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... Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ng authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume. It contains... ...oyage which your skill and kindness rendered doubly pleasant; and of which I don’t think there is any recollection more agreeable than that it was the... ...ate maritime power in Europe) should appoint a few admirals in their navy, I hope to hear that your flag is hoisted on board one of the grandest of 4... ... were Faith, Hope, and Charity restoring Don John to the arms of his happy Portugal:there were Virtue, V alour, and Victory saluting Don Emanuel:Read-... ... visit in November, passing seventeen days at an establishment called Fort Manuel there, and by punsters the Manuel des V oyageurs; where Govern- ment... ...not feel safe in the island, with perpetual glimpses 37 Thackeray of Fort Manuel from the opposite shore; and, lest the quaran- tine authorities shou...

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...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ... One by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...y. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE I: ABOUT THIS TRANSLATION It was with considerable reluctance that I abando... ... Quixote,” which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are some—and I confess myself to be one—for whom Shelton’s racy old version, with all it... ...e of Spanish, but apparently not much more. It never 4 Don Quixote – Part I seems to occur to him that the same translation of a word will not suit i... ...sent offshoots in various directions, Andalusia, Estremadura, Galicia, and Portugal, and produced a goodly line of men distin- guished in the service ... ...ver, did not absolutely unfit him for service, and in April 1572 he joined Manuel Ponce de Leon’s company of Lope de Figueroa’s regiment, in which, it... ... Paredes, Jerez a Garci Perez de Vargas, Toledo a Garcilaso, Seville a Don Manuel de Leon, to read of whose valiant deeds will entertain and instruct ...

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...men, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest....

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... Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...t, oil and clean and set it in order, and put it back in its place again; “I am an old hand at it,” he used to say. Not only so, he knew all about shi... ...ent on it all the money she had saved before we were married. Do you know, I would sooner scratch the earth with my nails for a living, madame, 19 Ba... ...th with my nails for a living, madame, 19 Balzac than part with that. But I shall be able to take my coffee out of it every morning for the rest of m... ...es with. What should induce M. d’Ajuda to take one of the noblest names in Portugal to the Rochefides? The Rochefides were only ennobled yesterday.” “... ...ter. Some petty piece of political trickery, such as mistaking Villele for Manuel in a bulletin (the names rhyme, and that quiets your con- science), ...

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...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...ote by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ... by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE I: ABOUT THIS TRANSLATION It was with considerable reluctance that I abando... ... Quixote,” which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are some—and I confess myself to be one—for whom Shelton’s racy old version, with all it... ... be in every sense of the word impertinent in me to offer an opinion here. I had not even seen it when the present undertaking was proposed to me, and... ...for service, and 13 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. in April 1572 he joined Manuel Ponce de Leon’s company of Lope de Figueroa’s regiment, in which, it... ... Paredes, Jerez a Garci Perez de Vargas, Toledo a Garcilaso, Seville a Don Manuel de Leon, to read of whose valiant deeds will entertain and instruct ... ... wherein all the heroes of the world may see themselves! Second modern Don Manuel de Leon, once the glory and honour of Spanish knighthood! In what wo...

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...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation Part Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ... Two by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...y. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ency my plays, that had appeared in print before being shown on the stage, I said, if I remember well, that Don Quixote was putting on his spurs to go... ...e was putting on his spurs to go and render homage to Your Excellency. Now I say that “with his spurs, he is on his way.” Should he reach destination ... ...t “with his spurs, he is on his way.” Should he reach destination methinks I shall have rendered some service to Your Excellency, as from many parts I... ...elve thousand volumes of the said history in print this very day. Only ask Portugal, Barcelona, and Valencia, where they have been printed, and moreov... ... wherein all the heroes of the world may see themselves! Second modern Don Manuel de Leon, once the glory and honour of Spanish knighthood! In what wo... ..., and others that come to him, he makes a grand and imposing entrance into Portugal; but for all that, go where he may, he shows his melancholy and sa...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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............................................................................................................................................. 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ...................................................................................................................................... 9 THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE .....................................................

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...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the First T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited ... ...es P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William ... ... First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... .................................................................. 24 CHAPTER I THAT MEN BY V ARIOUS WAYS ARRIVE AT THE SAME END............................ ...an he was—what he felt, thought, suf- fered—and he succeeded immeasurably, I apprehend, be- yond his expectations. It was reasonable enough that Monta... ...n their author’s meaning. The result has gener- ally been unfortunate; and I have, in the case of all these interpolations on Cotton’s part, felt boun... ...dread even the means of safety.”—Quint. Curt., ii. II.] —till such time as Manuel, one of the principal command- ers of his army, having jogged and sh... ...irst ing example, Albuquerque, viceroy in the Indies for Emmanuel, king of Portugal, in an extreme peril of ship- wreck, took a young boy upon his sho... ... of Castile having banished the Jews out of their dominions, John, King of Portugal, in consideration of eight crowns a head, sold them a retreat into...

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... II.?THE CONSTITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. .............................................

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... 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 I I I IC C ... ...S S S S SS S S S SI I I I IC C C C CS S S S S S S S S SE E E E ER R R R RI I I I IE E E E ES S S S S P P P P PU U U U UB B B B BLI LI LI LI LICA CA CA... ...ench Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... .................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ........................................................ ...ed too, may behold an energetic Danton; further, an epigrammatic slow-sure Manuel; a resolute unrepentant Billaud-Varennes, of Jesuit breeding; Tallie... ...s, pleading for the Forty Swiss; tearing a passion to rags. Apophthegmatic Manuel winds up in this pithy way: “A Minister must perish!”—to which the A... ..., on the 6th of July, take upon them to suspend Mayor Petion and Procureur Manuel from all civic functions, for their conduct, replete, as is alleged,...

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...AGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...sity. 3 Charles Darwin The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin PREFACE I have stated in the preface to the first Edition of this work, and in the ... ...ied by an offer from him of giving up part of his own accommodations, that I volunteered my services, which received, through the kindness of the hydr... ...ographer, Captain Beaufort, the sanction of the Lords of the Admiralty. As I feel that the opportunities which I enjoyed of studying the Natural Histo... ... After three days’ travelling we ar- rived at Socego, the estate of Senhor Manuel Figuireda, a relation of one of our party. The house was simple, and... ...m- ference. There are, of course, a few of much greater dimensions. Senhor Manuel was then making a ca- noe 70 feet in length from a solid trunk, whic... ... other genera. If a geologist were to find in lat 39 degs. on the coast of Portugal a bed containing numerous shells belonging to three species of Oli...

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...ny Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel ... ...on of Book III. appeared posthumously in 1693, with a new edition of Books I. and II., under Motteux ’s editorship. Motteux ’s rendering of Books IV. ... ...iends no less than himself. There have been portraits painted of Rabelais; I have seen many such. They are all of the seventeenth century, and the gre... ... should imitate. The statue of Cybele by the Tribolo, executed for Francis I., and placed, not against a wall, but in the middle of Queen Claude’s cha... ...searches in 1852, and in the important article in the fifth edition of his Manuel du Libraire (iv., 1863, pp. 1037-1071). The facts about the fifth bo... ..., where you shall seize upon all the ships, and coasting along Galicia and Portugal, shall pillage all the maritime places, even unto Lisbon, where yo...