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...is Government, and in its name, to accept the coffin from the hands of the British authori- ties, and that he and the other persons composing the Fren... ... Guizot was the worthy representative of the French good- will towards the British people; and the remark frequently made by our orators at public din... ...sus at the gate of the Horse Guards can be considered a fair sample of the British soldier of the line. The sword and pistol, however, had no doubt th... ...oman Empire to the right-about, before the wretched misbe- gotten imperial heraldry was born, that was to prove so disastrous to the father of it. It ...

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...t—the most interesting of all of which, I think, is the mention of certain British products as “mufflings.” “Muf- fling” used to be a domestic joke fo... ...amilies, its places and things, its persons and their deeds; as it has its heraldry, its nobles and commonalty , its artisans and peasants, its politi...

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...we found ourselves again in the great stalwart roast-beef world; the stout British steamer bearing out of the bay, whose purple waters had grown more ... ...Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and set there to guard the passage for its British mistress. The next British lion is Malta, four days further on in t... ...- ging up the hideous perpendicular place, you were to find regi- ments of British grenadiers ready to plunge bayonets into your poor panting stomach,... ...” or the brave “Horse Marine,” where the people of our nation are drinking British beer and gin, you hear choruses of “Garryowen” or “The Lass I left ... ...rtifications:as far as I can understand the former, Gibraltar is the great British depot for smuggling goods into the Peninsula. Y ou see vessels lyin... ...ts-of-arms of the gentry, the heroes of Malta and Egypt were busy devising heraldry for themselves, and were wild to be barons and counts of the Empir...

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...e “Howling Wil- derness,” the “Washerwoman of Wandsworth Common,” and the “British Soldier’s best Bayonet,” which, bent upon awak- ening her before sh... ...woke them in the morning; at nightfall they went to bed to the note of the British fife and drum: all the country and Europe was in arms, and the grea... ...ronged the town, and appeared in every public place, filled George’s truly British soul with in- tense delight. They flung off that happy frigidity an... ...from the conversation. This is a species of dignity in which the high-bred British fe- male reigns supreme. To watch the behaviour of a fine lady to o... ... Opera. It was almost like Old England. The house was filled with familiar British faces, and those toilettes for which the British female has long be... ...s on the threshold—the tall old threshold surmounted by coronets and caned heraldry. The absent lord’s children meanwhile prattled and grew on quite u...

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... naturalists are acquainted with this spider, though it is a rare one; the British Museum has a specimen, and, doubtless, so have many other scientifi... ...his own shape! It were well that our townsmen tarred and feathered the old British wizard!” And, as he got further off, two or three little blackguard... ...ish, and become more American than the Americans themselves in repudiating British prejudices or principles, habits, mode of thought, and everything t... ...migrated to this part of America, then a wilderness, and long afterwards a British colony. He was on ill terms with his family . There is reason to be... ...Hawthorne or kindred; because it was that kind of natural history of which heraldry alone keeps the menagerie. But it was just as familiar to his reco... ...e library filled with books of English an tiquities, and genealogies, and heraldry; the two latter, in deed, having the preference over the others. ... ...w therefore can you care for genealogies, or for this fantastic science of heraldry? Having no antiquities, being a people just made, how can you care... ...ed castles, churches, cathedrals, the seats of nobility and gentry; Roman, British, and Saxon remains, painted windows, oak carvings, and so forth. An...

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...I have heard since then) the Painted Hill. Well, now it was all painted a bright yellow with our costumes; and the dress of the soldiers who guarded u... ...and she made a hasty purchase and re- joined her party. A few days after she came again. But I must first tell you how she came to be so frequent. Her... ... forgot his timidity so far as to put many questions; and at last, with another blush, informed me he was himself expecting a commission. ‘Well,’ said... ...t I was not so ill advised as to give it utterance. Every one should be flattered, but boys and women without stint; and I put in the rest of the afte... ...mpropriety. Doubtless the hen has al- ways a puritanic appearance, although (in its own behaviour) I could never observe it to be more particular than... ...implied a great deal of pen- etration in herself, and proved of great use to me in the immediate sequel. It seemed he was an enthusiastic anti- quary,... ...ays into the wall, offered traces of heraldic sculp- ture. At once there came a wild idea into my mind: his appearance tallied with Flora’s descriptio...

