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...ped to call my wife. ‘These were living men,’ said I, ‘perhaps Jacobites, per- haps the French, perhaps pirates, perhaps adventurers come here to seek... ... few black pine-tops, like so many plumes. ‘Master Will?’ asked the new-comer, in brief military fashion. ‘That same, sir,’ answered Will. ‘Can I do a... ...s-board, should break the mould of their succession? The like had befallen Napoleon (so writers said) when the winter changed the time of its appearan... ... The habit, indeed, is debasing; wine, the juice of the grape, is the true drink of the Frenchman, as I have often had occa- sion to point out; and I ... ...st, prisoners for lack of a remit- tance; they were both English, but one of them spoke French pretty fluently, and was, besides, a humorous, agile-mi...

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...ychological inepti- tude of the Germans, it is probably the clumsiest. The French Maison de la Presse is certainly the best organisation in exist- enc... ...e of the “treacherous” English who allied themselves with the “degenerate” French and the “barbaric” Russians; nonsense about “the freedom of the seas... ...e allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, to name only the bigger European allies, are con- cerned in setting... ...insistent upon the way in which all Venetia was being opened up by the new military roads; there has been scarcely a new road made in Venetia since Na... ...Wells war zone, and it is doubtful how far the sanitary precautions of the military authorities avails against a considerable propa- ganda of disease.... ...General Bompiani, whose writings are well known to all English students of military matters, showed me the Gibraltar he is making of a great mountain ... ... those great architectural wrecks that seem most to impress con- temporary writers. I have seen the injuries and ruins of the cathedrals at Arras and ... ...es that have happened to all these arms. Before this war began speculative writers had argued that infantry drill in close formation had now no fighti... ...Another is Blight the solicitor, who goes about bewailing the fact that we writers are “holding out false hopes of higher agricultural wages after the...

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...nal object was the “Handsome Sailor” of the less prosaic time alike of the military and merchant navies. With no perceptible trace of the vainglorious... ...ted them to be marched up by Anacharsis Cloots before the bar of the first French 4 Billy Budd Assembly as Representatives of the Human Race. At each... ...er of Thomas Paine whose book in rejoinder to Burke’s arraign- ment of the French Revolution had then been published for some time and had gone everyw... ...he contem- porary manifestoes and conquering and proselyting armies of the French Directory. 14 Billy Budd To the British Empire the Nore Mutiny was ... ...nate publication of his person in battle was not only unnecessary, but not military, nay, savored of foolhardiness and vanity. They may add, too, that... ...y quite other than selfish considerations surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impas- sioning a less burni... ... mat- 22 Billy Budd ter of what era—history, biography and unconventional writers, who, free from cant and convention, like Montaigne, honestly and i...

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...ses livingly to my imagination. A turn of the market may be a calamity as disastrous as the French retreat from Moscow; but it hardly lends itself to ... ...pected, the quadrille was soon whistled down, and the dancers departed under a cloud. Eight Frenchmen, even eight Englishmen from another rank of soci... ...an in the army.’ Among nations, En- gland was the first; then came France. He respected the French navy and liked the French people; and if he were fo... ...s, as they would not leave you till you were rooked and beaten. You must enter a hotel with military precautions; for the least you had to apprehend w... ... a great chorus of grateful voices have arisen to spread abroad its fame. Half the fa- mous writers of modern France have had their word to say about ...

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..."From the military school (Kriegsschule) of life. - What does not kill me makes me stronger. (Aus der Kriegsschule des Lebens. — Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker). [Translator note. This maxim (#8) is one of the most fam...

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...He compels Narvaez to acknowledge submission -- Capture of several vessels and military supplies -- Reorganizes, recruits his army and returns to Mexi... ...co -- Capturing vessels and enlisting their crews -- A vast army and supply of military stores secured - - A plague of smallpox -- Death of the empero... ...lves -- Formation of a communistic settlement -- Occupation by the English and French of many islands -- A fort built at Tortuga -- Capture of the pla... ... and massacre of the people -- A few survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish ships Rapid... ...citizens hire filibusters to guard their homes -- The English outwitted by the French -- The French return and plunder the city for a second time -- T... ...er with pitch. References are made to these people by Job and other very early writers. For some reason, which is not recorded in history, they finall... ... where the riches brought back by them were obtained, while equally creditable writers believe that the voyage was to the kingdom of Sofala on the Eas... ...as not only popularly opposed by the people but rejected by many distinguished writers of the Augustan Age. Formaleoni claims that the Venetians disco... ...riahs. By the employment of these outcasts the Moors had acquired considerable military, as well as commercial, power on the coast of India, and so gr...

