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...or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravitat... ...we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philosophies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of In- toxicating Liquors? Man’s whole... ...height unexampled in the annals of mankind, and even English Editors, like Chinese Shopkeep- ers, must write on their door-lintels No cheating here,— ... ..., though you see them alive, and feel certain enough that they must have a History, no History seems to be discov- erable; or only such as men give of... ...n cloaks and wampum belts; phy- lacteries, stoles, albs; chlamydes, togas, Chinese silks, Afghaun shawls, trunk-hose, leather breeches, Celtic hilibeg... ... 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. ... ...om Old Clothes are not venerable. Watch, too, with reverence, that bearded Jewish High- priest, who with hoarse voice, like some Angel of Doom, summon... ...potted from the world. “They have their Temples, whereof the chief, as the Jewish Temple did, stands in their metropolis; and is named Almack’s, a wor... ...Fire-balls, and supernal and infernal prodigies, which, in the case of the Jewish Mysteries, have also more than once scared back the Alien? Be this a...

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...e manner of Shelley. This brought him into open conflict with Roddles, the History Master. Roddles had discovered these theological controver- sies in... ... very clearly. His struggle with fear was the very beginning of his soul’s history. It continued to the end. He had hardly decided to lead the noble l... ...the beast, these are for creatures that have a settled environment, a life history, that spin in a cage of instincts. But man is a beast of that kind ... ...tood ready. Then came the large hall, with its noiseless carpets and great Chinese jars, its lacquered cabinets and the wide staircase, and float- ing... ... sky… . As he went along the riverside he met a group of dusky stu- dents, Chinese or Japanese. Cambridge had abounded in Indians; and beneath that ta... ...Wells and have a talk in Kensington Gardens? You know the place, near that Chinese garden. Paddington Gate… .” The lady’s voice fell to flatness. She ... ...hovels…. W andering wise man with a roll- ing eye, a fakir under a tree, a Jewish sheik, an Arab epilep- tic….” “Would you sweep away the experience o... ...a gathering-place for mischief. The extremest case of race- feeling is the Jewish case, and even here, I am convinced, it is the Bible and the Talmud ... ...ourt that had become the refuge of a crowd of fugitives. Some of the young Jewish men had al- ready been making a fight, rather a poor and hopeless fi...

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...hrough it before the three o’clock bell called her to the class in English history. She sighed, “That’s what I’ll do after college! I’ll get my hands ... ... that up in the library? Well then, suppose you do!” 9 Sinclair Lewis The history instructor was a retired minister. He was sarcastic today. He begge... ...syndicalism, the Confederation Generale du Travail, feminism vs. haremism, Chinese lyrics, nationalization of mines, Christian Sci- ence, and fishing ... ...could be depended upon to appreciate the Caruso phonograph record, and the Chinese lantern which Mr. Marbury had brought back as his present from San ... ...lent lap-dogs? The an- cient stale inequalities, or something different in history, unlike the tedious maturity of other empires? What future and what... ...re shy. It was “Professor” George Edwin Mott, superintendent of schools, a Chinese manda- rin turned brown, who held Carol’s hand and made her welcome... ...stic poem regarding the value of smiles. There were four other stunts: one Jewish, one Irish, one juvenile, and Nat Hicks’s parody of Mark Antony’s fu... ...ing impersonation seven times, “An Old Sweetheart of Mine” nine times, the Jewish story and the funeral oration twice; but now she was ardent and, bec... ...n once 246 Main Street taught Sunday School. Four “entertainers” who told Jewish stories, Irish sto- ries, German stories, Chinese stories, and Tenne...

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... and manners was perfect, Dr. Howard Littlefield proved it to them, out of history, economics, and the confessions of reformed radicals. Babbitt had a... ...shroom Roman Imperial, the lounge Spanish Mission, and the reading-room in Chinese Chippendale, but the gem of the club was the dining-room, the maste... ... shade of yellow or rose silk.) On the table was a runner of gold-threaded Chinese fab- 82 Babbitt ric, four magazines, a silver box containing cigar... ...perous grocer, one a Yankee carpenter, one a soda-clerk, and one a Russian Jewish actor The Russian Jew quoted Kautsky, Gene Debs, and Abraham Lincoln... ... this burg that say I’m a roughneck and a never-wuzzer and my knowledge of history is not-yet. Oh, there’s a gang of woolly-whiskered book-lice that t... ...One the other day about a coupla Swedes and their wives,” and, in the best Jewish accent, he resolutely carried the Good One to a slightly disinfected... ...randams swung their legs in the more elementary cho- rus-evolutions, and a Jewish comedian made vicious fun of Jews. In the entr’actes they met other ... ...what sets it in a class by itself; that’s why Zenith will be remembered in history as having set the pace for a civilization that shall endure when th... ...Men’s Club of the Chatham Road presbyterian Church with Irish, Jewish, and Chinese dia- lect stories. But in nothing was he more clearly revealed as t...

