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...a and jostled Spanish- English at Gdiz, a Gallicised Russian which met the Indian English in Persia and Kurdistan and the “Pidgin” English in Pekin, a... ...illiant, the language of lucidity, which shared the Mediterranean with the Indian English and German and reached through a negro dialect to the Congo.... ...hole world dwelt in cities; the whole world was property. Over the British Empire and throughout America his ownership was scarcely disguised, Congres... ...ere usu- ally regarded as antique, curious gatherings. And even in the two Empires of Russia and Germany, the influence of his wealth was conceivably ... ...financed the machines. A time came when the real power and interest of the Empire rested visibly between the two party councils, ruling by newspapers ... ...ar service, and it was now invariably invoked by such players of chess and games of manual dexterity as were still to be found. In fact, all operation... ... seem afraid. In his former life he had often been more excited in playing games of skill. He was desirous of immediate action, he knew he must not th...

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...are taught the driest doctrines by the insinuat- ing method of instructive games, has little reason to dread the consequences of study being rendered ... ...—Sometimes this mister wight held his hands clasped over his head, like an Indian Jogue in the attitude of penance; sometimes he swung them perpendicu... ...rior projects of his own. T o this young lady, now presiding at the female empire of the tea-table, Fergus introduced Captain W averley, whom she rece... ...fat deer kills. Lowland, your sports are low as is your seat; The Highland games and minds are high and great. But without further tyranny over my rea... ...e himself could have expected; but it is men- tioned of the North American Indians, when at the stake of torture, that on the least intermission of ag... ...lter Scott at the head of the party, who moved up the pathway in single or Indian file, Waverley being placed nearest to their leader. He moved with g... ... if the Emperor of Germany hath his boots taken off by a free baron of the empire. But here lieth the second difficulty—The Prince wears no boots, but... ...racasserie and intrigue, as might have done honour to the Court of a large empire. Ev- ery person of consequence had some separate object, which he pu... ...liged. He therefore exerted him- self, danced, sang, played at the various games of the day, and was the blithest of the company. The next morning, ho...

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...mited measures? Mind the opposite effect in extremity. [The failure of an Indian ascetic monk failed just in this.] Beware of counting the uncountab... .... Athman (individual, inward) blends with Brahman (collective, inward) in Indian philosophy. (The individual and community is one entity originally,... ...t mediocre people ask for trouble.) A root cause of the decline of all empires (None of them lasted, and they will never last indefinitely.) is t... ...hers, and there is effect without cause because the irrational has its act empire. (Men believe in their correctness of wisdom and opinion, without a... ... Man must live in accordance with the natural world around him (Pueblo Indian philosophy). 42 While genius should not! (It might not be the ge... ...and partially false in yet another system. FL: Is all mankind playing games in some point of view? Life is busy, a struggle, a kind of war, but ...

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...d, Licence repress’d, and useful laws ordain’d. Learning and Rome alike in empire grew; And arts still follow’d where her eagles flew; From the same f... ...nd long’d for more: Fancy’s wild regions yet unvanquish’d lay, A boundless empire, and that own’d no sway. Poets, &c. Between ver. 691 and 692, the au... ...t; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a... ... – V olume One Shall tend the flocks, or reap the bearded grain; The shady empire shall retain no trace Of war or blood, but in the sylvan chase; ... ...hore to shore, Till conquest cease, and slavery be no more; Till the freed Indians in their native groves Reap their own fruits, and woo their sable l... ...ss hand he flings, And boldly sinks into the sounding strings. The figured games of Greece the column grace, Neptune and Jove survey the rapid race. T... ...d confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor’d mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; ... ...oint the pen, Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men; Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car; Bare the mean heart that lurks beneath a star; ...

