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...he ?parsimony of the public,? which guilty public, it appeared, had been until lately bent in the most determined manner on by no means enlarging the number of Chancery judges appointed--I believe by Richard the Second, but any other king will do as well....

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...til lately bent in the most determined manner on by no means enlarging the number of Chancery judges appointed—I be lieve by Richard the Second, but ... ...” I meant as to Holborn. “If you would like,” said Mrs. Jellyby, putting a number of papers towards us, “to look over some remarks on that head, and o... ...varieties of streets, the quantity of people already going to and fro, the number of vehicles passing and repassing, the busy prepa rations in the se... ...e the curtain of the long, low garret window and called our attention to a number of bird cages hanging there, some containing several birds. There we... ...a. “I am grieved that I should be the enemy— as I suppose I am—of a great number of relations and others, and that they should be my enemies—as I sup... ...s overjoyed. I said everything I could in my old fashioned way to comfort 198 Bleak House – Dickens and encourage her, and I would not have objected ...

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...Excerpt: In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary ?Pike County? dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not be...

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...ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance. EXPLANATORY In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the ext... ...ore. Then they come out and locked him up. I hoped they was HUCKLEBERRY FINN 198 going to say he could have one or two of the chains took off, becau...

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... that obliged them to it. This increase of the bills stood thus: the usual number of burials in a week, in the parishes of St Giles-in-the-Fields and ... ...St Giles’ s parish, it was observed that the ordinary burials increased in number considerably . For example: – 5 Daniel Defoe From December 27 to Ja... ..., adjoining on the other side of Holborn; in both which parishes the usual numbers that died weekly were from four to six or eight, whereas at that ti... ...t a time of the year when usu- ally the bills are very moderate. The usual number of burials within the bills of mortality for a week was from about 2... ... 24th” 474 59 This last bill was really frightful, being a higher number than had been known to have been buried in one week since the preced... ...s. All foreign markets also were empty of our goods by the stop which had 198 Journal of the Plague Y ear been occasioned by the plague, and before a...

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...ce seven hundred years ago, when the territory was divided amongst a small number of families, who were the owners of the soil and the rulers of the i... ...st Period,” by Beverley. ***It was not till some time later that a certain number of rich English capitalists came to fix themselves in the colony. **... ...people, neither rich nor poor. These men possessed, in proportion to their number, a greater mass of intelligence than is to be found in any Euro- pea... ... England are those situated to the east of the Hudson; they are now six in number: 1, Connecticut; 2, Rhode Island; 3, Massachusetts; 4, V ermont; 5, ... ...ved to be the last leave to many of them.” The emigrants were about 150 in number, including the women and the children. Their object was to plant a c... ...d we only imag- ine them to be stationary when their progress escapes our 198 Democracy in America observation, as men who are going at a foot-pace s...

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...e, was then first instituted by Theseus. For he took not with him the full number of virgins which by lot were to be carried away, but selected two yo... ...the least difference perceived; he, undiscovered by any, put them into the number of the Athe- nian maids designed for Crete. At his return, he and th... ...lling the rest in honor, the husband- men in profit, and the artificers in number. And that Theseus 23 Plutarch’s Lives was the first, who, as Aristo... ...V olume One Antiope given him for the reward of his valor; but the greater number, of whom are Pherecydes, Hellanicus, and Herodorus, write that he ma... ...r right wing, and beat them back into their tents, in which action a great number of the Amazons were slain. At length, after four months, a peace was... ...to denounce it, he denied the fact, bidding them to send people to Athens 198 V olume One to see whether it were so or no; by which delay he got time...

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...ou will prevent the army now opposed to you from receiving an accession of numbers of nearly 15,000 men; and if you succeed in saving the bridges you ... ...g our line from Richmond to Corinth sup- poses himself to be confronted by numbers superior to his own. Under this pressure We thinned the line on the... ...GEARY, White Plains: Please give us your best present impression as to the number of the enemy’s forces north of Strasburg and Front Royal. Are the fo... ...ting on Harper’s Ferry. This justifies the inference that he is pressed by numbers superior to his own. I think it not improbable that Ewell, Jackson,... ... some had got to Banks and been cut off with him. Please tell me the exact number you now have in hand. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL G . B. McCLELL... ...aring, and I sincerely wish it may be given him. Y ours truly, A. LINCOLN 198 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six MESSAGE TO THE SENA TE. Decem...

