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...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any 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 Sta... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania State... ... there was some difficulty in deciding on which evening he should have his bath. It was never easy to get plenty of hot wa- ter , since the kitchen bo... ...tchen boiler did not work, and it was impossible for two persons to have a bath on the same day . The only man who had a bath- room in Blackstable was... ...ilip was nineteen; let him come and they could wander through the mountain towns of Umbria. Their names sang in Philip’s heart. And Cacilie too, with ... ...e had done with that city and was settling in Gerona, a little town in the north of Spain which had attracted him when he saw it from the train on his... ...heart. He seemed to see the great gray piles of granite set in old Spanish towns amid a landscape tawny , wild, and windswept. “I’ve always thought I ...
...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, ...
... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "T... ...thor of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descripti... ... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ...y -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of... ... wives............................................ 494 Sandwich Islanders surf-bathing......................................... 495 Masked rowers of S... ... that they lived in pretentious buildings having walls of stone, and that many towns and villages were established on and near the coast. They used sm... ..., and half as many horses. The successor of Zingis was Khen-Khan, the next was Bathyn-Khan, the fourth Efu-Khan, the fifth Mangu-Khan, and the sixth K... ...they found the country as luxuriant with fields of maize, and as populous with towns and villages as the level lands over which they had before passed...
...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilou...
...e Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago...
...THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches... ...s of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands and oiroled around the bon- fire on the old OHinpuH Saturday night and sang... ...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...ght, and the sophomore and freshmen speakers. Follow- ing the drag was the North Adams " band," and then came the fresh men in a blaze of fireworks. T... ...lected for next year: President, W. H. Scarritt '08; vice-president. G. A. Townsend of Brown ; secretary and treasurer, R. W. Rice of Wesleyan. The ch... ...pposed the a|i- propriation of the money, while the chief advocate for the towns- people was Dr. John Bascom '49. Two Williams men were re elected to ... .... Adams THE BERKSHIRE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN Coutnins, 94 Bedrooms, 25 Baths, Cafe, Telephone and Electric Lights ill ever} room. —ELEVATOR— Ameri... ...vey Rice Stafford, of Cnnajoharie, N. Y., was drowned on September 6 while bathing in Canajoharia oreek. At the time of his death Mr. Stafford was in ...
...ongest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the...
...cal Step-by-Step Guide to Navigating the world of high yield, low risk Tax Lien and Tax Deed Sales Includes Glossary of Terms, Sample Legal Agreem... ...s book is meant solely as a broad guideline. It is meant to assist the Layperson in understanding the law as it pertains to buying Tax Lien Certifica... ...ayperson in understanding the law as it pertains to buying Tax Lien Certificates and Tax Deeds. It provides information and personal experience. It... ...ins general definitions, guidelines and simple forms. It will assist the reader in understanding the general principles involved, and in drafting s... ...d Sales, ask which governmental entity does. You may find the local Cities and towns conduct the sales or that it is handled by the state, 3. Wher... .... County A division within a state, usually encompassing one or more cities or towns. Covenant that runs with the land A promise or obligation, c... ...ghts include the right of access to, and use of the water for domestic purposes (bathing, cleaning and navigating). The extent of these rights varie... ...ax Lien Certificate State 120 Counties Adair, Allen, Anderson, Ballard, Barren, Bath, Bell, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Boyle, Bracken, Breathitt, Brecki... ...n, Washington, Wayne, Westchester, Wyoming, Yates Lillian R. Villanova 122 North Carolina: Tax Deed State 100 Counties Alamance, Alexander, A...
...It’s time to step out of the box and shift your paradigm. It’s time to put everything you know about a high rate of return being equal to high risk to the side. What I’m about to tell you could turn the way you think about investing upside down. Are you open...
...o by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Penns... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any 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 Sta... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...more than the present population of Washington; and there are, I fear, few towns in the Union so little likely to enjoy any speedy increase. Three ave... ...e are no iron pillars or wayside letter-boxes, as are to be found in other towns of the Union—no subsidiary offices at which stamps can be bought and ... ...rd in those disgraceful years of the later Stuarts. We know how France was bathed in blood in her effort to rid herself of her painted sepulcher of an... ...he average accom- modation of hotels in Europe. In the large Eastern towns baths are attached to many of the rooms. I always carry my own, and have ne...
