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...rate the gymnasium as in former years. The color scheme will be yellow and white. The caterer will be Lucius of Troy, who served re- freshments at las... ...ated. A full line of Camera supplies on fiand all the time. TliY A BLACK & WHITE CIGAR ArthurJohnson Athletic and Sporting Goods Sweaters Jerseys tlly... ... Haven Cona. Men of Williams ! Use Tooth Powder BESTFORTHETEETH Make* Ihem white and lustrotn AT ALLDRUGGISTS 25CKNTa WILLIAMS HEOOED Wl ON ts ler th... ...ing the season. Headquarters at J. E.^MILLER'S—Hab«rdash«r—No. Adams Harry White COLLEGE TAILOR Eepresentcd by L. Lippmann, with fine line of At Bemis... ...rated. A full line of Camera supplies on hand all the time. TRY A BL/VCK^& WHITE CIGAR ArthurJohnson Athletic and Sporting Goods Sweaters Jerseys (;iy... ...education which fits a man to lire; it is not a machine to do his work. We Americans must be hard at work at somo- tliiiig. We seem to get very little... ...to your doors the march of nations and you must make them Chris- tians and Americans; for if you don't make them Christians they will irjuke you pagan... ...ling houses. The visit to the mainland was shortened by what seemed to the Americans as the inhospitality of the national gov- ernment, but before aga... ...f the Dutch artists, Jongkind, Ziloken and Gravesande; besides work by the Americans, Whistler, Piatt and Palmer. The subjects of the pic- tures are i...

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... Then distracted by the blue veins that traced a winding river between her whitening knuckles, she became lost in fascination as she stared at them... ...t” greeted her knock. While she waited, she made a last minute check of her white linen blouse and gray serge skirt. Demurely covered from neck to ... ... The smudge pot wedged in the upper right corner of the roof sent clouds of white smoke cascading down on her. Morgan tripped the latch, and the fro... ...t been?” “My name is Falkner. And I’ve been here long enough to know how Americans treat intruders.” The man was as tall as Daniel, and block s... ...pens, I want to go into this clear-eyed and clear headed and in the bright, white light of day.” York shoved the last chair under the repositione... ... froth of lace chemise that was her only garment, except for her embroidered white silk stockings and a wrapper so gossamer sheer a whisper might mel...

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...TO allies, in developing countries, Muslim nations and even in eastern Europe where Americans, only a decade ago, were lionized as much-adulated li... ...ation is also eroding. Majorities in only 7 of 14 countries had favorable views of Americans. "People around the world embrace things American and... ...ed how rotten and inherently contradictory the US edifice is and how concerned are Americans with appearances rather than substance. To religious ... ...uncil for Secular Humanism, the US Census Bureau, and others - the vast majority of Americans are chauvinistic, moralizing, bible-thumping, cantanke... ...es dispensable, their systems of governance and economies inherently inferior. The white man's burden must not be encumbered by the vagaries of pri... ...thinking, truncated attention span, soundbite mentality, and dangerous, "black and white", simplism. In its heartland, America is isolationist. Its... ...ement of the 1960s) and still is, in some important respects, a pre-Enlightenment, white supremacist society. It is rife with superstition, prejudi... ...thinking, truncated attention span, soundbite mentality, and dangerous, "black and white", simplism. It is also a sign of short-sightedness and his... ... new colonial regime on its former colonies. Spearheaded by the United States, the white and Christian nations of the West embarked with missionary...

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...ish that his grandfa­ ther had called "Patience". Seattle wondered if the Great White Chief, who lived far to the east and lived in a great white lo... ...ed in a great white lodge, ever sat beside a river and fished. In any case, the White Chief had sent word that he wanted to buy their land. The land... ...their land. The land where the spirits of his ances­ tors walked long before the white man had even known the land existed. The idea was strange to ... ...people were not warriors like the Apache, though his braves wanted to fight the white man. Seattle knew they could not stand against the white man's... ...and against the white man's will. Their will was like the Iron Horse, which the white man called 'Progress', and Johnathan Cross progress they sai... ...hard shifted in his seat, "but 1 am truly curious as to your interest in Native Americans." The Soul Bearer 37 "Let's just say it's a hobby." Haw... ...me. But this is too important to entrust to someone who is interested in Native Americans only as a hob­ by." "I'm sorry if I offended you." Alana's... ...red. Aaron found a room for two dollars a night. Outrageous. Aaron thought that Americans must be rich. It was then, that he vowed to himself that h... ...bert Brent, Dr. Greene and the two other men; the possibility that millions of Americans may be in serious jeopardy from nuclear waste leaking into...

