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...LI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...wall and rather tattered is a large yellow-varnished geological map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and se... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...ose particular words, yet exactly in that manner, as he slouched along the southward road, with resentful eyes becoming less resentful as he talked, a... ...t seemed to me, of such a proceeding. The family occupied a large villa in Newcastle, with big lawns before it and behind, a shrubbery with quite a lo...

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...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wi...

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...A A A A ACE CE CE CE CE Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenæum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have ... ...s Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Select... ... of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornel... ...es, which ac- cordingly appeared in the London Magazine in that year. This new sensation eclipsed Lamb’s Essays of Elia, which were ap- pearing in the... ... our little planet, the Earth, however cheap they may be held by eccentric people in comets: he had invented mail-coaches, and he had mar- ried the da... ... mail-coach trav- ellers where two mails in opposite directions, north and south, starting at the same minute from points six hundred miles apart, met... ...ne single college; in Oxford there were five-and-twenty, all of which were peopled by young men, the élite of their own generation; not boys, but men:... ..., Winchester, Ports- mouth, Gloucester, Oxford, Bristol, Manchester, York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Stirling, Aberdeen— expressing the gr... ...) iden- tified in an instant an old friend of mine whom I had known in the south for some years as the most masterly of mail- coachmen. He was the man...

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...mely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without a...

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...ntents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES..............................................................................................

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........................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ........................ ...pers MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FR FR FR FR FROM OM OM OM OM THE A THE A THE A THE A THE AUTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, U... ...d usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those wh... ... any, had been already tried for me vicariously amongst the Ameri- cans; a people so nearly repeating our own in style of intel- lect, and in the comp... ...2) were in themselves, for dramatic effect, the most impressive on record. Southey pronounced their preeminence when he said to me that they ranked am... ...rciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every philosophi... ...ot uniform; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whate... ...old to constitutional torpor, suddenly, and beyond all hope, had kindled a new and no- bler life. Occupied originally by no shadow of any earthly inte... ... am I to suppose this? I don’t know but you have some trap in it. X. No; a Newcastle coal-mine, or a Cornwall tin-mine, will answer the purpose of my ...

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...ont of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new....

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...hat of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-for... ...ed-for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch-chain that depended from be- low his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phos- phoresc... ... violate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference to them. A. D. had no conc... ... had risen, as his father had before him, in the course of life and death, from Son to Dombey, and for nearly twenty years had been the sole represent... ...ow yourself to be worried by what is so very inconsid- erately told you by people who ought to know better. Really I’m surprised at them.’ ‘I hope I k... ...ess. It was a rude shock to his sense of property in his child, that these people— the mere dust of the earth, as he thought them -should be necessary... ... ‘lovely Peg,’ the accomplished daughter of the master and part-owner of a Newcastle collier. In this stirring legend, Captain Cuttle descried a profo... ... 342 Dombey & Son governing inclination towards the north, east, west, or south, but inclined to all four quarters of the compass, and to every point... ...ow in com- ing to the plants, this morning. The weather was warm, the wind southerly; and there was a sigh of the summer-time In Princess’s Place, tha...

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...e middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement o...

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...e Bragelonne. V olume I. CHAPTER 1 The Letter. TOWARDS THE MIDDLE of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o’clock in the morning, when the sun,... ...assengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to ex- press, in the purest Fr... ...wered Haarlem tapestry; in the center of this table was a long-necked stone bottle, in which were irises and lilies of the valley; at each end of this... ...mte de Bragelonne.” “Ah, very well! Introduce him, Saint-Remy — introduce him.” And when he had let fall these words, with his accus- tomed gravity, M... ... cry of “Vive le Roi!” which passed over him. For a long time, being unaccustomed to hear it, his ear had had rest, and now a younger, more vivacious,... ...mbracing you likewise.” The good old man did not require to be twice told; he rushed in with open arms, Raoul meeting him halfway. “Now, if you please... ...harles II. concealed his face in his hands, and a bitter tear glided between his white and slender fingers. “`I have still a million in gold,’ continu... ...he earth, than love in the hearts of my subjects.” “Sire, the spot in which his majesty buried the million is well known to me, and no one, I am sure,... ... mullets; I have also some little whitings that will fry beautifully.” “Y ou appear to me to have fished more frequently in the Gulf of Gascony than i...

