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...Excerpt: IN 1828, at about one o?clock one morning, two persons came out of a large house in the Rue du Faubourg Saint- Honore, near the Elysee-Bourbon. One was the famous doctor, Horace Bianchon; the other was one of the most elegant...

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...a Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pe... ...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 Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell... ...madman; that for nearly ten years he has given his thoughts exclusively to China, its customs, manners, and history; that he refers everything to a Ch... ...e events of the day and the business of yester- day with facts relating to China; that he censures the acts of the Government and the conduct of the K... ...is personally much attached to him, by comparing them with the politics of China; “ ‘That this monomania has driven the Marquis d’Espard to conduct de... ...he years 1816, 17, and 18, a time when families were recover- ing from the disasters resulting from political tempests. She belonged to one of the mos...

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...Excerpt: Colonel Chabert. ?Hullo! There is that old Box-coat again!? This exclamation was made by a lawyer?s clerk of the class called in French offices a gutter-jumper--a messenger in fact--who at this moment was eating a piece of dry bread with a hearty appetite. He pulled off a morsel of crumb to make into a bullet, and fired it gleefully through the open...

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Excerpt: The War in the Air by H. G. Wells.

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...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...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 War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... Next came the great alliance of Eastern Asia, a close-knit coalescence of China and Japan, advancing with rapid strides year by year to predominance ... ...always clung to the illusion that Germans were fat, absurd men, who smoked china pipes, and were addicted to knowledge and horseflesh and sauerkraut a... ...mpses. And it came to him sud- denly as an incredible discovery, that such disasters were not only possible now in this strange, gigantic, foreign New... ...Francisco. We haf mate a camp at Niagara. Dat is whad they are telling us. China has cot drachenflieger and luftschiffe beyont counting. All de vorlt ... ... a muddle and confusion life has always been—the battles and massacres and disasters, the hates and harsh acts, the murders and sweatings, the lynchin...

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...ill equal your almost maternal kindness to me, would last beyond the limits prescribed for human affection. This sublime privilege of prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work we leave behind us would be (if we could only be sure of gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immortality....

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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 elec- tronic transmission, in any way. The Alkahest (The House of Claes) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. K... ...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... ...- ward; while its trade with India poured into it the grotesque designs of China and the marvels of Japan. 6 The Alkahest And yet, in spite of its pa... ... solitude that the notary was obliged not only to confirm the rumor of the disasters, but to give her further particulars, which were now well known t... ...-boards and buffets, on whose shelves stood many a curious piece of family china. The walls were hung with violet leather, on which designs of game an... ... a sense of pure and equable happiness. The silken coverings, brought from China, gave forth a soothing perfume that penetrated the system with- out f... ...he ef- fect. But the T wenty-ninth Bulletin and the news of the ter- rible disasters of the grand army in Russia, and at the pas- sage of the Beresina... ... candela- bra that he formerly had sold,—a visible sign that all the other disasters had been repaired. Breakfast was served in the dining-room, whose...

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Excerpt: As a testimony to the affection of his brother-in-law?

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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. An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Worm... ...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... ...nial manoeuvres. The worthy soul, now seventy years of age, attributed the disasters of the French Revolution to the design of Providence, eager to pu... ...eat and clean was again gone over and brushed and rubbed and scrubbed. The china of ceremony saw the light; the damask linen marked “A, B, C” was draw... ... out, in view of the whole company, a magnificent liqueur-stand of Dresden china which saw the light only twice a year. This circum- stance was taken ... ...profes- sor of anthropology, or even had she read Ariosto, the fright- ful disasters of her conjugal life would never have occurred. She would probabl...

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

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...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE....................................................................

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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. Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... .... The very same idea had not long before struck the celestial intellect of China. Amongst the presents carried out by our first embassy to that countr... ...ch, instead of mending the matter, laid an ominous foundation for com- ing disasters. The summer assizes were now proceeding at Lancaster: in conseque... ...of all human stories, Charles Lamb’s account of the origin of roast pig in China. Ching Ping, it seems, had suffered his father’s house to be burned d... ...ccident, were roasted to a turn. Memorable were the results for all future China and future civilization. Ping, who (like all China beside) had hither...

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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 Professor by Charlotte Brontë, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...as appeared from the beaufet and the armoire vitree, filled with glass and china, which formed part of its furniture. Ere she had closed the door on m... ...nd table between us, with a coffee-pot, a sugar-basin, and two large white china cups. While M. Pelet employed himself in choosing a cigar from a box,... ...ailed not to render audible the voice of resolve, patience, endeavour. The disasters which had driven him from his native country were alluded to; sta... ...ned a cupboard, and took out a tea- tray, on which she had soon arranged a china tea-equipage, whose pattern, shape, and size, denoted a remote antiqu...

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...Preface: In writing this ponderous tome, the author?s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the young may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. ...

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...is labours. When the foundation stone is laid, the architect appears with his plans, and struts for an hour before the public eye. So with the writer in hisPreface: he may have never a word to say, but he must show himself for a moment in the portico, hat in hand, and with an urbane demeanour....

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...nsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, ... ...associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an elec... ..., Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical ... ...l eye. Wherever he journeys, there are the officers gathered together. Treaties are solemnly signed, foreign ministers, ambassadors, and consuls sit t... ...gs, you would say France was come to a poor pass. But the thing will work its own cure, and a sound-hearted and courageous people weary at length of s...