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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street 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... ...air Lewis To James Branch Cabell and Joseph Hergesheimer THIS IS AMERICA—a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and littl... ...thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called “Gopher Prairie, Minne- sota.” But its Main St... ...that kind of a teacher. I won’t drone. Why should they have all the garden suburbs on Long Is- land? Nobody has done anything with the ugly towns here... ...And Mr. Dyer will call.” She had a record on the phonograph; Dave Dyer was capering in the center of the floor, loose-jointed, lean, small, rusty head... ...e? No. She wouldn’t go to the Jolly Seventeen. She hadn’t energy enough to caper before them, to smile blandly at Juanita’s rudeness. Not today. But s... ...d Raymie Wutherspoon. “Oh yes, do let us,” said Ella Stowbody. “That’s the caper,” sanctioned Harry Haydock. They interpreted the word “making” as May...

...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story ...

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The Chouans

By: Honoré de Balzac

...s by Honoré 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... ...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... ... pastures, to the savages of America, or the aboriginal inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope. Deceived by his behavior, the commandant himself was abo... ...all fought as I did, not one of those Blues would have es- 36 The Chouans caped, and the coach could have got here safely.” “They’d never have though... ...isoner by the petticoat, as a butcher catches a calf that is trying to es- cape him. “Let me see her, and I’ll set a price.” The unfortunate creature ... ...aded by trees and brightened by gardens. The whole region of Fougeres, its suburbs, its churches, and the hills of Saint-Sulpice are surrounded by the... ...he Queen’s Staircase. At this time of day the smoke from the houses in the suburbs and in the valleys made a vapor in the air, through which the vari-... ... western side of the rock showed that the Chouans were setting fire to the suburbs; but these soon ceased, and a column of black smoke which succeeded...

...Excerpt: An Ambuscade. Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up...

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Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...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... ...rarely adorns a view in our country. The sun had not yet set, but over the town and lofty rocky castle of Vigo a great ghost of a moon was faintly vis... ... vessel came to a stand-still, at some three hundred yards from the little town, with its white houses clambering up a rock, defended by the superior ... ... OUR WEEK’S VOYAGE is now drawing to a close. We have just been to look at Cape Trafalgar, shining white over the finest blue sea. (We, who were look... ...who were looking at Trafalgar Square only the other day!)The sight of that cape must have disgusted Joinville and his fleet of steamers, as they passe... ...iotism is made. I write this as a sort of homily ‘a propos of the day, and Cape Trafalgar, off which we lie. What business have I to strut the deck, a... ... again in the course of the day. We passed through the Ezbekieh and by the suburbs of the town, where the garden-houses of the Egyptian noblesse are s...

...Excerpt: After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal....

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A Smile of Fortune Harbour Story

By: Joseph Conrad

...h Conrad A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S ERIES P UBLICA TION A Smile of Fortune—Harbour Story by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...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... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Smile of Fortune—Harbour Story by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...xty-one days at sea, out 8 A Smile of Fortune of a totally unknown little town in an island one has never seen before? What were (besides sugar) the ... ...is own early dissolution. The Stella had experienced awful weather off the Cape—had her decks swept, and the chief officer washed overboard. And only ... ...; what he had heard on shore was that no respectable per- son in the whole town would come near Jacobus. He lived in a large old-fashioned house in on... ...sonage. He was a bachelor and gave weekly card-parties in his house out of town, which were at- tended by the best people in the colony. The greater, ... ...ure. His behaviour was perfectly scandalous. He followed that woman to the Cape, and apparently travelled at the tail of that beastly circus to other ... ...tting wet, Pilot,” I remarked. He had a bit of land round his house in the suburbs and it was of his garden he was thinking. At the sound of the word ...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

... Plutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. 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... ... as if they understood her, to give her shelter, with vows that if she es- caped she would never cut them down nor burn them. But Theseus calling upon... ...ey having first made the invasion, plundering and ravaging the country and suburbs, Romulus lay in ambush for them, and, having killed many of their m... ...nd enclose all the straits and passages, that none of the Greeks might es- cape, and that they should afterwards follow with the rest of their fleet a... ...om the prom- 210 V olume One ontory of Alcimus, when you have doubled the cape and passed inward where the sea is always calm, there is a large piece... ...n they were in a man- ner driven from the sea, and could scarce defend the suburbs of their city by land, and, at the same time, were miserably distra... ... had nothing else to do went fre- quently a hunting, and found game in the suburbs and about the walls; and not one of those who had possessed them- ...

