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...n’s THE ESSAYS OR COUNSELS, CIVIL AND MORAL, OF FRANCIS Ld. VERULAM VISCOUNT ST. ALBANS is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ...n’s THE ESSAYS OR COUNSELS, CIVIL AND MORAL, OF FRANCIS Ld. VERULAM VISCOUNT ST. ALBANS , the Pennsyl vania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Edit... ...con THE ESSAYS OR COUNSELS, CIVIL AND MORAL, OF FRANCIS Ld. VERULAM VISCOUNT ST . ALBANS THE ESSAYS 5 …Of Truth 7 …Of Death 9 …Of Unity in Religion... ...in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological, and philosophical truth, to the truth of civil business... ...rave towards God, and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wicked ness of falsehood, and breach of faith, cann... ...of so many discordant, and contrary opinions in religion; it doth avert them from the church, and maketh them, to sit down in the chair of the scorner... ...tions; to authorize con spiracies and rebellions; to put the sword into the people’s hands; and the like; tending to the subversion of all govern me... ... religion; so it is a thing monstrous to put it into the hands of the common people. Let that be left unto the Anabaptists, and other furies. It was g... ...scend, to the cruel and execrable actions of murthering princes, butchery of people, and subversion of states and governments? Surely this is to bring...

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...Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- INDUCTION. Enter Rumour. Open your Eares: For which of you will stop The vent of Hearing, when loud Rumor speakes? I, from the Orient, to the drooping West (Making the winde my Post- horse) still unfold The Acts commenced on this Ball of Earth. Upon my Tongue, continuall Slanders ride, The which, in every Language, I pronounce, Stuffing the ...

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...l stop 5 The vent of Hearing, when loud Rumor speakes? 6 I, from the Orient, to the drooping West 7 (Making the winde my Post- h... ...nely I 15 Make fearfull Musters, and prepar’d Defence, 16 Whil’st the bigge yeare, swolne with some other griefes, 17 Is thought wit... ...ot a man of them brings other newes 42 Then they haue learn’d of Me. From Rumours Tongues, 43 They bring smooth- Comforts- false, worse t... ... him. 62 L.Bar. Noble Earle, 63 I bring you certaine newes from Shrewsbury. 64 Nor. Good, and heauen will. 65 L.Ba... ...s Flood 121 Hath left a witnest Vsurpation. 122 Say Morton, did’st thou come from Shrewsbury? 123 Mor. I ran from Shrewsbury (my N... .... 126 North. How doth my Sonne, and Brother? 127 Thou trembl’st; and the whitenesse in thy Cheeke 128 Is apter then thy Tongue, to ... ...Keep them off, Bardolfe. Fang. A rescu, a rescu. 662 Host. Good people bring a rescu. Thou wilt not? thou 663 wilt not? Do, do thou Ro... ...701 staires) desire me to be no more familiar with such poore 702 people, saying, that ere long they should call me Madam? 703 And did’s... ...inne, that Life lookes through, and will breake out. 2507 Glo. The people feare me: for they doe obserue 2508 Vnfather’d Heires, and loath...

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...Excerpt: Young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the sh...

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...imes, the only recreation-ground of the ladies and play-place of the young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not... ...eep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of ... ...nded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shad- ows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting befor... ... now playing at ball with Jamie when in comes a lay-brother, with a letter from Sir Patrick to say that he is coming the night to crave permission fro... ...t himself under the guidance of his first cousin, James Kennedy, Bishop of St. Andrews and now Chancellor of Scotland, one of the wisest, best, and tr... ... face of north- ern nature, and it was hardly to be wondered at that young people, inheritors of the cultivated instincts of James I. and of the Plant... ... so did my good wife. She longs to see the lady who is now Sister Clare at St. Katharine’s in London, and it is well not to let her and Annis brook th... ... ‘Ay,’ said James, ‘then will we take Mary and the weans to the nunnery in St. Mary’ s Wynd, where none will dare to molest them, and I shall go on to... ...nd their dignity, and drive them into some strange behaviour that the good people of Berwick would never forget. They rode in, however, very upright a...

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...land; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come i...

