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... only speaking but it would seem even thinking in undertones… . During her school days, especially her earlier school days, the world had been very ex... ...et with a check. These interests her world promptly, through the agency of schoolmistresses, older school-mates, her aunt, and a num- ber of other res... ...away from them just as far as she could, but it left her at the end of her school days with that wrapped feeling I have described, and rather at loose... ...y would be better. She was a clever girl, the best of her year in the High School, and she made a valiant fight for Somerville or Newnham but her fath... ...e. There was a certain amount of disputation, and meanwhile she went on at school. They com- 7 H. G . Wells promised at length on the science course ... ... your service. No offence, I hope. All right! I’m off. Due to play hockey. Jackson’s. Horrid snorters! So long, Vee! Just suggested it. See? Nothing r...

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...e in Crutched Friars; he would not take one without a certificate from the schoolmaster and cler- gyman of his native place, strongly vouching for his... ...much fluttering and blushing as we 23 Thackeray used to say our Virgil at school—when we hadn’t learned it. My Lord still kept on looking very fierce... ...table firm. I brought up a packet from them to Hickson, Dixon, Paxton, and Jackson, our so- licitors, who are their London correspondents. Mr. Brough ... ...I am, dear Sirs, for self and partners, “Y ours most faith- fully, “Samuel Jackson.” This letter, as I have said, came into my hands some time afterwa... ...e!” “Oh, you designing dog!” said the Captain. “When I used to lick you at school, who ever would have thought that I was thrashing a sucking statesma... ...t he had put two of his daughters into service, two of his sons to charity schools, made one ap- prentice, and narrated a hundred other benefits that ... ...he had been introduced to the family by Mr. Tidd, with whom he had been at school, and had sup- planted Tidd entirely in the great heiress’s affection... ...the other year, when he showed me the letter of Hickson, Dixon, Paxton and Jackson, which has be- fore been quoted in my Memoirs. “Sam my boy,” said h... ... uttered a vast number of oaths in attestation of their claim. But Messrs. Jackson and Paxton produced against them that very Irish porter who was sai...

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... is famous for it— supposed never to have read anything else since he left school. “Have you nearly concluded your argument?” “Mlud, no—variety of poi... ...shut up in the breast of Mr. T ulkinghorn. He is of what is called the old school—a phrase generally meaning any school that seems never to have been ... ...es me cry to think what a relief it used to be to me when I came home from school of a day to run upstairs to my room and say, “Oh, you dear faithful ... ...gone away and left me. Although there were seven girls at the neighbouring school where I was a day boarder, and although they called me little Esther... ...ing much more than I did. One of them in the first week of my going to the school (I re member it very well) invited me home to a little party, to my... ...listen and now measured him with his eye. “A person of the name of Michael Jackson, with a blue welveteen waistcoat with a double row of mother of pea... ...ut of employment, I believe,” said Mr. Bucket apolo getically for Michael Jackson, “and so gets talking.” The woman had not resumed her chair, but st...

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...d more houses and more, more shops, more competition, plate-glass shops, a school-board, rates, omnibuses, tramcars—going right away into London itsel... ...im until he was fourteen, incited him to cheer, and then turned him out of school to begin that career of private enterprise we have compactly recorde... ...rt, at your service.” “But you speak English!” “Mother was English—went to school in England. After- wards, Rhodes scholar. German none the less for t... ...erson, and up to a certain limit he had not been badly educated. His board school had taught him to draw up to certain limits, taught him to calculate... ...ering. He looked again and they had gone, and the black stem of the Andrew Jackson, a little disfigured by the sinking Bremen’s last shot, was parting... ...dore Roosevelt, badly damaged, had turned to the southeast, and the Andrew Jackson, greatly battered but uninjured in any fighting part was passing be... ...ive flags still dis- played. Only four American ships now, with the Andrew Jackson readings kept to the south-easterly course. And the Furst Bismarck,... ...d produced over twelve thousand five hundred of these strange monsters, in schools, in types, in series, each larger and heavier and more deadly than ...

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... Latin—which my father undertook to teach us—so that we never even went to school; and, as there was no society in the neighbourhood, our only interco... ...ously restricting our expenditure to that; so, with a standing bill at Mr. Jackson’s, another at Smith’s, and a third at Hobson’s, we got along even m... ...en she might take her first lesson in the alphabet, and be promoted to the school- room. The remaining one was Harriet, a little broad, fat, merry, pl... ... mother. ‘Come and kiss dear mamma; and then won’t you show Miss Grey your schoolroom, and your nice new books?’ ‘I won’t kiss you, mamma; but I will ... ...ur nice new books?’ ‘I won’t kiss you, mamma; but I will show Miss Grey my schoolroom, and my new books.’ ‘And my schoolroom, and my new books, T om,’... ..., contrived to render me still longer. When all was done, we went into the school- room, where I met my other pupil, and chatted with the two till it ... ...Higgins would be fright- ened out of his Sabbath evening walks, and Thomas Jackson would be sorely troubled in his conscience, and shaken in his sure ... ... You see, Miss, I’m knitting a pair o’ stockings now;—they’re for Tho- mas Jackson: he’s a queerish old body, an’ we’ve had many a bout at threaping, ...

