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...personal credit for possess ing it. It is born to him. A baby born with a billion dollars— where is the personal merit in that? A baby born with noth... ...nder why you should think so. When you find service charged in the hotel bill does it annoy you? Y.M. No. O.M. Do you ever complain of the amount of... ...tending her farm and her poultry the rest of the day. Sometimes she played billiards with me after dinner, but she was usually too tired to play, and ... ...ended in a compromise, I submitted. I al ways did. She wouldn’t audit the bills and let Paine fill out the checks—she would continue to attend to tha... ... Cir cumstance, to help or hurt another man, made him lose a fifty dollar bill in the street; and to help or hurt me, made me find it. I advertised t... ...ys, Milton’s works, and those of Bacon, Addison, Samuel Johnson, Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Smollett, De Foe, Locke, Pope, Swift, Goldsmith, Burns,...

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...an unlimited order on his banker, or even putting an hun- dred pounds bank-bill into her hands, gave her only ten guin- eas, and promosed her more whe... ...d of a very respectable family in Gloucestershire. *Vide a letter from Mr. Richardson, No. 97, V ol. II, Rambler. 18 Northanger Abbey CHAPTER 4 WITH ... ... before her! If the evidence of sight might be trusted, she held a washing-bill in her hand. She seized another sheet, and saw the same articles with ... ...t, seemed by its first cramp line, “To poultice chestnut mare”—a farrier’s bill! Such was the collection of papers (left perhaps, as she could then su... ...e neither opened nor explained to her—by finding herself successively in a billiard- room, and in the general’s private apartment, without com- prehen... ...leman whose negligent servant left behind him that col- lection of washing-bills, resulting from a long visit at Northanger, by which my heroine was i...

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...with the unfurling of her flag, and salutes the setting sun with the report of a musket. Here dwell together, and share the comforts of a club (which ... ...of tropic rain, which we passed together in the verandah of the club; talking at times with heightened voices as the showers redoubled overhead, pass-... ...e, give to the northern end of Rotoava a great air of consequence. This is confirmed on the one hand by an empty prison, on the other by a gendarmerie... ...nut beefsteak. Cocoa-nut green, cocoa-nut ripe, cocoa-nut germinated; cocoa-nut to eat and cocoa-nut to drink; cocoa-nut raw and cooked, cocoa-nut hot... ...d the island so deserted that no sound of human life diversified the hours; that we walked in that trim public garden of a town, among closed houses, ... ...r express the least displeasure. An extreme, rather heavy, benignity—the benignity of one sure to be obeyed— marked his demeanour; so that I was at ti...

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...oor little Genevieve Durant, the other the bookseller’s daughter, Clarissa Richardson, who made all the rest fly off. All the others do what good they... ...ly shown. ‘How did you get it? Whose is it?’ ‘It is my own. I bought it at Richardson’s. It is very funny. But you wont tell papa? I never was told no... ...s hands of Genevieve, a mountain of lilac print was folded off by Clarissa Richardson, Lucy was presiding joyously over the various blue, buff, brown,... ...anslation—very well—I wish you would come up and help this afternoon, Miss Richardson is looking so pale and tired that I want to relieve her.’ ‘I can... ...rouble, but you will tell him it is too foolish—you will give him back his billet, and forbid him ever to send another.’ Spite of the confidence about... ...ther quarry company pays no dividends, so how we are to meet the Christmas bills I cannot guess. But, as you remember, we have won over worse times, a... ...hat Mrs. Wolfe told him, he would not take 500 pounds to pay Mr. Gilbert’s bills.’ Albinia had been hearing much the same story from Mrs. Drury, thoug... ... it as of a class migratory, hard to catch, food for powder, given to long bills. There he guessed something, and stood on the defensive, but could no... ...w of, and the man went and became bankrupt, and sent in a great abominable bill that I no more owned, nor had reason to expect than my horse.’ ‘So you...

