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...nt that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Whate’er its mission, the s... ...ission, the soft breeze can come 5 To none more grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, where I long had pined A discontented sojourner: now ... ... mind’s 55 Internal echo of the imperfect sound; To both I listened, drawing from them both A cheerful confidence in things to come. Content and not un... ...ver his dear Country; left the deeds Of Wallace, like a family of Ghosts, To people the steep rocks and river banks, Her natural sanctuaries, with a l... ...5 Nor, sedulous as I have been to trace How Nature by extrinsic passion first Peopled the mind with forms sublime or fair, And made me love them, may I... ...t design, the opinions, thoughts, SUMMER V ACATION 57 Of those plain living people now observed With clearer knowledge; with another eye I saw the qu... ...ridged; the dizzy top And Whispering Gallery of St. Paul’s; the tombs 130 Of Westminster; the Giants of Guildhall; Bedlam, and those carved maniacs at...

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...OKER T. WASHINGTON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of ... ...e document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington, the Pennsylvania St... ... University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Booker T. Washington Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington This volume is dedic... ...is to change the whole economic basis of life and the whole character of a people. The plan itself is not a new one. It was worked out at Hampton Inst... ...e period, he was necessar- 8 UP FROM SLAVERY ily misunderstood by his own people as well as by the whites, and where he had to adjust it at every ste... ...arters, and even later, I heard whispered conversations among the coloured people of the tortures which the slaves, including, no doubt, my ancestors ... ...held in the Crystal Palace, and the presiding officer was the late Duke of Westminster, who was said to be, I believe, the richest man in England, if ...

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...he pope of being the Antichrist. Luther's book was further published in German by his opponent Franciscan Thomas Murner, in hopes that he would make people aware of the foolishness of supporting Luther....

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...—the sacramental system by which she accompanied and controlled her members from the cradle to the grave. Only then could he set forth, in language o... ...ther calls “The Babylonian Captivity of the Church.” The reference is clear from the contents of the document: just as the Jews were carried away fr... ...f the Babylonian Empire, so in Europe the Christians have been carried away from the Scriptures and made subject to the tyranny of the papacy. This ... ...o German, confident that it would expose Luther to the rank and file of the people as a radical heretic and dangerous foe of the church. Of special s... ... On the other hand, the Captivity cleared the atmosphere for many thoughtful people and brought Luther not a few new friends. The most outstanding ex... ...o have wanted to write my “recantation” so much as the praise of the French people and the Roman pontiff. Let him attest his allegiance in this litt... ...out 251– 252. 49 St. Cyprian, “The Lapsed,” trans. Maurice Bévenot, S. J. (Westminster, Maryland, 1957), p. 31. (Vol. 25 of Ancient Christian Write...

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...Excerpt: Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the threshold one reads that the firm consists of Mr. Lawrence Doyle and Mr. Thomas Broadbent, and that their rooms are on the first floor. Most of their...

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... 3 GB Shaw JOHN BULL ’S OTHER ISLAND by BERNARD SHAW Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the... ...om as well as their reception room for clients. Let me describe it briefly from the point of view of a sparrow on the window sill. The outer door is i... ...you lunched? TIM. Divil a lunch! BROADBENT . I’m sorry I couldn’t get back from Brighton in time to offer you some; but— TIM. Not a word, sir, not a w... ...im. Hodson enters emptyhanded; takes two glasses, a siphon, and a tantalus from the cupboard; places them before Broadbent on the writing table; looks... ...rry a Union Jack handkerchief and a penny trumpet, and tax the food of the people to support the Navy League, and clamor for the destruction of the la... ...h me to Ireland to break the ice for me. He can gain the confidence of the people there, and make them friendly to me. Eh? [He seats himself on the of... ...n’t you want to see your country again after 18 years absence? to see your people, to be in the old home again? To— DOYLE [interrupting him very impat...

