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...l be learning the language, This chapter lays out the most common terms in plain English. Chapter Five: Sample Forms .................................. ...bout starting out with very little just keep at it. Just remember that a single penny doubled every day for 30 days becomes over $5.2 million dolla... ...lars. When you feel like giving up, think about the fact that after 20 days the penny has only grown to just over $5,200. The reader should know th... ...student who has actually learned and worked the system. Start with the one that coincides with your goal. Focus on that aspect of the program, fol... ...ch may have EPA, Zoning or Assessment issues attached. On the other side of the coin, do not focus on only one property (unless there is only one p... ...f one, the survivor owns the property without probate. A form of co-ownership in English law where, when a husband transferred land to his wife, the...

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...ity’s Electronic Classics Series, to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...t unpleasant thrill like what a good ghost story gives one) at the ‘uncanny’ coincidence of my having so unexpectedly divined the subject of her stud ... ...If Steam has done nothing else, it has at least added a whole new Species to English Literature!” “No doubt of it,” I echoed. “The true origin of all ... ... That fluttered round the lamp: He looked again, and found it was A Penny Postage Stamp. Sylvie and Bruno Lewis Carroll 72 ‘You’d bes... ...u.” “True, dear child!” the Professor thankfully replied, as he replaced the coins in his pocket. “That saves two shillings!” And he took the children... ... you may find it a little difficult, just at first, I had better put it into English for you. “Humans, I verily believe! A couple of stray Humans! Wha... ...out that the War den is alive, you will bear witness that the change in the coinage is the Professor’s doing, not mine!’ I never was so glorified in ...

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... Latin kidnapped the word "plagion" from ancient Greek and it ended up in English as "plagiarism". It literally means "to kidnap" - most commonly, t... ...ectory" and the late "Go" directory) work this way. The flip side of the coin of content consumption is investment in content creation, marketing, ... ...positioning are already fierce - a good sign. The Internet used to be an English, affluent middle-class, white collar, male phenomenon. It has long... ...business - are narrowing. Already there are more women than men users and English is the language of less than half of all web sites. The wireless Ne... ...ce we've never had any money whatsoever. However, if we DID get just a penny for every one of the trillion plus eBooks we have given away, based ... ...h) and a Briton (Alan M. Turing) published independently (as is often the coincidence in science) the basics of a new branch in Mathematics (and log... ...y anthropocentric – others are anthropo-transcendental. These two lingual coins need elaboration to be fully comprehended. A culture which cherishe...

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...ay the French, All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods, Shone down the English; and, to morrow, they Made Britain India: every man that stood Sh... ...er, In seeming to augment it wastes it? Be advised: I say again, there is no English soul More stronger to direct you than yourself, If with the sap o... ...e unmanly, yet are follow’d. Chamberlain: As far as I see, all the good our English Have got by the late voyage is but merely A fit or two o’ the fac... ... a noble spirit, As yours was put into you, ever casts Such doubts, as false coin, from it. The king loves you; Beware you lose it not: for us, if you... ... of mere ambition, you have caused Your holy hat to be stamp’d on the king’s coin. SURREY: Then that you have sent innumerable substance— By what mea... ...And,—prithee, lead me in: There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny; ’tis the king’s: my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dar...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ne, for the nation that deliberates is but little wont to act. So, strange coincidence! while Lucien was drawn into the great machinery of journalism,... ...e, on which the ink was evenly distributed, an improvement so obvious that Cointet Brothers no sooner saw it than they adopted the 6 Eve and David pl... ...workmen had left him one by one; there was not enough work for them to do. Cointet Brothers, on the other hand, were overwhelmed with orders; they wer... ... to Kolb’s activity and honesty, Eve sold three thousand broad sheets at a penny apiece, and made three hundred francs in all at a cost of thirty fran... ...and fondled the child, who held out both little arms to him. No heir to an English peerage could be more tenderly cared for than this little one in th... ...of those days were sown with notes 99 Balzac of admiration, as reports of English election speeches are stud- ded with “cheers” in brackets.) “In spi...

