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...y be too late. No covenant of co-operative peace that does not include the peoples of the New World can suffice to keep the future safe against war, a... ... future safe against war, and yet there is only one sort of peace that the peoples of America could join in guaranteeing. The elements of that peace m... ...sistent with their political faith and the practical convictions which the peoples of America have once for all embraced and undertaken to defend. WOR... ...ty not gained in the ordi- nary peaceful and legitimate development of the peoples themselves. But no one asks or expects anything more than an equali... ...ship, and of industrial and social development should be guaranteed to all peoples who have lived hitherto under the power of Governments devoted to a... ... cannot bring myself to believe that they will indeed pay no regard to the ancient friendship between their people and our own or to the sol- emn obli...

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......................................................... 381 CHAPTER XLIX OF ANCIENT CUSTOMS .............................................................. ..................................... 400 CHAPTER LII OF THE PARSIMONY OF THE ANCIENTS...................................................................... ...rent from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancient currents of thought into new channels. It told its readers, with un... ...eserva- tion; and that the buildings of this bastard Rome, raised upon the ancient productions, although they might excite the ad- miration of the pre... ...n simply out of the ruins of the theatre of Marcellus. He believed that an ancient Roman would not recognise the place again. It often happened that i... ...te in matter, infinite in diversity. But I return to my subject. There are peoples, where, his wife and children excepted, no one speaks to the king b... ...aturally more prompt to assist in the conduct of war, in the government of peoples, in negotiating the leagues and friendships of princes and foreign ... ...more of danger than utility. The Jews, Mo- hammedans, and almost all other peoples, have reverentially espoused the language wherein their mysteries w...

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... to others it seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient, and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history. L... ...survive the destruction of their coun- try; and they braved death like the ancient Romans when their capital was sacked by the Gauls. Further on, p. 1... ...survive the destruction of their coun- try; and they braved death like the ancient Romans when their capital was sacked by the Gauls. Further on, p. 1... ... states by their origin is clearly distinguishable. At the period when the peoples of Europe landed in the New World their national characteristics we... ...quity had dreamt of, started in full size and panoply from the midst of an ancient feudal society. Chapter II: Origin Of The Anglo-Americans – Part II... ... But the law of descent was the last step to equality. I am surprised that ancient and modern jurists have not attrib- uted to this law a greater infl... ...ulse to the social machine can nowhere be discovered. Nevertheless, as all peoples are obliged to have recourse to certain gram- matical forms, which ... ...States, or a sort of congress, at which the representatives of the several peoples would meet to discuss certain points of their com- mon interests. T... ...very nature of Fed- eral Governments. We have observed that in confederate peoples it is especially necessary to consolidate the judicial authority, b...

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...cipality of Amalfi, and a similar title was in use at Venice, justified by ancient inheritance from Facino Cane, Prince of Varese. The Grimaldi, who a... ...d vine- stock throws out canes productive of delicious fruit. This race of ancient rulers still gives birth to kings—Lagrange, Volta, Rasori, Canova, ... ...p after its long torpor? Joy comes in with the day. In what composi- tion, ancient or modern, will you find so grand a passage? The greatest gladness ... ...ous musical scena enables us to realize one of the grandest dramas of that ancient and solemn world. The religious form given to some of the voice par... ...rowned in a rushing noise as of pouring rain. V endramin saw himself in an ancient V enetian costume, look- ing on at the ceremony of the Bucentaur. T... ...n chant, for instance, is, in sacred song, the inheritance of the earliest peoples,— and you will lose yourself in deep dreaming. Strange and immense ...

