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...Excerpt: The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth; THE PROLOGUE -- I Come no more to make you laugh, Things now, That beare a Weighty, and a Serious Brow, Sad, high, and working, full of State and Woe: Such Noble Scoenes, as draw the Eye ...

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...Table of Contents: The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight, 1 -- THE PROLOGVE., 1 -- Actus Primus. Scoena Prima., 2 -- Scena Secunda., 8 -- Scaena Tertia., 13 -- Scena Quarta., 15 -- Actus Secundus. Scena Prima., 19 ...

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...The Famous History of the Life of King HENRY the Eight. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Tex... ... King HENRY the Eight. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc.... ... Who was enrold ’mongst wonders; and when we 459 Almost with rauish’d listning, could not finde 460 His houre of speech, a minute: He, (my L... ...t blinde Priest, like the eldest Sonne of Fortune, 1053 Turnes what he list. The King will know him one day. 1054 Suff. Pray God he doe, ... ...34 Scribes in the habite of Doctors; after them, the Bishop of 1335 Canterbury alone; after him, the Bishops of Lincolne, Ely, 1336 Rochest... ...re running heere. 1586 Kin. I then mou’d you, 1587 My Lord of Canterbury, and got your leaue 1588 To make this present Summons vnsoli... ...2528 2 He of Winchester 2529 Is held no great good louer of the Archbishops, 2530 The vertuous Cranmer. 2531 3 All the Land kn...

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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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...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 ... ... King’s palace, on the ground now occupied by the beau tiful cathedral of Canterbury. Sebert, the King’s nephew, built on a muddy marshy place near ... ...on of the handsome boy king Edwy, it was remarked by Odo, Arch bishop of Canterbury (who was a Dane by birth), that the King quietly left the corona... ...ed them with such small ceremony that he refused to appoint new bishops or archbishops when the old ones died, but kept all the wealth be longing to ... ...ket should be Archbishop of Canterbury, according to the customs of former Archbishops, and that the King should put him in possession of the revenues... ...of peace, in writing, as he lay very ill in bed, they brought him also the list of the de serters from their allegiance, whom he was re quired to pa... ...eir allegiance, whom he was re quired to pardon. The first name upon this list was John, his favourite son, in whom he had trusted to the last. ‘O Jo...

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...Excerpt: An ancient English cathedral tower? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up? Maybe it is set up...

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... The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles D... ... The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free... ...rrible bedstead set upright again, and this horrible court swept clean? What can she rise to, under any quantity of opium, higher than that! – Eh?’ He... ...on the bed. The Chinaman clutches the aggressive hands, resists, gasps, and protests. ‘What do you say?’ A watchful pause. ‘Unintelligible!’ Slowly lo... ...small salad in the dust of abbots and abbesses, and make dirt-pies of nuns and friars; while every ploughman in its outlying fields renders to once pu... ...ence of the Dean, conversing with the Verger and Mr. Jasper. Mr. Sapsea makes his obeisance, and is instantly stricken far more ecclesiastical than an...

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether...

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...s A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylva- ... ...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... ..., of him who least deserves it. There would be madness, Tom!’ Mr Pinch had listened to all this with looks of bewilderment, which seemed to be in part... ...nswer to the simplest inquiry; though Mr Pecksniff could make out, by hard listening at the door, that they two being left together, he was talkative ... ...re, for all that, especially on Sun- day morning, before church-time. Even archbishops shave, or must be shaved, on a Sunday, and beards will grow aft... ...alls, for bless the mottled little legs of that there precious child (like Canterbury Brawn his own dear father says, which so they are) his own I hav...

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...ave her whole rights and her liberties inviolable; and we will this to be observed in such a manner, that it may appear from thence, that the freedom of elections, which was reputed most requisite to the English Church, which we granted, and by our Charter confirmed, and obtained the Confirmation of the same, from our Lord Pope Innocent the Third, before the rupture betwee...

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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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...Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner and Fragmenta Regalia by Sir Robert Nau... ...LECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner, and Fragmenta Rega- lia by Sir Robert ... ...greatest attendance of nobility. In the same hall were the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, a great number of Councillors of State, o... ...wife of Edward III., built Queen’s College; and Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury, Canter- bury College; William Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, ra... ...d in the same manner into parishes: as it has two Provinces, so it has two Archbishops: the one of Canterbury, Primate and Metropolitan of all England... ...quent letters and complaints to the Deputy Mountjoy for cashiering of that list as soon as he could, might be collected, for the Queen was then driven... ... Moreover, it will be a true note of her providence, that she would always listen to her profit: for she would not refuse the *Fathers. **During Queen...

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...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltair...

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...n Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 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... ...ill be moved by the Spirit or by folly. In this doubt and uncer- tainty we listen patiently to everyone; we even allow our women to hold forth. Two or... ... to preach. At first the spectators fell a-laugh- ing, but they afterwards listened to him; and as enthusiasm is an epidemical distemper, many were pe... ...s book won the doctor a great number of partisans, and lost him the See of Canterbury; but, in my humble opinion, he was out in his calculation, and h... ...is style: “We grant, of our own free will, the following privileges to the archbishops, bishops, priors, and barons of our kingdom,” etc. The House of...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

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...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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... ...es, “that a soul which has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul such an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressi... ... many crude but genuine feelings tumble together for the mastery as in the lists of tournament, we are tempted to think of the Large 139 Familiar Stu... ...ng. We have, for instance, a letter by him, Craig, and Spottiswood, to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, anent “a wicked and rebellious woman,” ... ...r instance, a letter by him, Craig, and Spottiswood, to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, anent “a wicked and rebellious woman,” one Anne Good, ...

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...eritie. For your Fortune, and Merit both, have been Eminent. And you have planted Things, that are like to last. I doe now publish my Essayes; which, of all my other workes, have beene most Currant: For that, as it seemes, they come home, to Mens Businesse, and Bosomes....

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...THE ESSAYS 5 ?Of Truth 7 ?Of Death 9 ?Of Unity in Religion 12 ?Of Revenge 13 ?Of Adversity 14 ?Of Simulation and Dissimulation 17 ?Of Parents and Children 18 ?Of Marriage and Single Life 20 ?Of Envy 24 ?Of Love 25 ?Of Great Place 28 ?Of Bo...

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