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...ge 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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens , the Pennsyl... ...ngoing 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... ...s ever come un der my observation. I have seen in the factories and work shops of Birmingham such beautiful order and regularity, and such great con... ...m boat; through the agency of every es tablishment and the tiniest little shops; and that, whether regarded as master or as man, their profits are ve... ...acknowledged the toast of his health and that of the Princess, the Duke of Cambridge responded to the toast of the army, Mr. Childers to the navy, Lor...
...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. New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania ... ...ngoing 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... ...emed imminent, and Harry kept trotting round to all sorts of fur- nishers’ shops, telling small fibs, and paying small advances on the gross amount, u... ... the interior, and disclosed steel shutters such as we see on the front of shops; these in their turn were rolled up by a similar contrivance; and for... ...” Leon explained their misadventure; and the other told them that he was a Cambridge undergraduate on a walking tour, that he had run short of money, ...
...NDBOX ..................................................................................................................... 74 STORY OF THE YOUNG MAN IN HOLY ORDERS .................................................................................... 96 STORY OF THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN BLINDS ................................................................................1...
... THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER ... ...n to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in f... ...e from the tight dress coat, silk cap and kid gloves of an undergraduate at Cambridge, to the loose duck trowsers, checked shirt and tarpaulin hat of... ...ery well for a jack tar. But it is impossible to deceive the practised eye in these matters; and while I supposed myself to be looking as salt as Ne... ...t. ‘‘Well, D——,’’ said the second mate to me, ‘‘this does not look much like Cambridge college, does it? This is what I call ’head work.’’’ To tell th... ...when the yard reached the deck, with as much satisfaction as I ever felt at Cambridge on seeing a ‘‘bene’’ at the foot of a Latin exercise. - 37 - ... ...ives, they soon get nearly all the trade into their hands. They usually keep shops, in which they retail the goods purchased in larger quantities fro... ...re are foreigners engaged in this kind of trade, while I recollect but two shops kept by natives. The people are generally suspicious of foreigne...
... the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, b...
...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. Howards End by E.M. Forster, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...ngoing 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... ... done by the fog to trade, for it lay high, and the lighted windows of the shops were thronged with customers. It was rather a darkening of the spirit... ...ause it was empty. Oxford is—Oxford; not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Per- haps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love on... ... the keenest happiness he had ever known was dur- ing a railway journey to Cambridge, where a decent- mannered undergraduate had spoken to him. They h...
...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. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and th...
...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. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing 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... ...nks to the Reverend Professor Henslow, who, when I was an undergraduate at Cambridge, was one chief means of giving me a taste for Natural History, —w... ...eds of reeds. The country on the whole re- sembled the better parts of the Cambridgeshire fens. At night we had some difficulty in finding amidst the ... ...ne inhabited by the Commandant, and the two others by Spaniards with small shops. *Falconer’s Patagonia, p. 70. 131 Charles Darwin We were here able ... ...party of Indians for three days, without eating or drinking. We saw in the shops many articles, such as horsecloths, belts, and garters, woven by the ... ...lity amongst all ranks. At the Rio Colorado some men who kept the humblest shops used to dine with General Rosas. A son of a major at Bahia Blanca gai...
...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. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, th... ...ngoing 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... ...till remembering Magdalene ale and his acquaintance with Mrs. Ainsworth of Cambridge. But youth is a hot sea- son with all; when a man smells April an... ...urely full. Of an after- noon, when the bells rang out for the sermon, the shops closed, and the good folk gathered to the churches, psalm- book in ha...
...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 under the eye of the very best of ...
...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. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume T wo, the Pennsylv... ...ngoing 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... .... Thee shall each ale-house, thee each gill-house mourn, And answering gin-shops sourer sighs return. ‘Jacob, the scourge of grammar, mark with awe, 3... ...ve on, when he shall retire from business. He was de- signed to be sent to Cambridge, in order for priesthood; but he chose rather to be placed in an ...
...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 Pennsyl- vania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Penn... ...ngoing 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... ... found he knew my old friend, Benson, whom I had not seen since we were at Cambridge together, and we got on that and other matters; London people hav... ...a great display of ivy leaves, which Norman, who had been turning half the shops in the town upside down in search of materials, was instructing her t... ...ts, and he told stories of frolics that reminded Ethel of her father’s old Cambridge adventures. He was a new variety in her eyes, and entertained her... ... standing fight between him and his sons, as to the beauties of Oxford and Cambridge—a fight in which, hitherto, they had been equally matched—neither...
...e of any kind. Any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ngoing 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... ...ce; consequently , we turned into Pumblechook’s just as the street and the shops were lighting up. As I never assisted at any other representation of ... ... best clothes I had, I went into town as early as I could hope to find the shops open, and presented myself before Mr. T rabb, the tailor: who was hav... ...d chiefly from Herbert, that Mr. Pocket had been educated at Harrow and at Cambridge, where he had distinguished himself; but that when he had had the... ... and stared after. One or two of the tradespeople even darted out of their shops and went a little way down the street before me, that they might turn...
...d pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a... ...most equal advantage. But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. Miss Ward, at ... ... herself obliged to be attached to the Rev Mr. Norris, a friend of her brother in law, with scarcely any private fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet w... ... that it is now. My plan was laid at Westminster — a little altered perhaps at Cambridge, and at one and twenty executed. I am inclined to envy Mr. 4... ...e High Street. He took care, however, that they should be allowed to go to the shops they came out expressly to visit; and it did not delay them long,...
...irty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and...
...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... ...entleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the cou... ...earts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That... ...—the poet Wordsworth, you know. Now there was something singular. I was at Cambridge when Wordsworth was there, and I never met him—and I dined with h... ...and highly rarefied medical instruction obtained by graduates of Oxford and Cambridge, did not hinder quackery from having an excellent time of it; for... ... means became a subject of compassionate conversa tion in the neighboring shops of Churchyard Lane as being afflicted with a tumor at first declared to...
... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...
...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. Middlemarch by George Eliot, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...ngoing 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... ...—the poet Wordsworth, you know. Now there was something singular. I was at Cambridge when Wordsworth was there, and I never met him—and I dined with h... ... means became a subject of com- passionate conversation in the neighboring shops of Church- yard Lane as being afflicted with a tumor at first declare...