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...his commissim after five years’ service, and retired for a time to private life. Upon his return to Court, taking up apartments which the royal favour... ... the author’s time, but of the author himself. “I do not pride myself upon my freedom from prejudice—impartiality,” he con- fesses—”it would be useles... ... I was the only child of that marriage. By his first wife, Diana de Budos, my father had had only a daughter. He married her to the Duc de Brissac, Pe... ...to Mademoiselle la Choin, and always spoke to her of Monseigneur as their “fat friend.” With this correspondence in his hands, the King one day sent f... ...- other opinion of the position of the realm. In effect, she was extremely fat, and of a very high colour. He was rather roughly dismissed, and hasten... ...owever, was against him; his habits were publicly known to be those of the Greeks, whilst his intellect resembled theirs in no way. By his stupidity h... ...e could exercise them. Almost all the children of M. le Prince were little big- ger than dwarfs, which caused M. le Prince, who was tall, to say in pl... ...in great splendour. She had a strange look, and a droll way of dress- ing, big eyes, with which she could scarcely see, a shoulder that constantly twi... ...to form such marriages he must be of the Catholic religion, from which the Greeks were separated by such a little distance, that he thought his projec...

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... the enthusiasm of an antiquary. In point of fact, this relic of the civic life of the sixteenth century offered more than one problem to the consider... ...o comical a caricature. The animal held in one of its forepaws a racket as big as itself, and stood on its hind legs to aim at hitting an enormous bal... ...shion introduced as much by David’s school of painting as by the mania for Greek and Roman styles which characterized the early years of this century.... ...uld say in a voice, of which even the softest tones were sour, “Augustine, my treasure, what are you thinking about?” It is possible that two ro- manc... ... hand, the senior apprentice, with his long legs, his chest- nut hair, his big hands and powerful frame, had found a secret admirer in Mademoiselle Vi... ... the faces of the apprentices, and the pure form of Augustine, near whom a fat chubby-cheeked maid was standing, composed so strange a group; the head... ...stood; the public is not accustomed to such depths. The pictures we paint, my dear fellow, are mere screens. We should do better to turn rhymes, and t... ...because, above everything, they must understand each other; if a man spoke Greek and his wife Latin, they might come to die of hunger. He had himself ... ...er refused point- blank. T wo good Normandy horses were dying of their own fat in the stables of the big house; Madame Guillaume never used them but t...

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...vel of Waverley is founded. They have been already given to the public, by my late lamented friend, William Erskine, Esq. (afterwards Lord Kinneder), ... ...iam Erskine, Esq. (afterwards Lord Kinneder), when reviewing the ‘Tales of My Landlord’ for the Quarterly Review, in 1817. The particulars were derive... ...at some marked spot, where her father might find it. Invernahyle supported life for several weeks by means of these precarious supplies; and as he had... ...h! I’ll tell you, though, doctor, you must knock out some of the Latin and Greek; heavy, doctor, damn’d heavy—(beg your pardon) and if you throw in a ... ..., Caleb! Caleb! Well, it was a shame to let poor Caleb starve, and so many fat rectors and squires among us. I gave him a dinner once a week; but, Lor... ...hould bring home a hundred head of horned cattle, we gripped nothing but a fat bailie of Perth.’ From this discourse he passed to the political and mi... ...ughts naturally reverted to the unprotected state of his daughter, and the big tear came to the veteran’s eye. ‘If I fall, Macwheeble; you have all my... ...ays our homely proverb, “is as good as a feast.” The plumed troops and the big war used to enchant me in poetry; but the night marches, vigils, couche... ... &c. ‘Change we our shields, and for ourselves assume the trappings of the Greeks.’ Neb, nose. Nebulones nequissimi, worthless scamps. Nec naturaliter...

