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...sics Series Publication Bleak House by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...s Series Publication Bleak House by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular preju dice (... ...y clearly described by a dentist, occurred at the town of Columbus, in the United States of America, quite recently. The sub ject was a German who ke... ...ly described by a dentist, occurred at the town of Columbus, in the United States of America, quite recently. The sub ject was a German who kept a li... ...a voice of sonorous complaint on the instant of his rising. A few lawyers’ clerks and others who know this suitor by sight linger on the chance of his... ...ky afternoon, presents himself an old fashioned old gentleman, attorney at law and eke solicitor of the High Court of Chancery, who has the honour of ... ...t my godmother and I sat at the fireside. I was reading aloud, and she was listening. I had come down at nine o’clock as I always did to read the Bibl... ...to dispose of them. In this society, and where not, my Lady Dedlock reigns supreme. Beautiful, elegant, accomplished, and powerful in her little world...

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether...

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...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Irela...

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...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED......................

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...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...on A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...people, established themselves in another; and gradually seven kingdoms or states arose in England, which were called the Saxon Heptarchy. The poor Br... ...f Kent, was soon converted; and the moment he said he was a Christian, his courtiers all said they were Christians; after which, ten thousand of his s... ...tended his power over the whole of England, and so the Seven Kingdoms were united into one. When England thus became one kingdom, ruled over by one Sa... ...s; the Saxon blood remains unchanged. Whereso ever that race goes, there, law, and industry, and safety for life and property, and all the great resu... ...of peace, in writing, as he lay very ill in bed, they brought him also the list of the de serters from their allegiance, whom he was re quired to pa... ...oposals! The young King deceitfully pretended to think so, and kept thirty clerks up, all night, writing out a charter accordingly. Now, Wat Tyler him... ...s offence—as it was pre tended, but really for denying the King to be the supreme Head of the Church—he got into trouble, and was put in prison; but,...

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...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...iar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ns’s marriage had an evil influence is, with this class, to deny the moral law. Yet such is the fact. It was bravely done; but he had pre- sumed too f... ...s torpor; and even the trial of Joan of Arc, conducted as it was by chosen clerks, bears witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind ... ...e of the study, sent me his edition of the Debate between the Her- alds: a courtesy from the expert to the amateur only too uncommon in these days. KN... ...cation. One might almost number on one’s fingers the works in which such a supreme artistic intention has been in any way superior to the other and le... ...emony can do aught to fix the wandering affec- tions, here were two people united for life. Mary came of a superstitious family, so that she perhaps i... ...Whitman’s intense Americanism, his unlimited belief in the future of These States (as, with reverential capitals, he loves to call them), made the war... ...es, “that a soul which has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul such an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressi...