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...of a far more formidable description than was commanded by the adventurous American. Time and circumstances change the character of nations and the fa... ..., or the artificial combina- tions of syntax. ‘I can read and understand a Latin author,’ said young Edward, with the self-confidence and rash reason-... ...terpress—Ah! I’ll tell you, though, doctor, you must knock out some of the Latin and Greek; heavy, doctor, damn’d heavy—(beg your pardon) and if you t... ...e Baron of Bradwardine sang French chansons-a-boire, and spouted pieces of Latin; Killancureit talked, in a steady unal- terable dull key, of top-dres... ...pellation,—a sort of bearing which the French call armoires parlantes; the Latins arma cantantia; and your En- glish authorities, canting heraldry; be... ... prevailed on to join him. There is a monument erected on the spot, with a Latin inscription by the late Dr. Gregory.] O high-minded Moray!—the exiled... ...re than he himself could have expected; but it is men- tioned of the North American Indians, when at the stake of torture, that on the least intermiss... ..., fell afterwards into the hands of the enemy , and were sent as slaves to America, whence several of them returned, and one of them is now in France,...

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...s nowa- days is too serious a thing for much holiday keeping. I’ve been in America most of the time.” “If I remember rightly ,” said W arming, “you we... ... raised a family, my eldest lad—I hadn’t begun to think of sons then—is an American citizen, and looking for- ward to leaving Harvard. There’s a touch... ...tended, advanced on Graham. Then he stopped, with his hand slowly gesticu- lating, and looked about him. “A seat,” said Howard impatiently, and in a m... ...ty at the very beginning.” “What was his name?” “Graham.” “No, I mean—that American’s.” “Isbister.” “Isbister!” cried Graham. “Why, I don’t even know ... ...earn much in the schools nowadays. But I know all about him. He was a rich American who went from En- gland, and he left the Sleeper even more than Wa... ...light. Nowhere was the Council popular, and the thousand cities of Western America, after two hundred years still jealous of New York, London, and the... ... afford to wait,” said Graham; “they can afford to wait. I know. I’m not a Latin. There’s questions I want to ask some expert—about your machinery. I’...

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...nd a score to settle!’ He ran down stairs to assist his grandmother in the Latin lessons of her little school, the usual employment of his va- cations... ...his father. At the end of a couple of years he was sent to reside in South America; and his part- ing words to his mother were—’When you see me again,... ...iver wore frocks and learnt to spell. If any human being could sweeten the Latin Grammar, it was Mrs. Frost, with the motherliness of a dame, and the ... ... intervals of tranquillity and repose. After fourteen years spent in South America, how many threads she had to take up again! She had been as a siste... ...by a manufacture of Alpaca umbrellas. Meantime, he must show the beautiful American ducks which he hoped to naturalize on the pond near the keeper’s l... ..., spends a great deal of time on the boy, and is teaching the young ladies Latin.’ ‘They are leaving you lonely in the holidays! You ought to come to ...

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...72-1 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 CONTENTS On the ... ...al view, the relationship between the fundamental and the incidental: Are Americans universally unselfish, living on highly advanced science and tec... ...k series, Vol. 13), edited by Jack Allen, Feng Liu, Dragos Constantinescu, American Research Press 2002, pp.200-203) The point is: absolute truth do... ... series, Vol. 13), edited by Jack Allen, Feng Liu, Dragos Constantinescu, American Research Press 2002, pp.200-203 Jack Allen, Feng Liu, Dragos Cons... ...iu, Dragos Constantinescu ed.: Smarandache Notions (book series, Vol. 13), American Research Press 2002 (ISBN 1-931233-56-X). Florentin Smarandache,... ... to introduce a measurement for the ideas' field. Let's denote by "IDON" [Latin < idoneus, (cap)able of] the smallest unit to measure an idea. The ID... ...come an important means to attain greediness.) "Know yourself," says a Latin adage. But it is impossible to penetrate the internal infinity. It ...