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...d gallantry displayed in the cap- ture since 21st December, 1861, of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of various... ...adron commanded by Flag-officer Farragut which led to the capture of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of rebel g... ...SAXTON. WAR DEPARTMENT, May, 24 1862. 2 P.M. GENERAL SAXTON: Geary reports Jackson with 20,000 moving from Ashby’s Gap by the Little River turnpike, t... ...importance. Y ou are therefore directed by the Presi- dent to move against Jackson at Harrisonburg and operate against the enemy in such way as to rel... ...ranklin on Harrisonburg to relieve General Banks, and cap- ture or destroy Jackson’s and Ewell’s forces. You are in- structed, laying aside for the pr... ...BETH J. GRIMSLEY, Springfield, Ill.: Is your John ready to enter the naval school? If he is, telegraph me his full name. A. LINCOLN. 299 The Writings... ... 28, 1863. MAJOR GENERAL SCHENCK, Baltimore, Md.: Every place in the Naval school subject to my appointment is full, and I have one unredeemed promise... ...ld, Ill.: I mail the papers to you to-day appointing Johnny to the Na- val school. A. LINCOLN 376 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six TO CRITIC...

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...al prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our British school- boys value a battle. Painful it is to add, that this is the prin- c... ...y them on the same principles, not better and not worse, as govern our own schoolboys. Every battle is viewed by the boys as a test applied to the per... ...all again, in the persons of their children, meeting for study at the same schools, colleges, military academies, &c.; by what furious forgetfulness o... ...y uniformly de- clined joining us; in which I believe that he was right. A schoolboy like myself had fortunately no dignity to lose. But Lord Massey, ... ...ious Lady Carbery, sup- porting locally the Church of England, patronizing schools, diffusing the most extensive relief to every mode of indi- gence o... ...that the present dean had even higher titles to consid- eration. Dr. Cyril Jackson had been tutor to the Prince of Wales (George IV.); he had repeated... ...tain that lie made his own brother a bishop. All things weighed, Dr. Cyril Jackson seemed so very great a personage that I now felt the value of my lo... ...e course of my studies, and the present direction of my reading, Dr. Cyril Jackson treated me just as he would have done his equal in station and in a...

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...een times, and traveled under a new name every time: Smith, Jones, Robinson, Jackson, Peters, Haskins, Merlin — a new alias every time he turns up. I... ...first thing you want in a new country, is a patent office; then work up your school system; and after that, out with your paper. A newspaper has its f... ...as afraid of the Church. I had started a teacher factory and a lot of Sunday schools the first thing; as a result, I now had an admirable system of g... ...hools the first thing; as a result, I now had an admirable system of graded schools in full blast in those places, and also a com plete variety of ... ...ter. But I confined public religious teaching to the churches and the Sunday schools, permitting nothing of it in my other educational buildings. I c... ...mmit in the blue sky and giving no sign of the rising hell in its bowels. My schools and churches were children four years before; they were grown up ...

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...a doctrine. As regards our parliament, that is probably the best Brit- ish school of foreign politics, seeing that the subject is not there often take... ... myself by my labor. He will not stay at the Glen House, but will go on to—Jackson’s I think they call the next hotel, at which he will sleep. From th... ...own with their hands in their pockets—had they done as second-rate boys at school will do, declare that they had been licked, and then feel that all t... ... of its scenery. It is the Sandhurst of the States. Here is their military school, from which officers are drafted to their regiments, and the tuition... ...g the three or four last presi- dencies, and I believe back to the time of Jackson, there has been an organized system of dishonesty in the man- ageme... ... be con- strained to say something further hereafter. We went into all the schools of the college, and made ourselves fully aware that the amount of l... ...between it and Boston was opened in 1835, under the superintendence of Mr. Jackson, the gentleman by whom the purchase of the canal had in the first i... ... their first object. I think it may be taken for granted that when Messrs. Jackson and Lowell went about their task, their grand idea was to place fac... ...ggle came, he could not forget his party in his duty as President. General Jackson’s position was much the same when Mr. Calhoun, on the question of t...

