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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at. Ludwig von Mises Economics - to the great dismay of econ... ...oximation. According to this latter day - rational - version of the dismal science, people refrain from repeating their mistakes systematically. The... ...ize their preferences. Altruism can be such a preference, as well. Still, many people are non-rational or only nearly rational in certain situa... ... One way around this apparent quagmire is to put human cognition (i.e., psychology) at the heart of economics. Assuming that being human is an immut... ...ies in control of nearly two-thirds of the market. In 1990, three big publishers of college textbooks accounted for 35% of industry sales. Today the... ...ture stream of dividends emanating from their share holdings to send their kids to college or as collateral. Yet, dividends seemed to have gone th... ...hysical transportation and telecommunications, and by maintaining an appropriately educated manpower to support all these activities. These economi... ... 2001 - papers.ssrn.com Direct Investment in Economies in Transition - K Meyer - Cheltenham and Northampton (1998), 1998 (The) disappearing tax... ...erings (knowledge, plant and animal species, scenery, history, minerals, cheap and educated manpower, cuisine, textiles, software, and so on). The...

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Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Logic, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability and Statistics

By: Florentin Smarandache

...ova, Romania; C. Corduneanu, Department of Mathematics, Texas State University at Arlington, Arlington, USA; Charles T. Le, Church Rock, Red Rock S... ...2001, to the organizer: Florentin Smarandache, University of New Mexico, 200 College Road, Gallup, NM 87301, USA. Tel.: (505) 863-7647, Fax: (505)... ...the following web site, provided by The York University, from Toronto, Canada, at: http://at.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/amca/submit/cagu-01, and they can be ... ...robability that candidate C will win an election is say 25-30% true (percent of people voting for him), 35% false (percent of people voting against h... ...ercent of people voting against him), and 40% or 41% indeterminate (percent of people not coming to the ballot box, or giving a blank vote - not sel... ...as a Logic”, 9th Annual Workshop on Bayesian/Maximum Entropy Methods, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Aug. 14, 1989 (also published in the Proceedin... ...gupta, J. K. (1998a), New growth theory: An applied perspective, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. [13] Smarandache, F., (1999), A Unifying Field in Logics... ...er example lies in question: “What on earth is the following figure?” To well educated students, it is a circle. But to uneducated kids, it can be...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... to be more or less advantageous to the collection, it is my wish to place at your disposal as soon as possible, in order that you may make what use o... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ...7. a second Jane; 8. Henry, a posthumous child, who belonged to Brazennose College, Oxford, and died about his twenty-sixth year. 2 Cicero, in a well... ...sively to the accused. They were both Oxonians—one belonging to University College, and the other, perhaps, to Baliol; and, as they had severally take... ..., on the other hand, who spent so much of their time and revenues at Bath, Cheltenham, Weymouth, London, &c., as to have become almost entirely Englis... ...thing of the same bitter spirit. But the great body of the richer and more educated inhabitants showed the most hos- pitable attention to all who just... ...s it must have done in most other parts of North America; that the boy was educated and trained as a missionary clergy- man; and finally, that he is n...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...plague take them!) bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fing... