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...r, according to others again, to Ascanius, Aeneas’s son. Some tell us that Romanus, the son of Ulysses and Circe, built it; some, Romus the son of Ema... ...emember what a poet fortune sometimes shows herself, and consider that the Roman power would hardly have reached so high a pitch without a divinely or... ...us came to him, that then he did, indeed, see twelve. Hence it is that the Romans, in their divinations from birds, chiefly regard the 42 V olume One... ...y now being built, Romulus enlisted all that were of age to bear arms into military companies, each company consisting of three thousand footmen and t... ...s and helots. But Numa made none of these distinctions; he only suppressed military rapacity, allowing free scope to every other means of obtaining we... ...ratius to sue for the dedication and, whilst Poplicola was engaged in some military expedition, voted it to Horatius, and conducted him to the Capitol... ...such subjects; but, repudiat- ing as sordid and ignoble the whole trade of engineering, and every sort of art that lends itself to mere use and profit... ..., which still held out under the command of Callimachus, who, by his great engineering skill, and his dexterity at all the shifts and subtleties of a ... ...ed by Guras, brother of Tigranes, with the dignity of governor, and by the engineering skill and dexter- ity of Callimachus, the same who so much anno...

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...The history of Europe is the history of the victory and breaking up of the Roman Empire. Every ascendant monarch in Europe up to the last, 10 The Wor... ...ere indeed making a strenuous attempt to secure a world monopoly in atomic engineering. The judge, after the man- 34 The World Set Free ner of those ... ...cely and less forensic; the Chinese still refused reso- lutely to become a military power, and maintained a small standing army upon the American mode... ... battery since the opening decades of the century. Barnet’s opinion of his military training was manifestly a poor one, his Modern State ideas dispose... ...ost charming description over the Fox Hills.’ All Barnet’s accounts of his military training were written in the same half-contemptuous, half-protesti... ...k how long that beauti- 92 The World Set Free ful old life lasted. In the Roman times and long ages before ever the rumour of the Romans had come int... ... official mis- tress, for his semi-barbaric court was arranged on the best romantic models. His tactics were ably seconded by Doctor Pestovitch, his c...

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...owers as high as myself with them, and there seemed quite enough for every engineering project I could undertake. I could build whole towns with stree... ... glove fingers tied up with thread and sent off by waggons along the great military road to the beleaguered fortress on the Indian frontier beyond the... ...ess homes in which so many find themselves, a going out towards something, romance if you will, beauty, that has suddenly be- come a need—a need that ... ...e, joys and fears on such a scale, in such an intricacy as never Greek nor Roman knew. The interminable procession of horse omnibuses went lumbering p... ...g fingers flat together, carried the point against him. He quoted Cato and Roman law and the monasteries of Thibet. “Well, anyway,” said Hatherleigh, ... ... in life that it isn’t really virile to reek of tobacco. I should have had military manoeuvres, training ships, aeroplane work, mountaineering and so ... ...d, the equally reasonable socialisation of individuals which is implied by military service is steadily and quite naturally and quite illogically oppo...

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...any the frequent changes of government brought about by revolutions of the military type. The political atmosphere of the Republic was gen- erally sto... ...animal, more- over, expired under him at the end of the Alameda, where the military band plays sometimes in the eve- nings between the revolutions. “S... ...gna after the American manner; he had been wounded in the de- fence of the Roman Republic; he was one of the four fugitives who, with the general, car... ... to his success. At the end he emerged General, Minis- ter of War, and the military head of the Blanco party, although there was nothing aristocratic ... ...ght hand of the chief. He knew how to be amiable; and the young men of the engineering staff, for whom the surveying of the railway track had the glam... ...lack, and his massive profile was the profile of a Caesar’s head on an old Roman coin. But his parentage was German and Scotch and English, with remot... ...was ashamed of his folly; others, eld- erly and insignificant, but full of romantic reverence for the business that had devoured their best years, use...

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...on garage. Yet Babbitt was again dreaming of the fairy child, a dream more romantic than scarlet pagodas by a silver sea. For years the fairy child ha... ...ggone luxury!” Thus, laden with treasure, after three and a half blocks of romantic adventure, he drove up to the club. III The Zenith Athletic Club i... ...and deft. The entrance lobby of the Athletic Club was Gothic, the washroom Roman Imperial, the lounge Spanish Mission, and the reading-room in Chinese... ...e Soul-power, Banking and Spanish, Chiropody and Photography, Elec- trical Engineering and Window-trimming, Poultry-raising and Chemistry. “Well—well—... ...t be a good idea if I could go off to China or some peppy place, and study engineering or something by mail?” “No, and I’ll tell you why, son. I’ve fo... ...e the Sunday School into four armies, depending on age. Every- body gets a military rank in his own army according to how many members he brings in, a... ...attaining financial success. The Sunday School adopted Babbitt’s system of military ranks. Quickened by this spiritual refreshment, it had a boom. It ... ..., “Say, Dad, why can’t I trans- fer over from the College to the School of Engineering and take mechanical engineering? You always holler that I never...

