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...te 532, Toronto, oN, M2R 3X1, Canada 194 Quentin Rd, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11223, USA Printed in Canada No part of this book may be used or ... ...32, Toronto, oN, M2R 3X1, Canada 194 Quentin Rd, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11223, USA Printed in Canada No part of this book may be used or repr... ...in Rd, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11223, USA Printed in Canada No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written perm... ... book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in cr... ............................................................... 123 A Brave New World in Four Steps ...................................................... ...e. Just like Abraham and Moses in Stage o ne, the sec- - ond stage had two giants of its own: Rabbi Shimon Bar- Yochai (Rashbi) and The Holy Ari (Rabb... ...ck to Root Phase, to the Creator. Now we have a complete cycle where both players are givers. In Phase Zero, the Creator gives to Creation (Phase o... ...sts in these worlds. For example, if I tell a friend about my trip to New York, I might talk about Times Square or the great bridg- - es that connect... ...e media and social organizations. The IPCC we mentioned in Item 1 of this list is a good example of such an entity. Because we grow from one level o...
...The Kabbalist Rabbi Laitman, who was the student and personal assistant to Rabbi Baruch Ashlag from 1979-1991, follows in the footsteps of his rabbi in passing on the wisdom of Kabbalah to the world. This book is based on sources that were passed down by Rabbi Baruch's father, Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, the author of the commentaries on The Book of Zohar, who conti...
...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005... ...duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indi... ...Farmer's festival calendar 172 * Modern annual festivals 173 * Chinese New Year 175 Songkran 176 New Year of Thai culture 176 * Programme of... ...ugs ever younger. In many countries, including Finland, young girls of the new, free generation have adopted behaviour patterns of gender equality and... ...reesura Wiwien Wongsansern Sayom Munnam interviewers had in their minds a lists of topics and questions I had prepared, which they could use to move ... ...hive of the . In this book, we hear the voices of local people, villagers. Listen to their talk about life, the past and the future. They have lived i... ...s landed from the sky onto runways like jet planes, they defeated mountain giants, crossed bridges being blown to pieces, they were elemental, like wi... ...2nd SEADAG International Conference of Development in Southeast Asia, New York June 24–26, 1969. Amyot, Jacques 1965. Changing Patterns of Social St... ...gical Transition. Cultural Anthropology of Human Adaptation. Pergamon, New York. Bertens, Hans 1995. The Idea of the Postmodernism. A History. Routl...
...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. Th...
... ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: ht... ...Web: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and di... ... This letter constitutes a permission to reprint or mirror any and all of the materials mentioned or linked to herein subject to appropriate cred... ...into a territorial, commercial, corporate extension of "brick and mortar" giants, subject to government regulation. It is less friendly towards inde... ...g a full circle from considering the Internet to be the next big thing in New Media delivery - to frantic efforts to contain the red ink it oozed al... ...... ... may well follow suit shortly. Earlier this year, Microsoft has shut down ListBot (a host of discussion lists). Suite101 has stopped paying its edito... ...eir Web hosting company. The Wikipedia is an edited publication. The New-York Times is responsible for anything it publishes in its op-ed section. ... ... is far easier to publish a blog, for instance, than to write for the New York Times. Putting up a Website with all manner of spurious claims for kn...
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...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ... of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Press New Haven & London A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.carav... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...et with an extraordinary potential for growth, and pushing the industry to a new level of competition in ways to connect us to each other and to the W... ...not answer. “T o impress on you the seriousness of wrong numbers in the node list,” Jen- nings wrote, “imagine you are a poor old lady, who every sing... ...d launched it by infecting a machine at MIT from his terminal in Ithaca, New York. 4 The worm identified other nearby computers on the Internet by rifli... .... jsmith. And if not, the password was often obvious enough to be found on a list of 432 common passwords that the software tested at each com- puter.... ...... ...ry, and perhaps the broadcasters and some of the telecommunications services giants— to a combination of widely diffuse populations around the globe, a...
...xtraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation?and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. (futureoftheinternet.org)...
... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ... of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage --... ... in the year 889 -- Verdant shores and prolific woodlands -- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American con... ...ous water-bearing tree -- Man-eaters of the deep -- Mother Carey's chickens -- Giants of Brazil -- Some wonderful stories -- Seeking a passage to the ... ...a ship the name of which begins with a letter S or 0, for he can recall a long list of vessels whose names began with these unlucky letters, and every... ...ave pushed the old sailor into the background; the world has no longer time to listen to his stories; the steam engine does his work, heaves his ancho... ...ain Cook, the son of a common farm laborer, was born in the village of Marton, Yorkshire, England, October 27th, 1728. His death occurred at the hands... ...nded by Moor and Smith. They wintered about two miles from the company's fort, York, on the Hayes River, and although comfortable huts were built and ...
...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 -- The first boats -- ...