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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... ...mmediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations. According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purch... ...irectly destroy- ing, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people, 9 Adam Smith and those afflicted with lingering diseases, to peris... ... civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do not labour at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times,... ... every thing which, in the present times, we can easily form a no- tion of Westminster-hall was the dining-room of William Rufus, and might frequently... ...our shillings in the pound, amounts to £123,399: 6: 7; that of the city of Westminster to £63,092: 1: 5; that of the palaces of Whitehall and St. Jame... ...al value. In some towns, the whole land tax is assessed upon houses; as in Westminster, where stock and trade are free. It is otherwise in London. In ...

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...and altogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroom or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and there are the stairs going up in a sort of tunnel to the first-floor. Three bed-rooms in a ro...

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...he dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives to- morrow. From hall you go right or left into dining- room or drawing-room. Hall itse... ...he house really, but it’s all that one notices—nine windows as you look up from the front garden. “Then there’s a very big wych-elm—to the left as you... ... life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish tother from which, and up to now I have always put that down as ‘Meg’s clever non-... ... from poetry, or you. Anyhow, it’s been knocked into pieces, and, like all people who are really strong, Mr. Wilcox did it without hurting me. On the ... ...ise. What do you think of the Wilcoxes? Are they our sort? Are they likely people? Could they appre- ciate Helen, who is to my mind a very special sor... ...id anything of that sort to the Wilcoxes. I under- stand it, but most good people would think you mad. Imagine how disconcerting for Helen! What is wa... ...ving in, and he had spent money enough at Queen’s Hall— and he walked over Westminster Bridge, in front of St. Thomas’s Hospital, and through the imme... ...xplicable—from her we came, and we must return to her. But who can explain Westminster Bridge Road or Liverpool Street in the morning—the city inhalin...

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...nignity that could not have had a birth except in Christianity.) All comes from the labyrinthine intricacy in which the social action of Chris- tianit... ...d Other Papers – V olume One tous, Christianity is advancing for ever; but from our imper- fect vision, or from our imperfect opportunities for applyi... ...s scattered over the surface of books. I begin with this question:—What do people mean in a Christian land by the word ‘religion?’ My purpose is not t... ...o prevent that, we will suppose the question to be proposed by an emissary from some re- mote planet,—who, knowing as yet absolutely nothing of us and... ...radations would have arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of thei... ... morality is oftentimes *This is not generally perceived. On the contrary, people are ready to say, ‘Why, so far from it, the very earliest language i... ...h had been met in Greenwich Park, or at Nonsuch, on May-day of 1603, or in Westminster, two years after, by the Lord Cham- berlain when detecting Guy ... ... by law within one generation, if there’s a law to be had in the courts of Westminster.’ The Scriptures have left word—that, if any man should come to...

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...Excerpt: MONCRIEF HOUSE, Panley Common. Scholastic establishment for the sons of gentlemen, etc. Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rushes, stretching away to the western horizon....

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...lastic establishment for the sons of gentlemen, etc. Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rus... ...on could hear, at certain hours, a hubbub of voices and racing foot- steps from within the boundary wall. Sometimes, when the strollers were boys them... ...t Cashel has not escaped that tendency to violence which sometimes results from the possession of unusual strength and dexter- ity. He actually fought... ... to him about it, of course. Fighting is an unbearable habit. His father’s people were always fighting; and they never did any good in the world.” “If... .... After all the pains I took with you at home!” “I speak the same as other people,” he replied, sullenly. “I don’t see the use of being so jolly parti... ...to prac- 26 Cashel Byron’s Profession tise, because it seems to ail young people easy, well paid, amiable, and a mark of good breeding. In truth it i... ...a year. It was the blessing of God, and a beating he got from a milkman in Westminster, that made him ashamed of himself. I kept him to it and made hi... ...ed to the address which his mother had given him: a prodigious building in Westminster, divided into residential flats, to the seventh floor of which ...