.... 5 ROMULUS ........................................................................................................................... 34 COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS .............................................................. 64 LYCURGUS .......................................................................................................................... 68 ...

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The Research Magnificent

By: H. G. Wells

...RIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent 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... ...nintelligent nurse from whose fostering restraints it is man’s duty to es- cape. Discretion, he declared, must remain; a sense of pro- portion, an “ad... ...g high and fast, three thousand feet or so, in a clear, sweet air over the town of Sheerness. The river, with a string of battleships, was far away to... ...ing and delaying half an hour ago will now be cutting the most venturesome capers in the air. Few men are in a hurry to get down again. I mean that qu... ...n London.” “All the year?” “All the year.” “But isn’t it dreadfully hot in town in the summer?” Prothero had an uncomfortable sense of being very red ... ...He tried to grasp it all, from the conscious picturesqueness of its garden suburbs to the factories of Croydon, from the clerk-villadoms of Ealing to ... ... Our sins nowadays are not so easily separated. It contained a light, warm cape-coat he had bought in Switzerland and which he intended to wrap about ...

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The Pit a Story of Chicago

By: Frank Norris

...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story... ...f Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago By By By By By F F F F FRANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NOR... ...ICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA TION TION TION TION TION The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...le green, and pink, while over these costumes were thrown opera cloaks and capes of astonishing complexity and elaborateness. Nearly all were bare-hea... ...e eagerness of a girl who had lived for twenty-two years in a second-class town of central Mas- sachusetts, was in great distress. She had never seen ... ...me repeating: “I don’t see—I can’t understand.” Then, abruptly drawing her cape about her, she crossed the vestibule and came up to Jadwin. As she app... ...ime to hear Mrs. Cressler—a fine old lady, in a won- derful ermine-trimmed cape, whose hair was powdered— exclaim at the top of her voice, as if the m... ... She looked back with immense pity to the narrow little life of her native town she had just left forever, the restricted horizon, the petty round of ... ...the westward. I’ve got a building and loan asso- ciation going, out in the suburbs on the West Side, that’s a dandy. Well, looks as though the rain ha...

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The Blithedale Romance

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...lication The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne 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... ... and well towards the middle of the month. When morning dawned upon me, in town, its temperature was mild enough to be pronounced even balmy, by a lod... ...like. “Well, folks,” remarked Silas, “you’ll be wishing yourselves back to town again, if this weather holds.” And, true enough, there was a look of g... ...m over the winding water; that peculiar picturesqueness of the scene where capes and headlands put themselves boldly forth upon the perfect level of t... ...ould outstrip and overwhelm me, without all the better diligence in my es cape. But, threading the more distant windings of the track, I abated my pa... ...and all such sweet rural scenery as looks the fairest, a little beyond the suburbs of a town. Hollingsworth, Zenobia, Priscilla! They glided mistily b... ...lp!” cried the Indian chief, brandishing his tomahawk, and cutting a great caper in the air. “I’ll root him in the earth with a spell that I have at m...

...erpt: Old Moodie. The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street....

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Liver Twist

By: Charles Dickens

... Twist or the Parish Boy’s Progress by Charles Dickens 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 ... ...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... ...UMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH AMONG OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning,... ...ch I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born;... ...ed hat for a round one, and encased his person in a blue great coat with a cape to it: took his place on the outside of the coach, accompanied by the ... ...him a handker chief to tie round his throat; Sikes gave him a large rough cape to button over his shoulders. Thus attired, he gave his hand to the ro... ...ken concourse of people, trudging out with various supplies to the eastern suburbs of the town. As they approached the City, the noise and traffic gra... ...aving delivered another to Toby, busied him self in fastening on Oliver’s cape. ‘Now then!’ said Sikes, holding out his hand. Oliver: who was complet...

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli 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... ...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... ...n- wich, impressed upon me the interminable extent of London’s residential suburbs; mile after mile one went, between houses, villas, rows of cottages... ... by his mother, gazing aghast at his dead father, exploring inter- minable suburbs, touched by first intimations of the sexual mystery, coming in with... ... against disorder, that order has an up-hill job, in gardens, experiments, suburbs, everything alike; from the very beginnings of my experience I disc... ... was working up there, or rather trying to work in spite of the outrageous capering of some very primitive ele- ments in my brain, when she came up to... ...nd afield to Calcutta or Rangoon or the West Indies or Sierra Leone or the Cape… . I was not infrequently that pensive member. I used to go to the Clu... ...est to suggest that honest old Quackett, who had just left England for the Cape, was the real scandal- monger. That struck me as mean, even for Bailey...

