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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... ...an of the bed-chamber to Henry VIII., and had put thirty-seven Psalms into English verse, in hopes of improv- ing the morals of the Court. John Hopkin... ...ed-chamber. He was a principal instru- ment of translating the Psalms into English metre; the first twenty-six (and seven-and-thirty in all)* being by... ...ondence ensued, as to the settlement of Hursley upon Dorothy and her heirs male, and the compensation to her younger sister Anne. Cromwell was anxious... ...nd the collar of the Golden Fleece around his neck, followed by a group of male figures, one with a beautiful face. On the other side kneels a lady, n... ...lace in Church, which was more im- portant when there was no choir and the singers sat in the gallery. He was very happy in this office, moving about ... ...rt’s T ongue (Scolopendrium officinale). (Polystichum angulare).—Cranbury. Male Fern (Lastrea Filix-mas). (L. spinulosa). (L. dilatata).—Otterbourne P...

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...LIAM DEAN HOWELLS ............................................................................................................................... 148 ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT ............................................................................................................................ 156 A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET.....................................................

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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, and ... .................................................... .................... 148 ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT ..................................................... ... can come within a split hair of guessing the complexion of his religion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italia... ...hen we have lately had a season or two of them in New York with these same singers in the several parts, and possibly this same orchestra. I resolved ... ...ou can lay on your keelson except gravel. THURSDAY.—They keep two teams of singers in stock for the chief roles, and one of these is composed of the m... ...oon till ten at night. Nearly all the labor falls upon the half dozen head singers, and apparently they are required to furnish all the noise they can... ...e so tram meled in his material that his name stands for whatever is most malevo lent and perfidious in human nature. You see how easy and flowing i... ...the laborers. No work is done, in the hive or out of it, save by them. The males do not work, the queen does no work, unless laying eggs is work, but ...

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...of the Oblonskys. The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked of the day before just at dinner-time; the kitchen-maid, and the coachman had...

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...2 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. First published in English, 1901. First published in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; I w... ...t been at home for three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English gov erness quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend... ... it. “I told you not to sit passengers on the roof,” said the little girl in English; “there, pick them up!” “Everything’s in confusion,” thought Step... ...ny. In the courtyard the first objects that met Vronsky’s eyes were a band of singers in white linen coats, standing near a barrel of vodka, and 294 A... ... that any smile would jar on them. “Thou who didst from the beginning create male and female,” the priest read after the exchange of rings, “from Thee... ...e sums subscribed by the nobility of the province, the high schools, female, male, and military, and popular instruction on the new model, and finally,...

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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... ...r any amount to sing the psalms better than all the children put together, male and female; and, in short, conducts himself in the most turbulent and ... ...ied too; and a happy release it was, both for herself and the old paupers, male and female, which she used to tip over in all directions, as if they w... ...robation was tumultuous. He gave an imitation of the two negroes in broken English; the roof was rent with applause. From that period we date (with on... ...r maze of streets, courts, lanes, and alleys? Where such a pure mixture of Englishmen and Irishmen, as in this complicated part of London? We boldly a... ...d fountains glittered and sparkled before our eyes; the beauty of the lady singers and the elegant deportment of the gentlemen, captivated our hearts;... ...t’s what bothers me. ’ Here there was a considerable talking among the fe- males in the spencers. ‘What’s the ladies a laughing at, sir?’ inquired the... ...t shades of cloudy-white.—’Pray, silence, gentlemen, for non no- bis!’ The singers, whom you discover to be no other than the very party that excited ... ...-room, never was anything half so splendid. There was an orchestra for the singers, all paint, gilding, and plate-glass; and such an organ! Miss J’mim...

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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... ...r any amount to sing the psalms better than all the children put together, male and female; and, in short, conducts himself in the most turbulent and ... ...ied too; and a happy release it was, both for herself and the old paupers, male and female, which she used to tip over in all directions, as if they w... ...robation was tumultuous. He gave an imitation of the two negroes in broken English; the roof was rent with applause. From that period we date (with on... ...r maze of streets, courts, lanes, and alleys? Where such a pure mixture of Englishmen and Irishmen, as in this complicated part of London? We boldly a... ...d fountains glittered and sparkled before our eyes; the beauty of the lady singers and the elegant deportment of the gentlemen, captivated our hearts;... ...t’s what bothers me. ’ Here there was a considerable talking among the fe- males in the spencers. ‘What’s the ladies a laughing at, sir?’ inquired the... ...t shades of cloudy-white.—’Pray, silence, gentlemen, for non no- bis!’ The singers, whom you discover to be no other than the very party that excited ... ...-room, never was anything half so splendid. There was an orchestra for the singers, all paint, gilding, and plate-glass; and such an organ! Miss J’mim...

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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. Copy... ...on—why, where can you go that they have not been there before? Is there an English farm—is there an English stream, an English city, or an English cou... ... to recognize in this toast the President’s usual disinterestedness; since English literature could scarcely be re membered in any place, and, certai... ... of 25S. extending over a period of five years, entitles a subscriber—if a male—to an annuity of 16 pounds a year, and a female to 12 pounds a year. N... ...ollected within the scope of its benevolence are all actors and actresses, singers, or dancers, of five years’ standing in the profession. To relieve ... ...r sitters, to idle pens, unchecked reckless rumours, and undenounced lying malevolence. Charles Dickens 194 I cannot forbear, before I resume my seat...

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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... ... Rachel in it, to give her helpless cousin assistance in this beginning of English habits. A roomy fly had been engaged for nurses and children, and M... ...ht Francis just commencing an onslaught on the globules, tak- ing them for English sweetmeats of a minute description. The afternoon passed with the s... ...aving begun his career with such mortal offence to the native fiddlers and singers as to impel them into the arms of dissent, he could only supply the... ...ver, she came down on them with, “What conclusion have you formed upon fe- male emigration?” “‘His sister she went beyond the seas, And died an old m... ...- tion, above all to such a man as my brother. It would ap- pear like mere malevolence.” “Never mind what it would appear,” said Alick, who was eviden... ... of these;” and she produced a packet of prospectuses of a “Journal of Fe- male Industry,” an illustrated monthly magazine, destined to contain essays...

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...g student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...e. Street bands are on their mettle in Golden Square; and itiner- ant glee-singers quaver involuntarily as they raise their voices within its boundari... ...s, all traders in muffins (or crumpets) of whatsoever description, whether male or female, boys or men, ringing hand-bells or otherwise,’ was moved by... ...maining; there were vicious-faced boys, brood- ing, with leaden eyes, like malefactors in a jail; and there were young creatures on whom the sins of t... ... torn and filthy book beneath his learned eye. ‘This is the first class in English spelling and philosophy, Nickleby,’ said Squeers, beckoning Nichola... ...y an easy transition, into Mantalini: the lady rightly considering that an English appellation would be of serious injury to the business. He had marr... ...llanbile, MP . Fifteen guineas, tea and sugar, and servants allowed to see male cousins, if godly. Note. Cold dinner in the kitchen on the Sabbath, Mr...

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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. Street bands are on their mettle in Golden Square; and itiner- ant glee-singers quaver involuntarily as they raise their voices within its boundari... ...s, all traders in muffins (or crumpets) of whatsoever description, whether male or female, boys or men, ringing hand-bells or otherwise,’ was moved by... ...maining; there were vicious-faced boys, brood- ing, with leaden eyes, like malefactors in a jail; and there were young creatures on whom the sins of t... ... torn and filthy book beneath his learned eye. ‘This is the first class in English spelling and philosophy, Nickleby,’ said Squeers, beckoning Nichola... ...y an easy transition, into Mantalini: the lady rightly considering that an English appellation would be of serious injury to the business. He had marr... ...llanbile, MP . Fifteen guineas, tea and sugar, and servants allowed to see male cousins, if godly. Note. Cold dinner in the kitchen on the Sabbath, Mr...

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... the Encounter of Two Strange Young Men and Their Consorting: in Which the Male Reader Is Requested to Bear in Mind What Wild Creature He Was in His Y... ...to shore swimming and floating alternately, and was called Old Sky-high by English sailors, any number of whom could 8 The Amazing Marriage always be... ... told that he never forgave the Admiralty for striking him off the list of English naval captains: which is no doubt why in his old age he nursed a gr... ... in favour of Kirby; for though, Lord Cressett was quite the popular young English nobleman, being a capital whip and free of his coin, in those days ... ...grading alliance. John Peter was fourth of a family of seven children, all males, and hard at the bottle early in life: ‘for want of proper occupation... ... THE ENCOUNTER OF TWO STRANGE YOUNG MEN AND THEIR CONSORTING: IN WHICH THE MALE READER IS RE- QUESTED TO BEAR IN MIND WHAT WILD CREATURE HE WAS IN HIS... ... picked musicians’ at the disposal of the Countess of Fleetwood, and Opera singers (Henrietta mentioned reso- nant names) hired for wonderful nights a...

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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 as thou didst, from the Mill of St. Cast, on Quiberon and the invad- ing English; thou, ‘covered if not with glory yet with meal!’ Fortune was ever ... ...ith and against Feudalism (but not against Nature and her bounty), gave us English a Shakspeare and Era of Shakspeare, and so produced a blossom of Ca... ...nd who knows what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Singers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers, that now form t... ...ndemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ (Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, i. 15-22.) And, alas, now not so much as Baron Holbach’s Athei... ... Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes there may be more than one patriotic Malesherbes, whose rule is conscience and the public good; there are clearl... ...he heavier; for did it not employ the working- classes too,—manufacturers, male and female, of laces, es- sences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever cou...