...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...ti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Liberalism IV. The New Rome - America, the Reluctant Empire V. The Democratic Ideal... ...the Reluctant Empire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State T... ...obility, and other refugees. Their Declaration of Independence reads like a maudlin list of grievances coupled with desperate protestations of love ... ...In God We Trust The Sergeant and the Girl Containing the United States Democracy and New Colonialism The American Hostel Add Me to the List, Mr. Blair... ...00 civilians died in Iraq since the American-British led "liberation". Yet, as New-York and Madrid and London can attest, ignoring one's own rules ... ...pliers, oil and service companies and west European entities. According to the New York Times, a Russian consortium, led by Lukoil, signed a 23-yea... ...rily, will accrue to the American taxpayer, the benefits will be reaped by the oil giants, the true sponsors of president Bush, his father, his vic...
The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.
.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...e The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Pag... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ... the last ten years. None of that work has been done alone. As a result, the list of people to whom I am indebted makes Oscar night acknowledgments lo... ...” 2 For several years now I have been a columnist for the Financial Times’s “New Economy Policy Forum.” Portions of Chapter 5 and Chapter 9 had their ... ...out the excesses of intel- lectual property. Some of them are even true. The list goes on and on. (By the end of this book, I hope to have convinced y... ... your cultural and innovation needs? If people need Madame Bovary or The New York Times or a new kind of an- tibiotic, surely the market will provide ... ...petunia market work. What about Madame Bovary, or the antibiotic, or The New York Times? Well, it depends. If books have to be copied out by hand, the... ...ongs, or of Isaac Newton describing himself as “standing on the shoulders of giants” (and not having to pay them royalties). Remember, that is not a w...
...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...
... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...Reductio ad absurdum: if, in the far future, research will unequivocally prove that listening to a certain kind of music or entertaining certain tho... ...scheme known as the stock exchange, this expectation is proportional to liquidity - new suckers - and volatility. Thus, the price of any given stock... ...Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to organizat... ...erich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to organization,... ...s a serious study of the Jews and their role in history, past and present. Endless lists of prominent people of Jewish descent are produced in supp... ... of a dead man is grafted onto a living man..." (Read, P.P. 1974. Alive. Avon, New York) Complex ethical issues are involved in the apparently str... ...ttest. But then surely this is too severe! Don't we all stand on the shoulders of giants? Can one be original, first, even innovative without assi...
Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.
...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....
... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ... it. If you live by it, and sit under its shade and wonder about it. If you listen to the wind soughing through its branches and enjoy its beauty ... ...ngs out, continually wondering about things, continually looking at things in new ways, continually experiencing new things, continually comparing t... ... of one Totality to penetrate, there were two. This Condition was completely new to Impetus. He became confused, he became indecisive…. Which one... ...s, nobody would The Path of Splitness Chapter One: The Universe 70 have listened to him. In fact, if he had not used two expedient constants: ... ... venture, or a bank… or a scandal of corruption, or a terrorist attack on New York. Triggering fear…resulting in a loss of confidence in the market.... ...stic system. However, in a few upscale American communities like Ithaca, New York; a local currency has been introduced to prevent the flow of mone... ...destroy all the natural plants and trees… Majestic Trees 500 years old: tall giants that took 500 years to grow: cut down in a day. Whole forests ...
...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...
...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...
...ssics Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...hat of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-for... ... violate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference to them. A. D. had no conc... ...the very pink of general propitiation and politeness. From a long habit of listening admiringly to everything that was said in her presence, and looki... ...mpromising: so very wide across the chest: so upright! A pecuniary Duke of York, my love, and nothing short of it!’ said Miss T ox. ‘That’s what I sho... ...s time you roused yourself a little? Eh?’ She bent her ear to the bed, and listened: at the same time 14 Dombey & Son looking round at the bystanders... ...e were husks in his corn, that even Game Chickens couldn’t peck up; gloomy giants in his leisure, that even Game Chick- ens couldn’t knock down. Nothi... ... that gentleman into his confidence; merely informing him that a friend in Yorkshire had written to him (Mr T oots) for his opinion on such a question...
...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution w...
...fe on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...o this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains... ...ifty feet. But at Bayou La Fourche the river rises only twenty four feet; at New Orleans only fif teen, and just above the mouth only two and one hal... ...hat it wouldn’t be no risk to swim down to the big raft and crawl aboard and listen—they would talk about Cairo, because they would be calculating to ... ...dow of them; two or three wood flats at the head of the wharf, but nobody to listen to the peaceful lapping of the wavelets against them; the great Mi... ... know it with absolute exactness. If you will take the longest street in New York, and travel up and down it, conning its features patiently until you... ... and picturesque ness drop gradually out of it as one travels away from New York.” I find that among my notes. It makes no difference which direction... ...ned and bought for that single night’s use; and in their train all manner of giants, dwarfs, monstrosi ties, and other diverting grotesquerie—a start...