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...n the simple style which expresses so well the peaceful and matter-of-fact life of the bourgeoisie. No signs of commerce were to be seen; on the other... ...melancholy reigns, hardly to be defined; caused, perhaps, by the aspect of life in Brittany, which is deeply touching. This power of awakening a world... ...n a low voice. “Yes, Pierrette, yes. I am in Paris. I have started to make my way; but I’m ready to settle here, near you.” Just then the fastening of... ...ng, and durable things which make the apparel of the Breton peasantry. The big buttons of white horn which fastened the jacket made the girl’s heart b... ... which Bacchus had drawn his scarlet and bulbous vine-marks. Though short, fat, and pot-bellied, with stout legs and thick hands, he was gifted with t... ...knowing look. “Hey! hey! they are no greater fools than I was,” he added. “My father gave me three kicks; I shall only give them one; he put one louis... ...ies; on the contrary, it saddened them. He was, like his father, short and fat, but his figure lacked the latter’s brutal obesity, and showed, instead... ... ditto mounted on bronze, common and heavy in design,—Roman standards with Greek foliage! Above the clock is that inevitable good-natured lion which l... ...lion which looks at you with a simper, the lion of ornamenta- tion, with a big ball under his feet, symbol of the decorative lion, who passes his life...

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...wn the work.” The Indian character has so little variety, that it has been my object to avoid dwelling on it too much on the present occa- sion; its a... ...FINDER CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I The turf shall be my fragrant shrine; My temple, Lord ! that arch of thine; My censer’s breat... ...ched your ears. By the Frenchers and the redskins on the other side of the Big Lakes, I am called La Longue Carabine; by the Mohicans, a just-minded a... ...e must take the fare that Providence bestows, while we follow the trail of life. I sup- pose worse guides might have been found than the Tuscarora; th... ...k denote a Mussulman. Although the Pathfinder was scarcely in the prime of life, Mabel had met him with a steadiness that may have been the consequenc... ...ri- enced to pronounce we naturally turn it into English, and call him the Big Sarpent. Y ou are not to suppose, however, that by this name we wish to... ... never repines, but is always thankful for the food he gets, whether it be fat or lean, venison or bear, wild turkey’s breast or wild goose’s wing. To... ...onfess,” answered Pathfinder, to whom even the terms of his companion were Greek. “No! Well, I own that surprises me, for I thought your eyes could se...

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...e people one always had to put one’s self out for. The greater part of her life having been passed among them, she knew nearly all that there was to k... .... She therefore decided to see as much of him as her hurried and entangled life permitted; and this, thanks to a series of adroit adjustments, turned ... ...ne with. “Of course, what you fancy is perfect nonsense, Ursula; and as to my interfering—” Susy hesitated, and then murmured: “But if it will make yo... ...t be as much in his day’s work as doing the encyclopaedia. “But I give you my word it’s a raving-mad mistake! And I don’t believe she ever meant me, t... ...nty copies had been sold; and though his essay on “Chi- nese Influences in Greek Art” had created a passing stir, it had resulted in controversial cor... ...because I feel so horribly small to-night that the place seems so horribly big.” She loved luxury: splendid things always made her feel hand- some and... ...d pinioned. The little misery of the cigars still galled her, and now this big hu- miliation superposed itself on the raw wound. Decidedly, the second... ...l Hicks. Coral Hicks, when Susy had last encountered the party, had been a fat spectacled school-girl, always lagging behind her parents, with a reluc... ...er wake. Now the poodle had gone, and his mistress led the procession. The fat school- girl had changed into a young lady of compact if not graceful o...

