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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

... countenance of his mur- derer elect a warning summons to place himself on guard. However, in the present ease, his destined victim was sup- posed to ... ...m now in the slow process of superseding it is, ‘my employer.’ Now, in the United States, such an expres- sion of democratic hauteur, though disagreea... ...n the slow process of superseding it is, ‘my employer.’ Now, in the United States, such an expres- sion of democratic hauteur, though disagreeable as ... ...f sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; and may ev... ...oard (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; and may even die ... ...on is, that he must have been a Cretan railroad, called The Great Circular Coast-Line, that carried my lords the judges on their circuits of jail-deli... ...ot bearing the technical name of theatre) were included. All these must be united to compose a build- ing such as that which received the vast audienc... ...our own.’ Johnson we may suppose, is some old ruffian well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notion... ...1 On which account, I am the more struck by the ignoble argument of those statesmen who have contended in the House of Commons that such and such cla...

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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And the Heroic in History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...th and strength of a man. Nature had as yet no name to him; he had not yet united under a name the infinite variety of sights, sounds, shapes and mo- ... ...ns there were: and this, of course, in a greater proportion along the east coast; and greatest of all, as I find, in the North Country. From the Humbe... ...ty of Atahualpa the Peruvian King; how he made the Spanish Soldier who was guarding him scratch Dios on his thumb-nail, that he might try the next sol... ... when he sees him! The Valet expected purple mantles, gilt sceptres, body- guards and flourishes of trumpets: the Sceptic of the Eigh- teenth century ... ...it not, in its own dialect, the noblest that could enter into the heart of Statesman or man? For a Knox to take it up was something; but for a Cromwel... ...hypocrites,” seems to me a rather sorry business. We have had but one such States- man in England; one man, that I can get sight of, who ever had in t... ...hopeless problem, “Given a world of Knaves, to educe an Honesty from their united action;”— how cumbrous a problem, you may see in Chancery Law- Court...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

... to know about him first. The second name on the list is Alexander Artemis, a United States Senator. His picture, conveniently enough, was all over ... ...w about him first. The second name on the list is Alexander Artemis, a United States Senator. His picture, conveniently enough, was all over the fro... ...e me what I have always dreamed of, but never imagined possible. To go to the United States is more than a dream come true.” Antonio fell to his knee... ...at I have always dreamed of, but never imagined possible. To go to the United States is more than a dream come true.” Antonio fell to his knees. “I a... ...he Vatican, he had one last meeting with the Pope. He was told to meet with a United States Senator by the name of Alexander Artemis and to give him ... ...can, he had one last meeting with the Pope. He was told to meet with a United States Senator by the name of Alexander Artemis and to give him a mess... ... were running around the barrio with wet diapers, I made a deal with the west coast Mafia Families. The only condition was that I never divulge our ... ...o the states." "With a limited supply of drugs, what will happen on the East coast? The 196 J.Cross/Artemis Russians and the Puerto Ricans wil... ...let's have suggestions?" The suggestions came fast and furious: Bring in the Coast Guard. Triple the Border Patrol. Put our elite terrorist forces ...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

.............................................................. 76 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ............................................................... ... with the whole pomp of astonished intoxicated France, will be opening the States- General. Dubarrydom and its D’Aiguillons are gone forever. There is... ...gth, one day, of proposing to convoke a ‘National Assembly.’ “You de- mand States-General?” asked Monseigneur with an air of mi- natory surprise.—”Yes... ...c Oath, of the One- 70 The French Revolution and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new- idea, which, in these coming years, shall ... ...entation,’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,... ...hiffonne, without bloodshed; restores the pave- ment of Arles. He sails in Coast-barks, this Rebecqui, scrutinis- ing suspicious Martello-towers, with... ...elf aiding from within: the railing gives way; Majesty and Legislative are united in place, unknown Destiny hovering over both. Rattle, and again ratt... ...f Provence;’ he is one. The reckless, shipwrecked man: flung ashore on the coast of the Maldives long ago, while sailing and soldiering as Indian Figh... ...main, it were madness to think: well, if you can get to Quimper on the sea-coast, and take shipping there. Faster, ever faster! Before the end of the ...

