R. D. Blackmore
The Remarkable History of Sir Thomas Upmore, bart., M.P., formerly known as "Tommy Upmore"
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664575715
Table of Contents
CHAPTER III. THE DAWN OF SCIENCE.
CHAPTER IV. THE PURSUIT OF SCIENCE.
CHAPTER VII. THE GREAT WASHED.
CHAPTER VIII. FOR CHANGE OF AIR.
CHAPTER XII. TWENTIFOLD TOWERS.
CHAPTER XV. POLITICAL ŒCONOMY.
CHAPTER XXI. THE SEAT OF LEARNING.
CHAPTER XXII. HEREDITARY LAWS.
CHAPTER XXIII. A COUNTY MEETING.
CHAPTER XXIV. OLD BONES, AND YOUNG ONES.
CHAPTER XXVII. PLEASANT, AND UNPLEASANT THINGS.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE WELFARE OF THE FAMILY.
CHAPTER XXIX. BECAUSE HE HAD NO PITY.
CHAPTER XXXII. A PAIR OF BLUE EYES.
CHAPTER XXXIII. STRONG INTENTIONS.
CHAPTER XXXV. NATIONAL EMERGENCY.
CHAPTER XXXVI. VOTE FOR TOMMY!
CHAPTER XXXIX. FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BENEFIT.
CHAPTER XLI. THE RIGHT WAY TO SURRENDER.
CHAPTER XLIII. THE BATTLE, AND THE BREEZE.
CHAPTER XLIV. THE ENGLISH LION.
PREFACE.
When Sir Thomas Upmore came, and asked me to write a short account of his strange adventures, I declined that honour; partly because I had never seen any of his memorable exploits. Perhaps that matters little, while his history so flourishes, by reason of being more creditable, as well as far more credible, than that of England, for the last few years.
Still, in such a case, the man who did the thing is the one to tell it. And his veracity has now become a proverb.
My refusal seemed