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...elieve the existence of a Devil is a like debt to reason; one is a demonstration from the reality of visible causes, and the other a deduction from t... ... like reality of their effects. One demonstration of the existence of God is from the universal well-guided consent of all nations to worship and... ... and adore a supreme power; one demonstration of the existence of the Devil, is from the avowed ill-guided consent of some nations, who, knowing no ... ...ms, that the Creator of heaven and earth had adopted this nation for his chosen people, and therefore demanded their exclusive homage, and that they... ... which she called Prick-ear, Jack and Frog. Several witnesses, poor and ignorant people, were brought to testify to the mischief which had been done ... ...rgyman named Lowes, who had been vicar of Brandeston, near Framlingham, in that county fifty years, a well known opponent of the new church governme... ...ntribute anything to the very useful object of your work, it is no matter – let people think what they will. Be that as it may, I vouch for the trut... ...f a lady, with a fresh breast of milk, shall milk a portion of it into a bag of corks, very soon thereafter her milk will all dry away. Any person w...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author... ...r to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...hanges to its content, provided that both the author and the original URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned, that the contents of this ... ...s a quintet of novels that describe the inner lives of five extraordinary people. Progressing through time from the most distant to the most recent ... ...nson, Raleigh, Spenser have had their days in jail; I have had mine—those county sties where pigs and dust ate my manuscripts and foetid odors ate m... ...ounds (shall I make it more?); in addition, I grant her my estate in Warr County—I like that place... To Joan—I leave my clothes. Why? To Elizabe... ... Executive Mansion May 22, 1863 I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were born in Virginia, of undistinguished fam...

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.....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...hanges to its content, provided that both the author and the original URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned, that the contents of this ... ... BOOKS BY PAUL ALEXANDER BARTLETT NOVELS VOICES FROM THE PAST: Sappho’s Journal ` Christ’s Journal ` Leonardo da Vinci’s J... ...than create a vague illusion of the past. He conveys the character of real people, their interior life and outer world. A mature artist, he writes wi... ... a quintet of novels that de- scribe the inner lives of five extraordinary people. Progressing through time from the most distant to the most recent ... ...ed for home, three of us leaving at the same time, our boats so many grey corks on a line. As I stared back at the stricken town, I heard the gulls... ... than forty one-man shows in leading galleries, including the Los Angeles County Museum, the Atlanta Art Museum, the Bancroft Library, the Richmond ...

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...concentration. Lacey’s father was a salesman whose territory took him away from home most days of the week. On weekends he went shopping for food and ... ...ornful name-calling. She rejoiced every June when summer offered a respite from the bullying. Lacey spent entire days sprawled on her bed engrossed in... ...driveway cement. She cried out, tears springing to her eyes, blood pouring from her skinned arm. Roger bent down to help but she shook him off. “I’m a... ...ats. They sat in the car and watched kids climbing on the monkey bars, and people lined up to buy ice cream. “Hey,” Lacey said. “I just thought of som... ...oo. I was scared of advertising it for sale because I did not want strange people coming to the house. Now I will not have to worry. Will you take me ... ...gentaler’s abortion clinic; maybe I could go there. But it’s not legal and people are getting threatened. Anyway, do I want to kill it? …Yes I do, if ... ...e fire. In all, it was a small but pleasant, comfortable home. Popping the cork, Scott poured two glasses and gave one to Jana who had finished puttin... ...rdered returned by the court in November, 2009. On May 14 th the Maricopa County, Arizona prosecutor indicted three more volunteers. An outpouring of...

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...CONTENTS BOOK THE SECOND: RICHES 1. Fellow Travellers 2. Mrs General 3. On the Road 4. A Letter from Little Dorrit 5. Something Wrong Somewhere 6. Something Right Somewhere 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ?It Never Does? 9. Appearance and Disappearance 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwin...

