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...e, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages ...

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...onment of my life (interviews) 20 About experiences in my life * Young people don't want to farm * Life is dying out from irrigation canals * ... ...ences in my life * Young people don't want to farm * Life is dying out from irrigation canals * Should we have more development Villages and... ...of the pillar house 64 * Building practices 68 Equipment of living 69 From buffalo to motor car 69 * Conveniences of living 71 * Triumph of h... ...pound 41 * Making a communal living 43 * Childhood environments 45 * From village school to university 46 School of life 47 From villager ... ...have made five trips in all to Northern Thailand and collected material on people's lives in three villages in the province and in its centre, the cit... ...ge communities. In Finland, the countryside is threatened by desertion, as people move into 'growth centres', metropoles. International development ha... ...eport Series No. 17. Davies, David 1967. Thailand. The Rice Bowl of Asia. Wiltshire, Trowbridge. Davis, Richard 1973. Muang Matrilocality. Journal o...

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...r wounded dangerous. I cleft his Beauer with a down- right blow: That this is true (Father) behold his blood. Mount. And Brother, here?s the Earle of Wiltshires |(blood, Whom I encountred as the Battels joyn?d. Rich. Speake thou for me, and tell them what I did. Plan. Richard hath best deseru?d of all my sonnes: But is your Grace dead, my Lord of Somerset? Nor. Such hope h...

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...er) behold his blood. 19 Mount. And Brother, here’s the Earle of Wiltshires |(blood, 20 Whom I encountred as the Battels ioyn’d. 21 ... ...le quickly 79 flye. 80 Henry. Farre be the thought of this from Henries heart, 81 To make a Shambles of the Parliament House. ... ...shall disproue it. You forget, 103 That we are those which chas’d you from the field, 104 And slew your Fathers, and with Colours spread 10... ...w, 128 And yet me thinkes you loose: 129 Father teare the Crowne from the Vsurpers Head. 130 Edward. Sweet Father doe so, set it on... ... 1761 Scotland hath will to helpe, but cannot helpe: [p5 1762 Our People, and our Peeres, are both mis- led, 1763 Our Treasure seiz’d, ou... ...y Credit, and mine Ho-nor. 1855 Lewis. But is hee gracious in the Peoples eye? 1856 Warw. The more, that Henry was vnfortunate. 185... ... Warw. Trust me, my Lord, all hitherto goes well, 2189 The common people by numbers swarme to vs. 2190 Enter Clarence and Somerset. 2191...

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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... ...h praised, and kept him for a year at an infe- rior school at Winkfield in Wiltshire. In 1800, at the age of fifteen, De Quincey was ready for Oxford;... ...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...

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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... ...e yeeres 101 Complotted, and contriued in this Land, 102 Fetch’d from false Mowbray their first head and spring. 103 Further I say, an... ...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 ... ...neuer fall out good. Exit. 863 Rich. Go Bushie to the Earle of Wiltshire streight, 864 Bid him repaire to vs to Ely house, 865 ... ...ath he spent in peace, then they in warres. 906 Ros. The Earle of Wiltshire hath the realme in Farme. 907 Wil. The Kings growne bank... ...Well: I will for refuge straight to Bristoll Castle, 1088 The Earle of Wiltshire is alreadie there. 1089 Bush. Thither will I with you, fo... ...A generation of still breeding Thoughts; 2676 And these same Thoughts, people this Little World 2677 In humors, like the people of this world,... ... as haue before indur’d the like. 2697 Thus play I in one Prison, many people, 2698 And none contented. Sometimes am I King; 2699 Then Tre...

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...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A cri...

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...ONE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON in late September, Ann V eronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excite- ment and quite resolved to have th... ...that this novel has to tell. She had a compartment to herself in the train from Lon- don to Morningside Park, and she sat with both her feet on the se... ...ore them, and she was so lost in thought that she discovered with a start, from a lettered lamp, that she was at Morningside Park, and thought she was... ...id to herself… . Morningside Park was a suburb that had not altogether, as people say, come off. It consisted, like pre-Roman Gaul, of three parts. Th... ...about her seemed to be—how can one put it? —in wrappers, like a house when people leave it in the summer. The blinds were all drawn, the sunlight kept... ...ng subsidiary devel- opments, such as flirtation and “being interested” in people of the opposite sex. She approached this field with her usual liveli... ...acquired through her long engagement to a curate of family, a scion of the Wiltshire Edmondshaws. He had died before they married, and when her brothe... ...ly orders, and we were to have been married when he got a living. He was a Wiltshire Edmondshaw, a very old family.” She sat very still. Ann V eronica...

