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...ndon; but of Rome in her palmy days, nothing less could be said in the naked severity of logic. A million and a half of souls--that population, apart from any other distinctions, is per se for London a justifying ground for such a classification; … fortiori, then, will it belong to a city which counted from one horn to the other of its mighty suburbs not less than four mil...

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...ERIES PUBLICATION THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished f... ...or 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 ass... ...e University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material c... ...ed severity of logic. A million and a half of souls—that population, apart from any other distinctions, is per se for London a justifying ground for s... ...classification; à fortiori, then, will it be- long to a city which counted from one horn to the other of its mighty suburbs not less than four million... ... purity of her civil liberties. Doubtless, then, Rome had risen immaculate from the arms of Sylla and of Marius. But, if it were Caius Julius who defl... ...n Rome could not obtain his inspection of their contests, unless, like the wrestlers, they contended without imminent risk; for he never allowed them ... ...he robe of a philosopher, bearing a staff in his hand, (which also was the professional ensign* of a philosopher,) stepped forward, and, by the waving...

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...s Publication Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...or 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 ass... ...e University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- rial... ... JOURNEY The Crucifix Across the Mountains THE IMPERIAL ROAD to Italy goes from Munich across the T yrol, through Innsbruck and Bozen to Verona, over ... ...he great processions passed as the emperors went South, or came home again from rosy Italy to their own Germany. And how much has that old imperial va... ...ht in the air that is so unnaturally bright and rare with the reflec- tion from the snows above, a darkness hovering just over the earth. So rare and ... ... peasant lifted his hat. But the guide tramps by without concern. His is a professional importance now. On a small mountain track on the Jaufen, not f... ...violent in desire and of strong will. They came together at once, like two wrestlers almost matched in strength. Their meetings must have been splen- ...

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...otes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...r 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 ass... ...e University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material c... ... in the Republic than I had, when I landed in America. I purposely abstain from extending these observations to any length. I have nothing to defend, ... ...y, with a modest yet most magnificent sense of its limited dimensions, had from the first opined would not hold more than two enormous portmanteaus in... ...and vivacity. Before descending into the bowels of the ship, we had passed from the deck into a long narrow apartment, not unlike a gigantic hearse wi... ...This fellow, upon the slightest encouragement, would have mingled with his professional recollections the most detestable cant; but I am very much mis... ...e over these soldiers in an instant. Almost before the man was down, their professional manner, their stiff ness and constraint, were gone, and they ... ...s who climb about his knee: not records of his wealth and name: but little wrestlers with him for his daily bread; so many poachers on his scanty meal...

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...hrough Sixty-seven) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fr... ...or 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 ass... ..., and would not be behindhand when the noiseless bottle went round; Scott, from under bushy eyebrows, winked at the apparition of a beeswing; Wilberfo... ...Levant House, then occupied by His Highness dur- ing the temporary absence from England of its noble propri- etor. She sang after dinner to a very lit... ... Europe has produced—the Duc de la 5 Thackeray Jabotiere, then Ambassador from the Most Christian King, and subsequently Minister to that monarch. I ... ...all right very likely, but Becky went her own way, and so fasci- nated the professional personages that they would leave off their sore throats in ord... ...e ladies of ton were seated in the little draw- ing-room, listening to the professional singers, who were sing- ing according to their wont, and as if... ...ts which he paid; she had never, in her small experience of mankind, met a professional ladies’ man as yet, and looked upon my lord as something curio... ...her with epigrams that were as sharp as razors, as I have seen a couple of wrestlers in Devonshire, lashing at each other’s shins and never showing th...

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...cation Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished ... ...or 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 any- one a... ...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...a fancy for the terrible, and made the lover of the new femme de chambre a professional burglar, who bursts into the house with his band, slaughters b... ...phant is worth five pound.” “I wonder it ain’t come down with him,” said a professional wag, “he’s anyhow a precious big one”; at which (for the el- e... ...And as for Mrs. Kirk: that disciple of Dr. Ramshorn put one or two leading professional questions to Amelia, to see whether she was awakened, whether ... ...her with epigrams that were as sharp as razors, as I have seen a couple of wrestlers in Devonshire, lashing at each other’s shins and never showing th...

