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...ompleted “Pickwick Papers.” There were, then, a good many cheap Y orkshire schools in existence. There are very few now. Of the monstrous neglect of e... ...means of forming good or bad citizens, and miserable or happy men, private schools long afforded a notable example. Although any man who had proved hi... ...upation in life, was free, without examination or qualification, to open a school any- where; although preparation for the functions he undertook, was... ... object to book his six children as two at any butcher’s or baker’s in the kingdom, I dare say. Far from it.’ ‘Six children, sir?’ exclaimed Squeers. ... ...rs ago—for the fifteenth century was scarce two years old at the time, and King Henry the Fourth sat upon the throne of England—there dwelt, in the an... ...ckens P .S. If you should go near Barnard Castle, there is good ale at the King’s Head. Say you know me, and I am sure they will not charge you for it... ...l destroy himself! I spoke unkindly to him, and he cannot bear it from me. Alfred, my darling Alfred.’ With such exclamations, she hurried upstairs, f... ...ldly, and his hair floating in wild disorder, mingled with his whiskers. ‘ Alfred,’ cried his wife, flinging her arms about him, ‘I didn’ t mean to sa... ...dy’s fault; it was mine as much as yours, we shall do very well yet. Come, Alfred, come.’ Mr Mantalini did not think proper to come to, all at once; b...

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...from Findlayson, spent his poor little savings of a year in a wild dash to London, and there, as his own tongue asserted and the later consignments pr... ...ar, a Kharva from Bulsar, familiar with every port between Rockhampton and London, who had risen to the rank of sarang on the British India boats, but... .... Also my staff says -” “Peace, thou!” lowed the Bull. “The worship of the schools is mine, and they talk very wisely, asking whether I be one or many... ... of strange Gods, and I listen. Faith follows faith among my people in the schools, and I have no anger; for when all words are said, and the new talk... ... that my people grow rich and praise me. Shiv has said that the men of the schools do not forget; Bhairon is content for his 26 Rudyard Kipling crowd... ... now what they know; but I, who live with them, I read their hearts. Great Kings, the beginning of the end is born already. The fire-carriages shout t... ...ay European Regiment, who assisted at the capture of Seringapatam in 1799. Alfred Ellis Chinn, Humphrey’s younger brother, commanded a regiment of Bom... ...ew what had happened, the band stopped, and hidden voices broke into “Good King Wenceslaus,” and William in the gal- lery hummed and beat time with he... ...ll engine, reverently. “But he don’t care. He lets ‘em cuss. He’s the Czar-King-Boss! He says ‘Please,’ and then they kneel down an’ pray. There’s thr...

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...ns SKETCHES BY BOZ OUR PARISH CHAPTER I—THE BEADLE. THE PARISH ENGINE. THE SCHOOLMASTER. H OW MUCH IS CONVEYED in those two short words—’The Parish!’ ... ...rs. ‘I rents a two-pair back, gentlemen, at Mrs. Brown’s, Number 3, Little King William’s-alley, which has lived there this fifteen year, and knows me... ...n importance to the beadle, are the master of the workhouse and the parish schoolmas- ter. The vestry-clerk, as everybody knows, is a short, pudgy lit... ...een an inferior sort of attorney’s clerk, or else the master of a national school—whatever he was, it is clear his present position is a change for th... ...s and candles, and an almost unlimited allowance of authority in his petty kingdom. He is a tall, thin, bony man; al- ways wears shoes and black cotto... ...ion of the Lord Mayor. The first stone was laid: it was done by a Duke—the King’s brother. Years passed away, and the bridge was opened by the King hi... ...Larkins. His line is genteel comedy—his father’s, coal and potato. He DOES Alfred Highflier in the last piece, and very well he’ll do it—at the price.... ... two other board- ers, besides the gentleman in the back drawing-room— Mr. Alfred Tomkins and Mr. Frederick O’Bleary. Mr. Tomkins was a clerk in a win... ...ting wa- ter-cresses like a Nebuchadnezzar. Mr. O’Bleary appeared, and Mr. Alfred Tomkins. The compliments of the morn- ing were exchanged, and the te...

