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...ounger than he. Hermione was having a discussion with the bridegroom about nationality. ‘No,’ she said, ‘I think that the appeal to patriotism is a mi... ...r discussion. ‘You couldn’t call a race a business concern, could you?—and nationality roughly corresponds to race, I think. I think it is meant to.’ ... ...gely but politely and evenly inimical. ‘Do you think race corresponds with nationality?’ she asked musingly, with expressionless indecision. Birkin kn... ...brought out on the grass, the party left the table and sat about in lounge chairs, in the shade or in the sunshine as they wished. Fraulein departed i... ..., handsome young Englishman, Alexander tall and the handsome politi- cian, democratic and lucid, Hermione strange like a long Cassandra, and the women... ...highest of flowers, hence its charm.’ ‘No,’ she cried, ‘no—never. It isn’t democratic.’ ‘No,’ he admitted. ‘It’s the golden mob of the proletariat, su... ...ink to a conclusion, Gerald jumped to a conclusion. He abandoned the whole democratic-equal- ity problem as a problem of silliness. What mattered was ... ...nings—you don’t mind taking from me what you have taken from the Education Committee, do you? I don’t want you to be a loser.’ ‘Oh,’ said Gudrun, ‘if ... ...e rat. 359 ‘Don’t spoil him,’ said the young woman. ‘He’s not used to arm-chairs, ‘e isn’t. The young man turned away, and said, with averted grin: ‘...

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...me. They seemed less real and living than the wonder of the sweet-smelling chairs, the birds, and the elegant dogs. Richest of treats, a monkey was in... ...et- mirror in his hand. I thank him from my soul for not culti- vating the national cat’s whisker. None can imagine what I suffer from the oppressive ... ...tocracy, squirearchy, and merchants. ‘Here it is not so,’ he said; ‘and no democratic rageings will make it so. Rank, with us, is a principle. I suppo... ...parks on the unlit logwood pile. My father and Mr. Peterborough kept their chairs. There was, I felt with relief, no plot, for nothing had been defini... ...ncesses in England. ‘Oh! but,’ said she, ‘you are having a—shall I call it—national revenge on them? “I will take one of your princesses,” says you; a... ...ring,’ the squire bawled. ‘La! squire,’ said she, ‘why, don’t you know the National Anthem?’ ‘National Anthem, ma’am! and a fellow, a velvet-tongued— ... ...d decency, and a social safeguard, as well as an amusement. It comprised a Committee of Investigation, and a Court of Appeal; its object was to arraig... ...d as to passages between my fa- ther and the newspapers, my father and the committee of his Club, preserving sufficient consideration for me to avoid ... ....’ ‘You swear to me you don’t know the man, woman, or 469 George Meredith committee, who gave you that sum?’ ‘I do not know, Mr. Beltham. In an extra...

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...ay they became excel- lent artists in common, necessary things; bedsteads, chairs, and tables, and such like staple utensils in a family, were admirab... ... farther use of the priests, and that was to give people directions in the national usages at funeral rites. 114 V olume One Numa taught them to rega... ...to make great innovations. The frame of govern- ment which Numa formed was democratic and popular to 128 V olume One the last extreme, goldsmiths and... ...rwise, you must make use of others to intercede for you, for it is not the national cus- tom here for the king to give audience to anyone that doth no... ...her answers, particu- larly that there had been a neglect of some of their national rites relating to the Latin feasts; but the Alban water the oracle... ...elves, as it were, for their coun- try, sat themselves down in their ivory chairs in the forum, and in that posture expected the event. On the third d... ...t with the many and poor, contrary to his natural bent, which was far from democratical; but, most likely, fearing he might fall under suspicion of ai... ... the charge when Cimon was tried for his life; for Pericles was one of the committee appointed by the commons to plead against him. And when Elpinice ... ... privately at a house in Plataea, and conspired for the dissolution of the democratic government; and, if the plot should not succeed, to ruin the cau...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life imme...

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... ELF I S ING One’s self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not ... ...till though the one I sing, (One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality, I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O qu... ...ly shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space, You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal’d but ever alert, You past an... ...ult smiles like the night watchman’s daughter, When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly companions, I intend to reach them my... ... it is, gentlemen of Boston? I will whisper it to the Mayor, he shall send a committee to England, They shall get a grant from the Parliament, go with... ...ly citizens—look from the windows, women! Leaves of Grass –Whitman 279 The committee open the box, set up the regal ribs, glue those that will not s... ... o’er all the rest, For thee, the future. I’d sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality, I’d fashion thy ensemble including body and soul, I’d show a... ...ion grown of thee, in teachers, studies, students, born of thee, Thee in thy democratic fetes en masse, thy high original festivals, operas, lecturers... ...nd they again leading to other results.) How the great cities appear—how the Democratic masses, turbulent, willful, as I love them, How the whirl, the...

