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...ed christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the span...

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...he Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZI... ...ASTONISHING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION... ... priest -- Collection of Peter's pence in the New World -- Crusader volunteers from America -- Interruption of communication -- Disappearance of the N... ... CHAPTER IV. Early Navigators and Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century -- Passage of the Atlantic b... ... take the place of husbands -- Efforts of the Khan to suppress the evil -- The people wedded to their folly -- Indestructible cloth of Salamander skin... ...age -- His sudden death -- The ceremonials of courts -- Grief displayed -- The people hail his successor -- The skeletons of three large ships excite ... ...hile he smoked a cigar. On nearly all the islands of the Pacific the flute and fife players use their nostrils instead of their mouths which appear to...

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Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...y James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publi... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Penns... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring Not... ...; for, to young wives who come merely to say, “I have seen it,” to country people, to inexperienced youths, and to foreigners, the opera house must on... ...easure; the fashion of rats so completely went out, that in these days few people knew anything of this detail of fashionable life before the Restora-... ...esterday, this letter of release is dated to-day. You see how powerful the people are who take an interest in Lucien.” At the sight of this document E... ... shall be the well, and I the bucket.” “Vould you like to haf one note for fife hundert franc?” “What a question! But what a fool I am!—You do not off... ... master to spy.” “Very true.” “Vell den, gif me dat address, and I gif you fife hundert franc.” “Where are they?” said Contenson. “Here dey are,” said... ...le Prefet, and what he said in reply?” asked Peyrade. “Before I should gif fife hundert francs to a filain like Contenson, I vant to know if he had ea...

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...ay A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- t... ...r the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Penn- sylv... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray DEDICATION TO C... ...ge; and, having their book-learn- ing fresh in their minds, see the living people and their cities, and the actual aspect of Nature, along the famous ... ...s shores of the Mediterranean. CHAPTER I:VIGO THE SUN BROUGHT ALL the sick people out of their berths this morning, and the indescribable moans and no... ...n smiled peacefully round about, and the ship went rolling over it, as the people within were praising the Maker of all. In honour of the day, it was ... ...es, the sallow black-eyed children, and the trim white-jacketed dandies. A fife is heard from some craft at roost on the quiet waters somewhere; or a ...

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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... ...ries Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publicati... ...sion, in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylva... ...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... ...hem to make laws for the set tlers. In the year 1628 they sent over a few people, with John Endicott at their bead, to commence a plantation at Salem... ...he streets of Boston. The 66 TheWholeHistoryofGrandfather sChair drum and fife, the rattle of arms, and the shouts of boys were heard from morning ti... ... of the Puri tans were shocked by the uproar of military music; the drum, fife, and bugle drowning the holy organ peal and the voices of the singers.... ...f the British regiments was heard as usual throughout the town. The shrill fife and rattling drum awoke the echoes in King Street, while the last ray ...

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...tizen: You are all resolved rather to die than to famish? All: Resolved. resolved. First Citizen: First, you know Caius Marcius is chief enemy to the people. All: We know?t, we know?t. First Citizen: Let us kill him, and we?ll have corn at our own price. Is?t a verdict?...

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...PA : friend to Coriolanus. SICINIUS VELUTUS, JUNIUS BRUTUS: tribunes of the people. Young MARCUS : son to Coriolanus. A Roman Herald. TULLUS AUFIDIU... ...esolved. First Citizen: First, you know Caius Marcius is chief enemy to the people. All: We know’t, we know’t. First Citizen: Let us kill him, and ... ... .] Second Citizen: Worthy Menenius Agrippa; one that hath always loved the people. First Citizen : He’s one honest enough: would all the rest were... ...y? MENENIUS: Sir, I shall tell you. With a kind of smile, Which ne’er came from the lungs, but even thus— For, look you, I may make the belly smile ... ...the cranks and offices of man, The strongest nerves and small inferior veins From me receive that natural competency Whereby they live: and though th... ...nnot See what I do deliver out to each, Yet I can make my audit up, that all From me do back receive the flour of all, And leave me but the bran.’ Wh... ...hautboys; drums beat; all together .] The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fifes, Tabors and cymbals and the shouting Romans, Make the sun dance. H...

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...Excerpt: The ancient and famous metropolis of the North sits overlooking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more commanding for the head city of a kingdom; none better chosen for noble prospects. From her tall precipice and terraced gardens she looks far and wide on th...

