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...ack. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” —C... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ... great original— the Tyre of this Carthage;—the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nan- tucket did those abor... ...om—so he told me—he was actuated by a profound de- sire to learn among the Christians, the arts whereby to make his people still happier than they wer... ...ey were. But, alas! the practices of whalemen soon convinced him that even Christians could be both miser- able and wicked; infinitely more so, than a... ...l die a pagan. And thus an old idolator at heart, he yet lived among these Christians, wore their clothes, and tried to talk their gibberish. Hence th... ... and added that he 65 Herman Melville was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of... ...lagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or V ancouver had ever sailed. If American and European men-of-war now peacefully ride in once sav- age harbo... ...thousand men before the mast employed in the Ameri- can whale fishery, are Americans born, though pretty nearly all the officers are. Herein it is the...

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...more favored individuals did credit to Miriam’s selection. One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the ot... ...adle. According to a third statement, she was the off-spring of a Southern American planter, who had given her an elabo- rate education and endowed he... ...an, or demon, or man-demon, was a spy during the persecutions of the early Christians, probably under the Emperor Diocletian, and penetrated into the ... ...kneel and worship at the holy sites, among which these haunts of the early Christians are esteemed especially sacred. Or, as was perhaps a more plausi... ... time, leaving it to be the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, and people of ever... ... indeed, I am afraid you would never come down among us again.” This young American girl was an example of the freedom of life which it is possible fo... ...t English accent on her tongue, but much that is not English breeding, nor American. Nowhere else but in Rome, and as an artist, could she hold a plac...

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... university. 3 Henry James A Little Tour In France by Henry James WE GOOD AMERICANS—I say it without presumption—are too apt to think that France is ... ... of old furniture, as all apartments should be through which the insatiate American wanders in the rear of a bored domestic, pausing to stare at a fad... ...had not come over the spirit of the people. They seemed to me as silent as Americans when Americans have not been “introduced,” and infinitely less ad... ...lic-house, or a “commercial room,” with pipes and whiskey, or even than an American saloon. XIII. It is very certain that when I left Tours for Le Man... ...o be restored to those big educative barracks that do such violence to our American appreciation of the opportuni- ties of boyhood. The train stopped ... ...nant of the old pagan place of sepulture, which was afterwards used by the Christians, but has been for ages deserted, and now consists only of a mela...

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... women he has met. They have been people of very various origins; English, Americans, Bengalis, Russians, French, people brought up in a “Catholic atm... ...t, and in the zeal of their recoil they fly to a contrary proposition. The Christians would neither admit that they worshipped more gods than one beca... ...Constantine did not care who was damned or for what period, so long as the Christians ceased to wrangle among themselves. The practi- cal unanimity of... ...not what the wiser among the Gnostics meant by the Demiurge, but since the Christians destroyed all the Gnostic books that must remain a mere curious ... ...t the things he said and did…. We are all so weary of this theology of the Christians, we are all at heart so sceptical about their T riune God, that ... ...ngland, that is to say within the Anglican com- munion of the T rinitarian Christians. It contains among other papers a very entertaining summary by a... ...d of * It is not so generally understood as it should be among English and American readers that a very large proportion of early Christians before th...

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...g to the commander of the corvette, had recently gone ashore there from an American whaler, and were desirous of ship- ping aboard one of their own co... ...arcely any price too dear which will purchase his darling “tot.” Nowadays, American whalemen in the Pacific never think of carrying spirits as a ratio... ... have treated them kindly. Indeed, nominally, many of these people are now Christians; and, through the political influ- ence of their instructors, no... ... had thrown the sailors, now brooked no restraint; and one of them—a young American who went by the name of Salem—dashed out from among the rest, 70 ... ...ng on the island more than two years, he finally escaped in the boat of an American whaler, which landed him at Valparaiso. From this period he had co... ...ts bowsprit; which, from its posi- tion, looked nearly upright. She was an American whaler, a very old craft. Having sprung a leak at sea, she had mad... ...ather than have forced themselves thus upon a people already pro- fessedly Christians. CHAPTER XXXIII. WE RECEIVE CALLS AT THE HOTEL DE CALABOOZA OUR ... ...eat antiquity, where no one had been interred since the islanders had been Christians. Sealed up in dry, deep vaults, many a dead heathen was lying h... ...s of foreign origin of any description. The people of Tamai were nominally Christians; but be- ing so remote from ecclesiastical jurisdiction, their r...