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...with which his friends have 5 Yo n g e kindly supplied me, portraying him from their point of view; so that I could really trust that little more was... ...ary judgment in connecting and selecting. Nor until the work is less fresh from my hand will it be possible to judge whether I have in any way been al... ... James Coleridge, of Heath’s Court, Ottery St. Mary, Devon, Colonel of the South Devon Vol- unteers. He was the eldest of the numerous family of the R... ...arnest wish to be a clergyman, because he thought saying the Absolution to people must make them so happy, ‘a belief he must have gleaned from his Pra... ... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the ... ...ng out to found a church, and then to die neglected and forgotten. All the people burst out crying, he was so very much beloved by his parishioners. H... ...e had by this time attained, may contend in the public examination for the Newcastle scholarship, just before the Easter holidays, and it is a great t... ...most intimate friends and associates, two collegers, who ultimately became Newcastle scholars and medallists. ‘That the most popular oppidan of his da...

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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... ...nch and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now called Kent; and, although they were a... ...ace, after this, for sev enty years. A Child’s Histroy of England 16 Then new enemies arose. They were the Sax ons, a fierce, sea faring people from... ...of earth, more than seventy miles Charles Dickens 17 long, extending from Newcastle to beyond Carlisle, for the purpose of keeping out the Picts and ... ...the first time, called the country over which he ruled, England. And now, new enemies arose, who, for a long time, troubled England sorely. These wer... ...His head was set upon a pole on Lon don Bridge, his right arm was sent to Newcastle, his left arm to Berwick, his legs to Perth and Aberdeen. But, if...

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............................................................ 151 TO MR THOMAS SOUTHERN,76 ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 1742 ............................................ ...rade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shortly after the Revolu- tion, at the early age of forty-six... ...eat tenderness and care. Once, when three years old, he nar- rowly escaped from an angry cow, but was wounded in the throat. He was remarkable as a ch... ... in his studies, and when his verses did not please him, sent him back to “new turn” them, saying, “These are not good rhymes.” His prin- cipal favour... ...lexander Pope – V olume One letters to all his friends, including the Abbé Southcot. This gentleman communicated Pope’s case to Dr Ratcliffe, who gave... ...re known or heard of—(MacFlecknoe, the Re- hearsal, &c.)—were mercy to the new tempest of havoc which burst from the brain of this remorseless poet. A... ...of a man generally depends upon the first steps he makes in the world; and people will establish their opinion of us from what we do at that season wh... ...man so much good as ill-will does him harm. Then there is a third class of people, who make the largest part of mankind, those of ordinary or indiffer... ... Esher, in Surrey, belonging to the Hon. Mr Pelham, brother of the Duke of Newcastle. 272 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One Carleton...

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... scrapes with Phyllis, without trou- bling themselves to extract any moral from their proceed- ings; and to these the Mohun family would only apologis... ...ach immediate claim of duty may lead to the highest acts of self-devotion. New Court, Beechcroft, 18th January. 4 Scenes and Characters PREF PREF PRE... ...stifled the family in my imagination for a time. They awoke once more with new names, but sub- stantially the same, and were my companions in many a s... ...nt and sympathetic ears. And then came the impulse to literature for young people given by the example of that memorable book the Fairy Bower, and fol... ...d learnt to know real anxiety and sorrow. Her mother, after suffering much from grief at the loss of her two brothers, fell into so alarm- ing a state... ...be like the old days, when every birthday of yours was a happy day for the people at Hetherington,’ said Emily. ‘ Ah! those were happy old days,’ said... ...not spared himself in the least, his tutor says, and he would have had the Newcastle Scholarship last year, if he had not worked so hard that he broug... ...ch was intended for the Martins, a poor old rheumatic couple, who lived at South End, the most distant part of the parish. Neither of them could walk ... ... it is not a bore,’ returned Reginald. ‘I only want you to walk with me to South End.’ ‘Eh?’ said Reginald; ‘I thought the little Misses were too deli...

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...lence, her enemies within her frontiers—all proved the great Richelieu no longer in existence. In truth, that the red simar which occupied the wonted ... ...t the red simar which occupied the wonted place was his no longer, was still more strikingly obvious from the isolation which seemed, as we have obser... ... as from the distant and incessant sounds of guns fir- ing—let off, happily, without other end or aim, except to show to the guards, the Swiss troops ... ...se,” he continued, “of the parliament! Both Orleans and Montargis are ours. It will be a work of time, but those who have begun by crying out: Down wi... ...tack the magistrates and had sold no less than twelve appointments in the Court of Requests, at a high price; and as the officers of that court paid v... ...ify him for his loss. Now the following occurrences had taken place between the two contending parties On the seventh of January between seven and eig... ...d on thyme only, your hares.” “And how do you like my wine?” asked Porthos; “it is pleasant, isn’t it?” “Capital!” “It is nothing, however, but a wine... ... they were going, but to Durham, whither Mordaunt had been ordered to repair by the letter he had received during his sojourn at Boulogne, and accompa... ...also appareled as a cavalier, was talking to a Scotch sentinel, and, though a foreigner, he seemed to understand without much difficulty the answers g...

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...re nor less than with an aquatic mammal, unknown till then, which threw up from its blow-holes columns of water mixed with air and vapour. Similar fac... ...Navigation Company. But this extraordinary creature could transport itself from one place to another with surprising velocity; as, in an inter- val of... ... months of the year 1867 the question seemed buried, never to revive, when new facts were brought before the public. It was then no longer a scien- ti... ...tached me to that expedition. After six months in Nebraska, I ar- rived in New York towards the end of March, laden with a precious collection. My dep... ...e form of the dilemma. Either we do know all the varieties of beings which people our planet, or we do not. If we do not know them all—if Nature has s... ...n, and the Straits of Magellan opened less than seven hundred miles to the south. Before eight days were over the Abraham Lincoln would be ploughing t... ...on, I would not bet in its favour. 21 Jules Verne The frigate skirted the south-east coast of America with great rapidity. The 3rd of July we were at... ...lled in its cage in the Jardin des Plantes, and have drawn all the curious people of the capital!” “As you say, Conseil. I fancy we shall run a fair c... ...- tain?” “Exactly so. These mines extend under the waves like the mines of Newcastle. Here, in their diving-dresses, pick axe and shovel in hand, my m...

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...ST UST UST UST “I brought them here as to a sanctuary.” —Southey MOST OF US HAVE HEARD of the sad times in the middle of the sevente... ...e three cows, eight pigs, and the old donkey which got their living there. From the top of the hill, beyond the cleft of the river Avon, he could see ... ...ce to them. They had sat there as king and queen, had paved it with stones from the brook, and had had many plans for the sports they would have there... ...er to tell of one of the captains preaching in the Minster, and the market people flocking in to hear him. Jeph had been outside, for there was no roo... ...d in a different county. 14 Under the Storm It was there that the Elmwood people did their marketing, often leaving their donkeys hobbled on their ow... ...nder the Storm made a place for your plunder and slaughter,” thundered the new comer, rising in his stirrups, and striking at the troopers with the fl... ...gain asked Prince Maurice. “This is as bad as in Germany itself.” “You are new to the trade, Maurice. You will see many such sights, I fear, ere we ha... ...er had been re- ceived stating that the King was with the Scottish army at Newcastle, and that it was expected that on receiving their 96 Under the S... ...rough his nose spoke the guest. “He was well when I left him; be- ing sent south by my master to attend my mistress, and so being no more among them t...

