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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ... MEET AN OLD ACQUAINT ANCE IN FLANDERS, AND FIND MY MOTHER’S GRA VE AND MY OWN CRADLE THERE. ............................................................ ...r the sacrifices made in his Majesty’s cause by the Esmond family, lies in Westmoreland county, between the rivers Potomac and Rappahannock, and was o... ...Esmond, on his part, was conspicuous for his attachment and loyalty to the Royal cause and person: and the King being at Oxford in 1642, Sir George, w... ...e to call his infidelity; Jack Churchill, Frank Esmond’s lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Foot-guards, getting the company which Esmond vacated, wh... ...the elm. The London road stretched away towards the rising sun, and to the west were swelling hills and peaks, behind which many a time Harry Esmond s... ...Two years since my uncle died, leaving me a pretty estate in the county of Kent; and being at Tunbridge Wells last sum- mer, after my mourning was ove... ...told, for some young lady who would share with me the solitude of my great Kentish house, and be kind to my tenantry (for whom a woman can do a great ... ...ssed it, and called him her preserver and her dear. She wasn’t thinking of Queens and crowns. The Bishop’s news was reassuring: at least all was not l...

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...ng this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Facul... ...al titles, And put these same into young Arthur’s hand, Thy nephew and right royal sovereign. KING JOHN : What follows if we disallow of this? CHATIL... ...heard: So hence! Be thou the trumpet of our wrath And sullen presage of your own decay. An honorable conduct let him have: Pembroke, look to ‘t. Farew... ...ure And confident from foreign purposes, Even till that utmost corner of the west Salute thee for her king: till then, fair boy, Will I not think of ... ...ipline, To cull the plots of best advantages: We’ll lay before this town our royal bones, Wade to the market place in Frenchmen’s blood, But we will m... ...: Up higher to the plain; where we’ll set forth In best appointment all our regiments. BASTARD: Speed then, to take advantage of the field. KING PHI... ...both conjointly bend Your sharpest deeds of malice on this town: By east and west let France and England mount Their battering cannon charged to the m... ..., Told of a many thousand warlike French That were embattailed and rank’d in Kent: Another lean unwash’d artificer Cuts off his tale and talks of Arth... ... heaven be thank’d, it is but voluntary. [Enter the BASTARD .] BASTARD: All Kent hath yielded; nothing there holds out But Dover castle: London hath...

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...ce and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the President of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Con...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ...N. 6 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six SPEECH TO THE 12TH INDIANA REGIMENT, MA Y [15?] 1862 SOLDIERS, OF THE TWELFTH INDIANA REGIMENT: It has... ...I should say a word or two in reply. Y our colonel has thought fit, on his own account and in your name, to say that you are satisfied with the manner... ...ral McDowell is in position on your right, his supplies must be drawn from West Point, and you will instruct your staff-officers to be prepared to sup... ... line to get troops for other places that it was broken yesterday at Front Royal, with a probable loss to us of one regiment infan- try, two Companies... ...ession as to the number of the enemy’s forces north of Strasburg and Front Royal. Are the forces still moving north through the gap at Front Royal and... ...see how, lacking that, you can have any, except the scrap from Richmond to West Point. The scrap of the Virginia Central from Richmond to Hanover Junc... ...: W e are changing one of the departmental lines, so as to give you all of Kentucky and Tennessee. In your movement upon Chat- tanooga I think it prob... ...here to McClellan, they will let us have Rich- mond, and retake Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, etc. What should be done is to hold what we have in the...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ...d the authority I had for the story of the romance:— 4 Kenilworth “At the west end of the church are the ruins of a manor, anciently belonging (as a ... ...y would fetch the same at Oxford; meaning to have added something of their own for her comfort, as the 5 Sir Walter Scott doctor upon just cause and ... ...eller, “were I to tell you poor Mike Lambourne was shot at the head of his regiment at the taking of a sconce near Maestricht?” 16 Kenilworth “Sorry!... ...years; who has seen the sun set where it rises, and has travelled till the west has become the east.” “Thou hast brought back one traveller’s gift wit... ...ning—gives no more trouble than a very peasant—pays his shot like a prince royal—looks but at the sum total of the reckoning, and does not know what d... ...pidated appearance of a dis- solved monastic house into the semblance of a royal palace. A mystery was observed in all these arrangements: the work- m... ...t or with long weapons; and it was even whispered that the High Sheriff of Kent had secret in- structions to have a part of the array of the county re... ...rd swains, will, in such a trying moment, say more than they intended; and Queens, like village maidens, will listen longer than they should. Horses i...

