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...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Middlemarch by George Eliot, the Pennsylvania State University,... ... must be remembered that this was a dark period; and in spite of venerable colleges which used great efforts to secure purity of knowledge by making i... ...ctability of the profession, which everybody knows de- pends on the London Colleges, for the sake of getting some notoriety for himself. There are men... ...rades,— especially against a man who had not been to either of the English universities and enjoyed the absence of anatomical and bedside study there,... ...ly that might have been expected of him.” Mr. Vincy was very little like a Jesuit, but no accomplished Jesuit could have turned a question more adroit... ...ut the Papists, and had thus blotted its Liberalism with a tolera- tion of Jesuitry and Baal; but they were illsatisfied with the “Trumpet,” which—sin...

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by... ...SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicatio... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua ... ...ble. Then he returned not to Poictiers, but would take a view of the other universities of France. Therefore, going to Rochelle, he took shipping and ... ...ruel Fodder Street he held dispute against all the regents or fel- lows of colleges, artists or masters of arts, and orators, and did so gallantly tha... ...nce, together with the great council, and all the principal regents of the universities, not only of France, but of England also and Italy, such as Ja... ...might say, in founding of mon- asteries, building of churches, erecting of colleges, and set- ting up of hospitals, or casting his bacon-flitches to t... ...ine sail that came spooning before the wind; they were full of Dominicans, Jesuits, Capuchins, Hermits, Austins, Bernardins, Egnatins, Celestins, Thea...

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... Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- Chapter X., 65 -- Chapter XI., 74 -- Chapter XII., 82 -- Book II ?Old and Young., 97 -- Chapter XIII., 97 -- Chapter XIV., 104 -- Chapter XV., 113 -- Chapter XVI., 124 -- Chapter XVII., 135 -- Chapter XVIII., 142 -- Chapter XIX., 151 -- Chapter XX., 154 -- Chapter XXI., 164 -- Chapter XXII., 17...

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...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Book II — Old and Young. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Chapter XIII.... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 Book VI — The Widow and the Wife. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 Chapter LIV . . . . .... ...entleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the cou... ... must be remembered that this was a dark period; and in spite of venerable colleges which used great efforts to secure purity of knowledge by mak ing... ...pectability of the profession, which everybody knows depends on the London Colleges, for the sake of getting some notoriety for himself. There are men... ...rades,— especially against a man who had not been to either of the English universities and enjoyed the absence of anatomical and bedside study there,... ...ly that might have been expected of him.” Mr. Vincy was very little like a Jesuit, but no accomplished Jesuit could have turned a question more adroit... ...bout the Papists, and had thus blotted its Liberalism with a toleration of Jesuitry and Baal; but they were illsatisfied with the “Trumpet,” which—sinc...