...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... and homely reality of a fireside 5 Hawthorne chair. It causes us to feel at once that these characters of his tory had a private and familiar exist... ...ut still, even when his eyes were closed, his thoughts were with the young people, playing among the flowers and shrubbery of the garden. He heard the... ...em too. They would teach him something about the history and distinguished people of his country which he has never read in any of his schoolbooks.” C... ...resident Dunster sat in it, when he held the first Commencement at Harvard College. Y ou have often heard, children, how careful our fore fathers wer... ...oom for their own dwellings before they began to think of establish ing a college. Their principal object was, to rear up pious and learned ministers... ...was at first intended that the colony should be governed by a coun cil in London. But in a little while the people had the whole power in their own h... ...n of the Christians, and had voluntarily proposed to have his el dest son educated by them. His son had been accordingly placed at school in Dedham, ... ...hers in their second childhood. These lads are to be sent to Cambridge and educated for the learned professions. Old Master Cheever had lived so long,...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original se- ries. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of y... ... any, had been already tried for me vicariously amongst the Ameri- cans; a people so nearly repeating our own in style of intel- lect, and in the comp... ...ine Arts”* seemed to exact from me some account of Williams, the dreadful London murderer of the last generation; not only because the amateurs had s... ...rciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every philosophi... ...ore earnestly a student than his friend Lord Massey, who had probably been educated at home un- der a private tutor. He read everything connected with... ..., in the persons of their children, meeting for study at the same schools, colleges, military academies, &c.; by what furious forgetfulness of the rea... ...apter), this noble foundation secured a number of exhibitions at Brasenose College, Oxford, to those pupils of the school who should study at Manchest... ...ing composed of those who are “noble;” the other, of families equally well educated and accomplished, but not, in the continental sense, “noble.” The ...

...motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original series. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of your individual house, the Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, according to the amplest extent of any power to make such a transfer that I may be found to posses...

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...awness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... to be more or less advantageous to the collection, it is my wish to place at your disposal as soon as possible, in order that you may make what use o... ...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... ...7. a second Jane; 8. Henry, a posthumous child, who belonged to Brazennose College, Oxford, and died about his twenty-sixth year. 2 Cicero, in a well... ...thing of the same bitter spirit. But the great body of the richer and more educated inhabitants showed the most hos- pitable attention to all who just... ...s it must have done in most other parts of North America; that the boy was educated and trained as a missionary clergy- man; and finally, that he is n... ...f putting the knife into the mouth. At least 120 years ago, the Duchess of Queensberry, (Gay’s duchess,) that leonine woman, used to shriek out, on se... ... spoons; and, along with silver forks, came in the explosion of that anti- Queensberry brutalism which forks first superseded—viz., the fiendish pract...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...een space for it during Henry’s progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster. The hero of the story is likewise invention, though, a... ... to be identi- fied. Readers of Tyler’s ‘Henry V.,’ of Agnes Strickland’s ‘Queens,’ Tytler’s ‘Scotland,’ and Barante’s ‘Histoire de Bourgogne’ will be... ...g in Scotland, and founder of her earliest University, having been himself educated at Paris. The Abbey of Coldingham is described from a local com- p... ...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... ...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... ...t were well to suppress the alien priories, and give their wealth to found colleges like that founded by Bishop Wykeham.’ For in truths the spirit of ... ... belonging to the city and country families that furnished servants to the queens; and they applied them- selves to various offices of charity, going ... ...ste to remove his fair niece from the convent at Dijon, where she had been educated, lest the Cistercians should become possessed of her lands. He had...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ete bridge fled a limousine of long sleek hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a L... ...r poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His large head was pink, his brown hair thin an... ... youth. She waited for him, in the darkness beyond mysterious groves. When at last he could slip away from the crowded house he darted to her. His wif... ..., but Lord! you’re get- ting as fussy as Verona. Ever since she got out of college she’s been too rambunctious to live with—doesn’t know what she want... ...worker or some damn thing! Lord, and Ted is just as bad! He wants to go to college, and he doesn’t want to go to college. Only one of the three that k... ...d already, and what’ll we do for work- men if all those fellows go and get educated?” Ted was leaning back, smoking a cigarette without re- proof. He ... ... swell, in just the same fine sort of jeans they wear at home, and all the queens with spiffy bonnets on their beans, and all the fellows standing rou... ...hink that just because a girl was a manicure girl and maybe not awful well educated, she was no good, but as for him, he was a democrat, and understoo...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...plague take them!) bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fing... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...to the present story of 4 V anity Fair – V olume One “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...profound bow to his patrons, the Man- ager retires, and the curtain rises. London, June 28, 1848 Chapter I Chiswick Mall WHILE THE PRESENT CENTURY was... ...o go outside in the rain, where, however, a young gentleman from Cambridge College sheltered me very kindly in one of his several great coats. This ge... ...lum—old Methusalem.” Mr. Hodson laughed again. “The young men is home from college. They’ve whopped John Scroggins till he’s well nigh dead.” “Whop my... ...nstruc- tress (I am too poor to engage a governess for mine, but was I not educated at Chiswick?)—”Who,” I exclaimed, “can we consult but the excellen... ...governess for his little girls, who, I am told, had the good fortune to be educated at Chiswick. I hear vari- ous reports of her; and as I have the te...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...redith LORD ORMONT AND HIS AMINTA By George Meredith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I LOVE AT A SCHOOL A PROCESSION of schoolboys having to meet a procession of schoo... ...and there was a question or two about names, which belonged to verses, for people caring to read poems. To the joy of the school he displayed a greate... ...n, the answer became important. Ici was twenty miles to the north- west of London. How long would it take Matey to reach Donvres? Or at which of the c... ...judgement on him. According to Mr. Shalders, the opinion of all thoughtful people in England was with John Company and the better part of the Press to... ... ev- ery form of noble pride, gets cajoled like a twenty-year-old yahoo at college! Do you imagine it? To suppose of a man cherishing the name of Ormo... ...rgely, Lady Charlotte. Opportunity has been want- ing at French and German colleges.” “It’s only a large and a close and a pretty long study of them t... ...took the latter step, the single step of an unaccustomed foot, which women educated simply to feet, will, upon extreme impulsion, take; and it held a ... ...tience to endure. He surprised Weyburn in speaking of Lady Char- lotte as ‘educated and accomplished.’ She was rather more so than Weyburn knew, and m...