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...s involved in making bargains with governments that do not stand for their peoples; we have had all our Russian deal, for example, repudiated and thru... ...nd by teaching in school and church and press of the whole mass of all the peoples con- cerned. I underline the adjective “Free” here to set aside, on... ...re talking of the freedom of small nations and the ‘self-determination’ of peoples, and at the same time of the Council of the League of Nations and a... ...on in order to make a newer and wider one. It is quite understandable that peoples aware of a distinctive national character and involved in some big ... ...royal line may continue, a line of hereditary presidents, with some of the ancient trappings and something of the picturesque prestige that, as the ol... ...ical terms upon those used by the thinkers of the small Greek republics of ancient times before those petty states collapsed, through sheer political ... ...y. Now the modern intelligence, being under a sort of magic slavery to the ancient Greeks, has to adapt all these terms to the problems of states so v... ...f ministries; its vital interests go all round the earth; nothing that any ancient Greek would have recognized as democracy is conceivable in a great ... ...ich seem to correspond more or less closely in spirit with our ideas about ancient democracy. Now there are two primary classes of idea about govern- ...

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... does better, he esteems him. And notably the cause of the laws and of the ancient government of a kingdom, has this always annexed to it, that even t... ..., and too much imprinted in my fancy that it is a beast of company, as the ancient said, but not of the herd.—[Plutarch, On the Plurality of Friends, ... ...ent to youth, but a reproach to old age.” These verses are preached in the ancient school, a school that I much more adhere to than the modern: its vi... ...man’s foot. That good man, who, when I was young, gelded so many noble and ancient statues in his great city, that they might not corrupt the sight of... ...not corrupt the sight of the ladies, according to the advice of this other ancient worthy: “Flagitii principium est, nudare inter gives corpora,”... ...s, as dangerous and prejudicial quali- ties. Not only many sects, but many peoples, curse their birth, and bless their death; and there is a place whe...

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...oes not prepare for the immediate or eventual acces- sion of these subject peoples to State rank. Most certainly, however, thousands of intelligent pe... ...kind is doomed to a perpetual, futile struggling of States and nations and peoples—breaking ever and again into war? The answer to that would probably... ...s—thrones which need never have been thrones at all—and none of the Balkan peoples is likely to witness with enthusiasm the complete looting of its co... ...cheapness is an old usurers’ age. England before the war was a paradise of ancient usuries; everywhere were great houses and enclosed parks; the multi... ... possibilities. Our next stage brings us to the question of how people and peoples and classes of people are going to react to the new conditions of n... ...re to be sent up and wages down, while the old feuds of Wales and Ireland, ancient theological and sec- tarian jealousies and babyish loyalties, and s... ... Great Britain that we are confronted with the spectacle of this great and ancient kingdom reconstructing itself perforce, while it wages the greatest... ...fe as creative opportunity. We want to emancipate this profession from its ancient guild restrictions—the most anti-social and disastrous of all such ... ... of fact it is the lawyer-politicians, split by factions that simulate the ancient government and opposition, who rule, under a steadily growing press...

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...f it. I saw an engraving of Hero and Leander, and I said to myself, If the ancients used all that oil on their heads they had some reason for it; for ... ...ents used all that oil on their heads they had some reason for it; for the ancients are the ancients, in spite of all the moderns may say; I stand by ... ...ncients, in spite of all the moderns may say; I stand by Boileau about the ancients. I took my departure from that point and got the oil of nuts, than... ...e me to life! I have thought of selling an oil of nuts, believing that the ancients made use of that oil for their hair; and the ancients are the anci... ...rancois Gaudissart, grand- son of all the Gaudissarts, vile proletaries of ancient birth, his forefathers. March! and mind that everything is hot, or ... ...nder, re- duced in size, with the following assertion as an epigraph: “The peoples of antiquity preserved their hair by the use of Cephalic Oil.” “He ...

