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...nth are set down, the persons named, and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from being farther imposed on by vulgar almanack- makers....

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...next year particularly related, as will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from being far- ther imposed on by vulgar almanack- mak... ...re will be an insurrection in Dauphine, occasion d by the oppressions of the people, which will not be quieted in some months. On the 15th will be a v... ...leave to the reader the business of interpreting. On the 1st of this month a French general will be killed by a random shot of a cannon-ball. On the 6... ...noise of guns for a victory. On the 14th there will be a false report of the French king s death. On the 20th Cardinal Portocarero will die of a dysen... ...the hands of his enemies. On the 14th a shameful discovery will be made of a French The Bickerstaff Partridge Papers – Swift 9 Jesuit, giving poison ... ...which will make this month memorable to all pos- terity, is the death of the French King, Lewis the fourteenth, after a week s sickness at Marli, whic... ...dge Papers – Swift 10 of Tuscany, who is now about sixty-one years old. The French army acts now wholly on the defensive, strongly fortify d in their... ...ade me compliments upon it as well as he could, in the condition he was. The people about him said, he had been for some time delirious; but when I sa... ...d predictions you printed, with your almanacks, were mere impositions on the people. He reply d, if it were otherwise I should have the less to answer...

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...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...ow that stir and whirl of human thought one calls by way of embodiment the French Revolution, has altered absolutely the approach to such a question. ... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...The Science and Art Department has vanished altogether from the world, and people are forgetting it now with the utmost readiness and generosity. Part... ... within my father’s lifetime, and that many most intelligent and patriotic people were shocked beyond mea- sure at the State doing anything of the sor... ...lying fragments of abortive salad. It was a fantastic massacre. It was the French Revolution of that cold tyranny, the vindictive overthrow of the pam... ...istic leanings— he had suffered the martyrdom of ducking for it—and a huge French May-day poster displaying a splendid proletarian in red and black on... ...House set about with guillotines in the course of an accurately transposed French Revolution. We rebuilt London by Act of Parliament, and once in a mo... ...f us, coming up suddenly; and then one turned to scan the little different French coast villages, and 97 H G Wells then, sliding by in a pale sunshin...

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...king light the highest of all the possibilities of the greatest of all the peoples. He was quite aware, however, of the claims to economic and other c... ...the prow was turned; they seemed to say farewell, to be the last note of a peopled world. Vogelstein saw them very comfort- ably from his place and af... ...retty; Vogelstein remembered in a moment that he had noticed her among the people on the wharf at Southampton. She was soon aware he had observed her;... ...ords of his friend came back to him—the speech about the ten- dency of the people, especially of the ladies, on the Ameri- can steamers to take to the... ...usness; for wasn’t he to be afloat in an oblong box for ten days with such people, and could it be doubted he should see at least enough of them? 11 ... ..., very short skirts and stockings of every tint—was going home, in elegant French clothes, to re- sume an interrupted education. Pandora overlooked an... ...n and had scarcely looked at him. She read a great deal, and almost always French books, in fresh yellow paper; not the lighter forms 14 Pandora of t...

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... the leaders of mankind. I have represented the native common sense of the French mind and of the English mind—for manifestly King Egbert is meant to ... ...ank and honourable gathering of leading men, Englishman meeting German and Frenchman Russian, brothers in their offences and in their disaster, upon t... ...excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), meeting obscurely amidst a world-wide disre- gard t... ... it boil away, seeing the lids of vessels dance with its fury; millions of people at different times must have watched steam pitching rocks out of vol... ...e corn ships of imperial Rome, a petty inci- dent; and a huge migration of peoples between Europe and Western Asia and America was in Progress, and—no... ...n was unskilled, unstimulating, scholarly , and but little valued, and few people even then could have realised that Science was still but the flimsie... ...nd he learnt Greek and Latin as well as he had learnt German, Spanish, and French, so that he wrote and spoke them freely, and used them with an uncon... ... dis- ordered thoughts and violent impulses. For more than a cen- tury the French system exhausted its vitality in belligerent convulsions, and then t... ...esently his battalion came up from the depot to London, to entrain for the French frontier. He tells of children and women and lads and old men cheeri...

