Full Text Search Details
...products in this book. Under the rubric "characteristics of innovations," several writers have isolated and discussed attributes possessed by ideas... ...to The New State of the Economy (Allvine and Tarpley 1977), Philip Kotler wrote: Americans will have to pay more attention to resource conservation... ...lives. (p. xiii) In the book the authors succinctly speak of reformulation of the American Dream such that our society will have “to expect less in... ...intended to be fruitful and multiply ("Save the Whales" 1979): The materialistic American dream, while dominant, is not universal. Young adults sh... ... marketing seems to have earned for itself two different definitions (Luck 1974). Writers have applied the expression in one sense to mean the socia... ...sing on environmental conservation factors is that of Perry (1976). However, most writers agree with Takas (1974) who applies the expression societa... ... link the marketing PLC to factors inherent in particular situations, in this case botanical stages. A great many concepts are of such a nature tha...

Full Text Search Details
...r (German), Revolution (French), Revolutionary War or War of Independence (American), Whiskey Insurrection (American), Civil War (American), War of... ... (for illustrations of these see 260-63) : The Men Who Made the Nation; The American College-- Its Past and Presmt; the Report of the Committee of N... ..." as part of the title, unless necessary to the sense: the Forum, the North American Review, the Chicago Tribune; but: The World To-Day.) NoTE.-T~~... ...th American Review, the Chicago Tribune; but: The World To-Day.) NoTE.-T~~ Botanical Gazette capitalizes only first words and pmper names. In fore... ...uthors," "World- Dominion of English-speaking Peoples." 40. In zoological, botanical, and similar technical matter, the scientific (Latin) names of... ...~ of EdUion, Transactims of the Zl1im.s Society for Child Study. NoTE.-T~~ Botanical Gazette uses italics for such titles in the text only; in foot... ...ury Europe-he must not look outside of manuscript tra- dition." NOTE.-Some writers regard this hyphen as an objectionable Teutonism. 195. A hyphen... ...by running a line across the page, or by using ink of different color. Some writers make a perpendicular fold in the paper, using two-thirds of the... ...d logic included, there is abundant room for differences of opinion. Grant writers the privilege of preferring theirs to yours. Make a study of th...

Full Text Search Details
...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ..................................................... 54 Thorfinn's voyage to the American shores................................. 55 Killing of the firs... ...er with pitch. References are made to these people by Job and other very early writers. For some reason, which is not recorded in history, they finall... ... where the riches brought back by them were obtained, while equally creditable writers believe that the voyage was to the kingdom of Sofala on the Eas... ...as not only popularly opposed by the people but rejected by many distinguished writers of the Augustan Age. Formaleoni claims that the Venetians disco... ...rcon, who had engaged to accompany Bougainville, with a view of increasing his botanical knowledge. She followed her master with extraordinary courage...

Excerpt Details
...re is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little harm to womankind as the stone of an urchin...

Full Text Search Details
...wit: ‘an unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of h... ...o cheer his progress; a little to posterity, and to our country. Dozens of writers will be in at yonder yawning breach, if only perusers will rally to... ... capital descriptions. The best English letter- 30 Diana of the Crossways writers are as good as the French— You don’t think so?—in their way, of cou... ...e worked for my bread. I had thoughts of America. I fancy I can write; and Americans, one hears, are gentle to women.’ ‘Ah, Tony! there’s the looking ... ... inducement she had received to embark her money in this Company: a South- American mine, collapsed almost within hearing of the trum- pets of prospec... ...lls and stones and weeds were deposited on the li- brary-table at Copsley, botanical and geological books comparingly examined, Emma Dunstane always e...

Excerpt Details
... and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colors highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for color is a little dull?...

Full Text Search Details
...f whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colours highl... ...res whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred for misery and ruin. The American portion of this story is in no other respect a carica- ture than a... ...or the most part (Mr. Bevan ex- pected), of a ludicrous side, only, of the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from ... ...mon capacity or accomplishments, I think! Am I, or am I not?’ ‘You are the American aloe of the human race, my dear Chiv,’ said Mr Tigg, ‘which only b... ... office. Indeed, the office had little else in it, but some geological and botanical specimens, one or two rusty ledgers, a homely desk, and a stool. ...

Excerpt Details
...e generally begins with a truism; and I may set out with the admission that it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and his surviving friends are apt to show more zeal than discretion in dragging forth from his c...

