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...OR.....3 PART II...32 CHAPTER I.....33 CHAPTER II....46 CHAPTER III ....67 CHAPTER IV....85 CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY...113 TO THE READER....129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK ...130 DEDECATION....135 PREFACE.....137 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.....143 THE COMING OF MESSIAH...151 CHAPTER I.....151 CHAPTER II....160 CHAPTER III....163 CHAPTER IV....167 CHAPTER V.....168 AR...

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... THE COMING OF MESSIAH IN GLORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A ... ... TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. EDWARD IRVING, A.M. Volume I PUBLISHED BY L. B. SE... ... how long these unfaithful fears would have withheld me from entering with good earnest on the warfare, when the Lord himself, as oft his manner is, ... ...; 2 nd . That then their warfare is ended; and 3 rd . That their kingdom is come: while on the other hand, it had been equally upheld before the rep... ...f those to whom I broke the subject, I could not get the ear even for preliminaries. So novel and strange a doctrine, with respect especially to the ... ... obstinate of the nations shall at once be converted, and the whole world follow in its train, and persevere in a state of peace and blessedness? Thi... ...e I must not be silent concerning the very wonderful and providential way by which this train of discoursing brought me acquainted with the work whic... ... am about to say, will appear the more wonderful; That though we were for the most part strangers to one another, of different churches and of diffe... ...d of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: but they sh...

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... The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wings of the Dove ... ...RONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...say a very young—motive; I can scarce remember the time when the situation on which this long-drawn fiction mainly rests was not vividly present to me... ...battle. The process of life gives way fighting, and often may so shine out on the lost ground as in no other connexion. One had had moreover, as a var... ...move till one has found it. To start without it is to pretend to enter the train and, still more, to remain in one’s seat, without a ticket. Well— in ... ...ent, in quarters so cramped. Of 16 The Wings of the Dove course, as every novelist knows, it is difficulty that in- spires; only, for that perfection... ...side of Britannia, the side of her florid philistinism, her plumes and her train, her fan- tastic furniture and heaving bosom, the false gods of her t... ... of which seemed to show her his impatience. It helped them moreover, with strangers on either side, little to talk; though this very restriction perh... ...ad gone almost as fast as the boom, over the sea, of the last great native novel. Those ladies were “so different”—different, observably enough, from ...

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...ction three weeks in my pocket-book. I was nervous and timid about meeting him-- conscious of youth and ignorance, convinced that he was tormented by strangers, and especially by my countrypeople, and not exempt from the suspicion that he had the irritability as well as the dignity of genius....

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...The Author of Beltraffio By Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Author of Beltraff... ...IC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Author of Beltraffio by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ... him— conscious of youth and ignorance, convinced that he was tormented by strangers, and especially by my country- people, and not exempt from the su... ... had read over five times and which now, with my riper judgement, I admire on the whole as much as ever. This will give you about the date of my first... ...he shape of their sideboards; but there had not as yet been, among English novels, such an example of beauty of ex- ecution and “intimate” importance ... ...rose, the author of “Beltraffio,” and I didn’t go down into Surrey to call on her. I went to the Continent, spent the following winter in Italy, and r... ...the Renaissance; he understood everything. The scene of one of his earlier novels was laid in Rome, the scene of another in Florence, and I had moved ... ...about the other great man, the one in America. He indicated to me the best train, and it may be imagined whether on the Saturday afternoon I was punct... ...since enshrined on my mantel-shelf, scanning the car- riage-windows as the train rolled up. He recognised me as infallibly as I had recognised himself...

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Excerpt: The Wheels of Chance, A Bicycling Idyll by H. G. Wells.

