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...e to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end of my pen, I will show you the roomy workshop of Mr. Jonathan Burge, carpenter and builder, in the village of Hayslope, as it appeared on the eighteenth of June, in the year of our Lord 1799....

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...tion between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbors....

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...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the household were, his daughter Dorothy Beltham; a married daughter ...

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.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

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... book is to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all travelers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world -- all, too, travelers with a donkey: and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many. We travel, indeed, to find t...

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...during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and his surviving friends are apt to show more zeal than discretion in dragging forth from his closed desk such undeveloped offspring of his mind as he himself had left to silence. Literature has never been redundant with authors who sincerely undervalue their own productions; and the sagacio...

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...ennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file... ...e associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an el... ...is, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classica... ... repeated. The first love, the first sunrise, the first South Sea island, are memories apart and touched a virginity of sense. On the 28th of July 188... ...ly corner of the bay. Punctually to our use, the blow-hole spouted; the schooner turned upon her heel; the anchor plunged. It was a small sound, a gre... ... such appeared to be the dreary nature of the course. For arithmetic all island people have a natural taste. In Hawaii they make good progress in math... ...nd Anaho was got under way from either side on the ground that it would be pleasant for an evening promenade, and brought to completion by working on ... ...m should thus lie side by side in that outlandish inlet: stranger still that in the owner of the Nyanza, Captain Dewar, I should find a man of the sam... ... was but a pistol-shot from the capital city of the archipelago. But the life of an atoll, unless it be enclosed, passes wholly on the shores of the l...

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...winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only....

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...on of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued in England. In the States, it has not been thought advisable to reproduce the whole; and the memoir appearing alone, shorn of that other matter which was at once its occasion and its justification, so large an account of a ma...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ...and killed them and enslaved the squatting, skulking Killer tribes who created villages and did not move. Did the animals of Africa learn from thi... ...e population. Humans began producing excess population faster. Offshoot villages or buds spread out faster from the favored areas where food wa... ... by then, their old nomadic culture-lifestyle was already gone. The offshoot villages were culturally frozen… locked into a higher rate of accumula... ...to one's family? Work? Neighbors? Neighborhood? Politically? Municipal? County? State? National? How many charities can one support? Which... ...rous split-identities. Try to resolve just how your street-neighborhood-city- county-province-state-national-political identity fits with your family... ...ons. Then you are supposed to love your country, your city, your state, your county, etc…. Without ever being loved back by any of these abstract ...

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...rrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream 16. Nobody?s Weakness 17. Nobody?s Rival 18. Little Dorrit?s Lover 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations 20. Moving in Society 21. Mr Merdle?s Complaint 22. A Puzzle 23. Machinery in Motion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nobody?s State of Mind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody?s Disapp...

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...ll the student essays contained herein were prodced by students registered in English 004 on the Hazleton Campus during the Fall semester of 1998, and... ................... ............................................. 5 Computers in the Dorm Rooms ............................................................ ............................ ............................................. 24 In Someone Else’s Eyes ....................................................... ... because I knew how to skateboard. Before the end of the day, I was riding down the Black Diamond Slopes, the hardest on any mountain. Snowboarding, a... ...ble trip I have experienced. Snowboarding is more than just riding a board down a hill. Riders must have strong legs and good balance. The one thing I... ...bably on a differ- ent island. The road passes through the three storybook villages known as Hell s Gate, Windward Side, and the Bottom, Saba s capita... ... capital. Almost all of Saba s 1,200 inhab- itants live in these beautiful villages. All the houses on the island are white, with red roofs and green ... ... in five square miles of space, there is so much to do. From the storybook villages to the depths of the ocean, Saba lies secretly among the other isl... ...ted right outside Washington s Crossing State Park, in the middle of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and is a very popular hangout for teenagers. The brid...

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Excerpt: Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.

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...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of Th... ...ng Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, faculty editor. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...and looking in the face of the sun; or hanging suspended, with their heads down ward, over flames; or looking at the heavens over their shoulders “un... ...ings; but there are very few halls for free worship or free speech in this county. It should not be by their architecture, but why not even by their p... ... Esquimau and the Patagonian, and embraces the populous Indian and Chinese villages; and thus, by a few years of philan thropic activity, the powers ... ... It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail. Old Cato, whose “De Re Rustica” is my “Cultivator,” says an... ...leave off our education when we begin to be men and women. It is time that villages were universities, and their elder inhabitants the fellows of univ... ...hat is the uncommon school we want. Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men. If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go rou...

