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...strative divisions: 4 divisions, 21 regions, 64 districts, 495 thanas (rural townships consisting of 4,472 unions or village groupings) Legal system: ... ...n population) and seven states (based on ethnic minorities), subdivided into townships, village-tracts (rural), and wards (urban) Legal system: People... ...er age 18 Elections: elections held for People's Congress representatives at county level Political parties and leaders: Chinese Communist Party (CCP)... ...ibuted internal system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and most townships; services in interior and border regions limited; nearly 4 mill... ...h about 700 main telegraph centers capable of general message service at the county level and above; subscriber tele- printer exchange (telex) service... ...s (Bundes- strassen), 65,425 km state highways (Lan- desstrassen), 65,248 km county roads (Kreisstrassen); 296,737 km of unclassified communal roads (... ...ive British Ethnic divisions: 81.5% English, 9.6% Scottish, 2.4% Irish, 1.9% Welsh, 1.8% Ulster, 2.8% West Indian, Indian, Paki- stani, and other Reli... ...yte- rian, 760,000 Methodist, 450,000 Jewish (registered) Language: English, Welsh (about 26% of population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about ... ... (19 Liberal, 7 SDP) (25.4%); Scottish National Party, 2 seats; Plaid Cymru (Welsh Na- tionalist), 2 seats; Ulster (Official) Unionist (Northern Irela...

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...to one's family? Work? Neighbors? Neighborhood? Politically? Municipal? County? State? National? How many charities can one support? Which... ...ization The Effect of Civilization on Humans 447 disease and plague. Towns that kept bats in their church towers escaped many plagues and di... ...irits, because they prospered far better than the sicker, more disease-ridden towns. The entire nation went into a killing spree. Killing every ba... ...nti-life in its effect. Yet that is precisely what mass-production of houses-towns-cities-cars-billboards-highways-streets-tv’s-clothes-images-movie... ...rous split-identities. Try to resolve just how your street-neighborhood-city- county-province-state-national-political identity fits with your family... ...ons. Then you are supposed to love your country, your city, your state, your county, etc…. Without ever being loved back by any of these abstract ... ..., wars, battles, treacheries, betrayals… Everyone hated them. The Scots, the Welsh, the Irish, the French, the Spanish, the Dutch, the Germans hate...

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...ickens We performed Auld Lang Syne the whole day; seeing noth- ing, out of towns and villages, but the track of stoats, hares, and foxes, and sometime... ...The latter had nothing in them but stock advertisements, a meeting about a county rate, and a highway robbery. As I am a greedy reader, I could not ma... ...n Creed in a terrific voice. I paid my bill next day, and retired from the county with all possible precipitation. That was not a commonplace story wh... ...ight at in a picturesque old town on 18 The Holly-Tree—Three Branches the Welsh border. In a large double-bedded room of this Inn there had been a su... ...d he never re- called any more of the dream. This reminiscence brought the Welsh Inns in general before me; with the women in their round hats, and th... ...r want of a tea- pot. So to the old palace Inns and old monastery Inns, in towns and cities of the same bright country; with their mas- sive quadrangu...

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...mpany for a couple of days, if I was for Hampshire, which I stated was the county I meant to visit. ‘Well then, here now, come along, d ‘ye see, look,... ...t woman alive, with a voice sweeter than flutes. There was a saying in the county that to marry a Beltham you must po’chay her. A great-aunt of mine, ... ... I die. Old blood always wins that race, I swear. We ‘re the oldest in the county. Damn the mixing. My father never let any of his daugh- ters marry, ... ...uld hardly bear meeting Temple on my passage to the cabin. ‘Captain Jasper Welsh,’ he was reiterating, as if sounding it to dis- cover whether it had ... ...uest Temple not to joke, but the next moment I had launched Captain Jasper Welsh on a piratical exploit; Temple lifted the veil from his history, reve... ...of an excited multi- tude. As he boasted that there was the end of Captain Welsh, I broke the rope. But T emple spoiled my triumph by depriv- ing him ... ...th. At the very instant of my dilemma I chanced to see a soberly- clad old townsman hustled between two helpless women of the crowd, his pipe in his m... ...re dragging logs at its heels. Half-a-dozen workmen ran to arrest it; some townswomen fainted. There was a heavy altercation in German between the sta... ...- trians: ‘you’ll see a sight like this in dozens—dozens of our cities and towns! The wealth of this country is frightful.’ My reply, addressed at the...

