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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

................................................................... 152 TO MR JOHN MOORE, .................................................................. ........................... 163 AN ESSAY ON MAN: IN FOUR EPISTLES TO HENRY ST JOHN, LORD BOLINGBROKE.................... 164 EPISTLE TO DR ARBUTHNOT; OR,... ....................................................... 254 THE SATIRES OF DR JOHN DONNE, DEAN OF ST PAUL’S, VERSIFIED. .................................... ... most formidable foes against him. This was that Cobbett of criticism, old John Dennis,—a man of strong natural powers, much learning, and a rich, coa... ...ical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One Addison’s “Cato” (most of which Johnson has preserved in his Life of Pope); and then, partly to court Addis... ...hus in a course of flat- tery may put him in no small danger of becoming a cox- comb: if he has, he will consequently have so much diffi- dence as not...

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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. With an Introduction. By James M'Cune Smith

By: Frederick Douglas

...ed men, beginning as far back as 1827, when the Rev. Samuel E. Cornish and John B. 14 My Bondage and My Freedom Russworm (a graduate of Bowdoin colle... ...,” “Jims,” and “Neds” of the south, observable here is, that “Wil- liam,” “John,” “James,” “Edward,” are substituted. It goes 46 My Bondage and My Fr... ...that I could pray for light. I consulted a good colored man, named Charles Johnson; and, in tones of holy affection, he told me to pray, and what to p... ...d myself in congenial society, at Mr. Freeland’s. There were Henry Harris, John Harris, Handy Caldwell, and Sandy Jenkins.* Henry and John were brothe... ...ith the desire to learn. T wo such boys were quickly secured, in Henry and John, and from them the contagion spread. I was not long bringing around me... ...ortune to come in colli- sion with sundry American doctors of divinity—Dr. Cox among the number—with whom I had a small controversy. It has happened t... ...cal slaveholders. Foremost among these divines, was the Rev. Samuel Hanson Cox, moderator of the New School Presbyterian General Assem- bly. He and hi... ...nce Convention. Here I was brought into point blank collison with Rev. Dr. Cox, who made me the subject not only of bitter remark in the convention, b... ...tance to my labors. By the very ill usage I re- ceived at the hands of Dr. Cox and his party, by the mob on board the “Cambria,” by the attacks made u...

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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

...it implied a secret com- mendation of a child, if not a dedication, to St. John the evangelist, the beloved disciple, the apostle of love and mys- ter... ...Jean; the latter with no reference, perhaps, to so sublime a person as St. John, but simply to some relative. 69 Thomas De Quincey trunk arteries bet... ...English pens. Grafton, a chronicler, but little read, being a stiff-necked John Bull, thought fit to say that no wonder Joanna should be a virgin, sin... ... Few in these days can have read him, unless in the Meth- odist version of John Wesley Among those few, however, hap- pens to be myself, which arose f... ... ed., Vol. I, pp. 517-582. 1 6 HE HAD MARRIED THE DAUGHTER OF A DUKE: “Mr. John Palmer, a native of Bath, and from about 1768 the energetic proprietor... ...me to an end about 1271. “The ulterior results of the crusades,” concludes Cox in Encyclopedia Britannica, “were the breaking up of the feudal system,...

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...of men, as that exterminating murder, by which, during the winter of 1812, John Williams in one hour, smote two houses with emptiness, exterminated al... ...ny consists of such men: the large majority being mere untutored landsmen. John Williams, however, who had been occasionally rated as a seaman on boar... .... But nothing short of such dreadful experiences could avail to unmask Mr. John Williams. 11 Thomas de Quincey Into this perilous region it was that,... ...ed at once the well- known initials of an honest Norwegian ship-carpenter, John Petersen, who had worked in the English dockyards until the present ye... ...aeon, though a Grecian word, bear scripturally (either in Daniel or in St. John) any sense known to Grecian ears? Do the seventy weeks of the prophet ... ...r man than most of those alluded to by Voltaire. Cibber, though slightly a cox- comb, was born a brilliant man. Aaron Hill was so lustrous, that even ...

