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... of England’s Eliza- beth. I have endeavoured to describe her as at once a high- minded sovereign, and a female of passionate feelings, hesi- tating b... ...ms of Mickle and Langhorne, poets who, though by no means deficient in the higher branches of their art, were eminent for their powers of verbal melod... ...ou are from the Low Countries, the land of pike and caliver?” “I have been high and low, my friend, broad and wide, far and near. But here is to thee ... ...e one or two of the less scrupulous speedily began to recol- lect him as a school-companion, a townsman, or so forth. On the other hand, two or three ... ... nodding and winking. “Dost thou remember, Mike, what thou saidst when the schoolmaster’s ferule was over thee for striking up thy father’s crutches?—... ... and frequents the company of cocks of the game, as a puny fencer does the schools of the masters, to see how a foil is handled by the teachers of def... ... “is it fit for a heretic horse-boy like thee to handle such a text as the Catholic clergy?” “In troth no, dame,” replied the man of oats; “and as you... ...dward II., lan- guished in its dungeons. Old John of Gaunt, “time-honoured Lancaster,” had widely extended the Castle, erecting that noble and massive... ...e Castle, erecting that noble and massive pile which yet bears the name of Lancaster’ s Build- ings; and Leicester himself had outdone the former poss...

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...ery act of transcribing his mind was apt to stray from the work in hand to higher things; he would lose himself in contemplating those airy abstrac- t... ...verse. Yet he was usually averse to expressing these feelings, except when highly idealized; and many of his more beautiful effusions he had cast asid... ... _200 And yet there is a moment When the sun’s highest point Peers like a star o’er ocean’s western edge, When those far c... ...glittering grass, And wept, I knew not why; until there rose From the near schoolroom, voices that, alas! _25 Were but one ech... ...h century into cold impersonations of my own mind. They are represented as Catholics, and as Catholics deeply tinged with religion. T o a Protestant a... ... by a feigned tale to confess himself before death; this being esteemed by Catholics as essential to salvation; and she only relinquishes her purpose ... .... 32. 32. 32. 32. 32. For he now raved enormous folly, Of Baptisms, Sunday-schools, and Graves, _615 ’T would make George ... ...r the worshipped father of our common country, With contributions from the catholics, Will make Rebellion pale in our excess. Be these the expedients ... ...nded With red-hot iron on the cheek and forehead, And be imprisoned within Lancaster Castle _5 585 Shelley During the plea...

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...rs embarked, watch- ing the white cliffs on the other side of the sea grow higher and higher as he came nearer and nearer. When he came quite up to th... ...h men and horses. Then William or- dered his archers to shoot their arrows high in the air. They came down like hail into the faces and on the heads o... ...illiam liked hunting more than anything else— his people said he loved the high deer as if he was their fa- ther,—and to keep the place clear for them... ...o them, and gave them nick-names. He called the king’s cousin, the Earl of Lancaster, “the old hog;” the Earl of Pembroke, “Joseph the Jew;” and the E... ...ose, and required that they should be banished. They went, but the Earl of Lancaster carried his turbulence too far, and, when he hear that the father... ...bliged to go home, and leave the govern- ment to his brother John, Duke of Lancaster. He lived about six years after he came home, and then died, to t... ...ver the Church, held with him and Mary of Scotland. They were called Roman Catholics, while Elizabeth and her friends were the real Catholics, for the... ... her across the lake, and she was soon at the head of an army of her Roman Catholic subjects. They were defeated, however, and she found no place safe... ...ficult to judge was, that the kings of France and Spain, and all the Roman Catholics at home, thought Mary ought to be queen instead of Elizabeth, and...

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...derful work; it is supported upon twenty piers of square stone, sixty feet high and thirty broad, joined by arches of about twenty feet diameter. The ... ...is built a tower, on whose top the heads of such as have been executed for high treason are placed on iron spikes: we counted above thirty. Paulus Jov... ...of the privy chamber; captain of the guards; one of the Privy Council, and High Chancellor of England, and of the University of Oxford: who, to the gr... ...erbert, Earl of Pembroke, and his lady: and near it, that of John, Duke of Lancaster, with this inscription Here sleeps in the Lord, John of Gant, so ... ...as thrice married; first to Blanche, daughter and heiress of Henry Duke of Lancaster; by her he received an immense inherit- ance, and became not only... ...; by her he received an immense inherit- ance, and became not only Duke of Lancaster, but Earl of Leicester, Lincoln, and Derby, of whose race are des... ...name of Recusant then began first to be known to the world; until then the Catholics were no more than Church-Papists,* but now, commanded by the Pope... ...ere no more than Church-Papists,* but now, commanded by the Pope’s express Catholic Church, their mother, they separate them- selves; so it seems the ... ...ceived faith, and so, under the veil of the next successor, to replant the Catholic religion. So that the Queen had then a new task and work in hand t...

