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...city of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He...

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............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. ...e I didn‘t know what I was eating, but it was all delicious. No wonder you people don‘t get fat. You can eat for hours and take in so few calories—al... ...usinessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. There‘s nobody t... ...atisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra money to add... ...y are barbarians. It is the same in the area of values, when we encounter new concepts we often criticize them because they are, or might be, unethi... ...he life of a man is no more important to the universe than the life of an oyster. The friends and family of the person killed may shed a few tears, a... ...animals with rights equal to humans and those with no special rights. Are oysters and jellyfish among the animals with rights? What about rattlesnak... ...ur plan. The truth is not so sure today, For old beliefs hold truth at bay. While certainty is prized the most, It's ‗probability‘ we toast.‖ ...

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...'s of natural cures and home remedies, spending months sifting through hundreds of reports and studies, and putting my findings to the test on real people in my natural healing clinic... I can say that the majority of natural "cures" are completely bogus. But the ones that are effective seem to work like magic! And many of them can give you almost instant relief from ...

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...as built sheer up the face of a steep and lofty cliff. There was no road in it, there was no wheeled vehicle in it, there was not a level yard in it. From the sea-beach to the cliff-top two irregular rows of white houses, placed opposite to one another, and twisting here and there....

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...les Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Message from the Sea by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Message from the Sea by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...the higher levels, and the gull with his flapping wings was fishing in the bay, and the lusty little robin was hopping among the great stone blocks an... ...lect and a vigorous memory. He was an American born, was Captain Jorgan,—a New-Englander,—but he was a citizen of the world, and a combination of most... ...ou be married now?” asked the captain, when he had had some talk with this new acquaintance. “Not yet.” “Going to be?” said the captain. “I hope so.” ... ...rty good-nature which is quite exultant in the innocent happiness of other people, had undoubted him- self, and was going to start a new subject, when... ... our way, cautiously and toilsomely, over the pulverised embers, one of my people sank into the earth breast-high. He turned pale, and ‘Haul me out sm... ...as not visible, and they surprised Tregarthen sitting writing in the small bay-window of his little room. “Sir,” said the captain, instantly shaking h... ...ge,—which is a fact that can be proved. If you doubt it, mention it to any oyster you come across, and see if he’ll have the face to contradict it.” H...

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...obert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsy... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...e of any rank, character, or nation; and in this way he diverted attention from the Prince, and sometimes gained admission for the pair into strange s... ...on. One evening in March they were driven by a sharp fall of sleet into an Oyster Bar in the immediate neighbourhood of Leicester Square. Colonel Gera... ... me,” said the Prince, “and I have all the will in the world to rescue you from this dilemma, but upon one condition. If my friend and I eat your cake... ... both his eyes and ears open, and soon began to gain a general idea of the people among whom he found himself. As in all other places of resort, one t... ...he found himself. As in all other places of resort, one type predominated: people in the prime of youth, with every show of intelligence and sensibili... ...ted its influence; but it grew upon him more and more, and a little before York he was fain to stretch himself upon one of the couches and suffer his ...

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...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, t...

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...venties, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New Y ork. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropo... ...- ished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the “new people” whom New Y ork was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the ... ...ost masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. When Newland ... ...her, leaning against the wall at the back of the club box, turned his eyes from the stage and scanned the op- posite side of the house. Directly facin... ...ared on the setting, which was ac- knowledged to be very beautiful even by people who shared his acquaintance with the Opera houses of Paris and Vienn... ...hat his imagination could not travel. He knew the drawing-room above had a bay window, but he could not fancy how May would deal with it. She submitte... ...y hu- miliating to the family than the sale of the cellar. After a velvety oyster soup came shad and cucumbers, then a young broiled turkey with corn ... ...y would, of course. And I say it’s a shame you’re going to miss the little oyster supper I’d planned for you at Delmonico’s next Sunday, with Campanin... ... but he had somewhat imagined that by force of willing he might hold it at bay. “Y es—I—no: yes, it was beautiful,” he said, looking at her blindly, a...

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...mas Mowbray? Bul. First, heaven be the record to my speech, In the devotion of a subjects love, Tendering the precious safetie of my Prince, And free from other misbegotten hate, Come I appealant to this Princely presence....

