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............................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HA...

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY... ...THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, ... ...SMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRIN- ITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE. T HE ACTORS IN THE OLD TRAGEDIES, as we read, piped their iambics to a tune, spe... ...Castlewood (the second Viscount), of King Charles the First’s time, had no male issue save his one son, Eustace Esmond, who was killed, with half of t... ...here, and told you where to find it, if you had need to go to my room. The descent is easy down the wall into the ditch; and so, once more farewell, u... ...ferring the title of Marquis of Esmond on my Lord Castlewood and the heirs-male of his body; his appointment as Lord-Lieutenant of the County, and Maj... ...and must impart it to some one. She made herself a good scholar of French, Italian, and Latin, having been grounded in these by her father in her yout... ... hand. In this desultory way the works of most of the English, French, and Italian poets came under his eyes, and he had a smattering of the Spanish t... ...he lobby: and as he sat on the stage more people looked at him than at the actors, and watched him; and I remember at Ramillies, when he was hit and f...

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...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroe...

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...cation Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray 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... ...he village maidens, who love soldiers as flies love treacle; presently the males began to arrive, and lo! the parson of the parish, taking his evening... ...er on certain days;—all which circumstances commonly are expunged from the male brain immediately after they have occurred, but remain fixed with the ... ...nd got drunk like a gentleman. What did he want else? Only a matter of six descents, a little money, and an estate, to ren- der him the equal of St. J... ...how dreadfully like a rascal is to an honest man. The man who murdered the Italian boy, set him first to play with his children whom he loved, and who... ... loved another: the end was coming quickly, and every one of our unknowing actors and actresses were to be implicated, more or less, in the catastroph...