The Remarkable History of Sir Thomas Upmore, bart., M.P., formerly known as «Tommy Upmore»
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Blackmore Richard Doddridge. The Remarkable History of Sir Thomas Upmore, bart., M.P., formerly known as «Tommy Upmore»
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. SIGNS OF EMINENCE
CHAPTER II. ITUR AD ASTRA
CHAPTER III. THE DAWN OF SCIENCE
CHAPTER IV. THE PURSUIT OF SCIENCE
CHAPTER V "GRIP."
CHAPTER VI. TRUE SCIENCE
CHAPTER VII. THE GREAT WASHED
CHAPTER VIII. FOR CHANGE OF AIR
CHAPTER IX. THALATTA!
CHAPTER X. THE NEW ADMIRAL
CHAPTER XI. LARGE IDEAS
CHAPTER XII. TWENTIFOLD TOWERS
CHAPTER XIII. WHALEBONES
CHAPTER XIV. A SILLY PAIR
CHAPTER XV. POLITICAL ŒCONOMY
CHAPTER XVI. NO EXTRAS
CHAPTER XVII. SELF-DEFENCE
CHAPTER XVIII. AH ME!
CHAPTER XIX. COMFORT
CHAPTER XX. BOIL NO MORE
CHAPTER XXI. THE SEAT OF LEARNING
CHAPTER XXII. HEREDITARY LAWS
CHAPTER XXIII. A COUNTY MEETING
CHAPTER XXIV. OLD BONES, AND YOUNG ONES
CHAPTER XXV. ON THE ROCKS
CHAPTER XXVI. BENEATH THEM
CHAPTER XXVII. PLEASANT, AND UNPLEASANT THINGS
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE WELFARE OF THE FAMILY
CHAPTER XXIX. BECAUSE HE HAD NO PITY
CHAPTER XXX. PERFIDY
CHAPTER XXXI. FREE TRADE
CHAPTER XXXII. A PAIR OF BLUE EYES
CHAPTER XXXIII. STRONG INTENTIONS
CHAPTER XXXIV. FAMES FAMÆ
CHAPTER XXXV. NATIONAL EMERGENCY
CHAPTER XXXVI. VOTE FOR TOMMY!
CHAPTER XXXVII. SUNNY BAY
CHAPTER XXXVIII. PREPARE
CHAPTER XXXIX. FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BENEFIT
CHAPTER XL. FAIR COUNSEL
CHAPTER XLI. THE RIGHT WAY TO SURRENDER
CHAPTER XLII. SPARS
CHAPTER XLIII. THE BATTLE, AND THE BREEZE
CHAPTER XLIV. THE ENGLISH LION
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If I know anything of mankind, one of them needs but speak the truth to secure the attention of the rest, amazed as they are at a feat so far beyond their own power and experience. And I would not have troubled any one's attention, if I could only have been let alone, and not ferreted as a phenomenon.
When the facts, which I shall now relate, were fresh and vivid in the public mind, it might have been worth twenty guineas to me to set them in order and publish them. Such curiosity, then, was felt, and so much of the purest science talked, about my "abnormal organism," that nine, or indeed I may say ten, of the leading British publishers went so far as to offer me £20,1 with a chance of five dollars from America, if I would only write my history!
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"Out and out beautiful it sounds," said mother; "quite above business, and what goes on in the week. Dr. Rumbelow must be a wonderful man, to have made such great inventions."
"Well, it's very hard to pay for it, and leave it in the clouds," my father said, sniffing as if he smelled pudding. "Let's have some more of it, sky-high Tommy."
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