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...d me to see where I am particularly deficient, viz. general knowl- edge of history, and a thorough acquaintance with Greek and Roman customs, law cour... ...n making out a stiff bit of Greek or Latin if I have time, but I must read History chiefly this year, and then I hope to be selected next time. My tut... ...ood common sense, and a well-read man). But I of course want to be reading history as well, and that involves a good deal; physical geography , geolog... ... 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... ...ay, if I live. To spend such energy as they and I have upon the details of Jewish history, e.g., would be unwise. The great lessons must be taught, as... ...se. The great lessons must be taught, as, e.g., St. Paul in 1 Cor. x. uses Jewish history. ‘October 15, I finished my last chapter of St. John’s Gos- ...

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...l in itself. His language has the richness and sententious fullness of the Chinese. He will express a phrase in a word, and he will qualify the meanin... ...uced from the circumstances, though great uncertainty hangs over the whole history of the Indians. 27 James Fenimore Cooper for war and armed with th... ...ra bestowed an approving smile on the pious efforts of the namesake of the Jewish prince, and Heyward soon turned his steady, stern look from the outl... ... ruins that are intimately associ- ated with the recollections of colonial history, and which are in appropriate keeping with the gloomy character of ... ...he language of the Delawares, and with the pride of a conqueror, the brief history of the skirmish which had been fought, in his youth, in that seclud... ... to speak with the power of the feelings by which he was governed. “If the Jewish boy might tame the great spirit of Saul by the sound of his harp, an... ...parti-colored and uncouth attire, “I have not forgotten the example of the Jewish boy. With this ancient instrument of war have I prac- tised much in ...

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...and she made her way, al- most unconsciously into his room. He had taken a Chinese drawing of geese from the boudoir, and was copying it, with much sk... ... ‘Is it? I’m so glad you like it, because I’ve always been fond of it. The Chinese Ambassador gave it me.’ ‘I know,’ he said. ‘But why do you copy it?... ...kind mystically contra-distinguished against inanimate Matter, was not the history of mankind just the history of the conquest of the one by the other... ...ld she had been, playing in Cossethay churchyard, was a little creature of history, not really herself. They were at Brussels—half an hour for breakfa... ... ideal utterly, yet it still domi- nates him. I expect he is a Jew—or part Jewish.’ ‘Probably,’ said Gerald. ‘He is a gnawing little negation, gnawing...

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...s as my interest about her prompted I had gradually drawn forth her simple history. Hers was a case of ordinary occurrence (as I have since had reason... ...d never occurred to me as a possible one; I had rather feared, whenever my Jewish friends scrutinised me keenly, that I might be too well known to be ... ...e on which he wished me to write verses. On reading the letters, one of my Jewish friends agreed to furnish me with two or three hundred pounds on my ... ...either university, could give, I sus- pect, but an obscure and conjectural history. The persecu- tions of the chapel-bell, sounding its unwelcome summ... ...ink perhaps that I am too confidential and communicative of my own private history. It may be so. But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and ... ...hat if I were compelled to forego England, and to live in China, and among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad. The causes ... ...the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A young Chinese seems to me an antediluvian man renewed. Even Englishmen, though no... ...st in my dreams) for centu- ries. I escaped sometimes, and found myself in Chinese houses, with cane tables, &c. All the feet of the tables, sofas, &c...

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...rs in the current of the Loire. Some of the most striking events of French history have occurred on the banks of that river, and the soil it waters bl... ...on. And he was, moreover, the product of a soil into which a great deal of history had been trodden. Balzac was genuinely as well as affectedly monarc... ...make the attempt. There are so many chateaux in Touraine com- memorated in history, that it would take one too far to look up those which have been co... ...ee that I remember is a fine portrait of a woman, by Ingres,—very flat and Chinese, but with an interest of line and a great deal of style. There is a... ...nd of Madame de Bargeton, who when she wore a toi- lette etudiee sported a Jewish turban ornamented with an Eastern brooch, a scarf of gauze, a neckla...

