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...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 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... Mannering by Sir Walter Scott INTRODUCTION TO GUY MANNERING. THE NOVEL OR ROMANCE of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first,... ... over the general mind sufficient even to con- stitute the mainspring of a romance. Besides, it occurred, that to do justice to such a subject would h... ...f Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England; and curiosity ex- tended his tour into the adjacent front... ... drank himself daily drunk with brimming healths to the king, council, and bishops; held orgies with the Laird of Lagg, Theophilus Oglethorpe, and Sir... ...omas Kittlecourt’s uncle—and how they brought hame relics, like those that Catholics have, and a flag that’s up yonder in the garret—if they had been ... ...y own window that I might hear something more than the mere murmur of this Spanish rendezvous, but, though I used every precaution, the noise alarmed ... ...to speed the passage of a parting spirit, like the tolling, of the bell in catholic days. 186 Guy Mannering She accompanied this dismal sound with a ...

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.................................................... 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824.................................................

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... SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON... ...OLITUDE. IRIT OF SOLITUDE. IRIT OF SOLITUDE. IRIT OF SOLITUDE. Composed at Bishopsgate Heath, near Windsor Park, 1815 (au- tumn); published, as the ti... ...ance at the close of the last century. But at this time a book, “Scenes of Spanish Life”, translated by Lieutenant Crawford from the German of Dr. Hub... ...arth might become such, did mankind them- selves consent. The charm of the Roman climate helped to clothe his thoughts in greater beauty than they had... ...erest; and that the feel- ings of the company never failed to incline to a romantic pity for the wrongs, and a passionate exculpation of the hor- ribl... ...h century into cold impersonations of my own mind. They are represented as Catholics, and as Catholics deeply tinged with religion. T o a Protestant a... ... by a feigned tale to confess himself before death; this being esteemed by Catholics as essential to salvation; and she only relinquishes her purpose ... ...originality that, though greatly struck by his first acquaintance with the Spanish poet, none of his pecu- liarities crept into the composition of “Th... ...s played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies. 8. 8. 8. 8. 8. Last came Anarchy: he rod...

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...ts 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 DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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