...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... ... allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus;... ... my relationship with Phaon affords discovery, Sumerian lassi- tude, great rivers and forests, prowling sand, the bay and its currents, the hull dipp... ...211 Peter’s—early morning Sivan 8 Shall we be like trees planted by rivers of water? Shall we mature slowly like the olive? Shall we endure tw... ...ples, courtiers. I wanted to climb lofty moun- tains; I thought of mapping rivers. I told this to Francesco; he smiled and nodded. India? China? Tibe... ...nson, Raleigh, Spenser have had their days in jail; I have had mine—those county sties where pigs and dust ate my manuscripts and foetid odors ate m... ...ounds (shall I make it more?); in addition, I grant her my estate in Warr County—I like that place... To Joan—I leave my clothes. Why? To Elizabe... ... Executive Mansion May 22, 1863 I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were born in Virginia, of undistinguished fam...

...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 private worlds of five remarkable people: ...

.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2... ... effortless and without artifice. If the device existed to move water, he de- clares, Mr. Evans can hardly patent it to move grain. “If one person inve... ...In the 50s and 60s, we had flurries of outrage over particular crises—burning rivers, oil spills, dreadful smog. In the world of intellectual property,... ...nmental welfare economics were important, but one cannot merely write A Sand County Almanac and hope the world will change. Environmen- talists piggyb...

...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

...lassics Series Publication Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 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... ...d 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 ... ...nnot put the map of Europe together—or my cousin cannot tell the principal rivers in Russia—or, she never heard of Asia Minor—or she does not know the... ...od and agreeable. It was a connexion exactly of the right sort—in the same county, and the same interest—and his most hearty con- 35 Jane Austen curr... ... Mr. Crawford’s being his guest 41 Jane Austen was an excuse for drinking claret every day. The Miss Bertrams’ admiration of Mr. Crawford was more ra... ...he Crawfords’ arrival. He had been visit- ing a friend in the neighbouring county, and that friend having recently had his grounds laid out by an impr... ...ngs in the country: you see the house in the most surprising manner. I de- clare, when I got back to Sotherton yesterday, it looked like a prison—quit...

...Excerpt: 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...

...Tess of the d’Urbervilles THOMAS HARDY 1891 Based on the Wessex Edition of 1912 Contents Phase the First — The Maiden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... Maiden 1 Phase the First — The Maiden I O n an evening in the latter part of May a middle aged man was walking home ward from Shaston to the village... ...f May a middle aged man was walking home ward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blake more or Blackmoor. The pair of ... ...made some little time ago, whilst I was hunting up pedi grees for the new county history. I am Parson Tringham, the antiquary, of Stagfoot Lane. Don’... ...o we d’Urbervilles live?’ ‘You don’t live anywhere. You are extinct — as a county family.’ Phase the First — The Maiden 3 ‘That’s bad.’ ‘Yes — what t... ...ance, as I said, for your family con sisted of numerous branches. In this county there was a seat of yours at Kingsbere, and another at Sherton, and ... ...ing to preach a charity sermon to day in the parish you are going to — Mr. Clare of Emminster. I’m not of his persuasion now, but he’s a good man, and... ... seemed to be generated by the dark ness in which they floated. ‘Mr. Angel Clare — he that is learning milking, and that plays the harp — never says m... ...tful breeze which played about their faces. The quick silvery glaze on the rivers and pools vanished; from broad mirrors of light they changed to lust...

...Excerpt: Phase the First; The Maiden -- I -- On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inc...

...Table of Contents: Phase the First ? The Maiden, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 5 -- III, 10 -- IV, 16 -- V, 24 -- VI, 32 -- VII, 36 -- VIII, 39 -- IX, 43 -- X, 48 -- XI, 55 -- Phase the Second? Maiden No More, 61 -- XII, 61 -- XIII, 68 -- XIV, ...

...eorge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...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... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ... Absworthy Bearne Feverel, Baronet, of Raynham Abbey, in a certain Western county folding Thames: a man of wealth and honour, and a some- what lamenta... ...d were devoted to animadversions on swift bowling. He preached it over the county, struggling through laborious literary compositions, addressed to sp... ...bout in her mind the future chances of her little daughter and sole child, Clare, she marked down a probability. The far sight, the deep determination... ... basking in her beams. “Ah, you are good!” exclaimed the lady. “Look at my Clare. She will not dance on her cousin’s birthday with anyone but him. Wha... ...n your explorations yesterday, Magians. Now, if I were a magistrate of the county, like Sir 34 Ordeal of Richard Feverel Miles Papworth, my suspicion... ...e of revenge. You have seen, in a small way, that the pound of flesh draws rivers of blood. But there is now in you another power. You are mounting to...

