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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should ...

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... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- ti... ...e file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition), the Penn- sylva... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... .........................117 4 Robert Louis Stevenson Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson 1912 Chatto and Windus edition. NOTE THIS VOLUME ... ... mentous fields of life where destiny awaits us. Upon the av- erage book a writer may be silent; he may set it down to his ill-hap that when his own y... ...and third, in a laborious pasticcio of Sir Thomas Browne. So with my other works: Cain, an epic, was (save the mark!) an imitation of Sordello: Robin ... ...ly from a school. It is only from a school that we can expect to have good writers; it is almost invariably from a school that great writers, these la... ...orms, as they did the other day to General Boulanger; and buy his literary works, as I hope you have just done for me. Our fathers, when they were upo... ...t only by endless avatars, the original re-embodying after each. So that a writer, in time, begins to wonder at the perdu- rable life of these impress...

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...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, and created a false sympathy for the vicious a...

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...Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray “Catherine” A Story by Ikey Solomons, Esq., Junior. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...r. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tr... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...- ters have already been treated, both copiously and ably, by some eminent writers of the present (and, indeed, of future) ages; though to tread in th... ... and abomi- nate all people of this kidney. Men of genius like those whose works we have above alluded to, have no business to make these characters i... ... good-natured old fellow when his humour was not crossed. Surely our novel-writers make a great mis- take in divesting their rascals of all gentle hum... ...e sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on... ...SOME DOMESTIC QUARRELS, AND THE CONSEQUENCE THEREOF. AN INGENIOUS MAGAZINE-WRITER, who lived in the time of Mr. Brock and the Duke of Marlborough, com...

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...S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION The Contest in America by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Contest in America by John Stuart Mill , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 J S Mill THE CONTEST IN AMERICA By JOHN STUART MILL R R R R Reprinted fr eprinted fr eprinted fr eprinted f... ...d on “rabid and fanatical abolitionists” across the Atlantic, and on those writers in England who attach a suffi ciently serious meaning to their Chr... ...rent aggres sion, but by the previous anti British effusions of newspaper writers and stump orators. It is hardly worth while to ask how far these ex... ...en, without reference to these jars, or to the dec lamations of newspaper writers on either side of the Atlan tic, examine the American question as ...

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...a State University. All the student essays contained herein were produced by students registered in English 004, within the Commonwealth College of t... ................ 31 How to contact Best of Four You can contact Best of Four by writing to Jim Manis Faculty Editor Best of Four Penn State University A... ...uch as suspension. In most states, students are required to attend school, by law. Of course this is not true at the college level, and the fact that ... ...been the most enduring, most covered, and best-loved band in all of music. Works Cited “The Backstreet Boys.” Rolling Stone <http:// rollingstone.tune... ...ays and then list the source material in alphabetical order on a separate “Works Cited” page at the end of our essays. Failure to do these two things ... ...per place and with the proper punctuation indicates to the reader that the writer is lazy or inept and thus NOT TRUSTWORTHY . If, as a writer, you are... ...ent in a few weeks. Who would pick me up from school everyday since my mom works until seven? How would I get to church on Sundays without my dad driv... ...ch came about after I missed the free throw.” Fused sentences occur when a writer simply writes two sentences as if they were one: “Mary told Bob to s... ...ay out of her life she was sick of his silly innuendos.” In this case, the writer probably meant to subordinate the second clause rather than to start...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that...

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...FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN & BOOKS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ... an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...his style of writing. Of these disadvantages a word must here be said. The writer of short studies, having to condense in a few pages the events of a ... ...pression of the subject may at last be struck. But in the short study, the writer, having seized his “point of view,” must keep his eye steadily to th... ...; it will take longer to appreciate the moral bias of Carlyle. So with all writers who insist on forc- ing some significance from all that comes befor... ...cond in order of interest among the reformers, lies dead and buried in the works of the learned and unreadable M’Crie. It remains for some one to brea... ...let it be understood, in every so-called novel. The great majority are not works of art in anything but a very secondary signification. One might almo...

