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When Serpents Die

By: Gerrie Ferris

... Gerrie Ferris 2 THE LAURA KATE PLANTATION SERIES Book One When Serpents Die... ...by Gerrie Ferris ISBN 10: 1-936000-13-X ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-13-5 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Edi... ...ISBN 10: 1-936000-13-X ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-13-5 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-In-Chief: Gai... ...opyright by Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by a... ...family and Bobby’s were metaphorically joined at the hip because they’d founded the city of Roston, not long after Oglethorpe founded the state of G... ...” Her was Hannah Tower. “Sammie’ll have it torn down as soon as she can.” “The city might have something to say about it. Those cottages are on... ...u some praise and you look pissed.” “I’m not.” “So tell me, where’d you work?” “London, Bosnia, Prague.” “Ever been to France?” “Sure.” Th... ...en it many times. There’s a twin that’s in the gun closet.” “They were made in London,” Sammie said wistfully. “Miz Lee, why did Royce g... ...from around these parts.” Jack flicked his shoulders up and down. “Like all county sheriffs, he’ll sweep a lot under the proverbial rug for people ...

...Laura Kate O'Connell left her life of excitement as an overseas news correspondent to return to her Georgia hometown to raise her two young cousins. When Royce Lee, Laura Kate's attorney, supposedly commits suicide, too many pieces of evidence tell a different...

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Little Britain

By: Washington Irving

... “Little Britain” by Washington Irving is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ... “Little Britain” by Washington Irving is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...le, 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 anyo... ...ow bell) would be out of charity with me. NASHE. I n the centre of the great city of London lies a small neighborhood, consisting of a cluster of narr... ... would be out of charity with me. NASHE. I n the centre of the great city of London lies a small neighborhood, consisting of a cluster of narrow stree... ...gate Street, like an arm of the sea, divides it from the eastern part of the city; whilst the yawning gulf of Bull and Mouth Street separates it from ... ...om having been, in ancient times, the residence of the Dukes of Brittany. As London increased, however, rank and fashion rolled off to the west, and t... ...x horses as the summit of human splendor; and his proces sion, with all the Sheriffs and Aldermen in his train, as the grandest of earthly pageants. ...

...Excerpt: In the centre of the great city of London lies a small neighborhood, consisting of a cluster of narrow streets and courts, of very venerable and debilitated houses, which goes by the name of Little Britain. Christ Church School ...

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A Journal of the Plague Year

By: Daniel Defoe

...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable o... ...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occu... ... most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who c... ...le occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all t... ...lic before. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ended with sharp though moderate winds, the bills decreased again, and the city grew healthy , and everybody began to look upon the danger as good as ... ...Andrew’s, Holborn; St Clement Danes; and, to the great af- fliction of the city, one died within the walls, in the parish of St Mary Woolchurch, that ... ...tion. ‘SIR JOHN LAWRENCE, Lord Mayor. SIR GEORGE WATERMAN SIR CHARLES DoE, Sheriffs.’ 44 Journal of the Plague Y ear I need not say that these orders... ...maginable was made for it in a public way. For example, the Lord Mayor and sheriffs had made no pro- vision as magistrates for the regulations which w...

...Excerpt: It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, mong the rest of my neighbors, heard in ordinary dis course that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotter...

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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Ha... ...on Haight Turk, Ph.D. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publicatio... ...TE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...nglish Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...his home by exchanging the solitude of Wales for the greater wilderness of London. Failing there to raise money on his expected patrimony, he for some... ...island, and most of us disdained all coaches except his Majesty’s mail, no city out of London could pre- tend to so extensive a connexion with Mr. Pal... ...succession we are going to awake. Liberated from the embarrassments of the city, and issu- ing into the broad uncrowded avenues of the northern sub- u... ... a trial not so severe in de- gree, but the same in kind. She “pricks” for sheriffs. Joanna pricked for a king. But observe the difference: our own La... .... 238-242. 80 28 CHINON is a little town near Tours. 81 3 SHE “PRICKS” FOR SHERIFFS: The old custom was to prick with a pin the names of those chosen ...

...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lan...

.... BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE............................................................................................................................ 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH ...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ication George Cruikshank by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...tion George Cruikshank by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication 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... ...tyle was adopted in the once famous book called “Tom and Jerry, or Life in London,” which must have a word of notice here, for, although by no means M... ...no less than five circulating libraries in quest of the book, and “Life in London,” alas, is not to be found at any one of them. We can only, therefor... ...eat the artist’s mechanical skill is as an etcher. The distant view of the city in the duel, and of a market-place in “The Quack Doc- tor,” are deligh... ... kick up a row. Such a troop of lawless ruffians let loose upon a populous city would play sad havoc in it; and we fancy the massacres of Birmingham r... ...or knight,” his carriage to be sold, his stalwart aldermen van- ished, his sheriffs, alas! and alas! in gaol! Another design shows that Rigdum, if a t...

...Excerpt: Accusations of ingratitude, and just accusations no doubt, are made against every inhabitant of this wicked world, and the fact is, that a man who is ceaselessly engaged in its trouble and turmoil, borne hither and thither upon the fierc...

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A Child's History of England

By: Charles Dickens

...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...on A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens 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 ... ...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... ...harles Dickens 15 Roman possessions waste; they forced the Ro mans out of London, then a poor little town, but a trading place; they hanged, burnt, c... ...sent by the King over the whole country, the inhabitants of every town and city armed, and murdered all the Danes who were their neighbours. Young and... ...he Archbishop of Canterbury A Child’s Histroy of England 42 defended that city against its Danish besiegers; and when a traitor in the town threw the... ... and so long abused his power. The name of Delinquents was applied to all sheriffs and other officers who had been concerned in raising the ship mone... ... which they had been received in the City. Upon that, the House called the sheriffs in and thanked them, and requested the train bands, under their co...

...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Irela...

...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED......................

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Miscellaneous Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...es Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...ciety was itself suppressed—but I am sorry to say that an- other exists in London, of a character still more atrocious. In tendency, it may be denomin... ...ia postulavit” I have not yet heard charged upon the Gentlemen Amateurs of London, though undoubtedly their proceedings tend to that; but the “interfe... ...eived so bold an idea as that of a noon-day murder in the heart of a great city. It was no obscure baker, gentlemen, or anonymous chimney-sweeper, be ... ...is, like the case of women laboring in childbirth during the storming of a city, trebled the awful- ness of the time. Even the wild story of the incid... ...ly a trial not so severe in degree, but the same in kind. She “pricks” for sheriffs. Joanna pricked for a king. But observe the difference: our own la...

...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of s...

...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE..........................................

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...s Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ublication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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 any- o... ...profound bow to his patrons, the Man- ager retires, and the curtain rises. London, June 28, 1848 Chapter I Chiswick Mall WHILE THE PRESENT CENTURY was... ...ff, exceedingly flurried and nervous. Miss Sedley’s papa was a merchant in London, and a man of some wealth; whereas Miss Sharp was an articled pupil,... ...ut on Sambo’s arm, as happy and as handsome a girl as any in the whole big city of London. Both he and coachman agreed on this point, and so did her f... ...est of all Dr. Swishtail’s young gentlemen. His parent was a grocer in the city: and it was bruited abroad that he was admitted into Dr. Swishtail’s a... ...raffs—men whose names Mr. Hemp the of- ficer reads out periodically at the Sheriffs’ Court—young gentle- men of very good family often, only that the ...

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The Girl with the Golden Eyes

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ted by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is... ...he Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...de, he reappears to shed joy and gai- ety upon the most famous shop in the city. Happy is his wife, he has no time to be jealous: he is a man of actio... ...g accounts and much integ- rity—rogues and catspaws, clerks old and young, sheriffs’ clerks, barristers’ clerks, solicitors’ clerks; in fine, all the ... ... scourge of ambitions which torture the educated portion of this monstrous city, just as in the case of the proletariat it is brought about by the cru... ...uise.” “She is away,” replied the postman. “Her letters are for- warded to London.” “Then the marquise is not a young girl who … ?” “Ah!” said the pos... ...f your quarry,” he said, taking from his leather wallet a letter bearing a London stamp, upon which the address, “To Mademoiselle Paquita Valdes, Rue ...

...Excerpt: One of those sights in which most horror is to be encountered is, surely, the general aspect of the Parisian populace-- a people fearful to behold, gaunt, yellow, tawny. Is not Paris a vast field in perpetual turmoil from a storm...

