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The Egoist : A Comedy in Narrative

By: George Meredith

... Patterne bride. Her father, Sir John Durham, was a large landowner in the west- ern division of the county; a pompous gentleman, the pic- ture of a f... ...untstuart congratulated Sir Willoughby on the prize he had won in the fair western- eastern. “Let me see her,” she said; and Miss Middleton was intro-... ...ted Captain Patterne to visit me: just pre- vious to his departure for the African Coast, where Govern- ment despatches Marines when there is no other... ... Middleton is in the library. I see Vernon is at work with Crossjay in the West-room—the boy has had sufficient for the day. Now, is it not like old V... ...ibrary. Sir Willoughby walked up and down the lawn, taking a glance at the West-room as he swung round on the turn of his leg. Growing impatient, he l... ...walked not like one blown against; resembling rather the day of the South- west driving the clouds, gallantly firm in commotion; interfusing colour an... ...back fresh to their own characters, instead of giving themselves a dose of Africa without a savage to diversify it: an impression they never get over,...

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The Daisy Chain: Or, Aspirations : A Family Chronicle

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ave been ever since, while he has been these three years and a half on the African station.” “What, is he in the navy?” “Yes,” said the boy proudly, “... ...ther was in the battle of T rafalgar; and Alan has been three years in the West Indies, and then he was in the Mediterranean, and now on the coast of ... ...West Indies, and then he was in the Mediterranean, and now on the coast of Africa, in the Atalantis. You must have heard about him, for it was in the ... ...at could be. Mr. Ernescliffe manages him very well—used to illness on that African coast, and the doctor is very fond of him. As to Miss May, one can’... ...t him free. —Shenstone. THE SETTING sun shone into the great west window of the school at Stoneborough, on its bare walls, the masters’ ... ...ve come from the east, when, by the compass, Stoneborough was north-north- west. And then the boys took to tumbling over one another, while Meta froli... ...s—a giant he might be for his voice—but he sailed once in the Glory of the West, and there they had a monkey that was picked up in Africa, and one day... ...n the Glory of the West, and there they had a monkey that was picked up in Africa, and one day this old fellow found his queer messmate, as he called ... ... to the Grange, and, on arriving, found Hector deep in ‘Wild Sports of the West’, while Norman and Meta were sitting over the fire talking, and Mr. Ri...

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Twenty Three Tales

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...gar; and one snowy peak towered above all the rest. To the east and to the west were other such hills, and here and there smoke rose from Aouls in the... ... that there was no higher Reason controlling the universe. This man had an African slave who followed him ev erywhere. When the theologian entered th... ...oy : “The Coffee House of Surat” 222 Japan, and sets far, far away in the west, beyond the islands of England. That is why the Japanese call their co... ...urs, not only Japan, and the Philippines and Sumatra where we now are, but Africa, and Europe and America, and many lands besides. The sun does not sh...

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The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...orning, when three or four vessels happen to have arrived at once usually from Africa or South America — or to be on the verge of their departure thit... ... where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly through the willow branches on the western side of the Old Manse. But now, should you go thither to seek h... ...s brilliant military service, sub sequently to which he had ruled over a wild Western territory, had come hither, twenty years before, to spend the d... ...sed through this portion of her ordeal, and came to a sort of scaffold, at the western extremity of the market place. It stood nearly beneath the eave... ...ther scenes than this roughly hewn street of a little town, on the edge of the west ern wilderness: other faces than were louring upon her from benea... ...re, looking across a basin of the sea at the forest covered hills, towards the west. A clump of scrubby trees, such as alone grew on the peninsula, di...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...leby took a cordial farewell of his fellow-speculators, and bent his steps westward in unwonted good humour. As he passed St Paul’s he stepped aside i... ...itting on his gloves to a nicety , turned upon his way , and walked slowly westward with his hands behind him. ‘Children alive?’ inquired Noggs, stepp... ...of falling down on pur- pose, and where horses in hackney cabriolets going westward not unfrequently fall by accident, is the coach-yard of the Sarace... ...ving a teacher, I’ll take my own way, if you please. A slave driver in the West Indies is allowed a man under him, to see that his blacks don’t run aw... ..., these disappeared, and were replaced by vi- sions of large houses at the West end, neat private carriages, and a banker’ s book; all of which images... ...urope? No, that it isn’t. Is it in Asia? Why, of course it’s not. Is it in Africa? Not a bit of it. Is it in America? Yo u know better than that, at a... ...n old one; a third line was devoted to the re-engagement of the unrivalled African Knife-swallower, who had kindly suffered himself to be prevailed up... ...s preside, while the honours of the vice-chair would be sus- tained by the African Swallower. The room being by this time very warm and somewhat crowd... ...l; more’s the pity.’ Mr Snittle Timberry now appeared, arm-in-arm with the African Swallower, and, being introduced to Nicholas, raised his hat half a...

