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Excerpt: The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope.

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim... ...man, not to be ashamed, not to conceal the old fam- ily circumstances, not at any rate to be silent, is difficult. And the difficulty is certainly not... .... It assists a man in getting a seat as the director of certain companies. People are still such asses that they trust a Board of Directors made up of... ...er. Indeed it had been perhaps a misfortune with Everett Wharton that some people had believed in him,—and a fur- ther misfortune that some others had... ...noted as Christians since St James first preached in the Peninsula. ‘I was educated altogether in England,’ continued Lopez, 27 Anthony Trollope ‘til... ...s a business, and lives with gentlemen. He is Everett’s friend. He is well educated;—oh, so much better than most men that one meets. And he is clever... ...ourse I do. How should I not, if you remember him?’ ‘Young men are boys at college, rowing in boats, when women have been ever so long out in the worl... ...y weary and travel-worn, and the two boys, the elder of whom was home from Eton and the younger 154 The Prime Minister from some minor Eton, were alr... ...he father and mother, with Lord Silverbridge, the eldest son, who was from Eton, and the private Secretary dined together. As the Duke sat at table, h...

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...ice he and the Duchess remained in England. Then they had gone abroad, taking with them their three children. The eldest, Lord Silverbridge, had been at Oxford, but had his career there cut short by some more than ordinary youthful folly, which had induced his father to agree with the college authorities that his name had better be taken off the college books,--all which h...

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...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... ...ng with them their three children. The eldest, Lord Silverbridge, had been at Oxford, but had his career there cut short by some more than ordinary yo... ...an ordinary youthful folly, which had induced his father to agree with the college authorities that his name had better be taken off the college books... ...o not know that the Duchess or the Duke had enjoyed it much; but the young people had seen something of foreign courts and much of foreign scenery, an... ... dead. Had the heavens fallen and mixed themselves with the earth, had the people of London risen in rebellion with French ideas of equality, had the ... ...am not ashamed of being in love with Mr Tregear. He is a gentleman, highly educated, very clever, of an old fam- ily,—older, I believe, than papa’s. A... ...igure which he was to make in the world might be disappointed. He had been educated at Eton, from whence he had 21 Anthony Trollope been sent to Chri... ...he was to make in the world might be disappointed. He had been educated at Eton, from whence he had 21 Anthony Trollope been sent to Christ Church; a... ...‘Yes; I think I may say that I have been intimate with them. I had been at Eton and Christ Church with Silverbridge, and we have always been much toge...

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...per- son 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... ...rd—. The illness of the good old man was long and lingering, and it became at last a matter of intense inter- est to those concerned whether the new a... ... by the bye, in many respects the most comfortable, as well as the richest college at Oxford,—was the archdeacon’s most intimate friend and most trust... ...piter. His affairs, however, were not allowed to subside thus quietly, and people were quite as much inclined to talk about the disinterested sacrific... ...nd the question as to Hiram’s heirs did not ap- pear to interest very many people either in or out of the House. The bill, however, was read and rerea... ...a disinclination to exert himself in any way not to his taste. He had been educated at Eton, and had been intended for the Church, but had left Cambri... ...tion to exert himself in any way not to his taste. He had been educated at Eton, and had been intended for the Church, but had left Cambridge in dis- ... ..., ha! Why, in the way we’ve left the matter, it’s very odd if the heads of colleges don’t have their own way quite as fully as when the hebdomadal boa... ...s shoulder to the wheel as a clergyman of the Church for which he had been educated. The intercourse of those among whom he familiarly lived kept him ...

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...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... ...is in these days an East Barsetshire, and there is a West Barsetshire; and people conversant with Barsetshire do- ings declare that they can already d... ...as only member for East Barsetshire. Whether or not it was true, as stated at the time, that the aspect of the men with whom he was called on to assoc... ...se in Portman Square, she had worried him because he objected to have more people carried every winter at Greshamsbury Park than the house would hold;... ...the family when, in the year 1854, the eldest son came of age. He had been educated at Harrow, and was now still at Cambridge; but, of course, on such... ...chester, but had been dead now many years. He had had two sons; one he had educated as a medical man, but the other, and the younger, whom he had inte... ...d all dispute to call himself a doc- tor, according to all the laws of the colleges, made it known to the East Barsetshire world, very soon after he h... ...y. His father had deter- mined to make a gentleman of him, and had sent to Eton and Cambridge. But even this receipt, generally as it is recognized, w... ... toler- ably correct ideas on the subject. Be that as it may, two years at Eton, and three terms at Cambridge, did not make a gentleman of Louis Phili...

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...Excerpt: When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He wa...

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...per- son 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... ...pe CHAPTER I ‘OMNES OMNIA BONA DICERE’ When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good t... ... blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a... ... assistance. And Lord Lufton was there of course; and 8 Framley Parsonage people protested that he would surely fall in love with one of the four bea... ... You know I don’t mean it. But Lady Lufton does not like those Chaldicotes people. You know Lord Lufton was with you the last time you were there; and... ...ent income—give them hardly any income at all. Is it not a scandal that an educated gentleman with a family should be made to work half his life, and ... ...ing a lecture on the gram- marians of the Latin language as exemplified at Eton School. ‘On the present occasion, ’ Mr Smith continued, ‘our object is... ...e world had given him credit for possessing. Who ever does? Dr Robarts had educated a large family, had always lived with every comfort, and had never... ...s still a boy, consulting with my mother about Mark and myself—whether the Eton flog- gings were not more efficacious than those of Harrow. He was ver...

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...ry Walker the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on behalf of the Crown, were employed on the local business of the Duke of Omnium, who is great in those parts, and altogether held ...

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...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... .... W alker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors’ business that had to be done in that pa... ...think.’ ‘I deny it utterly,’ said John Walker. ‘I’ll undertake to say that at this moment there are more clergymen in debt in Barsetshire than there a... ...se he’s a clergyman. I hate all that kind of clap-trap. There are a lot of people here in Silverbridge who think the matter shouldn’t be followed up, ... ...l, from whence it was intended that he should proceed to Cambridge, and be educated there at the expense of his godfather Dean Arabin. In this also th... ...t preferred that the boy should work in the fields, than that he should be educated in a manner so manifestly eleemosynary. And then his clothes! How ... ...indows of the house of his friend the dean, and told himself how, in their college days, he and the dean had been quite equal—quite equal, except by t... ...that the dean and Mr Crawley had lived together on the closest intimacy at college, and that the friendship had been maintained through life;—though, ... ...son, as a great treasure.—’Three Alderney cows, two cow-calves, a low pha- eton, a gig, two ricks of hay.’ In this fashion were proclaimed in odious d...

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Excerpt: North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope.

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...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... ...e country described in a more or less ridiculous point of view. It is hard at least to do so in such a book as I must write. A de Tocqueville may do i... ...e those against whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judg... ...whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judgment, as bad, ill educated, ugly, and odious. In such cases his course is straightforward eno... ...general feelings of England to have been be- fore I found myself among the people by whom it was being waged. It is very difficult for the people of a... ...en. Taken generally, they are better instructed, though perhaps not better educated. They are seldom troubled with mauvaise honte; I do not say it in ... ...have not been departed from in many of the windows. Be this as it may, the college is a manly, noble structure, free from false decoration, and infini... ...ly creditable to those who projected it. I was informed by the head of the college that it has been open only two years; and here also I fancy that th... ...ich they have been paraded before us. They have been regarded as the skel- etons of philanthropical systems, to which blood and flesh and muscle, and ...