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...o crystallize. Before I came along she’d mixed chiefly with a lot of young artists and students, all doing nothing at all except talk about the things... ...had their tools of wood, their homes of wood, their gods and perhaps their records of wood. “A peat bog here, even a few feet of clay, might have pick... ...“You are more at home here still than in that new country of ours over the Atlantic. But it seems to me now that I do begin to remember building this ... ...ctive, interesting men, rising politicians, university men of distinction, artists and writers even, men of science, men—there are still such men— act... ...that particular mo- ment. Two gentlemen were coming towards her across the Atlantic whose minds, it chanced, were very busily occupied by her affairs.... ...arly morn- ing now, even when he was in the strong and soothing air of mid-Atlantic, and thinking of V .V . because she had a way of coming into his m...

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...of the Mississippi – Traces of the Revolutions of the Globe – Shore of the Atlantic Ocean where the English Colonies were founded -Difference in the a... ...reme to the other; the Alleghany ridge takes the form of the shores of the Atlantic Ocean; the other is parallel with the Pacific. The space which lie... ...stern side of the Alleghanies, between the base of these mountains and the Atlantic Ocean, there lies a long ridge of rocks and sand, which the sea ap... ...of their forefa- thers in studying the earliest historical and legislative records of New England. They exercised the rights of sovereignty; they name... ...uniary penalty, a whipping, or marriage * on the misdemeanants; and if the records of the old courts of New Haven may be believed, prosecutions of thi... ...atch the streets, and to forward the execution of the laws; the town-clerk records all the town votes, orders, grants, births, deaths, and marriages; ... ...iences made less progress than in the United States; and in few have great artists, fine poets, or celebrated writers been more rare. Many Europe- ans... ...ndred habits. Amongst this people they found distinguished men of science, artists of skill, writers of eminence, and they were enabled to enjoy the t... ...t in the useful arts then takes place in the fine arts; the productions of artists are more numerous, but the merit of each produc- tion is diminished...

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...ut I believe the account is transcribed pretty literally from the judicial records. Anyhow, it’s queer reading. And there’s a Herve de Lanrivain mixed... ... of the room. 83 Wharton THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD HAND as first published in Atlantic Monthly, August 1904 I “Above all,” the letter ended, “don’t leave... ... sir—do you not feel the dampness? Y ou are an artist, are you not? And to artists it is permitted to cover the head when they are engaged in the stud... ...y in the appearance of his gaunt dwelling. Who could tell amid what tragic records of domestic tyranny and fluttering broken pur- poses the little dra...

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...rethren will fly to meet and welcome. Now, therefore, judge if our Patriot Artists are busy; tak- ing deep counsel how to make the Scene worthy of a l... ...a stupendous new Coach built, of the kind named Berline; done by the first artists; according to a model: they bring it home to him, in Choiseul’s pre... ...comfort, ye men of Nantes: Bootes and the steady Bear are turning; ancient Atlantic still sends his brine, loud-billowing, up your Loire- stream; bran... ...e fatallest issue! What L’Escuyer’s word of admonition might be no History records; but the answer to it was a shrieking howl from the Aristocrat Papa... ... now, in their red wool caps, tug sorrowfully at the oar; looking into the Atlantic brine, which reflects only their own sorrowful shaggy faces; and s... ...essive. (Roederer, Chronique de Cinquante Jours: Recit de Petion. Townhall Records, &c. (in Hist. Parl. xvi. 399-466.) Indeed, his Majesty’s reception...

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...d—were steadiness and diligence. He was conventionally honest, he kept his records of buyers and sellers complete, he had experience with leases and t... ...to chumminess with the arts. He called on the famous actors and vaudeville artists when they came to town, gave them cigars, addressed them by their f... ...f course Zilla keeps rooting for a nice expensive vacation in New York and Atlantic City, with the bright lights and the bootlegged cocktails and a bu... ...ift-books”—large, expensive editions of fairy-tales illustrated by English artists and as yet un- read by any Babbitt save Tinka. In a corner by the f... .... The hard briskness of the phonograph contented them; their store of jazz records made them feel wealthy and cultured; and all they knew of creating ... ...es, gosh, we got to have some boob for au- dience, when a bunch of hot-air artists like Frink and Littlefield get going.” “Well, dear—I meant to speak... ...o country has anything like our number of phonographs, with not only dance records and comic but also the best operas, such as Verdi, rendered by the ...

