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Enciklopedio de Esperanto (1933)

By: L. Kokeny Kaj V. Bleier

...dapest. ʀɪ ʀ ɪʟ ɴ  ɴɪ  ʟ ʀ ɴ ɴ ɪʟ ɴ: Azorin Francisco, Cordoba (Hisp.) Baghy Gyula, Budapest Banham Reginald, Melbourne... ...eitaro, Osaka Teuchner Paul, Leipzig Weinhengst Hans, Wien Y elland Ernest Edward, Aspremont (Franc.) Y oxon Geo. H., Heswall (Brit.) Zamenhof Lidja, ... ...o, Japanulo, Koreujo, Palestino, Persujo, Sirio, Turkujo. Azorin Izquierdo Francisko, hispano, arkitekto, urbkonsilisto de Cordoba, parlamenta deputit... ...rakontisto, verkis Ama Stelaro, (originalaĵoj kaj tradukaĵoj). Ba William Edward, usonano, patenta advokato. Nask. 20 majo 1888 en Newark (New Jersey... ... de UEA. Cseh-instruisto, gvidis kurson. Barcelo Caimari (barselo kajmari) Francisco, hispano, advokato, urbkonsilanto, sekr. de komerca ĉambro. Nask.... ...egitaro en 1907 defendis tie E-n kontraŭ aliaj projektoj. Baxter (bakster) James G., skoto, asekuristo. Nask. 30 jan. 1865 en Liverpool. UEA-ano n-ro ... ...ej fruaj E-istoj en Irlando, de 1904. Ĉeestis la 1-an UK. Blaikie (blejki) James Andrew, anglo, konata matematikisto, universitata ekzamenisto, montog... ...ro de la “Unua Libro” de Z (jul. 1887) artikolo en la Londona ĵurnalo “St. James's Gazette” pri lingvo nomata “Internacional” inventaĵo de d-ro E, alt... ...la lingvo troviĝos o ciale en la temaro por la abiturienta diplomo. F-ino Edwards (Bishop Auckland) diris, ke laĉefa malhelpo kontraŭ la progreso de ...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...McPherson, August 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale Uni... ... book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version o... ...Alike 3.0 License. It can be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300... ...m to add to it, and she did—“My Life.” Changed. On December 15, 2002, in San Francisco, a charitable organization called Creative Commons was launched... ...y Press, 2004). 2. These types of patents are discussed in Chapter 7. 3. San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc., et al. v. United States Olympic Committ... ...egory—has been profoundly influenced by more schol- ars than I can list here. Edward C. Walterscheid, The Nature of the Intellectual Property Clause: A... ...ectual property. 20. See, e.g., Ochoa and Rose, “Anti-Monopoly Origins,” and Edward C. Walterscheid, The Nature of the Intellectual Property Clause: A... ...the earliest reference to it that I have been able to discover is from 1821. Edward Birch was moved to compose some (fairly poor) verses in response w... ...e on the Pacific-Coast,” in The Patrons of Husbandry on the Pacific Coast (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Co., 1875), 290–291; Edward P . Cheyney, An...

...e that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...Thompson Course enter- tainment, J. H, Leland Powers. FOOTBALL ELECTION to Francis Bowes Sayre 1909 Manag^e Team in 1908 At a college meetjng in Jesup... ...nag^e Team in 1908 At a college meetjng in Jesup Hall last Friday evening. Francis Bowes Sayre 1909 of South Beth- lehem, Pa., was elected assistant f... ...s in Seattle, Wash., having branch of- fices in Spokane, i'ortland and San Francisco. '88 —Matthew H. Hoover, of Lookport, N. Y., on March 4 as- sumed... ...LD MYGATT 1908 The following new members were elected to the board : Henry Edward Bedford. Jr., 1908 of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Roger Sherman Loomis 1909 of... ...hile insurable. JOHN B. STONE, General Agent, Pittsfield and North Adatna. JAMES W. MAKER, HARRY W. REINHARD, JOHN H. FALLON, Special Agent, North Ada... ...ark, III. Age, 18 years; height, 5 ft., 10 3-4 ina. ; weiglit 151 jHiunds. James Watteks 1908, of Wat- ervliot, N. Y., ntid John Frank- linCRAWEOKn 19... .... Students accounts re- ceived on liberal terms. Chas. S. Cole, President. James W. Bullock, Vice-President. W. B. Clark, Cashier. H. P.COLE ^ it Coll... ... Cowee, Edgar A. Enos, James A. Eddy, George H. Freeman, Henry R. Freeman, Edward M. Green, Edward C. Gale, Frank E. Howe, George Holroyd, Eben Halley... ..., John H. Knox. George Gibbits Lane, Frank N. Mann, Clarence F. MacMurray, Edward Murphy, Edward Murphy 2d, Charles Nasb, S. Alexander Orr. John F. Ro...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...late future price movements." A less fanciful definition may be the one offered by Edwards and Magee in "Technical Analysis of Stock Trends": "The... ...- other, no less weighty, scholarship by the likes of Eugene Fama, Kenneth French, James Poterba, Allan Kleidon, and William Schwert negate it - ma... ...ed, tanked. A study titled "A Close Look at Short Selling on NASDAQ", authored by James Angel of Georgetown University - Department of Finance and... ...led "The Stock Market Crash of 1929 - Irving Fisher was Right", Ellen McGrattan and Edward Prescott boldly claim: "We find that the stock market in ... ...ection. A March 1999 "Economic Letter" published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San-Francisco wholeheartedly concurs. It notes that at the peak, pri... ...y entitled to enjoy the rights and freedoms accorded to each and every person. John Stuart Mill weighed against the state's involvement in the econ... ... zero interest rate and negative share prices. Still, scholars like Case Sprenkle, James Boness and Paul Samuelson used his formula. They introduce... ...ween the general level of trust and the extent and intensity of economic activity. Francis Fukuyama, the political scientist, distinguishes between...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...meal, eyeballs first. The Sawney Bean family in Scotland, during the reign of King James I, survived for decades on the remains (and personal belon... ...of the consequences to himself and to others. Clearly, evil must be premeditated. Francis Hutcheson and Joseph Butler argued that evil is a by-pro... ...azi regime that gave eugenics - a term coined by a relative of Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Galton, in 1883 - its bad name. Richard Lynn, of the Uni... ...d punishable) and (sexual) attraction to them (doubly forbidden and punishable). Edward Westermarck proffered an opposite view that the domestic ... ...this area with appropriate technologies." But all these worthy efforts ignore what James O'Toole called in "Leading Change" - "the ideology of comf... ...s put it succinctly in "The Circle of Innovation" when he wrote: "Innovate or die". James Morse, a management consultant, rendered, in the same tome... ...t replace the West's malignant optimism and intellectual and spiritual arrogance. Edward K. Thompson, the managing editor of "Life" from 1949 to 1... ...o (fifth century AD), Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) in his "Summa Theologicae", Francisco de Vitoria (1548-1617), Francisco Suarez (1548-1617), ... ...n and women released from outward constraints". Endorsing the legacies of Jonathan Edwards, Orestes Brownson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, ...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...meal, eyeballs first. The Sawney Bean family in Scotland, during the reign of King James I, survived for decades on the remains (and personal belon... ...of the consequences to himself and to others. Clearly, evil must be premeditated. Francis Hutcheson and Joseph Butler argued that evil is a by-pro... ...azi regime that gave eugenics - a term coined by a relative of Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Galton, in 1883 - its bad name. Richard Lynn, of the Uni... ...d punishable) and (sexual) attraction to them (doubly forbidden and punishable). Edward Westermarck proffered an opposite view that the domestic ... ...this area with appropriate technologies." But all these worthy efforts ignore what James O'Toole called in "Leading Change" - "the ideology of comf... ...s put it succinctly in "The Circle of Innovation" when he wrote: "Innovate or die". James Morse, a management consultant, rendered, in the same tome... ...t replace the West's malignant optimism and intellectual and spiritual arrogance. Edward K. Thompson, the managing editor of "Life" from 1949 to 1... ...o (fifth century AD), Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) in his "Summa Theologicae", Francisco de Vitoria (1548-1617), Francisco Suarez (1548-1617), ... ...n and women released from outward constraints". Endorsing the legacies of Jonathan Edwards, Orestes Brownson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, ...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...- other, no less weighty, scholarship by the likes of Eugene Fama, Kenneth French, James Poterba, Allan Kleidon, and William Schwert negate it - ma... ...late future price movements." A less fanciful definition may be the one offered by Edwards and Magee in "Technical Analysis of Stock Trends": "The... ...able to predict tomorrow's wages - hire less. Still, the late preeminent economist James Tobin went as far as calling inflation "the grease on the ... ... this area with appropriate technologies." But all these worthy efforts ignore what James O'Toole called in "Leading Change" - "the ideology of comf... ...tor, stoking inflation and threatening to reverse the downtrend in interest rates. Edward Yardeni of Prudential has demonstrated how inflation has ... ...y entitled to enjoy the rights and freedoms accorded to each and every person. John Stuart Mill weighed against the state's involvement in the econ... ... wine bars. Pavlo Lazarenko, a former Ukrainian prime minister, is detained in San Francisco on money laundering charges. His defense team accuses... ...s International (UPI) The implosion of communism was often presented - not least by Francis Fukuyama in his celebrated "The end of History" - as the...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...ue Hills, Pike's Peak, Mount of Olives, Great Desert, Death Valley, Prince Edward Island, Sea (Lake) of Galilee. But do not capitalize words of thi... ...e senator, the archbihop of Canterbury, the mayor of Chicago; the archduke Francis Ferdinand, the apostle Paul. 20. Abljreviationske Ph.D., M.P., a... ...ch nouns : biblical, scriptural. 26. Versions of the English Bible: King James's Version, Authorized Version (A. V.), Revised Version (R. V.), Po... ...e Science of Politicd Economy, Vol. I, 'The British School," chap. 2, "John Stuart Mill;" the articles "Cross," "Crucifixion," and "Crusade" in Hast... ...e and s; if of more than one syllable, by adding an apostrophe alone: King James's Version, Bums's poems, Marx's theories; Moses' law, Jesus' birth... ...ation artificial or illogical: Clement of Alexandria, Philip of Anjou, King Edward of England. 143. Put a comma between two consecutive pages, ver... ...sition in a separate line, or after address followed by a date line, etc.: JAMES P. ROBINSON Superintendent of Schools, Bird Center, Ill. JAMES P....

