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...Excerpt: Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what wa...

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...CS SERIES PUBLICATION House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...urred to her that the woman’s persistent gaze implied a groping among past associations. But she put aside the thought with a smile at her own fears, ... ...ties of the restless. She fancied he was the kind of man whose sentimental associations would be stirred by the conventional imagery of a wedding, and... ...ing of a struggling charity in which she was interested. The object of the association was to provide comfortable lodg- ings, with a reading-room and ... ... is like advancing into a strange country with an insuffi- cient number of scouts; but such rash tactics have sometimes led to brilliant victories, an...

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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 labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which p...

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...hapters One through Thirty four by Charles Dickens is a publica tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ..., 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... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... moment of his first speaking to us his voice had connected itself with an association in my mind that I could not define; but now, all at once, a som... ...ed her discoloured eye with her hand, as though she wished to separate any association with noise and violence and ill treatment from the poor little ... ...tation houses. People talk across the court out of window, and bare headed scouts come hurry ing in from Chancery Lane to know what’s the matter. The... ...e forgotten it. Your message reminded me of it again. I can’t imagine what association I had with a hand like that, but I surely had some.” “You had s...

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...Excerpt: The journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all travelers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of th...

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... by Robert Louis Stevenson Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Steve... ...y kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University... ... her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University... ...ad some experience of lay phalansteries, of an artistic, not to say a bacchanalian character; and seen more than one association easily formed and yet... ...ith a Cistercian rule, perhaps they might have lasted longer. In the neighbourhood of women it is but a touch-and-go association that can be formed am... ... trem- bling, half lying down to hide myself from the road; and I daresay I was as much concerned as if I had been a scout from Joani’s band above upo...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Night is generally my time for walking. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the country, I seldom go out until after dark, though, Heaven be thanked, ...

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...hop by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classic Series Publication The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsy... ..., 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...a spear which is dewoted to something pleasanter,’ urged Short. ‘Re spect associations, Tommy, even if you do cut up rough. ’ ‘Rough or smooth,’ said... ... inheritance as part of him self: as trophies of his birth and power; his associations with them are associations of pride and wealth and tri umph; ... ...for the present all such attempts were hopeless, he appointed two or three scouts, with promises of large rewards in case of their forwarding him any ... ...heir own character, they did) did they know the his torical and elevating associations connected with that most remarkable spot? Did they believe tha...

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...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an ...

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...ries Publication Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...- der; for, Mr Podsnap’s young person was likely to get little good out of association with other young persons, and had therefore been restricted to ... ...h. ‘Why no,’ said Mr Boffin, ‘not exactly that; a sort of a family tie.’ ‘ Association?’ the Secretary suggested. ‘Ah!’ said Mr Boffin. ‘Perhaps. Anyh... ...avow to you that although I don’t know Mr Lightwood, I have a disagreeable association connected with him. It is not his fault; he is not at all to bl... ...y. ‘No one,’ repeated the old man with a grave slow wave of his head. ‘All scout it as a fable. Were I to say “This little fancy business is not mine”... ...otman caused so great an excitement in the counting-house, that a youthful scout was instantly appointed to follow Rumty , observe the lady, and come ... ...n with his report. Nor was the agitation by any means diminished, when the scout rushed back with the intelligence that the lady was ‘a slap-up gal in...

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...Preface: It is sometimes treated as an impertinence to revive the personages of one story in another, even though it is after the example of Shakespeare, who revived Falstaff, after his death, at the behest of Queen Elizabeth. This precedent is, however, a true impertinence in calling o...

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...Preface: In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names? ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them....

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...Preface: If a book by an author who must call herself a veteran should be taken up by readers of a younger generation, they are begged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns and the Underwoods....

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...BY CHARLOTTE M. YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...n Inglesant arriving in his armour of light on his wedding morning—and the associations were so painful that she said she never wished to see it again... ...girl’s happiness and full development; but she knew that her husband would scout these doubts as non- sense, and both really liked Ernley Armytage, an...

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Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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...ROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ...............................................................................

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...ture by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William J... ...s Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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 consist in nothing so much as in a large development of the faculty of association by similarity. 32 The V arieties of Religious Experience nius ... ...[12] [12] Feuilles detachees, pp. 394-398 (abridged). Surely all the usual associations of the word “reli- gion” would have to be stripped away if suc... ... At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance. But it is im... ...ique, 1899, p. 66. [61] Trine: p. 117. 119 William James All the external associations of the Catholic disci- pline are of course unlike anything in ... .... The bare fact that all idealists since Kant have felt entitled either to scout or to neglect them shows that they are not solid enough to serve as r...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of B...

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... Staff List xiii–xiv Preface xv 1. “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National C... ...Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 ... ...NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) ... ...hijacking.As the chairman of the Security Committee of the Air Line Pilots Association observed when proposals were made in early 2001 to install rein... ... planning strikes against U.S. interests.” 95 Speaking to the American Bar Association in July 1985, the President char- acterized terrorism as “an ac... ... 1999, Clarke called a UAE official to express his concerns about possible associations between Emirati officials and Bin Ladin. Clarke later wrote in... ...airwell C at about 8:57, with the goal of approach- ing the impact zone as scouting units and reporting back to the chiefs in the lobby.The radio chan... ..., 2003). 57.“Knives with blades under 4 inches, such as Swiss Army Knives, scout knives, pocket utility knives, etc. may be allowed to enter the steri...

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... Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time i...

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...n with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...her o t his or her own wn wn wn wn risk. risk. risk. risk. risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ... ing proved abortive, I determined to try what might be done by a voluntary association of the people. To promote this, I first wrote and published a... ...ion and discipline for our defense, and promis’d to propose in a few days an association, to be generally signed for that purpose. The pamphlet had a ... ... a sud den and surprising effect. I was call’d upon for the instru ment of association, and having settled the draft of it with a few friends, I app... ...red of those people, who might have been of great use to his army as guides, scouts, etc., if he had treated them kindly; but he slighted and neglecte...