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... us was in twilight and vague, but westward the vast gray stretches of the Atlantic shone like molten silver under the receding day. I think I recogni... ...ons of our recording instru- ments his communication comes and goes in our records in an extremely fitful manner; it becomes blurred; it “fades out” i... ...in work which have distinguished the career of man. There are no books, no records of any sort, no libraries or inscriptions. All knowledge is stored ... ..., were thinkers and some officials; some hunted, some were mechanics, some artists, some toilers. ‘But all rule,’ I said. “‘And have they not differen...

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... aboard the brig Beelzebub or the barque Bowie-knife, the first officer did half the damage to cotton that he does to men, there would presently arise... ..., be hinted to those who are put in authority over us. Any animated description of a modern battle, any private soldier’s letter published in the news... ...opolis. Firstly, that he have his boots cleaned. Secondly, that he eat a penny ice. Thirdly, that he get himself photographed. Then do I speculate, Wh... ...ying by, deputing steam and smoke for the time being to the Tea-kettles. I afterwards learned that a Despatch was sent home by the captain before he s... ...heatrical arrondissement of the department of the North,’ invited French-Flemish mankind to come and par- take of the intellectual banquet provided by... ...he pillow, under the sofa and under the washing-stand, under the ship and under the sea, seeming to rise from the founda- tions under the earth with e... ...beginning with the words: ‘I give and be- queath.’ Will it seem exaggerative to state my belief that the most honest, the most modest, and the least v...

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..., in like manner, search as we will in these multi-form innumerable French Records, darkness too frequently covers, or sheer distraction bewilders. On... ...ey-species. Man-midwives, as Levasseur of the Sarthe, are not wanting. Nor Artists: gross David, with the swoln cheek, has long painted, with ge- nius... ...irty-eight years four months and twenty-eight days. (Newspapers, Municipal Records, &c. &c. (in Hist. Parl. xxiii. 298-349) Deux Amis (ix. 369-373), M... ...to the greasy belly of this Scotch skipper’s Merchant-ves- sel, unfruitful Atlantic raving round. They are for Bourdeaux, if peradventure hope yet lin... ...g back over Cannibalism, through Purchas’s Pilgrims and all early and late Records, will perhaps find no terrestrial Cannibalism of a sort on the whol...

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...pillar, not uncouthly hewn, But which neglect is hastening to destroy, Records Ravenna’s carnage on its face, While weeds and ordure rankle ro... ...mirari’ Was what he call’d the ‘Art of Happiness;’ An art on which the artists greatly vary, And have not yet attain’d to much success. Ho... ... and now Still older mansion; of a rich and rare Mix’d Gothic, such as artists all allow Few specimens yet left us can compare Withal: it ... ...or Gray Highlands, That bring Lochaber back to eyes that roam O’er far Atlantic continents or islands, The calentures of music which o’ercome ... ...anto Sixteen” 330 But as Lord Henry was a connoisseur,— The friend of artists, if not arts,—the owner, With motives the most classical and pu...

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...ut if your brain is tired and weak, then so soon as you lose faith in your records, your mind is glad to let them go. When you see these lost identity... ...s, held his attention; and then his eyes went westward to the dark rolling Atlantic across which, as the edge of the night was drawn like a curtain, m... ...fact of men. This God—this God here, that you want to worship, is a God of artists and poets—of elegant poets, a God of bric-a- brac, a God of choice ...

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...ere shut up at home doing nothing. And in this way they became excel- lent artists in common, necessary things; bedsteads, chairs, and tables, and suc... ...r, and of the school of Pythagoras, in a book of his dedicated to Antenor, records that Pythagoras was made a freeman of Rome. Again, Numa gave to one... ... laws. The several mocks that were put upon him for refusing the power, he records in these words,— Solon surely was a dreamer, and a man of simple mi... ...ned of all the priests; from whom, as Plato says, getting knowledge of the Atlantic story, he put it into a poem, and proposed to bring it to the know... ...e wars should be maintained at the public charge; this Heraclides Ponticus records, and that Pisistratus followed Solon’s example in this, who had dec... ...Solon, having begun the great work in verse, the his- tory or fable of the Atlantic Island, which he had learned from the wise men in Sais, and though... ... men’s delights, are also mine. Plato, willing to improve the story of the Atlantic Island, as if it were a fair estate that wanted an heir and came w... ...is charge, and he had, as we have said already, the oversight over all the artists and work- men, through Pericles’s friendship for him; and this, ind... ...mbine? For as the poetry of Antimachus, and the painting of Dionysius, the artists of Colophon, though full of force and vigor, yet appeared to be str...

