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...Excerpt: Book First; Introduction -- Childhood and School-time -- OH, there is blessing in this gentle breeze, That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! A captive greets thee, coming from a house Of bondage...

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...hood and School time OH, there is blessing in this gentle breeze, That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky; it beats again... ...ives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! 5 A captive greets thee, coming from a house Of bondage, from yon city’s walls set free, A prison where h... ...least To drink wild water, and to pluck green herbs, And gather fruits fresh from their native bough. Nay more, if I may trust myself, this hour Hath ... ...l over his dear county, left the deeds Of Wallace like a family of ghosts To people the steep rocks and river banks, Her natural sanctuaries, with a l... ...r, sedulous as I have been to trace 575 How Nature by extrinsic passion first Peopled my mind with beauteous forms or grand, Book First Introduction: ... ...reeds. I read, without design, the opinions, thoughts, Of those plain living people, in a sense Of love and knowledge: with another eye 205 I saw the ... ...ridged, the giddy top 130 And Whispering Gallery of St. Paul’s, the tombs Of Westminster, the Giants of Guildhall, Bedlam and the two figures at its ga...

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... have made a more untoward choice. Sir Thomas Bertram had interest, which, from principle as well as pride—from a general wish of doing right, and a d... ... such as a very imprudent marriage almost always produces. To save herself from useless remonstrance, Mrs. Price never wrote to her family on the subj... ...and within a twelvemonth a more important advantage to Mrs. Price resulted from it. Mrs. Norris was often observing to the others that she could not g... ...d smile, became immediately the less awful character of the two. The young people were all at home, and sustained their share in the introduction very... ...better spirits with everybody else. The place became less strange, and the people less formidable; and if there were some amongst them whom she could ... ...eing stupid at learning, “she could only say it was very unlucky, but some people were stupid, and Fanny must take more pains: she did not know what e... ...three months before Everingham was all that it is now. My plan was laid at Westminster, a little altered, perhaps, at Cambridge, and at one-and-twenty... ....” 180 Mansfield Park “My dear child, commend Dr. Grant to the deanery of Westminster or St. Paul’s, and I should be as glad of your nurseryman and p... ...erest on which he had almost ceased to form hopes, succeeded to a stall in Westminster, which, as affording an occasion for leaving Mansfield, an excu...

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

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...shire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy re- ceived many annotations from members of the Heathcote family. There was a proposal that it should b... ...an interest in provincial dialect, some specimens are appended, which come from personal knowledge. The lists of birds and of flowers are both from th... ...RBOURNE TERBOURNE THE SOUTH D OWNS of England descend at about eight miles from the sea into beds of clay, diversified by gravel and sand, and with an... ...star on their base, are picked up in the gravels and called by the country people Shep- herds’ Crowns—or even fossil toads. Large boulder stones are a... ...difficulties or controversies attended to, confirmation given to the young people and children, and, after a meal, the bishop proceeded, sometimes to ... ...eventually he died in magna miseria in sanctuary at St. Martin’s le Grand, Westminster. His son John renounced the pretended claim, and very generousl... .... Oliver writes in the summer after the marriage that he is glad the young people have leisure to make a journey to eat cherries. There is little doub...

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Excerpt: Up from Slavery. An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington.

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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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...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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... 6 sulphur and stone and other obstructing inborn heredities, brought down from the old geologic ages—prejudices, let us call them. Prejudices which n... ...trong ones. In each case, to get the best results, you must free the metal from its obstructing prejudicial ones by education— smelting, refining, and... ...e odds and ends of thoughts, impressions, feelings, gathered unconsciously from a thou sand books, a thousand conversations, and from streams of thou... ...g. He correctly observed, and he marvelously painted. He exactly portrayed people whom God had cre ated; but he created none himself. Let us spare h... ...orm it. Mark T wain 19 O.M. But there is here and there a man who would. People, for instance, like the man who lost his life trying to save the chi... ...h I have been insisting upon. You must remember and always distinguish the people who can ’t bear things from people who can. It will throw light up... ...de counterfeit of it gathered from books and from occasional loiterings in Westminster. Richard H. Dana served two years before the mast, and had ever... ... the conveyancer’s office, but of the pleader’s chambers and the Courts at Westminster, nothing short of employment in some career involving con stan... ...r the records of the local court at Stratford nor of the superior Court at Westminster would present his name as being concerned in any suit as an att...

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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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...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... ...aid before, in the parishes of St Giles, St Andrew’s, Holborn, and towards Westminster, began to now come eastward towards the part where I lived. It ... ...ely altered: I mean the whole mass of buildings, city, liberties, suburbs, Westminster, Southwark, and altogether; for as to the par- ticular part cal... ... it. If you heard it in Whitechappel, it had happened at St Giles’s, or at Westminster, or Holborn, or that end of the town. If you heard of it at tha...