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... from it on either hand. Here they work, read, play at skittles, and other games; and when the weather does not admit of their taking exercise out of ... ...sting dungeons as these cells, would bring disgrace upon the most despotic empire in the world! Look at them, man — you, who see them every night, and... ...eive, prompt to act, lions in energy, Crichtons in varied accomplishments, Indians in fire of eye and gesture, Americans in strong and generous impuls... ...lls, is a valley known as ‘Bloody Run, ’ from a terrible conflict with the Indians which once occurred there. It is a good place for such a struggle, ... ..., the first settler here (afterwards buried under it), was tied by hostile Indians, with his funeral pile about him, when he was saved by the timely a... ...t one of the tables, drawing lots with all the anxieties and pas sions of gamesters depicted in their countenances; while others, with small pieces o... ...aning over the balconies watching the men as they played at ball and other games upon the grass before the door, they often presented a little picture...

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... that his Puppets have given satisfaction to the very best company in this empire. The famous little Becky Puppet has been pronounced to be un- common... ... old when he went away.” “Isn’t he very rich?” said Rebecca. “They say all Indian na- bobs are enormously rich.” “I believe he has a very large income... ...t’s as good as my own curries in India.” “Oh, I must try some, if it is an Indian dish,” said Miss Rebecca. “I am sure everything must be good that co... ...ck Exchange, where they love all sorts of practical jokes). “They are real Indian, I assure you,” said he. “Sambo, give Miss Sharp some water.” The pa... ... lapse of time, and those mutations which age produces 64 V anity Fair in empires, cities, and boroughs, Queen’s Crawley was no longer so populous a ... ...in about him; for George was a jolly sociable fellow, and excellent in all games of skill. Once, after three days of absence, Miss Amelia put on her b... ...y—a stirring place in those days, when war was raging all over Europe, and empires were being staked; when the “Courier” newspaper had tens of thousan... ...ed in at the Old Slaughters’, and called for Captain Cannon; played eleven games at billiards with the Captain, of which he won eight, and returned to... ...ed. “I’d like to sell him another horse, Beck. I’d like to play a few more games at billiards with him. He’d be what I call useful just now, Mrs. C.—h...

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... for a boy of twelve, to change heavens; to cross the Atlantic, for a man of twenty-four, is hardly to modify his diet. But I was now escaped out of t... ... that of the living, and the dead multiply and the living dwindle at so swift a rate. Conceive how the remnant huddles about the embers of the fire of... ...n and the emptiness of his new life are striking; and the remark is yet more appo- site to the Marquesas. In Samoa, on the other hand, per- petual son... ...s chief adornment. He was naturally ignorant of English history, so that I had much of news to communicate. The story of Gordon I told him in full, an... ...ead of yachts in the Sunday papers, and being fired with the desire to see one. Captain Chase, they called him, an old whaler-man, thickset and white-... ...pleased to hear as he to tell, as pleased with the story as he with the belief; and, besides, it is entirely needful. For it is scarce possible to exa... ...deed 145 Robert Louis Stevenson from but a few years back. A princess of the reigning house died; was transported to the neighbouring isle of Raiatea... ...ugh, the carpentry amateur; but the effect, in that incongruous isle, was of unbridled luxury and inesti- mable expense. Here songs were sung, tales t... ...mong natives sits with captains, and is entertained on board of schooners. Five of these privileged dames were some time our neighbours. Four were han...

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...nd lately in Lord Amherst’s progress through the northern provinces of our Indian empire, &c. we read con- tinually of the Khelawt, or robe of state, ... ...ly in Lord Amherst’s progress through the northern provinces of our Indian empire, &c. we read con- tinually of the Khelawt, or robe of state, as a pr... ...arlemagne; with a Sketch, and History of France from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Rise of the Carlovingian Dynasty. By G.P .R. JAMES, Esq. VOL.... ... lived to lay in ruins even his personal interest in this great edifice of empire; and that entirely by his own desperate presumption, precipitance, a... ...ibes of those savages, and, upon a scale still more awful, to the American Indians. In such cases, mere strangers would 132 Theological Essays and Ot... ...nt establishment, which was, that all conquerors in any contest, or at any games, olympic, or whatsoever they might be, were memorialized by statues e... ...the time of Marathon, fought against the Lieutenant of Darius, the Olympic games had existed for two hundred years, mi- nus thirteen; and at the closi...

