...his time to morrow, this time next day, and so forth; and entrusted a vast number of messages to those who in tended returning to town that night, wh... ...ed us, as would have accommodated a score or two of grown up families. The number of creeds and forms of religion to which the pleasure of our company... ...attached to the liberal professions there, have been educated at this same school. Whatever the defects of American universities may be, they dissemi ... ...ned it about its mimic eyes. She was seated in a little enclosure, made by school desks and forms, writing her daily journal. But soon finishing this... ... but slumber, in the House of Lords. I have seen elections for borough and county, and have never been impelled (no matter which party won) to damage ... ...g cultivation in the same place could possibly have af forded me. In this district, as in all others where slavery sits brooding, (I have frequently ... ... have a display of goods in their windows, such as may be seen in thriving county towns in England; and there are some which would do no discredit to ... ...s of a rope. After breakfasting at Whitehall, we took the stage coach for Albany: a large and busy town, where we ar rived between five and six o’cl... ...at of the members of Congress, one is sent here from every Con gressional district: its member influencing the selection. Commissions in the service ...

...ed a copy of “Lines addressed to a young lady on quitting Miss Pinkerton’s school, at the Mall; by the late revered Doctor Samuel Johnson.” In fact, t... ...t conferring upon her at parting the high honour of the Dixonary. Although schoolmistresses’ letters are to be trusted no more nor less than churchyar... ...have remembered it; indeed, vowed and protested that she expected to see a number of Amelia’s nephews and nieces. She was quite disappointed that Mr. ... ...e periodical. Boggley Wollah is situated in a fine, lonely, marshy, jungly district, famous for snipe-shooting, and where not unfrequently you may flu... ...te-a- tete, in the dining-room, during the drinking of which Sedley told a number of his best Indian stories; for he was extremely talkative in man’s ... ...and in the morning is locked up in his study, or else rides to Mudbury, on county business, or to Squashmore, where he preaches, on Wednesdays and Fri... ...ad not the preference in the marriage, and the remaining bar- onets of the county were indignant at their comrade’s misalli- ance. Never mind the comm... ...suppose that they ever would have dreamed of paying a visit to so remote a district as Bloomsbury, if they thought the family whom they proposed to ho... ...usekeeper had been to pay Southdown a furtive visit at his chambers in the Albany; and found him—O the naughty dear abandoned wretch!—smoking a cigar ...

...ORGAN NEW-YORK C. WILEY , 3 W ALL STREET J. Seymour, printer 1823 Southern District of New-Y ork ss. Be it remembered, That on the thirteenth day of J... ...e Independence of the United States of America, Charles Wiley, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right wher... ...ulia was, consequently, entrusted to the government of a select board- ing-school; and, as even the morals of the day were, in some degree, tinctured ... ...h an intimacy between her nieces, Julia had already formed a friendship at school, and did not con- ceive her heart was large enough to admit two at t... ...mily. Notwithstanding the house of Miss Emmerson stood in the midst of the numberless villas that adorn Manhattan Island, the habits of its mistress w... ...fteen a winter in. There are, absolutely, but three young men in the whole county who can be thought in any manner as proper matches for us; and one h... ...s of awful romance; how the soul longs for the consolations of friendship. Albany is one of the most picturesque places in the world; situated most de... ...pay you your price, but you must furnish me with good horses to meet me at Albany—remember that I take all the useless expense between the two cities,... ...re- turned the lady, with an affected sigh. “I really had not observed the number of your charming fam- ily—how many are there of you?” “A baker’s doz...

...woodbine twining, until she died. I must refer you to the Registrar of the District in which the humble dwelling was situated, for the certified cause... ... at home in the Red Sea, my young friend?’ ‘Read of it with teacher at the school,’ said the boy. ‘ And Lazarus?’ ‘Yes, and him too. But don’t you tel... ... that had brought the boy; the two friends (once boys together at a public school) inside, smoking cigars; the messenger on the box beside the driver.... ...ou must walk the rest, sir; it’s not many yards.’ He spoke in the singular number, to the express exclusion of Eugene. ‘This is a confoundedly out-of-... ...by fields and trees. Be- tween Battle Bridge and that part of the Holloway district in which he dwelt, was a tract of suburban Sahara, where tiles and... ...e did it for?’ ‘Impossible to say, my dear. As I have told you time out of number since his will was brought to light, I doubt if I ever exchanged a h... ...n in the grave, and Fledgeby flourished alone. He lived in chambers in the Albany , did Fledgeby , and main- tained a spruce appearance. But his youth... ...ndstone, and turned it with a wary eye. Mr Alfred Lammle came round to the Albany to breakfast with Fledgeby. Present on the table, one scanty pot of ... ...tched off to a great blank barren Union House, as far from old home as the County Jail (the remoteness of which is always its worst punishment for sma...

...a doctrine. As regards our parliament, that is probably the best Brit- ish school of foreign politics, seeing that the subject is not there often take... ...had they held in their hands vast commercial cities and great agricultural districts; had they owned ships and been masters of a wide-spread trade, Am... ...ed as the Territories are now treated.” (The Territories are vast outlying districts belonging to the Union, but not as yet endowed with State govern-... ...tects would be frightened at the di- mensions which are needed, and at the number of apart- ments which are required to be clustered under one roof. W... ...gards riding at Newport, we were not tempted to repeat the experiment. The number of carriages which we saw there—remembering as I did that the place ... ...usta and not Port- land is the capital of Maine. Of the State of New York, Albany is the capital, and not the city which bears the State’s name. And o... ... probably at the Clifton House on the Canada side. He will then pass on to Albany, taking the Trenton Falls on his way. From Albany he will go down th... ...own with their hands in their pockets—had they done as second-rate boys at school will do, declare that they had been licked, and then feel that all t... ...en days, who has lived in the State for a year, and for four months in the county in which he votes. He can vote for all “officers that now are, 246 ...

...d, but at home we still preserve the racy idioms of our fathers, and every county, in some parts every dale, has its own quality of speech, vocal or v... ...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... ...heart of young Scotland will be always touched more nearly by pau- city of number and Spartan poverty of life. So we may argue, and yet the difference... ...umes, save when they stare upon him from the shelves; but the grave-digger numbers his graves. He would indeed be something different from human if hi... ...nd the desire of native places. So may some cadet of Royal Ecossais or the Albany Regi- ment, as he mounted guard about French citadels, so may some o... ...passages as: “Scene 6. The Hermitage. Night set scene. Place back of scene 1, No. 2, at back of stage and hermitage, Fig. 2, out of set piece, R. H. i... ... seem to myself to wander in a ghostly street – E. W., I think, the postal district – close below the fool’s-cap of St. Paul’s, and yet within easy he... ...g-room in his fine, natural civility; he will sail near the wind; he is no district visitor – no Wesley or Robespierre; his conscience is void of all ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on...