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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private world...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...hanges to its content, provided that both the author and the original URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned, that the contents of this ... ...ully, nightlong. Stones multiply their menace. There’s an old seadog from Dublin crumpled in a cell here, a grumbling bag: he claims he used to sail... ...nson, Raleigh, Spenser have had their days in jail; I have had mine—those county sties where pigs and dust ate my manuscripts and foetid odors ate m... ...ounds (shall I make it more?); in addition, I grant her my estate in Warr County—I like that place... To Joan—I leave my clothes. Why? To Elizabe... ... Executive Mansion May 22, 1863 I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were born in Virginia, of undistinguished fam... ...f some questions this evening: must civilization be influ- enced by greedy politicians, connivers, self-promoters, toadies? Is there such a thing as ... ...ith a nod or lifted hand. They are masters of military deception, just as politicians are masters of ambiguity. The colonels have their lingo; the m...

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...e met the call of that particular transient occasion in which they arose; and others, it may be thought on review, might as well have been suppressed from the very first....

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..............

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... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ...M INTRODUCED TO THE WARFARE OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL.......... 131 CHAPTER VIII: DUBLIN ....................................................................... ...ey AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRACT FR ... ...and mentioned that in Devonshire, or at least on the western coast of that county, near Ilfracombe, upon any excessive take of herrings, beyond what t... ...t? Why, it’s like Charing Cross—always the least secret place in the whole county.” So one might fancy; since the summit of a mountain, like Plinlimmo... ...she and her pupil were go- ing on a visit to an old Catholic family in the county of Durham, (the family of Mr. Swinburne, who was known advantageousl... ...y. Soon after this we left Eton for Ireland. Our first destina- tion being Dublin, of course we went by Holyhead. The route at that time, from Souther... ...mountains for the winter. Rigor, therefore, there was; for the most humane politicians, erroneously, as one must believe, fancied it necessary for the...

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...mely, 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 participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without a...

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...ntents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES..............................................................................................

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........................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ........................ ...pers MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FR FR FR FR FROM OM OM OM OM THE A THE A THE A THE A THE AUTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, U... ... difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous de- pression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in hav... ...iot carrying Lord Westport, myself, and the dean, on our return journey to Dublin, were a pair utterly ruined by a certain under-postilion, named Mora... ...24 Memorials, and Other Papers astra; unfortunately, it was not the way to Dublin. Conse- quently, on every day of our journey—and the days were ten—n... ...parts so grotesque, wilder also by much in Connaught than in Lord Massey’s county of Limerick; whilst he (with- out affecting any delight in the hunti... ...s. Lord Carbery was a thorough fox-hunter. The fox-hunting of the adjacent county of Leicestershire was not then what it is now. The state of the land... ...rtance of this great house rested exclusively upon its connection with the county of Chester. In this connection it was that the young Vis- count Belg... ... all things despised dreaming fainéans (such, for instance, as we find the politicians, or even the conspirators, of Italy, Spain, and Germany, whose ...

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...ve no possible interest; they will have come at these questions themselves from different angles and they will have long since got to their own conclu... ... of Mr. Fayle’s “Great Settle- ment” (1915), a frankly sceptical treatment from the British Imperialist point of view, on the other. An illuminating d... ...r Walter Phillimore’s “Three Centuries of Treaties.” Two ex- cellent books from America, that chance to be on my table, are Mr. Goldsmith’s “League to... ...by Olsen’s of Christiania. There is an active League of Nations Society in Dublin, as well as the London and Washington ones, pub- lishing pamphlets a... ...d little strength in hole- and-corner bargainings between the officials or politicians who happen to be at the head of this or that nation for the tim... ...of thing will not do now. This Peace Con- gress is too big a job for party politicians and society and county families. The bulk of British opinion ca... ...is Peace Con- gress is too big a job for party politicians and society and county families. The bulk of British opinion cannot go on being represented... ...a, Egypt, and suchlike key possessions. It seemed to excite several of our politicians extremely . I read over the German Chancellor’s speech very car... ...British Empire, in the midst of the stress of the great war, has set up in Dublin a Convention of Irishmen of all opin- ions with the fullest powers o...

