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...ese screen. Folding a panel, he looked out the window and let the pent-up air seep from his lungs. His was the lone car in the parking lot. Arnold... ...irmed the two signatures. Everything appeared satisfactory, and he pulled a wallet from his back pocket. “Thank you, gentlemen.” He fanned out t... ...ent to his desk, opened a drawer and brought out a slim gold case. Selecting a card from it, he jotted on the back, and handed it to the man. “Shou... ...he evil eye, Mr. Brewster?” “There are those who are born able to put spells on people, even strong people like you are, Miss Laura Kate.” S... ...des, wasn’t being eccentric de rigueur in the South? Her impoverished side of what people called ’the blue-blooded O’Connells‘ was right up there w... ...fore we’ll tell the whole goddamned world we’re in love. I can’t wait because won’t people in this shitty town be surprised at who I snagged after a... ...e didn’t show. “We have time for a quick drink, if you’d like.” Clay tossed his Chesterfield on top of Johnelle’s mink. “That’d be nice,” he sai...

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...Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, was at one time Ambassador to the Hague, negotiated the second Treaty of Vienna, was a founding governor of London’s Foundling Hospital, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and Secretary of State. Having no legitimate c...

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... elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--?Scientists.? They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and characteristic paper, it is as carefully excluded as if it were--that other word which is the basis of all really bad language in this country. But th...

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...e extremely to be called—“Scientists.” They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and ... ...ectionists time after time. And they had led lives of academic distinction from their very earliest youth. They were of course quite undistinguished l... ...ich I believe was the voice of Professor Redwood, and there was a sizzling from the lantern and another sound that kept me there, still out of curiosi... ...s not under- stand it either. But really you know many of these scientific people understand the meaning of their own papers quite well: it is simply ... ... it, because as a general rule I do not think it is at all interesting for people to tell each other about their dreams. By a singular coincidence Red... ...e from the weekly storm of cleaning she would not forego. And having known people addicted to drink, she re- garded his solicitude for distinction in ... ... original discoverer of Herakleophorbia IV. proceeded down the corridor of Chesterfield Mansions, mingled with that inflamed disorderly multitude, and...

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...e met the call of that particular transient occasion in which they arose; and others, it may be thought on review, might as well have been suppressed from the very first....

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..............

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... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ...ey AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRACT FR ... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ... power to lay aside reserve; and many, again, cannot be so with particular people. I have witnessed more than once the case, that a young female danc... ...o address one word to me until dusk, when we found ourselves rattling into Chesterfield, having barely accomplished four stages, or forty or forty-two... ... Such an honest, old, butler-looking servant waited on us during dinner at Chesterfield, carving for me, and urging me to eat. Even Mephistopheles fou...

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...white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoulders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, it was plain that he was, in the extremest sense of the word, a stranger....

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...-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoul- ders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, ... ...or the capture of a mysterious impostor, supposed to have recently arrived from the East; quite an original genius in his vocation, as would appear, t... ...plain, were on the capitals, or, at least, earnestly seeking sight of them from behind intervening coats; but as for their fingers, they were envelope... ...the elbows and toes of the crowd, he concluded his opera- tions by bidding people stand still more aside, when, jumping on a stool, he hung over his d... ...eece and good-natured, honest black face rubbing against the upper part of people’s thighs as he made shift to shuffle about, making music, such as it... ...lephant for tossed apples at a menagerie; when, making a space before him, people would have a bout at a strange sort of pitch-penny game, the cripple... ... something of that sort; and in manner, wily, in a plebeian way, a perfect Chesterfield; very intelligent, too—quick as a flash. But, such suavity! Pl... ...you mistook him.” “Not a bit of it. Besides, sir, he was a boy who under a Chesterfieldian exterior hid strong destructive propensities. He cut up my ... ... in his trunk? No. Crams 169 Melville him with maxims smacking of my Lord Chesterfield, with maxims of France, with maxims of Italy.” “No, no, be cha...

