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...Excerpt: Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible....

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...ved at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could ... ...ain and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the cor ... ...eep the outside edge of a river clear. At every station there were groups of people, some Chapter 1 5 times crowds, and in all sorts of attire. Som... ... the seventeenth century it underwent a siege of three weeks and lost 13,000 people, the casu alties of war proper being assisted by famine and dis ... ...ppose I, who have much of affairs, wish to ship goods, say, to Newcastle, or Durham, or Harwich, or Dover, might it not be that it could with more eas... ...GRAM, VAN HELSING, ANTWERP, TO SEWARD, CARFAX (Sent to Carfax, Sussex, as no county given, delivered late by twenty two hours.) 17 September.—Do not f...

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...e met the call of that particular transient occasion in which they arose; and others, it may be thought on review, might as well have been suppressed from the very first....

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..............

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... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ...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... ...and mentioned that in Devonshire, or at least on the western coast of that county, near Ilfracombe, upon any excessive take of herrings, beyond what t... ...t? Why, it’s like Charing Cross—always the least secret place in the whole county.” So one might fancy; since the summit of a mountain, like Plinlimmo... ...r pupil were go- ing on a visit to an old Catholic family in the county of Durham, (the family of Mr. Swinburne, who was known advantageously to the p... ...rdered back from Wicklow, and reënforced by a crack English regiment, (the Durham Fencibles,) on whom chiefly at this critical hour had devolved the d...

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...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could accoun...

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...te, in ate, in ate, in ate, in M M M M Macbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth FROM MY BOYISH DAYS I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Ma... ...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... ...uses on each side of a street, as seen by a person looking down the street from one extremity. Now in all cases, unless the person has happened to obs... ... 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... ...himself to be se- duced by their charms, endeavors to banish them from the county of Middlesex. But the truth is, that, however objec- tionable per se... ...t:) the answer was, with roars of laughter, from the under- sheriff of our county— “Non est inventus.” T oad-in-the-hole laughed outrageously at this:... ... a person is “rather yellow, rather yellow,” [to quote Canning versus Lord Durham:] that is the 148 chief fault with his physics; but, as to his mora...

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...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ... London School Board was absorbed by the spreading tentacles of the London County Council. It gives a measure of the newness of our modern ideas of th... ... belonged to that great cult which pretends that the place of this or that county in the struggle for the championship is a matter of supreme impor- t... ...for my rooms to be prepared. She was, I knew, with the Bunting Harblows in Durham, and when she came back to Radnor Square I had been at home a day. I... ...d. “That and the paper. I took a complete set from the begin- ning down to Durham with me. I have read it over, thought it over. I didn’t understand—w...

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...d blacksmith had their workshops. There was a group of children, the young people who were confided to the great Earl Richard and Countess Alice of Sa... ...ied to King Henry VI. Attendance on the patient had prevented the Countess from hearing the history of the accident, but presently the clatter of hors... ...too eager to accuse him. 6 Grisly Grisell “He took a bar of iron from the forge, so please you, my lord, and put it to the barrel of powder.... ...ined to uphold royalty, while York was con- sidered as the champion of the people. The gentle King and the Beauforts wished for peace with France; the... ...ow; but it is hard, and I 21 Charlotte M. Young shall let St. Cuthbert of Durham know it, that after all the candles I have given him, he should have... ... Wilfred of York, and St. John of Beverly, not to speak of St. Cuthbert of Durham and of St. Hilda of Whitby, who might take it ill if I pray at none ... ...with it. We will show the young recre- ant how promises are kept in Durham County.” He dragged rather than led his daughter to the door, and lifted he... ...each of the Duke’s domains, glittering back and front in the tabard of his county’s armorial bearings, and with its banner borne beside him. Then a di...

