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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

...agues Under the Sea by Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication o... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...o men- tion rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of conti- nents, seafaring men were parti... ...nd Pacific Steam Navigation Company. But this extraordinary creature could transport itself from one place to another with surprising velocity; as, in... ...ion seemed buried, never to revive, when new facts were brought before the public. It was then no longer a scien- tific problem to be solved, but a re... ...uch was the last fact, which resulted in exciting once more the torrent of public opinion. From this moment all unlucky casualties which could not be ... ...er or no; we have got a captain who is pretty wide-awake.” Our luggage was transported to the deck of the frigate immediately. I hastened on board and... ... than scarcely de- fined shadows, when the Nautilus found herself suddenly transported into full light. I thought at first that the beacon had been li... ...and the Nautilus again plunged under the waves. So these millions had been transported to their ad- dress. To what point of the continent? Who was Cap...

...ious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governme...

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The Prelude of 1805 in Thirteen Books

By: William Wordsworth

... the presence of my eye. Hence by obeisance, my devotion hence, And hence my transport. 400 Nor should this, perchance, Pass unrecorded, that I still ... ...e, yea, in the wave itself And mighty depth of waters. Wonder not If such my transports were; for in all things 435 I saw one life, and felt that it w... ...his back with stormy joy, Caressing him again and yet again. And when in the public roads at eventide I sauntered, like a river murmuring 110 And talk... ...a swarm Of heady thoughts jostling each other, gawds And feast and dance and public revelry And sports and games—less pleasing in themselves 275 Than ... ...hath it been with me From time of earliest youth to walk alone 365 Along the public way, when, for the night Deserted, in its silence it assumes A cha... ...epose In comfort, I entreated that henceforth 490 He would not linger in the public ways, But ask for timely furtherance, and help Such as his state r... ...83 And phrases pleased me, chosen for delight, For pomp, or love. Oft in the public roads, Yet unfrequented, while the morning light 585 Was yellowing... ...ens, with their frame Imperial, and elaborate ornaments, Would to a child be transport over great, When but a half hour’s roam through such a place 16... ...ad, and by reason and by will 645 Acknowledging dependency sublime. Erelong, transported hence as in a dream, I found myself begirt with temporal shap...

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New Poems

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...OBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1918 edition A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1918 ed.) is a publicatio... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...thoughts go abroad, Within we hold the wake for hopes deceased; But in the public streets, in wind or sun, Keep open, at the annual feast, The puppet-... ...unting gold and scarlet, I sneer between two puffs of smoke, – Give me the publican and harlot. Y e dainty-spoken, stiff, severe Seed of the migrated ... ...n (1918) To wondrous countries far away. Well, and just so this volume can Transport each little maid or man Presto from where they live away Where ot... ...laying by the lady’s name, A living woman re-became. Of her, that from the public eye They do enclose and fortify, Now, lying scattered as they fell, ...

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Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

...Mansfield Park by Jane Austen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Mansfield Park by Jane Austen is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, t... ...engthen them in believing they had no faults. Lady Bertram did not go into public with her daughters. She was too indolent even to accept a mother’s g... ...and there is no more real modesty in their behaviour before they appear in public than afterwards.” “I do not know,” replied Miss Crawford hesitatingl... ...ot censure her opinions; but there certainly is impropriety in making them public.” “Do not you think,” said Fanny, after a little consider- ation, “t... .... Thinking, I hope, of one who is always thinking of you. Oh! that I could transport you for a short time into our circle in town, that you might unde... ... it was most tempting. To be finding herself, per- haps within three days, transported to Mansfield, was an image of the greatest felicity, but it wou...

