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...ey have been people of very various origins; English, Americans, Bengalis, Russians, French, people brought up in a “Catholic atmosphere,” Positivists... ...th, and that he has little to identify him with that hereditary God of the Jews who became the “Father” in the Christian system. On the other hand he ... ... one because of the Greeks, nor deny the divinity of Christ because of the Jews. They dreaded to be polytheis- tic; equally did they dread the least a... ... upon the victors, he sought by threats to restore Arius to communion. The imperial aim was a common faith to 15 H. G. Wells unite the empire. The cr... ...less official Christian utterances on the part of German and Brit- ish and Russian divines. The Bishop of Chelmsford, for ex- ample, has recently ascr... ...t it was not Christianity that took possession of the Roman empire, but an imperial adventurer who took possession of an all too complaisant Christian...

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...n. Over all this hung the oppressive shadow 31 Joseph Conrad of the great Russian Empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national... ...nt on to tell me how all the bereaved poor of the district, Christians and Jews alike, had mobbed the good doctor’s coffin with sobs and lamentations ... ...because, being a separate organisation, it took no part in the wars of the Russian Empire against Persia or Tur- key. Its first campaign, against Russ... ...Mr. Nicholas B. received these communications with outward phlegm, but the Russian showed a warm sympathy for his prisoner. “As a soldier myself I und... ...ece of furniture was smashed and there lay exposed in a drawer eighty half-imperials. Gold coin was a rare sight in Russia even at that time; it put t... ... so carefully. Without wishing to treat with levity the just timidities of Imperialists all the world over, I may allow myself the reflection that a w...

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...Arabia Petraea. Chateau Neuf is dead, and I have never tasted it; Hermitage – a hermitage indeed from all life’s sorrows – lies expiring by the river.... ...ory amused me, when I felt myself so thoroughly ripe on both sides to be duped in the same way. It is at least a curious thing, to conclude, that the ... ... what he called himself, but as soon as I set eyes on him, I knew it was or ought to be his name; I am sure it will be his name among the angels. Kelm... ...uch as would not have held a person’s hat on that blustering day. And with all these protestations of hurry, they proved irresponsible like children. ... ... character in Dickens; and the poor woman, driven to her entrenchments, at last remem- bered with a shriek that there were still some houses at the tu... ...mell of bays and nutmegs commanded themselves gratefully to our senses. One way and another, now the die was cast. Silverado be it! After we had got b... ... against the greed and dishonesty of landlords. If it were fair for Cobden to buy up land from owners whom he thought unconscious of its proper value,...

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... them and learnt to respect them. Perhaps his father had learnt to respect Jews, for there was a boy named Abner, he protected, who smelt Jewish; he s... ... ashamed to tell me you were one if you were?” “Not at all.” “You like the Jews?” “Those I know I like.” “Not many Christians have the good sense and ... ... Italians, if they will come; Spaniards and Portuguese, and Scandinavians, Russians as well. And Jews; Mahommedans too, if only they will come! The mo... ...l come; Spaniards and Portuguese, and Scandinavians, Russians as well. And Jews; Mahommedans too, if only they will come! The more mixed, the more it ... ...hough, in fact, criticism is the end of wor- ship; the Brutus blow at that Imperial but mortal bosom. The person criticized was manifest. Who was the ... ... at my school we have all nationali- ties—French boys and German, Italian, Russian, Spaniard— without distinction of race and religion and station, an... ...ig hole for his cavalry, my brother says; and weeding his infantry for the Imperial Guard he postponed the moment to use.’ ‘ At Moskowa?’ ‘W aterloo. ...

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...is charmed power, should have been looked upon as a sacred person, and the imperial family considered a “divina domus.” It is an error to regard this ... ...i- vine worship attended the emperor in his lifetime.* To this view of the imperial character and relations must be added one single circumstance, whi... ...tion of tenderness to his memory. 13 Thomas de Quincey sanctuary from the imperial pursuit. If he went down to the sea, there he met the emperor: if ... ...ey took in the public mourning; and that, beyond all other foreigners, the Jews for night after night kept watch and ward about the emperor’s grave. N... ...e’s Persian expedition, so much resembling in rashness and presumption the Russian campaign of Napoleon, though so much below it in the scale of its t...