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...e of any kind. Any per- son 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. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ver taken them out in this state of existence. Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea. My ... ...om the church. The man, after looking at me for a moment, turned me upside down, and emptied my pockets. There was nothing in them but a piece of brea... ...e been on terms of the warmest intimacy with all the cattle markets in the county. Joe caught up his hat again, and ran with them to the Jolly Bargeme... ...tion and trepidation before going on an er- rand, lest the officers of the County Jail should pounce upon me. The pale young gentleman’s nose had stai... ... the saddle. I mean to explore those marshes for amusement. Out-of-the-way villages there, they tell me. Curious little public-houses – and smithies –... ...nuals to prewent his crying out. But he knowed Orlick, and Orlick’s in the county jail.” By these approaches we arrived at unrestricted conversation. ...

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...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. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...t which the occasion perhaps required. “Ah,” said he, “I never yet met the down-trodden subject of a despot who did not hug his chains.” The first gen... ... the splendor of its ultimate prospects. If only they would be wise, throw down their arms, and agree to part! But they will not.” This was I think th... ... Quebec, are, I think, becoming less and less French every day; but in the villages and on the small farms the French still remain, keeping up their l... ...e river, which by its breadth forms itself into lakes, one is shown Indian villages clustering down upon the bank. Some years ago these Indians were r... ... is said that very few pure-blooded Indi- ans are now to be found in their villages, but I doubt whether this is not erroneous. The children of the In... ...en days, who has lived in the State for a year, and for four months in the county in which he votes. He can vote for all “officers that now are, 246 ...

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...gged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns and the Underwoods....

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...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. The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...other and of Felix Underwood, Sir Adrian Vanderkist had been rapidly going downhill; as though he had thrown off all restraint, and as if the yearly b... ...monstrances. Clement hurried off, but to find the bird flown. She had come down in the morning, white and tear-stained, and had 10 The Long Vacation ... ...oating accident, there he would be the ruling Sir Roger de Coverley of the county, a pillar of Church and State, and I should be a free man.” “Won’t t... ... appear at the next Petty Sessions. Reginald Mohun, used to the justice of county magistrates, and the unflinching dealings of courts-martial, was det... .... And now he has set up for himself, and has been going about all over the county. Mother has been quite different ever since she met him one day in A... ...ry-men from all the country round, and would be able to find out about the villages.” “But how unlikely it is that one of these wanderers would have k...

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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 wi...

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...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. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an i... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... he carefully trained for this very purpose. ‘O for shorthand to take this down!’ said he to Mrs. Thrale as they lis- tened to Johnson; and she replie... ...re were very few of his friends so accurate as that I could venture to put down in writing what they told me as his sayings.’ The faithfulness of his ... ...ly, and I do not watch myself, they will find me out to be of a particular county. In the same man- ner, Dunning may be found out to be a Devonshire m... ...great estate, I would drive all the rascals whom I did not like out of the county at an election.’ We then walked to the Pantheon. The first view of i... ...he was so exuberant a talker at publick meeting, that the gentlemen of his county were afraid of him. No business could be done for his declamation.’ ... ...ou could not find a palace like Dryden’s Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day, you had villages composed of very pretty houses; and he mentioned particularly The ...

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...arge 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 Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , ... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...ossibly pay for itself before we are called on, and in the meantime may keep down the accruing interest; in all events, it will replace the advances w... ...t which it would be unwilling the whole world should witness, can be written down by falsehood and defama tion. The experiment has been tried; you ha... ... governed in a body, and whose dominions seldom exceeded the dimensions of a county in one of our States, a tumultuous and disorderly movement per mi... .... It speaks to us in our coun ties, in our cities, in our towns, and in our villages. It speaks to us from the other nations of the hemisphere, and f... ...earth. Harry S. Truman INAUGURAL ADDRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1949 A former county judge, Senator and Vice President, Harry S. Truman had taken the o... ...ding the back of the tiger ended up inside. To those peoples in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, w...

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...out warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he mig...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, es...

