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...ot, who bore no resemblance to the gentle, reserved woman he had married. THE CURSE OF KALI 3 England 1854 It was a beautiful autumn day when Si... ...ima,’ said Rosita in her inimitable Spanish accent, which she had never lost despite her years in England. ‘Your dreams have come true, at last, and... ...enturers to the East, had made his fortune in India in the early 18th century. ‘On his return to England, Sir William’s substantial wealth purchased... ...Sir James and Lady Cameron, friends of Sir Terence, returning to India after a spell of leave in England. The couple had promised to watch over his ... ...ir Terence disappeared from her view as the dock and, eventually, the shoreline of their beloved England receded. Helen took Rosita’s arm, ‘Let us ...

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...s, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against ... ... Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New England.‘ ―Some question the beliefs of George Washington. He often a... ..., and no punishments or rewards from God. The so-called ‗freethinkers ‗of England in the 17th and 18th centuries were the major protagonists. They w... ..., was advised by his cohorts to stay away from the God concept because in England they ‗don‘t do God.‘ ―Strong believers want their unseen Go... ...ave gladiators fight to the death? Was it terror when the Vikings attacked England and Ireland? Was it terror when the Spaniards decimated the Aztecs... ...ection. It almost never means what it originally meant in the Germanic or Anglo-Saxon languages.. But it takes no imagination to use it and it makes...

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...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remai...

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..., and ungrateful cries. Pope’s Odyssey. IN THAT PLEASANT DISTRICT of merry England which is wa- tered by the river Don, there extended in ancient time... ...generations had not sufficed to blend the hostile blood of the Normans and Anglo-Saxons, or to unite, by common language and mutual interests, two hos... ... of chivalry, and even of justice, while the far more manly and expressive Anglo-Saxon was abandoned to the use of rustics and hinds, who knew no othe... ...he gradual formation of a dialect, com- pounded betwixt the French and the Anglo-Saxon, in which they could render themselves mutually intelligible to... ... historical events, such as war or insurrection, mark the existence of the Anglo-Saxons as a separate people subsequent to the reign of William the Se... ...made. The dialogue which they maintained between them, was car- ried on in Anglo-Saxon, which, as we said before, was univer- sally spoken by the infe... ...ded, and which had become the universal style of architec- ture throughout England. Rotherwood was not, however, without defences; no habi- tation, in... ...assail to the fair Rowena; for since her namesake introduced the word into England, has never been one more worthy of such a tribute. By my faith, I c... ... me the names of those knights who upheld so gallantly the renown of merry England.” “That will I do blithely,” replied the Pilgrim, “and without guer...

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...art. The same man, who would drive his poor relatives from his own door in England, would besiege in Samoa the doors of the rich; and the essence of t... ...oper; behind, Germans are supreme; beyond, with but few exceptions, all is Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (... ... have to relate) over the Mulivai and from beyond the German town into the Anglo-Saxon. To-day, he will learn it has been carted back again to its old... ...or not the wretched story. And the end of it spattered the credit alike of England and the States, when this man (the premier of a friendly sovereign)... ...e has been done of late years, though in a better quarrel, by ourselves of England. I shall have to tell how the Germans landed and shed blood at Fang... ...olded, and sent, “in the most polite manner,” to its owner. The consuls of England and the States were there (the excellent gentlemen!) to protest. La... ...blic weal is genuine and generous. One man’s meat is another man’s poison: Anglo-Saxons and Germans have been differ- ently brought up. To our galled ... ...ernational obscurities. To Fritze the step seemed natural and obvious; for Anglo-Saxons it was a hand laid upon the altar; and the month was scarce ou... ...t any moment forcibly interrupt me in my jurisdiction.” Yet in the eyes of Anglo-Saxons the severity of his code appeared burlesque. I give but three ...

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...terest; but the contours of the land were soft and English. It was not quite England, neither was it quite France; yet like enough either to seem natu... ...ners so patronisingly superior that I am at a loss to name their parallel in England. A butler perhaps rides as high over the unbutlered, but then he ... ...thieves; I am sure they have no monopoly of that. They are called cruel; the Anglo-Saxon and the cheerful Irishman may each reflect before he bears th... ...ia; and the holders are mostly of American or British birth. We have here in England no idea of the troubles and inconveniences which flow from the ex... ...y greedy land-thieves and sacrilegious pistol-shots. So ugly a thing may our Anglo-Saxon Protestantism appear beside the do- ings of the Society of Je... ...hing else, is, for awhile at least, the king’s highway of progress. Here, in England, too many painters and writers dwell dis- persed, unshielded, amo... ...it was by English and Americans alone. At the same time, the great influx of Anglo-Saxons had be- gun to affect the life of the studious. There had be... ...when they look upon each other, they have an eye to nothing but defects. The Anglo-Saxon is essentially dishonest; the French is devoid by nature of t... ...e, the more obvious selfishness, and even the more ardent friendships of the Anglo-Saxon, speedily dismember such a commonwealth. But this random gath...

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...e Rhine, or, from this central home of the world, to their native homes in England or America, which they are apt thenceforward to look upon as provin... ...the sorrier he is likely to be. The scene reminded the sculptor of our New England vin- tages, where the big piles of golden and rosy apples lie under... ...the number of tongues that make it. So many words are not uttered in a New England village throughout the year—except it be at a political canvass or ... ...f the wine-shop at this day in Italy, as it was three hundred years ago in England), and calls for a goblet of the deep, mild, purple juice, well dilu... ...ans appear to possess none of that emulative pride which we see in our New England villages, where every house- holder, according to his taste and mea... ...tesy made their homage far less obtrusive than that of Germans, French, or Anglo-Saxons might have been. It is not improbable that Miriam had planned ... ...ldiers stood about the portal, and gazed at the brown-haired, fair-cheeked Anglo-Saxon girl, with approving glances, but not indecorously. Hilda began... ...riesthood take little or no part in the matter; and, but for the hordes of Anglo-Saxons who annually take up the flagging mirth, the Carnival might lo... ...ecorously, as well as more airily and de- lightfully, in Rome, than in any Anglo-Saxon city. When Kenyon emerged from a side lane into the Corso, the ...

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...lmost—yes, I really think so,” replied Hilda, a slender, brown-haired, New England girl, whose percep- tions of form and expression were wonderfully c... ...far more wonderful than as above recounted. Thence, it came back among the Anglo-Saxons, and was communicated to the German artists, who so richly sup... ...llences with almost the depth and delicacy of her own perceptions. All the Anglo-Saxon denizens of Rome, by this time, knew Hilda by sight. Unconsciou... ...g it anything like justice. She was pretty at all times, in our native New England style, with her light- brown ringlets, her delicately tinged, but h... ...tain, and think of the brook that used to be one of my playmates in my New England village.” “I fancied I saw something else,” said Kenyon; “but it wa... ...r she is a countrywoman of ours, or an Englishwoman, or a German. There is Anglo-Saxon blood in her veins, one would say, and a right English accent o... ...e Rhine, or, from this central home of the world, to their native homes in England or America, which they are apt thenceforward to look upon as provin... ...tesy made their homage far less obtrusive than that of Germans, French, or Anglo-Saxons might have been. It is not improbable that Miriam had planned ... ...ldiers stood about the portal, and gazed at the brown-haired, fair-cheeked Anglo-Saxon girl, with approving glances, but not indecorously. Hilda began...

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...lmost—yes, I really think so,” replied Hilda, a slender, brown-haired, New England girl, whose percep- tions of form and expression were wonderfully c... ...far more wonderful than as above recounted. Thence, it came back among the Anglo-Saxons, and was communicated to the German artists, who so richly sup... ...llences with almost the depth and delicacy of her own perceptions. All the Anglo-Saxon denizens of Rome, by this time, knew Hilda by sight. Unconsciou... ...g it anything like justice. She was pretty at all times, in our native New England style, with her light- brown ringlets, her delicately tinged, but h... ...tain, and think of the brook that used to be one of my playmates in my New England village.” “I fancied I saw something else,” said Kenyon; “but it wa... ...r she is a countrywoman of ours, or an Englishwoman, or a German. There is Anglo-Saxon blood in her veins, one would say, and a right English accent o...

