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...he was hers through her brother, what was she to him? The question did not spring clearly within her, though she was alive to every gradual change of ... ...et on board. She had peeped from her citadel too rashly. Nevil had time to spring the flood of crimson in her cheeks, bright as the awning she recline... ...is November, say October; he is still some distance removed from the plump Spring month. And we in our family have wits and passions. In fine, a bud o... ...ve for Renee to be disposed of in marriage early. Why rob her of her young springtime! ‘French girls,’ replied Roland, confused by the nature of the e... ...ing!’ ‘Oh! but my dear marquis, you have paid the compliment; you are like Spring thrusting in a bunch of lilac while the winds of winter blow. If you... ...sfy me, because I know it’s the Lord’s gift. Well, now, and I hate Sabbath-breakers; I would punish them; and I’m against the public-houses on a Sunda... ...d, wagged a bulrush-head, flapped his elbows, puffed like a swimmer in the breakers, tried many times to expostulate, and finding the effort useless, ...

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...nd faded, that the ship had gone out and come home again, and it was broad spring al ready in the Coburg Dock at Liverpool. I have not inquired among... ...arpet bag, high and dry, like a couple of coal—barges. Suddenly I see them spring into the air, and behold the looking glass, which is nailed to the ... ...down on her side in the waves, with her masts dipping into them, and that, springing up again, she rolls over on the other side, until a heavy sea str... ...e vicinity had been announced very early in the disaster by a loud cry of ‘Breakers a head!’) and much backing of paddles, and heaving of the lead int... ...l influence on the spirits. We went on next morning, still by railroad, to Spring field. From that place to Hartford, whither we were bound, is a dis... ...ng with two left legs, two right legs, two wooden legs, two wire legs, two spring legs — all sorts of legs and no legs — what is this to him? And in w...

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...Contents SPEECH AT SPRINGFIELD, JUNE 17, 1858 ............................................................................................................ 4 SPEECH AT CHICAGO, JULY 10, 1858. ........................................................

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... State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents SPEECH A T SPRINGFIELD, JUNE 17, 1858 ................................................... ................................................................ 12 SPEECH AT SPRINGFIELD, JULY 17, 1858. .................................................. ...COLN WITH DOUGLAS In the Senatorial Campaign of 1858 in Illinois SPEECH AT SPRINGFIELD, JUNE 17, 1858 [The following speech was delivered at Springfie... ...nt that any different view had ever been entertained! At length a squabble springs up between the President and the author of the Nebraska Bill, on th... ...y at- tended to me. Judge Douglas made two points upon my recent speech at Springfield. He says they are to be the issues of this campaign. The first ... ...d be amusing, if it were not disgusting, to see how quick these compromise-breakers administer on the political effects of their dead adversaries, tru...

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...air every description of capacity but that which is alone useful and which springs from a knowledge of men’s natures. It chanced that one of Sewall’s ... ...s increased with the course of time and the experience of impunity. In the spring of the year, a very intelligent observer had occasion to visit many ... ...er skims there, on smooth, many-tinted shal- lows, between the wall of the breakers on the one hand, and on the other a succession of palm-tree capes ... ... case; some with broken limbs, others insensible from the drenching of the breakers. Later in the forenoon, certain valorous Samoans succeeded in reac...

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... with a crusher alongside the head that made everything crack, and seemed to spring every joint in my skull and made it overlap its neighbor. Then th... ...s got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape... ...s have generally been, it was the genuine article. I stood here, at the very spring and source A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twa... ... be fore he was born; good land! a man can’t keep his functions regular on spring chickens thirteen hundred years old. But come — never mind about ... ...t the general idea; and enough of it, too, to be ashamed. It was not fair to spring those nineteenth century technicali ties upon the untutored infan... ...hey jailed us together in the general apart ment for brawlers and petty law breakers, as was the cus tom; and what might — Just then my antagonist t...

