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Excerpt: The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells.

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...The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bi... ... H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...TATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...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... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic C... ...e as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim M... ...hing—and the longer he could put that off the better. But the Rev. Morrice Deans had promised to get together three or four prominent labour leaders f... ...at the morning’s talk had evoked. The three labour extremists that Morrice Deans had as- sembled obviously liked the bishop and found him pictur- esqu... ...oses to speak in riddles,” said the ratio- nalist. “Symbols,” said Morrice Deans, “need not be riddles,” and for a time the talk eddied about this min...

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...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or...

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...GOD THE INVISIBLE KING by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication God the Invisibl... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication God the Invisible King by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...Series Publication God the Invisible King by H. G. Wells 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...as an electronic transmission, in any way. God the Invisible King by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Series, Jim... ...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... ...e Faith and the War,” a volume in which the curious reader may contemplate deans and canons, di- vines and church dignitaries, men intelligent and enq...

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...Series Publication The Princess by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... could change their sex, and flaunt With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans, And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair. I think they should n... ... clubs, of art, of politics; They lost their weeks; they vext the souls of deans; They rode; they betted; made a hundred friends, And caught the bloss... ... To learn if Ida yet would cede our claim, Or by denial flush her babbling wells With her own people’s life: three times he went: The first, he blew ...

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...Excerpt: Several years ago, when the Author retired to his native mountains with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary work that might live, it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such an employment. ?As sub...

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...Table of Contents: ADVERTISEMENT, ii -- BOOK FIRST INTRODUCTION?CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIME 1 -- BOOK SECOND SCHOOL-TIME (continued), 19 -- BOOK THIRD RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE, 33 -- BOOK FOURTH SUMMER VACATION, 51 -- BOOK FIFTH BOOKS,...

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...ESIDENCE IN LONDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 BOOK EIGHTH RETROSPECT—LOVE OF NATURE LEADING TO LOVE OF MAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... . . . 213 ADVERTISEMENT T he following Poem was commenced in the beginning of the year 1799, and completed in the summer of 1805. The design and occ... ... the year 1799, and completed in the summer of 1805. The design and occasion of the work are described by the Author in his Preface to the Excursion, ... ...y hang on days begun And ended with such mockery. Be wise, Ye Presidents and Deans, and, till the spirit Of ancient times revive, and youth be trained... ... attempt, 265 Yet richly graced with honours of her own, Half rural Sadler’s Wells? Though at that time Intolerant, as is the way of youth Unless itse...

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...ing in this gentle breeze, That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! A captive greets thee, coming from a house Of bondage, from yon city?s walls set free, A prison where he hath been long immured. Now I am free, enfranchised and at l...

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...Table of Contents: Book First Introduction: Childhood and School-time, 1 -- Book Second Childhood and School-time (Continued), 20 -- Book Third Residence at Cambridge, 34 -- Book Fourth Summer Vacation, 53 -- Book Fifth Books, 67 -...

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...don . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind . 126 Book Ninth Residence in France... ...Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 ii The Prelude of 1805 Book First Introduction: Childhood and School time OH, there is ... ...clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! 5 A captive g... ... hang on days begun And ended with worst mockery. Be wise, Ye Presidents and Deans, and to your bells Give seasonable rest, for ’tis a sound 425 Hollo... ... attempt— Yet richly graced with honours of its own— 290 Half rural Sadler’s Wells? Though at that time Intolerant, as is the way of youth Unless itse...

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...ASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Warden by Anthony Trollope 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ing in the cathedral town of —; let us call it Barchester. Were we to name Wells or Salisbury, Exeter, Hereford, or Gloucester, it might be presumed t... ...had earned a good name in Barchester; they had lived respected by bishops, deans, canons, and precentors; they had been buried in the precincts of the...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to di...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ob, that had gathered on the chase as it hurried through the pur- lieus of Deansgate, and all that populous suburb of Manches- ter. From some of these... ...llesley in its earliest stage, since it was founded upon a connection with Wells Cathedral, It had obeyed the same process as prevails in many hundred... ...so remote as that of India, with heart-rending separations, and with fare- wells never to be repeated. But, amongst them all, none cleaves to my own f... ...stance, in the case of the young gypsy son of 272 Thomas de Quincey Effie Deans; a change making it impossible to rely upon the very holiest instinct...

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...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Irela...

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...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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 ... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...roken by the plough, or the dust that is crumbled by the gardener’s spade. Wells that the Romans sunk, still yield water; roads that the Romans made, ... ...with artful people, and inducing him to recant to the unreformed religion. Deans and friars visited him, played at bowls with him, showed him various ... ...ancellor; and he then went on to Dorchester, to Exeter, to Taunton, and to Wells. It is astonishing, when we read of the enormous injustice and barbar...

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...s Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...so hospitable; that he was so civil to oratorios and hospitals; so kind to Deans and Chapters; so generous in giving and ac- cepting dinners; so uncom... ...e metropolis; knew the names of all the actors from Drury Lane to Sadler’s Wells; and performed, indeed, many of the plays to the Todd family and thei... ...rman plan, and make for a hundred watering-places, where they drank at the wells, rode upon donkeys, gambled at the redoutes if they had money and a m...