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...ew both his son and his dear friend Mr Harding, the archdeacon’s father-in-law, and would thank them ten- derly for their care and love. Now he lay sl... ...is ingress and egress was as much a matter of course as that of his son-in-law. He was standing close beside the archdeacon before he was perceived, a... ...pretence of a foolish sentiment. But how was he to act while his father-in-law stood there holding his hand? How, without appearing unfeel- ing, was h... ...imation of his wife. Could she even have admitted that he had a fault, his early death would have blotted out the memory of it. She wept as for the lo... ...stances had cer- tainly sustained him in this view. He was the nephew of a Irish baron by his mother’s side, and his wife was the niece of a Scottish ... ...ny rate one section of states- men, and Dr Proudie was one among those who early in life adapted himself to the views held by the whigs on most theolo... ...t eminent physician who assisted at the birth of Mr T. Shandy, and that in early years he added an ‘e’ to his name, for the sake of euphony, as other ... ...er Towers hurriedly to her husband. She was at the moment con- cocting the Irish stew destined to satisfy the noonday want of fourteen young birds, le... ... two, unmindful of the kitchen apron, the greasy fingers, and the adherent Irish stew, threw themselves warmly into each other’s arms. ‘For heaven’s s...

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...Father, in the Isle of Bute,—on the 20th July, 1806. Both his parents were Irish by birth, Scotch by extraction; and became, as he himself did, es- se... ...bability he did; had not Tredah Storm proved ruinous, and the neck of this Irish War been broken at once. Doubt- *Commons Journals, iv. 15 (l0th Janua... ...p for still one life be- yond his own; his father having been Clerk of the Irish House of Commons at the time of the Union, of which office the lost s... ...ded to Captain Sterling; she happiest to him happiest,—as by Nature’s kind law it is arranged. Mrs. Sterling, even in her later days, had still traces... ...ilitary bearing, whereof he was rather proud; an incapacity for practicing law;—and con- siderable uncertainty as to what his next course of life was ... ...ape from it. Accordingly there is, to a singular extent, especially in his early writ- ings, a certain tinge of Grecism and Heathen classicality trace... ...iend Maurice into Trinity Hall, with the in- tention of taking a degree in Law; which intention, like many others with him, came to nothing; and in 18... ...verse and unfitted. No profession could, in any case, have well gained the early love of Sterling. And perhaps withal the most tragic element of his l... ...ty picked Spaniards, and Torrijos,—safe, though without arms; still in the early part of the year. 68 The Life of John Sterling CHAPTER XI MARRIAGE: ...

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...usly rich.” “I believe he has a very large income.” “And is your sister-in-law a nice pretty woman?” “La! Joseph is not married,” said Amelia, laughin... ...hange every day. It’s a mercy he did not bring us over a black daughter-in-law, my dear. But, mark my words, the first woman who fishes for him, hooks... ...id, and of the presents which she should make to her nice little sister-in-law, and of a subse- quent ceremony in which she herself might play a princ... ... the number of the vehicle, or to state that the driver was stationed thus early in the neighbourhood of Swallow Street, in hopes that some young buck... ...ure that she wasn’t even jealous. Mr. Jos was away, being be- sieged by an Irish widow at Cheltenham. Amelia had the house to herself—ah! too much to ... ...nk his claret; he played his rubber; he told his Indian sto- ries, and the Irish widow consoled and flattered him as usual. 166 V anity Fair His pres... ... in his house 169 Thackeray but ready money, of which their menage pretty early felt the want; and reading the Gazette one day, and coming upon the a... ...e’s dying,” William Dobbin said—and could speak no more. There was a buxom Irish servant-girl, who performed all the duties of the little house where ... ...he got sundry strange particu- lars regarding the ex-governess’s birth and early history. The friend of the Lexicographer had plenty of information to...

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...ly kind of rank she valued. It was the stake quickest won or lost too; for law is a very long game that requires a life to practise; and to be disting... ...in their sickness and poverty, and who blessed her daily. She attended the early church daily (though of a Sunday, especially, she encouraged and adva... ...ery Englishman had a right to protest, and the English Prince, the heir-at-law, the first of all. What man of spirit with such a cause would not back ... ...he garden at Lille, when my Lord Mohun and Esmond had their affair, was an Irishman too, and as brave a little soul as ever wore a sword. “Bedad,” say... ...asn’t a foreigner, till he broke out with his hulla-ballooing, and only an Irish calf can bellow like that.” And Roger made another remark in his wild... ...e long before the town), he took a coach for Kensington, and reached it so early that he met his dear mistress coming home from morning prayers. She c... ...my poor mother’s grave in her convent. What matter to her now? No court of law on earth, upon my mere word, would deprive my Lord Viscount and set me ... ...obleman that was to make a figure in the world. ’T was this mistake in his early training, very likely, that set him so eager upon pleasure when he ha... ...xelles appeared in the Post-Boy and other prints, announcing that “a young Irish lord, the Viscount C-stlew—d, just come to his majority, and who had ...