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...ged to his temperament. He suffered in youth, and suffered badly, from the romantic malady of his century, and that other malady of Russia, both expre... ... of a cavalry colonel, in Isis. He died in exile, like his early master in romance Heine— that is in Paris-on the 4th of September, 1883. But at his o... ... a little to one side, his low, narrow, but intelligent forehead, his fine Roman nose, pleas- ant eyes, straight lips, out of which his words flowed g... ...fly interested him, and was especially attached to Herzen. He retained his military habits, and lived like a Spartan and a monk. A few years ago he fe... ...see what information Kisliakov would gather. Nejdanov also asked about the military, but Markelov hesi- tated, tugged at his long whiskers, and announ... ...y were immediately conducted into the hideous little wing occupied by the “engineering manager.” He was at that time in the main body of the building,... ...oetry with a socialistic tendency! From Kisliakov, Markelov went on to the military, to ad- jutants, Germans, even got so far as his articles on the s...

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...ed from India, an invalided cornet of light cavalry, with a reputation for military dash and the prospect of a medal. Then he was their heroic brother... ... He does. But in him it is not combined with an indigestion of high German romances. Here is so notable a difference, that he cannot possibly be said ... ... scious of it. They leaped at one bound to the conclusion that there was a romance attached to him. Do not be startled. An attested tail-coat, clearly... ...not ridiculous. Dr. Watts would have put a girdle about her; but a song of romance sung in this atmosphere of pipes and beer and boozy heads, chagrine... ...trout. I, Cornelia, know nothing of river- beds. I, Adela, know nothing of engineering. But, we are persuaded, the latter, that the river running for ... ...he ladies soon discovered, in spite of his foreign-cut chin and pronounced military habit of speech and bearing, that he was at heart fervidly British...

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...ough the venerable old village. It was very picturesque and tumble- down, and dirty and interesting. It had queer houses five hundred years old in it,... ...years ago. She had a number of rich and noble lovers and one poor and obscure one, Sir Wendel Lobenfeld. With the native chuckleheadedness of the hero... ...e native chuckleheadedness of the heroine of romance, she preferred the poor and obscure lover. With the native sound judgment of the father of a hero... ...try to put your fin- ger on it, it will skip a thousand times its own length at one jump, and no eye is sharp enough to see where it lights. A great d... ...he experimenter went. We had nothing to do, now, but bridge the cellar and pro- ceed on our way. With a cheer the men went at their work. I attended ... ...it, of course. Turin must surely read a good deal, for it has more book- stores to the square rod than any other town I know of. And it has its own sh...

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... that time Flavie had had a second son, whom she henceforth dedicated to a military career. In 1820 she considered banking the nursing mother of trade... ... to say, to pure mathematics. A second son was in the government School of Engineering. Phellion had a pension of nine hundred francs, and he pos- ses... ...hen it had fallen he went away as happy as an academician at the fall of a romantic drama. Veritable supernumeraries of the social comedy, Phellion, L... ...oisie Flavie, to whom in all her life love had never taken the language of romance, sat still, but happy, her heart palpitat- ing, and saying to herse... ...Christ.’ Strive to convert yourself to the holy Catholic, apos- tolic, and Roman Church, and you will see how empty your words are. Hear me, Felix; ma...

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...y little, auburn haired cousin, Helen. She will do just as well as any other woman.” ‘Not a very romantic acceptance, Uncle, which is hardly surpris... ...d. Gavin is not exactly the ardent suitor. He is merely doing his duty by marrying me. Not a very romantic proposal.’ Rosita seemed suddenly anxious... ...ears old. Gavin had completed his final year at Addiscombe College near Croydon, the prestigious military academy of the East India Company and had ... ...married again. Gavin was the son of this second marriage. Helen, herself, had firmly quelled that romantic dream of her adolescence and plunged hers... ...). ‘This platoon of the Seventy-Eighth Highlanders,’ said Uncle Terence, ‘is part of the British military contingent serving Company interests on th... ... line, of Bahadur Shah The Second, the Moghul Emperor in Delhi. The Brigadier General is the new military commander of the fort near Mirapore and h... ...ass and the British reconstructed Grand Trunk Road is now a permanent highway and an acknowledged engineering achievement, unsurpassed by any other ...

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...xpression to it. _______ To talk of eternal bliss, love—all of that is romantic poetry. You see, if you translate what I am saying in terms of yo... ...ibed in terms of bliss, love, compassion and all that poetic nonsense and romantic stuff because you have no way of experiencing what is there betwe... ...ot is of no importance at all. You cannot talk of that state in a poetic, romantic language. And one in that state won't be hiding somewhere. He wil... ...mply pointing out that at the rate at which we are going the whole genetic engineering technology will end up in the hands of the political system to... ...thing is something which cannot be experienced by anybody. _______ The military wars out there are the extension of what is going on all the time ... ... and thereby create a different kind of people then probably only genetic engineering could come to our aid. Codes of ethics, morals and the legal s... ...thing that is responsible for our misery. But through the help of genetic engineering we may be able to free individuals from thieving tendencies, fr...

