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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ....................118 CHAPTER V I: AM INTRODUCED TO THE WARFARE OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL.......... 131 CHAPTER VIII: DUBLIN .................................... ... to be more or less advantageous to the collection, it is my wish to place at your disposal as soon as possible, in order that you may make what use o... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ...in elder and in later days) go round by Chester. A few miles after leaving Shrewsbury, somewhere about Oswestry, it entered North Wales; a stage farth... ... hundred times, it always happened to rain, except once; and that once the Shrewsbury mail carried me so rap- idly away, that I had not time to examin... ...thing of the same bitter spirit. But the great body of the richer and more educated inhabitants showed the most hos- pitable attention to all who just... ...s it must have done in most other parts of North America; that the boy was educated and trained as a missionary clergy- man; and finally, that he is n...

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...s and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, --that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listeni...

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.... . 187 34 HOME AGAIN — A TRICKSTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 35 AT AN UPPER WINDOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 36 WEALTH ... ... vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, — that is, he went to church,... ...ing always dressed in that way. He wore a low crowned felt hat, spread out at the base by tight jamming upon the head for security in high winds, and ... ...farmer.’ ‘And the greatest of them is — well, what it is always.’ ‘Beating people down? ay, ’tis so.’ ‘O no.’ ‘What, then?’ Gabriel, perhaps a little ... ... the world — I am staying with my aunt for my bare sustenance. I am better educated than you — and I don’t love you a bit: that’s my side of the case.... ...me ‘Henery’ — strenuously insisting upon that spelling, and if any passing schoolmaster ventured to remark that the second ‘e’ was superfluous and old ... ...ecause, as she had no friends in her childhood, he took her and put her to school, and got her her place here under your uncle. He’s a very kind man t... ... inclosure, and leapt off, his face tragic as Morton’s after the battle of Shrewsbury. ‘Well?’ said Bathsheba, unwilling to believe that her verbal le... ...d that, in accordance with the an ticipations of his easy going and worse educated comrades, that day would see Boldwood the accepted husband of Miss...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... it is 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... ...” 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... ...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... ...oys are old enough for school, and the Colonel is going to take a house at Shrewsbury, where his mother will live with them, and want me no longer.” “... ...d I don’t believe it was infectious after all! Still, I am tired of ‘other people’s stairs.’” “It is nearly five years since you have been with them, ... ...at, I could not—I did not know whether their lives would not lie among our people here.” “Dear Sophy, don’t concern yourself. I am quite certain you w... ...nherited from her mother, who had always felt the better connected, better educated step-daughter, a sort of alien ele- ment, exciting jealousy by her... ...ns of art, and had a cultivated taste; but to be with a thoughtful, highly educated lady, able to enter into its higher and deeper associations, was a...

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...person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim... ...ous “Memoirs” of the Duc de Saint-Simon. They stand, by universal consent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from ... ...iqued me most, the Duc de Chartres was there, too. I had been, as it were, educated with him. I was younger than he by eight months; and if the expres... ...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ...ch as he to make a lineage. But pressed M. by Madame de Maintenon, who had educated Maine; and who felt for him as a nurse the King resolved to marry ... ...ve them their patents. Under M. de T urenne the army had afforded, as in a school, opportunities for young officers to learn the art of warfare, and t... ...This last, however, losing his life in a duel with Lord Mohun, the Duke of Shrewsbury was appointed in his stead. At the commencement of the new year ... ... stead. At the commencement of the new year [1713] the Duke and Duchess of Shrewsbury arrived in Paris. The Duchess was a great fat masculine creature...