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...d world was so upon you that you faced not merely Westminster, but the icy Atlantic and America, which one could yet fancy was a land of Englishmen—En... ...chelsea, beating T aper by nine votes, and there had been a new cut in the Atlantic passenger rates. He was expected to be interested and excited by t... ...loak. And this April night air had a knife edge. Early ice coming down the Atlantic perhaps. It was wonderful to be here on the top of the round world... ...t very good school, some scrappy reading, the vague discussions of village artists, and the draped and decorated novelties of the ‘advanced.’ It all w... ...se things were illegali- ties that might some day be legal; there were the records of loans and hidden transactions that might at any time put all the...

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...s country’s welfare and advancement, these, with 84 One of Our Conquerors records, items, anticipations, of the manlier sports to deco- rate, were hi... ...red portable; thus we pass into the conceptions of our fel- lows, into the records, down to posterity. Anecdotes of England’s happiest man were relate... ...c; though it is to be feared, that our part in it will not encourage a Cis-Atlantic bard. T o America the honours from beginning to end belong. So, th... ... to female char- acter. That likewise may be the hypocrite’s mask. Popular artists, intent to gratify the national taste for ef- fects called realisti... ...have come.’ The voice was articu- late, thinner than the telephonic, trans-Atlantic by deep-sea cable. Victor answered: ‘We have.’ Another minute must...

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... may be prejudiced, but I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent p... ...pse of bad carbon prints of bad and famous pictures, shelves of phonograph records and camera films, wooden toys, and in the midst an anxious small wo... ... Lincoln, to the gaiety of settlers dancing in a saw-mill. She read in the records of the Minnesota Territorial Pio- neers that only sixty years ago, ... ...hey were a special caste, neither above nor below the Haydocks, but apart, artists and adventurers. The night telegraph-operator at the railroad stati... ...Ander- son, Henry Mencken, and all the other subversive phi- losophers and artists whom women were consulting ev- erywhere, in batik-curtained studios... ...-cream soda to the same young woman with the same magazines and phonograph records under her arm. Not till he had climbed to his office and found anot... ...She urged, “What if you do have to go back? Most of us do! We can’t all be artists—myself, for instance. We have to darn socks, and yet we’re not cont...

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...nded a little above the mouth of the river Baetis, where it falls into the Atlantic sea, and gives the name to that part of Spain. Here he met with se... ...e to that part of Spain. Here he met with seamen recently arrived from the Atlantic islands, two in number, divided from one another only by a narrow ... ...atium in Rome, who at present, when he is driven out to the borders of the Atlantic sea, sets bounds to our kingdoms in the east, and threatens us wit... ...he name of Agesilaus’s daugh- ter, nor of Epaminondas’s mother. But in the records of Laconia, we ourselves found his wife’s name to have been Cleora,... ...rtainments, to carry on which he had a supply of three thousand actors and artists, newly ar- rived out of Greece. But they were soon interrupted by H... ... of the design might outdo the expense, his wishes turned, above all other artists, to Stasicrates, because he al- ways promised something very bold, ... ...e treasury, people who had long practice and familiarity in all the public records and the laws, and, when new magistrates came in year by year, so ig... ...ng the people, went, in the absence of Clodius, and by force took away the records of his tribuneship, which had been laid up in the capitol. Hereupon... ...a trial of skill between nature and fortune, as there is sometimes between artists, it would be hard to judge, whether that succeeded best in making t...

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...e in which you have read my books. I wish it were in my power to cross the Atlantic, for you assuredly would be the first whom it would be my happines... ...om sailors, who make so much ado about a fourteen-days’ passage across the Atlantic; who so pathetically relate the privations and hardships of the se... ...es in his own land. Fanning, a Yankee mariner of some reputation, likewise records his lively impressions of the physi- cal appearance of these people... ...f a song tattooed upon his chest, and a variety of spirited cuts by native artists in other parts of his body. He sported a fishing rod in his hand, a...

