese manners, by planting himself at a corner, like yon- der beggar, ... ...pictures of the Duke of Wellington, done in a very characteristic style of Portuguese art. There is also a chapel, which has been decorated with much... ...le vessel, with a huge shining lateen sail, and bearing the blue and white Portuguese flag, was seen playing a sort of leap-frog on the jolly waves, j... ... into mili- tary residences, and masked so that you would never know their former pious destination. Y ou walk through narrow white- washed lanes, be... ...ects than with his- tory and fortifications:as far as I can understand the former, Gibraltar is the great British depot for smuggling goods into the P... ..., Germans, Spaniards, and Greeks; on the deck were squatted several little colonies of people of dif- ferent race and persuasion. There was a Greek Pa...

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...pon the creation of parish clergymen. This new scruple was, in relation to former scruples, a perfect linch-pin for locking their machinery into cohes... ...r orders.’ Now, having stated the practice of Scottish induction as it was formerly sustained in its first stage by law, in its second stage by usage,... ...ses the whole review of that topic; and because it reflects light upon the former practice—the practice which led to the whole muti- nous tumult: ever... ...ribe of Wallachian shepherds, descended (it is sup- posed) from the Dacian colonies, Romans intermingled with natives, founded by the later Caesars; t... ...me Two the traveller passing along the public track; and when the pastoral colonies, as is often the case, occur at frequent inter- vals, the nuisance... ...s a matter of some moment for Homeric disputes—were these habits of Ionian colonies, or exclusively of Greece Proper? But enough of the repulsive feat... ...at is wanted to set me free.’ I will venture to say that Mendez Pinto, the Portuguese liar, that Sir John Mandeville, the traveller, that Baron Muncha...

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...board he will no doubt get off at Suez, so as to reach the Dutch or French colonies in Asia by some other route. He ought to know that he would not be... ...followed them. The visa procured, Mr. Fogg returned on board to resume his former habits; while Passepartout, according to custom, saun- tered about a... ...try, as well as the manners and distinc- tions of race, is daily changing. Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cum- brous methods o... ...you—” “Be so good, landlord, as not to swear, but remember this: cats were formerly considered, in India, as sacred animals. That was a good time.” “F... ...ingapore, among them a number of Indians, Ceylonese, Chinamen, Malays, and Portuguese, mostly second-class travellers. The weather, which had hitherto... ... mouth of the Canton River, and is separated by about sixty miles from the Portuguese town of Macao, on the opposite coast. Hong Kong has beaten Macao...

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...ise a great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, appeared. Among the former, one was of a most mon- strous size. ... This came towards us, open-... ...as not the only strange feature of the place, borrowed from the chaplain’s former sea-farings. Be- tween the marble cenotaphs on either hand of the pu... ...irst broke through the jealous policy of the Spanish crown, touching those colonies; and, if space permitted, it might be distinctly shown how from th... ...r, who in certain conjunctures pro- vides him with a fresh lance, when the former one has been badly twisted, or elbowed in the assault; and moreover,... ...eenland Whale, and incidentally for the re-discovery of the Lost Icelandic Colonies of Old Greenland;” in this ad- mirable volume, all standers of mas... ...llages?—The blast! the blast! Up, spine, and meet it! (Leaps to his feet.) Portuguese sailor. How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by fo... ...ic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our nu- merous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are fr... ...y belongs to it. The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a... ...and abominable, devilish re- bellion against the reverend clergy. For by a Portuguese Catho- lic priest, this very idea of Jonah’s going to Nineveh vi...