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...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ere; due to the minute perceptions which compel the gossips of a family to coin phrases that shall ex- press the nicest shades of a domestic differenc... ...e-a- tete, I do not say. I should think there he would be—a stick! All you English are. But what sort of a bow has he got, I ask you? How does he ente... ...man smile. O mio Deus! honeyed, my dears! But Evan has it not. None of you English have. You go so.’ The Countess pressed a thumb and finger to the si... ...ance at the surface, to say, that just as moneyed men are careful of their coin, women who have all the advantages in a conjunction, are miserly in ke... ...amily had never known him beg for a shilling, or admit his necessity for a penny: nor could he be made to accept money unless it was thrust into his p... ...could pay his money, and keep his footing gallantly; but to be asked for a penny beyond what he possessed; to be seen beggared, and to be claimed a de... ...erly forsaken 52 Evan Harrington him. They had not. He discovered a small coin, under ordi- nary circumstances not contemptible; but he did not stay ... ...smoking it, think of me as in your debt. You’re the only man I ever owed a penny to.’ The postillion put it in a side pocket apart, and observed: ‘A s...

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...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... have been made use of for this purpose in rude bars, without any stamp or coinage. Thus we are told by Pliny (Plin. Hist Nat. lib. 33, cap. 3), upon ... ...cient historian, that, till the time of Servius Tullius, the Romans had no coined money, but made use of unstamped bars of copper, to purchase whateve... ...t can be drawn from it is extremely uncertain. Before the insti- tution of coined money, however, unless they went through this tedious and difficult ... ...to twelve ounces, each of which contained a real ounce of good copper. The English pound sterling, in the time of Edward I. contained a pound, Tower w... ...f Robert Bruce, a pound of silver of the same weight and fineness with the English pound sterling. English, French, and Scots pennies, too, contained ... ...h, French, and Scots pennies, too, contained all of them originally a real penny-weight of silver, the twentieth 29 Adam Smith part of an ounce, and ... ...ourpence”. The pro- portion, however, between the shilling, and either the penny on the one hand, or the pound on the other, seems not to have been so... ... other, seems not to have been so constant and uniform as that between the penny and the pound. During the first race of the kings of France, the Fren...