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...e BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publi... ...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. In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Well... ...giddy money specialists clutch their handfuls of paper and watch it flying down the steep. Much as we may hate the Germans, some of us will have to si... ...wn the steep. Much as we may hate the Germans, some of us will have to sit down with some of the enemy to arrange a common scheme for the preservation... ...is Peace Con- gress is too big a job for party politicians and society and county families. The bulk of British opinion cannot go on being represented... ...nce, there is a jumble of Albanian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Greek and Rumanian villages always jostling one another and maintaining an intense irri- tatio... ...ion, that for Germany the choice is 40 In the Fourth Year world empire or downfall and utter ruin. This is the argu- ment that holds the German peopl...

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...tant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties. But as he finds an account of the circumstances given in the Notes to Law?s Memorials, by his ingenious friend, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq., and also indicated in his reprint of the Rev. Mr. Symson?s poems appended to the Large Description of Galloway, as the original of th...

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...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. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...d was a widower at the close. Soon after this he emigrated to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and settled near the town of Greensburg in that count... ...r set up for himself in business, establishing a tan- nery at Ravenna, the county seat of Portage County. In a few years he removed from Ravenna, and ... ...d from Ravenna, and set up the same busi- ness at Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio. During the minority of my father, the West afforded but poor ... ...e color of my uniform trousers—with a strip of white cotton sheeting sewed down the outside seams in imitation of mine. The joke was a huge one in the... .... Shortly afterwards the bulk of the troops were sent from the city to the villages at the foot of the mountains, four or five miles to the south and ... ...l was not then in the city, having taken offices in one of the neighboring villages after his troops had succeeded in subduing the conflagration which...

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...ached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; and in several instances these versions have been incorporated, after some revision or necessary correction, into the following collection; but on the other hand a large proportion of the contents have been specially translated f...

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...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 Pennsylva- nia State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Tran... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...c, devastated whole countries, destroyed harvests, and re- duced towns and villages to ashes; which opened a grave for many thousand combatants, and f... ...avouring to defend these from the hostile inroads of the Turks, and to put down intestine rebellion. In this quarter destructive wars were succeeded b... ...a, and Bohemia, and uniting all those countries in one fearful revolt. The downfall of popery in these lands would then have been inevitable. 34 The ... ... of the archi- episcopal see of that city. All the churches in the cities, villages, and market towns, which they held at the date of the letter, were... ...d to Tilly. The Swedes routed three of his regiments, which were posted in villages at some distance from the main body, carried off half their baggag... ...wo columns, by Gotha and Arnstadt, and having delivered, in its march, the county of Henneberg from the Imperialists, formed a junc- tion on the third...

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...Excerpt: It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, mong the rest of my neighbors, heard in ordinary dis course that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy,...

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...the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen wh... ...great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made public before. A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...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... ...ould go: till, faint and tired, and not getting any relief, the houses and villages on the road refusing to admit them to lodge whether infected or no... ...e of the city within the walls; and one- fourth part to the suburbs in the county of Middlesex, and the east and north parts of the city. But this lat... ... any- where, to creep into a bush or hedge and die. The inhabitants of the villages adjacent would, in pity , carry them food and set it at a distance... ...n at London; which, though false in the common acceptance of London in the county, yet was literally true, W apping or Ratcliff being no part either o... ...we shall take care to be strong enough for you. I have orders to raise the county upon you. John. It is you that threaten, not we. And since you are f... ...lly infected, and about 120 were said to have died of the distemper in the villages near them, which was a terrible thing to them. On this they called...

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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 received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of ...

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...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. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... be fair to call a good one. All have some fault. The fault of each grinds down the hearts of those about him, and – let us not blink the truth – hurr... ...that I had grown at last wholly to believe it, and had ended by setting it down as a contribution to the theory of life. So with the more icy parts of... ...unting rapidly; from the cynosure of a parish, he had become the talk of a county; once the bard of rural courtships, he was now about to appear as a ... ...re actually to withdraw from this copartner- ship, and be locked up in the county gaol therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For ... ...d to have taken fare- well of the political stage. A feeble attempt on the county of Asti is scarce worth the name of exception. Thenceforward let Amb... ...ecian life; and still more elect to pass a few years wander- ing among the villages of Palestine with an inspired conduc- tor. For some of our quaintl...