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...e unwearied patience and untiring kindness helped him to the better under- standing of the technical difficult J ies of a Very compli- cated subject. ... ...loping. Every available space seemed to be occupied. Men, even women, were standing up, compacted into a suffocating pressure, and for the moment ever... ...rty found itself a little crowded, and Jadwin and Cressler were obliged to stand, in order to see the stage. Although they all spoke in whispers, thei... ...nt Wess’, con- sulting her libretto, all at sea once more. “I can’t under- stand. She says—the opera book says she says, ‘I tremble.’ I don’t see why.... ... By then everybody was very tired. Aunt Wess’ exclaimed that she could not stand another minute, and retired to her room. Page, in- defatigable, decla... ...g even yet sharp) an armful of logs smouldered on the flagstones. His man, Evans, came from out an inner room to ask if he wanted anything. Corthell g... ...om to ask if he wanted anything. Corthell got out of his evening coat, and Evans brought him his smoking-jacket and set the little table with its long... ... he went away, he left it exactly as it was, in the charge of the faithful Evans; and no mater how long he was absent, he never returned thither witho...

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Excerpt: Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans).

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...SILAS MARNER The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) 1861 A PENN STATE E LECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Silas Mar... ...UBLICATION Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...in any way. Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim ... ...George Eliot SILAS MARNER The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) 1861 “A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to dec... ...stone homesteads, with well-walled orchards and orna- mental weathercocks, standing close upon the road, and lifting more imposing fronts than the rec... ... got no children to look to. No, no; it was no stroke that would let a man stand on his legs, like a horse between the shafts, and then walk off as so... ...nversion, he had dreamed that he saw the words “calling and election sure” standing by themselves on a white page in the open Bible. Such colloquies h... ...ame sort of impression as a handle or a crooked tube, which has no meaning standing apart. The prominent eyes that used to look trusting and dreamy, n... ...he had granted himself. It had been his companion for twelve years, always standing on the same spot, always lending its handle to him in the early mo...

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... any romantic rigor in constructing this idea, and abiding by the ordinary standard of what is understood by publication, it is probable that, in many... ...e them rapidly to diffuse the knowledge of a writer. A reader whose social standing is moderate may communicate his views upon a book or a writer to h... ...ace me where you will on the scale of com- parison: only suffer me, though standing lowest in your cata- logue, to rejoice in the recollection of lett... ... the special enmity of its own peculiar antagonists. These papers, for in- stance, of mine, not being political, were read possibly in a friendly temp... ...e I happened to hear the same sound in the same circumstances—namely, when standing between an open window and a dead body on a summer day. Instantly,... ...ther funereal emblems. When finished, it was carried into the room of Mrs. Evans. This Mrs. Evans was an important person in our affairs. My mother, w... ...ll do- mestic business; and the housekeeper, for some years, was this Mrs. Evans. Into her private parlor, where she sat aloof from the under servants... ... say, but then I could say it only to a very few people, amongst whom Mrs. Evans was certainly not one; and, when I did say any thing, I fear that dir... ...geantry of woe, cypress wreaths, and arms reversed, was read aloud to Mrs. Evans, indirectly, there- fore, to me. It communicated with Spartan brevity...

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...her—the other is all a sham.” “I think so,” said Margaret; “but I must not stand with her in a draught,” and on she went, while he called after her. “... ...e was mak- ing out. He replied, smiling at the impossibility of her under- standing, but she wrinkled her brown forehead, hooked her long nose, and sp... ...kes one sick! I gave that Mrs. Thorn a bit of my mind at last; I could not stand the sight any longer. Madam, said I, you’ll have to answer for your m... ...ighty spring.” “A mighty one!” said Alan: “but I think, as far as I under- stand the question, that Ethel has the best of it.” “I don’t mean that peop... ...ncel, pinnacle and buttress, rose before her eyes, and she and Norman were standing in the porch with an orderly, religious population, blessing the u... ... 175 Yo n g e CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVI Evans. Peace your tattlings. What is fair, William? William. Pulcher. Quick... ...m. Pulcher. Quickly. Poulcats! there are fairer things than poulcats sure! Evans. I pray you have your remembrance, child, accusative Hing Hang H...

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...oment, the ship struck, with such vio lence as to dash the heads of those standing in the cuddy against the deck above them, and the shock was accomp... ...hat I may not then look from my exile on my empty place and undone work? I stand upon a sea shore, where the waves are years. They break and fall, and... ...ey wouldn’t do for him. Somehow, they don’t give him that one pound ten he stands in need of; but perhaps it is not enough—they want to do more, and h... ... they thought, than all the oth ers, and every night they watched for it, standing hand in hand at a window. Whoever saw it first cried out, ‘I see t... ...young, the sister drooped, and came to be so weak that she could no longer stand in the window at night; and then the child looked sadly out by himsel... ...time, the principal printers, at that time, of posting bills being Messrs. Evans and Ruffy, of Budge Row; Thoroughgood and Whiting, of the present day... ...leasant to behold, of a rare old Thames Police officer, Mr. Superintendent Evans, now succeeded by his son. We looked over the charge books, admirably...