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...IENT AND FAMOUS metropolis of the North sits over- looking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more comman... ...ng for the head city of a kingdom; none better chosen for noble prospects. From her tall precipice and terraced gardens she looks far and wide on the ... ...s out of the east, and powdered with the snow as it comes flying southward from the Highland hills. The weather is raw and boisterous in winter, shift... ...ind among her chimney-tops! And yet the place estab- lishes an interest in people’s hearts; go where they will, they find no city of the same distinct... ...r and among breweries and gas works. It is a house of many memories. Great people of yore, kings and queens, buffoons and grave ambassadors, played th... ...rs in this par- ticular of a tolerant and peaceful life. Again, meditative people will find a charm in a certain consonancy between the aspect of the ... ...people on the decks of ships, or ploughing in quiet country places over in Fife, can see the banner on the Castle battlements, and the smoke of the Ol... ...; the Firth extends on either hand from the Ferry to the May; the towns of Fifeshire sit, each in its bank of blowing smoke, along the opposite coast;... ...e and wreck- ers cut the rings from ladies’ fingers; and a few miles round Fife Ness is the fatal Inchcape, now a star of guidance; and the lee shore ...

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...Excerpt: Several of us, all more or less connected with the sea, were dining in a small river-hostelry not more than thirty miles from London, and less than twenty from that shallow and dangerous puddle to which our coasting men give the grandiose name of ?German Ocean.? And through the wide windows we had a view of the Thames; an enfilading view down t...

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... the sea, were dining in a small river-hostelry not more than thirty miles from London, and less than twenty from that shallow and dangerous puddle to... ...n and worm-eaten sideboard; the chipped plates might have been disinterred from some kitchen midden near an inhabited lake; and the chops recalled tim... ...t of ages when the primeval man, evolving the first rudiments of cook- ery from his dim consciousness, scorched lumps of flesh at a fire of sticks in ... ...ore-royal brace. Nicholas’ favourite place of residence was under the main fife-rail. Directly he was let loose he would crawl off there, and the firs... ...gic and comic, the sea with its horrors and its peculiar scandals, the sea peopled by men and ruled by iron necessity is indubitably a part of the wor... ...went out together. Then Schomberg expounded in my hearing to three or four people his theory that Falk was after Captain Hermann’s niece, and asserted... ...t the most I should be totally quit of the odious place and all the odious people in it. Greatly cheered by the idea, I seized the hair-brushes and lo...

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...ersonal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or offend anyone who is prepared for the expression of a faith different from and perhaps in several particulars opposed to his own. The writer will be found to be sympathetic with all sincere religious feeling....

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...k or offend anyone who is prepared for the expression of a faith different from and perhaps in several particulars opposed to his own. The writer will... ...ted mental habits. It is well to warn him at the outset that the departure from accepted beliefs is here no vague scepticism, but a quite sharply defi... ...reventing the religious life of man- kind. After this warning such readers from among the vari- ous Christian churches and sects as are accessible to ... ...er, and falling mainly into one or other of two divergent groups; and that people slip carelessly from one to the other of these groups of ideas and s... ...atherhood and Sonship. But the trouble is that it seems impossible to most people to continue to regard the relations of the Father to the Son as bein... ...s thought and leave nothing but the essentials of the religious life. Many people, whom one would class as rather liberal Chris- tians of an Arian or ... ...s of men and women to no purpose. The true God goes through the world like fifes and drums and flags, calling for recruits along the street. We must g...

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........ 10 V ? THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL .....................................................................................................11 VI ? A VISIT FROM THE SEA .................................................................................................... 12 VII ? TO A GARDENER............................................................................................