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...ty’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; portrait of Byron from a painting by Thomas Philips, 1814 Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania... ...sion (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version Of his new system to perplex the sages; ‘T i... ... Don Juan “Dedication” 3 You — Gentlemen! by dint of long seclusion From better company, have kept your own At Keswick, and, through still ... ...au, Petion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette, Were French, and famous people, as we know: And there were others, scarce forgotten yet, Jo... ...ly inurn’d; Because the army ‘s grown more popular, At which the naval people are concern’d; Besides, the prince is all for the land service, ... ... named, With virtues equall’d by her wit alone, She made the cleverest people quite ashamed, And even the good with inward envy groan, Fin... ... To patriot sympathy a Briton’s blushes,— He thought at heart like courtly Chesterfield, Who, after a long chase o’er hills, dales, bushes, An...

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... was the last man on the little black railway- line climbing the hill home from work. He was late because he had attended a meeting of the men on the ... ...h.” “Put something on, you two!” came the woman’s high im- perative voice, from the kitchen. “We aren’t cold,” protested the girls from the yard. “Com... ...’s frock. She put this aside, rose, and began to take her husband’s dinner from the oven. “You stopped confabbing long enough tonight,” she said. “Yes... ... himself, measured and insistent. In the frosty evening the sound carried. People passing down the street hesitated, listening. The neighbours knew it... ...son was greeted with Good- night—Good-night, Aaron—Good-night, Mr. Sisson. People carrying parcels, children, women, thronged home on the dark paths. ... ...ut quiet contest, a subdued fight, going on all the afternoon and evening: people struggling to buy things, to get things. Money was spent like water,... ...with a green-and-black checked carpet, and great stripe-covered chairs and Chesterfield. A big gas-fire was soon glowing in the handsome old fire-plac...

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...rade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shortly after the Revolu- tion, at the early age of forty-six... ...eat tenderness and care. Once, when three years old, he nar- rowly escaped from an angry cow, but was wounded in the throat. He was remarkable as a ch... ...ed in the throat. He was remarkable as a child for his amiable temper; and from the sweetness of his voice, received the name of the Little Nightingal... ...of a man generally depends upon the first steps he makes in the world; and people will establish their opinion of us from what we do at that season wh... ...man so much good as ill-will does him harm. Then there is a third class of people, who make the largest part of mankind, those of ordinary or indiffer... ...e best company; and the freedom of saying as many careless things as other people, without being so severely remarked upon. I believe, if any one, ear... ...r hour! How shined the soul, unconquer’d in the Tower! How can I Pulteney, Chesterfield, forget, While Roman spirit charms, and Attic wit: Argyll, 210...

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...AS, Boissy d’, President, First of Prairial. ANGOULEME, Duchesse d’, parts from her father. ANGREMONT, Collenot d’, guillotined. ANTOINETTE, Marie, sp... ...er of Guards, courage of, Fifth October, at Versailles, shows her- self to people, and Louis at Tuileries, and the Lorrainer, and Mirabeau, previous t... ... at Tuileries, and the Lorrainer, and Mirabeau, previous to flight, flight from Tuileries, captured, and Barnave, Coblentz intrigues, and Lamotte’s Me... ...r of Assembly, one of a trio, Jacobin, duel with Cazales, escorts the King from Varennes, conciliates Queen, becomes Constitutional, retires to Grenob... ... to Convention, and Dumouriez, oaths by, in Convention, on suf- ferings of People, and Girondins, arrested, returns in triumph, fall of Girondins. MAR... ...ary, what, of Lepelletier section. REVOLUTION, French, causes of the, Lord Chesterfield on the, not a revolt, meaning of the term, whence it grew, gen... ...T, Controller of France, on Corn-law, dismissed, death of. TYRANTS, French people rise against. UNITED STATES, declaration of Liberty, embassy to Loui...

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... in the Republic than I had, when I landed in America. I purposely abstain from extending these observations to any length. I have nothing to defend, ... ...y, with a modest yet most magnificent sense of its limited dimensions, had from the first opined would not hold more than two enormous portmanteaus in... ...art shock before com ing below, which, but that we were the most sanguine people living, might have prepared us for the worst. The imaginative artist... ...and vivacity. Before descending into the bowels of the ship, we had passed from the deck into a long narrow apartment, not unlike a gigantic hearse wi... ... little washing slab as standing room, — we could manage to insinuate four people into it, all at one time; and entreating each other to observe how v... ...wn, and every little boat was splashing noisily in the water; and knots of people stood upon the wharf, gazing with a kind of ‘dread delight’ on the f... ... throughout. They all take their tone from the Doctor; and he moves a very Chesterfield among the company. Like other assemblies, these entertainments...

