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... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...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... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...the Turks for deporting the urban Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire's major cities. Today there are less than 60,000 Armenians in Turkey com... ...d Arkansas - joined them only after the attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861. Two - Kentucky and Missouri - seceded but were controlled by the Union... ... pair of bodies for a Verthingall of crymsen Grosgrain." Queen Elizabeth had these listed in her garderobe: "A payre of bodies of black cloth of s... ...05:12 AM Property damage: Fire destroyed the business district of San Francisco. Cities along the fault (e.g., San Jose, Salinas, and Santa Rosa)...
Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.
...CENSORED* How the founder of the Cookie Company lost everything, including his nome - and turned adv... ...ng P.O. Box 108 Lower Lake, CA 95457 (707) 995-1861 For a free catalog of all our titles, or to order more copies of this book please call (800)... ... of this book please call (800) 275-2606. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Amos, Wally. Man with no name: turn lemons into lemon... ...All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or trans mitted in any form or by any means, electro... ... had moved to another city, which left me disap pointed. I decided not to listen to any promises I could not cash in on right away. Then I met a gi... ...n I de served would have been against all I believed in. And heading ~he list of my beliefs was standing up for my worth. It was not my in tention ... ...her as well. My work managing bands on road trips took me to many distant cities. I would often extend these excursions for a day or two in order to... ...o committed my time and resources to a dropout prevention program, called Cities in Schools, that supports and encourages children to stay in school... ...e. In addition to the bakery in McComb, he had facilities in Missouri and Kentucky, as well. I shared ideas and my love of the cookie business with ...
...The story of how the founder of the Famous Amos Cookie Company lost everything, including his name----and turned adversity into opportunity. This revealing book chronicles Wally's loss of the cookie empire that he had built, to the ope...
...arned his craft on a large Wyoming ranch, he was now out to seek his fortune in Texas. This second novel in the Montana series takes place in the... ...rt Worth area, where he finds all the excitement he can handle working on one of the biggest ranches in the state. It was his interest in race hors... ...finds all the excitement he can handle working on one of the biggest ranches in the state. It was his interest in race horses that took him there i... ...sn’t long before he came face to face with rustlers and other low types… and, of course, a girl. These are the stories of that young man who, gu... ... I do worry about his traveling to and from town so often alone. Maybe he’ll listen to me next time. Bobby, can you show Montana to the bunkhouse? ... ...st legs if I ever saw ‘em. Of course, Tom, the original Steel Dust came from Kentucky in the forties. Might be there’s another branch of the family... ... “Can’t say I have. What’s a fair got to do with grocery stores and buildin’ cities? And what’s any of that got to do with horses?” “Fair Park is... ...ould hear ‘em talkin’ from behind the door, but made an effort to try not to listen. Just as I was about to excuse myself to go back out and tend t... ...t? “It’s hard to tell, Montana. Most of these Steel Dust horses came out of Kentucky and the Middleton Perry and Jones Greene stock. All except W...
...This second novel in the series follows young "Montana" to Fort Worth, Texas in 1886, where he hires on at a major cattle ranch and ultimately saves it from foreclosure. A good deal of the story involves his horse "Spirit" and his involvement ...
...t your money! A Practical Step-by-Step Guide to Navigating the world of high yield, low risk Tax Lien and Tax Deed Sales Includes Gloss... ...s book is meant solely as a broad guideline. It is meant to assist the Layperson in understanding the law as it pertains to buying Tax Lien Certifica... ...ins general definitions, guidelines and simple forms. It will assist the reader in understanding the general principles involved, and in drafting s... ...ounting or tax advice. When in doubt, the reader is cautioned to seek the advice of the appropriate professional. © 2001 by Lillian R. Villanova. ... ...art. Over the course of my learning experience, I learned that you can read and listen, but there is no substitute for actually doing it. So while ... ...ther investors are proceeding and succeeding, the various chatrooms and websites listed in the back of this book are a good place to go. They are a ... ...duct Tax Deed Sales, ask which governmental entity does. You may find the local Cities and towns conduct the sales or that it is handled by the sta... ...e purchaser. County A division within a state, usually encompassing one or more cities or towns. Covenant that runs with the land A promise or ob... ...mas, Trego, Wabaunsee, Wallace, Washington, Wichita, Wilson, Woodson, Wyandotte Kentucky: Tax Lien Certificate State 120 Counties Adair, Allen, An...
