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...ory.htm Atlantis Atlantis (or Atlantica) was described in antiquity as a large island in the sea to the west of the known world (the Western Oc... ...aphers, scholars and conspiracy theorists place Atlantis all over the map - from an island in the Aegean Sea (Thera, or Santorini it suffered an ear... ...e in 1640 BC and housed the flourishing Cycladic civilization), through the Canary Islands to Scandinavia. Considering that many ancient civilizati... ...centimeters and to yield a cylindrical shape with a flat, breastless, torso. The Elizabethan corset - as opposed to the Victorian one - was comfo... ...shape with a flat, breastless, torso. The Elizabethan corset - as opposed to the Victorian one - was comfortable and supported the back. It evolv... ...n, Item for making a pair of bodies for a Verthingall of crymsen Grosgrain." Queen Elizabeth had these listed in her garderobe: "A payre of bodies... ...f french bodies of damaske lined with sackcloth, with whales bone to them (1597)" Victorian women were described by contemporaries as maintaining ... ... Both Electronic Mail and Instant Messaging were available as early as 1965. Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in 1976. Users were... ...the stamps - as no other polity produced such. But it did carry the image of Queen Victoria. All British stamps since bear the simile of the reign...

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...olida y reemplazada por la Constitución de 1833. La batalla de Lircay, con la victoria conservadora, generó la presidencia de Joaquín Prieto bajo la... ...de Patagones, acaso por no sentirse tentados de declarar suya la Plaza de la Victoria, que fue por fortuna siempre nuestra. De parte de la Confeder... ...s enemigos internos para solidificar la unidad argentina mientras obtenía una victoria en la guerra, con el auxilio del ejército y la flota brasileñ... ...Aires, 1° de junio de 1870, (1,5) y 20 de julio de 1870, (2-3-4), cit. en Ann Elizabeth O´Quinn, British interest in Argentina and Paraguay during th... ...r Vieyra, Segunda Cronología Legal Anotada sobre las Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands), edición ampliada, Córdoba, 1993. 124 P. R.O.F.O. 420/23. 1...

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...ife is anything, it's people helping people. Truly, no man or woman is an island. We are all connected and we all need each other. My friend O. C. S... ...ohn and Mar­ ilyn Rosica, Mike and Laverne Baldwin, Jim Leeling, Norm and Victoria Broadhurst, Bob and Siri Orians, Ruth and Frank Harris, Kirk Lewi... ...s, Ruth and Frank Harris, Kirk Lewis, Steve and Suzanne Diamond, Mark and Elizabeth Williams, Joe and Theresa Moore, Del Smith, Phil and Donna Gray... .... She found a good-paying job as a live-in domestic in Forest Hills, Long Island. I started my new school, Food Trades Voca- Only Those Who See the ... ...every woman who crossed my path as though I had been stranded on a desert island with no female company for ten years. The chase was always more exc...

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...pires.’ Macauley, 1833 On New Years Eve 1600, that most esteemed of English monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I, read the document prepared by her merc... ... Did that intrepid monarch foresee the importance of what she was founding? Did the buccaneering Elizabethans envisage that their enterprise would ... ...azement. As each day passed she realised that her life was changing and that England, that little island off Europe, which she THE CURSE OF KALI 2... ... staunchest friend. ******** The next day the Prince George sailed into the lovely, deep-water, island- studded harbour of Bombay. Helen recalled i... ...away from ‘Home’ for many years and seemed so eager to hear all the latest news from that little island ten thousand miles away. In the sacred Hind... ...knew now why the painting could not be hung on the Residency walls. It was far too hedonistic for Victorian society. ‘Maria liked painting nudes,’ s... ... equally well furnished and elegant dining room, two cosy bedrooms and a bathroom with the latest Victorian fittings, including a large china bath s... ...ul dynasty, Bahadur Shah the Second, was the rightful Emperor of India and not the Empress Queen Victoria.’ Gavin called on the Nawab to inform him...