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Paradise Lost

By: John Milton

...rightnes didst outshine Myriads though bright: If he whom mutual league, United thoughts and counsels, equal hope, And hazard in the Glorious En... ...edge Afloat, when with fierce Winds ORION arm’d 305 Hath vext the Red-Sea Coast, whose waves orethrew BUSIRIS and his MEMPHIAN Chivalrie, While... ...As when the potent Rod Of AMRAMS Son in EGYPTS evill day Wav’d round the Coast, up call’d a pitchy cloud 340 Of LOCUSTS, warping on the Eastern W... ...wnward Fish: yet had his Temple high Rear’d in AZOTUS, dreaded through the Coast Of PALESTINE, in GATH and ASCALON, 465 And ACCARON and GAZA’s fr... ...r and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds. Thus they Breathing united force with fixed thought 560 Mov’d on in silence to soft Pipes th... ...from the Depth Of knowledge past or present, could have fear’d, How such united force of Gods, how such As stood like these, could ever know rep... ...s 385 His glory to augment. The bold design Pleas’d highly those infernal States, and joy Sparkl’d in all thir eyes; with full assent They vote... ...fate withstands, and to oppose th’ attempt 610 MEDUSA with GORGONIAN terror guards The Ford, and of it self the water flies All taste of living w... ...e ARIMASPIAN, who by stelth 945 Had from his wakeful custody purloind The guarded Gold: So eagerly the fiend Ore bog or steep, through strait, ro...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...upposed to act upon the poor shipwrecked seaman, alone and upon a desolate coast, straining his sight for ever to the fickle ele- ment which has betra... ...d her ship, in particular, after doubling Cape Horn without loss, made the coast of Peru. Paita was the port of her destination. Very near to this por... ...s Spanish Majesty round Cape Horn, fighting with storms and sharks off the coast of Peru, and now commencing as book-keeper or commis to a draper at P... ...or two hundred and twenty years. It is enough that she is reported to have united the stately tread of Andalusian women with the innocent voluptuousne... ...; and the French reporter of Catalina’s memoirs dwells upon the theme. She united, he says, the sweetness of the German lady with the energy of the Ar... ... for reclaiming them, or for chastising their revolt. Both conditions were united obviously in the person of Kien Long, the reigning Emperor of China,... ...of this paper have been translated by the Jesuit missionaries. The Emperor states the whole motives of his conduct and the chief incidents at great le... ...s ogy, when men talk of substances in different stages, or of transitional states, they do not mean that they have watched the same individual stratum... ...at they have watched the same individual stratum or phenomenon, exhibiting states removed from each other by depths of many thousand years; how could ...

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Celt and Saxon

By: George Meredith

...nd we’re mixed up, ’tis true, well or ill; and we’re stronger, both of us, united than tearing to strips: and so, there, for the past! so long as we c... ...ending English lady contrasted with her husband so signally that the oddly united couple appeared yoked in a common harness for a perpetual display of... ...is; or there he seems to be; but he’s dead: and the fisherman off the west coast after dreaming of a magical haul, gets more fish than disappointment ... ... go to the window to see if the stars are out overhead. They’re my blessed guardian angels.’ 64 Celt and Saxon There was a pause. Philip broke from a... ...kets, I never saw out of a doll-shop, and never saw there. And their Horse Guards, weedy to a man! fit for a doll-shop they are, by my faith! And thei... ...is own colonel; he pretended to think inde- pendently, and tried to be the statesman of a leading article, and showed his intention to stem the curren... ...yond an allusion to an accident to John Mattock’s yacht off the Irish west-coast last autumn; but the Irishmen were subjected to some remarks by the E... ...the Cambrian Celt: names of Welshmen are numerous in the small army of the States of the Union; and where men take soldier-service they are usually fi... ...48 Celt and Saxon ‘It’s for a walk in the wind up Caer Gybi, and along the coast I mean to go,’ said Kathleen. ‘This morning?’ the captain asked her. ...

