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Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since

By: Sir Walter Scott

... Royal Highness with much emotion, and asked permission to retire from the service of a sovereign who did not know how to spare a vanquished enemy. Th... ...nities of contrast have been af- forded me, by the state of society in the northern part of the island at the period of my history, and may serve at o... ...his stock of chivalrous and ro- mantic lore. The earlier literature of the northern nations did not escape the study of one who read rather to awaken ... ...here he narrowly missed surpris- ing our young hero as he went through the guards of the broadsword with the ancient weapon of old Sir Hildebrand, whi... ...stance. On the road between Preston and London he made his escape from his guards; but being afterwards found loitering near the place where they had ... ...per-box than a Gothic watch-tower. Neither did the front indicate absolute security from danger. There were loop-holes for musketry, and iron stanchio... ...mselves by the handle. The axe, which was also much used by the natives of Ireland, is supposed to have been intro- duced into both countries from Sca... ...his ancient Gaelic ditty is still well known, both in the Highlands and in Ireland. It was translated into English, and published, if I mistake not, u... ..., joined to the obscurity of expression which they adopted for the sake of security, that has confounded my judgement. Had I yielded to the first gene...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

... poet; introduced him to old Wycherley, the dramatist; and was of material service to his views. With Wycherley, who was old, doted, and excessively v... ... “Windsor Forest,” an “Ode on St Cecilia’s Day,” and several papers in the Guardian—one of them be- ing an exquisitely ironical paper, comparing Phill... ...was a great gathering of the Tory wits at T wickenham. Swift had come from Ireland, and resided for some time with Pope. Bolingbroke came over occasio... ...ill such talents as they have are so far discredited as to be but of small service to them. For (what is the hardest case imaginable) the reputa- tion... ... arms, Feeds from his hand, and in his bosom warms; Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage, The promised Father of the future age. No more shall ... ...the southern wit sublimes, 400 But ripens spirits in cold northern climes; Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the ... ...0 Their ancient bounds the banish’d Muses pass’d; Thence Arts o’er all the northern world advance, But critic-learning flourish’d most in France: The ... ...e. Kind Boyle, before his poet lays A table, 77 with a cloth of bays; And Ireland, mother of sweet singers, Presents her harp 78 still to his finger... ...s to his heir; T o prove, that luxury could never hold; And place, on good security, his gold. Now times are changed, and one poetic itch Has seized t...

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Guy Mannering

By: Sir Walter Scott

...ed in sincerity and truth. You ought to dedicate this boy to the immediate service of his Maker, with as much sincerity as Samuel was devoted to the w... ...m-gate, made of young fir-trees nailed together, now formed the only safe- guard of this once formidable entrance. The esplanade in front of the castl... ...y inhabited. This protec- tion they were said anciently to have repaid, by service to the laird in war, or, more frequently, by infesting or plunderin... ...Mr. Bertram met the gipsy procession. Four or five men formed the advanced guard, wrapped in long loose greatcoats that hid their tall slender figures... ...ted with the old haunted castle in which you played the astrologer in your northern tour some twenty years since, I have heard you too often describe ... ...wo or three files remained with us for that and the following day, for the security of the house from the vengeance of these banditti. “Such, dearest ... ...wn has made his escape into the sister kingdom of En- gland, or perhaps to Ireland, or the Isle of Man. In either case he may wait the issue of Hazlew... ...ell pronounce to us if the wines of Gascony lose their flavour in our more northern realm.” Mannering, agreeably flattered by this allusion to the fam... ...ou, my good Rebecca, my character and your own age and appearance are your security, if you should talk as loosely as an amatory poet.” “Aweel, if you...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...f destroying the establishment, and ‘sweeping it from the land.’ Could any guardian of pub- lic interests, under so wicked a threat, hesitate as to th... ...en, they were melted down and recast into washing vessels for the priestly service. Now the sacred utensils, as we know from other sources, were unden... ... clearing the forehead of perspiration. As to pocket-handkerchiefs, in our northern use of them, it has been satisfactorily shown by Bottiger, in a Ge... ...e Roi donne par honeur.’ And lately in Lord Amherst’s progress through the northern provinces of our Indian empire, &c. we read con- tinually of the K... ... we reply—true; but then it was the vagueness of art, which promised to be serviceable, and that of preconcerted perplexity, not the vagueness of inco... ...ratiast. Bonaparte wanted those even which were essential to his own daily security. Charlemagne swam well; Bonaparte not at all. Charlemagne was a fi... ...Charlemagne to something beyond the customary ends of victory and domestic security. Of all con- querors, whose history is known sufficiently to throw... ... an English moon, or again em- brace his ‘placens uxor?’ As with regard to Ireland, it is one stock trick of Whiggery to treat the chances of assassin... ...s the fol- lowing explanations:— ‘The number and ferocity of the dogs that guard the Greek hamlets and sheepfolds, as compared with those kept for sim...

