...cation My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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 Edi- tor, nor anyo... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...stances; it is, moreover, a noble vindica- tion of the highest aims of the American anti-slavery move- ment. The real object of that movement is not o... ...ER OF MAKING IT—THE DINNER HOUR—THE CONTRAST. THE HEART-RENDING INCIDENTS, related in the foregoing chap- ter, led me, thus early, to inquire into the... ...ONCERN—MY ABHORRENCE OF SLAVERY—ABILITY TO READ A CAUSE OF PREJU- DICE—THE HOLIDAYS—HOW SPENT—SHARP HIT AT SLA VERY—EFFECTS OF HOLIDAYS—A DEVICE OF SL... ...The days between Christmas day and New Year’s, are al- lowed the slaves as holidays. During these days, all regular work was suspended, and there was ... ...rous. After making my escape from the ship yard, I went straight home, and related the story of the outrage to Master Hugh Auld; and it is due to him ...

...ATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...dressing-room, her ladyship having something special to communicate, which related (as I understood her) to one Simon. “What Simon? Simon Peter?”—O, n... ...o; and I retired from the labor as too overwhelmingly exacting in all that related to the philosophy and theology of that man 80 “myriad-minded,” and ... ...New Year—there was, according to ancient usage, on the breaking up for the holidays, at the Grammar School, a sol- * St. James’, according to my prese...

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...s MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES...................................................................................................

...ies Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy acce... ...orks of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis; Joseph Turner: Sun Setting ov... ...ne of his heroes, and of Lancashire origin, strangely!), flew to the South American station, in and about Lord Cochrane’s waters; then as swiftly back... ...g the strong salt of his similes, likening that rascal and his crew to the American weed in our waters, to the rotting wild bees’ nest in our trees, t... ...nd had met merchandize, and his vanity was offended. T o pacify him, Nevil related how he had heard that since the Venetian rising of ’49, V enetian l... ...posed toward the entire world, especially to women, also to men in any way related to pretty women, had just lit a cigar, and it was a cigar that he h... ...k to no absolution of evil acts.’ The school was a hard one. It denied him holidays; it cut him off from dreams. It ran him in heavy harness on a roug...

...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some cr...

...e and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ...820 “tall Cointet” wanted all that the bourgeoisie finally obtained by the Revolution of 1830. In his heart he hated the aristocrats, and in religion ... ...uried away in the office or at the courts on week-days, and on Sundays and holidays I was hard at work studying, for I had only myself to look to.” (T... ...ht me of sending a pair of moccasins given to Florine as a curiosity by an American. Florine offered the huge sum of forty francs, that we might try o... ... for once put an arm into that machinery, the rest of you follows,” and he related an anecdote very much to the point—how a Bordeaux mer- chant had ru... ...e patent in his own name, he was projecting plans that were like to work a revolution in his paper-mill. Arrived in Paris, he took up his quarters wit...

...Excerpt: Lucien had gone to Paris; and David Sechard, with the courage and intelligence of the ox which painters give the Evangelist for accompanying symbol, set himself to make the large fortune for which he had wished that evening down by the Chare...