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... ANNA KARENINA A NOVEL BY COUNT LEO TOLSTOY Translated from the Russian BY CONSTANCE GARNETT DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 by Glo... .... First published in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” Romans 12:19 Contents Part I 1 Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . ... ...nd that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife t... ...lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Ev... ...hree days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every pers... ...er by chance in any inn had more in com mon with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not le... ... for the coterie of the district to make money. Formerly they had wardships, courts of justice, now they have the district council—not in the form of ... ... actually succeeded in not thinking about it at all. Alexey Alexandrovitch’s permanent summer villa was in Peterhof, and the Countess Lidia Ivanovna u... ... but free labor, and its forms are fixed and ready made, and must be adopted. Permanent hands, day laborers, farmers— you can’t get out of those forms....

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...MER?S HYMN TO CASTOR AND POLLUX .................................................................................................. 26 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE MOON ....................................................................................................................... 26 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE SUN ........................................................................

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ...OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF ... ...ORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Three is a publ... ... _310 And now was newly washed and put to bed, Awake, but courting sleep with weary will, And gathered in a lump, hands, feet, and he... ...this? We seem to be arrived _90 At the blithe court of Bacchus. I observe This sportive band of Satyrs near the caves. Fi... ...f the mass of society, but for the egotism and ostentation of a few of its members, is defensible on the ground of public justice, so long we neglect ... ...fe might be produced, if society would divide the labour equally among its members, by each indi- vidual being employed in labour two hours during the... ...e, d’une facon non sujette a dispute, son nom, ses attributs, ses volontes permanentes en caracteres ineffacables, et lisibles egalement pour tous les...

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE........

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...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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 Edi- tor, nor anyo... ...nderers, knaves, knights-errant and adventurers, no doubt, but the settled permanent rustic home and the tenure of land about it, and the hens and the... ... dissolves almost all the reason and necessity why men should go on living permanently in any one place or rigidly disciplined to one set of condition... ...lishmen, who have no place in the hierarchy of our land, who do not attend Courts nor encounter uniforms, whose function is at most spectacular, who s... ...oportional representation, with large constituencies return- ing each many members, there is to be found a way of escape from this disastrous embarras... ...y must contemplate a working politi- cal combination between the Socialist members in Parlia- ment and just that non-capitalist section of the Liberal...

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...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...XLII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Book V — The Dead Hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Chapter ... ...III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 Book VI — The Widow and the Wife. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 Chapter LIV... ...arch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiment... ...ertainly these men who had so few spontaneous ideas might be very use ful members of society under good feminine direction, if they were fortunate in... ...efer Celia, especially when Dorothea was gone. The truth is, you have been courting one and have won the other. I can see that she admires you almost ... ...of her mental life that she was almost sure sooner or later to recover it. Permanent rebellion, the disorder of a life without some loving reverent re... ...itiously and become rampant—was hardly equal to the annoyance felt by some members of Mr. Brooke’s own family. The result had oozed forth gradually, l... ...t your neighbor has set up an unpleasant kind of manufacture which will be permanently under your nostrils without legal remedy. The “Pioneer” had bee...

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