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...My Bondage and My Freedom By Frederick Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Bondage and... ...tronic Classics Series Publication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...ctronic trans- mission, in any way. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim... ...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Frederick Douglas My Bondage and My Freedom By Frederick Douglas By a principle essen... ...t entered the House of Commons; like Pitt, too, he stood up a born orator. William Lloyd Garrison, who was happily present, writes thus of Mr. Douglas... ...pated in it. In the society, moreover, of Wendell Phillips, Edmund Quincy, William Lloyd Garri- son, and other men of earnest faith and refined cultur... ...itten a “pass,” at the age when Miller’s style was already formed. I asked William Whipper, of Pennsylvania, the gentleman alluded to above, whether h... ...through Aunt Katy’s hands, it was made more slender still, for some of us. William, Phil and Jerry were her children, and it is not to accuse her too ... ...D BARNEY—HIS PROFESSION—WHIPPING—HU- MILIATING SPECTACLE—CASE EXCEPTIONAL— WILLIAM WILKS—SUPPOSED SON OF COL. LLOYD—CURIOUS INCIDENT—SLAVES PREFER RIC...

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...MY ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY and RECONSTRUCTION By Frederick Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Escape from... ...Series Publication My Escape from Slavery and Reconstruction by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...ission, in any way. My Escape from Slavery and Reconstruction by Frederick Douglas, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim... ...NSTRUCTION ..................... 16 4 MY ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY By Frederick Douglas First printed in The Cnetury Illustrated Magazine, November 1881. I... ...th, if need be, in pursuit of freedom, My Escape From Slavery 5 Frederick Douglas were essential features in the undertaking. My success was due to a... ...red of a colored man how I could get on to New York. He directed me to the William-street depot, and thither I went, taking the train that night. I re... ... “Allender’s Jake,” but in New Y ork he wore the more respectable name of “William Dixon.” Jake, in law, was the property of Doctor Allender, and Toll... ... two Quaker gentlemen who were about to take passage on the stage,—Friends William C. Taber and Joseph Ricketson,—who at once discerned our true situa...

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Excerpt: Poems, in Two Volumes, Volume Two by William Wordsworth.

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...POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, AUTHOR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS . A Penn State Electroni... ...ronic Classics Series Publication Poems, in T wo Volumes, Volume T wo by William Wordsworth is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...ectronic transmission, in any way. Poems, in T wo Volumes, Volume T wo by William Wordsworth , the Pennsylvania State University, Elec tronic Class... .....................................64 5 POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES, VOL. II. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, AUTHOR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS . Posterius graviore... ...ET SONNET SONNET SONNET SONNET (Composed at —— Castle.) Degenerate Douglas! oh, the unworthy Lord! Whom mere despite of heart could so far p... ...tinateHilltoclimb; 42 D Dear Child of Nature, let them rail! 32 Degenerate Douglas! oh, the unworthy Lord! 15 F FromStirling Castle we had seen 17 H H...

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...niversity’s Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Senior Faculty Editor. William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 , the Pennsylvania State University,... ...ell Under the wrath of noble Hotspur’s sword, And that the king before the Douglas’ rage Stoop’d his anointed head as low as death. This have I rumor’... ...on, Prince Harry slain outright; and both the Blunts Kill’d by the hand of Douglas; young Prince John And Westmoreland and Stafford fled the field; An... ...t say, ‘Your son did thus and thus; Your brother thus: so fought the noble Douglas:’ Stopping my greedy ear with their bold deeds: But in the end, to ... ...w away this praise, Ending with ‘Brother, son, and all are dead.’ MORTON: Douglas is living, and your brother, yet; But, for my lord your son— NORTHU... ...ousel, cousin Shallow! SHALLOW: By yea and nay, sir, I dare say my cousin William is become a good scholar: he is at Oxford still, is he not? SILENCE... ...y, Davy, Davy, let me see, Davy; let me see, Davy; let me see: yea, marry, William cook, bid him come hither. Sir John, you shall not be excused. DAVY... ...l we sow the headland with wheat? SHALLOW: With red wheat, Davy. But for William cook: are there no young pigeons? DAVY: Yes, sir. Here is now the ...

