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............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. ...omewhere west of Tahiti. She found him in the hotel lobby but without his South Sea pareo. ----------------------... ...e I didn‘t know what I was eating, but it was all delicious. No wonder you people don‘t get fat. You can eat for hours and take in so few calories—al... ...usinessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. There‘s nobody t... ...atisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra money to add... ...y are barbarians. It is the same in the area of values, when we encounter new concepts we often criticize them because they are, or might be, unethi... ...r occupation. When you take courses in art history, music appreciation or tennis you are preparing to enjoy your non-working life. When you are faci... ...t color. ―A few years ago a fatwa was issued against a female tennis player who was a Muslim because she wore short skirts, but no fatwa...

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...d Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...per for permission to reprint them. The remaining tales are, more or less, new. —Rudyard Kipling ... ...ls.” Whether Christianity improved Lispeth, or whether the gods of her own people would have done as much for her under any circumstances, I do not kn... ... over bad ground to look upon. Lispeth had a Greek face—one of those faces people paint so often, and see so seldom. She was of a pale, ivory color an... ...nd fretted over women not worth saddling a pony to call upon. He found his new free life in India very good. It does look attractive in the beginning,... ...the history of British India. Some folk may remember the years before lawn-tennis was born when we all played croquet. There were seasons before that,... ...d archery—which was revived in England in 1844—was as great a pest as lawn-tennis is now. People talked learnedly about “holding” and “loosing,” “stel... ...at that very time doing menial work, connected with cooking, for a Club in Southern India! He sent Mrs D’Cruze seven rupees eight annas a month; but s...

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...Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- INDUCTION. Enter Rumour. Open your Eares: For which of you will stop The vent of Hearing, when loud Rumor speakes? I, from the Orient, to the drooping West (Making the winde my Post- horse) still unfold The Acts commenced on this Ball of Earth. Upon my Tongue, continuall Slanders ride, The which, in every Language, I pronounce, Stuffing the ...

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...l stop 5 The vent of Hearing, when loud Rumor speakes? 6 I, from the Orient, to the drooping West 7 (Making the winde my Post- h... ...ot a man of them brings other newes 42 Then they haue learn’d of Me. From Rumours Tongues, 43 They bring smooth- Comforts- false, worse t... ...great belly, and he my Dogge. 411 Iust. Well, I am loth to gall a new- heal’d wound: your 412 daies seruice at Shrewsbury, hath a little... ... yong Lion re-pents: 454 Marry not in ashes and sacke- cloath, but in new 455 Silke, and old Sacke. 456 Iust. Wel, heauen send the ... ...Keep them off, Bardolfe. Fang. A rescu, a rescu. 662 Host. Good people bring a rescu. Thou wilt not? thou 663 wilt not? Do, do thou Ro... ...701 staires) desire me to be no more familiar with such poore 702 people, saying, that ere long they should call me Madam? 703 And did’s... ...rts, as one for superfluity, and one other, for vse. But 809 that the Tennis- Court- keeper knowes better then I, for 810 it is a low ebbe o... ...o prophane the precious time, 1390 When Tempest of Commotion, like the South, 1391 Borne with black Vapour, doth begin to melt, 1392 And d... ...t of Henry the Fourth Shakespeare: First Folio 2214 East, West, North, South: or like a Schoole, broke vp, 2215 Each hurryes towards his home,...

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

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... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ...r of mine, that paper I should wish to cancel. So that, upon the whole, my new and revised edition is likely to differ by very consid- erable changes ... ...at quadrata rotundis,) it is my purpose to enlarge this edition by as many new papers as I find available for such a station. These I am anxious to pu... ... his deafness, it matters not a straw whether he belong to a northern or a southern journal. Here is one evil of journal writing—viz., its overmasteri... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ...eatedly re- turned to England, and met my mother at watering-places on the south coast of Devonshire, &c. But I, as a younger child, had not been one ... .... Having ac- cidently thrown a ball beyond the prison bounds in playing at tennis, or some such game, Sir Sidney was surprised to observe that the bal...

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...e middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement o...