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... the three ermines passant) he sometimes cursed in his heart the jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its moldwarps, its wyverns, and its dragons with al... ...lantes; the Latins arma cantantia; and your En- glish authorities, canting heraldry; being indeed a species of emblazoning more befitting canters, gab... ...n playing upon the word, than the noble, honourable, and useful science of heraldry, which assigns armorial bearings as the reward of noble and genero... ... have tired of the conversation of so violent an asserter of the ‘boast of heraldry’ as the Baron; but Edward found an agreeable variety in that of Mi... ...al cause of their being written, without a glance into the interior of the British Cabinet at the period in question. The Ministers of the day happene... ...at he protested he could beat any known march or point of war known in the British army, and had accordingly commenced with ‘Dumbarton’s Drums,’ when ... ...I remember his successor in office, a member of that enlightened body, the British Convention: be his memory, therefore, treated with due respect. CHA... ... the utmost, were armed, to change the fate, and alter the dynasty, of the British kingdoms. As he moved along the column, which still remained sta- t... ...at ardent spirit, who thought it little to cut a way for his master to the British throne! Ambition, policy, bravery, all far beyond their sphere, her...

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...salie had never read anything but the Lettres edifiantes and some works on heraldry. No newspaper had ever defiled her sight. She attended mass at the... ...t will do, mademoiselle!” said the Baroness. “You insisted on her learning heraldry,” said Monsieur de Watteville, “and she knows it very well.” “Go o... ...r of a Havana cigar, eyes of fire, Armenian eyelids with lashes of very un-British length, hair blacker than 32 Albert Savarus black; and under this ...

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...ect of much regret, but I was really sorry to leave our big neighbour, the British Museum, where there were good friends who always made me welcome, a... ...ends who always made me welcome, and encouraged me in studies of coins and heraldry, which were great resources to me, so that I used to spend hours t... ... be packed. A chariot! You young ones have as little notion of one as of a British war-chariot armed with scythes. Y et people of a cer- tain grade we... ...ce removed.’ I asked if we were descended from her, for, having a turn for heraldry and genealogy, I wanted to make out our family tree. Mrs. Sophia w... ...corresponded with Clarence over what now seems so trite; how we viewed the British Critic and T racts for the Times as our oracles, and worried the po... ...ntry House wretched. That attack was ended, of all things in the world, by heraldry. My attention somehow was drawn that way, and the study filled up ...

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...ever sacrifice or build altars to our divinities? Haste, therefore, to the British Isle, and, if possible, prevent their destruction; while I make fac... ...roved in picture, size, and letter; And high in order placed, describe The heraldry of every tribe. A bedstead of the antique mode, Compact of timber,...

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...rt to be re- garded as a republication of papers scattered through several British journals twenty or thirty years ago, which papers have been reprint... ...t years, I have received from many quarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing ... ...much leisure for study, I pause to explain—that the head of Memnon, in the British Museum, that sublime head which wears upon its lips a smile coexten... ... peril than any analogous one that has been proved to exist at Waterloo. A British surgeon, indeed, in a work of two octavo volumes, has endeavored to... ...ained blowing up of tumbrils, under the miserable purpose of shak- ing the British steadiness. But the evidences are not clear; whereas my brother ins... ...d that I had myself seen many notices of this family, not only in books of heraldry, &c., but in the very earliest of all English books. “ And what bo...

