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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia a... ... PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND RECORDING A DESCRI... ...horstein -- Death of Thorstein -- Proofs of Norse settlement in America -- The courtship of Thorfinn -- The first white baby in the New World -- The D... ...ery displayed -- A dearly bought victory -- A third desperate battle -- Cortez appeals to the religious fervor of his soldiers -- An overture for peac... ...ave driven animal life towards the tropics? And may we not also infer from the united evidences of lofty mountains, deep valleys, high tablelands, isl... ... which was a large town called Syntra. This has also disappeared. Eratosthenes states that Spain and Barbara were at one time connected, and that the ... ...he Azores where the Carthaginians and Norsemen met in valorous rivalry. In the eleventh century Venice rose like Venus from the sea, and from the lago... ... entire empire. This he had surrounded by an impregnable wall sixteen miles in circuit, a portion of which was again divided, so as to form an enclosu...
...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...
...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- T...
...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................................... ................................................................. 11 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS ................................................................ ...y always opt for a vacation when they could otherwise work. People in the States still believe that money buys happiness. But when people are survey... ...s from acceptable to unacceptable depending on who is sitting on the high court. Gassing people in prisons is OK in one society but not in another. ... ...o most religions have had similar mystical experiences--the Hindu who has united with the Brahman through years of correct meditation. The holy Jew,... ...ng on your television set. It works, you don‘t have to know about all the circuits and science behind it. So if somebody tells you there is a god tha... ...rk your way through school like most people do in the U.S. That certainly appeals to students‘ self-centered interests!‖ —―And those of their p... ...the desires of a merciful God. ―In the Acts of the Councils of the eleventh and twelfth centuries which dealt with the combating of heresy th...
...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, ...
...ka Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2007 Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. © 2004-7 Cop... ...n@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samv... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...re is not much difference between the embryo and the comatose. A typical contract states the rights of the parties. It assumes the existence of pa... ...ys been the most fervent anti-Semites. Jews are not so much a race as a community, united in age-old traditions and beliefs, lore and myths, histor... ..."scientific materialism" has an equivalent in the twilight times of feudalism. The eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed a concerted effort by m... ...en access to the Justice Department and to the FTC or the right to sue in a federal court and be eligible to receive treble damages. It is only fa... ...jectively, the intuiting person has the impression of a "shortcut" or even a "short circuiting" of his usually linear thought processes often based ... ...stantial and supported by epistemic accounts, starting with the master himself. It appeals to one's common sense and previous experience. Its state...
Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.
...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....
...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic... ...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...e and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither t... ...e gossip brought to him by his unsuspecting friends; for neither courtier, statesman, minister, nor friend ever looked upon those notes which this “li... ...owed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind, therefore, to escape from my leading-strings;... ...g been appointed. Then, matters had been so arranged that they received no appeals, and found no cases to judge. All this dark work re- mained, theref... ...uvilliers. I will admit that, to reach M. de Beauvilliers’ house, I made a circuit between the canal and the gardens of V ersailles, so as to spare my... ...de Maintenon’s rooms, and appeared to every- body very ill. On Sunday, the eleventh of August, he held 624 Saint-Simon the Council of State, walked, ...
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...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope 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... ..................................... 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ................................................................ .............................. 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ....................................................................... .................................................... 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LA W COURTS AND LA WYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ..................................... ...country takes itself to them, preferring a 126 North America V ol. 2 long circuitous conveyance with steam, to short distances without. Consequently ... ...tely by the governments of the individual States. One special article, the eleventh, enjoins that “Canada, acceding to the Con- federation, and joinin... ...he judge of that district, and they two to- gether form the circuit court. Appeals from the district court lie to the circuit court in cases over a ce...
........................................................................................................................................ 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR .......................................................................................................... 47 CHAPTER IV: WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS ............................................................
...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publicat... ...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... ...vy,” approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have ... ...proved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the aut... ... these occurrences were trans- mitted by private messengers, who pursued a circuitous way to the seaboard cities, inland across the States of Pennsylv... ... fought and driven 13,000 of the enemy, under General Branch, from Hanover Court-House, and was driving them from a stand they had made on the rail- r... ...of the section is substantially identical with a law already existing. The eleventh section simply assumes to confer discretionary power upon the exec... ...ress. Meantime I re- ceived, through telegraphic despatches and otherwise, appeals in behalf of the condemned, appeals for their execution, and expres...
