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...LIVER TWIST CHARLES DICKENS or The Parish Boy s Progress A PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBL... ... A PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION Oliver Twist or the Parish Boy’s Progress by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pen... ... Twist or the Parish Boy’s Progress by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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 ... ...influence over all his future fortunes. But they had. And this was it: The members of this board were very sage, deep, philo sophical men; and when t... ...tly repeated with great emphasis. At length the whispering ceased; and the members of the board, having resumed their seats and their solemnity, Mr. L... ... in the old woman’s ear; ‘we are rather late; and it won’t do, to keep the clergyman waiting. Move on, my men,—as quick as you like!’ Thus directed, t... ...yard in which the nettles grew, and where the parish graves were made, the clergyman had not arrived; and the clerk, who was sitting by the vestry ro... ...you had had patience for a twelvemonth, at most, couldn’t you have got him convicted, and sent safely out of the kingdom; perhaps for life?’ ‘Whose tu...

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...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a lo...

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...Excerpt: ENVOI. Felix de Vandenesse to Madame la Comtesse Natalie de Manerville: I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. To smooth the frown upon their brow, to soften the pout upon their lips, what obstacles w...

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...e by Somerset Maugham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...s Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...ing. At last she came, in black satin; the Vicar did not like colours in a clergyman’s wife at any time, but on Sundays he was deter- mined that she s... ...en they married, having decided views on the celi- bacy of the unbeneficed clergy. But when at an election the Liberals had written on his garden fenc... ...so many words, but cer- tainly the impression had been given him that only members of the Church of England had any real hope of eternal happiness. On... ...not so easily put away the pupil as she the pedagogue; and this impression convicted with the feelings her stories had aroused in him. He looked at he... ... an expression which 344 Of Human Bondage though frequently applicable to members of the female sex is not often used of them in polite society; but ...

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...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

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Excerpt: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume One, Containing Books I through VIII.

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...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridg...

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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his con...

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...Excerpt: Part I, Chapter 1; HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in ...

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... ANNA KARENINA A NOVEL BY COUNT LEO TOLSTOY Translated from the Russian BY CONSTANCE GARNETT DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 by Glo... .... First published in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” Romans 12:19 Contents Part I 1 Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . ... ...nd that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife t... ...lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Ev... ...hree days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every pers... ...er by chance in any inn had more in com mon with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not le... ...erable idea on the subject, and so in their arguments Konstantin was readily convicted of contradict ing himself. In Sergey Ivanovitch’s eyes his you... ...e devil, but was much concerned about the question of the improvement of the clergy and the maintenance of their revenues, and took special trouble to... ... at all of them with the same absent eyes as Levin. Meanwhile the officiating clergy had got into their vestments, and the priest and deacon came out t...

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Excerpt: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

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...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

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...Excerpt: ?IT IS VERY KIND in the dear mother.? ?But--what, Rachel? Don?t you like it! She so enjoyed choosing it for you.? ?Oh yes, it is a perfect thing in its way. Don?t say a word to her; but if you are consulted for my next birthday present, Grace, c...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. How did he get it? ?I can never bring myself to believe it, John,? said Mary Walker the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be done in that part of Bars...

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...Publication New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...lication New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ity. 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... ...eserved the composure of ordinary life. There was little decency among the members of the club. Some boasted of the disgraceful actions, the consequen... ...gether, the Prince was disappointed by the bearing and conversation of the members. “It does not seem to me,” he thought, “a matter for so much distur... ...encounter; but he put as good a face upon it as he could, and accosted the clergyman with an obse- quious and smiling air. “Here is a fine afternoon, ... ...at General Vandeleur’s secretary came to admire a flower-garden! The young clergyman whistled softly to himself as he stooped to examine the ground. H... ...into other hands than those for which it was intended, we stood criminally convicted on our own written testimony; but, as I have said, we were neithe...

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