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... reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy received many annotations from members of the Heathcote family. There was a proposal that it should be re-edited, but ninety years could not but make a great difference in these days of progress, so that not only had the narrative to be brought up to ...

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...M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by Charlotte M. Yonge is a p... ...shire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy re- ceived many annotations from members of the Heathcote family. There was a proposal that it should b... ...an interest in provincial dialect, some specimens are appended, which come from personal knowledge. The lists of birds and of flowers are both from th... ...RBOURNE TERBOURNE THE SOUTH D OWNS of England descend at about eight miles from the sea into beds of clay, diversified by gravel and sand, and with an... ...star on their base, are picked up in the gravels and called by the country people Shep- herds’ Crowns—or even fossil toads. Large boulder stones are a... ...difficulties or controversies attended to, confirmation given to the young people and children, and, after a meal, the bishop proceeded, sometimes to ... .... Oliver writes in the summer after the marriage that he is glad the young people have leisure to make a journey to eat cherries. There is little doub... ... as Titus Oates does in Peveril of the Peak. An Otterbourne man going into Devonshire was told, “My son, you speak French.” No one ever showed the tru... ...innet (Coccothraustes chloris).—Greenfinch, or Beanbird as they call it in Devonshire, is a pleasant visitor, though it has a great turn for pease. Wr...

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

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...a State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND .................................................. ... II. OL. II. SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FROM OM OM OM OM THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHURCH OF CH OF CH... ...antime these great disturbances are not understood in England; and chiefly from the differences between the two nations as to the language of their se... ...eculiar mode authorized and practised in Scotland of ap- pointing to every parish its several pastor. Here and there an ultra-Presbyterian spirit migh... ...communicant is notoriously created or suspended by the cler- gyman of each parish; so that, by the briefest of circuits, the church causes the power t... ...ginal act of invitation. And yet, in defiance of that notorious fact, some people go so far as to assert, that a call is not good unless where it is s... ... inoperative, is and must be moonshine. Yet be- tween two moonshines, some people, it seems, can tell which is the denser. W e have all heard of Barme... ...ady, who cannot bear to be mixed up in any common charge together with low people, abomi- nates such words as ‘sin,’ and wills that the parson should ... ...ewed of confiding households leaving a real Calabria in Montgomeryshire or Devonshire, for dreary, sunburned flats in Bavaria, in Provence, in Langued...

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...e met the call of that particular transient occasion in which they arose; and others, it may be thought on review, might as well have been suppressed from the very first....

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..............

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... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ...ey AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRACT FR ... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ... power to lay aside reserve; and many, again, cannot be so with particular people. I have witnessed more than once the case, that a young female danc... ...ned to England, and met my mother at watering-places on the south coast of Devonshire, &c. But I, as a younger child, had not been one of the party se... ...a stranger who happened to dine one day at Greenhay, and mentioned that in Devonshire, or at least on the western coast of that county, near Ilfracomb... ...airs. One (my tutor) was a cler- gyman, rector of a church, and having his parish, his large family, and three pupils to attend. He was, besides, a ve...

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...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wi...

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...A A A A ACE CE CE CE CE Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenæum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have ... ...s Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Select... ...a a week to carry out his later project of a solitary tramp through Wales. From July to No- vember, 1802, De Quincey then led a wayfarer’s life.* He s... ... our little planet, the Earth, however cheap they may be held by eccentric people in comets: he had invented mail-coaches, and he had mar- ried the da... ...ne single college; in Oxford there were five-and-twenty, all of which were peopled by young men, the élite of their own generation; not boys, but men:... ...he year of Trafalgar), it had been the fixed assumption of the four inside people (as an old tradition of all public car- riages derived from the reig... ...En- glish: we English, because the champagne of London is chiefly grown in Devonshire; La Pucelle, because the champagne of Champagne never, by any ch... ... 72 The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc that degree by fairies that the parish priest (curé) was obliged to read mass there once a year, in order t...

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...te, in ate, in ate, in ate, in M M M M Macbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth FROM MY BOYISH DAYS I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Ma... ...e human mind, and the most to be distrusted; and yet the great majority of people trust to nothing else; which may do for ordinary life, but not for p... ...uses on each side of a street, as seen by a person looking down the street from one extremity. Now in all cases, unless the person has happened to obs... ... has not seen) that which he has seen every day of his life. But to return from this digression, my understanding could furnish no reason why the knoc... ... corresponding improve- ment. Practice and theory must advance pari passu. People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine m... ...in its tendency . Immoral! God bless my soul, gentle- men, what is it that people mean? I am for morality, and always shall be, and for virtue and all... ...En- glish; we English, because the Champagne of London is chiefly grown in Devonshire; La Pucelle, because the Cham- pagne of Champagne never, by any ... ... boundless forest; and it was haunted to that de- gree by fairies that the parish priest (curé) was obliged to read mass there once a year, in order t... ...s well have hunted in the woods of Ethiopia for Prester John, or fixed the parish of the everlasting Jew, 8 as have attempted to say what “jentaculum...

