...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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... ...ill now frank the traveller through the most of North America, through the greater South Sea Islands, in India, along much of the coast of Africa, and... ...The name Yankee, of which he is so tenacious, is used over the most of the great Union as a term of reproach. The Yankee States, of which he is so sta... ...of the country to teach rather a moral than a material criterion for life. Britain is altogether small, the mere taproot of her extended empire: Scotl... ... wonder- ful creatures, mem,” he said once. “They just mind me o’ what the Queen of Sheba said to Solomon – and I think she said it wi’ a sigh, – ‘The... ...kettle. In these moods he has an elegant homeliness that rings of the true Queen Anne. I know another person who attains, 73 Memories and Portraits i... .... In these moods he has an elegant homeliness that rings of the true Queen Anne. I know another person who attains, 73 Memories and Portraits in his ...

...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 dialects, and offering in its exten...

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...n Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 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... ...ear 1694. He lived until within ten or eleven years of the outbreak of the Great French Revolution, and was a chief leader in the movement of thought ... ...sm a Jewish ceremony?” “Yes, my friend,” says he, “so truly Jewish, that a great many Jews use the bap- tism of John to this day. Look into ancient au... ...this light spread itself in England in 1642. It was at the time when Great Britain was torn to pieces by the intestine wars which three or four sects ... .... This zeal was pretty violent under the T ories in the four last years of Queen Anne; but was productive of no greater mischief than the breaking the... ... zeal was pretty violent under the T ories in the four last years of Queen Anne; but was productive of no greater mischief than the breaking the windo... ...eligious rage ceased in England with the civil wars, and was no more under Queen Anne than the hol- low noise of a sea whose billows still heaved, tho... ...us rage ceased in England with the civil wars, and was no more under Queen Anne than the hol- low noise of a sea whose billows still heaved, though so...

...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltair...

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