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Celt and Saxon

By: George Meredith

...Celt and Sax on By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Celt and Saxon by George Meredith is a publication of the Penn... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ... Saxon or others, that when we have submitted our persons to the charge of public companies, immediately, as if the renouncing of our independence int... ...a marble effigy seated upright, requiring but to be laid at her length for transport to the cover of the tomb. Now Captain Con was by nature ruddy as ... ...g her to suffer cru- elly and feel humiliated. She knew the pangs of it in public, and in private as well. And she had not conquered it yet. She was a... ...ates, how mightily he was one had not entered into the calculations of the public until the will of the late Ezra Mattock, cited in our prints, receiv...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...cqueville Translator – Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocquev... ...ica, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document fi... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...tionary, but it will, ultimately, react because it has not the sanction of public opinion. If M. De T ocqueville could now search for a law that would... ...he unwritten law of the natural aversion of the races. He would find it in public opinion, which is the vital force in every law in a free government.... ...ies, and afterwards on the coast of South America, they thought themselves transported into those fabulous regions of which poets had sung. The sea sp... ...ies, and afterwards on the coast of South America, they thought themselves transported into those fabulous regions of which poets had sung. The sea sp... ...ow the children of these same Americans are the persons who, year by year, transport their dwellings into the wilds; and with their dwellings their ac... ...ic Institutions in Other Countries Besides America The Anglo-Americans, if transported into Europe, would be obliged to modify their laws – Distinctio...

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

... THE DAY’S WORK by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Penn... ...-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ... by Rudyard Kipling THE BRIDGE-BUILDERS T HE LEAST that Findlayson, of the Public Works De- partment, expected was a C. I. E.; he dreamed of a C. S. I... ...est of Powers has a right to ask questions. The great heart of the British public was beating furiously on account of the performance of a notori- ous... ...hite with the dust of weeks. Most of the men were at the band-stand in the public gardens—from the Club verandah you could hear the native Police band... ...are very stubby and unaccom- modating), bunted into a Red D, or Merchant’s Transport car, and, with no hint or knowledge of the weight behind him, sta...

...Excerpt: The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I.: indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with r...

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Best of Four

By: Carol Ann Ellis

...Best of Four V olume 5 Student V oices A Commonwealth College Publication Faculty Editors Jim Manis & Carol Ann Ellis Student Editor Patt... ...im Manis & Carol Ann Ellis Student Editor Patty Haggerty Best of Four is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. Best of Four: Student Voices is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. All the student essays c... ...sity, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291, is a non- profit publication of the Pennsylvania State University Copyright © 2000 The Penns... ...earn that they too have permission to state what is important to them in a public voice. In addition to inspiring our students, we also hope the maga-... ...close attention and makes sure there will be a cart ready in Pittsburgh to transport him and my grandmother to the concourse where they will take the ...

... and powerful voices to be heard. The students who read these essays will learn that they too have permission to state what is important to them in a public voice....

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... & BOOKS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is... ...lication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document f... ...-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...l studies: that he has to mediate between the author whom he loves and the public who are certainly indifferent and frequently averse. Many articles h... ...or blame unduly. In the last case, they helped to blindfold our fastidious public to an inspiring writer; in the other, by an excess of unadulterated ... ...ss – heaven excepted – that she might win and keep him.” Burns himself was transported while in her neighbourhood, but his transports somewhat rapidly...

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The Daisy Chain: Or, Aspirations : A Family Chronicle

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... Aspirations By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. Yonge is a pub... ...-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...broke off, for the noise subsided, and his speech was not intended for the public ear, so he dashed into the general conversation, and catching his ow... ...thankful for,” said Margaret, “but you know there may be much harm without public disgrace. I never heard of one of the Andersons being in dis- grace ... ...you, papa! Oh, Ritchie! Oh, Margaret!” cried she, in a breathless voice of transport. “You have worked yourself up to a fine pass,” said the doc- tor,... ...alk over the matter at all with her, and she was obliged to bestow all her transports and grand projects on Flora or Margaret, when she could gain the... ...ary. The first was, the opening of the school at Cocksmoor, whither a cart transported half a dozen forms, various books, and three dozen plum-buns, M... ...e of character, and his tone had been a little hurt, by sharing the school public opin- ion of morality. He thought Stoneborough and its tempta- tions... ...l stooped more than ever, as if her eyelashes were feelers, but she was in transports of delight, and her embarrassment entirely at an end in her admi...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...mily by Charles Dickens Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Volume T wo of THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, c... ...allings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document f... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, t... ...and manner of this slight and care- less mention of his sister’s name in a public place, Nicholas fired at once; but he kept himself quiet by a great ... ...e in the inter- esting condition in which Mrs Kenwigs had last appeared in public,) relating their experiences of similar occurrences. Some few acquir... ... the joy of—’ ‘Be rational, sir, pray,’ said Ralph. ‘This is business, and transports interfere with it. This wife died a year and a half ago, or ther... ...les Cheeryble, indeed, Mrs Nickleby positively asserted, had, in the first transports of his surprise and delight, ‘as good as’ said so. Without preci... ... I have been these many days.’ T urning from the door, which, in the first transport of his rage, he had meditated battering upon until Gride’ s very ... ...various shiftings and delays,’ said Nicholas, ‘he has been sentenced to be transported for seven years, for being in the unlawful possession of a stol...