Full Text Search Details
... it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite a... ...afford entertaining and even profitable reading to the later generation of writers whose pleasant fortune it is to charm one another and the public. I... ...st, has ventured in some manner to disregard the modern canons which debar writers from betraying towards their cre ations any warmer feeling than a ... ...the port, who followed the East and West Indian, the African and the South American trade, it was supposed that this odd philosopher was in the habit ... ... a sixpence and shakes his horse whip at him. Had the grim Doctor been an American, he might have had the vast antipathy to rank, without the trace o... ...n his infancy and youth. He was a gem of coarse texture, just hewn out. An American with a like education would more likely have gained a certain fine... ...thatch, which was verdant with leek, and strange weeds, possessing a whole botanical growth. And birds flew in and out, as if they had their homes the...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................

Full Text Search Details
...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...rty years ago, which papers have been reprinted in a collective form by an American house of high character in Boston; but in part they are to be view... ...iarisms in the “Paradise Lost” from Latin passages fathered upon imaginary writers, when these passages had previously been forged by Lauder himself f... ...rocken.”—This very striking phenom- enon has been continually described by writers, both Ger- man and English, for the last fifty years. Many readers,... ...ers; which, however, so far from reconciling her to the letters, or to the writers of the letters, had the unhappy effect of riveting her dislike (pre... ...nce may defeat the provision altogether, (I know a publisher of a splendid botanical work, who told me that, by forbearing to attract notice to it wit...

Full Text Search Details
...t it. We do of course know that there are several comparatively old dates in American his tory, but the mere figures convey to our minds no just idea... ...it, he adds perspective and color, and then realizes that this is one of the American dates which is quite respectable for age. For instance, when the... ... country back again!—make restitution, not to the owners, but to their white American heirs. The voyagers journeyed on, touching here and there; ‘pass... ...free man and may speak the whole truth, regardless of his parish’s opinions; writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankl... ...was supposed that there was collusion between the association and the under writers, but this was not so. The latter had come to compre hend the exc... ...by nature. There are other parks, and fine ones, notably Tower Grove and the Botanical Gardens; for St. Louis interested herself in such improvements ...

Full Text Search Details
... Lewisham was to rise at five, and that this was no vain boasting, a cheap American alarum clock by the books on the box witnessed. The lumps of mello... ... Personality. It had never occurred to him at all vividly that these Great Writers had real abiding places. She gave him a few descriptive touches tha... ... to accumulate to himself igno- miny in the second part of the course, the botanical section, also. And so, reluctantly rejecting one cloudy excuse af... ... was going to dis- course of “Woman under Socialism,” and he brought a big American edition of Shelley’s works and a volume of Tennyson with the “Prin... ...ught-read their daughters and hypnotise their aunts, and leave their type- writers alone.” “But what am I to do?” “That’s not it. There are things one... ...ENDED ENDED ON THE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON following this—it was hard upon the botanical examination—Mr. Lewisham was ob- served by Smithers in the big Ed... ...and be- cause she wanted to help him she was going to copy out some of his botanical notes which had fallen into arrears. On his way to the schools Le... ...pen—something a little dis- agreeable—somewhen if things go on as they do. American schools keep on getting better—German too. What used to do won’t d...

Full Text Search Details
...tch the outline of a romance laid in En gland, and having for its hero an American who goes thither to assert his inherited rights in an old manor ho... ...pened them), brown, brittle, sapless; so even the thoughts, which when the writers had gathered them seemed to them so brightly colored and full of li... ...rsuit he was assisted by Sibyl, who proved to have great knowledge in some botanical departments, especially among flowers; and in her cold and quiet ... ...lous was a spider over the doctor’s head; a spider, I think, of some South American breed, with a cir cumference of its many legs as big, unless I am... ...ils stretching across the gulf of a hun dred and fifty years by which the American branch of the family was separated from the trunk of the family tr...

Full Text Search Details
...rary development, but also as a phase in the development of the individual writers concerned. It is now quite unusual to see any adequate criticism of... ...8 The Country of the Blind on a way of settling him at last. It is a South American dodge. I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seawee... ..., the people were supposed to be English and were dressed like fashionable Americans of the current epoch, and I fell into the natural error of suppos... ...word. I do not wish to dis- credit that, but I must point out—what so many writers upon obscure psychic phenomena fail to do—that we are passing here ... ...ternoon came the mys- terious slip. It was just the kind of thing that the botanical professor was always doing. Like the income tax, it offered a pre... ...eboard partially covered by a black velvet cloth, and beside a decanter of American whisky. It is from 202 The Country of the Blind Mr. Wace, indeed,... ...t this strange new planet would probably collide with Neptune. The leader- writers enlarged upon the topic. So that in most of the capi- tals of the w...

