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...Shapurji Saklatvala was a Parsi from India who was elected twice to the British parliament in the 1920s. A communist and an internationalist, he campaigned vigorously inside and outside parliament on behalf of working people everywhere and especially for th...

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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 S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E...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 ...ey AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRACT FR ...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... ...s in England, unless upon the rocky strata which stretch north- wards from Derbyshire to Cumberland and Northumberland. The public carriages were the ...

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...Excerpt: Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love.? Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said ?No, my friend never will I comply with your r...

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................ 92 THE FIRST ACT OF A COMEDY .............................................................................................. 93 A LETTER from a YOUNG LADY, whose feelings being too strong for her Judgement led her into the commission of Errors which her Heart disapproved. ............................................................................................

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................................................................. 93 A LETTER from a YOUNG LADY , whose feelings being too strong for her Judgement led h... ........................................ 96 A TOUR THROUGH W ALES—in a LETTER from a YOUNG LADY— ........................................................... ...he author. “Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love.” Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that yo... ...nly inconvenience attending it was the Scarcity of Plays which for want of People to fill the Characters, we could perform. We did not mind trifles h... ...ut one genteel family since we came. Mr and Mrs Marlowe are very agreable people; the ill health of their little boy occasioned their arrival here; y... ...sley Castle) you will not be sorry to find yourself. In spite of all that people may say about Green fields and the Country I was always of opinion t... ...Have you been long in Essex Ma’am?” “I arrived on Tuesday.” “You came from Derbyshire?” “No, Ma’am! appearing surprised at my question, from Suffolk....

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...Excerpt: 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 accoun...

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...te, in ate, in ate, in ate, in M M M M Macbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth FROM MY BOYISH DAYS I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Ma... ...e human mind, and the most to be distrusted; and yet the great majority of people trust to nothing else; which may do for ordinary life, but not for p... ...uses on each side of a street, as seen by a person looking down the street from one extremity. Now in all cases, unless the person has happened to obs... ... has not seen) that which he has seen every day of his life. But to return from this digression, my understanding could furnish no reason why the knoc... ... corresponding improve- ment. Practice and theory must advance pari passu. People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine m... ...in its tendency . Immoral! God bless my soul, gentle- men, what is it that people mean? I am for morality, and always shall be, and for virtue and all... ...ts of the island. In one of these excursions (1670) he visited the Peak in Derbyshire, partly in consequence of Hobbes’s description of it. Being in t... ...is propriety” by a row in an ale-house between some honest clod-hoppers of Derbyshire, whom his own gaunt scare-crow of a person that belonged to quit...

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.... The shepherd himself, though he had good reason to believe that the bag held nothing but flaxen thread, or else the long rolls of strong linen spun from that thread, was not quite sure that this trade of weaving, indispensable though it was, could be carried on entirely without the help of the Evil One. In that far-off time superstition clung easily round every person or...

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...held nothing but flaxen thread, or else the long rolls of strong linen spun from that thread, was not quite sure that this trade of weaving, indispensa... ...he swallows that came back with the spring; and even a settler, if he came from distant parts, hardly ever ceased to be viewed with a remnant of distr... ...In this way it came to pass that those scattered linen weavers — emigrants from the town into the country — were to the last regarded as aliens by the... ... sighted brown eyes, whose ap pearance would have had nothing strange for people of average culture and expe rience, but for the villagers near whom... ...front of the minister, with the eyes of those who to him represented God’s people fixed solemnly upon him. Then the minister, taking out a pocket knife... ...ve the testimony against him, her whole faith must be upset as his was. To people accustomed to reason about the forms in which their religious feelin... ...y prevailing scent is of the lavender and roseleaves that fill the vases of Derbyshire spar. All is purity and order in this once dreary room, for, fift...

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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,... ...artners in the Colliery firm. His English was incorrect, his accent, broad Derbyshire, and he was not a gentleman in the snob- 26 Aaron’s Rod bish se...

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... Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four... ...ce of her five daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley. They attacked... ...s were somewhat more fortunate, for they had the advantage of ascertaining from an upper window that he wore a blue coat, and rode a black horse. An i... ...ove his company , and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most for- bidding, disagreeabl... ...Austen Mr. Bingley had soon made himself acquainted with all the principal people in the room; he was lively and unreserved, danced every dance, was a... ...2 Pride and Prejudice “Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. Y ou never see a fault in anybody. All the world are goo... ...ere in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well ... ...Pemberley for a kind of model. There is not a finer county in England than Derbyshire.” “With all my heart; I will buy Pemberley itself if Darcy will ... ...ing to let the subject drop, added, “he is a man of very large property in Derbyshire, I understand.” “Yes,” replied Mr. Wickham; “his estate there is...