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... night, another on the Sunday morning, our own on Sunday afternoon, a fourth early on Monday; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part... ...and orphans on board the train; and morning found us far into Ohio. This had early been a favourite home of my imagination; I have played at being in ... ..., coffee, tea, sugar, and tinned eat- ables, mostly hash or beans and bacon. Early next morning the newsboy went around the cars, and chumming on a mo... ...no monopoly of that. They are called cruel; the Anglo-Saxon and the cheerful Irishman may each reflect before he bears the accusation. I am told, agai... ...tion, and the intelligence of their superiors at home! Awhile ago it was the Irish, now it is the Chinese that must go. Such is the cry. It seems, aft... ...ity for the independent. That the Jew should not love the Christian, nor the Irishman love the English, nor the Indian brave tolerate the thought of t... ...its very memory shall follow; and they, in their turn, shall suffer the same law, and, both in name and lineament, vanish from the world of men. “For ... ...s already fingering his last despatch; and just a little beyond Leven, Largo Law and the smoke of Largo town mounting about its feet, the town of Alex... ... I know not what to call it – an eldritch-look- ing preacher laying down the law in Gaelic about some one of the name of Powl, whom I at last divined ...

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...e, which did not provoke any reproaches even to a dignitary of the supreme Irish church; its own monstrosity was its excuse; mere extravagance was fel... ...sed, and had lain down in bed. Being, as a working man, bound to habits of early rising, he was natu- rally anxious to fall asleep as soon as possible... ...f them, how- ever, were aware of the legal danger attaching, under English law, to insinuations against a man, even if true, which might not admit of ... ...- selves separately at the rustic inn, and at different hours. One came as early as four o’clock in the afternoon; the other not until half-past seven... ...ffold: Williams, as I have said, by his own hand; and, in obedience to the law as it then stood, he was buried in the centre of a quadrivium, or confl... ...directing the character of their thoughts and expectations. He that in the early days of Christianity should have proclaimed the true theory of the so... ...a man on such a subject. I consign him to the attentions of some patriotic Irishman. Schlosser, however, is right in a graver reflection which he make... ...ty; he never forgets his mother-tongue in exotic forms, unless we may call Irish exotic; for Hibernicisms he certainly has. This merit, however, is ex... ...n the Code of Justinian, nor the maritime Code of Oleron, nor in the Canon Law, nor the Code Napoleon, nor our own Statutes at large, nor in Jer- emy ...

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...senior scholar, sat at the foot of the table, fully occupied in dispensing Irish stew. She had a sensible face, to which pro- jecting teeth gave a cha... ...there, and the adjacent beds had their full share of hepaticas and all the early daffodil kinds. Behind and on the southern side, lay the kitchen gard... ... to be youthful and active, and her who had to be staid and dignified. The early dinner passed in all demureness and formality, and the poor visitor w... ...y field wherewith to dress thee.” —E. Barrett Browning. MRS. BEST departed early the next morning. It was probably a parting for life between the two ... ...oper deference to the head of the house,” said Agatha, gravely. “Murder in Irish!” cried Vera, bouncing away, while Paula argued, “Really, Nag, life i... ... hungry, and came out to find Lord Rotherwood fishing, and his daughter-in-law watching for the boat to put out from the white houses with grey roofs,... ...peaker had become de- veloped. With a little assistance from her sister-in-law Agnes’s unwilling stage experience, and entreaties, not easily to be wi... ...nk, in a state of much elevation at acquiring a dear delicious brother- in-law, and insisted on Primrose sharing her sentiments till her boasting at l... ...was so strong he could make no way against it. It would bring us on to the Irish cliffs, and then, God help us! Knowing what that coast is, I thought ...

