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... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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............................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HA...

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...my depart for France, As procurator to your excellence, To marry Princess Margaret for your grace, So, in the famous ancient city, Tours, In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil, The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne and Alencon, Seven earls, twelve barons and twenty reverend bishops, I have perform?d my task and was espoused: And humbly now upon my bended knee, In ...

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...Excerpt: The Second Part of Henry the Sixth with the Death of the Good Duke Humfrey; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- Flourish of Trumpets: Then Hoboyes. Enter King, Duke Humfrey, Salisbury, Warwicke, and Beau-ford on the one side. The Queene, Suffolk...

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...The second Part of Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Good Duke HVMFREY. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Tex... ... the Good Duke HVMFREY. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc.... ... Salisbury, Warwicke, and Beau-ford 4 on the one side. 5 The Queene, Suffolke, Yorke, Somerset, and Buckingham, 6 on the other. ... ...ght of England, and her Lordly Peeres, 19 Deliuer vp my Title in the Queene 20 To your most gracious hands, that are the Substance 21 ... ... To your most gracious hands, that are the Substance 21 Of that great Shadow I did represent: 22 The happiest Gift, that euer Marques... ...oule, 30 If Simpathy of Loue vnite our thoughts. 31 Queen. Great King of England, & my gracious Lord, 32 The mutuall conference ... ...s the Fashions in the Court of England? 430 Is this the Gouernment of Britaines Ile? 431 And this the Royaltie of Albions King? 432 Wh... ...ond had Issue, Roger, Earle of March; 999 Roger had Issue, Edmond, Anne, and Elianor. 1000 Salisb. This Edmond, in the Reigne of Bu... ...e dyed. 1004 But, to the rest. 1005 Yorke. His eldest Sister, Anne, 1006 My Mother, being Heire vnto the Crowne, 1007 Marryed Ri...

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...Excerpt: Predictions for the year 1708. Wherein the month, and day of the month are set down, the persons named, and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from being farther imposed on by vulgar almanack...

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...Excerpt: Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody?s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But, if it should happe...

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...Excerpt: The Tragedie of Richard the Third with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- Enter Richard Duke of Gloster, solus. Now is the Winter of our Discontent, Made glorious Summer by th...

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...Excerpt: I come no more to make you laugh: things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow, Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Those that can pity, here May, if they think it well, let fall a tear; The subject will deserve it. Such as give Their money out of hope they may be...

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...Preface: In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names? ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them....

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...ries Publication The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 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... ... the walls of caba- rets, they will not find the likenesses of Louis XIII, Anne of Austria, Richelieu, Mazarin, and the courtiers of the period, less ... ...ommencement of the Reign of King Louis XIV.” It may be easily imagined how great was our joy when, in turning over this manuscript, our last hope, we ... ...he king was not always the stronger. The blows which he received increased greatly his esteem and friendship for Monsieur de Treville. Afterward, Mons... ...e stupid pretext that he wanted to kill the king and marry Monsieur to the queen! Nobody knew a word of this enigma. You un- raveled it yesterday to t... ...another Musketeer. “What is he waiting for?” asked another. “Only till the queen has given an heir to the crown of France.” “No jesting upon that subj... ...inet of M. de Treville, generally held so sacred, became in an instant the annex of the antechamber. Every- one spoke, harangued, and vociferated, swe... ... the curiosity to know why no vessel is to leave any of the ports of Great Britain?” “You are right, Mr. Jackson,” replied Buckingham. “He will say, i...