...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Linco... ...olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a public... ...letter of eight closely written foolscap pages. The other two are written by a differ- ent person, at St. Joseph, Mo., and of the dates, respectivel... ...THE HOUSE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meet... ...SE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meeting of ... ... of intention may be made or naturalizations effected to send periodically lists of the names of the persons naturalized or declaring their intention ... ...r at most Congressional Districts, and it would overwhelm us to attempt in counties, cities and towns. Nevertheless we do what we can to oblige in pa...

...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, ...

...THE NEW MACHIAVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. ... ...AVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...s A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ing play of instinctive passion and desire against too abstract a dream of statesmanship. But things that seemed to lie very far apart in Machiavelli’... ... and forensic 213 H G Wells “crushers.” The New Year and Birthday honours lists are al- ways very sagely and exhaustively considered, and anecdotes a... ...o Republican and Democrat, for example, and you have the conditions in the United States. The Crown or a dethroned dynasty, the Estab- lished Church o... ...ound to incur an electoral defeat. I under-estimated their strength in the counties. There would follow, I calculated, a period of profound reconstruc...

Excerpt: The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells.

...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of... ...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story... ... Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago By By By By By F F F F FRANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NORRIS RRIS RR... ...t: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...was eighteen he had cher- ished an ambition to become the President of the United States. “Yes, yes,” he said to Laura, “the bridge was turned. It was... ...hteen he had cher- ished an ambition to become the President of the United States. “Yes, yes,” he said to Laura, “the bridge was turned. It was an imp... ... every direction, and the same conditions seemed to prevail in the central counties. In Illinois, from Quincy and Wa- terloo in the west, and from Rid... ...e went over his plans, retesting, altering, recombining, his hands full of lists, of despatches, and of endless col- umns of memoranda. Occasionally h...

Excerpt: The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris.

...LORD ORMONT AND HIS AMINTA By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Lor... ...LORD ORMONT AND HIS AMINTA By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by... ...ublication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ofessional landlady for the blessing of the par- son, and are legitimately united. Women have won round fools to give way in that way. And quite right... ...ord, you have dozens to choose from leave me my one if we are to enter the lists.’ ‘We are, it seems; unless you consent to take the run to Paris. You... ...On that subject, Aminta said she did not know what to think. Now, if a man states the matter he thinks, and a woman does but listen, whether inclining... ...r a reverse; and the question ad- dressed to the chief towns in the sketch counties his head contained was, which one near would be likely to supply t...

Excerpt: Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith.

... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publi... ... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publicat... ... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsy... ...iversity assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Tramp ... ...cat, taking the sun, and looking at the blue hills, and listening to the leaves rustling so lonely in the trees, and thinking of the home away yonder ... ... beings. It ain’t any use to tell me a bluejay hasn’t got a sense of humor, because I know better. And memory, too. They brought jays here from all ov... ...ecipices. The view, look- ing sheer down into the broad valley, eastward, from this great elevation—almost a perpendicular mile—was very quaint and cu... ...urious odds and ends of float- ing fact and gossip; no “rumors” about anything or anybody; no prognostications or prophecies about anything or any- bo...

Excerpt: A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

...The Prime Minister by Anthony T rollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony... ... by Anthony T rollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...pe A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...eries Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ad gone rather deep into poli- tics, and that he was entitled to call many statesmen asses 15 Anthony Trollope because they did not see the things wh... ...s, in our set, it makes a deal of difference who gets the garters, and the counties, who are made barons and then earls, and whose name stands at the ... ...ernment, —the work of getting a team together had been accomplished by the united energy of the two dukes and other friends. The filling up of the gre... ...to an unfortunate fourth; —and in the morning she would work hard with her lists, seeing who had come to her and who had stayed away, and arranging wh...

Excerpt: The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope.

...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One A Penn State ... ...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ...lated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Don Quixote: Part One by Miqu... ...e by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...te, “that this is done to divert our idle thoughts; and as in well-ordered states games of chess, fives, and billiards are allowed for the diversion o... ... the rest of the household had gone to dinner. Lothario saw himself in the lists according to his friend’s wish, and facing an enemy that could by her... ...a, thou hast conquered, for it is impossible to have the heart to deny the united force of so many truths.” Luscinda in her feebleness was on the poin... ...canon; “but for all that there is a good deal to be said on this matter of counties.” To which Don Quixote returned, “I know not what more there is 4...

