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Coffee Break Collection 022 - Days Gone By-Various · Edith Wharton Works Collection

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  Speaker 1: The Birth Time of the Gods by Frank Render Coffee
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  Speaker 1: Breaking Collection twenty two Days Gone By. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Avay in August two thousand nineteen, The birth
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  Speaker 1: time of the Gods. Before a time was and while
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  Speaker 1: yet the world was uncreated, chaos reigned the earth and
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  Speaker 1: the waters, the light and the darkness, the stars and
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  Speaker 1: the firmament were intermingled in a vapory liquid. All things
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  Speaker 1: were formless and confused. No creature existed. Phantom shapes moved
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  Speaker 1: as clouds on the ruffled surface of a sea. It
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  Speaker 1: was the birth time of the gods. The first deity
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  Speaker 1: sprang from an immense bulrush bud, which rose spearlike in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of the boundless disorder. Other gods were born,
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  Speaker 1: but three generations passed before the actual separation of the
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  Speaker 1: atmosphere from the more solid earth. Finally, when the tip
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  Speaker 1: of the bulrush points upward the heaven, these spirits appeared.
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  Speaker 1: From this time, their kingdom was divided from the lower world,
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  Speaker 1: where chaos still prevailed, to the fourth pair of gods,
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  Speaker 1: it was given to create the earth. These two beings
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  Speaker 1: were the powerful god of the Air Izanagi, and the
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  Speaker 1: fair goddess of the clouds Ianami. From them sprang all life. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Ianagi and Isanami wandered on the floating bridge of heaven.
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  Speaker 1: This bridge spanned the gulf between heaven and the unformed world.
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  Speaker 1: It was upheld in the air, and it stood secure.
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  Speaker 1: The God of the Air spoke to the Goddess of
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  Speaker 1: the clouds, there must needs be a kingdom beneath us,
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  Speaker 1: let us visit it. When he had so said, he
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  Speaker 1: plunged his jeweled spear into the seething mass below. The
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  Speaker 1: drops that fell from the point of the spear congealed
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  Speaker 1: and became the island of Ono Gooro. Thereupon, the earthmakers
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  Speaker 1: descended and called up a high mountain peak, on whose
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  Speaker 1: summit could rest one end of the heavenly Bridge, and
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  Speaker 1: around which the whole world should revolve. The wisdom of
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  Speaker 1: the heavenly spirit had decreed that Isanagi should be a
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  Speaker 1: man and Isanami a woman, and these two deities decided
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  Speaker 1: to wed and dwell together on the earth. But as
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  Speaker 1: befitted their august birth, the wooing must be solemn. Isanagi
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  Speaker 1: skirted the base of the mountain to the right, Isanami
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  Speaker 1: turned to the left. When the Goddess of the clouds
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  Speaker 1: saw the God of the Air approaching a off she
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  Speaker 1: cried enraptured, Ah, what a fair and lovely youth. Then
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  Speaker 1: Ianagi exclaimed, ah, what a fair and lovely maiden. As
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  Speaker 1: they met their clasped hands and the marriage was accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: But for some unknown cause, the union did not prove
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  Speaker 1: as happy as the god and goddess had hoped. They
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  Speaker 1: continued their work of creation, but Avaji, the island that
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  Speaker 1: rose from the deep, was little more than a barren waste,
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  Speaker 1: and their firstborn son, Hiuko, was a weakling. The earthmakers
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  Speaker 1: placed him in a little boat woven of reeds and
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  Speaker 1: left him to the mercy of wind and tide. In
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  Speaker 1: deep grief, Isanagi and Isanami recrossed the floating bridge and
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  Speaker 1: came to the place where the heavenly spirits hold eternal audience.
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  Speaker 1: From them, they learned that Isanagi should have been the
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  Speaker 1: first to speak. When the gods met round the base
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  Speaker 1: of the pillar of Earth. They must woo and wed anew.
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  Speaker 1: On their return to Earth, Isanagi as before, went to
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  Speaker 1: the right and Isanami to the left of the mountain.
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  Speaker 1: But now when they met, Ianagi exclaimed, ah, what a
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  Speaker 1: fair and lovely maiden, and Isanami joyfully responded, Ah, what
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  Speaker 1: a fair and lovely youth. They clasped hands once more,
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  Speaker 1: and their happiness began. They created the eight large islands
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  Speaker 1: of the Kingdom of Japan, first the luxuriant island of
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  Speaker 1: the dragonfly, the Great Yamato, then tzukush the White Sun, Youth, Eyu,
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  Speaker 1: the lovely Princes, and many more. The rocky islands of
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  Speaker 1: the archipelago were formed by the foam of the rolling
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  Speaker 1: breakers as they dashed on the coastlines of the islands
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  Speaker 1: already created. Thus China and the remaining lands and continents
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  Speaker 1: of the world came into existence. Now we're born to
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  Speaker 1: Isanagi and Isanami, the ruler of the rivers, the deity
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  Speaker 1: of the mountains, and later the god of the trees,
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  Speaker 1: and the goddess to whom was entrusted the care of
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  Speaker 1: tender plants and herbs. Then Isanagi and Isanami said, we
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  Speaker 1: have created the mighty Kingdom of the eight Islands, with mountains,
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  Speaker 1: rivers and trees. Yet another divinity there must be who
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  Speaker 1: shall guard and rule this fair world. As they spoke,
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  Speaker 1: a daughter was born to them. Her beauty was dazzling,
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  Speaker 1: and her regal bearing betokened that her throne should be
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  Speaker 1: set high above the clouds. She was none other than
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  Speaker 1: Ama Terasu, the heaven illuminating spirit. Isanagi and Isanami rejoiced
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  Speaker 1: greatly when they beheld her face, and exclaimed, our daughter
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  Speaker 1: shall dwell in the blue plain of high heaven, and
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  Speaker 1: from there she shall direct the universe. So they led
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  Speaker 1: her to the summit of the mountain and over the
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  Speaker 1: wondrous bridge. The heavenly spirits were joyful when they saw
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  Speaker 1: Ama terra Su, and said, you shall mount into the
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  Speaker 1: soft blue of the sky. Your brilliancy shall illumine, and
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  Speaker 1: your sweet smile shall gladden the eternal land and all
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  Speaker 1: the world. Fleecy clouds shall be your handmaidens, and sparkling
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  Speaker 1: dewdrops your messengers of peace. The next child of Izanagi
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  Speaker 1: and his Anami was a son, and as he also
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  Speaker 1: was beautiful with the dreamlike beauty of the evening, they
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  Speaker 1: placed him in the heavens as co ruler with his
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  Speaker 1: sister Ama Terra Su. His name was Tuku Yomi, the
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  Speaker 1: moon god. The god Susan O'o is another son of
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  Speaker 1: the two deities who wooed and wed around the base
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  Speaker 1: of the pillar of Earth. Unlike his brother and sister,
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  Speaker 1: he was fond of the shadow and the gloom. When
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  Speaker 1: he wept, the grass on the mountain side withered, the
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  Speaker 1: flowers were blighted, and men died. Isanagi had little joy
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  Speaker 1: in the sun. Nevertheless, he made him ruler of the ocean.
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  Speaker 1: Now that the world was created, the happy life of
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  Speaker 1: the God of the Air and the Goddess of the
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  Speaker 1: clouds was over the consumer, the god of Fire was born,
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  Speaker 1: and Isanami died. She vanished into the deep solitudes of
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of the Trees in the country of Qii,
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  Speaker 1: and disappeared thence into the lower regions. Isanagi was sorely
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  Speaker 1: troubled because Isanami had been taken from him, and he
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  Speaker 1: descended in pursuit of her to the portals of the
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  Speaker 1: shadowy Kingdom, where sunshine is unknown. Isanami would fain have
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  Speaker 1: left that place to rejoin Isanagi on the beautiful earth.
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  Speaker 1: Her spirit came to meet him, and in urgent and
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  Speaker 1: tender words, besought him not to seek her In those
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  Speaker 1: cavernous regions, but the bold god would not be warned.
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  Speaker 1: He pressed forward, and by the light struck from his calm,
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  Speaker 1: he sought for his loved one. Long and earnestly, grim
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  Speaker 1: forms rose to confront him, but he passed them by
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  Speaker 1: with kingly disdain. Sounds as of the wailing of lost
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  Speaker 1: souls struck his ear, but still he persisted. After endless search,
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  Speaker 1: he found his Isanami lying in an attitude of untold despair.
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  Speaker 1: But so changed was she that he gazed intently into
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  Speaker 1: her eyes ere he could recognize her. Isanami was angry
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  Speaker 1: that Isanagi had not listened to her commands, for she
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  Speaker 1: knew how fruitless would be his efforts. Without the sanction
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  Speaker 1: of the ruler of the underworld, she could not return
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  Speaker 1: to Earth, and this consent she had tried in to obtain. Isanagi,
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  Speaker 1: hard pressed by the eight monsters who guard the land
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  Speaker 1: of Gloom, had to flee for his life. He defended
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  Speaker 1: himself valiantly with his sword. Then he threw down his
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  Speaker 1: head dress, and it was transformed into bunches of purple grapes.
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  Speaker 1: He also cast behind him the calm, by means of
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  Speaker 1: which he had obtained light, and from it sprang tender
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  Speaker 1: shoots of bamboo, while the monsters eagerly devoured the luscious
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  Speaker 1: grapes and tender shoots. Ianagi gained the broad flight of
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  Speaker 1: steps which led back to Earth. At the top, he
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  Speaker 1: paused and cried to Isanami, all hope of our reunion
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  Speaker 1: is now at an end. Our separation must be eternal.
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  Speaker 1: Stretching far beyond Isanagi, lady ocean, and on its surface
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  Speaker 1: was reflected the face of his well beloved daughter am
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  Speaker 1: Terra Sur. She seemed to speak and besiege him to
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  Speaker 1: pure himself in the great waters of the sea. As
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  Speaker 1: he bathed, his wounds were healed, and the sense of
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  Speaker 1: infinite peace stole over him. The life work of the
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  Speaker 1: Earthmaker was done. He bestowed the world upon his children,
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  Speaker 1: and afterwards crossed for the last time the many colored
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  Speaker 1: bridge of Heaven. The God of the Air now spends
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  Speaker 1: his days with the heaven illuminating spirit in her son
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  Speaker 1: glorious Palace and of the birth Time of the Gods.
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  Speaker 1: By Frank Render.
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  Speaker 2: The Sad Story of a Boy King by George Cary
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  Speaker 2: Eggleston Coffee Break Collection, twenty two Days Gone By. This
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  Speaker 2: is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the
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  Speaker 2: public domain. For more information, ought to volunteer, please visit
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  Speaker 2: librevokx dot org. The Sad Story of a Boy King
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  Speaker 2: London took a holiday on the sixteenth of July thirteen
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  Speaker 2: seventy seven. There were processions of merry makers in the streets,
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  Speaker 2: and the windows were crowded with gaily dressed men, women
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  Speaker 2: and children. The great lords, glittering in armor and mounted
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  Speaker 2: upon splendid steel clad horses, marched through the town. The
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  Speaker 2: bishops and clergymen in gorgeous robes, made a more solemn,
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  Speaker 2: but not less attractive show. The trade guilds were out
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  Speaker 2: in their best clothing, bearing the tools of their trades
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  Speaker 2: instead of arms. Clowns in motley, merrymakers of all kinds,
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  Speaker 2: great city dignitaries, lords and commons, everybody in short made
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  Speaker 2: a mad and merry holiday. And at night the houses
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  Speaker 2: were illuminated, the great bonfires were lighted in the streets.