...It’s time to step out of the box and shift your paradigm. It’s time to put everything you know about a high rate of return being equal to high risk to the side. What I’m about to tell you could turn the way you think about investing upside down. A...
...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ...ardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully il... ...ees, then sat next to him. The door had shut itself and we were alone. We listened to each other’s breathing and his hand sought mine and climbed my... ...aeus and some friends to supper. We sat around the courtyard fountain and listened to the harpists playing under the burning lamps. Libus, Nanno, Su... ...the plants below, the glassy window of the water, the fish, coral, ruined cities...the lovers of other days, the mother of us all, love, pulsing in ... ..., storm, heat, cold, before us, deceptive, feminine, wrap- ping us in fog, cities, deserts, islands, birds, starry decks and windless watches. We nev... ...ve Mansion May 22, 1863 I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were born in Virginia, of undistinguished families—se...
...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the pri...
...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... ...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Le... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Lemuel Gulli... ...ted. ―In India family farming has reduced as people have moved to the cities. It has shrunk in size and quantity, and a few years ago mounting d... ...an‘t keep your horse stabled all the time then just let it out to run the Kentucky Derby or the Grand National. ―To be prepared to meet the cha... ...at age 31 and 9 months. ―And with more and more people settling in cities, and growing old there, municipalities around the planet are facing... ...s in the world on practical politics—the science of the possible. We have listened to him and used many of his ideas for manipulating our people to ... ... And if the children are trouble makers, the parents go to the end of the list. So for those who have 62 chosen to be parents we reward those wi...
...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...
...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...rfeit game to its credit; or, in other words, Williams will include in its list of game-scores at the end of next season both a victory over and a def... ...hat a policy of municipal ownership of street railways is best in American cities." The camiidates are to speak in tlie following order; .VIIirinative... ...at a policy of ninnicipal ownership of street railways is best in American cities,'' which was evi- dently not thoroughly understood by some of the sp... ...ion occur the league would immediately beco.me eligible for a place on the list of former leagues which have passed their period of usefulness, so far... ...|)any at Fort Wayne, Ind. Pierce is coaching athletics and teaching at the Kentucky military academy, Lyndon, Ky. Porter is studying medicine at Harva...
...ongest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the...
...... ...serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Our missio... ...liographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Our mission is to serv... ...ludes any service that offers this file for download or commercial distribution in any form, (See complete disclaimer http://WorldLibrary.net/Copyri... ...it to protect every liv ing thing, even the huge black beetle that scared him. Listening to his grandfather, he wondered how anyone could protect a... ...g brave." 'Richard's grandfather was only one-quarter Suquamish Indian, but to listen to him he was a full blooded Chief. Richard's father, who had... ... he had played with Brent for years. "You want a drink? Got a special bottle of Kentucky Bourbon just waiting to be opened," he said with a sparkle ... ...clean up costs," Brent added. "That's just the beginning. We'll have to abandon cities and infrastructures, farms, manufacturing plants. The health ... ...Federally-owned Lands for the Johnarhan Cross building of new communities and cities. Along with the Secre tary of Interior, the Army Corp of Engi...
A One man's quest for truth, freedom and pure spirituality in a world without.
...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, ...
...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ... is a retired businessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. Th... ...ricans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happiness list than are the French, who vacation a lot. ―Money only makes ... ...eve? In Canada their census data showed that 16% had no religion, but the cities had much higher percentages than the rural areas. Atheists and agno... ...ntry have learned to accept. The ever-present graffiti and tagging in our cities is such a testimony to artistic free expression—and ostensibly to t... ...ps the winners of the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, the winner of the Kentucky Derby, or a psychologist‘s favorite rat.‖ —―Let‘s get back...
... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...like a Chinamen who had sucked up too much sun. After the revelation he had listened to him repeatedly talk about wishing that he had been born a wom... ... "Raindrops keep falling on my head" and other lugubrious folk melodies. He listened. He cried on her white blanket as if she had banished him foreve... ...ght a ticket in the Chinchon station and boarded a bus. All bus terminals in cities under a million people had cement floors and were dark and dirty l... ...norant that more missiles were coming. "Let others die but not me; let other cities perish but not ours" was a dominant thought in everyone's head. It... ...y would have cloyed her sanity. Being with that same man 24 hours a day at a Kentucky Derby, an Indianapolis 500 or other non-Parmenidetian activity t...
...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca N...
