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...t calculation of beating you and your friends for the lower house, in that county. They offer to bet upon it. Billings and Job, respec- tively, have b... ...ty-four. In the Old Dominion—in the Demo- cratic and aristocratic State of Virginia—there were a few more mulattoes than the Census-takers found in Ne... ...vision and allowing them to have slaves. A report made by Mr. Randolph, of Virginia, himself a slaveholder, was directly against it, and the action wa... ...essed that idea. That same idea was expressed by the Richmond Enquirer, in Virginia, in 1856,—quite two years before it was expressed by the first of ... ...ings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished... ...f the name of Hanks, some of whom now reside in Adams, and others in Macon County, Illinois. My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from ... ...than they were before the Republican party was organized. What induced the Southampton insurrection, twenty-eight years ago, in which, at least, three... ...? Y ou can scarcely stretch your very elastic fancy to the conclusion that Southampton was “got up by Black Republi- canism.” In the present state of ...

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...oolf A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Night and Day by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Night and Day by Virginia Woolf, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Virginia Woolf Night and Day by Virginia Woolf CHAPTER I It was a Sunday ev... ... made her away across Lincoln’s Inn Fields and up Kingsway, and so through Southampton Row until she reached her office in Russell Square. Now and the... ...ciety for woman’s suffrage had offered it. She was thinking all the way up Southampton Row of notepaper and foolscap, and how an economy in the use of... ...not England. In those days we thought an Indian Judgeship about equal to a county-court judgeship at home. His Honor—a pretty title, but still, not at... ...ned herself, and then burst out, looking out, too, upon Russell Square and Southampton Row, and at the passers-by, “Ah, if only one could get every on... ...nd,” Ralph replied. They were all gratified by this praise of their native county; and Mary now had the pleasure of hearing these short questions and ... ... passengers were approaching Lincoln mean- while by other roads on foot. A county town draws the inhabitants of all vicarages, farms, country houses, ...

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... basely. You have gallants among you, I dare undertake, that have made the Virginia voyage, or taken a turn in the Low Countries at least. Come, cudge... ...mansion, observing, at the same time, he had seen a less strong one upon a county jail. It was not until they had knocked more than once that an aged,... ...the quarrel of this Simnel, assuming the title of Earl of W arwick, as the county afterwards, in great numbers, countenanced the cause of Perkin Warbe... ...eriff of Kent had secret in- structions to have a part of the array of the county ready on the shortest notice. The eventful hour, thus anxiously prep... ...ed, The fragments of her faith are bound to Diomed.’ You smile, my Lord of Southampton—perchance I make your player’s verse halt through my bad memory... ...all, he himself em- 464 Kenilworth barked with his friend Raleigh for the Virginia expedition, and, young in years but old in grief, died before his ...

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...ew life in a new world. My good lord often talked of visiting that land in Virginia which King Charles gave us—gave his ancestor. Frank will give us t... ...who was not a viscount’s widow, as it turned out, but a brewer’s relict at Southampton, with a couple of thousand pounds to her fortune: for honest To... ...of the Spanish ships that came from Vigo last year: my mother bought it at Southampton, as the ship was lying there—the ‘Rose,’ Cap- tain Hawkins.” “W... ...as always praising you, and always talking about you; and when she went to Southampton, to see the ship, I found her out. But you see it is impossible... ...Prince-Duke are not friends; he is of the Webbs of Lydiard Tregoze, in the county of Y ork, a relation of my Lord St. John. Y our cousin, M. de Castle... ...d that his name was not Tho- mas; that he was about to quit Europe for the Virginian planta- tions, where, indeed, your family had a grant of land fro...

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...unt my harriers; and settle down at Castlewood. Perhaps I’ll represent the county—no, damme, you shall rep- resent the county. Y ou have the brains of... ...James’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 mourni... ... me, do you know what my scheme is? I think of asking Frank to give me the Virginian estate King Charles gave our grandfa- ther. (She gave a superb cu... ...nt with good-humor, and as jolly and careless as when they had sailed from Southampton ten years before for Vigo. “This bankruptcy,” says Tom, “has be... ...s of V an Dyck and Rubens. My grand- son hath the piece, such as it is, in Virginia now. At the commencement of the month of June, Miss Beatrix Esmond...