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...rade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shortly after the Revolu- tion, at the early age of forty-six... ...eat tenderness and care. Once, when three years old, he nar- rowly escaped from an angry cow, but was wounded in the throat. He was remarkable as a ch... ...in our poet. In 1707, Pope became acquainted with Michael Blount of Maple, Durham, near Reading; whose two sisters, Martha and T eresa, he has commemo... ...of a man generally depends upon the first steps he makes in the world; and people will establish their opinion of us from what we do at that season wh... ...man so much good as ill-will does him harm. Then there is a third class of people, who make the largest part of mankind, those of ordinary or indiffer... ...gue. Against the thief th’ attorney loud inveighs, For whose ten pound the county twenty pays. The thief damns judges, and the knaves of state; And dy...

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... CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I JUST AFTER PASSING Caraher’s saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ... ...R I JUST AFTER PASSING Caraher’s saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ranch from that of Los Muer... ... the faint and prolonged blowing of a steam whistle that he knew must come from the railroad shops near the depot at Bonneville. In starting out from ... ...the last half of September, the very end of the dry season, and all Tulare County, all the vast reaches of the San Joaquin Valley—in fact all South Ce... ...kable lift about it that argued education, not only of himself, but of his people before him. The impression conveyed by his mouth and chin was that o... ... be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hardy, brave, and passionate—were building an empire; where the tumu... ...cles, Presley 293 Frank Norris came upon the monarch, the king, the great Durham bull, maintaining his lonely state, unapproachable, austere. Presley...

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...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ... 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... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ...elp. The King despatched a general and a large force to occupy the town of Durham. The Bishop of that place met the general outside the town, and warn... ...g, and went in with all his men. That night, on every hill within sight of Durham, signal fires were seen to blaze. When the morning dawned, the En g... ...sword, four thousand of the rebels are supposed to have fallen in that one county. In Norfolk (where the rising was more against the enclosure of open... ... Queen. This was discovered in time by Gardiner; but in Kent, the old bold county, the people rose in their old bold way. Sir Thomas Wyat , a man of ...

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...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...ew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated 4 A Book of Golden Deeds (from Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ th... ...dventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabeth of Siberia, are from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the ... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ... say that the Scots army had been entirely defeated at Nevil’s Cross, near Durham, and that their King was a prisoner, but that he had been taken by a... ... in whom the Empire became at length hereditary, was in reality Swiss, the county that gave them title lying in the canton of Aargau. Rodolf of Hapsbu... ... left his English wife and her in- fant son at his castle of Cranallagh in county Longford, think- ing them safe there while he joined the royal force...

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...the little shop in the West Street. He was called “Mr.” to distinguish him from the bigger boys, whose duty it was to learn, and it was a matter of st... ...es of “literature” to be precise, learn- ing extracts (preferably pompous) from the plays of William Shakespeare—and then to school and duty. The time... ...ending not to know gave her something to say. Mr. Lewisham nodded. “Of all people! Then”—frankly—”you have just found me out.” “I am afraid I have,” s... ...“It is nothing—it’s the proper thing for me to do, you know.” “But so many people won’t do it. Schoolmasters are not usually so—chivalrous.” He was ch... ...lk. “He’s a greaser.” said Dunkerley. “But there!—what can you expect from Durham?” For Bonover had only a Durham degree, and Dunkerley, having none, ... ...oke. Lewisham stood without dig- nity staring at the dahlias of the London County Council, and Miss Heydinger stood regarding him. “And that is what y...

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...lence, her enemies within her frontiers—all proved the great Richelieu no longer in existence. In truth, that the red simar which occupied the wonted ... ...t the red simar which occupied the wonted place was his no longer, was still more strikingly obvious from the isolation which seemed, as we have obser... ... as from the distant and incessant sounds of guns fir- ing—let off, happily, without other end or aim, except to show to the guards, the Swiss troops ... ...se,” he continued, “of the parliament! Both Orleans and Montargis are ours. It will be a work of time, but those who have begun by crying out: Down wi... ... spir- its; to-morrow we will hunt the hare on my plain, which is a superb tract of land, or pursue the deer in my woods, which are magnificent. I hav... ...ake him talk. Musqueton was seasick. Chapter 55 The Scotchman. AND NOW OUR READERS must leave the Standard to sail peace- ably, not toward London, whe... ...TLE TROOP, without looking behind them or exchang- ing a word, fled at a rapid gallop, fording a little stream, of which none of them knew the name, a...