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...try. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

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...r a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flash- ing swords at us for some critical observations of... ... Everard, and his uncle’s friend Stukely Culbrett, expounded the nature of Frenchmen to him, saying that they were un- easy when not periodically thra... ...of our exhi- bition of ourselves in Europe. It looked as if the blustering French Guard were to have it all their own way. And what 9 George Meredith... ...fi- culties to be overcome. As regards his qualifications for ad- dressing Frenchmen, a year of his prae-neptunal time had been spent in their capital... ...ry, drawing their strategy from maga- 23 George Meredith zine articles by military pens, reverberations of the extinct voices of the daily and weekly... ...rly poised again; the Muscovite was battered; fresh guilt was added to the military glory of the Gaul. English grum- blers might well be asked what th... ...by the education of the world. Who cannot talk!— but who can? Discover the writers in a day when all are writ- ing! It is as rare an art as poetry, an... ...he works of your illustrious father,’ was written on the title-page. These writers deal queerly with their words of praise of one an- other. There is ...

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...s reached: the mystery of the individual. Will England presently produce a military genius? or what will Mr. Belloc say the day after to-morrow? The m... ... Brighton before 1910, which is still a dream, but he doubted if effective military aviation or aerial fighting would be possible before 1950, which i... ...ially if it is a question essentially mechanical—is shown by the work of a Frenchman all too neglected by the trumpet of fame—Clement Ader. M. Ader wa... ...g of a renewal of the struggle, it becomes impossible for the British, the French, the Belgians, Russians, Italians or Japanese to think any longer of... ...s gifted Pole made his forecast of the future. Perhaps it is more, for the French translation of his book was certainly in exist- ence before the Boer... ...e by the late Mr. W.T. Stead. It does not seem to have reached the British military authorities, nor was it published in England with an instruc- tive... ...nce of machine guns, a significance thoroughly ven- tilated by imaginative writers fifteen years before, was being grasped by the conservative but by ... ... large a proportion of its mem- bers to the front; the scientific men, the writers, have been begging to be used in any capacity at any price or none;... ...ne of the many corrupting lies in British intellectual life. English comic writers never weary of sneering at the Hindu who claimed to be a “failed B....

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... which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ tempted some of the French and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on t... ...of ours, with eighty vessels and twelve thousand men. And he came from the French coast between Calais and Boulogne, ‘because thence was the shortest ... ...om, I dare say, he made the same complaint as Napoleon Bonaparte the great French General did, eigh teen hundred years afterwards, when he said they ... ...had done much to improve the condition of the Britons. They had made great military roads; they had built forts; they had taught them how to dress, an... ...the kingdom—to take all that lay north of Watling Street, as the old Roman military road from Dover to Chester was called, and to give A Child’s Hist... ...ith, and was as great a King as En gland had known for some time. The old writers of history relate how that Canute was one day disgusted with his co... ... Dover is under his gov ernment; and orders him to repair to Dover and do military execution on the inhabitants. ‘It does not become you,’ says the p... ...ere he then was, and where he received him as an honoured guest. Now, some writers tell us that Edward the Confessor, who was by this time old and had... ...committed upon earth than in wretched England in those nineteen years. The writers who were living then describe them fearfully. They say that the cas...

