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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

...rangest of all empires.’ Macauley, 1833 On New Years Eve 1600, that most esteemed of English monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I, read the document pre... ...ir enterprise would one day, with an army more powerful than any in Europe (except, perhaps, the French) and a revenue greater than that of Great Br... ... had married. THE CURSE OF KALI 3 England 1854 It was a beautiful autumn day when Sir Terence French informed Helen of the family’s wish that sh... ...ALI 3 England 1854 It was a beautiful autumn day when Sir Terence French informed Helen of the family’s wish that she should marry his son Gavin. ... ...ieve he is making much effort in that direction. You know, of course, about the conditions of the family inheritance. It is all explained in this let... ... effect her handsome cousin had had on her. Rosita recalled their conversation. ‘I was tied to a tree by my friends who wanted to play our favourite... ...he hoped, be seen. ‘Well what have we here?’ the devil asked, for his horse had stopped near her tree and he was untying her bonds. Helen opened her... ...o reason to burden Isabel.’ Gavin, like most men thought Helen, seemed unaware how tactless his simple remark had been and replied, ‘You could neve... ...l shaped, not aquiline. He wore a well-trimmed beard and thin moustache and his clothes, although simple, were of good quality. He looked quite nobl...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...ous Divergence Unconditional Love Versus Eternal Punishment The Spiritual “Family” Karma And Predestination Mysticism 118 “Union” And “Communion” Myst... ...a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or we absorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up i... ...jective as possible. As a child I was reared in a fundamentalist Christian family which had little by way of formal affiliation with any particular ch... ... I cared not to ask what it was. For when the nut-hatch comes into her own tree, she dunna ask who planted it, nor what name it bears to men. For the ... ..., let us look at Figure 1 which is a highly simplified sketch of a “family tree” of one interrelated group of religious systems, each of which was or ... ...the eyes of traditionalist Hindus, Buddhism offered a very different, much simpler form of religion. The Buddha’s teachings proposed no God or gods, n... ...oga and Secret Doctrines, second edn. BUDDHISM 41 Alexandra David-Néel, a French Buddhist, describes the practice of this yoga as she found it while ... ...s before Christ to more worthy times after Christ, or, to believers in the French Enlightenment, time progressed toward grand goals and completions, f... ...ernment that would protect their private property from the depredations of monarchs claiming to have the divine right to do as they wished. Locke had ...

