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

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... vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, — that is, he went to church,... ... Oak remedied by thumps and shakes, and he es caped any evil consequences from the other two defects by constant comparisons with and observations of... ...ount of the exertion, and drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well. But some thoughtful persons, who had seen him walking across o... ...farmer.’ ‘And the greatest of them is — well, what it is always.’ ‘Beating people down? ay, ’tis so.’ ‘O no.’ ‘What, then?’ Gabriel, perhaps a little ... ...n: the barren and gloomy Square of Pegasus was creeping round to the north west; far 10 NIGHT—THE FLOCK—AN INTERIOR—ANOTHER INTERIOR away through the... ...s of male vision seem to have a tickling effect upon virgin faces in rural districts; she brushed hers with her hand, as if Gabriel had been irritatin... ... I was fourteen times eleven months at Millpond St. Jude’s’ (nodding north west by north). ‘Old Twills wouldn’t hire me for more than eleven months a... ...ggans, who, with the Smallburys, were as common among the families of this district as the Avons and Derwents among our rivers. He always had a loosen... ...e of their coats, and only lacking the spots. There were also a few of the Oxfordshire breed, whose wool was be ginning to curl like a child’s flaxen ...

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...riend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbors....

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...bout three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of la... ...nghamshire, where his father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard at ... ...shire, where his father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard at Banbu... ...if any traveller hath a curiosity to see the whole work at large, as it came from the hands of the author, I will be ready to gratify him. As for any ... ...r, you were pleased to an swer that you were afraid of giving offence; that people in power were very watchful over the press, and apt not only to in... ...ively in two ships, and made several voyages, for six years, to the East and West Indies, by which I got some addition to my fortune. My hours of leis... ...om thence to the East Indies, we were driven by a violent storm to the north west of Van Diemen’s Land. By an observation, we found ourselves in the l... ... ters, by imitating their master, become ministers of state in their several districts, and learn to excel in the three principal ingredients, of inso... ... Yahoos of several neighbourhoods, without any visible cause; those of one district watching all opportunities to surprise the next, before they are...

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...mely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without a...

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...ntents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES..............................................................................................

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........................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ........................ ...pers MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FR FR FR FR FROM OM OM OM OM THE A THE A THE A THE A THE AUTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, U... ... any, had been already tried for me vicariously amongst the Ameri- cans; a people so nearly repeating our own in style of intel- lect, and in the comp... ...n days, fighting for the *The Thirty Years’ War, from 1618 to the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, was notoriously the last and the decisive conflict betw... ...rciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every philosophi... ...tle novel to a beautiful girl of seventeen, the daughter of a statesman in Westmoreland, not designing any deception (nor so much as any concealment) ... ...er that chiefly people our parks. Red deer were also found at Blenheim, in Oxfordshire, when it was visited by Dr. Johnson, as may be seen in “Boswell... ...f it amounted to so much, arose with a lady from some part of Cheshire—the district of Knutsford, I believe;— but, wherever it was, in the same distri... ... I received a weekly allowance, which would have enabled me to live in any district of Wales, either North or South; for Wales, both North and South, ...

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...s working on the edge of the common, beyond the small brook that ran in the dip at the bottom of the garden, carrying the garden path in continuation from the plank bridge on to the common. He had cut the rough turf and bracken, leaving the grey, dryish soil bare. But he was worried because he could not get the path straight, there was a pleat between his brows. He had set...

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... dip at the bottom of the garden, carrying the garden path in continuation from the plank bridge on to the common. He had cut the rough turf and brack... ... pine trees as through a doorway, at the green- grassed garden-path rising from the shadow of alders by the log bridge up to the sunlit flowers. Tall ... ...fferent paste. The girls and the father were strong- limbed, thick-blooded people, true English, as holly-trees and hawthorn are English. Their cultur... ...ensity for so many generations. It seemed to cast a spell on the two young people. They be- came different. There was a curious secret glow about them... ...e no home of my own now. My people had a big farm—over a thousand acres—in Oxfordshire. Not like here—no. Oh, they’re very good to me, his father and ... ...the house darkened with deep, soft snow, which had blown against the large west windows, covering them with a screen. I went outside, and saw the vall... ...much. Matilda and Emmie were already old maids. In a thor- ough industrial district, it is not easy for the girls who have expectations above the comm... ...oodnight, as if to insist that he was on his own ground. He spoke with the west-Cornish intonation. And as he went along the dreary road, looking now ... ... first year, about the new army, a fragment of which was quartered in this district, about America. The landlady darted looks at him from her small ey...

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...ion. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the veil from men?s motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental r...

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.... They were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit s... ...le memory. I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home centred intere... ...ation as I could desire about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, ... ...that. When you raise your cry of fire, it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin y... ...pe to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in his hair had tramped into the ... ...ne of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense stream of commerce flowin... ...been able to understand it, in a very few words. “Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in Hereford shire. The largest landed... ... of the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon the path and ami... ...here to?’ “ ‘To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a train from P...