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...f him. I was at home at that hour and writing in my study; and although my French windows face towards Ottershaw and the blind was up (for I loved in ... ... its silver and glass table furniture—for in those days even philosophical writers had 28 The War of the Worlds many little luxuries—the crimson-purp... ... to the Chobham bridge and was busy questioning the crowd at midnight. The military authorities were certainly alive to the seriousness of the busines... ...ommon, for even Horsell and Chobham church towers were in the hands of the military authorities. The soldiers I addressed didn’t know anything; the of... ...ght; every twenty-four hours brought them reinforcement. And meanwhile the military and naval authorities, now fully alive to the tremendous power of ... ...e Naze. Close in- shore was a multitude of fishing smacks—English, Scotch, French, Dutch, and Swedish; steam launches from the Thames, yachts, electri... ...foreign country, and so forth. She seemed, poor woman, to imagine that the French and the Martians might prove very similar. She had been growing incr...

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...played with by people that appeared no bigger than children. I was, as the French say, biting my fists with impa- tience for that cargo frozen up-coun... ...beasts, strange turns of the tide, he would make the best of his way up, a military seaman with a short sword on thigh and a bronze helmet on his head... ... Indeed, I suspect that, leaving aside the pro- testations and tributes of writers who, one is safe in saying, care for little else in the world than ... ...restaurants, streets, and such- like public places, he indited sonnets (in French) to the eyes, ears, chin, hair, and other visible perfec- tions of a... ...so much at the sonnets, which she could not but esteem, as at poor Henry’s French accent, which was unique, re- sembling the warbling of birds, if bir...

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...rary development, but also as a phase in the development of the individual writers concerned. It is now quite unusual to see any adequate criticism of... ...s the last appearance of a living Haploteuthis. No others were seen on the French coast. On the 15th of June a 133 H.G . Wells dead carcass, almost c... ...word. I do not wish to dis- credit that, but I must point out—what so many writers upon obscure psychic phenomena fail to do—that we are passing here ... ...ce in the dear, dead days beyond recall—before he married her, that is—was military. But now she called him— it seems a dreadful thing to tell of betw... ... that he knew that he knew neither Latin 184 The Country of the Blind nor French, were all unknown to him. At first his interest had been divided pre... ...t this strange new planet would probably collide with Neptune. The leader- writers enlarged upon the topic. So that in most of the capi- tals of the w... ... signs in the Heavens. Sturdy Boers, dusky Hottentots, Gold Coast negroes, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Portuguese, stood in the warmth of the sunrise watchi...

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...ther and had cures for aches and pains without a doctor?s diploma. But we know now that he was only a mathematician and astronomer, all for inventing military engines. The brother and sister were great friends in their youth, when he had his right arm to defend her reputation with; and she would have done anything on earth to please him....

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...now now that he was only a mathematician and astronomer, all for inventing military engines. The brother and sister were great friends in their youth,... ... to a carriage on the off side, containing Kirby, and how she, this little French jade, sprang in to take her place. One snap of the fingers and the t... ...rothers were sons of Geoffrey Fakenham, celebrated for his devotion to the French Count- 19 George Meredith ess Jules d’Andreuze, or some such name, ... ...ted off, on the discovery of the cheat, with horrible imprecations against Frenchwomen. It became known, too; that horses of his were standing saddled... ...associated in the inventions. They had an improved rocket that would force military chiefs to change their tac- tics: they had a new powder, a rifle, ... ... good for us to be much alone, and I am alone when you are absent. ‘I hear military music! ‘How grand that music makes the dullest world appear in a m... ...nown), would, while it might imitate the latent poetry, expose venturesome writers to the wrath of a people commendably believing their language a per...

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...nt to Moscow it was necessary: (1) that they should form themselves into a military group of a size able to endure a collision with the warlike milita... ... abandon all established traditions and customs, and (3) that during their military movement they should have at their head a man who could justify to... ...ch would have to be committed during that movement. And beginning with the French Revolution the old inad- equately large group was destroyed, as well... ...ions, without habits, without tradi- tions, without a name, and not even a Frenchman, emerges— by what seem the strangest chances—from among all the s... ... emerges— by what seem the strangest chances—from among all the seeth- ing French parties, and without joining any one of them is borne forward to a p... ...to solve the apparently insu- perable diplomatic difficulties and ends the military movement of that period of history. The man who had devastated Fra... ... from the compilers of memoirs and the histories of separate states to the writers of general histories and the new histories of the culture of that p... ...ways consis- tently directing its nations through Napoleons, Louis-es, and writers; but we do not acknowledge such a power, and there- fore before spe... ...ich produces events, and furnish no reply to history’s essential question. Writers of universal history who deal with all the nations seem to recogniz...

