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...guinea pig-like creatures of wood, in happier days the inhabitants of that Swiss farm. Sunken rocks off this island are indicated by a white foam whic... ..., is roofed with stiff paper. These stiff-paper roofs are one of our great inventions. We get After the game is over, we put these roofs inside one an...

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... across a living ant that seemed to have any more sense than a dead one. I refer to the ordinary ant, of course; I have had no experience of those won... ...a thousand times its own length at one jump, and no eye is sharp enough to see where it lights. A great deal of romantic nonsense has been written abo... ...piece of exaggeration is that about the “scarcity” of the chamois. It is the reverse of scarce. Droves of one hundred million chamois are not unusual ... ...remember the girl’s face, now, but I had no idea where I had seen it before, or what named belonged with it. I immediately tried to get up a diversion... ...iewed as a king, he was strictly contempt- ible. His was a most unroyal career, but the most pitiable spec- tacle in it was his sentimental treachery ... ...t the same things; market reports. There you have it. That is what a German daily is made of. A German daily is the slowest and saddest and dreariest ...

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...y. From the left wing on the Isonzo along the Alpine boundary round to the Swiss boundary there is mountain warfare like nothing else in the world; it... ...s extraordinarily unlike that upon any other front. From the Isonzo to the Swiss frontier we are dealing with high mountains, cut by deep valleys be- ... ...n the field from the passing of the Roman legions to the appearance of the Swiss footmen. he makes it very clear that he considers the fighting of the... ...resent island of peace, was regarded by him as the mother of mod- ern war. Swiss aggression was the curse of the Milanese. That is a remark by the way... ...essity to the Allies if they are to win this war outright that the lead in inventions and enterprise which the British have won over the Germans in th...

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...ces, the language of France was a little disturbed also, on account of the inventions of the poets, who at that time, as at this, used each to make a ... ...nguage for himself, besides the strange Greek, Latin, Italian, German, and Swiss words, foreign phrases, and Spanish jargon, introduced by foreigners,... ...n of arabesque pictures, which at that time were much esteemed, the wanton inventions of debauchery. Then did his eyes shoot flame, his words burn, an... ...the queen of raptures—a fair de- mon, in whom is concentrated all feminine inventions. I wished that once in thy life thou, who has never tasted the e... ... pyramid in which is cemented for ever the seed of all fantastic and comic inventions, besides magnificent instruction in all things. Although rare ar...

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...en tin under his arm— so long as it is not painted that abominable popular Swiss apple green—I would make it no occasion for quarrel! We have tramped ... ...ld of men. And presently, amazed and amazing, we should happen on a man—no Swiss—dressed in unfamiliar clothing and speaking an unfamiliar speech…. S ... ... upon the point of com- ing upon our first Utopian man. He was, I said, no Swiss. Yet he would have been a Swiss on mother Earth, and here he would ha... ... was not primarily organised for warfare hand to hand. Political and moral inventions he saw enough of and to spare, and in that direction he still st... ...nd it is certainly the fate of all Utopias to be more or less misread, the inventions contemplated were political devices. 65 H G Wells I believe, Ca... ...st and then that. *See that most suggestive little book, Twentieth Century Inventions, by Mr. George Sutherland. *Vide William Morris’s News from Nowh...

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... to 13 Montaigne the ways of the country. The hotels, the provisions, the Swiss cookery, everything, was agreeable to him; it appears, in- deed, as i... ...other men, without ever setting them to work upon their own force, had the inventions and opinions of others been ever been present with me by the ben... ...d do but ob- serve how large and ample Caesar is to make us understand his inventions of building bridges and contriving engines of war,—[De Bello Gal... ... of a story was told me by a domestic apoth- ecary of my father’s, a blunt Swiss, a nation not much ad- dicted to vanity and lying, of a merchant he h... ...ranny of the T riumvirate, had a thousand times by the subtlety of as many inventions escaped from falling into the hands of those that pursued him. I... ...ifference between them and me; and notwithstanding all that, suffer my own inventions, low and feeble as they are, to run on in their career, without ... ... has anything of a scholar in him, in an ordinary subject to do) under old inventions patched up here and there with his own trumpery, and then to end... ... strong, and well armed, who were about the king (’tis like they meant the Swiss of the guard), should submit to obey a child, and that they did not r... ...e the Lacedaemonian women, but what else 335 Montaigne do you find in the Swiss among our foot-soldiers, if not that, as they trot after their husban...