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...e Bragelonne. V olume I. CHAPTER 1 The Letter. TOWARDS THE MIDDLE of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o’clock in the morning, when the sun,... ...assengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to ex- press, in the purest Fr... ...wered Haarlem tapestry; in the center of this table was a long-necked stone bottle, in which were irises and lilies of the valley; at each end of this... ...mte de Bragelonne.” “Ah, very well! Introduce him, Saint-Remy — introduce him.” And when he had let fall these words, with his accus- tomed gravity, M... ... cry of “Vive le Roi!” which passed over him. For a long time, being unaccustomed to hear it, his ear had had rest, and now a younger, more vivacious,... ...mbracing you likewise.” The good old man did not require to be twice told; he rushed in with open arms, Raoul meeting him halfway. “Now, if you please... ...wed his guards to eat his dinner, and his generals to govern the republic; Richard abdicated the protectorate on the 22nd of April, 1659, more than a ... ... mullets; I have also some little whitings that will fry beautifully.” “Y ou appear to me to have fished more frequently in the Gulf of Gascony than i... ... you choose to call them, eat but little, and pay 173 Dumas for nothing.” Monk shrugged his shoulders, without, however, being able to refrain from s...

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...for which of you will stop The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post horse, still ... ...on, And not a man of them brings other news Than they have learn’d of me: from Rumour’s tongues They bring smooth comforts false, worse than true wro... ...at belly, and he my dog. Lord Chief Justice : Well, I am loath to gall a new healed wound: your day’s service at Shrewsbury hath a little gilded o... ..., and the young lion repents; marry, not in ashes and sack cloth, but in new silk and old sack. Lord Chief Justice : Well, God send the prince a be... ...ep them off, Bardolph. FANG: A rescue! a rescue! MISTRESS QUICKLY: Good people, bring a rescue or two. Henry 4th, Part 2, Act II, scene i 19 Thou ... ...as gone down stairs, desire me to be no more so familiarity with such poor people; saying that ere long they should call me madam? And didst thou not ... ... of thy shirts, as, one for superfluity, and another for use! But that the tennis court keeper knows better than I; for it is a low ebb of linen with... ... So idly to profane the precious time, When tempest of commotion, like the south Borne with black vapor, doth begin to melt And drop upon our bare una... ...; Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses East, west, north, south; or, like a school broke up, Each hurries toward his home and sportin...

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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... ...ed at entrance, as if supposing the old man asleep; and at a slow pace the new-comer crossed the hall to the chimney, where he stood by the fire, warm... ...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... ... a voucher for the guest. The drawbridge had already been lowered, and the new-comer was crossing it upon a powerful black steed, guided by Father Nin... ...ow with which the stranger greeted him, saying in a manly mellow voice and southern accent, ‘I have been bold enough to presume on the good father’s o... ...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... ... mayhap, as the Prior tells me, your strength and manhood will come in the south country.’ ‘Let them,’ said Malcolm; ‘I will neither cheat the Church ... ...aking their meals in common, riding, hunting, hawk- ing, playing at bowls, tennis, or stool-ball, or any other pas- time, in such parties as suited th...

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...ee what you can do for me,” he said. “I’m sure I don’t,” said the doctor. “People come here and talk.” There was something reassuringly inaggressive a... ... with his hands in his trouser pockets, seemed intent only on disavowals. “People come here and talk. It does them good, and sometimes I am able to of... ...afford to have you ill.” “I am ill. But you can’t afford to have me absent from that Commission.” “Your technical knowledge—” “Technical knowledge be ... ... a different world. The public won’t stand things it used to stand. It’s a new public. It’s—wild. It’ll smash up the show if they go too far. Everythi... ...said the doctor. “It’s at the back of all sorts of mental trouble. It is a new state of mind. Before the war it was abnormal—a phase of neur- asthenia... ...er my own car.” “Then what do you say?” “I agree. Peripatetic treatment.” “South and west. We could talk on the road. In the eve- nings. By the waysid... ...t feel in the slightest degree re- sponsible. They hide all their troubles from the road. Their backyards are tucked away out of sight, they show a br... ...hmond aston- ished the doctor by going to his room, reappearing dressed in tennis flannels and looking very well in them. It occurred to the doctor as... ...ry much of each other?” “She has a flat in Chelsea and a little cottage in South Cornwall, and we sometimes snatch a few days together, away somewhere...

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...ck Hotel.? Mr. Crump, the landlord, had, in the outset of life, performed the duties of Boots in some inn even more frequented than his own, and, far from being ashamed of his origin, as many persons are in the days of their prosperity, had thus solemnly recorded it over the hospitable gate of his hotel....