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...hing to taste the sweets of domestic life, took service as a valet here in England. Find- ing myself out of place, and hearing that Monsieur Phileas F... ...e was a true Parisian of Paris. Since he had abandoned his own country for England, taking ser- vice as a valet, he had in vain searched for a master ... ...lanagan, a brewer; and Gauthier Ralph, one of the Directors of the Bank of England—all rich and highly respectable personages, even in a club which co... ..., and which was town talk, had oc- curred three days before at the Bank of England. A package of banknotes, to the value of fifty-five thousand pounds... ...ok the carpet-bag, opened it, and slipped into it a goodly roll of Bank of England notes, which would pass wherever he might go. “You have forgotten n... ...d with much curiosity the wide streets, the low, evenly ranged houses, the Anglo-Saxon Gothic churches, the great docks, the palatial wooden and brick... ...aints could not escape from the taste for symmetry which distinguishes the Anglo-Saxons. In this strange country, where the people are certainly not u...

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...ost obscure mystery of all is reached: the mystery of the individual. Will England presently produce a military genius? or what will Mr. Belloc say th... ...y of the German Crown Prince, he represented great air- ships sailing over England (which country had been too un- enterprising to make any) under the... ... struction of international relationships than has any recruit drilling in England, or any captain on an ocean liner, or any engineer in charge of a g... ...eems, indeed, to be following the lines of public sanitation. Everybody in England, for example, was bored by the discussion of sanitation—until the g... ...ole profession to be individually unbribable. The judges, moreover, in the Anglo-Saxon communities are appointed from among the leading barristers, an... ... waste is being restrained. The sound case against the legal profession in Anglo-Saxon countries is not that it is unnecessary, but that it is almost ... ... the prophet. Their interaction is being extraordinarily paralleled in the Anglo-Saxon democracies by the interaction of lawyer-poli- tician and Press... ...in the great contrasts and the essential parallelism of the French and the Anglo-Saxon democratic systems that one finds the best practical reason for... ...he History of J.R. Green, and fed my pride upon the peculiar virtues of my Anglo-Saxon blood. (“Cp.,” as they say in footnotes, Carlyle and Froude.) I...

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...,’ Humpty Dumpty said in a calmer tone. ‘That’s what you call a His tory of England, that is. Now, take a good look at me! I’m one that has spoken to... ...had to take care of two Queens asleep at once! No, not in all the History of England—it couldn’t, you know, because there never was more than one Quee...

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...offrey and Wace, for the favour of a high born patron, but for the love of England and of good men and his few hardly won and treasured books. Of thes... ...d in reality a stirring life of the imagination. Back in the Saxon past of England his thoughts moved, and his mind dwelt on her national epic heroes.... ... mind, but they turned their boats, and passed through the channel between England and Normandy. With sail and oar they came to the land of Devon, cas... ...eir own place. For his part Arthur came again to his ships. He returned to England, where he was welcomed of his people with marvel lous joy. Twelve ... ...iches to his friends, in April, when winter was gone, he passed the sea to England, his own realm. Marvellous joy was shown of all good folk at the re...

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... During the first weeks of their acquaintance Morgan had been as puzzling as a page in an unknown language— altogether different from the obvious litt... ... parapets. Such occasions helped them to live, for their books ran low very soon after the beginning of their acquaintance. Pemberton had a good many ... ... him. Pemberton’s mind was fully made up to take his step the following week. This would give him time to get an answer to a letter he had despatched ... ...’t heard?” “I’m much more likely to pretend I have.” “But what can you hear of, this way, stuck in a hole with us? You ought to be on the spot, to go ... ...f his blighting bur- den nor find in it the benefit of a pacified conscience or of a rewarded affection. He had spent all the money ac- cruing to him ...

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...adence. I am not aware that the latter misfortune can be attributed to the Anglo-Saxon race in any part of the world; but there is reason to fear that... ... life had he sold his property for what it would fetch. There was money in England, and the remains of large wealth. But he would not sacrifice Mount... ... used freely, was harsh. She was a politician and a patriot. She regarded England as the greatest of countries, and Jamaica as the greatest of coloni... ...countries, and Jamaica as the greatest of colonies. But much as she loved England she was very loud in denouncing what she called the perfidy of the ... ...y are not the best men in the island to be found there, as the best men in England are to be found in the British House of Commons? A pack, indeed! ... ...n was present, an unmarried, evangelical, handsome young curate fresh from England; and Marian’s piety had been so excited that she had cared for no o...