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... another; citoyen (citizen) were suitabler; we even say thou, as ‘the free peoples of Antiq- uity did:’ so have Journals and the Improvised Commune su... ...e envelop this present National Convention; as it did those Brennuses, and ancient August Senates in felt breeches? Time surely; and also Eternity. Di... ...s sad stuff about a Universal Republic, or union 73 Thomas Carlyle of all Peoples and Kindreds in one and the same Fraternal Bond; of which Bond, how... ...us did the English People judge their Tyrant, and become the first of Free Peoples: which feat, by the grace of Destiny, may not France now rival? Sce... ...de Paris (in Hist. Parl. xxiii. 318).) Nay there is one death-doer, of the ancient Meot sort, who, with effort, has done even less and worse: slain a ... ...s divided all friends; and abroad it has united all enemies. Fraternity of Peoples, Revo- lutionary Propagandism; Atheism, Regicide; total destruc- ti... ...the tools and emblems of their crafts; among which we notice a Plough, and ancient Baucis and Philemon seated on it, drawn by their children. Many- vo... ...t of the War-Office, one of Pache’s old Clerks, ‘with a head heated by the ancient orators,’ had a main hand in the appointments, at least in the staf... ...ined, was there not need of one? Incorruptible Robespierre, not unlike the Ancients, as Legislator of a free people will now also be Priest and Prophe...

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... that the Marquesan is conscious of achievement, his life all rounded in, his robes (like Caesar’s) adjusted for the final act. Praise not any man til... ...e first foundation, only by propitiatory 27 Robert Louis Stevenson feasts, and, so soon as the fire of life went out upon the hearth, swarmed back in... ...certain date a new god was added to the Society-Island Olympus, or an old one refurbished and made popular. Oro was his name, and he may be compared w... ...th other groups. Samoa is, for the moment, the main and the most instruc- tive exception to the rule. The people are the most chaste and one of the mo... ...ave been, upon the whole, extended. The Polynesian falls easily into de- spondency: bereavement, disappointment, the fear of novel visitations, the de... ...any one in Scotland from taking a walk on Sunday. The error is no less natural than it is unjust. The Polynesians have not been trained in the bracing...

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...ling up through smoke and thousand- fold exhalation, some fathoms into the ancient reign of Night, what thinks Bootes of them, as he leads his Hunt- i... ...sary of life, and would not be flatly gainsayed. We can still remember the ancient woman; so silent that some thought her dumb; deaf also you would of... ...ng by the light of Oriental, Pelasgic, Scandinavian, Egyptian, Otaheitean, Ancient and Modern researches of every conceivable kind, he strives to give... ...begs (though breeches, as the name Gallia Braccata indicates, are the more ancient), Hussar cloaks, Vandyke tippets, ruffs, fardingales, are brought v... ...enceforth be profitably incor- porated with Mr. Merrick’s valuable Work On Ancient Ar- mor? Take, by way of example, the following sketch; as authorit... ...d thou- sand individuals shot (by each other) in one day. All kindreds and peoples and nations dashed together, and shifted and shovelled into heaps, ...

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... seaman of the last generation, brought into sympathy with the caravels of ancient time by his sailing-ship, their lineal descendant, cannot look upon... ...ndant, cannot look upon those lumbering forms navigating the naive seas of ancient woodcuts without a feeling of sur- prise, of affectionate derision,... ...e was competent to pronounce the funereal ora- tion of a ship, this son of ancient sea-folk, whose na- tional existence, so little stained by the exce... ...f pa- thetic indulgence. This smile of the worthy descen- dant of the most ancient sea-folk whose audacity and hardihood had left no trace of greatnes... ...a for adventur- ous voyages as the Mediterranean -the inland sea which the ancients looked upon as so vast and so full of wonders. And, indeed, it was... ... upon the passionate misunderstandings and the passionate desires of great peoples. “Le temps,” as a distinguished Frenchman has said, “est un galant ... ...es at the engines of our strife. All passes, all changes: the animosity of peoples, the handling of fleets, the forms of ships; and even the sea itsel...

