Full Text Search Details
...England and France give license to prey on Spanish commerce -- A defeat of the English -- Capture of colonists -- They are freed and re-establish them... ...blish themselves -- Formation of a communistic settlement -- Occupation by the English and French of many islands -- A fort built at Tortuga -- Captur... ...by Spaniards and massacre of the people -- A few survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish... ...-- Cromwell's defeat of Charles I -- The effect on the naval war with Spain -- English are driven from their designs on Hayti -- Poisoned thorns in th... ...o official rogues -- The citizens hire filibusters to guard their homes -- The English outwitted by the French -- The French return and plunder the ci... ...h this royal personage indulged two or three times each year. But unlike royal sportsmen of to-day, the Grand Khan made his entrance upon the field in...

Full Text Search Details
...h his magazine, "Revealing Babes," which lay at his side. The title was in English but the nude women and what little writing there was within it were... ...mulous cloud. Only the storms, the headlines of the masses that he read in English from the Bangkok Post, would get his attention. A female beggar on ... ...yboy, was appealing enough to be referred to as "Naughty Nawin" with those English words in their headings proving that he had not turned into mushy a... ... reel seen in various colored filters and in reverse of a young French and English teacher jumping from her balcony. It was a means by which, if not t... ... solutions, followed by a second in which he very well might have used the English word "gay" to describe his image had that abhorrent word of myriad ... ...bouncing on bedroom mattresses, was vastly less credible than one of naked sportsmen at a bit of wrestling. For in this plain of existence where all w...

Full Text Search Details
...eeded players; but marriage was more than play--it could not be had with sportsmen, but required true and deep intellectual and spiritual bonds, an... ...." "You are an Indian?" "Yes." "Are you on the side of the English or the French settlers?" "Neither." "Chuckles has issued a...

Full Text Search Details
.... For this volume, has in turn translated the interviews from Finnish into English. In selecting villagers' accounts, I have attempted to include diff... ...sk and purposeful way has dealt with the task of translating the book into English. This book is dedicated to my wife, Leena. Helsinki, 15 December 20... ...one voice, the children learn the alphabet, the multiplication tables, the English language; children's happy choral singing and speech echoes from sc... ...rive for careers as sporting professionals, and internationally successful sportsmen become national heroes. Table 10 Perspectives of village communit... ...plain that young people can no longer speak their mother tongue without an English accent. Ever fewer consumers in Western countries as well as Thaila... ...x Matti Sarmela STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN LOCAL CULTURE Shortened English summary of Paikalliskulttuurin rakennemuutos. Raportti Pohjois-Thai...

Table of Contents Details
...BLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE............................................................................................................................ 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH VICT...

Full Text Search Details
...aight Turk, Ph.D. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania S... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...................................................................... 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH ........................................................... ...................................................................... 94 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH ........................................................... ...t becomes equal to anything that could be desired. And I have heard candid sportsmen declare that, outside of these very forests, they laughed loudly ...

Table of Contents Details
.......................................................51 In Reference to M. Michelet?s History of France.........................................51 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH; ...............................................................85 GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY...........................................................104 THE VISION OF SUDDEN DEATH..............................

Full Text Search Details
...ichelet’s History of France.........................................51 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH; .......................................................... ...e last sentence, which is so weighty, that I shall attempt to convey it in English: “Now, if merely to be present at a murder fastens on a man the cha... ... 24 ing of murder? Here was Leviathan, no longer afraid of the daggers of English cavaliers or French clergy, but “frightened from his propriety” by ... ...empted at least, was so great, that he would not forego the danger. A late English pedagogue, of Birming- ham manufacture, viz., Dr. Parr, took a more... ... Mannheim had absolutely fought six-and-twenty rounds with an accomplished English boxer merely upon this inspiration; so greatly was natural genius e... ...y becomes equal to anything that could be desired. And I have heard candid sportsmen de- clare that, outside of these very forests near the Vosges, th... ...e eagle’s prodigious advantages, in sight also of all the astonished field sportsmen, spectators, and followers, killed him on the spot. The prince wa...

