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...The Point of View by Henry James A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Point of View by Henry James is a publication of th... ...iew by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...a demoi- selle bien-elevee should not write. I don’t know whether it’s the American air; if it is, all I can say is that the American air is very char... ... Leverett are always inviting me to walk. Both of these gentlemen, who are Americans, have asked leave to call upon me in New York, and I have said, M... ...ery brief, I wished to put an end to the reclamations of my daughter. Many Americans had 13 Henry James assured her that she was wasting her youth in... ...ch, as the Germans; but I can’t agree with you there. The French, the Ger- mans, have the greatest beauty of all—the beauty of their ugliness—the beau... ... millions. But, fancy us in the West! To return to the Electronic Classics Series page, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/ faculty/jmanis/ jimspdf.htm To re...

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...great, and strong sword, shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Le- viathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in t... ...is but an artificial man.” —opening sentence of Hobbe’ s Leviathan. “Silly Mansoul swallowed it without chewing, as if it had been a sprat in the mout... ...ack. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” —C... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ... great original— the Tyre of this Carthage;—the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nan- tucket did those abor... ...ountry? Go and gaze upon the iron emblematical harpoons round yonder lofty mansion, and your question will be answered. Y es; all these brave houses a... ...hale, is the present Cachalot of the French, and the Pottsfich of the Ger- mans, and the Macrocephalus of the Long Words. He is, with- out doubt, the ... ...ter hung in the castle at Windsor.” An Irish author avers that the Earl of Le- icester, on bended knees, did likewise present to her highness another ... ...d whale book, wherein are several pictures of the different species of the Le- viathan. All these are not only incorrect, but the picture of the Mysti...

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...nte Cristo Voulume One by Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas... ...by Alexandre Dumas, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ... the time, — ‘Tous les mechants sont beuveurs d’eau; C’est bien prouve par le deluge.’* * “The wicked are great drinkers of water As the flood proved ... ...eet him. Chapter 6 The Deputy Procureur du Roi. IN ONE OF THE ARISTOCRATIC mansions built by Puget in the Rue du Grand Cours opposite the Medusa fount... ...nte Cristo 88 “In a blue frock-coat, buttoned up close, decorated with the Le- gion of Honor.” “It is he!” said Villefort, turning pale. “Eh, pardieu,... ...ck; blue frock-coat, buttoned up to the chin; rosette of an officer of the Le- gion of Honor in his button-hole; a hat with wide brim, and a cane.” “A... ...ed pride. “A mere masque borrowed from our own festivities. Ha, ha, ye Ro- mans! you thought to make us, unhappy strangers, trot at the heels of your ... ...man, Ali, and Baptistin will go.” The count de- scended to the door of his mansion, and beheld his carriage drawn by the very pair of horses he had so... ...y by the world, for I am not an Italian, or a Frenchman, or a Hindu, or an American, or a Spaniard — I am a cosmopolite. No country can say it saw my ...

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...rtrait of a Lady by Henry James A PENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publicatio... ...ee months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like “Roderick” and like “The American,” it had been designed for publication in The Atlantic Monthly, wh... ...e eigh- teenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumstanc... ... thirty years before, had brought with him, at the top of his baggage, his American physiognomy; and he had not only brought it with him, but he had k... ...n to take them to his father’s house in Winches- ter Square, a large, dull mansion which at this period of the year was shrouded in silence and brown ... ... black ground were inscribed in white paint the words—”This noble freehold mansion to be sold”; with the name of the agent to whom applica- tion shoul... ...sister with dignity. “And as for faults, how can we give what we have not? Le couvent n’est pas comme le monde, monsieur. She’s our daughter, as you m... ...ster, smiling and get- ting up, “good as she is, she’s made for the world. Le monde y gagnera.” “If all the good people were hidden away in convents h... ...had threatened her with another appeal. Of a Sunday afternoon all good Ro- mans (and the best Romans are often the northern bar- barians) follow the c...