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...st of my days. In this present book I have tried to settle accounts with a number of issues left over or opened up by its two predecessors, to correct... ... in which, instead of a face, each figure bears a neat oval with its index number legibly inscribed. This burthens us with an incurable effect of unre... ...of this planet earth is to be found in the strictest parallelism there, in numbers the same—only, as I say, with an entirely different set of traditio... ...there will be no shock in the idea that a general consolidation of a great number of common public services over areas of considerable size is now 51... ...rgy notes; each gold Lion and each Lion of credit representing exactly the number of energy units it could buy on that day. The old gold coinage was a... ...st seek for the Utopias of Christianity. *Chapter the Seventh, section 6. 198 A Modern Utopia In the last hundred years a novel development of materi...

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...ed by his fellow citizens, that in the time of a famine each Roman, to the number of 300,000, brought him a day’s food, lest he should suffer want. Th... ...rl the brave Northman into the river, mortally wounded, but not till great numbers of his countrymen had reached their ships, their lives saved by his... ...me little distance from his men. Suddenly he found himself surrounded by a number of soldiers, whose bayonets pricked his breast, and a voice whispere... ...torture from cruelly barbarous masters would only too surely be the lot of numbers, should their land fall a prey to the conquerors. T rue it was that... ...ld fight hand to hand at once, so that courage would be of more avail than numbers. The first of all these passes was called Tempe, and a body of troo... ..., and they were made to run and walk to show the play of their limbs. All 198 A Book of Golden Deeds this Vincent endured with patient submission, co...

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...e dates, respectively, October 12 and 13, 1863, and each inclosing a large number of affidavits. The general statements of the whole are that the Fed... ...ennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons, not less than one-tenth in number of the votes cast in s... ...h are under contract and approaching completion, are believed to exceed in number those of any other power; but while these may be relied upon for har... ... under many disadvantages, within little more than two years, exceeding in numbers the whole naval force of the country at the commence- ment of the p... ... of its creation rendered signal service to the Union. The increase of the number of seamen in the public service from 7,500 men in the spring of 1861... ...ic volunteers was performed with alacrity and courage, for which they are 198 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven entitled to and are hereby ... ...767 and of navy invalid pensioners 712. Of widows, orphans, and mothers 22,198 have been placed 236 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven on th...

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...ding the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and disp... ...t, they dis charged no more arrows; but, by the noise I heard, I knew their numbers increased; and about four yards from me, over against my right ea... ...nd many of the darts still sticking in them, and observing likewise that the number of my enemies increased, I gave tokens to let them know that they ... ...hout, with frequent repetitions of the words peplom selan; and I felt great numbers of people on my left side relaxing the cords to such a degree, th... ...s the news of my arrival spread through the king dom, it brought prodigious numbers of rich, idle, and curious people to see me; so that the villages... ...he squeezed it so hard between his hoof and his Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 198 pastern, that I was forced to roar; after which they both touched me...

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...articular occasions, even the burning alive, in immense wicker cages, of a number of men and animals together. The Druid Priests had some kind of Cha... ...le of the rapid British chariots, they trembled in their hearts. Besides a number of smaller battles, there was a battle fought near Canter bury, in ... ...o prevent his making prisoners of them; they fell, fighting, in such great numbers that certain hills in Scot land are yet supposed to be vast heaps ... ...left it. For, the Romans being gone, and the Britons being much reduced in numbers by their long wars, the Picts and Scots came pour ing in, over the... ... King Alfred’s reign, Charles Dickens 25 they spread themselves in great numbers over the whole of England; and so dispersed and routed the King’s s... ...e, and he invited his royal prisoner to sup A Child’s Histroy of England 198 per in his tent, and waited upon him at table, and, when they afterward...