Excerpt: North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope.
................................................................................................................................... 94 CHAPTER VI: CAIRO AND CAMP WOOD......................................................................................................... 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH.......................................................................
...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any 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 Sta... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Island Nights’ Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pe... ...s straight as pointer dogs. I thought it strange as I went out. When I had bathed and 15 Island Nights’ Entertainments come back again, and found the... ...sun, and a fine fresh healthy trade that stirred up a man’s blood like sea-bathing; and the whole thing was clean gone from me, and I was dreaming Eng... ...was just as glad he had kept Uma clear of Apia and Papeete and these flash towns. At last he struck Fale-alii on this island, got some trade – the Lor... ...ere was papa’s hand? Well, there’s nothing to hurt in that; the islands up north are all full of one-handed men, like the parties in the “Arabian Nigh... ...venson beautiful and so commodious, and depart from all his friends to the north coast of Molokai between the mighty cliff and the sea-breakers. But w...
...rpt: Chapter 1. A South Sea Bridal. I saw that island first when it was neither night nor morning. The moon was to the west, setting, but still broad and bright. To the east, and right amidships of the dawn, which was all pink, the daystar sparkled like a diamond. The land breeze blew in our faces, and smelt strong of wild lime and vanilla: other things besides, but these ...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any 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 Sta... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania... ...ng along roads you don’t know and seeing houses and parks and villages and towns for which you do not feel in the slightest degree re- sponsible. They... ...on the beach and across the sands to the water. She was dressed in a tight bath- 33 H G Wells ing dress and not in the clumsy skirts and frills that ... ...intellectual dressing. Ev- ery third manufacturer from the midlands or the north has some such undertow of ‘affairs.’ A physiological uneasiness, an i... ...in maps which he had taken out of the pockets of the little Charmeuse. The Bath Road lay before them, he explained, Reading, Newbury, Hungerford, Marl... ...e shadow cast by Silbury upon the river flats, strolled up the down to the northward to get a general view of the village, had tea and smoked round th...
...dyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...times alone, sometimes with chance met gipsies of their own land. From the North Cape to the Blue Grotto at Capri they wandered, because the next stea... ...That month the hot weather shut down in earnest, and the dogs slept in the bathroom on the cool wet bricks where the bath is placed. Every morning, as... ...icks where the bath is placed. Every morning, as soon as the man filled my bath the two jumped in, and every morning the man filled the bath a second ... ... Bookshop shop shop shop shop BELT’S WAY-BOOKS, giving town lights for all towns over 4,000 pop. as laid down by A. B. O. THE WORLD. Com- plete 2 vols... ...moment later we saw the monkey ramping on the roof. “He’ll be all over the township in a minute if we don’t head him,” said Penfentenyou, leaping to h...
...Excerpt: It came without warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive ...
...Contents Actions and Reactions ....................................................................................................................................................... 4 AN HABITATION ENFORCED .....................................
...sylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any 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 Sta... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Arthurian Chronicles: Roman De Brut by Wace, trans. Eugene Mas... ...nd to wash these stones with fair water. This water they would make hot in baths, and set therein those who had suffered hurt, or were grieved by any ... ...guerdon; but of these he had no great company. This Passent arrived in the north country and ravaged it, burning the towns and spoiling the land. He d... ...any. This Passent arrived in the north country and ravaged it, burning the towns and spoiling the land. He dared make no long stay, for the king haste... ... with raiment and all manner of spoil, the Saxons came from their ships to Bath. But the citizens of the town shut fast their gates, and defended the ... ..., tak ing refuge where they were able. They hid in woods and thickets, in towns and in houses, seeking refuge from the stour. Right grievous was thei...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...charge of any 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 St... ...ge of any 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State U... ...urprising how much ruin they will bear. We have an excellent hotel—capital baths, warm, cold, and shower—first rate bathing machines—and as good butch... ...see no end of salt and sandy little boots drying on upper window sills. At bathing time in the morning, the little bay re echoes with every shrill var... ... all about it. And we do not suppose that between the T orrid Zone and the North Pole there are to be found male dancers with such astonishingly loose... ... per day, be sides expenses. They used sometimes to be stationed in large towns for five or six months together, distributing the schemes to all the ... ...nt of pepper and salt, was never wanting? Where are the grass grown little towns, the wonderful little market places all unconscious of markets, the s...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...charge of any 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 St... ...ge of any 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ...lived for fourteen days and nights in the firm belief that it was a shower bath. CHAPTER IV —AN AMERICAN RAILROAD. LOWELL AND ITS FACTORY SYSTEM BEFOR... ...ay proceedings. I may add that I am well acquainted with our manufacturing towns in England, and have visited many mills in Manchester and elsewhere i... ...een at work for years in our manufac American Notes – Dickens 75 turing towns have not arisen here; and there is no manu facturing population in L... ...n English eye it was infinitely less like a steamboat than a huge floating bath. I could hardly persuade myself, indeed, but that the bathing establis... ...ge; and the Battle Monument in memory of an engagement with the British at North Point; are the most conspicuous among them. American Notes – Dickens...