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...of voyage and travel. Such books have had a strong fascination for my mind from my earliest childhood; and I wonder it should have come to pass that I... ... the twilight of New Year’s Eve, I find incidents of travel rise around me from all the latitudes and longitudes of the globe. They observe no order o... ...one upon the sea with his disaffected crew, looks over the waste of waters from his high station on the poop of his ship, and sees the first uncertain... ...into a little trouble by leaving parcels of mud done up in brown paper, at people’s houses, on pretence of being a Railway Porter, in which character ... ...ging Letter Writer, for it is a part of his specula tion) in the aversion people feel to exhibit themselves as having been imposed upon, or as having... ...edings; it has been his busi ness to write to all sorts and conditions of people, in the names of persons of high reputation and unblemished honour, ... ...dicts. They are both voluminous writers, indicting more epistles than Lord Chesterfield in a single week; and the greater part of their feelings are t...

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...glass door behind the painted deal counter, Mr V erloc would issue hastily from the parlour at the back. His eyes were naturally heavy; he had an air ... ...ery apparent reason. He generally arrived in London (like the in- fluenza) from the Continent, only he arrived unheralded by the Press; and his visita... ...banter. In Winnie’s mother’s opinion Mr V erloc was a very nice gentleman. From her life’s experience gathered in various “busi- ness houses” the good... ...idences of the town’s opulence and luxury with an approving eye. All these people had to be protected. Protection is the first necessity of opulence a... ...unities. In the time of Baron Stott-Wartenheim we had a lot of soft-headed people running this Embassy. They caused fellows of your sort to form a fal... ...le bourgeoisie of this country make themselves the accomplices of the very people whose aim is to drive them out of their houses to starve in ditches.... ...r Heat assented. “But tell me now how did you get away.” “I was making for Chesterfield Walk,” Mrs V erloc heard her husband’s voice, “when I heard th...

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... modest retirement in London, by a friend of mine, and given to me. He had from the first, as Sir Hugh Evans says of Anne Page, ‘good gifts’, which he... ...e superiority of his genius, to walk off unmolested with the dog’s dinner, from before his face. He was rapidly rising in acquirements and virtues, wh... ... a drunken man’—which I never did, having (un fortunately) none but sober people at hand. But I could hardly have respected him more, whatever the st... ...Policeman might have been. Once, I met him unexpectedly, about half a mile from my house, walking down the middle of a public street, attended by a pr... ...nce, sir!’ returned his father, ‘what do you mean by talking, when you see people that are more than two or three times your age, sitting still and si... ...n the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till... ... air: for Edward was not present, and the father was quite alone. ‘My Lord Chesterfield,’ he said, pressing his hand ten derly upon the book as he la... ...edly knowing; but the writer who should be his country’s pride, is my Lord Chesterfield.’ He became thoughtful again, and the toothpick was in requisi... ...ueen may make a Lord, but only the Devil himself—and the Graces—can make a Chesterfield.’ Men who are thoroughly false and hollow, seldom try to hide ...

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...ed-for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch-chain that depended from be- low his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phos- phoresc... ... had risen, as his father had before him, in the course of life and death, from Son to Dombey, and for nearly twenty years had been the sole represent... ...Doctor Parker Peps would walk upstairs again. ‘Good! W e must not disguise from you, Sir,’ said Doctor Parker Peps, ‘that there is a want of power in ... ...ow yourself to be worried by what is so very inconsid- erately told you by people who ought to know better. Really I’m surprised at them.’ ‘I hope I k... ...ess. It was a rude shock to his sense of property in his child, that these people— the mere dust of the earth, as he thought them -should be necessary... ...t-time, when it came with the water-carts and the old clothes men, and the people with geraniums, and the umbrella-mender, and the man who trilled the... ...ch ebullitions of feeling, uncommon among 215 Charles Dickens those young Chesterfields. Paul whispered Florence, as she wrapped him up before the do...

