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...g this page illustrated by one of the most illustrious of Sarmatian names, that I am striving, as the goldsmiths do, to enhance a modern work with an ancient jewel,--a fancy of the fashions of the day,-- but you and a few others, dear count, will know that I am only seeking to pay my debt to Talent, Memory, and Friendship....

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...that I am striving, as the goldsmiths do, to enhance a modern work with an ancient jewel,—a fancy of the fashions of the day,— but you and a few other... ...choed sighs, the edifice itself seemed endowed with life. The existence of Peoples has no more solemn scenes, no moments more majestic. To mankind in ...

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...side you by laying one of his works at your feet, and begging you to protect it with your name, as in former days that name protected the tales of an ancient writer dear to the Milanese....

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...t it with your name, as in former days that name protected the tales of an ancient writer dear to the Milanese. You have an Eugenie, already beautiful... ...s two opposite effects, the symbols of which exist in two grand figures of ancient slavery, Epictetus and Spartacus,—hatred and evil feelings on the o... ...ains of righteousness. The history of all good homes is that of prosperous peoples; it can be written in two lines, and has in it nothing for literatu... ...y a jug of water with a towel laid upon it, and a bit of common soap. T wo ancient hats hung to their respective nails, near which also hung the self-...

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...f it. I saw an engraving of Hero and Leander, and I said to myself, If the ancients used all that oil on their heads they had some reason for it; for ... ...ents used all that oil on their heads they had some reason for it; for the ancients are the ancients, in spite of all the moderns may say; I stand by ... ...ncients, in spite of all the moderns may say; I stand by Boileau about the ancients. I took my departure from that point and got the oil of nuts, than... ...e me to life! I have thought of selling an oil of nuts, believing that the ancients made use of that oil for their hair; and the ancients are the anci... ...rancois Gaudissart, grand- son of all the Gaudissarts, vile proletaries of ancient birth, his forefathers. March! and mind that everything is hot, or ... ...nder, re- duced in size, with the following assertion as an epigraph: “The peoples of antiquity preserved their hair by the use of Cephalic Oil.” “He ...

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...ling up through smoke and thousand- fold exhalation, some fathoms into the ancient reign of Night, what thinks Bootes of them, as he leads his Hunt- i... ...sary of life, and would not be flatly gainsayed. We can still remember the ancient woman; so silent that some thought her dumb; deaf also you would of... ...ng by the light of Oriental, Pelasgic, Scandinavian, Egyptian, Otaheitean, Ancient and Modern researches of every conceivable kind, he strives to give... ...begs (though breeches, as the name Gallia Braccata indicates, are the more ancient), Hussar cloaks, Vandyke tippets, ruffs, fardingales, are brought v... ...enceforth be profitably incor- porated with Mr. Merrick’s valuable Work On Ancient Ar- mor? Take, by way of example, the following sketch; as authorit... ...d thou- sand individuals shot (by each other) in one day. All kindreds and peoples and nations dashed together, and shifted and shovelled into heaps, ...

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...nd I think we noticed that this strange thing was the case in Hamburg, too, and in the villages along the road. Even in the narrow- est and poorest an... ...roof, so he goes there to add a steeple in the nature of some specialty, such as a particular branch of law, or diseases of the eye, or special study ... ...wall; they bore inscriptions telling who killed them and how many hundred years ago it was done. One room in the building was devoted to the preservat... ...er failed in a trust. It is believed that the sing- ing still continues, but it is known that nobody has heard it during the present century. CHAPTER ... ...t his troubles for a while, but we have not his kindly art, and so had to leave the raven to his griefs. After breakfast we climbed the hill and visit... ...ay and chipper essay—about ancient Grecian funeral customs, or the ancient Egyptian method of tarring a mummy, or the reasons for believing that some ...

