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...The University of Salford have told me that I own the copyright as I submitted in 1977. It is only more recently , about 2 years ago , that the University started claiming the copyright of students' submitted theses...

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..."The "fiddle" was not otherwise very important to the men; they stressed that they did not like to be tied down by it . They chose work in which they could be free and autonomous"...

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...e historical Development of Fire Fighting B) The Development of the Modern British Fire Service C) The British Fire Service in the Early 1970's D) Fire Brigades Around the World Chapter 2 FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS AND METHODOLOGY A) Introduction B) Making Contact with the Fire Brigade and setting up the Inte...

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...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvan... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...n who had been charged with some act of infidelity to her husband. And the local government, being indignantly summoned to interfere by some Christian... ...had been charged with some act of infidelity to her husband. And the local government, being indignantly summoned to interfere by some Christian stran... ...rown out of merits and qualities purely personal, and was kept alive by no local or family memorials rooted in the land, or surviving herself, it was ... ...try, from country to town; lawyers, clergymen, medi- cal men, magistrates, local judges, &c., all shifting in and out between town and country; rural ... ... to direct appropriation of another man’s purse. I, on my part, held, that government, having often defrauded me through its agent and creature the po... ...ausible rule-of-three form—namely, As is the income of the said fraudulent government to my poor patrimonial income of one hundred and fifty pounds pe...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...ld be sup- plied with sure seats in Parliament and a probably share in the Government. But no such results had been achieved. There had been a want of... ...ntry had been offered to him by the last aspirant to the leadership of the Government. But the reader should understand more than this, and may perhap... ...f her lord,—and who thought that a Duke of Omnium should be nothing in the Government if not at any rate near the top. But after that, with the simple... .... Mr Sprout at once saw his opportunity, and suggested to Mr Du Boung, the local 282 The Prime Minister brewer, that he should come forward. Du Boung... ...thrown him over shamefully. Immedi- ately on his arrival in Silverbridge a local attorney had with the blandest possible smile asked him for a cheque ... ...tested against that proposition. Mr Du Boung, who was a gentleman of great local influence, was in posses- sion of four-fifths of the liberal interest...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pe... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...and seasons, and revolving hours, that still point and barb the anguish of local recollections, telling me of this and that celestial morning that nev... ...ves during the critical period from the office which corresponded with the government; for, as I have said, the affair took place in a large provincia... ...er courts, in which also were many stalls and booths, kept there upon some local privilege of ancient inheritance, or upon some other plea made good b... ...question, Whether the prosecution were one of mere malice or not? The very government of the land was reported to be equally interested, and almost eq... ...of popular opinion made itself heard with a louder and a louder sound. The government itself began to be disturbed; the ministers of the sovereign wer... ...ent in this little place was out of the question. The Alcalde was a man of local power, and it was certain that he would kill his wife on the spot. Ka...

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...pt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Ma...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...presses her final charity with all men; and not only so, but they are even locally sepa- rated and sequestrated. Ground the most hallowed, and popu- l... ...began to make researches,) has availed us little or noth- ing. Neither the local traditions of his provincial birthplace, though sharing with London t... ...e for ever; the saints of the theatre, on the other hand, must bend to the local genius, and to the very reasons for having a the- atre at all. Men go... ...entence most justly incurred, and mercifully mitigated by the hostile Whig government. On the bishop’s trial a circumstance occurred to Pope which fla... ... in those bodies, however, it was, in those as connected with tyranni- cal governments, each academic body being shackled to its own petty centre of l... ...he records of human follies, do we find a corresponding case, in which the government and the patrician orders in the state, taking for granted, and a...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume T wo, the Pennsylv... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... fable less invidious; in which all the great principles of true and false governments and religions should be chiefly delivered in feigned examples. ... ...aws; 430 Received the reins of absolute command, With all the government of house and land, And empire o’er his tongue and o’er his hand.... ...g himself. 167 But Pasquin seemed rather inclined it should be done by the Government, representing him engaged in grievous de- signs with a lord of P... ...aping all his laws, Make God man’s image, man the final cause, Find virtue local, all relation scorn, See all in self, and but for self be born: ... .... 281 ‘Ozell:’ ‘Mr John Ozell (if we credit Mr Jacob) did go to school in Leicestershire, where somebody left him something to live on, when he shall...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing wi...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an i... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...d of an offer to be employed as usher in the school of Market-Bosworth, in Leicestershire, to which it appears, from one of his little fragments of a ... ... by appearance, impulses, dreams or in any other manner agree- able to thy Government. Forgive my presump- tion, enlighten my ignorance, and however m... ...ribe to Johnson, to desert his avowed principles, and become the tool of a government which he held to be founded in usurpation. I have taken care to ... ...e hold the King can do no wrong; that whatever may hap- pen to be wrong in government may not be above our reach, by being ascribed to Majesty. Redres... .... No, Sir, knowledge and virtue may be acquired in all countries, and your local consequence will make you some amends for the intellectual gratifica-... ... ried again.’ Boswell. ‘But he is not restless.’ Johnson. ‘Sir, he is only locally at rest. A chymist is locally at rest; but his mind is hard at work...

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...When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative practice, which had enabled him to maintain ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Fait... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...her members were relating to their separate circles what the intentions of government were, about taking up the bill; with a full account of what the ... ...- ment had said in a whisper the last time they dined with it, and how the government had been observed to wink when it said so; from which premises t... ...om which premises they were at no loss to draw the conclusion, that if the government had one object more at heart than another, that one object was t... ...independence and good sense); and to send the manuscript in a frank to the local paper, with perhaps half-a-dozen lines of leader, to the effect, that... ...e affections of Tim Linkinwater, or the inferior lovers of this particular locality, had been awak- ened and kept alive by any refreshing associations... ...oman or not, but he,’ pointing, to Ralph, ‘used to go down to the house in Leicestershire pretty often, and 772 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS N...