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...ee what you can do for me,” he said. “I’m sure I don’t,” said the doctor. “People come here and talk.” There was something reassuringly inaggressive a... ... with his hands in his trouser pockets, seemed intent only on disavowals. “People come here and talk. It does them good, and sometimes I am able to of... ...afford to have you ill.” “I am ill. But you can’t afford to have me absent from that Commission.” “Your technical knowledge—” “Technical knowledge be ... ... far. Everything short and running shorter—food, fuel, material. But these people go on. They go on as though nothing had changed…. Strikes, Russia, n... ...t feel in the slightest degree re- sponsible. They hide all their troubles from the road. Their backyards are tucked away out of sight, they show a br... ... well as far as it goes. But it does not cover my case. I am not suffering from inadaptation. I have adapted. I have thought things out. I think—much ... ... the past and their ideas about the future in the spring- time sunlight of Wiltshire and Somerset, with Miss Seyffert acting the part of an almost ost...

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...e too late for that crowning revolution in human potentialities. And apart from this pro- crastination of over forty years, the guess at the opening p... ...excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), meeting obscurely amidst a world-wide disre- gard t... ...ttain- ment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire- making animal. From the outset of his terrestrial career we find him supplementing the nat... ... of burning and the rough implement of stone. So he passed beyond the ape. From that he expands. Presently he added to himself the power of the horse ... ... it boil away, seeing the lids of vessels dance with its fury; millions of people at different times must have watched steam pitching rocks out of vol... ...e corn ships of imperial Rome, a petty inci- dent; and a huge migration of peoples between Europe and Western Asia and America was in Progress, and—no... ...mentions an encounter in Rome with an ‘Oxford don’ who ‘spoke Latin with a Wiltshire accent and manifest discomfort, wrote Greek letters with his tong...

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...w out the binnacle lamp. “There!” said he, “there goes a bit of smoke, Mr. Wiltshire, behind the break of the reef. That’s Falesa, where your sta- tio... ...to Falesa, and put his services at my disposal, which was the more helpful from my ignorance of the na- tive. All the better part of the day we sat dr... ...e place at half an hour’s notice, taking a chance passage in a labour ship from up west. The captain, when he came, had found the station closed, the ... ...und the station closed, the keys left with the native pastor, and a letter from the runaway, confessing he was fairly frightened of his life. Since th... ...d Case. “But you’ll have to brace up. There’s going to be a marriage – Mr. Wiltshire here is going to get spliced.” The old man asked to whom. “To Uma... ... to marry her. I guess you’re not her godfather and godmother. I guess Mr. Wiltshire’s going to please himself.” With that he made an excuse to me tha... ...wn and some open; I saw the mosquito bars still stretched, with shadows of people new-awakened sitting up inside; and all over the green others were s... ...in their chapels at the sermon. “I never saw such fools of Kanakas as your people here,” I said once to Uma, glancing out of the window at the starers... ...e, and from all I knew of natives in other islands I thought this strange. People laughed a little at our firm and their fine stations, and at this st...

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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 ... ...asons for these eighteen years Complotted and contrived in this land Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring. Further I say and further w... ...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 ... ... never fall out good. [Exit.] KING RICHARD II : Go, Bushy, to the Earl of Wiltshire straight: Bid him repair to us to Ely House To see this business.... ...s: More hath he spent in peace than they in wars. LORD ROSS : The Earl of Wiltshire hath the realm in farm. LORD WILLOUGHBY : The king’s grown bankr... ...g. GREEN: Well, I will for refuge straight to Bristol castle: The Earl of Wiltshire is already there. BUSHY: Thither will I with you; for little off... ...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... ...ck Of such as have before endured the like. Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish...

