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The C‘Sars

By: Thomas de Quincey

...person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ndeur of magni- tude; and not many—if we except the cities of Greece, none at all—in the grandeur of architectural display. Speaking even of London, w... ...ce, none at all—in the grandeur of architectural display. Speaking even of London, we ought in all reason to say—the Nation of London, and not the Cit... ...n, we ought in all reason to say—the Nation of London, and not the City of London; but of Rome in her palmy days, nothing less could be said in the na... ...uld have been otherwise who lived and conversed with that genera- tion and people. But if superstitious, he was so after a mode of his own. In his ver... ...rs of the Augustan era, it would seem that this custom was not confined to people of distinction, but was familiar to a class of travellers so low in ... ... In his own palace were reared a number of youthful princes; and they were educated jointly with his own children. It is also upon record, that in man... ...entum) to Augustus. It is an anecdote of not less curiosity, that a whole ‘college’ of kings subscribed money for a temple at Athens, to be dedicated ...

...ent or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude; and not many--if we except the cities of Greece, none at all--in the grandeur of architectural display. Speaking even of London, we ought in all reason to say--the Nation of London, and not the City of London; but of Rome in her palmy days, nothing less could be said in the nake...

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

...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 University nor Jim M... ... the strong tide met with an impedi- ment, his gaze paused for an instant. At every mooring-chain and rope, at every stationery boat or barge that spl... ...ncies. Chapter 2 THE MAN FROM SOMEWHERE MR AND MRS VENEERING were bran-new people in a bran- new house in a bran-new quarter of London. Everything abo... ... eke in silver, frosted and also thawed, a camel of all work. The Heralds’ College found out a Crusading ancestor for V e- neering who bore a camel on... ...o was inveigled by Lady Tippins (a friend of his boyhood) to come to these people’s and talk, and who won’t talk. Reflects Eugene, friend of Mortimer;... ...they wouldn’t, to the man from Somewhere. Being a boy of fourteen, cheaply educated at Brussels when his sister’ s expul- sion befell, it was some lit... ...m, and readily received the Boffins. He was quite a young man, expensively educated and wretch- edly paid, with quite a young wife and half a dozen qu... ...d a child of your own, Mr and Mrs Boffin?’ Never. ‘But, like the Kings and Queens in the Fairy T ales, I sup- pose you have wished for one?’ In a gene... ...y, yes. Mr Milvey smiled again, as he remarked to himself ‘Those kings and queens were always wishing for children.’ It occur- ring to him, perhaps, t...

...e precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in....

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Ann Veronica a Modern Love Story

By: H. G. Wells

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...f the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.” CHAPTE... ...id to herself… . Morningside Park was a suburb that had not altogether, as people say, come off. It consisted, like pre-Roman Gaul, of three parts. Th... ...about her seemed to be—how can one put it? —in wrappers, like a house when people leave it in the summer. The blinds were all drawn, the sunlight kept... ...G . Wells promised at length on the science course at the Tredgold Women’s College—she had already matriculated into Lon- don University from school—s... ... Veronica smaller houses near the station. He had one son, who had been co-educated, and three daughters with peculiarly jolly red hair that Ann Veron... ...from the Avenue two days before. He was the junior of both his sisters, co-educated and much broken in to feminine society. A bowl of roses, just brou... ...ourse. “It rests with them by the nature of things. Why should you who are queens come down from your thrones? If you can afford it, WE can’t. We can’... ...dolen’s eye. Annabel shines like a star in the darkness, Rosamund queens it a rose, deep rose; But the lady I love is like sunshine in Apr...

...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A crisis h...

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Mens Wives

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... CIRCLE. IN A CERTAIN QUIET and sequestered nook of the retired village of London – perhaps in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate so... ...ed village of London – perhaps in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens—there was once a house of ent... ...I’m not,” says he, “a tradesman— I’m a Hartist” (Mr. Eglantine was born in London)—”I’m a hartist; and show me a fine ‘ead of air, and I’ll dress it f... ...gh the influence of great men; he was an agent for half-a-dozen theatrical people, male 13 Thackeray and female, and had the interests of the latter ... ... person were of that showy sort which is most popular in this world, where people are wont to admire most that which gives them the least trouble to s... ...nd some of these were at livery at the establishment of the Captain’s old “college” companion, Mr. Snaffle. It was easy, therefore, for the Captain to... ...s!” added the player. “Billingsgate and V auxhall were there too, and left college at eight o’clock.” When Morgiana was told of the circumstance by he... ...e said, the proudest moment of his life. He was proud to think that he had educated her for the stage, happy to think that his sufferings had not been...