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... London Bridge at noon on a gusty April day, was almost magically detached from his con- flict with the gale by some sly strip of slipperiness, abound... ...at distinctive article of his attire. At the same time, for these friendly people about him to share the fun of the annoyance, he looked hastily brigh... ...ockney crow-word of the day, or a word that had stuck in the fellow’s head from the perusal of his pothouse newspaper columns? Furthermore, the plea o... ... the roar of cries and stilled it, by capping the cries in turn, until the people cheered him; and the effect of the scene upon Victor Radnor disposed... ... mother’s complacent questions con- cerning this Lakelands: the house, the county, the kind of people about, the features of the country. Physically u... ...ad communicative man; located in London, but born in the North, in view of Durham cathedral, as he thanked his Lord; who was of the order of pork-butc... ...ouse in the mind of Mr. Caddis, the sitting Member for the division of the county (said to have the seat in his pocket), a particu- lar inquisitivenes...

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...rsary at chess, a game in which I was extremely proficient, and would re- ward me for my gambits with excellent cigars. The major 4 St. Ives of the b... ... any skill with his fingers passed the hours of his captivity in the making of little toys and Articles of Paris; and the prison was daily visited at ... ...s almost as bad, was the great day for visitors. Those who came to our market were of all qualities, men and women, the lean and the stout, the plain ... ...d my hands in applause, and was ready to acclaim her a genuine daughter of the winds. What put it in my 8 St. Ives head, I know not: perhaps because ... ... It is possible that I sometimes allowed this impish humour to carry me further than good taste approves: and I was certainly punished for it once. Th... ...ers. You will hear some very daring sentiments expressed!’ he cried, expanding his small chest. ‘Monarchy, Christianity—all the trappings of a bloated... ...rothy Greensleeves, sir: why should I conceal it? I fear it will only serve to point an adage to future generations, and I had meant so differently! T...

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...rs to a period towards the end of the reign of Richard I., when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by... ... of their less powerful neighbours, who attempted to separate them- selves from their authority, and to trust for their protection, during the dangers... ... war or insurrection, mark the existence of the Anglo-Saxons as a separate people subsequent to the reign of William the Second; yet the great nationa... ...d, impressed them no less with an opinion of his sanctity. Even the common people, the severest critics of the conduct of their betters, had commisera... ...assage of Arms, as it was called, which was to take place at Ashby, in the county of Leicester, as champions of the first renown were to take the fiel... ...deeds of arms were done, known wider than that of many a lady’s that had a county for a dowery.—Yes,” he continued, pacing up and down the little plat... .... Nor were such characters ideal. There exists a monition of the Bishop of Durham against irregular churchmen of this class, who associated themselves...

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... the Quarterly Review, in 1817. The particulars were derived by the Critic from the Author’s information. Afterwards they were published in the Prefac... ...principles, that while the civil war was raging, and strag- gling officers from the Highland army were executed with- out mercy, Invernahyle hesitated... ... to a princely estate, and to extended political connexions as head of the county interest in the shire where it lay. But 12 Waverley this was a cons... ...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... ...R FATHER MISS BRADWARDINE was but seventeen; yet, at the last races of the county town of —, upon her health being proposed among a round of beauties,... ...urs so actively in raising subsidies among the boors of Northumberland and Durham, that upon his return he was enabled to erect a stone tower, or fort...