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... distress of their brethren in the far north, whom distance has not barred from the claim of being counted our “neighbours”? And whatever their humane... ...s- lator hopes in the course of a mail or two to receive a com- munication from a leading man of science in the island, which may furnish matter for a... ...ty-seven consonants and fifty-five vowels. This is the proportion found in south- ern languages, whilst northern tongues are much richer in consonants... ...lst northern tongues are much richer in consonants; therefore this is in a southern language.” These were very fair conclusions, I thought. “But what ... ...s mind to bear upon it during his walk, and he had come back to apply some new combination. He sat in his armchair, and pen in hand he began what look... ...nished my sentence when the Professor broke out into a cry, nay, a roar. A new revelation burst in upon him. He was transformed! “Aha, clever Saknusse... ...eturn should be the first news of it.” “Do you really think there are many people bold enough?” said I. “Certainly; who would hesitate to acquire such... ...it with all our luggage, the abundance of which rather astonished the good people of Rejkiavik. “Well, Axel,” said my uncle, “we are getting on, and n... ...an spread above our heads?” “Of course, Axel. What can be more natural? At Newcastle are there not coal mines extending far under the sea?” It was all...

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...s not true.” —Hackluyt “Whale. ... Sw. and Dan. Hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. Hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —W ebst... ...ed or vaulted.” —W ebster’ s Dictionary “Whale. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richard... ... Primer. “We saw also abundance of large whales, there being more in those southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the north... ...an insupportable smell, as to bring on a disorder of the brain.” —Ulloa’ s South America. “To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, We trust the impor-... ...— Montgomery’ s World before the Flood. “Io! Paean! Io! sing. To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...the pacific ocean.” By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ... ... of the whale, 12 Moby Dick the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.” —From “Some- thing” unpu... ...me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knock- ing people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I c... ... much it may invertedly contradict the old proverb about carrying coals to Newcastle, yet sometimes such a thing really happens; and in the present ca...

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...not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster... ...ed or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richards... ... Primer. “We saw also abundance of large whales, there being more in these southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the north... ...h an insupportable smell, as to bring on a disorder of the brain.” Ulloa’s South America. “To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, We trust the importa... ...ked fangs.” Montgomery’s Pelican Island. “Io! Paean! Io! sing, To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ... the Pacific Ocean. ” By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York. 1821. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was pipin... ...pen the haunts of the whale, the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpubli... ...t me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I... ... much it may invertedly contradict the old proverb about carrying coals to Newcastle, yet sometimes such a thing really happens; and in the present ca...

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... the Quarterly Review, in 1817. The particulars were derived by the Critic from the Author’s information. Afterwards they were published in the Prefac... ...principles, that while the civil war was raging, and strag- gling officers from the Highland army were executed with- out mercy, Invernahyle hesitated... ... a court, had for some time been gradually reconciling them- selves to the new dynasty. But the wealthy country gentle- men of England, a rank which r... ...es reached the ears of Sir Everard at once, there can be no doubt that the new commissioner would have had little reason to pique himself on the succe... ...w and foolish fashion is introduced to break the natural dependence of the people upon their landlords.’ Sir Everard had done his best to correct this... ...isaffected, and, showed little hospitality to the military guests; and the people of the town, chiefly engaged in mercantile pursuits, were not such a... ...aron of Bradwardine’s man- sion and garden are presumed to have been.] The southern side of the house, clothed with fruit-trees, and having many everg... ...or his honour at the dark hag, and tell him there was a gentleman from the south had arrived at the Ha’. ‘Can this poor fellow deliver a letter?’ aske... ... conceal, that, having been bred in the nursery line with Sumack & Co., of Newcastle, he sometimes wrought a turn in the flower- borders to oblige the...

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...d now about to come into this busy and changeful world. I will not conceal from you that I am skilful in understanding and interpreting the movements ... ... the family. He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room. “I fear from your looks,” said the father, “that you have bad tidings to tell me of... ...ave his host his address, which was a country-seat near a post-town in the south of England, and bid him an affectionate farewell. The mysterious stra... ...n predicted by the Astrologer; and thus his confi- dence, which, like most people of the period, he had freely given to the science, was riveted and c... ...emporary pecuniary necessity, the Goodman of Lochside was obliged to go to Newcastle to raise some money to pay his rent. He succeeded in his purpose,... ...the winsome Gudeman of Lochside, poor body,’ re- plied Jean; ‘he’s been at Newcastle seeking siller to pay his rent, honest man, but deil-be-lickit he... ...prevail on her to accept so much as a single guinea. “I have heard the old people at Jedburgh say, that all Jean’s sons were condemned to die there on... ...needna be feared—I never saw ony mysell, and we’re just at the door o’ the New Place.” Accordingly, leaving the ruins on the right, a few steps brough... ...r and with- drawing room, full of all manner of cross lights. This was the New Place of Ellangowan, in which we left our hero, better amused perhaps t...

