...ay A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- t... ...r the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Penn- sylv... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray DEDICATION TO C... ...ge; and, having their book-learn- ing fresh in their minds, see the living people and their cities, and the actual aspect of Nature, along the famous ... ...s shores of the Mediterranean. CHAPTER I:VIGO THE SUN BROUGHT ALL the sick people out of their berths this morning, and the indescribable moans and no... ...n smiled peacefully round about, and the ship went rolling over it, as the people within were praising the Maker of all. In honour of the day, it was ... ... board the “Lady Mary Wood” steamer, on the 25th August, 1844. CHAPTER II: LISBON—CADIZ A GREA T MISFORTUNE which befalls a man who has but a single d... ... on his broad-flanked brazen charger. We only saw these state old lions in Lisbon, whose roar has long since ceased to frighten one. First we went to ... ...ar- rels on their shoulders, or lounging by the fountains to hire,— by the Lisbon and Belem omnibuses, with four mules, jingling along at a good pace;...

...bout three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of la... ...nghamshire, where his father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard at ... ...if any traveller hath a curiosity to see the whole work at large, as it came from the hands of the author, I will be ready to gratify him. As for any ... ...her particulars relating to the author, the reader will receive satisfaction from the first pages of the book. RICHARD SYMPSON. A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN ... ...r, you were pleased to an swer that you were afraid of giving offence; that people in power were very watchful over the press, and apt not only to in... ...stence than the inhabitants of Utopia. Indeed I must confess, that as to the people of Lilliput, Brobdingrag (for so the word should have been spelt,... ... hu manity, and said, “they were sure the captain would carry me gratis to Lisbon, whence I might return to my own country; that two of the seamen w... ... against my life; or else he would continue me a prisoner till we arrived at Lisbon.” I gave him the promise he required; but at the same time protest... ... me. These I changed every second day, and washed them myself. We arrived at Lisbon, Nov. 5, 1715. At our landing, the captain forced me to cover myse...

...riend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbors....

...nnsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Dumas The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas Chapter ... ... not indissolubly connected with the two names just mentioned, the few explanatory pages which we are about to add might appear quite supererogatory; ... ..., war- den of the dikes, ex-burgomaster of Dort, his native town, and member of the Assembly of the States of Holland, was forty-nine years of age, wh... ... by John de Witt upon the United Provinces. As it rarely happens that public opinion, in its whimsical flights, does not identify a principle with a m... ...nal antipathy, and, besides, against the feeling of weariness which is natural to all vanquished people, when they hope that a new chief will be able ... ...he Grand Pensionary bowed before the will of his fel- low citizens; Cornelius de Witt, however, was more obsti- nate, and notwithstanding all the thre... ...ter having travelled all through France, had found its way into Spain, and penetrated as far as Portugal; and the King, Don Alfonso VI. — who, being e...

...Excerpt: A Grateful People. On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, wit...

... Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought hom... ...which were brought home by their T urkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but a... ... have lived to see practised since. But such things as these were gathered from the letters of merchants and others who corresponded abroad, and from ... ...l was kept very private. Hence it was that this rumour died off again, and people began to forget it as a thing we were very little concerned in, and ... ...rtality in the usual manner, thus – Plague, 2. Parishes infected, 1. The people showed a great concern at this, and began to be alarmed all over the... ...ther house, but in the same parish and in the same manner. This turned the people’s eyes pretty much towards that end of the town, and the weekly bill... ...before, as I have already observed, returned from abroad, coming last from Lisbon), and how, presuming upon their professed pre- destinating notions, ...

...land; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come i...

... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ...ey AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRACT FR ... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ... power to lay aside reserve; and many, again, cannot be so with particular people. I have witnessed more than once the case, that a young female danc... ...t my life, was a very long one. First, he lived for months in Portugal, at Lisbon, and at Cintra; next in Madeira; then in the West Indies; sometimes...

...e met the call of that particular transient occasion in which they arose; and others, it may be thought on review, might as well have been suppressed from the very first....

...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..............

...d. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber. Disc... ...f of filling the empty spaces on either side of the fireplace with benches from the antechamber, disregarding the baldness of their velvet covers whic... ...ld get out a word.” “And yet, my dear father,” said Simon Giguet, entering from the smaller salon, “you really must make that effort for me; for if th... ...ing the T error to the famous Malin de l’Aube, the repre- sentative of the people, in order to hold possession of the estate of Gondreville. [See “ An... ...arles Keller,—a par- liamentary arrangement which renders the elect of the people subject to re-election. When Simon Giguet sounded the old notary Gre... ...the Comte de Gondreville, then senator, and formerly representative of the people, who had despoiled the Cinq-Cygne family of their property. [See “An... ... he possessed a large amount of raw cotton bought at a high price, whereas Lisbon was sending enormous quanti- ties into the Empire at six sous the ki...