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...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...n a hitherto desolate country under the frowning nail-studded cliffs of an ancient trunk. Then I conquered them and garrisoned their land. (Alas! they... ...ience is the organised conquest of Nature, and I can quite understand that ancient libertine refusing to cooperate in her own undoing. And I can quite... ...me roads rather more carefully tended, the Inns not very much altered, the ancient familiar market-house. The occasional wheeled traffic would have st... ...e might have persuaded oneself that all this was but the replacement of an ancient tranquillity, or at least an ancient balance, by a new order. Only ... ... en- gagement. The main gate still looks out with the same ex- pression of ancient well-proportioned kindliness upon St. Margaret’s Close. There are i... ...re to each his own That he reap where he hath sown; By the peace among Our peoples let men know we serve the Lord!” 93 H G Wells And then again, and ... ...l courage, I remember that the idea that on the continent there were other peoples going ahead of us, mentally alert while we fumbled, disciplined whi... ... of the better organised, more vigorous, and now far more highly civilised peoples of Central Europe, seemed to me to have both a good and bad series ...

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...the Orders held their allotted places in the State; and the naivete of our ancient customs by the pun on “eris,” which word, combined with the “i” at ... ...t family, in the days when the higher nobility of the kingdom lived on the ancient site of the Palais des Tournelles and the hotel Saint-Paul. Toward ... ...Lions, etc. Madame Clapart’s apartment, which was panelled throughout with ancient carvings, consisted of three connecting rooms, a din- ing-room, sal... ...st. This “welcome” is a break- fast which every neophyte must give to the “ancients” of the office into which he enters. Now, about the time when Osca... ...f the Archives of the Palais for safe-keeping, with the registers of other ancient Practices; and we have ourselves gone, each and all, to hear mass a... ...hat between a nation and an individual. Ambassadors are the attor- neys of Peoples. If I can ever be useful to you, let me know.” “Well,” said Oscar, ...

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...profound and vital teaching. The desire to unlock the closed doors of this ancient treasure house, awakened at that time, led to a series of classes o... ... March, 1919 Introduction The Upanishads represent the loftiest heights of ancient Indo-Aryan thought and culture. They form the wisdom portion or Gna... ...pon the vital message they 6 The Upanishads contain for all times and all peoples. There is nothing peculiarly racial or local in them. The ennobling... ...of arduous labor in this field frankly confesses: “Modern words are round, ancient words are square, and we may as well hope to solve the quadrature o... ... these mere sur- face difficulties, one is repaid a hundredfold; for these ancient Sacred Books contain the most precious gems of spiritual thought. E... ...ords and deeds, all his sons and cattle, are de- stroyed. According to the ancient Vedic ideal a guest is the rep- resentative of God and should be re...

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...gray, gave tones of polished steel to the ice of the fiord. Perchance some ancient eider-duck crossed the expanse, trusting to the warm down beneath w... ...nd feed upon itself and make the Norwegian peasant a being apart among the peoples of Europe. Such was the condition of the Strom-fiord in the first y... ...the love of Good. In short, he describes the customs and morals of all the peoples attached to the different globes, and explains the general meaning ... ...bit of paper, on which he saw, he says, the hieroglyphics of the primitive peoples, which 49 Balzac were composed of curved lines traced from the fin... ...just had he confined the testimony of his power to certain generations and peoples and denied them to others. The bra- zen rod belongs to all. Neither... ...urns his visions into maxims. And what comes of it all? Why this,—that the peoples live as they have ever lived, as they lived in the first Olympiad, ... ...me envoy of death and of oblivion whose dusky mantle covers like a pall an ancient Humanity 102 Seraphita of which the moderns retain no memory. Man ... ...said Monsieur Becker, “who at the age of twelve spoke forty-two languages, ancient and modern; also the history of that monk who could guess thought b... ...ope. Mine shall be no paltry sovereignty like those that govern to-day the ancient provinces of the Roman empire, disputing with their subjects about ...

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...em into system runs, What other planets circle other suns, What vary’d being peoples every star , May tell why heav’n has made us as we are. But of th... ...iot, rose but to restore The faith and moral nature gave before; Relum’d her ancient light, not kindled new , If not God’s image, yet his shadow drew:... ...if your’s you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept thro’ scoundrels ever since the floo... ...romwell, damn’d to everlasting fame! If all, united, thy ambition call, From ancient story learn to scorn them all. There, in the rich, the honour’d, ...