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...ise a great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, appeared. Among the former, one was of a most monstrous size. * * This came towards us, open mo... ...as not the only strange feature of the place, borrowed from the chaplain’s former sea farings. Between the marble cenotaphs on either hand of the pulp... ...first broke through the jealous policy of the Spanish crown, touching those colonies; and, if space permitted, it might be distinctly shown how from th... ...eer, who in certain conjunctures provides him with a fresh lance, when the former one has been badly twisted, or elbowed in the assault; and moreover,... ...eenland Whale, and incidentally for the re discovery of the Lost Icelandic Colonies of Old Green land;” in this admirable volume, all standers of mas... ...ages? — The blast! the blast! Up, spine, and meet it! (Leaps to his feet.) Portuguese sailor. How the sea rolls swashing ’gainst the side! Stand by fo... ...ntic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are fr... ...lly belongs to it. The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a... ..., and abominable, devilish rebellion against the reverend clergy. For by a Portuguese Catholic priest, this very idea of Jonah’s going to Nineveh via ...

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...d at the coolness and impertinence to which the man had risen whom she had formerly despised. “Then allow me, madame, to preserve my only chance of oc... ...known the goddess of the Sire de Rubempre’s fortune: She is des Lupeaulx’s former ‘rat.’ “ A form of dissipation, now forgotten, but still customary a... ...Rastignac hesitated, recognizing nothing of the hideous being he had known formerly at Madame Vauquer’s. “The devil has enabled you to change in every... ... met, that cream of Paris society, called then le petit chateau. The noble Portuguese lady, one of those who never care to go out of their own home, w... ...ess, lined with white watered silk, and bordered with a gimp fit to trim a Portuguese princess’ bodice. The material was silk brought from Can- ton, o... ...th a passport, at the Hotel Mirabeau, Rue de la Paix, having come from the Colonies via le Havre, in a traveling chaise, as mud-splashed as though it ... ...standing for the Marquis d’Aiglemont. Since the Marquis’ departure for the colonies, she had gone wild about Lucien, and had won him from the Duchesse... ...nified and splendid austerity of the Duchesse de Grandlieu’s rooms. She, a Portuguese, and very pious, always rose at eight to attend mass at the litt...

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... wood path—and here I find the mysterious white man (poor devil!) with his twenty years’ certificate of good behaviour as a book-keeper, frozen out by... ...nobody loves you!’ I would I could tell you the moving story of our cart and cart-horses; the latter are dapple-grey, about sixteen hands, and of enor... ...ere some natives in war array; with blacked faces, turbans, tapa kilts, and guns, they looked very manly and purposelike. No, the best part was poor o... ..., and I’m damned glad of it. And this is not all. Last ‘Wainiu,’ when I sent Fanny off to Fiji, I hear the wonderful news that the Chief Justice is go... ...e shut above; dry bed of the stream much excavated, so that I passed under fallen trees without stooping. Suddenly it turned sharply to the north, at ... ...difficult. (1) Will Mataafa surrender?(2) Will his people allow themselves to be disarmed?(3) What will happen to them if they do?(4) What will any of...

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...afterwards the famous Cardinal Dubois), whose history was singular. He had formerly been a valet; but dis- playing unusual aptitude for learning, had ... ...erred it upon the Comte de T oulouse, giving to the friend and heir of the former the successorship to the government of Guyenne, by way of recompense... ...he ground floor. Our festivi- ties finished by a supper that I gave to the former friends of my father, whose acquaintance I had always cultivated wit... ...ade the best of his way to Madrid. That city was itself in danger from the Portuguese, and, indeed, fell into their hands soon after. The Queen, who, ... ...with the army of Berwick, and both set to work to reconquer the places the Portuguese had taken from them. In this they were success- ful. The Portugu... ...it, the desire came to establish, according to the example of the English, colonies in the vast countries beyond the seas. In order to people these co...

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...athers were just respect- able English or Dutch merchants, who came to the colonies to make their fortune, and stayed here because they did so well. O... ...of it in the triumph of the van der Luyden evening. Archer inclined to the former theory; he fan- cied that her New Y ork was still completely undiffe... ...ellum book that Archer had sent her the week before (the “Sonnets from the Portuguese”); but she was learning by heart “How they brought the Good News... ... won- der at the prodigy of the Wellands’ daughter urging him to marry his former mistress. But he was still dizzy with the glimpse of the precipice t... ...side: Newland to May, April —, 187- ) was in its place; then, resuming his former attitude, his tall hat and pearl-grey gloves with black stitchings g...

