... (1915) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...RIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells 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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...y “aristocratic” he meant something very differ- ent from the quality of a Russian prince, let us say, or an English peer. He meant an intensity, a cl... ...school that was only too manifestly attenu- ated, keeping up a pretentious economy of administration in a school that must not be too manifestly impov... ... Wells to oust it. She saw her son a diplomat, a prancing pro-con- sul, an empire builder, a trusted friend of the august, the bold leader of new move... ...imes in romantic flashes he was adored by German princesses or eloped with Russian grand-duchesses! But such fancies were hors d’oeuvre. The modern bi... ...of Parliament and abroad. There’s the army, there’s diplomacy. There’s the Empire. You can be a Cecil Rhodes if you like. You can be a Winston….” 47 ...

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...Bishop by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ... H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...e inherited assurances of his na- tive rectory, and held by Church, Crown, Empire, decorum, respectability, solvency—and compulsory Greek at the Littl... ...lle, the naval disaster in the Dardanelles, the sinking of the Falaba, the Russian defeat in the Masurian Lakes, all deepened the bishop’s impression ... ... Professor Hoppart, who so amusingly combined a professorship of political economy with the writing of music-hall lyrics, was a keen amateur theologia... ...ry country of the world will look straight up to the rule of Right and the empire of Heaven.” (“And God will be King of the World,” said the Angel. “I... ...ghtful battle, where the German phalanx of guns pounds its way through the Russian hosts. Here is a young German talking to two wounded Russian prison...

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...CS SERIES PUBLICATION A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...SERIES PUBLICATION A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... reminiscent pages were appearing serially I was remonstrated with for bad economy; as if such writing were a form of self-indulgence wasting the subs... ... I have forgot- ten. Over all this hung the oppressive shadow of the great Russian empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national... ...forgot- ten. Over all this hung the oppressive shadow of the great Russian empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national hatred ... ...e Man of St. Helena in view of his deplorable levity in the conduct of the Russian campaign. It was during the memorable retreat from Moscow that Mr. ... ...cold suspicion of the future by a grave quotation from a work on political economy? I ask—is it conceivable? Is it possible? Would it be right? With m...

...S SERIES PUBLICATION Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ERIES PUBLICATION Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...eminiscent pages were appearing se- rially I was remonstrated with for bad economy; as if such writing were a form of self-indulgence wast- ing the su... ...n. Over all this hung the oppressive shadow 31 Joseph Conrad of the great Russian Empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national... ...all this hung the oppressive shadow 31 Joseph Conrad of the great Russian Empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national hatred ... ...because, being a separate organisation, it took no part in the wars of the Russian Empire against Persia or Tur- key. Its first campaign, against Russ... ...cold suspicion of the future by a grave quotation from a work on Political Economy? I ask—is it conceivable? Is it pos- sible? Would it be right? With...

...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...lyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publicat... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...h, let them take the consequence. Nevertheless be it remarked, that even a Russian steppe has tumult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks ... ...Sines and Tangents, Codification, and Treatises of what you call Political Economy, are the Meal? And what is that Science, which the scientific head ... ... have I searched through all the Herald’s Books, in and without the German Empire, and through all manner of Subscriber-Lists (Pranumeranten), Militia... ... high even as at One to a Hundred (which, considering the Wages of a Pope, Russian Autocrat, or En- glish Game-Preserver, is probably not far from the... ... fruit: that it takes scientific rank beside Codifica- tion, and Political Economy, and the Theory of the British Constitution; nay rather, from its p...

Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publi... ... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publicat... ...y Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any ... ...nished 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 risk. N... ...n word for alphabet—BUCHSTABEN. They say that the first movable types were made on birch sticks—BUCHSTABE—hence the name. I was taught a lesson in pol... ... you ask too much for this article?’ and he replied with the ques- tion, ‘Do you think you are obliged to buy it?’ However, these people are not impol... ...ed to generals and nobles. If you wish to see what abysses servil- ity can descend, present yourself before a Baden-Baden shop- keeper in the characte... ...le- path and took up as good a position as I could upon the middle of the glacier—because Baedeker said the middle part travels the fastest. As a meas... ...under the protection of sixty-eight guides. Her successor visited Chamonix later, but in far different style. It was seven weeks after the first fall ...

...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Worme... ...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ... that the front building on the street had been erected in the days of the Empire, to utilize a part of the courtyard of the vast old mansion, built a... ...accus- tomed to succeed. She had the genius of housekeeping, a faculty for economy, a thorough understanding of how to live, and a love for work. She ... ...she said, the finger of God. In 1824 she turned over a new leaf, talked of economy, stopped her receptions, busied herself with her children, determin... ...ce she made a proposal to her as follows: ‘A friend of mine,’ she said, ‘a Russian princess for whom one of the first upholsterers has just made splen... ...s had been provided for him: one book was English, another German, a third Russian; there was even one in cabalistic letters that seemed T urkish. Was...

