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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...ry Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...d me to see where I am particularly deficient, viz. general knowl- edge of history, and a thorough acquaintance with Greek and Roman customs, law cour... ...n making out a stiff bit of Greek or Latin if I have time, but I must read History chiefly this year, and then I hope to be selected next time. My tut... ...gher than that of most men: his nature was prone to introspection, and his constitutional inertness rendered it so difficult for him to live up to his... ...ood common sense, and a well-read man). But I of course want to be reading history as well, and that involves a good deal; physical geography , geolog... ... the Matins were daily, and followed by a lecture. At this time Patteson’s constitutional shrinking from gen- eral society was in full force, and he a... ... all, and many , many more were dying, emaciated, cough- ing, fainting; no constitutional vigour of body, nor any mutton broth, or beef tea, or jellie...

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...roduction: Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason....

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...s One through Twenty-five) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- ... ...y. This Portable Document file is fur- nished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... and her awful sister will never issue therefrom into this little world of history. But as we are to see a great deal of Amelia, there is no harm in s... ...he took Amelia’s hand into his own, and as he let his cocked hat fall. His history since he left school, until the very moment when we have the pleasu... ...res- ently in the same regiment. They had served in the West Indies and in Canada. Their regiment had just come home, and the attachment of Dobbin to ... ...rybody’s life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history? Let us then step into the coach with the Russell Square party, and... ...lege, Cambridge), can instruct in the Syriac language, and the elements of Constitutional law. But as she is only eigh- teen years of age, and of exce... ...rd enough to pur- chase his majority—or he must sell out and go and dig in Canada, or rough it in a cottage in the country.” With such a 194 V anity ...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more i...

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