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...le, we resolved to master the sig- nificance. But as man is emphatically a proselytizing crea- ture, no sooner was such mastery even fairly attempted,... ...height unexampled in the annals of mankind, and even English Editors, like Chinese Shopkeep- ers, must write on their door-lintels No cheating here,— ... ...n cloaks and wampum belts; phy- lacteries, stoles, albs; chlamydes, togas, Chinese silks, Afghaun shawls, trunk-hose, leather breeches, Celtic hilibeg... ...ne- Mantle, as well as in the poorest Ox-goad and Gypsy- Blanket, he finds Prose, Decay, Contemptibility; there is in each sort Poetry also, and a rev... ...e the Doctor’s in the Arabian Tale) set in a basin to keep it alive, could prosecute without shadow of a heart,—but one other of the mechanical and me... ... ing those of Constantinople and Samarcand: in most Col- leges, except the Chinese Mandarin ones, I have studied, or seen that there was no studying. ... ...a have wholly escaped me. Great Men are the inspired (speaking and acting) Texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a Chapter is completed fr... ...ompleted from epoch to epoch, and by some named history; to which inspired Texts your nu- merous talented men, and your innumerable untalented men, ar... ...-stupid, heretical or orthodox, weekly Sermons. For my study, the inspired Texts themselves! Thus did not I, in very early days, having disguised me a...

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...and letter for her brother, the lieutenant in command of a gun-boat on the Chinese coast. Those letters, whether from Norman May or his wife, were ver... ...ast from under the nose of a charwoman! let Harry never talk of tak- ing a Chinese battery after that!’ her incapacity of perceiving that the deed was... ...that after she had seen Harry lighting a fire to broil chickens’ legs in a Chinese temple, under the willow-pattern cannon-ball tree, and heard Henry ... ...leep.’ ‘I don’t want to dream myself into church, listening to Scudamour’s proses: I’ve quite enough of that on Sunday.’ Ave began to play one of her ... ...ick albums’ which they had constructed—one of cheap religious prints, with texts and hymns, to be lent in cases of lingering illness; the other, commo... ...rk; that it was a dangerous thing, for mere fashion, to make playthings of texts of Scripture; but that no one could 117 Yo n g e tell the blessing t... ...ieve,’ said Dr. May, ‘that it can do you any real harm. I do not think the prosecution ought to take notice of it; but if they do, it will be easy to ... ...th both Mr. Bramshaw and the attorney from Whitford who was getting up the prosecution, each having been told that she was in possession of important ...

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... entries in a miscella- neous collection of pocket books. She put down the texts of the sermons she heard, and queer stiff little comments on casual v... ...trary irrational prohibitions and exclusions. Mahometanism with its fierce proselytism, has, I suppose, the blackest record of uncharitableness, but m... ...e closer for a double column. It’s nuggetty. You can’t get a swing on your prose.” I had discussed this thoroughly with Britten. “If the fellows are g... ...space and questions of expense. We can’t turn out a great chunk of printed prose like—like wet cold toast and call it a magazine.” Britten writhed, ap... ...tific construction that filled my mind. He could as easily have understood Chinese poetry. His motives were made up of intense rivalries with other me... ...e-edged, white cyclamens in flower. And there was a big lacquer cabinet, a Chinese thing, I suppose, of black and gold against the red-toned wall. To ... ... inspired by a passionate desire to substitute manacled but still criminal Chinese for honest British labourers throughout the world. And when it came...

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...sion to start with. The rest of my papers, with the exception of the Greek prose and the critical paper, I did very fairly, I think.’ A greater disapp... ...the scholarship has been to me unsatis-factory. I had worked hard at Greek prose, had trans- lated and re-translated a good deal of Xenophon, Plato, a... ...o, and some Demosthenes, yet to my disappointment we had no paper of Greek prose, a thing that I believe never occurred before, and which is generally... ...ought to do. I purpose, D.V., to commence a thorough study of the original texts. I must try to become something of a scholar, at all events, to make ... ...rty and sound in health, or I should be regularly overwhelmed with it. Two texts I think of constantly: “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with... ...tration, they get so eager and animated, all answer- ing together, quoting texts, etc. I think that their knowledge of the Bible is in some sense attr... ... who had spent some twenty years of his life in China, and his widow was a Chinese woman, a little dot of a thing, rather nice-looking. She spoke a li... ...eak strongly to them on their own duties, first to Aborigines, secondly to Chinese (of whom some 40,000 live in Victoria), thirdly to Melanesians. I d... ...es, to stand up as the apologist of the despised Australian black, and the Chinese gold-digger, and the Melanesian islander. ‘ All the Primate had tau...

