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...ol. There were a Guild Hall and a handsome Corn Market. There was a Modern School for the boys, and a High School for the girls, and a School of Art, ... ... and a handsome Corn Market. There was a Modern School for the boys, and a High School for the girls, and a School of Art, and a School of Cookery, an... ... for the boys, and a High School for the girls, and a School of Art, and a School of Cookery, and National Schools, and a British School, and a Board ... ...as Mr. Dutton put it. ‘Lady Kirkaldy and a whole lot of them came into the School of Art.’ ‘And didn’t appreciate “Head of Antinous by Miss Ursula Egr... .... They also received girls as boarders 7 Charlotte M. Young attending the High School. So did Miss Headworth, who had all her life been one of those ... ...to make a home for her and her child, at first taking pupils, but when the High School was set up, changing these into board- ers; while Mrs. Egremont... ...t was in the tone in which Falstaff discussed that sober boy, Lord John of Lancaster. Lord Kirkaldy asked if the visi- tors were going to remain long ... ...ver from Aunt Ursel, and Miss Mary, and—and— every thing good—and nice—and catholic?’ ‘I hope not, indeed, I hope not. Only he wants us to get the goo... ...d the only ones 174 Nuttie’s Father worthy of a Christian, or rather of a Catholic. Both of them had outgrown the lively, aimless chatter and little ...

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...the sort. I once saw the face of an old man who had flung himself out of a high window in Rome, and who had been killed instantly on the pavement; it ... ...hing but joyful thrills. All instinct, too, fought against me when I tried high diving. I managed it, and began to like it. I had to give it up becaus... ... it has gone clean out of my memory if ever it was there. We were swimming high and fast, three thousand feet or so, in a clear, sweet air over the to... ...ally in a rigorous and voluble Frenchman named Carnac, an aggressive Roman Catholic, who opened his speech by saying that the first aris- tocrat was t... ...tan- dard for such men as Carnac, the man who seems to be the ideal of the Catholic Democrat? He is the creature of a few fundamental impulses. He beg... ... anything but blank, black, damnable ignorance. One fool stands up for the Catholic Albanians, another finds heroes in the Servians, another talks of ... ...t the scattered unsettled furnishings of the new home Amanda had chosen in Lancaster Gate. He was in the hall, the door stood open awaiting packing-ca... ...l near Charing Cross. In the evening about ten he appeared at the house in Lancaster Gate. The butler was deferentially amazed. Mrs. Benham was, he sa... ...ed in London. White had not seen Benham since the social days of Amanda at Lancaster Gate, and he was astonished at the change a few years had made in...

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...r Arch- bishop of Canterbury we do, theoretically and abstractedly, feel a higher reverence for such self-made magnate than for one who has been as it... ...ork and intrinsic merit have raised above his natural place an aspirant to high social position. Can it be expected that such a one when dining with a... ... the world. It was known of him that he had been at a good English private school, and it was re- ported, on the solitary evidence of one of who had b... ...s re- ported, on the solitary evidence of one of who had been there as his schoolfellow, that a rumour was current in the school that his school bills... ...ad been one of those who had hoped to find in the club a stepping-stone to high political life, and who now talked often with idle energy of the need ... ...on in matters of religion, —have always advocated the admis- sion of Roman Catholics and Jews into Parliament, and even to the Bench. In ordinary life... ... might not be wanted? He found himself beating about among the rocks as to Catholic edu- cation and Papal interference, the passage among which might ... ... certainly.’ ‘ And yet,’ said Phineas, ‘the bulk of the people are staunch Catholics. Of course the same attempt to maintain a tempo- ral influence, w... ...llen upon him of filling the faineant office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. ‘Mr Finn,’ she said, ‘I congratulate you on your colleagues.’ ‘Y...