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...rsity. 3 Charles Dickens THE HOLLY-TREE THREE BRANCHES by Charles Dickens From the 1894 Chapman and Hall “Christmas Stories” edition FIRST BRANCH—MYS... ...some account of the innumerable places I have not been to, the innumerable people I have not called upon or received, the innumerable social evasions ... ...s once snowed up. It happened in the memorable year when I parted for ever from Angela Leath, whom I was shortly to have married, on making the discov... ... have married, on making the discovery that she preferred my bosom friend. From our school-days I had freely admitted Edwin, in my own mind, to be far... ...ith cold; the white-topped houses; the bleak, star-lighted sky; the market people and other early stragglers, trotting to circulate their almost froze... ...age-coaches; which I occasionally find my- self, in common with some other people, affecting to lament now, but which everybody dreaded as a very seri... ... sat in twilight, resumed my Inn remembrances. That was a good Inn down in Wiltshire where I put up once, in the days of the hard Wiltshire ale, and b...

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...Woolf The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf Chapter I A s the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk... ...backs. The small, agitated figures—for in comparison with this couple most people looked small— decorated with fountain pens, and burdened with des- p... ... beyond the reach of malice and unpopularity. In his guess one might guess from the moving lips that it was thought; and in hers from the eyes fixed s... ...it was sorrow. It was only by scorn- ing all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently pain... ...orn- ing all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently pain- ful. After watching the traffi... ...couple will stand there talking for half an hour on a fine afternoon; most people, walking for pleasure, contem- plate for three minutes; when, having... ...oured out tea, and was just remarking that they were having hot weather in Wiltshire too, when Mr. Venning asked whether he might join them. “It’s so ... ... slashing manuscripts of hockey-playing young women 168 The Voyage Out in Wiltshire lay on Arthur’s knee, while Susan deciphered tight little legal h... ... glasses; he actually placed them on his nose—”they would not live long in Wiltshire,” he concluded; he dropped his glasses to his side again. The thr...

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...n the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry. When I go upon my jour- neys, I am not usually rated at a low figure in the... ... I travel for the great house of Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always w... ...been for some two hours and a half; there was a slight obstruction in the sea within a few yards of my feet: as if the stump of a tree, with earth eno... ...f as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wales. I had heard of that clergy- man, as having buried many sc... ...the way was steep, and a horse and cart (in which it was wrapped in a sheet) were necessary, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was... ... day; the beneficent Earth had already absorbed it. The drowned were buried in their clothes. T o supply the great sudden demand for coffins, he had g... ...cover an opening). Faith in—! Mormon agent (far too many for Uncommercial). Well.— In anything! Similarly on this same head, the Uncommercial under- w... ...one time stood beside him looking on at new arrivals, and with whom he held this dialogue: Uncommercial. Would you mind my asking you what part of the... ...(exultingly) I’ve worked all my life o’ Salisbury Plain, right under the shadder o’ Stonehenge. You mightn’t think it, but I haive. Uncommercial. And ...

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... was chiefly for the pleasure of mischief—at least so it was conjec- tured from her always preferring those which she was forbid- den to take. Such we... ...was not superior; though whenever she could obtain the outside of a letter from her mother or seize upon any other odd piece of paper, she did what sh... ...o has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. Mrs. Morland was a very good woman, and w... ...ude on the pianoforte, of her own com- position, she could listen to other people’s performance with very little fatigue. Her greatest deficiency was ... ...len, who owned the chief of the property about Ful- lerton, the village in Wiltshire where the Morlands lived, was ordered to Bath for the benefit of ... ...ng of disappointment—she was tired of being continually pressed against by people, the gener- ality of whose faces possessed nothing to interest, and ... ...Mrs. Allen, are you sure there is nobody you know in all this multitude of people? I think you must know somebody.” “I don’t, upon my word—I wish I di... ... lover himself, who came to breathe his parting sigh before he set off for Wiltshire. Catherine wished to congratulate him, but knew not what to say, ...

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...lume, Winter’s bee-thronged ivy-bloom. Seek and serve them where they bide From Candlemas to Christmas-tide, For these simples used aright Shall resto... ...f those whom mor- tals call Fairies. Their proper name, of course, is ‘The People of the Hills’. This Puck, by means of the magic of Oak, Ash, and Tho... ...r, Though it should have happened three thousand year. The result was that from time to time, and in different places on the farm and in the fields an... ...s and in the country about, they saw and talked to some rather interesting people. One of these, for instance, was a Knight of the Norman Conquest, an... ... the chance, Puck was as kind to them as ever, and introduced them to more people of the old days. He was careful, of course, to take away their memor... ...ey picked up the chain of otter’s foot- prints on the mud, and followed it from the bank, between the weeds and the drenched mowing, while the birds s... ...his parish in Sussex; but the plague was broke out and spread- ing through Wiltshire, Berkshire, and Hampshire, and he was so mad distracted to think ...

