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...ublication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...We had in him a lord who cast off luxury to live like a Spartan when under arms, with a passion to serve his country and sustain the glory of our mili... ... was pretty good, thanks to Matey. He went away, promising to remember Old England, saying he was French first, and a Briton next. He had lots of plun... ...he Book of the Law upon their skulls.” “Happily for the country, England’s councils are not di- rected by boys!” “Ah, but we’re speaking of India, Mr.... ...have war, give him Gibraltar or Malta, or com- mand of one of our military districts. The South-eastern ‘ll be vacant soon. He’d like to be Constable ... ... promised her—it’s not known to Lord Ormont himself:—a printed letter in a metropolitan paper, copied into the pro- vincial papers, upholding him for ... ... fractions. Napoleon knew it in war, when he looked to the boots and great-coats of his men; those were his frac- tions. Lord Ormont thinks he had too...

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...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...awaken on the sleeping-porch of a Dutch Colonial house in that residential district of Zenith known as Floral Heights. His name was George F. Babbitt.... ...s acreage development, Glen Oriole. He stopped puffing and jig- gling. His arms were akimbo. His petulant, sleep-swollen face was set in harder lines.... ...out of contracting and hasn’t been any dishonester or bought any more city councils than was necessary. And that’s a good house of his—though it ain’t... ...ting-print, a Madame Feit la Toilette print, a colored photograph of a New England house, a photograph of a Rocky Mountain, or all four.) It was a roo... ...ough he had been born in the village of Catawba, Babbitt had risen to that metropolitan social plane on which hosts have as many as four people at din... ...they sat in their room, with Elbert Wing and two up-state delegates. Their coats were off, their vests open, their faces red, their voices emphatic. T...

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... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stev... ... fittings of the saloon, and the white, the gilt, and the repeating mirrors of the tiny cabin, brought us a hundred visitors. The men fathomed out her... ...loving Highlander; long- pig, pirated from the next village, to the man-eating Kanaka. The grumbling, the secret ferment, the fears and resent- ments,... ...our, but continually modified my judg- ment. A polite Englishman comes to-day to the Marquesans and is amazed to find the men tattooed; polite Italian... ...ways, the doors of death being set wide open, and the door of birth almost closed. Thus, in the half-year ending July 1888 there were twelve deaths an... ...ms; here and there, the green wall of wood ran solid for a length of miles; and on the port hand, under the highest grove of trees, a few houses spark... ...d in white and carried by four bearers; mourners behind—not many, for not many remained in Rotoava, and not many in black, for these were poor; the me...

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...y H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Food of the Gods and How It Came Down to Earth by H. G. Wells is a publication o... ... far as I can remember now, he was propounding an improvement of Professor Armstrong’s Heuristic method, whereby at the cost of three or four hundred ... ...as, no doubt, as Cossar insisted, quite the obvious thing to do, only—! In England one so rarely does the obvious thing. He glanced from his neighbour... ...rgetic in movement, quick and spinning on the heel, and he wore long frock coats, black silk ties and plain gold studs and chains and his silk hats ha... ...e most careful inquiries yield trustworthy evidence of only six within the Metropolitan area at that time. It would seem the stuff acted differently u... ...ate proprietors; let alone the special privileges and property of an urban district board, nine parish councils, a county council, two gasworks, and a... ...he special privileges and property of an urban district board, nine parish councils, a county council, two gasworks, and a railway company….” “Goodney...

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...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...rather tattered is a large yellow-varnished geological map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and several big... ...ver the liberation of London from the corrupt and devastating control of a Metropolitan Board of Works. Then there were also School Boards; I was alre... ...oks, material, according to the conceptions of efficiency prevalent in the district. Private enterprise made a particu- larly good thing of the books.... ...s of anxiety those vile houses have cost me! The painting! It worked up my arms; it got all over me. I stank of it. It made me ill. It isn’t living—it... ...ht us all, as it were, within personal touch of them. One heard of cabinet councils and meetings at coun- try houses. Some of us, pursuing such intere... ... on by themselves,” said my uncle. It isn’t so. Not unless they take their coats off. I took mine off before I was your age by nigh a year.” We were a...

