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...HERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reaso...

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...Table of Contents: A Scandal in Bohemia, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 9 -- III, 18 -- The Red-headed League, 21 -- A Case of Identity, 41 -- The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 56 -- The Five Orange Pips, 77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The...

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... 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on issues of The Strand July 1891 through June 1892. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Contents... ... Red headed League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 A Case of Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4... ...h the Twisted Lip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 The Adven... ...pe to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in his hair had tramped into the ... ...ne of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense stream of commerce flowin... ... had, I understand. Where is your father’s place of business?” “He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers of Fenchurch Street.” “... ...ng the reconstruc tion of the Southern states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carp... ... answered, laughing. “It was a singular document. Philosophy, as tronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, ge ology pr... ...arried my mother, Mrs. Stoner, the young widow of Major General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only tw...

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...n by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...on a steamer is surprised to find a barren coast and tangled gorges to the west of Ingouville, like a beggar in rags beside a perfumed and sump- tuous... ... was re- markable for the sober and virginal tone of the cheeks, soft as a Bengal rose, upon which the long lashes of the diapha- nous eyelids cast sh... ...ught the crushed poet; “af- ter all, Canning and Chateaubriand are both in politics.” Canalis would gladly have brought forth some great po- litical p... ...ith publishers, see to his glory in the newspapers, help him if need be in politics,—in short, a cat’s paw and satellite. In Paris many men of celeb- ... ...estore his health, injured as it was by the double toils of literature and politics. This important per- sonage wanted a house, which must have at lea... ...e he’s five feet six,—idiot!” “Here is some creme de the, a liqueur of the West Indies,” said 198 Modeste Mignon Canalis. “You, whom Mademoiselle Mod...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a ...

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... sooner or later, and the world has done me the kindness so often to inquire after my first crude attempt, that after it has lain for many years ?out of print,? I have ventured to launch it once more-- imperfections and all-- though it is guilty of the error of pointing rather to a transient phase of difficulty than to a general principle. The wheels of this world go so qu...

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...h, or Self-control and Self-conceit by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...e Font, while the last beams of the evening sun were streaming through the western window, shining on the edges of the carved oak benches, and glanc- ... ...f solemn richness when contrasted with the glittering gorgeous hues of the west window. ‘Oh! Anne,’ whispered Elizabeth, as they stood together in the... ...drangle was enclosed on the north side by the old church, on the south and west by the alms-houses, and on the east by the low wall of the Vicarage ga... ...y the drawing-room is almost 79 CHARLOTTE M YONGE uninhabitable with that Bengal tiger in it. Here is that de- lightful Norman Conquest for you to re... ...a little, ‘how many people run wild, and adopt foolish and wicked views of politics, for want of reading history religiously! And the astrono- mers an...

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...From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my...

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............. 5 THE BEGGING-LETTER WRITER ........................................................................................... 14 A CHILD?S DREAM OF A STAR................................................................................................. 21 OUR ENGLISH WATERING-PLACE ...........................................................................................

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

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his father?s room,...

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...Contents The Education of Otis Yeere ............................................................................................................ 4 At the Pit?s Mouth ....................................................................................

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

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...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

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...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...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... ...ndia; dried cod at Newfoundland; tobacco in Virginia; sugar in some of our West India colonies; hides or dressed leather in some other countries; and ... ... at least in common language. The greater part of our North Ameri- can and West Indian planters are in this situation. They farm, the 50 The Wealth o... ... very nearly still continues to be paid in some parts of the Highlands and Western islands. Through the greater part of the Low country, the most usua... ...The wealth of neighbouring nations, however, though danger- ous in war and politics, is certainly advantageous in trade. In a state of hostility, it m... ...hich sometimes come from the wheel of the great state lottery of Brit- ish politics. Unless this or some other method is fallen upon, and there seems ... ...ddy ambition it naturally presents itself, amidst the confused scramble of politics and war, as a very dazzling object to fight for. The dazzling sple...

