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...fe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illustri- ous orators from the lower classes. Ijet me introduce to you the sophomore orator, Mr. ... ...he Geography of France and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the People. ' ' Clark Hall. TUESDAY, MARCH 19 7.30p. m.—Y. M, C. A. elections. ... ...here to thank the various alumni who, unsolicit- ed, have contributed news from time to time. The same prinoiplo obtains in the collection of under- g... ... who have not yet had the ad- vantage of being able to consider tpiestions from an alumni stand point. For the stutleiit, it is a channel thrc.ugh whi... ... need the earnings of child- ren. Hut investigation shows that in New York city, for example, out of the total population, but inO parents need such a... ...nb 245-3 OBITUARIES '57 —Simeon Howard Calhoun, a former mayor of Nebraska city, died in Denver, -Col. on March 4, at the age of 73. Mr. Calhoun was b... ...s Ready-to-Wear Tailor-Hade Barnard & Co. North Adams Williamstown LOTS OF PEOPLE NEVER WORRY ABOUT STYLE, JUST BUY Fownes AND HIT IT RICH New Members... ...e.. New York Cor. Main & Bank^Sts., No. Adams Conklin's rulingPen For busy people. No bother. Fills itself. Cleans itself. No dropper. Nothingtotakeap... ... the Harvard summer school. Prof. Maxcy will pass the en- tire vacation at Waterford, Me. Prof. Mears will be at Notting- ham. N. H. Prof. Milham will...

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...ese screen. Folding a panel, he looked out the window and let the pent-up air seep from his lungs. His was the lone car in the parking lot. Arnold... ...irmed the two signatures. Everything appeared satisfactory, and he pulled a wallet from his back pocket. “Thank you, gentlemen.” He fanned out t... ...ent to his desk, opened a drawer and brought out a slim gold case. Selecting a card from it, he jotted on the back, and handed it to the man. “Shou... ...family and Bobby’s were metaphorically joined at the hip because they’d founded the city of Roston, not long after Oglethorpe founded the state of G... ...he evil eye, Mr. Brewster?” “There are those who are born able to put spells on people, even strong people like you are, Miss Laura Kate.” S... ...des, wasn’t being eccentric de rigueur in the South? Her impoverished side of what people called ’the blue-blooded O’Connells‘ was right up there w... ...fore we’ll tell the whole goddamned world we’re in love. I can’t wait because won’t people in this shitty town be surprised at who I snagged after a... ...r stage at cocktail time, Brewster began the ritual by pouring Jack Daniel’s into a Waterford glass. Jack stood in the middle of the long room and... ... between two large balloon snifters. Brewster preferred to serve liqueurs in small Waterford stems, but she liked bar balloons. “Not for me.” Jack...

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...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....

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

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... 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... ...ch a pre- tension had once been made for Jerusalem, and once for a Grecian city; and both pretensions had become ridiculous, as the figure of the plan... ... reason unknown to me, and much to my astonishment, he located his capital city in the high latitude of 65 deg. N. That fact being once published and ... ...cceeded, it would have laid open to the rebels the impor- tant counties of Waterford and Kilkenny. Being delayed un- til the 5th of June, the assault ...

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...ing committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in those last solemn days, it did to him. He had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into ...

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...o friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in... ...d by his position as a Churchman, had been led, in editing a Work not free from ecclesiastical heresies, and especially in writing a Life very full of... ...Hebrew Old- clothes;’ wrestling, with impotent impetuosity, to free itself from the baleful imbroglio, as if that had been its one function in life: w... ...it.—Simple peasant laborers, ploughers, house- servants, occasional fisher-people too; and the sight of ships, and crops, and Nature’s doings where Ar... ...o subsequently came to considerable notice in the world, was originally of Waterford in Munster; son of the Episcopalian Clergyman there; and chief re... ...ar; and was already a man experienced in fortunes and changes. A native of Waterford in Munster, as already men- tioned; born in the “Deanery House of... ...aterford in Munster, as already men- tioned; born in the “Deanery House of Waterford, 27th February, 1773,” say the registers. For his Father, as we l... ...dism when they have any character;—for the rest, an innocent good- humored people, who all drink home-brewed beer, and have brown loaves of the most e... ...ing. This is the ordinary Welsh village; but there are excep- tions, where people of more cultivated tastes have been led to settle, and Llanblethian ...

