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.... Eksioglu (1999) explains some of them: “Imprecision of the human systems is due to the imperfection of knowledge that humain receives (observation) from the external world. Imperfection leads to a doubt about the value of a variable, a decision to be taken or a conclusion to be drawn for the actual system. The sources of uncertainty can be stochasticity (the case of intr...

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...ition) 2002 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (U... ...ers were submitted to the following web site, provided by The York University, from Toronto, Canada, at: http://at.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/amca/submit/cag... ...points). Statically T, I, F are subsets. But dynamically, looking therefore from another perspective, the components T, I, F are at each instance... ...robability that candidate C will win an election is say 25-30% true (percent of people voting for him), 35% false (percent of people voting against h... ...ercent of people voting against him), and 40% or 41% indeterminate (percent of people not coming to the ballot box, or giving a blank vote - not sel... ...s since and . This is unfortunalely not a valid conclusion in general as many people (wrongly) think. We argue that the fusion of independent source... ...cal Theories of Logic and Probabilities”, MacMillan, London, 1854 (reprinted by Dover in 1958). [7] Cheng Y., Kashyap R.L., “Study of the Different Me... ...mal Axiology and Its Critics. Amsterdam-Atlanta: Editions Rodopi. [27] Palmer, Kent. (2001). Vajra Logic and Mathematical Meta-Models for Meta- Syste...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. SCENE I. King Lear?s palace. Enter KENT, GLOUCESTER, and EDMUND. KENT: I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall. GLOUCESTER: It did always seem so to us: but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he...

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...LEAR, King of Britain KING OF FRANCE DUKE OF BURGUNDY DUKE OF CORNWALL DUKE OF ALBANY EARL OF KENT EARL OF GLOUCESTER EDGAR: Son to Gloucester. EDMUND: bastard son to Gloucester. CURAN: a courtier. Old Man: tenant to Gloucester. Doctor Fool OSWALD: Steward to Goneril. A Captain employed by Edmund Gentleman attendant o...

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...ree our kingdom: and ’tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburthen’d cr... ...t shall Cordelia do? Love, and be silent. LEAR: Of all these bounds, even from this line to this, With shadowy forests and with champains rich’d, Wit... ..., The mysteries of Hecate, and the night; By all the operation of the orbs From whom we do exist, and cease to be; Here I disclaim all my paternal car... ...’ll not trouble thee. Yet have I left a daughter. GONERIL: You strike my people; and your disorder’d rabble Make servants of their betters. [Enter A... ...thy folly in, [Striking his head. ] And thy dear judgment out! Go, go, my people. ALBANY: My lord, I am guiltless, as I am ignorant Of what hath mov... ...nd danger Speak ‘gainst so great a number? How, in one house, Should many people, under two commands, Hold amity? ’Tis hard; almost impossible. GONE... .... Now to you: If on my credit you dare build so far To make your speed to Dover, you shall find Some that will thank you, making just report Of how u... ... death upon him: There is a litter ready; lay him in ‘t, And drive towards Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet Both welcome and protection. Take up ... ...e; Who, with some other of the lords dependants, Are gone with him towards Dover; where they boast To have well armed friends. CORNWALL: ...

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... elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--?Scientists.? They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and characteristic paper, it is as carefully excluded as if it were--that other word which is the basis of all really bad language in this country. But th...

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...e extremely to be called—“Scientists.” They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and ... ...ectionists time after time. And they had led lives of academic distinction from their very earliest youth. They were of course quite undistinguished l... ...member—one midday in the vanished past—when the British Association was at Dover, coming on Section C or D, or some such letter, which had taken up it... ...ich I believe was the voice of Professor Redwood, and there was a sizzling from the lantern and another sound that kept me there, still out of curiosi... ...s not under- stand it either. But really you know many of these scientific people understand the meaning of their own papers quite well: it is simply ... ... it, because as a general rule I do not think it is at all interesting for people to tell each other about their dreams. By a singular coincidence Red... ...e from the weekly storm of cleaning she would not forego. And having known people addicted to drink, she re- garded his solicitude for distinction in ... ...m above Thursley Hanger he could get a glimpse of the London, Chatham, and Dover railway, but ploughed fields and a suspicious hamlet pre- vented his ... ...o- gether he and this stranger from his kindred came down into the town of Dover, saying little to one another and feeling many things. They sat for a...

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...England, and would have married the queen, his father?s wife As Sir Mordred was ruler of all England, he did do make letters as though that they came from beyond the sea, and the letters specified that King Arthur was slain in battle with Sir Launcelot. Wherefore Sir Mordred made a parliament, and called the lords together, and there he made them to choose him king; and so...