...at the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

... of this work, lie on its opening pages like a branch of sacred box, taken from an unknown tree, but sanctified by religion, and kept ever fresh and g... ... tures now scarcely discernible, seem too weak to bear the brown clay pots from which springs the heart’s-ease or the rose-bush of some poor working-w... ...odfish and salt, a few bundles of sail-cloth, cordage, copper wire hanging from the joists above, iron hoops for casks ranged along the wall, or a few... ...tly took ineffable delight in gazing upon great masses of gold. Avaricious people gathered proof of this when they looked at the eyes of the good man,... ...ssion on the matter of vines, the talk fell upon Monsieur Grandet, knowing people said: “Le Pere Grandet? le Pere Grandet must have at least five or s... ...the remark. If some Parisian mentioned Rothschild or Monsieur Lafitte, the people of Saumur asked if he were as rich as Monsieur Grandet. When the Par... ...e reign of John V ., 1725, worth by exchange, as her father told her, five lisbonnines, or a hundred and sixty- eight francs, sixty-four centimes each... ...ndet’s si- lence. In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of ...

...To Maria, may your name, that of one whose portrait is the noblest ornament of this work, lie on its opening pages like a branch of sacred box, taken from an unknown tree, but sanctified by religion, and kept ever fresh and green by pious hands to bless the house....

...a State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND .................................................. ... II. OL. II. SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FROM OM OM OM OM THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHURCH OF CH OF CH... ...antime these great disturbances are not understood in England; and chiefly from the differences between the two nations as to the language of their se... ...ginal act of invitation. And yet, in defiance of that notorious fact, some people go so far as to assert, that a call is not good unless where it is s... ... inoperative, is and must be moonshine. Yet be- tween two moonshines, some people, it seems, can tell which is the denser. W e have all heard of Barme... ...ady, who cannot bear to be mixed up in any common charge together with low people, abomi- nates such words as ‘sin,’ and wills that the parson should ... ...24 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume Two in size to Madrid, to Lisbon, to Berlin; more than equal to Rome and Milan; or again to Munich an...

...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...

...of time heals wounds, brings compensations, and, when the heart has ceased from aching and yearning, makes the memory of what once filled it a treasur... ...especially of my mother, will not do them justice in the eyes of the young people of the present day, who are accustomed to a far more indulgent gover... ...aws against going into shops or buying dainties without express permission from mamma or nurse; but one day when Clarence had by some chance been sent... ...sed with a month’s wages, and poor Clarence underwent a strange punishment from my mother, who was getting about again by that time, namely, a drop of... ...e than Griffith, and thought he posed for admiration, for she used to tell people that no one could guess what a child he was for slyness; so that he ... ...larence, who had high fever, and very much delirium each night, talking to people whom he thought he saw, so as to make nurse regret her severity on t... ... intending to go down after dark, to meet the skipper of a craft bound for Lisbon, who, he heard, was so much in want of a mate as perhaps to over- lo...

...uld not have been done without more pain than I could brook, but the lapse of time heals wounds, brings compensations, and, when the heart has ceased from aching and yearning, makes the memory of what once filled it a treasure to be brought forward with joy and thankfulness. Nor would it be well that some of those mentioned in the coming narrative should be wholly forgotte...

...-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoul- ders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, ... ...or the capture of a mysterious impostor, supposed to have recently arrived from the East; quite an original genius in his vocation, as would appear, t... ...plain, were on the capitals, or, at least, earnestly seeking sight of them from behind intervening coats; but as for their fingers, they were envelope... ...the elbows and toes of the crowd, he concluded his opera- tions by bidding people stand still more aside, when, jumping on a stool, he hung over his d... ...eece and good-natured, honest black face rubbing against the upper part of people’s thighs as he made shift to shuffle about, making music, such as it... ...lephant for tossed apples at a menagerie; when, making a space before him, people would have a bout at a strange sort of pitch-penny game, the cripple... ...ting in general, I can only say of it what Dr. Johnson said of the alleged Lisbon earth- quake: ‘Sir, I don’t believe it.”’ “Didn’t believe it? Why no...

...white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoulders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, it was plain that he was, in the extremest sense of the word, a stranger....

