...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoever Ezra does... ...- lating whether there may not be other faiths? 4 Main Street CHAPTER I I On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a ... ...so full of animation and moving beauty, that the heart of a chance watcher on the lower road tightened to wistful- ness over her quality of suspended ... ...e to Chicago. And there’s more Gopher Prairies than there are Chicagos. Or Londons. And— I’ll tell you the whole story: They think 100 Main Street yo... ...ater in Gopher Prairie. It was known as the “op’ra house.” Once, strolling companies had used it for performances of “The Two Orphans,” and “Nellie th... ...uqua, in New York, there are, all over these States, commercial Chautauqua companies which send out to every smallest town troupes of lecturers and “e... ...-yellow shoes, who had brought sweethearts into town in somewhat dusty and listed Fords, were wolfing sandwiches, drinking strawberry pop out of bottl...

...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very...

...ication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...HOOL A PROCESSION of schoolboys having to meet a procession of schoolgirls on the Sunday’s dead march, called a walk, round the park, could hardly go ... ... their ignominious weekly performance; and they could not avoid reflecting on it, as a thing done over again: it had them in front and in rear; and it... ...n, the answer became important. Ici was twenty miles to the north- west of London. How long would it take Matey to reach Donvres? Or at which of the c... ...eicestershire, husband, horses, guests, the hunt, to scour across a vacant London and pick up acquaintances under stress to be spots there in the hunt... ...d an Italian and a Swiss.” “It is a Company?” “A Company of schoolmasters! Companies of all kinds are forming. Colleges are Companies. And they have t... ... talk too. She was able to amuse her lord with some of his ideas. He had a stock of them, all his own. Ideas, new-born and naked original ideas, are a... ...by Lady Charlotte. She congratulated her brother on the recruit he had en- listed. He smiled his grimmest of the lips drawn in. A com- bat, perceptibl...

...LIVER TWIST CHARLES DICKENS or The Parish Boy s Progress A PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBL... ... A PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION Oliver Twist or the Parish Boy’s Progress by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pen... ...owns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it... ...rendered necessary to our easy existence; and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and ... ...rge jointed man, attired in a suit of threadbare black, with darned cotton stockings of the same colour, and shoes to answer. His features were not na... ..., of his after life, he never once forgot it. CHAPTER VIII OLIVER WALKS TO LONDON. HE ENCOUNTERS ON THE ROAD A STRANGE SORT OF YOUNG GENTLEMAN OLIVER ... ...arac ters, an intimation that it was just seventy miles from that spot to London. The name awakened a new train of ideas in the boy’s mind. London!—t... ...est qualities of humanity; and that to none of those excellences, can mere companies’ beadles, or court of law beadles, or even chapel of ease beadles... ...stinacy than because he had any real objection to the girl going where she listed. ‘Nowhere. Sit down.’ 331 OLIVER TWIST ‘I’m not well. I told you th...

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...d A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...romo have stolen single-handed a whole lighter-full of sil- ver, somewhere on the Tierra Firme seaboard dur- ing the troubles of a revolution. On the ... ...the course of his wanderings that Ameri- can sailor worked for some months on board a schoo- ner, the master and owner of which was the thief of whom ... .... Their very countesses and prin- cesses had kissed the general’s hands in London, it was said. He could well believe it; for the nation was noble, an... ...us saloon of the Juno. The head of the chairman of the railway board (from London), handsome and pale in a silvery mist of white hair and clipped bear... ... long building was surrounded by troops, which were already piling arms by companies and preparing to pass the night lying on the ground in their ponc... ...that he was an adventurer in Costaguana, the descendant of adventurers en- listed in a foreign legion, of men who had sought fortune in a revolutionar... ...terprise—in railways, in mines, in sugar estates, in cotton mills, in land companies, in each and every undertaking—as the price of his pro- tection. ...

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of the Riots of ‘Eighty by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylv... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...n the bloom of his youth, when he was discovered in a modest retirement in London, by a friend of mine, and given to me. He had from the first, as Sir... ...and attention in a most exemplary man ner. He slept in a stable—generally on horseback—and so terrified a Newfoundland dog by his preternatural sagac... ...at they were care ful of the paint, and immediately burned to possess it. On their going to dinner, he ate up all they had left behind, consisting of... ...pon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance of about twelve miles from London— measuring from the Standard in Cornhill,’ or rather from the spot o... ...ss of thought and action, and all his sympathies and good wishes, were en listed in favour of the young people, and were staunch in devotion to their... ...d instead of a non commissioned officer, and that I had the command of two companies— only two companies—of my own regiment. Call me out to stop these... ...emen threw themselves, armed to the teeth, into the halls of the different companies, double locked and bolted all the gates, and dared the rioters (a...

