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...rkness of the white brought out the rich shades of the three outfits—jade, bronze and purple. Impulsively, he fingered the lace hem of the jade dress,... ...squeezed against, aren't they? "...considered good luck to own in parts of Europe, England and the U.S.." "Huh?" Tyler shook his head, raised his eyes... ...at's all?" "That's all?" "No, no. I don't mean you look older. You look my age, maybe even younger. But—" "But?" "You act like an old man." He turned ... ...m." "I thought you seemed at home out here in the country." "From an early age I've been close to nature. I used to spend a lot of time with the anima... ...la turned to Kelly and smiled. "They're just so adorable when they're this age. Wait until you have some of your own. You'll see what I mean." "Mom......

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...hair on his sallow temples, turning gray already, gave a look of premature age to his face. He flung the reins to a servant who followed on horseback,... ...imes amazed the Giant himself. Napoleon was nearly ready for his duel with Europe. It was a sad sentiment which brought a brilliant and curious throng... ...another thought was dimly present, how that in the future, when the heroic age of France should have taken the half- fabulous color with which it is t... ...to march in through the arch in the centre; the T riumphal Arch, where the bronze horses of St. Mark from Venice used to stand in those days. At eithe... ...erday and buildings centuries old, shone full like- wise upon thousands of bronzed faces, each one with its own 9 Balzac tale of perils passed, each ... ...the glory of France; and those most weary of the struggle with the rest of Europe had left their hatreds behind as they passed in under the T riumphal... ...his soldierly splendor. Colonel Victor d’Aiglemont, barely thirty years of age, was tall, slender, and well made. His well-proportioned figure never s... ... that there are deplorable flaws in the institutions upon which society in Europe is based. Two years went by. M. and Mme. d’Aiglemont went their sepa... ...appiness and thoughts from some inner depth. The General’s face was deeply bronzed, a stray lock of gray hair scored shadows on his forehead. The reck...

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...s he expected nothing out of the way; he only wanted what the men of his own age and standing did get, and he was no worse qualified for performing dut... ...so he made haste to take him off into his room. Levin was almost of the same age as Oblonsky; their intimacy did not rest merely on champagne. Levin h... ...scarcely perceptible smile. “How was it you used to say you would never wear European dress again?” he said, scanning his new suit, obviously cut by a... ...es. All I say is, give such rights as our local self government to any other European people—why, the Germans or the English would have worked their w... ...r 10 33 well. Instantly flinging a fresh cloth over the round table under the bronze chande lier, though it already had a table cloth on it, he pushed... ...en were dining with ladies, in all this fuss and bustle; the surroundings of bronzes, looking glasses, gas, and waiters—all of it was offensive to him... ...other’s duties had become still more difficult. She saw that girls of Kitty’s age formed some sort of clubs, went to some sort of lectures, mixed freel... ...e drawing room to receive these guests. Precisely at five o’clock, before the bronze Peter the First clock had struck the fifth stroke, Alexey Alexan d... ...he am bassador’s wife. “My husband says there are few statesmen like him in Europe.” “And my husband tells me just the same, but I don’t believe it,”...

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...ells had in old days played the adventurer and charmed a maid of a certain age into yielding her hand to him; and the lady was the squire of Earlsfont... ...ot hold of us, if we ‘re not to get loose. We don’t count many millions in Europe, and there’s no shame in sub- mitting to force majeure, if a stand w... ...ity of the reputation he bore at the courts and in the gambling-saloons of Europe. Dread- ing lest his client’s angry heat should precipitate him on t... ...ndly put for the sake of promoting conversation with a companion of unripe age by a gentleman who had whole- somely excited his blood to run. They wer... ... except the last one. Patrick had no immediate destination in view. ‘Leave Europe behind you,’ said Mr. Adister warming, to advise him, and checking t... ...t and can’t, poor t’ other must, or the union’s a mockery. She was cast in bronze at her birth, if she wasn’t cut in bog-root. Anyhow, you’ll study he... ...about where we’re going and what we came out of. No wonder they call it an age of despair, when you see the big wigs filing up and down the thoroughfa...

