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Excerpt: A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publicati... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylva... ... State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedicat... .... Nevertheless, the T ouchards, father and son, had acquired 4 A Start in Life a monopoly of travel and transportation to all the populous towns with... ...to Isle- Adam was the paved highway of the Princes of Conti. 6 A Start in Life Pierrotin and his colleague reigned, therefore, from Paris to Isle-Ada... ... without that facility of speech which is acquired chiefly through “seeing life” and other countries. His voice, by dint of talking to his horses and ... ...h the lesser bourgeoisie, he always respected women in whatever station of life they belonged. Nevertheless, by dint of “trundling the world,”—one of ... ...ng parcels, who required less care than the inanimate ones,— 8 A Start in Life the essential object of a coaching business. Warned by the general mov... ...d “imperial,” into which Pierrotin managed to poke six pas- 10 A Start in Life sengers; this space was inclosed by leather curtains. Pierrotin himsel...

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...by Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thomas Carlyle The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle PART I CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY N ear... ... of drawing up a Biography to introduce them, should be left to him 4 The Life of John Sterling alone; and done without interference of mine:—as ac- ... ... a Work not free from ecclesiastical heresies, and especially in writing a Life very full of such, to dwell with preponderating emphasis on that part ... ...eation; as if religious hetero- doxy had been the grand fact of Sterling’s life, which even to the Archdeacon’s mind it could by no means seem to be. ... ...had he any special relation to the *John Sterling’s Essays and Tales, with Life by Archdeacon Hare. Parker; London, 1848. 5 Thomas Carlyle Church. Bu... ...itself from the baleful imbroglio, as if that had been its one function in life: who in this miserable figure would recognize the brilliant, beautiful... ... wherever he went? It is too bad. Let a man be honestly forgotten when his life ends; but let him not be misremembered in this way. To be hung up as a...

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Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electroni... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Penns... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ty is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring Note: The story of Luc... ... sincerely affectionate De Balzac. July 1838. 4 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life SCENES FROM A COURTESAN’S LIFE ESTHER HAPPY; OR, HOW A COURTESAN CAN L... ...uriosity he excited. Everything about him proclaimed the habits of refined life. In obedience to a fatal law of the time we live in, there is not much... ...es in this royal city, namely, Chance. At the 6 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life same time, his dress and manners were above reproach; he trod the clas... ...Sixte du Chatelet—whom Lucien had abridged of 8 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life his ambitious du with an emphasis that betrayed long medi- tated reven... ...he protection of the strongest power of the day—the Church. Choose between life and death—Answer.” Rastignac felt giddy, like a man who has slept in a...

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Excerpt: Septimius Felton; or, The Elixir of Life by Nathanial Hawthorne.

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Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

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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 importa...

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...to reveal cracks which, from either the reverberations of former blows in life or what was still alive underneath and sought escape, appeared in the... .... Before he began to hobble – the reason he stumbled one day and lost his life in that hit and run accident - he was quite vibrant in his way. Now th... ...m as though pleasure were the predominant and most substantive part of her life, a treat of recompense for the vanished concept of family (her mother... ...me a half hour in the hours of the days of the months of the years of her life. And from somewhere into the vacuity of her conscious mind came a tho... ...ousin - a cousin who had been family by proximity in a brief period of her life only to be ultimately taken away by their move to Texas--roasting hot... ... she have felt lucky that inside she never matured - that, throughout her life, she never lost, within the heart, the callow love for her mother the ... ...cating from simple and residual pleasures some agenda and meaning for her life, even with marginal awareness of herself and her surroundings--a depor... ...pediting her renewal when the stigma of being refuse from a shelter and of life with no artificially concocted meaning of job and family was so excru... ...predators that threatened her existence. But, in such fear, what type of life was this that she was living, and what actually was it that she feared...

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...Excerpt: Volume Two of The Life And Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens....

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...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I Part The First O NCE UPON A TIME, ... ...the nestling town among the trees, away into the bright dis 3 The Battle of Life tance on the borders of the sky and earth, where the red sunsets f... ...ey had ever served, and those who found them wondered and dis The Battle of Life 4 puted. An old dinted corselet, and a helmet, had been hang ing ... ...s. As they danced among the orchard trees, and down the groves The Battle of Life 5 of stems and back again, and twirled each other lightly round an... ... speak gravely of it on this preposterous and ridiculous business called Life, every minute?’ ‘No, father!’ ‘No, not you, of course; you’re a woma... ...ty face, still close to his, ‘I suppose it’s your birth day.’ The Battle of Life 6 ‘No! Do you really, father?’ cried his pet daughter, pursing up ... ...r own, Marion, ’ cried her sister, ‘even in jest. There is not The Battle of Life 7 a truer heart than Alfred’s in the world!’ ‘No no,’ said Marion, ... ...utiful child; and he was sorry for her sake sorry for them both that life should be such a very ridiculous business as it was. The Doctor neve...

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Excerpt: A Reading of Life by George Meredith.

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...TTE M. YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Love and Life by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Love and Life by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic C... ... State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e LOVE AND LIFE An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume By CHARLOTTE M. YONGE PREF ... ...uleius himself either found it, or adapted it to the idea of the Soul (the Life) awakened by Love, grasping too soon and impatiently, then losing it, ... ...till her hopes are crowned even at the gates of death. Psyche, the soul or life, whose emblem is the butterfly, thus even in heathen philosophy strain... ...ugh many trials, to be made one with Him after passing through 4 Love and Life Death. The Spanish poet Calderon made it the theme of two sacred drama... ...rayer, reanimated Psyche, and gave her a place among the gods. 6 Love and Life CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I A SYLL A SYLL A SYLL... ...e little rogue whom I saw peeping from the window has not been 8 Love and Life troublesome.” “He has been as good as gold, madam. He played in master... ...ly. “Aurelia was a very good girl. No one could have curtsied 10 Love and Life or bridled more prettily when we paid our respects to my Lady Herries ...

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