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... CAPITALIZE- I. Proper nouns and adjectives: George, America, Englishman; Elizabethan, French (see 46). 2. Generic terms forming a part of geograp... ...ls, Pike's Peak, Mount of Olives, Great Desert, Death Valley, Prince Edward Island, Sea (Lake) of Galilee. But do not capitalize words of this class... ...ing an organic part of such name: the river Elbe, the desert of Sahara, the island of Madagascar. 3. Adjectives and nouns, used singly or in conjunc... ...ne (Paris); Old English (OE-see IIO), Middle High German (MHG), the Age of Elizabeth; Pleistocene, Silurian, Lower Carboniferous. 8 The Universit... ...he emperor of Germany, the sultan of Turkey, and the pope at Rome : Queen Victoria, ex-President Cleveland, Rear-Admiral Dewey, United States Comm... .... Miss. D. C. Mo. Del. Mont. Fla. N. C. Ga. N. D. H. I. =Hawaiian Neb. Islands Nev. Id. N. H. 111. N. J. Ind. N. M. Ia. N. Y. Ran. 0. KY. ...

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...-boats; explain how the first modern humans managed to migrate to the Pacific islands and Australia 75,000 years ago. Using the bones and skins of t... ...storical context. Take for example the two nuclear plants disasters of 3-mile Island and Chernobyl. The reason that disaster occurred and the reason... ...America was set off by the first European colony establishing a foothold on an island 3 miles off the coast of that continent. We may not see that d... ... phonographs: obediently listening to the voice of his master. Just as Queen Victoria was listened to by the entire British Empire. Class racism. ... ...dolized? By the invention of the Victrola. The invention first used by Queen Victoria to control her subjects: which produced the radio. ‘His mast... ...e was it that the men who won the war went unpaid and starved to death? Queen Victoria did even worse than that: after her faithful small English Na... ...rey into that reenactment was like the first colony in Plymouth putting Queen Elizabeth in the colony as a menial servant. In the original colony; ...

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...bloodlines? It seems that this is archaic in today‘s world. Look at queens Elizabeth and Victoria. They ruled as well or better than most male kings.... ...seems that this is archaic in today‘s world. Look at queens Elizabeth and Victoria. They ruled as well or better than most male kings. It seems that ... ...ng the South American coasts, Africa, Australia and to other mainlands and islands. This gave him far more geologic and comparative evidence than any... ...and the government was sending their welfare checks to them in the Canary islands. The Dutch welfare system was not fair from his point of view.‖ ... ...ens with Norwegians. A person gets his welfare payment sent to the Canary islands but he works there driving a taxi or opening a bar. A friend of mi... ...it art or pornography? ―When Pompeii was excavated in the 1860s the Victorian English swept away the volcanic ash that Vesuvius had belched an...

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...s Essays PREFACE To the Right Ho- norable and all praise-worthie Ladies, Elizabeth Countesse of Rutland, and Ladie Penelope Rich Give me leave ... ...enemies courages were not quelled. Eam vir sanctus, et sapiens sciat esse victoriam veram, quæ salva fide, et integra dignitate parabitur. 'A wise an... ... certainly true victorie consisteth in that only point. ------ Victoria nulla est Quam quæ confessos animo quoque subjugat hostes. ... ...em Sic laudamus equum, facili cui plurima palma Fervet, et exultat rauco victoria circo. -- Juven. Sat. viii. 57. We praise the horse, that beares... ... Bishop hath left written, that in the other end of the world there is an island called of our predecessours Dioscorida, very commodious and fertile... ...ntaigne's Essays To the Right Ho- norable and all-praise-worthie Ladies, Elizabeth Countesse of Rutland, And Ladie Penelope Riche. Give me leave (p... ...f 7)4/10/2005 4:03:43 AM Montaigne's Essays To The Right Ho- norable, Elizabeth Countesse of Rutland. Thrise-happy Countesse, your thrise-honor'd...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...tion Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ... way. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...as a special pleader, and on February 23, 1818, was married to his cousin, Elizabeth Lee, after a long engagement. The next year, 1819, he was called ... ...cuit. On April 3, 1820, Mrs. Patteson died, leav- ing one daughter, Joanna Elizabeth. Four years later, on April 22, 1824, Mr. Patteson married France... ...hile they anticipate ‘Montem.’ That of 1838 was a brilliant one, for Queen Victoria, then only nineteen, and her first year of sovereignty not yet ac-... ...diment), with the Eton and Royal arms in the middle, and “Gratulatur Etona Victoria et Alberto” It cost £150, and there were 5,000 lamps hung on it. T... ...ies, first to Aborigines, secondly to Chinese (of whom some 40,000 live in Victoria), thirdly to Melanesians. I did not aim only at getting money for ... ....” ‘Wednesday.—Aroa and Matlavo. ‘Henry Tagalana and Joanna and their baby Elizabeth, William Pasvorang and Lydia, and six others, all baptized, and f...