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...as well as women from an appearance of old age. Yes, remember this: all of life, or rather all the el- egance that expresses life, is in the figure. A... ...o could perfectly pronounce certain phrases of the olden time. The words, “my heart,” “my jewel,” “my little pet,” “my queen,” and the amorous diminut... ...upation, which was that of strop- ping his razor. “What have you come for, my dear little jewel of mischief?” “I have come to tell you something which... ...e; on such occasions he made him take off his blue cotton jacket, with its big pockets hanging round his hips, and always bulg- ing with handkerchiefs... ... that there is no fortune large enough to keep open house in this way, the big-wigs of the place choose a place of meeting, as they did at Alencon, in... ... arms, red hands, were all in keep- ing with the swelling outlines and the fat whiteness of Norman beauty. Projecting eyes, undecided in color, gave t... ...ding for the comfort of uncle and niece. Jacquelin, a man of forty, short, fat, ruddy, and brown, with a face like a Breton sailor, had been in the se... ...would be true. Don’t you understand me?” “No more than if you were talking Greek,” replied Made- moiselle Cormon, who opened her eyes wide, and strain... ...taste of the money- changer,—for instance, columns in stucco, glass doors, Greek mouldings, meaningless outlines, all styles conglomerated, magnificen...

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...have had but one eye; as Philip, Antigonus, Hannibal, and Sertorius, whose life and actions we describe at present; of whom, indeed, we might truly sa... ...a banished man and a stranger at the head of a body of barbar- ians. Among Greek commanders, Eumenes of Cardia may be best compared with him; they wer... ...e greatest part of the Libyan tribes under his subjection, with an army of Greeks, raised out of the colonies of the Olbians and Myceneans placed here... ... employed upon calculation, as his occa- sion or necessity required. As to my own opinion, I am per- suaded that pure virtue, established by reason an... ...m your stuff. As for me, I am unvanquished, though a captive, conqueror of my enemies, and betrayed by my fellow soldiers. For you, I adjure you by Ju... ...t in full council, when Aristotle should be present; and that growing very fat, and contract- ing a disease of vermin, he there died, about the time t... ...ear the river Oxus, to set up the royal pavilion, discovered a spring of a fat, oily liquor, which after the top was taken off, ran pure, clear oil, w... ...commodation. Favonius bade him now stamp upon the ground; for once talking big in the senate, he desired them not to trouble themselves about making a... ...em. He himself narrowly escaped; for taking hold of one of his soldiers, a big and strong man, that was flying by him, he bade him stand and face abou...

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...at, but the bay is fairly well sheltered from the seas, and occasionally a big ship, windbound or through stress of weather, makes use of the anchorin... ...p to Darnford, the market town fourteen miles away, lies the prac- tice of my friend Kennedy. He had begun life as surgeon in the Navy, and afterwards... ...ourteen miles away, lies the prac- tice of my friend Kennedy. He had begun life as surgeon in the Navy, and afterwards had been the companion of a fam... ...article of a general truth in every mystery. A good many years ago now, on my return from abroad, he invited me to stay with him. I came readily enoug... ...edy’s laugh through the half-open door left open of some cottage. He had a big, hearty laugh that would have fitted a man twice his size, a brisk mann... ...uck his name off his will, and had been heard to utter threats against his life. But this old affair, scandalous enough to serve as a motive for a Gre... ...is life. But this old affair, scandalous enough to serve as a motive for a Greek tragedy, arose from the similarity of their characters. There are oth... ...own, and he was pained; but Preble, the lame wheelwright, and Vincent, the fat blacksmith, and the other notables too, wanted to drink their evening b...

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.............. 56 FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BION. .............................................................................. 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. .................................................................................................................... 58 PAN, ECHO, AND THE SATYR .................................................................

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................................................................. 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. ............................................................ ......................................................... 280 TO THE QUEEN OF MY HEART ..................................................................... ...ER O MER O MER O MER O MERCUR CUR CUR CUR CURY Y Y Y Y Translated from the Greek of Homer Published by Mrs. Shelley, “Posthumous Poems”, 1824. This al... ...u that speckled shell? Thus much I know, You must come home with me and be my guest; You will give joy to me, and I will do All that is in my power to... ...ley 7. 7. 7. 7. 7. Then scooping with a chisel of gray steel, He bored the life and soul out of the beast.— _50 Not swifter a sw... ... them o’er and o’er, And bored their lives out. Without more ado He cut up fat and flesh, and down before The fire, on spits of wood he placed the two... ...us-minded Hermes from the glen _160 Drew the fat spoils to the more open station Of a flat smooth space, and portioned t... ...hant trample on me, in vain the iron hoof of the wrathful steed! The mine, big with destructive power, burst upon me, and hurled me high in the air—I ... ...nk pile of luxury. 21. 21. 21. 21. 21. The Bishops thrive, though they are big; _100 The Lawyers thrive, though they are t...