...Excerpt: The third section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have th...
... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve 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... ...e eleven years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our writ... ...n years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Con... ...ion to the duties of good citizenship are ignored in the laws, because the courts can seldom deal with such questions in a uniform and satis- factory ... ...ess influ- ence, through the islands of the seas to other lands, where the appeals of De T ocqueville for human rights and liberties have already insp... ...act pro- portion in which new paths were struck out to advancement. In the eleventh century nobility was beyond all price; in the thirteenth it might ... ...ses upon the spot; the court presided over by this magistrate is styled a “Circuit Court.” Lastly, all the most serious cases of litigation are brough...
...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of th...
...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ... Staff List xiii–xiv Preface xv 1. “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National C... ... Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–... ...(1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) ... ...ugust 1998 115 4.3 Diplomacy 121 4.4 Covert Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1... ...ed out the work to Argenbright Security. 13 The checkpoint featured closed-circuit television that recorded all passengers, including the hijackers, a... ...Control Centers Reporting structure, Northeast Air Defense Sector Graphics courtesy of ESRI Final1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM Page 15 Virginia, which o... ...nd religious allusions to the holy Qur’an and some of its interpreters. He appeals to people disoriented by cyclonic change as they confront modernity... ...deral Bureau of Investigation Final Appen.4pp 7/17/04 4:21 PM Page 445 ELEVENTH PUBLIC HEARING Emergency Response New School University, New York,...
...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans an...
...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...
...ree by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publ... ...ch Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...iven now to their last trump-card?—Be patient, ye Pa- triots: our New High Court, ‘Tribunal of the Seventeenth,’ sits; each Section has sent Four Jury... ...he moment, said, “Look out.” Another eagerly whispered, “Do not look.” The circuit of the Temple is guarded, in these hours, by a long stretched trico... ...favour of the Prisoner; the Man in Grey answered: “They are useless, these appeals for traitors.” Then the Prisoner exclaimed: “It is frightful; your ... ...and foot seemed sinking around. ’ (Campagne in Frankreich, p. 103.) On the eleventh morning of October, the World-Poet, struggling Northwards out of V... ...e, have pre- cisely this problem to solve. Under the name and nickname of ‘statesmen, hommes d’etat,’ of ‘moderate-men, moderantins, ’ of Brissotins, ... ... At home this Killing of a King has divided all friends; and abroad it has united all enemies. Fraternity of Peoples, Revo- lutionary Propagandism; At...
Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History (Volume Three).
...Contents VOLUME III. THE GUILLOTINE................................................................................................................................. 6 BOOK 3.I. SEPTEMBER ..............................................................
...ssics Series Publication enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the... ...on enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...r to the west and north, he saw Bonneville very plain, and the dome of the courthouse, a purple silhouette against the glare of the sky. Other points ... ... had been his ambition to represent his native State—North Carolina—in the United States Senate. Calhoun was his “great man,” but in two succes- sive ... ...en his ambition to represent his native State—North Carolina—in the United States Senate. Calhoun was his “great man,” but in two succes- sive campaig... ...hers lost. The test cases were immediately carried up to the United States Circuit Court in San Francisco. At the moment the decision of this court wa... ...r wheat to China, hey, boy?” “It is certainly worth thinking of, sir.” “It appeals to me, boy; it appeals to me. It’s big and there’s a fortune in it.... ...le, the leader at last, king of his fellows, wresting from fortune at this eleventh hour, before his old age, the place of high command which so long ...
Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.
...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...LICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ... many quarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing a far profounder interest in ... ...uarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing a far profounder interest in papers ... ...; then in the West Indies; sometimes in Jamaica, sometimes in St. Kitt’s; court- ing the supposed benefit of hot climates in his complaint of pulmona... ...s a fortunate solution of the diffi- culty, as it imposed no evil beyond a circuit; which, at least, was safe, if the world should choose to call it i... ...e would have spoiled it. Certain it is, that, from the time he reached his eleventh birthday, he had begun already to withdraw himself from the societ... ...naging him by his intellect and his moral nature, in utter contempt of all appeals to his mere animal instincts of pain, must go on pari passu. And, i...
...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expre...
...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .........................................................