...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,00...
...ies Publication Dombey & Son Volume 1 by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...hat of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-for... ... violate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference to them. A. D. had no conc... ...the very pink of general propitiation and politeness. From a long habit of listening admiringly to everything that was said in her presence, and looki... ...mpromising: so very wide across the chest: so upright! A pecuniary Duke of York, my love, and nothing short of it!’ said Miss T ox. ‘That’s what I sho... ...s time you roused yourself a little? Eh?’ She bent her ear to the bed, and listened: at the same time 14 Dombey & Son looking round at the bystanders... ...e were husks in his corn, that even Game Chickens couldn’t peck up; gloomy giants in his leisure, that even Game Chick- ens couldn’t knock down. Nothi... ... that gentleman into his confidence; merely informing him that a friend in Yorkshire had written to him (Mr T oots) for his opinion on such a question...
...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis 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... ...sting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses, homes—they seemed—for laughter and tranquillity. Over a concret... ...elow the bridge curved a railroad, a maze of green and crimson lights. The New York Flyer boomed past, and twenty lines of polished steel leaped into ... ... the bridge curved a railroad, a maze of green and crimson lights. The New York Flyer boomed past, and twenty lines of polished steel leaped into the ... ...heerful as the April dawn; the song of labor in a city built—it seemed—for giants. II There was nothing of the giant in the aspect of the man who was ... ...ut this, say, this is corking! Beginning of the end for those fellows! New York Assembly has passed some bills that ought to completely outlaw the soc... ...n’t we try something in poetry? Honest, it’d have wonderful pulling-power. Listen: ‘Mid pleasures and palaces, Wherever you may roam, You just prov... ...man who desired to lease a store-building for a pool-room; he ran over the list of home-leases which were about to expire; he sent Thomas Bywaters, a ...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....
... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publi... ...y Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any ... ...ere the rule. The little children of both sexes were nearly always nice enough to take into a body’s lap. And as for the uniforms of the soldiers, the... ...onage who is called the Portier (who is not the Porter, but is a sort of first-mate of a hotel) [1. See Appendix A] appeared at the door in a spick-an... ...an even the black one had done. But he patiently fixed and refixed it until it was exactly right and lay precisely in the middle of the black carpet. ... ... this one gives. The first night we were there, we went to bed and to sleep early; but I awoke at the end of two or three hours, and lay a comfortable... ...or. Well, one Sunday morning 13 A Tramp Abroad I was sitting out here in front of my cabin, with my cat, taking the sun, and looking at the blue hill... ...ving that we were not succeeding pretty well, they went and got their maps and things, and pointed out and ex- plained our course so clearly that even... ... lofty summits. We were soon dressed and out of the house, watching the gradual approach of dawn, thoroughly absorbed in the first near view of the Ob...
...I. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Expl... ...ation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... mother was Edith or Editha T urner, daughter of William T urner, Esq., of York. Mr Carruthers, in his excellent Life of the Poet, mentions that there... ... in his studies, and when his verses did not please him, sent him back to “new turn” them, saying, “These are not good rhymes.” His prin- cipal favour... ...re known or heard of—(MacFlecknoe, the Re- hearsal, &c.)—were mercy to the new tempest of havoc which burst from the brain of this remorseless poet. A... ...n falsehood, finesse, treachery, and envy, he stood at the bot- tom of the list, without that plea of poverty, or wretched- ness, or despair, which so... ...ves, The thrush may chant to the forsaken groves, But, charm’d to silence, listens while she sings, And all the aërial audience clap their wings. Soon... ...But where th’ extreme of vice, was ne’er agreed: Ask where’s the north? at York, ’tis on the T weed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenl... ...xecution go; For hung with deadly sins 175 I see the wall, And lined with giants deadlier than ‘em all: Each man an Ascapart, 176 of strength to tos...
Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan.
...Contents LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE.................................................................................................................................. 6 PREFACE2......................................................................
...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...e boy’s sharp, stormy gusts of passion, and his mother’s steady refusal to listen to his ‘I will be good’ until she saw that he was really sorry for t... ... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the ... ... his last examination for the Newcastle, in the spring of 1845. Before the list was given out he had written to his father that the Divinity papers we... ... did not interfere with native habits, nor talk of learning, for which the giants saw no need. The national complexion here was of a lighter yellow, t... ...yet we are proud and self-justified and vain- glorious! ‘The Archbishop of York, in “Aids to Faith,” on the Death of Christ, has some most solemn and ... ...thedral has been beautifully restored, has it not? Then, I think of you in York Minster on November 20, with that good text from Psalm xcvi. I read yo...
...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...
