...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- vers... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Robert Louis Stevenson A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson PREF... ...ars with credit. They figure but as the three ruffi- ans of the elder play-wrights. The United States have the cleanest hands, and even theirs are not... ...ciety, and applying it to another, of 134 A Footnote to History which the writers know less than nothing, and no European knows much. Several interpr... ...n a very good account of a visit there, published in the Australasian, the writer describes it to be fortified; she must have been deceived by the app...

...ith, and was as great a King as En gland had known for some time. The old writers of history relate how that Canute was one day disgusted with his co... ...ere he then was, and where he received him as an honoured guest. Now, some writers tell us that Edward the Confessor, who was by this time old and had... ... Con queror was troubled by quarrels among his sons. He had three living. Robert, called Curthose, because of his short legs; William, called Rufus... ...ing, and called, in the Norman language, Beauclerc, or Fine Scholar. When Robert grew up, he asked of his father the government of Normandy, which he... ...er his mother, Matilda. The King refusing to grant it, Charles Dickens 65 Robert became jealous and discontented; and happening one day, while in thi... ...committed upon earth than in wretched England in those nineteen years. The writers who were living then describe them fearfully. They say that the cas... ...ff to find out this lord, ac companied by an uncle, a poor village wheel wright and cart maker, who believed in the re ality of her visions. They t... ...d her horse and rode away with her two squires. As to her uncle the wheel wright, he stood staring at his niece in wonder until she was out of sight ... ...nspirators; Thomas Percy, related to the Earl of Northumberland, and John Wright, his brother in law. All these met together in a solitary house in t...

...rgive me for reminding them that the term “Caucasian” is dropped by recent writers on Ethnology; for the people about Mount Caucasus, are, and have ev... ...ns, stables, store- houses, and tobacco-houses; blacksmiths’ shops, wheel- wrights’ shops, coopers’ shops—all objects of interest; but, above all, the... ...on to mar- ket, and had the general oversight of the coopers’ shop, wheel- wrights’ shop, blacksmiths’ shop, and shoemakers’ shop. Besides the care of... ...could scarcely surpass her in per- sonal charms. Esther was courted by Ned Roberts, and he 56 My Bondage and My Freedom was as fine looking a young m... ...een Esther and Edward. He strictly ordered her to quit the company of said Roberts, telling her that he would punish her severely if he ever found her... ...w to read the gospel of the Son of God—when in rushed a mob, headed by Mr. Wright Fairbanks and Mr. Garrison West— two class-leaders—and Master Thomas... ...ris; John Harris, brother to Henry; Sandy Jenkins, of root memory; Charles Roberts, and Henry Bailey. I was the youngest, but one, of the party. I had...

...y, and without place or date, but having the signature of (apparently) the writer, is a letter of eight closely written foolscap pages. The other two... ... could wish to be not exactly what it is. In what is there expressed, the writer has not correctly understood me. I have never had a theory that sec... ...dressed by the Secretary of State, with my approval, to the Hon. Joseph A. Wright, of Indiana, that patriotic and distinguished gentleman repaired to ... ...in- formation sought: Prior to and at the meeting of the present Congress, Robert C. Schenck, of Ohio, and Frank P . Blair, Jr., of Missouri, mem- ber... ...e to inquire whether a day has yet been fixed for the execution of citizen Robert Louden, and if so what day? JOHN HAY , Major and Assistant Adjutant-... ...WHOM IT MA Y CONCERN: I am again pressed with the claim of Mr. Marshall O. Roberts, for transportation of what was called the Naval Brigade from New Y... ... .M. yesterday received, and very satisfac- tory. The enemy will learn of Wright’s arrival, and then the difficulty will be to unite Wright and Hunte... ...egoat. It seemed to be General Grant’s wish that the forces under General Wright and those under you should join and drive at the enemy under General... ...Seven INDORSEMENT CONCERNING AN EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS, SEPTEMBER 1864. The writer of this, who appeals for his brother, is our minister to Ecuador, an...

