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...For this pow- dery miracle, but for the intervention of the king, the said engineers would have been condemned as heretics and abet- tors of Satan, by... .... Her mother, long time a widow, lived in the House of M. de Braguelongne, civil lieutenant of the Chatelet de Paris, whose wife lived with lord of Li... ...glances of a falcon in matters of gallant assignation. The poor Lieutenant civil, learned in bailiffs’ men and sergeants, and who nabbed all the pickp... ...know the legend of your ancestors, who were thought much of by the ancient Egyptians, who held them in great veneration, and adored them like other sa... ...rbs, alchemising all languages since the Deluge, of the Hebrew, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Greeks, Latins, and of T urnus, the ancient founder of T ours; a... ...ow very well. Now if this etymology of the street harass you, and also the Egyptian nun, I will lend you a curious and antique parch- ment, found by m...

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...rs of discussion that the point was conceded; it was indeed only after the Civil War that the implications were fully established, that there resided ... ...ht by that very division. No one can vie with me in my appreciation of the civiliza- tion of Switzerland, Sweden, or Holland, but the plain fact of th... ...ns in the idea, and, since they have got to be digested sooner or later if civilization is not to collapse, there is no reason why we should not begin... ...ng them in alphabetical order—the Africander, the Briton, the Belgian, the Egyptian, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Indian the Portuguese—might all b... ...tment of these problems is now. Finally, the time is drawing near when the Egyptian and the nations of India will ask us, “Are things going on for eve... ...e greatest devotion to the sovereign, and still truer was this of Indians, Egyptians, and the like. It might be easy to press this theory of devotion ... ...s chooses his doctors as persons able to secure health, and his electrical engineers as persons able to attend to his tram ways, lighting, etc., etc.;...

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...r enough of complaint against Agesilaus, and therefore, after the mu- tual civilities were over, he put him in mind of the great services he had done ... ...bes than ever was acquired by any other of the Grecian republics, in their civil wars against each other. The behavior, notwithstand- ing, of the Spar... ...e to his ill-repute when he put him- self into the service of T achos, the Egyptian. They thought it too unworthy of a man of his high station, who wa... ...l countries with his renown, to let himself out to hire to a barbarian, an Egyptian rebel, (for T achos was no better) and to fight for pay, as captai... ...rs; he was compelled daily to submit to the inso- lence and vanity of this Egyptian, and was at length forced to attend him into Phoenicia, in a condi... ...le titles, but adorned likewise the virtues and services of eminent men in civil government with the same distinctions and marks of honor. Two persons... ...ny other instances of Cicero’s friendship, had been made head of the state engineers when he was consul, would not receive him into his house, sending... ...our children?” On hearing Theophanes, the Les- bian, who was master of the engineers in the army, praised for the admirable way in which he had consol... ...and Labeo, the latter his lieutenant, and the other chief of- ficer of his engineers. In the meantime, one of his compan- ions, that was very thirsty ...

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...the Gibraltar of the Indian Ocean, and the vast cisterns where the English engineers were still at work, two thousand years after the engineers of Sol... ...it seldom paid, and appointed the gover- nor-general and his subordinates, civil and military. But the East India Company has now passed away, leaving... ...see festival. These descendants of the sect of Zoroaster—the most thrifty, civilised, intelligent, and austere of the East Indians, among whom are cou... ...ond capital of the Japanese Em- pire, and the residence of the Tycoon, the civil Emperor, before the Mikado, the spiritual Emperor, absorbed his of- f... ...centuries later, a translation of this precious book, which was written in Egyptian, was made by Joseph Smith, junior, a Vermont farmer, who revealed ... ...imple mummy showman a papyrus scroll written by Abraham and several famous Egyptians. The Elder’s story became somewhat wearisome, and his audience gr... ...stead of sixteen thousand allowed for the work done on the plains. But the engineers, instead of violating nature, avoided its difficulties by wind- i... ...y delighted, and found the plan a very feasible one. He told stories about engineers leaping their trains over rivers with- out bridges, by putting on...