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...g farmers.’ ‘Pray,’ said the Vicar, with a sound of dismay, ‘where may the bill be? I thought the limits were two pounds eighteen.’ ‘Oh! I take all th... ...stolen, the thief shall fulfil the commissions, and punctually send in the bill to the Rev. W. B. Holdsworth!’ ‘I shall hardly run the risk,’ said Mr,... ...ers he was to sign, and made me quite ashamed of such an exhibition before Richardson.’ ‘I wish I could defend him! And yet—you will think me unreason... ... no heart to finish the drawing.’ ‘What a pity!’ exclaimed Mary. ‘This was Richardson’s veto, two degrees worse than Frampton’s; and I shall never be ... ...ault as yours. That would not have been fair play.’ ‘If I won’t give it to Bill Bettesworth!’ cried Tom. ‘What has he done?’ ‘ Always telling me that ... ... to alter-’you never came, and she at the Terrace wouldn’t look at me! And Bill and the rest of them was al- ways at me, asking when I expected my ari... ...e had consid- ered the matter so much, that he could even have encountered Richardson; and his father was only afraid that what was so plausible must ... .... He has often talked of it with me, and I had mentioned the matter to Mr. Richardson, but he thought your lordship would be averse to doing anything.... ...rt, in his eagerness to impress on him the views of the county on a police-bill in course of preparation for the next session. The other magistrates c...

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...up his mind to be anything but magnificent, so he went up to London and drew bills on his father; and when he had overdrawn, and got into debt, he gre... ...d with waiters anxiously looking for the expected arrivals; and the numerous bills which are wafered up in the windows of private houses, intimating t... ... regretted, as his absence will preclude any discussion on the subject. ‘The bills are being taken down in all directions, and lodg ings are being se... ...is at the very height of his glory are those which are described in the play bills as ‘Cheesemonger’s shop and Crockery warehouse,’ or ‘Tailor’s shop,... ... the gentleman, name unknown, who threw summersets on behalf of the late Mr. Richardson, and who is no authority either, because he had never been on ...

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... for scrupulously restricting our expenditure to that; so, with a standing bill at Mr. Jackson’s, another at Smith’s, and a third at Hobson’s, we got ... ...d stupid, and won’t let me read.’ ‘To whom is she to be married?’ ‘T o Mr. Richardson, the vicar of a neighbouring parish.’ ‘Is he rich?’ ‘No; only co... ...t only be able to bear it, but to be very happy. You did not ask me if Mr. Richardson were a good, wise, or amiable man; I could have answered Yes, to... ...was not in the right way; and as I knew not how to get into it, I sent our Bill to beg Maister Hatfield to be as kind as look in on me some day and wh... ... in on my soul; an’ I felt fair aglow about my heart, an’ only wished poor Bill an’ all the world could ha’ been there, an’ heard it all, and rejoiced... ...s kind as read me a chapter; an’ now she’s helping me with a shirt for our Bill—but I’m feared she’ll be cold there. Won’t you come to th’ fire, Miss?... ...to Horton Lodge, and that our mother should come and live with her and Mr. Richardson at the vicarage: she affirmed that he wished it no less than her... ...rmity made her incapable of maintaining herself. ‘No, Mary,’ said she, ‘if Richardson and you have anything to spare, you must lay it aside for your f...

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... crouches down in expectation of a sale, greedy of profit; which discounts bills, turns over and col- lects all kinds of securities, holds all Paris i... ...the capital for which the others wait; they have the same tailors, but the bills of the latter are still to pay. Next, if the first, like sieves, take... ... of the Nouvelle Heloise. If Rousseau is obviously inspired by the work of Richardson, he departs from it in a thousand details, which leave his achie...

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...y whole employ, besides what engraving I had to do, was to transcribe some bills and accounts, to write several books over fair, and trans- late comme... ...as by no means calculated to please me; such as having projects to digest, bills to write fair, re- ceipts to transcribe, herbs to pick, drugs to poun... ...ntaigu, I ordered this box to be added to his baggage. In the apothecary’s bill he offered me in payment of my salary, and which he wrote out himself,... ... my eye; I broke the seal very lei- surely, and found under the envelope a bill of exchange. I felt a variety of pleasing sensations at the same time:... ...ting cost me! To divert my attention, I endeavored to write with my pencil billets, which I could have written with the purest drops of my blood; I ne... ... anything malicious either in the persons or actions. Diderot complimented Richardson on the prodigious variety of his portraits and the multiplicity ... ...ous variety of his portraits and the multiplicity of his persons. In fact, Richardson has the merit of having well characterized them all; but with re... ... sim- plicity of the subject adds to the beauty of the work, the novels of Richardson, superior in so many other respects, cannot in this be compared ...