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...ness. 18 The Village Rector In such a situation she naturally made many a romance such as young girls are fond of weaving. She clasped the idea—perha... ...ion of a man who had the face and bearing of a hero, had been drawn into a romance the outcome of which was crime. This supposition was to some extent... ...rancois Tascheron and his mistress (by this time she was young, beautiful, romantic, for every one made a por- trait of her) had evidently intended to... ...eat when I won the right to choose the career that pleased me most,—either military or naval engineering, artillery, or staff duty, or the civil engin... ... right to choose the career that pleased me most,—either military or naval engineering, artillery, or staff duty, or the civil engineering of mining, ... ...sted will ever give him. As a 171 Balzac commercial man, a learned man, a military man, this choice intellect would have worked in a vast centre wher...

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...nto political economy, into the Greek and Latin accents, into antiquities, Roman roads, old castles, the ori- gin and analogy of languages; upon all t... ...val of interest in earlier modern English prose, which is a feature of the Romantic Movement. Still none of his contemporaries wrote as he did; eviden... ..., should have been crowned with Birmingham tinsel, with paste diamonds and Roman pearls, and then led off to instant execution.” The Welshman doubted ... ...eir memory, had made the most memo- rable and effective charge recorded in military annals. They leaped their horses—over a trench where they could; i... ...e could do for him beyond Orleans? That is to say, what more than a merely military service could she render him? And, above all, if he were king with... ... war, and then beleaguered by the English with an elaborate application of engineering skill unprec- edented in Europe. Entering the city after sunset... ...o witness their development or their prosperous application. More than one military plan was entered upon which she did not approve. But she still con...

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...sible read- ers, “as good as manuscript”? Not to insist, however, upon any romantic rigor in constructing this idea, and abiding by the ordinary stand... ...n a saintly scheme of ethics; but where is the scheme of mediation? In the Roman church, there have been some theologians who have also seen reason to... ... there have been some theologians who have also seen reason to suspect the romance of “Essenismus.” And I am not sure that the knowledge of this fact ... ...amount duty to himself, which was three- fold. First, it seems that I owed military allegiant to him, as my commander-in-chief, whenever we “took the ... ... own individual house. From this day, therefore, I obeyed all my brother’s military commands with the utmost docility; and happy it made me that every... ... the warrior, consequently not with me. Many other hideous features in the military character will be found in books innumerable—levelled at those who... ... at times is carried over summits too steep for a road by all the rules of engineering, and yet too little fre- quented to offer any means of repaying...

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...validate my assumption that if we go back only to the closing years of the Roman Republic, we go back to an age in which nearly every person living wi... ... which nearly every person living within the confines of what was then the Roman Empire who left living offspring must have been ancestral to every pe... ... mani- festly preaches a Mahommedan God, a modernised God with a taste for engineering. I have no doubt that in devotion to a virile, almost national ... ...erty as such, sensibilities can be hardened to endure the life led by the “Romans” in Dartmoor jail a hundred years ago (See “The Story of Dartmoor Pr... ...ed at all complete or satisfactory until we have gone into the question of military service. T o-day, in an increasing number of countries, military s... ...rs, the Socialist and Socialistic parties, are most opposed to the idea of military 99 H. G . Wells service, and just those parties that defend indiv... ...irit. In many ways war is the most socialistic of all forces. In many ways military organization is the most peaceful of ac- tivities. When the contem...

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...e in one of those Alpine valleys which to our thinking are all flowers and romance, like the picture in the T ate Gallery. ‘Spring in the Austrian T y... ...s on the Strada Vecchia. High up, on the Strada Nuova, the beautiful, new, military high-road, which winds with beautiful curves up the mountain-side,... ...gon moving slowly in the high sunlight, along the uppermost terrace of the military road. It sat in the warm stillness of the transcendent afternoon. ... ...er, and we heard the clang of falling planks. Then, as we walked along the military road on the mountain-side, we saw below, on the top of the lemon g... ...o, La Fiaccola sotto il Moggio—The Light under the Bushel. It is a foolish romantic play of no real significance. There are several murders and a good... ...urders and a good deal of artificial horror. But it is all a very nice and romantic piece of make-believe, like a charade. So the audience loved it. A... ...D. H. Lawrence school in Verona. By accident he had been moved on into the engineering course. When it all fizzled to an end, and he returned half-bak...

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...res to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco. What is the chief element... ...ill reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; as on... ... of character, not unworthy a Scandina- vian sea-king, or a poetical Pagan Roman. And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural for... ... is the same with the American whale fishery as with the American army and military and merchant navies, and the engineering forces employed in the co... ...ishery as with the American army and military and merchant navies, and the engineering forces employed in the construc- tion of the American Canals an... ...per parading his quarter-deck with an elated grandeur not surpassed in any military navy; nay, extorting almost as much outward homage as if he wore t... ...hese wild fishermen do not, as a general thing, and according to the great military maxim, make the enemy defray the current expenses of the war (at l...