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  Speaker 2: All England was wild with joy. But the happiest person
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  Speaker 2: in the land was Richard Plantagenet, a boy eleven years
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  Speaker 2: of age. Indeed, it was for this boy's sake, and
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  Speaker 2: in his honor, that all this feasting and merry making
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  Speaker 2: went on. For on that day young Richard was crowned
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  Speaker 2: King of England. And in those times a king of
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  Speaker 2: England was a much more important person than now, because
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  Speaker 2: the people had not then learned to govern themselves, and
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  Speaker 2: the king had powers which Englishmen would not allow any
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  Speaker 2: man to have in our time. Richard was too young
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  Speaker 2: to govern wisely, and so a council was appointed to
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  Speaker 2: help him until he should grow up. But in the
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  Speaker 2: meantime he was a real king boy as he was,
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  Speaker 2: and it is safe to say that he was the
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  Speaker 2: happiest boy in England on that July day when all
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  Speaker 2: London took a holiday in his honor. But if he
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  Speaker 2: had known what this crowning was to lead to, young
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  Speaker 2: Richard might have been very glad to change places with
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  Speaker 2: any baker's or butcher's boy in London. The boy King
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  Speaker 2: had some uncles and cousins who were very great people,
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  Speaker 2: and who gave him no little trouble. After a while,
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  Speaker 2: he had wars on his hands too, and needed a
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  Speaker 2: great deal more money than the people were willing to
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  Speaker 2: give him. And so when he grew older and took
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  Speaker 2: the government into his own hands, he found troubles all
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  Speaker 2: around him. The Irish people rebelled frequently, the Scots were hostile.
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  Speaker 2: There was trouble with Spain because Richard's uncle wanted to
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  Speaker 2: become king of that country, and there was a standing
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  Speaker 2: war with France. But this was not all. In order
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  Speaker 2: to carry on these wars, the king was obliged to
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  Speaker 2: have money, and when he ordered taxes to be collected,
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  Speaker 2: the common people, led by what Tyler, rose in rebellion.
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  Speaker 2: They marched into London, seized the tower, and put to
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  Speaker 2: death the treasurer of the kingdom, the Archbishop of Canterbury,
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  Speaker 2: and many other persons high in the government. Tyler was
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  Speaker 2: so insolent one day that the Lord Mayor of London
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  Speaker 2: killed him. But the boy King, who was only sixteen
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  Speaker 2: years old, seeing that the rebels were too strong for him,
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  Speaker 2: put himself at their head and marched with them out
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  Speaker 2: of the city. And so the king, against whom the
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  Speaker 2: rebellion was made, became the leader of the rebels. As
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  Speaker 2: soon as matters grew quiet, however, he broke all the
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  Speaker 2: promises he had made and punished the chief rebels very harshly.
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  Speaker 2: Not long after this, one of the king's uncles made
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  Speaker 2: himself master of the kingdom by force, and it was
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  Speaker 2: several years before Richard could put him out of power.
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  Speaker 2: But the greatest of all Richard's troubles were yet to come.
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  Speaker 2: His cousin Henry Bolingbrooke, the son of Old John of Gaunt,
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  Speaker 2: had misbehaved, and Richard had sent him out of England,
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  Speaker 2: not to return for ten years. But while Richard was
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  Speaker 2: in Ireland putting down a rebellion there, Henry came back
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  Speaker 2: to England, raised an army and was joined by many
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  Speaker 2: of the most powerful men in the kingdom. When Richard
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  Speaker 2: came back from Ireland, Henry made him a prisoner, and
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  Speaker 2: not long afterwards the great men made up their minds
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  Speaker 2: to set up Henry as the king instead of Richard.
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  Speaker 2: They made Richard sign a paper giving up his right
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  Speaker 2: to the crown, and then to make the matter sure,
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  Speaker 2: Parliament passed a law that Richard should be king no longer.
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  Speaker 2: Richard was only thirty three years old when all this
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  Speaker 2: was done, but after so many troubles, he might well
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  Speaker 2: have been glad to give up his kingship if that
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  Speaker 2: had been the end of the matter. But a king
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  Speaker 2: who has been set aside is always a dangerous man
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  Speaker 2: to have in the king Kingdom, and it would not
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  Speaker 2: do to let Richard go free. He might gather his
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  Speaker 2: friends around him and give trouble. So it was decided
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  Speaker 2: that the unfortunate man should be shut up in a
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  Speaker 2: prison for the rest of his life. But even this
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  Speaker 2: was not the worst of the matter. Richard had a wife,
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  Speaker 2: Queen Isabella, whom he loved very dearly, and if the
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  Speaker 2: two could have gone away together into some quiet place
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  Speaker 2: to live, they might still have been happy in spite
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  Speaker 2: of being under guard all the time. But the new
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  Speaker 2: king would not have it, so he gave orders that
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  Speaker 2: Richard should be shut up closely in a prison, and
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  Speaker 2: that Isabella should go back to France, where Richard had
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  Speaker 2: married her. This was a terrible thing for the young
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  Speaker 2: man and his younger wife, who might have had a
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  Speaker 2: long life of happiness still before them if Richard had
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  Speaker 2: never been a king. But Richard had been King of England,
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  Speaker 2: and so he had to give up both his freedom
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  Speaker 2: and his wife. In his play of King Richard the Second,
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  Speaker 2: Shakespeare makes a very touching scene of their parting. In
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  Speaker 2: the play, Their farewell takes place in the street as
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  Speaker 2: shown in our picture Isabella, anxious to see her husband
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  Speaker 2: once more before they part forever, waits at a point
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  Speaker 2: which she knows he must pass on his way to prison.
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  Speaker 2: There they meet and talk together for the last time
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  Speaker 2: on earth. The words which Shakespeare put into their mouths
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  Speaker 2: are terribly sad, but very beautiful. You will find the
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  Speaker 2: scene at the beginning of Act five of the play.
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  Speaker 2: The picture shows the two at the moment when Richard
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  Speaker 2: moves away to his prison, leaving Isabella to mourn for
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  Speaker 2: him in a nunnery for the rest of her life.
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  Speaker 2: It is not certainly known what became of Richard after
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  Speaker 2: he was taken to prison. It is believed that he
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  Speaker 2: was murdered there, perhaps starved to death, but there is
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  Speaker 2: a story that he got away and lived in Scotland,
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  Speaker 2: dying there in fourteen nineteen. It is not at all
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  Speaker 2: likely that the story is true, however, and the common
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  Speaker 2: belief has always been that he died or was killed
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  Speaker 2: in Pontefract Castle, where he was imprisoned. However that may be,
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  Speaker 2: Richard's life was a terribly unhappy one, and all his
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  Speaker 2: sorrows grew out of the fact that he was a king.
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  Speaker 2: If he could have looked forward on that July day
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  Speaker 2: when the people were making merry in his honor, and
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  Speaker 2: could have known all that was to happen to him.
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  Speaker 2: Instead of being the happiest boy in England on his
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  Speaker 2: coronation day, he would have been the most wretched end
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  Speaker 2: of the sad story of a boy King.
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  Speaker 3: A Day at Strawberry Hill by Austin Dobson Coffee Break Collection,
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  Speaker 3: twenty two Days Gone By. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 3: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 3: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording
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  Speaker 3: by Colin McMahon A Day at Strawberry Hill. To the
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  Speaker 3: rigorous exactitudes of modern realism, it may seem an almost
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  Speaker 3: hopeless task to revive the details of a day in
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  Speaker 3: a Twickenham villa when George the Third was King. And
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  Speaker 3: yet with the aid of Horace Walpole's Letters of the
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  Speaker 3: Wapoliana of Pinkerton, and above all of the catalog of
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  Speaker 3: Strawberry Hill printed by its owner in seventeen seventy four,
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  Speaker 3: there is no insurmountable difficulty in deciding what must probably
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  Speaker 3: have been the customary course of events. Nothing is needed
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  Speaker 3: at the outset, but to assume that you had arrived
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  Speaker 3: late on the previous night at the embattled Gothic building
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  Speaker 3: on the Teddington Road, and that the fatigues of your
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  Speaker 3: journey had left you little more than a vague notion
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  Speaker 3: of your host and a fixed idea that the breakfast
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  Speaker 3: hour was nine. Then, after carrying with you into the
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  Speaker 3: chintz curtains of the red bed chamber, an indistinct recollection
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  Speaker 3: of Richardson's drawings of Pope and his Mother, and of
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  Speaker 3: Birmingham's owl cut and paper, which you dimly make out
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  Speaker 3: with your candle on the walls, you would be waked
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  Speaker 3: at eighth the next morning by Colombe, the Swiss ballet,
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  Speaker 3: as great a tyrant over his master as his compatriot
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  Speaker 3: Canton in the clandestine marriage, and in due time would
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  Speaker 3: repair to the blue papered and blue furnished breakfast room,
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  Speaker 3: looking pleasantly on the Thames. Here, coasting leisurely round the apartment,
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  Speaker 3: you would probably pause before Monsieur de Commentelle's double picture
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  Speaker 3: of your host's dead friend, Madame du Defant and her relative,
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  Speaker 3: the Duchesse de Choiselle, or you would peer curiously at
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  Speaker 3: the view of Madame de Sevigne's hotel in the Rue
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  Speaker 3: coultured Saint Catherine. Presently would come a patter of tiny
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  Speaker 3: feet and a fat and not very sociable little dog,
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  Speaker 3: which had once belonged to the said Madame du Defant,
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  Speaker 3: would precede its master, whom you would hear walking with
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  Speaker 3: the stiff tread of an infirm person from his bedroom
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  Speaker 3: on the floor above. Shortly afterwards would enter a tall, slim,
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  Speaker 3: frail looking figure in a morning gown with a high
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  Speaker 3: pallid forehead, dark brilliant eyes under drooping lids, and a
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  Speaker 3: friendly but forced and rather unprepossessing smile. Tonton, as the
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  Speaker 3: little dog was called, after being cajoled into a semblance
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  Speaker 3: of cordiality, would be lifted upon a small sofa at
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  Speaker 3: his master's side. The tea kettle and heater would arrive,
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  Speaker 3: and tea would be served in cups of fine, old
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: white embossed Japanese china, and then the customary salutations exchanged
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: and over would gradually begin in a slightly affected fashion
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  Speaker 3: to which you speedily grow accustomed. That wonderful flow of talk, which,
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: like Prade's vicars, slipped from politics to puns and passed
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  Speaker 3: from Mahomet to Moses, that endless stream of admirably told
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  Speaker 3: stories of recollections, graphic and humorous, of Sally's and bond Malts,
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  Speaker 3: of which Horace Walpole's extraordinary correspondence is the cooled expression,
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  Speaker 3: but of the vivacity and variety of which, enhanced as
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  Speaker 3: they were by the changes in the speaker's voice and look,
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  Speaker 3: and emphasized by his semi French gesticulation. It is impossible
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  Speaker 3: to give any adequate idea. A glance across the river
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  Speaker 3: would suggest an anecdote of her grace, the Duchess of Queensberry.
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  Speaker 3: A falling spoon, a mote by a lady towgend upon
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  Speaker 3: yesterday's execution at Tyburn would follow, a vivid picture of
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  Speaker 3: the deaths of Balmarino and Kilmarnck, or a reference to
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: your ride from London of the night before would usher
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  Speaker 3: in a full and particular account how the valuable and
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  Speaker 3: fascinating gentleman before you, with the great chalk stones in
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  Speaker 3: his fingers, was once all but shot through the head
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  Speaker 3: by the highwayman James McLean. Breakfast over and a liberal
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  Speaker 3: bowl of bread and milk tossed out of the window
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  Speaker 3: to the troops of squirrels that come flocking in from
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  Speaker 3: the high trees round the lawn. Your host would invite
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  Speaker 3: you to make the tour of the grounds, adding, if
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  Speaker 3: it were may that his favorite lilacs were well worth
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  Speaker 3: the effort. He would astonish you by going out in
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  Speaker 3: his slippers and without a hat, and in reply to
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  Speaker 3: your ill concealed astonishment, would laughingly compare himself to the
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  Speaker 3: Indian in the Spectator, who said that he was all face.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Passing by the Abbot's garden with its bright parterres. He
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  Speaker 3: would lead you to the pretty cottage he had built
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  Speaker 3: on the site of the old residence of his deceased tenant,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Richard Franklin, once printer of that scarleous craftsman in which
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Pulteney and Bolingbroke had so persistently assailed his father in
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: its sunny print, hung tea room with the little library
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: at the side. He would show you the picture of
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  Speaker 3: his friend Lady Hervey, once the beautiful Molly Lappel of
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Pulteney in Chesterfield's Ballad, and would tell you that the
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  Speaker 3: frame was carved by the same grinling Gibbons to whom
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  Speaker 3: we are the bronze statue of King James the Second
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  Speaker 3: in the Privy Garden at Whitehall. Thence you would pass
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: to the chapel in the wood with its stained glass
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  Speaker 3: pictures of Henry the Third and his queen from Bexhall
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  Speaker 3: Church and its shrine from Santa Maria Majory at Rome,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: and he would explain that the roof was designed by
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  Speaker 3: that unimpeachable authority in Gothic, mister Tute of the Vine
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: in Hampshire, that George Augustus Selwyn had given him the
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: great earthen pot at the door, and that the carved
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: bench in the ante chapel had been contrived by no
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: less a person than the son of the famous Ricardus Aristarchus,
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Master of Trinity, the mighty Scoliast, whose unwearied pains made
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Horace doll and humbled Milton's strains. As he would quote
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: from the dunciad of the late lamented mister Pope Richard
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Bentley the Younger. He would remind you had also drawn
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: some excellent illustrations to Gray, the originals of which he
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: will show you later in the library. And meanwhile he
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: invites your attention at the end of the wine walk
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  Speaker 3: to another masterpiece from the same ingenious brain, a huge
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: oaken seat shaped like a shell, in which once sat
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  Speaker 3: together three of the handsomest women in England, the Duchess
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  Speaker 3: of Hamilton, the Duchess of Richmond, and the Countess of Aylesbury.
