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What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know : About Where to Invest Your Money

By: Lillian R. Villanova

...cal Step-by-Step Guide to Navigating the world of high yield, low risk Tax Lien and Tax Deed Sales Includes Glossary of Terms, Sample Legal Agreem... ...ayperson in understanding the law as it pertains to buying Tax Lien Certificates and Tax Deeds. It provides information and personal experience. It... ...tes and Tax Deeds. It provides information and personal experience. It contains general definitions, guidelines and simple forms. It will assist t... ...ns, guidelines and simple forms. It will assist the reader in understanding the general principles involved, and in drafting simple agreements. It... ... Texas iv v Acknowledgments This book would never have been written but for the fortuitous referral of a new client for whom I did some con... ..., skills and intellect in other people and start investing them in myself. Also for being wise enough to get out of my way when I did. To those fel... ... payable immediately. Acre A measure, usually of land, in the United States and England, equal to 160 sq. rods (43,560 sq. ft.) in any shape. Act ... ...ll deem proper and Lessor is hereby relieved of all liability for doing so. 23. ATTORNEYS’ FEES. Should it become necessary for Lessor to employ an ... ... Premises, Lessee agrees to pay all expenses so incurred, including a reasonable attorneys’ fee. 24. RECORDING OF AGREEMENT. Lessee shall not record...

...It’s time to step out of the box and shift your paradigm. It’s time to put everything you know about a high rate of return being equal to high risk to the side. What I’m about to tell you could turn the way you think about investing upside down. Are you open...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human... ................................................................. 11 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS ................................................................ .................................................................. 56 PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD ..................................................... ... what really makes them happy.‖ 15 ―The research shows that generally children make us less happy. So does losing one‘s job. Sex makes... ...he goodness or badness of an action, our own or that of others. Often the general public thinks it‘s only about sexual conduct or life and death issu... ...s, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against ... ... Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New England.‘ ―Some question the beliefs of George Washington. He often a... ...he pension fund, but when he tried to collect the pension on it the state attorneys made up three major objections that were not in the laws. He was... ...y on hand to sue on behalf of all who died in the hospitals. One of these attorneys said that ‗I think the staff thought they were being merciful, b...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, ...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- nished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...e and without any charge 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... ... charge 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 Sta... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...isfied? As his hero and heroine pass the matrimonial barrier, the novelist generally drops the curtain, as if the drama were over then: the doubts and... ...their public-house clubs to other clerks of a night. Y e gods, what do not attorneys and attorneys’ clerks know in London! Nothing is hidden from thei... ...nd the Major assented to this as to every other proposition which was made generally in company. Major O’Dowd, who had served his sovereign in every q... ... streaky beef, really mingled with fat and lean, there was no country like England.” “Except Ireland, where all your best mate comes from,” said the M... ...oon ended, Mrs. Amelia was as pleased and happy as any little bride out of England. Every day during this happy time there was novelty and amusement f...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What ... ...ER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of t... ... and without any charge 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... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the docu ment or for the file as an elec... ...omething up to the highest limit of the French influences and training. In England he rose to the highest limit attainable through the outside helps ... ...s. Y.M. If you were going to condense into an admonition your plan for the general betterment of the race’s condi tion, how would you word it? Mark ... ...ar ar arable able able able able O.M. I will. There was once a pair of New England boys— twins. They were alike in good dispositions, feckless mor al... ...at talions, regiments, armies; and they have their appointed captains and generals, who lead them to battle. Mark T wain 59 Y.M. That could be insti... ...e was by royal charter a Court of Record sitting every fortnight, with six attorneys, besides the town clerk, belonging to it, and it is certainly not...