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

...er within is at all times exposed to the observation and inspection of any guard who may pass along that tier at any hour or minute of the night. Ever... ...His great theme was ‘Warren the engine driver, ’ whom he pressed into the service of every sentence he uttered. I listened to him for about a quarter... ...t the general character of his countenance was pleasant and agreeable. The service commenced with a hymn, to which succeeded an extemporary prayer. It... ... and consid erate treatment everywhere. The conductor or check taker, or guard, or whatever he may be, wears no uni form. He walks up and down the ... ... miserable day; chilly and raw; a damp mist falling; and the trees in that northern region quite bare and wintry. Whenever the train halted, I listene... ...ear, vast numbers of emigrants who have newly arrived from England or from Ireland, pass between Quebec and Montreal on their way to the backwoods and... ..., we left Cape Clear behind, and sailed along within sight of the coast of Ireland. And how merry we all were, and how loyal to the George Washington,... ...hat pilot had wanted to borrow fifty pounds for an indefinite period on no security, we should have engaged to lend it to him, among us, before his bo...

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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...n; and the ass and I and Father Adam were the centre of a hubbub for near half an hour. At length she passed into my service for the consideration of ... ...ed and enthusiastic grooms. I was then but a novice; even after the misadventure of the pad nothing could disturb my security, and I went forth from t... ...tine. I am pretty sure I was twenty minutes groping for my lady in the dark; and if it had not been for the unkindly services of the bog, into which I... ...a private of foot. This was one of the novices, who came of the age for service, and marched and drilled and mounted guard for the proper time among t... ...e in my experience, into a jolting trot that set the oats swashing in the pocket of my coat. The view, back upon the northern 53 Robert Louis Stevens... ...d that they had seen, from the Pie de Finiels, white ships sailing by Montpellier and Cette. Behind was the up- land northern country through which my... ..., and how you may ride rough-shod over a religion for a century, and leave it only the more lively for the friction. Ireland is still Catholic; the Ce... ...s of the Protestants. Salomon besieged the village for an hour and a half, but was beaten back. The militia- men, on guard before the cure’s door, cou...

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Adam Bede

By: George Eliot

...am Bede other bull-headed fellows that they would be doing an accept- able service to the Church by hunting Will Maskery out of the village with rope-... ...y, that’s a terrible picture, Mrs. Poyser. I think I should be doing you a service to turn you out of such a place. But there’s no chance of that. I’m... ...is noisy exit; it was a fresh assurance to her that the farm-yard was well guarded, and that no loiterers could enter unobserved; and it was not until... ...I’m not so sure about it. Bartle Massey says—and he knows the South—as the northern men are a finer breed than the southern, harder-headed and stronge... ...another reason for persevering in his intention, and getting an additional security against himself. Nevertheless, at this point in the conversation, ... ...o danger in that quarter, even if Arthur’s character had not been a strong security against it. His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and res... ...t which, while his conscience was still at ease, was one of his best safe- guards. Self-accusation was too painful to him—he could not face it. He mus... ...e?” “A fine sight o’ miles away from here. The Loamshire Militia’s gone to Ireland; it’s been gone this fortnight.” “Look there! She’s fainting,” said... ...een contrived by him, and he had given her directions how to follow him to Ireland—for Adam knew that Arthur had been gone thither three weeks ago, ha...