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...mong ye; best of all. Dare say some seed has been shaken out; and won’t it spring though? And when it does spring, do you cut down the young thistles,... ...nd when it does spring, do you cut down the young thistles, and won’t they spring the more? It’s encouraging and coaxing ‘em. Now, when with my thistl... ... chair so all over bejointed, behinged, and bepadded, everyway so elastic, springy, and docile to the airiest touch, that in some one of its endlessly... ... Lascar boy from Bombay. Thug! I found him sucking the embryo life from my spring eggs. All rascals, sir, every soul of them; Cauca- sian or Mongol. A... ...y continued as follows: “Boys outgrow what is amiss in them? From bad boys spring good men? Sir, ‘the child is father of the man’; hence, as all boys ... ...steers through life by the advice of old Polonius will not steer among the breakers.” “No, no—I hope nobody affirms that,” rejoined the cos- mopolitan...

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...terest, an interest of ambition in its subversion. As matters stood in the spring of 1834, the patron of each benefice, acting under the severest rest... ...e under Sir Jacob Astley at 17 Thomas de Quincey Stow-in-the-walds in the spring of 1846. Any other fighting in that century belonged to mere insulat... ..., she began to find herself invaded or modified from within, by influences springing up from Methodism. This last effect became more conspicuously evi... ...presbyteries, as being the effectual electoral bodies, are really the main springs of the ecclesiastical administration. To govern them, was in effect... ...ion anticipating the more remote conse- quences yet to be expected. In the spring of 1834, as we have sufficiently explained, the General Assembly ven... ...s employed— expressly for showing false signals, and leading right amongst breakers. That hortus siccus of pet notions, which had won Pope’s fancy in ...

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...dous gestures: “There once was a beast called an Ounce, Who went with a spring and a bounce. His head was as flat As the head of a cat, Thi... ...irritation. The office boy was a mere incentive to profanity. There was no spring in Condy that morning, no elasticity, none of his natural buoyancy. ... ...ment of looking at the enor- mous green hills rolling down to the sea, the breakers thundering at the beach, the gashed pinnacles of rock, the vast re... ...n the instahnent plan, don’t you see? Reads the leading articles, and then springs ‘em on us. T o know things and talk about em, that’s her idea of be...

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... suicide the easiest and best. Covent Garden Market at sunrise too, in the spring or summer, when the fragrance of sweet flowers is in the air, over p... ...‘It will never check hers, ’ said the old man looking steadily at me, ‘the springs are too deep. Besides, the children of the poor know but few pleasu... ... passing so long upon your attention. Good night.’ ‘There’s one good thing springs out of all this,’ said Richard Swiviller to himself when he had rea... ...for that purpose, the historian takes the friendly reader by the hand, and springing with him into the air, and cleaving the same at a greater rate th... ...—one of nature’s beacons, warn ing off those who navigated the shoals and breakers of the World, or of that dangerous strait the Law, and ad monishi... ...er,’ said Short; ‘that’s where it is. We takes the East of Lon don in the spring and winter, and the West of England in the summer time. Many’s the h...

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...n the beach, that no more bodies had come ashore since last night. It began to be very doubtful whether many more would be thrown up, until the north-... ... be released from jail to-morrow. Witches pronounce T rampfoot ‘right there,’ when he deems it a trying distance for the old lady to walk; she shall b... ...rt- ment of the London Pantechnicon. I had a commission to buy it, for a friend who was going abroad; and the look and manner of the chariot, as I tri... ...hting attitude. T o suggest the pastoral and meditative nature of their peaceful calling, Mr. Heenan is represented on emerald sward, with primroses a... ... when, late one night, a step came up the stairs, and a hand passed over his door feeling for his knocker, and then one deep and solemn rap was rapped... ...orse weather, and when we least expected it we got into tremendous difficulties. Screw loose in the chart perhaps—something certainly wrong some- wher...

