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......................... 21 OUR ENGLISH WATERING-PLACE ......................................................................................... 24 OUR FRENCH WATERING-PLACE........................................................................................... 33 BILL-STICKING ..................................................................................................

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...................................................................... 24 OUR FRENCH WATERING PLACE......................................................... ............................................. ............. 202 A MONUMENT OF FRENCH FOLLY.................................................................. ...any other. He always belongs to a Corresponding Society of Begging Letter Writers. Any one who will, may ascertain this fact. Give money to day in re... ... never write these letters. Nothing could be more unlike their habits. The writers are public robbers; and we who support them are parties to their de... ... is usually a drawn game. After that, the performer instantly departs with male dictory expressions, and is never heard of more. But the most wonderf... ...kling, heaving, swelling up with life and beauty, this bright morning. OUR FRENCH WATERING PLACE HAVING EARNED, BY MANY YEARS of fidelity, the rig... ...ose that between the T orrid Zone and the North Pole there are to be found male dancers with such astonishingly loose legs, fur nished with so many j... ..., git along with you, Sir, if you please; me and Mrs. Bigby don’t want no male parties here!’ That female was Mrs. Prodgit. I immediately withdrew, o... ...ing were possible. Mine are no new views of the noble savage. The greatest writers on natural history found him out long ago. Buffon knew what he was...

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............... 192 CHAPTER IX: FIRST REBELLION.......................................................................................... 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI: TRAVELLING.................................................................................................... 243 CHAPTER XII: MY BROTHER ............

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.............................................................. 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI... ...iarisms in the “Paradise Lost” from Latin passages fathered upon imaginary writers, when these passages had previously been forged by Lauder himself f... ...rocken.”—This very striking phenom- enon has been continually described by writers, both Ger- man and English, for the last fifty years. Many readers,... ...hat then desolated France; for, on the contrary, they detested every thing French, and answered with brotherly signals to the cry of “Church and king,... ...f a real uncounterfeit sympathy. I have mentioned already that we had four male guard- ians, (a fifth being my mother.) These four were B., E., G., an... ...better sung; but at that time I needed nothing better. It was sung by four male voices, and rose into a region of thrilling pas- sion, such as my hear... ...n a favored 113 Autobiographic Sketches correspondent of the most eminent Frenchmen at that time who cultivated literature jointly with philosophy. V... ...ers; which, however, so far from reconciling her to the letters, or to the writers of the letters, had the unhappy effect of riveting her dislike (pre... ...ell away from her, and for- sook her house. T o them succeeded a clique of male visitors, some of whom were doubtfully respectable, and others (like M...

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...ially if it is a question essentially mechanical—is shown by the work of a Frenchman all too neglected by the trumpet of fame—Clement Ader. M. Ader wa... ...sources, arrest of material progress, the killing of a large moiety of the males in nearly every European country, and universal loss and unhappiness?... ...ely. It has not only killed and wounded an unprecedented proportion of the male population of all the combatant nations, but it has also destroyed wea... ...g of a renewal of the struggle, it becomes impossible for the British, the French, the Belgians, Russians, Italians or Japanese to think any longer of... ...s gifted Pole made his forecast of the future. Perhaps it is more, for the French translation of his book was certainly in exist- ence before the Boer... ...nce of machine guns, a significance thoroughly ven- tilated by imaginative writers fifteen years before, was being grasped by the conservative but by ... ...asted your substance—contemptuously. Now, mark you, you have multitudes of male children between the ages of nine and nineteen running about among you... ... large a proportion of its mem- bers to the front; the scientific men, the writers, have been begging to be used in any capacity at any price or none;... ...ne of the many corrupting lies in British intellectual life. English comic writers never weary of sneering at the Hindu who claimed to be a “failed B....