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... And Wisdom travels not in vain The plunging spaces of the poles. The wild Atlantic’s weltering gloom, Earth-clasping seas of North and South, The Bal... ...g for more, And the worshipped small body had aims. A good little idol, as records attest, When they tell of him lightly appeased in a scream By sweet... ...nce of the Gods? Her faith was on her battle-roll of names Sheathed in the records of old war; with dance And song she thrilled her warriors and her d... ... struck on sight, when quick with dews, Like music of the very Muse. Great artists pass our single sense; We hear in seeing, strung to tense; Then hap...

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...tion has been perfectly well known to my pub- lishers on both sides of the Atlantic, that no consideration on earth would induce me to write one. But ... ...ve any record, a murderer and a vagabond, so we never fail to meet, in the records of all old families, with innumerable repeti- 7 Charles Dickens ti... ...w long had the fortunate guard of the Light Salisbury been in crossing the Atlantic; at what time of the year had he sailed; what was the name of the ... ...elieved, America quite monopolises the commodity—if that peculiarly trans- atlantic article be supposed to include a benevolent love of all mankind, c... ...diately dissolved!’ Down with it! Away with it! Don’t hear of it! Burn its records! Pull the room down! Blot it out of human memory! ‘But, my fellow-c... ...d not half pretty enough; though, as hath been mentioned in its place, the artists always made those sketches beautiful, and he had drawn at least a s... ...d the existence of an individual wholly unpar- alleled in the biographical records of amiable persons, but must you now, even now, when he has made hi...

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... and of entreating your acceptance of this trifling present. The ingenious artists who work in silver do not always, I find, keep their promises, even... ...ve you: America and England, and may they never have any division but the Atlantic between them. SPEECH: FEBRUARY 7, 1842. GENTLEMEN,—To say that I t... ...UARY 6, 1853. On Thursday, January 6, 1853, at the rooms of the Society of Artists, in T emple Row, Birmingham, a large company assembled to witness t... ...nt, I can never forget. SPEECH: LONDON, MARCH 29, 1862. At a Dinner of the Artists’ General Benevolent Institution, the following Address was delivere... ... your feelings. But I have no such chance. Just as a nation is happy whose records are barren, so is a society fortunate that has no history—and its p... ...el. Let it, putting a girdle round the earth, comprehend both sides of the Atlantic at once in this moment, and say, as Tiny Tim observes, “God bless ... ...ime it has been perfectly well known to my publishers on both sides of the Atlantic that I positively declared that no consideration on earth should i...

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...ventures in which only choice souls are ever involved. And Mr. Henry James records them with a fearless and insistent fidelity to the peripeties of th... ..., however, as un- derstood by Herr Ballin of Hamburg, the Machiavel of the Atlantic. It is a book of exploration and dis- covery—not, however, as conc... ...ls to the lot of a true artist. At the same time, on the other side of the Atlantic, another man wrote of the sea with true artistic in- stinct. He is... ...g. He looks upon them lovingly, for the land is “very dear to him,” and he records his cherished impressions so that the forest, the great flood, the ... ...value—be- sides being impracticable. Yes, indeed. Art has served Religion; artists have found the most exalted inspiration in Christianity; but the li... ... horizon, not so much for something to do that would count for good in the records of the earth, as simply for something good to get. He gazes upon th... ...le,” and pro- ceeded to give me the history of the family’s cross- ing the Atlantic in a White Star liner. They remained in England just the time nece... ...t belong to me. It may be found in the note-books of one of the great- est artists that ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci. It has a simplicity and a truth...

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... the antique to justify it. 5 Dead poets, philosophs, priests, Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since, Language shapers on other sho... ...ss—see, the electric telegraph stretching across the continent, See, through Atlantica’s depths pulses American Europe reaching, pulses of Europe duly... ...erica, The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 114 The babes... ...d together with wrist chains and ankle chains, I hear the Hebrew reading his records and psalms, I hear the rhythmic myths of the Greeks, and the stro... ...and Antarctic icebergs, I see the superior oceans and the inferior ones, the Atlantic and Pacific, the sea of Mexico, the Brazilian sea, and the sea o... ...ee the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of the earth. I see the places of the sagas, I see pine trees and... ...e porpoise hunters, I see the whale crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic, I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys, of Switzerland—I... ...e Egyptians, I see the pyramids and obelisks. I look on chisell’d histories, records of conquering kings, dynasties, cut in slabs of sand stone, or on... ...hat he has follow’d the sea, And the authors take him for an author, and the artists for an artist, And the laborers perceive he could labor with them...

