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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca N...

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... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ...and letting a cigarette dangle limp in a frown, Sang Huin realized that this new friend of his was not just straying off briefly, so he gradually went... ...nts at a language institute but stayed contained to his own students and his new friend, Sung Ki. That night they slept together; and the boy that had... ...break from their innate states of emptiness; and the connections sought from attractions that would be forsaken if the experiences seemed shallow and ... ...rre and sadistic ramifications were buried each day on page 1,999 of the New York Times. She would always read voraciously and thereby find their cada... ...ontemplated her isolated existence in an obscure trailer park in Ithaca, New York within the middle of winter in contrast to the crowds of Iraqi and A... ...ht land upon them. That's good especially with Saddam Hussein on the loose. Visitors won't mind eating with you at all." Lily released her grasp of ... ... He wants to see me tonight" "It is nearly 10. You aren't supposed to have visitors after 10. Isn't that what those group home counselors of yours t...

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...Excerpt: When The Duchess Was Dead No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the first nine months after he had left office he and the Duchess remained in...

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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 Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State... ...s with a full determination to create for himself an occupa- tion out of a new kind of life. He had studied Dante, and had striven to arouse himself t... ...; and now she seemed 18 The Duke’s Children naturally to expect that this new ally should look at this great question as her mother had looked at it.... ...an of a very ancient family, the Grexes having held the parish of Grex, in Yorkshire, from some time long prior to the Conquest. In saying all this, I... ...it always would be happiness for life. At the end of the week there came a visitor to see Lady Mary. A very pretty carriage was driven up to the door ... ...n therefore the name was announced, the servant expressly stating that the visitor had asked for Lady Mary, Lady Cantrip, who was with her guest, had ... ...e say positively that her money,—if it be that she will have money,—had no attractions for me when I first became acquainted with her and adds noth- i... ...nd feminine high-bred charm. She knew all that, but she knew also that her attractions were not so bright as those of her rival. She could not smile o...

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...Y 7, 1842. ............................................................................................................................... 15 SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842. ..................................................................................................... 19 SPEECH: MANCHESTER, OCTOBER 5, 1843. .........................................................

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...ge 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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens , the Pennsyl... ....................................... .......................... 15 SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842. ................................................. ................................... .......................... 15 SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842. ..................................................... ............................................ .................... 125 SPEECH: NEW YORK, APRIL 18, 1863. .................................................... ........................................ .................... 125 SPEECH: NEW YORK, APRIL 18, 1863. ........................................................ ...ongratulation, or, at least, of solicitous inquiry; for they who receive a visitor in any season of distress are easily touched and moved by what he s... ...ial Travellers having helped themselves so gallantly, it is clear that the visitors who come as a sort of celestial representatives ought to bring tha... ...nds, nor they of me.” In this case the books will not only possess all the attractions of their own friend ships and charms, but also the manifold—I ...

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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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...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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsy... ...ified the portrait, if Jenkin, after his death, shall not continue to make new friends, the fault will be alto- gether mine. R. L S. SARANAC, OCT., 18... ...EIGN OF HENRY VIII., a family of the name of Jenkin, claiming to come from York, and bearing the arms of Jenkin ap Philip of St. Melans, are found rep... ...r of Folkestone in 1555, to his contemporary ‘John Jenkin, of the Citie of York, Receiver General of the County,’ and thence, by way of Jenkin ap Phil... ...e efficiency, they struck root and grew to wealth and consequence in their new home. Of their consequence we have proof enough in the fact that not on... ... a coach and six, two post-horses and their own four; of the house full of visitors, the great roasts at the fire, the tables in the servants’ hall la... ...famil- iar to my readers – that of the Gaskells, Fleeming was a fre- quent visitor. T o Mrs. Gaskell, he would often bring his new ideas, a process th... ...in argument. The presence of his old classmate, Tait, was one of his early attractions to the chair; and now that Fleeming is gone again, Tait still r...

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with sm...

