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...had rendered some service, and I was backed by the members of the Communal Council, for I had appealed to their parsimonious instincts, showing them h... ...operty to the Commune, in the possession of which we were confirmed by the Council of State, made me a person of great importance in the canton. But w... ...nd the Prefecture— whence nothing comes out—and from the Prefecture to the Council of State—where nothing can be got in. “Well, after all,” he resumed... ...ith a limited territorial basis like T yre, Carthage, Venice, Holland, and England, for instance, to secure the carrying trade. I cast about for some ... ...an, but Napo- 105 Balzac leon also was a good man. If it had not been for England, you both would have understood each other, and our Em- peror would... ...ve and sorrow that once had served to stir a national hatred of France for England. Beaumarchais, in a later day, had given it back its true poetry by... ...erance; in England, to the commercial spirit; in Italy, to the love of the arts that may be the expression of a society, but by which no society can e...

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... last on this one was cast The burden that others should share. Visions of England, by F . T. Palgrave CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER... ...e was due 13 Charlotte M. Yonge to the change of religion in England, although he was a per- fectly regular church-goer. Captain T albot... ...brig, whose wreck I beheld.” “And well would it have been for Scotland and England had it been the will of Heaven that so it should fall out,” observe... ... said the better.” “Should they not be shown to my lord, or to her Grace’s Council ?” “I’m not going to run my head into trouble for making a coil abo... ...n guilty, and wished to shield that guilt from being proclaimed, while her councillors, in their dread of the captive, wished to enhance the crime in ... ... lies makes a man ready at once to ride off with the whole to the Queen in council.” “Think, but think, dear sir,” pleaded Susan, “how the poor lady i... ...She had to sit still and learn all the embroidery stitches and lace-making arts brought by Mary from the Court of France, till her eyes grew weary, he...

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...ss me molest. —Evening Hymn. ONE OF THE FEW advantages that India has over England is a great Knowability. After five years’ service a man is directly... ...ly permit me to get rid of five ghosts and an airy ‘rick- shaw by going to England. Heatherlegh’s proposition moved me to almost hysterical laughter. ... ...d Chief we called Kafuzelum,—it was like enough to his real name,—and hold councils with ‘em when there was any fighting to be done in small villages.... ...‘em when there was any fighting to be done in small villages. That was his Council of W ar, and the four priests of Bashkai, Shu, Khawak, and Madora w... ...ar, and the four priests of Bashkai, Shu, Khawak, and Madora was his Privy Council. Between the lot of ‘em they sent me, with forty men and twenty rif... ...een them—and launched into his sea dreams. Again I cursed all the poets of England. The plastic mind of the bank-clerk had been overlaid, col- ored an... ...ill call it dreams. Then he will forget altogether. When I passed my First Arts Examination in Calcutta that was all in the cram- 105 Rudyard Kipling...

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...e of Castlewood, and here permanently settled. After a long stormy life in England, he passed the remainder of his many years in peace and honor in th... ...as so truly noble. My dear mother died in 1736, soon after our return from England, whither my parents took me for my education; and where I made the ... ...regarded him; and the servants on our plantation, both those assigned from England and the purchased negroes, obeyed him with an ea- gerness such as t... ... and horses, and ’twas said he had much ado to keep himself awake at these councils: the Countess ruling over them, and he acting as little more than ... ...by myriads, traversing the desert, facing the stake, ruling the courts and councils, or brav- ing the tortures of kings; so that Harry Esmond thought ... ...ming to light, as has been said, and his conduct being known to the King’s council, the Colonel was put in a better position with the exist- ing gover... ...throw off. In her eagerness to please him she practised a hundred of those arts which had formerly 85 Thackeray charmed him, but which seemed now to ... ... of escrime. At the next term Esmond was to take his degree of Bachelor of Arts, and afterwards, in proper season, to assume the cas- sock and bands w...