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...er I. A Slave Among Slaves I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of m... ...Slave Among Slaves I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth,... ...oom, the “cat-hole,” —a contrivance which almost every mansion or cabin in Virginia possessed dur- ing the ante-bellum period. The “cat-hole” was a sq... ...ked, and the family ate a meal in a civilized manner. On the plantation in Virginia, and even later, meals were gotten by the chil- dren very much as ... ... heart. I saw coloured men who were members of the state legislatures, and county officers, who, in some cases, could not read or write, and whose mor... ...some power of magic I might remove the great bulk of these people into the county districts and plant them upon the soil, upon the solid and never dec... ...ve one of our warmest friends. After three months in Europe we sailed from Southampton in the steamship St. Louis. On this steamer there was a fine li...

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...t the North will also claim Maryland and Delaware, and the eastern half of Virginia. The North will claim them, though they are attached to the South ... ...n in the great social institution of slavery—for Maryland, Dela- ware, and Virginia are slave States—and I think that the North will ultimately make g... ...im. Maryland and Delaware lie, as it were, behind the capital, and Eastern Virginia is close upon the capital. And these regions are not tropical in t... ...en days, who has lived in the State for a year, and for four months in the county in which he votes. He can vote for all “officers that now are, 246 ... ...sire for profit. The “James Adger,” a Northern man-of-war, was refitted at Southampton as a matter of course. There was no blame to England for that. ...

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...aturday night, would be corrupt on Sunday morn- ing; albeit my lord, their county member, was amazed that they failed to sleep in company with their b... ...unity of doing so, and you must be very well aware that there was Paul and Virginia which had to be re- turned and which was returned without note or ... ...e duration elapsed, in which there was no bid for Mrs General. At length a county- widower, with a daughter of fourteen, opened negotiations with the ... ...and to be their matron or chaperon. Mr Dorrit’s bankers, as bankers of the county-widower, instantly said, ‘Mrs General.’ Pursuing the light so fortun... ... round the count- ing-house, went down-stairs with him. Doyce was to go to Southampton to join the small staff of his fellow-travellers; and a coach w...

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...ackeray. London, October 18, 1852. 6 Henry Esmond PREFACE. THE ESMONDS OF VIRGINIA. THE ESTATE OF CASTLEWOOD, in Virginia, which was given to our anc... ...ces made in his Majesty’s cause by the Esmond family, lies in Westmoreland county, between the rivers Potomac and Rappahannock, and was once as great ... ...uce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esmond, whose ... ...tory, written by himself, is contained in the accompanying volume, came to Virginia in the year 1718, built his house of Castlewood, and here permanen... ... title, and presently after to take possession of his house of Castlewood, county Hants, in the year 1691, almost the only tenant of the place besides... ... was performed in the most quiet manner), got her no favor at first in the county or village. By far the greater part of the estate of Castlewood had ... ...who was not a viscount’s widow, as it turned out, but a brewer’s relict at Southampton, with a couple of thousand pounds to her fortune: for honest To... ...of the Spanish ships that came from Vigo last year: my mother bought it at Southampton, as the ship was lying there—the ‘Rose,’ Cap- tain Hawkins.” “W... ...as always praising you, and always talking about you; and when she went to Southampton, to see the ship, I found her out. But you see it is impossible...

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...d the un- happy wretch received sentence of death, and was remanded to the county jail to await the inexorable vengeance of the law. In the meantime, ... ...y behould the intheristhin words, “Sir Pathrick O’Grandison, Barronitt, 39 Southampton Row, Russell Square, Parrish o’ Bloomsbury.” And shud ye be wan... ...me, And fill my heart of hearts, where Death installed you In setting my Virginia’s spirit free. My mother—my own mother, who died early, Was but ...