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... by Anthony T rollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...eries Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...use into a dingy little court called Little Tankard Yard, near the Bank of England, and going through a narrow dark long passage got into a little off... ...ame a duke, had held very high office, having been the Chancel- lor of the Exchequer. When he was transferred, perforce, to the House of Lords, he had... ...ean that you shall do the foreign affairs.’ ‘You’d better let me be at the exchequer. I’m very good at accounts.’ ‘I’ll do that myself. The accounts t... ...e list of subordinates. Noblesse oblige. The Secretaries of State, and the Chancellors, and the First Lords, selected from this or the other party fel... ...wers had had deputa- 102 The Prime Minister tion after deputation to many Chancellors of the Exchequer; and these deputations had been most respectab...

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Excerpt: The Uncommercial Traveler by Charles Dickens.

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...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which p...

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...g Chapters One through Thirty four by Charles Dickens is a publica tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...hapters One through Thirty four by Charles Dickens is a publica tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any o... ...ds of court have faded into mothers and grandmothers; a long procession of Chancellors has come in and gone out; the legion of bills in the suit have ... ...est neces saries in the way of furniture; a few old prints from books, of Chancellors and barristers, wafered against the wall; and some half dozen r... ...h the same seal. These are the Great Seal’s impressions, my dear, all over England—the children know them!” “How changed it is!” I said again. “Why, s... ... a silver tea pot. They took a multitude of titles. They were the Women of England, the Daughters of Brit 103 Bleak House – Vol. One ain, the Sister... ... Home Department and the leadership of the House of Commons to Joodle, the Exchequer to Koodle, the Colonies to Loodle, and the Foreign Office to Mood...

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...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

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...Introduction: Queen Elizabeth herself, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton....

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...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen a...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Book the Second translated by Charles Cotton, ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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