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... words and set phrases gave accuracy to her ideas; and the learning of the texts quoted would have been clear gain, if she had been in a meeker spirit... ...s she released Adelaide; “I felt as if your papa were Orpheus, when ‘Stern Proserpine relented, And gave him back the fair—’ and I was sure Aunt Barba... ...eant to be, heard her own lines without their awkward rhymes and bits like prose, and thought of the wonder and admiration of all the Wardour family, ... ...ave her for my companion.” Kate’s eyes glistened, and she thought of stern Proserpine. “My dear Emily, you do not know what you ask. She will be far t... ...o play a game with them. Then there was one of those wonderful clusters of Chinese ivory balls, all loose, one within the other, carved in different p...

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...thee let me win This much of thee, to come, that I may hear Thy song: like Proserpine, in Enna’s glen, Thou seemest to my fancy, singing here And gath... ... degrees north latitude, of greater antiquity than either the Indians, the Chinese, or the Chaldeans, from whom these nations derived their sci- ences... ...y perni- cious should not become universal. In proportion to the number of proselytes, so will be the weight of evidence; and when a thousand persons ... ...ease to operate. But the effi- cacy of this system depends entirely on the proselytism of individuals, and grounds its merits, as a benefit to the com... ... 1. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. Conducts, O Sleep, to thy, etc. (line 219.) The Shelley texts, 1816, 1824, 1839, have Conduct here, which Forman and Dowden retain.... ...this, notwithstanding the preserva- tion of the true reading, clog, in the texts of Talfourd and Carew Hazlitt. Here then is the case of a palpable mi... ...i and, after him, Dowden print walk. Forman and Woodberry follow the early texts. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 1 9 1-7. Here the text follows the punctuation of the...

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...his hero was to be strangely in error, to be in need of conversion, and he proselytized with the ardour of the Moslem. His uncle Everard was proud of ... ...ndike that he should come again. ‘Vote or no vote, you’re worth the trial. Texts as many as you like. I’ll make your faith ac- tive, if it’s alive at ... ...n animal for a paragraph. I am incorri- gible, you see; but the lecture in prose must be for by-and- by, if you care to have it.’ ‘If you care to read... ... so considerable a portion of her intelli- gence upon her recreations. T o prosecute them with her whole heart is an ingenious exhibition of her power... ...f the middle-class, colonel. They have their thinking done for them as the Chinese have their dancing. But, Nevil, your Dr. Shrapnel seems to treat th...

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...ejection. The Auchterarder presbytery, for their part in this affair, were prosecuted in the Court of Session by the injured parties—Lord Kinnoul, the... ...the man of the 18th century, Greek was to him as much a sealed language as Chinese; and, even with regard to Latin, his own secretary doubts, upon one... ...let, if any censor, armed with an adequate knowledge of the facts, were to prosecute the inquest. Apd the general impression from such an inquest woul... ... might miss this construction of the passage, Pope himself tells you, in a prose note, that the Duke ‘died in a remote inn in York- shire, reduced to ... ...s to assert. For it is no easy matter to do that where a man dodges behind texts and notes, and shuffles between verse and prose, mystifying the reade...

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...ality, of figures to the confusion, agitation, and vagueness of the finest prose. There was something a little unseemly in thus opposing the tradi- ti... ... evening began. This consisted in the reading aloud by Katharine from some prose work or other, while her mother knitted scarves intermittently on a l... ...k again at her manu- script, and decided that to write grammatical English prose is the hardest thing in the world. But she thought about herself a gr... ... find us a house. A few trees round it, and a little garden, a pond with a Chinese duck, a study for your father, a study for me, and a sitting room f... ...n building one of those piles of thought, as ramshackle and fantastic as a Chinese pagoda, half from words let fall by gentlemen in gaiters, half from... ...s. Prints of great-uncles, famed for their prowess in the East, hung above Chinese teapots, whose sides were riveted by little gold stitches, and the ... ...ls and fringes, partially concealing bookshelves swollen with black school-texts. Her eye was arrested by crossed scabbards of fretted wood upon the d...

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...ned to be an American edition of the collected works of Shelley, his gassy prose as well as his atmospheric verse. I was soon ripe 14 In the Days of ... ...ropped asleep at last in an unfamiliar bedroom hung with gaudily decorated texts, cursing myself for having wasted a day. 115 H. G . Wells S S S S Se... ...dy beach was sacred to high spirits and the young. Art muslin and banjoes, Chinese lan- terns and frying, are leading “notes,” I find, in the impres- ...