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  Speaker 3: If you were still intelligently interested, and your host still unfatigued,
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: for he is capricious and easily tired, you would pass
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  Speaker 3: from the garden to the private printing press, the Officina Arbutiana,
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: as he christens it, next the neighboring farm yard. Here
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  Speaker 3: you would be introduced to the superintendent and occasional secretary,
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  Speaker 3: mister Thomas Kuregate, who, if so minded, would exhibit to
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  Speaker 3: you a proof of Miss Hannah Moore's poem of Bishop
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  Speaker 3: Bonner's Ghost, which his patron is kindly setting up for her.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Or then and there strike you off a piping hot
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: pull of the latest quatrain to those charming miss Berrys
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  Speaker 3: who are now inhabiting Little Strawberry hard By, once tenanted
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  Speaker 3: by red faced, good humored missus Clive. As you return
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: it last to the house, your guide would almost certainly
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: pause in the little cloister at the entrance, beside the
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: blue and white china tub for goldfish, in which was
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: drowned that favorite cat whose fate was immortalized by gray,
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  Speaker 3: And lifting the label, he would read the poet's words
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: twas on this lofty vase's side, where China's gayest art
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  Speaker 3: has died, the azure flowers that blow demurest of the
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  Speaker 3: tabby kind, the pensive Salima reclined gazed on the lake below.
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  Speaker 3: Footnote There is one of these labels in the Dice
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  Speaker 3: collection at South Kensington, and a footnote once more. Under
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Bentley's japanned tin lantern in the gloomy little hall, your host,
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  Speaker 3: pending the scribbling of half a dozen pressing letters to
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  Speaker 3: Lady Ossiri, mister Pinkerton, or one or other of his
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  Speaker 3: many correspondents, would beg you to await him in the
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: picture gallery here, long before you had exhausted your admiration
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: of the Emperor Vespasian in Basalt, or the incomparable Greek
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: eagle from the bath's caracola, he would resume his post
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  Speaker 3: of chicciirone, leading you almost at once to the portraits
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  Speaker 3: of his three beautiful nieces, Edward Walpole's daughters, one of
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: whom painted by Reynolds had been fortunate enough to marry
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  Speaker 3: King George's own brother, William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, a
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  Speaker 3: fact of which her uncle Horace is ill disguisedly proud.
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  Speaker 3: From the gallery, you would pass to the round drawing room,
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: whose chief glory was Vessari's Bianca Capello, and thence to
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: the adjoining tribune, a curious yellow lit chamber with semi
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: circular recesses, in which were accumulated most of the choicest
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: treasures of strawberry miniatures by Cooper and the Olivers, enamels
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: by Pettitoat and zinc gems from Italy. Bas reliefs and
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: ivory coins and seal rings, and reliquaries and fuligree were
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: in the dispersed profusion of which you would afterwards dimly
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: recall such items as a silver bell carved with masks
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: and insects by ben Venudo Cellini, a missile attributed to Raphael,
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  Speaker 3: a bronze caligula with silver eyes, and a white snuff
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: box with a portrait purporting to be a gift from
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Madame de Savigne in the Elysian Fields, but sent in
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: reality by the faithful Madame du Defand each object would
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: bring its train of associations and traditions, and the fading
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: of the all golden afternoon would find your companion still
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: promising fresh marbles in the yet unexplored rooms beyond, where
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: are the speculum of cannel coal once used by the
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: notorious starmonger doctor John Dee, the red hat of his eminence,
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Cardinal Wolsey, and the very spurs worn by King William
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: the Third of a mortal memory at the ever glorious
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Battle of the Boyne. With four o'clock would come dinner, eaten,
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: probably in the refectory, a room consecrated chiefly to the
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: family portraits, conspicuous among which, in blue velvet was your
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: host by Richardson. The repast was of attic taste, but
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: with very little wine, as while Pole himself drank nothing
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  Speaker 3: but iced water, and coffee upstairs was ordered with such
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: promptitude as to afford the visitor but scanty leisure for
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: lingering over the bottle. About five you migrated to the
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  Speaker 3: round drawing room, where your entertainer, after recommending you to
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: replenish your box with Fribourg's snuff from a canister of
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: which the hiding place was an ancient marble urn in
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: the window seat, would take up his station on the
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: sofa and resume his inexhaustible flood of memories and reflections,
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: always bright, often striking, and never wearisome. Once perhaps he
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: would rise to exhibit the closet he had built for
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Lady Dye, but Clerk's seven drawings in soot Water to
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: his own tragedy of the Mysterious Mother. Or he would
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: adjourn for an hour to the library to turn over
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: his unrivaled collection of Hogarth's Prince, or to show you
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Lady Mary Wortley Montague's Milton, or the identical Iliad and
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Odyssey from which Pope made his translations, or the long
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: row of books printed at the Officina Arbotiana. But he
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: would gravitate sooner or later to his old vantage ground
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: on the sofa, whence, unhasting, unresting, he would discourse at
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: most excellent anecdote into the small hours, when the chintz
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: curtains of the red bedchamber would again receive his bewitched
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: and bewildered but still unsatiated visitor. And so would end
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: your day at Horace Walpole's Gothic castle of Strawberry Hill,
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  Speaker 3: End of a Day at Strawberry Hill recording by Colleen McMahon.
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  Speaker 4: The earliest Egyptian Remains by Charles Francis Horn Coffee Break
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  Speaker 4: Collection twenty two Days Gone By. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 4: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 4: by Betty b. The earliest Egyptian Remains. If we sweep
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  Speaker 4: beside the dust of the many accumulated ages, the earliest
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  Speaker 4: Egyptian writings that have come down to us are the
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  Speaker 4: bare names of kings carved on ancient tombs. Later on
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  Speaker 4: we find these names inscribed on other monuments and accompanied
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  Speaker 4: by lists of kingly titles. Thus, for example, in the
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  Speaker 4: ancient copper Minds of Sinai, the desert land wherein Moses
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  Speaker 4: and his followers in later ages wandered for forty years,
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  Speaker 4: a land outside of Egypt altogether, there is an inscription
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  Speaker 4: carved on the rock, apparently as a record of empire
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  Speaker 4: by King s Nephru, the ruler who preceded Kufu, the
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  Speaker 4: builder of the Great Pyramid, three thousand BC. This carving
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  Speaker 4: like earlier similar ones on the Rocky Wall shows an
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Egyptian pharaoh with upraised war club about to slay a
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  Speaker 4: crouching Arab of the desert. That is, Egypt holds warlike
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  Speaker 4: mastery over. King s Nephrew's picture, however, is the first
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  Speaker 4: to have a long added inscription. It reads King of
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  Speaker 4: Upper and Lower Egypt, Favorite of the two goddesses, Lord
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  Speaker 4: of truth, golden Sun, God s Nephrew s Nephrew, Great
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  Speaker 4: God who has given power, stability, life, health, joy of
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  Speaker 4: heart forever, subduer of the barbarians. If such an inscription
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  Speaker 4: is too elementary to be called literature, we find a
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: distinctly literary form soon afterward in the tomb biographies. High
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: officials of the kingdom followed the lead of their rulers
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: by building splendid tombs, and they painted on the inner
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: chambers of these some record of the owner's proud career.
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  Speaker 4: The earliest such boastful biography yet discovered is that of Methen,
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  Speaker 4: the master of the hunt under King s Nephrew. Methan
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  Speaker 4: does not seem to have been a specially important man.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: He was methodical, busy, successful in a small way, but
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  Speaker 4: it is the very maddest vagary of chance that out
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: of all the millions of early Egyptians, he should be
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  Speaker 4: the one to have his little boast of success survive
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  Speaker 4: until now, and now through Egyptologists be preserved, per chance,
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  Speaker 4: until the end of time. So Methan's boastful record of
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: his life, faded now and difficult to read, obscure of
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: wording and interpretation, is given here as Egypt's earliest surviving
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: life scene. Then comes the Palermo Stone. This begins for
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: us Egyptian history as Methan begins biography. The Palermos Stone
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  Speaker 4: is a broken fragment from a large tablet which must
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: have been set up somewhere as a sort of permanent
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: historical record during the Fifth Egyptian dynasty twenty seven fifty BC.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: The original stone contained a list of all the preceding kings,
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: arranged in chronological order, and with brief notes of the
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: chief events of each rain, sometimes of each year of
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: each rain. The remaining fragment is unreadable in part and
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: gives us only vague visions of large events whose details
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: the imagination must fill out as best it may. Of
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: Egypt before the close of the Fifth dynasty, we possess
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  Speaker 4: only such records as these shadowy hints of life, pictures
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  Speaker 4: fascinating to pour over and meditate upon, with their wistful
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: evidence that human hearts yearned then for much the same
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: things that they yearned for now. Mothers schemed for their sons.
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  Speaker 4: Men prided themselves on building finer houses than their neighbors.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: Foreign regions were harried, and their people hacked and plundered
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  Speaker 4: without remorse, And then the conquerors returned in pleasant pride
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  Speaker 4: to dream amid their vines and fig trees. End of
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  Speaker 4: the The earliest Egyptian remains.
