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As regards his social labours, his passionate efforts to help the 'submerged tenth, his widespread helpfulness of the poor, his shelters and refuges, the feeling must and will be almost universal that he was an energetic and warm-hearted benefactor of his kind, who wrought much good to his times, and helped others to do it, and who had what Sir John Seeley called the 'enthusiasm of humanity' in very honourable, if noisy and demonstrative, form.
Grote speaks of 'the conversion of Athens from a land-power into a sea-power. In a lecture published in 1883, but probably delivered earlier, the late Sir J. R. Seeley says that 'commerce was swept out of the Mediterranean by the besom of the Turkish sea-power. The term also occurs in vol. xviii. of the 'Encyclopædia Britannica, published in 1885.
If he's there we can find him without going inside and bothering the servants. So we'll go around and see." General Seeley was a small man, with white beard and moustache, and at her first look at him Bessie thought he looked very fierce indeed, and every inch a soldier, though there were so few inches. He had sharp blue eyes that were keen and piercing, and after he had risen and bowed to Mrs.
This must be the place where the precious pheasants she was supposed to have frightened were kept. And she hadn't even known where they were! Bessie wondered, as she looked at the beautiful bird, how anyone could have the heart to frighten it, or any like it. "I don't blame General Seeley a bit for being angry if he really thought I had done that," she said to herself. "And he did, of course.
Seeley wrote: "I heartily congratulate you on Richard's great success. It is not often that a young man can so speedily justify his choice of a career." "Human Intercourse" was published in September, and sold well, in spite of its cold reception by the Press. Mr. Hamerton did not allow unfavorable criticism to disturb him much.
Seeley, who had always endeavored to tempt his editor over to England, declared himself delighted at the prospect. He had formerly sent such hints as these: "I wish you had a neat flying machine and could pop over and do the business yourself."
Seeley to not reccomend me to no int. dept. but jest leave me be where I am at so as when the time comes I can fight fair like man to man and not behind no woman's skirts like a cur. So you see Al everything is O. K. after all and the laugh is on Alcock and his friends because they was the ones that expected to do all the laughing but instead of that I made a monkey out of them. Your pal, JACK.
I like the looks of that boy. But he did make a hideous mess of it, didn't he? I hope he hasn't got a streak of yellow in him." Henry Seeley turned on his neighbor with a savage scowl and could not hold back the quivering retort: "He belongs to me, I want you to understand, and we'll say nothing about yellow streaks until he has a chance to make good next half."
"England" with him meant not merely that part of Great Britain which lies south of the Tweed, but all the dominions of the Sovereign, the British Empire as a whole. What Seeley called the expansion of England was to him the chief fact of the present, and the chief problem of the future. Events since his death have vindicated his foresight.
Years before, I had explored its treasures with Aldis Wright, but there were new things to fascinate me. Dining at King's College with Waldstein, met Professor Seeley, author of the "Life of Stein," a book which, ever since its appearance, has been an object of my admiration. November 29.
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