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... with coro- 126 V anity Fair – V olume Three nets and heaped with shining imperials, were on the foredeck, locked in with a dozen more such vehicles:... ...Methuselah’s carriage, from which he made his way over other carriages and imperials until he had clam- bered on to his own, descended thence and thro... ...ocoanut Indians—painted handscreens for the conversion of the Pope and the Jews—sat under Mr. Rowls on Wednesdays, Mr. Huggleton on Thursdays, attende... ...that there cannot be any possibility of truth in the report that she was a Russian spy at Toplitz and Vienna after- wards. I have even been informed t... ... the Most Noble Order of the Garter, of the Golden Fleece of Spain, of the Russian Order of Saint Nicholas of the First Class, of the Turkish Order of...

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...ursued by another; and how important it was to draw off detachments of the Imperial forces from Germany into Flanders, and how, by sending an army int... ... their very eyes in open daylight, and in a moment as it were. Such of the Imperial Generals as were out riding ran from all parts to the banks of the... ...the war, waited for and expected by all Europe, at last broke out, by some Imperialist troops firing upon a handful of men near Albaredo. One Spaniard... ...entered there? Yet so it was. Berwick was, in respect to England, like the Jews, who await the Messiah. He coaxed himself always with the hope of a re... ...velled much, served in war, then been employed in different courts. He was Russian to the backbone, and his extreme avarice much damaged his talents. ... ...is father had attained the crown, although only of ordinary rank among the Russian nobility. These patriarchs were dependent upon those of the Greek r... ...ank and precedence. Thus Bissy and Villeroy found Dubois closeted with the Russian minis- ter. It was proposed to inform the Cardinal at once, of a th...

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...em, 41 George Meredith and trying to get those Jew gentlemen—” “Call them Jews—they’re not gentlemen,” interposed Wilfrid. “Jews,” she obeyed the dic... ...s a topic utterly banished, it is not surprising that they should have had imperial views. Adela was Wilfrid’s favoured correspondent. She described t... ...sit from their mother’s brother, John Pierson, a Colonel of Uhlans, in the Imperial-Royal service. He had rarely been in communication with them; his ... ...eap of papers and newly-opened foreign letters; to one of which, bearing a Russian stamp, he referred fretfully at times, as if to verify a monstrous ... ...s tapped his brow—”pluck,—you want pluck. It is your decadence. Greek, and Russian, and Yankee, all zey beat you. For, it is pluck. You make a pin’s h... ...k you, and not a countryman. A French- man?—oh, no! A German?—not a bit! A Russian?—never! A Yankee?—save me! I am a Greek—I take an Englishman.” “Wel... ... clear night-air, under a yellowing crescent, listening to the voice of an imperial woman. Impressed as he was, Braintop had, nevertheless, leisure to... ...they were. Nor did it raise a smile on her face to hear my brother mention Jews, and name an absolute sum of money; but, on the contrary, after eviden...

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... you ask the reasons for my conduct, you drive me to extremities with your imperial airs, your scorn, and your contempt! Any one might think I was a N... ... made the large room, with its red, white, and gold, look like a corpse of Imperial festivities. “Monsieur, virtue shines on it all. I have no wish to... ...was translated at once from the mire of her village to the paradise of the Imperial Court; for the contractor, one of the most conscientious and hard-... ...the papers that prove your identity?” “Yes, Monsieur le Baron. They are in Russian and in Ger- man, but not legalized.” “Do you feel equal to undertak... ...the sake of a country that is all bog-land, they say, and full of horrible Jews, to say nothing of the Cossacks and the peasants—a sort of wild beasts... ...of country-folks never to give up bread-winning; in this they are like the Jews. Every morning, very early, Cousin Betty went off to mar- ket with the... ...9 Balzac as the late Marshal Montcornet leading a cavalry charge against a Russian square. Being such a handsome man, he had never known any ground fo... ...uty, insists on interest, and is always engaged in seeking it! ‘God of the Jews, thou art supreme!’ says Racine. The perennial parable of the golden c...

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...nsieur Alain; “for it is connected with one of the most terrible events of Imperial policy. It was through my friend Bordin that I first knew Madame. ... ...en the least important, whether political or individual. The system of the Imperial government was that of all absolute govern- *Chauffeurs. This name... ...tice for the Department 77 Balzac of the Orne The attorney-general to the Imperial Court of Caen, ap- pointed to fulfil his functions before the Spec... ... sur- prise only lasted for an instant, for he had seen among Ger- man and Russian Jews many instances of the same contrast between apparent misery an... ...ise only lasted for an instant, for he had seen among Ger- man and Russian Jews many instances of the same contrast between apparent misery and hoarde...