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The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices : No Thoroughfare ; The Perils of Certain English Prisoners

By: Charles Dickens

...t shorter, eyes got shrewder and harder; yet all so quickly, that the spruce guard in the London uni form and silver lace, had not yet rumpled his sh... ...evolent, elderly gentleman of the last cen tury, with a powdered head, kept guard, in oil and var nish, over a most perplexing piece of furniture on... ...formed (another idle inspiration), of con veying the said Thomas to the sea coast, and putting his injured leg under a stream of salt water. Plunging... ...the county map, and ardently discovered that the most delicious piece of sea coast to be found within the limits of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales,... ...f Man, and the Chan nel Islands, all summed up together, was Allonby on the coast of Cumberland. There was the coast of Scot land opposite to Allonb... ...er and its dry patches, changed into long bars of silver and gold in various states of burnishing, and there were fine views—on fine days—of the Scott... ...e was recaptured by the town council, or is bolting at this hour through the United Kingdom, they know not. They hope he may be still bolting; if so, ... ...ave it. ‘But, lo! Before he got it, she cheated him. In one of her imperious states, she froze, and never thawed again. She put her hands to her head ... ...o whom the property passed absolutely, and appointing himself the daughter’s Guardian. When He slid it under the pillow of the bed on which she lay, H...

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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends ; Selected and Edited with Notes and Introd. By Sidney Colvin : Volume 1

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...eave the pavement every step. To the south, however, is as fine a piece of coast scenery as I ever saw. Great black chasms, huge black cliffs, rug- ge... ...eep. MONDAY NIGHT. – The drums and fifes up in the Castle are sounding the guard-call through the dark, and there is a great rattle of carriages witho... ...hich you have heard already. After lunch, my father and I went down to the coast and walked a little way along the shore between Granton and Cramond. ... ...a very favourite walk. The Firth closes gradually together before you, the coast runs in a series of the most beautifully moulded bays, hill after hil... ...n change it. Y our anger I defy. Y our unmanly refer- ence to a well-known statesman I puff from me, sir, like so much vapour. Weg is your name; Weg. ... ...ile Club to this; I sleep with a man from Pennsylvania who has been in the States 110 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Navy, and mess with him... ...ut with the bear flag and under Fremont when Cali- fornia was taken by the States. They are both true fron- tiersmen, and most kind and pleasant. Capt... ...ad it nearly all over again; you have no rivals! Bancroft’s History of the United States, even in a cente- nary edition, is essentially heavy fare; a ... ...long-shore story. As for the two members which you thought at first so ill-united; I confess they seem per- fectly so to me. I have chosen to sacrific...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

...sa- tion. Mr Dombey would be delighted to leave Florence in such admirable guardianship. ‘My dear Dombey ,’ returned Cleopatra, ‘a thousand thanks for... ...e better alone. Besides, my dearest Edith will be her natural and constant guardian when you return, and I had better not en- croach upon her trust, p... ... dead body was to be seen upon the floating fragments. Log of the Defiance states, that a breeze springing up in the night, the wreck was seen no more... ... her emotions of happiness, arising in the contemplation of her dear child united to the man of her heart, but who, there is reason to suppose, found ... ... now: and some very undesirable association, I regret to say, with certain coasting sailors, of anything but good repute, and a runaway old bankrupt.’... ...ereft of Mr Dombey’ s countenance—for no deli- cate pair of wedding cards, united by a silver thread, graced the chimney-glass in Princess’s Place, or... ...lligence of the arrival of the Cautious Clara, Captain John Bunsby, from a coasting voy- age; and to that philosopher immediately dispatched a letter ... ...nt of Solomon Gills.’ ‘Letter for Ned Cuttle.’ Bunsby, with his eye on the coast of Greenland, seemed to listen for the contents. The Captain therefor... ...they were on the board, and fell to with the assistance of Diogenes, whose united efforts quickly dispatched the banquet. The Captain’s delight and wo...