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...iving in retirement. “The preparatory poem is biographical, and conducts the history of the Au thor’s mind to the point when he was emboldened to hop... ...s the cabinet 225 Of their sensations, and in voluble phrase Run through the history and birth of each As of a single independent thing. Hard task, va... ...omestic table: and, dear Friend! In this endeavour simply to relate A Poet’s history, may I leave untold 80 The thankfulness with which I laid me down... ...— From Homer the great Thunderer, from the voice That roars along the bed of Jewish song, And that more varied and elaborate, Those trumpet tones of h... ...mote 225 America, the Hunter Indian; Moors, Malays, Lascars, the Tartar, the Chinese, And Negro Ladies in white muslin gowns. At leisure, then, I view...

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...held them. At a distance beyond—yet but a little way, considering how much history is heaped into the intervening space—rises the great sweep of the C... ...was said, for example, that Miriam was the daughter and heiress of a great Jewish banker (an idea perhaps sug- gested by a certain rich Oriental chara... ...ome there. She was very youthful, and had what was usually thought to be a Jewish aspect; a complexion in which there was no roseate bloom, yet neithe... ... the vulgar glossiness of other women’s sable locks; if she were really of Jewish blood, then this was Jewish hair, and a dark glory such as crowns no... ... the visible world out of her own mind; of compelling scenes of poetry and history to live before men’s eyes, through conceptions and by methods indiv... ...Her copies were indeed marvellous. Accuracy was not the phrase for them; a Chinese copy is accurate. Hilda’s had that evanescent and ethereal life—tha... ...Ah!” replied Hilda, shuddering,” I really had quite for- gotten Beatrice’s history, and was thinking of her only as the picture seems to reveal her ch...

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...less and sustain you, and all in connection with you, in this great trial. Time may roll on and bear all its sons away, but your name as a disinterest... ... able to do. Oh, the bitterness of the cup I drink! But I bow submissive. God must have done right. I do not want to feel less, but to acquiesce more ... ...r to you, on behalf of our community, the expression of their warm acknowledgments and grateful thanks, and their sincere wishes for your continued we... ... with a coarse swing of voice and manner anything but agreeable to his feelings, I should conceive, considered in the light of a portrait, and as far ... ... is a third head, taking precedence of all others, to which my remarks on the discourse I heard, have tended. In the New T estament there is the most ... ...le by man, and there are the terse models for all prayer and for all preaching. As to the models, imitate them, Sunday preachers—else why are they the... ...pon his legs, walks up and down, encouraging her and defying the Universe. But, the family I have been best ac- quainted with, since the removal from ... ...ng times. Fleet of foot, but a careworn class of tramp this, mostly; with a certain stiffness of neck, occasioned by much anxious balancing of baskets...

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...e, in the flaccid phase of a trance, but a trance unprecedented in medical history. Trances had lasted for as much as a year before—but at the end of ... ...iled him. The man with the flaxen beard hesitated. “I’m not very strong in history, sir,” he said weakly, and glanced at the others. “That was it, sir... ...kes It rumbled again, and a crop-haired anaemic lad with fea- tures of the Chinese type, clad in coarse pale blue canvas, appeared together with a com... ... with the trend of a social convulsion. “To explain it I must tell you the history of a gross and a half of years,” protested Howard. “The thing is th... ...read. “What of the yellow peril?” he asked and Asano made him explain. The Chinese spectre had vanished. Chinaman and European were at peace. The twen... ...itical control. Its last struggle was with the tacit alliance of the great Jewish families. But these families were linked only by a feeble sentiment,... ...la Marguerite. The pigtail was in evidence; it would seem that citizens of Chinese extraction were no longer ashamed of their race. There was little u...

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...n. In the real circumstances of the Christian church, when struggling with Jewish persecution at some period of the generation between the crucifixion... ...upposed it—a simple reca- pitulation, or resumé, of the Roman imperatorial history. It moves rapidly over the ground, but still with an exploring eye,... ...ath- ered so thickly over the one solitary road 5 traversing that part of history. Glimpses of moral truth, or suggestions of what may lead to it; in... ...imagined, any liter- ary valuation of Cicero; it is a new reading of Roman history in the most dreadful and comprehensive of her convulsions, in that ... ...ance words, is not, as some readers may fancy, an old, obsolete, or merely Jewish form of seeking the divine pleasure. About a century ago, a man so f... ...ne under such a ritual, which tends violently to a Byzantine, or even to a Chinese result of freezing, as it were, all natural and healthy play of the... ... title to their robes, (for which I could not help wishing that a party of Jewish old clothes men would at this moment have appeared, and made a loud ...