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...n, but nature had not fitted her to deal with a timid, sensitive child, of highly nervous temperament. Indeed, persons of far more insight might have ... ...n followed their example, but no one had it badly except Clarence, who had high fever, and very much delirium each night, talking to people whom he th... ...se regret her severity on the vision of Lucy. 10 Chantry House CHAPTER II—SCHOOLR CHAPTER II—SCHOOLR CHAPTER II—SCHOOLR CHAPTER II—SCHOOLR CHAPTER II... ...CHOOLR CHAPTER II—SCHOOLR CHAPTER II—SCHOOLR CHAPTER II—SCHOOLR CHAPTER II—SCHOOLROOM DA OOM DA OOM DA OOM DA OOM DAYS YS YS YS YS ‘In the loom of lif... ...Grandfather, and the Rival Crusoes stand pre-eminent—also Mrs. Leicester’s School, with the ghost story cut out. Fairies and ghosts were prohibited as... ...n treason to schoolboy honour to let the elders know that though a strong, high-spirited popular boy like ‘Win’ might venture to excel big bullying du... ... seemed glad to see my father become animated and like himself while Roman Catholic Emancipation was vehemently discussed, and the ruin of England hot... ...d bear to be twitted with “that 160 Chantry House sober boy, Lord John of Lancaster.” Not,’ he added, catch- ing himself up, ‘that I meant to compare...

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...elieved to pass a build- ing put up by the London County Council for Night Schools. “Lord, how gloomy it is!” her husband groaned. “Poor creatures!” W... ...,” said Ambrose. Each of the ladies, being after the fashion of their sex, highly trained in promoting men’s talk without listening to it, could think... ..., lights that indicated huge squares of domestic comfort, lights that hung high in air. No dark- ness would ever settle upon those lamps, as no darkne... ... 15 Virginia Woolf “Did you leave the children well? They’ll be ready for school, I suppose. Do they take after you or Ambrose? They’ve got good head... ...as flushed and out of breath. “You know what gentlemen are. The chairs too high—the tables too low—there’s six inches between the floor and the door. ... ...iting and asking to be caught. I’m not exactly a Protestant, and I’m not a Catholic, but I could almost pray for the days of popery to come again—beca... ...ar tone of voice, “I’m sure Miss Vinrace, now, has secret leanings towards Catholicism,” she had no idea what to answer, and Helen could not help laug... ...conceive why, if people must have a religion, they didn’t all become Roman Catholics. They had made several expeditions though none of any length. It ... ...t upon the upkeep of a house that needed seven servants and a charwoman in Lancaster Gate, and another with a garden and carriage-horses in Surrey. Su...

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...oth parties, we have no hesitation to give their names at length. When the Highlanders, on the morning of the battle of Preston, 1745, made their memo... ... as if determined to the very last to defend the post assigned to him, the Highland gentleman com- manded him to surrender, and received for reply a t... ... target. The officer was now defenceless, and the battle-axe of a gigantic Highlander (the miller of Invernahyle’s mill) was uplifted to dash his brai... ...it had often been the refuge of the family. There, in the wars of York and Lancaster, the last adherents of the Red Rose who dared to maintain her cau... ...oubleit used jocosely to call it Ursa Major), and was supposed, in old and Catholic times, to be invested with certain properties of a mystical and su... ...ep housings to agree with his livery, was no bad representative of the old school. His light-coloured embroidered coat, and su- perbly barred waistcoa... ...ion, perhaps,’ said Fergus, ‘may make obstacles, though we are not bigoted Catholics.’ ‘My grandmother was of the Church of Rome, and her religion was... ...ing their speculative errors by converting the pulpit of the gospel into a school of heathen morality. Perhaps it is owing to this mixture of faith an... ...detained him some time, asking various questions about the great T ory and Catholic families of En- gland, their connexions, their influence, and the ...

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...as born in Manchester on the 15th of August, 1785. His father was a man of high character and great taste for literature as well as a successful man o... ... now for some years a widow, removed to Bath and placed him in the grammar school there. Thomas, the future opium-eater, was a weak and sickly child. ... ...hild rear- ing in particular were very strict. She took Thomas out of Bath School, after three years’ excellent work there, because he was too much pr... ...manner, yet inexcusably inconsiderate in his behavior. Again, he sets up a high standard of purity of diction, yet uses slang quite unnecessarily and ... ...der, but which, in doing so, may or may not happen occasionally to reach a higher station, at which the amusement passes into an impassioned interest.... ...eered, that he had an interest at stake in some suit-at-law now pending at Lancaster; so that probably he had got himself transferred to this station ... ...iles each. The first five of these, counting from Manchester, terminate in Lancaster; which is therefore fifty-five miles north of Manchester, and the... ...he whole Pagan *“Confluent”:—Suppose a capital Y (the Pythagorean letter): Lancaster is at the foot of this letter; Liverpool at the top of the right ... ...irely unparalleled in literature, could not have existed ex- cept in Roman Catholic times, nor subsequently have lin- gered in any Protestant land. It...