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...nk refusal to marry her. Then followed his marriage with Gretchen Krass, a Swiss girl of peerless beauty. Then came the gallant rescue, which almost c... ...d that these barbar- ians have destroyed.” Their secrecy and swiftness and inventions had far sur- passed those of the Germans, and where the Germans ... ... Britain and France and Italy had declared war upon Ger- many and outraged Swiss neutrality; India, at the sight of Asiatic airships, had broken into ... ...vigables in their flank raid upon the Franconian Park were assailed by the Swiss experimental squadron, sup- ported as the day wore on by German airsh... ...e of the designers of airships and aeroplanes had known clearly what their inventions might have to fight; many had not imagined they would have to fi... ...ypes gathered over the Bernese Oberland, crushed and burnt the twenty-five Swiss air-ships’ that un- expectedly resisted this concentration in the bat...

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...ularity of her face, which recalled the exaggerated proportions of certain Swiss heads. The character of their countenance—the features being marked b... ... with stout legs and thick hands, he was gifted with the shrewdness of the Swiss inn- keepers, whom he resembled. Certainly he was not hand- some, and... ...e absurdities into which a clever builder dragged the igno- rant pair,—new inventions, fantastic ornaments, a system for preventing smoky chimneys, an...

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...lowing, perched on a step-ladder and getting things to rights. He was always hovering round inventions like a bee over a flower, and lived in a dream ... ...find many corners that take the fancy; such as made the English noble choose his grave by a Swiss streamlet, where nature is at her freshest, and look... ...lake; these are the three strongest 129 Robert Louis Stevenson impressions I remember: The Swiss Family Robinson came next, Longo Intervallo. At thes...

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... and the days when Christopher Columbus was a child. Of course, there were inventions and changes, but there were also retrogressions; things were fou... ...nt about its busi- 30 The World Set Free ness—as the inhabitants of those Swiss villages which live under the perpetual threat of overhanging rocks a... ... for brilliance with the motor bicycles, aeroplanes, and ski-men among the Swiss mountains, and a sudden swoop upon Vienna; the thing was to listen—an...

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...s not disagreeable, for she herself was evidently the foremost dupe of her inventions. She had a fictitious history in which she believed much more fo... ...efore his eyes, and a volume of Wordsworth in his pocket. His face, on the Swiss hill- sides, had been scorched to within a shade of the color nowaday... ... he presently telegraphed for his box, which, according to the excel- lent Swiss method, was punctually delivered by post. The nights were cold, and o... ...f the valley and complicates its picturesque- ness with an element rare in Swiss scenery. Hard by is a group of chalets and inns, with the usual appur... ... a group of chalets and inns, with the usual appurtenances of a prosperous Swiss resort—lean brown guides in baggy homespun, lounging under carved woo... ...e her worse,” she said. Rowland went to his own chamber. The partitions in Swiss mountain-inns are thin, and from time to time he heard Mrs. Hudson mo...

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...by the highroad, he had built himself a little cabin after the manner of the Swiss Family Robinson; thither he mounted at night, by the romantic aid o... ...with tales, and so had his father before him; but these were irrespon- sible inventions, told for the teller’s pleasure, with no eye to the crass publ...

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...sion begotten of our pride, we have translated these effects into poetical inventions, because we did not understand them. It is so convenient to deif... ...died in a single section of this trea- tise, though Louis did not know the Swiss doctor’s writings— which are few and brief. A simple and logical infe...