...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street 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... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...s everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York Sta... ...for-leather posses. As she climbed along the banks of the dark river Carol listened to its fables about the wide land of yellow wa- ters and bleached ... ... parting, and we’ll never see some of the bunch again!” “Carol, you got to listen to me! You always duck when I try to talk seriously to you, but you ... ...arms beyond.” “I know but— Of course I’ve spent nine years around the Twin Cities—took my B.A. and M.D. over at the U., and had my internship in a hos... ... theirs is a pio- neer land. What is its future? she wondered. A future of cities and factory smut where now are loping empty fields? Homes universal ...
...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...
...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single ships such offic... ...rvices and gallantry in action against an enemy, be restored to the active list, and not otherwise.” In conformity with this law, Captain David G . Fa... ...mitted by private messengers, who pursued a circuitous way to the seaboard cities, inland across the States of Pennsylva- nia and Ohio and the norther... ...: W e are changing one of the departmental lines, so as to give you all of Kentucky and Tennessee. In your movement upon Chat- tanooga I think it prob... ...ay, in your judgment, be neces- sary to garrison and hold all the numerous cities and military 69 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six positions...
...Excerpt: The third section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to det...
...ublication North America: Volume Two 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... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ss. And yet Washington has been a failure. It is commerce that makes great cities, and commerce has refused to back the general’s choice. New York and... ...and Philadelphia, without any political power, have become great among the cities of the earth. They are beaten by none except by London and Paris. Bu... ...eum of models of all patents taken out. I wandered through it, gazing with listless eye now upon this and now upon that; but to me, in my igno- rance,... ...nded. But our stern commander, for we were on a government boat, would not listen to their prayers, but carried us instead on board the “Pensacola,” a... ..., 25; Ohio, 21; Virginia, 13; Massachusetts and Indiana, 11; Tennessee and Kentucky, 10; South Carolina, 6; and so on, till Delaware, Kansas, and Flor...
............................................................................................................................. 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR .......................................................................................................... 47 CHAPTER IV: WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS .......................................................................
...Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...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... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott, the Penns... ...king from yon fen the reed, And watch it floating down the T weed; Or idly list the shrilling lay With which the milkmaid cheers her way, Marking its ... ...ng, And led his sumpter-mules along, And ambling palfrey, when at need Him listed ease his battle-steed. The last and trustiest of the four, On high h... ...en; And thought how sad would be such sound On Susquehana’s swampy ground, Kentucky’s wood-encumbered brake, Or wild Ontario’s boundless lake, Where h... ... 89 Sir Walter Scott Though thou o’er realms and seas hast ranged, Marked cities lost, and empires changed, While here, at home, my narrower ken Some...
...ion to Canto First. November?s sky is chill and drear, November?s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew....
...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania Stat... ...itings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... of intention may be made or naturalizations effected to send periodically lists of the names of the persons naturalized or declaring their intention ... ...te Commander D. D. Por- ter to be a rear-admiral in the Navy on the active list from the 4th July, 1863, to fill an existing vacancy. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.... ...ANSION, WASHINGTON, January 6, 1864. 2 P.M. GOVERNOR BRAMLETTE, Frankfort, Kentucky: Y ours of yesterday received. Nothing is known here about Genera... ...Congressional Districts, and it would overwhelm us to attempt in counties, cities and towns. Nevertheless we do what we can to oblige in particular c... ...irs, first begun at Chicago and next held in Boston, Cincinnati, and other cities. The motive and object that lie at the bottom of them are worthy of...
...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck...
...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State... ...ritings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...wonder if there are some Kentuckians about this audi- ence—we are close to Kentucky; and whether that be so or not, we are on elevated ground, and, by... ...e it. In this matter Judge Douglas is preparing the public mind for you of Kentucky to make perpetual that good thing in your estimation, about which ... ...the revival of the slave trade whenever you want it. If you question this, listen awhile, consider awhile what I shall advance in support of that prop... ... so far as I know or believe, they will be content. And now, if they would listen—as I suppose they will not— I would address a few words to the South... ...ent means to counteract, even, if neces- sary, to the bombardment of their cities and, in the extremist necessity, the suspension of the writ of habea...
...Excerpt: Sydney Spring. My dear sir, your letter introducing Mr. Faree was duly received. There was no opening to nominate him for Superintendent of Public Instruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legisl...
