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...arge 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 Stat... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Sa... ...ountry, from one end to the other, was in a pitiable state of panic, and the churches, hermitages, and monkeries overflowed with praying and weeping p... ... This old stone tower was very massive — and rather ruinous, too, for it was Roman, and four hundred years old. Yes, and handsome, after a rude fashio... ... power that was a trifle stronger than both of us put together. That was the Church. I do not wish to disguise that fact. I couldn’t, if I wanted to. ... ...cept pedigree and lordship. There you see the hand of that awful power, the Roman Catholic Church. In two or three little centuries it had converted ... ...edigree and lordship. There you see the hand of that awful power, the Roman Catholic Church. In two or three little centuries it had converted a nati... ...nas le Savage; all these he bare down with one spear. When King Aswisance of Ireland saw Sir Gareth fare so he marvelled what he might be, that one t... ... not have stood it; and, moreover, I should have had the Estab lished Roman Catholic Church on my back in a minute. No, I had been going cautiously a...

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...?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....

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...on his voyage to a country where your name is as well known as here. Wherever I am, I shall gratefully regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am....

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK THREE by W... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book Three by... ...hat requires a life to practise; and to be distinguished in letters or the Church would not have forwarded the poor gentleman’s plans in the least. So... ...ir sickness and poverty, and who blessed her daily. She attended the early church daily (though of a Sunday, especially, she encouraged and advanced a... ...should the best blood in England and France be shed in order that the Holy Roman and Apostolic master of these ruf- fians should have his revenge over... ...o forego—benefits which the church of England did not deny to those of the Roman communion, as how should she, being derived from that church, and onl... ...ostel de l’Aigle Noire, Bruxelles, Flanders.” So Frank had married a Roman Catholic lady, and an heir was expected, and Mr. Esmond was to carry this i... ...my dear; Viscount Castlewood and Baron Esmond of Shandon in the Kingdom of Ireland, Earl and Marquis of Esmond under patent of his Majesty King James ... ... England thought of it: she held that ours was undoubtedly a branch of the Catholic church, but that the Roman was one of the main stems on which, no ...

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...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. What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wel... ...e guessing. “Think of the men who have walked here!” said a tourist in the Roman Coli- seum. It was a Futurist mind that answered: “Think of the men w... ...on in itself indicates a profound ignorance of the nature of the Christian churches. With the exception of the Quakers and a few Russian sects, no Chr... ...the exception of the Quakers and a few Russian sects, no Christian sect or church has ever repudiated war; most have gone out of the way to sanction i... ... any group of financial enterprises. They will be more comprehensive, less roman- tic, and more businesslike altogether. They will be, to use a phrase... ...h rents are to be sent up and wages down, while the old feuds of Wales and Ireland, ancient theological and sec- tarian jealousies and babyish loyalti... ...he only solution of the Irish difficulty along the belt between Ulster and Catholic Ireland lies in the same arrangement. Then; thirdly, there are the... ...the Russians. I am democratic and scientific, and the Poles I have met are Catholic and aristocratic and ro- mantic, and all sorts of difficult things...

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...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. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, t... ...ch did not provoke any reproaches even to a dignitary of the supreme Irish church; its own monstrosity was its excuse; mere extravagance was felt to l... ...nown universally six days later, the people would have gone right from the churchyard to the murderer’s lodgings, and (brooking no delay) would have t... ...a successful flight, and, there- fore, for the following revolution in the romance of his own abominable life. He had in his pockets above a hundred p... ...s of years. 5 Let the reader, who is disposed to regard as exaggerated or romantic the pure fiendishness imputed to Williams, recol- lect that, excep... ...as to the copper coinage, and of the imaginary wrong which it inflicted on Ireland. Of all Swift’s villainies for the sake of popularity, and still mo... ...d, upon principles of fidelity under political suffer- ing, with the Roman Catholics, to say little in his own de- fence. That defence, and any revers... ...Episcopal chapels, or rather the ornamented albes, &c. from any rich Roman Catholic establishment, would have been more effective. The Coryphaeus hims...

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...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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...ASUISTRY ....................................................................................................................... 143 GREECE UNDER THE ROMANS..................................................................................... 189...