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... land left where the olden learning found refuge and was kept in being. In England, Germany, and the rest of Europe, what is left of the tradi- tions ... ...of the western seas, “fared a sea-roving” and scoured the western coast of England, Man, and the east of Ireland, but was killed in an attack on his k... ...are always held in high honour. Gunnlaug Worm-tongue (12) in 1004 carne to England, after being in Norway, as the saga says:—“Now sail Gunnlaug and hi... ... their ship. Now, at that time King Ethelred, the son of Edgar, ruled over England, and was a good lord; the winter he sat in London. But in those day... ...he winter he sat in London. But in those days there was the same tongue in England as in Norway and Denmark; but the tongues changed when William the ... ...ose from them a saga, that now given to the readers of this. The so-called Anglo-Saxons brought part of the story to England in “Beowulf ”; in which a... ...glish people may be found in “Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of the Anglo-Saxons; being a collection of Documents illustrating the History of S...

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...emoved from the road between Preston and Blackburn, where the first James of England, in his hurry to make money by mak ing baronets, perhaps made so...

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...n no more than gladiatorial trials of national prowess. The victo- ries of England in this stupendous contest rose of themselves as natural T e Deums ... ... regard it as a case of lunacy or delirium tremens rather than of treason. England owes much of her grandeur to the depth of the aristocratic element ... ... of com- pensating to Scotland her disadvantages in point of popula- tion. England, by the superior density of her population, might always count upon... ...; for this one night they feel themselves by birthright to be daughters of England, and answer to no humbler title. Every joy, however, even rapturous... ... and rider lay mangled together. But I told her how these dear children of England, officers and privates, had leaped their horses over all obstacles ... ...s this of a great victory. 30 17 FEY: This is not a Celtic word; it is the Anglo-Saxon faege retained in Lowland Scotch, which is the most north- erly... ...ppears frequently in descrip- 103 Thomas De Quincey tions of battles, the Anglo-Saxon fatalistic philosophy teach- ing that, certain warriors entered...

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...ch a lan- guage as English is a coalesced language; it is a coalescence of Anglo-Saxon and Norman French and Scholar’s Latin, welded into one speech m... ...ents set a class free to travel, that class at once be- gins to travel; in England, for example, above the five or six hundred pounds a year level, it... ...orld will be open and accessible and as safe for the wayfarer as France or England is to-day. The peace of the world will be established for ever, and... ...nade, and fire-extincteurs hand grenades—minerals, they call such stuff in England—fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. Indeed they do! Cof- f... ...a- tive efficiency, will probably control areas as large sometimes as half England), they will generate electricity by water power, by combustion, by ... ... of theological differences, and the loss of its guiding intelligence. The Anglo-Saxon spirit, it has been said by one of the ablest children of the e... ...r wider political unions in racial tradi- tions and linguistic affinities. Anglo-Saxonism, Pan-German- ism, and the like are such synthetic ideas. Unt... ... Short History of the English People, with its grotesque insis- tence upon Anglo-Saxonism. And just now, the world is in a sort of delirium about race... ...ool, which distinguishes its own race—there is a German, a British, and an Anglo-Saxon sec- tion in the school, and a wider teaching which embraces th...

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...arts, the scene of the first being laid in America; that of the second, in England. Internal evidence of various kinds goes to show that the second pa... ...at that time no intention of pub lishing it; and when, soon after, I left England to travel on the Continent, the manuscript, together with the bulk ... ...ch his peculiarities were calculated to make. He was evi dently not a New Englander, nor a native of any part of these Western shores. His speech was... ...e of a noble life, which had come down like a chain from antiquity, in old England. Having said the words, however, the grim Doctor appeared ashamed b... ...munications referred chiefly to a village, or neighborhood, or locality in England, which he chose to call Newnham; although he told the children that...

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...t Soissons and put me in charge of Lieutenant de Tessin, whom I had met in England studying British social questions long before this war. After- ward... ...statesman, who was being adver- tised like a soap as the coming saviour of England. I was curious to meet him. I wanted to talk to him about all sorts... ...cience or foresight or capacity as domi- nates the smart dinner chatter of England. One knows so well that detestable type of English folly, and its v... ...f Glory or the “Empire on which the sun never sets” or “the meteor flag of England” or of King and Country or any of those fine old headline things. O... ...ch in the same aimless, casually malignant way in which the Zeppelins raid England, appar- ently because there is nothing else for them to do, find it... ...he was shown was like any other French provincial bed- room, and after her Anglo-Saxon habit she walked straight to the windows to open them. They loo...