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... gave a bruised heart to the world. He made no pretension to novelty. “Our new thoughts have thrilled dead bosoms,” he wrote; by which avowal it may b... ...,” he wrote; by which avowal it may be seen that youth had manifestly gone from him, since he had ceased to be jealous of the ancients. There was a ha... ...hat lamentable history. The outline of the baronet’s story was by no means new. He had a wife, and he had a friend. His marriage was for love; his wif... ...e heart, and his friend all his confidence. When he selected Denzil Somers from among his college chums, it was not on account of any similarity of di... ...iven two or three blazing dinners in the great hall he would have deceived people generally, as he did his relatives and intimates. He was too sick fo... ...ose troublesome appendages of success. He caused himself to be required by people who could serve him; feared by such as could injure. Not that he wen... ...ht. Now I travels about. I’ve got my beat. ‘Casion calls me t’other day to Newcastle!—Eh?” “Coals!” ejaculated Speed-the-Plough sonorously. “Coals!” e... ... at Rick so that everybody knows what he means. My dear Austin is going to South America. My pony is in capital condition. My father is the cleverest ... ...knelt there. The little skylark went up above her, all song, to the smooth southern cloud lying along the blue: from a dewy copse dark over her noddin...

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...at in the river Wye, Salmon are in The Compleat Angler — Walton 5 season from September to April; and we are certain, that in Thames and Trent, and ... ... be fully learnt; at least not so fully, but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us. But I thin... ...o, Sir, with the help of good dis course, which, methinks, we may promise from you, that both look and speak so cheerfully: and for my part, I promis... ...the monuments, urns, and rarities that yet remain in and near unto old and new Rome, so many as it is said will take up a year’s time to view, and aff... ... or the sea shore, that having so separated them from amidst the press of people and business, and the cares of the world, he might settle their mind... ...hat lay at the bottom to be seen on the water’s top. And he says, that the people of Cadara, an island near this place, make the timber for their hous... ...lled a Bull trout, of a much greater length and bigness than any in these southern parts; and there are, in many rivers that relate to the sea, Salmo... ...rout. But first for the wind: you are to take notice that of the winds the south wind is said to be best. One ob serves, that when the wind is south,... ... seated the strong and impreg nable town of Berwick. 6. Tyne, famous for Newcastle, and her inexhaustible coal pits. These, and the rest of principa...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfi...