...Excerpt: Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy ...

...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...r now than Camelot; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge o... ...n to a certi- fied Studio Party, with beer, cigarettes. bobbed hair, and a Russian Jewess who sang the Internationale. It cannot be reported that Caro... ...ering viciousness of her com- ments on the new furniture, stirred Carol to economy. She spoke judiciously to Bea about left-overs. She read the cook-b... ...peace of the Thanatopsis at her third meeting (which covered Scandinavian, Russian, and Polish Literature, with remarks by Mrs. Leonard Warren on the ... ...en—not solidly founded—not scholarly—doesn’t know anything about political economy—falls for every new idea that some windjamming crank puts out. But ...

...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...

...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ..., and obtained customers by honorable proceedings. In Paris they used, for economy’s sake, the same yard, hotel, and stable, the same coach-house, off... ...discolored curtains. Later, when he entered the salon, he noticed some old Empire furniture, now shabby; but only as much as all proprietors exact to ... ...omoted; his incapacity was too apparent. Ruined in 1815 by the fall of the Empire, the brilliant Aspasia of the Directory had no other resources than ... ...ary to talk; Spaniards have no public 46 A Start in Life conveyances; and Russians no roads. There is no amusement except in the lumbering diligences... ... he allow him- self to spend an evening at a cafe. In spite of the prudent economy to which his small means forced him, Clapart would not have answere...

... Twenty-six through Fifty) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- ... ...enty-six through Fifty) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- nis... ...y. This Portable Document file is fur- nished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ll of which articles he made Rebecca the mistress. Faithful to his plan of economy, the Captain dressed himself in his oldest and shabbiest uniform an... ...ney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed,” Jos said, slapp... ... is coming, but with the Empress and the King of Rome at its head; and the Russians, bah! the Russians will withdraw. No quarter is to be given to the... ...y in Hyde Park, surrounded by the greatest and most famous dandies of this empire. Mrs. Rockwood is another, whose parties are announced laboriously i... ...xamining the improvements which had been effected by Sir Pitt’s genius and economy. And as they walked or rode, and looked at them, they could talk wi...

...x by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ousehold, which she managed rigorously on a system of almost inconceivable economy, which was never 26 Balzac relaxed except for some great occasion,... ... explained by his actual suffering during the emigration. He served in the Russian navy until the day when the Emperor Alexander ordered him to be emp... ...and wife asked herself by what right an old woman exercised so absolute an empire over that angel. When Calyste passed along the Grand’ Rue to the Cro... ...the science of a woman’s life. Between usury and prodigality, my child, is economy. Study, therefore, to acquire honor- ably a certain empire over Cal... ...d truly, and for himself alone. Aurelie refused to make the happiness of a Russian prince who of- fered her five thousand francs a month. “You are a l...

...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of... ...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story... ...f Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago By By By By By F F F F FRANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NOR... ...RIES P P P P PUBLICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA TION TION TION TION TION The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...n a few years was a millionaire. At the time of the 15 Frank Norris Turco-Russian War he and two Milwaukee men had suc- ceeded in cornering all the v... ...entire village, as if she had sunk into some decadent and enervating Lower-Empire degeneracy. The crisis came when Laura travelled alone to Boston to ... ...awn shop, dig up an old brass stewpan, or coffee- pot that some greasy old Russian Jew has chucked away, and he’ll stick it up in his studio and regul... ...d for the first time in her life she looked into the workings of political economy. “Oh, that’s only one side of it,” Cressler went on, heed- less of ... ...y prevailed also in other direc- tions. In the matter of business Jadwin’s economy was un- impeachable. He would cavil on a half-dollar’s overcharge; ...

Excerpt: The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris.

... Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ther Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ... to make a corresponding reduction in her charges. Apparently, such strict economy was called for, that he did without a fire all through the winter. ... ..., and foresee market prices; he bought his cereals in Sicily, and imported Russian wheat. Any one who had heard him hold forth on the regulations that... ...ingen, a banker of German extraction, who became a Baron of the Holy Roman Empire. Goriot remained a vermicelli maker as be- fore. His daughters and h... ...ver seen any spectacle like this that now met his eyes. In the time of the Empire, balls had always ended with a supper, because the officers who took... ...en with his opera dancer; he will be compelled to practise the most strict economy (in secret) if he is to bide his time with unshaken credit. I scold...

...Excerpt: MME. VAUQUER (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Her house (known in the neighborhood as the Maison Vauquer) r...

