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...y George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... into a wrangle, in a thoroughfare, on London Bridge, of all places in the world!—he, so popular, renowned for his affability, his amiability; having ... ...o wild water at a remove; and a reddish Northern cheek of curdling pipeing East, at shrilly puffs between the Tower and the Custom House, encountered ... ...rning after 18 One of Our Conquerors breakfast, she plants herself in the middle of the room, and strikes her attitude for song, and positively, almo... ...ad pretty cheap, and were accounted tasty. Skepsey’s main thought was upon war: the man had dis- coursed of pigs. He informed the man of his having he... ... com- monly when our difficulty lies in the exercise of thinking. Victor’s African room, containing large wall-maps of au- riferous regions, was inspe... ...es. Visibly, that man Jarniman was disposed of with ease. As in the street-theatres of crowing Punch, distance enlisted pan- tomime to do the effectiv... ...rying, wants a change. I’ve a steam-yacht in my eye, for next month on the Mediterranean. All our set. She likes quiet. I believe in my political reci...

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...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the househ...

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...redith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ew the best-bottled temper right or left, go where you will one end o’ the world to the other, by God! And here ‘s a scoundrel stinks of villany, and ... ...me to play, and I would stumble about and squat in 15 George Meredith the middle of the floor, struck suddenly by the marvel of the difference betwee... ...r subjected me to an interrogation concerning my lessons, he was the dread African magician to whom must be surrendered my acquisition of the ring and... ... replied, ‘ Army or Navy. I don’t much care which. We’re sure of a foreign war some time. Then you’ll see fellows rise: lieutenant, captain, colonel, ... ...a Hampshire gipsy tribe, and had been on a visit to a relative down in the East coun- ties, who died on the road, leaving her to be brought home by th... ...him, as if in a fit of careless affection. Then he talked runningly of the theatres and pantomimes and London’s charms. The fear I had of this Bench m... ...the other. ‘Oh, the Jew supplied cheques for a three months’ cruise in the Mediterranean, and came home, I heard, very good friends with his pirate. T...

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...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 point I thought the judge?s eye had ...

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...sics Series Publication Bleak House by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...own up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world. Fair wards of court have faded into mothers and grandmothers; a long... ...offee berry— and the natives—and the happy settlement, on the banks of the African rivers, of our superabundant home population. 38 Bleak House – Dic... ...iss Clare.” She would not sit down, but stood by the fire dipping her inky middle finger in the egg cup, which contained vinegar, and smearing it over... ... a state.” “She means well,” said Mr. Jarndyce hastily. “The wind’s in the east.” “It was in the north, sir, as we came down,” observed Ri chard. “My... ...ess capable of exhaustion than we were. We made the round of the principal theatres, too, with great delight, and saw all the plays that were worth se... ...ippler, I assure you. After that, when I was with Cap tain Swosser in the Mediterranean, I embraced every opportu nity of knowing and befriending th... ...n the young men! My friends, why do I wish for peace? What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and ple...

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...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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...x by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... and Avignon in the south of France, which preserve so intact, to the very middle of our epoch, the type and form of the middle ages. Guerande is stil... ... violets or a lily of the valley in the glade of a forest, is framed by an African desert banked by the ocean,—a desert without a tree, an herb, a bir... ... Guaisqlain. The tax-gath- erer now writes the name, as do the rest of the world, du Guenic. 10 Balzac At the end of a silent, damp, and gloomy lane ... ...t the arms of the family. Three English guns equally suitable for chase or war, three sabres, two game-bags, the utensils of a huntsman and a fish- er... ...e plainly indicates the V enetian school depraved by its commerce with the East, where the semi-Saracenic architects, careless of the great Catholic t... ...atrix about the grandeur of the ocean, so unlike the smiling beauty of the Mediterranean, from comparing in depth, purity, extent, unchanging and eter... ... com- petition, it would be fine; but you buy animals as the manag- ers of theatres trade in artists; you degrade an institution to a gambling game; y...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzi...