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...an, was breakfasting with the family. He took no part in counsels based on heraldry, nor in the indit- ing of letters addressed to divers mighty perso... ...eshing coolness to the atmosphere of any room in which a certain number of British females are gathered together. The young men grew serious as a coup... ... colors, and always appeared at balls adorned with the turban, dear to the British female, and lovingly cultivated in out-of-the-way districts in Fran...

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...osed to have occasioned the introduction of supporters into the science of heraldry. 63 Sir Walter Scott front of the pavilions, and the whole was gu... ... original purpose; “to place the vanquished be- side the victor were false heraldry.” “Knave upon fool were worse,” answered the Jester, “and Jew upon... ... upon a person whose dignity will not be diminished by holding land of the British crown.—Sir Reginald Front-de-Boeuf,” he said, turning to- wards tha... ...imed the anxious enquirer. * The author has been here upbraided with false heraldry, as having charged metal upon metal. It should be remembered, howe... ...as having charged metal upon metal. It should be remembered, however, that heraldry had only its first rude origin during the crusades, and that all t... ... at any rate, it proves that metal upon metal, now accounted a solecism in heraldry, was admitted in other cases similar to that in the text. See Fern... ...Sir Egerton Brydges. and Mr Hazlewood, in the periodical work entitled the British Bibliographer. From thence it has been transferred by the Reverend ...

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... minute the father of the family walked in, rattling his seals like a true British merchant. “What’s the matter, Emmy?” says he. “Joseph wants me to s... ...r, to make a little heap for Rebecca. And going to her Papa, that generous British merchant, who had promised to give her as many guineas as she was y... ...et except his own; and it is with grief and pain, that, as admirers of the British aristocracy, we find ourselves obliged to admit the existence of so... ...ng, the fives court, and four-in-hand driving were then the fashion of our British aris- tocracy; and he was an adept in all these noble sciences. And... ...hat he really thought he was one of the most deserv- ing characters in the British army, and gave himself up to be loved with a good deal of easy resi... ...s on the threshold—the tall old threshold surmounted by coronets and caned heraldry. 485 Thackeray The absent lord’s children meanwhile prattled and ...

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...l find excellently described in the letters published by Mr. Ellis, of the British Museum,) 17 of Gustavus Adolphus, and of Wallenstein. The King of ... ...lse it must go undone. The better men that I meant were the sailors in the British navy , every man of whom mends his own stockings. Who else is to do... ...for shelter? Is a prison the safest retreat? Or a lunatic hospital? Or the British Museum?” I should have replied, “Oh, no; I’ll tell you what to do. ... ...r compound nature; but there is no insinuation that they feel that horror. Heraldry is so full of these fantastic creatures, that, in some zoologies, ...

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... great people to a pretty low pitch. He had welcomed them hospitably, as a British yeoman should; but not budged a foot in his demands: not to the bar... ...ung back in his chair. “Lie number Two,” said his shoulders, soured by the British aversion to being plotted at, and not dealt with openly. “And ye’ve... ...or statesmanship, and he and his father read his- tory and the speeches of British orators to some purpose; for one day Sir Austin found him leaning c... ...orner here and there for a solitary arrow. Hail the occasion propitious, O British young! and laugh and treat love as an honest God, and dabble not wi... ...e was caught by Sir Austin’s eye. The baronet smiled, and said, “You study Heraldry, too? Are you fond of the science?” 108 Ordeal of Richard Feverel... ...much remarking it, for his suspicions had not risen to print. “A Manual of Heraldry?” the baronet politely, and it may be ironically, inquired, before... ...n town, with a manuscript ‘Pro- posal for a New System of Education of our British Youth,’ which may come in opportunely. I think I am entitled to spe...

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... the peace-maker, to reject the Saint of the Saxons, more civilly than the British bishops did. She must have managed most beautifully, so as to sat- ... ...that will be all the difference.’ ‘Well are the male kind called barons in heraldry,’ said Eliza- beth; ‘there is no denying that they are a lordly ra...

