...ntly he saw a deer, followed by her young, approach the water. He watched her, judging that she would seek a ford, and he was right. She waded over, a... ...Presently another open carriage brought the Grand Duke of Baden, a stately man in uniform, who wore the hand- some brass-mounted, steel-spiked helmet ... ...g! It was just the time for a tramp through the woods and mountains. We were all dressed alike: broad slouch hats, to keep the sun off; gray knapsacks... ...endid gamblers are gone, only her microscopic knaves remain. An English gentleman who had been living there several years, said: “If you could disguis... ...y insolence here. These shopkeepers detest the English and despise the Americans; they are rude to both, more es- Mark Twain 102 pecially to ladies o... ... run across you in Italy, you hunt me up in London before you sail.’” The next item which I find in my note-book is this one: “The fact that a band of... ...nt leisure, and that we are only able to send 1,200 soldiers against them, is utilized here to discourage emigration to America. The common people thi... ...n the matter of numbers. It is rather a striking one, too. I have not distorted the truth in saying that the facts in the above item, about the army a... ...ody pays that man’s board and lodging. It occurs to him by and by, however, in one of his lucid moments. *Months after this was written, I happened in...

...Frederick Douglass passed through every gradation of rank comprised in our national make-up, and bears upon his person and upon his soul every thing t... ...oclivity or bent, to active toil and visible progress, are in the strictly national direction, delighting to outstrip “all creation.” Nor have the nat... ...is liberty may have been cloven down, * * * * no matter what complexion an Indian or an African sun may have burned upon him,” not only may “stand for... ...oo hungry to sleep. While I sat in the corner, I caught sight of an ear of Indian corn on an upper shelf of the kitchen. I watched my chance, and got ... ...head, speak- ing to me in soft, caressing tones and calling me his “little Indian boy,” he would have deemed him a kind old man, and really, almost fa... ... muttering to himself; and he occasionally stormed about, as if defying an army of in- visible foes. “He would do this, that, and the other; he’d be d... ...duct it was intended to sustain; for, besides awakening some- thing like a national interest in me, and securing me an au- dience, it brought out coun...

...ears of desperate resistance to a foe in possession of almost a tenth of the national territory, and that tenth industrially the richest in the countr... ...stics of a different race is to pick out, among them, those in which our own national char acter is most lacking. It is sometimes agreeable, but seld... ...rst, and especially those which happen to be more or less lacking in our own national make up. This is what I propose to attempt in these articles; an... ...relation to our neighbours. To keep them off we did not even have to have an army! France, on the contrary, has had to fight for her existence ever sin... ...hey are likely to be struck first of all by” such and such things. In our new Army all the arts and professions are represented, and if the soldier in ... ...when at length the colonists emerged again from the backwoods and the bloody Indian warfare. The stern ex perience of the pioneer, the necessity of r...

... India; but assuredly we cannot be taxed with that neglect. No part of our Indian empire, or of its adjacencies, but has occupied the researches of ou... ...s, when made vocal to the meditative heart by the truths and services of a national church, God holds with children “communion undisturbed.” Solitude,... ...rgeous- ness which, by description, so well I knew of sunset in those West Indian islands from which my father was returning— the knowledge that he re... ...ts! Perhaps the Pre-Adamites would con- stitute one wing in such a ghostly army. My brother, dying in his sixteenth year, was far enough from seeing o... ...umed to eyes that watched over the trembling interests of man. The English army, about that time in the great agony of its strife, was thrown into squ... ...cta- tors that knew about the amount of human interests con- fided to that army, and the hopes for Christendom that even then were trembling in the ba... ...racter of the British policy as to all external demonstrations of pomp and national pretension, and its strong opposition to that of France under corr... ...s, why, we may ask, were not the many and gorgeous jewels, achieved by the national wisdom and power in later times, adopted into the recomposed tiara... ...to the Blackmoor Sea; From India and the Golden Chersonese, And utmost Indian isle, Taprobane, —Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreathed; ...