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............................................................ 146 L ’ENVOI TO “LIFE’S HANDICAP” ............................................................. ...en, men for they stooped to Fame, Borne on the breath that men call Death, my brother’s spirit came. He scarce had need to doff his pride or slough th... ...xplain Both your pleasure and your pain, And, Thomas, here’s my best respects to you! O there’ll surely come a day Whe... ... black agin’ the sun?” said Files-on-Parade. “It’s Danny fightin’ ‘ard for life”, the Colour-Sergeant said. “What’s that that whimpers over’ead?” said... ... An’ ‘ere’s to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your ‘ayrick ‘ead of ‘air — You big black boundin’ beggar — for you broke a British square! V erses 1889 t... ... An’ every bloomin’ campin’-ground exactly like the last; While the Big Drum says, With ‘is “rowdy-dowdy-dow!” — “Kiko kissywarsti don’... ...t grass, Our kafilas wind through the Khyber Pass. Lean are the camels but fat the frails, Light are the purses but heavy the bales, As the snowbound ... ...d.” So we plunged the hand to the mid-wrist deep In a cinnamon stew of the fat-tailed sheep, And he who never hath tasted the food, By Allah! he knowe... ...e of yestermorn I set the truth — I, the joy of life unquestioned — I, the Greek — I, the everlasting Wonder Song of Youth! With my “Tinka-tinka-...

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...is Scene is not laid at Very’s, but in snug quarters, which for reasons of my own I forbear to specify. We were two, so I will say, like Henri Monnier... ...ir ill-natured shafts at their inti- mate friends. With a sign I explained my wish to stay and listen as soon as Bixiou took up his parable, as will s... ...ome fortune apiece and married into noble families; he leaves his mother a life inter- est in the property—” “Even in 1827 I have known him without a ... ...ndispensable chattel, but a wife takes a second place in the high-pressure life of a political leader and great capi- talist. He once said in my heari... ...sharp-pointed face like a cat, he is thin and lanky; the other is cubical, fat, heavy as a sack, imperturbable as a diplomatist. Nucingen has a thick,... ... elephant of finance would contract to deliver votes on a division, or the Greeks to the T urks. For him busi- ness means the sum-total of varieties; ... ...ey are worth,’ put in Werbrust, a friend of the deceased. “ ‘Who?’ “ ‘That fat rogue Nucingen; he will go as far as the cem- 32 The Firm of Nucingen ... ...lf. No one has a word to say against him. If anybody should suggest that a big capitalist often is another word for a cut-throat, it would be a most e... ...l’Espirit des Lois.” “What?” said Finot. “Laws are like spiders’ webs; the big flies get through, while the little ones are caught.” “Then, what are y...