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...ht after night, parts which when laid together, would amount to an immense number of lines. But all this is nothing to two instances of our own day. V... ... reading class, when once formed, would doubtless slowly increase, and the number of manuscripts along with it; so that before the time of Solon, fift... ...nce against the carelessness of in- dividual rhapsodes.” [Note: Vol. II p. 198, sqq.] But even Peisistratus has not been suffered to remain in possess... ...e of the Laomedontiadæ, the chieftain of Thessaly, from his valour and the number of his forces, may have been the most im- portant ally of the Pelopo... ...e, and we can but agree with Colonel Mure, that “it seems strange that any number of independent poets should have so harmoniously dispensed with the ... ...s monument will be found in Vaux’s “Antiquities of the British Museum,” p. 198 sq. The monument itself (T owneley Sculptures, No. 123) is well known.]... ...g man their high compassion wins, And daily prayers atone for daily sins. 198 The Iliad of Homer Prayers are Jove’s daughters, of celestial race, Lam... ...vain an iron tempest hisses round; He lies protected, and without a wound. 198 Polydamas, Agenor the divine, The pious warrior of Anchises’ line, And ... ...th with rich inlay, ‘Broider’d the ground.”—“Paradise Lost,” iv. 700. 198 He lies protected, “Forthwith on all sides to his aid was run By...

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...nners of their life, 197 Establisht then this Law; to wit, No Female 198 Should be Inheritrix in Salike Land: 199 Which Salike (as I ... ...t. The sinne vpon my head, dread Soueraigne: 245 For in the Booke of Numbers is it writ, 246 When the man dyes, let the Inheritance 247 ... ...soner. 1435 Const. This becomes the Great. 1436 Sorry am I his numbers are so few, 1437 His Souldiers sick, and famisht in their March... ...th’ effusion of our bloud, the Muster of his 1581 Kingdome too faint a number; and for our disgrace, his 1582 owne person kneeling at our feet... ...Vantage, 1595 My people are with sicknesse much enfeebled, 1596 My numbers lessen’d: and those few I haue, 1597 Almost no better then so m... ...5 And the third howre of drowsie Morning nam’d, 1806 Prowd of their Numbers, and secure in Soule, 1807 The confident and ouer- lustie Frenc...

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...to run any risk when translated of offending the reader by their too great number. Those by far the more generally admired are the Songs and Ballads, ... ...e more generally admired are the Songs and Ballads, which are about 150 in number, and the whole of which are contained in this volume (with the excep... ...ll as a collection of the various Songs found in his Plays, making a total number of about 400 Po- ems, embraced in the present volume. A sketch of th... ...ner thus will good unfold; Children young and children old Gladly hear thy numbers flow. 1820.* * In the cases in which the date is marked thus (*), i... ...cean, Golden and bright. Birds of gay plumage Sport in the grove, Heavenly numbers Singing above. Under the verdure’s Vigorous bloom, Bees, softly bum... ...d raise? And we too to swell thy praise, Such a miracle would hear. 1821. 198 Goethe II. LEGEND. [The successful manner in which Goethe employs the s...

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... and K Streets North. Then those streets which run from north to south are numbered First Street, Second Street, Third Street, and so on, on each fron... ...e building, by piercing it with windows altogether unsuited to it, both in number and size. The walls, even under the porticoes, have been so pierced,... ...ical name is, I believe, La Fayette Square. The houses round it are few in number—not exceeding three or four on each side, but they are among the bes... ...ass. Around me on all sides were 20 North America V ol. 2 cattle in great numbers—steers and big oxen—lowing in their hunger for a meal. They were be... ...ber, lighted by skylights from the roof, and is amply large enough for the number to be accommodated. The Speaker sits opposite to the chief entrance,... ...rdly spirit. It would seem as though they who met together to do the work 198 North America V ol. 2 had been actuated by no desire for selfish prepon...

