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... found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned ourselves people of the educated class and some of us talk and lecture and write with considerable confidence....

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...eelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned ourselves people of the educated class and some of us talk and lecture and write with... ...and made what it could of them. And after that was over I let myself loose from limits of time and length altogether and have ex- panded these memoran... ...ty. And it is not only the claim of the specialist that I would repudiate. People are too apt to suppose that in order to dis- cuss morals a man must ... ...so and I think it may interest a certain number of simi- larly constituted people. I am not teaching. How far I suc- ceed or fail in that private and ... ...ICS HYSICS HYSICS AS A PRELIMINARY to that experiment in mutual confession from which this book arose, I found it necessary to consider and state cert... ...g at once difficult and fruitless, as an idle system of en- quiries remote from any human interest. I suppose this odd misconception arose from the vu... ...reet in front, the tailor’s garden, the butcher’s yard, the churchyard and Bromley church tower behind; and one was taken upon ex- peditions to fields...

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...land; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come i...

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... Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought hom... ...which were brought home by their T urkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but a... ... have lived to see practised since. But such things as these were gathered from the letters of merchants and others who corresponded abroad, and from ... ...l was kept very private. Hence it was that this rumour died off again, and people began to forget it as a thing we were very little concerned in, and ... ...rtality in the usual manner, thus – Plague, 2. Parishes infected, 1. The people showed a great concern at this, and began to be alarmed all over the... ...ther house, but in the same parish and in the same manner. This turned the people’s eyes pretty much towards that end of the town, and the weekly bill... ...isfy my curiosity in that point, I turned away over the fields from Bow to Bromley , and down to Blackwall to the stairs which are there for land- ing... ...ney they fetched a long compass, 115 Daniel Defoe and going to Poplar and Bromley, came into the great road just at Bow. Here the watch placed upon B...

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...blished in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the “Sausage” held the air. The con- temporary ... ...t hardly my idea of a lady—flying about in the air, and throwing gravel at people. It ain’t what I been accus- tomed to consider ladylike, whether or ... ...y continued to regard the swelling bulks with expressions that had changed from indifference to disapproval. Mr. T om Smallways was a green-grocer by ... ...of the coming of the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace was six miles away from Bun Hill, a great facade that glittered in the morning, and was a clea... ...id Mr. Tom Smallways, growing up among these marvels. But it kept on. Even from the first the green-grocer’s shop which he had set up in one of the sm... ...gravel from the wharf of the Bun Hill gas-works and drop it upon deserving people’s lawns and gardens. There were half a dozen reassuring years for T ... ...won’t find nothing but dogs and cats after the rats until you get round by Bromley and Beckenham, and there you find the Kentish men herd- ing swine. ...

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...N, at low water, Mr. Isbister, a young artist lodging at Boscastle, walked from that place to the pictur- esque cove of Pentargen, desiring to examine... ... part. Drugs. My nervous system... . They are all very well for the run of people. It’s hard to explain. I dare not take … sufficiently powerful drugs... ...ances, prompted him to keep the conver- sation going. “I’ve never suffered from sleeplessness myself,” he said in a tone of commonplace gossip, “but i... ...he said in a tone of commonplace gossip, “but in those cases I have known, people have usually found something—” “I dare make no experiments.” He spok... ...men were silent. “Exercise?” suggested Isbister diffidently, with a glance from his interlocutor’s face of wretchedness to the touring cos- tume he wo... ...and I jumped on to process. Those posters on the Cliffs at Dover are by my people.” “Good posters,” admitted the solicitor, “though I was sorry to see... ...il his stroke, and dropped too low. Just in time he saw the wind-wheels of Bromley hill rushing up to- wards him, and spun about and up as the aeropla...

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... know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and ... ...istance of her five daugh ters, could ask on the subject was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley. They atta... ...adies were somewhat more fortunate, for they had the advantage of ascertaining from an upper window, that he wore a blue coat and rode a black horse. ... ...is friend. Mr. Bingley had soon made himself acquainted with all the principal people in the room; he was lively and unreserved, danced every dance, w... ...der person.” “Dear Lizzy!” “Oh! you are a great deal too apt you know, to like people in general. You never see a fault in any body. All the world are... ...s, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank; and were therefore in every respect entitled to think w... ...have somebody who thinks of those things. Where shall you change horses? — Oh! Bromley, of course. — If you mention my name at the Bell, you will be a...