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King Richard Ii

By: William Shakespeare

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...e and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther t... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...Herald:) (Second Herald:) (Gardener:) (Keeper:) (Groom:) (Servant:) SCENE: England and Wales. 4 KING RICHARD II ACT I SCENE I: London. KING RICHARD I... ...e king shall rue. Farewell, my liege. Now no way can I stray; Save back to England, all the world’s my way. [Exit.] KING RICHARD II : Uncle, even in ... ...ly seize Hereford’s rights, Call in the letters patent that he hath By his attorneys general to sue His livery, and deny his offer’d homage, You pluck... ...ereford’s rights, Call in the letters patent that he hath By his attorneys general to sue His livery, and deny his offer’d homage, You pluck a thousan... ... much fills their hearts with deadly hate. BUSHY: Wherein the king stands generally condemn’d. BAGOT: If judgement lie in them, then so do we, Becau... ...employ’d. What would you have me do? I am a subject, And I challenge law: attorneys are denied me; And therefore, personally I lay my claim To my inh...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...e and without any charge 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... ... charge 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 Sta... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...bling his bone with the honest family which lives by his tumbling; but the general impression is one more melancholy than mirthful. When you come home... ...the kindness with which it has been received in all the principal towns of England through which the Show has passed, and where it has been most favou... ...s the greatest blasphemy Rebecca had as yet uttered; and in those days, in England, to say, “Long live Bonaparte!” was as much as to say, “Long live L... ...we have any right to blame her; for though the task of husband- hunting is generally, and with becoming modesty, entrusted by young persons to their m... ... clubs to other clerks of a 264 V anity Fair night. Y e gods, what do not attorneys and attorneys’ clerks know in London! Nothing is hidden from thei...

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King Richard Iii

By: William Shakespeare

...Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ...ee and without any charge 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 t... ...y charge 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 S... ...associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an elec... ...ssenger:) (Second Messenger:) (Third Messenger:) (Fourth Messenger:) SCENE: England. KING RICHARD III ACT I SCENE I: London. A street. [Enter GLOUCE... ...d, and baited at: [Enter QUEEN MARGARET, behind .] Small joy have I in being England’s queen. QUEEN MARGARET : And lessen’d be that small, God, I bes... ...ss! Alas, I am the mother of these moans! Their woes are parcell’d, mine are general. She for an Edward weeps, and so do I; I for a Clarence weep, so ... ...hould live from age to age, As ‘twere retail’d to all posterity, Even to the general all ending day. GLOUCESTER: [Aside] So wise so young, they say... ...SS OF YORK : Why should calamity be full of words? QUEEN ELIZABETH : Windy attorneys to their client woes, Airy succeeders of intestate joys, Poor b...

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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

...h Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Haight Turk, Ph.D. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ... PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...e and without any charge 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... ...ciated with the Penn- sylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...en, to whom she was for all that deeply devoted. Her notions of conduct in general and of child rear- ing in particular were very strict. She took Tho... ..., whether in a hostile or a friendly character.” Of De Quincey’s essays in general it may be said that they bear witness alike to the diversity of his... ...n no more than gladiatorial trials of national prowess. The victo- ries of England in this stupendous contest rose of themselves as natural T e Deums ... ... regard it as a case of lunacy or delirium tremens rather than of treason. England owes much of her grandeur to the depth of the aristocratic element ... ...s drinking with the other witnesses under the pastoral surveillance of the attorneys. During the night, or that part of it which at sea would form the...

...erred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wish also to thank for many favors the Committee and officers of the Glasgow University Library....

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The Life of John Sterling

By: Thomas Carlyle

...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...e and without any charge 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... ... charge 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 Sta... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...ith his frank affections, inexhaustible hopes, audacities, activities, and general radiant vivacity of heart and intelligence, which made the presence... ...of his life became well known in London political society, whom indeed all England, with a curious mixture of mockery and respect and even fear, knew ... ... and the Dean’s friend,—friend indeed of the Dean’s kinsmen the Beresfords generally; whose grand house of Curraghmore, near by Waterford, was a famil... ...es; and that in fact, of all the miserable Schools and High-schools in the England of these years, he, if reduced to choose from them, would choose Ca... ...of elections: these are the candidates. There are, of course, fierce rival attorneys; electors of all creeds and complexions to be canvassed: a poor s...

...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 of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in tho...

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Reprinted Pieces

By: Charles Dickens

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ... and without any charge 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 th... ...charge 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 St... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...for such communications as any one of the great branch Post Offices is for general correspondence. I ought to know something of the Begging Letter Wri... ...ours; he has written to me from immense distances, when I have been out of England. He has fallen sick; he has died and been buried; he has come to li... ...high reputation and unblemished honour, pro fessing to be in distress—the general admiration and respect for whom has ensured a ready and generous r... ...e rare) sea weather, the act of arrival at our French watering place from England is difficult to be achieved with dignity. Several little circumstan... ...ve, for we don’t license butchers in England—we only license apothecaries, attorneys, post mas ters, publicans, hawkers, retailers of tobacco, snuff,...

