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...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 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...pute, the most tidy, fidgety, thrifty little personage that ever inhaled the smoke of London; and the house of Mrs. Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Great Coram-street. The area and the area-steps, and the street-door and the street-door steps, and the brass handle, and the door-plate, and the knocker, and the fan-light, were all as clean and bright, as indefatigab...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Volume One of THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, con... ...oing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...nd from a variety of ludicrous statements concerning himself in provincial newspapers, that more than one York- shire schoolmaster lays claim to being... ...keness; and, although Mr. Squeers has but one eye, and he has two, and the published sketch does not resemble him (whoever he may be) in any other res... ...d to reprint a few of these details of legal proceedings, from certain old newspapers. One other quotation from the same Preface may serve to 7 Charl... ...ty; possibly because this species of humour is now confined to St James’ s parish, where door knockers are preferred as be- ing more portable, and bel... ...is good master had asked a blessing on it. This was told her in the London newspapers—not by Mr Squeers, for he is too kind and too good to set anybod... ...a competent au- thority; and discovering, on further conversation and com- parison of notes, a great many points of resemblance between the behaviour ...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of it...

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...ou made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life. So you cannot plead ignorance of the character of the force you set i...

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...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, a...

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...Introduction: 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 b...

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...Reading age 10+ You might not know it but you, everyone you know and the world itself are all but figments in the imagination of a Storyteller on another planet. Each night foolish creatures called Bloons gather around him to listen to the latest crazy antics of Hoomanity. But it seems as though the Story itself has gotten out of ...

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...“It’s your movie – if you don’t like it just write yourself a better part in the script!” and Gal, who showed me how magic happens. Copyright © Tom ... ...All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by means, electronic... ...ording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published in Great Britain in 2008 Firecrest Publishing Ltd., 46 Station Ro... ... otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published in Great Britain in 2008 Firecrest Publishing Ltd., 46 Station Road, Stoke ... ...f St Jude’s Hospital. His photo had made the front page of half the major newspapers in the land, and his story had touched the nation. Television c... ...black letters across the top read: Louise Presquevu Boulevard de Seine 117 Paris ‘Paris, France?’ Theo cried. ‘How am I supposed to get there?’ ‘Don’t... ... out to search the rest of the park. 68 Chapter 11 Chapter 11 A Trip to Paris A Trip to Paris A s the police dispersed, Theo stepped down from his ... ...r, he saw his own face smiling back at him from the front page of several newspapers. He guessed that some of the children on the bus must not have ... ...me – the offers are pouring in.’ He tapped his Fone in his shirt pocket. ‘Newspapers, book contracts, movies – it’s all in the pipework. Play your c...

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...When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative practice, which had enabled him to maintain ...

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