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.... He was furnishing the money to put a young brother through a polytechnic school and satisfy his desire to become a civil engineer. O.M. The old fath... ...less mor als, and personal appearance. They were the models of the Sunday school. At fifteen George had the opportunity to go as cabin boy in a whale... ... Other Essays 44 out of a job; and Henry was superintendent of the Sunday school. At twenty six George was a wanderer, a tramp, and Henry was pastor ... ...int of my life. (Link number one.) For when I got well my mother closed my school career and apprenticed me to a printer. She was tired of trying to k... ...ch. Ed Smith, the printer’s apprentice, nineteen, had been the head Sunday school boy, and had once re cited three thousand Bible verses without maki... ...y points of interest which he wove into his stories, such as Holiday Hill, Jackson’s Island, or Mark T wain Cave, are now monuments to his genius. Han...

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...mediately facing the President’s house, is an equestrian statue of General Jackson. It is very bad; but that it is not nearly as bad as it might be is... ...as—was the ground put forward by South Carolina for secession when General Jackson was President and Mr. Calhoun was the hero of the South. Calhoun bo... ...rtain day if that tariff were not abolished. The tariff was so absurd that Jackson and his government were forced to abandon it—would have abandoned i... ... under that threat it was necessary that Calhoun should be defied. General Jackson proposed a compromise tariff, which was odious to Calhoun—not on it... ... it. If he have none, he will amuse himself without it. His work is like a school-boy’s task; he knows it must be done, but never comprehends that the... ...cinnati has 170,000 inhabitants, and there are 14,000 children at the free schools—which is about one in twelve of the whole population. This number g... ...scholars throughout the year ended 30th of June, 1861. But there are other schools in Cincinnati—parish schools and private schools—and it is stated t... ...ls—and it is stated to me that there were in all 32,000 children attending school in the city throughout the year. The education at the State schools ... ...atives, in dictating to Sena- tors—has come up since the days of President Jackson, and with it has come corruption and unclean hands. De- mocracy mus...

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...ay see to declare, your mind will at once accept. You do not belong to the school of any philosopher, because you agree with him that theft is, on the... ...d piece of heaven blown upon and determined by the breath of God; and both schools of theorists will scream like scalded children at a word of doubt. ... ... Louis Stevenson It is a commonplace, enshrined, if I mistake not, even in school copy-books, that honour is to be sought and not fame. I ask no other... ...sual, meant nothing in particular; it was merely an obscure and figurative school-copybook; and if a man were only respect- able, he was a man after G... ...(So fates conspire), May we not feel The force of steel: This I desire. T. Jackson, 1651* U PON TUESDAY, November 13th, 1666, Corporal George Deanes a... ...y contact with au- thority, with their employer, with the police, with the School Board officer, in the hospital, or in the workhouse, they have equal...

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...overnment, and the Dublin frigate, and Lord James Townshend, and President Jackson, and the ship Ann M’Kim of Baltimore. It would probably never h... ... but whom, for some reason or other, we never forget. He called himself Bill Jackson; and I know no one of all my accidental acquaintances to whom I... ...kin, and one or two stanchions above the deck. We saw our handsome sailor, Jackson, on the forecastle, with the Sandwich Islanders, working away t... ..., and make their appearance on the ‘‘off shore ground.’’ We saw some fine ‘‘schools’’ of sperm whales, which are easily distinguished by their spout... ...nd was a good sailor for his years, and two Boston boys just from the public schools. The carpenter sometimes mustered in the starboard watch, and ... ...e young, to the care of his mother, by whose exertions he received a common school education, passing his winters at school and his summers in the ... ...rdly got the boats beached, and their heads out, before our old friend, Bill Jackson, the handsome English sailor, who steered the Loriotte’s boat, ... ...ir faculties. Twice, their boat filled, and came broadside upon the beach. Jackson swore at them for a parcel of savages, and promised to flog every... ... whole voyage, over a slender, delicate looking boy, from one of the Boston schools, and over whom he had much the advantage, in strength, age, and ...

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..., the presidential motorcade was arriving at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, where President Bush was to read to a class and talk about educatio... ...I Director Robert Mueller. He decided to make a brief state- ment from the school before leaving for the airport.The Secret Service told us they were ... ...ordering the Persian Gulf in donating money to build mosques and religious schools that could preach and teach their interpretation of Islamic doctrin... ... of these young men, such as the enormous number trained only in religious schools, lacked the skills needed by their societies. Far more acquired val... ... buy arms and supplies for the mujahideen, or “holy warriors.” 21 Mosques, schools, and boardinghouses served as recruiting stations in many parts of ... ... videotape, Dulles main terminal checkpoints, Sept. 11, 2001; see also Tim Jackson interview (Apr. 12, 2004). 15. Metropolitan Washington Airports Aut... ... videotape, Dulles main terminal checkpoints, Sept. 11, 2001; see also Tim Jackson interview (Apr. 12, 2004). 16. For investigation findings, see FAA ... ... the Pentagon, Sept. 11, 2001,” undated. For screener evaluations, see Tim Jackson interview (Apr. 12, 2004). 17. See AAL record, SABRE information fo...