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... was ruler of all England, he did do make letters as though that they came from beyond the sea, and the letters specified that King Arthur was slain i... ...fore Sir Mordred made write writs to all the barony of this land, and much people drew to him. For then was the common voice among them that with Arth... ... us Englishmen, for there may no thing please us no term. And so fared the people at that time, they were better pleased with Sir Mordred than they we... ... better pleased with Sir Mordred than they were with King Arthur; and much people drew unto Sir Mordred, and said they would abide with him for better... ...him for better and for worse. And so Sir Mordred drew with a great host to Dover, for there he heard say that Sir Arthur would arrive, and so he thoug... ...say that Sir Arthur would arrive, and so he thought to beat his own father from his lands; and the most part of all England held with Sir Mordred, the... ...CHAPTER II How after that King Arthur had tidings, he returned and came to Dover, where Sir Mordred met him to let his landing; and of the death of Si... ...his landing; and of the death of Sir Gawaine A nd so as Sir Mordred was at Dover with his host, there came King Arthur with a great navy of ships, and... ...now have I lost my joy of you both; wherefore all mine earthly joy is gone from me. Mine uncle King Arthur, said Sir Gawaine, wit you well my death- d...

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...cember, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommenda...

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...h the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single... ...uch as you, than to me. It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free ... ...o as to give the greatest protection to this capital which may be possible from that distance. [Indorsement.] TO THE SECRET ARY OF W AR: The President... ...ut consulting me. A. LINCOLN. 9 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six FROM SECRETARY STANTON TO GENERAL McCLELLAN. W ASHINGTON, May 18, 1862. GEN... ...e na- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six tion to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. To the people of ... ...: W e are changing one of the departmental lines, so as to give you all of Kentucky and Tennessee. In your movement upon Chat- tanooga I think it prob... ... war it is peculiarly the duty of the National Government to secure to the people a sound circulating medium. This duty has been, under existing circu... ...here to McClellan, they will let us have Rich- mond, and retake Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, etc. What should be done is to hold what we have in the... ... P . HALE. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, June 9, 1863. HON. JOHN P. HALE, Dover, N. H.: I believe that it was upon your recommendation that B. B. Bun...

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...Excerpt: I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between p...

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...PREFACE TO 1850 EDITION I DO NOT FIND IT EASY to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of hav- ing finished it, to refer ... ... pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions that I am in danger of wearying the reader whom I l... ...to the shadowy world, when a crowd of the creatures of his brain are going from him for ever. Yet, I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I wer... ... in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and pref... ... t cry! said Miss Betsey. You were not equally matched, child if any two people can be equally matched and so I asked the question. You were an orph... ...civilities nothing has passed! You talk of admiration. What am I to do? If people are so silly as to indulge the sentiment, is it my fault? What am I ... ...o get it out of Mr. Barkis s box), and told me that Miss Betsey lived near Dover, but whether at Dover itself, at Hythe, Sandgate, or Folkestone, she ... ...the casks: Master David, to be left till called for, at the Coach Office, Dover. This I had in my pocket ready to put on the box, after I should ha... ...e, which was down that street there, and which I wanted him to take to the Dover coach office for sixpence. Done with you for a tanner! said the lon...

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...ing committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in those last solemn days, it did to him. He had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into ...

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...o friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in... ...d by his position as a Churchman, had been led, in editing a Work not free from ecclesiastical heresies, and especially in writing a Life very full of... ...Hebrew Old- clothes;’ wrestling, with impotent impetuosity, to free itself from the baleful imbroglio, as if that had been its one function in life: w... ...it.—Simple peasant laborers, ploughers, house- servants, occasional fisher-people too; and the sight of ships, and crops, and Nature’s doings where Ar... ...dism when they have any character;—for the rest, an innocent good- humored people, who all drink home-brewed beer, and have brown loaves of the most e... ...ing. This is the ordinary Welsh village; but there are excep- tions, where people of more cultivated tastes have been led to settle, and Llanblethian ... ...d Military Reform; this is the second edition, “dedi- cated to the Duke of Kent;” the first appears to have come out the year before, and had thus att... ...h. “21st September, 1818. “Dear Mamma,—I am now at Dover, where I arrived this morning about seven o’clock. When you thought I... ...orrows and adventures, from Kaimes Castle onward,—and had gone at least to Dover on his own score. Puer bonae spei, as 30 The Life of John Sterling t...

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...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of children, but only Imperial R... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...The Science and Art Department has vanished altogether from the world, and people are forgetting it now with the utmost readiness and generosity. Part... ...ow irregular little street of thatched houses strung out on the London and Dover Road, a little mellow sample unit of a social order that had a kind o... ...o Do- ver, only passable by adventurous coaches in dry weather, became the Dover Road, and was presently the route first of one and then of several da... ...mood rose to its quintessence. And once it came to me, as I shall tell, on Dover cliffs. And a hundred times when I have thought of England as our cou...

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...blished in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the “Sausage” held the air. The con- temporary ... ...t hardly my idea of a lady—flying about in the air, and throwing gravel at people. It ain’t what I been accus- tomed to consider ladylike, whether or ... ...y continued to regard the swelling bulks with expressions that had changed from indifference to disapproval. Mr. T om Smallways was a green-grocer by ... ...he said. Mr. Smallways’ aged father, could remember Bun Hill as an idyllic Kentish village. He had driven Sir Peter Bone until he was fifty and then h... ...of the coming of the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace was six miles away from Bun Hill, a great facade that glittered in the morning, and was a clea... ...id Mr. Tom Smallways, growing up among these marvels. But it kept on. Even from the first the green-grocer’s shop which he had set up in one of the sm... ...gravel from the wharf of the Bun Hill gas-works and drop it upon deserving people’s lawns and gardens. There were half a dozen reassuring years for T ... ... country and come to us with your plans by the customary routes—either via Dover, Ostend, Boulogne, or Dieppe. We find it difficult to think you are r... ... to be used in support of the air-fleet, had passed through the straits of Dover and headed boldly for New York. Not only did these German battleships...

