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...Excerpt: A Fragment of Autobiography. IN 1897, after spending five years at St Thomas?s Hospital I passed the examinations which enabled me to practise medicine. While still a medical student I had published a novel called Liza of Lambeth which caused a mild sensation, and on the strength of that I rashly decided to abandon docto...

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...OBIOGRAPHY 1908 A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION The Magician by Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ate Uni versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... sedately two by two, wheeling perambulators and talking. Brightly dressed children trundled hoops or whipped a stubborn top. As he watched them, Dr P... ...e which would disappear when she was happily married. To have half a dozen children was in her mind much more important than to paint pictures. Margar... ...nct told her that she was made to be a decent man’s wife and the mother of children. She stopped in the middle of her bright chatter, fearing to trust... ...rvice to others of my trade. T o me it can be of no other use. Nothing can save me.” ‘His friends and the jugglers, his fellows, gathered round him an... ...with collected gesture fastened her cloak. There was nothing divine in her save a sweet strange spirit of virginity. A lover in ancient Greece, who of... ... the fingers had grown. In two of the bottles there was nothing to be seen save clear water, but when the Abbé knocked thrice at the seal upon the mou...

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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 ...

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...ion Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...arson of the parish, taking his evening walk with Mrs. Dobbs, and the four children his offspring, at length joined himself to his flock. To this audi... ...e; but the Doctor looked at Mrs. Dobbs, and Mrs. Dobbs and the rest of the children at her eldest son, who grinned and said, “Isn’t it wonderful?” The... ... bear these venerated names! My boys, stand forward! Look here, sir: these children have been respectively named after our late sovereign and the husb... ...en for breakfast, the old cat! why, I told her I would not eat a morsel to save me—I was so dru— I mean I ate such a good supper last night—and I bade... ...edo, and sprang at Mrs. Catherine. “Help! murder! thieves!” shrieked she. “Save me, Mr. Trip- pet, save me!” and she placed that gentleman between her... ... ac- complice for what I know; but I will have no dealings with Mr. Brock, save with a constable for a second.’ “‘This is an odd story, Captain Wood,’...

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...Excerpt: It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, mong the rest of my neighbors, heard in ordinary dis course that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotter...

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...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occu... ...le occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all t... ... before. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...nothing was to be seen but waggons and carts, with goods, women, servants, children, &c.; coaches filled with people of the better sort and horsemen a... ...s, the same that was given in another case quite different, viz., ‘Master, save thy- self.’ In a word, he was for my retiring into the country , as he... ...voice of mourners was truly heard in the streets. The shrieks of women and children at the win- dows and doors of their houses, where their dearest re... ...o lose them in the service of mankind. They endeavoured to do good, and to save the lives of others. But we were not to expect that the physicians cou... ...in in any church in time of common prayer, sermon, or lecture. And that no children be suffered at time of burial of any corpse in any church, churchy... ...hey had any servants they had been dis- missed; – I say it is true that to save the expenses, many such as these shut themselves in, and not having he...

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...Excerpt: THE PREFACE; If ever the story of any private Man?s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and were acceptable when Publish?d, the Editor of this Account thinks this will be so. The Wonders of this Man?s Life exce...

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Table of Contents: THE PREFACE, 1 -- THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c., 2 -- THE JOURNAL., 51

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...entures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner DANIEL DEFOE 1719 Contents THE PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1... ...HE PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c. . . . . . . 2 THE JOURNAL. ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 ii CONTENTS THE PREFACE If ever the story of any private Man’s Adventures in the World ... ...e, till at last the Men rowing very heartily, and venturing their Lives to save ours, our Men cast them a Rope over the Stern with a Buoy to it, and t... ...ys he, I have sav’d your Life on no other Terms than I would be glad to be saved my self and it may one time or other be my Lot to be taken up in the ... ...swallowed up, nor indeed did any in 30 ROBINSON CRUSOE the Ship expect to save their Lives. In this Distress, we had besides the Terror of the Storm,... ...te, so impossible in my Apprehension of Things, that I began to say as the Children of Israel did, when they were promis’d Flesh to eat, Can God sprea... ...rent, as any one may suppose, when I had no way of making them; but as the Children make Dirt Pies, or as a Woman would make Pies, that never learn’d ... ..., otherwise than out of one Difficulty into another. You know, says he, the Children of Israel, though they rejoyc’d at first for their being deliver’d ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken image...

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..............................................4 FATHER DAMIEN.........................................................................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW................................................................74 COLLEGE PAPERS..................................................