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...ners might truly say of us. I 7 Trollope shall never forget the look of a Frenchman whom I found on a wet afternoon in the best inn of a provincial t... ...ed private sitting-room. No eloquence of mine could make intelligible to a Frenchman or an American the utter deso- lation of such an apartment. The w... ...he utter deso- lation of such an apartment. The world as then seen by that Frenchman offered him solace of no description. The air without was heavy, ... ...ips and men and goods contraband of war, and all those semi-nautical, semi-military rules and axi- oms which it is necessary that all attorneys-genera... ...ith Southern politics. The South for many years had had the disposition of military matters, and the power of distributing military appliances of all ... ...upulous. But I do not believe that any President previous to Buchanan sent military materials to the South with the self-acknowledged purpose of using... ...so that it would be found that many more of the Americans were readers and writers by habit. In any large town in England it is probable that a higher... ...id, to an elderly female at New York, who had quoted to me some half dozen writers on international law, thinking thereby that I should trump her last...

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...homas de Quincey and the shattering everywhere given to old systems by the French Revolution, together with the universal energy of mind applied to th... ... since used for the basis of more than one narrative, not inac- curate, in French, German and Spanish journals of high au- thority. It is seldom the c... ...erman and Spanish journals of high au- thority. It is seldom the case that French writers err by pro- lixity. They have done so in this case. The pres... ...nd Spanish journals of high au- thority. It is seldom the case that French writers err by pro- lixity. They have done so in this case. The present nar... ...ich is to this day a name rooted in Biscay. Her father, the hidalgo, was a military officer in the Spanish service, and had little care whether his ki... ...erest which arose in her history subsequently amongst all the men of rank, military or ecclesiastical, whether in Italy or Spain. The date of these wo... ...ng port, the very first person who came off from shore was a dashing young military officer, whom at once by his name and rank, (though she had never ... ...o grandeur to him who has no space in the theatre of his own brain. I know writers who report the marvels of velocity, &c., in such a way that they be... ...: for it takes the shape of a dream; and this most brilliant of all German writers wanted in that field the severe simplicity, that horror of the too ...

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...men who went on shooting expeditions and never came back; factors, agents, writers, and ensigns of the Honourable the East India Company by hundreds a... ...the Gover- nor and the vessel. As for the crew reported to be pressed into military service in tropical climes, it would produce them as soon as possi... ...ore. For there lay scattered over the landscape, from the burst cars, type-writers, sewing-machines, bicycles in crates, a consign- ment of silver-pla... ...es, bicycles in crates, a consign- ment of silver-plated imported harness, French dresses and gloves, a dozen finely moulded hard-wood mantels, a fift... ... delusion of vast wealth—the folly of grandeurs, I believe our friends the French call it—is, as a rule, persistent, to the exclusion of all others.” ... ...l-immense; but of certain manifestations the English language stops short. French only, the caryatid French of Victor Hugo, would have described it; s... ...cked this idea with enthusiasm, and he and Cottar accumulated a library of military works, and read and argued and disputed far into the nights. But t...

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...he river and across the portage.” “But the squaw?” asked Louis Savoy, the tall French Canadian, becoming interested; for he had heard of this wild dee... ...too tempting, and they objected strenuously. The Kid was conversant with their French patois, and followed it anxiously. They swore that the dogs were... ...at cabin all winter, — a mighty long, dark winter. Kilkenny cats, — well?” The Frenchman in Baptiste shrugged his shoulders, but the Indian in him was... ...t tools of the Diaz secret service. Too many of the comrades were in civil and military prisons scattered over the United States, and others of them, ... ...hree weeks away, and for two days now, carefully con cealed from the sporting writers, Carthey had been lying up, badly injured. There was no one to ...

