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Excerpt: The Phantom ?Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories by Rudyard Kipling.

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...Contents THE PHANTOM ?RICKSHAW ...................................................................................................... 4 MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY..............................................................................

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...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which po...

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Excerpt: Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...Contents CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?..........

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...Excerpt: PREFACE; I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to ...

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE........

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...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...says and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ...ther change, the infinity which has been suddenly turned off like a jet of gas, or like the rushing of wind through the tubes of an organ, upon the do... ...ise for excluding or attempting to exclude, each other from these official stations. No possible form regulating the business of ordination, or of ind... ... is thus al- ready made to what is technically known as Voluntaryism. The ‘United Secession,’ that is the old collective body of Scottish Dissenters, ... ...uation, combined with one of their two characteristic principles. The same United Secession journal openly anticipates an- other and more diffusive re... ...t not of the spiritual functions. We had no right to the emoluments of our stations, when the law courts had decided against us, but we had a right to...

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... By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publicati... ...te Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, t... ...m now in the slow process of superseding it is, ‘my employer.’ Now, in the United States, such an expres- sion of democratic hauteur, though disagreea... ...e as ‘good looking.’ 4 I do not remember, chronologically, the history of gas- lights. But in London, long after Mr. Winsor had shown the value of ga... ...teal, Jove’s thun- derbolts; hissing, bubbling, snorting, fuming; demoniac gas, you think—gas from Acheron must feed that dreadful sys- tem of convuls... ... however, to the nobility of our land, it should be remembered, that their stations in society, and their wealth, 104 The Note Book of an English Opi... ...s it happens that, amongst those who have not inherited but achieved their stations, many men of fine and powerful un- derstandings, accomplished in m...

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...LICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ... many quarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing a far profounder interest in ... ... cannot see; or as the flame within a Davy lamp feeds upon the poison- ous gas up to the meshes that surround it, but there sud- denly is arrested by ... ...uincey (some, at least) in the “Arabian Nights,” which first become such—a gas that first kindles—when entering into combi- nation with new elements i... ...osts in the neighborhood of Killala, and could be descried from el- evated stations in that town. Stories travelled simultaneously to Killala, every h... ...r public exhibition, she made us both fully sensible of the very equitable stations which she assigned to us in her regard. She was neither very brill...

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...24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 ii The Bostonians Chapter 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . 342 Book First Chapter 1 O live will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that. About ten; that is ex... ...ee you, because she doesn’t know whether she is or not, and she wouldn’t for the world expose herself to telling a fib. She is very honest, is Olive Ch... ...very honest, is Olive Chancellor; she is full of rectitude. Nobody tells fibs in Boston; I don’t know what to make of them all. Well, I am very glad to... ...d been that of her sympathies. The place was lighted by a small hot glare of gas, which made it look white and featureless. It struck even Basil Ranso... ...the aristoc racy. Nothing could be weaker, she knew very well, than (in the United States) to apply that term too literally; nevertheless, it would r... ...nt of their sex (from every form of bondage) had chosen for her. The barren, gas lighted room grew richer and richer to her earnest eyes; it seemed to... ...a perpetual perambulation of the streets, a haunting of horse cars, railway stations, shops that were ‘selling off.’ But the places that knew him bes... ...ble inlaid with advertisements, Selah Tarrant made innumerable contemplative stations. He could not have told you, at any particular moment, what he w...

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