...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve 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... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...; I had rather injure the success of my statements than add my name to the list of those strangers who repay the generous hospitality they have receiv... ...eople are more rude in aristocratic coun- tries than elsewhere, in opulent cities than in rural districts. In those places where the rich and powerful... ...eople are more rude in aristocratic coun- tries than elsewhere, in opulent cities than in rural districts. In those places where the rich and powerful... ... a corrupt nature which is effected both by men and beasts to do what they list, and this liberty is inconsistent with authority, impatient of all res... ... of North Carolina, art. 31; Virginia; South Carolina, art. I, Section 23; Kentucky, art. 2, Section 26; Tennessee, art. 8, Section I; Louisiana, art....
...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of...
...obal Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on the first edition of 1919. Electronic text created by Sara Triggs. Contents Preface . . . ... ...I — The New Frenchwoman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 VII — In Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 I ... ...EIR MEANING 1 PREFACE T his book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observa tion, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. H... ... observa tion, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could ... ...s grown up as it has about similar carefully guarded relics in our expanding cities, and in many European ones as well. It is probable that not a day ... ... by what they saw if Germany held our Atlantic sea board, with all its great cities, together with, say, Pittsburg and Buffalo, and all our best manho... ...nversation is known to be so good that the other guests have been invited to listen to him. Even so, he must give them a chance now and then, and it i... .... But above all they are not to air their views in the presence of men worth listening to. The French care passionately for ideas, but they do not exp... ... not some races—the artistically non creative—born as irremediably blind as Kentucky cave fishes? The answer might be yes, in the case of the wholly n...
...Excerpt: PREFACE; This book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observation, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; and the excu...
...Table of Contents: Preface, 1 -- I ?First Impression, 4 -- I, 4 -- II, 6 -- III, 8 -- II? Reverence, 10 -- I, 10 -- II, 13 -- III, 15 -- III? Taste, 17 -- I, 17 -- II, 17 -- III, 18 -- IV, 21 -- IV? Intellectual Honesty, 24 -- I, 2...
... Don Juan by George Byron 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... ...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Don Juan by George Byron , the Pennsylvania State University,... ...t, to such doings I ‘m a stranger, But hear these freedoms form the utmost list Of all o’er which such love may be a ranger: If people go beyo... ...ters sweep; ‘T is sweet to see the evening star appear; ‘T is sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf; ‘t is sweet to view ... ...great names which in our faces stare, The General Boon, back woodsman of Kentucky, Was happiest amongst mortals anywhere; For killing nothin... ... forgive them, as beguiled By habit to what their own hearts abhor— In cities caged. The present case in point I Cite is, that Boon lived hunt... ...vulgar, cold, and commonplace On great occasions, such as an attack On cities, as hath been the present case): Up Johnson came, with hundreds ...
...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...
...ics Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling 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... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... real work that they have been nearly suppressed and are rarely found in a list of his writings. Their very caustic style is of interest to a student ... ...rge hand of welcome, and were as brethren, and I did homage to the owl and listened to their talk. An Indian club about Christmas-time will yield, if ... ...ied at Nagasaki, while I roast a battered heart before the shrine of a big Kentucky blonde, who had for a nurse when she was little a negro “mammy.” B... ...er holden, and through the medium of their more dignified journals the two cities were yahooing and hi-yi-ing at each other like opposition news- boys... ...nd cut-stone residences of those who have money and peace. All the Eastern cities own this fringe of elegance, but except in Chicago nowhere is the fr...
...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ...
...Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State U... ... yellow braids carefully dis- posed on each side of her muslin chemisette, listened with downcast eyes to M. Capoul’s impassioned wooing, and af- 6 T... ...young enquirer, a candid Thorley, who was evidently preparing to enter the lists as the lady’s champion. “The very worst; I knew him at Nice,” said La... ...he new ideas in his scien- tific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave- fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no u... ...untidy domesticity to which no excess of heat ever degrades the Eu- ropean cities. Care-takers in calico lounged on the door-steps of the wealthy, and... ...oofs, chimneys, of getting the sense of other lives outside his own, other cities beyond New Y ork, and a whole world beyond his world, cleared his br...
...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House whi...
...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... ...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania St... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ,... ...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... ...d one died in a lunatic asylum. It was in the blood. She was from Lexington, Kentucky. Name was Horton before she was married.” And so on, by the hour... ...ania’s had happened near her doors, and she was experienced, above all other cities on the river, in the gracious office of the Good Samaritan” The si... ... think it is; for there are plenty of ladies and gentlemen in the provincial cities whose garments are all made by the best tailors and dressmakers of...