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...e too late for that crowning revolution in human potentialities. And apart from this pro- crastination of over forty years, the guess at the opening p... ...excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), meeting obscurely amidst a world-wide disre- gard t... ...ttain- ment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire- making animal. From the outset of his terrestrial career we find him supplementing the nat... ... of burning and the rough implement of stone. So he passed beyond the ape. From that he expands. Presently he added to himself the power of the horse ... ... it boil away, seeing the lids of vessels dance with its fury; millions of people at different times must have watched steam pitching rocks out of vol... ...e corn ships of imperial Rome, a petty inci- dent; and a huge migration of peoples between Europe and Western Asia and America was in Progress, and—no... ...rto relied. His troops were given bread, dried fish, and boiled nettles at Dover, and marched inland to Ashford and paid off. On the way thither they ... ...e roadside, who had been hung for steal- ing swedes. The labour refuges of Kent, he discovered, were feeding their crowds of casual wanderers on bread...

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...ss of his company — for he did all the talking. We fell together, as modest people will, in the tail of the herd that was being shown through, and he... ...s?” I said I had not heard of it. He was so little interested — just as when people speak of the weather — that he did not notice whether I made him ... ...” Then, after a pause, added: “I did it myself.” By the time I had recovered from the electric surprise of this remark, he was gone. All that evening ... ...rain beat upon the windows, and the wind roared about the eaves and corners. From time to time I dipped into old Sir Thomas Malory’s enchanting book, ... ... Fair damsels, he said, my name is Sir Launcelot du Lake. And so he departed from them and betaught them unto God. And then he mounted upon his horse,... ...nd the buzzing of insects, and the twitter ing of birds, and there were no people, no wagons, there A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court M... ...wide highway of salt water all to myself. There were ships in the harbor, at Dover, but they were naked as to sails, and there was no sign of life abo... ... — the stock board. When you left, three miles of the London, Canterbury and Dover were ready for the rails, and also ready and ripe for manipulation ... ...ped down on him with the Interdict. The king returned; Mordred fought him at Dover, at Canterbury, and again at Barham Down. Then there was talk of pe...

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...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ...nd lead,’ tempted some of the French and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now calle... ...ved that part of the Is lands. It is probable that other people came over from Spain to Ireland, and settled there. Thus, by little and little, stran... ... all that lay north of Watling Street, as the old Roman military road from Dover to Chester was called, and to give A Child’s Histroy of England 44 I... ...h his numerous train of attendants, to return home. They were to embark at Dover. Entering that peaceful town in armour, they took posses sion of the... ...anded to be lodged and entertained without payment. One of the bold men of Dover, who would not endure to have these domineering strangers jin gling ...

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...rade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shortly after the Revolu- tion, at the early age of forty-six... ...eat tenderness and care. Once, when three years old, he nar- rowly escaped from an angry cow, but was wounded in the throat. He was remarkable as a ch... ...ed in the throat. He was remarkable as a child for his amiable temper; and from the sweetness of his voice, received the name of the Little Nightingal... ...of a man generally depends upon the first steps he makes in the world; and people will establish their opinion of us from what we do at that season wh... ...man so much good as ill-will does him harm. Then there is a third class of people, who make the largest part of mankind, those of ordinary or indiffer... ...e best company; and the freedom of saying as many careless things as other people, without being so severely remarked upon. I believe, if any one, ear... ...See Ward by batter’d beaux invited over, And desperate misery lays hold on Dover. The case is easier in the mind’s disease; There all men may be cured... ...ike the sea, they compass all the land, From Scots to Wight, from Mount to Dover strand: And when rank widows purchase luscious nights, Or when a duke... ...rough 207 name? Pleased, let me own, in Esher’s peaceful grove 208 (Where Kent and nature vie for Pelham’s love) The scene, the master, opening to my...

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...n the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry. When I go upon my jour- neys, I am not usually rated at a low figure in the... ... I travel for the great house of Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always w... ...been for some two hours and a half; there was a slight obstruction in the sea within a few yards of my feet: as if the stump of a tree, with earth eno... ...f as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wales. I had heard of that clergy- man, as having buried many sc... ...the way was steep, and a horse and cart (in which it was wrapped in a sheet) were necessary, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was... ... day; the beneficent Earth had already absorbed it. The drowned were buried in their clothes. T o supply the great sudden demand for coffins, he had g... ... modestly brooding behind a damp apron pendent from a clothes-line. As I glance at him I be- come—but I don’t know why—vaguely reminded of Woolwich, C... ...sat in the saddle at the gate of the inn yard noticing the carriers; all among the cherry orchards, apple orchards, corn-fields, and hop-gardens; so w... ...mes: ‘I am aware sir that it is a liberty to intrude a further question on a gentleman walking for his entertainment but might I make so bold as ask t...

