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...LI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ... and she tried in vain to interest me in them; there was Miss Strickland’s Queens of England, a book I re- member with particular animosity, and Queec... ...nd voluminous, and succumbed very easily to a low shooter or an unexpected Yorker, hut usually he was caught early by long leg. The difficulty was to ... ...of Staten Island towards the towering vigour and clamorous vitality of New York City, that mood rose to its quintessence. And once it came to me, as I...

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...n Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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...nsas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills. Main Street is the climax of civilizat... ...isters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoev... ...els run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears. A breeze which had crossed a thousan... ...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... ...them by clenching his hands behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for peopl... ...dmit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a fellow that was too s... ...onations which a thousand million women, dairy wenches and mischief-making queens, had used before her, and which a million million women will know he... ...ay when on her hill by the Mississippi she had walked the battlements with queens. But the celebrated cinema jester’s conceit of dropping toads into a...

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...ity university. 3 Frank Norris The Pit A Story of Chicago By FRANK NORRIS NEW YO NEW YO NEW YO NEW YO NEW YORK RK RK RK RK 1903 1903 1903 1903 1903 D... ...The Pit A Story of Chicago By FRANK NORRIS NEW YO NEW YO NEW YO NEW YO NEW YORK RK RK RK RK 1903 1903 1903 1903 1903 Dedicated to My Brother Dedicated... ...American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat from the time of its sowing as seed in California to the time of its consum... ... in the preparation of the following novel are due to Mr. G. D. Moulson of New York, Whose unwearied patience and untiring kindness helped him to the ... ...the preparation of the following novel are due to Mr. G. D. Moulson of New York, Whose unwearied patience and untiring kindness helped him to the bett... ..., slow-moving press of men and women in evening dress filled the vestibule from one wall to an- other. A confused murmur of talk and the shuffling of ... ...tion and, while waiting, found a vague amusement in counting the number of people who filtered in single file through the wicket where the tickets wer... ...f. And such toi- lettes!” 7 Frank Norris With every instant the number of people increased; progress became impossible, except an inch at a time. The... ...d women in silks; rough fellows of the poorer streets, and gaudily dressed queens of obscure neighborhoods, while mixed with these one saw the faded a...

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...d blacksmith had their workshops. There was a group of children, the young people who were confided to the great Earl Richard and Countess Alice of Sa... ...ied to King Henry VI. Attendance on the patient had prevented the Countess from hearing the history of the accident, but presently the clatter of hors... ...too eager to accuse him. 6 Grisly Grisell “He took a bar of iron from the forge, so please you, my lord, and put it to the barrel of powder.... ...s accidental. The Lord of Whitburn himself was in Ireland with the Duke of York, while his lady was in atten- dance on the young Queen, and it was jud... ...r Madge, canst thou speak for him?” Madge was Edmund’s sister, Margaret of York, who stood trembling and crying by Grisell’s bed. 9 Charlotte M. Youn... ...ined to uphold royalty, while York was con- sidered as the champion of the people. The gentle King and the Beauforts wished for peace with France; the... ...eing likewise a very holy woman. The Earl and Countess would accompany the new bishop to be present at his enthronement and the ensuing banquet, and t... ... and then the chapter of nuns intended to proceed to the election of their new Abbess, unanimously agreeing that she should be their present Prioress,... ...the pageants splendid, that adorned those days of old; Stately dames, like queens attended, knights who bore the Fleece of Gold. —Longfellow, The Belf...

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...y was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses,... ...sting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses, homes—they seemed—for laughter and tranquillity. Over a concret... ...ete bridge fled a limousine of long sleek hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a L... ... hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure... ...elow the bridge curved a railroad, a maze of green and crimson lights. The New York Flyer boomed past, and twenty lines of polished steel leaped into ... ... the bridge curved a railroad, a maze of green and crimson lights. The New York Flyer boomed past, and twenty lines of polished steel leaped into the ... ...r poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His large head was pink, his brown hair thin an... ...ut this, say, this is corking! Beginning of the end for those fellows! New York Assembly has passed some bills that ought to completely outlaw the soc... ... swell, in just the same fine sort of jeans they wear at home, and all the queens with spiffy bonnets on their beans, and all the fellows standing rou...