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...here have been one or two grotesque attempts at it by in- 8 Shaw adequate people, such as the Kingdom of God in Munster, which was ended by crucifixi... ...p who took the part of Annas went home and died of horror. But responsible people have never made such attempts. The moneyed, respectable, capable wor... ...hy with vagabonds and talkers who try to reform society by taking men away from their regular productive work and making vagabonds and talkers of them... ...acks on the existing social order, however corrupt that order might be, by people with no knowledge of government and no power to construct political ... ... his belief in many things, true and false, that in no way distinguish him from other Syrians of that time. But such common beliefs do not constitute ... ...p, or believing that the earth is flat and that the stars could drop on it from heaven like hailstones. Chris- tianity interests practical statesmen n... ... of fundamental assumptions drawn up in the thirty-nine articles or in the Westminster Confes- sion are wildly impossible as political constitutions f...

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...and immediate forerunner, Charles Lever, whilst they confidently derive me from a Norwegian author of whose language I do not know three words, and of... ...xote and Simon Tappertit and many another romantic hero mocked by reality. From the plays of Aristophanes to the tales of Stevenson that mockery has b... ...ween madness and sanity was deemed comic: Hogarth shows us how fashionable people went in parties to Bedlam to laugh at the lunatics. I myself have ha... ...ress or knowledge to carry things off better than he did; to impose on the people who saw through him; to fascinate Katinka (who cut Potts so ruth- le... ...t Potts is a piece of really scien- tific natural history as distinguished from comic story tell- ing. His author is not throwing a stone at a creatur... ... Socialists were naturally shocked, being for the most part morbidly moral people; but at all events they were saved later on from the delusion that n... ...e deprive it than a hypocritical sermon by a snobbish bishop can desecrate Westminster Abbey. But in our professional playgoers this indispensable pre...

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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... ...mond; and between both, on the west of London, rise the noble buildings of Westminster, most remarkable for the courts of justice, the parliament, and... ...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... ... 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... ...in length, and lying on the side next the Thames, is the small town of 11 Westminster; originally called Thorney, from its thorn bushes, but now West... ...second day of August, was crowned on the thirtieth of October following at Westminster, in the year of our Lord 1485. He died on the twenty-first of A... ...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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...re is no end, there never will be an end, of the lamentations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobr... ...n-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist, the moralist, the divine, and... ... sunny smiles and many tears—a little love and infinite strife—whisperings from paradise and fierce mockeries from the anarchy of chaos—dust and ashes... ...great masters of literature, especially those of modern times; so that few people knew the high classics more familiarly: and as to the passage in que... ... necessities of public business coming back in a torrent upon the official people after this momentary interruption, forbade them to indulge any furth... ...int seemed to justify almost more than hopes. This might be said, and most people would have been more or less con- soled by it. I was not. I felt as ... ... pounds by cutting off the ordinary cavalcade from the T ower of London to Westminster. Even this was imprudent. It is well known that, amongst the lo...

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...entertaining than the report of this Com- mittee. Its full title is REPORT FROM THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE HOUSE OF COMM... ...se. The number of the Bluebook is 214. How interesting it is may be judged from the fact that it contains verbatim reports of long and animated interv... ...turb the ex- isting state of things. How this was effected may be gathered from the recommendations finally agreed on, which are as follows. 1. The dr... ...me sort as a prelude to his public career, and finding that all the clever people seemed to be agreed that the cen- sorship was an anti-Liberal instit... ...ed to him as a new play, he would have been sup- ported by a large body of people to whom incest is a tabooed subject which must not be mentioned on t... ... the same time, a brisk demand arose outside the Committee, not only among people who were anxious to read what I had to say on the subject, but among... ...age to the opinions of the congregation of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Westminster. Every Lib- eral meeting is a defiance and a challenge to the m... ...as an insuffer- able tyranny. But a law to shut up both St. Paul’s and the Westminster Cathedral; and to put down political meetings and associations ...