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...lume, Winter’s bee-thronged ivy-bloom. Seek and serve them where they bide From Candlemas to Christmas-tide, For these simples used aright Shall resto... ...f those whom mor- tals call Fairies. Their proper name, of course, is ‘The People of the Hills’. This Puck, by means of the magic of Oak, Ash, and Tho... ...r, Though it should have happened three thousand year. The result was that from time to time, and in different places on the farm and in the fields an... ...s and in the country about, they saw and talked to some rather interesting people. One of these, for instance, was a Knight of the Norman Conquest, an... ... the chance, Puck was as kind to them as ever, and introduced them to more people of the old days. He was careful, of course, to take away their memor... ...ey picked up the chain of otter’s foot- prints on the mud, and followed it from the bank, between the weeds and the drenched mowing, while the birds s... ...oy, We slip past the Scillies like poor honest men. ‘T wix’ the Lizard and Dover, We hand our stuff over, Though I may not inform how we do it, nor wh... ...ght up at sea, you might say, before he could walk on land—nigh Chatham in Kent. And ain’t Kent back-door to Sussex? And don’t that make Frankie Susse... ...he mother she wanted to get to some dry bed middlin’ quick. We runned into Dover, and said nothing.’ ‘Was Sir Francis Drake very much pleased?’ ‘Heart...

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...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...ew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated 4 A Book of Golden Deeds (from Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ th... ...dventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabeth of Siberia, are from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the ... ... from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the British Navy;’ the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Registrer, and that at Ciudad Rodrigo, from the tra- dition... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ...s in that army with which David was to fulfill the ancient promises to his people. There were his three nephews, Joab, the fero- cious and imperious, ... ...ne, the mighty camp of Alesia; nay, there too would be the white cliffs of Dover, and the struggle with the Britons on the beach. Models in wood and i... ...ntinent of Europe approach Great Brit- ain so closely as at the straits of Dover, and when our sover- eigns were full of the vain hope of obtaining th... ...ssembled all the forces that were left at home, and crossed the Straits of Dover, and a messenger brought King Edward letters from his Queen to say th...

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...f as the son of a “military bootmaker” (“cobbler” in the vulgar tongue) of Dover, and lists his various examination proofs of a high proficiency in ch... ...e mumble and the nasty chin—how can a man contrive to be always three days from shaving?— and a sort of furtive air of being en- gaged in sneaking in ... ...It seems he has some brilliant research on hand that he suspects me of all people—with a Bodley Booklet a-printing!—of stealing. He has taken remarkab... ...ch should be at choice ei- ther heavier or lighter than air. He took hints from the con- tractile bladders of fish and the pneumatic cavities of birds... ...een en- 8 Twelve Stories and a Dream tirely dependent on his small income from this source— making misdirected attempts to assure a quite indifferent... ...om in Shoreditch, but its final putting together was done at Dymchurch, in Kent. He did not make the affair large enough to carry a man, but he made a... ...ng machine took place over some fields near Burford Bridge, near Hythe, in Kent, and Filmer followed and controlled its flight upon a specially constr... ... orders and two lady cyclists seem almost to complete the list of educated people. There were two reporters present, one representing a Folkestone pap... ...ne as much as could be expected of her. But she said a great deal to other people. And at last, without any undue haste or unseemliness, the day dawne...

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...er nearing to pass, when the girl opened on him, as if lifting her eyelids from sleep to the window, a full side—look, like a throb, and no disguise—n... ...r heart came quietly out. The look was like the fall of light on the hills from the first of morning. It lasted half a minute, and left a ruffle for a... ...heeks were redder than cricket in the sun. He said he read all the reports from India, and asked her whether she did not admire Lord Ormont, our gener... ...and there was a question or two about names, which belonged to verses, for people caring to read poems. To the joy of the school he displayed a greate... ...conjecture, by a rumour, telling of Aminta Farrell’s aunt as a resident at Dover. Those were days when the benevolently international M. de Porquet ha... ...judgement on him. According to Mr. Shalders, the opinion of all thoughtful people in England was with John Company and the better part of the Press to... ...d the man completely cornered by generalizing. He said— “We are a civilian people; we pride ourselves on having civilian methods.” “How can that be if... ...f young ladies, not much more than a morning’s drive out of London, though Dover was my residence. She had got a hero! It was Lord Ormont! Lord Ormont... ...ually. Warned he meant to be desper- ate, I kept her away from my house at Dover four months, place to place; and I did well. I heard on my return, th...

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...PANDULPH : the Pope’s legate. MELUN: a French Lord. CHATILLON: ambassador from France to King John. QUEEN ELINOR : mother to King John. CONSTANCE:... ...for controlment: so answer France. CHATILLON: Then take my king’s defiance from my mouth, The farthest limit of my embassy. KING JOHN : Bear mine t... ...[Enter a Sheriff .] ESSEX: My liege, here is the strangest controversy Come from country to be judged by you, That e’er I heard: shall I produce the... ... safety and untrue. This act so evilly born shall cool the hearts Of all his people and freeze up their zeal, That none so small advantage shall step ... ... not gone already, Even at that news he dies; and then the hearts Of all his people shall revolt from him And kiss the lips of unacquainted change And... ...lected shall express. But as I travell’d hither through the land, I find the people strangely fantasied; Possess’d with rumors, full of idle dreams, N... ..., Told of a many thousand warlike French That were embattailed and rank’d in Kent: Another lean unwash’d artificer Cuts off his tale and talks of Arth... ... heaven be thank’d, it is but voluntary. [Enter the BASTARD .] BASTARD: All Kent hath yielded; nothing there holds out But Dover castle: London hath... ... the BASTARD .] BASTARD: All Kent hath yielded; nothing there holds out But Dover castle: London hath received, Like a kind host, the Dauphin and hi...