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ER I CHAPTER I INSOMNIA INSOMNIA INSOMNIA INSOMNIA INSOMNIA ONE AFTERNOON, at low water, Mr. Isbister, a young artist lodging at Boscastle, walked fro... ... part. Drugs. My nervous system... . They are all very well for the run of people. It’s hard to explain. I dare not take … sufficiently powerful drugs... ...he said in a tone of commonplace gossip, “but in those cases I have known, people have usually found something—” “I dare make no experiments.” He spok... ...alist—or typical Liberal, as they used to call themselves,-of the advanced school. Energetic—flighty—undisciplined. Overwork upon a controversy did th... ...had observed. His boyhood seemed the most accessible at first, he recalled school books and certain lessons in mensuration. Then he revived the more s... ...re only four other cities in Britain—Edinburgh, Portsmouth, Manchester and Shrewsbury. Such things as these, simple statements of fact though they wer... ...rteen, and they pay two years’ service. You may be sure these children are educated for the blue can- vas. And so it is the Company works.” “And none ...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...t an anxious review of the rea- sons for and against this step that I have at last concluded on taking it. Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural insti... ...ual in the highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my schoolboy days. If opium-eating be a sensual pleasure, and if I am bound to... ...hought the subject of too delicate a nature to be made common; and as many people might then indiscriminately use it, it would take from that neces- s... ...rnishing a key to some parts of that tremendous scen- ery which afterwards peopled the dreams of the Opium-eater. 3. As creating some previous interes... ...ears old, and left me to the care of four guardians. I was sent to various schools, great and small; and was very early distinguished for my clas- sic... ...-letters to their sweethearts for young women who had lived as servants at Shrewsbury or other towns on the English border. On all such occasions I ga... ...catholic creature, and as stand- ing in equal relation to high and low, to educated and un- educated, to the guilty and the innocent. Being myself at ...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...een space for it during Henry’s progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster. The hero of the story is likewise invention, though, a... ...g in Scotland, and founder of her earliest University, having been himself educated at Paris. The Abbey of Coldingham is described from a local com- p... ...e as well as to suffer,’ there was an approach of footsteps, and two young people entered the hall; the first a girl, with a family likeness to Malcol... ...rd, moving with the ease and grace that showed his training in the highest school of chivalry. ‘Good Uncle,’ cried the maiden in eager excitement, ‘th... ...dom hath he? What hope is there of his return? Can he brook to hear of his people’s wretchedness?’ This was the first question at which Sir James atte... ... dead? Ay, he wins more fields so than alive! I wish you would keep my old Shrewsbury friend, Earl Tyneman, as you call him, at home.’ ‘’Tis ill keepi... ...ste to remove his fair niece from the convent at Dijon, where she had been educated, lest the Cistercians should become possessed of her lands. He had... ...matronly dame in the widow’s veil she had worn ever since the fatal day of Shrewsbury—that eager, lov- ing, yet almost childish woman whom we know so ...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...y Charles Dickens CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS IF YOU LOOK AT A M AP of the World, you will see, in the left hand upper corner of the... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...ave hung across the streets, and no man would have touched one. He founded schools; he patiently heard causes himself in his Court of Justice; the gre... ...as no sooner gone than he began to punish them. Among them was the Earl of Shrewsbury, who, on being summoned by the King to answer to five and forty ... ...his noble man having risen against his brother, he laid waste the Earl of Shrewsbury’s estates in Normandy, to show the King that he would favour no ... ...; and sent Matilda away, in fine state, with the German ambassadors, to be educated in the country of her future husband. And now his Queen, Maud the ... ..., when the King thought of making him Archbishop. He was clever, gay, well educated, brave; had fought in several battles in France; had defeated a Fr...