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... him. He had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into the silent continents of Death and Eternity, a brave man?s judgments about his own sorry work in the field of Time are not apt to be too lenient. But, in fine, here was some portion of his work which the world had already got hold of, and which he could not burn. This too, since it was not to be abolish...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ...l Registrer, and that at Ciudad Rodrigo, from the tra- ditions of the 52nd Regiment. There is a cloud of doubt resting on a few of the tales, which it... ...t step above the dullness that cannot be interested in anything beyond its own immediate world, nor care for what it neither sees, touches, tastes, no... ...‘To arms! To arms! Sir Consul, Lars Porsena is here.’ On the low hills to westward The Consul fixed his eye, And saw the swarthy storm of dust Rise... ...alled Thermopylae, or the Hot Gates. A wall had once been built across the western-most of these narrow places, when the Thessalians and Phocians, who... ...he called the jarls away, and returning humbly to his palace, took off his royal robes, and came again barefoot and in sackcloth to the church door, w... ...a huge army, called from their leader, ‘Thorkill’s Host’, were overrunning Kent, and besieging Canterbury. The Arch- bishop Aelfeg was earnestly entre... ...est in England. This whole glittering army, at their head the King’s great royal standard bearing the golden lilies of France quartered with the lions... ...rought that he had been leaguing with a half-crazy woman called the Nun of Kent, who had said violent things about the King. He was sent for to be exa...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ...ople settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now called Kent; and, although they were a rough people too, they taught the savage Br... ...ng di vided into as many as thirty or forty tribes, each commanded by its own little king, were con stantly fighting with one another, as savage peo... ...nd settling there, called their kingdom Essex; another body settled in the West, and called their kingdom Wessex; the Northfolk, or Norfolk people, es... ...d been a temple to Apollo, a church dedicated to Saint Peter, which is now Westminster Abbey. And, in London itself, on the foundation of a temple to ... ... lovely girl of only seven teen or eighteen, to be stolen from one of the Royal Palaces, branded in the cheek with a red hot iron, and sold into sla... ... This was called ‘touching for the King’s Evil,’ which afterwards became a royal custom. You know, however, Who really touched the sick, and healed th... ... the Church of Our Lady at Boulogne, where there were four Kings and three Queens present (quite a pack of Court Cards, for I dare say the Knaves were... ...ng, and three hundred and twenty broad—were opened for the tournament; the Queens of France and England looking on with great array of lords and ladie...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ...e instant every shred of property which he had been accustomed to call his own. It became vested in the hands of gentlemen whose integrity, prudence, ... ...from the chair:— “The King”—all the honours. “The Duke of Clarence and the Royal Family.” The chairman, in proposing the next toast, which he wished ... ... chiefly in connection with the busi- ness of this meeting, which his late Royal Highness had con- descended in a particular manner to patronize, that... ... which bears, or rather once bore, the same relation to the Good Town that Westminster does to London, being still possessed of the palace of the sove... ...ar- dens, etc. It then follows the wall of the churchyard, joins the north west wall of St Ann’s Yards, and going east to the clackmill-house, turns s... ... not from the place of habitation to the desert; for Shanet, her nainsell, kent a glen where there were men as weel as there may be in Croftangry, and... ...Chronicles of the Canongate known original designation of the gallant 42nd Regiment. Being the first corps raised for the royal service in the High- l... ...which their dark tartans fur- nished to the scarlet and white of the other regiments.] There were some Italian and Flemish pictures of admitted authen...