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...mestic record of home events, large and small, during those years of early life when the character is chiefly formed, and as an endeavour to trace the... ... busy? Do you want this afternoon? Can you take a good long walk?” “Ethel, my dear, how often have I told you of your im- petuosity—you have forgotten... ... if you would be so kind as to walk to Cocksmoor with us!” “T o Cocksmoor, my dear!” exclaimed the governess in dismay. “Yes, yes, but hear,” cried Et... ...ld be useful to you both. I had rather you did so than that you read it in Greek, though that is very nice too,” she added, smiling, as she put her ha... ...hat is very nice too,” she added, smiling, as she put her hand on a little Greek Testament, in which Ethel had been reading it, within her English Bib... ...” “Yes, indeed,” said Margaret earnestly. “I cannot fancy any advantage in life equal to it. Your fa- ther and mother so entirely one with you all.” ... ...ll worse weather and shorter days. As they were coming out of the house, a big, rough-look- ing, uncivilised boy came up before them, and called out, ... ...unior is a hor- rid fellow—he spites Norman, and he bullied me, till I was big enough to show him that it would not do—and though I am so much younger... ...eta?” “My name is Gertrude Margaret May,” said the little round mouth. The fat arm was drawn back, with all a baby’s dignity, and the rosy face was hi...

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...l determination to create for himself an occupa- tion out of a new kind of life. He had studied Dante, and had striven to arouse himself to ecstatic j... ...that you go back to Lon- don tomorrow.’ ‘I thought it would be best, Duke. My presence here can be of no comfort to you. ’ ‘I will not say anything ca... ...o have regretted the great intimacy which chance produced be- tween me and my lost friend. While she was with us no such feeling would have sufficed t... ...8 The Duke’s Children give him. The Treasury Bench on which he sat and the big box on the table before him were to him fortifications of which he knew... ...ho really did make me feel queer for half an hour”. Look at that. A great big drop—and the cloud has come over us as black as Erebus. Do hurry down. ... ...ottle is fatter than the people here seem to ap- prove. ’ ‘If his purse be fat, ’ said old Mr Tregear, ‘that will carry off any personal defect. ’ Lo... ...sonal defect. ’ Lord Silverbridge asked whether the candidate was not too fat to make speeches. Miss Tregear declared that he had made three speeches... ...i- ties! Would not many an old Roman have said as much for some favourite Greek slave,—for some freedmen whom he would admit to his very heart? But ... ...t? But what old Roman ever dreamed of giving his daughter to the son of a Greek bondsman! Had he done so, what would have become of the name of a Ro...

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...and she can’t forgive me. And the most awful thing about it is that it’s all my fault—all my fault, though I’m not to blame. That’s the point of the w... ...hat is to be done?” There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all ques tions, even the most complex and insoluble. That ... ... sung by the decanter women; so he must forget himself in the dream of daily life. “Then we shall see,” Stepan Arkadyevitch said to himself, and getti... ... misspelt as they always are in telegrams, and his face brightened. “Matvey, my sister Anna Arkadyevna will be here to morrow,” he said, check ing fo... ... him, rapidly looked through two pieces of business, made a few notes with a big pencil, and pushing away the papers, turned to his coffee. As he sipp... ...e said to him, glancing towards Kitty, “and growing old. Tiny bear has grown big now!” pursued the Frenchwoman, laughing, and she reminded him of his ... ...o the room, Dolly was sitting in the little drawing room with a white headed fat little boy, already like his father, giving him a lesson in French re... ...off his jacket. His mother had several times taken his hand from it, but the fat little hand went back to the button again. His mother pulled the butt... ...afterwards, on reading a Catholic writer’s history of the church, and then a Greek orthodox writer’s history of the church, and seeing that the two ch...

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...rrell. To Tenedos they come, And the deepe- drawing Barke do there disgorge Their warlike frautage: now on Dardan Plaines The fresh and yet unbruised Greekes do pitch Their brave Pavillions. Priams six- gated City, Dardan and Timbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien, And Antenoridus with massie Staples And corresponsive and fulfilling Bolts Stirre up the Sonnes of Troy. Now Expecta...

