John Foster

“ He was a cousin of John Rowan, the distinguished Kentucky lawyer and senator. Of Foster’s family, his father, his brothers, his sisters were all notable as patriots, as pioneers in engineering, in commerce and in society. One of his brothers designed and built the early Pennsylvania Railroad system and died executive vice-president of that great corporation. Thus he was born to the arts and to social distinction. But, like many men of the creative temperament, he was born a solitary, destined to live in a land of dreams. ”

“ Forster, Robert Thomas Forster, Stuart Forsyth, William Fort, Henry Forte, Nathaniel Fortescue, John Bevill Fortier, Francis Prix Fosbrooke, Leonard Foss, Edward William Foster, Arthur la Trobe Foster, Charles Frost Foster, Charles James Foster, Edward John Foster, Frank Foster, James Loxham Foster, James Thomasin Foster, John Alfred Foster, Samuel Porter Foster, Thomas Gregory Foster, William Erskine Foulkes, William Decimus Inglett Foulkes, William Langford Fowke, Anthony Henderson Fowke, Sir Frederic Thomas, bart. ”

“ And to a devout man, it is a spectacle of most enchanting beauty, thus to see the immortal plant, which has been under a malignant blast while sixty or seventy years have passed over it, coming out at length in the bloom of life. ”

“ Boscawen, and Clara must relinquish all hope of securing her fleeting lover.
Sir John was aware of his companion's eccentric habits, therefore his studies were quietly resumed, and Sir Foster was allowed to smile and doze out his allotted time in his own peculiar way. Happiness is very differently defined by individuals: Sir Foster considered it enjoyed in [35] a long course of half-dreamy nothingness, seated in a soft arm-chair, tapping his boot, and not bored by questions or remarks: Mrs. ”

“ and his memory seems to have vanished from her dull brain as a shadow passes away upon a white screen. She lives in the cottage and works for Miss Swaffer. She is Amy Foster for everybody, and the child is ‘Amy Foster’s boy.’ She calls him Johnny—which means Little John.
“It is impossible to say whether this name recalls anything to her. Does she ever think of the past? I have seen her hanging over the boy’s cot in a very passion of maternal tenderness. ”

“ You cross the Equator to the tune of a Gaiety light opera. Sultry afternoons are relieved with exhilarating deck sports. The warmth of the dinner hour is softened by the whirl of electric fans. In the evening a space on deck is enclosed and hung with the flags of all the nations, and dancers in fancy dress whirl blithely on the powdered floor. ”

“ Among a crowd of trifling and corrupting ideas that soon find a place in them, there is never the reflective thought,—For what purpose am I alive? What is it that I should be, more than the animal that I am? ”

“ The tramp of war-horses, the clatter of armed warriors, the noise of carts, the parade of firemen, the incessant tolling of bells, the shrieks of women, the cries of children, dinning all the streets of a city of more than a million souls, made confusion worse confounded. ”

“ It is the hapless predicament of our nature, that the noblest of its powers, the understanding, has but most imperfectly and precariously that commanding hold on the others, which is essential to the good order of the soul. Our constitution is like a machine in which there is a constant liability of the secondary wheels to be thrown out of the catch and grapple of the master one. ”

“ At a distance of one hundred miles before arrival at Mendoza the interminable chain of the Andes, with its snow-capped peaks mingling with the clouds, is distinguishable. As the train approaches their imposing grandeur becomes more and more evident. Another of the views which delights the tourist, and makes the business man think, is that of the smiling vineyards extending on both sides of the line in a delightful prospect until lost on the horizon. ”

“ To these joys of tumult, the people of the savage and the more cultivated nations sacrificed everything belonging to the peaceful economy of life, with a desperate, frantic fury. All this was the confession that there was little felicity in the heart or in the home. Nor was it found in these resources; if the wild elation might be mistaken for happiness while it lasted, it was brief in each instance, and it subsided in an aggravated dreariness of the soul. ”

“ To pass from beholding that bright and sumptuous display, in order to see what there was corresponding to it in the subsequent state of the popular cultivation, is like going out from some magnificent apartment with its lustres, music, refections, and assemblage of elegant personages, to be beset by beggars in the gloom and cold of a winter night. ”