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Redgauntlet

By: Sir Walter Scott

...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...e and without any charge 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... ... charge 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 Sta... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ... of the principles of divine right in which they were brought up, were now generally considered as dissatisfied and splenetic persons, who, displeased... ...was but a small part precipitated into action on the failure of a far more general scheme, was resumed and again put into motion by the Jacobites of E... ...cquainted me with the motives which had induced him to hazard a journey to England at this juncture. The impatience of his friends who were in exile h... ... trusted with his most secret correspondence. As soon as this was known in England, all those persons of distinction who were attached to him were gre... ...the devil put that in your head?’ ‘Lord, man, I got a grip of ane of their attorneys in Carlisle, and he tauld me that there wasna a lawyer in England...

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The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens

...sylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ... and without any charge 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 th... ...ciated with the Pennsylva nia State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...nsultation with Mr. Bob Sawyer on the advisability of bleeding the company generally, as an improving little bit of professional practice— it was at t... ...ly believe that to this circumstance may be attributed the vulgar but very general notion of your being, as a body, suspicious, dis trustful, and ove... ...desks of the King’s Counsel, which is constructed for the conve nience of attorneys, who from that spot can whisper into the ear of the leading couns... ...at pleasing and extensive variety of nose and whisker for which the Bar of England is so justly celebrated. Such of the gentlemen as had a brief to ca... ...neral attention to Dodson & Fogg, who looked as virtuous as possible. ‘The attorneys for the plaintiff,’ said Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz. ‘Well! They spoke i... ...n her name in the book or books of the governor and company of the Bank of England,’ added Bob Sawyer, in legal phraseology. ‘Exactly so,’ said Ben. ‘...

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Mens Wives

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...e and without any charge 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... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...ould, he would always look like a snob, and that there was only one man in England who could make a gentleman of him, went to the perfumer’s soul; and... ... (W estern Branch), the British and For- eign Soap Company, the celebrated attorneys Kite and Levison, have their respective offices here; and as the ... ...o take twenty pounds in a single night from as many of the first ladies of England when ringlets were in fashion. The introduction of bands, he says, ... ...D since the festival at Richmond, which, begun so peaceably, ended in such general uproar. Morgiana never could be brought to pardon Woolsey’s red hai... ...an. She received visits from six ladies of her husband’s acquaintances—two attorneys’ ladies, his bill- broker’s lady, and one or two more, of whose c... ...these were no more admitted than the dandies aforesaid, and were referred, generally, to the Captain’s office, whither they went or not at their conve...

...Excerpt: In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London -- perhaps in the neighborhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens--there was once a house of entertainment called the ?Bootjack Hotel.? M...

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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ... and without any charge 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 th... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...oul, upon the wheel of Chancery, have left unclaimed with the Ac countant Generaland that’s money enough, my dear, to be cast into a pyramid, in mem... ... Fitz Jarndyce?” she asked rather sharply. I said it was not the custom in England to confer titles on men distinguished by peaceful services, however... ...u say that? Surely you know, my dear, that all the greatest orna ments of England in knowledge, imagination, active human ity, and improvement of ev... ...ble. “I tell you what, my dear girl,” said Richard, “when I get affairs in general settled, I shall come down here, I think, and rest.” “Would it not ... ...e business, but he is a very respectable man. He is allowed by the greater attorneys who have made good fortunes or are making them to be a most respe... ...ue, touching a pack of nonsense that he don’t want to know) on the roll of attorneys and have taken out my certificate, if it would be any satisfactio...

...Excerpt: I lay ill through several weeks, and the usual tenor of my life became like an old remembrance. But this was not the effect of time so much as of the change in all my habits made by the helplessness and inaction of a sick-room. Before I had been confined to ...

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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ... and without any charge 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 th... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...given. I do not think it necessary to add to these notable facts, and that general reference to the authori ties which will be found at page 30, vol.... ...ir very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another’s um brellas in a general infection of ill temper, and losing their foot hold at street corn... ...h the same seal. These are the Great Seal’s impressions, my dear, all over England—the children know them!” “How changed it is!” I said again. “Why, s... ... a silver tea pot. They took a multitude of titles. They were the Women of England, the Daughters of Brit 103 Bleak House – Dickens ain, the Sisters... ... against clerks going to post the day’s let ters, and against counsel and attorneys going home to din ner, and against plaintiffs and defendants and... ...e business, but he is a very respectable man. He is allowed by the greater attorneys who have made good fortunes or are making them to be a most respe...

...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was ...