...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...ough emerging rarely, are always to be reserved in men’s minds as ultimate appeals to what is most divine in man. Happy it is for human welfare that t... ...y of this little novel to a beautiful girl of seventeen, the daughter of a statesman in Westmoreland, not designing any deception (nor so much as any ... ...ency to lawless and gigantesque ideals of adventur- ous life; under which, united with the duelling code of Eu- rope, many things would become trivial... ... those of Cuzco, in South America; 3dly, amongst the records of some royal courts in Madrid; 4thly, by collat- eral proof from the Papal Chancery; 5th... ...irst year of life, she, an orphan and a great heiress, was in her tenth or eleventh.”—See closing pages of “Autobiographic Sketches.” 20 Memorials, a... ...ommanding power demanded. Often, again, it happened, as our route was very circuitous, that no inns lay in our neighborhood; or, if there were inns, t...
...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in havin...
...s MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES...................................................................................................
...s Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ublication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...ctly begin to feel as I did at Dumdum with Miss Cutler.” Many sweet little appeals, half tender, half jocular, did Miss Sharp make to him about the di... ... not particularly lively—but he paraded twice before the box where the now united couples were met, and nobody took any no- tice of him. Covers were l... ...n’s Crawley AMONG THE MOST RESPECTED of the names beginning in C which the Court-Guide contained, in the year 18—, was that of Crawley, Sir Pitt, Baro... ...tate. He was high sheriff, and rode in a golden coach. Great ministers and statesmen courted him; and in V anity Fair he had a higher place than the m... ...uch as thinking of sitting down to the banquet. If any guest failed at the eleventh hour, Todd was asked to dine. Mrs. T odd and Maria came across in ... ... Mutato nomine, it is all the same. Don’t the barristers’ wives talk about Circuit? Don’t the soldiers’ ladies gossip about the Regiment? Don’t the cl...
... WITH NO WITH NO WITH NO WITH NO WITH NOTES BY TES BY TES BY TES BY TES BY THE THE THE THE THE RE RE RE RE REV V V V V. . . . . THEODORE AL THEODORE A... ....S.A. .S.A. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Iliad of Homer, trans. Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckl... ...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... ...cellent music’ among them. Many of these, like those of the negroes in the United States, were extempo- raneous, and allusive to events passing around... ... music’ among them. Many of these, like those of the negroes in the United States, were extempo- raneous, and allusive to events passing around them. ... ...[Note: “The first book, to- gether with the eighth, and the books from the eleventh to the twenty-second inclusive, seems to form the primary or- gani... ... too great a sacrifice of those feelings to which po- etry most powerfully appeals, and which are its most fitting judges. The ingenuity which has sou... ...ain. But, goddess! thou thy suppliant son attend. To high Olympus’ shining court ascend, Urge all the ties to former service owed, And sue for vengean... ...spouses’ care. And warn their children from a T rojan war. Now through the circuit of our Ilion wall, Let sacred heralds sound the solemn call; To bid...
Excerpt: The Iliad of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M.A., F.S.A.
...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 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... ...g fairy tales, helping young men to find books on mechanics, being ever so courteous to old men who were hunting for newspapers—the light of the libra... ... to sit in on a poker game.” When, after a month of labor, as many as nine-elevenths of the cast were often present at a rehearsal; when most of them ... ...es the permanent Mother Chautauqua, in New York, there are, all over these States, commercial Chautauqua companies which send out to every smallest to... ...ch Carol derived from them were: Lincoln was a celebrated president of the United States, but in his youth extremely poor. James J. Hill was the best-... ...elling the citizens of your beautiful city that none of the talent on this circuit have found a more charm- ing spot or more enterprising and hospitab... ... lower classes 337 Sinclair Lewis in order—fact, it’s the only thing that appeals to a lot of those fellows and makes ‘em respect the rights of prop-...
...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...
...nry James A PENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...ENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...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... ... the chang- ing conditions of literary intercourse between England and the United States had up to then left unaltered. It is a long novel, and I was ... ...ang- ing conditions of literary intercourse between England and the United States had up to then left unaltered. It is a long novel, and I was long in... ...idly enough that the response most elicited, in general, to these restless appeals was the rather grim admonition that romantic and historic sites, su... ...g there in a well-worn waterproof, talked with striking familiarity of the courts of Europe. There was nothing flighty about Mrs. Touchett, but she re... ...f a Lady hotel—even in this irregular situation (an incident of the girl’s eleventh year) she had been neither frightened nor ashamed, but had thought... ...ore accentuated form for the col- umns of the Interviewer. Isabel made the circuit of the church with his lordship, and as they drew near the choir on...