...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 University nor Ji... ...esentative of all the race, Although ‘t is true that you turn’d out a Tory at Last,— yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Ren... ...au, Petion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette, Were French, and famous people, as we know: And there were others, scarce forgotten yet, Jo... ...ly inurn’d; Because the army ‘s grown more popular, At which the naval people are concern’d; Besides, the prince is all for the land service, ... ...im up to learn his catechism alone, No — no — I ‘d send him out betimes to college, For there it was I pick’d up my own knowledge. For there one... ...er what — I never married — but, I think, I know That sons should not be educated so. Young Juan now was sixteen years of age, Tall, handsom... ...g all that useful sort of knowledge Which is acquired in Nature’s good old college. The morn broke, and found Juan slumbering still Fast in hi... ...e deem’d her least command must yield delight, Earth being only made for queens and kings. If hearts lay on the left side or the right She h... ...reat discernment was the donor’s. But she was lucky, and luck ‘s all. Your queens Are generally prosperous in reigning; Which puzzles us to kn...

...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... ophet flare to judgment Day, Be gentle when ‘the heathen’ pray T o Buddha at Kamakura! Buddha at Kamakura . HE SAT, in defiance of municipal orders,... ...ead to one side, considering and interested. ‘Give me the bowl. I know the people of this city–all who are charitable. Give, and I will bring it back ... ...hild the old man handed him the bowl. [start here] ‘Rest, thou. I know the people.’ He trotted off to the open shop of a kunjri, a low caste vegetable... ...ikh States, where he had been singing the ancient glories of the Khalsa to College trained princelings in top boots and white cord breeches. Kim was c... ... giggles of women whose faces should not be seen in public. Nowadays, well educated natives are of opinion that when their womenfolk travel–and they v... ...rumtollah–Pereiras, De Souzas, and D’Silvas. Their parents could well have educated them in England, but they loved the school that had served their o... ... the same term played in St Xavier’s eleven against the Alighur Mohammedan College, his age being fourteen years and ten months. He was also re vaccin... ...was the tenth, and at times his soul yearned for the crowded rooms in easy London where silver haired, bald headed gentlemen who know nothing of the A...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim ... ...se past eight years, or whether there is anything in its present position, at home or abroad, which suggests that those influences and tendencies real... ...art shock before com ing below, which, but that we were the most sanguine people living, might have prepared us for the worst. The imaginative artist... ... little washing slab as standing room, — we could manage to insinuate four people into it, all at one time; and entreating each other to observe how v... ...rity of those who are attached to the liberal professions there, have been educated at this same school. Whatever the defects of American universities... ...and instruction, recognise a world, and a broad one too, lying beyond the college walls. American Notes – Dickens 30 It was a source of inexpressib... ... their working more than nine months in the year, and require that they be educated during the other three. For this purpose there are schools in Lowe... ...e miles off, even at the very quiet time of sunset, though we often tried. Queenston, at which place the steamboats start for Toronto (or I should rat... ... serves, when I say that it is superior even to that in which we went from Queenston to Toronto, or to that in which we travelled from the latter plac...

