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...tensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. ...

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...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Ele... ...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electron... ...ries Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publicati... ...Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of... ...ut still, even when his eyes were closed, his thoughts were with the young people, playing among the flowers and shrubbery of the garden. He heard the... ...em too. They would teach him something about the history and distinguished people of his country which he has never read in any of his schoolbooks.” C... ..., arrived, with a commission to be governor general of New England and New York. The king had given such powers to Sir Edmund Andros that there was no... ...he people inhabiting the country now comprised within the limits of King’s County, was as follows:— “To the inhabitants of the District of Grand Pre, ... ...as an old elm tree,” answered Grandfather, “which stood near the corner of Essex Street, opposite the Boylston Market. Under the spreading branches of...

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...n Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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...isters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoev... ...els run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears. A breeze which had crossed a thousan... ...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...them by clenching his hands behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for peopl... ...dmit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a fellow that was too s... ...no park to rest the eyes. And since not Gopher Prairie but Wakamin was the county- seat, there was no court-house with its grounds. She glanced throug... ...Anoka.” “He did not!” roared Mr. Stowbody. “He settled first in Blue Earth County, him and his father!” (“What’s the point at issue?” Carol whispered ... ... fairy-book suburb of Forest Hills on Long Island. Devonshire cottages and Essex manors and a Yorkshire High Street and Port Sun- light. The Arab vill...

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...antinople and Bombay and between Baku and Bombay in the next half-century. From such grades of certainty as this, one may come down the scale until th... ...ter a num- ber of more or less obvious prophecies through his other books. From first to last he has been writing for twenty years, so that it is poss... ...struction of capital and a waste of the savings that are needed to finance new experiments. Moreover, we are killing off many of our brightest young m... ...test young men. It is fairly safe to assume that there will be very little new furniture on the stage of the world for some considerable time; that if... ..., and how will it affect our ways of living?” It is a question of “How are people going to take these obvi- ous things—waste of the world’s resources,... ...rstanding and overcoming of the difficulties involved. There are many more people, and there is much more intel- ligence concentrated upon the manufac... ...passable for some days, because a bit of the affected stretch is under the County Council and a bit under the Little Easton Parish Council, and they c... ... the urban district and rural district boundaries, one finds equally crazy county arrangements, the same tangle of obstacle in the way of quick, effec... ...le in our local affairs; why, to take another example, the boundary of the Essex parishes of Newton and Widdington looks as though it had been sketche...

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... : (WESTMORELAND:) LORD CLIFFORD : (CLIFFORD:) RICHARD PLANTAGENET : Duke of York. (YORK:) EDWARD: (EDWARD:) Earl of March, afterwards King Edward IV.... ...e is slain, they’ll quickly fly. KING HENRY VI : Far be the thought of this from Henry’s heart, To make a shambles of the parliament house! Cousin of... ...And Warwick shall disprove it. You forget That we are those which chased you from the field And slew your fathers, and with colors spread March’d thro... ...of all. NORTHUMBERLAND: Thou art deceived: ’tis not thy southern power, Of Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, nor of Kent, Which makes thee thus presumptuous ... ...I hear, You, that are king, though he do wear the crown, Have caused him, by new act of parliament, To blot out me, and put his own son in. CLIFFORD: ... ...h commixture melts. Impairing Henry, strengthening misproud York, The common people swarm like summer flies; And whither fly the gnats but to the sun?... ...l us, all our hope is done: Scotland hath will to help, but cannot help; Our people and our peers are both misled, Our treasures seized, our soldiers ... ...nd them on our coast And force the tyrant from his seat by war. ’Tis not his new made bride shall succor him: And as for Clarence, as my letters tell ... ...lingness rids way; And, as we march, our strength will be augmented In every county as we go along. Strike up the drum; cry ‘Courage!’ and away. [Exeu...

