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Frate Cu Meridianele Si Paralelele, Vol. 2

By: Florentin Smarandache

...Tucson. Din nou drumuri de aer: zbor spre Las Vegas, schimb avionul spre New York, apoi iau bus-ul (autobuzul) spre Bloomsburg, unde m-a şteapt ă p... ...on. Din nou drumuri de aer: zbor spre Las Vegas, schimb avionul spre New York, apoi iau bus-ul (autobuzul) spre Bloomsburg, unde m-a şteapt ă profe... ...vion. M ă tot chinui. Mai cuc ăi, mai a ţipesc... şi trece noaptea... “New York, New York!” M ă plimb pe 42 nd Street (Stada a 42-a). Din Queen... .... M ă tot chinui. Mai cuc ăi, mai a ţipesc... şi trece noaptea... “New York, New York!” M ă plimb pe 42 nd Street (Stada a 42-a). Din Queens, ... ... mi-ar mai pl ăcea s ă tr ăiesc în a şez ări reduse! (te plictise şti)... Easton, Hazleton, Bloomsburg... Merg cu un van (“Surquehanna Trailways”),... ...doxiste” – nu! Am cinat la Restaurantul “Russells”, cel mai select din town (ora ş), cu tot Departamentul de Matematic ă, plus vreo şapte-opt stu... ...eten de-al lor). Mihai şi-a f ăcut home-page, a învăţat la Pima College (East Campus, unde predasem eu) şi-a pus acolo fotbali şti români: portarul... ... imediat (eliberat de toxine am sim ţit c ă şi sl ăbesc). Norfolk, Hampton, Williamsburg formeaz ă o zon ă militar ă (cu baz ă naval ă, baz ă... ...ie spa ţial ă francez ă – rival ă) nu-i d ă voie. Chiar şi venirea lui la Hampton a ţinut-o sub t ăcere... Pentru mine, cet ăţean american, n-a fos...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...on itself wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the ... ...ety, the advancers of the social life at Williams; heroes of the Williams- town fire department and Doctor Barrett, we welcome you to this last confli... ...tunate that we have scarcely any light this even ing; the old moon and the new must be hiding behind Jesup But, fortunately, Diogenes Hughes has promi... ...pt Dompsoy's 'pep- per mill.' The senior committee has provided, as in New York theaters, safe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illus... ...ni which is to take place in the near future. The following alumni wore in town last week : Brown '04, Ayers, Cantwell, Fieischmann, Holroyd, WooHter ... ...in the Louvre, at Paris. College ConfereDce The third nnnual conference of eastern college men on the oppor- tunities and work of the Christian minist... ...ly close, but the Ohio State ehuinpions- the only western team which eanie east this your—were at the small entl of a to 7 score after Allen throw a s... ...eet North Adams M Frequently Represented in Williamstown by Mr Bradman THE HAMPTON Adjacent to Post Office European Pian, $1 anilUp American Plan, $2.... ...eet North Adams M Frequently Represented in Williamstown by Mr Bradman THE HAMPTON European Plan, $1andUp American Plan, $2,50 to$4 a. Am Keelor, Prop...

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What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know : About Where to Invest Your Money

By: Lillian R. Villanova

...ts This book would never have been written but for the fortuitous referral of a new client for whom I did some consulting and marketing work. A rem... ...ere are a number of ways to proceed. Some of the choices can be confusing to the new investor. Laid out in a step-by-step format, this chapter will ... ... the process and spoken with or visited many counties in a number of states both east and west of the Mississippi. This book is written from the pe... ... with an eye toward getting the properties, such as in California or upstate New York where the counties auction the deed to the property. Or, you c... ...ty? Do you want residential or commercial property? Do you know which parts of town are more or less desirable? The property descriptions will gi... ...d Sales, ask which governmental entity does. You may find the local Cities and towns conduct the sales or that it is handled by the state, 3. Wher... ... Winston Alaska: Tax Deed State 27 Counties (called boroughs) Aleutian Islands East, Aleutian Islands West, Anchorage, Angoon, Barrow, Bethel, Bri... ... Skagway-Yakutat, Southeast Fairbanks, Upper Ukon, Valdez-Chitina- Whittier, Wade-Hampton, Wrangell-Petersburg, Yukon-Koyukuk Arizona:Tax Lien Certif... ..., Dorchester, Edgefield, Fairfield, Florence, Georgetown, Greenville, Greenwood, Hampton, Horry, Jasper, Kershaw, Lancaster, Laurens, Lee, Lexington...