...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...f Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is... ...t failed to express his ideas or feel- ings, he forced it—the result was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from ha... ...was for a young man, the son of the favourite of a King long dead,—with no new friends at Court,—to acquire some personal value of his own. She succee... ...is conduct; but railing against him, with tears in her eyes, she would not listen, and drove him from her room. Her husband, who shortly afterwards jo... ... to contain myself. I spoke to M. de la Rochefoucauld; I tried to make him listen to me, and to agree that we should complain to the King, but I spoke... ... of a hundred 333 Saint-Simon guns. The English of New England and of New York were not more successful in Acadia; they attacked our colony twelve da... ...rkable: the one raised by force of trickery, heaping up mountains like the giants, leaning on vice, lies, audacity, on a cabal inimical to the state a... ...a private cabinet, when D’Antin arrived from Versailles. He approached the players, and asked what was the position of the game, with an eager- ness w...
Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.
...y George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...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... ...of his youth, the sole bad step chargeable upon his antecedents. But do we listen to them? Shall we not have them turned out? He gives the sign for it... ... the infinitely little while threading his way to a haberdasher’s shop for new white waistcoats. Under the shadow of the rep- resentative statue of Ci... ... there, and he could not induce his legs to take advantage of the gaps; he listened to a warning that he would be down again if he tried it, among tho... ...,’ exclaimed Mr. Radnor. ‘He informed me that Mrs. Burman has heard of the new mansion.’ ‘My place at Lakelands?’ Mr. Radnor’s clear-water eyes harden... ...nt. ‘I am bound to defend it, clumsy bludgeon or not.’ ‘You are one of the giants to wield it, and feel humanly, when, by chance, down it comes on the... ..., see!’ said Fenellan, ‘here’s the case. Miss Natalia Dreighton, of a good Yorkshire family—a large one, reads an advertisement for the post of compan... ...ure Irish are quick at the feelings of the Celtic French. Nataly came of a Yorkshire stock; she had the bravery, humaneness and generous temper of our...
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...assics Series Publication Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott 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... ...it seems, was proved by the report of Dr. Walter Bayly, sometime fellow of New College, then living in Oxford, and professor of physic in that univers... ...ing boys to bring my harvests home, Or I shall hear no flails thwack. —The New Inn. IT IS THE PRIVILEGE of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn,... ...ot leave my house at this hour, and shalt e’en have whatever in reason you list to call for. But I would I knew that that purse of thine, which thou v... ...; and let my nephew and Master Goldthred swagger about their wager as they list.” “It seems to me, mine host,” said T ressilian, “that you know not we... ...dfather, like some other Cornishmen, kept a warm affection to the House of York, and espoused the quarrel of this Simnel, assuming the title of Earl o... ...ers, countenanced the cause of Perkin Warbeck, calling himself the Duke of York. My grandsire joined Simnel’s standard, and was taken fighting despera... ...ng some distinguished exceptions, have created a general prejudice against giants, as being a dull and sullen kind of persons. This tremendous warder ...
...Introduction: A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting ?her sister and her foe,? the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have ap...
...Series Publication When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...e tried. Unwisely perhaps. I have fol- lowed the coast, day after day—from New Quay. It has only added muscular fatigue to the mental. The cause of th... ...hing flashed into Isbister’s mind; he started, and leaning over the table, listened. An unpleas- ant suspicion grew stronger; became conviction. Aston... ... figure! He crept slowly and noiselessly round the table, pausing twice to listen. At last he could lay his hand on the back of the armchair. He bent ... ...o retreating men and fell again, and immediately Graham was alone with the new comer and the purple-robed man with the flaxen beard. For a space the t... ...nd cities of Western America, after two hundred years still jealous of New York, London, and the East, had risen almost unanimously two days before at... ...ters of an hour, but the velocity at- tained was not high; the leap to New York occupied about two hours, and by timing oneself carefully at the inter... ...ical sarcasm in odd corners, through a number of grades to such fifty-foot giants as that which had first hooted over Graham. This place was unusually...
...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a... ...n by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ntly, 5 Balzac from the few words that reached the ear of the involuntary listener, related to a loan of money . Just as the pair approached the quay... ...rovinces, where his liberal ideas, conflicting with the necessities of the new power, made him a troublesome instrument. Bitten with liberalism, he di... ...ignated one of the four men present) was satisfied, and she would do for a new tenant just as she did for the others. “I do not think,” said the pries... ...oom was closed with a glass door, so that Godefroid, without any desire to listen, overheard as he ap- proached it what was being said there. “Madame,... ...to Jamaica, from which island I escaped by mere chance. When I reached New York I found I was a victim to the bankruptcy of oth- ers. In my absence my... ...gination lent a likeness to the Charettes and the Georges Cadoudals,—those giants of the struggle between the Re- public and the Monarchy. As soon as ... ...al. Great national con- vulsions always produce various species of dwarfed giants.” “Oh! dear papa; what a man you are! If you would only write down w...