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...he duties of Boots in some inn even more frequented than his own, and, far from being ashamed of his origin, as many per- sons are in the days of thei... ...ttle bar, profusely orna- mented with pictures of the dancers of all ages, from Hillisberg, Rose, Parisot, who plied the light fantastic toe in 1805, ... ...e found at the end of every week. There was Mr. Balls, the great grocer of South Audley Street, a warm man, who, they say, had his twenty thousand pou... ...gh the influence of great men; he was an agent for half-a-dozen theatrical people, male 13 Thackeray and female, and had the interests of the latter ... ... person were of that showy sort which is most popular in this world, where people are wont to admire most that which gives them the least trouble to s... ...and his hair curled every morning, and a little blue stock, and always two new magazines under his arm, and an umbrella and a little brown frock-coat,... ...mself quite willing to en- ter into any hamicable arrangement by which the new candi- date for Miss Crump’s favour must be thrown over. It was accordi... ... latter had pointed out Walker to his friend, who actually hit Lord George Tennison across the shoulders in play with a racket-bat; which event was so... ... a philosopher, and, far from repining, was still the gayest fellow of the tennis-court, and the soul of the midnight carouse. 85 Thackeray There is ...

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...with which his friends have 5 Yo n g e kindly supplied me, portraying him from their point of view; so that I could really trust that little more was... ...ary judgment in connecting and selecting. Nor until the work is less fresh from my hand will it be possible to judge whether I have in any way been al... ... James Coleridge, of Heath’s Court, Ottery St. Mary, Devon, Colonel of the South Devon Vol- unteers. He was the eldest of the numerous family of the R... ...arnest wish to be a clergyman, because he thought saying the Absolution to people must make them so happy, ‘a belief he must have gleaned from his Pra... ... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the ... ...ng out to found a church, and then to die neglected and forgotten. All the people burst out crying, he was so very much beloved by his parishioners. H... ...g a tyrant, as so often befalls those whose skill ren- ders them valuable. Tennis became Coley’s chief recreation, enabling him to work off his superf... ...to take), and am quite as much disposed as ever to wish for a good game at tennis or fives to take it out of me. ‘Your loving Brother, ‘J. C. Patteson...

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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... ...nch and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now called Kent; and, although they were a... ...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... ...a northern people, began to make frequent plun dering incursions into the South of Britain. All these attacks were repeated, at intervals, dur ing t... ...the first time, called the country over which he ruled, England. And now, new enemies arose, who, for a long time, troubled England sorely. These wer... ...rother in law, at the palace at Whitehall. There he played a great game at tennis, in his shirt, though it was very cold weather, and was seized with ...

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...lence, her enemies within her frontiers—all proved the great Richelieu no longer in existence. In truth, that the red simar which occupied the wonted ... ...t the red simar which occupied the wonted place was his no longer, was still more strikingly obvious from the isolation which seemed, as we have obser... ... as from the distant and incessant sounds of guns fir- ing—let off, happily, without other end or aim, except to show to the guards, the Swiss troops ... ...se,” he continued, “of the parliament! Both Orleans and Montargis are ours. It will be a work of time, but those who have begun by crying out: Down wi... ...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... ...d on thyme only, your hares.” “And how do you like my wine?” asked Porthos; “it is pleasant, isn’t it?” “Capital!” “It is nothing, however, but a wine... ... saw through an iron bar.” “Then my lord does not know that there are eight guards about him, four in his chamber, four in the antechamber, and that t... ... and wooden forks, pretending that as he had been informed that the duke was to pass all his life at Vincennes, he was afraid of his prisoner attempti...

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...ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK THREE by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...now he cared for; and in this dismal frame of mind he determined to retire from the regiment, to the great delight of the captain next in rank to him,... ... the church of his country, and to that he chose to remain faithful: other people were welcome to worship and to subscribe any other set of articles, ... ... finding, on going to England, his country cold towards him- self, and the people in a ferment of High Church loyalty, the Duke comes back to his army... ...r his dictation); and if Frank had chosen to marry a lady of the church of south Europe, as she would call the Roman communion, there was no need why ... ...uld not welcome her as a daughter-in-law: and accordingly she wrote to her new daughter a very pretty, touching letter (as Esmond thought, who had cog... ... on the ear; or he would be jealous, and with perfect good reason, of some new admirer that had sprung up, or some rich young gentleman newly arrived ... ...nt with good-humor, and as jolly and careless as when they had sailed from Southampton ten years before for Vigo. “This bankruptcy,” says Tom, “has be... ...beheld him for the first time? The young king, in a flannel jacket, was at tennis with the gentlemen of his suite, crying out after the balls, and swe...