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The American

By: Henry James

... his hand. Without moving he looked a while at his companion with his dry, guarded, half-inscrutable, and yet altogether good-natured smile. “Introduc... ...ore or less of a trouble to get ten-button gloves. When she railed at this serviceable city and you asked her where she would prefer to reside, she re... ...You are not fair.” Newman rejoined. “You draw a fellow out and put him off guard, and then you laugh at him.” “I assure you,” said Mrs. Tristram, “tha... ...inly,” said M. Nioche. “But for my own admirable tongue I am still at your service.” “Since you are here, then,” said Newman, “we will be- gin. This i... ...ged through Belgium and Holland and the Rhineland, through Switzerland and Northern Italy, planning about nothing, but seeing everything. The guides a... ...ired object in all its complexity; he felt that he could do so in profound security, and examine its mechanism afterwards, at leisure. “I am very glad... ...there some day, and he would show them some Irish sport. He always went to Ireland for the fishing, and he came to Paris for the new Offenbach things.... ...qual to satirizing Madame de Cintre’s presentiment as pointedly as perfect security demanded. Before he went away he asked Madame de Cintre whether Va... ...but a few months hence I am to name any evening and he will come over from Ireland, on purpose. That’s what I call gallantry!” Shortly after this Mada...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... The Prime Imperative of Business Pg 591 The Minimum Wage Pg 595 Financial Security Pg 597 Self-indulgence and Self-gratification Pg 598 Inf... ...an unfeeling, dead, mechanical, hostile, unfriendly environment which we must guard against and insulate ourselves from is not true: it is a complet... ...an unfeeling, dead, mechanical, hostile, unfriendly environment which we must guard against and insulate ourselves from is not true: it is a complet... ...gged, and be automatically lulled into a false sense of artificial warmth and security by its distracting flames, and radiating heat. Why do you thi... ...t places where squirrels choose to hide their stores of seeds and nuts. Most Northern forests are planned by the unconscious instinctive decisions o... ... drawing an imaginary line and splitting up countries into two segments… like Ireland? Or the American Civil War? Or South and North Korea? Or Nor... ...These loans given to corrupt regimes exist only so rich countries can pay lip service to the idea that they are actually helping the 3rd World countr... ...strust, betrayal, self-interest, irresponsibility, and worsening corruption. Northern Europe threw its religious patronage system away almost compl... ... He was the English King who had the cunning idea of settling Scots in Ulster Ireland. Creating an ulcerous sore in Ireland… arousing the Ire of th...

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

...ving; and therefore it is my counsel, let him pass, for he shall do you good service in short time, and his sons, after his days. Also ye shall see t... ...s place!” “Now do but hear thyself! Escape? Why, man, the corri dors are in guard and keep of men at—arms.” “No doubt, no doubt. But how many, Claren... ...shall appoint me your per petual minister and executive, and give me for my services one per cent. of such actual increase of revenue over and above... ...nas le Savage; all these he bare down with one spear. When King Aswisance of Ireland saw Sir Gareth fare so he marvelled what he might be, that one t... ...king nor knight have ready cognizance of him. Then Sir Agwisance the King of Ireland encountered with Sir Gareth, and there A Connecticut Yankee in Ki... ... little compliment was enough. She clouded up like storm; she called for her guards, and said: “Hale me these varlets to the dungeons.” That struck co... ...k to get up muscle for my trip, and had climbed the ridge which bordered the northern extremity of the valley, when I came upon an arti ficial openi... ...lerk was astonished and charmed. He asked me to retain one of the dollars as security, until he could go to town and — I interrupted: “What, and fetc... ...ed. It was nightfall now, and I withdrew my pickets. The one who had had the northern outlook reported a camp in sight, but visible with the glass onl...