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...d great uneasiness in Liverpool, she entered the basin of the company. The engineers visited the Scotia, which was put in dry dock. They could scarcel... ...he har- pooner—commander, officers, masters, sailors, cabin boys; even the engineers left their engines, and the stokers their furnaces. The order to ... ...placed on the table, and we took our places. Undoubtedly we had to do with civilised people, and, had it not been for the electric light which flooded... ...ight?” “It might be the right of a savage,” I answered, “but not that of a civilised man.” “Professor,” replied the commander, quickly, “I am not what... ...n.” “Professor,” replied the commander, quickly, “I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone... ...passage of the Israel- 157 Jules Verne ites and of the catastrophe to the Egyptians, I will ask whether you have met with the traces under the water ... ... the sand would bring to light a large number of arms and instru- ments of Egyptian origin.” “That is evident,” I replied; “and for the sake of archae... ...r Land,” I continued; “this low coast which rounds off to the south is the Egyptian coast. And you who have such good eyes, Ned, you can see the jetty... ...ent Captain Nemo will be shut up in his room, probably in bed. Neither the engineers nor the ship’s crew can see us. Conseil and I will gain the centr...

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...e first year of the second Olympiad, the twenty-third day of the month the Egyptians call Choeac, and the third hour after sunset, at which time there... ...ence on the minds of the listeners, that they were insensibly softened and civilized, insomuch that they renounced their private feuds and animosities... ...ndividuals; but Lycurgus first made them really known. 72 V olume One The Egyptians say that he took a voyage into Egypt, and that, being much taken ... ...essed unjust usurpa- tions and despotisms, arbitrated in war, and composed civil dissensions; and this often without so much as taking down one buckle... ...ly love and passion for any human form or beauty. Though, indeed, the wise Egyptians do not unplausibly make the distinction, that it may be possible ... ..., and suffer them to relapse, as they must, into their former sedition and civil discord, there being no person on whom both parties could accord but ... ...gods. Yet Marcellus escaped unhurt, and, deriding his own arti- ficers and engineers, “What,” said he, “must we give up fight- ing with this geometric...

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...on. Two, I think, for to face a strange planet, even though it be a wholly civilised one, without some other familiar backing, dashes the courage over... ...hing refined, with some knowledge, perhaps, of the minor pains and all the civil self-controls; he has read more than he has suffered, and suffered ra... ...s we may transgress in coming down these mountain places. And yet, just as civil liberty itself is a compromise defended by prohibitions, so this part... ...th great bitterness all specialists whatever, and particularly doctors and engineers. “Voluntary noblemen!” he said, “voluntary Gods I fancy they thin... ... seem to carry conviction; what our ances- tors did, or what the Greeks or Egyptians did, though it is the direct physical cause of the modern young m... ...Paris apache; the races not at present prospering politically, such as the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Spanish, the Moors, the Chinese, the *The T rue-... ...arated again by half-a-dozen lifted flagstones, a burning brazier, and two engineers concerned with some underground business or other—in the busiest ...

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...iselle Mars sometimes drank dissolved pearls, in imitation of a celebrated Egyptian actress. The Emperor had leather pockets in his waistcoat, so that... ...voluptuous caprice. The fol- lowing are the only facts preserved about his civil condition. In 1793 a poor girl of Tillet, a village near Andelys, cam... .... In 1813 Ferdinand thought it necessary to register his age, and obtain a civil standing by applying to the courts at Andelys for a judgment, which s... ...ever interrupted, and was sometimes a victim to this careful observance of civility; for others would take the words out of his mouth, and the good ma... ...ltaire said, ‘Canaux, canards, canaille!’ But the govern- ment has its own engineers; you can’t get a finger in the matter unless you get on the right... ...iters, journalists, stock- brokers, merchants of the upper grades, agents, engineers, and above all satellites, or henchmen, who passed from group to ... ...prepared for all events, and showing upon his countenance the wisdom of an Egyptian sphinx—was talk- ing to Derville and his niece in a suppressed voi...

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..., educa tion? Shall we call the stone engine a savage and the steel one a civilized man? The original rock contained the stuff of which the steel one... ...hrist and Him crucified every day and every night to little groups of half civilized foreign paupers who scoff at him. But he rejoices in the scoffing... ...ng brother through a polytechnic school and satisfy his desire to become a civil engineer. O.M. The old father’s comforts were now curtailed? Y.M. Qui... ...nk of a big thing. Oh, indeed yes; when you talk about your poor Roman and Egyptian day before yesterday antiquities, you should choose a time when t... ...ther difficult text: [ Image not available—ed. ] It is demotic—a style of Egyptian writing and a phase of the language which has perished from the kn... ...tially the whole of her short life of five or six years the queen lives in Egyptian darkness and stately seclusion of the royal apartments, with none ... ... me do credit able things in those ancient days; and several white headed engineers; and several roustabouts and mates; and several deck hands who us... ..., geologists, philologists, college presidents and professors, architects, engineers, painters, sculptors, politicians, agitators, rebels, revolution ...