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...of voyage and travel. Such books have had a strong fascination for my mind from my earliest childhood; and I wonder it should have come to pass that I... ... the twilight of New Year’s Eve, I find incidents of travel rise around me from all the latitudes and longitudes of the globe. They observe no order o... ...one upon the sea with his disaffected crew, looks over the waste of waters from his high station on the poop of his ship, and sees the first uncertain... ...into a little trouble by leaving parcels of mud done up in brown paper, at people’s houses, on pretence of being a Railway Porter, in which character ... ...ntil the day before, when his horse had dropped down dead near Chatham, in Kent. That this had reduced him to the unpleasant necessity of getting into... ...ging Letter Writer, for it is a part of his specula tion) in the aversion people feel to exhibit themselves as having been imposed upon, or as having... ...edings; it has been his busi ness to write to all sorts and conditions of people, in the names of persons of high reputation and unblemished honour, ... ... which I have only experienced in two other places—I allude to the Pier at Dover, and to the correspond ing portion of the town of Calais—and sat upo... ...y or night, or to disport yourself upon or in the sea, or to scamper about Kent, or to come out of town for the enjoyment of all or any of these pleas...

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...t whom little was known, except that he was a pol- ished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron—at least that his head was Byronic; but... ...act, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of 4 Around the World in 80 Days the Entomologis... ... with whom he had an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush. Was Phileas Fogg rich? Un... ...spirit. It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years. Those who were honoured by a better acquaintanc... ...her wife or chil- 5 Jules Verne dren, which may happen to the most honest people; either relatives or near friends, which is certainly more unusual. ... ...ND HIS IDEAL “Faith,” muttered Passepartout, somewhat flurried, “I’ve seen people at Madame T ussaud’s as lively as my new master!” Madame T ussaud’s ... ... after consulting each other. “Good,” said Mr. Fogg. “The train leaves for Dover at a quarter before nine. I will take it.” “This very evening?” asked... ... the other, showing his watch. “I know it; I don’t blame you. We start for Dover and Calais in ten minutes.” A puzzled grin overspread Passepartout’s ... ...days! Was his master a fool? No. Was this a joke, then? They were going to Dover; good! T o Calais; good again! After all, Passepartout, who had been ...

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...ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK THREE by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...now he cared for; and in this dismal frame of mind he determined to retire from the regiment, to the great delight of the captain next in rank to him,... ...er was a spy; that Atterbury was a spy; that letters were constantly going from that house to the Queen at St. Germains; on which Esmond, laughing, wo... ... the church of his country, and to that he chose to remain faithful: other people were welcome to worship and to subscribe any other set of articles, ... ... finding, on going to England, his country cold towards him- self, and the people in a ferment of High Church loyalty, the Duke comes back to his army... ... Break this news to ‘em gently: and tell Mr. Finch, my agent, to press the people for their rents, and send me the ryno anyhow. Clotilda sings, and pl... ...Two years since my uncle died, leaving me a pretty estate in the county of Kent; and being at Tunbridge Wells last sum- mer, after my mourning was ove... ... to her son. The Prince had told the poor lad all as they were riding from Dover: “I had as lief he had shot me, cousin,” Frank said: “I knew you were... ...hink he should have laughed as he told me the story. As we rode along from Dover, talking in French, he spoke about you, and your coming to him at Bar...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ... his conver- sation with Mr. Horrocks. “That there little black pig of the Kent sow’s breed must be uncommon fat now.” “It’s not quite busting, Sir Pi... ... reached that place in safety, it might have been supposed that he went to Dover; but instead he took the diligence to Dunkirk, and thence travelled t...

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...s gaunt black eyes and searching brow, intent on mine; or passing suddenly from mine to Steerforth s; or compre- hending both of us at once. In this l... ...pre- hending both of us at once. In this lynx-like scrutiny she was so far from faltering when she saw I observed it, that at such a time she only fix... ...ome of our old exercises on the lawn behind the house, I saw her face pass from window to window, like a wandering light, until it fixed itself in one... ...ied about? she replied, with provoking coldness. Oh! It was only whether people, who are like each other in their moral constitution is that the phr... ... It s as good a phrase as another, said Steerforth. Thank you: whether people, who are like each other in their moral constitution, are in greater... ...re like each other in their moral constitution, are in greater danger than people not so circum- stanced, supposing any serious cause of vari- ance to... ...She had stated therein that she had fallen into adversity, and was leaving Dover for good, but had quite made up her mind to it, and was so well that ... ... prolonged dejection, made a pretence of being anxious that I should go to Dover, to see that all was working well at the cottage, which was let; and ... ...and lifting me into a proctor s. From this di- gression, let me proceed to Dover. I found everything in a satisfactory state at the cottage; and was e...

