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...roft, had braved the journey from Yorkshire to bid her only daughter good-bye. Miss Abbott was likewise attended by numerous relatives, and the sight of so many people talking at once and saying such different things caused Lilia to break into ungovernable peals of laughter....

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...s Publication Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster 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 a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...don’t, let me beg you, go with that awful tourist idea that Italy’s only a museum of antiquities and art. Love and understand the Italians, for the pe... ...nd their conversation was spasmodic and subdued. They wondered whether the travellers had got to Folkestone, whether it would be at all rough, and if ... ...boy! If possible, she has got worse and worse. It was your idea of Italian travel that saved us!” Philip brightened at the little compliment. “The odd... ...lack line, notched at inter- vals like a saw, and she knew that this was a rail- way. But the map left a good deal to imagination, and she had not got... ...nds himself in the middle of the country. There are a few houses round the railway, and many more dotted over the plain and the slopes of the hills, b... ... EM Forster “But do people live inside?” asked Harriet. They had exchanged railway-carriage for the legno, and the legno had emerged from the withered...

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Excerpt: Pillars of Society. A Play in Four Acts by Henrik Ibsen, translated by R. Farquharson Sharp.

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...uharson Sharp A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Pillars of Society: A Play in Four Acts by Henrik Ibsen, trans. R. Farquharson Shar... ... Four Acts by Henrik Ibsen, trans. R. Farquharson Sharp is a publi- cation 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 a... ...know last year we only by a hair’s breadth escaped the project of having a railway here. Mrs.Bernick: Ah, my husband prevented that. Rorlund: Providen... ...eeting, you know. Mrs.Bernick: Has he? What about? Hilmar: Oh, it is this railway nonsense over again. Mrs.Rummel: Is it possible? Mrs.Bernick: Poor ... ...hat last year Mr. Bernick made it perfectly clear that he would not have a railway here. Hilmar: Yes, that is what I thought, too; but I met Krap, his... ...Mrs.Rummel: And in broad daylight, too! Hilmar: Well, I must say if I were travelling across a desert waste and found myself beside a well, I am sure ... ...ciety Bernick: Then you are not—? Mrs.Bernick: Thank Heaven! Lona: No, we travelled like other respectable folk, sec- ond-class, certainly, but we ar... ...f vir- tue and its miserable fear of public opinion—shall be for us like a museum, open for purposes of instruction; and to that museum we will presen...

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...es Publication War and Peace – Book Eight by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...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... ...le, Prince, one would like to take Peter the Great’s old cudgel out of the museum and belabor them in the Russian way till all the nonsense jumps out ... ...re with an amused smile, evidently in that cheer- ful mood of good humored raillery for which he so often re- proached himself in his diary. “No,” rep... ...Moscow with Natasha and Sonya. The countess was still unwell and unable to travel but it was impossible to wait for her recovery. Prince Andrew was ex... ...im face at the new arrivals. One might have thought she was angry with the travelers and would immediately turn them out, had she not at the same time... ...alls. In the front, in the very center, leaning back against the orchestra rail, stood Dolokhov in a Persian 33 Tolstoy dress, his curly hair brushed... ...o the ceiling with Persian rugs, bearskins, and weapons, sat Dolokhov in a traveling cloak and high boots, at an open desk on which lay abacus and som...

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...Excerpt: Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with a critical preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A....

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........................................................................................................................................... 22 AN AFFAIR OF STATE............................................................................................................................................... 36 THE ARTIST ..............................................................

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the tru...

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...................4 FATHER DAMIEN.........................................................................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW................................................................74 COLLEGE PAPERS.............................................................................

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... SERIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...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... ...ity of the leaves and the progression of the shadow as it flees before the travelling sun, long ere he has made the circuit the whole figure will have... ...r as he was; he can watch clouds and changing seasons, ships on the river, travellers on the road, and the stars at night; happy prisoner! his eyes ha... ...ture of capital and competition; it stands and falls with millionaires and railway bonds and all the abuses and glories of to-day; and as soon as the ... ...rivate property, the days of the independent jour- nal are numbered. State railways may be good things and so may State bakeries; but a State newspape... ...ellent as a weapon against many of those peccant humours that we have been railing against in the jeremiad of our last ‘College Paper’– particularly i... ...ss the claims of debating societies. It is as a means of melting down this museum of premature petrifactions into living and impres- sionable soul tha...

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...Excerpt: This volume contains practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depend...

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................................................................................................................................................. 9 Life of Hesiod ............................................................................................................................................................... 10 The Hesiodic Poems ....................................

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...ns, and Homerica, edited by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914) is a publica- tion 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 a... ...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... ...like their parents. They flourish continually with good things, and do not travel on ships, for the grain-giving earth bears them fruit. (ll. 238-247)... ... chariot wheels and the horses’ hoofs, while the well-made chariot and its rails rattled around them as the horses plunged. And blameless Cycnus was g... ...d, she left sweet-smelling Cyprus and went in haste towards T roy, swiftly travelling high up among the clouds. So she came to many-fountained Ida, th... ...a THE THEBAID (fragments) Fragment #1 — Contest of Homer and Hesiod: Homer travelled about reciting his epics, first the Thebaid, in seven thousand ve... ... voyage when Zeus sank them with a thunderbolt, as Alcidamas states in his Museum. Eratosthenes, however, says in his Hesiod that Ctimenus and Antiphu...

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

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

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...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James 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 a... ... it; it is cruel and stupid, purely and simply. “The oriental fable of the traveler surprised in the desert by a wild beast is very old. 154 The V ar... ... Religious Experience “Seeking to save himself from the fierce animal, the traveler jumps into a well with no water in it; but at the bottom of this w... ... mov- ing round the bush to which he hangs, and gnawing off its roots “The traveler sees this and knows that he must in- evitably perish; but while th... ... geo- logic times is hard for our imagination—they seem too much like mere museum specimens. Yet there is no tooth in any one of those museum-skulls t... ...erything. “I have had occasion to travel more than ten thou- sand miles by rail since that morning. The same Pull- man porter, conductor, hotel-waiter... ...ng through the sky, his foot was on a kind of lightning as a wheel is on a rail, it was his pathway. The lightning was made entirely of the spirits of...