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...Valley capable of supporting a dense population. As a dwell ing place for civilized man it is by far the first upon our globe. EDITOR’S TABLE, HAR... .... An article in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six mi... ...were trading beads and blankets to them for a consideration, and throwing in civili zation and whiskey, ‘for lagniappe;’ and in Canada the French wer... ...eshift awnings, and broil ing with the heat; they encountered and exchanged civilities with another party of Indians; and at last they reached the mo... ... boy, you ought to tap the big bell three times before you land, so that the engineers can get ready.” I blushed under the sarcasm, and said I hadn’t ... ... watching things. The dangerous place was on slow, plodding boats, where the engineers drowsed around and allowed chips to get into the “doctor” and s... ...high collared, puff sleeved, glaring pallidly out from a background of solid Egyptian night. Under a glass French clock dome, large bouquet of stiff f...

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... eyes blazed. They had never seen him like this save once in a sad time of civil war. “Do you know that that was just as bad as murder?” he said, in a... ...shall need a substitute even if Crandall can play?” said a Lieuten- ant of Engineers with a D.S.O. to his credit. “He wrote me he’d play, so he can’t ... ... “tweaker.” Yet he did not know that Wake minor would be a bimbashi of the Egyptian Army ere his thirtieth year. Hogan, Swayne, Stalky, Perowne, and A... ... pipe. “Stalky? Like a serene Brahmini bull. Poor old Mac was at his Royal Engineers’ wits’ end to know what to do. You see I was putrid with dysenter...

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...lve years older than his sister Amelia. He was in the East India Company’s Civil Service, and his name appeared, at the period of which we write, in t... ...men screamed! By Jove, sir, it did my heart good to see you. I thought you civilians had no pluck; but I’ll never get in your way when you are in your... ...r with a great deal of liveliness upon the effect of her charms on the fat civilian. “O Miss Sharp! if you could but see him this morning,” he said—”m... ...in laughed, and said he would send his acquaintance (Major Wagstaff of the Engineers) a piece of cake when that event took place. At length Captain Os... ...lly a reminder as that of the Death’s-head which figured in the repasts of Egyptian bon-vivants, a strange sardonic me- morial of V anity Fair. What? ... ...es whisper to one another. The black slave was given to Bedwin Sands by an Egyptian pasha in exchange for three dozen of Maraschino. He has sewn up ev... ...s at hand, the band facetiously plays “The Camels are coming.” An enormous Egyptian head figures in the scene. It is a musical one—and, to the surpris...

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..., which was, as every body must acknowledge, in a condition disgraceful to civilized society. As he had made many a fire balloon, and had succeeded in... ...nia there were diamond mines, which my people, from their low condition of civilization, did not value, nor had any means of working. Farewell, theref... ...ver would have got rid of them had they continued to run wild; but growing civilization introduced arts, and the arts intro- duced sedentary habits. B... ...as accomplished exactly eight days before the sailing of Napoleon with the Egyptian expedition; so that Sir Sidney was just in time to confront, and u... ...they have already exceeded the maximum of possibility, as laid down by all engineers during the progress of the Manchester and Liverpool line, may soo...

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...lied Heriot, and there was Julia visible at her window. ‘I asked you, sir, civilly,’ quoth Boddy, ‘for permission to look,—I used the word intentional... ...ds at parting? I did cordially, and remembered him when people were not so civil. They wanted to know whether we had made a runaway match of it. The f... ...n idea nothing’s clean here. And confound these fellows for not having the civility to tell us they were going to start!’ We were rather angry , a lit... ...superb savage, proof against weather and compliments. Her face was like an Egyptian sky fronting night. The strong old Eastern blood put ruddy flame f... ...d into a house by a young English lady, daugh- ter of a retired Colonel of Engineers of our army. The colo- nel was an exile from his country for no g...