...urn being equal to high risk to the side. What I’m about to tell you could turn the way you think about investing upside down. Are you open-minded to new ways of thinking? Are you ready to step out of the box? Ever think about how banks and insurance companies invest their money? Ever think about how much money they make on your savings or insurance premiums? We all know ...

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In the Days of the Comet

By: H. G. Wells

... beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple... ...nd I am out of touch with my youth. The old life seems so cut off from the new, so alien and so unreasonable, that at times I find it bordering upon t... ...hip came into being. (Swathinglea, Clayton, and Overcastle were contiguous towns, I should mention, in the great in- dustrial area of the Midlands.) W... ...a beerhouse or so, and round until all the valley in which four industrial towns lay crowded and confluent was overlooked. I will admit that with the ... ...et threw up all the con- tours and skyline to the west, and the comet rose eastward out of the pouring tumult of smoke from Bladden’s forges. The moon... ...ung about in what looks like a free fight, and off with a rush and clatter east, west, north, and south. The interest passes outwardly; the men from t... ...id. I handed the envelope back to him. “For a moment I thought it might be Hampton,” I said. “Hampton,” he repeated. “Hampton. How could you make Hamp... ...rs staggered, dropped, and were still. The figure runs from my pen. In New York that very thing occurred. Most of the theatrical audiences dispersed, ... ... had any had eyes to see its clearness. In London it was night, but in New York, for example, people were in the full bustle of the evening’s enjoymen...

...miles away marks a city. All the appointments of this room were orderly and beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple costume the man wore suggested neither period nor country. It might, I thought, be the Happy Future, or Utopia, or the Land of Simple Dreams; an erra...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 7 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...es as many captured at Gettysburg, to say nothing of similar operations in East Ten- nessee. These papers contain altogether thirty—one manu- script ... ...all. He has in no form announced anything recently in regard to troops in New York, except in his letter to Governor Seymour of October 21, which has... ... He has in no form announced anything recently in regard to troops in New York, except in his letter to Governor Seymour of October 21, which has bee... ...d dollars commutation is liable to be immedi- ately drafted again, or that towns that have just raised the money to pay their quotas will have again t... ...ve again to be subject to similar taxation or suffer the operations of the new conscription, nor it is probable that the like of them ever will be ann... ...e Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven ANNOUNCEMENT OF UNION SUCCESS IN EAST TENNESSEE. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., De- cember 7, 1863. ... ...al Districts, and it would overwhelm us to attempt in counties, cities and towns. Nevertheless we do what we can to oblige in particular cases. In t... ...stant, requesting information in relation to a conference recently held in Hampton Roads, I have the honor to state that on the day of the date I gave... ... Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven On the night of the 2nd I reached Hampton Roads, found the Secretary of State and Major Eckert on a steamer a...

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A Child's History of England

By: Charles Dickens

...T A M AP of the World, you will see, in the left hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemi sphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Sc... ...ges, no streets, no houses that you would think de serving of the name. A town was nothing but a collection of straw covered huts, hidden in a thick ... ...ens 13 Chertsey, in Surrey; there was a battle fought near a marshy little town in a wood, the capital of that part of Britain which belonged to Cassi... ...ace, after this, for sev enty years. A Child’s Histroy of England 16 Then new enemies arose. They were the Sax ons, a fierce, sea faring people from... ...chiefs, came pouring into Britain. One body, conquering the Britons in the East, and settling there, called their kingdom Essex; another body settled ... ...the first time, called the country over which he ruled, England. And now, new enemies arose, who, for a long time, troubled England sorely. These wer... ...ght in which the English were commanded by two nobles; and then be sieged York. Harold, who was waiting for the Normans on the coast at Hastings, wit... ...as amusing himself with archery in the garden of the magnificent Palace at Hampton Court, which that very Wolsey had presented to him. The greatest em... ...y, under the name of a conference, met, first at York, and af terwards at Hampton Court. In its presence Lord Lennox, Darnley’s father, openly charge...