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...barren acres in a dreary neighborhood; his father a typical “poor Southern white,” shiftless and with- out ambition for himself or his children, const... ... his own. First he sketched these with charcoal on a wooden shovel scraped white with a drawing-knife, or on basswood shingles. Then he transferred th... ...ll the vicissitudes of his life from the modest home in Springfield to the White House at Washington, adding untold private heart-burnings to his publ... ...wish on his part to have social and political equality established between whites and blacks. On this point he summed up his views in a reply to Dougl... ...hat disappointment was inten- sified when they saw this Western man in the White House, with so much of rustic manner and speech as still clung to him... ...ise him which they have since never ceased to do—as one of the greatest of Americans and the best of men. 56 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol On... ...pular govern- ment, as illustrated by the life of the most American of all Americans. I therefore offer no apology for asking your attention to Abraha...

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...row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the ebony rosary beads between his fingers, crossed himself in the supplicant tradition, and kissed the crucifix as he closed his eyes and began to reci...

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...cross the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwine... ...e harmonic rhythm pulsated from an 4 J.Cross/Artemis iridescent, glowing white and purple translucent form, which floated above the altar and t... ...at began to roll toward him like a slow moving ocean wave; it pointed a milky white semblance of a finger directly at his chest and then smoothly ent... ...looked out the window, which was 5 J.Cross/Artemis slightly ajar, at two white doves sitting on the ledge, cooing. “I have a special request. A... ...subtly and not so subtly, the most influential Cardinals. However, after the white smoke rose from the chimney announcing the election of a new Pop... ...drugs can be used for education, social programs, and alternative training for Americans who have been displaced due to a changing economy. We could ... ...y they thought the 129 J.Cross/Artemis war would never end. So, when the Americans came, Joey was elated, free to roam the streets again. Co... ...ey figure out who’s in charge, it’ll be business as usual.” “Maybe. But the Americans and the Italians do not get along.” “Well, there’s your ans... ...dcliff said. "Under normal circumstances there should have been a war -- the Americans against the Sicilians” “What stopped it?” “I don’t know. ...

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... exactness. Possibly height, weight, presence of dark pigment in the hair, whiteness of skin, presence of hair upon the body, are simple elements in i... ...quite dissimilar system of reactions to the “perfect health” of a vigorous white; you may blend them only to create an ailing mass of physiological di... ...ss is a fixed and definite thing, as distinct from sanity as black is from white. He is always exas- perated at the hesitation of doctors when in a ju... ...ons of a man are settled for good and all, whether he will be a negro or a white man, whether he will be free or not of inherited disease, whether he ... ...usand diseases and exhaust their last vitality at fifty, and that half the white women in the world would die with their first children still unborn. ... ...strike out the new phrase in a fine burst of ignorant discovery. There are Americans in particular who are amazingly apt at this sort of thing. They t... ...rica who will murder and misunderstand the language against any eleven the Americans may select. Of course there is a natural and necessary growth and... ...llow-citizens. That is the cardinal fact in life for the great majority of Americans who respond to the stirrings of ambition. If in Britain capacity ... ...prince, too often some poor creature great only by convention—and what the Americans do I do not know, unless they use a Boss. There are many occasion...

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...r in a boxing ring I wouldn‘t know. The closest I came to violence in my psychology classes was in dissecting a flatworm or nearly drowning a white ... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...he worst outcomes of the power drive is using violence to achieve our ends. Either it is the Crips fighting the Bloods, Cain killing Abel, the Americ... ...n men to have her clothes criticized.(7a) ―There are so many places in the world where women are being pushed backwards. In Baghdad as Americ... ...the infidels in New York and Washington, to kill people who hadn‘t harmed him, and to kill George W, Bush by flying a suicide mission into the White ... ... of power and anger. Tests have been designed to measure pleasure centers. They show that cocaine addicts get the craving when shown a pile of white ... ...r the phone?‘ Like so many people—he couldn‘t be wrong! ―Hate groups are commonly associated with senseless attacking. Whether they be white,... ...ber of liaisons, including Marilyn Monroe, FDR took up with his mistress Lucy Rutherford, Warren Harding conceived an illegitimate child in a White ...