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...ies, when Don Carlos de Bourbon, encouraged by the general reaction of all Europe against the excesses of communistic Republicanism, made his attempt ... ...os of course. I looked at the proche parent; not on account of the parent- age but marvelling at his air of ease in that cumbrous body and in such tig... ...on in the room. That quiet Monsieur Mills intimi- dated me a little by his age (I suppose he was thirty-five), his massive tranquillity, his clear, wa... ...t the end of the staircase, past a door of gleaming dark wood with a heavy bronze handle. It gave access to his rooms he said; but he took us straight... ...at knowledge. It’s true they were talking of a woman, but I was yet at the age when this subject by itself is not of over- whelming interest. My imagi... ...ng friend of mine, who isn’t a bad smearer of canvases—but it’s marble and bronze that you want… I shall finish my artist’s life with your face; but I... ...asures behind these locked doors, brocades, old jewels, unframed pictures, bronzes, chinoiseries, Japoneries.” He growled as much as a man of his acco... ...p, and in truth did not wish to drop. They were my excuse for remaining in Europe, which somehow I had not the strength of mind to leave for the West ... ... to Dona Rita, telling her that now nothing stood in the way of my leaving Europe, because, really, the enterprise couldn’t be begun again; that thing...

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...imself to theory , or permitting his faculties to rust, even at that early age, in mere abstract speculations, this promising lad commenced usurer on ... ..., and presented himself in Mr Nickleby’s room. He was a tall man of middle age, with two goggle eyes whereof one was a fixture, a rubicund nose, a cad... ...is smiling without any obvious reason was the more remarkable. ‘Up to what age do you keep boys at your school then?’ he asked at length. ‘Just as lon... ...think of what has passed, I need be made of iron to stand before him.’ ‘Or bronze,’ said Ralph, quietly; ‘there is not hardihood enough in flesh and b... ...ead, or one grasp of my hand, to save him from the loftiest gallows in all Europe. I will not meet him, come where he comes, or hear his name. I will ...

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...imself to theory , or permitting his faculties to rust, even at that early age, in mere abstract speculations, this promising lad commenced usurer on ... ..., and presented himself in Mr Nickleby’s room. He was a tall man of middle age, with two goggle eyes whereof one was a fixture, a rubicund nose, a cad... ...is smiling without any obvious reason was the more remarkable. ‘Up to what age do you keep boys at your school then?’ he asked at length. ‘Just as lon... ...think of what has passed, I need be made of iron to stand before him.’ ‘Or bronze,’ said Ralph, quietly; ‘there is not hardihood enough in flesh and b... ...ead, or one grasp of my hand, to save him from the loftiest gallows in all Europe. I will not meet him, come where he comes, or hear his name. I will ... ... know. If there is any better place for such things, where is it? Is it in Europe? No, that it isn’t. Is it in Asia? Why, of course it’s not. Is it in...

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...essary knowledge, to give a history of this obscure family. But this is an age when genealogy has taken a new lease of life, and become for the first ... ...onder if Mrs. John, thus exercised in her immediate circle, was in her old age ‘a great genealogist of all Sussex families, and much con- sulted.’ The... ...st, where he offered, we may hope, an extreme example of the clergy of the age. He was a handsome figure of a man; jovial and jocu- lar; fond of his g... ... important teacher than Deluc was at hand; the year 1848, so momentous for Europe, was momentous also for Fleeming’s character. The family poli- tics ... ...ngly. They have got to the top of the public monuments, and, mingling with bronze or stone statues, five or six make a sort of tab- leau vivant, the t... ...inspired by the spirit of perfection as the happiest drawing or the finest bronze; and he who could not enjoy it in the one was not fully able to enjo... ...ntry of its birth; and by France and Italy, and all the other countries of Europe and America – practically the whole scientific world – at the Electr...