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... and all that time, there was peace in Britain. The Britons improved their towns and mode of life: became more civilised, travelled, and learnt a grea... ...ken and unguarded wall of Severus, in swarms. They plundered the rich est towns, and killed the people; and came back so often for more booty and mor... ...were not attacking travellers and animals, that the tribute payable by the Welsh people was forgiven them, on condition of their producing, every year... ...ition of their producing, every year, three hundred wolves’ heads. And the Welshmen were so sharp upon the wolves, to save their money, that in four y... ...in came into England, and, year after year, attacked and de spoiled large towns. To coax these sea kings away, the weak Ethelred paid them money; but... ...of years afterwards, wrote his great tragedy; and he killed the rest less Welsh King Griffith, and brought his head to England. What Harold was doin... ...sword, four thousand of the rebels are supposed to have fallen in that one county. In Norfolk (where the rising was more against the enclosure of open... ... Queen. This was discovered in time by Gardiner; but in Kent, the old bold county, the people rose in their old bold way. Sir Thomas Wyat , a man of ... ...complaining of the injury that had been done to Mr. Hampden, who was their county man and much beloved and honoured. When the King set off for Hampton...

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...otest: viz., that, no matter though the sheriff and under-sheriff in every county should be running after you with his posse, touch a hair of your hea... ...on. I mention this little incident for its connexion with what followed. A Welsh rustic, sitting behind me, asked if I had not felt my heart burn with... ...y mortifying that such a Birmingham thing should dare to challenge us. The Welshman replied that he didn’t see that; for that a cat might look at a ki... ... I am glad that the ‘Tallyho’ was disap- pointed.” So dissatisfied did the Welshman seem with this opinion that at last I was obliged to tell him a ve... ...g, Aberdeen— expressing the grandeur of the empire by the antiquity of its towns, and the grandeur of the mail establishment by the diffusive radiatio... ...ence of Glasgow, and winnowing it from the chaff of all baser intermediate towns. But at last all is finished. Sound your horn, guard! Manchester, goo... ...ee stages termi- nate in Preston (called, by way of distinction from other towns of that name, Proud Preston); at which place it is that the separate ... .... 47 Thomas De Quincey rolled northwards from the southern quarter of the county that for a fortnight at least it occupied the severe exertions of tw... ...d sank into profound silence. Except the exhaustion in the vast adja- cent county of York from a contested election, no such si- lence succeeding to n...

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...e for me to die!’ I saw him, with his sword in both hands, cut down a wild Welshman who was rushing on 25 Yo n g e me. Then I saw no more, till in th... ...ounded?” “Sorely,” said Richard; “my side had been pierced with a lance, a Welsh two-handed sword had broken through my helmet, and well-nigh cleft my... ...n, Lady, came lights and murmuring voices. They were Mortimer’s plundering Welsh robbers. I heard their wild gibbering tongue; and I knew how it would... ...up a fly here on this very tent pole? And did not the Fay Morgaine show us towns and castles and churches in the sea? Thou didst not call me light-hea... ...d spurs ever did—and have been more to me than English earl- dom or French county. Poor Richard!” he added with feeling; “I told him his was the bonda...

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...ay proceedings. I may add that I am well acquainted with our manufacturing towns in England, and have visited many mills in Manchester and elsewhere i... ...een at work for years in our manufac American Notes – Dickens 75 turing towns have not arisen here; and there is no manu facturing population in L... ... hospitable roof of the Governor of the State, until Monday morning. These towns and cities of New England (many of which would be villages in Old Eng... ... but slumber, in the House of Lords. I have seen elections for borough and county, and have never been impelled (no matter which party won) to damage ... ...emselves to be easily entrapped into pits; and even (as in the case of the Welsh Giant) with an excess of the hospitable politeness of a landlord, rip... ... there is a buxom hostess at the head of the table, and opposite, a simple Welsh schoolmaster with his wife and child; who came here, on a speculation... ... have a display of goods in their windows, such as may be seen in thriving county towns in England; and there are some which would do no discredit to ... ...e learn that the Hon. Charles C. P. Arndt, Member of the Council for Brown county, was shot dead on the floor of the concil chamber, by James R. Vin...

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... by the Count de Bearn, I have seen little else—three stricken fields— two towns stormed—castles more than I can remember.” “Alas!” said Eustace, “I h... ...t when at length the King had freed himself from their trammels, the whole county of Somerset rose to expel the intruders from Lynwood Keep, and rein-... ...that the Knight had again taken his wonted place amongst the gentry of the county. Entertain- ments were exchanged with his neighbours, hunting and ha... ...oke long of the Lord de Clarenham, because his favour would be well in the county; but at last he has fixed on your brother, because he may do somewha... ...h fields and fair vineyards spreading far away to the west and north, with towns and villages here and there rising among them; while far away to the ... ...e, besides the brown-haired, fair-skinned English boy, was the quick fiery Welsh child, who owned an especial alle- giance to the Prince; the broad bl...