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... Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four... ...ce of her five daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley. They attacked... ...s were somewhat more fortunate, for they had the advantage of ascertaining from an upper window that he wore a blue coat, and rode a black horse. An i... ...Austen Mr. Bingley had soon made himself acquainted with all the principal people in the room; he was lively and unreserved, danced every dance, was a... ...2 Pride and Prejudice “Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. Y ou never see a fault in anybody. All the world are goo... ...ere in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well ... ...ve somebody who thinks of these things. Where shall you change horses? Oh! Bromley, of course. If you mention my name at the Bell, you will be attende...

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...ose wishing to make use of them. Cover design by Jim Manis; Art work: V. W. Bromley. Troilus and Cressida. Steel engraving, approximately 7 x 9.5 inc... ...p before it. 3 TROILUS AND CRESSIDA PROLOGUE In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of Greece The princes orgulous, their high blood chafed, Have ... ...nd instruments Of cruel war: sixty and nine, that wore Their crownets regal, from the Athenian bay Put forth toward Phrygia; and their vow is made To ... ...LUS: Because not there: this woman’s answer sorts, For womanish it is to be from thence. What news, AEneas, from the field to day? AENEAS: That Pari... ...fight indifferent well. I marvel where Troilus is. Hark! do you not hear the people cry ‘Troilus’? Helenus is a priest. CRESSIDA: What sneaking fello...

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...d Least stains of gore-guiltiness lie; To the hearts of the just her blood from the dust Not in vain for mercy will cry. Poor scape-goat of nations an... ...shed oak, the walls hung with leather, gilded in some places and depending from cornices, whose ornaments proved to an initiated eye, that this had on... ... could tell her of chances and conjectures; and when her boy began to fret from hun- ger and weariness, she had left her serving-man, Gervas, to watch... ...one Master Snigg, or Sniggius, for the children of the numerous colony who peopled the castle. Girls, as well as boys, were taught there, and thus Cis... ... go and spoil it all with folly about Papists, and Spaniards, and grown-up people’s non- sense that nobody cares about!” Cis had a rare power over bot... ...To History present to make them ashamed of their own placability. Grown-up people’s follies were avoided by mutual consent through the rest of the wal... ...l, for the Earls on one side, the Barons on the other. The Lord Chancellor Bromley, in his red and white gown, and Burghley, the Lord T reasurer, with...

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...f Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferred that he was born on the 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those t...

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...in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferr... ... 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those times, which obliges us to ... ... for children might be bap- tized, and were baptized, at various distances from their birth: yet, on the other hand, the 23d is as likely to have been... ...y is to be received as evi- dence of pauperism, nine tenths of the English people might occasionally be classed as paupers. With respect to his libera... ... their debts. And the prob- ability is, that Master Sadler acted like most people who, when they suppose a man to be going down in the world, feel the... ...nevitably have mixed chiefly with mechanics and humble tradesmen, for such people composed perhaps the total community . But had there even been a gen... ...he rescue of her darling. Supposing, therefore, as we do suppose, that Mr. Bromley’s school in London was the scene of his disgrace, it would appear o... ... to say, simply explaining the general tenor of his lordship’s behavior at Bromley, and yet, under this trivial task, though supported by the enthusia... ...y the mean avenger of a childish insult by a bestial punishment, was a Mr. Bromley, one of James II.’s Popish apostates; whilst the particular stateme...

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...ted, together with Sir Robert Naunton’s “Fragmenta Regalia,” in the volume from which they are here reprinted, with notes by the translator and the ed... ...beth sent thither as Ambassa- dor, and was despatched to Elizabeth’s court from Scotland as a trusty messenger. In 1596-7 he was in France, and cor- r... ... wholesomest soil in England. It is built on the river Thames, sixty miles from the sea, and was originally founded, as all historians agree, by Brutu... ...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... ...seventh, not without suspicion of poison. Mary was proclaimed queen by the people on the 19th of July, and died in November, 1558, and is buried in so... ... ork. Frances, Countess of Sussex, of the ancient family of Sidney. Thomas Bromley, Chancellor to Queen Elizabeth. The Earl of Bridgewater,* Lord Dawb...

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...of growing enlightenment and happy compan- ionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917. INTRODU... ...ect and setting are so closely allied that each borrows charm and emphasis from the other. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor w... ...ther. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor would fade from the church of St. Clement Danes, from the Mitre, from Fleet Street, th... ..., such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the number, range, and variety of people who at one time or another had been in some degree personally relate... ...godchild Jane Langton. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I love the acquain- tance of young people, . . . young men have more virtue than old men; they have more gen- ... ... into a spacious and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third dow... ... Life of Johnson He deposited the remains of Mrs. Johnson in the church of Bromley, in Kent, to which he was probably led by the residence of his frie... ... for her all the tenderness of affection. ‘TO THE REVEREND MR. BAGSHAW, AT BROMLEY. ‘SIR,—Perhaps you may remember, that in the year 1753, you committ... ...nson office. When it is done, if I have strength re- maining, I will visit Bromley once again, and pay you part of the respect to which you have a rig...