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................................................... 323 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. ...ncourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitu- tion, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...east there used to be, some communication with the interior deep; they are national Institutions in virtue of that. Had they even become personal Inst... ..., from all regions, have repaired hither, to see what is toward. Our Paris Committees, of the Sixty Districts, are busier than ever; it is now too cle... ...Rue St. Antoine;’ he, com- monly so punctual, is absent from the Electoral Committee;— and even will never reappear there. In those ‘immense Maga- zin... ...ly that eleutheromaniac Philosophism has yet baked no bread; that Patrioti Committee-men will level down to their own level, 88 The French Revolution... ...certain transitionary state; getting regenerated from old Monarchic to new Democratic; no Official yet knows clearly what he is. Nevertheless, Mayors ... ...he Versailles Municipality (an old Monarchic one, not yet refounded into a Democratic) instantly second the proposal? Nay the very Versailles National... ...written order from our Versailles Municipality,—which is a Monarchic not a Democratic one. However, Versailles Patroles drove them in again; as the vi...

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...iancourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitution, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...st there used to be, some communi- cation with the interior deep; they are national Institu- tions in virtue of that. Had they even become personal In... ...ess, en- velop us: are we breaking down, then, into the black hor- rors of national bankruptcy? Great is Bankruptcy: the great bottomless gulf into wh... ...e Rue St. Antoine;’ he, commonly so punctual, is absent from the Electoral Committee;—and even will never reappear there. In those ‘immense Magazines ... ...ly that eleutheromaniac Philosophism has yet baked no bread; that Patrioti Committee-men will level down to their own level, and no lower. Brigands, o... ...es flow through it; and, outside the in- ner wall, all round it. There are committee-rooms, guard- rooms, robing-rooms: really a noble Hall; where uph... ...igneurs d’Artois, Conti, Conde (named Court Triumvirate), they of the anti-democratic Memoire au Roi, has not their foreboding proved true? They may w... ...certain transitionary state; getting regenerated from old Monarchic to new Democratic; no Official yet knows clearly what he is. Nevertheless, Mayors ... ...he Versailles Municipality (an old Monarchic one, not yet refounded into a Democratic) instantly second the proposal? Nay the very Versailles National...

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...honour, and obey a King, and that they rejoice in this conception of their national purpose. Great sums of money were spent to emphasize this purpose,... ... of the new knowledge has taken for its work, so also are the loyalties of nationality, and all our local and party adhesions. Much that passes for pa... ...odern patriotism for one moment. On the one hand there are the patriots of nationality who would have us believe that the miscellany of European squat... ...omising obedience, were to ask these two to gather together a consultative committee, draw up a scheme of rules, and start forthwith upon the great wo... ...uld no longer be made in heaven or earth, but only under licence from that committee, I venture to think that, after a very brief epoch of fluctuating... ...e to think that, after a very brief epoch of fluctuating legislation, this committee, except for an extremely short list of absolute prohibitions, wou... ... mankind in the world? How does it compare with the American conception of democratic equality, and how do both stand with regard to the essential tru... ...ater mass of our English-speaking people is living under the profession of democratic Republi- canism, there is no party, no sect, no periodical, no t... ...e country was drifting 149 H G Wells slowly towards the constitution of a democratic republic. In those days it was that there came into being a theo...

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...t may be said that it points the way to a new epoch in a large area of our national life. To work out the plan on paper, or at a distance—that is one ... ...Hampton-Tuskegee idea that stands like the demon- stration of the value of democratic institutions them- selves—a demonstration made so clear in spite... ...on moral earnestness of the strong character of a man who has done a great national service. Walter H. Page. UP FROM SLAVERY Chapter I. A Slave Among ... ...e to keep themselves so accurately and completely informed about the great National questions that were agitating the country. From the time that Garr... ...ol year in Washington I was very pleasantly surprised to re- ceive, from a committee of three white people in Charles- ton, an invitation to canvass t... ...re. For some time after the opening of the boarding depart- ment we had no chairs in the students’ bedrooms or in the dining rooms. Instead of chairs ... ...ved a telegram from prominent citizens in Atlanta asking me to accompany a committee from that city to Washington for the purpose of appearing before ... ...ngress in the interest of securing Government help for the Exposition. The committee was composed of about twenty-five of the most prominent and most ...