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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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...turned to his former trade, and shortly set up a print ing house of his own from which he published “The Pennsyl vania Gazette,” to which he contrib... ... the colony, and for five years he remained there, striving to enlighten the people and the ministry of En gland as to Colonial conditions. On his re... ...gent for the colony, this time to petition the King to resume the government from the hands of the proprietors. In London he actively opposed the pro ... ...them for you. To which I have besides some other inducements. Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state o... ...thout vanity I may say,” &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselve... ...The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 6 before was the name of an order of people, was assumed by them as a surname when others took surnames all ov... ...ilding, which was one hundred feet long and seventy broad, about the size of Westminster Hall; and the work was carried on with such spirit as to be f... ...“For the more effectual cleaning and keeping clean the streets of London and Westminster, it is proposed that the several watchmen be contracted with ...

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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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...London Ades Web Magazine 2011/01 3 west end - st james's, westminster and whitehall 36 west end - bloomsbury 50 west end - central an... ...nd double-deckers Ades Web Magazine 2011/01 London West End - St James's, Westminster and Whitehall big ben cleAning 4 L o n d o n Ades web magazine... ... o n Ades web magazine portcullis house 10 L o n d o n Ades web magazine westminster Abbey 11 L o n d o n Ades web magazine westminster Abbey 12 L ... ...o n d o n Ades web magazine the docklAnds - o 2 (former millennium dome ) from blAckwell 134 L o n d o n Ades web magazine Southbank the london eye... ...n d o n Ades web magazine south kensington - the serpentine And hyde pArk from the ring 166 L o n d o n Ades web magazine south kensington - hyde pA... ... work could not have been the same without the amazing contribution of the people i’m grateful to: francesco bettelli, my family photos, production an...

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...e, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages ...

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...onment of my life (interviews) 20 About experiences in my life * Young people don't want to farm * Life is dying out from irrigation canals * ... ...ences in my life * Young people don't want to farm * Life is dying out from irrigation canals * Should we have more development Villages and... ...of the pillar house 64 * Building practices 68 Equipment of living 69 From buffalo to motor car 69 * Conveniences of living 71 * Triumph of h... ...pound 41 * Making a communal living 43 * Childhood environments 45 * From village school to university 46 School of life 47 From villager ... ...have made five trips in all to Northern Thailand and collected material on people's lives in three villages in the province and in its centre, the cit... ...ge communities. In Finland, the countryside is threatened by desertion, as people move into 'growth centres', metropoles. International development ha... ...Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the Siamese. A. Constable, Westminster. Young, Michael 1963 (1958). The Rise of the Meritocracy 1870...

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...o not know that the Duchess or the Duke had enjoyed it much; but the young people had seen something of foreign courts and much of foreign scenery, an... ...ed much among the trumpets, and yet they longed to return. He told himself from day to day, that though he had been banished from the House of Commons... ... dead. Had the heavens fallen and mixed themselves with the earth, had the people of London risen in rebellion with French ideas of equality, had the ... ...rt to him. But now it was as though all outside appliances were taken away from him. There was no one of whom he could ask a question. For it may be s... ...r himself a single intimate friend—except that one who had now passed away from him. To her he had been able to say what he thought, even though she w... ...y all met,—the father, the three children, and Mrs Finn. How far the young people among themselves had been able to throw off something of the gloom o... ...ucky enough to have a seat, and that I should take lodgings somewhere near Westminster till-”Till what?” he asked. Till something is settled I replied... ...lf he called for Silverbridge, and they walked together across the park to Westminster. Silverbridge was gay and full of eagerness as to the coming mi...

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...emeanour as I meet on the Continent. It goes no deeper than the demeanour, people say. I can only answer that I have not found that shallowness in my ... ...ssed by me, as she did by my father, and seemed to receive as much emotion from one embrace as from the other. “He’ll go out by the packet of the 1st ... ... sail, and felt still very like a bale of goods. I had received one letter from her, in which she merely stated that her papa would have a room ready ... ...all the ordinary hospitalities. On the next day we returned to Puerto, and from thence getting across to St. Lucar and Bonanza, found ourselves on the... ...to make an Englishman understand them. One learns to know all this sort of people by being with them in the country, but one can’t explain.” “No; exac... ...d, with the sweet- est, prettiest smile, “we don’t do that here; only when people are married.” And she made this allusion to mar- ried life out, open... ...an, or such a forest of aisles as Antwerp, or so perfect a hue in stone as Westminster, nor in mixed beauty of form and colour does it possess anythin...

