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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large f...

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...ublication Sketches by Box Volume One by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ication Sketches by Box Volume One by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... behalf of the parish. He knows all the titles of the Lord Mayor by heart; states the case without a single stammer: and it is even reported that on o... ...oviding for himself, he procured a situation in a public office. The young clerks below him, died off as if there were a plague among them; but the ol... ...grey- headed old man feebly paces up and down the sunny side of the little court-yard between school hours, it would be difficult, indeed, for the mos... ...s a mark of esteem for his valuable services ren- dered to the parish. The list of subscriptions was filled up in no time; the contest was, not who sh... ... conclusion of the ceremony, until the sacred edifice resounded with their united wailings! As the four sisters and Mr. Robinson continued to occupy t... ...se are solemn considerations. Hack- ney-coaches are part and parcel of the law of the land; they were settled by the Legislature; plated and num- bere... ... ‘go home to his mother!’ All these taunts Mr. Thomas Potter received with supreme contempt, cocking the low-crowned hat a little more on one side, wh...

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...n ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...nerous welcome less, I should be better able to thank you. If I could have listened as you have listened to the glowing language of your distinguished... ...ieve that she dwells rather oftener in alleys and by ways than she does in courts and palaces, and that it is good, and pleasant, and profitable to tr... ...nt to the heart of every man who heard him, that, if there had existed any law in this respect, Scott might not have sunk beneath the mighty pressure ... ...still would be to exchange congratulations with you, as the members of one united fam ily, on the thriving vigour of this strongest child of a strong... ...d with all conditions of men, and all periods of time. The scholar and the statesman, men of peace and men of war, have agreed in all ages to delight ... ...t leaden inkstands and no end of pens, with the energy of fifty bank ers’ clerks rolled into one. But I clearly foresee that the T rea surer will ha... ...e, does not my agonised heart become over fraught with grati tude to that Supreme Beneficence from whom alone could have proceeded the wonderful mean...

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large f...

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...cs Series Publication Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...Series Publication Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ... behalf of the parish. He knows all the titles of the Lord Mayor by heart; states the case without a single stammer: and it is even reported that on o... ...oviding for himself, he procured a situation in a public office. The young clerks below him, died off as if there were a plague among them; but the ol... ...grey- headed old man feebly paces up and down the sunny side of the little court-yard between school hours, it would be difficult, indeed, for the mos... ...s a mark of esteem for his valuable services ren- dered to the parish. The list of subscriptions was filled up in no time; the contest was, not who sh... ... conclusion of the ceremony, until the sacred edifice resounded with their united wailings! As the four sisters and Mr. Robinson continued to occupy t... ...se are solemn considerations. Hack- ney-coaches are part and parcel of the law of the land; they were settled by the Legislature; plated and num- bere... ... ‘go home to his mother!’ All these taunts Mr. Thomas Potter received with supreme contempt, cocking the low-crowned hat a little more on one side, wh...

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...Excerpt: Volume One of the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens....

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...HE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career o... ...LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of t... ...E AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY consulted authorities learned in the law , as to his having good grounds on which to rest an action for libel; a... ...his comparison would hold good; for, as the adventurous pair of the Fives’ Court will afterwards send round a hat, and trust to the bounty of the look... ...tty well!’ echoed Mr Bonney. ‘It’s the finest idea that was ever started. “United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muf- fin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual D... ...on stone walls and bars of iron! Dear sisters, let us live and die, if you list, in this green garden’s compass; only shun the gloom and sadness of a ... ...real military men, you know.’ ‘No!’ ‘Bless your heart, of course not; only clerks and that, who hire a uniform coat to be painted in, and send it here... ...s might be; but per- haps this was occasioned by senatorial gravity, and a states- manlike habit of keeping his feelings under control. He was a tough... ...eps, to the temple of fashion where Madame Mantalini reigned paramount and supreme. The ill-will of Miss Knag had lost nothing of its virulence in the...

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...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being r...

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...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Moth...

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...sics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...s Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...done that violence to good manners, in the days of a Russian war, and of a Court of Inquiry at Chelsea. If I might make so bold as to defend that extr... ... prolonged the strain until the door clashed. Monsieur Rigaud, finding the listening John Baptist in his way before the echoes had ceased (even the ec... .... ‘Supposing she was tender- hearted, and they came over her. Where’s your law for tying it up then?’ The deepest character whom the turnkey sounded, ... ...the difficult art of governing a country, was first distinctly revealed to statesmen. It had been foremost to study that bright revelation and to carr... ...n them, secre- taries minuted upon them, commissioners gabbled about them, clerks registered, entered, checked, and ticked them off, and they melted a... ...overty; and so dragged at by poverty and the children together, that their united forces had already dragged her face into wrinkles. ‘All such things ... ...st each other, and in seeing Clennam startled by what they said. Having as supreme a con- tempt for the class that had thrown him off as for the class...

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...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Moth...

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...tion Little Dorrit, Book One: Poverty by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...n Little Dorrit, Book One: Poverty by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...done that violence to good manners, in the days of a Russian war, and of a Court of Inquiry at Chelsea. If I might make so bold as to defend that extr... ... prolonged the strain until the door clashed. Monsieur Rigaud, finding the listening John Baptist in his way before the echoes had ceased (even the ec... .... ‘Supposing she was tender- hearted, and they came over her. Where’s your law for tying it up then?’ The deepest character whom the turnkey sounded, ... ...the difficult art of governing a country, was first distinctly revealed to statesmen. It had been foremost to study that bright revelation and to carr... ...n them, secre- taries minuted upon them, commissioners gabbled about them, clerks registered, entered, checked, and ticked them off, and they melted a... ...overty; and so dragged at by poverty and the children together, that their united forces had already dragged her face into wrinkles. ‘All such things ... ...st each other, and in seeing Clennam startled by what they said. Having as supreme a con- tempt for the class that had thrown him off as for the class...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. My father?s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip....

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...Series Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ies Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...ob Joe, for I never thought of any of the house- keeping property as his – united to the necessity of always keeping one hand on my bread-and-butter a... ...at the mist all round us, and often stopping – even stopping his jaws – to listen. Some real or fancied sound, some clink upon the river or breathing ... ...red over to her, to be dealt with according to the outraged majesty of the law. I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposi- ti... ...mained, all the lower 51 Charles Dickens were rustily barred. There was a court-yard in front, and that was barred; so, we had to wait, after ringing... ...I think she is very insulting.” (She was looking at me then with a look of supreme aversion.) “ Anything else?” “I think I should like to go home.” “ ... ...ugh be- fore, I complicated its confusion fifty thousand-fold, by hav- ing states and seasons when I was clear that Biddy was im- measurably better th... ...n- 151 Charles Dickens tage, as his master had. I wondered how many other clerks there were up-stairs, and whether they all claimed to have the same ...