Full Text Search Details
...railways and the existing plethora of money has so increased the number of sportsmen, that to keep a nag or two near some well-known station, is nearl... ...ops, buff-tinted breeches, and a pink coat. The ordinary habiliments of an English gentleman are so sombre that his own eye is grati- fied, and he fee... ...ze the fact that hunt- ing farmers contribute more than any other class of sportsmen towards the maintenance of the sport. It is hardly too much to sa... ...nd made safe from all intru- sions. Let him talk to the American farmer of English hunting, and explain to that independent, but somewhat prosaic husb... ...en, when he thinks of this, will he realize to himself what it is that the English farmer contributes to hunting in En- gland? The French countryman c... ...him relief after his first experi- ence of such an invasion. Nor would the English farmer put up with the invasion, if the English farmer were not him... ...ho desires to get more out of his land than Provi- dence, that is, than an English Providence, has intended. Their own wheat is exposed, and it is abo... ...hen that wild excitement of a fox just away is at its height, and ordinary sportsmen are rushing for places, though at these moments the hunting parso... ...r, or the barrister un- mixed. Let me pause for a moment here to beg young sportsmen not to fall into this terrible mistake. Such bores 36 Hunting Sk...

Full Text Search Details
...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...e first intrudes himself, unknown by any one, among an entirely new set of sportsmen. When a stranger falls thus as it were out of the moon into a hun... ...th the great- est diligence. I was never a good shot; and, like some other sportsmen, intended to make up for my deficiency in performance by the exce... ...hem, and therefore he can tell you.” “Oh, he wasn’t before you, I know. No Englishman could get before you;—I am quite sure of that.” “Don’t you be im... ...ish. “And why wouldn’t he, and he able to folly the hounds betther nor any Englishman that iver war in these parts before,— anyways so Mick says!” Now...

Full Text Search Details
...aculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical wor... ...tral quarters of the town. Boom is not a nice place, and is only remarkable for one thing: that the majority of the inhabitants have a private opinion... ...nd sparingly to one another, or raked us in the gaslight with a gleam of spectacles. For though handsome lads, they were all (in the Scots phrase) bar... ...se bearing the superscription Royal Sport Nautique, and joined in the talk. They were all very polite, voluble, and enthusiastic; and their discourse ... ... boat-builders and English clubs. I do not know, to my shame, any spot in my native land where I should have been so warmly received by the same numbe... ...over their old fresh view of life, and distinguish what they really and originally like, from what they have only learned to tolerate perforce. And th... ... words, however big; and when once that is done, they will per- haps find logic less diverting. The conversation opened with details of the day’s shoo...

Full Text Search Details
...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ... it a foreign grace and interest; but the contours of the land were soft and English. It was not quite England, neither was it quite France; yet like ... ...a gentleman, certainly some- what dark, but of a pleasant warm hue, speaking English with a slight and rather odd foreign accent, every inch a man of ... ...t, he tried me in German, supposing perhaps that I was unfa- miliar with the English tongue; and finally, in despair, he rose and left me. I felt chag... ...eston, a drunken man got in. He was aggressively friendly, but, according to English notions, not at all unpresentable upon a train. For one stage he ... ... ing; and the air rang with the report of firearms and the admiring cries of sportsmen. Overhead the birds were in 71 Robert Louis Stevenson constern... ...to look at the upper surface where the sun was still shining and the guns of sportsmen were still noisy through the tufted plain) the Cigarette was dr... ...ed the acquaintance should be ripened in the cafe. The cafe was crowded with sportsmen conclamantly ex- plaining to each other and the world the small...

