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...Introduction: Queen Elizabeth herself, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton....

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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... ...IN ENGLAND AND FRAGMENTA REGALIA INTRODUCTION QUEEN ELIZABETH HERSELF, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of ... ...l Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton. Paul Hentzner was a German lawyer, born at Crossen, in Brandenburg, on the 29th of January, 1558. He died on the 1s... ...years of Elizabeth’s reign, having entered as Fellow Com- moner at Trinity College, and obtained a Fellowship at Trinity Hall. Naunton went to Scotlan... ...its antiquity; though others think it to have been named Elbegate. Several people believe that there were formerly two gates (besides that to the brid... ... thy kingdom shall be translated to another, whose manner and language the people under thee knoweth not. Nor shall thy sin be done away till after lo... ... In this city he brought about, by his own industry, the establishing of a College of Physicians, of which he was elected the first president. He was ... ...nn. In these colleges numbers of young nobility, gentry, and oth- ers, are educated, and chiefly in the study of physic, for very few apply themselves... ...vy Counsellor to Henry VIII., Ed- ward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth, Kings and Queens of England. Of Prince Edward, Duke of Aquitaine and Cornwall, and Ea...

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...son is not, I am sorry to say, unneeded. Mere morality, or the substitution of custom for conscience was once accounted a shameful and cynical thing: people talked of right and wrong, of honor and dishonor, of sin and grace, of salvation and damnation, not of morality and immorality. The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word teleph...

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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... ...ton Whose patience, fidelity, and hard work have gone far to make the work at Tuskegee successful. Preface T his volume is the outgrowth of a series o... ...missionary parents, earned enough money to pay his expenses at an American college. Equipped with this small sum and the earnestness that the under- t... ...um and the earnestness that the under- taking implied, he came to Williams College when Dr. Mark Hopkins was president. Williams College had many good... ...had never before heard them sung by a thousand voices nor by the voices of educated Negroes. I had asso- ciated them with the Negro of the past, not w... ...is to change the whole economic basis of life and the whole character of a people. The plan itself is not a new one. It was worked out at Hampton Inst... ...e period, he was necessar- 8 UP FROM SLAVERY ily misunderstood by his own people as well as by the whites, and where he had to adjust it at every ste... ...expressed the wish that she might be permitted to live to see her children educated and started out in the world. In a very short time after the death... ...meant for white people, not for my race. I had always regarded Europe, and London, and Paris, much as I regarded heaven. And now could it be that I wa...

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...o o oy y y y y A P A P A P A P A Penn S enn S enn S enn S enn St t t t tat at at at ate e e e e Electr Electr Electr Electr Electronic Classics onic C... ...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... ...was gradually filling. The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle... ... civil service, as he had only just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his first appearance in society. Anna Pavlovna greet... ...en he passed to an- other group whose center was the abbe. Pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at Anna Pavlovna’s was the first he had... ...d he stood waiting for an op- portunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. CHAPTER III ANNA PA VLOVNA’S RECEPTION was in ful... ... just effected the dangerous crossing of the Straits of Dover and captured London—could pronounce Pitt’s sentence, he saw a well-built and handsome yo... ...low diplomat, “that the Chancellor told him flatly that his appointment to London was a promotion and that he was so to regard it. Can you fancy the f... ...aced officer, quite a boy still and evi- dently only just out of the Cadet College, who was zeal- ously commanding the two guns entrusted to him, ad- ...

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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... ....................................................... 125 ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT...................................................................... ...er? Passages and lines of his poetry are stamped on the memory of all well-educated men. More pointed sayings of Pope are afloat than of any English p... ...ilfer cloth or bread: As meanly plunder as they bravely fought, Now save a people, and now save a groat. VER. 129, in the former editions— Ask why fro... ...exactest traits of body or of mind, We owe to models of an humble kind. If Queensberry to strip there’s no compelling, ’Tis from a handmaid we must ta... ...ut every lady would be queen for life. Yet mark the fate of a whole sex of queens! 38 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 Power all their e... ...ylock’s wife: But thousands die, without or this or that, Die, and endow a college, or a cat. 30 To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, T’ e... ...ENT GUMENT GUMENT . . . . . OF THE USE OF RICHES. The vanity of expense in people of wealth and quality. The abuse of the word ‘taste,’ ver. 13. That ... ...hese, even his cotemporaries do exceedingly differ. One saith, 134 he was educated at home; another, 135 that he was bred at St Omer’s by Jesuits; a ...

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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... ...ogy (1902) THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY Mrs Warren’s Profession has been performed at last, after a delay of only eight years; and I have once more shared wit... ...he triumphant amusement of startling all but the stron- gest-headed of the London theatre critics clean out of the practice of their profession. No au... ...s ought to be kicked. What a triumph for the actor, thus to reduce a jaded London journalist to the condition of the simple sailor in the Wapping gall... ...r wast- ing my energies on “pleasant plays” for the amusement of frivolous people, when I can build up such excellent stage sermons on their own work.... ...innocent court official like the Lord Chamberlain’s Examiner, much less of people who consciously profit by Mrs Warren’s profession, or who personally... ...n a tombstone without hindrance. If the General Medical Council, the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Incorporated Law Soci... ...d hearty grip. She is an attractive specimen of the sensible, able, highly-educated young middle-class Englishwoman. Age 22. Prompt, strong, confident... ...ow my mother. Since I was a child I have lived in England, at school or at college, or with people paid to take charge of me. I have been boarded out ...

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...admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent....