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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 little neighboring islands, which are so small upon the Map a...

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.............................................. 308 CHAPTER XXXI ENGLAND UNDER ELIZABETH.............................................................. 320... ...u will see, in the left hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemi sphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. Engla... ...t of these Is lands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighbouring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly li... ...go, before Our Saviour was born on earth and lay asleep in a manger, these Islands were in the same place, and the stormy sea roared round them, just ... ...of the house of Lancaster, they proposed that he should marry the Princess Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of the late King, now the heiress of the hou... ...rd knew full well that, let the Parliament say what it would, the Princess Elizabeth was remembered by people as the heiress of the house of York; and... ...ear one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and reigned seven years. Queen Victoria, his niece, the only child of the Duke of Kent, the fourth son of ... ...404 Princess of Orange 404 Q Queen Edburga 22 Queen Elizabeth 320 Queen Victoria 436 R Randolph 180 Ranulf de Broc 102 Rat Cliffe 268 Red Roses...

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...personages of one story in another, even though it is after the example of Shakespeare, who revived Falstaff, after his death, at the behest of Queen Elizabeth. This precedent is, however, a true impertinence in calling on the very great to justify the very small!...

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...Shakespeare, who revived Falstaff, after his death, at the behest of Queen Elizabeth. This precedent is, how- ever, a true impertinence in calling on ... ... been offered a government appointment connected 7 Yo n g e with the Fiji Islands, and then that, glad to escape from the dreariness which had settle... ...children have been acting it ever since.’ ‘It has quite put out the Desert Island passion, which used to be a regular stage in these children’s lives.... ...either poor little Fly nor I could stand, and afterwards betook herself to Victoria, who, I am happy to say, sent her to the right about.’ ‘As I am ab... ... to shake hands with all that rabble. Be off with you.’ ‘ Ah! I shall tell Victoria that if she sees me tomorrow it’s all owing to your unpitying punc... ...he drove off. ‘He is like a gust of old Beechcroft air! But I should think Victoria had a handful.’ ‘She knew what she was doing,’ said Aunt Ada. ‘I a... ...a undertook to bring in as many as possible, and a series from the life of Elizabeth Woodville was accordingly arranged. She stood under the oak, repr... ...rrifield?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘But your father is living?’ ‘Yes, but he is in the Fiji Islands.’ ‘Will you favour us with his exact name?’ ‘Maurice Devereux Mohun... ...knew but little in comparison; and with her she brought the granddaughter, Elizabeth Merrifield, who—since her own daughter had died—generally lived w...

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...us; so that of all I then went on to relate concerning my residence on the island I can scarcely remember a word. After this I was asked whether I des... ...me after his liberation, to leave the ves- sel clandestinely at one of the islands, but was brought back ignominiously, and again shut up. Being set a... ... up in the lawless ports of the Spanish Main, and among the savages of the islands. Like galley-slaves, they are only to be governed by scourges and c... ...s. On Sun- days, she went abroad a dozen times; and every time, like Queen Elizabeth, in a different robe. Po-Po, for some reason or other, always gav... ...he went abroad. Some time ago, the queen received from her English sister, Victoria, a very showy, though uneasy, head-dress—a crown; probably made to...

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...me by the railroad.’ At this moment, the door was thrown back hastily, and Elizabeth, the elder sister of Katherine and Helen, darted in, looking full... ...aid Helen. ‘All that they can touch, all that depends upon sympathy,’ said Elizabeth. ‘Well, but I do not see—’ said Katherine. ‘No, no,’ said Elizabe... ...’ ‘Pray keep the same opinion of her all the time she is here, Kate,’ said Elizabeth; ‘but I know you too well to trust you. I only know they will kee... ...that best artist, old Time,’ said Elizabeth; ‘it will be long before Queen Victoria’s head on the corbel at the new church is of as good a colour as Q... ...oot. With two or three strides and leaps, however, he reached a little dry island, covered with a tuft of sedges, in the midst of the marsh, and was r... ...ert’s strength of arm. They both slipped down on the opposite sides of the island, into the black mud, and Harriet precipitately retreated to the main... ...you wish to see?’ said Rupert, ‘for if so, I advise you to make haste, the island is sinking fast.’ ‘I am splashed all over, so I do not care. Can I h...

