...d by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...for the hand of Mademoiselle Cormon; whereas du Bousquier, who entered the lists soon after his rejection by the most distinguished family in the plac... ...contained a library; but that was placed below the level of the river. The books were well bound and shelved, and the dust, far from injur- ing them, ... ...iews, she found it there- fore impossible, from 1804 to 1815, to enter the lists with young girls who were rivalling each other for suitable matches. ... ... replied the old maid, innocently. “He sits up late, and for what? reading books and writing! What business ought to require a young 68 An Old Maid m...

Excerpt: As a testimony to the affection of his brother-in-law?

... Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...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 document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ights and Scholars in old days would have given their crowns and spurs and books to find out. If Merlin himself had helped you, you couldn’t have mana... ... of an old ash-root on the bank. ‘How can it be round?’ ‘Wasn’t it in your books?’ Dan suggested. He had been doing geography at his last lesson. ‘I c... ..., called gorillas!’ said Sir Richard, indignantly. ‘That is the sorcery of books,’ said Puck. ‘I warned thee they were wise children. All people can b... ...esar’s half of our men without pity. We were a shell when he rolled up the lists! “‘Hail, Caesar! We, about to die, salute you!” said Pertinax, laughi...

Excerpt: Puck of Pook?s Hill by Rudyard Kipling.

...Contents Puck of Pook?s Hill ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 4 WELAND?S SWORD.......

... 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ame prin- ciples as that of Connecticut. 56 Democracy in America from the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy. Blasphemy, sorcery, adultery,*... .... See the Laws of Massachusetts, vol. i. p. 410. The selectmen draw up the lists of electors for the election of the Governor, and transmit the result... ... be limited to a nar- row sphere; but when the chief magistrate enters the lists, he borrows the strength of the government for his own pur- poses. In... ...s of at- taining to it. The wealthy members of the community aban- don the lists, through unwillingness to contend, and fre- quently to contend in vai... ...Inquisition has never been able to prevent a vast number of anti-religious books from circulating in Spain. The empire of the majority suc- ceeds much... ...gov- ernments to protect the morality of nations by prohibiting licentious books. In the United States no one is punished for this sort of works, but ...

...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 the principles of government that were essential t...

...TRAGEDIE OF KING LEAR. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc.... ...WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Ta... ...s ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Tragedie of King Lear... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Scena Tertia. - i - The Tragedie of King Lear qq2 Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. 2 Enter Kent, ... ...059 Herald reads. 3060 If any man of qualitie or degree, within the lists of the Ar-my, 3061 will maintaine vpon Edmund, supposed Earle of ...

...Excerpt: The Tragedie of King Lear; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- Enter Kent, Gloucester, and Edmond. Kent. I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany, then Cornwall. Glou. It did alwayes seeme so to us: But now in the division of t...

...Table of Contents: The Tragedie of King Lear, 1 -- Actus Primus. Scoena Prima., 1 -- Scena Secunda., 8 -- Scena Tertia., 12 -- Scena Quarta., 12 -- Scena Quinta., 20 -- Actus Secundus. Scena Prima., 21 -- Scena Secunda., 25 -- Actu...

...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ousand volumes. Lord Massey was far from illit- erate; and his interest in books was unaffected, if limited, and too often interrupted, by defective k... ...ollected that he cannot pursue a subject once started. Now, at Laxton, the books had been so judiciously brought together, so many hooks and eyes conn... ... ing the computation, that, in a library containing a fair pro- portion of books illustrated with plates, about ten shillings a volume might be taken ... ...f success; and Œdipus, either on public or on selfish motives, entered the lists as a competitor. The riddle proposed by the Sphinx ran in these terms...

...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought ...

... I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................................

... S V R E, For Measure. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc.... ...WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Ta... ...s ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Measvre, For Measure . ... ... Duke. 4 Escalus. 5 Esc. My Lord. 6 Duk. Of Gouernment, the properties to vn-|(fold, 7 Would seeme in me t’ a... ...e I am put to know, that your owne Science 9 Exceedes (in that) the lists of all aduice 10 My strength can giue you: Then no more remaine... ...e-tweene 124 vs. 125 Luc. I grant: as there may betweene the Lists, and 126 the Veluet. Thou art the List. 127 1.Gent. And...