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...ONS of such a place as Albaro, the suburb of Genoa, where I am now, as my American friends would say, ‘located,’ can hardly fail, I should imagine, t... ...ts; but looking up into the steeples, and seeing (and hearing) these young Christians thus engaged, one might very naturally mistake them for the Enem... ...ndsditch, London. Having selected a V etturino from among the neighbouring Christians, who agreed to carry us to Milan in two days and a half, and to ... ...sed to view a little wooden doll, in face very like General Tom Thumb, the American Dwarf: gorgeously dressed in satin and gold lace, and actually bla... ... its walls are covered. These represent the martyrdoms of saints and early Christians; and such a panorama of hor ror and butchery no man could imagi... ...at in the upper range (for there are two stories of these caves) the Early Christians des tined to be eaten at the Coliseum Shows, heard the wild bea... ... of Rome—quarries in the old time, but afterwards the hiding places of the Christians. These ghastly passages have been explored for twenty miles; and... ...te Campagna in one direc tion, where it was most level, reminded me of an American prairie; but what is the solitude of a region where men have never... ...rly uncomfortable, with the eyes of Heaven knows how many English, French, Americans, Swiss, Germans, Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, and other foreigne...

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... the great lakes that date as settlements as far back as many of the older American towns, and which were the seats of a species of civilization long ... ...e is clearing the way for the advancement of civilization across the whole American continent. THE P A THFINDER CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER ... ...eeping top, the rich varieties of the maple, most of the noble oaks of the American forest, with the broad-leaved linden known in the parlance of the ... ...it. The Indians were silent and industrious the appetite of the aboriginal American for venison being seem- ingly inappeasable, while the two white me... ... just reached the boat was a chief; and the habitual defer- ence which the American Indian pays to merit, experience, and station kept the others sile... ...ike the outcries of devils than anything that can come from the throats of Christians and men.” “Christians they are not, and do not pretend to be, an... ... parsons preach about humility in the garrison; but if humility would make Christians, the king’s troops ought to be saints, for they’ve done little a...

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...ceived private proposals, and then present his treasures out of hand to an American city, not unknown to ; aesthetic fame, in which at that time there... ... Roderick Hudson air of apathetic homesickness, and she played her part in American society chiefly by having the little squares of brick pavement in ... ...- tience to get out of it. Is one’s only safety then in flight? This is an American day, an American landscape, an Ameri- can atmosphere. It certainly... ...d with the occasion, and he declared that he was above all an advocate for American art. He did n’t see why we should n’t produce the greatest works i... ... the spot, to embrace it—to be the consummate, typical, original, national American artist! It ‘s inspiring!” Rowland burst out laughing and told him ... ...lease!” she cried. “Not leave Rome, when we have staid here later than any Christians ever did before! It ‘s this dreadful place that has made us so u...

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... before described, stood up, and with a loud voice in Spanish asked, “Are ye Christians?” We answered, “We were;” fearing the less, because of the cro... ...ore am come to you to offer you my service, both as strangers and chiefly as Christians. Some things I may tell you, which I think you will not be unw... ...we should meet one day in the kingdom of heaven (for that we were both parts Christians), we desired to know (in respect that land was so remote, and ... ...low. So you see, by this main accident of time, we lost our traffic with the Americans, with whom of all others, in regard they lay nearest to us, we ...