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...this type, the chairman remarks with a sudden intrusion of exposition, are romantic with a shadow of meanness, they seek at once to conceal and shape ... ...ncredulous astonishment. Except for the habits of the very rich during the Roman Empire, there was never the slightest precedent for this mod- ern det... ...ping about nation- ality, and so the ugly fortifications, the barracks and military defilements of the earthly vale of Urseren will be wanting. Instea... ...inery, there is nothing in em- bankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of i... ...dents who know something of modern metallurgy, and something of electrical engineering, and we shall find people as keenly critical of a signal box or... ... your friend, with his love for the lady who’s so mysteriously tied—you’re romancing! People could not possi- bly do such things. It’s—if you’ll excus... ...arly is the will beneath this visible Utopia. Convenient houses, admirable engineering that is no offence amidst natu- ral beauties, beautiful bodies,... ...ning, he had to hold the qualifica- tion for a doctor, for a lawyer, for a military officer, or an engineer, or teacher, or have painted acceptable pi... ... do those exercises now, and until about fifty years ago they went out for military training, a fortnight in every year, marching long distances, slee...

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...no longer offered a chance for fortune. Special careers, such as civil and military engineering, the navy, mining, and the pro- fessorial chair were a... ... offered a chance for fortune. Special careers, such as civil and military engineering, the navy, mining, and the pro- fessorial chair were all fenced... ...e, with a salary of fifteen hundred francs, well-made and graceful, with a romantic face, and eyes, hair, beard, and eyebrows as black as jet, fine te... ...s who are charmed with their handsome persons, and with whom they set up a romance illustrated with stupid love letters, which, nevertheless, seem to ... ...n who has gone through the grammar-school, been vaccinated, is exempt from military service, and possesses all his faculties (I don’t mean transcenden... ...ucracy an executioner when about to go to work officially. In spite of his Roman virtue he must have been touched, for his red nose lost somewhat of i... ...nd the whole Jesuitical Chapter as politi- cal, administrative, civil, and military giants. Fear creates bugbears. At this crisis Baudoyer firmly beli...

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...ut of a warm bed to run them. I began to fear that piloting was not quite so romantic as I had imagined it was; there was something very real and work... ...like,” and so I began to take heart once more to believe that piloting was a romantic sort of occupation after all. The moment we were under way I beg... ...through this blind place at night without the friendly old landmark. No, the romance and the beauty were all gone from the river. All the value any fe... ...ave built on the land for offices and for the employes of the ser vice. The military engineers of the Commission have taken upon their shoulders the ... ...n the nearest village I bought a pair of blue goggles. By and bye, when the military camp broke up, and Company Life on the Mississippi Mark T wai... ...ess, the same decision of eye and answering decision of hand, the same erect military bearing; not an inch gained or lost in girth, not an ounce gaine... ...vement proposed by the commis sion is at once in accord with the results of engineering ex perience and with observations of nature where meeting ou...

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...h, I have done nothing. I am only an unromantic gentle- man, hiding from a romantic lady who is in love with me.” “Poor thing,” said Agatha sarcastica... ...an almost fancy stains of blood “ “Stop, Sidney. I don’t like this sort of romancing. It’s all nonsense. DO be nice to me.” “There are stains of sweat... ...INTER, DECORATOR, GLAZIER, PLUMBER & GARDENER. Pianofortes tuned. Domestic engineering in all its Branches. Families waited upon at table or otherwise... ... con- ception of nature, shared only by her favorite poets and he- roes of romance and history. Hence she was in the common youthful case of being a m... ...Jansenius’s emigration fund readily enough, would call for the police, the military, and the Riot Act, if the people came to Brandon Beeches and bade ...

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...ully believing that I am his born Gran and him an orphan, though what with engineering since he took a taste for it and him and the Major making Locom... ...rect and pretty. The sense of responsibility entertained by the Major as a military style of station-master my dear starting the down train behind tim... ... on him which Joshua Lirriper had whipped off its peg in the passage for a military disguise he goes into such a tearing passion that he tips it off h... ...d, when Miss Buffle made tea very sweetly in quite 13 Charles Dickens the Roman style as depicted formerly at Covent Garden Theatre and when the whol... ...guage though still I must admit that if I hadn’t known him when he asked a military gentleman in a gray cloak what o’clock it was I should have took h... ...st no more knew him than she would know from seeing the ruin of a Greek or Roman Temple, what it used to be before it fell; but at length she remember...

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...es, this war is nothing more than a gigantic and heroic effort in sanitary engineering; an effort to remove German militarism 8 War and the Future fr... ...insistent upon the way in which all Venetia was being opened up by the new military roads; there has been scarcely a new road made in Venetia since Na... ...Wells war zone, and it is doubtful how far the sanitary precautions of the military authorities avails against a considerable propa- ganda of disease.... ... gone too, and their Italian successors are already tracing out a score of Roman traces that it was the Austrian custom to minimise. Captain Pirelli r... ...General Bompiani, whose writings are well known to all English students of military matters, showed me the Gibraltar he is making of a great mountain ... ...erly trained and disciplined infantry in the field from the passing of the Roman legions to the appearance of the Swiss footmen. he makes it very clea... ...es and clubs and revolvers serve better in the trenches. The krees and the Roman sword would be as useful. The fine flourish of the bayonet is only po... ...he race for sea power before 1914 was mere child’s play to the breeding of engineering monstrosities for land warfare that must now follow any indeter...