...Excerpt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, an...
... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles D... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free... ...rising and falling of the Tug-steamer, the Lighter, and the boat—the turning of the windlass—the coming in of the tide—that I myself seemed, to my own... ... little garden in coming out to meet me, not half an hour ago. So cheerful of spirit and guiltless of affectation, as true practical Christianity ever... ...; but whose intellectual quali- ties in association with dramatic fiction, I cannot rate high. Indeed, he is too honest for the profession he has ente... ... have expected to get for the money. It was fitted up with a platform, and the usual lecturing tools, including a large black board of a menacing appe... ... trying to pick out the prettiest sister (for which I am far from blaming him), somebody cried, Hark! The man below must be playing Blindman’s Buff by... ...at wicked old disabled Black lies everlastingly cursing in bed. I was never in Don Quixote’s study, where he read his books of chivalry until he rose ... ...pulous exactness. The Mormon Agent who had been active in getting them together, and in making the contract with my friends the owners of the ship to ...
...cation Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray 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... ... bless the public with one more draught from the Stone Jug:*—yet awhile to listen, hurdle- mounted, and riding down the Oxford Road, to the bland con-... ...le sparkle of thine eye! what lies and fribble nonsense canst thou make us listen to, as they were gospel truth or splendid wit! above all what bad li... ...the rustic bystanders were quite convinced of the good intentions of their new friend, and accompanied him back to the “Bugle,” to re- gale upon the p... ...ght use, if he liked, the Galgenstein arms with a bar-sinister; and in her new cares and duties had not so many opportunities as usual of quarrelling ... ...ared last night, in the hearing of several witnesses, that he was going to York; says he is a man of independent property, and has large estates in Ir... ...he fortunes of both. For, as it has often happened to the traveller in the York or the Exeter coach to fall snugly asleep in his corner, and on awakin... ...e X—— newspaper to say whether they do not possess the real impress of the giants of the olden time—the real Platonic smack, in a word? Not that I wan...
...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroe...
...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... the Pacific Ocean. ” By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York. 1821. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was pipin... ... Pacific Ocean. ” By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York. 1821. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was piping fr... ...pen the haunts of the whale, the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpubli... ...e down from this mast head and sit on the hatches there where you sit, and listen as you listen, while some one of you reads me that other and more aw... ...ptain Ahab; doesn’t speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen. Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab’s above the common; Ahab’s been in col... ...t jet is so often descried by passengers crossing the Atlantic, in the New York packet tracks. In the length he attains, and in his baleen, the Fin b... ...ls snuffed in the sublime life of the worlds. Not by beef or by bread, are giants made or nourished. But Queequeg, he had a mortal, barbaric smack of ...
... and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....
...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...
...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville 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... ...the pacific ocean.” By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ... ...pacific ocean.” By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ing ... ... of the whale, 12 Moby Dick the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.” —From “Some- thing” unpu... ...s mast- 56 Moby Dick head and sit on the hatches there where you sit, and listen as you listen, while some one of you reads me that other and more aw... ...ptain Ahab; doesn’t speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen. Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab’s above the common; Ahab’s been in col... ...ls snuffed in the sublime life of the worlds. Not by beef or by bread, are giants made or nourished. But Queequeg, he had a mortal, barbaric smack of ... ...e and sentimentalist in Truth. But clear Truth is a thing for sala- mander giants only to encounter; how small the chances for the provincials then? W...
...s A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylva- ... ...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... ...LIC DINNER given to me on Saturday the 18th of April, 1868, in the city of New York, by two hundred representatives of the Press of the United States ... ...DINNER given to me on Saturday the 18th of April, 1868, in the city of New York, by two hundred representatives of the Press of the United States of A... ...ges in the amount of land subdued and peopled, changes in the rise of vast new cities, changes in the growth of older cities almost out of recognition... ..., of him who least deserves it. There would be madness, Tom!’ Mr Pinch had listened to all this with looks of bewilderment, which seemed to be in part... ...nswer to the simplest inquiry; though Mr Pecksniff could make out, by hard listening at the door, that they two being left together, he was talkative ... ...s whether a man has a thousand pound, or nothing, there. Particular in New York, I’m told, where Ned landed.’ ‘New York, was it?’ asked Martin, though... ...us but for their good-will and kind purpose; and here were swarthy fellows—giants in their way— doing such little acts of tenderness for those about t...
...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether...