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..., peaceably, slowly, without pain and without excitement. The breath ebbed from him almost imperceptibly, and for a month before his death, it was a q... ...on his last legs; but the ministry was also tottering. Dr Grantly returned from Oxford happy and elated, to resume his place in the pal- ace, and to c... ...piter. His affairs, however, were not allowed to subside thus quietly, and people were quite as much inclined to talk about the disinterested sacrific... ...nd the question as to Hiram’s heirs did not ap- pear to interest very many people either in or out of the House. The bill, however, was read and rerea... ...e close. Though much the wealthiest of the eccle- siastical matrons of the county, she had so managed her affairs that her carriage and horses had giv... ...d horses had given umbrage to none. She had never thrown herself among the county grandees so as to excite the envy of other clergymen’s wives. She ha... ...ellor. ‘They couldn’t do it. There were to be no exceptions but London and Durham. ’ ‘And Canterbury and York,’ said the vicar choral, mod- estly. ‘Wh...

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...y prince are those painfully evinc- ing a broken heart, which seeks refuge from its own thoughts in sordid enjoyments. Still, however, it was long ere... ...auntlet be, perhaps it was long ere he altogether became, so much degraded from his original self; as he enjoyed for a time the lustre attending the p... ...you will say. He lays the blame of former inaccuracies on evil company—the people who were at the livery-stable were too seductive, I suppose—he denie... ...hich he wished to attain, by preserving me from the society of other young people, that, upon my word, I am always rather astonished how I should have... ...n, to hear, and shrug thy shoulders. Of Dumfries, the capital town of this county, I have but little to say, and will not abuse your patience by remin... ...ken the lad, a son of Dumtoustie of that ilk, member of Parliament for the county of —, and a nephew of the laird’s younger brother, worthy Lord Bladd... ...and it was not till thirteen years afterwards, that in the great battle of Durham, fought between David Bruce and Queen Philippa of England, a knight,...

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...e of speech, I have presumed to deliver these things in the Latin tongue, not trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Prosper, Eusebiu...

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...ot trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the... ...rom writings and monuments of the ancient inhabit- ants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Is... ...bout with me an inward wound, and I was indignant, that the name of my own people, formerly fa- mous and distinguished, should sink into oblivion, and... ...istory of the Britons, edited by Mark the anchorite, a holy bishop of that people. 7. The island of Britain derives its name from Brutus, a Ro- man co... ...ith to Carlisle. 5 Variously supposed to be in Cornwall, or Binchester in Durham, but most probably the Roman station of Garionenum, near Yarmouth, i... ...St. Patrick. 1 King of Connaught. 2 A mountain in the west of Connaught, county of Mayo, now called Croagh-Patrick. 32 History of the Britons of on...

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...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the practical suggestions have been anticipated by others or by myself. There is novelty, h...

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... previ ous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been ... ... to meet with general acceptance as if they were. It seems to me, however, from various indications, and from none more than the recent debates on Ref... ..., and adapt ourselves to them. The fundamental political institutions of a people are considered by this school as a sort of organic growth from the n... ...y this school as a sort of organic growth from the nature and life of that people; a product of their habits, instincts, and unconscious wants and des... ...e principles which are the foundation of represen tative government. In a County Board there is not the same justification as in Boards of Guardians ... ... admix ture of ex officio with elected members, since the business of a county being on a sufficiently large scale to be an object of interest and ... ...econd warning. A new era in the colonial policy of nations began with Lord Durham’s Report; the imperishable memorial of that nobleman’s courage, patr...

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...f interest and of benefit in noting the successive phases of any mind which was always pressing forward, equally ready to learn and to unlearn either from its own thoughts or from those of others....