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...nd disappeared. In another moment he could not have been harder to find, under that toss- ing sea of life, if its billows had been the Atlantic’s and ... ...ns nor hands to help itself withal. I remember me of a small house that standeth over against the fish-market, by Billingsgate—” A sharp pressure upon... ...anger with brown hair and clothed in a worn and common garb; and surely this prisoner doth answer woundily to the bill. Please your Majesty to give th... ... youth, and asked— “Where is he?” A mocking laugh was his answer. The King was in a rage in a moment; he seized a billet of wood and was in the act of... ...ee minutes the woman said to herself, “Of a truth I was right—he hath holpen in a kitchen!” Then he broadened his bill of fare, and discussed it with ... ...land, the eminent critic, particularly in Greek Lit- erature; Camden, the antiquary; Bishop Stillingfleet; Samuel Richardson, the novelist; Thomas Mit...

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...ur friends for the lower house, in that county. They offer to bet upon it. Billings and Job, respec- tively, have been up here, and were each as I lea... ...inquire what Judge Douglas really invented when he introduced the Nebraska Bill? He called it Popular Sover- eignty. What does that mean? It means the... ...ereignty was floating about several ages before the author of the Nebraska Bill was born— indeed, before Columbus set foot on this continent. In the y... ... fourth day of January, 1854, Judge Douglas introduced the Kansas-Nebraska bill. He initiated a new policy, and that policy, so he says, was to put an... ...ing and agitation. According to Judge Douglas, the passage of the Nebraska bill would tran- quilize the whole country—there would be no more slavery a... ... you waiting at the Quincy House to meet me. A few days after I was there, Richardson, as I understood, started this same story about my having been i...

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...h sordid economy, cost, one with another, eight hundred francs a year. His bills for articles received from Paris, such as perfumery, cravats, jewelry... ...ace. This name (pronounced Loveless) is that of an old English family, but Richardson has given it to a creation whose fame eclipses all others! Miss ...

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...ings that Mistress Phoebe Treforth had come to call on her, and had left a billet. The said billet was secured with floss silk sealed down in the anti... ...eek; and to Aurelia’s greater amazement, she was next requested to write a billet to the Mistresses Treforth in Mr. Belamour’s name, asking them to be... ...” said the waiter. At the same moment there was a knock at the door, and a billet was brought in from Lady Belamour. The Major tore it open and read:—... ... now, as his sister had cut short what he had to say, he had written her a billet. And Loveday held out a perfumed letter. Aurelia’s eyes flashed, and... ... to laugh at it. She would have sat down to reply to it at once, had not a billet been brought in from the widow of one of her father’s old brother of... ... marriage, a month later at Bowstead, there was a certain bookseller named Richardson, who by favour of Hargrave got a view of it, and who is thought ...

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...iately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richardson’ s Dictionary KETOS, GREEK. CETUS, LA TIN. WHOEL, ANGLO-SAXON. H... ...olo between more extensive per- formances. I take it that this part of the bill must have run something like this: “Grand Contested Election for the P... ...this prophet! What a noble thing is that canticle in the fish’s belly! How billow-like and boisterously grand! We feel the floods surging over us; we ... ...belike, one of the missing murderers from Sodom.” Another runs to read the bill that’s stuck against the spile upon the wharf to which the ship is moo... ...taining a description of his person. He reads, and looks from Jonah to the bill; while all his sym- pathetic shipmates now crowd round Jonah, prepared... ...o look out upon the sea. But at that moment he is sprung upon by a panther billow leaping over the bulwarks. Wave after wave thus leaps into the ship,...

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...diately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richardson’s Dictionary. tan, Hebrew. ^ o& , Greek. CETUS, Latin. WHAEL... ... solo between more extensive performances. I take it that this part of the bill must have run something like this: “Grand Contested Election for the P... ... this prophet! What a noble thing is that canticle in the fish’s belly! How billow like and boisterously grand! We feel the floods surging over us; we s... ...belike, one of the missing murderers from Sodom.’ Another runs to read the bill that’s stuck against the spile upon the wharf to which the ship is moo... ...taining a description of his person. He reads, and looks from Jonah to the bill; while all his sympathetic shipmates now crowd round Jonah, prepared t... ...o look out upon the sea. But at that moment he is sprung upon by a panther billow leaping over the bulwarks. Wave after wave thus leaps into the ship,...

