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820A day or two later Mr. Edison inquired:''How far is it from here to Lawrence; it is a long walk, is n''t it?'' 820 Are you sure?"
820Can you make this machine work?
820Does Mr. Edison, or any one for him, mean to say that r/ n enables him to obtain nE, and that C IS NOT= E/( r/ n+ R)? 820 How long did you knead it?"
820How near does she fit, Mike?
820One hot Saturday night, after Mr. Edison had looked over the evening papers, he said to me:''Do you want to play a game of billiards?'' 820 What kind of copy does he make?"
820What was to be done? 820 ''Can you go to- morrow?'' 820 ''Did he know anything about running a station like this?'' 820 ''How can I tell? 820 ''Now, Mr. Bergmann,''said Epstein,''how much for the lot?'' 820 ''That''s strange, Mr. Bergmann; wo n''t you look?'' 820 ''Well,''I said,''is n''t it banking to help a man in this way?'' 820 ''Where is the steamer that goes across the Channel?'' 820 4 previous to 1872, why was it not also patented? 820 Anger with him, however, is a good deal like the story attributed to Napoleon:Sire, how is it that your judgment is not affected by your great rage?"
820At 8 o''clock he appeared, walked around, went into the battery- room, and then came to me, saying:''Edison, who did this?''
820But suppose the batteries were so connected that the current from each set flowed in an opposite direction?
820But what of his position in the age in which he lives?
820Can the Edison company explain this?
820Chimmy, when did youse blow in?"
820Chinnock said:''Does he KNOW anything about running a station like this?
820Did you ever realize that practically all industrial chemistry is colloidal in its nature?
820Edison?''
820He came in two or three months after, and said:''How did that cigar business work?''
820He looked me over and said:''What did he promise you?''
820He said:''Are you the manager of this electric- light plant?''
820He said:''What have you here?''
820His very first question was:''Well, Colonel, how did you come out on that experiment?''
820How much do you think you should receive?''
820How would you like that job?''
820I met Chinnock several weeks after, and said:''How is the whiskey man getting along?''
820I said to Chinnock:''How is it now?''
820I said to Pasteur,''Will he live?''
820I said to Sadler:''What is that?''
820I said to the man:''Will that boat live in that sea?''
820I said:''What for?''
820I said:''What is it?''
820In explaining this he added:"Suppose you want to take the falls down at Richmond, and want to put up a water- power?
820Mr. Edison sent the laconic reply:''Why does n''t he try it and see?''
820Mr. Edison then asked:''If I had n''t sold any of mine, what would it be worth to- day?''
820Mr. Edison turned to him quickly, and said:"Do you mean to say that these drawings represent the only way to do this work?"
820One day Epstein appeared and said:''Good- morning, Mr. Bergmann, have you any chips to- day?''
820Pride?
820Suppose anything had happened to Edison?
820The question before us is, To what extent has Edison added to the wealth of the world by his inventions and his energy and perseverance?
820Then he asked:''What have you got, boy?''
820Then he said:''How would$ 40,000 strike you?''
820Then, how about the subdivision of the electric light?"
820They said:''Sell out what?''
820This is the conversation that ensued, led by Mr. Edison''s question:"What do you want?"
820To which he replied:"What''s the use?
820What other factors are there to be taken into consideration to explain this phenomenon?
820When I came opposite the two young men, one of them said:''Boy, what have you got?''
820Where does he rank in the mountain range of great Americans?
820Who is he?''"
820Why did he not show this lamp to McMahon when he called in the interest of the American Company and talked over the electrical matters?
820Why did not his son take this lamp to Mr. Bull''s office in 1892, when he took the old fiddle- bow lamps, 1, 2, and 3?
820Why does he say such things as these?
820Why not( say) make the internal part 1 and the external 9, thus saving nine- tenths and losing only one- tenth?
820Why?
820Will you let my bookkeeper look at your books?''
820Yet what did he do?
820of the applied mechanical energy, ingenuously remarking:"Why is it that when we have produced the electricity, half of it must slip away?
12933And did Mr. Gladstone go?
12933And did Oliver Goldsmith really play his harp in this very room?
12933And do you never admit visitors, even to the grounds?
12933And so you are an alien?
12933And what did you tell him?
12933Ay, mon, but ai n''t ut a big un?
12933Aye, you are a gentleman-- and about burying folks in churches?
12933But did Shakespeare run away?
12933But visitors do come?
12933Can you tell me how far it is to Brantwood?
12933Can you tell me where Mr. Whitman lives?
12933Did George Eliot live here?
12933Did you visit Carlyle''s''ouse?
12933Do we use them? 12933 Do you believe in cremation, sir?"
12933Have ye a penny, I do n''t know?
12933He might know all about one woman, and if he should regard her as a sample of all womankind, would he not make a great mistake?
12933Heart of my heart, is this well done?
12933How can any adversity come to him who hath a wife?
12933Never mind wot I am, sir--''oo are you?
12933Question, What is justice in Pigdom? 12933 Rheumatism?
12933The Anxworks package-- I will not deceive you, Sweet; why should I?
12933Together, I s''pose?
12933Was what sarcasm?
12933Well,said Hawkins,"what did he say to you?"
12933What are you reading?
12933What did I say-- really I have forgotten?
12933What is your favorite book?
12933Which boat do you want?
12933Who?
12933Would you like to become a telegraph- operator?
12933You are twenty- five now? 12933 You mean Walt Whitman?"
12933You speak of death as a matter of course-- you are not afraid to die?
12933A policeman passed us running and called back,"I say, Hawkins, is that you?
12933Alone?
12933And did I want to buy a bull calf?