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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. Sketches by Box Volume One by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania... ...nusual solemnity. Innumerable were the calls made by prudent mammas on our new curate, and innumerable the invitations with which he was assailed, and... ... on the parish defraying the expense of the watch-box on wheels, which the new curate had or- dered for himself, to perform the funeral service in, in... ... the urn, and the best china tea-service, and the Pope Joan board; and the visitors are received in the drawing-room in great state. She has but few r... ...s Browns; forms were placed across the room for the accommoda- tion of the visitors, specimens in writing were carefully selected, and as carefully pa... ...ppearance of the houses, or a glance at their inhabitants, present but few attractions, a closer 73 Charles Dickens acquaintance with either is littl... ...e servant; not ill-pleased to have such an opportu- nity of displaying her attractions. She brings him back, and, after casting two or three gracious ... ... sabbath enthusiasts say, to an aristo- cratic ring encircling the Duke of York’s column in Carlton- terrace—a grand poussette of the middle classes, ...

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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 LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Fait... ...of the “Pickwick Papers,” I consulted with a professional friend who had a Yorkshire connexion, and with whom I concerted a pious fraud. He gave me so... ...impartial records of young ladies’ ages being, before the pass- ing of the new act, nowhere preserved in the registries of this country—Mr Nickleby lo... ...nney presented himself. ‘Chair, gentlemen, chair!’ 19 Charles Dickens The new-comers were received with universal approbation, and Mr Bonney bustled ... ...ar, and will avail themselves of all opportunities of displaying their own attractions to the best advantage, down to the very end of time, as they ha... ...Dotheboys Hall, inasmuch as, in con- sequence of the limited extent of its attractions, there was but little inducement, beyond the powerful impulse o... ... The common stairs of this mansion were bare and carpetless; but a curious visitor who had to climb his way to the top, might have observed that there... ...kid gloves, which so exas- perated Mrs Kenwigs, that that lady assured her visitors, in private, that if it hadn’t happened that the supper was cook- ...

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with sm...

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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. Volume One of THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, con... ...of the “Pickwick Papers,” I consulted with a professional friend who had a Yorkshire connexion, and with whom I concerted a pious fraud. He gave me so... ...impartial records of young ladies’ ages being, before the pass- ing of the new act, nowhere preserved in the registries of this country—Mr Nickleby lo... ...nney presented himself. ‘Chair, gentlemen, chair!’ 19 Charles Dickens The new-comers were received with universal approbation, and Mr Bonney bustled ... ...ar, and will avail themselves of all opportunities of displaying their own attractions to the best advantage, down to the very end of time, as they ha... ...Dotheboys Hall, inasmuch as, in con- sequence of the limited extent of its attractions, there was but little inducement, beyond the powerful impulse o... ... The common stairs of this mansion were bare and carpetless; but a curious visitor who had to climb his way to the top, might have observed that there... ...kid gloves, which so exas- perated Mrs Kenwigs, that that lady assured her visitors, in private, that if it hadn’t happened that the supper was cook- ...

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...pt: 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 month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Ma...

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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. Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ace of five and twenty years, after running a bright career in the capital city of his native land, and challenging notice from the throne, had retire... ...es I., the growing importance of the gentry, and the consequent birth of a new interest in political questions, had begun to express itself at Oxford,... ...lly, what was the standing in society of Shakspeare until he had created a new station for himself by his own exertions in the metropolis, is a questi... ...n noble looking boy. Miss Anne Hathaway had herself probably some personal attractions; and, if an indigent girl, who looked for no pecu- niary advant... ...he Earl of Downe. His mother was the daughter of William T urner, Esq., of York. She had three brothers, one of whom was killed; another died in the s... ...arise the small dowry of Mrs. Pope, not- withstanding the family estate in Yorkshire had centred in her person. But, by the way, we see from the fact ... ...from a public fund He persuaded, for instance, two beautiful young ladies, visitors in his family, to insure their lives for a short period of two yea...