Excerpt: Don Quixote. Part One by Miquel de Cervantes, translated by John Ormsby, 1922 ed.

...THE PIONEERS OR, THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State... ...THE PIONEERS OR, THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State El... ...THE PIONEERS OR, THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicatio... ...RCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pioneers, or The Sources ... .... It lies among those low spurs of the Alleghanies which cover the midland counties of New Y ork, and it is a little east of a meridional line drawn t... ... until, uniting their streams, they form one of the proudest rivers of the United States. The mountains are generally arable to the tops, although ins... ... uniting their streams, they form one of the proudest rivers of the United States. The mountains are generally arable to the tops, although instances ... ...ling loss so sensibly. But her own champion was now preparing to enter the lists. The mirth of Brom, which had been again excited, though in a much sm...

Excerpt: The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper.

...Main Street by Sinclair Lewis A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis... ...air Lewis A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Th... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...chitec- ture. Sam Clark’s annual hardware turnover is the envy of the four counties which constitute God’s Country. In the sensitive art of the Rosebu... ...inclair Lewis preparations for her first party, the housewarming. She made lists on every envelope and laundry-slip in her desk. She sent orders to Mi... ...es the permanent Mother Chautauqua, in New York, there are, all over these States, commercial Chautauqua companies which send out to every smallest to... ...ch Carol derived from them were: Lincoln was a celebrated president of the United States, but in his youth extremely poor. James J. Hill was the best-...

...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Clas... ...fe of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Pattes... ...vacations were spent some- times with the Judge’s relations in the Eastern counties, some- times with Lady Patteson’s in the West. Landwith Rectory, i... ... and may we learn to live with such holiness here that we may hereafter be united for ever in Heaven.’ This letter is marked twice over ‘Only for Papa... ... one must think out each step, anticipate each probable result, before one states anything. It is of course full of the highest interest. Can’t you fa... ...n my mind about it. Sometimes I think these Banks Islanders may be evange- lists beyond the limits of their own islands. So many of the natives of oth...

...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...

...The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Edited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridg... ...tt, Bart. Edited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Cl... ... Bart. Edited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Class... ...rmerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lady of the Lake by Sir W... ...ish pronunciation) held 143 Sir Walter Scott extensive possessions in the counties of Dumbarton and Stirling. Few families can boast of more historic... ...their proscription, which had only the effect of rendering them still more united and desperate. It is a most extraordinary proof of the ardent and in... ...ne may be your paine another tide,” etc. See also Scott’s Lay, vi. 50: “Me lists not at this tide declare.” 483. Bridal. Bridal party; used as a colle... ...nd dancing; and therefore the Anglo-Saxon version of Saint Mark’s Gos- pel states Herodias to have vaulted or tumbled before King Herod. In Scotland t...

...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When...

... The... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles D... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dick... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publicat... ...otel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestried with great-coats and railway wrappers is set apart for me, no house of publ... ... (with the keys and subscribed capital) to a place of durance, half an hour prior to the commencement of the festivities. Take another case. Mr. Grazi... ...oods and small shops, is the fancy of a humble artist, as exemplified in two portraits representing Mr. Thomas Sayers, of Great Brit- ain, and Mr. Joh... ... have expected to get for the money. It was fitted up with a platform, and the usual lecturing tools, including a large black board of a menacing appe...

Excerpt: The Uncommercial Traveler by Charles Dickens.

...My Bondage and My Freedom By Frederick Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication M... ...My Bondage and My Freedom By Frederick Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Bondage and My Freedom by ... ...blication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...cation My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...umulating, not from the ranks of the half-freed colored people of the free states, but from the very depths of slavery itself; the indestructible equa... ...rgan of the downtrodden, edited and published by one of themselves, in the United States. 13 Frederick Douglas The result of this visit was, that on ... ... I met boys about Bethel church, or any of our play-grounds, I entered the lists with them in the art of writing, and would make the letters which I h... ...vice of a master. On the other hand, by taking the land route, through the counties adjoining Delaware, we should be subjected to all manner of interr...