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...to this the country has continued to flourish. It is a singular feature in American life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of... ...al use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The latter draw a distinction between a sled, or sledge, and a s... ...construction used for temporary purposes in the new countries. Many of the American sleighs are elegant though the use of this mode of conveyance is m... ...ense—he knew that the mild prin- ciples of this little nation of practical Christians would be disregarded by their subtle and malignant enemies; and ... ...uke and his cousin, being Pennsylvanians by birth, were not Yankees in the American sense of the word. 48 The Pioneers CHAPTER V “Nathaniel’s coat, s... ....” —Freneau. BEFORE THE EUROPEANS, or, to use a more significant term, the Christians, dispossessed the original owners of the soil, all that section ... ... nation as their grandfather The former was generally called, by the Anglo-Americans Iroquois, or the Six Nations, and sometimes Mingoes. Their appell... ...points of our faith, there is but little difference among those classes of Christians who acknowledge the attributes of the Saviour, and depend on his... ...The knowledge of the dependence which each of these meek 126 The Pioneers Christians had on the other for happiness threw an additional charm around ...

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...more favored individuals did credit to Miriam’s selection. One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the ot... ...adle. According to a third statement, she was the off-spring of a Southern American planter, who had given her an elabo- rate education and endowed he... ...an, or demon, or man-demon, was a spy during the persecutions of the early Christians, probably under the Emperor Diocletian, and penetrated into the ... ...kneel and worship at the holy sites, among which these haunts of the early Christians are esteemed especially sacred. Or, as was perhaps a more plausi... ... time, leaving it to be the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, and people of ever... ... indeed, I am afraid you would never come down among us again.” This young American girl was an example of the freedom of life which it is possible fo... ...t English accent on her tongue, but much that is not English breeding, nor American. Nowhere else but in Rome, and as an artist, could she hold a plac...

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...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ... in slant for- age caps and rattling sabers. It suggested to them a common American past, and it was memorable because they had discovered it together... ...essed her. They were so stolid. She had always maintained that there is no American peasantry, and she sought now to defend her faith by seeing imagin... ...t it was their privilege as relatives to laugh at Carol, and their duty as Christians to let her know how absurd her “no- tions” were. They objected t... ...t speak so bitter about `pious’ people. There’s lots of sincere practising Christians that are real tolerant. Like the Champ Perrys.” “Yes. I know. Un...

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... talking of Eugenics and the “family”—Benham was almost knocked down by an American trotter driven by Lord Breeze. “Whup there!” said Lord Breeze in a... ...uestrian… .” That night some malignant spirit kept Benham awake, and great American trotters with vast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncon... ...ast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncontrollable, hard-mouthed American trot- ters, pounded over his angry soul. “Prothero,” he said in ha... ...ake me. Short of muffing my fellowship I’m with you always…. Will it be an American trotter?” “It will be the rawest, gauntest, ungainliest brute that... ...f en- noblement—and neglecting the Frenchman, the Russian, the German, the American, the Indian, the Chinaman, and, in- deed, the greater part of mank... ...hometan districts they pelt men who do not wear fezzes, while occasionally Christians of the shawl-headed or skull- cap persuasions will pelt a fez. S... ...cularly upon the differences between men of the same race who were Hindus, Christians and Mahometans respectively. He could compare the Bengali Mahome...

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... reply. What was there for a bishop to object to? There was that admirable American widow, Lady Sunderbund. She was enor- mously rich, she was enthusi... ... incidental of observations. “What puzzles me,” he said, “is why the early Christians identified the Spermaticos Logos of the Stoics with the sec- ond... ...ty we ever ceased to be friends,” he said. “You Englishmen aren’t like our Christians,” he went on. The Engiishmen wanted to know why. “You haven’t pr... ...y do we fight?” “That’s what we want to know.” “Why do you call yourselves Christians? And take part against us? All who worship the One God are broth... ...The English were indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world was the “White man’s Bur... ...he first to speak. “Daddy,” she said, “I know I’m stupid. But are we still Christians?” “I want you to think for yourselves.” “But I mean,” said Miria... ... mean,” said Miriam, “are we—something like Quak- ers—a sort of very broad Christians?” “You are what you choose to be. If you want to keep in the chu...