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... was always pressing forward, equally ready to learn and to unlearn either from its own thoughts or from those of oth ers. But a motive which weighs ... ...elf to blame if he reads farther, and I do not desire any other indulgence from him than that of bearing in mind that for him these pages were not wri... ...petty tradesman and (I believe) small farmer, at Northwater Bridge, in the county of Angus, was, when a boy, recommended by his abilities to the notic... ...l of historical details concerning 10 Autobiography the obscurest ancient people, while about modern history, except detached passages, such as the D... ...se than in prose: this, he said, was a real advantage. The other was, that people in general attached more value to verse than it deserved, and the po... ...d families; the entire identification of the more independent portion, the county members, with the great landholders; the differ ent classes whom th... ...re seemed to be room for a bold and successful stroke for Radicalism. Lord Durham had left the ministry, by reason, as was thought, of their not being... ...actics, must have attempted to make something of such an opportunity. Lord Durham was bitterly attacked from all sides, inveighed against by enemies, ...

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what t...

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...the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell It were no easy task, how savage ... ... its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I r... ...the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov’d: To rear me w... ... Hell 29 As thou shalt tell me, why in all their laws, Against my kin this people is so fell?” “The slaughter and great havoc,” I replied, “Tha... ...rous it may speedily sink the bark, The Ravignani sat, of whom is sprung The County Guido, and whoso hath since His title from the fam’d Bellincione t... ...he Venerable, was born in 672 at Wearmouth and Jarrow, in the bishopric of Durham, and died in 735. Invited to Rome by Pope Sergius I., he preferre...

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...le girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve....

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...er, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with hu... ...til domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theres... ... He had trav- elled in his younger years, and was held in this part of the county to have contracted a too rambling habit of mind. Mr. Brooke’s conclu... ...of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large,... ...enerating expectation. This was the Reverend Edward Casaubon, noted in the county as a man of profound learning, understood for many years to be engag... ...wo white moles with hairs on them?” 17 George Eliot “Oh, I dare say! when people of a certain sort looked at him,” said Dorothea, walking away a litt... ...us, it would be much better to do so. Why can we not go to London? Or near Durham, where your fam- ily is known?” “We can go nowhere without money, Ro...

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...le girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve....

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...er, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide eyed and helpless looking as two fawns, but with hu... ...til domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theres... ...e. He had travelled in his younger years, and was held in this part of the county to have contracted a too rambling habit of mind. Mr. Brooke’s conclu... ...of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large,... ...erat ing expectation. This was the Reverend Edward Casaubon, noted in the county as a man of profound learning, understood for many years to be engag... ...Had Locke those two white moles with hairs on them?” “Oh, I dare say! when people of a certain sort looked at him,” said Dorothea, walking away a litt... ...us, it would be much better to do so. Why can we not go to London? Or near Durham, where your family is known?” “We can go nowhere without money, Rosa...

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... can studiously travel through sheets of leaves now ca- pable of a stretch from the Lizard to the last few poor pul- monary snips and shreds of league... ...ulness, and that prolongation of the vasty and the noisy, out of which, as from an undrained fen, steams the malady of sameness, our modern malady. We... ...numerous when the fifth head of the race was the hope of 8 The Egoist his county. A Patterne was in the Marines. The country and the chief of this fa... ...th tell us, royal blood in common trades. For all our pride we are a queer people; and you may be ordering butcher’s meat of a T udor, sitting on the ... ...all, in company with his affi- anced, the beautiful and dashing Constantia Durham, fol- lowed by knots of ladies and gentlemen vowed to fresh air befo... ...added, discoursing with passion’s privilege of the passion of love to Miss Durham, Sir Willoughby, who was anything but obtuse, experienced a presenti... ...he was to hit the mark that rang the bell; and away her word went over the county: and had she been an unchari- table woman she could have ruled the c... ...had been strictly sagacious. “Patternes marry money; they are not romantic people,” she said. Miss Durham had money, and she had health and beauty: th...