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... first Cunarder, retailing all the dis- comfort and misery of crossing the Atlantic by steamship, could have shared Mr. Holt’s experience. 16 An Engl... ...nts of migra- tion. There is, for example, that flow to and fro across the Atlantic of labourers from the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hund... ...sthetic degradation of the Victorian period? Will a great constellation of artists redeem the ambitious sentimentalities and genteel skilfulness that ... ...er, that we have all followed the details of this great catastrophe in the Atlantic with such intense solici- tude. It was one of those accidents that... ...ial Life flowed on in its immemorial fashion, using no letters, needing no records, leaving no history. Then, a little minority , bulking disproportio... ... ever ventured to think they would. Nor will the state control writers and artists, for example, nor the stage—though it may build and own theatres—th... ...ve mind organised as a branch of the civil service, with authors, critics, artists, scientific investigators appointed in a phrensy of wire-pull- ing—... ...ease to be true, they have a power of veracity quite beyond that of actual records. Every novel carries its own justification and its own condemnation... ...ut suspect, in the mysterious activities that underlie life, some trade in records for these distinguished gramophones, and it is a trade conducted up...

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...tline of his his- tory, as is oftentimes to be gathered from the penurious records of a grave-stone. That he lived, and that he died, and that he was ... ...ello and Macbeth; to him from whose golden urns the nations beyond the far Atlantic, the multitude of the isles, and the generations unborn in Austral... ...his name and personal responsibility, (M Simond, now an American citizen,) records the following abominable scene as one of no uncommon occurrence. A ... ...Mr. Bridges at Falham, which, speak- ing of the original Homer, distinctly records the knowledge which he had of his own “imperfectness in the languag... ...ome knowl- edge. The Goethes were able to forward his views amongst German artists; whilst, on the other hand, they were pleased to have thus an oppor...

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...erything in this sin-polluted register was in manuscript; but at night the records of each day were regularly transferred to a printed journal, enlarg... ...on of the public! Did it settle the winds? Did it settle the motion of the Atlantic? Wilder, fiercer, and louder grew the cry against the wretched acc... ...ered eternally, that safety there was none for her, until she had laid the Atlantic between herself and St. Sebastian’s. Life was to be for her a Bay ... ...a Parisian opera-glass, gives it as his opin- ion—that, because Kate first records her prayer on this occa- sion, therefore, now first of all she pray... ...haps it may be said more broadly, none in all history, from its earli- est records, less generally known, or more striking to the imagination, than th... ...ight, or moonlight, ocean of Jacob Boehmen;* he had cruised over the broad Atlantic of Kant and Schelling, of Fichte and Oken. Where is the man who sh... ...open to his own snare by refusing to pay for admission. Spies must be poor artists who proceed thus. Upon which Coleridge remarked—‘That, before the g... ...hom *But judge not, reader, of French skill by the attempts of fourth-rate artists; and understand me to speak with respect of this skill, not as it i...

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...tudents sat, as I was saying, in the corridor, under the mural tablet that records the virtues of Macbean, the former secretary . We would often smile... ..., as to-day the deep-sea fishers meet off the banks in the solitude of the Atlantic; and in the one as in the other case rough habits and fist-law wer... ...in of the old divine. CHAPTER VIII MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET THOSE WHO TRY to be artists use, time after time, the matter of their recollections, setting an... ...Fifteen miles away to seaward, a certain black rock stood environed by the Atlantic rollers, the outpost of the Torran reefs. Here was a tower to be b... ...ender would steam out of the bay. Over fifteen sea-miles of the great blue Atlantic rollers she ploughed her way, trailing at her tail a 56 Robert Lo...