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...The Magic Skin 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...see for a moment the shapes that surrounded him, by the vague light in the west; then all these inanimate objects were blotted out in uniform darkness... ...skrit fluently,” said the old man. “You have been in Persia perhaps, or in Bengal?” “No, sir,” said the stranger, as he felt the emblematical skin cur... ...old in words. But now we are to be branded with the 35 Balzac hot iron of politics; we are going to enter the convict’s prison and to drop our illusi... ...” said the Republican, following out his theory in spite of hiccoughs; “in politics, as in philosophy, there are only principles and ideas.” “What an ... ....” “Oh, dear!” cried the attorney Deroches. “Aren’t they a bore with their politics!” said the notary Cardot. “Shut up. That’s enough of it. There is ... ... in this neg- ligent dress; she was delightful as some fanciful picture by Westall; half-girl, half-woman, as she seemed to be, or per- haps more of a...

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...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FO...

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...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A A A A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP... ...UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ON... ...LISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EATER TER TER TER TER, ET ,... ... ban- quets, long after it had faded to a form in the less supersti- tious West. This we may learn from that point of casuistry treated by St. Paul,—w... ...e Spaniards have laws, and severe ones, against witch- craft, viz., in the West Indies, and indispensable it is that we should. The Obeah man from Afr... ...of Carthage, finally, and above all, Rome, then beginning to loom upon the western horizon), together with all the dependencies of Rome, and, briefly,... ... mother-land, and to her interests, however ill understood, ennobles their politics, even when otherwise base. They are corrupters in a service that n... ...n the one hand, kept through these men in vital sympathy with the restless politics of the insurrectionist populace—on the other, hearing a sublime ph... ...on himself? Were oats rising in the market?—or was he in love?—or vexed by politics?—or could a horse, and a young one rising four, be supposed to suf...

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...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...d ser- mon, and applauded the preacher, church as it was, when he preached politics; how, next day, with sustained pomp, they are, for the first time,... ... in the morning, our National Volunteers rolling in long wide flood, south-westward to the Hotel des Invalides; in search of the one thing needful. Ki... .... Merciless boors of Vitry un- earth him; pounce on him, like hell-hounds: Westward, old In- famy; to Paris, to be judged at the Hotel-de-Ville! His o... ... zero, are they not great? Nay, best of all, some happy Continents (as the Western one, with its Savannahs, where whosoever has four willing limbs fin... ...must the disunited People look over the borders, into a dim sea of Foreign Politics and Diplomacies, with hope or ap- prehension, with mutual exaspera... ...m, had bargained for this short cut. The infinite dim movement of European Politics waved a skirt over these spaces, passing on its way; like the pass...

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........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...

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...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William 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... ...is, that now that the current, here and at Aberdeen, has begun to run from west to east, I hope it may continue to do so. As the years go by, I hope t... ... A strange moral transformation has within the past century swept over our Western world. We no longer think that we are called on to face physical pa... ...iastical institutions with corporate ambitions of their own. The spirit of politics and the lust of dogmatic rule are then apt to enter and to contami... ...raises the Lord for delivering his enemies into his hands for “execution.” Politics come in in all such cases; but piety finds the partnership not qui... ...tive psychology, possessed a will equal to any emergency, great talent for politics and business, a buoyant disposition, and a first-rate literary sty... ...dling.[223] Accordingly religion has seldom been so radically taken in our Western world that the devotee could not mix it with some worldly temper. I...

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...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its...

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...the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch h...

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...sics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...But the equinoctial gales were blowing out at sea, and the impartial south-west wind, in its flight, would not neglect even the narrow Marshalsea. Whi... ...t she considered nothing so improbable as that he ever walked on the north-west side of Gray’s-Inn Gardens at exactly four o’clock in the afternoon. H... ...post of shame, the general’s station and the drummer’s, a peer’s statue in Westminster Abbey and a seaman’s hammock in the bosom of the deep, the mitr... ...ction of Chivery and Co., Tobacconists, Importers of pure Havannah Cigars, Bengal Cheroots, and fine-flavoured Cubas, Dealers in Fancy Snuffs, &C. &C.... ...ous host and friend,’ said Bar; ‘our shining mer- cantile star;—going into politics?’ ‘Going? He has been in Parliament some time, you know,’ returned...