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... ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOKS TWO by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ... after he had come to the Gatehouse prison, (where he lay in no small pain from his wound, which inflamed and ached severely,) and with those thoughts... ...ing, Esmond knew at once that his visitor was his dear mistress. He got up from his bed, where he was lying, being very weak; and advancing towards he... ...o happened to be in the place; and the governor’s wife and ser- vant, kind people both, were with the patient. Esmond saw his mistress still in the ro... ...d more than a half of the nation were on this side. Ours is the most loyal people in the world surely; we admire our kings, and are faith- ful to them... ...hough a Tory herself, she represented the triumph of the Whig opinion. The people of England, al- ways liking that their Princes should be attached to... ...hich his friends and dependants got the benefit. He came of a very ancient Wiltshire family, which he re- spected above all families in the world: he ... ..., not the left; his first general was General Lumley; Mr. Webb came out of Wiltshire, not out of Y orkshire; and so forth. Esmond did not think fit to...

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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... ...nts of some of which are yet remaining. Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire, is the most extraordinary of these. Three curious stones, called...

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...- stances, I fear will want a lot of suppling and lightening, but I hope to have your remarks in a month or two upon that point. It seems a long while... ..., some of which has been four times, and all twice written, cer- tainly fifty pages of solid scriving inside a fortnight, but I was at it by seven a. ... ...onshire lane, here and there crossed by fallen trees; huge trees overhead in the sun, dripping lianas and tufted with orchids, tree ferns, ferns depen... ... tion of the devil’s, the High Woods. I have been once down to Apia, to a huge native feast at Seumanutafa’s, the chief of Apia. There was a vast mass... ...age-long talk about Edinburgh folk; it was very pleasant. He has been studying in Edinburgh, along with his son; a pretty relation. He told me he knew... ... been riding up of late on moon- less nights. Jack is a bit of a dandy; he loves to misbehave in a gallant manner, above all on Apia Street, and when... ...ess. I am in an off time, but there is just the possibility it might make a hit; for the yarn is good and melodramatic, and there is quite a love affa... ... if the dears prefer a week, why, I’ll give them ten days, but the real document, from which I have scarcely varied, ran for one night. I think you se... ...r Papa Randal if you like; but if I told you the whole truth—for I did extenuate there!—and he seemed to me essential as a fig- ure, and essential as ...

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... true, father, behold his blood. MONTAGUE: And, brother, here’s the Earl of Wiltshire’s blood, Whom I encounter’d as the battles join’d. RICHARD: Sp... ...e is slain, they’ll quickly fly. KING HENRY VI : Far be the thought of this from Henry’s heart, To make a shambles of the parliament house! Cousin of... ...And Warwick shall disprove it. You forget That we are those which chased you from the field And slew your fathers, and with colors spread March’d thro... ... You are old enough now, and yet, methinks, you lose. Father, tear the crown from the usurper’s head. EDWARD: Sweet father, do so; set it on your hea... ...h commixture melts. Impairing Henry, strengthening misproud York, The common people swarm like summer flies; And whither fly the gnats but to the sun?... ...l us, all our hope is done: Scotland hath will to help, but cannot help; Our people and our peers are both misled, Our treasures seized, our soldiers ... ... I pawn my credit and mine honor. KING LEWIS XI : But is he gracious in the people’s eye? WARWICK: The more that Henry was unfortunate. KING LEWIS X...

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...er nearing to pass, when the girl opened on him, as if lifting her eyelids from sleep to the window, a full side—look, like a throb, and no disguise—n... ...r heart came quietly out. The look was like the fall of light on the hills from the first of morning. It lasted half a minute, and left a ruffle for a... ...heeks were redder than cricket in the sun. He said he read all the reports from India, and asked her whether she did not admire Lord Ormont, our gener... ...and there was a question or two about names, which belonged to verses, for people caring to read poems. To the joy of the school he displayed a greate... ...judgement on him. According to Mr. Shalders, the opinion of all thoughtful people in England was with John Company and the better part of the Press to... ...d the man completely cornered by generalizing. He said— “We are a civilian people; we pride ourselves on having civilian methods.” “How can that be if... ...it broke his heart to keep away from a six months’ rest at Steignton,” his Wiltshire estate. No woman was in the field. Lady Charlotte could have 28 ... ...smashed. He was ignorant of the road she had chosen for her return. Out of Wiltshire there would be no cliffs, quarries, river-banks, presenting dange...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...to the present story of 4 V anity Fair – V olume One “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ...e bar- onets’ daughters should. Rose came in yesterday in a sad plight—the Wiltshire sow (an enormous pet of hers) ran her down, and destroyed a most ...

