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...Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Second T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1... ...tion ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Book the Second trans. Charles Cotton, ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publicati... ...cond trans. Charles Cotton, ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnish... ...esire,” says St. Paul, “to be with Christ,” and “who shall rid me of these bands?” Cleombrotus of Ambracia, hav- ing read Plato’s Pheedo, entered into... ...ive some examples. I was born and bred up in the country, and amongst hus- bandmen; I have had business and husbandry in my own hands ever since my pr... ...alour and the contempt of dangers and death by those furious spectacles of gladiators and fencers, who, having to fight it out to the last, cut, mangl... ...uid sanguine pasta voluptas?” [“What other end does the impious art of the gladiators pro- pose to itself, what the slaughter of young men, what pleas...

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...Contents THE SUICIDE CLUB ....................................................................................................................... 4 STORY OF THE YOUNG MAN WITH THE CREAM TARTS .............................................

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...lication New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ............................................................. 74 STORY OF THE BANDBOX ...................................................................... ...th again to freedom.” “For my part,” said a second, “I wish no more than a bandage for my eyes and cotton for my ears. Only they have no cotton thick ... ...al, we shall now begin the series to which he refers with the Story of the Bandbox.) 74 Robert Louis Stevenson THE RAJAH’S DIAMOND: STORY OF THE BAND... ...t Lady V andeleur was the wife of one and the sister of the other of these gladiators, his heart was touched with sympathy for a woman so distressingl...

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...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed thei...

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...ic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ce, in the time of his wander- ings, during the year 1306, saved his whole band by his sole exertions. He had been defeated by the forces of Edward I.... ...e native Persian race, the conquerors of all the rest, and led by a chosen band proudly called the Immortal. His many capitals—Babylon the great, Susa... ...bably at this time escaped into the moun- tains; while the small desperate band stood side by side on the hill still fighting to the last, some with s... ...te salutant! ‘Hail, Caesar, those about to die salute thee!’ They were the gladiators—the swordsmen trained to fight to the death to amuse the populac... ...selves out to fight by way of a profession: and both these, and such slave gladiators as did not die in the arena, would sometimes re- tire, and spend... ...areheaded and barefooted, had sprung into the arena, and, signing back the gladiators, began to call aloud upon the people to cease from the shedding ...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the ...

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...Contents INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5 THE JILTING OF JANE ................................................................................10 THE CONE.....................................................................................................16 THE STOLEN...

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...tories by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication ... ... Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...would swear, but all the rest was as smooth and rhythmic as breathing. The band ran shouting over the shaft, and ever behind one as one watched was th... ...would go and stand close to the colossus, and look up at the great leather band running overhead. There was a black patch on the band 72 The Country ... ...a-zi suddenly walked across the centre of the shed above which the leather bands were 74 The Country of the Blind running, and went into the shadow b... ...ng against Hapley. The very people who had most gleefully cheered on those gladiators became serious at the conse- quence. There could be no reasonabl...

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...s MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES...................................................................................................

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...ATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...or what, under the old form of expression, you might regard as the trained bands of our literature—the fund from which ultimately, or in the last reso... ...ferred to the shadowy combats of scholastic declamation-mongers—those mock gladiators, and umbratiles doctores. But if, on the other hand, they preten... ...d respect ecclesiastical property,—by enlisting in their service the armed bands that they could not destroy. When wronged or insulted, these Armatole... ...s the rout, and so bitter the mortifi- cation of Ali, who had seen a small band of heroic women snatch the long-sought prize out of his very grasp, th...

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...ries Publication Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...hingly writes, “I will not leave him, I must not forget that he is my hus- band. Let his aunt come!” If this is not pathetic, if this is not woman’s d... ...- sist in not being frightened by the gold and silver camels, and they are banded together to defy the elaborately chased ice- 122 Our Mutual Friend ... ...e nuptial journey to the Isle of Wight, and the outer air teems with brass bands and spectators. In full sight of whom, the malignant star of the Anal... ...h both hands, so that they stood interlocked like a couple of preposterous gladiators. ‘There’ s no time to tell you now. I think he must have gone to...

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...tion tion tion tion tion Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...The Republic, in fact, exhausted by the war, had allowed all the returning bands to accumulate in the town. Gisco, their general, had however been pru... ...estures; others stripped naked to fight amid the cups after the fashion of gladiators, and a company of Greeks danced around a vase whereon nymphs wer... ...hafts of the crosses bent beneath them, and they swayed in the wind, while bands of crows wheeled ceaselessly in the air above their heads. It was thu... ...ore boots of black felt strewn with silver moons. His legs were swathed in bands like those wrapped about a mummy , and the flesh crept through the cr... ...ty-three Samnites, quite a “sacred spring,” cut one another’s throats like gladiators. Soon wood for the funeral-piles failed, the flames were extingu... ...olumns. They placed themselves in four equal ranks, after the fash- ion of gladiators, and began with timid engagements. Some had even bandaged their ...