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...lan guages as I had the least smattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca, but all to no purpose... ... family took up, and afterwards the whole kingdom. The word imports what the Latins call nanunculus, the Italians homunceletino, and the English mann... ...ps and charts, by joining this vast tract of land to the north west parts of America, wherein I shall be ready to lend them my assistance. The kingdom... ... posed three mighty kingdoms, under one sovereign, beside our plantations in America. I dwelt long upon the fertility of our soil, and the temperature... ...nds itself, as I have reason to believe, east ward, to that unknown tract of America west ward of California; and north, to the Pacific Ocean, which ... ...e toys, which travellers usually carry for presents to the savage Indians of America, and other parts, in hopes the people of the house would be there... ...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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... The story is divided into two parts, the scene of the first being laid in America; that of the second, in England. Internal evidence of various kinds... ...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 ... ...oubtless, so have many other scientific institutions. It is found in South America; its most hideous spread of legs covers a space nearly as large as ... ...any traces of one stepping in blood could be found on the forest leaves of America; but still in vain. The idea nevertheless prevailed that he would c... ...e boy’s intellect. So that she had even some knowledge of the rudiments of Latin, and geometry, and algebra; inaccurate enough, but yet with such a br... ...e was a volume of trans lations of Mother Goose’s Melodies into Greek and Latin, printed for private circulation, and with the Warden’s name on the t... ...tron of the Hospital had once entertained King James the First, who made a Latin speech on the occasion, a copy of which was still preserved in the ar... ...at ing a strange sort of circular trench into an old book of scho lastic Latin, which probably only he had ever devoured,—at least ever found to his... ..., and from that of his beloved Uni versity, crabbed with Greek, rich with Latin, drawing into itself, like a whirlpool, all that men had thought hith...

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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... ...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... ...k down to the water. The old gentleman at the tea-table, who had come from America thirty years before, had brought with him, at the top of his baggag... ... 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... ...red, placidly. “Well, I guess I’ll wait and see.” He had, in speaking, the American tone. “Are you cold?” the son enquired. The father slowly rubbed h... ...ng than I am.” “It’s not your calculating I think ill of; it’s your calcu- lating wrong. You’ve done so in this case.” “You must have made extensive c... ...classical education—he had been bred at Eton, where they study nothing but Latin and Whyte-Melville, said Miss Stackpole—he would be a most useful com...

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... into a credit to your country if you don’t take care.” “I know it. I’m an American-first, last, and all the time. I’ll show ‘em that when I strike Eu... ...er around and let’ s hurry .” Harvey had a notion that the greater part of America was filled with people discussing and envying his father’ s dollars... ... “an’ don’t go visitin’ racund the Fleet. If any one asks you what I’m cal’latin’ to do, speak the truth-fer ye don’t know .” A little red dory , labe... ...Beats me how them 73 Rudyard Kipling Frenchmen fetch anywheres, exceptin’ America’ s fair- ish broadly . Forty-six forty-nine’ s good enough fer them... ...ted him as a brother. Then the trade began. They had tobacco, plenty of it-American, that had never paid duty to France. They wanted chocolate and cra... ...he could wire his folk, Harvey Cheyne was perhaps the loneliest boy in all America. But the curious thing was that Disko and Dan seemed to think none ...

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...an by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The American by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The American by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The American by Henry James 1877 CHAPTER I O n a brilliant day in May, in the y... ...he truth must be told, he had often admired the copy much more than 4 The American the original. His physiognomy would have sufficiently in- dicated ... ...national mould. The gentleman on the divan was a power- ful specimen of an American. But he was not only a fine American; he was in the first place, p... ... of the world, and he seemed to Newman, as afterwards young members of the Latin races often seemed to him, now amusingly juvenile and now appallingly... ...peated Newman, for whom the words at first meant nothing. “The ball in the Latin Quarter, where the students dance with their mistresses. Don’t tell m... ...t at these words she paused, looking at Newman with eyes like two scintil- lating globules of ice. “You are like a peddler with some- thing to sell,” ...

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...their own chickens. In the afternoon Philip did his lessons, He was taught Latin and mathematics by his uncle who knew neither , and French and the pi... ...victim, broke the news to his form that the headmaster would take them for Latin that day , and on the pretence that they might like to ask him a ques... ...as quite in the right tradition: he was writing a treatise on the trees in Latin literature; but he talked of it flippantly , as though it were a past... ...to hand you could find out all you wanted in two minutes; you could hold a Latin Grammar open on your knees while questions were passing round; and Wi... ... possibly of greater service to them in after life than an ability to read Latin at sight. Then they fell into the hands of Tar. His name was T urner;... ... , 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... ...u can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.” He leaned back cautiously, for the chair on which he sat ... ... 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...

