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...uis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the ... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State ... ...ot know if I should be glad or sorry that he failed to keep favour; but on 6th January 1682 (rather a *Pitcairn’s Criminal Trials, at large. – [R. L. ... ... it presents 36 Robert Louis Stevenson of the north islanders. On the 9th October 1794 he took passage from Orkney in the sloop Elizabeth of Stromnes... ...sel with a degree of force which had not before been experienced. [Sunday, 6th Sept.] During the last night there was little rest on board of the Phar... ...he Bell Rock works, on which he was consulted as chief engineer. [Tuesday, 6th Oct.] The artificers landed this morning at nine, after which one of th... ...s found in the same entire state in which it had been left in the month of October. This, in the estimation of the writer, was a matter of no small im... ...n Light- houses, the writer landed at the Bell Rock on Sunday, the 14th of October, and had the pleasure to find, from the very favourable state of th...

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...Preface: To explain the present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, an...

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...JOHN KEBLE’S PARISHES A HISTORY OF HURSLEY AND OTTERBOURNE By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Cl... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pe... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...re. It was reckoned a memorable improvement. 1629. A great fall of snow in October. It was nearly half a foot deep, and remained on the ground three o... ...ie in this chancel) is given according to her desire. Mrs. Ann Gibson, the 6th daughter, died 7th Dec. 1727, in the 69th year of her age, and lies int... ... genius whispered, “Have a taste,” for in 1770 he actu- ally purchased the City Cross of Winchester to set it up at Cranbury, but happily the inhabita... ...of Winchester to set it up at Cranbury, but happily the inhabitants of the city were more conservative than their corporation, and made such a dem- on... ... Poetry at Oxford, when he came to Hursley; having married, on the 10th of October 1835, Charlotte Clarke, the most perfect of helpmeets to pas- tor o... ... iv. 9). The day of the Consecration was an exceedingly happy one, on 24th October 1848, the only drawback being that Sir William Heathcote was too un...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. -- Start in Life I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from when...

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...V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ... my father and me. R. L. S. Letter: TO MRS. SITWELL [EDINBURGH], SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1873. It is a little sharp to-day; but bright and sunny with a s... ...ering, and surely that humble quality should get me on a little. MONDA Y , OCTOBER 6. – It is a magnificent glimmering moonlight night, with a wild, g... ...end, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Letter: TO MRS. SITWELL [EDINBURGH], TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1873. My father has returned in better health, and I am more de... ... moon, that would have damned a picture. At the most populous place of the city I found a little boy, three years old perhaps, half frantic with terro... ... me and do not move; see me, and through and over me, the foul life of the city dying to its embers already as the night draws on; and over miles and ... ...h makes it hard for me to overtake; but 5TH, that I will bear him in mind; 6TH and last, that I am a brute. My address is still the same, and I live i...

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...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... Paris lives for us with newness of life: we have ever before our eyes the city cut into three by the two arms of the river, the boat-shaped island “m... ...mplished, and we carry away with us a sense of the “Gothic profile” of the city, of the “surprising forest of pinnacles and towers and belfries,” and ... ..., from the destruction of authorities, are we ever likely to learn. But on October 2d, 1461, or some day immediately preced- ing, the new King, Louis ... ...England and the indignant Queen. The letter just quoted was written on the 6th of April 1559; and on the 10th, after he had cooled his heels for four ... ... here come the terms of capitulation; for he does not *Knox to Mrs. Locke, 6th April 1559. Works, vi. 14. *Knox to Sir William Cecil, 10th April 1559.... ... said thus much, he feels he needs say no *Knox to Queen Elizabeth, August 6th, 1561. Works, vi. 126. 206 Robert Louis Stevenson more; and so, when h...