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... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ...assemblage of at least a thousand persons, sixty of whom were said to be privy councillors. There were also four Turkish envoys, dressed in robes of s... ...m improbable, when the fact is remembered that from the most northern point of Scotland to the southern capes of Iceland, the distance is less than fi...

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...Unknown to History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland By Charlotte M Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publi... ...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. Unknown To History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scottlan... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... Charlotte M. Yonge Unknown to History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland By Charlotte M Yonge PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE ... ...d’s Life of Mary Queen of Scots, or p. 100, vol. v. of Burton’s History of Scotland, will be found the report on which this tale is founded. If circum... ...n guilty, and wished to shield that guilt from being proclaimed, while her councillors, in their dread of the captive, wished to enhance the crime in ...

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...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The ...

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE......................

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...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...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. Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Qu... ...is an equal opportunity university. Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4... ...ND AND AND 1844 1844 1844 1844 1844 A GREAT REVOLUTION has taken place in Scotland. A greater has been threatened. Nor is that danger even yet certai... ...clesiastical administrations of the two kingdoms. And the church courts of Scotland do not exist in England. We write, therefore, with an express view... ...existed, it would have been assigned to burglars, and by no means to privy-councillors; as again our English prefix of ‘Venerable’ would have been set...

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...nts and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. In the present case, it is scarcely necessary to do more than refer to the almost unique relations that subsisted between Henry V. and his prisoner, James I. of Scotland; who lived with him throughout his reign on the terms o...

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... at as their natal place. But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he contents himself with wishing not to be in their skin, for he would be disgusted with himself, and esteem himself the vilest of scribblers thus to calumniate a poor little book which is not in the style of any spoil-paper of these times....

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... THE SUCCUBUS ............................................................................................................................ 91 DESPAIR IN LOVE ...................................................................................................................... 137 EPILOGUE ........................................................................................

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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. Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mil... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...eaknesses of the people or of the state of civiliza tion, the One and his councillors, or the Few, are not likely to be habitually exempt; except in ... ...nto consideration in selecting persons for the office of vestrymen or town councillors, many of those who are fit test for that more limited duty wou... ... the other hand, it is also a maxim of experience that in the multitude of councillors there is wisdom, and that a man seldom judges right, even in hi... ...seems necessary that they should all be under the same king. En gland and Scotland were a federation of this description dur ing the interval of abo... ... any obstacle to legislative unity, is proved by the case of En gland and Scotland. Perhaps, however, this undisturbed co existence of two legal sys...

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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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...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attem...

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...Y H. G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...e of any kind. Any per- son 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. Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...action. Something of this kind is to a slight degree already the case with Scotland, which sends out its hardy and capable sons wherever the world has... ...issioner of Police of the Metropolis. “Metropolitan Police Office, “New Scotland Yard, “January 28th, 1902.” 72 Mankind in the Making IV IV ... ...e. They know that if they can boast a knighthood or a baronetcy or a Privy Councillorship, they will taste day by day and every day that respect, that... ...men, to a much greater extent than are your guardians, your urban district councillors and town councillors and so on, at present, because there will ...

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...of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction, so that not the smallest ...

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...?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29 -- CHAPTER VII? MISCELLANEOUS-HISTORICAL, 31 -- CHAPTER VIII? THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES, 34 -- CHAPTER IX? ADAMITISM, 39 -- CHAPTER X? PURE REASON, 43 -- CHAPTER XI? PROSPECTIVE, 47 -- ...

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...— CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . . . . . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BOOK III 133 CHAPTER I — INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 133 CHAPTER II — CHURCH CLOTHES . .... ...ne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps mo... ... Noir languidly emits its voice of destiny to haggard hungry Villains; while Councillors of State sit plotting, and playing their high chess game, whe... .... “Did not King Toomtabard, or, in other words, John Baliol, reign long over Scotland; the man John Baliol being quite gone, and only the ‘Toom Tabard... ...d, chiefly in scorn by those of other communions, the Ragged Beggar Sect. In Scotland, again, I find them entitled Hallanshakers, or the Stook of Duds ...

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............................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II RELATES H...

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