item: #1 of 3 id: 18851 author: Morison, James Cotter title: Gibbon date: None words: 56759 flesch: 65 summary: There is something slightly incongruous in the idea of Gibbon _fasting_ out of religious scruples, but the fact shows that his religion had obtained no slight hold of him, and that although he had embraced it quickly, he also accepted with intrepid frankness all its consequences. It is easy to gather from Madame Necker's letter that she was very glad to show Mr. Gibbon that for going farther and not marrying him she had not fared worse. keywords: age; century; chapter; character; church; city; constantinople; country; day; days; decline; empire; england; english; events; fact; fall; father; french; friend; general; gibbon; good; greek; historian; history; house; knowledge; language; lausanne; left; letters; life; lord; madame; man; memoirs; men; mind; months; new; period; place; point; present; rome; second; sense; sheffield; society; spirit; study; style; subject; thought; time; view; volume; war; way; work; world; years cache: 18851.txt plain text: 18851.txt item: #2 of 3 id: 26001 author: Trollope, Anthony title: The Bertrams date: None words: 227325 flesch: 86 summary: No--none. Said not a word about so mundane a subject? I don't say that; it is only natural that we should have said something. Though she had never before known George Bertram, there was between them that sort of family knowledge of each other which justified a greater intimacy than between actual strangers. keywords: adela; answer; arthur; aunt; baker; bertram; caroline; course; day; days; dear; eyes; face; father; friend; george; george bertram; good; great; hadley; half; hand; happy; harcourt; having; heart; henry; home; hope; house; ladies; lady; left; let; letter; life; like; littlebath; look; lord; love; man; matter; mean; men; mind; miss; miss baker; miss todd; moment; money; mother; mrs; place; poor; present; pritchett; rate; right; room; sir; sir henry; sir lionel; things; thought; time; todd; uncle; waddington; way; wife; wilkinson; wish; woman; words; world; years; young cache: 26001.txt plain text: 26001.txt item: #3 of 3 id: 4315 author: Wright, Thomas title: The Life of Sir Richard Burton date: None words: 147798 flesch: 76 summary: Fifteen years have elapsed since the death of Sir Richard Burton and twelve since the appearance of the biography of Lady Burton. (1) From two hundred unpublished letters of Sir Richard Burton and Lady Burton. keywords: account; africa; april; arabic; arbuthnot; arundell; august; baker; black; book; brother; burton; camoens; captain burton; chapter; church; city; colonel burton; company; country; course; damascus; day; days; dear; death; edition; edward; edward burton; england; english; expedition; eyes; family; footnote; friend; garden; george burton; god; gold; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; house; husband; idea; isabel burton; j. burton; january; john; journey; july; june; kama; king; kirby; knowledge; lady burton; later; left; letter; lib; life; little; london; look; lord; love; man; march; matter; mecca; men; mind; miss; months; mother; mrs; new; nights; notes; november; october; order; payne; payne burton; people; persian; place; poor; public; return; richard burton; set; sir; sir richard; society; stisted; story; subject; tales; thee; thought; thy; time; time burton; took; translation; trieste; visit; vol; vols; volume; way; wife; woman; words; work; world; writing; years cache: 4315.txt plain text: 4315.txt