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...THE PIONEERS OR, THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper is a public... ... Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- n... ...f the picture he has drawn. Otsego has now become one of the most populous districts of New York. It sends forth its emigrants like any other old regi... ... the United States to denote a traineau. It is of local use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The latter ... ...orgotten among the inhabitants of New Y ork, until the emigration from New England brought in the opinions and usages of the Puritans, like the “bon h... ...nal owners of the soil, all that section of country which contains the New England States, and those of the Middle which lie east of the moun- tains, ... ...eprived of the ordinary administrations by dwelling in new and unorganized districts. Of this number was Mr. Grant. He had been sent into the county o... ... the county. I must have deputies, you know. I will divide the county into districts, over which I will place my deputies; and I will have one for the...

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...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...rst you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched. But by dint of m... ...te self-possessed in com- pany. Not always, though: Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the Scotch one; of all men, they possess... ... bony. The town itself is perhaps the dearest place to live in, in all New England. It is a land of oil, true enough: but not like Canaan; a land, als... ...ns of it are presented in the circular. “This chart divides the ocean into districts of five degrees of latitude by five degrees of longitude; perpend... ...titude by five degrees of longitude; perpendicularly through each of which districts are twelve columns for the twelve months; and horizontally throug... ...elve columns for the twelve months; and horizontally through each of which districts are three lines; one to show the number of days that have been sp...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ral Heights, Silver Grove, Linton, Bellevue, and all East Side residential districts. Yours for service, P.S.—Just a hint of some plums... ...nd virtues.” Though he did know the market-price, inch by inch, of certain districts of Zenith, he did not know whether the police force was too large... ...nvestigations into Zenith’s charities and corrections; and as to the “vice districts” he brightly expressed it, “Those are things that no decent man m... ...ting-print, a Madame Feit la Toilette print, a colored photograph of a New England house, a photograph of a Rocky Mountain, or all four.) It was a roo... ...ose any other nation is ‘standardized?’ Is anything more standardized than England, with every house that can afford it having the same muffins at the... ...itles became a rich relish. “You know, he’s one of the biggest iron-men in England, Max. Horribly well-off.... Why, hello, old Georgie! Say, Max, Geor...

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... his back, in a stout canvas cassock over his leathern coat, and stout leathern leggings over wooden shoes. Twilight was fast coming on; only a gleam of purple light rested on the top of the eastern hills, but was gradually fading away, though the sky to the westward still preserved a little pale golden light by the help of the descending crescent moon....

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...ctaion The Herd Boy And His Hermit by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...be an- other danger, so near the outskirts of the wood, since the northern districts of moor and wood were by no means clear of the remnants of the co... ...was his mother afraid to venture him there, but he could not bear to leave England while there was a hope of working in the cause of the captive King,... ...life or lands in any cause. The great Earl of Warwick, on whom the fate of England had hitherto hinged, was reported to have never forgiven King Edwar... ...her. He is forming her English court, I trow; she can have few beside from England.’ ‘When he comes,’ said Harry, with a look into Anne’s eyes that ma...

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...Excerpt: A girl came out of lawyer Royall?s house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep. It was the beginning of a June afternoon. The springlike transparent sky shed a rain of silver sunshine on the roofs of the vi...

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...onic Classics Series Publication Summer by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is fur... ...y. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...high and in the open, and lacks the lavish shade of the more protected New England villages. The clump of weeping-willows about the duck pond, and the... ... saw you going into her house just now, didn’t I?” she asked, with the New England avoidance of the proper name. She was determined to find out why he... ... him to make a study of the eighteenth century houses in the less familiar districts of New England. But incomprehen- sible as the whole affair was to... ...udy of the eighteenth century houses in the less familiar districts of New England. But incomprehen- sible as the whole affair was to her, and hard as...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Who will be the new bishop? In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be the new Bishop? The death of old Dr. Grantly, who h...

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...Series Publication Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...the tendency of all human aspira- tions of rising priests in the Church of England. A lawyer does not sin in seeking to be a judge, or in compassing h... ... stood in the study of any decent high church clergy- man of the Church of England. The old curtains had also given away. They had, to be sure, become... ...Sabbath travelling!” Those are the sort of men who will ruin the Church of England, and make the profession of clergyman disreputable. It is not the d... ...f the day was to be as follows. The quality, as the upper classes in rural districts are designated by the lower with so much true discrimination, wer...

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...ing in this gentle breeze, That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! A captive greets thee, coming from a house Of bondage, from yon city?s walls set free, A prison where he hath been long immured. Now I am free, enfranchised and at l...

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...Table of Contents: Book First Introduction: Childhood and School-time, 1 -- Book Second Childhood and School-time (Continued), 20 -- Book Third Residence at Cambridge, 34 -- Book Fourth Summer Vacation, 53 -- Book Fifth Books, 67 -...