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... I feel as if I stood amongst old friends, whom I had intimately known and highly valued. I feel as if the deaths of the fictitious creatures, in whic... ...here to it, and never to forsake the end I had in view. Not untried in the school of affliction, in the death of those we love, I thought what a good ... ...al, veritable old gentleman, that might be seen any day hobbling along the High Street with the most brilliant eye—but that is no fiction—and the grey... ...is land and people—with all my sense of jus tice as keenly alive to their high claims on every man who loves God’s image—with all my energies as full... ...ff of masters and officers, amounting to half a hundred in themselves; its schools, con veying every sort of instruction, high and low, adapted to th... ...eting held here some short time since, in aid of the formation of a girls’ school in connexion with this institution. This is a new and striking chapt... ...aid, and I shall say, nothing. In the city of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, both of them remarkable for self taught men, that were superfluo... ...riends, that it is deeper than the soundless sea, and wider than the whole Catholic Church. I may safely add that it has for the moment almost stricke...

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... I would be the first to tell you that my friends and I were no angels in high school. We often found ways to get ourselves alcohol when we could fin... ...ould be the first to tell you that my friends and I were no angels in high school. We often found ways to get ourselves alcohol when we could find no ... ...we could find no other available mischief to keep busy. Since no one in my high school had his or her own place, many times we found ourselves being f... ...uld find no other available mischief to keep busy. Since no one in my high school had his or her own place, many times we found ourselves being foolis... ... out of the camper door. I was hungry and knew Miss Plinky, an old, plump, high-spirited woman, would be making her famous chocolate- covered bananas ... ... didn’t have video games ei- ther. It was on these days that we would play school, or sometimes we would pretend to have a restau- rant and take order... ...s equivalent to the size of the congregation that could fit into a typical Catholic cathedral. Looking back now, twelve years later, it seemed a very ... ... (“NRC Probes” 1). This power plant is located 17.9 miles from the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and is also close enough to Philadelphia to put th...

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...hey are only incidentally managers and men of business: primarily they are highly cultivated artists, quite ca- pable of judging for themselves anythi... ... as might make it consistent with their dignity and unobstructive to their higher artistic aims. Feeling no personal need for protection against the a... ...e Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet subject. The then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Mr Herbert Samuel (now Postmaster-Gen- eral), who had made his w... ...rformance by the Lord Chamberlain’s condemnation of it; but on appeal to a higher court it was decided that the representation was lawful and the inte... ...y and pious people. They are at present con- demned by the Greek and Roman Catholic censor- ships as unfit for general reading. A censorship of conduc... ...e people who approve of it, but by the people who regard it as incestuous. Catholic Emancipation and the admis- sion of Jews to parliament needed no t... ...pation and the admis- sion of Jews to parliament needed no toleration from Catholics and Jews: the toleration they needed was that of the people who r... ...takes care that nobody shall starve it, or regulate its dramatic diet as a schoolmistress regulates the reading of her pupils. Even when it wishes to ... ...s of a good-hearted and virtuous girl. Its morality was that of the Sunday school. But the principal ac- tress, between two speeches which contained n...

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...nuary 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time its nominal editor....

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...s a salt marsh that bounded part of the mill pond, on the edge of which, at high water, we used to stand to fish for minnows. By much trampling, we h... ...to the water edge and hallow’d to us, as we did to them; but the wind was so high, and the surff so loud, that we could not hear so as to understand e... ... ing first, “What do you intend to infer from that?” However, it gave him so high an opinion of my abilities in the confut ing way, that he seriously... ... bred a Protes tant, being a clergyman’s daughter, but was converted to the Catholic religion by her husband, whose memory she much revered; had live... ...tired manner, of whom my landlady gave me this account: that she was a Roman Catholic, had been sent abroad when young, and lodg’d in a nunnery with a... ...years in that garret, being permitted to remain there gratis by suc cessive Catholic tenants of the house below, as they deemed it a blessing to have... ...ms were will appear in the advertisement I publish’d as soon as I arriv’d at Lancaster, which being, from the great and sudden effect it produc’d, a p... ... shall insert it at length, as follows: “ADVERTISEMENT. “LANCASTER, April 26, 1755. “Whereas, one hundred and fifty waggons, with ... ...re of the same, I hereby give notice that I shall attend for that purpose at Lancaster from this day to next Wednesday evening, and at York from next ...