...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young page of ... ...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ...r. The fact of these royal persons being sent for by the King at once made people think that a mar- riage was in contemplation. In a few minutes they ... ...tugal, who had in- duced the King, her husband, to receive the Archduke at Lisbon, and to carry the war into Spain. It did not seem reasonable, theref...

... say that the first movable types were made on birch sticks—BUCHSTABE—hence the name. I was taught a lesson in political economy in Frankfort. I had b... ...ne as their clothes. In one of the shops I had the luck to stumble upon a book which has charmed me nearly to death. It is entitled THE LEGENDS OF THE... ...t no tourist ever TELLS them. So this little book fed me in a very hungry place; and I, in my turn, intend to feed my reader, with one or two little l... ...he carpetway clear. Nobody moved or spoke any more but only waited. In a short time the shrill piping of a coming train was heard, and immediately gro... ...e lofty Neckar hills to their beguiling and im- pressive charm in any country; but German legends and fairy tales have given these an added charm. The... .... I saw that they had the advantage of me, and so I concluded to get out of the scrape by walking out of it. They enjoyed my defeat as much as any low... ...g, 29; Cologne, 29; Dresden, 29; Hamburg, 29; Berlin, 30; Bombay, 30; Warsaw, 31; Breslau, 31; Odessa, 32; Munich, 33; Strasburg, 33, Pesth, 35; Casse...

...ST OFIT AND HONEST OFIT AND HONEST OFIT AND HONESTY Y Y Y Y NO MAN IS FREE from speaking foolish things; but the worst on’t is, when a man labours to ... ...e.” —Terence, Heaut., act iii., s. 4.] This does not concern me; mine slip from me with as little care as they are of little value, and ’tis the bette... ... refused it in a thing of so great importance to him? He had word sent him from Germany that if he thought fit, they 5 Montaigne would rid him of Arm... ...evented their aggrandisement in those parts. He returned answer, “that the people of Rome were wont to revenge themselves of their enemies by open way... ...ful that they should nei- ther be deceived in me nor deceive others by me. People of that kind of trading are very reserved, and pretend to be the mos... ...or his heart, tore it out, and threw it to the dogs. And even to the worst people it is the sweetest thing imaginable, hav- ing once gained their end ... ...ployments, said, in a place where I was, that he had ridden from Madrid to Lisbon, in the heat of summer, without any drink at all. He is very healthf...

...t a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. It must be, if ... ...han our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from ... ...inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only es- cape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them. A... ...ons of miles it was from us—more than forty millions of miles of void. Few people realise the im- mensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material... ...elow in the darkness were Ottershaw and Chertsey and all their hundreds of people, sleeping in peace. He was full of speculation that night about the ... ...hotograph of the planet for the illustrated paper he edited in those days. People in these latter times scarcely realise the abundance and enterprise ... ... destructive their advent would have been as the earthquake that destroyed Lisbon a century ago. But they were in no hurry. Cylinder followed cylinder...

... 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... ...th to George II.’s pegs and his death to George III.’s; George II. got the Lisbon earthquake and George III. the Declaration of Independence. Goethe, ...

...Woolf The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf Chapter I A s the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk... ...backs. The small, agitated figures—for in comparison with this couple most people looked small— decorated with fountain pens, and burdened with des- p... ... beyond the reach of malice and unpopularity. In his guess one might guess from the moving lips that it was thought; and in hers from the eyes fixed s... ...it was sorrow. It was only by scorn- ing all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently pain... ...orn- ing all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently pain- ful. After watching the traffi... ...couple will stand there talking for half an hour on a fine afternoon; most people, walking for pleasure, contem- plate for three minutes; when, having... ... that every one was to mind and behave themselves, for he would be kept in Lisbon doing business until five o’clock that afternoon. At about that hour... ... The truth was that Mr. and Mrs. Dalloway had found themselves stranded in Lisbon. They had been travelling on the Continent for some weeks, chiefly w... ... there was cholera in Russia, and he was heard of, not so romantically, in Lisbon. They had been through France; he had stopped at manufacturing centr...