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...true!” said Miss Prescott, breathlessly. “I sup- pose the girls are at the High School?” “Yes, they will be at home at one. Or shall I send for them?”... ...” said Miss Prescott, breathlessly. “I sup- pose the girls are at the High School?” “Yes, they will be at home at one. Or shall I send for them?” 4 M... ...write till I knew more. I hope they have not raised their expectations too high; for though it is enough to be an immense relief, it is not exactly af... ...at they would have heard nothing about it.” “It came through some of their schoolfellows; one cannot help things getting into the air.” “ And there ge... ...shall fight for me,” said Mrs. Best, who had been bravely presiding over a high-school boarding-house ever since her husband, a railway engineer, had ... ... reader; she would hardly look at me, so absorbed was she in ‘The York and Lancaster Rose’ which I had brought her.” “She is rather like that now. I c... ...e one where there is this distant fragrance of swells, instead of the only Catholic one.” Agatha had a little more common sense than the other two, an... ...cause Dissenters learnt pieces of Scripture! You seem to me like the Roman Catholic child, who said there were five sacraments, there ought to be seve... ...ht had spoken of Mr. Delrio as a highly praiseworthy young man, of decided Catholic principles; he was regular at Church ser- vices, and had dined or ...

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...d in—it was in a dreary , respectable street between Notting Hill Gate and High Street, Kensington— Emma led Philip into the drawing-room. His uncle w... ...id. “Y ou’re too old to have a nurse now. We must see about sending you to school.” “I want Emma to come with me,” the child repeated. “It costs too m... ...o and about her own home in Devonshire—her fa- ther kept a turnpike on the high-road that led to Exeter , and there were pigs in the sty , and there w... ...w be- cause the branches were so low that it was pos- sible to climb quite high up it. “A small room for a small boy ,” said Mrs. Carey . “ Y ou won’t... .... He kept the parish accounts, ar- ranged the treats for the choir and the schools; though there was no organ in the parish church, it was generally c... ... was accustomed to say that Papists re- quired an epithet, they were Roman Catholic; but the Church of England was Catholic in the best, the fullest, ... ...der the influence of Newman’s Apologia; the pictur- esqueness of the Roman Catholic faith appealed to his esthetic sensibility; and it was only the fe... ...law established. Though he had now given up all idea of becom- ing a Roman Catholic, he still looked upon that communion with sympathy . He had much t... ...rts, of the hollyhock and the red and white rose which is called Y ork and Lancaster, and of love—in-a-mist and Sweet William, and honeysuckle, larksp...

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...as origi- nally told me by an old servant of my father’s, an excellent old Highlander, without a fault, unless a preference to moun- tain-dew over les... ...ed by Jean Gordon. Her very remarkable figure, for she was nearly six feet high, and her equally remarkable features and dress, rendered it im- possib... ...dated behind the hallan, and guided him for some miles, till he was on the high-road to Lochside. She then restored his whole prop- erty; nor could hi... ...ed to the exercise of talents which had long slumbered, he opened a little school, and supported his patron’s child for the rest of her life, treating... ...owan consisted of the Laird, and a sort of person who might be the village school- master, or perhaps the minister’s assistant; his appearance was too... ...visage, while reciting his task, made poor Sampson the ridicule of all his school-companions. The same qualities secured him at Glasgow college a plen... ...omas Kittlecourt’s uncle—and how they brought hame relics, like those that Catholics have, and a flag that’s up yonder in the garret—if they had been ... ...not means of defence, or the skill and courage to use them, the assizes at Lancaster or Carlisle will do him justice by tucking up the robber:-Yet who... ...to speed the passage of a parting spirit, like the tolling, of the bell in catholic days. 186 Guy Mannering She accompanied this dismal sound with a ...