...her there has been anything in the public career of that country during these past eight years, or whether there is anything in its present position, at home or abroad, which suggests that those influences and tendencies really do exist....

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... anity Fair Volume Two by William Makepeace Thackeray CHAPTER XXVI Between London and Chatham ON QUITTING BRIGHTON, our friend George, as became a per... ...lia, for the first time, and with exceeding shyness and timidity, presided at what George called her own table. George pooh-poohed the wine and bullie... ... to take measures for the preparing of a mag- nificent ornamented tea. All people have their ways of express- ing kindness, and it seemed to Mrs. Sedl... ...ith men of fashion and ladies of note, on their way to Brussels and Ghent. People were going not so much to a war as to a fash- ionable tour. The news... ...ever endure them, because they are not pretty!” Those unfortunate and well-educated women made themselves heard from the neighbouring drawing-room, wh... ... the inestimable polish which is gained by living in a fast set at a small college, and contracting debts, and being rusticated, and being plucked. He... ...usness. He said “he had come down for a couple of days to see a man of his college, and—and to pay my respects to you, Ma’am, and my father’s and moth... ...as an edifying one to strangers. They were so cheerful, so loving, so well-educated, so simple! Martha painted flowers exquisitely and furnished half ...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...llent work there, because he was too much praised, and kept him for a year at an infe- rior school at Winkfield in Wiltshire. In 1800, at the age of f... ...er that after three years’ stay he might secure a scholarship at Brasenose College, Oxford. He remained there—strongly protesting against a situation ... ...his home by exchanging the solitude of Wales for the greater wilderness of London. Failing there to raise money on his expected patrimony, he for some... ... De Quincey was brought home and finally allowed (1803) to go to Worcester College, Oxford, on a reduced income. Here, we are told, “he came to be loo... ...de the acquaintance of Coleridge and Wordsworth; Lamb he had sought out in London several years before. His acquaintance with Wordsworth led to his se... ... our little planet, the Earth, however cheap they may be held by eccentric people in comets: he had invented mail-coaches, and he had mar- ried the da... ...ne single college; in Oxford there were five-and-twenty, all of which were peopled by young men, the élite of their own generation; not boys, but men:... ...eek him in chapels and conse- crated oratories. This peasant girl was self-educated through her own natu- ral meditativeness. If the reader turns to t...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e Autumn of 1844. Most faithfully yours, My dear Lewis, W. M. Thackeray. London:December 24, 1845. PREFACE ON THE 20TH OF AUGUST, 1844, the writer o... ...E ON THE 20TH OF AUGUST, 1844, the writer of this little book went to dine at the—Club, quite unconscious of the wonderful events which Fate had in st... ...acation idlers to extend their travels and pursue it:above all, young well-educated men entering life, to take this course, we will say, after that at... ...ducated men entering life, to take this course, we will say, after that at college; and, having their book-learn- ing fresh in their minds, see the li... ...ge; and, having their book-learn- ing fresh in their minds, see the living people and their cities, and the actual aspect of Nature, along the famous ... ...s shores of the Mediterranean. CHAPTER I:VIGO THE SUN BROUGHT ALL the sick people out of their berths this morning, and the indescribable moans and no... ...ville, and other command- ers who need not be mentioned. He is a very well-educated man, and reads prodigiously,—travels, histories, lives of emi- nen... ...ave translated Jack and Jill into Greek iambics, and been a credit to your college. ”I turned testily away from her. “Madam,” says I, “because an eagl...