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... OF BOURBON : (BOURBON:) The Constable of France . 3 RAMBURES & GRANDPRE : French Lords. GOVERNOR: of Harfleur. MONTJOY: a French Herald. Ambassad... ... (First Ambassador:) (Messenger:) (French Soldier:) SCENE: England; afterwards France. KING HENRY V PROLOGU... ...dfather. ELY: What was the impediment that broke this off? CANTERBURY: The French ambassador upon that instant Craved audience; and the hour, I thin... ...French Beyond the river Sala, in the year Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say, King Pepin, which deposed Childeric, Did, as heir general, b... ...Capet also, who usurped the crown Of Charles the duke of Lorraine, sole heir male Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great, To find his title w...

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...idence to style it), and of abusing the female sex. I find likewise that the writers of those bundles are not agreed among themselves; for some of the... ...ages as I had the least smattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca, but all to no purpose. After... ...nts and children differ extremely from ours. For, since the con junction of male and female is founded upon the great law of nature, in order to prop... ... own capacities, as well as inclinations. I shall first say something of the male nurseries, and then of the female. The nurseries for males of noble ... ... the female nurseries, the young girls of quality are educated much like the males, only they are dressed by orderly servants of their own sex; but al... ...; or of the barbarous customs and idolatry of savage people, with which most writers abound. However, I thanked him for his good opinion, and promised... ...as by the licentiousness of those who are to obey. For instance: whereas all writers and reasoners have agreed, that there is a strict universal resem...

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... natives, are to be found in almost every isle and hamlet; and even where these are unserviceable, the natives themselves have often scraped up a litt... ...it, yet did not speak one word of German. I heard from a gendarme who had taught school in Rapa-iti that while the children had the utmost difficulty ... ...e had just been heard—a trial for infanticide against an ape- like native woman; and the audience were smoking ciga- rettes as they awaited the verdic... ...id, is uppermost in the mind of the Marquesan. It would be strange if it were oth- erwise. The race is perhaps the handsomest extant. Six feet is abou... ...ounted on his fingers eight residual natives. Or take the valley of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Ha... ...tted. They must not sit on the paepae; they must not go up to it by the stair; they must not eat pork; they must not approach a boat; they must not co... ...e bell agoing in the small belfry; and the faithful, who were not very numerous, gathered to prayers. I was once present: it was the Lord’s day, and s...

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...with regard to Shakespeare’s sonnets, Spenser’s minor poems, and the great writers and characters of Elizabeth’s age and those of Cromwell’s time.” Fr... ...y by the poet. In reality his style owed much to the seven- teenth-century writers, such as Milton and Sir Thomas Browne. He took part with Coleridge,... ...ative skill of De Quincey that has secured for him, in preference to other writers of his class, the favor of youthful readers. It would be too much t... ...l western or central Eu- rope, through whose pusillanimity it was that the French domination had prospered. The mail-coach, as the national organ for ... ...t era effect in the constitution of mail-coach soci- ety. It was a perfect French Revolution; and we had good reason to say, ça ira. In fact, it soon ... ...orning in the year was taken down to an official in- *“Audacity”:—Such the French accounted it; and it has struck me that Soult would not have been so... ...revailed of giving a boy his mother’s name— preceded and strengthened by a male name, as Charles Anne, Victor Victoire. In cases where a mother’s memo... ...ting the early MSS. for 88 The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc English males in another. None of us men could have writ- ten the Opera Omnia of Mr... ...e Opera Omnia of Mr. à Kempis; neither could any of our girls have assumed male attire like La Pucelle. But why? Because, says Michelet, English girls...

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... the word pity; and hence, instead of saying “sympathy with another,” many writers adopt the monstrous barbarism of “sympathy for another.” 7 ably di... ...escaped him in any heat of dispute, on being taxed with it by a celebrated French writer, he solemnly reaffirmed it, with his reasons. 12 many declar... ...leasing to be abridged; I shall give it, there- fore, accurately, from the French of his biographer: “M. Des Cartes had no company but that of his ser... ...tes had no company but that of his servant, with whom he was conversing in French. The sailors, who took him for a foreign merchant, rather than a cav... ...onged to quite another cen- tury, would have frightened out of their wits. Malebranche, it will give you pleasure to hear, was mur- dered. The man who... ...proper light. Berkeley, when a young man, went to Paris and called on Père Malebranche. He found him in his cell cooking. Cooks have ever been a genus... ...l cooking. Cooks have ever been a genus irritabile; authors still more so: Malebranche was both: a dispute arose; the old father, warm already, became... ... France has produced, one of the reputed leaders is M. Michelet. All these writers are of a revolutionary cast; not in a political sense merely, but i... ... to read, may introduce you, that have not, to two or three dozen of these writers; of whom I can assure you beforehand that they are often profound, ...