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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...d (in an unrelated exchange) that all ideas stem from pre-rational beliefs. William James concurred by saying that accepting a truth often requires ... ... (in an unrelated exchange) that all ideas stem from pre-rational beliefs. William James concurred by saying that accepting a truth often requires ... ...al "Essay Concerning Human Understanding". Almost a century later, the philosopher James Mill and his son, John Stuart Mill, came up with a calculu... ...nderstanding". Almost a century later, the philosopher James Mill and his son, John Stuart Mill, came up with a calculus of contexts: mental element... ...nother cause or reason AND for additional data. William of Ockham was, after all a Franciscan monk and constantly in search for a Prima Causa. b.... ...ome would say, pseudo- scientific) scrutiny. The Structuralists - Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Bradford Titchener - embarked on a fashionable search for... ...ic problems are the sad outcomes of poverty, fear, and solitude. A century later, Francis Gall (1758-1828) and Spurzheim (1776-1832) traced mental...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...he Position of Women in Northern Thailand. Mankind 14, 249–262. Coleman, James C. 1988. Social capital in the creation of human capital. American Jo... ...r Asian Studies. Monograph 34. The Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson. Ewen, Stuart 1988. All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Cu... ...er Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 17, 49–72. Hamilton, James W. 1987. This Old House. A Karen ideal. Daniel W. Ingersoll – Gordon ... ...Social Constructions of Reality. Univ. Press of America, Lanham. Ingram, James C. 1971. Economic Change in Thailand 1850–1970. California Univ. Pres... ...Ethnic Groups of Mainland Southeast Asia. HRAF Press, New Haven. Lengel, Francis Kenneth 1976. Markets in Thailand: An Analysis of the Interrelation... ...rnold 1960 (1909). The Rites of Passage. Univ. of Chicago Press. Van Roy, Edward 1967. An Interpretation of Northern Thai Peasant Economy. Journal of...

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A Little Tour in France

By: Henry James

...A Little Tour In France by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in... ...E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...s an electronic transmission, in any way. A Little Tour in France by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim M... ...igious houses in Christendom, with kings for its titular abbots (who, like Francis I., sometimes turned and despoiled it) and a great treasure of prec... ...r, are the empty frames of bril- liant pictures. They need the figure of a Francis I. to complete them, or of a Diane de Poitiers, or even of a Henry ... ...e court of the castle, and lets one’s eye wander from the splendid wing of Francis I.—which is the last work of free and joyous invention— to the rule... ...es ago, on French soil, one rapacious Frenchman got the better of another. Edward was a Frenchman as well as John, and French were the cries that urge... ...he place had nothing to fear. It was not even attacked; and when, in 1355, Edward the Black Prince marched into 114 A Little Tour in France it, the i... ...se de Stolberg, Countess of Albany, widow of no less a person than Charles Edward Stuart, the second pretender to the British crown. Surely no woman e...