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...e, 37 Tendering the precious safetie of my Prince, 38 And free from other misbegotten hate, 39 Come I appealant to this Princely pre... ... 59 First the faire reuerence of your Highnesse curbes mee, 60 From giuing reines and spurres to my free speech, 61 Which else would... ...t, 372 That it may enter Mowbrayes waxen Coate, 373 And furnish new the name of Iohn a Gaunt, 374 Euen in the lusty hauiour of his s... ...hy: heere Bagot and Greene 598 Obseru’d his Courtship to the common people: 599 How he did seeme to diue into their hearts, 600 With ... ...twere to banish their affects with him. 605 Off goes his bonnet to an Oyster- wench, [c2v 606 A brace of Dray- men bid God speed him well,... ...on. 665 Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity, 666 So it be new, there’s no respect how vile, 667 That is not quickly buz’d into h... ...e bold. 927 Nor. Then thus: I haue from Port le Blan 928 A Bay in Britaine, receiu’d intelligence, 929 That Harry Duke of Herf... ...nckle Gaunt a Father, 1239 To rowze his Wrongs, and chase them to the bay. 1240 I am denyde to sue my Liuerie here, 1241 And yet my Lette... ...A generation of still breeding Thoughts; 2676 And these same Thoughts, people this Little World 2677 In humors, like the people of this world,...

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... evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies. On this point, the present rebellion brought our republic to a severe test, and the Presidential election, occurring in regular course during the reb...

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... question whether any govern- ment not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergen- cie... ...Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged…. Now that the election is ov... ...to Lincoln as the vicious and unpatriotic themselves. His life teaches our people that they must act with wisdom, because other- wise adherence to rig... ...eive 5 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One of a man farther removed from baseness, farther removed from corruption, from mere self-seeking; but... ...had to pass in the nine- teenth century. Theodore Roosevelt Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 22, 1905. INTRODUCTORY NOTE “I HAVE ENDURED,” ... ...pass in the nine- teenth century. Theodore Roosevelt Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 22, 1905. INTRODUCTORY NOTE “I HAVE ENDURED,” wrote L... ...pleton & Co., Macmillan & Co., Dodd, Mead & Co., and Harper Broth- ers, of New Y ork; to Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Dana, Estes & Co., and L. C. Page & ... ...with- out ambition for himself or his children, constantly look- ing for a new piece of land on which he might make a living without much work; his mo... ...avery men. Of the two, Seward had the larg- est following, mainly from New York, New England, and the Northwest. Cautious politicians doubted seriousl...

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...rand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season? If she had appeared to be catching a train, he might have inferred that he had come on her in the act of transition between one and ano...

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...Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town a... ...f the Newport season; but her desultory air perplexed him. She stood apart from the crowd, letting it drift by her to the plat- form or the street, an... ... some one, but he hardly knew why the idea arrested him. There was nothing new about Lily Bart, yet he could never see her without a faint movement of... ... of tea?” She smiled assentingly, and then made a slight grimace. “So many people come up to town on a Monday—one is sure to meet a lot of bores. I’m ... ...t, he had always made use of the “argument from design.” “The resources of New Y ork are rather meagre,” he said; 5 Edith Wharton “but I’ll find a ha... ...t she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her. H... ...s and pinnacles of the gambling- house. Between the two, the waters of the bay were furrowed by a light coming and going of pleasure-craft, through wh... ...ns to dine with the Duchess of Beltshire and to see the water- fete in the bay; a plan evidently improvised—in spite of Lord Hubert’s protesting “Oh, ... ... drank several cups of the tea which was served with her portion of stewed oysters, and her brain felt clearer and live- lier when she emerged once mo...

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...hat of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-for... ...ed-for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch-chain that depended from be- low his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phos- phoresc... ... had risen, as his father had before him, in the course of life and death, from Son to Dombey, and for nearly twenty years had been the sole represent... ...ow yourself to be worried by what is so very inconsid- erately told you by people who ought to know better. Really I’m surprised at them.’ ‘I hope I k... ...ess. It was a rude shock to his sense of property in his child, that these people— the mere dust of the earth, as he thought them -should be necessary... ... carpet-beating grounds, at the very door of the Railway. Little tumuli of oyster shells in the oyster season, and of lobster shells in the lobster se... ...lop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster, the moral of these les- sons was usually of a violent and stunning ... ...t been assisted by Diogenes himself, who suddenly took it into his head to bay Mr Toots, and to make short runs at him with his mouth open. Not exactl... ...tled to a terrible extent. Five o’clock arriving, and with it Mr Carker’ s bay horse, they got on horse- back, and went gleaming up Cheapside. As no o...