Excerpt: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.
...U nder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circ... ...wn as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itse... ...hat was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would not arrive for many hours; but the flood of summer light had begun to ebb, the air ha... ... there—you had only to come and see me.” “There? Where do you mean?” “In the United States: in New York and Albany and other American places.” “I’ve b... ...you had only to come and see me.” “There? Where do you mean?” “In the United States: in New York and Albany and other American places.” “I’ve been the... ...ing there in a well worn waterproof, talked with striking familiarity of the courts of Europe. There was nothing flighty about Mrs. Touchett, but she r... ...t the same hotel—even in this irregular situation (an incident of the girl’s eleventh year) she had been neither frightened nor ashamed, but had thoug... ...ace, I could be as solemn as a statue of Buddha. He occupies a position that appeals to my imagination. Great responsibilities, great opportunities, g... ...ts more accentuated form for the columns of the Interviewer. Isabel made the circuit of the church with his lord ship, and as they drew near the choi...
...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1; Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in m...
...Table of Contents: CHAPTER 1, 1 -- CHAPTER 2, 10 -- CHAPTER 3, 15 -- CHAPTER 4, 22 -- CHAPTER 5, 28 -- CHAPTER 6, 38 -- CHAPTER 7, 46 -- CHAPTER 8, 54 -- CHAPTER 9, 60 -- CHAPTER 10, 66 -- CHAPTER 11, 77 -- CHAPTER 12, 83 -- CHAPTE...
...elville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...more shall ye for ever go thankless! W ould that I could clear out Hampton Court and the Tuileries for ye! But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to t... ...n something like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “Whaling V oyage by One Ismael. “Bloody Battle in Affghanist... ...hing like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “Whaling V oyage by One Ismael. “Bloody Battle in Affghanistan.” Th... ..., come to think of ‘em. But that’s against my principles. Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth—So here goes ag... ... the hidden cause we seek? Let us try. But in a matter like this, subtlety appeals to subtlety, and without imagination no man can follow another into... ...the ship towing the two boats after him, so that they performed a complete circuit. Meantime, they hauled more and more upon their lines, till close f...
Excerpt: Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville.
...e Moon by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ries Publication The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...ooked about him. “This is no world for men,” he said. “And yet in a way—it appeals.” He became silent for a time, then commenced his medita- tive humm... ...gan to crawl through the lower jungle, making, so far as we could judge, a circuit, halting now at every waving fun- gus, at every sound, intent only ... ...nd an arresting eye,” and he seemed to draw with incredible swiftness. The eleventh message is undoubtedly only a fragment of a longer communication. ... ...ators and searchers and servants, and all the distinguished insects of the court of the moon. Still lower stood ushers and messen- gers, and then all ... ... libraries of books. I explained to him how our science was growing by the united labours of innumerable little men, and on that he made no comment sa... ...him. At first he thought we referred merely to administrative areas. “‘Our States and Empires are still the rawest sketches of what order will some da...
...Excerpt: As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest a...
...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... ...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. Contents Et... ... 1 Loomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2 The Carpet Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3 The... ... more shall ye for ever go thankless! Would that I could clear out Hampton Court and the Tuileries for ye! But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to t... ...n something like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL. “BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANIST... ...hing like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL. “BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN.” Th... ..., come to think of ’em. But that’s against my principles. Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth — So here goes ... ... the hidden cause we seek? Let us try. But in a matter like this, subtlety appeals to subtlety, and without imagination no man can follow another into... ...the ship towing the two boats after him, so that they performed a complete circuit. Meantime, they hauled more and more upon their lines, till close fl...
...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations o...
...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...
...The Federalist Papers A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...overnment, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehend... ...nt, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in ... ...ics, the great- est number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants. In the cour... ...re circumstance of freight occasion a considerable deduction? Would not so circuitous an intercourse facilitate the competitions of other nations, by ... ...an, and the accession of the first emperor of the Aus- trian lines. In the eleventh century the emperors enjoyed full sovereignty: In the fifteenth th... ...d ordinary, or surrogate of the State; is a member of the Supreme Court of Appeals, and president, with a casting vote, of one of the legislative bran...