...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 little neighboring islands, which are...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

............................................ 159 X. ON MR ELIJAH FENTON,83 AT EASTHAMSTEAD, IN BERKS, 1730.................................................. ... mother was Edith or Editha T urner, daughter of William T urner, Esq., of York. Mr Carruthers, in his excellent Life of the Poet, mentions that there... ... in his studies, and when his verses did not please him, sent him back to “new turn” them, saying, “These are not good rhymes.” His prin- cipal favour... ...upposed to have initiated Pope into some of the fashionable follies of the town. At this time, Pope’s popularity roused one of his most formidable foe... ...re known or heard of—(MacFlecknoe, the Re- hearsal, &c.)—were mercy to the new tempest of havoc which burst from the brain of this remorseless poet. A... ...ferent styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in ... ...rs, There stands a structure of majestic frame, Which from the neighb’ring Hampton takes its name. Here Britain’s statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of f... ... the dismal dome. No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows, The dreaded east is all the wind that blows; 20 Here in a grotto, s... ...he rising fire. ‘O wretched maid!’ she spread her hands, and cried, (While Hampton’s echoes ‘wretched maid!’ replied) 33 ‘Winds:’ see Odyssey. 34 ‘T...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...nowledge the kindness with which it has been received in all the principal towns of England through which the Show has passed, and where it has been m... ...Sambo, the black servant, has just rung the bell; and the coach- man has a new red waistcoat.” “Have you completed all the necessary preparations inci... ...Thus the world began for these two young ladies. For Amelia it was quite a new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. It was not quite a... ...Joseph Sedley was twelve years older than his sister Amelia. He was in the East India Company’s Civil Service, and his name appeared, at the period of... ...e appeared, at the period of which we write, in the Bengal division of the East India Register, as collector of Boggley W ollah, an honourable and luc... ...dia he was too young to partake of the delightful pleasures of a man about town, and plunged into them on his return with consid- erable assiduity. He... ...boy embarked for Canada, he gave the officers such a dinner as the Duke of York might have sat down to. Had he ever refused a bill when George drew on... ...re. Our old friend, Miss Swartz, and her husband came thundering over from Hampton Court, with flam- ing yellow liveries, and was as impetuously fond ...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...Union by his successful operations on the lower Mississippi and capture of New Orleans. Believing that no occasion could arise which would more fully ... ...- ture since 21st December, 1861, of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of various rebel gunboats, rams, etc.… TO ... ...m an equal number for the same purpose. I directed the comman- dant at New York to purchase or charter and arm an equal number. I directed Commander G... ...e told me that within a reasonable time you would seize the railroad at or east of Knoxville, Tenn., if you could. There was then in the department a ... ...in 300 miles of Knoxville, nor within 80 miles of any part of the railroad east of it, and not moving forward, but telegraphing here that you could no... ...ix’s pickets are at New Kent Court-House. A. LINCOLN. CALL FOR TROOPS. NEW YORK, June 30, 1862. TO THE GOVERNORS OF THE SEVERAL STATES: The capture of... ...py delivered to Major-General Halleck, September 3, 1862, at 10 p.m. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant-Adjutant General. 124 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln:... ... to the adjutant-general of the army. By order of the Secretary of War: D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General TO GENERAL J. HOOKER. EXECUTIVE MANSIO... ...-GENERAL Dix, Fort Monroe, V a.: What iron-clads, if any, have gone out of Hampton Roads within the last two days? A. LINCOLN. 241 The Writings of Ab...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...Gam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 54 The Town Ho’s Story(As told at the Golden Inn.) . . . . . . . . 237 55 Of the M... ...much the more shall ye for ever go thankless! Would that I could clear out Hampton Court and the Tuileries for ye! But gulp down your tears and hie al... ... 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... ...her surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme down town is the Battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled b... ...landers all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues — north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite. Tell me, does the magnetic ... ...st unknown sea. Because Joppa, the modern Jaffa, shipmates, is on the most easterly coast of the Mediterranean, the Syrian; and Tarshish or Cadiz more... ...t jet is so often descried by passengers crossing the Atlantic, in the New York packet tracks. In the length he attains, and in his baleen, the Fin b...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...uch the more shall ye for ever go thankless! W ould that I could clear out Hampton Court and the Tuileries for ye! But gulp down your tears and hie al... ...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... ...l, northward. What do you see?—Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries.... ...landers all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets and av- enues—north, east, south, and west. Y et here they all unite. Tell me, does the magnetic... ...t this hour of the night, of the last day of the week, that quarter of the town proved all but deserted. But 20 Moby Dick presently I came to a smoky... ...st unknown sea. Because Joppa, the modern Jaffa, shipmates, is on the most easterly coast of the Mediterranean, the Syrian; and Tarshish or Cadiz more...