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Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

...od A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charles Grosveno... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charles Grosveno... ...al opportunity university. 3 Boswell’s Life of Johnson Life of Johnson by James Boswell Boswell’s Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introd... ...e degree personally related with him, from Bet Flint and his black servant Francis, to the adored Duchess of Devonshire and the King himself. To no on... ...r of that theatre. The Gentleman’s Magazine, begun and car- ried on by Mr. Edward Cave, under the name of Sylvanus Urban, had attracted the notice and... ...—In 1740 he wrote for the Gentleman’s Magazine the ‘Preface,’ ‘Life of Sir Francis Drake,’ and the first parts of those of ‘Admiral Blake,’ and of ‘Ph... ...o strongly, * Soon after Savage’s Life was published, Mr. Harte dined with Edward Cave, and occasionally praised it. Soon after, meeting him, Cave sai... ...ffecting prayer was found after Dr. Johnson’s decease, by his servant, Mr. Francis Barber, who delivered it to my worthy friend the Reverend Mr. Strah... ...ast King of England who was a man of parts, was social; and our Henrys and Edwards were all social.’ Mr. Dempster having endeavoured to main- tain tha...

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A Child's History of England

By: Charles Dickens

...UNDER HENRY THE THIRD, CALLED, OF WINCHESTER 140 CHAPTER XVI ENGLAND UNDER EDWARD THE FIRST, CALLED LONGSHANKS 155 CHAPTER XVII ENGLAND UNDER EDWARD T... ............................................. 175 CHAPTER XVIII ENGLAND UNDER EDWARD THE THIRD............................................ 186 CHAPTER XI... ...................................... ...... 245 CHAPTER XXIII ENGLAND UNDER EDWARD THE FOURTH........................................ 253 A Child’s His... ................................ ............ 337 CHAPTER XXXII ENGLAND UNDER JAMES THE FIRST................................................ 343 SECOND ... ................................... ......... 409 CHAPTER XXXVI ENGLAND UNDER JAMES THE SECOND.......................................... 422 CHAPTER XXXV... ...of this time was the seizure, by Henry, of the heir to the Scottish throne—James, a boy of nine years old. He had been put aboard ship by his father, ... ... within three months, and left her a young widow. The new French monarch, Francis the First, seeing how important it was to his interests that she sh... ...ish were dis trustful of the French, and the French of the English, until Francis rode alone one morning to Henry’s tent; and, going in before he was... ...oke that he was his prisoner; and how Henry jumped out of bed and embraced Francis; and how Francis helped Henry to dress, and warmed his linen for hi...

...V ENGLAND UNDER CANUTE THE DANE........................................................ 44 CHAPTER VI ENGLAND UNDER HAROLD HAREFOOT, HARDICANUTE, AND EDWARD THE CONFESSOR ....................................................................................................... 46 CHAPTER VII ENGLAND UNDER HAROLD THE SECOND, AND CONQUERED BY THE NORMANS ..........................

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Love and Friendship and Other Early Works Also Spelled Love and Freindship a Collection of Juvenile Writings

By: Jane Austen

...mired the noble Manliness of his reply. He continued. 9 Jane Austen “Sir Edward was surprised; he had perhaps little ex- pected to meet with so spir... ...tle ex- pected to meet with so spirited an opposition to his will. “Where, Edward in the name of wonder (said he) did you pick up this unmeaning gibbe... ... when will you re- ward me with Yourself?” “This instant, Dear and Amiable Edward.” (replied I.). We were immediately united by my Father, who tho’ h... ...e so conspicuous in the conversation of Mr Cleveland. The approach of Sir James Gower (one of my too numerous admirers) prevented the Discovery of an... ...n- tion to himself. But oh! how inferior are the accomplish- ments of Sir James to those of his so greatly envied Ri- val! Sir James is one of the mo... ...ith the Marlowes. Our party will be Lady Lesley, Matilda, Fitzgerald, Sir James Gower, and myself. We see little of Sir George, who is almost always... ...t it has by many people been asserted and beleived that Lord Burleigh, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the rest of those who filled the cheif offices of S... ...nderstanding and their Character, allow any praise to Lord Burleigh or Sir Francis Walsingham? Oh! what must this bewitching Princess whose only frei... ...ing Events that marked Elizabeth’s reign. It was about this time that Sir Francis Drake the first English Navigator who sailed round the World, lived...

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The Lady of the Lake

By: William J. Rolfe

...nquet o’er At length his rank the stranger names, ‘The Knight of Snowdoun, James Fitz-James; Lord of a barren heritage, Which his brave sires, from ag... ...tial torch, A thousand villages in flames Shall scare the slumbers of King James!— Nay, Ellen, blench not thus away, And, mother, cease these signs, I... ...; pity ‘t were Such cheek should feel the midnight air! Then mayst thou to James Stuart tell, Roderick will keep the lake and fell, Nor lackey with hi... ...for Douglas seeks his doom! But hark! what blithe and jolly peal Makes the Franciscan steeple reel? And see! upon the crowded street, In motley groups... ...mes visited France in 1536, and sued for the hand of Magdalen, daughter of Francis I. He married her the following spring, but she died a few months l... ...cluded situation. One of these last gave refuge to the unfortunate Charles Edward, in his perilous wanderings after the battle of Culloden. ‘It was si... ...ates, and the flower of the young men were with the army of Prince Charles Edward, then in England; yet the summons was so effectual that even old age... ... with this subject might enable him to do it justice,—I mean my friend Mr. Francis Douce, of the British Museum, whose usual kindness will, I hope, pa... ...it. The Vidame of Chartres, when a hostage in England, during the reign of Edward VI., was per- mitted to travel into Scotland, and penetrated as far ...

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Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since

