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...ely, “ When my Cat and I entertain each other with mutual apish tricks, as play ing with a garter, who knows but that I make my Cat more sport than s... ...hall I conclude her to be simple, that has her time to begin or refuse, to play as freely as I myself have? Nay, who knows but that it is a defect of ... ...no better: and who knows but that she pities me for being no wiser than to play with her, and laughs and censures my folly, for making sport for her, ... ...r, and laughs and censures my folly, for making sport for her, when we two play together?” Thus freely speaks Montaigne concerning Cats; and I hope I ... ..., of which a hook does scarce ever lose its hold; and there fore give him play enough before you offer to take him out of the water. Go your way pres... ... three cubits long; as is affirmed by Gesner, a writer of good credit: and Mercator says, the Trouts that are taken in the Lake of Geneva are a great ...

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... picked up English on the wayside, and as if by accident. On one of the most out-of-the-way atolls in the Carolines, my friend Mr. Benjamin Hird was a... ...t yellow poppy with a maroon heart. In places rocks encroached upon the sand; the beach would be all submerged; and the surf would bubble warmly as hi... ...This is characteristic. For no people in the world are so fond or so long-suffering with children—children make the mirth and the adornment of their h... ...for picture-galleries. ‘Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them.’ The stray bastard is contended for by rival families; and the natural and ... ...setting sun with the report of a musket. Here dwell together, and share the comforts of a club (which may be enumerated as a billiard-board, absinthe,... ...ere probably at work upon the streets, as free as our scavengers at home, although not so industrious. On the approach of evening they would be called...

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...ould fly before the wind! roll- ing, now and then, to be sure, but in very playfulness. Sail- ing to windward, no gale could bow her over: with spars ... ...e But after all, Little Jule was not to be confided in. Lively enough, and playful she was, but on that very account the more to be distrusted. Who kn... ...e dark night, spring a leak and carry us all to the bot- tom. However, she played us no such ugly trick, and there- fore, I wrong Little Jule in suppo... ...is professional duties to attend to; but incidentally he drinks “flip” and plays cards with the captain. There was such a worthy aboard of the Julia; ... ...t him, but the rest dragged him off, protesting that they should have fair play. “Now come on deck,” shouted the mate, struggling like a good fellow t... ...e enlarged upon the science of navigation; treated us to a dissertation on Mercator’s Sailing and the Azimuth compass; and went into an inexpli- cable...

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... made love and talked, and the girls smoked cigarettes. Also they scuffled playfully. Among other things they talked aeronautics, and how thev would c... ... an outer circle of critics, advisers, and sec- ondary characters, who had played undistinguished parts or no parts at all in the affair, and a centra... ... a smallmatter to them that the newspaper and cigarette shop opposite dis- played such placards as this:— REPORTED AMERICAN ULTIMATUM. BRITAIN MUST FI... ...ere to flee vulgarity and extravagances, and to bathe and sit and talk and play with their children in peace, and the Desert Dervishes did not please ... ...orning banjos were ringing, voices were bawling and singing, children were play- 42 The War in the Air ing in the sun, pleasure-boats went to and fro... ... sight of New York. Kurt’s talk was half soliloquy. He stood with a map on Mercator’s projection before him, swaying to the swinging of 99 H G Wells ...

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...stille. There he wrote the first two books of his Henriade, and finished a play on OEdipus, which he had begun at the age of eighteen. He did not obta... ...et, aged twenty-four, first called himself Voltaire. Voltaire’s OEdipe was played with success in November, 1718. A few months later he was again bani... ...rom Paris, and finished the Henriade in his retirement, as well as another play, Artemise, that was acted in February, 1720. Other plays followed. In ... ... the hearing of three or four ser- mons every day, would not suffer him to play, reduced him to a state of penitence and mortification, so that Charle... ...ch the severity is twice as great as that of the Romish Church. No operas, plays, or concerts are allowed in London on Sundays, and even cards are so ... ...series. The Lord Brouncker employed this series to square the hy- perbola. Mercator published a demonstration of this quadrature; much about which tim...