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...d it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an ... ... that article in the Mercure de France which rescued the un- known painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or l... ...g, 1914. 6 The Moon and Sixpence who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents a legend to which it then attaches a fanati... ...and then, sick with apprehension, was ushered into an airless room full of people. I was introduced to this celebrated person after that one, and the ... ...ic brotherhood. Chapter IV NO ONE WA S KINDER to me at that time than Rose Waterford. She combined a masculine intelli- gence with a feminine perversi... ...ng. It was at her house one day that I met Charles Strickland’s wife. Miss Waterford was giving a tea-party, and her small room was more than usually ... ...eak into any of the groups that seemed absorbed in their own affairs. Miss Waterford was a good hostess, and seeing my embarrassment came up to me. “I... ...one another. You’ll meet him if you dine there. But she doesn’t often have people to dinner. He’s very quiet. He’s not in the least interested in lite... ...beginning to doubt it.” Strickland gave the polite little laugh with which people acknowledge a facetiousness in which they see nothing funny , but di...

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... Witnesse the father of Philosophie, Which to his Critias, shaded oft from sunne, Of loue full manie lessons did apply, The which the... ... better deigne to heare, Do thou dred infant, Venus dearling doue, From her high spirit chase imperious feare, And vse of awfull Maiest... ...rops of melting loue, Deawd with ambrosiall kisses, by thee gotten From thy sweete smyling mother from aboue, Sprinckle her heart, and ... ... creasted all with lines of firie light, That it prodigious seemes in common peoples sight. Such when those Knights and Ladies all about Beheld her, a... ...o striue: Such as that prudent Romane well inuented, What time his people into partes did riue, Them reconcyld againe, and to their hom... ... The field with listes was all about enclos’d, To barre the prease of people farre away; And at th’one side sixe iudges were dispos’d, ... ...f the lode, And auncient heauy burden, which he bore Of that faire City, wherein make abode So many learned impes, that shoote abrode, ... ... call. Next these the plenteous Ouse came far from land, By many a city, and by many a towne, And many riuers taking vnder hand In... ...first, the gentle Shure that making way By sweet Clonmell, adornes rich Waterford; The next, the stubborne Newre, whose waters gray By ...

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...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ...nd lead,’ tempted some of the French and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now calle... ...ved that part of the Is lands. It is probable that other people came over from Spain to Ireland, and settled there. Thus, by little and little, stran... ...sent by the King over the whole country, the inhabitants of every town and city armed, and murdered all the Danes who were their neighbours. Young and... ... was in the midst of the miseries and cruelties attendant on the taking of Waterford, where the dead lay piled in the streets, and the filthy gut ter... ..., I think, and one quite worthy of the young lady’s father. He died, after Waterford and Dublin had been taken, and various successes achieved; and St...

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...PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE THE IDEA of this tale was taken from The Mariners’ Chronicle, compiled by a person named Scott early in the... ...ntry in a war with England, France, and Austria, the Count was transferred from the Spanish Embassy to that of Sweden, and sent for his wife and two e... ...h. The imbecility of the Abbe is merely 4 A Modern Telemachus a deduction from his helplessness, but of course this may have been caused by illness. ... ...onfirms what is said of his treatment. Louis XIV. had bombarded the pirate city, and compelled the Dey to receive a consul and to liberate French pris... ...arts in Ireland, Sir Ulick Burke had attended James II. in his flight from Waterford; and his wife had followed him, attended by her two faithful serv... ...s life in banishment, and think of our dear home and 19 Yo n g e our poor people, I am tempted to wonder whether it were indeed a duty, or whether th... ...man, with keen eyes, and a sort of sparkle of manner, and power of setting people at ease, that made her the more charming the older she grew. An expe... ... And thus they glided on, spending a night in the great, busy, bewildering city of Lyon, already the centre of silk industry; but more interesting to ... ...lysse to his sister. ‘See, what are they doing?’ cried Estelle. ‘There are people— don’t you see, white specks crowding down to the water.’ There was ...