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... The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...y. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot , the Pennsylva- nia State University, Jim Manis, Fac... ...roduced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing... .... THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES EDITED BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, L.L.D., P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, NEW YORK (1909)... ...leased with the Pilgrim’s Progress, my first collection was of John Bunyan’s works in separate little volumes. I afterward sold them to enable me to b... ...uraged me to think I might pos sibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. My time for these exercises a... ...ame, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 37 however, a pretty good prose writer. More of him hereafter. But, as I may not have occasion again to m... ...ave expectations. He was otherwise an ingenious, sensible man, a pretty good writer, and a good governor for the people, tho’ not for his constituents... ... and consequently of aiding all happiness, both public and domestic. The two works I allude to, sir, will in particular give a noble rule and example ...

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... “To Build a Fire” And Other Stories By JACK LONDON 1899 1918 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2003 by Global La... ..., anyway?” And Male mute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. “By the time you ’ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and... ... with patriarchal smiles, while Protestant and Catholic vigorously applauded. “By gar!” ejaculated Louis Savoy, who seemed overcome by the romance of ... ... on! That leaves a hole, and” — “No; it ’s protected. Go ahead! You ’ll see it works.” It was very interesting. Somebody knocked at the door a second ... ...state 243 lungs within the contracted chest, and he lost his job in the glass works. Now he had returned to the jute mills where he had first begun wi... ... at which time he had gone to work on the night shift for six months. No child works on the night shift and remains a child. There had been several gr... ...hree weeks away, and for two days now, carefully con cealed from the sporting writers, Carthey had been lying up, badly injured. There was no one to ...

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... past the height of four feet six inches. Despite these challenges, Pope flourished in English society and was likely its first professional literary writer having garnered significant income from the sales of books to the public as opposed to traditional patronages, capitalizing mostly on his excellent translations of Homer and an edited edition of Shakespeare. A close fr...

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...ature affords at least a glimm’ring light; The lines, tho’ touch’d but faintly, are drawn right: But as the slightest sketch, if justly traced, Is by ill col’ring but the more disgraced, So by false learning is good sense defaced: Some are bewilder’d in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools: In search of wit these lose their common sense...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Political Power. Firstly, it having been shown in the foregoing discourse:* Firstly. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood or by positive donation from God, any such authority over his children, nor dominion over the world, as is pretended. Secondly, that if he had, his heirs yet had no right to it. Thirdly, that if...

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...t 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash sit... ...onsideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation’s capital at a time of great partisan di... ...nal oversight and resource allocation, and other areas determined relevant by the Commission. In pursuing our mandate, we have reviewed more than 2.5 ... ...cies to explain their world. Bin Ladin also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.A mem- ber of the Muslim Brotherhood 11 executed in 1966... ...ndisputably in charge of what remained of the MAK and al Qaeda. 27 Through writers like Qutb, and the presence of Egyptian Islamist teachers in the Sa... ...vestigation.The FBI does not have a general grant of authority but instead works under specific statutory authorizations. Most of its work is done in ... ... Bin Ladin unit did not have “cases” in the same sense as an FBI agent who works an investigation from beginning to end.Thus, when the trail went cold... ...indoctrinating them in isolated, desert camps. It built up logistical net- works, running through Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates. Al Qaeda also... ...onspirator arrested in Y emen for the USS Cole attack Sayyid Qutb Egyptian writer; member of Muslim Brotherhood (deceased) Eyad al Rababah Jordanian;...

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...Juana by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...escott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Juana by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Juana by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania S... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...said he was artistic, and he made prizes (like two celebrated generals) of works of art, solely, he declared, to preserve them for pos- terity. His mi... ...pictures with which the former quartermaster adorned his handsome mansion. Works of art purchased the night before were said to be spoils from Spain; ... ...ve you finished?” he said to the sheriff after a pause. “Yes,” replied the writer. The doctor signed the report. Juana, who had followed him into the ...