The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray Volume 26 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...but, ah me for the recruits Lionel was in a high fever--two nights' exposure had struck down the gallant boy--he was delirious two hours after he was placed in bed " Mamma Frederica " he shouted--Last Saturday two hearses--the one bearing the helm and arms of a young warrior, and the escutcheon of the De Bootses, the other the lozenge of the Alycampaynes, wound their way slowly to Highgate Cemetery. Lionel and Frederica were laid in the same grave But how much of this agony might have been spared if the odious Chartists would but have stayed at home, or if that young couple had taken from twelve to fourteen of Morison's Universal Pills, instead of the vile medicine with which "the Faculty" killed them? (June 1848.) SCIENCE AT CAMBRIDGE. AMONG the new sciences which are to be taught at Cambridge University, and for the teaching of which eminent Professors are to be appointed, we are informed that H.R.H. the Chancellor, and the Heads, have determined to create two new Chairs, upon the applications of the two eminent men whose letters we subjoin. "To His Roil Highness The Chanslor, and the Nobs of the University of Cambridge. "tom Spring's. "Sein perposials for astabblishing new Purfessurships in the Univussaty of Cambridge (where there is litell enuff now lurnt, as Evins knows), I beg leaf to hoffer myself to your Royl Ighness as Purfessur of Sulf-defens, which signts I old to be both nessary and useful to every young mann. "I ave sean on his entry into life without knowing the use of his ands, a young chap fiord by a fellar his sighs; and all for the want of those fust principills which a few terms under me would give him. "I ave sean, on the contry, many an honest young Mann pervented from doing right ...