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...Adam Bede by George Eliot [pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans] A PENN STAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Adam Bede by G... ...ECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Adam Bede by George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans] is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ... electronic transmission, in any way. Adam Bede by George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans], the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim ... ...versity. 3 George Eliot Adam Bede by George Eliot [pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans] Book One Chapter I The Workshop W ITH A SINGLE DROP OF INK for a mir... ... up to take a more distant survey of his work, he had the air of a soldier standing at ease. The sleeve rolled up above the elbow showed an arm that w... ...family, the Donnithornes. Mr. Casson, the landlord, had been for some time standing at the door with his hands in his pockets, balancing himself on hi... ...es closed, as if wrapt in prayer or medi- tation. Others chose to continue standing, and had turned their faces towards the villagers with a look of m... ...ixed on a point above the heads of the people. “See where our blessed Lord stands and weeps and stretches out his arms towards you. Hear what he says:... ... you will begin to feel that your soul is not saved; then you will have to stand before God dressed in your sins, in your evil tempers and vain though...

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...ng a skein of crimson sewing-silk over Katherine’s outstretched hands, and standing with her back to Helen, who took up her pencil again in silence, a... ...tercourse with the Woodbourne family since her friend’s death, though con- stantly corresponding with Lady Merton, and occasionally writing and sendin... ... must have heard of Mr. Turner. Rupert 32 ABBEYCHURCH has made a standing joke of him, ever since the scarlet- fever.’ ‘Oh yes!’ said Anne, ... ... children, who looked like a living flower-bed. Mrs. Hazleby chanced to be standing near Mrs. Bouverie, a lady who lived at some distance from Abbeych... ...aimed Helen; ‘but you will always wrest my words, and pretend to misunder- stand me.’ ‘I am sorry I have vexed you, Helen,’ said Elizabeth, more 50 ... ... Hall, just before that nice nursery-maid of yours, Susan, married our man Evans.’ ‘Yes, I remember,’ said Elizabeth; ‘but what has that to do with yo... ...ou guess?’ ‘Not in the least,’ said Helen. 182 ABBEYCHURCH ‘That Evans was clipping the hedges,’ said Anne. Elizabeth and Anne indulged in a...

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...ry different explanation is requisite. Steevens means the reader to under- stand Addison; but it does not follow that the particular pa- per in questi... ...nser. Milton only,—and why? simply because he was a brilliant scholar, and stands like a bridge between the Christian literature and the Pagan,—Addiso... ...ntary contest, it will be said, did not last above three years; the king’s standard hav- ing been first raised at Nottingham in August, 1642, and the ... ...o the judges of assize, and to other official persons; a custom of ancient standing, and in some places, we believe, still subsisting; and in such cas... ... rank he held through the next ten years, or, more generally, what was the standing in society of Shakspeare until he had created a new station for hi... ...re in motion than passion or the ardor of youth. “I like not,” says Parson Evans, (alluding to Falstaff in masquerade,) “I like not when a woman has a...

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...h. He that is romantic errs usually by too much elevation. He violates the standard of reasonable expectation, by drawing too violently upon the nobil... ...he garb of retalia- tion for counter aggressions on the part of the enemy, stands forward uniformly in the van of such motives as it is thought worth ... ...y solemn, the solitary witness to an appalling scene, which threatened in- stant death, in a shape the most terrific, to two young people, whom I had ... ...om the documents which attest their fidelity to facts. In the former class stand the admirable novels of De Foe; and, on a lower range, within the sam... ... retired from the dining-room, I found an easy opening, in various circum- stances connected with the Laxton stables, for introducing naturally a pict... ...er aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo? So again of Colonel Evans, who, after losing a fine estate long held out to his hopes, five tim...

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...s clue once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confess’d. Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, ... ...and me? You hold the word, from Jove to Momus given, That man was made the standing jest of Heaven; And gold but sent to keep the fools in play, For s... ...nse, And who would take the poor from Providence? Like some lone Chartreux stands the good old Hall, Silence without, and fasts within the wall; No ra... ... angels guard him in the golden mean! There, English bounty yet awhile may stand, And honour linger ere it leaves the land. But all our praises why sh... ...ch who, living, saved a candle’s end: Shouldering God’s altar a vile image stands, Belies his features, nay, extends his hands; That live-long wig whi... ... in air; Songs, sonnets, epigrams the winds uplift, And whisk them back to Evans, Young, and Swift. 305 The embroider’d suit at least he deem’d his pr... ...ee Lucian’s Icaro-Menippus, where this fiction is more extended.—P . 305 ‘Evans, Young, and Swift:’ some of those persons whose writings, epigrams, o...