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  Speaker 5: The First Americans by Cotton Mather from Magnelia Christi Americana,
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  Speaker 5: published in seventeen hundred and two Coffee Break collection twenty
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  Speaker 5: two Days Gone By. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 5: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: or to volunteer, please visit libravox dot org. Perhaps my
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: reader would gladly be informed how America came first to
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: be peopled, and if Orneus's discourses they oreignate Genteum american Arum,
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: do not satisfy him, I hope shortly the most ingenious
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: doctor Woodward in his Natural History of the Earth, will
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: do it in the meantime to thy stomach, reader, except
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: the account of a very sensible Russian who had been
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: an officer of prime note in Siberia, gave unto Father Avril.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: Said he quote, there is beyond the Obi a great
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: river called Koena, that the mouth whereof discharging itself into
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  Speaker 5: the frozen sea. There stands a spacious island, very well peopled,
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  Speaker 5: and no less considerable for hunting an animal whose teeth
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: are in great esteem. The inhabitants go frequently upon the
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: side of the frozen sea to hunt this monster, and
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: because it requires great labor with assiduity, they carry their
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: families usually along with them. Now it many times happens that,
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: being surprised by a thaw, they are carried away. I
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: know not whither upon huge pieces of ice that break
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: one off from another. For my part, I am persuaded
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: that some of those hunters have been carried upon those
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: floating pieces of ice to the most northern parts of America,
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: which is not far from that part of Asia which
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: juts out into the Sea of Tartary. And that which
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: confirms me in this opinion is this that the Americans
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: who habit that country which advances farthest toward that sea
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: have the same physiognomy as those islanders. Thus the vote
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: of Smotensko End of the first Americans by Cotton Mather.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: The First Saxon Settlement from the History of London by
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Walter Besant Coffee Break Collection, twenty two Days gone By.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 3: the public domain. For moreation or to volunteer, please visit
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  Speaker 3: LibriVox dot org. The First Saxon Settlement. One hundred and
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: fifty years passed away between the landing of the East
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: Saxons and their recorded occupation of the city. This long
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: period made a great difference in the fierce savage who
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: followed the standard of the White Horse and landed on
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: the coast of Essex. He became more peaceful, He settled down,
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: contentedly to periods of tranquility. Certain arts he acquired, and
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: he learned to live in towns. As yet he was
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: not a Christian. This means that the influence of Rome,
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: with its religion, its learning, and its arts, had not
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: yet touched him. But he had begun to live in towns,
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: and he lived in London. Perhaps the first of the
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: new settlers were the foreign merchants, returning as soon as
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: more settled times allowed with their cargoes. London has always
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: been a place of trade, but for trade, no one
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: would have settled in it. Therefore, either the of Essex
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: invited the foreign merchants to return, or the foreign merchants
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: returned and invited the men of Essex to come into
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: the city and to bring with them what they had
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: to exchange. In the year five ninety seven, Augustine, prior
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: of a Roman monastery, was sent by Pope Gregory the
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: Great with forty monks to convert the English Ethelbert, king
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: of Kent and most powerful of the English kinglets, was
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: married to Bertha, a Christian princess. She had brought with
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: her a chaplain, and it was probably at her invitation
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: or through her influence, that the monks were sent. They
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: landed at Thanet, they obtained permission to meet the king
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: in the open air. They appeared wearing their robes, carrying
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: a crucifix and chanting psalms. It is probable that the
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: conversion of the king had been arranged beforehand, for without
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: any difficulty or delay the king and all his court,
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: and following the king's example, all the people were baptized.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Augustine returned to Rome, where he was consecrated Archie Bishop
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: of the English nation. A church was built at Canterbury,
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  Speaker 3: and the work of preaching the faith went on vigorously.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: The East Saxons made no more hesitation at being baptized
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  Speaker 3: than the men of kent Ethelbert indeed could command obedience.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: He was overlord of all the nations south of the Humber.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: He it was, according to Bede, who built the first
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: Church of Saint Paul in London, a fact which proves
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: his authority and influence in London, and his sincere desire
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: that the East Saxons should become Christians. They did in
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: a way, but when King Siebert died, they relapsed and
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: drove their bishop into exile. Then Bede says that they
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: were punished for this sin. The East Saxons fell into trouble.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: They went to war with the men of Wessex and
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: were defeated by them. After this we find London in
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: the hands of the Northumbrians and the Mercians. That is
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: to say, these nations one after the other obtained the supremacy.
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  Speaker 3: It was in the US year six sixteen or thereabouts
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  Speaker 3: the Bishop Melitus had to leave his diocese. Forty years later,
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: another conversion of London took place under Bishop Said, consecrated
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: at Lindisfarn. The new faith was not strong enough to
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  Speaker 3: stand against a plague, and the East Saxons of London
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  Speaker 3: went back once more to their old gods. After another
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: thirty years, before the close of the seventh century, London
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: was again converted, and this time for good. In the
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: eighth century, London passed again out of the hands of
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: the East Saxon kings into those of the Mercians. The
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: earliest extant document concerning London is one dated seven thirty four,
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  Speaker 3: in which King Ethelbald grants to the Bishop of Rochester
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  Speaker 3: leave to send one ship without tax in or out
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  Speaker 3: of London Port. A wittan i e and National Council
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  Speaker 3: was held in London in eight eleven. It is then
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  Speaker 3: spoken of as an illustrious place and royal city. The
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  Speaker 3: supremacy of Mercy to that of Wessex. London went with
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: the supremacy. In eight thirty three, Egbert, king of Wessex,
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  Speaker 3: held a witten in London. When Egbert died, the supremacy
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  Speaker 3: of Wessex fell with him. Then the Danish troubles fell
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  Speaker 3: thick and disastrous upon the country. When Alfred succeeded to
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  Speaker 3: the crown, the Danes held the Iowa Thanet, which commanded
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  Speaker 3: the River. They had conquered the North Country from the
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  Speaker 3: Tweed to the Humber. They had overrun all the eastern
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  Speaker 3: counties twice viz. In eight thirty nine, and in eight
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  Speaker 3: fifty two, they had pillaged London, which they presently occupied,
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  Speaker 3: making it their headquarters. With this Danish occupation ends the
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  Speaker 3: first Saxon settlement of the city. End of the First
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  Speaker 3: Saxon Settlement recording by Colie McMahon.
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  Speaker 5: The First Thanksgiving by Cotton Mather from Magnalia Christi Americana,
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  Speaker 5: published in seventeen twenty Coffee Break collection twenty two Days
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  Speaker 5: Gone By. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 5: are in the public domain from our information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 5: please visit LibriVox dot org. From page fifty four of
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  Speaker 5: volume one. In one of the first summers after their
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: sitting down at Plymouth, a terrible draft threatened the ruin
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: of all their summer's husbandry. From about the middle of
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: May to the middle of July, an extreme hot sun
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: beat down upon their fields without any rain, so that
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: all their corn began to wither and languish, and some
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  Speaker 5: of it was irrecoverably parched up. In this distress, they
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  Speaker 5: set apart a day for fasting and prayer to deprecate
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  Speaker 5: the calamity that might bring them to fasting through famine.
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  Speaker 5: In the morning of which day there was no sign
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  Speaker 5: of any rain. But before the evening the sky was
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  Speaker 5: overcast with clouds, which went not away without such easy,
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  Speaker 5: gentle and yet plentiful showers as revived a great part
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  Speaker 5: of their decayed corn for a comfortable harvest. The Indians
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  Speaker 5: themselves took notice of this answer given from heaven to
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  Speaker 5: the supplication of this devout people, and one of them said,
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  Speaker 5: now I see that the Englishman's God is a good God,
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  Speaker 5: for he hath heard you and sent you rain, and
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  Speaker 5: that without such tempest and thunder as we used to
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  Speaker 5: have with our rain, which after our powawing for it,
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  Speaker 5: break down the corn, whereas your corn stands whole and
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  Speaker 5: good still. Surely your God is a good God. The
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  Speaker 5: harvest we which God thus gave to this pious people,
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  Speaker 5: caused them to set apart another day for solemn thanksgiving
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: to the glorious hearer of prayers. End of the First
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  Speaker 5: Thanksgiving by Cotton Mather.
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  Speaker 4: The Foundation of Rome by John Frost Coffee Break Collection,
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  Speaker 4: twenty two Days Gone By. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 4: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 4: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording
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  Speaker 4: by Betty B. The Foundations of Rome BC seven hundred
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  Speaker 4: and fifty three. There are many different accounts of the
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: events attending the foundation of Rome, the city which was
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  Speaker 4: once to be mistress of the world. But such statements
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  Speaker 4: as appear most probable, are here selected to make up
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: a story which, while it pleases, shall also convey instruction.
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  Speaker 4: The Romans generally believed that they were descended from Aeneas
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  Speaker 4: and his followers, who, after the sacking of Troy by
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  Speaker 4: the Greeks in the year b c. Eleven eighty four,
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  Speaker 4: fled from Thence in ships and ended their voyage in Latium.
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  Speaker 4: Here Latinus was king, and when he saw that Aeneas
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  Speaker 4: was peaceably disposed, and only wished a place of refuge.
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: He admitted him into his favor and gave him his
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  Speaker 4: daughter Lavinia in marriage. Engaged in the affairs of his
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  Speaker 4: father in law, who was much pleased with him and
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: his followers. When Latinus died, Aneas ascended the throne and was,
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  Speaker 4: after his death succeeded by his descendants down to the
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  Speaker 4: time of Numator, who was dethroned by his brother Amulius.
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: Amulius murdered his son, and his daughter was compelled to
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  Speaker 4: become a vestal so that she might have no children
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  Speaker 4: to revenge themselves on the tyrant. But his measures were
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  Speaker 4: vain for Reraya Sylvia. The vestal had twin sons who
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  Speaker 4: were thrown into the river Tiber, and she was condemned
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  Speaker 4: to be buried alive. The place where the children were thrown.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: Being shallow, they soon grounded and the waters retiring were,
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  Speaker 4: according to the account, suckled by a she wolf, until Faustalus,
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: the king's shepherd, struck with the strange sight, took them
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: up and treated them as his own children. They increased
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: in strength and became shepherds, but not liking this occupation,
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: they went to the chase, and there obtained a superiority
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: over their fellows by the exhibition of a little daring
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: and valor. They seemed born to command and discovered abilities
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  Speaker 4: above the meanness of their supposed origin. The companions of
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: Romulus and Remus, the two twins, increased in numbers daily
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: and were strong enough to attack the robbers who infested
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  Speaker 4: that neighborhood. Some persons who envied Remus resolved to rid
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  Speaker 4: themselves of his rivalship by taking him before Numator, who
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: dared do nothing till the sanction of his brother was received.
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  Speaker 4: Compassion made Numatur defer the sentence. He asked Remus concerning
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  Speaker 4: his birth. The young man replied that he was ignorant
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  Speaker 4: of the place of his nativity, but only knew that
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  Speaker 4: Faustulus had said that Romulus and he were twins, and
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: were found exposed on the brink of the river. Numator
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  Speaker 4: immediately perceived in Remus and his brother the twins exposed
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  Speaker 4: by Emulius. Meantime, Faustulus disclosed to Romulus his noble birth,
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: and immediately nothing was thought of but the destruction of
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  Speaker 4: the tyrant. He was beset on all sides. Romulus marched
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  Speaker 4: through the avenues of the palace and restored his grandfather
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  Speaker 4: to the throne. Not long after Romulus and Remus formed
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  Speaker 4: a settlement, a fatal desire of reigning seized them.
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  Speaker 6: Both.
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  Speaker 4: Numatur advice them to let the decision of their quarrels
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  Speaker 4: rest with the gods. Accordingly, each stationed himself on a
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  Speaker 4: hill and waited for the appearance of vultures, which was
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  Speaker 4: then the foolish method used for finding the will of
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  Speaker 4: the gods. Romulus sent to Remus a message saying that
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  Speaker 4: he had seen some of these birds just then Remus
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  Speaker 4: saw six, and running to Romulus to discover the truth
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: of what he had heard, he found that he was deceived,
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: but Romulus, at that instant saw twelve vultures. Remus said
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  Speaker 4: he was victorious because the birds first appeared to him,
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: and Romulus insisted that as he had seen the greatest number,
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: he was the conqueror. From the dispute, they came to blows,
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: and Remus was slain by his brother, who, being provoked
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  Speaker 4: at his leaping contemptuously over the walls, struck him dead
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: at his feet. Romulus was therefore the sole commander of
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: the city. Soon after he was elected their king, and
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  Speaker 4: thus we see that in the infancy of society, men
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  Speaker 4: were chosen as rulers who had distinguished themselves in the
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: service and protection of their country. He established a senate
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  Speaker 4: of one hundred men and divided the people into patricians
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  Speaker 4: and plebeians. At first the city was nearly square, built
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  Speaker 4: of mud, and governed the country only for eight miles round.
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  Speaker 4: Yet the city was one day to give laws to
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: all the world and of the foundation of Rome.
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  Speaker 7: Fourteenth century prayers by various authors Coffee Breaight collection, twenty
• 50:42
  Speaker 7: three Days Gone By. This is a LibriVox according all
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  Speaker 7: LibriVox accordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 7: or to volunteer, please visit liprivox dot org. Recording by
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  Speaker 7: Chodhorner from Liverpool. Times of anxiety made Jesus Christ, the
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  Speaker 7: King of Glory. Help us to make the right us
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  Speaker 7: of all the suffering that cause sins, and to offer
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  Speaker 7: to him the true incense of our hearts for his namesake, Amen,
• 51:09
  Speaker 7: Johann Jueler for love of God, grant mustracious God, that
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  Speaker 7: we may love and seek THEE always and everywhere above
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  Speaker 7: all things, and for Thy sake in the life present,
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  Speaker 7: and may at length find Thee and for ever hold
• 51:23
  Speaker 7: THEE fast in the life to come. Grant this for
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  Speaker 7: the sake of Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen Thomas Broadwardine
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  Speaker 7: a memorial of the Resurrection, O Lord, Jesus Christ, by
• 51:35
  Speaker 7: thy glorious resurrection, in which thou didst to pay alive
• 51:39
  Speaker 7: and immortal to thy disciples and faithful followers, by thy
• 51:43
  Speaker 7: forty days abiding and sweet converse, in which, by many
• 51:47
  Speaker 7: infallible proofs speaking of things pertaining to the Kingdom of God,
• 51:50
  Speaker 7: Thou didst comfort them and assure them of Thine actual resurrection,
• 51:55
  Speaker 7: removing all doubt from their hearts. We beseech THEE, O Lord,
• 51:59
  Speaker 7: grant that we may be numbered among those who wherefore
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  Speaker 7: ordained by God to be witnesses of Thy resurrection, not
• 52:06
  Speaker 7: only by word of mouth, but in reality of good works.