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...ginning to dance a minuet, so exuberantly courteous was he; and lessons in Latin from a tutor, whom my father invited to dinner once a fort- night, bu... ...t- night, but did not distinguish otherwise than occasionally to take down Latin sentences in a notebook from his dictation, occupied my mornings. My ... ...raging it to go forward, and remonstrating, and ad- dressing it in bits of Latin, and the creature pattering stiff and astonished, sent us in a dance ... ...my aunt, and had the gratification of seeing him blush. His approval of my Latin exercise was verbal, and weak praise in comparison; besides I cared n... ...d me changed at first. His father, it appeared, was working him as hard at Latin as Mr. Hart worked me, and he sat down beside me under my tutor and s... ... 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... ... the greatness of Germany; logical postulates fell in collapse before him. America to America, North and South; India to Europe. India was for the lan... ...r brother, had gone the way of the bravest English fellows of his class-to America. We called on the miller, a soured old man. Bob’s evasion affected ... ... ther while she and I conversed apart. The miller was dead, her brother in America. She had no other safe home than the one Captain Welsh had opened t...

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..., from this central home of the world, to their native homes in England or America, which they are apt thenceforward to look upon as provincial, after... ...nd bright, but not so gorgeous as Kenyon had seen it, a thousand times, in America; for there the western sky is wont to be set aflame with breadths a... ...palate, com- pared with the sculptor’s rich reminiscences of that fruit in America. The purple figs had already enjoyed their day, and the white ones ... ...r worth his pencil than the newly painted pine boxes, in which—if he be an American—his countrymen live and thrive. But there is reason to suspect tha... ...the V atican, with my palette and my brushes, and shall look for my little American artist that sees into the very heart of the grand pictures! And wh... ...lish a brief narrative of this miracle, for the edification of mankind, in Latin, Italian, and English, from the printing press of the Propaganda. Poo...

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...nge, torture, for the sake of a little loose arithmetic, and miserable dog-latin? Now, William Dobbin, from an incapacity to acquire the ru- diments o... ...the above language, as they are propounded in that wonderful book the Eton Latin Grammar, was compelled to remain among the very last of Doctor Swisht... ...al actors, preferring Mr. Kean to Mr. Kemble. He could knock you off forty Latin verses in an hour. He could make French poetry. What else didn’t he k... ...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 condescension Dobbin could only blush and wonder, helped him on with his Latin verses; “coached” him in play-hours: carried him triumphantly out of ... ...ent or opinion which was not perfectly trite and stale, and supported by a Latin quotation; yet he failed somehow, in spite of a mediocrity which ough... ...on of finding that four overseers ran away, and took fortunes with them to America. For want of proper precautions, his coal-mines filled with water: ... ...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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...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... ...ense that Ralph had said something very stupid. So, after three lessons in Latin grammar, one might correct a fellow student, whose knowledge did not ... ...—that’s too bad. That’s—what’s the word I mean, Trevor, something long and Latin—the sort of word you and Katharine know—” Mr. Hilbery suggested “cyni... ...conclusion myself. Only it won’t be a country cottage in my case; it’ll be America. America!” she cried. “That’s the place for me! They’ll teach me so... ...he linked his arm through hers and said: “Now, Mary, what’s all this about America?” There was a brotherly kindness in his voice which seemed to her m... ...han, perhaps, he knew, and he thought how Mary would soon be on her way to America. “Mary,” he said, “I want to talk to you. Haven’t we nearly done? W... ... over the list of his gifts and acquire- ments, his knowledge of Greek and Latin, his knowledge of art and literature, his skill in the management of ... ...r fixedly in front of him, while his mind went far away, exploring, specu- lating, until he broke off with his, “Well, Mary?”—and the silence, that ha... ...ery had been, to disport themselves now in the Saxon plainness, now in the Latin splendor of the tongue, and stored with memo- ries, as she was, of ol...

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...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 ... ... York, by two hundred representatives of the Press of the United States of America, I made the following observations, among others:— “So much of my v... ...eresoever, to express my high and grateful sense of my second reception in America, and to bear my honest testimony to the national generosity and mag... ...s past been collecting materials for, and hammering away at, a new book on America has much astonished me; seeing that all that time my declaration ha... ... in allusion to its usefulness as a means of venti- 480 Martin Chuzzlewit lating the stomach of any adversary in a close contest. He had used these w... ...ut into its place, an ancient scholar read the inscrip- tion, which was in Latin; not in English; that would never do. It gave great satisfaction; esp... ...y of that happy temperament which can be ecstatic without any other stimu- lating cause than a general desire to establish a large and profitable conn...