12933And is n''t that so?
12933And to whom do we owe it that he did leave-- Justice Shallow or Ann Hathaway, or both?
12933Are these remains of stately forests symbols of a race of men that, too, have passed away?
12933Assertive?
12933Besides, who was there to take up his pen?
12933Brown?"
12933But it is all good-- I accept it all and give thanks-- you have not forgotten my chant to death?"
12933But still, should not England have a fitting monument to Shakespeare?
12933But who inspired Dorothy?
12933But why should I tell about it here?
12933Ca n''t you go with me?"
12933Cawn''t ye hadmire''i m on that side of the wall as well as this?"
12933Could it be possible that these rustics were poets?
12933Dark Mother, always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?
12933Did Mademoiselle Mars use it?
12933Did you ever hear of him?"
12933Do you know the scene?"
12933Do you not know what books are to a child hungry for truth, that has no books?
12933Does she protest, and find fault?
12933Edison?"
12933Edison?"
12933Genius has its times of straying off into the infinite-- and then what is the good wife to do for companionship?
12933Had Gavroche ever seen them?
12933Have n''t you noticed that men of sixty have no clearer vision than men of forty?
12933He answered back,"What t''ell is the matter with you fellows?"
12933He brings to bear an energy on every subject he touches( and what subject has he not touched?)
12933He evidently was acquainted with five different languages, and the range of his intellect was worldwide; but where did he get this vast erudition?
12933Honeydew: Ay, Jarvis; but what will fill their mouths in the meantime?
12933How can I get in?"
12933How did she acquire this knowledge?
12933How is any education acquired if not through effort prompted by desire?
12933How?
12933I did likewise, and was greeted with a resounding smack which surprised me a bit, but I managed to ask,"Did you run away?"
12933I heard Old Walt chuckle behind me, talking incoherently to himself, and then he said,"You are wondering why I live in such a place as this?"
12933I touched my hat and said,"Ah, excuse me, Mr. Falstaff, you are the bouncer?"
12933In a voice full of defense the County Down watchman said:"Ah, now, and how did I know but that it was a forgery?
12933Is it not too bad?
12933Is not the child nearer to God than the man?
12933Is not this enough?
12933Is this much or little?
12933Is this to his credit?
12933Just below was the Stone pier and there stood Mrs. Gamp, and I heard her ask:"And which of all them smoking monsters is the Anxworks boat, I wonder?
12933More than a thousand years before Christ, an Arab chief asked,"If a man die shall he live again?"
12933Need I say that the girl who made the remark just quoted had drunk of life''s cup to the very lees?
12933Next the public wanted to know about this thing--"What are you folks doing out there in that buckwheat town?"
12933Of course, these girls are aware that we admire them-- how could they help it?
12933Once they urged him to go with them to an exhibition at Kensington, but he smiled feebly as he lit his pipe and said,"An Art Exhibition?
12933Philip asked the eunuch a needless question when he inquired,"Understandest thou what thou readest?"
12933Proud?
12933Say, did you know him?"
12933So I put the question to him direct:"Did you see Buffalo Bill?"
12933Stubborn?
12933Then the preacher spoke and his voice was sorrowful:"Oh, but I made a botch of it-- was it sarcasm or was it not?"
12933Then what have I done concerning which the public wishes to know?
12933Then what?
12933Then why a monument to Shakespeare?
12933These things being true, and all the sentiments quoted coming from"good"but blindly zealous men, is it a wonder that the Artist is not understood?
12933Tomorrow we go-- where?
12933Victor Hugo has said something on this subject which runs about like this: Why a monument to Shakespeare?
12933WILLIAM M. THACKERAY TO MR. BROOKFIELD September 16, 1849 Have you read Dickens?
12933Was ever a Jones so honored before?
12933Was ever woman more honestly and better praised than Dorothy?
12933Were the waters troubled in order that they might heal the people?
12933What architect has the skill to build a tower so high as the name of Shakespeare?
12933What bronze can equal the bronze of"Hamlet"?
12933What can bronze or marble do for him?
12933What capital, were it even in London, could rumble around it as tumultuously as Macbeth''s perturbed soul?
12933What do you mean by equity?
12933What edifice can equal thought?
12933What framework of cedar or oak will last as long as"Othello"?
12933What is Pig Poetry?
12933What is as indestructible as these:"The Tempest,""The Winter''s Tale,""Julius CÃ ¦ sar,""Coriolanus"?
12933What is meant by''your share''?"
12933What is the Whole Duty of Pigs?
12933What monument sublimer than"Lear,"sterner than"The Merchant of Venice,"more dazzling than"Romeo and Juliet,"more amazing than"Richard III"?
12933What moon could shed about the pile a light more mystic than that of"A Midsummer Night''s Dream"?
12933When trouble, adversity or bewilderment comes to the homesick traveler in an American hotel, to whom can he turn for consolation?
12933Where, one asks in amazement, did this remarkable man find the inspiration for carrying forward his great work?
12933Who can recount the innumerable biographies that begin thus:"In his youth, our subject had for his constant reading, Plutarch''s Lives, etc."?
12933Who can tell?
12933Who could harm the kind vagrant harper?
12933Who made the Pig?
12933Who wrote it?
12933Whom did he ever hurt?
12933Why did he not learn at the feet of Sir Thomas Lucy and write his own epitaph?
12933Why, do n''t you know?
12933Will this convey the thought?
12933Would the author be so kind as to change it?
12933Would they have been so great had they not suffered?
12933Yet love is life and hate is death, so how can spite benefit?
12933now, wot you want?"
12933where the mob surges, cursed with idle curiosity to see the graves of kings and nobodies?