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...ady et al. is reversed and remanded with leave to complainant to amend his bill so as to show the real consideration given for the land. Bunce against... ...e to themselves, to speak out, besides all this, one of my colleagues [Mr. Richardson] at a very early day in the session brought in a set of resoluti... ...is the President’s struggle in this case. Sometime after my colleague [Mr. Richardson] intro- duced the resolutions I have mentioned, I introduced a p... ...tee consider the petitioners clearly entitled to relief, and they report a bill accordingly; lest, however, there should be some mistake as to the amo... ...0 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two before the end of the session. Richardson’s resolutions, introduced before I made any move or gave any vot... ... a subject of much consideration; but it is now confidently hoped that the bill herewith submitted effectually obviates all objec- tions which might e... ...The committee, in view of these objections, has been solicitous to frame a bill which would not be obnoxious to them in principle or in practical effe... ...e difficulties have been obviated by the plan proposed in the accompanying bill, and believing that the measure will satisfactorily meet the wants and... ...e Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two aids in his own State, Shields and Richardson, politically speaking, successively tried, convicted, and execut...

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...ship, Family Instructor, and other pieces, has imitated it with success; and Richardson has done the same, in his Pamela, etc. When we drew near the i... ...ee wilt walk with me, I’ll show thee a better.” He brought me to the Crooked Billet in Water street. Here I got a din ner; and, while I was eating it... ...hat The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 50 to do with himself, a crimp’s bill was put into his hand, offering immediate entertainment and encourag... ...hat had been seen in the country; I cut several ornaments and checks for the bills. We went together to Burlington, where I executed the whole to sati... ... by the Assembly a committee to attend the press, and take care that no more bills were printed than the law directed. They were therefore, by turns, ... ... most of the houses in Walnut street, between Second and Front streets, with bills on their doors, “To be let”; and many likewise in Chestnut street a...

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...er bottle. No man ever saw this knocker on the door of a small attorney or bill-broker; they always patronise the other lion; a heavy ferocious-lookin... ...er was in the occupa- tion of a city clerk, and there was a neatly-written bill in the parlour window intimating that lodgings for a single gentleman ... ...m on the same floor was assigned as his sleeping apart- ment by night. The bill had not been long in the window, when a 45 Charles Dickens stout, goo... ...appeared as a candidate for the tenancy. Terms were soon arranged, for the bill was taken down immediately after his first visit. In a day or two the ... ...isposed man, who abhorred gai- ety, and loved retirement. He took down the bill with a light heart, and pictured in imagination a long series of quiet... ...o brightly illuminated with variegated lamps, and pots of burning fat, is ‘Richardson’s,’ where you have a melo- drama (with three murders and a ghost...

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...llamont (then a dashing young sizar at Exeter) had a couple of rounds with Billy Butt, the bow-oar of the Bargee boat. V avasour of Brazenose was enga... ... cuss me if it’s not too much, 21 Burlesques unless you’ll take my little bill at two months, Rafael.” “There’s a sweet pretty brigand’s dress you ma... ...red. The postman hath traversed our camp every day, and never brought me a billet. How is Fatima, Philibert de Coquelicot?” “She is—well,” Philibert r... ...g home that night from Lady Polkimore’s, Mar- tingale found among the many billets upon the gold plateau in his antichambre, the following brief one, ... ...Gigotot, Cranbourne Street, Lester Squarr, London. In this otell there’s a billiard-room on the first floor, and a tabble-doat at eighteenpence peredd... ...nd had run away to England, thinking to better himself, and had joined Mr. Richardson’s army; but Mr. Richardson, and then London, did not agree with ...

