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... a prisoner in our victorious hands, was still the Caesar whose legions we were resisting with our hearts in our mouths. Many were so horribly afraid of him that they could not forgive me for not being afraid of him: I seemed to be trifling heartlessly with a deadly peril. I knew better; and I have represented Caesar as knowing better himself. But it was one of the quaintn...

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...BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta by George Bernard Shaw is a p... ...m: An Almost Historical Comedietta by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...nal habit, but treating his customer with a condescending affability which sails very close to the east wind of insolence. THE MANAGER. I am sorry I a... ...ntrude; and goes out. THE PRINCESS. It’s wonderful! How have you the cour- age? ERMYNTRUDE. In Y our Highness’s service I know no fear. Your Highness ... ...ery nearly was. Take this from me: hereditary monarchs are played out: the age for men of genius has come: the ca- reer is open to the talents: before...

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...Publication The Witch and other stories by Anton Chekhov is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...one was a guard on the railway , but the other, Vasya, who was just my own age, lived at home with his mother. Old Kapluntsev had kept five pair of ho... ...lla they burned Bengal lights and sent up fireworks in the evenings, and a sailing-boat with red lanterns floated by Obrutchanovo. One morning the eng... ...sts and waited. In the evening the engineer sent five roubles for the dam- age, and the two horses, the pony and the bull-calf, without being fed or g... ...e shall look after you.’ … He promised me that before everyone. In our old age … it wouldn’t be a bad thing… . I should always pray for them… . Holy M... ...one: “I say, Pavel Ivanitch. A soldier at Sutchan told me: while they were sailing a big fish came into collision with their ship and stove a hole in ... ... asleep and silent. It was dreary. The three invalids — two soldiers and a sailor — who had been playing cards all the day were asleep and talking in ...

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...Excerpt: The twelfth of May, 1796, in north Italy, at Tavazzano, on the road from Lodi to Milan. The afternoon sun is blazing serenely over the plains of Lombardy, treating the Alps with respect and the anthills with indulgence, not incommoded by...

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...THE MAN OF DESTINY by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The Man of Destiny by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...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... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Man of Destiny by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...tifies the implied epigram.) NAPOLEON. How old is she? GIUSEPPE. The right age, excellency. NAPOLEON. Do you mean seventeen or thirty? GIUSEPPE. Thirt... ...t never ask a soldier. The ser- geant asks after the recruit’s height, his age, his wind, his limb, but never after his courage. (He gets up and walks... ...who knows her through and through—knows that she has lied to him about her age, her income, her social position, about everything that silly women 28... ...ard his ship; nails a flag with a cross on it to his top-gallant mast; and sails to the ends of the earth, sinking, burning and de- stroying all who d...

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...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. Pr... ... a little old lady , wearing large bows of ribbon in her cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests began to arrive; and slo... ...rincess Bolkonskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age. The third group was gathered round Mortemart and Anna Pavlovna. The vi... ...now very ill-suited to her careworn face. Apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed all the old feminine arts. But as soon a... ...action of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full height without the smallest e... ...ier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as much as a sailor is by his ship. How- ever far he has walked, whatever strange, unkno...

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...es Publication You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw 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 a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ers and a finished personal style which might be envied by a man twice his age. Suavity and self-possession are points of honor with him; and though t... ... canon of Lincoln Cathedral. VALENTINE (like a castaway mariner who sees a sail on the horizon). What! Have you a grandfather? 12 You Never Can Tell ... ...nds plaited and made into a knot, from which observant people of a certain age infer that Mrs. Clandon had sufficient individuality and good taste to ... ...chignon in her girlhood. In short, she is distinctly old fashioned for her age in dress and manners. But she belongs to the forefront of her own 13 S...

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...Excerpt: Act I. A fine October morning in the north east suburbs of London, a vast district many miles away from the London of Mayfair and St. James?s, much less known there than the Paris of the Rue de Rivoli and the Champs Elysees, and much less narrow, squalid, fetid and airless in its ...

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...Preface: The First Volume of these Poems has already been submitted to general perusal. It was published, as an experiment which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language ...

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...Contents* I - THE VAGABOND (To an air of Schubert) ........................................................................................................... 5 II - YOUTH AND LOVE - I .................................................................................

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...Excerpt: Introduction to the bride of Lammermoor. The author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occurring at a distant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the fee...

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...ion: 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 bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a ...

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...klin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. An An An An Any per y per y per y per y person using this do... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eli... ...I shall indulge it without being tiresome to others, who, through respect to age, might conceive them selves obliged to give me a hearing, since this... ...er in Boston, and lived in the house with us some years. He lived to a great age. His grand son, Samuel Franklin, now lives in Boston. He left behind... ...ices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the s... ... the drowning of Captain Worthilake, with his two daughters: the other was a sailor’s song, on the taking of Teach (or Blackbeard) the pirate. They we... ...round by sea. In crossing the bay, we met with a squall that tore our rotten sails to pieces, prevented our getting into the Kill and drove us upon Lo... ... without victuals, or any drink but a bottle of filthy rum, and the water we sail’d on being salt. In the evening I found myself very feverish, and we...

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...books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its exten...

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...ER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TA...

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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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...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... the right road; yet I cannot help feeling that in this attempt to trim my sails be- tween an author whom I love and honour and a public too averse to... ...beyond his first. And just as the most imbecile production of any literary age gives us sometimes the very clue to comprehension we have sought long a... ...id nothing about them. But Scott’s instinct, the instinct of the man of an age pro- foundly different, taught him otherwise; and, in his work, the ind... ...ia, if Hugo imagines T om- Tim-Jack to be a likely nickname for an English sailor, or if either Shakespeare, or Hugo, or Scott, for that matter, be gu... ...literary history. He was now, it must be remembered, twenty-seven years of age; he had fought since his early boyhood an obstinate battle against poor... ...t he should write ill. We are little the better for the reflections of the sailor’s par- rot in the story. And so, if Burns helped to change the cours...