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...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. ...

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...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 132 -- Brute Neighbors, 140 -- House-Warming, 149 -- Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors, 160 -- Winter Animals, ...

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...itude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Winter Animals . . . . . .... ...als . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 The Pond in Winter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Spr... ... HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myse... ...nd Sand wich Islanders as you who read these pages, who are said to live in New England; something about your condition, especially your outward cond... ...ay you cannot do you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, perchance, to fet... ...it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine ... ..., and got all the cream, and left the farmer only the skimmed milk. The real attractions of the Hollowell farm, to me, were; its complete retire ment... ...eemed larger for being a single apartment and remote from neighbors. All the attractions of a house were concentrated in one room; it was kitchen, cha...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their...

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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. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens , t... ...ning. The village shoemaker declined to have anything to do with Carrock. No visitors went up Carrock. No visi tors came there at all. Aa’ the world ... ...he wet was already penetrating through the young man’s outer coat to a brand new shooting jacket, for which he had reluctantly paid the large sum of t... ...g straight for ward round the slope of it. The difficulty of following this new route is acutely felt by Thomas Idle. He finds the hardship of walkin... ... had forgotten everything, even to his own name and himself—acknowledged the visitor’s presence, and stepped further back into the shadow of the wall ... ...out. I’ve kept my part of the bargain, and I mean to keep the money. I’m not Yorkshire, myself, young gentleman; but I’ve lived long enough in these p... ...artificial touchwood by smoke and ashes), deep in the manufacturing bosom of Yorkshire. A mys terious bosom it appeared, upon a damp, dark, Sunday ni... ...he postilions, the waiters, and the hawkers of Lists. He does not assist the attractions of the races, like the actors at the theatre, the riders at t...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was in the early days of April; Bernard Longueville had been spending the winter in Rome. He had travelled northward with the consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the further side of the Alps, but he w...

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...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment 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. Confidence by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ...n’t get at home. So they stay, you see. When they are at home they live in New York. They know some of my people there. When they are in Europe they l... ...get at home. So they stay, you see. When they are at home they live in New York. They know some of my people there. When they are in Europe they live ... ...d that she must stay at Marienbad to finish her cure. She has just begun a new one.” “Ah well,” said Bernard, “doubtless Blanche can take care of hers... ...l speech. Is n’t a lady always supposed to say something of that sort to a visitor by way of pretending to have noticed that she has not seen him?” “Y... ...erican girl, in such circumstances, is free to receive the most gallant of visitors. She smiled and talked and gave her- self up to charming gayety, s... ... Blanche. You had so cultivated her mind and polished her manners that her attractions were doubled, and I fell an easy victim to them.” He uttered th... ...dth time, that if he had been guilty of a misdemeanor in succumbing to the attractions of the admirable girl who showed to such advantage in letters o...

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...ke her with them, for their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.?...

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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. Magnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge, th... ...n half sorry to leave her dear old school, half glad to go on to something new. She was evidently not so comfortable, while Miss Heath’s lowest teache... ...n’t you know, Skipjack, that’s the reason you don’t grow—” “Eh! What’s the new theory! Who says so, Babie?” came from the bottom of the table. “Nurse ... ...t the summer sun made the place dazzling and almost uninhabitable, and the visitors, turning from the 89 Yonge glare, could hardly see the casts and ... ... The vicar, Mr. Rigby, was a dull, weak man, of a worn-out type, a careful visitor of the sick and poor, but taking little heed to the educated, excep... ...t to be despised, and Janet owed her social successes more to her mother’s attractions than her own. Conversation began by an inquiry after her brothe... ...rom creditors, but the reason assigned was an invitation to lecture in New York. So there was nothing for it but to put up with Miss Ray’s account of ... ... himself, with whom he meant to walk through the scenery of Derbyshire and Yorkshire, as far as the modest sum they allowed them- selves would permit,...

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Hawaii Business Magazine in tribute to the APEC meeting of 2011.

