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...on beene to forestal and purchase the world's opinion and favour, I would surely have adorned myselfe more quaintly, or kept a more grave and solemne march. I desire thereun to be delineated in mine own genuine, simple and ordinarie fashion, without contention, art or study; for it is myselfe I pourtray. My imperfections shall thus be read to the life, and my naturall fo...

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...rely have adorned myselfe more quaintly, or kept a more grave and solemne march. I desire thereun to be delineated in mine own genuine, simple and ... ...f 18)4/10/2005 3:15:19 AM Montaigne's Essays From MONTAIGNE, The First of March, 1580. Renascence Editions http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/montaigne/in... ...ad obtained, and had at his pleasure marshalled the order how they should march, he seemed quietly and contentedly to yeeld up the ghost. I have sel... ...m, nor any other man living, but that it was the fashion of his nation to march thus: as having neither cities, nor houses, nor manured land to defe... ... not the last step that causeth weariness: it only declares it. All daies march towards death, only the last comes to it.' Behold heere the good pre... ...pious to me, to goe about to subject publike constitutions and unmoveable observances, to the instabilitie of a private fantasie (private reason is b... ...lso adde unto it the pleasure of gourmandizing, and to prostrate publicke-observances under their feet. Verily Plato in his Gorgias defineth him to ... ... nor establishing any doctrine or opinion repugnant unto common lawes and observances, humble, obedient, disciplinable and studious; a sworne enemy ... ...ear/montaigne/2xvii.htm (21 of 27)4/10/2005 4:27:15 AM Montaigne's Essays observances: No man ever undertooke it, but came to an end: But to establis...

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...ing, urging to enlist; there is tear- ful-boastful leave-taking; irregular marching on the Great North-Eastern Road. Marseillese sing their wild To Ar... ...atres, Boulevards, Streets; and the heart burns in every bosom: Aux Armes! Marchons!—Or think how your Aristocrats are skulking into covert; how Bertr... ... struck suddenly silent; except for the beating of drums, for the tramp of marching feet; and ever and anon the dread thun- der of the knocker at some... ...uer Verdun; and Clairfait and Austrians press deeper in, over the Northern marches: ‘a hundred and fifty thousand’ as fear counts, ‘eighty thousand’ a... ...f the mind. Verdun gone (though some still deny it); the Prussians in full march, with gallows-ropes, with fire and faggot! Thirty thousand Aristocrat... ...gathered together, there are formed modes of existing together, habitudes, observances, nay gracefulnesses, joys! Citoyen Coitant will explain fully h...

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...t which was really unworthy, but was made to depend on certain punctilious observances totally apart from that which was in itself deserving of praise... ...ned by the Irish under the command of Alexander Macdonald; these, on their march to join Montrose, had committed some excesses on lands belonging to A... ...excesses on lands belonging to Ardvoirlich, which lay in the line of their march from the west coast. Of this Ardvoirlich complained to Montrose, who,... ... a leaguer lady; d—n the distance! it was a flea’s leap to the voyages and marches he had made on a slighter occasion.” With this purpose he left the ... ...t now is, They havena sae mickle as a German whistle, or a drum, to beat a march, an alarm, a charge, a retreat, a reveille, or the tattoo, or any oth... ... our fine undertaking in Cumberland is all blown up. The militia would not march into Scotland, and your prick-ear’ d Covenanters have been too hard f...

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... his own lamassery, the Such zen, opposite the Painted Rocks, four months’ march away. The Curator brought out a huge book of pho tos and showed him ... ... beggars.’ ‘Thou art not. That I can see. But I do not know that other. He marches well, though.’ The first freshness of the day carried the lama forw... ...orse is needed there, truly . A good follower and a good pony also for the marching. Let us see–let us see.’ He thrummed on the pommel. ‘This is no pl... ...nd she slept till they reached the next halting stage. It was a very short march, and time lacked an hour to sun down, so Kim cast about for means of... ... faith. ‘Where goest thou?’ he called after Kim. ‘Nowhither–it was a small march, and all this’ Kim waved his hands abroad–‘is new to me.’ ‘She is be... ...aming in the vernacular, and me chanically followed the lama’s ceremonial observances at eat ing, drinking, and the like. The old man’s mind turned ...

