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...ir by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...tells us in this book, as he has told us in others, more especially in The World Set Free, and as he has been telling us this year in his War and the ... ...-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years have but added an en... ...on of the entire detestableness of Jessica. 24 The War in the Air CHAPTER II: HO CHAPTER II: HO CHAPTER II: HO CHAPTER II: HO CHAPTER II: HOW BER W B... ...ur young people attach any great importance to the flitting suggestions of military activity they glimpsed ever and again. Near Maidstone they came on... ...r, was over and for- gotten, and the public had lost the fashion of expert military criticism. Our four young people picnicked cheerfully, and were ha... ...eau en fait, a son propre jeu. Je desire de vendre ceci a votre government national. Voulez vous me directer la? “Bit rummy, I expect, from the point ... ...sible to mankind. The world of Bert Smallways did nothing of the sort. Its national governments, its national interests, would not hear of anything so...

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Excerpt: What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells.

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...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...s reached: the mystery of the individual. Will England presently produce a military genius? or what will Mr. Belloc say the day after to-morrow? The m... ... who will.” It is surely as interesting that presently some founder of the World Republic, some obstinate opponent of militarism or legalism, or the m... ...nue to be a prelude. The prophetic type will steadfastly refuse to see the world as a museum; it will insist that here is a stage set for a drama that... ... Brighton before 1910, which is still a dream, but he doubted if effective military aviation or aerial fighting would be possible before 1950, which i... ... about a world settlement that does not destroy in these “possessions” the national preference of the countries that own them and 10 What Is Coming? ... ...y to a change under the pressure of this war of just those institutions of nationality, kingship, diplo- macy and inter-State competition that have hi... ...a greater confidence and draw our net of prob- abilities a little tighter. II. II. II. II. II. THE END OF THE END OF THE END OF THE END OF THE END OF ...

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...head of such forces as might 4 Ivanhoe enable him to make a figure in the national convulsions which appeared to be impending. The situation of the i... ...might be apt to forget, that, although no great historical events, such as war or insurrection, mark the existence of the Anglo-Saxons as a separate p... ...parate people subsequent to the reign of William the Second; yet the great national distinctions betwixt them and their conquerors, the recollection o... ...e of Fangs, the whole herd of his inharmonious charge. 12 Ivanhoe CHAPTER II A Monk there was, a fayre for the maistrie, An outrider that loved vener... ...ore as little the marks of self-denial, as his habit indicated contempt of worldly splendour. His features might have been called good, had there not ... ...ir of coquettish attraction, savouring but too much of the vanities of the world. This worthy churchman rode upon a well-fed ambling mule, whose furni... ...ke his companion, but a strong hack- ney for the road, to save his gallant war-horse, which a squire led behind, fully accoutred for battle, with a ch... ...ge in the vicinity; so much were they surprised at the half monastic, half military appearance of the swarthy stranger, and at the uncouth dress and a... ...ge, T o prove it on thee to the extremest point Of martial daring. Richard II. EVEN LUCAS BEAUMANOIR himself was affected by the mien and appearance o...

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...INGTON .................................................................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II: CONGRESS ...................................................................................................................................... 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR ..........................................

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................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II: CONGRESS ................................................................. ...n in an enemy’s possession since the United States became a nation. In the war of 1812 it fell into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third ... ... in 1815, the former Capitol having been de- stroyed by the English in the war of 1812-13. It was then finished according to the original plan, with a... ...ide which is on your right as you leave the Capitol. Of the other side the world knows nothing. And very bad shops they are. I doubt whether there be ... ...ing. And very bad shops they are. I doubt whether there be any town in the world at all equal in importance to Washington which is in such respects so... ...ia, they could not go at all. Up to Washington they could not go without a military pass, not to be obtained without some cause given. All trade was a... ... considerably cut up. All this made the place somewhat melancholy. CHAPTER II CONGRESS In the interior of the Capitol much space is at present wasted,... ...n remained in force; but that con- federation was an acknowledged failure. National great- ness could not be achieved under it, and individual enter- ... ...e the States, at the cost of some fond wishes, agreed to seek together for national power rather than run the risks entailed upon separate existence. ...

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...Contents I. INTRODUCTION TO A LEGEND OF MONTROSE. .............................................................. 4 II. INTRODUCTION (Supplement). ............................................................................................. 16 III. A LEGEND OF MONTROSE...........................................................................