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...inter,” said a thin, lank, angu- lar, sallow girl, just fifteen, trembling from head to foot with restrained eagerness, as she tried to curb her tone ... ...r girl, nearly two years older than her sister. “Will you—” began to burst from Etheldred’s lips again, but was stifled by Miss Winter’s inquiry, “Is ... ...er.” “But, my dear, has your mamma considered? They are such a set of wild people at Cocksmoor; I don’t think we could walk there alone.” “It is Satur... ... the walk, and will like it very much, and he will undertake to defend you from the quarrymen.” “Is Miss Winter afraid of the quarrymen?” hallooed Har... ... yes!” cried Ethel, “but no one fit to speak to would do that!” “Plenty of people do, I can tell you,” said Norman. “Then I hope I shall never know wh... ...of, mamma. Car- ing to be clever, and get on, only for the sake of beating people.” “I think that might be better expressed.” “I know,” said Ethel, be... ...d has forty thousand men, We trust, as good as he.’ “‘Victory or Westminster Abbey!’ is a tolerable war-cry,” said Mr. Ogilvie. “Not so good... ...xpects every man to do his duty.’ That serves for those who cannot look to Westminster Abbey.” “Ah! you are an English woman!” “Only by halves. I had ...

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... AT LAST!’ cried Nicholas, throwing back his great- coat and rousing Smike from a long nap. ‘It seemed to me as though we should never reach it.’ ‘And... ...ing lights, and illuminated besides with the brilliant flood that streamed from the windows of the shops, where spar- kling jewellery, silks and velve... ...rnament, succeeded each other in rich and glittering profusion. Streams of people apparently without end poured on and on, jostling each other in the ... ...assed before the eye. Emporiums of splendid dresses, the materials brought from every quarter of the world; tempt- ing stores of everything to stimula... ...eaming to those ahead to clear the way. He was con- scious of a torrent of people rushing quickly by—looking up, could discern the cabriolet whirled a... ...onths, and four.’ ‘I’ll do them for you—mind, for you; I wouldn’t for many people—for five-and-twenty pounds,’ said Ralph, deliberately . ‘Oh demmit!’... ... vent to a short laugh, indicative of defiance to the cities of London and Westminster, and, turning again to his desk, quietly carried seventy-six fr... ...na Kenwigs had received an invitation to repair next day, per steamer from Westminster Bridge, unto the Eel-pie Island at Twickenham: there to make me...

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...ven at such an early stage, “the University Press style book and style sheet” was considered important enough to be preserved, along with other items from the Press’s early years, in the cornerstone of the new Press building in 1903. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and by 1906 the pamphlet had become a book: Manual of Style: Being a compilation of the typographical rul...

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...odd moments for the individual guidance of the first proofreader; added to from year to year, as opportunity would offer or new necessities arise; ... ... West (United States). But do wt, as a rule, capitalize adjectives derived from such names, even if used substantively; nor nouns simply designatin... ...es, a southerner (but: Northman = Scandinavian); an invasion of barbarians from the north, traveling through the south of Europe. A The Universitv... ...ganiza- tions and institutions : Union League Club, Knights Templar; Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, Associated Charities; Smith- so... ...n if applied to a specific institution, except to avoid ambiguity : young people's societies, the high school at Lemont, local typographical union... ...Parliament of Religions, Fifteenth Inter- national Congress of Criminology, Westminster Assembly, Chicago World's Fair, Louisiana Purchase Expositio... ...Street, "Lives of Well-known Authors," "World- Dominion of English-speaking Peoples." 40. In zoological, botanical, and similar technical matter, t... ...' Creed, the Nicene Creed, the canons of the early ecumenical councils, the Westminster Confession, the Thirty- nine Articles." "Shakspere and other...

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

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...in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferr... ... 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those times, which obliges us to ... ... for children might be bap- tized, and were baptized, at various distances from their birth: yet, on the other hand, the 23d is as likely to have been... ...y is to be received as evi- dence of pauperism, nine tenths of the English people might occasionally be classed as paupers. With respect to his libera... ... their debts. And the prob- ability is, that Master Sadler acted like most people who, when they suppose a man to be going down in the world, feel the... ...nevitably have mixed chiefly with mechanics and humble tradesmen, for such people composed perhaps the total community . But had there even been a gen... ... founda- tions of London, none of them is in the naked condition of Rugby. Westminster, St. Paul’s, Merchant T ailors’, the Char- ter-House, &c., are ...

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

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...poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely suff... ...and hunger, and the very bed on which his sick wife is ly- ing, is dragged from beneath her. What can he do? To whom is he to apply for relief? To pri... ...e boys run to the beadle as fast as their legs will carry them, and report from their own personal observation that some neighbouring chim- ney is on ... ...tal supply of water, and it was first on the spot. Bang went the pumps—the people cheered—the beadle perspired pro- fusely; but it was unfortunately d... ...ont row of the gallery could not be pro- cured for love or money; and some people even went so far as to assert, that the three Miss Browns, who had a... ...ttle bustle in the side aisle, occasioned by a general rise among the poor people, who bow and curtsey until the pew-opener has ushered the old lady i... ...d; the boat is immediately turned com- pletely round, and proceeds towards Westminster-bridge, amidst such a splashing and struggling as never was see... ...f mirth among the strangers. That is the great conservator of the peace of Westminster. You cannot fail to have remarked the grace with which he salut...