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The Lesser Bourgeoisie (The Middle Classes)

By: Honoré de Balzac

...o you. Ought it not to belong to you as the tithe formerly belonged to the Church in memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields a... ... mother of a family; no favorite friend was seen at her house. She went to church, reformed her dress, 27 Balzac wore gray, and talked Catholicism, m... ...r Barniol. Phellion’s eldest son was a professor of mathematics in a royal college; he gave lectures and private lessons, being devoted, so his father... ...she had listened to the voice of religion, which told her that neither the Church, nor its votaries, should talk of love or happi- ness, but of duty a... ...y in that pretty little gown of mous- seline-de-laine of the color of some Scottish tartan! That day I said to myself: ‘Why is that woman so often at ... ...milies residing in Martinique. Monsieur Pron, professor of rheto- ric in a college presided over by priests, belonged to the Phellion class; but, inst... ...ght good pupils. Perhaps monsieur knows young Phellion, a professor in the College of Saint-Louis; he was one of his scholars, and he comes to see him...

...eling almost certain of your sympathy in my pleasure, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as the tithe formerly belonged to the Church in memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect?...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...sire has been to give enough expression of Bishop Patteson’s opinions upon Church and State affairs, to repre- sent his manner of thinking, without tr... ... in his life, as well as in that of his son. The elder John Patteson was a colleger, and passed on to King’s College, Cambridge, whence, in 1813, he c... ... solid groundwork of religion, such as would now be called that of a sound Churchman of the old school, thoroughly devout and scrupulous in observance... ...melike to Coley, for his grandparents lived at Heath’s Court, close to the church, and in the manor-house near at hand their third son, Francis George... ...vity. Their tumultuous loyalty and audacity appear in Coley’s letter:— ‘In college, stretching from Hexter’s to Mother Spier’s was a magnificent repre... ...dreadful pain for some time. Then came the Queen’s carriage, and I thought college would have tumbled down with the row. The cheering was really treme... ...th of July. This island was occupied by Mr. Inglis and Mr. Greddie, of the Scottish Presbyterian Mission, who had done much towards improving the nati... ... course the coral formation out of the sea.’ Erromango was occupied by the Scottish Mission, and Mr. Gordon was then living there in peace and apparen... ...fore his eyes. The Erromaugo Mission, like that of Anaiteum, came from the Scottish Kirk. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, as has been seen, had been visited on e...

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The Tapestried Chamber and Death of the Lairds Jock

By: Sir Walter Scott

...d of a character peculiarly English. The little town, with its stately old church, whose tower bore testimony to the devotion of ages long past, lay a... ...How fortunate! Much of Browne’s early recollections, both at school and at college, had been connected with young Woodville, whom, by a few questions,... ...had been Richard Browne’s fag at Eton, and his chosen inti- mate at Christ Church; their pleasures and their tasks had been the same; and the honest s... ... doctrines to the Border dalesmen, was surprised, on entering one of their churches, to see a gauntlet or mail-glove hanging above the altar. Upon inq... ... and in tradition. Some of his feats are recorded in the minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, and others are mentioned in contempo- rary chronicles. At ... ... combatants met in the lists. It is needless to describe the struggle: the Scottish champion fell. Foster, placing his foot on his antagonist, seized ...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed... ...irit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It is a bulwark of sound religion. I... ...ting scenery for the dramatic club, over soliciting advertisements for the college magazine. She was on the peak that Sunday afternoon when she played... ...he only habitable structures to be seen were the florid red-brick Catholic church and rectory at the end of Main Street. 26 Main Street Carol picked ... ...or any hope of greatness. Only the tall red grain-elevator and a few tinny church-steeples rose from the mass. It was a frontier camp. It was not a pl... ...-cheeked cottagers. What she saw was the side of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church—a plain clap- board wall of a sour liver color; the ash-pile back of... ...alley of Massachu- setts Avenue, as she was rested by the integrity of the Scottish Rite Temple, she loved the city as she loved no one save Hugh. She...

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

...cept by theft and crime. No King, no council, can seize and torture me; no Church, no nation silence me. Such powers of ruthless and complete suppres-... ...t I could undertake. I could build whole towns with streets and houses and churches and citadels; I could bridge every 11 H G Wells gap in the oilclo... ...she came to me. Also she forbade all toys on Sundays except the bricks for church-building and the soldiers for church parade, or a Scriptural use of ... ...grandfather had been a private schoolmaster and one of the founders of the College of Pre- ceptors, and my father had assisted him in his school until... ... have dealt with them disrespect- fully. But public schools and university colleges sprang into 54 The New Machiavelli existence correlated, the scho... ...ensible. Ex- cept when they wore flannels, I saw them almost always in old college caps and gowns, a uniform which greatly increased their detachment ... ... and Hatherleigh, who was a Hampshire man, assured us we ought to know the Scottish miner. My private fancy was for the Lancashire op- erative because...

