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...rcial traveler, a personage unknown to antiquity, is one of the striking figures created by the manners and customs of our present epoch. May he not, in some conceivable order of things, be destined to mark for coming philosophers the great transition which welds a period of material enterprise to the period of intellectual strength? Our century will bind the realm of isol...

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Excerpt: Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys in Black and White by Rudyard Kipling.

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..................................................................................................................................................... 43 IN THE MATTER OF A PRIVATE ............................................................................................................................................. 56 BLACK JACK..............................................

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...Soldiers Three The Story of the Gadsbys In Black and White By Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...onic Classics Series Publication Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys in Black and White by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...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... ...ok from rowlin’ the rocks. Oh, he was a beautiful bhoy, an’ the long black curses was slidin’ out av his innocint mouth like mornin’- jew from a rose!... ...use of the anger in your eyes, and it will not be quiet on account of your curses. Which is louder, Sahib—your voice or the voice of the river? Call t... ...o the Englishman, begin- ning: ‘O Scoffer,’ and ending with a selection of curses from the Rites of Mizraim and Memphis and the Commination of Jugana,...

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...s, the hall and shrubbery of Durrisdeer, the problem of Mackellar?s homespun and how to shape it for superior flights; these were his company on deck in many star-reflecting harbours, ran often in his mind at sea to the tune of slatting canvas, and were dismissed (something of the suddenest) on the approach of squalls. It is my hope that these surroundings of its manufactu...

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...NY OF THE INTERVIEW OF PRINCES ..................................................... 104 CHAPTER XIV THAT MEN ARE JUSTLY PUNISHED FOR BEING OBSTINATE IN THE DEFENCE OF A FORT THAT IS NOT IN REASON TO BE DEFENDED .......................................................................... 105 CHAPTER XV OF THE PUNISHMENT OF COWARDICE .............................................

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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 docu- ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles C... ...o- ing 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... ...th all the mettle I have, and load him with no feigned, but downright real curses; but the heat being over, if he should stand in need of me, I should...

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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 Two of THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, co... ...oing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... Tim held the fabled goodness of that at the Horse Guards to be a pleasant fiction, invented by jealous West-enders,) the old clerk performed the minu... ... most atrocious crimes that can disgrace humanity. There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant... ...her soiled about the knees, from frequent going down upon those joints, in curses, prayers, last struggles, and other strong pas- sages. While the ex-... ...ignant look, and twisting her under-jaw from side to side, muttered hearty curses upon the future Mrs Gride, as she crept slowly down the stairs, and ... ...min’ on.’ ‘My curse, my bitter, deadly curse, upon you, boy!’ ‘Whence will curses come at your command? Or what avails a curse or blessing from a man ... ... should be kept harmless, declared the whole tale concerning Smike to be a fiction and forgery , and implicated Ralph Nickleby to the fullest extent. ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The time of my end approaches. I have lately been subject to attacks of angina pectoris; and in the ordinary course of things, my physician tells me, I may fairly hope that my life will not be protracted many months. Unless, then, I am cursed with an exceptional physical constitution, as I am cursed with an exception...

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...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

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...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...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. Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Qu... ..., that he bore the name of ‘intruder’ from without. He was supposed by the fiction of the case to be in league with his patron for the persecution of ... ...ly on suffer- ance. Do we mean then, that a ‘call’ should sink into a pure fiction of ceremony, like the English conge-d’elire addressed to a dean and... ...ll comprehends the grand poetic feel- ing employed and nursed by narrative fictions through the last seventy years in England, though connected by us ... ... have recast, have retracted, have abjured or trampled under foot with the curses assigned to heresy, if by sueh an act he 165 Thomas de Quincey coul...

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...afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to which, in the progress of the work, the production ceased to bear any,...

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...lly published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the writer to continue longer in the possession of his incognito were communicated in 1827, in the Introduction to the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate, consisting (besides a biographical sketch of the imaginary chronicler) of three tales, enti...

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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 State... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare , the Pennsylvania Sta... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ...ted all mankind! And thou redeem’st thyself: but all, save thee, I fell with curses. Methinks thou art more honest now than wise; For, by oppressing a... ...And comfort you, my master. TIMON: If thou hatest curses, Stay not; fly, whilst thou art blest and free: Ne’er see thou man... ... So, so, my lord. TIMON: E’en so, sir, as I say. And, for thy fiction, Why, thy verse swells with stuff so fine and smooth That thou ar...

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Excerpt: Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville.

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Excerpt: In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...ennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file... ...e associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an el... ...is, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classica... ...opled quarter of the island and the long, desert beach, where he might rage to and fro unseen, and froth out the vials of his wrath, fear, and humilia... ...Here was the suffumigation; here was the muttering wizard; here was the desert place to which Aladdin was decoyed by the false uncle. But they manage ...