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...fast in the kitchen of the ranch house, pre- ferring not to wait until the Chinese cook laid the table in the regular dining-room. He scented a hard d... ...ock. The half hundred men of the gang threw themselves upon the supper the Chinese cooks had set out in the shed of the eating-house, long as a bowlin... .... In an- swer to Annixter’s embarrassed inquiry after Magnus, she sent the Chinese cook to call him from the office; and Annixter, after tying his hor... ...reat, forcible sen- tences, full of eloquence, of fire, of passion. As his prose grew more exalted, it passed easily into the domain of poetry. Soon t... ...is- sected its rhetoric and prosody. The phrases were quoted,—were used as texts for revolutionary sermons, reactionary speeches. It was parodied; it ... ...ption: “Warning. All persons found trespassing on these pre- mises will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. By order P. and S. W . R. R.” ...

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..., they write it scarcely at all, and all they read is the weak and shallow prose of popular fiction and the daily press. That is knowing a language wi... ...n a screed of abuse from some hot champion of Lower Division Civil Service prose. “Plain English” such a one will call his desideratum, as one might c... ...ls. Such splendid matter as Henley and Whibley’s collection of Elizabethan Prose, for example, might well find a place toward the end of that series o... ...o be noted; it is the thing the Hebrew schoolboy, the Tamil schoolboy, the Chinese schoolboy, and the American schoolboy have in common. So much, at a... ... to-day to the Roman Catholic priest; such is Arabic to the Malay, written Chinese to the Cantonese or the Corean, and English to the Zulu or the Hind... ...xercising patronage on the other, there is added in the British system the Chinese method of selecting officials by competitive examination. Within it... ...cation was unfinished, and for the offi- cial printing and sale of correct texts of the books written, would still fall within the dimensions of a mil...

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...flection that the shadow of paradox is fertile for literature: “all these texts that have flourished about the great enigmas of logic and that, throu... ... scientific form in the century of tectonics; - impersonal personalized texts; - the electrical shock; - the translation of the impossible into... ...ople laugh at it. I am ashamed to affirm that I create lyric and dramatic texts. I dissimulate them. People don’t even read them, don’t listen to t... ...al prosaic/poetical experience. Let us remember, in this field, among the prose writers, Italo Calvino, Milan Kundera, Umberto Eco, Marques, Toni Mor... ...ence to the main provisions would allow him. His literary works - poetry, prose, drama - extend from artistic autonomy to an exclusive illustration... ...ously his real and meets it angrily Look with what comes out “the vulgar prose” Saint Simion Lemnaru (manuscript, dated Istanbul - Ankara, in the c... ... of Smarandache function in the relations domain at the king court”) and “Chinese, Bengalis, Chemical, Physical, Martian, Astrological, Metagalactic...

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...served the rights—all the rights—of the companies that have interests in the texts, tunes, images of celebrities, trademarks, business method patents,... ...et if we want digital creativity—whether in music or software or movies or e-texts. And since the strength of the property rights varies inversely wit... ...rned about on the Internet were already illegal, already subject to suit and prose- cution. The question is not whether the Internet should be an inte... .....usually was able to trace the copies up the chain of distribution, find and prosecute the infringer, and shut off the infringement at the source. In ... ...hare the profits. Copyright’s assumptions are different. Copyright began with texts, with creative expression. Here the assumption is (generally) that ... ...right law is at the end of the opinion, when he refers the case for criminal prosecution! When I first read this case, I seriously wondered for a I Got... ... new forms of instant messaging would displace Compuserve’s e-mail? That the Chinese dissident would have access to anonymized Internet services, that...

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...ping short, still less turning back, in his in- quiries, but by resolutely prosecuting them. This, it appears to us, is a case of singular interest, a... .... And consider our leading writ- ers; consider the poetry of Gray, and the prose of Johnson. The first a laborious mosaic, through the hard stiff line... ...tical turning-loom, than that of Swift’s Philosophers in Laputa. Johnson’s prose is true, indeed, and sound, and full of practical sense: few men have... ...ion of the stars, the days and seasons, the animals and plants. There were texts of the Gospels which explicitly stated this. The boy could ascribe no... ... wanted to reprove, with hints, allusions, classic passages, and scripture-texts. His delivery, moreover,— he always read his discourses,—was unpleasa... ...the good fortune to please myself for some years afterwards. The so-called texts of the Sunday church-music, which were always to be had printed, I st... ...ts impressed with figures, to the finer and the finest, on which sometimes Chinese and grotesque, sometimes natural flowers, sometimes figures, someti... ...found fault with some scrolled looking- glass frames, and rejected certain Chinese hangings. A scene ensued, which, indeed, was again hushed up and sm...

