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...ing pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neigh bor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of W... ...rd of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sin cerely, it must have been in ... ...l it becomes impossible for them to re sume their natural position, while from the twist of the neck nothing but liquids can pass into the stom ach”... ...nd not seeing where they fell. Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the facti... ...s confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrat... ...rest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the chil dren of Aurora, and emit their... ... such a pile we may hope to scale heaven at last. The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read th... ...nian. Wise midnight bags! It is no honest and blunt tu whit tu who of the poets, but, without jesting, a most solemn graveyard ditty, the mutual cons... ... of Califor nia and Texas, of England and the Indies, of the Hon. Mr.— of Georgia or of Massachusetts, all transient and fleeting phenomena, till I a...

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... 6 sulphur and stone and other obstructing inborn heredities, brought down from the old geologic ages—prejudices, let us call them. Prejudices which n... ...trong ones. In each case, to get the best results, you must free the metal from its obstructing prejudicial ones by education— smelting, refining, and... ...e odds and ends of thoughts, impressions, feelings, gathered unconsciously from a thou sand books, a thousand conversations, and from streams of thou... ...at proposi tion. O.M. For instance? Y.M. Take that noble passion, love of country, patrio tism. A man who loves peace and dreads pain, leaves his pl... ...lf to saving imperiled souls. He became a missionary. He landed in a pagan country ill and helpless. A native widow took him into her humble home and ... ...uestion without any hesitancy. “General, who planned the the march through Georgia?” “The enemy!” He added that the enemy usu ally makes your plans... ...history as well as English, and that answered very well. English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolution... ...es, slaughter one another’s subjects; it has raised up prize fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little and big politicians, and big and lit... ...nfin ished literary work, not a scrap of manuscript of any kind . Many poets have died poor, but this is the only one in history that has died th...

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...f water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might... ... into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any ... ...ng to the irregularities of the coast it is not easy of access by railways from different sides. Baltimore would have been far better. But as far as w... .... I fear, therefore, that we must acknowledge that the site chosen for his country’s capital by George Wash- 5 Trollope ington has not been fortunate... ...- cient to bind his successors to his wishes. The political leaders of the country have done what they could for Washington. The pride of the nation h... ...o man had yet heard. Of the slave States, Virginia, the two Carolinas, and Georgia were alone wedded to slavery. Then the matter might have been man- ... ...cratic in its nature—aristocratic and patriarchal. A large slaveowner from Georgia may call himself a democrat, may think that he reveres republican i... ...ed all that was demanded. Had secession been granted to South Carolina and Georgia, Virginia would have been coerced to join those States by the natur... ...n historians are acknowledged as great au- thors, and as regards their own poets, will sometimes de- mand your admiration for strains with which you h...

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...ve no possible interest; they will have come at these questions themselves from different angles and they will have long since got to their own conclu... ... of Mr. Fayle’s “Great Settle- ment” (1915), a frankly sceptical treatment from the British Imperialist point of view, on the other. An illuminating d... ...r Walter Phillimore’s “Three Centuries of Treaties.” Two ex- cellent books from America, that chance to be on my table, are Mr. Goldsmith’s “League to... ...rite some language or other; Bogota with a population of a million, mostly poets; Hayti with a population of a mil- lion and a third, almost entirely ... ...e- thing more effective, Italy, France, the United States, Japan, and this country will send separate groups of representatives, with separate instruc... ...of the time is the evident desire of the Labour movement in every European country to take part in a collateral conference of Labour that shall meet w... ...n eventualities with- out a loss of your sovereign freedom. People in this country and in France do not seem to be sitting up manfully to these necess... ..., or the Jews in Roumania, or the Poles in West Prussia, or the negroes in Georgia, or the Indi- ans in the T ransvaal make such an appeal? Could any ...