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...to the present story of 4 V anity Fair – V olume One “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...n of the Forest.” I was too ill to come yesterday. I leave town to-day for Cheltenham. Pray excuse me, if you can, to the amiable Miss Sharp, for my c... ...o go outside in the rain, where, however, a young gentleman from Cambridge College sheltered me very kindly in one of his several great coats. This ge... ...great deal too much during the season in London, she went to Harrowgate or Cheltenham for the summer. She was the most hospitable and jovial of old ve... ...nstruc- tress (I am too poor to engage a governess for mine, but was I not educated at Chiswick?)—”Who,” I exclaimed, “can we consult but the excellen... ...governess for his little girls, who, I am told, had the good fortune to be educated at Chiswick. I hear vari- ous reports of her; and as I have the te...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...plague take them!) bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fing... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...n of the Forest.” I was too ill to come yesterday. I leave town to-day for Cheltenham. Pray excuse me, if you can, to the amiable Miss Sharp, for my c... ...o go outside in the rain, where, however, a young gentleman from Cambridge College sheltered me very kindly in one of his several great coats. This ge... ...great deal too much during the season in London, she went to Harrowgate or Cheltenham for the summer. She was the most hospitable and jovial of old ve... ...nstruc- tress (I am too poor to engage a governess for mine, but was I not educated at Chiswick?)—”Who,” I exclaimed, “can we consult but the excellen... ...governess for his little girls, who, I am told, had the good fortune to be educated at Chiswick. I hear vari- ous reports of her; and as I have the te...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader AFTER BECKY’S APPEARANCE at my Lord Steyne’s private and select parties, the claims of that estimabl... ...? I have 4 V anity Fair – V olume Three dined in it—moi qui vous parle, I peopled the chamber with ghosts of the mighty dead. As we sat soberly drink... ...is in our noble and admirable society slang), but some of the best English people too. I don’t mean the most virtuous, or indeed the least virtuous, o... ...gland are governors: and as the boys are very comfortably lodged, fed, and educated, and subse- quently inducted to good scholarships at the Universit... ...ulgaria; some that she was at Boulogne; and others, at a boarding-house at Cheltenham. Rawdon made her a tolerable annuity, and we may be sure that sh... ...s grandson in a fair way to such honours. He would have none but a tip-top college man to educate him—none of your quacks and pretenders— no, no. A fe... ...as a useful accomplish- ment for them to learn. English youth have been so educated time out of mind, and we have hundreds of thousands of apolo- gist... ...ining alone in that melancholy man- sion, and departed in deep mourning to Cheltenham, with a couple of her old domestics. The rest were liberally pai...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...lia, for the first time, and with exceeding shyness and timidity, presided at what George called her own table. George pooh-poohed the wine and bullie... ... to take measures for the preparing of a mag- nificent ornamented tea. All people have their ways of express- ing kindness, and it seemed to Mrs. Sedl... ...ith men of fashion and ladies of note, on their way to Brussels and Ghent. People were going not so much to a war as to a fash- ionable tour. The news... ...mily in the world. Having tried nine seasons at Dublin and two at Bath and Cheltenham, and not finding a partner for life, Miss Malony ordered her cou... ...tly been in presence of the enemy, or, in other words, faced the ladies at Cheltenham and Bath, our friend, the Collector, had lost a great deal of hi... ...ever endure them, because they are not pretty!” Those unfortunate and well-educated women made themselves heard from the neighbouring drawing-room, wh... ... the inestimable polish which is gained by living in a fast set at a small college, and contracting debts, and being rusticated, and being plucked. He... ...as an edifying one to strangers. They were so cheerful, so loving, so well-educated, so simple! Martha painted flowers exquisitely and furnished half ...