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  Speaker 7: With Thine honor and glory, who, with the Father and
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  Speaker 7: the Holy Ghost, levest and realest ever one God, go
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  Speaker 7: of without ant Amen Udulphus of Saxony. For heavenly mindedness,
• 52:21
  Speaker 7: almost blessed Lord, deign to help us, and of thy
• 52:24
  Speaker 7: great mercy, abolish our sans, detach our minds from earthly things,
• 52:28
  Speaker 7: and raise them to the love of heavenly riches, most
• 52:32
  Speaker 7: merciful God, who dost favor all true love. Do thou
• 52:35
  Speaker 7: so aid and direct us that we may love THEE
• 52:37
  Speaker 7: above all things, and, recognizing infinite finite benefits, may keep
• 52:42
  Speaker 7: them in memory and give THEE everlasting thanks for them. Finally,
• 52:47
  Speaker 7: grant that ours may be the blessed life which shall
• 52:51
  Speaker 7: enjoy Thy love forever, through Jesus Christ, Our Lord, Amen.
• 52:54
  Speaker 7: Raymond Jrudanus Self renunciation. If a man may attain thereunto
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  Speaker 7: and be unto God, as his hand is unto man,
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  Speaker 7: let him be therewith content and not seek further. That
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  Speaker 7: we may thus deny ourselves and forsake and pronounce all
• 53:09
  Speaker 7: things for God's sake, and give up our own wills,
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  Speaker 7: and die unto ourselves and live unto God alone, unto
• 53:16
  Speaker 7: His will. May He help us who give up his
• 53:19
  Speaker 7: will to His heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, our Lord. To
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  Speaker 7: him be blessing forever and ever. Amen. Theologia Germanica. The
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  Speaker 7: God we love, Nay, he who will hold to God
• 53:30
  Speaker 7: loves all things in the One which is one and all,
• 53:33
  Speaker 7: and the one in all, because all is in the one,
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  Speaker 7: and he he loves some one this or that otherwise
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  Speaker 7: than in the One, and for the sake of the one,
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  Speaker 7: loves not God. For he loves somewat which is not God.
• 53:46
  Speaker 7: Therefore he loves it more than God. But he he
• 53:48
  Speaker 7: loves somewhat more than God, or equally with God, loves
• 53:51
  Speaker 7: not God. For God must be and will be alone loved.
• 53:55
  Speaker 7: And in truth, nothing ought to be loved but God alone.
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  Speaker 7: And when the true light and the true Divine love
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  Speaker 7: dwell on a man, he loves nothing else but God alone.
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  Speaker 7: For he loves God as the good and for the
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  Speaker 7: sake of the good. And all goods is one, and
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  Speaker 7: one is all. For verily all is one, and one
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  Speaker 7: is all in God a Man. Theologia Germanica and of
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  Speaker 7: fourteenth century prayers from Prayers of the Middle Ages. Light
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  Speaker 7: from a thousand Years by various authors. Intellectual Life from
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  Speaker 7: recollections of a Busy Life being the Reminiscences of a
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  Speaker 7: Liverpool Merchant eighteen forty to nineteen ten by William B.
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  Speaker 7: Forwood Coffee Break Collection twenty two Days Gone By. This
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  Speaker 7: is a LibriVox recording. All Libervox recordings are in the
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  Speaker 7: LibriVox dot org. Recording by Chadhorder from Ballyclaire in County Anter,
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  Speaker 7: Northern Ireland, situated in the northeast of the Island of Ireland.
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  Speaker 7: Intellectual life Liverpool has always been too much absorbed in
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  Speaker 7: her commerce to take any prominent possession in the world
• 55:04
  Speaker 7: of literature and education until recent years, whom we have
• 55:08
  Speaker 7: atoned in some degree for our remissness in the past
• 55:11
  Speaker 7: by the founding of our university. Professor Ramsey Muhr, in
• 55:15
  Speaker 7: a recent speech, however, claims that he had a renaissance
• 55:19
  Speaker 7: in Liverpool in the early years of the nineteenth century,
• 55:23
  Speaker 7: when a group of thinkers, scholars and writers, finding its
• 55:26
  Speaker 7: center in William Roscoe, gave to Liverpool a position and
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  Speaker 7: a name in the literary world, and she became a
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  Speaker 7: real seat of literary activity. To that remarkable man, William Roscoe,
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  Speaker 7: we owe the Athenaeum, the Literary and Philosophical Society on
• 55:42
  Speaker 7: the Roscoe Collection of pictures now in the Walker Art Gallery.
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  Speaker 7: This intellectual effort quickly lost its vitality, and for long
• 55:50
  Speaker 7: years a literary on philosophical society on the Philomathic Society,
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  Speaker 7: struggled alone to keep burning the light of higher culture
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  Speaker 7: and literary activity. Elementary education was almost entirely in the
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  Speaker 7: hands of the Church. Middle class education dependent upon the
• 56:06
  Speaker 7: Liverpool Collegiate, the Mechanics Institute, afterwards the Liverpool Institute and
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  Speaker 7: the Royal Institute. The fashion of sending boys to argy
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  Speaker 7: at public schools did not set in until the seventies.
• 56:18
  Speaker 7: Such was the condition of intellectual life when in eighteen
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  Speaker 7: eighty the Liverpool University College was established, mainly through the
• 56:26
  Speaker 7: efforts of the late Earl of Darby, William Rathbone, Christopher Bushel, A. K. Muspratt,
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  Speaker 7: David Jardine, Sir Edward Lawrence, Robert Ladstone, Mister Muspratt, Sir
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  Speaker 7: John Brunner, John Ranklin, and William Johnson. The first principal,
• 56:43
  Speaker 7: Doctor Rendall, rendered excellent service in these early struggling years,
• 56:47
  Speaker 7: which were happily followed by still greater and even more
• 56:50
  Speaker 7: successful efforts under Vice Chancellor Deal, resulting in the granting
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  Speaker 7: of a Royal charter in nineteen o three and the
• 56:57
  Speaker 7: founding of a university. The Earl of Darby became Chancellor
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  Speaker 7: and Doctor Dale vice Chancellor. The university has been nobly
• 57:04
  Speaker 7: and generously supported by Liverpool Man. Indeed, a reference to
• 57:08
  Speaker 7: the calendar fills me with surprise that so much could
• 57:12
  Speaker 7: have been accomplished within such a brief period. Its work
• 57:15
  Speaker 7: as making itself felt in the general uplifting of the
• 57:19
  Speaker 7: level of education. While the presence in Liverpool of such
• 57:22
  Speaker 7: a distinguished body of professors has had considerable influence in
• 57:25
  Speaker 7: giving a higher and more intellectual tone to society and
• 57:29
  Speaker 7: in opening up new avenues or thought and activity. We
• 57:32
  Speaker 7: must not omit to record the excellent work done by
• 57:35
  Speaker 7: the school Board. When first established in eighteen seventy three,
• 57:39
  Speaker 7: the election of members provoked such sectarian animosity, but in
• 57:43
  Speaker 7: the course of time, through the exertions of mister Christopher
• 57:46
  Speaker 7: Bushell and mister Sam Rathbone, this hindrance to its success
• 57:51
  Speaker 7: was overcome and the excellence of its organization was greatly recognized.
• 57:55
  Speaker 7: Its functions have during the past three years been transferred
• 57:59
  Speaker 7: to the City Council. One of the results of the
• 58:01
  Speaker 7: school Board was the finding of the Council of Education,
• 58:04
  Speaker 7: which provided, in the shape of scholarships, the means by
• 58:07
  Speaker 7: which boys could advance from the elementary school to the
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  Speaker 7: higher grade schools on the universities. Mister sam Rothbombe, mister
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  Speaker 7: Gilmore and mister Bishel were very active in promoting this
• 58:19
  Speaker 7: association and of intellectual life. From recollections of a Busy
• 58:24
  Speaker 7: Life being the Reminiscences of a Liverpool Merchant eighteen forty
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  Speaker 7: to nineteen ten by William B.
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: Forwood Marrying a God by Saxo Grammaticus eleven sixty to
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  Speaker 5: twelve twenty from the Danish History Coffee Break Collection twenty
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  Speaker 5: two Days Gone By. This is a Librivax recording. All
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  Speaker 5: Librivax recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 5: or divolen here, please visit librevox dot org. While this
• 59:07
  Speaker 5: was passing in Hallagoland, Balder entered the country of Giwar,
• 59:12
  Speaker 5: armed in order to sue for Nana. Giwar bade him
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  Speaker 5: learn Nana's own mind. So he approached the maiden with
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  Speaker 5: the most choice and cajoling words, and when he could
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  Speaker 5: win no hearing from his prayers, he persisted in asking
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  Speaker 5: the reason of his refusal. She replied that a god
• 59:35
  Speaker 5: could not wed with a mortal because the vast difference
• 59:38
  Speaker 5: of their natures prevented any bond of intercourse. Also, the
• 59:43
  Speaker 5: gods sometimes used to break their pledges and the bond
• 59:47
  Speaker 5: contracted between unequals was apt to snap suddenly. There was
• 59:53
  Speaker 5: no firm tie between those of differing estate. For Beside
• 59:59
  Speaker 5: the great, the fortunes of the lowli were always dimmed. Also,
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  Speaker 5: lack and plenty dwelt in diverse tents. Nor was there
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 5: any fast bond of intercourse between gorgeous wealth and obscure poverty.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 5: In fine, the things of earth would not mate with
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 5: those of heaven, being sundered by a great original gulf
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 5: through a difference in nature, inasmuch as mortal man was
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 5: infinitely far from the glory of the divine majesty. With
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 5: this shuffling answer, she eluded the suit of Balder and
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 5: shrewdly wove excuses to refuse his hand. When Huthar heard
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 5: this from Ghiwar, he complained long to Helgi of Balder's insolence.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 5: Both were in doubt as to what should be done,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 5: and beat their brains over divers plans for converse with
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 5: a friend in the day of trouble. Though it removeth
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 5: not the peril, yet maketh the heart left sick amid
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 5: all the desires of their souls. The passion of valor prevailed,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 5: and a naval battle was fought with balder, one would
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  Speaker 5: have thought it a contest of men against gods. For
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 5: Odin and Thor and the whole array of the gods
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 5: fought for balder, there one could have beheld the war
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 5: in which divine and human might were mingled. But Hothar
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 5: was clad in his steel defined tunic and charged the
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  Speaker 5: closest bands of the gods, assailing them as vehemently as
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 5: the son of Earth could assail the powers above. However,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 5: Thor was swinging his club with marvelous might and shattered
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 5: all interposing shields, calling as loudly on his foes to
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 5: attack him, as upon his friends to back him up.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 5: No kind of armor with sto his onset, No man
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 5: could receive his stroke and live. Whatsoever his blow fended off,
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  Speaker 5: it crushed. Neither shield nor helm endured the weight of
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  Speaker 5: its dint. No greatness of body or of strength could serve.
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  Speaker 5: Thus the victory would have passed to the gods. But
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  Speaker 5: that Houthor, though his line had already fallen back, tarted up,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 5: hued off the club at the haft, and made it useless.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 5: And the gods, when they had lost this weapon, fled
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 5: incontinently but that antiquity vouches for it. It were quite
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  Speaker 5: against common belief to think that men prevailed against gods.
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  Speaker 5: We call them gods in a suppositious rather than a
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  Speaker 5: real sense, For to such we give the title of
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  Speaker 5: deity by the custom of nations, not because of their nature.
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  Speaker 5: End of marrying a god ISACXO Gramaticus.