...T TA A A A AGE GE GE GE GE 0 NE NIGHT, a very long time ago, I drove to an Indian military cantonment called Mian Mir to see amateur theatricals. At t... ...arm kept his bones. Even Vixen was not allowed to sit near it. In the full Indian moonlight I could see a white uniform bending over the dog. “Good-by... ...(who married Miss Youghal), and Adam, his son. Strickland has finished his Indian Ser- vice, and lives now at a place in England called Weston-su- per... .... It seemed to me a pretty sight, but Penfentenyou said it represented Our National Attitude. Lord Lundie’s summer resting-place we learned was a farm... ...p the gang-plank to the village, and with no more prelude than a Salvation Army picket in a Portsmouth slum, cried: “Oh, my brothers!” He did not gues... ... away with Baxter and the bath- chair, I fell across a major of the Indian army with gout in his glassy eyes, and a stomach which he had taken all rou...

...hem with dismal gardens of dry cracked earth, where a few reedy sprouts of Indian corn seemed to be the chief cultivation, and which were guarded by h... ...“Groenenland’s” abrupt demise with grins of satisfaction. It was a sort of national compliment, and cause of agreeable congratulation. “The lubbers!”... ... benighted people among whom they live an opportunity to admire the spirit national. There is the brave honest major, with his wooden leg—the kindest ... ...to represent them at Wapping or Portsmouth Point, with each, under its own national signboard and language, its ap- propriate house of call, and your ... ...nd foreign ministers and ambassadors may enjoy a dignified sine- cure; the army will rise to the rank of peaceful constables, not having any more use ... ...e heroism saved his island from the efforts of Mustapha and Dragut, and an army quite as fierce and numerous as that which was baffled before Gibralta... ...conquered in Egypt the remains of the haughty and famous French republican army, at whose appearance the last knights of Malta flung open the gates of... ...m Corfu regiments, jolly sailors from ships in the harbour, and yellow old Indians returning from Bundelcund, should think proper to be enthusiastic a... ...’clock bell rings. Sixty people sit down to a quasi- French banquet:thirty Indian officers in moustaches and jack- ets; ten civilians in ditto and spe...

...l 20 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Four parties declared in their National Conventions. That “forever” turned out to be just four years, when... ...ent and voted against it; but I never voted against the sup- plies for the army, and he knows, as well as Judge Douglas, that whenever a dollar was as... ...he contest of 1856 his party delighted to call themselves together as the “National Democracy”; but now, if there should be a notice put up any- where... ...t now, if there should be a notice put up any- where for a meeting of the “National Democracy,” Judge Dou- glas and his friends would not come. They w... ...r time a moment with what he said. Mr. Clay was at one time called upon in Indiana, and in a way that I suppose was very insult- ing, to liberate his ... ...n of it is in these words: “What is the foundation of this appeal to me in Indiana to liberate the slaves under my care in Kentucky? It is a general d... ... last in that shame- ful, though rather forcible, declaration of Pettit of Indiana, upon 69 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Four the floor of t...

...rest of the apartment was very gloomy. Equipt in a habit which mingled the national dress of the Scottish com- mon people with something of an Eastern... ...s of subsistence. They lost, in a great measure, by this intermixture, the national character of Egyptians, and became a mingled race, having all the ... ...hem. These tribes were, in short, the Parias of Scotland, living like wild Indians among European settlers, and, like them, judged of rather by their ... ...f hostili- ties on either side. 62 Guy Mannering CHAPTER VIII. So the red Indian, by Ontario’s side, Nursed hardy on the brindled panther’s hide, As ... ...as an oppressive aristocratic man, who made my rank in society, and in the army, the means of galling those whom circumstances placed beneath me. And ... ... complaints against the fickleness 112 Guy Mannering and caprice of these Indian nabobs, who never knew what they would be at for ten days together. ... ...uld feel the same sorrow for a generous enemy who fell under my sword in a national quarrel. I shall leave the ques- tion with the casuists, however; ... ...t of the war, and the straits to which we were at first reduced, threw the army open to all young men who were disposed to embrace that mode of life; ... ... Dawson—he has a bad choice in names, that be allowed. He has not left the army, I believe, but he says nothing of his present views. “T o complete my...