...d some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went ha...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...ll not be able to sleep indoors tonight. My bed will have to be under the trees. Perhaps the wind can bring me some special message. P The banquet ... ...seaward, where fishing smacks moved, I rubbed the horny bark, envying the tree’s longevity and its years ahead. Would I trade places, to brood over ... ...ou should know better than that. Oh, no...it was your assumption that our family funds could be lifted, without my consent and without my knowledge. ... ...Anaktoria’s hour. She had been away, visiting in Samnos, staying with her family, and I was eager to hear the news. “I thought I was homesick... But... ...bull-leaping doll of Cretan ivory, brightly painted! But his apartment was simple, tastefully furnished, elegant as his clothes. Each bath towel, I r... ...I stared into its eye, to surprise its oracle. P I am criticized for my simple dress, my tastes. The townspeople say I should not be aloof. They s... ...y-five years, she tells me. I’ve had her for fifteen years. Cloux The French call this place Le Clos-Luce, and it is a bright enclosure. I think ... ... with colorless, limp fringes. The unchained books are in Spanish, Latin, French, Greek, Dutch, and Hun- garian—collected by King Francis’ father. He... ...ves: “You talk in riddles, sir. Your plays ridicule us. You disesteem our monarchs, King Richard for one. Your plays attract the vulgar. You praise ...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...ng beauty -- The lion hunters of Cintiqui -- Clothing wrought from the bark of trees 118- 122 CHAPTER X. A Remarkably just Emperor. -- The famous dist... ...ing sights in the sky -- The excitable historian -- A marvellous water-bearing tree -- Man-eaters of the deep -- Mother Carey's chickens -- Giants of ... ...lves -- Formation of a communistic settlement -- Occupation by the English and French of many islands -- A fort built at Tortuga -- Capture of the pla... ... and massacre of the people -- A few survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish ships Rapid... ...sable love for history; that it may diffuse both pleasure and knowledge in the family circle; that it may be helpful in teaching the value of good boo... ...oah stepped forth upon dry land after the flood had drowned all except his own family. It is, therefore, no strange thing that in this region, along t... ...e, of adorning their bodies with gold and silver ornaments, they used only the simplest cloths, made from the bark of trees, which, however, were dext... ...la, with a plunder of four hundred thousand crowns. But their expeditions were simple raids, designed merely to gratify the passing needs of the momen... ...r was a punctilious one, and might have been patterned after those of European monarchs. His courtiers and attendants never approached his presence wi...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... at the Golden Dragon they make the finest of Chinese food and do unusual French and Italian dishes. They even make a Texas chili, but it‘s too tame... ...g safe, lower crime rates, better medical care and more time with a happy family rate high. ―Some countries are beginning to study what pe... ...much more time working are much higher on the happiness list than are the French, who vacation a lot. ―Money only makes us happier up to a... ... limits of any paths to happiness. Was it money, God, philanthropy, fame, family, self realization or any of the other human goals and endeavors? ... ...Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, and the Koran. Our values were simple to understand. Don't steal, honor your parents, don't murder, and d... ...cation for the Inquisition is more difficult to find but if we can equate tree branches with people then John 15:6 can work. ‗If anyone does not rema... ... some hope for you. Look at the forest, you‘re concentrating on one or two trees. We all have to be more socially concerned today—and the major probl... ...can‘t always have things their way because the majority rules. Hereditary monarchs tend to dislike this theory, but they, as other totalitarian leade... ...ioned iron-willed kings were never that popular with the peasants. Modern monarchs are not too bad but they cost a lot. Should the people pay million...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...TION AND SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY & FOREST PRODUCTS “ The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now . ” – ANCIENT CHINES... ...OVERB www.HawaiianLegacyHardwoods.com For more information call (877) 707- TREE or email info@HawaiianLegacyHardwoods.com Green Jobs Foreign & Domesti... ...B APEC.indd 1 9/30/11 4:44 PM 12 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS Kosasa Family Fund of the Hawai‘i Community Foundation McInerny Foundation Chun ... ...or Hawai‘i Laua‘e Albert C. Kobayashi, Inc. Aloha Petroleum, Ltd. Atherton Family Foundation AT Marketing Belt Collins Hawaii Bishop Museum Bowers an... ...ark • Dominican Republic El Salvador • Estonia • Fiji • Finland • France • French Polynesia • Germany • Greece • Guatemala Hong Kong • Hungary • Indi... ...awaii 96821 Toll Free 1-866-273-5570 www.kahalanui.com Why not retire in simple elegance? On the beautiful 6-1/2 acre garden campus of K¯ ahala N... ...from our Platinum Collection, representing not only a way to own rare fee-simple real estate in Waikiki, but to enjoy exclusive ownership privileges... ...by King David Kalākaua in 1882, the stately former residence of Hawaiian monarchs is best described as “a marvel of opulence, innovation, and poli...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