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Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ost of these pensions and all the other expenses of Government fell on the townspeople and peasantry, since the clergy and the nobles to all generatio... ...iving real pain, and I liked him much better than his brother, the Duke of York, who was proud and sullen. Yet one could always trust the Duke, and th... ...d of course I was listening most anxiously for all I could gather about my new 16 Stray Pearls life. If I remember right, it was an envoy-extraordina... ...ver them, and birds’ nests in curi- ous places. My Viscount laughed with a new pleasure when I showed him the wren’s bright eye peeping out from her n... ...rrying the striped and castellated colours of Spain, galloping through the town, followed by universal shouts and acclamations. My man-servant, Nicole... ...er ladies of the bedchamber; and then we spoke of King Charles, who was at Hampton Court, trying to make terms with the Parlia- ment, and my brother s... ...and all the good news that we could hear from England was that the Duke of York had escaped in a girl’s dress, and was on board the fleet at helvoetsl... ... in the road we saw only the morning star hanging like a great lamp in the east, and I showed it to the little boys, and told them of the three kings ... ...d afterwards that the little Chevalier thought we saw the real Star in the East sent to guide us to St. Germain, forgetting that it was the wrong dire...

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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And the Heroic in History

By: Thomas Carlyle

... with a name dismiss it from us. T o the wild deep-hearted man all was yet new, not veiled under names or formulas; it stood naked, flashing in on him... ...s he wrote, a kind of Prose Synopsis of the whole Mythology; elucidated by new fragments of traditionary verse. A work constructed really with 18 Tho... ...vasions there were: and this, of course, in a greater proportion along the east coast; and greatest of all, as I find, in the North Country. From the ... ...siastic in the Arab character. The Per- sians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a pe... ... pilgrimings of all tribes of Arabs thither, that Mecca took its rise as a Town. A great town once, though much decayed now. It has no natural ad- van... ...at town once, though much decayed now. It has no natural ad- vantage for a town; stands in a sandy hollow amid bare barren hills, at a distance from t... ...he Nations of Englishmen, a thousand years hence. From Paramatta, from New York, wheresoever, under what sort of Parish-Constable soever, En- glish me... ...ir own existence; but it could not be. The unhappy Charles, in those final Hampton-Court negotiations, shows himself as a man fatally incapable of be-...

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Best of Freshman Writing 1 Best of Freshman Writing

By: Lucy Morrison

...ors: Liz Wright – HN Suzanne Harper – SW Assistant Editor: David Russell – York Special Editorial Board Advisors: Sandra Gleason (Ass. Dean for Facult... ...of all it’s hard to say, and that means it’s hard to re- member. We need a new name, something catchy that also tells folks something about what we’re... ...growing imagination. Located approximately twenty minutes from the nearest town, Hobbie pro- vided me with a safe haven from busy streets, fast cars, ... ... Campground. Dur- ing the winter months the campground looked like a ghost town out of an old west- ern. However, once summer began, the campground wa... ...h the kids who camped regularly at the campground. They came from Florida, New Jersey, Maine, and many other states. We would ride our bikes, play in ... ... check in and out. Best of Freshman Writing 6 Kristy Kitching English 4 – York campus Cigar Molds I gaze at my grandparents’ cigar molds, which are d... ... person is the United States. The reason for extreme poverty in the Middle East is because of the extreme wealth concentrated among a very few. The to... ...lth concentrated among a very few. The top classes of people in the Middle East are living in castles and palaces, while many Afghans are homeless. Os... ... where the biggest story is about one missing person or a car crash in the Hamptons? We’re not going to be living in that America for a long time to c...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

... Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in ... ...8) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadapta... ...nt Inquiry, whose fine work helped us get started.We thank the City of New York for assistance with documents and witnesses, and the Government Printi... ... Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States. Millions of men and women readied themselves for wor... ...in. Around this time Sweeney told W oodward that the hijackers were Middle East- erners, naming three of their seat numbers. One spoke very little Eng... ..., including Flight 93, warning of cockpit intrusion and telling of the New York attacks. But even without them, he would cer- tainly have understood t... ...ional Guard Base in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Langley Air Force Base in Hampton,Virginia. 100 Other facilities, not on “alert, ” would need time to... ...m the critical principals meeting on this strike (he was apparently out of town); his deputy, John Gordon, was representing the CIA. Gordon recalled h... ...Ghamdi, Hamza al Ghamdi, and Ahmad al Haznawi—came from a cluster of three towns in the al Bahah region, an isolated and underdeveloped area of Saudi ...

...WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...ng they will meet the approval of the reader. U. S. Grant Mount MacGregor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERIC... ...hey will meet the approval of the reader. U. S. Grant Mount MacGregor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERICAN, ... ...colony for more than forty years. He was also, for many years of the time, town clerk. He was a married man when he arrived at Dorchester, but his chi... ...n were all born in this country. His eldest son, Samuel, took lands on the east side of the Connecticut River, opposite Windsor, which have been held ... ...is he emigrated to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and settled near the town of Greensburg in that county. He took with him the younger of his two ... ...3 we moved to Georgetown, the county seat of Brown, the ad- joining county east. This place remained my home, until at the age of seventeen, in 1839, ... ...ountered a ferocious dog that frightened the horses and made them run. The new animal kicked at every jump he made. I got the horses stopped, however,... ...nce. Learning later of Sheridan’s going with two divi- sions, he also sent Hampton with two divisions of cavalry, his own and Fitz-Hugh Lee’s. Sherida... ...revilian, while Fitz-Hugh Lee was the same night at T revilian Station and Hampton but a few miles away. During the night Hampton ordered an advance o...

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Young Folks, History of England

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... Romans made beautiful straight roads all over the country, and they built towns. Almost all the towns whose names end in chester were begun by the Ro... ...s. The only glass there was at all had been brought from Italy to put into York Ca- thedral, and it was thought a great wonder. So the windows had shu... ...me one going off as a Sea-King, with all his friends, and trying to gain a new home in some fresh country. One great party of Northmen under a very ta... ...e died, stranger though he was. A great many Danes had made their homes in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, ever since Alfred’s time, and some of their cus... ... kings, he had the whole country wasted with fire and sword, till hardly a town or 20 Young Folk’s History of England village was left standing. He d... ...st any one killing his game. The place he thus cleared is still called the New Forest, though it is a thousand years old. An old Norman law that the E... ...with gifts. But for a long time past Jerusalem had been in the hands of an Eastern people, who think their false prophet, Mahommed, greater than our b... ...d’s will! It is God’s will!” And each who undertook to go and fight in the East re- ceived a cross cut out into cloth, red or white, to wear on his sh... ...ut just as the war was going to begin, as he was riding near his palace of Hampton Court, his horse trod into a mole-hill, and he fell, breaking his c...

