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.................................. 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824...................................................................

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...s ies ies Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State Unive... ...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...xpression on his flat face. He spoke in that re- fined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the gentle, patronizing i... ..., sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disap- point the expectations of those who knew her. The sub- ... ...ched love and forgiveness of injuries— and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another. Adieu, dear and kind friend; may our... ...long ago. I should long ago have joined the archduke. And believe me on my honour that to me personally it would be a pleasure to hand over the suprem... ... that enabled us to escape him. Buxhowden pursues us—we scuttle. He hardly crosses the river to our side before we recross to the other. At last our e... ...ans. Besides being advocates of bold action, this section also represented nationalism, which made them still more one-sided in the dispute. They were...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Joe Brownlow?s Fancy. The lady said, ?An orphan?s fate Is sad and hard to bear.? --Scott ?MOTHER, you could do a great kindness.? ?Well, Joe?? ?If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she...

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...gnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...m Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...syl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...t pity, not artfulness, was to blame for the undesirable match. He was too honourable a man not to see that it could not be given up, and he held that... ...us and Jock were rolling over together with too much noise to be bearable; Grandmamma turned round with an expostulatory “My dears,” Mamma with “Boys,... ...?” inquired Mrs. Brownlow. “You don’t want her to help to keep the boys in order?” “Thank you, I can do that better without her,” said Carey. “She exa... ...ed for Uncle James’s Indian and Crimean campaigns, and for the comparative merits of the regiments his nephew had beheld at reviews. He was interrupte... ... now , Elfie,” said Miss Ogilvie. “It makes me ill,” said Elvira, with her crossest look. Her governess laid her hand on her shoulder, and told her in... ...e.” “Get in, I say,” cried Jock, who was making demonstra- tions with the “national weapon” much as if he would have liked to lay it about their shoul...

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...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T r... ...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by... ...y done their duty in each of them erecting in recent years a statue to his honour, a two- fold homage reflecting credit both on the province and on th... ... the death of his father, he went to Scotland to set his family affairs in order, and to redeem his house in Cromarty. But, in spite of another sojour... ...e continuation by Motteux, who was also the translator of Don Quixote, has merits of its own. It is precise, elegant, and very faithful. Urquhart’s, w... ...re fresh butter down in showers distill’ d: Wherewith when water’d was his grandam, Hey, Aloud he cried, Fish it, sir, I pray y’; Because his beard is... ...end by these large conquests? What shall be the end of so many labours and crosses? Thus it shall be, said Picrochole, that when we are returned we sh... ...gentler en- emies than they were before; but since the denunciation of the national Council of Chesil, whereby they were roughly 602 Gargantua & Pant...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Above Buttons. Long after the hours when tradesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the shutters of a certain shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea remained significantly closed, and it became known that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec Harrin...

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...cs Series Publication Evan Harrington by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Series Publication Evan Harrington by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...universe. In the case of Mr. Melchisedec it was otherwise. This had been a grand man, despite his calling, and in the teeth of opprobrious epithets ag... ...d there’s one of the regiments going to give a supper party, which he’s to order; or the Admiral’s wife wants the receipt for that pie; or in comes my... ...et their names—and other ladies and gentlemen whose acquaintance I was not honoured with.” Y ou know his way of talking. “And there was a goose on the... ...arquises to match him.’ T o this Barnes and Grossby, not insensible to the merits of the recital they had just given ear to, agreed. And with a com- m... ...rked deference to Evan, induced Mr. Raikes contemptuously to glance at our national blindness to the true diamond, and worship of the mere plumes in w... ...; and, ex- cepting that trifling coquetry with shirt-fronts, viz., the red crosses, which a shrewd rival had very soon eclipsed by repre- senting nymp...

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...Preface: If a book by an author who must call herself a veteran should be taken up by readers of a younger generation, they are begged 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 ...

