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...tion between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbors....

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...harge 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... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift , the Pennsylvania State... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... Europe are in a great error, by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California; for it was ever my opinion, that there must be a balance of e... ... – Swift 96 tacle that ever a European eye beheld. There was a woman with a cancer in her breast, swelled to a monstrous size, full of holes, in two ... ...reason to believe, east ward, to that unknown tract of America west ward of California; and north, to the Pacific Ocean, which is not above a hundred... ...envy seems principally di rected, are the vices of the younger sort and the deaths of the old. By reflecting on the former, they find them selves cu...

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...Excerpt: Welcome to the seventh volume of Best of ?. For the past half dozen years we were Best of Four, publishing the best writing in English 004 classes, primarily on the Hazleton campus. Two years ago we began accepting submissions from some of the other Commonwealth College campuses, and this year we made the big plunge into accepting submissions from...

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............... 6 Adam Shaffer ?And Unknown Leader? .................................................................... 7 Khyati Valand ?A Neighborhood in India?............................................................... 9 Katie Aughenbaugh ?My Grandfather? ................................................................. 11 Devon Bowlin ?Almost Famous?.....................

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...of Four Volume 7 Student Voices A Commonwealth College Publication Editor in Chief Jim Manis Editor Lucy Morrison Associate Editors Liz Wright Suzann... ...the student essays contained herein were produced by students regis- tered in English 004, within the Commonwealth College of the Pensylvania Univer- ... ...en permission. No portion of Best of Freshman Writing may be repro- duced in any fashion without the express written permission of the authors. Best ... ...nocent people. Terrorism is wrong, and the entire world needs to cure the “cancer,” as Thomas Friedman calls it (F- 1), of terror. But is violence rea... ... terrorists. They only want to avenge Bin Laden’s death with more American deaths. To properly understand a solution to this mess, one must first unde... ...ronicle of Higher Education. Baltimore, a profes- sor and president of the California Insti- tute of Technology, talks about the prob- lems of AIDS an...

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...gnomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

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...s LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause.......................

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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 Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One, the Pennsylvan... ...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... ... R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN [COAST LINE MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 1879.] HERE is another curious start in my life. I am... ... of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN MONTEREY, DITTO CO., CALIFORNIA, 21ST OCTOBER [1879]. MY DEAR COL VIN, – Although you have absol... ...The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 1879. MY DEAR COLVIN, – I received your letter with d... ...ountains visitant’ – there goes no angel there but the angel of death. The deaths of last winter are still sore spots to me… . So, you see, I am not v... ... bleating about their sorrows and the burthen of life, in a world full of ‘cancerous paupers,’ and poor sick chil- dren, and the fatally bereaved, ay,... ...where, above all (this I believe; probably you don’t: I think he may, with cancer), any brave man may make out a life which shall be happy for himself...

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...and yet as close as a good glove?s with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing wh...

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...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 Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...sight out of their heads. Some one has said that the death of a mouse from cancer is the whole sack of Rome by the Goths, and I swear to you that the ... ...sations full of worldly wisdom that Leonora has reported to me since their deaths. And is it pos- sible to imagine that during our prescribed walks in... ...t struck him that the things to take for that purpose were oranges—because California is the orange country—and comfortable folding chairs. So he boug... ...chairs. So he bought I don’t know how many cases of oranges—the great cool California oranges, and half-a-dozen folding chairs in a special case that ... ...to tell me all, secure a divorce from me, and go with Edward and settle in California… . I do not suppose that she was really serious in this. It woul... ... and unromantic, lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by deaths, by agonies? Who the devil knows? For there was a great deal of imbe...

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...n two experiences, is doubly relative. The speaker buries his meaning; it is for the hearer to dig it up again; and all speech, written or spoken, is in a dead language until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Such, moreover, is the complexity of life, that when we condescend upon details in our advice, we may be sure we condescend on error; and the best of education ...

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