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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...other men’s grief. That woman, over there on her knees, isn’t that Nancy Richards? I recognize her shoulders and the back of her head. Her father d... ...nd Raleigh. No writer could have had a better guide for Titus, Henry and Richard. M__ had learned to smoke and like R__ had to putter with tobacco,... ...in riddles, sir. Your plays ridicule us. You disesteem our monarchs, King Richard for one. Your plays attract the vulgar. You praise the rotten...” ... ..... To Thomas Combe, my sword. (I liked that sword...its inlaid hilt!) To Richard Burbage (good friend), money for a ring. For daughter, Susanna Ha... ...ho the Hell asked you to.’ ” At another Smithsonian lecture, I met George Bancroft, our distinguished elder historian. Obviously disgruntled and tir... ...ion? Is it true that John Jacob Aster pays his salary? When I introduced Bancroft to McClellan, he questioned Mac about the condition of the cavalr... ...d bark, leaves and branches until they died? McClellan was not happy with Bancroft. I was not happy with Bancroft and McClellan. Since the General h... ...death sentence. Due to her perseverance there will be no firing squad for Richard Miller, a youngster who fell asleep on duty. My “Lady President” o... ...su- alize the murderer. I read from the quarto, graciously given me by Dr. Bancroft. With Tad sitting at my feet, I read: ...After life’s fitful f...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...nal Academy of Sciences intro- duced me to many of these issues. The work of Richard Stallman, the creator of the free software movement, remains an i... ...s is no mere fantasy, Macaulay tells us. After praising the novels of Samuel Richardson in terms that, to modern eyes, seem a little fervid (“No writi... ...more profound knowledge of the human heart”), Macaulay recounts the story of Richardson’s grandson, “a clergyman in the city of London.” Though a “mos... ...ome access to the work, but because the work would be altogether suppressed. Richardson’s novels—Pamela, Clarissa Har- lowe, and so on—are now the pre... ...kers.” This term could be used to describe those who merely like to program. Richard Stallman, for example, the originator of the free software moveme... ...oast,” in The Patrons of Husbandry on the Pacific Coast (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Co., 1875), 290–291; Edward P . Cheyney, An Introduction to ...

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A History of U. S. Communications Security (Volumes I and Ii);1973

By: David G. Boak

...ages for under 5500 apiece if we buy in large quantities. This prospect merged in the mind of J. Richard Chiles with the potential for using micro-pro... ...ed radios because the designers found it more efficient to do it that way. At this writing, only BANCROFT fuUy embodies the original fully integrated ...

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Unknown to History : A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...men with whom great ladies were wont to surround themselves. There she met Richard T albot, the second son of a relative of the Earl of Shrewsbury, a ... ...aid he would look in to see how you fared.” “At supper-time, I trow,” said Richard, rather grimly, “the smell of thy stew will bring him down in good ... ... “Scarce while he hath good wives like thee to boil his pot for him,” said Richard, smiling. “T ell me, hath he heard aught of this gear? thou hast no... ...t to her in her sorrow; but there was no lack of cordiality or courtesy in Richard’s manner when, after a short, quick knock, there entered a figure i... ...him. “And you have been a good friend to my poor wife in her sorrow,” said Richard, “for the which I thank you heartily, sir.” “T ruly, sir, I could h... ... spared had been further rav- aged by a terrible fire. At this time Bishop Bancroft had done his utmost towards reparation, and the old spire had been...

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Stalky & Co.

By: Rudyard Kipling

...en ‘em sweatin’ big drops. I heard Oke (the Common-room butler) talking to Richards (Prout’s house-servant) about it down in the basement the other da... ...ine boys, an’ his’n be dom bad.’ Well, Oke talked like that, you know, and Richards got awf’ly wrathy. He has a down on King for something or other. W... ... out from the wall to the left of the dormer window, and the latter end of Richards protruding from a two-foot-square cupboard in the wall. “What’s al... ...fore. What are you tryin’ to do, Fatty?” “Fillin’ basins, Muster Corkran.” Richards’s voice was hol- low and muffled. “They’ve been savin’ me trouble.... ...it,” said McT urk. “Hi! You’ll stick if you don’t take care.” Stalky & Co Richards backed puffing. “I can’t rache un. Yiss, ‘tess a turncock, Muster ... ...of ‘em stepped out and lugged round an old bugle, just like—who’s the man?—Bancroft, ain’t it?—feeling for his eye-glass in a farce, and played ‘ Arra...

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The Whole History of Grandfathers Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...ter in his hand, and a Bible is under his arm. 11 Hawthorne pany came Sir Richard Saltonstall, who had been one of the five first projectors of the n... ...old family name is as much respected in our days as it was in those of Sir Richard. Not only these, but several other men of wealth and pious minister... ...ather, “when you want instruction on these points, you must seek it in Mr. Bancroft’s History. I am merely telling the history of a chair. To pro cee... ...at least, though far from possess ing the brilliancy or philosophy of Mr. Bancroft.” “But if Hutchinson knew the history of the chair,” rejoined Laur... ...Beneath the tree, in Grandfather’s chair,—our own venerable chair,—sat Mr. Richard Dana, a justice of the peace. He administered an oath to Mr. Oliver... ... to see supplied. For instance, you make no mention of the good knight Sir Richard Saltonstall, nor of the famous Hugh Peters, nor of those old regici... ...INGS OF THE DOINGS OF THE MOB THE MOB THE MOB THE MOB THE MOB T T T T TO RICHARD JA O RICHARD JA O RICHARD JA O RICHARD JA O RICHARD JA CKSON CKSON ...

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Across the Plains

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ich I carried on my shoulders, and in the bag of my railway rug the whole of Bancroft’s History of the United States, in six fat volumes. It was as mu... ...erflowing. My valise, my knapsack, my rug, with those six ponderous tomes of Bancroft, weighed me 12 Across the Plains double; I was hot, feverish, p... ...oved when Levine labours in the field, when Andre sinks beyond emotion, when Richard Feverel and Lucy 107 Robert Louis Stevenson Desborough meet besi...

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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends ; Selected and Edited with Notes and Introd. By Sidney Colvin : Volume 1

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...whole volume, and shall read it nearly all over again; you have no rivals! Bancroft’s History of the United States, even in a cente- nary edition, is ... ...ry edition, is essentially heavy fare; a little goes a long way; I respect Bancroft, but I do not love him; he has mo- ments when he feels himself ins... ... but I flatter myself I am more nearly acquainted with the latter than Mr. Bancroft. A man, in the words of my Ply- mouth Brother, ‘who knows the Lord... ...dy, April Rain, is also a late work. Beckett is a fine ranting piece, like Richard II., but very fine for the stage. Irving is to play it this autumn ...

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Speeches: Literary and Social

By: Charles Dickens

...Boston. The company consisted of about two hundred, among whom were George Bancroft, Washington Allston, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The toast of “Heal... .... And there was in the House of Commons a rather indifferent member called Richard Monckton Milnes. Ladies and gentlemen, to conclude, for the present...

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