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...d had, in consequence of her sister’s marriage, been mistress of his house from a very early period. Her mother had died too long ago for her to have ... ...at in mournful thought of any continuance. The wedding over, and the bride-people gone, her father and herself were left to dine together, with no pro... ...ction of sixteen years— how she had taught and how she had played with her from five years old—how she had devoted all her powers to attach and amuse ... ...to bear the change?—It was true that her friend was going only half a mile from them; but Emma was aware that great must be the difference between a M... ...its of gentle selfish- ness, and of being never able to suppose that other people could feel differently from himself, he was very much dis- posed to ... ...y what we like to one another.” Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever to... ...Cole’s, and that she was come in herself for the Stilton cheese, the north Wiltshire, the butter, the cellery, the beet-root, and all the dessert. “Th...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ...e bar- onets’ daughters should. Rose came in yesterday in a sad plight—the Wiltshire sow (an enormous pet of hers) ran her down, and destroyed a most ...

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...d blacksmith had their workshops. There was a group of children, the young people who were confided to the great Earl Richard and Countess Alice of Sa... ...ied to King Henry VI. Attendance on the patient had prevented the Countess from hearing the history of the accident, but presently the clatter of hors... ...too eager to accuse him. 6 Grisly Grisell “He took a bar of iron from the forge, so please you, my lord, and put it to the barrel of powder.... ...y ought to have the Lord Earl’s arms on them. So he took a bar of hot iron from the forge to mark the saltire on them, and thereupon there was this bu... ...ined to uphold royalty, while York was con- sidered as the champion of the people. The gentle King and the Beauforts wished for peace with France; the... ...great nobles were sovereigns in their own domains; the Countess owned half Wiltshire, and was much loved and honoured in all the reli- gious houses fo... ...f the Lord’s Prayer and Creed in the hands of all care- ful and thoughtful people, even among the poor, if they had a good parish priest, or had come ... ... herself to persuade her husband to let her go down to one of his mother’s Wiltshire houses to consult the nun, but Warwick had business in the north,...

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...have just set down. It is this: I have never touched a character precisely from the life, but some coun- terpart of that character has incredulously a... ...o born and so bred, admired for that which made him hateful, and justified from his cradle in cunning, treachery, and avarice; I claim him as the legi... ...workhouses, and judge whether those are monsters who disgrace our streets, people our hulks and penitentiaries, and overcrowd our penal colonies, or a... ... the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from its nature, the most obtrusive, and the most likely to be seen by such... ...what is ridiculous or wrong at home, so I then hoped that the good-humored people of the United States would not be generally disposed to quarrel with... ...changes moral, changes physical, changes in the amount of land subdued and peopled, changes in the rise of vast new cities, changes in the growth of o... ...the mist which had obscured it all day, looked brightly down upon a little Wiltshire village, within an easy journey of the fair old town of Salisbury... ... sense of enjoyment. Beside him, too, there stood a jug of most stupendous Wiltshire beer; and the effect of the whole was so tran- scendent, that he ... ... whither he was conveying his load from a farm belonging to the concern in Wiltshire. He was frequently up and down the road on such errands, he said,...

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...ccommodated to their taste. As we do not disdain to borrow wit or wisdom from any man who is capable of lending us either, we have conde scended to... ...who is capable of lending us either, we have conde scended to take a hint from these honest victuallers, and shall prefix not only a general bill of ... ... exhaust so extensive a subject. An objection may perhaps be apprehended from the more delicate, that this dish is too common and vulgar; for what e... ...r begot; and if your worship should provide for the child, it may make the people the apter to believe; besides, why should your worship provide for w... ...overy. The sagacious reader will not from this simile imagine these poor people had any apprehension of the design with which Mrs. Wilkins was now c... ...nature of such persons as Mrs. Wilkins to insult and tyrannize over little people. This being indeed the means which they use to recompense to themsel... ...strate it by the follow ing short story. Three countrymen were pursuing a Wiltshire thief through Brentford. The simplest of them seeing “The Wiltshi...