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All's Well That Ends Well

By: William Shakespeare

...hat metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be melted, if you give him not John Drum s entertainment, your inclining cannot be removed. Here he comes.... ... name, my good lord, is Parolles. LAFEU: You beg more than word, then. Cox my passion! give me your hand. How does your drum? PAROLLES: O my go...

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Reprinted Pieces

By: Charles Dickens

...d for it!—forget this child. The captain stops exhausted, and his faithful cox swain goes back and is seen to sit down by his side, and neither of th... ... answers are made to in quiries, and extravagant actions performed. Thus, Johnson persists in giving Johnson as his baptismal name, and substi tutin... ...rose blood. He looked up at the rain, and then—oh Heaven!— he became Saint John. He folded his arms, resigning himself to the weather, and I was frant... ... at Deptford, nigh where I was born, and I am a smith by trade. My name is John. I have been called ‘Old John’ ever since I was nineteen year of age, ... ...sensible. But some times cranky. William said, ‘What will you do with it, John?’ I said, ‘Patent it.’ William said, ‘How patent it, John?’ I said, ‘B... ...am then delivered that the law of Patent was a cruel wrong. William said, ‘John, if you make your invention public, before you get a Patent, any one m...

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Silas Marner the Weaver of Raveloe

By: George Eliot

... him or not. He said, just now, before he went out, he should send word to Cox to distrain, if Fowler didn’t come and pay up his arrears this week. Th... ...ore he spat 43 George Eliot and replied, “And they wouldn’t be fur wrong, John.” After this feeble delusive thaw, the silence set in as severely as b... ...ed Fowler, I won’t put up with him any longer; I’ve told Winthrop to go to Cox this very day. The lying scoundrel told me he’d be sure to pay me a hun... ... estate to drop into somewhere else. Go out and tell Winthrop not to go to Cox’s, but wait for me. And tell ‘em to get my horse saddled. And stop: loo... ...e day be handed over to a successor with the incongruous name of Taylor or Johnson. But in that case the wiser people in Raveloe would employ Dr. Blic...

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Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

... him or not. He said, just now, before he went out, he should send word to Cox to distrain, if Fowler didn’t come and pay up his arrears this week. Th... ...e a few puffs before he spat and replied, “And they wouldn’t be fur wrong, John.” After this feeble delusive thaw, the silence set in as severely as b... ...ed Fowler, I won’t put up with him any longer; I’ve told Winthrop to go to Cox this very day. The lying scoundrel told me he’d be sure to pay me a hun... ... estate to drop into somewhere else. Go out and tell Winthrop not to go to Cox’s, but wait for me. And tell ’em to get my horse saddled. And stop: loo... ...e day be handed over to a successor with the incongruous name of Taylor or Johnson. But in that case the wiser people in Raveloe would employ Dr. Blic...

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Chantry House

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...mily to be unsettled by the notion of doubt- ful contingencies. My father, John Edward Winslow, was a barrister, and held 4 Chantry House an appointm... ...ad been lost in a West Indian hurricane at sea, and her uncle, Admiral Sir John Griffith, was the hero of the family, having been at T rafalgar and di... ... Ports- mouth coach in the evening. One room was already in order when Sir John Griffith kindly came to see whether he could bring any comfort to a sp... ... to find a fit one he did not know and besides, what could be his aim? Sir John Griffith had said he was only fit for the Church, ‘But one does not wi... ...of Christopher Fordyce, Esquire, of Chantry House, and relict of Sir James John Winslow, Kt., sergeant-at-law, A.D. 1700—the last date, I verily belie... .... The one most to the purpose was an account of the exami- nation of Molly Cox, the waiting-woman, who had been in attendance on the unfortunate Marga...