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...g student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...uple of hours. The spencer, as its name indicates, was the invention of an English lord, vain, doubtless, of his handsome shape. Some time before the ... ...ing in the minority, the success of the spencer was short-lived in France, English though it was. At the sight of the spencer, men of forty or fifty m... ... much in the purchases themselves as on the expenses of transit; and every penny inherited from his mother had been spent in the course of a three-yea... ...hrift through passion, and for both the result was the same—they had not a penny on Saint Sylvester’s day. Perhaps Pons would have given way under his... ...ar, and the pair had altogether in income of sixteen hundred francs, every penny of which they spent, for the Cibots lived and fared better than worki... ...s his peltry) to invest little Fritz’s money, a goodly quantity of current coin of the realm, with the house of Al-Sartchild. Not a penny of it was he... ...ding chairs of Mantchu and Slave and literatures so little professable (to coin a word) as the literatures of the North (which, so far from providing ... ...e spiritual world; they likewise produce effects, and exist spectrally (to coin a word to express phenomena for which no words ex- ist), and certain h...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ther God nor man. He applies in private life the principles that guide the English Cabinet. Up to the time of his marriage, his life was one continual... ... in all my born days, I have not lent anybody that much—’ “He held out his penny as he spoke, with the important air of a man that gives a learned dem... ... four glorious thousand-franc notes in hand? ‘Four thousand francs of live coin!—there are moments in one’s life when one would sign bills for eight t...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... nished, and very neatly arranged. There were shelves and stands of books, English, French, and Italian; and in a portfolio on the writing-table there... ...hin a year, I married him. It is natural for the mind to recall these dark coincidences on the present day .’ Mr Sampson at length released from the c... ...ea of Death. Bob, the Miser’s cur. Griffiths and his Master. How to turn a penny. A substitute for a Fire. The Advantages of keeping a Snuff-box. The ... ...drawing powers, ‘a leather valise, containing twenty thousand francs, gold coins, and a large quantity of precious stones,’ as discovered by a chimney... ... old way, with that new touch of craftiness added to it. ‘It has fetched a penny . It’ll begin to be carted off to-morrow.’ ‘Have you been out to take... ... the dark greasy walls; the Hindoo baby, the African baby, the articulated English baby, the assortment of skulls, and the rest of the collection, cam... ...u had taken an interest in 83 Charles Dickens these very affairs. Such is coincidence!’ ‘Her father,’ rejoined V enus, and then stopped to swallow mo... ... These, over and above Sloppy, were the mourners at the lowly grave. Not a penny had been added to the money sewn in her dress: what her honest spirit...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...nd mouths? If you can point out one to me, I’ll give you a kick or a half- penny, whichever you like. You will find some who have nei- ther husband no... ...t, to arrest certain peasants suspected of plotting treacherously with the English. Thereupon my two pigeons, believing their man absent, will be as m... ...o return to town, in order that he might seize at the said lord’s house an English nobleman, with whom he was vehemently suspected to be arranging a p... ...an, “with which castles and cities are built and demol- ished, a hammer to coin money, a remedy for every ill, a traveller’s staff always ready to be ... ...youth been dangerous to my life, and in this opinion the Arabian physician coincides. If I die, I wish you to make the most binding oath a knight can ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ied Lord Dumbello, the eldest don of the Marquis of Hartletop—than whom no English nobleman was more puissant, if broad acres, many castles, high titl... ...ter very well knew. And even to this day he would sometimes recite to them English poetry, lines after lines, stanzas upon stanzas, in a sweet low mel... ... nothing wrong. I do think he would be the last man in the world to take a penny that did not belong to him. You know how poor he is; what a life he h... ...ad given him money, covered up, in an enclosure, ‘so that the touch of the coin might not add to my disgrace in taking alms,’ said the wretched man, t... ...ve it for you the next day. Mamma hap- pened to say that she wanted a four-penny postage stamp, and he walked off to Guestwick to get it for her insta... ...e top of the tree, and to keep himself there. He began the world without a penny. Now he has got a handle to his name, and he’ll live in clover all hi... ...’ said Johnny. ‘Suppose that sovereign is marked,’ and Johnny pro- duced a coin from his pocket, ‘and I don’t know but what it is; and suppose it is p... ...octor, expecting to hear some opinion expressed by him with which he might coincide. 535 Anthony Trollope ‘There certainly are reasons why he should ...