“ You see all the beauty of Rio harbour at one view. It is like suddenly coming face to face with an imperial lady of dazzling attractions. When you have seen her you have seen everything. Sydney harbour does not knock you over with bewilderment of beauty like Rio does. ”

“ Japan is anxious to press forward. The red disk in the centre of our flag shall no longer appear like a wafer over a sealed empire, but henceforth be in fact what it is designed to be, the noble emblem of the rising sun, moving onward and upward amid the enlightened nations of the world. ”

“ It is like passing judgment on two lovely women. For grand, impressive spectacular effect, being hit right between the eyes with stupendous gorgeousness, seeing Rio harbour at the hour of sunset is the most wonderful sight in the world. ”

“ Yet, though it is apparent to the most casual observer of the world's conditions that Argentina must wax in strength and become increasingly independent, it is clear that were she to attempt to stand, far less run, alone she would come a tremendous cropper.
The pride of the Argentine has to be reckoned upon. The nation recalls its decrepit past; it sees the abundant blossom of the present; it eyes are large when viewing the future. ”

“ If you do indeed respect Heaven and recognize the Sovereign, then our celestial court, viewing all under Heaven as one family, and uniting all nations as one body, will most assuredly regard your faithful purpose and permit you year by year to bring tribute and annually come to pay court to the Celestial Kingdom, forever bathing yourself in the gracious streams of the celestial dynasty, peacefully residing in your own lands, and living quietly enjoying great glory. ”

“ But this territory has a special fascination of its own. There is a bigness, an immensity, an unendingness which lays hold of the imagination. The great silence, save for the play of the wind amongst the long grass, seizes the fancy. Sunrise and sunset come and go in a wonderful glory. At the birth of day all the grass sparkles with dew; the softest colours seem to brush the world. ”

“ Nothing could be jollier—when a sand storm is not on the wing—than travelling with pleasant friends in a reserved coach. It is like a flat. There is a sitting-room, and on a chill evening the fire burns brightly in an open grate. ”

“ You press a button, and when the attendant has brought you an iced cocktail you agree that "roughing it" in Argentina is a delightful experience. If your car is properly equipped with a good kitchen and a good cook, and there is a decent "cellar"—hospitality is one of the legitimate boasts of the people—you fare as well as you would do in a first-class hotel. ”

“ If he has sensibility and taste, the magnificence, the graceful union of so many diverse inventions of art, the whole mighty creation of genius that quitted the world without leaving even a name, will come with magical impression on his mind, while it is contemplatively darkening into the awe of antiquity. ”

“ And we thoughtlessly admit on our imagination this splendid exhibition as in some manner involving or implying the collective state of the people in that age! The ethereal summits of a tract of the moral world are conspicuous and fair in the lustre of heaven, and we take no thought of the immensely greater proportion of it which is sunk in gloom and covered with fogs. ”

“ When the sun is up, and blazes from a sky with all the blue burnt out of it, a sort of oppressive hot hush rests upon the world. The long grass seems to drowse beneath the pitiless glare. You can travel for hundreds of miles and never see a hillock or a tree or a beast, or hear a bird. But into this land man is slowly but persistently penetrating. To folk who live at home the life seems deadening. ”

“ This combination of a majestic superiority to the human nature, with a subsistence yet confessedly human, just passes their minds like a shape formed of a shadow, as one of the unaccountable things that may be as it is said, for what they know, but which they need not trouble themselves to think about. ”

“ Foster-mothers are engaged to nurse the children. As one went through the rooms, and saw the tiny morsels of humanity, many of them feeble, with a shape of head which roused wonder as to the future, it was hard to keep the tears away. ”

“ Of this nation, the theme of so many lofty strains of panegyric; of this nation, stretching forth its powers in ambitious enterprise, with infinite pride and cost, to all parts of the globe;—just as if a family were seen eagerly intent on making some new appropriation, or going out to maintain some competition or feud with its neighbors, or mixing perhaps in the strife of athletic games, or drunken frays, at the very time that several of its members are lying dead in the house. ”

“ The course of feeling resembles a listless stream of water, which, after being dashed into commotion, by a massive substance flung into it, or by its precipitation at a rapid, relapses, in the progress of a few fathoms and a few moments, into its former sluggishness of current. ”