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

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... 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... ...ering of a palace, of a terrace, of the vista of a great roadway with many people, people exaggerated, im- possible-looking because of the curvature o... ...d. He drew a fresh sheet of paper toward him as he looked at me. I glanced from him about his apartment and back to the little table. A fascicle marke... ... Change, so far as it has affected my own life and the lives of one or two people closely connected with me, primarily to please myself. Long ago in m... ... forty. And I am out of touch with my youth. The old life seems so cut off from the new, so alien and so unreasonable, that at times I find it borderi... ...nd I am out of touch with my youth. The old life seems so cut off from the new, so alien and so unreasonable, that at times I find it bordering upon t... ...e green privacy she stopped and turned on me sud- denly like a creature at bay. “Isn’t the maidenhair fern lovely?” she said, and looked at me with ey... ...e gnomes, most of them. Where? Of course! We had it all over—a big dinner —oysters!—Colchester. I’d been there, just to show all this raid scare was n... ...rters—scribble, scribble. Max Sutaine, 1885. Hubbub. Compliments about the oysters. Mm—mm… . What was it? About the war? A war that must needs be long...

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...hat of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-for... ...ed-for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch-chain that depended from be- low his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phos- phoresc... ... had risen, as his father had before him, in the course of life and death, from Son to Dombey, and for nearly twenty years had been the sole represent... ...ow yourself to be worried by what is so very inconsid- erately told you by people who ought to know better. Really I’m surprised at them.’ ‘I hope I k... ...ess. It was a rude shock to his sense of property in his child, that these people— the mere dust of the earth, as he thought them -should be necessary... ... carpet-beating grounds, at the very door of the Railway. Little tumuli of oyster shells in the oyster season, and of lobster shells in the lobster se... ...lop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster, the moral of these les- sons was usually of a violent and stunning ... ...t been assisted by Diogenes himself, who suddenly took it into his head to bay Mr Toots, and to make short runs at him with his mouth open. Not exactl... ...tled to a terrible extent. Five o’clock arriving, and with it Mr Carker’ s bay horse, they got on horse- back, and went gleaming up Cheapside. As no o...

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...n Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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...isters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoev... ...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...them by clenching his hands behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for peopl... ...dmit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a fellow that was too s... ...s of jigsawed wood. No shrubbery to shut off the public gaze. A lugubrious bay-window to the right of the porch. Window curtains of starched cheap lac... ...e in regard to Bea’s technique in serving, before Kennicott cried from the bay-window in the living-room, “Here comes somebody!” and Mr. and Mrs. Luke... ...subject for next fall and winter. Madam Chairman (Miss Ella Stowbody in an oyster-col- ored blouse) asked if there was any new business. Carol rose. S... ..., but as the cocktail elevated her to a bridge among colored stars, as the oysters came in—not canned oysters in the Go- pher Prairie fashion, but on ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It had just struck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer?s plate. Then she went down to the front door for the damp, twisted ...

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...3 Frank Norris Blix by Frank Norris 1899 Chapter I IT HAD JUST STRUCK NINE from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, wh... ... the second time. As the family still hesitated to appear, she went to the bay window at the end of the room, and stood there for a moment looking out... ...hen and dining-room, so that the latter room was at the rear of the house. From its window one could command a sweep of San Fran- cisco Bay and the Co... ...of the house. From its window one could command a sweep of San Fran- cisco Bay and the Contra Costa shore, from Mount Diablo, along past Oakland, Berk... ...nd he didn’t see why he had to wear that little old pink tie; and, oh! his new shoes were too tight and hurt his sore toe; and he wouldn’t, he wouldn’... ... in Chicago; “but,” he always added, “I couldn’t help that, you know.” His people had come West in the early eighties, just in time to bury the father... ...lored globe of the little brass chandelier. The parlor was a small affair, peopled by a family of chairs and sofas robed in white drugget. A gold-and-... ...ys hungry.” “I love to eat,” he protested. “W ell, we’ll make some creamed oysters; how would that do?” suggested Blix. Condy rolled his eyes. “Oh, sp... ...at do?” suggested Blix. Condy rolled his eyes. “Oh, speak to me of creamed oysters!” Then, with abrupt solemnity: “Blix, I never in my life had as man...

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...e middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement o...

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...e Bragelonne. V olume I. CHAPTER 1 The Letter. TOWARDS THE MIDDLE of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o’clock in the morning, when the sun,... ...assengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to ex- press, in the purest Fr... ...de to the majestic porch of the castle of the states. Monsieur rode a little steady-paced horse, equipped with a large saddle of red Flemish velvet, w... ...wered Haarlem tapestry; in the center of this table was a long-necked stone bottle, in which were irises and lilies of the valley; at each end of this... ...mte de Bragelonne.” “Ah, very well! Introduce him, Saint-Remy — introduce him.” And when he had let fall these words, with his accus- tomed gravity, M... ... cry of “Vive le Roi!” which passed over him. For a long time, being unaccustomed to hear it, his ear had had rest, and now a younger, more vivacious,... ...th Grimaud, was busy procuring horses to go straight to Paris, D’Artagnan hastened to the hostelry where, according to his orders, his little army was... ... hotel, and I have the bad habit of losing my spirits when I eat alone, so that my re- past appears a bad one to me, and does not nourish me. Your fac... ..., and as you are bishop of Vannes —” “But, my dear Baisemeaux, since you knew I was bishop of V annes, you had no occasion to ask M. Fouquet for my ad...