...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subjec...
...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ... should arise with particular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many dif... ... in half a hundred vary- ing stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and – setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigner... ...back of several volumes, and his voice, I learn, is influential in the law courts. Of the death of the second, you have just been reading what I had t... ...their flags again to the masthead and spread themselves upon the indicated circuit. It used to fill me with wonder how they could follow and retain so... ...a touch in music – as in that dining-room, with Mr. Hunter chatting at the eleventh hour, under the shadow of eternity, fearless and gentle. The secon... ...o remark the presence of a great unity of gusto; of those direct clap-trap appeals, which a man is dead and buriable when he fails to answer; of the f...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on th...
...Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES................................................................................ 1...
...ORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the ... ...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... .............................................................. 76 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ............................................................... ...ory many things, in that sick-room of Louis, are now visible, which to the Courtiers there present were invisible. For indeed it is well said, ‘in eve... ...nce and abashed looks. So far had accident and forethought; had your Louis Elevenths, with the leaden Virgin in their hatband, and torture-wheels and ... ...henceforth shall be his activity, though un- wearied: Letters to the King, Appeals, Prognostications; Pam- phlets (from London), written with the old ... ...c Oath, of the One- 70 The French Revolution and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new- idea, which, in these coming years, shall ... ...be’s; trundles it fast, like an infected thing; forth of the Champ-de-Mars circuit, and dis- charges it there. Thus too a certain person (of some qual...
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...Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY.......................................................................................................... 12 VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE ...............................................................
...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T r... ...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... ...ciety diversions of the Duchesses of Burgundy and of the great ladies of a court more luxuri- ous and more refined than the French court, which revell... ...ense that, in order to lose as little as possible, they have collected and united what originally were variations—the revisions, in short, of the orig... ...me great with child of a fair son, and went with him unto the 45 Rabelais eleventh month; for so long, yea longer, may a woman carry her great belly,... ...raw them to peace but by sharp and fierce wars. Chapter 1.XXXIII. How some statesmen of Picrochole, by hairbrained counsel, put him in extreme danger.... ...e deck towards the hatches, and fastened them in the ground, making a long circuit, the one further off, the other within that. Then said he to Episte... ... lived on nothing but a sort of food which, in their gibberish, was called appeals. Pantagruel asked Double-fee of what breed was that prothonotary, a...
...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....
...IES PUBLICATION Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... PUBLICATION Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...ciate Shakspeare, not originally from reading him, but from witnessing the court representations of his plays at Whitehall. Afterwards we know that he... ...motest provinces. Parliaments were occasionally summoned, (for the judges’ circuits were too brief to produce much effect,) and during their longest s... ...d intersect. Mere accident, therefore, of local posi- tion, much more when united with that avowed inveteracy of malignant feeling, which was bitter e... ...t that William Shakspeare, from his birth up to his tenth or per- haps his eleventh year, lived in careless plenty, and saw noth- ing in his father’s ... ...ling of sixteen, who could so far transcend in good sense the accomplished statesmen or men of the world with whom he afterwards corresponded, might c... ...n a sort of papal indulgence, an immunity from criticism, or even from the appeals of good sense, such as it is not wholesome that any man should enjo...
...Excerpt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the mon...
... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...arrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...hat lover-like feeling of admiration already explained, which leads one to court the sight of a beloved object under every change of dress, and under ... ...measured by my fierce calendar of delirium—so brief mea- sured by the huge circuit of events which it embraced, and their mightiness for evil. Wrath, ... ...or two hundred and twenty years. It is enough that she is reported to have united the stately tread of Andalusian women with the innocent voluptuousne... ...of this paper have been translated by the Jesuit missionaries. The Emperor states the whole motives of his conduct and the chief incidents at great le... ...I. Livre VI. Now, really, if Rousseau thought fit to try such tremen- dous appeals by taking ‘a shy’ at any random object, he should have governed his... ...a cup of beatitude. You know the Paradise Lost? and you remember, from the eleventh book, in its earlier part, that laudanum already existed in Eden— ...
...Contents Volume One ..................................................................... 4 THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK.......................................................................................................... 4 THE SPANISH NUN ....................................................................................