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...r of a chart she is always aim- ing for that one little spot—maybe a small island in the ocean, a single headland upon the long coast of a continent, ... ... we passed St. Helena; was laid up for a time when we were off the Western Islands, but got out of bed to make his Land- fall. He managed to keep up o... ...of the fact that it was Bangkok), a bit of manoeuvring of mine amongst the islands of the Gulf of Siam had given him an unforgettable scare. Ever sinc... ...ubled the Cape. 64 The Mirror of the Sea Perhaps she was coming from Port Elizabeth, from East London—who knows? It was many years ago, but I remembe... ...way, with its men-of-war moored in line, and the long wooden jetty of Port Victoria, with its few 90 The Mirror of the Sea low buildings like the beg... ...at Blackwall, on past the Galleons 97 Joseph Conrad Reach entrance of the Victoria and Albert Docks, right down to the vast gloom of the great basins... ...ry Dock, shares in the glamour conferred by historical associations. Queen Elizabeth has made one of her progresses down there, not one of her journey...

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...ierced in all directions by these manholes of variously coloured fire—Holy Island’s white and red—St. Bee’s interrupted white, and so on as far as the... ...winter. PATAGONIA—No summer light south Cape Pilar. This in- cludes Staten Island and Port Stanley. C. NAVARIN—Quadruple fog flash (white), one minute... ... JUST } Lights. VAN HEDDER } Casualties Week ending Dec. 18th. SABLE ISLAND—Green single barbette-tower freighter, number indistinguishable, up-... ... east of Greenwich Village L. & W. POWELL 196 Victoria Street, W. 108 Actions and Reactions REMEMBER We shall always be ... ...oved most beneficial. From her I was passed on to her younger sister, Miss Elizabeth, a small and withered thing with twitching lips, victim, she told... ... Mary—I knew her by her height—was at the open window, wrestling with Miss Elizabeth, who gripped her round the knees. Miss Mary’s hand was at her own... ...t, which was streaked with blood. “She’s done it. She’s done it too!” Miss Elizabeth panted. “Hold her! Help me!” “Oh, I say! Women don’t cut their th...

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...’s sonnets, Spenser’s minor poems, and the great writers and characters of Elizabeth’s age and those of Cromwell’s time.” From this time on De Quincey... ...o and fro. But, as these homes lay dispersed through all the shires of the island, and most of us disdained all coaches except his Majesty’s mail, no ... ...and lightning which I remember. Roses are degenerating. The Fannies of our island—though this I say with reluctance— are not visibly improving; and th... ...e might say that no Englishman out of Bedlam ever thought of looking in an island for the rivers of a continent, nor, consequently, could have thought... ...d told her, would, by ruining herself, ruin France. Our own Sovereign Lady Victoria rehearses annually a trial not so severe in de- gree, but the same...

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...rsonal merit in it anywhere; it will all have come from the outside. The Victoria Cross breeds more heroes than— Y.M. Hang it, where is the sense in... .... By and by Circumstance and the Sacramento Union sent me to the Sandwich Islands for five or six months, to write up sugar. I did it; and threw in a... ...orch and clearly see every reign and its length, from the Conquest down to Victoria, then in the forty sixth year of her reign— eight hundred and seve... ...it was not noticing the Queen had passed Henry VIII., passed Henry VI. and Elizabeth, and gaining in length every day. Her reign had entered the list ... ...to my mind, for he just filled the stretch which went by the summer house. Victoria’s reign reached almost to my study door on the first little summit... ...reason she is sometimes called Bloody Mary. This brings us to the reign of Elizabeth, after passing through a period of nearly five hundred years of E... ...tle and mild he looked by the tender light of the storm. The towers of the island churches loomed faint and far away in the dimness; the sailors in th... ...rys, but it about as industrious. The capital of the United States is Long Island. The five seaports of the U.S. are Newfunlan and Sanfrancisco. The p...

