...klin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...n with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ... making and politics to the end of his life. In 1748 he sold his business in order to get leisure for study, having now acquired comparative wealth; a... ...ok in a number of passengers for New York, among which were two young women, companions, and a grave, sensible, matron like Quaker woman, with her att... ...ry of the Province, Isaac Pearson, Joseph Cooper, and several of the Smiths, members of Assembly, and Isaac Decow, the surveyor general. The latter w... ... “Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are pea...

...ion: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a ...

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...iar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...very study in the volume, it will be most simple to run them over in their order. But this must not be taken as a propitiatory offering to the gods of... ... that in this attempt to trim my sails be- tween an author whom I love and honour and a public too averse to recognise his merit, I have been led into... ...erstition and social exigency having been thus dealt with in the first two members of the series, it remained for Les Travailleurs de la Mer to show m... ..., now and then, a little wearisome. Ursus and his wolf are pleasant enough companions; but the former is nearly as much an abstract type as the latter...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ntleman, lively as a boy, kind like a fairy godfather, and keeping perfect order in his class by the spell of that very kindness. I have heard him dri... ...onder. Before those who loved him, his memory shines like a reproach; they honour him for silent lessons; they cherish his example; and in what remain... ...SPECULATIVE SOCIETY is a body of some antiquity, and has counted among its members Scott, Brougham, Jeffrey, Horner, Benjamin Constant, Robert Emmet, ... ...ce arise occasional disappointments; even an occasional unfairness for his companions, who find them- selves one day giving too much, and the next, wh...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on th...

...Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES................................................................................ 1...

...ve by George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...lassics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...dy is the singular scene of charity issuing of disdain under the stroke of honourable laughter: an Ariel released by Prospero’s wand from the fetters ... ...Patterne. How any Patterne should have drifted into the Marines, is of the order of questions which are senselessly asked of the great dispensary. In ... ...daughter paid a flying visit to the Hall, where they were seen only by the members of the Patterne family. Young Crossjay had a short conversation wit... ...king or riding; yes, of walking,” said Clara. “The dif- ficulty is to find companions.” “We shall lose Mr. Whitford next week.” 146 The Egoist “He go...

...Excerpt: A chapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the strug...

...OLSTOY A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication PREFACE....3 GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS ....5 A PRISONER IN THE CAUCASUS ....13 THE BEAR HUNT ... ...SPARK NEGLECTED ....71 TWO OLD MEN ....86 WHERE LOVE IS, ....109 THE STORY OF IVÁN THE FOOL, .....122 EVIL ALLURES, BUT GOOD ENDURES ....149 LITTLE GI... ... of the Twenty three Tales by Tolstoy : Preface 4 kind which diverts some members of the wealthy classes for a short time and is then for ever forgot... ...untouched.’ The sections of the book have been arranged in chro nological order. The date when each story was published is given. The translations ar... ... wall?’ Aksyónof glanced at Makár Semyónitch, and said ‘I cannot say, your honour. It is not God’s will that I should tell! Do what you like with me; ... ...ors into the inclosure to show them the valuable sheep, Aleb winked at his companions, as if to say: ‘See, now, how angry I will make him.’ All the ot...

...Excerpt: This volume is divided into seven parts. First we have Tales for Children, published about the year 1872, and reminding us of the time when Tolstoy was absorbed in efforts to educate the peasant children. This section of the book contains the two stories which of all that he has written Tolstoy likes best. In What ...

...Contents PREFACE....3 GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS ....5 A PRISONER IN THE CAUCASUS ....13 THE BEAR-HUNT ....40 WHAT MEN LIVE BY ....49 A SPARK NEGLECTED ....71 TWO OLD MEN ....86 WHERE LOVE IS, ....109 THE STORY OF IV?N THE FOOL, .....122 EVIL ALLURES, B...

... Classics Series Publication Howards End by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...assics Series Publication Howards End by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...ase—was strong in Mrs. Munt. She sat quivering while a member of the lower orders deposited a metal funnel, a sauce- pan, and a garden squirt beside t... ...ping Families, a round of which is always played when love would unite two members of our race. But they played it with unusual vigour, stating in so ... ...ng off his boots he jarred the three-legged table, and a photograph frame, honourably poised upon it, slid sideways, fell off into the fireplace, and ... ...women out at once.” There was a concourse of males, and Marga- ret and her companions were hustled out and re- ceived into the second car. What had ha...

...earest Meg, ?It isn?t going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and altogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroom or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and there are the stair...