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... street gloomy, so that people did not alto gether like to pass along the high wooden fence that shut it in; and the old house itself, covering groun... ...nclusion that it was his birth place, and the spot where he had spent his schoolboy days, and had lived until some inscrutable reason had impelled hi... ...it,” said Doctor Grim; “hiding people who had fought on the wrong side, or Catholic priests, or criminals, or perhaps—who knows?—enemies that they wan... ...od there were several brothers of the old family (which had adhered to the Catholic religion), and these chose the side of the King instead of that of... ... criticism, Ned soon grew to be the 33 Hawthorne pride of the Frenchman’s school, in both the active depart ments; and the Doctor himself added a fu... ..., eating and gnawing away and cor roding what was best in him; and what a high, noble, re creating triumph it was when these dark impulses were re ... ...which prin ciples operating upon one another would come all brave, noble, high, unselfish actions, and the scorn of all mean ones; 34 Doctor Grimsha... ...no sunshine to fade them; worked on them is some tapestried story, done by Catholic hands, of saints or devils, looking each equally grave and solemnl... ...nd red rose trees in the T emple Gardens, whence the partisans of York and Lancaster had plucked their fatal badges. With these, there were all the mo...

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... of England’s Eliza- beth. I have endeavoured to describe her as at once a high- minded sovereign, and a female of passionate feelings, hesi- tating b... ...ms of Mickle and Langhorne, poets who, though by no means deficient in the higher branches of their art, were eminent for their powers of verbal melod... ...ou are from the Low Countries, the land of pike and caliver?” “I have been high and low, my friend, broad and wide, far and near. But here is to thee ... ...e one or two of the less scrupulous speedily began to recol- lect him as a school-companion, a townsman, or so forth. On the other hand, two or three ... ... nodding and winking. “Dost thou remember, Mike, what thou saidst when the schoolmaster’s ferule was over thee for striking up thy father’s crutches?—... ... and frequents the company of cocks of the game, as a puny fencer does the schools of the masters, to see how a foil is handled by the teachers of def... ... “is it fit for a heretic horse-boy like thee to handle such a text as the Catholic clergy?” “In troth no, dame,” replied the man of oats; “and as you... ...dward II., lan- guished in its dungeons. Old John of Gaunt, “time-honoured Lancaster,” had widely extended the Castle, erecting that noble and massive... ...e Castle, erecting that noble and massive pile which yet bears the name of Lancaster’ s Build- ings; and Leicester himself had outdone the former poss...

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...ery act of transcribing his mind was apt to stray from the work in hand to higher things; he would lose himself in contemplating those airy abstrac- t... ...verse. Yet he was usually averse to expressing these feelings, except when highly idealized; and many of his more beautiful effusions he had cast asid... ... _200 And yet there is a moment When the sun’s highest point Peers like a star o’er ocean’s western edge, When those far c... ...glittering grass, And wept, I knew not why; until there rose From the near schoolroom, voices that, alas! _25 Were but one ech... ...h century into cold impersonations of my own mind. They are represented as Catholics, and as Catholics deeply tinged with religion. T o a Protestant a... ... by a feigned tale to confess himself before death; this being esteemed by Catholics as essential to salvation; and she only relinquishes her purpose ... .... 32. 32. 32. 32. 32. For he now raved enormous folly, Of Baptisms, Sunday-schools, and Graves, _615 ’T would make George ... ...r the worshipped father of our common country, With contributions from the catholics, Will make Rebellion pale in our excess. Be these the expedients ... ...nded With red-hot iron on the cheek and forehead, And be imprisoned within Lancaster Castle _5 585 Shelley During the plea...

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... I feel as if I stood amongst old friends, whom I had intimately known and highly valued. I feel as if the deaths of the fictitious creatures, in whic... ...here to it, and never to forsake the end I had in view. Not untried in the school of affliction, in the death of those we love, I thought what a good ... ...al, veritable old gentleman, that might be seen any day hobbling along the High Street with the most brilliant eye—but that is no fiction—and the grey... ...is land and people—with all my sense of jus tice as keenly alive to their high claims on every man who loves God’s image—with all my energies as full... ...ff of masters and officers, amounting to half a hundred in themselves; its schools, con veying every sort of instruction, high and low, adapted to th... ...eting held here some short time since, in aid of the formation of a girls’ school in connexion with this institution. This is a new and striking chapt... ...aid, and I shall say, nothing. In the city of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, both of them remarkable for self taught men, that were superfluo... ...riends, that it is deeper than the soundless sea, and wider than the whole Catholic Church. I may safely add that it has for the moment almost stricke...

