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...m the least collecting of men, but I have brought home Italian cartridges, Austrian cartridges, the fuse of an Austrian shell, a broken Italian bayone... ...and desola- tion. One day on the Carso he had been near the newly captured Austrian trenches, and suddenly from amidst a scat- tered mass of Austrian ... ...things of the past now in Udine. Udine keeps itself dark nowadays, and the Austrian sea-planes, which come raiding the Italian coast country at night ... ...ndian corn and suchlike lush crops. Always quite soon one came to some old Austrian boundary posts; almost everywhere the Italians are fighting upon w... ... taken a week or so before my arrival; the Isonzo had been crossed and the Austrians driven back across the Carso for several miles; all the resources... ...” He reflected, and some disagreeable memory darkened his face. “Under the politicians?” he said. I took the train of thought N had set going abroad w...

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...of the lands his family had formerly owned on terra firma, and sold to the Austrian government. This little income spared our handsome Emilio the igno... ...the lagoon from Mestre to Venice, between the lines of stakes painted with Austrian colors, which mark out the channel for gondolas as conceded by the... ..., and unable to sell the statues, stairs, paintings, sculp- ture, which an Austrian decree had made inalienable! T o live on a foundation of piles of ... ...d that the manager had tried in vain to induce her to appear with him. The Austrian General, on the other hand, asserted that it was the Duke who was ... ...mmanded to make amends to the public. The Duchess owed this visit from the Austrian General to the fact that a French physician had come to Venice who... ...eled simpletons and hypocritical poets, while its character is traduced by politicians—in this land, which appears so languid, powerless, and ruinous,...

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...damen- tally the princes, the diplomatists, the lawyers, the statesmen and politicians, the nationalists and suspicious people, since it gives them ye... ...rved our purposes be- fore the war. I believe that for old lawyers and old politicians and “pri- vate ownership” to handle the great problem of recons... ...fficient; the Western countries have to do the same with that oligarchy of politicians which, as Pro- fessor Michels has recently pointed out in his s... ...ns and controls. In other words, we cannot do with- out a special class of politicians. They may be elected by a public or appointed by an autocrat; a... ... absolutely barred from becoming the former, it is almost unavoidable that politicians should be drawn more abundantly from the lawyer class than from... ...certain section of them. Disre- garding the dim feelings of the peasantry, Austrian Poland would probably be the most willing to retain a connection w... ... of the Hohenzollern Empire to embrace the German one of the three. If the Austrians have a passion for Prussian “kultur,” it is not for us to restrai... ...ans have a passion for Prussian “kultur,” it is not for us to restrain it. Austrian, Saxon, Bavarian, Hanoverian and Prussian must adjust their own di...

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...d little strength in hole- and-corner bargainings between the officials or politicians who happen to be at the head of this or that nation for the tim... ...of thing will not do now. This Peace Con- gress is too big a job for party politicians and society and county families. The bulk of British opinion ca... ...a, Egypt, and suchlike key possessions. It seemed to excite several of our politicians extremely . I read over the German Chancellor’s speech very car... ...damental than that mere raging against German “militarism,” upon which our politicians and press still so largely subsist. The enormous development of... ...st things; when we look for the wisdom of statesmen we find the cunning of politicians; when open speech and plain rea- son might save the world, cour... ...ng again to the atlas the reader can see for himself that the Ger- man and Austrian submarines are obliged to come out across very narrow fronts. A fe...

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...ntcornet commanded the cuirassiers at the battle of Essling (called by the Austrians Gross-Aspern), and came near perishing when that noble corps was ... ...lorious resolution, at Montcornet’s command, to turn and resist the entire Austrian army, which carried off on the mor- row over thirty wagon-loads of... ...The curate of Gross-Aspern took us to the famous cemetery where French and Austrians struggled to- gether knee-deep in blood, with a courage and obsti... ...usly and by lucky chances. If some soldiers are wily and astute and clever politicians, they are exceptions; a soldier is, usually, especially an acco... ...ed sudden orders to advance through Hungary and cut off the retreat of the Austrian army in case the Emperor won the battle of Wagram. Michaud told me... ...ith the difficulties and necessities of administration, but whom pu- ritan politicians, doing infinitely worse things, call corrupt. The interior of G...

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...liberties, so now the world. Things as they are may be fun for lawyers and politicians and court people and—douaniers; they may suit the loan-mongers ... ...matter. They had not had the time. They had just negotiated, like the mere politicians they were, for the Nationalist vote. They seemed to hope that b... ...ht morning in Sep- tember that Benham came up on to the deck of the sturdy Austrian steamboat that was churning its way with a sedu- lous deliberation... ...d dishonesty, peddling trades, vendettas and war. For a while the unstable Austrian ruled this land and made a sort of or- der that the incalculable c... ...t became at last a prolonged and very picturesque tour in Switzerland, the Austrian Tyrol, North Italy, and down the Adriatic coast. Amanda had never ... ...Any one could, the Servians, the Bulgarians, the Greeks, the Italians, the Austrians. Why, they can’t even shoot! It’s just the balance of power and a...