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Don Juan

By: George Byron

...ch the naval people are concern’d; Besides, the prince is all for the land service, Forgetting Duncan, Nelson, Howe, and Jervis. Brave men were ... ...emale saint’s comparison; So far above the cunning powers of hell, Her guardian angel had given up his garrison; Even her minutest motions wen... ... This was an easy matter with a man Oft in the wrong, and never on his guard; And even the wisest, do the best they can, Have moments, hou... ...or a grot. ‘Oh Love! in such a wilderness as this, Where transport and security entwine, Here is the empire of thy perfect bliss, And here... ...ith the exception of the second line, For that same twining ‘transport and security’ Are twisted to a phrase of some obscurity. The poet meant, ... ... with due precision She waited on her lady with the sun, Thought daily service was her only mission, Bringing warm water, wreathing her long t... ..., Are hints as good as sermons, or as rhymes. Read your own hearts and Ireland’s present story, Then feed her famine fat with Wellesley’s glor... ...our harvests cling, Gaunt famine never shall approach the throne— Though Ireland starve, great George weighs twenty stone. But let me put an end... ...ear debates whose thunder roused (not rouses) The world to gaze upon those northern lights Which flash’d as far as where the musk bull browses; ...

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King Henry Vi, Part Iii

By: William Shakespeare

...Until that act of parliament be repeal’d Whereby my son is disinherited. The northern lords that have forsworn thy colors Will follow mine, if once th... ... what news? Why comest thou in such post? Messenger: The queen with all the northern earls and lords Intend here to besiege you in your castle: She i... ...re you speak? When you and I met at Saint Alban’s last, Your legs did better service than your hands. WARWICK: Then ’twas my turn to fly, and now ’ti... ...ese lands are to be got. LADY GREY : So shall you bind me to your highness’ service. KING EDWARD IV : What service wilt thou do me, if I give them? ... ...amp’d, His soldiers lurking in the towns about, And but attended by a simple guard, We may surprise and take him at our pleasure? Our scouts have foun... ...ll cover’d with the night’s black mantle, At unawares may beat down Edward’s guard And seize himself; I say not, slaughter him, For I intend but only ... ...rd the Fourth, by the grace of God, king of England and France, and lord of Ireland, &c. MONTAGUE: And whosoe’er gainsays King Edward’s right, By th... ...roar’d. Thus have we swept suspicion from our seat And made our footstool of security. Come hither, Bess, and let me kiss my boy. Young Ned, for thee,...

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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

...t the street corner where the Rev. Barnabas Baux used to hold an open- air service after evensong on Sundays. Young Cupids were wont to flit like moth... ...illiant white of the clouds that lay scat- tered in flocculent masses over Ireland and the west of En- gland. For now I could see the outlines of the ... ... of En- gland. For now I could see the outlines of the north of France and Ireland, and all this Island of Britain, save where Scot- land passed over ... ...matter, had been torn from me, and the hallucinations of companionship and security. Ev- erything was black and silent. I had ceased to be. I was noth... ...his life. He approached his mark with all the assurance which the absolute security of this country against all forms of animal life gives its inhabit... ... of some act of hateful meanness, so it seemed, which they could no longer guard against and prevent. Be- hind were others, teachers, it may be, who h... ... standards. The east and south would trust me as they would trust no other northern man. And I knew I had only to put it to her and she would have let... ...f fire and metals and with organised feats of engineering that stagger our northern minds—unused as we are to such feats as that of the Saübas of Rio ... ...r for fear their bright newness should be tarnished, and she tacked little guards over the cuffs and elbows, and wherever the suit was most likely to ...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...sentiment alluded to in the last paragraph. I certainly did think that the Northern States, if wise, would have let the Southern States go. I had blam... ...ty of British opposition to American independence, so was the necessity of Northern opposi- tion to Southern secession. I do not say that in other res... ...felt herself called upon to resent it. But the fairer analogy lies between Ireland and the South- ern States. The monster meetings and O’Connell’s tri... ... but that many of us can remem- ber the first demand for secession made by Ireland, and the line which was then taken by American sympathies. It is no... ...gues a total mistake as to the nature of that liberty and equality for the security of which the people are so anxious, and that mistake the very one ... ... is not exposed and bleak. The harbor, again, is surrounded by land, or so guarded and locked by islands as to form a series of salt-water lakes runni... ...are not all alike, the modes of election of their officers, and periods of service, being different. Even the franchise is different in different Stat... ...s—the set of public buildings which is now being erected on the rock which guards, as it were, the town from the river. How much of the excellence of ... ...llope have come at which such secession may be carried out with profit and security to them. Great Britain, should she ever send forth her child alone...