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...don . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind . 126 Book Ninth Residence in France... ...Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 ii The Prelude of 1805 Book First Introduction: Childhood and School time OH, there is ... ...clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! 5 A captive g... ...d and elaborate, 205 Those trumpet tones of harmony that shake Our shores in England, from those loftiest notes Down to the low and wren like warbling... ...e stars; He knows the policies of foreign lands, 335 Can string you names of districts, cities, towns, The whole world over, tight as beads of dew Upo... ...ss trees, Towards the fierce metropolis turned my steps Their homeward way to England. From his throne The King had fallen; the congregated host— Dire ... ... to example given By ancient lawgivers. In this frame of mind Reluctantly to England I returned, 190 Compelled by nothing less than absolute want Of f...

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether...

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...s A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylva- ... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sit... ... sow, we reap. Let the reader go into the children’s side of any prison in England, or, I grieve to add, of many workhouses, and judge whether those a... ...n (and this is the confidence I seek to place in you), is, on my return to England, in my own person, in my own Journal, to bear, for the behoof of my... ...te made up my mind that it was the dullest little out-of-the-way corner in England, and that there would be some credit in being jolly under such circ... ...! How are you? What is the news from 209 Charles Dickens the agricultural districts? How are our friends the P .’s? Ha, ha! David, pay particular att... ...d bush; nay, even the men of large stature, anciently bred in the min- ing districts of Cornwall; alike bear witness to its savage nature. Where, sir,... .... ‘It puts one in mind of the sound of animated nature in the agricultural districts. It’s exactly like the woodpecker tap- ping.’ ‘The woodpecker tap...

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...Series Publication When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... expect that some day my pigments would glorify the whole blessed coast of England, from Land’s End round again to the Lizard. Luck comes to a man ver... ...hurch and State. High and low, rich and poor, one with another—” “Is there England still?” “That’s a comfort! Is there London?” E “This is London, eh?... ...y atmosphere spoke of gigantic dis- content. What country was he in? Still England it seemed, and yet strangely “un-English.” His mind glanced at the ... .... This portion of London was in consequence commonly the gayest of all its districts, with something of the meretri- cious gaiety of a seaport or city...

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...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you not one of the most impor...

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...Excerpt: Introduction To Guy Mannering. The novel or romance of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but 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 ...

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...ics Series Publication Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ost his address, which was a country-seat near a post-town in the south of England, and bid him an affectionate farewell. The mysterious stranger depa... ... made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England; and curiosity ex- tended his tour into the adjacent frontier of th... ...r the prosperity of the family, and then, turning his horse’s head towards England, disappeared from the sight of the inmates of Ellangowan. He must a... ...ake this wild country a refuge from justice. So much were the men of these districts in early times the objects of suspicion and dislike to their more... ...though totally different from the much more mountainous and more extensive districts of the north, usu- ally accented Hielands.]—and now be silent. —W...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is h...

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...Excerpt: An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chestnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slen...

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ravelling for pleasure.’ It would be rather a novelty in France to imitate England and let people come and go as they please, without tormenting them ... ...ts, for we say “the debt of Monsieur de T railles,” as we say “the debt of England.” In this extremity the patient, resolved on heroic remedies, adopt... ...contradictions trouble them not at all. Some agents sent into the adjacent districts have used this fancied resemblance; and as in a rural propaganda ... ... me to inform my husband that he has gone to Hanwell, county of Middlesex, England. You can address him there, monsieur, to the care of Doctor Ellis.”...

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...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or...

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...Series Publication God the Invisible King by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...t is, I should judge, a sub-sect entirely within the Established Church of England, that is to say within the Anglican com- munion of the T rinitarian... ...of chalk in Kent or all the lumps of limestone in Y orkshire? But men love England, which is made up of such things. And so we think of God as a synth... ... undispersed. And it is within the memory of men still living that in many districts the African lion has with a change of game and conditions lapsed ...

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...ication Rudin by Ivan Turgenev, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ading public, first in France, then in Germany and America, and finally in England. In his funeral oration the spokesman of the most artistic and crit... ...France; Auerbach, in Germany; W . D. Howells, in America; George Eliot, in England. We will tell the story of his troubled life piece by piece as 8 R... ...n described took place in Alexandra Pavlovna’s house, in one of the remote districts of Russia, a wretched little covered cart, drawn by three village...

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...Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...a single glance an expression of jeal- ousy grander and more complete than England and Italy together could imagine. This look, seen by Esther, made h... ...of a tiny estate called les Canquoelles, a word meaning cockchafer in some districts, situated in the department of Vaucluse, whence he had come. At l... ...res, it is absolutely certain. The Ministers, thunderstruck by the news of England’s attempt, a retalia- tion on Napoleon for the Boulogne expedition,... ... In short, French trade is regarded with suspicion by the whole world, and England too is fast being demoralized. With us the mischief has its origin ... ...ess foot-passenger under that arch-way. Such indeed Paris remained in many districts and till long after. This circumstance may give some idea of the ...