Full Text Search Details
...first edition, the “ Globe “ edition, and about a dozen others English and American. I found many misprints and corrup- tions in all except the editio... ... Idoean vine. Some have taken this to refer to the “red whortleberry,” the botanical name of which is Vaccinium vitis Idoea; but as that is not a clim... ...h to say, to say sooth, in sooth, in good sooth, etc., are com- mon in old writers. Cf. the Lay, introd. 57: “the sooth to speak.” 65. T o claim its a... ...e their prey.’” 177. Good faith. In good faith, bona fide; as often in old writers. 192. Bower. See on i. 217 above. 195. This rebel Chieftain, etc. T... ...tion, see Wb. 90. Poule. Paul; an old spelling, found in Chaucer and other writers. The measure of the song is anapestic (that is, with the accent on ...

Full Text Search Details
...s-board, should break the mould of their succession? The like had befallen Napoleon (so writers said) when the winter changed the time of its appearan... ...o toe in spotless linen, armed with an immense flesh-coloured umbrella, and girt with a botanical case on a baldric; and the equipage drove off smartl... ...is an argument exactly suited to your intellectual level – many of them are English and American. Where else should we expect to find a thief? – And n...

Full Text Search Details
...said Ann Veronica. “It has been proved,” said Miss Miniver, and added, “by American professors.” “But how did they prove it?” “By science,” said Miss ... ... manded all her time and energy. She had heard of women journalists, women writers, and so forth; but she was not even admitted to the presence of the... ...st part these were detached people: men practising the plastic arts, young writers, young men in employment, a very large proportion of girls and wome... ...westward, and then turned back and walked round the circle about the Royal Botanical Gardens and then south- wardly toward W aterloo. They trudged and...

Full Text Search Details
...h Greek and Roman customs, law courts and expressions, and Greek and Roman writers. I do not find myself wanting in making out a stiff bit of Greek or... ...orce’s new book, and this involved an examination of the question in other writers; but lately I have laid all controversial works aside almost entire... ...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ...d interest in all questions of philology. Both were also readers of German writers on Church history and of critical interpretation of the New Testame... ...lted like the fretted roofs of our T udor churches and chapels. There is a botanical garden here with a very good collection of all the Australian tre... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave... ...tion, a sugar plantation has not been found a very advanced school for the American or West Indian negro, and as a matter of fact, the islander who ha...

Full Text Search Details
...ree hundred men, part survey- ors, who were called geometricians, and part writers, who were called secretaries, were employed in this work: among tho... ... behavior, a circumspect conduct, and a tolerable knowledge in medical and botanical matters, might reasonably have hoped to fill, with universal sati... ...ies. But this project, whose execution would probably have plunged me into botanical studies, for which I am inclined to think Nature designed me, fai... ... with mine. T o prove this by experience, I taught music gratis to a young American lady, Mademoiselle des Roulins, with whom M. Roguin had brought me... ... with respect to their number, he has that in common with the most insipid writers of novels who attempt to make up for the sterility of their ideas b... ...ly connected with him to pass his name over in silence. M. du Perou was an American, son to a commandant of Surinam, whose successor, M. le Chambrier,... ... subject mine are written. When I began to herbalize, he followed me in my botanical rambles, without taste for that amuse- ment, or having anything t...

Full Text Search Details
...v himself is now gener- ally regarded as a universal character. We find an American professor, William Lyon Phelps*, of Yale, holding the opinion that... ...ut meeting scores of Chichikovs; indeed, he is an accurate portrait of the American promoter, of the successful commercial trav- eller whose success d... ...e proved of the greatest use both to my head and to my heart—I beg of such writers again to favour me with their reviews. For in all sincerity I can a... ...ge-seek- ing professor who was engaged in roaming the country in search of botanical specimens and fossils; wherefore he hastened to express both his ...

Full Text Search Details
...ause in hand), which was squeezed dry years upon years ago. The short hand writers, the reporters of the court, and the reporters of the newspapers in... ...arly science— inured me to it. Being the professor’s sole companion in his botanical excursions, I almost forgot that I had ever been afloat, and beca... ...ghts as I lie here. T ake an extreme case. T ake the case of the slaves on American plantations. I dare say they are worked hard, I dare say they don’... ...y writ ers, and then that you should come and live here, and be one of my writers too. Which there is nothing derogatory, but far from it in the appe... ...ely asserted a kind of proprietorship in Mr. Weevle, “because I have known writers that have gone into brewers’ houses and done really very respectabl...