...d to date. Most are specialized to a particular area of social marketing, such as family planning, antismoking, or better environment. Fine is the... ...e reporting of these studies, for purposes of this volume, has been reduced to the simplest terms and should be entirely comprehensible to the lay r... ...f ideas. My wife also set an example for us to become a 9 socially conscious family; Paul followed his mother into social work, Michael is in s... ...search of verification of those principles with reference to the observations. A simple illustration of the process is seen in the reasoning of a p... ...n crier to tell his own version of the day's news. Only a few statesmen and a few monarchs received written and sealed dispatches and their source ... ...gical linguistics to the problem and changed the name of condoms from "F.L.," or "French Letters," to "Nirodh," a Sanskrit word for "protection.” A... ...and abates when stands are permitted to grow to maturity. But the optimum rate of tree harvest is determinable by formula as a function of timber ac...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...t can also choose to buy the end-product as an e-book. Consider what this simple business model does to entrenched and age old notions such as "orig... ..."interruption marketing" (=ads and banners) dead. The second approach is simpler and allows for the existence of non-commercial content. It propos... ...ts of man; every citizen may therefore speak, write and print freely." (French National Assembly, 1789) I. What is a Book? UNESCO's arbitrary a... ...ritorial jurisdiction over the hitherto ostensibly extraterritorial Net. A French court has prohibited Yahoo! from making certain content on its Web ... ...h their previous price tag. From the equivalent of the cost of an average family farm, books became so inexpensive that you could see a wagonload of ... ...and, just as my memory of it was a golden inscribed red leather edition my family used to read from together. Four years later, in 1993, there were ... ...hington state, there were plenty of wild blackberries, raspberries, apple trees, pear trees, plum trees, grapes. I never even considered buying any o... ...s overhead to get their ever- decreasing catalog of items, printed on dead trees, delivered to shopping malls. Fear of illicit copying (music and v... ...wever, after over 150 years of trying to convince dozens of courtiers and monarchs, and failing, "The Stationers Company" was finally granted a royal...

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In the Days of the Comet

By: H. G. Wells

...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... ...ntry . It might, I thought, be the Happy Future, or Utopia, or the Land of Simple Dreams; an errant mote of memory, Henry James’s phrase and story of ... ...that my mind ran persistently that evening upon revolutions after the best French pattern, and I sat on a Committee of Safety and tried backsliders. P... ...t wide space of moonlit grass, rimmed by the looming suggestion of distant treestrees very low and faint and dim, and over it all the domed serenity ... ...f a poor nobility. A peerage was an heredi- tary possession that, like the family land, concerned only the eldest sons of the house; it radiated no lu... ...- ing, towered over her, becoming for an instant at least a sort of second French Revolution, and delivered myself with the intensest concentration of... ...eed old Mrs. Verrall was no more capable of doubting the perfection of her family’s right to dominate a wide country side, than she was of examining ... ...rifted brood- 90 In the Days of the Comet ingly across the grass, and the trees rose ghostly out of that phantom sea. Great and shadowy and strange w... ... to go to and fro, it had to do so by exorbitant treaties with each of the monarchs whose territory was involved. No man could find foothold on the fa...

...ly 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 errant mote of memory, Henry James?s phrase and story of ?The Great Good ...

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Guy Mannering

By: Sir Walter Scott

...the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to whic... ...operty, failing which event it must have passed to a distant branch of the family. He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room. “I fear from ... ... fun grew fast and furious, and, mounting his horse accordingly, he took a French leave of his entertainers, but without experiencing the least breach... ...eceptor as Mr. Sampson is supposed to have been, was actually tutor in the family of a gentleman of consider- able property. The young lads, his pupil... ...und upon the dreary region, and seeing nothing but bleak fields, and naked trees, hills obscured by fogs, and flats covered with inundations, he did f... ...e Place. I’se warrant they’ll tak ye in, whether ye be gentle or semple.” “Simple enough, to be wandering here at such a time of night,” thought Manne... ... into some- thing which had still the air of an avenue, though many of the trees were felled. The roar of the ocean was now near and full, and the moo... ...od, acknowledged as a separate and independent race by one of the Scottish monarchs, and that they were less favourably distinguished by a subsequent ... ...owan—get out the gallon punchbowl and plenty of lemons. I’ll stand for the French article by the time I come back, and we’ll drink the young Laird’s h...

...attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to which, in the progress of the work, the production ceased to bear any, even the most distant resemblance....