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...r or so. For many years the business had struggled along with a flavour of romantic insecurity in a small, dissolute-looking shop in the High Street, ... ... a bicycle started out from their hands in a state of pedantic efficiency. Romantic possi- bilities of accident lurked in the worn thread of the screw... ...ur young people attach any great importance to the flitting suggestions of military activity they glimpsed ever and again. Near Maidstone they came on... ...r, was over and for- gotten, and the public had lost the fashion of expert military criticism. Our four young people picnicked cheerfully, and were ha... ...te equipment for a balloon ascent: a ham- per which included a game pie, a Roman pie, a cold fowl, tomatoes, lettuce, ham sandwiches, shrimp sandwiche... ...for his mind. “It’s tryin’,” said Bert. “I wish I’d been brought up to the engineering. If I could only make it out!” He went to the side of the car a... ...e. Once or twice he saw guns and soldiers, and was reminded of the stir of military preparations he had wit- nessed on the Bank Holiday in England; bu... ...ildings, the complex immensities of bridges and mono-railways and feats of engineering. London, Paris, Berlin, were shapeless, low agglomerations besi... ...ry untraceably in the time when world-bankruptcy put a stop to all further engineering production on any considerable scale. The third peculiarity of ...

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...’s imagination, and the narrow alleys round the harbour grew rich with the romance which his young fancy lent them. One evening he asked whether he mi... ...ic. He was accustomed to say that Papists re- quired an epithet, they were Roman Catholic; but the Church of England was Catholic in the best, the ful... ...in her even voice read the opposite 39 W. Somerset Maugham page. It was a romantic narrative of some East- ern traveller of the thirties, pompous may... ...ined. The local doctor had suggested that many gentle- men now went in for engineering, but Mrs. Carey opposed the idea at once. “I shouldn’t like Phi... ...e hands with Philip. He was dressed in a long frock coat. He looked like a military man; his moustache was waxed, his gray hair was short and neat, he...

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...es of the States and T erritories themselves form a chorus of sweet and most romantic vocables: Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Dakota, Iowa, Wyomin... ...ended, and the most varied subject for an enduring liter- ary work. If it be romance, if it be contrast, if it be heroism that we require, what was Tr... ...nues to inhabit and to paint it. There is in France scenery incomparable for romance and harmony. 53 Robert Louis Stevenson Provence, and the valley ... ...is grotesque companions) some tincture of soldierly reso- lution and even of military common sense, and that he fig- ured memorably in the scene on Ma... ... her myself with much devotion. This was when I came as a young man to glean engineering experience from the building of the break- water. What I glea... ... mortally stricken on his face; but still active afoot, still with the brisk military carriage, the ready military salute. Three ways led through this... ... we had never been long together on the way before he was dealing, in a very military manner, with the English poets. “Shelley was a fine poet, sir, t...

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...coming me. I don’t think I am in the way of it. In some few months less than another year, you know, I shall carry Pussy off from school as Mrs. Edwin... ...name must be bestowed upon the old Cathedral town. Let it stand in these pages as Cloisterham. It was once possibly known to the Druids by another nam... ...et pupil of the Nuns’ House is Miss Rosa Bud, of course called Rosebud; wonderfully pretty, wonderfully childish, wonderfully whimsical. An awkward in... ... and bequest, and that her guardian is bound down to bestow her on that husband when he comes of age. Miss Twinkleton, in her seminarial state of exis... ...ant of him, Rosa says: ‘And this most sensible of creatures likes the idea of being carried off to Egypt; does she, Eddy?’ ‘Yes. She takes a sensible ... ...dies, come here and be blessed!’ still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determi... ...ng abroad?’ ‘Going to wake up Egypt a little,’ is the condescending answer. ‘Are you reading?’ ‘Reading?’ repeats Edwin Drood, with a touch of contemp... ...d in Cloisterham; a white-haired personage, with black eyebrows. Being buttoned up in a tightish blue surtout, with a buff waistcoat and gray trousers...

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...s determined that his poem should be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hardy, brave, and passionate—were b... ...hese things. They did not belong to his world. In the picture of that huge romantic West that he saw in his imagination, these dissensions made the on... ...ught up against the railroad, that stubborn iron barrier against which his romance shattered itself to froth and disintegrated, flying spume. His hear... ...drills, each with its eight hoes, went clamouring past, like an advance of military, seeding the ten thousand acres of the great ranch; fecundating th... ...an, grimed with the soil he worked in, yet vividly remembering a period of military glory, exciting himself with recollections of Gravelotte and the K... ...n ’55 on California Street in San Francisco. Dyke recalled how once in his engineering days he had run over a drunk at a street crossing. Gethings of ... ...em. He was never happier, never more nearly jovial, never more erect, more military, more alert, and buoyant than when in the company of his two sons.... ...he sun had made his face very red. Under the visor of his cap—relic of his engineering days—his blue eyes twinkled with vast good-nature. He felt that...