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...cean and Earth sciences -- 48 Turning Science Into Practical Inventions -- 56 Winners of the Hawai‘i Business Innovation Showcase -- 60 Breakthroughs in Health and Medicine -- 68 Hawai‘I Diversity Ideal for Medical Research -- 74 Perfect Place for Global Meetings -- 78 Checklist for Your Next Conference -- 82 Sustainability, Harmony Built Into Hawaiian Culture -- 86 What A...

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... and earth science and technology Our Ownership Hawaii Business is printed in Hawai‘i by Hagadone Printing Company on post-consumer recycled paper us... ...offset by carbon credits. is part of This special edition of was produced in cooperation with the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee. PUBLISHER David ... ...g and exporting energy worldwide. In doing so, the Kü‘oko‘a Plan creates new jobs, generates new revenue and adds significantly to the state’s tax ... ...l in turn create a workforce of the future and stimulate the creation of new businesses in the renewable and clean energy sectors. Inspired and inf... ... from governor neil abercrombie Presented to APEC Distinguished Guests and Visitors On behalf of the State of Hawai‘i, I would like to extend my aloha... ...extend my aloha to the leaders, ministers, CEOs, distinguished guests and visitors from the member economies of the Asia Pacifc Economic Cooperation... ...the world. No other city ofers such a variety of fne hotels and cultural attractions, all provided in a setting of unparalleled tropical beauty. Th... ...ai‘i, the next business day has begun in Asia and Australia: HAWAI‘I NEW YORK WASHINGTON TORONTO LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO VANCOUVER CHICAGO HOUSTON... ...fights a week) SEATTLE 5 hours, 32 minutes (28 to 35 fights a week) NEW YORK/NEWARK 9 hours, 40 minutes (7 fights a week) WASHINGTON D.C. 9 hour...

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... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

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...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... ...entleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the cou... ...ld theological books! Such a wife might awaken you some fine morning with a new scheme for the application of her income which would interfere with pol... ... were at large, one might know and avoid them. The rural opinion about the new young ladies, even among the cottagers, was generally in favor of Celia... ...ed, it was pretty to see how her imagination adorned her sister Celia with attractions altogether superior to her own, and if any gentleman appeared t... ...ry and asked for Mr. Cadwallader. Happily, the Rector was at home, and his visitor was shown into the study, where all the fishing tackle hung. But he ... ...there was no report about him which was not retailed at the Vincys’, where visitors were frequent. Mr. Vincy was more inclined to general good fellows... ... her cheery manners to husband and children, was certainly among the great attractions of the Vincy house—attractions which made it all the easier to ... ...r?” said Mrs. Garth, laying the letters down. “I shall go to the school at York,” said Mary. “I am less unfit to teach in a school than in a family. I ...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and gl...

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...Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................................................................... 4 NOONDAY IN CHEPE ....................................................................................................................... 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL............................................................................

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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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e congregated the habitations of men. In Tehran, or Pekin, or Stamboul, or New Y ork, or Timbuctoo, or London, there is a certain district where a cer... ...ge drew back, and a flood of golden light streamed on the He- brew and his visitor. CHAPTER XXIV THEY ENTERED A MODERATE-SIZED APARTMENT—indeed, Holyw... ...in piping bullfinches; and a Cardinal in disguise, with a pro- posal for a new loan for the Pope, were heard by turns; and each, after a rapid colloqu... ... al- together; there was sunlike in the dunjing of the pore prisner. I had visitors. A cart used to drive hup to the prizn gates of Saturdays; a washy... ...and- cheese, he was now quite ready to use against the enemy. His personal attractions were enhanced by a neat white hat, flung carelessly and fearles... ...ques- tioned, for she ordered the deepest mourning which any milli- ner in York could supply, and erected a monument to his memory as big as a minster... ... about whithersoever his fancy led him. He was present at a public ball at York, which the lord mayor gave, danced Sir Roger de Coverley in the very s...