Full Text Search Details
...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... Lockhart’s first edition, the “ Globe “ edition, and about a dozen others English and American. I found many misprints and corrup- tions in all excep... ... with silver spread, And winked aside, and told each son Of feats upon the English done, Ere Douglas of the stalwart hand Was exiled from his native l... ... maiden’s hold Forced bluntly back the proffered gold:— ‘Forgive a haughty English heart, And O, forget its ruder part! The vacant purse shall be my s... ... laid in the Highlands, were now sunk in the generous compassion which the English, more than any other nation, feel for the misfortunes of an honoura... ...but would find it difficult to return. This opinion prevails among the old sportsmen and deer-stalkers in the neighborhood” (Scott). 54. Y elled. Note... ...oduced, in room of the tough old heather plants. This custom (execrated by sportsmen) produces occasionally the most beautiful nocturnal appearances, ... ...houldering, etc. This couplet is not in the MS. 452. Tinchel. “A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding a great space, and gradually narrowing, brou...

Full Text Search Details
...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...y is very largely made up for by the good will and generous efforts of the English and American press. An interesting monograph might be written upon ... ...ur, the Kaiser, and Crown Prince, and so forth; abuse of the “treacherous” English who allied themselves with the “degenerate” French and the “barbari... ...uitful and permanent understanding between the allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, to name only the bigge... ...smart dinner chatter of England. One knows so well that detestable type of English folly, and its voice of despair: “They plan everything. They forese... ...g been laughed to scorn by the ordinary recruiting people, enlisted in the sportsmen’s battalion. He was wounded, and then the authorities discovered ...

Full Text Search Details
...ity’s Electronic Classics Series, to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ... around them. There was the honest cockrobin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the twittering blackbirds fl... ... http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/ jmanis/irving.htm. To read more classics in English, re turn to PSU’s Electronic Classics Series site: http://www2....

Full Text Search Details
...ut, think of us! He sat down to write them a challenge. He is not the only Englishman who has been impelled by a youthful chivalry to do that. He is p... ...supposing he addressed a body of midshipmen just a little loftily. But the English, when translated, was bald and blunt to the verge of offensiveness.... ...emen of the French Guard, ‘I take up the glove you have tossed us. I am an English- man. That will do for a reason.’ This might possibly pass with th... ... will do for a reason.’ This might possibly pass with the gentlemen of the English Guard. But read: Messieurs de la Garde Francaise, ‘J’accepte votre ... ...on to whom he confided the secret. She had humour, and was ravished by his English boyishness, with the novel blush of the heroical-nonsensical in it.... ...ourt and political honours. They were renowned shots, long-limbed stalking sportsmen in field and bower, fast friends, intemperate enemies, handsome t... ...lady regarded politics as a business that helped hunting-men a stage above sportsmen, for numbers of the politicians she was acquainted with were hunt... ...ION OF A PILGRIMAGE AND AN ACT OF PENANCE THEN CAME a glorious morning for sportsmen. One sniffed the dews, and could fancy fresh smells of stubble ea... ...s to the hopes of any soul bent on dispersing the shadows of death, and to sportsmen. From the windows of his railway carriage he beheld the happy spo...

Full Text Search Details
...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...n a cave (like the Baron of Bradwardine), he lay for many days so near the English sentinels, that he could hear their muster-roll called, His food wa... ...sors, I had only to seize upon the most sounding and euphonic surname that English history or topography affords, and elect it at once as the title of... ...me to come. He continued to live at Waverley-Honour in the style of an old English gentleman, of an ancient descent and opulent fortune. His sister, M... ... chariot drawn by hippogriffs, or moved by enchant- ment. Mine is a humble English post-chaise, drawn upon four wheels, and keeping his Majesty’s high... ...e deer in herds together to- wards the glen where the Chiefs and principal sportsmen lay 152 Waverley in wait for them. In the meanwhile, these disti... ... Edward was also so fortunate as to attract the notice and applause of the sportsmen. But now the main body of the deer appeared at the head of the gl... ...n the group which barred their passage down the glen, the more experienced sportsmen began to augur danger. The work of destruction, however, now comm... ...t length a fearful charge right upon the spot where the more distinguished sportsmen had taken their stand. The word was given in Gaelic to fling them...