...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...s by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ... visible. Some of the com- pany marched in wooden shoes; others, by way of economy, carried them in their hand. This costume, soiled by long usage, bl... ...ians in Italy, the Prussians in Germany, and menaced in Switzerland by the Russians, in whom Suwarow had inspired hopes of the conquest of France. The... ...ch act on the minds of men powerful enough to take a bird’s-eye view of an empire; men whose actions, crimi- nal in the eyes of the masses, are the ou...

...Excerpt: An Ambuscade. Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on th...

...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Clas... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ... Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsy... ...f a new and very amusing and inter- esting character—viz., books on school economy, manage- ment of school farms, allotments, the modern dairy, spade ... ...alty Isles, as lying so near to New Caledonia, were tempting to the French Empire, and the Bishop at the same time felt it his duty to attempt their c... ...him- self aggrieved because we cannot derange the whole plan of the school economy for him. I have everything which is good for him, every little dain... ...sily join in using the one Mota language, just as a Frenchman, a German, a Russian, a 575 Yo n g e Pole, an Italian, and an Englishman, all meeting i... ...character. T o think that this is the country of St. Louis and Bayard! The Empire seems almost systematically to have completed the demoralisation of ...

...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ...TURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast Asia 1 ... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ... Table of Contents THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING ..................................................... ...of a declining population. In Singaling the population has dropped as its economy has increased. This is not surprising because we have found for a ... ...o keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for research. Putting the voters to work, a... ...aid. They carry no celebrity. As Juvenal observed, as the citizens of the empire abdicated their civic duties and the Roman empire was decaying from... ...ussia, where they need more workers, there is a huge prejudice against non-Russians. So it is different from the West where the illegals may be takin...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

... BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...SSICS SERIES PUBLICATION THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey 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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... uncertain, restless, and advancing as the frontiers of her all-conquering empire. It is false to say, that with Cæsar came the destruction of Roman g... ...te her wild virginity to the state best fitted for the destined “Mother of empires.” Peace, then, rhetoricians, false threnodists of false liberty! ho... ... nity of man as a creature, exclusively concerned in a vast and mysterious economy of restoration to a state of moral beauty and power in some former ... ...earned in the interests of the State? Can he argue a point upon the public economy? You see what a host of sabres is required, what a host of impeach-... ...e’s Persian expedition, so much resembling in rashness and presumption the Russian campaign of Napoleon, though so much below it in the scale of its t...

...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the col...

...RUDIN a novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett Introduction by S. Stepniak A Penn State E... ...RUDIN a novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett Introduction by S. Stepniak A Penn State Elect... ...ication Rudin by Ivan Turgenev, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...tion Rudin by Ivan Turgenev, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...university. 3 Turgenev RUDIN a novel BY IVAN TURGENEV Translated from the Russian By Constance Garnett Introduction by S. Stepniak LONDON: WILLIAM HE... ...xquisite butterfly! pray look at it!——more strictly speaking, in political economy. He has written an essay on some very interesting question, and wan... ...ts to submit it to Darya Mihailovna’s criticism.’ ‘An article on political economy?’ ‘From the literary point of view, Alexandra Pavlovna, from the li... ...y win a woman’s heart; and to sway men’s minds alone is precarious, and an empire ever unprofitable. A strange, almost farcical fate is mine; I would ...

...d by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...is in store for us, with a carriage, diamonds, an opera-box, and so forth. Russians, Austrians, Britons, have millions on which we have an eye. Beside... ...tlines and her vigorous health did, in fact, draw from the officers of the Empire the ap- proving exclamation,— “What a fine slip of a girl!” But, as ... ... At that period the fashionable people of Alencon dined at four. Under the Empire they still dined as in former times at half-past two; but then they ... ...ncle announced in this sudden missive that Monsieur de T roisville, of the Russian army during the Emigration, grand- son of one of his best friends, ... ...em a close inspec- tion of the vehicle which threatened to upset the whole economy of the region. A pair of horses, bought in Normandie, were also mos...

Excerpt: As a testimony to the affection of his brother-in-law?

...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Ha... ...on Haight Turk, Ph.D. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publicatio... ...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... ...nglish Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...like the elaboration of a mine of results. … Taylor led him into political economy, into the Greek and Latin accents, into antiquities, Roman roads, o... ...he Cæsars; (c) Speculative and Theological essays; (d) Essays in Political Economy and Politics; (e) Papers of Literary Theory and Criticism, such as ... ...nburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Stirling, Aberdeen— expressing the grandeur of the empire by the antiquity of its towns, and the grandeur of the mail establis... ... it ministers, by the commerce which it sup- ports, by the grandeur of the empire in which, though far from the largest, it is the most influential st... ...inding one of that inscription, so justly admired by Paul Richter, which a Russian Czarina placed on a guide- post near Moscow: This is the road that ...

...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...

.... BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE............................................................................................................................ 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH ...