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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ... in his life, as well as in that of his son. The elder John Patteson was a colleger, and passed on to King’s College, Cambridge, whence, in 1813, he c... .... The elder John Patteson was a colleger, and passed on to King’s College, Cambridge, whence, in 1813, he came to London to study law. In 1816 he open... ...quicken the personal loyalty which is an unfailing characteristic of ‘Eton fellows.’ The Royal custom of the Sunday afternoon parade on the terrace of... ...ake a riot and revel in the charms of misrule. ‘On the second day the Eton fellows always make an im- mense row. So at the signal, when a thing was ac... ...vity. Their tumultuous loyalty and audacity appear in Coley’s letter:— ‘In college, stretching from Hexter’s to Mother Spier’s was a magnificent repre... ...f St. Mark in another language, four Gospels in a third, a few chapters of Kings with the Lord’s Prayer in a fourth, besides Marsden’s Malay grammar a... ...ing to Euro- pean ideas; and on November 26 the ‘Zillah’ was off the Three Kings, New Zealand. ‘Monday: Nov. 26, 1860. ‘“Zillah” Schooner, off the Thr...

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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...7. a second Jane; 8. Henry, a posthumous child, who belonged to Brazennose College, Oxford, and died about his twenty-sixth year. 2 Cicero, in a well... ... say, appealing to Mrs. Evans; “I suppose there’s a matter of half a dozen kings on the con- tinent, that would consent to lose three of their fingers... ...I wished to suggest that, perhaps, some two or three among that half dozen kings might also be scamps. However, I reduced the case to this plain dilem... ...lirious dreamer. At present, (1853,) I presume the reader to be aware that Cambridge has, within the last few years, unsettled and even revolutionized... ...sively to the accused. They were both Oxonians—one belonging to University College, and the other, perhaps, to Baliol; and, as they had severally take... ...of my preten- sions; since it was sufficiently known to such of my school- fellows as stood on my own level in the school, that I, who had no male rel... ...e, and of laughter on the other, between my brother and his plainer school-fellows. Not that we had the slightest jealousy on the subject—far from it;...

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...n Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...ectably provided for. Sir Everard’s chaplain, an Oxonian, who had lost his fellowship for declining to take the oaths at the accession of George I, wa... ...ur whole regiment consists of. I could have wished that these twenty young fellows from my estate, who have enlisted in your troop, had been to march ... ...could not get preferment because he came from our ground. He returned from college hopeless and broken- 75 Sir Walter Scott hearted, and fell into a ... ..., But it roused each high chieftain to vanquish or die. O! sprung from the kings who in Islay kept state, Proud chiefs of Clan Ranald, Glengarry, and ... ... a very slight impression on the hearer, who only internally wondered what college this veterinary professor belonged to; not aware that the word was ... ...e earliest opportunity to welcome to Britain the descendant of her ancient kings, and lineal heir of her throne? Why did not I Unthread the rude eye o... ...iry. At Huntingdon you will meet the real Frank Stanley. He is studying at Cambridge; but, a little while ago, doubtful if Emily’s health would permit...