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...excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), meeting obscurely amidst a world-wide disre- gard t... ... the Old Man should be roused. All the world over, even to this day, these ancient inevitable taboos can be traced.) And now instead of caves came hut... ...e corn ships of imperial Rome, a petty inci- dent; and a huge migration of peoples between Europe and Western Asia and America was in Progress, and—no... ...aths, walks in the summer sunlight and tales by the winter fire- side, the ancient sequence of hope and acts and age perenni- ally renewed, eddying on... ...licately beautiful facade, along the South Bank of the Thames opposite the ancient dignity of Somerset House. Such thought was interwoven with the ver... ...ly clean; and the foot passenger was restricted to a narrow vestige of the ancient footpath on ei- ther side of the track and forbidden at the risk of... ...spirit of the seeker had revealed to them, were charming them out of those ancient and in- stinctive preoccupations from which the very threat of hell... ...igerent convulsions, and then the infection passed to the German- speaking peoples who were the heart and centre of Europe, and from them onward to th... ... of the American imagination. For the Americans also were among the simple peoples by whom the world was saved. He won over the American president and...

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...t of an immemorial sleep to find himself in a vast chamber, in a great and ancient house, a great and ancient house high amidst frozen and lifeless mo... ...eadership is disputed. The darkness even of the room you are in is full of ancient and discarded but quite unsubjugated powers and purposes…. They thr... ...pleasing thoughts. He addressed the little car as a person; he referred to ancient disputes and temperamental incom- patibilities. His anger betrayed ... ...ld Man. But that was a thing, of the remote past. Little was left of those ancient struggles now but a few infantile dreams and nightmares. The greate... ...y, human society, was made for good. And being made, it had taken over the ancient tasks of the woman, one by one, until now in its modern forms it ch... ... THE FOR THE FOR THE FORGO GO GO GO GOT T T T TTEN TEN TEN TEN TEN P P P P PEOPLES EOPLES EOPLES EOPLES EOPLES S S S S Section 1 ection 1 ection 1 ect... ...attle pest? Or did we just waste our woods and dwindle away before the new peoples that came into the land across the southern sea? I can’t remember….... ... was to be ruled by law and custom. No longer were the jealousy of strange peoples, the jealousy of ownership and the jealousy of sex to determine the... ...ad, mapped so clearly, faced with such certainty, in which the heliolithic peoples believed from Avebury to Polynesia? Not always have we had to go al...

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...king light the highest of all the possibilities of the greatest of all the peoples. He was quite aware, however, of the claims to economic and other c... ...re and bald, with stony wrinkles in their faces, like busts and statues of ancient law-givers. There seemed to him something chill and exposed in thei... ... sure; and the process of parting between the guest and her hostess had an ancient elaboration. Count Otto waited a little; then he turned away and wa... ..., then fix them quite above it with a medi- tative look and bring out some ancient pleasantry as if it were a sudden inspiration. He made a cheerful t...

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...ency to lead one to suppose that they had lived long among those different peoples. Were they gypsies? were they buccaneers? “Suppose they’re the devi... ... find beneath the cold skies of Paris the rich and satisfying creations of ancient Greece. La Zambinella displayed in her single person, intensely ali...

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...y used to tell us (the only man by whom France could have been saved), for peoples don’t die; they are slaves or free men, and that’s all. Child-power... ...he family of 171 Balzac Sallenauve is, after that of Cinq-Cygne, the most ancient fam- ily in the department of the Aube. I ought to add that the exh... ...amily of to-day children have taken the place of the household gods of the ancients, and whoever does not share this worship is not a morose and sour ... ...nded, and has never since been taken up.” “Are you sure of what you say?” “Ancient authors, Strabo and others, all mention these 248 The Deputy of Ar...