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... met with the most considerate, most delicately ex- pressed criticism free from all antagonism and in its conclusions showing an insight which in itse... ... … There is, for instance, the kind of audacity almost indistinguish- able from impudence… . I must believe that in this case I have not been impudent... ...s of birth, position, and intelligence; who had only his sympathy with the people of forests and sea he un- derstood and loved so well. They can not b... ... called it— and I think so, too. Unless with Chinamen, or niggers, or such people as must be kept in order and won’t listen to reason; having not sens... ... of the heaven, a glory exalted, undimmed, and strangely startling as if a new world had been created during the short flight of the stormy cloud. It ... ...e opened his eyes with a start, it was just in time to see with surprise a new star soar noise- lessly straight up from behind the land, take up its p... ...on the days of calm. It was just because of that hesitation that a big New York ship, loaded with oil in cases for Japan, and passing through the Bill... ...on I am so anxious to conciliate. And you must not forget that one of your queens once stepped on the cloak of perhaps such a man.” Her eyes sparkled ...

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...racters in their classes, than by a too fastidious attention to originals. New York having but one county of Otsego, and the Susquehanna but one prope... ...ers in their classes, than by a too fastidious attention to originals. New York having but one county of Otsego, and the Susquehanna but one proper so... ...oon told. Otsego, in common with most of the interior of the prov- ince of New Y ork, was included in the county of Albany pre- viously to the war of ... ...eridional line drawn through the centre of the State. As the waters of New York flow either southerly into the Atlan- tic or northerly into Ontario an... ...heir passage. The Otsego is about nine miles in length, varying in breadth from half a mile to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid,... ...le to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid, and supplied from a thousand springs. At its foot the banks are rather less than thirty ... ...f God abound with that frequency which characterize a moral and reflecting people, and with that variety of exterior and canonical government which fl... ... deer where he pleased!—but if there is a law at all, it should be to keep people from the use of smooth-bores. A body never knows where his lead will... ...I’ve often heard the captain say, was an image of a great queen; and arn’t queens always comely, woman? for who do you think would be a king, and not ...

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...s and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, --that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listeni...

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...116 -- 22 THE GREAT BARN AND THE SHEEP-SHEARERS, 122 -- 23 EVENTIDE?A SECOND DECLARATION, 131 -- 24 THE SAME NIGHT? THE FIR PLANTATION, 137 -- 25 THE NEW ACQUAINTANCE DESCRIBED, 143 -- 26 SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD, 146 -- 27 HIVING THE BEES, 154...

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... . . 131 24 THE SAME NIGHT — THE FIR PLANTATION . . . . . . . . 137 25 THE NEW ACQUAINTANCE DESCRIBED . . . . . . . . . . . 143 26 SCENE ON THE VERGE ... ... vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, — that is, he went to church,... ... Oak remedied by thumps and shakes, and he es caped any evil consequences from the other two defects by constant comparisons with and observations of... ...ount of the exertion, and drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well. But some thoughtful persons, who had seen him walking across o... ...farmer.’ ‘And the greatest of them is — well, what it is always.’ ‘Beating people down? ay, ’tis so.’ ‘O no.’ ‘What, then?’ Gabriel, perhaps a little ... ...riel Oak, and he recognised his position clearly. The first movement in his new progress was the lambing of his ewes, and sheep having been his special... ...the clicking shears — a flush which was enviable, for its delicacy, by many queens of coteries, and would have been creditable, for its promptness, to ... ..., what was going on. ‘The Royal Hippodrome Performance of Turpin’s Ride to York and the Death of Black Bess,’ replied the man promptly, without turnin... ...ent and the announcement. Have you ever seen the play of ‘Turpin’s Ride to York?’ ‘Turpin was a real man, was he not?’ ‘O yes, perfectly true — all of...

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...members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen ...

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...o this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains... ...nce six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con ... ...con sider the extent of the valley of the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateau... ...ifty feet. But at Bayou La Fourche the river rises only twenty four feet; at New Orleans only fif teen, and just above the mouth only two and one hal... ...psed since the river took its place in history. The belief of the scientific people is, that the mouth used to be at Baton Rouge, where the hills ceas... ...d fifty years there had been white settlements on our Atlantic coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in the south the ... ... know it with absolute exactness. If you will take the longest street in New York, and travel up and down it, conning its features patiently until you... ... and picturesque ness drop gradually out of it as one travels away from New York.” I find that among my notes. It makes no difference which direction... ...g to an understanding with the two victims, he was to have given Backus four queens, but alas, he didn’t. Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 212 ...