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...be said of the room, where heavy old-fashioned furniture, handsome but not new, was concealed by various flimsy modernisms, knicknacks, fans, brackets... ... books stood near the fire. “They know something; Kate Bell heard a report from her cousins, and they have been watching anxiously for news from you.”... ...l, their expectations will have a fall, poor dears!” “And it does not come from their side of the family,” said Mrs. Best. “Of course not! And it was ... ...d I don’t believe it was infectious after all! Still, I am tired of ‘other people’s stairs.’” “It is nearly five years since you have been with them, ... ...at, I could not—I did not know whether their lives would not lie among our people here.” “Dear Sophy, don’t concern yourself. I am quite certain you w... ...ull share of hepaticas and all the early daffodil kinds. Behind and on the southern side, lay the kitchen garden, also a succession of steps, and beyo... ...n if you cannot unpack.” She led the way, and disposed of each girl in her new quarters, explaining to Agatha that her’s and her little lodger were on... ...,” and Vera and Paula hardly knew the game, they had always played at lawn tennis; but they were delighted to learn, for Uncle Redgie proved to be a v... ...ed to help her two elder sisters in preparations for the next day, placing tennis nets, arranging croquet hoops, mustering chairs by the verandah, and...

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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... ...a lady of his own choice, and gives the veiled Alcestis back to him as the new bride. Later Greeks tried to explain the story by saying that Alcestis ... ...would cross the Hellespont on a bridge of boats lashed together, and march southwards into Greece. The only hope of averting the dan- ger lay in defen... ...g might have escaped through an open- ing that led from the vault into the tennis court. Presently, however, the King called to them to draw him up ag... ...lt, having a few days before caused the hole to be bricked up, because his tennis balls used to fly into it and be lost. In trying to draw him up by t...

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...rs of these borrowed names had themselves chosen them on the day in which, from ca- price, discontent, or want of fortune, they had donned the simple ... ...tent, or want of fortune, they had donned the simple Musketeer’s uniform. >From the moment we had no rest till we could find some trace in contemporar... ...y slashes, through which the shirt appeared. This doublet and hose, though new, were creased, like traveling clothes for a long time packed in a portm... ...n in botany, but till the present time very rare among horses.” “There are people who laugh at the horse that would not dare to laugh at the master,” ... ...ground, covered with blood and almost fainting. It was at this moment that people came flocking to the scene of action from all sides. The host, fearf... ...struck him more forcibly from its being totally different from that of the southern countries in which D’Artagnan had hitherto resided. She was pale a... ...and hose some ornamental braiding which his mother had taken off an almost-new dou- blet of the elder M. D’Artagnan, and which she had given her son s... ...till twelve, he had made a party with Porthos and Aramis to play a game at tennis in a tennis court situated near the stables of the Lux- embourg. Ath... ... third blow, when the noise which arose from the street being heard in the tennis court, two of the friends of the Guardsman, who had seen him go out ...

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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... ...m- portations from the classical languages, and from those spo- ken by the southern nations of Europe. This state of things I have thought it necessar... ... 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... ...he Jew’s.—Anwold,” said he to the torch- bearer, “carry the Pilgrim to the southern cell.—I give you good-night,” he added, “Sir Palmer, with small th... ... of defiance from the northern extremity . All eyes were turned to see the new cham- pion which these sounds announced, and no sooner were the barrier... ... striking the Black Prince a blow with his racket, when they quarrelled at tennis;— “T ring, Wing, and Ivanhoe, For striking of a blow, Hampden did fo...