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...er and thither, numerous coinci- dences should spontaneously occur. If the number and vari- ety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all ... ...r neighbors, who fell upon the Romans in their lodg- ings and slew a great number of them. Sertorius, with a few of his soldiers, made his way out, an... ...f their own armor, he found the gates of their city open, and took a great number prison- ers, who came out thinking to meet their friends and fellow-... ...lerable to Sertorius that he slew the whole body of them, four thousand in number, command- ing his soldiers to shoot them down with their javelins, a... ...en forsaking the heights of the Pyrenees, Caius Annius advanced with large numbers and drove before him all who endeavored to hinder his march. Sertor... ...provision of water, as for several days none could be obtained; and, sec- 198 V olume Two ondly, if a violent south wind should rise upon them, while...

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...made in reply to one of Judge Douglas’s speeches. (Mr. Lincoln then read a number of extracts which had the ring of the true metal. W e have rarely he... ...w Hampshire—and see how many mulattoes we can find within her borders. The number amounts to just one hundred and eighty-four. In the Old Dominion—in ... ...the free States there were less than sixty thousand mulattoes —and a large number of them were imported from the South. 17 The Writings of Abraham Li... ...n Douglas and myself. To enable me to do so, please get two copies of each number of your paper containing the whole, and send them to me by express; ... ...ote to Dr. Ray, requesting him to forward to me by express two sets of the numbers of the Tri- bune which contain the reports of those discussions. Up... ...al troubles and the restora- tion of fraternal sympathies and affections. 198 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five That there are persons in on...

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...witch-elm that shades Saint Fillan’s spring And down the fitful breeze thy numbers flung, Till envious ivy did around thee cling, Muffling with verd... ... A mighty augury is laid. It rests with me to wind my horn,— Thou art with numbers overborne; It rests with me, here, brand to brand, Worn as thou art... ...! the fountain lending, And the wild breeze, thy wilder minstrelsy; Thy numbers sweet with nature’s vespers blending, With distant echo from the... ...ire, ’Tis now the brush of Fairy’s frolic wing. Receding now, the dying numbers ring Fainter and fainter down the rugged dell; And now the mount... ...s of the names of Shakespeare’s plays will be readily understood. The line-numbers are those of the “Globe” edition. The references to Scott’s Lay of ... ...as “The mimic castles of the pass.” 196. The tower, etc. Cf. Gen. xi. 1-9. 198. The rocky. The 1st ed. has “Their rocky,” etc. 204. Nor were, etc. The... ...sse summes did reare;” and Id. iii. 10. 53: “like as a Beare, 198 The Lady of the Lake That creeping close among the hives to reare A... ...instance, the text includes the verbal changes which we have adopted in i. 198, 290, 432, ii. 103, 201, 203, 534, iii. 30, 173, 190, 508, v. 106, 253,...

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...-day the gold found yesterday—some five-and-twenty thousand pounds. Of three hundred and fifty thousand pounds’ worth of gold, three hundred thousand ... ...had come ashore since last night. It began to be very doubtful whether many more would be thrown up, until the north-east winds of the early spring se... ...re lay, at that time, one hundred and forty-five bodies, that had come ashore from the wreck. He had buried them, when not identified, in graves conta... ...rom the wreck. He had buried them, when not identified, in graves containing four each. He had numbered each body in a register describing it, and had... ... clergyman of two adjoining parishes, who had buried thirty-four of the bodies in his own churchyard, and who had done to them all that his brother ha... ...xecution open to defeat—what kind of river he considered the Ganges, the Long-lost, scowling at the friend of the family over his spoon, as one of an ...

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...family, residing within ten min- utes’ walk of’—everywhere. Answers out of number were received, with all sorts of initials; all the letters of the al... ...f the afternoon in a hackney- coach, and accompanied by a most astonishing number of packages. Trunks, bonnet-boxes, muff-boxes and para- sols, guitar... ...ed in the monthly fashion; and spelt Character with a K. ‘I saw a devilish number of parcels in the passage when I came home, ’ simpered Mr. Simpson. ... ... of salmon round and round his plate with a piece of bread and a fork, the number of successful attempts being about one in seventeen. ‘Take away, Jam... ... three or four chairs were pulled out of their places, and a corresponding number of books carefully upset, in order that there might be a due absence... ...ee my wife in?” says he. Jacobs looked as much as to say—“Strike me boun- 198 Sketches by Boz tiful if you ain’t one of the modest sort!” but as the ...