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...of the soul and another may not; one man may be a Swedenborgian, another a Roman Catholic, another a Calvinistic Methodist, another an En- glish High ... ...that the son of Marcus Aurelius was the unspeakable Commodus, and that the Roman Em- pire fell from the temporizing detachment of his rule into a cent... ...e tall, fair Scandinavian, the dark and brilliant south Italian, the noble Roman, the dainty Japanese—to name no others. Each of these types has its p... ... the more favoured classes at the same ages. Public school-boys, naval and military cadets, medical and university students, were taken to represent t... ...ith- out distinction, he regards these games as much more im- portant than military training and things of that sort, spends days watching his school ... ...n- tervention. And it would be the cheapest and easiest way of raising the military efficiency of a country, and an excellent thing for the moral tone... ...ur mathematical teaching. Professor Perry, in his open- ing address to the Engineering Section of the British Asso- ciation at Belfast, expressed an o... ...l industries with a view to business direction, into special study for the engineering trades, for the profession of soldiering,* or for the naval and... ...ur years after eighteen or twenty-one, special schools of medi- cine, law, engineering, psychology, and educational science, economics and political s...

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... the Persian acinacæ, but more curved, and for all the world most like the Roman sickles or sicæ.’ It is per- fectly magnificent, gentlemen, to hear t... ...l- derness, that Festus himself was obliged to march against them with the Roman legionary force.” Upon which Toad-in-the-hole, that cursed interrupte... ...to pieces in the desert. Heavens, gentle- men, what a sublime picture! The Roman legions—the wil- derness—Jerusalem in the distance—an army of murdere... ... war, and then beleaguered by the English with an elaborate application of engineering skill unprec- edented in Europe. Entering the city after sunset... ... witness their development, or their prosperous application. More than one military plan was entered upon which she did not approve. But she still con... ...s Joanna’s, viz., expressly to shield her modesty amongst men, wore a male military harness. That reason and that example authorized La Pucelle; but o... ...their memory, had made the most memorable and effective charge recorded in military annals. They leaped their horses—over a trench where they could, i...

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...s reached: the mystery of the individual. Will England presently produce a military genius? or what will Mr. Belloc say the day after to-morrow? The m... ...e guessing. “Think of the men who have walked here!” said a tourist in the Roman Coli- seum. It was a Futurist mind that answered: “Think of the men w... ... Brighton before 1910, which is still a dream, but he doubted if effective military aviation or aerial fighting would be possible before 1950, which i... ... any group of financial enterprises. They will be more comprehensive, less roman- tic, and more businesslike altogether. They will be, to use a phrase... ...ot see that the hope of an ultimate world peace vanishes. But it will be a Roman world peace, 17 H G Wells made in Germany, and there will have to be... ...e by the late Mr. W.T. Stead. It does not seem to have reached the British military authorities, nor was it published in England with an instruc- tive... ... the railways, the coal and metal supply, the great metal industries, much engineering, and most agri- culture, will be more or less completely under ... ...he world of steel and electricity. But their prestige has paled before the engineering of Krupp; their success evaporates. A new nation awakens to sel...

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... view its bonds, For I will never feel them?— Italy! Thy late reviving Roman soul desponds Beneath the lie this State thing breathed o’er th... ...yet, Joubert, Hoche, Marceau, Lannes, Desaix, Moreau, With many of the military set, Exceedingly remarkable at times, But not at all adapted... ...ayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances here and there, Although her mode of speaking was not pure; ... ...ontroulless core Of human hearts, than all the long array Of poets and romancers: You ‘re a bore, A charlatan, a coxcomb and have been... ...clock scarce past— And, running out as fast as I was able, I found the military commandant Stretch’d in the street, and able scarce to pant. ... ...g: But then there was a great want of precaution (Prithee, excuse this engineering slang), Nor work advanced, nor cover’d way was there, To ... ...ives of others, And not our own. I am too qualified By service with my military brothers To break the rules by bringing one’s own bride In...

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...d, as you inevitably will, the man from Somewhere a bore. Sorry to destroy romance by fixing him with a local habita- tion, but he comes from the plac... ... Tippins who has nothing to leave—I have had no scrap of business but this romantic business.’ ‘And I,’ said Eugene, ‘have been “called” seven years, ... ..., so he had settled it), he put his open hand to the side of his hat, in a military manner which that angry-eyed buttoned-up inflammatory-faced old ge... ... you said Rooshan Empire, sir?’ ‘It is Rooshan; ain’t it, Wegg?’ ‘No, sir. Roman. Roman.’ ‘What’ s the difference, Wegg?’ ‘The difference, sir?’ Mr We... ... cab-stand, called a cab, and had entered the army and committed a capital military offence and been tried by court martial and found guilty and had a... ... service of him that shall be nameless, tackled the Romans, both civil and military, till he has got as husky as if he’d been weaned and ever since br... ...e Boffins also, well and good. I don’t choose to. And I won’t!’ Lavinia’ s engineering having made this crooked opening at Bella, Mrs Wilfer strode in...