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The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...even Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publ... ...-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...has acquired an interest apart from that by which it first appealed to the public. John Hathorne (as the name was then spelled), the great-grandfather... ...or, than as any portion of the actual substance of the dish offered to the public. He can hardly be said, however, to 8 The House of the Seven Gables... ...ion of his dreams. Years and years after their claim had passed out of the public memory, the Pyncheons were accustomed to consult the Colonel’s ancie... ...ore delicate vintages of Italy and France, the best of which will not bear transportation.” “My Lord Pyncheon may drink what wine he will, and whereve... ...in Clifford. She was to take a seat in the next train of cars, which would transport her to within half a dozen miles of her country village. The tear... ...! 214 The House of the Seven Gables This one old house was everywhere! It transported its great, lumbering bulk with more than railroad speed, and se... ... of the late Judge Pyncheon. Chanticleer and his fam- ily had already been transported thither, where the two hens had forthwith begun an indefatigabl...

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A Woman of Thirty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...alzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage i... ...ication A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document ... ...-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ... preparations in the Green Chamber, whither the Countess’ luggage had been transported; now, however, she had returned to her great armchair, and stol... ...had gone over to the Bourbons, and all France was welcoming them back with transports of enthusiasm. He could not go so far as Tours, but he begged he... ... and not unfrequently go so far as to help to foist the imposture upon the public. And if, thanks to such domestic conspiracy, many a noodle passes cu... ...ing grotesquely repre- sented by a crooked line of street, so that the two public 105 Balzac monuments look like a huge pair of giants dwarfing into ... ...easy; it seemed to him that there was some hor- rible mystery in such wild transports. “My daughter!” he cried, as soon as he could speak. “Where is m...

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The Dukes Children

By: Anthony Trollope

...uke’s Children by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope is a publication of th... ...-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...dual interests, or to the much wider interests of others, whom we call the public?’ ‘To his own interest, ’ said the young man with decision. ‘It is s... ...n, papa. ’ ‘So is my private secretary. There is not a clerk in one of our public offices who does not consider himself to be a gentleman. The curate ... ...s your father;—every Englishman I mean. Of course I know your father,—as a public man, and I know how much the country owes to him. ’ ‘Yes it does. Bu... ...etter?’ ‘I don’t know how she could do much worse,’ said Silverbridge in a transport of rage. Then he pulled his moustache in vexation, angry with him...

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The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

...atch the jocund noise: Without a tear, without a sigh Their moments all in transports fly Till evening ends their joys. But little think their joy... ...loat the scientific line? Or with dishevell’d hair all madly do ye run For transport that your task is done? For done it is — the cause is tried! ... ...ys celestial move, And what so sweet below as Woman’s love? With such high transport every moment flies, I curse Experience that he makes me wise; ... ...s! thou inspir’st each throat; ’Tis thou who pour’st the scritch-owl note! Transported hear’st thy children all Scrape and blow and squeak and squa... ...r are the shouts that shake the high-arch’d dome; Those plaudits that thy public path annoy, Alas! they tell thee — Thou’rt a wretch at home! O... ...he town, All follow’d, boy and dad, Bull-dog, parson, shopman, clown: The publicans rush’d from the Crown, ‘‘Halloo! hamstring him! cut him down!’... ...eridge: Poems Would Noble Lords lose in your Lordship’s orations. My fancy transports me! As mute as a mouse, And as fleet as a pigeon, I’m borne t... ... Or, at the furthest, cousin-german. At length the matter to determine, He publicly denounced the vermin; He spared the mouse, he praised the owl; ...