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The Prelude of 1805 in Thirteen Books

By: William Wordsworth

.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Book Tenth Residence in France and French Revolution . . . . . . . . . 176 Book Eleventh Imagination, How Im... ...teps, and came erelong 70 To a green shady place where down I sate Beneath a tree, slackening my thoughts by choice And settling into gentler happines... ...n here and there about the grove of oaks Where was my bed, an acorn from the trees Fell audibly, and with a startling sound. Thus occupied in mind I l... ...nicles of kings, Suffered in silence for the love of truth; 205 How that one Frenchman, through continued force Of meditation on the inhuman deeds Of ... ... a wild flower 215 All over his dear county, left the deeds Of Wallace like a family of ghosts To people the steep rocks and river banks, Her natural s... ...n in her eclipse, Queens, gleaming through their splendour’s last decay, And Monarchs, surly at the wrongs sustain’d 565 By royal visages. Meanwhile, ... ...full of hope; Some friends I had—acquaintances who there Seemed friends—poor simple schoolboys now hung round With honour and importance. In a world O... ...this my new abode, Not seldom I had melancholy thoughts 75 From personal and family regards, Wishing to hope without a hope—some fears About my future... ... this first transit from the smooth delights 555 And wild outlandish walks of simple youth To something that resembled an approach Towards mortal busin...

...- Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind, 126 -- Book Ninth Residence in France, 150 -- Book Tenth Residence in France and French Revolution, 176 -- Book Eleventh Imagination, How Impaired and Restored, 205 -- Book Twelfth Same Subject (Continued), 217 -- Book Thirteenth Conclusion, 228...

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Essays of Travel

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... disposition. Now those around me were for the most part quiet, orderly, obedient citizens, family men broken by adversity, elderly youths who had fai... ...ses livingly to my imagination. A turn of the market may be a calamity as disastrous as the French retreat from Moscow; but it hardly lends itself to ... ...And since I am here on the chapter of the children, I must mention one little fellow, whose family belonged to Steerage No. 4 and 5, and who, wherever... ...pected, the quadrille was soon whistled down, and the dancers departed under a cloud. Eight Frenchmen, even eight Englishmen from another rank of soci... ...d steam-engines. He did not know what you meant by the word happiness. He had forgotten the simple emotions of childhood, and perhaps never encountere... ... more hope of evening fellowship, and I could only stroll on by the river-side, un- der the trees. The water was dappled with slanting sunshine, and d... ...g on the raft. It ought to have been very nice punting about there in the cool shade of the trees, or sitting moored to an over-hanging root; but perh... ...of memorable men of yore. And this distinction is not only in virtue of the pastime of dead monarchs. Great events, great revolutions, great cycles in... ...anges and renews a weary spirit. Disappointed men, sick Francis Firsts and vanquished Grand Monarchs, time out of mind have come here for consola- tio...

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In the South Seas

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...st, in all that quarter of the is- land. Winged by her own impetus and the dying breeze, the Casco skimmed under cliffs, opened out a cove, showed us ... ...anding (in the universal fashion) close upon a curve of beach, close under a grove of palms; the sea in front growling and whitening on a concave arc ... ... natives, are to be found in almost every isle and hamlet; and even where these are unserviceable, the natives themselves have often scraped up a litt... ...it, yet did not speak one word of German. I heard from a gendarme who had taught school in Rapa-iti that while the children had the utmost difficulty ... ...its contents: three kegs, a tin biscuit-box, an iron saucepan, several co- coa-shell cups, a lantern, and three bottles, probably con- taining oil; wh... ...and had found it hard to borrow one; coming thus solitary (as indeed we always saw him), because he was a stranger in the land, and the dreariest of c... ...te and one of the most temperate of island peoples. They have never been tried and depressed with any grave pestilence. Their clothing has scarce been... ...fe was thus growing at their door. I was the more in error. In the general destruc- tion these surviving trees were enough only for the family of the ... ...ilt of coral; over against the mouth, by what seems an effect of landscape art, the martello-like islet of the gaol breaks the lagoon. Vassal chiefs w...