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Doctor Grimshawe's Secret a Romance

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... and the public. It would appear that this author, in his preparatory work at least, has ventured in some manner to disregard the modern canons which ... ...about the house which cornered upon it; it made the street gloomy, so that people did not alto gether like to pass along the high wooden fence that s... ...rtook of its dreari ness, because it seemed hardly possible that the dead people should not get up out of their graves and steal in to warm themselve... ...on 116 Doctor Grimshawe s Secret clusion that the good Warden, like many educated men, whose early scholastic propensities are backed up by the best... ...the results of Doctor Grim’s tuition, and subsequently that of an American College—had utterly de serted him, by attempting a translation of a few ve... ...tion, plans, and purposes. He represented himself as having been liberally educated, bred to the law, but (to his misfortune) having turned aside from... ...te opening into the churchyard, and much embowered and ivy hung. “Ah, Miss Cheltenham,” said the Warden. “I am glad to see that you have taken the old... ...k is seldom worth 144 Doctor Grimshawe s Secret looking at. But now, Miss Cheltenham, I am about to give my American friend here a lecture on gargoyl...

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Mens Wives

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ed village of London – perhaps in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens—there was once a house of ent... ...gh the influence of great men; he was an agent for half-a-dozen theatrical people, male 13 Thackeray and female, and had the interests of the latter ... ... person were of that showy sort which is most popular in this world, where people are wont to admire most that which gives them the least trouble to s... ...nd some of these were at livery at the establishment of the Captain’s old “college” companion, Mr. Snaffle. It was easy, therefore, for the Captain to... ...s!” added the player. “Billingsgate and V auxhall were there too, and left college at eight o’clock.” When Morgiana was told of the circumstance by he... ...e said, the proudest moment of his life. He was proud to think that he had educated her for the stage, happy to think that his sufferings had not been... ...to say that the pair had been at Tunbridge, Harrogate, Brighton, Ramsgate, Cheltenham, for this eight years past; where they had met, it seemed, with ... ...hat daughter of hers. She was at Bath last year on the same errand, and at Cheltenham the year before, where, Heaven bless you! she’s as well known as...

...Excerpt: In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London -- perhaps in the neighborhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens--there was once a house of entertainment called the ?Bootjack Hotel.? Mr. Crump, the landlord, had, in the outset of life, performed the duties of Boots in some inn even more freq...

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Dynevor Terrace

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...my young Lord say, when Shakspeare was a butcher, he used to make speeches at the calves, as if they was for a sacrifice, or ever he could lift a knif... ...back to the work; and I believe my Lord forgot it—and then he went back to college; and Frampton and Gervas, they put on me, and you know how ’twas I ... ...ad rendered her. 8 Dynevor Terrace Vol 1 Charlotte Arnold had been fairly educated at a village school, and tenderly brought up at home till left an ... ...evor Terrace Vol 1 1. James Roland Frost Dynevor b. 1824 Fellow of St. F . College, Oxford. 2. Frances b. 1826 d. 1832 3. Catharine b. 1827 d. 183... ...er her next strongest char- acteristic, family pride. She married a highly-educated and wealthy gentleman, of good family, but of mercantile connexion... ...vourite hanger- on to be destined ‘literally to cut the throat of Bath and Cheltenham.’ Some towns are said to have required the life of a child ere t... ...not? She wished she had never teased him by going out so much, and letting people talk nonsense; he had been very kind, and she was not half good enou... ...n wonder and reproof, ‘Is that on purpose?’ ‘Adventures are thrust on some people,’ was the noncha- lant reply, with shoulders depressed, and a twinkl...

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Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...atness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it. She had ... ...d smile, became immediately the less awful character of the two. The young people were all at home, and sustained their share in the introduction very... ...better spirits with everybody else. The place became less strange, and the people less formidable; and if there were some amongst them whom she could ... ...y too many to leave any deficiency of information.” “Where any one body of educated men, of whatever de- nomination, are condemned indiscriminately, t... ... has passed in the coun- try since her infancy. I do not call Tunbridge or Cheltenham the country; and November is a still more serious month, and I c... ...vy. But then, I must have a London audience. I could not preach but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition. And I do ... .... They entered Oxford, but she could take only a hasty glimpse of Edmund’s college as they passed along, and made no stop anywhere till they reached N...

... of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it....

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Howards End

By: E. M. Forster

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...inally Mrs. Wilcox reappears, trail, trail, still smelling hay and looking at the flowers. I inflict all this on you because once you said that life i... ... from poetry, or you. Anyhow, it’s been knocked into pieces, and, like all people who are really strong, Mr. Wilcox did it without hurting me. On the ... ...ise. What do you think of the Wilcoxes? Are they our sort? Are they likely people? Could they appre- ciate Helen, who is to my mind a very special sor... ... rich person was to them what the funeral of Alcestis or Ophelia is to the educated. It was Art; though re- mote from life, it enhanced life’s values,... ...Oxford. The men were down, and the candi- dates had been housed in various colleges, and had dined in hall. Tibby was sensitive to beauty, the ex- per... ...you like—North Oxford. I’ll live anywhere except Bournemouth, Torquay, and Cheltenham. Oh yes, or Ilfracombe and Swanage and Tunbridge Wells and Surbi... ...them for oth- ers, they rang the bell for the servant, they identified the colleges as the train slipped past Oxford, they caught books or bag-purses ... ...y to take you on, he might refuse to do it. The fact is, he isn’t properly educated. I don’t want to set you against him, but you’ll find him a trial....

