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... one-half its altitude. It looks down on much green, intricate country. It feeds in the spring- time many splashing brooks. From its summit you must h... ... This tardy favourite of fortune – hobbling a little, I think, as if in memory of the sciatica, but with not a trace that I can rememb... ... person Kelmar was. But the Jew store- keepers of California, profiting at once by the needs and habits of the people, have made themselves in too man... ...rcus, say, from nine to one, and then, there also, ebbs into the small hours of the echoing policeman and the lamps and stars. But the Toll House is f... ...of tan; and he first backed out for more money; and then, when that demand was satisfied, refused to come point-blank. He was wedded to his wash-house...

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...is time of day!” thought the Parisian, who thought himself very knowing in rural cus- toms. After a walk of about quarter of an hour, he reached the s... ...ad no money value at all except to a paper-maker. As Blondet examined this rural Diogenes, he admitted the possibility of a type of peasantry he had s... ... mosses, its clacking hens, its grunting pig, its straying heifer, all its rural graces have a horrible meaning. Fastened to a pole, which was stuck i... ...from it. The intimacies of his wife with Gaubertin and the keepers and the rural authorities, together with the laxity of the times, secured him impun... ...of the valley had tasted the sweets of these four rights (thus captured by rural pau- pers, and amounting to actual robbery) we can easily imag- ine t... ...ind poems on the game of draughts, on backgammon, on tricks with cards, on geography, typography, comedy, etc.,—not to mention the vaunted masterpiece...

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...land?” “Loch Lomond, Loch Katrine, Loch Awe, Loch Ness?— But I don’t do my geography out of doors!” “’Tisn’t geography; ’tis the ‘The Lady of the Lake... ...ciful production thus ruined by her aunt’s unkindness. As she sat over her geography les- son, out of sight of her own bad writing, her broken-backed ... ... dear simple sweet effusion of the talented young countess, who longed for rural retirement. And down came a great tear into the red trimming of Briti... ...ight clear eyes met his, and said, “No great weight there, I think! Only a geography fe- ver, eh? Any more giddy heads lately, eh? Or only when you ma...

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...is tedious.” “Why do you pursue it? Why do you not rather teach his- tory, geography, grammar, even arithmetic?” “Is monsieur certain that I am myself... ...gue’s end.” “Monsieur, I have had many lessons both in grammar, his- tory, geography, and arithmetic. I have gone through a course of each study.” “Br... ...s. It seems she happened to be in want of a French lady to give lessons in geography, history, grammar, and composition, in the French language. Mrs. ... ...emote from carriage-resounding chaussees. Ere long we came upon a nook, so rural, green, and secluded, it might have been a spot in some pastoral Engl... ...y frequently were; often, when elucidating favourite points of history, or geography, she would wax genuinely eloquent in her earnest- ness. Her pupil...

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... in the family tradition that these two got on very well together in their rural solitude. When asked whether he had not been sorely tempted dur- ing ... ...its soil I had not placed in position with my own hands); all the history, geography, politics, finance; the wealth of Charles Gould’s silver-mine, an...

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... in the family tradition that these two got on very well together in their rural solitude. 52 Some Reminiscences When asked whether he had not been s... ...its soil I had not placed in position with my own hands); all the history, geography, politics, finance; the wealth of Charles Gould’s silver-mine, an...

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...scope and knowledge. He had learned the Latin, math- ematics, history, and geography that are taught in schools, but he never got beyond what is calle... ...e danced extremely well; and she had studied the French language, history, geography, English, Italian,— in short, all that constitutes the education ... ... looked sound and healthy; in short, this idea of becoming the mistress of rural property seemed to Brigitte the final consecration of opu- lence. “Mi...

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...ices? Emperor meets Emperor, and King meets King, and as they wander among rural glades in fraternal intimacy, wars are arranged, and swelling territo... ...amentably unsuccessful. The Duke had declared that there should be no more rural crowds, no repetition of what he called London turned loose on his ow... ...a! Where is Guatemala, Ferdinand?’ ‘You can answer my question though your geography is deficient.’ ‘He has said nothing about your going anywhere.’ ‘...

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...they don’t mind it. Besides, things are changing. The auto, the telephone, rural free delivery; they’re bringing the farmers in closer touch with the ... ... Good deal better to listen to a good old-fashioned ser- mon than a lot of geography and books and things that nobody needs to know—more ‘n enough hea...

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...ous lure. All the old apart- ments have been rechristened, as it were; the geography of the castle has been reestablished. The guardrooms, the bedroom... ...nd which at last has no other quality than a look of intense, and peculiar rurality,—the characteristic, even when it is not the charm, of so much of ... ...t had already begun to fade, and my drive reminded me of a passage in some rural novel of Madame Sand. I passed a couple of timber and plaster churche... ...e represented in the scene. It was brought home to me that the populations rurales have many different ways of suffering, and my heart glowed with a g...