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The Pioneers Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna a Descriptive Tale

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...rce, was much filled with “flood wood,” 5 James Fenimore Cooper or fallen trees; and the troops adopted a novel expedient to facilitate their passage... ...t beams of the sun which found their way obliquely through the tops of the trees. Huge saddles, studded with nails and fitted with cloth that served a... ...large, comfortable, old-fashioned convey- ances, which would admit a whole family within its bosom, but which now contained only two passengers beside... ... possible for honesty, intellect and sobri- ety to fall. The same pride of family that had, by its self- satisfied indolence, conduced to aid their fa... ...wever little it accorded with prudence, was in perfect conformity with the simple integrity of his own views. The friend of Marmaduke was his only chi... ...in command on the western frontier of Pennsylvania against a league of the French and Indians, not only his glory , but the safety of him- self and hi... ... Mr. Le Quoi whether there is any danger.” It was not in the nature of the Frenchman to disappoint expectations so confidently formed; although he cat... ...ounded bark, moistened with a fluid that he had expressed from some of the simples of the woods. Among the native tribes of the forest there were alwa... ...d, and sat eyeing their undisputed territory. During the presence of these monarchs of the air, the flocks of migrating birds avoided crossing the pla...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

... Pope’s study is still pre- served in Binfield; and on the lawn, a cypress-tree which he is said to have planted, is pointed out. Pope was a premature... ...imself to write. When eight years old, he was placed under the care of the family priest, one Bannister, who taught him the Latin and Greek grammars t... ...fteen, he visited London, in order to acquire a more thorough knowledge of French and Italian. At sixteen, he wrote the “Pastorals,” and a portion of ... ... curious, if true, that she was as deformed in person as Pope himself. Her family seems to have been noble. In 1713, he published “Windsor Forest,” an... ...the meretri- cious graces of Ovid. But with Homer, the severely grand, the simple, the warlike, the lover and painter of all Nature’s old original for... ...l, and accomplished—full of enterprise and spirit, too, although decidedly French in her tastes, manners, and character. Pope fell violently in love w... ... Muses sing; Now hawthorns blossom, now the daisies spring; Now leaves the trees, and flowers adorn the ground: Begin, the vales shall every note rebo... ...y, Daphnis, say, in what glad soil appears, A wondrous tree 6 that sacred monarchs bears? Tell me but this, and I’ll disclaim the prize, And give the... ...s robe, 83 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One And, of all monarchs, only grasps the globe? The Baron now his Diamonds pours apace; Th...

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Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ames. “Come,” said that kind and hospitable gentleman, “and make one of my family party; in all your life you will never probably have a chance again ... ...these rooms were as clean as scrubbing and whitewash could make them; with simple French prints (with Spanish titles) on the walls; a few rickety half... ...ooms were as clean as scrubbing and whitewash could make them; with simple French prints (with Spanish titles) on the walls; a few rickety half-finish... ...fan and mantle; to them came three or four dandies, dressed smartly in the French fashion, with strong Jewish physiognomies. There was one, a solemn l... ...hich unlucky period a building mania seems to have seized upon many of the monarchs of Europe, and innumerable public edifices were erected. It seems ... ...or many miles you see the magnificent Tagus, rolling by banks crowned with trees and towers. But to arrive at this enormous building you have to climb... ...ng roads, up and down dreary parched hills, on which grew a few grey olive-trees and many aloes. When we arrived, the 17 Thackeray gate leading to th... ...ted down with surprising inge- nuity and precision by the lieutenant, at a family desk at which he sat every night, before a great paper elegantly and... ...dmitted, but may look through the bars, and see the coffins of the defunct monarchs and children of the Royal race. Each lies in his narrow sarcophag...

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The Last of the Mohicans, A Narrative of 1757

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...tence by a syllable; he will even convey differ- ent significations by the simplest inflections of the voice. Philologists have said that there are bu... ...embered that the Dutch (who first settled New Y ork), the English, and the French, all gave appellations to the tribes that dwelt within the country w... ... this book, fully a quarter of a century since, it occurred to us that the French name of this lake was too complicated, the American too commonplace,... ...e their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe. Perhaps no district throughout the wide extent of the i... ... seen moving up the Champlain, with an army “numerous as the leaves on the trees,” its truth was admitted with more of the craven re- luctance of fear... ... that of Fort Edward, calling each after a favorite prince of the reigning family. The veteran Scotchman just named held the first, with a regiment of... ...- 11 James Fenimore Cooper peared from the log cabin of some officer; the trees cast their deeper shadows over the mounds and the rippling stream, an... ... com- rades, and to share in the excitement and incidents of the hour. The simple array of the chosen band was soon completed. While the regular and t... ... beyond the sound of our songs of triumph.” “Know you anything of your own family at that time?” de- manded the white. “But you are just a man, for an...