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...MONTROSE. .............................................................. 4 II. INTRODUCTION (Supplement). ............................................... .................................................................... 234 Note II.—WRAITHS. ................................................................. ...ng some pretence to gentility, the poverty of the country of Scotland, the national disposition to wandering and to adventure, all conduced to lead th... ...wandering and to adventure, all conduced to lead the Scots abroad into the military service of countries which were at war with each other. They were ... ...lead the Scots abroad into the military service of countries which were at war with each other. They were distinguished on the Continent by their brav... ... 8 Sir Walter Scott of mercenary soldiers, they necessarily injured their national character. The tincture of learning, which most of them pos- sesse... ...quarrel, and might plun- der the peasantry subjected to him by the fate of war with the most unrelenting rapacity; but he must beware how he sustained... ...of sergeant-major of artillery, by hard service in various quarters of the world, and was reck- oned one of the most tried and trusty men of the Scotc... ...an evening, than was consistent with strict temperance, or indeed with his worldly interest; for upon these occasions, his compotators some- times con...

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...r the student of history or psychology, but for the intelligent man of the world. Its startling frankness gives it a peculiar interest wanting in most... ...which o’er them shed tears feelingly and fast. “His life was one long war with self-sought foes, Or friends by him self-banished; for his mi... ...eir felicity, it was the foundation of all my misfortunes. I came into the world with so few signs of life, that they entertained but little hope of p... ...reader will have but too much of the melancholy subject. 47 Rousseau BOOK II The moment in which fear had instigated my flight, did not seem more ter... ...is, my conduct was pre- determined, I was resolved not to return. Madam de War- rens, seeing her endeavors would be fruitless, became less explicit, a... ...erty; I went to see the soldiers mount guard, and was delighted with their military accouterment; I fol- lowed processions, and was pleased with the s... ...for no other reason than because, not being a Frenchman, I had no right to national protection, and that it was a private affair between him and mysel... ...es, and of whom she produces too few for her glory. He had not the violent national passions common in his own country. The idea of vengeance could no... ...e castle of Chenonceaux, a royal mansion upon the Cher, built by Henry the II, for Diana of Poitiers, of whom the ciphers are still seen, and which is...

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...................................................................................................................................................... 5 II. CRITICAL REMARKS ......................................................................................................................................... 7 III. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE..........................................

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........................................................................... 5 II. CRITICAL REMARKS ......................................................... .................................................................. 30 SECTION II—THE VISION OF SUDDEN DEATH ................................................ ...shed.… The selections are The affliction of Childhood, Introduction to the World of Strife, A Meeting with Lamb, A Meeting with Coleridge, Recollectio... ...ess, of danger—over- ruled all obstacles into one steady co-operation to a national result. For my own feeling, this post-office service spoke as by s... ...onflicts of ordinary warfare, so often no more than gladiatorial trials of national prowess. The victo- ries of England in this stupendous contest ros... ...me of water— viz., the Tiber—has contrived to make itself heard of in this world for twenty-five centuries to an extent not reached as yet by any rive... ... had suffered some deep personal affliction in connexion with this Spanish war. Here, now, was the case of one who, having formerly suf- fered, might,... ...eir memory, had made the most memo- rable and effective charge recorded in military annals. They leaped their horses—over a trench where they could; i... ...umulation of foreign mails this night, ow- ing to irregularities caused by war, by wind, by weather, in the packet service, which as yet does not bene...

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...Contents CHAPTER I OF PROFIT AND HONESTY................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II OF REPENTANCE ................................................................................................. 21 CHAPTER III OF THREE COMMERCES ...............................................................................

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................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II OF REPENTANCE ............................................................. ...he vast sea, to witness from land the peril of other persons.”— Lucretius, ii. I.] of the seeds of which qualities, whoever should divest man, would d... ...de, preserved himself by his moderation in that universal shipwreck of the world, amongst so many mutations and diversities? For private man, as he wa... ...s; and thus Gelo, the tyrant of Syracuse, suspended his inclination in the war betwixt the Greeks and barbarians, keeping a resi- dent ambassador with... ...gainst his will. And yet even those who wholly engage themselves in such a war may behave them- selves with such temper and moderation, that the storm... ...rmerly called me to the public service, and my own advancement towards the world’s opinion, I know I should, in spite of all my own arguments to the c... ...her- wise and more nobly ordered than that other justice which is special, national, and constrained to the ends of government, 12 Essays: Book III “... ...here have glanced upon some sort of public diversions; and the practice of military ones, which Pericles made use of in the Peloponnesian war, and a t... ... Polander as a Frenchman, preferring the universal and com- mon tie to all national ties whatever. I am not much taken with the sweetness of a native ...

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...Contents CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?.....................................................