...nd L. C. Page & Co., of Boston; to A. C. McClurg & Co., of Chicago; to The Robert Clarke Co., of Cincin- nati, and to the J. B. Lippincott Co., of Phi... ...shed lawyer? Well, he never did. He never would have earned his salt as a ‘Writer’ for the ‘Signet’, nor have won a place as advo- cate in the Court o... ...8 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One RESPONSE TO POLITICAL SMEAR TO ROBERT ALLEN New Salem, June 21, 1836 DEAR COLONEL:—I am told that during m... ...Bank charter, it will be seen that those com- missioners were John Tilson, Robert K. McLaughlin, Daniel Warm, A.G. S. Wight, John C. Riley, W. H. Davi... ...ampered with, and the answer dictated to him. He was asked if he knew Joel Wright and James Adams; and above three-fourths of his answer consists of w... ...zens requires the reception of bank paper.” In addition to this, Mr. Silas Wright, Senator from New Y ork, and the political, personal and confidentia... ...he was entitled. Can you tell me anything about the matter? Again, old Mr. Wright, who lives up South Fork somewhere, is teasing me continually about ...

...d as the rest. CHAPTER IV. Renewal of Old Acquaintance “HOW DO you do, Mr. Roberts?” “Eh?” “Don’t you know me?” “No, certainly.” The crowd about the c... ...o changed? Look at me. Or is it I who am mistaken?—Are you not, sir, Henry Roberts, forwarding mer- chant, of Wheeling, Pennsylvania? Pray, now, if yo... ...g, don’t ring the changes that way. I see you have a faithless memory, Mr. Roberts. But trust in the faithfulness of mine.” 20 The Confidence-Man “We... ... is the author to be blamed? True, it may be urged that there is nothing a writer of fiction should more carefully see to, as there is nothing a sensi... ...t, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts. If season be judge, no writer has produced such inconsis- tent characters as nature herself has. I... ...en what seemed at first their consistency, afterwards, by the skill of the writer, turns out to be their good keeping. The great masters excel in noth... ...poken of. In which behalf, he would tell the story of the little colony of Wrights and Weavers, originally seven cousins from Virginia, who, after suc...

...ible, such criticisms on living per- sonages as it seemed fair towards the writer to omit. Criti- cisms upon their publications are of course a differ... ...h Greek and Roman customs, law courts and expressions, and Greek and Roman writers. I do not find myself wanting in making out a stiff bit of Greek or... ...ts of climates. The result was very amusing to ourselves, and added to the writer’s 50 Life of John Coleridge Patteson stock of words on particular s... ...other clergyman had come on board for a 363 Yo n g e trial trip, the Rev. Robert Codrington, a Fellow of Wadham, Oxford, who brought the University c... ...all remember about Miss Mackenzie’s memoir of that 419 Yo n g e good Mrs. Robertson. I wonder that men are not found to help Mr. Robertson. Here, as ... ...,—I enclose a note to Miss Mackenzie, thanking her for her book about Mrs. Robertson. It does one good to read about such a couple. I almost feel as i... ...often think whether she would approve of this or that opinion, action, &c. Wright’s paint- ing is pleasant to look upon. I stand in a corner of my roo...

... Commander James Alden. Commander David D. Porter. Commander Richard Wain- wright. Commander William B. Renshaw. Lieutenant Com- manding Abram D. Harr... ... addressed to yourself by Mr. Tho- mas J. Durant has been shown to me. The writer appears to be an able, a dispassionate, and an entirely sincere man.... ...xpect in any contingency to ever have the Union as it was, I join with the writer in saying, “Now is the time.” How much better it would have been for... ...r in saying, “Now is the time.” How much better it would have been for the writer to have gone at this, under the protection of the army at New Orlean... ... 124 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six TELEGRAM TO GENERAL H. G . WRIGHT. W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., Septem- ber 7, 1862. GENERAL W... ...orce possible in rear of the enemy. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL H. G . WRIGHT. MILITARY TELEGRAPH, W ASHINGTON, Septem- ber 12, 1862. MAJOR-GENERA... ...lustrated by a few notable examples: General John C. Breckinridge, General Robert E. Lee, Gen- eral Joseph E. Johnston, General John B. Magruder, Gene... ...ritings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six REASSURING SON IN COLLEGE TELEGRAM TO ROBERT T, LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, July 3,1863. ROBERT T. LI... ...EGRAM TO R. T . LINCOLN. W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON D.C., July 14, 1863. ROBERT T. LINCOLN: New Y ork, Fifth Avenue Hotel: Why do I hear no more of ...