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...OND: RICHES 1. Fellow Travellers 2. Mrs General 3. On the Road 4. A Letter from Little Dorrit 5. Something Wrong Somewhere 6. Something Right Somewher... ...ce and Disappearance 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden 13. ... ...nce could be given to the thin, hard, stony wine, which after all was made from the grapes! The air had been warm and transparent through the whole of... ... is very important.’ Again Monsieur was right. The dog was very important. People were justly interested in the dog. As one of the dogs celebrated eve... ...t a beautiful sacrifice? What do we want more to touch us? Because rescued people of interesting appearance are not, for eight or nine months out of e... ...!’ ‘Sir, I thank you again, I wish you good night. My dear, are our—ha—our people in attendance?’ ‘They are close by, father.’ ‘Permit me!’ said the t... ...e duration elapsed, in which there was no bid for Mrs General. At length a county- widower, with a daughter of fourteen, opened negotiations with the ... ...and to be their matron or chaperon. Mr Dorrit’s bankers, as bankers of the county-widower, instantly said, ‘Mrs General.’ Pursuing the light so fortun... ...c nature already recorded, Mr Dorrit took the trouble of going down to the county of the county-wid- ower to see Mrs General, in whom he found a lady ...

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...blished in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the “Sausage” held the air. The con- temporary ... ...t hardly my idea of a lady—flying about in the air, and throwing gravel at people. It ain’t what I been accus- tomed to consider ladylike, whether or ... ...y continued to regard the swelling bulks with expressions that had changed from indifference to disapproval. Mr. T om Smallways was a green-grocer by ... ...of the coming of the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace was six miles away from Bun Hill, a great facade that glittered in the morning, and was a clea... ...id Mr. Tom Smallways, growing up among these marvels. But it kept on. Even from the first the green-grocer’s shop which he had set up in one of the sm... ...ed of pink and pig-skin breeches, of foxes at Ring’s Bottom, where now the County Council pauper lunatics were enclosed, of Lady Bone’s chintzes and c... ...gravel from the wharf of the Bun Hill gas-works and drop it upon deserving people’s lawns and gardens. There were half a dozen reassuring years for T ... ...in the streets upon that one day, than in the previous three months, and a County Council steamboat, the Isaac Walton, collided with a pier of Westmin... ...undred thousand pounds paid into benks-thirty thousand into the London and County Benk Branch at Bun Hill in Kent directly I ‘and over the plans; twen...

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...ng on a stile between two threadbare looking fields, and suffering acutely from indigestion. He suffered from indigestion now nearly every afternoon i... ...r quarter of his face, and he spoke with a wrathful eye regarding his wife from under the brim. In a voice thick with fury he said: “I s’pose you’d li... ...d not seem to her to justify his ingratitude. There had been the cold pork from Sunday and some nice cold potatoes, and Rashdall’s Mixed Pickles, of w... ...e best part of the jugful of beer…. But there seems to be no pleasing some people. “Tantrums!” said Mrs. Polly at the sink, struggling with the mustar... ... tumbrils…. I do not know why the east wind aggravates life to un- healthy people. It made Mr. Polly’s teeth seem loose in his head, and his skin feel... ...t, mewling and puking in its nurse’s arms.” There had been a time when two people had thought Mr. Polly the most wonderful and adorable thing in the w... ...ion than his quarrel with Rusper and the indignity of appearing before the county bench. He was for the first time in his business career short with h... ...2 The History of Mr. Polly V V V V V WITH THE DUSK and the arrival of some county constabulary, and first one and presently two other fire engines fro... ...he liked the name of Gilhampton and the rural suggestion of its containing county, which was Sus- sex, and having so despatched it, he set himself to ...

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...man only and Forster, who had that day forcibly sent away all her servants from her to Abington market, about three miles distant from this place; the... ...n her head), yet the inhabitants will tell you there that she was conveyed from her usual chamber where she lay, to another where the bed’s head of th... ... which he willed her to use in any faintness, which she, after his returne from court, not knowing it was poison, gave him, and so he died.”—Ben Jonso... ...ts founded on the credit of his house, and the construction which the good people of Cumnor might put upon such an unsocial humour. “By my faith, sir,... ...mansion, observing, at the same time, he had seen a less strong one upon a county jail. It was not until they had knocked more than once that an aged,... ...the quarrel of this Simnel, assuming the title of Earl of W arwick, as the county afterwards, in great numbers, countenanced the cause of Perkin Warbe... ...en head of his, gave him the power of enjoying other 135 Sir Walter Scott people’s distresses, as she gave them the pleasure of laughing at his uglin... ...ing. Go ask a heretic parson to do the like. But ours were a com- fortable people.” “V ery true, Dame Crank,” said the hostler; “so said Simpkins of S... ...eriff of Kent had secret in- structions to have a part of the array of the county ready on the shortest notice. The eventful hour, thus anxiously prep...

