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...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ...y restless, wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-con- ceived books. One does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way ... ...content- ment to those wider dreams. I like to think of him so, with brown books before him lit by the light of candles in silver candlesticks, or hea... ... trunks and boxes. There are cupboards on either side of the fireplace and bookshelves with books above them, and on the wall and rather tattered is a... ... and forensic 213 H G Wells “crushers.” The New Year and Birthday honours lists are al- ways very sagely and exhaustively considered, and anecdotes a...
...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 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... ...he Northwest except hold revivals and build libraries to contain the Elsie books. I’ll make ‘em put in a village green, and darling cottages, and a qu... ...ersuading children to read charming fairy tales, helping young men to find books on mechanics, being ever so courteous to old men who were hunting for... ... who were hunting for newspapers—the light of the library, an authority on books, invited to dinners with poets and explorers, read- ing a paper to an... ...inclair Lewis preparations for her first party, the housewarming. She made lists on every envelope and laundry-slip in her desk. She sent orders to Mi... ...t hopefully. “All right,” she yawned. With hazy eyes she tried to read the lists of characters, which were hidden among lifeless advertisements of pia...
...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 story would...
...ssics Series Publication Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table 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... ... seek Beetle and McT urk in their house form-room. They were stowing away books for a quiet afternoon in the furze, which they called the “wuzzy.” “A... ...t again approvingly, and was silent. McTurk and Beetle had taken out their books and were lying on their stomachs, chin in hand. The sea snored and gu... ...y had vanished. “Looks like no end of a mess,” said Beetle, collecting his books and mathematical instrument case. “A week in the form-rooms isn’t any... ... the notices, where a newspaper cutting was thumb- tacked between callover lists. “By gum!” quoth Stalky, uncovering as he read. “It’s old Duncan—Fat-... ...bel of matters personal, provincial, and imperial, pieces of old call-over lists, and new policies, cut short by the roar of a Burmese gong, and we we...
...IN AMBUSH? ................................................................................................................................. 6 SLAVES OF THE LAMP ............................................................................................................... 29 AN UNSAVORY INTERLUDE ...............................................................................
... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publi... ...y Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any ... ...wain (Samuel L. Clemens), the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced a... ...l the way; these were said to have their legends, like those on the Rhine, and what was better still, they had never been in print. There was nothing ... ...’d take me home in August, whether I was done with my education or not, but durn him, he didn’t come; never said why; just sent me a hamper of Sunday-... ..., he didn’t come; never said why; just sent me a hamper of Sunday-school books, and told me to be good, and hold on a while. I don’t take to Sun- day-... ...urious odds and ends of float- ing fact and gossip; no “rumors” about anything or anybody; no prognostications or prophecies about anything or any- bo...
... Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...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... ...ary, where is a magnifi- cent reading-room, and an admirable collection of books. In spite of the scanty herbage and the dust on the trees, the Alamed... ..., a comfort- able little opera, a good old library filled full of good old books (none of your works of modern science, travel, and history, but good ... ...of your works of modern science, travel, and history, but good old useless books of the last two centuries), and nobody to trouble you in reading them... ...of their good-natured black faces, and they let the cloth blow about as it lists, and grin unconfined. Wherever we went the negroes seemed happy. They...
...Excerpt: After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal....
...tronic Classics Series Publication The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State Universi... ...ion of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this d... ...lassics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication pr... ...ffed him so unmercifully that he was glad to keep his dream to himself after that. He often read the priest’s old books and got him to explain and enl... ...ich he called his cabinet. By his command a repast was brought such as Tom had never encountered before except in books. The prince, with princely del... ...I know not if I am or not, sir. The good priest that is called Father Andrew taught me, of his kindness, from his books.” “Know’st thou the Latin?” “B... ...ixt John, King of England, and the King of France, it was decreed that two champions should fight together in the lists, and so settle the dispute by ...
...Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom?s early life. III. Tom?s meeting with the Prince. IV. The Prince?s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The question ...
...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis 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... ...ere d’ you think you’d be if it wasn’t for our capital behind you, and our lists of properties, and all the prospects we find for you? All you got to ... ... what-is-it from Columbia and he sits up all night reading a lot of greasy books and he’s always spieling about the ‘value of languages, ’ and the poo... ... some of our leading universities, lecturer, extensive traveler, author of books, poetry, etc., a man with the unique personality of the master minds,... ...ol.” Ted had collected fifty or sixty announcements, from annual reference-books, from Sunday School periodicals, fiction-magazines, and journals of d... ...- ments was the dun background of office-routine: leases, sales-contracts, lists of properties to rent. The evenings of oratory and committees and lod...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....