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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... ...stre”; he never contra- dicted them, and he made them shine. But among his male friends, when the topic of the sex came up, he laid down the principle... ...s, beggars, occasionally insolent countesses, admired actresses, applauded singers; she has even given, in the olden time, two quasi- queens to the mo... ...e with claws, scissors, impudent as a Spanish woman, snarling as a prudish English woman pro- claiming her conjugal rights, coquettish as a great lady... ... husband to eau de Melisse for faintness, sugarplums for the children, and English court-plaster in case of cuts. Jules studied all. He looked attenti... ...erings of the cradle, swelling to the griefs of other ages in the stronger male voices and the quavering of the priests,—all this strident harmony, bi...

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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... ...aid Mr. Brownlow laughing—having just found her trying to make out the Old English of King Alfred’s 7 Yonge ‘Boethius’—”such as this?” “Just so! They... ... of the verb “to be” in five languages—Greek, Latin, French, Ger- man, and English. “And Allen—reposing on your honours? Eh, my boy?” Allen looked rat... ... Who would have thought of his getting the whole set to dress up as nigger singers, with black faces and banjoes, and coming to dance and sing in fron... ...in a still more curious way. So when, in terror of our aunt, the whole fe- male household have done their best to turn out Miss Janet respectable, bet... ... women.” “Not both together.” “Yes, I tell you, the whole boiling of them, male and female. There’ s a fat German Countess, who always calls Jock her ... ...ories as to his private character. These were as- cribed by Bobus to pious malevolence, and Janet had accepted the explanation, and cultivated a bowin...

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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... ... the Circumlocution Office, I would seek it in the common experience of an Englishman, without presum- ing to mention the unimportant fact of my havin... ...t or day, for months. Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Por- tuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, d... ...ce it as a merit to be sensitive and brave, but it is my character. If the male rela- tions of Madame Rigaud had put themselves forward openly, I shou... ...ated altogether, than—Mr Plornish said manufacturers, but appeared to mean malefactors. Why, a man didn’t know where to turn himself for a crumb of co... ...of rents. Mr F.’s Aunt, after regarding the company for ten minutes with a malevolent gaze, delivered the following fearful remark: ‘When we lived at ... ...d not kept, in those days of his youth and prosperity, an idle house where singers, and play- ers, and such-like children of Evil turned their backs o...

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..., and Rot ten Boroughs, and Revolts of Paris, deafen every French and every English ear, the German can stand peaceful on his scientific watch tower; ... ...on in which pure Science, especially pure moral Science, languishes among us English; and how our mercantile great ness, and invaluable Constitution,... ...ution, impressing a political or other immediately practical tendency on all English culture and endeavor, cramps the free flight of Thought,—that this... .... Observe too how fond they are of peaks, and Gothic arch intersections. The male world wears peaked caps, an ell long, which hang bobbing over the si... ...(Offscourings of Vienna) vociferously superintending games of chance. Ballad singers brayed, Auctioneers grew hoarse; cheap New Wine (heuriger) flowed ...

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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 lost their parents, on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor... ...plexion which became a student; as different as possible from the blooming Englishman of the red-whis- kered type represented by Sir James Chettam. “I... ...an appetite for submission afterwards. And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise so... ..., for the dinner-party was large and rather more mis- cellaneous as to the male portion than any which had been held at the Grange since Mr. Brooke’s ... ...here the teach- ing included all that was demanded in the accomplished fe- male—even to extras, such as the getting in and out of a car- riage. Mrs. L... ...ist on my singing. But I shall tremble before you, who have heard the best singers in Paris. I have heard very little: I have only once been to London... ...ed that he could not find his hearth free. When he opened the door the two singers went on towards the key-note, raising their eyes and looking at him... ...n a scowl as he walked across the room and flung himself into a chair. The singers feeling themselves excused by the fact that they had only three bar...

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...ad lost their parents, on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor... ...plexion which became a student; as different as possible from the blooming Englishman of the red whiskered type represented by Sir James Chettam. “I a... ...d: it is true that when he used a Greek or Latin phrase he always gave the English with scrupu lous care, but he would probably have done this in any... ...an appetite for submission afterwards. And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise so... ...g, for the dinner party was large and rather more miscellaneous as to the male portion than any which had been held at the Grange since Mr. Brooke’s ... ... missy to come down.” Rosamond and Mary had been talking faster than their male friends. They did not think of sitting down, but stood at the toilet t... ...ist on my singing. But I shall tremble before you, who have heard the best singers in Paris. I have heard very little: I have only once been to London... ...yed that he could not find his hearth free. When he opened the door the two singers went on towards the key note, raising their eyes and looking at him... ... and flung himself into a chair. 476 Book VI — The Widow and the Wife. The singers feeling themselves excused by the fact that they had only three bar...