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...ot, however, of his victories that we are here to speak, but of his return march from the banks of the Indus, in BC 326, when he had newly recovered f... ...o survey the coasts of the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf, while he himself marched along the shore of the province, then called Gedrosia, and now Mekh... ...duced in the summer being burnt up long before September, the month of his march; and all the slope below was equally desolate slopes of gravel. The f... ..., till he had dragged them through one of the most rapid and extraordinary marches of his won- 19 Yo n g e derful career. His own share in their priv... ...Hardrada, to come and invade England. The chosen English king, Harold, had marched at full speed from Sussex to Yorkshire, and met the invaders marchi... ... but which linked them so as to form a sort of club, with common religious observances and pursuits of science, especially mathematics and music. And ... ...ruelty with great exactness about religious worship, carrying his personal observances to the most fanatic extravagance. In the vacancy of the Metropo...

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...soldiers, made his way out, and rallying together the rest who escaped, he marched round about the walls, and finding the gate open, by which the Gyri... ...d with large numbers and drove before him all who endeavored to hinder his march. Sertorius, also, not being strong enough to give him battle, retreat... ...six thousand soldiers, whom he had left in his former camp, from whence he marched out to take the hill, where if Pompey should assault him, they migh... ...iers by gifts and honors, and inuring their bodies to service, by frequent marching and exercising; so that the Macedonians were some of them astonish... ...orted to design an invasion of Cappadocia, Perdiccas, resolving himself to march against Ptolemy , made Eumenes commander-in-chief of all the forces o... ...s which most offended the Romans, who felt as if all the honors and solemn observances of their country were, for Cleopatra’s sake, handed over to the... ... councilors wearing garlands, and other citizens such as pleased. Of these observances, some small traces, it is still made a point of religion not to...

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... better than yon Wolf of Badenoch or the Master of Al- bany, did I steal a march on the Regent, and give the poor lassie to my own son!’ ‘And so Lilia... ...might be strong enough; but each knows that his fel- low, Douglas, Lennox, March, or Mar, would be ready to play the same game as Albany; and to raise... ... nobility, in whose castles there was often little commodity for religious observances. Short, however, as was the distance, they had in the midst of ... ...th Malcolm and herself. By and by the dawn began to appear, the air of the March night became sharper, and in the distance the murmur and plash of the... ...ing from their snoods, all seen by the intensely glittering sun of a clear March day, dry and not too cold for these hardy northern folk. Nigel, the s... ...had lodged him at Windsor Castle, to- gether with Edmund Mortimer, earl of March, and placed both under the nominal charge of the Prince of Wales, a y... ...the Court he was ashamed of his own scrupulousness, and tempted to neglect observances that they might call monkish and unmanly; and he was not at all...

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...young fellows from my estate, who have enlisted in your troop, had been to march with you on your journey to Scotland. It would have been something, a... ... as tended rather to improve the conviviality than the discipline of their march. After inspecting the cavalry, Sir Everard again conducted his nephew... ...father’s eye. Her con- stant liveliness, her attention to all those little observances most gratifying to those who would never think of exacting them... ...averley, calling up mental energy to support personal fatigue, held on his march gallantly, though envying in his heart his Highland attendants, who c... ...he amusement of Waverley than that of our readers. At length, after having marched over bank and brae, moss and heather, Edward, though not unacquaint... ... great war-bagpipe. On a signal made by the Chief, the skirmish was ended. Marches were then made for running, wrestling, leaping, pitch- ing the bar,...

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... open war. And, divid- ing themselves into two companies, one part of them marched openly from Sphettus, with their father, against the city, the othe... ... flowing, carried the trophy resting erect upon his right shoulder, and so marched on, singing songs of triumph, and his whole army following after, t... ... The rest of the Sabines, enraged hereat, choosing Tatius their cap- tain, marched straight against Rome. The city was almost in- accessible, having f... ...into two bodies; with one they attacked the garrison of Fidenae, the other marched against Romulus; that which went against Fidenae got the victory, a... ...ny of the Latins, under the command of Livius Postumius, took this time to march against her. Postumius, halting not far from Rome, sent a herald, sig... ..., both as to time and place; ordering that each family should perform such observances within private walls, and that they should continue only the sp... ...n to this day to offer to these Greeks and Gauls certain secret ceremonial observances in the month of November. In the beginning of this war, in whic... ...ey were gone into their provinces, lit upon books concerning the religious observances, where he found some- thing he had not known before; which was ... ...run into any superstition, because they never varied from nor exceeded the observances of their ancestors. So soon as Flaminius with his colleague had...

