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...What is this strange land called England; so small in size yet so powerful in influence? What makes her so unique, talented and persistent? This book attempts to answer that. It is a short, well written explanation of England as a unique country written by s...

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...AND By D. H. Lawrence A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication England, My England by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. England, My England by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents England, My England .......................................................... ....................................................... 155 4 D. H. Lawrence ENGLAND, MY ENGLAND By D. H. Lawrence E E E E England, M ngland, M ngland, ... ... E E E England, M ngland, M ngland, M ngland, M ngland, My E y E y E y E y England ngland ngland ngland ngland HE WAS WORKING on the edge of the commo... ...e seclusion amid the sav- age peace of the commons. Strange how the savage England 5 England, My England lingers in patches: as here, amid these shag... ...its sloping, cloak-like roof was old and forgotten. It belonged to the old England of hamlets and yeomen. Lost all alone on the edge of the common, at... ...ing, red- flowered bush in motion. She, too, seemed to come out of the old England, ruddy, strong, with a certain crude, passionate quiescence and a h... ...od was strong even to coarseness. But that only made the home more vig- 7 England, My England orous, more robust and Christmassy. There was always a ...

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

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...ie Arouet) A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet), the Pennsylvania State Univers... .............................................. 16 LETTER V .—ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND ...................................................................... ...ES ...................................................... 96 4 Letters on England Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) INTRODUCTION... ...ember, 1721, Voltaire visited Lord Bolingbroke, who was then an exile from England, at the Chateau of La Source. There was now constant literary activ... ...month; and his first act when he was released was to ask for a passport to England. V oltaire left France, reached London in August, 1726, went as gue... ...y- two to the age of thirty-five. He was here when George I. 6 Letters on England died, and George II. became king. He published here his Henriade. H... ... 1731 he published at Rouen the Lettres sur les Anglais, which appeared in England in 1733 in the volume from which they are here reprinted. H.M. LETT... ... in 1733 in the volume from which they are here reprinted. H.M. LETTERS ON ENGLAND LETTER I.—ON THE QUAKERS I WAS OF OPINION that the doctrine and hi...

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...Elizabeth Bancroft went to England with her husband, historian George Bancroft, for three of the most dynamicy years in European hstory. As Ambassador to England from the United States, George moved in the highest circles. In his wife's letters to thei...

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...teil am väterlichen Erbe auszahlen ließ, verweigert die Unterstützung. Sie muss sich jetzt selbst um ihre Einkünfte sorgen. Lange Reisen wie die nach England sind ihr nicht mehr möglich. Ihre Schriftstellerei wird zu einer wichtigen Einkommensquelle. Sie veröffentlicht Reiseerzählungen, Romane und Novellen. (Zusammenfassung aus Wikipedia)...

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...It was written as part of my desperate attempts to inform the naive, gullible and stupid Englanders of how they have been cunningly deluded to appear as a most evil nationhood, when actually they ought to be acclaimed as the greatest of social engineers in various far-off, semi-barbarian and totally barbarian geo...

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...Jefferies' novel can be seen as an early example of post-apocalyptic fiction. After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life. The first part of the book, The Relapse into Barbarism, is the account by some later historian of the fall of civilisation and...

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...reciprocity in it seemed unfair. It was felt (or at least I felt) that the time had come when some one ought to go over and take some impressions off England. The choice of such a person (my choice) fell upon myself. By an arrangement with the Geographical Society of America, acting in conjunction with the Royal Geographical Society of England (to both of whom I communicat...

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Excerpt: Young Folks? History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...Contents Young Folks? History of England ..................................... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418...........

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...M. Yonge A Penn State Classics Series Publication Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tro... ...sity is an equal opportunity university. Contents Young Folks’ History of England ..................................... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.... .............................................. 136 6 Young Folk’s History of England Young Folks’ History of England By Charlotte M. Yonge CHAPTER I CHA... ...led Britons. And the country he came to see? That was our very own island, England, only it was not called so then. And the place where Julius Caesar ... ...ere Julius Caesar landed is called Deal, and, if you look at the map where England and France most nearly touch one another, I think you will see the ... ...of this chapter stands B.C. (Before Christ) 55. 8 Young Folk’s History of England CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II THE R THE R ... ...ry was called after them Angle-land. Don’t you know what it is called now? England itself, and the people English. They spoke much the same language a... ...eir own before the English got it for themselves; but the English have had England now for thirteen hundred years, and we cannot doubt they will keep ...

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...pular histories trample upon the popular traditions. In this respect there is an almost comic contrast between the general information provided about England in the last two or three centuries, in which its present industrial system was being built up, and the general information given about the preceding centuries, which we call broadly mediaeval. As this quotation taken ...

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...rpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighboring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly litt...

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...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED..........

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... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...University is an equal opportunity University. Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS........................................................ ........................................................ 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTE... ...D UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED...................................... ... ...THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED...................................... 24 CHAPTER IV ENGLAND UNDER ATHELSTAN AND THE SIX BOY KINGS .................. 31 CHAPTER... ...LAND UNDER ATHELSTAN AND THE SIX BOY KINGS .................. 31 CHAPTER V ENGLAND UNDER CANUTE THE DANE ................................................ ...ANE ........................................................ 44 CHAPTER VI ENGLAND UNDER HAROLD HAREFOOT, HARDICANUTE, AND ED WARD THE CONFESSOR ....... .............................................................. 46 CHAPTER VII ENGLAND UNDER HAROLD THE SECOND, AND CONQUERED BY THE NORMANS ................

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...SANDRA BELLONI Originally Emilia in England By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...rtunity university. 3 George Meredith SANDRA BELLONI Originally Emilia in England By George Meredith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I WE ARE TO MAKE ACQUAINTANCE wit... ...little estate, sir,” he said. “You’ve seen plenty bigger in Ger- many, and England too. We can’t get more than this handful in our tight little island... ...; right—left. Ha! ha! You’ve seen better. No need to tell me that. But, in England, we look to the meaning of things. We’re a practical people. What’s... ...nt industry back- ing rank and wealth! That makes a nation strong. Look at England!” Mr. Barrett observed him stand out largely, as if filled by the s... ...nd the aim. Hillford had nothing to do with consequences: no more than our England is responsible when she sails out among the empires and hemispheres... ...hat, miss. Furrin songs ‘s all right enough; but ‘Ale it is my tipple, and England is my nation!’ Let’s have something plain and flat on the surface, ... ...let me please you!” “When? Where? What with?” came the blunt response from England, with electric speed, and Emilia fell from the clouds. 86 Sandra B... ...him that Stornley can’t hold a candle to it. There are three residences in England that might be preferred to it, and, of those, two are ducal.” The l...

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...The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. It was beneath the heels of nine invaders. There was barely standing-room. (ch. 1) — and features references to many well-known figures of th...

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...A Child's History of England first appeared in serial form, running from January 25, 1851 to December 10, 1853 and was first published in three volume book form in 1852, 1853, and 1854. Dickens dedicated the book to My own dear children, whom I h...

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...The Commentaries on the Laws of England are an influential 18th century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, 1765-1769.The Commentaries were long regarded as the leading work...

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...Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England is a work in Latin by Bede on the history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between Roman and Celtic Christianity. It is considered to be one of the most...