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...The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James A PENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Hen... ...ENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State U... ...pression of the delighted senses and the divided, frustrated mind. How can places that speak in general so to the imagination not give it, at the mome... ...the par- ticular thing it wants? I recollect again and again, in beautiful places, dropping into that wonderment. The real truth is, I think, that the... ...isci- pline of the nursery was delightfully vague and the op- portunity of listening to the conversation of one’s elders (which with Isabel was a high... ...raid she’ll do!” cried Lilian, who thought Isabel capable of anything. She listened with great interest to the girl’s account of Mrs. Touchett’s appea...

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...Excerpt: In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary ?Pike County? dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadi...

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... illustration and the one on the cover are from a Nineteenth Century edition of Mark Twain‘s The Adven tures of Huckleberry Finn . This publication... ...ures of Huckleberry Finn . This publication of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckle berry Finn is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...harge 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 Penn sylvania Sta... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , the Pennsyl... ...wn in the dark amongst the trees — something was a stirring. I set still and listened. Directly I could just barely hear a “me yow! me yow!” down the... ...as a light behind him. He got up and stretched his neck out about a minute, listen ing. Then he says: “Who dah?” He listened some more; then he come... ... do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places. Pretty soon Jim says: “Say, who is you? Whar is you? Dog my cats... ...but it seemed a sight longer than that. I was itch ing in eleven different places now. I reckoned I couldn’t stand it more’n a minute longer, but I... ...lf, nor nothing? Why, you’d think it was Chris HUCKLEBERRY FINN 48 topher C’lumbus discovering Kingdom Come. I wish Tom Saw yer was here.” Jim he...

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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: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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Excerpt: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by U.S. Grant.

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...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ...hirty or forty scholars, male and female, from the infant learning the A B C’s up to the young lady of eighteen and the boy of twenty, studying the hi... ... out bright scholars from his school, many of whom have filled conspicuous places in the service of their States. T wo of my contemporaries there —who... ...of the continent, Phila- delphia and New York. This was enough. When these places were visited I would have been glad to have had a steamboat or railr... ...ngers had already been secured. The addition of over seven hundred to this list crowded the steamer most uncomfortably, espe- cially for the tropics i... ...dier-general, and that they had unani- mously recommended me as first on a list of seven. I was very much surprised because, as I have said, my acquai...

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...Excerpt: Dear Speed, yours of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would su...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religio...

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.... 134 EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE...................................................................................... 137 THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE ................................................................................................................................ 143 THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES ............................................................

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...st and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...ge 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L... ...around?” “Of course, but what of it? Nobody would suspect who I was.” “Oh, listen to the man! Some day you’ve got to prove to the executors that you n... ...to any of the young people concerned, nor to any one else except Sally. He listened to her and understood; understood and admired. He said: “I get the... ...g could look upon and retain his reason and his opinion; and she was a W . C. T . U., with all that that implies of boiler iron virtue and unendurable... ... fectly sound, healthy, full charged with common sense, and had no decayed places in it. People who had an ax to grind, or people who for any reason w... ...owers of memory, softly through the eventful history of past times; and ye places that have witnessed the progression of man in the circle of so many ...

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...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...inst whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judgment, as ba... ...ake it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them. Then the ladies, or probably some one lady, will sing, and ... ...e lion of Quebec may be regarded as “done,” and may be ticked off from the list. The most considerable lion, according to my taste. Li- ons which roar... ...rably bad. They are full of holes. The boards are rotten, and worn in some places to dirt. The nails have gone, and the broken planks go up and down u... ...ubjects, and that they were leagues beyond that terrible repetition of A B C, to which, I fear, that most of our free metropolitan schools are still n...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance ...

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...Table of Contents: CHAPTER I ? DEPARTURE, 1 -- CHAPTER II ? FIRST IMPRESSIONS???SAIL HO!??, 3 -- CHAPTER III ? SHIP?S DUTIES?TROPICS, 6 -- CHAPTER IV ? A ROGUE?TROUBLE ON BOARD???LAND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CA...

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...oks ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Two Years Before the Mast Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CHAPTER I — DEPARTURE . . . . ... .... . . 13 CHAPTER V — CAPE HORN—A VISIT . . . . . . . . 18 CHAPTER VI — LOSS OF A MAN—SUPERSTITION . . . . . . . . 21 CHAPTER VII — JUAN FERNANDEZ—T... ... THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER ... ...n to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in f... ... I was just beginning to feel strong symptoms of sea sick ness, and that listlessness and inactivity which accompany it. Giving up all attempts ... ...g down in floods, instead of letting the sailors stand about in shel- tered places, and talk, and keep themselves comfortable, they are separated ... ... was nothing to break the illusion, and I stood leaning over the bulwarks, listening to the slow breathings of the mighty creatures—now one break... ...y (sometimes dignified by the name of bays) being little more than landing places for boats. The best anchorage is at the western side of the bay, ... ...e for the marriage of our agent, who was to marry Donna Anneta De G——De N——y C——, youngest daughter of Don Antonio N——, the grandee of the place, and...