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  Speaker 8: Old Salem Shops by Eleanor Putnam Coffee Break Collection twenty
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  Speaker 8: two Days Gone By. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 8: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 8: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by
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  Speaker 8: Anita Slima Martinez, Old Salem Shops. I wonder how many
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 8: people have memories as vivid as mine of the quaint
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 8: shops which a score of years ago stood placidly along
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 8: the quiet streets of Salem. In the Salem of today,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 8: there are few innovations. Not many modern buildings have replaced
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 8: the time honored landmarks. Yet twenty years ago Salem in
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 8: certain aspects was far more like an old colonial town
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 8: than it is now. When the proprietor of an old
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 8: shop died, it was seldom that a new master entered.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 8: Nobody knew ever came to Salem, and everybody then living
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 8: there had already his legitimate occupation. The old shops, lacking tenants,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 8: went to sleep. Their green shutters were closed, and they
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 8: laid up in ordinary without comment from anyone. I remember
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 8: one shop of the variety known in Salem as button stores.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 8: It was kept by two quaint old sisters whose family
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 8: name I never knew. We always call them Miss Martha
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 8: and Miss Sibyl. Miss Martha was the older, and sported
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 8: a magnificent turbane of wonderful construction. Miss Sibyl wore caps
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 8: and little wintry curls. Both had short waisted gowns, much
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 8: shred toward the belts, and odd little housewives of green leather,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 8: which hung from their apron bindings by green ribbons. Their
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 8: wares were few and faded. They had a sparse collection
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 8: of cruels, old fashioned faces, little crimped cakes of white wax,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 8: and emery balls in feudal imitation of strawberries. They sold handkerchiefs,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 8: antiquated gauze and brocaded ribbons, and did embroidery stamping for
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 8: ladies with much care and deliberation. I remember being one
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 8: sent to take to these ladies an article which was
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 8: to be stamped with a single letter. Miss Martha consulted
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 8: at some length with her sister, and then, with an
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 8: air of gentle importance, said to me, tell your mother, dear,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 8: that sister Sybil will have it ready in one week. Certainly,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 8: on another occasion, Miss Sibyl had chanced to give me
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 8: a penny too much in change, discovering which before I
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 8: was well away, I returned to the shop and told
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 8: her of the mistake. Miss Sybil dropped the penny into
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 8: the little till. So slender were the means of these
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 8: old gentlewomen that I believe even a penny was of
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 8: importance to them. And in her gentle voice, she asked,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 8: what is your name, dear, And when I told her,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 8: she replied approvingly, well, you are an honest child, and
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 8: you may go home and tell your mother that Miss
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 8: Sybil said so. To this commendation, she added the gift
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 8: of a bit of pink gauze ribbon brocaded with little
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 8: yellow and lavender leaves. And I returned to my family
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 8: in a condition of such conscious virtue that I am
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 8: convinced that I must have been quite insufferable for some
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 8: days following. The only article in which these ladies dealt,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 8: which specially concerned US children, was a sort of gay
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 8: colored beads, such as were used in making bags and reticules,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 8: that fine old bead embroidery, which some people show nowadays
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 8: as the work of their great grandmothers. These beads were
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 8: highly valued by Salem children, and were sold for a
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 8: penny a thimbleful. They were measured out in a small
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 8: mustard spoon of yellow wood, and it took three ladlefolds
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 8: to fill the thimble. I cannot forget the air of
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 8: placid and judicial gravity with which dear miss Martha measured
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 8: out a senseworth of beads. One winter day, Miss Sybil died.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 8: The green shutters of the shop were bowed with black ribbons,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 8: and a bit of rusty black crape fluttered from the
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 8: knob of the half glass door, inside of which the
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 8: curtains were drawn as for a Sunday. For a whole
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 8: week the shop was decorously closed. When it was reopened,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 8: only Miss Martha, a little older and grayer and more
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 8: gently serious, stood behind the scantily filled showcase. My mother
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 8: went in with me that day and bought some laces.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 8: Miss Martha folded each piece about a card and secured
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 8: the ends with pins after her usual careful fashion, and
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 8: made out the quaint, little receated bill with which she
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 8: always insisted on furnishing customers. As she handed the parcel
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 8: across the counter, she answered, a look in my mother's eyes.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 8: I did not think she would go first, she said, simply,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 8: Sybil was very young to die. In the following autumn
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 8: came Miss Martha's turn to go. Then the shutters were
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 8: closed forever nobody took the store. The winter snows drifted
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 8: unchecked into the narrow doorway, and the bit of black
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 8: crape affixed to the latch by friendly hands, waved forlornly
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 8: in the chilly winds and shivered in the air, a
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 8: thing to affect a child weirdly, and to be hastened
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 8: past with the creepy sensation in the uncertain greyness of
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 8: a winter twilight. Another well remembered Salem's Shop was a
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 8: little establishment of a certain Missus Birmingham. This store was
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 8: really a more joyous and favorite resort for children than
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 8: the aristocratic precincts of Miss Martha and Miss sybyl. One
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 8: reason for this was that while two gentler souls never lived,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 8: these ladies belonged to a generation when children were kept
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 8: in their places and were to be seen and not heard.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 8: This fact flavored their kindly treatment of young people, and
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 8: we felt it then too. Save for the beads, their
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 8: wares were not attractive to little folk. And lastly, there
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 8: was a constraint in the prim neatness, the mystic half
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 8: perceived odor of some old Indian perfume, and the general
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 8: air of decayed gentility that hung about the shop of
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 8: the two old gentlewomen, which pertained not at all to
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 8: the thoroughly vulgar but alluring domain of Missus Birmingham. This
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 8: shop was not on Essex Street, the street of shops,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 8: but upon a quiet byway devoted to respectable dwelling houses,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 8: and for this reason we were free to visit Missus
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 8: Birmingham's whenever we chose. It was a tiny house, and
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 8: I believe it had beside it a very shabby and
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 8: seedy garden. There were two windows with green wooden shutters,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 8: and a green door with the upper half of glass.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 8: This was once the fashionable manner of stores in Salem.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 8: Inside the door was a step down which one always
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 8: fell incontinently, for even if one remembered its existence, it
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 8: was so narrow, and the door closed on its spring
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 8: so suddenly behind one, that there was no choice but
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 8: to fall. The very name of Birmingham brings up the
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 8: curious odor of that shop. There was above all a
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 8: close and musty and attic like perfume. Mingling with this
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 8: were a perception of cellar mold, a hint of cheese,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 8: a dash of tobacco and cabbage, a scent of camphor,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 8: a suspicion of snuff, and a strong undercurrent of warm
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 8: black gowns scorched by being too near an air tight stove.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 8: Missus Birmingham's stock equalled buttercups in variety. Along the floor
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 8: in front of the left hand counter was always a
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 8: row of lusty green cabbages and a basket of apples.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 8: A small glass showcase held bread and buns, and brick
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 8: shaped sheets of livid gingerbread. If one came to buy milk,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 8: Missus Birmingham dipped it from a never empty pan on
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 8: the right hand counter, wherein sundry, hapless flies went like
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 8: ophelia to a moist death. Then there were ribbons and
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 8: cotton laces, needles, pins, perfumed soaps, and pomottums. There were
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 8: a few jars of red and white peppermint and cinnamon sticks,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 8: a box of pink corn cake, which Missus Birmingham conscientiously
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 8: refused to seal to children for fear the coloring matter
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 8: might be poisonous and in season and out on a
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 8: line above the right hand counter hung a row of
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 8: those dismal creations the Valentines known as comic. All these
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 8: are articles, though shabby and shop worn enough, probably possessed
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 8: for us children a species of fascination. There was a
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 8: glamour in the very smell before referred to, and the
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 8: height of our worldly ambition was to have a shop
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 8: just like Missus Birmingham's. The things for which we sought
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 8: Missus Birmingham's were, however, chiefly of two sorts. The first
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 8: was a kind of small, jointed wooden doll about three
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 8: inches high in the face. These generally looked like Missus Birmingham,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 8: and they had little red boots painted on their stubby feet.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 8: These ugly little puppets cost a scent apiece and were
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 8: much prized as servant dolls nurses, particularly because their arms
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 8: would crook and they could be made to hold baby
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 8: dolls in a rigid but highly satisfactory manner. This flexibility
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 8: of limb had also, by the bye its unpleasant side,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 8: for my brother Tom had a vicious habit if ever
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 8: the baby hud house were left unguarded, of bending the
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 8: doll's joints and leaving the poor little mannikins in all
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 8: manner of ungainly and indecorous attitudes. Another thing which could
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 8: be bought for one cent the limit of our purses
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 8: when we went shopping, and it required six or seven
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 8: of us to spend this sum, was a string of
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 8: curious little beads made of red sealing wax. They were
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 8: somehow molded on the string while warm, and could not
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 8: be slipped off. We really did not like them very well,
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 8: yet we were always buying them, and despite our experience
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 8: trying to slip them from the string. There was a
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 8: belfastened to the top of Missus Birmingham's shop door, which
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 8: jangled as one precipitately entered and summoned Missus Birmingham from
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 8: an inner room. Missus Birmingham was a stout irishwoman, with
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 8: black eyes, fat hands, and a remarkably fiery nose. She
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 8: wore a rusty black gown, the same probably which was
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 8: always scorching before the stove in the back room, and
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 8: a false front dark as the raven's wing. I believe
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 8: she must have worn some sort of cap, because, without
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 8: recalling just where she had them, I never think of
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 8: her without a distinct impression of dark purple ribbons. She was,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 8: by no means an amiable woman, and in serving us
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 8: she had a way of casting our pennies contemptuously into
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 8: the dill, which was humiliating in the extreme. She had,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 8: likewise a habit of never believing that we had a
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 8: commission right, and persisted in sending us home to make
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 8: sure that we were sent for a ten and not
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 8: a five cent loaf, or for one and not two
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 8: dozen of eggs. This was painful and crushing to our pride,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 8: but the bravest never rebelled against Missus Birmingham. My brother used, indeed,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 8: to lurk around the corner a few minutes and then
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 8: return to the shop without having gone home. But I
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 8: always feared Missus Birmingham's sharp black eyes, and felt that
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 8: a Dieziree would certainly come for Tom when all would
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 8: be discovered. In addition to the shop, Missus Birmingham conducted
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 8: an intelligence office in the back room. I never saw
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 8: one of the girls, nor knew of any person's going
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 8: to Missus Birmingham to seek intelligence. But sometimes we heard laughter,
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 8: and very often Missus Birmingham's deep bass voice exclaimed, Mike,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 8: be off with your jokin now, let alone telling stories
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 8: to the girls. Mike was mister Birmingham, a one legged
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 8: man whom I never saw. We knew that he was
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 8: one legged because Tom had seen him, and we secretly
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 8: believed this to be the reason of Missus Birmingham's stressing
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 8: in mourning. We children had asked and been told to
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 8: the nature and purpose of an intelligence office, And yet
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 8: there was ever a sort of uncanny mystery about that
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 8: back room, where unseen girls laughed, and mister Birmingham was
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 8: always being told to be off with his te But
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 8: tempura mutantour. Alas for Mike, he is off with all
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 8: joking now for good. Alas two for Missus Birmingham. I
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 8: cannot believe that she died. She was so invincible, but
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 8: she is gone. The rusty black gown, the purple ribbons,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 8: and the ruddy nose have passed somewhere into the shadows
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 8: of oblivion. One more shop there was in which, at
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 8: a certain season the souls of the children rejoiced. It
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 8: was not much of a shop at ordinary times. Indeed,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 8: it was but a small and unnoticeable building just around
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 8: a corner of Essex Street. It was only at holiday
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 8: time that it blossomed out of insignificance. This was before
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 8: the days of any extent of holiday decoration, and very
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 8: little in the way of Christmas trimming was done by
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 8: Salem tradesmen. The season was celebrated with decorous merriment in