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...TER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE???GOING AFT???CALIFORNIA -- ., 25 -- CHAPTER IX ? CALIFORNIA?A SOUTH-EASTER, 28 -- CHAPTER X ? A SOUTH-EASTER?PASSAGE UP THE COAST, 32 -- CHAPTER XI ? PASSAGE UP THE COAST?MONTEREY, 35 -- CHAPTER XII ? LIFE AT MONTEREY, 38 -- CHAPTER XIII ? TRADING?A BRITISH SAILOR, 40 -- CHAPTER XIV ? S...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . 25 NIA . . . . . . . . 28 CHAPTER IX — CALIFORNIA—A SOUTH EASTER . . . . . . 32 CHAPTER X — A SOUTH EASTER—PASSAGE UP THE CO... ...ER XIX — THE SANDWICH 74 ISLANDERS—HIDE CURING—WOOD CUTTING— RATTLE SNAKES—NEW COMERS . . 82 CHAPTER XX — LEISURE—NEWS FROM HOME—’’BURNING THE WATE... ...ING—WOOD CUTTING— RATTLE SNAKES—NEW COMERS . . 82 CHAPTER XX — LEISURE—NEWS FROM HOME—’’BURNING THE WATER’’ . . . . . . . 87 CHAPTER XXI — CALIFORN... ... . . . 90 CHAPTER XXII — LIFE ON SHORE—THE ALERT . . . . 94 CHAPTER XXIII — NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES—MY WATCHMATE CHAPTER XXIV — SAN DIEGO AGAIN—A DE... ...XV — RUMORS OF WAR—A SPOUTER—SLIPPING FOR A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 SOUTH EASTER—A GALE . . . . . . . . 117 CHAPTER XXVI — SAN FRANCISCO—MO... ...VIII — AN OLD FRIEND—A VICTIM—CALIFORNIA . . . . . . . . . 128 RANGERS—NEWS FROM HOME—LAST LOOKS CHAPTER XXIX — LOADING FOR HOME—A SURPRISE—LAST OF ... ...e no one cares for; so that when ‘‘the mate’’ thinks fit to entertain ‘‘the people’’ with a coarse joke or a little practical wit, every one feels b... ...t among landsmen about a sailor’s life. Nothing is more common than to hear people say—‘‘Are not sailors very idle at sea?—what can they find to do?’... ...ut it was like throwing pearls before swine, or rather, carrying coals to Newcastle. So long as they had money, they would not work for fifty dolla...

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...TER II: NEWPORT?RHODE ISLAND ................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ............................................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ................................................................................................

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...................................................... 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT.................................................... ............................................................. 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI............................................... ................................................. 169 CHAPTER XII: BUFFALO TO NEW YORK ..................................................................... ............................................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON .................................................... ... faction in the work, had there been no disruption be- tween the North and South; but I have not allowed that disruption to deter me from an object wh... ...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... ...om. And now touching this war which had broken out be- tween the North and South before I left England. I would wish to explain what my feelings were;... ...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... ...n borders. They dislike Mr. Seward’s weak and vulgar joke with the Duke of Newcastle. They dislike Mr. Everett’s flattering hints to his countrymen as...

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...ld Men, 117 -- B?atard, 136 -- All Gold Canyon, 153 -- Love of Life, 177 -- The Wit of Porportuk, 201 -- The Apostate, 230 -- To Build a Fire, 254 -- South of the Slot, 274 -- The Chinago, 295 -- A Piece of Steak, 313 -- Mauki, 336 -- Koolau the Leper, 354 -- The Strength of the Strong, 373 -- War, 391 -- The Mexican, 398 -- Told in the Drooling Ward, 428...

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... . . . . 230 To Build a Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 South of the Slot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 The C... ...Stack up on that fer a high cyard,” approved Big Jim Belden, who had come down from his claim on Mazy May to spend Christ mas, and who, as every one ... ...s draw closer, and experienced vague yearnings for the sunnier pastures of the Southland, where life promised something more than a barren struggle wi... ... ask Father Roubeau here: he performed the ceremony.” The Jesuit took the pipe from his lips, but could only express his gratification with patriarchal... ...s the Englishman, Prince, who pledged “Uncle Sam, the precocious infant of the New World;” the Yankee, Bettles, who drank to “The Queen, God bless her... ... * * * Fifteen minutes had barely elapsed when the jingle of bells an nounced new arrivals. The door opened, and a mounted police man of the Northwe... ...ngers), “all the time water, bad water. Then you come to great village, plenty people, just the same mosquitoes next summer. Wigwams oh, so high, — te... ...tside next year, — her and I, — but it ’s too late. Don’t send her back to her people, Kid. It ’s beastly hard for a woman to go back. Think of it! — ... ...hat the Gouger’s jaw was only four months healed after having been broken in a Newcastle bout. And he had played for that jaw and broken it again in t...

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...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 ...................