By: Sir Walter Scott

...e around him. After the battle of Culloden had ruined the hopes of Charles Edward, and dispersed his proscribed adherents, it was Colo- nel Whitefoord... ...ott CHAPTER II WAVERLEY-HONOUR—A RETROSPECT IT IS, THEN, sixty years since Edward W averley , the hero of the following pages, took leave of his famil... ...of some value, at the distance of a few miles from Waverley-Honour. Little Edward, the hero of our tale, then in his fifth year, 17 Sir Walter Scott ... ... delinquency, imprison, try, and execute his vassals at his pleasure. Like James the First. how- ever, the present possessor of this authority was mor... ...lter Scott CHAPTER XIX THE CHIEF AND HIS MANSION THE INGENIOUS LICENTIATE, Francisco de Ubeda, when he com- menced his history of La Picara Justina Di... ...never.’ Now I protest to thee, gentle reader, that I entirely dissent from Francisco de Ubeda in this matter, and hold it the most useful quality of m... ...ended, purporting to be an Earl’s patent, granted by no less a person than James the Third King of England, and Eighth King of Scotland, to his right ... ... fair-haired son, and the glance of the sword has done but little for King James.’ The Chieftain, in two words of French, explained to Waverley, that ... ...lliams, alias Captain Butler, must continue to pass by his fourth alias of Francis Stanley, my nephew: he shall set out to-morrow for the North, and t...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 1 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...s and a squad of sailors who had rowed him ashore from the flotilla in the James River, a negro picked up on the way serving as a guide. Never had the... ...on Plymouth Rock, a Dutch ship had discharged a cargo of African slaves at Jamestown in Virginia: All through the colonial period their importation ha... ...ich, if known to the public, would entirely destroy the prospects of N. W. Edwards and myself at the ensuing election; but that, through favor to us, ... ... K. McLaughlin, Daniel Warm, A.G. S. Wight, John C. Riley, W. H. Davidson, Edward M. Wilson, Edward L. Pierson, Robert R. Green, Ezra Baker, Aquilla W... ...BENNETT. SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Aug. 5, 1837. JOHN BENNETT, ESQ. DEAR SIR:—Mr. Edwards tells me you wish to know whether the act to which your own incorpo... ...nd-bill form, in reference to the case of the heirs of Joseph Anderson vs. James Adams. These articles can now be read uninfluenced by personal or par... ...m Dubois enclosing the names of sixty subscrib- ers, and on carrying it to Francis I found he had received one hundred and forty more from other quart... ...n- sider himself insulted by something in the Journal, under- took to cane Francis in the street. Francis caught him by the hair and jammed him back a... ...e hair and jammed him back against a market cart where the matter ended by Francis being pulled away from him. The whole affair was so ludicrous that ...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself : Book Three

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ude, and I believed you—yes, I believed you—why are you here, and my noble Francis gone? Why did you come among us? Y ou have only brought us grief an... ...him: you know I worshipped him—and he was changed to me. He was no more my Francis of old—my dear, dear soldier. He loved me before he saw you; and I ... ...ed herself, in virtue of that patent which had been given by the late King James to Harry Esmond’s father; and in this state she had her train carried... ...say to drink from, and fringed cloth. He who was of the same age as little Francis, whom we shall henceforth call Viscount Castlewood here, was H. R. ... ...her company, of which she entertained a good deal—of the adherents of King James of course—and a great deal of loud intriguing took place over her car... ...hat indecency of gratulation which broke out amongst the followers of King James in London, upon the death of this illustrious prince, this invincible... ... true to us. ’Tis a wonder to any one who looks back at the history of the Stuart family to think how they kicked their crowns away from them; how the... ...above all families in the world: he could prove a lineal descent from King Edward the First, and his first ancestor, Roaldus de Richmond, rode by Will... ...ry citizen’s individual honor. When hath there been, since our Henrys’ and Edwards’ days, such a great feat of arms as that from which you yourself ha...

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Abbeychurch or Self-Control and Self-Conceit

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...aps more influence over her mind than anyone excepting Mr. Woodbourne. Sir Edward Merton was brother to Mr. Woodbourne’s first wife, the mother of Eli... ...talking over the chances of his arriving in the course of the evening, Sir Edward went with Mr. Woodbourne to see the new church, and the ladies were ... ...and considerate little maiden of seven years old, carried off Winifred and Edward to their own domains in the nursery. Elizabeth’s room had been set t... ...s of history. I cannot bear dry facts, such as that Charles the Fifth beat Francis the First, at Pavia, in a war for the duchy of Milan, and nothing m... ... indeed; I wonder they do not bring them out.’ ‘Those are the heads of the Stuart kings,’ whispered Lucy. ‘Why, Harriet,’ exclaimed Dora, ‘William Ruf... ...’ whispered Lucy. ‘Why, Harriet,’ exclaimed Dora, ‘William Rufus was not a Stuart, he was the second of the Normans.’ ‘Very likely, very likely, Dora,... ...inis- cence of dear Dykelands.’ ‘No, indeed I did not,’ said Helen; ‘it is Francis, too, I be- lieve.’ ‘Oh yes,’ said Harriet, ‘it is Francis, I wrote... ...nce, And upset the sugar jar, Which I cannot spare, I must give some to Francis, So well he dances; Sugar canes packed up in leaves, The canes a... ...have been ringing in my ears, and coming upon me like the pressure of King James’s iron belt.’ ‘Have they indeed?’ said Anne, ‘I could hardly have be-...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

...MER.68 .................................................... 144 EPISTLE TO JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ., .......................................................... .......................................................... 153 TO MR C.,80 ST JAMES’S PLACE ................................................................ ...DSHIRE, 1720. ................................................ 155 IV . ON JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ. IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. ..................................... ...ER ABBEY.................................................. 160 XIII. ON DR FRANCIS ATTERBURY, BISHOP OF ROCHESTER, WHO DIED IN EXILE AT PARIS, 1732. 1... ...ains In weeping vaults her hallow’d earth contains! 300 With Edward’s acts 50 adorn the shining page, Stretch his long triumphs down th... ...e o’er the martyr-king the marble weeps, And, fast beside him, once-fear’d Edward sleeps. 52 Whom not the extended Albion could contain, From old Bele... ...refiners of English poetry; who flourished in the time of Henry VIII. 50 ‘Edward’s acts:’ Edward III., born here. 51 ‘Henry mourn:’ Henry VI. 52 ‘O... ...light. 161 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One XIII. ON DR FRANCIS A XIII. ON DR FRANCIS A XIII. ON DR FRANCIS A XIII. ON DR FRANCIS A... ...I. ON DR FRANCIS A XIII. ON DR FRANCIS A XIII. ON DR FRANCIS A XIII. ON DR FRANCIS AT T T T TTERB TERB TERB TERB TERBUR UR UR UR URY Y Y Y Y, , , , , ...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...on Smith. Commander Charles Stewart Boggs Commander John De Camp Commander James Alden. Commander David D. Porter. Commander Richard Wain- wright. Com... .... Renshaw. Lieutenant Com- manding Abram D. Harrell. Lieutenant Commanding Edward Donaldson. Lieutenant Commanding George H. Preble. Lieu- tenant Comm... ...Donaldson. Lieutenant Commanding George H. Preble. Lieu- tenant Commanding Edward T. Nichols. Lieutenant Command- 5 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: ... ...and shall do all I could and can to sustain you. Hoped that the opening of James River and putting W ool and Burnside in communication, with an open r... ...ost certainly has within it this morning the forces of Jackson, Ewell, and Edward Johnson. Quite certainly they were within it two days ago. Some part... ...s of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six better towards Y ork River than towards the James. As Pope now has charge of the capital, please confer with him throug... ...Atlantic telegraph, and a similar project to extend the telegraph from San Francisco to connect by a Pa- cific telegraph with the line which is being ... ... WEBER, WILLIAM YATES, S. M. CULLOM, CHARLES W. MATHENY, WILLIAM F. ELKIN, FRANCIS SPRINGER, B. A. W ATSON, ELIPHALET HA WLEY , AND JAMES CAMPBELL. GE... ...AL MEAGHER. W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., June 16, 1863. GENERAL T. FRANCIS MEAGHER, New Y ork: Y our despatch received. Shall be very glad for...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