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...stance in his Diary, and continued his exhibitions in various parts of the empire until the period was about to expire, during which his existence had... ...hem. These tribes were, in short, the Parias of Scotland, living like wild Indians among European settlers, and, like them, judged of rather by their ... ...f hostili- ties on either side. 62 Guy Mannering CHAPTER VIII. So the red Indian, by Ontario’s side, Nursed hardy on the brindled panther’s hide, As ... ...ountry, and was a member of several of their clubs for practising athletic games, at which he was particu- larly expert. At Ellangowan, Kennedy was a ... ... complaints against the fickleness 112 Guy Mannering and caprice of these Indian nabobs, who never knew what they would be at for ten days together. ... ... antiquity. “What a people! whose labours, even at this extremity of their empire, comprehended such space, and were executed upon a scale of such gra...

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...f claret-colored merinos, a silk bonnet, and striped shawl of an imitation Indian pattern, came out to choose seats in a chaise at the corner of the R... ...t might be at least as useful to herself as to the sick woman. Between two games of boston, or out walking in the Jardin Turc, the old beldames with w... ...y, was going down the stairs of the hotel where the High Chancellor of the Empire resided, at about three o’clock one morning. Having reached the cour... ...ome onic Code.” At a gesture from the chief magistrate of France under the Empire, the foot-passenger got into the carriage. “Where do you live?” aske... ...bout to make a start in a coveted position before the highest court of the Empire, and he already saw himself a member of the bench whence Napoleon se... ...e always found her seated at a little 40 A Second Home table of some West Indian wood, and engaged in marking the linen of her trousseau. Angelique n...

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...ve, had made an elaborate cave in which he could hide himself from the Red Indians who were lurking behind the curtains. He put his ear to the floor a... ... you doing with those bricks, Philip? Y ou know you’re not allowed to play games on Sunday . ” Philip stared at him for a moment with fright- ened eye... ... on the look out for any reference to it. Because he could not join in the games which other boys played, their life remained strange to him; he only ... ...more than other boys of his size; and his deformity , withdrawing him from games, acquired for him an insignifi- cance for which he was grateful. He w... ... Romans a little vulgar , finding distinction only in the decadence of the Empire; but the Rome of the Popes ap- pealed to his sympathy , and in his c... ...ty at the vicarage, and two girls came, daughters of a retired major in an Indian regiment who had lately settled in Blackstable. They were very prett... ...ction to the Categori- cal Imperative?” (They talked as though the fate of empires were in the balance.) “It suggests that one can choose one’s course... ... say ,” she told him, “as there’s another lady here whose husband’s in the Indian Civil.” “I wouldn’t let that disturb me if I were you,” said Philip....

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...ppenger. The fact is, I hear from little Roy that you are fond of tales of Indian adventure, and I gave him a book for you to read, if you like it. Mr... ...ay,’ said Heriot. ‘I took the liberty to write some notes. My father is an Indian officer, you know, and some of the terms in the book are difficult w... ... his put in its place. He grew pale and sad, but did his work, playing his games, and only letting his friends speak to him of lessons and play. His c... ... themselves into pretty scrapes. They 179 George Meredith said she was an Indian. Heriot lost his wagers and called her a witch. She replied, ‘You’ll... ...y. Did Ottilia know that this iron law, enforced with the might of a whole empire, environed her, held her fast from any motion of heart and will? I c... ...ws of shops. Emblems of a small State, they belonged to the history of the Empire. The Court-physician passed with a bit of ribbon in his buttonhole. ... ...rred English comrades in adventure to any other: thought our East In- dian empire the most marvellous thing the world had seen, and our Indian Governm... ...Meredith on them for performances. And that same man afterwards fought the gamest fight in the chronicles o’ the Ring! I knew he had it in him. But th...

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...that scene of playthings, and bread and butter. Down- stairs, one of those games at romps arose, for which little children are often made an excuse by... ...a doll in the middle of it, a little dish of money-cowries, and another of Indian shot, the seed of the mahogany tree, some sea-eggs, a false book mad... ...‘it has the proper Church and State government, like Dante’s notion of the Empire. But you cannot help the rest; and we are still worse off, and how c... ... the table. Anne had been in some anxiety ever since the conclusion of the games; but Sir Edward and Mr. Woodbourne were standing between her and the ...