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...he rebeck and guitar, I hear continual echoes from the Thames, I hear fierce French liberty songs, I hear of the Italian boat sculler the musical reci... ...n! You Spaniard of Spain! you Portuguese! Leaves of Grass –Whitman 151 You Frenchwoman and Frenchman of France! You Belge! you liberty lover of the ... ...hoever he looks at in the traveler’s coffee house claims him, The Italian or Frenchman is sure, the German is sure, the Spaniard is sure, and the isla... ... torchlight procession! The dense brigade bound for the war, with high piled military wagons following; People, endless, streaming, with strong voices... ... The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres, The great speakers and writers are exiled, they lie sick in distant lands, The cause is asleep, ...

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...eded for modern science to emerge in the West. -- 12. Invaders from the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. -- 13. He Unchained Books-The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books...

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...h Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English.... ... such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldwide public-ations. The d... ...reedom for everyone. One of his first moves was to organize the Mongol military into units of ten, one hundred, one thousand, and ten thousand. H... ...his Khan was this tradition his grandfather had established in the Mongol military: He never asked his men to die for him and never willingly sacrif... ...enturies before America‘s ―pony express.‖ Besides embracing the Mongol military tradition and stressing the importance of a safe Silk Road, Kubla... ... together and became Britain’s dominant language. Then the Normans added French to that mix. Invaders from the North We now step back in time an... ...inions about religion. She introduced the king to the books of Protestant writers, such as William Tyndale, and tried to persuade him to let Bibles b...

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...ur problems with school shootings in America, but we are seeing the seeds of violence planted more often everywhere today. A 2004 study by the French... ... everywhere today. A 2004 study by the French police found that just under 10% of the mosques were under the control of extremists. Yet 23% of French... ...qba ibn Nafi crossed the deserts of Egypt and began the first Muslim conquest of the Maghreb region of North Africa, establishing a number of milita... ...ion in literature and to popular songs and other media. Psychologists have recently separated the real roots of love from the images romantic writer... ...efenses. We hate to see death, but sometimes for the good of the world those trying to improve it must defend themselves. We would never use a milita... ...l violence is frowned on throughout our society. And we keep out of our media the Hollywood emphasis on violence for entertainment. Our media writer... ...ced, uncreative, and conforming. These people function reasonably well in a highly structured authoritarian social system such as is found in milita... ...age was done to public buildings, a thousand cars were burned and at least one death resulted. So an incorrect perception of truth started the French...

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... the idea of imperialism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Russian imperial- ism, and we were saying this not because it wa... ...duce now as a pair of skates in winter when the ice begins to bear. All we writers find ourselves engaged perforce in some part or other of a world-wi... ... the last year the writer has been doing what he can—and a number of other writers have been doing what they can—to bring about a united declaration o... ...utler. Mater’s “Société des Nations” (Didier) is an able presentation of a French point of view. Brailsford’s “A League of Nations” is already a class... ...om the English liberal left; but the reader must understand that these two writers seem disposed to welcome a peace with an unrevolutionized Germany, ... ...sts hate this pro- cess. So do a lot of ours. So do some of the diplomatic French- men. The German junkers are dodging and lying, they are fighting de... ... I put a query) of the plaintiff nation in the defendant state, aggressive military or naval preparation, disorder spreading over the frontier, trespa... ...fact, if it is to be a working reality, have power to define and limit the military and naval and aerial equipment of every country in the world. This... ...riction of state forces. It must have power and freedom to investigate the military and naval and aerial establishments of all its constituent powers....

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...ble— to sound his praises in his own land. Let us suppose that a courteous Frenchman ventures an opinion among En- glishmen that Wellington was a grea... ...own-trodden country of slaves and pau- pers.” Under such circumstances the Frenchman would probably be shut up. And when I strove to speak of Wash- in... ...ia, they could not go at all. Up to Washington they could not go without a military pass, not to be obtained without some cause given. All trade was a... ...e question originally under debate was the relative power of the civil and military authority. Congress had desired to declare its ascendency over mil... ...id one gentleman after another, rising indignantly on the floor, “that the military authority of our generals is above that of this House.” And then o... ...s expressed in my first volume, be- cause I still see it stated by English writers that the se- cession ordinance of South Carolina should have been a... ...must probably be given mainly to Madison and Hamilton, Madison finding the French democratic element, and Hamilton the English conserva- tive element—... ...American of- fice has not taken upon itself the task of returning to their writers undelivered and undeliverable letters. This it is now going to do. ... ...uch inclined to regard the question as one appertaining exclusively to the writers of books—not ac- knowledging as we should do that the literary char...