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ...edith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I REMAINS of our good yeomanry blood will be found in Kent, developing stiff, solid, unobtrusive men, and very person- able women... ...e men, and very person- able women. The distinction survives there between Kentish women and women of Kent, as a true South-eastern dame will let you ... ...anoverian lady had used the place in her day as a nursery-hospital for the royal little ones. It was a square three-storied building of red brick, muc... ...om the wall, and driblets of ivy ran broad- ening to the outer ground. The royal Arms were said to have surmounted the great iron gateway; but they ha... ...ss of all people, save artists, poets, novelists, to the grandeur of their own creations, the inhab- itants of this Kentish village might have had an ... ... the other guests, listening, gloved and bonneted, to the bells of Wrexby, West of the hills, and of Fenhurst, Northeast. The squire came in to them, ... ...h the new-fallen snow, though the stars sparkled coldly . A fleet of South-westerly rainclouds had been met in mid-sky by a sharp puff from due North,... ...capsicums,” he called her, and compared her to bloody mustard-haired Saxon Queens of history, and was childishly spiteful. And Mrs. Lovell had it all ...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ...zo, but a Prince it had to be. Before I saw clearly the differences of our own time I searched my mind for the modern equivalent of a Prince. At vario... ...ve not forgotten the chagrins and dreams of childhood. He was a prosperous west of England builder; including my father he had three nephews, and for ... ... science teacher, taking a number of classes at the Bromstead Institute in Kent under the old Science and Art Department, and “visiting” various schoo... ...ndon,—my grandfather’s was one of these. London, twelve miles to the north-west, was making itself felt more and more. But this was only the beginning... ...and in railway and mine disasters and in the minutest domesticities of the Royal Family . Most of the books at home were my father’s, and I do not thi... ... and she tried in vain to interest me in them; there was Miss Strickland’s Queens of England, a book I re- member with particular animosity, and Queec... ..., though as a mat- ter of fact we were by some five hundred yards or so in Kent. It did quite as well for my purposes. I bowled rather straight and fa... ...roops (who had seized the Navy, the Bank and other advan- tages) against a royalist army—reinforced by Germans—ad- vancing for reasons best known to t...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ...the confidence I seek to place in you), is, on my return to England, in my own person, in my own Journal, to bear, for the behoof of my countrymen, su... ...pted by their Great Ancestor beneath the vaults of the Parliament House at Westminster, is too obvious and too full of interest, to stand in need of c... ...down be- neath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battle- ment; the... ...Dragon? It an’t at all the sort of place for me. When I left London (I’m a Kentish man by birth, though), and took that situation here, I quite made u... ...nd,’ said Mr Pecksniff, ‘you may well in- quire. The heart is not always a royal mint, with patent machinery to work its metal into current coin. Some... ...n good health, I believe,’ said Martin. ‘Queen Victoria won’t shake in her royal shoes at all, when she hears to-morrow named,’ observed the stranger,... ...t his low capacity, ‘Where was you rose?’ ‘Oh!’ said Martin ‘I was born in Kent.’ ‘And how do you like our country, sir?’ asked Mrs Hominy. ‘Very much... ...ing frequently dimmed by tears, he thought that aces were tens, and knaves queens, which at times occasioned some confu- sion in his play. On the seve...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ...tale was to be of a boy, David Balfour, supposed to belong to my husband’s own family, who should travel in Scotland as though it were a foreign count... ...eighbourhood of Cramond; and so, from one to another, worked my way to the westward of the capital by Colinton, till I came out upon the Glasgow road.... ...ght; and the next morning there blew a bitter wintry wind out of the north-west, driving scattered clouds. For all that, and before the sun began to p... ...rns, I could see the building which they called the Hawes Inn. The town of Queensferry lies farther west, and the neighbourhood of the inn looked pret... ...her; and, besides (as he said), it belonged to a king and so behoved to be royally looked after. For all that, when I saw what care he took to pluck o... ... I am much of your mind.” “Opinion here or opinion there,” said I, “it’s a kent thing that Christianity forbids revenge.” “Ay” said he, “it’s well see... ...o lock the stable door after the steed was stolen. I had left the shore at Queensferry with near on fifty pounds; now I found no more than two guinea-... ...ich is a queer, rude place for certain, but one where I have entertained a royal person- age, Mr. Stewart — ye doubtless ken the personage I have in m...