...Excerpt: In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London -- perhaps in the neighborhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens--there was once a house of entertainment called the ?Bootjack Hotel.? Mr. Crump, the landlord, had, in the outset of l...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...t tidy, fidg- ety, thrifty little personage that ever inhaled the smoke of London; and the house of Mrs. Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Grea... ...always talking. Mr. Tibbs 4 Sketches by Boz rarely spoke; but, if it were at any time possible to put in a word, when he should have said nothing at ... ...wn. But, as this said independence was not quite sufficient to furnish two people with all the luxuries of this life, it had occurred to the busy litt... ...ens parlour. Mrs. Maplesone and Mr. Calton played cribbage, and the ‘young people’ amused themselves with music and conversation. The Miss Maplesones ... ...ver—he certainly deserved it. ‘I have frequently observed a chimney-pot in College- green, Dublin, which has a much better effect,’ said the patriotic... ... lady— she’s stopping with my wife now—who is just the thing for you. Well educated; talks French; plays the piano; knows a good deal about flowers, a... ..., and you were, eh?’ inquired Walker. ‘To be sure, ’ replied the liberally educated young gentle- man. ‘To be sure; and so here I am, locked up for a ... ...nother, when he was a wisitin’ at some gentlefolk’s house, as he knowed at college, he came into contract with the young lady. He seed her several tim...

...t: Chapter 1. The Boarding-House. Mrs. Tibbs was, beyond all dispute, the most tidy, fidgety, thrifty little personage that ever inhaled the smoke of London; and the house of Mrs. Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Great Coram-street. The area and the area-steps, and the street-door and the street-door steps, and the brass handle, and the door-plate, and the knocker,...

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The Point of View

By: Henry James

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...3 Henry James The Point of View by Henry James I. FROM MISS AURORA CHURCH, AT SEA, TO MISS WHITESIDE, IN PARIS. …My dear child, the bromide of sodium ... ...take the precaution to have nice ones. They are all you seem to see as the people walk about the deck; you get to know them intimately, and to dislike... ...l about that. It is easy to see that these are the last hours, for all the people about me are writing letters to put into the post as soon as we come... ...f your charming Cecile. You know with what earnest care my Aurora has been educated,— how thoroughly she is acquainted with the principal re- sults of... ... have never concealed from her that it was not for this country that I had educated her. If she marries in the United States it is, of course, my inte... ... country-house in the dusk of a winter’s day? Have you ever made a call in London, when you knew nobody but the hostess? People here are more expressi... ...em, and have visited no fewer than one hundred and forty—three schools and colleges. It is extraordinary, the number of persons who are being educated... ...o occu- pies the chair of Moral Philosophy and Belles-Lettres in a Western college, and who told me with the utmost frank- ness that she was adored by...

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim... ...the former (and this is my opinion), I blundered, I think, more edifyingly—at least from the point of view of my own in- struction. I ventured upon se... ... and entertaining as its matter permits, because I want it read by as many people as possible, but I do not promise anything but rage and confusion to... ...ph entertainment is the one to grasp. There will be an effect of these two people going to and fro in front of the circle of a rather defective lanter... ... below would take a different air, and my companion the botanist, with his educated observation, might almost see as much, and the train, perhaps, wou... ...exist here. And that savage sort of shyness, too, that makes so many half- educated people on earth recluse and defensive, that too the Utopians will ... ...d in his little scrap of reserved open country. Such is al- ready the poor Londoner’s miserable fate…. Our Utopia will have, of course, faultless road... ...ad there will be a great multitude of gracious little houses clustering in college-like groups, no doubt about their com- mon kitchens and halls, down... ...aution- ary and remedial treatment. There will be disciplinary schools and colleges for the young, fair and happy places, but with less confidence and...