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...oena Prima -- Flourish of Trumpets: Then Hoboyes. Enter King, Duke Humfrey, Salisbury, Warwicke, and Beau-ford on the one side. The Queene, Suffolke, Yorke, Somerset, and Buckingham, on the other. Suffolke. As by your high Imperiall Majesty, I had in charge at my depart for France, As Procurator to your Excellence, To marry Princes Margaret for your Grace; So in the Famous...

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...ke, and Beau-ford 4 on the one side. 5 The Queene, Suffolke, Yorke, Somerset, and Buckingham, 6 on the other. 7 Suffol... ...t Folio 40 Her words yclad with wisedomes Maiesty, 41 Makes me from Wondring, fall to Weeping ioyes, 42 Such is the Fulnesse of my h... ...he first Duke of Suffolke, 70 And girt thee with the Sword. Cosin of Yorke, 71 We heere discharge your Grace from being Regent 72 I’... ...hee with the Sword. Cosin of Yorke, 71 We heere discharge your Grace from being Regent 72 I’th parts of France, till terme of eighteene Mo... ...of Henry the Sixt Shakespeare: First Folio 86 His valour, coine, and people in the warres? 87 Did he so often lodge in open field: 88 ... ...e can: 115 But now it is impossible we should. 116 Suffolke, the new made Duke that rules the rost, 117 Hath giuen the Dutchy of Aniou... ...itch your hearts, be wise and circumspect. 165 What though the common people fauour him, 166 Calling him, Humfrey the good Duke of Gloster,... ...tate, 263 Till Henrie surfetting in ioyes of loue, 264 With his new Bride, & Englands deere bought Queen, 265 And Humfrey with the Pe... ...athedrall Church of Westminster, 312 And in that Chaire where Kings & Queens wer crownd, 313 Where Henrie and Dame Margaret kneel’d to me,...

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...hester, great uncle to the King. (CARDINAL:) RICHARD PLANTAGENET : Duke of York. (YORK:) EDWARD and RICHARD: his sons DUKE OF SOMERSET : (SOMERSE... ... SALISBURY, WARWICK, and CARDINAL, on the one side; QUEEN MARGARET, SUFFOLK, YORK, SOMERSET, and BUCKINGHAM, on the other .] SUFFOLK: As by your high... ...h; but her grace in speech, Her words y clad with wisdom’s majesty, Makes me from wondering fall to weeping joys; Such is the fulness of my heart’s co... ..., And gird thee with the sword. Cousin of York, We here discharge your grace from being regent I’ the parts of France, till term of eighteen months Be... ...ll the land. What! did my brother Henry spend his youth, His valor, coin and people, in the wars? Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter’s col... ...we will keep it, if we can; But now it is impossible we should: Suffolk, the new made duke that rules the roast, Hath given the duchy of Anjou and Mai... ...g words Bewitch your hearts; be wise and circumspect. What though the common people favor him, Calling him ‘Humphrey, the good Duke of Gloucester,’ Cl... ...o the secrets of the state; Till Henry, surfeiting in joys of love, With his new bride and England’s dear bought queen, And Humphrey with the peers be... ...ty In the cathedral church of Westminster, And in that chair where kings and queens are crown’d; Where Henry and dame Margaret kneel’d to me And on my...

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...ew moments, was already absorbed in a book. The gentleman had not even needed to sit down to become interested: apparently he had taken up the volume from a table as soon as he came in, and, standing there, after a single glance round the apartment, had lost himself in its pages. He threw it down at the approach of Mrs. Luna, laughed, shook hands with her, and said in answ...