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...Excerpt: The talisman towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted th...

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...ted by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication ... ... Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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 any- o... ... are not the opening ones. If Spain has bull-fights, and Rome once had her gladiators, Paris waxes proud of her Palais-Royal, where the inevitable rou... ...d mysterious, arose from her sands in the form of a mummy swathed in black bandages; then the Pharaohs swallowed up nations, that they might build the... ...des Arts; they surrounded him, and linked him by the arm among their merry band. “We have been after you for about a week,” the speaker went on. “At y... ...ng tears and money upon you. “Imagination was less yielding; I saw my name bandied about through every city in Europe. ‘One’s name is oneself’ says Eu...

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...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen a...

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.................................................................................................................................................... 127 THE OVER-SOUL .................................................................................................................................................. 137 IX. THE OVER-SOUL .............................................

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...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... forest trees, with all their boughs, to a festal or solemn arcade; as the bands about the cleft pillars still indicate the green withes that tied the... ... popular; for “persuasion is in soul, but necessity is in intellect.” This band of grandees, Hermes, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Plato, Plotinus, Olympiod... ...Ah! if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches! A boy hears a military band play on the field at night, and he has kings and queens and famous chi... ...thought which genius and piety throw into the world, alters the world. The gladiators in the lists of power feel, through all their frocks of force an...

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...Introduction: Nicolo Machiavelli was born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. He was the second son of Bernardo di Nicolo Machiavelli, a lawyer of some repute, and of Bartolommea di Stefano Nelli, his wife. Both parents were members of the old Florentine nobility....

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. At the end of the winter, in the Shtcherbatskys? house, a consultation was being held, which was to pronounce on the state of Kitty?s health and the measures to be taken to restore her failing strength. She had been ill, and as ...

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...na – Part Two by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ion, every- one was repeating a phrase some one had uttered—”The lions and gladiators will be the next thing,” and every- one was feeling horrified; s... ... French, but Anna was listening to the general and did not notice her hus- band. “He’s broken his leg too, so they say,” the general was saying. “This...

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...Excerpt: It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so bei...

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...OUR MUTUAL FRIEND Charles Dickens Volume Three BOOK THE THIRD A LONG LANE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...ion Our Mutual Friend Volume Three by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...ren. ‘Poof! What do you say to the rest of it?’ As she spoke, she untied a band, and the golden stream fell over herself and over the chair, and flowe... ...great difference.’ ‘And we must be up to the difference,’ pursued her hus- band; ‘we must be equal to the change; that’s what we must be. We’ve got to... ...oting folly of a dustman, I need have no relenting towards you. If my hus- band, who sends me here, should form any schemes for mak- ing you a victim,... ...h both hands, so that they stood interlocked like a couple of preposterous gladiators. ‘There’ s no time to tell you now. I think he must have gone to...

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...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being r...

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...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Moth...

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...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS ...............................................................................................

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...T wo With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, B B B B By the y the y the y the y the RE RE RE RE REV V V V V. GEOR . GEOR . GEOR . G... ...GILFILLAN AN AN AN AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pe... ...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... ...or the fleet; 210 Next goes his wool—to clothe our valiant bands, Last, for his country’s love, he sells his lands. To town he comes, ... ...s. To town he comes, completes the nation’s hope, And heads the bold train-bands, and burns a pope. And shall not Britain now reward his toils, Britai... ...e, that knows no shade; Here Amphitritè sails through myrtle bowers; There gladiators fight, or die in flowers; Unwater’d see the drooping sea-horse m... ... long order placed, No Grecian stone the pompous arches graced: No nightly bands in glittering armour wait Before the sleepless tyrant’s guarded gate;...

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...Excerpt: My dear Walkley, you once asked me why I did not write a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit p...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of...

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...f John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ate Uni versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...els in those debates, the really influential mind among these intellectual gladiators was Charles Austin. He contin ued, after leaving the University... ... and philosophical opinions. The notion that Bentham was sur rounded by a band of disciples who received their opinions from his lips, is a fable to ... ...et part of the country, and only occasionally in town, with her first hus band, Mr. Taylor. I visited her equally in both places; and was greatly ind...