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...my surmises had not been incorrect. Mrs. Strickland was the daughter of an Indian civilian, who on his retirement had settled in the depths of the cou... ...fatuated with a French dancer, whom he had first seen in the ballet at the Empire, and had accompanied her to Paris. I could not find out how this had... ...and stare miserably into space. During the evening we played innu- merable games of piquet, and bravely , not to dis- appoint my efforts, he tried to ... ...th a glowing, sen- sual passion that called up vague memories of the Roman Empire of Heliogabalus; there were reds, shrill like the berries of holly —...

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... been anxious to show even more cheerfulness and activ- ity after the West Indian interview than he had shown before: if that were possible, in one of... ...efore he availed him- self of so favourable a moment for breaking the West Indian intelligence to his friend, as a piece of extraordinary prefer- ment... ...y backgammon a little too,’ replied the man of teeth. ‘Carker plays at all games, I believe,’ said Mr Dombey , lay- ing himself on a sofa like a man o... ...s power, and liked to show it. Nevertheless, Mr Carker played so well—some games with the Major, and some with Cleopatra, whose vigilance of eye in re... ...too; in quaint nooks and recesses there is no want of books; and there are games of skill and chance set forth on tables—fantastic chessmen, dice, bac... ...jealous, and her jealousy naturally attached to Edith, who divided her old empire, and came between them. Proud and glad as Susan Nipper truly was, th... ... for such a cause— will I go now till I have said the rest, I may not be a Indian widow Sir and I am not and I would not so become but if I once made ...

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...f he have the necessary gifts, and can duly use them, has a wider field of empire. He works upon the soul. If he can make himself be believed, he can ... ...ould decline riding at the quintain, or taking part in any of the athletic games which Miss Thorne had prepared with so much care. If the Lord Johns a... ...very strange, you know. She always makes me think of the Esquimaux and the Indians. Isn’t her dress quite delightful?’ ‘Delightful, ’ said Mrs Proudie... ...most of them walking with Miss Thorne through the park, and looking at the games that were going on. All that had passed, and was passing between Mr A...

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...t. 250 Martin Chuzzlewit ‘Oh! The depressing institutions of that British empire, colonel!’ said Jefferson Brick. ‘Master!’ ‘What’s the matter with t... ...very grain of sand in his fast-emptying glass, as eagerly as if it were an empire. ‘If anything happens Pecksniff,’ said Jonas, ‘you must promise me t... ...ab- sorbing anxiety about her pattens, with which she played innumer- able games at quoits on Mr Pecksniff’s legs. It was not until they were close up... ...ed out, where, among the stumps and ashes of burnt trees, a scanty crop of Indian corn was growing. In some quarters, a snake or zigzag fence had been...

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...disconnection from reality has spread like wildfire. The flight into abstract games is the latest mass craze of a mass consumer culture which has be... ..., being absent from their own families. Where do you think the custom of All Empires neglecting their own colonies, and leaving them to fend for the... ...erally; all the war-like Zulus and Bantus, the Masai and Swahili’s that ruled empires in Africa before the White Man came were nomadic herders. Fo... ... at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to do it? Or the Irish…? Oops, I forgot…that attempt i... ...e to be had. That is the fate of all long-term advantage and dominance which Empires suffer from. It weakens the culture you live in, it weakens yo... ...ing horses, they became incredibly warlike. So did the North American plains Indians. War is usually a manifestation of accumulated power. Regardl... ...peting mechanically physically between each other. Originally, the Olympic games were an international-political-cultural-religious-sporting event... ...bility to have fun. Instead of giving children the freedom to play their own games as they like; adults interfere and take over their child’s play: ... ...aking them scapegoats… putting all of their cultural shame onto the American Indians and using this psychological projection as an excuse to do ever...

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...o be descended from King James the First, should take pos- session of this empire, seemed to Mr. Esmond a monstrous injustice—at least, every Englishm... ...is own cloth. They’re all the same, whether they’re bishops, or bonzes, or Indian fakirs. They try to domineer, and they frighten us with kingdom come... ...buy, buy! I cannot toil, nei- ther can I spin, but I can play twenty-three games on the cards. I can dance the last dance, I can hunt the stag, and I ... ..., attired in a blanket and war-paint, skulk about a missionary amongst the Indians. He lies buried in our neigh- boring province of Maryland now, with... ...e a season, the calmest and most delightful of the year, which we call the Indian summer: I often say the autumn of our life resembles that happy and ...