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...e and oxen in the villages nor hurt by its cool reception in the churches, but fiercely disdainful of two hordes of mischievous insects which are the French and Austrian armies. Two days before, at Lodi, the Austrians tried to prevent the French from crossing the river by the narrow bridge there; but the French, commanded by a general aged 27, Napoleon Bonaparte, who does ...

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...but fiercely disdainful of two hordes of mischievous insects which are the French and Austrian armies. Two days be- fore, at Lodi, the Austrians tried... ...ian armies. Two days be- fore, at Lodi, the Austrians tried to prevent the French from crossing the river by the narrow bridge there; but the French, ... ...een trained in the artillery under the old regime, and made perfect in the military arts of shirking his duties, swin- dling the paymaster over travel... ... digni- fying war with the noise and smoke of cannon, as de- picted in all military portraits. He is, however, an original observer, and has perceived... ... affairs, having seen it exhaustively tested in that department during the French Revolution. He is imaginative without illusions, and cre- ative with... ... is, as to discipline, in a state which has so greatly shocked some modern writers before whom the following story has been enacted, that they, impres... ...s of pluck. He is not in a position to force his will on them, in orthodox military fashion, by the cat o’ nine tails. The French Revolution, which ha...

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...E AFTER HIM TO LONDON. ............................................................................................ 139 BOOK II CONTAINS MR. ESMOND?S MILITARY LIFE, AND OTHER MATTERS APPERTAINING TO THE ESMOND FAMILY.....................................................................................153 CHAPTER I I AM IN PRISON, AND VISITED, BUT NOT CONSOLED THERE. ..........

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........................................... 139 BOOK II CONTAINS MR. ESMOND’S MILITARY LIFE, AND OTHER MATTERS APPER- TAINING TO THE ESMOND FAMILY.......... ...nd, and made my two boys proficient in that art; so much so, that when the French came to this country with Monsieur Rochambeau, not one of his office... ...the common people. I have seen in his very old age and decrepitude the old French King Lewis the Fourteenth, the type and model of kinghood—who never ... ...thanks in the Prayer-Book) who sold his country and who took bribes of the French king. What spectacle is more august than that of a great king in exi... ...ently, was made Knight and Baronet by King James the First; and being of a military disposition, remained long in Germany with the Elec- tor-Palatine,... ...actised this exercise, in which the lad became a very great proficient), a military coat and cloak, and a farmer’s smock, and placed them in the large... ... said the lawyer. And Harry began to translate:— “Hath not one of your own writers said, ‘The children of Adam are now laboring as much as he himself ... ...er orthodox father would never 94 Henry Esmond have allowed; his favorite writers appealing more to reason and antiquity than to the passions or imag... ...ather had pushed his instructions with his young pupil. The gazetteers and writers, both of the French and English side, have given accounts sufficien...

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...- pute as to whom the honor is due. Even foreign historians, including the French, acknowledge the genius of the Russian commanders when they speak of... ...ders when they speak of that flank march. But it is hard to understand why military writers, and following them others, consider this flank march to b... ... they speak of that flank march. But it is hard to understand why military writers, and following them others, consider this flank march to be the pro... ...hey think that this maneuver was calculated to save Russia and destroy the French; for this flank march, had it been preceded, accompanied, or followe... ...mstances, might have proved ruinous to the Rus- sians and salutary for the French. If the position of the Russian army really began to improve from th... ... expect from you all the zeal, firmness, and success which your intellect, military talent, and the cour- age of the troops you command justify us in ... ...s concerning the terms of the anticipated peace. CHAPTER IX WITH REGARD TO MILITARY MATTERS, Napoleon immediately on his entry into Moscow gave Genera...