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...tectural, culinary; and he may have the satisfaction of feeling that he is French to the core. No part of his admirable country is more characteristi-... ...ur- mount the agricultural blouse. This is, moreover, the heart of the old French monarchy; and as that monarchy was splendid and picturesque, a refle... ... glitters 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 wa... ... several weeks in the French provinces I rarely encountered a well-dressed male. Can it be possible the republics are unfavorable to a certain attenti... ...ountered enough specimens to justify an induction. But there were very few males in the streets, and the place presented no appearance of activity. He... ...d. I was unable to trace the configuration of the castle as plainly as the writers who have described it in the guide-books, and I am ashamed to say t...

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...s a cynical licentiousness is more abominable than frank filth. An eminent Frenchman judges from the quality of some of the stuff dredged up for the l... ...f an immoral may be said of realistic exhibitions of a vulgar society. The French make a critical distinction in ce qui remue from ce qui emeut—that w... ...portrai- ture, nor much quotable fun, nor idea; neither salt nor soul. The French have a school of stately comedy to which they can fly for renovation... ...ld, Millamant overshadows Mirabel, 12 An Essay on Comedy the sprightliest male figure of English comedy. But those two ravishing women, so copious an... ...s foot and hair on the pointed tip of his ear. And how difficult it is for writers to disentangle themselves from bad traditions is no- ticeable when ... ...utwearied, about Life as a Comedy, and Com- edy as a jade, 4 when popular writers, conscious of fatigue in creativeness, desire to be cogent in a mod... ...ion. Enough remains to make his greatness felt. Without undervaluing other writers of Comedy, I think it may be said that Menander and Moliere stand a...

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... of whom there are not more than seven perfect in the great ocean of human writers, others, although friendly, have been of opinion that, at a time wh... ... Menage, St. Evremonde, de Malherbe, and others, who first cleaned out the French language, sent foreign words to the rightabout, and gave the right o... ... When the above mentioned captain came in his turn into the chamber of the French king, he asked him respectfully if it was his good pleasure to permi... ...eat advantage of the Castilian imagination over the simple movement of the French. T o which the Marchesa of Amaesguy consented for the honour of Spai... ...s, it is nec- essary to verify three serious things—viz.: If the flea be a male, if it be female, or if it be a virgin; supposing it to be a 29 Droll... ...o will decide upon its fate after having consulted the chapter. If it be a male—” “How can one tell that a flea is a virgin? asked the curious novice.... ... know where.” “In that case,” replied the novice, “I have been bitten by a male.” At this the sisters burst out laughing so heartily that one of them ...

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...old and lifeless state of public religion prevailed up to the American and French Revolutions. These great events gave a shock everywhere to the medit... ...om Methodism. This last effect became more conspicuously evident after the French Revo- lution. The church of Scotland, which, as a whole, had ex- hib... ...ous organization of irreligion, which gave its most fearful aspects to the French Revolution. Other evils are in the rear as likely to arise out of th... ... Hartmann, as it yields a strong presumption that he has exhausted it. The male costume of ancient Pales- tine is yet to be illustrated; but, for the ... ...w, as then, the female habiliment was distinguished from the corresponding male one by its greater length; and through all antiquity we find long clot... ...ion. Neck- laces were, from the earliest times, a favorite ornament of the male sex in the East; and expressed the dignity of the wearer, as we see in... ...cide with the opportunities for ob- taining accurate information; when the writers were so few, 85 Thomas de Quincey and the audience so limited and ... ...nxiously prepared the means. And it is certain, that, although some German writers have attempted to fasten upon Charlemagne a charge of vexatious inq...