... ous matter that helped me to another link. It made me notorious, and San Francisco invited me to lecture. Which I did. And profitably. I had long ha... ...ing; its duty was to remind me when it was time to begin to talk about San Francisco weather, where there is no lightning—nor thunder, either—and it ... ...erybody was interested now—it was watching a race. Would she pass the long Edward? There was a possibility of it. Would she pass the long Henry? Doubt... ... your kings spaced off in your mind? When you think of Richard III. and of James II. do the durations of their reigns seem about alike to you? It isn’... ...g stretch of straight road? I do; and just at the end where it joins on to Edward I. I always see a small pear bush with its green fruit hanging down.... ...g the long reigns, but slowing down when we came upon people like Mary and Edward VI., and the short Stuart and Plantagenet, to give time to get in th... ... 110 that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New Y ork, San Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape T own, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, a... ...aded after a few days. John Bright is noted for an incurable disease. Lord James Gordon Bennet instigated the Gordon Riots. The Middle Ages come in be... ... years elapsed. Shakspere translated the Scriptures and it was called St. James because he did it. In the middle of the chapter I find many pages of ...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself : Book One

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...r which the elder brother never forgave him), and where his second brother Edward, who had embraced the ecclesiastical profession, was slain on Castle... ...hion. CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL WHEN FRANCIS, fourth Viscount Castlewood, came to his title, and presently after... ...lad made to his mistress’s questions. 17 Thackeray CHAPTER II RELATES HOW FRANCIS, FOURTH VISCOUNT, ARRIVES AT CASTLEWOOD ’TIS KNOWN THAT the name of... ...possession of the present family through Dorothea, daughter and heiress of Edward, Earl and Marquis Esmond, and Lord of Castlewood, which lady married... ...s, gent.; the said Henry being then a page in the household of her father. Francis, son and heir of the above Henry and Dorothea, who took the materna... ...ch the family hath borne subsequently, was made Knight and Baronet by King James the First; and being of a military disposition, remained long in Germ... ...s was rewarded for his ser- vices and many sacrifices, by his late Majesty James the First, who graciously conferred upon this tried servant the post ... ...ed with snow. Gentlemen who were about the Court of King Charles, and King James, have told the present writer a number of stories about this queer ol... ...rks of demolition, save in the chapel, where the painted windows surviving Edward the Sixth had been broke by the Commonwealthmen. In Father Holt’s ti...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ays come here when you come to town, you know.—Drive to the Mansion House, James.” Finally came the parting with Miss Amelia, over which pic- ture I i... ...Charles Stuart, afterwards called Barebones Crawley, son of the Crawley of James the First’s time; and finally, Queen Elizabeth’s Crawley, who is repr... ...ord des fraiches toilettes. Happy, happy you! who have but to drive to St. James’s Street, and a dear mother who will give you any thing you ask. Fare... ...eatly more affected than even his wife, to whom the present was addressed. Edward Dale, the junior of the house, who purchased the spoons for the firm... ...house these three weeks; and George has been twice in town without coming. Edward Dale saw him at the Opera. Edward would marry her I’m sure: and ther... ...irs, indeed! We must show some folks that we’re as good as they. Only give Edward Dale any encouragement, and you’ll see. We must have a party, Mr. S.... ...edled the grocer round the corner for sugar and tea? Suppose I had married Francis who was so fond of me—I couldn’t have been much poorer than I am no... ...gave a little start, but said nothing. “Hullo!” Georgy continued, “there’s Francis coming out with the portmanteaus, and Kunz, the one-eyed postilion,... ...siness and curiosity. The horses were put to. The baggage was strapped on. Francis came out with his master’s sword, cane, and umbrella tied up togeth...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...r. Gold tops and bottles, indeed! dammy, I’m sorry I didn’t take more now. Edwards pressed on me a silver-gilt boot-jack, and I might have had a dress... ...for the plate-warming pan which Rawdon talked about. If Messrs. Howell and James were to publish a list of the purchasers of all the trinkets which th... ...der Gaffer Jones to be converted, as she would order Goody Hicks to take a James’s powder, without appeal, resistance, or benefit of clergy. My Lord S... ...the Fire,” and “The Livery of Sin,” of a much stronger kind. CHAPTER XXXIV James Crawley’s Pipe Is Put Out THE AMIABLE BEHA VIOUR of Mr. Crawley, and ... ...edled the grocer round the corner for sugar and tea? Suppose I had married Francis who was so fond of me—I couldn’t have been much poorer than I am no... ...tinued to fight for it, and ruin themselves for it, as long as there was a Stuart left to head or to instigate a rebellion. Lady Mary Caerlyon was bro...

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Unknown to History : A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...whenever she pleased, but Lord Shrewsbury, or one of his sons, Gilbert and Francis, never was absent from her for a moment when she went beyond the do... ...who had been kept at home by some temporary damage to his foot, and little Edward were devouring the sailor with their eyes; and Humfrey and Cis were ... ...r. He sent in a message desiring to speak to my lord in his privy chamber. Francis Talbot came to him. “Is it matter of great moment, Dick?” he said, ... ...wait till morning or be despatched by me.” “That is for you to say, Master Francis. What think you of this for a toy?” as he produced the parcel with ... ... Sue. The Hamiltons stand between, being descended from a daughter of King James I.” “So methought I had heard. Are they not Papists?” “Yea! Ah ha, sw... ...eady seen. Lord Flemyng, who put thee on board, believed thee the child of James Hepburn of Lillieburn, the archer, and of my poor Mary Stewart, a kin... ... of being hailed as English Queen. Negotiations were actually on foot with James VI. and Elizabeth for her release. James had written to her with his ... ...ved at Sheffield yesterday, and find- ing no one to welcome him but little Edward, had set forth for Buxton almost with daylight, and having found him... ... or he have the presumption to think that my son William Cavendish or even Edward Talbot will ever cast an eye on a mere portionless country maid, not...

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Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... not willingly, for my father did not like the politics of her father, Sir James Wardour, and my mother did not think the young gentlewoman a sufficie... ...s much haggling over the dowry and marriage portion, and in the midst, Sir James himself took, for his second wife, a stern and sour Puritan dame. My ... ...other that they affronted one another on their first introduction, and Sir James entirely surrendered him- self to his new wife; the match was broken ... ...eseen this, and made arrangements with a good old knight and his lady, Sir Francis Ommaney, always to call for my sister on their way to church, and s... ... fashion, I was not to be left to keep house myself, my mother invited Sir Francis and Lady Ommaney to come and take charge of me, and a very good thi... ...ere all stunned by the dreadful news from England. It was very sad old Sir Francis, who had borne without com- plaint the loss of land, honours, and h... ... ask if I could be ready to return to Paris the second day ensuing, as Sir Edward Hyde was going, and had a pass by which we could all together go thr... ...t: ‘Ha, Walwyn, is it you? You’ll give your word for me that the Chevalier Stuart is an honest fellow of your acquaintance, though somewhat out at elb...