Excerpt: My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas.

...MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by He... ...elville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity.... ...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...n something like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “Whaling V oyage by One Ismael. “Bloody Battle in Affghanist... ...hing like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “Whaling V oyage by One Ismael. “Bloody Battle in Affghanistan.” Th... ...e- landic, Dutch, and old English authorities, there might be quoted other lists of uncertain whales, blessed with all manner of un- couth names. But ... ... or broken; through all the wide contrasting scenery of those noble Mohawk counties; and especially, by rows of snow-white chapels, whose spires stand...

Excerpt: Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville.

...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation A Penn State Electronic... ...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...ntes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Don Quixote by Miguel de Cerv... ... by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...te, “that this is done to divert our idle thoughts; and as in well-ordered states games of chess, fives, and billiards are allowed for the diversion o... ... the rest of the household had gone to dinner. Lothario saw himself in the lists according to his friend’s wish, and facing an enemy that could by her... ...a, thou hast conquered, for it is impossible to have the heart to deny the united force of so many truths.” Luscinda in her feebleness was on the poin... ...canon; “but for all that there is a good deal to be said on this matter of counties.” To which Don Quixote returned, “I know not what more there is to...

Excerpt: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by John Ormsby (1922 ed.).

...WAVERLEY or ‘TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE by SIR WALTER SCOTT A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Wa... ...WAVERLEY or ‘TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE by SIR WALTER SCOTT A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years ... ...n Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...nner. And here the in- structor had to combat another propensity too often united with brilliancy of fancy and vivacity of talent,—that indo- lence, n... ...nd Bradwardine, it being the crest of a gigantic Dane, whom he slew in the lists in the Holy Land, on a quarrel touching the chastity of the Emperor’s... ...l, sympathized little in the disappointment of this selfish and interested statesman; and he retired to the country under the comfortable reflection, ... ...gradually diminished; but a good many are still to be found in the western counties, and several, with a better tem- per than in 1707, have now taken ...

Excerpt: Waverley or ?Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott.

...The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Duke’s Children by Anthon... ...n by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity... ...ries Publication The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...speak of his own iniquity, and that the hero- ine and the demon are so far united that they have been in a garret together. But there is the drawback ... ... would have been named had it not been that Lord Gerald must be at Eastern Counties Railway Sta- tion at nine pm. An hour an half for dinner and a cig... ...f all men it could not be refused. And then the very altitude of the great Statesman whom he was invited to befriend,—the posi- tion of this Duke who ... ...us. Not even that will hurt us much if we let him go about the house as he lists. It is the everlasting effort which the horror makes to peep out of h...

...Excerpt: When The Duchess Was Dead No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the...

...The Octopus A Story of California by Frank Norris A P A P A P A P A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...The Octopus A Story of California by Frank Norris A P A P A P A P A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication enn State Electronic Classics ... ...ssics Series Publication enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the... ...on enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ... had been his ambition to represent his native State—North Carolina—in the United States Senate. Calhoun was his “great man,” but in two succes- sive ... ...en his ambition to represent his native State—North Carolina—in the United States Senate. Calhoun was his “great man,” but in two succes- sive campaig... ...t seemed as if all the colour which should have gone to vivify the various counties, towns, and cities marked upon it had been absorbed by that huge, ... ...ilma to action. Then ensued a most delicious week. Armed with formi- dable lists, written by Annixter on hotel envelopes, they two descended upon the ...

Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.

...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...dici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Catherine dé Medici by Honoré... ...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...eeded to possess and to display the rare qualities and precious gifts of a states- man under the mocking fire of the Calvinist press. Those facts are ... ... had the religious question entered it. Moreover, Diane boldly entered the lists against the queen’s project by coquetting with the Guises and giving ... ...ciated in corporations which limited their number, they were still further united into guilds by the Church. In this way prices were maintained. Also,... ...suring Charles IX. that she would leave the boy her personal property, the counties of Auvergne and Laraguais. At a later period, Mar- guerite de Valo...

...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the ...