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..................................................... 21 BOOK 1.II. THE PAPER AGE .......................................................................... ...nceforth pray to, with upturned awestruck eye, not without hope? The white European mocks; but ought rather to consider; and see whether he, at home, ... ...n each bank, and become City of Paris, sometimes boasting to be ‘Athens of Europe,’ and even ‘Capital of the Universe.’ Stone towers frown aloft; long... ...all living; and vanish,—without chance of reappearance? In such a decadent age, or one fast verging that way, had our poor Louis been born. Grant also... ...e Dubarry issues from the sick-room, with perceptible ‘trouble in her vis- age.’ It is the fourth evening of May, year of Grace 1774. 25 Thomas Carly... ...ris, did they even bear to be ‘Printed at Pekin. ’ We have a Courrier de l’Europe in those years, regularly published at London; by a De Morande, whom... ... to be remembered. But chiefly on the Pont Neuf, where the Great Henri, in bronze, rides sublime; there do the crowds gather. All pas- sengers must st... ...ess;’ they have spoken even about demolishing the Bastille, and erecting a Bronze Patriot King on the site!—These are the rich Burghers: but now consi... ...rm’s length of the Powder-Magazine; motionless, like old Roman Senator, or bronze Lamp-holder; coldly apprising Thuriot, and all men, by a slight moti...

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...Everybody has heard of the beautiful Countess of Cressett, who was one of the lights of this country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity?s sake to be amused after their tiresome work of slaughter: and you know what a dread they have of moping. She was famous for her fun and high spirits besides her good looks, which you may judge...

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...he lights of this country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity’s sake to be amused after their tiresome wor... ...m off the list of English naval captains: which is no doubt why in his old age he nursed a grudge against his country. Ours, I am sure, was the loss; ... ...t table, with his great white beard and hair—not a lock of it shed—and his bronze lion-face, and a resolute but a merry eye that he had. He was no dee... ...erning her intimacy with a man old enough to be her grandfather. As if the age were the injury! He seemed to think it so, and vowed he would shoot the... ...ed at the mouth in speaking of him, so enraged they were on account of his age and his passion for a young woman. As to blood, the Kirbys of Lincolnsh... ...e loss to Henrietta of the greatest prize of the matrimonial market of all Europe and America was vexing and saddening. Then he woke up to think of th... ... ‘My husband would yield to a woman what he would refuse to all the men in Europe and America,’ said Henrietta; and she enjoyed her thrill of allegian...

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...lobe with the speed of birds, in a way to kill old people, as the phrase is. Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, fo... ...g.” So, we are told, the New Hol lander goes naked with impunity, while the European shivers in his clothes. Is it impossible to combine the hardines... ...there is none of it in our own lives? The philosopher is in ad vance of his age even in the outward form of his life. He is not fed, sheltered, cloth... ...den,) was, that I had had my seeds ready. Many think that seeds improve with age. I have no doubt that time discriminates between the good and the bad... ...zed instead a cheap contemporary literature. But when the several nations of Europe had acquired distinct though rude written languages of their own, ... ...untry, the village should in some respects take the place of the nobleman of Europe. It should be the patron of the fine arts. It is rich enough. It wa... ...yself surrounded by myriads of small perch, about five inches long, of a rich bronze color in the green water, sport ing there and constantly rising t... ...It is a truly grotesque vegetation, whose forms and color we see imitated in bronze, a sort of architectural foliage more ancient and typical than aca...

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...ner; he con- versed affably, declared himself not more than forty years of age, and apparently belonged to the very highest social classes. The name w... ...not yet formed an opinion; also cut-throat streets, streets older than the age of the oldest dowagers, estimable streets, streets always clean, street... ... deceive; a love that is prodigal of unchecked enjoyment, especially at an age when the heart is ardent, the imagination keen, and the eyes of a man s... ... the morrow, indifferent to the fall or rise of stocks or the debts of all Europe. High privilege of love!—it crushes all things, all interests fall b... ...s, gazing at his daughter with dry eyes; his head you might have taken for bronze: he did not see Jules. The other man was Jacquet,—Jacquet, to whom M...

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...chief scruple is whether it be fair to ask a girl to marry a man twice her age, when she has abso- lutely seen nothing of his kind but the German mast... ...ly at life opening on her; so don’t be daunted, and imagine it is your old age and infirmity,” said the mother, smoothing back the locks which certain... ... they had been very select, and chiefly historical romance. She was at the age when nothing is impossible to youthful dreams, and if Tancredi had come... ... from the sofa to the floor, and disposed of it for security’s sake on the bronze head of Apollo, which was wait- ing till his bracket could be put up... ... scene in the cloistered court of a Moorish house in Alge- ria, adapted to European habits. The slender columns sup- porting the horse-shoe arches wer... ...ense, and had just come home from the French modiste who had adapted it to European wear. Allen started up in admiration and delight. Even Mr. Mor- ga... ... him collecting testimonials for his fitness to act as Vice-principal to a European college at Yokohama for the higher education of the Japanese. “Mot...