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ll way, retired from the army, and settled in a house of hers in a country town, and thus he could give his dicta with added weight. Only a parent or ... ...n half sorry to leave her dear old school, half glad to go on to something new. She was evidently not so comfortable, while Miss Heath’s lowest teache... ...n’t you know, Skipjack, that’s the reason you don’t grow—” “Eh! What’s the new theory! Who says so, Babie?” came from the bottom of the table. “Nurse ... ...free of the house because they were nice lads with no available friends in town. It was all over by half-past ten, and the trio were alone together. “... ... place till the spring. In the meantime, as Dr. Drake could not marry till Easter, the lower part of the house was to be given up to him, and Carey an... ... health and spirits, which had made his elder sister contrive to spend her Easter at the seaside with him, and give him a few days at the beginning of... ... are to meet some of them, are you not?” “Yes, on Thursday week, at Roland Hampton’s wedding. Cecil and I and a whole lot of us go down in the morning... ...rom creditors, but the reason assigned was an invitation to lecture in New York. So there was nothing for it but to put up with Miss Ray’s account of ... ...only a chapelry, there is a special licence, and Cecil is hunting with the Hamptons, and comes with them on Monday.” “Special licence! Happy Mrs. Coff...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

........................................... 135 SANDYS’ GHOST;82 OR, A PROPER NEW BALLAD ON THE NEW OVID’S METAMORPHOSES: AS IT WAS INTENDED TO BE TRANSL... .............................................. 161 LINES ON A GROTTO, AT CRUX-EASTON, HANTS. ............................................................... ...peare, Spenser, Milton, and Dryden, to fill the six va- cant places in the New Palace of Westminster. This does not substantiate the assertion, that P... ...aps prosperity becalm’d his breast, Perhaps the wind just shifted from the east: Not therefore humble he who seeks retreat, Pride guides his steps, an... ...e box, 140 And judges job, and bishops bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half-a-crown. See Britain sunk in luc... ...he our valiant bands, Last, for his country’s love, he sells his lands. To town he comes, completes the nation’s hope, And heads the bold train-bands,... .... Roberts. Folio. An Epistle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of Divinity, from Hampton Court (Lord H—y). Printed for J. Roberts. Folio. A Letter from Mr C... ... high- est posts in the kingdom, died in the year 1687, in a remote inn in Yorkshire, reduced to the utmost misery.—P . 42 ‘Shrewsbury:’ the Countess... ... or Laguerre:’ V errio (Antonio) painted many ceil- ings, &c., at Windsor, Hampton Court, &c; and Laguerre at Blenheim Castle, and other places.—P . 5...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...nusual solemnity. Innumerable were the calls made by prudent mammas on our new curate, and innumerable the invitations with which he was assailed, and... ... on the parish defraying the expense of the watch-box on wheels, which the new curate had or- dered for himself, to perform the funeral service in, in... ...o express 17 Charles Dickens his decided opinion that Mr. Robinson was of Eastern descent, and contemplated marrying the whole family at once; and th... ...aged in cleaning and decking the windows for the day. The bakers’ shops in town are filled with servants and children waiting for the drawing of the f... ...ur ago in the suburbs: for the early clerk population of Somers and Camden towns, Islington, and Pentonville, are fast pouring into the city, or direc... ...e place. The Gordian knot was all very well in its way: so was the maze of Hampton Court: so is the maze at the Beulah Spa: so were the ties of stiff ... ...cing avay her oun’ ‘usband, as she’s been married to twelve year come next Easter Mon- day, for I see the certificate ven I vas a drinkin’ a cup o’ te... ... sabbath enthusiasts say, to an aristo- cratic ring encircling the Duke of York’s column in Carlton- terrace—a grand poussette of the middle classes, ...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...of the “Pickwick Papers,” I consulted with a professional friend who had a Yorkshire connexion, and with whom I concerted a pious fraud. He gave me so... ...rinkled, and had no occasion to deliver a letter until I came to a certain town which shall be nameless. The person to whom it was addressed, was not ... ...ry day (and oftenest by stealth) some munificent and generous deed in that town of which they are the pride and honour.” If I were to attempt to sum u... ...impartial records of young ladies’ ages being, before the pass- ing of the new act, nowhere preserved in the registries of this country—Mr Nickleby lo... ...nney presented himself. ‘Chair, gentlemen, chair!’ 19 Charles Dickens The new-comers were received with universal approbation, and Mr Bonney bustled ... ...; and just on that particular part of Snow Hill where omnibus horses going eastward seriously think of falling down on pur- pose, and where horses in ... ...d Kate. ‘Pretty well,’ said Ralph; ‘in another quarter of the town— at the East end; but I’ll send my clerk down to you, at five o’clock on Saturday, ... ...ickens CHAPTER 50 INVOLVES A SERIOUS CATASTROPHE THE LITTLE RACE-COURSE at Hampton was in the full tide and height of its gaiety; the day as dazzling ... ...nts. There were the Stranger’s club-house, the Ath- enaeum club-house, the Hampton club-house, the St James’ s club-house, and half a mile of club-hou...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...nusual solemnity. Innumerable were the calls made by prudent mammas on our new curate, and innumerable the invitations with which he was assailed, and... ... on the parish defraying the expense of the watch-box on wheels, which the new curate had or- dered for himself, to perform the funeral service in, in... ...o express 17 Charles Dickens his decided opinion that Mr. Robinson was of Eastern descent, and contemplated marrying the whole family at once; and th... ...aged in cleaning and decking the windows for the day. The bakers’ shops in town are filled with servants and children waiting for the drawing of the f... ...ur ago in the suburbs: for the early clerk population of Somers and Camden towns, Islington, and Pentonville, are fast pouring into the city, or direc... ...e place. The Gordian knot was all very well in its way: so was the maze of Hampton Court: so is the maze at the Beulah Spa: so were the ties of stiff ... ...cing avay her oun’ ‘usband, as she’s been married to twelve year come next Easter Mon- day, for I see the certificate ven I vas a drinkin’ a cup o’ te... ... sabbath enthusiasts say, to an aristo- cratic ring encircling the Duke of York’s column in Carlton- terrace—a grand poussette of the middle classes, ...