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ...e doctor handed him back to his nurse. “ Y ou’d better put him back in his own bed.” “ Very well, sir.” The little boy , still sleeping, was taken awa... ...enerally considered (in Blackstable) that the choir he led was the best in Kent; and when there was any ceremony , such as a visit from the Bishop for... ...outing at a foot- ball match, or from club windows in Pall Mall cheering a royal procession. It is because of them that man has been called a social a... ... given to the sons of the local gentry and of the profes- sional people of Kent an education sufficient to their needs. One or two men of letters, beg... ...a bottle of wine and a good dinner , and having once been seen at the Cafe Royal with a lady who was very prob- ably a near relation, was thenceforwar... ... Chinaman, with a yel- low face and an expansive smile, who was study- ing Western conditions at the University. He spoke so quickly , with a queer ac... ...r an expression of contempt on the part of the Oriental for the vanquished West. Cacilie was flaunting and cynical. At last even the Frau Professor co... ...he vicarage, and two girls came, daughters of a retired major in an Indian regiment who had lately settled in Blackstable. They were very pretty, one ...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ...t be expected I’m sure—quite wonderful if otherwise— Doctor Parker Peps’ s West-End practice—‘ ‘Thank you,’ said the Doctor, ‘quite so. It would appea... ...er hands had contracted a spasmodic habit of raising them- selves of their own accord as in involuntary admiration. Her eyes were liable to a similar ... ... , and wishing to relieve it, I posted off myself to the Queen Charlotte’s Royal Married Females,’ which you had forgot, and put the question, Was the... ...t driven to despair on your account. But it did so happen, that one of the Royal Married Females, hearing the inquiry, re- minded the matron of anothe... ...aking in the City for an hour or more; and the human tide is still rolling westward. ‘The streets have thinned,’ as Mr Gills says, ‘very much.’ It thr... ...ung gentleman who is so important to us all?’ asked Carker, with his whole regiment of teeth on parade. ‘Yes—not direct news- I hear he’s very well,’ ... ... did me the honour to observe, Sir, to His Royal Highness the late Duke of Kent, that it was the hand of Josh: a rough and tough, and possibly an up-t... ...e she will drop down the river. Shall we go away that morning, and stay in Kent until we go on board at Gravesend within a week?’ ‘If you please, Walt...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty... ... lutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier brigs; fog lying... ...cquired a goodly sum of money by it but has acquired too a distrust of his own mother and a contempt for his own kind. Chizzle, 10 Bleak House – Dick... ... Home THE DAY HAD BRIGHTENED very much, and still brightened as we went westward. We went our way through the sunshine and the fresh air, wondering... ...were going to establish in a picturesque build ing (engraving of proposed west elevation attached) the Sis terhood of Mediaeval Marys, they were goi... ...o baronet with a head seven hundred years thick, may. A man who joined his regiment at twenty and within a week challenged the most imperious and pres... ...ble men!” said Mr. Badger in a tone of confidence. “Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy, who was Mrs. Badger’s first husband, was a very distinguished o... ...s barely twenty,” said Mrs. Badger, “when I married Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy. I was in the Mediterra nean with him; I am quite a sailor. On ... ...to a street of little shops lying somewhere in that ganglion of roads from Kent and Surrey, and of streets from the bridges of London, centring in the...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ... YOUNGER CHAPTER 1 I AM BORN WHETHER I SHALL turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these page... ...old set of boot-trees the perfect realization of Captain Somebody, of the Royal British Navy, in danger of being be- set by savages, and resolved to ... ...g any more, especially as neither Roderick Random, nor that Captain in the Royal British Navy, had ever cried, that I could remember, in trying situat... ... I think there were some among them that made voyages both to the East and West Indies. I know that a great many empty bottles were one of the consequ... ...ere soon collected as to that point, if I had; for I came to a stop in the Kent Road, at a terrace with a piece of water before it, and a great foolis... ...if I should have had any, though there had been a Swiss snow- drift in the Kent Road. But my standing possessed of only three- halfpence in the world ... ...d Mr. Peggotty, something o my own build rough a good deal o the sou - wester in him wery salt but, on the whole, a hon- est sort of a chap, with ... ...on, and termination of each, like the table of the reigns of the kings and queens, in the History of England. Then she asked me if I had seen Uriah. ...