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...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...ed down Southampton Row, from Holborn, he laughed as he saw, at the Sedley Mansion, in two different stories two heads on the look-out. The fact is, M... ...u, my dear, always come here when you come to town, you know.—Drive to the Mansion House, James.” Finally came the parting with Miss Amelia, over whic... ... to reign perpetual. The shutters of the first-floor windows of Sir Pitt’s mansion were closed—those of the dining-room were partially open, and the b... ...ime for Miss Crawley to be astonished, and to drop her vol- ume of Pigault le Brun—and the time for her to come down- stairs—you will see how exactly ... ...ehend. It surpassed any complications of intrigue in her favourite Pigault le Brun. “I’m glad you think it good sport, brother,” she continued, gropin... ...irection. ‘’What is it?” said Jos. “Why don’t you pour, you rascal?” “Cest le feu!” said Isidor, running to the balcony. “God defend us; it’s cannon!”... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was...

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...T ranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine ... ... Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Do... ...ery day be- yond the round tower built by Francois I., to look out for the American packet, enduring the keenest anxieties. Moth- ers alone know how s... ...al life and in- terests, everything was to them, as it once was to the Ro- mans and the Hebrews, barbaric, outlandish, and hostile. This generous affe... ...ulation double that number in the time of Rigord. Charles VII. possessed a mansion which still exists, and was known, as late as the eighteenth centur... ... is of sufficient importance to oenology to be made public here; Guillaume le Breton has also proclaimed it in some lines of his “Phillippide.” The de... ...has the appearance of an old town, with its narrow streets and its ancient mansions, the city it- self, properly so called, which was captured and bur... ... and pretensions of Mademoiselle de Romans inflicted, it is said, on Louis le Bien-Aime. The little Rabouilleuse was so satisfied when she compared th... ...ely company.” “Ah! you are my nephew,” said Jean-Jacques. “Invite monsieur le colonel to breakfast with us,” said Flore. “No, I thank you, madame,” an...

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...res whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred for misery and ruin. The American portion of this story is in no other respect a carica- ture than a... ...or the most part (Mr. Bevan ex- pected), of a ludicrous side, only, of the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from ... ...s in the habit of paying long and constant visits to this gentleman at his mansion, if, indeed, he did not wholly reside there, is manifest from the f... ...by getting on the blind side of some of its members before mar- riage, and manslaughtering them afterwards by crowing over them to that strong pitch t... ...ook the dust from her feet before quitting that dissembling and perfidious mansion. Mr Pecksniff had, in short, but one comfort, and that was the know... ...mon capacity or accomplishments, I think! Am I, or am I not?’ ‘You are the American aloe of the human race, my dear Chiv,’ said Mr Tigg, ‘which only b... ...n, ‘intend to pay their re- spects to you. You will have to hold a sort of le-vee, sir, while you’re here.’ ‘Powers above!’ cried Martin, ‘I couldn’t ... ... meets the public views. Our fashionable people wouldn’t have attended his le-vee, if they had know’d it.’ Nothing mollified the Captain, who persiste... ...nly determined to pounce upon the Honourable Elijah Pogram, and give him a le-vee forthwith. As the general evening meal of the house was over before ...

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...arge, newly-build house, standing on part of the court- yard of an ancient mansion that had a garden. The old house remained in its original state, be... ...man when they see him. This ground floor was entirely occupied by Monsieur le Baron Hulot d’Ervy, Commissary General under the Repub- lic, retired arm... ... too much honored when my only daughter was married to the son of Monsieur le Baron Hulot d’Ervy—my daughter will be a Baroness! This is Re- gency, Lo... ...d you would have been eager to promote Hortense’s settlement with Monsieur le Conseiller Lebas.— And it is you, monsieur, you have hindered the marria... ..., “the Baron had been playing the part of Louis XV. to Mademoiselle de Ro- mans ever since 1826, and you were twelve years younger then—” “I had my re... ...I are the same flesh and blood, our fathers were brothers —and she is in a mansion, while I am in a garret.” But every New Year Lisbeth had presents f... ... do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have lived t... ... you?” “Valerie,” said the official, “my child, that cousin of yours is an American cousin—” “Oh, that is enough!” she cried, interrupting the Baron. ... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white...

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...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ...e or two English- men there were, one or two Scotchmen, three or four Ger- mans, and Williams, whose birth-place was not certainly known. On the fatal... ...readful labors, he found the English and Scotch party asleep, but the Ger- mans awake: one of them was sitting up with a lighted candle in his hands, ... ...o curtains, it struck the Ger- 46 The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater mans that the danger was really none at all; for bed-clothes, massed upon e... ...he Rhine in 1672, and the capture of that fa- mous fortress called Skink (‘le fameux fort de’), by Louis XIV ., known to London at the time of Prior’s... ... Wellesley tout court. From indolence, I pre- sume: for a certain lady Di. le Fl., whom once I knew, a Howard by birth, of the house of Suffolk, told ... ... by birth, of the house of Suffolk, told me as her reason for omitting the Le, that it caused her too much addi- tional trouble. So far the evidence s... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ...