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...er 25, taking himself very seriously, but still in some awe of his mother, from childish habit and bachelor shyness rather than from any weakness of c... ...at all, mother. LADY BRITOMART. Bring me my cushion. [He takes the cushion from the chair at the desk and arranges it for her as she sits down on the ... ...a pig-headed T ory one. We are Whigs, and believe in liberty. Let snobbish people say what they please: Barbara shall marry, not the man they like, bu... ...t be too sure of that, Stephen. I know your quiet, simple, refined, poetic people like Adolphus—quite content with the best of everything! They cost m... ... content with the best of everything! They cost more than your extravagant people, who are always as mean as they are second rate. No: Barbara will ne... ...th my father? LADY BRITOMART . My dear Stephen: where is the money to come from? It is easy enough for you and the other children to live on my income... ...policemen can scatter them. But huddle them together in a certain house in Westminster; and let them go through certain ceremonies and call themselves...

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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, ... ...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 ... ...h one while in the old Convocation house, and another while in the Chapel at Westminster; when all the faith and religion that shall be there can Are...

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...IDE. Votes for Women! The General starts convulsively; snatches a revolver from a drawer, and listens in an agony of apprehension. Nothing hap- pens. ... ..., and is too astonished to attend to the Orderlys reply). This is a letter from the Prime Minister asking me to release the woman with this key if she... ... ing? You must not undress in my presence. I protest. Not even your letter from the Prime Minister— THE SUFFRAGET. My dear Mitchener: I am the Prime ... ... is it unworkable? BALSQUITH. I mean the part about drawing a cordon round Westminster at a distance of two miles; and turning all women out of it. MI... ...ed to military methods. And the basis of all military methods is that when people wont do what they are told to do, you shoot them down. BALSQUITH. Oh... ...ommand that Old Red has thrown up? MITCHENER. How can I? You know that the people are devoted heart and soul to Sandstone. He is only bringing you “on... ...umping up and walking about sulkily). Oh come! I like to hear you military people talking of coward- ice. Why, you spend your lives in an ecstasy of t...

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...ch or common methods, that your allowance and approbation of the design of this Treatise will at least preserve it from being condemned without readin... ...th some of those large and comprehensive discoveries you have made of truths hitherto unknown, unless to some few, from whom your lordship has been pl... ...gh, if your lordship permit me to boast, that here and there I have fallen into some thoughts not wholly different from yours. If your lordship think ... ...edge of this maxim, “That it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be?” And a great part of illiterate people and savages pass many years,... ...innate, they must needs exert themselves with most force and vigour. For children, idiots, savages, and illiterate people, being of all others the lea... ...n set at liberty from punish- ment and censure. Have there not been whole nations, and those of the most civilized people, amongst whom the exposing t... ...standings, I think nobody, who has had any conversation with his neighbours, will question: though he never was at Westminster-Hall or the Exchange on...

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... previ ous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been ... ... to meet with general acceptance as if they were. It seems to me, however, from various indications, and from none more than the recent debates on Ref... ... o these stand opposed another kind of political reasoners, who are so far from assimilating a form of government to a machine, that they regard it as... ..., and adapt ourselves to them. The fundamental political institutions of a people are considered by this school as a sort of organic growth from the n... ...y this school as a sort of organic growth from the nature and life of that people; a product of their habits, instincts, and unconscious wants and des... ... last, and, by successive aggrega tion, constitute a polity suited to the people who possess it, but which it would be vain to attempt to superinduce... ...l offices by the bar; and its abolition would be like opening the bench in Westminster Hall to the first comer whose friends certify that he has now a...