“ What stupendous infatuation, what disastrous ascendency of the Power of Darkness, that this energy should have been sent forth to pervade all parts of the world in quest of objects, to inspirit and accomplish innumerable projects, political and military, and to lavish itself, even to exhaustion and fainting at its vital source, on every alien interest ”

“ The mind threw a fictitious divinity into its own phantasms, and into the objects in the visible world. It is amazing to observe how, when one solemn principle was taken away, the promiscuous numberless crowd of almost all shapes of fancy and of matter became, as it were, instinct with ambition, and mounted into gods. ”

“ The fact of their being unhappy had a still more gloomy attestation in the mutual enmity which seems to have been of the very essence of life so vital a principle, that it could not be spared for an hour. No, they could not live without this luxury drawn from the fountains of death! What is the most conspicuous material of ancient history, what is it that glares out the most hideously from that darkness and oblivion in which the old world is veiling its aspect, but the incessant furies of miserable mortals against their fellow-mortals, "hateful and hating one another?" ”

“ We can imagine this ill-fated spirit, especially if by nature of the somewhat finer temperament, thus detached from all vital connection, secluded from the whole universe, and inclosed as by a prison wall,—we can imagine it sometimes moved with an indistinct longing for its appropriate interests; and going round and round by this dark, dead wall, to seek for any spot where there might be a chance of escape, or any crevice where a living element for the soul transpires ”

“ Man tracks, by John Trace (Bennett Foster) (In Street & Smith's western story, Jan. 30-Apr. 17, 1943) © 22Jan43, B572646; 29Jan43, B576783; 5Feb43, B573559; 19Feb43, B575778; 5Mar43, B578330; 19Mar43, B579595. E. Arleen Foster (W) ; 6Apr70; R482433, 482431, 48234-482435, 482432, 482436.
FOSTER, DOROTHY FAY, ed.
The life of Christ visualized. Book 1: From Bethlehem's manger to calling of the twelve. No.1051. © 18Nov42; AA415512. Standard Pub. Co. (PWH) ; 21Apr70; R483203.
FOSTER, E. ARLEEN. Man tracks. ”

“ William Fox, (Sir) William Fox, William (1) Fox, William (2) Fox, William Edward Lane Fox, William Embleton Foxcroft, Edward Talbot Day Foxcroft, Henry Foxley, John Foxley, Thomas (1) Foxley, Thomas (2) Foxley, Thomas (3) Foxton, Christopher Foxton, Frederick Joseph Foxton, George Foxton, George Lardner Foxton, William Foy, Rev. ”

“ Henry Watson Fox, Herbert Francis Fox, Herbert Hamilton Fox, James Fox, Rev. James Charles Fox, John (1) Fox, John (2) Fox, John (3) Fox, John (4) Fox, John (5) Fox, John (6) Fox, John Scott Fox, John Wilson Fox, Loftus Luke (Bushe) Fox, Octavius Fox, Richard Fox, Richard Edward Fox, Richard Maxwell Fox, Robert Gerard Fox, Robert Stote Fox, Samuel (1) Fox, Samuel (2) Fox, Samuel William Darwin Fox, Stephen Fox, Stephen Newcome Fox, Thomas (1) Fox, Thomas (2) Fox, Thomas (3) Fox, Thomas (4) Fox, Thomas (5) Fox, Thomas (6) Fox, Thomas Merritt Fox, Vaughan Simpson Fox, Rev. ”

“ Fort, Richard (2) Fort, Richard (3) Fortescue, Arthur Trosse Fortescue, Charles Fortescue, Chichester Fortescue, Chichester Samuel Fortescue, Cyril Dudley Fortescue, Edmund Fortescue, Edward Bowles (Knottesford) Fortescue, Francis Fortescue, George Fortescue, George Grenville Fortescue, Henry Fortescue, Henry Raymundo Fortescue, Hugh (1) Fortescue, Hugh (2) Fortescue, Hugh, Viscount Ebrington Fortescue, James (1) Fortescue, James (2) Fortescue, John (1) Fortescue, John (2) Fortescue, John (3) Fortescue, John (4) Fortescue-Aland, Sir John, Knt. ”