...ome; I thought of the many people in Australia, who would have an interest in such a shipwreck, and would find their way here when they visit the Old ... ...some time— I have referred, my reference would be as nothing. He is the Reverend Stephen Roose Hughes, of Llanallgo, near Moelfra, Anglesey. His broth... ...o bitterly anathematised a poor little Circus. Similarly, in the reading provided for the young people enrolled in the Lasso of Love, and other excell... ... who married for love and hope, not settlements, and all the Vice-Chancellors shall thenceforward be kept in nosegays Charles Dickens 142 for nothing... ...ne. This female bard—may she have been repaid my debt of obligation to her in the matter of nightmares and perspira- tions!—reappears in my memory as ...

... in these mysteries, who kindly undertook to calculate the nativity of the writer of Guy Mannering, who might be supposed to be friendly to the divine... ...me article in which her mother Jean is men- tioned, but not by the present writer.— “The late Madge Gordon was at this time accounted the Queen of the... ...llangowan, who flourished tempore Caroli primi was, says my authority, Sir Robert Douglas, in his Scottish Baronage (see the title Ellangowan), “a ste... ...shire. Among others who joined the standard of revolt was Gilbert Glossin, writer in— , agent for the Laird of Ellangowan. This honest gentleman had e... ...alter Scott talents have done such honour to your country—your Blair, your Robertson, or your Henry; and I embrace—your kind offer with all my heart.—... ...have a moment’s patience, and we shall do very well.” The colleague of Dr. Robertson ascended the pulpit. [This was the celebrated Dr. Rescan, a disti... ...irl called Janet Lightoheel, who was afterwards married to Hewit the ship- wright, that lived in the neighbourhood of Annan. His name 425 Sir Walter ...

... talked together, soon made her quick eye sufficiently acquainted with Mr. Robert Martin. His appearance was very neat, and he looked like a sensible ... ...could not dispense with:—but the girl who 28 Emma could be gratified by a Robert Martin’s riding about the coun- try to get walnuts for her might ver... ... unaffected, and the sentiments it conveyed very much to the credit of the writer. It was short, but expressed good sense, warm attachment, lib- erali... ... would have been the loss of a friend to me. I could not have visited Mrs. Robert Martin, of Abbey-Mill Farm. Now I am secure of you for ever.” Harrie... ...t it had not added any lasting warmth, that she could still do without the writer, and that he must learn to do without her. Her intentions were uncha... ...at any time, the least inconve- nient.—I should be extremely displeased if Wright were to send us up such a dinner, as could make me regret having ask... ...and it was, “How do you like my gown?—How do you like my trimming?—How has Wright done my hair?”—with many other relative questions, all answered with... ...ect.—I think 351 Jane Austen we shall never materially disagree about the writer again; but I will not delay you by a long preface.—We are quite well... ...arry stand at our sideboard for any consideration. And as for Mrs. Hodges, Wright holds her very cheap indeed.—She promised Wright a receipt, and neve...