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...loving Highlander; long- pig, pirated from the next village, to the man-eating Kanaka. The grumbling, the secret ferment, the fears and resent- ments,... ...our, but continually modified my judg- ment. A polite Englishman comes to-day to the Marquesans and is amazed to find the men tattooed; polite Italian... ...i was from home, and found the son making a cotton sack, and madame suckling made- moiselle. When I had sat down with them on the floor, the girl bega... ... captain writes a chapter on the manners of the island. It is not considered what class is mostly seen. Yet we should not be pleased if a Lascar forem... ... feast. To-day they are paying the penalty of this bloody commixture. The civil power, in its crusade against man-eating, has had to examine one after... ...oast. A woman saw a man swim from the high seas and plunge direct into the bush; he was no man of that neighbourhood; and it was known he was one of t... ...em a threat of coming trouble; from that merely human side I found them omi- nous myself. But it was the spiritual side of their signifi- cance that w... ...t waiting to be answered. Wisdom had spoken: let others opine according to their folly. He was feared and hated, and this was his pleasure. He was no ... ...efore he had even spoken, or thought to speak, of Tembinatake, he had told me often of a tall, lean father, skilled in war, and his own schoolmaster i...

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...ise be open to misconstruction. 1. The paper on “Murder as one of the Fine Arts”* seemed to exact from me some account of Williams, the dreadful Lond... ...n those days too commonly abused the patience and long- suffering of Young England, I took a post-chaise to Laxton. The distance was but nine miles, a... ...y as an attempt was made to put them in motion, they began to back, and no arts, gentle or harsh, would for a moment avail to coax or to coërce them i... ...ore there was a religious Lady Carbery, sup- porting locally the Church of England, patronizing schools, diffusing the most extensive relief to every ... ...Wales, at the “Golden Grove;” now such another Lady Carbery was in central England, at Laxton. The two cases, divided by six generations, interchanged... ...ghters. What they wanted was, not a lady that could teach them any special arts or accomplish- ments—all these could be purchased;—but the two qualifi... ...en the last Gazette, because he understood that it con- tained an order in council laying an interdict upon the fu- ture use of waistcoats. His friend... ...ances I had in the university, or had to my own knowledge; and to them, in council assembled, propounded my first question: What college would they, i... ... arrival in Oxford, I as- 108 Memorials, and Other Papers sembled a small council of friends to assist me in determin- ing at which of the various se...

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...“Frederick.” Early in 1766 David Hume persuaded Rousseau to go with him to England, where the exile could find a secure shelter. In London his appeara... ... had a captain’s com- mission in France, and was related to several of the Council. This G——, who was an insolent, ungenerous man, hap- pening to blee... ...e expert, Savoy was too poor a country to give much encour- agement to the arts. The above-mentioned glutton, who eat for us as well as himself, being... ...and reserve, and explain himself with less freedom; but his sentiments and councils were the same, not even excepting his advice to return to my count... ...f judgment in the art, who was unacquainted with the secret motives of the council, in the execution of this magnificent enterprise. Monsieur de Miche... ...ave given me a fond- ness for breakfasts, and I infinitely prefer those of England, or Switzerland, which are considered as a meal, at which all the f... ...int-Andiol there 246 The Confessions should be one person who had been in England, or who knew the English or anything of their language, to prove me... ...n the art, and by that means of ac- quiring a celebrity which, in the fine arts, is in Paris mostly accompanied by fortune. I shut myself in my chambe... ...t and virtue, had just made the tour of Italy to gain a taste for the fine arts, and, imagining he had nothing more to acquire, intended to return by ...

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...urdering me, nor destroy its fruits except by theft and crime. No King, no council, can seize and torture me; no Church, no nation silence me. Such po... ...rather tattered is a large yellow-varnished geological map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and several big... ...orgotten the chagrins and dreams of childhood. He was a prosperous west of England builder; including my father he had three nephews, and for each of ... ... School Board was absorbed by the spreading tentacles of the London County Council. It gives a measure of the newness of our modern ideas of the State... ...write more than perhaps a clumsy signature, were to be found everywhere in England; and great masses of the popu- lation were getting no instruction a... ... at this time was mitigated, if I remember rightly, by making graduates in arts and priests in the established church Science Teachers ex officio, and... ...ht us all, as it were, within personal touch of them. One heard of cabinet councils and meetings at coun- try houses. Some of us, pursuing such intere... ... and Margaret tried to en- gage Britten in a sympathetic discussion of the Arts and Crafts exhibition. But Britten and Esmeer were persistent, Mrs. Mi...