...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...r valleys about the warm, temper- ate zone of the earth there were already towns and temples, a score of thousand years ago. They flourished unrecorde... ...ions of intellectual routine and the habitual life, in Europe, in America, North and South, in Japan, in China, and all about the world. It was in 191... ...airvoyant vision of this populated world as a whole, of all its cities and towns and villages, its high roads and the inns beside them, its gar- dens ... ...ara and along the backbone of America, with their perfect air, their daily baths of blazing sunshine, their nights of cool serenity and glowing stars,... ...mmon occupation. They lie out in the former deserts, these long wasted sun-baths of the race, they tower amidst eternal snows, they hide in remote isl...
... D. H. Lawrence A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...s the people about him. Gudrun lighted on him at once. There was something northern about him that 11 magnetised her. In his clear northern flesh and... ...over his arm. He was aloof and white, and somehow evanescent. ‘There’s the bath-room now, if you want it,’ he said gener- ally, and was going away aga... ...,’ Birkin replied, moving away. When Gerald went back to his room from the bath, he also carried his clothes. He was so conventional at home, that whe... ...n sores in his consciousness. And now he saw them with pride. Four raw new towns, and many ugly industrial hamlets were crowded under his dependence. ... ...e was a still, mindless creature, hardly a man at all, a creature that the towns have produced, strangely pure-bred and fine in one sense, furtive, qu...
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...sylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...charge of any 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 Sta... ...ge of any 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 U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylv... ... and all that time, there was peace in Britain. The Britons improved their towns and mode of life: became more civilised, travelled, and learnt a grea... ...adoc, who gave battle to the Romans, with his army, among the mountains of North Wales. ‘This day,’ said he to his sol diers, ‘decides the fate of Br... ...ken and unguarded wall of Severus, in swarms. They plundered the rich est towns, and killed the people; and came back so often for more booty and mor... ...blow. Within five days she was in arms again, and raised her stan dard in Bath, whence she set off with her army, to try and join Lord Pembroke, who ... ...majesty of his appearance, when he might otherwise have done it, as he was bathing at Battersea. The King being but an ill looking fellow, I don’t bel...
...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. Ireland is the next in size. The ...
...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..................
...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...He hung about the house, not caring to do much, except taking me out in my Bath chair or languidly reading the most exciting books he could get;—but t... ...a certain age, who had lived with her uncle, and now proposed to remove to Bath. Mr. Winslow had, it appeared, lost his only son as a schoolboy, and h... ...and habits, for my mother had spent her youth in a suc- cession of seaport towns, frequented by men-of-war. We heard, too, that Chantry House was very... ...ould point to our boundary wall, a little below the top of the hill on the northern side. He informed us that the place we had passed was Hillside—For... ...e tidings of a visitation of cholera are heard with compassion for crowded towns, but without special alarm for ourselves or our friends, since its co...
...Excerpt: The United Force of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with the aid of diaries and letters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been done without more pain than I could brook, but the lapse of time heals wounds, brings compensations, an...
...T C H E S S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PEN... ...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ...hat editor and his deafness, it matters not a straw whether he belong to a northern or a southern journal. Here is one evil of journal writing—viz., i... ...pposed energy that I had manifested, I was decorated with the Order of the Bath. My reading had been extensive enough to give me some vague aerial sen... ...tain select families, of conferring knightly honors? The red ribbon of the Bath he certainly did confer upon me; and once, in a 69 Autobiographic Ske... ...ertainly proved more than a match for all the clergymen of the neighboring towns, some of whom (as the most intellectual persons of that neighborhood)... ...ewspapers, &c., it followed, naturally enough, that the distant provincial towns, though not without their own separate literature and their own liter...
