The Project Gutenberg eBook, Gossip in a Library, by Edmund Gosse doc

... felicity of man—" ;a library in a garden!" It sounds like having a castle in Spain, or a sheep- walk in Arcadia, and I suppose that merely to wish for it is to be what indignant journalists call ... the master map-makers of that reign. The book opens with an account of the first inhabitants of Britain, and their manners and customs; how the Romans fared, and what...

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... you up the plates of the thirteen birds one by one, and read you their names off the back:— The first, is an Aquila. The second, a Haliætus. The third, a Milvus. The fourth, a Pandion. GREEK AND ENGLISH ... to in, Chaucer's translation of the Romance of the Rose, at the end of the first lecture, any reader who cares for a clue to the farther significanc...

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... we accomplished in about four months. About this time snow and rain came on in the mountains, raised the water in the river and washed away part of our dam. It was now too late to build again ... resembling a bulldog. They are sometimes eaten by the Indians and mountaineers. Their earth houses are all about two feet deep; are made in the form of a cone; are entered by...

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... money by painting, but it was a failure, both as to workmanship and as to financial gain. about a block from the water front, and embraced the block bounded by Sacramento, California, Front and Davis streets, ... man, and beloved by all. He was about 33 years of age, a native of Washington, D. C., and married. Cora was confined in the County jail. We will now leave this ca...

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... many hammers of that kind as David Maydole could make. That was the beginning. The young blacksmith hired a man or two, then more men, and made more hammers, and kept on making hammers during the ... his animated by a humane and patriotic spirit. The late lamented Ivory Chamberlain was a writer whose leading editorials were of national value. But, mark: a telegram of ten wor...

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... replied Patsey Boulanger; 'eighteen cents for the lamb and salad and the four dollars for the Looey the Fifteenth graperies in the drawing-room.' "'Ask him if there's a bargain ... fair! Alice is making all her preparations, and has her mind fastened to the date, and all that sort of thing, and like a chump I go up against that——" "Oh, get...

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... flacciding airbag. They plunged his face into the ornamental birdbath, which had a skin of ice that shattered on his nose and jangled against his jawbone as the icy water cooled the coffium and ... marble- mouthed rhetorical amateur from the audience, then sat back and marveled as Art did his thing. Not much was getting done vis -a- vis sermonizing, and there was still the Communi...

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... and burning midnight oil have produced the cotton gin, the sewing machine, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric motor, the telephone, the incandescent lamp and the other great inventions ... captains of industry as saintly examples for young men to follow. But the fact remains nevertheless that these men are creating America to-day. Now, what’s Down XII. The...

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... studying law. " ;By special arrangement, I was relieved from attendance at lectures and simply required to pass examinations on the various subjects, and was thus enabled to retain my place as ... I worked at the law three nights in the week and all day Sunday. "After eight months of this, the final examinations came around. They consumed a full week—from nine in the...

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... the adjustable pin and one of the stationary pin kind, the first named are for the scallop edge curtains as they can be placed at correct distances apart—this is important the stationary pin stretchers ... purpose, then I wrote each a polite note stating my business, and soliciting their patronage, promising to give special care and attention in Laundrying without tearing, also g...

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