...g Chapters One through Thirty four by Charles Dickens is a publica tion 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 ... ...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... ...roof, where he can see nothing but fog. On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be—as here they are—mist... ...ty tsubmit— ludship,” is the reply that slides out of Mr. Tangle. “Several members of the bar are still to be heard, I be lieve?” says the Chancellor... ...as been down at what she calls, in familiar conver sation, her “place” in Lincolnshire. The waters are out in Lincolnshire. An arch of the bridge in ... ...bored to death.” Therefore my Lady Dedlock has come away from the place in Lincolnshire and has left it to the rain, and the crows, and the rabbits, a... ...her perfections on her head, my Lady Dedlock has come up from her place in Lincolnshire (hotly pursued by the fashionable intelligence) to pass a few ... ...Indians, I could really have supposed Eghert to be one of the most baleful members of that tribe, he gave me such a savage frown. The face of each chi...

...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had...

...sics Series Publication Bleak House 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 ... ...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... ...roof, where he can see nothing but fog. On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be—as here they are—mist... ...ty tsubmit— ludship,” is the reply that slides out of Mr. Tangle. “Several members of the bar are still to be heard, I be lieve?” says the Chancellor... ...as been down at what she calls, in familiar conver sation, her “place” in Lincolnshire. The waters are out in Lincolnshire. An arch of the bridge in ... ...bored to death.” Therefore my Lady Dedlock has come away from the place in Lincolnshire and has left it to the rain, and the crows, and the rabbits, a... ...her perfections on her head, my Lady Dedlock has come up from her place in Lincolnshire (hotly pursued by the fashionable intelligence) to pass a few ... ...Indians, I could really have supposed Eghert to be one of the most baleful members of that tribe, he gave me such a savage frown. The face of each chi...

...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had ...

...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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 ... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...f the En glish King. At Easter time, the Barons assembled at Stamford, in Lincolnshire, in proud array, and, marching near to Oxford where the King w... ...h, to what was called a Committee of Government: consisting of twenty four members: twelve chosen by the Barons, and twelve chosen by himself. But, at... ...r, but it was a short one, and it was the last. A new rising took place in Lincolnshire, and the King marched to repress it. Having done so, he procla... ...ople who had suffered from them. He also called about his bed the enriched members of the Woodville family, and the proud lords whose honours were of ... ... called him by the sounding name of the White Rose of England. The leading members of the White Rose party in England sent over an agent, named Sir Ro... ...ncouraged their discontent; and there were, consequently, great risings in Lincolnshire and York shire. These were put down by terrific executions, f...

...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Irela...

...Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Ch... ...d edited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...ty. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... for some obliging communica- tions, was then a student at Oxford, and re- members well the effect which London pro- duced. Every body was delighted w... ... it in three years. Adams. But the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to compile their Dictionary. Johnson. Sir, thus i... ...with a view to enjoy literary discussion, and amuse his evening hours. The members associated with him in this little soci- ety were his beloved frien... ...mmon mechanicks. His acquaintance with Bennet Langton, Esq. of Langton, in Lincolnshire, another much val- ued friend, commenced soon after the conclu... ...iends?’ About this period he was offered a living of considerable value in Lincolnshire, if he were inclined to enter into holy orders. It was a rec- ... ...ppiness ever permitted him to enjoy. ‘TO BENNET LANGTON, ESQ., AT LANGTON, LINCOLNSHIRE. ‘DEAREST SIR,—I must indeed have slept very fast, not to have...

...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of gr...

...te M. Yonge A Penn State Classics Series Publication Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- ... ...er though he was. A great many Danes had made their homes in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, ever since Alfred’s time, and some of their customs are still... ...and burning everywhere till they came to the Wash—that curious bay between Lincolnshire and Norfolk, where so many rivers run into the sea. There is a... ...ore him, and was also buried at Westminster. All the way from Grantham, in Lincolnshire—where she died—to London, Edward set up a beautiful stone cros... ...a check on them. So he resolved to go down to the House and cause the five members who spoke against his power to be taken prisoners in his own presen... ...he Parlia- ment became more trained, they gained the advantage. One of the members of Parliament, a gentleman named Oliver Cromwell, soon showed himse... ... After that he called together a fresh Parliament; but there were very few members, and those only men who would do as he bade them. The Speaker was a...

Excerpt: Young Folks? History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge.

...Contents Young Folks? History of England ..................................... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418........

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...erstition and social exigency having been thus dealt with in the first two members of the series, it remained for Les Travailleurs de la Mer to show m... ... declared that he “carried her off her feet;” and, when he came late to an inn, the servants would get out of bed to hear him talk. But, in these earl... ...ad once refused the invitations of lords and ladies is now whistled to the inn by any curious stranger. His death (July 21, 1796), in his thirty-seven... ...is route would be traceable across France and Burgundy by house- wives and inn-keepers lamenting over petty thefts, like the track of a single human l... ...en, because there the governor is more limited and restrained by the other members of the constitution than in other places; and this argument has kep...

...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 ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...