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... IV. THE PANTOMIME OF LIFE V. SOME PARTICULARS CONCERNING A LION VI.MR. ROBERT BOLTON: THE ?GENTLEMAN CONNECTED WITH THE PRESS? VII. FAMILIAR EPISTLE FROM A PARENT TO A CHILD AGED TWO YEARS AND TWO MONTHS...

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...BERT BOLTON: THE ‘GENTLEMAN CONNECTED WITH THE PRESS’ VII. FAMILIAR EPISTLE FROM A PARENT TO A CHILD AGED TWO YEARS AND TWO MONTHS PUBLIC LIFE OF MR.... ...ably pleasant town situated in a charming hollow by the side of a river, from which river, Mudfog derives an agree able scent of pitch, tar, coal... ...s of Mudfog are unanimous in asserting that there exists not a finer race of people on the face of the earth; here we have an indisputable and vera c... ...e morn ing they shall be permitted to open, how soon it shall be lawful for people to eat their dinner on church days, and other great political ques... ...sometimes, long after silence has fallen on the town, and the distant lights from the shops and houses have ceased to twinkle, like far off stars, to ... ...abit of indulg ing abroad in distant and mysterious allusions to ‘masses of people,’ and ‘the property of the country,’ and ‘productive power,’ and ‘... ...on all sides to a very re spectful distance, and left Ned, like the Duke of Devonshire, in a little circle of his own. ‘But, Mr. Jennings,’ said Nich... ...rs in council assembled, to enforce the law against people who come upon the parish, and other offenders, has any lawful authority whatever over the r...

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...mely, 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 participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without a...

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...ntents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES..............................................................................................

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........................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ........................ ...pers MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FR FR FR FR FROM OM OM OM OM THE A THE A THE A THE A THE AUTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, U... ... difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous de- pression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in hav... ... any, had been already tried for me vicariously amongst the Ameri- cans; a people so nearly repeating our own in style of intel- lect, and in the comp... ...rciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every philosophi... ...s, it is painful to witness the childish state of feeling which the French people manifest on every possible question that connects itself at any poin... ... in any province; whilst, at the same time, all prov- inces—Somersetshire, Devonshire, Hampshire—are con- founded with our midland counties; and posit... ... it actually hunted over Martindale forest and its purlieus. Or, again, in Devonshire and Cornwall, over Dartmoor, etc., and, I believe, in many other... ...is chargeable; and, if any dispute should arise about his maintenance, the parish will do nothing. Mr. White’s skeleton, therefore, being costly, was ...

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...PREFACE TO 1850 EDITION I DO NOT FIND IT EASY to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of hav- ing finished it, to refer ... ... pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions that I am in danger of wearying the reader whom I l... ...to the shadowy world, when a crowd of the creatures of his brain are going from him for ever. Yet, I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I wer... ... in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and pref... ... t cry! said Miss Betsey. You were not equally matched, child if any two people can be equally matched and so I asked the question. You were an orph... ...numental tablets on the wall, and try to think of Mr. Bodgers late of this parish, and what the feel- ings of Mrs. Bodgers must have been, when af- fl... ...civilities nothing has passed! You talk of admiration. What am I to do? If people are so silly as to indulge the sentiment, is it my fault? What am I ... ...h, Dora! She is a curate s daughter, said Traddles; one of ten, down in Devonshire. Yes! For he saw me glance, involuntarily, at the prospect on t... ...hts of Traddles, and of the curate s daughter, who was one of ten, down in Devonshire, and who was such a dear girl, and who would wait for Traddles (...

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...ing committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in those last solemn days, it did to him. He had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into ...

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...o friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in... ...d by his position as a Churchman, had been led, in editing a Work not free from ecclesiastical heresies, and especially in writing a Life very full of... ...Hebrew Old- clothes;’ wrestling, with impotent impetuosity, to free itself from the baleful imbroglio, as if that had been its one function in life: w... ...it.—Simple peasant laborers, ploughers, house- servants, occasional fisher-people too; and the sight of ships, and crops, and Nature’s doings where Ar... ...ntains, not even land, only the Bristol Channel, and far off, the Hills of Devonshire, for boundary,—the “English Hills,” as the natives call them, vi... ...dism when they have any character;—for the rest, an innocent good- humored people, who all drink home-brewed beer, and have brown loaves of the most e... ...ing. This is the ordinary Welsh village; but there are excep- tions, where people of more cultivated tastes have been led to settle, and Llanblethian ... ...t,”—or perhaps it was, Has she (the Church) not,—”a black dragoon in every parish, on good pay and rations, horse-meat and man’s-meat, to patrol and b... ...be, Lystra, Ephesus, that he would travel: but each house of his appointed Parish would be to him what each of those great cities was,—a place where h...