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.................................... ...................... 190 A HUMANE WORD FROM SATAN ................................................................... ......................................................... ...... 210 EXTRACTS FROM ADAM’S DIARY ............................................................ .......................... ...................................... 231 Extract from Adam’s Diary ............................................................ ...bought another acre or two and sold the most of it at a profit to pleasant people who were willing to build, and would be good neighbors and furnish a... ...llars!” All day long the music of those inspiring words sang through those people’s heads. From his marriage day forth, Aleck’s grip had been upon the... ...uld you wanting to talk in that dreadful way? How would you like to have people talk so about you, and you not cold yet?” “Not likely to be, for o... ...ingle copy of the Ledger which lies on the Memo randa editorial table): Bromley.—On the 29th inst., of consumption, Philip Bromley, in the 50th yea...

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... Roy, of having some scien- tific person on board, accompanied by an offer from him of giving up part of his own accommodations, that I volunteered my... ...o him; and to add that, during the five years we were together, I received from him the most cordial friendship and steady as- sistance. Both to Capta... ...ollected, and I trust that many others will here- after follow. The plants from the southern parts of America will be given by Dr. J. Hooker, in his g... ...rendered me every assis- tance which the kindest friend could offer. DOWN, BROMLEY, KENT, June 9, 1845 THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE CHAPTER I ST. JAGO — C... ...ar water. It happened to be a grand feast-day, and the village was full of people. On our return we overtook a party of about twenty young black girls... ...st falls in such quantities as to dirty every- thing on board, and to hurt people’s eyes; vessels even have run on shore owing to the obscurity of the... ...his day I found a specimen of a curious fungus, called Hymenophallus. Most people know the English Phallus, which in autumn taints the air with its od...

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...ss progress or proficience in both.’ Bacon: Advancement of Learning. Down, Bromley, Kent, October 1st, 1859. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natu... ...tinguishing between Varieties and Species — Origin of Domestic Variet- ies from one or more Species — Domestic Pigeons, their Differences and Origin —... ... Competition universal 5 Charles Darwin — Effects of climate — Protection from the number of individuals — Complex relations of all animals and plant... ...ection, through Divergence of Character and Extinction, on the descendants from a common par- ent — Explains the Grouping of all organic beings. Chapt... ...eons have been watched, and tended with the utmost care, and loved by many people. They have been domesticated for thousands of years in several quart... ...to the sheep of parts of Yorkshire, that ‘as they generally belong to poor people, and are mostly in small lots, they never can be improved.’ On the o... ...fficulty in pair- ing them; in donkeys, from only a few being kept by poor people, and little attention paid to their breed- ing; in peacocks, from no...

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...o not know that the Duchess or the Duke had enjoyed it much; but the young people had seen something of foreign courts and much of foreign scenery, an... ...ed much among the trumpets, and yet they longed to return. He told himself from day to day, that though he had been banished from the House of Commons... ... dead. Had the heavens fallen and mixed themselves with the earth, had the people of London risen in rebellion with French ideas of equality, had the ... ...rt to him. But now it was as though all outside appliances were taken away from him. There was no one of whom he could ask a question. For it may be s... ...r himself a single intimate friend—except that one who had now passed away from him. To her he had been able to say what he thought, even though she w... ...y all met,—the father, the three children, and Mrs Finn. How far the young people among themselves had been able to throw off something of the gloom o... ...found our foxes without drawing them,’ said the master. ‘We chopped one at Bromley’s, ’ said Mr Spooner. ‘I went there. ’ ‘Then you ought to have know...

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... found they had struck on a good thing, so, down the valleys of the brooks from Selby and Nuttall, new mines were sunk, until soon there were six pits... ... and Nuttall, new mines were sunk, until soon there were six pits working. From Nuttall, high up on the sandstone among the woods, the railway ran, pa... ..., down to Spinney Park, then on to Minton, a large mine among corn-fields; from Minton across the farmlands of the valleyside to Bunker’s Hill, branch... ...at was so well built and that looked so nice, were quite unsavoury because people must live in the kitchen, and the kitchens opened on to that nasty a... ...cs with some educated man. This she did not often enjoy. So she always had people tell her about themselves, finding her pleasure so. In her person sh... ...to her, as good as gold. But she felt very lonely, miles away from her own people. She felt lonely with him now, and his presence only made it more in... ...aven’t! it is not true!” “What!” he cried, flashing round on her. “Once in Bromley, once in Beckenham, and once somewhere else.” “Nowhere else!” she s...