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Confidence

By: Henry James

...tical attitude, and he did everything he could think of to put her off her guard and persuade her that for the moment he had ceased to be an observer.... ...the reflection that he had really succeeded in putting Miss Vivian off her guard. How he had done so he would have found it difficult to explain, inas... ...y; come home and see.” Bernard went home, but he was not able to reach the United States in time for Gordon’s wedding, which took place at midsummer. ... ... home and see.” Bernard went home, but he was not able to reach the United States in time for Gordon’s wedding, which took place at midsummer. Bernard... ...fidence less of a talker than of yore. Doubtless, when a man finds himself united to a garrulous wife, he naturally learns to hold his tongue; but som... ...t arrived in New York, and who, as he added, had long desired to visit the United States. Bernard merely witnessed his arrival, and was struck with th... ...ed in New York, and who, as he added, had long desired to visit the United States. Bernard merely witnessed his arrival, and was struck with the fact ... ...a caleche, with his lug- gage, and bade its proprietor drive him along the coast. Once he had begun to rumble through this charming land- scape, he wa... ...- low of the cliffs, so many of which, of late years, all along the Norman coast, have adorned themselves with a couple of hotels and a row of bathing...

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Dieselpunk Epulp Showcase : Volume 1

By: John W. Picha; Grant Gardiner

...eren’t that.” “It was too. And everyone knows it. Bankers got greedy, they sold Louisiana back to the French and that’s why the Grand Dream of the United States of America is now just a footnote in history.” Mickey thought about this for some time before shaking his head. “Nah, that ain’t it. That don’t explain half the crazy things that have happened.” Mack growl...

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Captain Brassbound's Conversion

By: George Bernard Shaw

... On the heights overlooking the harbor of Mogador, a sea- port on the west coast of Morocco, the missionary, in the coolness of the late afternoon, is... ...w from the garden includes much Atlantic Ocean and a long stretch of sandy coast to the south, swept by the north east trade wind, and scantily nouris... ...honetic alphabet. He is dressed in some- body else’s very second best as a coast-guardsman, and gives himself the airs of a stage tar with sufficient ... ...n Hamlin Kearney, of the cruiser Santiago, presents the compliments of the United States to the Cadi Muley Othman el Kintafi, and announces that he is... ...n Kearney, of the cruiser Santiago, presents the compliments of the United States to the Cadi Muley Othman el Kintafi, and announces that he is coming... ...r at a later stage. Captain Brassbound: the position is this. My ship, the United States cruiser Santiago, was spoken off Mogador latest Thursday by t... ...later stage. Captain Brassbound: the position is this. My ship, the United States cruiser Santiago, was spoken off Mogador latest Thursday by the yach... ...d repeat the language of two angry men? KEARNEY (rising impressively). The United States navy will have no hahnd in offering any violence to the pure ... ...t the language of two angry men? KEARNEY (rising impressively). The United States navy will have no hahnd in offering any violence to the pure instinc...

...Excerpt: ACT I. On the heights overlooking the harbor of Mogador, a seaport on the west coast of Morocco, the missionary, in the coolness of the late afternoon, is following the precept of Voltaire by cultivating his garden. He is an elderly Scotchman, spiritually a little weather beaten, as having to navigate h...

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Best of Four

By: David Retz

... Bush believes it’s the nation’s next biggest oil find and will enable the United States to stop depending so much on foreign imports from the Middle ... ...elieves it’s the nation’s next biggest oil find and will enable the United States to stop depending so much on foreign imports from the Middle East (B... ...idency of Decisions for the Futrue 8 Joseph M. Schifano Besto of Four the United States, “The Arctic Plain will be spared from the greedy hands of oi... ...of Decisions for the Futrue 8 Joseph M. Schifano Besto of Four the United States, “The Arctic Plain will be spared from the greedy hands of oil compa... ...hin fifty miles around, and the landscape is just so big and amazing,” she states (Behr 19). With so much of Alaska’s coast already cleared for oil de... ...s just so big and amazing,” she states (Behr 19). With so much of Alaska’s coast already cleared for oil de- velopment, why can’t this one piece be sa... ...ne piece be saved? I believe that if Al Gore is elected presi- dent of the United States, America will be- come a safer and cleaner country. The ques-... ... first day, I found out it was like a prison. The high school had security guards everywhere. They had a guard in every bathroom. They had at least th... ...ds everywhere. They had a guard in every bathroom. They had at least three guards in the cafeteria at all times, and they always had two guards patrol...