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... was always pressing forward, equally ready to learn and to unlearn either from its own thoughts or from those of oth ers. But a motive which weighs ... ...elf to blame if he reads farther, and I do not desire any other indulgence from him than that of bearing in mind that for him these pages were not wri... ...ed to lead the life he led, with the disadvantages under which he laboured from the first, and with those which he brought upon himself by his marriag... ...l of historical details concerning 10 Autobiography the obscurest ancient people, while about modern history, except detached passages, such as the D... ...se than in prose: this, he said, was a real advantage. The other was, that people in general attached more value to verse than it deserved, and the po... ...hey are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions or phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinio... ...very near Mr. Bentham’s, which my father rented from him, in Queen Square, Westminster. From 1814 to 1817 Mr. Bentham lived during half of each year a... ...GANDISM. GANDISM. GANDISM. GANDISM. GANDISM. THE “ THE “ THE “ THE “ THE “ WESTMINSTER RE WESTMINSTER RE WESTMINSTER RE WESTMINSTER RE WESTMINSTER RE ... ...uence was now about to receive a great extension by the foundation of the Westminster Review . Contrary to what may have been supposed, my father was...

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...d with success in November, 1718. A few months later he was again banished from Paris, and finished the Henriade in his retirement, as well as another... ...n December, 1721, Voltaire visited Lord Bolingbroke, who was then an exile from England, at the Chateau of La Source. There was now constant literary ... ..., at the Chateau of La Source. There was now constant literary activ- ity. From July to October, 1722, Voltaire visited Holland with Madame de Rupelmo... ...RS I WAS OF OPINION that the doctrine and history of so ex- traordinary a people were worthy the attention of the curious. T o acquaint myself with t... ...l do me the honour to inform me of the particulars of your religion.” “The people of thy country,” replied the Quaker, “are too full of their bows and... ... man and man. When we are obliged to appear before a magistrate upon other people’s account (for law-suits are unknown among the Friends), we give evi... ...s I., defeated in a pitched battle, imprisoned, tried, sentenced to die in Westminster Hall, and then beheaded. And on the other, the Emperor Henry VI... ...ation disputing who should have the honour of holding up his pall. Go into Westminster Abbey, and you will find that what raises the admiration of the... ...inter- 94 Letters on England ring the celebrated actress Mrs. Oldfield in Westminster Ab- bey, with almost the same pomp as Sir Isaac Newton. Some pr...

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................................................................ 121 VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU. ................................................................ ................................................................. 143 EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. ............................................................. ..., Milton, and Dryden, to fill the six va- cant places in the New Palace of Westminster. This does not substantiate the assertion, that Pope has sunk i... ...atue beside those of the acknowledged masters of English poetry. But apart from this, we do think that Lord Carlisle has exaggerated the “De- cline an... ... po- etry. As it is, his works resemble rather the London Colos- seum than Westminster Abbey. They are exquisite imitations of nature; but we never ca... ...ilfer cloth or bread: As meanly plunder as they bravely fought, Now save a people, and now save a groat. VER. 129, in the former editions— Ask why fro... ...ENT GUMENT GUMENT . . . . . OF THE USE OF RICHES. The vanity of expense in people of wealth and quality. The abuse of the word ‘taste,’ ver. 13. That ... ...rth, and o’er the watery main; Resign to Jove his empire of the skies, And people heaven with Roman deities. The time will come when a diviner flame S... ...ely well, ‘There,—take’ (says Justice) ‘take ye each a shell. We thrive at Westminster on fools like you: ’T was a fat oyster—live in peace—adieu.’ 1...

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...e broad awake. Tchekov, more of a fatalist, had no faith in these charming people extricating themselves. They would, he thought, be sold up and sent ... ... hunting, shooting, fishing, flirting, eating, and drinking. The same nice people, the same utter futility. The nice people could read; some of them c... ...r any chance of sharing or influencing their activi- ties. But they shrank from that contact. They hated politics. They did not wish to realize Utopia... ...t. They hated politics. They did not wish to realize Utopia for the common people: they wished to realize their favorite fictions and poems in their o... ...cs). It is true that the two establishments got mixed at the edges. Exiles from the library, the music room, and the picture gallery would be found la... ... incredible ignorance of modern thought and political science but upstarts from the counting-house, who had spent their lives furnishing their pockets... ...hey pay half a guinea to go to a theatre when they can go to St. Paul’s or Westminster Abbey for nothing. Their only possible reply is that they want ...