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Nutties Father

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...the Modern School and a scholar. Indeed, the saying of the vicar, the Rev. Francis Spyers, was, and St. Ambrose’s Road was proud of it, that it was a ... ...ich she had taken to the top of the wall. Miss Nugent picked it up, ‘Marie Stuart! Is this your way of studying her?’ ‘Now, you know ’tis holiday time... ...aughter of Alwyn Piercefield and Alice Eliza- beth Egremont, May 15, 1860. James Everett—I think he was the chaplain at Dieppe.’ Mary Nugent thought i... ...l to take him, poor man!’ ‘Meantime, Nuttie, do you like an hour of “Marie Stuart?”’ ‘Oh, thank you!’ But she whispered, ‘Aunt Ursel, may I tell her?’... ...and they are so stupid. You never saw such a stick as we have got now, Mr. Edwards; and his wife isn’t a lady, I’m sure.’ Then as to schools, it was a... ...n, while his wife found it requisite to hurry off else where, leaving Mrs. Edwards to tell her story to Mrs. Egremont. In point of fact, Alice really ... ...ly washing, on the ground of a missing pocket handkerchief, the which Mrs. Edwards believed to have been abstracted by the favourite pickle of Miss Bl... ...rvivor of a consumptive family. ‘“Proputty, proputty,”’ quoted the Canon. ‘James Johnson is what they call a warm man.’ ‘It is a sin and a shame,’ sai... ...ctober Mr. and Mrs. Egremont were invited to a great shooting party at Sir James Jerningham’s. The invitation did not include Ursula. Perhaps she had ...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 5 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...r friend as ever, A. LINCOLN. TO J. W. SOMERS. SPRINGFIELD, June 25, 1858. JAMES W. SOMERS, Esq. MY DEAR SIR:—Y ours of the 22nd, inclosing a draft of... ... not half gone. Make a little test. Run down one of the poll- books of the Edwardsville precinct, and take the first hundred known American names. The... ...ent to control as to slavery in Fed- eral territory. The other of the four—James McHenry voted against the prohibition, showing that, for some cause, ... ...ge Claimer, Ri- chard Bassett, George Read, Pierce Butler, Daniel Carroll, James Madison. This shows that, in their understanding, no line dividing lo... ...ionally engaged. 212 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five TO ______ STUART. W ASHINGTON, March 30, 1861. DEAR STUART: Cousin Lizzie shows me yo... ...A CONVENTION, APRIL 13, 1861 HON. WILLIAM BALLARD PRESTON, ALEXANDER H. H. STUART, GEORGE W . RANDOLPH, Esq. GENTLEMEN:—As a committee of the Virginia... ...liver F. Ferny, John How, James O. Broadhead, Samuel T. Glover, J. Wilzie, Francis P . Blair, Jr., proclaim martial law in the city of Saint Louis. Th... ...an nature. I am, Sir, respectfully your obedient servant, W. H. S. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, Esq., etc. 239 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five T... ...ond. That Major-General John A. Dix, commanding in Baltimore, and the HON. Edwards Pierrepont, of New Y ork, be, and they are hereby, appointed commis...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

... according to the belief of all Christendom, fled at the simple touch of a Stuart 11 sover- eign: no miracle in the Bible, from Jordan or from Bethes... ...ylvania (my brother’s kingdom) ever could have devised, was the celebrated James Burnett, better known to the English public by his judicial title of ... ...interest is continually suffering, viz., the interests of truth. 11 “Of a Stuart sovereign,” and by no means of a Stuart only. Queen Anne, the last S... ...uates. She was the daughter of Lord Le Despencer, (known previously as Sir Francis Dashwood;) and at this time (meaning the time of her visit to Green... ...c justice so broadly exemplified as in an English public school on the old Edward the Sixth or Elizabeth foundation. There is not in the universe such... ... Sir Sidney Smith, I must explain to readers of this genera- tion, and Sir Edward Pellew, (afterwards Lord Exmouth,) figured as the two 3 Paladins of... ...te quarters of the globe, amongst which we distinguished those from Prince Edward Island, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, from, the Mauritius, from Java,... ...ntary favor of accidents. Once or twice they were brought to action by Sir James Duff and Sir Charles Asgill; and, ludicrously enough, once more they ...

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Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy

...o be such a clever man, shepherd. Joseph Poorgrass used to prent to Farmer James Everdene’s waggons before you came, and ’a could never mind which way... ...atthew marked on the dusty floor with his whip handle LAM9S ‘And how Farmer James would cuss, and call thee a fool, wouldn’t he, Joseph, when ’a seed h... ...lsive nature under a deliberative aspect. An Elizabeth in brain and a Mary Stuart in spirit, she often performed actions of the greatest temerity with... ...e 17th inst., at St. Ambrose’s Church, Bath, by the Rev. G. Mincing, B.A., Francis Troy, only son of the late Edward Troy, Esq., M.D., of Weatherbury,... ...ch, Bath, by the Rev. G. Mincing, B.A., Francis Troy, only son of the late Edward Troy, Esq., M.D., of Weatherbury, and sergeant 11th Dragoon Guards, ... ...s, and she read the words with which the inscription opened: — ‘Erected by Francis Troy in Beloved Memory of Fanny Robin.’ Oak saw her, and his first a... ...en shown by the agent to the estate some distrust of Bathsheba’s tenure as James Everdene’s successor, on the score of her sex, and her youth, and her... ...grass — had, like every one else, read or heard the an nouncement that Mr Francis, the Great Cosmopolitan Equestrian and Roughrider, would enact the ...

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The Prime Minister

By: Anthony Trollope

...t Lopez should declare his ancestors had been noted as Christians since St James first preached in the Peninsula. ‘I was educated altogether in Englan... ... from the City to the Prime Minister asking for a subsidized mail, via San Francisco, to Japan. And Lopez, though he had no interest in Japan, had con... ...a matter of course that a Minister should dislike Parliament now as that a Stuart King should have done so two hundred and fifty years ago. T o get a ... ...Duchess of Omnium became the best friend of Ferdinand Lopez. CHAPTER 22 ST JAMES’S PARK TOWARDS THE END of September Everett Wharton and Ferdinand Lop... ...ey dined together, and quite late in the evening they strolled out into St James’s Park. There was nobody in Lon- don, and there was nothing for eithe... ...erbridge for the week previous to the elec- tion. Greshambury, the seat of Francis Gresham, Esq., who was a great man in these parts, was about twenty... ...dence in the country. It is admitted to have been completed in the time of Edward VI, and is thought to have commenced in the days of Edward I. It has...