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... I would be the first to tell you that my friends and I were no angels in high school. We often found ways to get ourselves alcohol when we could fin... ...ould be the first to tell you that my friends and I were no angels in high school. We often found ways to get ourselves alcohol when we could find no ... ...we could find no other available mischief to keep busy. Since no one in my high school had his or her own place, many times we found ourselves being f... ...uld find no other available mischief to keep busy. Since no one in my high school had his or her own place, many times we found ourselves being foolis... ... out of the camper door. I was hungry and knew Miss Plinky, an old, plump, high-spirited woman, would be making her famous chocolate- covered bananas ... ... didn’t have video games ei- ther. It was on these days that we would play school, or sometimes we would pretend to have a restau- rant and take order... ...s equivalent to the size of the congregation that could fit into a typical Catholic cathedral. Looking back now, twelve years later, it seemed a very ... ... (“NRC Probes” 1). This power plant is located 17.9 miles from the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and is also close enough to Philadelphia to put th...

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...ated in history. Each of the best sort of these chariots, not quite breast high in front, and open at the back, contained one man to drive, and two or... ...y a storm), and what with having some of his vessels dashed to pieces by a high tide after they were drawn ashore, he ran great risk of being totally ... ...mans sunk, still yield water; roads that the Romans made, form part of our highways. In some old battle fields, British spear heads and Roman armour h... ...but they did so, I am sorry to say, in a shabby manner. Led by the Earl of Lancaster, the King’s cousin, they first of all attacked the King and Gaves... ...They sentenced him to death. He threw him self at the feet of the Earl of Lancaster—the old hog—but the old hog was as savage as the dog. He was take... ...esorted to arms, took their castles, and seized their estates. The Earl of Lancaster had first placed the favourite (who was a poor relation of his ow... ...some Protestant prisoners for denying the Pope’s doctrines, and some Roman Catholic prisoners for denying his own supremacy. Still the people bore it,... ... who inclined to the Protestant opinions, and whose husband being a fierce Catholic, turned her out of his house. She came to London, and was consid ... ...e kept a journal himself. It is pleasanter to know that not a single Roman Catholic was burnt in this reign for holding that religion; though two wret...

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...oldiers showed, that in the hour of need there was not wanting to them the highest and deepest ‘spirit of self-sacrifice.’ At some risk of prolixity, ... ...ent learn absolutely to look upon danger as an occasion for evinc- ing the highest qualities. ‘O Life, without thy chequer’d scene Of right and wrong,... ...ril, in oblivion, or recklessness of personal safety, in comparison with a higher object. That object is sometimes unworthy. In the lowest form of cou... ...ght to the death to amuse the populace. They were usually slaves placed in schools of arms under the care of a master; but sometimes persons would vol... ... by the assis- tance of our own John of Gaunt, whose daughter, Philippa of Lancaster, became his wife, thus connecting the glories of his line with ou... ..., Philip II., who wished to be con- sidered as the prime champion of Roman Catholic Christendom, and who alone had the power of assisting him. The Duk... ...in the year 1631, in the midst of the long Thirty Years’ Was between Roman Catholics and Protestants, which finally decided that each state should hav... ...a, originally Protestant, had passed into the hands of the Emperor’s Roman Catholic party. It was a fine old German city, standing amid woods and mead... ...oughout King James’ peaceful reign been treated by the English nobility as schools of arms, and a few campaigns were considered as a graceful finish t...