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...p wi’ him like a Christian.’ So she says her dog maunt niver fight an’ noa Christians iver fought. ‘Then what’s a soldier for?’ says I; an’ I explains... ...dhrink tay out av chiny in the drrrrawin’-room, an’ thin we’ll dhrink like Christians undher the tree here. Scutt, ye naygur-folk! There’s a Sahib com... ...l.) Jack’s an ass. There’s enough brass on this to load a mule—and, if the Americans know anything about anything, it can be cut down to a bit only. ‘... ...‘they shall be good and shall with their hands to work learn. For all good Christians must work.’ And upon a stipend more modest even than that of an ... ...f life their preachers lead; speak to the Racine Gospel Agency, those lean Americans whose boast is that they go where no Englishman dare follow; get ... ...mine English educa- tion—out-casted, and made up name Dana Da—England with American thought-reading man and—and—you gave me ten rupees several times—I...

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...very much what one might expect from an aunt, that I used as Nero used his Christians to ornament my public buildings; and I finally melted some into ... ...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain.... ...rst of endless points of resemblance between them and the commoner sort of American girl. When some years ago I paid my first and only visit to Americ... ... the teeming uproars of reality. There was not a dozen people all told, no Americans and scarcely any English, to dine in the big cavern of a dining- ...

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...ce; and to Averil it was something like a midnight meeting of perse- cuted Christians—to Leonard it was ‘great fun.’ That evening was not a solitary s... ...ow could he suppose that any man could be crazed enough to prefer to be an American citizen, when he might remain a British subject? Repugnance to Ame... ...hate to see it, and to hear people say my roses will surprise the delicate Americans. Fancy, in a shop in London I met an old school-fellow, who was d... ... owns she does not know half so much as Cora!’ This regular declaration of American independence con- founded the two sisters, and made Averil recall ... ... at home in our great country.’ It was so exactly the ordinary second-rate American style, that Averil, who had expected something more in accordance ... ...e that her new friends might be induced to settle near their future abode. American meals were too serious affairs for conversation; but such as there... ...r and nearer now. The isle of Alan Ernescliffe’s burial-place had now many Christians in it. Harry’s friend, the young chief David, was dead; but his ...

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...cks was very red, the mangle with its put-up board was white-scrubbed, the American oil-cloth on the table had a gay pattern, there was a warm fire, t... ...o quiet, they had the dangerous impassivity of the Bohemian, Pari- sian or American rather than English. “Cigarette, Julia?” said Robert to his wife. ... ...ing that proud, rather stiff bend of her head was. She had some aboriginal American in her blood. But as she looked, she pursed her mouth. The artist ... ...bead-work, in different layers. She bowed to various acquaintances— mostly Americans in uniform, whom she had known in Paris. She smiled to Lady Cochr... ...tics—even niggers are better than Asiatics, though they are wallowers— the American races—and the South Sea Islanders—the Marquesans, the Maori blood.... ... have you? Then go and join the Buddhists in Burmah, or the newest fangled Christians in Europe. Go and stick your head in a bush of Nirvana or spirit...

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...to do with Gretna Green? I was not going that way to the Devil, but by the American route, I remarked in my bitterness. In the morning I found that it... ...n wall, and a voice in the deep stillness of the night calling on all good Christians to pray for the souls of the dead; it being All Souls’ Eve. T o ... ... it were, appears as to portions of himself like a leopard. I made several American friends at that Inn, who all called Mont Blanc Mount Blank,—except...

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...s of self was cast away. Among these we cannot forbear mentioning the poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle... ...l bear hoisting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we hear of an American Railway collision that befell a train on the way to Elmira with pr... ...sionary who had converted a great part of Zealand, but who will not accept Christians who have not laid aside their sins. He confronts the king who ha... ...ssession of all the north of Gaul, except Brittany. Chlodweh had made them Christians in name, but they still remained horribly savage—and the life of... ...self save his sword and scarf; but for the redemption of their poor fellow Christians their wealth was ready, and many a captive was released from toi... ... unpre- pared for the attack, and had collected 5,000 allies to resist the Christians; but a great storm having dispersed the fleet on the first day o... ...f the third century. For many years there had been no persecution, and the Christians were living at peace, worshipping freely, and venturing even to ...