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......................................................................335 THE EMPIRE OF THE ANTS ........................................................... ...of the biggest of all extinct birds, in a little canoe in the midst of the Indian Ocean. If old Dawson had known that! It was worth four years’ salary... ...annels upon the plains of Burmah and Hindostan. The tangled summits of the Indian jungles were aflame in a thousand places, and below the hurrying wat... ...way we began our talking. He talked about various things and came round to games. And thence to my figure and complexion. “You ought to be a good cric... ...Some of the things are quite unreadable to me—though my fam- ily, with its Indian Civil Service associations, has kept up a knowledge of Hindustani fr... ...they may be, to send in their bill in their own time. 345 H.G . Wells THE EMPIRE OF THE ANTS WHEN C APTAIN G ERILLEAU received instructions to take h... ...ust as men had done by means of books and records, use weapons, form great empires, sustain a planned and organised war? Things came back to him that ... ...very much to me, because I was a lonely little boy. They played delightful games in a grass-covered court where there was a sun-dial set about with fl... ...ne loved… “But—it’s odd—there’s a gap in my memory. I don’t re- member the games we played. I never remembered. After- wards, as a child, I spent long...

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...n strictly English lines, and write letters to the “Pioneer”, the greatest Indian daily paper, explaining his master’s aims and objects. At last he we... ... cannon boomed, Purun Dass was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire; so that his name stood Sir Purun Dass, K.C.I.E. That evening... ... boomed, Purun Dass was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire; so that his name stood Sir Purun Dass, K.C.I.E. That evening, at di... ...fairs went, he died. The jewelled order of his knighthood went back to the Indian Government, and a new Prime Minister was appointed to the charge of ... ...er hand, expecting to fling the creatures backward as he had often done in games or Pack hunts. But he had never before interfered with a spring fight...

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...ffin slightly disappointed. ‘His name is Decline-And- Fall-Off-The-Rooshan-Empire.’ (Mr Boffin went over these stones slowly and with much caution.) ‘... ..., this is the gentleman that’s a going to decline and fall off the Rooshan Empire.’ ‘And I am sure I hope it’ll do you both good,’ said Mrs Boffin. 5... ...u right in, only something put it out of my head. I think you said Rooshan Empire, sir?’ ‘It is Rooshan; ain’t it, Wegg?’ ‘No, sir. Roman. Roman.’ ‘Wh... ...ow was his luck? Always good. Notice this! Always good! Ah! There’s a many games, Miss Abbey, in which there’ s chance, but there’s a many others in w... ... man’s bench. A Wice. T ools. Bones, warious. Skulls, warious. Pre- served Indian baby. African ditto. Bottled preparations, warious. Everything withi... ...hting, always skip-skip-skipping on the pavement and chalking it for their games! Oh! I know their tricks and their 223 Charles Dickens manners!’ Sha... ...peared in the dark doorway. ‘Now you sir!’ cried Fledgeby. ‘These are nice games!’ He addressed an old Jewish man in an ancient coat, long of skirt, a... ...urchased her and fitted her expressly for this voyage, being married to an Indian Prince, who was a Something-or-Other, and who wore Cashmere shawls a...

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...ee; or measuring with their bodies, like caterpillars, the breadth of vast empires; or standing on one leg on the tops of pillars even these forms of... ...ermines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self emancipation even in the West Indian provinces of the fancy and imagina Walden 7 tion what Wilberforce... ...otyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes a... ... I have Walden 17 not set my heart on that. Not long since, a strolling Indian went to sell baskets at the house of a well known lawyer in my neigh... ...he asked. “No, we do not want any,” was the reply. “What!” ex claimed the Indian as he went out the gate, “do you mean to starve us?” Having seen hi... ...; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, ... ...ed for the ladies of the harem and the effeminate natives of the Celestial Empire, which Jonathan should be ashamed to know the names of. I would rath... ...hee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played. Grow wild according to thy nature, like thes... ...he has not so many public holi days, and men and boys do not play so many games as they do in England, for here the more primitive but solitary amuse...