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...The Wheels of Chance A Bicycling Idyll by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wheels of Chance, ... ...IES PUBLICATION The Wheels of Chance, A Bicycling Idyll by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...Messrs. Antrobus & Co.—a perfectly fictitious “Co.,” by the bye—of Putney, on the 14th of August, 1895, had turned to the right-hand side, where the b... ...ind the counter, have neatly refolded the goods he had shown you, have put on one side those you selected, extracted a little book with a carbon leaf ... ...d an incivility—greed. He would leave her such a very little. His business training made him prone to bow and step aside. If only one could take one’s... ...loquies.) His mind was whirling. One fact was clear. A most delightful and novel human be- ing had flashed across his horizon and was going out of his... ...ollen veins and shak- ing palpably, his breath came viscid. “I’m hardly in training yet,” he remarked. His legs had gone leaden. “I don’t feel as thou... ...r- gent reasons; but at present it simply led to convulsive balancings and novel and inelegant modes of dismounting. The human nose is, at its best, a... ...said Mrs. Milton. “I’m not going to stand here and be insulted by a lot of strangers,” said Mr. Hoopdriver. “So you needn’t think it.” “Please don’t w...

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...THE NEW MACHIAVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...a- tions to party and faction have faded to insignificance, leav- ing only on the one hand his broad method and concep- tions, and upon the other his ... ...very old dream indeed in the world’s history. It plays too small a part in novels. Plato and Confucius are but the highest of a great host of minds th... ...v- ered with the dust and dirt of that immediate life, washed himself, put on his “noble court dress,” closed the door on the world of toiling and get... ...te to go about the new business it was taking up in a businesslike way, to train teach- ers, build and equip schools, endow pedagogic research, and pr... ... appended to every chapter. By means of these last the teacher was able to train his class to the very highest level of grant-earning effi- 19 H G We... ...ld he have any people invited to dinner. He didn’t, he had explained, want strangers poking about in his house when he came home tired. So such callin... ... man who fails to in- terest, the little compact, disciplined crowd in the strangers’ gallery, the light, elusive, flickering movements high up be- hi...

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...Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Some Reminiscences by ... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...reat, I mean, as affecting a whole mass of lives—has come from reflection. On the other hand, you cannot fail to see the power of mere words; such wor... ...d alone have set whole nations in motion and upheaved the dry, hard ground on which rests our whole social fabric. There’s “virtue” for you if you lik... ...ting period of my life have come to me through my books; and I know that a novelist lives in his work. He stands there, the only reality in an invente... ...ecause of my dislike and distrust of such transac- tions. It may be my sea-training acting upon a natu- ral disposition to keep good hold on the one t... ...Poland, or more precisely to Ukraine. On an early, sleepy morning changing trains in a hurry I left my Gladstone bag in a refreshment-room. A worthy a... ...s justice must be rendered to the parish priests of the Greek Church that, strangers to the country as they were (being all drawn from the inte- rior ... ...fore the world. Indeed, every one who puts pen to paper for the reading of strangers (unless a moralist, who, gen- erally speaking, has no conscience ...

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...The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop b... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...ered a great multitude of heated, excited, swarthy faces…. The emperor sat on his golden throne in the midst of the gathering, commanding silence by g... ...y in the sleeper’s ear. The attention strained to hear and comprehend, and on the very verge of comprehension snapped like a fiddle-string. “Nicoea!” ... ...bund, an actress, a dancer—though she, it is true, did not say very much—a novelist, a mechanical ex- pert of some sort, a railway peer, geniuses, hai... .... There had been even attempts at epigram. Athanasian epi- grams. Bent the novelist had doubted if originally there had been a Third Person in the Tri... ...s work-people, marries a wife foreign, out of a county family or suchlike, trains his children from their very birth in a different manner. Why, the g... ... engine-houses, that ends in a bluish bricked-up cliff against the hill. A train rushed with a roar and clatter into the throat of the great tunnel an... ...0 10 10 10 10 All our children are changelings. They are perpetually fresh strangers. Every day they vanish and a new person masquer- ades as yesterda...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The stor...

