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... to the paper-makers. Reams upon reams must have gone to the making of ‘Rathillet,’ ‘The Pentland Rising,’** ‘The King’s Pardon’ (oth- *First publishe... ...what, much later, about a hundred years ago –’ ‘More than a hundred years ago,’ said Mr. Thomson. ‘In 1783.’ ‘How do you know that? I mean some death.... ...as a packet, fastened with many seals and enclosed in a single 54 Robert Louis Stevenson sheet of strong paper thus endorsed: – Papers relating to th...

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... main body of the sec- ond expedition was brought back by another officer des- patched for that purpose from V ailima. Casualties: one horse wounded; ... ... bust in 2 or 3 days, a bust which may spell destruction to Samoa. I have written to Baxter about his proposal. 197 V ailima Letters CHAPTER XXXVI V ... ...ief, degradation. To him has been left the sole conduct of this anxious and decisive in- quiry. If the natives stand it, why, well!But I am nervous. C... ...am like the negro, ‘I just heard last night’ who my great, great, great, great grandfather was. —Ever yours, R. L. S. 200 Robert Louis Stevenson CH... ...how am I to write to you?I think you are truly a little too Cockney with me. —Ever yours, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. 203 V ailima Letters CHAPTER XXXIX ... ...l, and the Babel of voices will be heard again in the big hall so long empty and silent. Good- bye. Love to all. Time to close. —Yours ever, R. L. S...

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...t Nine Books of the Danish His- tory, T ranslated by Oliver Elton (London, 1894). 5 The V olsunga Saga INTRODUCTION It would seem fitting for a North... ...pter viii. — DBK. 24 The V olsunga Saga Of the next part of the Saga, the deaths of Sinfjotli and Sigmund, and the journey of Queen Hjordis to the co... ...erein they sit night long. Then the king ponders what longest and worst of deaths he shall mete out to them; and when morning came he let make a great...

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... London, 1911. M.W . MACCALLUM, T ennyson’s Idylls of the King , Glasgow, 1894. H. MAYNADIER, The Arthur of the English Poets , Boston and New York,... ...they had troubled the land, and had done his father and his uncle to their deaths. Arthur called his meinie to his aid. He brought together a fair com... ...ell, nor might the Britons do better. A thousand men came swiftly to their deaths, for the 132 Arthurian Chronicles:Roman De Brut two hosts arrayed t...

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...t time the Martians must have been getting ready. During the opposition of 1894 a great light was seen on the illuminated part of the disk, first at t... ... even as they went to and fro. It was inevitable. By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against al...

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...uch that he wrote about in anticipation is now established commonplace. In 1894 there were still plenty of sceptics of the possibility either of autom... ...idity, and holds back women from the face of danger and brave and horrible deaths. It is West to Miss Robins’ East. And yet I believe I am right in sa...

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...Lord Salisbury was at great pains to display to the British Association in 1894, that the average of a species in any respect is raised by the selecti... ..., lies not in selective breed- ing, but in the disproportionately numerous deaths of the individuals below the average. And even the methods of the br... ...tch and English, these same men allow thousands and thousands of avoidable deaths of English children close at hand to pass absolutely unno- ticed. Th... ...in these same towns. Unclassified “violence” also accounts for more infant deaths in the country than in towns. This 56 Mankind in the Making suggest... ...s we find that they have fallen also. Period 1846-1850 23 3 deaths per 1000 Period 1896-1900 17 7 deaths per 1000 ... ...returns I have quoted from Blackburn, Leicester, and Preston the number of deaths from suffocation per 100,000 infants born was 232 in the first year ... ...flaw in the second section of the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act of 1894, which may have been specially aimed at beggars with off- spring. It i...

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...have shown that the ap- palling results which led to the hasty dropping in 1894 of Koch’s tuberculin were not accidents, but perfectly orderly and ine... ... mad dog means certain hydrophobia. It seemed to me that the proportion of deaths among the cases treated at the Institute was rather higher, if anyth... ...ressing effects on the vital statistics of his district of the illness and deaths it causes, whilst it would take from him all the credit of that free...

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...ned winding-sheet.* Many thought that this apparition was a portent of the deaths connected with the Pentland Rising. On the morning of Wednesday, the... ...laboration was to lie back in an easy-chair and laugh.’– [R.L.S., Oct. 25, 1894.] 99 Lay Morals the hankering after them inherent in the civilised an...

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...es for the moral, intellectual and material leader- ship of the world? The deaths and accessions of Kings, the changing of names and coins and symbols... ... much by what it says as by what it silently abandons. It was published in 1894, and it stated in the very clearest terms the incompatibility of the a...