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...ller: A Study In Two Parts by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James is a publication o... ... air both of luxury and of maturity. In this region, in the month of June, American travelers are extremely numerous; it may be said, indeed, that Vev... ...eed, that Vevey assumes at this period some of the character- istics of an American watering place. There are sights and sounds which evoke a vision, ... ... analogies or the dif- ferences that were uppermost in the mind of a young American, who, two or three years ago, sat in the garden of the “Trois Cour... ...ing. The society’s extremely select. There are all kinds—English, and Ger- mans, and Italians. I think I like the English best. I like their style of ... ...eness, looking now at her hostess and now round the room, while she gave a series of little pats, round her shoulders, to the edges of her dress. “Is ... ...ested in a very clever foreign lady. To return to the Electronic Classics Series page, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm To retu...

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...AR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Three A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Th... ...es: Volume Three, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Por- table ... ...N MY RETURN to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in the South Seas and elsewhere, of which an account is... ...was not long after Captain Patten’s visit that Cap- tain Colquhoun, of the American brig Betsey, touched at the largest of the islands for the purpose... ...1, a Captain Haywood, in the Nereus, visited Tristan. He found there three Americans, who were residing upon the island to prepare sealskins and oil. ... ...ound was traced over, with equal care, in 1822, by Captain Johnson, of the American schooner Henry, and by Captain Morrell in the American schooner Wa... ...hich was found alike as a carpet on the floor, as a covering for the otto- mans and the ebony bed, as a canopy for the bed, and as the gorgeous volute... ...ld acquaintance.” With this, she took my arm, and I attended her home. The mansion was quite a fine one, and, I believe, furnished in good taste. Of t... ...ly qualified to judge; for it was just dark as we arrived; and in American mansions of the better sort lights seldom, during the heat of summer, make ...

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...th America Volume One by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publ... ...y Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Do... ....................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .................................................................... ...t now my primary object. Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well- known and successful ... ...may perhaps be able to add something to the familiarity of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subj... ...y an auctioneer in England—are excellent. Many of them are, in fact, large mansions, and are surrounded with grounds which, as the shrubs grow up, wil... ...n, is surrounded by land, or so guarded and locked by islands as to form a series of salt-water lakes running round the town. Of those islands there a... ...I found regiments of volunteers consisting wholly of Germans. And the Ger- mans are all abolitionists. To all the men of the West the name of Fremont ...

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...ES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of ... ...ions by Adam Smith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Docu- m... ...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation. In our North American and West Indian colonies, not only the wages of labour, but the in... ...ither as a country labourer, or as an artificer. But among the ancient Ro- mans, the lands of the rich were all cultivated by slaves, who wrought unde... ...the Euxine and Caspian seas, were the most formidable enemies whom the Ro- mans had to encounter after the second Carthaginian war. The Parthian and G... ...re such attention has taken place. The superiority of character in the Ro- mans over that of the Greeks, so much remarked by Polybius and Dionysius of... ..., Placentia, and Guastalla, and the Ecclesiastical state. A French author {Le Reformateur} of some note, has proposed to reform the finances of his co...

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...ions of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H... ...eace by H.G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...reatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an idea. Three years and a hal... ...ssary nature of that League. He has, in the course of this work, written a series of articles upon the League and upon the necessary sacrifices of pre... ...etter in Marburg’s “League of Nations,” a straight- forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgi... ...plications were fully established, that there resided a sovereignty in the American people as a whole, as distinguished from the peoples of the severa... ...amed over a false issue. The Chancellor was defending the idea of the Ger- mans remaining in Belgium and Lorraine because of the stra- tegic and econo... ...German eco- nomic life. It is something far more vital to the mass of Ger- mans than any question of Belgium or Alsace-Lorraine. It is, therefore, one...