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...the short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in strands afar remote. No more the thirsty entrance of this soil Shall daub her lips with her own children?s blood; Nor more shall trenching war channel her fields, Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes, Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven, All of one nature, of on...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty... ... by Jim Manis; art: Sir John Gilbert (Sir John Falstaff Reviews His Ragged Regiment, 1859; oil on canvas, approximately 47 by 71 inches; City Museums ... ...s: (PRINCE HENRY:) and J OHN of Lancaster: LANCASTER : Sons of Henry IV WESTMORELAND: SIR WALTER BLUNT: THOMAS PERCY : Earl of Worcester. (EARL ... ...: hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap. (Hostess:) Lords, Officers, Sheriff, Vintner, Chamberlain, Drawers, two C... ...London. The palace. [Enter KING HENRY, LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER, the EARL of WESTMORELAND, SIR WALTER BLUNT, and others.] KING HENRY IV : So shaken as ... ...te. No more the thirsty entrance of this soil Shall daub her lips with her own children’s blood; Nor more shall trenching war channel her fields, Nor ... ... manhood, nor good fel lowship in thee, nor thou camest not of the blood royal, if thou darest not stand for ten shillings. PRINCE HENRY : Well the... ...s cur rent that I told you yesternight: there’s a franklin in the wild of Kent hath brought three hundred marks with him in gold: I heard him tell ... ...omes from your father. PRINCE HENRY : Give him as much as will make him a royal Henry IV, Part One , Act II, scene iv 32 man, and send him back agai...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ...d in the rivers. He could not bear that there should be any place that his own people, the Romans, did not know and subdue. So he commanded the ships ... ...itons, some up into the North, some into the mountains that rise along the West of the is- land, and some into its west point. The Britons used to cal... ...Rome. At last he heard that one of the chief En- glish kings, Ethelbert of Kent, had married Bertha, the daugh- ter of the King of Paris, who was a Ch... ...told you of had all fallen into the hands of one king. Egbert, King of the West Saxons, who reigned at Winches- ter, is counted as the first king of a... ... the Norman conquest. But there have been no more since; and the kings and queens have gone on in one long line ever since, from William of Normandy d... ...r of Malcolm Greathead, King of Scotland, and of a lady of the old English royal line. They loved her greatly, and called her good Queen Maude. Robert... ...rmany, till he heard his master’s voice take up and reply to his song. The Queens, Eleanor and Berengaria, raised a ransom— that is, a sum of money to... ...isers, they cut off his head. Richard had to sleep in the house called the Royal Wardrobe that night, but he went out again on horseback among the mob...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ...labour should soon find out easier and readier methods of performing their own particular work, whenever the nature of it admits of such improvement. ... ...ndia; dried cod at Newfoundland; tobacco in Virginia; sugar in some of our West India colonies; hides or dressed leather in some other countries; and ... ... at least in common language. The greater part of our North Ameri- can and West Indian planters are in this situation. They farm, the 50 The Wealth o... ...rs of great experience have assured me, that, so far from recruiting their regiment, they have never been able to supply it with drums and fifes, from... ...d, was established by act of parliament in 1695, and the other, called the Royal Bank, by royal charter in 1727. Whether the trade, either of Scotland... ...is the Fat, consulted, according to Father Daniel, with the bishops of the royal demesnes, concerning the most proper means of restraining the violenc... ...he tropics, the negroes, for example on the coast of Guinea. When a French regiment comes from some of the northern provinces of France, where wine is... ...ns take place through the whole kingdom. But in the particular counties of Kent and Sussex, the restric- tions are still more troublesome. Every owner...