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...A Journey to the Interior of the Earth By Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicatio... ...es Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...f the Earth By Jules Verne Originally published by Ward, Lock, &Co., Ltd., London, in 1877. While the translation is fairly literal, and Malleson (a c... ...s, he has made some emendations concerning Biblical references of his own, listed below: III. “Pertubata seu inordinata,” as Euclid has it. XXX. cry, ... ...d than ex- plained, will look, and look not in vain, for the help of those on whom fall the smiles of a kindlier sun in regions not torn by earthquake... ... The Vicarage, Broughton-in-Furness CHAPTER I THE PROFESSOR AND HIS FAMILY On the 24th of May, 1863, my uncle, Professor Liedenbrock, rushed into his ... ...pitious for the laying-down of these direct level lines so dear to railway companies. I had no time to get tired of the monotony; for in three hours w... ...ble traveller devoted to perdition the railway directors and the steamboat companies and the governments which allowed such intolerable slowness. I wa... ...ession. “Now,” said my uncle, “let us breakfast; but we must lay in a good stock, for we don’t know how long we may have to go on.” The biscuit and ex...

...Excerpt: While the translation is fairly literal, and Malleson (a clergyman) has taken pains with the scientific portions of the work and added the chapter headings, he has made some emendations concerning Biblical references of his own, li...

...Unknown to History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland By Charlotte M Yonge A Penn State Electro... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication Unknown To History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scottland by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of... ............................................................ 389 CHAPTER XLIV ON THE HUMBER ................................................................ ... p. 100, vol. v. of Burton’s History of Scotland, will be found the report on which this tale is founded. If circumstances regarding the Queen’s capti... ...s no plagiarism from “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” only drawn from the common stock of playwrights. So, shorn of all that was perilous, and only understo... ...nd thankfulness when one of the many messengers constantly passing between London and Sheffield brought a packet from Humfrey, whose ship had put into... ...e also the tusks of a sea-elephant which Humfrey would lay up at my Lord’s London lodgings till his father sent tidings what should be done with them,... ...one, and kept in durance by a usurper. Thus every generous feeling was en- listed in her cause, with nothing to counterbalance them save the English h... ...been joined on the way by Babington (people always preferred travelling in companies for security’s sake), and that, as there was a packet from Sir Ra...

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........................................... 5 UNKNOWN TO HISTORY.............................................................................6 CHAPTER I THE LITTLE WAIF ............................................................................................................................. 6 CHAPTER II EVIL TIDINGS ............................................................

...hapters One through Thirty four by Charles Dickens is a publica tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any o... ...lic, it appeared, had been until lately bent in the most determined manner on by no means enlarging the number of Chancery judges appointed—I be liev... ...If I wanted other authorities for Jarndyce and Jarndyce, I could rain them on these pages, to the shame of—a parsimonious public. There is only one ot... ...welt upon the romantic side of familiar things. 1853 CHAPTER I In Chancery LONDON. M ICHAELMAS TERM lately over, and the Lord Chancel lor sitting in... ... have been young—and wears knee breeches tied with ribbons, and gaiters or stockings. One peculiarity of his black clothes and of his black stockings,... ...h from Reading, on Monday morning next, to White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, London, where one of our clks will be in waiting to convey you to our offe ... ...use – Vol. One the satisfaction with which he sees them uninjured, and ac companies Mrs. Snagsby from the Sol’s Arms. Before night his doubt whether ... ...al!” “You are right, Mat!” “When she took me—and accepted of the ring—she ‘listed under me and the children—heart and head, for life. She’s 474 Bleak...

...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which p...