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...inueth, Greater than their knowing. Western wind and open surge T ore us from our mothers; Flung us on a naked shore (T welve bleak houses by the sh... ...ya— Far and sure our bands have gone— Hy-Brasil or Babylon, Islands of the Southern Run, And cities of Cathaia! And we all praise famous men— Ancien... ...ll of us— Of one master all of us—) Keen in his vocation. This we learned from famous men Knowing not its uses When they showed in daily work Man mu... ...he subtle red-haired school Sergeant, trust them. His business was to wear tennis-shoes, carry binocu- lars, and swoop hawklike upon evil boys. Had he... ... & Co fain have forgotten Prout and his works in a volume of Surtees and a new briar-wood pipe. Crusoe, at sight of the footprint, did not act more sw... ...d to a long-smothered interest in first-flowerings, early butterflies, and new arrivals, and volunteered, if Mr. Hartopp saw fit, to enter on the new ... ... again. He shall! Wish I could drown him. I’ll convoy you to the Lodge. My people are not precisely—ah—broke to boy, but they’ll know you again.” He d... ...irection—that is to say, northeast. Now, the Pleasant Isle of Aves lay due southwest. “They’re deep—day-vilish deep,” said Stalky. “Why are they drawi... ...ong—and the fact was, sir, we was mistook for poachers by Colonel Dabney’s people—Mr. King and Mr. Prout and me. There were some words, sir, on both s...

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...y prince are those painfully evinc- ing a broken heart, which seeks refuge from its own thoughts in sordid enjoyments. Still, however, it was long ere... ...auntlet be, perhaps it was long ere he altogether became, so much degraded from his original self; as he enjoyed for a time the lustre attending the p... ...d upon. The minis- ters, however, thought it proper to leave Dr. Cameron’s new schemes in concealment, lest, by divulging them, they had indicated the... ...High School— when I was mocked for my English accent—salted with snow as a Southern—rolled in the gutter for a Saxon pock-pud- ding,—who, with stout a... ...I suspect, lies your real objection to taking a ramble with me through the southern counties in this delicious weather. I know the good gentleman has ... ...you will say. He lays the blame of former inaccuracies on evil company—the people who were at the livery-stable were too seductive, I suppose—he denie... ...he soul from the body; yet Dr. R— did but hint that the better air of this new district was more favourable to my health, as I was then suffering unde... ...hich he wished to attain, by preserving me from the society of other young people, that, upon my word, I am always rather astonished how I should have... ...ike castanets, whooped like a Bacchanal, and bounded from the floor like a tennis-ball,— aye, till the colour of her garters was no particular mystery...

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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... ...lled a Bull trout, of a much greater length and bigness than any in these southern parts; and there are, in many rivers that relate to the sea, Salmo... ...some praise, and some the hawk Some, better pleas’d with private sport Use tennis, some a mistress court: But these delights I neither wish Nor envy, ... ...rout. But first for the wind: you are to take notice that of the winds the south wind is said to be best. One ob serves, that when the wind is south,...

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...nduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and politi- cal questions in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and politic... ... an attempt to deal with social and politi- cal questions in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and political world as ... ...ions, that are becoming, that have become, provincial in proportion to our new and wider needs. My instances are commonly British, but all the broad p... ...opolitan. In the latter peri- odical they were, for the most part, printed from uncorrected proofs set up from an early version. This periodical publi... ...ding upon one’s self, without supposing them to be im- perative upon other people. T o write “I believe” is not only less presumptuous and aggressive ... ... schemes of conduct, but that he has observed in the thought of numberless people about him, rendering their action fragmentary, wasteful in the gross... ...rating me from every En- glish-speaking, English-thinking person who lives south of the Great Lakes. So long as men are content to work in the 21 H G... ...ype, the dusky Jewess, the tall, fair Scandinavian, the dark and brilliant south Italian, the noble Roman, the dainty Japanese—to name no others. Each... ...e place of Latin, and gardening supersedes mathematics, in which boys play tennis naked to be cured of False Shame, and the numerical exercises called...

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...you to justify. You were of mature age when you made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life. So you cannot plead igno...

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...knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pio- neers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made a... ...aperone; and even the Times must sometimes 4 GB Shaw thank its stars that new plays are not produced every day, since after each such event its gravi... ...nack of mine which happens to amuse the British public distracts attention from my character; but the character is there none the less, solid as brick... ...it. But my con- science is the genuine pulpit article: it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on mak... ...love and must accordingly marry or perish at the end of the play, or about people whose relations with one another have been complicated by the marria... ...ction. That is why we insist on beauty in our performers, differing herein from the countries our friend William Archer holds up as examples of seriou... ...compe- tition of Regent Street with the Rue de Rivoli, of Brighton and the south coast with the Riviera, for the spending money of the American T rust... ...ing up trains. It was he who had the idea of holding up motors cars—in the South of Europe: a welcome idea to a desperate and disappointed man. He gav... ...literary interests on the part of the tenants in the fact that there is no tennis net nor set of croquet hoops, but, on our left, a little iron garden...