...Bleak House by Charles Dickens Volume One Chapters 1 34 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bleak House, Volume One, Cont... ...ion Bleak House, Volume One, Containing Chapters One through Thirty four by Charles Dickens is a publica tion of the Pennsylvania State University... ...g Chapters One through Thirty four by Charles Dickens is a publica tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...hapters One through Thirty four by Charles Dickens is a publica tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...u may have observed, Miss Summerson,” said Mrs. Pardiggle, “in some of the lists to which I have referred, in the possession of our esteemed friend Mr... ...ar upon the elections the wealth of Huffy, you would have got in for three counties Juffy, Kuffy, and Luffy, and you would have strengthened your admi...

...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which p...

...Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Rewards and Fairies by Rudyar... ...g A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...eries Publication Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...es Publication Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...was so old he could remember when railways were being made in the southern counties of England, and people were allowed to drive dogs in carts. One ho... ... great responsibility—particularly with that old cat Amoore looking at the lists over your shoulder. And such a shocking thing happened last summer! P... ...e, Cap- tain Jean Baptiste Bompard, two days out of Le Havre, going to the United States with a Republican French Ambassador of the name of Genet. The... ... tain Jean Baptiste Bompard, two days out of Le Havre, going to the United States with a Republican French Ambassador of the name of Genet. They had b...

Excerpt: Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling.

.... 21 GLORIANA .................................................................................................................................... 22 The Two Cousins ......................................................................................................................................................... 22 The Looking-Glass......................................

...Bleak House by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bleak House by Charles Dicke... ... Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bleak House by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...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... ...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... ...u may have observed, Miss Summerson,” said Mrs. Pardiggle, “in some of the lists to which I have referred, in the possession of our esteemed friend Mr... ...ar upon the elections the wealth of Huffy, you would have got in for three counties Juffy, Kuffy, and Luffy, and you would have strengthened your admi...

...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which po...

...MANKIND IN THE MAKING BY H. G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G... .... G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ... SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ll be equally available for applica- tion in the British Empire and in the United States. T o that we must come, unless our talk of co-operation, of r... ...qually available for applica- tion in the British Empire and in the United States. T o that we must come, unless our talk of co-operation, of reunion,... ...l’s returns for 1891 that among the causes of death specified in the three counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, and Hereford, where infant mortality is scar... ... facts, heights of mountains, for example, popu- lations of countries, and lists of obsolete manufactures and obsolete trade conditions. Any one who w...

...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development an...

...ocracy in America By Alexis de Tocqueville Translator – Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes... ...nic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsy... ... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e eleven years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our writ... ...n years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Con... ...e reader the general principles on which the political organization of the counties and town- ships of the United States rests, I have thought it expe... .... See the Laws of Massachusetts, vol. i. p. 410. The selectmen draw up the lists of electors for the election of the Governor, and transmit the result...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of th...

... A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...e in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...n King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ourt by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and witho... ...iends and his community have at heart if he would be liked — especially as a statesman; and both as business man and statesman I wanted to study the t... ... Mark Twain 45 splendors, would see a knight sprawl from his horse in the lists with a lance shaft the thickness of your ankle clean through him an... ...and stature of the individual who wears it; and, besides, I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and th... ...” “I know of governors of places, and seneschals of castles, and sheriffs of counties, and many like small offices and titles of honor, but him you ca...

Excerpt: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur?s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

...Vol. 2 The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII is a publ... ... Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...elding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...o, Containing Books IX through XVIII is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...at every other thing, as well as at footfall. But the advantage which this united force hath in persuasion or entreaty, must have been visible to a cu... ... have asked your rival’s name, that you might have immediately entered the lists with him.” “I promise you, madam,” answered he, “there are very few t... ... and yet I had something you formerly. I am a little altered. Kingdoms and states, as Tully Cicero says in his epistles, undergo alterations, and so m... ... privately added a third. Upon this income he lives in one of the northern counties, about 200 miles distant from Lon don, and lays up £200 a year ou...