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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ese so-called Biographical Documents are in his hand. By the kindness of a Scottish Hamburg Merchant, whose name, known to the whole mercantile world,... ...itude, her own simple version of the Christian Faith. Andreas too attended Church; yet more like a parade-duty, for which he in the 72 Sartor Resartu... ... than usually Sibylline: fragments of all sorts: scraps of regular Memoir, College- Exercises, Programs, Professional Testimoniums, Milkscores, torn B... ...Y “Thus nevertheless,” writes our Autobiographer, appar- ently as quitting College, “was there realized Somewhat; namely, I, Diogenes Teufelsdrockh: a... ... and spreads; and the smoke and ashes thereof (in these Judgment-Halls and Churchyards), and its bellows-engines (in these Churches), thou still seest... ...rom century to cen- tury; he cannot help it though he would. The authentic Church-Catechism of our present century has not yet fallen into my hands: m... ...ne! “Still more touching was it when, turning the corner of a lane, in the Scottish Town of Edinburgh, I came upon a Signpost, whereon stood written t... ...have we endeavored, from the enormous, amorphous Plum-pudding, more like a Scottish Haggis, which Herr Teufelsdrockh had kneaded for his fellow-mortal...

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Grisly Grisell or the Laidly Lady of Whitburn : A Tale of the Wars of the Roses

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... her of the King’s interest and de- light in his beautiful freshly-founded Colleges at Eton and Cambridge, how the King rode down whenever he could to... ...rn’s visit. The dame was in hot haste to get home. Rumours were rife as to Scottish invasions, and her tower was not too far south not to need to be o... .... “Oh! I hope she will never come in here, by the little win- dow into the church,” cried Grisell trembling. Indeed, for some time, in spite of all Si... ... a visit from St. Edith, who, as she was told, slept her long sleep in the church below. It may be feared that one chief reliance was on the fact that... ... story, and her sweet northern voice was much valued in the singing in the church. She was quite at home there, and though too young to be admitted as...

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Nutties Father

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...kery, and National Schools, and a British School, and a Board School, also churches of every height, chapels of ev- ery denomination, and iron mission... ...enomination, and iron mission rooms budding out in hopes to be replaced by churches. Like one of the animals which zoologists call radiated, the town ... ...etween. One of these arms was known as St. Ambrose’s Road, in right of the church, an incomplete struc- ture in yellow brick, consisting of a handsome... ...els of Annabella, so chris- tened, but always called Annaple after the old Scottish queens, her ancestors. She had been May Egremont’s chief friend ev... ...en much warp- ing of the imagination to make the young man believe the old Scottish peeress to have consented to her daughter’s mar- rying into an umb... ...undertaken, I suppose.’ ‘Not very likely,’ said Mary quietly. It is a mere Scottish anti-church influence,’ said Gerard, turning round at the swing-do... ...ssist him in reading up to the requirements for admission to a theological college. Poor dear old Gerard! It gave Nuttie a sort of pang of self-reproa...

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Henrietta's Wish; Or, Domineering

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ort and neat- ness that showed the care of the proprietor. “O, here is the church,” said Henrietta, in a subdued voice, as they came to the low flint ... ...e low flint wall that fenced in the slightly rising ground occupied by the churchyard, surrounded by a whole grove of noble elm trees, amongst which c... ...e grove of noble elm trees, amongst which could just be seen the small old church, with its large deep porch and cu- rious low tower. “The door is ope... ...th a very low bow, which was gracefully returned by a royal personage in a Scottish bonnet, also bearing the white cockade, a tartan scarf, and the bl... ...y, how likely it was that I might have gone on to much worse at school and college.” “Never, never!” said Henrietta. “Not now, I hope,” said Fred; “bu...

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A Modern Telemachus

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... many years ago in the household of the late Warden Bar- ter of Winchester College. Since writing the above I have by the kindness of friends been ena... ... war and policy, so as to receive the title of Comte de Bourke. The French Church was called on to provide for the other two children. The daughter, A... ...ed the favour of a few minutes’ conversation in private with Ma- dame. The Scottish title fared better on the lips of La Jeunesse 16 A Modern Telemac... ...r whatever she would command.’ ‘If you can grant it—oh! Madame,’ cried the Scottish Count- ess, beginning to drop her formality in her eagerness, ‘we ... ...tched weak creatures!’ he said to himself, as he thought the traditions of Scottish heroic women in whose heroism he had gloated. And yet he was wrong... ..., surmounted with tall towers, extinguisher-capped, of castle, convent, or church, the clear reaches of river, the beautiful turns, the little vil- la... ...rn Telemachus Cathedral except Arthur. The time was not come for heed- ing church architecture or primitive history; and he only wandered about the na...