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...en different accounts of dust having fallen on vessels when far out in the Atlantic. From the direction of the wind whenever it has fallen, and from i... ...slightly phosphores- cent in the dark. ST. PAUL’S ROCKS. — In crossing the Atlantic we hove-to during the morning of February 16th, close to the islan... ...y small islands, lying far from any continent, in the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans, with the exception of the Seychelles and this little point... ...are that the former inhabitants have left behind them any more perma- nent records than these insignificant piles on the sum- mit of the Sierra de las... ...ident. When thus em- ployed, their forms resemble the symbol by which many artists represent marine birds. Their tails are much used in steering their... ...forcibly convey to my mind the ide of a convulsion, of which in historical records we might i vain seek for any counterpart: yet the progress of knowl... ...c would be the car- nage! England would at once be bankrupt; all pa- pers, records, and accounts would from that moment be lost. Government being unab...

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...the slenderer, slower intercommunication, and, above all, the insufficient records of human communities; but the time has come now—or, at the worst, i... ...heir range. Certain things that have been rather well treated by poets and artists (for the most part dead and of Academic standing) they regard as Na... ...utely, but abstract and express again what they have seen. Such people are artists—a different kind of people from school- masters altogether. Into al... ..., spends days watching his school matches, and thumbs and muddles over the records of county cricket to an amazing extent. But these things are indeed... ...ol that stand by themselves and in contrast with anything one finds in the records of ancient and oriental schools, as a very inte- gral part of what ... ... over there. The great mass of the present generation on both sides of the Atlantic takes hardly any interest in this issue at all. It is as if the qu... ...e advanced study of economics and political science. From this course also artists of various sorts would escape through the avenue of Section ii. whi...

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...thundering applause before huge audiences in England, and the more private records of the methods by which the American War Loans were raised, were so... ...some of them were rapidly promoted, and found themselves actually becoming artists in wax, with a growing relish for it, like Napoleon and all the oth... ...r boys were the bravest of the brave. Suddenly there came the news that an Atlantic liner, the Lusitania, had been torpedoed, and that several well-kn... ...eryone in the greenroom waiting for our turns. I thought he was one of the artists: he looked so splendid. But he was only one of the committee. I hap...

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...s sunk decrepit, so much that was not is begin- ning to be!—Borne over the Atlantic, to the closing ear of Louis, King by the Grace of God, what sound... ...can as little sway it as the drift-log sways the wind-tossed moon- stirred Atlantic. “What have I done to be so loved?” he 24 The French Revolution:... ...le Chapter 1.2.V. Astraea Redux without Cash. Observe, however, beyond the Atlantic, has not the new day verily dawned! Democracy, as we said, is born... ...d off to Troyes in Cham- pagne; and nothing left but a few mute Keepers of records; the Demosthenic thunder become extinct, the martyrs of liberty cle... ...ont, to have these late obnoxious Arretes and protests ‘expunged’ from the Records, are received in the most marked manner. Monsieur, who is thought t... ...n Astolpho could have ridden! In the Commons Deputies there are Merchants, Artists, Men of Letters; three hundred and seventy-four Lawyers; (Bouille, ...

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... itself with know- ing that all things go well. Vast spaces of nature, the Atlantic Ocean, the South Sea; long intervals of time, years, centuries, ar... ... does not judge them; he lets them judge them- selves and merely reads and records their own verdict. By virtue of this inevitable nature, private wil... ...upon, and to make that for the time the deputy of the world. These are the artists, the orators, the lead- ers of society. The power to detach and to ... ...ch the work evinced in the artist, and its high- est effect is to make new artists. Already History is old enough to witness the old age and disappear... ...ks obey? When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England and arriving at its ports with the pun... ...the due effect. Too feeble fall the impressions of nature on us to make us artists. Every touch should thrill. Every man should be so much an art- ist... ...ed trade, which makes the capes of the Southern Ocean his wharves, and the Atlantic Sea his familiar port, centres in his brain only; and nobody in th...

