by Lewis Carroll Advice from a CaterpillarA Mad Tea-PartyPig and Pepper For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and wondering what to do next, when suddenly a footman in…
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Barren winter, with his…
The strictest sect of Scotch Presbyterians, organised in 1680, by Richard Cameron, who was slain in battle at Aird's Moss in 1680. He objected to the alliance of Church and State. In 1876…
five times Dictator of Rome, was falsely accused of embezzlement, and went into voluntary exile; but when the Gauls besieged Rome, he returned and delivered his country. “Camillus, only…
(Encyclopedia) Lamb, Charles, 1775–1834, English essayist, b. London. He went to school at Christ's Hospital, where his lifelong friendship with Coleridge began. Lamb was a clerk at the India House…
of classic renown: ACASTOS, who took part in the famous Calydonian hunt (a wild boar). ACTÆON, the famous huntsman who was transformed by Diana into a stag, because he chanced to see her…
(Encyclopedia) Plymouth, city and unitary authority (1991 pop. 238,583), SW England, on Plymouth Sound. The three towns that Plymouth has comprised since 1914 are Plymouth, Stonehouse, and Devonport…
(Encyclopedia) cement, binding material used in construction and engineering, often called hydraulic cement, typically made by heating a mixture of limestone and clay until it almost fuses and then…
Scene IIThe palaceEnter the Duchess of York, with the two children of ClarenceBoyTell me, good grandam, is our father dead?Duchess of YorkNo, boy.BoyWhy do you wring your hands, and beat your…
Scene IIIA royal palaceEnter Henry Bolingbroke, Henry Percy, and other LordsHenry BolingbrokeCan no man tell me of my unthrifty son?
'Tis full three months since I did see him last;
If any…
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