...s Series Publication Bleak House by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...lic, it appeared, had been until lately bent in the most determined manner on by no means enlarging the number of Chancery judges appointed—I be liev... ...If I wanted other authorities for Jarndyce and Jarndyce, I could rain them on these pages, to the shame of—a parsimonious public. There is only one ot... ...welt upon the romantic side of familiar things. 1853 CHAPTER I In Chancery LONDON. M ICHAELMAS TERM lately over, and the Lord Chancel lor sitting in... ...h from Reading, on Monday morning next, to White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, London, where one of our clks will be in waiting to convey you to our offe ... ...ouse – Dickens the satisfaction with which he sees them uninjured, and ac companies Mrs. Snagsby from the Sol’s Arms. Before night his doubt whether ... ...al!” “You are right, Mat!” “When she took me—and accepted of the ring—she ‘listed under me and the children—heart and head, for life. She’s 474 Bleak... ...uch, mother—I am afraid not a great deal—for leav ing; and went away and ‘listed, harum scarum, making be lieve to think that I cared for nobody, no...

...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which po...

...r Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...than to “Begin, and break off in the middle.” I have, perhaps, said enough on former occasions of the misfortunes which led to the dropping of that ma... ...rce, did not spare the market of literature; and the sudden ruin that fell on so many of the booksellers could scarcely have been expected to leave un... ...wever rashly, committed his pledges thus largely to the hazards of trading companies, it behoved him, of course, to abide the consequences of his cond... ...ve her sister’s life by an act of perjury, and undertaking a pilgrimage to London to obtain her pardon, are both repre- sented as true by my fair and ... ...Walter Scott and an acute critic, [James Chalmers, Esq., Solicitor at Law, London, who (died during the publication of the present edition of these No... ...d I was at length a free man, at liberty to go or stay wheresoever my mind listed. I left my lodgings as hastily as if it had been a pest-house. I did... ...e in the coffin, while the Dead March was again struck up, and the several companies, marching in single files, passed the coffin one by one, in order...

...Excerpt: Introduction to Chronicles of the Canongate. The preceding volume of this Collection concluded the last of the pieces originally published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the writer...

...Contents INTRODUCTION TO CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE. .......................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................................

...TA A A A ATE TE TE TE TE E E E E ELE LE LE LE LECTR CTR CTR CTR CTRO O O O ON N N N NI I I I IC C C C C C C C C CL L L L LA A A A AS S S S SS S S S SI... ...P P P PU U U U UB B B B BLI LI LI LI LICA CA CA CA CATI TI TI TI TIO O O O ON N N N N The French Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle... ... U UB B B B BLI LI LI LI LICA CA CA CA CATI TI TI TI TIO O O O ON N N N N The French Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a public... ...h Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ... 7 Decembre, 1789.) welcomed by National As- sembly, though they are but a London Club; whom Burke and Toryism eye askance. On thee too, for country’s... ...th him, after the manner 135 Thomas Carlyle of a whirlblast, whither they listed!—Enough, it were well the King did not go. Lafayette is forewarned a... ...y did they not, in the name of Heaven, let the Korff Berline go whither it listed! Nameless incoherency, incompatibility, perhaps prodigies at which t... ...r daily and hourly desertions, which an Editor must daily record, of whole Companies, and even Regiments, crying Vive le Roi, vive la Reine, and march... ...y, gone down with old Marshal Maille to review the troops; and the nearest companies of them an- swer so. Her Majesty bursts into a stream of tears. Y...

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...Contents VOLUME II.?THE CONSTITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES .............................................................

...A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASS... ...LLIS, A.M. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Treatise on Government by Aristotle, trans. William Ellis is a publication of the P... ...tise on Government by Aristotle, trans. William Ellis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Treatise on Government by Aristotle, trans. William Ellis, the Pennsylvania State U... ...N GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. LONDON &.TORONTO PUBLISHED BY J M DENT & SONS LTD. &.IN NEW YORK BY E. P ... ...ntage will arise from keeping horses, or oxen, or sheep, or any other live stock; it is also necessary to be acquainted with the comparative value of ... ...ause of the naval victory over the Medes, assumed greatly upon it, and en- listed themselves under factious demagogues, although op- posed by the bett... ... distinction, or they may elect by a certain division of tribes, wards, or companies, till they have gone through the whole community: and some magist... ...ER XII AS THE CITIZENS IN GENERAL are to eat at public tables in cer- tain companies, and it is necessary that the walls should have bulwarks and towe...