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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ... and without any charge 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 th... ...charge 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 St... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material con tained within the document or for the file as an elec... ...given. I do not think it necessary to add to these notable facts, and that general reference to the authori ties which will be found at page 30, vol.... ...ir very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another’s um brellas in a general infection of ill temper, and losing their foot hold at street corn... ...h the same seal. These are the Great Seal’s impressions, my dear, all over England—the children know them!” “How changed it is!” I said again. “Why, s... ... a silver tea pot. They took a multitude of titles. They were the Women of England, the Daughters of Brit 103 Bleak House – Vol. One ain, the Sister... ... against clerks going to post the day’s let ters, and against counsel and attorneys going home to din ner, and against plaintiffs and defendants and...

...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was...

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The History of Tom Jones

By: Henry Fielding

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ... and without any charge 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 th... ...charge 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 St... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...ities I have hitherto given my historian avail him, unless he have what is generally meant by a good heart, and be capable of feeling. The author who ... ...he affection of the said beef, &c. Sigh indeed we sometimes may; but it is generally in the absence, not in the presence, of the beloved object. For o... ...hen, chusing a genteeler walk in life, he quitted his master, came over to England, and set up that business which requires no apprenticeship, namely,... ...l’s our own, boy, ten thousand honest Frenchmen are landed in Suffolk. Old England for ever! ten thousand French, my brave lad! I am going to tap away... ...der the name of lords and ladies, strut the stage, to the great delight of attorneys and their clerks in the pit, and of the citizens and their appren...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume One

By: Alexandre Dumas

...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...e and without any charge 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... ... charge 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 Sta... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...ome, come,” said the sailor, “I have a better opinion than you of women in general, and of Mercedes in particular; and I am cer- tain that, captain or... ...,” added he, drawing out his watch, “in an hour and a half she will be.” A general exclamation of surprise ran round the table, with the exception of ... ...nies of others. “Yes, yes,” continued he, “‘Twill be the same as it was in England. After Charles I., Cromwell; after Cromwell, Charles II., and then ... ... of a petty kingdom hidden in some corner of Europe like France, Spain, or England, but king of the world, king of the universe, king of creation; wit... ...names, and concealed under other costumes, are police agents, magistrates, attorneys-general, and bailiffs. They hang, behead, and impale their crimin...

...s -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint- Jean were cover...

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The Trial or More Links of the Daisy Chain

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...e and without any charge 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... ... charge 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 Sta... ...ciated with the Penn- sylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...s of chintz, I prefer the sea-weed variety, as in character with things in general, and with the present occasion; and as to the carpet, I hope that F... ...nceas- ing talk, and that good fellow, Hector, has included Leonard in the general fraternity. They are highly complimentary, say- ing they should hav... ...atch, Miss May?’ ‘Match? Oh, the cricket match?’ ‘Stoneborough against All England, on St. Matthew’s Day, so I shall have got my hand in.’ ‘ All Engla... ...hers had done as well, Stoneborough might have had a chance. But when ‘All England’ went in, the game seemed to be more equally balanced. Aubrey May, ... ...ed the cause as won; and the father and son has- tened triumphantly to the attorneys’ office. Messrs. Bramshaw and Anderson were greatly struck, and o...

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The Old Curiosity Shop

By: Charles Dickens

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ... and without any charge 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 th... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...versity. 3 The Old Curiosity Shop By Charles Dickens CHAPTER 1 NIGHT IS GENERALLY MY TIME FOR WALKING. In the summer I often leave home early i... ... he is or not?’ Emboldened as it seemed by this reply to enter into a more general conversation, Mr Swiveller plainly laid himself out to captivate ou... ...nd the corner, and divers other ladies and gentlemen in vari ous parts of England and Wales (and one Mr Brown who was supposed to be then a corporal ... ... three or four little boys dropped in, on legal errands from three or four attorneys of the Brass grade: whom Mr Swiveller received and dismissed with... ...on to be a good and lawful note of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, in creased his good humour considerably. Indeed he so overflowed ... ...e trifling penalties, his name was erased and blotted out from the roll of attorneys; which erasure has been always held in these latter times to be a...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Night is generally my time for walking. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the country, I seldom go out until after...

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Adam Bede

By: George Eliot

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...e and without any charge 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... ... charge 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 Sta... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...eeks and round black eyes like her own. But gradually the influence of the general gravity told upon her, and she became conscious of what Dinah was s... ...whom you may venture to “eat an egg, an apple, or a nut.” All this she was generally conscious of, and hitherto had not been greatly ashamed of it. Bu... ...Lord Dacey’s eldest son had lost thousands upo’ thousands to the Prince o’ Wales, and they said my lady was going to pawn her jewels to pay for him. B... ...et myself as if I was a churn wi’ butter a-coming in’t, for no landlord in England, not if he was King George himself.” “No, no, my dear Mrs. Poyser, ... ...d not see the objects that were right in front of his eyes—the counsel and attorneys talking with an air of cool business, and Mr. Irwine in low earne...