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...er bottle. No man ever saw this knocker on the door of a small attorney or bill-broker; they always patronise the other lion; a heavy ferocious-lookin... ...er was in the occupa- tion of a city clerk, and there was a neatly-written bill in the parlour window intimating that lodgings for a single gentleman ... ...m on the same floor was assigned as his sleeping apart- ment by night. The bill had not been long in the window, when a 45 Charles Dickens stout, goo... ...appeared as a candidate for the tenancy. Terms were soon arranged, for the bill was taken down immediately after his first visit. In a day or two the ... ...isposed man, who abhorred gai- ety, and loved retirement. He took down the bill with a light heart, and pictured in imagination a long series of quiet... ...o brightly illuminated with variegated lamps, and pots of burning fat, is ‘Richardson’s,’ where you have a melo- drama (with three murders and a ghost... ...- guished unknown who condescends to play the ‘swell’ in the pantomime at ‘Richardson’s Show. ’ ‘What whiskers!’ said Miss Julia. ‘Charming!’ responde... ... all—plump, clean, and rosy. He looked something like a vignette to one of Richardson’s novels, and had a clean- cravatish formality of manner, and ki... ...ried it off so!’ Mr. Watkins Tottle was proceeding to demonstrate that the Richardsonian principle was the best on which love could possibly be made, ...

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...he man she pointed out. He was a small person, with a pate as shining as a billiard ball, and a pointed beard. He had protruding, brilliant eyes. ‘Has... ...to eat a humble meal with ample room for my elbows.’ Marie brought him the bill of fare, and he looked at it gravely. ‘I will have a vanilla ice, O we... ... who smarted still under Haddo’s insolence. The American sculptor paid his bill si lently. When he was at the door, Haddo stopped him. ‘You have mode... ...c that, after asking me to din ner, he left me in a lordly way to pay the bill. Then I heard nothing of him till the other day, when our friend Miss ... ...ggage office of the Gare du Nord. ‘I hope you didn’t let them go till your bill was paid,’ said Susie lightly, as though in jest. The dressmaker laugh... ...culiar abruptness that made the poor woman look at him in amaze ment. ‘Dr Richardson told me so.’ ‘Had he been attending her?’ ‘Yes, sir. Mr Haddo ha... ... Mr Haddo had called him in several times to see his lady.’ ‘Where does Dr Richardson live?’ ‘Why, sir, he lives at the white house near the station.’... ...e sent for them to the doctor’s door. They went there at once, on foot. Dr Richardson was a little man of five and fifty, with a fair beard that was n... ...ket in his hand. 157 Maugham ‘I’m sorry to have kept you waiting, but Mrs Richardson has got a few lady friends to tea, and I was just in the middle ...

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...here is no evidence but an un- supported fling of that old maid of genius, Richardson. The descriptions both of Sophia and of Amelia are said to have ... ...gister—were popular enough, but offended the Government; and in 1737 a new bill regulating theatrical performances, and instituting the Lord Chamberla... ... be vastly his own superior in genius. We hear something of him again from Richardson; and Richardson hated him with the ha- tred of dissimilar genius... ...or the dog who touzles and worries her. Johnson partly inherited or shared Richardson’s aversion, partly was blinded to Fielding’s genius by his aggre... ...ss generally admitted, not much less indubitable to my mind. The parody of Richardson’s Pamela, which was little more than a year earlier (Nov. 1740),... ...e violence imaginable; upon which a servant attending, he bid him “bring a bill immedi- ately; for that he was in company, for aught he knew, with the... ...ers, are understood as so much buckram, stays, and stay-tape in a taylor’s bill, serving only to make up the sum total, commonly found at the bot- tom... ...n- clination which the parson expressed of returning with him; and now the bill was called for, which, on examination, amounted within a shilling to t... ... have lent him a guinea with very little security. Mr Adams discharged the bill, and they were both setting out, having agreed to ride and tie; a meth...

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...n Ladin’s efforts was ideal. Saudi Ara- bia and the United States supplied billions of dollars worth of secret assistance to rebel groups in Afghanist... ...escribed the relatively low number of fatalities as a miracle. 1 President Bill Clinton ordered his National Security Council to coordinate the respon... ...12 AM Page 85 service, Congress concentrated its efforts on a “passenger bill of rights,” to improve capacity, efficiency, and customer satisfaction... ...ght the FBI might take that role.The father of the OSS was William J.“Wild Bill” Dono- van, a Wall Street lawyer. He recruited into the OSS others lik... ...,Ames had been protected and promoted by fellow officers while he paid his bills by selling to the Soviet Union the names of U.S. operatives and agent... ...he Taliban “despi- cable,” the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, led a del- egation to South Asia—including Afghanistan—in April... ...98. No U .S. official of such rank had been to Kabul in decades.Ambassador Richardson went pri- marily to urge negotiations to end the civil war. In v... ... view of Bin Ladin’s recent public call for all Muslims to kill Americans, Richardson asked the Taliban to expel Bin Ladin.They answered that they did... ...General, 1993–2001 Condoleezza Rice National Security Advisor, 2001– Bill Richardson Ambassador to the United Nations, 1997–1998 Thomas Ridge First ...

