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...The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James A PENN STAT... ...Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...stranger opportunities, confronted with rare questions and called upon for new discriminations. Thus the scheme of her situation would, in a comprehen... ...wer—blooming alone, for the fullest attestation of her freedom—of an “old” New York stem; the happy congrui- ties thus preserved for her being matters... ...blooming alone, for the fullest attestation of her freedom—of an “old” New York stem; the happy congrui- ties thus preserved for her being matters, ho... ...less visibly my “key,” as I have said, that though my regenerate young New Yorker, and what might depend on her, should form my centre, my circumferen... ...e was loose for the Army. He was refined, as might have been said, for the City and, quite apart from the cut of his cloth, sceptical, it might have b... ...might almost become her pet young man. She doesn’t disparage intellect and culture—quite the contrary; she wants them to adorn her board and be associ... ...moment it flashed upon Mrs. Stringham that her friend had been starved for culture. Culture was what she herself represented for her, and it was livin...

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Excerpt: The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells.

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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution w...

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...ies Publication Dombey & Son Volume 1 by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...hat of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-for... ... violate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference to them. A. D. had no conc... ...mpromising: so very wide across the chest: so upright! A pecuniary Duke of York, my love, and nothing short of it!’ said Miss T ox. ‘That’s what I sho... ...URES THOUGH THE OFFICES of Dombey and Son were within the liberties of the City of London, and within hearing of Bow Bells, when their clashing voices... ...ed in a conspiracy against it on part of all the clocks and watches in the City, and even of the very Sun itself. Such as he was, such he had been in ... ... that gentleman into his confidence; merely informing him that a friend in Yorkshire had written to him (Mr T oots) for his opinion on such a question... ...t chief more and more. While they were thus engaged; and under the skilful culture of the Manager, angry thoughts in reference to poor Florence broode...

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...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...

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...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 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... ...nsas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills. Main Street is the climax of civilizat... ...isters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoev... ...els run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears. A breeze which had crossed a thousan... ...r the practise of the arts or the tense stalking of a thing called General Culture. In her class there were two or three prettier girls, but none more... ...s and Jews and million- aire uplifters at the University Settlement in New York, and he had a beautiful white strong neck. He led a gig- gling class t... ...l over with red rubber stamps.” 16 Main Street “Don’t you get sick of the city?” “St. Paul? Why, don’t you like it? I don’t know of any lovelier view... ... corker— not a better man in the state to go hunting with; and if you want culture, besides Vida Sherwin there’s Reverend Warren, the Congregational p...

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...RONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Pandora by Henry James 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... ...of the North German Lloyd steamers, which convey passengers from Bremen to New York, to anchor for several hours in the pleasant port of Southampton, ... ...he North German Lloyd steamers, which convey passengers from Bremen to New York, to anchor for several hours in the pleasant port of Southampton, wher... ...elstein’s ear over the latter’s great tarred sides. He noticed that in the new contingent there were many young girls, and he remembered what a lady i... ...f the American continent one of their fellow-passen- gers, a lady from New York with whom he had a good deal of conversation, pronounced her “atrociou... ... reason because he was a German and she had heard the Germans were rich in culture. He won- dered what form of culture Mr. and Mrs. Day had brought ba... ...y, if it were an important or typical place, if it would be an interesting city for him, as a stranger, to see. His com- panion replied frankly that t... ...Another thing, as he learned, that you knew the self- made girl by was her culture, which was perhaps a little too restless and obvious. She had usual...

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... SERIES PUBLICATION The Pension Beaurepas by Henry James 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...s.” She flattered herself that she knew at a glance where to pigeon-hole a new-comer, and if she made any mistakes her deportment never betrayed them.... ...out-gush of the lake, and up the dark steep streets of the old Calvinistic city. The garden faced this way, toward the lake and the old town; and this... ...d as one of the attractions of the estab- lishment. In the salon I found a new-comer, a tall gentle- man in a high black hat, whom I immediately recog... ...ou were American or En- glish. I’m from the United States myself; from New York 9 Henry James city. Many of our people here?” “Not so many as, I beli... ...air fame,” I said, smiling. “I should never dream of comparing it to a New York boarding-house,” said Mrs. Ruck. “It’s quite a different style,” her d... ...r she was evidently a puzzle, with her economical attire and her expensive culture. The two younger ladies, however, had begun to fraternise very free... ...ttle.” “Ah, I am glad to hear that. You are gathering up a little European culture; that’s what we lack, you know, at home. No individual can do much,...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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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... ...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... ...s with stingy and sooted windows, wooden tenements col- ored like mud. The city was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting th... ...sting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses, homes—they seemed—for laughter and tranquillity. Over a concret... ...elow the bridge curved a railroad, a maze of green and crimson lights. The New York Flyer boomed past, and twenty lines of polished steel leaped into ... ... the bridge curved a railroad, a maze of green and crimson lights. The New York Flyer boomed past, and twenty lines of polished steel leaped into the ... ...ut this, say, this is corking! Beginning of the end for those fellows! New York Assembly has passed some bills that ought to completely outlaw the soc... ...nality of the master minds, he is ready to give you all the secrets of his culture and hammering Force, in a few easy lessons that will not in- terfer... ...d indicated what a Solid Citizen and Regular Fel- low ought to think about culture by mail. He began with hesitation: “Well—sounds as if it covered th...