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... like not a single line; But like my title, for it is not mine. That title from a better man I stole: Ah, how much better, had I stol’n the whole! A P... ..............................................................11 VI – A VISIT FROM THE SEA ................................................................. .............................................. 53 XII – THE SCOTSMAN’S RETURN FROM ABROAD ............................................................ 54... ... That’s fairly worth the travelling to. On every hand the roads begin, And people walk with zeal therein; But wheresoe’er the highways tend, Be sure t... ... and mountains, fire and seas, Tumultuary silences, Winds that in darkness fifed a tune, And the high-riding, virgin moon. And as the berry, pale and ... ..., Forever by the woods of song And lands that to the Muse belong; Or if in peopled streets, or in The abhorred pedantic sanhedrim, It should be yours ... ...gh the wood To where the monastery stood. There neither lute nor breathing fife, Nor rumour of the world of life, Nor confidences low and dear, Shall ... ...at wed the maid, That with weak virtues, weaker hands, Sow gladness on the peopled lands, And still with laughter, song and shout, Spin the great whee... ... than? An’ there were a’ the lures o’ life, There pleesure skirlin’ on the fife, There anger, wi’ the hotchin’ knife Ground shairp in Hell – My consci...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil?s Row who were circling madly about the heap and pelting at him. His infantile countenance was livid with fury. His small body was writhing in the delivery of great, crimson oaths. ?Run, Jimmie, run! Dey?ll get yeh...

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...gravel for the honor of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil’s Row who were circling madly about the heap and pelting at hi... ...valiant roar, “dese micks can’t make me run.” Howls of renewed wrath went up from Devil’s Row throats. Tattered gamins on the right made a furious ass... ...was gone. He had bruises on twenty parts of his body, and blood was dripping from a cut in his head. His wan features wore a look of a tiny, insane de... ...And the reader of sounds might have seen the reply go forth from the ragged people: “Where’s our soup?” Jimmie and a companion sat in a rear seat and... ...ward his truck, he would drive fearfully upon a sidewalk, threatening untold people with annihilation. When an engine would strike a mass of blocked t... ...inding. Pete’s elegant occupation brought him, no doubt, into con tact with people who had money and manners. It was prob able that he had a large a... ...ory and the eternal moan of the proprietor: “What een hell do you sink I pie fife dolla a week for? Play? No, py damn.” She contemplated Pete’s man su...

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...ck-skins, on my back and his rifle peeping above his shoulder, chasing a hostile trail, with me going like the wind and his hair streaming out behind from the shelter of his broad slouch. Yes, he is a sight to look at then -- and I?m part of it myself....

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...?s Tale CHAPTER I SOLDIER BOY - PRIVATELY TO HIMSELF............................................................................. 4 CHAPTER II LETTER FROM ROUEN - TO GENERAL ALISON........................................................................7 CHAPTER III GENERAL ALISON TO HIS MOTHER.........9 CHAPTER IV CATHY TO HER AUNT MERCEDES........10 CHAPTER V GENERAL ALIS...

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..........................................................4 CHAPTER II LETTER FROM ROUEN TO GENERAL ALISON.............................................. ...s tile trail, with me going like the wind and his hair streaming out behind from the shelter of his broad slouch. Yes, he is a sight to look at then ... ...ind him. I know the art of searching for a trail, and I know the stale track from the fresh. I can keep a trail all by myself, with Buffalo Bill aslee... ...use this is such a wild fron tier, hundreds of miles from civilization, and peopled only by wandering tribes of savages? You fear for her safety? Giv... ...mb brutes — now that’s the girl twin, but she loves boy plays, and drums and fifes and soldiering, and rough riding, and ain’t afraid of anybody or a... ...he comman dant, who is only a Brigadier. And doesn’t she train those little people! Ask the Indians, ask the traders, ask the sol diers; they’ll tel... ... the breastworks with the front line. “Y es, they are soldiers, those little people; and healthy, too, not ailing any more, the way they used to be so...

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...hout his reign on the terms of friend rather than of captive, and was absolutely sheltered by this imprisonment throughout his nonage and early youth from the frightful violence and presumption of the nobles of his kingdom....

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...utely sheltered by this imprisonment throughout his nonage and early youth from the frightful violence and pre- sumption of the nobles of his kingdom.... ...aving been himself educated at Paris. The Abbey of Coldingham is described from a local com- pilation of the early part of the century, with an accoun... ... in the widest part of the valley, a sort of plat- form of rock jutted out from the hill-side, and afforded a station for one of those tall, narrow, g... ...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... ...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... ... with blood. Perhaps, both Lilias and old Halbert suggested, some of their people had returned and taken him to the Abbey of Coldingham, and as this w... ...ldier. ‘I ken nae mair; I was sent on anither little errand of the Earl of Fife into the Highlands, and only cam back hither a week syne, to watch the... ...ere to be found at Doune—either as wife, or as captive, to Walter, Earl of Fife and heir of Albany. So soon as the doors of Coldingham Priory were ope... ...he King or her brother were across the border.’ ‘And where is he now?’ ‘In Fife, striving to get a force together to hinder the King’s return. He’ll n...