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...The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Edited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, ... ...Classics Series Publication The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ic transmission, in any way. The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M., the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...Scott The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Edited with Notes By William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, ... ... of that exiled race? Can I not mountain maiden spy, But she must bear the Douglas eye? Can I not view a Highland brand, But it must match the Douglas... ...ust match the Douglas hand? Can I not frame a fevered dream, But still the Douglas is the theme? I’ll dream no more,— by manly mind Not even in sleep ... ... disobedient to my call, Wailed loud through Bothwell’s bannered hall. Ere Douglases, to ruin driven, Were exiled from their native heaven.— O! if yet... ... else dared give—ah! woe the day, That I such hated truth should say!— The Douglas, like a stricken deer, Disowned by every noble peer, Even the rude ... ...is all unstrung, Still, still it loves the Lowland tongue. ‘For O my sweet William was forester true, He stole poor Blanche’s heart away! His coat ...

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... IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK THREE by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...n the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book Three by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...n the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book Three by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ... IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK THREE by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and ... ...he publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Honorable William Bingham, Lord Ashburton. My Dear Lord, The writer of a book which c... ..., your kinswoman, I hope you will please to command any service that James Douglas can perform. I shall never be easy until I repay you a part of my o...

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...University s Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Senior Faculty Editor William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 , the Pennsylvania State University,... ...e University is an equal opportunity University. KING HENRY IV, PART I By William Shakespeare (written about 1597 1598) DRAMATIS PERSONAE KING HENRY ... ...RD SCROOP: Archbishop of York. (ARCHBISHOP OF YORK:) ARCHIBALD: Earl of Douglas. (DOUGLAS:) OWEN GLENDOWER : SIR RICHARD VERNON : (VERNON:) SIR J... ... seat of ours; And he hath brought us smooth and welcome news. The Earl of Douglas is discomfited: Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, Ba... ...prisoners, Hotspur took Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son To beaten Douglas; and the Earl of Athol, Of Murray, Angus, and Menteith: And is not ... ...ish prisoners. Deliver them up without their ransom straight, And make the Douglas’ son your only mean For powers in Scotland; which, for divers reas... ...will be suddenly, I’ll steal to Glendower and Lord Mortimer; Where you and Douglas and our powers at once, As I will fashion it, shall happily meet, T...

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...Y 10, 1858. .................................................................................................................. 12 IN REPLY TO SENATOR DOUGLAS ...................................................................................................................... 12 SPEECH AT SPRINGFIELD, JULY 17, 1858. ............................................................

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..................................................... 12 IN REPL Y TO SENATOR DOUGLAS ...................................................................... .............................................................. 48 LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS ...................................................................... ...ngs of Abraham Lincoln V olume Three of Seven Abraham Lincoln THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES I POLITICAL SPEECHES & DEBATES of LINCOLN WITH DOUGLAS In t... ...LINCOLN had been named as their candidate for United States Sena- tor. Mr. DOUGLAS was not present.] Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CON- VENTION:—... ... The several points of the Dred Scott decision, in connection with Senator Douglas’s “care not” policy, constitute the piece of machinery, in its pres... ...which are recognized at this day as leading Democrats: “Cook County,—E. B. Williams, Charles McDonell, Arno V oss, Thomas Hoyne, Isaac Cook.” I reckon... ...McHenry,—W. M. Jackson, Enos W. Smith, Neil Donnelly. La Salle,—John Hise, William Reddick.” William Reddick! another one of Judge Douglas’s friends t... ...sly adopted,—the first on motion of P . W . Platt, the second on motion of William M. Jackson: “Resolved, That this Convention is in favor of the Wilm...

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.......................................................................................................................... 55 CHAPTER VIII ENGLAND UNDER WILLIAM THE FIRST, THE NORMAN CONQUEROR..................................................................................................................... ............... 59 CHAPTER IX ENGLAND UNDER WILLIAM THE SECOND, CALL...

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.......................................... .... 55 CHAPTER VIII ENGLAND UNDER WILLIAM THE FIRST, THE NORMAN CON QUEROR..................................... ................................................. 59 CHAPTER IX ENGLAND UNDER WILLIAM THE SECOND, CALLED RUFUS.............. 68 CHAPTER X ENGLAND UNDER H... ...of his way, the King favoured the Normans more than ever. He invited over William, Duke of Normandy , the son of that Duke who had re ceived him and... ...was by this time old and had no children, had made a will, appointing Duke William of Normandy his suc cessor, and had informed the Duke of his havin... ...r, having always been fond of the Normans, he might have encouraged Norman William to as pire to the English crown, by something that he said to him ... ...the rocks and hills, and there join ing with his countryman, Sir William Douglas , who was also in arms against King Edward, became the most resolut... ...ed, were ordered by the King to instant execution. Bruce’s friend Sir John Douglas, taking his own Castle of Dou glas out of the hands of an English ... ... was very powerful; including Scroop, Archbishop of York, and the Earl of Douglas , a powerful and brave Scottish nobleman. The King was prompt and a... ... the keys as they went along. On the opposite shore she was met by another Douglas, and some few lords; and, so accompanied, rode away on horseback to...

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...f Montrose. The Legend of Montrose was written chiefly with a view to place before the reader the melancholy fate of John Lord Kilpont, eldest son of William Earl of Airth and Menteith, and the singular circumstances attending the birth and history of James Stewart of Ardvoirlich, by whose hand the unfortunate nobleman fell....

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... before the reader the melancholy fate of John Lord Kilpont, eldest son of William Earl of Airth and Menteith, and the singular circumstances attendin... ...what I mean:— “Here I must not forget the memory of one preacher, Mas- ter William Forbesse, a preacher for souldiers, yea, and a captaine in neede to... ..., and of much courage. The ser- geant being cashiered, never called Master William to ac- count, for which he was evill thought of; so that he retired... ...terian divines, waited but the waving of the royal banner to take up arms. Douglas, T raquair, Roxburgh, Hume, all friendly to the royal cause, would ... ... castle of Naworth contains a private stair from the apartment of the Lord William Howard, by which he could visit the dungeon, as is alleged in the p...

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...preparation of this work, to Mr. Gilbert A. Tracy, of Putnam, Conn., Major William H. Lambert, of Philadelphia, and Mr. C. F. Gunther, of Chi- cago, t... ...hich broke down all legal barriers to the spread of slavery Stephen Arnold Douglas was the ostensible leader and central figure; and Douglas was a Sen... ... central figure; and Douglas was a Senator from Illinois, Lincoln’s State. Douglas’s national theatre of action was the Senate, but in his constituenc... ...o maintain himself in place; and in Illinois all eyes turned to Lincoln as Douglas’s natural antagonist. As very young men they had come to Illinois, ... ...gonist. As very young men they had come to Illinois, Lincoln from Indiana, Douglas from Vermont, and had grown up together in public life, Douglas as ... ...ver was there a more signal instance of this triumph of an idea than here. William Lloyd Garrison, who thirty years before had begun his crusade for t... ...“I certify that some time in May or the early part of June, 1837, I saw at Williams’s corner a paper purporting to be an assignment from Joseph Anders... ...ry reflecting man, Do you believe that Benjamin Talbott, Chas. R. Matheny, William Butler and Stephen T. Logan, all sustaining high and spotless chara... ...n- tion), Matthew Crowder Jr., Greenberry Smith; John Fagan, George Fagan, William Fagan (these three fell out with us about Early, and are doubtful n...

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...y. ‘United, they might be strong enough; but each knows that his fel- low, Douglas, Lennox, March, or Mar, would be ready to play the same game as Alb... ...ege, for the Regent was endeavouring to intrude on the convent one Brother William Drake, or Drax, by his own nomination, instead of the canonical app... ...ell about the Lammas tide, When moormen win their hay, The doughty Earl of Douglas rode Into England to catch a prey.” Again he stood transfixed, beat... ... his hips moving as he followed the spirit-stir- ring ballad; and then, as Douglas falls, and is laid beneath the bracken bush, unseen by his men, and... ...t look of thanks recompensed him. Harry’s face grew dark, and he growled, ‘Douglas dead? Ay, he wins more fields so than alive! I wish you would keep ... ...k slanderer and backbiter.’ ‘ And here,’ shouted the other, ‘stands honest William T ren- ton of Easingwold, ready to thrust his lies down his throat,... ...rtin Bennet, at others Dr. Bennet, a great Ox- ford scholar, bred up among William of Wykeham’s original seventy at Winchester and New College, and no... ...Mrs. Bolt, but by Sir Richard Whittington, his kindly dame, and by ‘Master William Kedbesby,’ a grave and gentle-look- ing old man, who had been Maste... ...’s feast fall in with that of my son.’ Thus Sir Christopher Kitson and Sir William T renton rose up knights; and bore their honours with a certain blu...