...grant continuance: 135 Nor do I now make mone to be abridg’d 136 From such a noble rate, but my cheefe care 137 Is to come fairely off ... ... you Anthonio 140 I owe the most in money, and in loue, 141 And from your loue I haue a warrantie 142 To vnburthen all my plots and pu... ... faire, and fairer then that word, 172 Of wondrous vertues, sometimes from her eyes 173 I did receiue faire speechlesse messages: 174 H... ...one of two contending in a prize 1489 That thinks he hath done well in peoples eies: 1490 Hearing applause and vniuersall shout, 1491 Gidd... ...ot one hit, 1624 From Tripolis, from Mexico and England, 1625 From Lisbon, Barbary, and India, 1626 And not one vessell scape the dreadful... ...art, 1763 I shall obey you in all faire commands. 1764 Por. My people doe already know my minde, 1765 And will acknowledge you and Ie... ...3 Loren. Faire Ladies you drop Manna in the way 2724 Of starued people. 2725 Por. It is almost morning, 2726 And yet I am sure ...

...lf. I have often heard persons of good judgment say that all the stir that people make in the world about ghosts and appa- ritions is owing to the str... ...hat there is no such thing as a spirit appearing, or a ghost walking; that people’s poring affectionately upon the past conversation of their de- ceas... ...her there are any such things as real apparitions, spectres, or walking of people after they are dead; or whether there is anything in the stories the... ...ou willing I should go?” – “No,” says she, very affectionately , “I am far from willing; but if you are resolved to go,” says she, “rather than I woul... ...g to increase it; that as to what my wife had said of its being an impulse from Heaven, and that it should be my duty to go, I had no notion of that; ... ... things, and to engage in some busi- ness that might effectually tie me up from any more excur- sions of this kind; for I found that thing return upon... ...f my circumstances in my mind, come to this resolution, that I would go to Lisbon, and con- sult with my old sea-captain; and if it was rational and p... ...t he went on board a ship bound thither at St. Malo; but being forced into Lisbon by bad weather, the ship received some damage by running aground in ... ...d the widow was for me when she sent me the cargo of a hundred pounds from Lisbon, where she packed up three Bibles and a Prayer-book. However, the go...

...Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, ... ...ose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called RobinsonKreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of W... ...e, by this one thing, viz. That this was the State of Life which all other People envied, that Kings have frequently lamented the miserable Consequenc... ...r an Example, to whom he had used the same earnest Perswasions to keep him from going into the Low Country Wars, but could not prevail, his young Desi... ...n our Boat mounting the Waves, we were able to see the Shore, a great many People running along the Shore to assist 10 ROBINSON CRUSOE us when we sho... ...orocco’s Dominions, or indeed of any other King thereabouts, for we saw no People. Yet such was the Fright I had taken at the Moors, and the dreadful ... ...sed to my self to receive from England. I had a Neighbour, a Portugueze of Lisbon, but born of English Parents, whose Name was Welts, and in much such... ...Orders to the Person who has your Money in London, to send your Effects to Lisbon, to such Persons as I shall direct, and in such Goods as are proper ... ...r necessary Directions for my Supply; and when this honest Captain came to Lisbon, he found means by some of the English Merchants there to send over ...

...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...ew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated 4 A Book of Golden Deeds (from Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ th... ...dventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabeth of Siberia, are from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the ... ... from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the British Navy;’ the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Registrer, and that at Ciudad Rodrigo, from the tra- dition... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ...s in that army with which David was to fulfill the ancient promises to his people. There were his three nephews, Joab, the fero- cious and imperious, ... ... 142 A Book of Golden Deeds Just as all was ready, the plague broke out in Lisbon, and the Queen fell sick of it. Her husband would not leave her, and... ...hteen years later, of the taking of Ceuta, King Joao died of the plague at Lisbon, on the 14th of Au- gust, 1433. Duarte came to the throne; and, a fe...

... ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOKS TWO by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ... after he had come to the Gatehouse prison, (where he lay in no small pain from his wound, which inflamed and ached severely,) and with those thoughts... ...ing, Esmond knew at once that his visitor was his dear mistress. He got up from his bed, where he was lying, being very weak; and advancing towards he... ...o happened to be in the place; and the governor’s wife and ser- vant, kind people both, were with the patient. Esmond saw his mistress still in the ro... ...d more than a half of the nation were on this side. Ours is the most loyal people in the world surely; we admire our kings, and are faith- ful to them... ...hough a Tory herself, she represented the triumph of the Whig opinion. The people of England, al- ways liking that their Princes should be attached to... ...Esmond’s table-book informs him: and on the 8th of August made the rock of Lisbon. By this time the Ensign was grown as bold as an admiral, and a week... ...ys Frank, sipping his wine with the air of a lord. “What think you of this Lisbon—real Collares? ’Tis better than your heady port: we got it out of on...