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Barnaby Rudge a Tale of the Riots of Eighty

By: Charles Dickens

...Barnaby Rudge A Tale of the Riots of Eighty by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publi... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of the Riots of ‘Eighty by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Penns... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of the Riots of ‘Eighty by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylv... ..., 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... ...n the bloom of his youth, when he was discovered in a modest retirement in London, by a friend of mine, and given to me. He had from the first, as Sir... ...along, quite insensible to his progress. And, now, he approached the great city, which lay out stretched before him like a dark shadow on the ground,... ... Barnaby caught him by the arm, and nodded ‘Yes;’ then pointed towards the city. ‘Oh!’ said the old man, bending over the body and look ing round as ... ...he Lord Mayor, sword bearer, and chaplain; to despise the authority of the sheriffs; and to hold the court of aldermen as nought; but not on any ac c... ...authorities; accepted it; and placed them under the direc tion of the two sheriffs. At the Queen’s palace, a double guard, the yeomen on duty, the gr...

Excerpt: Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of the Riots of ?Eighty by Charles Dickens.

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...LICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ...ch a pre- tension had once been made for Jerusalem, and once for a Grecian city; and both pretensions had become ridiculous, as the figure of the plan... ... side, of Manchester. But so it was. Oxford Street, like its name- sake in London, was then called the Oxford Road; and dur- ing the currency of our a... ...blic, (viz., of Mrs. Evans,) a regular gazette, which, in imitation of the London Ga- 68 Thomas de Quincey zette, was published twice a week. I suppo... ... reason unknown to me, and much to my astonishment, he located his capital city in the high latitude of 65 deg. N. That fact being once published and ... ...nian mysteries. Do not tease me, my reader, by alleging that there were no sheriffs’ officers at Athens or Eleusis. Not many, I admit; but perhaps qui...

...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expre...

...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .........................................................

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...y-one through Sixty-seven) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ne through Sixty-seven) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication 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... ... condescending manner during dinner. The important fact was known all over London that night. People who had been crying fie about Mrs. Crawley were s... ... season of her life, when she moved among the very greatest circles of the London fashion. Her success excited, elated, and then bored her. At first n... ...band have the carriage to take the boy to school. Take the horses into the City!—such a thing was never heard of. Let a cab be brought. She did not of... ...en she would have the benefit of seeing him. As the cab rolled towards the City, Becky’s car- riage rattled off to the park. She was chattering and la... ...raffs—men whose names Mr. Hemp the of- ficer reads out periodically at the Sheriffs’ Court—young gentle- men of very good family often, only that the ...

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The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens

...es Dickens Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pickwick Papers, Volume Two by Charles Dickens is a publication of t... ...on The Pickwick Papers, Volume Two by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. 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 ... ..., 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... ...ome ten days or a fortnight after Mr. Pickwick and his friends returned to London, there hurried into one of these offices, an individual in a brown c... ... of an hour’s duration; and, bidding adieu to Lowten, they returned to the city. CHAPTER XXXII DESCRIBES, FAR MORE FULLY THAN THE COURT NEWSMAN EVER ... ...ginable humility, ‘but the fact is, that I have been disap pointed in the City to day.’—Extraordinary place that City. An astonishing number of men a... ... plaudits). ‘Thomas Burton is purveyor of cat’s meat to the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, and several members of the Common Council (the announcement of th... ...posts of which were graced by the name and title of ‘Namby, Officer to the Sheriffs of London’; the inner gate having been opened by a gentleman who m...

Excerpt: The Pickwick Papers, Volume Two by Charles Dickens.

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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...lyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publicat... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...tting at ease he might see the whole life-circulation of that considerable City; the streets and lanes of which, with all their doing and driving (Thu... ...ng of approval: nor is it without satisfaction that I hear of a celebrated London Firm hav- ing in view to introduce the same fashion, with important ... ...lutch of him, is nowise in contact with him: neither are those ministering Sheriffs and Lord-Lieuten- 44 Sartor Resartus ants and Hangmen and Tipstav... ...he same: unhappily, we were not in Crim Tartary, but in a corrupt European city, full of smoke and sin; moreover, in the middle of a Public, which, wi... ...ingered, rainbow-dyed Aurora out of mere aqueous clouds; nay bright- ening London-smoke itself into gold vapor, as from the crucible of an alchemist. ...

Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

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Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens

...s A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylva- ... ...and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...sentation of the hired attendant on the poor in sickness. The hospitals of London were, in many respects, noble Institutions; in others, very defectiv... ...AT A PUBLIC DINNER given to me on Saturday the 18th of April, 1868, in the city of New York, by two hundred representatives of the Press of the United... ...h the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battle- ment; the light was al... ...ave his hand to his companion. ‘Both hands, Tom. I shall write to you from London, mind!’ ‘Yes,’ said Pinch. ‘Yes. Do, please. Good-bye. Good-bye. I c... ... lord mayors,’ said Mould, waving his hand at the public in general, ‘your sheriffs, your common councilmen, your trumpery; but show me a man in this ...