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The History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

By: Friedrich Schiller

...tavus Adolphus. — Swedish Army. — Gustavus Adolphus takes his leave of the States at Stockholm. — Invasion by the Swedes. — Their progress in Germany.... ...by their adhesion, it on the other was indispens- able to their interests. States which hitherto scarcely concerned themselves with one another’s exis... ...hrough the Ref- ormation an attractive centre of interest, and began to be united by new political sympathies. And as through its influence new relati... ...een citizen and citizen, and be- tween rulers and subjects, so also entire states were forced by it into new relative positions. Thus, by a strange co... ...f Bohemia to the mouth of the Scheldt, and from the banks of the Po to the coasts of the Baltic, devastated whole countries, destroyed harvests, and r... ...n of the tenth and the twentieth penny, the See of Rome had never lost the United Netherlands. Princes fought in self-defence or for aggrandizement, w... ...y exertions against the ambition of Austria, or the States themselves have united so closely against the common enemy. The power of Austria never stoo... ...cellent harbour, and the short passage from it to the Swedish and Dan- ish coasts, peculiarly fitted it for a naval station in a war with these powers... ...rs’ War thing would be gained. The sea is wide, and we have a long line of coast in Sweden to defend. If the enemy’s fleet should escape us, or our ow...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...r author, in which Sen- timent and History, or the True and Beautiful, are united. CHAPTER XXIV BUTTON’S IN PALL MALL. THOSE WHO FREQUENT the dismal a... ...g waits.” The Bishop ran off, with more than youthful agility, to seek the United States’ Minister. “These Republi- cans,” he added, confidentially, a... ....” The Bishop ran off, with more than youthful agility, to seek the United States’ Minister. “These Republi- cans,” he added, confidentially, and with... ...he Ca- cique with him.” In fact, as the monarch spoke, the Minister of the United States made his appearance, followed by a gigantic warrior in the ga... ...cique with him.” In fact, as the monarch spoke, the Minister of the United States made his appearance, followed by a gigantic warrior in the garb of h... ...Ben Franklin; but all other things must yield to the service of the United States of North America. I have done. What would you, Sire?” and the intrep... ... his intrepid crew made re- peated descents upon the enemy’s seaboard. The coasts of Rutland and merry Leicestershire have still many a legend of fear... ...e suckemstanses the Great Hafrican Line, the Grand Niger Junction, or Gold Coast and Timbuctoo (Provishnal) Hatmospheric Railway came out four weeks a... ...shing with delightful agitation,—and presently seeing, as she thought, the coast clear, she entered the apartment. She stooped down, and ah! what was ...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

...rdest things, 42 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 Can pocket states, can fetch or carry kings; A single leaf shall waft an army o’er, Or... ...n knights and squires confound, Or water all the quorum ten miles round? A statesman’s slumbers how this speech would spoil! ‘Sir, Spain has sent a th... ...l; and avarice creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun, Statesman and patriot ply alike the stocks, Peeress and butler share alike ... ...e sinking heart? Where’er he shines, O Fortune! gild the scene, And angels guard him in the golden mean! There, English bounty yet awhile may stand, A... ...towns dispeopled, and the wandering ghosts Of kings unburied in the wasted coasts; When Dirce’s fountain blush’d with Grecian blood, And Thetis, near ... ...rnal pain; Thou, sable Styx! whose livid streams are roll’d Through dreary coasts, which I though blind behold; Tisiphone! that oft hast heard my pray... ...oft slumbers seals the wakeful eye; That drives the dead to dark Tartarean coasts, Or back to life compels the wandering ghosts. Thus through the part... ...d for wit! See under Ripley rise a new Whitehall, While Jones’ and Boyle’s united labours fall; 379 While Wren with sorrow to the grave descends, 229... ... Button’s, and a justice of the peace.’—P . 379 ‘While Jones’ and Boyle’s united labours fall:’ at the time when this poem was written, the banquetin...