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...hanical ex- pert of some sort, a railway peer, geniuses, hairy and Celtic, people of no clearly definable position, but all quite unequal to the task ... ...h and reality. London had not disillusioned him. It was a strange waste of people, it made him feel like a mis- sionary in infidel parts, but it was a... ... when the heather was not in flower it must have been a black country. Its people were dour uncandid individuals, who slanted their heads and knitted ... ...ar Pringle, was poor, proud and ignoble. And extremely unpopular. The rich people of the country were self- made and inclined to nonconformity, the wo... ...med that the church should hold back its curates from enlistment while the French priests were wearing their uni- forms in the trenches; the expeditio... ...thing rather jolly and familiar, something like a very good and successful French or Irish priest, something that came easily and readily into their h... ...; and as for the Mariposa, the dancer, she had nothing but Spanish and bad French, she looked all right, and it wasn’t very likely she would go out of... ...under the care of skilful Mademoiselle Lafarge, most tactful of Protestant French-women, Protes- tant and yet not too Protestant, one of those rare Fr... ...If it was so with Dutch and English, why shouldn’t it be so presently with French and Germans? Why someday shouldn’t French, German, Dutch and English...

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...he carpetway clear. Nobody moved or spoke any more but only waited. In a short time the shrill piping of a coming train was heard, and immediately gro... ...e lofty Neckar hills to their beguiling and im- pressive charm in any country; but German legends and fairy tales have given these an added charm. The... .... I saw that they had the advantage of me, and so I concluded to get out of the scrape by walking out of it. They enjoyed my defeat as much as any low... ...nd it with fine reasoning and pretty arguments. Animals talk to each other, of course. There can be no question about that; but I suppose there are ve... ...e next chapter, will show the reader that duels between boys, for fun, and duels between men in earnest, are very different affairs.] CHAPTER VIII The... ... tions of our day. Since it is always fought in the open air, the combatants are nearly sure to catch cold. M. Paul de Cassagnac, the most inveterate ... ...nd draughts cannot intrude—he will eventually endanger his life. This ought to moderate the talk of those people who are so stubborn in maintaining th... ... the French duel is the most health-giving of recreations because of the open-air exercise it affords. And it ought also to moderate that foolish talk... ...e im- moral. 31 A Tramp Abroad But it is time to get at my subject. As soon as I heard of the late fiery outbreak between M. Gambetta and M. Fourtou ...

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...y ten years since the Marechal de Carigliano sold it to him.” “Ah!” “These people must have an enormous fortune.” “They surely must.” “What a magnific... ...imated at several mil- lions. All the members of the family spoke Italian, French, *Macedoine, in the sense in which it is here used, is a game, or ra... ...ency to lead one to suppose that they had lived long among those different peoples. Were they gypsies? were they buccaneers? “Suppose they’re the devi... ...ect of curiosity, not unlike that aroused by the novels of Anne Radcliffe. People of an observing turn, of the sort who are bent upon finding out wher... ...way, was the cause of my feeling cold.” Ere long the exaggeration to which people in society are naturally inclined, produced a large and growing crop... ...ng escape the no- tice of the performers, male and female. One evening the Frenchman noticed that they were laughing at him in the wings. It is hard t... ... him. As he left the theatre, a stranger grasped his arm. “‘Beware, Signor Frenchman,’ he said in his ear. ‘This is a matter of life and death. Cardin... ...man. She was waiting. “‘You are very late,’ she said. ‘Come.’ “She led the Frenchman through several narrow streets and stopped in front of a palace o... ...t as indicating extreme delicacy of feel- ing. This weakness delighted the Frenchman. There is so much of the element of protection in a man’s love! “...

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...lexingly just isn’t… . 2 2 2 2 2 Benham did not go about the world telling people of this con- suming research. He was not the prophet or preacher of ... ...further side. “Don’t be afraid!” cried the peasant in his clumsy Valaisian French, and returned, returning along the plank that seemed quite sufficien... ...nd. Afterwards, rather ignobly, he tried to explain in his pub- lic-school French. “Pas de peur,” he said. “Pas de peur. Mais la tete, n’a pas l’habit... ...ome a smash in a minute!’ Far ahead I saw the grey sheds of Eastchurch and people strolling about apparently unaware of our disaster. There was a sudd... ...nd assure him- self of his own comfort in the midst of his reading. Y oung people and unseasoned people, Benham argued, are apt to imagine that if fea... ...es with extreme readiness to resentment and rage. “Like most inexperienced people,” ran his notes, “I was astonished at the reported feats of men in w... ... insisted upon regarding Socialism as a proposal to reinaugurate the first French Revolution, as an inversion of society so that it would be bottom up... ...he eye like a vulture. It will have teeth like the English spin- ster in a French comic paper… . And we will fly….” “I shall enjoy it very much,” said... ...personal bitterness. And he found his chief ally in a rigorous and voluble Frenchman named Carnac, an aggressive Roman Catholic, who opened his speech...