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...per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... Mrs. Polly must needs fish out his old soft brown felt hat. “‘Ere’s your ‘at,” she said in a tone of insincere encouragement. He had been routing amo... ...e best part of the jugful of beer…. But there seems to be no pleasing some people. “Tantrums!” said Mrs. Polly at the sink, struggling with the mustar... ...ays both as regards quantity and quality, but neither church nor state nor school will raise a warning finger between a man and his hunger and his wif... ... tumbrils…. I do not know why the east wind aggravates life to un- healthy people. It made Mr. Polly’s teeth seem loose in his head, and his skin feel... ... not follow this picture very closely. He went for some time to a National School, which was run on severely economical lines to keep down the rates b... ...him to throw up his situation, and going with him to Stratford-on-Avon and Shrewsbury and the Welsh moun- tains and the Wye and a lot of places like t... ... than the consideration of that vast mass of useless, uncomfortable, under-educated, under-trained and alto- gether pitiable people we contemplate whe...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e University is an equal opportunity university. Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................... ...e human mind, and the most to be distrusted; and yet the great majority of people trust to nothing else; which may do for ordinary life, but not for p... ... corresponding improve- ment. Practice and theory must advance pari passu. People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine m... ...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... ...ratus est, says the sublimer dialect of Gothic ages. Meantime, the Jewish, school of murder kept alive what- ever was yet known in the art, and gradua... ... seek him in chapels and consecrated oratories. This peasant girl was self-educated through her own natu- ral meditativeness. If the reader turns to t... ...ablishment. Once I remember being on the box of the Holyhead mail, between Shrewsbury and Oswestry, when a tawdry thing from Birmingham, some T allyho...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... a hundred huntsmen will do, each out- bawling and out-galloping the other at the tail of a dirty fox, that is to be the prize of the foremost happy c... ... the church of his country, and to that he chose to remain faithful: other people were welcome to worship and to subscribe any other set of articles, ... ... finding, on going to England, his country cold towards him- self, and the people in a ferment of High Church loyalty, the Duke comes back to his army... ...- lected him for a bridegroom. Duke Hamilton, then Earl of Arran, had been educated at the famous Scottish university of Glasgow, and, coming to Londo... ...t London and Paris, where he was performing piteous congees to the Duke of Shrewsbury, not having courage to support the dignity which his undeniable ... ...ood she took to visit- ing all the cottages and all the sick. She set up a school of children, and taught singing to some of them. We had a pair of be... ...d no signs of jealousy when he returned to the room where she was. She had schooled her- self so as to look quite inscrutably, when she had a mind. Am... ...s well. They have performed a play of Mons. Racine at St. Cyr. The Duke of Shrewsbury and Mr. Prior, our envoy, and all the English nobility here were...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... 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... ...llent work there, because he was too much praised, and kept him for a year at an infe- rior school at Winkfield in Wiltshire. In 1800, at the age of f... ... our little planet, the Earth, however cheap they may be held by eccentric people in comets: he had invented mail-coaches, and he had mar- ried the da... ...ne single college; in Oxford there were five-and-twenty, all of which were peopled by young men, the élite of their own generation; not boys, but men:... ...ablishment. Once I remember being on the box of the Holyhead mail, between Shrewsbury and Oswestry, when a tawdry thing from Bir- mingham, some “T all... ...eek him in chapels and conse- crated oratories. This peasant girl was self-educated through her own natu- ral meditativeness. If the reader turns to t...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...n’s Act is well qualified to tranquillize the agitations of that body; and at an earlier stage, if not intercepted by Lord Melbourne, might have preve... ...ginal act of invitation. And yet, in defiance of that notorious fact, some people go so far as to assert, that a call is not good unless where it is s... ... inoperative, is and must be moonshine. Yet be- tween two moonshines, some people, it seems, can tell which is the denser. W e have all heard of Barme... ...l section, in the English church, 19 Thomas de Quincey as men more highly educated, took a direct interest in the Scottish clergy, upon general princ... ...tically, that is, by no law generally recognised. And behind this eclectic school were grouped others who had voted for all novelties up to a cer- tai... ...him, Gallant and gay in Cliveden’s proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love; There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, ... ...tanding, to suppose that there ever has been what has been called a French school in our litera- ture, unless it is supposed that the unimpassioned un...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e to the memory of both parties, we have no hesitation to give their names at length. When the Highlanders, on the morning of the battle of Preston, 1... ...n, upon any particular occasion, Edward mingled with accomplished and well-educated young men of his own rank and expectations, he felt an inferiority... ...w and foolish fashion is introduced to break the natural dependence of the people upon their landlords.’ Sir Everard had done his best to correct this... ...isaffected, and, showed little hospitality to the military guests; and the people of the town, chiefly engaged in mercantile pursuits, were not such a... ...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... ...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... ...encies of Edward’s disposition, the Mauvaise Honte, which, as she had been educated in the first foreign circles, and was little acquainted with the s... ...yke. At least such a dog is the crest of the martial and renowned Earls of Shrewsbury , to whom your family are probably blood relations.’ ‘I believe,...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... even if he could, it seems hard that you should give up a visit to hear a school- boy sneeze. Tell him that Charles Wilcox (the son who is here) has ... ...inally Mrs. Wilcox reappears, trail, trail, still smelling hay and looking at the flowers. I inflict all this on you because once you said that life i... ... from poetry, or you. Anyhow, it’s been knocked into pieces, and, like all people who are really strong, Mr. Wilcox did it without hurting me. On the ... ...ise. What do you think of the Wilcoxes? Are they our sort? Are they likely people? Could they appre- ciate Helen, who is to my mind a very special sor... ... rich person was to them what the funeral of Alcestis or Ophelia is to the educated. It was Art; though re- mote from life, it enhanced life’s values,... ...bled a humorous message; Charles was to meet them with a trio of motors at Shrewsbury; Helen had refused her invitation; Tibby had never answered his.... ...were identified wrongly. “Male and female created He them”; the journey to Shrewsbury con- firmed this questionable statement, and the long glass salo... ...y to take you on, he might refuse to do it. The fact is, he isn’t properly educated. I don’t want to set you against him, but you’ll find him a trial....