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...N ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF Book One by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...ces made in his Majesty’s cause by the Esmond family, lies in Westmoreland county, between the rivers Potomac and Rappahannock, and was once as great ... ...ll the produce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esm... ...d here in our Republic, or at home in the always beloved mother coun- try, from which our late quarrel hath separated us, may surely be proud to be de... ... title, and presently after to take possession of his house of Castlewood, county Hants, in the year 1691, almost the only tenant of the place besides... ... was performed in the most quiet manner), got her no favor at first in the county or village. By far the greater part of the estate of Castlewood had ... ... about his own father’s death, which had happened when Dick was a child at Dublin, not quite five years of age. “That was the first sensation of grief... ... them into revolt and enmity against the natural law of love. I have heard politicians and coffee-house wiseacres talking over the newspaper, and rail...

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.... He suffered no doubt;—but with Spartan consistency he so hid his trouble from the world that no one knew that he suffered. Those with whom he lived,... ... could be marked with the finger of the observer, did he glaringly abstain from any statement which at the moment might be natural. He never hesitated... ...om- ach, his stable, and his debts, could not with any amount of care keep from us the fact that his father was an attorney’s clerk, and made his firs... ... been got up with con- siderable enthusiasm, and for a while certain fiery politicians had believed that through the instrumentality of this insti- tu... ... doubted that the party of Progress had become slack, and that the Liberal politicians of the country, although a special new club had been opened for... ...ssion not only of his intellects but of his bodily power, showing, as many politicians do show, that the cares of the nation may sit upon a man’s shou... ...y. That there would soon come causes of hot blood,—the English Church, the county suffrage, the in- come tax, and further education questions,—all men... ...t say imperative. It was quite usual for a deputation to have four or five County members among the body, all Brew- ers; and the average wealth of a d... ...n height, and had the character of being one of the best horse- men in the county. He was one of the most popular men in Hertfordshire, and at Longbar...

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...nce; for we are all of us distinctly marked to get back what we give, even from the thing named inanimate nature. The ‘Leaves from the Diary of Henry ... ...arm- ers—returning to their beds over ferny commons under bright moonlight from a neighbour’s harvest-home, eased their bub- bling breasts with a read... ...te of the selecter missionary lieutenants of Satan. We pray to be defended from her cleverness: she flashes bits of speech that catch men in their ung... ...ilent or discourse humorously. The residence of Sir Lukin Dunstane, in the county of Surrey, inherited by him during his recent term of Indian service... ...her ladyship that he was half a Sussex man, though not exactly born in the county; his parents had removed to Sussex after the great event; and the Do... ...ing from deliberation, the old man said: ‘Ah’m a Hampshireman.’ ‘A capital county!’ ‘Heigh!’ The old man heaved his chest. ‘Once!’ ‘Why, what has happ... ...ebel. I was once a dancing and singing girl: You remember the night of the Dublin Ball. A Channel sea in uproar, stirred by witches, flows between.’ ‘... ...lan- guage. Otherwise we have it coarse—anything but a repro- duction. You politicians despise the little distinctions “twixt tweedledum and tweedlede... ...because of the known failure of her other adorers. He in the front rank of politicians attracted her with the lustre of his ambition; she him with her...

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...ty’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; portrait of Byron from a painting by Thomas Philips, 1814 Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania... ...sion (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version Of his new system to perplex the sages; ‘T i... ... Don Juan “Dedication” 3 You — Gentlemen! by dint of long seclusion From better company, have kept your own At Keswick, and, through still ... ... etiquette In kingly chambers or imperial halls, As also at the race and county balls. He stood like Atlas, with a world of words About his ... ...of that; and if we don’t, ‘T will be because our notion is not high Of politicians and their double front, Who live by lies, yet dare not bold... ... remarried (this is An evolution oft performed of late). Where are the Dublin shouts—and London hisses? Where are the Grenvilles? Turn’d as us... ... have their claret and Madeira To irrigate the dryness of decline; And county meetings, and the parliament, And debt, and what not, for their ... ...fought their fox hunt o’er again, And then retreated soberly—at ten. The politicians, in a nook apart, Discuss’d the world, and settled all th... ... great electioneerer, Burrowing for boroughs like a rat or rabbit; But county contests cost him rather dearer, Because the neighbouring Scot...