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

...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 University nor Jim M... ... beginning of ill-con- ceived books. One does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way of living, and I have found myself with the t... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...grandfather had been a private schoolmaster and one of the founders of the College of Pre- ceptors, and my father had assisted him in his school until... ... and she tried in vain to interest me in them; there was Miss Strickland’s Queens of England, a book I re- member with particular animosity, and Queec... ...here was a home in T ufnell Park, and three boys to be fed and clothed and educated… . I had the curiosity to buy a copy of his magazine after- wards,... ... have dealt with them disrespect- fully. But public schools and university colleges sprang into 54 The New Machiavelli existence correlated, the scho... ...to a conception of millions of people not organised as they should be, not educated as they should be, not simply prevented from but incapable of near...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ge burden. The river seems to have dwindled since the site was chosen, and at present it is, I think, evident that Washington can never be great in it... ...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he... ... there, and was under the dominion of a quack doctor on one side, and of a college of rights of women female medical professors on the other. “I belie... ...e the political feeling— for it is a political feeling—which induces every educated American to lend a hand to the education of his fellow- citizens. ... ...n up my quarters with monks of different nations. I have, as it were, been educated to dirt, and taken out my degree in outward abominations. But my e... ...with contentment? On our return to Liverpool, we stayed for a few hours at Queenstown, taking in coal, and the passengers landed that they might stret... ...ce in those times: God be with the good old days! And now I went ashore at Queenstown, happy to feel that I should be again in a British isle, and hap...

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

...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 University nor Ji... ...ss of his company — for he did all the talking. We fell together, as modest people will, in the tail of the herd that was being shown through, and he... ...t people will, in the tail of the herd that was being shown through, and he at once began to say things which interested me. As he talked along, soft... ...s?” I said I had not heard of it. He was so little interested — just as when people speak of the weather — that he did not notice whether I made him ... ...ntry inside of three months; for I judged I would have the start of the best educated man in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain... ... in a peck at a time, in a dozen places. We could have blown up the Tower of London with these charges. When A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Co... ...nd not comprehensible to any .” “I yield. Proceed, sir Chief of the Herald’s College. “ The chairman resumed as follows: “By what illustrious achievem... ...gree.” There it was again. He could see only one side of it. He was born so, educated so, his veins were full of ancestral blood that was rotten with ... ...prosperous country, and strangely al tered. Schools everywhere, and several colleges; a number of pretty good newspapers. Even authorship was taking ...

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A Tramp Abroad

By: Mark Twain

...is Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way d... ...e of them, and as such is a part of the Pennsylvania State University’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis, (photo of Twain in the l... ...he carpetway clear. Nobody moved or spoke any more but only waited. In a short time the shrill piping of a coming train was heard, and immediately gro... ...e lofty Neckar hills to their beguiling and im- pressive charm in any country; but German legends and fairy tales have given these an added charm. The... ...for himself whether he will work or play; for German university life is a very free life; it seems to have no re- straints. The student does not live ... ...arp pain the hurts were inflicting. This was good fortitude, indeed. Such endur- ance is to be expected in savages and prize-fighters, for they are bo... ...ould be so divinely beautiful. The great crowd which the “Fremersberg” had called out was another evidence that it was low-grade music; for only the f... ...ng that “Lady Kennedy had given birth to twins, the eldest being a son.” The Company explain that the message they received contained the words “Gover... ...raphic repetition was at once demanded. It has been received today (11th inst.) and shows that the words really telegraphed by Reuter’s agent were “Go...

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In the Days of the Comet

By: H. G. Wells

...person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...WER WER WER WER WER I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so ... ...ering of a palace, of a terrace, of the vista of a great roadway with many people, people exaggerated, im- possible-looking because of the curvature o... ... Change, so far as it has affected my own life and the lives of one or two people closely connected with me, primarily to please myself. Long ago in m... ... has been in most things accomplished, in a time when every one is be- ing educated to a sort of intellectual gentleness, a gentleness that abates not... ...the Days of the Comet my time, I was ill clothed, ill fed, ill housed, ill educated and ill trained, my will was suppressed and cramped to the pitch o... ...met wrote a day or so later to the Times—I have that Times, I have all the London papers of the last month before the Change— “The man was paid off an... ...ndred altogether, including the reverend gentleman’s photograph albums and college and school text- books. This suggestion of learning was enforced by... ... suggestion of learning was enforced by the little wooden shield bearing a college coat-of-arms that hung over the looking-glass, and by a photograph ...