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e country described in a more or less ridiculous point of view. It is hard at least to do so in such a book as I must write. A de Tocqueville may do i... ...e those against whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judg... ...whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judgment, as bad, ill educated, ugly, and odious. In such cases his course is straightforward eno... ...general feelings of England to have been be- fore I found myself among the people by whom it was being waged. It is very difficult for the people of a... ...en. Taken generally, they are better instructed, though perhaps not better educated. They are seldom troubled with mauvaise honte; I do not say it in ... ...have not been departed from in many of the windows. Be this as it may, the college is a manly, noble structure, free from false decoration, and infini... ...ly creditable to those who projected it. I was informed by the head of the college that it has been open only two years; and here also I fancy that th... ...er one. The smaller one may be about the size of the first-class hotels at Cheltenham or Leamington. They were both closed, and there seemed to be but...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...ious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gen... ... briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand wi... ... she, the elder of the sisters, was not yet twenty, and they had both been educated, since they were about twelve years old and had lost their parents... ...of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large,... ...Had Locke those two white moles with hairs on them?” “Oh, I dare say! when people of a certain sort looked at him,” said Dorothea, walking away a litt... ...rself he was thought equal to the 78 Book I — Miss Brooke best society at college. So particular as you are, my dear, I wonder you are not glad to ha... ... Rosamond was in the least like a kitten: she was a sylph caught young and educated at Mrs. Lemon’s. “I assure you my mind is raw,” she said immediate... ...ed. Sir James was much pained, and offered that they should all migrate to Cheltenham for a few months with the sacred ark, otherwise called a cradle:... ...called a cradle: at that period a man could hardly know what to propose if Cheltenham were rejected. The Dowager Lady Chettam, just returned from a vi...

...Prelude; Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the coun...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some ge... ...of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large,... ...wo white moles with hairs on them?” 17 George Eliot “Oh, I dare say! when people of a certain sort looked at him,” said Dorothea, walking away a litt... ... clever. And you know yourself he was thought equal to the best society at college. So particular as you are, my dear, I wonder you are not glad to ha... ... Rosamond was in the least like a kitten: she was a sylph caught young and educated at Mrs. Lemon’s. “I assure you my mind is raw,” she said immediate... ...thick with coming rivals. But Mrs. Plymdale thought that Rosamond had been educated to a ridiculous pitch, for what was the use of accomplishments whi... ...ed. Sir James was much pained, and offered that they should all migrate to Cheltenham for a few months with the sacred ark, otherwise called a cradle:... ...lled a cradle: at that pe- riod a man could hardly know what to propose if Cheltenham were rejected. The Dowager Lady Chettam, just returned from a vi...

...Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the coun...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... for thy stone. A heifer? Ah, many a darker sacrifice. Other blood is shed at thy altars, Remorseless One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Sh... ...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ... which we have mentioned. The dinner over, the young men rushed from their colleges, flushed, full-fed, and eager for battle. If the Gown was angry, t... ...’s hospital to the Blenheim turnpike, all Cam- bridge was in an uproar—the college gates closed—the shops barricaded—the shop-boys away in support of ... ...ed that Frederick wanted for nothink. Nor did he. He was a moral and well- educated young man, who took care of his close; pollisht his hone tea-party... ...acawdingly set out for our noable frend’s residence, Honeymoon Lodge, near Cheltenham. “Sick of all Railroads myself, I wisht to poast it in a Chay an... ... nashnal cuss, the Broken Gage, me and Mrs. Plush was left in the train to Cheltenham, soughring from that most disgreeble of complaints, a halmost br...

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Little Dorrit Book One Poverty

By: Charles Dickens

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... publication, it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished. If I might offer ... ...ilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to ... ...o a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade. So, with people lounging and lying wherever shade was, with but little hum of tongue... ...footing of every new collegian to nurse the child who had been born in the college. ‘By rights,’ remarked the turnkey when she was first shown to him,... ...ck on a certain fine morning, a minuet de la cour came off in the yard—the college-rooms being of too con- fined proportions for the purpose—in which ... ...n consequence of his having run away last week with Mrs Captain Barbary of Cheltenham, who wasn’t up to a horse of his courage, and who, in mere spite... ...he ten- dered a matrimonial proposal that she was ‘a doosed fine gal— well educated too—with no biggodd nonsense about her.’ A son-in-law with these l... ...ate loose. But being in company with the brother of a doosed fine gal—well educated too— with no biggodd nonsense about her—at the period alluded to—’...

...tinuous attention than anyone else can have given them during its desultory publication, it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished....

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... publication, it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished. If I might offer ... ...ilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to ... ...o a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade. So, with people lounging and lying wherever shade was, with but little hum of tongue... ...footing of every new collegian to nurse the child who had been born in the college. ‘By rights,’ remarked the turnkey when she was first shown to him,... ...ck on a certain fine morning, a minuet de la cour came off in the yard—the college-rooms being of too con- fined proportions for the purpose—in which ... ...n consequence of his having run away last week with Mrs Captain Barbary of Cheltenham, who wasn’t up to a horse of his courage, and who, in mere spite... ...he ten- dered a matrimonial proposal that she was ‘a doosed fine gal— well educated too—with no biggodd nonsense about her.’ A son-in-law with these l... ...ate loose. But being in company with the brother of a doosed fine gal—well educated too— with no biggodd nonsense about her—at the period alluded to—’...

...tinuous attention than anyone else can have given them during its desultory publication, it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished....

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... Sancho Panza; but I know that my first impressions of them were picked up at that time, and that they were somehow or other connected with a suppurat... ...If I were to attempt to sum up the thousands of letters, from all sorts of people in all sorts of latitudes and climates, which this unlucky paragraph... ...re attachment, who in her turn had taken him for the same reason. Thus two people who cannot afford to play cards for money, sometimes sit down to a q... ...ther people’ s. What is your daughter fit for, ma’am?’ ‘Kate has been well educated,’ sobbed Mrs Nickleby. ‘T ell your uncle, my dear, how far you wen... ...were conjuring up before him. ‘Or suppose some young nobleman who is being educated at the Hall, were to take a fancy to me, and get his father to app... ...ject to my youth, and to my not being a Master of Arts?’ ‘The absence of a college degree is an objection,’ replied Squeers, looking as grave as he co... ... all, indeed, I think. I had an uncle once, Madame Mantalini, who lived in Cheltenham, and had a most excellent business as a tobacco- nist—hem—who ha...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... Sancho Panza; but I know that my first impressions of them were picked up at that time, and that they were somehow or other connected with a suppurat... ...If I were to attempt to sum up the thousands of letters, from all sorts of people in all sorts of latitudes and climates, which this unlucky paragraph... ...re attachment, who in her turn had taken him for the same reason. Thus two people who cannot afford to play cards for money, sometimes sit down to a q... ...ther people’ s. What is your daughter fit for, ma’am?’ ‘Kate has been well educated,’ sobbed Mrs Nickleby. ‘T ell your uncle, my dear, how far you wen... ...were conjuring up before him. ‘Or suppose some young nobleman who is being educated at the Hall, were to take a fancy to me, and get his father to app... ...ject to my youth, and to my not being a Master of Arts?’ ‘The absence of a college degree is an objection,’ replied Squeers, looking as grave as he co... ... all, indeed, I think. I had an uncle once, Madame Mantalini, who lived in Cheltenham, and had a most excellent business as a tobacco- nist—hem—who ha... ... before you were born,—I have often heard them say , that the young men at college are uncommonly particular about their night- caps, and that the Oxf...

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Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

... greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it. She ... ...ge fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. Miss Ward, at the end of half a dozen years, found herself obliged to be attached ... ...oured smile, became immediately the less awful character of the two. The young people were all at home, and sustained their share in the introduc tio... ...er better spirits with every body else. The place became less strange, and the people less formidable; and if there were some amongst them whom she co... ...een by too many to leave any deficiency of information.” “Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are con 82 JANE AUSTEN demned... ...at she has passed in the country since her infancy. I do not call Tunbridge or Cheltenham the country; and November is a still more serious month, and... ... envy. But then, I must have a London audience. I could not preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition. And, ... ...uary. They entered Oxford, but she could take only a hasty glimpse of Edmund’s College as they passed along, and made no stop any where, till they rea...

... of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it. She had two sisters to be benefited by her elevation; and such of their acquaintance as thought Miss Ward and Miss Frances quite as handsome as Miss Maria, di...

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