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...detail them would fill volumes. Suffice it here to single out two famous Americans, Thomas Jefferson for his belief in print power, and Benjamin Fr... ...er’s Linotype. Ottmar Mergenthaler Does It Again Few twentieth-century Americans were aware of —or appreciated—what a wondrous Information Techno... ... develop a machine that would mean ―more books—more education for all.‖ Whitelaw Reid and Darius Ogden Mills Soon thereafter, Mergenthaler‘s nee... ... funds to continue his experiments coincided with New York Tribune editor Whitelaw Reid‘s need to reduce his paper‘s high labor costs. Reid, born... ...Kluger recounts the saga of Mergenthaler‘s alliance with Mills‘ son-in-law Whitelaw Reid. Access to his father-in-law‘s fortune let Reid make a t... ...lity of segregation at that time and funded separate libraries for African-Americans. o DDC cards in catalog drawers enabled patrons to find the spe... ... gang of wondrous Linotypes in full cry. Journeymen printers’ unique cream-white aprons hold type-handling tools—pencils, metal pica rulers, makeup r... ... deserves credit for many of them. Among the most famous Europeans and Americans were Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Alexander G... ...ord, UK; Cambridge, US: Blackwell, 1992. Reid, T. R. The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution. New York: Simo...

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...red, doubtless, to social and political conditions among the people of the white race, who are described as “We, the people,” in the opening sentence ... ...rough the influence of Democracy in America. Each succeeding generation of Americans will find in the pure and impartial reflections of De T ocquevill... ...d courage with which they are expressed. Though not originally written for Americans, “Democ- racy in America” must always remain a work of engrossing... ...ppears to me beyond a doubt that sooner or later we shall arrive, like the Americans, at an almost complete equality of conditions. But I do not concl... ... ever be necessarily led to draw the same political consequences which the Americans have derived from a similar social or- ganization. I am far from ... ...icains”; Adair, “History of the American Indians.” 31 Tocqueville neither white like the Europeans, nor yellow like most of the Asiatics, nor black l... ...e time they differed from all other known races of men:* they were neither white like the Europeans, nor yellow like most of the Asiatics, nor black l... ...of American Statistics” for 1874); but in the South no less than 1,516,339 whites and 2,671,396 colored persons are returned as “illiterate.” 348 Dem... ...attention, the superior in intelligence, in power and in enjoyment, is the white or European, the man pre- eminent; and in subordinate grades, the neg...

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...w can he resist it? For years he has labored to prove it a sacred right of white men to take negro slaves into the new Territo- ries. Can he possibly ... ...he new lands of the continent and keeping them from the settlement of free white laborers, who want the land to bring up their families upon; if they ... ... Douglas’s speech last night, reminded that this gov- ernment was made for white men; that he believed it was made for white men. Well, that is puttin... ...n leave one another alone, and do one another much good thereby. There are white men enough to marry all the white women, and enough black men to marr... ...anation of the people or not, Judge Douglas, with the Republicans and some Americans, had greatly the argument against the Admin- istration; and while... ... Judge Douglas’s friends furnished twenty , to add to which there were six Americans and ninety-four Republicans. I do not say that I am precisely acc... ...ne other point. Judge Douglas has a very affec- tionate leaning toward the Americans and Old Whigs. Last evening, in a sort of weeping tone, he descri... ...f with horrors about my disposition to make negroes per- fectly equal with white men in social and political relations. He did not stop to show that I... ... his construction of the Declaration last year, he said it only meant that Americans in America were equal to Englishmen in England. Then, when I poin...

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...ene, indifferent to fate, Thou sittest at the Western Gate; Thou seest the white seas fold their tents, Oh, warder of two continents; Thou drawest all... ...d not tell him more lies as I passed into a city of three hundred thousand white men. Think of it! Three hundred thou-sand white men and women gathere... ...nteered any sort of conveyance. I was absolutely alone in this big city of white folk. By instinct I sought re- freshment, and came upon a bar-room fu... ...ets. I asked for no names. It was enough that the pave- ments were full of white men and women, the streets clang- ing with traffic, and that the rest... ...s of “Little Bile Beans” all over it. Night fell over the Pacific, and the white sea-fog whipped through the streets, dimming the splendors of the ele... ...operly worked, an abundant harvest of queer tales; but at a gath- ering of Americans from the uttermost ends of their own continent, the tales are lar... ...ble creatures have to be guarded by the troopers to prevent the irreverent Americans from chipping the cones to pieces, or, worse still, making the ge...