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.................................................................. 27 Charlie French ....................................................................... ...orting candidates for office? Or for writing up the canning factory To get people to invest? Or for suppressing the facts about the bank, When it was ... ...Anthology Doctor Meyers NO other man, unless it was Doc Hill, Did more for people in this town than l. And all the weak, the halt, the improvident And... ...u know why? My wife hated me, my son went to the dogs. And I turned to the people and poured out my love to them. Sweet it was to see the crowds about... ...l for me: “Taken from the evil to come.” 28 Spoon River Anthology Charlie French DID you ever find out Which one of the O’Brien boys it was Who snapp... ...e, Who pictured to me my destruction If I did not prove my morality to the people. Well, she ruined me: For the radicals grew suspicious of me, And th... ...orts of people, Musicians, poets, dandies, artists, nobles, Where we spoke French and German, Italian, English. I wed Count Navigato, native of Genoa.... ...ade a nest in my skull Russian Sonia I, BORN in Weimar Of a mother who was French And German father, a most learned professor, Orphaned at fourteen ye... ...nativity. And there in Rome, among the artists, Speaking Italian, speaking French, I seemed to myself at times to be free Of every trace of my origin....

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...pon the vital message they 6 The Upanishads contain for all times and all peoples. There is nothing peculiarly racial or local in them. The ennobling... ... in the seventeenth century. More than a century later the dis- tinguished French scholar, Anquetil Duperron, brought a copy of the manuscript from Pe... ...ht a copy of the manuscript from Persia to France and trans- lated it into French and Latin. Publishing only the Latin text. Despite the distortions w... ...(1775-1833). Since that time there have been various European translations—French, German, Italian and English. But a mere translation, how- ever accu... ...rsion. It has since appeared in various languages; and English, German and French writers are all agreed in pronouncing it one of the most perfect exp... ... thy fire that leads to heaven, which thou hast chosen as thy second boon. People will call this fire after thy name. Ask the third boon, Nachiketas. ... ...ich all the Vedas glorify, which all austerities proclaim, desiring which (people) practice Brahmacharya (a life of continence and service), that goal... ...ech: know that alone to be the Brahman (the Supreme Being), not this which people worship here. V That which cannot be thought by mind, but by which, ... ..., mind is able to think: know that alone to be the Brahman, not this which people worship here. VI That which is not seen by the eye, but by which the...

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... dreaming, my friend.” “I am not dreaming, my beautiful white doe. Listen. People should always do what their position in life demands. Gov- ernment h... ...l store-house for bottle, crystals, and porcelains. The work- shop for our people, in the attic! Passers-by shall no longer see them gumming on the la... ...tune. The poor Ragonines look to me half-starved of late.” “Bah! all those people want your money.” “But what people, my treasure? Is it your uncle Pi... ...me Birotteau. “Well, my conscience is clear,” said Cesar, continuing; “the people who sell, sell because they must; we do not steal from them any more... ...elt’s on the piano, and singing a ballad; or when he found her writing the French language correctly, or reading Racine, father and son, and explainin... ... Astronomers lived on spiders. These striking points of information on the French lan- guage, on dramatic art, politics, literature, and science, will... ...e eau-de-cologne. The names of these places were shams, invented to please French- men who could not endure the things of their own country. A French ... ...at Macassar is really in the Indies. Now, isn’t it much better to supply a French prod- uct to the Indians than to send them back what they are suppos... ... beauty of this young girl was not the beauty of an English lady, nor of a French duchess, but the round and glowing beauty of a Flemish Rubens. Cesar...

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...Plata, as they sup- posed, but was now one of the greatest geniuses of the French school of painting; a fact the family did not believe. The eldest so... ...ine apartment in the rue Saint-Georges; in short, she is, in proportion to French fortunes of the present day compared with those of former times, a r... ...tist takes his violon- cello, and show you how it is played,—in short, how people amuse themselves in Paris.” “It is a kaleidoscope with a circumferen... ...e a lower depth still?” asked Bixiou. “Yes, monsieur,” said the spy. “Some people give us infor- mation without knowing they do so, and without gettin... ... you stay in such a business!” cried the virtuous Gazonal. “It is amusing! People may cry up the pleasures of hunting and fishing as much as they like... ...n wears the cross, but I’m the better dressed of the two, and it is I whom people are looking at.” After this remark, which may explain why orators an... ... system, which is, let us say it frankly, ignoble? Yes, ignoble; and yet a Frenchman is, of all nationalities, the one most persistent in this folly! ... ... messieurs,” he continued. “How is it that the wittiest and most satirical people on earth will con- sent to wear upon their heads a bit of stove-pipe... ...r give the tone to women’s fashions, 19 Balzac and yet the hats which all Frenchmen wear to-day are made in every country on earth! There are ten mil...