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...ed-for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch-chain that depended from be- low his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phos- phoresc... ... had risen, as his father had before him, in the course of life and death, from Son to Dombey, and for nearly twenty years had been the sole represent... ...Doctor Parker Peps would walk upstairs again. ‘Good! W e must not disguise from you, Sir,’ said Doctor Parker Peps, ‘that there is a want of power in ... ...ow yourself to be worried by what is so very inconsid- erately told you by people who ought to know better. Really I’m surprised at them.’ ‘I hope I k... ...ess. It was a rude shock to his sense of property in his child, that these people— the mere dust of the earth, as he thought them -should be necessary... ...t-time, when it came with the water-carts and the old clothes men, and the people with geraniums, and the umbrella-mender, and the man who trilled the... ...ch ebullitions of feeling, uncommon among 215 Charles Dickens those young Chesterfields. Paul whispered Florence, as she wrapped him up before the do...

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...te, with the interesting in- scription ‘Mrs. Tibbs,’ had never caught fire from con- stant friction, so perseveringly was it polished. There were meat... ...the wandering Jew of Joe Millerism. Mr. Tibbs enjoyed a small independence from the pen- sion-list—about 43£. 15S. 10D. a year. His father, mother, an... ...out 43£. 15S. 10D. a year. His father, mother, and five interesting scions from the same stock, drew a like sum from the revenue of a grateful country... ...wn. But, as this said independence was not quite sufficient to furnish two people with all the luxuries of this life, it had occurred to the busy litt... ...ladies discoursed most eloquently about poetry, and the theatres, and Lord Chesterfield’s Letters; and Mr. Calton followed up what everybody said, wit... ...ens parlour. Mrs. Maplesone and Mr. Calton played cribbage, and the ‘young people’ amused themselves with music and conversation. The Miss Maplesones ... ... as if he were on the stool of an electrifying machine in full operation. ‘People must know that, some time or other—within a year, I imagine, ’ said ...

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...d Least stains of gore-guiltiness lie; To the hearts of the just her blood from the dust Not in vain for mercy will cry. Poor scape-goat of nations an... ...shed oak, the walls hung with leather, gilded in some places and depending from cornices, whose ornaments proved to an initiated eye, that this had on... ... could tell her of chances and conjectures; and when her boy began to fret from hun- ger and weariness, she had left her serving-man, Gervas, to watch... ...one Master Snigg, or Sniggius, for the children of the numerous colony who peopled the castle. Girls, as well as boys, were taught there, and thus Cis... ... go and spoil it all with folly about Papists, and Spaniards, and grown-up people’s non- sense that nobody cares about!” Cis had a rare power over bot... ...To History present to make them ashamed of their own placability. Grown-up people’s follies were avoided by mutual consent through the rest of the wal... ..., saw her, in doublet and hose, and a tawny cloak, going along the road to Chesterfield. He knew her by the halt in her left leg.” “Ha!” said Richard,... ...his woman Tibbott the huckstress hath been seen in a doublet and hose near Chesterfield.” “The villain! When is she looked for here again?” “Anon, I s... ...to confront him with her. It were best if you did scour the country toward Chesterfield for her, while Frank went to York.” Having thus issued his ord...

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... the Quarterly Review, in 1817. The particulars were derived by the Critic from the Author’s information. Afterwards they were published in the Prefac... ...principles, that while the civil war was raging, and strag- gling officers from the Highland army were executed with- out mercy, Invernahyle hesitated... ... At length Colonel Whitefoord applied to the Duke of Cumberland in person. From him, also, he received a posi- tive refusal. He then limited his reque... ...w and foolish fashion is introduced to break the natural dependence of the people upon their landlords.’ Sir Everard had done his best to correct this... ...isaffected, and, showed little hospitality to the military guests; and the people of the town, chiefly engaged in mercantile pursuits, were not such a... ...us ease at home, look out for amusement abroad. Yet the physiognomy of the people, when more closely examined, was far from exhibiting the indifferenc... ...d was buried at the charge of his honest printer, Richard Franklin.’— Lord Chesterfield’s Characters Reviewed, p. 42. NOTE 4.—COLONEL GARDINER I have ...