... ... ... Twenty Years After (The Third Volume of The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Dumas is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Porta... ...t, perhaps, have greatly sig- nified; for when the lower classes alone complained, the court of France, separated as it was from the poor by the inter... ...tack the magistrates and had sold no less than twelve appointments in the Court of Requests, at a high price; and as the officers of that court paid v... ...ify him for his loss. Now the following occurrences had taken place between the two contending parties On the seventh of January between seven and eig... ...affected popularity. The duke received them and they informed him that they were resolved not to pay this tax, even if they were obliged to defend the... ... the Order of St. Michael; besides which, the king, fifteen years after- ward, gave him also this ewer and a sword which you may have seen formerly in... ...I thank you, gentlemen. But hear me,” continued she. “I am not only the most miserable of queens, but the most unhappy of mothers, the most wretched o... ...le in the streets as you came here. These men are go- ing to behead your father. Do not forget that. Perhaps some day they will want to make you king,...
...Excerpt: The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu. In a splendid chamber of the Palais Royal, formerly styled the Palais Cardinal, a man was sitting in deep reverie, his head supported on his hands, leaning over a gilt and inlaid table which was covered...
...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...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... ... of berths in the ship’s cabin in which the wounded were to be conveyed to New York. Still thrilling with the suffering of being carried from the fiel... ...berths in the ship’s cabin in which the wounded were to be conveyed to New York. Still thrilling with the suffering of being carried from the field, a... ...a lady of his own choice, and gives the veiled Alcestis back to him as the new bride. Later Greeks tried to explain the story by saying that Alcestis ... ...eighbor- ing farms lost not one lamb through their violence. Some at least listened to the song of their warlike minstrel: ‘Come, ye children, and hea... ... The chosen English king, Harold, had marched at full speed from Sussex to Yorkshire, and met the invaders marching at their ease, without expecting a... ... when she was a very little girl, a word of hers had saved her father from listening to a traitorous message from the King of Persia; and every Sparta... ...stand by one another to the last. These Gauls were probably not tall, bony giants, like the pillagers of Rome; their appearance and character would be...
...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...
... Ten Years Later– Volume One (The Thr... ... Ten Years Later– Volume One (The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Duma [Pere] is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...ce to excite the attention and admiration of the public in a very modified degree wherever he might be. Monsieur had fallen into this situation by hab... ...ight, in green, was the grand veneur. One of the pages carried two gerfalcons upon a perch, the other a hunting-horn, which he blew with a careless no... ... cry of “Vive le Roi!” which passed over him. For a long time, being unaccustomed to hear it, his ear had had rest, and now a younger, more vivacious,... ...mbracing you likewise.” The good old man did not require to be twice told; he rushed in with open arms, Raoul meeting him halfway. “Now, if you please... ...hat; I shall only have to remind you of one thing, and that is that Charles I. had a son.” “Without contradicting you, monsieur, he had two,” said Pla... ...ho rolled at his feet. “Passage! passage!” cried the companions of Menneville, at first terrified, but soon recovering, when they found they had only ... ...chdeacons, a treasurer, a penitent and twelve can- ons. A singer with a thundering voice — a man certainly picked out from all the voices of France, a...
...Excerpt: Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men a...
...NDSHIP and Other Early Works also spelled LOVE AND FREINDSHIP A collection of juvenile writings by Jane Austen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...cs Series Publication Love and Friendship by Jane Austen is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...young Woman, who was ushured into the Room at the Door of which I had been listening. On hearing her announced by the Name of “Lady Dorothea,” I inst... ... having roasted Beef, Broiled Mut- ton, and Stewed Soup enough to last the new-married Couple through the Honey-moon, I had the mortifica- tion of fin... ...her, but without any effect, and at last as I saw that she did not seem to listen to me, I said no more, but leaving her with my Mother I took down th... ... was therefore 42 Love and Friendship removed from a miserable Cottage in Yorkshire to an elegant Mansion in Cumberland, and from every pecu- niary D... ...een able to drive poor Henry from her remembrance. You ask me whether your new Mother in law is hand- some and amiable—I will now give you an exact de... ...emselves. I wish my dear Charlotte that you could but behold these Scotch giants; I am sure they would frighten you out of your wits. They will do v... ...strian. I suppose you know all about the Wars between him and the Duke of York who was of the right side; if you do not, you had better read some oth...
...rayed in Love.? Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said ?No, my friend never will I comply with your request till I may be no longer in Danger of again experiencing such dreadful ones.?...
...SLEY CASTLE .......................................................................................................................... 35 THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND ................................................................................................... 61 A COLLECTION OF LETTERS ..........................................................................................
...lter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...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... ...at it would have been an idle piece of affectation to attempt getting up a new incognito, after his original visor had been thus dashed from his brow.... ...ime unsuccessful. “I was found with the mark of the Beast upon me in every list,” was Invernahyle’s expression. At length Colonel Whitefoord ap- plied... ...ng of a decisive character, and are not eagerly and easily diverted into a new channel. When I made the discov- 15 Sir Walter Scott ery—for to me it ... ... he proposed to drink to the memory of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York.—Drunk in solemn silence. The chairman then requested that gentlemen w... ...d I was at length a free man, at liberty to go or stay wheresoever my mind listed. I left my lodgings as hastily as if it had been a pest-house. I did... ...huttles in a field diapre), a web partly unfolded for crest, and two stout giants for supporters, each one hold- ing a weaver’s beam proper. T o have ... ...band occupied Holyrood in a species of honourable banishment; [The Duke of York afterwards James II., frequently resided in Holyrood House when his re...