...ful dance they beat the ground, Their shouts of joy the hills resound And catch the jocund noise: Without a tear, without a sigh Their moments all in transports fly Till evening ends their joys....

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Second

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...ics S onic Classics S onic Classics Series eries eries eries eries P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel d... ...ne, Book the Second trans. Charles Cotton, ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment ... ...-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongo- ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ... precise account from point to point of all passages, both relating to the public and to himself. And he was, moreover, married at a well advanced mat... ...it when about the administrations of his place or the consultations of the public affairs; that the day is not to be 21 Montaigne employed with it, t... ... she must leave it, raise herself up, and, taking the bridle in her teeth, transport her man so far that he shall afterwards him- self be astonished a... ...nt soul is exempt from a mixture of madness; and he has reason to call all transports, how commendable soever, that surpass our own judgment and under... ... of nature, but not suffer ourselves to be tyranni- cally hurried away and transported by her; reason alone should have the conduct of our inclination... ...xt.” D.W.] 112 Book the Second wherein they conceive that the pleasure so transports us, that our reason cannot perform its office, whilst we are in ...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Fai... ...allings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ... a misgiving that the portrait is his own. ‘The Author’s object in calling public attention to the sys- tem would be very imperfectly fulfilled, if he... ...ce. ‘Not more than five-and-twenty minutes by the—’ Noggs was going to add public-house clock, but recollecting him- self, substituted ‘regular time.’... ...ll let the thief and assassin go, as if we prosecuted him he would only be transported, and if he is let go he is sure to be hung before long which wi... ...amboat people, deceived by her size, would (he had previously ascertained) transport her at half-price. As there was no performance that night, Mr Cru... ...er to walk at any time, for although I believe a hack- ney coachman can be transported for life, if he has a broken window, still they are so reckless... ...OLAS NICKLEBY ‘Be rational, sir, pray,’ said Ralph. ‘This is business, and transports interfere with it. This wife died a year and a half ago, or ther...

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Platos Laches, Or Courage

By: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893

... Plato’s “Laches, or Courage,”translated by Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Documen... ...201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, t... ...plicable, not only to them, but to us, and to every one who is occupied with public affairs. As he says, such persons are too apt to be negligent and ... ...h was a far better spectacle. He was a marine on board a ship which struck a transport vessel, and was armed with a weapon, half spear, half scythe; t... ...ugh his hand until he retained only the end of the handle. The people in the transport clapped their hands, and laughed at his ridiculous figure; and ... ... held the weapon waving in the air, suspended from “Laches” Plato 15 the transport. Now I do not deny that there may be something in such an art, ...

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The Marriage Contract

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classic Series Publication The Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Pr... ...iage Contract by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...02-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...ty- seven I mean to live the life of a country gentleman at Lanstrac. I’ll transport my belongings to Bordeaux into my father’s old mansion, and I’ll ... ...: ‘I shall never exhibit more than a certain amount of the ridiculous; the public will think of me what I choose it to think.’ Married, you’ll drop in... ...you’ll grow a blockhead; you’ll calculate dowries; you’ll talk moral- ity, public and religious; you’ll think young men immoral and dangerous; in shor... ...ieur, I know not what I would not do to show my gratitude,” she said, in a transport of feeling that colored her cheeks. “Let us now return to the oth...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Penn Stat... ...tronic Classics Series Publication A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Penn Stat... ...tronic Classics Series Publication A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pen... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...ed to the necessity of providing for himself, he procured a situation in a public office. The young clerks below him, died off as if there were a plag... ... out from the abuse of the woman up-stairs, it seemed the husband had been transported a few weeks before. When the time was up, the landlord and old ... ...g the desired effect, and the boy is sentenced, per- haps, to seven years’ transportation. Finding it impos- sible to excite compassion, he gives vent... ...urable Mrs. Augustus Fitz-Edward Fitz-John Fitz- Osborne!’ The thought was transport. ‘It’s five minutes to five, ’ said Mr. Malderton, looking at his... ...ertainly!’ responded the boots; ‘anything you please. If you’re happy, I’m transported; only don’t talk too much—it’ll make you worse. ’ ‘Make me wors...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...mily by Charles Dickens VOLUME ONE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication V olume One of THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, c... ...allings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document f... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, t... ... a misgiving that the portrait is his own. ‘The Author’s object in calling public attention to the sys- tem would be very imperfectly fulfilled, if he... ...ce. ‘Not more than five-and-twenty minutes by the—’ Noggs was going to add public-house clock, but recollecting him- self, substituted ‘regular time.’... ...ll let the thief and assassin go, as if we prosecuted him he would only be transported, and if he is let go he is sure to be hung before long which wi... ...amboat people, deceived by her size, would (he had previously ascertained) transport her at half-price. As there was no performance that night, Mr Cru... ...er to walk at any time, for although I believe a hack- ney coachman can be transported for life, if he has a broken window, still they are so reckless...