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...ver, saying to the footman, “Not at home.” He had been disappointed in the age, grossly deceived in the appearance of the man claiming to be his relat... ...parley. It was performed by a gentleman supremely advanced at a very early age in the art of cutting. Young Sir Willoughby spoke a word of the rejecte... ...hterless, long sub- sequent to the memorable day of Willoughby’s coming of age. Lady Busshe was for Constantia Durham. She laughed at Mrs Mountstuart ... ... picture of him in America, Japan, China, Australia, nay, the continent of Europe, holding an English review of his Maker’s grotesques. V ernon seemed... ...een devoted to Clara Middleton’s friend. The morning’s letters were on the bronze plate in the hall. Clara passed on her way to her room without inspe...

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...he ambassador’s wife. “My husband says there are few statesmen like him in Europe.” “And my husband tells me just the same, but I don’t believe it,” s... ...on it. With rapid, bony fingers he unbuttoned his coat, revealing a shirt, bronze waistcoat buttons, and a watch chain, and quickly pulled out a fat o... ...y, and then he still had to drive round to call on a certain great person- age on a matter of grave and serious import. Alexey Alexandrovitch only jus... ...ng there with her mother and the Mos- cow colonel, smart and jaunty in his European coat, bought ready-made at Frankfort. They were walking on one sid... ...her established position in Russian society, she tried abroad to be like a European fashionable lady, which she was not—for the simple reason that she...

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...all a person as John Baptist Cavalletto. ‘Call me five-and-thirty years of age. I have seen the world. I have lived here, and lived there, and lived l... ...was never mine; shipped away to the other end of the world before I was of age, and exiled there until my father’s death there, a year ago; always gri... ...y, she might have been passed in the street for little more than half that age. Not that her face was very youthful, for in truth there was more consi... ...is mind, whether one who had deservedly gained so high a posi- tion and so European a reputation did not owe it—we would not say to himself, but we wo... ... of the Britannic Majesty abroad. This noble Refrigerator had iced several European courts in his time, and had done it with such complete success tha... ...as in vain for the engaging Ferdinand to bring Lord Decimus to look at the bronze horses near Mr Merdle. Then Mr Merdle evaded, and wandered away. It ... ...and soon, with their coach load of luxuries from the two great capitals of Europe, they were (like the Goths reversed) beating at the gates of Rome. M...

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.......................................................... 141 THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. ...................................................................... ... amount of impression he has made on, and impulse he has given to, his own age and the world. In other words, what were his native powers, and what ha... ...ol. 2 remembering that the nine-pin Napoleon overthrew half the thrones in Europe. But he possessed sana mens in sano copore, an erect figure, and was... ...lture, like his genius, was rather elegant than pro- found. He lived in an age when a knowledge of the classics, with a tincture of the metaphysics of... ...schools, was thought a good average stock of learning, although it was the age, too, of such mighty scholars as Bentley, Clarke, and Warlburton. Pope ... ... his uncorrupted heart, His comprehensive head, all interests weigh’d, All Europe saved, yet Britain not betray’d? He thanks you not, his pride is in ... ...eers shine round him with reflected grace, New edge their dulness, and new bronze their face. 10 So from the sun’s broad beam, in shallow urn... ...s to show, Dishonest sight! his breeches rent below; Embrown’d with native bronze, lo! Henley 364 stands, T uning his voice, and balancing his hands....

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 YOUTH AND AGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 THE NEW FAC... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 QUARREL IN OLD AGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 THE RESULTS OF THOU... ...O SONGS REWRITTEN FOR THE TUNE’S SAKE . . . . . . . . 296 A PRAYER FOR OLD AGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 CHURCH AND STATE . . ... ... LONG LEGGED FLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 A BRONZE HEAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348 A S... ...contented heart to draw content From beauty that is cast out of a mould In bronze, or that in dazzling marble appears, Appears, but when we have gone ... ...ied mice can play. And maybe the great grandson of that house, For all its bronze and marble, ’s but a mouse. O what if gardens where the peacock stra... ... And not the banks of oars that swam upon The many headed foam at Salamis. Europe put off that foam when Phidias Gave women dreams and dreams their lo...

