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Excerpt: The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...lated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a pu... ...he Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ...gnitaries has 6 The Muse of the Department increased so greatly that real statesmen are becoming rare indeed in the lower chamber. In point of fact, ... ...is not self-existent. It is only when a nation is divided into fifty minor states that each can have a physiognomy of its own, and then a woman reflec... ...Department woman’s voice. “It is, my darling, that we are now indissolubly united.— I have just had an answer to the letter you saw me write, which wa... ...m, and of myself.—We have made too many sacrifices on both sides not to be united—united by disgrace if you will, but indissolubly one. 131 Balzac I ... ...ed his future for a woman; that he never can be what he might have been—an ambassador, a minister, a chamberlain, a poet—and rich. He gives up six yea...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his fath...

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...wo by Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of... ...he Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylva... ...one, but who, nevertheless, possessed a fund of knowledge and penetration, united with a will as powerful as ever although clogged by a body rendered ... ...ses un- der one’s hand, such as mines, lands, and funded property, in such states as France, Austria, and England, provided these treasures and proper... ...ow getting him into favor with the journalists. They talk of making him an ambassador.” “And what are his claims to the peerage?” “He has composed two... ...w I ex- isted when it was arranged by your two families that you should be united. I have no enmity against M. Franz, and promise you the pun- ishment... ...s, styled himself truly at that time Fernand, as our esteemed contemporary states; but he has since added to his Christian name a title of nobility an...

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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 be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very...

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...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylva... ...es the permanent Mother Chautauqua, in New York, there are, all over these States, commercial Chautauqua companies which send out to every smallest to... ...ch Carol derived from them were: Lincoln was a celebrated president of the United States, but in his youth extremely poor. James J. Hill was the best-... ...l derived from them were: Lincoln was a celebrated president of the United States, but in his youth extremely poor. James J. Hill was the best-known r... ...d to the street fair which added mundane gaiety to the annual rites of the United and Fraternal Order of Beavers. Beavers, human Beavers, were everywh... ...- ently every day; now she was a murderess, now the ne- glected wife of an ambassador. It was mystery which Carol had most lacked in Gopher Prairie, w... ... lectures, church suppers, precisely as they had at home; they agreed that ambassadors and flippant newspapermen and infidel scientists of the bu- rea...

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...Preface: A preface generally begins with a truism; and I may set out with the admission that it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and...

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...Grimshawe’s Secret: A Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ... more than vague reveries—it was im possible to guess. They were of those states of mind, prob ably, which are beyond the sphere of human language, ... ...till be a dream, which, under the unknown laws which govern such psychical states, had brought out thus vividly figures, devices, words, forgotten sin... ...end. A large letter was delivered to him, bearing the official seal of the United States, and the indorsement of the State De partment; a very import... ...alculated to honor. He drank the health of the Honorable Edward Redclyffe, Ambassador of the United States to the Court of Hohen Linden. Our English c... .... He drank the health of the Honorable Edward Redclyffe, Ambassador of the United States to the Court of Hohen Linden. Our English cousins received th... ...shawe s Secret took to the health of the Queen, and another to that of the Ambassador to Hohen Linden. It is the only way, when a man has this vast la...

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...................................................................................................................................................... 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE .....................................

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... and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and as such is a part of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ... as well as English, and that answered very well. English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolutions—we sh... ...grew with a rush; it brought inspiration and cheer with it. Midnight saw a united community, full of zeal and pluck, and with a clearly defined and we... ...is secure. The commercial millionaire may become a beggar; the illustrious statesman can make a vital mistake and be dropped and forgotten; the illust... ... Spain. America consists from north to south about five hundred miles. The United States is quite a small country compared with some other countrys, b... ...ent three years there. Thence he went to Paris in the train of the English Ambassador, and there he mingled daily with the wise, the cultured, the gre...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance w...

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...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ...r false ideas as to her probable future; to the maternal eyes a duke or an ambassador, a marshal of France or a minister of State, could alone give he... .... Monsieur Leprince assured his daughter that Xavier was of the stock that statesmen came of. Celestine answered that a man named Rabourdin would neve... ...of heaven. Madame Rabourdin conceived herself fully capable of directing a statesman, inspiring an artist, helping an inventor and pushing his interes... ...ions, or col- lege tyrannies, or diplomatic manoeuvrings fit to terrify an ambassador, all put in motion to obtain a fee or an increase in salary; it ... ...d prevented all ameliorations of home rule. In Austria, where many diverse united nations present so many conflicting interests to be conciliated and ... ... with that of registra- tion and the management of domains. Thus Rabourdin united in one centre all divisions that were allied in nature. The mortgage...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have...

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...s. D. J. Hogarth, with an introduction by John Cournos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylva... ...us,” added the father, again turning to his son, “do you wish to become an ambassador?” “Yes, I do,” replied Themistocleus, chewing a piece of bread a... ...o side. At this moment the lacquey who had been standing behind the future ambassador wiped the latter’s nose; and well it was that he did so, since o... ...w. Yet he need not have flown into such a passion. More than one respected statesman reveals himself, when confronted with a business matter, to be ju... ...and, divides into runlets (all flashing in the sun like fire), plunges, re-united, into the midst of a thicket of elder, birth, and pine, and, lastly,... ...ithout that accomplishment, no one could ever hope to become a Minister or Statesman. Thus, with great difficulty, and also with the help of his uncle...

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...Excerpt: While the translation is fairly literal, and Malleson (a clergyman) has taken pains with the scientific portions of the work and added the chapter headings, he has made some emendations concerning Biblical references of his own, li...

