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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether...

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...Introduction: Fielding?s third great novel has been the subject of much more discordant judgments than either of its forerunners. If we take the period since its appearance as covering four generations, we find the greatest authority in the earliest, Johnson, speaking of it with something...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from h...

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...ication Cashel Byron’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw is a publication 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...Here, according to their plan, Gully was to take the north road and run to Scotland, where he felt sure that his uncle’s gamekeeper would hide him. Ca... ...ent’s reflec- tion he exclaimed: “Damme, old chap, but I’ll come with you. Scotland may go and be hanged.” But Cashel, being the stronger of the two, ... ... against Skene’s left fist, which seemed to be ubiquitous, and to have the property of imparting the consistency of iron to padded leather. At last th... ...ashville was requesting him, with covert supercilious- ness, to remove his property. On second thoughts, his self- esteem rejected this suspicion as t... ...the more the merrier. If you have less, or if you have to give up all your property when you’re married, I will soon make another ten thousand to supp... ...meddle in commercial enterprises, and became direc- tor of several trading companies in the city; and was eventu- ally invited to represent a Dorsetsh...

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from h...

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...cs Series Publication Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens is a publication 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... ... and nothing delights him better than to experimentalise on the old lady’s property. One morning he got up early, and planted three or four roots of f... .... 25, in Gor- don-place, had been taken by four maiden ladies of im- mense property. At last, the Miss Willises moved in; and then the ‘call- ing’ beg... ...obinson (a gentle- man in a public office, with a good salary and a little property of his own, besides) were received—that the four Miss Willises wer... ...at the front door, and out at the back one. 65 Charles Dickens CHAPTER IV—SCOTLAND-YARD SCOTLAND-YARD IS A SMALL—a very small-tract of land, bounded ... ...ather) in thinking that it’s high time something was done with these steam companies, and that as the Cor- poration Bill failed to do it, something el... ...asions, in various instances, un- der many circumstances, and in different companies, fallen to my lot to propose a toast to those by whom, at the tim...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the u...

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.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

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...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...n- ing after the Ideal to attempt to reorganize Society, to redis- tribute Property, to avenge Wrong.” “A rabble of pigmies scaling Heaven,” said the ... ...h- ment, and bade me hold myself in readiness to move as soon as the flank companies of the Ninety-ninth, and Sixty-sixth, and the Grenadier Brigade o... ...Encouraged with my twenty pound, Of which poor I was unavare, He wrote the Companies all round, And signed hisself from Buckley Square. And how John P... ...s, paid; a tailor’s ditto, unsettled; forty-nine allotments in differ- ent companies, twenty-six thousand seven hundred shares in all, of which the ma... ...r inginears to make me a plann of the Squallop Estate, Diddlesexshire, the property of &c. &c., bordered on the North by Lord Bareacres’ Country; on t... ...my service, I degrade him from his rank, I appropri- ate to myself all his property: and hark ye, furoshes, give him a hundred dozen more!” Again I he...

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... or left into diningroom or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and there are the stairs going up in a sort of tunnel to the first-floor. Three bed-rooms in a row there, and three attics in a row above. That isn?t all the house really, but it?s all that one notices--nine windows as you look up from the front garden....

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... Classics Series Publication Howards End by E.M. Forster 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... ... the inclines of Liverpool Street lie fenlands and the illimitable Broads; Scotland is through the pylons of Euston; Wessex behind the poised chaos of... ...e was in- terested when her hostess explained that Howards End was her own property. She was bored when too minute an account was given of the Fussell... .... Wilcox had been treacherous to the family, to the laws of 97 EM Forster property, to her own written word. How did she ex- pect Howards End to be c... ...ut the entree their monologues collided, fell ruining, and became com- mon property. Nor was this all. The dinner-party was really an informal discuss... ...f small fires, and it hasn’t been able to reinsure. I’m afraid that public companies don’t save one another for love.” “‘Human nature,’ I suppose,” qu... ... stamped paper—” “Would you call the Porphyrion one of the big In- surance Companies?” pursued Margaret. “It depends on what you call big.” “I mean by...

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...Publication An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... .... He aped gentility, lived in a palace at Kensington, and bought a part of Scotland to make a deer forest of. It is easy enough to make a deer forest,... ...f machinery on the other? This very ground on which we are resting was the property of my mother’s father. At least the law allowed him to use it as s... ...n in a back slum. But when it breaks into his own house, and at- tacks his property—his daughter was his property until very recently— he is just the ... ...?” “What!” he said, looking cynically at her. “Without my dead! Without my property! Well, be it so.” “What do you know of the feelings of a respectab... ...w enough to ruin you for less money than it would cost me to shoot deer in Scotland or vermin here. How do you like that state of things? Eh?” The man... ...dividends due to shareholders resident in En- gland, but holding shares in companies abroad, and these imports will not be paid for by ex ports, becau...

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............................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HA...

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...ny Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel ... ...ter and a Robin Goodfellow; for under this name am I welcome in all choice companies of Pantagruelists. It was upbraided to Demosthenes by an envious ... ...d hieroglyphics, which none understood who were not skilled in the virtue, property, and nature of the things represented by them. Of which Orus Apoll... ...e and agree with a white cock, as well in regard of that colour, as of his property and specifical quality, than with a lion. He saith, furthermore, t... ...arched forward towards a pass or ford called the Gue de Vede, except seven companies of foot and two hundred lancers, who, staying there, broke down t... ...here all merry. How is it, then, that they exclude the monks from all good companies, calling them feast-troublers, marrers of mirth, and disturbers o... ...ram. Do you see this russet? Doubt not but there lurketh under it some hid property and occult vir- tue known to very few in the world. I did not take...

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...Table of Contents: Book I ?Miss Brooke, 1 -- Prelude, 1 -- Chapter I., 3 -- Chapter II., 10 -- Chapter III., 16 -- Chapter IV., 25 -- Chapter V., 31 -- Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- ...

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...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...arch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiment... ... man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has ... ... are all yours, dear. We need discuss them no longer. There—take away your property.” Celia felt a little hurt. There was a strong assumption of super... ...that; who could help her husband out with reasons, and would also have the property qualification for doing so. As to the excessive religiousness alleg... ... thing, we can’t have everything. And his income is good—he has a handsome property independent of the Church—his income is 30 Book I — Miss Brooke g... ...Christy, the boy next to her, was getting cheap learning and cheap fare in Scotland, having to his father’s disappointment taken to books instead of t... ...ed that his bias was towards getting the best possible terms from railroad companies). He put up his gig at Yoddrell’s, and in walking with Middlemar...

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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 read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its...

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...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 Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch h...

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...sics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...Dickens acter to govern. I can’t submit; I must govern. Unfortunately, the property of Madame Rigaud was settled upon herself. Such was the insane act... ...ecause I am afeared of my life of ‘em, you should be. Y ou’ve got half the property, haven’t you?’ ‘Y es, yes.’ ‘Well then, don’t you be cowed. Y ou’r... ...erence of creditors in this direction, and of mysterious spiriting away of property in that; and as nobody on the face of the earth could be more inca... ...if the first of a train of post-chaises and four, extending all the way to Scotland, were at that moment round the corner; and as if she couldn’t (and... ...d at its journey’s end in fine condition. There it was exhibited to select companies of female view- ers, in whose gentle bosoms it awakened implacabl... ...n putting the point to you. But really, when I herd it remarked in several companies, and in very good com- pany, that however worthy of a foreigner, ...