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...ng a pair of slippers to the little feet. “We might as well be in a desert island,” continued Vera, “shut up from everything with an old frump.” “T ak... ...’t have us be- cause she is a governess. We might as well be upon a desert island at once.” Agatha could not help laughing and repeating - “I am out o... ... with us; the colours of the cliffs in the Isles would soon drive out Miss Victoria—what’s her name?” “Y ou don’t think him like Stephen in the Mill o... ... were over, Thekla expressed her hopes that they had been cast on a desert island and would bring home Man Friday. 82 Modern Broods The Goyle ladies ... ... and neighbourhood generally. Two ladies had been secured for the purpose, Elizabeth Merrifield and Miss Arthuret, and the former arrived on the Satur... ...fter the death of their parents, about three years previ- ously, Susan and Elizabeth had gone to live at Coalham, and to be useful to their brother Da... ...ne. There he sat enthroned on the platform, with portraits of himself, his Elizabethan ancestor, and the Prince of Wales overhead, and, in propria per... ...ou remember her being found playing tricks with the nugget, just come from Victoria?” “That was in her kitten days,” said Ferdinand. “Is that personal...

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...es near Bromstead Station. They were big clumsy residences in the earliest Victorian style, interminably high and with deep damp basements and downsta... ...nt chiefly crude and ridiculous aspects. The distrust of government in the Victorian days was far too great, and the general intelli- gence far too lo... ...of hand, and going at an unprecedented pace nowhere in particular. No, the Victorian epoch was not the dawn of a new era; it was a hasty, trial experi... ...ng a school, but of a man captured and directed by a school. Dead and gone Elizabethans had begotten a monster that could carry him about in its mouth... ...scholar’s knowledge of the works of Miss Marie Corelli, Miss Braddon, Miss Elizabeth Glyn and Madame Sarah Grand that would have astonished and flat- ... ...uman effort, and once as I was steaming past the brown low hills of Staten Island towards the towering vigour and clamorous vitality of New York City,... ...net. There were little gold fishermen on the cabinet fish- ing from little islands that each had a pagoda and a tree, and there were also men in boats... ... in which undistinguished little men and little files of papers link us to islands in the tropics, to frozen wildernesses gashed for gold, to vast tem...

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...pared surprise, in the unthought-out meth- ods of their opponents. In the “Victorian” war that ended in the middle of September, 1914, they delivered ... ... men and material, to resist air invaders, exposes the whole length of the island to considerable risk and annoyance from such an expedition. It is do... ...ed with them. The lawyers only came to their own at the close of the great Victorian duet of Disraeli and Gladstone, the last of the political gentlem... ...ke out into that tumult in Great Britain perhaps ten years ago. When Queen Victoria died it was inaudible; search Punch, search the newspapers of that... ...ed “The Sex” rule the world. Or compare, say, the dark coquettings of Miss Elizabeth Robins’ “Woman’s Secret” with the virile common sense of that mos...

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...rian end, creeping under the cliffs. Far away, the Verona side, beyond the Island, lay fused in dim gold. The mountain opposite was so still, that my ... ...k; I could call her by a hundred names, in a hundred languages, Melisande, Elizabeth, Juliet, Butterfly, Phèdre, Minnehaha, etc. Each new time I hear ... ...yed down the steps. She was as proud as a child, and she looked like Queen Victoria of the Jubilee period. The King, her noble consort, also had new h... ...crevice, and sitting there we had the world below us—the lake, the distant island, the far-off low Verona shore. Then ‘John’ began to talk, and he tal...

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... Melmoth’s omnipotence did not extend. Here (to reverse the words of Queen Elizabeth) there was “but one master and no mis- tress”; and that man has l... ...d walked carelessly away. “Come, Master W alcott, the enemy has retreated. Victoria! And now, I see, the sooner I get you to your chamber, the better,... ...e dark line of the horizon, and touching at many a little silver cloud the islands of that aerial deep. Ellen felt that now the time was come; and, wi...

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...erature became for her an actual passion. She delved into Tennyson and the Victorian poets, and soon was on terms of intimacy with the poets and essay... ...adwin prevail upon her to accompany him. And then what preparations! Queen Elizabeth approaching her barge was attended with no less solicitude. MacKe... ...fe sor- rowfully admitted that he would have gravitated to the “Mysterious Island” and “Michael Strogoff,” or even to “Mr. Potter of Texas” and “Mr. B... ...mplish his literary education, so, Meredith failing, she took up “Treasure Island” and “The Wrecker.” Much of these he made her skip. “Oh, let’s get o... ...and was one afternoon seen at the races, with Mrs. Gretry, in her showiest victoria, wearing a great flar- ing hat and a bouquet of crimson flowers. S... ...harlie is right here. He says to give you his love.” An hour later Laura’s victoria stopped in front of the Cressler’s house, and the little footman d...