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Dynevor Terrace Vol. Ii

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... his mind were endlessly repeated, and many a slow and pealing note of the church- clock had added fuel to his impatience, and spurred him to rush up ... ...e fogs, of which it is popu- larly said you may cut them with a knife. The church was in dim twilight; the bride and bridegroom loomed through the haz... ...ith the heartfelt answer that he was but too glad to be permitted to go to church once more with Mary. Aunt Melicent’s Sunday was not quite their own ... ...en an intimacy, and was by him introduced to Clara as belonging to James’s college. She frankly held out her hand, but was discomfited by his in- quir... ...mountain-side and the rank unwholesome vegetation of Panama. Shaggy little Scottish oxen were feeding on the dewy grass, their black coats looking sle...

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Some Christmas Stories

By: Charles Dickens

...k figures, who seem to have come off a couple of tombs in the old baronial church in the park, for our particular accommoda- tion. But, we are not a s... ...ame to pass how Lady Mary went to pay a visit at a large wild house in the Scottish Highlands, and, being fatigued with her long journey, retired to b... ...r, a friend of somebody’s whom most of us know, when he was a young man at college, had a particu- lar friend, with whom he made the compact that, if ... ... ing on a bureau near the window, steadfastly re- garding him, saw his old college friend! The appear- ance being solemnly addressed, replied, in a ki... ...lages near the field of Waterloo, you will have seen, in some quiet little church, a monument erected by faithful com- panions in arms to the memory o...

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The Deputy of Arcis

By: Honoré de Balzac

... except on public buildings. At Arcis the chateau, the law courts, and the church are the only stone buildings. Nevertheless, Champagne, or, if you pr... ...several of the inert portions of our country. Writers, administrators, the Church from its pulpit, the Press in its columns, all to whom chance has gi... ...ur oblivi- ous friend was willing to agree that he studied with you at the college of T ours and also that hew as the same Monsieur Dorlange who, in 1... ...the sacrifices and annoyances I have borne to be rid of him. I never go to church now except on Sundays; I often keep my dear children at home to the ... ...week two news (to use the schoolboy phrase of my son Armand) en- tered the college of Tours. One had a charming face, the other would have been though... ...t he was never sent for to see friends in the parlor, and that outside the college walls no one ap- peared to take an interest in him. The two lads, w... ... heard amid the hubbub,— that of a pretty little blonde, saying to a small Scottish youth with whom she had danced the whole evening,— “How odd of Nai... ...is to invite little boys of that age!” “That’s easily explained,” said the Scottish youth; “he’s a boy of the Treasury department. Nais had to ask him... ...d that he was, Ernest pounced upon the note and took possession of it. The Scottish youth, furious, flung himself upon the treacherous French boy; on ...

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The Black Dwarf

By: Sir Walter Scott

...s were of a different cast, chiefly polemical. He never went to the parish church, and was there- fore suspected of entertaining heterodox opinions, t... ...f his remains being mixed with the common rubbish, as he called it, of the churchyard, and selected with his usual taste a beautiful and wild spot in ... ...ropy, by increasing his means of giving terror or pain. But even in a rude Scottish glen thirty years back, the fear of sorcery was very much out of d... ... formed the chief part of their amusement within doors. The passing of the Scottish act of security had given the alarm of England, as it seemed to po... ... never deny it.—But will ye tell me now, Earnscliff, you that have been at college, and the high-school of Edinburgh, and got a’ sort o’ lair where it... ...d like well to have a thrust with him on the green turf. I was reckoned at college nearly his equal with the foils, and I should like to try him at sh... ...have re- course to the violent expedients of the Romans which I read of at College. It would be hard upon my pretty cousin to be run away with twice i...

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Kidnapped Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...I had told him yes, “Ye’ll be no friend of his?” he asked, meaning, in the Scottish way, that I would be no relative. I told him no, none. “I thought ... ...company, too, and good company of its sort. Mr. Riach, who had been to the college, spoke to me like a friend when he was not sulking, and told me man... ...religion I had ever heard from him, but I learnt afterwards he was a great church-goer while on shore.) “But, for all that,” says he, “I can be sorry ... ... up the hillside over the bay, I could catch a sight of the great, ancient church and the roofs of the people’s houses in Iona. And on the other hand,... ...hould be left to die on the shores of my own country, and within view of a church-tower and the smoke of men’s houses. But the second day passed; and ... ...it’s a great privation; but when I think upon the martyrs, not only to the Scottish Covenant but to other points of Christianity, I think shame to min... ...h of them the door. That was in August; dear me! the same year I came from college. The scene must have been highly farcical.” I thought myself it was...