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...y. Well, and very necessary, too; otherwise we might be where the wretched Austrians are. Instead of which—how smooth his hostess’ sapphires! “Of cour... ... his head looked hard and rather military: he would have been taken for an Austrian officer, or even a German, had it not been for the, peculiar Itali... ...bred gentlemen, and then perhaps, your profiteers and Rothschilds, and ALL politicians, and ending up with the proletariat,” said Argyle. “Then who wo...

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...ought a duel against the Comtes de Rontzau, a Dane, and Schwartzenberg, an Austrian. Uzes gave himself up, but the Comte d’Albert did not do so for a ... ...house would be aggrandised at its expense. As to the first obstacle, these politicians were of opinion that the renunciations made by Maria Theresa he... ...s Confessor, who had been given to him by the Queen, and who was a zealous Austrian. Cardinal Portocarrero was charged with this duty, and he succeede... ...wo ecclesias- tics, with no friend near whose opinion he could consult, no Austrian at hand to confer with, and no Spaniard who was not opposed to Aus... ...ts to this Prince. He was, indeed, completely triumphant in Spain, and the Austrian party as completely routed. The Queen of Spain was sent away from ... ...was, then, quite at home on the frontier; there was nothing to do; for the Austrians, weakened by the departure of the English, were quite unable to a...

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...blue ink, which distinguished a letter that had come through the Prussian, Austrian, Bavarian, and French post-offices. 26 Colonel Chabert “Ah ha!” s... ...Countess’ position, falling into one of those brown studies to which great politicians give themselves up when concocting their own plans and trying t...

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... of Austria at Geneva, Septem ber 10, 1898, occurred during Mark Twain’ s Austrian residence. The news came to him at Kaltenleutgeben, a summer resor... ...he mourning is universal and genuine, the consternation is stupefying. The Austrian Empire is being draped with black. Vienna will be a spectacle to s... ...Empress is murdered!” When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew Wha... ...ised up prize fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little and big politicians, and big and little charity founders, and bicycle champions, an... ...o groups were the high notes. The green plumes were worn by forty or fifty Austrian generals, the group opposite them were chiefly Knights of Malta an... ...ege presidents and professors, architects, engineers, painters, sculptors, politicians, agitators, rebels, revolution ists, patriots, demagogues, clo...

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.... “They are Italian refugees,” said he to himself, “outlaws in fear of the Austrian or Sardinian police. The young lady waits till it is dark to walk ... ...er Branch were to return,” said he to an old states- man of seventy, “what politicians would they find?”— “Berryer, alone on his bench, does not know ...

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...hou- sand men as immediate reinforcements for the armies then fighting the Austrians in Italy, the Prussians in Germany, and menaced in Switzerland by... ... to treating with them. He is a long-headed fellow, and very keen; but the politicians will get the better of him on their own ground. The betrayal of...

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...ver the long range of desks, I had under my eye French, English, Belgians, Austrians, and Prussians. The ma- jority belonged to the class bourgeois; b... ...one thought, whose talk is of free trade. The foreign visi- tors, too, are politicians; they take a wider theme—European progress—the spread of libera...

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...th the morning; I have no guess what I should do. ’Tis easy to say that the public duty should brush aside these little considerations of personal dig... ...e, Lloyd and I, and drove in great style, with a native out- rider, to the prison; a huge gift of ava and tobacco under the seats. The prison is now u... ...don’t know that he would show his best, but he is a re- markably fine fellow, in every department of life. We have other visitors in port. A Count Fes...

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...f legal gentlemen vociferating mightily for swords and the onset, like the Austrian empress’s Magyars, to vindicate her just and holy cause. Our Law-c... ...circle, not of worshippers only. She did not dance. The prin- cess, a fair Austrian, benevolent to her sisterhood, an ad- mirer of Diana’s contrasting... ...lan- guage. Otherwise we have it coarse—anything but a repro- duction. You politicians despise the little distinctions “twixt tweedledum and tweedlede... ...because of the known failure of her other adorers. He in the front rank of politicians attracted her with the lustre of his ambition; she him with her...

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...olours, are moored everywhere, showing their flags, Rus- sian and English, Austrian, American, and Greek; and along the quays country ships from the B... ...r travellers. I, with them, could see (perhaps it was the preaching of the politicians that warned me of the fact) that we are looking on at the last ...