...ligion. It is still combating the recent heresies of Voltaire, Darwin, and Robert Ingersoll. Pious families in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, the Dakotas... ...town that say the doc is a fair to middlin’ diagnostician and prescription-writer, but let me whisper this to you—but for heaven’s sake don’t tell him... ...h examination. Many people believed that Shakespeare was the greatest play-wright who ever lived, also a fine poet. Not much was known about his life,... ..., Lamb, De Quincey, and Mrs. Humphry Ward, who, it seemed, constituted the writers of English Fiction and Es- says. Not till she inspected the rest-ro... ...hurch in temporal affairs. All socialists ought to be hanged. “Harold Bell Wright is a lovely writer, and he teaches such good morals in his novels, a... ...ffairs. All socialists ought to be hanged. “Harold Bell Wright is a lovely writer, and he teaches such good morals in his novels, and folks say he’s m... ...d pick you up with one finger, and hold you in the air long enough to read Robert J. Ingersoll clean through. Ingersoll? Oh, he’s a religious writer. ... ...Uncle Whittier. Carol did not heed Aunt Bessie’s fussing in regard to Mrs. Robert B. Schminke’s bead necklace and Whittier’s error in putting on the s...

...es Fenimore Cooper PREFACE. T HE PLAN OF THIS TALE suggested itself to the writer many years since, though tbe details are altogether of recent invent... ...vor with the Public, it will be a source of extreme gratifica- tion to the writer, since he has an interest in the individual in question that falls l... ...s tongue in *Lest the reader suppose we are dealing purely in fiction, the writer will add that he has known a long thirty-two pounder car-ried over t... ... once distinguished to be gallant and trim. Her mould was admirable, for a wright of great skill had sent her drafts from England, at the express requ... ... John—“ resumed Cap. “Your name is Jack, I believe?” “No, sir; I am called Robert.” 204 The Pathfinder “A y, Robert, it’s very much the same thing, J...

...RECORDS OF A FAMILY OF ENGINEERS by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...n electronic transmission, in any way. Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...er of David Lillie, a builder in Glasgow, and several times ‘Deacon of the Wrights’: the date of the marriage has not reached me; but on 8th June 1772... ...h Stevenson, twenty-nine before Alan, died David Lillie, the Deacon of the Wrights; so that mother and son were or- phaned in one month. Thus, from a ... ...y of occupation, greedy of knowledge, a stern husband of time, a reader, a writer, unflagging in his task of self-improvement. Thenceforward his summe... ... far away, and may have met the ladies on the Calton Hill; and many of the writers appear, underneath the conventions of the pe- riod, to be genuinely... ...of a time of sorrow; or be- cause she was pleased, perhaps touched, by the writer’s guileless efforts to seem spiritually-minded. After this date ther... ...ily of Engineers to, which required constant repairs, two additional mill- wrights were added to the complement on the rock, which, including the writ...

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...Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Cla... ...or descent in Christendom. He had four daughters. One married an Edinburgh writer, as I have it on a first account – a minister, according to another ... ...bers… . .’ We may drop this sentence here: under the conduct of its boyish writer, it was to reach no legitimate end. Four days of such a discipline h... ...e last letter to Frank Scott is scarcely of a noble metal. It is plain the writer has outgrown his old self, yet not made acquaintance with the new. T... ... weary with anxiety and work. As usual I have been delighted with my ship- wrights. I gave them some beer on Saturday, making a short oration. T o-day...

...uraged me to think I might pos sibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. My time for these exercises a... ... sent me back again much sooner than I had intended. I had a brother in law, Robert Holmes, master of a sloop that traded between Boston and Delaware.... ...ame, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 37 however, a pretty good prose writer. More of him hereafter. But, as I may not have occasion again to m... ...ave expectations. He was otherwise an ingenious, sensible man, a pretty good writer, and a good governor for the people, tho’ not for his constituents... ...loyment, as it was impos sible be should succeed in it. Then he propos’d to Roberts, a publisher in Paternoster Row, to write for him a weekly pa pe... ...te for him a weekly pa per like the Spectator, on certain conditions, which Roberts did not approve. Then he endeavored to get employment as a hackne... ...t Philadelphia, as both are to be found in the histories of electricity. Dr. Wright, an English physician, when at Paris, wrote to a friend, who was o...