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...lbooks.” Cousin Laurence was a boy of twelve, a bright scholar, in whom an early thoughtfulness and sensibility began to show themselves. His young fa... ...lty in relating them; for it really seemed as if every person noted in our early history had, on some occasion or other, found repose within its comfo... ...orne more sensibly felt. T o supply the demand, the General Court passed a law for establishing a coinage of shillings, sixpences, and threepences. Ca... ...Miss Betsey herself. The mint master also was pleased with his new Son in law; especially as he had courted Miss Betsey out of pure love, and had sai... ... fresh from the mint; and Samuel Sewall began to think that his father in law had got possession of all the money in the Massachusetts treasury. But ... ... and an immortal soul. That single man was John Eliot. All the rest of the early settlers seemed to think that the Indians were an inferior race of be... ...across the Atlan tic. Nothing was more common than to see a lot of likely Irish girls advertised for sale in the newspapers. As for the little negro ...

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...tion upon the do- mestic aspect of sex. I got to definite knowledge pretty early. By the time I was eleven or twelve.” “Normally? “ “What is normally?... ... us; she just humbugs us into what she wants with us. All very well in the early Stone Age—when the poor dear things never realized that their mutual ... ...mense expectation built up throughout an imaginative boyhood and youth and early manhood. I was shocked and ashamed at my own disappointment. I though... ...thought could never be sufficiently free. As a citizen, one had to treat a law or an institution as a thing as rigidly right as a natural law. That th... ...le in contemporary marital af- fairs was very largely due. We left divorce-law revision to exposed adulterers and marriage reform to hot adolescents a... ...hat scale. Just as a man who has been trained in 49 H G Wells history and law grows to think on the scale of the Roman empire. I don’t know what your... ...le to her.” “H’m,” said Sir Richmond. “I assure you we don’t like it. This Irish business. We feel a sort of ownership in England. It’s like finding y... ...at devastate the world. I am bored by Ireland, Orange and Green. Curse the Irish—north and south together! Lord! how I hate the Irish from Carson to t...

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................................................................... 495 THREE EARLY DRAFTS OF THE PREFACE .................................................. ...of the “Poems”. The present text is the result of a fresh collation of the early editions; and in every material instance of departure from the wordin... ...y of gratuitous interference with the punc- tuation of the manuscripts and early editions; in this direc- tion, however, some revision was indispensab... ...session of Shelley’s widow, and passed from her to her son and daughter-in-law. After Sir Percy Shelley’s death, Lady Shelley took the occasion of the... ...g _245 Eternal Nature’s law. Above, below, around, The circling systems formed A wilderness of harm... ...d power, even when his feeble hand Shakes in its last decay, were the true law _685 Of this so lovely world! But thou art fle... ...te sings it, Line 173 ‘Rich and rare were the gems she wore.’ See Moore’s “Irish Melodies”.—Shelley’s note. 476 V olume One Decked with rare gems, an... ...RD: The engine of parliaments Might be deferred until I can bring over The Irish regiments: they will serve to assure The issue of the war against the...

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...Indeed, the like happens every other kind of knowledge. Neither physic nor law are to be practically known from books. Nay, the farmer, the planter, t... ...ed to take up their residence at a house of exceeding good repute, whither Irish ladies of strict virtue, and many northern lasses of the same predica... ...ad, and though I say it, is frequented by gentry of the best quality, both Irish and English. I defy anybody to say black is my eye, for that matter. ... ...hough he left some circumstances which might be questionable in a court of law. Women, to their glory be it spoken, are more generally capable of th... ...n pockets. All things, therefore, being settled in the evening, they arose early the next morning, and at five o’clock departed from Worcester, it bei... ... that he had already committed a murder, and had forfeited his life to the law. As he concluded therefore that his only safety lay in flight, he thoug... ... Chapter 2 Containing the arrival of an Irish gentleman, with very extraordinary adventures which ensued at the inn... ...r in the house except only Mrs. Western herself and the charming Sophia. Early in the morning a messenger was despatched to sum mon Mr. Blifil; for... ... distillation from the juniper berry, or, perhaps, from malt, hath, by the early devotion of their votaries, been poured forth in great abun 468 The ...

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...s then thought a long and somewhat perilous journey, to the mansion of the early friend who had calculated his nativ- ity. His road lay through severa... ...changing his plan, however, which wets done in the course of printing, the early sheets retained the vestiges of the original tenor of the story, alth... ...thor gave the public some account of this remarkable person, in one of the early num- bers of. Blackwood’s Magazine, to the following purpose :- “My f... ...cantle of their remain- ing property. Donohoe Bertram, with somewhat of an Irish name, and somewhat of an Irish temper, succeeded to the diminished pr... ...erests were accumulated upon capitals, movable bonds became heritable, and law charges were heaped upon all; though Ellangowan possessed so little the... ... auld fights of the Mac-Dingawaies—that’s the Bertrams that now is—wi’ the Irish, and wi’ the High- 49 Sir Walter Scott landers, that came here in th... ...I suppose. You must know, Mr. Mannering, that these free-traders, whom the law calls smug- glers, having no religion, make it all up in superstition; ... ...eir webs over the lower division of my book-shelves (consisting chiefly of law and divinity) dur- ing the peaceful reign of her predecessor, fly at fu... ...ict for no better reason, than that he was supposed to speak with a strong Irish accent. Even the annual rounds of the pedlar were abolished by the ju...