...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...
...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 1 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 1 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume One is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume One is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...the hero. And, though it is not for us, as for those who in awed stillness listened at Gettysburg with inspired perception, to know Abraham Lincoln, y... ... Lincoln’s in wretchedness. He first saw the light in a miserable hovel in Kentucky, on a farm con- sisting of a few barren acres in a dreary neighbor... ...hed himself among the backwoods folk as one who had something to say worth listening to. To win that dis- tinction, he had to draw mainly upon his wit... ...o of so dramatic a con- test, he had been induced to visit several Eastern cities, and had astonished and delighted large and distinguished audiences ... ... to be immortalized; their names were to be transferred to coun- ties, and cities, and rivers, and mountains; and to be re- vered and sung, toasted th...
...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...
...blication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas 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... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas, the Pennsylvani... ...pes many troubles which befall and vex his white brother. He seldom has to listen to lectures on propriety of behavior, or on any- thing else. He is n... ... a part of the system, rather than a part of the man. Were slaveholders to listen to complaints of this sort against the overseers, the luxury of owni... ...rs of the south. In the country, this conflict is not so apparent; but, in cities, such as Baltimore, Richmond, New Orleans, Mobile, &c., it is seen p... ...e and My Freedom. I visited and lectured in nearly all the large towns and cities in the United Kingdom, and en- joyed many favorable opportunities fo... ...ery state of the American Union, where slavery exists, except the state of Kentucky, there are laws absolutely prohibitory of education among the slav...
...American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation... ...rican Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ...oo ill to get up to break fast. I say nothing of them: for although I lay listening to this concert for three or four days, I don’t think I heard it ... ... where they took their seats in an orchestra erected for that purpose, and listened with manifest delight to a volun American Notes – Dickens 34 ta... ...ses and all conditions. In the kind of pro vincial life which prevails in cities such as this, the Pulpit has great influence. The peculiar province ... ...e roof of the Governor of the State, until Monday morning. These towns and cities of New England (many of which would be villages in Old England), are... ...President on what he had to say, and wouldn’t bate him a grain. Another, a Kentucky farmer, six feet six in height, with his hat on, and his hands und...
...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...
...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... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ...an of him. But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg dis- dained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happi... ...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... ...gh the entire breadth of the state of New Y ork; through numerous populous cities and most thriving villages; through long, dis- mal, uninhabited swam... ...mpletely separated from it, with a lantern we might descend into the great Kentucky Mammoth Cave of his stomach. But let us hold on here by this tooth...
...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ...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! . . . . .... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ...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... ...an of him. But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might haply g... ...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... ...ugh the entire breadth of the state of New York; through numerous populous cities and most thriving vil lages; through long, dismal, uninhabited swam... ...mpletely separated from it, with a lantern we might descend into the great Kentucky Mammoth Cave of his stomach. But let us hold on here by this tooth...
...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, 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 dus...
...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...
...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the docu ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens... ...ver seen. The stranger had killed this man’s friend in a fight, this man’s Kentucky training made it a duty to kill the stranger for it. He neglected ... ...s Mormons—and so on? Y.M. You may answer your question yourself. O.M. That list of sects is not a record of studies, searchings, seekings after light... ...ts to. O.M. Not if it find another that suits it better. As a rule it will listen to neither a dull speaker nor a bright one. It refuses all persuasio... ...ave been startled with the news of extraordinary events—the destruction of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of dynasties, t... ...d Decay, fagged with distributing damage and repulsiveness among the other cities of the planet in accordance with the policy and business of their pr...
............................................................................................................................................ 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE ...............................................
...Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville 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... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State U... ...regard, but evenly pursuing the path of duty, lead it through solitudes or cities, he held on his way along the lower deck until he chanced to come to... ...sissippi, and the brothers Harpe, the Thugs of the Green River country, in Kentucky—creatures, with others of the sort, one and all exterminated at th... ...ped blankets, and Broadway bucks in cravats of cloth of gold; fine-looking Kentucky boat-men, and Japanese-look- ing Mississippi cotton-planters; Quak... ..., repeating that the friends, of whom already he had partially run off the list, would freely speak for him, would anybody go find them. “Why don’t yo... ...afterwards bruised out by the injury.” After the first start, the merchant listened with what ap- peared more than ordinary interest. The other procee...