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...es the honor to rec- ognize him. He needs none of your respect. As for the Democratic journals, they are not human enough to affect me at all. I do no... ...at is but the shadow of a government who existence necessitates a Vigilant Committee. What should we think of the Oriental Cadi even, behind whom work... ...is the character of our Northern States gen- erally; each has its Vigilant Committee. And, to a certain extent, these crazy governments recognize and ... ...ree road, the Underground Rail- road, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunnelled under the whole breadth of the land. Such a ... ...“Misguided”! “Garrulous”! “Insane”! “Vindictive”! So ye write in your easy-chairs, and thus he wounded responds from the floor of the Armory, clear as... ... the Declaration of Independence, it will be the orna- ment of some future national gallery, when at least the present form of slavery shall be no mor...

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...e meaning, I think, stands out plainly enough, unpal- atable enough to our national pride. This thing from first to last was made abroad. Of all that ... ...ere any reason to suppose that our Navy is going to keep above the general national level in these things? Is the Navy bright? The arrival of M. Bléri... ...people all told. It is difficult to see whence the necessary impetus for a national renascence is to come.... The universities are poor and spiritless... ... is an impos- sible social fragmentation. The transport service is to be a democratic republic, the mines are to be a democratic re- public, every gre... ...e mines are to be a democratic re- public, every great industry is to be a democratic republic 67 H. G . Wells within the State; our community is to ... ...d, a community of independent families protected by law and an intelligent democratic statecraft from the economic aggressions of large accumulations ... ...ight and heat, and he would probably find it advisable to appoint a little committee of visitors who would have the power to examine qualifications, e... ...d even in the State universities, if new resources are wanted to found new chairs, to supply funds for research or publication or what not, it is to t...

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...e of communities and interests, so, on another, that the foun dation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of priv... ...ombinations, partial conven tions, and insurrection, threatening some great national calamity. In this dangerous crisis the people of America were IN... ...nsideration more pleas ing than this can be presented to the human mind? If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, no... ...eme Court build ing now stands. A controversy resulted from the inaugu ral committees proposals concerning the use of the House Chamber on the secon... ... other sovereignties, even by those which have been consid ered most purely democratic, we shall find a most es sential difference. All others lay c... ...ion for the adoption of a provision so appar ently repugnant to the leading democratic principle that the majority should govern, we must reject the ... ...ster of the Roman people and the senate under the pretense of supporting the democratic claims of the former against the aristocracy of the lat ter; ... ...of homes in America, in millions of homes around the world, there are vacant chairs. It would be a shameful confession of our unworthiness if it shoul...

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...ople of the province. Several of them had been ap pointed by the Assembly a committee to attend the press, and take care that no more bills were prin... ... the government of neighbor ing states, and even on the conduct of our best national allies, which may be attended with the most pernicious con sequ... ... union should be established, which pass’d in the affirmative unanimously. A committee was then appointed, one member from each colony, to consider th... ...much prerogative in it, and in England it was judg’d to have too much of the democratic. The Board of Trade therefore did not approve of it, nor recom... ...t; for, as soon as I got back to my seat in the Assembly, I was put on every committee for answering his speeches and messages, and by the committees ... ...o. There was a great company of officers, citizens, and strangers, and, some chairs having been borrowed in the neighborhood, there was one among them...

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...nfernal weak tea wash that he pours into himself! Now then, my boys, bring chairs up to the table. Aren’t we going to have that toddy, Katherine? Mrs.... ...to let them have it now. Of course I have prepared a report for the Baths Committee; I have had it ready for a week, and was only waiting for this to... ... any of that nonsense. I won’t hear anything of the kind. And if the Baths Committee should think of voting me an increase of salary, I will not accep... ...e. Hovstad. That shall be recognised ungrudgingly, But a journalist of my democratic tendencies cannot let such an opportunity as this slip. The bubb... ... Stockmann. Is it your intention to bring this docu- ment before the Baths Committee as a sort of official communication? Dr. Stockmann. Certainly. So... ...w, before which stands a desk and a high stool. There are a couple of easy chairs by the table, and other chairs standing along the wall. The room is ... ...g the wall. The room is dingy and uncomfortable; the furniture is old, the chairs stained and torn. In the print- ing room the compositors are seen at... ...85 Henrik Ibsen the same; because if some day it should be a question of a national fight in real earnest, you will see that public opinion will be in...