...ublication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...he school on thoughts of what love really is, when it is not fished out of books and poetry. For though she was pale, starved and pale, they could see... ... inspect the boy. “Big head,” he remarked. “Yes, Leo won’t want pushing at books when he’s once in harness. He will have six weeks of me. It’s more th... ...his attention on Beatrice, nearer Leo’s age, in talk about games and story-books and battles; nothing that he did when the girls were present be- tray... ...ord, you have dozens to choose from leave me my one if we are to enter the lists.’ ‘We are, it seems; unless you consent to take the run to Paris. You... ... they ‘d like the world to be. We don’t agree about a lady. You ‘re in the lists, lance in rest, all for chivalry. You ‘re a man, and a young man. Hav...
...ssics Series Publication The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table 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... ... “T ales of my Landlord,” to one cunning in the trade (as it is called) of bookselling. He was a mirthful man, of small stature, cunning in counterfei... ...d whom he assisted in various ways, particularly by the occasional loan of books. Though the taste of the philosopher and the poor peasant did not, it... ...For glaunsing ee, or brow so brent, Or cheek with rose and lilye blent, Me lists not ficht with the. —Romance of the Falcon. T he tower, before which ... .... We have, therefore, little time to prepare to meet them.—Look over these lists, Marchie (an abbreviation by which Mareschal-Wells was known among hi... ...esently cast a blaze through the cottage. Wooden shelves, which bore a few books, some bundles of dried herbs, and one or two wooden cups and platters...
...: As I may, without vanity, presume that the name and official description prefixed to this Proem will secure it, from the sedate and reflecting part of mankind, to whom only I would be understood to address myself, such attention as is due to the sedulous instructor of youth, and the careful performer of my Sabbath duties, I will forbear to hold up a candle to the dayligh...
...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story... ...f Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago By By By By By F F F F FRANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NOR... ...ICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA TION TION TION TION TION The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...score of young men, their arms encumbered with pamphlets, shouting: “Score books, score books and librettos; score books with photographs of all the a... ...every quarter of the house came the cries of the programme sellers: “Opera books. Books of the opera. Words and music of the opera.” During this, the ... ...o sides of which were occupied with book-cases. They were busy putting the books in place. Laura stood half-way up the step-ladder taking vol- ume aft... ...e went over his plans, retesting, altering, recombining, his hands full of lists, of despatches, and of endless col- umns of memoranda. Occasionally h...
Excerpt: The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris.
...ic Classics Series Publication The Reef by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table 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... ... found each other again, a few days later, in an old country house full of books and pictures, in the soft landscape of southern England. The presence... ...dinner invi- tations, and straightening out accounts, and copying visiting lists, and finishing golf-stockings, and matching ribbons, and seeing that ... ... now and again by the young man’s irresistible tendency to linger over the bookstalls, and by his ever-fresh response to the shifting beauties of the ... ...came back to, the place where one had one’s duties, one’s habits and one’s books, the place one would naturally live in till one died: a dull house, a...
...THE TRAGEDIE OF HAMLET, Prince of Denmarke. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 ... ...WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Ta... ...s ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Tragedie of Hamlet . ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Scena Secunda. - i - The Tragedie of Hamlet nn4v Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. 2 Enter Barnardo... ...presse 210 His further gate heerein. In that the Leuies, 211 The Lists, and full proportions are all made 212 Out of his subiect: and w...
...Excerpt: The Tragedie of Hamlet; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- Enter Barnardo and Francisco, two Centinels. Barnardo. Who?s there? Fran. Nay answer me: Stand & unfold your selfe. Bar. Long live the King. Fran. Barnardo? Bar. He. Fran. You come m...
...Table of Contents: The Tragedie of Hamlet, 1 -- Actus Primus. Scoena Prima., 1 -- Scena Secunda., 5 -- Scena Tertia., 11 -- Actus Secundus., 20 -- Scena Secunda., 23...
... Hamlet by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is fu... ...sity. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...itor, Hazle ton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...phew’s purpose,—to suppress His further gait herein; in that the levies, The lists and full proportions, are all made Out of his subject: and we here... ...let, Act I, scene v 24 I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied t...