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...ilt under Edward the Sixth, had offered a night’s hospi tality to the great Elizabeth (whose august person had extended itself upon a huge, magnificen... ... I’m lovely!” she returned with a quick laugh. “How old is your house? Is it Elizabethan?” “It’s early Tudor,” said Ralph Touchett. She turned toward ... ...dred thousand a year. He owns fifty thousand acres of the soil of this little island and ever so many other things besides. He has half a dozen houses ... ... the whole American continent and can at least find her way about this minute island.” “Ah then,” said Ralph, “let me take advantage of her protection ... ...ed that in England the pleasures of smell were great—that in this inimitable island there was a certain mixture of fog and beer and soot which, howeve... ...hand corner of the large Perugino and the position of the hands of the Saint Elizabeth in the picture next to it. She had her opinions as to the chara... ...his place again; but when she rose to go he also took leave. Mrs. Touchett’s victoria was awaiting her guest in the court, and after he had helped his...

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...ilt under Edward the Sixth, had offered a night’s hospitality to the great Elizabeth (whose august person had extended itself upon a huge, magnificent... ...’m lovely!” she returned with a quick laugh. “How old is your house? Is it Elizabethan?” “It’s early Tudor,” said Ralph Touchett. She turned toward hi... ...d thousand a year. He owns fifty thousand acres of the soil of this little island and ever so many other things besides. He has half a dozen houses to... ...e whole American continent and can at least find her way about this minute island.” 141 Henry James “Ah then,” said Ralph, “let me take advantage of ... ...t in En- gland the pleasures of smell were great—that in this in- imitable island there was a certain mixture of fog and beer and soot which, however ... ...nd corner of the large Perugino and the position of the hands of the Saint Elizabeth in the picture next to it. She had her opinions as to the charact... ...s place again; but when she rose to go he also took leave. Mrs. Touchett’s victoria was awaiting her guest in the court, and after he had helped his f...

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...day black hair was as unpopular as red hair was in the early days of Queen Victoria. Any tinge lighter than raven black must be held fatal to the stro... ...k verse and given Shakespear a harder run for his money than all the other Elizabethans put together. Yet the success of Frank Harris’s book on Shakes... ...t safe with Shakespear. Bear in mind that she was not a comedian; that the Elizabethan fash- ion of treating brunettes as ugly woman must have made he... ... bitter, pitiable, wretched and broken among a robust crowd of Jonsons and Elizabeths; but to me he is not Shakespear because I miss the Shakespearian... ...d founded your throne on the impregnable rock of your proud heart, a stony island in a sea of desire. There, madam, is some wholesome blunt honest spe...

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.............................................................. 79 CHAPTER XXX ELIZABETH. A.D. 1558—1587 .................................................... ............................................................. 81 CHAPTER XXXI ELIZABETH’S REIGN. A.D. 1587—1602 ............................................ .......................................................... 128 CHAPTER XLVIII VICTORIA. A.D. 1837—1855 ..................................................... ............................................................ 131 CHAPTER XLIX VICTORIA. A.D. 1857—1860 ..................................................... ............................................................... 133 CHAPTER L VICTORIA. A.D. 1860—1872 ..................................................... ...were called Britons. And the country he came to see? That was our very own island, England, only it was not called so then. And the place where Julius... ...k. One of their emperors, named Claudius, sent his soldiers to conquer the island, and then came to see it himself, and called himself Brittanicus in ... ... then three lovely ladies came in a boat, and carried him away to a secret island. The Welsh kept on saying, for years and years, that one day king Ar... ...o find that Edward IV. had been secretly married to a beautiful lady named Elizabeth Woodville—Lady Grey. Her first husband had been killed fighting f...