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...rs fin length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick pies. Each one of those piers was twenty... ...d round the throats of the piers, and rode on the overhang of the footpath-stanchions; their fire-pots and the spurts of flame that answered each hamm... ...Day’s Work silver pipe and the creak and clatter of the pulleys. Peroo was standing on the topmost coping of the tower, clad in the blue dungaree of h... ... sound of bare feet running upon soft earth. The order in all cases was to stand by the day’s work and wait instructions. The gangs poured by in the d... ...odded. It was as big a flood as he had any wish to watch. His bridge would stand what was upon her now, but not very much more, and if by any of a tho... ... day catch the idiot who had packed it. No- body else attended to him, for Evans, the Mogul’s engineer, a little cut about the head, but very angry, w... ...ot an’ sort o’ twiddle ye off the track, don’t they?” “Don’t they?” roared Evans, who was a red-headed Welsh- man. “You talk as if I was ditched by a ... ...lods of field, on which corn nodded drunkenly; his fire put out with dirt (Evans had done that as soon as he recovered his senses); and his broken hea... ...ts. A long-bearded man came out of a house beyond the corn-field, and told Evans that if the accident had happened a little later in the year, all his...

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...would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monu ments of the safety with which error of opinio... ...ve it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his ... ...norable discharge of the public debts; to keep within the requisite limits a standing military force, always remembering that an armed and trained mil... ...n armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics—that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones... ...Brick Capi tol,” located on the site where the Supreme Court build ing now stands. A controversy resulted from the inaugu ral committees proposals ... ...the President elect as he took his oath of office from Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes on the East Portico of the Capitol. He addressed the nation ... ...was administered on the East Portico of the Capitol by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. When four years ago we met to inaugurate a President, the R... ...engaged in war. The oath of office was administered by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes on the East Portico of the Capitol. The Roosevelts hosted a ...

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...y, many others. The entire community of librarians de- serves our thanks for standing up for free public access to knowledge for over two hundred year... ...re in full? Should anyone own the protocols—the agreed-upon common technical standards—that make the Internet possible? Does reading a Web page count ... ...ach chapter builds on those themes, but is also designed to be largely free- standing. The readers who thrill to the idea that there might be constitu... ... place—unless the state steps in somehow to change the equation. This is the standard argument for intellectual property rights. And a very good argum... ...d to know Jefferson’s opinion of a patent that had been issued to Mr. Oliver Evans. Jefferson devotes a paragraph to a recent retrospective extension ... ... retrospective extension of patent rights (he disapproves) and then turns to Evans’s elevators. Patents then, as now, were only supposed to be given f... ...were novel, nonobvious, and useful. Jefferson had considerable doubt whether Evans’s device, essentially a revolving string of buckets used to move gr... ...e question then whether such a string of buckets was invented first by Oliver Evans, is a mere question of fact in mathe- matical history. Now, turning... ...y’s monopoly of tea, or by Lord Essex’s monopoly of sweet wines. Thus, then, stands the case. It is good that authors should be remunerated; and the l...

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... away, ungenerously leaving them to lifelong sorrow in order that he might stand well with a foolish world. In the then condition of the public standa... ...ses; no one would do anything, there would be no progress, the world would stand still. We ought to stand reverently un covered when the name of that... ...ause of Christ. You have so filled my mind with suspicions that I was con stantly expecting to find a hidden questionable impulse back of all this, b... ...hing must and will be furnished and that command obeyed, no matter who may stand in the way and suffer disaster by it? That man ruined his family to ... ...worth any man’s thought and labor and diligence. Y.M. Consider the man who stands by his duty and goes to the stake rather than be recreant to it. O.M... ... and children who mourned greatly for his ge nius. George Eliot Miss Mary Evans Mrs. Cross Mrs. Lewis was the greatest female poet unless George Sand...

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...Middlemarch By George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans] A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Middlemarch by ... ...ld think it enough to refer to by the mention of that date; judging by the standard of his own memory, which was a volume where a vide supra could ser... ... in his youth; in short, Dorothea saw that here she might reckon on under- standing, sympathy, and guidance. On one—only one—of her favorite themes sh... ...e had in the dwellings of the ancient Egyptians, as if to check a too high standard. After he was gone, Dorothea dwelt with some agitation on this ind... ...even-and-twenty years older than you. To be sure,—if you like learning and standing, and that sort of thing, we can’t have everything. And his income ... ... I couldn’t, as your guardian, have consented to a bad match. But Casaubon stands well: his position is good. I am afraid Chettam will be hurt, though...