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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ty. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ..., and Laplace’s Mecanique Celeste, down to Robinson Crusoe and the Belfast Town and Country Almanack, are familiar to him,—we shall say nothing: for u... ... Stranger; nor could the Traveller, who had passed through the neighboring Town in coach-and-four, be connected with this Apparition, except in the wa... ...’s idea (and this but a mechanical one) travelling on fire-wings round the Cape, and across two Oceans; and stronger than any other Enchanter’s Famili... ...such humor, and perhaps the miserablest man in the whole French Capital or Suburbs, was I, one sultry Dog- day, after much perambulation, toiling alon... ...rance and emergence (we know not well whence) in the solitude of the North Cape, on that June Midnight. He has a “light-blue Spanish cloak” hanging ro... ...all his pacific tendencies, did not we see him, in that scene at the North Cape, with the Archangel Smuggler, exhibit fire-arms? For us, aware of his ...

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A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

By: Honoré de Balzac

...sions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage 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... ...e story of Lucien, his sister Eve, and his friend David in the provincial town of Angouleme. Part two is centered on Lucien’s Parisian life. Part thr... ...rought the Baron to Paris. The Baron said that ambition had brought him to town; he had hopes of an appointment as secretary-general to a government d... ...s name was Etienne Lousteau. Two years ago he had left his native place, a town in Berri, just as Lucien had come from Angouleme. His lively ges- ture... ...arrangements for obscuring daylight to be found in little wineshops in the suburbs. The Galleries, parallel passages about twelve feet in height, were... ...ch once found favor in the sight of a council of reverend fathers, and es- caped ecclesiastical censure in spite of its wanton dangerous grace. The bo... ...liffs at my heels; indeed, when I go to the Palais Royal, I have dangerous capes to double.” In the language of the fast set, doubling a cape meant do...

...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gentil, the man-se...

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Washington Square

By: Henry James

...sics Series Publication Washington Square by Henry James 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... ...m to be the fashion. It was observed that even medical families cannot es- cape the more insidious forms of disease, and that, after all, Dr. Sloper h... ...alacrity of a woman who had spent the ten years of her married life in the town of Poughkeepsie. The Doctor had not proposed to Mrs. Penniman to come ... ...three or four years before this Dr. Sloper had moved his household gods up town, as they say in New York. He had been living ever since his marriage i... ...cuse for this topographical parenthesis. Mrs. Almond lived much farther up town, in an embry- onic street with a high number—a region where the ex- te... ...ng shuffled away in a fast-whirling vehicle to some obscure lodging in the suburbs, where she would pay them (in a thick veil) clandestine visits, whe...

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The C‘Sars

By: Thomas de Quincey

...SSICS SERIES PUBLICATION THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ... be- long to a city which counted from one horn to the other of its mighty suburbs not less than four millions of inhabit- ants* at the very least, as... ...etermined to avenge his own wrongs by inflicting continual terror upon the town and neighbor- hood which had witnessed his humiliation. For this purpo... ...y torchlight. Cicero, in one of his letters, speaks of passing through the towns of Italy by night, as a serviceable scheme for some political purpose... ...ve introduced the practice by way of releasing corpo- rate bodies in large towns from the burdensome ceremonies of public receptions; thus making a co... ...hen met and con- fronted by a sea phantom, whilst attempting to double the Cape of Storms, (Cape of Good Hope,) a ludicrous passage, in which one feli... ...ent in rushes the elderly gentleman, grave and gloomy as his audience, but capering about in a frenzy of excitement. For half an hour he continues to ...

...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...fe on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...ump! These cut offs have had curious effects: they have thrown several river towns out into the rural districts, and built up sand bars and forests in... ...he rural districts, and built up sand bars and forests in front of them. The town of Delta used to be three miles below Vicksburg: a recent cutoff has... ...lainly showed that I felt honored by his notice. He told me the names of dim capes and shadowy islands as we glided by them in the solemnity of the ni... ...y bunch of timber, because you would take the black shadow of it for a solid cape; and you see you would be getting scared to death every fifteen min ... ...f there had been a conspicuous dead tree standing upon the very point of the cape, I would find that tree inconspicuously merged into the general for ... ...n one. That was the residence of the principal citizen, all the way from the suburbs of New Orleans to the edge of St. Louis. When he stepped aboard a...