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 8: our homes, but almost no church adornment was and most
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 8: of the shops relaxed not from their customary Salem air
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 8: of eminent and grave respectability. No butcher sent home a
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 8: spray of holly with the goose, and no Christmas cards
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 8: dropped as now from the packages of baker or candlestick maker.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 8: It was therefore the more delightful to witness the annual
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 8: transformation of the little shop around the Essex Street corner.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 8: The very heart and soul of Christmas tide must have
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 8: dwelt in the plump body of the man who kept
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 8: that shop. His wooden awning was converted into a perfect arbor,
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 8: under which the front of his little store showed as
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 8: an enchanted cavern of untold beauty, a bower of lusty greenery,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 8: a glow at night with the starry brilliance of many candles,
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 8: gay with the scarlet berries of holly set off by
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 8: the mystic mistletoe, and rich with aladden treasures of sugary
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 8: birds and beasts, ropes of snowy popped corn, the bewildering braids, twists,
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 8: and baskets of pink and white sugar. Golden oranges are
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 8: rarer fruit than the now white grapes, in luscious clusters
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 8: and bunches of those lovely cherries of clear red barley
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 8: candy with yellow broom corn for stems. After all, though
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 8: it was not so much that the wearers were more
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 8: delightful than those kept by other folk, probably the very
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 8: same things could have been bought at any fruit store.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 8: It was simply that this tiny shop and its plump,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 8: red cheeked owner were overflowing with a subtle and joyous
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 8: spirit of keeping holiday. We children used always to call
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 8: his place the Christmas Shop, And I well remember the
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 8: thrill of joy which ran over me when returning from
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 8: school one afternoon I saw my own parents entering the
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 8: jovial precincts. I sped home on winged feet to tell
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 8: the other ch that mother and father were in the
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 8: Christmas shop. And we all sat about the fire in
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 8: the twilight and guessed what they were buying, and reveled
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 8: in the dear delights which were to result from a
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 8: visit to that treasure house. Where is he now? That
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 8: childlike man who loved the holidays? The merry White was
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 8: twenty years before his time, but it warms one's heart
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 8: to think of him to day. Alas a visit to
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 8: Salem last year showed his wooden awning torn away, and
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 8: in his dismantled bower, a dry and wissen stationer among
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 8: log books and schoolroom furnishings. What a direful change from
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 8: the halcyon days of old. I wonder that the chubby
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 8: ghost of the former owner does not walk a night's
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 8: to bemoan the times that are no more. The shop
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 8: of Miss Martha and Miss sybyl Too's seemed to be
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 8: entirely done away with and Missus Birmingham's, although still standing,
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 8: was but a wreck. I would gladly have bought their
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 8: for old time's sake, a jointed doll or a string
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 8: of sealing wax beads. But the green wooden shutters were closed.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 8: The green door sunk sadly on its hinges, its glass
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 8: half grossly boarded. The grass grew high before the door stone.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 8: The mossy roof was concave, the chimney was almost tottering.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 8: The little shop was drawing itself together and dying, asking
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 8: no sympathy of the beholder, but meeting its appointed fate
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 8: with that gray and silent resignation, which alone is considered
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 8: the proper thing in Salem's society and of old Salem shops.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 9: Chapter fourteen Egyptian Poetical Compositions of the Literature of the
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 9: Ancient Egyptians by Sir Ernest Alfred thomasin Wallace Budget Coffee
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 9: Bread Collection, twenty two Days Gone By. This is a
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  Speaker 9: Recording by Chad Horner from Ballyclaire and Countyaner, Northern Ireland,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 9: situated in the northeast of the island of Ireland. Chapter
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 9: fourteen Egyptian poetical compositions. The poetry of the Egyptians is
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 9: wholly unlike that of Western nations, but closely resembles the
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 9: rhythmical compositions of the Hebrews, with their parallelism of members
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 9: with which we are all familiar in the Book of Psalms,
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 9: the Song of Solomon et cetera. The most important collection
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 9: of Egyptian songs known to us is contained in the
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 9: famous papyrus in the British Museum, number ten thousand and sixty,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 9: more commonly known as Harris five hundred. This papyrus was
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 9: probably written in the thirteenth century BC, but many of
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 9: the songs belonged to a far earlier date. Though dealing
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 9: with a variety of subjects, there is no doubt that
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 9: all of them must be classed under the heading of
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 9: love songs. In them, the lover compares the lady of
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 9: his choice to many beautiful flowers and plants, and describes
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 9: considerable length the pain and grief which her absence causes him.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 9: The lines of the strophies are short, and the construction
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 9: is simple, and it seems certain that the words owed
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 9: their effect chiefly to the voice of the singer, who
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 9: then as now employed many semi tones and birds of tones,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 9: and to the skill with which he played the accompaniment
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 9: on his harp. A papyrus at Leyden, which was written
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 9: a little later than the Love Songs, contains three very
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 9: curious compositions. The first is a sort of lament of
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 9: a pomegranate tree, which, in spite of the service which
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 9: it has rendered to the sister and her brother, is
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 9: not included among trees of the first class. In the second,
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 9: a fig tree expresses its gratitude and its readiness to
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 9: do the will of its mistress and to allow its
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 9: branches to be cut off to make a bed for her.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 9: In the third, sycamore tree invites the lady of the
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 9: land on which it stands to come under the shadow
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 9: of its branches and to enjoy a happy time with
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 9: her lover, and promises her that it will never speak
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 9: about what it sees. More interesting than any of the
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 9: above songs is the so called song of the Harbor,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 9: of which two copies are known. The first is found
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 9: in the papyrus Harris five hundred already mentioned, and the
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  Speaker 9: second in the papyrus at Leyden. Extracts of this poem
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 9: are also found on the walls of the tomb of
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 9: Heifer he Tip at Thebes. The copy in the papyrus
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 9: reads the poem that is in the hall of the
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 9: tomb of the King of the South, the King of
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 9: the North, ant whose word is true, and is cut
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 9: in front of the harbor, O good Prince. It is
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 9: a decree, and what hath been adorned thereby as well?
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  Speaker 9: That the bodies of men shall pass away and disappear,
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  Speaker 9: whilst others remain since the time of the oldest ancestors,
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 9: the gods who lived in olden time, who lie at
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 9: rest in their sepluchers, the masters, and also the shining ones,
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 9: who have been buried in their splendid tombs, who have
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 9: built sacrificial halls in their tombs, their place is no more.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 9: Consider what hath become of them? I have heard the
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 9: words of Imitep and Heritatif, which are treasured above everything
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 9: because they uttered them. Consider what hath become of their tombs?
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 9: Their walls have been thrown thine. Their places are no more.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 9: They are just as if they had never existed. Not
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 9: one of them cometh from where they are, who can
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 9: describe to us their form or condition, who can describe
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 9: to us their surroundings, who can give comfort to our hearts,
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 9: and can act as our guide to the place whereunto
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 9: they have departed. Give comfort to thy heart, and let
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 9: thy heart forget these things. What is best for thee
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 9: to do is to follow thy heart's desire. As long
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 9: as thou livest, anoint thy head with scented unguillance. Let
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 9: thine apparel be of vices, dipped in costly perfumes, in
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 9: the venerable products of the gods. Enjoy thyself more than
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 9: thou hast ever done before. And let not thine heart
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 9: pine for lack of pleasure. Pursue thy heart's desire, and
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 9: thine own happiness. Order thy surroundings on earth in such
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  Speaker 9: a way that they may minister to the desire of
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 9: thy heart. For at length that day of lamentation shall come,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 9: wherein he whose heart is still shall not hear the lamentation,
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 9: never shall cries of grief cause to beat again the
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 9: heart of a man who is in the grief. Therefore,
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  Speaker 9: occupy thyself with thy pleasure daily and never cease to
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  Speaker 9: enjoy thyself. Behold, a man is not permitted to carry
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 9: his possessions away with him. Behold, there never was anyone who,
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 9: having departed, was able to come back again. End of
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  Speaker 9: Chapter fourteen Egyptian Poetical Compositions.
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  Speaker 6: Chapter two of A Short History of Wales by Owen
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  Speaker 6: Edwards Coffee Break Collection, twenty two Days Gone By. This
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  Speaker 6: in September two Thouy nineteen. Chapter two, The Wandering Nations
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  Speaker 6: by land and by sea. Race after race has come
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  Speaker 6: to make the Hills of Wales its home. One race
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  Speaker 6: would be short, with dark eyes and black hair. Another
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 6: would be tall, with blue eyes and fair hair. They
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 6: came from different countries and along different paths, but each
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  Speaker 6: race brought some good with it. One brought skill in
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  Speaker 6: taming animals, until it had at last tamed even the
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  Speaker 6: pig and the bee. Another brought iron tools to take
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  Speaker 6: the place of stone ones. Another brought the energy of
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  Speaker 6: the chase and war, and another a delight in sailing
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  Speaker 6: a ship or building a fortress. One thing they had
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  Speaker 6: in common they wandered, and they wandered to the west.
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  Speaker 6: From the cold wastes and the dark forests of the
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  Speaker 6: north East. They were ever pushing west to more sunny lands.
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  Speaker 6: As far back as we can see, the great migration
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  Speaker 6: of nations to the west was going on. The islands
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  Speaker 6: of Britain were the furthest point they could reach for
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  Speaker 6: beyond it. At that time no man had dared to
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  Speaker 6: sail into the unknown expanse of the Ocean of the West.
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  Speaker 6: In the islands of Britain. The mountains of Wales were
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  Speaker 6: among the most difficult to win, and it was only
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  Speaker 6: the bravest and the hardiest that could make their home
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  Speaker 6: among them. The first races that came were short and dark.
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  Speaker 6: They came in tribes. They had tribal marks, the picture
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  Speaker 6: of an animal as a rule, and they had a
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  Speaker 6: strange fancy that this animal was their ancestor. It may
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  Speaker 6: be that the local nicknames which are still remembered, such
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  Speaker 6: as the pigs of Anglesey, the dogs of Denbigh, the
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  Speaker 6: cats of Ruthen, the crows of Harlech, the gadflies of
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  Speaker 6: Mardri were the proud tribe typhel of these early people.
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  Speaker 6: Their weapons and tools were polished stone, Their hammers and
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  Speaker 6: hatchets and adzes. Their lance heads and their arrow tips
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  Speaker 6: were of the hardest igneous rock, chipped and ground with
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  Speaker 6: patient labor. The people who come first have the best
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  Speaker 6: chance of staying if only they are willing to learn.
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  Speaker 6: Hardy plants will soon take the place of tender plants
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  Speaker 6: if left alone. The dark short people are still the
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  Speaker 6: main part, not only of the Welch, but of the
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  Speaker 6: British people. It is true that their language has disappeared,
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  Speaker 6: except a few place names, but languages are far more
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  Speaker 6: fleeting than races. The loss of its language does not
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  Speaker 6: show that a race is dead. It only shows that
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  Speaker 6: it is very anxious to change and learn. Some languages
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  Speaker 6: easily give place to others, and we say that the
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  Speaker 6: people who speak these languages are good linguists. Like Danes
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  Speaker 6: and Slavs, other languages persist. Those who speak them are
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  Speaker 6: unwilling to speak any new language, and this is the
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  Speaker 6: reason why Spanish and English are so widespread. After the
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  Speaker 6: short dark race came a tall, fair haired people. They
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  Speaker 6: came in families as well as in tribes. They had
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  Speaker 6: iron weapons and tools, and the short dark people could
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  Speaker 6: not keep them at bay with their bone tipped spears
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  Speaker 6: and flint headed arrows. We know nothing about the struggle
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  Speaker 6: between them, but it may be that the fairy stories
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  Speaker 6: we were told when children come from these far off times,
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  Speaker 6: if a fairy maiden came from lake or bound to
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  Speaker 6: live among men, she vanished at once if touched with iron,
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  Speaker 6: is this learned? Men have asked a dim memory of
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  Speaker 6: the victory of Iron over stone. The name given to
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  Speaker 6: the short dark men is usually Iberian. The name given
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  Speaker 6: to the tall fair man who followed him is Coult.
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  Speaker 6: The two learnt to live together in the same country.