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Facult... ...u, which sets the wicked part of us on fire: I have known it myself, and I own it to my shame; and if I happened to be ignorant of the history of Coun... ...he same. But he had turned right about, and appeared transfixed and like a royal beast angry, with his wound. If ever there was love at first sight, a... ...he night in midwinter, often, looking for the mountains down in her native West country, covered with an old white flannel cloak, and on her head a ta... ...un. The half-moon fell rayless and paler than the fan of fleeces pushed up Westward, high overhead, them- selves dispersing on the blue in downy feath... ...ey had been collectors of beetles and butterflies, and the flying by of a ‘royal-mantle,’ the purple butterfly grandly fringed, could still remind Car... ...a reckon- ing as he could make of the value of Lord Fleetwood’s estates in Kent and in Staffordshire and South Wales, and his house property in London... ...y. But if we are the fools to share it, we lose our chance; instead of the queens, we are the slaves, and instead of a life of pleasure, we pass from ... ...zing Marriage The letter, lost for many years, turned up in the hands of a Kentish auctioneer, selling it on behalf of a farm-serving man, who had it ...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ...to read of, in the pages of a novel. His was a face worth painting for its own sake. If the sitter shall not seem to have justified the portrait, if J... ...ming’s father; goes to sea; at St. Helena; meets King T om; service in the West Indies; end of his career – The Campbell- Jacksons – Fleeming’s mother... ...nkin ap Philip of St. Melans, are found reputably settled in the county of Kent. Persons of strong genealogical pinion pass from William Jenkin, Mayor... ...ame and style of him. It may suffice, however, for the present, that these Kentish Jenkins must have undoubtedly derived from Wales, and being a stock... ...enkin. This John Jenkin, a grandson of Damaris Kingsley, of the family of ‘Westward Ho!’ was born in 1727, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas F... ...he Yeomanry, owned famous horses, Maggie and Lucy, the lat- ter coveted by royalty itself. ‘Lord Rokeby, his neighbour, 8 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin c... ...o well, and had an order from Lord Melville for the lad’s admission to the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth. Both the Bishop and the Admiral patted h... ... Tuesday morning officers with white flags appeared on the bastions; then, regiment by regiment, the troops marched in, two hundred men sleeping on th...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ...effacement. He is too much in evidence, too bustling, too anxious that his own opinion, though comparatively unimportant, should get a hearing. In gen... ...sfully in a manufacture of parchment. He was a zealous high-church man and royal- ist, and retained his attachment to the unfor- tunate house of Stuar... ...field was very respectable in his time. The late Dr. Taylor, Prebendary of Westminster, who was educated under him, told me, that ‘he was an excellent... ...man, may be worth relating. When he and I took a journey together into the West, we visited the late Mr. Banks, of Dorsetshire; the conversation turn-... ...nson He deposited the remains of Mrs. Johnson in the church of Bromley, in Kent, to which he was probably led by the residence of his friend Hawkeswor... ... necessity of ‘making provision for the day that was passing over him.’ No royal or noble patron extended a munificent hand to give in- dependence to ... ...travagantly, is formular. It has always been formular to flatter Kings and Queens; so much so, that even in our church-service we have “our most relig... ...ohn Douglas, whose grandson is now presumptive heir of the noble family of Queensberry. Johnson and he had a good deal of medical conversation. Johnso...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ...person on board, accompanied by an offer from him of giving up part of his own accommodations, that I volunteered my services, which received, through... ...me every assis- tance which the kindest friend could offer. DOWN, BROMLEY, KENT, June 9, 1845 THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE CHAPTER I ST. JAGO — CAPE DE VE... ...ter of rocks is situ- ated in 0 degs. 58' north latitude, and 29 degs. 15' west longitude. It is 540 miles distant from the coast of America, and 350 ... ...e of the prawn-like crabs, their movements were as coinstantaneous as in a regiment of soldiers; but this cannot happen from anything like voluntary a... ...a clavipes of Fabricius, which was formerly said by Sloane to make, in the West Indies, webs so strong as to catch birds. A small and pretty kind of s... ... Ellore, and that a hare drank out of a vessel held by the adjutant of the regiment. 148 The V oyage of the Beagle mation of the loss of cattle in th... ... of a fallen tree remain? This man showed me one which a party of fugitive royalists had cut down fourteen years ago; and tak- ing this as a criterion... ... p. 340. Dr. Ferguson, in his admi- rable Paper (see 9th vol. of Edinburgh Royal Trans.), shows clearly that the poison is generated in the drying pro...