...GE By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ries Publication The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ay for; and went, as you can imagine, at such a tearing gallop, that those Grand Highnesses had to hold on for their lives and lost their hats along t... ...and 10 The Amazing Marriage proof against powder and shot not marked with cross and key, and fetched up from the square magazine in the central depot... ...ombustion.’ Kirby had the wildest way of talking when he was not issu- ing orders under fire, best understood by sailors. I give it you as it stands h... ...l tellings. I could think of it as a history written in a line: Carinthia, Saint and Martyr! As for comparisons, they are flowers thrown into the fire... ... home, will follow close on the heels of the prowest, I believe truest, of knights, and bear perhaps to his quick mind some help to the solution he dr... ...d: played a second time, special request, conveyed to the leader by Prince Ferdinand. T rue, most true, she longs to be home across the water. But be ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Enter Dame Gossip As Chorus. Everybody has heard of the beautiful Countess of Cressett, who was one of the lights of this country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity?s sake to be amused after their tiresome work of slaughter: and ...

... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "T... ... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia a... ...oy Marco returns to Cathay with his father and uncle -- The wealth of Ormus -- Crossing the great Gobi desert -- The Polos attached to the Royal Court... ... Kubla Khan suppresses an insurrection -- Defeats a body of 500,000 cavalry -- Orders the execution of the leader by tossing him in a carpet -- The ha... ... 307- 317 CHAPTER XXIX. Decline of Buccaneering. -- Effects of the wars of the Grand Alliance -- The ex-bandit becomes Judge Morgan -- He punishes his... ...4 Torture of Guatemozin and the Chief of Tacuba........................... 236 Ferdinand Magellan........................................................ ...nts, glittering minarets, frowning donjons, ponderous draw-bridges and armored knights, while tilting tournaments and furious engagements, with lance ... ..., in quest of an island which inspiration told them was a land promised to the saints. This fabled country, which might have been Brazil, was not foun...

...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- T...

... DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penns... ... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...arrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... for the results, direct and indirect, whether many or few. The increasing grandeur and magnitude of the social system, the more it multiplies and ext... ...ongst wolves,—trembling—fluttering fawn, whose path was in- evitably to be crossed by the bloody tiger;—angel, whose most innocent heart fitted thee f... ...of wo to me, should also to thyself be heralded by the pangs of martyrdom? Sainted love, if, like the ancient children of the Hebrews, like Meshech an... ... hyperbole, be styled truly and memorably magnificent. Though in the first order of tall women, yet, being full in person, and with a symmetry that wa... ...re talking of an expedition for America, on the point of sailing under Don Ferdinand de Cordova. It was to sail from some Andalusian port. That was th... ...n; for, in the natural order of civilization, war passes from the hands of knights, barons, insulated cities, into those of the universal community. I...

Excerpt: Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey.

...Contents Volume One ..................................................................... 4 THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK.......................................................................................................... 4 THE SPANISH NUN ....................................................................................

...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...or Rodolph. — Matthias succeeds him. — Troubles in Bohemia. — Civil War. — Ferdinand extirpates the Protestant Religion from Styria. — The Elector Pal... ...rench invade Lorraine. — Frankfort taken. — Capitulation of Mentz. — Tilly ordered by Maximilian to protect Bavaria. — Gustavus Adolphus passes the Le... ...n destroyed. An interest more intense and more immediate than national ag- grandizement or patriotism, and entirely inde- pendent of private utility, ... ...s of the Loire and the Seine, the succession of the French crown. The Dane crosses the Eider, and the Swede the Baltic, to break the chains which are ... ...at Germany did on a larger scale. The great nobles and the ritter class or knights were chiefly evangelical, and in the cities the Protestants had a d... ...er and terrified the deluded populace with threat- ened horrors of another Saint Bartholomew’s that existed only in their own imagination. All Bohemia...

...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the ...

...s ies ies Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State Unive... ...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...xpression on his flat face. He spoke in that re- fined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the gentle, patronizing i... ..., sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disap- point the expectations of those who knew her. The sub- ... ...ou alone I can confess that my children are the bane of my life. It is the cross I have to bear. That is how I explain it to myself. It can’t be helpe... ...having given them to the rosy Natasha, who beamed with the pleasure of her saint’s- day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to Pierre. “Eh... ...ith proposals and demands for him to join up with the army of the Archduke Ferdinand and Mack, and Kutuzov, not considering this junction advisable, m... ...d my sword in my left hand, Count. All our family— the von Bergs—have been knights!” He said something more, but Rostov did not wait to hear it and ro...

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