...llege Publication Editor in Chief Jim Manis Editors Suzanne Harper and Liz Wright Associate Editor David Russell Best of Freshman Writing is a publica... ..., during the academic year of 2002-03, and the essays appear here with the writers’ express written permission. No portion of Best of Freshman Writing... ...orial Staff Editor in Chief Jim Manis – HN Editors Suzanne Harper – SW Liz Wright – HN Associate Editor David Russell – York Special Editorial Board A... ...y would do if they could spend time in our neigh- borhood. Other English 4 writers whose work faculty deemed worthy of serious consideration: Randy Ge... ...han I do an ICP album. However, I see they are both good. Other English 15 writers whose work faculty deemed worthy of serious consideration: Matt Mel... ... work faculty deemed worthy of serious consideration: Matt Melvin– Fayette Robert Salko – Hazleton Katie Ignatovich – Hazleton Zack Mentz – Mont Alto ... ...he group, am naturally deemed the “tagger,” while George, T.B., Paolo, and Robert all scatter the city block as the hiding “taggees.” There isn’t very...

...ted to be amused.” “Allen! I wonder if it can be the same child as the one Robert was interested about. You don’t remember, my dear. It was the year y... ...u don’t remember, my dear. It was the year you were at Vienna, when one of Robert’s brother-officers died on the voyage out to China, and he sent home... ...tters for me to canvass right and left for the orphan’s election. You know Robert writes much better than he speaks, and I copied over and over again ... ...an to girls, and I know Mr. Ogilvie would be glad. I could have the little Wrights, and Walter Leslie, and three or four more directly, but I thought ... ...slike of his absence, rather than to his association with the Principal, a writer whose articles she kept out of reach of Armine and Barbara. The matt...

... see what the Censor has left of our playwrights and Sir Jesse Boot of our writers, and to dine in restaurants and wear clothes. Mostly they call them... ...vi- ties. Such a plan is not to be flung out hastily by an irrespon- sible writer. It can only come into existence as the outcome of a wide movement o... ... maker and making fine pieces, or an artist of almost any sort, or a story writer, or a consulting physi- cian, or a scientific investigator, or a kee... ...interest of Mr. Sandow or Mr. Jack Johnson or Mr. Harry Lauder or Mr. Evan Roberts without wanting to send these gentlemen into Parliament. And I thin... ...trialism, of sweating and base employment of the most ominous kind. In Mr. Robert Hunter’s “Poverty” one reads of “not less than eighty thousand child... ...having got to something altogether new and strange, of Montgolfier, or the Wright Brothers, of Columbus, or the Polar conquest. There remains, of cour...

...since 1837, and a history of the changes that have taken place; though the writer is aware that there is no incident to tempt the reader—no siege of t... ...stances, peculiarities have faded away be- fore the march of progress. The writer returns many warm thanks to those who have given much individual ass... ...h verse, in hopes of improv- ing the morals of the Court. John Hopkins and Robert Wis- dom completed the translation of the Psalms, which Fuller in hi... ...time, however, this passed off; but, apparently under the direction of Mr. Robertson, a minister of Southampton, and Mr. Stapylton, also a minister, t... ...ngerous possession. Mr. V ertue saw it in 1710, in the collection of a Mr. Roberts, but it has since disappeared. There was a stone inscribed to Edwar... .... Maijor’s * Blackstone’s Commentaries, vol. ii. pp. 81, 85. ** Sir Martin Wright is of opinion that Domesday-Book was made soon after our ancestors h... ...s Winchester, and a second curate had been added to the staff. The present writer can only dwell with thankfulness too deep to be spoken on Mr. Keble’...