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...ies Publication Sandra Belloni by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...or 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 ass... ...xholme still kept to dancing, and had effectually driven away Mr. Pericles from their gather- ings. For Mr. Pericles said: “If that they will go ‘so,’... ... colossus, when the Winter sun despatches a feeble greeting messenger-beam from his miserable Arctic wallet. The simile must be accepted in its might,... ...as things below the musical Art, gave a distinguishing tone to Brookfield, from which his French accentuation of our tongue did not detract. Mr. Peric... ...with a very hon- est smile. “I like it.” She was evidently uneducated. “ A professional?” whispered Adela to Arabella. She wanted little invitation to... ...- rable day, a body of five-and-twenty stout young fellows, prize-winners, wrestlers, boxers, and topers, of the Hillford Club, set forth on a march t... ...V ery good,” said Lady Gosstre. She was not one who could be unkind to the professional wit. “And the music-leaves go for feathers. What has the band ... ...to Sir Twickenham (whom he had seduced into a political argument) than the professional wit need employ; and as Mr. Powys’s talk was getting so attrac...

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...eries Publication Night and Day by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished f... ...or 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 ass... ...elderly distinguished people successful, that she scarcely needed any help from her daughter, provided that the tiresome business of teacups and bread... ...still; and the faces of the elderly people were mellowed, at some distance from each other, and had a bloom on them owing to the fact that the air in ... ...e- ing much about the same age and both under thirty, they were prohibited from the use of a great many convenient phrases which launch conversation i... ..., and Joan knew, without asking, what the threat was. In the course of his professional life, which now extended over six or seven years, Ralph had sa... ...moment to breathe and collect herself. She heard the typewriter and formal professional voices in- side, not belonging, she thought, to any one she ha... ...cticing both violin and piano, with the result that he could not per- form professionally upon either. Indeed, for thirty-two years of life he had not... ...y to Katharine and Ralph. They looked into each other’s eyes fixedly, like wrestlers trying to see what movement is coming next, and while Ralph spoke...

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..., joined our faculty editorial staff this year. We have benefitted greatly from her experience and expertise. The addi tion of professional editoria... ...e benefitted greatly from her experience and expertise. The addi tion of professional editorial services testifies to the success of our publication... ...rest in Best of Four , and in the coming year we will ask for submissions from those campuses. Penn State is investigating the nature of our composit... ...tion offerings, and in the future Best of Four may become “Fresh Writings from the Commonwealth.” In other words, we may open submis sions to all fr... ...made towards the solution is to accommodate the number of students who are wrestlers. On campus, numerous students with wrestling skills are willing t... ...ed team or club, just an area in the Physical Education building where the wrestlers can work out. Since there is no other branch campus that offers s... ...aving this wrestling area would improve campus liv- ing by giving the many wrestlers on campus a place to perform. Works Cited Camaione, David N.; Ken... ...n Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, is eight miles long and was created by local semi-professional riders. The trail starts at the foot of the mountain, and then... ...grown up with. Reading: Often writing instructors require students to read professionally written essays as part of a writing course. In college we “r...

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...e Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fr... ...or 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 ass... ...e University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material c... ...hy with vagabonds and talkers who try to reform society by taking men away from their regular productive work and making vagabonds and talkers of them... ... his belief in many things, true and false, that in no way distinguish him from other Syrians of that time. But such common beliefs do not constitute ... ...p, or believing that the earth is flat and that the stars could drop on it from heaven like hailstones. Chris- tianity interests practical statesmen n... ...hold that belief in the face of the most ignominious defeats by vegetarian wrestlers and racers and bicyclists, led the first men who conceived God as... ...sider that from the time when the first scholar ventured to whis- per as a professional secret that the Pentateuch could not possibly have been writte... ...econcile a Mahometan to Jesus than a British parson, because the idea of a professional priest is unfamiliar and even monstrous to a Mahometan (the to...