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...ery numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The Anglo-American Club, compo... ...t him. Then we sat down to polish off the perspiration and ar- range about what we would do with him when we got him. Harris was for contributing him ... ...first remains were found, a Chamonix guide named Balmat—a relative of one of the lost men—was in London, and one day encountered a hale old gentleman ... ...Mr. Darwin, whom I understood to be a man with- out prejudices, but it occurred to me that perhaps he would not be interested in it since it did not c... ...tlemen, but are a lower sort, disguised as gentlemen. The case of Colonel Valentine Baker obstructs that argument, for a man cannot become an officer ...

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...h of Mr Brick’s articles had become at that time the most obnoxious to the British Parliament and the Court of Saint James’s?’ ‘Upon my word,’ said Ma... ...espondent. 250 Martin Chuzzlewit ‘Oh! The depressing institutions of that British empire, colonel!’ said Jefferson Brick. ‘Master!’ ‘What’s the matte... ...amily of the splendour of that brilliant festival (comprehending the whole British Peerage and Court Calendar) to which they were specially invited, a... ...KES A PURCHASE. SOME ACCOUNT OF EDEN, AS IT APPEARED ON PAPER. ALSO OF THE BRITISH LION. ALSO OF THE KIND OF SYMPATHY PROFESSED AND ENTERTAINED BY THE... ...owever slantin’dicularly—at the subject in hand, I would say, sir, may the British Lion have his talons eradi- cated by the noble bill of the American... ...t the bit until his chest was white with foam, and rearing like a horse in heraldry; the plated harness and the patent leather glittered in the sun; p...

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...hically treated, they become 116 The Trial a perfect school in historical heraldry, nay, in languages, in mathematical drawing, in illumination, said... ... crazed enough to prefer to be an American citizen, when he might remain a British subject? Repugnance to America was naturally strong in T om, and ha... ...ything; but it is quite in vain. Henry is resolved against remaining under British rule, and America seems to be the only field for him.’ ‘Much you kn... ... myself,’ said Ella; ‘into the kitchen too, and hear them say things about Britishers.’ ‘I’ll go, dear,’ said Minna, gently, ‘if you will just keep th... ...he person who had struck the fatal blow. His next measure was to go to the British Embassy, where, through his sister Flora’s introductions, and his o... ... deposition. The pocket-book, and other effects, were readily ceded to the British authority, and were carried away with them. How T om got through th...

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...eme delicacy, made his bow and went away, proceeding with a characteristic British stride towards the street mentioned. M. de Boville was in his priva... ...wledge of blazons, that enables me to decipher them, I am very ignorant of heraldry — I, a count of a fresh creation, fabricated in Tuscany by the aid... ... heaven, M. Bertuccio, you make use of heraldic terms; where did you study heraldry?” “In your service, excellency, where everything is learned.” “Go ...

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... instead of going straight back to the office to-day, Mary turned into the British Museum, and strolled down the gallery with the shapes of stone unti... ...it to old Miss Trotter at Ealing, who was an authority upon the science of Heraldry, never failed to excite her laughter. She wanted to know everythin... ...the rightness of her own thought as to wish to bring the population of the British Isles into agreement with it. She looked at the lemon-colored leafl... ...ed upon sufficiently intel- lectual grounds. A mistake, in my opinion. The British public likes a pellet of reason in its jam of eloquence—a pill of r... ...atharine in possession of some of the fundamental distinctions between our British trees. She then asked him to inform her about flowers. To her they ...

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...ld read, write, and do some little ciphering; he knew the military art and heraldry, but, excepting always his prayer-book, he had not read three volu... ...stinction due to her rank as the wife of a du Guenic and the daughter of a British peer. Mademoiselle des T ouches urged Calyste to see Paris, while s...

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...ors had earned for him or that he had made for him- self. If a question in heraldry were started, Athos knew all the noble families of the kingdom, th... ...r. 468 The Three Musketeers It contained half a line, in a hand perfectly British, and with a conciseness as perfectly Spartan: ! ) D... ... the resolutions you so often expressed in Paris never to set your feet on British ground?” Milady replied to this question by another question. “To b...