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...BY CHARLOTTE M. YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ries Publication The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... a day- dream has been gained, and more than one ideal has been tried, and merits and demerits have become apparent. And thus it is hoped that the Lon... ...day.” This was to Anna Vanderkist, a young person of the plump par- tridge order, and fair, rosy countenance ever ready for smiles and laughter. “Here... ...he dignity of the senior form. “Look at him,” said the General, “those are honours one 29 Yo n g e only gets once or twice in one’s life, before begi... ...usband and father, whereas Lady Merrifield’s notion of him was as a grave, grand-look- ing man with a splendid beard. Fergus Merrifield was asked to b... ...gether subdued and altered, and had allowed her daughter to receive a good National school training; but with the recovery of health, activity, and vo... ...r holding forth at Sandusky, we took our passage in a little steamer which crosses the little bay in the Lake to Jonesville—one of those steamers just...

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...Excerpt: The opening of the eyes of Mrs Chick Miss Tox, all unconscious of any such rare appearances in connection with Mr. Dombey?s house, as scaffoldings and ladders, and men with their heads tied up in pocket-handkerchiefs, glaring...

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...ies Publication Dombey & Son Volume 2 by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ... Publication Dombey & Son Volume 2 by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...led, but a piercing singer, as Princess’s Place well knew; taking, next in order, the little china ornaments, paper fly-cages, and so forth; and comin... ...ith her, after this; and I really don’ t know, as Paul is going to be very grand, and these are people of condition, that she would have been quite pr... ...nd happier far, perhaps, to die so, Edith, than to live on to the end! The Honourable Mrs Skewton, who was thinking of any- thing rather than of such ... ...ndeared him to me, and so proved his better resolution—any fragment of the merit of his unassisted, obscure, and forgotten reparation— would be to dim... ...eir blunt heads from bludgeons that might have beaten them in; of bridges, crosses, churches, postyards, new horses being put in against their wills, ... ... ‘It must be done, Ma’am,’ he says. ‘W e must marry ‘em. W e must have our national schools to walk at the head of, and we must have our standing armi...

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...Excerpt: The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens....

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...HE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career o... ...LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of t... ...g a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens A Penn State ... ... munificent and generous deed in that town of which they are the pride and honour.” If I were to attempt to sum up the thousands of letters, from all ... ...ISHMENTS, AND HIS UNDERTAKINGS, AND OF A GREAT JOINT STOCK COMPANY OF VAST NATIONAL IMPORTANCE MR RALPH NICKLEBY WA S NOT, strictly speaking, what you... ...he season, between four and five in the afternoon, when they give away the orders,—all live in Golden Square, or within a street of it. T wo or three ... ... put a fancy nose into a miniature of an ugly little boy, destined for his grandmother in the country, who was expected to bequeath him property if he... ...f I had stood by, tamely and pas- sively , I should have hated myself, and merited the contempt of every man in existence. The black-hearted scoundrel... ... capital B’s and D’s are exactly like mine; he dots all his small i’ s and crosses every t as he writes it. There an’t such a young man as this in all...

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...Preface: No one can be more sensible than is the Author that the present is an overgrown book of a nondescript class, neither the ?tale? for the young, nor the novel for their elders, but a mixture of both....

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...Excerpt: PART I. Chapter One. We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a ?new fellow,? not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his work. The head...

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Excerpt: The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One.

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...S STEVENSON V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pen... ...V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...mme le jour prochaine est mon jour de naisance je vous ecrit ce lettre. Ma grande gatteaux est arrive il leve 12 livres et demi le prix etait 17 shill... ...may conceive what a fright I got. I send off this single sheet just now in order to let you know I am safe across; but you must not expect letters oft... ...g about Scottish scenery and manners, the High- land dress, and everything national or local that I could lay my hands upon. Now that I have got my Ge... ... as glad at heart as I was, and prom- ising himself a future as golden and honourable! SUNDA Y , 11.20 A.M. – I wonder what you are doing now? – in ch... ...s preserved moreover, if that’s any- thing, and I believe with some little merits; not so clever perhaps as the last, but sounder and more natural. My... ...in, on whom he meditates one of his charming es- says. He descends Powell, crosses Market, and descends in Sixth on a branch of the original Pine Stre...

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...Excerpt: Volume Two of The Life And Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens....

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Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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.................................................................................................................................. 9 Lecture I: RELIGION AND NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC .............................................................

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...Excerpt: ?Dearest Meg, ?It isn?t going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and altogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroom or drawing-room....

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two.

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...Contents THE PURLOINED LETTER ...................................................................................................................................... 4 THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE..........................

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