...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether...

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Liver Twist

By: Charles Dickens

...LIVER TWIST CHARLES DICKENS or The Parish Boy s Progress A PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBL... ... A PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION Oliver Twist or the Parish Boy’s Progress by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pen... ... Twist or the Parish Boy’s Progress by Charles Dickens 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 ... ..., of his after life, he never once forgot it. CHAPTER VIII OLIVER WALKS TO LONDON. HE ENCOUNTERS ON THE ROAD A STRANGE SORT OF YOUNG GENTLEMAN OLIVER ... ...arac ters, an intimation that it was just seventy miles from that spot to London. The name awakened a new train of ideas in the boy’s mind. London!—t... ...pirit need want in London; and that there were ways of living in that vast city, which those who had been bred up in country parts had no idea of. It ... ...arious supplies to the eastern suburbs of the town. As they approached the City, the noise and traffic gradually increased; when they threaded the str... ... and presented an order of admission to the prisoner, signed by one of the sheriffs. They were immediately admitted into the lodge. ‘Is the young gent...

Excerpt: Oliver Twist or the Parish Boy?s Progress by Charles Dickens.

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

...e in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...n King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...le, 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 anyo... ... in a peck at a time, in a dozen places. We could have blown up the Tower of London with these charges. When A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Co... ...as steady as a mill, and made your head sore like the drays and wagons in a city. If she had had a cork she would have been a comfort. But you can’t ... ...is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief T error whic... ...e of optics?” “I know of governors of places, and seneschals of castles, and sheriffs of counties, and many like small offices and titles of honor, bu... ...wned me out with joyous deri sion. But presently there was silence; for the sheriffs of Lon don, in their official robes, with their subordinates, b...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

... ... ... ... ... Twenty Years After (The Third Volume of The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Dumas is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Porta... ...tate University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpo... ...ded with guards—from that spirit of bitter ridicule, which, arising from the streets below, penetrated through the very casements of the room, which r... ...r in- crease their burdens; but scarcely was it known that the taxes were to be still further increased, when cries of “Down with Mazarin!” “Long live... ...out as you were in Lon- don. I am not your uncle, I know you not.” “My uncle,” replied Mordaunt, with his harsh and ban- tering tone, “you are mistake... ...ely, my uncle, I am sure, and you will soon be of my opinion,” added he, with a smile which sent a shudder through the veins of him he thus addressed.... ...tion and in whom he had confided, had been indiscreet. His confidence had unveiled the sinister project of the queen. Even on the night of the prince’...

...Excerpt: The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu. In a splendid chamber of the Palais Royal, formerly styled the Palais Cardinal, a man was sitting in deep reverie, his head supported on his hands, leaning over a gilt and inlaid table which w...

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Maid Marian

By: Thomas Love Peacock

... Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...le, 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 anyo... ...ort, and, having caused him to be duly and formally accused, summoned him to London to answer the charge. The earl, deeming himself safer among his ow... ...icient force to hold it in safe keeping in the king’s name, and proceeded to London to report the results of his enterprise. Now Henry our royal king ... ... be bound and beaten, * especially the abbot of Doncaster; as shall also all sheriffs, especially the sheriff of Nottingham. says Robin Hood, in an ol... ... an exchequer, while your thief disembowels a portmanteau, your hero sacks a city, while your thief sacks a cellar: your hero marauds on a larger scal...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Now come ye for peace here, or come ye for war? ?The abbot, in his alb arrayed,? stood at the altar in the abbey-chapel of Rubygill, with all his plump, sleek, rosy friars, in goodly lines disposed, to solemnise the nuptials of the beautiful Matilda Fitzwater, daughter of t...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

...ies Publication Dombey & Son Volume 1 by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ... Publication Dombey & Son Volume 1 by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ... take a voyage to Chaney, Mrs Richards, but I mayn’t know how to leave the London Docks.’ Richards assented to the proposition. ‘This house ain’t so e... ...URES THOUGH THE OFFICES of Dombey and Son were within the liberties of the City of London, and within hearing of Bow Bells, when their clashing voices... ...ed in a conspiracy against it on part of all the clocks and watches in the City, and even of the very Sun itself. Such as he was, such he had been in ... ...Hurrah for the ‘Lord Mayor,’ interrupted the old man. ‘For the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Common Council, and Liv- ery,’ said the boy. ‘Long life to ‘em!’ ... ... in the City, too, he began to have an interest in the Lord Mayor, and the Sheriffs, and in Public Companies; and felt bound to read the quotations of...

