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...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule ...

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...e University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classic... ...al material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The Univer... ...cational uses only. Send comments and corrections to the Publisher, rbear [at]uoregon.edu. CONTENTS THE FIRST BOOKE Florio's Preface To the curteous R... ...ting, my labouring, my languishing, my gasping for some breath O could so Honourable, be so pitty-lesse? Madame, now doe I flatter you?) Yet commaun... ...n triumphant manner passing thorow their Citie, he perceived three French Gentlemen, who alone, with an incredible and undaunted boldnesse gainstood... ...ution did immediately stay his Captains fury, who seeing him undertake so honourable an attempt, not only forgave, but received him into grace and f... ... was put in execution at Lyons. The like punishment did afterward all the Gentlemen suffer, that were within Guise, when the Earle of Nansaw enired ... ...d, who cast backe Gods good gift before he call for it; leave their faire corps-de-guarde ere their Generall discharge them; hope to be deified for ... ... eating or drinking, would never come from off his bed, and when the dead corps was removed thence he followed it, and lastly flung himself into the...

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...Excerpt: When I came up to town for my second year, my aunt Hoggarty made me a present of a diamond pin; that is to say, it was not a diamond-pin then, but a large old-fashioned locket, of Dublin manufacture in the year 1795, which the late Mr. Hoggarty used to sport at the Lord Lieutenant?s balls and elsewhere...

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...Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond by William Makepeace Thac... ...the Great Hoggarty Diamond by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- ... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... .... In the middle of the brooch was Hoggarty in the scarlet uni- form of the corps of Fencibles to which he belonged; around it were thirteen locks of h... ...y—no worldly conversation or foul jesting disturbed the attention of these gentlemen, or desecrated the peaceful scene of their labours. Y ou found Ch... ... desecrated the peaceful scene of their labours. Y ou found Christians and gentlemen, sir!” “I paid for my place like the rest,” said Swinney. “Didn’t... ...ffend all the men that day; for who should presently come up but the Right Honourable Edmund Preston, one of His Majesty’s Secretar- ies of State (as ... ...well by the almanac in our office) and the husband of Lady Jane. The Right Honourable Edmund was riding a grey cob, and was a fat pale-faced man, who ... ... to take the innocent infant from us, and on Sunday, at midnight, it lay a corpse in its mother’s bosom. Amen. We have other children, happy and well,...

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...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

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...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controversia...

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...erpt: Chapter 1. The Boarding-House. Mrs. Tibbs was, beyond all dispute, the most tidy, fidgety, thrifty little personage that ever inhaled the smoke of London; and the house of Mrs. Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Great Coram-street. The area and the area-steps, and the street-door and the street-door steps, and the brass handle, and the door-plate, and the knock...

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