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...eded to sit down to become interested: apparently he had taken up the volume from a table as soon as he came in, and, standing there, after a single g... ...resenting himself with rather a work a day aspect. Mrs. Luna glanced at him from head to foot, and gave a little smiling sigh, as if he had been a lo... ...hink much about Europe, and that he had always supposed she was domiciled in New York. This last remark he made at a venture, for he had, naturally, n... ... much about Europe, and that he had always supposed she was domiciled in New York. This last remark he made at a venture, for he had, naturally, not d... ...s dishonesty, however, only exposed him the more. ‘If you thought I lived in New York, why in the world didn’t you come and see me?’ the lady inquired... ...shonesty, however, only exposed him the more. ‘If you thought I lived in New York, why in the world didn’t you come and see me?’ the lady inquired. ‘W... ...gin life afresh. One didn’t even know what one had come back for. There were people who wanted one to spend the winter in Boston; but she couldn’t sta... ...ed from the doorway. ‘The amount of thought they give to their clothing, the people who are afraid of looking frivolous!’ Chapter 2 W hether much or ... ...ted with power and had not always used it amiably, who brought up the wicked queens, the profligate mistresses of kings. These ladies were easily dispo...

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...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ...t failed to express his ideas or feel- ings, he forced it—the result was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from ha... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...was for a young man, the son of the favourite of a King long dead,—with no new friends at Court,—to acquire some personal value of his own. She succee... ...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ...h to bursting with fish. He was a great eater, like the King, and like the Queens his mother and grand- mother. He had not appeared after supper, but ... ... of a hundred 333 Saint-Simon guns. The English of New England and of New York were not more successful in Acadia; they attacked our colony twelve da... ... from Queen Anne, “My aunt,” she said, “you must admit that in England the queens govern better than the kings, and do you know why, my aunt?” asked s...

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...of Wales, (PRINCE EDWARD:) afterwards King Edward V., and RICHARD: Duke of York, (YORK:) sons to the King. GEORGE: Duke of Clarence, (CLARENCE:) an... ... : Archbishop of Canterbury. (CAR DINAL:) THOMAS ROTHERHAM: Archbishop of York. (ARCH BISHOP OF YORK:) JOHN MORTON : Bishop of Ely. (BISHOP OF EL... ...it your godfathers: O, belike his majesty hath some intent That you shall be new christen’d in the Tower. But what’s the matter, Clarence? may I know... ...I do not: but, as I can learn, He hearkens after prophecies and dreams; And from the cross row plucks the letter G. And says a wizard told him that b... ...Woodville, her brother there, That made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower, From whence this present day he is deliver’d? We are not safe, Clarence; ... ...eaven, If heaven will take the present at our hands. But who comes here? the new deliver’d Hastings? [Enter HASTINGS .] HASTINGS: Good time of day un... ...hem; And ask’d the mayor what meant this wilful silence: His answer was, the people were not wont To be spoke to but by the recorder. Then he was urge... ...’ll salute your grace of York as mother, And reverend looker on, of two fair queens. [To LADY ANNE .] Come, madam, you must straight to Westminster, T... ... murder: for my daughters, Richard, They shall be praying nuns, not weeping queens; And therefore level not to hit their lives. KING RICHARD III : Y...

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...thing of his own over and above; a good deal confined, by his infirmities, to his fireside and delighted to be found there any afternoon in the year, from five o?clock on, by such visitors as Brooksmith allowed to come up....

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... his fireside and delighted to be found there any after- noon in the year, from five o’clock on, by such visitors as Brooksmith allowed to come up. Br... ... had been too much liked—liked even by those who didn’t like it—so that as people of that sort never get titles or dotations for the horrid things the... ...ence, in some degree, it is true, of physical infir- mity—that if you wish people to find you at home you must manage not to be out. He had in short a... ... and deep must such a probation have been to him, and he doubtless emerged from it tempered and purified. This was written to a certain extent in his ... ...t, in silence. I thought he looked lean and wasted, and I guessed that his new place wasn’t more “human” than his previous one. There was plenty of be... ...take it as a rare honour. I went the next day—his messenger had given me a new address—and found my friend lodged in a short sor- did street in Maryle... ... she took naturally one of the attitudes in which court-painters represent queens and princesses; so that I found myself wondering whether, to draw ou... ...a future, whose early work would some day have a price, by a lady from New York, a friend of his own people and also, as it happened, of Addie’s, the ... ...f curiosity, had often put it to him frankly, with what he, who was of New York, recognised as her New England emphasis: “I’m not sure, you know, that...