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... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and witho... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Don Juan by George Byron , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty E... ...ching, leaving still behind Something of which its masters are afraid, States to be curb’d and thoughts to be confined, Conspiracy or Congress... ... Love’s, and Night’s, and Ocean’s solitude, O’erflow’d her soul with their united power; Amidst the barren sand and rocks so rude She and her ... ...espatches. Oh, ye great bulletins of Bonaparte! Oh, ye less grand long lists of kill’d and wounded! Shade of Leonidas, who fought so hearty, ... ...cond courses; Because, as suits their rank and situation, Those who in counties have great land resources Have ‘Public days, ’ when all men ma...

...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

...A CHILD S HISTORY OF ENGLAND by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A C... ...A CHILD S HISTORY OF ENGLAND by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England ... ...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... ...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... ...t, as you know by this time, was hard work for any man. He ravaged several counties; he burned and plundered many towns; he laid waste scores upon sco... ...e two Kings with as much solemnity as if they had intended to keep it, the lists— nine hundred feet long, and three hundred and twenty broad—were open...

...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...

...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......................

...MEMORIALS and OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION M... ...MEMORIALS and OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Memorials and Other Papers by... ...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...y of this little novel to a beautiful girl of seventeen, the daughter of a statesman in Westmoreland, not designing any deception (nor so much as any ... ...ency to lawless and gigantesque ideals of adventur- ous life; under which, united with the duelling code of Eu- rope, many things would become trivial... ...ces—Somersetshire, Devonshire, Hampshire—are con- founded with our midland counties; and positively the dic- tion of Parricombe and Charricombe from E... ...f success; and Œdipus, either on public or on selfish motives, entered the lists as a competitor. The riddle proposed by the Sphinx ran in these terms...

...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in havin...

...s MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES...................................................................................................

...Life of Johnson by James Boswell Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...ridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Bosw... ...Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Ch... ...dited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnish... ... had seen life in all its vari- eties, and been much in the company of the statesmen and wits of his time, he could com- municate to Johnson an abunda... ...l known to many to be par- ticularly unsocial, as there is no Ordinary, or united company, but each person has his own mess, and is under no obligatio... ...rsue his travels on foot, partly by demanding at Universities to enter the lists as a disputant, by which, accord- ing to the custom of many of them, ... ...WELL, ESQ. ‘DEAR SIR,—I am returned from the annual ramble into the middle counties. Having seen nothing I had not seen before, I have nothing to rela...

...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of gr...

... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylva... ... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...he Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with... ...ted me, Honouring they greet me thus, and well they judge.” So I beheld united the bright school Of him the monarch of sublimest song, That o’er ... ...patient of delay Exclaiming, “Lano! not so bent for speed Thy sinews, in the lists of Toppo’s field.” And then, for that perchance no longer breath Su... ...mong the inhabitants of that city, and among the leaders of the neighbouring states. v. 70. The pleasant land.] Lombardy. v. 72. The twain.] Guido d... ...gnacavallo; Castracaro ill, And Conio worse, who care to propagate A race of Counties from such blood as theirs. Well shall ye also do, Pagani, then W...

...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, m...

...Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dick... ...Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...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... ...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... ...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 ... ...to look over the title of a very considerable estate in one of the eastern counties—lying, in fact, for Mr Merdle knew we lawyers loved to be particu-... ...was as constant as Death to man, arrayed themselves to fight it out in the lists of Society, sworn rivals. And Little Dorrit, seeing all these things ...

...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...

...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...

... The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ... Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and witho... ...ch manufacturer, and had bought landed property enough in one of the midland counties to make all the born squires in his neighbourhood thoroughly env... ...er and its dry patches, changed into long bars of silver and gold in various states of burnishing, and there were fine views—on fine days—of the Scott... ...e was recaptured by the town council, or is bolting at this hour through the United Kingdom, they know not. They hope he may be still bolting; if so, ... ...r the turn behind the brow of the hill, or any out of the way point where he lists to see the throb bing horses straining every nerve, and making the...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their em...

...North America Volume Two by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume Two by ... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ..................................... 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ................................................................ .............................. 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ....................................................................... ... of the House calls out the names of the different Senators, and makes out lists of the votes according to the separate answers given by the members. ... ... that this is not as though certain aristocratic families in a few English counties should find themselves divided off from the politics and national ...

Excerpt: North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope.

