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Manchester () is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300 . It lies within the United Kingdom's second-most populous urban area, with a population of 2.55 million. Manchester is fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east and an arc of towns with which it forms a continuous conurbation. The local authority is Manchester City Council.

The recorded history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort of "Mamucium" or "Mancunium", which was established in about AD 79 on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell. It was historically a part of Lancashire, although areas of Cheshire south of the River Mersey were incorporated in the 20th century. Throughout the Middle Ages Manchester remained a manorial township but began to expand "at an astonishing rate" around the turn of the 19th century. Manchester's unplanned urbanisation was brought on by a boom in textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution, and resulted in it becoming the world's first industrialised city.

Manchester achieved city status in 1853. The Manchester Ship Canal opened in 1894, creating the Port of Manchester and linking the city to the sea, to the west. Its fortunes declined after the Second World War, owing to deindustrialisation, but the IRA bombing in 1996 led to extensive investment and regeneration.

1. Where is Manchester located?
2. What is the population?
3. Is it the UK's most populated area?
4. What year did it become a city?
5. What was opened in 1894?
6. What is located to it's south?
7. What is the governing authority?
8. Where did the history begin?
9. When?
10. During what time was it a manorial township?
11. During what period did textile manufacturing increase dramatically?
12. What was the result of the increase in manufacturing?
13. In what direction was the city linked to the sea?
14. What happened after WWII?
15. Why?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Greater Manchester, England,
2. 530,300
3. no
4. 1853
5. The Manchester Ship Canal
6. the Cheshire Plain
7. Manchester City Council
8. with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort of "Mamucium"
9. about AD 79
10. Throughout the Middle Ages till the turn of the 19th century.
11. during the Industrial Revolution,
12. it becoming the world's first industrialised city
13. to the west
14. Its fortunes declined
15. deindustrialisation

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CHAPTER XXIV

JESSIE STRIKES.

It was the afternoon before Vane's departure for the north, and Evelyn, sitting alone for the time being in Mrs. Nairn's drawing-room, felt disturbed by the thought of it. She sympathised with his object, but she supposed there was a certain risk attached to the journey, and that troubled her. In addition to this there was another point on which she was not altogether pleased. She had twice seen Vane acknowledge a bow from a very pretty girl whose general appearance suggested that she did not belong to Evelyn's own walk of life, and that very morning she had noticed him crossing a street in the young woman's company. Vane, as it happened, had met Kitty Blake by accident and had asked her to accompany him on a visit to Celia.

Evelyn did not think she was of a jealous disposition, and jealousy appeared irrational in the case of a man whom she had dismissed as a suitor; but the thing rankled in her mind. While she considered it, Jessie Horsfield entered the room.

"I'm here by invitation, to join Vane's other old friends in giving him a good send-off," she explained.

Evelyn noticed that Jessie laid some stress upon her acquaintance with Vane, and wondered if she had any motive for doing so.

"I suppose you have known him for some time," she said.

"Oh, yes," was the careless answer. "My brother was one of the first to take him up when he came to Vancouver."

1. Where Vane is going?
2. Where is Evelyn?
3. Whose?
4. Was she by herself?
5. Was she in good mood?
6. Did she think the journey would be risky?
7. Did it bother her?
8. Does she have another reason for not to be happy?
9. Who did she see greeted Vane?
10. How many times she saw that?
11. Was the girl good looking?
12. Was she of the same social class as hers?
13. When she saw him with her?
14. Where?
15. Where they were going?
16. Did Evelyn ever reject him?
17. Who appeared while she was thinking these?
18. Why he came?
19. Did she think he knew him?
20. Where his brother saw him?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. The north
2. In a drawing-room.
3. Mrs. Nairn's
4. Yes
5. Not really.
6. Yes
7. Yes
8. Yes
9. Kitty Blake
10. She saw him twice acknowledge a bow
11. Yes
12. No
13. That morning
14. On the street
15. to visit Celia
16. Yes
17. Jessie Horsfield
18. To give him a send off
19. Yes
20. Vancouver

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CHAPTER FORTY-TWO

PROJECT OF A DICTIONARY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES--DISAPPOINTMENT--NEGLIGENT AUTHORSHIP--APPLICATION FOR A PENSION--BEATTIE'S ESSAY ON TRUTH--PUBLIC ADULATION--A HIGH-MINDED REBUKE

The works which Goldsmith had still in hand being already paid for, and the money gone, some new scheme must be devised to provide for the past and the future--for impending debts which threatened to crush him, and expenses which were continually increasing. He now projected a work of greater compass than any he had yet undertaken; a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences on a comprehensive scale, which was to occupy a number of volumes. For this he received promises of assistance from several powerful hands. Johnson was to contribute an article on ethics; Burke, an abstract of his Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful, an essay on the Berkleyan system of philosophy, and others on political science; Sir Joshua Reynolds, an essay on painting; and Garrick, while he undertook on his own part to furnish an essay on acting, engaged Dr. Burney to contribute an article on music. Here was a great array of talent positively engaged, while other writers of eminence were to be sought for the various departments of science. Goldsmith was to edit the whole. An undertaking of this kind, while it did not incessantly task and exhaust his inventive powers by original composition, would give agreeable and profitable exercise to his taste and judgment in selecting, compiling, and arranging, and he calculated to diffuse over the whole the acknowledged graces of his style.

He drew up a prospectus of the plan, which is said by Bishop Percy, who saw it, to have been written with uncommon ability, and to have had that perspicuity and elegance for which his writings are remarkable. This paper, unfortunately, is no longer in existence.

1. Who had seen a prospect that had been written?
2. Did he think it was any good?
3. How did he describe it?
4. Any other adjectives?
5. Such as?
6. Can you still access it?
7. Was someone having financial issues?
8. Who?
9. An example of an issue?
10. Any others?
11. Such as?
12. What was his next attempt?
13. Was it going to be small?
14. Would anyone help him?
15. Such as?
16. In what way?
17. Who else?
18. Adding what?
19. Would he hire an editor?
20. Why not?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Bishop Percy
2. yes
3. written with uncommon ability
4. yes
5. elegance
6. no
7. yes
8. Goldsmith
9. impending debts
10. yes
11. expenses which were continually increasing
12. a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
13. no
14. yes
15. Burke
16. with an abstract of his Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful
17. Sir Joshua Reynolds
18. an essay on painting
19. no
20. he was to edit the whole