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...om as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The question of the Seal. IX. The river pageant. X. The Prince in the toils. XI. At Guildhall. XII. The Prince and his deliverer. XIII. The disappearance of the Prince....

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...e is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own... ...ny responsibility for the mate- rial contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Prince and the Paupe... ...ocu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access ... ... by Mark Twain Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, to Lord Cromwell, on the birth of the Prince of Wales (afterward Edward VI.). From t... ...ce and the Pauper n the ancient city of London, on a certain au tumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor fa... ...h similar aggrandisements to other great servants of the Crown, the Council had resolved to hold a sitting on the 16th of February for the delivering ... ...t pursue his question, but went on with his budget— “The late King is to be buried at Windsor in a day or two—the 16th of the month—and the new King w... ...exercised it at the accession of James I. Before this one’s son chose to use the privi- lege, near a quarter of a century had elapsed, and the ‘privil... ...ondemned to be boiled to death. This Act was repealed in the following reign. In Germany, even in the seventeenth century, this horrible punishment wa...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ...rk Massacre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 67 Cutting In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 68 The Bla... ...ight make him self at home. But this fine young savage — this sea Prince of Wales, never saw the captain’s cabin. They put him down among the sailors, ... ...ellous features, pertaining to the wild business that for more than half a century she had followed. Old Captain Peleg, many years her chief mate, bef... ...issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851. By that circular, it appears that precisely such a chart is in ... ... Krusenstern’s famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning of the present century. Captain Langsdorff thus begins his seven teenth chapter. “By the ... ...olomon — Verily there is nothing new under the sun. In the sixth Christian century lived Procopius, a Christian magistrate of Con stantinople, in the...

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...NY OF THE INTERVIEW OF PRINCES ..................................................... 104 CHAPTER XIV THAT MEN ARE JUSTLY PUNISHED FOR BEING OBSTINATE IN THE DEFENCE OF A FORT THAT IS NOT IN REASON TO BE DEFENDED .......................................................................... 105 CHAPTER XV OF THE PUNISHMENT OF COWARDICE .............................................

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...Contents LOVE AND FREINDSHIP................................................. 4 AN UNFINISHED NOVEL IN LETTERS ................................................................................................................ 34 LESLEY CASTLE .......................................................................................

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...phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several Sta...

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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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...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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