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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... ...ace, after this, for sev enty years. A Child’s Histroy of England 16 Then new enemies arose. They were the Sax ons, a fierce, sea faring people from... ...nquering the Britons in the East, and settling there, called their kingdom Essex; another body settled in the West, and called their kingdom Wessex; t... ...unded by their retainers, fought their way out of London, and escaped from Essex to France in a fishing boat. The other Norman favourites dispersed in... ...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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...is just as light and good as it was then, too, and this is not flattery, far from it. The Tragedy of Pudd nhead Wilson - Mark Twain 3 He was a littl... ...wo story frame dwellings, whose whitewashed exteriors were almost concealed from sight by climbing tangles of rose vines, honeysuckles, and morning g... ...t, from the frosty Falls of St. Anthony down through nine climates to torrid New Orleans. Dawson’s Landing was a slaveholding town, with a rich, slave... ...ief citizen was York Leicester Driscoll, about forty years old, judge of the county court. He was very proud of his old Virginian ancestry, and in his... ...or that reason, and not to be comforted. The women were good and commonplace people, and did their duty, and had their reward in clear consciences and... ...on you might prefer from bradawls to artillery. He was very popular with the people, and was the judge’s dearest friend. Then there was Colonel Cecil ... ...e, and was the judge’s dearest friend. Then there was Colonel Cecil Burleigh Essex, another F .F .V . of formidable caliber—however, with him we have ... ... Landing that fall—the fall of 1845. One was that of Colonel Cecil Burleigh Essex, the other that of Percy Driscoll. On his deathbed Driscoll set Rox... ...sory be fore the fact. The twins were transferred from the city jail to the county prison to await trial. Wilson examined the finger marks on the kni...

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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... ... of berths in the ship’s cabin in which the wounded were to be conveyed to New York. Still thrilling with the suffering of being carried from the fiel... ...t upon the coast. Among those who held this opinion was Brythnoth, Earl of Essex. He was of partly Danish descent himself, but had become a thorough E... ... 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... ...don, that it became evident that the Parliamentary army, under the Earl of Essex, intended to intercept his march. The King himself was with the army,... ... 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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...racters in their classes, than by a too fastidious attention to originals. New York having but one county of Otsego, and the Susquehanna but one prope... ..., than by a too fastidious attention to originals. New York having but one county of Otsego, and the Susquehanna but one proper source, there can be n... ...oon told. Otsego, in common with most of the interior of the prov- ince of New Y ork, was included in the county of Albany pre- viously to the war of ... ...h most of the interior of the prov- ince of New Y ork, was included in the county of Albany pre- viously to the war of the separation. It then became,... ...heir passage. The Otsego is about nine miles in length, varying in breadth from half a mile to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid,... ...le to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid, and supplied from a thousand springs. At its foot the banks are rather less than thirty ... ...f God abound with that frequency which characterize a moral and reflecting people, and with that variety of exterior and canonical government which fl... ... deer where he pleased!—but if there is a law at all, it should be to keep people from the use of smooth-bores. A body never knows where his lead will... ...ld myself as second to nobody out of New England. I was born and raised in Essex County; and I’ve always heern say that the Bay State was provarbal fo...

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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... ...ith great perseverance, paying not the least attention to the wants of the new guest. The attendants of the Abbot crossed themselves, with looks of pi... ...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... ...ville lies betwixt thee and Hull with all his forces, and that the Earl of Essex is gathering his followers? If we had reason to fear these levies eve... ...offered?” “I make the arrest,” replied the Knight—“I, Henry Bohun, Earl of Essex, Lord High Constable of England.” “ And he arrests Malvoisin,” said t...

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.... He suffered no doubt;—but with Spartan consistency he so hid his trouble from the world that no one knew that he suffered. Those with whom he lived,... ... could be marked with the finger of the observer, did he glaringly abstain from any statement which at the moment might be natural. He never hesitated... ...back of a building, in which there sat at a desk a greasy gentleman with a new hat on one side of his head, who might perhaps be about forty years old... ... WHARTON ON THAT SAME DAY Lopez dined with his friend Everett Wharton at a new club, called the Progress, of which they were both members. The Progres... .... It assists a man in getting a seat as the director of certain companies. People are still such asses that they trust a Board of Directors made up of... ...er. Indeed it had been perhaps a misfortune with Everett Wharton that some people had believed in him,—and a fur- ther misfortune that some others had... ...y. That there would soon come causes of hot blood,—the English Church, the county suffrage, the in- come tax, and further education questions,—all men... ...t say imperative. It was quite usual for a deputation to have four or five County members among the body, all Brew- ers; and the average wealth of a d... ...ut the middle of August he went to Hertfordshire and she to the seaside in Essex,—to the little place which Lopez had selected. Before the end of the ...