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...d diffidence contrasted with Ursula’s sensitive expectancy. The provincial people, intimidated by Gudrun’s perfect sang-froid and exclusive bareness o... ...ess of manner, said of her: ‘She is a smart woman.’ She had just come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, a... ...he said. ‘Do you feel like that?’ asked Gudrun. ‘I get no feeling whatever from the thought of bearing children.’ Gudrun looked at Ursula with a maskl... ...run’s face. She did not want to be too definite. ‘When one thinks of other people’s children—’ said Ursula. Again Gudrun looked at her sister, almost ... ...ravened. She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp ... ... submit herself to it, the insufferable torture of these ugly, meaningless people, this defaced coun- tryside? She felt like a beetle toiling in the d... ...ittle. She was the most remarkable woman in the Midlands. Her father was a Derbyshire Baronet of the old school, she was a woman of the new school, fu... ...house with Corinthian pillars, standing among the softer, greener hills of Derbyshire, not far from Cromford. In front, it looked over a lawn, over a ...

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... know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and ... ...istance of her five daugh ters, could ask on the subject was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley. They atta... ...adies were somewhat more fortunate, for they had the advantage of ascertaining from an upper window, that he wore a blue coat and rode a black horse. ... ...be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreea... ...is friend. Mr. Bingley had soon made himself acquainted with all the principal people in the room; he was lively and unreserved, danced every dance, w... ...der person.” “Dear Lizzy!” “Oh! you are a great deal too apt you know, to like people in general. You never see a fault in any body. All the world are... ...s, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank; and were therefore in every respect entitled to think w... ...take Pemberley for a kind of model. There is not a finer county in England than Derbyshire.” “With all my heart; I will buy Pemberley itself if Darcy w... ...willing to let the subject drop, added, “He is a man of very large property in Derbyshire, I understand.” “Yes,” replied Wickham; — “his estate there ...

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...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...ew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated 4 A Book of Golden Deeds (from Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ th... ...dventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabeth of Siberia, are from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the ... ... from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the British Navy;’ the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Registrer, and that at Ciudad Rodrigo, from the tra- dition... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ...s in that army with which David was to fulfill the ancient promises to his people. There were his three nephews, Joab, the fero- cious and imperious, ... ...ping and reaching Dublin, whence she made her way to her father’s house in Derbyshire. Her little son was found by the rebels lying in his cradle, and... ...one of the small vil- lages to which the infection spread—namely, Eyam, in Derbyshire. This is a lovely place between Buxton and Chatsworth, perched h...

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...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ...nd lead,’ tempted some of the French and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now calle... ...ved that part of the Is lands. It is probable that other people came over from Spain to Ireland, and settled there. Thus, by little and little, stran... ...ign Charles Dickens 335 to one Antony Babington—a gentleman of fortune in Derbyshire, who had been for some time a secret agent of Mary’s—for murderi...

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...eld nothing but flaxen thread, or else the long rolls of strong linen spun from that thread, was not quite sure that this trade of weaving, indispensa... ...he swallows that came back with the spring; and even a settler, if he came from distant parts, hardly ever ceased to be viewed with a remnant of distr... ...In this way it came to pass that those scat- tered linen-weavers—emigrants from the town into the coun- try—were to the last regarded as aliens by the... ...rt-sighted brown eyes, whose appearance would have had nothing strange for people of average culture and experi- ence, but for the villagers near whom... ...front of the minister, with the eyes of those who to him represented God’s people fixed solemnly upon him. Then the minister, taking out a pocket-knif... ...ve the testimony against him, her whole faith must be upset as his was. To people accustomed to rea- son about the forms in which their religious feel... ...prevailing scent is of the lavender and rose-leaves that fill the vases of Derbyshire spar. All is purity and order in this once dreary room, for, fif...

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...rs to a period towards the end of the reign of Richard I., when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by... ... of their less powerful neighbours, who attempted to separate them- selves from their authority, and to trust for their protection, during the dangers... ...r- anny of the nobility, and the sufferings of the inferior classes, arose from the consequences of the Conquest by Duke Will- iam of Normandy . Four ... ... war or insurrection, mark the existence of the Anglo-Saxons as a separate people subsequent to the reign of William the Second; yet the great nationa... ...d, impressed them no less with an opinion of his sanctity. Even the common people, the severest critics of the conduct of their betters, had commisera... ...ippers of Mahound and T ermagaunt have so greatly the ad- vantage over the people once chosen of Heaven.” “He shall sit with thee, Wamba,” said Cedric... ... which the knight had chiefly directed his course, had now sunk behind the Derbyshire hills on his left, and every effort which he might make to pursu...