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Ordeal of Richard Feverel

By: George Meredith

...y! when you return to town, you had better not men- tion anything—to quote Johnson—of Benson’s spiflication.” “Certainly not, sir.” The wise youth’s h... ...e is in any Dixonary, I’ve looked, my dear, and”—she spread out her arms— “Johnson haven’t got a name for me!” At this impressive woe Mrs. Berry’s voi... ...voice quavered into sobs. Lucy spoke gentle words to the poor outcast from Johnson. The sorrows of Autumn have no warning for April. The little bride,... ...er. These things were secrets; and the elastic and happy appearance of Mr. John T odhunter did not betray them at the altar. Perhaps he would rather h... ...wise things, the world’s opinion, as usual, veered com- pletely round, and John Todhunter was esteemed a shrewd, sensible man—only not brilliant; that... ...e might have been saved. “He said once of a man, that his conscience was a cox- comb. Will you believe that when he saw his son’s wife— poor victim! l...

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Nutties Father

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...imen.’ It was in the tone in which Falstaff discussed that sober boy, Lord John of Lancaster. Lord Kirkaldy asked if the visi- tors were going to rema... ...that I am mildness itself compared with her. She would not have come, only John was curious, and declared he should go whether we did or not.’ ‘Ah!’ s... ...with her youngest child, at Lescombe, where her eldest was the wife of Sir John Delmar. Lady Ronnisglen was an invalid, confined to the house, and Lad... ... of a consumptive family. ‘“Proputty, proputty,”’ quoted the Canon. ‘James Johnson is what they call a warm man.’ ‘It is a sin and a shame,’ said Mrs.... ...It is a sin and a shame,’ said Mrs. Edwards. ‘What can they expect? George Johnson looks strong enough now, but they tell me his brother undoubtedly d... ...y were saying to her into “T ommy, make room for your uncle”?’ ‘Oh, Albert Cox! It is no use doing anything to him, he would go off at once to the Pri...

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Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since

By: Sir Walter Scott

...morning of the battle of Preston, 1745, made their memorable attack on Sir John Cope’s army, a battery of four field-pieces was stormed and carried by... ...inst every Whig, Presbyterian, and fanatic in England and Scot- land, from John-o’-Groat’s to the Land’s End, and with diffi- culty got him to horse. ... ...o, smoked salmon, marma- lade, and all other delicacies which induced even Johnson him- self to extol the luxury of a Scotch breakfast above that of a... ...c poets, to be sure, and the Epithalamium of Georgius Buchanan, and Arthur Johnston’s Psalms, of a Sunday; and the Deliciæ Poetarum Scotorum, and Sir ... ...quoich; and the Highland- ers call him Vich Ian V ohr, that is, the son of John the Great; and we upon the braes here call him by both names indiffer-... ...ch she wanted En- glish words to express, might have been interpreted by a cox- comb, or perhaps by a young soldier, who, without being such, was cons...

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War and the Future; Italy, France and Britain at War

By: H. G. Wells

... Repington and Dr. Conan Doyle, and anticipating the arrival of Mr. Harold Cox. So we pass, mostly in automobiles that bump tremendously over war road... ...British workers find their thinking in the ordinary halfpenny papers or in John Bull. The so-called labour papers are perhaps less representa- tive of...

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In the South Seas

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...planted, built upon, sup- plied with railways, boat-houses, and bath-houses. For, being no man’s land, it was the more readily ceded to a stranger. Th... ...ntioned the case of one not very successful captain, and how he had lost a vessel for Mr. Hart; thereupon the blind leper broke forth in lamentation. ... ...is Stevenson ago the honours would have gone elsewhere. In this un- wonted business, in this reception of some hitherto un- dreamed-of and outlandish ... ...beach and terrace suddenly blacken with attendant vassals, the king and party embark, the boat (a man-of-war gig) come flying towards us dead before t... ...h of knotted palm. ‘What is that?’ I asked. ‘O, that’s Devil-work,’ said the Captain. ‘And what is Devil- work?’ I inquired. ‘If you like, I’ll show y... ...of advertisement-photographs were hung up within for decoration. There was a table and a recess- bed, in which Mrs. Stevenson slept; while I camped on...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...leading incidents in Montaigne’s life seemed, in the presence of Bayle St. John’s charming and able biography, an attempt as difficult as it was usele... ...by a descen- dant. It was seen about 1858 by an English traveller (Mr. St. John).’—[“Montaigne the Essayist,” by Bayle St. John, 1858, 2 vols. 8vo, is... ...f it, and most of my papers and cash—[The French word is hardes, which St. John renders things. But compare Chambers’s “Domestic Annals of Scotland,” ... ...nal, who printed it with a facsimile of the entire autograph, in 1850. St. John gives the date wrongly as the 1st January 1590.] Sire, It is to be abo... ....”—AEneid, xi. 151.] In the war that Ferdinand made upon the widow of King John of Hungary, about Buda, a man-at-arms was particu- larly taken notice ... ...find he has got, is, that his Latin and Greek have only made him a greater cox- comb than when he went from home. He should bring back 190 Essays: Bo...