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... mayor there, among other unnecessaries; the justice of the peace; the widow Douglass, fair, smart, and forty, a generous, good hearted soul and well ... ...n you going to try the cat?” “To night. I reckon they’ll come after old Hoss Williams to night.” “But they buried him Saturday. Didn’t they get him Sa... ...s water baffled pursuit. Half an hour later he was disappear ing behind the Douglas mansion on the summit of Cardiff Hill, and the school house was h... ...d this matter inwardly. Then Tom whispered: “Say, Hucky — do you reckon Hoss Williams hears us talk ing?” “O’ course he does. Least his sperrit does.... ...e does. Least his sperrit does.” Tom, after a pause: “I wish I’d said Mister Williams. But I never meant any harm. Everybody calls him Hoss.” “A body ... ...ty. All at once the doctor flung himself free, seized the heavy headboard of Williams’ grave and felled Potter to the earth with it — and in the same ... ...mptuous smile flitted across Injun Joe’s face. “Were you anywhere near Horse Williams’ grave?” “Yes, sir.” “Speak up — just a trifle louder. How near ... ...of going to Joe Harper’s we’ll climb right up the hill and stop at the Widow Douglas’ . She’ll have ice cream! She has it most every day — dead loads ... ...d ‘a’ said go there if she’d ‘a’ thought of it. I know she would!” The Widow Douglas’ splendid hospitality was a tempting bait. It and Tom’s persuasio...

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...EPH GILLESPIE. MY DEAR SIR:—I write this to say that from the specimens of Douglas Democracy we occasionally see here from Madi- son, we learn that th... ...ican names. Then quietly ascertain how many of them are actually going for Douglas. I think you will find less than fifty. But even if you find fifty,... ...t man insisting that there is a plan on foot in La Salle and Bureau to run Douglas Republicans for Congress and for the Legislature in those counties,... ...ot yet say when. Can you not see me at Monticello on the 6th of September? Douglas and I, for the first time this canvass, crossed swords here yesterd... ...y truly, A. LINCOLN. 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five TO DR. WILLIAM FITHIAN, DANVILLE, ILL. BLOOMINGTON, Sept. 3, 1858 DEAR DOCTOR:—Y o... ...ttending court. Y ester- day, before I left Springfield, your brother, Dr. William S. Wallace, showed me a letter of yours, in which you kindly mentio... ... voted on that question. Of these, Roger Sherman, Thomas Mifflin, and Hugh Williamson voted for the prohibi- tion, thus showing that, in their underst... ...n that Congress, and voted on the question. They were Will- iam Blount and William Few; and they both voted for the pro- hibition thus showing that, i... ... Gilman, Wm. S. Johnnson, Roger Sherman, Robert Morris, Thos. Fitzsimmons, William Few, Abraham Baldwin, Rufus King, William Paterson, George Claimer,...

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...on A Tale of Flodden Field by Walter Scott INTRODUCTION TO CANTO FIRST. TO WILLIAM STEW ART ROSE, ESQ. Ashestiel, Ettrick Forest. November’s sky is ch... ...nd so dull and stern. 61 Sir Walter Scott INTRODUCTION TO CANTO THIRD. To WILLIAM ERSKINE, ESQ. Ashestiel, Ettrick Forest. Like April morning clouds,... ..., that could oppose, When deadliest hatred fired its foes, The vengeful Douglas bands. XI. Crichtoun! though now thy miry court But pens the laz... ...d has to Henry borne.” 135 Sir Walter Scott XIV. He paused, and led where Douglas stood, And with stern eye the pageant viewed - I mean that Douglas,... ...is locks and beard in silver grew; His eyebrows kept their sable hue. Near Douglas when the monarch stood, His bitter speech he thus pursued: “Lord Ma... ...herald come again. Then rest you in Tantallon Hold; Your host shall be the Douglas bold - A chief unlike his sires of old. He wears their motto on his... ... hasty speech forgive! For sure as doth his spirit live, As he said of the Douglas old, I well may say of you – That never king did subject hold In...