...Excerpt: With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end of my pen, I will show you the ro...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the untired Sun-God. He is Eros, the ever young...

...BARBAZURE. ..................................................................................................................................39 LORDS AND LIVERIES. ..................................................................................................................49 CRINOLINE........................................................................................

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...e and without any charge 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... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subject of the United States have hitherto dealt chiefly wit... ...rofesses to use a light pen, and to manufacture his article for the use of general read- ers. Such a writer may tell all that he sees of the beauti- f... ... I had been in the United States a week, and who asked me whether lords in England ever spoke to men who were not lords. Nor can I omit the opening ad... ... would wish to explain what my feelings were; or rather what I believe the general feelings of England to have been be- fore I found myself among the ... ...-nautical, semi-military rules and axi- oms which it is necessary that all attorneys-general and such like should, at the present moment, have at thei... ...ney.” I must not, however, degrade him; for in the States barris- ters and attorneys are all one. I cannot but think that he could help it, and that h...

...?RHODE ISLAND ................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ............................................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ...............................................................................................................

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...e and without any charge 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... ... charge 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 Sta... ...ciated with the Penn sylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ... all events, if not new, are for the present as little likely to meet with general acceptance as if they were. It seems to me, however, from various i... ...ittle value, and may be a mere instrument of tyranny or intrigue, when the generality of electors are not sufficiently interested in their own governm... ...ast age, in which it was customary to claim representative de mocracy for England or France by arguments which would equally have proved it the only ... ...Germany, with the feudal mon archies of Europe; Switzerland, Holland, and England, with Austria or ante revolutionary France. Their superior pros pe... ...avish expenditure, or who, on the invitation of three or four tradesmen or attorneys, are sent down by one of the two great parties from their London ...

...face: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the practical suggestions have been anticipated by others or by myself. There is novelty, however....

...er Functions of Representative Bodies............................................................................... 61 Chapter VI Of the Infirmities and Dangers to which Representative Government is Liable ............................. 76 Chapter VII Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority only 92 Chapter VIII Of the Extensio...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC C... ...e and without any charge 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... ...ci- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ....................................... 667 CHAPTER II OF THE SOURCES OF THE GENERAL OR PUBLIC REVENUE OF THE SOCIETY ..................................... ...ces: first, by the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which its labour is generally applied; and, secondly, by the proportion between the number of t... ...ly as good, and in most years nearly about the same price with the corn of England, though, in opulence and improvement, France is perhaps inferior to... ...ngland, though, in opulence and improvement, France is perhaps inferior to England. The corn- lands of England, however, are better cultivated than th... ... indeed, which lends its money without the expense of stamped paper, or of attorneys’ fees for drawing bonds and mortgages, and which accepts of repay... ...eatest subjects in Europe scarce feel. From shopkeep- ers, trades men, and attorneys, they are become statesmen and legislators, and are employed in c...

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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 NATU...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

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The French Revolution a History Volume One

By: Thomas Carlyle

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

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......... 189 MODERN SUPERSTITION ........................................................................................................ 224 COLERIDGE AND OPIUM-EATING ........................................................................................ 264 TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT ..................................................................................................

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Cashel Byron's Profession

By: George Bernard Shaw

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...Excerpt: MONCRIEF HOUSE, Panley Common. Scholastic establishment for the sons of gentlemen, etc. Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rushes, stretching away to the western horizon....

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Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in Boswell?s day than now. I have kept in mind an old habit, common...

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The Last Chronicle of Barset

By: Anthony Trollope

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...e 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 Barsetshire on behalf of the Crown, were employed on the local business of the ...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

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...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS ..........................................................................................................

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...g a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens A Penn State ... ...rles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Account of the F... ...e and without any charge 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... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...xistence. There are very few now. Of the monstrous neglect of education in England, and the disregard of it by the State as a means of forming good or... ...n of the House of Brunswick, and would have broken the Rest of the Bank of England. The Brothers are now dead. There is only one other point, on which... ...rom the top of the Monument by acci- dent, there came, one morning, by the general post, a black- bordered letter to inform him how his uncle, Mr Ralp... ...interest can fail to have found most embarrassing, by establishing the one general rule that all sums of principal and interest should be paid on pock... .... With another class of customers, Ralph was again another man. These were attorneys of more than doubtful reputation, who helped him to new business,...

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