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Best of Freshman Writing

By: Suzanne Harper

... we were once weak and divided. But when faced with injustice, the country united, fighting against all odds for the sake of peace and prosperity . Lu... ...was unheard of in Shakespeare’s time according to Roland Muschat Frye, who states, “This evil con- sists in Lady Macbeth’s usurping, as a wife, that c... ... first scene in the play depicts her abandoning her humanity, in which she states, “unsex me here” (1.5. 48); yet even upon the Dana Helsel Beaver – E... ... by the thought even before executing the plan. When considering Duncan he states, He’s here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subje... ...rievances.” ” ” ” ” This is the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. This is the contract we have with our leaders to ... ...tect from anyone or anything that stands in its way. Recently, events have united the nation in a way that has not been seen in several years. We ofte... ...fore finally ending at the border in Pennsylvania, the most famous of East Coast trails. “The cliffs!” he said keeping his voice to a hushed shout as ... ...had to have a degree to make a respectable living. Richard enlisted in the Coast Guard shortly after completing high school and was a veteran in the K... ... have a degree to make a respectable living. Richard enlisted in the Coast Guard shortly after completing high school and was a veteran in the Korean ...

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Miscellaneous Prose

By: George Meredith

...treet indicates possibili- ties in the Oriental imagination of the eminent statesman who stooped to conquer fact through fiction. Thackeray’s attitude... ...e to appease her cravings earlier than she would have had as much from the United Liberal Cabinet, but at a cost both to her and to England. Meanwhile... ...d faith in the active intellect, and that is the thing to be prayed for by statesmen who would register permanent successes. The Irish, it is true, do... ...the ‘quatre pattes’. We consider that we have not lost by his temerity. In states of dubitation under impelling elements, the instinct pointing to cou... ...eous and hearty reception was given him by the population and the National Guard. He proceeded at once by the shortest way to the headquarters, so tha... ... rather inefficacious nature of the diversion made in V enetia, and on the coast of Istria by the army and navy of Victor Emmanuel. He even attributed...

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Letters on England

By: Voltaire, 1694-1778

... of ecclesiastical tyrants and of plunderers entitled barons, had been the guard- ians of the public liberty and happiness. The barbarians who came fr... ...pe, brought with them the form 30 Letters on England of government called States or Parliaments, about which so much noise is made, and which are so ... ...rbeck) was perfect in his lesson, she began to cast with herself from what coast this blazing star should first ap- pear, and at what time it must be ... ...e of the prism, that light is a composition of coloured rays, which, being united, form white colour. A single ray is by him divided into seven, which...

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Heartbreak House : A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes

By: George Bernard Shaw

.... And of the two atmospheres it is hard to say which was the more fatal to statesmanship. Revolution on the Shelf Heartbreak House was quite familiar ... ... climax of legal lawlessness was reached in France. The greatest Socialist statesman in Europe, Jaures, was shot and killed by a gentleman who resente... ... did its worst in places remote from the battlefields, notably on the west coast of North America and in India. But the moral pestilence, which was un... ... wrath on which many suns go down before it is appeased. Yet it was in the United States of America where nobody slept the worse for the war, that the... ...on which many suns go down before it is appeased. Yet it was in the United States of America where nobody slept the worse for the war, that the war fe... .... I’ll look after the other [he goes to the star- board door and stands on guard there]. Lady Utterword comes in after Randall, and goes between Mrs H...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... should arise with particular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many dif... ...merica, through the greater South Sea Islands, in India, along much of the coast of Africa, and in the ports of China and Japan, is still to be heard,... ... in half a hundred vary- ing stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and – setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigner... ...ohn Bull, but he is tarred with the English stick. For Mr. Grant White the States are the New England States and nothing more. He wonders at the amoun... ...is used over the most of the great Union as a term of reproach. The Yankee States, of which he is so staunch a subject, are but a drop in the bucket. ... ...mmon provocations. A Scotchman may tramp the better part of Europe and the United States, and never again receive so vivid an impression of foreign tr... ...o may some cadet of Royal Ecossais or the Albany Regi- ment, as he mounted guard about French citadels, so may some officer marching his company of th... ...res of the landscape. Sail- ors and shepherds, and the people generally of coast and mountain, talk well of it; and it is often excitingly presented i... ...ree-cocked hats were playing bowls. A friend of mine preferred the Malabar coast in a storm, with a ship beating to windward, and a scowling fellow of...

...have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Countr...

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