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... and tal- ent, by dint of investigation alone, into the ancient doctrines, history, and manners of the Eastern countries, in which we are probably to ... ...s a supposed relation of Richard Coeur de Lion—a violation of the truth of history which gave of- fence to Mr. Mills, the author of the “History of Ch... ...track, that you stray so wildly from it?” The most curious register of the history of King Richard is an ancient romance, translated originally from t... ...ee, our royal brother, and that thou hast with thee only such Nazarene and Jewish mediciners as work without the blessing of Allah and our holy Prophe... ...ay beneath a silken pavilion, which blazed with the richest colours of the Chinese loom, while a slight curtain of gauze, displayed around his couch, ...

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...dopted towards me, but it was presently clear that private tutors, natural history, science, and the mod- ern languages, were the appliances by which ... ...y ears, the whole group vanished, and there was nothing between me and the Chinese printed folding-screen that stood before the door. I was cold and t... ...made dimly visible by the seven thin candles in the sacred lamp, while our Jewish cicerone reached down the Book of the Law, and read to us in its anc...

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... Spirit that pervades this infinite machine begat a son upon the body of a Jewish woman; or is angered at the consequences of that necessity, which is... ...nd more perpendicular to the ecliptic. The strong evidence afforded by the history of mythology, and geological researches, that some event of this na... ... degrees north latitude, of greater antiquity than either the Indians, the Chinese, or the Chaldeans, from whom these nations derived their sci- ences... ...position of an event without a cause, a voluntary action without a motive. History, politics, morals, criticism, all grounds of reasonings, 168 Volum... ...s put into our hands when children, called the Bible, the purport of whose history is briefly this: That God made the earth in six days, and there pla...

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...d not be joined together 16. Getting on 17. Missing 18. A Castle in the Air 19. The Storming of the Castle in the Air 20. Introduces the next 21. The History of a Self-Tormentor 22. Who Passes by this Road so late? 23. Mistress Affery makes a Conditional Promise, respecting her Dreams 24. The Evening of a Long Day 25. The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of Office 26. Reapin...

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... 19. The Storming of the Castle in the Air 20. Introduces the next 21. The History of a Self-Tormentor 22. Who Passes by this Road so late? 23. Mistre... ...an had ever heard our name. They were, and they are, quite ignorant of our history.’ ‘So much the worse,’ retorted Fanny, determined not to admit anyt... ...ed, and her father devoted to her), was best known to herself. Though this history has its opinion on that point too, and decidedly in the affirmative... ...looking through the steam, and breathing forth the steam, like a malignant Chinese enchantress engaged in the perfor- mance of unholy rites, Mr F .’s ... ...ur and Mr Rugg arrived at the Counting-house. But an elderly member of the Jewish persuasion, preserved in rum, followed them close, and looked in at ...

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...t is not the less true; and, being mon- strous, it will yet be recorded in history, that the Scottish church has split into mortal feuds upon two poin... ... out of moral forces. And it may be well, therefore, rapidly to sketch the history of religion, which is the greatest of moral forces, as it sank and ... ...ad never enjoyed a fraction. It was a movement per saltum, beyond all that history has recorded. At cock-crow they had no power at all; when the sun w... ...mise—except that the sleeves are want- ing; and during the first period of Jewish history, it was prob- ably worn as the sole under-garment by women o... ...worn by the Hebrew women in all ages; and in the flourishing period of the Jewish kingdom, probably by men: and so essential an ornament were they dee... ...doubtful. In a later age, as we collect from the Thalmud, Part VI. 43, the Jewish ladies wore gold or silver pendants, of which the upper part was sha... ...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...

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...ghting her with weapons; she should have imitated China which, in the end, Chinesed the T artars, and will, it is to be hoped, Chinese the English. Po... ...rty on the breaking out of the insurrection for an immense sum lent by two Jewish bankers in Paris. Comte Adam was now 8 Paz in possession of eighty ... ...at the lower end by a clump of exotic trees, in the midst of which stood a Chinese pagoda with soundless bel- fries and motionless golden eggs. The gr... ... to be a place for repose; one scarce knows where to sit down among carved Chinese work-tables with their myriads of fantastic figures inlaid in ivory... ...t roused in the captain’s soul would take far too much space in this brief history. “What!” he said to himself, “do the aunt and uncle think I might b... ...y of Woman Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Honorine The Seamy Side of History The Magic Skin 51 Balzac A Second Home A Prince of Bohemia ... ...a A Man of Business Cousin Betty Beatrix Lelewel The Seamy Side of History Nathan, Madame Raoul The Muse of the Department Lost Illusions ...