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...he dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives to- morrow. From hall you go right or left into dining- room or drawing-room. Hall itse... ...he house really, but it’s all that one notices—nine windows as you look up from the front garden. “Then there’s a very big wych-elm—to the left as you... ... I am that you did not come too; really Tibby is too tiresome, he starts a new mortal disease every month. How could he have got hay fever in London? ... ... from poetry, or you. Anyhow, it’s been knocked into pieces, and, like all people who are really strong, Mr. Wilcox did it without hurting me. On the ... ...t, a hermit’s house, a wonderful road that was made by the Kings of Mercia—tennis—a cricket match—bridge and at night we squeeze up in this lovely hou... ...ise. What do you think of the Wilcoxes? Are they our sort? Are they likely people? Could they appre- ciate Helen, who is to my mind a very special sor... ... had to raise and lower the window again and again. She passed through the South Welwyn Tunnel, saw light for a moment, and entered the North Welwyn T... ...rminate note. Into which country will it lead, England or Suburbia? It was new, it had is- land platforms and a subway, and the superficial comfort ex... ...d without impairing his independence; he must have a free library, or free tennis-courts; his rent must be paid in such a way that he did not know it ...

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......................................................... 173 Chapter 1.7.XI. From V ersailles. ............................................................ ..................................................... 275 Chapter 2.4.V . The New Berline. ................................................................. ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...urches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been carried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and been ... ...auroux, with her band-boxes and rouge-pots, at his side; so that, at every new station, a wooden gallery must be run up between their lodgings. He has... ... a notable thing. For not only are D’Espremenil and Goeslard safe whirling southward, but the Parlement itself has straightway to march out: to that a... ...nt Bailly, aided by judicious Guillotin and others, has found place in the Tennis-Court of the Rue St. Francois. Thither, in long-drawn files, hoarse-... ... Strange sight was this in the Rue St. Francois, Vieux Versailles! A naked Tennis-Court, as the pictures of that time still give it: four walls; naked...

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...lastic establishment for the sons of gentlemen, etc. Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rus... ...on could hear, at certain hours, a hubbub of voices and racing foot- steps from within the boundary wall. Sometimes, when the strollers were boys them... ... to him about it, of course. Fighting is an unbearable habit. His father’s people were always fighting; and they never did any good in the world.” “If... .... After all the pains I took with you at home!” “I speak the same as other people,” he replied, sullenly. “I don’t see the use of being so jolly parti... ...t the corners, each bastion terminating skyward in a T urkish minaret. The southwest face was the front, and was pierced by a Moorish arch fitted with... ...terary trifling.” She looked at him with the vague fear that accompanies a new and doubtful experience; and he, dissatisfied with his way of putting t... ...de, Miss Goff; but I find you very shy. You want to run away and hide from new faces and new sur- roundings.” Alice, who was self-possessed and even o... ...ciently for the game to make myself proficient. You were equipped for lawn-tennis, I think, when I saw you yesterday. Miss Goff is a celebrated lawn-t... ... Australian champion!” he repeated. “And who may HE— Oh! you mean the lawn-tennis champion. T o be sure. Well, Miss Goff, I congratulate you. It is no...

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.......................................................... 241 Chapter 1.7.XI.From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...ches resounded with suppli- cations and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been car- ried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and bee... ...auroux, with her band-boxes and rouge-pots, at his side; so that, at every new station, a wooden gallery must be run up between their lodgings. He has... ...f Louis, King by the Grace of God, what sounds are these; muffled ominous, new in our centuries? Boston Harbour is black with unexpected Tea: behold a... ... a notable thing. For not only are D’Espremenil and Goeslard safe whirling southward, but the Parlement itself has straightway to march out: to that a... ...nt Bailly, aided by judicious Guillotin and others, has found place in the Tennis-Court of the Rue St. Francois. Thither, in long- drawn files, hoarse... ... Strange sight was this in the Rue St. Francois, Vieux Versailles! A naked Tennis-Court, as the pictures of that time still give it: four walls; naked...