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...made us soldiers of fortune, have the pleas- ant recollection, that in the British service, stop where we may upon our career, it is only for want of ... ...n full human size, or larger, a salvage man proper, to use the language of heraldry, wreathed and cinctured, and holding in his hand an oak- tree erad... ...d in Holland, and I know that this name, however un- couth it may sound in British ears—” Glossin, conscious that the prisoner was now about to en- te...

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...e couchant Or; the well- known cognizance of the house, blazed in gorgeous heraldry on a hundred banners, surmounting as many towers. The long lines o... ...her mind was duty above every other feeling!— so strong may it be in every British maiden!) the lovely girl kept her promise. “My former engagements,”... ...ver his head, and putting his arms a-kimbo, “we have learned that from the British, to whom we are superior in everything: and I’d have your Majesty t... ...essons. If your reglars jine General Washington, ’tis to larn from him how Britishers are licked; for I’m blest if yu know the way yet.” Tatua said, “... ...tershire have still many a legend of fear to tell; and the children of the British fishermen tremble even now when they speak of the terrible “Repudia... ...of our country, the chance of the combat might have been in fa- vor of the British vessels. It was not until the “Elector” blew up, at a quarter past ... ...vers in the rampart there were silken banners embroidered with wonder- ful heraldry; men-at-arms marched where now you shall only see a bank of moss o...

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... eternal fit of laughter. Here might be seen the Savage Man, well known in heraldry, hairy as a baboon, and girdled with green leaves. By his side a n... ...ene which has never yet been satisfactorily explained. The officers of the British army, and the loyal gentry of the prov- ince, most of whom were col... ...lfered from some receptacle of the cast-off clothes of both the French and British armies. Portions of their attire had probably been worn at the sieg... ...n in- terview in the mock heroic style, between the rebel warriors and the British commander-in-chief, was received with im- mense applause, which cam... ...ment with gay and lightsome melodies. The man was drum-major to one of the British regiments. “Dighton,” demanded the general, “what means this fool- ... ...our Excellency order out the guard?” whispered Lord Percy, who, with other British officers, had now as- sembled round the General. “There may be a pl...

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...x, which was with him, like the calumet with the Red Indian, a part of the heraldry of peace; and at length, in the ripeness of time, we grew to be a ... ...ise in a large way of practice over both England and Scotland, nor had any British engineer anything approaching their experience. It was about this n... ... life, and humours the caprices of the tyrant. But the potentate, like the British in India, pays small regard to the character of his willing client,... ...but it is an old, insu- lar, home-bred staginess; not French, domestically British; not of to-day, but smacking of O. Smith, Fitzball, and the great a...

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... especially in the rainy season, the Ganges is the cock of the walk in our British orient. Else, as regards the body of water discharged, the absolute... ... a step above even that object which some four-and-twenty years ago in the British Museum struck me as simply the sublimest sight which in this sight-... ...heir interests, which has ever marked our too haughty and Caliph-Omar-like British gov- ernment, lay in the circumstance that the glasses of the ap- p... ...tarry heavens from their earliest creation, as a prefiguration—as a silent heraldry of hope through one period, and as a her- aldry of gratitude throu... ...er be kicked nor coaxed into vitality. 259 Thomas de Quincey been with us British, from the twelfth century, Thomas of Ercildoune in the north, and m... ...ble, we fear) it took the shape of patriotism. He insisted on it, that our British John Hunter was the genu- ine article, and that Cuvier was a humbug... ...ry.” The English quatrain must be familiar to every body:— “The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er ...