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...h embraced the whole oichomeni;—the total habitable world as then known to geography , or recognised by the muse of History—than at this day the Briti... ...rs, operative even where it is not perceived, but like the distinctions of geography—existing to-day, forgotten to-morrow—and abolished by a stroke of... ...with the most familiar of all circumstances in all countries,— that of the rural laborer going out to his morning tasks,—it must have been common inde... ...ion. Such a retreat was of- fered to him by his libertus Phaon, in his own rural villa, about four miles distant from Rome. The offer was accepted; an... ...w, then, after such anxiety, alarm, and hardship, Nero had reached a quiet rural asylum. But for the unfortunate concurrence of his horse’s alarm with... ...ies, were at the same time colored by the innocent gaiety which belongs to rural and to primitive manners. In person this emperor was tall and dignifi... ...ged in this way, and with these re- sults, became to Rome what commerce or rural industry is to other countries, viz. the only hopeful and general way...

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...complaining of his digestion. His principal vice was a mania for proposing rural parties during the summer season, excursions to Montmorency, picnics ... ... his wife gave music lessons and he himself a course of history and one of geography in the evenings. He was about forty- five years of age, sergeant-... ... figure above the common height. Neat and clean as a master of history and geography in a young ladies’ school ought to be, he wore fine linen, a plea... ...l not be appointed head of the division.” Bixiou. “Papa Phellion, you know geography?” Phellion [bridling up]. “I should say so!” Bixiou. “And history... ... that, but you don’t know the human heart; you have gone no further in the geography and history of that organ than you have in the environs of the ci...

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...lework, she will be found to have realized her friends’ fondest wishes. In geography there is still much to be desired; and a careful and undeviating ... ...ion; she had, besides, 23 Thackeray read the Arabian Nights and Guthrie’s Geography; and it is a fact that while she was dressing for dinner, and aft... ...plicity BESIDES THESE HONEST FOLKS at the Hall (whose simplicity and sweet rural purity surely show the advantage of a country life over a town one), ... ...el into Hampshire, Mr. Crawley begs me to say, he hopes you will adorn our rural directory with your presence. ’Tis the humble but happy home of Y our... ...ts of Hebrew; in mathematics and history; in Spanish, French, Italian, and geography; in music, vocal and instrumental; in dancing, without the aid of... ...E MUST NOW TAKE LEAVE OF A RCADIA, and those amiable people practising the rural virtues there, and travel back to London, to inquire what has become ...

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...9 I never thought that Jason sought For any golden fleece; But then I am a rural man, With thoughts that make for peace. But if there were a Jason, T ... ...t. CXIX VOLCANOES be in Sicily And South America, I judge from my geography. V olcanoes nearer here, A lava step, at any time, Am I inclined ...

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...organisation of production on the one hand as a development of physics and geography, or the study of social aggregation on the other, renders endurin... ...’s cast-off clothing, and with an infinity of hat-touching—on the verge of rural employment? These people will have to be in the descendant phase, the... ... done is done as unwilling charity by administrators who are often, in the rural districts at least, competing for low-priced labour, and who regard w...

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... have had curious effects: they have thrown several river towns out into the rural districts, and built up sand bars and forests in front of them. The... ...e hand was sometimes out of doors,—here, never. This is an important fact in geography.” If the loafers determined the character of a country, it woul... ...d with mocking gentleness— “Five thousand dollars better, my friend from the rural districts—what do you say now?” “I call you!” said Backus, heavin... ... me one or 2 hours every nite, & he gave me a Arithmetic, a spelling book, a Geography & a writing book, & he hers me ev- ery nite he lets me come int...

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...ety in its enjoy- 18 The Confessions ments, and I conceived a passion for rural life, which time has not been able to extinguish; nor have I ever cea... ...s obtained with ease, and has never escaped memory. The simplicity of this rural life was of infinite advantage in opening my heart to the reception o... ... other gardens, and possessing none of those attractions so desirable in a rural retreat; besides, after the death of Anet, we had given up this place... ...them in such a manner that I was never weary: it is true that domestic and rural concerns furnished many pleasing relaxations; but as my eagerness for... ... without studying. What I most attended to at these times, was history and geography, and as these did not re- quire intense application, made as much... ...n of being a conjurer. Such was the life I led at Charmettes when I had no rural employments, for they ever had the preference, and in those that did ...

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... foot deep, and immemorial accumulations of stagnant mud), imparted an idle, rural, pastoral air to a scene otherwise perhaps expressive of a rank civ... ...d, with its false steps, its wrong observations, all its infatuated, deluded geography. They understand as Olive understood, but it is probable that t...

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... it appears to be only a river. Y ou are by no means particular about your geography, I find, up here in the woods.” “There you are out, Master Cap. T... ...HAPTER XIX CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XIX Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view. —MIL —MIL —MIL —MIL —MILT T T T TON. ON. ON. ON...

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...een a lion; the natural history of the region being as little known as its geography, which was put down most fantastically awry. The other adornment ... ...ot of the Pyncheon race to whom we have already referred, as a native of a rural part of New England, where the old fash- ions and feelings of relatio... ...f beans and squashes. It being her first day of complete estrangement from rural objects, Phoebe found an unexpected charm in this little nook of gras... ...must not be forgotten,—butter which Phoebe herself had churned, in her own rural home, and brought it to her cousin as a propitiatory gift,—smell- ing... ...ast. Unless she had now and then indulged her brisk impulses, and breathed rural air in a sub- urban walk, or ocean breezes along the shore,—had occa-...