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... by a shop or chance trade, but among the merchants trading to the English colonies in America, so my effects lay very much in the hands of such. I wa... ...s month of July they contin- ued to flee, though not in such multitudes as formerly. In August, indeed, they fled in such a manner that I began to thi... ...rtunity to break a large hole through his shop into a bulk or stall, where formerly a cobbler had sat, before or un- der his shop-window; but the tena... ... their house open and their trade going on, though not so very publicly as formerly: but there was a dreadful set of fellows that used their house, an... ...ere; but it was not confirmed. On the other hand, though the Spaniards and Portuguese were so shy of us, it is most certain that the plague (as has be...

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... our streets, people our hulks and penitentiaries, and overcrowd our penal colonies, or are creatures whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred fo... ...es recited, Mr Tigg roused himself by a great effort, and proceeded in his former strain. ‘Now I’ll tell you what it is. I’m a most confoundedly soft-... ...w. ‘You will take care, my dear Martin,’ said Mr Pecksniff, resum- ing his former cheerfulness, ‘that the house does not run away in our absence. We l... ... vocal gentleman regales them with a song. Gander leaves the Gander of all former feasts whole leagues behind. HE rises to propose a toast. It is, The... ... sang in all languages—except their own. German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swiss; but nothing native; nothing so low as native. For, in th...

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.......................................................... 437 CHAPTER VII OF COLONIES ..................................................................... ...undance or scantiness of this supply, too, seems to de- pend more upon the former of those two circumstances than upon the latter. Among the savage na... ...mmonly more distinguished by their superi- ority in the latter than in the former. Their lands are in general better cultivated, and having more labou... ...e of wood; a country smith in every sort of work that is made of iron. The former is not only a carpenter, but a joiner, a cabinet-maker, and even a c... ...s be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the sea-coast o... ... cod at Newfoundland; tobacco in Virginia; sugar in some of our West India colonies; hides or dressed leather in some other countries; and there is at... ...ere never was any demand before. The greater part, too, of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, are altogether new markets. New Granada, the Yucatan, ... ...menting in a still greater proportion. During the sixteenth cen- tury, the Portuguese were the only European nation who carried on any regular trade t... ...utch continually augmenting in a still greater proportion than that of the Portuguese declined. The English and French carried on some trade with Indi...

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... whom was lieutenant-colo- nel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly com- manded by the famous Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the ... ...ns of being swallowed up by the sea being forgotten, and the current of my former desires returned, I entirely for- got the vows and promises that I m... ...t me at that time, I was in tenfold more horror of mind upon account of my former convic- tions, and the having returned from them to the resolutions ... ...ut of the cabin, and immediately saw, not only the ship, but that it was a Portuguese ship; and, as I thought, was bound to the coast of Guinea, for n... ... about three hours; time I came up with them. They asked me what I was, in Portuguese, and in Spanish, and in French, but I understood none of them; b... ...k which I proposed to myself to receive from England. I had a neighbour, a Portuguese, of Lisbon, but born of English parents, whose name was Wells, a... ... piece of meadow land, or savan- nah, as our people call it in the western colonies), which had two or three little drills of fresh water in it, and a...

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...he Beagle stinging sensation, similar to that produced by the Physalia, or Portuguese man-of-war. I was much interested, on several occasions, by watc... ...fully, was a French grey, with numerous minute spots of bright yellow: the former of these varied in intensity; the latter entirely disap- peared and ... ...found on St. Paul’s only two kinds of birds — the booby and the noddy. The former is a species of gannet, and the latter a tern. Both are of a tame an... ...yage of the Beagle depths of a profound ocean? or did a covering of strata formerly extend over it, which has since been removed? Can we believe that ... ...a. It not unfrequently happened, that we were obliged to kill, *Venda, the Portuguese name for an inn. 27 Charles Darwin with stones, the poultry for... ...ted the forest in which these Planariae were found, in company with an old Portuguese priest who took me out to hunt with him. The sport consisted in ... ... The num- ber of inhabitants does not exceed a few hundreds. These Spanish colonies do not, like our British ones, carry within themselves the element... ...ave extended even so far a its base, if, as the Gauchos informed me, small colonies ha not been carried there. I should not have supposed tha these an... ...s generally been paid to the fortifications, the means of defence in these colonies appeared very contemptible. Comparing the town with Sydney, I was ...

