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... Plutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania 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... ...rom the gods. Both warriors; that by all the world’s allowed. Both of them united with strength of body an equal vigor mind; and of the two most famou... ...st and sacrifice, which he called Panathenaea, or the sacrifice of all the united Athenians. He instituted also another sacrifice, called Metoecia, or... ...e Pitthean maid, To your town the terms and fates, My father gives of many states. Be not anxious nor afraid; The bladder will not fail so swim On the... ...actions of his former life. Theseus was now fifty years old, as Hellanicus states, when he carried off Helen, who was yet too young to be married. Som... ...ty amongst them, but equality , where every one’s wants were supplied, and independence, because 94 V olume One those wants were so small. All their ... ...nted among the senators most averse to the popular interest, made a solemn declaration, and told them beforehand, that the senate would utterly destro... ...Truth the first principle of heroic virtue; he hoped to ensnare him into a declaration before the senate, and on his refusing, as he was sure to do, a...

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...Excerpt: An Ambuscade. Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up...

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...922 A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...like a bird building its nest of frozen snakes. My father left me a decent independence. I developed my position; I have lived between here and the ho... ...yflower that we ought to be told about. I allow it’s a recent revival. The United States has been like one of those men you read about in the papers w... ... that we ought to be told about. I allow it’s a recent revival. The United States has been like one of those men you read about in the papers who go a... ...a day where dawn was already at hand. And in such long perspec- tives, the states, governments and institutions of to-day be- came very temporary-look... ...ecessity he had led their conversation step by step to a real- ization and declaration of love, and that it did not exonerate him in the least that Mi...

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...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...me compact and powerfully resistant, not to say inflexible. Jealous of her independence, she kept aloof from the life of the household; choosing to ma... ...igitte and Jerome, the former being twenty-seven, the latter twenty-three, united their ex- istence. Brother and sister were bound together by an ex- ... ... at last, a serene and peaceful autumn. The two women were still fur- ther united by the one sentiment that lay within them, namely, their adoration f... ...more to the purpose by a look. Flavie had expected, Sunday after Sunday, a declaration, saying to herself at times:— “He knows I am ruined and haven’t... ...with the beauty of a young girl gathering the first roses of an indi- rect declaration, Flavie had an impulse of jealousy in her heart. She came acros... ...tely demanded in the interests of commerce, which is certainly the life of States. In any case, this view, which isn’t yours, appears to have been tha... ...o displayed more science and calculation in merely get- ting a living than statesmen had shown in governing Spain for a hundred years, he, la Peyrade,...

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...l by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ainted from designs by Boucher. Bath, table and love are therefore closely united. After the salon, which, I should tell you, my dear fellow, exhibits... ...othing; you can’t expect we should ever be friends.” “That’s what I call a declaration of war,” said the general. “Monseigneur,” retorted Fourchon, “w... ...rants in such a way as to bring about what is called, in legal language, a declaration of insolvency; a condition of pauperism where the law be- comes... ...uture of her husband’s son by marrying him to Rigou’s only daugh- ter. The united fortunes of the Soudrys and the ex-monk, which would come eventually... ...ion which to-day threat- 143 Balzac ens every man, the man of genius, the statesman, the mod- ern agriculturalist,—in short, all innovators. This las... ...officials.” Rated in the community as an able man, Sarcus was the accepted statesman of Madame Soudry’s salon; you can readily imagine that he was the... ... the mirrors specked with millions of spots, show- ing in what freedom and independence the whole order of diptera lived in the Cafe de la Paix. The b...

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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 story would...

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... 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 ... ...cat, taking the sun, and looking at the blue hills, and listening to the leaves rustling so lonely in the trees, and thinking of the home away yonder ... ... beings. It ain’t any use to tell me a bluejay hasn’t got a sense of humor, because I know better. And memory, too. They brought jays here from all ov... .... It ain’t any use to tell me a bluejay hasn’t got a sense of humor, because I know better. And memory, too. They brought jays here from all over the ... ...appear in these tables, but they are scattered so widely over the country that they furnish a 277 A Tramp Abroad good general average of city health ... ...on- strations,” which is only a foolish and clumsy way of saying Mark Twain 330 “demonstrations of friendship.” “Unabhaengigkeitserklaerungen” seems ... ...aying Mark Twain 330 “demonstrations of friendship.” “Unabhaengigkeitserklaerungen” seems to be “Independencedeclarations,” which is no improve- ment...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ... and may we learn to live with such holiness here that we may hereafter be united for ever in Heaven.’ This letter is marked twice over ‘Only for Papa... ...e may sleep in Him as our hope is this our sister doth, and may be finally united with her in Heaven. Yesterday was a day of great trial to us all: I ... ...e could compare with the galley of a Mission vessel, to the truth of which declaration the necessity of enlarging his scanty gar- ments soon bore sati... ...le being (not only containing) the Word, I had no scruples in signing that Declaration. One thought which helped me was, the use made in the New Testa... ... one must think out each step, anticipate each probable result, before one states anything. It is of course full of the highest interest. Can’t you fa... ...eing fags by nature, and to help them to have some proper self-respect and independence of character. We see very little 561 Yo n g e in them to make... ..., were very wroth at his not being their tame Pakeha, at his asserting his independence, his motive in com- ing to teach all, and make known to all al...

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...Table of Contents: 1 DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK? AN INCIDENT, 1 -- 2 NIGHT ? THE FLOCK ? AN INTERIOR ? ANOTHER INTERIOR -- ., 6 -- 3 A GIRL ON HORSEBACK? CONVERSATION, 13 -- 4 GABRIEL?S RESOLVE ? THE VISIT ? THE MISTAKE, 20 -- 5 DEP...

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...Far from the Madding Crowd THOMAS HARDY 1874 Contents 1 DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK — AN INCIDENT . . . . . 1 2 NIGHT — THE FLOCK — AN INTERIOR —... ... . . 13 4 GABRIEL’S RESOLVE — THE VISIT — THE MISTAKE . . . 20 5 DEPARTURE OF BATHSHEBA — A PASTORAL TRAGEDY . 28 6 THE FAIR — THE JOURNEY — THE FIRE ... ...E GREAT BARN AND THE SHEEP SHEARERS . . . . . . 122 23 EVENTIDE — A SECOND DECLARATION . . . . . . . . . . 131 24 THE SAME NIGHT — THE FIR PLANTATION ... ... at the stage wherein they become DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK—AN INCIDENT 3 united again, in the character of prejudice, by the influence of a wife and ... ...ew born lamb, consisting of four legs large enough for a full grown sheep, united by a seemingly inconsiderable membrane about half the substance of t... ...e latter at her own. Embarrassed she was not, and she remembered Gabriel’s declaration of love to her at Norcombe only to think she had nearly forgott... ... thing to be clever, I’m sure,’ he added, making movements associated with states of mind rather than body; ‘we wish we were, don’t we, neighbours?’ ‘... ...roach her — that she had felt herself sufficient to herself, and had in the independence of her girlish heart fancied there was a certain degradation i... ...ted, his clothes were gone. He ultimately worked his passage to the United States, where he made a precarious living in various towns as Professor of ...

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...roduction: Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason....

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...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ...

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