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... was an American anarchist. She was skilled in many subjects and wrote essays, poems, letters, sketches, stories and speeches. These are her selected Haymarket speeches. (Summary by enko)...

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Excerpt: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII.

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...istory of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...istory of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Facu... ...d pedants whose lives have been entirely consumed in col leges, and among books; for however exquisitely human na ture may have been described by wr... ...kind of knowledge. Neither physic nor law are to be practically known from books. Nay, the farmer, the planter, the gardener, must perfect by experien... ... it hold when the writer himself takes his lines not from nature, but from books? Such characters are only the faint copy of a copy, and can have neit... ...n proposes, with proper assistance, to open an academy at his house in the Haymarket, for the instruction of those who are willing to be initiated in ...

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...ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOKS TWO by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Bosto... ... spirits for the other, was sitting apart in his little room, reading such books as he had, one evening, when honest Colonel Westbury, flushed with li... ...er of two or three languages, and had that further education which neither books nor years will give, but which some men get from the silent teaching ... ... see with one’s own eyes men and countries, is better than reading all the books of travel in the world: and it was with extreme delight and exultatio... ...ond’s 38 Henry Esmond – Book Two lasted but a few days; and as a score of books have been written concerning it, it may be dismissed very briefly her... ...wine to his friends; and invited the two gentlemen to his apartment in the Haymarket, whither we accordingly went. “I shall get credit with my landlad... ...r interrupted. But I doubt whether he was not happier in his garret in the Haymarket, than ever he was in his splendid pal- ace at Kensington; and I b... ...ter of Mr. St. John, both over the bottle, and with Mrs. Mountford, of the Haymarket Theatre (a vet- eran charmer of fifty, with whom the young scapeg...

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... Elephant and Castle, the following were the names and numbers of children’s books principally in circulation: ‘Jack the Giant killer 7,943... ...d had ever produced. ‘A Member strongly deprecating the use of all the other books mentioned, suggested that Jack and Jill might per haps be exempted... ...the assistance of the ingenious Signor Gagliardi, of Windmill street, in the Haymarket, he had succeeded in making with such nicety, that a policeman,... ...ke that old gentleman who has just emerged from the Cafe de L’Europe in the Haymarket, where he has been din Mudfog and Other Sketches Charles Di...

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...ye occasionally wandering to the busts and the long array of many-coloured books, was quietly reviewing the labours of the day before. He was a man of... ...n at the court of Grunewald; and that great, pleasant, sunshiny gallery of books and statues was, in practice, Gotthold’s private cabi- net. On this p... ...f a life, perhaps – to open, and to read them. And what have we to do with books? The Herr Doctor might perhaps be asked for his advice; but we have n... ...moniously into Gondremark’s study. It was a large and very high apartment; books all about the walls, papers on the table, papers on the floor; here a... ...ar, of course, in an invidious character; but I am a man of taste, fond of books and solidly informing talk, and unfortunately condemned for life to t... ...t Amelie.’ Mine is a presentation copy, obtained for me by Mr. Bain in the Haymarket; and the name of the first owner is written on the fly-leaf in th...

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.... I have seen as many such places as most travellers in my line, and I never saw one such, better kept. Among the bedridden there was great patience, ... ...erth. In every trap, somebody was sitting over a fire, waiting for Jack. Now, it was a crouch- ing old woman, like the picture of the Norwood Gipsy in... ... about me in the carriage, like a collected traveller. I had two ample Imperials on the roof, other fitted storage for luggage in front, and other up ... ...e travellers, and ran away.’ ‘You know something about Falstaff, eh?’ said I. ‘ All about him,’ said the very queer small boy. ‘I am old (I am nine), ... ...m profoundly ignorant in that particular of at least nine-tenths of them. Indeed, saying that I know the church of old Gower’s tomb (he lies in effigy... ... originally of a good family from Dorking, who takes his whole establishment of wives, in single file, in at the door of the jug Department of a disor... ..., after that. If we were very lucky, a policeman’s rattle sprang and a fray turned up; but, in gen- eral, surprisingly little of this diversion was pr...