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...high cheek bones, yellow hair in early life, and with brown hair in mature age. With regard to their social habits, morals, and manners, all traveller... ...ncient people. It is claimed, too, that they began earlier than any other European nation to collect and preserve their ancient folk lore. Tacitus, ... ..., so often mentioned in The Kalevala, when taken literally, was prob ably bronze, or “hardened copper,” the amount and quality of the alloy used bein... ...e alloy used being not now known. The prehistoric races 7 The Kalevala of Europe were acquainted with bronze implements. It may be interesting to not... ...nown. The prehistoric races 7 The Kalevala of Europe were acquainted with bronze implements. It may be interesting to note in this connection that Ca... ...ayce have but very recently awak ened great interest in this question, in Europe especially, by the reading of papers before the British Philological... ...eople will place the import of this remark in better view. In the earliest age of Suomi, it appears that the people wor shiped the conspicuous object... ...egun. Some of the most convincing evidences of the genuine ness and great age of the Kalevala have been supplied by the Hungarian translator. The Hun...

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...e dandies, all the wits, all the scholars, and all the voluptuaries of the age—an indefinite period of time between Queen Anne and George II.—dines wi... ... chapter; but it must be remembered that the au- thor wished to present an age at a glance: and the dialogue is quite as fine and correct as that in t... ...for he who addressed the most brilliant com- 12 Thackeray pany of wits in Europe was little more—emptied the contents of the brandy-flask into a silv... ... Welcome to my Bosom, thou faithful Serpent; I hug thee, peace-bearing Im- age of the Eternal! Ha, the hemlock cup! Fill high, boy, for my soul is thi... ...e affairs of the world represented here, and Holywell Street the centre of Europe—when three knocks of a peculiar nature were heard, and Mendoza start... ...ed. His lance bore everything down before it. The most famous champions of Europe, assembled at these joustings, had dropped, one by one, before this ... ...ed. They are a curse and shall be melted—the iron ones into railroads; the bronze ones into statues of beautiful saints, angels, and wise men; the cop...

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...III WHITHER IN THE TIME OF THOMAS, THIRD VISCOUNT, I HAD PRECEDED HIM AS P AGE TO ISABELLA .............................................................. ...n; nor would people believe that she did not wear rouge. At sixty years of age she still looked young, and was quite agile. It was not until after tha... ...ere and there in the volume in which my father describes his adventures in Europe, I can well under- stand the extreme devotion with which she regarde... ... but what company was there in which he would not be first? When I went to Europe for my education, and we passed a winter at London with my half-brot... ...pass over as odious and unworthy of credit those reports (which I heard in Europe and was then too young to understand), how this person, having left ... ...wears the mask and the cothurnus, and speaks to mea- sure. She too, in our age, busies herself with the affairs only of kings; waiting on them obsequi... ...h health and roses: with eyes like stars shining out of azure, with waving bronze hair clustered about the fairest young forehead ever seen: and a mie...

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...estate, and making her long all the more for the time when she would be of age and have some command of money for generous schemes. She was regarded a... ...s house- hold, and did not at all dislike her new authority, with the hom- age that belonged to it. Sir James Chettam was going to dine at the Grange ... ... company of Mr. Casaubon’s moles and sallowness, had escaped to the vicar- age to play with the curate’s ill-shod but merry children. Dorothea by this... ...ad declined to fix on any more precise destination than the entire area of Europe. Genius, he held, is necessarily intol- erant of fetters: on the one... ...is sequence to Bichat’s work, already vibrating along many currents of the European mind, Lydgate was enamoured; he longed to demonstrate the more int... ...rothea all her life continued to see the vastness of St. Peter’s, the huge bronze canopy, the ex- cited intention in the attitudes and garments of the... ...the time here has not been passed unpleasantly to you. Among the sights of Europe, that of Rome has ever been held one of the most strik- ing and in s...