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...ing. Fortunately, after all such churls have withdrawn from my audience in high displeasure, there remains a large majority who are loud in acknowledg... ...e docks, was burned to the ground. The huge edifice, eight or nine stories high, and laden with most combustible goods, many thousand bales of cotton,... ...illiams’ murders of 1812. The act and the actor are each separately in the highest degree interesting; and, as forty- two years have elapsed since 181... ...and separately arrested. Their trial and condemnation speedily followed at Lancaster; and in those days it followed, of course, that they were ex- ecu... ...d, upon principles of fidelity under political suffer- ing, with the Roman Catholics, to say little in his own de- fence. That defence, and any revers... ...V oltaire selected those who were still called great, and their respective schools.’ Pope’s men, it seems, never had 83 Thomas de Quincey been famous... ...Episcopal chapels, or rather the ornamented albes, &c. from any rich Roman Catholic establishment, would have been more effective. The Coryphaeus hims... ... at the age of twenty-four. Except that he favored the claims of the Irish Catholics, his policy was pretty uniformly that of Mr. Pitt. He supported t... ... rude and uncultured as that which pre- vailed during the wars of York and Lancaster—i.e. about two centuries earlier. But those, with which I introdu...

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... At length, in 1812, Mr. Williams made his début on the stage of Ratcliffe High- way, and executed those unparalleled murders which have procured for ... ...l, (let what will come of it,) that murder is an improper line of conduct, highly improper; and I do not stick to assert, that any man who deals in mu... ...y a warm, sanguinary coloring, has too much of the naked air of the savage school; as if the deed were perpe- trated by a Polypheme without science, p... ...resistance; for, according to himself, irresistible power creates the very highest species of right, so that it is rebellion of the blackest die to re... ...the earliest work of antediluvian art. Father Mersenne, that learned Roman Catholic, in page one thousand four hun- dred and thirty-one 1 of his oper... ...ntirely unparalleled in literature, could not have existed except in Roman Catholic times, nor subse- quently have lingered in any Protestant land. It... ... volunteered, that he had an interest at stake in a suit-at-law pending at Lancaster; so that probably he had got himself transferred to this station,... ... miles each. The first five of these, dated from Manchester, terminated in Lancaster, which was therefore fifty-five miles north of Manchester, and th... ...undation for com- ing disasters. The summer assizes were now proceeding at Lancaster: in consequence of which, for three nights and three days, he had...

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...rs embarked, watch- ing the white cliffs on the other side of the sea grow higher and higher as he came nearer and nearer. When he came quite up to th... ...h men and horses. Then William or- dered his archers to shoot their arrows high in the air. They came down like hail into the faces and on the heads o... ...illiam liked hunting more than anything else— his people said he loved the high deer as if he was their fa- ther,—and to keep the place clear for them... ...o them, and gave them nick-names. He called the king’s cousin, the Earl of Lancaster, “the old hog;” the Earl of Pembroke, “Joseph the Jew;” and the E... ...ose, and required that they should be banished. They went, but the Earl of Lancaster carried his turbulence too far, and, when he hear that the father... ...bliged to go home, and leave the govern- ment to his brother John, Duke of Lancaster. He lived about six years after he came home, and then died, to t... ...ver the Church, held with him and Mary of Scotland. They were called Roman Catholics, while Elizabeth and her friends were the real Catholics, for the... ... her across the lake, and she was soon at the head of an army of her Roman Catholic subjects. They were defeated, however, and she found no place safe... ...ficult to judge was, that the kings of France and Spain, and all the Roman Catholics at home, thought Mary ought to be queen instead of Elizabeth, and...

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...derful work; it is supported upon twenty piers of square stone, sixty feet high and thirty broad, joined by arches of about twenty feet diameter. The ... ...is built a tower, on whose top the heads of such as have been executed for high treason are placed on iron spikes: we counted above thirty. Paulus Jov... ...of the privy chamber; captain of the guards; one of the Privy Council, and High Chancellor of England, and of the University of Oxford: who, to the gr... ...erbert, Earl of Pembroke, and his lady: and near it, that of John, Duke of Lancaster, with this inscription Here sleeps in the Lord, John of Gant, so ... ...as thrice married; first to Blanche, daughter and heiress of Henry Duke of Lancaster; by her he received an immense inherit- ance, and became not only... ...; by her he received an immense inherit- ance, and became not only Duke of Lancaster, but Earl of Leicester, Lincoln, and Derby, of whose race are des... ...name of Recusant then began first to be known to the world; until then the Catholics were no more than Church-Papists,* but now, commanded by the Pope... ...ere no more than Church-Papists,* but now, commanded by the Pope’s express Catholic Church, their mother, they separate them- selves; so it seems the ... ...ceived faith, and so, under the veil of the next successor, to replant the Catholic religion. So that the Queen had then a new task and work in hand t...