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...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject sp...

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...T. No. 1 General Introduction For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the ine... ...It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the importa... ...- cieties of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend ... ...alist Papers or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial con- federacies tha... ...om the subdivision of the empire into several partial con- federacies than from its union under one government. It is not, however, my design to dwell... ...les of liberty. An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, wil... ...een purchased by the emissaries of the neighboring king- doms. The Earl of Chesterfield (if my memory serves me right), in a letter to his court, inti...

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...f Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferred that he was born on the 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those t...

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...in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferr... ... 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those times, which obliges us to ... ... for children might be bap- tized, and were baptized, at various distances from their birth: yet, on the other hand, the 23d is as likely to have been... ... sensibility; upon which as- sumption, the wonder ceases that Cicero, Lord Chesterfield, and other brilliant men, who took the utmost pains with their... ...y is to be received as evi- dence of pauperism, nine tenths of the English people might occasionally be classed as paupers. With respect to his libera... ... their debts. And the prob- ability is, that Master Sadler acted like most people who, when they suppose a man to be going down in the world, feel the... ...nevitably have mixed chiefly with mechanics and humble tradesmen, for such people composed perhaps the total community . But had there even been a gen... ...hibition, or else they demand too vivid illustrations of the meaning. Lord Chesterfield him- self, so brilliant a man by nature, already therefore mak... ...hy in excess as regarded its ex- pression. “Come now, my friend,” was Lord Chesterfield’s morning adjuration to his author;” come now, cut it short— d...

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....................... 56 FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BION. .............................................................................. 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. .................................................................................................................... 58 PAN, ECHO, AND THE SATYR ........................................................

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.......................................................................... 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. ................................................... .......................................................................... 59 FROM VERGIL’S TENTH ECLOGUE .................................................. .......................................................................... 60 FROM VERGIL’S FOURTH GEORGIC ................................................. ...lives in this obscure abode. 29 29 29 29 29 ‘But we will leave this shadow-peopled cave And live among the Gods, and pass each day In high communion, ... ...L FL FLOR OR OR OR ORO: O: O: O: O: I pray That you depart hence with your people, and Leave us to finish what we have begun ... ...rld of virgin thoughts; Let her chaste mind with fancies thick as motes Be peopled from thy shadowy deep, Till her guiltless fantasy Full to overflowi... ...character of a prophet, have nevertheless, in this sense, prophesied. Lord Chesterfield was never yet taken for a prophet, even by a bishop, yet he ut...

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... of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future....

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...poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely suff... ...and hunger, and the very bed on which his sick wife is ly- ing, is dragged from beneath her. What can he do? To whom is he to apply for relief? To pri... ...e boys run to the beadle as fast as their legs will carry them, and report from their own personal observation that some neighbouring chim- ney is on ... ...tal supply of water, and it was first on the spot. Bang went the pumps—the people cheered—the beadle perspired pro- fusely; but it was unfortunately d... ...ont row of the gallery could not be pro- cured for love or money; and some people even went so far as to assert, that the three Miss Browns, who had a... ...ttle bustle in the side aisle, occasioned by a general rise among the poor people, who bow and curtsey until the pew-opener has ushered the old lady i... ...ladies discoursed most eloquently about poetry, and the theatres, and Lord Chesterfield’s Letters; and Mr. Calton followed up what everybody said, wit...

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... reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy received many annotations from members of the Heathcote family. There was a proposal that it should be re-edited, but ninety years could not but make a great difference in these days of progress, so that not only had the narrative to be brought up to ...