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Two Penniless Princesses

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ith his wife to France. Annis, as you know, is betrothed to the son of his French friends, Malcolm is to study at the Paris University, and Davie to b... ...e to be with Meg at Bourges?’ Jeanie opened her blue eyes wide. ‘Go to the French King’s Court?’ she said. ‘To the land of chivalry and song,’ exclaim... ... but he was unable to do much for her, and only added the feuds of his own family to increase the general danger. The two eldest daughters, Margaret a... ...- eign service as far as possible from his queenly wife and in- convenient family, no one knew. Not long after, the Queen, with her four daughters and... ...urt, on the other over a choicely-kept garden, walled in, but planted with trees shad- ing the turf walks. The rooms were, as Sister Mabel explained w... ...ngs were always held to be free to enter anywhere, even far more dangerous monarchs than the pious Henry VI. Jean’s heart bounded up again, with a sen... ...anding both the aggressors to be dealt with, i.e. to be hanged on the next tree. ‘These men are of mine, Master Marshal,’ said Sir Patrick. ‘My Lord c... ...ace, talked to Eleanor of her journey; Margaret, who had one of those very simple, innocent-looking child-faces that sometimes form the mask of immens... ...her purpose in coming. Eleanor, on the other hand, found her cavalier more simple than herself. In fact, he properly belonged to the Infanta, but she ...

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The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

...o leave it to; and what I had was visibly increasing; for, having no great family , I could not spend the income of what I had unless I would set up f... ... had unless I would set up for an expensive way of living, such as a great family , servants, equipage, gaiety , and the like, which were things I had... ...actually supposed myself often upon the spot, at my old castle, behind the trees; saw my old Spaniard, Friday’s father, and the reprobate sailors I le... ...there, where you once reigned with more felicity than most of your brother monarchs in the world.” In a word, the scheme hit so exactly with my temper... ...en; for there were a great many passengers. Upon inquiry we found it was a French merchant ship of three-hundred tons, home-bound from Quebec. The mas... ... the particu- lar circumstance of that nation they belonged to: I mean the French, whose temper is allowed to be more volatile, more passionate, and m... ...kissed him, stroked his face, took him up in his arms, set him down upon a tree, and lay down by him; then stood and looked at him, as any one would l... ...l naturalised to the country. But some time after this they fell into such simple measures again as brought them into a great deal of trouble. They ha...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... the honest young fellows of the —th to adore and admire Mrs. Osborne. Her simple artless behaviour, and modest kindness of demeanour, won all their u... ...ge of being allied to the Malonys, whom she believed to be the most famous family in the world. Having tried nine seasons at Dublin and two at Bath an... ...ter in- stead, and to look upon you as such, and to love you as one of the family. Faith, you’ve got such a nice good-natured face and way widg you, t... ...” inter- posed the Major, “but we’ll easy get a card for Mr. Sedley.” “Run Simple (Ensign Simple, of Ours, my dear Amelia. I forgot to introjuice him ... ...ach us the true Parisian pronunciation, and a retired Mejor-General of the French service to put us through the exercise.” Of this incongruous family ... ...scended to examine her upon leeterature, and tried her with his three best French quo- tations. Y oung Stubble went about from man to man whisper- ing... ...stures and pleasant quaint old villages, by old chateaux lying amongst old trees, were all crowded with well-to-do English travellers: when the soldie... ...ning the barges sailing slowly under the cool shadows of 51 Thackeray the trees by the canal, or refreshing himself with a mug of Faro at the bench o... ...d, and credit could supply. She chose that famous one in which the best of monarchs is represented in a frock-coat with a fur collar, and breeches and...

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