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...s also inspired and informed by colleagues and students in computer science, English, history, and political science. But the work I am describing her... ...,004,596 for a “Sealed Crustless Sandwich.” In the curiously mangled form of English that patent law produces, it was described this way: A sealed cru... ...y products for us? Why do we have trademark law, this “homestead law for the English language”? 4 Why not simply allow anyone to use any name or attra... ...sts you encountered in Chapter 1 have, with their usual linguistic felicity, coined the terms “rivalrous” and “ex- cludable” to describe these charact... ..., slang, or phrases without clearance from some Academie Anglaise. After you coin your term, it is in turn available to me to build upon or to use in ... ...e pence to you today, while other estimates have the value falling below one penny. This seems un- likely to spur much creativity at the margin. Or to... ...ncept of the author and this concept of the copier are two sides of the same coin. If we think of an author as hav- ing a natural right to profit from ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ers of the age. Authority on these points may be found in Strutt’s Book of English Sports and Pastimes. Bright were the days at Merry Mount, when the ... ..., and others, of still richer blush, which the colo- nists had reared from English seed. O, people of the Golden Age, the chief of your husbandry was ... ...an immense quantity of pine-tree shillings, which were the earliest silver coinage of Massachu- setts. The fourth whom we shall notice had no name tha... ...-de- scended governor. A stage-driver sat at one of the windows, reading a penny paper of the day —the Boston Times—and presenting a figure which coul... ...e that fenced the Province House from the public street. It was an awkward coincidence that the bell of the Old South was just then tolling for a fune... ... trary, after innumerable schemes, which ought to have col- lected all the coin and paper currency of the country into his coffers, was as needy a gen...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... ought to be considered satisfactory. Perhaps the idea of Grogswigg—nearly coincident with that of Kroutaplenttey—is to be cautiously preferred.—It ru... ...asted whole, and set upon its knees, with an apple in its mouth, as is the English fashion of dressing a hare. “Thank you, no,” I replied; “to say the... ... good-for-nothing dunder-headed villain who couldn’t understand your plain English in relation to the chicken- bone. He’ll take the hint and be off, y... ...ble false- hood —a poor hoax —the lees of the invention of some piti- able penny-a-liner —of some wretched concoctor of acci- dents in Cocaigne. These... ...yet been able to obtain from the site any sufficient data (in the shape of coins, medals or inscriptions) wherewith to build up even the ghost of a th... ...ty 105 V olume Four appeared, containing a leaden box filled with various coins, a long scroll of names, several documents which appear to re- semble... ...etershams. The elder partner of the firm, however, would allow me only one penny of the charge, and took it upon him- self to show in what manner four... ...e in a business way. There was no system whatever in swindling me out of a penny—a clear 145 V olume Four fraud of fifty per cent—no method in any re...

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...eflects heavily, of course, on the “picture book” quality that contemporary English and American prose appears more and more destined, by the condition... ...rms; to become aware in other words that the march of my present attention coincides sufficiently with the march of my original expression; that my app... ...n the special intenser light, to represent together (as the two sides of a coin show different legends) just so many effective felicities and sub sti... ...ts dark brown moustache and its expression no more sharply “foreign” to an English view than to have caused it sometimes to be observed of him with a ... ... character. He thought of these fellows, from whom he was so to differ, in English; he used, mentally, the English term to describe his difference, fo... ... essential qual ity and value. It was as if he had been some old embossed coin, of a purity of gold no longer used, stamped with glorious arms, media... ...I mean send a carriage.” “Oh I don’t require that, thanks. I can go, for a penny, can’t I?” she asked of Mrs. Assingham, “in an omnibus.” “Oh I say!” ... ...ile Mrs. Assingham looked at her blandly. “Yes, love—and I’ll give you the penny. She shall get there,” the good lady added to their friend. But Charl... ...y they had some ten minutes, of a quality quite dis tinct, in a couple of penny chairs under one of the larger trees. They had taken, for their walk,...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...lways to be found a considerable popula- tion of French, Americans, and of English. Oriental life is brought home to us, dreadfully diluted by western... ... wearing coats and waistcoats, and by women who are without veils; but the English tongue in Egypt finds its centre at Shepheard’s Hotel. It is here t... ...that. Yes! steam mills are better, no doubt, and mechanics’ institutes and penny newspapers. But is noth- ing to be valued but what is useful?” And Mi... ... thought to rid herself of the man who was annoying her. No sooner had the coin dropped from her hand into that of the Arab, than she was surrounded b... ... were neither sweet nor mild. In her dismay she did give away sundry small coins— all, probably, that she had about her; but this only made the matter...