... on Professor Teufelsdrockh “were un- doubtedly welcome to the Family, the National, or any other of those patriotic Libraries, at present the glory o... ...ll miracles have been out- miracled: for there are Rothschilds and English National Debts; and whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpe... ...like case, might do? Or how would Monsieur Ude prosper among those Orinoco Indians who, according to Humboldt, lodge in crow-nests, on the branches of... ...r military chest insol- vent, forage all but exhausted; and that the whole army is about to mutiny, disband, and cut your and each other’s throat,—the... ...est heraldic Coats-of-arms; military Banners everywhere; and generally all national or other sectarian Costumes and Customs: they have no in- trinsic,... ...is Eddas, must withdraw into dimness; and many an African Mumbo- Jumbo and Indian Pawaw be utterly abolished. For all things, even Celestial Luminarie... ...t. Have them salted and barrelled; could not you victual therewith, if not Army and Navy, yet richly such infirm Paupers, in workhouses and elsewhere,... ...sing: all this you cannot see, but only imagine. I say, there is not a red Indian, hunting by Lake Winnipeg, can quarrel with his squaw, but the whole...

... Her Majesty was often recognised, and I have seen French subjects kiss her photograph; Captain Speedy—in an Abyssinian war-dress, supposed to be the ... ...t Louis Stevenson This proneness to suicide, and loose seat in life, is not peculiar to the Marquesan. What is peculiar is the wide- spread depression... ... that of the living, and the dead multiply and the living dwindle at so swift a rate. Conceive how the remnant huddles about the embers of the fire of... ...ase. Man-eating among kindly men, child-murder among child-lovers, in- dustry in a race the most idle, invention in a race the least progressive, this... ...-board, absinthe, a map of the world on Mercator’s projection, and one of the 48 In The South Seas most agreeable verandahs in the tropics), a handfu... ...s chief adornment. He was naturally ignorant of English history, so that I had much of news to communicate. The story of Gordon I told him in full, an... ...ead of yachts in the Sunday papers, and being fired with the desire to see one. Captain Chase, they called him, an old whaler-man, thickset and white-... ...hat here at Kauehi, as the day before at Taiaro, the Casco sailed by under the fire of unsuspected eyes. And one thing is surely true, that even on th...

... occur in similar cases. Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as... ...irations… Only when the family had “moved” into the malarious backwoods of Indiana, the mother had died, and a stepmother, a woman of thrift and energ... ...ashington. To the town constable’s he went to read the Revised Statutes of Indiana. Every printed page that fell into his hands he would greedily devo... ... field, and his most noteworthy deed of valor consisted, not in killing an Indian, but in protecting against his own men, at the peril of his own life... ...tes to Lyman Trumbull, who was then elected. Two years later, in the first national convention of the Republican party, the delegation from Illinois b... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One liar advantage on the battlefield of national politics. In the assault on the Missouri Compromise which broke do... ...supplied with arms, if not emp- tied by treacherous practices; the regular army of insig- nificant strength, dispersed over an immense surface, and de... ...ed, the second at Bull Run. But when, after that battle, the Con- federate army, under Lee, crossed the Potomac and in- 43 The Writings of Abraham Li... ...ln: V ol One vaded Maryland, Lincoln vowed in his heart that, if the Union army were now blessed with success, the decree of freedom should surely be ...

...ucted the field operations by orders delivered through aides de camp. Tom’s army won a great victory, after a long and hard fought battle. Then the d... ... years, all war worn and illus trious. No — better still, he would join the Indians, and hunt buffaloes and go on the warpath in the mountain ranges... ...eart gave a great bound. The next instant he was out, and “going on” like an Indian; yelling, laughing, chas ing boys, jumping over the fence at risk... ... in a new device. This was to knock off being pi rates, for a while, and be Indians for a change. They were attracted by this idea; so it was not lon... ...some day. He said he meant to look to it that Tom should be admitted to the National Military Academy and afterward trained in the best law school in...