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..., the presidential motorcade was arriving at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, where President Bush was to read to a class and talk about educatio... ...I Director Robert Mueller. He decided to make a brief state- ment from the school before leaving for the airport.The Secret Service told us they were ... ...ly in a declaration faxed early in 1998 to an Arabic-language newspaper in London. Few Americans had noticed it. The fax had been sent from thousands ... ... celebrated recent suicide bombings of American military facilities in the Kingdom. It praised the 1983 suicide bombing in Beirut that killed 241 U.S.... ...he custodian of Islam’s holiest places, joined with wealthy Arabs from the Kingdom and other states bordering the Persian Gulf in donating money to bu... ...ordering the Persian Gulf in donating money to build mosques and religious schools that could preach and teach their interpretation of Islamic doctrin... ...tion.After the Saudis agreed to allow U.S. armed forces to be based in the Kingdom, Bin Ladin and a num- ber of Islamic clerics began to publicly deno... ... 1993 bombing of the W orld Trade Center and the April 1995 bombing of the Alfred P . Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. 48 Before 9/11, with t... ...c. 21, 2001. At or around this time, flight attendants Kathryn Laborie and Alfred Marchand would have begun cabin service in first class; with Amy Kin...

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... DAYS AT EDINBURGH, TRAVELS AND EXCURSIONS, 1868-1873 Letter: SPRING GROVE SCHOOL 12TH NOVEMBER 1863 MA CHERE MAMAN, – Jai recu votre lettre Aujourdhu... ...een, I suppose, and a pretty little girl) had been learning English at the school, and was anxious to play it off upon a real, veritable Englander; so... ...ttle (or scuttle) (?) and a debris of broken pipes in a corner, and my old school play-box, so full of papers and books that the lid will not shut dow... ...ull, true, and particular account of the worst day I have had since I left London. I shall not go to Nice again for some time to come. 45 The Letters... ...katers, and the great hill, snow-sprinkled, overhead! It was a sight for a king. WEDNESDAY . – I stayed on Duddingston to-day till af- ter nightfall. ... ...air and beard all tangled, and talked as cheerfully as if he had been in a King’s pal- ace, or the great King’s palace of the blue air. He has taught ... ...and the black firs bitten out of the blue sky, was a sight to set before a king. You may imagine what it was to a man who has been eighteen months in ... ...best representations, licking Shakespeare. What an inconceivable cheese is Alfred de Musset! His comedies are, to my view, the best work of France thi... ... title of Princess Royal; I, after a furious contest, under that of Prince Alfred; and Willie, still a little sulky, as the Prince of Wales. We were a...

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...t 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 Country to th...

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... arise with particular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different ... ...w England States and nothing more. He wonders at the amount of drinking in London; let him try San Francisco. He wittily reproves English ignorance as... ...wn door. There is one country, for instance – its frontier not so far from London, its people closely akin, its language the same in all essentials wi... ...sh – of which I will go bail he knows nothing. His ignorance of the sister kingdom cannot be described; it can only be illustrated by anecdote. I once... ...thought and, to a great extent, the rule of future conduct. I have been to school in both coun- tries, and I found, in the boys of the North, somethin... ... the way to fight for Greece; but the daft Gordon blood and the Aberdonian school-days kept their influence to the end. We have spoken of the material... ...st measure his scholarship with the plain, clownish laddie from the parish school. They sepa- rate, at the session’s end, one to smoke cigars about a ... ...tion are the fibres of the legend of his country’s history. The heroes and kings of Scotland have been tragically fated; the most mark- ing incidents ... ...gar rule. Involuntarily you compared yourself with the swineherd that made Alfred watch his cakes, or some bloated citizen who may have given his sons...

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...ogy of scholarship. Early in the day Dorothea had returned from the infant school which she had set going in the village, and was taking her usual pla... ...ke, as if to explain the insight just manifested. “I know something of all schools. I knew Wilberforce in his best days. Do you know Wilberforce?” Mr.... ...race of this conception. Here was something beyond the shallows of ladies’ school literature: here was a living Bossuet, whose work would reconcile co... ...n a Prot- estant baby, little thought of being a Catholic monarch; or that Alfred the Great, when he measured his laborious nights with burning candle... ...ee. The poor folks here might have a fowl in their pot, as the good French king used to wish for all his people. The French eat a good many fowls—skin... ...I think it was a very cheap wish of his,” said Dorothea, indignantly. “Are kings such monsters that a wish like that must be reckoned a royal virtue?”... ...ropped out of the text, or perhaps was subauditum; that is, present in the king’s mind, but not uttered,” said Mr. Casaubon, smiling and bending his h... ... Elle emporta ma vie, et n’en sut jamais rien.” —Alfred de Musset. WILL LADISLAW WA S delightfully agreeable at dinner the n... ...ling. “I am at a low ebb with pupils. But I have saved my little purse for Alfred’s premium: I have ninety-two pounds. He can go to Mr. Hanmer’s now; ...