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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

...of a new specific name, and what so convenient as that of its discoverer? “John-smithia”! There have been worse names. It was perhaps the hope of some... ... ing, that grows thicker and presses upon me—me and mine. I feel like King John’s abbot in his cope of lead. I doubt, indeed, whether I should not aba... ... proper person, the world a better place to live in. He took Bradlaugh and John Burns for his leaders and models, poor, even impecunious, great men. B... ...e must beat W edderburn. He forgot the examples of those starry gentlemen, John Burns and Bradlaugh. Be- sides, he reflected, the glimpse of the rest ... ...ells There were present, besides these two, a very dusty cyclist, landlord Cox, and Miss Maybridge, the perfectly respect- able and rather portly barm... ...t had a metal receiver, or the whole place would have been in a blaze. Mr. Cox was the first to speak, and his remark, shorn of needless excrescences,... ... as Fotheringay was concerned; the general opinion not only fol- lowed Mr. Cox very closely but very vehemently. Everyone accused Fotheringay of a sil... ...bing engines beat. A certain liberal heathen deity, in the shape of a demi-john, held seductive court aft, and, it is probable, forward. But Gerilleau...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

..., by which she did not profit. I ventured to tell her that Mazarin was the lover of Anne of Austria. She wouldn’t believe me, saying that she knew Ann... ...e made violent signs that it was, by raising and lowering his head eight or ten times successively. “Gentlemen, you see,” said the duke to those prese... ...ade the dying man’s hair stand on end; “I, absolve you? I am not a priest.” “Y ou are not a priest!” cried the executioner. “What, then, are you?” “I ... ...xecutioner. “What, then, are you?” “I am about to tell you, wretched man.” “Oh, mon Dieu!” “I am John Francis de Winter.” “I do not know you,” said th... ...s the letter he sent by a messenger, for sixpence, who sold it to me for a guinea.” “And what on earth are you going to do with it?” asked Athos. “Can...

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Cousin Betty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...he school created by Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Benvenuto Cellini, John of Bologna, and others. The French masters of the Renaissance had neve... ...ollection, and the Marriage of the Virgin in the Brera at Milan. The Saint John the Baptist of the Tribuna, and Saint Luke painting the Virgin ’s port... ...her woman is fighting for, just as much as men do to women round whom many cox- combs are buzzing. Thus any reflections /a propos/ to Ma- dame Marneff...

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Of Human Bondage

By: Somerset Maugham

...roperly; and Mrs. Carey re- marked that Mrs. Wigram had a new mantle, Mr . Cox was not in church, and somebody thought that Miss Phillips was engaged.... ...hun- dred a year; and his heart yearned for the V enice and Florence which John Ruskin had so magi- cally described. He felt that he was unsuited to t... ...s frigid smile. “You think it proves the truth of Roman Ca- tholicism that John Henry Newman wrote good English and that Cardinal Manning has a pictur... ...es, Dickens, Thackeray , they were hurried into the flames; Mr. Gladstone, John Bright, and Cobden; there was a moment’s discussion about George Mered... ...e leg of mutton and held it high above her , as though it were the head of John the Bap- tist on a platter; and, the cigarette still in her mouth, adv... ...rills, and Heaven knows what figures people still its broad stream, Doctor Johnson with Boswell by his side, an old Pepys going on board a man-o’-war:...

