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...erne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...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. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania St... ...ll be due in London in this very room of the Reform Club, on Saturday, the 21st of December, at a quarter before nine p.m.; or else the twenty thousan... ... are due in London again?” asked Stuart. “In eighty days; on Saturday, the 21st of December, 1872, 19 Jules Verne at a quarter before nine p.m. Good-... ...hama, San Francisco, New York, and Lon- don—from the 2nd of October to the 21st of December; and giving a space for setting down the gain made or the ... ...bly on the same steamer. Passepartout might have cudgelled his brain for a century without hitting upon the real object which the detective had in vie... ... am Phileas Fogg, of London.” 157 Jules Verne “And I am Andrew Speedy, of Cardiff.” “You are going to put to sea?” “In an hour.” “You are bound for—”...
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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. The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania S... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ny im- age of John Sterling and his Pilgrimage through our poor Nineteenth Century be one day wanted by the world, and they can find some shadow of a ... ...nt; if even a house is burnt or falls, you will find it there after half a century, only cloaked by the ever-ready ivy. Sluggish man seems never to ha... ...xt five years in this locality. He did not again see it for a quarter of a century; but 18 The Life of John Sterling retained, all his life, a lively... ...rch, 1818 (same place, same month and year), in his ninth. (4.) Hester, 21st July, 1818 (three months later), at Blackheath, in her eleventh. (5... ...Sterling “To Mrs. Sterling, Blackheath. “21st September, 1818. “Dear Mamma,—I am now at Dover, where I arrived this ... ...ters are all dated Rome, and addressed to his Father or Mother:— “December 21st, 1838.—Of Rome itself, as a whole, there are infinite things to be sai...
...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total o...
...e of any kind. Any per- son 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. The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...floated out in swarms upon the world during the seventh decade of the last century. It was 34 The Mirror of the Sea a fine period in ship-building, a... ...at fields of natural exploitation. In this it differs from Liverpool, from Cardiff, from Newcastle, from Glasgow; and therein the Thames differs from ... ...s eyes, and became silent. Twenty-five years is a long time—a quarter of a century is a dim and distant past; but to this day I remember the dark-brow... .... But that is as it may be. The Caporali families date back to the twelfth century. For want of more exalted adversaries Dominic 141 Joseph Conrad tu... ...k again. It was in those conditions that, at seven on the morn- ing of the 21st, the signal for the fleet to bear up and steer east was made. Holding ...
...tion of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term ?Landfall? is more easily understood; you fall in with the land, and it is a matter of a quick eye and of a clear atmosphere....