...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his con...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

...ssics Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...cs Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens is a publication 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... ... take a voyage to Chaney, Mrs Richards, but I mayn’t know how to leave the London Docks.’ Richards assented to the proposition. ‘This house ain’t so e... ...URES THOUGH THE OFFICES of Dombey and Son were within the liberties of the City of London, and within hearing of Bow Bells, when their clashing voices... ...ed in a conspiracy against it on part of all the clocks and watches in the City, and even of the very Sun itself. Such as he was, such he had been in ... ...Hurrah for the ‘Lord Mayor,’ interrupted the old man. ‘For the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Common Council, and Liv- ery,’ said the boy. ‘Long life to ‘em!’ ... ... in the City, too, he began to have an interest in the Lord Mayor, and the Sheriffs, and in Public Companies; and felt bound to read the quotations of...

...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his con...

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Chronicles of the Canongate

By: Sir Walter Scott

...lter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...r Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...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... ...ve her sister’s life by an act of perjury, and undertaking a pilgrimage to London to obtain her pardon, are both repre- sented as true by my fair and ... ...Walter Scott and an acute critic, [James Chalmers, Esq., Solicitor at Law, London, who (died during the publication of the present edition of these No... ...lause.) Before he sat down, he begged to propose “The Lord Provost and the City of Edinburgh.” Sir W alter Scott apologized for the absence of the Lor... ... Yet, surrounded as I am by the ge- nius—the eloquence—of this enlightened city, I cannot but feel the presumption which ventures to address you on so... ...out the town. Now Shanet wad ill like to live in a place where polish, and sheriffs, and bailiffs, and sie thieves and trash of the world, could tak p...

...Excerpt: Introduction to Chronicles of the Canongate. The preceding volume of this Collection concluded the last of the pieces originally published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the wri...

...Contents INTRODUCTION TO CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE. .......................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................

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The Deputy of Arcis

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley... ...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...-engineer of the arrondissement, the secretary of the mayor’s office, four sheriffs, three solicitors, the clerk of the court, and the clerk of the ju... ...very house- hold in the place. He was the beam fallen from heaven into the city of the frogs. The situation of Arcis-sur-Aube explains the effect whic... ...h of Saint-Louis- en-l’Ile, the parish church of the remote quarter of the city which bears that name. This church is a building of very little intere... ...where you are going to dine?” asked Maxime. “Yes, with the director of the London opera-house, Emile Blondet, Finot, Lousteau, Felicien Vernon, Theodo... ...ough the medium of Madame de Saint- Esteve. The illustrious manager of the London opera-house is negotiating this treaty in order that she shall make ...

...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no...

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...f Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is... ...nic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ... in a few days; in a word luxury the most unbridled reigned over Court and city, for the fete had a huge crowd of spectators. Things went to such a po... ...Paris, was in attendance on horseback, at the head of the 129 Saint-Simon city troops, and made turns, and reverences, and other cer- emonies, imitat... ... 155 Saint-Simon tween the two powers. The Spanish ambassador returned to London. The Emperor next endeavoured to strengthen his party in Spain. The ... ...pulled down his hat, and could not keep his countenance. He sent orders to London, to drive out Poussin, acting as French am- bassador, immediately; a... ...nted them, multiplied the expenses, and at last threw into dun- geons some sheriffs and other rich citizens. He became so tyrannical that they sent a ...

Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.

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Ivanhoe

By: Sir Walter Scott

... Classics Series Publication Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...assics Series Publication Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...ty. This Por- table 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... ...perfectly familiar; “but when those who are under oath to recover the holy city, are found travelling at such a distance from the scene of their dutie... ...no more mercy in them,” said another of the banditti, “than in an unbribed sheriffs officer.” “It is, however, as I say,” said Gurth. “Strike a light ... ... have no room to repent it—neglect what is now told you, and the T ower of London shall not protect you against our revenge.” “Good night to you, kind... ...own of the Philistines, and entitled to none of the privileges of the Holy City.” Waldemar, whose curiosity had led him towards the place where Ivanho... ...ousand silver pounds, after the just mea- sure and weight of the T ower of London.” “Holy Abraham!” returned the Jew, finding voice through the very e...

...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. ...