...t a joiner, a cabinet-maker, and even a carver in wood, as well as a wheel-wright, a plough-wright, a cart and waggon-maker. The employments of the la... ...ots money pound contained, from the time of Alexander the First to that of Robert Bruce, a pound of silver of the same weight and fineness with the En... ...n, and have been more frequently taken notice of by histori- ans and other writers. We must generally, therefore, content our- selves with them, not a... ...mpence, however, seems to have been considered as the whole of it, by many writers who have collected the prices of labour and provisions in ancient t... ... journeymen to make his coach- wheels, but must buy them of a master wheel-wright; this latter trade having been exercised in England before the 5th o... ...aving been exercised in England before the 5th of Eliza- beth. But a wheel-wright, though he has never served an appren- ticeship to a coachmaker, may... ...requently at this day a matter of controversy in the wine countries. Their writers on agriculture, indeed, the lovers and pro- moters of high cultivat... ... have been as much devoted to the pope as those of any other country. When Robert, the second prince of the Capetian race, was most unjustly excommuni... ...han it is at present. It was the object of the famous excise scheme of Sir Robert Walpole, to establish, with regard to wine and tobacco, a system not...

... interspersed with announcements of day- schools, penny theatres, petition-writers, mangles, and music for balls or routs, complete the ‘still life’ o... ... owners thereof. Mr. Thomas Potter, then, was a clerk in the city, and Mr. Robert Smithers was a ditto in the same; their in- comes were limited, but ... ...ellously slow when you have a little to receive. Mr. Thomas Potter and Mr. Robert Smithers met by ap- pointment to begin the evening with a dinner; an... ...e waiter did. Mr. Thomas Potter mixed his grog, and lighted his cigar; Mr. Robert Smithers did the same; and then, Mr. Tho- mas Potter jocularly propo... ...e at supper-time. * * * * * WE ARE NOT ABOUT TO ADOPT the licence of novel-writers, and to let ‘years roll on;’ but we will take the liberty of reques... ...ot a foreign ac- cent. Was he a surgeon, a contributor to the magazines, a writer of fashionable novels, or an artist?—No; to each and all of these su... ... end of a muddy lane about a couple of miles long, colonised by one wheel- wright, four paupers, and a beer-shop; but, even this authority, slight as ...

...immediately. He got up hastily, and say- ing, “By the way, I must speak to Wright about the horses,” shuffled quickly out of the room. “My dear child,... ...ter.” “I have some sea-mice—fine specimens—in spirits. And I will throw in Robert Brown’s new thing—`Microscopic Ob- servations on the Pollen of Plant... ...would be wounded. Young Mr. Ladislaw was not at all deep himself in German writers; but very little achievement is required in order to pity another m... ...lessington and L. E. L.” Rosamond herself was not without relish for these writers, but she did not readily commit herself by admiration, and was aliv... ...senose, and bitterly convinced that his old acquaintance Carp had been the writer of that depre- ciatory recension which was kept locked in a small dr... ...ot ashamed of his business, and feeling that “the celebrated Peel, now Sir Robert,” if introduced to him, would not fail to recognize his importance. ...

...g immediately. He got up hastily, and saying, “By the way, I must speak to Wright about the horses,” shuffled quickly out of the room. “My dear child, ... ...rter.” “I have some sea mice—fine specimens—in spirits. And I will throw in Robert Brown’s new thing—‘Microscopic Observations on the Pollen of Plants’... ...would be wounded. Young Mr. Ladislaw was not at all deep himself in German writers; but very little achievement is required in order to pity another m... ...senose, and bitterly convinced that his old acquaintance Carp had been the writer of that depreciatory recension which was kept locked in a small draw... ...ot ashamed of his business, and feeling that “the celebrated Peel, now Sir Robert,” if introduced to him, would not fail to recognize his importance. ... ...ing, a very superior publication, entitled ‘Ivanhoe.’ You will not get any writer to beat him in a hurry, I think— he will not, in my opinion, be spee...

... Yours with respect, A. LINCOLN. 1846 REQUEST FOR POLITICAL SUPPORT TO Dr. ROBERT BOAL. SPRINGFIELD, January 7, 1846. Dr. ROBERT BOAL, Lacon, Ill. DEA... ...tum. Let each contribute his mite in the way of suggestion. The late Silas Wright, in a letter to the Chi- cago convention, contributed his, which was... ...Perhaps the papers on file will enable you to judge better than I can. The writers of the within are good men, resid- ing within the land district. Yo...