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...r and rounder and rounder—balloons in course of inflation for the South of England Aero Club’s Saturday-afternoon ascent. “They goes up every Saturday... ...d brown paper and cane as Tom had done, but with a penny packet of Boys of England American ciga- rettes. His language shocked his father before he wa... ...e hired out quite the dirtiest and unsafest bicycles in the whole south of England, and con- ducted the subsequent discussions with astonishing verve.... ...ink and pig-skin breeches, of foxes at Ring’s Bottom, where now the County Council pauper lunatics were enclosed, of Lady Bone’s chintzes and crino- l... ...streets upon that one day, than in the previous three months, and a County Council steamboat, the Isaac Walton, collided with a pier of Westminster Br... ...ises in administration and states of siege, of provisional Governments and Councils of Defence, and, in the cases of India and Egypt, insurrectionary ... ..., of the Tanooda Canning Corporation—but he was popular and skilful in the arts of popularity. In the evening quite a crowd of men gathered in the sto... ...recedent, and to a vast development of intelligence and ability in all the arts that make life wholesome. The level and quality of the average educati... ...ack to the state of a barbaric peasantry, and so without any of the simple arts a barbaric peasantry would possess. In many ways they were curiously d...

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...ng them- selves to the new dynasty. But the wealthy country gentle- men of England, a rank which retained, with much of an- cient manners and primitiv... ...consequences of study being rendered too serious or severe. The history of England is now reduced to a game at cards,— the problems of mathematics to ... ...or a Presbyte- rian; but you will remember your duty to God, the Church of England, and the—’ (this breach ought to have been sup- plied, according to... ...eeded. Already a good 44 Waverley horseman, he was now initiated into the arts of the manege, which, when carried to perfection, almost realize the f... ...w, nor indeed possible to trace them. This proposition was undeniable. The council therefore broke up without coming to any conclusion, as has occurre... ...il therefore broke up without coming to any conclusion, as has occurred to councils of more importance; only it was determined that the Bailie should ... ...her, you are provided with a version; for I know you are in all the bard’s councils, and acquainted with his songs long before he re- hearses them in ... ...ary to abide Far from all neighbours, that her devilish deeds, And hellish arts, from people she might hide, And hurt far off, unknown, whomsoever she...

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...ntlemen. Sometimes at places like the Royal Institution and the Society of Arts it did in a sort of way see Mr. Bensington, or at least his blushing b... ...as, no doubt, as Cossar insisted, quite the obvious thing to do, only—! In England one so rarely does the obvious thing. He glanced from his neighbour... ...rmless-looking discovery in chem- istry may lead to! Here he was in homely England and yet in infinite danger, sitting out alone with a gun in a twili... ...ervation of Ancient Statures is going to have Mr. Frederic Harrison on the council, they say. You know he’s written an essay about it; says it is vulg... ...e report and shadow of its power,—throughout the world. It spread be- yond England very speedily. Soon in America, all over the continent of Europe, i... ...ing lives of Bensington and Redwood. They presented them- selves as Parish Councillors, stolid and clinging phonographi- cally to prearranged statemen... ...he special privileges and property of an urban district board, nine parish councils, a county council, two gasworks, and a railway company….” “Goodney... ...an end to over-population, sit down in a world-wide city to practise pigmy arts, worship- ping one another till the world begins to freeze….” In the c...

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...prefecture; for he had been appointed, much to his regret, a member of the Council-general of the depart- ment—”a waste of time,” he remarked. Sometim... ... to me the only influence exercised over the public works of France by the Council-general of the Ponts et Chaussees. Suppose, however, that I become,... ...tion consoled its en- gineer for his blunder by making him a member of the Council-general. Are the technical schools vast manufactories of incapables... ... of the Ponts et Chaussees is immense. In all other countries, in Germany, England, Italy, where institutions like ours do not exist, works of this ch... ...s Europe, which closely observes us, has not established others like them. England, that clever calculator, has better schools among her working popul... ... modify the laws of space and time. Belgium, the United States of America, England, none of whom have an Ecole Polytechnique, will be honeycombed with... ...ssentially bad; bad not only in science, but wher- ever it is employed, in arts, in all selections of men, of projects, of things. If it is a reproach...