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...es, gallantly escorted by Messrs. Snodgrass, Winkle, and T upman, returned from an early walk. ‘Why, Ben!’ said Arabella, in a tone which expressed mo... ...jamin Allen fell fast asleep; while Mr. Bob Sawyer abstracted his thoughts from worldly matters, by the ingenious process of carving his name on the s... ...ingular and un swan like manner, when Mr. Pickwick most innocently shouted from the opposite bank— ‘Sam!’ ‘Sir?’ ‘Here. I want you.’ ‘Let go, Sir,’ sa... ...a grinder.’ ‘No, no, Mr. Pickwick,’ said Jackson, in conclusion; ‘Perker’s people must guess what we’ve served these subpoenas for. If they can’t, the... ... thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people. ‘You haven’t made me out that little list of the fees that I’m in y... ...ad that dull looking, boiled eye which is often to be seen in the heads of people who have applied themselves during many years to a weary and labori ... ... but at length mustered up resolution to inquire whether Miss Allen was in Kent. ‘No, no,’ said Mr. Ben Allen, laying aside the poker, and looking ver... ...n unaffected and devoted attachment existed. They passed each other on the Dover road, every day, for twenty four years, never exchanging any other gr...

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...nce; for we are all of us distinctly marked to get back what we give, even from the thing named inanimate nature. The ‘Leaves from the Diary of Henry ... ...arm- ers—returning to their beds over ferny commons under bright moonlight from a neighbour’s harvest-home, eased their bub- bling breasts with a read... ... laugh is an excellent progenitorial founda- tion for the wit to come in a people; and undoubtedly the diarial record of an imputed piece of wit is wi... ...te of the selecter missionary lieutenants of Satan. We pray to be defended from her cleverness: she flashes bits of speech that catch men in their ung... ...lows there.’ But she would have us away with sentimentalism. Senti- mental people, in her phrase, ‘fiddle harmonics on the strings of sensualism,’ to ... ...enants! They can’t have my feeling for the place where I was born. They’re people of tolerably good connections, middling wealthy, I suppose, of the n... ...othing the man for Diana. Letters came from the house of the Pettigrews in Kent; from London; from Halford Manor in Hertfordshire; from Lockton Grange... ...n. I was asked about your boxes, ma’am, and the moment I said they were at Dover, that instant all three peeped. They let out a mouse to me. They do l...

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...s, of your great goodness, for ye have rescued me of my life, and saved me from my death. What is your name? said Sir Tristram. He said: My name is Si... ...is tower, there came out Sir Breuse Saunce Pité, and suddenly he struck me from my horse. And then or I might recover my horse this Sir Breuse slew th... ...nd without any more words he hurled unto Sir Tristram, and smote him clean from his saddle to the earth, and hurt him on the left side, that Sir Trist... ...oath, they withdrew them to the Castle of Tintagil with great slaughter of people; and the Sessoins followed on fast, that ten of them were put within... ...hus they fought till it was night, and for great slaughter and for wounded people everych party drew to their rest. And when King Mark was come within... ...ark and his brother, that was called the good Prince Boudwin, that all the people of the country loved passing well. So it befell on a time that the m... ...him for better and for worse. And so Sir Mordred drew with a great host to Dover, for there he heard say that Sir Arthur would arrive, and so he thoug... ...CHAPTER II How after that King Arthur had tidings, he returned and came to Dover, where Sir Mordred met him to let his landing; and of the death of Si... ...his landing; and of the death of Sir Gawaine A nd so as Sir Mordred was at Dover with his host, there came King Arthur with a great navy of ships, and...

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...e originated. In such mouths I might have coupled it with an apt quotation from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets: “My nature is subdued To what it works i... ...true, and within the truth. The case of Gridley is in no essential altered from one of actual occurrence, made public by a dis interested person who ... ...on who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong from beginning to end. At the present moment (August, 1853) there is a suit... ... lutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier brigs; fog lying... ...the toes and fingers of his shivering little ‘prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peep ing over the parapets into a nether sky of fog,... ...ses. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Sc... ...pleasantry that particularly tickled the maces, bags, and purses. How many people out of the suit Jarndyce and Jarndyce has stretched forth its unwhol... ...to a street of little shops lying somewhere in that ganglion of roads from Kent and Surrey, and of streets from the bridges of London, centring in the... ...d, untying the strings of her bonnet for more air, “you could as soon move Dover Castle as move George on this point unless you had got a new power to...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and thro...

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.............................................................. 175 IS THERE A PEOPLE? ...................................................................... ...L rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gym- nastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. ... ...ere is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and thro... ...out what it means.” I make a hasty promise and go out and tell my friends. From my garden I look straight upon the Channel, and there are white caps u... ... an astonishing effect of ease, that was incredible not simply to ignorant people but to men well informed in these mat- ters. It cannot be fifteen ye... ...go since Sir Hiram Maxim made the first machine that could lift its weight from the ground, and I well remember how the clumsy quality of that success... ...ve some regard for education and some freedom of imagi- native play, where people discuss all sorts of things fearlessly, and have a respect for scien... ...move- ment of the fruit and hop pickers from the east end of Lon- don into Kent, but that is a mere hint of the extended picnic which a broadly planne... ...ned ancestors—every family man in Britain was my ancestor in those days—at Dover, they would have had entirely similar emotions. And at present I am n...