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...e homely man- ner of most of his like in their cruising: “Sweyn had in the spring hard work, and made them lay down very much seed, and looked much af... ...d much after it himself. But when that toil was ended, he fared away every spring on a viking-voyage, and harried about among the southern isles and I... ... southern isles and Ireland, and came home after midsummer. That he called spring-viking. Then he was at home until the corn-fields were reaped down, ... ...and knew all things that he saw. His wife was called Frigg, and their off- spring is the Asa-stock, who dwell in Asgard and the realms about it, and a... ...en; one root of the ash is in heaven, and under the root is the right holy spring; there hold the gods doom every day; the second root is with the Hri... ...hands of thy foes: lo now, ill shall it go with thee and all thy kin, O ye breakers of oaths; for on the day thou slayedst him, dimly didst thou remem... ...hou swearest never, But trusty oath and true: Grim tormenting Gripes troth-breakers; Cursed wretch is the wolf of vows. This is my third rede, That th... ...e, O House of the Niblungs, Shall be brought to naught, O ye oath-breakers! “Think’st thou not, Gunnar, How that betid, When ye let ...

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... as much baggage as a rig’mint on the line av march! “Saints help Dennis’s springs,” thinks I, as I bundled the stuff into the thrap, “for I’ll have n... ...v Provi- dence, for I was doin’ a good work you will ondersthand, Dennis’s springs hild toight. “Now, whin the Capt’n goes for that kit,” thinks I, “h... ...throllied up six miles, all to get a shquint at that draf’. I knew ’twas a spring draf’ goin’ home, for there’s no rig’mint hereabouts, more’s the pit... ...ngs. I have seen Devils rioting across the Rechna as the stallions riot in spring. I have heard the Djinns calling to each other from holes in the san... ...going northward, since a Hillman will ever head back to his Hills when the spring warns. And shall he see those hills of our country? Surely I shall o... ...s religious enthusiasm more system- atically squashed; and never were poor breakers of the peace more utterly weary and footsore. They were routed out...

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...im, pour out the whole history of his doings, laughing, rubbing his hands, springing about with animation—all with as little answer as if he had been ... ...ng his ears, tickling his feet, catching at his tail, laughing at Bustle’s springs, contor- tions, and harmless open-mouthed attacks, while the dog di... ...ht the horse, sir.’ 32 The Heir of Redclyffe ‘Deloraine come!’ cried Guy, springing up. ‘Where?’ ‘At the door, sir.’ Guy darted out, Mr. Edmonstone f... ...Guy had got hold of Mr. Edmonstone’s spec- tacle-case, and was putting its spring to a hard trial. Mrs. Edmonstone doubted whether to interfere again;... ...counties; and, finally, she beheld her father ride into the field, and Guy spring to meet him. No one could have so returned to what was in effect a h... ... Redclyffe ring to help them; yet all stood irresolute, watching the white breakers dashing on the Shag, and the high waves that swelled and rolled be...

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...e worry and disorganization of Benham’s life and thoughts increased as the spring advanced. His need in some way to pull things together became overpo... ...follow in the footsteps of the Great Exemplars! A little while ago and the springtime freshness of T obias irradi- ated the page. Now see! it is Chris... ...—.” Indeed it looked extremely like Christian as Benham went up across the springy turf from Epsom Downs station to- wards the crest of the hill. Was ... ...rtings. He told them that London had suddenly become intoler- able—“In the spring sunshine.” “You live in London?” said Mrs. Wilder. Yes. And he had w... ...prose almost uncomfortably rhythmic, and brings all the freshness of every spring that ever was across the page, of the joyous exaltation of the happy... ... at this mine and then that, there were riots in Benoni, attacks on strike breakers and the smashing up of a number of houses. It was not until July t...

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... into Mary’s eyes at the veiled windows, and the unfeeling contrast of the spring glow of flowering thorn, lilac, laburnum, and, above all, the hard, ... ...lf in an impossible place on the cliff side, trying to disinter what hope, springing eternal in the human breast, pronounced 66 The Trial to be the p... ... the humming-bird sprite, delicately limbed and featured, and with elastic springiness, visible even in the pencilled outline. The dancing dark eyes w... ...e into the contest. The annual game had been delayed by the illness in the spring, and the school had lost several good players at the end of the half... ...’s villa at Bristol have been our staple subject, but Mr. Pugh died in the spring, leaving his lady five hundred a year absolutely her own, and she is... ... upon it, the late lamented will remain in the ascendant till there are no breakers ahead.’ In process of time, ladies, volunteers, and all, were as- ...