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...Preface: It is sometimes treated as an impertinence to revive the personages of one story in another, even though it is after the example of Shakespeare, who revived Falstaff, after his death, at the behest of Queen Elizabeth. This precedent is, however, a true impertinence in calling on the very great to justify ...

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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 Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylv... ...nwel- come; while I have tried to make the story stand indepen- dently for new readers, unacquainted with the tale in which Lady Merrifield and her br... ...hem, I believe; but she has married a sailor captain and gone to settle in New Zealand, and I have not seen her since I was a very little girl. Then t... ...ou any books of your own?’ ‘Oh yes; this ‘Thorn Fortress’ is Val’s, and ‘A York and a Lancaster Rose’ is mine, but whenever any one gives us a book, i... ...es, with a somewhat bored languid manner as she shook hands with the early visitors. The sisters had a little consultation over the note, during which... ...ning. How many girls have you brought? Oh! the crimson rosettes, are they? York and Lancaster?—indeed. I’m glad we have some shelter for them; I’m afr... ...y have gone with them, but he was still young enough to be sensible of the attractions of toy-shops. Only Primrose had to be left to the nursery, and ... ...d forth before the post came in, it was only now that it broke on him that visitors were expected, and he did not like it at all. ‘I thought we had go...

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...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...

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...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...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 thorough. When the Constitution was thus perfected and established, a new form of government was created, but it was neither speculative nor expe... ...es sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, but no govern- ment had ... ...e departure of the first pilgrims:— “So they left that goodly and pleasant city of Leyden,* which had been their resting-place for above eleven years;... ...was only adopted in New England.*** *This was the case in the State of New York. **Maryland, the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey were in this ... ...ors are almost all commingled with the gen- eral mass. In the State of New York, which formerly con- tained many of these, there are but two who still... ...ightened spirit of our time, dungeons might be met with which reminded the visitor of the barbarity of the Middle Ages. 287 Tocqueville Chapter XV: U... ...it constantly happens that he who works for honor is not insensible to the attractions of profit. But these two desires only intermingle in the innerm...

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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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington, the ... ...formation of Mr. Washington’s character, then, went the missionary zeal of New England, influenced by one of the strongest personalities in modern edu... ...ard of the head of an important coloured school who was not a preacher. “A new kind of man in the coloured world,” I said to myself—”a new kind of man... ...I remember that at one time I saw two of my young mistresses and some lady visitors eating gin- ger-cakes, in the yard. At that time those cakes seeme... ...it must be the greatest place on earth, and not even Heaven presented more attractions for me at that time than did the Hampton Normal and Agricultura... ...the North. The first gift from any Northern person was received from a New York lady whom Miss Davidson met on the boat that was bringing her North. T... ...s for the completion of our new building. On my way North I stopped in New York to try to get a letter of recommendation from an officer of a missiona... ...o much hard work, and still keep himself calm, patient, and fresh for each visitor in the way that President McKinley does, I cannot under- stand. Whe...

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...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, a...

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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. Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylv... ...the rustic bystanders were quite convinced of the good intentions of their new friend, and accompanied him back to the “Bugle,” to re- gale upon the p... ...d desired husbands; but Hayes was, for a wonder, quite proof against their attractions; and, though quite ready to acknowledge the absurdity of his lo... ...ght use, if he liked, the Galgenstein arms with a bar-sinister; and in her new cares and duties had not so many opportunities as usual of quarrelling ... ...ared last night, in the hearing of several witnesses, that he was going to York; says he is a man of independent property, and has large estates in Ir... ...s a boiled lobster, and as unwieldy as a porpoise; and although her mental attractions did by no means make up for her personal deficiencies,—for she ... ...he fortunes of both. For, as it has often happened to the traveller in the York or the Exeter coach to fall snugly asleep in his corner, and on awakin... ...tailleur, Chevalier de Galgenstein.” Mr. Billings was, in fact, a frequent visitor at the Ambassador’s house; to whose presence he, by a general or- d...