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...shire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy re- ceived many annotations from members of the Heathcote family. There was a proposal that it should b... ...an interest in provincial dialect, some specimens are appended, which come from personal knowledge. The lists of birds and of flowers are both from th... ...RBOURNE TERBOURNE THE SOUTH D OWNS of England descend at about eight miles from the sea into beds of clay, diversified by gravel and sand, and with an... ...star on their base, are picked up in the gravels and called by the country people Shep- herds’ Crowns—or even fossil toads. Large boulder stones are a... ...difficulties or controversies attended to, confirmation given to the young people and children, and, after a meal, the bishop proceeded, sometimes to ... .... Oliver writes in the summer after the marriage that he is glad the young people have leisure to make a journey to eat cherries. There is little doub... ...od in Derbyshire. Gilbert Heathcote, one of the sons, was an Al- derman at Chesterfield, and was the common ancestor of the Rutland as well as the Hur...

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... is a clinical study of how the thing actually occurs among quite ordinary people, innocent of all unconventional views con- cerning it. The enormous ... ... con- cerning it. The enormous majority of cases in real life are those of people in that position. Those who deliberately and conscientiously profess... ... who believe them to be retrograde, are often, and indeed mostly, the last people in the world to engage in unconventional adventures of any kind, not... ... sonable person expects the burglar to confess his pursuits, or to refrain from joining in the cry of Stop Thief when the police get on the track of a... ... and condemned: in short, you are never on solid ground until you get away from the subject altogether. There is a continual and irreconcilable confli... ...at plutocracy with its meals, a hus- band who is not jealous, and refrains from assailing his rival with his fists, is regarded as a ridiculous, conte... ...we ought to tell. OVERRULED A lady and gentleman are sitting together on a chesterfield in a retired corner of the lounge of a seaside hotel. It is a ... ...n. The terrace without overlooks a moonlit harbor. The lounge is dark. The chesterfield, upholstered in silver grey, and the two figures on it in even... ...ontrol. MRS. JUNO [dragging her hand away and retreating to the end of the chesterfield]. No: it’s a question of distance. Self- control is all very w...

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......................................................... 173 Chapter 1.7.XI. From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...urches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien-aime fashione... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been carried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and been ... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘express themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Baro... ...to the Courtiers there. It is twenty years, gone Christmas-day, since Lord Chesterfield, summing up what he had noted of this same France, wrote, and ... ...s and Revolutions in government, now exist and daily increase in France.’ (Chesterfield’s Letters: December 25th, 1753.) Chapter 1.1.III. Viaticum. Fo... ...ellion, explosion, of unknown extent is to be calculated on. There are, as Chesterfield wrote, ‘all the symptoms I have ever met with in History!’ Sha...

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.......................................................... 241 Chapter 1.7.XI.From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...ches resounded with suppli- cations and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien- aime fashion... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been car- ried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and bee... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘ex- press themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Ba... ...government, now exist and daily in- 19 Thomas Carlyle crease in France.’ (Chesterfield’s Letters: December 25th, 1753.) Chapter 1.1.III. Viaticum. Fo... ...lion, explosion, of unknown extent is to be calcu- lated on. There are, as Chesterfield wrote, ‘all the symp- toms I have ever met with in History!’ S...

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...tled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum ... ...were to be filled so full of facts. Indeed, as he eagerly sparkled at them from the cellarage be fore mentioned, he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to... ... dark haired, that she seemed to receive a deeper and more lustrous colour from the sun, when it shone upon her, the boy was so light eyed and light ... ...ng and drying, he was; a government officer; in his way (and in most other people’s too), a professed pugilist; always in training, always with a syst... ...girl. ‘And is that why you would put tables and chairs upon them, and have people walking over them with heavy boots?’ ‘It wouldn’t hurt them, sir. Th... ...ng, a board of fact, composed of commissioners of fact, who will force the people to be a people of fact, and of nothing but fact. You must discard th... ...d of expressing his thanks without more words, had a grace in it that Lord Chesterfield could not have taught his son in a century. T om had sat upon ...

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...nack of mine which happens to amuse the British public distracts attention from my character; but the character is there none the less, solid as brick... ...it. But my con- science is the genuine pulpit article: it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on mak... ...love and must accordingly marry or perish at the end of the play, or about people whose relations with one another have been complicated by the marria... ...ction. That is why we insist on beauty in our performers, differing herein from the countries our friend William Archer holds up as examples of seriou... ...rama with which the experienced popular author instinctively saves himself from failure. But what did you want? Owing to your unfortunate habit—you no... ...out of date for you and for me; and if there are millions of less literate people who are still in the eighteenth century, have they not Moliere and M... ...as applied to remedy. He has a collar and cuff of celluloid; and his brown Chesterfield over- coat, with velvet collar, is still presentable. He is pr...