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Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

...ham, and was very attentive to Johnson, who he soon found could be of much service to him in his trade, by his knowledge of literature; and he even ob... ...re exemplar vitae morumque jubebo,’ a very useful lesson is inculcated, to guard men of warm passions from a too free indulgence of them; and the vari... ... former occasions, employed with great success. The Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, were the last of the kind published in England, which had stood t... ...uthour lived to see ten numerous editions of it in London, beside those of Ireland and Scotland. The style of Johnson was, undoubtedly, much formed up... ... was an excellent library; particularly, a valuable collection of books in Northern litera- ture, with which Johnson was often very busy. One day Mr. ... ...fore, be enabled to discharge petty debts, that you may have leisure, with security to struggle with the rest. Neither the great nor little debts disg... ...im to live in the immense metropolis of London. Mr. Gentleman, a native of Ireland, who passed some years in Scotland as a player, and as an instructo... ...in the house, and to transfer the whole to him for thirty thousand pounds, security being taken upon the property. This was accordingly settled. In el... ...ll of Odin, as he is your enemy; that will be truly ancient. There will be Northern Antiquities.’ Johnson. ‘He’s a Whig, Sir; a sad dog. (smiling at h...

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On the Origin of Species

By: Charles Darwin

...these polymorphic genera variations in points of structure which are of no service or disservice to the species, and which consequently have not been ... ... doubted would be ranked as distinct spe- cies by many entomologists. Even Ireland has a few animals, now generally regarded as varieties, but 52 On ... ...at be- tween the Continent and the Azores, or Madeira, or the Canaries, or Ireland, be sufficient? It must be admitted that many forms, considered by ... ...nstance: in the last edition of Dr. Asa Gray’s ‘Manual of the Flora of the Northern United States,’ 260 naturalised plants are enumerated, and these b... ...ed States, in which certain varieties are habitually recom- mended for the northern, and others for the south- ern States; and as most of these variet... ...ispens- able to support a large stock of bees during the win- ter; and the security of the hive is known mainly to depend on a large number of bees be... ...des, or the domestic cattle as they may be called, which our European ants guard or imprison. It will indeed be thought that I have an overween- ing c... ...ve generations; though Gartner was enabled to rear some hybrids, carefully guarding them from a cross with either pure parent, for six or seven, and i... ...ite about the means of distribution, we shall be enabled to speculate with security on the former extension of the land. But I do not believe that it ...

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ir hearts, as they searched for places in the unfamiliar Church of England service. The Lord’s Prayer “Our Father, which art”—set the seal on that des... ...erils of childbirth”; and the sparrows who had found their way through the guards behind the glass windows chirped above the faded gilt and alabaster ... ...ree of the Conants. The baronet’s pew was on the right of the aisle. After service its inhabitants moved forth without haste, but so as to block effec... ...this. You can save me a tramp. Give her my love.” She marched off amid her guard of grave Airedales. The mug was worn and dented: above the twined ini... ...rothers, who invented the cloud-breakers of the world whereby we travel in security! “Are you going to lift for The Shamrock?” asks Captain Hodgson. C... ...hulls whistling like Chinese kites. Their market is in the North among the northern sanatoria where you can smell their grape-fruit and bananas across... ...ighted too, of enormous capacity and unlovely outline. They, too, feed the northern health stations in icebound ports where submersibles dare not rise... ...ween his horse’s ears, on the nearest water-channel. “Very like a ditch in Ireland,” he murmured, and smiled, dreaming of a razor-topped bank in dista...