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...a bet for her brother Lord Levellier, the colonel of cavalry, who left an arm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighborhood supposed, because he foretold the weather and had cures for aches and pains without a doctor?s diploma. But we know now that he was only a mathematician and astronomer, all for inventing military...

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...rm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighbourhood supposed, be- cause he foretold the weather ... ...whole town was very soon agog about the couple, until at the end of a year people began to talk of them separately, she going her way, and he his. She... ...rince Chancellor and a pair of Field Marshals, and some ladies of the day, from the metropolis to Richmond Hill in fifty or sixty odd minutes, having ... ...ervice of the first insurgent State of Span- ish America, to save his ship from being taken over to the enemy,—he blew her up, fifteen miles from land... ...l under Buccaneer Kirby. He fought on shore as well; and once he came down from the tops of the Andes with a black beard turned white, and went into a... ...ughed at in the songs for going twice upon his mission. None of the mighty people repented of having the Old Buccaneer—for that night, at all events. ... ...a reckon- ing as he could make of the value of Lord Fleetwood’s estates in Kent and in Staffordshire and South Wales, and his house property in London... ...hear any mention of Lord Fleetwood from her brother on the landingplace at Dover. She was taken to Admiral Baldwin Fakenham’s house in Hampshire; and ... ... 146 The Amazing Marriage homeward course, after a walk of two days out of Dover. He descended London’s borough, having exactly twopence halfpenny for...

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...erly minds. This, to be frank about it, is a process of tidying up, which, from the nature of things, cannot be regarded as premature. The fact is tha... ...d, which was but a de- cent thing to do, but in no way polished, extending from the year ’98 to the year ’20, a thin array (for such a stretch of time... ...yes! Bribery? What can you expect? I never pretended to be better than the people in the next street, or even in the same street. This volume (includi... ...ttle dusty (after the process of tidying up), a little bowed, and receding from the world not because of weariness or misanthropy but for other reason... ... of the language. But I need not labour the point. There will be plenty of people sagacious enough to perceive the absence of all wisdom from these pa... ...was practical and I had to consider warily the preconceived notions of the people to whom it was implicitly addressed, and also their unjustifi- able ... ... London. I saw him for the last time on his last day in England. It was in Dover, in a big hotel, in a bed- room with a large window looking on to the... ...ed from Harwich to Hamburg. Besides being thirty-six times longer than the Dover-Calais passage this rather unusual route had an air of ad- venture in... ... of Germany, pitching heavily into a head sea and bound for the gateway of Dover Straits. Singly, and in small companies of two and three, they emerge...

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...nd ditch and wall? O that was a Legion’s camping-place, When Caesar sailed from Gaul! 5 Rudyard Kipling And see you marks that show and fade, Like sh... ...nging his broken June tune, ‘cuckoo-cuck’, while a busy kingfisher crossed from the mill-stream, to the brook which ran on the other side of the meado... ...nd in ‘ies’. They were both so pleased that they acted it three times over from be- ginning to end before they sat down in the unthistly centre of the... ...hing. ‘If this had happened a few hundred years ago you’d have had all the People of the Hills out like bees in June!’ ‘We didn’t know it was wrong,’ ... ...at’s just why you did it. Unluck- ily the Hills are empty now, and all the People of the Hills are gone. I’m the only one left. I’m Puck, the oldest O... ...eard that sung, but there’s no good beating about the bush: it’s true. The People of the Hills have all left. I saw them come into Old England and I s... ...or till thou art slain. Now, mount, men, and ride. We follow our Duke into Kent to make him King of England.” ‘He drew me with him to the door while t... ...hat should fall. We heard De Aquila’s trumpets blow thin through the woods Kentward. “‘Shall we hang these?” said my men. “‘Then my churls will fight,... ...s your news since all these years?’ ‘Oh, I’ve bin to Plymouth, I’ve bin to Dover— I’ve bin ramblin’, boys, the wide world over,’ 133 Rudyard Kipling ...

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...esar. The sol diers he led to battle were very strong, and con- quered the people wherever they went. They had no gun or gunpowder then; but they had ... ...gunpowder then; but they had swords and spears, and, to prevent themselves from being hurt, they had helmets or brazen caps on their heads, with long ... ...le way off there was a country nobody knew anything about, except that the people were very fierce and savage, and that a sort of pearl was found in t... ... the rivers. He could not bear that there should be any place that his own people, the Romans, did not know and subdue. So he commanded the ships to b... ...strong places in the woods, with trunks of trees, cut down to shut them in from the enemy, with all their flocks and cattle; but Caesar did not get in... ...ss, and read and write like themselves, so that they could hardly be known from the Romans. Only the wild ones beyond the wall, and in the mountains, ... ...rmans together, fitted out ships, and sailed across the English Channel to Dover. The figure-head of his own ship was a likeness of his second little ... ...ogether and sunk many vessels, and drove the others back in the Straits of Dover; so that Louis was forced to go home and leave England in peace. Henr... ...le Philip had fled away, Edward besieged Calais, the town just opposite to Dover. The inhabitants were very brave, and held out for a long time; and w...