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... words a more universal criticism of life than he did when he wrote “I saw from the beach,” with its moral of— “Give me back, give me back, the wild f... ...ut it; I do not think that we could de- rive the full quantity of pleasure from him without it. The exuberant romantic faculty of Joseph Andrews and i... ...ga- docio can go together, that the man of honour may be a selfish pedant. People have been unwilling to tell and to hear the whole truth even about W... ...and true are Colo- nel James and his wife. They are both very good sort of people in a way, who live in a lax and frivolous age, who have plenty of mo... ... will be inclined to pardon many faults for the plea- sure he will receive from a tender sensation: and for readers of a different stamp, the more fau... ...least requires strength of body, are chosen out of those poor old decrepit people who are, from their want of bodily strength, rendered incapable of g... ... two days, and then, taking leave of our fellow-travellers, we set out for Wiltshire, my wife being so impatient to see the child which she had left b...

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..., peaceably, slowly, without pain and without excitement. The breath ebbed from him almost imperceptibly, and for a month before his death, it was a q... ...on his last legs; but the ministry was also tottering. Dr Grantly returned from Oxford happy and elated, to resume his place in the pal- ace, and to c... ...ve him his due, he performed with more tender care than was to be expected from his usual somewhat worldly manners. A month since the physicians had n... ...piter. His affairs, however, were not allowed to subside thus quietly, and people were quite as much inclined to talk about the disinterested sacrific... ...nd the question as to Hiram’s heirs did not ap- pear to interest very many people either in or out of the House. The bill, however, was read and rerea... ...to his posi- tion to retire from London when other great and fashion- able people did so; but London should still be his fixed residence, and it was i... ...ts as familiar as household words; but they know nothing of the glories of Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire. Nay, we much question whether ma... ...- haps under Mount Sinai, are not still ignorant that there are glories in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire and Somersetshire. We beg that they will go and see....

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... deal of byplay, a great stand- ing off with folded arms and head drooping from side to side, stroking of a dimpled chin with a dimpled hand, sighing ... ...holic, but I want to buy it. Combien? Write it here.” And he took a pencil from his pocket and showed her the fly-leaf of his guide-book. She stood lo... ...od deal?” he asked at last. “Pas beaucoup?” The young lady raised her eyes from her palette, scanned him from head to foot, and alighted with admirabl... ...e which projects into the great open quadrangle. The place was filled with people, the fountains were spouting, a band was playing, clusters of chairs... ...t until two o’clock in the morning, watching the coming and going, and the people knocking about.” “You’re easily pleased. But you can do as you choos... ...ut of it I can. I want to see all the great things, and do what the clever people do.” “The clever people? Much obliged. You set me down as a blockhea... ...sked. “Yes, sir, please,” she answered, quickly and softly; “I was born in Wiltshire.” “And what do you think of Paris?” “Oh, I don’t think of Paris, ...

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...man only and Forster, who had that day forcibly sent away all her servants from her to Abington market, about three miles distant from this place; the... ...n her head), yet the inhabitants will tell you there that she was conveyed from her usual chamber where she lay, to another where the bed’s head of th... ... which he willed her to use in any faintness, which she, after his returne from court, not knowing it was poison, gave him, and so he died.”—Ben Jonso... ...ts founded on the credit of his house, and the construction which the good people of Cumnor might put upon such an unsocial humour. “By my faith, sir,... ...en head of his, gave him the power of enjoying other 135 Sir Walter Scott people’s distresses, as she gave them the pleasure of laughing at his uglin... ...ing. Go ask a heretic parson to do the like. But ours were a com- fortable people.” “V ery true, Dame Crank,” said the hostler; “so said Simpkins of S... ... unnecessary particulars, they traversed without adventure the counties of Wiltshire and Somerset, and about noon of the third day after Tressilian’s ...

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...n attending on the Lady Anne. Lord Mayor of London. (Lord Mayor:) Sheriff of Wiltshire. (Sheriff:) ELIZABETH: Queen to King Edward IV. (QUEEN ELIZA ... ...I do not: but, as I can learn, He hearkens after prophecies and dreams; And from the cross row plucks the letter G. And says a wizard told him that b... ...Woodville, her brother there, That made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower, From whence this present day he is deliver’d? We are not safe, Clarence; ... ... the heart that had the heart to do it! Cursed the blood that let this blood from hence! More direful hap betide that hated wretch, That makes us wret... ...hem; And ask’d the mayor what meant this wilful silence: His answer was, the people were not wont To be spoke to but by the recorder. Then he was urge...