...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,00...

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A Little Tour in France

By: Henry James

...ERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James 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... ...aine is the garden of France; that remark has long ago lost its bloom. The town of Tours, however, has some thing sweet and bright, which suggests tha... ...is surrounded by a land of fruits. It is a very agreeable little city; few towns of its size are more ripe, more complete, or, I should suppose, in be... ...ly conservative look which, in the little, chaffering, place of the market-town, the stranger observes so often in the wrinkled brown masks that sur- ... ...e passing in and out of the house; they wore gray robes, with a bright red cape. I thought their situation most provincial. I came away, and wandered ... ...streets. The sky cleared in the evening, the moon lighted up the submerged suburbs, and the population again collected in the high places to enjoy the...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...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... ...l, northward. What do you see?—Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries.... ...IRT OR TWO into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pa- cific. Quitting the good city of old Manhatto, I duly... ...t this hour of the night, of the last day of the week, that quarter of the town proved all but deserted. But 20 Moby Dick presently I came to a smoky... ...d persons with whom I conversed upon the subject. The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foun- 23 Herman Melville dered ... ...n Javan seas, and run away with by a whale, years afterwards slain off the Cape of Blanco. The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a rest- ... ...of empire on earth, and throughout the whole uni- verse, not excluding its suburbs. Such, and so magnifying, is the virtue of a large and liberal them...

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The Muse of the Department

By: Honoré de Balzac

...James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication... ...f the Department 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... ...e Department THE MUSE OF THE DEPARTMENT ON THE SKIRTS of Le Berry stands a town which, watered by the Loire, infallibly attracts the traveler’s eye. S... ...h occupies the little plateau, the streets are more or less steep, and the town is surrounded by slopes known as the Great Ramparts, a name which show... ...or liquor that will not keep for more than seven or eight years. Below the town lie a few villages, Fontenoy and Saint-Satur, almost suburbs, remindin... ...years. Below the town lie a few villages, Fontenoy and Saint-Satur, almost suburbs, reminding us by their situation of the smiling vine- yards about N... ...hase. Your clever man never condescends to study the middle-class, who es- cape his ken by this want of attention; and while he is mak- ing game of th... ...scern our dis- honor. We accept compromises with ourself so long as we es- cape a censor who comes to play prosecutor. Monsieur de Clagny, as clumsy a...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...y-one through Sixty-seven) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...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... ...ould go down. Parties wouldn’t be given any more. All the tradesmen of the town would be bankrupt. Wine, wax-lights, comestibles, rouge, crinoline-pet... ...n their march to church, the shiny pavement and outsides of coaches in the suburbs were thronged with people out upon their Sunday pleasure; but the C... ...Jane, very sorry. Lady Southdown wrote it off to her other daughter at the Cape of Good Hope. It was town-talk for at least three days, and was only k... ...thdown wrote it off to her other daughter at the Cape of Good Hope. It was town-talk for at least three days, and was only kept out of the newspapers ... ...keray a case out of his great-coat—it was a natty white great-coat, with a cape and a velvet collar—pulled out a red morocco case, which he gave her. ... ...he was quite well (though as gaunt as a greyhound) before they reached the Cape. “Kirk will be disappointed of his ma- jority this time,” he said with...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume Two

By: Hugh Clough

... Plutarch’s Lives – Volume Two trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. 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... ...p their winter quarters outside the cities, and to pitch their camp in the suburbs; and when he himself, first of all, caused his own tent to be raise... ...alls, and the besieger would be master of the springs and fountains in the suburbs, he advanced against the place, expecting to carry it in two days’ ... ...the hith- erto untouched and sacred territory, up to Eurotas, and the very suburbs of Sparta; for Agesilaus would not permit them to encounter so impe... ...vately con- tracted; however, the secret was not so closely kept as to es- cape the multitude, but it was discernible enough from the favor shown him ... ...ht lines from each end, thus giving it something of the form of a cloak or cape. While he was pleasing himself with his de- sign, on a sudden an infin... ...ur years before. had set out for the war. The younger of Pompey’s sons es- caped; but Didius, some days after the fight, brought the head of the elder...

... ...................................................................................................................................... 31 COMPARISON OF SERTORIUS WITH EUMENES................................................................. 50 AGESILAUS ............................................................................................................................

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