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The Confessions

By: J. J. Rousseau

...to attempt their completion. The good bishop of Bernex, with less wit than Francis of Sales, resembled him in many particulars, and Madam de Warrens, ... ...ok it in his head to begin a long conversa- tion with me. He spoke of King James, of the Pretender, and the old court of St. Germain’s; I sat on thorn... ...ssed the remainder of the day there. We lodged out of the city, at the St. James, an inn I shall never forget. After dinner, Madam de Larnage proposed... ... translation of Chambers, something like that of the Medical Dictionary of James, which Diderot had just finished. Diderot was desirous I should do so... ...nguish it from all others. I had written separately the adventures of Lord Edward, and had long been undetermined whether I should insert them wholly,... ...early age, and was proscribed on account of his attachment to the house of Stuart. With that house, however, he soon became disgusted with the unjust ... ...he unjust and tyrannical spirit he remarked in the ruling character of the Stuart family. He lived a long time in Spain, the climate of which pleased ... ...hat of the ‘Morale Sensitive’, and the extract of the adven- tures of Lord Edward. The last, I confess, made me suspect Madam de Luxembourg. La Roche,... ...ommerce and politics, and in the last place by his history of the House of Stuart, the only one of his writings of which I had read a part, in the tra...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... doubt, therefore, that, from the year 1624 (that is, the last year of our James I.), she became the object of an admiration in her own country that w... ..., on the breaking up for the holidays, at the Grammar School, a sol- * St. James’, according to my present recollection. 78 Memorials, and Other Pape... ...erary friends he was known familiarly by the name of Aristippus. His sons, Edward and Thomas, resembled him, by all accounts, in nothing; neither phys... ...either physically, nor in moral versatility. These two sons of the Squire, Edward and Tho- mas, through some traditional prejudice in the family, had ... ...n overflowing with levity differs from seventeen pre- maturely thoughtful. Edward Penson was early noticed for his high principle, for his benignity, ... ...sts which new interests and false counsels had developed in the T udor and Stuart dynasties. It was an exceedingly pretty place; and the kitchen, upon... ...used to carry off the colonel, stunned and bleeding, within the gates of a Franciscan convent. He was consigned to the medical care of the holy father... ...s generally taken for granted: but an economist of our times, the late Mr. Francis Horner, had (in the Edinburgh Review) expressly set himself to prov...

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Young Folks, History of England

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...STER. A.D. 1216—1272 ....................................... 36 CHAPTER XV EDWARD I., LONGSHANKS. A.D. 1272—1307 ........................................ ...D. 1272—1307 .............................................. 39 CHAPTER XVI EDWARD II., OF CAERNARVON. A.D. 1307—1327 .................................... ...RVON. A.D. 1307—1327 .................................... 42 CHAPTER XVII EDWARD III. A.D. 1327—1377 ................................................... ...602 .................................................... 84 CHAPTER XXXII. JAMES I. A.D. 1602—1625 ...................................................... ........................................................ 100 CHAPTER XXXVIII JAMES II. A.D. 1685—1688 ..................................................... ...rbeck, the son of a towns- man of T ournay; but the duchess persuaded King James IV . of Scotland to believe him a real royal Plantagenet. He went to ... ...gements with foreign princes had this end in view. The new king of France, Francis I., was young, brilliant and splendid, like Henry, and the two had ... ...he Cloth of Gold. However, nothing came of it all. Cardinal Wolsey thought Francis’s enemy—the Emperor Charles V.—more likely to help him to be pope, ... ...beth’s time were some of the bravest and most skilful that ever lived. Sir Francis Drake sailed round the world in the good ship Pelican, and when he ...

......................................... 34 CHAPTER XIV HENRY III., OF WINCHESTER. A.D. 1216?1272 ....................................... 36 CHAPTER XV EDWARD I., LONGSHANKS. A.D. 1272?1307 .............................................. 39 CHAPTER XVI EDWARD II., OF CAERNARVON. A.D. 1307?1327 .................................... 42...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...WOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II RELA TES HOW FRANCIS, FOURTH VISCOUNT, ARRIVES A T CASTLEWOOD ............................. ...6 CHAPTER V MY SUPERIORS ARE ENGAGED IN PLOTS FOR THE RESTORA TION OF KING JAMES II. ...... 42 CHAPTER VI THE ISSUE OF THE PLOTS.—THE DEA TH OF THOMAS... ...r which the elder brother never forgave him), and where his second brother Edward, who had embraced the ecclesiastical profession, was slain on Castle... ...hion. CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL WHEN FRANCIS, fourth Viscount Castlewood, came to his title, and presently after... ...lad made to his mistress’s questions. 19 Thackeray CHAPTER II RELATES HOW FRANCIS, FOURTH VISCOUNT, ARRIVES AT CASTLEWOOD ’TIS KNOWN THAT the name of... ...possession of the present family through Dorothea, daughter and heiress of Edward, Earl and Marquis Esmond, and Lord of Castlewood, which lady married... ...ch the family hath borne subsequently, was made Knight and Baronet by King James the First; and being of a military disposition, remained long in Germ... ...s was rewarded for his ser- vices and many sacrifices, by his late Majesty James the First, who graciously conferred upon this tried servant the post ... ...rks of demolition, save in the chapel, where the painted windows surviving Edward the Sixth had been broke by the Commonwealthmen. In Father Holt’s ti...

......................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II RELATES HOW FRANCIS, FOURTH VISCOUNT, ARRIVES AT CASTLEWOOD........................... 19 CHAPTER III WHITHER IN THE TIME OF THOMAS, THIRD VISCOUNT, I HAD PRECEDED HIM AS PAGE TO ISABELLA ....................................................

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Twice Told Tales

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

..................................................................... 125 II: EDWARD RANDOLPH’S PORTRAIT ................................................... ...heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II, the big- oted successor of Charles the Voluptuous, had annulled t... ...attempt might fail; and, in either case, the man that stirred against King James would lose his head. Still the intelligence produced a marked effect.... ...un- cillors, and the bitterest foes of New England. At his right hand rode Edward Randolph, our arch-enemy, that “blasted wretch,” as Cotton Mather ca... ... had no alternative but obedience. “What does this old fellow here?” cried Edward Randolph, fiercely. “On, Sir Edmund! Bid the soldiers forward, and g... ...mund Andros, in loud and harsh tones. “How dare you stay the march of King James’s Governor?” “I have stayed the march of a King himself, ere now,” re... ...prov- ince, were heard to whisper the names of Shirley, of Pownall, of Sir Francis Bernard, and of the well-remembered Hutchinson; thereby confessing ... ...nson assumed the administration of the province, on the depar- ture of Sir Francis Bernard. The Lieutenant-Governor sat, one afternoon, resting his he... ... who attended him. One, wearing a military dress of buff, was his kinsman, Francis Lincoln, the Provincial Captain of Castle William; the other, who s...