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...ater of London, and he certainly might have made things look blue for this civilised city. And now he has swallowed it. Of course, I cannot say what w... ...ing,” said Wedderburn. “Anyhow, the natives of his party were sufficiently civilised to take care of all his collection until his colleague, who was a... ...lities of the negro mind brought into abrupt contact with the crown of our civilisation Holroyd never fully realised, though just at the end he got so... ...erking into odd zigzags. And for three months, while the big strike of the engineers was in progress, Holroyd, who was a blackleg, and Azuma-zi, who w... ... silver white, making it look more like those winged globes I have seen in Egyptian sculpture than anything else I can re- member upon earth. These I ... ...own. At the cost of sitting up stiff and stern, as much like those sitting Egyptian images one sees as I could manage, for pretty nearly twelve hours,...

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...Excerpt: Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the threshold one reads that the firm consists of Mr. Lawrence Doyle and Mr. Thomas Broadbent, and that their rooms are on the first floor. Most of their rooms are private; for the partners, being bachelor...

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...W Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the threshold one reads that the firm consists of Mr La... ...t George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the threshold one reads that the firm consists of Mr Lawrence... ...e Russian tyrant was perfectly right from his own point of view, yet every civilized man must regard murder with abhorrence. Not even in defence of Fr... ...r! He’s a Nationalist and a Separatist. I’m a metallurgical chemist turned civil engineer. Now whatever else metallurgical chemistry may be, it’s not ... ...onal. It’s in- 19 GB Shaw ternational. And my business and yours as civil engineers is to join countries, not to separate them. The one real politi- ... ...ny , what his means are. God forgive us all! it’s poor work spoil- ing the Egyptians, though we have good warrant for it; so I’ d like to know how muc... ... and your syndicate. You are both, I am told, thoroughly effi- cient civil engineers; and I have no doubt the golf links will be a triumph of your art...

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...and equal rights for women. It makes no dis- tinction between military and civilian targets. Collateral damage is not in its lexicon. We learned that ... ...con. We learned that the institutions charged with protecting our borders, civil aviation, and national security did not understand how grave this thr... ...nidentified item in his back pocket, clipped to its rim. 15 When the local civil aviation security office of the Federal Aviation Admin- istration (FA... ... February 1998, the 40-year-old Saudi exile Usama Bin Ladin and a fugitive Egyptian physician,Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquar- ... ... conspiracies to explain their world. Bin Ladin also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.A mem- ber of the Muslim Brotherhood 11 execute... ...ing future, often tied to sweeping ide- ologies (such as those promoted by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Arab Socialism or the Ba’ath Party ... ...s intercepts are con- clusive elements in the analyst’s jigsaw puzzle. NSA engineers build technical systems to break ciphers and to make sense of tod... ...edator ready for combat.Those were in the hands of military offi- cers and engineers. General John Jumper had commanded U.S. air forces in Europe and ... ...f,Arlington County Fire Department William Baker,American Society of Civil Engineers Ken Holden, Commissioner, New Y ork City Department of Design an...

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... of language or of sense), He will appear some noble table writ In the old Egyptian hieroglyphic wit; Where, though you monsters and grotescoes see, Y... ... and oysters send them any store: In case they spare my life and prove but civil, I give their sale of distaffs to the devil. To quell him comes Q.B.,... ...ex- pressed in better terms than your son, with a completer car- riage and civility to all manner of persons, account me for ever hereafter a very clo... ... mere defiance, and that in my lands he did pretend only to the right of a civil correspondency and good behaviour, whereby I knew that the eternal Go... ...oils and booties which by his victories he had acquired, presenting to the Egyptians, in the open view of the people, a Bactrian camel all black, and ... ...y the error of nature; in a word, of the hope which he had to please these Egyptians, and by such means to increase the affection which they naturally... ...d of the valiant cooks that went into it. Then, by Friar John’s order, the engineers and their work- men fitted up the great sow that was in the ship ... ... catapults, whose shapes were shown to us, not over-well understood by our engineers, architects, and other disciples of Vitruvius; as Master Philiber...