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... to distinguish what is true and genuine in this historic kind of writing, from what is false and counterfeit. Indeed, it seems likely that some such ... ...h two or three authors have lately procured for their works of this nature from the public, will probably serve as an encouragement to many others to... ...r was principally induced to prefix Greek and Latin mottos to every paper, from the same consideration of guarding against the pursuit of those scribb... ...ntleman, who had the honour to be in the commis sion of the peace for the county of Worcester. Of which Mr. Western was no sooner informed than he of... ...ean when he was at home; for he was frequently absent a month at a time at Dublin, and once made a journey of two months to London: in all which journ... ...ll padlocks, opened my door, and set me at liberty. “I now made haste to Dublin, where I immediately procurred a passage to England; and was proceed... ... was sorry I have found the girl.” “Brother,” answered she, “the deepest politicians, who see to the bottom, discover often a very different aspect ...

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...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...- ness of her body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-bath. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed;... ...no park to rest the eyes. And since not Gopher Prairie but Wakamin was the county- seat, there was no court-house with its grounds. She glanced throug... ...Anoka.” “He did not!” roared Mr. Stowbody. “He settled first in Blue Earth County, him and his father!” (“What’s the point at issue?” Carol whispered ... ... mostly it’s be- cause I mean something. I’m about the only man in Johnson County that remembers the joker in the Declaration of Inde- pendence about ... ...pleasurable activities, instead of letting them fall into the hands of the politicians.” “I don’t suppose it will take more than thirty or forty years... ...ding was good enough for us when we were kids! I hate these would-be women politicians, don’t you?” IV The first week of March had given promise of sp... ...always deferring hope till the next generation. We’re tired of hearing the politicians and priests and cautious reform- ers (and the husbands!) coax u...

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...h applied by some to the famous Mademoiselle Georges, is easily recognized from Couture’s drawing. Beatrix, Conti, and Claude Vignon are sketches of t... ...re ancient times in the towns of Brittany. Most of these towns have fallen from states of splendor never men- tioned by historians, who are always mor... ...nd. Many of these towns were once the capitals of a little feudal State,—a county or duchy conquered by the crown or divided among many heirs, if the ... ...crown or divided among many heirs, if the male line failed. Disinher- ited from active life, these heads became arms; and arms de- prived of nourishme... ...simply as if he had merely passed a sea- son at Nantes. During his stay in Dublin the old Breton, despite his fifty years, had fallen in love with a c... ...all passions have their Jesuitism, the chevalier and the baron, those wily politicians, had found a means of eluding this charter. When all the player...

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...elderly distinguished people successful, that she scarcely needed any help from her daughter, provided that the tiresome business of teacups and bread... ...still; and the faces of the elderly people were mellowed, at some distance from each other, and had a bloom on them owing to the fact that the air in ... ...e- ing much about the same age and both under thirty, they were prohibited from the use of a great many convenient phrases which launch conversation i... ...not England. In those days we thought an Indian Judgeship about equal to a county-court judgeship at home. His Honor—a pretty title, but still, not at... ...nd,” Ralph replied. They were all gratified by this praise of their native county; and Mary now had the pleasure of hearing these short questions and ... ... passengers were approaching Lincoln mean- while by other roads on foot. A county town draws the inhabitants of all vicarages, farms, country houses, ... ...say that,” said Cassandra, almost severely. “I agree. I mean that I detest politicians,” he corrected himself quickly. “You see, I believe Cassandra i... ...eiving his full atten- tion, and yet the affairs of the late John Leake of Dublin were sufficiently confused to need all the care that a solicitor cou...

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..., darling?” she said. Her voice was so weak that it seemed to come already from a great distance. The child did not answer, but smiled comfortably. He... ...him, poor child?” The monthly nurse tried to quiet her , and pres- ently , from exhaustion, the crying ceased. The doctor walked to a table on the oth... ... body of a still-born child. He lifted the towel and looked. He was hidden from the bed by a screen, but the woman guessed what he was doing. “ Was it... ...the agrarian troubles in Ireland. But all they knew about Ireland was that Dublin was on the Liffey . So I wondered if they’d ever heard of General Go... ... up farm- ing: the local paper constantly reported the cases he had in the county court against this one and that, labourers he would not pay their wa... ... wives who dined with us, and the literary stock- brokers, and the budding politicians; oh, she was a charming woman. She made me go to church in a si... ...made Cronshaw’s conversation so captivating. Athelny was very proud of the county family to which he belonged; he showed Philip photographs of an Eliz... ...h Philip; and he found him- self an object of interest because his family, county people in a very good position, had cut him off with a shilling beca...