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...ome weeks I became a piti- able maniac, and in every sense the wreck of my former self; and seven entire weeks, together with the better half of an ei... ...began to arise that Barratt had practised the same or similar villanies in former instances. One case in particular was be- ginning to be whispered ab... ...of Barratt, the pro- prietor of the shop, being the same person who had in former instances persecuted her in the street; but the other was even more ... ...e few. Meantime, the word creole has always been misapplied in our English colonies to a person (though of strictly European blood,) simply because bo... ...ez on reaching T ucuman found no Spaniards to mix with, but instead twelve Portuguese. Catalina remembered the Spanish proverb—‘Subtract from a Spania... ...m a Spaniard all his good qualities, and the remainder makes a pretty fair Portuguese;’ but, as there was nobody else to 122 Narrative and Miscellane... ...rt distance. The light-hearted young cavalier whistled, as he went, an old Portuguese ballad of romance; and in a quarter of an hour came up to an hou...

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...f it be not just, it is impossible it should be always one.” I have indeed formerly learned that vice is nothing but irregularity, and want of measure... ... magnum Socratem palmam promeruisse ferunt.” [“In this trial of power formerly they relate that the great Socrates deserved the palm.”—Cornet. Ga... ...an Indian lord, so soon as he heard the first 35 Montaigne whisper of the Portuguese Viceroy’s determination to dis- possess him, without any apparen... ... manly but displeased counte- nance, set forth how much he had obliged the Portuguese nation, and with how unspotted fidelity he had carried him- self... ... regulate the justice and opportunity of voluntary death. 39 Montaigne In former times there was kept in our city of Marseilles a poison prepared out... ... Father Jove, Mars Gradivus, and the other angry gods.”—Livy, ii. 45.] The Portuguese say that in a certain place of their con- quest of the Indies, t... ...t felt the effect of such removals. The Romans by this means erected their colonies; for, perceiving their city to grow immeasurably populous, they ea...

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..., such as a sudden storm, and an encoun- ter with another slaver, when his Portuguese prisoners be- came mutinous, and nothing but his steadiness and ... ...eat gallantry, Mr. Ernescliffe performed the wonderful feat of getting the former over the tall fence, while Norman conducted the donkey a long way ro... ...g the date and initials of those who lay there, and many of them recording former generations of Mays, to whom their descent from the head- master had... ...ary did indeed lock their hands together tightly, and the shoulders of the former shook as he stood, bowing down his head, but the others were still a... ... helped them—and Mr. Arnott thought the best way would be to go out to the colonies. They went when New Zealand was very new, and a very funny life th... ...ous collection of old coins, and the like, dug up in some of the old Greek colonies, and whenever Master Monkey saw him overhauling them, he would get... ... by. What a comfortable deep porch! If we could build such churches in the colonies, Margaret!” “See what little Meta will do for you! Yes, we had the...

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...wo clauses a new one. He expressed his meaning in a lengthier way, and the former clause is found in its integrity along with the additional one, of w... ...t making additions or insertions, or juxtaposition of things that were not formerly found together. For each of the books he has followed the last edi... ...u, I cannot think but I am come of the race of some rich king or prince in former times; for never yet saw you any man that had a greater desire to be... ...n his kingdom, install a new king in the throne, and plant thereon foreign colonies, long before he could come to have any advertisement of it: for ob... ... advice, and that of Xenomanes also, was not to steer the course which the Portuguese use, while sailing through the torrid zone, and Cape Bona Speran... ... per- formed in less than four months the voyage of Upper India, which the Portuguese, with a thousand inconveniences and 529 Rabelais innumerable da...