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...ted, together with Sir Robert Naunton’s “Fragmenta Regalia,” in the volume from which they are here reprinted, with notes by the translator and the ed... ...beth sent thither as Ambassa- dor, and was despatched to Elizabeth’s court from Scotland as a trusty messenger. In 1596-7 he was in France, and cor- r... ...hurches, of which there are above one hundred and twenty parochial. On the south is a bridge of stone eight hundred feet in length, of wonderful work;... ...he walls are pierced with six gates, which, as they were rebuilt, acquired new names. Two look westward: 1. Ludgate, the oldest, so called from King L... ...osite side. And, 2. Newgate, the best edifice of any; so called from being new built, whereas before it was named Chamberlain gate. It is the public p... ...its antiquity; though others think it to have been named Elbegate. Several people believe that there were formerly two gates (besides that to the brid... ... thy kingdom shall be translated to another, whose manner and language the people under thee knoweth not. Nor shall thy sin be done away till after lo... ...icent apart- ments destined for the royal household; towards the west is a tennis-court for the amusement of the Court; on the north side are the roya... ...ne had picked out of purpose, of whom to make an example and to use as her tennis-ball, thereby to show what she could do, for she tossed him up of no...

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...re is no end, there never will be an end, of the lamentations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobr... ...n-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist, the moralist, the divine, and... ...great masters of literature, especially those of modern times; so that few people knew the high classics more familiarly: and as to the passage in que... ... necessities of public business coming back in a torrent upon the official people after this momentary interruption, forbade them to indulge any furth... ...d has at the moment of restoration literally the force and liveliness of a new birth—the very same pang, and no whit feebler, as that which belonged t... ...o sudden life on our first awaking, and is to all in- tents and purposes a new and not an old affliction—one which brings with it the old original sho... ...All Spain, Portugal, Italy, rang with her adventures. Spain, from north to south, was frantic with desire to behold her fiery child, whose girlish rom... ...c beauty, once were anchored con- tinents and boundless forests. Where the south pole now shuts her frozen gates inhospitably against the intrusions o... ...com- pany kicked about the poor diabolic writer’s head as if it had been a tennis-ball. Coleridge, the yet unknown criminal, absolutely perspired and ...

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................................................... 319 CHAPTER IV BEA TRIX’S NEW SUITOR.................................................................... ...ESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...ll the produce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esm... ... last an extraordi- nary brightness and freshness of complexion; nor would people believe that she did not wear rouge. At sixty years of age she still... ...eard my father use a rough word, ’twas extraordinary with how much awe his people regarded him; and the servants on our plantation, both those assigne... ... in which her ladyship was represented as a huntress of Diana’s court. The new and fair lady of Castlewood found the sad, lonely, little occupant of t... ...nor an angel to turn the edge of Campion’s axe. The rack tore the limbs of Southwell the Jesuit and Sympson the Protestant alike. For faith, everywher... ... comrade’s sight. They sported together, they drank, they played bowls and tennis: my Lord Castlewood would go for three days to Sark, and bring back ... ...beheld him for the first time? The young king, in a flannel jacket, was at tennis with the gentlemen of his suite, crying out after the balls, and swe...

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...ony Motteux The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initia... ...on (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initialled ‘M.’ are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translato... ...rquhart’s trans- lation of Book III. appeared posthumously in 1693, with a new edition of Books I. and II., under Motteux ’s editorship. Motteux ’s re... ... tions we must set the privilege of Francis I. of September, 1545, and the new privilege granted by Henry II. on August 6th, 1550, Cardinal de Chatill... ...ten, in regard to French patois— leaving out of count the languages of the South—that the words or expressions that are no longer in use to-day are bu... ...harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, to excite people unto laughter, as Silenus himself, who was the foster-father of good... ...ht of force in all countries whatsoever. For you know well enough that all people, and all languages and nations, except the ancient Syracusans and ce... ...ed the Brack, or unto the meadows, where they played at the ball, the long-tennis, and at the piletrigone (which is a play wherein we throw a triangul... ...e glorious labyrinth. Between the two other towers were the courts for the tennis and the balloon. Towards the tower Criere stood the orchard full of ...