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...William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave; his father was a white man who never acknowledged his paternity. Brown escaped slavery at about the age of 20. For many years he worked as a steam boatman and as a conductor for the Underground Railroad in Buffalo, New York. In 1843, he becam...

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...takable sign is that all the odds and ends are with us—Barnburners, Native Americans, Tyler men, disappointed office-seeking Locofocos, and the Lord k... ... different. I wish to do justice to all. I think of all those brave men as Americans, in whose proud fame, as an American, I too have a share. Many of... ...s, on the first Mon- day of April next, and receive the vote of every free white male citizen above the age of twenty-one years, having re- sided with... ...ogy and pay specific honors to the memory of the illustrious dead. But all Americans may show the grief which his death inspires, for his character an... ...which there is little or no disagreement amongst intelligent and patriotic Americans. Of these last are the War of 1812, the Mis- souri question, null... ...ake of perpetuating slavery, are begin- ning to assail and to ridicule the white man’s charter of freedom, the declaration that “all men are created f... ...fferson foresaw and in- tended—the happy home of teeming millions of free, white, prosperous people, and no slave among them. Thus, with the author of... ...t of this, and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of whites will not. Whether this feeling ac- cords with justice and sound judg... ...nsation to own- ers, would meet the approbation of a large majority of the white people of the District. But without the action of Congress they could...

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..., and others; not forgetting the celebrated popu- lar preacher, Mr. George Whitefield, of whom, though Dr. Johnson did not think very highly, it must ... ..., ‘I’ll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensi- ties.’ 1750: AET... ...rsed; or that GOD at first created two kinds of men, one black and another white; or that by the heat of the sun the skin is scorched, and so acquires... ...o a linnet. Cibber’s fa- miliar style, however, was better than that which Whitehead has assumed. Grand nonsense is in- supportable. Whitehead is but ... ...ich was literally true: ‘Boswell, in the year 1745, was a fine boy, wore a white cockade, and prayed for King James, till one of his uncles (General C... ... a man to their tables who has stood in the pillory.’ Johnson attacked the Americans with intem- perate vehemence of abuse. I said something in their ... ... said so harsh a thing. Johnson. Because, Sir, you made me angry about the Americans.’ Boswell. ‘But why did you not take your revenge directly?’ John... ...d to go to America; Johnson. ‘I hope he will go to America.’ Boswell. ‘The Americans don’t want oratory.’ Johnson. ‘But we can want Sheridan.’ On Mond...

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...ance, it was no better than a large toy-shop. When I saw an ancient, dusty white hat, with some peculiar append- age to it which was unintelligible, i... ...ge to it which was unintelligible, it was no more to me than any other old white hat. But had I been a man of science, what a tale it might have told!... ...m the building into the space of the portico. The President’s house—or the White House as it is now called all the world over—is a handsome mansion fi... ...Pennsylvania Avenue, which has now made another turn. Here in front of the White House is President’s Square, as it is generally called. The technical... ...en their character is once known. But the poor President cannot desert the White House. He must make the most of the residence which the nation has pr... ...choly place. This was partly owing to the despondent tone in which so many Americans then spoke of their own affairs. It was not that the Northern men... ...ke up arms to vindicate the sacred principle of liberty. Few Englishmen or Americans will deny that the source of government is the consent of the gov... ...n, or soon will be, exterminated—polished off the face of creation, as the Americans say—which fate must, I should say, in the long run attend all non... ...ir of substantial, civic dignity. It must, however, be remembered that the Americans live much more in towns than we do. All with us that are rich and...

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...the author traces Lincoln’s ancestral roots and recounts his birth in Kentucky, his youth in Indiana, his adult life in Illinois and his years in the White House. She also provides a good background on the causes and course of the American Civil War. Hamilton is not always historically precise. For example, she erroneously names Jefferson Davis as the Southern Democratic c...