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... Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought hom... ...which were brought home by their T urkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but a... ... have lived to see practised since. But such things as these were gathered from the letters of merchants and others who corresponded abroad, and from ... ...l was kept very private. Hence it was that this rumour died off again, and people began to forget it as a thing we were very little concerned in, and ... ...rtality in the usual manner, thus – Plague, 2. Parishes infected, 1. The people showed a great concern at this, and began to be alarmed all over the... ...ther house, but in the same parish and in the same manner. This turned the people’s eyes pretty much towards that end of the town, and the weekly bill... ... end of the town, and the weekly bills showing an increase of buri- als in St Giles’s parish more than usual, it began to be sus- pected that the plag... ...ills stood thus: the usual number of burials in a week, in the parishes of St Giles-in-the-Fields and St Andrew’s, Holborn, were from twelve to sevent... ...n each, few more or less; but from the time that the plague first began in St Giles’ s parish, it was observed that the ordinary burials increased in ...

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...g the last half of the twelfth century, it received its great est impulse from Crestien de T roies, the most distinguished of the trouvères. The met... ...year of his birth or of his death, but we know that he lived approximately from 1100 to 1175. Practically all our information about his life is what h... ... study of letters; afterward I studied long in France. 1 When I came back from France, I dwelt long at Caen. I busied myself with making books in Ro ... ...n sense console him with the reflections with which he begins his Life of St. Nicholas :—“Nobody can know everything, or hear everything, or see ever... ...ything, or see everything … God distributes differ ent gifts to different people. Each man should show his worth in that which God has given him.” He... ...sed Constantine to be slain. Great was the sorrow the lords and all honest people made above their king, for the realm had now no prince, save only th... ...at him in his father’s chair, though not with the voice and welcome of the people. The archbishop who should have anointed the king with oil was dead,... ...llen into disuse amongst the people because of Hengist and his heathendom, St. Germanus came to Britain, sent by St. Romanus, the Apostle of Rome. Wit... ...s came to Britain, sent by St. Romanus, the Apostle of Rome. With him came St. Louis of T royes. These two fair bishops, Germanus of Auxerre and Louis...

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...Excerpt: I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between p...

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...PREFACE TO 1850 EDITION I DO NOT FIND IT EASY to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of hav- ing finished it, to refer ... ... pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions that I am in danger of wearying the reader whom I l... ...to the shadowy world, when a crowd of the creatures of his brain are going from him for ever. Yet, I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I wer... ... in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and pref... ... t cry! said Miss Betsey. You were not equally matched, child if any two people can be equally matched and so I asked the question. You were an orph... ...the yard-measure lived; at her work-box with a sliding lid, with a view of St. Paul s Ca- thedral (with a pink dome) painted on the top; at the brass ... ...civilities nothing has passed! You talk of admiration. What am I to do? If people are so silly as to indulge the sentiment, is it my fault? What am I ... ...th the stocking and the yard-measure, and the bit of wax, and the box with St. Paul s on the lid, and the crocodile book, when Peggotty, after look- i... ...site side of the fire. Peggotty at her needlework was as much at home with St. Paul s and the bit of wax-candle, as if they had never known any other ...

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...t a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. It must be, if ... ...han our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from ... ...inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only es- cape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them. A... ...ons of miles it was from us—more than forty millions of miles of void. Few people realise the im- mensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material... ...elow in the darkness were Ottershaw and Chertsey and all their hundreds of people, sleeping in peace. He was full of speculation that night about the ... ...hotograph of the planet for the illustrated paper he edited in those days. People in these latter times scarcely realise the abundance and enterprise ... ...ER CHAPTER T T T T TW W W W WO O O O O THE F THE F THE F THE F THE FALLING ST ALLING ST ALLING ST ALLING ST ALLING STAR AR AR AR AR THEN CAME THE NIGH... ...TER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER TEN TEN TEN TEN TEN IN IN IN IN IN THE ST THE ST THE ST THE ST THE STORM ORM ORM ORM ORM LEATHERHEAD is about twel... ...ning of the pine woods between Woking and Weybridge, until eight. Then the St. James’s Gazette, in an extra-special edition, an- nounced the bare fact...

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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... ...ain, ‘Who art thou, lad? We will guerdon thee well for aiding me. The Lord St. John is my father. And who art thou?’ ‘I? Oh, I am Hob Hogward’s lad,’ ... ... II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II THE SNO THE SNO THE SNO THE SNO THE SNOW W W W W-ST -ST -ST -ST -STORM ORM ORM ORM ORM Yet stay, fair lady, rest awhile Bene... ...e out of bed, ‘that the Sisters are accountable for me. I am the Lady Anne St. John. My father is a lord in Bedfordshire, but he is gone to the wars i... ...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...