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...ion, or without concluding any other conse- quence. I was told, during the civil disorders of our poor kingdom, that a maid, hard by the place where I... ...this occasion; and might moreover have added to it the commendation of his civility and courtesy, that would not interrupt the current of his declamat... ...SSE, my brother, and I, travelling one day together during the time of our civil wars, met a gentle- man of good sort. He was of the contrary party, t... ...ed tiara.’—[Plutarch, Notable Sayings of the Ancient King.]— The so devout Egyptians thought they sufficiently satisfied the divine justice by sacrifi... ...ection and regard to them. Pythagoras borrowed the metempsychosis from the Egyptians; but it has since been received by several nations, and particula... ...them: for he says that it was not the cat or the ox, for example, that the Egyptians adored: but that they, in those beasts, adored some image of the ... ..., he says, that it, was his custom to be night and day with the pioneers.—[Engineers. D.W.]—In all enterprises of consequence he always recon- noitred...

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... they know exactly what they must do. A clever Chinn passes for the Bombay Civil Service, and gets away to Central India, where everybody is glad to s... ...attle-stealer, and when the English came he seemed to be almost as open to civilisation as the tigers of his own jungles. But John Chinn the First, fa... .... Colonel Lionel Chinn knew and loved them, too, and they were very fairly civilised, for Bhils, before his service ended. Many of them could hardly b... ...ivers, but he did not call 007 his “Arab steed,” nor cry over him, as the engineers did in the newspapers. He just bad worded 007, and pulled yards ... ...sick the second day out. He believes in throwing boots at fourth and fifth engineers when they wake him up at night with word that a bearing is redhot... ... read the Lloyds column in the pa- pers, and called on the wives of senior engineers of equal so- cial standing. Once or twice, too, Mrs. Holdock visi... ...in the British Mu- seum; specialists in scarabs, cartouches, and dynasties Egyptian; rovers and raiders from the heart of unknown lands; toxicolo- gis...

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..., or, if within such, that the inhabitants had submitted themselves to the civil authority of Texas or of the United States, and that the same is true... ...JUNE 20, 1848. In Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, on the Civil and Diplomatic Ap- propriation Bill: MR. CHAIRMAN:—I wish at all time... ...ushed for ever! Who can realize that freedom’s champion, the champion of a civilized world and of all tongues and kindreds of people, has indeed falle... ...such numbers as to include four hundred thousand fighting men, went out of Egyptian bondage in a body. How differently the respective courses of the D... ...ross section of this stream and the area of the face of the piers, and the engineers say that the piers being put there will increase the current prop... ... on around she struck the point or end of the pier, where she rested. “Her engineers,” said Mr. Lincoln, “say the starboard wheel then was rushing aro... ...ot all used—that only one wheel was working. The pilot says he ordered the engineers to back her up. The engineers differ from him and said they kept ...

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...c- tice is quite painless under the law, it is still difficult to find any civilized motive for an attitude by which the medical profession has everyt... ...to lose and nothing to gain. 31 GB Shaw THE PRIMITIVE SAVAGE MOTIVE I SAY CIVILIZED MOTIVE advisedly; for primitive tribal motives are easy enough to... ...on the cheapness of frogs and rabbits. If machines were as cheap as frogs, engineers would not only be taught the anatomy of machines and the function... ...led mobs who are striving to make Vivisection one of the watchwords of our civilization, are not doctors: they are the British pub- lic, all so afraid... ...t, mummy was a favorite medicament. You took a pinch of the dust of a dead Egyptian in a pint of the hottest water you could bear to drink; and it did...

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...ly. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the no ... ...es; lying, flattering, voting, con tracting yourselves into a nutshell of civility or dilat ing into an atmosphere of thin and vaporous generos ity... ...e to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross neces saries of life and... ...you would have lost your labor. Nevertheless, we will not forget that some Egyptian wheat was handed down to us by a mummy. On the whole, I think th... ...ilders, it is much the same all the world over, whether the building be an Egyptian temple or the United States Bank. It costs more than it comes to. ... ...oaves of this in succession, tending and turning them as care fully as an Egyptian his hatching eggs. They were a real cereal fruit which I ripened, ... ... in my thought. The cars never pause to look at it; yet I fancy that the engineers and firemen and brakemen, and those passengers who have a season ...