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...my friends. From my garden I look straight upon the Channel, and there are white caps upon the water, and the iris and tama- risk are all asway with t... ...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...lf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics... ...waterplane in which I soared over Eastbourne this morning with Mr. Grahame-White was as steady as a mo- tor-car running on asphalt. Then we went on fr... ...and looking over I saw that there were no longer those periodic flashes of white foam. I was flying. And it was as still and steady as dreaming. I wat... ...town viewed from high up on the side of a great mountain. When Mr. Grahame-White told me we were going to plane down I will confess I tightened my hol... ...rill of those three descents one gets on the great mountain railway in the White City. There one gets a dis- agreeable quiver up one’s backbone from t... ... return in the autumn. Again, there is a stream of thousands of prosperous Americans to summer in Europe. Compared with any European country, the whol... ... development if the thing is to be achieved. Now that, I admit, is, as the Americans say, a large propo- sition. But we are living in a time of more a...

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...ed by impartial regard for the interest of all. Suppose the majority to be whites, the minority negroes, or vice versâ : is it likely that the majori... ...ents of M. de Tocqueville’s great work, and especially his estimate of the Americans. Almost all travelers are struck by the fact that every American ... ...oduce so marked a superiority of mental development in the lowest class of Americans, compared with the corresponding classes in England and elsewhere... ...ions have imprinted strongly on the American mind that any one man (with a white skin) is as good as any other; and it is felt that this false creed i... ...depen dent members of the confederation. The warlike proceed ings of the Americans in Mexico was purely exceptional, having been carried on principa... ...under the influence of the migratory propensity which prompts indi vidual Americans to possess themselves of unoccupied land, and stimulated, if by a... ...al purpose of extending slavery. There are few signs in the proceedings of Americans, nationally or individually, that the desire of territorial acqui...

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...in his native country, went back to Penn- sylvania. His own people and the Americans received him with tears of joy, as though he had been a father wh... ...s easy. The feet of the peasants are not bruised by wooden shoes; they eat white bread, are well clothed, and are not afraid of increasing their stock... ...m, that light is a composition of coloured rays, which, being united, form white colour. A single ray is by him divided into seven, which all fall upo... ...im divided into seven, which all fall upon a piece of linen, or a sheet of white paper, in their order, one above the other, and at unequal distances.... ...ere stood Ill-nature, like an ancient maid, Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed; With store of prayers for mornings, nights, and noons, Her h...

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...nion, are not always the same sort of public: in America, they are the whole white population; in England, chiefly the middle class. But they are alwa... ... some tolerable plan of action. What the French are in military affairs, the Americans are in every kind of civil business; let them be left without a... ...nd of civil business; let them be left without a govern ment, every body of Americans is able to improvise one, and to carry on that or any other pub...

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... the T ory prejudices of this writer, and his perversions of facts for the whitewashing of despots, and blackening of popular institu tions. These po... ...h always reminded me of the battle about the shield, one side of which was white and the other black. I marvelled at the blind rage with which the com... ...t a few, if only a few, known writers and speakers, standing firmly by the Americans in the time of their greatest difficulty, effected a partial dive... ...ese bitter feelings, and made Great Britain not altogether odi ous to the Americans. This duty having been performed, my principal occupa tion for t...

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...r e n t out rage, and when we are no longer feeling towards the Northern Americans as men feel towards those with whom they may be on the point of s... ...s loudly preached through the new Republic, that slavery, whether black or white, is a good in itself, and the proper condition of the working classes... ... in a few words, remind the reader what sort of a thing this is, which the white oligarchy of the South have banded themselves together to propagate a... ... their condition, if only as regards future probabilities. But even of the white population, it is questionable if there was in the beginning a majori... ...With no one of these propositions can I agree. Whether or not the Northern Americans will succeed in reconquering the South, I do not affect to forese... ... am far from saying that the present struggle, on the part of the Northern Americans, is wholly of this exalted character; that it has arrived at the ...

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... the State Department and the Defense Department 93 3.6 . . . and in the White House 98 3.7 . . . and in the Congress 102 4. RESPONSES TO AL QAE... ...on. At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, people began to line up for a White House tour. In Sarasota, Florida, President George W . Bush went for ... ...he Secret Ser- vice of an unknown aircraft heading in the direction of the White House.Amer- ican 77 was then 5 miles west-southwest of the Pentagon a... ...ash his airliner into symbols of the American Republic, the Capitol or the White House. He was defeated by the alerted, unarmed passengers of United 9... ...atest report.Aircraft VFR [visual flight rules] six miles southeast of the White House....Six,south- west. Six, southwest of the White House, deviatin... ...aration faxed early in 1998 to an Arabic-language newspaper in London. Few Americans had noticed it. The fax had been sent from thousands of miles awa... ... on these themes. 2 He claimed it was more important for Mus- lims to kill Americans than to kill other infidels.“It is far better for anyone to kill ... ...that the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans. Nothing could stop you except perhaps retalia- tion in kind.We d... ...wer:“We are certain that we shall—with the grace of Allah—prevail over the Americans. ” He went on to warn that “If the present injustice contin- ues ...

