Probably this ballet morceau was one of the first of many medleys of national character dances so familiar now to the operatic stage.
In an ancient manuscript in the National Library of Paris there is a picture of Heinrich of Meissen, the minnesinger (born 1260), conducting a choir of singers and instrumental performers.
The selection of any national language to fulfil this important rôle would, obviously, be impossible, without bestowing great advantage on the nation whose national tongue was thus selected.
In Central America, the Director of the National Institute of San Salvador warmly approves of the Esperanto lectures of our subscriber, Mr. R.
Esperanto in no way aims at displacing any existing national language, but merely seeks to exist side by side with all as a friend in need.
It means control of organization, the appointment and dismissal of officers and Generals, and that is a power which it is difficult or almost impossible to give to Generals of another country with a national army.
As a beginning it called up its own reserves and also the National Naval Volunteers and the Coast Guard.
Much has also been done to economize labor and material through the more active control in the national interest both of railway and canal transportation.
The present war is not a war for the defense of the national inviolability or for the liberty of small nations.
There are national prejudices, national interests, professional prejudices and traditions.
Every people proclaims it to be its right to determine its own nationality and national unity and complete independence.
Casualty lists showed that the Rainbow Division, (composed of troops from nearly every State in the Union,) the first of the National Guard divisions to cross the Atlantic, had been engaged in the fighting.
Wallingham, though he still supported the disabilities of a right honourable evangelist with a gospel of his own, was making astonishing conversions; the edifice of the national economic creed seemed coming over at the top.
And this Republic," he went on hotly, "this Republic that menaces our national life with commercial extinction, what past has she that is comparable?
Or is it to be our own stamp and character, acquired in the rugged discipline of our colonial youth, and developed in the national usage of the British Empire?
There is big business for them here, national business, and we propose to show it.
It was the vehemence of those who hated it that sold it to Congress as a measure for national defense.
But that was why some people hated the Platform, and their hatred had made it seem obviously an item of national defense.
This the National Assembly attempted to disavow, but a few days after this letter was written it was ratified.
She has not been surprised at the line taken by Austria, who, Lord Clarendon will remember, the Queen never thought could be depended upon, as she is not in that independent position which renders a National Policy possible.
If Austria makes peace with Sardinia, and gives her Italian provinces separate National Institutions with a liberal constitutional Government, who can force upon her another arrangement?
A favourite American packet of our own era, for travellers crossing the Atlantic, was the 'America' of the National Steamship Company, which has since been purchased by the Italian Government for service as a fast cruiser.
From the painting by Sadler, National Portrait Gallery.
From the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, National Portrait Gallery).
From the painting by Hilton, National Portrait Gallery).
From the painting by Nasmyth, National Portrait Gallery.
Dictionary ofNational Biography for lives of Lyly, Sidney, Hooker.
By his victory over the French at Agincourt (1415), he made himself a national hero.
From the Chandos portrait in the National Portrait Gallery.
From the painting by Sadler, National Portrait Gallery).
Mandeville's Travels may be found in modern English in Cassell's National Library (15¢).
Dictionary of National Biography (for lives of minor writers).
From the painting by Van Somer, National Portrait Gallery.
Lounsbury says of Chaucer's influence: "No really national language could exist until a literature had been created which would be admired and studied by all who could read, and taken as a model by all who could write.
As a national party they are indeed destroyed, since the Calixtines separated from them.
I was afraid it was some national disaster, an invasion of the Turks, or some event in the Elector's family.
Perhaps the Secretary of War will, when he gets his historian, at $2,500 a year, to write a national history of the war.
As you grow up, my son, and begin to think and act for yourself, you will think it very strange that such a great national crime as this should have existed in a land so blessed with the fruits of a ripe civilization.
They were willing, for the sake of peace, to tolerate slavery, as a great evil it were dangerous to attempt to remove; but it was too much to ask them to accept it as a great national blessing.
And yet you must always bear in mind, my son, that men do not view great crimes alike, and that even good and great men differ as to what constitutes national rights and national wrongs.
The people of the great North, and the people of the great West, were educated to a very different way of thinking on the question of slavery; and differed with the people of the South as to what constituted a national blessing.
In this work the two countries presented their national characteristics.
National partiality will hardly make any lover of the true glory of his country regret that such an attempt was a failure.
Order was then taken with those clergy who could not resist being present on so memorable an occasion as the performance of a great national tragedy, written by a member of their own body.
If any foot soldier could have more ridiculous national prejudices than the poet, I should be much surprised.
In that age, however, to be national in Scotland was to be provincial in Britain; and unless an author chose to aim at the restricted reputation of a Ramsay or a Pennecuik, he must carefully shun allusions to his native country.
Would Hume tell him that it was considered in Edinburgh an offence against decency, to admit one of them to a national library?
A minute inquiry into national prejudices and customs frequently surprises the speculative philosopher, by developing these practices and opinions of the vulgar and illiterate, as the fruit of great knowledge and forethought.
The life of our nation had begun with a deliverance; our chief national feast recalls that deliverance from Egypt to us every year as the spring comes round.
The Sadducees, being the sacerdotal party, had no cause why they should be dissatisfied with the position they held in the State under the Romans; but we of the Pharisees felt far otherwise about the national hopes for deliverance.
Jesus died for the same reason, but also for another--for that he cared naught for our national hopes.
We were all panting for national freedom; he would have naught of it.
But what is this to the purpose in a national revolution; unjust!
From the nature and number of the monuments at Bavian, the explorer inferred that it had been a sacred spot, devoted to religious ceremonies and national sacrifices.
This truly valuable and beautifulnational publication eminently deserves a hearty national support.
How this national festival can be made sure, we must leave to those who have the guidance of public affairs; but we do earnestly desire to see the last Thursday in November become the fixed time for this American jubilee.