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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... ...ley, which is the eagle and child.’ ‘The bird and bantling they call it in Derbyshire, sir,’ said Stanley. ‘Ye’re a daft callant, sir,’ said the Baron...

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...up, only paling while the sun glaring blazes in the sky; mine own, he that from afar drives the stars in Charles’s Wain. There they come, the good old... ...ing treacherously marshy ground in which it was easy to sink. The cry came from the further side, where a mountain stream had force enough to struggle... ... stepping-stones across the brook, which the boy knew, and he made his way from one to the other, calling out cheerily to the little figure that he be... ...bove,’ he added to himself. By this time it was too dark for the two young people to see more than dim shapes of one another, but the boy knew that th... ...s grim air and manner that hindered any conversation between the two young people. Only Hal from time to time gathered a flower for the young lady, sc... ... and wood were by no means clear of the remnants of the contending armies, people who were generally of the party opposite to that which they intended... ...e, and partaking of a hur- ried meal. The sun was rising over the hills of Derbyshire, dyeing them of a red purple, standing out sharply against a fla...

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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... ...hire. And thus they journeyed, with frequent halts, until they came to the Derbyshire borders. Bridgefield House stood on the top of a steep slope lea... ...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... ...said, uncovering her basket, where were arranged various ornaments made of Derbyshire spar. “We have no money, good woman,” said Cicely, rising to ret... ...s far too haughty to think for a moment of giving her daugh- ter to a mere Derbyshire esquire, not even of noble blood. You may trust her for that.” T...

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...at in the river Wye, Salmon are in The Compleat Angler — Walton 5 season from September to April; and we are certain, that in Thames and Trent, and ... ...o, Sir, with the help of good dis course, which, methinks, we may promise from you, that both look and speak so cheerfully: and for my part, I promis... ...that, in my judgment all men that keep Otter dogs ought to have pen” signs from the King, to encourage them to destroy the very breed of those base Ot... ... or the sea shore, that having so separated them from amidst the press of people and business, and the cares of the world, he might settle their mind... ...hat lay at the bottom to be seen on the water’s top. And he says, that the people of Cadara, an island near this place, make the timber for their hous... ...poet says in the like case, which is worthy to be noted by all parents and people of civility: many a one Owes to his country his religion; And in ano... ...there be the best Roach anglers. And I think the best Trout anglers be in Derbyshire; for the waters there are clear to an extremity. Next, let me te...

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...e of speech, I have presumed to deliver these things in the Latin tongue, not trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Prosper, Eusebiu...

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...ot trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the... ...rom writings and monuments of the ancient inhabit- ants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Is... ...icles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Pros- per, Eusebius, and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons, although our enemies, not follo... ...bout with me an inward wound, and I was indignant, that the name of my own people, formerly fa- mous and distinguished, should sink into oblivion, and... ...istory of the Britons, edited by Mark the anchorite, a holy bishop of that people. 7. The island of Britain derives its name from Brutus, a Ro- man co... ...rable, built of brick and stone. Its inhabitants consist of four different people; the Scots, the Picts, the Saxons and the ancient Britons. 8. Three ... ...nding by its mother. *King of Powys. V.R. Benli in the district of Ial (in Derbyshire); in the district of Dalrieta; Belinus; Beluni; and Benty. 33. E...

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...Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she has had the measles last and worst, and they don?t know what to do with her, for she came from the asylum for officers? daughters, and has no home at all, and they must go away to have the house purified. They can?t take her with them, for their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room befo...

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...sles last and worst, and they don’t know what to do with her, for she came from the asylum for officers’ daughters, and has no home at all, and they m... ... her with them, for their sister has chil- dren, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish ... ...sense in the family. Joe and his mother did like to feel a plan quite free from Robert’s condemnation for enthusiasm or impracticability, and it was n... ... seemed to charm her above all. “I always did want to know what was inside people’s windows,” she said. And in the same way it was a feast to her to g... ...en, you know. It will be always warm about my heart to know there are such people.” Mrs. Brownlow happened to overhear this little colloquy while her ... ...her for long drives, shown her everything, introduced her to quantities of people; but, oh dear! was it absolutely only three weeks since she had been... ...ice as large as himself, with whom he meant to walk through the scenery of Derbyshire and Yorkshire, as far as the modest sum they allowed them- selve...