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... is. In all the species of animals the females are more important than the males; the males have to please them. Look at the cock’s feathers, look at ... ...d oxen and things all have to fight for us, everywhere. Only in man is the male made the most impor- tant. And that happens through our maternity; it’... ...al conquering the essential. Originally in the first animals there were no males, none at all. It has been proved. Then they appear among the lower th... ... Pramlay received them in the pretty chintz drawing- room, which opened by French windows on the trim gar- den, with its croquet lawn, its tennis-net ... ... manded all her time and energy. She had heard of women journalists, women writers, and so forth; but she was not even admitted to the presence of the... ...st part these were detached people: men practising the plastic arts, young writers, young men in employment, a very large proportion of girls and wome... ...rs to a landing upon which stood a bald-headed waiter with whiskers like a French admiral and discretion beyond all limits in his manner. He seemed to...

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...from entering into ex- planations concerning their origin and purposes. As writers of travels among barbarous communities are generally very diffuse o... ... hesitate to employ, with all his patriotism, toward many renowned English writers. Dana is, indeed, great. There is nothing in literature more remark... ... pirated copies. Beside Hawthorne, Mr. Richard Henry Stoddard, of American writers, specially knew and appreciated Herman Melville. Mr. Stoddard was c... ...ot worthy of comparison—this book has as yet met with no superior, even in French literature; nor has it met with a rival in any other language than t... ...nch literature; nor has it met with a rival in any other language than the French. The char- acter of ‘Fayaway,’ and, no less, William S. Mayo’s ‘Kalo... ...e, I chanced, while aboard of a man- of-war to touch at these islands. The French had then held possession of the Marquesas some time, and already pri... ...s of the principal groups it is simply a sexual designation applied to the males; but it is now used by the natives in their intercourse with foreigne... ...to have been dictated by the most merciful considerations. T o destroy our malefactors piece-meal, drying up in their veins, drop by drop, the blood w... ... concentrated; and to have seen it filled with a crowd of the natives, all males, conversing in animated clusters, while multitudes were continually c...

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...Ely. What was th’ impediment that broke this off? 134 B.Cant. The French Embassador vpon that instant 135 Crau’d audience; and the howre... ...e: 139 Which I could with a ready guesse declare, 140 Before the Frenchman speake a word of it. 141 B.Ely. Ile wait vpon you, and I... ... No Woman shall succeed in Salike Land: 187 Which Salike Land, the French vniustly gloze 188 To be the Realme of France, and Pharamond ... ...d the Riuer Sala, in the yeere 211 Eight hundred fiue. Besides, their Writers say, 212 King Pepin, which deposed Childerike, 213 Did ... ...urpt the Crowne [h2 217 Of Charles the Duke of Loraine, sole Heire male 218 Of the true Line and Stock of Charles the Great: 219 To...

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...ad of his brother of the steerage is one altogether of sentiment. In the steerage there are males and females; in the second cabin ladies and gentleme... ...second cabin ladies and gentlemen. For some time after I came aboard I thought I was only a male; but in the course of a voyage of discovery between d... ...learned that I was still a gentleman. Nobody knew it, of course. I was lost in the crowd of males and females, and rigorously confined to the same qua... ...ses livingly to my imagination. A turn of the market may be a calamity as disastrous as the French retreat from Moscow; but it hardly lends itself to ... ...pected, the quadrille was soon whistled down, and the dancers departed under a cloud. Eight Frenchmen, even eight Englishmen from another rank of soci... ...an in the army.’ Among nations, En- gland was the first; then came France. He respected the French navy and liked the French people; and if he were fo... ... a great chorus of grateful voices have arisen to spread abroad its fame. Half the fa- mous writers of modern France have had their word to say about ...

