Full Text Search Details
...ERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James 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... ...e Tour in France I. I AM ASHAMED to begin with saying that Touraine is the garden of France; that remark has long ago lost its bloom. The town of Tour... ...nge. Peace and plenty, however, have succeeded that episode; and among the gardens and vineyards of Touraine it seems, only a legend the more in a cou... ...rner, and, holding it open a moment behind him, shows a glimpse of a sunny garden, where you may fancy other black young figures strolling up and down... ...sons (I credit them, perhaps, with too sure a prevision of the rise of the rivers) for practising further upon the appre- hensions of the public. A bo...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...uries gathered with painstaking care, at home and abroad. Fields, forests, rivers and seas, are made tributary here. Immense wealth, and its lavish ex... ...ing. Nor are the fruits of the earth forgotten or ne- glected. The fertile garden, many acres in size, constituting a separate establishment, distinct... ...separate establishment, distinct from the common farm— with its scientific gardener, imported from Scotland (a Mr. McDermott) with four men under his ... ... the hands belonging to the sloop—to my new home in Alliciana street, near Gardiner’s ship-yard, on Fell’s Point. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Auld, my new mistr... ...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...

Full Text Search Details
...assics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells 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... ...them, and in the appointments and furnishings of that intercourse. We want gardens and enclosures and exclusive freedoms for our like and our choice, ... ...Utopia complete dominion; it seems harsh and intrusive to forbid a central garden plot or peristyle, such as one sees in Pompeii, within the house wal... ...e world) will be forced to walk through endless miles of high fenced villa gardens before he may ex- pand in his little scrap of reserved open country... ...y night of the North and the blaze of the tropical midday, to follow great rivers, to taste loneliness in desert places, to traverse the gloom of trop... ...odern Utopians will have very many other ways of travelling. There will be rivers, for example, with a vast variety of boats; canals with diverse sort... ...and the great archway blazes with sunlight from the green gar- dens by the riverside. The man who is one of the samurai, and his lady, whom the botani...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad.

Table of Contents Details
...nts AUTHOR?S NOTE ........................................................................................................................... 4 TALES OF UNREST ........................................................ 8 KARAIN: A MEMORY ...................................................................................8 THE IDIOTS ..............................................

Full Text Search Details
...y Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...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. Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic C... ...were looking at a fugi- tive, incredible as it appeared to us. He was hag- gard, as though he had not slept for weeks; he had become lean, as though h... ... words are spoken by the camp-fires, in the shared solitude of the sea, in riverside villages, in resting-places sur- rounded by forests—words are spo... ...ere weary. Then the smoke of their fire-ships was seen at the mouth of our rivers, and their great men came in boats full of soldiers to talk to us of... ...ome to send me such specimens. I told those fel- lows to plant a vegetable garden, build new store- houses and fences, and construct a landing-stage. ... ...d grew steadily, annexing street after street. It included also Somebody’s Gardens, a Crescent—a couple of Squares. Thus Alvan Hervey and his wife for...

Full Text Search Details
...Otto – A Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905 Edition) is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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 Por- table Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...the respectable stages of antiquity and seemed indissoluble from the green garden in which it stood, and that yet was a sea-traveller in its younger d... ...ed these acres, my furrow following theirs. All the three names are on the garden bench, two Killians and one Johann. Yes, sir, good men have prepared... ...s, sir, good men have prepared them- selves for the great change in my old garden. Well do I mind my father, in a woollen night-cap, the good soul, go... ...Prince Otto moss; or in the more favoured hollows a whole family of infant rivers would combine, and tinkle in the stones, and lie in pools to be a ba...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: ENVOI. Felix de Vandenesse to Madame la Comtesse Natalie de Manerville: I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. To smooth the frown upon their brow, to soften the pout upon their lips, what obstacles we miraculously...