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...more than the present population of Washington; and there are, I fear, few towns in the Union so little likely to enjoy any speedy increase. Three ave... ...e are no iron pillars or wayside letter-boxes, as are to be found in other towns of the Union—no subsidiary offices at which stamps can be bought and ... ...s, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, Richmond, and Memphis. I do not name such towns as Baltimore and St. Louis, which stand in slave States, but which ha... ...y work at Pittsburg is more nearly allied to the heavy, rough works of the Welsh coal metropolis than to the finish and polish of Birmingham. “Why can... ... kinsman than I do in your Englishman. I never ask an Englishman from what county he comes, or what was his town. To Irishmen I usually put such quest...

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...his anointed head as low as death. This have I rumor’d through the peasant towns Between that royal field of Shrewsbury And this worm eaten hold of ra... ... If he should do so, He leaves his back unarm’d, the French and Welsh Baying him at the heels: never fear that. LORD BARDOLPH : Who is it ... ...ces hither? HASTINGS: The Duke of Lancaster and Westmoreland; Against the Welsh, himself and Harry Monmouth: Henry 4th, Part 2, Act I, scene iii 17 ... ...ustice Shallow? SHALLOW: I am Robert Shallow, sir; a poor esquire of this county, and one of the king’s justices of the peace: What is your good plea...

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...s were ill drawn up, and were at once broken. Some fled to V eii and other towns, many were drowned in crossing the Tiber, and it was but a few who sh... ...es after them. 64 A Book of Golden Deeds The Greeks, in going through the towns to enforce the idol worship, came to a little city called Modin, some... ...Rome; their appearance and character would be more like that of the modern Welsh, or of their own French descendants, small, alert, and dark-eyed, ful... ...ways consid- ered as their impenetrable barrier throughout the winter. The towns quickly fell into his hands, and he was rapidly recov- ering all he h... ... in whom the Empire became at length hereditary, was in reality Swiss, the county that gave them title lying in the canton of Aargau. Rodolf of Hapsbu... ... left his English wife and her in- fant son at his castle of Cranallagh in county Longford, think- ing them safe there while he joined the royal force... ... his men. The Frenchman could not speak English, and Captain Jones—a fiery Welshman, whom it was the fashion in the regiment to term ‘Jack Jones’—knew... ...e started back, crying, ‘Sacre bleu!’ and ran out in the utmost alarm. The Welsh captain, however, went on, and perceived that the church had been use...

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...at’s what I’ll do after college! I’ll get my hands on one of these prairie towns and make it beautiful. Be an inspiration. I suppose I’d better become... ...he garden suburbs on Long Is- land? Nobody has done anything with the ugly towns here in the Northwest except hold revivals and build libraries to con... ...Say honestly— Of course I may be prejudiced, but I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association... ...no park to rest the eyes. And since not Gopher Prairie but Wakamin was the county- seat, there was no court-house with its grounds. She glanced throug... ...Anoka.” “He did not!” roared Mr. Stowbody. “He settled first in Blue Earth County, him and his father!” (“What’s the point at issue?” Carol whispered ... ... mostly it’s be- cause I mean something. I’m about the only man in Johnson County that remembers the joker in the Declaration of Inde- pendence about ... ... youth, and though school had begun she rushed in daily to suggest dances, welsh- rabbit parties. Fern begged her to go as chaperon to a barn-dance in...

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...hey slept, and their attendants found lairs in the kitchens or stables. In towns there was generally harbour for the noble portion; indeed in some, Wa... ...their hounds, And some sware they would not marry her For cities nor for towns. Glances again went towards the scarred visage, but Grisell was heedl... ...with it. We will show the young recre- ant how promises are kept in Durham County.” He dragged rather than led his daughter to the door, and lifted he... ...t in the meantime Queen Margaret had been striving her utmost to raise the Welsh and the Border lords on behalf of her son. She had obtained aid from ... ...ld moors and mosses. Then methought I would come hither, or to some of the towns about, and see how it fares with the old T ower and the folk; and if ... ...each of the Duke’s domains, glittering back and front in the tabard of his county’s armorial bearings, and with its banner borne beside him. Then a di...

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...s of no use. We shall only get into a scrape with all the gentlemen of the county.” “Never mind now, Eustace,” said Harold, briefly. But I knew the ex... ...rusts might be allayed, and that he might ultimately take his place in the county. The other young man! Why should there be any distrust of Harold? I ... ...peak against time. I know he was very dreadful at all the platforms in the county; but he was very good and conscientious, and everyone looked 25 ... ...s to be interested in my nephews. Mycening is one of the prettiest country towns I know, at least it was twenty years ago. There is a very wide street... ... and Mrs. Alison with their heads very close together over some samples of Welsh wool, and Dermot lying on the sofa, his hands clasped behind his head...