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...ep, unceasing, surging note of the big dynamo. This last noise was from an engineering point of view a de- fect, but Azuma-zi accounted it unto the mo... ...ce in the dear, dead days beyond recall—before he married her, that is—was military. But now she called him— it seems a dreadful thing to tell of betw... ...ed Hare’s Walks in Rome, a sort of mitigated guide-book very popular among Roman visitors; and the father of the two daughters began to examine his bo... ... But in that matter he did a thing that seemed to her at once delicate and romantic. He made a go-between of Fanny. Fanny could not keep the secret, a... ...st detail. And Miss Winchelsea wrote to Helen for the first time after the Roman journey, saying nothing about the marriage, but expressing very cordi... ... implements and a knowledge of fire and metals and with organised feats of engineering that stagger our northern minds—unused as we are to such feats ...

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...upset the theatre critics, in a turn of the wrist, by substituting for the romantic commonplaces of the stage the moral commonplaces of the pulpit, pl... ...register Mrs Warren, whilst leaving Mrs Warren’s pa- trons, especially her military patrons, free to destroy her health and anybody else’s without fea... ...vulgar work without question. The conclave which compiles the index of the Roman Catholic Church is the most august, ancient, learned, famous, and aut... ...are built to induce, not voluptuous reverie but intellectual interest, not romantic rhapsody but humane concern. Accordingly, I do not find those crit... ...no consensus of opinion among responsible classes, such as magistrates and military com- manders, that it is a necessity, no Athenian records of gam- ... ...tricians, insurance companies, and so on; but I know next to nothing about engineering or elec- tricity or insurance. I dont even know arithmetic well...

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...alms, I hear the rhythmic myths of the Greeks, and the strong legends of the Romans, I hear the tale of the divine life and bloody death of the beauti... ...too! You Sardinian! you Bavarian! Swabian! Saxon! Wallachian! Bulgarian! You Roman! Neapolitan! you Greek! You lithe matador in the arena at Seville! ... ...tman 173 BOOK IX SONG OF THE A NSWERER 1 Now list to my morning’s romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer, To the cities and farms I sing... ...st built steamships? Or hotels of granite and iron? or any chef d’oeuvres of engineering, forts, armaments? Away! these are not to be cherish’d for th... ...men, And in its stead speed industry’s campaigns, With thy undaunted armies, engineering, Thy pennants labor, loosen’d to the breeze, Thy bugles sound... ... torchlight procession! The dense brigade bound for the war, with high piled military wagons following; People, endless, streaming, with strong voices...

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...Decide that for yourselves. They say that Cleopatra (excuse an instance from Roman history) was fond of sticking gold pins into her slave girls’ breas... ...coloured? May be it is many coloured, too: if one takes the dress uniforms, military and civilian, of all peoples in all ages—that alone is worth som... ...ive animal, predestined to strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering—that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, whereve... ... and that the chief thing is to save the well conducted child from despising engineering, and so giving way to the fatal idleness, which, as we all kn... ...elf at my intolerance and fastidiousness, I would reproach myself with being romantic. At one time I was unwilling to speak to anyone, while at other ... ...e Russians, speaking generally, have never had those foolish transcendental “romantics”—German, and still more French— on whom nothing produces any ef... ..., however, have gladly exchanged my intelligent one), and the free and easy military manners in fashion in the “‘ forties.” I hated the way in which ...

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...e hot water; and thence, as I find is always the case, to the most ghastly romancing about Scottish scenery and manners, the High- land dress, and eve... ...r, as his life hitherto has been disgracefully written, and the events are romantic and rapid; the character very strong, salient, and worthy; much in... ... again, the ever delightful man, sane, courageous, admirable; the birth of Romance, in a dawn that was a sunset; snobbery, conservatism, the wrong thr... ...nes. One of a Frenchman from Dunkerque – I suppose he died prisoner in the military prison hard by – and one, the most pathetic memorial I ever saw, a... ... The Independent Companies: the Watches. (3) Story of Lady Grange. (4) The Military Roads, and Disarmament: Wade and (5) Burt. II. THE HEROIC AGE (1) ... ... victory. Concern yourself about no failure; they do not cost lives, as in engineering; they are the Pierres Perdues of successes. Fame is (truly) a v... ...none in mine; at least, the order is better. The sec- ond title, ‘Some new Engineering Questions involved in the M. S. C. Scheme of last Session of P....

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...he peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldw... ...ian system. The Golden Alphabet Age Passed on to the Etruscans and Romans, the enormously enriched Greek alphabet fueled Rome‘s golden alphab... ...ed years—from the days of Pericles to the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. ... ...ng a long-kept secret An insect we relate more to its sting than to its engineering skills now flies into this InfoTech tale‘s nest. Paper wasp... ...reedom for everyone. One of his first moves was to organize the Mongol military into units of ten, one hundred, one thousand, and ten thousand. H... ...his Khan was this tradition his grandfather had established in the Mongol military: He never asked his men to die for him and never willingly sacrif... ...enturies before America‘s ―pony express.‖ Besides embracing the Mongol military tradition and stressing the importance of a safe Silk Road, Kubla... ...done it.‖ When he became fourteen, this precocious boy wanted to study engineering, but his father could not afford to send him to a university. ... ...pencil not just the tool of engineers but perhaps the ultimate example of engineering itself. 33 The pencil managed to survive against such form...