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...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ...nd lead,’ tempted some of the French and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now calle... ...ved that part of the Is lands. It is probable that other people came over from Spain to Ireland, and settled there. Thus, by little and little, stran... ...sword, four thousand of the rebels are supposed to have fallen in that one county. In Norfolk (where the rising was more against the enclosure of open... ... Queen. This was discovered in time by Gardiner; but in Kent, the old bold county, the people rose in their old bold way. Sir Thomas Wyat , a man of ... ...complaining of the injury that had been done to Mr. Hampden, who was their county man and much beloved and honoured. When the King set off for Hampton...

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... to distinguish what is true and genuine in this historic kind of writing, from what is false and counterfeit. Indeed, it seems likely that some such ... ...h two or three authors have lately procured for their works of this nature from the public, will probably serve as an encouragement to many others to... ... calumny, and to the prejudice of the characters of many worthy and honest people. I question not but the ingenious author of the Spectator was prin... ...r was principally induced to prefix Greek and Latin mottos to every paper, from the same consideration of guarding against the pursuit of those scribb... ...probation. “Why now, that’s friendly,” said he; “d—n me, I hate to see two people bear ill will to one another after they have had a tussel. The only ... ...ion besides his good offices in assisting at the perfor mance. The good people now ranged themselves round the kitchen fire, where good humour seem... ...ntleman, who had the honour to be in the commis sion of the peace for the county of Worcester. Of which Mr. Western was no sooner informed than he of... ...eased to call him.—I went over to Ireland after this, and taught school at Cork (for that one suit ruined me again, and I lay seven years in Wincheste...

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...ned room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but th...

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...doth wrest thee, Ere folly hath much oppressed thee, Far from acquaintance kest thee Where country may digest thee . . . ... ...ndering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two ... ...palate. An hour later he said: “Sophie, I feel sorry about taking you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on Go... ...ng you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on God’s earth to-night.” Said Sophie his wife, and kissed him: “Isn... ...e of the place.” “I give it up,” said George one night in their own room. “People don’t seem to matter in this country compared to the places they liv... ...h my uncle.” “How small the world is!” Sophie cried. “Why, all my mother’s people come from Veering Hollow. There must be some there still—the Lashmar... ...hing gurgle, “d’you suppose I don’t know how it feels to come to a strange county—country I should say—away from one’s own people? When I first left t... ... security! “Are you going to lift for The Shamrock?” asks Captain Hodgson. Cork Light (green, fixed) enlarges as we rush to it. Captain Purnall nods. ... ... me up by wire, and I fell into the arms of a friend of mine, Colonel A.L. Corkran, so that the years departed from us, and we praised Allah, who had ...

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...f water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might... ... into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any ... ...ng to the irregularities of the coast it is not easy of access by railways from different sides. Baltimore would have been far better. But as far as w... ...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he... ...ilections and sympathies of his life. Here has been the hardship. For such people there has been no neutrality possible. Ladies even have not been abl... ... laden his pockets with champagne and brandy; the other with glasses and a corkscrew; and as the bottle went round, I began to feel something of the s... ...le were not too grand to call it Cove, and were contented to run down from Cork in river steamers, before the Passage railway was built. I spent a ple... ... kinsman than I do in your Englishman. I never ask an Englishman from what county he comes, or what was his town. To Irishmen I usually put such quest...