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... those far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea; Then has thy fancy soared above the earth, And ... ... _20 Within the Fairy’s fane. Yet not the golden islands Gleaming in yon flood of light, Nor the feathery curtains 113 Shel... ... Its floors of flashing light, Its vast and azure dome, Its fertile golden islands Floating on a silver sea; ... ...y. January 1810. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. To Miss — — [Harriet Grove] From Miss — — [Elizabeth Shelley]. For your letter, dear — [Hattie], accept my best thanks... ... her form on the whirlwind uprearing, _15 The dark ghost of the murdered Victoria strode, Her right hand a blood reeking dagger was bearing, She swi... ...setti’s; those of 2 and 6 are Dowden’s. 1.—VICT 1.—VICT 1.—VICT 1.—VICT 1.—VICTORIA. ORIA. ORIA. ORIA. ORIA. Another version of “The Triumph of Consci... ...n that her form on the whirlwind upholding, _15 The ghost of the murdered Victoria strode; In her right hand, a shadowy shroud she was holding, She s... ...ister. ‘The two initial pieces are the only two which can be attributed to Elizabeth Shelley with absolute certainty, though others in the volume may ... .... (2) Original : Poetry : By : Victor & Cazire : [Percy Bysshe Shelley : & Elizabeth Shelley] : Edited by : Richard Garnett C.B., LL.D. : Published by...

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...ooted in Queen Mary’s days On many a grassy plain, But since of late Elizabeth, And, later, James came in, Are never seen on any heath ... ...d a cloth on bent sticks above the rowers, for the wind failed between the Island of the Mountain and the shore of Africa, which is east of it. That s... ...e decks and benches to keep them sweet. Also we hauled the ship out on low islands and emptied all her gear, even to the iron wedges, and burned off t... ...; ‘I’ve got a book called The Gorilla Hunters—it’s a continuation of Coral Island, sir—and it says there that the gorillas (they’re big monkeys, you k... ...o me when I first came. Little older than myself, command- ing the Augusta Victoria Cohort on the tower next to us and the Numidians. In virtue he was...

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...name? THE FLOWER GIRL. Liza Doolittle. HIGGINS [declaiming gravely] Eliza, Elizabeth, Betsy and Bess, They went to the woods to get a birds nes’: PICK... ... nearest her side. At the other side of the room, fur- ther forward, is an Elizabethan chair roughly carved in the taste of Inigo Jones. On the same s... ...cing] My son Freddy. LIZA. How do you do? Freddy bows and sits down in the Elizabethan chair, infatu- ated. HIGGINS [suddenly] By George, yes: it all ... ...l it rain, do you think? LIZA. The shallow depression in the west of these islands is likely to move slowly in an easterly direction. There are no ind... ...strong. CLARA [all smiles] I will. Good-bye. Such nonsense, all this early Victorian prudery! HIGGINS [tempting her] Such damned nonsense! CLARA. Such... ...away. The shop is in the arcade of a railway station not very far from the Victoria and Albert Museum; and if you live in that neighborhood you may go... ...schievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, a...

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...,” the boy said. “Would you have currants, lady? These once bloomed in the island gardens of the blue Aegean. They are uncommon fine ones, and the fig... ...and I must dixcribe what they sor in the nex number. III THE CASTLE OF THE ISLAND OF FOGO. THE TRA VLER who pesews his dalitefle coarse through the fa... ...ntry resadences; but their fayvorit resadence was called the Castle of the Island of Fogo. Add I the penn of the hawther of a Codlingsby himself, I co... ...y. The three-and-twenty young- est Princes of England, sons of her Majesty Victoria, had en- livened the balls by their presence; the Emperor of Russi... ... white, her hair braided with pearls. Madame de Flicflac appeared as Queen Elizabeth; and Lady Blanche Bluenose as a Turkish princess. An alderman of ...

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...eration have had. To see its full meaning one must start in the Hawai- ian Islands half a century or more ago.* There Samuel Armstrong, a youth of mis... ...ople would not believe it. One morning I found myself in Providence, Rhode Island, without a cent of money with which to buy breakfast. In crossing th... ...direct to Paris, where we found that Mr. Theodore Stanton, the son of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, had kindly pro- vided accommodations for us. We had... ...e International Congress of Women, then in session in London, to see Queen Victoria, at Windsor Castle, where, afterward, we were all the guests of he... ...r, two women so remarkable in different ways as Susan B. Anthony and Queen Victoria. In the House of Commons, which we visited several times, we met S...

