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...Laura Kate O'Connell left her life of excitement as an overseas news correspondent to return to her Georgia hometown to raise her two young cousins. When Royce Lee, Laura Kate's attorney, supposedly commits suicide, too many pieces of evidence tell a different...

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... Gerrie Ferris 2 THE LAURA KATE PLANTATION SERIES Book One When Serpents Die... ...by Gerrie Ferris ISBN 10: 1-936000-13-X ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-13-5 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Edi... ...ISBN 10: 1-936000-13-X ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-13-5 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-In-Chief: Gai... ...opyright by Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by a... ...family and Bobby’s were metaphorically joined at the hip because they’d founded the city of Roston, not long after Oglethorpe founded the state of G... ...” Her was Hannah Tower. “Sammie’ll have it torn down as soon as she can.” “The city might have something to say about it. Those cottages are on... ...u some praise and you look pissed.” “I’m not.” “So tell me, where’d you work?” “London, Bosnia, Prague.” “Ever been to France?” “Sure.” Th... ...en it many times. There’s a twin that’s in the gun closet.” “They were made in London,” Sammie said wistfully. “Miz Lee, why did Royce g... ...from around these parts.” Jack flicked his shoulders up and down. “Like all county sheriffs, he’ll sweep a lot under the proverbial rug for people ...

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...Excerpt: It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, mong the rest of my neighbors, heard in ordinary dis course that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotter...

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...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable o... ...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occu... ... most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who c... ...le occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all t... ...lic before. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ended with sharp though moderate winds, the bills decreased again, and the city grew healthy , and everybody began to look upon the danger as good as ... ...Andrew’s, Holborn; St Clement Danes; and, to the great af- fliction of the city, one died within the walls, in the parish of St Mary Woolchurch, that ... ...tion. ‘SIR JOHN LAWRENCE, Lord Mayor. SIR GEORGE WATERMAN SIR CHARLES DoE, Sheriffs.’ 44 Journal of the Plague Y ear I need not say that these orders... ...maginable was made for it in a public way. For example, the Lord Mayor and sheriffs had made no pro- vision as magistrates for the regulations which w...

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.... BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE............................................................................................................................ 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH ...

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...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Ha... ...on Haight Turk, Ph.D. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publicatio... ...TE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...nglish Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...his home by exchanging the solitude of Wales for the greater wilderness of London. Failing there to raise money on his expected patrimony, he for some... ...island, and most of us disdained all coaches except his Majesty’s mail, no city out of London could pre- tend to so extensive a connexion with Mr. Pal... ...succession we are going to awake. Liberated from the embarrassments of the city, and issu- ing into the broad uncrowded avenues of the northern sub- u... ... a trial not so severe in de- gree, but the same in kind. She “pricks” for sheriffs. Joanna pricked for a king. But observe the difference: our own La... .... 238-242. 80 28 CHINON is a little town near Tours. 81 3 SHE “PRICKS” FOR SHERIFFS: The old custom was to prick with a pin the names of those chosen ...

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...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED......................

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...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of s...

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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...LICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ch a pre- tension had once been made for Jerusalem, and once for a Grecian city; and both pretensions had become ridiculous, as the figure of the plan... ... side, of Manchester. But so it was. Oxford Street, like its name- sake in London, was then called the Oxford Road; and dur- ing the currency of our a... ...blic, (viz., of Mrs. Evans,) a regular gazette, which, in imitation of the London Ga- 68 Thomas de Quincey zette, was published twice a week. I suppo... ... reason unknown to me, and much to my astonishment, he located his capital city in the high latitude of 65 deg. N. That fact being once published and ... ...nian mysteries. Do not tease me, my reader, by alleging that there were no sheriffs’ officers at Athens or Eleusis. Not many, I admit; but perhaps qui...

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Excerpt: The Pickwick Papers, Volume Two by Charles Dickens.

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether...

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.......... 33 SPEECH: GARDENERS AND GARDENING. ...................................................................................................... 39 LONDON, JUNE 14, 1852. ....................................................................................................................................... 39 SPEECH: BIRMINGHAM, JANUARY 6, 1853. .............................

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...n ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... .................................................................. ....... 39 LONDON, JUNE 14, 1852. ....................................................... ........................................................ ......... 42 SPEECH: LONDON, APRIL 30, 1853. ...................................................... ...overb that “a rolling stone gath ers no moss;” and in my progress to this city I have collected such a weight of obligations and acknowledgment—I hav... ... of saying a few words with reference to some body else. There is in this city a gentleman who, at the reception of one of my books—I well remember i... ...Freemason’s Tavern. Mr. Charles Dickens presided, and was supported by the Sheriffs of the City of London and Middlesex. AFTER THE USUAL TOASTS HA...

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...Excerpt: That the English Church shall be free, and shall have her whole rights and her liberties inviolable; and we will this to be observed in such a manner, that it may appear from thence, that the freedom of elections, which was repute...

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... play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived playgoers whose point of honor is to deride all official and conventional sermons....

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...THE ESSAYS 5 ?Of Truth 7 ?Of Death 9 ?Of Unity in Religion 12 ?Of Revenge 13 ?Of Adversity 14 ?Of Simulation and Dissimulation 17 ?Of Parents and Children 18 ?Of Marriage and Single Life 20 ?Of Envy 24 ?Of Love 25 ?Of Great P...

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...ted by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication ... ...The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... gleams of light gave a foreboding look to Paris; like a pretty woman, the city has mysterious fits of ugliness or beauty. So the outer world seemed t... ...ved and imperial with an air-pump thrust into one eye. Portraits of French sheriffs and Dutch burgomasters, phlegmatic now as when in life, looked dow... ... “Imagination was less yielding; I saw my name bandied about through every city in Europe. ‘One’s name is oneself’ says Eusebe Salverte. After these e... ...you manage at the Italiens this evening? An English family is returning to London, and I have taken their box for the rest of the sea- son, and it is ...