...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the suns...

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The Soul of a Bishop

By: H. G. Wells

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim... ...was inaudible. Behind him the little rufous man with the big eyes twitched at his robe and offered suggestions. And behind these two clustered a great... ...hanical ex- pert of some sort, a railway peer, geniuses, hairy and Celtic, people of no clearly definable position, but all quite unequal to the task ... ...ors were no good. There wasn’t a physi- cian in the diocese. He must go to London. He looked into the weary eyes of his reflection and said, as one ma... ...h and reality. London had not disillusioned him. It was a strange waste of people, it made him feel like a mis- sionary in infidel parts, but it was a... ...ings have gone further than that. She seems to think—that she is not being educated properly here, that she ought to go to a College. As if we were ke... ...nk—that she is not being educated properly here, that she ought to go to a College. As if we were keeping things from her….” The bishop reconsidered h... ...y think of—things in gen- eral.” The bishop reflected. “She wants to go to College.” “They want to go in a set.” 30 The Soul of a Bishop “I wonder i... ...ixteen hundred or two thousand five hun- dred years ago…. the increasingly educated and practical- minded working classes will not come to church, wee...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania State University nor ... ... mile in high water: thence to the sea the width steadily diminishes, until, at the ‘Passes,’ above the mouth, it is but little over half a mile. At t... ...psed since the river took its place in history. The belief of the scientific people is, that the mouth used to be at Baton Rouge, where the hills ceas... ...d fifty years there had been white settlements on our Atlantic coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in the south the ... ... so while he was still a little boy he was sent to “one of them old, ancient colleges”—he couldn’t remember which; and by and by his father died and h... ...the Mississippi Mark T wain 106 Red Church 1 39 Bonnet Carre 2 38 College Point 3 50(half) Donaldsonville 4 59 Plaquemine 7 05(half... ...attributes that go to constitute high and flawless char acter, did all that educated judgment and trained skill could Life on the Mississippi Mark... ...rs of New York; yet this has no perceptible effect upon the grand fact: the educated eye never mistakes those people for New Yorkers. No, there is a ... ...g to an understanding with the two victims, he was to have given Backus four queens, but alas, he didn’t. Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 212 ...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ..................................................................... ... 125 AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNER .................................................. ...the Bessemer furnace and refines it into steel of the first quality. It is educated, now —its training is complete. And it has reached its limit. By n... ...s complete. And it has reached its limit. By no possible process can it be educated into gold. Will you set that down? Y.M. Yes. “Everything has its l... ...g. He correctly observed, and he marvelously painted. He exactly portrayed people whom God had cre ated; but he created none himself. Let us spare h... ...orm it. Mark T wain 19 O.M. But there is here and there a man who would. People, for instance, like the man who lost his life trying to save the chi... ...hine Note.—When Mrs. W. asks how can a millionaire give a single dollar to colleges and museums while one human being is destitute of bread, she has a... ...generals and admirals and governors were discussing him, all the kings and queens and emper ors had put aside their other interests to talk about him... ...like the one blind man where all others see; the one groping savage in the college of the learned, and always, during service, I feel like a heretic i...

............ 118 SWITZERLAND, THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY ................................................................................................ 125 AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNER ..................................................................................................................... 135 WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS .........................................................

