...Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around the World in 80 D... ...cation Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished f... ...t whom little was known, except that he was a pol- ished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron—at least that his head was Byronic; but... ...act, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of 4 Around the World in 80 Days the Entomologis... ... with whom he had an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush. Was Phileas Fogg rich? Un... ...her wife or chil- 5 Jules Verne dren, which may happen to the most honest people; either relatives or near friends, which is certainly more unusual. ... ... Fogg was seated, and James Forster, the dismissed servant, appeared. “The new servant,” said he. A young man of thirty advanced and bowed. “Y ou are ... ...f without a word. Passepartout heard the street door shut once; it was his new master going out. He heard it shut again; it was his 7 Jules Verne pre... ...etectives has- tened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports, inspired by the proffered reward of two thousand pou...

...My Bondage and My Freedom By Frederick Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Bondage and My Freedo... ...on My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...y a principle essential to Christianity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING; so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, necessarily excludes the i... ...ss in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York TO HONORABLE GERRIT SMITH, AS A SLIGHT TOKEN OF ESTEEM FOR HIS CHA... ...F THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF AN AFFLICTED, DESPISED AND DEEPLY OUT- RAGED PEOPLE, BY RANKING SLAVERY WITH PI- RACY AND MURDER, AND BY DENYING IT EITH... ...al plea—”not guilty;” the case must, therefore, proceed. Any facts, either from slaves, slaveholders, or by-standers, calculated to enlighten the publ... ... to do it. Not only is slavery on trial, but unfortunately, the en- slaved people are also on trial. It is alleged, that they are, naturally, inferior... ... in Maryland, our au- thor escaped into the caste-slavery of the north, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Here he found oppression assum- ing another, an... ...n the aisles of the churches in which I spoke, and hearing the free spoken Yan- kees saying, repeatedly, ”He’s never been a slave, I’ll warrant ye,” I...

...E SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pioneers, or The Sou... ...hanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- nished f... ...racters in their classes, than by a too fastidious attention to originals. New York having but one county of Otsego, and the Susquehanna but one prope... ...heir passage. The Otsego is about nine miles in length, varying in breadth from half a mile to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid,... ...le to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid, and supplied from a thousand springs. At its foot the banks are rather less than thirty ... ...f God abound with that frequency which characterize a moral and reflecting people, and with that variety of exterior and canonical government which fl... ... deer where he pleased!—but if there is a law at all, it should be to keep people from the use of smooth-bores. A body never knows where his lead will... ...zing up another fight atwixt us: for, to my account, there’ll be but a han-yan with me soon, seeing that they’ll mulct me of my Spaniards, all the sam... ...with their usual accuracy; but as the music struck up the inspiring air of Yan- kee-doodle, and Richard, accompanied by Mr. Doolittle pre- ceded the t...

...UP FROM SLAVERY: An Autobiography by BOOKER T. WASHINGTON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Up from Slavery: An Auto... ...OKER T. WASHINGTON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of ... ... Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished ... ...e document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington, the Pennsylvania St... ...formation of Mr. Washington’s character, then, went the missionary zeal of New England, influenced by one of the strongest personalities in modern edu... ...ard of the head of an important coloured school who was not a preacher. “A new kind of man in the coloured world,” I said to myself—”a new kind of man... ...is to change the whole economic basis of life and the whole character of a people. The plan itself is not a new one. It was worked out at Hampton Inst... ...e period, he was necessar- 8 UP FROM SLAVERY ily misunderstood by his own people as well as by the whites, and where he had to adjust it at every ste... ...dience roared with shrill “hi-yis.” Again the music changed, this time to “Yan- kee Doodle,” and the clamour lessened. All this time the eyes of the t...

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...PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT by U. S. Grant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S... ...on Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished ... ...thing for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not appare... ...he aid of my eldest son, F . D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given. The comments are my own, an... ...ng they will meet the approval of the reader. U. S. Grant Mount MacGregor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERIC... ...ountered a ferocious dog that frightened the horses and made them run. The new animal kicked at every jump he made. I got the horses stopped, however,... ...and but few east; and above all, there were no reporters prying into other people’s private affairs. Consequently it did not become generally known th... ...s in imitation of mine. The joke was a huge one in the mind of many of the people, and was much enjoyed by them; but I did not appreciate it so highly... ... impressed with the justice of their cause, but who thought that even the “Yan- kee soldiery” must entertain the same views if they could only be indu...

...wnfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES ... ...e Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished ... ...ere the blockheads and impostors who might naturally be expected to spring from such a state of things, and to flourish in it; these Y orkshire school... ... that those gentlemen might, in their modesty, be shy of receiving a visit from the author of the “Pickwick Papers,” I consulted with a professional f... ... ar’ll spak’ my moind tiv’ee. Dinnot let the weedur send her lattle boy to yan o’ our school- measthers, while there’s a harse to hoold in a’ Lunnun, ... ...If I were to attempt to sum up the thousands of letters, from all sorts of people in all sorts of latitudes and climates, which this unlucky paragraph... ...re attachment, who in her turn had taken him for the same reason. Thus two people who cannot afford to play cards for money, sometimes sit down to a q... ...impartial records of young ladies’ ages being, before the pass- ing of the new act, nowhere preserved in the registries of this country—Mr Nickleby lo... ... be afeard, mun,’ he said; ‘tak’ eneaf to carry thee whoam. Thee’lt pay me yan day, a’ warrant.’ Nicholas could by no means be prevailed upon to borro...

...and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens VOLUME ONE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication V olume One of THE LIFE ... ...e Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fr... ...ere the blockheads and impostors who might naturally be expected to spring from such a state of things, and to flourish in it; these Y orkshire school... ... that those gentlemen might, in their modesty, be shy of receiving a visit from the author of the “Pickwick Papers,” I consulted with a professional f... ... ar’ll spak’ my moind tiv’ee. Dinnot let the weedur send her lattle boy to yan o’ our school- measthers, while there’s a harse to hoold in a’ Lunnun, ... ...If I were to attempt to sum up the thousands of letters, from all sorts of people in all sorts of latitudes and climates, which this unlucky paragraph... ...re attachment, who in her turn had taken him for the same reason. Thus two people who cannot afford to play cards for money, sometimes sit down to a q... ...impartial records of young ladies’ ages being, before the pass- ing of the new act, nowhere preserved in the registries of this country—Mr Nickleby lo... ... be afeard, mun,’ he said; ‘tak’ eneaf to carry thee whoam. Thee’lt pay me yan day, a’ warrant.’ Nicholas could by no means be prevailed upon to borro...