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... man, Contents CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAG... ...its. We had accepted this purgatory as a child accepts the conditions of the world. For my part, I shivered a little, and my back ached wearily; but I... ...y resembles sunset; it seems to fit some subsequential, evening epoch of the world, as though America were in fact, and not merely in fancy, farther f... ...a number, and proceeded to deal with my pack- ages. And here came the tug of war. I wished to give up my packages into safe keeping; but I did not wis... ...; then three shots (they all struck poor Tom, I suppose); then they gave the war hoop, and as many as twenty of the redskins came down upon us. The th... ... from end to end with summer daylight. [1879.] 38 Across the Plains CHAPTER II THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL THE WOODS AND THE PACIFIC THE BAY OF MONTEREY... ...is grotesque companions) some tincture of soldierly reso- lution and even of military common sense, and that he fig- ured memorably in the scene on Ma... ... mortally stricken on his face; but still active afoot, still with the brisk military carriage, the ready military salute. Three ways led through this... ... proud to remember) as a friend. Like my old soldier, he was far gone in the national com- plaint. Unlike him, he had a vulgar taste in letters; scarc...

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...Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom?s early life. III. Tom?s meeting with the Prince. IV. The Prince?s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The question of the Seal. IX. The river pag...

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...imer, Bishop of Worcester, to Lord Cromwell, on the birth of the Prince of Wales (afterward Edward VI.). From the National Manuscripts preserved by th... ...nly the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it. Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom’s early life. III. Tom’s ... ...in his poor rags, except among the family of paupers whom he had just come to trouble with his presence. II Tom’s early life et us skip a n... ...ound the Maypole in Cheapside, and at the fairs; and now and then he and the rest of London had a chance to see a military parade when some famous unf... ... neighbour up; and times we make mud pastry—oh the lovely mud, it hath not its like for delightfulness in all the world!— we do fairly wallow in the m... ...g— Stir not a step till I come again! It is a command!” In a moment he had snatched up and put away an article of national importance that lay upon a ... ...” High aloft on the palace walls a long line of red tongues of flame leapt forth with a thunder-crash; the massed world on the river burst into a migh... ...oment a servant entered with the breakfast. “Explain, thou limb of Satan, or thy time is come!” roared the man of war, and made so savage a spring tow... ...remained kind and gentle, and a sturdy and determined champion of all that were oppressed, and he made tire- less war upon unjust laws: yet upon occas...

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...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED...................................... 24 CHAPTER IV ENGLAND UNDER ATHELSTAN AND THE SIX BOY-KING...

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... ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................... ...CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS IF YOU LOOK AT A M AP of the World, you will see, in the left hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemi sph... ..., with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary, in the great expanse... ...nd trusty animals. The art I mean, is the construction and man agement of war chariots or cars, for which they have ever been celebrated in history. ... ... inhabited it —some of whom had been fetched over to help the Gauls in the war against him —he resolved, as he was so near, to come and conquer Britai... ...had done much to improve the condition of the Britons. They had made great military roads; they had built forts; they had taught them how to dress, an... ...nds, could not have written it in the sands of the wild sea shore. CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS THE R OMANS HAD scarcely gone aw... ...ut into him by the brave spirit of the Scottish people, who took this as a national insult, that he refused to come any more. Thereupon, the King furt... ...oo fed the fire. All this the people bore, and more than all this yet. The national spirit seems to have been banished from the king dom at this time...

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............................................................... 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM............................................... 38 LECTURE III. THE HERO AS POET. DANTE: SHAKSPEARE. .............................................. 68 LECTURE IV. THE HERO AS PRIEST. LUT...

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...DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM....................................... ...scourse here for a little on Great Men, their manner of appearance in our world’s business, how they have shaped themselves in the world’s history, w... ...ke it, Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They... ...y their union first constitute the T rue Religion.” [May 8, 1840.] LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM. F ROM THE FIRST RUDE TIMES of Paga... ...ral: herdsmen, carriers, traders, generally robbers too; being oftenest at war one with another, or with all: held 46 Thomas Carlyle together by no o... ...ike; in his eighteenth year one finds him a fighter following his Uncle in war. But perhaps the most significant of all his journeys is one we find no... ... seventy thousand times! Very curious: if one sought for “discrepancies of national taste,” here surely were the most eminent instance of that! We als... ... so far as writing goes, as badly as almost any book ever was! So much for national discrepancies, and the standard of taste. Yet I should say, it was... ... The very movements in Dante have something brief; swift, decisive, almost military. It is of the inmost essence of his genius this sort of painting. ...