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...kinsman Mr. Balfour of Pilrig, to Stewart the Writer that was Appin’s agent, and to William Grant Esquire of Prestongrange, Lord Advo- cate of Scotlan... ...lfour! – lay in close dungeons, and shackled forbye, in the military prison at Fort William; none allowed in to them, nor they to write. The witnesses... ...e recommendation. I would have to make the journey back again betwixt here and Fort William. Then would follow a fresh delay till I got fresh authorit... ...s should come from. And at any rate, I would not wish to kill, only to be Catherine Douglas that put her arm through the staples of the bolt, where it... ...but I do better with caller air and the lift above my head. I’m like the auld Black Douglas (wasnae’t?) that likit better to hear the laverock sing th... ...ee huge towers and broken battlements of Tantallon, that old chief place of the Red Douglases. The horse was picketed in the bottom of the ditch to gr...

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...maybe Mary. Aunt Polly — Tom’s Aunt Polly, she is — and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with... ... all the year round — more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but ... ...shiny eyes, HUCKLEBERRY FINN 40 and says: “What might your name be?” “Sarah Williams.” “Where ‘bouts do you live? In this neighborhood?’ “No’m. In Ho... ...e. Pretty soon she says, “What did you say your name was, honey?” “M — Mary Williams.” Somehow it didn’t seem to me that I said it was Mary before, s... ...you said it was Sarah when you first come in?” “Oh, yes’m, I did. Sarah Mary Williams. Sarah’s my first name. Some calls me Sarah, some calls me Mary.... ... other things just to make certain. Now trot along to your uncle, Sarah Mary Williams George Elexander Peters, and if you get into trouble you send wo... ...ing is, and that’s worth as much in a man as it is in a horse, so the Widow Douglas said, and nobody ever denied that she was of the first aristocrac... ...n’t seen him since they was boys together — and hadn’t ever seen his brother William at all — that’s the deef and dumb one — William ain’t more than ...

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...here was one among them who ran more in her thoughts than the rest. It was William whom she talked of most, and wanted most to see. William, the eldes... ... advocate with her mother (of whom he was the darling) in every distress. “William did not like she should come away; he had told her he should miss h... ...ould come away; he had told her he should miss her very much indeed.” “But William will write to you, I dare say.” “Yes, he had promised he would, but... ...write your letter whenever you choose. Would it make you happy to write to William?” “Yes, very.” “Then let it be done now. Come with me into the brea... ... go with the other letters; and, as your uncle will frank it, it will cost William nothing.” “My uncle!” repeated Fanny, with a frightened look. “Yes,... ...plays were run over in vain. Neither Hamlet, nor Macbeth, nor Othello, nor Douglas, nor The Gamester, presented anything that could satisfy even the t...

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...“Murder as one of the Fine Arts”* seemed to exact from me some account of Williams, the dreadful London murderer of the last generation; not only bec... ... probabilities, it was, however, definitively agreed amongst amateurs that Williams must have been alone in these atrocities. Meantime, amongst the co... ...h he was allowed to see, he read with eagerness the police examinations of Williams; and on the same day which announced the catastrophe of Williams, ... ...lst the Howards, the Stanleys, the Talbots, of England; the Hamiltons, the Douglases, the Gordons, of Scotland, are content to acknowl- edge a sympath... ...erine II., may be seen amply developed, in the once celebrated work of Mr. William Eton. Another great circumstance of hope for Greece, coincid- ing w... ...tate, namely, in the early part of Charles II’s reign. This writer was Sir William Petty, a man who would have greatly advanced the science if he had ...

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...as free with the king’s deer as Lord Percy proposed to do with those of Lord Douglas in the memorable hunting of Cheviot. It is sufficiently well know... ...great respect; and one of them in formed Sir Ralph that it was young Master William Gamwell. The young gentleman invited and conducted the knight to ... ...ncision? shall we embrew? — Henry IV . OLD S IR G UY OF G AMWELL, and young William Gamwell, and fair Alice Gamwell, and Sir Ralph Montfaucon and his... ...tfaucon, knight, is sore wounded in the arm; and we are charged to apprehend William Gamwell the younger, of Gamwell Hall, and father Michael of Rubyg... ...nd found it to contain an inti Maid Marian T. L. Peacock 43 mation that William Gamwell was to be hanged on Mon day at Nottingham. “And I wish,”... ...t on revenge, that he raised himself from his bed to attend the execution of William Gamwell. He rode to the august structure of retributive Themis, a...