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...to fulfill his duty and earn fame as a great commander. Rostov charged the French be- cause he could not restrain his wish for a gallop across a level... ... of those who did the actual fighting. The cause of the destruction of the French army in 1812 is clear to us now. No one will deny that that cause wa... ...ort was made to hinder the only thing that could save Russia, while on the French side, despite Napoleon’s experience and so-called military genius, e... ...sia, while on the French side, despite Napoleon’s experience and so-called military genius, every effort was directed to pushing on to Moscow at the e... ... bound to lead to destruction. In historical works on the year 1812 French writers are very fond of saying that Napoleon felt the danger of extending ... ...m without an armed force, and would it not be better first to send for the military? “I’ll give them armed force… I’ll ‘overresist’ them!” uttered Ros... ...sion were still the same. He was wearing the white Horse Guard’s cap and a military overcoat with a whip hanging over his shoulder by a thin strap. He... ...e least of the transport soldiers. Moreover, the assertion made by various writers that his cold was the cause of his dispositions not being as well p...

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..., cold irony, raw banter, growl of menace, sharp snap, rounds of laughter. Frenchmen of the Young Repub- lic, not presently appreciated as offensive, ... ...ng student and philosophical head that he had in him the making of a great military captain. He would not have been opposed to the profession of arms ... ...erature will be reviewed by his lieutenant of Tramps, one of the ablest of writers!—[Frederic W. Maitland.]—The memory of it remains with us, as being... ...rontier. Having told him that they had a despatch to deliver either to the military governor of Mantua or to some officer sent by him to receive it, t... ...an officers were waiting. Colonel Bariola, who was trained in the Austrian military school of Viller Nashstad, and regularly left the Austrian service... ...m here, where the king is to decide upon either accepting or rejecting the French emperor’s advice, both of which decisions are fraught with considera... ...t confidence in Ricasoli, whose conduct, always far from obsequious to the French emperor, has pleased the nation. He is thought to be at this moment ...

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... used only by the elite. All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered by a scarlet-liveried footman that morn- ing, ran as ... ...reast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that re- fined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the g... ...who is connected with the Montmorencys through the Rohans, one of the best French families. He is one of the genuine emigres, the good ones. And also ... ...ke he is leav- ing the university and me, his old father, and entering the military service, my dear. And there was a place and everything waiting for... ... waited in expectation of an important order for an expensive funeral. The Military Governor of Moscow, who had been assiduous in send- ing aides-de-c... ...cent reception room was crowded. Ev- eryone stood up respectfully when the Military Gover- nor, having stayed about half an hour alone with the dy- in... ... bound to lead to destruction. In historical works on the year 1812 French writers are very fond of saying that Napoleon felt the danger of extending ... ...e least of the transport soldiers. Moreover, the assertion made by various writers that his cold was the cause of his dispositions not being as well p... ... they speak of that flank march. But it is hard to understand why military writers, and following them others, consider this flank march to be the pro...

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...calmly where fools may be eager to rush. As a distinguished and successful French novelist 12 Notes on Life and Letters once observed of fiction, “C’... ...in the world were a source of proud and unholy joy unto some of the modern writers. That frame of mind is not the proper one in which to approach seri... ...n their droll way, but are by no means so momen- tous and profound as some writers—probably for the sake of Art—would like to make us believe. There i... ...tless as the eyes of any wise generation that has in its hands the fame of writers. Yes, they are seen, and the man who is not an artist is seen also ... ...force; and he stands excused from the duty of patriotic posturing. He is a Frenchman of Frenchmen beyond question or cavil, and with that he is simple... ...om- pel our intellectual admiration. In this volume the trifle called “The Military Manoeuvres at Montil,” apart from its far-reaching irony, embodies... ...say that during his sojourn in England he had the misfortune to be, as the French say, mal entoure. He was beset by people who understood not the qual... ...ts lurid blaze the in- sufficiency of Europe, the inferiority of minds, of military and administrative systems, stood exposed with pitiless vividness.... ...and meditation had little or nothing to do; by the weary platitudes on the military situation which (apart from geographi- cal conditions) is the same...