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...cum- stances of his widow. Her two sons each received a scholarship in the Imperial Lyceum, and the Emperor paid the whole costs of their education fr... ...act; for this grandson was being educated with Madame Bridau’s sons at the Imperial Lyceum, where he had a half-scholarship. The lad, who was clever a... ... she took a lease of it for nine years; proximity to her sons’ school, the Imperial Lyceum being at a short distance; thirdly, because it was in the q... ...h is to be found in nearly all such portions of a city, where two or three Jews have gained an ascendency. At the corner of one of these gloomy street... ...nts to pay them off. After squandering the fortunes of two En- glishmen, a Russian, and an Italian prince, Mademoiselle Esther is now in poverty; give...

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...er hand, the postilion who drove us was a Viscount, a son of some bankrupt Imperial General, who accepted a pennyworth of beer on the road. The moral ... ...ney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed,” Jos said, slapp... ... is coming, but with the Empress and the King of Rome at its head; and the Russians, bah! the Russians will withdraw. No quarter is to be given to the... ..., or were preparing for a final onset. It came at last: the columns of the Imperial Guard 76 V anity Fair – V olume Two marched up the hill of Saint ... ...beautiful lines from The Rape of the Lock about Belinda’s diamonds, “which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.” “But I hope your lordship is orthodox,... ...circumstances of the interview between Rebecca Crawley, nee Sharp, and her Imperial Master, it does not become such a feeble and inexperienced pen as ...

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...ssions, and instead of clearing they confuse its powers of perception. The Jews del- uged the smoking ruins of their temple with the carnage of the re... ... were reduced either gradually *This prediction of the return of France to imperial despo- tism, and of the true character of that despotic power, was... ...ast. T o the northwest nothing is to be met with but a few insig- nificant Russian settlements; but to the southwest, Mexico presents a barrier to the... ...the same end, although they started from different points: I allude to the Russians and the Americans. Both of them have grown up unnoticed; and whils... ...les against the natural obstacles which oppose him; the adversaries of the Russian are men; the former combats the wilderness and savage life; the lat... ...s, and that every subject was so weak and insignificant in relation to the imperial potentate, that all appeared equal when their condition was contra...

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...d with their forky tongue shall innocently play. Rise, crown’d with light, imperial Salem, rise! Exalt thy towery head, and lift thy eyes! See, a long... ... fix’d on her alone. On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disc... ...s betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man’s imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. The adventur... ...he Baron fate inclines the field. His warlike Amazon her host invades, The imperial consort of the crown of Spades. The Club’s black tyrant first her ... ...les; Which made old Ben and surly Dennis swear, ‘No Lord’s anointed, but a Russian bear.’ Not with such majesty, such bold relief, ... ...o die like Chartres, Out-cant old Esdras, or out-drink his heir, Out-usure Jews, or Irishmen out-swear; Wicked as pages, who in early years Act sins w...

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...t fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green. So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.” Never did those sweet ... ...at somehow whaling is not respectable. Whaling not respectable? Whaling is imperial! By old English statutory law, the whale is declared “a royal fish.... ... seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress. Curious to tell, this imperial negro, Ahasuerus Daggoo, was the Squire of little Flask, who looke... ...itary navy; nay, extorting almost as much outward homage as if he wore the imperial purple, and not the shabbiest of pilot cloth. And though of all me... ...e writer hereof. Langsdorff, you must know by the way, was attached to the Russian Admiral Krusenstern’s famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning ... ...ubstantiates every word. The ship, however, was by no means a large one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my uncle after ... ...e in the floating body of a dead whale — even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned their dead horses into tents, and crawled into them...

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...d prepare All kindly succour—Therefore to the gate 108 V olume One Of the Imperial House, now desolate, _1895 I passe... ...lace, and obelisk, and temple solemn, _345 My imperial mountains crowned with cloud, and snow, and fire, My sea-like fore... ...e Palace is situated in an obscure corner of Rome, near the quarter of the Jews, and from the upper windows you see the immense ruins of Mount Palatin... ...me, earth, and fire—the ocean and the wind, And all their shapes—and man’s imperial will; And other scrolls whose writings did unbind 444 V olume One... ...SWELLFOO SWELLFOO SWELLFOO SWELLFOO SWELLFOOT T T T T: : : : : Call in the Jews, Solomon the court porkman, Moses the sow-gelder, and Zephaniah ... ... ruins shall be mine. HASSAN: HASSAN: HASSAN: HASSAN: HASSAN: Fear not the Russian: The tiger leagues not with the stag at bay Against the hunter.—Cun... ...d. _540 After the war is fought, yield the sleek Russian That which thou canst not keep, his deserved portion Of blood, whic...