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... 6 sulphur and stone and other obstructing inborn heredities, brought down from the old geologic ages—prejudices, let us call them. Prejudices which n... ...trong ones. In each case, to get the best results, you must free the metal from its obstructing prejudicial ones by education— smelting, refining, and... ...e odds and ends of thoughts, impressions, feelings, gathered unconsciously from a thou sand books, a thousand conversations, and from streams of thou... ...g. He correctly observed, and he marvelously painted. He exactly portrayed people whom God had cre ated; but he created none himself. Let us spare h... ...orm it. Mark T wain 19 O.M. But there is here and there a man who would. People, for instance, like the man who lost his life trying to save the chi... ...h I have been insisting upon. You must remember and always distinguish the people who can ’t bear things from people who can. It will throw light up... ...Is Man and Other Essays 120 changed. A slave came flying from Palmyra, the county seat, a few miles back, and was about to escape in a canoe to Illin... ...no choice. It brought in a true bill, and pres ently the case went to the county court. The trial was a fine sensation. The prisoner was the principa... ...e were thirty What Is Man and Other Essays 128 thousand kings reigning in County Cork alone in his time, fifteen hundred years ago. It got so that th...

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...HAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................

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............................................................. 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI............................................... ............................................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON .................................................... ...en the North and South; but I have not allowed that disruption to deter me from an object which, if it were delayed, might probably never be carried o... ...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... ...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... ... high ground, and to say that we, the older and therefore more experienced people as regards the United States, and the better gov- erned as regards F... ...ut it is in its way equal to anything I have seen. Perhaps it is more like Cork harbor, as seen from certain heights over Passage, than anything else ... ...en days, who has lived in the State for a year, and for four months in the county in which he votes. He can vote for all “officers that now are, 246 ...

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...lastic establishment for the sons of gentlemen, etc. Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rus... ...on could hear, at certain hours, a hubbub of voices and racing foot- steps from within the boundary wall. Sometimes, when the strollers were boys them... ...t Cashel has not escaped that tendency to violence which sometimes results from the possession of unusual strength and dexter- ity. He actually fought... ... to him about it, of course. Fighting is an unbearable habit. His father’s people were always fighting; and they never did any good in the world.” “If... .... After all the pains I took with you at home!” “I speak the same as other people,” he replied, sullenly. “I don’t see the use of being so jolly parti... ...to prac- 26 Cashel Byron’s Profession tise, because it seems to ail young people easy, well paid, amiable, and a mark of good breeding. In truth it i... ...ring his light step and perfect balance, which made him seem like a man of cork; he said, “I saw you in the park yesterday, and I thought you were a g... ...Cashel. The Byrons are only commoners; but even they are one of the oldest county families in England.” Cashel began to show signs of excitement. “How... ...lf that alter our affairs completely. My birth is all right; I’m heir to a county family that came over with the Conqueror, and I shall have a decent ...

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...wept round in an unbroken curve at each landing, forming an inclined plane from the top to the bottom of the house. A young voice, apparently mimickin... ...bottom of the house. A young voice, apparently mimicking someone, now came from above, saying, “We will take the Etudes de la Velocite next, if you pl... ...utter confusion ensued. Then came a reply, in a tone of honeyed sweetness, from Miss Wylie: “Did you call us, DEAR Miss Wilson?” “Yes. Come up here, i... ...makes me feel like an author; and so in Christian duty I always read other people’s. Listen to poor Sarah’s tale of guilt. ‘1st October. I am very sor... ...at her daughter had taken the hint. “You had better go and wash your face. People may call, and I presume you don’t wish to receive them in that pligh... ..., I’m browed!” exclaimed Jane incredulously. “I like that.” “For a girl of county family, you are inexcusably vulgar, Jane. I don’t know what I said; ... ...eps a re- cording angel inside her little head, and it is so full of other people’s faults, written in large hand and read through a magnifying glass,... ...han I can lift myself up by the waist- band and carry myself into the next county, as some one 62 An Unsocial Socialist challenged a speculator in pe... ...in England.” “And what more can man desire than wealth with descent from a county family! Could a man be happier than I ought to be, sprung as I am fr...

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......................................................... 173 Chapter 1.7.XI. From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...urches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien-aime fashione... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been carried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and been ... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘express themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Baro... ...gencies has his light jest; and ever in the worst confu- sion will emerge, cork-like, unsunk! Small care to him is Per- fectibility, Progress of the S... ...and such gesticulation and flirtation as there may be, interests the happy County-town, and makes it the envy of surrounding County-towns, how much mo... ...bre Jacobin, has to watch itself! Directories of Departments, what we call County Magistra- 308 The French Revolution cies, being chosen by Citizens ...