...Excerpt: Introduction to Chronicles of the Canongate. The preceding volume of this Collection concluded the last of the pieces originally published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the wri...
...Contents INTRODUCTION TO CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE. .......................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................
...n ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens 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 ... ....................................... .......................... 15 SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842. ................................................. ................................... .......................... 15 SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842. ..................................................... ............................................ .................... 125 SPEECH: NEW YORK, APRIL 18, 1863. .................................................... ........................................ .................... 125 SPEECH: NEW YORK, APRIL 18, 1863. ........................................................ ...nerous welcome less, I should be better able to thank you. If I could have listened as you have listened to the glowing language of your distinguished... ...u in your summer walks, and gather round your winter evening hearths. As I listened to his words, there came back, fresh upon me, that touching scene ... ...rmingham is, in my mind and in the minds of most men, associated with many giants; and I no more believe that this young institution will turn out sic...
...Y 7, 1842. ............................................................................................................................... 15 SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842. ..................................................................................................... 19 SPEECH: MANCHESTER, OCTOBER 5, 1843. .........................................................
...ries Publication Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...HAMP Y CHAMP Y CHAMP Y CHAMPION ION ION ION ION THERE WAS ONCE a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those ... ...ch would be the triumph of civil and religious rights and the salvation of New England. It was but a doubtful whisper: it might be false, or the attem... ...L WEDDING KNELL WEDDING KNELL THERE IS A CERTAIN CHURCH in the city of New York which I have always regarded with peculiar interest, on account of a m... ...in astonishment. 1 Another clergyman in New England, Mr. Joseph Moody, of York, Maine, who died about eighty years since, made himself remarkable by ... ...itious fears which belonged to the age, and compelled himself to pause and listen. “The voice is most likely mortal, nor have I cause to tremble if it... ... Before Ilbrahim would consent to occupy it, he knelt down, and as Dorothy listened to his simple and af- fecting prayer, she marvelled how the parent... ...agments of na- ked rock heaped confusedly together, like a cairn reared by giants in memory of a giant chief. In this bleak realm of upper air nothing...
...Excerpt: There was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II, the bigoted successor of Charles the Voluptuous, had annulled the charters of all the colon...
............................... 11 THE MINISTER?S BLACK VEIL A PARABLE1 ................................................................. 19 THE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNT ................................................................................ 32 THE GENTLE BOY ............................................................................................................ 43...
...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle 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... ..................................................... 275 Chapter 2.4.V . The New Berline. ................................................................. ...auroux, with her band-boxes and rouge-pots, at his side; so that, at every new station, a wooden gallery must be run up between their lodgings. He has... ...strength of Heaven assisting him, to avoid the like—for the future!” Words listened to by Richelieu with mastiff-face, growing blacker; answered to, a... ...has taken office with the noblest plainness of speech to that effect; been listened to with the noblest royal trustfulness. (Turgot’s Letter: Condorce... ...rofessional one of Monseigneur. Elf jokeis, we have seen; but see now real Yorkshire jockeys, and what they ride on, and train: English racers for Fre... ...volunteer Fifteen Thousand are shovelling and trundling; with the heart of giants; and all in right order, with that extemporaneous adroitness of thei... .... And England has donned the red coat; and marches, with Royal Highness of York,— whom some once spake of inviting to be our King. Changed that humour...
...E ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................................
...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ......................................................................... 301 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS ........................................................ ......................................................................... 315 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS ........................................................ ...llation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign? London and Paris and New York must go the same way. “What is history,” said Napoleon, “but a fable a... ...ice within one year after- wards in the cities or suburbs of Boston or New York, it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being dish... ...s faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. Why need you choose so painfully yo... ...ors. He proposes himself for contests where Time, Want, Danger, are in the lists, and he alone is victor who has truth enough in his constitution to p... ...what he meant who said, “When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.” I too see that painting and sculpture are gymnastics of the eye, i...
...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can under...
...ication Publication Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson 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... ...wood Anderson’s small-town “grotesques,” I felt that he was opening for me new depths of experience, touching upon half-buried truths which nothing in... ...n half-buried truths which nothing in my young life had prepared me for. A New York City boy who never saw the crops grow or spent time in the small t... ...lf-buried truths which nothing in my young life had prepared me for. A New York City boy who never saw the crops grow or spent time in the small towns... ... or with a sputtering incoherent rage, they approach him, pleading that he listen to their stories in the hope that perhaps they can find some sort of... ...ge Willard. The burden this places on the boy is more than he can bear. He listens to them attentively, he is sympathetic to their complaints, but fin... ...ing the long hours alone, the little fears that had visited her had become giants. Now they were all gone. 33 Winesburg, Ohio “When I get back to my ... ... generations before Jesse’s time. They 50 Sherwood Anderson came from New York State and took up land when the country was new and land could be had ...