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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... ... created a baronet. The Heathcotes belonged to a family of gentle blood in Derbyshire. Gilbert Heathcote, one of the sons, was an Al- derman at Cheste... ... the first of these, was second son of Sir John Smythe of Acton Burnell in Derbyshire. His daughter Mary Anne was married at nineteen to one of the We... ..., designed by Mr. Butterfield— Mr. Keble’s in red granite, Mrs. Keble’s in Derbyshire marble. The place in the chancel where the coffin of John Keble,...

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............................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........................................................................................................................

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..................................................................77 A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” ............................................ ...ss One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever ... ...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ...the gilded equipage of the Millionary; the humbler, but yet larger vehicle from the green metropolitan suburbs (the Hang- ing Gardens of our Babylon),... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ...with us. As for the Rafael, I suppose you are aware that he was one of our people. But what are you gazing at? Oh! my sister—I forgot. Miriam! this is... ...l. Seven pound six at the ‘Shipp,’ Grinnidge, which I don’t grudge it, for Derbyshire’s brown Ock is the best in Urup; nine pound three at the ‘Traffl...

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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... ... could not boast of gentility. His father was Michael Johnson, a native of Derbyshire, of obscure extraction, who settled in Lichfield as a bookseller... ...female dress. When I found that he saw the romantick beauties of Islam, in Derbyshire, much better than I did, I told him that he resembled an able pe... ... thanks of, Sir, your most obliged and most humble ser- vant, ‘Ashbourn in Derbyshire, ‘SAM. JOHNSON. July 17, 1771.’ ‘Compliments to Miss Reynolds.’ ...

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...ge mines of the financiers. The coal and iron field of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire was discovered. Carston, Waite and Co. appeared. Amid tremendous... ... found they had struck on a good thing, so, down the valleys of the brooks from Selby and Nuttall, new mines were sunk, until soon there were six pits... ... and Nuttall, new mines were sunk, until soon there were six pits working. From Nuttall, high up on the sandstone among the woods, the railway ran, pa... ..., down to Spinney Park, then on to Minton, a large mine among corn-fields; from Minton across the farmlands of the valleyside to Bunker’s Hill, branch... ...ng north to Beggarlee and Selby, that looks over at Crich and the hills of Derbyshire: six mines like black studs on the countryside, linked by a loop... ...at was so well built and that looked so nice, were quite unsavoury because people must live in the kitchen, and the kitchens opened on to that nasty a... ...cs with some educated man. This she did not often enjoy. So she always had people tell her about themselves, finding her pleasure so. In her person sh... ...to her, as good as gold. But she felt very lonely, miles away from her own people. She felt lonely with him now, and his presence only made it more in... ...ing yellow light. The sun was going down. Every open evening, the hills of Derbyshire were blazed over with red sunset. Mrs. Morel watched the sun sin...

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...elong exclusively to Celtic nature, seeing that it had been drawn directly from a scion of one of those tribes. Young Patrick jumped from the train as... ...n-island brain of a youth whose manner of hating was to conjure her spirit from the air and let fly his own in pursuit of her. It has to be stated tha... ...taining Miss Adister’s Continental address; to gather what he could of her from her relatives, and then forthwith to proceed in search of her, that he... ...impse of the devilry in that exclusion of the valse. What object had those people in encouraging the young fellow to be a perfect fencer and dancer, s... ... the captain, your cousin, who has apparently yet to learn that we are one people.’ ‘We ‘re held together and a trifle intermixed; I fancy it’s we wit... ... Adiante.’ ‘Well did I hate the name! I heard it first over in France. Our people wrote to me of her; and it’s a name to set you thinking: Is she tend... ...eorge Meredith holiday, and worshipping him as the personification of your Derbyshire race.’ A glittering look was in Captain Con’s eye to catch Rockn...

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...inter,” said a thin, lank, angu- lar, sallow girl, just fifteen, trembling from head to foot with restrained eagerness, as she tried to curb her tone ... ...r girl, nearly two years older than her sister. “Will you—” began to burst from Etheldred’s lips again, but was stifled by Miss Winter’s inquiry, “Is ... ...er.” “But, my dear, has your mamma considered? They are such a set of wild people at Cocksmoor; I don’t think we could walk there alone.” “It is Satur... ... the walk, and will like it very much, and he will undertake to defend you from the quarrymen.” “Is Miss Winter afraid of the quarrymen?” hallooed Har... ... yes!” cried Ethel, “but no one fit to speak to would do that!” “Plenty of people do, I can tell you,” said Norman. “Then I hope I shall never know wh... ...of, mamma. Car- ing to be clever, and get on, only for the sake of beating people.” “I think that might be better expressed.” “I know,” said Ethel, be... ...ubletted, a desk bearing an open Bible before him, and a twisted pillar of Derbyshire spar on each side. He was the founder of thirteen almshouses, an...