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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Presco... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...hers, in whom necessity, will, reflection, stand in place of talent, march straight and resolutely in the path traced out for bourgeois ambitions. God... ... on planks laid down beside the houses and along the marshy gardens, or on narrow paths flanked on each side by stagnant water which sometimes turned ... ...hout difficulty. It was evidently an aban- doned factory. The building was narrow and the side of it was a long wall with many windows and no architec... ...oid cau- tiously, “you’re a bold one, anyhow.” She went to the door of the outer room and bolted it; then she came back and sat down on a chair beside... ... succeed, had sent the boy. He doubted the rank they had claimed, and went straight to the police-office where he lodged a complaint, requesting that ...

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...by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... that my lady mother has adopted him, and thinks I should laugh at her, or straightway set up a dislike to him, knowing my con- tempt for heroes and h... ...of his horse, and rode off at once to Mr. Lascelles. On his return he went straight to the drawing-room, where Mrs. Edmonstone was reading to Charles,... ...- ing hands, she went away, leaving him alone with Charles, who lay in his narrow bed against the wall, fixed in one po- sition, his forehead contract... ... was to be brought out. The men helped him vigorously, and it stood on the narrow pebbly beach, the only safe landing-place in the whole bay; he threw... ...t the thought that this very evening, in a few hours, he must see her. The outer door opened, there was a soft step, and Amabel stood before him, pale...

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...Excerpt: It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, mong the rest of my neighbors, heard in ordinary dis course that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotter...

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...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occu... ...le occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all t... ...ylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...he part where I lived. It was to be observed, indeed, that it did not come straight on towards us; for the city , that is to say , within the walls, w... ...ther encounter I had in the open day also; and this was in going through a narrow passage from Petty France into Bishopsgate Churchyard, by a row of a... ...treet, coming out just by the church door; the other is on the side of the narrow passage where the alms-houses are on the left; and a dwarf-wall with... ... mayors, bailiffs, and other head-officers to appoint within their several limits examiners, searchers, watchmen, keepers, and buriers for the persons... ...e; but with this condi- tion, too, that when he went he was to lock up the outer door of the house and take the key away with him, T o evade this, and...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken image...

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...RIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...hat is born and eats, that generates and dies, is but the aggregate of the outer and lower sides of man. This inner consciousness, this lantern altern... ... trial, it would have condemned the system. Our sight of the world is very narrow; the mind but a pedestrian instrument; there’s nothing new under the... ...bble and chattering of other men better and worse than we are, and to walk straight be- fore us by what light we have. They may be right; but so, befo... ...u. We are not all expected to be Damiens; a man may conceive his duty more narrowly, he may love his comforts better; and none will cast a stone at hi... ...’ states one of the unanswerable problems of life in quite a realistic and straightforward way . A fly startles a cab-horse, the coach is overset; a n...