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...elieve the existence of a Devil is a like debt to reason; one is a demonstration from the reality of visible causes, and the other a deduction from t... ... like reality of their effects. One demonstration of the existence of God is from the universal well-guided consent of all nations to worship and... ...ms, that the Creator of heaven and earth had adopted this nation for his chosen people, and therefore demanded their exclusive homage, and that they... ... which she called Prick-ear, Jack and Frog. Several witnesses, poor and ignorant people, were brought to testify to the mischief which had been done ... ...ll hope of being wedded before the following Whitsuntide. On the other hand, in Sussex on her return home from church is often robbed of all the pin... ..., because the surface is so seldom perfectly level. There are hundred of men in East Tennessee that will testify to this fact from actual experience.... ...ting them. Pa ris greedily took with her scheme, and he saw her while she took rye meal and kneaded a cake, which she salted in a peculiar manner, ...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private world...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author... ...r to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...cumstances of their tell- ing. How he loved travelers, especially from the East. I see Aesop on his balcony, the wind making him blink his eyes; he h... ...sco of bogged willows, a row of pencil-pointed cypress, a field of yellow rye, a woodland village, a pagan altar, a tired bridge, a flock of charcoal... ...outside the Globe: they had been working as stage hands: clever lads from Sussex, faithful, hard-working: they got sick on Tuesday; as the bells tol... ... the pegs moving inside the beams: that is for integrity. Ivy grew on the east wall of my house in those days. Henley Street June 3, 1615 Alone...

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...lume, Winter’s bee-thronged ivy-bloom. Seek and serve them where they bide From Candlemas to Christmas-tide, For these simples used aright Shall resto... ...f those whom mor- tals call Fairies. Their proper name, of course, is ‘The People of the Hills’. This Puck, by means of the magic of Oak, Ash, and Tho... ...r, Though it should have happened three thousand year. The result was that from time to time, and in different places on the farm and in the fields an... ...s and in the country about, they saw and talked to some rather interesting people. One of these, for instance, was a Knight of the Norman Conquest, an... ...the dripping turf where the shadows lay the wrong way, like evening in the East. The sun was well up and warm, but by the brook the last of the night ... ...d through my mind that the breaking day was Thor’s own day . A slow north- east wind blew up and set the oaks sawing and fretting in a way I remembere... ... imagine that she—Gloriana, Belphoebe, Elizabeth—has gone on a progress to Rye to comfort her sad heart (maids are often melancholic), and while she h... ...ld up her long jewelled hand. ‘Spare the rest! They were the best blood of Sussex, and by so much the more clumsy in handling the dishes and plates. W... ...t this happy juncture a Queen’s messenger, mounted and mired, spurs up the Rye road and delivers her a letter’—she giggled— ‘a letter from a good, sim...

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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. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighboring islands, which are...

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...T A M AP of the World, you will see, in the left hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemi sphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Sc... ...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... ...chiefs, came pouring into Britain. One body, conquering the Britons in the East, and settling there, called their kingdom Essex; another body settled ... ...d of these Londoners and other forces, and fol lowed the King to Lewes in Sussex, where he lay encamped with his army. Before giving the King’s force... ...s widow, and so had come into possession of a solitary dwelling called the Rye House, near Hoddesdon, in Hertfordshire. Rumbold said to them what a ca... ...o had been assigned to him was that old soldier Rumbold, the master of the Rye House. He was sorely wounded, and within a week after Argyle had suf f...

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...n the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry. When I go upon my jour- neys, I am not usually rated at a low figure in the... ... I travel for the great house of Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always w... ...holding such discourse on the beach, that no more bodies had come ashore since last night. It began to be very doubtful whether many more would be thr... ...f as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wales. I had heard of that clergy- man, as having buried many sc... ...the way was steep, and a horse and cart (in which it was wrapped in a sheet) were necessary, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was... ...nallgo, near Moelfra, Anglesey. His brother is the Reverend Hugh Robert Hughes, of Penrhos, Alligwy. CHAPTER III W APPING WORKHOUSE M Y DAY’S NO-BUSIN... ... from which he takes a scrap of paper. On this scrap of paper is written, by Squire Pouncerby, of The Grove, ‘Please to direct the Bearer, a poor but ... ... tinkering, chair- mending, umbrella-mending, clock-mending, knife-grind- ing? Surely, a pleasant thing, if we were in that condition of life, to grin... ...e very agreeable professional singer, who travelled with two professional ladies, knew better than to introduce either of those ladies to sing the bal...