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...ing, you know, knew what war was; no one could imagine, with all these new inventions, what horror war might bring. I believe most people still believ... ... had come out to Ecuador to climb mountains, to replace one of their three Swiss guides who had fallen ill. He climbed here and he climbed there, and ...

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... own room, found them smoking with pipes, which they had sent for from the Swiss Guards! Knowing what would happen if the smell were discovered, he ma... ...rs of age, still showed it, although tall, stout, and coarse featured as a Swiss guard in woman’s clothes. She was, moreover, bold, audacious, talk- i... ...year; added to the Palais Royal, Saint Cloud, and other mansions. He had a Swiss guard, which none but the sons of France had ever had before; in fact... ... would maim her, and he desisted. Sometimes they used to send about twenty Swiss guards, with drums, into her chamber, who roused her from her first s... .... He sought to be heard, and was heard. At last he faced the danger of the Swiss, and on fine nights was seen with the Duchess in the gardens. Nangis ... ...rried out. It is good to admit our ignorance, and not to give fictions and inventions in place of what we are unac- quainted with. I know not why, but...

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... at the top of a hill, as the Prince de Conti did at Nointel; or producing Swiss scenery at Cassan, like Bergeret, the farmer-general. In short, it is... ...plendidly adorned for their love-festival by the most poetical of nature’s inventions, and crushed under the foot of a passer-by. But there is another... ...e. “Tell her so, for she sits there mumchance, and obliges me to find more inventions than three authors for one piece.” “If Esther turns prudish, jus... ...nd; you grow thrifty there.—Look here; go there yourself, my dear! Catch a Swiss, and you may perhaps catch a husband, for they have not yet learned w... ...ned off in Asia by England, when a commercial traveler sells him the first Swiss snuff- box that opens in three places. “You want to win my heart? Wel... ...e gentlemen whether Monsieur Sechard has a right or no to a patent for his inventions in paper-making?—If you mean to spend the night here—at the Bell... ...chained, in 1819 and 1820. Jacques Collin’s last escape, one of his finest inventions—for he had got out disguised as a gendarme leading Theodore Calv...

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...hich there are several per sons with distinctly differentiated characters—inventions of my mind and yet strangers to me: a vulgar person; a refined ... ...ksman, more and better than a mere cool head; he was a type; he stands for Swiss patriotism; in his person was represented a whole people; his spirit ... ...is to a nail. Some prefer a nail at first. However, I like all the French, Swiss, German, and Italian domestic cigars, and have never cared to inquire...

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...and courtship among the dolls; the hero being a small jointed Dutch one in Swiss costume, about an eighth part of the size of the resuscitated Celesti... ...od half a century ago; codliver oil was unknown; and stethoscopes were new inventions, only used by the more advanced of the faculty. The only escape ... ...s her strength served her. The little figures in costume, coloured prints, Swiss carvings, French knicknacks, are preserved in many a Hillside cottage...

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...ath; and after forty days, during which, with cruel care and all the sorry inventions of medical science, they slowly nursed me back to life, I find m... ... princess, who, like a lioness rushing on her prey, carried it off to some Swiss town to devour in peace. And I confide my plans to you because I have... ...renzy of nature, it has suc- ceeded in creating that greatest of all human inventions—the family, which is the enduring basis of all organized society...

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...s piece of the chaussuye of our forefathers, and that is still worn by our Swiss? [“Cod-pieces worn”—Cotton]—T o what end do we make a show of our imp... ... size, so that it seemed rather to fly than roll. The strangeness of these inventions puts this other fancy in my head: that it is a kind of pusillani... ...on with the infinite diversity of human actions; the multiplication of our inventions will never arrive at the vari- ety of examples; add to these a h... ...ish stom- ach cannot hold out to eat as we can, nor ours to drink like the Swiss. A German made me very merry at Augsburg, by finding fault with our h...