... sense of honour and independence, and an obstinate refusal to take advice from those who really wished to befriend him; nor should it be forgotten th... ...The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew 5 Rousseau The... ...n its shadows and blemishes; let us not, then, seek to “draw his frailties from their dread abode.” His greatest fault was his renunciation of a fathe... ...ains, lakes and islands, formerly regarded with aversion, into a fairyland peopled with crea- tures whose joys and sorrows appealed irresistibly to ev... ... my eyes only examples of mildness, and was surrounded by some of the best people in the world? My father, my aunt, my nurse, my relations, our friend... ...y Latin, history, and antiquities; I could hardly recol- lect whether such people as Romans ever existed. When I visited my father, he no longer behel... ...te attack I had when I received the copy of the poem on the destruction of Lisbon, which I imagined to be sent by the author. This made it necessary I... ...nt, had printed in his journal my letter to V oltaire upon the disaster at Lisbon. The abbe wished to know how the letter came to be printed, and in h...

...“UNEXPECTED OBSTACLE. Please don’t come till thirtieth. Anna.” All the way from Charing Cross to Dover the train had ham- mered the words of the teleg... ...m like the dice in some game of the gods of malice; and now, as he emerged from his compartment at the pier, and stood facing the wind-swept platform ... ... wind-swept platform and the angry sea beyond, they leapt out at him as if from the crest of the waves, stung and blinded him with a fresh fury of der... ...obscurely outraged by these promiscuous contacts. It was as though all the people about him had taken his measure and known his plight; as though they... ...ething else: the music, or the cook—when there was a good one—or the other people; generally ONE of the other people.” “I see.” She was amusing, and t... ...atalism oddly untinged by bitterness. Darrow perceived that she classified people according to their greater or less “luck” in life, but she appeared ... ... date of her marriage, the relative advantages of sailing from Lon- don or Lisbon, the possibility of hiring a habitable house at their new post; and,...

...tly combined tea-deal- ing with literature. It is described as “translated from the original by several hands,” but if so all Spanish flavour has enti... ...carefully with the original will have little doubt that it is a concoction from Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowi... ... Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowings from Phillips, whose mode of treat- ment it adopts. It is, to be sure, more... ... translations of “Don Quixote,” it will be seen that there are a good many people who, provided they get the mere narrative with its full complement o... ...him who makes so. The method by which Cervantes won the ear of the Spanish people ought, mutatis mutandis, to be equally effective with the great majo... ...brothers contrived to inform their family of their condition, and the poor people at Alcala at once strove to raise the ransom money, the father dispo... ...f an amour, as some of them with great circumstantiality inform us, with a Lisbon lady of noble birth, whose name, however, 16 Don Quixote as well as... ...nds of the public than preparations were made to issue pirated editions at Lisbon and Valencia, and to bring out a second edition with the additional ... ... a place and falls into the ocean, kissing the walls of the famous city of Lisbon, and it is a common belief that it has golden sands, &c. If you shou...

...ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK THREE by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...now he cared for; and in this dismal frame of mind he determined to retire from the regiment, to the great delight of the captain next in rank to him,... ...er was a spy; that Atterbury was a spy; that letters were constantly going from that house to the Queen at St. Germains; on which Esmond, laughing, wo... ... the church of his country, and to that he chose to remain faithful: other people were welcome to worship and to subscribe any other set of articles, ... ... finding, on going to England, his country cold towards him- self, and the people in a ferment of High Church loyalty, the Duke comes back to his army... ... Break this news to ‘em gently: and tell Mr. Finch, my agent, to press the people for their rents, and send me the ryno anyhow. Clotilda sings, and pl... ...g persecution and the pillory against his opponents than if he had been at Lisbon and Grand In- quisitor. This lofty patriot was on his knees at Hanov...

...tly combined tea-deal- ing with literature. It is described as “translated from the original by several hands,” but if so all Spanish flavour has enti... ...have little doubt that it 5 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. is a concoction from Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowi... ... Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowings from Phillips, whose mode of treat- ment it adopts. It is, to be sure, more... ... translations of “Don Quixote,” it will be seen that there are a good many people who, provided they get the mere narrative with its full complement o... ...him who makes so. The method by which Cervantes won the ear of the Spanish people ought, mutatis mutandis, to be equally effective with the great majo... ...brothers contrived to inform their family of their condition, and the poor people at Alcala at once strove to raise the ransom money, the father dispo... ...f an amour, as some of them with great circumstantiality inform us, with a Lisbon lady of noble birth, whose name, however, as well as that of the str... ...nds of the public than preparations were made to issue pirated editions at Lisbon and Valencia, and to bring out a second edition with the additional ... ... a place and falls into the ocean, kissing the walls of the famous city of Lisbon, and it is a common belief that it has golden sands, &c. If you shou...

...remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwel- come sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed natu- rally into pity and contempt as he turn... ...born November 20, 1791.” Precisely such had the paragraph originally stood from the printer’s hands; but Sir Walter had improved it by adding, for the... ... mind and sweetness of character, which must have placed her high with any people of real understanding, was nobody with either father or sister; her ... ...her, (so totally differ- ent were her delicate features and mild dark eyes from his own), there could be nothing in them, now that she was faded and t... ... Sir W alter Elliot will be very far from lessened in the eyes of sensible people, by acting like a man of principle. What will he be doing, in fact, ... ...liberal notions, and are as likely to make desirable tenants as any set of people one 15 Jane Austen should meet with. Therefore, Sir Walter, what I ... ...ing only of his own thoughts, began with— “If you had been a week later at Lisbon, last spring, Frederick, you would have been asked to give a passage... ...in, and only once; besides being in different places about home: Cork, and Lisbon, and Gibraltar. But I never went beyond the Streights, and never was...

...neaded by a hand more daring than able; but, at whatever distance I may be from the greatest of comic writers, I shall still be glad to have used thes... ...ment that I have had in this difficult undertaking was in finding it apart from all religious questions,—questions which ought to be kept out of it fo... ...was said to be so wearisome in the study entitled “ A Double Life” (Scenes from Private Life), that naive relic of old Paris, has at the present momen... ...constitution which the least toil wearied. She was truly a daughter of the people of Paris, where children, seldom handsome, and of no vigor, the prod... ...ceably too small and ending in a point like the nose of a mouse, made some people fear she would become, sooner or later, imbecile. Her eyes, which we... ...triumphed in their corner with the triumphs of Algiers, of Constantine, of Lisbon, of Sainte- Jean d’Ulloa; they deplored the death of Napoleon and th... ...a new dynasty, a royalty of its own, and behold how it treats it! When the people allowed Napoleon to rise to power, it created with him a splendid an...

...CH ITS PRODUCE IS NATU- RALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE. .......... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .................... ...ERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME .............. ...XTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEO... ...mmediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations. According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purch... ...irectly destroy- ing, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people, 9 Adam Smith and those afflicted with lingering diseases, to peris... ... civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do not labour at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times,... ...eater quantity. The quantity of gold and silver imported at both Cadiz and Lisbon (including not only what comes under register, but what may be suppo... ...ere to judge of the quantity of gold annually imported from the Brazils to Lisbon, by the amount of the tax paid to the king of Portugal, which it see... ... little less. The annual importation of the precious metals into Cadiz and Lisbon, indeed, is not equal to the whole annual produce of the mines of Am...

...OVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ......................................................................... 10 CHAPTER II OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ...................

...in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferr... ... 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those times, which obliges us to ... ... for children might be bap- tized, and were baptized, at various distances from their birth: yet, on the other hand, the 23d is as likely to have been... ...y is to be received as evi- dence of pauperism, nine tenths of the English people might occasionally be classed as paupers. With respect to his libera... ... their debts. And the prob- ability is, that Master Sadler acted like most people who, when they suppose a man to be going down in the world, feel the... ...nevitably have mixed chiefly with mechanics and humble tradesmen, for such people composed perhaps the total community . But had there even been a gen... ... was Alexander, had been sent when young, in some commercial character, to Lisbon; 3 and there it was, in that centre of bigotry, that he became a si... ...undermined. On the 1st of November, 1755, occurred the great earthquake at Lisbon. Upon a double account, this event occupied the thoughts of all Euro... ...hope to rival that hasty one sketched in the letter of the chaplain to the Lisbon factory. The plague of Athens as painted by Thucydides or Lucretius,...

...f Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferred that he was born on the 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those t...

...tate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at Y ork, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, ... ...ose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of... ...e by this one thing – viz. that this was the state of life which all other people envied; that kings have frequently lamented the miserable consequenc... ...r an example, to whom he had used the same earnest persuasions to keep him from going into the Low Country wars, but could not prevail, his young desi... ..., our boat mounting the waves, we were able to see the shore) a great many people running along the strand to assist us when we should come near; but ... ...orocco’s dominions, or indeed of any other king thereabouts, for we saw no people. Yet such was the fright I had taken of the Moors, and the dreadful ... ...sed to myself to receive from England. I had a neighbour, a Portuguese, of Lisbon, but born of English parents, whose name was Wells, and in much such... ... orders to the person who has your money in London to send your effects to Lisbon, to such persons as I shall direct, and in such goods as are proper ... ...necessary direc- tions for my supply; and when this honest captain came to Lisbon, he found means, by some of the English merchants there, to send ove...

