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Gibson, he said; but he's away off to Thirlwall; and he's been lying here all the morning a'ready! nobody found him he couldn't make us hear. Oh, isn't it dreadful!" "Oh, don't cry so, dear Mrs. Van Brunt," said Ellen, pressing her cheek to the poor old lady's; "he'll be better he will! I've got the Brownie here and I'll ride over to Mrs.
Him Sir James deluded by sending fourteen men to drive a herd of cattle past the castle, when Thirlwall, intending to plunder the drovers, came forth, fell into the ambush laid for him by Douglas, and was slain with all his men. It went forth among the English, that Black Sir James had made oath that, if he abode not within his father's castle, neither should any Englishman dwell there.
For one instant Ellen drew bridle, but it was too far to go back, and she recollected anybody could tell her where the doctor lived. When she got to Thirlwall, however, Ellen found that she did not like to ask anybody. She remembered her old friend Mrs. Forbes, of the Star inn, and resolved she would go there, in the first place.
Would not Grote have inflicted a heavy loss upon us if he had been frightened out of his plan by Thirlwall? And so forth, and so forth. But all such importunities were of no avail.
In general, the Æolians sought maritime settlements in northern Greece, and the western side of the Peloponnesus. Thirlwall seems to think they were a Pelasgian, rather than an Hellenic people. The ancient traditions represent the sons of Achæus as migrating to Argos, where they married the daughters of Danaus the king, but did not mount the throne.
There are also fine articles in the Encyclopedias Britannica and Metropolitana. Schleirmacher, on Socrates, translated by Bishop Thirlwall. It would be absurd to claim for the ancients any great attainments in science, such as they made in the field of letters or the realm of art.
Your father says she is a capital housekeeper, and that you will learn more, and be in all respects a great deal happier and better off, than you would be in a boarding-school here or anywhere." Ellen's heart secretly questioned the truth of this last assertion very much. "Is there any school near?" she asked. "Your father says there was an excellent one in Thirlwall when he was there."
Whately, Arnold, Schleiermacher, Bunsen, Ewald, Newman, Hare, Milman, Thirlwall and many others, approached it from different directions. The spirit of scientific investigation that was in the air was applied with reverent hands, but with unsparing resolve to ascertain the exact truth.
Lend her yours, and I'll see if I can find some at Thirlwall." Ellen thought she would rather not go; to anybody else she would have said so. Half a minute she stood still then went to put on her things. "Alice, you will be ready by the time we get back? in half an hour." Ellen had an excellent lesson, and her master took care it should not be an easy one.
Taking off her bonnet, and only that, she sat down on a low cushion by the corner of the fire-place, and leaning her head against the jamb, fell asleep almost immediately. Mrs. Dunscombe set about arranging herself for the tea-table. "Well!" she said "one day of this precious journey is over!" "Does Ellen go with us to-morrow, Mamma?" "Oh, yes! quite to Thirlwall."
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