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...a bet for her brother Lord Levellier, the colonel of cavalry, who left an arm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighborhood supposed, because he foretold the weather and had cures for aches and pains without a doctor?s diploma. But we know now that he was only a mathematician and astronomer, all for inventing military...

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...rm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighbourhood supposed, be- cause he foretold the weather ... ...whole town was very soon agog about the couple, until at the end of a year people began to talk of them separately, she going her way, and he his. She... ...rince Chancellor and a pair of Field Marshals, and some ladies of the day, from the metropolis to Richmond Hill in fifty or sixty odd minutes, having ... ...ervice of the first insurgent State of Span- ish America, to save his ship from being taken over to the enemy,—he blew her up, fifteen miles from land... ...l under Buccaneer Kirby. He fought on shore as well; and once he came down from the tops of the Andes with a black beard turned white, and went into a... ...ughed at in the songs for going twice upon his mission. None of the mighty people repented of having the Old Buccaneer—for that night, at all events. ... ...east, that he car- ried to the family vault; and his head gamekeeper, John Wiltshire, a resolute fellow, was missing from that hour. Some said they ha... ...m that hour. Some said they had a quarrel, and Curtis was wounded and John Wiltshire killed. Curtis was known to have been extremely attached to the m... ...ed. Curtis was known to have been extremely attached to the man. Y et when Wiltshire was inquired for, he let fall a word of ‘having more of Wiltshire...

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...neral theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and political questions in a new way and from a new starting-point....

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... an attempt to deal with social and politi- cal questions in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and political world as ... ...opolitan. In the latter peri- odical they were, for the most part, printed from uncorrected proofs set up from an early version. This periodical publi... ...e in the final revision. These papers have indeed been honoured by letters from men and women of almost every profession, and by a really very conside... ...ding upon one’s self, without supposing them to be im- perative upon other people. T o write “I believe” is not only less presumptuous and aggressive ... ... schemes of conduct, but that he has observed in the thought of numberless people about him, rendering their action fragmentary, wasteful in the gross... ...o the failure of old formulae and methods to satisfy now, I am afraid many people will choose to understand that I refer to what is often spoken of as... ... that among the causes of death specified in the three counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, and Hereford, where infant mortality is scarcely half what it is...

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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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...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... ...nt first to the private school of considerable repu- tation at Ramsbury in Wiltshire, kept by the Rev. Edward Meyrick, and, after four years there, be... ..., so burnt as to be glazed grey on one side. Hearing of a church (Corstan, Wiltshire) with a bell- turret likely to suit the means and the two bells, ... ...an Deco- rated style. A bell turret, discovered later at Leigh Delamere in Wiltshire, was a more graceful model than that of Corston. The situation wa...

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...an sufficiently interesting as his; for which reasons, as well as for the further one that it is comparatively little known, a considerable selection from it is offered to the reader in the last two volumes of this edition....

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...urther one that it is comparatively little known, a considerable selection from it is offered to the reader in the last two volumes of this edition. U... ...ltogether sufficed to fill up the gaps. His family, said to have descended from a member of the great house of Hapsburg who came to England in the rei... ... The descriptions both of Sophia and of Amelia are said to have been taken from this lady; her good looks and her amiability are as well established a... ...s certainly or probably his. He went the Western Circuit, and attended the Wiltshire Sessions, after he was called, giving up his contributions to per... ...alled moral delinquen- cies, this attitude was so decided as to shock some people even in those days, and many in these. Just when the first sheets of... ...ock my ears with your beastly language.” “Marry-come-up,” cries Slipslop, “people’s ears are sometimes the nicest part about them.” The lady, who bega... ...le more: by which charitable methods, together with lending money to other people, and even to his own master and mistress, the honest man had, from n...