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...e streams? Rickie rebuked his own groveling soul, and turned his eyes away from the night, which had led him to such absurd conclusions. The fire was ... ...with a merry don and had tasted Zwieback biscuits; then he had walked with people he liked, and had walked just long 6 The Longest Journey enough; an... ...ust long 6 The Longest Journey enough; and now his room was full of other people whom he liked, and when they left he would go and have supper with A... ...e. The door opened. A tall young woman stood framed in the light that fell from the passage. “Ladies!” whispered every-one in great agitation. “Yes?” ... ...et me introduce Miss Pem- broke—don’t all go!” For his friends were flying from his visitor like mists before the sun. “Oh, Agnes, I am so sorry; I’ve... ...s, which Agnes, who had never been to Venice, took to be Venice, but which people who had been to Stockholm knew to be Stockholm. Rickie’s mother, loo... ...s: all society seemed spread before him like a map. The line be- tween the county and the local, the line between the labourer and the artisan—he knew... ...d. She told them so to their faces, which made them no brighter. And their county was worthy of them: no distinction in it—no style— simply land. But ... ...But the general effect was pale, or rather silvery, for Wiltshire is not a county of heavy tints. Beneath these colours lurked the unconquerable chalk...

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...HERTY V.C.: A RECRUITING PAMPHLET GEORGE BERNARD SHAW IT MAY SURPRISE SOME PEOPLE to learn that in 1915 this little play was a recruiting poster in di... ...s to have a cer- tain proportion of them in his battalion, because, partly from a want of common sense which leads them to value their lives less than... ...ere for the most part Roman Catholics and loyal Irishmen, which means that from the English point of view they were heretics and rebels. But they were... ...ull place to live in. It was quite easy to enlist them by approaching them from their own point of view. But the War Office insisted on approaching th... ...nd all the cows I milked on him, he’d think me the finest ornament for the county jail he ever sent there for poaching.” SIR PEARCE [Laughing]. You’re... ...them. She says we’re the lost tribes of the house of Israel and the chosen people of God. She says that the goddess Venus, that was born out of the fo... ...nly one I could think of was Shakespeare, sir; and she says he was born in Cork. SIR PEARCE [exhausted]. Well, I give it up [he throws him- self into ... ... I leave it on my stomach. [She goes into the house, leaving the two young people alone together.] O’FLAHERTY. Is that yourself, T essie? And how are ...

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...ony Motteux The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initia... ...on (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initialled ‘M.’ are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translato... ...(as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by Ozell. 4 Gargantua & Pantagruel Introduction ... ...harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, to excite people unto laughter, as Silenus himself, who was the foster-father of good... ...ht of force in all countries whatsoever. For you know well enough that all people, and all languages and nations, except the ancient Syracusans and ce... ...the city, and was beheld of everybody there with great admiration; for the people of Paris are so sottish, so badot, so foolish and fond by nature, th... ...ua & Pantagruel say, That the limits and bounds of drinking were, when the cork of the shoes of him that drinketh swelleth up half a foot high. Chapte... ...tro de Padua. At St. Helen. At Casa Nuova. At St. Bartholomew, in the county of Boulogne. At the Porrette, and a thousand other places. And I wo... ...as the senior fellows of the college of iniquity, the very outcasts of the county gaol’s common-side. As you love yourself, do not go among ‘em. If yo...

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...le Princes, that protect and save The Pilgrim Muses, and their ship defend From rock of Ignorance and Error’s wave, Y our gracious eyes upon this labo... ...g Ismaelites deprive Of woful Thrace, which now captived stands, Y ou must from realms and seas the Turks forth drive, As Godfrey chased them from Jud... .... VII The sullen season now was come and gone, That forced them late cease from their noble war, When God Almighty form his lofty throne, Set in those... ...ir sovereign’s younger son, These archers be, and with them come withal, A people near the Northern Pole that wone, Whom Ireland sent from loughs and ... ... Y et armed to point in well-attempted plate, The land did like itself the people breed, The soil is gentle, smooth, soft, delicate; Boldly they charg... ..., Let us destroy this serpent on his nest; Both young and old, let us this people kill, The tender infants at their mothers’ breast, Their houses burn... ...and the foremost taken The Earl of Pembroke was, Artemidore, Doubtless the county thought his bread well baken; Next Gerrard followed, then with tress... ... quoth he, “thou mayest Till Phoebus shine again, here take thine inn, The County of Cosenza, three days past, This castle from the Turks did nobly wi... ...ory know, Old men and babes thy foes can overthrow!” LXXIX Thus prayed the County, and his prayers dear Strengthened with zeal, with godliness and fai...