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The Arrow of Gold : A Story between Two Notes

By: Joseph Conrad

...tween Two Notes by Joseph Conrad A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Arrow of Gold: A Story between Two Notes is a publication ... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...r the last week or so I had been rather on the look-out for him in all the public places where in a provincial town men may expect to meet each other.... ...fine things, a painter known only to very few people and not at all to the public market. But as meantime I had been emptying my V enetian goblet with... ...ow I am an old Jacobin, sans-culotte and terrorist—if this were a real Re- public with the Convention sitting and a Committee of Public Safety attendi... ...he hour struck at last. If I could have plunged into a light wave and been transported instantaneously to Dona Rita’s door it would no doubt have save... ...d now were beginning to be pretty closely hunted. The arrangements for the transport of supplies were going to pieces; our friends ashore were getting... ...ly,” I cried. “And you expect me perhaps after this to kiss your feet in a transport of gratitude while I hug the pride of your words to my breast. Bu...

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The Clever Woman of the Family

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...the F amily by Charlotte M. Y onge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publ... ...-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...th them—poor boys.” “Oh! oh!” he exclaimed, “anything I can do—” in such a transport of eager helpfulness that Rachel coldly said, “We are all anxious... ...agedy in the Palace of T ruth. Comically absurd as the inconsistency is of transport- ing the lecture of a Parisian academician into an enchanted pala... ... was prompted by the resolution to leave him unbound, whereas his wish for publicity was with the purpose of bind- ing himself, and Ermine was determi... ...r boys; and no one’s feelings need be hurt by her fixing herself near some public school for her sons’ educa- tion. However, she is settled for this y... ...e.” “And you are above wanting to silence them by palaver about unfeminine publicity?” “There is no need of publicity. Much of the best and most wide-... ...poor children to send out to Botany Bay to be wives to the convicts as are transported, Miss Rachel, if you’ll excuse it. They say there’s a whole shi... ...Family gusted by that vice of the Russian sheep. And a vague hint of being transported to the Ural mountains, away from Aunt Ermine, had haunted her o...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...LUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a public... ...-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ... children, in the hope of extorting ransoms for them. The mothers fill the public places with cries of despair; crowds gather, get excited: so many wo... ...angs by the apron of this same unmentionable woman. But then ‘the force of public opinion’? Rigorous Christophe de Beau- mont, who has spent his life ... ... resolution taken; jacta est alea. Old Richelieu,—when Beaumont, driven by public opinion, is at last for entering the sick-room,—will twitch him by t... ...and Royalist plotters, to provoke the people into illegality, obstruct the transport of grains. Quick, ye organised Patriot Authorities, armed Nationa... .... Tough Abbe Maury, when the obscure country Royalist grasps his hand with transport of thanks, answers, rolling his indomitable bra- zen head: “Helas... ...things, however, Duke Castries may justly ‘write to the President,’ justly transport himself across the Marches; to raise a corps, or do what else is ... ...the battle; it is their task to conquer: the married men shall forge arms, transport bag- gage and artillery; provide subsistence: the women shall wor...

