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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have...

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Excerpt: The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it ...

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Excerpt: Up from Slavery. An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington.

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...UP FROM SLAVERY: An Autobiography by BOOKER T. WASHINGTON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State Univer... ...from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...re swiftly carried from one plantation to another. In the fear of “Yankee” invasions, the silverware and other valuables were taken from the “big hous... ...n- nection with the scene was that some man who seemed to be a stranger (a United States officer, I presume) made a little speech and then read a rath... ...d of people anxious to shake hands with me. The papers in all parts of the United States published the address in full, and for months afterward there... ...ey had also sent letters to other persons in different parts of the United Kingdom, apprising these people of our com- 171 Booker T. Washington ing. ...

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Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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...ROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ...............................................................................

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...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The V... ...ture by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William J... ...UBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...s Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... the Scottish universities, changing places with Scotsmen lecturing in the United States; I hope that our people may become in all these higher mat- t... ...g that it cometh from the Lord.” And again: “Consider the little infants, united and joined to the breasts of their nursing moth- ers you will see th... ...so the man 50 The V arieties of Religious Experience is henceforth in the kingdom of heaven. This hell and this heaven are two good safe ways for a m... ...ton-Browne has given the technical name of “dreamy states” to these sudden invasions of vaguely reminiscent consciousness.[227] They bring a sense of ... ...of mysti- cal experiences, and of prayer, we have seen how striking a part invasions from this region play in the religious life. [349] Compare the in...

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...Excerpt: PART I. Chapter One. We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a ?new fellow,? not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his work. The head...

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...Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated... ...ench Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French by by by by by Eleanor Marx-Aveling E... ...ated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French by by by by by Eleanor Marx-Aveling Eleanor Marx-Aveling Eleanor Marx-Aveli... ...ication A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, trans. Eleanor Marx-Aveling is a publication of the Pe... ... in the same way after the cer- emony in the church. The procession, first united like one long coloured scarf that undulated across the fields, along... ...business quarter, she might perhaps have opened her heart to those lyrical invasions of Nature, which usually come to us only through translation in b... ...s, good authors. However, if it were only those persons of different sexes united in a bewitching apartment, deco- rated rouge, those lights, those ef... ...would have known one another, loved one another. With him, through all the kingdoms of Europe she would have travelled from capital to capital, sharin...

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...Excerpt: PREFACE; Among many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 ii The Golden Bowl Chapter 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ... . . . . . 411 PREFACE iii PREFACE A mong many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with “The Golden Bowl” what perhaps most stands... ...E A mong many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with “The Golden Bowl” what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked in... ...e terms of this person’s access to it and estimate of it contributing thus by some fine little law to intensification of interest. The somebody is often... ...y, and the apex of which was a platform looking down, if one would, on the kingdoms of the earth and with standing room for but half a dozen others. H... ...plain of being neglected. Nothing perhaps in truth had done more than this united participation to confirm in the elder parties that sense of a life no... ... her so; and always therefore without Maggie where in fine would he be? She united 132 The Golden Bowl them, brought them together as with the click o... ...seven including the Principino, had practically been without accessions or invasions; but within sight of Charlotte seated far away and very much wher...