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Juliana Horatia Ewing We and the World, Part II. (of II.)

A Book for Boys

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Englisch
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Juliana Horatia Ewing (née Gatty) (3 August 1841 – 13 May 1885) was an English writer of children's stories.[1] Known as Julie, she was the second of ten children of the Reverend Alfred Gatty, vicar of Ecclesfield in Yorkshire, and Margaret Gatty, who was herself a children's author. The children were educated mainly by her mother, but Julie was often the driving force behind their various activities: drama, botany etc. Later she was responsible for setting up a village library in Ecclesfield and helped out in the parish with her three sisters. Early stories appeared in Charlotte Yonge's magazine Monthly Packet.[2] [mehr]

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Frederick Marryat Japhet, In Search Of A Father

Biografie/Autobiografie
Englisch
69563 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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I Am Not Content With Minding My Own Business, But Must Have A Hand In That Of Others, By Which Means I Put My Foot In It. He Then, After His Own Fashion, Told Me, That As Executor, He Must Retain Those Papers; Pointed Out To Me The Little Probability There Was Of Their Containing Any Information Relative To My Birth, Even Allowing That A Person Of The Name Of De Benyon Did Call At The Foundling To Ask For Me, Which Was Only A Supposition; And, Finally, Overthrew All The Hopes Which Had Been, For So Many Days, Buoying Me Up. When He Had Finished, I Threw Myself Upon The Sofa In despair, And Wished, At The Moment, That I Had Never Been Born. Still Hope Again Rose Uppermost, And I Would Have Given All I Possessed To Have Been Able To Break Open The Seals Of That Packet, And Have Read The Contents. [mehr]

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Frederick Marryat Japhet In Search Of A Father

Familie und Partnerschaft
Englisch
73237 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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I Watched The Countenance Of The Agent, Who Appeared At Last To Be Satisfied That There Had Been Some Mistake; At Least He Became More Communicative, And As I No Longer Put Any Questions To Him Relative To Sir Henry, We Had A Long Conversation. I Spoke To Him About The De Benyons, Making Every Inquiry That I Could Think Of. He Informed Me That The Deceased Earl, The Father Of The Present, Had Many Sons, Who Were Some Of Them Married, And That The Family Was Extensive. He Appeared To Know Them All, The Professions Which They Had Been Brought Up To, And Their Careers In Life. I Treasured Up His Information, And, As Soon As I Had An Opportunity, Wrote Down All Which He Had Told Me. On Our Arrival At Holyhead, The Weather Was Very Boisterous, And The Packet Was To Depart Immediately. Mr M'dermott Stated His Intentions To Go Over, [mehr]

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Charles Dickens American Notes For General Circulation

Abenteuer
Englisch
107493 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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I Shall Never Forget The One-Fourth Serious And Three-Fourths Comical Astonishment, With Which, On The Morning of The Third Of January Eighteen-Hundred-And-Forty-Two, I Opened the Door Of, And Put My Head Into, A 'State-Room' On Board The Britannia Steam- Packet, Twelve Hundred tons Burthen Per Register, Bound For Halifax And Boston, And Carrying her Majesty'S Mails. That This State-Room Had Been Specially Engaged for 'Charles Dickens, Esquire, And Lady,' Was Rendered sufficiently Clear Even To My Scared intellect By A Very Small Manuscript, Announcing the Fact, Which Was Pinned on A Very Flat Quilt, Covering a Very Thin Mattress, Spread Like A Surgical Plaster On A Most Inaccessible Shelf. [mehr]

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Catherine A. Warfield Miriam Monfort (Fiscle Part-Xii) Part 2

Kurzgeschichte
Englisch
82062 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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Before Leaving The Hospitable Roof Of General Curzon--Beneath Which I Tarried For Several Days--Awaiting The Tardy Sailing Of The Packet-Steamer Kosciusko, Bound For New York, Circumstances Determined Me To Leave In The Hands Of My Host A Desk Which I Had Intended To Carry With Me, And Which Contained Most Of My Treasures. First Among These, Indisputably, In Intrinsic Value Were My Diamonds--"Sole Remnant Of A Past Magnificence;" But The Miniatures Of My Father And Mother, And Mabel, In The Cases Of Which Locks Of Twisted Hair--Brown, And Black, And Golden, And Gray--Were Contained And Combined (Dear, Imperishable Memorials Of Vitality In Most Instances When All The Rest Was Dust And Ashes), And The Early Letters Of My Parents, Together With The Carefully-Kept Diary I Had Written At Beauseincourt, Ranked Beyond These Even In My Estimation. [mehr]

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Adeline Dutton Train Whitney We Girls

