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...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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...es Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...is suddenly revealed. But how shall this be conveyed and made palpable? In order that a new world may step in, this world must for a time disappear. T... ...off, and he became very sociable and funny, and they agreed to go into the bath to- gether. How T ennison could venture to gambol in the same water wi... ...al detection of the Dauphin (Charles VII.) amongst three hundred lords and knights. I am surprised at the credulity which could ever lend itself to th... ... London and the General Post- Office, obtained the scarlet coat only as an honorary distinc- tion after long or special service. 99 would he have wat... ...and Cæsar was no longer a civil emperor and princeps senatûs, but became a commander-in- chief amongst a council of his staff, all belted and plumed, ...

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...n Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... propinquity between the house of W averley-Honour and the doughty barons, knights, and squires, to whom they stood allied; if (notwithstanding his ob... ... the Bucephalus which he bestrode concealed by the voluminous robes of the Bath with which he was decorated. Sir Everard entered, and after a glance a... ..., commanded by so respectable a person, composed a society more sedate and orderly than a military mess always exhibits; and that W averley escaped so... ...arrel in which he is said to have been involved; he neither replies to his commander nor his comrades. In the meanwhile, his soldiers become mutinous ... ...ry serious business. ‘Bailie Macwheeble indeed holds an opinion, that this honorary service is due, from its very nature, si petatur tantum; only if h...

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...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Ha... ...on Haight Turk, Ph.D. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publicatio... ...ester. In 1796 De Quincey’s mother, now for some years a widow, removed to Bath and placed him in the grammar school there. Thomas, the future opium-e... ...ess an English one.” He was sent to Manchester Grammar School, however, in order that after three years’ stay he might secure a scholarship at Braseno... ...tural detection of the dauphin (Charles VII) among three hundred lords and knights, I am surprised at the credulity which could ever lend itself to th... ...d in Century Dictionary, is itself really plural of Arabic amir (ameer), a commander, noble- man. 15 23 THE 6TH OF EDWARD LONGSHANKS: a De Quinceyan j... ...lly the great battles, during a con- flict of unparalleled grandeur. These honorary distinctions are all described circumstantially in the First or in...

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...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-bath. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed; a fragile chi... ...l man of thirty-six or -seven, with stolid brown hair, lips used to giving orders, eyes which followed everything good-naturedly, and clothes which yo... ...spotted. Flat against the wall of the second story the signs of lodges—the Knights of Pythias, the Maccabees, the Woodmen, the Masons. Dahl & Oleson’s... ... doctor’s wife of his successes no clapping audiences nor book-reviews nor honorary de- grees. But there was a letter written by a German farmer recen... ... more regularly to the Thanatopsis. With Vida as lieutenant and unofficial commander she campaigned for a village nurse to attend poor families, raise...

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large f...

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