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...po- leon III. stands fair now before Europe, and yet he filched the French empire with a falsehood. The union of England and Ireland is a successful f... ...ven by no thirst of conquest, by no greed for gold, dreaming of no Western empire such as Cortez had achieved and Raleigh had meditated. They de- sire... ...ins and the Alleghanies; and that they were inhabited either by Mor- mons, Indians, or simply by black bears. That there was a 43 Trollope district i... ...ends the river, which by its breadth forms itself into lakes, one is shown Indian villages clustering down upon the bank. Some years ago these Indians... ...onsiderable acuteness. They might not, per- haps, hit the truth, and these Indians are much in that predicament. It is said that very few pure-blooded... ...o be subject forever to a veto from Downing Street. If the history of past empires does not teach her that this may not be so, at least the history of... ...e. It is equally fair for all. When I was a child there used to be certain games at which it was agreed in beginning either that there should be cheat... ...or themselves that the summum bonum is to be found in bread and the circus games. If they be free to eat, free to rest, free to sleep, free to drink l...

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...nce of manners with delicacy of sentiment. 53 Flaubert Did not love, like Indian plants, need a special soil, a particu- lar temperature? Signs by mo... ...reached even to Emma. Endless sarabands ran through her head, and, like an Indian dancing girl on the flowers of a carpet, her thoughts leapt with the... ...y think, Mon- sieur Homais, that since morning they have had about fifteen games, and drunk eight jars of cider! Why, they’ll tear my cloth for me,” s... ...s long, wan face, whose eyes were small and the nose hooked. Clever at all games of cards, a good hunter, and writing a fine hand, he had at home a la... ...nd Madame Bovary , senior, who was godmother, a romance of the time of the Empire; finally, 79 Flaubert M. Bovary , senior, insisted on having the ch... ...had grown less sonorous and the characters more remote. She remembered the games at cards at the druggist’ s, and the walk to the nurse’s, the reading...

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...rland—a parody of a Morland. But about that couch, George. Don’t you think Empire might be bet- ter than Heppelwhite? Dull gold against that pale gree... ...only be sure of you.” She turned on the green drawing-room’s couch (it was Empire, not Heppelwhite after all), and laid aside a list of linen and blan... ...T TA A A A AGE GE GE GE GE 0 NE NIGHT, a very long time ago, I drove to an Indian military cantonment called Mian Mir to see amateur theatricals. At t... ...arm kept his bones. Even Vixen was not allowed to sit near it. In the full Indian moonlight I could see a white uniform bending over the dog. “Good-by... ...(who married Miss Youghal), and Adam, his son. Strickland has finished his Indian Ser- vice, and lives now at a place in England called Weston-su- per... ... judgment about hounds, but I think there ought to be a special tariff for Empire-makers.” As soon as his hosts could speak, they reassured him on thi... ... south verandah. The forenoon we spent in the gar- den, pretending to play games that come out of boxes, such as croquet and clock golf. But most of t... ...ow and again my conscience pricked me; for the man was a nice man. Between games he supplied me with odd pieces of evidence, such as that he had known...

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...nee, and deify his power Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire, that were low indeed, That were ignominy and shame beneath This d... ... Dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pigmean Race Beyond the INDIAN Mount, or Faerie Elves, Whose midnight Revels, by a Forrest side O... ...f MICHAEL Wrought still within them; and no less desire To found this nether Empire, which might rise By pollicy, and long process of time, In emulati... ... so the popular vote Inclines, here to continue, and build up here A growing Empire; doubtless; while we dream, And know not that the King of Heav’n h... ... the Air sublime Upon the wing, or in swift race contend, As at th’ Olympian Games or PYTHIAN fields; Part curb thir fierie Steeds, or shun the Goal W... ... Hills where Flocks are fed, flies toward the Springs Of GANGES or HYDASPES, INDIAN streams; But in his way lights on the barren plaines Of SERICANA, ... ... sat Chief of th’ Angelic Guards, awaiting night; About him exercis’d Heroic Games Th’ unarmed Youth of Heav’n, but nigh at hand Celestial Armourie, S... ... quick result. ’ Paradise Lost Milton 105 “To whom thus BELIAL in like gamesom mood. ‘Leader, the terms we sent were terms of weight, Of hard co... ...se The Figtree, not that kind for Fruit renown’d, But such as at this day to INDIANS known In MALABAR or DECAN spreds her Armes Braunching so broad an...