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To Build a Fire : And Other Stories

By: Jack London

...s the Englishman, Prince, who pledged “Uncle Sam, the precocious infant of the New World;” the Yankee, Bettles, who drank to “The Queen, God bless her... ... * * * Fifteen minutes had barely elapsed when the jingle of bells an nounced new arrivals. The door opened, and a mounted police man of the Northwe... ...face of bronze. In fact, Mason suffered least of all, for he spent his time in Eastern Tennessee, in the Great Smoky Mountains, living over the scenes... ...nd one day, irritated by its steadfastness of purpose, he turned it toward the east. He watched eagerly, but never a breath came by to disturb it. The... ...get first tip, and I ’ll stake you next to me, and give you a half share in the town site besides. 64 JACK LONDON “No! no!” he cried, as the other str... ...pon millions. I ’ve heard of the place before, and so have you. We ’ll build a town — thousands of workmen — good waterways — steamship lines — big ca... ...off a wreck in the schooner that brought him. Mr. Haveby next selected a young Yorkshire giant to relieve Bun ster. The Yorkshire man had a reputatio... ...ght. He was a regular little lamb — for ten days, at the end of which time the Yorkshire man was prostrated by a combined attack of dysentery and feve... ...tly devoured, lay the carcass of a bear, with 20 First magazine publication in Hampton’s Magazine, March, 1911. First book publication in The Strength...

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The Analysis of Mind

By: Bertrand Russell

...dley, Stout, Bertrand Russell, Baldwin, Urban, Montague, and others, and a new interest in foreign works, German, French and Italian, which had either... ...ialistic tendency of physics is the view of William James and the American new realists, according to which the “stuff” of the world is neither mental... ...oes straight to the latch and lifts it at once. Or you make a model of the Hampton Court maze, and put a rat in the middle, assaulted by the smell of ... ... faithless deceiver. Secondly, you will find travel disappointing, and the East less fascinating than you had hoped—unless, some day, you hear that th... ... them in so far as they are “copies” of past sensations. When you hear New York spoken of, some image probably comes into your mind, either of the pla... ...your past experience, as well as to the present stimulus of the words “New York.” Similarly, the images you have in dreams are all dependent upon your... ...laws, and involving no more unity than there is between a signpost and the town to which it points. I shall return to this question on a later occasio... ...her-cock which has the pessimis- tic habit of always pointing to the north-east. If you were to see it first on a cold March day, you would think it a...

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