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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...................

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...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V... ... Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...is an equal opportunity university. Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4... ...ND AND AND 1844 1844 1844 1844 1844 A GREAT REVOLUTION has taken place in Scotland. A greater has been threatened. Nor is that danger even yet certai... ...clesiastical administrations of the two kingdoms. And the church courts of Scotland do not exist in England. We write, therefore, with an express view... ...and 54 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume Two until lately, of military) dignities, is no more than the outer- most row of the Oriental ne... ...se connection with the throne, as favorites, crown-officers, distinguished military command- ers, &c., received such a dress as a gift from the royal ... ...ometimes he addressed the representatives, quite stultified; sometimes the military in the court,’ [i. e. outside,] ‘who were beyond hearing; then, wi...

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...Walter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...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... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...means of the person whose life he had saved, he was permitted to return to Scotland, where he and his descendants were distinguished by the name of Dr... ...young men having some pretence to gentility, the poverty of the country of Scotland, the national disposition to wandering and to adventure, all condu... ...wandering and to adventure, all conduced to lead the Scots abroad into the military service of countries which were at war with each other. They were ... ... 1637. Another worthy of the same school, and nearly the same views of the military character, is Sir James T urner, a soldier of fortune, who rose to... ...even of superior pretensions to Lieutenant-Colonel Monro, having written a Military T reatise on the Pike-Exercise, called “Pallas Armata.” Moreover, ... ...ritain during the seventeenth century, that our tale has its commencement. Scotland had as yet remained free from the ravages of intestine war, althou...

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...le, 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 shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting before the wind, and of the rugged headlands of the coast, point beyond point, the nearer distinct, and showing ...

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...lter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...before we sat down to table, Lord Meadowbank [One of the Supreme Judges of Scotland, termed Lords of Council and Session.] asked me privately whether ... ...ord’s turn to exert himself, and he wearied all the authorities, civil and military, with his solicitations for pardon to the saver of his life, or at... ...rily exists between scenes of the same character. The iron- bound coast of Scotland affords upon its headlands and prom- ontories fifty such castles a... .... [I would particularly intimate the Kaim of Uric, on the eastern coast of Scotland, as having suggested an idea for the tower called Wolf ’s Crag, wh... ...at once conjecture to whom he alluded. He had no intention to dwell on his military merits. They had been told in the senate; they had been repeated i... ...set a little too deep under the eyebrow; and a cue of the kind once called military may serve to show that my civil occupations have been some- times ...

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...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When...

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...ublication My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...hion to do so; and our knight perhaps was of opin- ion that a touch of the military character, just enough to exalt, but not render pedantic, his qual... ...ather; and that, 17 Sir Walter Scott though you think fit to indulge this military fancy, you will not let it hurry you into dangers which it is cert... ...rce of happiness unknown to the wife of the gayest and finest gentleman in Scotland. This conviction became stronger as they learned from inquiries ma... ...property, and threatened his person, should he be rash enough to return to Scotland. These additional disadvantages aggra- vated Lady Bothwell’s displ...

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...ssics Series Publication Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...he clan V ourich, whom the Chevalier had left behind at his departure from Scotland in 1746, and who remained during ten years of proscription and dan... ... we shall tell in Dr. King’s own words:—’When he (Charles Ed- ward) was in Scotland, he had a mistress whose name was Walkinshaw, and whose sister was... ...ally considering how late he nourished the scheme of another expedition to Scotland, for which he was long endeavouring to hoard money. The case, also... ... consequence to most men in this age and country whether they ever possess military courage or no. Do not think I am angry with you, though I thus att... ...ch they had chanced to assume, he failed not to obliterate the worldly and military emblems dis- played upon the shield and helmet, together with all ... ....’ Thou knowest all James’s gay recollections go back to the period of his military service, the years he has spent in ours having probably been dull ...

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK TWO by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE ... ...THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, ... ...itten by Himself: Book Two by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...October 18, 1852. 4 Henry Esmond – Book Two BOOK II CONTAINS MR. ESMOND’S MILITARY LIFE, AND OTHER MA TTERS APPERT AINING TO THE ESMOND FAMILY CHAPTE... ...t bleed,—a restless wish to see men and the world,—led him to think of the military profession: at any rate, to desire to see a few campaigns, and acc... ...xcited the young man. The many accidents, and the routine of shipboard—the military duty—the new acquaintances, both of his comrades in arms, and of t... ...th ships and an army from Dunkirk, and was to have in- vaded and conquered Scotland. But that ill wind which ever opposed all the projects upon which ... ...upon which the Prince ever embarked, prevented the Chevalier’s invasion of Scotland, as ’tis known, and blew poor Monsieur von Holtz back into our cam...

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...ourney in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called Written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson with a preface by Mr. Stevenson...

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.................................... 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY................................................................................................ 30 SECTIO...

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...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Ha... ...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... ...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... ... Cree This Little Volume Is Affectionately Inscribed Glencairn, Kilmacolm, Scotland June 27, 1905 PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE Some... ...air of the guard. This relaxation was conceded by way of com- pensating to Scotland her disadvantages in point of popula- tion. England, by the superi... ...of chance passengers riding for short distances of two or three stages. In Scotland this chance counted for much less. And therefore, to make good the... ...eir memory, had made the most memo- rable and effective charge recorded in military annals. They leaped their horses—over a trench where they could; i... ...e could do for him beyond Orleans? That is to say, what more than a merely military service could she render him? And, above all, if he were king with... ...o witness their development or their prosperous application. More than one military plan was entered upon which she did not approve. But she still con...

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