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Scenes from a Courtesans Life

By: Honoré de Balzac

...Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...rtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ... to win all, by sacrificing to the god who has most votaries in this royal city, namely, Chance. At the 6 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life same time, h... ...ddle classes makes Sunday almost as tire- some in Paris as it is deadly in London. So the Baroness in- vited the famous Desplein to dinner, to consult... ...thought it necessary that the suggestion should come from the chief of the city police. At the moment when Contenson struck three raps on the table wi... ...l for her. But where did she spring from?” “She was the handsomest girl in London. Drunk with gin, she killed her lover in a fit of jealousy. The love... ...partment, and the stairs lead up to it. When the hour of trial strikes the sheriffs call the roll of the prisoners, the gendarmes go down, one for eac...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e departure of the first pilgrims:— “So they left that goodly and pleasant city of Leyden,* which had been their resting-place for above eleven years;... ... eyes to Heaven, their dearest country, where God hath prepared for them a city (Heb. xi. 16), and therein quieted their spirits. When they came to De... ..., p. 304.) The tonnage of the English ves- sels which entered the ports of London, Liverpool, and Hull, in the years 1820, 1826, and 1831, amounted to... ...ymes Governor in those Countryes, and Admirall of New England”; printed at London in 1627. The work is adorned with curious maps and engravings of the... ...ctmen” in New England, “supervisors” in New York, “trustees” in Ohio, and “sheriffs of the parish” in Louisiana - choose for each county a certain num...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of th...

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Guy Mannering

By: Sir Walter Scott

...ics Series Publication Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... Series Publication Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...nt to her political partiality, to the great offence of the rabble of that city. Being zealous in their loyalty, when there was no dan- ger, in propor... ...langowan. They had there erected a few huts, which they denominated their “city of refuge,” and where, when not absent on excursions, they harboured u... ...e’s been an unco inquiry after the auld wife that we saw in Bewcastle; the Sheriffs had folk ower the Limestane Edge after her, and down the Hermitage... ...ring before me, while that investigation was proceeding?” “I was called to London,” answered Glossin, “on most im- portant business, the morning after... ...clock the next morning. By next day’s post, the solicitor sent the case to London, a chef-d’oeuvre of its kind; and in which, my informant assured me,...

...Excerpt: Introduction To Guy Mannering. The novel or romance of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subjec...

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Speeches: Literary and Social

By: Charles Dickens

...n ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. 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 ... ...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... .................................................................. ....... 39 LONDON, JUNE 14, 1852. ....................................................... ........................................................ ......... 42 SPEECH: LONDON, APRIL 30, 1853. ...................................................... ...overb that “a rolling stone gath ers no moss;” and in my progress to this city I have collected such a weight of obligations and acknowledgment—I hav... ... of saying a few words with reference to some body else. There is in this city a gentleman who, at the reception of one of my books—I well remember i... ...Freemason’s Tavern. Mr. Charles Dickens presided, and was supported by the Sheriffs of the City of London and Middlesex. AFTER THE USUAL TOASTS HA...

.......... 33 SPEECH: GARDENERS AND GARDENING. ...................................................................................................... 39 LONDON, JUNE 14, 1852. ....................................................................................................................................... 39 SPEECH: BIRMINGHAM, JANUARY 6, 1853. .............................

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Travels in England during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

By: Paul Hentzner

...Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner and Fragmenta Regalia by Sir ... ...Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner and Fragmenta Regalia by Sir Robert Nau... ... S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner, and Fragmenta Rega- lia by S... ...LECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner, and Fragmenta Rega- lia by Sir Robert ... ...IN ENGLAND AND FRAGMENTA REGALIA INTRODUCTION QUEEN ELIZABETH HERSELF, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of ... ...he British Empire, and the chamber of the English kings. This most ancient city is the the county of Middlesex, the fruitfullest and wholesomest soil ... ...tfully constructed, and from his own name called it Caier Lud, I.E., Lud’s City. This name was corrupted into that of Caerlunda, and again in time, by... ...at is, seniors: these annually elect out of their own body a mayor and two sheriffs, who determine causes according to municipal laws. It has al- ways... ...- ally a mayor from any of the twelve principal companies, and to name two sheriffs, one of whom to be called the king’s, the other the city’s. It is ...

...Introduction: Queen Elizabeth herself, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton....