...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, expressly to disown any one...
... FIRST REBELLION.......................................................................................... 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI: TRAVELLING.................................................................................................... 243 CHAPTER XII: MY BROTHER ........................................
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any 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 Sta... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Under the Storm, or Steadfast’s Charge by Charlotte M. Yonge, t... ...or a great many years, ever since the end of the wars of the Roses. So the towns did not want fortifications to keep out the enemy, and their houses s... ...hey will,” said Mr. Holworth. “I hear good news of the King’s cause in the north.” Then they began to consult where to place the precious casket. They... ...we did but stop at the sign of the ‘Crab’ the drinking of a pottle, and to bathe Jack’s foot near there, and we have never been able to catch them up ... ...ittle black books. The three eldest had been confirmed, when the Bishop of Bath and Wells had been in the neighbourhood. That was only a fortnight aft... ...ristol, when he had been talking to the butter-merchant’s man. He said the townsfolk would know the reason why, if the soldiers were for holding out l...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any 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 Sta... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...the campaign. We have telegraphed his description to the po- lice of every township up and down the land. And what’s more we’ve ascertained definitely... ...nce telling him that his next public task would be a careful survey of the Northern Districts to discover tracts suitable for the cultivation of the s... ...ow? Trouble with the boys?” “No, master. The gentleman when I take him his bath water he speak to me. He ask me—he ask—when, when, I think Mr. Walter,... ...d pattern which the planter of Malata was well known to wear when going to bathe. These things made a little heap, and the sailor remarked, after gazi... ...stery. One can understand a fellow living by cadging and small swindles in towns, in large communities of people; but Bamtz managed to do that trick i...
.... Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any 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 Sta... ...rge of any 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 U... ... it old Watling Street, still paved in places, starts like an arrow to the north. I used to stand on the hill and think of it all, the galleys and leg... ...otted here and there with tree clumps and the church towers of old medical towns that are following Lemanus now towards extinction. That outlook on th... ...and then if I may avail myself of your domestic conveniences I will have a bath. This done, we will converse more at leisure. It will be wise, I think... ...y to the scattered vestiges of the greenhouse. And while he was having his bath I considered the entire question alone. It was clear there were drawba... ...the moon?” “One could see a fair-sized church. One could certainly see any towns or buildings, or anything like the handiwork of men. There might perh...
...e amidst the shadows of vine leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself removed from the slightest possibility of distu...
... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (Samuel... ...Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. ... ...e is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own... ...ny responsibility for the mate- rial contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Prince and the Paupe... ...e knew. He moved on, aimlessly, and in a little while the houses thinned, and the passers- by were infrequent. He bathed his bleeding feet in the broo... ...ments, and with badges on their sleeves; then the Garter King-at-arms, in his tabard; then several Knights of the Bath, each with a white lace on his ... ...eet a fifth of a mile long, its population was but a village population and everybody in it knew all his fel- low-townsmen intimately, and had known t... ... with us the hungry kids—but it was crime to be hungry in England—so they stripped us and lashed us through three towns. Drink ye all again to the mer... ...g cut off from sight by intervening pillars and architectural projections. We have in view the whole of the great north transept—empty, and waiting fo...
Excerpt: The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).
...Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom?s early life. III. Tom?s meeting with the Prince. IV. The Prince?s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The question of the Seal. I...
...e M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prince and the Page by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Prince and the Page by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania... ...understood than his flock; and her lady spoke little but langue d’oui, the Northern French, which was as little serviceable in dealing with her Spanis... ... first sight of the great Earl. My brothers had teased me for going so far north, and told me the English were mere rude islanders— boorish, and unlet... ...ald meadows and softly rising hills clothed with copses and woods. T o the east, seated upon her hills, stood the crowned and battlemented city, the m... ...up a fly here on this very tent pole? And did not the Fay Morgaine show us towns and castles and churches in the sea? Thou didst not call me light-hea... ...kens of a pilgrim about him, and seemed better at first, walked lustily to bath and bed, and did not show himself helpless; but I much suspect his dis...