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...ected with myself. But I have thought that in an age in which education and its improvement are the subject of more, if not of profounder, study than at any former period of English history, it may be useful that there should be some record of an education which was unusual and remarkable, and which, whatever else it may have done, has proved how much more than is commonly...

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...gh Court of Parliament, or, wanting such access in a private condition, write that which they foresee may advance the public good; I suppose them, as at the beginning of no mean endeavour, not a little altered and moved inwardly in their minds: some with doubt of what will be the success, others with fear of what will be the censure; some with hope, others with confidence ...

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...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... ...rite that which they foresee may advance the public good; I suppose them, as at the beginning of no mean endeav our, not a little altered and moved i... ...uise, knew of learning little but what their twelve Tables, and the Pontific College with their augurs and flamens taught them in religion and law; so... ...all the contagion that for eign books can infuse will find a passage to the people far easier and shorter than an Indian voyage, th ough it could be... ...and Sorbonists, and how fast they could transfuse that cor ruption into the people, our experience is both late and sad. It is not forgot, since the ... ...sermons ready printed and piled up, on every text that is not difficult, our London trading St. Tho mas in his vestry, and add to boot St. Martin and... ...nd wisest men. Areopagitica Milton 49 John Milton: A Brief Bio, 1608 - 74 Educated at St. Paul s School and Christ s College, Cambridge. Early work... ...hn Milton: A Brief Bio, 1608 - 74 Educated at St. Paul s School and Christ s College, Cambridge. Early works included L Alegro, Il Penseroso, the...

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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... ...hem. Cover Design: Jim Manis; Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) 1518 94: Christ at the Sea of Galilee Copyright © 2003 The Pennsylvania State University Th... ...imackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and headlands appear... ...hich causeth their meadows to lie much covered with water, the which these people, together with their neighbor town, have several times essayed to cu... .... It is only white man’s poetry. Homer and Ossian even can never revive in London or Bos ton. And yet behold how these cities are refreshed by the me... ...se. Its education has always been liberal, and its implied wit can endow a college. The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by b... ...s a building of considerable size, erected by the students of Williamstown College, whose buildings might be seen by daylight gleaming far down in the... ...as good at least as one well endowed professorship. It were as well to be educated in the shadow of a mountain as in more classical shades. Some will... ... as if the full account were to follow. In what school was this fur trader educated? He seems to travel the immense snowy country with such pur pose ...

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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... ...iss has existed, from its origin, in precisely the same condition which it at present preserves. Of the date of this origin, however, I grieve that I ... ...cumference, and entirely surrounded by gentle hills, over whose summit the people have never yet ventured to pass. For this they assign the very good ... ...e fond of their sauer-kraut, but then they were proud of their clocks. All people who hold sinecure offices are held in more or less respect, and as t... ...l, talked a great deal. I soon found that nearly all the company were well educated; and my host was a world of good-humored anecdote in himself. He s... ... Four I remember the buzz of curiosity which his advent excited within the college precincts on the night of the twenty-fifth of June. I remember stil... ...guished ability the last edition of “South on the Bones.” He went early to college and studied pneumatics. He then came home, talked eternally, and pl... ... run regular trips (fare either way only twenty pounds sterling) be- tween London and Timbuctoo. And who shall calculate the immense influence upon so... ... Vienna, and other continen- tal cities. In 1783 and 1784, it was taken to London by Mr. Maelzel. Of late years it has visited the principal towns in ...

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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 Penn- sylvania State University nor Jim... ...eedom of style gives the appear- ance of health? A tragic episode. I cite, at random, “Mademoiselle Fifi,” “La Petite Roque,” “Inutile Beaute,” “Le Ma... ...lly exact with the half-civilization of our day. By that I mean the poorly educated individual who has rubbed against knowledge enough to justify a ce... ...uence of his honesty and partly of mental despair. He never accepted other people’s views on the questions of life. He looked into such prob- lems for... ... officers laughed among themselves at that inoffensive courage, and as the people in the whole country round showed them- selves obliging and complian... ...ot.” “Des Barrets.” I was stupefied. It was Count Jean des Barrets, my old college chum. I seized him by the hand, so dumfounded that I could find not... ...ut you have not always been like that?” “Pardon me, sir; ever since I left college.” “It is not a proper life to lead, my dear sir; it is simply horri... ...the Tuileries and the Palais Royal at the same time; sometimes she went to London for a short time, or hurried off to Italy to watch the Hungarian exi... ...sel, and about his final arrival, by way of Yokohama and San Francisco, in London, whence he was directing all the operations of Nihilism. “ ‘You see,...

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...e and without any charge 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... ... that protection which you several years since promised it. It is not that I think any name, how great soever, set at the beginning of a book, will be... ...edge of this maxim, “That it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be?” And a great part of illiterate people and savages pass many years,... ...innate, they must needs exert themselves with most force and vigour. For children, idiots, savages, and illiterate people, being of all others the lea... ... not because it is natural; nor do children do it where they are not so taught; but because, having been always so educated, and having no remembrance... ...d not exceeded those brutish ones of the Hottentots that inhabit there. And had the Virginia king Apochancana been educated in England, he had been pe... ...dred miles distant from it. Nobody can imagine that his soul can think or move a body at Ox- ford, whilst he is at London; and cannot but know, that, ... ...not but know, that, being united to his body, it constantly changes place all the whole journey between Oxford and London, as the coach or horse does ... ... knowledge, for the supply and increase of useful commodities, and saved more from the grave, than those who built colleges, workhouses, and hospi- ta...