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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...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. Middlemarch by George Eliot, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom; and about 1829 the dark territories of Pathol- ogy were a fine America for a spirited young adventu... ...rode, excited by his apparent determination to patronize Lydgate. The long-established practitioners, Mr. Wrench and Mr. Tol- ler; were just now stand... ...cceed each other like the magic-lantern pictures of a doze; and in certain states of dull forlornness Dorothea all her life continued to see the vastn... ...actitioner, having increased Middlemarch practice in that direction. Great statesmen err, and why not small medical men? Mr. Wrench did not neglect se... ...rence for armorial bearings in our own ease, link us indissolubly with the established order. And Lydgate’s tendency was not towards extreme opinions:...

...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth ...

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