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  Speaker 6: The conqueror probably looked upon himself at first as the
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  Speaker 6: master of the conquered, then as simply belonging to a
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  Speaker 6: superior race. But gradually the distinction vanished. The language remained
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  Speaker 6: the language of the celt It is called an Aryan tongue,
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  Speaker 6: a language as noble among languages as the Aryan is
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  Speaker 6: among its hills. It is still spoken in Wales, in Brittany,
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  Speaker 6: in Ireland, and in the Isle of Man. It was
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  Speaker 6: also spoken in Cornwall till the eighteenth century, and Yorkshire
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  Speaker 6: dalesmen still count their sheep in Welsh. English is another
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  Speaker 6: Aryan tongue. The more mixed nation is, the more rich
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  Speaker 6: its life, in the greater its future. Purity of blood
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  Speaker 6: is not a thing to boast of, and no great
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  Speaker 6: and progressive nation comes from one breed of men. Some
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  Speaker 6: races have more imagination than others, are a finer feeling
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  Speaker 6: for beauty. Others have more energy and practical wisdom. The
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  Speaker 6: best nations have both, and they have both, probably because
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  Speaker 6: many races have been blended in their making. There is
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  Speaker 6: hardly a parish in Wales in which there are not
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  Speaker 6: different types of faces and different types of character. The
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  Speaker 6: wandering of nations has never really stopped. The celt was
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  Speaker 6: followed by his cousins, the Angle and the Saxon. These
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  Speaker 6: again were followed by races still more closely related to them,
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  Speaker 6: the Normans and the Danes and the Flemings. They have
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  Speaker 6: all left their mark on Wales and on the Welsh character.
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  Speaker 6: The migration is still going on. Trace the history of
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  Speaker 6: an Upland Welsh parish and you will find that in
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  Speaker 6: a surprisingly short time the old families high and low
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  Speaker 6: have given place to newcomers. Look into the trains which
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  Speaker 6: carry emigrants from Hull or London to Liverpool on their
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  Speaker 6: way west. They have the blue eyes and yellow hair
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  Speaker 6: of those who came two thousand years ago. But this
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  Speaker 6: country is no longer their goal. The great continent of
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  Speaker 6: America has been discovered. Beyond fits of longing for wandering
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  Speaker 6: come over the Welsh periodically as they came over the Danes,
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  Speaker 6: caused by scarcity of food and density of population, or
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  Speaker 6: by a sense of oppression and a yearning for freedom.
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  Speaker 6: An empty stomach, sometimes and sometimes a fiery imagination sent
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  Speaker 6: a crowd of adventurers to new lands. And it is
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  Speaker 6: thus that every living nation is ever renewing its youth.
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  Speaker 6: End of chapter two of a short history of Wales,
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  Speaker 6: The Wandering Nations.
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  Speaker 8: The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Ketcham. Chapter one,
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  Speaker 8: The Wild West Coffee Brick Collection, twenty two Days Gone By.
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  Speaker 8: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 8: visit LibriVox dot Org. Recording by Anita Sloma Martinez, Chapter one,
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  Speaker 8: The Wild West, at the beginning of the twentieth century,
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  Speaker 8: there is strictly speaking, no frontier to the United States.
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  Speaker 8: At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the larger part
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  Speaker 8: of the country was frontier. In any portion of the
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  Speaker 8: country today, in the remotest villages and hamlets, on the
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  Speaker 8: enormous farms of the Dakotas, or the vast ranches of California,
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  Speaker 8: one is certain to find some, if not many, of
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  Speaker 8: the modern appliances of civilization, such as were not dreamed
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  Speaker 8: of one hundred years ago. Aladdin himself could not have
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  Speaker 8: commanded the glowing terms to write to the prospectus of
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  Speaker 8: the closing years of the nineteenth century. So too, it
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  Speaker 8: requires an extraordinary effort of the imagination to conceive of
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  Speaker 8: the condition of things in the opening years of that century.
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  Speaker 8: The first quarter of the century closed with the year
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  Speaker 8: eighteen twenty five. At that date, Lincoln was nearly seventeen
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  Speaker 8: years old. The deepest impressions of life are apt to
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  Speaker 8: be received very early, and it is certain that the
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  Speaker 8: influences which are felt previous to seventeen years of age
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  Speaker 8: have much to do with the formation of the character.
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  Speaker 8: If then we go back to the period named, we
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 8: can tell with sufficient accuracy what were the circumstances of
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  Speaker 8: Lincoln's early life. Though we cannot precisely tell what he had,
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  Speaker 8: we can confidently name many things, things which in this
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  Speaker 8: day we class as the necessities of life, which he
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  Speaker 8: had to do without for the simple reason that they
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  Speaker 8: had not then been invented or discovered. In the first place,
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  Speaker 8: we must bear in mind that he lived in the woods.
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  Speaker 8: The west of that day was not wild in the
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  Speaker 8: sense of being wicked, criminal, ruffian morally, and possibly intellectually.
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  Speaker 8: The people of that region would compare with the rest
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  Speaker 8: of the country of that day or of this day.
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  Speaker 8: There was little schooling and no literary training, but the
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  Speaker 8: woodsman has an education of his own. The region was
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  Speaker 8: wild in the sense that it was almost uninhabited and untilled.
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  Speaker 8: The forests extending from the mountains in the east to
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  Speaker 8: the prairies in the west were almost unbroken, and were
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  Speaker 8: the abode of wild birds and wild beasts, bears, deer,
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  Speaker 8: wild cats, raccoons, wild turkeys, wild pigeons, wild ducks, and
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  Speaker 8: similar creatures abounded on every hand. Consider now the sparseness
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  Speaker 8: of the population. Kentucky has an area of forty thousand
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  Speaker 8: square miles. One year after Lincoln's birth, the total population
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  Speaker 8: white and colored was four hundred and six thousand, five
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  Speaker 8: hundred eleven, or an average of ten persons, say less
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  Speaker 8: than two families to the square mile. Indiana has an
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  Speaker 8: area of thirty six thousand, three hundred fifty square miles.
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  Speaker 8: In eighteen ten, its total population was twenty four thousand,
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  Speaker 8: five hundred twenty, or an average of one person to
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  Speaker 8: one and one half square miles. In eighteen twenty, it
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  Speaker 8: contained one hundred and forty seven thousand, one hundred seventy
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  Speaker 8: three inhabitants, or about four to the square mile. In
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  Speaker 8: eighteen twenty five, the population was about two hundred and
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  Speaker 8: forty five thousand, or less than seven to the square mile.
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  Speaker 8: The capital city, Indianapolis, which is to day of surpassing beauty,
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  Speaker 8: was not built nor thought of when the boy Lincoln
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  Speaker 8: moved into the state. Illinois, with its more than fifty
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  Speaker 8: six thousand square miles of territory, harbored in eighteen ten
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  Speaker 8: only twelve thousand, two hundred and eighty two people, in
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  Speaker 8: eighteen twenty only fifty five thousand, two hundred eleven, or
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  Speaker 8: less than one to the square mile, while an eighteen
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  Speaker 8: twenty five its population had grown a trifle over a
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  Speaker 8: hundred thousand, or less than two to the square mile.
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  Speaker 8: It will thus be seen that up to his youth
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  Speaker 8: Lincoln dwelt only in the wildest of the wild woods,
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  Speaker 8: where the animals, from the chipmunk to the bear, were
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  Speaker 8: much more numerous, and probably more at home than man.
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  Speaker 8: There were few roads of any kind, and certainly none
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  Speaker 8: that could be called good, for the mud of Indiana
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  Speaker 8: and Illinois is very deep and very tenacious. There were
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  Speaker 8: good saddle horses, a sufficient number of oxen, and carts
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  Speaker 8: that were rude and awkward. No locomotives, no bicycles, no automobiles.
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  Speaker 8: The first railway in Indiana was constructed in eighteen forty seven,
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  Speaker 8: and it was, to say the least, a very primitive affair.
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  Speaker 8: As to carriages, there may have been some, but a
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  Speaker 8: good carriage would be only a waste on those roads.
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  Speaker 8: And in that forest, the only pen was the goose quill,
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  Speaker 8: and the ink was home made. Paper was scarce, expensive,
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  Speaker 8: and while of good material, poorly made newspapers were unknown
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  Speaker 8: in that virgin forest, and books were like angels. Visits
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  Speaker 8: few and far between. There were scythes in sickles but
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  Speaker 8: of a grade that would not be saleable to day
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  Speaker 8: at any price. There were no self finding harvesters, no
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  Speaker 8: mowing machines. There were no sewing or knitting machines, though
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  Speaker 8: there were needles of both kinds in the woods. Thorns
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 8: were used for pins, Guns were flintlocks. Tinder boxes were
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  Speaker 8: used until the manufacture of the friction match. Artificial light
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  Speaker 8: came chiefly from the open fireplace, though the tallow dip
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 8: was known, and there were some housewives who had time
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  Speaker 8: to make them and the disposition to use them. Illumination
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  Speaker 8: by means of molded candles, oil gas electricity came later.
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  Speaker 8: That was long before the days of the telegraph. In
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  Speaker 8: that locality. There were no bough mills for weaving cotton, linen,
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  Speaker 8: or woolen fabrics. All spinning was done by means of
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 8: the hand loom, and the common fabric of the region
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 8: was lindsey woolsey, made of linen and woolen mixed and
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 8: usually not dyed. Antiseptics were unknown, and a severe surgical
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 8: operation was practically certain death to the patient. Nor was
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 8: there ether, chloroform or cocaine for the relief of pain.
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  Speaker 8: As to food, wild game was abundant, but the kitchen
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 8: garden was not developed, and there were no importations. No oranges, lemons, bananas,
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  Speaker 8: no canned goods. Crusts of rye bread were browned, ground
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  Speaker 8: and boiled. This was coffee. Herbs of the woods were
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  Speaker 8: dried and steeped. This was tea. The root of the
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 8: sassafras furnished a different kind of tea, a substitute for
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 8: the India and ceylan teas now popular. Slippery elm barks
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  Speaker 8: soaked in cold water sufficed for lemonade. The milk house,
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  Speaker 8: when there was one, was built over a spring when
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  Speaker 8: that was possible, and the milk vessels were kept carefully
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  Speaker 8: covered to keep out snakes and other creatures. That, like milk,
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  Speaker 8: whiskey was almost universally used. Indeed, in spite of the
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  Speaker 8: constitutional sixteen to one, it was locally used as the
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  Speaker 8: standard of value. The luxury of quinine, which came to
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  Speaker 8: be in general use throughout that entire region, was of
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  Speaker 8: later date. These details are few and meager. It is
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  Speaker 8: not easy for us, in the midst of the luxuries, comforts,
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 8: and necessities of a later civilization, to realize the conditions
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 8: of Western life previous to eighteen twenty five. But the
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  Speaker 8: situation must be understood if one is to know the
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  Speaker 8: life of the boy Lincoln. Imagine this boy begin at
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  Speaker 8: the top and look down him a long look, for
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 8: he was tall and gaunt. His cap in winter was
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  Speaker 8: of coon skin, with the tail of the animal hanging
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 8: down behind. In summer he wore a misshape and straw
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 8: hat with no hat band. His shirt was of linsey
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  Speaker 8: woolsey above described, and was of no color whatever, unless
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  Speaker 8: you call it the color of dirt. His breeches were
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  Speaker 8: of deer skin, with the hair outside. In dry weather
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  Speaker 8: these were what you please, but when wet they hugged
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 8: the skin with a clammy embrace, and the victim might
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 8: sigh in vain. For sanitary underwear, these breeches were held
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  Speaker 8: up by one suspender. The hunting shirt was likewise of
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 8: deer skin. The stockings there weren't any stockings. The shoes
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  Speaker 8: were cowhide, though moccasins made by his mother were substituted.
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  Speaker 8: In dry weather, there was usually a space of several
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  Speaker 8: inches between the breeches and the shoes, exposing a tanned
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  Speaker 8: and bluish skin. For about half the year he went barefoot.
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  Speaker 8: There were schools, primitive and inadequate, indeed, as we shall
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  Speaker 8: presently see. But the little red school house on the hill,
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  Speaker 8: with the stars and stripes floating proudly above it was
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 8: not of that day. There were itinerant preachers who went
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 8: from one locality to another holding revival meetings, but church
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 8: buildings were rare, and, to say the least, not of
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 8: artistic design. There were no regular means of travel, and
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  Speaker 8: even the star root of the Post Office Department was
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  Speaker 8: slow in reaching those secluded communities. Into such circumstances and conditions,
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  Speaker 8: Lincoln was born and grew into manhood end of Chapter one,
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  Speaker 8: The Wild West from the Life of Abraham Lincoln