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The History of Tom Jones

By: Henry Fielding

...ely wish you well. Shall draw on you per next post, in favour of Messieurs John Drugget and company, at fourteen days, which doubt not your honouring,... ...most always turn out a pedant, and he who forms himself upon the latter, a cox comb. Nor are the characters drawn from these models better sup por...

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John Keble's Parishes a History of Hursley and Otterbourne

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by Charlotte M.... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by Charlotte M.... ...te University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charlotte M. Yonge JOHN KEBLE’S PARISHES: A HISTORY OF HURSLEY AND OTTERBOURNE By Charlotte M.... ...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 ... ...- ond edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy re- ceived many annotations from membe... ...ge. Several surnames still extant in the parish are found in the register, Cox, Comley, Collins, Goodchild, Woods, W areham—Anne and Abraham were the ...

...Preface: To explain the 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 Jo...

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The Last Chronicle of Barset

By: Anthony Trollope

...lope CHAPTER I HOW DID HE GET IT? ‘I can never bring myself to believe it, John,’ said Mary W alker the pretty daughter of Mr George Walker, attorney ... ... led the fashion in Silverbridge. ‘I can never bring myself to believe it, John,’ said Miss Walker. ‘Y ou’ll have to bring yourself to believe it,’ sa... ...n,’ said Miss Walker. ‘Y ou’ll have to bring yourself to believe it,’ said John, with- out taking his eyes from his book. ‘A clergyman—and such a cler... ...’ ‘I don’t see that that has anything to do with it.’ And as he now spoke, John did take his eyes of his book. ‘Why should not a clergyman turn thief ... ...y to be better than that of other men, I think.’ ‘I deny it utterly,’ said John Walker. ‘I’ll undertake to say that at this moment there are more cler... ...then. Where is your mamma? T ell her I think I could get out as far as Mrs Cox’s, if she would help me dress.’ Soon after this he was in bed again, an...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. How did he get it? ?I can never bring myself to believe it, John,? said Mary Walker the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be d...

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The He Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

By: Mark Twain

...he paper, and gave him the document, and said “Here is a good thing for you, Cox—put it in.” “It may be too late, Mr. Richards, but I’ll see.” At home... ...—oh, if we had only waited a little, and not been in such a hurry!” Meantime Cox had gone home from his office and told his wife all about the strange... ...lanced fur tively at his hat, then at his wife—a sort of mute inquiry. Mrs. Cox swallowed once or twice, with her hand at her throat, then in place o... ...ad. In a moment she was alone, and mumbling to herself. And now Richards and Cox were hurrying through the deserted streets, from opposite directions.... ...inting office stairs; by the night light there they read each other’s face. Cox whispered: “Nobody knows about this but us?” The whispered answer was... ...s; at this moment they were overtaken by a boy, and Cox asked, “Is that you, Johnny?” “Yes, sir.” “You needn’t ship the early mail—nor any mail; wait... ...to that paper.” That brought the Chair to itself, and it read out the name: “John Wharton Billson.” “There!” shouted Billson, “what have you got to s...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...e period of time between Queen Anne and George II.—dines with Curll at St. John’s Gate, pinks Colonel Charteris in a duel behind Montague House, is in... ...e a meal of cow-heel at a neighboring cook’s shop. Their names were Samuel Johnson and Richard Savage. Meanwhile the conversation at Button’s was fast... ...ven so. An ancestress of ours made a mesalliance in the reign of your King John. Her name was Rebecca, daughter of Isaac of Y ork, and she mar- ried i... ... the duchess’s family, her kinsman old Lord Humpington, his friend old Sir John Fogey, and her cousin, the odious, odious Borodino. The Prince de Boro... ...ded fall.” III THE TALL FOOTMAN, number four, who had come in the place of John, cashiered, (for want of proper mollets, and because his hair did not ... ...ving done much in the gunning line (since when a hinnasent boy, me and Jim Cox used to go out at Healing, and shoot sparrers in the Edges with a pistl... ...ool, that flick- ers only over the cold black depths below! 346 Thackeray COX’S DIARY. THE ANNOUNCEMENT. ON THE 1ST OF JANUARY, 1838, I was the maste... ...ter of a lovely shop in the neighborhood of Oxford Market; of a wife, Mrs. Cox; of a business, both in the shaving and cutting line, estab- lished thr... ...lebrated mixture for the human hair, invented by my late uncle, and called Cox’s Bohemian Balsam of Tokay, sold in pots at two- and-three and three-an...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