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The Life of John Sterling

By: Thomas Carlyle

...tunate. Archdeacon Hare, both by natural tendency and by his position as a Churchman, had been led, in editing a Work not free from ecclesiastical her... ...character and writ- ings, which had little business to be spoken of in any Church-court, have hereby been carried thither as if for an exclusive trial... ...les, with Life by Archdeacon Hare. Parker; London, 1848. 5 Thomas Carlyle Church. But he was a man, and had relation to the Uni- verse, for eight-and... ...hters of the family; but Edward was the only son;—descended, too, from the Scottish hero Wallace, as the old gentleman would sometimes ad- monish him;... ...lwind, as one was tempted to call him. In youth, he had studied at Trinity College, Dublin; vis- ited the Inns of Court here, and trained himself for ... ...l that remained of the young family; much attached to one another in their College years as afterwards. Glasgow, however, was not properly their Col- ... ...inning of his nineteenth year, “in the autumn of 1824,” he went to Trinity College, Cambridge. His brother Anthony, who had already been there a year,... ...ioned. In those very days while Arthur Coningsby was getting read amid the Scottish moors, “in June, 1833,” Sterling, at Bonn in the Rhine-country, fe...

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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

...er that after three years’ stay he might secure a scholarship at Brasenose College, Oxford. He remained there—strongly protesting against a situation ... ... De Quincey was brought home and finally allowed (1803) to go to Worcester College, Oxford, on a reduced income. Here, we are told, “he came to be loo... ...armony like that of heart, *“The same thing”:—Thus, in the calendar of the Church Festivals, the discovery of the true cross (by Helen, the mother of ... ...(or nearly all) in early manhood. In most universities there is one single college; in Oxford there were five-and-twenty, all of which were peopled by... ... animation of frank social intercourse—have disarmed the guard. Beyond the Scottish border, the regulation was so far relaxed as to allow of four outs... ...hould be most sudden.” On the other hand, the divine Litany of our English Church, when breathing forth supplications, as if in some representative 3... ...istianity and Paganism. But this, on consideration, I doubt. The Christian Church may be right in its estimate of sudden death; and it is a natural fe... ...ut Erle of Northumberland a vow to God did make, his pleasure in the Scottish woods 3 sommers days to take. 68 27 PUCELLE D’ORLÉANS: Maid of...

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Merry Men

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ch in my reflections. I had been favourably remarked by our then Principal in Edinburgh College, that famous writer, Dr. Robertson, and 9 Merry Men b... ...eyond a moment. He condescended, indeed, to ask me some ques- tions as to my success at college, but I thought it was with half his mind; and even in ... ...ember I re- torted hotly, crying out upon childish superstitions. ‘And ye come frae the College!’ sneered Uncle Gordon. ‘Gude kens what they learn fol... ... ray of vapour on a wooded hillside; and when the wind was favourable, the sound of the church bells would drop down, thin and silvery, to Will. Below... ...es, and lighted up at night from end to end with artificial stars of gold; of the great churches, wise universities, brave armies, and untold money ly... ...d! to move with a jocund spirit in a golden land! to hear the trained singers and sweet church bells, and see the holiday gardens! ‘And O fish!’ he wo... ... to the clamour, that my driver more particularly winced and blanched. Some thoughts of Scottish superstition and the river Kelpie, passed across my m...

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

...ore essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism. Amidst the welter of modern thought, a phi- loso... ...all absurdly in Hampstead middle-class raiment, meetings of a Sunday after church (the men in silk hats, frock coats, and tightly-rolled umbrellas), r... ...ad there will be a great multitude of gracious little houses clustering in college-like groups, no doubt about their com- mon kitchens and halls, down... ...e men be? Will they be a caste? a race? an organisation in the nature of a Church? … And there came into my mind the words of our acquaintance, that h... ...aution- ary and remedial treatment. There will be disciplinary schools and colleges for the young, fair and happy places, but with less confidence and... ...dignity as a policeman, a solicitor-general, a king, a bishop in the State Church, a Government professor, or any- one else the State sustains. Suppos... ...niture. This particular inn is a quadrangle after the fashion of an Oxford college; it is perhaps forty feet high, and with about five stories of bed-... ...hose others, as Englishmen—which includes, in this case, I may remark, the Scottish and Welsh— he holds them superior to all other sorts of European, ...

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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. With an Introduction. By James M'Cune Smith

By: Frederick Douglas

...ing wolf— from a corrupt and selfish world, to a hollow and hypocriti- cal church.”—Speech before American and Foreign Anti-Sla- very Society, May, 18... ... and John B. 14 My Bondage and My Freedom Russworm (a graduate of Bowdoin college, and afterward Governor of Cape Palmas) published the Freedom’s Jou... ...led and excoriated creatures I ever saw, those two girls—in the re- fined, church going and Christian city of Baltimore were the most deplorable. Of s... ...the presiding elder, and now one of the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Waugh was then stationed over Wilk street church. I am careful ... ..., I have felt that he, better than I, illustrated the virtues of the great Scottish chief. Sure I am, that had any slave-catcher entered his domicile,...

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