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...bloody city! For though the parliament had the minister one while, and the king another, and much blood had been shed in the town during the wars betw... ...so often pass on their more sentimen- 19 William James tal acquaintances. Alfred believes in immortality so strongly because his temperament is so em... ...medical materialism ought to be only too glad to draw. One disciple of the school, indeed, has striven to impugn the value of works of genius in a who... ...so the man 50 The V arieties of Religious Experience is henceforth in the kingdom of heaven. This hell and this heaven are two good safe ways for a m... ... treats the “Laws of Nature” as objective facts to be revered. A brilliant school of interpretation of Greek mythology would have it that in their ori... ...e for me, and care for my safety. I could give hundreds of in- stances, in school matters, social problems, financial difficulties, etc. That he is mi... ...that deliverance is felt as incomplete [29] Mark Rutherford’s Deliverance, London, 1885, pp. 196, 198. 80 The V arieties of Religious Experience unle... ...se up, and the gospel is preached to the poor.’ That is the ‘coming of the kingdom,’ or rather in these saving works the kingdom is already there. By ... ...scendent wonder, associated with ab- solute clearness of mind.” Memoirs of Alfred Tennyson, ii. 473. Sir James Crichton-Browne has given the technical...

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... whose assistant she had become, whom she had loved to help in the private school. And she still had the Bible that John Field had given her. She used... ... about it, me or you?’ So I says, ‘I’ve niver fun out how much tha’ knows, Alfred. It’ll ‘appen carry thee ter bed an’ back.”’ So Morel would go on to... ...wo disliked each other, they more or less took each other for granted. But Alfred Charlesworth did not forgive the butty these pub- lic-house sayings.... ...s taking along the line up the valley. And the children, as they come from school at dinner- time, looking down the fields and seeing the wheels on th... ...eart was gnawed inside her. “Where’s my dad?” said William, coming in from school. “He says he’s run away,” replied the mother. “Where to?” “Eh, I don... ...othes off’n ‘is back,” Mrs. Anthony said, “wants showing something.” “Your Alfred’s as old as my William,” said Mrs. Morel. “‘Appen ‘e is, but that do... ...wheel—it looks ever so nice. You remind me of Elaine in the ‘Idylls of the King’ . I’d draw you if I could.” And she glanced at him blushing shyly. An... ...s three hours. She sat in her corner in a kind of stupor, never moving. At King’s Cross still no one could tell her how to get to Elmers End. Carrying... ... old blue frock and her broken boots seemed only like the romantic rags of King Cophetua’s beggar- maid. She suddenly became aware of his keen blue ey...

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...side, who had put her head out of the coach-window a mile or two this side Kingston, and cried out to the driver that she was sure he must have passed... ...I cannot be angry with her, even now?’ ‘You have brought it upon yourself, Alfred,’ returned Ma- dame Mantalini—still reproachfully, but in a softened... ...hall be a body . Some handsome women will cry; she will laugh demnebly.’ ‘ Alfred, you cruel, cruel creature,’ said Madame Mantalini, sobbing at the d... ...t it was the little bright-eyed niece—the softest, sweetest, prettiest—’ ‘ Alfred!’ interposed Madame Mantalini. ‘She is always right,’ rejoined Mr Ma... ...alph, who, for some purposes of his own, seemed desirous to conciliate the school- master. ‘But how is Mrs Squeers, and how are you?’ ‘Mrs Squeers, si... ...rents paid it. Ha! ha! ha!’ ‘ And a good plan too,’ said Ralph, eyeing the schoolmaster stealthily. ‘I believe you,’ rejoined Squeers. ‘We always do i... ... was, that induced you to call on me?’ said Ralph, raising his eyes to the schoolmaster’s face. ‘N-n-no, I don’t know that,’ replied Squeers. ‘I thoug... ...ow of mean and not over-cleanly houses, situated within ‘the Rules’ of the King’s Bench Prison, and not many hundred paces distant from the obelisk in... ...ts light were visibly before him. And yet Nicholas was in the Rules of the King’s Bench Prison! If he had been in Italy indeed, and the time had been ...