...der has ever been present in a vast metropolis, on the day when some great national idol was carried in fu- neral pomp to his grave, and chancing to w... ... of the company during the earlier toasts, I overruled the call. After the national toasts had been given, the first official toast of the day was, Th... ...e sequel of their history. Perhaps the only case on record where a regular army of murderers was assembled, a justus exercitus, was in the case of the... ... ab omnibus— Non est inventus.” “No, no, Toad—you are wrong for once: that army was found, and was all cut to pieces in the desert. Heavens, gentle- m... ...e picture! The Roman legions—the wil- derness—Jerusalem in the distance—an army of murderers in the foreground!” Mr. R., a member, now gave the next t... ... purpose of malice, faithfully pursued, has quartered some people upon our national funds of homage as by a perpetual annuity. Bet- ter than an inheri... ...e man that is baked into a king. All others are counterfeits, made of base Indian meal, damaged by sea-water. La Pucelle, before she could be allowed ... ...eparate table arranged for themselves in a corner of the room. Y et, if an Indian screen could be found ample enough to plant them out from the very e... ...o more, was in decent cultivation. Beyond that belt, there was only a wild Indian cultivation. At present what a differ- ence! We have that very belt,...

...ntellectual fortitude, reasoning; it is mere animal training; they are white Indians.” CHAPTER III. KNIGHTS OF THE TABLE ROUND MAINLY THE R OUND T AB... ... and also some pretty fair tobacco; not the real thing, but what some of the Indians use: the inside bark of the willow, dried. These comforts had bee... ... freight up against prob able fasts before starting, after the style of the Indian and the anaconda. As like as not, Sandy was loaded for a three da... ...g else in the way of news?” “The king hath begun the raising of the standing army ye suggested to him; one regiment is complete and officered.” “The ... ... is only one body of men in the kingdom that are fitted to officer a regular army.” “Yes — and now ye will marvel to know there’s not so much as one W... ...he Commis sion charged with the examination of candidates for posts in the army came with the king to the Valley, whereas they could have transacted... ...itude of this stroke, consider these other figures: the annual expenses of a national government amount to the equivalent of a contribution of three d... ...average wage was 3 cents a day, when he paid his own keep. By this rule the national government’s expenses were $90,000 a year, or about $250 a day. ... ...isfied no one, but pleased all concerned and saved four fifths of that day’s national expense into the bargain — a saving which would have been the eq...

... well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket.” He waved his hand, turned on his heel, a... ...with the right leg, wears thick soled shooting boots and a gray cloak, smokes Indian cigars, uses a cigar holder, and carries a blunt pen knife in hi... ...gar, which my special knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and ... ...ound and discovered the stump among the moss where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety which are rolled in Rotterdam.” “And the c... ...reported to have done very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson’s army, and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When Le... ...nsibility which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any misfortune s... ...be a private matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was national property. I was determined that the law should have its way in...

...nd hillocks, and Death and Man are at grip for the haul. There we find our nationality, our poetry, no Hebrew com- peting. We do: or there at least we... ...o be taken as a part of him, the likening of it, at an introduction, to an army on the opening march of a great campaign, should plead ex- cuses for t... ...ll the English critics heap their honours on its brave old Simplicity: our national literary flag, which signalizes us while we float, sub- sequently ... .... An unstable London’s no world’s market-place.’ ‘No, no; it’s a niggardly national purse, not the journals,’ Mr. Radnor said. ‘The journals are tradi... ...’ ‘Not till you’ve got the drop of poison in your blood, in the form of an army landed. That will teach you to catch at the drug.’ ‘No, Fenellan! Besi... ...he drug.’ ‘No, Fenellan! Besides they’ve got to land. I guarantee a trusty army and navy under a contract, at two-thirds of the present cost. We’ll st... ... to appreciate as Anglicanly religious. On the step of the return to their Indian clime, they speak of the hatted sect, which is most, or most commerc... ...f the riddle of their power to vanquish. In some apparent allu- sion to an Indian story of a married couple who successfully made their way, he accoun... ...appointed Lady Blachington’s third son to the coveted post of clerk in the Indian house of Inchling and Radnor. These are the deluge days when even ar...