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...ary organizations for doing what was plainly the business of the civil and military authorities, but actually handed out money to any thief in the str... ...r as criminal or unchristian. The Act of Parliament introducing Compulsory Military Service thoughtlessly exempted these persons, merely requiring the... ...de no pretence of having any objection to war at all, and had not only had military training in Officers’ T rain- ing Corps, but had proclaimed on pub... ...rman engineering, as malignant abominations stand- ing towards British and French chemistry and so forth in the relation of heaven to hell, it was cle... ...he great men of action are always inveterate talkers and often very clever writers, and therefore cannot have their minds formed for them by others, t... ... have said if he had seen Ypres as it is now, or returned to Stratford, as French peasants are returning to their homes to-day, to find the old famili... ...ombed the Little Theatre in the Adelphi, and narrowly missed bomb- ing two writers of plays who lived within a few yards of it, the fact was not even ... ...MRS HUSHABYE. —de Rougemont? ELLIE [innocently]. No: de Larochejaquelin. A French fam- ily. A vicomte. His life has been one long romance. A tiger— MR...

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...f original thinkers. In the “Dawn of Day”, Nietzsche actually cautions young writers against the danger of allowing their thoughts to be moulded by th... ...on clamber back to the conven- tions of the age they intended reforming. The French then say “le diable se fait hermite,” but these men, as a rule, ha... ...is new portrait of the Saviour, purged of all impurities, Nietzsche rendered military honours to a foe, which far exceed in worth all that His most ar...

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... plebiscite, and equal rights for women. It makes no dis- tinction between military and civilian targets. Collateral damage is not in its lexicon. We ... ...tly behind Lewin. Lewin had served four years as an officer in the Israeli military. He may have made an attempt to stop the hijackers in front of him... ...mately 530 miles per hour. 61 All on board, as well as many civil- ian and military personnel in the building, were killed. The Battle for United 93 A... ...ndisputably in charge of what remained of the MAK and al Qaeda. 27 Through writers like Qutb, and the presence of Egyptian Islamist teachers in the Sa... ...flect calls for even stronger regulation. In 1983,Attorney General William French Smith revised the Levi guidelines to encourage closer investigation ... ... more proposed operations for al Qaeda.The October 6, 2002, bombing of the French tanker Limburg in the Gulf of Aden also was Nashiri’s handiwork.Alth... ...se, this involved flying from France to Montreal using a photo-substituted French passport under a false name. Under questioning, Ressam admit- ted th...

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...a hundred varying stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and -- setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese -- you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in the forty miles between Edinburgh and Glasgow, or of dialect as in the hundred miles between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Book English has gon...

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...d – setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese – you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of a... ...us nor quick about the life of others. In *1881. 6 Robert Louis Stevenson French colonies, and still more in the Dutch, I have read that there is an ... ...ly from a school. It is only from a school that we can expect to have good writers; it is almost invariably from a school that great writers, these la... ...adet of Royal Ecossais or the Albany Regi- ment, as he mounted guard about French citadels, so may some officer marching his company of the Scots-Dutc... ... child (unless Master James) but has hunted gold, and been a pirate, and a military com- mander, and a bandit of the mountains; but has fought, and su...

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...d on “rabid and fanatical abolitionists” across the Atlantic, and on those writers in England who attach a suffi ciently serious meaning to their Chr... ...rent aggres sion, but by the previous anti British effusions of newspaper writers and stump orators. It is hardly worth while to ask how far these ex... ...en, without reference to these jars, or to the dec lamations of newspaper writers on either side of the Atlan tic, examine the American question as ... ...ority of Mr. H. C. Carey to be considerably more liberal than the reformed French tariff under Mr. Cobden’s treaty; insomuch that he, a Pro tectionis... ...f Parkhurst Prison were to get possession of the Isle of Wight, occupy its military posi tions, enlist one part of its inhabitants in their own ranks... ...they are twice as numerous, and ten or twelve times as rich. Not by taking military pos session of their country, or marching an army through it, but... ... anything but disaster. T wo or three defeats in the field, breaking their military strength, though not followed by an invasion of their territory, m...