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...as sunk decrepit, so much that was not is beginning to be!— Borne over the Atlantic, to the closing ear of Louis, King by the Grace of God, what sound... ... can as little sway it as the drift-log sways the wind-tossed moon-stirred Atlantic. “What have I done to be so loved?” he said then. He may say now: ... ...n. Chapter 1.2.V. Astraea Redux without Cash. Observe, however, beyond the Atlantic, has not the new day verily dawned! Democracy, as we said, is born... ...led off to Troyes in Champagne; and nothing left but a few mute Keepers of records; the Demosthenic thunder become extinct, the martyrs of liberty cle... ...ont, to have these late obnoxious Arretes and protests ‘expunged’ from the Records, are received in the most marked manner. Monsieur, who is thought t... ...n Astolpho could have ridden! In the Commons Deputies there are Merchants, Artists, Men of Letters; three hundred and seventy-four Lawyers; (Bouille, ... ...rethren will fly to meet and welcome. Now, therefore, judge if our Patriot Artists are busy; taking deep counsel how to make the Scene worthy of a loo... ...e fatallest issue! What L’Escuyer’s word of admonition might be no History records; but the answer to it was a shriek- ing howl from the Aristocrat Pa... ...ey-species. Man-midwives, as Levasseur of the Sarthe, are not wanting. Nor Artists: gross David, with the swoln cheek, has long painted, with genius i...

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...inspiring mountain scenery of the place. “In the afternoons, nowadays,” he records, shortly before beginning the work, “this valley in which I dwell s... ... eccentric and melancholy turn of mind, and greatly given to rummaging old records and hearkening to old traditions, he had brought himself, it is ave... ...many on the other, — with her antique portraits, pedigrees, coats of arms, records and traditions, and her claim, as joint heiress, to that princely t... ...uire a look which an artist (if he have anything like the compla- cency of artists nowadays) would never dream of presenting to a patron as his own ch... ...ish branch of the family, —with which the elder stock, on this side of the Atlantic, had held little or no intercourse for the last two centuries,—thi... ...d grace of which had almost transcended the skill of the most exquisite of artists. It could the more adequately be known that the soul of the man mus...

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...eign ones, nor paint the outrages inseparable from it. The proofs are in the records of each successive Administration of our Government, and the crue... ...temper ate zone, and extending through many degrees of lati tude along the Atlantic, the United States enjoy all the varieties of climate, and every... ...from me. Our commerce had been in a great mea sure driven from the sea, our Atlantic and inland fron tiers were invaded in almost every part; the wa... ...minion of man over physical nature has been extended by the invention of our artists. Liberty and law have marched hand in hand. All the purposes of h... ...UGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 138 ported from the Atlantic States to meet and to repel the invader? In the event of a war w...

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...t Blanc in the Rue d’Odessa, near the Gare Montparnasse, where a number of artists were in the habit of dining; and from then on I dined there every n... ...nown to have lived during the eleventh century, mentions the Crusades, and records events which occurred in the year of Our Lord 1264. It was some tim... ...d of those sweet domestic saints who lighten here and there the passionate records of the Golden Book. ‘C’est tellement intime ici,’ smiled Dr Porhoë... ... There was delight in the smell of the sea and in the freedom of the great Atlantic. And then he thought of the green lanes and of the waste places wi...

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...ligible and therefore possibly suggestive to the Philistine. Every man who records his illusions is provid- ing data for the genuinely scientific psyc... ... artist-philosopher, and that the artist-philosophers are the only sort of artists I take quite seriously, will be no news to you. Even Plato and Bosw... ...e no winners in the Times? TANNER. Enry don’t old with bettin, Tavy. Motor records are his weakness. What’s the latest? STRAKER. Paris to Biskra at fo... ... to cultivate himself in a first rate manner before ventur- ing across the Atlantic. To this culture he finds English people either totally indifferen...

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...nimals to put in the horse? It is vain to ask, though it is notorious that artists combine without bickering to do these things; and one puts his name... ... Which the Bride from Foreign Parts Is Given a T aste of Old England XVII. Records a Shadow Contest Close on the Foregoing XVIII. Down Whitechapel W a... ...eason of the year and the early, is likely to draw the warm winds from the Atlantic over Cornish Land’s End and Lizard. Quite by chance of things, Car... ...summately, Philoso- phy is bidden fly; she is a foreign bird. CHAPTER XVII RECORDS A SHADOW CONTEST CLOSE ON THE FOREGOING KIT INES COCKED AN EYE at M... ...eredith CHAPTER XXIX CARINTHIA IN WALES AN AUGUST OF GALES and rains drove Atlantic air over the Welsh highlands. Carinthia’s old father had impressed... ...e has never such splendid reach as ani- mation—I mean, in the living face. Artists prefer repose. Only Nature can express the uttermost beauty with he... ...ir strings of followers headed over the fevered and benighted town, as the records of the period attest, windpiping these and similar Solan notes from...