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...imackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and headlands appear... ...f England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of C ONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have been commence... ...rass ground to Concord farmers, who own the Great Meadows, and get the hay from year to year. “One branch of it,” according to the historian of Concor... ...te so good author ity, “rises in the south part of Hopkinton, and another from a pond and a large cedar swamp in Westborough,” and flow ing between ... ...hich causeth their meadows to lie much covered with water, the which these people, together with their neighbor town, have several times essayed to cu... ... hold but speak not, silently glided past the firm lands of Concord, both peopled cape and lonely summer meadow, with steady sweeps. And yet we did u... ...very bark left on, and a dog at his side, rowing so near as to agitate his cork with our oars, and drive away luck for a season; and when we had rowed... ...fifteen hundred acres, being the largest body of fresh water in Rockingham County,—comes in near here from the east. Rowing between Manchester and Bed... ...own [Goffstown]. He was one of the oldest practitioners of medicine in the county. He was many years an active member of the legislature.”—”Hon. Rober...

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... was always pressing forward, equally ready to learn and to unlearn either from its own thoughts or from those of oth ers. But a motive which weighs ... ...elf to blame if he reads farther, and I do not desire any other indulgence from him than that of bearing in mind that for him these pages were not wri... ...petty tradesman and (I believe) small farmer, at Northwater Bridge, in the county of Angus, was, when a boy, recommended by his abilities to the notic... ...ed to lead the life he led, with the disadvantages under which he laboured from the first, and with those which he brought upon himself by his marriag... ...l of historical details concerning 10 Autobiography the obscurest ancient people, while about modern history, except detached passages, such as the D... ...se than in prose: this, he said, was a real advantage. The other was, that people in general attached more value to verse than it deserved, and the po... ...hey are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions or phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinio... ...d families; the entire identification of the more independent portion, the county members, with the great landholders; the differ ent classes whom th... ...pular party in Ireland, offered to bring me into Par liament for an Irish county, which they could easily have done: but the incompatibility of a sea...

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... more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the truth which they perceive. Speech which goes from one to another between two natures, and, what is worse, between two experiences, is doubly relative. The speaker buries his meaning; it is for the hearer to dig it up again; and all speech, written or spoken, is in a dea...

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...art only broken images of the truth which they perceive. Speech which goes from one to another between two natures, and, what is worse, between two ex... ... process of the mind, but in a supreme self-dictation, which keeps varying from hour to hour in its dictates with the varia- tion of events and circum... ...ery generation has to educate another which it has brought upon the stage. People who readily accept the responsibility of parentship, having very dif... ...e-eyed brat three bad things: the terror of public opinion, and, flow- ing from that as a fountain, the desire of wealth and ap- plause. Besides these... ... ing, and how to walk through a quadrille. But, you may tell me, the young people are taught to be Christians. It may be want of penetration, but I ha... ...ins the cause. And thus you find Christ giving various counsels to varying people, and often jealously careful to avoid definite precept. Is he asked,... ...t, are ‘Prometheus Un- bound,’ the tale of the vainglorying of a champagne-cork, and ‘Teleology,’ where a nettle justifies the ways of God to nettles ... ...e insensible; thence fled from the house, the most terrified person in the county. The heavy measure had escaped from his hands, splashing the wine hi...

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...y huge beside him stood, 194 A Pagan damsel there unwares he met, 15 ?A Pagan therefore thee I fostered have, 278 ?A pinnace take thee swift as shaft from bow, 20 A privy door Ismen unlocked at last, 235 ?A rumbling sound amid the waters deep 331 A secret place they found in one of those, 347 A shadow, blacker than the mirkest night, 370 A shepherd fair Erminia entertains,...