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...eserves the sem- blance of the wooden cabin in which the Dorian dwelt. The Chinese pagoda is plainly a Tartar tent. The Indian and Egyptian temples st... ...ple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away,—means, teach- ers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the pre... ...d, or Jeremiah, or Paul. We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives. We are like children who repeat by rote the sentence... ...iscov- ery of the law that water rises to the level of its source. It is a Chinese wall which any nimble Tartar can leap over. It is a standing army, ... ...ch, as soon as we meet, begin to play, and translate all poetry into stale prose. Almost all people descend to meet. All association must be a comprom... ...t additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry. Among many texts take the following. The Roman Martius has conquered Ath- ens,—all but... ...can be full, surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god and converts the statues into f... ...ld give the suggestion of a fairer creation than we know. The details, the prose of nature he should omit and give us only the spirit and splendor. H... ...circumstance gives a value to the Egyp- tian hieroglyphics, to the Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols, however gross and shapeless. They denote the hei...

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... were sprinkled here and there in the adjacent meadows, like flowers which Proserpine had dropped, and still farther in the fields or higher on the ba... ... viva cious race. They have a lease of nature, and it is not yet out. The Chinese are bribed to carry their ova from province to province in jars or ... ...gh it happens that I am better ac quainted with those of the Hindoos, the Chinese, and the Persians, than of the Hebrews, which I have come to last. ... ... or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds. What else have the Hindoos, the Persians, ... ...ughtless study, or the idle read, the litera ture of the Russians and the Chinese, or even French phi losophy and much of German criticism. Read the... ... lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical texts. There is no harmless dreaming, no wise speculation in it, but ev er... ...arison with his task, the poet is the least talented of any; the writer of prose has more skill. See what talent the smith has. His material is pliant...

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...hy,” he said, “I especially love the poets. I think verse more tender than prose, and that it moves far more eas- ily to tears.” “Still in the long ru... ...would ensue; he would have to answer in the pa- pers. Hippolyte might even prosecute him. He saw himself dishonoured, ruined, lost; and his imaginatio... ...ge quod agis.* He was so exasperated he quoted Latin. He would have quoted Chinese or Greenlandish had he known those two languages, for he was in one... ... Lheureux would certainly take off her hands. She bought ostrich feathers, Chinese porcelain, and trunks; she borrowed from Felicite, from Madame Lefr... ...ace. Then, when her eyes wan- dered over the chimney-piece ornamented with Chinese screens, over the large curtains, the armchairs, all those things, ... ..., introduced into the world a morality—” “That isn’t the question. All the texts-” “Oh! oh! As to texts, look at history; it, is known that all the te...

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...considered as a more enlarged and more deeply philosophi- cal discourse in prose, upon the interesting truth, which in his Vanity of Human Wishes he h... ...f the World, a series of letters supposed to be writ- ten from London by a Chinese. No man had the art of displaying with more advantage as a writer, ... ...force a Judge to condemn a man unjustly; therefore it is the Judge whom we prosecute and punish. Political institutions are formed upon the con- 144 ... ... man. As to his being an authour, I have not looked at his poetry; but his prose is poor stuff. He writes just as you might suppose Voltaire’s footboy... ... Sir, he brought me a sheet of paper, on which he had written down several texts of Scripture, recommending 611 Boswell’s Life of Johnson christian c...

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...n mightier than the sword, generating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. -- 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings-For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ?the wasps’ secret? and then develop printing blocks—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts t...

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... and govern empires. 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ―the wasps’ secret‖ and then develop printing b... ...twenty-six letters 7 seem minuscule when compared to the thousand basic Chinese characters or the hundreds of hieroglyphs or cuneiform signs. ABCs... ... In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and a cent... ...lped oversee the Bible project as well as the more profitable printing of texts, such as Latin grammars and papal indulgences (the forgiveness of si... ...ecrets of double-entry bookkeeping. 19 In editing and publishing such texts, moreover, printers passed on to others the lessons they had to lear... ...onks, became immersed in a new culture of capitalism when they took their texts to print shops. Meanwhile, printers‘ connection with ... ..., and other physical assets so that their unauthorized acquisition can be prosecuted as theft.‖ In his Epilogue just ahead in this book, Professo... ...hors who hated copyright. For instance, in his Areopagitica speech—a 1644 prose polemical tract—John Milton urged Parliament to preserve for the Eng...