...her being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now calle...

..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ...t Pipes of the Organ.........................................121 Facing West from California’s Shores ................................................... ... inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age, How people respond to them, yet know them not, How there is something relentl... ..., Countless masses debouch upon them, They are now cover’d with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known. See, projected through time, For me an... ... 7 I am the credulous man of qualities, ages, races, I advance from the people in their own spirit, Here is what sings unrestricted faith. Omnes!... ...t in the ports of Australia, Wait at Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Marseilles, Lisbon, Naples, Hamburg, Bremen, Bordeaux, the Hague, Copenhagen, Wait at...

...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, f...

.................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III..........................................38...

...urther one that it is comparatively little known, a considerable selection from it is offered to the reader in the last two volumes of this edition. U... ...ltogether sufficed to fill up the gaps. His family, said to have descended from a member of the great house of Hapsburg who came to England in the rei... ... The descriptions both of Sophia and of Amelia are said to have been taken from this lady; her good looks and her amiability are as well established a... ...tugal Voyage,” of which he has left so charming a record in the Journey to Lisbon. He left Fordhook on June 26, 1754, reached Lisbon in August, and, d... ...ithin a year or two, shows us more than half-undesignedly in the Voyage to Lisbon that he was very careful about the appointments and decency of his t... ...alled moral delinquen- cies, this attitude was so decided as to shock some people even in those days, and many in these. Just when the first sheets of... ... last echo of which is heard amid the kindly resignation of the Journey to Lisbon, in the sentence, “Whereas envy of all things most exposes us to dan... ...ock my ears with your beastly language.” “Marry-come-up,” cries Slipslop, “people’s ears are sometimes the nicest part about them.” The lady, who bega... ...le more: by which charitable methods, together with lending money to other people, and even to his own master and mistress, the honest man had, from n...

...an sufficiently interesting as his; for which reasons, as well as for the further one that it is comparatively little known, a considerable selection from it is offered to the reader in the last two volumes of this edition....

...emn emo- tion— Its ability to overcome unhappiness— Need of such a faculty from the biological point of view. LECTURE III THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN Pe... ...logy— Does transcendental idealism fare better? Its principles— Quotations from John Caird— They are good as restatements of religious experience, but... ...arned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, as well as from the books, of European scholars, is ... ...nging places with Scotsmen lecturing in the United States; I hope that our people may become in all these higher mat- ters even as one people; and tha... ...f lowly origin be asserted is seen in those comments which unsenti- mental people so often pass on their more sentimen- 19 William James tal acquaint... ...ing persons whose states of mind we regard as overstrained. But when other people criticize our own more exalted soul-flights by calling them ‘nothing... ...susceptible of teleological interpretation. The ruins of the earthquake at Lisbon, for example: the whole of past history had to be planned exactly 4...

...re is no end, there never will be an end, of the lamentations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobr... ...n-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist, the moralist, the divine, and... ... sunny smiles and many tears—a little love and infinite strife—whisperings from paradise and fierce mockeries from the anarchy of chaos—dust and ashes... ...great masters of literature, especially those of modern times; so that few people knew the high classics more familiarly: and as to the passage in que... ... necessities of public business coming back in a torrent upon the official people after this momentary interruption, forbade them to indulge any furth... ...int seemed to justify almost more than hopes. This might be said, and most people would have been more or less con- soled by it. I was not. I felt as ... ...ned there for the next thirty-one years, until he left it for his grave at Lisbon; in fact, he passed at Northampton the whole of his public life. It ...

... Roy, of having some scien- tific person on board, accompanied by an offer from him of giving up part of his own accommodations, that I volunteered my... ...o him; and to add that, during the five years we were together, I received from him the most cordial friendship and steady as- sistance. Both to Capta... ...ollected, and I trust that many others will here- after follow. The plants from the southern parts of America will be given by Dr. J. Hooker, in his g... ...ar water. It happened to be a grand feast-day, and the village was full of people. On our return we overtook a party of about twenty young black girls... ...st falls in such quantities as to dirty every- thing on board, and to hurt people’s eyes; vessels even have run on shore owing to the obscurity of the... ...his day I found a specimen of a curious fungus, called Hymenophallus. Most people know the English Phallus, which in autumn taints the air with its od... ...ination to Europe, with which we are so much better acquainted. Then, near Lisbon, the commonest sea-shells, namely, three spe- cies of Oliva, a Volut... ... Juan Fernandez during this earthquake, and with Madeira during the famous Lisbon shock. I suspect (but the subject is a very obscure one) that a wave...