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...possessed every qualifica- tion. Personable and of a good figure, a clever billiard-player, a passable amateur actor, he danced well, and excelled in ... ...rd, printer to His Majesty in Angouleme, with my name at the bottom of the bills posted on every wall. For people of that class, I am an artisan, or I... ...ho seem more really alive to us than men and women who have lived and died—Richardson’s Clarissa, Chenier’s Camille, the Delia of Tibullus, Ariosto’s ... ...id, “but only for six months; and even then he wants you to let him have a bill endorsed by your brother-in-law, for he says that you are giving him n... ...ma, dear,” said David, “just tell M. Postel that I will put my name to the bill, for I can tell from your face, Lucien, that you have quite made up yo... ...Postel,” said Mme. Chardon, “for you must both give your signatures to the bill.” When Lucien and David came back again unexpectedly, they found Eve a...

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...ings and conduct on the occasion were candid and liberal. He requested Mr. Richardson, son of the painter, to endeavour to find out who this new autho... ...son of the painter, to endeavour to find out who this new authour was. Mr. Richardson, after some inquiry, having informed him that he had dis- covere... ...is Lordship by Sir Joshua Reynolds, to whom it was given by the son of Mr. Richardson the painter, the per- son to whom it is addressed. I have transc... ...ritten on a slip no larger than a common message-card, and was sent to Mr. Richardson, along with the Imita- tion of Juvenal. ‘This is imitated by one... ...id not stay long, but walked down to the Thames, took a boat, and rowed to Billingsgate. Beauclerk and Johnson were so well pleased with their amuseme... ...ll that he has to get knowledge.’ We landed at the Old Swan, and walked to Billingsgate, where we took oars, and moved smoothly along the silver Thame... ...errogated on the subject, my read- ers may perhaps be desirous to know our bill of fare. Foote, I remember, in allusion to Francis, the negro, was wil... ...en physician there. He was in great indignation because Lord Mountstuart’s bill for a Scotch militia had been lost. Dr. Johnson was as violent against... ...of it.) Wilkes. ‘I have been thinking, Dr. Johnson, that there should be a bill brought into parliament that the controverted elections for Scotland s...

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...of an ornamental coloring. But when downright business occurred, exchequer bills to be sold, meetings to be arranged, negotiations confided, difficult... ... can no more be improved by committing it to a Phidias, than a common shop-bill could be improved in its arithmetic by Sir Isaac Newton. But in litera... ...ne, 1733, being then ninety- three years old. Three days after, writing to Richardson the painter, for the purpose of urging him to come down and take... ... misleading as of perplexing the general reader. Until Lord Macclesfield’s bill for altering the style in the very middle of the eighteenth century, s... ...nner. In particular, the table of contents was drawn up like a short- hand bill of parcels. By accident the book lay open at a part of this table, whe... .... Had he been called to face great afflictions, singular temptations, or a billowy and agitated course of life, our belief is that his nature would ha...

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... common magpie. Their flight is undulatory, for the weight of the head and bill appears too great for the body. In the evening the Saurophagus takes i... ...moreover, quarrelsome and very passionate; tearing up the grass with their bills from rage. They are not truly gregarious; they do not soar, and their... ... extreme North? *See Zoological Remarks to Capt. Back’s Expedition, by Dr. Richardson. He says, “The subsoil north of latitude 56 degs. is perpetually... ...ea of a snipe. The sportsmen of the Beagle unanimously called it the short-billed snipe. To this genus, or rather to the family of the Waders, its ske... ...e; and they particularly dislike dry meat, such as that of the Agouti. Dr. Richardson* also, has re- marked, “that when people have fed for a long tim... ...he geographical division followed by Lichtenstein, Swainson, Erichson, and Richardson. The section from Vera Cruz to Acapulco, given by Humboldt in th... .... Spain will show how immense a barrier the Mexican table- land forms. Dr. Richardson, in his admirable Report on the Zool- ogy of N. America read bef... ...y backwards and forwards close to the surface of the lake. They kept their bills wide open, and the lower mandible half buried in the water. Thus skim... ...h, which are secured by the up- per and shorter half of their scissor-like bills. This fact I repeatedly saw, as, like swallows, they continued to fly...