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The Magna Carta

By: Various

... The Magna Carta is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... The Magna Carta is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ersity. 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... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Univer sity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor an... ...to his Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Earls, Barons, Justiciaries, Foresters, Sheriffs, Governors, Officers, and to all Bailiffs, and his faithful sub... ... Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, Henry Archbishop of Dublin, Wil liam of London, Peter of Winchester, Joceline of Bath and Glastonbury, Hugh of Li... ...d shall be demanded. 13 In like manner let it be concerning the aids of the City of London.— And the City of London should have all it’s ancient lib... ...be demanded. 13 In like manner let it be concerning the aids of the City of London.— And the City of London should have all it’s ancient liberties, ... ...by our letters.— And besides, we will cause to be summoned in general by our Sheriffs and Bailiffs, all those who hold of us in chief, at a certain da...

...Excerpt: That the English Church shall be free, and shall have her whole rights and her liberties inviolable; and we will this to be observed in such a manner, that it may appear from thence, that the freedom of elections, which was repute...

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The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

By: George Bernard Shaw

...y GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of ... ...D SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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 any- o... ...interest of the theatrical managers and their syndicates of backers in the City, to whom, as I shall shew later on, the censorship affords a cheap ins... ...ng tradesman who must be taken as the typical manager (for the West end of London is not the whole theatrical world) is by no means equally qualified ... ...f Lords then proceeded to its selection. As fashionable drama in Paris and London concerns itself almost exclusively with adultery, the first choice f... ...ter of St. Paul’s to display a cross on the summit of their Cathedral in a city occupied largely and influentially by Jews. Court etiquet is no doubt ... ...ormer occasions that what is wrong with this court is that theres too many Sheriffs in it. To-day there is going to be one, and only one; and that one...

... play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived playgoers whose point of honor is to deride all official and conventional sermons....

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Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

...Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Ch... ...d edited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...dited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnish... ...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... ...nothing that he could use. ‘I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London, in order to fix a date correctly.’ He agonized over his work with t... ...ne must reckon in considering any important matter of his day. His love of London is but a part of his hunger for men. ‘The happiness of London is not... ...ord with its polite and leisurely dons, or to the staunch little cathedral city of Lichfield, wel- coming back its famous son to dinner and tea, or to... ...or his baptism is re- corded, in the register of St. Mary’s parish in that city, to have been performed on the day of his birth. His father is there s... ...at- tention to the minutiae of life and manners. Mr. Burke’s Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the affairs of America, being mentioned, Johnson ce...

...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of gr...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...ublication Sketches by Box Volume One by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ication Sketches by Box Volume One by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...the other side. The house without the knocker was in the occupa- tion of a city clerk, and there was a neatly-written bill in the parlour window intim... ...g for booksellers. They had removed from some country place and settled in London; partly because it afforded better chances of employment for the boy... ...rs and Camden towns, Islington, and Pentonville, are fast pouring into the city, or directing their steps towards Chancery-lane and the 54 Sketches b... ... at White Conduit House; from the Gold- smiths’ to the Butchers’, from the Sheriffs’ to the Li- censed Victuallers’; are amusing scenes. Of all enter-... ...e him, and habited in all the splendour of his office. Then, there are the Sheriffs, who are almost as dignified as the Lord Mayor himself; and the Ba...

...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large f...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...cs Series Publication Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...Series Publication Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens is a publication 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... ...the other side. The house without the knocker was in the occupa- tion of a city clerk, and there was a neatly-written bill in the parlour window intim... ...g for booksellers. They had removed from some country place and settled in London; partly because it afforded better chances of employment for the boy... ...rs and Camden towns, Islington, and Pentonville, are fast pouring into the city, or directing their steps towards Chancery-lane and the 54 Sketches b... ... at White Conduit House; from the Gold- smiths’ to the Butchers’, from the Sheriffs’ to the Li- censed Victuallers’; are amusing scenes. Of all enter-... ...e him, and habited in all the splendour of his office. Then, there are the Sheriffs, who are almost as dignified as the Lord Mayor himself; and the Ba...

...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large f...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A A A A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP... ...UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ON... ...says and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...papers, viz.:— that, in order to appear effectually before that Olympus in London, which rains rarities upon us poor abject creatures in the provinces... ...How *A Vindication of Protestant Principles. By Phileleutheros Anglicanus. London: Parker. 1847. 40 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume One... ... together with all the dependencies of Rome, and, briefly, every state and city that adorned the imperial islands of the Mediterranean, or that glitte... ...ty by re modellings of old forms. It is remarkable, indeed, that this very city of Alexandria founded and matured this new principle of remodelling ap... ...he whole Privy Council?—or the Lord Mayor and Common Council of Londonthe Sheriffs of Middlesex—and the Twelve Judges? As to the court physi- cians, ...