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...hey are only incidentally managers and men of business: primarily they are highly cultivated artists, quite ca- pable of judging for themselves anythi... ... as might make it consistent with their dignity and unobstructive to their higher artistic aims. Feeling no personal need for protection against the a... ...e Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet subject. The then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Mr Herbert Samuel (now Postmaster-Gen- eral), who had made his w... ...rformance by the Lord Chamberlain’s condemnation of it; but on appeal to a higher court it was decided that the representation was lawful and the inte... ...y and pious people. They are at present con- demned by the Greek and Roman Catholic censor- ships as unfit for general reading. A censorship of conduc... ...e people who approve of it, but by the people who regard it as incestuous. Catholic Emancipation and the admis- sion of Jews to parliament needed no t... ...pation and the admis- sion of Jews to parliament needed no toleration from Catholics and Jews: the toleration they needed was that of the people who r... ...takes care that nobody shall starve it, or regulate its dramatic diet as a schoolmistress regulates the reading of her pupils. Even when it wishes to ... ...s of a good-hearted and virtuous girl. Its morality was that of the Sunday school. But the principal ac- tress, between two speeches which contained n...

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...ion, too, is generally carried furthest in those countries which enjoy the highest degree of industry and improve- ment; what is the work of one man, ... ...those of England, because the silk manufacture, at least under the present high duties upon the importation of raw silk, does not so well suit the cli... ...y small villages which are scat- tered about in so desert a country as the highlands of Scotland, every farmer must be butcher, baker, and brewer, for... ...er, among the inferior ranks of people, is often afraid to send her son to school at a sea-port town, lest the sight of the ships, and the conversatio... ...e mean- ness of their pecuniary recompence. In England, and in all Ro- man catholic countries, the lottery of the church is in reality much more advan... ...ithstanding, to return to Ath- ens, in order to resume the teaching of his school. T eachers of the sciences were probably in those times less common ... ...efore, towards the close of the dissensions between the houses of York and Lancaster. Even then it was, prob- ably, in a better condition than it had ... ..., and established there the four governments of New En- gland. The English catholics, treated with much greater injustice, established that of Marylan... ...upposed, had been gradually ac- commodated to support the doctrines of the Catholic Church. They set themselves, therefore, to expose the many errors ...

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...arth with the moccasoned tread of an Indian warrior, making haste from the high places of the earth to its ancient reservoir. The murmurs of many a fa... ...plore at their invitation the interior of continents. They are the natural highways of all nations, not only levelling the ground and removing obstacl... ...richer crop than all. Let me believe a dream so dear, Some heart beat high that day, Above the petty Province here, And Britain far away; ... ...ators of the earth, and lived under an organized political government. The school house stood with a meek aspect, entreating a long truce to war and s... ...e divine, than Jove. He is not so much of a gentleman, not so gracious and catholic, he does not exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, ... ... is one of the largest tributaries, flows from Wachusett Mountain, through Lancaster, Groton, and other towns, where it has formed well known elm shad... ... and factories, and did not tempt us to explore it. Far away from here, in Lancaster, with another compan ion, I have crossed the broad valley of the... ...generalize the particular information gained below, and subject it to more catholic tests. I was up early and perched upon the top of this tower to se... ... buy their fresh fruits with his superfluous com modities. Under the same catholic sun glances his white ship over Pacific waves into their smooth ba...