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...Main Street by Sinclair Lewis A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclai... ...E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...- lating whether there may not be other faiths? 4 Main Street CHAPTER I I On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a ... ...so full of animation and moving beauty, that the heart of a chance watcher on the lower road tightened to wistful- ness over her quality of suspended ... ...w it. He’s usually the only man in the neighborhood who has any scientific training, isn’t he?” “Yes, that’s so, but I guess most of us get rusty. We ... ...by clumps of willows encircling white houses and red barns. No. 7, the way train, grumbling through Minnesota, imper- ceptibly climbing the giant tabl... ...ws of the most pretentious building in sight, the one place which welcomed strangers and determined their opinion of the charm and luxury of Gopher Pr... ...d, shut, forbidding unit bookcases that were half filled with swashbuckler novels and un- read-looking sets of Dickens, Kipling, O. Henry, and Elbert ... ...ld and pay exorbitant wages!” Carol was retorting, “But a maid does it for strangers, and all she gets out of it is the pay—” Their eyes were hostile....

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... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Cleme... ...lvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in an... ...OCCURRED TO ME that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake a journey through ... ...ns for a long pedestrian trip southward in the soft spring weather, but at the last moment we changed the program, for private reasons, and took the e... ...n the soft spring weather, but at the last moment we changed the program, for private reasons, and took the express-train. We made a short halt at Fra... ...hemselves about these chiefs, but leaving the carpetway clear. Nobody moved or spoke any more but only waited. In a short time the shrill piping of a ... ...t is remote and isolated, and very white, it makes a strong mark against the lofty leafy ram- part at its back. This hotel had a feature which was a d... ...e, wore the white cap—Prus- sian Corps. He introduced us to many white caps, but to none of another color. The corps etiquette extended even to us, wh... ...f suffering is indestruc- tible. To have to endure it in silence, and sitting still, made it all the harder. I was in a railed compartment with eight ...

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...The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton Part Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Early Short Fictio... ... Series Publication The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document... ... The words had been spoken by their friend Alida Stair, as they sat at tea on her lawn at Pangbourne, in reference to the very house of which the libr... ...t of a country place in one of the southern or southwestern counties, had, on their arrival in England, carried their problem straight to Alida Stair,... ...oration to a detailed inspection of the old house, she had pressed (like a novel heroine) a panel that opened at her touch, on a narrow flight of stai... ...e was expecting an authority from Dorchester, who was to drive out between trains and make a diagnosis of the boiler. But when she dipped into the dam... ...aching issues that they resulted in his finding it expedient to ignore his train, and beguiled Mary into spending the remainder of the morning in abso... ...“I am not,” said he, “in the habit of showing my private correspondence to strangers.” The Count interpreted these words, and Donna Polixena’s father,... ...ad acquired such local distinction that the entertainment of distinguished strangers became one of its accepted functions; in recognition of which it ...

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...Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Northanger Abbey by Ja... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...y university. 3 Jane Austen Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1803) A NOTE ON THE TEXT Northanger Abbey was written in 1797-98 under a different title... ... Crosbie & Co., who sold it back in 1816. The Signet Classic text is based on the first edition, published by John Murray, London, in 1818—the year fo... ...er any objection to books at all. But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to su... ...tian name, were always arm in arm when they walked, pinned up each other’s train for the dance, and were not to be divided in the set; and if a rainy ... ... in meeting in defi- ance of wet and dirt, and shut themselves up, to read novels together. Y es, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and imp... ...f. “I cannot help being jealous, Catherine, when I see myself slighted for strangers, I, who love you so excessively! When once my affections are plac... ...ong for my own peace; and to see myself supplanted in your friend- ship by strangers does cut me to the quick, I own. These Tilneys seem to swallow up...