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...o not know that the Duchess or the Duke had enjoyed it much; but the young people had seen something of foreign courts and much of foreign scenery, an... ...s with a full determination to create for himself an occupa- tion out of a new kind of life. He had studied Dante, and had striven to arouse himself t... ...ed much among the trumpets, and yet they longed to return. He told himself from day to day, that though he had been banished from the House of Commons... ... dead. Had the heavens fallen and mixed themselves with the earth, had the people of London risen in rebellion with French ideas of equality, had the ... ...rt to him. But now it was as though all outside appliances were taken away from him. There was no one of whom he could ask a question. For it may be s... ...; and now she seemed 18 The Duke’s Children naturally to expect that this new ally should look at this great question as her mother had looked at it.... ...s, and there was a band, and there was a sward for dancing. There was lawn-tennis, and fishing-rods,—which nobody used,—and better still, long shady s... ...d legs. ’ ‘I don’t know about that; polo, you know, for the legs, and lawn-tennis for the arms, is hard work enough. ’ ‘But it must always be somethin... ... down in Cornwall, and thought we did it pretty well. And I have ridden in South Wales, which I can assure you isn’t an easy thing to do. But you must...

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...inter,” said a thin, lank, angu- lar, sallow girl, just fifteen, trembling from head to foot with restrained eagerness, as she tried to curb her tone ... ...r girl, nearly two years older than her sister. “Will you—” began to burst from Etheldred’s lips again, but was stifled by Miss Winter’s inquiry, “Is ... ...er.” “But, my dear, has your mamma considered? They are such a set of wild people at Cocksmoor; I don’t think we could walk there alone.” “It is Satur... ...“It is unlucky,” began the governess, but stopped at the incursion of some new-comers, nearly tumbling over each other, Ethel at the head of them. “Oh... ... yes!” cried Ethel, “but no one fit to speak to would do that!” “Plenty of people do, I can tell you,” said Norman. “Then I hope I shall never know wh... ...t for Mary to call out, “Why, Norman, non- sense! Mr. Ernescliffe rode the new black kicking horse till he made it quite steady.” “Made it steady! No,... ...it off one of us so well,” said the doctor. “Well! I’m off. I must see old Southern. You’ll be ready by three? Good-bye, hen and chicken.” “And I may ... ...octor, “mind that a letter will always be welcome, and when you are coming southwards, here are your old quarters. We cannot lose sight of you anyway,... ...uished, he had not avoided society or amusement, was a great cricketer and tennis-player, one of the “eight” whose success in the boat races was one o...

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...tereotyped compliments which every suc- cessful farce or melodrama elicits from the newspapers. Give me that critic who rushed from my play to declare... ...r wast- ing my energies on “pleasant plays” for the amusement of frivolous people, when I can build up such excellent stage sermons on their own work.... ...innocent court official like the Lord Chamberlain’s Examiner, much less of people who consciously profit by Mrs Warren’s profession, or who personally... ...ournalists I have shocked reason so unripely that they will gather nothing from this but a confused no- tion that I am accusing the National Vigilance... ...morrow by an Academy of Letters and an Academy of Dramatic Poetry, and the new and enlarged filter will still exclude original and epoch-mak- ing work... ...if they lose their character, the County Council will simply refuse to re- new their license at the end of the year; and nothing in the history of pop... ...mmer afternoon in a cottage garden on the eastern slope of a hill a little south of Haslemere in Surrey. Looking up the hill, the cottage is seen in t... ...r insurance. I dont even know arithmetic well. Out- side mathematics, lawn-tennis, eating, sleeping, cycling, and walking, I’m a more ignorant barbari... ... Shaw critically at her mother] You want some good walks and a little lawn tennis to set you up. You are shockingly out of condition: you were not abl...

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...ORD PRESIDENT OF HIS MAJESTY’S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL; AND LORD LIEU- TENANT OF THE COUNTY OF WILTS, AND OF SOUTH WALES. MY LORD, THIS T REATIS... ...ch or common methods, that your allowance and approbation of the design of this Treatise will at least preserve it from being condemned without readin... ...e right but the received doc- trines. Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote any- where at its first appearance: new opinions are always suspected, ... ...th some of those large and comprehensive discoveries you have made of truths hitherto unknown, unless to some few, from whom your lordship has been pl... ...little corre- spondence with some parts of that nobler and vast sys- tem of the sciences your lordship has made so new, ex- act, and instructive a dra... ...edge of this maxim, “That it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be?” And a great part of illiterate people and savages pass many years,... ...innate, they must needs exert themselves with most force and vigour. For children, idiots, savages, and illiterate people, being of all others the lea... .... A little consideration of an obvious instance or two may make this clear. 9. Supposes understanding and will. A tennis-ball, 223 John Locke whethe... ... by any one taken to be a free agent. If we inquire into the reason, we shall find it is because we conceive not a tennis-ball to think, and consequen...