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...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Ha... ...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Haight Tu... ...on Haight Turk, Ph.D. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publicatio... ... Cree This Little Volume Is Affectionately Inscribed Glencairn, Kilmacolm, Scotland June 27, 1905 PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE Some... ... our little planet, the Earth, however cheap they may be held by eccentric people in comets: he had invented mail-coaches, and he had mar- ried the da... ...ry from one of our elder dramatists: viz., that once, in some far Oriental kingdom, when the sultan of all the land, with his princes, ladies, and chi... ... do not exactly know; but I believe with some burden of commissions, to be executed in Bath, which had gathered to her own residence as a central rend... ... “This is the go”): “a proverb of the French Revolutionists when they were hanging the aris- tocrats in the streets, &c., and the burden of one of the...

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Excerpt: The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott.

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...Excerpt: Here is a tale which extends over many years and travels into many countries. By a peculiar fitness of circumstance the writer began, continued it, and concluded it among distant and diverse scenes. Above all, he was much upon the sea. The character and fortune of the fraternal enemies, the hall and sh...

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Excerpt: The Iliad of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M.A., F.S.A.

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Excerpt: Unknown To History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scottland by Charlotte M Yonge.

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Excerpt: The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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