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... to her years: and let not the reader fancy such pastimes unnatural at her early age. The ladies—Heaven bless them!—are, as a general rule, coquettes ... ... Corporal sur- rendered to him: Mr. Bullock, namely, who gave in at a very early stage of the evening, and ignominiously laid down his arms under the ... ...en there’s company.” And with this Mrs. Score curtseyed and retired. V ery early the next morning the active landlady and her bus- tling attendant had... ...ch wicked things as to kill nine gentlemen and strangle a German prince.” “Law, coachman,” said Mrs. Cat, blushing archly—”,Law, coachman, do you thin... ...creech of surprise which Mrs. Score gave on dropping it, exclaiming, “Why, law bless us, it’s our Catherine!” “I’m very ill, and tired, aunt,” said Ca... ...t lady’s feet, demanding succour from her, and asking whether there was no law in the land— “There’s no law at the ‘Three Rooks’ except this!” said Mr... ...rine: A Story “‘Faith, Major, you giv him his billyful,’ roared out a long Irish unattached ensign, that I had treated with many a glass of Nantz at t... ...the battle of Almanza, and bad luck to us.’ “Y ou see, my dear, that these Irish have the strongest imagi- nations in the world; and that I had actual... ...lue upon his right arm’ (and there it is sure enough). ‘Y onder swaggering Irishman may be his ac- complice for what I know; but I will have no dealin...

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...ion of the inferior gentry, or Franklins, as they were called, who, by the law and spirit of the English consti- tution, were entitled to hold themsel... ...t was emulated, Norman-French was the only language employed; in courts of law, the pleadings and judgments were delivered in the same tongue. In shor... ... which belonged to the wood- lands of the West-Riding of Yorkshire at that early period. The eldest of these men had a stern, savage, and wild aspect.... ... handle, which were fabricated in the neighbourhood, and bore even at this early period the name of a Sheffield whittle. The man had no covering upon ... ...he chase, or remained long at the banquet,—if Prior Aymer was seen, at the early peep of dawn, to enter the postern of the abbey, as he glided home fr... ...injury. At such meetings the Jews were under the protection of the general law; and if that proved a weak assur- ance, it usually happened that there ... ...new and important acquisition to the English crown. Upon this occasion the Irish chieftains contended which should first offer to the young Prince the... ...ndants could not resist the tempta- tion of pulling the long beards of the Irish chieftains; a conduct which, as might have been expected, was highly ... ...black vault of Denure, a strong fortalice, built on a rock overhanging the Irish channel, where to execute leases and conveyances of the whole churche...

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...to use, and over use, the word ‘new’ in connection with our country, that we early get and permanently retain the impression that there is nothing old... ...n. When De Soto took his fleeting glimpse of the river, away back in the dim early days, he took it from that same spot—the site of the future town of... ...ecious few of them that you are allowed to run at all down stream. There’s a law of the United States against it. The river may be rising by the time ... ...ots bore a mortal hatred to these craft; and it was returned with usury. The law required all such helpless traders to keep a light burning, but it wa... ...law required all such helpless traders to keep a light burning, but it was a law that was often broken. All of a sudden, on a murky night, a light wou... ...to up there as ‘that poor, ragged pilot that came here from St. Louis in the early days!’” Chapter 18 I Take a Few Extra Lessons DURING THE TWO OR ... ...mained, but business was dull with them; the multitudes of poison swill ing Irishmen had departed, and in their places were a few scattering handfuls... ...bought some cheap litera ture to kill time with. The vender was a venerable Irishman with a benevolent face and a tongue that worked easily in the so... ...ompany than the sappy literature he was selling. A random remark, connecting Irishmen and beer, brought this nugget of information out of him— “They d...