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...pon the waves, with his head under his wing; now rising on the top of a huge billow, and then falling slowly until he was lost in the hollow between. ... ... the water, and we observed that they had on thick woolen caps. ‘‘Look here, Bill, and see what you’re coming to!’’ said one of our men to another who... ...s the seventh city that ever I was in, and no Christian one neither,’’ said Bill Brown. - 30 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana ‘‘Stand ... ...nces, but whom, for some reason or other, we never forget. He called himself Bill Jackson; and I know no one of all my accidental acquaintances to w... ...t was now the close of Lent, and on Good Friday she had all her yards a’cock bill, which is customary among Catholic vessels. Some also have an effig... ...California before 1853. What moderns they are! I tell them of the time when Richardson’s shanty of 1835—not his adobe house of 1836—was the only huma... ...yet I am but little past forty years of age. They point out the place where Richardson’s adobe house stood, and tell me that the first court and firs...

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...the northeast angle, and flowing between Bedford and Carlisle, and through Billerica, emp ties into the Merrimack at Lowell. In Concord it is, in sum... ...ows freshly in a raw March day, heaving up the surface into dark and sober billows or regular swells, skirted as it is in the distance with alder swam... ... On Ponkawtasset, since, we took our way, Down this still stream to far Billericay, A poet wise has settled, whose fine ray Doth often shine ... ...re used as food and as ma nure, until the dam, and afterward the canal at Billerica, and the factories at Lowell, put an end to their migrations hith... ...and pass their summers elsewhere, meanwhile, nature will have levelled the Billerica dam, and the Lowell factories, and the Grass ground River run cle... ...n that travelled with teams on the Sabbath, Dec. 18th, 1803, were Jeremiah Richardson and 49 HenryDavidThoreau Jonas Parker, both of Shirley. They ha... ...ing such as is used to carry barrels, and they were travelling west ward. Richardson was questioned by the Hon. Ephraim Wood, Esq., and he said that ...

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...tenants concurred in a determination to appeal to the Court of Chancery. A bill of complaint was accordingly presented to the Court, stating their sup... ...d Mr. Yonge had a Sunday school there. The riots at the time of the Reform Bill did not greatly affect the two parishes, though a few villagers joined... ...n their visits to England; and the young son of the last-men- tioned, John Richardson Selwyn, when left in England for education, often happily spent ... ...gate of the wood is a patch of the rare Geranium Phaeun, the dusky crane’s-bill, but whether wild, or a stray from a disused gar- den, is doubtful. Af... ... sprung up the dainty little yellow stonecrop, Sedum acre, and the Stork’s bill, Erodium moschatum. These are plentifully spread over the cutting; but... ...oach of an enemy, darts the “ousel cock so black of hue, with orange-tawny bill.” How dull a lawn would be without his pert movements when he comes do...

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...f there’s any pudding owing to me, that little chorister fel- low of ours, Bill Blake, has got a lot of voracious brothers that want anything that’s g... ...er how naughty Harry was about climbing the wall, and making faces at Mrs. Richardson’s servants?” “ And how ill I behaved the first day of last Chris... ...with threats that he had treated them all, and was liable to pay the whole bill, which, of course, he firmly be- lieved, as well as that he should be ... ...ll you have told my father the whole.” “Do you think they will send in the bill to my father?” asked Tom, in alarm. “No, indeed! that is the last thin... ...y that bubbles used to fly over the wall, and that one once went into Mrs. Richardson’s garret window, when her housemaid tried to catch it with a pai... ... lips can uphold it, it should rise, indeed! Up! above the wall! over Mrs. Richardson’s elm, over the topmost branch—hurrah! out of sight! Margaret ad... ...s, Such chirping, such whistling, such clearing of throats, Such polishing bills, and such oiling of pinions, Had never been known in the biped domini... ...esitatingly answered that he did. “Then, maybe, sir, you have heard of one Bill Jennings.” Hector was all in one flush, almost choking, as he told tha...