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...s yet in the rear. Meantime these great disturbances are not understood in England; and chiefly from the differences between the two nations as to the... ...ons of the two kingdoms. And the church courts of Scotland do not exist in England. We write, therefore, with an express view to the better informatio... ...nd. We write, therefore, with an express view to the better information of England proper. And, with this purpose, we shall lead the discussion throug... ...That man would be elected generally, who had canvassed the parish with the arts and means of an elec- tioneering candidate; or else, the struggle woul... ... yet imperfectly developed; the other in an age when science had armed the arts of war and of locomotion with the fabulous powers of the Titans, and w... ... doubtless some equi- librium to a nobler nature in the other. NOTE 13. In council, we say purposely and in candor; for the only pleas in palliation e... ...transaction, whether more or less, was divided between the general and his council. NOTE 14. And from the fact of that corps in Charlemagne’s army, wh... ...existed, it would have been assigned to burglars, and by no means to privy-councillors; as again our English prefix of ‘Venerable’ would have been set... ...ied by continual improvements applied to the construction of roads and the arts of locomotion, could it be said that such a state of social intercours...

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...nion and unanimity which for some 5 Sir W alter Scott time animated their councils, were all in a considerable de- gree produced by the smallness of ... ...cquainted me with the motives which had induced him to hazard a journey to England at this juncture. The impatience of his friends who were in exile h... ... trusted with his most secret correspondence. As soon as this was known in England, all those persons of distinction who were attached to him were gre... ...n excellent understanding, urged the most cogent reasons, and used all the arts of persuasion, to induce him to part with his mistress, and even proce... ...diate interruption of all correspondence with his most powerful friends in England, and, in short, that the ruin of his interest, which was now daily ... ...ee, animated at present, when he was exercis- ing for his own pleasure the arts which he usually practised for bread,—all announced one of those perip... ..., I know not,’ said Steenie. ‘I will delate you for a warlock to the Privy Council!’ said Sir John. ‘I will send you to your master, the devil, with t... ...ased to accept of. The object of my present writing is twofold. First, the council are of opinion that you should now begin to stir in the thirlage ca... ... dullness, such as will at times creep over all the professors of the fine arts, arising either from fatigue, or con- tempt of the present audience, o...

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...annot accomplish the impossible. In the fifth volume of Lecky’s History of England, the historian draws an interesting distinction between the qualiti... ... Of the two, Seward had the larg- est following, mainly from New York, New England, and the Northwest. Cautious politicians doubted seriously whether ... ...coln’s preeminent virtues; but he had not long pre- sided over his cabinet council when his was felt by all its members to be the ruling mind. The cau... ...ieved his care-burdened mind, and who then solemnly informed the executive council that he had vowed in his 48 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol ... ...line and the chas- tening of his own spirit, had outgrown all meretricious arts, and found his own way to the grandeur and strength of absolute simpli... ... that the members of the Supreme Court, together with the Governor, form a Council of Revision, and that this Coun- cil approved this Bank charter. I ... ...rm the everyday news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana; they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the...

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...alry, In case our lord the king should go to war again, He learn’d the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress — or a nu... ...is studies she inquired, And so they were submitted first to her, all, Arts, sciences, no branch was made a mystery To Juan’s eyes, excepting ... ..., especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse, The arts, at least all such as could be said To be the most remote from c... ...OND. Oh ye! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, ... ...iable as Pindar? In France, for instance, he would write a chanson; In England a six canto quarto tale; In Spain, he’d make a ballad or romanc... ...ences of such frisks Are worse than the worst damages men pay In moral England, where the thing ‘s a tax), From ogling all their charms from b... ... meet and share ‘em. But as it was, his Highness had to hold His daily council upon ways and means How to encounter with this martial scold, ... ... attack’d by water. New batteries were erected, and was held A general council, in which unanimity, That stranger to most councils, here preva... ...esperation, And wedded unto one she had loved well— A man known in the councils of the nation, Cool, and quite English, imperturbable, Tho...