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...the dead. Henry the Fifth, thy ghost I invocate: Prosper this realm, keep it from civil broils, Combat with adverse planets in the heavens! A far more... ...ftly, or the loss of those great towns Will make him burst his lead and rise from death. GLOUCESTER: Is Paris lost? is Rouen yielded up? If Henry wer... ...senger: Lords, view these letters full of bad mischance. France is revolted from the English quite, Except some petty towns of no import: The Dauphin... ..., Wont, through a secret grate of iron bars In yonder tower, to overpeer the city, And thence discover how with most advantage They may vex us with sh... ...: And I, here, at the bulwark of the bridge. TALBOT: For aught I see, this city must be famish’d, Or with light skirmishes enfeebled. [Here they sho... ...nes!’ Enter Mayor .] Mayor: O, my good lords, and virtuous Henry, Pity the city of London, pity us! The bishop and the Duke of Gloucester’s men, For... ...f Shrewsbury, Created, for his rare success in arms, Great Earl of Washford, Waterford and Valence; Lord Talbot of Goodrig and Urchinfield, Lord Stran... ...thful and anointed queen: For your expenses and sufficient charge, Among the people gather up a tenth. Henry VI, Part I, Act V , scene v 80 Be gone, ...

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...Brookfield, Arabella, Cornelia, and Adela Pole, daughters of a flourishing City-of-London merchant, had been told of a singular thing: that in the nei... ...eard at night, in the nine- teenth century, within sixteen miles of London City. They agreed that Mr. Pericles had hired some charming cantatrice to d... ...xholme still kept to dancing, and had effectually driven away Mr. Pericles from their gather- ings. For Mr. Pericles said: “If that they will go ‘so,’... ... colossus, when the Winter sun despatches a feeble greeting messenger-beam from his miserable Arctic wallet. The simile must be accepted in its might,... ...as things below the musical Art, gave a distinguishing tone to Brookfield, from which his French accentuation of our tongue did not detract. Mr. Peric... ...s. Eclipsed as they may be in the gross appreciation of the world by other people, who excel in this and that accomplishment, persons that nourish Nic... ...s, and was there- fore useful in exaggerating the features of disagreeable people, and showing how odious they were: besides endearing pleas- ant ones... ...s thought by the ladies. She added: “I feel that I sing better when I have people to listen to me.” “You find it more sympathetic, do you not?” remark... ...banks of the Suir to make a present to Chump, which was our onnly visit to Waterford together: for he naver went t’ Ireland before or after—dyin’ as h...

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...nry the Fift, thy Ghost I inuocate: 62 Prosper this Realme, keepe it from Ciuill Broyles, 63 Combat with aduerse Planets in the Heauens; ... ...osse of those great Townes 74 Will make him burst his Lead, and rise from death. 75 Glost. Is Paris lost? is Roan yeelded vp? 76 ... ...rds view these Letters, full of bad mischance. 101 France is reuolted from the English quite, 102 Except some petty Townes, of no import. 1... ...ounter them. 1433 Souldier. Our Sacks shall be a meane to sack the City, 1434 And we be Lords and Rulers ouer Roan, 1435 Therefore wee... ...reated for his rare successe in Armes, 2297 Great Earle of Washford, Waterford, and Valence, 2298 Lord Talbot of Goodrig and Vrchinfield... ...eene. 2914 For your expences and sufficient charge, 2915 Among the people gather vp a tenth. 2916 Be gone I say, for till you do returne, ...