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...E CLUB STORY OF THE YOUNG MAN WITH THE CREAM TARTS DURING HIS RESIDENCE in London, the accomplished Prince Florizel of Bohemia gained the affection of... ...to a low humour, when there was no laughable play to witness in any of the London theatres, and when the season of the year was unsuitable to those fi... ...t men in England. My name is Godall, Theophilus Godall; my friend is Major Alfred Hammersmith – or at least, such is the name by 8 Robert Louis Steve... ... was impossible to recognise. “I would have it a piece of education in all schools!” cried the Doctor angrily. “Where is the use of eyesight and artic... ... theatre. But the great city was new to him; he had gone from a provincial school to a military college, and thence direct to the East- ern Empire; an... ...JAH’S DIAMOND: STORY OF THE BANDBOX UP TO THE AGE OF SIXTEEN, at a private school and after- wards at one of those great institutions for which Englan... ...t for his departure. He cheerfully prepared his baggage, transported it to King’s Cross, where he left it in the cloak-room, and returned to the club ... ... the finest gentleman in Europe, the only living creature who looks like a king; and as for Jack Vandeleur, if you can imagine Ulysses at seventy year... ...deed I may say there is hardly a better place of concealment in the United Kingdom. I de- termined to pass a week in the Sea-Wood of Graden Eas- ter, ...

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...t rise before me are those of the back-board and the stocks, French in the school-room, and Miss Simmonds’ “Lady Ursula, think of your position!” And ... ...e last thing he said was, “Remember, Hester, what was the price of all the kingdoms of the world! Thou wilt have it, then! Would that I could say, my ... ... doing all this time. Adela and I had come out, and had a season or two in London, and my father had enjoyed our pleasure in it, and paid a good deal ... ...e had come to her rescue, when she was only nine or ten years old, and her schoolboy cousins were teasing her, and at every T welfth-day party since s... ...wer with papa than any of us. She had a coaxing way, which his stately old-school cour- tesy never could resist. She used when we were children to beg... ... shocked at her defiance at the time, but when, some time after, I re-read King John, I saw that there was something of Constance in her. “That may be... ...justice, and still hoped it would all come to nothing. We stayed on at the London house—the lawyers said we ought, and that possession was “nine-tenth... ...mitable forests to range in, happy in toil and homely plenty, and a little king to him- self, set down in an English villa, with a trim garden and pad... ... the beauty of the country. He had been raving all day about the new poet, Alfred T ennyson, and I believe he thought he had walked into lotus-land.” ...

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... between us, I add to this Preface, as I added to that, May we meet again! London May 1857 6 Charles Dickens BOOK THE FIRST POVERTY CHAPTER 1 Sun and... ...yes, too close together, were not so nobly set in his head as those of the king of beasts are in his, and they were sharp rather than bright—pointed w... ...grate, and in good time and tune, though a little hoarsely: ‘Of all the king’s knights ’tis the flower, Compagnon de la Majolaine! Of all the king’... ...an thinking of it; not even the beloved of their souls realising it; great kings and governors, who had made them captive, careering in the sunlight j... ...dle in full fig, coming down a street on a Sunday at the head of a charity school, I am obliged to turn and run away, or I should hit him. The name of... ... seems never to have been extinguished since I came home twice a year from school, and dragged my box over this pavement. Well, well, well!’ He went u... ...oked at the candle she had left burning, and, measuring the time like King Alfred the Great, was confirmed by its wasted state in her belief that she ... ...em with. She had been, by snatches of a few weeks at a time, to an evening school outside, and got her sister and brother sent to day-schools by desul... ... of their whole history, with all its standards waving at once, from Saxon Alfred’s downwards. Mr Baptist had been in a manner whirled away before the...

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...’s eyes turned to her father with the 8 A Woman of Thirty expression of a schoolboy before his master, he answered her glance by a gay, kindly smile,... ...ion from the Comte d’Artois, recently appointed Lieutenant- General of the kingdom by his brother Louis XVIII. D’Aiglemont received a commission in th... ...ics who would penetrate to the presence of the real man. Such men are like kings, in that their real figure, character, and life can never be known no... ...boy’s curiosity in his face. From his lyceens uniform he was evi- dently a schoolboy, and the book he was reading was the Arabian Nights. Small wonder... ... responding warmth of heart and strength of soul. She was as silent as her schoolboy brother. Seemingly a prey to the fateful maiden meditations which... ...164 A Woman of Thirty thers against their sons, raising up peoples against kings, and princes against peoples, sowing strife and division everywhere? ... ... lover, but this was no passion—it was coquetry, and the Marquise despised Alfred de Vandenesse, knowing that he had entered upon this flirtation with... ...ered upon this flirtation with Moina as if it were a game of chess. But if Alfred de Vandenesse made her shudder with dis- gust, she was obliged—unhap... ...this, in vain did Mme. d’Aiglemont nerve herself to come between Moina and Alfred de Vandenesse with a terrible word, knowing beforehand that she shou...