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...ion, too, is generally carried furthest in those countries which enjoy the highest degree of industry and improve- ment; what is the work of one man, ... ...those of England, because the silk manufacture, at least under the present high duties upon the importation of raw silk, does not so well suit the cli... ...y small villages which are scat- tered about in so desert a country as the highlands of Scotland, every farmer must be butcher, baker, and brewer, for... ...er, among the inferior ranks of people, is often afraid to send her son to school at a sea-port town, lest the sight of the ships, and the conversatio... ...e mean- ness of their pecuniary recompence. In England, and in all Ro- man catholic countries, the lottery of the church is in reality much more advan... ...ithstanding, to return to Ath- ens, in order to resume the teaching of his school. T eachers of the sciences were probably in those times less common ... ...efore, towards the close of the dissensions between the houses of York and Lancaster. Even then it was, prob- ably, in a better condition than it had ... ..., and established there the four governments of New En- gland. The English catholics, treated with much greater injustice, established that of Marylan... ...upposed, had been gradually ac- commodated to support the doctrines of the Catholic Church. They set themselves, therefore, to expose the many errors ...

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...arth with the moccasoned tread of an Indian warrior, making haste from the high places of the earth to its ancient reservoir. The murmurs of many a fa... ...plore at their invitation the interior of continents. They are the natural highways of all nations, not only levelling the ground and removing obstacl... ...richer crop than all. Let me believe a dream so dear, Some heart beat high that day, Above the petty Province here, And Britain far away; ... ...ators of the earth, and lived under an organized political government. The school house stood with a meek aspect, entreating a long truce to war and s... ...e divine, than Jove. He is not so much of a gentleman, not so gracious and catholic, he does not exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, ... ... is one of the largest tributaries, flows from Wachusett Mountain, through Lancaster, Groton, and other towns, where it has formed well known elm shad... ... and factories, and did not tempt us to explore it. Far away from here, in Lancaster, with another compan ion, I have crossed the broad valley of the... ...generalize the particular information gained below, and subject it to more catholic tests. I was up early and perched upon the top of this tower to se... ... buy their fresh fruits with his superfluous com modities. Under the same catholic sun glances his white ship over Pacific waves into their smooth ba...

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...garian Prophetess; and very extraordinary instances were cited amongst the highest circles of her success in the art which she professed. So ample wer... ...w turn- ings, and after a course of about five hundred yards, into a broad high-road, which even at that day had begun to as- sume the character of a ... ...d, as it was barely possible (though, for reasons well known to me, in the highest degree improb- able) that Agnes might have returned by a by-path, w... .... The night which succeeded was gloomy for both the representatives of his Catholic Majesty. It cannot be denied by the greatest of philosophers, that... ...rom the Pacific ocean. She, that was always prudent, packed up some of the Catholic king’s bis- cuit, as she had previously packed up far too little o... ...iging attentions, ‘I myself hold the rank of Alferez in the service of his Catholic Majesty. I am a native of Biscay, and I am now repairing to Cuzco ... ...he shore. All the bevy of gay laughing officers, jun- ior and senior, like schoolboys escaping from school, jumped on shore, and walked hastily, as th... ...he apotheosis of Andrew Bell: and because it hap- pened that his opponent, Lancaster, between ourselves, re- ally had stolen his ideas from Bell, what... ...e- ally had stolen his ideas from Bell, what between the sad wickedness of Lancaster and the celestial transfiguration of Bell, gradually Coleridge he...

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...pecies an account of its habits and range. These works, which I owe to the high talents and disinter- ested zeal of the above distinguished authors, c... ...en during those months when the harmattan is known to raise clouds of dust high into the atmosphere, we may feel sure that it all comes from Africa. I... ...rom the coast of America, and 350 from the island of Fernando Noronha. The highest point is only fifty feet above the level of the sea, and the entire... ...bt but that the hab- its of this Virgularia explain one such case. Captain Lancaster, in his voyage* in 1601, narrates that on the sea-sands of the Is... ... I had the good fortune to find living here Mr. Rich- ard Corfield, an old schoolfellow and friend, to whose hospitality and kindness I was greatly in... ... have been an In- dian, for the race is in this part extinct, owing to the Catholic desire of making at one blow Christians and Slaves. I had at the t... ... told me that, though quite a young man, he remembers when he was a boy at school at Coquimbo, a holiday being given to see the captain of an English ... ...o the governor. He believes that nothing would have induced any boy in the school, himself included, to have gone close to the English- man; so deeply...