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...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... ...irectly destroy- ing, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people, 9 Adam Smith and those afflicted with lingering diseases, to peris... ... his hand from one sort of employment to another. When he first begins the new work, he is seldom very keen and hearty; his mind, as they say, does no... ...lowed the same privi- lege, and might pay with the same nominal sum of the new and debased coin whatever they had borrowed in the old. Such opera- tio... ...he most skilful artificers. A collier working by the piece is supposed, at Newcastle, to earn commonly about double, and, in many parts of Scotland, a... ...als in Westmoreland or Shropshire can have little effect on their price at Newcastle; and their price in the Lionnois can have none at all. The produc... ...ow one of Great Britain. The value of the greater part of the lands in the southern counties of Scotland, which are chiefly a sheep country, would hav...

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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 ... ...e congregated the habitations of men. In Tehran, or Pekin, or Stamboul, or New Y ork, or Timbuctoo, or London, there is a certain district where a cer... ..., 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’... ...in piping bullfinches; and a Cardinal in disguise, with a pro- posal for a new loan for the Pope, were heard by turns; and each, after a rapid colloqu... ...orth by Lord Bareacres’ Country; on the West by Sir Granby Growler; on the South by the Hotion. An Arkytect & Survare, a young feller of great emagina... ...rend, John George Godfrey de Bullion Thistlewood, Earl of Bareacres, Baron Southdown, in the Peeridge of the United Kingdom, Baron Haggismore, in Scot... ...ve his report in a second edition. “Second Edition. “(From our Reporter.) “Newcastle, Monday. “I am just arrived at this ancient town, at the ‘Elephan...

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...Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she has had the measles last and worst, and they don?t know what to do with her, for she came from the asylum for officers? daughters, and has no home at all, and they must go away to have the house purified. They can?t take her with them, for their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room befo...

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...sles last and worst, and they don’t know what to do with her, for she came from the asylum for officers’ daughters, and has no home at all, and they m... ... her with them, for their sister has chil- dren, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish ... ...n half sorry to leave her dear old school, half glad to go on to something new. She was evidently not so comfortable, while Miss Heath’s lowest teache... ... seemed to charm her above all. “I always did want to know what was inside people’s windows,” she said. And in the same way it was a feast to her to g... ...en, you know. It will be always warm about my heart to know there are such people.” Mrs. Brownlow happened to overhear this little colloquy while her ... ...n’t you know, Skipjack, that’s the reason you don’t grow—” “Eh! What’s the new theory! Who says so, Babie?” came from the bottom of the table. “Nurse ... ...r brown mushroom hat Caroline was struck with her beauty, fair, but with a southern richness of bloom and glow—the carnation cheek of a depth of tint ... ...y now, And faint for lack of food. Cold! cold! there is no sun in heaven. —Southey. VERY MERRY was the party which arrived at the roughly-built hotel ... ..., disconsolately, “But you did like Eton so, and you were going to get the Newcastle and the Prince Consort’s prize, and to be in the eleven and all—a...

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...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... ...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... ...d has at the moment of restoration literally the force and liveliness of a new birth—the very same pang, and no whit feebler, as that which belonged t... ...o sudden life on our first awaking, and is to all in- tents and purposes a new and not an old affliction—one which brings with it the old original sho... ...All Spain, Portugal, Italy, rang with her adventures. Spain, from north to south, was frantic with desire to behold her fiery child, whose girlish rom... ...c beauty, once were anchored con- tinents and boundless forests. Where the south pole now shuts her frozen gates inhospitably against the intrusions o... ...is- tory of England to the end of George I., Vol. iv., p. 1760, printed at Newcastle-upon-Tyne: 1751.) ‘The crown being too little for the King’s head...

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...not have made it, had I not believed that it would be the means of drawing new readers to Boswell, and eventu- ally of finding for them in the complet... ...of growing enlightenment and happy compan- ionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917. INTRODU... ...ift the back- ground, the interlocutors, the light and shade, in search of new revelations and effects. He pre- sents a succession of many scenes, exq... ...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... ..., 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- ... ...oster-row, booksellers; Mr. Strahan, the printer; the Earl of Orrery, Lord Southwell, Mr. Garrick.’ 82 Boswell’s Life of Johnson Many are, no doubt, ... ...3.’ ‘SAM. JOHNSON.’ 278 Boswell’s Life of Johnson TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. ‘Newcastle, Aug. 11, 1773. ‘DEAR SIR, I came hither last night, and hope, bu... ...ng that one of the fellows, his friend Mr. Scott, who accompanied him from Newcastle to Edinburgh, was gone to the coun- try. We put up at the Angel i...