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................................. 24 CHAPTER I THAT MEN BY VARIOUS WAYS ARRIVE AT THE SAME END............................................... 57 CHAPTER II OF SORROW .................................................................................................................................... 62 CHAPTER III THAT OUR AFFECTIONS CARRY THEMSELVES BEYOND US ....................

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... AT THE SAME END............................................... 57 CHAPTER II OF SORROW ................................................................. ....................................................... 374 CHAPTER XLVIII OF WAR HORSES, OR DESTRIERS ..................................................... ...als. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancient currents of thought into new channels. It to... ...made his intellectual and physi- cal organism public property. He took the world into his confidence on all subjects. His essays were a sort of litera... ...Book the First to superstition, rather than to the other extreme.”[Essays, ii. 2.] Pierre Eyquem bestowed great care on the education of his children,... ...s eldest brother, resigned his post of Councillor, in or- der to adopt the military profession, while, if we might credit the President Bouhier, he ne... ...e of funeral emblems, that the departed has been engaged in some important military transactions. However it may be as to these conjectures, our autho... ...he work of a gentle- man of mark,—[Meaning Xenophon.]—a man illustrious in war and peace, as because it has taken its second shape from a personage wh... ...0]. 53 Montaigne XV XV XV XV XV To the same.—[ This letter is also in the national collection, among the Dupuy papers. It was first printed in the “J...

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...Table of Contents: Phase the First ? The Maiden, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 5 -- III, 10 -- IV, 16 -- V, 24 -- VI, 32 -- VII, 36 -- VIII, 39 -- IX, 43 -- X, 48 -- XI, 55 -- Phase the Second? Maiden No More, 61 -- XII, 61 -- XIII, 68 -- XIV, 70 -- XV, 80 -- Phase the Third? The Rally, 83 -- XVI, 8...

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... I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 ... ... the band were the only human sounds audible within the rim of blue hills. II T he village of Marlott lay amid the north eastern undulations of the be... ...ges low and plashed, the atmosphere colourless. Here, in the val ley, the world seems to be constructed upon a smaller and more delicate scale; the fi... ...ssionate lover of tune. No ditty floated into Blackmoor Vale from the outer world but Tess’s mother caught up its notation in a week. There still faint... ... spoke the dialect; her daughter, who had passed the Sixth Standard in the National School under a London trained mistress, spoke two languages; the d... ...ialect, and orally transmitted ballads, and the daughter, with her trained National teachings and Standard knowledge under an infinitely Revised Code, ... ...defending her; but the result of that attempt was directly to increase the war. Tess was indignant and ashamed. She no longer minded the loneliness of... ...y, and the polished brass knobs on their horns glittered with something of military display. Their large veined udders hung ponderous as sandbags, the... ...f thee!’ The young man much resented this directness of attack, and in the war of words which followed when they met he did not scruple publicly to in...

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...s ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organiza...

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....1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47... ...ment 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of B... ...M 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Buil... ...adin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghani... ...TERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the... ...nsel & Team Leader Karen Heitkotter Executive Secretary W alter T . Hempel II Professional Staff Member C. Michael Hurley Senior Counsel & Team Leader... ...ain? To answer these questions, the Congress and the President created the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Public Law... ... plebiscite, and equal rights for women. It makes no dis- tinction between military and civilian targets. Collateral damage is not in its lexicon. We ... ...ogress. After gaining independence from Western powers following World War II, the Arab Middle East followed an arc from initial pride and optimism to...

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...nds, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in those last solemn days, it did to him. He had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into the silent continents of Death and Eternity, a brave man?s judgments about his ow...

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...verweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in those last solemn days, it did to h... ... be too lenient. But, in fine, here was some portion of his work which the world had already got hold of, and which he could not burn. This too, since... ...ich shall be very swift and immediate) may prove useful by and by. CHAPTER II BIRTH AND PARENTAGE John Sterling was born at Kaimes Castle, a kind of d... ...a Scot- tish Gustavus-Adolphus soldier, whom the breaking out of the Civil War had recalled from his German campaignings, and had before long, though ... ...ty he did; had not Tredah Storm proved ruinous, and the neck of this Irish War been broken at once. Doubt- *Commons Journals, iv. 15 (l0th January, 16... ...or one); and doubtless fought well: but in the mess-rooms, among the young military and civil officials, with all of whom he was a favorite, he had ac... ...ned *Literary Chronicle, New Series; London, Saturday, 21 June, 1828, Art. II. 22 The Life of John Sterling out, there was no use made: the Sterling ... ...doubtless they ran upon Napoleon, Catholic Emancipa- tion, true methods of national defence, of effective for- eign Anti-gallicism, and of domestic di... ...ating soul, equips beyond all others to shine in the Talking Era, and lead National Palavers with their spolia opima captive, is imprisoned in a fragi...