Full Text Search Details
...ott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a ... ...y 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... ... the neglect in which I lived, and rejoiced that I could stay alone in the garden and play with the pebbles and watch the insects and gaze into the bl... ... jeered at for my pretended love of the stars and forbidden to stay in the garden after dark. Such tyrannical restrains intensify a passion in the hea... ...rise. Thanks to my slimness I slipped 17 Balzac into a tent set up in the gardens of the Papion house, and found a place close to the armchair in whi... ...on the banks of the Danube and the Loire (probably on those of other large rivers), and sheds, in the spring of the year, a white and silky fluff, the...

Excerpt Details
...that it should bear witness to the solid friendship between us, which has survived our wanderings and separations, and triumphed over the busy malice of the world....

Full Text Search Details
...y R. S. Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott is a publication of t... ...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... ...ument or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ere only distant mur- murs reach my ear. So far I have not gone beyond the garden; but the Italian opera opens in a few days, and my mother has a box ... ...out any attempt at symme- try, have enormous shutters, painted yellow. The garden in which it stands is a Provencal garden, enclosed by low walls, bui... ...quettish white stone house, with its blue roof, glittering in the sun. The garden and surrounding walks are horribly dusty , and the trees seem burnt ... ... our cool meadows, and our Loire, with its sparkling sands, peerless among rivers. Chantepleurs will seem delightful to me after the pomps and vanitie...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.

Full Text Search Details
...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...d him a little; and when he saw Henderson, the London jour- nalist, in his garden, he called over the palings and made himself understood. “Henderson,... ... the group of bystanders. Among these were a couple of cyclists, a jobbing gardener I employed sometimes, a girl carrying a baby, Gregg the butcher an... ...ke. All over the district people were dining and supping; working men were gardening after the labours of the day, children were being put to bed, you... ...nd its swiftly growing and Titanic water fronds speedily choked both those rivers. At Putney, as I afterwards saw, the bridge was almost lost in a tan...

Full Text Search Details
...e in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...passed a wretched cabin, with a thatched roof, and about it small fields and garden patches in an in different state of cultivation. There were peop... ...nd to hold it long at a time. Well, you know, when you perspire that way, in rivers, there comes a time when you — when you — well, when you itch. Yo... ...any body. A gentleman could kill a free commoner, and pay for him — cash or garden truck. A noble could kill a noble without expense, as far as the l... ...t war, pure and simple. Launcelot retreated to his town and castle of Joyous Gard, and gathered there a great following of knights. The king, with a g...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life .............................................................................. 5 Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function .............................................................................. 14 Chapter Th...

Full Text Search Details
...Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey 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... ...pment of thought. Where schools are equipped with laboratories, shops, and gardens, where dramatizations, plays, and games are freely used, oppor- tun... ...ience and hence from action upon and with things. When the “mental” is re- garded as a self-contained separate realm, a counterpart fate befalls bodil... ...lm, a counterpart fate befalls bodily activity and movements. They are re- garded as at the best mere external annexes to mind. They may be necessary ... ...led—remains as much an external piece of information as, say, the names of rivers in China. He may be able to recite, but the recital is a mechanical ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: 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 walkin...

Table of Contents Details
...Table of Contents: Book I ?Miss Brooke, 1 -- Prelude, 1 -- Chapter I., 3 -- Chapter II., 10 -- Chapter III., 16 -- Chapter IV., 25 -- Chapter V., 31 -- Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- ...

Full Text Search Details
...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...arch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiment... ... 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 ... ...hing doesn’t often run in the female line; or it runs underground like the rivers in Greece, you know— it comes out in the sons. Clever sons, clever m... ...f choice for Dorothea. But here Celia entered, blooming from a walk in the garden, and the greeting with her delivered Mr. Brooke from the necessity o... ...aubon’s home was the manor house. Close by, visible from some parts of the garden, was the little church, with the old parsonage opposite. In the begi... ... the gray, and the avenue of limes cast shadows. “Shall we not walk in the garden now?” said Dorothea. “And you would like to see the church, you know... ...r lemons, and don’t look dull any more, Lucy. I’ll drive you and Louisa to Riverston to morrow.” Middlemarch 459 Chapter LVII. They numbered scarce e... ...s in the carrying business, which warranted his purchase of a mansion near Riverston already furnished in high style by an il lustrious Spa physician...