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...Excerpt: PART I. It rose for them--their honey-moon--over the waters of a lake so famed as the scene of romantic raptures that they were rather proud of not having been afraid to choose it as the setting of their own. ?It required a total lack of humour, or as great a gift for it as ours, to r...

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... Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...ss dingy, than his staircase. Susy, knowing him to be addicted to Oriental archaeology, had pictured him in a bare room adorned by a single Chinese br... ...over the world with some people!” “Oh, Lord, yes. For instance, my trip to India with the Mortimer Hickses. But it was my only chance and what the deu... ...ope they won’t find us out. They were awfully kind to Nick when he went to India with them, and they’re so simple-minded that they would expect him to... ... I spent five whole months on the Ibis, and if they bored me occasionally, India didn’t.” “W e’ll make them take us to Aquileia anyhow,” said Streffor... ... the books she could lay her hands on; and she got so bitten with Oriental archaeology that she took a course last year at Bryn Mawr. She means to go ... ...rs. Hicks, vast and jewelled, seated between a quiet- looking professor of archaeology and a large-browed com- poser, or the high priest of a new danc...

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...922 A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- troni... ... She is in America. One little boy died when he was three. The other is in India, taking up the Mardipore power scheme again now that he is out of the... ...ention of Avebury and Silbury Hill. Both took an intelligent inter- est in archaeology. Both had been greatly stimulated by the recent work of Elliot ... ...ions, in mental predispositions, in still unanalyzed fundamental ideas.” “ Archaeology is very like remembering,” said Sir Richmond. “Presently we sha... ...to any harm here,” the doctor advised, and the small boy was released from archaeology. He strolled to the family automobile, produced an en-tout- cas... ...ow I hate the Irish from Carson to the last Sinn Feiner! And I am bored by India and by Egypt. I am bored by Poland and by Islam. I am bored by anyone...

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... and which I hope will equal your almost maternal kindness to me, would last beyond the limits prescribed for human affection. This sublime privilege of prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work we leave behind us would be (if we could only be sure of gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immo...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Alkahest (The House of Claes) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormely is a publi... ...s) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormely 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... ...ays of life, from the remains of public monuments or the relics of a home. Archaeology is to social nature what com- parative anatomy is to organized ... ... saying, takes three steps backward to one for- ward; while its trade with India poured into it the grotesque designs of China and the marvels of Japa...

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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 ,... ...ished from a high doctrinal religion, let us seek an illustration from our Indian empire. The Christian missionaries from home, when first opening the... ... not as 37 Thomas de Quincey tify our sense of the deep responsibility to India with which our Indian supremacy has invested us. We make no mention o... ...the vigilance of the local governments, no long time would pass before all India would be incurably convulsed by disorganizing feuds. *At Baraset, if ... ...eglected province of history, indispensable to the arrondissement of Pagan archaeology. To return to the Electronic Classics Series, go to http://www....