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...hat was interesting was that he would boast of it openly. He used to say: “People think I make a lot of money in this schooner of mine. But that is no... ... the mere story. A rascal steals a large parcel of a valuable commodity—so people say. It’s either true or untrue; and in any case it has no value in ... ... on the nature of current events or affecting directly the fortunes of the people of whom I speak. As to their own histories I have tried to set them ... .... As to their own histories I have tried to set them down, Aristocracy and People, men and women, Latin and Anglo-Saxon, bandit and politician, with a... ...safe proceeding. Such was also the opinion of a stout, loud-voiced lady of French extraction, the daughter, she said, of an of- 54 Nostromo ficer of ... ...ntage was German and Scotch and English, with remote strains of Danish and French blood, giving him the temperament of a Puritan and an insatiable ima... ... who piqued him- self on his culture and Europeanism generally in a rather French style because he had lived in Europe for some years—in exile, he sai... ... Only then Sir John thought fit to respond, which he did gracefully in bad French, punctuated by bursts of applause and the “Hear! Hears!” of Cap- tai... ... clothing, from the round hat to the varnished shoes, suggested an idea of French elegance; but otherwise he was the very type of a fair Spanish creol...

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...d diffidence contrasted with Ursula’s sensitive expectancy. The provincial people, intimidated by Gudrun’s perfect sang-froid and exclusive bareness o... ...run’s face. She did not want to be too definite. ‘When one thinks of other people’s children—’ said Ursula. Again Gudrun looked at her sister, almost ... ... submit herself to it, the insufferable torture of these ugly, meaningless people, this defaced coun- tryside? She felt like a beetle toiling in the d... ...rvellous, it’s really marvellous—it’s really wonderful, another world. The people are all ghouls, and everything is ghostly. Everything is a ghoulish ... ...‘An old American edition,’ said Birkin. ‘Ha!—of course—translated from the French,’ said Alexander, with a fine declamatory voice. ‘Bazarov ouvra la p... ...es gens-la! Ne sont-ils pas des hiboux incroyables?’ And with the words of French in her mouth, she would look over her shoulder at the giggling party... ...He’s a real king, he really is.’ ‘Bon jour, Mademoiselle,’ said the little French governess, wavering up with a slight bow, a bow of the sort that Gud... ...et noir. Vous ne l’avez pas vu?’ said Gudrun in her good, but rather heavy French. ‘Non, mademoiselle, Winifred n’a jamais voulu me le faire voir. T a... ... love with her. She was aware of Mademoiselle standing near, like a little French beetle, observant and calculating. She moved away with Winifred, say...

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...e in that respect which won for them the grateful affection of the country-people, and also violent remon- strances on the part of strangers accustome... ...are English springs for those called “swan-necks,” and other old-fashioned French contrivances. But these hard and distrustful manufacturers would onl... ...ise. Political events prevented both the count and the neighboring country-people from becom- ing aware of this investment, which was made in the name... ...She was dressed in a black-silk gown that was dyed, a brown bonnet, an old French cashmere shawl, raw-silk stockings, and low shoes; and in her hand s... ...efer- ences, Pierrotin, it isn’t right.” “Coucous and the Charter make all Frenchmen equals,” said Georges. “Oh! be easy,” said Pere Leger; “we are su... ... ening the journey and forgetting its tedium. That is how things happen in French stage-coaches. In other countries customs are very different. Englis... ... meant to do, got crushed himself. His son took refuge in the house of the French consul at Smyrna, and he afterwards died in Paris, leaving my mother... ...po di Bacco! the Pope is laying it on heavily,” replied Schinner. “But the people are used to it. Besides, Italians are so good-natured that if you le... ... Dalmatia very well.” “Well, if you have been there, you know that all the people at that end of the Adriatic are pirates, rovers, corsairs retired fr...

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...m Scotch instead of Irish, and I have no knowledge that the lackey was not French. The imbecility of the Abbe is merely 4 A Modern Telemachus a deduc... ...the pirate city, and compelled the Dey to receive a consul and to liberate French prisoners and French property; but the lady having been taken in an ... ...t which drove the tartane apart from her captor, for it also shattered the French transports and interfered with Berwick’ s Spanish campaign. The circ... ...rival, the negotiations, and the de- sire of the sheyk to detain the young French lady for a wife to his son, are from the narrative. He really did cl... ...ob- ably had either a surname to be concealed or else unpro- nounceable to French lips. Scott must have had some fur- ther information of the after hi... ...s life in banishment, and think of our dear home and 19 Yo n g e our poor people, I am tempted to wonder whether it were indeed a duty, or whether th... ...man, with keen eyes, and a sort of sparkle of manner, and power of setting people at ease, that made her the more charming the older she grew. An expe... ...lysse to his sister. ‘See, what are they doing?’ cried Estelle. ‘There are people— don’t you see, white specks crowding down to the water.’ There was ... ...of Golo, not far from Djigheli, and just beyond the Algerine frontier. The people were Cabeleyzes, a wild race of savage dogs, which means dogs accord...