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim... ...ous “Memoirs” of the Duc de Saint-Simon. They stand, by universal consent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from ... ...iqued me most, the Duc de Chartres was there, too. I had been, as it were, educated with him. I was younger than he by eight months; and if the expres... ...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ...ch as he to make a lineage. But pressed M. by Madame de Maintenon, who had educated Maine; and who felt for him as a nurse the King resolved to marry ... ...hat he could not make up his mind to obey. He was underdoyen of the sacred college. Cibo, the doyen, was no longer able to leave his bed. T o become d... ...h to bursting with fish. He was a great eater, like the King, and like the Queens his mother and grand- mother. He had not appeared after supper, but ... ... from Queen Anne, “My aunt,” she said, “you must admit that in England the queens govern better than the kings, and do you know why, my aunt?” asked s...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...wn opinions; being quite convinced that not only should a biographer never at- tempt either to twist or conceal the sentiments of the sub- ject, but t... ...Norfolk family, and was born at Coney Weston, on February 11, 1790. He was educated at Eton, and there formed more than one friendship, which not only... ... in his life, as well as in that of his son. The elder John Patteson was a colleger, and passed on to King’s College, Cambridge, whence, in 1813, he c... ...arnest wish to be a clergyman, because he thought saying the Absolution to people must make them so happy, ‘a belief he must have gleaned from his Pra... ...ng out to found a church, and then to die neglected and forgotten. All the people burst out crying, he was so very much beloved by his parishioners. H... ...tone through life, and became apparent in his sermons when he addressed an educated audience. Here is a letter to his eldest sister: ‘The weather has ... ...part of the Melanesian school to a little island not far from the coast of Queensland, in a much warmer climate than Kohimarama, where it was thought ... ...y have a branch school on the S.W . of Curtis Island, on the east coast of Queensland, healthy, watered, wooded, with anchorage, about 25° S. lati- tu...

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A Child's History of England

By: Charles Dickens

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...y Charles Dickens CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS IF YOU LOOK AT A M AP of the World, you will see, in the left hand upper corner of the... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...; and sent Matilda away, in fine state, with the German ambassadors, to be educated in the country of her future husband. And now his Queen, Maud the ... ..., when the King thought of making him Archbishop. He was clever, gay, well educated, brave; had fought in several battles in France; had defeated a Fr... ... the Church of Our Lady at Boulogne, where there were four Kings and three Queens present (quite a pack of Court Cards, for I dare say the Knaves were... ...ng, and three hundred and twenty broad—were opened for the tournament; the Queens of France and England looking on with great array of lords and ladie... ..., it being February, was filled with people; and the priests of Gloucester College were looking complacently on from a window, and there was a great c...

...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islan...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... why heels run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears. A breeze which had crossed a ... ...of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed... ...them by clenching his hands behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for peopl... ...dmit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a fellow that was too s... ...onations which a thousand million women, dairy wenches and mischief-making queens, had used before her, and which a million million women will know he... ...ay when on her hill by the Mississippi she had walked the battlements with queens. But the celebrated cinema jester’s conceit of dropping toads into a... ...bits. But it is morally instructive to know that he was a good student and educated himself, in striking contrast to the loose ways and so-called aris... ...!” Thus the Chautauqua, as Carol saw it. After it, the town felt proud and educated. 247 Sinclair Lewis VIII Two weeks later the Great War smote Euro...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Three

By: Thomas Carlyle

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... .......................................................... 80 Chapter 3.2.VI. At the Bar. .................................................................. ...m in prison,—Roy- alist types replace the worn types often snatched from a People’s-Friend in old ill days. In our ‘peculiar tribune’ we write and red... ... another; citoyen (citizen) were suitabler; we even say thou, as ‘the free peoples of Antiq- uity did:’ so have Journals and the Improvised Commune su... ...ace Lamotte’s Husband is in these Prisons (she long since squelched on the London Pavements); but gets delivered. Gross de Morande, of the Courier de ... ...tching pre- mature rheumatism. (Helen Maria Williams, Letters from France (London, 1791-93), iii. 96.) Clermont may ring the tocsin now, and illuminat... ...e rises, and swells; caps raised on bayonets, hats waving: students of the College of Four Nations take it up, on the far Quais; fling it over Paris. ... ...aw and Liberty; according as the habits, persuasions and endeavours of the educated, mon- ied, respectable class prescribe? That is to say: the volcan... ...alls never witnessed: the Trial of Marie-Antoinette. The once brightest of Queens, now tarnished, defaced, forsaken, stands here at Fouquier Tinville’...

...ulas. ............................................................................................................................ 80 Chapter 3.2.VI. At the Bar. ........................................................................................................................................... 85 Chapter 3.2.VII. The Three Votings. .....................................

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