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...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ty. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...siderable paper-bags, care- fully sealed, and marked successively, in gilt China-ink, with the symbols of the Six southern Zodiacal Signs, be- ginning... ...own strength, to read fluently in 83 Thomas Carlyle almost all cultivated languages, on almost all subjects and sciences; farther, as man is ever the... ...n,” we are not without our anxiety. From private Tuition, in never so many languages and sciences, the aid derivable is small; neither, to use his own... ...Mandarin ones, I have studied, or seen that there was no studying. Unknown Languages have I oftenest gathered from their natural repertory, the Air, b... ...ees of Tadmor; smoked a pipe among the ruins of Babylon. The great Wall of China I have seen; and can testify that it is of gray brick, coped and cove... ... Counsellor Heuschrecke ever existed; that the six Paper- bags, with their China-ink inscriptions and multifarious contents, are a mere figment of the...

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...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or...

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...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...

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...cs Series Pulication Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...it enabled him to provide for me. There were lessons, too, from masters in languages, music, and draw- 38 Chantry House ing, which Emily and I shared... ...er. He has had only foreign doctoring, and you know he never was strong in languages. I heard of the medico here inquiring what precise symptom der En... ..., in his new position, he could or would do so, although his pres- ence in China would be very important to the firm at this juncture; and there would... ... she had not been able to get rid of a single one! Of Clarence’s doings in China I need not speak; you have read of them in the book for yourselves, a... ...with whom she was called on to associate. Somersetshire, Beachharbour, and China occupied our tongues by turns, and we had to begin luncheon without t...

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...y Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...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... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...my friend, adding that Mr. X was an enlightened connoisseur of bronzes and china, and asking me to show him my collection. X turned up in due course. ... ...; I could have no friends, it seems to me; and as to collecting bronzes or china, that, I should say, would be quite out of the question. But I don’t ... ...xpecting to hear he was dead. But he was commanding a smart steamer on the China coast, and never came home now. Jermyn fetched a heavy sigh, and the ... ...tter pamphlets also, written in a sickly enthusiastic style and in several languages, giving statistics of slaughter and blood- shed enough to make a ... ... to say, I never looked. At any rate, he was a good European—he spoke four languages to my certain knowledge—and a man of fortune. Not of great fortun... ...is kind, fatigued eyes. As the train began to move, he addressed me in two languages: first in French, say- ing, “Bon voyage”; then, in his very good,...

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...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...

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.................................... 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY................................................................................................ 30 SECTIO...

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...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Ha... ...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... ...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... ...s, into antiquities, Roman roads, old castles, the ori- gin and analogy of languages; upon all these he was informed to considerable minuteness. The s... .... The very same idea had not long before struck the celestial intellect of China. Amongst the presents carried out by our first embassy to that countr... ...n- ger the safety of tidings running day and night between all nations and languages? Or can it be fancied, amongst the weakest of men, that the bodie... ...f a story told in Staunton’s Account of the Earl of Macartney’s Embassy to China in 1792.”—MASSON. 8 4 ÇA IRA (“This will do,” “This is the go”): “a p...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is h...

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...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

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...Prologue: Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hinted at as their natal place. But the Author consen...

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...nd T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stor... ...ublication Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac 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 a... ... with a feeble voice. Then stretching himself upon the fragments of broken china, he lay as if dead, awaiting the issue. The ser- vants rushed out in ... ...ncient and modern, congregating customs, distilling verbs, alchemising all languages since the Deluge, of the Hebrew, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Greeks, La... ...riests, never to have crossed herself in any place; to have spoken all the languages of the earth—a gift which has only been granted by God to the ble... ...f a demon in her. Moreover, Astaroth alone, or an apostle, could speak all languages, and she spoke after the manner of all countries, the which prove...

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...ris to his memory in Milan, you will not be surprised to find him testifying his gratitude for many pleasant evenings passed beside you by laying one of his works at your feet, and begging you to protect it with your name, as in former days that name protected the tales of an ancient writer dear to the Milanese....

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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