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...TER TER, ET , ET , ET , ET , ETC. ET C. ET C. ET C. ET C. ETC. C. C. C. C. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION... ...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... ...E UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER THE R THE R THE R THE R THE ROMANS OMANS OMANS OMANS OMANS ............................................... ...ve arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of their word religlo, th... ...nd here only, is found the outermost expansion, the centrifugal, of the TO catholic, united with the innermost centripetal of the personal con- scious... ...lic rumor so far correct as that he is a man of distinction in the English church, then, and by that simple fact, this book, or this pamphlet, interes... ...every book of the Bible, uttered by anybody rather than by a father of the Church, and guaranteed by anybody rather than by an infidel, in triumph. A ... ...nal principles of Protestantism available for the defence of certain Roman Catholic mysteries too in- discriminately assaulted by the Protestant zealo... ...argest scale, was deci- sive on this point; and the opposite experience of Ireland, under the opposite circumstances, was equally decisive. And this r...

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........... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418.......................................................... 8 CHAPTER III THE ANGLE CHILDREN A.D. 597.................................................................... 10 CHAPTER IV THE NORTHMEN...

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...present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved c...

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...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. John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by ... ..., here been attempted, together with a record of the building of the three churches erected since 1837, and a history of the changes that have taken p... ...al of these urns were deposited in the Hartley Museum, Southampton. Of the Roman times we know nothing but that part of the great Roman road between C... ...art of the great Roman road between Caer Gwent (or V enta Belgarum, as the Romans called Winchester) and Sorbiodunum (Old Sarum). It can still be trac... ... Itchen seems to have been named in like manner. These were the times when churches were built and the boundaries of estates became those of parishes.... ...art of the hundred of Boyatt in Otterbourne, was in the hands of the Roman Catholic family of Welles, who seem to have had numerous retainers at Highb... ...dge, and died there in 1634. This accounts for there having been the Roman Catholic school at T wyford, whence Alexander Pope was expelled for some sa... ...r so as to have it con- cluded before his departure to take the command in Ireland. The terms were finally settled, and Richard and Dorothy were marri...

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...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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...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. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ... ...EMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN THE ANCIENT STATE OF EUROPE, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE............................311 CHAPTER III OF THE RISE AND PRO... ...ER III OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF CITIES AND TOWNS, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE ................................................................. ...n all Christian countries, I believe, the education of the greater part of churchmen is paid for in this manner. Very few of them are educated altoget... ...ore, of those who are, will not always procure them a suitable reward, the church being crowded with people, who, in order to get employment, are will... ...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... ...prove and cultivate in the same manner the most fertile lands of Scotland, Ireland, or the corn provinces of North America, though, from the more exac... ..., and established there the four governments of New En- gland. The English catholics, treated with much greater injustice, established that of Marylan...

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... fun and high spirits besides her good looks, which you may judge of for yourself on a walk down most of our great noblemen?s collections of pictures in England, where you will behold her as the goddess Diana fitting an arrow to a bow; and elsewhere an Amazon holding a spear; or a lady with dogs, in the costume of the day; and in one place she is a nymph, if not Diana hers...

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... But his inclinations were also subject to question, upon his considering that he had expended pounds English for the privilege of making the journey in this very train....

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...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. Celt and Saxon by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...o rival heat of self-assertion, very loftily towering: there were Kings in Ireland: cry for one of them in Uladh and you will hear his name, and he ha... ...e eyes of his host dwelt on him with their full repellent stare. The young Catholic gentleman expected he might hear a frenetic zealot roar out: Be of... ...exity, and he leapt out of his tangle into the happy open spaces where the romantic things of life are as natural as the sun that rises and sets. Ther... ...‘A Protestant, of course,’ Patrick spoke as he thought. ‘Madame Dugue is a Catholic of Catholics, and the most honourable of women.’ ‘That I’ll believ... ...ry, unless you had them fast by their spinning fancy. They called it being romantic. It was the ante-chamber of madness. Mad, was the word for them. Y... ...d throw herself away on that branded villain called a prince, abjuring her Church for a little fouler than hangman to me and every gentleman alive. I ... ... expected him to show a sign of appreciation. He asked her to tell him the Church whose forms of faith the princess had embraced. She answered that it...

