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...Excerpt: THE PREFACE; If ever the story of any private Man?s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and were acceptable when Publish?d, the Editor of this Account thinks this will be so. The Wonders of this Man?s Life exceed all that (he thinks)is to be found extant; the Life of one M...

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...ii CONTENTS THE PREFACE If ever the story of any private Man’s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and were acceptable when Publish’d,... ...others by this Example, and to justify and honour the Wisdom of Providence in all the Variety of our Circumstances, let them happen how they will. The... ...g to be a just History of Fact; neither is there any Appearance of Fiction in it: And however thinks, because all such things are dispatch’d, that the... ...which was Lieutenant Collonel to an En glish Regiment of Foot in Flanders,formerly commanded by the famous Coll. Lockhart, and was killed at the Batt... ...ns of being swallow’d up by the Sea being forgotten, and the Current of my former Desires return’d, I entirely forgot the V ows and Promises that I ma... ...t me at that time, I was in tenfold more Horror of Mind upon Account of my former Convictions, and the having returned from them to the Resolutions I ... ...Enterprises to my View; and I went on board a Vessel bound to the Coast of Africa; or, as our Sailors vulgarly call it, a V oyage to Guinea. 12 ROBIN... ... our Vessel, if we should build one, for a V oyage to any of the Christian Colonies of America. So he told me, he thought it would be more advisable, ... ... to the Gallows, as soon as they came to England, or to any of the English Colonies; and that therefore there would be no attacking them, with so smal...

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...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Qu... ...pon the creation of parish clergymen. This new scruple was, in relation to former scruples, a perfect linch-pin for locking their machinery into cohes... ...r orders.’ Now, having stated the practice of Scottish induction as it was formerly sustained in its first stage by law, in its second stage by usage,... ...ses the whole review of that topic; and because it reflects light upon the former practice—the practice which led to the whole muti- nous tumult: ever... ...ribe of Wallachian shepherds, descended (it is sup- posed) from the Dacian colonies, Romans intermingled with natives, founded by the later Caesars; t... ...me Two the traveller passing along the public track; and when the pastoral colonies, as is often the case, occur at frequent inter- vals, the nuisance... ...s a matter of some moment for Homeric disputes—were these habits of Ionian colonies, or exclusively of Greece Proper? But enough of the repulsive feat...

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...Excerpt: Phase the First; The Maiden -- I -- On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in...

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...ase the First — The Maiden 1 Phase the First — The Maiden I O n an evening in the latter part of May a middle aged man was walking home ward from Sha... ...le aged man was walking home ward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blake more or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that ca... ...moor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line. He ... ...of historic, no less than of topographical interest. The Vale was known in former times as the Forest of White Hart, from a curious legend of King Hen... ...d willow wand, and in her left a bunch of white flowers. The peeling of the former, and the selection of the latter, had been an operation of personal ... ... degrees their own door, the head of the family bursting suddenly into his former refrain as he drew near, as if to fortify his soul at sight of the s... ...tical skill in the various processes of farming, with a view either to the Colonies, or the tenure of a home farm, as circumstances might decide. His ... ...l that this might be a lead in the right direction. Farming, either in the Colonies, America, or at home — farming, at any rate, after becoming well q... ...s position as a farmer on an extensive scale — either in England or in the Colonies. His father then told him that, as he had not been put to the expe...

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...out warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he mig...

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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ...rk Massacre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 67 Cutting In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 68 The Bla... ...ise a great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, appeared. Among the former, one was of a most monstrous size. * * This came towards us, open mo... ...as not the only strange feature of the place, borrowed from the chaplain’s former sea farings. Between the marble cenotaphs on either hand of the pulp... ...first broke through the jealous policy of the Spanish crown, touching those colonies; and, if space permitted, it might be distinctly shown how from th... ...eer, who in certain conjunctures provides him with a fresh lance, when the former one has been badly twisted, or elbowed in the assault; and moreover,... ...eenland Whale, and incidentally for the re discovery of the Lost Icelandic Colonies of Old Green land;” in this admirable volume, all standers of mas... ...ntic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are fr...

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...Excerpt: That homely proverb, used on so many occasions in England, viz. ?That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh,? was never more verified than in the story of my Life. Any one would think that after thirty-five years? affliction, and a variety of unhappy circu...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...ions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate. There had been, he admitted, a trivial blemish or so in its rate of progress, but this was exaggerated and had been entirely owing to the ?parsimony of the public,? which guilty public...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his f...

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