...ctaion The Herd Boy And His Hermit by Charlotte M. Yonge 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 Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ed our tilt-yard at Bletso. Two knights could gallop at one another in the lists, as if they were out hunting. Oh! to hear the lances ring against the... ...the day!’ ‘ And am I then a baron—a lord?’ said the boy. ‘Great lords have books. Were there not some big ones on the hall win- dow seats? Did not Bro... ...m a saint. I had rather hear the boy talk of sword and lance than prate of books and stars! And that wench, whom to our misfortune thou didst find! Wh... ...t it would make him more than ever a mere priestling, ever hankering after books and trash! ‘Were it not better to ask my lady and Sir Lancelot if the...
... his back, in a stout canvas cassock over his leathern coat, and stout leathern leggings over wooden shoes. Twilight was fast coming on; only a gleam of purple light rested on the top of the eastern hills, but was gradually fading away, though the sky to the westward still preserved a little pale golden light by the help of the descending crescent moon....
...tt, Bart. Edited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Cl... ... Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M. is a publicatio... ... the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... joy supplied; The woods, the mountains, and the warbling maze Of the wild books!” The Critical Review says of the following stanza (xxxiv): “Such a s... ...“old English” form of letter, used in the earliest English manuscripts and books. 142. Cabala. Mysteries. For the original meaning of the word, see Wb... ...ne may be your paine another tide,” etc. See also Scott’s Lay, vi. 50: “Me lists not at this tide declare.” 483. Bridal. Bridal party; used as a colle... ...udged essential to fair com- bat. It is true that in formal combats in the lists the parties were, by the judges of the field, put as nearly as possib...
...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When...
...on Nuttie’s Father Nuttie’s Father by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ... a laurel branch—open to her friend, thus knocking down one of the pile of books which she had taken to the top of the wall. Miss Nugent picked it up,... ...eet child pleases,’ said Mr. Dutton; whereupon she threatened to throw her books at his head. Miss Nugent asked how they were to go, and Mr. Dutton ex... ...ers!’ ‘He is old-fashioned, my dear.’ ‘One of the stodgey old clergymen in books,’ observed Nuttie. ‘I didn’t think there were any of that sort left.’... ... to it and practised for it like a knight for his first en- counter in the lists, her sole care being to distinguish herself with her racket. To her m...
... Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ene sat absorbed in thought for a few moments before plunging into his law books. He had just become aware of the fact that the Vicomtesse de Beausean... ...at the rate of a thou- sand francs a month; you must have a library of law books, live in chambers, go into society, go down on your knees to ask a so... ... outlaw has told me more about virtue than all I have learned from men and books. If virtue admits of no compromises, I have certainly robbed my siste... ...im- pressed by the circumstances of power and grandeur, meant to enter the lists fully armed; the burning ambition of con- quest possessed him already...
...men, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest....
...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...itings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ... of intention may be made or naturalizations effected to send periodically lists of the names of the persons naturalized or declaring their intention ... ... given Mr. Hay a commission of major, and sent him to you, with some blank-books and other blanks, to aid in the reconstruction. He will explain as t... ...ecretary. The public debt on the first day of July last, as appears by the books of the Treasury, amounted to $1,740,690,489.49. Probably, should the ... ...ch matters as may be inquired of by the commissioners, and to produce such books, papers, writings, and documents as they may be notified or required ...
...altimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported the evidence....
...sics Series Publication Washington Square 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... ... not particularly fond of literature. Morris Townsend agreed with her that books were tiresome things; only, as he said, you had to read a good many b... ...any before you found it out. He had been to places that people had written books about, and they were not a bit like the descriptions. To see for your... ... penniless swain who could give a good account of himself should enter the lists, he should be judged quite upon his personal merits. There were other... ...r a while. “I didn’t make him go; he went himself. He liked to look at the books, and all those things in the glass cases. He knows all about them; he...
...The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...imore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper is a publicat... ...he Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ... as an honest man, I can’t approve. It is one of their customs to write in books what they have done and seen, instead of telling them in their villag... ...to swim 91 James Fenimore Cooper without air! The white chief read in his books, and he believes the Hurons are fools!” “Though no fish, ‘The Long Ri... ...ccurate in his use of terms). Name chapter and verse; in which of the holy books do you find language to support you?” “Book!” repeated Hawkeye, with ... ...thou tyrant! thou recreant knight! he who abandons his damsels in the very lists,” she cried; “here have we been days, nay, ages, expecting you at our...
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