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Autobiography

By: John Stuart Mill

...history. Mitford’s Greece I read con tinually; my father had put me on my guard against the T ory prejudices of this writer, and his perversions of f... ...ppily cut short in the full vigour of his intellect, he ren dered so much service to his and my father’s opinions both on political economy and on ot... ...ncy, and which often fatally blights its promise, my father most anxiously guarded against. This was self con ceit. He kept me, with extreme vigilanc... ...reparation of abstracts, sub ject to my father’s censorship, was of great service to me, by compelling precision in conceiving and expressing psycho ... ...ative government: and he held, with the French Economistes, that the real security for good government is un peuple éclairé, which is not always the... ...c Church; when I found him relying on this spiritual authority as the only security for good government, the sole bulwark against practical oppression... ...urpose) urging the for mation of peasant properties on the waste lands of Ireland. This was during the period of the Famine, the winter of 1846 47, ... ...verance to that most unexpected and surprising fact, the depopula tion of ireland, commenced by famine, and continued by emigration. The rapid succes... ... it did come it would in all probability be thorough: that the bulk of the Northern population, whose conscience had as yet been awakened only to the ...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...they desire to propitiate. Popular election thus prac ticed, instead of a security against misgovernment, is but an additional wheel in its machinery... ...secure, can any state of things be more conducive to Progress? The greater security of property is one of the main conditions and causes of greater pr... ...what others do for them. The former proposition—that each is the only safe guard ian of his own rights and interests—is one of those elemen tary max... ... to render some of their improvements permanent, by leaving them under the guardianship of a generation which had grown up under their influence. Char... ...e suffrage, are not, in this coun try, nor probably any where save in the Northern United States, accessible to the whole people, nor does there exis... ...or from a trade or profession, should be brought into Parliament to render services which no other person accessible can render as well, there is the ... ... the persons whose worth for their purposes is the greatest. Actual public services will naturally be the fore most indication: to have filled posts ... ...her portion of the British dominions. The only remaining real grievance of Ireland, that of the State Church, is one which half, or nearly half the pe... ...eir hankering after Cuba is, in the same manner, merely sectional, and the Northern States, those opposed to slavery, have never in any way favored it...

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A Journal of the Plague Year

By: Daniel Defoe

... settle in business, or to depend upon and attend the Court for rewards of services, preferments, and the like, was such that the town was com- puted ... ...e prophets had flattered with hopes that they should be continued in their services, and carried with their masters and mistresses into the country; a... ...od success; for in several streets where the plague broke out, upon strict guarding the houses that 35 Daniel Defoe were infected, and taking care to... ...use holdeth in his own hands and occupieth by his own servants); and so as security be given to the parish whither such remove is made, that the atten... ...n, as we may call it, had but one jailer, and as he had the whole house to guard, and that many houses were so situated as that they had several ways ... ...d the other a joiner, all of W apping, or there-abouts. The sleepiness and security of that part, as I have observed, was such that they not only did ... ...nsiderable places in England were visited more or less, and the kingdom of Ireland in some places, but not so universally. How it fared with the peopl... ... to the Canaries, to Guinea, and to the West Indies, and par- ticularly to Ireland; but as the plague spread itself every way after it had been in Lon... ... be among them, which made them fare the better. For the security of those northern traders, the coal-ships were ordered by my Lord Mayor not to come ...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...the use he made of his posi tion to advance his relatives. His most notable service in home politics was his reform of the postal system; but his fam... ...eform of the postal system; but his fame as a statesman rests chiefly on his services in connec tion with the relations of the Colonies with Great Br... ...y bad women; I can see it in all their actions; and if thee art not upon thy guard, they will draw thee into some danger; they are strangers to thee, ... ...s considered. And this persuasion, with the kind hand of Providence, or some guard ian angel, or accidental favorable circumstances and situa tions,... ...and enriching of the family. About the year 1734 there arrived among us from Ireland a young Presbyterian preacher, named Hemphill, who deliv ered wi... ...se in which they began has been half consumed. In 1739 arrived among us from Ireland the Reverend Mr. Whitefield, who had made himself remarkable ther... ...our Quaker Assembly to pass a militia law, and make other provisions for the security of the province, hav ing proved abortive, I determined to try w... ...one detachment to ward the Minisink, with instructions to erect one for the security of that upper part of the country, and another to the lower part... ...ord and Edinburgh; returns to America. 1763 Makes a five months’ tour of the northern colonies for the Purpose of inspecting the post offices. 1764 De...

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