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...gged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns and the Underwoods....

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............................................................................................................................ 27 Chapter 1.2.II. Petition in Hieroglyphs. ...................................................................................................................... 30 Chapter 1.2.III. Questionable. ...........................................................

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...lmost too heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge. Now, in less than three months, if all went well, his Excellency the Viceroy would open the bridge in state, an archbishop would bless it, and the first trainload of soldiers would come over it, and there would be speeches....

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................ 165 ?BREAD UPON THE WATERS? .............................................................................................. 183 AN ERROR IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION......................................................................... 206 MY SUNDAY AT HOME .............................................................................................................

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...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, a...

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... as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romance, the shaping of the conceptions that the imagination must necessarily form when dwelling upon the records of history. That faculty which might be called the passive fancy, and might almost...

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...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltaire was born in the year 1694. He lived un...

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... QUAKERS......................................................................................................................... 16 LETTER V.?ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND .................................................................................................. 20 LETTER VI.?ON THE PRESBYTERIANS.............................................................................

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...?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29 -- CHAPTER VII? MISCELLANEOUS-HISTORICAL, 31 -- CHAPTER VIII? THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES, 34 -- CHAPTER IX? ADAMITISM, 39 -- CHAPTER X? PURE REASON, 43 -- CHAPTER XI? PROSPECTIVE, 47 -- ...

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...— CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . . . . . . .... ... CHAPTER IV — GETTING UNDER WAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 CHAPTER V — ROMANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 CHAPTER VI — SOR... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BOOK III 133 CHAPTER I — INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 133 CHAPTER II — CHURCH CLOTHES . .... ... CHAPTER I — INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 133 CHAPTER II — CHURCH CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 ii SARTOR RESARTUS ... ...re abstract Thought can still take shelter; that while the din and frenzy of Catholic Emancipations, and Rot ten Boroughs, and Revolts of Paris, deaf... ...churn boots, and other riding and fighting gear have been bepainted in modern Romance, till the whole has acquired somewhat of a sign post character,—I... ...abitude, her own simple version of the Christian Faith. Andreas too attended Church; yet more like a parade duty, for which he in the other world expe... ...e,” says he, “is the universally arrogated Virtue, almost the sole remaining Catholic Virtue, of these days? For some half century, it has been the th... ...andiacal Body stands another British Sect, orig inally, as I understand, of Ireland, where its chief seat still is; but known also in the main Island...

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............................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II RELATES H...

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKE... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself by William Mak... ...d to boast, as I have heard, that she not only brought back my Lord to the Church of England, but procured the English peerage for him, which the juni... ... alone in the world: when he heard the great peal of bells from Castlewood church ringing that morning to welcome the arrival of the new lord and lady... ...Sir Francis Esmond to the dignity of Vis- count Castlewood, of Shandon, in Ireland: and the Viscount’s estate being much impoverished by loans to the ... .... She was maid of honor to the Queen Henrietta Maria; she early joined the Roman Church; her father, a weak man, following her not long after at Breda... ...r on public days introducing her com- pany to her. This was chiefly of the Catholic gentry, of whom there were a pretty many in the country and neighb... ... was far from him to say that his Majesty’s Church was not a branch of the Catholic Church; upon which Father Holt used, 47 Thackeray according to hi... ...man, with a wart upon her nose. But having been early taught a part of the Roman religion, he never had the horror of it that some Protestants have sh...

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...Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................................................................... 4 NOONDAY IN CHEPE ....................................................................................................................... 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL............................................................................

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......................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898.......................................................................................................................... 53 A HAPPY WANDERER?1910 ..................................................................

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................. 92 CHAPTER XIV: A GOSSIP ON A NOVEL OF DUMAS?S ............................................................ 98 CHAPTER XV: A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE ................................................................................. 106 CHAPTER XVI: A HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE ........................................................................117...

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... PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTER II ? SOME ASPECTS OF ROBERT BURNS.......................................................... 34 CHAPTER III ? WALT WHITMAN..............

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