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...Series Publication Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...the tendency of all human aspira- tions of rising priests in the Church of England. A lawyer does not sin in seeking to be a judge, or in compassing h... ... only preferment has hitherto been that of reader and preacher in a London district church; and on the consecration of his friend the new bishop, he r... ...s empty fire-grate, and the tails of his frock coat supported over his two arms. His hands were in his breeches pockets. ‘It is quite clear that this ... ...ch would probably in a few 65 Anthony Trollope months be submitted to the councils of the nation. There was something so ambiguously frightful in thi... ... suppose, are much the same as other men, if you strip them of their black coats; and as to their wives, I dare say they won’t trouble me. You may tel... ...n of a half-crown, and this she sacrificed to the avarice of Mrs Proudie’s metropolitan sesquipedalian serving-man. She was, she said, Mrs Quiverful o...

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...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...page of the Millionary; the humbler, but yet larger vehicle from the green metropolitan suburbs (the Hang- ing Gardens of our Babylon), in which every... ...t certain travellers know and rec- ognize from its likeness to its brother district in all other places where are congregated the habitations of men. ... ... A sea-green cymar with short sleeves, displayed her ex- quisitely moulded arms to perfection, and was fastened by a girdle of emeralds over a yellow ... ... wert away to the Crusades ere ever my beard grew.” “I stood by Richard of England at the gates of Ascalon, and drew the spear from sainted King Louis... ...as they walk yonder in the gray limbo of romance, shining faintly in their coats of steel, wandering by the side of long-haired ladies, with long-tail... ...law, and as- trology, and all sciences; he shall aid my Ministers in their councils. I have written to him by the post. There shall be no more infamou...

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...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subject of the United States have hitherto dealt chiefly wit... ...or of its ultimate prospects. If only they would be wise, throw down their arms, and agree to part! But they will not.” This was I think the general o... ...had they held in their hands vast commercial cities and great agricultural districts; had they owned ships and been masters of a wide-spread trade, Am... ...made against the States. (Men in the States, with horned hands and fustian coats, are very often most unnecessarily insolent in asserting their indepe... ... North says, “to Southern Presidents, and Southern statesmen, and Southern councils, because 129 Trollope we obeyed the vote of the people. But as to... ...that terrible repetition of A B C, to which, I fear, that most of our free metropolitan schools are still necessarily con- fined. You and I, reader, w...

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...lassics Series Publication Dr Thorne by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...whom, our doctor followed his profession. There is a county in the west of England not so full of life, indeed, nor so widely spoken of as some of its... ...ers with pale temples, wan, 10 Dr Thorne worn cheeks, and skeleton, white arms, were awaiting permission to leave it. Such was the family when, in th... ...s she may have desired, and did desire, to sever him from all Greshamsbury councils in all matters not touching the healing art. Now the complaint of ... ...ery liberal in their mode of bringing themselves to the poll. The election district of the city of Barchester extended for some miles on each side of ... ...rsetshire—that being the duke’s division. They were soon divested of their coats and hats, and, without entering on the magnificence of the great hall... ...ry, or Lady Arabella, with all her daughters returned from her hard-fought metropolitan campaigns. Sir Louis, however, came with four, and very arroga...

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ... played before Popes, who were not a whit 9 Rabelais embarrassed. Even in England the drama went very far for a time, and the comic authors of the re... ...make of him a local author, the pride of some village, in order that their district might have the merit of being one of the causes, one of the factor... ...aloud, Assembled in a blue-vein’d cloud, And this tall infant in angelic arms now shroud. IX. T o praise it further I would now begin Were ‘t now... ...ke a mallet. He took the cranes at the first leap, and would have the mail-coats to be made link after link. He always looked a given horse in the mou... ... Thou hast, quoth Panurge, a right, clear, and neat spirit, Friar John, my metropolitan cod; thou speakst in very deed pertinently and to purpose. Tha... ...ontifical canon; Barbatias on the Pandects, and re- cently by Jason in his Councils, concerning Seyny John, the 445 Rabelais noted fool of Paris, and...

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...Series Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... leg and me several times, he came closer to my tombstone, took me by both arms, and tilted me back as far as he could hold me; so that his eyes looke... ...ns firing, and voices calling. Hears? He sees the soldiers, with their red coats lighted up by the torches carried afore, closing in round him. Hears ... ...ravaging the houses of gentlefolks and pitching into the studious youth of England, without laying themselves open to severe punishment. For some days... ...ing I told her, I did not know then, though I think I know now. Meanwhile, councils went on in the kitchen at home, fraught with almost insupportable ... ...me and the road, until he gave me to understand that we had arrived in the district of W alworth. It appeared to be a collection of back lanes, ditche... ...took what Joe gave me, and found it to be the crumpled playbill of a small metropolitan theatre, announcing the first appearance, in that very week, o...