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...E OF THE BEAGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...AGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...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... ...egro Lieutenant—Bahia Blanca—Saline Incrustations—Punta Alta—Zorillo. JULY 24th, 1833.—The Beagle sailed from Maldonado, and on August the 3rd she arr... ...assacres — Arrow-head, antiquar- ian Relic. The Beagle arrived here on the 24th of August, and a week afterwards sailed for the Plata. With Captain Fi... ...ways be recollected, that in some other country perhaps they are essential members of society, or at some former period may have been so. If America s... ...of wild useful Plants — Temperance of the Inhabitants —Their moral state — Parliament convened — New Zealand — Bay of Islands — Hippahs — Excursion to... ...ince famous from the ill-treatment she had received from the French; and a parliament was held to consider the question, at which all the principal ch...

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...Excerpt: Chapter I; ABOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comfor...

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...Table of Contents: I, 1 -- I, 3 -- II, 10 -- III, 18 -- IV, 26 -- V, 33 -- VI, 39 -- VII, 47 -- VIII, 56 -- IX, 62 -- X, 72 -- XI, 79 -- XII, 85 -- XIII, 90 -- XIV, 97 -- XV, 103...

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...338 XLVIII 347 Part I Chapter I A BOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to ca... ...years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the... ...only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raise... ...m, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of... ..., and remained wholly in the country, leaving Sir Thomas to attend his duty in Parliament, with whatever increase or diminution of comfort might arise... ...might escape a profession and represent the county.” “I dare say he will be in parliament soon. When Sir Thomas comes, I dare say he will be in for so... ...nt of Lovers’ V ows. Under his government, Mansfield was an altered place. Some members of their society sent away and the spirits of many oth ers sad... ...22d, as the most eligible day. William was required to be at Portsmouth on the 24th; the 22d would therefore be the last day of his visit; but where t... ...and the other midshipman on board an Indiaman. But though she had seen all the members of the family, she had not yet heard all the noise they could m...

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...Excerpt: Introduction to the bride of Lammermoor. The author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occurring at a distant period, it might possibly be unpleasing ...

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...ir Walter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...s Publication Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...ished race were suifficient to have accounted for the dignities which many members of the family attained, without any supernatural assistance. But th... ...is horrible scene little more than a fortnight, having been married on the 24th of August, and dying on the 12th of September 1669. The unfortunate Ba... ...esided with their parents in Edinburgh during the sessions of the Scottish Parliament and Privy Coun- cil, at other times in the old Gothic castle of ... ...stinctive dread. This course came instead of an appeal to the old Scottish Parliament, or, as it was technically termed, “a protestation for remeid in... ...erest the various preparations of dress, etc., etc., which the differ- ent members of the family had prepared for the occasion. The morning dawned bri...

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Excerpt: The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One.

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...S STEVENSON V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pen... ...V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ...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... ...some and so desperately overborne with footnotes, proc- lamations, acts of Parliament, and citations as that last history. I have been reading a good ... ...ish, apropos of Burns, Commines, Juvenal des Ursins, etc. I walk about the Parliament House five forenoons a week, in wig and gown; I have either a fi... ...refore, I think, not out of place in this long-shore story. As for the two members which you thought at first so ill-united; I confess they seem per- ... ...GOR’S), CASTLETON OF BRAEMAR, AUGUST 10, 1881 MY DEAR GOSSE, – Come on the 24th, there is a dear fellow. Everybody else wants to come later, and it wi... ...one, I am so stupid that I can only boldly recapitulate. A phrase of three members is the outside of my syntax. First, I liked the Rover better than a...

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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...

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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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