........................................................................................................................................ 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR .......................................................................................................... 47 CHAPTER IV: WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS ............................................................

...THE CHAPLET OF PEARLS BY CHARLOTTE M.YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Char... ... BY CHARLOTTE M.YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...E M.YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- si... ... alteration even in the volumes. Sir Francis Walsingham was a young rising statesman in 1572, instead of the elderly sage he is represented; his daugh... ...is strength and height of his spirits, encountered young Des Lorges in the lists, re- ceived the splinter of a lance in his eye, and died two days aft... ...ot but draw such a fate on himself. Now all is smooth, the estates will be united in their true head, and you—you too, my child, will be provided for ... ...nd constantly occupied by the hereditary govern- ment of one of the lesser counties of France, the Duke was all the better son for relinquishing to he...

...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by...

...The Federalist Papers A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a pu... ...The Federalist Papers A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...overnment, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehend... ...nt, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in ... ...emarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether so-... ...s. What more natural than that they should be disposed to exclude from the lists such dangerous competitors? This branch of trade ought not to be cons... ...confederacies which have been composed of members smaller than many of our counties, the principle of legislation for sovereign States, supported by m...

...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subjec...

...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An ... ...f Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the Wo... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...rom the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a str... ... Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a stream of ... ...an aeroplane at Hendon and soar about counting all the golfers in the Home Counties on any week-day afternoon. “You suffer at the roots of things, far... ...copyright; and then—with perhaps a secretary or so—he would revise all his lists and 127 H. G . Wells mark against every book whether he would have t...

...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices i...

...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT...................................................................................

...Considerations on Representative Government By JOHN STUART MILL A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATI... ...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ons on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...tive Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...equisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on. These deplorable states of feel ing, in any people who have emerged from savage life, are, ... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ...m would have their votes counted for the next person on their respec tive lists who needed them, and could by their aid complete the quota. T o deter... ...reation of geography and statistics. Parliament must rep resent towns and counties, not human beings. But no one seeks to annihilate towns and counti...

...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and mos...

....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................

...BURLESQUES by William Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Burlesques by William Makepea... ... Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...r author, in which Sen- timent and History, or the True and Beautiful, are united. CHAPTER XXIV BUTTON’S IN PALL MALL. THOSE WHO FREQUENT the dismal a... ...ry moment ringing more clearly, until a knight in pink armor rode into the lists with his visor down, and riding a tremendous dun charger, which he ma... ....” The Bishop ran off, with more than youthful agility, to seek the United States’ Minister. “These Republi- cans,” he added, confidentially, and with... ...‘Trent, bring us a bottle of Bristol amid Hexeter!’ or, ‘Put some Heastern Counties in hice!’ HE knows what I mean: it’s the wines I bought upon the h...

...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glori...

...Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................................................................... 4 NOONDAY IN CHEPE .........................................................................................

...AUTOBIOGRAPHY A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of... ...ECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...f John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...l Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...ect, is that of committing to memory what my father termed vocables, being lists of common Greek words, with their signification in English, which he ... ...ub lished, they would, I am convinced, place his character as a practical statesman fully on a level with his eminence as a speculative writer. 18 A... ...d speak 73 John Stuart Mill ers of the Cambridge Union and of the Oxford United De bating Society. It is curiously illustrative of the tendencies o... ...Courts of Criminal Justice. A bench of magistrates in one of the most Tory counties in England dismissed our case: we were more successful before the ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of...

...Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray “Catherine” A Story by Ikey Solomons, Esq., Junior. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...peace Thackeray “Catherine” A Story by Ikey Solomons, Esq., Junior. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Catherine: A Story by William... ...cation Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ion Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...there one of us who does not shudder at the thought of descending into the lists to combat with it, and ex- pect anything but to be utterly crushed in... ...e other popular nov- elists of the day can never be sufficiently grateful) states that Hayes left his house three or four times during this period, an... ...od, and they two together committed many atrocious robberies in the inland counties; but these being too hot to hold them, they went into the west, wh... ...heir graves in the far past, and in those brief moments flitted before the united ones! How sad was that delicious retrospect, and oh, how sweet! The ...

...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which ...