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...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Sa... ...ountry, from one end to the other, was in a pitiable state of panic, and the churches, hermitages, and monkeries overflowed with praying and weeping p... ... This old stone tower was very massive — and rather ruinous, too, for it was Roman, and four hundred years old. Yes, and handsome, after a rude fashio... ... power that was a trifle stronger than both of us put together. That was the Church. I do not wish to disguise that fact. I couldn’t, if I wanted to. ... ...cept pedigree and lordship. There you see the hand of that awful power, the Roman Catholic Church. In two or three little centuries it had converted ... ...edigree and lordship. There you see the hand of that awful power, the Roman Catholic Church. In two or three little centuries it had converted a nati... ...nas le Savage; all these he bare down with one spear. When King Aswisance of Ireland saw Sir Gareth fare so he marvelled what he might be, that one t... ... not have stood it; and, moreover, I should have had the Estab lished Roman Catholic Church on my back in a minute. No, I had been going cautiously a...

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...?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....

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...on his voyage to a country where your name is as well known as here. Wherever I am, I shall gratefully regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am....

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK THREE by W... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book Three by... ...hat requires a life to practise; and to be distinguished in letters or the Church would not have forwarded the poor gentleman’s plans in the least. So... ...ir sickness and poverty, and who blessed her daily. She attended the early church daily (though of a Sunday, especially, she encouraged and advanced a... ...should the best blood in England and France be shed in order that the Holy Roman and Apostolic master of these ruf- fians should have his revenge over... ...o forego—benefits which the church of England did not deny to those of the Roman communion, as how should she, being derived from that church, and onl... ...ostel de l’Aigle Noire, Bruxelles, Flanders.” So Frank had married a Roman Catholic lady, and an heir was expected, and Mr. Esmond was to carry this i... ...my dear; Viscount Castlewood and Baron Esmond of Shandon in the Kingdom of Ireland, Earl and Marquis of Esmond under patent of his Majesty King James ... ... England thought of it: she held that ours was undoubtedly a branch of the Catholic church, but that the Roman was one of the main stems on which, no ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wel... ...e guessing. “Think of the men who have walked here!” said a tourist in the Roman Coli- seum. It was a Futurist mind that answered: “Think of the men w... ...on in itself indicates a profound ignorance of the nature of the Christian churches. With the exception of the Quakers and a few Russian sects, no Chr... ...the exception of the Quakers and a few Russian sects, no Christian sect or church has ever repudiated war; most have gone out of the way to sanction i... ... any group of financial enterprises. They will be more comprehensive, less roman- tic, and more businesslike altogether. They will be, to use a phrase... ...h rents are to be sent up and wages down, while the old feuds of Wales and Ireland, ancient theological and sec- tarian jealousies and babyish loyalti... ...he only solution of the Irish difficulty along the belt between Ulster and Catholic Ireland lies in the same arrangement. Then; thirdly, there are the... ...the Russians. I am democratic and scientific, and the Poles I have met are Catholic and aristocratic and ro- mantic, and all sorts of difficult things...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, t... ...ch did not provoke any reproaches even to a dignitary of the supreme Irish church; its own monstrosity was its excuse; mere extravagance was felt to l... ...nown universally six days later, the people would have gone right from the churchyard to the murderer’s lodgings, and (brooking no delay) would have t... ...a successful flight, and, there- fore, for the following revolution in the romance of his own abominable life. He had in his pockets above a hundred p... ...s of years. 5 Let the reader, who is disposed to regard as exaggerated or romantic the pure fiendishness imputed to Williams, recol- lect that, excep... ...as to the copper coinage, and of the imaginary wrong which it inflicted on Ireland. Of all Swift’s villainies for the sake of popularity, and still mo... ...d, upon principles of fidelity under political suffer- ing, with the Roman Catholics, to say little in his own de- fence. That defence, and any revers... ...Episcopal chapels, or rather the ornamented albes, &c. from any rich Roman Catholic establishment, would have been more effective. The Coryphaeus hims...

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...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, 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 p...

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...TER TER, ET , ET , ET , ET , ETC. ET C. ET C. ET C. ET C. ETC. C. C. C. C. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...E UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER THE R THE R THE R THE R THE ROMANS OMANS OMANS OMANS OMANS ............................................... ...ve arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of their word religlo, th... ...nd here only, is found the outermost expansion, the centrifugal, of the TO catholic, united with the innermost centripetal of the personal con- scious... ...lic rumor so far correct as that he is a man of distinction in the English church, then, and by that simple fact, this book, or this pamphlet, interes... ...every book of the Bible, uttered by anybody rather than by a father of the Church, and guaranteed by anybody rather than by an infidel, in triumph. A ... ...nal principles of Protestantism available for the defence of certain Roman Catholic mysteries too in- discriminately assaulted by the Protestant zealo... ...argest scale, was deci- sive on this point; and the opposite experience of Ireland, under the opposite circumstances, was equally decisive. And this r...

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........... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418.......................................................... 8 CHAPTER III THE ANGLE CHILDREN A.D. 597.................................................................... 10 CHAPTER IV THE NORTHMEN...