Excerpt: Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith.

...sics Series Publication Bleak House by Charles Dickens 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 ... ...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... ...with a park fence), but an idea dependent for its execution on your great county families. He is a gentleman of strict conscience, disdainful of all ... ..., and his lordship silently selected one and turned over the leaves. “Miss Clare,” said the Lord Chancellor. “Miss Ada Clare?” Mr. Kenge presented her... ...d his lordship say in an equally low voice and with a smile. “For Miss Ada Clare. This is the young lady. Miss Summerson.” His lordship gave me an ind... ...rry— and the natives—and the happy settlement, on the banks of the African rivers, of our superabundant home population. 38 Bleak House – Dickens Mr.... ...g over your ladyship’s mansion of Chesney Wold while on a short out in the county of Lincolnshire with a friend, such a resemblance between Miss Esthe... ...ghts on her way from London to visit at some other great house in the next county and that she had left early on the morning after we had seen her at ...

...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had ...

... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stev... ... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free ... ...tevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document F... ... a word for the singularity of his history and appear- ance. Long ago, it seems, he fell in love with a native lady, a High Chiefess in Ua-pu. She, on... ...from Atuona, dug up the bodies, washed them in the river, and carried them away on sticks. That night the feast began. Those who knew Mr. Stewart befo... ...m should thus lie side by side in that outlandish inlet: stranger still that in the owner of the Nyanza, Captain Dewar, I should find a man of the sam... ...nd doubt in simple piety; the repose of the soul was its object: its motive, reverent affection. The present king dis- owns indeed all knowledge of a ... ...ip there lay a pond in the bot- tom of a jungle; here the maids of the isle came to bathe, and were several times alarmed by our intrusion. Not for th...

...magination and Heart by James Fenimore Cooper (writing under the pseudonym of “Jane Morgan”) A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Tale... ...fteen: Or, Imagination and Heart by James Fenimore Cooper 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... ...steam-boat, this was certainly the first. This, indeed, was a real letter: rivers rolled, and vast tracts of country lay, between herself and its writ... ...or the absence of my Anna; but so long as miles of weary roads and endless rivers run between us, perfect happiness can never reign in the breast of y... ...fteen a winter in. There are, absolutely, but three young men in the whole county who can be thought in any manner as proper matches for us; and one h... ... name of George Morton is never heard to pass her lips. Mrs. Delafield de- clares it to be a subject that she never dares to approach, nor in her repe...

...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Ha... ...TE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...in cheaper form. The standard edition.] 2. The Works of Thomas de Quincey. Riverside Edition. Bos- ton: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1877. [12 vols., with... ...otest: viz., that, no matter though the sheriff and under-sheriff in every county should be running after you with his posse, touch a hair of your hea... ...ng like these terms:— “And, sir, arriving at London, this mighty father of rivers attains a breadth of at least two furlongs, having, in its wind- ing... ...t no Englishman out of Bedlam ever thought of looking in an island for the rivers of a continent, nor, consequently, could have thought of looking for... .... 47 Thomas De Quincey rolled northwards from the southern quarter of the county that for a fortnight at least it occupied the severe exertions of tw... ...d sank into profound silence. Except the exhaustion in the vast adja- cent county of York from a contested election, no such si- lence succeeding to n...

...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lan...

.................................... 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY................................................................................................ 30 SECTIO...

...es Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...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... ...himself to be se- duced by their charms, endeavors to banish them from the county of Middlesex. But the truth is, that, however objec- tionable per se... ...t:) the answer was, with roars of laughter, from the under- sheriff of our county— “Non est inventus.” T oad-in-the-hole laughed outrageously at this:... ...t I vehe- mently protest, viz., that no matter though the sheriff in every county should be running after you with his posse, touch a hair of your hea... ...ng like these terms:— ”And, sir, arriving at London, this mighty father of rivers attains a breadth of at least two furlongs, having, in its wind- ing... ...t no Englishman out of Bedlam ever thought of looking in an island for the rivers of a continent; nor, consequently, could have thought of looking for... ...t the presence of the secret word, threw open its gates to receive us. The rivers were silent as we crossed. All the infinite forests, as we ran along...

...From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my...

...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE..................................................................................................... 11 Second Paper on Murder, Considered as One of the Fine...