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...it forms a marked exception to the rule that so absolutely controls all of white blood, on this continent, in what relates to immigration and territor... ...that known in our own world, but more decided in tint, while two brilliant white spots, at its poles, are thought to be light reflected from the snows... ...but I am inclined to think that much of it is, and, as I am now writing to Americans, and of French people, I see no particular rea- son why the fact ... ...oman of the shop, and she cast a suspicious glance at Adrienne’s hand, the whiteness and size of which, however, satisfied her that the thimble had no... ...emned, without mercy. I confess I was surprised at hearing the size of the Americans sneered at by Pocket-Handkerchiefs, as I remember to have read th... ...er bank nor insurance company, and lived in a mod- est two-story house, in White street. It is true his practice sup- ported his family, and enabled h... ...it, in the way of society, Eudosia was permitted to continue the visits in White street, even after her own family were in full possession in Broadway... ...rue, also, madame; but such is not the rule, I think. Both the English and Americans seem to me handsomer, as a whole, than my own countrywomen.” Now,... ...chief in her. She de- termined to “make capital” out of the affair, as the Americans say, in shop-keeping slang. “What is the ‘yes,’ of which you spea...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants...

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... AIN HOUSE; I ken by the biggin’ o’t.” T wo recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, ... ...ter than John Bull, but he is tarred with the English stick. For Mr. Grant White the States are the New England States and nothing more. He wonders at... ...en un- bending to him as to a performing dog. But in the case of Mr. Grant White example were better than precept. Wyo- ming is, after all, more readi... ...tter than precept. Wyo- ming is, after all, more readily accessible to Mr. White than Boston to the English, and the New England self-sufficiency no b... ...ays widely, but always trenchantly. Many particulars that struck Mr. Grant White, a Yankee, struck me, a Scot, no less forcibly; he and I felt ourselv... ...guardship swing- ing to her anchor; behind, the old garden with the trees. Americans seek it already for the sake of Lovel and Oldbuck, who dined ther...

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... my friend Breintnal. I had also paper, parchment, chapmen’s books, etc. One Whitemash, a com positor I had known in London, an excellent workman, no... ...n creasing. These libraries have improved the general conver sation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent as most g... ...s been half consumed. In 1739 arrived among us from Ireland the Reverend Mr. Whitefield, who had made himself remarkable there as an itinerant preache... ...ry to preach Mohammedanism to us, he would find a pulpit at his service. Mr. Whitefield, in leaving us, went preaching all the way thro’ the colonies ... ... The sight of their miserable situation inspir’d the benevolent heart of Mr. Whitefield with the idea of building an Orphan House there, in which they... ...ely; but not now, for thee seems to be out of thy right senses.” Some of Mr. Whitefield’s enemies affected to suppose that he would apply these collec... ...h an opin ion of the validity of regular troops, and too mean a one of both Americans and Indians. George Croghan, our Indian interpreter, join’d him... ...hia, where the inhabitants could protect him. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first suspicion that our exalted ideas of the prowess of Br... ...ent state of affairs in America and discourse thereupon, he said to me: “You Americans have wrong ideas of the nature of your constitution; you conten...

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... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...leep overtook them as they lay; and when they awoke, “the east was already white” for their last morning in Japan. They seized a fisherman’s boat and ... ...en supper had been despatched and fairly washed down, we may suppose, with white Baigneux or red Beaune, which were favourite wines among the fellowsh... ...he was put to the question by water. He who had tossed off so many cups of white Baigneux or red Beaune, now drank water through linen folds, until hi... ...ed in, now by this one, now by the other. Poor people sing in church, with white faces and lamentable music: “Domine Jesu, parce populo tuo, dirige in... ...hese shouting citizens in scarlet cloaks, and beautiful virgins attired in white, he passed into the silence and soli- tude of a political prison.** *...