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... great means of refining and improving its people, and one great source of national pride and honour. You have in America great writ ers—great writer... ...ore tender fashion. When I first had the honour of communicating with your Committee with reference to this celebration, I had some selfish hopes that... ...ll directed, so cheaply shared, and so extensively diffused, well may your Committee say, as they have done in one of their Reports, that the success ... ...ers; and it was this which made the damage done to a single picture in the National Gallery of London, by some poor lunatic or cripple, a mere matter ... ...portunity of stating publicly in your presence, and in the presence of the committee, my earnest hope that the Institute will, from the beginning, rec... ...y for merit everywhere: accepting it equally whether it be aristocratic or democratic, only asking whether it be honest or true, is, I take it, the tr... ...impending. When two gentlemen enter, for whom, by a happy coincidence, two chairs, and no more, are in waiting, we augur a conversation, and that it w... ...entenary celebration being in hand, it occurred to him to represent to the National Shakespeare Committee their just and reasonable claim to participa... ... we all hail with delight, and who now sits—or lately did sit—within a few chairs of or on your left hand. I hope I may also claim to acknowledge the ...

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...hat our own militarism and our own political constitution are millennially democratic (which they certainly are not); but when it came to frantic denu... ... the men of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who, rec- ognizing no national frontiers in the great realm of the hu- man mind, kept the Europea... ...ic papers were driven to satirize fat old men, sitting comfortably in club chairs, and boasting of the 17 GB Shaw sons they had “given” to their coun... ...rocities, its panics, and its end- less and intolerable blarings of Allied national anthems in season and out. The esoteric England was proceeding irr... ...aiser’s. Successful as that resistance has been, it has piled up a sort of National Debt that is not the less oppressive because we have no figures fo... ... theatre in celebration of the tercentenary of the death of Shakespeare. A committee was formed; and all sorts of illustrious and influential persons ... ... was one of the artists: he looked so splendid. But he was only one of the committee. I happened to tell him that I was copying a picture at the Natio... ... to get caught when you’re actually trying to. I have knocked over all the chairs in a room without a soul paying any attention to me. In the end I ha... ...ming people, most advanced, unprejudiced, frank, hu- mane, unconventional, democratic, free-thinking, and ev- erything that is delightful to thoughtfu...

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...f the conference did not seem to mind. They were content to have the whole national housing problem treated on a basis of one room for two people. Tha... ...onscious mus- cular effort, may be of use in emergencies; but for everyday national use it is negligible; and its effect on the character of the indiv... ...here is some question of sexual morals to be dealt with. The business of a democratic statesman is not, as some of us seem to think, to convince the v... ...he pendulum” at the next election. Therein lies the peril and the glory of democratic statesmanship. A states- man who confines himself to popular leg... ...ds if the price is refused, and even to feel relieved at their escape. Our democratic and matrimonial institutions may have their merits: at all event... ...able motherhood, innocent childhood, manly virtue, and sweet and wholesome national life. But with a clever turn of the hand this holy of holies can b... ...the kitchen is a big timber table surrounded by eleven stout rush-bottomed chairs: four on the far side, three on the near side, and two at each end. ... ... all right, Sir. The particulars dont matter. I never read the report of a Committee: after all, what can they say, that you dont know? You pick it up... ...! You. dare do that again, you young blackguard; and I’ll jab one of these chairs in your face [she seizes one and holds it in readiness]. Now you sha...

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...ion begins, they’ll laugh. and wake up and throw themselves about in their chairs. Then, if they so delight in the narration, how is it possible that ... ...e oranges—because California is the orange country—and comfortable folding chairs. So he bought I don’t know how many cases of oranges—the great cool ... ...ses of oranges—the great cool California oranges, and half-a-dozen folding chairs in a special case that he always kept in his cabin. There must have ... ...dd, obstinate way, did not like my presence. But they were hampered by the national manners of these occasions. Florence had her own sitting- room. Sh... ...tural thing in the world that they should pool their sorrows. He was quite democratic; the idea of the difference in their station never seems to have... ...ne evening she went into Edward’s gun-room—he had gone to a meeting of the National Reserve Committee. On the table beside his chair was a decanter of... ...nt into Edward’s gun-room—he had gone to a meeting of the National Reserve Committee. On the table beside his chair was a decanter of whisky. She pour...