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...r, at the very moment of Shakspeare’s death, who were the lead- ers of the British youth, the principes juventutis, in the two fields, equally importa... ...pon his daily livelihood would, by this chase after the armorial honors of heraldry, have made himself a butt for ridicule, such as no fortitude could... ... was considerable; and, as a patron of art, he stands foremost amongst all British sovereigns to this hour. He said truly of himself, and wisely as to... ...d- ness? In a few words I will say. At this time (October, 1848) the whole British island is appalled by a new chapter in the history of poisoning. Lo...

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...e Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest - iv - . . . . . . . . 289 The British Stripling’s War-Song. Imitated from Stolberg . . . . . . . . . .... ...’ Jesus College, Cambridge.’’;S.T.C. To the Honourable Mr. Erskine When British Freedom for an happier land Spread her broad wings, that flutter... ...her. Even so on Loyalty’s Decoy-pond, each Pops up his head, as fir’d with British blood, Hears once again the Ministerial screech, And once more ... ...ds in Jesu’s side He would proclaim it far and wide, With trump and solemn heraldry, That they, who thus had wronged the dame, Were base as spotte... ...itten in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest Coleridge: Poems The British Stripling’s War-Song. Imitated from Stolberg ?1799 Yes, nob... ...g by thy thigh, And I too will fight as my forefathers fought! - 289 - The British Stripling’s War-Song. Imitated from Stolberg Coleridge: Poems Na...

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...could!’ Lymport was a prosperous town, and in prosperity the much-despised British tradesman is not a harsh, he is really a well-disposed, easy soul, ... ...had better look to your sauce.” Couchant means squatting, you know. That’s heraldry! Well, that wasn’t bad sparring of Mel’ s. But, bless you! he was ... ... the great Mel, as if to show the great Napoleon what character of being a British shopkeeper really was, had, by remarkable favour, obtained a lieute... ...or lack of a wife at his elbow, was quickly engaged in appeasing the great British hunger for news; second only to that for beef, it seems, and equall... ...y had no troubles in the world save the two ultimate per- plexities of the British Sybarite, whose bed of roses is ha- rassed by the pair of problems:... ...nd as did indeed show how a lover’s oath should be uttered in the ear of a British damsel to sub- due her. ‘Good!’ cried Mr. Raikes, anxious to be con... ...k in jesses. The Elburne arms are, Or, three falcons on a field, vert. How heraldry reminds me of poor Papa! the evenings we used to spend with him, w...

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... alludes to a revolution in the Scottish privy council, rather than in the British kingdoms.” “Oh, confusion to your state tricks!” exclaimed Bucklaw—... ...f Ravenswood were liable, under the Treaty of Union, to be reviewed by the British House of Peers, a court of equity of which the Lord Keeper felt an ... ...der your estate stable, if the Marquis of A—— comes in with a party in the British Parliament. You know that the deceased Lord Ravenswood was his near... ... betwixt them?” “No, my lord,” answered Ravenswood; “it is in the House of British Peers, whose honour must be equal to their rank— it is in the court... ...dy Ashton that her eldest son, Sholto, should represent this county in the British Par- liament, and she saw this alliance with Bucklaw as a circum- s... ...o poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown! —Poem, in Nisbet’s Heraldry, vol. ii. WE HAVE ANTICIPATED the course of time to mention Buckla...

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... forget the captains of the rusty little schooners that bring firewood from the British provinces; a rough looking set of tarpaulins, without the alert... ...bly, been carried off to Halifax, when all the king’s officials accompanied the British army in its flight from Boston. It has often been a matter of re... ...ers came, with armorial seals upon them, though of bearings unknown to English heraldry. In the cottage there 180 The Scarlet Letter were articles of...

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...he sea-shell preexists in the se- creting organs of the fish. The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pro- n... ...ng them, they cannot die.” The poets are thus liberating gods. The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, “Those Who are free through...

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... the jobbernolls had already a pretty good beginning in their dance of the British jig called the estrindore, to a perfect diapason, with one foot in ... ...med to us like your rough sugar-plums, of many colours, like those used in heraldry; some words gules (this means also jests and merry sayings), some ...