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...y person 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 M... ....................................................... 125 ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT...................................................................... ...er? Passages and lines of his poetry are stamped on the memory of all well-educated men. More pointed sayings of Pope are afloat than of any English p... ...ilfer cloth or bread: As meanly plunder as they bravely fought, Now save a people, and now save a groat. VER. 129, in the former editions— Ask why fro... ...ylock’s wife: But thousands die, without or this or that, Die, and endow a college, or a cat. 30 To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, T’ e... ...ENT GUMENT GUMENT . . . . . OF THE USE OF RICHES. The vanity of expense in people of wealth and quality. The abuse of the word ‘taste,’ ver. 13. That ... ...hese, even his cotemporaries do exceedingly differ. One saith, 134 he was educated at home; another, 135 that he was bred at St Omer’s by Jesuits; a ... ...he shore, Till Birch shall blush with noble blood no more, Till Thames see Eton’s sons for ever play, Till Westminster’s whole year be holiday, Till I... ...fants’ blood and mothers’ tears. O’er every rein a shuddering horror runs; Eton and Winton shake through all their sons. All flesh is humbled, Westmin...

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...OVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ......................................................................... 10 CHAPTER II OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ...................

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.......................... 15 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ATONEMENT AND PUNISHMENT ............................................................. 16 SALVATION AT FIRST A CLASS PRIVILEGE; AND THE REMEDY ............................................................. 17 RETROSPECTIVE ATONEMENT, AND THE EXPECTATION OF THE REDEEMER ................................ 18 COMPLETION OF THE SC...

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...y person 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 M... ...ted, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood Professor of English at Princeton University Preface IN MAKING THIS abridgement of Boswell’s Lif... ..., such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the number, range, and variety of people who at one time or another had been in some degree personally relate... ...godchild Jane Langton. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I love the acquain- tance of young people, . . . young men have more virtue than old men; they have more gen- ... ...table in his time. The late Dr. Taylor, Prebendary of Westminster, who was educated under him, told me, that ‘he was an excellent master, and that his... ...r tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me I was the best qualified for the University that he had ev... ...tions. He took a pleasure in boasting of the many eminent men who had been educated at Pembroke. In this list are found the names of Mr. Hawkins the P... ... him not draw an outline wider than he can fill up. I have seen many skel- etons of shew and magnificence which excite at once ridicule and pity. Dr. ... ...gether at an alehouse near Pembroke gate? At that time, you told me of the Eton boy, who, when verses on our Saviour’s turning water into wine were pr...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni versity nor Jim... ...BIOGRAP OBIOGRAP OBIOGRAPHY HY HY HY HY IN 1897, after spending five years at St Thomas’s Hospital I passed the examinations which enabled me to pract... ... Kelly. He had had an upbringing unusual for a painter, for he had been to Eton and to Cambridge. He was highly talented, abun dantly loquacious, and... ... a preface, so that I need not here say more about it. As a rule, the same people came in every night, but now and then oth ers came, perhaps only on... ...s of a book, I have finished with it for good and all. I am impatient when people insist on talking to me about it; I am glad if they like it, but do ... ...ike the immortal Cagliostro, he was born of unknown but noble parents, and educated secretly in Eastern palaces.’ ‘In my origin I am more to be compar... ...ed sheikhs who imparted to you secret knowledge?’ cried Dr Porhoët. ‘I was educated at Eton, and I left Oxford in 1896.’ ‘Would you mind telling me at... ...ho imparted to you secret knowledge?’ cried Dr Porhoët. ‘I was educated at Eton, and I left Oxford in 1896.’ ‘Would you mind telling me at what colleg... ...ed at Eton, and I left Oxford in 1896.’ ‘Would you mind telling me at what college you were?’ said Arthur. ‘I was at the House.’ ‘Then you must have b...

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