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... with grave humour, “that your children are at their present growth in the Elizabethan age of culture—” But again began a “Well, but papa!” but, he ex... ...ed up in her face and innocently said— “Mrs. Acton read us about the Rocky Island, and she said father and granny had brought their boats to the beaut... ...mouth of the river did, at high tide, carry much drift to the base of this island, and she could understand how her two boys had been floated thither.... ...floated thither. Jock went on— “We had a boat-hook, and I pulled up to the island; I did, mother, and I made fast the boat to a little stick, and we w... ...ose, to the Papal Bull. Here’s a third! The French fleet defeated by Queen Elizabeth. Most have passed it over entirely.” “Well, you know this is the ... ...was opened, a flourish on a tin trum- pet was heard, and out darted, in an Elizabethan ruff and cap, a respectable Dorking mother of the yard, cacklin... ...of a civilian, instead of getting—as I know you would— -lots of medals and Victoria Crosses, and knighthood—real knighthood! Oh, Jock, think of that! ... ...are going! I know it is honour and glory, and promotion, and chivalry, and Victoria crosses, and all that Sydney and I used to care for; but, oh! we n... ...r mind, she said, “Y ou may have greater achieve- ments than are marked by Victoria Crosses, and Sydney her- self may own it.” And Jock went to bed, c...

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...d to a vicar- age, and the great tithes appropriated to the College of St. Elizabeth in Winchester. The small tithes which remained being inadequate t... ...r. The tithes given by the Endowment to the President and Chaplains of St. Elizabeth College are—‘Decimae Bladi cujuscunque generis, Foeni ac Lanae,’ ... ...- priation of the rectorial-house, tithes, and glebe to the College of St. Elizabeth. The pretences assigned for this act, for true reasons they could... ..., it is only conjectural. He supposes that the ancient inhabitants of this island were for the most part herdsmen and shepherds; that their elder sons... ... the Empress Helena over the door; on the outside, Bishop Sumner and Queen Victoria to mark the date of building. “How would you like to have the book...

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...ad not a word to say, and the others were worse, for Cheviot thought Queen Elizabeth’s Earl of Leicester was Simon de Montfort; and didn’t know when t... ...e having all the Span- iards and savages spoiling Robinson Crusoe’s desert island!” “It is not come to that yet,” said Margaret; “but about the fancy ... ..., and quiet Mrs. Ward, began to talk at once. There was a great deal about Elizabethan architecture, crossed by much more, in which normal, industrial... ...ng to Calcutta, he had fallen in with a party about to explore the Asiatic islands and he had accompanied them, as well as going on an expedition into... ...ng to be tried by court-martial for liv- ing with the King of the Cannibal Islands.” “Aubrey says he had a desert island, with Jennings for his man Fr... ...fixed far away, as if his thoughts were roam- ing to the real founder. The Victoria coins were placed—Gertrude scooped up the mass of mortar, and spre...

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...cclesias 24 The Koran orientales) factam esse postquam lingua Arabica per victorias et religionem Muhammedanicam per Orientem propagata fuerat, et in... ...similar circum- stance of a tribe of Samaritan Jews dwelling on one of the islands in the Red Sea. 20 “The calf came forth (Ex. xxxii. 24) lowing and... ... Amran to be the father of the Virgin Mary (Sura [cix.] lxvi. 12)–Mary and Elizabeth to be sisters; who, with Jesus, John, and Zacharias, make up the ...

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...arget, they were vectored toward military-controlled airspace off the Long Island coast.To avoid New Y ork area air traffic and uncertain about what t... ...and when the Philippine government fights ethnic Mus- lims in its southern islands.America is also held responsible for the governments of Muslim coun... ...ll set up some four years earlier. He died in a ferryboat accident on Lake Victoria just a few days after Bin Ladin arrived in Jalalabad, leaving Bin ... .... 21 On December 14, 1999, Ressam drove his rental car onto the ferry from Victoria, Canada, to Port Angeles,Washington. Ressam planned to drive to Se... ...:26 PM Page 479 President Clinton, in a February 2002 speech to the Long Island Association, said that the United States did not accept a Sudanese o... ...t had been closed well before August 6, 2001. Joint Inquiry inter- view of Elizabeth and Laura, Nov. 20, 2002; FBI report,“70 UBL Cases,” undated (pro... ...that they asked to have the memo redone for this reason. 63. See DOD notes,Victoria Clarke notes, Sept. 11, 2001; DOD notes, Stephen Cambone notes, Se...