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...ion. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the veil from men?s motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental r...

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.... They were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit s... ...le memory. I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home centred intere... ...d in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the d... ...ation as I could desire about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, ... ...that. When you raise your cry of fire, it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin y... ...one direction and the loungers in the other, while a number of better dressed people, who had watched the scuffle without taking part in it, crowded i... ...red feather in a broad brimmed hat which was tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her ear. From under this great panoply she peep... ...he cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of an hour. How long they ... ... heartily. “No, sir, Dr. Becher is an Englishman, and there isn’t a man in the parish who has a better lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying...

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...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of children, but only Imperial R... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...The Science and Art Department has vanished altogether from the world, and people are forgetting it now with the utmost readiness and generosity. Part... ...stead of brasses and the protestant severity of the communion-table in the parish church,—both from the material point of view very little things. A R... ...mind a weak tradition of some local quality that embraced us all. Then the parish graveyard filled up and became a scandal, and an ambitious area with... ... to come to the Union every year, Masters, Chamberlain and the old Duke of Devonshire; they did not come indeed, but their polite refusals brought us ...

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...with which his friends have 5 Yo n g e kindly supplied me, portraying him from their point of view; so that I could really trust that little more was... ...ary judgment in connecting and selecting. Nor until the work is less fresh from my hand will it be possible to judge whether I have in any way been al... ... does not look back at least as far as the lives of the father and mother, from whom the disposition is sure to be in part inherited, and by whom it m... ...arnest wish to be a clergyman, because he thought saying the Absolution to people must make them so happy, ‘a belief he must have gleaned from his Pra... ...date September 19, 1871. The boy’s first school was at Ottery St. Mary, in Devonshire, of which his great-grandfather and great-uncle had both been he... ...ng out to found a church, and then to die neglected and forgotten. All the people burst out crying, he was so very much beloved by his parishioners. H... ...s of the ceremony. After all the boys had been confirmed about seven other people were confirmed, of whom two were quite as much as thirty, I should t... ...London was a great fatigue to an invalid, her desire to spend Christmas in Devonshire led to her remaining there with her daughters, when her husband ... ...he plea- sure of announcing that his great friend, Edmund Bastard, a young Devonshire squire, was among the ‘select,’ and he says of himself: ‘You wil...

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...o of the women wept. Any one who had come aboard might have supposed we were all absconding from the law. There was scarce a word interchanged, and no... ...table and that of the true steerage passenger was the table itself, and the crockery plates from which we ate. But lest I should show myself ungratefu... ...ical disparity; and even by the pal- ate I could distinguish a smack of snuff in the former from a flavour of boiling and dish-cloths in the second. A... ...ily men broken by adversity, elderly youths who had failed to place themselves in life, and people who had seen better days. Mildness was the prevaili... ...re a shipful of failures, the broken men of England. Yet it must not be supposed that these people exhibited depression. The scene, on the contrary, w... ...s Stevenson the reply, indicating, I fancy, a shade of difference in the social scale. When people pass each other on the high seas of life at so earl... ...lash what an involved and hideous tragedy was a disaster to an emigrant ship. If this whole parishful of people came no more to land, into how many ho... ...ce of last night, was Scots by birth, and by trade a practical engineer; the other was from Devonshire, and had been to sea before the mast. T wo peop... ... some one before me on the road. This fellow-voyager proved to be no less a person than the parish constable. It had occurred to me that in a district...

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..., darling?” she said. Her voice was so weak that it seemed to come already from a great distance. The child did not answer, but smiled comfortably. He... ...him, poor child?” The monthly nurse tried to quiet her , and pres- ently , from exhaustion, the crying ceased. The doctor walked to a table on the oth... ... body of a still-born child. He lifted the towel and looked. He was hidden from the bed by a screen, but the woman guessed what he was doing. “ Was it... ... tall, big-boned woman, with fair hair and large fea- tures. She came from Devonshire and, notwith- standing her many years of service in London, had ... ...d she told him about the country he was going to and about her own home in Devonshire—her fa- ther kept a turnpike on the high-road that led to Exeter... ... be fortified for the evening service. V PHILIP CAME gradually to know the people he was to live with, and by fragments of conversation, some of it no... ...nd the little harbor were shabby streets in which lived fishermen and poor people; but since they went to chapel they were of no account. When Mrs. Ca... ...ften sang still when there was a tea-party at the vicarage. There were few people whom the Careys cared to ask there, and their parties consisted alwa... ...e he was only a stoodent; and Mildred’s father, who had a large place down Devonshire way, wouldn’t do anything for them because she had married Phili...