...of growing enlightenment and happy compan- ionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917. INTRODU... ...ect and setting are so closely allied that each borrows charm and emphasis from the other. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor w... ...ther. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor would fade from the church of St. Clement Danes, from the Mitre, from Fleet Street, th... ..., such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the number, range, and variety of people who at one time or another had been in some degree personally relate... ...godchild Jane Langton. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I love the acquain- tance of young people, . . . young men have more virtue than old men; they have more gen- ... ... into a spacious and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third dow... ...rge packet was brought to him from the post-office, said to have come from Lisbon, and it was charged seven pounds ten shillings. He would not receive... ...o Portugal, this packet, with others, had been put into the post-office at Lisbon. I mentioned a new gaming-club, of which Mr. Beauclerk had given me ...

...ly liked, evinces a peculiar construction of mortal. Mr. Melchisedec, whom people in private called the great Mel, had been at once the sad dog of Lym... ...at I want to know,’ said Barnes, the butcher, ‘is where he got his tenners from?’ Kilne shook a sagacious head: ‘No knowing!’ ‘I suppose we shall get ... ...dly. They instantly checked that unseemliness, and Kilne, as one who rises from the depths of a calculation with the sum in his head, spoke quite in a... ...e mourners entered the publican’s house, where Kilne, after summoning them from behind the bar, on the impor- tant question, what it should be? and re... ...t a man who wishes to pass off for more than he is, Kilne, and impose upon people,” he says, “he’s contemptible, Kilne! contempt- ible!” So that, you ... ...y; and for some reason that I am quite guiltless of,” says Mel, “the hotel people gave out that I was a Marquis in disguise; and, upon my honour, ladi... ...ils. About the same time the 21 George Meredith Countess sailed over from Lisbon on a visit to her sister Harriet (in reality, it was whispered in th... ...spered in the Cogglesby saloons, on a diplomatic mission from the Court of Lisbon; but that could not be made ostensible). The Countess narrowly exami... ...assy a month ago, and there was Admiral Combleman, then on the station off Lisbon, Sir Jack- son Racial’s friend, who was the Admiral at Lymport for- ...

...ESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...ll the produce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esm... ...d here in our Republic, or at home in the always beloved mother coun- try, from which our late quarrel hath separated us, may surely be proud to be de... ... last an extraordi- nary brightness and freshness of complexion; nor would people believe that she did not wear rouge. At sixty years of age she still... ...eard my father use a rough word, ’twas extraordinary with how much awe his people regarded him; and the servants on our plantation, both those assigne... ...h as the most severe taskmasters round about us could never get from their people. He was never familiar, though perfectly simple and natural; he was ... ...Esmond’s table-book informs him: and on the 8th of August made the rock of Lisbon. By this time the Ensign was grown as bold as an admiral, and a week... ...ys Frank, sipping his wine with the air of a lord. “What think you of this Lisbon—real Collares? ’Tis better than your heady port: we got it out of on... ...g persecution and the pillory against his opponents than if he had been at Lisbon and Grand In- quisitor. This lofty patriot was on his knees at Hanov...

...y faint means would grant continuance: Nor do I now make moan to be abridged From such a noble rate; but my chief care Is to come fairly off from the ... ...th left me gaged. To you, Antonio, I owe the most, in money and in love, And from your love I have a warranty To unburden all my plots and purposes Ho... ... And she is fair, and, fairer than that word, Of wondrous virtues: sometimes from her eyes I did receive fair speechless messages: The Merchant of Ven... ...ive. Like one of two contending in a prize, That thinks he hath done well in people’s eyes, Hearing applause and universal shout, Giddy in spirit, sti... ...ures fail’d? What, not one hit? From Tripolis, from Mexico and England, From Lisbon, Barbary and India? And not one vessel ‘scape the dreadful touch O... ...Madam, with all my heart; I shall obey you in all fair commands. PORTIA: My people do already know my mind, And will acknowledge you and Jessica In p... ...es possess’d of. LORENZO: Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people. PORTIA: It is almost morning, And yet I am sure...