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... have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three communications, all similar in import and identical in... ...ten foolscap pages. The other two are written by a differ- ent person, at St. Joseph, Mo., and of the dates, respectively, October 12 and 13, 1863, ... ...d mine is plain in any event. The locality of nearly all this seems to be St. Joseph and Buchanan County. I wish you to give special attention to t... ... attention to this region, particularly on election day. Prevent violence from whatever quarter, and see that the soldiers themselves do no wrong. Y ... ...e country. This will heal a dangerous schism for him. It will relieve him from a dangerous position or a misunderstanding, as I think he is in danger... ...not comprehend the object of your dispatch. I do not often decline seeing people who call upon me, and probably will see you if you call. A. LINCOLN.... ...n, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 21... ...eeming this to be of high national consequence, I recommend that all loyal people do, on receipt of this information, assemble at their places of wors... ...it. Henderson, and especially Brown, believe that the social influence of St. Louis would inevitably tell injuriously upon General Pope in the par- ...

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...d blacksmith had their workshops. There was a group of children, the young people who were confided to the great Earl Richard and Countess Alice of Sa... ...ied to King Henry VI. Attendance on the patient had prevented the Countess from hearing the history of the accident, but presently the clatter of hors... ...too eager to accuse him. 6 Grisly Grisell “He took a bar of iron from the forge, so please you, my lord, and put it to the barrel of powder.... ...y ought to have the Lord Earl’s arms on them. So he took a bar of hot iron from the forge to mark the saltire on them, and thereupon there was this bu... ...ined to uphold royalty, while York was con- sidered as the champion of the people. The gentle King and the Beauforts wished for peace with France; the... ...t heraldically-embroidered covering. “Leonard Copeland and his father. Did’st not hear the horses’ tramp in the court?” “I thought it was only my lord... ...aved at him like a very sleuth-hound on the chase. And Leonard— what think’st thou he saith? “That he would as soon wed the loathly lady as thee,” the... ...ll must be, I trow; but it is hard, and I 21 Charlotte M. Young shall let St. Cuthbert of Durham know it, that after all the candles I have given him... ...f the Lord’s Prayer and Creed in the hands of all care- ful and thoughtful people, even among the poor, if they had a good parish priest, or had come ...

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... this which I shall utter, that we are already in good part arrived, and yet from such a steep disadvantage of tyranny and superstition grounded int... ...rmer two of these I have heretofore endeavoured, rescuing the employment from him who went about to impair your merits with a trivial and maligna... ...etters we owe that we are not yet Goths and Jutlanders, I could name him who from his private house wrote that discourse to the Parliament of Athens,... ...tion was to ordain that no book, pamphlet, or paper should be printed (as if St. Peter had bequeathed them the keys of the press also out of Paradise)... ...etian. And perhaps it was the same politic drift that the devil whipped St. Jerome in a Lenten dream, for reading Cicero; or else it was a phant... ...wful than what was wearisome. As for the burning of those Ephesian books by St. Paul’s converts; ’tis replied the books were magic, the Syriac so ren... ... all the contagion that foreign books can infuse will find a passage to the people far and shorter than an Indian voyage, though it could be sailed e... ...nd Sorbonists, and how fast they could transfuse that corruption into the people, our experience is both late and sad. It is not forgot, since the... ... sort are most and soonest catching to the learned, from whom to the common people whatever is heretical or dissolute may quickly be conveyed, and...

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...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young page of ... ...s, finally receiving an adequate English translation at the hands of Bayle St. John, who has been careful to adhere to the peculiarities of Saint-Simo... ...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...ged of the King admission for me into the Musketeers. It was on the day of St. Simon and St. Jude, at half-past twelve, and just as his Majesty came o... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ...r. The fact of these royal persons being sent for by the King at once made people think that a mar- riage was in contemplation. In a few minutes they ... ... upon an early day, at about twelve o’clock, they should meet at the Porte St. Honore, then a very de- serted spot, and that the coach of M. de Vardes...