...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a lo...
...A Journey to the Interior of the Earth By Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne, the Penn... ...s, he has made some emendations concerning Biblical references of his own, listed below: III. “Pertubata seu inordinata,” as Euclid has it. XXX. cry, ... ..., which was by slow degrees making my naiad into a negress. Now and then I listened to hear whether a well-known step was on the stairs. No. Where cou... ...feet, it probably did not extend much farther. The immense mammoth cave in Kentucky is of gigantic propor- tions, since its vaulted roof rises five hu... ...f which is a matter of rivalry and contention between the museums of great cities. A thousand Cuviers could never have reconstructed the organic remai... ...ght to the things of the surface of this globe into which I had dived; its cities and its sunny plains, Hamburg and the Konigstrasse, even poor Graube...
...Excerpt: While the translation is fairly literal, and Malleson (a clergyman) has taken pains with the scientific portions of the work and added the chapter headings, he has made some emendations concerning Biblical references of his own, listed below?...
...ublication North America: Volume One 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... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ssion of ports and sea-board; had they held in their hands vast commercial cities and great agricultural districts; had they owned ships and been mast... ...cowardly, and were afraid to send our own regiments through one of our own cities.” This alluded to a demand that had been made on the Government that... ...ake it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them. Then the ladies, or probably some one lady, will sing, and ... ...e lion of Quebec may be regarded as “done,” and may be ticked off from the list. The most considerable lion, according to my taste. Li- ons which roar... ..., South Carolina, and North Carolina. The South will also claim Tennessee, Kentucky, 118 North America V ol. 1 Missouri, Virginia, Delaware, and Mary...
....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................
... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. 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 i... ...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...passing on in its turn, With faces turn’d sideways or backward towards me to listen, With eyes retrospective towards me. 3 Americanos! conquerors... ...ive and silent? What do you need camerado? Dear son do you think it is love? Listen dear son—listen America, daughter or son, It is a painful thing to... ..., countless herds of buffalo feeding on short curly grass, See, in my poems, cities, solid, vast, inland, with paved streets, with iron and stone edif... ...and ruin’d city, The blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe. I am a free companion, I bivouac by invading watchfi... ...h, the ground in all directions is cover’d with pine straw; In Tennessee and Kentucky slaves busy in the coalings, at the forge, by the furnace blaze,...
...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...
...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...
...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers 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... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Federalist Papers, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ral government. In the Lycian confederacy, which consisted of twenty-three cities or republics, the largest were entitled to three votes in the common... ...il had the appointment of all the judges and magistrates of the respective cities. This was certainly the most, delicate species of interference in th... ...s. What more natural than that they should be disposed to exclude from the lists such dangerous competitors? This branch of trade ought not to be cons... ...ates are united under one government, there will be but one national civil list to support; if they are divided into several confederacies, there will... ...e is to be marched to Georgia, of Georgia to New Hampshire, of New York to Kentucky, and of Kentucky to Lake Champlain. Nay, the debts due to the Fren...
...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks it...
...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...thing about her health. I reckon it will scarcely be in our power to visit Kentucky this year. Be- sides poverty and the necessity of attending to bus... ...write. Unless I can get some one to do this, Hardin, with his old franking list, will have the advantage of me. My reliance for a fair shake (and I wa... ...med sorrowing angels round, Whose swelling tears in dewdrops fell Upon the listening ground. But this is past, and naught remains That raised thee o’e... ... In Philadelphia alone this drain averaged $5000 per quarter; and in other cities of the seaboard it was proportionate. (7) The embarrassment of the d... ...aid the damages. Even between the different wards and streets of towns and cities we find this same wrangling and difficulty. Now these are no other t...
...Excerpt: Dear Speed, yours of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would su...
...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ...d—oldest son, by the second marriage. Peter Grant went early to Maysville, Kentucky, where he was very prosperous, married, had a family of nine child... ...ng to West Point would give me the opportu- nity of visiting the two great cities of the continent, Phila- delphia and New York. This was enough. When... ...ve. The soldiers were principally foreigners who had enlisted in our large cities, and, with the exception of a chance drayman among them, it is not p... ...ngers had already been secured. The addition of over seven hundred to this list crowded the steamer most uncomfortably, espe- cially for the tropics i... ...dier-general, and that they had unani- mously recommended me as first on a list of seven. I was very much surprised because, as I have said, my acquai...