...S ....................................................................................................................................... 14 THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE .................................................................................................................................... 14 HANDS......................................................................
...Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Ch... ...d edited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...not have made it, had I not believed that it would be the means of drawing new readers to Boswell, and eventu- ally of finding for them in the complet... ...ift the back- ground, the interlocutors, the light and shade, in search of new revelations and effects. He pre- sents a succession of many scenes, exq... ...mmond observed him at the ca- thedral perched upon his father’s shoulders, listening and gaping at the much celebrated preacher. Mr. Hammond asked Mr.... ...oasting of the many eminent men who had been educated at Pembroke. In this list are found the names of Mr. Hawkins the Poetry Pro- fessor, Mr. Shensto... ...n the last century, Hooker, Bacon, Sanderson, Hakewell, and others; those ‘Giants,’ as they were well characterised by a great personage, whose author... ... Life of Johnson cated some Musick for the German Flute to Edward, Duke of York. In writing Dedications for others, he considered himself as by no mea... ...- livened with a gay profusion of colours. Mrs. Bosville, of Gunthwait, in Yorkshire, joined us, and entered into conversation with us. Johnson said t...
...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 gr...
...ries Publication The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...ng under the loss of the main pillar of their house, but sending forth the new founders with good hope. Geraldine had made her home at St. Matthew’s w... ...zing how far life is from having its final crisis over at one-and-twenty . New Sisters came in, old ones went to found fresh branches; stricter rules ... ...sion by the loss of hair, and with a look of weary, placid enjoyment as he listened to the talk of the other two; Lance with bright, sweet animation a... ...ess promptness and the rapt, musing look she had seen when she came on him listening to the measured cadence of the waves upon the cliffs, and the rev... ...e times you are speaking of, when the old rules pre- vailed, and the great giants of Church renewal were there!” said Geraldine. “Y ou belong to the g... ...erpool, whither he had telegraphed to secure a second-class passage to New York for G. F . Wood and Lydia Wood, the names which he meant to be called ... ...ou all the situation, and I will send a letter as soon as we arrive at New York. No time for more, except that I am as much as ever ...
...Preface: If a book by an author who must call herself a veteran should be taken up by readers of a younger generation, they are begged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns ...
...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ........................................... 135 SANDYS’ GHOST;82 OR, A PROPER NEW BALLAD ON THE NEW OVID’S METAMORPHOSES: AS IT WAS INTENDED TO BE TRANSL... ...peare, Spenser, Milton, and Dryden, to fill the six va- cant places in the New Palace of Westminster. This does not substantiate the assertion, that P... ...g than of that thorough and genial insight which sympathy produces. He has listened at the keyhole, not by any “Open Sesame” entered the chamber. He h... ... double day. The monarch then his solemn silence broke, The still creation listen’d while he spoke; 74 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 ... ...es: All sudden, Gorgons hiss, and dragons glare, And ten-horn’d fiends and giants rush to war. Hell rises, heaven descends, and dance on earth: 368 Go... ... high- est posts in the kingdom, died in the year 1687, in a remote inn in Yorkshire, reduced to the utmost misery.—P . 42 ‘Shrewsbury:’ the Countess... ... Fox and Henley. 109 ‘H—n:’ Hinton. 110 ‘Ebor:’ Blackburn, Archbishop of York, and Hoadley, Bishop of Winchester. 111 ‘O—w:’ Onslow, Speaker of the...
Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two.
...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS .....................................................................................................................
...The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...he wet was already penetrating through the young man’s outer coat to a brand new shooting jacket, for which he had reluctantly paid the large sum of t... ...e of Idle, far below, look in the exaggerative mist, like a pair of friendly giants, mounting the steps of some invisible castle to gether. Up and up... ...g straight for ward round the slope of it. The difficulty of following this new route is acutely felt by Thomas Idle. He finds the hardship of walkin... ...bottom of the court, facing the en trance from the street. The men were all listening to one other man, better dressed than the rest, who was telling... ...ok the candle, and advanced softly to draw the curtain—stopped half way, and listened for a mo ment—then turned to the landlord. ‘He’s a very quiet s... ...out. I’ve kept my part of the bargain, and I mean to keep the money. I’m not Yorkshire, myself, young gentleman; but I’ve lived long enough in these p... ...artificial touchwood by smoke and ashes), deep in the manufacturing bosom of Yorkshire. A mys terious bosom it appeared, upon a damp, dark, Sunday ni...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their employer. They were...