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Excerpt: The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells.

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no...

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Excerpt: The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...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...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? ...

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...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...

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Excerpt: The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...n Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...matic authors; of many picturesque and inter- esting passages from our old historical chronicles; and was 22 Waverley particularly well acquainted wi... ...ments should be repaid forthwith, and, if delayed, if would be a matter of national reproach. Sir Everard, accus- tomed to treat much larger sums with... ...ith groves of nettles, and exhibited here and there a huge hemlock, or the national thistle, overshadowing a quarter of the petty enclosure. The broke... ...om the end of the village appeared the enclosures, proudly denominated the Parks of T ully-Veolan, being certain square fields, surrounded and divided... ...een much better pleased had the pious or sapient apothegms, as well as the historical narratives, which these various works contained, been presented ... ...y’ll be in the pass of Bally-Brough by this time, in their way back to the parks of T ully-Veolan, all but two, that were unhappily slaughtered before...

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Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.

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...ssics Series Publication Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...cs Series Publication Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...f it, and had never seen the Kittle Nine-steps nearer than from Bareford’s Parks. [A pass on the very brink of the Castle rock to the north, by which ... ...om failed to charm forth my mite. You Scotch, who are so proud of your own nationality, must make due allow- ance for that of other folks. On the next... ...attained; since it is well known that, in Scotland, where there is so much national music, the words and airs of which are generally known, there is a... ..., never being permitted to lay aside such a visor, acquired the well-known historical epithet of the Man in the Iron Mask. I hesitated a moment whethe... ...E PERSECUTORS The personages here mentioned are most of them characters of historical fame; but those less known and remembered may be found in the tr...