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...women wept. Any one who had come aboard might have supposed we were all absconding from the law. There was scarce a word interchanged, and no common s... ...l we were gloriously favoured; for in addition to porridge, which was common to all, we had Irish stew, some- times a bit of fish, and sometimes risso... ...o create a popularity. There was, besides, a Scots mason, known from his favourite dish as ‘Irish Stew,’ three or four nondescript Scots, a fine young... ...; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born in England; and ultimately proved to be an Irishman born and nurtured, but ashamed to own his country... ...declared, what was the truth, that there was a pair of us indeed. 9 Robert Louis Stevenson EARLY IMPRESSIONS WE STEAMED OUT of the Clyde on Thursday ... ... difference in the social scale. When people pass each other on the high seas of life at so early an age, the contact is but slight, and the rela- tio... ...syllables in the dark- ness of a night at sea. The day dawned fairly enough, and during the early part we had some pleasant hours to improve acquainta... ...nce of despair at the loss of his affection; some day she would meet the fugitives, and the law would see her duly righted, and in the meantime the sm... ...of him, but let him go, and thanked God he was rid of a knave. And surely the crime and the law were in admirable keeping; rustic constable was well m...

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...ave ever to do. They dispossess him of his greedy gettings. And how of the Law? But the Law is always, and must ever be, the Law of the stronger. —Ay,... ...— not healthy! Skepsey will bring me my letters. I was down in the country early this morning, looking over the house, with Taplow, my architect; and ... ...rformed.’ ‘Make a practice of getting over as much of your business in the early morning as you well can.’ Mr. Radnor added hints of advice to a frail... ...t touching up to the sunset to draw it to the dance. Formerly, in his very early youth, he clasped a dream of gain- ing way to an alliance with one of... ...tation of a rigid morality arming you legal gentlemen to make it so!’ ‘The Law must be vindicated.’ ‘The law is a clumsy bludgeon.’ ‘We think it the h... ...of stuff in the passing youngster’s green-scum eye: it was. And there your Law did good work.—You’re for Bordeaux. What is your word on Burgundy?’ ‘Ou... ...r tropical growths. And the parterres were admired; also the newly-planted Irish junipers bounding the West-walk; and the three tiers of stately desce... ...se would surely be. Nataly was not so sympathetic. Only the Welsh and pure Irish are quick at the feelings of the Celtic French. Nataly came of a York... ...sea-fish rolling head over-you know not head from tail. Without the Welsh, Irish, Scot; in their composi- tion, there would not be much of the yeasty ...

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...g and sum- mer I was mostly out of doors, and school and classes caught me early. And in the retrospect I see them all not only mag- nified and transf... ...derful how many of the clumsy and limited governing bodies of my youth and early manhood have given place now to more scientific and efficient machine... ...vant learner very seriously and opened demoralising con- troversies. Quite early in life I acquired an almost ineradi- cable sense of the unscientific... ... inexplicable incest, of gods faded beyond sym- bolism, of that Relentless Law we did not believe in for a moment, that no modern western European can... ...r Britten was short and thick-set with dark close curling hair and a ruddy Irish type of face; I was lean and fair-haired and some inches taller than ... ...ers flat together, carried the point against him. He quoted Cato and Roman law and the monasteries of Thibet. “Well, anyway,” said Hatherleigh, escapi... ...rence and inconsistency, go uncriticised for the sake of it:— “Keep ye the Law—be swift in all obedience— Clear the land of evil, drive the road and b... ...rticularly, and in this order, Londoner’s, Yorkshiremen, Scotch, Welch and Irish, because they were not “reet Stafford- shire,” and he hated all other... ...stling with extraor- dinary degrees and prizes capturned in provincial and Irish and Scotch universities—and had made a name for himself as the most f...

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...he old Breton, despite his fifty years, had fallen in love with a charming Irish woman, daughter of one of the noblest and poorest families of that un... ...sed to submit to an operation, in spite of the entreaties of her sister-in-law. The secret reason of that ob- stinacy was known to herself only; she d... ...e washing of which caused the only dispute she ever had with her sister-in-law,— her habit being to change it only once a week. From the large wadded ... ... into a deep meditation, one of those total silences which her sis- ter-in-law had noticed for the last two weeks, trying to ex- plain them to herself... ...lady still used the cane with the short hook that all women carried in the early days of Marie- Antoinette. She belonged to the very highest nobility ... ...he slightest contretemps, speaking low to spare his voice, had been in his early days one of the most intrepid and most competent officers of the old ... ...tion, however. The chevalier had remarked the abstraction of the beautiful Irish woman. When they reached Mademoiselle de Pen-Hoel’s door-step, and he... ...Calyste, that splendid offspring of the oldest Breton race and the noblest Irish blood, had been nurtured by his mother with the utmost care. Until th... ...of men perform,—even those who are highest in the so- cial scale. She saw, early in life, the world as it is; and she was fortunate enough not to fall...

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