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...Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical wo... ...ver be contented in his own house!” she would begin; and weep and pray with the cook; and then the cook would pray with Mrs. Weir; and the next day’s ... ...ir perhaps to none. He had nothing to explain or to con- ceal; he sufficed wholly and silently to himself; and that part of our nature which goes out ... ...wn family, and may count kinship with some illustrious dead. For that is the mark of the Scot of all classes: that he stands in an attitude towards th... ...ell enough, knew very well how to spend it, and could make a shrewd bargain when he liked. But he preferred a vague knowledge that he was well to wind...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...e bird! Just twenty years of age, slender and delicate as the sirens which English de- signers invent for their “Books of Beauty,” Modeste was, like h... ...wl, rocks that faint, and waves of war! How- ever, he is only a travelling Englishman, and we must expect absurdities,—though his are really inexcusab... ...days upon the scaffold, or, like her sister, some Parisian youth without a penny, whose struggles were all beneath a garret-roof. Sometimes she was Ni... ...martyrdom, to the other innumer- able five-franc pieces; one we can pay in coin, but the world remains throughout all time a debtor to the other. Each... ...as paid her for that in praises, respect, and admiration,—the very best of coin. I don’t recognize any service that is only the capital of self- love.... ...ot buy it back there’s two hundred thousand francs which won’t bring you a penny; it only leaves you a hundred thousand to get along with, and it isn’...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...d rose amid the appointments of modern luxury and the choice appliances of English “com- fort,” he remembered the details of his visit to that cloiste... ...om the confidence expressed in the house of Mongenod was not a wound. Like English houses, the Mongenods made no external display of luxury. They live... ...ing me a paper from which he read the total,—’Seventeen thousand francs in coin; a sum with which a house could be bought that would bring in two thou... ...tation of exciting civil war in Brittany, La Vendee, and part of Normandy, coincided in time with the final wreck of the baron’s fortune; and this wre... ...r backs. Three thousand francs in copper were rejected; but a sum in other coin of one hundred and three thousand francs was safely carried off on the... ...ame V authier, it is well known, would rather have noth- ing than a single penny that ought to go to others.” Madame Vauthier soon came to terms with ... ... pay me every week, and it now three months, ten weeks, since I have had a penny; you owe me a hundred and twenty 128 The Brotherhood of Consolation ... ...d monsieur Godefroid, he’s nearly seventy, and after him, what then? not a penny of pension! How’ll you get paid? Young men are so imprudent! Do you k...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... thought. The worthy Hermann himself was not very entertaining, though his English was fairly comprehensible. Mrs. Hermann, who always let off one spe... ...g stolidly ahead he 17 Joseph Conrad greeted him with, “Wie gehts,” or in English, “How are you?” with a throaty enunciation. The girl would look up ... ...ering from the verandah, a murmur of two voices; at the sharp tapping of a coin on a table Mrs. Schomberg half rose irresolutely. “Sit still,” he hiss... ...hecked him by saying loftily that I hoped he would make Falk pay for every penny of the damage. “That’s it! That’s it! Go for him,” called out Schombe...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...cian bowler hats and the neat coats of the boulevardier. Dr Porhoët spoke English fluently, with scarcely a trace of foreign accent, but with an elab... ... lecturing at his hospital, and took pains to read every word, not only in English, but in French and German, which was published concerning his profe... ...before. I thought I was spending my own money.’ ‘If I died tomorrow, every penny I have would be yours. We shall be married in two years, and we’ve kn... ... was a disgraceful alterca tion with the waiter. He refused to change the coin till a policeman was brought in. His guests were furious, and sev era... ...I venture to suggest that you might conveniently send them by means of the penny post.’ Arthur frowned. ‘Why did you not let me know that she was ill?...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...st be added, entirely indiffer- ent about his birthplace; but speaking the English language, and having been during the course of his life pretty gene... ...ke the trouble to inquire. He was a Bavarian by birth (his mother being an English lady), and enjoyed along with a dozen other brothers the title of c... ...very great; but with regard to the names of the horses and children, which coincided so extraordinarily, it is but fair to state, that the christening... ...ywhere Catty Hall is, provided thou canst goo for nothing.” “Nay, I have a penny to spend as good as the Corporal here.” “A penny to keep, you mean: f... ...n pocket: which he did, and with the Ensign’s, or rather Mrs. Hayes’s, own coin. As soon as they were out of the justice’s house, Mr. Macshane, in the... ...y. The man was as deaf and cold as a rock; never did poor tradesmen gain a penny from him; never were the bailiffs delayed one single minute from thei... ...ng perpetually to and fro, opening and shutting of chests, and clinking of coin. At the least sound he would start up, and would go to Billings’s door... ...rhetorical graces which he might employ. Mr. Aram’s trial, as taken by the penny-a-liners of those days, had always inter- ested him more than the len...