A Home Story

Ratgeber
Englisch
54562 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (15 September 1824 – 20 March 1906)[1] was an American poet and prolific writer, publishing more than 20 books for girls. Her books expressed a traditional view of women's roles and were popular throughout her life. Whitney was born Adeline Dutton Train in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Enoch Train and Adeline Train (née Dutton). Her father founded a line of packet ships that sailed between Boston and Liverpool, a major port of trade and emigration. Adeline was educated at private schools; she studied at the school of George B. Emerson in Boston from 1837 to 1842. Her cousin George Francis Train was a successful entrepreneur, a founder of the Union Pacific Railroad, and an adventurer, making three round-the-world trips. [mehr]

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MRS. A. D. T. WHITNEY REAL FOLKS

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Englisch
87708 Wörter
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Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (15 September 1824 – 20 March 1906)[1] was an American poet and prolific writer, publishing more than 20 books for girls. Her books expressed a traditional view of women's roles and were popular throughout her lifWhitney was born Adeline Dutton Train in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Enoch Train and Adeline Train (née Dutton). Her father founded a line of packet ships that sailed between Boston and Liverpool, a major port of trade and emigration. Adeline was educated at private schools; she studied at the school of George B. Emerson in Boston from 1837 to 1842. Her cousin George Francis Train was a successful entrepreneur, a founder of the Union Pacific Railroad, and an adventurer, making three round-the-world trips.e. [mehr]

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Dan Singletary ADSL Bandwidth Management HOWTO

Computer
Englisch
5637 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
4
7

length from the default of 100, which on an ADSL line could take as much as 10 seconds to empty with a 1500 byte mtu. ----- 3.5. Attempting to Throttle Inbound Traffic By using the Intermediate Queuing Device (IMQ), we can run all incoming packets through a queue in the same way that we queue outbound packets. Packet priority is much simpler in this case. Since we can only (attempt to) control inbound TCP traffic, we'll put all non-TCP traffic in the 0x00 class, and all TCP traffic in the 0x01 class. We'll also place "small" TCP packets in the 0x00 class since these are most likely ACK packets for outbound data that has already been sent. [mehr]

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Maurice Hewlett Rest Harrow(fiscle part-4) A Comedy Of Resolution

Essay
Englisch
97511 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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An Observant Traveller, Homing To England By The Ostend-Dover Packet In The April Of Some Five Years Ago, Relished The Vagaries Of A Curious Couple Who Arrived By A Later Train, And Proved To Be Both Of His Acquaintance. He Had Happened To Be Early Abroad, And Saw Them Come On. They Were A Lady Of Some Personal Attraction, Comfortably Furred, Who, Descending From A First-Class Carriage, Was Met By A Man From A Third- Class, Bare-Headed, Free In The Neck, Loosely Clad In Grey Flannel Trousers Which Flapped About His Thin Legs In The Sea-Breeze, A White Sweater With A Rolling Collar, And A Pair Of Sandals Upon Brown And Sinewy Feet Uncovered By Socks: These Two. The Man's Garniture Was Extraordinary, But Himself No Less So. He Had A Lean And Deeply Bronzed Face, Hatchet- Shaped Like A Hindoo's. You Looked Instinctively For Rings In His Ears. His Moustache Was Black And Sinuous, Outlining His Mouth Rather Than Hiding It. [mehr]

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JULIANA HORATIA EWING MELCHIOR'S DREAM AND OTHER TALES

Kurzgeschichte
Englisch
60665 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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Juliana Horatia Ewing (née Gatty) (1841–1885) was an English writer of childrenKnown as Julie, she was the second of ten children of the Reverend Alfred Gatty, vicar of Ecclesfield in Yorkshire, and Margaret Gatty, who was herself a children's author. The children were educated mainly by her mother, but Julie was often the driving force behind their various activities: drama, botany etc. Later she was responsible for setting up a village library in Ecclesfield and helped out in the parish with her three sisters. Early stories appeared in Charlotte Yonge's magazine Monthly Packet.[1] On 1 June 1867, she was married to Major Alexander Ewing (1830–1895) of the army pay department, also a keen churchgoer, who shared his wife's interest in literature. Within a week of their marriage, Ewing left England for Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, where her husband had received a new posting. They remained there for two years, before returning to England in 1869 and spending eight years in the army town of Aldershot. Rudyard Kipling claimed to know her novel Jan of the Windmill (1872-3, 1876) almost by heart. Her story The Brownies (1865) gave the Baden-Powells the idea and the name for the junior level of the Girl Guides. Another admirer of her work was E. Nesbit.[2]'s stories. [mehr]

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