... There he might have made the ac- quaintance of the prototype of his Friar John, a brother of the name of Buinart, afterwards Prior of Sermaize. He wa... ... of the fourth and fifth books, and notes. Nineteen years after his death, John Ozell, translator on a large scale of French, Ital- ian, and Spanish a... ...oured his dry bread with the smoke of the roast, and the judgment of Seyny John, truly worthy of Solomon? It comes from the Cento Novelle Antiche, rew... ...ssembled gospellers, will therein op- pose me. This genealogy was found by John Andrew in a meadow, which he had near the pole-arch, under the olive- ... ...els testify the joy of the whole world at the resurrection of our Saviour, John 20, and at his ascension, Acts 1. With the like colour of vesture did ... ...i jacet lepus. By my faith, Domine, if you will sup with me in cameris, by cox body, charitatis, nos faciemus bonum cherubin. Ego occiditunum porcum, ...

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A Treatise on Parents and Children

By: George Bernard Shaw

...her conceivable horror could provoke. With all our perverse nonsense as to John Smith living for a thousand 4 A Treatise on Parents and Children mill... ... to fiendish outbursts of wrath. No wonder men of downright sense, like Dr Johnson, admit that under such circumstances children will not learn anythi... ...ly beaten at school? No; but then I did not learn any- thing at school. Dr Johnson’s schoolmaster presumably did care enough whether Sam learned anyth... ... anything to beat him sav- agely enough to force him to lame his mind —for Johnson’s great mind was lamed—by learning his lessons. None of my schoolma... ... that I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns as Johnson did when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of hi... ...s a fairly healthy folly; and it may do some- thing to establish Mr Harold Cox’s claim of a Right to Roam as the basis of a much needed law compelling...

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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends ; Selected and Edited with Notes and Introd. By Sidney Colvin : Volume 1

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ent that it had for me: and that from a man cleaning a byre! Y ou see what John Knox and his schools have done. SA TURDAY . – This has been a charming... ...was out of the humour. Only, I am beginning to see some- thing great about John Knox and Queen Mary: I like them both so much, that I feel as if I cou... ... and a half: she speaks six languages. She and her sister (aet. 8) and May Johnstone (aet. 8) are the delight of my life. Last night I saw them all da... ...– that is the two Russian ladies, Robinet the French painter, Mr. and Mrs. Johnstone, two governesses, and fit- ful kids joining us at intervals – pla... ...L MENTONE, TUESDAY, 13TH JANUARY 1874. … I lost a Philipine to little Mary Johnstone last night; so to-day I sent her a rubbishing doll’s toilet, and ... ...e is the only man that I see to admire. I dedicate my New Arabs to him and Cox, in default of other great public characters. – Y ours ever most affect...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...ticulate way the glories of science. Poetry does not play its part. Behold John Keats, skilful with the surgeon’s knife; but when he writes poetry his... ...st the flood tide. Two fellows managed her. A young- ster of seventeen was cox (and a first-rate cox he was too); a fellow in a torn blue jersey, not ... ...ek somebody who knew Old Andy it would be (of all people in the world) Mr. John Galsworthy. For Mr. John Galsworthy, Andy, and myself have been shipma...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...assengers with him and his first wife, on the ship Mary 5 U. S. Grant and John, from Dorchester, England, in 1630. Mrs. Rockwell had several children... ...ield and worked for, and lived in the family of a Mr. Brown, the father of John Brown—”whose body lies mouldering in the grave, while his soul goes ma... ...e, while his soul goes marching on.” I have often heard my father speak of John Brown, particu- larly since the events at Harper’s Ferry. Brown was a ... ...es. From these he re- fused to receive any recompense. My mother’s father, John Simpson, moved from Montgom- ery County, Pennsylvania, to Clermont Cou... ...urney. About half my school-days in Georgetown were spent at the school of John D. White, a North Carolinian, and the father of Chilton White who repr... ...and on the 21st Goldsboro’ was entered. The column from Wilmington reached Cox’s Bridge, on the Neuse River, ten miles above Goldsboro’, on the 22d. B... ... Schofield on the 21st (crossing the Neuse River ten miles above there, at Cox’s Bridge, where General T erry had got possession and thrown a pontoon-...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...ginning to form about us, that are her children. But is there? If ever Dr. Johnson said a true word, it was when he replied to the Scottish judge Burn... ...th cen- tury, by comparison with our forefathers!’ ‘Oh, no, my Lord,’ said Johnson, ‘we are quite as strong as our ancestors, and a great deal wiser.’... ...his ghostly ugliness. The mouth, in that stage of the apocalypse which Sir John Herschel was able to arrest in his eighteen- inch mirror, is amply dev... ...these could be, seemed doubtful; but now, when further examinations by Sir John Herschel, at the Cape of Good Hope, have filled up the scat- tered out... ...ing from a fading remembrance of twenty-five years back a short bravura of John Paul Richter. I call it a bravura, as being intentionally a passage of... ...xposition of the Fi- nance Minister’s Budget. These ladies, and the French cox- comb, could at the utmost have claimed a distinction—such as that whic...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