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...gues of men; the thoughts and habits of each fresh generation and each new-coined spirit throw an- other light upon the universe and contain another c... ...t is not merely a convenience or a necessary in social life; but it is the coin in which mankind pays his wages to the individual man. And from this s... ...ind was pursuing some other and more general design than to set one or two Englishmen of the nineteenth century be- yond the reach of needs and duties... ... went through life an altered man, be- cause he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My con- cern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, f... ...Revenge,’ ‘Duells,’ ‘Cruelty,’ ‘A Defence of some of the Ceremonies of the English Liturgie– to wit– Bowing at the Name of Jesus, The frequent repetit... ...y was rendered bullet-proof by enchantment, and, pulling some small silver coins from his pocket, charged his pistol therewith. Dalzell, seeing this, ... ...alist Jericho– but to the stealthy change that has come over the spirit of Englishmen and English legislation. A little while ago, and we were still f... ..., would indicate the march of luxury and the repeal of the paper duty. The penny bi-weekly broadside of session 1828-4 was almost wholly dedicated to ... ...e the cheap-and-nasty treaty), and to-morrow he asks you for the loan of a penny to buy the last number of the Lapsus. The student of Law, again, was ...

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...islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking woman. English itself, which will now frank the traveller through the most of North America, throug...

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................ 74 CHAPTER XII: THE CHARACTER OF DOGS .............................................................................. 83 CHAPTER XIII: A PENNY PLAIN AND TWOPENCE COLOURED ........................................... 92 CHAPTER XIV: A GOSSIP ON A NOVEL OF DUMAS?S ............................................................ 98 CHAPTER XV: A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE .......

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... .......................................................... 83 CHAPTER XIII: A PENNY PLAIN AND TWOPENCE COLOURED ............................................ ...e, some have ap- peared already in The Cornhill, Longman ’s, Scribner, The english Illustrated, The Magazine of Art, The contemporary Review; three ar... ... cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Mic... ... words; when I sat by the roadside, I would either read, or a pencil and a penny version-book would be in my hand, to note down the features of the sc... ...time was not yet ripe, nor the man ready; and to work I went again with my penny version-books, having fallen back in one day from the printed author ... ...e; ideas thus figured and personi- fied, change hands, as we may say, like coin; and the speak- ers imply without effort the most obscure and intricat...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...y sheer force of repetition, that view is imposed upon the reader. The two English mas- ters of the style, Macaulay and Carlyle, largely exemplify its... ...on Society in England; and Mr. John Payne has translated him entirely into English, a task of un- usual difficulty. I regret to find that Mr. Payne an... ...ample, in spite of its strength, verges dangerously on the province of the penny novelist. I do not believe that Quasimodo rode upon the bell; I shoul... ...’s eyes in Les Miserables; and this moral lesson is worked out in masterly coincidence with the artis- tic effect. The deadly weight of civilisation t... ...OF MAUCHLINE RACES, 1785, the young men and women of the place joined in a penny ball, according to their custom. In the same set danced Jean Armour, ... ...ter- ary turn, simply the most agreeable of pastimes. The change in manner coincides exactly with the Edinburgh visit. In 1786 he had written the Addr... ...ards making the poets. His notion of the poetic function is ambitious, and coin- cides roughly with what Schopenhauer has laid down as the province of... ... be wakeful with the stings of the mosquito; and while you were grudging a penny income tax, Kusakabe was stepping to death with a noble sentence on h...