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...ine by line, with the Edinburgh edi- 4 The Lady of the Lake tion of 1821 (from the Harvard Library), with Lockhart’s first edition, the “ Globe “ edi... ...izabethan words and constructions, and I have quoted many “ parallelisms “ from Shakespeare and his contemporaries. I believe I have referred to my ed... ...deep-mouthed bloodhound’s heavy bay Resounded up the rocky way, And faint, from farther distance borne, Were heard the clanging hoof and horn. 7 Sir ... ...rilled to a tear, then thus replied: ‘Loveliest and best! thou little know’st The rank, the honors, thou hast lost! O. might I live to see thee grace,... ...ne’s pride, The terror of Loch Lomond’s side, Would, at my suit, thou know’st, delay A Lennox foray—for a day.’— 28 The Lady of the Lake XII. The anc... ...t pilgrim will she rove, Than wed the man she cannot love. XIV. ‘Thou shak’st, good friend, thy tresses gray,— That pleading look, what can it say But... .... XXII. Lament. ‘And art thou cold and lowly laid, Thy foeman’s dread, thy people’s aid, Breadalbane’s boast, Clan-Alpine’s shade! For thee shall none... ...eath. Another writer, in 1843, says that the pool is still visited, not by people of the vicinity, who have no faith in its virtue, but by those from ... ...rrow and winding streets of a suburb, inhabited by the lowest order of the people, and an approaching thunder-shower de- termined him to ask a short r...

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...on. The imagi- nation of my Julia is as pure as—as——” but turning her eyes from the countenance of Julia to that of the youth, rather sud- denly, the ... ...his expres- sive, though plain features, drove the remainder of the speech from her recollection. “As her heart!” cried Charles Weston with emphasis. ... ...in pro- found silence. Miss Emmerson, the maiden aunt of Julia, with- drew from the door, where she had been conversing with Mr. Miller, and the trave... ...ntained the real name of Regulus, which she declared to be Henry Frederick St. Albans. If Charles was at a loss to discover Julia’s hidden love, Julia... ... hidden love, Julia herself was equally uncertain how to know who this Mr. St. Albans was. After a vast deal of musing, she remembered that Anna was a... ...ole, hardly treated—and they left the school together. This must have been St. Albans, and Anna stood fully exculpated in her eyes. The letter also an... ...er— 61 Tales for Fifteen “It is nothing, Charlotte, but a drunken man; if people will drink, they must abide the consequences.” “He does not seem int... ...turned from his travels, he has been so much— much courted—nay, by the old people, I mean—and the girls beckon him about so—and it’s Mr. Delafield, ha... ...mer, then?” asked Seymour Delafield. “Miss Henly has as many ears as other people,” said Maria, “but she does not condescend to use them on all occasi...

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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... ... his court at Chester, and went on the river Dee to visit the monastery of St. John, the eight oars of his boat were pulled (as the people used to del... ...ere terribly liable to sudden death in those days), and had been buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral. The A Child’s Histroy of England 54 King might possi... ... convey the body to Caen, in Normandy, in order that it might be buried in St. Stephen’s church there, which the Conqueror had founded. But fire, of w...

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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... ... beg to offer the following translation: 9 Sir Walter Scott “The curse of St Withold upon these infernal porkers!” said the swine-herd, after blowing... ... ease, altogether regard- less of the voice of their keeper. “The curse of St Withold upon them and upon me!” said Gurth; “if the two-legged wolf snap... ...dance, and takes a Norman name when he becomes matter of enjoy- ment.” “By St Dunstan,” answered Gurth, “thou speakest but sad truths; little is left ... ...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...

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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... ...been for some two hours and a half; there was a slight obstruction in the sea within a few yards of my feet: as if the stump of a tree, with earth eno... ...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... ... day; the beneficent Earth had already absorbed it. The drowned were buried in their clothes. T o supply the great sudden demand for coffins, he had g... ...Eastern police magistrates are not always the wisest men of the East, may be inferred from their course of procedure respecting the fancy-dressing and... ...atter for reflection as I journeyed home, inasmuch as, before I altogether departed from the neighbourhood of Mr. Baker’s trap, I had knocked at the g... ...a at Milan, or the San Carlo at Naples, or the Grand Opera at Paris, than any notion a stranger would be likely to form of the Britan- nia Theatre at ...