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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 ... ... full of subtlety, lent a strange expression to his pale lips; “yes, these noises prove to me, indeed, that the destiny of favorites is precarious; bu... ...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... ...tack the magistrates and had sold no less than twelve appointments in the Court of Requests, at a high price; and as the officers of that court paid v... ...ify him for his loss. Now the following occurrences had taken place between the two contending parties On the seventh of January between seven and eig... ... 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... ...I thank you, gentlemen. But hear me,” continued she. “I am not only the most miserable of queens, but the most unhappy of mothers, the most wretched o...

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...olicy of Louis XI., by which the nobles were to be kept down and prevented from threatening the royal power. This was seldom done by violence, but by ... ... peasantry, since the clergy and the nobles to all generations were exempt from taxation. The trade and all the resources of the country were taking s... ...s of Paris, consisting of the temporal and spiritual peers of the original county, who had the right to advise with their chief, and to try the causes... ...iving real pain, and I liked him much better than his brother, the Duke of York, who was proud and sullen. Yet one could always trust the Duke, and th... ...d of course I was listening most anxiously for all I could gather about my new 16 Stray Pearls life. If I remember right, it was an envoy-extraordina... ...th their chatter, which I could hardly follow, for it was about things and people of which I knew nothing, so that I could not un- derstand their laug... ...ver them, and birds’ nests in curi- ous places. My Viscount laughed with a new pleasure when I showed him the wren’s bright eye peeping out from her n... ...de by any decision except my father’s, which I daily expected. I overheard people saying how much M. de Bellaise was improved by his marriage, and how... ...pite the Cardinal, and cared not a rush for the Parliament, unlike my Lord Essex, and our other Roundhead noblemen, who, right or wrong, were in hones...

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...s not true.” —Hackluyt “Whale. ... Sw. and Dan. Hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. Hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —W ebst... ...ed or vaulted.” —W ebster’ s Dictionary “Whale. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richard... ...— Montgomery’ s World before the Flood. “Io! Paean! Io! sing. To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ... been stove by a whale.” — “Narrative of the Ship- wreck of the Whale Ship Essex of Nantucket, which was attacked and finally destroyed by a large spe... ...the pacific ocean.” By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ... ...me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knock- ing people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I c... ...hat is more, the Sperm Whale has done it. First: In the year 1820 the ship Essex, Captain Pollard, of Nantucket, was cruising in the Pacific Ocean. On... ...d him off to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a 396 Moby Dick fiddler’... ...White Whale; he’ll nail ye! This is a pine tree. My father, in old Tolland county, cut down a pine tree once, and found a silver ring grown over in it...

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...it seems, was proved by the report of Dr. Walter Bayly, sometime fellow of New College, then living in Oxford, and professor of physic in that univers... ...man only and Forster, who had that day forcibly sent away all her servants from her to Abington market, about three miles distant from this place; the... ...n her head), yet the inhabitants will tell you there that she was conveyed from her usual chamber where she lay, to another where the bed’s head of th... ...ts founded on the credit of his house, and the construction which the good people of Cumnor might put upon such an unsocial humour. “By my faith, sir,... ...mansion, observing, at the same time, he had seen a less strong one upon a county jail. It was not until they had knocked more than once that an aged,... ...the quarrel of this Simnel, assuming the title of Earl of W arwick, as the county afterwards, in great numbers, countenanced the cause of Perkin Warbe... ...en head of his, gave him the power of enjoying other 135 Sir Walter Scott people’s distresses, as she gave them the pleasure of laughing at his uglin... ...ristics of her organization, as appeared long afterwards when she expelled Essex from her presence, on a charge against his boots similar to that whic... ...topped his breath. “The like good chance had he in the death of my Lord of Essex (as I have said before), and that at a time most fortunate for his pu...