...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... ...itings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. 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... ...vent. The locality of nearly all this seems to be St. Joseph and Buchanan County. I wish you to give special attention to this region, particularly... ...ON, W ASHINGTON, D. C., November 23, 1863. E. P. EV ANS, West Union, Adams County, Ohio: Y ours to Governor Chase in behalf of John A Welch is before ... ...f establishing a yard and depot for naval purposes upon one of the Western rivers. A naval force has been created on those interior waters, and under... ...aves and ad- vocates of slavery at the beginning of the rebellion, now de- clare openly for emancipation in their respective States. Of those States ... ...uary 20, 1864. HON. W. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State, Washington, D.C.: In county and State elections, must citizens of Tennessee take the oath prescr... ...zens in their homes as our soldiers in their camps, and our sailors on the rivers and seas, with unusual health. He has largely augmented our free po...

...altimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported the evidence....

...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Por- table Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...RATIVE HAPPINESS OF THE SLAVE-BOY AND THE SON OF A SLAVEHOLDER. In T albot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near Easton, the county town of that count... ...uries gathered with painstaking care, at home and abroad. Fields, forests, rivers and seas, are made tributary here. Immense wealth, and its lavish ex... ... the community in which he lives. Mr. Gore lived in St. Michael’s, T albot county, when I left Maryland; if he is still alive he probably yet resides ... ...g a slave, or 82 My Bondage and My Freedom any colored person, in T albot county, Maryland, is not treated as a crime, either by the courts or the co... ...s— bitten by snakes; and, worst of all, after having succeeded in swimming rivers—encountering wild beasts—sleeping in the woods—suffering hunger, col... ...er bright blue sky, her grand old woods, her fertile fields, her beautiful rivers, her mighty lakes, and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soo...

... 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... ...queville could not foresee. Yet, in his commendation of the local town and county governments, he applauds and sustains that elementary feature of our... ...n- tains nor deep valleys. Streams meander through it irregu- larly: great rivers mix their currents, separate and meet again, disperse and form vast ... ... tons burden for a course of nearly 500 miles. Fifty-seven large navigable rivers contrib- ute to swell the waters of the Mississippi; amongst others,... ...sts, so admirably adapted for commerce and in- dustry; those wide and deep rivers; that inexhaustible valley of the Mississippi; the whole continent, ... ...he other hand, it may be said that the town- ship was organized before the county, the county before the State, the State before the Union. In New Eng... ...uman body. The town- 77 Tocqueville ship is the lowest in order, then the county, and lastly the State; and I propose to devote the following chapter...

...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...

...KIDNAPPED Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 by Robert Louis Stevens... ...s Series Publication Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 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... ...d appetite. Here it occurred to me that, as the landlord was a man of that county, I might do well to make a friend of him. I of- fered him a share, a... ... stopped to swallow down his anger.) “Well, David, what does he do? He de- clares all the farms to let. And, thinks he, in his black heart, ‘I’ll soon... ...three nights travelled on eerie mountains and among the well-heads of wild rivers; often buried in mist, almost continually blown and rained upon, and... ...ey where the streams were crying aloud. The sound of an infinite number of rivers came up from all round. In this steady rain the springs of the mount... ...r private business; and I could see he was one greatly looked up to in the county. At last we were clear of the houses, and began to go along the side... ...somewhat dashed in spirits, having passed a long day alone skulking in the county, and made but a poor meal in an alehouse near Dundas. But at the mer...

...ourney in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called Written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson with a preface by Mr. Stevenson...

...g Chapters One through Thirty four by Charles Dickens is a publica tion 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 ... ...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... ...with a park fence), but an idea dependent for its execution on your great county families. He is a gentleman of strict conscience, disdainful of all ... ..., and his lordship silently selected one and turned over the leaves. “Miss Clare,” said the Lord Chancellor. “Miss Ada Clare?” Mr. Kenge presented her... ...d his lordship say in an equally low voice and with a smile. “For Miss Ada Clare. This is the young lady. Miss Summerson.” His lordship gave me an ind... ...yby was. “I really don’t, sir,” I returned. “Perhaps Mr. Carstone— or Miss Clare—” But no, they knew nothing whatever about Mrs. Jellyby. “In deed! Mr... ...rry— and the natives—and the happy settlement, on the banks of the African rivers, of our superabundant home population. 38 Bleak House – Vol. One Mr... ...g over your ladyship’s mansion of Chesney Wold while on a short out in the county of Lincolnshire with a friend, such a resemblance between Miss Esthe...