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...never get their moneys in, and had an immense number of bad debts in their books. As is usual, there was a great deal of truth and a great deal of mal... ...up and brushed, spick-and-span, at seven o’clock; and had gone through his books, and given out the work for the journeymen, and eaten a hearty breakf... ... and sit down opposite to it upon two chairs piled with more or less music-books (according to their convenience), and, so seated, go through a set of... ...r’s sitting-room her dear grand rosewood piano, and every one of her music-books, which the kind-hearted tailor had purchased at the sale of Walker’s ... ...rett. Does your Lady- ship remember Brett, who played the ‘Fathers’ at the Haymarket in 1802?” “What an old stupid Roundtowers is!” says Slang, archly... ...ust begun, and like- wise on the table a multiplicity of those little gilt books, half sen- timental and half religious, which the wants of the age an...

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...er- sonality; his clothing, his jewels, the tools of his employ- ment, his books, the objects of art he may have bought or made, his personal weapons ... ...ty to individuals will tend to make clothing, ornamentation, imple- ments, books, and all the arts finer and more beautiful, be- cause by buying such ... ...d, with doctor, shop, and so forth, and may even have a pneumatic tube for books and small parcels to the nearest post-office. But the solitary homest... ... at last to the station. There we shall find pleasant rooms with seats and books—luggage all neatly elsewhere—and doors that we shall imagine give upo... ...windows, and those set high, gives the wall space of the long corridors to books; the middle part of the train is indeed a comfortable library with ab... ...g between earth and sky, with a trumpet in his hands, over there above the Haymarket, against the October glow; and when he sounds, all the samurai, a...

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...and presently, because of her aunt’s censorship, she took to smuggling any books she thought might be prohibited instead of bringing them home openly,... ...ey decided to treat that as irrelevant. “There ought to be a Censorship of Books. We want it badly at the present time. Even with the Censorship of Pl... ...laster casts and the half of a human skull, displayed an odd miscellany of books—Shaw and Swinburne, Tom Jones, Fabian Essays, Pope and Dumas, 27 H. ... ... so that I can offer you a life of wide and generous refine- ment, travel, books, discussion, and easy relations with a circle of clever and brilliant... ...dissected frog in a sealed bottle, and a pile of shiny, black-covered note-books. In the corner of the room were two hockey-sticks and a tennis-racket... ... work? She walked along the Strand and across Trafalgar Square, and by the Haymarket to Piccadilly, and so through dignified squares and palatial alle...

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...own in the study before the Baronet’s table, set out with the orderly blue books and the letters, the neatly docketed bills and symmetrical pamphlets,... ...s, the neatly docketed bills and symmetrical pamphlets, the locked account-books, desks, and dispatch boxes, the Bible, the Quarterly Review, and the ... ...richly gilt Louis Quatorze candlesticks, six gilt albums, keep- sakes, and Books of Beauty, a gold enamelled snuff-box which had once belonged to Mada... ...apegrace of a Master Todd before mentioned, received little eighteen-penny books, with “Athene” engraved on them, and a pompous Latin inscrip- tion fr... ... was afraid of Georgy. The boy’s dashing manners, and offhand rattle about books and learning, his like- ness to his father (dead unreconciled in Brus... ...r, it is on record, that Major Dobbin treated himself to half-price at the Haymarket Theatre that evening, where let us hope he en- joyed himself. CHA...

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...or a moment neither Mr. Carey nor his wife knew what to do. “I’ll put some books under him,” said Mary Ann. She took from the top of the harmonium the... ...he Bible,” said Mrs. Carey , in a shocked tone. “Couldn’t you get him some books out of the study?” Mr. Carey considered the question for an in- stant... ...thought of that, William,” said Aunt Louisa. Philip perched himself on the books, and the Vicar, having said grace, cut the top off his egg. “There,” ... ...t on her arm and went upstairs. Mr. Carey continued to read one of his old books, but as the clock struck ten he got up, put out the lamps, and follow... ...not more than ten lines.” “Don’t you think I might take him some pic- ture books to look at, William? There are some of the Holy Land. There couldn’t ... ... suddenly, with a movement of irritation, that instead of turning down the Haymarket he had sauntered along Shaftesbury Avenue. It bored him to retrac...

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...oung Lord Longferry, Member of Parliament, after passing his nights in the Haymarket taverns, was too often brought home in the morn- ing on policemen... ...osiness, comfort, and method idealised. There was no study, nor were there books, which would have been quite useless to Mr. Fogg; for at the Reform t... ... heavy wagers for or against Phileas Fogg, who was set down in the betting books as if he were a race-horse. Bonds were issued, and made their ap- pea...