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...s—the Dutch borough of V ondervotteimittiss. Y et as it lies some distance from any of the main roads, being in a somewhat out-of-the-way situation, t... ... to say, positively, that the borough of V ondervotteimittiss has existed, from its origin, in precisely the same condition which it at present preser... ...cumference, and entirely surrounded by gentle hills, over whose summit the people have never yet ventured to pass. For this they assign the very good ... ...ust look, of course, to the centre of the plain, which is just sixty yards from the front door of each dwelling. Every house has a small garden before... ...e fond of their sauer-kraut, but then they were proud of their clocks. All people who hold sinecure offices are held in more or less respect, and as t... ...t idea in the world of such a thing as keeping time in his steps. The good people of the borough had scarcely a chance, however, to get their eyes tho... .... “W onderful genius!” said the Quarterly. “Superb physiologist!” said the Westminster. “Clever fellow!” said the Foreign. “Fine writer!” said the Edi...

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...Excerpt: Introduction to the bride of Lammermoor. The author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occurring at a distant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties. But as he finds an account of the circum...

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...MMERMOOR THE AUTHOR, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occu... ...oor, the Author feels himself now at liberty to tell the tale as he had it from connexions of his own, who lived very near the period, and were closel... ...t purchased the tem- 4 Bride of Lammermoor poral prosperity of her family from the Master whom she served under a singular condition, which is thus n... ...sation of that clamour to which it had so lately echoed. But its space was peopled by phantoms which the imagination of the young heir conjured up bef... ...ings are arming, T aste not when the wine-cup glistens, Speak not when the people listens, Stop thine ear against the singer, From the red gold keep t... ..., when the yeoman’s song had died on the wind, “ever served the Ravenswood people, that he seems so much interested in them? I suppose you know, Lucy,... ...solation. A large vaulted room, the beams fo which, combined like those of Westminster Hall, were rudely carved at the extremities, remained nearly in...

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...s; when there were two kings in Spain employed perpetually in running away from one an- other; when there was a queen in England, with such rogues for... ...en Mrs. Masham had not yet put Madam Marlborough’s nose out of joint; when people had their ears cut off for writing very meek political pamphlets; an... ...ay be urged, and each is excellent, yet we intend to take a few more pages from the “Old Bailey Calendar,” to bless the public with one more draught f... ... occupied very much in the same manner with Farquhar’s heroes. They roamed from Warwick to Stratford, and from Stratford to Birmingham, per- suading t... ... I’ve been to Stratford fair, and to W arwick many a time; and there’s two people who have offered to marry me, and ever so many who want to, and I wo... ...lliam of Nassau;” the Corporal joking and laugh- ing with all the grown-up people. The women, in spite of Mr. Brock’s age, his red nose, and a certain... ...a very cheerful place for a love-tryst) at St. Margaret’s churchyard, near Westminster Abbey. Of this, no doubt, Cat was thinking; but what could she ... ...ully, by that hour, had found her way to Saint Margaret’s churchyard, near Westminster Abbey, where she awaited Monsieur de Galgenstein. The spot was ... ...leaves me for ever.” At this moment the moon, which had been hidden behind Westminster Abbey, rose above the vast black mass of that edifice, and pour...

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... by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different di...

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...LUME OF PAPERS, unconnected as they are, it will be better to read through from the beginning, rather than dip into at random. A certain thread of mea... ...one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should... ...th particular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects,... ...cular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and off... ...ny different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black ... ...re is one country, for instance – its frontier not so far from London, its people closely akin, its language the same in all essentials with the Engli... ...al of 13 Memories and Portraits Scotland, was yet composed in the city of Westminster. The division of races is more sharply marked within the border...

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