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...of growing enlightenment and happy compan- ionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917. INTRODU... ...ect and setting are so closely allied that each borrows charm and emphasis from the other. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor w... ...ther. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor would fade from the church of St. Clement Danes, from the Mitre, from Fleet Street, th... ..., such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the number, range, and variety of people who at one time or another had been in some degree personally relate... ...godchild Jane Langton. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I love the acquain- tance of young people, . . . young men have more virtue than old men; they have more gen- ... ... into a spacious and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third dow... ...and seventy-five pounds. The Plan, was addressed to Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield, then one of his Majesty’s Prin- cipal Secretaries of State; a... ...f my Dictionary came to 64 Boswell’s Life of Johnson be inscribed to Lord Chesterfield, was this: I had neglected to write it by the time appointed. ... ...he time appointed. Dodsley suggested a desire to have it addressed to Lord Chesterfield. I laid hold of this as a pre- text for delay, that it might b...

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...thing for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not appare... ...he aid of my eldest son, F . D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given. The comments are my own, an... ... occupied by descendants of his to this day. I am of the eighth generation from Mathew Grant, and sev- enth from Samuel. Mathew Grant’s first wife die... ...and but few east; and above all, there were no reporters prying into other people’s private affairs. Consequently it did not become generally known th... ...s in imitation of mine. The joke was a huge one in the mind of many of the people, and was much enjoyed by them; but I did not appreciate it so highly... ...pture of Santa Anna, the Mexican President. Before long, however, the same people—who with permission of Mexico had colonized T exas, and afterwards s... ... joined us on the march from North Anna to Cold Harbor, in the vicinity of Chesterfield. Sheridan in this memorable raid passed entirely around Lee’s ... ... and east of Hawkins Creek as they can be found. The 2d corps will move to Chesterfield Ford. The 9th corps will be directed to move at the same time ... ... gone. Hancock with his corps and one division of the 9th corps crossed at Chesterfield Ford and covers the right wing of Lee’s army. One division of ...

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...re is no end, there never will be an end, of the lamentations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobr... ...n-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist, the moralist, the divine, and... ... sunny smiles and many tears—a little love and infinite strife—whisperings from paradise and fierce mockeries from the anarchy of chaos—dust and ashes... ...great masters of literature, especially those of modern times; so that few people knew the high classics more familiarly: and as to the passage in que... ... necessities of public business coming back in a torrent upon the official people after this momentary interruption, forbade them to indulge any furth... ...int seemed to justify almost more than hopes. This might be said, and most people would have been more or less con- soled by it. I was not. I felt as ... ...little festival from five to eight; for he was a punctual observer of Lord Chesterfield’s rule—that his dinner party, himself included, should not fal...

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...entertaining than the report of this Com- mittee. Its full title is REPORT FROM THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE HOUSE OF COMM... ...se. The number of the Bluebook is 214. How interesting it is may be judged from the fact that it contains verbatim reports of long and animated interv... ...turb the ex- isting state of things. How this was effected may be gathered from the recommendations finally agreed on, which are as follows. 1. The dr... ...me sort as a prelude to his public career, and finding that all the clever people seemed to be agreed that the cen- sorship was an anti-Liberal instit... ...ed to him as a new play, he would have been sup- ported by a large body of people to whom incest is a tabooed subject which must not be mentioned on t... ... the same time, a brisk demand arose outside the Committee, not only among people who were anxious to read what I had to say on the subject, but among... ...ampion of liberty of conscience and intellectual integrity—say a Milton, a Chesterfield, a Bentham—would be a very bad Lord Chamberlain: so bad, in fa...