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...ew had accompanied the son of the writer, Captain de Croisnel, on board an Austrian boat out of the East, and was lying in V enice under a return- att... ...s, and then resumed the trot, apparently in search of fresh ammunition. An Austrian sentinel looked on passively, and a police inspector peeringly. Th... ...siness that helped hunting-men a stage above sportsmen, for numbers of the politicians she was acquainted with were hunting-men, yet something more by... ... I remember in the year of Revolution there was danger of a rising in some Austrian city, and a colonel of a regiment commanded his band to play. The ... ...herwise it comes to this wild preaching. These men are theory-tailors, not politicians. They are the 328 Beauchamp’s Career men who make the “strait-... ...il ‘s right. It ‘s as well we should know something about the Prussian and Austrian cavalry, and if our aristocracy won’t go abroad to study cavalry, ...

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...er the banner of Giraud, a State Councillor, and Victorin Hulot. These two politicians were trying to form a nucleus of progressives in the loose arra... ...s. All honor to those we left there!” and the old man lifted his hat. “The Austrians were amazed at the dash of it.—The Emperor made the man you saw a...

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...5 Autobiographic Sketches 20 This was a manoeuvre regularly taught to the Austrian cavalry in the middle of the last century; as a ready way of openi... ...mountains for the winter. Rigor, therefore, there was; for the most humane politicians, erroneously, as one must believe, fancied it necessary for the... ...ches resemblances in Mr. Williams’s features to those of the Bour- bon and Austrian families. The most pathetic fact is that of the idiocy common to t...

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...d sphere only,—inciting a people to rebel, tracking the secrets of austere politicians, and triumphing nowhere but in boudoirs and on the back- stairs... ... the pretty Madame de Rastignac offered him, “will you come with me to the Austrian ambassador’s?” “My dear fellow, I am too recently married not to g... .... But I like able men, and I will attend to your affair.” They reached the Austrian embassy. The Comte de Rastignac saw the minister of the interior i...

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...all passions have their Jesuitism, the chevalier and the baron, those wily politicians, had found a means of eluding this charter. When all the player... ...d about the nostrils; very shrewd and clever, but supercilious. She has an Austrian mouth; the upper lip has more character than the lower, which drop...

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...— like the last coin issued from the Mint. The stables, partly screened by Austrian pines and evergreen oaks, and fitted with every late appliance, wer... ...il were once owners of it, and I sometimes wonder that a certain school of politicians don’t make capital of the circumstance; but they don’t seem to ...

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...to arrogate to himself the exclusive fishing. Their keepers watch like the Austrian guard on the Danube, in a life of perpetual assault and battery. L... .... It was mere rubbish, without the point, which was too strong for the two politicians; rubbish, any way. Don’t tell me to go on with it; it was a mer...

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...hat needlewoman, notwithstanding her low condition, had ac- quaintances in the highest rank; she called the grandest la- dies of the court her friend,... ...Down with Mazarin,” and pleased with Gondy’s suppres- sion of this fact, he said with his sweetest voice and his 385 Dumas most gracious expression: ...

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...cussing, arguing, fighting behind bar- ricades in Paris, flying before the Austrian cav- 123 W. Somerset Maugham alry in Milan, imprisoned here, exil... ... wives who dined with us, and the literary stock- brokers, and the budding politicians; oh, she was a charming woman. She made me go to church in a si...

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...p a vote into the ballot-box. As for the prominent 10 Miscellaneous Prose politicians who have displaced their rivals partly on the strength of an im... ...ing to the intimation sent by General Lamarmora on T uesday evening to the Austrian headquarters, the three days fixed by the general’s message before... ...ver, and, as everybody here hopes, to cross it in spite of any defence the Austrians may make. On my way to this ancient city last evening I met Gener... ...curo, or at any other point not far from it, it is to be supposed that the Austrians will make a stand there, and I should not be surprised at all tha... ... of the powerful artillery he disposes of—in these twofold operations, the Austrians defending the line of the Colli Euganei could be easily outflanke... ...ng campaign. There was a rumour at Cialdini’s headquarters to-day that the Austrians had gathered in great numbers in the Polesine, and especially at ...

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... example. Prussia’s well horsed, and for the work it’s intended to do, the Austrian light cavalry’s a model. So I’m told. I’ll see for myself. Then we... ...stcoat the miniature, ‘what don’t they say here! It’s a bright day for the Austrian capital that has her by 44 Celt and Saxon the river Danube. Yours... ...ng, and at the same time your journals are venting their fine irony at the Austrians and the Russians and the Prussians for tearing Poland to strips w... ...imaginable among comparative pygmies. But Rockney’s combat with his fellow-politicians of the Press partook of the Swiftian against the Johnsonian in ... ...er. Where was it?’ ‘We met in Trieste. He was about to start by one of the Austrian boats for the East.’ ‘Not disturbed! no! with a rotten potato insi...