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...to the place? (As Aeschylus expresses it), I found none so fit as him that peopled the beautiful and far-famed city of Athens, to be set in opposition... ...nd of uncer- 6 V olume One tain parentage, had the repute of being sprung from the gods. Both warriors; that by all the world’s allowed. Both of them... ...Until to Athens thou art come again. Pittheus, therefore, taking advantage from the obscurity 7 Plutarch’s Lives of the oracle, prevailed upon him, i... ...cy, and with injunctions to him as much as possible to conceal his journey from every one; for he greatly feared the Pallantidae, who were continually... ...ns, as some imagine, nor of the Mysians, but be- cause they were a warlike people, and used to close fighting, and above all other nations accustomed ... ...they thought, all eq- uity and humanity, though naturally lauded by common people, either out of want of courage to commit injuries or fear to receive... ...rnment into their own hands, and ap- pointed an annual magistrate over the Albans, this taught the great men of Rome to seek after a free and anti-mon... ...gers, many in number, and poor. In the same nature, O Romans, formerly the Albans, Fidenates, and Ardeates, and now lately the Veientines and Capenate... ... the night, he thought he saw the goddess coming to him, and saying, Sleep’st thou, great lion, when the fawns are nigh? Rising up hereupon, he called...

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...GS in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is on... ...parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage... ...e iron bedstead, rustled; the pale face of a young woman was raised feebly from the pillow; and a faint voice imperfectly articulated the words, ‘Let ... ...en were neat and clean to behold, when they went; and what more would the people have! It cannot be expected that this system of farming would produc... ...s every night,’ said another gentleman in a gruff voice; ‘and pray for the people who feed you, and take care of you—like a Christian.’ ‘Yes, sir,’ st... ...stian, and a marvellously good Christian too, if Oliver had prayed for the people who fed and took care of him. But he hadn’t, because nobody had tau... ...n they reached the turnpike at Islington. They crossed from the Angel into St. John’s Road; struck down the small street which termi nates at Sadler’... ...hich he had as much chance of being, as if he had lived inside the ball of St. Paul’s Cathedral. One afternoon, the Dodger and Master Bates being en ... ...ane into Holborn. ‘Now, young ‘un!’ said Sikes, looking up at the clock of St. Andrew’s Church, ‘hard upon seven! you must step out. Come, don’t lag b...

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... to distinguish what is true and genuine in this historic kind of writing, from what is false and counterfeit. Indeed, it seems likely that some such ... ...h two or three authors have lately procured for their works of this nature from the public, will probably serve as an encouragement to many others to... ... calumny, and to the prejudice of the characters of many worthy and honest people. I question not but the ingenious author of the Spectator was prin... ...r was principally induced to prefix Greek and Latin mottos to every paper, from the same consideration of guarding against the pursuit of those scribb... ...probation. “Why now, that’s friendly,” said he; “d—n me, I hate to see two people bear ill will to one another after they have had a tussel. The only ... ...ion besides his good offices in assisting at the perfor mance. The good people now ranged themselves round the kitchen fire, where good humour seem... ... we should know what sort of per son thou wilt be; for, perhaps, thou may’st be as learned in human nature as Shakespear himself was, and, perhaps, t... ... learned in human nature as Shakespear himself was, and, perhaps, thou may’st be no wiser than some of his editors. Now, lest this latter should be th... ... farther together, to give thee a few wholesome admonitions; that thou may’st not as grossly misunderstand and misrep resent us, as some of the said ...

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...t of the old duties at Greenleaf or the summer afternoons when I went home from school with my portfolio under my arm, and my childish shadow at my si... ... a condition can quite understand what I mean or what painful unrest arose from this source. For the same reason I am almost afraid to hint at that ti... ... which I was one of the beads! And when my only prayer was to be taken off from the rest and when it was such inexplicable agony and misery to be a pa... ... do, did she think? I mildly asked her. “Draw,” returned Miss Flite. “Draw people on, my dear. Draw peace out of them. Sense out of them. Good looks o... .... Saved many lives, never com plained in hunger and thirst, wrapped naked people in his spare clothes, took the lead, showed them what to do, gov er... ..., I so ad mired and loved what he had done, that I envied the storm worn people who had fallen at his feet and blessed him as their preserver. I cou... ...urtsys. “It’s a good two or three and twenty mile from here, sir. At Saint Albans. You know Saint Albans, sir? I thought you gave a start like, as if ... ...ir,” says the woman. “Oh, you Jo! He was along with me, sir, down at Saint Albans, ill, and a young lady, Lord bless her for a good friend to me, took... ...a little scolding, and took a coach home. The poor boy whom I had found at St. Albans had reappeared a short time before and was lying at the point of...