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...t out of his own head. He said, some of it, but the rest was out of pirate books and robber books, and every gang that was high toned had it. Some ... ...somed? What’s that?” “I don’t know. But that’s what they do. I’ve seen it in books; and so of course that’s what we’ve got to do.” “But how can we do... ...t is?” “Why, blame it all, we’ve GOT to do it. Don’t I tell you it’s in the books? Do you want to go to doing different from what’s in the books, an... ...e a club and ransom them as soon as they get here?” “Because it ain’t in the books so — that’s why. Now, Ben Rogers, do you want to do things regular... ...on’t you? — that’s the idea. Don’t you reckon that the people that made the books knows what’s the correct thing to do? Do you reckon YOU can learn ... ...unger, of Drury Lane Theatre London, and Edmund Kean the elder, of the Royal Haymarket Theatre, Whitechapel, Pudding Lane, Piccadilly, London, and ...

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... contemplative, not uncharitable frame of mind, and apply yourself to your books or your business. I have no other moral than this to tag to the prese... ...ery room of the house, and everything in every one of her drawers; and her books, and her piano, and her dresses, and all her neck- laces, brooches, l... ...of knives, pencil-cases, gold seals, toffee, Little Warblers, and romantic books, with large coloured pictures of knights and robbers, in many of whic... ...e cards, girls,” cried my lady, in a great tremor; “put down Mr. Crawley’s books, Miss Sharp”; and these or- ders had been scarcely obeyed, when Mr. C... ...tual than self-instruction? The 88 V anity Fair eldest was rather fond of books, and as there was in the old library at Queen’s Crawley a considerabl... ...r, it is on record, that Major Dobbin treated himself to half-price at the Haymarket Theatre that evening, where let us hope he en- joyed himself. CHA...

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...ery diligent. One sunny afternoon when I had come home from school with my books and portfolio, watching my long shadow at my side, and as I was glidi... ...piles of writings, and at a bookcase full of the most inexpressive looking books that ever had anything to say for themselves. Then I went on, thinkin... ...ttle tottering bench of shabby old volumes outside the door, labelled “Law Books, all at 9d.” Some of the inscriptions I have enumerated were written ... ...the scantiest neces saries in the way of furniture; a few old prints from books, of Chancellors and barristers, wafered against the wall; and some ha... ...room next his bed chamber, which I found to be in part a little library of books and papers and in part quite a little museum of his boots and shoes a... ...s the water again and makes his way to that curious region lying about the Haymarket and Leicester Square which is a centre of attraction to indiffere...

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...ay that no one of them has the charm of the best personages of the earlier books. The idolaters of Amelia would of course exclaim at this sentence as ... ...this completion of the picture. We should not have known (for in the other books, with the possible exception of Mrs. Fitzpatrick, the characters are ... ...according to law. Again, as these laws are contained in a great variety of books, the statutes which re- late to the office of a justice of peace maki... ...hat is the chair on which you sat. Upon these boards you have stood. These books you have read to me. Can I walk among our beds of flowers without vie... ...ness for my new ac- quaintance; for, our conversation turning chiefly upon books, and principally Latin ones (for we read several of the classics toge... ... masques then set out together in several chairs, and all proceeded to the Haymarket. When they arrived at the Opera-house the colonel and Mrs. James ...

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...ery diligent. One sunny afternoon when I had come home from school with my books and portfolio, watching my long shadow at my side, and as I was glidi... ...piles of writings, and at a bookcase full of the most inexpressive looking books that ever had anything to say for themselves. Then I went on, thinkin... ...ttle tottering bench of shabby old volumes outside the door, labelled “Law Books, all at 9d.” Some of the inscriptions I have enumerated were written ... ...the scantiest neces saries in the way of furniture; a few old prints from books, of Chancellors and barristers, wafered against the wall; and some ha... ...room next his bed chamber, which I found to be in part a little library of books and papers and in part quite a little museum of his boots and shoes a... ...s the water again and makes his way to that curious region lying about the Haymarket and Leicester Square which is a centre of attraction to indiffere...

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...consequence of her short life. De Cleyre was especially influenced by Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft and Clarence Darrow. After the hanging of the Haymarket protesters in 1887, she became an anarchist. Till then I believed in the essential justice of the American law of trial by jury, she wrote in an autobiographical essay, After that I never could. She was known as an ...

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...re than ordinary youthful folly, which had induced his father to agree with the college authorities that his name had better be taken off the college books,--all which had been cause of very great sorrow to the Duke. The other boy was to go to Cambridge, but his father had thought it well to give him a twelve-month?s run on the Continent, under his own inspection....

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... the college authorities that his name had better be taken off the college books,—all which had been cause of very great sorrow to the Duke. The other... ...they were antagonistic to the politics of her life. He had his ideas about books too, as to manners of life, as to art, and even ethics. Whether or no... ...somebody,—with some woman who would be kind to you. I like to see you with books, but books alone should not be sufficient at your age.’ How little, ... ... went at once, and found him seated on a sofa, which stood close along the bookshelves on one side of the room. The table had already been cleared, an... ...I was to do, and he said that the Governor had better take my name off the books of the college. I did ask whether I couldn’t go over to Maclean. ’ ‘W... ...iend, and when he had passed through the first street and had got into the Haymarket there he was! The Major came up to him, touched his hat, asked t...

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...s I never had really had it, and it had simply been affected, and got out of books. I have not decided that question even now. Once I quite made frien... ...d them. Moreover, they all began by degrees to grasp that I had already read books none of them could read, and understood things (not forming part of... ... open the conversation, but as it were by accident. “A coffin?” “Yes, in the Haymarket; they were bringing it up out of a cellar.” “From a cellar?” “N... ...hird, lower and lower, and in seven years you will come to a basement in the Haymarket. That will be if you were lucky. But it would be much worse if ... ...use, then to a third, then somewhere else, till you come down at last to the Haymarket. There you will be beaten at every turn; that is good manners t... ...s been thrown away like a dish clout; it was drunk away in the tavern at the Haymarket; let me out, kind people, to live in the world again.’” And I w... ...nge thing happened. I was so accustomed to think and imagine everything from books, and to picture everything in the world to myself just as I had mad... ... so affected, so purposely made up, so completely a product of the brain, of books, that I could not even keep it up a minute—first I dashed away to a... ...t, almost as hard work, and we are all privately agreed that it is better in books. And why do we fuss and fume sometimes? Why are we perverse and ask...

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...n the outer room where the shop is; in the inner room my bookcase with a few books in and a trunk of which I keep the key; married I told her that one... ... in billiard rooms?” “I even spent the night in Vyazemsky’s House in the Haymarket. Yes, it is true; there was much disgrace and degradation in my... ...ble. She was busy at her needlework, and some times in the evening she read books taken from my book case. The choice of books in the bookcase must ...

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...ered it none were his own except the photograph frame, the Cupids, and the books. 48 Howards End “Damn, damn, damnation!” he murmured, together with ... ... any moment. Have you any ideas?” “I thought we would go to Harrods or the Haymarket Stores,” said Mrs. Wilcox rather hope- lessly. “Everything is sur... ...r—” She broke off, for they had reached the sta- tionery department of the Haymarket Stores, and Mrs. Wilcox wanted to order some private greeting car... ...aspira- tions, the mental dishonesty, the familiarity with the outsides of books. She knew the very tones in which he would address her. She was only ... ...sorrow. R. L. S. brought up the rear, and the outburst ended in a swamp of books. No disrespect to these great names. The fault is ours, not theirs. T... ...n his cramped little mind dwelt something that was greater than Jefferies’ books— the spirit that led Jefferies to write them; and his dawn, though re... ...t and smoothed it thoughtfully. He had hitherto supposed the unknown to be books, literature, clever conversation, culture. One raised oneself by stud...

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...YS YS YS YS The ‘Essay on Man’ was intended to have been comprised in four books:— The first of which, the author has given us under that title, in fo... ...be amiss to be a little more particular concerning each of these projected books. The first, as it treats of man in the abstract, and con- siders him ... ...t it is not sufficient for this knowledge to consider man in the abstract: books will not serve the purpose, nor yet our own experience singly, ver. 1... ...continuation to the last breath, ver. 222, &c. Yes, you despise the man to books confined, Who from his study rails at human kind; Though what he lear... ...all. And yet the fate of all extremes is such, Men may be read, as well as books, too much. 10 T o observations which ourselves we make... ...us, brought to the theatres of Covent Garden, Lincolns-Inn-Fields, and the Haymarket, to be the reigning pleasures of the court and town. This happene...

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...a clergyman, and his audience must be also his flock, for they held prayer-books as well as guide-books in their hands. They filed out of the chapel i... ..., knelt by the side of an empty trunk, vainly endeavouring to pave it with books of varying thick- ness and size. She gave two or three sighs, for the... ...edged round it with difficulty. The sit- ting-room itself was blocked with books. “Are these people great readers?” Freddy whis- pered. “Are they that... ...but it’ll be very different now, mother thinks. She will read all kinds of books.” “So will you.” “Only medical books. Not books that you can talk abo... ... houses and their children) seek notoriety by print. Her attitude was: “If books must be written, let them be written by men”; and she de-veloped it a... ...war- fare, only to be undertaken by those who have been fully armed at the Haymarket Stores. Miss Honeychurch, they trusted, would take care to equip ...

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...lderman very well, and sentence Jack after dinner. Starve me, keep me from books and honest people, educate me to love dice, gin, and pleasure, and pu... ... took water on the river, and Harry saw London Bridge, with the houses and booksellers’ shops thereon, looking like a street, and the Tower of Lon- do... ..., and read in the library, and bewildered his little brains with the great books he found there. After a while, the little lad grew accustomed to the ... ...haplain’s room; and next to this a small chamber where Father Holt had his books, and Harry Esmond his sleeping closet. The side of the house facing t... ...the Father was away, he locked his private chamber; but the room where the books were was left to little Harry, who, but for the society of this gentl... ...wine to his friends; and invited the two gentlemen to his apartment in the Haymarket, whither we accordingly went. “I shall get credit with my landlad... ...r interrupted. But I doubt whether he was not happier in his garret in the Haymarket, than ever he was in his splendid pal- ace at Kensington; and I b... ...ter of Mr. St. John, both over the bottle, and with Mrs. Mountford, of the Haymarket Theatre (a vet- eran charmer of fifty, with whom the young scapeg...

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...oman out. Her previous admiration of ‘the board’ (who all sit behind great books, and with their hats on) fades into nothing before her respect for he... ...and secretary, the Misses Johnson Parker: subscriptions were entered into, books were bought, all the free-seat people provided therewith, and when th... ... on the first Sunday succeeding these events, there was such a dropping of books, and rustling of leaves, that it was morally impossible to hear one w... ...- cule and sarcasm. Neither the old men nor the old women could read their books, now they had got them, said the three Miss Browns. Never mind; they ... ...from the pittance the boy earned, by copying writings, and translating for booksellers. They had removed from some country place and settled in London... ...to any other public post on his return, than the post at the corner of the Haymarket, where he officiated as assis- 148 Sketches by Boz tant-waterman...

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... 4 Joseph Andrews he displayed eminently and constantly in the four great books here given, he was not, as the French idiom expresses it, dans son as... ...in, and not merely a playwright, but lessee of the “Little Theatre” in the Haymarket. The plays which he produced here—satirico-political pieces, such... ...mproved as entertained. But I pass by these and many others to mention two books lately published, which represent an admirable pattern of the amiable... ...d found means to question him concerning several particulars; as, how many books there were in the New Testament? which were they? how many chapters t... ...r Thomas’s family he had employed all his hours of leisure in reading good books; that he had read the Bible, the Whole Duty of Man, and Thomas a Kemp... ...? To which he answered, “He hoped he had profited somewhat better from the books he had read than to lament his condition in this world. That, for his...

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... knight; all the ladies at Church this afternoon were in mourning; all the booksellers are wild; and Lintot says not a third of the copies of the Spec... .... Childs’, Rumble and Briggs prepared a gold service, and Garraway, of the Haymarket, a service of the Benvenuto Cellini pattern, which were the admir... ... and ab- beys between Windeck and Cleves, for every one of which the guide-books have a legend and a ghost, who might, with the commonest stretch of i... ... countries—crowds of English, as you may fancy, armed with Murray’s guide- books, troops of chattering Frenchmen, Frankfort Jews with roulette-tables,... ...th heartfelt joy. (Have you not remarked, dear friend, how often in novel- books, and on the stage, joy is announced by the above burst of insensate m... ...f ro- mance, assuredly it has often occurred to every one of you, that the books we delight in have very unsatisfactory conclu- sions, and end quite p...

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...oman out. Her previous admiration of ‘the board’ (who all sit behind great books, and with their hats on) fades into nothing before her respect for he... ...and secretary, the Misses Johnson Parker: subscriptions were entered into, books were bought, all the free-seat people provided therewith, and when th... ... on the first Sunday succeeding these events, there was such a dropping of books, and rustling of leaves, that it was morally impossible to hear one w... ...- cule and sarcasm. Neither the old men nor the old women could read their books, now they had got them, said the three Miss Browns. Never mind; they ... ...from the pittance the boy earned, by copying writings, and translating for booksellers. They had removed from some country place and settled in London... ...to any other public post on his return, than the post at the corner of the Haymarket, where he officiated as assis- 148 Sketches by Boz tant-waterman...