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...call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some... ...ed the signature of the treaty of Cateau-Cabresis, good-natured King Henri II. presided mer- rily at the union of the little pair, whose unite ages di... ... two branches of the family had long been a favourite scheme of King Henri II. Both alike were descended from Anselme de Ribaumont, renowned in the fi... ...ne who repented of it as a thing done ere he had learnt to weigh the whole world against a soul.’ ‘Yes, you must see her,’ said Lucy. ‘Well, what more... ...ancholy dreaminess of expression, as if the whole ceremony, not to say the world itself, were distasteful. Now and then, as though endeavouring to cas... ...g King from evil influences, and to strike one good stroke against the old national enemy. He talked eagerly to Sidney of alliances with England, and ... ... Roy,’ but ‘Vive l’Amiral,’ and more than once the cry was added, ‘Spanish war, or civil war!’ The heart of France was, if not with the Reformed, at l... ...honest, high-minded policy, in which he might have been able to purify his national Church, and wind back to her those whom her corruptions had driven... ...xu- ries he had been wont only to enjoy for a few weeks at a time, with in military occupation of some Italian town. Three months of festivities had b...

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...ust accusations no doubt, are made against every inhabitant of this wicked world, and the fact is, that a man who is ceaselessly engaged in its troubl... ... Latin Grammar) are likely to be jostled to death, and then forgotten. The world will allow no such compromises between it and that which does not bel... ...ed as political, or as anything more than the expres- sion of the artist’s national British idea of Frenchmen. It must be confessed that for that grea... ...En- glishman on the stage is the caricatured Englishman at the time of the war, with a shock red head, a long white coat, and invariable gaiters. Thos... ...Those who wish to study this subject should peruse Monsieur Paul de Kock’s histories of “Lord Boulingrog” and “Lady Crockmilove.” On the other hand, t... ...ut the caudron.” 16 George Cruikshank It was his ruling passion. What was military glory to him, forsooth? He had the greatest contempt for it, and l... ...ght in the fact Of an overt act, Buying greens on Sunday morning. II. “The rich man’s sins are hidden In the pomp of wealth and station, And ... ...his life familiar to him. Could Mr. O’Connell himself desire anything more national than the scene of a drunken row, or could Father Mathew have a bet... ...iption. “As Rowland sprang to the helm, and gave the signal for pursuit, a war like a volley of ordnance was heard aloft, and the wind again burst its...

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...try. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

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...r a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flash- ing swords at us for some critical observations of... ...rtillery? where our proved captains, to resist a sudden sharp trial of the national mettle? Where was the first line of England’s defence, her navy? T... ...ost we could muster a few old ships, a couple of experimental ves- sels of war, and twenty-five thousand soldiers indifferently weaponed. We were in f... ...was unknown to Mr. Beauchamp. He would by no means allow the burden of our national disgrace to be cast on one part of the nation. We were in- sulted,... ...a perusal of the manuscript in his absence. 14 Beauchamp’s Career CHAPTER II UNCLE, NEPHEW, AND ANOTHER THE HONOURABLE EVERARD ROMFREY came of a race... ...is comparative subjugation (on the whole, it seems complete) of the animal world. By-and-by the struggle is transferred to higher ground, and we begin... ...ry. And oh, to feel for certain which side was the wrong side in our Civil War, so that one should not hesitate in choosing! Such puzzles are never, h... ...ry, drawing their strategy from maga- 23 George Meredith zine articles by military pens, reverberations of the extinct voices of the daily and weekly... ...lf-a-dozen crescent lines cunningly turned, sketched her figure before the world, and the reflection for one ready to die upholding her was that the p...

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...s ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

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...ockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of... ... I am. Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy stron... ... without chewing, as if it had been a sprat in the mouth of a whale.” Holy War. “That seabeast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest th... ...itself,” said Mr. Webster, “is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons,... ...thousand persons, living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry.” Report of Da... ... all over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years’ War, and just escaped from it with a sticking plaster shirt. Still more, hi... ...e fishery 124 Chapter 27 Knights and Squires as with the American army and military and merchant navies, and the engineer ing forces employed in the ... ...these shall comprehend them all, both small and large. I. The Folio Whale; II. the Octavo Whale; III. the Duodecimo Whale. As the type of the Folio I ... .... Among these I here include the following chapters: — I. The Sperm Whale; II. the Right Whale; III. the Fin Back Whale; IV . the Hump backed Whale; V...