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..., but he had come from Boston, he had lived among poets and socialists and Jews and million- aire uplifters at the University Settlement in New York, ... ...n to a certi- fied Studio Party, with beer, cigarettes. bobbed hair, and a Russian Jewess who sang the Internationale. It cannot be reported that Caro... ...oss the river Carol and Kennicott looked back at St. Paul on its hills; an imperial sweep from the dome of the cathedral to the dome of the state capi... ...peace of the Thanatopsis at her third meeting (which covered Scandinavian, Russian, and Polish Literature, with remarks by Mrs. Leonard Warren on the ... ...erature, with remarks by Mrs. Leonard Warren on the sinful paganism of the Russian so-called church). Even before the entrance of the coffee and hot r... ...moral than a chapel organ; that some poets do not have long hair; and that Jews are not always pedlers or pants-makers. “Where does she get all them t... ...s sin and the overclouding of august favor. The two friends played with an imperial chariot which Miles had made out of a starch-box and four red spoo...

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...the amiable Pertinax: who only last night 87 Charles Dickens had left the Imperial affairs in a state of great confusion, by falling a victim to the ... ... the happy party; Mr Podsnap, with his hair-brushes made the most of; that imperial rocking-horse, Mrs Podsnap, majes- tically skittish. Here, too, ar... ... has left me alone.’ ‘ Ah! Can’t be buyer and seller too. That’ s what the Jews say; ain’t it?’ ‘At least we say truly, if we say so,’ answered the ol... ...he who had spoken last, ‘who but you and I ever heard of a poor Jew?’ ‘The Jews,’ said the old man, raising his eyes from the ground with his former s... ...raising his eyes from the ground with his former smile. ‘They hear of poor Jews often, and are very good to them.’ ‘Bother that!’ returned Fledgeby. ‘... ...t may not be generally known) originated in twins and a wolf; and ended in Imperial marble: wasn’t built in a day.’ ‘Did I say it was?’ asked V enus. ... ...corner of state backward, and sat down: like a frozen article on sale in a Russian market. ‘In short, dear Ma,’ said Bella, taking off the depreciated...

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...fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green. So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.” NEVER DID THOSE SWEET ... ...at somehow whaling is not respectable. Whaling not respectable? Whaling is imperial! By old En- glish statutory law, the whale is declared “a royal fi... ...seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress. Curious to tell, this imperial negro, Ahasuerus Daggoo, was the Squire of little Flask, who looke... ...itary navy; nay, extorting almost as much outward homage as if he wore the imperial purple, and not the shabbiest of pilot-cloth. And though of all me... ...e writer hereof. Langsdorff, you must know by the way, was attached to the Russian Admiral Krusenstern’s famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning ... ...ubstantiates every word. The ship, however, was by no means a large one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my uncle after ... ...e in the floating body of a dead whale— even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned their dead horses into tents, and crawled into them...

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... thousand soldiers indifferently weaponed. We were in fact as naked to the Imperial foe as the merely painted Britons. This being apprehended, by the ... ...ader, most un- comfortable to see; it was Nevil Beauchamp in moustache and imperial, and bagbreeches badly fitting. He tried En- glish, which was real... ...ced. Her criticism followed swiftly. ‘I think you are writing to the Garde Imperiale.’ He admitted his error, and thanked her warmly. ‘Messieurs de la... ...o sell us to the biggest buyer, and were not En- glishmen but ‘Germans and Jews, and quakers and hybrids, diligent clerks and speculators, and commerc... ...T ell me about the Giudecca.’ ‘The Giudecca was a place kept apart for the Jews, I be- lieve. You have seen their burial-ground on the Lido. Those are... ... for his first fling, like the son of a family sowing his oats to reap his Jews. Credit me, sir, I thought it prudent to counteract a bit of an apothe... ...genuity, the Germans for enlightenment, the Italians in the Arts; yes, the Russians for good-humour and obedience—where are they? They’re only worth s...