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...e Thackeray. He received the main part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. To judge by quotations and allusions, his favourite of the classics was Horace, the chosen of the eighteenth century, and generally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. ...

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...6 LESLIE STEPHEN?1904 ............................................................................................................. 13 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14...

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...........................................................1 3 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ................................................ ..., as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. T o judge by quotations and allusio... ... generally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. His voyage from India gave him sight of Napoleon on the rocky island. In his young man... ...med a basis for the ap- peasement of the troubled land. The institution of county boards, the abolition of the detested Castle, something like the est... ... detested Castle, something like the establishment of a Royal residence in Dublin, would have begun the work well. Materially and sentimentally, they ... ...p a vote into the ballot-box. As for the prominent 10 Miscellaneous Prose politicians who have displaced their rivals partly on the strength of an im... ...Arnold is correct in his apprehen- sions of the dangers we may fear from a Dublin House of Commons. The declarations and novel or ultra theories might...

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...HAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................

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............................................................. 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI............................................... ............................................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON .................................................... ...en the North and South; but I have not allowed that disruption to deter me from an object which, if it were delayed, might probably never be carried o... ...s the component parts of one nation. Such, I take it, is the belief of all politicians in Europe, and of many of those who live across the water. But ... ...t that treaties must necessarily be null and void through the falseness of politicians. 26 North America V ol. 1 “And what will England do for cotton... ...ake improvement by choosing for them- selves new ways. If so, the American politicians have not been the first in the world who have thought that any ... ...e can be said for Osgoode Hall, whereas the exterior of the Four Courts in Dublin is very fine; but as an interior, the temple of Themis at Toronto be... ... temple of Themis at Toronto beats hol- low that which the goddess owns in Dublin. In Dublin the courts themselves are shabby, and the space under the... ...en days, who has lived in the State for a year, and for four months in the county in which he votes. He can vote for all “officers that now are, 246 ...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, f...

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.................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III..........................................38...

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..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ...t Pipes of the Organ.........................................121 Facing West from California’s Shores ................................................... ...m’d up ready to start in the ports of Australia, Wait at Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Marseilles, Lisbon, Naples, Hamburg, Bremen, Bordeaux, the Hague,... ...the good old cause in it? Has it not dangled long at the heels of the poets, politicians, literats, of enemies’ lands? Does it not assume that what is... ...mortal. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 409 THE O X T AMER In a far away northern county in the placid pastoral region, Lives my farmer friend, the theme o... ...friend, Whom a hundred oxen love there in his life on farms, In the northern county far, in the placid pastoral region. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 410 ... ... I should need to name, O Western World, your po 526 In a far away northern county in the placid pastor 410 In a little house keep I pictures suspen...

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...neral theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and political questions in a new way and from a new starting-point....

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... an attempt to deal with social and politi- cal questions in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and political world as ... ...opolitan. In the latter peri- odical they were, for the most part, printed from uncorrected proofs set up from an early version. This periodical publi... ...e in the final revision. These papers have indeed been honoured by letters from men and women of almost every profession, and by a really very conside... ... where it is lowest, in the year 1900, in Dorsetshire, a reason- ably good county, and in Lancashire, the worst in England, for the same year. Each en... ...on of labour, and, as the able lady who writes as “L’amie Inconnue” in the County Gentleman has pointed out in a very helpful criticism of the origina... ...ys watching his school matches, and thumbs and muddles over the records of county cricket to an amazing extent. But these things are indeed only sympt... ...erning bodies with power to “co-opt.” Of course they “co-opt” their fellow politicians, rejected candi- dates, and so on. Among other expedients that ... ... appointment of officials by noble patrons on the one hand, and of rule by politicians exercising patronage on the other, there is added in the Britis... ...ron- age; it is one of the chief factors in the cleanhandedness of British politicians, and it is continually importing fresh young men from outside t...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfi...