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...lingford, with the noble Robert Fitz-Ooth, Earl of Locksley and Huntingdon. The abbey of Rubygill stood in a picturesque valley, at a little distance from the western boundary of Sherwood Forest, in a spot which seemed adapted by nature to be the retreat of monastic mortification, being on the banks of a fine trout-stream, and in the midst of woodland coverts, abounding wi...

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... The abbey of Rubygill stood in a pictur esque valley, at a little distance from the western boundary of Sherwood Forest, in a spot which seemed adap... ...xalted, his voice issuing most ca Maid Marian T. L. Peacock 3 nonically from the roof of his mouth, through the medium of a very musical nose new... ...iron tread of the armed intruders, as it rang on the marble floor and echoed from the vaulted aisles. The leader strode up to the altar; and placing h... ...will be Kit Scrapesqueak with his fiddle, and little Tom Whistlerap with his fife and tabor, and Sam Trumtwang with his harp, and Peter Maid Marian ... ...f, “how this villain per Maid Marian T. L. Peacock 35 verts the deluded people by making them believe that those who tithe and toll upon them for... ...uddenly assailed from one side by a party of foresters, and that the baron’s people had made a sortie on the other, and that they had killed the guard... ...t when his habeas corpus was so unseasonably suspended. He was told that his people had been on the point of secur ing the said prisoner, when the de...

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...ing committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in those last solemn days, it did to him. He had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into ...

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...o friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in... ...d by his position as a Churchman, had been led, in editing a Work not free from ecclesiastical heresies, and especially in writing a Life very full of... ...Hebrew Old- clothes;’ wrestling, with impotent impetuosity, to free itself from the baleful imbroglio, as if that had been its one function in life: w... ...it.—Simple peasant laborers, ploughers, house- servants, occasional fisher-people too; and the sight of ships, and crops, and Nature’s doings where Ar... ...dism when they have any character;—for the rest, an innocent good- humored people, who all drink home-brewed beer, and have brown loaves of the most e... ...ing. This is the ordinary Welsh village; but there are excep- tions, where people of more cultivated tastes have been led to settle, and Llanblethian ... ...onception, vigorous delineation, all marching on as with cheerful drum and fife, if without more rich and complicated forms of melody: if a man would ...

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...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE ............................................................. ... Story of the Gadsbys In Black and White By Rudyard Kipling 1895 THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE Hit a man an’ help a woman, an’ ye can’t be far wrong anyw... ... Mulvaney. THE I NEXPRESSIBLES gave a ball. They borrowed a seven- pounder from the Gunners, and wreathed it with laurels, and made the dancing-floor ... ...ggage, you divil,” sez I, “or I’ll murther you!” ‘The lights av the thraps people comin’ from the Gaff was showin’ across the parade ground, an’, by t... ... that wicked ould woman, I’ll send a thrifle to Father Victor for the poor people he’s always beggin’ for.’ But me an’ Orth’ris, he bein’ Cockney an’ ... ...ounds a curious sort of message that to deliver on a dead still night. The people tumbled up in their dressing-gowns and pyjamas, and wouldn’t believe... ...e dirt, a long picket in the back av your head, an’ your hands playing the fifes on the tread av another man’s doorstep. ’T was so we found O’Hara, he...

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................................................... 59 COME, MY BELOVED, HEAR FROM ME ...................................................................... ..................................................................... 69 COME FROM THE DAISIED MEADOWS ..................................................... ... an inland bird First by the seaworn sailor heard; And like road sheltered from life’s sea Thine honest heart is unto me. THOUGH DEEP INDIFFERENCE SHO... ...d take their rest. The cock has crown in the steading-yard, But priest and people slumber hard. We two are early forth, and hear The nations snoring f... ...ered town, Crest-tossing heroes cry. Crest-tossing heroes cry; And martial fifes declare How small, to mortal minds, Is merely mortal care. And to the... ...e old land and the years: My father calls for me, My weeping spirit hears. Fife, fife, into the golden air, O bird, And sing the morning in; For the o...