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Two Poets

By: Honoré de Balzac

...alzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publ... ...02-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, t... ... oath succeeded the Comte de Maucombe as soon as the First Consul restored public wor- ship. The Abbe became a Bishop at the Restoration, and in after... ...miles away. Carriers, wheelwrights, posthouses, and inns, every agency for public conveyance, every industry that lives by road or river, was crowded ... ...e French jour- nalist, who furnishes a daily supply of the commodity for a public that daily performs the difficult feat of swallowing it. She squande... ...way to win Eve. The mute delights of this love of theirs differed from the transports of stormy passion, as wildflow- ers in the fields from the brill... ...m, lost in delicious dreaming; for the first time in her life she had been transported to the sphere which was hers by right of nature. Judge, therefo... ...a sub- lime poem might be made of the story of some daughter of the desert transported to some cold, western clime, calling for her beloved sun, dying...

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Paradise Lost

By: John Milton

...ire; And such appear’d in hue, as when the force 230 Of subterranean wind transports a Hill Torn from PELORUS, or the shatter’d side Of thundri... ...eem’d A Pillar of State; deep on his Front engraven Deliberation sat and publick care; - 26 - BOOK II. Milton: Paradise Lost And Princely couns... ...adorn’d With splendor, arm’d with power, if aught propos’d And judg’d of public moment, in the shape Of difficulty or danger could deterre Me ... ...onely Son foreseeing spake. Onely begotten Son, seest thou what rage 80 Transports our adversarie, whom no bounds Prescrib’d, no barrs of Hell,... ... who wrongd. And should I at your harmless innocence Melt, as I doe, yet public reason just, Honour and Empire with revenge enlarg’d, 390 By co... ... & Flours, Walks, and the melodie of Birds; but here 1165 Farr otherwise, transported I behold, Transported touch; here passion first I felt, C... ... Less excellent, as thou thy self perceav’st. For what admir’st thou, what transports thee so, An outside? fair no doubt, and worthy well 1205 Th... ...ll sides, from innumerable tongues A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn; he wonderd, but not long Had leasure, wondring at himself... ... Long time shall dwell and prosper, but when sins National interrupt thir public peace, - 241 - BOOK X. Milton: Paradise Lost Provoking God to r...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Penns... ...-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...inuous attention than anyone else can have given them during its desultory publication, it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked a... ... that it has been brought to its climax in these pages, in the days of the public examination of late Di- rectors of a Royal British Bank. But, I subm... ...een him and those houses, and people be- gan to collect under cover of the public passage opposite, and to look out hopelessly at the sky as the rain ... ...y one of the three princes in the Arabian Nights, and had that moment been transported on it, at a wish, into a pala- tial saloon with which it had no... ..., that he has already improved that chance occasion. He has returned quite transported with V enice.’ ‘Indeed?’ returned the careless Fanny. ‘Was he t... ... know not where to look,’ cried the little man, kissing Arthur’s hand in a transport. ‘I know not where to begin. I know not where to go. But, courage...

...t unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them during its desultory publication, it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished....

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Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

...Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsy... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, t... ..., or permission of the kings of Spain and Portu- gal, and engrossed in the public stock: so that few negroes were bought, and these excessively dear. ... ...hat as it was a trade that could not be carried on, because they could not publicly sell the negroes when they came home, so they desired to make but ... ...I believe it is impossible to express, to the life, what the ecstasies and transports of the soul are, when it is so saved, as I may say , out of the ... ...rowned and myself spared, I was surprised with a kind of ecstasy, and some transports of soul, which, had the grace of God assisted, might have come u... ...ish- ments, to make a just retribution for national offences, and to bring public judgments upon those who offend in a public manner, by such ways as ...

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Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

...n believing they had no faults. Mansfield Park 27 Lady Bertram did not go into public with her daughters. She was too indolent even to accept a mother... ...y — and there is no more real modesty in their behaviour before they appear in public than afterwards.” “I do not know,” replied Miss Crawford hesitat... ...do not censure her opinions; but there certainly is impropriety in making them public.” “Do not you think,” said Fanny, after a little consideration, ... ...own to the largest part only as preachers. And with regard to their influencing public manners, Miss Crawford must not mis understand me, or suppose I... ...! — What is your opinion? — I always come to you to know what I am to think of public matters.” Mansfield Park 89 “My dear Tom,” cried his aunt soon a... ...erie! Thinking, I hope, of one who is always thinking of you. Oh! that I could transport you for a short time into our circle in town, that you might ... ...ually, it was most tempting. To be finding herself, perhaps, within three days, transported to Mansfield, was an image of the greatest felicity — but it...