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...ted, together with Sir Robert Naunton’s “Fragmenta Regalia,” in the volume from which they are here reprinted, with notes by the translator and the ed... ...beth sent thither as Ambassa- dor, and was despatched to Elizabeth’s court from Scotland as a trusty messenger. In 1596-7 he was in France, and cor- r... ... wholesomest soil in England. It is built on the river Thames, sixty miles from the sea, and was originally founded, as all historians agree, by Brutu... ...its antiquity; though others think it to have been named Elbegate. Several people believe that there were formerly two gates (besides that to the brid... ... thy kingdom shall be translated to another, whose manner and language the people under thee knoweth not. Nor shall thy sin be done away till after lo... ...seventh, not without suspicion of poison. Mary was proclaimed queen by the people on the 19th of July, and died in November, 1558, and is buried in so... ...nes and dignities for rebellion. Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury. Grey, Earl of Kent, has but a small estate. Stanley, Earl of Derby, and King of Man. Mann... ...nted post-horses, and arrived about two or three o’clock in the morning at Dover. In our way to it, which was rough and dan- gerous enough, the follow... ...ger, from which that we escaped, the glory is to be ascribed to God alone. Dover, situated among cliffs (standing where the port itself was originally...

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...hope you will find your house at Mentone nice. I have been obliged to stop from writing by the want of a pen, but now I have one, so I will con- tinue... ...se of justice forbids the receipt of less – than half-a- crown. – Greeting from, Sir, your most affectionate and needy son, R. STEVENSON. Letter: TO M... ...enness of a tree. The southerly heights, when I came here, were black with people, fishers waiting on wind and night. Now all the S.Y .S. (Stornoway b... ... tribe of gipsies. The men are always drunk, simply and truthfully always. From morning to evening the great villainous-looking fellows are either sle... ...ny drunk men, and a double supply of po- lice. I saw them sent for by some people and enter an inn, in a pretty good hurry: what it was for I do not k... ...s a word could I understand of his answer. What is still worse, I find the people here-about – that is to say, 6 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol... ...ours, which would have been welcome at any time, was thus doubly precious. Dover sounds somewhat shiveringly in my ears. You should see the weather I ... ... of the most aromatic air, all pine and gum tree. Y ou would be ashamed of Dover; you would scruple to refer, sir, to a spot so paltry. To be idle at ... ...l! As for you (who probably had some ambi- tions), I hear of you living at Dover, in lodgings, like the beasts of the field. But in heaven, when we ge...

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...of growing enlightenment and happy compan- ionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917. INTRODU... ...ect and setting are so closely allied that each borrows charm and emphasis from the other. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor w... ...ther. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor would fade from the church of St. Clement Danes, from the Mitre, from Fleet Street, th... ..., such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the number, range, and variety of people who at one time or another had been in some degree personally relate... ...godchild Jane Langton. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I love the acquain- tance of young people, . . . young men have more virtue than old men; they have more gen- ... ... into a spacious and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third dow... ...nson He deposited the remains of Mrs. Johnson in the church of Bromley, in Kent, to which he was probably led by the residence of his friend Hawkeswor... ..., they moved first to Prince’s in Sackville-street, then to Le Telier’s in Dover-street, and now meet at Parsloe’s, St. James’s-street. Between the ti... ...king in the tomb of her ancestors. Some one mentioned the de- scription of Dover Cliff. Johnson. ‘No, Sir; it should be all precipice,—all vacuum. The...

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...ESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...ll the produce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esm... ...d here in our Republic, or at home in the always beloved mother coun- try, from which our late quarrel hath separated us, may surely be proud to be de... ... last an extraordi- nary brightness and freshness of complexion; nor would people believe that she did not wear rouge. At sixty years of age she still... ...eard my father use a rough word, ’twas extraordinary with how much awe his people regarded him; and the servants on our plantation, both those assigne... ...h as the most severe taskmasters round about us could never get from their people. He was never familiar, though perfectly simple and natural; he was ... ...Two years since my uncle died, leaving me a pretty estate in the county of Kent; and being at Tunbridge Wells last sum- mer, after my mourning was ove... ... to her son. The Prince had told the poor lad all as they were riding from Dover: “I had as lief he had shot me, cousin,” Frank said: “I knew you were... ...hink he should have laughed as he told me the story. As we rode along from Dover, talking in French, he spoke about you, and your coming to him at Bar...

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... my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father’s, gave me an ... ... an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the in- scription, “ Also Georgiana Wife of ... ...he low leaden line beyond, was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing, was the sea; and that the small bundle of ... ...ds, he looked in my young eyes as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon h... ... said she, “I didn’t bring you up 14 Great Expectations by hand to badger people’s lives out. It would be blame to me, and not praise, if I had. Peop... ...nce that time, which is far enough away now, I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young, under terror. No matter how... ...uccessfully. At the old lodgings it was understood that he was summoned to Dover, and in fact he was taken down the Dover road and cornered out of it.... ...ark. We should then be well in those long reaches below Gravesend, between Kent and Essex, where the river is broad and solitary, where the waterside ...