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...rme. Jewel. And rich: heere is a Water looke ye. Pain. You are rapt sir, in some worke, some Dedication to the great Lord. Poet. A thing slipt idlely from me. Our Poesie is as a Gowne, which uses From whence ?tis nourisht: the fire i?th? Flint Shewes not, till it be strooke: our gentle flame Provokes it selfe, and like the currant flyes Each bound it chases. What have you ...

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...a-tion 31 to the great Lord. 32 Poet. A thing slipt idlely from me. 33 Our Poesie is as a Gowne, which vses 34 From whence... ...and properties to his loue and tendance 75 All sorts of hearts; yea, from the glasse- fac’d Flatterer 76 To Apemantus, that few things lo... ...is Fortune, and this Hill me thinkes [Gg2 94 With one man becken’d from the rest below, 95 Bowing his head against the sleepy Mount 96 ... ...O Gods, the Senators of Athens, 1461 together with the common legge of People, what is amisse in 1462 them, you Gods, make suteable for destru... ... Nay stay thou out for earnest. 1652 Enter Alcibiades with Drumme and Fife in warlike manner, 1653 and Phrynia and Timandra. 1654 Alc... ... duller for his acte, 2227 And but in the plainer and simpler kinde of people, 2228 The deede of Saying is quite out of vse. 2229 To Promi...

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...d away, till he came across the woman who took opium and learned the taste from her, and died as poor whites die in India. His estate at death consist... ...ith an immense success. T rue, he knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi 5 Rudyard Kipling Gate to the outer Fort Ditch; was hand in... ...and sounds of the women’s world on the flat roofs, and the headlong flight from housetop to housetop under cover of the hot dark. Then there were holy... ...ead to one side, considering and interested. ‘Give me the bowl. I know the people of this city–all who are charitable. Give, and I will bring it back ... ...hild the old man handed him the bowl. [start here] ‘Rest, thou. I know the people.’ He trotted off to the open shop of a kunjri, a low caste vegetable... ..., too, I think that so old a man as thou, speaking the truth to chance met people at dusk, is in great need of a disciple.’ ‘But the River–the River o... ... the Mulligan Guards To Sligo Port below! Here broke in the shrill tongued fifes: We shouldered arms, W e marched–we marched away. From Phoenix Park W... ...arched away. From Phoenix Park We marched to Dublin Bay. The drums and the fifes, Oh, sweetly they did play, As we marched–marched– 76 Kim marched–wi...

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...per agonies, what convulsive struggles he may take to cast the torture off from him; and then finally the last departure of life itself, and how he li... ...hat had not the force even to die. Was French Royalty, when wrenched forth from its tap- estries in that fashion, on that Sixth of October 1789, 7 Th... ..., Here shalt thou stand and not there; and can treat with it, and make it, from an infinite, a quite finite Constitutional scarecrow,—what is to be lo... ...ciences, like the King’s, and consciences hot- seared, like certain of his People’s: the whole to end in Feasts of Reason and a War of La Vendee! So d... ...the Ministry, and Necker himself whom a brass inscription ‘fastened by the people over his door-lintel’ testifies to be the ‘Ministre adore,’ are dwin... ...est composure; remarking, rather than exclaim- ing, with outspread hands: “People, I die innocent; pray for me.” (See Deux Amis, iv. c. 14, 7; Hist. ... ...f grain! There march and constitutionally wheel, to the ca-ira-ing mood of fife and drum, under their tricolor Municipals, our clear-gleam- ing Phalan... ...r cannon-carriages rattling in front, with spread banners, to the sound of fife and drum, wend, in a deliberate formidable manner, towards that sheer ...

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...f necessity the same must often recur, and in the same sequence. There are people who take a pleasure in mak- ing collections of all such fortuitous o... ... could not shut them soon enough; and of two cities which take their names from the most agree- able odoriferous plants, Ios and Smyrna, the one from ... ...ble odoriferous plants, Ios and Smyrna, the one from a vio- let, the other from myrrh, the poet Homer is reported to have been born in the one, and to... ..., the boldness of Pompey, the success of Sylla, and the power of the Roman people, all to be encountered by one who was a banished man and a stranger ... ...them men born for command, for warfare, and for stratagem; both ban- ished from their countries, and holding command over strangers; both had fortune ... ...who beheld his misfortune, must at the same time recognize his merits. The people also paid him the respect he deserved, and when he came into the the... ...sails of purple, while oars of silver beat time to the music of flutes and fifes and harps. She herself lay all along, under a canopy of cloth of gold...