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...iting (a very 6 The Vicar of Tours harmless desire in the eyes of worldly people) had been to the abbe nothing less than a passion, a passion full of... ..., but chiefly by that inexplicable embarrassment which often assails timid people and makes them fear to seem impolite by breaking off a conversation ... ...pride, egotism, envy, and vanity which pre-exist in the breasts of worldly people. This history is of all time; it suffices to widen slightly the narr... ...dy, from whom he half expected an apology, and yet alarmed, like all timid people at the prospect of a discussion, especially if it relates to themsel... ...ut. Therefore you will have to go, whether you like it or not. Her sort of people play a sure game, they risk nothing.” This old gentleman, Monsieur d... ...Tours lying beyond the bridge. That bridge, one of the finest monuments of French architecture, is nineteen hundred feet long, and the two open square...

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... the old province of Le Velay, which also is now but little known, even to French ears, for it is in these days called by the imperial name of the Dep... ...erty of the head of the race. Le Puy itself is a small, moderate, pleasant French town, in which the language of the people has not the pure Parisian ... ...f is a small, moderate, pleasant French town, in which the language of the people has not the pure Parisian aroma, nor is the glory of the boulevards ... ... there, and go back to England,” Mrs. Thompson had said, not in the purest French, to the neighbour who always sat next to her at the table d’hote, th... ... the place; and he had once accompanied her, sitting on the back seat of a French voiture, when she had gone forth to see something of the surrounding... ...g.” “M. Lacordaire always spoils you, I think,” answered Mrs. Thompson, in French. And then they went thoroughly to work at their breakfast. During th... ... What was the prince’s name?” “Polignac.” “Mamma, ain’t princes very great people?” “Yes, my dear; sometimes.” “Is Prince Polly-nac like our Prince Al... ...her return. She had found it dull and cold, stiff, and almost ill-natured. People there had not smiled on her and been civil as M. Lacordaire had done... ...archand! But a marchand of what? She had an instinc- tive feeling that the people in the hotel were talking about her and M. Lacordaire, and was there...

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...ry. It was the custom in the State of Maryland to require the free colored people to have what were called free papers. These instruments they were re... ...erners re- 10 turning from the Northern watering-places; that the colored people of New York were not to be trusted; that there were hired men of my ... ...ns I had in some way conceived of the social and material condition of the people at the North. I had no proper idea of the wealth, refinement, enterp... ...ally to the conclusion that poverty must be the general con- dition of the people of the free States. In the country from which I came, a white man ho... ...only to life generally in the South, but in the condition of the col- ored people there, than in New Bedford. I was amazed when Mr. Johnson told me th... ... then my repulse was emphatic and decisive. It so happened that Mr. Rodney French, a wealthy and en- terprising citizen, distinguished as an anti-slav... ...oppering to be done. I had some skill in both branches, and applied to Mr. French for work. He, generous man that he was, told me he would employ me, ... ... not get two dollars, I was glad to get one; and so I went to work for Mr. French as a common laborer. The con- sciousness that I was free—no longer a...

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...ge; and, having their book-learn- ing fresh in their minds, see the living people and their cities, and the actual aspect of Nature, along the famous ... ...s shores of the Mediterranean. CHAPTER I:VIGO THE SUN BROUGHT ALL the sick people out of their berths this morning, and the indescribable moans and no... ...n smiled peacefully round about, and the ship went rolling over it, as the people within were praising the Maker of all. In honour of the day, it was ... ..., defended by the superior mountain whereon the castle stands. Numbers of people, arrayed in various brilliant colours of red, were standing on the s... ...ooms were as clean as scrubbing and whitewash could make them; with simple French prints (with Spanish titles) on the walls; a few rickety half-finish... ...fan and mantle; to them came three or four dandies, dressed smartly in the French fashion, with strong Jewish physiognomies. There was one, a solemn l... ...y choose his trade,” our little informant said, who addressed us in better French than any of our party spoke, whose manners were perfectly gentlemanl... ...we saw were still rich, tawdry, and splendid to outward show, although the French, as usual, had robbed their shrines of their gold and silver, and th... ...Soult and Junot thought, when they despoiled these places of worship, like French philoso- phers as they were. A friend, with a classical turn of mind...