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...on A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ater. In the old days, a long, long while ago, before Our Saviour was born on earth and lay asleep in a manger, these Islands were in the same place, ... ...osed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8 in ships to these Islands, ... ...harles Dickens 15 Roman possessions waste; they forced the Ro mans out of London, then a poor little town, but a trading place; they hanged, burnt, c... ...Canterbury. Sebert, the King’s nephew, built on a muddy marshy place near London, where there had been a temple to Apollo, a church dedicated to Sain... ...rowed her back again. A short time afterwards, her fascinating manners en listed in her cause a boy in the Castle, called the little Dou glas, who,... ...d poundage, and increased them as he thought fit. He granted monopolies to companies of merchants on their paying him for them, notwithstanding the gr... ...n and A Child’s Histroy of England 402 gentlemen in rich dresses, by City companies, train bands, drummers, trumpeters, the great Lord Mayor, and the...

...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland ...

...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED......................

...Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner and Fragmenta Regalia by Sir ... ... S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner, and Fragmenta Rega- lia by S... ...IN ENGLAND AND FRAGMENTA REGALIA INTRODUCTION QUEEN ELIZABETH HERSELF, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of ... ...unton. Paul Hentzner was a German lawyer, born at Crossen, in Brandenburg, on the 29th of January, 1558. He died on the 1st January, 1623. In 1596, wh... ...he became tutor to a young Silesian nobleman, with whom he set out in 1597 on a three years’ tour through Switzerland, France, England, and Italy. Aft... ...entertained; as one generally is in this country. W e took post-horses for London: it is surprising how swiftly they run; their bridles are very light... ...r by grant of choosing annu- ally a mayor from any of the twelve principal companies, and to name two sheriffs, one of whom to be called the king’s, t... ...so he rested not there, but long enjoyed her favour, and therewith what he listed, till time and emulation, the companions of greatness, resolved of h... ...- ditions of all the designs, and to permit him to go where and whither he listed, and only under the secrecy of a dark sentinel set over him, was a p...

...Introduction: Queen Elizabeth herself, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton....

...dited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...nothing that he could use. ‘I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London, in order to fix a date correctly.’ He agonized over his work with t... ... of the scholar amid the elegant comfort of Buckingham House. He is intent on his book before the fire. Then the approach of the King, lighted on his ... ...ne must reckon in considering any important matter of his day. His love of London is but a part of his hunger for men. ‘The happiness of London is not... ...anionship with a great and friendly man. The Life of Johnson is not a book on first ac- quaintance to be read through from the first page to the end. ... ...for these articles is doubled, and sometimes tripled. I have, there- fore, listed Dr. Samuel Johnson in some of my memorandums of the principal plante... ...be a fine talker; so he goes to Buxton, and such places, where he may find companies to listen to him. And, Sir, he is a valetudinarian, one of those ... ...e of this, Sir Joshua observed, was, that his common con- versation in all companies was such as to se- cure him universal attention, as something abo...

...ment of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in Boswell?s day than now. I have kept in mind an old habit, common enough, I dare say, among its devotees, of opening the book ...

... Series Publication Celt and Saxon by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...chase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landowner of those marches, the Squire Adister, who... ... shy it away is an incident so uncommon, that if we can but pause to dwell on the singularity of the act, we are unlikely to abjure our fellowship wit... ...or others, that when we have submitted our persons to the charge of public companies, immediately, as if the renouncing of our independence into their... ... He would rather have looked upon the desert under a sand-storm, or upon a London sub- urb yet he looked thirstingly. Each variation of landscape of t... ... that took the first leap for the Cambrian highlands, up to his arrival in London, scarcely one of his ‘ideas’ darted out before Patrick, as they were... ...sion running.’ She gazed at Patrick as if to intimate that he might be en- listed, and said: ‘It will be to Caroline. She will break it to her uncle.’... ... Rockney’s was new to a land where the politi- cal opinions of Joint Stock Companies had rattled Jovian thunders obedient to the nod of Bull. Though n...

...Excerpt: A young Irish gentleman of the numerous clan O?Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landowner...

...ORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the ... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...IS XV. Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. President Henault, remarking on royal Surnames of Honour how difficult it often is to ascertain not only... ...ires de M. le Baron Besenval (Paris, 1805), ii. 59- 90.) But for the rest, on green field and steepled city, the May sun shines out, the May evening f... ...nd said little or nothing. (Weber, Memoires concernant Marie- Antoinette (London, 1809), i. 22.) So it has lasted for the better half of a fortnight;... ...f all kinds, for he had written Academic Prize Essays, struggled for India Companies, given dinners to Philosophes, and ‘realised a fortune in twenty ... ...s; Books on the Prussian Monarchy, on Cagliostro, on Calonne, on the Water Companies of Paris:—each book comparable, we will say, to a bituminous alar... ...ve; and roll away with him, after the manner of a whirlblast, whither they listed!—Enough, it were well the King did not go. Lafayette is forewarned a... ...y did they not, in the name of Heaven, let the Korff Berline go whither it listed! Nameless incoherency, incompatibility, perhaps prodigies at which t...

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...Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY.......................................................................................................... 12 VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE ...............................................................

...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T r... ...Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by ... ...e of all the efforts, often successful, that have been made to throw light on it, to bring forward a fresh document, or some ob- scure mention in a fo... ...he presbytery was close to the chateau. From that time legend has fastened on Rabelais, has completely travestied him, till, bit by bit, it has made o... ...at of Worcester in 1651, stripped of all his belongings, he was brought to London, but was released on parole at Cromwell’s recommendation. After rece... ...ter and a Robin Goodfellow; for under this name am I welcome in all choice companies of Pantagruelists. It was upbraided to Demosthenes by an envious ... ...arched forward towards a pass or ford called the Gue de Vede, except seven companies of foot and two hundred lancers, who, staying there, broke down t... ... of stairs between two doors, jumbled, one after another, as often as they listed, his wife, who is passable fair, and a pretty snug hussy. Thus he wh... ...and counterfeit f. Babble f. Pleasant f. Down-right f. Privileged f. Broad-listed f. Rustical f. Duncical-bearing f. Proper and peculiar f. Stale and ...

...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEA... ...M MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty ... ........................................ 118 CHAPTER XIV WE RIDE AFTER HIM TO LONDON. ...................................................................... .......................................................... 179 CHAPTER V I GO ON THE VIGO BA Y EXPEDITION, TASTE SAL T-W A TER AND SMELL POWDER. ........... .......................................... 293 CHAPTER II I GO HOME, AND HARP ON THE OLD STRING . .......................................................... ...n America because I am, Y our obliged friend and servant, W. M. Thackeray. London, October 18, 1852. 6 Henry Esmond PREFACE. THE ESMONDS OF VIRGINIA.... ...ty small feet which she was fond of showing, with great gold clocks to her stockings, and white pantofles with red heels; and an odor of musk was shoo... ...oney and ill-treated her and her children. The girl died; one of the boys ‘listed; the other had gone apprentice. Old Mr. Rogers, the clerk, said he h... ...ew that one was devoted to us. The Governor of the Tower was ours; the two companies on duty at Kensington barrack were safe; and we had intelligence,...

...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and fri...

...CE. ........................................................................................................................................ 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND ...

... Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...UBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...im with his first dog. I saw Stephen Crane a few days after his arrival in London. I saw him for the last time on his last day in England. It was in D... ... such a man existed. I remembered only that not long before he had visited London. The recollection was rather of a cloud of insignificant printed wor... ... head sea and bound for the gateway of Dover Straits. Singly, and in small companies of two and three, they emerged from the dull, colourless, sunless... ...In my time I have never been able to detect any faint hearts in the ships’ companies with whom I have served in vari- ous capacities. But I reflected ... ...er officers are responsible. It would have been won- derful if she had not listed with such a hole in her side. Even the Aquitania with such an openin...

Excerpt: Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad.

....... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898..................................................

... Staff List xiii–xiv Preface xv 1. “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National C... ...Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 ... ... and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan... ...isis 174 6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection:Agenda for 2000 182 6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole 190 6.4 Change and Continuity 198 6.5 The New Administrat... ...ly in a declaration faxed early in 1998 to an Arabic-language newspaper in London. Few Americans had noticed it. The fax had been sent from thousands ... ...ss and terrorist enterprises. In time, the former would encompass numerous companies and a global network of bank accounts and nongovernmental institu... ...strains in the world economy, hurt Sudan’s cur- rency. Some of Bin Ladin’s companies ran short of funds. As Sudanese authorities became less obliging,... ...country. He (occasionally she) was governed by an operating directive that listed operational priorities issued by the relevant regional division of t... ...s uncooperative on terrorism.Albright said the original carrots and sticks listed in a decision paper for principals may not have been used as “descri...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans an...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of B...