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...ssional propriety. I may tell his thousands of readers on your side of the Atlantic that there breathes no man of letters more inspired by kindness an... ...ere your name appears. It is called ‘Fontainebleau: Village Communities of Artists,’ and the signature of R. L. Stevenson will be found annexed Please... ... please keep or return. As for not giving a reduction, what are we? Are we artists or city men? Why do we sneer at stock-brokers? O nary; I will not t... ...lures; but when you actu- ally address him, and bring the two statures and records to confrontation, dismay is the result. By mere continuance of year...

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...elf did so, with a view to accounts; but he should advise all professional records to be destroyed. It may be feared that the two executors did not re... ...latory tone. “I am afraid poor Joe did live with a very odd set of people— artists, and all that kind of thing. I am sure I don’t blame her, poor thin... ...Janet had plunged into a regular conversation about exhibitions, pictures, artists, concerts, lectures, &c., before her mother came back, talking with... ... dim corner of the gallery, and its place supplied from the brushes of the artists whom Caroline viewed with loving respect; the drawing-room was reno... ... were descriptions of scenery, fragmentary notes of his- tory and science, records more or less veracious or absurd of personal adventures, and conver... ...t aside her remonstrances. It was not the air of a person who had lost the records of the secret and was afraid to confess, though it was possible she... ...or her to stop him.” While that message was rushing on its way beneath the Atlantic it was the early morning of the ebb tide of the fever, and the pat...

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...refore, frequently makes no figure in those public registers, of which the records are sometimes pub- 76 The Wealth of Nations lished with so much pa... ...very considerably since the time of Edward III. There are many au- thentic records which demonstrate that, during the reign of that prince (towards th... ...e allowed. 197 Adam Smith I have not been able to find any such authentic records concern- ing the price of raw hides in ancient times. Wool was comm... ...ew denomination, they are called bounties. Premiums given by the public to artists and manufacturers, who excel in their particular occupations, are n... ...ices and opinions of the people, both on this and on the other side of the Atlantic. We on this side the water are afraid lest the multitude of Ameri-... ...a very small part of the world (that part of Europe which is washed by the Atlantic ocean, and the countries which lie round the Bal- tic and Mediterr... ...s concemant les Droits, etc. tom. iii. p. 87.} The recompence of ingenious artists, and of men of liberal pro- fessions, I have endeavoured to show in... ...the imagination that they possessed a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire, however, has hitherto ex- isted in imagination only....

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..., according to the fashion that was then in request. I find by the ancient records or pancarts, to be seen in the chamber of accounts, or court of the... ...r Street he held dispute against all the regents or fel- lows of colleges, artists or masters of arts, and orators, and did so gallantly that he overt... ...that Pantagruel had said well, and what was right, in affirming that these records, bills of inquest, replies, rejoin- ders, exceptions, depositions, ... ...tence or judgment given thereupon, which is to be seen in the registry and records within the clerk’s office of this house. And, therefore, my lord, I... ...t; how he passed over the Caspian mountains, and how he sailed through the Atlantic sea, de- feated the Cannibals, and conquered the isles of Pearls; ... ...ture of the dream, and that as well to the party dreamer as to others. The Atlantic people, and those that inhabit the (is)land of Thasos, one of the ... ... Pantagruelion, the Arc- tic people looked upon the Antarctic, scoured the Atlantic Ocean, passed the tropics, pushed through the torrid zone, measure...

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... nine- teen, and the daughter fourteen, as near as we can guess— impartial records of young ladies’ ages being, before the pass- ing of the new act, n... ...g the dark shade of sadness on one angel’s face? No. ‘They sent abroad, to artists of great celebrity in those times, and having obtained the church’s... ...re a uniform coat to be painted in, and send it here in a carpet bag. Some artists,’ said Miss La Creevy, ‘keep a red coat, and charge seven-and-sixpe... ...ntry manager and actor of no ordinary pre- tensions, is about to cross the Atlantic on a histrionic expedi- tion. Crummles is to be accompanied, we he...