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...Preface: In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names? ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them....

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...rs by Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ries Publication The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 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... ...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... ...7 Alexandre Dumas tinued M. D’Artagnan the elder, “—an honor to which, re- member, your ancient nobility gives you the right—sustain worthily your nam... ...ring, not only from all the provinces of France, but even from all foreign states, the most celebrated swordsmen. It was not uncommon for Richelieu an... ... but whom he found very sad and deeply preoccupied. They were assembled in council at the residence of Athos, which always indicated an event of some ... ...l, then I shall hope for one of those events which change the destinies of states.” “If your Eminence would quote to me some one of these events in hi... ... “Ah, monsieur!” “And I,” said Aramis, with his soft, melodius voice, “re- member that I will roast you at a slow fire, like a savage.” “Ah, monsieur!...

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Excerpt: Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.

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...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The P... ...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania State Universit... ...Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, faculty editor. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ... Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...with civilization. I hardly need refer now to the laborers in our Southern States who produce the staple exports of this country, and are themselves a... ...h, in 1650, for the information of those who wished to take up land there, states more particularly that “those in New Netherland, and especially in N... ...ich had also taken shelter here from the rain, stalked about the room like members of the family, to humanized, methought, to roast well. They stood a... ...ider and rest thee by many brooks and hearth sides without misgiving. Re member thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Rise free from care before the... ...clarifying pro cess would be going on all the while. The Governor and his Council faintly remember the pond, for they went a fishing there when they ...

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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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... Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ersity. 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... ...le, 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 anyo... ...e tgruth of this prophecy, and what to determine thereon he refers to a full council. What his associates thence attempt. Pandemo nium the palace of ... ...Satan rises, suddenly built out of the deep: the infernal peers there sit in council. Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tre... ... serves His glory to augment. The bold design Pleas’d highly those infernal States, and joy Sparkl’d in all thir eyes; with full assent They vote: wh... ...er shape, If shape it might be call’d that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joynt, or limb, Or substance might be call’d that shadow seem’d, ... ...MEMNONIAN Palace high Came to the Sea, and over HELLESPONT Bridging his way, EUROPE with ASIA joyn’d, And scourg’d with many a stroak th’ indignant wa...