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...nd I think we noticed that this strange thing was the case in Hamburg, too, and in the villages along the road. Even in the narrow- est and poorest an... ...roof, so he goes there to add a steeple in the nature of some specialty, such as a particular branch of law, or diseases of the eye, or special study ... ...wall; they bore inscriptions telling who killed them and how many hundred years ago it was done. One room in the building was devoted to the preservat... ...er failed in a trust. It is believed that the sing- ing still continues, but it is known that nobody has heard it during the present century. CHAPTER ... ...t his troubles for a while, but we have not his kindly art, and so had to leave the raven to his griefs. After breakfast we climbed the hill and visit... ...ay and chipper essay—about ancient Grecian funeral customs, or the ancient Egyptian method of tarring a mummy, or the reasons for believing that some ...

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...l, after the fashion of Peacock’s (and Mr. Mallock’s) develop- ment of the ancient dialogue; but this encumbered me with unnecessary characters and th... ...owards it, to face it in no ascetic spirit, but in the mood of the Western peoples, whose pur- pose is to survive and overcome. So much we adopt in co... ...hat did not find a sympathetic public- ity. The natural disposition of all peoples, white, black, or brown, a natural disposition that education seeks... ...the gorge, and old memories turn us off the road down the steep ruin of an ancient mule track towards it. It is our first reminder that Utopia too mus... ...in its ascent. In the Modern Utopia he will have set himself to change the ancient law. No longer will it be that failures must suffer and perish lest... ...racteristic weakness. The spirit of the European people, of almost all the peoples now in the ascendant, is towards a convention of equality; the spir... ...s is more of a sexual special- ist than her sister of the poor and austere peoples, of the prosperous classes more so than the peasant woman. The cont... ... order. It was to play the part for the samurai that the Bible did for the ancient Hebrews. T o tell you the truth, the stuff was of very unequal meri... ...ing away from him in this life. But, as I have already observed, the happy ancients went to their Utopias without this sort of company. 208 A Modern ...

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...n stance, they are used simply as a loose way of drawing a line between the peoples who drink spirits and those who drink wine, between those whose s... ... de FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING 3 tached from the lingering spell of the ancient shadowy world in which trees and animals talked to each other, an... ...m the home angle; and in such a case we certainly should not want the allied peoples who might come to our aid to judge us by what they saw if Germany... ...eauty is only skin deep, so too are some of the great est obstacles between peoples who were made to understand each other. French habits and manners... ... to birds and insects because in some remote and perhaps prehistoric past an ancient Gaul once decreed that “blackberries give the fever.” An hour awa... ...innocent self. Yet the blackberry has been condemned untried because of some ancient taboo that the French peasant dares not disregard. FRENCH WAYS A... ...ot due to any lack of curiosity about its qualities, but to respect for some ancient sanction which prevents those qualities from being investigated. ... ...as continental Europe that it is good for us to consider the meaning of this ancient principle of civilised societies. We are growing up at last; and ... ...grown up—he is still in the nursery. The same thing is true of countries and peoples. The “sheltered life,” whether of the individual or of the nation...

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...rnings I went with the rest of my family to church: it was a church on the ancient model of England, having aisles, galleries, 12 organ, all things a... ...in this instance greatly aided to my own feelings by the alliance with the ancient phantom of the forest mountain in North Germany. The playfulness of... ...ne that the hand of man has cre- ated, is represented, on the authority of ancient traditions, to have uttered at sunrise, or soon after as the sun’s ... ...e glorious plenitudes of health, as faithfully as the cavities within this ancient Memnonian bust reported this mighty event of sunrise to the rejoici... ...nd there is no doubt that they both connect them- selves, through links of ancient tradition, with the gloomy realities of paganism, when the whole Ha... ...the world been a separate and Titanic race, such as the Anakim amongst the peoples of Palestine, the Cyclopean race diffused over the Mediterranean in... ... his critics; and that the Roman population of every class—slaves, aliens, peoples of the sub- urbs, included—lay between four and six millions; in wh... ... literary class of ladies formed a feeble minority. But now, when two vast peoples, English and American, counting between them forty-nine millions, w...