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... them into revolt and enmity against the natural law of love. I have heard politicians and coffee-house wiseacres talking over the newspaper, and rail... ...s Grace, in which he hoped that as Don Scipio had formerly served with the Austrians against the French, ’twas to be hoped that his Excellency would n... ... Excellency would now declare himself against the French King, and for the Austrian in the war be- tween King Philip and King Charles. But his Excelle... ...know my Father in any garment, black or white, shaven or bearded;” for the Austrian officer was habited quite in the military manner, and had as warli... ...d a little excited by wine, which was dealt out much more liberally by the Austrian than by the English commander:— ”Now,” says my general, slapping t...

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...f a large portion of the population whose in- terests go beyond the State. Politicians and statesmen, being the last people in the world to notice wha... ... We have come to see more and more clearly how little we can hope for from politicians, societies and organised movements in these es- sential things.... ...sophy from the foolish cerebrations of university “characters” and eminent politicians at leisure, and our starved science find scope and resources ad... ...les that we must look for its continuance. A large and influential body of politicians considers that in preferential trading between the parts of the... ... discussion of this very issue, a discussion between a number of prominent politicians in the days before Mr. Chamberlain’s return from South Africa a... ...e to send. Germany and Switzerland send only a few. The South European and Austrian supply is not as abundant as it was. There may come a time when Eu...

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...eplace, with a painting representing apparently a battle between Turks and Austrians. The President of Magdalen College on progress always held his co... ...ion. With change of time comes also change of men; and the states- men and politicians of the new world, whatever their merits or demerits, will proba... ..., and the curious panel picture of a battle, apparently between T urks and Austrians, has been removed. The fields beyond, bordering on Otterbourne Pa...

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...h the medium of other countries, goods to it of their own produce, such as Austrian Flanders, and some provinces of Germany, which, through the medium... ...ere those which, in later times, the Swiss militia gained over that of the Austrians and Burgundians. The military force of the German and Scythian na... ...ks greatly to overbalance our imports, to the unspeakable comfort of those politicians, who mea- sure the national prosperity by what they call the ba... ...ed in many other countries, particularly in the 746 The Wealth of Nations Austrian and Prussian dominions, and in the greater part of the states of I... ... trade to the West Indies would, by a certain spe- 781 Adam Smith cies of politicians, be considered as extremely disadvantageous. But it so happens,...

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...en. “You have not a moment to lose, madame,” said the man. “The Prussians, Austrians, and English are about to effect a junction either at Blois or at... ...sent out into the country air by her doc- tors as a last resource. Village politicians were by no means pleased to see the young, delicate, downcast f... ...n the score of calculations which they take very good care not to publish, politicians who live on a newspa- per article, men of letters and artists w...

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... than it would be for a Prussian to denounce the Aus- trian emperor, or an Austrian to denounce the Prussian king, as a false sovereign. False! How fa... ...y withdraw from the mission with which God had charged him, far less could politicians and magistrates under any allegation of public inconveniences p... ...these men who dispute this English pretension mordicus; ask him, or bid an Austrian serf ask him, what are the benefits of Protestantism, and what the...

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...n (two of whom were Normans, and the third from Gascony,) one Dutchman, one Austrian, two or three Spaniards, (from old Spain,) half a dozen Spanish... ...‘‘Star span gled Banner.’’ After these national tributes had been paid, the Austrian gave us a very pretty little love song, and the Frenchmen sang ... ...t ideas of his own importance. The man in charge of the Rosa’s house was an Austrian by birth, but spoke, read, and wrote four languages with ease an... ... of the entertainment at the Rosa’s house, I saw old Schmidt, (that was the Austrian’s name) standing up by a hogshead, holding on by both hands, an... ...heir charge, and, for the most part, men of desperate fortunes—broken down politicians and soldiers—whose only object is to retrieve their conditio...

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...r of the Netherlands! (you stock whence I myself have descended;) You sturdy Austrian! you Lombard! Hun! Bohemian! farmer of Styria! You neighbor of t... ...the good old cause in it? Has it not dangled long at the heels of the poets, politicians, literats, of enemies’ lands? Does it not assume that what is...

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...s, I ought to start from last night at twelve o’clock, when she was at the Austrian Ambassador’s ball, and came home at two; but she was up by eight—s... ..., and Miss Leonora is given over to me; for you must know we are wonderful politicians. Flora studies all the debates till George finds out what he ha...

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... being himself a strong politician, constantly expressed a belief that all politicians opposed to him are thieves, child-murderers, parricides, lovers... ...d of going to Bologna to Florence. He had for- tunately come armed with an Austrian passport—as was necessary in those bygone days of V enice’s thrald...