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...or, pro- ceeded to a vacant room overlooking the front entrance, and spied from the window. Meanwhile Sewis stood by his master’s bedside. The squire ... ...ne with me last night? By George, if it is I’ll souse him; I’ll drench him from head to heel as though the rascal ‘d been drawn through the duck-pond.... ...ade it sound hollow to their music. Milk, and no cows anywhere; numbers of people, and no acquaintances among them; my thoughts were occupied by the s... ...twithstanding my father’s elo- quent talk of ruling a realm, shepherding a people, hurling British thunderbolts. The day’s discipline was, that its se... ...s Mr. Rippenger pro- nounced my name in the way habitual to him in anger: ‘Rye!’ Temple’s answer was inaudible to me. Saddlebank spoke, and other boys... ...a Hampshire gipsy tribe, and had been on a visit to a relative down in the East coun- ties, who died on the road, leaving her to be brought home by th... ...e will. My farm lies three miles away. You look at a crow flying due South-east five minutes from Riversley, and he’s over Throckham farm, and there I... ... whip, who begged me to call on him with reference to the candidature of a Sussex borough: ‘that is,’ said he, 387 George Meredith turning to Graf Ke... ...om, and at once the exordium and peroration of his eloquence. Spare me the Sussex accent on your return.’ My father read out the sentences of this let...

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... 1 Chapter 1 ‘TAKE OFF that mute, do!’ cried Louisa, snatching her fingers from the piano keys, and turning abruptly to the violinist. Helena looked s... ...he piano keys, and turning abruptly to the violinist. Helena looked slowly from her music. ‘My dear Louisa,’ she replied, ‘it would be simply unen- du... ...e looked at them. You would linger hours over a blue weed, and let all the people down the road go by. Folks are better than a gar- den in full blosso... ...ter of the band, the movement of scarlet, blithe soldiers beyond the park. People were drifting brightly from church. How could it be Sunday! It was n... ...he chalk roads were white, quivering with heat. Helena and Siegmund walked eastward bareheaded under the sunshine. They felt like two insects in the n... ...ey toiled along the deep road. A few poppies here and there among the wild rye floated scarlet in sunshine like blood- drops on green water. Helena re... ...unseen, unfelt, over them. Till the moon was ready to step forth. Then the eastern sky blenched, and there was a small gathering of clouds round the o... ...ened grass-lands. Helena was reassured by the glamour of evening over ripe Sussex. She breathed the land now and then, while she watched the sky. The ...

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...OVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ......................................................................... 10 CHAPTER II OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ...................

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...CH ITS PRODUCE IS NATU- RALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE. .......... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .................... ...ERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME .............. ...XTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEO... ...irectly destroy- ing, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people, 9 Adam Smith and those afflicted with lingering diseases, to peris... ... to have been of very great antiquity in the provinces of Ben- gal, in the East Indies, and in some of the eastern provinces of China, though the grea... ... of navigable canals, in the same manner as the Nile does in Egypt. In the eastern provinces of China, too, several great rivers form, by their differ... ...Pease to 40s. - 16s: 0d. after - 9¾d. Rye to 36s. - 19s:10d. till 40s. 16s:8d - 12d. Whe... ...as the price of middling wheat rises to 48s. the quarter; that of middling rye, pease, or beans, to 32s.; that of barley to 24s.; and that of oats to ... ...lace through the whole kingdom. But in the particular counties of Kent and Sussex, the restric- tions are still more troublesome. Every owner of wool ...

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...e day that Harold died! See you the windy levels spread About the gates of Rye? O that was where the Northmen fled, When Alfred’s ships came by! See y... ...nd ditch and wall? O that was a Legion’s camping-place, When Caesar sailed from Gaul! 5 Rudyard Kipling And see you marks that show and fade, Like sh... ...nging his broken June tune, ‘cuckoo-cuck’, while a busy kingfisher crossed from the mill-stream, to the brook which ran on the other side of the meado... ...hing. ‘If this had happened a few hundred years ago you’d have had all the People of the Hills out like bees in June!’ ‘We didn’t know it was wrong,’ ... ...at’s just why you did it. Unluck- ily the Hills are empty now, and all the People of the Hills are gone. I’m the only one left. I’m Puck, the oldest O... ... not to interrupt. ‘ At Santlache, over the hill yonder’- he pointed south-east- ward towards Fairlight—‘we found Harold’s men. We fought. At the day’... ...ley. We came in by the Lower Ford under the King’s Hill yonder’—he pointed eastward where the val- ley widens. ‘And was that Saxon Hugh the novice?’ D... ...had eaten—he was a fat man, and rolled his eyes greedily at our good roast Sussex wheat-ears—we led him to the little upper chamber, whither Gilbert h... ...t he’d hove over- board to lighten his ship, chased by Andrew Barton up to Rye Port.’ ‘Ah! The pirate!’ said Dan. ‘Yes. And while I am tearing my hair...