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...disinterested observer that he greatly loves and admires his Card, as that Richardson ad- mired his Sir Charles Grandison, or that Mrs. Humphry Ward c... ...ers, and the people who wouldn’t read novels under any condition whatever. Richardson wrote de- liberately for edification, and “T om Jones” is a powe... ...ause individuality tells more and more. Could you take men by the thousand billion, you could generalise about them as you do about atoms; could you t... ...c mind so displayed in action fascinates me. It is like watching a game of billiards with wooden cushes and beechwood balls. S S S S Sec. 2 ec. 2 ec. ... ... of the public inter- est in order to secure the passing of these definite bills. But Mr. Ramsay Macdonald is exclusively a parliamentary man; he know... ... arrogance, ... The field of Ameri- can life is as bare of the Church as a billiard- table of a centre-piece; a truth that the myriad little structure...

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... former period was spent in Maysville, Kentucky, at- tending the school of Richardson and Rand; the latter in Ripley, Ohio, at a private school. I was... ...o believe it—but I cast no 9 U. S. Grant reflections upon my old teacher, Richardson. He turned out bright scholars from his school, many of whom hav... ...uct. Early in the session of the Congress which met in Decem- ber, 1839, a bill was discussed abolishing the Military Acad- emy. I saw in this an hono... ...ience at the delay in taking action, for I was selfish enough to favor the bill. It never passed, and a year later, although the time hung drearily wi... ...delightful. Near the close of the short session of Congress of 1844-5, the bill for the annexation of T exas to the United States was passed. It reach... ...ongress for the raising of the troops asked for by the ad- ministration. A bill was before the National Legislature from early in the session of 1846-... ...article separately, as he got it. He would not trust any one to add up the bill and pay it all at once. At that day fifty dollar gold pieces, not the ... ...n. Ross’s Battery. Patterson’s Battery. Irwin Artillery. Richardson’s Battalion. Lewis Artillery. Donaldsonville Artillery...

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...rness on its way to the Provinces, we noticed a large, flaming, Oak Hall hand bill, about two feet long, wrapped round the trunk of a pine, from which ... .... The St. Francis Indian accordingly asked my companion for a wig higgin, or bill, to show, since he was a foreigner. He lived near Sorel. I found tha... ...an any of our pines, but he did not find it any where more than 10 feet high. Richardson found it forty feet high and upward, and states that the porcu... ...ylandica (Maryland yellow throat), every where. Coccyzus Americanus? (yellow billed cuckoo), common. Picus erythrocephalus (red headed woodpecker), he... ...emena, tree cranberry. Ibimin, nar, red, bad fruit. Rale. g Joe Wighiggin, a bill or writing, aouixigan, “Livre, lettre, peinture, ecriture. ” Rale. g...

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...s; but Mr. Birch informs me that pigeons 33 Charles Darwin are given in a bill of fare in the previous dynasty. In the time of the Romans, as we hear... ...imals with their tails only slightly flattened, and from others, as Sir J. Richardson has remarked, with the posterior part of their bodies rather wid... ... Great Britain, its antipode, than to any other part of the world.’ Sir J. Richardson, also, speaks of the re- appearance on the shores of New Zealand... ...law of inheritance Rhododendron, sterility of Richard, Prof., on Aspicarpa Richardson, Sir J., on structure of squirrels; on fishes of the southern he...

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...aw “How do you young ladies amuse yourselves in the coun- try? Do you play billiards ever?” “No,” said Alice, indignantly. The question, she thought, ... ...by the imputation of bragging, and certain that slang was vulgar, whatever billiards might be, bore her- self still more loftily, and resolved to snub... ...claimed Cashel, standing aside and pointing to him. “It’s like pocketing a billiard-ball!” A chatter of surprise, amusement, and remonstrance spread ... ...ck or no luck, because no one can match me. Even now there’s nobody except Bill Paradise that pretends to be able for me; and I’ll settle him in Septe... ...ition with the part; but he was afraid that they would remind Londoners of Richardson’s show, and get Faulconbridge laughed at. Then he thought of Ade... ... “Well, we’ll see.” “We’ll see! I tell you I’ve seed for myself. I’ve seed Billy Paradise spar; and it ain’t fighting, it’s ruffianing: that’s what it...