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...at in the river Wye, Salmon are in The Compleat Angler — Walton 5 season from September to April; and we are certain, that in Thames and Trent, and ... ... be fully learnt; at least not so fully, but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us. But I thin... ...o, Sir, with the help of good dis course, which, methinks, we may promise from you, that both look and speak so cheerfully: and for my part, I promis... ...the monuments, urns, and rarities that yet remain in and near unto old and new Rome, so many as it is said will take up a year’s time to view, and aff... ... or the sea shore, that having so separated them from amidst the press of people and business, and the cares of the world, he might settle their mind... ...hat lay at the bottom to be seen on the water’s top. And he says, that the people of Cadara, an island near this place, make the timber for their hous... ... by one Mr. Mascal, a gentle man that then lived at Plumsted in Sussex, a county that abounds more with this fish than any in this na tion. You may ... ...nce it flieth be twixt Berks, Buckinghamshire, Middlesex, Surrey, Kent and Essex: and so weddeth itself to the Kentish Medway, in the very jaws of the... ...e, and gliding through the counties of Nottingham, Lincoln, Leicester, and York, augmenteth the turbulent current of Humber, the most violent stream o...

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...OKER T. WASHINGTON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of ... ...e document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington, the Pennsylvania St... ...formation of Mr. Washington’s character, then, went the missionary zeal of New England, influenced by one of the strongest personalities in modern edu... ...ard of the head of an important coloured school who was not a preacher. “A new kind of man in the coloured world,” I said to myself—”a new kind of man... ...is to change the whole economic basis of life and the whole character of a people. The plan itself is not a new one. It was worked out at Hampton Inst... ...e period, he was necessar- 8 UP FROM SLAVERY ily misunderstood by his own people as well as by the whites, and where he had to adjust it at every ste... ...er I. A Slave Among Slaves I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of m... ... heart. I saw coloured men who were members of the state legislatures, and county officers, who, in some cases, could not read or write, and whose mor... ...eph Choate, and arranged for me to speak at a public meeting to be held in Essex Hall. Mr. Choate kindly consented to preside. The meeting was largely...

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...liam Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone ha...

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...the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascer... ...in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferr... ... 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those times, which obliges us to ... ...es I., the growing importance of the gentry, and the consequent birth of a new interest in political questions, had begun to express itself at Oxford,... ...ns. Thirdly, even apart from the political as- pects of Warwickshire, this county happens to be the central one of England, as regards the roads betwe... ...y is to be received as evi- dence of pauperism, nine tenths of the English people might occasionally be classed as paupers. With respect to his libera... ... their debts. And the prob- ability is, that Master Sadler acted like most people who, when they suppose a man to be going down in the world, feel the... ...gh Lord Southampton, 48 Biographical Essays as a surviving friend of Lord Essex, who was viewed as the martyr to his Scottish politics, there can be ... ..., as judicial inves- tigations have shown, in one agricultural district of Essex. Now, Mr. W—’s scheme of murder was, in its outline, the very same, b...

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...sible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing whatever. Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart...

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...out them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of th... ...llows. I don’t mean to say that we were not acquainted with many En- glish people. Living, as we perforce lived, in Europe, and being, as we perforce ... ...a provided yearly winter quar- ters for us, and Nauheim always received us from July to Septem- ber. You will gather from this statement that one of u... ... from this statement that one of us had, as the saying is, a “heart”, and, from the statement that my wife is dead, that she was the sufferer. Captain... ... don’t, I mean, as a rule, get it all so superlatively together. To be the county family, to look the county family, to be so appropriately and per- f... ...t remark of hers the remark of a harlot, or is it what every decent woman, county family or not county family, thinks at the bottom of her heart? Or t... ... man in Philadelphia. They had never been to Philadelphia and they had the New England conscience. You see, the first thing they said to me when I cal... ...h Street, which was then still residential. I don’t know why I had gone to New York; I don’t know why I had gone to the tea. I don’t see why Florence ... ...nd import a set of farmers from Scotland. That was what they were doing in Essex. He was of opinion that Edward was riding hotfoot to ruin. That worri...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, a...

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...t Louis Stevenson PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan... ...M. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan’s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. T... ...iderable an amount of copy. These nine worthies have been brought together from many different ages and countries. Not the most erudite of men could b... ...en presented. It is only possible to write another study, and then, with a new “point of view,” would follow new perversions and per- haps a fresh car... ...clerks, bears witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind peopled with childish phantoms. In relation to his contemporaries, Charles ... ...enewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested them- selves in them before ... ...unting rapidly; from the cynosure of a parish, he had become the talk of a county; once the bard of rural courtships, he was now about to appear as a ... ...re actually to withdraw from this copartner- ship, and be locked up in the county gaol therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For ... ... a drunken sailor, but listens with interest and patience, as he rides the Essex roads, to the story of a Quaker’s spiri- tual trials and convictions....

