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...The Lancashire Witches is a highly fictionalised account of the activities of the notorious witches Demdike, Chattox and Alice Nutter who, together with others terrorised the district of Lancashire around Pendle Hill and the Fore...

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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, considere...

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...evenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...lication A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. 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... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...s an equal opportunity university. 3 Robert Louis Stevenson A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson PREFACE AN AFFAIR WHICH MIGHT be deemed w... ...day afternoon, September 7th, packed his six prisoners on board the cutter Lancashire Lass, and deported them to the neighbouring low-island group of ... ..., ranks next to death, – exile from their native land and friends. And the Lancashire Lass ap- peared to carry away with her into the uttermost parts ...

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...An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and Edwin Waugh. Thomas Newbigging was born in Glasgow and died in Knutsford, Chesshire, living in between in Ros...

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...Excerpt: Introduction to Chronicles of the Canongate. The preceding volume of this Collection concluded the last of the pieces originally published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the wri...

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...Contents INTRODUCTION TO CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE. .......................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................

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...lter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ... then, in these words:— INTRODUCTION All who are acquainted with the early history of the Italian stage are aware that Arlecchino is not, in his origi... ... antiquarian interest. It was Mr. Train who brought to my recollection the history of Old Mortality, al- though I myself had had a personal interview ... ...n correspondent (a lady), [The late Mrs. Goldie.] who favoured me with the history of the upright and high-prin- cipled female, whom, in the Heart of ... ...es, having engaged in the rebellion of 1715, and been taken at Preston, in Lancashire, was carried to London, where he was tried and condemned, but af...

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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 laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had ...

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...sics Series Publication Bleak House by Charles Dickens 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 ... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...broadcast by the ill fated cause; and even those who have contemplated its history from the outermost circle of such evil have been insensibly tempted... ...led there in the dark as to what knowledge Mr. Jarndyce had of my earliest history—even as to the possibility of his being my father, though that idle... ...at counsel appearing for B; and so on through the whole alphabet, like the history of the apple pie. And thus, through years and years, and lives and ... ... want a light weight to be throwed for practice, Cornwall, Devonshire, or Lancashire, let ‘em throw me. They won’t hurt me. I have been throwed, all...

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...man’s hand, are its medicinal virtues, in connection with which may be mentioned the famous ‘dead hand,’ which was, in years past, kept at Bryn Hall, Lancashire… Thus the case is related of a woman who, attacked with the smallpox, had this dead hand in bed with her every night for six weeks, and of a poor lad living near Manchester who was touched with it for the cure of s...

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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. Irela...

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...les Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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 ... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University,... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...NGLAND UNDER HENRY THE SECOND PART THE FIRST .............. 92 A Child’s History of England iii PART THE SECOND....................................... ...olden crowns. However, the head to which the cap belonged, got safely into Lancashire, and lay pretty quietly there (the people in the secret being ve... ...Irish, and the priest, and the boy, and the Earl of Lincoln, all landed in Lancashire to invade England. The King, who had good in telligence of thei...

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Excerpt: The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

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...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE.....................

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...QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...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... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...BLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE ...................... 54 SCHLOSSER’S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...................... 60 FOX AND BURKE .... ................................................ 137 FALSIFICATION OF ENGLISH HISTORY ...................................................................... ...upon their voices, previously so loud. The tragic drama read aloud its own history, and the succession of its several steps—few and summary. The murde... ... than Mendelssohn’s music; or, which would be better still, to import from Lancashire the Handel chorus-singers. But then, again, whatever change in t...

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...From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my...

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...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE..................................................................................................... 11 Second Paper on Murder, Considered as One of the Fine...

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...es Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... .............................................51 In Reference to M. Michelet’s History of France.........................................51 THE ENGLISH MA... ... a manner “created the taste by which he is to be enjoyed.” T o sketch the history of the art, and to examine its principles critically, now re- mains... ...ingle maid-servant, neither of them having any pretension to the notice of history but what they derived from the great artist whose workmanship I am ... ...fine proportions. “That,” said the surgeon, “is a cast from the celebrated Lancashire highwayman, who concealed his profession for some time from his ... ...s of our class, struck me a good deal; and I was repeating it one day to a Lancashire lady, who thereupon informed me, that she had herself lived in t... ...gularly subsiding about sunset, united with the permanent distinc- tion of Lancashire as the very metropolis and citadel of labour, to point the thoug...

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...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house 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 ...

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... I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................................

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...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...nal ven- geance which overtook it was complete and tearful beyond all that history has recorded. 10 Memorials, and Other Papers arrived at the power ... ...nd not meaning to offer itself for anything else, had been read as genuine history. Here, on the other hand, the adventures of the Span- 14 Memorials... ...n, who, again, is himself miserably superficial in his analysis of English history. Hence the feeble credulity which Dr. Johnson showed with respect t... ...r no torch of improvement had yet explored the ancient habitations of this Lancashire capital. Elsewhere I have expressed the inexhaustible admiration... ... moral qualities, the unrivalled energy and persever- ance, of that native Lancashire population, as yet not much alloyed with Celtic adulteration. My...

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...Publication An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...n of nature, shared only by her favorite poets and he- roes of romance and history. Hence she was in the common youthful case of being a much better j... ...s. This is my mother, a woman of good family, every inch a lady. Here is a Lancashire lass, the daughter of a common pitman. She has exactly the same ... ...r a man to be a hero in this nineteenth century, which will be infamous in history as a time when the greatest advances in the power of man over natur...

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... or left into diningroom or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and there are the stairs going up in a sort of tunnel to the first-floor. Three bed-rooms in a row there, and three attics in a row above. That isn?t all the house really, but it?s all that one notices--nine windows as you look up from the front garden....

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... Classics Series Publication Howards End by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... such culture as is implied by the advertisements of antibilious pills. To history, to tragedy, to the past, to the future, Mrs. Munt re- mained equal... ...Empire with a puzzled, if reverent, sigh. Not out of them are the shows of history erected: the world would be a grey, bloodless place were it compose... ...tate just now, though extraor- dinarily interesting. Every now and then in history there do come these terrible geniuses, like Wagner, who stir up all... ...re.” “From this very Shropshire. Yes, that is odd. My mother’s people were Lancashire. But why do your brother and your sisters object to Mrs. Bast?” ...

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...Prologue: Nennius, the lowly minister and servant of the servants of God, by the grace of God, disciple of St. Elbotus, to all the followers of truth sendeth health. Be it known to your charity, that being dull in intellect and rude of speech, I have presumed to deliver thes...

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... of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) by Nennius Translated by J. A. Giles History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) by Nennius, trans. J.A. Giles i... ...Britons (Historia Brittonum) by Nennius Translated by J. A. Giles History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) by Nennius, trans. J.A. Giles is a publ... ...ritons (Historia Brittonum) by Nennius, trans. J.A. Giles 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... ... the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) by Nennius, trans. J.A. Giles, ... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 History of the Britons History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) by Nenni... ...rmed the southern boundary of Lothian. Whitaker says, the river Duglas, in Lancashire, near Wigan. 3 Not a river, but an isolated rock in the Frith o... ...s. 8 Exeter. 9 Or Ribroit, the Brue, in Somersetshire; or the Ribble, in Lancashire. 10 Or Agned Cathregonion, Cadbury, in Somersetshire; or Edinbu...