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...ted, together with Sir Robert Naunton’s “Fragmenta Regalia,” in the volume from which they are here reprinted, with notes by the translator and the ed... ...beth sent thither as Ambassa- dor, and was despatched to Elizabeth’s court from Scotland as a trusty messenger. In 1596-7 he was in France, and cor- r... ...ebted to Professor Edward Arber. H.M. 5 TRA VELS IN ENGLAND WE ARRIVED AT RYE, a small English seaport. Here, as soon as we came on shore, we gave in... ...hey could come in, or go out, by night or by day. There is only one to the east: Aldgate, that is, Oldgate, from its antiquity; though others think it... ...its antiquity; though others think it to have been named Elbegate. Several people believe that there were formerly two gates (besides that to the brid... ...tone chests, one of which is thus in- scribed: Here lies Seba, King of the East Saxons, who was con- verted to the faith by St. Erkenwald, Bishop of L... ... thy kingdom shall be translated to another, whose manner and language the people under thee knoweth not. Nor shall thy sin be done away till after lo... ...Lord Mohun of Dunster, wife of Edward, Duke of Y ork. Frances, Countess of Sussex, of the ancient family of Sidney. Thomas Bromley, Chancellor to Quee... ...w first building by the executors of the Lady Frances Sidney,* Countess of Sussex. W e must note here that there is certain sect in England called Pur...

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...esar. The sol diers he led to battle were very strong, and con- quered the people wherever they went. They had no gun or gunpowder then; but they had ... ...gunpowder then; but they had swords and spears, and, to prevent themselves from being hurt, they had helmets or brazen caps on their heads, with long ... ...le way off there was a country nobody knew anything about, except that the people were very fierce and savage, and that a sort of pearl was found in t... ...strong places in the woods, with trunks of trees, cut down to shut them in from the enemy, with all their flocks and cattle; but Caesar did not get in... ...ikeness of his second little boy, named William. He landed at Pevensey, in Sussex, and set up his camp while Harold was away in the North, fighting wi... ...ing. But though his army was not large, it was very brave. When he reached Sussex, he placed all his men on the top of a low hill, near Hastings, and ... ...with gifts. But for a long time past Jerusalem had been in the hands of an Eastern people, who think their false prophet, Mahommed, greater than our b... ...d’s will! It is God’s will!” And each who undertook to go and fight in the East re- ceived a cross cut out into cloth, red or white, to wear on his sh... ...e their lives. Soon after this false plot, there was a real one called the Rye-house Plot. Long ago, the king had pretended to marry a girl named Lucy...

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...THE REIGN OF HENRY VIII., a family of the name of Jenkin, claiming to come from York, and bearing the arms of Jenkin ap Philip of St. Melans, are foun... ... settled in the county of Kent. Persons of strong genealogical pinion pass from William Jenkin, Mayor of Folkestone in 1555, to his contemporary ‘John... ...ed in her immediate circle, was in her old age ‘a great genealogist of all Sussex families, and much con- sulted.’ The names Frewen and Jenkin may alm... ...is mother, his unmarried sister, and his sick brother John. Out of the six people of whom his nearest family consisted, three were in his own house, a... ...nder the great spreading chestnuts of the old fore court,’ where the young people danced and made merry to the music of the village band. Or perhaps, ... ...ip’s books. From Northiam he was sent to another school at Boonshill, near Rye, where the master took ‘infinite delight’ in strap- ping him. ‘It keeps... ... was not altogether future, it wore a present form when he came driving to Rye behind four horses in the same carriage with an admiral. ‘I was not a l... ...n queer berths – raising cavalry, building pal- aces, and using some petty Eastern king’s long purse with their long Scotch heads. ‘Off Bona; June 4. ... ...ugs under an awning, I enjoyed a very pleasant day. ‘May 14. ‘SYRA IS SEMI-EASTERN. The pavement, huge shapeless blocks sloping to a central gutter; f...