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...e 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 Uni... ...e was scarce a word interchanged, and no common sentiment but that of cold united us, until at length, having touched at Greenock, a pointing arm and ... ...r, with a pleasant story of how they had first seen each other years ago at a prepara- tory school, and that very afternoon he had carried her books h... ... I do not know if this story will be plain to southern readers; but to me it recalls many a school idyll, with wrathful swains of eight and nine confr... ...ily men broken by adversity, elderly youths who had failed to place themselves in life, and people who had seen better days. Mildness was the prevaili... ...re a shipful of failures, the broken men of England. Yet it must not be supposed that these people exhibited depression. The scene, on the contrary, w... ... interesting; but there was entertainment in the man’s demeanour. You might call him a half-educated Irish Tigg. Our Russian made a remarkable contras... ...nd manner; and I am bound to confess that I passed for nearly anything you please except an educated gentle- man. The sailors called me ‘mate,’ the of... ...oes down, a swollen orange, as it were into the sea. A blue-clad peasant rides home, with a harrow smoking behind him among the dry clods. Another sti...

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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... ...y Charles Dickens CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS IF YOU LOOK AT A M AP of the World, you will see, in the left hand upper corner of the... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...ave hung across the streets, and no man would have touched one. He founded schools; he patiently heard causes himself in his Court of Justice; the gre... ...; and sent Matilda away, in fine state, with the German ambassadors, to be educated in the country of her future husband. And now his Queen, Maud the ... ..., when the King thought of making him Archbishop. He was clever, gay, well educated, brave; had fought in several battles in France; had defeated a Fr... ...e peasants who attended him, and feasted them, and went from Canterbury to Harrow on the Hill, and from Harrow on the Hill back to Canterbury, and on... ...ntry who knew the road well, for a guide. He rode towards London as far as Harrow, and then altered his plans and resolved, it would seem, to go to th...

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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... ...e country described in a more or less ridiculous point of view. It is hard at least to do so in such a book as I must write. A de Tocqueville may do i... ...e those against whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judg... ...whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judgment, as bad, ill educated, ugly, and odious. In such cases his course is straightforward eno... ...general feelings of England to have been be- fore I found myself among the people by whom it was being waged. It is very difficult for the people of a... ...a doctrine. As regards our parliament, that is probably the best Brit- ish school of foreign politics, seeing that the subject is not there often take... ...en. Taken generally, they are better instructed, though perhaps not better educated. They are seldom troubled with mauvaise honte; I do not say it in ... ... of him who is restrained. There is no embargo on the beer-shops either at Harrow or at Oxford—and 199 Trollope certainly none upon the young ladies.... ...their judgment. I have seen women with ropes round their necks draw- ing a harrow over plowed ground. No one will, I suppose, say that they approve of...

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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... ...d sit down, Robin, and rest thee. Thomas Tusser. I T CAME WITHOUT WARNING, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg... ...ng you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on God’s earth to-night.” Said Sophie his wife, and kissed him: “Isn... ...e of the place.” “I give it up,” said George one night in their own room. “People don’t seem to matter in this country compared to the places they liv... ...ere was no more need of Queens. How, covered by this confusion, Sacharissa educated certain young bees to educate certain new-born bees in the almost ... ... theories are today as exploded as the ludicrous deductions of the Spanish school. In the place of their fugi- tive and warring dreams we have, defini... ...plane) on the flank of Hecla between Herrera, then a pillar of the Spanish school, and the man destined to confute his theories and lead him intellect... ...een. I gathered from some- thing Jimmy let fall that the three had been at Harrow to- gether. “That Tomling has a head on his Shoulders,” muttered Pen...