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...ions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate....

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...ions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate. There had been, he admitted, a trivial blemish or so in its rate of progress, but this was exaggerated and had been entirely owing to the ?parsimony of the public,? which guilty public...

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...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bleak House by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...f distinguished medical profes sors, French, English, and Scotch, in more modern days, contenting myself with observing that I shall not abandon the ... ...ks in their graves. My Lady Dedlock (who is childless), looking out in the early twilight from her boudoir at a keeper’s lodge and seeing the light of... ...angement. A car riage would be at Mrs. Jellyby’s to convey us out of town early in the forenoon of to morrow. He then rang a little bell, and the you... ...ry often now, and there was some talk of gratifying the inclination of his childhood for the sea. Mr. Jarndyce had written to a relation of the family... ...our flying among them that the mother of this niece did, in her daughter’s childhood, moved by too jealous a solicitude that her figure should approac... ...ulsion, I am not a man of business. Among civilians I am what they call in Scotland a ne’er do weel. I have no head for papers, sir. I can stand any f... ...ne arts with a glance of approbation. For he has his pictures, ancient and modern. Some of the Fancy Ball School in which art occa sionally condescen...

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is a...

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...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The ...

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...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED...................................... 24 CHAPTER IV ENGLAND UNDER ATHELSTAN AND THE SIX BOY-KINGS .................. 31 CHAPT...

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...?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing wi...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an i... ...ngly satis- fied my inquiries, by communicating to me the incidents of his early years; as I acquired a fa- cility in recollecting, and was very assid... ... was not inferiour to her understanding; and to her must be ascribed those early impressions of religion upon the mind of her son, from which the worl... ...t is rarely to be found. When he and I were travelling in the Highlands of Scotland, and I pointed out to him a mountain which I observed resembled a ... ...y Johnson as a worthy man, happened 73 Boswell’s Life of Johnson to be in Scotland while The Rambler was com- ing out in single papers at London. Wit... ...ence of their antiquity, asked Dr. Johnson whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems? Johnson re- plied, ‘Yes, Sir, man... ...xford, I shall throw them together in continuation. Talking of some of the modern plays, he said False Delicacy was totally void of character. He prai... ...at Birmingham: ‘Hector is likewise an old friend, the only companion of my childhood that passed through the school with me. We have always loved one ...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, th... ... Knox and Burns implies a grasp upon the very deepest strain of thought in Scotland, – a country far more essentially different from England than many... ...at brought them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibilit... ...arlier romances of Victor Hugo, and, through them, for a whole division of modern literature. We have here the legitimate continuation of a long and l... ...eral attention and remark. His father wrote the family name Burnes; Robert early adopted the orthography Burness from his cousin in the Mearns; and in... ... an inn, the servants would get out of bed to hear him talk. But, in these early days at least, he was determined to shine by any means. He made himse... ...1403, the description of tapestried rooms where Charles may have played in childhood.* “A green room, with the ceiling full of *Champollion-Figeac’s L... ...l exercise of verse. Such intricate forms as Charles had been used to from childhood, the ballade with its scanty rhymes; the rondel, with the recurre...