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...and mentioned that in Devonshire, or at least on the western coast of that county, near Ilfracombe, upon any excessive take of herrings, beyond what t... ...t? Why, it’s like Charing Cross—always the least secret place in the whole county.” So one might fancy; since the summit of a mountain, like Plinlimmo... ...ertainly proved more than a match for all the clergymen of the neighboring towns, some of whom (as the most intellectual persons of that neighborhood)... ...she and her pupil were go- ing on a visit to an old Catholic family in the county of Durham, (the family of Mr. Swinburne, who was known advantageousl... ...made sensible by Wordsworth of one grievous defect in the structure of the Welsh valleys; too generally they take the basin shape—the level area at th... ...ewspapers, &c., it followed, naturally enough, that the distant provincial towns, though not without their own separate literature and their own liter... ...oaning respiration which is made by men who use an axe, or by those who in towns ply the “three-man beetle” of Falstaff, as paviers; echoes they certa...

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...ed of pink and pig-skin breeches, of foxes at Ring’s Bottom, where now the County Council pauper lunatics were enclosed, of Lady Bone’s chintzes and c... ...in the streets upon that one day, than in the previous three months, and a County Council steamboat, the Isaac Walton, collided with a pier of Westmin... ...marsh to the left, at a minute wide prospect of weald and downland, at dim towns and harbours and rivers and rib- bon-like roads, at ships and ships, ... ...on. As he trailed, Bert saw ahead of him one of the most attractive little towns in the world—a cluster of steep gables surmounted by a high church to... ...lined out with clusters of furnaces, and the lit streets of a group of big towns. The world seemed to lie in a bowl; the overhanging bulk of the airsh... ...undred thousand pounds paid into benks-thirty thousand into the London and County Benk Branch at Bun Hill in Kent directly I ‘and over the plans; twen... ... fortified himself with a few square meals before he started eastward. The Welsh and English countryside at that time presented the strangest mingling...

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...nd replied: “Come to me for six days; you shall have the best mount in the county.” An editor devoid of malice might probably have forborne to print a... ...ok at the sheet of water to which little Jane had given celebrity over the county. The girl stood up to her shoulders when she slid off the bank and m... ...per, striding, with his hand on the shining middle of his head: “It’s that Welsh rabbit! that Welsh rabbit!” He has a poor digestion, and he will eat ... ...! that Welsh rabbit!” He has a poor digestion, and he will eat cheese. The Welsh rabbit chased him into his bed. But listen to me, dear, about your Mo... ... would not believe him capable of doing that in his family home and native county; so, then, her shrewd wits had noth- ing or little to learn. But her... ...f hard drinking under a reverse; and the question ad- dressed to the chief towns in the sketch counties his head contained was, which one near would b...

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...in fact, The Port Burdock Drapery Bazaar at Port Burdock, one of the three townships that are grouped around the Port Bur- dock naval dockyards. There... ... situation, and going with him to Stratford-on-Avon and Shrewsbury and the Welsh moun- tains and the Wye and a lot of places like that, for a really g... ...for the most part at nights after Mrs. Johnson had indulged everybody in a Welsh rarebit—when it assumed so sinister and porten- tous an appearance as... ...ion than his quarrel with Rusper and the indignity of appearing before the county bench. He was for the first time in his business career short with h... ...2 The History of Mr. Polly V V V V V WITH THE DUSK and the arrival of some county constabulary, and first one and presently two other fire engines fro... ...ever seen. (It seemed to him this must needs be a marvel.) And so to other towns and cities. He would walk and loiter by the way, and sleep in inns at... ...he liked the name of Gilhampton and the rural suggestion of its containing county, which was Sus- sex, and having so despatched it, he set himself to ...

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... aged man turned out to be a pro digious personage — no less a one than the county judge — altogether the most august creation these children had eve... ...o he had travelled, and seen the world — these very eyes had looked upon the county court house — which was said to have a tin roof. The awe which the... ...urch; for the other churches of the village; for the village itself; for the county; for the State; for the State officers; for the United States; for... ...to the path that led up Cardiff Hill; this they took. They passed by the old Welshman’s house, half way up the hill, without hesitating, and still cl... ...picked up his nimble heels and flew. Down, down he sped, till he reached the Welshman’s. He banged at the door, and presently the heads of the old man... ...Sunday morn ing, Huck came groping up the hill and rapped gently at the old Welshman’s door. The inmates were asleep, but it was a sleep that was set... ...the mouth of the cave; and people flocked there in boats and wagons from the towns and from all the farms and hamlets for seven miles around; they bro...