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...with impunity. Public vengeance was now awakened; the imperial troops were marching from every quarter upon the same centre; and the slave became sens... ...uade him from his purpose of meeting the senate on the approaching Ides of March, it is very little to be doubted that it had a considerable effect up... ...anation of what is else a mysteri- ous circumstance amongst the ceremonial observances at Cæsar’s funeral—that all people of foreign nations then re- ... ...is skill in horsemanship, it seems that, when he accom- panied his army on marches, he walked oftener than he rode; no doubt, with a view to the benef... ...ded men, and ordered that the whole file of intermediate persons should be marched off to the dens of the wild beasts: “Tell them off,” said he, “from... ...pment of Galba. They were probably then getting under arms for their final march to take posses- sion of the palace. At another point, an accident occ... ...followed him. A circumstance more charac- teristic, in the record of those observances which attested the public feeling, is this—that he who at that ...

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... after a fashion, while I was eating; and with every word, look, and gesture marched me farther into the country of surprise. He was indeed strik- ing... ... then the official had the man by the shoulders, twitched him from his seat, marched him through the car, and sent him flying on to the track. It was ... ... I gave way to a thirst for luxury, separated myself from my companions, and marched with my effects into the Union Pacific Hotel. A white clerk and a... ...erman to a bent fishing-hook; and the comparison, if less important than the march through Geor- gia, still shows the eye of a soldier for topography.... ...ris road runs in an avenue: a road conceived for pageantry and for triumphal marches, an avenue for an army; but, its days of glory over, it now lies ... ... arrival had to feel the pulse of the society; and a breach of its undefined observances was promptly pun- ished. A man might be as plain, as dull, as...

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... immedi- ately?’ ‘No,’ he says, ‘I want it for the beginning of spring, in March.’ So far, so good. Well, we drive our bargain, and we drink a glass, ... ... the barley fetched at Grenoble last market day, and I am to deliver it in March. I am to warehouse it at owner’s risk, and no allowance for shrinkage... ...ready to burn down a house to come by a knave of a boot- jack. After a few marches, one on the top of another, or above all, after an engagement, ther... ...fe here to recognize the value of the rites of reli- gion and of religious observances in the family, and to dis- cern the importance of household cus... ...imates. My word for it, those who are still standing on their stumps after marching over Italy, Egypt, Germany, Por- tugal, and Russia must have appli... ...ong gaiters, and famous pairs of shoes; but, my children, you will have to march on Milan to take them, where all these things are.’ “So they marched....

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...d the adjacent lakes. The facilities which nature had there offered to the march of the combatants were too obvious to be neglected. The lengthened sh... ...le antagonists, within their works, than to re- sist the progress of their march, by emulating the successful example of the French at Fort du Quesne,... ...nd was soon completed. While the regular and trained hirelings of the king marched with haughtiness to the right of the line, the less pretending colo... ...ed the party, and brought up the close 98 The Last of the Mohicans of the march, with a caution that seemed never to tire. In this manner they procee... ...ws,” with the fever of his wound, heightened, as it was, by their toilsome march. Unwilling to prolong a useless discussion, the young man af- fected ... ...ity which was still wounding to their pride, concealed as it was under the observances of military etiquette. Women and children ran from place to pla...

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... of me. Three months after entering the Musketeers, that is to say, in the March of the following year, the King held a review of his guards, and of t... ...ground. After stopping ten days at Gevries, the two armies sepa- rated and marched. T wo days afterwards the seige of Namur was declared. The King arr... ...bserved the enemy. The ladies went away to Dinant. On the third day of the march M. le Prince went forward to invest the place. The celebrated Vauban,... ... had kept their promises to him. T wo days after the defeated garrison had marched out, the King went to Dinant, to join the ladies, with whom he re- ... ...ound another fortune-teller there, a man, who made the same prediction. In marching afterwards with the regiment of the King to join the army, he wish... ...sation or prayers conducted them to the hour for bed, when nearly the same observances took place as in the morning. Finally, their Catholic Majesties... ... than any one I knew?—His piety was only cus- tom, scruples, fears, little observances, without knowing any- thing of religion: the Pope a divinity wh...

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...nce of her beauty and in- genuousness on the vexed hostess, the kindly old marchio- ness adds, that it was no wonder she was late, ‘for just before st... ...the his- toric Muse, which has learnt to esteem those brawny sturdy giants marching club on shoulder, independent of hench- man, in preference to your... ...m the colour of her audience: she was not of the uni- formed rank and file marching to drum and fife as gallant interpreters of popular appetite, and ... ...e for the enemy without the backing of his ‘boys.’ Not he. Why, he’d never march to battle and they not handy; because when he struck he struck hard, ... ...er friend in detesting. Reasonable women, too! The moon, stood high on her march as he entered Storling. He led his good beast to the stables of The T... ...Redworth would 131 George Meredith be best. Women are bound to such small observances, and especially the beautiful of the sisterhood, whom the world...