Full Text Search Details
...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ture after the fa- tigues of my school. It is true, I taught his five sons English and Latin, writing, book-keeping, with a tincture of math- ematics,... ...f Queen Anne, the reign- ing sovereign. Godolphin, then at the head of the English administration, foresaw that there was no other mode of avoiding th... ...sts, prelatists, and presbyterians, caballing among themselves against the English government, out of a common feeling that their country had been tre... ...ieks and imprecations, that thrilled wildly along the waste heath. The two sportsmen moved on some time in silence, until they were out of hearing of ... ...guess? Something about an eagle and a rock—it does not begin with eagle in English, but something very like it in Scotch.” “Y ou cannot mean young Ear... ...rge deer greyhound sprung over the hermit’s fence. It is well known to the sportsmen in these wilds, that the appearance and scent of the goat so much...

Full Text Search Details
...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... of the particulars, consisted of a sufficient quantity of linen, and some English thin stuffs, for clothing the Span- iards that I expected to find t... ...his being written down, they gave to the Spaniards (two of them understood English well enough): nor did they refuse to ac- commodate the Spaniards wi... ..., together with Friday’s father, managed all their affairs; but as for the Englishmen, they did nothing but ramble about the island, shoot parrots, an... ...n only gave them good words for the present, till they should come to same English port, and that then they should be all put into gaol, and tried for... ...t a distance, running another way; for in a word, they ran every way, like sportsmen beating for their game. The poor men were now in great perplexity...

Full Text Search Details
...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... years old, Lispeth went out for a walk. She did not walk in the manner of English ladies—a mile and a half out, and a ride back again. She covered be... ...orror. However, the man on the sofa needed attention first. He was a young Englishman, and his head had been cut to the bone by something jagged. Lisp... ...had no inten- tion of being sent away, either. She was going to nurse that Englishman until he was well enough to marry her. This was her little progr... ...g advised either by the Chap- lain or his wife; so the latter spoke to the Englishman, and told him how matters stood in Lispeth’s heart. He laughed a... ...Chedputter Autumn races one year, and his owner walked about insulting the sportsmen of Chedputter generally, till they went to the Honorary Secre- ta...

Full Text Search Details
...g stu- dent publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...tain wandering eastern mechanic, who, by exhibiting a few soiled plates of English architecture, and talking learnedly of friezes, entablatures, and p... ...from the manner in which the Indians of New En- gland pronounced the word “English,” or “Yengeese.” New York being originally a Dutch province, the te... ...easons for believing either,” The walls were hung with a dark lead-colored English pa- per that represented Britannia weeping over the tomb of W olfe,... ... wound even to our good friend, Dr. T odd.” Mohegan now spoke in tolerable English, but in a low, mo- notonous, guttural tone; “The children of Miquon... ...portunity to Mr. Grant, whose exhibition was not less a treat to the young sportsmen than the one which engaged their present attention. The owner of ... ...n Billy Kirby and its owner before Natty and his com- panions rejoined the sportsmen It had, however, been settled at one shilling * a shot, which was... ...y to his favorite bird, when Elizabeth and her cousin approached the noisy sportsmen. The sounds of mirth and contention sensi- bly lowered at this un... ...petite by indulgence. It is with him that I would speak. Let us rejoin the sportsmen.” CHAPTER XVIII “Poor wretch! the mother that him bare, If she ha...

Full Text Search Details
...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...e which was my destination. “Dear boy” (these words were always written in English), so ran the last letter from that house re- ceived in London,—”Get... ... that village lost in the depths of the great Lithuanian forest. The three sportsmen had observed them from a hiding-place making themselves very much... ...of the St. Gothard Tunnel; and I could listen my fill to the sounds of the English language, as far as it is used at a breakfast-table by men who do n... ...ground. A stir on the road made me look up—and then I saw my unforgettable English- man. There are acquaintances of later years, famil- iars, shipmate... ...st argument. I tell you it was a memorable year! One does not meet such an Englishman twice in a lifetime. Was he in the mystic ordering of common eve...