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ted, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood Professor of English at Princeton University Preface IN MAKING THIS abridgement of Boswell’s Lif... ..., such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the number, range, and variety of people who at one time or another had been in some degree personally relate... ...godchild Jane Langton. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I love the acquain- tance of young people, . . . young men have more virtue than old men; they have more gen- ... ...ght into another state of being.’ He says that all mem- bers of Johnson’s ‘school’ ‘are distinguished for a love of truth and accuracy which they woul... ...table in his time. The late Dr. Taylor, Prebendary of Westminster, who was educated under him, told me, that ‘he was an excellent master, and that his... ...tions. He took a pleasure in boasting of the many eminent men who had been educated at Pembroke. In this list are found the names of Mr. Hawkins the P... ...hed to inform us of this simple fact, that the Counsel upon the circuit at Shrewsbury were much bitten by fleas, took, I suppose, seven or eight minut... ...nt to the headship of his college, I had in- tended to go and visit him at Shrewsbury, where he was rector of St. Chad’s, in order to get from him wha...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...l Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton. Paul Hentzner was a German lawyer, born at Crossen, in Brandenburg, on the 29th of January, 1558. He died on the 1s... ...its antiquity; though others think it to have been named Elbegate. Several people believe that there were formerly two gates (besides that to the brid... ... thy kingdom shall be translated to another, whose manner and language the people under thee knoweth not. Nor shall thy sin be done away till after lo... ...nn. In these colleges numbers of young nobility, gentry, and oth- ers, are educated, and chiefly in the study of physic, for very few apply themselves... ...uke of Gloucester, that great encour- ager of learning, built the Divinity School very splendidly, and over it a library, to which he gave an hundred ... ...ollege, built by Hugh Price, Doctor of Laws. That fine edifice, the Public Schools, was entirely raised by Queen Mary, and adorned with various inscri... ... and deprived of his fortunes and dignities for rebellion. Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury. Grey, Earl of Kent, has but a small estate. Stanley, Earl of De...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ....................................................... 125 ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT...................................................................... ...er? Passages and lines of his poetry are stamped on the memory of all well-educated men. More pointed sayings of Pope are afloat than of any English p... ...hen a knowledge of the classics, with a tincture of the metaphysics of the schools, was thought a good average stock of learning, although it was the ... ...ilfer cloth or bread: As meanly plunder as they bravely fought, Now save a people, and now save a groat. VER. 129, in the former editions— Ask why fro... ... of whim! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden’s proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury, 42 and love; Or just as gay, at council, in a ring Of mimick’d... ...ENT GUMENT GUMENT . . . . . OF THE USE OF RICHES. The vanity of expense in people of wealth and quality. The abuse of the word ‘taste,’ ver. 13. That ... ...hese, even his cotemporaries do exceedingly differ. One saith, 134 he was educated at home; another, 135 that he was bred at St Omer’s by Jesuits; a ... ...1687, in a remote inn in Yorkshire, reduced to the utmost misery.—P . 42 ‘Shrewsbury:’ the Countess of Shrewsbury, a woman aban- doned to gallantries...

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... 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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