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Excerpt: The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...ourney in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called Written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson with a preface by Mr. Stevenson...

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...KIDNAPPED Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 by Robert Louis Stevens... ...D Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ... the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Kidnap... ...emoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Kidnapped by... ...tevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Port... ...s Series Publication Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ade us both sit down with his family to dinner, and brewed punch in a fine china bowl, over which my rascal guide grew so merry that he refused to sta... ...ow your manners. Do you think it either very wise or very witty to cast my politics in my teeth? I thought, where folk differed, it was the part of ge...

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Excerpt: Prince Otto -- A Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905 Edition).

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...Excerpt: My Dear Charles, It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company?s office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted with hoo...

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...Excerpt: The journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all travelers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world -- all, too, travelers with a donkey: and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager...

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...Excerpt: The ancient and famous metropolis of the North sits overlooking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more commanding for the head city of a kingdom; none better chosen for noble prospects. From her tall precipice and...

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... by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of th... ...rt Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...enson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any ... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic C... ...if you come to that. At bottom, as it seems to me, there is but one question in modern home politics, though it appears in many shapes, and that is th... ... now on their way to America. But on the point of money they saw clearly enough that inland politics, so far as they were concerned, were re- ducible ... ...d Judaea are gone by forever, leaving to generations the legacy of their accomplished work; China still endures, an old-in- habited house in the brand... ...n the cold room, and threw quite a glow on the floor. Twelve cockle-shells and a half-penny china figure were ranged solemnly along the mantel-shelf. ...

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...so small a book with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it is the reward of his labours. When the foundation stone is laid, the architect appears with his plans, and struts for an hour before the public eye. So with the writer in hisPreface: he may have never a word to say, but he must show himsel...

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Excerpt: Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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... CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER VI - RANDOM M...

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Excerpt: Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Excerpt: In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...t island first when it was neither night nor morning. The moon was to the west, setting, but still broad and bright. To the east, and right amidships of the dawn, which was all pink, the daystar sparkled like a diamond. The land breeze blew in our faces, and smelt strong of wild lime and vanilla: other things besides, but these were the most plain; and the chill of it set ...

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...Contents THE BEACH OF FALESA............................................ 4 THE BOTTLE IMP...................................................... 68 THE ISLE OF VOICES............................................... 95...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the tru...

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...................4 FATHER DAMIEN.........................................................................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW................................................................74 COLLEGE PAPERS.............................................................................

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...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 ...

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

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