...Excerpt: Measure For Measure; Actus Primus -- Scena Prima -- Enter Duke, Escalus, Lords. Duke. Escalus. Esc. My Lord. Duk. Of Government, the properties to unfold, Would seeme in me t? affect speech & discourse, Since I am put to know, that your owne Science Exceedes (in that) the lists of all aduice My strength can give you: Then no more remaine...

...Table of Contents: Measvre, For Measure, 1 -- Actus primus, Scena prima., 1 -- Scena Secunda., 3 -- Scena Tertia., 5 -- Scena Quarta., 7 -- Scena Quinta., 9 -- Actus Secundus. Scoena Prima., 11 -- Scena Secunda., 17 -- Scena Tertia...

...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... ...ty. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e to be read through from the first page to the end. ‘No, Sir, do you read books through?’ asked Johnson. His way is probably the best one of undertak... ...native of Derbyshire, of obscure extraction, who settled in Lichfield as a bookseller and stationer. His mother was Sa- rah Ford, descended of an anci... ...me of which were at a con- siderable distance from Lichfield. At that time booksellers’ shops in the provincial towns of England were very rare, so th... ...rsue his travels on foot, partly by demanding at Universities to enter the lists as a disputant, by which, accord- ing to the custom of many of them, ... ..., was often very fortunate in his witty contests, even when he entered the lists with Johnson himself. Sir Joshua Reynolds was in company with them on...

...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...

...338 XLVIII 347 Part I Chapter I A BOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to ca... ...only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raise... ...sfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an hands... ...nch, and heard her read the daily portion of History; but he recom mended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and cor... ...e deserted, except by Fanny, when she visited her plants, or wanted one of the books, which she was still glad to keep there, from the deficiency of sp... ...nsolation in some pursuit, or some train of thought at hand. — Her plants, her books — of which she had been a collector, from the first hour of her co... ...ole Street; the beautiful Mrs. R. whose name had not long been enrolled in the lists of hymen, and who had promised to become so brilliant a leader in...

...Excerpt: Chapter I; ABOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comfor...

...Table of Contents: I, 1 -- I, 3 -- II, 10 -- III, 18 -- IV, 26 -- V, 33 -- VI, 39 -- VII, 47 -- VIII, 56 -- IX, 62 -- X, 72 -- XI, 79 -- XII, 85 -- XIII, 90 -- XIV, 97 -- XV, 103...

...The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...teps at the end of the bridge, his notice was attracted by the second-hand books displayed on the parapet, and he was on the point of bar- gaining for... ...the St. Pelagie nor at La Force! Government departments, cafes, libraries, lists of prefects’ names, news- paper offices, restaurants, greenrooms—to c... ...umes in the teeth of folk who could not put a syllable of sense into their books. He lavished promises that he never fulfilled; he made a pillow of hi... ... and milk, like a hermit in the Thebaid, while I plunged into the world of books and ideas, and so reached a lofty sphere beyond the tumult of Paris, ...

...Excerpt: The talisman towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase of one of the gam...

...2 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the N... ... . . 44 An Odyssey of the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Law of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The God of His... ... 90 The God of His Fathers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 The League of the Old Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Bˆ atard . . . . .... ...ar, and came to learn many things, even to the way of reading and writing from books. It was well I should do this, for it came upon me that Unga must... ...f the Klondike one winter, the winter before the missionary came with his talk books and his box of medicines. Many a time had Koskoosh smacked his li... ...dren were growing up. They ate more. And they were going to school, and school books cost money. And somehow, the faster he worked, the faster climbed... ...ough! To sleep in the rooms of the Junta meant access to their secrets, to the lists of names, to the addresses of comrades down on Mexican 400 JACK ...

...t when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole...

...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...

...sics Series Publication Little Dorrit 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...a wrathful sprinkling of red upon the edges of the leaves—as if it, of all books! were a fortification against sweet- ness of temper, natural affectio... ...d the reach of all changing emotions. On her little table lay two or three books, her handkerchief, a pair of steel spectacles newly taken off, and an... ...l the rusks and drunk all the mixture, the two trays were removed; and the books and the candle, watch, hand- kerchief, and spectacles were replaced u... ...was as constant as Death to man, arrayed themselves to fight it out in the lists of Society, sworn rivals. And Little Dorrit, seeing all these things ...

...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its...

...the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch h...