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... and he was induced to print it may be read farther on in his own preface. From this we learn also that he was not only the printer of the book, but t... ...as Malorie occurred among those of a number of other Lancastrians excluded from a general pardon granted by Edward IV . in 1468, and that a William Ma... ...Wars of the Roses might have inspired them in any one, come most naturally from an author who was a Lancastrian knight. If the Morte Darthur was reall... ...erpetually, and also of his knights. First in the abbey of Westminster, at St. Edward’s shrine, remaineth the print of his seal in red wax closed in b... ...t many pavilions, and there was great war made on both par- ties, and much people slain. Then for pure anger and for great love of fair Igraine the ki... ...surped upon him, and did a great battle upon his men, and slew many of his people. Sir, said Merlin, ye may not lie so as ye do, for ye must to the fi... ...ing forth in an horse-litter with a great host towards his enemies. And at St. Albans there met with the king a great host of the North. And that day ... ...forth in an horse-litter with a great host towards his enemies. And at St. Albans there met with the king a great host of the North. And that day Sir ... ...s of arms, and King Uther’s men overcame the Northern battle and slew many people, and put the remnant to flight. And then the king returned unto Lond...

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...e originated. In such mouths I might have coupled it with an apt quotation from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets: “My nature is subdued To what it works i... ...true, and within the truth. The case of Gridley is in no essential altered from one of actual occurrence, made public by a dis interested person who ... ...on who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong from beginning to end. At the present moment (August, 1853) there is a suit... ...the toes and fingers of his shivering little ‘prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peep ing over the parapets into a nether sky of fog,... ...ses. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Sc... ...pleasantry that particularly tickled the maces, bags, and purses. How many people out of the suit Jarndyce and Jarndyce has stretched forth its unwhol... ...ine o’clock as I always did to read the Bible to her, and was reading from St. John how our Saviour stooped down, writing with his finger in the dust,... ...the short day was spent and the long night had closed in before we came to St. Albans, near to which town Bleak House was, we knew. By that time we we... ..., for he has been recumbent this quarter of a century in the churchyard of St. Andrews, Holborn, with the waggons and hackney coaches roaring past him...

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...e originated. In such mouths I might have coupled it with an apt quotation from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets: “My nature is subdued To what it works i... ...true, and within the truth. The case of Gridley is in no essential altered from one of actual occurrence, made public by a dis interested person who ... ...on who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong from beginning to end. At the present moment (August, 1853) there is a suit... ...the toes and fingers of his shivering little ‘prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peep ing over the parapets into a nether sky of fog,... ...ses. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Sc... ...pleasantry that particularly tickled the maces, bags, and purses. How many people out of the suit Jarndyce and Jarndyce has stretched forth its unwhol... ...ine o’clock as I always did to read the Bible to her, and was reading from St. John how our Saviour stooped down, writing with his finger in the dust,... ...the short day was spent and the long night had closed in before we came to St. Albans, near to which town Bleak House was, we knew. By that time we we... ..., for he has been recumbent this quarter of a century in the churchyard of St. Andrews, Holborn, with the waggons and hackney coaches roaring past him...

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...ise of the Duke of York and the inevitability of armed conflict. As such, the play culminates with the opening battle of the War, the First Battle of St Albans. Henry VI may be viewed as a study in insurrection, which moves from the private and personal jostlings in the court in Part 1 to outright civil war in Part 3. In Part 2 the discord between prominent state officials...

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...birth: in fact if you went on breeding, you would finally have to kill old people to make room for young ones. Now death is not necessarily a failure ... ...eath is not necessarily a failure of energy on the part of the Life Force. People with no imagination try to make things which will last for ever, and... ...ortality is no dream but a hard fact, such a shriek of despair would go up from the human race as no other conceivable horror could provoke. With all ... ...damned, since the saved are no longer what they were, and in hell alone do people retain their sinful nature: that is to say, their individuality. And... ...-drivers. And there is a grow- ing body of law designed to prevent parents from using their children ruthlessly to make money for the household. Such ... ... the bond of affection between parents and children does not save children from the slavery that denial of rights involves in adult political relation... ...ools and in Scotland; but their belief did not help them until Bedales and St George’s were organized; and there are still not nearly enough co-educat... ...ever been to London, and who tell you that they once went to Winchester or St Albans much as if they had been to the South Pole; but they are not so c... ...ckwick is the safest saint for us in our nonage. Flaubert’s T emptation of St Anthony is an excellent book for a man of fifty, perhaps the best within...