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...RIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... and mammon.’ Cannot? And our whole system is to teach us how we can! ‘The children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of l... ... the breath of God; and both schools of theorists will scream like scalded children at a word of doubt. Yet either of these views, however plausible, ... ...e the race; I am not, for the moment, averse to either theory; but it will save time to call it righteousness. By so doing I intend no subterfuge to b... ...nt, at every step in life, the point has to be decided, our soul has to be saved, heaven has to be gained or lost. At every step our spirits must appl... ...who cast half her fortune into the treasury. But a young man who elects to save on dress or on lodg- ing, or who in any way falls out of the level of ... ...lic benefac- tions to the race, but in private kindnesses. Your wife, your children, your friends stand nearest to you, and should be helped the first...

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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 glori...

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................ 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL.............................................................................................................. 9 THE CONDEMNED CELL. ..............................................................................................................12 CODLINGSBY ....................................................................................

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...Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone asso- ciated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...! Dost know him, reader? Old is he, Eros, the ever young. He and Time were children together. Chronos shall die, too; but Love is imperishable. Bright... ... Codlingsby twenty guineas every evening at Nathan’s in Covent Garden (the children of the gardeners of Sharon have still no rival for flowers), might... ...of the London Ghetto sat at their porches basking in the evening sunshine. Children were playing on the steps. Fathers were smoking at the lintel. Smi... ...so prodigious, beat their best men. No answer could be given to the query, save that a gentleman in a dark travelling-chariot, preceded by six fourgon... ...Believers presented the boat to Rafael Mendoza. It was Rafael Mendoza that saved the Turkish monarchy after the battle of Nezeeb. By sending three mil... ...ian army was stopped—the menaced empire of 19 Burlesques the Ottomans was saved from ruin; the Marchioness of Stokepogis, our ambassador’s lady, appe...

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...Introduction: The Koran admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful e...

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...THE KORAN Translated from the Arabic by the Rev. J.M. Rodwell, M.A. with an Introduction by the Rev. ... .... G. Margoliouth, M.A. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Noble Qur'an The Koran trans. Rev. J. M. Rodwell, Introduction by Rev.... ...ev. J. M. Rodwell, Introduction by Rev. G. Margoliouth is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...macy, when we find him speak of their recognising him as they do their own children, and hear him blaming their most colloquial expressions. 9 It is ... ...if ye believe not, will you screen yourselves from the day that shall turn children greyheaded? The very heaven shall be reft asunder by it: this thre... ... fly from his brother, And his mother and his father, And his wife and his children; 58 The Koran For every man of them on that day his own concerns ... ...bble. We will teach thee to recite the Koran, nor aught shalt thou forget, Save what God pleaseth; for he knoweth alike things mani- fest and hidden; ... ...fabric we created man, Then brought him down to be the lowest of the low;– Save who believe and do the things that are right, for theirs shall be a re... ... SWEAR by the declining day! Verily, man’s lot is cast amid destruction, 1 Save those who believe and do the things which be right, and enjoin truth a...

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...Excerpt: A Slow Journey. Again two carriages stood at the front door of the house at Petrovskoe. In one of them sat Mimi, the two girls, and their maid, with the bailiff, Jakoff, on the box, while in the other-- a britchka--sat Woloda, myself, and our servant Vassili. Papa, who ...

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...Excerpt: The subject of this essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be ...

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...nklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a contributor, and ...

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...n with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...her o t his or her own wn wn wn wn risk. risk. risk. risk. risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...ah Franklin, was a tallow chan dler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Ben jamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and... ...ool upon his knees, turning over the leaves then under the tapes. One of the children stood at the door to give notice if he saw the apparitor coming,... ...al Church. Josiah, my father, married young, and carried his wife with three children into New England, about 1682. The con venticles having been for... ...oard myself. He in stantly agreed to it, and I presently found that I could save half what he paid me. This was an additional fund for buy ing books... ...ination; telling me, that by steady industry and a prudent parsimony I might save enough by the time I was one and twenty to set me up; and that, if I... ...ife, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fi...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on th...

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...Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES................................................................................ 1...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and un...

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...iar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...a is somewhat an excep- tion; she and the goat traverse the story like two children who have wandered in a dream. The finest moment of the book is whe... ...ontfermeil is full of the charm that Hugo knows so well how to throw about children. Who can forget the passage where Cosette, sent out at night to dr... ... young men and maidens of customary romance. The episode of the mother and children in Quatre Vingt Treize is equal to anything that Hugo has ever wri... ...nd such being his inclination he determined to gratify it. A poor man must save off something; he determined to save off his livelihood. “When a man h... ...rsake my particular calling to do the good which society demands of me, to save the uni- verse from annihilation; and I believe that a like but infi- ... ...; when there are none left but sheep and donkeys, the State will have been saved. But a man must not think to cope with a Revolution; nor a minister, ...