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...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................

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...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H... ...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... foreigner is ahead of us in education, and this is especially true of the middle and upper classes, from which invention and enterprise come—or, in o... ...nd mechanical contrivance. I am reminded again of the days during the Boer war, when one realised that it had never occurred to our happy-go-lucky Arm... ...ST FLIGHT MY FIRST FLIGHT MY FIRST FLIGHT MY FIRST FLIGHT MY FIRST FLIGHT (EASTBOURNE, (EASTBOURNE, (EASTBOURNE, (EASTBOURNE, (EASTBOURNE, A A A A Aug... ...d of returning to Eastbourne. And then coasted round to Spain and into the Mediterranean. And so by leisurely stages to India. And the East Indies....... ...riters and artists, for example, nor the stage—though it may build and own theatres—the tailor, the dressmaker, the restaurant cook, an enormous multi... ...- other twenty-six millions were foreigners. Another nine mil- lion are of African negro descent. Fourteen million of the sixty-five million native-bo...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...nsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ..........................38 BOOK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I S... ... I Take My Pen in Hand?...........................................141 To the East and to the West...............141 Leaves of Grass –Whitman 3 Somet... ...65 Tears...................................................269 To the Man of War Bird....................270 Aboard at a Ship’s Helm..................... ...e beach, My right and left arms round the sides of two friends, and I in the middle; Coming home with the silent and dark cheek’d bush boy, (behind me... ...aspian, Bothnia, the British shores, and the bay of Biscay, The clear sunn’d Mediterranean, and from one to another of its islands, The White sea, and... ...ypes, the bow and arrow, the poison’d splint, the fetich, and the obi. I see African and Asiatic towns, I see Algiers, Tripoli, Derne, Mogadore, Timbu... ...g paved avenues, amid temples, palaces, factories, libraries, shows, courts, theatres, wonderful monuments. Are those billions of men really gone? Are...

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...Excerpt: The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I.: indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease,...

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.................... 34 THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF......................................................................................... 53 THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS ............................................................................................ 68 THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA ........................................................................................

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...ics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ed each hammer-stroke showing no more than pale yellow in the sun’s glare. East and west and north and south the construction-trains rattled and shrie... ...n the sunlight, lacking only a few weeks’ work on the girders of the three middle piers—his bridge, raw and ugly as original sin, but pukka—permanent—... ...commissions if one, only one, rather doubtful consignment were passed; the war that followed the refusal; the careful, polite obstruction at the other... ...in irons.” His voice fell a little. “Peroo, thou hast been up and down the world more even than I. Speak true talk, now. How much dolt thou in thy hea... ... McPhee’s friend, for she allowed me to convoy her westward, sometimes, to theatres where she sobbed or laughed or shiv- ered with a simple heart; and... ...kards for whom a sea-voyage was recommended; there were frowzy little West African boats, full of rats and cock- roaches, where men died anywhere but ... ...bandoned) the motherly attitude. “Do you know,” she said, somewhere in the Mediterranean, “I think you’re the very dearest boy I have ever met in my l...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance ...

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...Table of Contents: CHAPTER I ? DEPARTURE, 1 -- CHAPTER II ? FIRST IMPRESSIONS???SAIL HO!??, 3 -- CHAPTER III ? SHIP?S DUTIES?TROPICS, 6 -- CHAPTER IV ? A ROGUE?TROUBLE ON BOARD???LAND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CA...

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Excerpt: Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey.

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........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the u...

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...BARBAZURE. ..................................................................................................................................39 LORDS AND LIVERIES. ..................................................................................................................49 CRINOLINE........................................................................................

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...rite a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit per se. Its profits, like its labor, belong to me: its morals, its manners, its philosophy, its influence on the young, are for y...

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...Excerpt: Preface To The American Edition. On the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued i...

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