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...endent on a printed text. Caxton?s story of how the book was brought to him and he was induced to print it may be read farther on in his own preface. From this we learn also that he was not only the printer of the book, but to some extent its editor also, dividing Malory?s work into twentyone books, splitting up the books into chapters, by no means skilfully, and supplying...

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... and he was induced to print it may be read farther on in his own preface. From this we learn also that he was not only the printer of the book, but t... ...as Malorie occurred among those of a number of other Lancastrians excluded from a general pardon granted by Edward IV . in 1468, and that a William Ma... ...Wars of the Roses might have inspired them in any one, come most naturally from an author who was a Lancastrian knight. If the Morte Darthur was reall... ...erpetually, and also of his knights. First in the abbey of Westminster, at St. Edward’s shrine, remaineth the print of his seal in red wax closed in b... ...t many pavilions, and there was great war made on both par- ties, and much people slain. Then for pure anger and for great love of fair Igraine the ki... ...surped upon him, and did a great battle upon his men, and slew many of his people. Sir, said Merlin, ye may not lie so as ye do, for ye must to the fi... ...ing forth in an horse-litter with a great host towards his enemies. And at St. Albans there met with the king a great host of the North. And that day ... ...forth in an horse-litter with a great host towards his enemies. And at St. Albans there met with the king a great host of the North. And that day Sir ... ...s of arms, and King Uther’s men overcame the Northern battle and slew many people, and put the remnant to flight. And then the king returned unto Lond...

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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... ... wholesomest soil in England. It is built on the river Thames, sixty miles from the sea, and was originally founded, as all historians agree, by Brutu... ...estminster, most remarkable for the courts of justice, the parliament, and St. Peter’s church, enriched with the royal tombs. At the distance of twent... ...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... ...alconer. 8 2. Dourgate, Vulgo Dowgate, I.E., Water-gate. The cathedral of St. Paul was founded by Ethelbert, King of the Saxons, and being from time ... ...re lies Seba, King of the East Saxons, who was con- verted to the faith by St. Erkenwald, Bishop of London, A.D. 677. On the other: Here lies Ethelred... ... 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... ...seventh, not without suspicion of poison. Mary was proclaimed queen by the people on the 19th of July, and died in November, 1558, and is buried in so...

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... this which I shall utter, that we are already in good part arrived, and yet from such a steep disadvantage of tyranny and super stition grounded int... ...former two of these I have heretofore endeavoured, res cuing the employment from him who went about to impair your merits with a trivial and malignan... ...etters we owe that we are not yet Goths and Jutlanders, I could name him who from his private house wrote that discourse to the Parliament of Athens, ... ...tion was to ordain that no book, pamphlet, or paper should be printed (as if St. Peter had bequeathed them the keys of the press also out of Paradise)... ...cletian. And perhaps it was the same politic drift that the devil whipped St. Jerome in a lenten dream, for reading Cicero; or else it was a phanta... ...awful than what was wearisome. As for the burning of those Ephesian books by St. Paul’s converts; ’tis replied the books were magic, the Syriac so ren... ...all the contagion that for eign books can infuse will find a passage to the people far easier and shorter than an Indian voyage, th ough it could be... ...and Sorbonists, and how fast they could transfuse that cor ruption into the people, our experience is both late and sad. It is not forgot, since the ... ...r sort are most and soonest catching to the learned, from whom to the common people what ever is heretical or dissolute may quickly be conveyed, and ...

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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... ...UBRITY ON THE 30th of September I reported for duty at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, with the 4th United States infantry. It was the largest military... ...r of seventeen, who had been spending several years at boarding- school in St. Louis, but who, though through school, had not yet returned home. She w... ... city with connections, the family of Colonel John O’Fallon, well known in St. Louis. In February she returned to her country home. After that I do no... ...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...