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...itution. The five first are Grecian, and the last in Washington is called— Romanesque. Had I been left to classify it by my own unaided lights, I shou... ...unless indeed they be needed to give to the whole struc- ture that name of Romanesque which it has assumed. The building is used for museums and lectu... ...ia, they could not go at all. Up to Washington they could not go without a military pass, not to be obtained without some cause given. All trade was a... ...e question originally under debate was the relative power of the civil and military authority. Congress had desired to declare its ascendency over mil... ...id one gentleman after another, rising indignantly on the floor, “that the military authority of our generals is above that of this House.” And then o... ...ously insecure; but the eye uneducated in such mysteries is a bad judge of engineering work. I passed with a horse back- ward and forward on it, and i... ... cause there might money be made with the greatest ease. “Make money,” the Roman satirist said; “make it honestly if you can, but at any rate make mon...

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...at. The second is that, in spite of our fleet, this is no longer, from the military point of view, an inaccessible island. So long as one had to consi... ... to our happy-go-lucky Army that it was possible to 9 H. G . Wells make a military use of barbed wire or construct a trench to defy shrapnel. Suppose... ...d torpedoes and destroyers and airships and submarines. And when I come to military matters my persuasion that things are not all right, that our curr... ...osed to believe that this is true of most occu- pations, of coal-mining or engineering, or brick-laying or cotton-spinning. The thing has never been p... ... Great sections of our national life, science, art, literature, education, engineering, manufacture would cease to be under-represented, or mis- repre... ... opens at the depopulation of Italy by the aggressive great estates of the Roman Empire, at the impoverishment of the French peas- antry by a too cent... ...; the rhythm is a little altered. As between the Gallic peasant before the Roman conquest, the peasant of the Gallic province, the Carlovingian peasan... ... chose to deal with them as they should be dealt with, as out of date as a Roman legion or a Zulu impi. Now, first, as to the impossibility of getting... ...for getting explosives up to these two million pound triumphs of our naval engineering. On the cloudy and foggy nights so frequent about these islands...

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...urces. To take an obvious illustration: The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they af... ...ormula—and every a priori conception must be arbitrary—is an invitation to romantic fancy to seize upon any analogies which appeal to it and treat the... ...may become expert in technical philosophy, or philology, or mathematics or engineering or financiering, and be inept and ill-advised in his action and... ...nd the future state official and administrator and furnished the means for military, industrial, and political defense and expan- sion, it was impossi... ...ubordination of individuals to the superior interests of the state both in military defense and in struggles for international supremacy in commerce, ... ...Geog- raphy is a topic that originally appeals to imagination— even to the romantic imagination. It shares in the won- der and glory that attach to ad... ...and failures with nature than does political history—to say nothing of the military his- tory into which political history so easily runs when re- duc... ...ns are exhibited in special schools and courses for the pro- fessions, for engineering, for manual training and com- merce, in vocational and prevocat... ... an interest, intellectual and social, in the things which have to do with engineering and has decided to make that his calling. At most, this only bl...

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...from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa?s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which would never justify we...

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...at Catholicism was a fact; and as to refusing an acre of your ground for a Romanist chapel, all men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly 16... ...lf in vain. And a stranger was absolutely neces- sary to Rosamond’s social romance, which had always turned on a lover and bridegroom who was not a Mi... ... been left an orphan when he was fresh from a public school. His father, a military man, had made but little provision for three children, and when th... ... and word, and estimated them as the opening incidents of a pre- conceived romance—incidents which gather value from the foreseen development and clim... ...iness, Su- san. I shall want help by-and-by. And Alfred must go off to the engineering—I’ve made up my mind to that.” He fell into meditation and fing... ...ance, might have been disadvantageous in any young gentleman who had not a military bearing and mustache to give him what is doted on by some flower-l...

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... plebiscite, and equal rights for women. It makes no dis- tinction between military and civilian targets. Collateral damage is not in its lexicon. We ... ...tly behind Lewin. Lewin had served four years as an officer in the Israeli military. He may have made an attempt to stop the hijackers in front of him... ...mately 530 miles per hour. 61 All on board, as well as many civil- ian and military personnel in the building, were killed. The Battle for United 93 A... ...tin delenda, meaning that something “must be destroyed,” evoked the famous Roman vow to destroy its rival, Carthage.The overall goal of Clarke’s paper... ...Bin Ladin operative known as Abu Hafs the Mauri- tanian—who appeared to be engineering some of the plots—or in Kandahar, to capture Bin Ladin himself.... ...brother, another future al Qaeda member. KSM earned a degree in mechanical engineering in December 1986. 3 Although he apparently did not attract atte... ...ney. After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple ... ...requiring a digital code for all names that need to be translated into the Roman alphabet, ensuring one common spelling for all countries. 41. On achi...