...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A A A A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP... ...says and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. 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... ...when they wish to speak of religiosity in a spirit of serious praise. Some circuitous form, commending the correctness of a man, [Greek text], in resp... ... The reader must not understand me to mean that, merely as a compromise of courtesy, two pro- fessors of different idolatries would agree to recognise... ... dogs. Hypocrisy, the cringing of sycophants, and the credulities of fear, united to conceal this misotheism; but we may be sure that it was widely di... ...does now exist, without fighting its way through every stage of advance by appeals to public opin- ion. If, for instance, an improved tone of public f... ... conse- quence upon X, or no dependency at all? Is the clause which stands eleventh in the series a direct prolongation of that which stands tenth? or... ...ontemplated in general rules. The tendency of such varia- tions is, in all states of complex civilization, to absolute in- finity.* It is our present ...
...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FO...
...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... ...g- nity, the King’s ease with him, their conversa- tion, in which the King courteously draws from Johnson knowledge of that in which Johnson is expert... ... when a child of three years old, he chanced to tread upon a duckling, the eleventh of a brood, and killed it; upon which, it is said, he dictated to ... ... 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... ...he supposes that he can instruct or amuse them, and the publick to whom he appeals, must, after all, be the judges of his pretensions.’ On occasion of... ...eated in his match. Mr. Chambers is gone this day, for the first time, the circuit with the Judges. Mr. Richardson is dead of an apoplexy, and his sec... ...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...
...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...
...Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. JACK LONDON Contents To the Man on Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The White ... ...2 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the N... ... the squaw?” asked Louis Savoy, the tall French Canadian, becoming interested; for he had heard of this wild deed, when at Forty Mile the preceding wi... ...’ the ol’ woman got spliced,” said Belden, concluding the exciting tale of his courtship. “‘Here we be, dad,’ sez she. ‘An’ may yeh be damned,’ sez he... ...im!’ An’ yeh bet I dusted fer the barn.” “Any kids waiting for you back in the States?” asked the stranger. “Nope; Sal died ’fore any come. Thet ’s wh... ... miles of pain. “Contrary minded?” “No!” For the first time the Incapables were united without some compromise of personal interests. “And what are you... ...p of the unbeliever. It is not too late. Faith may move mountains. Even in the eleventh hour may I win his soul to the true righteousness.” “Trip the ... ...tudies the lines upon which a horse or a boat is builded. In the course of his circuit the pink shell of her ear came between his eye and the westerin... ... were other times. Three hundred letters, clicked out on the busy typewriters (appeals for assistance, for sanctions from the organized labor groups, ...
... enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sin...
...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...
...Publication An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...lication An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...h to understand the necessity, I shall not trouble you with reproaches, or appeals to which I am now convinced that you would not respond,” (here Miss... ...s is the word, I can put up nets fit to catch birds of paradise in. If the courts is to be chalked out in white, I can draw a line so straight that yo... ...dy as hard as I can. I have not begun yet, as it is not worth while at the eleventh hour of this term; but when I return in January I will set to work... ...ce at Miss Carpenter. Agatha disengaged herself from her companion, made a circuit, and passed near Smilash, saying: “What is it?” Smilash flitted awa... ...d gets into Sir Charles’s, and the difference between the first and second states is noth- ing but imagination, except that the last state is worse th... ..., for instance. That one is France; that, British India. Here you have the United States of America, home of liberty, the- atre of manhood suffrage, k...
...ture by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William J... ...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...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... ...gion on that account—Theory that religion has a sexual origin refuted— All states of mind are neurally conditioned— Their significance must be tested ... ... the Scottish universities, changing places with Scotsmen lecturing in the United States; I hope that our people may become in all these higher mat- t... ...it will be hardly worthy of our study at all. With states that can only by courtesy be called religious we need have nothing to do, our only profitabl... ... drunkard, or a morphine or cocaine maniac, offers himself to be cured. He appeals to the doctor to wean him from his enemy, but he dares not face bla... .... Al-Ghazzali, a Persian philosopher and theologian, who flourished in the eleventh century, and ranks as one of the greatest doctors of the Moslem ch... ...inue to drink the consciousness of evil, and when one shall begin to short-circuit and get rid of it, are also matters of amount and degree, so that i...
Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.
...NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ............................................................................