...here was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II, the bigoted successor of Charles the Voluptuous, had annulled the charters of all the colonies, and sent a harsh and unprincipled soldier to take away our liberties and endanger our religion. The administration of S...

...MASQUERADE................................................................................................................................... 125 II: EDWARD RANDOLPH?S PORTRAIT .............................................................................................................. 139 III: LADY ELEANORE?S MANTLE ..........................................................

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John Keble's Parishes a History of Hursley and Otterbourne

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...the manor; but in 1265 it had passed, by what means we do not know, to Sir Francis de Bohun—a very early specimen of this Christian name which was der... ...of the Saint of Assisi, whose Christian name was John. From the son of Sir Francis in 1279 Simon the Draper obtained the Manor of Otterbourne for 600 ... ...tored the manor, but when Gardiner was illegally deposed by the regency of Edward VI. on 14th February 1550, John Poynet, a considerable scholar, but ... ..., he says: “He was afterwards (saith my author) ab intimo cubiculo to King Edward the Sixth; though I am not satis- fied whether thereby he meant gent... ...y. Ardington was the place in which the family of Clarkes was settled. Sir Edward Clarke, probably the son of Sir Thomas, was High Sheriff of Berks in... ...y, and might well have been filled by the children of Sir Charles and Dame James his wife—Jacoba in her marriage register at Hursley—for they had no l... ...elf in a bog, that the rioters might not call upon him; and one other man, James Collins, went about his work as usual, and heard nothing of any risin... ...held up the light in evil times, said to his young friend, the Rev. Robert Francis Wilson, a first-class Oriel man, to whom the curacy of Hursley had ... ...ble and gentle thoughts for Innocents’ Day. “Lifting up to the Cross” (St. James’s Day) was the prod- uct of a drawing brought home from Germany of a ...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...f my typewritten copy , and gave me much valuable advice, and to Mr. C. G. Stuart Menteath for some valuable references. ... ... can pretend we are indeed impassioned and wholly devoted subjects of King Edward, spending our lives in the service of his will. It is not that we ha... ...The Republic, Bk. V 27 H G Wells And that this is not a popular error Mr. Francis Galton has shown. He has devoted a very large amount of energy and ... ... If to-morrow the whole world were to sign an unanimous round-robin to Mr. Francis Galton and Mrs. Victoria Woodhull Martin, admitting absolutely thei... ... dumb wedding was cel- ebrated at Saffron Walden yesterday, when Frederick James And though the New Republicans, in the existing lack of real guiding ... ...all and Messrs. Bateson, Cunningham, Pocock, Havelock Ellis, E. A. Fay and Stuart Menteath occur to me, only to remind me how divided their attention ... ...ft of the admirably suggestive diagrams of num- ber order collected by Mr. Francis Gallon. Diagram after diagram displays the same hitch at twelve, th... ...a penetrating mind—for example, one might try and kidnap Professor William James in his next Sabbatical year—one or two industrious young students, a ... ...til the advent of Mr. Ewart (with his Public Libraries’ Act), Mr. Passmore Edwards, and Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the stream of endowment for research and ...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...ARRIAGE— ORDERED TO THE PACIFIC COAST— CROSSING THE ISTHMUS—ARRIVAL AT SAN FRANCISCO MY EXPERIENCE in the Mexican war was of great advantage to me aft... ...sease did not break out again on the way to California, and we reached San Francisco early in September. CHAPTER XV SAN FRANCISCO—EARLY CALIFORNIA EXP... ...—LIFE ON THE PACIFIC COAST —PROMOTED CAPTAIN—FLUSH TIMES IN CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO at that day was a lively place. Gold, or placer digging as it was... ...er prepared to receive the shock and to resist it. I there- fore voted for James Buchanan for President. Four years later the Republican party was suc... ...constitute the left wing. Third.—The Seventeenth army corps, Major-General James B. McPherson commanding, will constitute the centre. 254 Personal Me... ...n Fourteen Mile Creek, advance across, and his pickets within two miles of Edward’s station, where the enemy had concentrated a considerable force and... ...d got out of the town. McClernand withdrew from the front of the enemy, at Edward’s station, with much skill and without loss, and reached his positio... ...e night of the 13th Johnston sent the following dis- patch to Pemberton at Edward’s station: “I have lately ar- rived, and learn that Major-General Sh... ...ded as soon as pos- sible to either Aiken’s landing below Dutch Gap on the James River, or to Vicksburg, there to be exchanged, or paroled until they ...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ly as we do ours from the oppressive measures of the wrong-headed house of Stuart.” As time wore on, his sentiments grew more pro- nounced and even vi... ...ountry, and a different school of poetry tracing its descent, through King James I., from Chaucer. The dialect alone ac- counts for much; for it was t... ...al. The hangman, as is not uninteresting to note in connection with Master Francis, was kept hard at work in 1431; on the last of April and on the 4th... ...s. Of this uncle and his money-box the reader will hear once more. In 1448 Francis became a student of the University of Paris; in 1450 he took the de... ...Rouge, and situated in a garden in the cloister of St. Benoit, that Master Francis heard the bell of the Sorbonne ring out the Angelus while he was fi... ...ear in a dungeon on bread and water, and a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James in Galicia. Alas! the document was incomplete; it did not contain the... ... thank you: he would thank you to open the door. With what regret Scottish James I. be- thought him (in the next room perhaps to Charles) of the time ... ...nding his intemperate publi- cation to another queen – his own queen, Mary Stuart. This was on the first of those three interviews which he has pre- s... ...nt principally in London, where he was resident as one of the chaplains of Edward the Sixth; and here he boasts, al- though a stranger, he had, by God...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...ed a real ounce of good copper. The English pound sterling, in the time of Edward I. contained a pound, Tower weight, of silver of a known fineness. T... ... the time of the Saxons; but there was little gold coined till the time of Edward III nor any copper till that of James I. of Great Britain. In Englan... ...little gold coined till the time of Edward III nor any copper till that of James I. of Great Britain. In England, therefore, and for the same reason, ... ...on of the coin. Six shillings and eight pence, for example, in the time of Edward I., I consider as the same money price with a pound sterling in the ... ...en per cent. contin- ued to be the legal rate of interest till the 21st of James I. when it was restricted to eight per cent. It was reduced to six pe... ... to which they properly belonged. It was enacted, therefore, by the 1st of James II. that the forty days undisturbed residence of any person necessary... ... The establishment of the two great mendicant orders of St Dominic and St. Francis, it is observed by Machiavel, revived, in the thirteenth and fourte... ...embers, one would think, were forcible enough. The princes of the house of Stuart sometimes employed the like means in order to influence some of the ...

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