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The Egoist : A Comedy in Narrative

By: George Meredith

...dy in Narrative by George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ... Spirit, had been curiously attentive three years earlier, long before the public announcement of his engagement to the beautiful Miss Durham, on the ... ...ave blood precipitate the greater number upon the hunting-field, to do the public service of heading the chase of the fox, with benefit to their const... ...would not be outdone in popu- lar accomplishments. Had the standard of the public taste been set in philosophy, and the national enthusiasm centred in... ...irst mention of the lady’s name. As the general said of his ammunition and transport, there’s the army!—but it was leagues in the rear. Like the footm...

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Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

...AT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the ... ...-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...reby, a money-box was kept on the kitchen mantel-shelf, in to which it was publicly made known that all my earnings were dropped. I have an impres- si... ...he told me what it was, to be a design for a buckle. Of course there was a public-house in the village, and of course Joe liked sometimes to smoke his... ...to it, and running out from it, as if some circumstances of the great- est public importance had just transpired in the spider com- munity. I heard th... ...rt was, that it happened a long time ago, and that he had doubt- less been transported a long way off, and that he was dead to me, and might be verita... ...e fear which I had lost in the night, of his being found out as a returned transport. W aking, I never lost that fear. He came round at the appointed ... ...ed on the abyss between Estella in her pride and beauty , and the returned transport whom I harboured? The road would be none the smoother for it, the... ...; put the case that he habitually knew of their being imprisoned, whipped, transported, neglected, cast out, qualified in all ways for the hangman, an...

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Sense and Sensibility

By: Jane Austen

... and walks thickly covered with dead leaves.” “Oh!” cried Marianne, “with what transporting sensations have I formerly seen them fall! How have I deli... ... my mother is now convinced that I have no more talents than inclination for a public life!” “But how is your fame to be established? for famous you m... ...you at any time till I am confined, if Mrs. Dashwood should not like to go into public.” They thanked her; but were obliged to resist all her entreatie... ... you will scarcely have any thing at all, and you will almost always appear in public with Lady Middleton.” “If Elinor is frightened away by her disli... ...s which, for the sake of every one concerned in it, make it unfit to become the public conversation. I must do this justice to Mr. Willoughby — he has ... ...e was desirous that Marianne should not receive the first notice of it from the public papers, which she saw her eagerly examining every morning. She r... ...ich a few days before would have made every nerve in Elinor’s body thrill with transport, not arrived to be read with less emotion than mirth. Mrs. Je...

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Magnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is... ...lication Magnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document ... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ... sobri- quets for Aunt Ellen, and were in continual danger of ooz- ing out publicly. Indeed the younger population at Kencroft probably soon became aw... ...hina in the tea trade, and is come to take leave. I believe he did sing in public at one time; but Joe attended him in an illness which damaged his vo... ...onsense to you about poor little Armine.” Kind, gentle Jessie seemed quite transported out of her- self, as she flew to the door and called Johnny, le... ...e the words had time to come out of her mouth, Cecil had flown at her in a transport, thrown his arms round her and kissed her, just as her mother ope...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...mporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publicati... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ........................................................110 THE PHILOSOPHER’S PUBLIC LIBRARY................................................................ ...one knows what they do with their brains! The British reading and thinking public probably does not number fifty thousand people all told. It is diffi... ... for him to reach it was to have it at his door, and the cost and delay of transport were relatively too enormous for him to shift once he was settled... ...ofitable employment. And with every diminution in the cost and duration of transport it becomes more and more possible, and more and more likely, to b... ... the prophet finds his chief opportunity. Obviously, these great forces of transport are already straining against the limits of existing political ar... ...adapt this hugely growing floating population of delocalised people to the public service. As Mr. Marriott puts it in his novel, “Now,” they “drop out... ... The dream of the Syndicalist is an impos- sible social fragmentation. The transport service is to be a democratic republic, the mines are to be a dem...