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A Treatise on Government Translated from the Greek of Aristotle

By: William Ellis A. M.

...describe different parts of the world, does sometimes happen; for in Upper Africa there are wives in common who yet deliver their children to their re... ...ics, they were incapable of any office. Zaleucus was the legislator of the Western Locrians, as was Charondas, the Catanean, of his own cities, and th... ... state may be considered as a democracy: as in the winds they consider the west as part of the north, and the east as part of the south: and thus it i... ...g, 233, how to be managed when with child, 234 Zaleucus, legislator of the Western Locrians, 64; supposed to be the scholar of Thales, 64 To Return to...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

... that one connected, fertile, widespreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty. Providence has in a par- ticular manner blessed it... ...his article devolved upon the Union; especially as to all that part of the Western territory which, either by actual possession, or through the submis... ... create others on the same subject. At present, a large part of the vacant Western territory is, by cession at least, if not by any anterior right, th... ...ht not easily be susceptible of a pacific adjustment. In the wide field of Western territory, therefore, we perceive an ample theatre for hostile pret... ...nation in favor of the Ameri- can trade, and with the importunities of the West India is- lands, would produce a relaxation in her present system, and... ...y fraud, has, in different de- grees, extended her dominion over them all. Africa, Asia, and America, have successively felt her domination. The super... ...by so great a majority of the Union. Happy would it be for the unfortunate Africans, if an equal prospect lay before them of being redeemed from the o...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...le to resist it. So, he took up his hat and rambled out again. He strolled westward this time, pacing the long streets with hurried footsteps, and agi... ... of that at the Horse Guards to be a pleasant fiction, invented by jealous West-enders,) the old clerk performed the minutest actions of the day , and... ... vent to a short laugh, indicative of defiance to the cities of London and Westminster, and, turning again to his desk, quietly carried seventy-six fr... ... the tempo- rary abode of Mr Squeers. By the time he re-entered it, at the western extremity, the greater part of the shops were closed. Of the throng... ...an I have—stop!—yes, to be sure—he belongs to a register- office up at the west end of the town. I knew I recollected the face.’ It was, indeed, T om,... ...urope? No, that it isn’t. Is it in Asia? Why, of course it’s not. Is it in Africa? Not a bit of it. Is it in America? Yo u know better than that, at a... ...n old one; a third line was devoted to the re-engagement of the unrivalled African Knife-swallower, who had kindly suffered himself to be prevailed up... ...d preside, while the honours of the vice-chair would be sus- tained by the African Swallower. The room being by this time very warm and somewhat crowd... ...l; more’s the pity.’ Mr Snittle Timberry now appeared, arm-in-arm with the African Swallower, and, being introduced to Nicholas, raised his hat half a...

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Little Dorrit Book One Poverty

By: Charles Dickens

...But the equinoctial gales were blowing out at sea, and the impartial south-west wind, in its flight, would not neglect even the narrow Marshalsea. Whi... ...t she considered nothing so improbable as that he ever walked on the north-west side of Gray’s-Inn Gardens at exactly four o’clock in the afternoon. H... ...post of shame, the general’s station and the drummer’s, a peer’s statue in Westminster Abbey and a seaman’s hammock in the bosom of the deep, the mitr... ... with it, would shed a little money in the direction of a mission or so to Africa? Mr Merdle signifying that the idea should have his best at- 250 Ch... ...ock up, lock up; but remember that you are, in the words of the fet- tered African, a man and a brother ever. The list of toasts disposed of, Mr Dorri...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...But the equinoctial gales were blowing out at sea, and the impartial south-west wind, in its flight, would not neglect even the narrow Marshalsea. Whi... ...t she considered nothing so improbable as that he ever walked on the north-west side of Gray’s-Inn Gardens at exactly four o’clock in the afternoon. H... ...post of shame, the general’s station and the drummer’s, a peer’s statue in Westminster Abbey and a seaman’s hammock in the bosom of the deep, the mitr... ... with it, would shed a little money in the direction of a mission or so to Africa? Mr Merdle signifying that the idea should have his best at- 250 Ch... ...ock up, lock up; but remember that you are, in the words of the fet- tered African, a man and a brother ever. The list of toasts disposed of, Mr Dorri... ... of it; and that he compared the Rialto, greatly to its disadvantage, with Westminster and Blackfriars Bridges. I need not add, after what you have sa... ... Bar explained himself to have been quoting Gay. ‘Assuredly not one of our Westminster Hall authorities,’ said he, ‘but still no despicable one to a m...

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