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'I am sorry you have thoughts of settling in Scotland, and yet glad that you will still be at no immeasurable distance, and that the latitude is all in our favour. To move to Westmoreland from Devonshire might make an East-Indian shudder; but to come to us from Galloway or Dumfries-shire is a step, though a short one, nearer the sun.
'Upon my word, my legal friend has a good selection of acquaintances; these are names pretty widely blown indeed. An East-Indian must rub up his facultiesa little, and put his mind in order, before he enters this sort of society.
The East-Indian and Chinese markets, the colonisation of America, trade with the colonies, the increase in the means of exchange and in commodities generally, gave to commerce, to navigation, to industry, an impulse never before known, and thereby, to the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid development.
I always noticed, moreover, that a considerable proportion of the audience were soldiers, who came hither with a day's leave from Woolwich, hardy veterans in aspect, some of whom wore as many as four or five medals, Crimean or East-Indian, on the breasts of their scarlet coats.
Old Sir Cayman Alligator, an East-Indian Director, led out the graceful Lady Caroline Giraffe, who, I must say, deserved the praise young Nightingale bestowed upon her, when he said, she was one of "Nature's nobility."
Patricians and plebeians The discomforts of democracy Varieties of equality Social rights of beggars The coming peril Being dragged to the rich Frankness of vulgarity and hopelessness of destitution Villages rooted in the landscape Evanescence of the spiritual and survival of the material "Of Bebbington the holy peak" The Old Yew of Eastham Malice prepense interest History and afternoon tea An East-Indian Englishman The merchantman sticks in the mud A poetical man of the world Likeness to Longfellow Real breakfasts Heads and stomachs A poet- pugilist Clean-cut, cold, gentle, dry A respectable female atheist The tragedy of the red ants Voluptuous struggles A psalm of praise.
The chief need was to create a centre of administration, from which a general control could be exercised over all the officials at the various trading factories throughout the East-Indian archipelago.
"I don't know that I shall take you at all, Miss Helen; river-lilies might suit you best; but these queens of the lakes, the great, calm pond-lilies, creatures of quiet and white radiance, I have seen only one head that possessed enough of the genuine East-Indian repose to be crowned with them." "You like repose," said Mrs. Laudersdale. "But what is it?"
Therefore he thought it best to go round on the East-side of all the Philippine Islands, and so keeping South toward the Spice Islands, to pass out into the East-Indian Ocean about the Island Timor. This seemed to be a very tedious way about, and as dangerous altogether for Sholes; but not for meeting with English or Dutch Ships, which was their greatest Fear.
'I am sorry you have thoughts of settling in Scotland, and yet glad that you will still be at no immeasurable distance, and that the latitude is all in our favour. To move to Westmoreland from Devonshire might make an East-Indian shudder; but to come to us from Galloway or Dumfries-shire is a step, though a short one, nearer the sun.
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