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...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...n a hitherto desolate country under the frowning nail-studded cliffs of an ancient trunk. Then I conquered them and garrisoned their land. (Alas! they... ...ience is the organised conquest of Nature, and I can quite understand that ancient libertine refusing to cooperate in her own undoing. And I can quite... ...me roads rather more carefully tended, the Inns not very much altered, the ancient familiar market-house. The occasional wheeled traffic would have st... ...e might have persuaded oneself that all this was but the replacement of an ancient tranquillity, or at least an ancient balance, by a new order. Only ... ... en- gagement. The main gate still looks out with the same ex- pression of ancient well-proportioned kindliness upon St. Margaret’s Close. There are i... ...re to each his own That he reap where he hath sown; By the peace among Our peoples let men know we serve the Lord!” 93 H G Wells And then again, and ... ...l courage, I remember that the idea that on the continent there were other peoples going ahead of us, mentally alert while we fumbled, disciplined whi... ... of the better organised, more vigorous, and now far more highly civilised peoples of Central Europe, seemed to me to have both a good and bad series ...

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...the Orders held their allotted places in the State; and the naivete of our ancient customs by the pun on “eris,” which word, combined with the “i” at ... ...t family, in the days when the higher nobility of the kingdom lived on the ancient site of the Palais des Tournelles and the hotel Saint-Paul. Toward ... ...Lions, etc. Madame Clapart’s apartment, which was panelled throughout with ancient carvings, consisted of three connecting rooms, a din- ing-room, sal... ...st. This “welcome” is a break- fast which every neophyte must give to the “ancients” of the office into which he enters. Now, about the time when Osca... ...f the Archives of the Palais for safe-keeping, with the registers of other ancient Practices; and we have ourselves gone, each and all, to hear mass a... ...hat between a nation and an individual. Ambassadors are the attor- neys of Peoples. If I can ever be useful to you, let me know.” “Well,” said Oscar, ...

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...agments to find her; for she spent her childhood playing with the wreck of ancient castles heaped in the depths of that old shop. There were other day... ... the silent street, at that tranquil hour, through the soft shadows of the ancient stairway, Graslin appeared to the mod- est, artless Veronique, her ... ... large edges discolored by the condition of his blood,—in short, he was an ancient sa- tyr in a black satin waistcoat, brown frock-coat, and white cra... ...ron, the works of Schiller and of Goethe, and much else of modern and also ancient literature. She learned to ride a horse, and to dance and to draw. ... ...e externals of greatness, nor for displaying that majesty so prized by the ancients but so often lacking to the administrators of modern power. By one... ...d obedient when they see irreligion and want of discipline above them? All peoples united by any faith whatever will inevitably get the better of peop... ...ingle head. It is easier to find wisdom in one man than in a whole nation. Peoples have heart and no eyes; they feel, and see not. Governments ought t...

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...ted notice that the place was for sale. It was surrounded by a high wall, of ancient struc ture, built of heavy stones, and has not been repaired for... ...intent on the seaboards of Europe, aye, and of Asia and Africa too, till the peoples thought that the werewolves themselves had come. Here, too, when... ..., whose warlike fury had swept the earth like a living flame, till the dying peoples held that in their veins ran the blood of those old witches, who,... ...Your agent will easily rec 119 Chapter 8 ognize the locality, as it is the ancient chapel of the mansion. The goods leave by the train at 9:30 tonig... ...ot know. Someone has done it.” “And yet she has been dead one week. Most peoples in that time would not look so.” I had no answer for this, so w... ...anything, let me tell you this. It is out of the lore and experience of the ancients and of all those who have studied the powers of the UnDead. When... ...rience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples. I admit that at the first I was sceptic. Were it not that throug... ...e. It’s wings are typical of the aerial powers of the psychic faculties. The ancients did well when they typified the soul as a butterfly!” I thought ... ...o. Van Helsing is off to the British Museum look ing up some authorities on ancient medicine. The old physicians took account of things which their f...