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...OR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The L... ...Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...l character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravitation is as good as perfect:... ...it is well known, has proved that the Planetary System, 4 Sartor Resartus on this scheme, will endure forever; Laplace, still more cunningly, even gu... ...r, that, namely, of Pro- fessor Teufelsdrockh the Discloser. Of both which novelties, as far as might be possible, we resolved to master the sig- nifi... ...h is our divinity. In our historical and critical capacity, we hope we are strangers to all the world; have feud or favor with no one,—save indeed the... ... wrinkles, with a look of helpful intelligence, almost of benevolence. Few strangers, as above hinted, had admittance hither: the only one we ever saw... ...as elsewhere, the ninety-and-nine Public Men can for most part be but mute train-bearers to the hundredth, perhaps but stalking-horses and willing or ... ...back and breast are almost bare. Wives of quality, on the other hand, have train- gowns four or five ells in length; which trains there are boys to ca...

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...NN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Pandora by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...nic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication... ... be done about this, and in a general manner proposed to do it, for he was on his way to explore a society abounding in comic aspects. This consciousn... ... inasmuch as the study of English institutions was no part of his mission. On the other hand the day was charming; the blue sea, in Southampton Water,... ...d to these things it was a pleasure to him to feel that, with his complete training, he had been taught thoroughly to appreciate the nature of evidenc... ...y to settle himself in his sea- chair and draw from his pocket a Tauchnitz novel by an American author whose pages, he had been assured, would help to... ...o make between them so comparatively poor an opposition. Even his American novelist was more amus- 8 Pandora ing than that, and he prepared to return... ... and practised by a whole continent and yet to be rendered accessible to a trained diplomatist, clearly, but by some special and incalculable revelati... ...hat evening knew every one or almost every one. There were often inquiring strangers, expecting great things, from New York and Boston, and to them, i...

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...tending the bloom of young desire, that of blindly taking to the confectionery line has not, perhaps, been sufficiently considered. How is the son of a British yeoman, who has been fed principally on salt pork and yeast dumplings, to know that there is satiety for the human stomach even in a paradise of glass jars full of sugared almonds and pink lozenges, and that the ted...

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...o had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gentil, the man-servant, and Albertine, the maid, not a little irksome on the way....

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... (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Distinguished Provin... ...ris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...is friend David in the provincial town of Angouleme. Part two is centered on Lucien’s Parisian life. Part three, Eve and David, reverts to the settin... ...f Gentil, the man-servant, and Albertine, the maid, not a little irk- some on the way. Lucien, traveling post for the first time in his life, was horr... ...of his birth than of his genius, and dangled in Mme. d’Espard’s 25 Balzac train by way of concealing his love for the Duchesse de Chaulieu. In spite ... ...ouleme, why should he not succeed in Paris? Involuntarily, and despite the novel counter fascination of the stage, his eyes turned to the Celimene in ... ...e public pleases. There is some one now bringing out an edition of Scott’s novels at eighteen sous per volume, three livres twelve sous per copy, and ... ...of something like pain at the ostracism to which he was subjected by these strangers, who all addressed each other by their Christian names. Each one ... ...sked pettishly. “I do not like to tell you before M. Cardot’s face; for he trained his son-in-law, no doubt. Would you believe it, little and old as h...

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...Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Le... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings. The mist took pity on the fretted structures of earlier generations: the Post Office with its ... ...es, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses, homes—they seemed—for laughte... ...hat a family! And now Myra is going to get pathetic on me because we don’t train with this millionaire outfit. Oh, Lord, sometimes I’d like to quit th... ...f before my own employ- ees!” he reasoned. By the end of three days he was trained to leave his desk, walk to the file, take out and light a cigar, wi... ...voice, who pierced the fog: “Good Lord, George, you don’t suppose it’s any novelty to me to find that we hustlers, that think we’re so all- fired succ... ...hievements of Big Bill Bostwick, the pitcher, Babbitt remarked to complete strangers, “Pretty nice! Good work!” and hastened back to the office. He ho... ...om all over the state said, “Hower you, Brother Babbitt?” Sixteen complete strangers called him “George,” and three men took him into corners to confi...

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