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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...s 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... ...at Arcis this young man had lent his name during the T error to the famous Malin de l’Aube, the repre- sentative of the people, in order to hold posse... ... An Historical Mystery.”] Conse- quently, all the support and influence of Malin, now become count and senator, was at the service of the Marion famil... ...oisie revolved, for they felt themselves to be fully worth either Monsieur Malin, otherwise called Comte de Gondreville, the Keller Bros., the Cinq-Cy... .... The sound of the water as it runs through the courses above the dam, the music of the wheels, from which the churned water falls back into the basin... ...in- ference was that he was either a clerk in some office, or that he gave music lessons in private houses. One detail alone in the midst of this vagu... ...me quite intimate with a comrade in the Academy named Desroziers. He was a musician and a man of distinguished and very ob- serving mind, who would pr...

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...sics Series Publication Rhoda Fleming by George Meredith 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... ...da shook her head, full sure that she could never be brought to utter such musical words naturally. “Yes, dearest, when you know what love is,” said D... ...seen her. I expect I’ve seen a portrait of her, though.” “Ah!” Mrs. Lovell musically drew him on. “Was she dark, too?” “No, she’s fair. At least, she ... ...e like heaven. On these inspired occasions, Robert presented the form of a malignant serpent in her ideas. Then Dahlia made excursions upon glaciers w... ...rench; it is, as sure as my blood’s British.” “Oh! Missis,” quoth Sedgett, maliciously, “as to tales, you’ve got witnesses enough it crassed chann’l. ... ...ner any more,” she said, putting up her wand, and pouting. “You don’t bear malice?” said Algernon, revived. “There is my hand. Now you must play a gam... ...an live without the other?” and horrid pangs smote him to hear her telling musically of the places she was journeying to, the men she would see, and t...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...ry Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...t these tastes bring him into debt or ex- travagance. His turn for art and music began to show itself, and the anthems at St. George’s Chapel on the S... ...tteson’s chief delight was the Midsummer Night’s Dream, with Mendelssohn’s music. He had a tuneful baritone voice and a correct ear for music. We hire... ...ng some of Mendelssohn’s Lieder very pleasingly, and knew most of the bass music from the Messiah by heart. He began to play a few scales on the piano... ... more than touch at Aurora, and exchange some fish-hooks for some bows. At Malicolo, in 1851, the Bishop and his party , while fetch- ing water, had b... ... more personal letters. On his sister Fanny’s birthday , when the visit to Malicolo was just over, after his birthday wishes, he goes on:— ‘And now, h... ...he whalers, for there were six in the chiefs house, and one was fired, not mali- ciously but out of display. The Bishop told them his object, and they...

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... The Odyssey by Homer, trans. Samuel Butler is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is f... ... 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... ...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... ...ere before them. As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink they wanted music and dancing, which are the crowning embel lishments of a banquet, ... ...et of foot and are excellent sailors. We are extremely fond of good dinners, music, and danc ing; we also like frequent changes of linen, warm baths,... ...g that is going to happen over the whole world.’ “They sang these words most musically, and as I longed to hear them further I made by frowning to my ... ...t by, and the suitors gathered round him with fair words in their mouths and malice in their hearts; but he avoided them, and went to sit with Mentor,... ...nd The Odyssey – Book XX 251 by. Father Jove, of all gods you are the most mali cious. We are your own children, yet you show us no mercy in all ou... ... had had it washed, its splendour was as that of the sun or moon. “Then some malicious god conveyed Ulysses to the upland farm where his swineherd liv...

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...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism we...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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............................................................................................................................................. 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ...................................................................................................................................... 9 THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE .....................................................

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