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...le Princes, that protect and save The Pilgrim Muses, and their ship defend From rock of Ignorance and Error’s wave, Y our gracious eyes upon this labo... ...g Ismaelites deprive Of woful Thrace, which now captived stands, Y ou must from realms and seas the Turks forth drive, As Godfrey chased them from Jud... .... VII The sullen season now was come and gone, That forced them late cease from their noble war, When God Almighty form his lofty throne, Set in those... ...ir sovereign’s younger son, These archers be, and with them come withal, A people near the Northern Pole that wone, Whom Ireland sent from loughs and ... ... Y et armed to point in well-attempted plate, The land did like itself the people breed, The soil is gentle, smooth, soft, delicate; Boldly they charg... ..., Let us destroy this serpent on his nest; Both young and old, let us this people kill, The tender infants at their mothers’ breast, Their houses burn... ...and the foremost taken The Earl of Pembroke was, Artemidore, Doubtless the county thought his bread well baken; Next Gerrard followed, then with tress... ... quoth he, “thou mayest Till Phoebus shine again, here take thine inn, The County of Cosenza, three days past, This castle from the Turks did nobly wi... ...ory know, Old men and babes thy foes can overthrow!” LXXIX Thus prayed the County, and his prayers dear Strengthened with zeal, with godliness and fai...

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............................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........................................................................................................................

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..................................................................77 A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” ............................................ ...ss One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever ... ...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ...the gilded equipage of the Millionary; the humbler, but yet larger vehicle from the green metropolitan suburbs (the Hang- ing Gardens of our Babylon),... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ...with us. As for the Rafael, I suppose you are aware that he was one of our people. But what are you gazing at? Oh! my sister—I forgot. Miriam! this is... ... place, she has five hundred thousand acres, in a ring fence in Norfolk; a county in Scotland, a castle in Wales, a villa at Richmond, a corner house ... ...nion & the hother chaps rord with lafter. “As Bally has istates in Queen’s County, I’ve put him on the St. Helena direction. We call it the ‘Great St.... ...ett the following news:— “‘Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Diddlesex. “‘James Augustus de la Pluche, Esquire, to be Deputy L...

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...thing for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not appare... ...he aid of my eldest son, F . D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given. The comments are my own, an... ... occupied by descendants of his to this day. I am of the eighth generation from Mathew Grant, and sev- enth from Samuel. Mathew Grant’s first wife die... ...d was a widower at the close. Soon after this he emigrated to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and settled near the town of Greensburg in that count... ...r set up for himself in business, establishing a tan- nery at Ravenna, the county seat of Portage County. In a few years he removed from Ravenna, and ... ...d from Ravenna, and set up the same busi- ness at Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio. During the minority of my father, the West afforded but poor ... ...and but few east; and above all, there were no reporters prying into other people’s private affairs. Consequently it did not become generally known th... ...s in imitation of mine. The joke was a huge one in the mind of many of the people, and was much enjoyed by them; but I did not appreciate it so highly... ...pture of Santa Anna, the Mexican President. Before long, however, the same people—who with permission of Mexico had colonized T exas, and afterwards s...

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...s—the Dutch borough of V ondervotteimittiss. Y et as it lies some distance from any of the main roads, being in a somewhat out-of-the-way situation, t... ... to say, positively, that the borough of V ondervotteimittiss has existed, from its origin, in precisely the same condition which it at present preser... ...cumference, and entirely surrounded by gentle hills, over whose summit the people have never yet ventured to pass. For this they assign the very good ... ...ust look, of course, to the centre of the plain, which is just sixty yards from the front door of each dwelling. Every house has a small garden before... ...e fond of their sauer-kraut, but then they were proud of their clocks. All people who hold sinecure offices are held in more or less respect, and as t... ...t idea in the world of such a thing as keeping time in his steps. The good people of the borough had scarcely a chance, however, to get their eyes tho... ... in his left cheek, withdrew it with a sound resembling the pop- ping of a cork, and then, by a dexterous movement of the tongue upon the teeth, creat... ...s himself upon this bridge, respectfully informs all passers by of the new county law, which establishes a toll of one cent for foot passengers, two f... ...psie Seer”) of an odd-looking MS. which I found, about a year ago, tightly corked up in a jug floating in the Mare Tenebrarum—a sea well described by ...