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... Roy, of having some scien- tific person on board, accompanied by an offer from him of giving up part of his own accommodations, that I volunteered my... ...o him; and to add that, during the five years we were together, I received from him the most cordial friendship and steady as- sistance. Both to Capta... ...ollected, and I trust that many others will here- after follow. The plants from the southern parts of America will be given by Dr. J. Hooker, in his g... ...ar water. It happened to be a grand feast-day, and the village was full of people. On our return we overtook a party of about twenty young black girls... ...st falls in such quantities as to dirty every- thing on board, and to hurt people’s eyes; vessels even have run on shore owing to the obscurity of the... ...his day I found a specimen of a curious fungus, called Hymenophallus. Most people know the English Phallus, which in autumn taints the air with its od... ...this eastern side are fighting with Rosas. The general, however, like Lord Chesterfield, thinking that his friends may in a future day become his enem...

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...cken and gorse, and won- derful cloud pictures. The glass pavilion springs from a bridgelike arch in the wall of the house, through which one comes in... ...of him. Bentley Summerhays, one of those smallish, thinskinned youths, who from 17 to 70 retain unaltered the mental airs of the later and the physica... ...llo! Wheres your luggage? BENTLEY. I left it at the station. Ive walked up from Haslemere. [He goes to the hat stand and hangs up his hat]. JOHNNY [sh... ...her’s views about corporal punishment being wrong. It’s necessary for some people; and I’d have tried it on you until you first learnt to howl and the... ..., getting away from your own serious business to amuse yourself with other people’s. Mind: I dont say there isnt another side to it. It has its value ... ...f it had been children’s insides: we have to talk about them. But grown-up people! I was glad to get away that time. HYPATIA. There was a physiology a... ... up again. Let it go at John Brown. PERCIVAL. Where do you live? GUNNER. 4 Chesterfield Parade, Kentish Town, N.W. 65 Shaw PERCIVAL. [dictating] I, J... ...ade, Kentish Town, N.W. 65 Shaw PERCIVAL. [dictating] I, John Brown, of 4 Chesterfield Parade, Kentish T own, do hereby voluntarily confess that on t...

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................................................................ 121 VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU. ................................................................ ................................................................. 143 EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. ............................................................. ...atue beside those of the acknowledged masters of English poetry. But apart from this, we do think that Lord Carlisle has exaggerated the “De- cline an... ...ilfer cloth or bread: As meanly plunder as they bravely fought, Now save a people, and now save a groat. VER. 129, in the former editions— Ask why fro... ...ENT GUMENT GUMENT . . . . . OF THE USE OF RICHES. The vanity of expense in people of wealth and quality. The abuse of the word ‘taste,’ ver. 13. That ... ...rth, and o’er the watery main; Resign to Jove his empire of the skies, And people heaven with Roman deities. The time will come when a diviner flame S... ...old, and dead, Had not her sister Satire held her head: Nor could’st thou, Chesterfield! 383 a tear refuse, Thou wept’st, and with thee wept each gen... ...ethuen. 98 ‘G—r, C—m, B—t:’ Lords Gower, Cobham, and Bathurst. 99 ‘C—d:’ Chesterfield. 100 ‘C—t:’ Lord Carteret. 101 ‘P——:’ William Pulteney, crea...

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...e walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. The only things to be seen not fixedly s... ... Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the sha... ...e at Marseilles, sought the shade alike— taking refuge in any hiding-place from a sea too intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set wit... ...ilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to ... ...o a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade. So, with people lounging and lying wherever shade was, with but little hum of tongue... ...a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of other little people whose papers are wrong; and he instinctively recognises my position,... ...legian who might have looked in to ask his advice, like a great moral Lord Chesterfield, or Master of the ethical ceremonies of the Marshalsea. To kee...

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...e walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. The only things to be seen not fixedly s... ... Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the sha... ...e at Marseilles, sought the shade alike— taking refuge in any hiding-place from a sea too intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set wit... ...ilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to ... ...o a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade. So, with people lounging and lying wherever shade was, with but little hum of tongue... ...a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of other little people whose papers are wrong; and he instinctively recognises my position,... ...legian who might have looked in to ask his advice, like a great moral Lord Chesterfield, or Master of the ethical ceremonies of the Marshalsea. To kee...