...per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...turning eye; These shall show thee treasure hid, Thy familiar fields amid, At thy threshold, on thy hearth, Or about thy daily path; And reveal (which... ...f those whom mor- tals call Fairies. Their proper name, of course, is ‘The People of the Hills’. This Puck, by means of the magic of Oak, Ash, and Tho... ...s and in the country about, they saw and talked to some rather interesting people. One of these, for instance, was a Knight of the Norman Conquest, an... ...ded. ‘I’ve no brats of my own, but I under- stand keeping a secret between Queens and their Ministers. Ay de mi! But with no disrespect to present maj... ...t was. ‘T wixt you and me and the bedpost, young Burleigh, these kings and queens are very like men and women, and I’ve heard they write each other fo... ...ds. He was a Meon by descent, from the west edge of the kingdom; a scholar educated, curiously enough, at Lyons, my old school; had travelled the worl... ...“My dear man,” I said, “admitting that that is the case, surely you, as an educated person, don’t believe in Wotan and all the other hobgoblins any mo... ...what shall come after.’ ‘Mark also, Nick,’ said Puck, that we are not your College of Physicians, but only a lad and a lass and a poor lubberkin. Ther...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...mple and buoyant conviction that I could do what he desired. There existed at the time only the little sketch, “The Jilting of Jane,” included in this... ...sh, and Mr. Frank Harris was not only printing good short stories by other people, but writing still better ones himself in the dignified pages of the... ...d better sort of pay that the short stories of the ‘nineties were written. People talked about them tremendously, compared them, and ranked them. That... ...umbfounded. “Of course he is eccentric,” she meditated. “But running about London—in the height of the season, too—in his socks!” A happy thought stru... ...ude of the creature. I’d been more than a brother to him. I’d hatched him, educated him. A great gawky, out-of-date bird! And me a human being—heir of... ... I was the first on the scene. The thing happened at the Harlow T echnical College, just beyond the Highgate Archway. He was alone in the larger labor... ...hand seemed to com- fort him immensely. He explained that when we left the College and drove home—he lived in Hampstead village— it appeared to him as... ... George Eden, then adopt- ing me as his own son. He was a single man, self-educated, and well-known in Birmingham as an enterprising journal- ist; he ...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...large topic; deserving quite other treatment than we can expect to give it at present. A large topic; indeed, an illimitable one; wide as Universal Hi... ...mbassy to that country, and see. They have their belief, these poor Thibet people, that Provi- dence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into ... ... Im- mensity, old as Eternity. What is it? God’s Creation, the reli- gious people answer; it is the Almighty God’s! Atheistic sci- ence babbles poorly... ...s. Snorro Sturleson, an Iceland gentleman, an extremely notable personage, educated by this Saemund’s grandson, took in hand next, near a century afte... ...ower, and made ready to set sail. In Neal’s History of the Puritans [Neal (London, 1755), i. 490] is an account of the ceremony of their departure: so... ...e, before he became conspicuous. He was the son of poor parents; had got a college education; become a Priest; adopted the Reformation, and seemed wel... ...t in the much-enduring, hard-worn, ever-battling man. That he could rebuke Queens, and had such weight among those proud turbulent Nobles, proud enoug... ...ey laugh so, have an affectionate, lovable kind of character. He is like a College-Tutor, whose whole world is forms, College- rules; whose notion is ...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...plague take them!) bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fing... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...profound bow to his patrons, the Man- ager retires, and the curtain rises. London, June 28, 1848 Chapter I Chiswick Mall WHILE THE PRESENT CENTURY was... ...o go outside in the rain, where, however, a young gentleman from Cambridge College sheltered me very kindly in one of his several great coats. This ge... ...lum—old Methusalem.” Mr. Hodson laughed again. “The young men is home from college. They’ve whopped John Scroggins till he’s well nigh dead.” “Whop my... ...nstruc- tress (I am too poor to engage a governess for mine, but was I not educated at Chiswick?)—”Who,” I exclaimed, “can we consult but the excellen... ...governess for his little girls, who, I am told, had the good fortune to be educated at Chiswick. I hear vari- ous reports of her; and as I have the te...