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...as such is a part of the Pennsylvania State University’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis Copyright © 1998 The Pennsylvania State ... ...blivious Pool, And call them not to share with us their part In this unhappy Mansion, or once more With rallied Arms to try what may be yet Regaind in... ... there be cure or charm To respite or deceive, or slack the pain Of this ill Mansion: intermit no watch Against a wakeful Foe, while I abroad Through ... ... Powers, where shall we find such love, Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Mans mortal crime, and just th’ unjust to save, Dwels in all Heaven chari... ...e; O how unlike To that first naked Glorie. Such of late COLUMBUS found th’ AMERICAN to girt With featherd Cincture, naked else and wilde Among the T... ... Classics from the Penn To read more Electronic Classics from the Penn State series, go to our web site: State series, go to our web site: State serie... ...e: State series, go to our web site: State series, go to our web site: State series, go to our web site: State series, go to our web site: http://www2...

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...ng, and he talked slowly with an into- nation which on some people, mainly Americans, had, I believe, a jarring effect. But not on me. What- ever he s... ..., very simply, the heights of in- spired vision. He wrote before the great American language was born, and he wrote as well as any novelist of his tim... ...ew ring to show to his colleague the inscription inside: “La Russie, c’est le neant.” Prince Bismarck had the truth of the matter and was neither too ... ...hat imperium which Prince Bismarck had the insight and the courage to call le neant, has been the extirpation of every intellec- tual hope. To pronoun... ...g that, so far as a future of liberty, concord, and justice is concerned: “Le Prussianisme—voile l’ennemi!” 98 Notes on Life and Letters THE CRIME OF... ...ries of the Old Repub- lic in the manner of a ghost haunting its ancestral mansion where strangers are making themselves at home; a calumniated, ridic... ...is transient, even the most reproachful ghosts end by vanishing out of old mansions, out of men’s consciences. Progress of en- lightenment, or decay o... ...tening roadway. Everything in the subdued incomplete night-life around the Mansion House went on normally with its fascinating air of a dead commercia... ...ell where they were. His eldest son was about the decks somewhere. “We are Americans,” he remarked weightily, but in a rather peculiar tone. He spoke ...

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...osed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell is a publ... ...en answered by a verdict that sent them to the next assizes on a charge of manslaughter, and, in a gentle “rider” to their verdict, expressed the piou... ... that bitter ha- tred for which afterward he had so much reason. “The Ger- mans, artisans, Bornstedt, Marx and Engels—and, above all, Marx—are here, d... ...eliable, account, from a hostile point of view, is given in a book called “Le Peril Anarchiste,” by 41 Bertrand Russell Felix Dubois,[Paris, 1894.] w... ...y. A good, short account of the Italian movement is given by A. Lanzillo, “Le Mouvement Ouvrier en Italie,” Bibliotheque du Mouvement Proletarien. See... ...r en Italie,” Bibliotheque du Mouvement Proletarien. See also Paul Louis, “Le Syndicalisme Europeen,” chap. vi. On the other hand Cole (“World of Labo... ...been done under trade-union conditions, have played a considerable part in American labor struggles. Sabotage is the practice of doing bad work, or sp... ...of violence and revolution, is the work of Mr. John Graham Brooks, called “American Syndicalism: the I. W. W.” (Macmillan, 1913). American labor condi... ...fferent from any that arises in Europe. The older skilled workers, largely American born, have long been organized in the American Federation of Labor...

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... A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human... ... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...uous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American imagination as that of Edinburgh. The glories of the philosophic c... ...rd a sweet savor;” we “taste and see that he is good.” “Spiritual milk for American babes, drawn from the breasts of both testaments,” is a sub-title ... ...down extravagances we may thereupon proceed to trace the boundaries of its le- gitimate sway. To be sure, it makes our task difficult to have to deal ... ... and do not mix or in- terfere with one another, so did the Greeks and Ro- mans keep all their sadnesses and gladnesses unmingled and entire. Instinct... ...comparisons of races are always open to ex- [70] Cf. J. Milsand: Luther et le Serf-Arbitre, 1884, passim. 136 The V arieties of Religious Experience ... ... tual, the other ideal. As Victor Hugo makes his Mahomet say:— “Je suis le champ vil des sublimes combats: Tantot l’homme d’en haut, et tantot l... ...ot we succeed visibly and tempo- rally. But in our Father’s house are many mansions, and each of us must discover for himself the kind of religion and...