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Excerpt: North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope.

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...o by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Penns... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...rough the bogs, 6 North America V ol. 2 you will lose yourself among rude hillocks, you will be out of the reach of humanity. The unfinished dome of ... ...a V ol. 2 face the Goldsmiths’ Hall. The Capitol stands upon the side of a hill, the front occupying a much higher position than the back; consequentl... ...Ladies will fill your ears and your hearts too with tales of the daily ef- forts they make for the comfort of their “people,” and of the ruin to those... ...s peremptory in the matter. He had heard of gun-boats and mortar-boats, of forts built upon the river, of Columbiads, Dahlgrens, and Parrotts, of all ... ... the theory of popular representation. It reminds one of the old days when Yorkshire returned two members, and Rutlandshire two also. And the discrepa...

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... known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. Therefore it may be feared that many of the events here detailed, or alluded to, may seem trite to those in search of novelty; but it is not for such that the collection has been made....

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmis- sion, in any way. A Book of Golden Deeds, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...r refuge, and himself took up his abode in the caves of the wild limestone hills that had become familiar to him when he was a shepherd. Brave cap- ta... ...nd fear: ‘To arms! To arms! Sir Consul, Lars Porsena is here.’ On the low hills to westward The Consul fixed his eye, And saw the swarthy storm of d... ...wn country, Stamford Bridge was, in like manner, guarded by a single brave Northman, after the battle fought A.D. 1066, when Earl Tostig, the son of G... ... The chosen English king, Harold, had marched at full speed from Sussex to Yorkshire, and met the invaders marching at their ease, without expecting a... ...mbers of which he thrust up his spear, and thus was able to hurl the brave Northman into the river, mortally wounded, but not till great numbers of hi... ...was go- ing to take the command of the Russian outpost of Lars, one of the forts by which the Russian Czars have slowly been carrying on the aggressiv... ... its observance in honor of the then reigning monarch, George III. All the forts in the island had done due honor to the birth- day of His Majesty, wh...

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...lly published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the writer to continue longer in the possession of his incognito were communicated in 1827, in the Introduction to the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate, consisting (besides a biographical sketch of the imaginary chronicler) of three tales, enti...

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...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The ...

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...Preface: An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considered, it is hoped that, in s...

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...nting over a spacious park, the undulating ground here turning a broad lawn towards the beams that silvered every blade of grass; there, curving away in banks of velvet green; shadowed by the trees; gnarled old thorns in the holiday suit whence they take their name, giant?s nosegays of horse-chestnuts, mighty elms and stalwart oaks, singly or in groups, the aristocracy of ...

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...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e upper and under chemise, if managed properly , (and either you or I, Mr. North, would be most proud to communicate our private advice on that subjec... ...arry a cymbal—a dulcimer—or a timbrel in her hands. In conclusion, my dear North, let me congratulate you that Mr. Hartmann is now in Hades (as I said... ...single illustration. In describing impressive scen- ery, as occurring in a hilly or a woody country, everybody must have noticed the habit which young... ...f us- ing the word amphitheatre: ‘amphitheatre of woods’— ‘amphitheatre of hills,’—these are their constant expressions. Why? Is it because the word a... ...other steps of the vast humanizing process then going on, the earliest ef- forts at legislation—recording at the same time the barba- rous condition o... ...nintermitting energies of a missionary amongst pagans. The laboring men of Yorkshire have not the clamorous ne- cessities of pagans; and therefore Lor...

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...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Who will be the new bishop? In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be the new Bishop? The death of old...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. -- Start in Life I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off hi...

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...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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...Excerpt: When The Duchess Was Dead No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the first nine months after he had left office he and the Duchess remained in...

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