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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... ...Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...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... ......................................................................256 THE HISTORY OF THE NEXT FRENCH REVOLUTION. ....................................... ...menos prosephe,” read on the student, his voice choked with emotion. “What language!” he said; “how rich, how noble, how sonorous! prosephe podas—” Th... ...r in “Eugene Aram,” or other works of our author, in which Sen- timent and History, or the True and Beautiful, are united. CHAPTER XXIV BUTTON’S IN PA... ...hup heagerly.” “6TH JULY.—Dined to-day at the London Tavin with one of the Welsh bords of Direction I’m hon. The Cwrwmwrw & Plmwyddlywm, with tunnils ... ... Llwydd in the vice; W elsh mutton for dinner; W elsh iron knives & forks; Welsh rabbit after dinner; and a Welsh harper, be hanged to him: he went st...

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...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...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... ...stance – its frontier not so far from London, its people closely akin, its language the same in all essentials with the English – of which I will go b... ...n the experience of Scots. England and Scotland differ, indeed, in law, in history, in religion, in education, and in the very look of nature and men’... ...inds us more nearly together. No Englishman of Byron’s age, character, and history would have had patience for long theological discussions on the way... ...er young, while Clarissa lies upon the shelves unread. A friend of mine, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty- five years old and could neither read nor wri... ...y and enjoyed at pleasure. Down he sat that day, painfully learned to read Welsh, and returned to borrow the book. It had been lost, nor could he find...