Excerpt: The Prince and the Page by Charlotte M. Yonge.
...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any 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 Sta... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania St... ...hose southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the northward of us.” —Captain Cowley’ s V oy- age Round the Globe, A.D. 1729. ... ...ant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill- side blue. But though the picture lies thus tranced, ... ... than that great captain of antiquity who boasted of taking as many walled towns. And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscov... ...led waters, I had lost the miserable warping memories of traditions and of towns. Long I gazed at that prodigy of plumage. I cannot tell, can only hin... ... of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy. Meanwhile, as we thus lay entranced, t...
...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 26 Knights and Squires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 iv CONTENT... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 iv CONTENTS 27 Knights and Squires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 28 Ahab . .... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ...hese southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the northward of us.” Captain Cowley’s Voyage round the Globe. A.D. 1729. * * *... ...ant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill side blue. But though the picture lies thus tranced, a... ... than that great captain of antiquity who boasted of taking as many walled towns. And, as for me, if, by any possibility,there be any as yet undiscove... ...led waters, I had lost the miserable warping memories of traditions and of towns. Long I gazed at that prodigy of plumage. I cannot tell, can only hin... ... of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy. Meanwhile, as we thus lay entranced, t...
...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...
...ll Astir, 101 -- 21 Going Aboard, 104 -- 22 Merry Christmas, 107 -- 23 The Lee Shore, 111 -- 24 The Advocate, 113 -- 25 Postscript, 117 -- 26 Knights and Squires, 118...
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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deli...
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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any 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 Sta... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...om his wife, and had sworn unwontedly and with passionate sincerity in the bathroom. He was a manly man, free from any strong maternal strain, and he ... ...ith his riding gai- ters, smiling and saluting, while Ann V eronica turned north- ward and so came to Micklechesil. There, in a little tea and sweet-s... ...r five long years of adolescence—upon the leaded space above the built-out bath-room on the first floor. Once upon a time she and Roddy had descended ... ...e and culminating keenness to the day. The river, the big buildings on the north bank, Westminster, and St. Paul’s, were rich and wonderful with the s... ...omething drew you. Some- thing draws everybody. From suburbs, from country towns— everywhere. I see all the Movements. As far as I can, I belong to th...
...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before,...
...AL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE Volume T wo With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, B B B B By the y the y the y the y the RE RE RE RE R... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume T wo, the Pennsylv... ........................................................... 40 —TO ALLEN LORD BATHURST. .................................................................... .............................................................. 85 THE WIFE OF BATH, HER PROLOGUE. .......................................................... ... 110 T wo Cupids squirt before: a lake behind Improves the keenness of the northern wind. His gardens next your admiration call, On every side you loo... ... that, parting wide in air, Express the discord of the souls they bear: Of towns dispeopled, and the wandering ghosts Of kings unburied in the wasted ... ...and, Provost of Eton, was a writer), and to send them post-free to all the towns in the kingdom.—P . 276 ‘With Ward, to ape-and-monkey climes.’ Edwar...
...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS ..........................................................................................................
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any 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 Sta... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsyl... ...e now is their eye of menace, their voice of command? Rollo and his shaggy Northmen cover not the Seine with ships; but have sailed off on a longer vo... ...he Workers, protected, en- couraged by Majesty, have ages ago built walled towns, and there ply their crafts; will permit no Robber Baron to ‘live by ... ...he people; it is said that the doctors have ordered a Great Person to take baths of young human blood for the restoration of his own, all spoiled by d... ...e pic- tured her, there within the royal tapestries, in bright bou- doirs, baths, peignoirs, and the Grand and Little Toilette; with a whole brilliant... ...failed, the new one (a Grammont, native to them) is met by a Procession of towns- men with the Cradle of Henri Quatre, the Palladium of their Town; is...
............................................................................................................................ 27 Chapter 1.2.II. Petition in Hieroglyphs. ...................................................................................................................... 30 Chapter 1.2.III. Questionable. ...........................................................
