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...Excerpt: With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end of my pen, I will show you...

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...Contents THE LONG VOYAGE ...................................................................................................................... 5 THE BEGGING-LETTER WRITER .................................................................

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...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of s...

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...es Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e and without any 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... ...evealed. But how shall this be conveyed and made palpable? In order that a new world may step in, this world must for a time disappear. The murderers,... ...ersate diurne; Especially nocturnâ. In these assassinations of princes and statesmen, there is nothing to excite our wonder; important changes often d... ...ut who was L.M.? It surely never could be Lindley Murray; for I saw him at York in 1825; and besides, I do not think he Would do such a thing; at leas... ...ther, warm already, became warmer; culinary and meta- physical irritations united to derange his liver: he took to his bed, and died. Such is the comm... ... drinking with the other witnesses, under the vigilant surveillance of the attorneys. During the night, or that part of it when the least tempta- 121... ...pool, and of populous Manchester, with its vast cincture of populous rural districts, was called up by ancient usage to the tribunal of Lilliputian La...

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Excerpt: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville.

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Excerpt: The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have...

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...rans. D. J. Hogarth, with an introduction by John Cournos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...s. D. J. Hogarth, with an introduction by John Cournos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e and without any 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... ...usly: “I am once more a free Cossack.” Between 1834 and 1835 he produced a new series of stories, including his famous Cloak, which may be regarded as... ..., 1860; St. John’s Eve and Other Stories, trans. by Isabel F. Hapgood, New York, Crowell, 1886; Taras Bulba: Also St. John’s Eve and Other Stories, Lo... ...w. Yet he need not have flown into such a passion. More than one respected statesman reveals himself, when confronted with a business matter, to be ju... ...and, divides into runlets (all flashing in the sun like fire), plunges, re-united, into the midst of a thicket of elder, birth, and pine, and, lastly,... ...curred to his mind. That is to say, he might contrive to withdraw from the district without having re- paid Kostanzhoglo at all! Truly a splendid idea... ... would not have dis- graced St. Petersburg. From within them merchants and attorneys doffed their caps to ladies, and inquired after their health, and...

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...TER II: NEWPORT?RHODE ISLAND ................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ............................................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ................................................................................................

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

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...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

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Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History.

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...Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY.......................................................................................................... 12 VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE ...............................................................

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................ 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL.............................................................................................................. 9 THE CONDEMNED CELL. ..............................................................................................................12 CODLINGSBY ....................................................................................

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Excerpt: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

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...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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... ...e and without any 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... ...not have made it, had I not believed that it would be the means of drawing new readers to Boswell, and eventu- ally of finding for them in the complet... ... 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... ... Life of Johnson cated some Musick for the German Flute to Edward, Duke of York. In writing Dedications for others, he considered himself as by no mea... ...to carry with them, would keep them so long in the little towns of his own district, that they would not have time to see Rome. I mentioned this, to p... ... be made to an attorney, which was done; and, at the same time, saying the attorneys would do nothing, which proved to be the fact. “This (says John,)...