...fe on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...hamelessness; and very much his superior in some larger aspects. James was a retail rascal; Murel, wholesale. James’s modest genius dreamed of no loft... ...ife I would have. Two miles away, several regi ments were in camp, and two companies of U.S. cavalry. When I learned that Captain Blakely, of Compan... ... teller. Not to seem partial, I made friends and told fortunes among all the companies garrisoned there; but I gave Company C the great bulk of my att... ...of wharfage dues so stupidly graded as to prohibit what may be called small retail traffic in freights and passen gers. Boats were charged such hea... ...hem could be seen as through plate glass. I was told that this factory could retail its ice, by wagon, throughout New Orleans, in the humblest dwellin... ...rm, and an admirable paid fire department, consisting of six hook and ladder companies, four steam fire engines, and thirty churches. Davenport is the...

...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,00...

...e Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e common action, and has tended rather to the small battery theory. My two companies were playing with the idea that the ideal battery was a battery o... ... against nation. The social problem is only the international prob- lem in retail, the international problem is only the social one in gross. My bias ... ...y the mercantile marine not merely of Britain and France but of Norway and Sweden, Holland, and all the neutral countries. The German papers openly bo...

...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V... ... Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...– V olume Two Free Church, is the appalling spirit of Jacobinism which ac- companies their whole conduct, and which latterly has avowed itself in thei... ... a certain man, by trade an author and manufacturer of books wholesale and retail, for introducing Milton’s name into a certain index thus—‘Milton, Mr... ...he Christian era, were ranging the forests of north Germany or of southern Sweden. The men who fought with Caesar, if now represented at all, are so i...

...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...................

...on Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- ... ...—” “Ah! there we are again, madame! Yes, I am a tradesman, a shopkeeper, a retail dealer in almond-paste, eau-de-Portu- gal, and hair-oil, and was onl... ...-uncle. His own father settled in Livo- nia after the death of the King of Sweden; but he lost all his fortune during the campaign of 1812, and died, ... ...m of a hundred and fifty thousand francs, for three years, in two separate companies. Armed with the policies, of which he paid the premium, he had sp... ...grand- nephew to the famous general who served under Charles XII., King of Sweden. The young Count, having taken part in the Polish rebellion, found a... ...eed, whose inheritance constituted three-quarters of his fortune; for when retail-deal- ers grow rich, it is generally not so much by trade as through...

...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante....

... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles D... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free... ...arles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Documen... ...here was Spanish Jack, with curls of black hair, rings in his ears, and a knife not far from his hand, if you got into trouble with him; there were Ma... ...commercial Traveller 59 well indeed at such a place, but still not perfectly well; and this may be, because the place is largely wholesale, and there ... ...de wood, are not eminently prepossessing, but are much less objectionable. There is a tramp-fellowship among them. They pick one another up at resting... ...nd I resolved to keep my eye on Flanders’s uncle, and if I saw any signs of his going in that direction, to go too, politely. But Flanders’s uncle (wh... ...throwing of stones at the windows of railway carriages in motion—an act of wanton wickedness with the very Arch-Fiend’s hand in it—had become a crying...

...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... .... My father was a merchant; not in the sense of Scotland, where it means a retail dealer, one, for instance, who sells groceries in a cellar, but in t... ...ike a man of extreme sobriety upon his extravagant theme. He is angry with Swedenborg, as might be expected, for his chimeras; 97 Autobiographic Sket... ...nse he belongs to our litera- ture, for he was, in fact, the introducer of Swedenborg to this country; as being himself partially the translator of Sw... ...slations; and also, I believe, as republishing the original Latin works of Swedenborg. To say that of Mr. Clowes, was, until lately, but another way o... ...- lantly threw themselves upon the most trying services in ad- vance. Some companies of the Donegal militia, not muster- ing above 200 men, marched im...

...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 di...

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

...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...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... ...rt of the united king- dom. These, and most other things which are sold by retail, the 67 Adam Smith way in which the labouring poor buy all things, ... ... war, not only private people of the best credit, but some of the greatest companies in London, commonly borrowed at five per cent. who, before that, ... ...is case too, real wages. The difference between the apparent profit of the retail and that of the wholesale trade, is much less in the capital than in... ... the real profits of so great a stock. The apparent profits of the wealthy retailer, therefore, are there more nearly upon a level with those of the w... ...r thirty years, been performed in Scotland, by the erection of new banking companies in almost every considerable town, and even in some country villa... ...te, and gold still seldomer. But though the conduct of all those different companies has not been unexcep- tionable, and has accordingly required an a...

Excerpt: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope 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... ...ass. Two reasons for this are given. The first is that the finances of the companies will not admit of a divided accommodation; and the second is that... ...t is not actually put in force in the other States. By this law no man may retail wine, spirits, or, in truth, beer, except with a special license, wh... ...g the whole length of Canada in its route. It was originally made by three companies. The Atlantic and St. Lawrence constructed it from Port- land to ... ...s height, land was becoming a scarce article in the market. Individuals or companies bought it up with the object of reselling it at a profit; and man... ...mifications. With this are mingled the bloods of Ireland, Holland, France, Sweden, and Germany. All this has been done within but a few years, so that... ...- graves, electroplates, sews, binds, publishes, and sells whole- sale and retail. I have no doubt that the authors have rooms in the attics where the...

....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells 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... ...otes” with such passionate disgust and hostility about the first Cunarder, retailing all the dis- comfort and misery of crossing the Atlantic by steam... ...e, and originating. It has been made by odd and irregular means by trading companies, pioneers, explorers, unauthorised seamen, adventurers like Clive... ...entitled to a special sort of supply. He would not expect the machinery of retail book-selling to meet the needs of wholesale buying. So he would go e... ...ro-Hungarian Empire, Italy, Belgium, Japan, Hol- land, Spain and Portugal, Sweden and Norway, Turkey in Europe, Egypt and the whole Empire of India, a... ...or blocked by strikers; imagine provision dealers stopping consignments to retailers, and retailers hesi- tating to give credit. A phase would arrive ...

...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................

...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...f all kinds, for he had written Academic Prize Essays, struggled for India Companies, given dinners to Philosophes, and ‘realised a fortune in twenty ... ...s; Books on the Prussian Monarchy, on Cagliostro, on Calonne, on the Water Companies of Paris:—each book comparable, we will say, to a bituminous alar... ...ismissed. Worst of all, the Gardes Francaises seem indisposed to act: ‘two Companies of them do not fire when ordered!’ (Histoire Parlementaire, ii. 2... ...ing lip, sees his Sugar taxe; weighed out by Female Patriotism, in instant retail, at the inadequate rate of twenty-five sous, or thirteen pence a pou... ...: Smithy-fires and Proof-volleys for the manufacture of arms. Cut off from Sweden and the world, the Republic must learn to make steel for itself; and... ...AU, Royalist, editor, massacred. SUSPECT, Law of the, Chaumette jeered on. SWEDEN, King of, to assist Marie Antoinette, shot by Ankarstrom. SWISS Guar...

...E ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................................