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...e like case, might do? Or how would Monsieur Ude prosper among those Orinoco Indians who, according to Humboldt, lodge in crow nests, on the branches ... ...se have I searched through all the Herald’s Books, in and without the German Empire, and through all manner of Subscriber Lists ( Pr¨ anumeranten), Mi... ... have all Eternity to rest in?’ Celestial Nepenthe! though a Pyrrhus conquer empires, and an Alexander sack the world, he finds thee not; and thou hast... ...ome, Christmas, and so forth; with a whole cycle of the Entepfuhl Children’s games, differing apparently by mere superficial shades from those of other... ...nts of the Wiener Schub (Offscourings of Vienna) vociferously superintending games of chance. Ballad singers brayed, Auctioneers grew hoarse; cheap Ne... ...ies there were in me to give battle, in some small degree, against the great Empire of Darkness: does not the very Ditcher and Delver, with his spade,... ...ursing: all this you cannot see, but only imagine. I say, there is not a red Indian, hunting by Lake Winnipeg, can quarrel with his squaw, but the who...

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...ruins of Chichén Itzá where the mysterious pyramids were made by the Mayan Indians. By the alignment of the stars, the Mayans could read the constella... ...Freshman Writing 5 ferent nationalities—the Chinese, Japanese, Romans, and Indians with their feather headdresses and all of their attire—were proof t... ... In 1978, Lucas began production of the second chapter of the trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back. He financed the film out of his own pockets. The movie... ...sion, although none were overly successful. Even- tually, Star W ars video games hit the market, many of which were very successful. The big moment ca... ... their long time hero, a man whom they watched win all 324 record breaking games. I saw the stu- dent section cheering on a man who was a worthy sport... ...rs, and he already had two unde- feated teams, and had played in four bowl games. It was the winter of 1972 and Joe Pa and his Nittany Lions were in N...

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...of gregariousness; but in nineteenth century nations and twentieth century empires the determi- nation of every man to be rich at all costs, and of ev... ... masters. The conception of Mendoza Limited I trace back to a certain West Indian colonial secre- tary, who, at a period when he and I and Mr Sidney W... ...e were battles, bombard- ments, stratagems to save our scalps from the red Indians. You have no imagination, Ann. I am ten times more de- structive no... ...y to intolerable coarseness; and English intercourse to need enlivening by games and stories and other pastimes; so he does not feel called upon to ac... ...y. And this, the chronicle concludes, shows the great- ness and majesty of empires, and the littleness of the van- quished. Over such battles the peop... ... are no newspapers, a circumstance which, 150 GB Shaw with the absence of games, might lead an intelligent specta- tor to the most far reaching concl...

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... tual and more equivocal r\oc\le of warrior, politician, and founder of an empire. G. Margoliouth. 11 The Koran SELECT BIBLIOGRAP SELECT BIBLIOGRAP S... ...were thus forwarded to several of the chief mili- tary stations in the new empire, and all previously existing copies were committed to the flames. Za... ...in it on which mighty nations, and conquering though not, perhaps, durable–empires can be built up. It is due to the Koran, that the occupants in the ... ... and God is Gracious, Merciful. They will ask thee concerning wine 89 and games of chance. SAY: In both is great sin, and advantage also, to men; but... ...e wife, or by remaining single. 504 The Koran 7 From marrying slaves. 8 Games of chance, usury, etc. 9 By providing for them a home and the protec... ... signs clear to you, that ye may give thanks. O believers! surely wine and games of chance, 34 and stat- ues, and the divining arrows, are an abomina... ...e letter of the Koran forbid the game of chess. The Persians, however, and Indians generally interpret this verse more liberally. 35 This and the two...