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...garian Prophetess; and very extraordinary instances were cited amongst the highest circles of her success in the art which she professed. So ample wer... ...w turn- ings, and after a course of about five hundred yards, into a broad high-road, which even at that day had begun to as- sume the character of a ... ...d, as it was barely possible (though, for reasons well known to me, in the highest degree improb- able) that Agnes might have returned by a by-path, w... .... The night which succeeded was gloomy for both the representatives of his Catholic Majesty. It cannot be denied by the greatest of philosophers, that... ...rom the Pacific ocean. She, that was always prudent, packed up some of the Catholic king’s bis- cuit, as she had previously packed up far too little o... ...iging attentions, ‘I myself hold the rank of Alferez in the service of his Catholic Majesty. I am a native of Biscay, and I am now repairing to Cuzco ... ...he shore. All the bevy of gay laughing officers, jun- ior and senior, like schoolboys escaping from school, jumped on shore, and walked hastily, as th... ...he apotheosis of Andrew Bell: and because it hap- pened that his opponent, Lancaster, between ourselves, re- ally had stolen his ideas from Bell, what... ...e- ally had stolen his ideas from Bell, what between the sad wickedness of Lancaster and the celestial transfiguration of Bell, gradually Coleridge he...

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...pecies an account of its habits and range. These works, which I owe to the high talents and disinter- ested zeal of the above distinguished authors, c... ...en during those months when the harmattan is known to raise clouds of dust high into the atmosphere, we may feel sure that it all comes from Africa. I... ...rom the coast of America, and 350 from the island of Fernando Noronha. The highest point is only fifty feet above the level of the sea, and the entire... ...bt but that the hab- its of this Virgularia explain one such case. Captain Lancaster, in his voyage* in 1601, narrates that on the sea-sands of the Is... ... I had the good fortune to find living here Mr. Rich- ard Corfield, an old schoolfellow and friend, to whose hospitality and kindness I was greatly in... ... have been an In- dian, for the race is in this part extinct, owing to the Catholic desire of making at one blow Christians and Slaves. I had at the t... ... told me that, though quite a young man, he remembers when he was a boy at school at Coquimbo, a holiday being given to see the captain of an English ... ...o the governor. He believes that nothing would have induced any boy in the school, himself included, to have gone close to the English- man; so deeply...

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...et to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe-The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to read. -- 9. Largest Land Empire Ever-Illiterate tribes of nom...

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...-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing ... ...ance. This book germinated from seeds planted in the 1930s when a junior high print shop class introduced me to Gutenberg‘s invention. There, the ―... ...y prompted notes randomly taken and linked to history trails recalled from high school and college studies. Especially rewarding were sweeping hi... ...pted notes randomly taken and linked to history trails recalled from high school and college studies. Especially rewarding were sweeping historie... ...nd the Epilogue. 2 A high school student—recalling my mention of Aquatic Apes the previous week—... ...on in the fifteenth century. Charlemagne’s war against ignorance Roman Catholic Church monasteries in the darkest of the ―Dark Ages‖ prevented th... ...he Franks— turned for help in 781. He was fortunate to find one of the few Catholic scholars who emphasized science and dialectical logic. In York... ... doctors, scholars, scientists, and priests from all religions, including Catholics, Nestorians, Armenians, Buddhists, and Muslims. Kublai Khan‘s ... ...f that opinion which … made Henry V the national hero and the struggle of Lancaster and York the theme of a national cycle of tragedies,‖ according t...

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...nuary 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time its nominal editor....

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...s a salt marsh that bounded part of the mill pond, on the edge of which, at high water, we used to stand to fish for minnows. By much trampling, we h... ...to the water edge and hallow’d to us, as we did to them; but the wind was so high, and the surff so loud, that we could not hear so as to understand e... ... ing first, “What do you intend to infer from that?” However, it gave him so high an opinion of my abilities in the confut ing way, that he seriously... ... bred a Protes tant, being a clergyman’s daughter, but was converted to the Catholic religion by her husband, whose memory she much revered; had live... ...tired manner, of whom my landlady gave me this account: that she was a Roman Catholic, had been sent abroad when young, and lodg’d in a nunnery with a... ...years in that garret, being permitted to remain there gratis by suc cessive Catholic tenants of the house below, as they deemed it a blessing to have... ...ms were will appear in the advertisement I publish’d as soon as I arriv’d at Lancaster, which being, from the great and sudden effect it produc’d, a p... ... shall insert it at length, as follows: “ADVERTISEMENT. “LANCASTER, April 26, 1755. “Whereas, one hundred and fifty waggons, with ... ...re of the same, I hereby give notice that I shall attend for that purpose at Lancaster from this day to next Wednesday evening, and at York from next ...