...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had...

...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... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. 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... ...your army and that of the Rappahannock by the way of the Potomac and Y ork rivers than by a land march. In order, therefore, to in- crease the strengt... ...oln: V ol Six we shall find a little more than one third of its length are rivers, easy to be crossed, and populated, or soon to be populated, thickly... ...erage as many? Is it less fertile? Has it more waste surface by mountains, rivers, lakes, deserts, or other causes? Is it inferior to Europe in any na... ... Gamble tele- graphed me, asking that the assessments outside of St. Louis County might be suspended, as they already have been within it, and this mo... ...ev. John M. Robinson, of Colum- bia, Missouri; James L. Matthews, of Boone County, Mis- souri; and James L. Stephens, also of Boone County, Mis- souri... ... in question without dependence upon any other government, State, city, or county. It is, however, within the range of prac- tical convenience to conf...

...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...

...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey 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... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...and mentioned that in Devonshire, or at least on the western coast of that county, near Ilfracombe, upon any excessive take of herrings, beyond what t... ...t? Why, it’s like Charing Cross—always the least secret place in the whole county.” So one might fancy; since the summit of a mountain, like Plinlimmo... ...ds are carried variously combined through the at- mosphere, or by means of rivers, by birds, by winds, by wa- ters, into remote countries. But the rea... ...she and her pupil were go- ing on a visit to an old Catholic family in the county of Durham, (the family of Mr. Swinburne, who was known advantageousl... ...r most distinctly of all whom I was then in the habit of seeing, were Lord Clare, the chancellor, the late Lord Londonderry, (then Castlereagh,) at th... ...t, the chancellor played the most conspicuous part—that chancel- lor (Lord Clare) of whom it was affirmed in those days, by a political opponent, that...

...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to di...

...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

...redith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...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 for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ... AM A SUBJECT OF CONTENTION ONE MIDNIGHT of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upo... ... and a little boy, christened Harry Lepel Richmond, the squire’s grandson. Riversley Grange lay in a rich watered hollow of the Hampshire heath-countr... ...im your son—your son, Harry Richmond, shall inherit from me; he shall have Riversley and the best part of my property, if not every bit of it. Is it a... ...mpany for a couple of days, if I was for Hampshire, which I stated was the county I meant to visit. ‘Well then, here now, come along, d ‘ye see, look,... ...t woman alive, with a voice sweeter than flutes. There was a saying in the county that to marry a Beltham you must po’chay her. A great-aunt of mine, ... ... I die. Old blood always wins that race, I swear. We ‘re the oldest in the county. Damn the mixing. My father never let any of his daugh- ters marry, ...

...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the househ...

... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Master of... ...bert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of... ...ity assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Master of... ...ustice. The reader must conceive for himself the dreadful wilderness which we had now to thread; its thickets, swamps, precipitous rocks, impetuous ri... ...lace in the woods, upon Lake Champlain. But to have done this directly were too peril- ous; and it was accordingly gone upon by such a labyrinth of ri... ... but the night was hollow about me like an empty church; not even a ripple stirred upon the shore; it seemed you might have heard a pin drop in the co... ...what they sought, and on the other hand (with the return of darkness) were infected with the fear of Indians. Mountain was the first sentry; he de- cl...

...Excerpt: Here is a tale which extends over many years and travels into many countries. By a peculiar fitness of circumstance the writer began, continued it, and concluded it among distant and diverse scenes. Above all, he was much upon the sea. The character and fortune of the fraternal enemies, the hall and shrubbery of Durrisdeer,...

...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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 ... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...striking their lances in the earth as they advanced, or throwing them into rivers, in token of their making all the is land theirs. In remembrance of... ...heir utmost horrors, and made the land dreadful to behold. The streams and rivers were discoloured with blood; the sky was blackened with smoke; the f... ...at his father’s death. He was at Ludlow Castle with his uncle, the Earl of Rivers. The prince’s brother, the Duke of York, only eleven years of age, w... ...sword, four thousand of the rebels are supposed to have fallen in that one county. In Norfolk (where the rising was more against the enclosure of open... ... Queen. This was discovered in time by Gardiner; but in Kent, the old bold county, the people rose in their old bold way. Sir Thomas Wyat , a man of ... ...complaining of the injury that had been done to Mr. Hampden, who was their county man and much beloved and honoured. When the King set off for Hampton...

...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Irela...