...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 “... ...the same fatigue, is not, says Xenophon, so intolerable to a general of an army as to a common sol- dier. Epaminondas took his death much more cheerfu... ...ew of one another, in his gymnastic exercises, upon that very account? The Indian women who see the men in their natu- ral state, have at least cooled... ...that follows must be left to the Amazonian licence: Alexander marching his army through Hyrcania, Thalestris, Queen of the Amazons, came with three hu... ...sex, well mounted, and armed, having left the remain- der of a very great, army that followed her behind the neighbouring mountains to give him a visi... ... Si quis ebur, vel mista rubent ubi lilia multa Alba rosa.” [“ As Indian ivory streaked with crimson, or white lilies mixed with the damask r... ... 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 ... ...amily with their continual miseries; there- 224 Essays: Book III fore the Indians, in a certain province, thought it just to knock a man on the head ...

...s beating. After that he will be as se curely brave as any veteran in the army—and there will not be a shade nor suggestion of personal merit in it... ... better things than that, and it did not enthuse over that crude Salvation Army eloquence. It was courteous to Holme— but cool. It did not pet him, di... ...e. And this argument is also applicable in the case of others of the great army of the Unrevealed. It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to ca... ...t all in among the English pegs according to it date and regardless of its nationality. If the road pegging scheme had not succeeded I should have lod... ...and chain and other millinery so that Columbus could discover America. The Indian wars were very desecrating to the country. The Indians pursued their... ...dge of all men twenty five hundred years before the Christian era. Our red Indians have left many records, in the form of pictures, upon our crags and... ...body came down from London; there were no lamenting poems, no eulogies, no national tears—there was merely silence, and nothing more. A striking contr... ... a His tory of England under the Princes of the House of Tudor, a body of National History, a Philosophical Romance. He made extensive and valuable a...

...native land; Tartar and Frank, and millions whom the wings _3835 Of Indian breezes lull, and many a band The Arctic Anarch sent, and Idumea’s s... ... _505 And therefore dared to be a liar! In truth, the Indian on the pyre Of her dead husband, half consumed, As well might there ... ...e Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national history or mythology, employed in their treatment of it a certain ... ...ies. ACT 1 SCENE: SCENE: SCENE: SCENE: SCENE: A ravine of icy rocks in the Indian Caucasus. Prometheus is discovered bound to the precipice. Pantea an... ..., and my servant instantly recognized it as the portrait of La Cenci. This national and universal interest which the story pro- duces and has produced... ...lar thieves to represent; _165 An army; and a public debt. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. Which last is a scheme of paper mon... ... _225 They are mines of poisonous mineral. Line 222 This libel on our national oath, and this accusation of all our countrymen of being in the da... ...Radical-butchers, Paper-money-millers, Bishops and Deacons, and the entire army Of those fat martyrs to the persecution Of stifling turtle-soup, and b... ...understone alit. _370 One half the Grecian army made a bridge Of safe and slow retreat, with Moslem dead; The other— M...

... recognition of the idea of a human commonweal as something overriding any national and pa- triotic consideration, and that is in the working class mo... ...ocial revo- lution. If world peace is to be attained through labour inter- nationalism, it will have to be attained at the price of the completest soc... ...e Danish ham, or eat a New Zealand chop, wind up his breakfast with a West Indian banana, glance at the latest telegrams from all the world, scrutinis... ...f two among the brilliant galaxy of Bengali inventors the modernisation of Indian thought was producing at this time—which was used chiefly for automo... ...of soldiering, first as an officer in the English infantry and then in the army of pacification. His book tells all these things so simply and at the ... ...as supposed to fight on foot with a rifle and be the main por- tion of the army. There were cavalry forces (horse soldiers), having a ratio to the inf... ...riggs, and that very able King’s Counsel, Philbrick, had reconstructed the army frequently and thoroughly and placed it at last, with the adop- tion o... ...my frequently and thoroughly and placed it at last, with the adop- tion of national service, upon a footing that would have seemed very imposing to th... ...the dark blue Himalayan sky. Far away below to the south the clouds of the Indian rains pile up abruptly and are stayed by an invisible hand. Hither i...