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...Excerpt: Sydney Spring. My dear sir, your letter introducing Mr. Faree was duly received. There was no opening to nominate him for Superintendent of Public Instruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legisl...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...ritings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... any Buchanan, or Fremonters, have shifted ground, and how the majority of new votes will go, you can judge better than I. Of course you, on the groun... ...Aug. 5, 1858. HON. J. M. PALMER. DEAR SIR:—Since we parted last evening no new thought has occurred to [me] on the subject of which we talked most yes... ...ere is some mistake about my expected attendance of the U.S. Court in your city on the 3d Tuesday of this month. I have had no thought of being there.... ... my business this year as well as last. It would please me much to see the city and good people of Keokuk, but for this year it is little less than an... ...ngs of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five 1860 SPEECH AT THE COOPER INSTITUTE, NEW YORK FEBRUARY 27, 1860 MR. PRESIDENT AND FELLOW-CITIZENS OF NEW YORK:—The f... ... 170 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five ADDRESS A T BUFF ALO, NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 16, 1861 Mr. MAYOR AND FELLOW-CITIZENS OF BUFFALO AND THE ST... ..., the latter are co-operat- ing with them in establishing civilization and culture on the American continent. Such being the general principles which ...

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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 ... ...number of men distinguished not only for legal ability but for the highest culture and for the substantial qualities that command confidence and re- s... ... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the ... ...d party at home. I feel as if it were very selfish to be in this beautiful city, and to have been spending so much money at Florence. Neither did Joan... ...and outgrow the study in time, while leaving many observa- tions upon self-culture and self-training, that will no doubt become deeply valued as the r... ...yet we are proud and self-justified and vain- glorious! ‘The Archbishop of York, in “Aids to Faith,” on the Death of Christ, has some most solemn and ... ...thedral has been beautifully restored, has it not? Then, I think of you in York Minster on November 20, with that good text from Psalm xcvi. I read yo...

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...Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom?s early life. III. Tom?s meeting with the Prince. IV. The Prince?s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The question ...

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... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publi... ...y Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any ... ...t moment we changed the program, for private reasons, and took the express-train. We made a short halt at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and found it an inter... ...ere the rule. The little children of both sexes were nearly always nice enough to take into a body’s lap. And as for the uniforms of the soldiers, the... ...onage who is called the Portier (who is not the Porter, but is a sort of first-mate of a hotel) [1. See Appendix A] appeared at the door in a spick-an... ...an even the black one had done. But he patiently fixed and refixed it until it was exactly right and lay precisely in the middle of the black carpet. ... ...ving that we were not succeeding pretty well, they went and got their maps and things, and pointed out and ex- plained our course so clearly that even... ...f the world, sees it plain enough, but he can’t cure it, you know, so the best is to leave it and seek a sphere which is more in harmony with his tast... ...ks, first and last, to a careful and critical study of this tongue, and thus have acquired a confidence in my ability to reform it which no mere super...

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... The Pupil by Henry James is a publicati... ... The Pupil by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any char... ...t didn’t cost too much. After a little he WAS glad, forgetting at times his own needs in the interest inspired by the child’s 8 The Pupil character a... ...d, to get out of bed to go to, and which made the week larger than life when Mrs. Moreen talked of them with Paula and Amy. Their initiations gave the... ...e week larger than life when Mrs. Moreen talked of them with Paula and Amy. Their initiations gave their new inmate at first an almost dazzling sense ... .... Mixed with this too was the oddest wish to make him independent, as if they had felt them- selves not good enough for him. They passed him over to t... ...he sort of joke that was per- fectly within the boy’s compass. They figured themselves as part of the vast vague hand-to-mouth multitude of the enormo... ...g-shops! But was that the model one wanted one’s family 33 Henry James to follow? Morgan had dim memories of an old grandfa- ther, the maternal, in N... ... in which they could tutoyer. Even Pemberton liked them then; he could endure even Ulick when he heard him give his little flat voice for the “sweet s...

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...who had achieved but a single masterpiece--the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high level of perfection. Our host had been showing us a charming little cabinet picture by a painter whose name we had never heard, and who, after this single spasmodic bid for fame, had apparently relapsed into obscurity and mediocrit...

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...nry James A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Madonna of the Future by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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 supper, had fancied that, tired traveller though I was, I might pay the city a 4 The Madonna of the Future finer compliment than by going vulgarly... .... “None the less so, I trust,” I an- swered, “if the young man is a sordid New Yorker.” “New Yorkers have been munificent patrons of art!” he answered... ...one the less so, I trust,” I an- swered, “if the young man is a sordid New Yorker.” “New Yorkers have been munificent patrons of art!” he answered, ur... ...ood in every perfor- mance I have re-absorbed into the generative force of new creations; the bad—there is always plenty of that— I have religiously d... ...com- pany; there was a reproach to my wasteful saunterings in so devoted a culture of opportunity. “There are two moods,” I remember his saying, “in w... ...ation. But it can spring now only from the soil of pas- sionate labour and culture. Do you really fancy that while, from time to time, a man of comple... ...t, as a rule, it’s a monstrous mistake. Is Florence of the same sex as New York, as Chi- cago? She is the sole perfect lady of them all; one feels tow...

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...The Natural State In the Words of U.G. Krishnamurti Peter Maverick Introduction 1972-... ...1990—Various Places Publisher's Note When I read the manuscript of Peter's book, it was as though U.G. was talking through the pages. It w... ... this fruit to the readers minus the peel and pips. Sunita Pant Bansal New Delhi, India 2005 Introduction Here is the end of... ...ly offers to shatter what you know and not to replace it with anything, no new technique, or discipline or way. Are you ready to be shattered, to hav... ...I was brought up in a very religious atmosphere. My grandfather was a very cultured man. He knew Blavatsky [the founder of the Theosophical Society] ... ...hey all visited our house. He was a great lawyer, a very rich man, a very cultured man and, very strangely, a very orthodox man. He was a sort of mi... ...o India, and he went to London. He arrived penniless and began roaming the city. For three years he lived idly in the streets. His friends saw him as... ...hing marvelous is going to happen. It's something like you imagine New York. You dream about it. You want to be there. When you are actually ther...