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

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

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...son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis,... ...ught down to my last shillings, my companion a condemned traitor, a price set on my own head for a crime with the news of which the country rang. T o-... ...er was within, I had scarce breath enough to send my porter packing. “Awa’ east and west wi’ ye!” said I, took the money bag out of his hands, and fol... ...and then tell me ye’re a Whig! I have no mind of any such Whigs before, though I’ve kent plenty of them.” “He’s a forfeited rebel, the more’s the pity... ...e sound in Kirk and State. Who saved them in that fatal year? I do not refer to His Royal Highness and his ramrods, which were extremely useful in the... ... of a the- atre or (in my then disposition) of an assize of trial; above all at the West Kirk, with its three tiers of galleries, where I went in the ... ...ng afterwards that she had despatched a horseman by day- light to Rankeillor at the Queensferry, whom she knew to be the doer for Shaws, and had then ... ...n Holland. Now, what say you, Alan? Could not 84 Robert Louis Stevenson a cadet of Royal Ecossais get a furlough, slip over the marches, and call in ... ...t moving, though often not much more; and it was after dark ere we were up with the Queensferry. To keep the letter of Andie’s engagement (or what was...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ...d to trust for their protection, during the dangers of the times, to their own inoffensive con- duct, and to the laws of the land. A circumstance whic... ...athers, even as proprietors of the second, or of yet inferior classes. The royal policy had long been to weaken, by every means, legal or illegal, the... ...f that wild and rustic character, which belonged to the wood- lands of the West-Riding of Yorkshire at that early period. The eldest of these men had ... ...hese sloughs, would be an act of unfriendship to my sover- eign person and royal wardrobe; wherefore, Gurth, I advise thee to call off Fangs, and leav... ...ded the outer and inner bank of the trench. There was an entrance from the west through the outer stockade, which communicated by a drawbridge, with a... ...aint Winifred, Saint Swibert, Saint Willick, not forgetting Saint Thomas a Kent, and my own poor merits to speed, I defy every devil of them, come cut... ...by transferred the Holy Clerk’s resentment to himself. “By Saint Thomas of Kent,” said he, “an I buckle to my gear, I will teach thee, sir lazy lover,... ...wful authority was contemned in Scotland, in hope of the sudden return and regiment of that cruel murderer of her awin husband, of whose lords the sai...

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...his docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ...s Mary Griffith, belonged to a naval family. Her father had been lost in a West Indian hurricane at sea, and her uncle, Admiral Sir John Griffith, was... ...e, and sturdy, that he was a boy to be proud of, and a perfect king in his own way, making every one do as he pleased. All the maids, and Peter the fo... ...he other day in my mother’s desk, folded over the case of the medal of the Royal Humane Soci- ety, which Griff affected to despise, but which, when he... ...air property, and he would hardly consent to take Griffith with him by the West- ern Royal Mail, warning him and all the rest of us that our expectati... ...ty, and he would hardly consent to take Griffith with him by the West- ern Royal Mail, warning him and all the rest of us that our expectations would ... ...uch of a season that year, owing to the illness and death of George IV . A regiment containing two old schoolmates of his was at Bristol, and he spent... ...page before her, full of the jingling recurring rhymes about Sir Thomas of Kent; but I saw Ellen surreptitiously wipe away a tear, and from that time ... ...talking for some days past of riding over to see his friend in the cavalry regiment there stationed, and we all agreed that it was most likely that he...

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... this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty ... ...me, a petty inci- dent; and a huge migration of peoples between Europe and Western Asia and America was in Progress, and—nobody seems to have realised... ...h some Danish ham, or eat a New Zealand chop, wind up his breakfast with a West Indian banana, glance at the latest telegrams from all the world, scru... ...pared humanity; it seemed as though human society was to be smashed by its own magnificent gains. For there had been no foresight of these things. The... ...sel of the day argued and shouted over a miser- able little matter of more royalties or less and whether the Dass-Tata company might not bar the Holst... ...Channel T unnel there were enthusiastic spectators, and the feeling in the regiment, if a little stiff- ened and darkened by grim anticipations, was n... ...ense,’ said the king, as Firmin prepared to speak. ‘I am going to fling my royalty and empire on the table—and declare at once I don’t mean to haggle.... ...e roadside, who had been hung for steal- ing swedes. The labour refuges of Kent, he discovered, were feeding their crowds of casual wanderers on bread... ...re fighting duels over the praises of women and holding tournaments before Queens of Beauty.’ ‘I saw a beautiful girl in Lahore,’ said Kahn, ‘she sat ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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