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................................................................ 121 VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU. ................................................................ ........................................... 135 SANDYS’ GHOST;82 OR, A PROPER NEW BALLAD ON THE NEW OVID’S METAMORPHOSES: AS IT WAS INTENDED TO BE TRANSL... ................................................................. 143 EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. ............................................................. ...peare, Spenser, Milton, and Dryden, to fill the six va- cant places in the New Palace of Westminster. This does not substantiate the assertion, that P... ...ilfer cloth or bread: As meanly plunder as they bravely fought, Now save a people, and now save a groat. VER. 129, in the former editions— Ask why fro... ...d, He thinks a loaf will rise to fifty pound. What made directors cheat in South-sea year? To live on venison 32 when it sold so dear. Ask you why Ph... ...ENT GUMENT GUMENT . . . . . OF THE USE OF RICHES. The vanity of expense in people of wealth and quality. The abuse of the word ‘taste,’ ver. 13. That ... ...Here swells the shelf with Ogilby the great; 265 There, stamp’d with arms, Newcastle shines complete: 266 Here all his suffering brotherhood retire, ... ... of Delawar, Chairman of the Committees of the House of Lords. 112 ‘N——:’ Newcastle. 113 ‘D——’s sager:’ Dorset; perhaps the last word should be snee...

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...aped upon this young man’s head. His first step forward in life had arisen from his having been sent, while still very young, as a private pupil to th... ...de; and it ended in Mark going back to Exeter with a letter full of praise from the widowed peeress. She had been delighted, she said, in having such ... ... assistance. And Lord Lufton was there of course; and 8 Framley Parsonage people protested that he would surely fall in love with one of the four bea... ... You know I don’t mean it. But Lady Lufton does not like those Chaldicotes people. You know Lord Lufton was with you the last time you were there; and... ...might be. It was, therefore, a matter near to Lady Lufton’s heart to see a new church built, and she was urgent in her eloquence both with her son and... ... were exactly suited to it; and everything was in good order;— not exactly new, so as to be raw and uncovered, and redo- lent of workmen; but just at ... ...ed on having her title. Miss Dunstable swore that she would wed none but a South Sea Islander; and to Mark was offered the income and duties of Bishop... ...l heart the mouth speaketh. But he spoke to an impatient listener. ‘D— the South Sea Islanders, ’ said Mr Sowerby. ‘You’ll have it all your own way in... ...rth to Christianize the mining interests and wash white the blackamoors of Newcastle: Bishop of Beverley he should be called. But, in opposition to th...

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...inter,” said a thin, lank, angu- lar, sallow girl, just fifteen, trembling from head to foot with restrained eagerness, as she tried to curb her tone ... ...r girl, nearly two years older than her sister. “Will you—” began to burst from Etheldred’s lips again, but was stifled by Miss Winter’s inquiry, “Is ... ...er.” “But, my dear, has your mamma considered? They are such a set of wild people at Cocksmoor; I don’t think we could walk there alone.” “It is Satur... ...“It is unlucky,” began the governess, but stopped at the incursion of some new-comers, nearly tumbling over each other, Ethel at the head of them. “Oh... ... yes!” cried Ethel, “but no one fit to speak to would do that!” “Plenty of people do, I can tell you,” said Norman. “Then I hope I shall never know wh... ...t for Mary to call out, “Why, Norman, non- sense! Mr. Ernescliffe rode the new black kicking horse till he made it quite steady.” “Made it steady! No,... ...it off one of us so well,” said the doctor. “Well! I’m off. I must see old Southern. You’ll be ready by three? Good-bye, hen and chicken.” “And I may ... ...octor, “mind that a letter will always be welcome, and when you are coming southwards, here are your old quarters. We cannot lose sight of you anyway,... ...been settled in this island, and had since been visited by the missions of Newcastle and New Zealand. The young chief, whom Harry called David, and an...