...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. 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... ...isconcerted by this reception. He had just entered, wearing an embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on his breast and a ... ...answer you all at once?” said Prince Andrew. “Besides, in the actions of a states- man one has to distinguish between his acts as a private person, as... ... up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against fate and in spite of ... ...ore persuasiveness to his words. The staff officer joined in the colonel’s appeals, but Bagration did not reply; he only gave an order to cease firing... ... the dark side. On February 26, 1807, the old prince set off on one of his circuits. Prince Andrew remained at Bald Hills as usual during his father’s... ...eople, and of his coming himself from the army to Moscow. And as up to the eleventh of July no manifesto or appeal had been received, exaggerated repo...
...VE VOLUMES Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication o... ... Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication of the Penn... ...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... ...arely possible,” said Dupin. “The present peculiar condition of affairs at court, and especially of those intrigues in which D— is known to be involve... ...or two motives, each of a given value, have not, necessarily, a value when united, equal to the sum of their values apart. There are numerous other ma... ...w nothing to excite particular suspicion. “At length my eyes, in going the circuit of the room, fell upon a trumpery fillagree card-rack of pasteboard... ...are yard, gives 2,230,272,000 Pigeons. — “Travels in Canada and the United States,” by Lieut. F . Hall. 34 Poe in Five V olumes “‘No sooner had we go... ...e ninth, and the tenth tier. I had finished a portion of the last and the eleventh; there remained but a single stone to be fitted and plastered in. ... .... In truth, while that virtue which consists in the mere avoidance of vice appeals directly to the understanding, and can thus be circumscribed in rul...
Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two.
...Contents THE PURLOINED LETTER ...................................................................................................................................... 4 THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE..........................
...HE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career o... ...LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of t... ...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... ...his comparison would hold good; for, as the adventurous pair of the Fives’ Court will afterwards send round a hat, and trust to the bounty of the look... ...tty well!’ echoed Mr Bonney. ‘It’s the finest idea that was ever started. “United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muf- fin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual D... ...s might be; but per- haps this was occasioned by senatorial gravity, and a states- manlike habit of keeping his feelings under control. He was a tough... ...ctness of a scene of yesterday. Ralph Nickleby , who was proof against all appeals of blood and kindred—who was steeled against every tale of sorrow a... ...merely observed that he shouldn’ t wonder if he was. ‘Many and many is the circuit this pony has gone,’ said Mr Crummles, flicking him skilfully on th... ...lor for her good. Perhaps even I may move her so far yet, though it is the eleventh hour, and she upon the very brink of ruin.’ ‘Bravely spoken!’ said...
...Excerpt: The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens....
... Classics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...assics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table 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... ...ile complete knowledge with devoted piety; here was a modern Augustine who united the glories of doctor and saint. The sanctity seemed no less clearly... ...efer Celia, especially when Dorothea was gone. The truth is, you have been courting one and have won the other. I can see that she admires you almost ... ...me actual arrangement and asked her if she would like an alter- ation. All appeals to her taste she met gratefully, but saw noth- ing to alter. His ef... ...e than that by which we came.” Dorothea was not at all tired, and a little circuit was made towards a fine yew-tree, the chief hereditary glory of the... ...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... ...iddlemarch can go on in the elegant leisure of a young lady’s mind. On the eleventh day, however, Lydgate when leaving Stone Court was requested by Mr...
...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...
...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Book III — Waiting For Death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Chapter XXIII. .... ...XLII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Book V — The Dead Hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Chapter ... ...ile complete knowledge with devoted piety; here was a modern Augustine who united the glories of doctor and saint. The sanctity seemed no less clearly... ...efer Celia, especially when Dorothea was gone. The truth is, you have been courting one and have won the other. I can see that she admires you almost ... ...e than that by which we came.” Dorothea was not at all tired, and a little circuit was made towards a fine yew tree, the chief hereditary glory of the... ...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... ...nt of what can go on in the elegant leisure of a young lady’s mind. On the eleventh day, however, Lydgate when leaving Stone Court was re quested by ... ...bious to her inexperienced mind that all conversation was inter rupted by appeals for their interpretation made to the oracular nurse. Dorothea sat b...
...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...
...Table of Contents: Book I ?Miss Brooke, 1 -- Prelude, 1 -- Chapter I., 3 -- Chapter II., 10 -- Chapter III., 16 -- Chapter IV., 25 -- Chapter V., 31 -- Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- ...