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...eller, heard afar in the night with an august and plodding sound as of the march of an inevitable fu- ture. But in a gale, the silent machinery of a s... ...as around these isles, where British admirals keep watch and ward upon the marches of the Atlantic Ocean, are subject to the turbulent sway of the Wes... ...f-like platforms of the dock railway-line. She had been named, with proper observances, on the day she came off the stocks, no doubt, but she was very... ...successive generations, it grows in truth, splendour, and potency with the march of ages. In its incorruptible flow all round the globe of the earth i...

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...t. He told me that if I ever told another falsehood he should that instant march into the school and ask Mr. Cor- nish to strip and birch me; and if I... ...e had two offers of tutorship for the holi- days, from Mr. Dugdale and the Marchioness of Bath. The question where his university life was to be spent... ...w the sort of person you have to deal with. Good morning,”—and thereupon I marched out, amazed at my own pluck, and heartily glad that I had said what... ...r clergyman, in the ‘Duke of Portland,’ which did not sail till the end of March, when Patteson was to meet her at Gravesend. Thus he did not depart t... ...reeting, ‘Lebe wohl, doch nicht auf Ewigkeit,’—to Mr. Justice Coleridge:— ‘March 28, 1855. ‘My dear Uncle,—One line more to thank you for all your lov... ...its were decidedly diminishing, though their superstitious prac- tices and observances were by no means dropped. The Diary, on July 24, thus speaks of... ...er with some good reason for urging this or that change in the manners and observances of the people. Often as I think of it, I feel how greatly the C... ...n’t find much that you associate with religion in England, in the external observances of it; but there are not a few ignorant people (I am not speaki... ...serving char- ity. If one-twentieth part of a diocese insists upon certain observances which nineteen-twentieths repudiate, it seems clear that the ve...

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...barefoot, carried no arms, and even preceded the beasts of burden in their march, living upon roots and herbs, and presenting a spectacle both dis- gu... ...ually caught a part of their manners, and espe- cially of those chivalrous observances which were so well cal- culated to charm the minds of a proud a... ...hat army with which he of the lion heart had promised himself a triumphant march to Jerusa- lem, and in which he would probably have succeeded, if not... ...ng of England? Why should Richard’s illness, or Richard’s death, check the march of thirty thousand men as brave as himself? When the master stag is s... ...e the words en arriere for en avant, and lead us back to Paris, instead of marching to Jerusalem. His poli- tic head has learned by this time that the... ... of Gilsland.] 86 The Talisman CHAPTER VII. There never was a time on the march parts yet, When Scottish with English met, But it was marvel if the r... ...to undertake the application of their virtue. Severe restrictions, painful observances, fasts, and penance, are necessary on the part of the sage who ...

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...amily, with all the nurses and attendants, take an active part. Dances and marches are performed alternately, to the enlivening strains of a piano; an... ...ng man, whose madness was love and music. After playing on the accordion a march he had composed, he was very anxious that I should walk into his cham... ...ands, or brawling over broken rocks. Although it was yet but the middle of March, the weather in this southern temperature was extremely warm; the pee... ...n a gloomy silence, bolts himself, in the same state. But for these animal observances, you might suppose the whole male American Notes – Dickens 168... ...nce Convention held here on the day after our arrival; and as the order of march brought the procession under the windows of the hotel in which we lod... ...otes – Dickens 180 of viands, in the same dull manner, and with the same observances. The company appeared to be oppressed by the same tremendous co...

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...felt how thin and bony were her tender fingers ere the blasts of the cruel March wind finished the work.” “Alack! alack! poor Henry,” said Richard; “n... ... the procession, closely followed by those of his young son; and behind it marched his two brothers, Charles and Alfonse, and his son-in-law, the King... ...ttack him; how he had borne off wounded knights on his back, and on sultry marches would load him- self with the armour of any one who was exhausted, ... ... gay feasting, dancing, and jousting on the greensward, when the religious observances of the day were over. Pilgrims thronged from all parts, attract... ... Gascon was shouting in French that this was no fair play, he had stolen a march; and the merchant had sprung forward saying, “Girl, beware, court gal...