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... the wars and processions, the castle building and cathedral building, the arts and loves, the small diplomacies and incurable feuds, the crusades and... ...d and needed a holiday. They sat down at a little table outside the County Council house of Golders Hill Park and sent one of the waiters to the Bull ... ...th the very fabric of that pioneer school in the educational renascence in England. After the customary exchange years in Heidel- berg and Paris, he w... .... Mylius was of opinion that we could take a line westward and get back to England across the North Sea. He calculated that with such a motor barge as... ...ck, ‘that there has to be some sort of hegemony, some sort of Amphictyonic council—’ ‘There’s got to be one simple government for all the world,’ said... ...rt had fore- seen, and meanwhile, with an increasing self-confidence, that council went on governing…. On this first evening of all the council’s gath... ...sly tragic after Barnet’s return to En- gland, it is, if anything, harder. England was a spectacle of fear-embittered householders, hiding food, crush...

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...ssible that the appellation grew out of the meetings that were held at his council fires; the war drove off the agent, in common with the other office... ... the United States to denote a traineau. It is of local use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The latter ... ...never emerged from the privacy of do- mestic life unless to preside in the councils of the colony or to bear arms in her defense. The latter had from ... ...er Richard’s taste in everything that pertained to that branch of the fine arts. Not that Mr. Jones did not affect to consider Hiram Doolittle a perfe... ...orgotten among the inhabitants of New Y ork, until the emigration from New England brought in the opinions and usages of the Puritans, like the “bon h... ...nal owners of the soil, all that section of country which contains the New England States, and those of the Middle which lie east of the moun- tains, ... ... called by the whites, from the circumstances of their holding their great council- fire on the banks of that river, the Delaware nation, the prin- ci... ...rivals. According to this declaration, the Delawares were to cultivate the arts of peace, and to intrust their defence entirely to the men, or warlike...

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...am afraid the knighthood was really con- ferred on Henry’s first return to England, after the battle of Agincourt; but human—or at least story-telling... ...aimed Sir James, ‘methought I had heard of such a book. I have a friend in England who would give many a fair rose noble for a sight of it.’ ‘A friend... ...and who would give many a fair rose noble for a sight of it.’ ‘A friend in England!’—the words had a sinister sound to the audience, and while Malcolm... ...ge and recreation required, and received the choicest training both in the arts of war and peace. They were bred up in close intercourse with the King... ...urely Church and nations cry aloud for purifying. Jerusalem, and a general council—I saw them once clear and bright before me; but now a mist seems to... ... set free and restored to her manors; and I shall write to Humfrey and the Council to that effect.’ And as John shrugged his shoulders, Henry gaily ad... ...ace with his hands, and gave way to his grief: point- ing, however, to the council-room, where Malcolm found Bedford writing at the table, King James,... ...er he had heard nothing. He had lately won his first degree as Bachelor of Arts, and was descending the stair from the Hall after a Lenten meal on sal... ...herefore remain at Ox- ford, he thought, long enough to take his Master of Arts degree, and then, though to his own perceptions only the one-eyed amon...

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...pon man’s present achievements and his probable destinies: especially upon England’s grandeur, vitality, stability, her intelligent appreciation of he... ...ummation, that the ghastly vision of the Jew Dominant in London City, over England, over Europe, America, the world (a picture drawn in literary sepia... ...at City ban- quets—exciting while audible, if a waggery in memory; or when England’s cherished Bard, the Leading Article, blew bellows, and wind prime... ...band, after wooing her to unbosom her- self. She was awake to his guileful arts, and sailed along with him, hailing his phrases, if he shot a good one... ...l. Therefore she sides with Mrs. Burman—the foe of Na- ture: who, with her arts and gold lures, has now possession of the Law (the brass idol worshipp... ...hings he did. The rea- son of it was, that through the perceptible various arts and shifts on her level, an opposing spirit had plainer view of his ai... ... a glorious England if there were men and women to welcome a girl to their councils. Oh! that is the broad free England where gentlemen and gentlewome...