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...rlike frautage: now on Dardan Plaines 15 The fresh and yet vnbruised Greekes do pitch 16 Their braue Pauillions. Priams six- gated City, ... ...tion tickling skittish spirits, 22 On one and other side, Troian and Greeke, 23 Sets all on hazard. And hither am I come, 24 A Prolo... ... Enter Pandarus and Troylus. 35 Troylus. 36 Call here my Varlet, Ile vnarme againe. 37 Why should I warre without the wals ... ...is’d Infancie. 48 Pan. Well, I haue told you enough of this: For my 49 part, Ile not meddle nor make no farther. Hee that will 50 ... ...ce and sway, [YY1v 520 And thou most reuerend for thy stretcht- out life, 521 I giue to both your speeches: which were such, 522 As ... ... 851 That we haue better men. But hit or misse, 852 Our proiects life this shape of sence assumes, 853 Aiax imploy’d, pluckes downe Ac... ... sleepe: Manhood and Honor 1032 Should haue hard hearts, wold they but fat their thoghts 1033 With this cramm’d reason: reason and respect, 1... ...d as Achilles is: by going to Achilles, 1402 That were to enlard his fat already, pride, 1403 And adde more Coles to Cancer, when he burnes ... ...ruths by Troylus, when their times, 1808 Full of protest, of oath and big compare; 1809 Wants similes, truth tir’d with iteration, 1810 A...

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...eathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sayest, charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my sadness... ...brother, on his blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and report speaks goldenly of his pro... ...e by some treacher ous device and never leave thee till he hath ta’en thy life by some indirect means or other; for, I assure thee, and almost with t... ...moment threw him and broke three of his ribs, that there is little hope of life in him: so he served the second, and so the third. Yonder they lie; ... ... their discharge did stretch his leathern coat Almost to bursting, and the big round tears Coursed one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase... ...ong by him And never stays to greet him; ‘Ay’ quoth Jaques, ‘Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens; ’Tis just the fashion: wherefore do you look 23 A... ... An if he will come to me. AMIENS: What’s that ‘ducdame’? JAQUES: ’Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a circle. I’ll go sleep, if I can; if... ... youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles i... ...the prop erty of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and that a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he ...

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...it by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publicatio... ... the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvan... ...rel with me for carrying the same usage abroad. I am happy to believe that my confidence in that great nation was not misplaced. When this book was fi... ...ok; and which remain on the file of the Times Newspaper, of course. In all my writings, I hope I have taken every available opportunity of showing the... ...porcu- pines! First, there was Mr Spottletoe, who was so bald and had such big whiskers, that he seemed to have stopped his hair, by the sudden applic... ...the works could decently complain of want of room. In good sooth they were big enough, and perhaps, as the saying is, ugly enough, to be the most corr... ...to the young man’s slaughtering and appropriating to his own use any calf, fat or lean, that he might happen to find upon the premises; but as no such... ...ked, like a brown paper parcel, or a fish-basket, or an oyster barrel or a fat gentleman, or any other dull reality of life, in a stagecoach and carri... ...to any person in saying this, but assuming the position of the Chorus in a Greek Tragedy, delivered his opinion as a com- mentary on the proceedings. ...

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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any existence not in my imagination. They c...

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...irst published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have oppor... ...nces and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any existence not in my imagination. They can examine for themselves whether there has been any ... ...the vessel throbs like a strong giant that has just received the breath of life; the two great wheels turn fiercely round for the first time; and the ... ...be en dured by the apparently drowned, in the process of res toration to life. One gentleman on board had a letter of introduction to me from a mutu... ... pretty nigh as large as cheese plates (or for thy dear sake, heartiest of Greek Professors!), but because of all kinds of caters of fish, or flesh, o... ... in? It is but a moment. Heyday! the landlady of Almack’s thrives! A buxom fat mulatto woman, with sparkling eyes, whose head is dain tily ornamented... ...r three had prisoner nurses with them, for they were very sick; and one, a fat old negro whose leg had been taken off within the jail, had for his att... ...ung gentle men, with shirt collars reversed as usual, and armed with very big walking sticks; who planted two seats in the middle of the deck, at a d... ... it were to that he was ad dressing himself, ‘I expect we shall want the big coach.’ I could not help wondering within myself what the size of this...