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... between us, I add to this Preface, as I added to that, May we meet again! London May 1857 6 Charles Dickens BOOK THE FIRST POVERTY CHAPTER 1 Sun and... ...yes, too close together, were not so nobly set in his head as those of the king of beasts are in his, and they were sharp rather than bright—pointed w... ...grate, and in good time and tune, though a little hoarsely: ‘Of all the king’s knights ’tis the flower, Compagnon de la Majolaine! Of all the king’... ...an thinking of it; not even the beloved of their souls realising it; great kings and governors, who had made them captive, careering in the sunlight j... ...Pet to church at the Foundling—you have heard of the Foundling Hospital in London? Similar to the Institution for the Found Children in Paris?’ ‘I hav... ...dle in full fig, coming down a street on a Sunday at the head of a charity school, I am obliged to turn and run away, or I should hit him. The name of... ... seems never to have been extinguished since I came home twice a year from school, and dragged my box over this pavement. Well, well, well!’ He went u... ...oked at the candle she had left burning, and, measuring the time like King Alfred the Great, was confirmed by its wasted state in her belief that she ... ...em with. She had been, by snatches of a few weeks at a time, to an evening school outside, and got her sister and brother sent to day-schools by desul...

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...ith the autocrat and the sovereign, put a veto on the wishes of a temporal king, or restrained with the fiat of papal supremacy the rebellious sceptre... ...sieur Maillard himself. He was a portly, fine-looking gentleman of the old school, with a polished manner, and a certain air of gravity, dignity, and ... ... any big words this is your chance for them. Talk of the Ionic and Eleatic schools—of Archytas, Gorgias, and Alcmaeon. Say something about objectivity... ...ortal, and emerged within the vestibule. Thus it is said the immense river Alfred passed, un- scathed, and unwetted, beneath the sea. I thought the st... ..., the basis of all physical principle—to go behind which we must enter the Kingdom of Metaphysics. Kepler guessed— that is to say imagined. He was ess... ...ly on that ottoman for which he sac- rificed his loyalty in outbidding his king—the notorious otto- man of Cadet. He buries his face in the pillow. Th... ... run regular trips (fare either way only twenty pounds sterling) be- tween London and Timbuctoo. And who shall calculate the immense influence upon so... ...ehension becomes universal. 157 V olume Four The sophists of the negative school, who, through inability to create, have scoffed at creation, are now... ... Vienna, and other continen- tal cities. In 1783 and 1784, it was taken to London by Mr. Maelzel. Of late years it has visited the principal towns in ...

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...k drew off as from a criminal, and reversing the precedent of the murdered king of Denmark, regarded her more in anger than In sorrow.’ ‘Lucretia!’ sa... ... ‘Be- cause it ain’t one loss, but a round dozen. Where’s that there young school-boy with the rosy face and curly hair, that used to be as merry in t... ...We—we haven’t leisure for it. We—we haven’t courage. They’re not taught at schools or colleges, and we don’ t know how to set about it. In short, we a... ...st-spoken man, al- most boastfully so, and mentioned his ‘little place’ at Kingston-upon-Thames, and its just being barely equal to giving Dombey a be... ...ossed it away with a pieman. But they never taught honour at the Grinders’ School, where the system that prevailed was particularly strong in the enge... ...nother one,’ said Mr Perch, ‘with military frogs, is in the parlour of the King’s Arms all the blessed day. I hap- pened, last week, to let a little o... ...kles and his bristly head of hair, and Mr Feeder’s brother, the Rev- erend Alfred Feeder, M.A., who was to perform the ceremony , were all assembled i... ...two gauzy little bridesmaids fluttered like moths. Mr Feeder’s brother, Mr Alfred Feeder, M.A., had already gone on, in advance, to as- sume his offic... ...er most. Mrs Blimber was affected, but gently so; and told the Reverend Mr Alfred Feeder, M.A., on the way home, that if she could only have seen Cice...