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...id, in the pier-glass opposite. “There, Celia! you can wear that with your Indian muslin. But this cross you must wear with your dark dresses.” Celia ... ...o you do?” in the nick of time. In spite of her shabby bonnet and very old Indian shawl, it was plain that 46 Middlemarch the lodge-keeper regarded h... ...orge Eliot Mr. Farebrother contended on theory for the desirability of all games, and said that Englishmen’s wit was stagnant for want of them; but Ly... ...oops, like Mrs. Ballard’s pu- pils walking two and two.” “And they have no games worth playing at,” said Jim. “They can neither throw nor leap. I don’... ...g us into the secret of usurpations and other scandals gossiped about long empires ago:—this world being apparently a huge whis- pering-gallery. Such ... ...ger. The frustration would have been less exasperating if it had been less gamesome and 461 George Eliot boyish: a serious assault of which the newsp... ...g money are essentially the same, and that 601 George Eliot chance has an empire which reduces choice to a fool’s illu- sion—was but the symptom of a... ...orced to cross his small boundary ditch, and what he saw beyond it was not empire, but discon- tented subjection. But it is given to us sometimes even...

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...s turned off and even primary radar contact with the aircraft was lost.The Indianapolis Air Traffic Control Center repeat- edly tried and failed to co... ...2 AM Page 14 “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 15 BOSTON NEW YORK NEW YORK CLEVELAND INDIANAPOLIS Boston Center Otis Air Force Base Langley Air Force Base Nor... ...Headquarters Continental Aerospace Command Region (CONR) Cleveland Center Indianapolis Center New Y ork Center FAA Air Traffic Control Centers Report... ...n annual budget larger than the gross domestic product of Russia, it is an empire. The Defense Department is part civilian, part military .The civilia... ...HE AMERICAN HOMELAND 157 Final 5-7.5pp 7/17/04 11:46 AM Page 157 puter games, viewing movies that featured hijackings, and reading flight sched- u... ...he Muslim world. Moghul India, Safavid Persia, and, above all, the Ottoman Empire were great Islamic powers that arose long after the Baghdad Caliphat...

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...r of Rannoch. It is not only when we cross the seas that we go abroad; there are foreign parts of England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall,...

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...e are foreign parts of England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ire... ...ount England foreign. The constitution of society, the very pillars of the empire, surprise and even pain us. The dull, neglected peasant, sunk in mat... ...the South seems more wholesome, but less thoughtful; he gives him- self to games as to a business, striving to excel, but is not readily transported b... ...on for life. Britain is altogether small, the mere taproot of her extended empire: Scotland, again, which alone the Scottish boy adopts in his imagina... ... produced his snuff-box, which was with him, like the calumet with the Red Indian, a part of the heraldry of peace; and at length, in the ripeness of ... ...time glowing with hope that, if I said it well, he might reward me with an Indian picture. “Thy foot He’ll not let slide, nor will He slumber that the... ...he world, guiding the mari- ner; his firm were consulting engineers to the Indian, the 59 Memories and Portraits New Zealand, and the Japanese Lighth... ...s of my race; and when I was a child I tried in vain to invent appropriate games for them, as I still try, just as vainly, to fit them with the proper...

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...ers into the scheme of life. A certain amount, varying with the number and empire of our desires, is a true necessary to each one of us in the present... ...se were doubtful levities, rather too thievish for a schoolboy, rather too gamesome for a thief. But he would not linger long in this equivocal border... ...ng *Monstrelet: Pantheon Litteraire, p. 26. 128 Robert Louis Stevenson at games of hazard on the one hand, and on the other of the murder of one Thev... ...lared his hatred to a seafaring life, and willingly yielded to England the empire of the seas, “because there is danger and loss of life, and God know... ...es VI., ii. 435. 160 Robert Louis Stevenson have the decline of the Roman Empire and the reign of Henry III. of France. But there are others not quit... ... and went on pleasure-par- ties; they played chess, tables, and many other games. What we now call the history of the period passed, I imagine, over t... ...g his neck “to have the portrait full of shad- ows,” and draping him in an Indian gown hired expressly for the purpose, he was preoccupied about no me...