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... more or less entertainment out of it. I did as you ordered: I placed two texts before my eyes— one a dull one and barren of interest, the other one ... ...lish, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the T urks—a thousand wild and tame religions, every k... ...trial was a fine sensation. The prisoner was the principal witness for the prosecution. He gave a full account of the assassina tion; he furnished ev... ...at a solu tion, but it failed to liquify: When they are going to say some prose or poetry before they say the poetry or prose they must put a semicol... ...etry or prose they must put a semicolon just after the introduction of the prose or poetry. The chapter on “Mathematics” is full of fruit. From it I t...

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... this pious man make a wrong but very specious application of four or five texts of Scripture which seemed to favour the tenets of his sect; but at th... ... tenets of his sect; but at the same time forgot very sincerely an hundred texts which made di- rectly against them. I had more sense than to contest ... ...- tual one,” replied he, “of hearts.” He then began again to throw out his texts of Scripture; and preached a most eloquent ser- mon against that ordi... ...iples. Being set at lib- erty, he ran up and down the country with a dozen proselytes at his heels, still declaiming against the clergy, and was whipp... ...but persecution seldom has any other effect than to increase the number of proselytes. These came, therefore, from their confinement more strongly con... ...o meet with a Quaker in Cork, whom he had known at Oxford, this man made a proselyte of him; and William being a sprightly youth, and naturally eloque... ...e English should discontinue it through fickleness. I am informed that the Chinese have practised inoculation these hundred years, a circumstance that... ...ey are thought to be the wisest and best governed people in the world. The Chinese, indeed, do not communicate this distemper by inoculation, but at t...

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...ossible, we resolved to master the significance. But as man is emphatically a proselytizing creature, no sooner was such mastery even fairly at tempte... ...a height unexampled in the annals of mankind, and even English Editors, like Chinese Shopkeepers, must write on their door lintels No cheating here,—w... ...pskin cloaks and wampum belts; phylacteries, stoles, albs; chlamydes, togas, Chinese silks, Afghaun shawls, trunk hose, leather breeches, Celtic hilib... ...lemagne Mantle, as well as in the poorest Ox goad and Gypsy Blanket, he finds Prose, Decay, Contemptibility; there is in each sort Poetry also, and a r... ...ike the Doctor’s in the Arabian Tale) set in a basin to keep it alive, could prosecute without shadow of a heart,—but one other of the mechanical and ... ...luding those of Con stantinople and Samarcand: in most Colleges, except the Chinese Mandarin ones, I have studied, or seen that there was no studying... ...era have wholly escaped me. Great Men are the inspired (speaking and acting) Texts of that divine BOOK OF REVELATIONS, whereof a Chapter is completed ... ... completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named HISTORY; to which inspired Texts your numerous talented men, and your innumerable untal ented men, ... ...oo stupid, heretical or orthodox, weekly Sermons. For my study, the inspired Texts themselves! Thus did not I, in very early days, having disguised me...

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...e from the sameness of women’s coiffure and the favor- ite love-stories in prose and verse. Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the duckl... ...at she might not dread the corrosiveness of Celia’s pretty carnally minded prose. Her reverie was broken, and the difficulty of decision banished, by ... ...You don’t know what it is to want spiritual tobacco—bad emendations of old texts, or small items about a variety of Aphis Brassicae, with the well-kno... ...us one, but your society has happily prevented me from that too continuous prosecution of thought beyond the hours of study which has been the snare o... ...ight over valley and river and white moun- tain-top differs from joy among Chinese lanterns and glass panels? Will, too, was made of very impressible ... ...ould will- ingly have had that service of exhortation in prospect now. The texts were there still, and so was his own facility in expounding them. His...

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...- ment, in as far as it regards the technical change that came over modern prose romance, has never perhaps been ex- plained with any clearness. To do... ...although he had recognised that the novel was nothing else than an epic in prose, wrote in the spirit not of the epic, but of the drama. This is not, ... ...r that we shall find Scott himself, in so far as regards his conception of prose fiction and its purposes, surpassed in his own spirit, instead of tam... ...changed Bibles, on one of which Burns, for greater security, had inscribed texts as to the binding nature of an oath; and surely, if ceremony can do a... ...leverly proposed to write it, the sound of ZH. Yoshida was very learned in Chinese letters, or, as we might say, in the classics, and in his father’s ... ...e the better prepared, Y oshida set himself to teach, and he to learn, the Chinese literature. It is an episode most honourable to Yoshida, and yet mo... ...ng back – a far-travelled weapon – to Japan. A long letter was prepared in Chinese for the American officers; it was revised and corrected by Sakuma, ... ...trelet that Charles was a very well educated person. He could string Latin texts together by the hour, and make ballades and rondels better than Eusta... ...ke of Brittany at Tours. But Louis was then in no humour to hear Charles’s texts and Latin sentiments; he had his back to the wall, the future of Fran...