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...lume, Winter’s bee-thronged ivy-bloom. Seek and serve them where they bide From Candlemas to Christmas-tide, For these simples used aright Shall resto... ...f those whom mor- tals call Fairies. Their proper name, of course, is ‘The People of the Hills’. This Puck, by means of the magic of Oak, Ash, and Tho... ...r, Though it should have happened three thousand year. The result was that from time to time, and in different places on the farm and in the fields an... ...s and in the country about, they saw and talked to some rather interesting people. One of these, for instance, was a Knight of the Norman Conquest, an... ...ly.) ‘Listen here! Philip will prepare for Gloriana a destruction from the West—a destruction from the West—far exceeding that which Pedro de Avila wr... ...been.’ She moved slowly across a bar of sunlight. ‘ A destruction from the West may signify that Philip means to descend on Ireland. But then my Irish... ...ter used to meet him at Epply’s—the great dancing-place in the city before District Marshal Will- iam Nichols bought it. They told me he was always gl... ... to Saye’s Horse, and fought the King— or rather the man Charles Stuart—in Oxfordshire (I had my learning at Cambridge), the plague was very hot all a... ... ‘But why talk of the plague this rare night?’ ‘To prove my argument. This Oxfordshire plague, good people, being generated among rivers and ditches, ...

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...tention. So the girl eyed him. But, it happened now, that a slant of light from the setting sun glanced into the bottom of the boat, and, touching a r... ...t or barge that split the cur- rent into a broad-arrowhead, at the offsets from the piers of Southwark Bridge, at the paddles of the river steamboats ... ...ncies. Chapter 2 THE MAN FROM SOMEWHERE MR AND MRS VENEERING were bran-new people in a bran- new house in a bran-new quarter of London. Everything abo... ...o was inveigled by Lady Tippins (a friend of his boyhood) to come to these people’s and talk, and who won’t talk. Reflects Eugene, friend of Mortimer;... ...woodbine twining, until she died. I must refer you to the Registrar of the District in which the humble dwelling was situated, for the certified cause... ...by fields and trees. Be- tween Battle Bridge and that part of the Holloway district in which he dwelt, was a tract of suburban Sahara, where tiles and... ...rst in the trade, but I’m the trade. Y ou may go and buy a skeleton at the West End if you like, and pay the West End price, but it’ll be 84 Our Mutu... ...ughts could try to scale the region bounded on the north, south, east, and west, by the plate; was a monstrous imagination which he would on the spot ... ...wn friend might be? He had no notion whatever. They were on the borders of Oxfordshire, so far had poor old Betty Higden strayed. They were to return ...

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...Woolf The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf Chapter I A s the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk... ...backs. The small, agitated figures—for in comparison with this couple most people looked small— decorated with fountain pens, and burdened with des- p... ... beyond the reach of malice and unpopularity. In his guess one might guess from the moving lips that it was thought; and in hers from the eyes fixed s... ...orn- ing all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently pain- ful. After watching the traffi... ...ome sentence, they pass on. Sometimes the flats and churches and hotels of Westminster are like the outlines of Constantinople in a mist; sometimes th... ...cab, by trotting steadily along the same road, soon withdrew them from the West End, and plunged them into London. It appeared that this was a great m... ...s. Elliot, speaking rather louder than usual. “But it’s so difficult after Oxfordshire, where there are so many trees. The light’s so strong here. Som... ...ere they are, and sometimes they’re ill, or they’re stationed in a cholera district, or in some place where it only rains once in five months. Mrs. Hu...

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...OVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ......................................................................... 10 CHAPTER II OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ...................

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...CH ITS PRODUCE IS NATU- RALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE. .......... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .................... ...ERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME .............. ...XTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEO... ...irectly destroy- ing, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people, 9 Adam Smith and those afflicted with lingering diseases, to peris... ...ndia; dried cod at Newfoundland; tobacco in Virginia; sugar in some of our West India colonies; hides or dressed leather in some other countries; and ... ... at least in common language. The greater part of our North Ameri- can and West Indian planters are in this situation. They farm, the 50 The Wealth o... ... a few vineyards; sometimes it extends through the greater part of a small district, and sometimes through a considerable part of a large province. Th... ... It seems to be so in some of the inland parts of England, particularly in Oxfordshire, where it is usual, even in the fires of the common people, to ... ...generally be in proportion to the improvement and population of that small district; but the market for the produce of a silver mine may extend over t...

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...aped upon this young man’s head. His first step forward in life had arisen from his having been sent, while still very young, as a private pupil to th... ...de; and it ended in Mark going back to Exeter with a letter full of praise from the widowed peeress. She had been delighted, she said, in having such ... ... assistance. And Lord Lufton was there of course; and 8 Framley Parsonage people protested that he would surely fall in love with one of the four bea... ... You know I don’t mean it. But Lady Lufton does not like those Chaldicotes people. You know Lord Lufton was with you the last time you were there; and... ...e was no por- tion of the county more decidedly true blue than the Framley district; and, indeed, up to the present day, the dowager is able to give a... ...o, at the moment supposed to be now present, is one of the members for the Western Division of Barsetshire. But this Western Division can boast none o... ...by, has he spoken to you about selling that outlying bit of land of his in Oxfordshire? It belongs to the Lufton property, and yet it doesn’t. In my m... ...ble for the duke to do it himself, and was, in fact, invaluable. People in West Barsetshire would often say that they did not know what on earth the d... ... was Lord Lufton— Ludovic Lufton, Baron Lufton of Lufton, in the county of Oxfordshire. ‘And yet I don’t think Lufton gets much astray, ’ said Sir Geo...