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...ed about the lattice side-work and the iron roof of the railway-line, hung from invisible staging under the bellies of the girders, clus- tered round ... ...contractors by the half-hundred—fitters and riv- eters, European, borrowed from the railway workshops, with, perhaps, twenty white and half-caste subo... ...g as remorse- lessly as they worked themselves. Findlayson thought it over from the beginning: the months of office-work destroyed at a blow when the ... ...he big gong had brought the dinghy back at racing speed, and Peroo and his people were stripped to the waist, working for the honour and credit which ... ...pling grow as fat as myself. And I, who am Ganesh of Good Luck, I bless my peoples.” “They have changed the face of the land-which is my land. They ha... ...Bhairon went on thickly. “By day and night they pray to me, all the Common People in the fields and the roads. Who is like Bhairon today? What talk is... ...rough the window and sniffed luxuriously. “Where are we now?” said he. “In Wiltshire,” said I. “Ah! A man ought to be able to write novels with his le...

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...e streams? Rickie rebuked his own groveling soul, and turned his eyes away from the night, which had led him to such absurd conclusions. The fire was ... ...with a merry don and had tasted Zwieback biscuits; then he had walked with people he liked, and had walked just long 6 The Longest Journey enough; an... ...ust long 6 The Longest Journey enough; and now his room was full of other people whom he liked, and when they left he would go and have supper with A... ...e. The door opened. A tall young woman stood framed in the light that fell from the passage. “Ladies!” whispered every-one in great agitation. “Yes?” ... ...et me introduce Miss Pem- broke—don’t all go!” For his friends were flying from his visitor like mists before the sun. “Oh, Agnes, I am so sorry; I’ve... ...s, which Agnes, who had never been to Venice, took to be Venice, but which people who had been to Stockholm knew to be Stockholm. Rickie’s mother, loo... ...hemselves at times, if you mean that.” “I dream of Arcady. I open my eyes. Wiltshire. Of Amaryllis: Flea Thompson’s girl. Of the pensive shepherd, twi... ...rney upon it—one cannot say “on the top,” there being scarcely any tops in Wiltshire—because high upon it there stood a double circle of entrenchments... ...t was left on her hands. With many a groan she settled down to banishment. Wiltshire people, she declared, were the stupidest in England. She told the...

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...of growing enlightenment and happy compan- ionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917. INTRODU... ...ect and setting are so closely allied that each borrows charm and emphasis from the other. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor w... ...ther. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor would fade from the church of St. Clement Danes, from the Mitre, from Fleet Street, th... ..., such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the number, range, and variety of people who at one time or another had been in some degree personally relate... ...godchild Jane Langton. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I love the acquain- tance of young people, . . . young men have more virtue than old men; they have more gen- ... ... into a spacious and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third dow... ...istry was always an interesting pursuit with Dr. Johnson. Whilst he was in Wiltshire, 596 Boswell’s Life of Johnson he attended some experiments that...

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...ESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...ll the produce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esm... ...d here in our Republic, or at home in the always beloved mother coun- try, from which our late quarrel hath separated us, may surely be proud to be de... ... last an extraordi- nary brightness and freshness of complexion; nor would people believe that she did not wear rouge. At sixty years of age she still... ...eard my father use a rough word, ’twas extraordinary with how much awe his people regarded him; and the servants on our plantation, both those assigne... ...h as the most severe taskmasters round about us could never get from their people. He was never familiar, though perfectly simple and natural; he was ... ...hich his friends and dependants got the benefit. He came of a very ancient Wiltshire family, which he re- spected above all families in the world: he ... ..., not the left; his first general was General Lumley; Mr. Webb came out of Wiltshire, not out of Y orkshire; and so forth. Esmond did not think fit to...

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...nd agricultural in its pleasures. There are towns in it, of course; depots from whence are brought seeds and groceries, ribbons and fire-shovels; in w... ...oming—in accordance with the dic- tates of some neighbouring land magnate; from whence emanate the country postmen, and where is located the supply of... ...is in these days an East Barsetshire, and there is a West Barsetshire; and people conversant with Barsetshire do- ings declare that they can already d... ...ice again he made violent efforts to do so. Elections in East Barsetshire, from various causes, came quick upon each other in those days, and before h... ...se in Portman Square, she had worried him because he objected to have more people carried every winter at Greshamsbury Park than the house would hold;... ...llowed them, nor had they suffered as their sisters had suffered; and some people at Greshamsbury attributed this to the fact that a change had been m... ...Gibraltar, of which he thought much more than of any ordinary Hampshire or Wiltshire which had always been within his own kingdom. He was just startin...