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... reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy received many annotations from members of the Heathcote family. There was a proposal that it should be re-edited, but ninety years could not but make a great difference in these days of progress, so that not only had the narrative to be brought up to ...

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...shire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy re- ceived many annotations from members of the Heathcote family. There was a proposal that it should b... ...lliam Heathcote needed to be recorded in their relations to the parish and county. This has, therefore, here been attempted, together with a record of... ...an interest in provincial dialect, some specimens are appended, which come from personal knowledge. The lists of birds and of flowers are both from th... ...star on their base, are picked up in the gravels and called by the country people Shep- herds’ Crowns—or even fossil toads. Large boulder stones are a... ..., which was dug up by a labourer at Otterbourne, in the course of making a new road. He thought it one of the plates carried on the Roman stan- dards ... ...ng put under forest laws at the time when the district of Ytene became the New Forest. Probably the king was able to ride over down, heather, and wood... ...difficulties or controversies attended to, confirmation given to the young people and children, and, after a meal, the bishop proceeded, sometimes to ... ... to whatever was required of him. He had been member of Parliament for the county of Hants, and had been placed at the head of the list of his father’... ... of smiths in general. Charles Dickens, in Great Expectations describes an Essex blacksmith as working to a chant, the refrain of which was “Old Clem....

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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... ...me one going off as a Sea-King, with all his friends, and trying to gain a new home in some fresh country. One great party of Northmen under a very ta... ... 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 ... ...fter, and the queen became almost equally fond of his stepson, the Earl of Essex, who was a brave, high-spirited young man, only too proud. The sailor... ... The queen valued these brave men much, but she liked none so well as Lord Essex, till at last he displeased her, and she sent him to govern Ireland. ... ... 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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...thing for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not appare... ...he aid of my eldest son, F . D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given. The comments are my own, an... ...ng they will meet the approval of the reader. U. S. Grant Mount MacGregor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERIC... ...d was a widower at the close. Soon after this he emigrated to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and settled near the town of Greensburg in that count... ...r set up for himself in business, establishing a tan- nery at Ravenna, the county seat of Portage County. In a few years he removed from Ravenna, and ... ...and but few east; and above all, there were no reporters prying into other people’s private affairs. Consequently it did not become generally known th... ...s in imitation of mine. The joke was a huge one in the mind of many of the people, and was much enjoyed by them; but I did not appreciate it so highly... ...h of that stream. To test whether this could be done I boarded the gunboat Essex and requested Captain W m. Porter commanding it, to approach the fort... ...d be repaired by a small ex- penditure of money, was slight, except to the Essex. A shell penetrated the boiler of that vessel and exploded it, killin...

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......................................................................... 301 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS ........................................................ ... all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, w... ...n riddle. If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from indi- vidual experience. There is a relation between the hours of our ... ...ormation in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it; a v... ...nd decorum of their dance. Thus of the genius of 12 Essays one remarkable people we have a fourfold representa- tion: and to the senses what more unl... ... con- course and with each new uproar of announcement, The delegation from Essex! The Democrats from New Hamp- shire! The Whigs of Maine! the young pa... ... of truths. I should feel it pitiful to demand a re- sult on this town and county, an overt effect on the in- stant month and year. The effect is deep... ...n the record of facts equal their own fame. Sir Philip Sidney, the Earl of Essex, Sir Walter Raleigh, are men of great figure and of few deeds. We ca... ...in property are very unequal. One man owns his clothes, and another owns a county. This accident, depending primarily on the skill and virtue of the p...

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...not have made it, had I not believed that it would be the means of drawing new readers to Boswell, and eventu- ally of finding for them in the complet... ...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- ... ... and palaces, and pictures, and shows, and Arcadian scenes. He was of Lord Essex’s opinion, who advises his kinsman Roger Earl of Rutland, ‘rather to ... ...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... ...ety in the evening for three days in the week, he instituted a club at the Essex Head, in Essex-street, then kept by Samuel Greaves, an old servant of...