... when coming up, dripping from the water, we were raised high into the air. John (that was the sailor’s name) thought the boom would go, every moment... ...ay the d—l with you.’’ As I still doubted, he said he would leave it to John, who was the oldest seaman aboard, and would know, if anybody did. J... ...; but I consented to have him called. The cook stated the matter to him, and John, as I antici- pated, sided with the cook, and said that he himself ... ...through the mill, ground, and bolted, and come out a regular built down east johnny cake, good when it’s hot, but when it’s cold, sour and indigestib... ...angue I remember well, for it made a strong impression, and the ‘‘downeast johnny cake’’ became a by word for the rest of the voyage. So much for ou... ...lcome to. Every man who has been three months at sea knows how to ‘‘work Tom Cox’s traverse’’—‘‘three turns round the long boat, and a pull at the sc...

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The Works of Aristotle

By: Aristotle

...favour from on high, Sarah conceived Isaac; Hannah, Samuel; and Elizabeth, John the Baptist; but these were all extraordinary things, brought to pass ... ...he reader may see by perusing the 14th and 19th chapters of Job and 5th of John. I shall, therefore, leave the further discussion of this matter to di... ...ells also. The penis has four muscles; two shorter ones springing from the Cox endix and which serve for erection, and on that account they are called... ...a yard in breadth, chafing the belly before it is swathed, with oil of St. John’s wort; after that raise up the matrix with a linen cloth, many times ... ...f the yolks of two eggs, and a quarter of a pint of white wine, oil of St. John’s wort, oil of roses, plantain and roses water, of each an ounce, mix ... ...nt with the decoction of mugwort, mallows, rosemary, with wood myrtle, St. John’s wort, each half an ounce, spermaceti two drachms, deer’s suet, an ou...

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The Clever Woman of the Family

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... would have led to the fact being known to the family man of business, Mr. Cox, the very last person to whom Rachel wished to confess the proceeding. ... ...the mother, instead of our being delivered up, bound hand and foot, to Mr. Cox. It would have been refreshing to have kept him now, if I could have do... ...I had more to say. This Martin is a man of very different calibre from old Cox, with a head and heart in London charities and churches, and it had str... ... beginning. We must do what we can. Or stay, it is the last chapter of St. John. I could hardly fail in that. Sit near me, and give me the word if I d...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...th-eastern coast of Africa, about one hundred miles to the eastward of St. John’s river, some quartz crystals with their edges blunted from attrition,... ... able to man or beast. Sir T. Mitchell states that the great valley of the Cox river with all its branches, contracts, where it unites with the Nepean...

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