.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Where I Lived, and What I Lived For . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Reading . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Winter Animals ... ...als . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 The Pond in Winter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Spr... ... HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myse... ...he notice of my readers if very particular inquiries had not been made by my townsmen concerning my mode of life, which some would call impertinent, t... ...head, but as soon as one head is crushed, two spring up. I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, ... ...d Negro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that enslave both north and south. It is hard to have a southern overseer; it is worse to h... ...ave been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best th... ...f the best things which I did. They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of king Tching thang to this effect: “Renew thyself completel...
...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. ...
...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 132 -- Brute Neighbors, 140 -- House-Warming...
...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of Th... ...ng Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, faculty editor. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any 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 Sta... ...o tice of my readers if very particular inquiries had not been made by my townsmen concerning my mode of life, which some would call impertinent, tho... ..., but as soon as one head is crushed, two spring up. I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, ca... ...gro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that en slave both North and South. It is hard to have a South ern overseer; it is worse to h... ...e been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best thin... ...the best things which I did. They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of King Tching thang to this effect: “Renew thyself completely ...
Excerpt: Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.
...Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner and Fragmenta Regalia by Sir Robert Naunton A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASS... ...ert Naunton A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner, and Fragme... ... Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner, and Fragmenta Rega- lia by Sir Robert Naunton is a publication of the Penns... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ted above thirty. Paulus Jovius, in his description of the most remarkable towns in England, says all are obscured by London: which, in the opinion of... ...ce of many nations; its houses are elegantly built, its churches fine, its towns strong, and its riches and abundance surprising. The wealth of the wo... ...reas before it was named Chamberlain gate. It is the public prison. On the north are four: 1. Aldersgate, as some think from alder trees; as others, f... ... fish may be kept in them, and in summer-time they are very convenient for bathing. In another room for entertainment, very near this, and joined to i... ...ll the civil war. *This is confounded with the Round Tower. 35 halls, and bathing-rooms,* and a private chapel, the roof of which is embellished with...
...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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.... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418.......................................................... 8 CHAPTER III THE ANGLE CHILDREN A.D. 597.................................................................... 10 CHAPTER IV THE NORTHMEN. A.D. ...
... . . . . . . . . 19 An Invocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Anna and Harland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 To the Evening Star . ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Happiness . . . . . . . . . . . 43 A Wish: Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Ode in the ... ... . . . . 45 To Disappointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Ode . . . .... ... ‘‘Morning Chronicle’’ in December 1794 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 and January 1795 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 To the Honourable Mr. E... ...those purple clouds explore! Nor there with happy spirits speed thy flight Bath’d in rich amber-glowing floods of light; Nor in yon gleam, where sl... ... the imprison’d Matin Bird Swells the full chorus with a generous song: He bathes no pinion in the dewy light, No Father’s joy, no Lover’s bliss he... ... sides rush the thirsty brood of War! — Austria, and that foul Woman of the North, - 128 - Religious Musings A Desultory Poem, Written on the Christ... ... Midnight Coleridge: Poems For still I hoped to see the stranger’s face, Townsman, or aunt, or sister more beloved, My play-mate when we both wer... ...ial Sense Distending wide, and man beloved as man, Where France in all her towns lay vibrating Like some becalmØd bark beneath the burst Of Heaven...
...Excerpt: Easter Holidays; Hail! festal Easter that dost bring Approach of sweetly-smiling spring, When Nature?s clad in green: When feather?d songsters through the grove With beasts confess the power of love And brighten all the scene...
...Table of Contents: Easter Holidays, 1 -- Dura Navis, 2 -- Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vit‘, 4 -- Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon, 5 -- Anthem for the Children of Christ?s Hospital, 6 -- Julia, 7 -- Quae Nocent Docent, 8 -- The Nose, 9 -- To the Muse, 11 ...
...syl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any 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 Sta... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Magnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge, th... ...nd of which she only knew that it was paid to her quarterly by a lawyer at Bath, whose address she gave. Mr. Brownlow followed up the clue, but could ... ...gh. Fancy, Janet! golden green trees and porcelain blue ground, all in one bath of sunshine. Such things must be seen to be believed in.” Poor Mrs. Ro... ...k him- self with his usual facility of making friends, had picked up a big north-country student, twice as large as himself, with whom he meant to wal... ... Armie went down and fetched up Allen to hear about those wonderful walled towns!” “I don’t go in for improving my mind,” said Cecil. “Then you should... ... the more established regions into the south-west. In Texas we found a new township, called Burkeville, with- out a resident medical man, and the fame...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Joe Brownlow?s Fancy. The lady said, ?An orphan?s fate Is sad and hard to bear.? --Scott ?MOTHER, you could do a great kindness.? ?Well, Joe?? ?If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she has had the measles last and worst, and...