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...estate, and making her long all the more for the time when she would be of age and have some command of money for generous schemes. She was regarded a... ...ds and dispositions not less unhesitatingly than other young ladies of her age. Signs are small measurable things, but interpre tations are illimitab... ...s uncom monly well—does Casaubon. He has deferred to me, you not being of age. In short, I have promised to speak to you, though I told him I thought... ...had declined to fix on any more precise destination than the entire area of Europe. Genius, he held, is necessarily intolerant of fetters: on the one h... ...is sequence to Bichat’s work, already vibrating along many currents of the European mind, Lydgate was enamoured; he longed to demonstrate the more int... ...rothea all her life continued to see the vastness of St. Peter’s, the huge bronze canopy, the excited intention in the attitudes and garments of the p... ...the time here has not been passed unpleasantly to you. Among the sights of Europe, that of Rome has ever been held one of the most striking and in som...

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...excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of... ...ndward in that portion of the Atlantic lying between the United States and Europe, respectively signalled the monster to each other in 42º 15' N. lat.... ... day. How could I be otherwise? I had read and reread all the American and European papers without be- ing any nearer a conclusion. This mystery puzzl... ...nerves; good morals are understood. This boy was thirty years old, and his age to that of his mas- ter as fifteen to twenty. May I be excused for sayi... ...ale to escape the stroke of his harpoon. Ned Land was about forty years of age; he was a tall man (more than six feet high), strongly built, grave and... ...eaction soon showed itself. For three months, during which a day seemed an age, the Abraham Lincoln furrowed all the waters of the Northern Pacific, r... ...old. I lighted it at a little brazier, which was supported upon an elegant bronze stem, and drew the first whiffs with the delight of a lover of smoki... ... and in the exhibitions of paintings. Some admirable statues in marble and bronze, after the finest antique models, stood upon pedestals in the cor- n... ... shot, fragments of astronomical instruments, a piece of crown work, and a bronze clock, bearing this inscription— ”Bazin m’a fait,” the mark of the f...

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...trength, in population, wealth, and military and commer- cial power, as no age had ever witnessed. De Tocqueville had a special inquiry to prosecute, ... ...selected, under our laws, because he has certain physical qualifications – age and sex. His disqualifications, when any are imposed, relate to his edu... ... received at once by the scholars and thinkers 10 Democracy in America of Europe as a profound, impartial, and entertaining exposi- tion of the princ... ...ld to ascertain its natural consequences, and to learn what the nations of Europe had to hope or fear from its final supremacy. That a youth of twenty... ... till M. de Tocqueville said, “This gradual and continuous progress of the European race toward the Rocky Mountains has the so- lemnity of a provident... ... Old Regime and the Revolution.” He died at Cannes, April 15, 1859, at the age of fifty-four. Hon. John J. Ingalls Introductory Chapter Amongst the no... ... vast num- ber of insignificant ones. In the former, statues are raised of bronze; in the latter, they are modelled in plaster. When I arrived for the...

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... There were labour contractors by the half-hundred—fitters and riv- eters, European, borrowed from the railway workshops, with, perhaps, twenty white ... ...n the little temples; the throb- bing of drums and tom-toms; and, from the European quar- ters, where the riveters lived, McCartney’s bugle, a weapon ... ...old are you?” he said to the yellow horse. “Nigh thirteen, I guess.” “Mean age; ugly age; I’m gettin’ that way myself. How long hev ye been pawin’ thi... ...tter?” “If you mean my principles, I’ve held ‘em sence I was three.” “Mean age; ugly age; teeth give heaps o’ trouble then. ‘Set a colt to actin’ craz... ...iners with twin-screws sing “The T urkish Patrol” and the overture to the “Bronze Horse,” and “Madame Angot,” till something goes wrong, and then they... ...ical club and a brass band, that had been to see a New York Senator off to Europe, crossed their bows, going to Hoboken. There was a long silence that... ...changed as occasion called; her well-paid crew never; and a large percent- age of the profits of her voyages was spent with an open hand on her engine... ...account, though his tastes in the matter of books, bindings, rugs, swords, bronzes, lacquer, pictures, plate, statuary, horses, con- servatories, and ... ...he delicacy of the situa- tion, and the doctor from New York turned a full bronze- green. Then he swore comprehensively at the entire fabric of our gl...