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...esar. The sol diers he led to battle were very strong, and con- quered the people wherever they went. They had no gun or gunpowder then; but they had ... ...gunpowder then; but they had swords and spears, and, to prevent themselves from being hurt, they had helmets or brazen caps on their heads, with long ... ...le way off there was a country nobody knew anything about, except that the people were very fierce and savage, and that a sort of pearl was found in t... ...strong places in the woods, with trunks of trees, cut down to shut them in from the enemy, with all their flocks and cattle; but Caesar did not get in... ...the Standard, because the En- glish had a holy standard, which was kept in Durham Ca- thedral. Soon after, Stephen was taken prisoner at a battle at L... ... this time, were able to get between them and the city. The people of each county were desired to state their grievances; the king engaged to do what ... ... general election—by the men who have a certain amount of property in each county and large town. There must be a fresh election, or choosing again ev...

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..., Witness of things, which to relate again Surpasseth power of him who comes from thence; For that, so near approaching its desire Our intellect is to... ...y bosom, and there breathe So, as when Marsyas by thy hand was dragg’d Forth from his limbs unsheath’d. O power divine! If thou to me of shine impart ... ...gh me from Charles and Rodolph; had not ill lording which doth spirit up The people ever, in Palermo rais’d The shout of ‘death,’ re echo’d loud and l... ... spouse He sent, who by their deeds and words might join Again his scatter’d people. In that clime, Where springs the pleasant west wind to unfold The... ...rous it may speedily sink the bark, The Ravignani sat, of whom is sprung The County Guido, and whoso hath since His title from the fam’d Bellincione t... ...he Venerable, was born in 672 at Wearmouth and Jarrow, in the bishopric of Durham, and died in 735. Invited to Rome by Pope Sergius I., he preferre...

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...ted, together with Sir Robert Naunton’s “Fragmenta Regalia,” in the volume from which they are here reprinted, with notes by the translator and the ed... ...beth sent thither as Ambassa- dor, and was despatched to Elizabeth’s court from Scotland as a trusty messenger. In 1596-7 he was in France, and cor- r... ...e, and the chamber of the English kings. This most ancient city is the the county of Middlesex, the fruitfullest and wholesomest soil in England. It i... ...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... ...ed it, and named it Merton College; and soon after, William, Archdeacon of Durham, restored, with addi- tions, that building of Alfred’s now called Un...

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...of growing enlightenment and happy compan- ionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917. INTRODU... ...ect and setting are so closely allied that each borrows charm and emphasis from the other. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor w... ..., 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- ... ...ed Hume. Johnson. ‘No, Sir; Hume owned to a clergyman in the bishoprick of Durham, that he had never read the New Testament with attention.’ I mention... ...ly, and I do not watch myself, they will find me out to be of a particular county. In the same man- ner, Dunning may be found out to be a Devonshire m... ...great estate, I would drive all the rascals whom I did not like out of the county at an election.’ We then walked to the Pantheon. The first view of i... ... Cuthbert’s day, which is kept by them as a festival, as he was a saint of Durham, with which this college is much connected. We drank tea with Dr. Ho...

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...e walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. The only things to be seen not fixedly s... ... Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the sha... ...ilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to ... ...o a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade. So, with people lounging and lying wherever shade was, with but little hum of tongue... ...aturday night, would be corrupt on Sunday morn- ing; albeit my lord, their county member, was amazed that they failed to sleep in company with their b... ...to me,’ repeated Pancks, breathing hard over his cards. ‘Here’s a Clerk at Durham for you, John, and an old seafaring gentleman at Dunstable for you, ... ...e duration elapsed, in which there was no bid for Mrs General. At length a county- widower, with a daughter of fourteen, opened negotiations with the ...

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...e walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. The only things to be seen not fixedly s... ... Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the sha... ...ilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to ... ...o a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade. So, with people lounging and lying wherever shade was, with but little hum of tongue... ...aturday night, would be corrupt on Sunday morn- ing; albeit my lord, their county member, was amazed that they failed to sleep in company with their b... ...to me,’ repeated Pancks, breathing hard over his cards. ‘Here’s a Clerk at Durham for you, John, and an old seafaring gentleman at Dunstable for you, ...