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...present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved c...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by ... ..., here been attempted, together with a record of the building of the three churches erected since 1837, and a history of the changes that have taken p... ...al of these urns were deposited in the Hartley Museum, Southampton. Of the Roman times we know nothing but that part of the great Roman road between C... ...art of the great Roman road between Caer Gwent (or V enta Belgarum, as the Romans called Winchester) and Sorbiodunum (Old Sarum). It can still be trac... ... Itchen seems to have been named in like manner. These were the times when churches were built and the boundaries of estates became those of parishes.... ...art of the hundred of Boyatt in Otterbourne, was in the hands of the Roman Catholic family of Welles, who seem to have had numerous retainers at Highb... ...dge, and died there in 1634. This accounts for there having been the Roman Catholic school at T wyford, whence Alexander Pope was expelled for some sa... ...r so as to have it con- cluded before his departure to take the command in Ireland. The terms were finally settled, and Richard and Dorothy were marri...

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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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...ert Naunton A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner, and Fragme... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...utiful structure. It is magnificently ornamented with public buildings and churches, of which there are above one hundred and twenty parochial. On the... ...mous for the commerce of many nations; its houses are elegantly built, its churches fine, its towns strong, and its riches and abundance surprising. T... ...nt is usually held, the seats and wainscot are made of wood, the growth of Ireland; said to have that occult quality, that all poisonous animals are d... ...seen the statues of two giants, said to have assisted the English when the Romans made war upon them: Corinius of Britain, and Gogmagog of Albion. Ben... ...orinius of Britain, and Gogmagog of Albion. Beneath upon a table the *This romantic inscription probably alluded to Philip II., who wooed the Queen af... ...name of Recusant then began first to be known to the world; until then the Catholics were no more than Church-Papists,* but now, commanded by the Pope... ...ere no more than Church-Papists,* but now, commanded by the Pope’s express Catholic Church, their mother, they separate them- selves; so it seems the ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christia... .................................................... 37 THE TOUCH OF PARISIAN ROMANCE....................................................................... ... his victories, his empires, his millions of money, and his moralities and churches and po- litical constitutions. “This man” has not been a failure y... ...oned) T olstoy would have thought and taught and quarrelled with the Greek Church all the same. Their creed has been fragmentarily practised to a con-... ...pollo, and Apollo comes to her in the shape of a serpent, or the like. The Roman emperors, following the example of Augustus, claimed the title of God... ...ng a heresy as the discarding of transubstantiation in the Mass was to the Catholics of the XVI century. JESUS JOINS THE BAPTISTS Jesus entered as a m... ...r fam- ily ties, he was simply stating a fact; and to this day the Ro- man Catholic priest, the Buddhist lama, and the fakirs of all the eastern denom... ...have lost it; and even for the rank and file it has fled to those parts of Ireland and Scotland which are still in the XVII century. Even there, it is...

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...and yet as close as a good glove?s with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing wh...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...felt herself called upon to resent it. But the fairer analogy lies between Ireland and the South- ern States. The monster meetings and O’Connell’s tri... ...d Boston Common are very pleasant. Excel- lent houses there are, and large churches, and enormous hotels; but of such things as these a man can write ... ... by all around him; and the rule which holds that men at Rome should do as Romans do, if true anywhere, is true in America. Therefore I say that in an... ...cultural population that touches its hat, eats plain victuals, and goes to church, is more picturesque and delightful than the thronged crowd of a gre... ...France; and has it not always 58 North America V ol. 1 been the case with Roman Catholics when they have been forced to measure themselves against Pr... ...; and has it not always 58 North America V ol. 1 been the case with Roman Catholics when they have been forced to measure themselves against Protesta... ...e their fate in the country. Surely one may declare as a fact that a Roman Catholic popula- tion can never hold its ground against one that is Protes-...

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...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ... ...EMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN THE ANCIENT STATE OF EUROPE, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE............................311 CHAPTER III OF THE RISE AND PRO... ...ER III OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF CITIES AND TOWNS, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE ................................................................. ...n all Christian countries, I believe, the education of the greater part of churchmen is paid for in this manner. Very few of them are educated altoget... ...ore, of those who are, will not always procure them a suitable reward, the church being crowded with people, who, in order to get employment, are will... ...e mean- ness of their pecuniary recompence. In England, and in all Ro- man catholic countries, the lottery of the church is in reality much more advan... ...prove and cultivate in the same manner the most fertile lands of Scotland, Ireland, or the corn provinces of North America, though, from the more exac... ..., and established there the four governments of New En- gland. The English catholics, treated with much greater injustice, established that of Marylan...

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...Excerpt: This little play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived ...

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...oom as well as their reception room for clients. Let me describe it briefly from the point of view of a sparrow on the window sill. The outer door is in the opposite wall, close to the right hand corner. Between this door and the left hand corner is a hatstand and a table consisting of large drawing boards on trestles, with plans, rolls of tracing paper, mathematical instr...

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... fun and high spirits besides her good looks, which you may judge of for yourself on a walk down most of our great noblemen?s collections of pictures in England, where you will behold her as the goddess Diana fitting an arrow to a bow; and elsewhere an Amazon holding a spear; or a lady with dogs, in the costume of the day; and in one place she is a nymph, if not Diana hers...

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