...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...read. Who would buy boots or coats, or want new saddles, or waste money on books, in such days as these, in such a town as Alexandria? And then out of... ... of the House calls out the names of the different Senators, and makes out lists of the votes according to the separate answers given by the members. ... ...labor under sufficient restraint; but where are their men, where are their books, where is their learn- ing, their art, their enterprise? I say it wit... ...wever, if I go to Rolla again during the war, I will at any rate leave the books behind me. What a night we spent in that inn! They who know America w... ... legal appropriation; no title of nobility shall be granted. The above are lists or catalogues of the powers which Congress has, and of the powers whi...

............................................................................................................................. 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR .......................................................................................................... 47 CHAPTER IV: WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS .......................................................................

...n Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...s, and remembered him with a legacy of two thousand livres for purchase of books. He wrote in his lively school- days a tragedy that afterwards he bur... ...up— on the 17th of May, 1717—in the Bastille. There he wrote the first two books of his Henriade, and finished a play on OEdipus, which he had begun a... ...ies the Quaker, “to our great happiness.” Then opening one of the Friends’ books, as he called it, he read the following words in an em- phatic tone:-... ... of injurious terms in his dispute with Mr. Locke. That divine entered the lists against him, but was defeated; for he argued as a schoolman, and Lock...

...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltair...

...S......................................................................................................................... 16 LETTER V.?ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND .................................................................................................. 20 LETTER VI.?ON THE PRESBYTERIANS....................................................................................

...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...R AT HOME “THIS IS NO MY AIN HOUSE; I ken by the biggin’ o’t.” T wo recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically... ...reat stillness and solitude for the rebellious mind, when in the dearth of books and play, and in the intervals of studying the Shorter Catechism, the... ...ad, with strange extremes of pity and derision, the memorials of the dead. Books were the proper remedy: books of vivid human im- port, forcing upon t... ...we attain to worthy pleasures. Men and women contend for each other in the lists of love, like rival mesmerists; the ac- tive and adroit decide their ... ...II SINCE THE ABOVE was written another novelist has entered repeatedly the lists of theory: one well worthy of mention, Mr. W. D. Howells; and none ev...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity ...

...ER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TA...

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ... of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, De... ...lation of intellectual capital.A university cul- ture with its versions of books and articles was giving way to the culture of the newsroom. During th... ... In the first months of 1999, the Joint Staff had developed broader target lists to undertake a “focused campaign” against the infrastructure of Bin L... ...eratives basic English words and phrases. He showed them how to read phone books,interpret airline timetables,use the Inter- net, use code words in co... ...uld have suggested changes to fix glaring vulnerabilities—expanding no-fly lists, searching passen- gers identified by the CAPPS screening system, dep... ...locate your base? Some of the same places come up again and again on their lists: • western Pakistan and the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region • sout... ..., see Henri Pirenne, A History of Europe, trans. Bernard Miall (University Books, 1956), pp. 25–26. 7. See Martin Marty and R. Scott Appleby , eds., F...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

...ic Classics Series Publication Persuasion by Jane Austen 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...thin the next twelvemonth or two. Then might she again take up the book of books with as much enjoyment as in her early youth, but now she liked it no... ...w, by successive captures, have made a handsome fortune. She had only navy lists and newspapers for her authority, but she could not doubt his being r... ...you some. I have been mak- ing a duplicate of the catalogue of my father’s books and pic- tures. I have been several times in the garden with Mackenzi... ...ts are for Lady Russell. I have had all my own little concerns to arrange, books and music to divide, and all my trunks to repack, from not having und...

...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... his commanding officer. W e shall not say, after the fashion of the story-books, that Mr. Brock listened with a flashing eye and a distended nostril;... ...there one of us who does not shudder at the thought of descending into the lists to combat with it, and ex- pect anything but to be utterly crushed in... ...he had not the genius for getting which Mrs. Hayes possessed. She kept his books (for she had learned to read and write by this time), she made his ba... ...smoking; while the thrifty Mrs. Hayes, opposite to them, was busy with her books. “What’s in the confessions?” said Mr. Billings to Doctor Wood. “Ther...

...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...

...FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN & BOOKS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...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... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ile as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ... many crude but genuine feelings tumble together for the mastery as in the lists of tournament, we are tempted to think of the Large 139 Familiar Stu...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...