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...ING?SAN DIEGO AGAIN, 67 -- CHAPTER XIX ? THE SANDWICH -- ISLANDERS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS, 87 -- CHAPTER XXII ? LIFE ON SHORE?THE ALERT, 90 -- CHAPTER XXIII ? NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES?MY WATCHMATE, 94 -- CHAPTER XXIV ? SAN DIEGO AGAI...

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...ING—WOOD CUTTING— RATTLE SNAKES—NEW COMERS . . 82 CHAPTER XX — LEISURE—NEWS FROM HOME—’’BURNING THE WATER’’ . . . . . . . 87 CHAPTER XXI — CALIFORN... ...VIII — AN OLD FRIEND—A VICTIM—CALIFORNIA . . . . . . . . . 128 RANGERS—NEWS FROM HOME—LAST LOOKS CHAPTER XXIX — LOADING FOR HOME—A SURPRISE—LAST OF ... ...3 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER XXXVI — SOUNDINGS—SIGHTS FROM HOME—BOSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 HARBOR—LEAVING THE SHIP -... ...four hours. It was all about himself, and the Peruvian government, and the Dublin frigate, and Lord James Townshend, and President Jackson, and th... ...e was no shipmate. He had been a petty officer on board the British frigate Dublin, Capt. Lord James Townshend, and had great ideas of his own impo... ...heir charge, and, for the most part, men of desperate fortunes—broken down politicians and soldiers—whose only object is to retrieve their conditio... ...on Pablo de la Guerra, a Senator in the State Legislature for Santa Barbara County. The points in the country, too, he noticed, as he passed the... ...f the Merced, where so many fatal fights are had. Thence I went to Mariposa County, and Colonel Fremont’s mines, and made an interesting visit to ‘‘...

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.... A Modest Proposal FOR PREVENTING THE CHILDREN OF POOR PEOPLE IN IRELAND FROM BEING A BURDEN TO THEIR PARENTS OR COUNTRY, AND FOR MAKING THEM BENEFI... ... statue set up for a preserver of the nation. But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only for the children of professed beggars; ... ...em grossly mistaken in their computation. It is true, a child just dropped from its dam may be supported by her milk for a solar year, with little oth... ...as probationers, as I have been informed by a principal gentle- man in the county of Cavan, who protested to me that he never knew above one or two in... ... gloves for ladies, and summer boots for fine gentlemen. As to our city of Dublin, shanbles [slaugh terhouses] may be appointed for this pur- pose in... ...en years of age nor under twelve, so great a number of both sexes in every county being now ready to starve for want of work and service; and these to... ... at merry meetings, particularly weddings and christenings, I compute that Dublin would take off annually about twenty thousand carcasses, and the res... ...s, with their wives and children who are beggars in effect; I desire those politicians who dis- like my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attemp...

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...thing for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not appare... ...he aid of my eldest son, F . D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given. The comments are my own, an... ... occupied by descendants of his to this day. I am of the eighth generation from Mathew Grant, and sev- enth from Samuel. Mathew Grant’s first wife die... ...d was a widower at the close. Soon after this he emigrated to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and settled near the town of Greensburg in that count... ...r set up for himself in business, establishing a tan- nery at Ravenna, the county seat of Portage County. In a few years he removed from Ravenna, and ... ...d from Ravenna, and set up the same busi- ness at Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio. During the minority of my father, the West afforded but poor ... ...t of this incident since when I have heard the noise of a few disappointed politicians who had deserted their associates. There are always more of the... ...ection of the State. It embraced the sons of farmers, lawyers, physicians, politicians, merchants, bankers and ministers, and some men of ma- turer ye... ...st Richmond and Lee, the credit would be given to them for the capture, by politicians and non-combatants from the section of country which those troo...

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...entertaining than the report of this Com- mittee. Its full title is REPORT FROM THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE HOUSE OF COMM... ...se. The number of the Bluebook is 214. How interesting it is may be judged from the fact that it contains verbatim reports of long and animated interv... ...turb the ex- isting state of things. How this was effected may be gathered from the recommendations finally agreed on, which are as follows. 1. The dr... ...ts on which they have to sit in judgment and, when their members are party politicians, by the votes at the back of those inter- ests; but this unfort... ...ude Indians from them, and to suppress the play completely in Calcutta and Dublin; for if the assassin of Caesar was a hero, why not the assassins of ... ... the public. It was this practical impossibility that prevented the London County Council from attempting to apply a censorship of the Lord Chamberlai... ...s of a jury what they are debarred from get- ting from the prejudices of a County Council or City Corporation. Moral Reform Societies, “Purity” Soci- ... ...eretical or immoral. D. The licensing area shall be no less than that of a County Council or City Corporation, which shall not delegate its licensing ... ...ven make Europe a cockpit and Asia a shambles: no matter: if preachers and politicians, statesmen and soldiers, may do these things—if it is right tha...