...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FO...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...HAPTER IV — CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . .... ...9 CHAPTER VII — MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . ... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ...sitting at ease he might see the whole life circulation of that considerable City; the streets and lanes of which, with all their doing and driving (T... ...ving of approval: nor is it without satisfaction that I hear of a celebrated London Firm having in view to introduce the same fashion, 30 SARTOR RESA... ... clutch of him, is nowise in contact with him: neither are those ministering Sheriffs and Lord Lieutenants and Hangmen and Tipstaves so related to com... ... the same: unhappily, we were not in Crim Tartary, but in a corrupt European city, full of smoke and sin; moreover, in the middle of a Public, which, ... ...rosyfingered, rainbow dyed Aurora out of mere aqueous clouds; nay brightening London smoke itself into gold vapor, as from the crucible of an alchemist...

...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more...

...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29...

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Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

...Series Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ies Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ...ached their height. Whether myrmidons of Justice, specially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate? Whether Miss Havisham, pr... ...he discovery of the assailant. The Constables, and the Bow Street men from London – for, this happened in the days of the extinct red-waistcoated poli... ...om in search of some tokens of Shipping, or capital, for he added, “In the City.” I had grand ideas of the wealth and importance of Insurers of Ships ... ...I had grand ideas of the wealth and importance of Insurers of Ships in the City, and I began to think with awe, of having laid a young Insurer on his ... ...g the women convicts, but they had been stilled, a hush had succeeded. The sheriffs with their great chains and nosegays, other civic gewgaws and mons...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. My father?s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip....

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T r... ...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... ...Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by ... ...at of Worcester in 1651, stripped of all his belongings, he was brought to London, but was released on parole at Cromwell’s recommendation. After rece... ...months in Scotland to try once more to settle his affairs, he came back to London to escape from his creditors. And there he must have died, though th... ... with his folks, and inquiring what men of learning there were then in the city, and what wine they drunk there. Chapter 1.XVII. How Gargantua paid hi... ...Some few days after that they had refreshed themselves, he went to see the city, and was beheld of everybody there with great admiration; for the peop... ...rs, those of the accompts, secretaries, advocates, and others; as also the sheriffs of the said town, with the physicians and professors of the canon ...

...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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The Essays or Counsels, Civil

By: Viscount St. Albans

... This publication of Francis Bacon’s THE ESSAYS OR COUNSELS, CIVIL AND MORAL, OF FRANCIS Ld. VERULAM VISCOUNT ... ...his publication of Francis Bacon’s THE ESSAYS OR COUNSELS, CIVIL AND MORAL, OF FRANCIS Ld. VERULAM VISCOUNT ST. ALBANS is a publication of the Penns... ...L AND MORAL, OF FRANCIS Ld. VERULAM VISCOUNT ST. ALBANS is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ersity. 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... ...ey to his inquiry. Let him keep also a diary. Let him not stay long, in one city or town; more or less as the place deserveth, but not long; nay, whe... ...re or less as the place deserveth, but not long; nay, when he stayeth in one city or town, let him change his lodging from one end and part of the tow... ...me late; hollyhocks; and such like. These particulars are for the climate of London; but my meaning is perceived, that you may have ver perpetuum, as ... ...rrerie, which is under sheriffries; as if they were but mat ters, for under sheriffs and catchpoles: though many times those under sheriffries do mor...

...eritie. For your Fortune, and Merit both, have been Eminent. And you have planted Things, that are like to last. I doe now publish my Essayes; which, of all my other workes, have beene most Currant: For that, as it seemes, they come home, to Mens Businesse, and Bosomes....

...THE ESSAYS 5 ?Of Truth 7 ?Of Death 9 ?Of Unity in Religion 12 ?Of Revenge 13 ?Of Adversity 14 ?Of Simulation and Dissimulation 17 ?Of Parents and Children 18 ?Of Marriage and Single Life 20 ?Of Envy 24 ?Of Love 25 ?Of Great P...

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The Magic Skin

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ted by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication ... ...The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ... gleams of light gave a foreboding look to Paris; like a pretty woman, the city has mysterious fits of ugliness or beauty. So the outer world seemed t... ...ved and imperial with an air-pump thrust into one eye. Portraits of French sheriffs and Dutch burgomasters, phlegmatic now as when in life, looked dow... ... “Imagination was less yielding; I saw my name bandied about through every city in Europe. ‘One’s name is oneself’ says Eusebe Salverte. After these e... ...you manage at the Italiens this evening? An English family is returning to London, and I have taken their box for the rest of the sea- son, and it is ...

...Excerpt: The talisman towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted th...

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