Of this one Hoare painted several replicas, one of the worst of which, very bilious in colouring, is in the National Portrait Gallery.
On both these rested the taint of corruption andnational disaster.
The maritime and American war would alone add two millions a year to the National Debt, which could not bear an addition of one million.
The army, he said, was the chief cause of the national discontents, and yet these discontents were alleged as the chief cause for maintaining the army.
We were not far from a national bankruptcy, and should soon have to disband our army.
The fall of Minorca and the storm of national fury which followed increased his anxiety to be out of this disastrous Ministry.
He knew well that every symptom of nationalaffection for himself was a stab to the King.
But national calamity was now to lend irresistible force to his attacks.
The nationalwish for war was at any rate soon gratified.
We can easily imagine the buzz of angry legend and comment; for national antipathies have no difficulty in obtaining substantial affidavits in their support.
The ethical element destroyed the national character of the old religion.
The circumstances of the time themselves urged that the religion of Israel should divest itself of all politico-national character; but Isaiah also did his best to further this end.
A paradoxical thought--as if the national God were to cut the ground from under His own feet!
The authority which his antecedents had secured for him made him as matter of course the great national "Kadhi" in the wilderness.
In earlier times the national state as it had existed under David was the goal of all wishes.
As for the substance of the national faith, it was summed up principally in the proposition that Jehovah is the God of Israel.
Inasmuch as the Jews were now nothing more than a religious community, based upon the traditions of a national existence that had ceased, the rebuilding of the temple, naturally, was for them an event of supreme importance.
His greatest danger seemed to arise from the still surviving members of the Hasmonaean family, to whom, as is easily understood, the national hopes clung.
Moses was not the first discoverer of this faith, but it was through him that it came to be the fundamental basis of the national existence and history.
He says "After the defeat a great feast of rejoicing was held by the Saxons at Winehala, the Hall of Victory, and the event was long celebrated by the national poets.
For on land ownership alone then depended not only the amount of the national revenue, but the strength of the national defences.
By 1586 the condition of the newly-formed Protestant Church of England had become so scandalous in respect of its priesthood that a national "Survey" was undertaken.
The Domesday Book was a great national land register in which was entered a record of every acre of land in England, its condition, its ownership, and annual value at that time.
When the new national bronze coinage came into circulation in 1860, large quantities of these copper farthing tokens were returned on to Mr Rushbrooke's hands, but he melted them down without sustaining the least loss.
If we are ever to have a national poet, let us hope that his nationality will be of this subtile essence, something that shall make him unspeakably nearer to us, while it does not provincialize him for the rest of mankind.
Finland is the mother and Russia is the stepdame, and the listeners to the old nationallays grow fewer every day.
It describes scenes and manners which the rapid changes of our national habits will soon have made as remote from us as if they were foreign or ancient.
Every day, crying iniquities were covered by the pretext: "If we were just, we should compromise the national unity, or we should risk losing the votes secured to our party.
Do disputes in which thenational honor is involved admit of consultations of this sort?
The thing which most actively dissolves societies while seeming to unite them, is the uniformity of national dogmas which, accepted as an inheritance, remain without action over the heart.
Liverpool has, this time, given the signal, Lancashire urges on the rupture; behind the national honor, there may be something else.
To rise up, to attack its enemy manfully, to arraign the causes of the national decline, to approach boldly the solution of the most formidable problem which could be propounded here on earth, such is not the act of a nation of calculators.
Yet such is the vigor of its genius, such is its carelessness of every kind of danger, such is the impetuosity with which it affronts and surmounts obstacles, such is the power of its national motto; "Go ahead!
A nation should always be healthily rebellious; but the king or prime minister has yet to be found who will make trouble by cultivating that side of the national spirit.
I should have gone into the country, or into the sea, or into the National Gallery, or to hear a band if there was one, or to any library where there were no schoolbooks.
I read one in the National Review," Elisabeth continued, "and another in one of the evening papers.
It will be a National Party, and you will make it.
The other national disaster we have had to face, you know of.
If the political history of these four years is ever truthfully written," Mr. Foley continued, "the world will be amazed at the calm indifference of the people threatened day by day with national disaster.
You must have seen the slow decay of national pride, the nations of the world growing closer and closer together.
You may gain allies from reasons of policy, but you have not the national gifts which win friendship.
I think that if we get to work together in this country, there must be something more national in our aspirations.
She perceives more quickly than man everything connected with nationallife and the manners of the people.
What changes, in half a century, have been wrought in the national character!
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The god of war had put his seal and autograph upon them, just in the same manner as we see a name upon a bank-note, which only acquires value from national convenience and conventionality.
Their hearts were as great in the devotion of the national cause, and the glory of their country, as the pure soul which has since departed from them for a better world.
Though so many authors have written upon Turkey, they have yet left me several virgin pages, and those pages are upon thenational cookery of the Moslem people.
This was our first friendly meeting with those who had so bravely defended themselves and sacrificed their blood in defence of the national cause: General Luders himself had lost two of his sons in the battle-field.
I have often seen you mentioned in our papers, and should have been sorry if you had left our seaport without tasting our national dish in perfection.
Your Cookery-book, Monsieur Soyer, is the national book, or 'household words.
Mead, or metheglin, was another national drink, and here the steward was only allowed as far as he could reach in the cask with the first joint of his middle finger.
In our notice of Christmas wines, we must not omit malt-wine or ale, which may be considered, indeed, as our national beverage.
The moral sense of the people could not prevent a murmur of admiration when the Lightning, with eight millions of national gold aboard, in less than nine minutes was but a speck.
It had to be accompanied by the national promise to secure freedom to those who delivered up the suffering couple.
Is there a portion of ournational machinery out of gear?