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...men in the door. Even now the memory of it, mixing with the strains of the national anthem made him feel important, truculent. “Squads right!” same an... ... that you were gettin’ out of this goddam army.” “The army, the army , the democratic army,” chanted some- one under his breath. “But, begorry, I want... ...ove into which a man was poking wood, and beyond that a few broken folding chairs on which soldiers sprawled in attitudes of utter boredom, and the co... ...en wizened Madame did not have her eye upon her. Several men drew up their chairs. Wild Dan Cohan always had an audience. “Looks like there was going ... ...ll laughing. He followed her. In the inner room was a large oak table with chairs round it. At the end Eisenstein and a French soldier were talking ex... ... of my bunch home walkin’ down Water Street with brass bands an’ reception committees an’ girls throwing kisses at ‘em an’ all that. Where are yous go...

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...on what great bodies of men have done, and the crises of his life refer to national crises. Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind, an... ...nt of what manner of persons they were and what they did. We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature, in epic and lyric... ...age was enjoined, or stringent laws and customs, tending to invigorate the national bond, were the check on the old rovers; and the cumulative values ... ... one wide, judicial investigation of character. In full court, or in small committee, or confronted face to face, ac- cuser and accused, men offer the... ... an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridicu- lous. They acquire democratic manners, they foam at the mouth, they hate and deny. Worse, I ob... ...f that;—is pure of that.’ And nature advertises me in such persons that in democratic America 243 Emerson she will not be democratized. How cloistere... ...ericles, and the lordliest per- sonages. They sat very carelessly in their chairs, and were too excellent themselves, to value any condition at a high... ...woodchucks and the oak and the elm shall gladly serve us, though we sit in chairs of ivory on car- pets of silk. This guiding identity runs through al... ...ecognizable, and in process of time will return to the mint. Nature is not democratic, nor limited-monarchical, but despotic, and will not be fooled o...

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... direction of the public minister who presided over that department of the national administra- tion, no person could be admitted to an interview with... ... now its unity was broken. A new element was introduced into the question: Democratic feelings were armed against this outrage; gentlemen and nobles, ... ...ughout the year in which the prisoners were al- lowed to celebrate a great national event: and in those days of relaxed prison management the utmost l... ...iery child, whose girlish romance, whose patriotic heroism electrified the national imagination. The King of Spain must kiss his faithful daughter, th... ...ury to century, if it is an inconvenience from year to year. The Abolition Committees, it is to be feared, will be very angry at both propositions. Ye... ...ut even if they were laid a little awry; and as to larger objects, such as chairs, &c., any dislocation of their usual arrangement, any trans position...

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...ized country, where... people are judged of by their clothes.” Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its m... ...I have not rendered an account consisted of a bed, a table, a desk, three chairs, a looking glass three inches in diameter, a pair of tongs and andir... ...he need sit on a pumpkin. That is shiftlessness. There is a plenty of such chairs as I like best in the village garrets to be had for taking them away... ...as the way these forms came to be transferred to our furniture, to tables, chairs, and bed steads because they once stood in their midst. My house... ...ective musi cal bands stationed on some eminent chip, and play ing their national airs the while, to excite the slow and cheer the dying combatants.... ...thoughtfully while it goes by. What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from some body. God ...

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...ized country, where —— — people are judged of by their clothes.” Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its... ...h I have not rendered an account, consisted of a bed, a table, a desk, three chairs, a looking glass three inches in diameter, a pair of tongs and and... ...t he need sit on a pumpkin. That is shiftlessness. There is a plenty of such chairs as I like best in the village garrets to be had for taking them aw... ... was the way these forms came to be transferred to our furniture, to tables, chairs, and bedsteads, — because they once stood in their midst. My house... ...r respective musical bands stationed on some eminent chip, and playing their national airs the while, to excite the slow and cheer the dying combatant... ...t thoughtfully while it goes by. What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God ...

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...errettes holding each other by the hand and winding in and out between the chairs and tables: eyes shining in the holes of cardboard faces, breasts pa... ... eating fine pastry and talking passionately. It might have been a Carlist committee meeting of a particularly fatuous character. Even my youth and in... ...struck me as not so perfectly French as he ought to have been, as if one’s nationality were an accomplishment with varying degrees of excellence. As t... ...pink figured silk, an enormous divan with many cushions, some splendid arm-chairs of various shapes (but all very shabby), a round table, and in the m... ...tial contempt for all mankind. There is nothing in that against the purest democratic principles; but that you, Rita, should elect to throw so much of... ...terrorist—if this were a real Re- public with the Convention sitting and a Committee of Public Safety attending to national business, you would all ge... ... with the Convention sitting and a Committee of Public Safety attending to national business, you would all get your heads cut off. Ha, ha … I am joki... ... and oval medallions enclosing Rita’s monogram, re- peated on the backs of chairs and sofas, and on the heavy curtains reaching from ceiling to floor....