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...nable reluctance to follow those gallant intellectual leads. If fear is an ancient instinctive boundary that the mod- ern life, the aristocratic life,... ...ther planet. What intruders men are, what for- eigners in the life of this ancient system! He looked over his shoulder, and there were the two little ... ...deserted temples that are found rent asunder by the roots of trees and the ancient embankments that hold water only for the drinking of the sambur dee... ... again…. He had come far out of his way to visit this strange world of the ancient life, that now recedes and dwindles before our new civilization, th... ...d it under clustering pale- stemmed trees shone the mirror surface of some ancient tank, 33 H G Wells and, sharp and black, a dog-like beast sat on i... ...to begin with the tigers right away.” “It is the towns and governments and peoples I want to see rather than tigers,” said Benham. “Tigers if they are... ...trace on the rest of his re- search, which was concerned with the hates of peoples and classes and war and peace and the possibilities science un- vei... ... a crime to which men are tempted by human dirigibility. It is the orderly peoples who create tyrants, and it is not so much restraint above as stiff ... ...it not true that the Jews did press a little financially upon the inferior peoples whose lands they honoured in their exile? The man with the black be...

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...atched-up speculations of vanished Greeks and Egyptians, it was a mummy of ancient disputes, old and dry, that fell to dust as I unwrapped it. And I w... ...rd—shall I say suggestion? To stand by the altar bearing strange names and ancient symbols, speak- ing plainly to all mankind of the one true God—!” 4... ... Earth,” he summed it up. “And you want to become a detached and wandering Ancient Mariner from your shipwreck of faith with something to explain—that... ...e light of the advent of God’s Kingdom, but very great, very great indeed, ancient and high and venerable, in comparison with me. But mostly it is hum... ...you, my dear sons and daughters, who have gathered to-day in this worn and ancient building, be- neath these monuments to ancient vanities and these s... ...hapel for science, a chapel for healing, a chapel for gov’ment. Places for peoples to sit and think about those things—with paintings and symbols.” “I...

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...r, as he called it, He had broken the law human and divine. Passers by, an ancient admonition to you: If your ways would be ways of pleasantness, And ... ... the world and wanted to right them. When my father died, I set out to see peoples and countries In order to learn how to reform the world. I traveled... ...eps jumped Cully Green And Martin Vise, and began to fight To settle their ancient rivalry, Striking each other with fists that sounded Like the blows...

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...gation of his tiny craft with eagerness—or repeating with wild energy “The Ancient Mariner”, and Southey’s “Old Woman of Berkeley”; but those who do w... ...es, as once before it flew, O’er thine isles depopulate, And all is in its ancient state, Save where many a palace gate ... ...e frail bark of this lone being) Pass, to other sufferers fleeing, And its ancient pilot, Pain, Sits beside the helm again. Other flowering isles must... ...as the moonlight fills the open sky Struggling with darkness—as a tuberose Peoples some Indian dell with scents which lie Like clouds above the flower... ...y passed several hours daily in the Gallery, and made various notes on its ancient works of art. His thoughts were a good deal taken up also by the pr... ...ique weed-grown towers that recur at intervals in the circuit of the massy ancient wall of Rome. He selected the hallowed place himself; there is ...

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...d from low Breton into French, and the word in our present speech has more ancient associa- tions than any other. The “gais” was the principal weapon ... ...eply embedded vestiges of the beliefs and superstitious practices of those ancient times. Feudal customs are still maintained. Antiquaries find Druidi... ...uans and tranquillity. Happy in discovering that the man she loved bore an ancient title (the distinctions of which please every woman), she also foun... ...ancine followed and stood behind her mistress, leaning on the back of that ancient bit of furniture. “Y ou will allow me for a moment to play the part... ...ommands the three val- leys, rise the battlements and feudal towers of the ancient castle of Fougeres,—one of those enormous erections built by the Du... ...hiefs at La Vivetiere, urging him to abandon the struggle of kings against peoples. But the young man’s soul was too proud, too lofty, too full perhap...