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...Woolf The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf Chapter I A s the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk... ...backs. The small, agitated figures—for in comparison with this couple most people looked small— decorated with fountain pens, and burdened with des- p... ... beyond the reach of malice and unpopularity. In his guess one might guess from the moving lips that it was thought; and in hers from the eyes fixed s... ...orn- ing all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently pain- ful. After watching the traffi... ...olume of Pindar when Willoughby was launching his first ship. They built a new factory the very year the commentary on Aristotle—was it?—appeared at t... ...They had dropped anchor in the mouth of the Tagus, and instead of cleaving new waves perpetu- ally, the same waves kept returning and washing against ... ...though the people of England must be shaped in the body like the kings and queens, knights and pawns of the chessboard, so strange were their differen... ...azine she had been looking at, and this the very picture, a picture of New York by lamplight. How odd it seemed—nothing had changed. By degrees a cert...

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...The Nibelungenlied, translated by Daniel B. Shumway (Houghton-Mifflin Co., New York, 1909). PREFACE This work has been undertaken in the belief that a... ...Nibelungenlied, translated by Daniel B. Shumway (Houghton-Mifflin Co., New York, 1909). PREFACE This work has been undertaken in the belief that a lit... ...ss complete MSS., preserved in thirty-one fragments, fifteen of which date from the thirteenth and four- teenth centuries. Of all these MSS., but nine... ...ty of the “Nibelungenlied”, the poem was soon forgotten by the mass of the people. With the decay of courtly chivalry and the rise of the prosperous c... ... age, curious as to the literature of its ancestors, should bring it forth from its hiding places. However, the figures of the old legend were not for... ..., the figures of the old legend were not forgotten, but lived on among the people, and were fi- nally embodied in a popular ballad, “Das Lied vom Hurn... ...lso along the rocky fjords of Norway, among the Angles and Saxons in their new home across the channel, even in the distant Shetland Islands and on th... ...After a second conversation on the subject had increased the hatred of the queens, Brynhild plans vengeance. Pretending to be ill, she takes to her be... ...work, a thing which is rather difficult to imagine. The quarrel of the two queens is likewise very differently depicted in the “Nibelungenlied” 23 Th...

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...n the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry. When I go upon my jour- neys, I am not usually rated at a low figure in the... ... I travel for the great house of Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always w... ...rising and falling of the Tug-steamer, the Lighter, and the boat—the turning of the windlass—the coming in of the tide—that I myself seemed, to my own... ...f as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wales. I had heard of that clergy- man, as having buried many sc... ... little garden in coming out to meet me, not half an hour ago. So cheerful of spirit and guiltless of affectation, as true practical Christianity ever... ...the way was steep, and a horse and cart (in which it was wrapped in a sheet) were necessary, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was... ...en very successful abroad, and was now returning to fulfil his sacred vow; he brought all his property with him in gold uninsured. We heard from him w... ...; but whose intellectual quali- ties in association with dramatic fiction, I cannot rate high. Indeed, he is too honest for the profession he has ente... ... more or less in the condition of those inside it, every night of our lives? Are we not nightly persuaded, as they daily are, that we associate prepos...

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...not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster... ...ed or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richards... ...ked fangs.” Montgomery’s Pelican Island. “Io! Paean! Io! sing, To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ... the Pacific Ocean. ” By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York. 1821. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was pipin... ... Pacific Ocean. ” By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York. 1821. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was piping fr... ...pen the haunts of the whale, the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpubli... ...t me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I... ...e not be blameworthy? It is well known that at the coronation of kings and queens, even modern ones, a certain curious process of seasoning them for t... ...l oils? Think of that, ye loyal Britons! we whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff! Chapter 26 Knights and Squires T he chief ma...

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...s not true.” —Hackluyt “Whale. ... Sw. and Dan. Hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. Hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —W ebst... ...ed or vaulted.” —W ebster’ s Dictionary “Whale. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richard... ...— Montgomery’ s World before the Flood. “Io! Paean! Io! sing. To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...the pacific ocean.” By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ... ...pacific ocean.” By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ing ... ... of the whale, 12 Moby Dick the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.” —From “Some- thing” unpu... ...me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knock- ing people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I c... ...e not be blameworthy? It is well known that at the coronation of kings and queens, even modern ones, a certain curious process of seasoning them for t... ...l oils? Think of that, ye loyal Britons! we whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff! CHAPTER 26 Knights and Squires T HE CHIEF MAT...