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... well enough,” he said contemptuously. “V ox et… Y ou haven’t ever studied Latin—have you?” “No,” growled Mr V erloc. “Y ou did not expect me to know ... ...oc. “Y ou did not expect me to know it. I belong to the million. Who knows Latin? Only a few hun- dred imbeciles who aren’t fit to take care of themse... ...ll scan- ning one after another, murmured “As long as it is not written in Latin, I suppose.” “Or Chinese,” added Mr V erloc stolidly. “H’m. Some of y... ...Secretary of the Embassy, from his occasional excursions into the field of American humour, had formed a special notion of that class of mechanic as t... ...he other. “There are several kinds of logic. This is the enlightened kind. America is all right. It is this country that is dangerous, with her ideali... ...course. It was not clear whether Mr V erloc had in his mind Spain or South America; but at any rate somewhere abroad. This last word, falling into Mrs...

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... willing to suf- fer hunger and thirst in exchange for acquiring Greek and Latin. But there is a far more exact prototype of the worthy Dominie, upon ... ...er all these disadvantages, he obtained a competent knowledge of Greek and Latin, and some acquaintance with the sciences. In progress of time, Abel S... ...anced far into the ocean, waving in the moonlight along ground of an undu- lating and varied form, and presenting those varieties of light and shade, ... ...g his official duty, in the following orthography,—”Please send the ax re- lating to a gustus pease.” No doubt, when this learned gentle- man had poss... ...riff told us, that dies—that dies inceptus— in short, you don’t understand Latin, but it means that a term-day is not begun till it’s ended.” “That so... ...is time, when there’s sae little money stirring in Scotland wi’ this weary American war, that somebody may get the land a bargain—Deil be in them, tha... ...ing. Won’t that do?” “Ay, carry him to Flushing,” said the Captain, “or—to America?” “Ay, ay, my friend.” “Or—to Jericho?” “Psha! Wherever you have a ... ...who was to usher him to the man of law. The period was near the end of the American war. The desire of room, of air, and of decent accommodation, had ... ...friars church, to hear our historian of Scotland, of the Continent, and of America.” They were disappointed—he did not preach that morn- ing.—”Never m...

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...school at Westminster; while I, with little Berry, had a tutor to teach us Latin and French, and my mother’s waiting-maid instructed me in sewing and ... ...rmed from the name of a single animal, instead of regularly derived from a Latin verb. 28 Stray Pearls The Abbe defended his word, and for fully twen... ...pressing anxieties about my English home, so that I wished to return to my Latin studies again, and the Abbe helped me to read Cicero de Officiis agai... ...Gaspard had half an hour more of study with the Abbe, for he was beginning Latin, and was a very promising scholar. He prepared his tasks with me befo... ...? Gaspard, who was much younger, could read well, write, and knew a little Latin and English, while the King and his brother were as untaught as peasa... ...pted him most— gone out to the plantations in the new countries of Java or America; but Eustace prayed him to pledge himself to noth- ing until he sho...

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...ge, a rhymester of Cham- pagne named Jean Voute, published a collection of Latin 36 Catherine dé Medici verses in which were three epigrams upon her.... ...en the undress ornaments of a great lady in 1540. To-day, the discovery of America, the facilities of trans- portation, the ruin of social distinction... ... tutor of the Duc d’Orleans. “Ah, madame,” he replied, “I know nothing but Latin.” This answer made all who were within hearing of it smile. The seduc... ...enjoyed the prettiest fete in the world last night— if it were not for the Latin words those gentlemen will put into our French.” “Ah!” said Mary, “yo... ...We!” said Catherine, with an air of astonishment. “But I do not understand Latin, myself.” “You think me very learned,” cried Mary Stuart, laughing, “...

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...ed by a dentist, occurred at the town of Columbus, in the United States of America, quite recently. The sub ject was a German who kept a liquor shop... ... ain, the Sisters of all the cardinal virtues separately, the Fe males of America, the Ladies of a hundred denominations. They appeared to be always ... ...ay morning at half after nine.” “Nemo!” repeats Mr. T ulkinghorn. “Nemo is Latin for no one.” “It must be English for some one, sir, I think,” Mr. Sna... ... been eight years at a public school and had learnt, I understood, to make Latin verses of several sorts in the most admirable manner. But I never hea... ...as glad to get rid of the trouble of consideration, I wondered whether the Latin verses often ended in this or whether Richard’s was a solitary case. ... ...s, profuse, wildly careless, but fully persuaded that he was rather calcu lating and prudent. I happened to say to Ada, in his pres ence, half jesti... ...ghts as I lie here. T ake an extreme case. T ake the case of the slaves on American plantations. I dare say they are worked hard, I dare say they don’... ... had only settled down and married Joe Pouch’s widow when he died in North America, she ’d have combed your hair for you.” “It was a chance for me, c... ...agnet answers, half laughing and half crying, “Joe Pouch’s widder in North America? Then he wouldn’t have got himself into these troubles.” “The old g...