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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... ..., the varied accents in which they converse, the crying of their children terrified by this new experience, or the clean flat smack of the parental ha... ...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... ...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... ...ed elevation in my spir- its. And I would have gone to the ship’s end and back again for an oyster or a chipped fruit. In other ways I was content wit... ...mportance) is in what I under- stand to be the principal street: a pleasant old house, with bay-windows, and three peaked gables, and many swallows’ n... ... of the Lowlands. T owards the sea it swells out the coast-line into a protuberance, like a bay-window in a plan, and is fortified against the surf be... ...the village, where there is always a good welcome and a good talk, and perhaps some pickled oysters and white wine to close the evening. Or a dance is...

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...elpless in her dead cerements of a Consti- tution, you gathering in on her from all lands, with your armaments and plots, your invadings and truculent... ...for it, becomes transcendental; and must now seek its wild way through the New, Chaotic,—where Force is not yet distinguished into Bidden and Forbidde... ...hich therefore let us two, O Reader, dwell on willingly, for a little; and from its endless significance endeavour to extract what may, in present cir... ... hand, on this waste aspect of a France all stirring and whirling, in ways new, untried, had been able to discern where the cardinal movement lay; whi... ...m in prison,—Roy- alist types replace the worn types often snatched from a People’s-Friend in old ill days. In our ‘peculiar tribune’ we write and red... ... another; citoyen (citizen) were suitabler; we even say thou, as ‘the free peoples of Antiq- uity did:’ so have Journals and the Improvised Commune su... ...And En- gland has donned the red coat; and marches, with Royal Highness of York,—whom some once spake of inviting to be our King. Changed that humour ... ...see, in these same weeks, far in the Western waters: breasting through the Bay of Biscay, a greasy dingy little Merchantship, with Scotch skipper; und... ...ilippe, says Montgaillard, thereupon called for breakfast: sufficiency of ‘oysters, two cutlets, best part of an excellent bottle of claret;’ and cons...

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... well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up? Maybe it is set up by the Sultan?s orders for the impaling of a horde of Turkish robbers, one by one....

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...edral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, ... ...ike on the top of a post of an old bedstead that has tumbled all awry? Some vague period of drowsy laughter must be devoted to the consideration of th... ...rooping and despondent little theatre has its poor strip of garden, receiving the foul fiend, when he ducks from its stage into the infernal regions,... ...acy, duty may at any moment compel her to become a sort of Wandering Jewess, scouring the earth and soaring through the skies in search of knowledge f... ...h angry emphasis; ‘though I cannot answer for her views about Things; really not understanding what Things are meant.’ ‘But don’t she hate Arabs, and ... ...e, taking open order, and invading the silence of the hour and place by stoning every wall, post, pillar, and other inanimate object, by the deserted ... ...abondage somewhere. ‘What I dwell upon most,’ says Jasper, pursuing his subject of romantic interest, ‘is the remarkable accuracy with which you would... ... was placed in charge of her new friend, and left for the night. ‘This is a blessed relief, my dear,’ said Helena. ‘I have been dreading all day, that... ...h, and when, and where, “Mister Sapsea is his name, England is his nation, Cloisterham’s his dwelling-place, Aukshneer’s his occupation.”’ Here, Deput...

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... of a subject’s love, Tendering the precious safety of my prince, And free from other misbegotten hate, Come I appellant to this princely presence. No... ... nought at all to say: First, the fair reverence of your highness curbs me From giving reins and spurs to my free speech; Which else would post until ... ...teel my lance’s point, That it may enter Mowbray’s waxen coat, And furbish new the name of John a Gaunt, Even in the lusty havior of his son. JOHN OF ... ...rself and Bushy, Bagot here and Green Observed his courtship to the common people; How he did seem to dive into their hearts With humble and familiar ... ...une, As ‘twere to banish their affects with him. Off goes his bonnet to an oyster wench; A brace of draymen bid God speed him well And had the tribute... ...er in base imitation. Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity— So it be new, there’s no respect how vile— That is not quickly buzz’d into his ears?... ...erefore, be bold. NORTHUMBERLAND: Then thus: I have from Port le Blanc, a bay In Brittany, received intelligence That Harry Duke of Hereford, Rainold... ... found his uncle Gaunt a father, To rouse his wrongs and chase them to the bay. I am denied to sue my livery here, And yet my letters patents give me ... ...two beget A generation of still breeding thoughts, And these same thoughts people this little world, In humors like the people of this world, For no t...