...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Penns... ...sylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thor... ..., it enters Concord at the south part of the town, and after receiving the North or Assabeth River, which has its source a little farther to the north... ...y nu merous gulls and ducks. Just above Sherman’s Bridge, be tween these towns, is the largest expanse, and when the wind blows freshly in a raw Mar... ...ugh men, and Wayland, and Nine Acre Corner men, and Bound Rock, where four towns bound on a rock in the river, Lin coln, Wayland, Sudbury, Concord. M... ...mile above this. Still the noon prevailed, and we turned the prow aside to bathe, and recline ourselves under some buttonwoods, by a ledge of rocks, i... ..., and now sitting on its rocky brink and dipping my feet in its rapids, or bath ing adventurously in mid channel. The hills grew more and more freque...
Excerpt: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
...Life of Johnson by James Boswell Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State E... ...ic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publicatio... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an i... ...n business, not only in his shop, but by occasionally resorting to several towns in the neighbourhood, some of which were at a con- siderable distance... ...distance from Lichfield. At that time booksellers’ shops in the provincial towns of England were very rare, so that there was not one even in Birmingh... ... be better done, and let Dodsley have his desire. I said to my friend, Dr. Bathurst, “Now if any good comes of my ad- dressing to Lord Chesterfield, i... ...s he told me, six amanuenses; and let it be remem- bered by the natives of North-Britain, to whom he is supposed to have been so hostile, that five of... ...ated with him in this little soci- ety were his beloved friend Dr. Richard Bathurst, Mr. Hawkesworth, afterwards well known by his writings, Mr. John ...
...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 wi...
...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any 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 Sta... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...t with winter clothing, as if he were on the verge of an expedition to the North Pole: verbal bulle- tins of the state of his health were circulated t... ...rk, and occasionally a little knot of three or four schoolboys on a stolen bathing expedition rattle mer- rily over the pavement, their boisterous mir... ...ur ago in the suburbs: for the early clerk population of Somers and Camden towns, Islington, and Pentonville, are fast pouring into the city, or direc... ... position, we may be reminded that Liverpool, Manchester, ‘and other large towns’ (as the Parliamentary phrase goes), have their hackney-coach stands.... ...coachman, ’ replied the girl, ‘and recollect I want to be set down in Cold Bath Fields—large house with a high gar- den-wall in front; you can’t mista...
...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 sm...
...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKE... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself by William Mak... ...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any 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 Sta... ... near to the kitchen and butteries. A dozen of living-rooms looking to the north, and communicating with the little chapel that faced east- 34 Henry ... ... my lord was carried to one Mr. Aimes, a surgeon, in Long Acre, who kept a bath, and there the house was wak- ened up, and the victim of this quarrel ... ...terbury. There was a fire in the room where the cloths were drying for the baths, and there lay a heap in a corner saturated with the blood of my dear... ...h straw. But though the links were there, the link- boys had run away. The townsmen saved their houses, and our General took possession of the enemy’s... ... pass the winter away behind the fortifications of the dreary old Flanders towns, where the English troops were gathered. Y achts and packets passed d...
...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship which I owe to you and yours. My volum...
............................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II RELATES H...
...ylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any 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 Sta... ...rge of any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sketches by Box Volume One by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania... ...t with winter clothing, as if he were on the verge of an expedition to the North Pole: verbal bulle- tins of the state of his health were circulated t... ...rk, and occasionally a little knot of three or four schoolboys on a stolen bathing expedition rattle mer- rily over the pavement, their boisterous mir... ...ur ago in the suburbs: for the early clerk population of Somers and Camden towns, Islington, and Pentonville, are fast pouring into the city, or direc... ... position, we may be reminded that Liverpool, Manchester, ‘and other large towns’ (as the Parliamentary phrase goes), have their hackney-coach stands.... ...coachman, ’ replied the girl, ‘and recollect I want to be set down in Cold Bath Fields—large house with a high gar- den-wall in front; you can’t mista...