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...ncreased distances. Now there was something low, mean, unprofessional, and democratic in this; so, at least, said the children of AEsculapius gathered... ...ad been brought up like a wild beast, ignorant of the nature of tables and chairs, and with no more developed ideas of drawing-room drapery than an hi... ...a stone. Dr Thorne’s pretensions, mixed with his subversive pro- fessional democratic tendencies, his seven-and-sixpenny visits, added to his utter di... ...or the things swam before him, and the guests all seemed to dance in their chairs. Up he got, however, and commenced his speech. As he could not follo... ...d achieved a sort of popularity there and elsewhere by the violence of his democratic opposition to the aristocracy. According to this man’s political... ...ded their votes early in the day. At two o’clock, according to Sir Roger’s committee, the num- bers were as follows:— Scatcherd 275 Moffat 268 Whereas... ...ced the door of the Dragon of Wantley, at which celebrated inn Sir Roger’s committee sat:—’Who is Mr Moffat, and what has he done for us? There have b... ...nt meal. This much, however, had been absolutely decided before the yellow committee concluded their labour at the White Horse: there should be a peti... ...unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise. When it chances t...

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...rooms which open into each other, and are furnished with a bed or two, a few chairs and tables, a looking glass, a crucifix of some material or othe... ...’ll be King but Charlie?’’ the Italians and Spaniards screamed through some national affairs, for which I was none the wiser; and we three Yankees ma... ...three Yankees made an attempt at the ‘‘Star span gled Banner.’’ After these national tributes had been paid, the Austrian gave us a very pretty litt... ...ars Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana talking at once, and their peculiar national oaths were getting as plenty as pronouns. The next day, the... ...ed; * * * * *, the mouth piece of the debating clubs, noisy, vaporous, and democratic; and so following. Then I could see them receiving their A.B... ...y. It has been found necessary to vest in every government, even the most democratic, some extraordinary, and, at first sight, alarming powers; ... ...g hold on the young and wilder parts of society,—and then of the Vigilance Committee, of which he was a member, and of more secular points of inter... ...ship performed in it, and in it the first capital trial by the Vigi- lance Committee held. I am taken down to the wharves, by antiquaries of a ten ... ... of Anglo Saxon Republican America, the solemn, awe inspir ing Vigilance Committee of the most grave and responsible citizens, the last resort o...

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...leasant nooks were arranged in the two sides of the bay window, with light chairs and small writing-tables, each with its glass of flowers; the piano ... ...aving so much fun about they only blushed, sniggled, and wriggled in their chairs in a way that would have alarmed a more suspicious mother, but only ... ...arpet, forming a crimson roll at one end, and long ranks of faded leathern chairs sitting in each other’s laps. At one end hung a huge picture by Snyd... ...lucky, since they ascribe her greater religiousness to what it suits their democratic notions to scorn. Not that there is much to com- plain of in Bob... ..., while at the other end of the court, sheltered by a great orange-tree, a committee of the “T raveller’s Joy” was held. For that serial still survive... ...e.” “Get in, I say,” cried Jock, who was making demonstra- tions with the “national weapon” much as if he would have liked to lay it about their shoul...

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...tanding here.’ By the invitation to adjourn, it was well understood by the committee Kilne addressed, that they were invited to pass his threshold, an... ...me by thrusting them out at full length; some by cramping them under their chairs: while some, taking refuge in a mental ef- fort, forgot them, a proc... ...rked deference to Evan, induced Mr. Raikes contemptuously to glance at our national blindness to the true diamond, and worship of the mere plumes in w... ...a youthful Englishman; and the Countess dieted the vanity according to the national- ity. With good wine to wash it down, one can swallow any- thing. ... ...’ exclaimed the frenzied Countess, within her bosom. Alas! it was almost a democratic outcry they made her guilty of; but she was driven past patience... ...oice bits from the authors they had recourse to. Both leaned back in their chairs, and spoke with their eyes on their books. ‘Julia’s going to write t... ...erself, however, the gentle- men were as attentive as ever. Evan sat three chairs distant from her. If the traitor expected his sister to share in his...