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...a reer of the immortal Pickwick would appear to be in volved, is deri ved from the perusal of the foll ow ing ent ry in th e Transactions of the P... ...cience, f rom the production to which they have just adverted—no less than from the unwearied researches of Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., in Ho... ... f rom car rying the speculations of that learned man into a wider field, from extending his travels, and, consequentl y, enlarging his sphere of obs... ...n observer of human na ture, Sir,’ said Mr. Pickwick. ‘ Ah, so am I. Most people are when they’ve little to do and less to get. Poet, Sir?’ ‘My frien... ...’ said the stranger, ‘fun presently—nobs not come yet—queer place—dockyard people of upper rank don’t know dockyard people of lower rank—dockyard peop... ...h a face expressive of the most intense solemnity, dancing (as a good many people do) as if a quadrille were not a thing to be laughed at, but a sever... ... is now just five and twenty years ago, the most notorious person among my parishioners was a man of the name of Edmunds, who leased a small farm near... ...What’s your name, Sir,” says the lawyer.—”Tony Weller,” says my fa ther.—”Parish?” says the lawyer. “Belle Savage,” says my fa ther; for he stopped ... ...of a saffron hue, dangled two or three printed cards, bearing reference to Devonshire cider and Dantzic spruce, while a large blackboard, announcing i...

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...n of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of solid c... ...to his sisters; for their fortune, independent of what might arise to them from their father’s inheriting that property, could be but small. Their mot... ...asure. He was neither so unjust, nor so ungrateful, as to leave his estate from his nephew;—but he left it to him on such terms as destroyed half the ... ...present, of shewing them with how little attention to the comfort of other people she could act when occasion required it. So acutely did Mrs. Dashwoo... ...e cannot be worth half that purchase.” “Certainly not; but if you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them; and s... ...elf, indeed, but he has great pleasure in seeing the performances of other people, and I assure you he is by no means deficient in natural taste, thou... ...- ing to a relation of her own, a gentleman of consequence and property in Devonshire. The letter was from this gentleman himself, and written in the ... ...e read. The situation of Barton, in a county so far distant from Sussex as Devonshire, which, but a few hours before, would have been a sufficient obj... ...fore, it was not for her to oppose her mother’s intention of removing into Devonshire. The house, too, as described by Sir John, was on so simple a sc...

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...t, mentions that there was an Alexander Pope, a clergyman, in the re- mote parish of Reay, in Caithness, who rode all the way to T wickenham to pay hi... ...rade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shortly after the Revolu- tion, at the early age of forty-six... ...eat tenderness and care. Once, when three years old, he nar- rowly escaped from an angry cow, but was wounded in the throat. He was remarkable as a ch... ...ed in the throat. He was remarkable as a child for his amiable temper; and from the sweetness of his voice, received the name of the Little Nightingal... ...of a man generally depends upon the first steps he makes in the world; and people will establish their opinion of us from what we do at that season wh... ...man so much good as ill-will does him harm. Then there is a third class of people, who make the largest part of mankind, those of ordinary or indiffer... ...e best company; and the freedom of saying as many careless things as other people, without being so severely remarked upon. I believe, if any one, ear... ...ewet and Sarah Drew, An Industrious Young Man, And Virtuous Maiden of This Parish; Who, Being at Harvest-Work (With Several Others), Were in One Insta... ...ile chaplains:’ Dr Kenett, who wrote a servile dedi- cation to the Duke of Devonshire, to whom he was chaplain. 164 ‘Abbs Court:’ a farm over against...

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...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ...nd lead,’ tempted some of the French and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now calle... ...ved that part of the Is lands. It is probable that other people came over from Spain to Ireland, and settled there. Thus, by little and little, stran... ...nds, retired Charles Dickens 21 into Wales and the adjacent country; into Devonshire, and into Cornwall. Those parts of England long remained unconqu... ...t them by and by, and yet you cannot watch them, idle dog?’ At length, the Devonshire men made head against a new host of Danes who landed on their co... ...e could have done anything half so sensible; for, King Alfred joined the Devonshire men; made a camp with them on a piece of firm ground in the mids...