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...................................................... 455 Chapter 3.4.II. In Civil War . .................................................................. ...thout rule or rein; sav- age itself, yet with all the tools and weapons of civilisation; a spectacle new in History. In such a France, as in a Powder-... ...oled he walks; reverend, glancing upwards, as in rapt commerce; an Antique Egyptian Hierophant in this new age. Soft music flits; breaking fitfully th... ...the huge work- ing-wheel hangs motionless, refuses to stir! The cunningest engineers are at fault. How will it work, when it does begin? Fearfully, my... ...ully their high heads; they may beat their poor brains; but the cunningest engineers can do nothing. Necker himself, were he even listened to, begins ... ...persons, that finding one military victim to have been imprisoned for real civil crime, they returned him to his cell, with protest. Why new military ... ...n thousand men, spade-men, barrow-men, stone-builders, rammers, with their engineers, are at work on the Champ-de-Mars; hollowing it out into a natura...

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................................................ 199 THE POSSIBLE COLLAPSE OF CIVILISATION ................................................................. ...h- ered himself to a place. The history of man’s progress from savagery to civilisation is essentially a story of settling down. It begins in caves an... ... methods of business and industry, and to clamber above us in the scale of civilisation. This has humiliated and irritated rather than chastened us, a... ...sistant at a Burmese oil-well, to the self-educating Scottish miner or the Egyptian clerk, the Empire and the English language should exist, visibly a... ... the unfolding record of behaviour it is the stewardesses and bandsmen and engineers—persons of the trade-union class—who shine as brightly as any. An... ...organise them, to secure the pick of our young chemists and physicists and engineers, and to get them to work systematically upon the anticipation and...

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...lag was seen, and as the troops were pic- tured advancing, bayonetting the civilians in wide Dutch pants, the old women with starched caps, the soldie... ...than the Russians!” “It is curious! … O but you must have some feeling of civilization. I have always heard that Americans were free and independent.... ...ein, a curious expression of understand- ing on his flabby face. “We’ll be civilians some day.” “I won’t” said Stockton. “Hell,” said Eisenstein. “You... ...nt … . Look here, T oby, didn’t our outfit see hotter work than any goddam engineers?” T oby had just stepped into the cafe, a tall man with a brown b... ... thing in war contracts jus’ a short time ago. He could have got me in the engineers if I hadn’t gone off an’ enlisted.” “Why did you?” “I was restles... ... I wish I’d gone to that goddam outfit now … . I ought to have been in the engineers all the time, anyway.” “What did you do at home?” “Carpenter.” “B... ...n fly! What people was it that made them the symbol of life? It wasn’t the Egyptians. O, I’ve forgotten.” “I’ll row,” said Andrews. The boat was hurri...

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...ccess or failure with that unending stream of babies is the measure of our civilization; every in- stitution stands or falls by its contribution to th... ...c to so many of our innovations. I believe that if a canvass of the entire civilized world were put to the vote in this matter, the proposition that i... ...s that have had fermented drinks the longest are also those that have been civilized the longest. The passage of a 40 Mankind in the Making people fr... ...hy—in- imitably—just to show how to do it. Mr. David Devant— the brilliant Egyptian Hall conjuror—will show any assem- bly of parents how to amuse chi... ... is no reason why certain great constituencies, the medical call- ing, the engineers, should not specify one or two of their professional leaders, the...

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...riod of life when it 82 The Long Vacation is a joy to slip out of as much civilization as possible,” said Lance, putting his sentence in involved for... ...arts if I uttered a profane word against it. I would as soon be an ancient Egyptian drowning a cat as move a stone of it. It is a lovely sort of ancie... ...pped up.” “Very likely,” said Gerald coolly. “Those precious surveyors and engineers that Walsh brings down can give an account of them! As soon as yo... ...and tin of cream remained, and so did the two young sailors, Horner saying civilly— “You’ll not be hard on the kids, sir, for just a spree carried a l... ...e may not be care at hand with Gerald. The boy is in a reserved mood, very civil and amiable, but clearly holding back from confidence.” “Does she see...

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... lap; and sat looking towards the fire, with the impenetrability of an old Egyptian sculpture. ‘Y ou knew my father infinitely better than I ever knew... ...king existence. Was Mr Plornish at home? ‘Well, sir,’ said Mrs Plornish, a civil woman, ‘not to deceive you, he’s gone to look for a job.’ ‘Not to dec... ...nnam might have wished him in the crater of Mount Etna, in return for this civil- ity. ‘I have had the pleasure of seeing it under many circum- stance... ...re was not much to prevent him. If he did not avail himself of this latter civility, it was only because he had lost the relish for it; inasmuch as he... ...sions on the map of the world, had occasion for the services of one or two engineers, quick in invention and determined in execution: practical men, w...