......... 99 THE CONTEMPORARY NOVEL ...............................................................................................110 THE PHILOSOPHER?S PUBLIC LIBRARY............................................................................ 126 ABOUT CHESTERTON AND BELLOC.................................................................................... 129 ABOUT SIR THOM...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...eme. Whereby, at least, our nautical Logbooks can be better kept; and water transport of all kinds has grown more commodious. Of Geology and Geognosy... ...l despair. Thus did the Editor see himself, for the while, shut out from all public utterance of these extraordinary Doctrines, and constrained to rev... ...ttention” which the Philosophy of Clothes was exciting in its own German Re public of Letters; on the deep significance and tendency of his Friend’s V... ...ht be, even slightly, facilitated.” That actual Lectures should be held, and Public Classes for the “Science of Things in Gen eral,” they doubtless c... ... them, not more conscious of them, than is the sculptured stone head of some public fountain, which through its brass mouth tube emits water to the wo... ...the world is governed; and how, in Germany as elsewhere, the ninety and nine Public Men can for most part be but mute train bearers to the hundredth,... ... digs up certain black stones from the bosom of the earth, and says to them, Transport me and this luggage at the rate of file and thirty miles an hour... ...ous, quick changing; as if our Traveller, instead of limbs and highways, had transported himself by some wishing carpet, or Fortunatus’ Hat. The whole... ...ad been struck, and sent flying? Oh, could I (with the Time annihilating Hat) transport thee direct from the Beginnings, to the Endings, how were thy e...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...UES by William Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of ... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...n de Barbazure resolves upon putting his wife to death by the hands of the public executioner.) * * * TWO MINUTES BEFORE the clock struck noon... ...e to the stables, before com- mencing his evening at the “Fortune of W ar” public-house— ”what a lovely creature that was! What eyes! what hair! Who k... ...d paytrons of letarature and true connyshures of merrit—the great Brittish public—But I pledj my varacity that this singlar story of rewmantic love, a... ... of the forts—he would not stir without his treasure. They said they would transport it thither; but no, no: the patriarchal monarch, putting his fing... ...feller away,” says she; “he has insulted a French nobleman, and de- serves transportation, at the least.” Poor Orlando was carried off. “I’ve no patie...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of... ...Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document ... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ... country folks with the splendor of her diamonds, which she always wore in public. They said she wore them in private, too, and slept with them round ... ...basin after dinner—sitting on her carriage- step on state occasions, or on public days introducing her com- pany to her. This was chiefly of the Catho... ...layer, but the kindest player in the world.” “Madam, madam!” Esmond cried, transported and pro- voked. “Debts of honor must be paid some time or other... ...ch a piece. “Our poor friend the Abbe hath been at the Bastile, but is now transported to the Conciergerie (where his friends may visit him. They are ... ...tensity of that love which, for so many years, hath blessed me, I own to a transport of wonder and gratitude for such a boon—nay, am thankful to have ...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...n Garth W ermter Senior IT Consultant Serena B.Wille Counsel Peter Y erkes Public Affairs Assistant xiv COMMISSION STAFF xiv Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:... ...eated the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Public Law 107-306, November 27, 2002). Our mandate was sweeping.The law di... ...ith the American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public testimony from 160 witnesses. PREFACE xv Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:26... ...fice and W.W. Norton & Company for helping to get this report to the broad public. We conclude this list of thanks by coming full circle:We thank the ... ...st their message over the air traffic control channel instead of the cabin public-address channel. Also at 8:25, and again at 8:29, Amy Sweeney got th... ...of some dispute.The 10:03:11 impact time is supported by previous National Transportation Safety Board analysis and by evidence from the Commission st... ... of the cells rented residences, and purchased bomb-mak- ing materials and transport vehicles.At least one additional explosives expert was brought in... ...eady occurred. Responsible individuals had to be located, apprehended, and transported back to a U.S. court for prosecution.As FBI agents emphasized t... ...ry.The FAA had a security mission to pro- tect the users of commercial air transportation against terrorism and other criminal acts. In the years befo...

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