Excerpt: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by U.S. Grant.
.....................................................................101 A Pair of Silk Stockings........................................................... ...110 The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin , the... ...d about her father’s Mississippi plantation and her girlhood home in the old Kentucky bluegrass country. She was an American woman, with a small infus... ...Mrs. Pontellier also occupied her former position on the upper step, leaning listlessly against the post. Beside her was a box of bonbons, which she h... ...ace made me think—without any connection that I can trace of a summer day in Kentucky, of a meadow that seemed as big as the ocean to the very little ... ... only being present who possessed sufficient candor to admit that he was not listening to these gracious performances for the first time that summer. ... ...s memories and traditions to his older sister, and had gone away to dwell in cities. That was many years ago. Now, Leandre’s business called him frequ...
...Excerpt: A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: ?Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That?s all right!? He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mocking-bir...
............................................99 The Kiss.......................................................................................101 A Pair of Silk Stockings..............................................................103 The Locket..................................................................................106 A Reflection.....................................
...ics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling 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... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...g meal with Hitchcock was eaten booted and spurred: over their cigars they listened to the hum of the village as the gangs came up from the river-bed ... ...od.] I know; we are mooring them with wire-rope,” was the answer. “ Heh! I Listen to the Chota Sahib. He is working hard.” From across the river came ... ...e, and any colour you choose that is not white; and Tweezy, who comes from Kentucky, with an affliction of his left hip, which makes him a little unce... ... o’ the trottin’-track, or the bloated coupe- horses o’ these yere Eastern cities. Are we not the same flesh an’ blood?” “Not by a bushel an’ a half,”... ...n the deep rumble of London traffic was monastical by comparison with some cities he could name; and the country—why, it was Paradise. A continuance o...
...Excerpt: The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I.: indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease,...
.................... 34 THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF......................................................................................... 53 THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS ............................................................................................ 68 THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA ........................................................................................
...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... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, the Pennsylvania State Un... ... 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... ...e trees by the pickers. They have been put in bar- rels and shipped to the cities where they will be eaten in apartments that are filled with books, m... ...r’s hotel, wearing loud clothes and urging them to tell her of life in the cities out of which they had come. Once she startled the town by putting on... ...with her daughter, who had also married a mechanic and lived in Covington, Kentucky, across the river from Cincinnati. Then began the hard years for T...
...S ....................................................................................................................................... 14 THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE .................................................................................................................................... 14 HANDS......................................................................
...oks ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Two Years Before the Mast Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CHAPTER I — DEPARTURE . . . . ... .... . . 13 CHAPTER V — CAPE HORN—A VISIT . . . . . . . . 18 CHAPTER VI — LOSS OF A MAN—SUPERSTITION . . . . . . . . 21 CHAPTER VII — JUAN FERNANDEZ—T... ... THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER ... ...n to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in f... ... I was just beginning to feel strong symptoms of sea sick ness, and that listlessness and inactivity which accompany it. Giving up all attempts ... ... was nothing to break the illusion, and I stood leaning over the bulwarks, listening to the slow breathings of the mighty creatures—now one break... ... that, at this time, there was a company of forty trappers and hunters from Kentucky, with their rifles, who had made their head quar ters at the Pu... ...ibutaries—the Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Feather Rivers—to the far inland cities of Sacramento, Stockton, and Marysville. The dock into whic... ...es, and agricultural wealth, and rapidly filling population, and its large cities, so far from the coast, with their education, religion, arts, an...
...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance ...
...Table of Contents: CHAPTER I ? DEPARTURE, 1 -- CHAPTER II ? FIRST IMPRESSIONS???SAIL HO!??, 3 -- CHAPTER III ? SHIP?S DUTIES?TROPICS, 6 -- CHAPTER IV ? A ROGUE?TROUBLE ON BOARD???LAND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CA...
...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... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylvania State... ...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... ...d- ing from shore to shore of the Atlantic, and marching like destiny upon cities far remote which flight had already half depopulated. There is no ot... ...ad made a pilgrimage of a thousand miles from a village of the faithful in Kentucky, to visit his spiritual kindred, the children of the sainted mothe...
...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 colonies, and sent a harsh and unprincipled soldier...
............................... 11 THE MINISTER?S BLACK VEIL A PARABLE1 ................................................................. 19 THE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNT ................................................................................ 32 THE GENTLE BOY ............................................................................................................ 43...