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...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...

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...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...om Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ the Russian officer’s adventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabe... ...o the traveler. T ruly this was a deed of gold. Such was the action of the Russian servant whose master’s carriage was pursued by wolves, and who spra... ...nd he entreated as a favor to be allowed to return thither and arrange his affairs, engaging to return within a specified time to suffer death. The ty... ... one against the other; and when Fabius found how serious was the state of affairs in Etruria, he sent 56 A Book of Golden Deeds to Rome to entreat t... ... had been before. Their country belonged to some greater power, they had a foreign governor over them, and had to pay tribute to the king who was thei... ...ior in that hour of triumph, the conqueror who trod down all that he might minister to his own glory, or the conquered, who, when no resistance had av... ... duty save by the voice of the minis- ters of God upon Earth. But as these ministers bear no charmed life, and are subjects themselves of the prince, ...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the u...

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.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

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...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray 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... ...ther blood is shed at thy altars, Remorseless One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men!... ... have an eye upon him,” said Lord Bolingbroke, then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and beckoning a suspicious-looking person who was drinking... ... eye upon him,” said Lord Bolingbroke, then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and beckoning a suspicious-looking person who was drinking at a si... .... The Bashee had refused fifty thousand tomauns from Count Boutenieff, the Russian Ambassador, for that little marvel. When his head was taken off, th... ...by was about laughingly to answer—for indeed he was amazed to find all the affairs of the world represented here, and Holywell Street the centre of Eu... ... all the elasticity of youth’s happy time. Blanche—the enchanting Blanche— ministered henceforth to me, for I would take no medicine but from her lily... ...nts employed to tempt me to commit this act of treason. “Object to enter a foreign service!” she said, in reply to my refusal. “It is you, Philip, who...