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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... ...mended him to Earl Gower, who endeavoured to procure for him a degree from Dublin. It was, perhaps, no small disappointment to Johnson that this respe... ...native of Ireland, and a contemporary with Mr. Burke at Trinity Col- lege, Dublin, but did not then give much prom- ise of future celebrity. He, howev... ...ly, and I do not watch myself, they will find me out to be of a particular county. In the same man- ner, Dunning may be found out to be a Devonshire m... ...great estate, I would drive all the rascals whom I did not like out of the county at an election.’ We then walked to the Pantheon. The first view of i... ...he was so exuberant a talker at publick meeting, that the gentlemen of his county were afraid of him. No business could be done for his declamation.’ ... ... to a gentleman from that country, on the subject of an union which artful Politicians have often had in view—’Do not make an union with us, Sir. We s...

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... can studiously travel through sheets of leaves now ca- pable of a stretch from the Lizard to the last few poor pul- monary snips and shreds of league... ...ulness, and that prolongation of the vasty and the noisy, out of which, as from an undrained fen, steams the malady of sameness, our modern malady. We... ...nd aft. We were the same, and animals into the bargain. That is all we got from Science. Art is the specific. We have little to learn of apes, and the... ...numerous when the fifth head of the race was the hope of 8 The Egoist his county. A Patterne was in the Marines. The country and the chief of this fa... ...he was to hit the mark that rang the bell; and away her word went over the county: and had she been an unchari- table woman she could have ruled the c... ...d of caricature, so sharp was her touch. A grain of malice would have sent county faces and characters awry into the currency. She was wealthy and kin... ...e Irish or half Irishmen are my taste. If they’re not 335 George Meredith politicians, mind; I mean Irish gentlemen. I will never have another dinner... ...to the ocean. It’s an age since we encountered last, colonel: on board the Dublin boat, I recollect, and a night it was.” “I recollect that you set me...

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...ESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...ces made in his Majesty’s cause by the Esmond family, lies in Westmoreland county, between the rivers Potomac and Rappahannock, and was once as great ... ...ll the produce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esm... ...d here in our Republic, or at home in the always beloved mother coun- try, from which our late quarrel hath separated us, may surely be proud to be de... ... title, and presently after to take possession of his house of Castlewood, county Hants, in the year 1691, almost the only tenant of the place besides... ... was performed in the most quiet manner), got her no favor at first in the county or village. By far the greater part of the estate of Castlewood had ... ... about his own father’s death, which had happened when Dick was a child at Dublin, not quite five years of age. “That was the first sensation of grief... ... them into revolt and enmity against the natural law of love. I have heard politicians and coffee-house wiseacres talking over the newspaper, and rail... ... my Lord Duke of Marlborough’s courage the other day. He! that Teague from Dublin! because his Grace is not in favor, dares to say this of him; and he...

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...elong exclusively to Celtic nature, seeing that it had been drawn directly from a scion of one of those tribes. Young Patrick jumped from the train as... ...n-island brain of a youth whose manner of hating was to conjure her spirit from the air and let fly his own in pursuit of her. It has to be stated tha... ...taining Miss Adister’s Continental address; to gather what he could of her from her relatives, and then forthwith to proceed in search of her, that he... ...ompliment him by touching on his affairs. ‘A small one; not a quarter of a county,’ said Patrick. 9 George Meredith ‘Productive, sir?’ ‘’Tis a tramp ... ...erry. Stripped they were in all conscience.’ ‘You remind me of a fellow in Dublin who called on me for medical advice, and found he’d forgotten his pu... ...imaginable among comparative pygmies. But Rockney’s combat with his fellow-politicians of the Press partook of the Swiftian against the Johnsonian in ...