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...ewhat less odious and offensive to foreigners. The servile rapacity of the French officials is sufficiently contemptible; but there is a surly boorish... ...rom its roof. In the gallery opposite to the pulpit were a little choir of male and female singers, a violoncello, and a violin. The preacher already ... ... side of the Atlantic) very bare of furni ture, having no curtains to the French bedstead or to the window. It had one unusual luxury, however, in th... ...hat all the great sights are somewhere else. If a lady take a fancy to any male passenger’s seat, the gentleman who accompanies her gives him notice o... ...rong feeling for the beauties of nature, as displayed in the solitudes the writers have left at home, breathes through its pages like wholesome villag... ...ly into her own bed chamber. In another part of the building, there was a male pa tient in bed; very much flushed and heated. ‘Well,’ said he, start... ...t one can at all comprehend the vast designs of its projector, an aspiring Frenchman. Spacious avenues, that begin in nothing, and lead nowhere; stree... ...en in his time, and did his utmost to correct it. I cannot hold with other writers on these subjects that the prevalence of various forms of dissent i...

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... the leaders of mankind. I have represented the native common sense of the French mind and of the English mind—for manifestly King Egbert is meant to ... ...ank and honourable gathering of leading men, Englishman meeting German and Frenchman Russian, brothers in their offences and in their disaster, upon t... ... val- leys would you have found the squatting lairs of his little herds, a male, a few females, a child or so. He knew no future then, no kind of life... ...ed beyond his reach. Or sud- denly he became aware of the scent of another male and rose up roaring, his roars the formless precursors of moral admo- ... ...t came to be called the ‘Modern State’ movement, and a galaxy of brilliant writers, in America, Europe, and the East, stirred up the world to the thou... ...nd he learnt Greek and Latin as well as he had learnt German, Spanish, and French, so that he wrote and spoke them freely, and used them with an uncon... ...her. From the day when man contrived himself a tool and suf- fered another male to draw near him, he ceased to be alto- gether a thing of instinct and... ...lities, a pal- impsest of inherited dispositions. It was the habit of many writers in the early twentieth century to speak of competi- tion and the na... ...one comes to the latter nineteenth and the earlier twenti- eth century the writers are much more acutely aware of secu- lar change than their predeces...

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... to the north and to the south. In Canada and Nova Scotia were colonies of French. On the banks of the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch, who had tak... ...rincipal object was, to rear up pious and learned ministers; and hence old writers call Harvard College a school of the prophets.” “Is the college a s... ...overnor Endicott sat in it when he gave audience to an ambassador from the French governor of Acadia, or Nova Scotia. A treaty of peace between Massac... ...of Acadia, or Nova Scotia. A treaty of peace between Massachusetts and the French colony was then signed.” “Did England allow Massachusetts to make wa... ...ful eye has caught two boys at play. Now we shall see awful times. The two malefactors are sum moned before the master’s chair, wherein he sits with ... ...th of Queen Anne. Hitherto the people had been in continual dread that the male line of the Stuarts, who 67 Hawthorne were descended from the beheade... ...hrough the same scene of sorrow and distress. In this manner was the whole male part of the population of the District of Minas put on board the five ... ...istance. “It is marvellous,” said Grandfather, “to see how many pow erful writers, orators, and soldiers started up just at the time when they were w...

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...ppeals; when the presid- ing genius that watched over the destinies of the French nation had played out all the best cards in his hand, and his advers... ...- ters have already been treated, both copiously and ably, by some eminent writers of the present (and, indeed, of future) ages; though to tread in th... ... that the Queen of England did feel seriously alarmed at the notion that a French prince should occupy the Spanish throne; or whether she was tenderly... ...stavus Adolphus Maximilian von Galgenstein, had been in the service of the French as page to a nobleman; then of His Majesty’s gardes du corps; then a... ...he village maidens, who love soldiers as flies love treacle; presently the males began to arrive, and lo! the parson of the parish, taking his evening... ...er on certain days;—all which circumstances commonly are expunged from the male brain immediately after they have occurred, but remain fixed with the ... ...and our commission is to apprehend all able- 60 Catherine: A Story bodied male persons who can give no good account of them- selves, and enrol them i... ... good-natured old fellow when his humour was not crossed. Surely our novel-writers make a great mis- take in divesting their rascals of all gentle hum...