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...nd not heard him; as the village girl, Who sets her pitcher underneath the spring, Musing on him that used to fill it for her, Hears and not hears, an... ...Storm, such as drove her under moonless heavens Till hard upon the cry of ‘breakers’ came The crash of ruin, and the loss of all But Enoch and two oth... ... frosty woodlands, when they shiver in January, Roar’d as when the rolling breakers boom and blanch on the precipices, Y ell’d as when the winds of wi...

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...not equally absurd and unreason- 12 Redgauntlet able, whichever source it springs from? For myself, I tell thee, I have, and shall have, more than en... ...ns, like those of a great Dutch doll, depending on the pressure of certain springs, as duty, reflection, and the like; without the impulse of which, t... ...here is no time for prating —get up behind me.’ He probably expected me to spring from the ground with the activity which these Borderers have, by con... ...e sworn ye wad rather hear ae twalpenny clink against another, than have a spring from Rory Dall, [Blind Rorie, a famous musi- cian according to tradi... ...d on the rental-book, as if it were a mastiff-dog that he was afraid would spring up and bite him). ‘I wuss ye joy, sir, of the head seat, and the whi... ... at sea. They have all taken to the long-boat, and left the ship among the breakers, except little Phil and myself—they have, by—!’ ‘Swear not at all,...

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...of being loved by a Potentate!’ Here Silas is rather alarmed by Mr Venus’s springing to his feet in the hurry of his spirits, and haggardly confrontin... ...arily objects to the match; but his consent has been dispensed with, and a spring- van is delivering its load of greenhouse plants at the door, in ord... ...ays no jealousy of T wemlow’ s elevation. So, it has come to pass that the spring-van is strewing flow- ers on the rosy hours and on the staircase, an... ...ream through the summer and the Long V acation. It was not summer yet, but spring; and it was not gentle spring ethereally mild, as in Thomson’ s Seas... ...s not gentle spring ethereally mild, as in Thomson’ s Seasons, but nipping spring with an easterly wind, as in Johnson’s, Jackson’s, Dickson’s, Smith’... ...ns?’ Mr Sampson perceiving his frail bark to be labouring among shoals and breakers, thought it safest not to refer back to any particular thing that ...

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...nd logs of wood for a burnt offering. T ell them also—to bring me some clear spring water.” The Odyssey – Book III 34 On this they hurried off on th... ...d what a noise you made. Diomed and I could not make up our minds whether to spring out then and there, or to answer you from inside, but Ulysses held... ... women, and they sound like those of the nymphs that haunt mountain tops, or springs of rivers and meadows of green grass. At any rate I am among a ra... ...mes fair for putting out to sea again. At the head of the harbour there is a spring of clear water com ing out of a cave, and there are poplars growi... ...o one could have seen the island if he had looked for it, nor were there any breakers to tell us we were close in shore before we found our selves up... ... you all about it. When Circe strikes you with her wand, draw your sword and spring upon her as though you were goings to kill her. She will then be f...

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...turn to the outer world and ready attention to what- ever was in hand. The spring found him of course in the full tide of Eton interests. The sixth an... ...to be selected next time. My tutor is not at all disappointed in me.’ This spring, 1843, Patteson became one of the Eleven, a perilously engrossing po... ...e crowd, with no attendant near him. ‘I was the first to perceive him, and springing forward, pushed back the fellows on each side, who did not know w... ...lace among the ‘select,’ at his last examination for the Newcastle, in the spring of 1845. Before the list was given out he had written to his father ... ...in especial to the Rev. Henry Gardiner, who was much beloved there. In the spring of 1853, he had a long and dangerous illness, when Coley came to nur... ...ern Chicken, happily on a spot somewhat sheltered from the violence of the breakers. The two passengers and the crew took refuge in the rigging all ni...