Full Text Search Details
...ause in hand), which was squeezed dry years upon years ago. The short hand writers, the reporters of the court, and the reporters of the newspapers in... ...arly science— inured me to it. Being the professor’s sole companion in his botanical excursions, I almost forgot that I had ever been afloat, and beca... ...ghts as I lie here. T ake an extreme case. T ake the case of the slaves on American plantations. I dare say they are worked hard, I dare say they don’... ...y writ ers, and then that you should come and live here, and be one of my writers too. Which there is nothing derogatory, but far from it in the appe... ...ely asserted a kind of proprietorship in Mr. Weevle, “because I have known writers that have gone into brewers’ houses and done really very respectabl...

Full Text Search Details
...lish-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more... ...e aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more com- plete than American thought is yet prepared for, but that is a difference not of quali... ...ed develop principles of primary importance in the fundamen- tal schism of American politics between the local State gov- ernment and the central powe... ...ime, how- ever poor its quality, than this fact. Here I can only thank the writers collectively, and call their attention to the more practical gratit... ...ity), and so lowers and keeps down the national standard of life. As these writers show very clearly, an industry that can- not adequately sustain sou... ... embodied in an unverified quotation from Byron’s Beppo, dear to pedagogic writers— “Wax to receive and marble to retain” runs the line—which the curi... ...dern town. She carries a faded cut-flower, got at considerable cost from a botanical garden, and as she goes she counts its petals, its stamens, its b...

Full Text Search Details
...talk and other anecdotes of our cel- 20 Boswell’s Life of Johnson ebrated writers is valued, and how earnestly it is regretted that we have not more,... ... amusement, ‘not voyages and travels, but all literature, Sir, all ancient writers, all manly: though but little Greek, only some of Anacreon and Hesi... ... it exhibits; and we find him men- tioning in that tract, that many of the writers whose testimonies were to be produced as au- thorities, were select... ...iga- tion, by transmitting to me copies of two letters from Dr. Johnson to American gentlemen. On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in Londo... ...as to the justice and wisdom of the conduct of Great-Britain to- wards the American colonies, while I at the same time requested that he would enable ... ...tled, Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress. He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments... ...re of that.’ He made two or three peculiar observations; as when shewn the botanical garden, ‘Is not every garden a botani- cal garden?’ When told tha...

Full Text Search Details
...ndamental belief: doubts have been thrown on this principle by theoretical writers alone. When a deviation appears not unfrequently, and we see it in ... ...encyclopaedia. Explicit rules are laid down by some of the Roman classical writers. From passages in Genesis, it is clear that the colour of domestic ... ... the Galapagos Archipelago, both one with another, and with those from the American mainland, I was much struck how entirely vague and arbitrary is th... ... very generally considered as va- rieties; and in this country the highest botanical au- thorities and practical men can be quoted to show that the se... ...n give rise to varieties sufficiently well-marked to have been recorded in botanical works. Hence it is the most flourishing, or, as they may be calle... ...all chance. But how false a view is this! Every one has heard that when an American forest is cut down, a very different vegetation springs up; but it... ...he common view of the blind animals having been separately created for the American and European caverns, close similarity in their organisation and a... ...re very generally sterile, has, I think, been much underrated by some late writers. On the theory of natural selection the case is espe- cially import... ...ccasional means of distribution. I shall here confine myself to plants. In botanical works, this or that plant is stated to be ill adapted for wide di...

Full Text Search Details
... about a little, and it will do wonders. We’ll have some thing else in the botanical line. There’s nothing goes down so well, especially with the help... ... the seed- vessels of a plant vulgarly called euphorbium, and at that time botanically termed milk-weed. This latter kind of silk was des- ignated as ... ...ously laid by itself “solitary and alone” (excuse me for quoting the great American poet Benton!), as a guarantee of the magnani- mous intention. We a... ... Time, would not walk against him. Windham and Allbreath were his favorite writers,—his favorite artist, Phiz. He died gloriously while inhaling gas—l... ...it. The truth is, I labored under the disadvantage of having no monkey—and American streets are so muddy, and a Democratic rabble is so obstrusive, an... ...ever beyond a mere statement, we believe, that such is the fact. The early writers of treatises on the Automaton, seem not to have observed the matter...

Full Text Search Details
...modified and altered, and the effect thus far changed. Thus it is with the writers of fiction. The young write in full sympathy with, as well as for, ... ...ll, she said, it was not the spirits, but the tobacco, which the Dutch and American sail- ors were glad enough to exchange for her mother’s commodi- t... ... Rockquay with the tobacco-shop. She had cho- sen that place on account of American trading-vessels put- ting in there, as well as those of various fo... ...where she was to be left for a year, while Fernan with Marilda visited his American establishments, and on their return would decide whether she would... ...wn friend of some standing, and both she and Phyllis had books to discuss, botanical or geological discoveries to communicate or puzzle out, with Mrs....