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...A Journey to the Interior of the Earth By Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicatio... ...Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...es Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...bly injure a specimen by his too great ardour in handling it; but still he united the genius of a true geolo- gist with the keen eye of the mineralogi... ...s the curator of the museum of mineralogy formed by M. Struve, the Russian ambassador; a most valuable collection, the fame of which is European. Such... ...e to the light of the sun by rending asunder the huge arches of rock which united over my head, buttressing each other with impregnable strength? Who ... ... its formation, when, under the action of heat and moisture, the vegetable kingdom alone was developing on its surface? Evening came, and, as on the p... ...ourney to the Interior of the Earth all the principal cities in the United States! But there was one ‘dead fly’ amidst all this glory and honour; one ...

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Excerpt: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.

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...nry James A PENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy acce... ...orks of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylva... ... the chang- ing conditions of literary intercourse between England and the United States had up to then left unaltered. It is a long novel, and I was ... ...ang- ing conditions of literary intercourse between England and the United States had up to then left unaltered. It is a long novel, and I was long in... ...as good an example as I could name were it not that Maria Gostrey, in “The Ambassadors,” then in the bosom of time, may be mentioned as a better. Each... ...here—you had only to come and see me.” “There? Where do you mean?” “In the United States: in New York and Albany and other American places.” “I’ve bee... ...u had only to come and see me.” “There? Where do you mean?” “In the United States: in New York and Albany and other American places.” “I’ve been there...

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...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ...cient times in the towns of Brittany. Most of these towns have fallen from states of splendor never men- tioned by historians, who are always more con... ...ey there than at Guerande. Thus no household was ever more truly one, more united in interests, more bound together than this noble family sa- credly ... ...tions were as momentous to her simple soul as the fury of revolutions to a statesman. Camille Maupin was Revolution itself in that calm and placid hom... ...nection with the family of the same name in Touraine, to which belongs the ambassador of the Regent, even more famous to-day for his writings than for... ...ibrils, which give them grace and strength,—two qualities which are seldom united in a woman. The circle round the eyes shows not the slightest blemis... ...ous sister-author, took a magnificent Persian narghile, given to her by an ambassador. She filled the nipple with patchouli, cleaned the bochettino, p...

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Excerpt: The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells.

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... (1915) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...ittering possibilities, he did not say what he was going to be, proconsul, ambassador, statesman, for days. And he talked vaguely of wanting to do som... ...sibilities, he did not say what he was going to be, proconsul, ambassador, statesman, for days. And he talked vaguely of wanting to do something fine,... ... himself until he congests in cities that have no sense of citizenship and states that have no structure; the clumsy, inconsecutive lying and chatter ... ...If you are going for the handsome thing in life then the world has to be a united world, Benham, as a matter of course. That was settled when the rail... ...ries and creeds, and so on, that stand in the way. Just as Italy had to be united in spite of all the rotten little dukes and princes and republics, j...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1; DESCRIPTION OF FARMEROAK -- AN INCIDENT -- When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimen...

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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 DEPARTURE OF BATHSHEBA ? A PASTORAL TRAGEDY, 28 -- 6 THE FAIR ?THE JOURNE...

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... Contents 1 DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK — AN INCIDENT . . . . . 1 2 NIGHT — THE FLOCK — AN INTERIOR — ANOTHER IN TERIOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... GIRL ON HORSEBACK — CONVERSATION . . . . . . . . 13 4 GABRIEL’S RESOLVE — THE VISIT — THE MISTAKE . . . 20 5 DEPARTURE OF BATHSHEBA — A PASTORAL TRAG... ...hey were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his c... ...neral good character. On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whol... ... 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... ... 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?’ ‘... ...went on, and the moon vanished not to reappear. It was the farewell of the ambassador previous to war. The night had a haggard look, like a sick thing... ...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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Excerpt: The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope.

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...s MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES...................................................................................................

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...ATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...y of this little novel to a beautiful girl of seventeen, the daughter of a statesman in Westmoreland, not designing any deception (nor so much as any ... ...ency to lawless and gigantesque ideals of adventur- ous life; under which, united with the duelling code of Eu- rope, many things would become trivial... ... a sentiment as pity, in the fact of both from so early an age having been united in the calamity of orphan- age,—go where they might, these young wom... ...end “single-handed” with France; and, finally, the public brutality to our ambassador, had prepared us all for war. But, then, might not all this blow... ...th, concentrated in a small number of hands, exists in various continental states upon a larger scale than with us, moderately large estates, on the o... ... them, so as almost to reach the ante-chapel, stood the imperial legate or ambassador. This nobleman advanced to the crowd of Klosterheimers, and spok...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been removed, to th...

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...erican by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The American by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy acce... ...orks of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylva... ...ns to their native country, and Newman was at a loss to understand why the United States were not good enough for Mr. Tristram. He had never been a ve... ...heir native country, and Newman was at a loss to understand why the United States were not good enough for Mr. Tristram. He had never been a very cons... ...e de Cintre a hundred long stories; he explained to her, in talking of the United States, the working of various local institutions and mercantile cus... ...ntre a hundred long stories; he explained to her, in talking of the United States, the working of various local institutions and mercantile cus- toms.... ...Newman. He instantly admitted his visitor, who came in with the air of the ambassador of a great power meeting the delegate of a barbarous tribe whom ... ...bsurd accident had enabled for the moment to be abomi- nably annoying. The ambassador, at all events, had passed a bad night, and his faultlessly care...

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...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-...

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...an By Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy acce... ...orks of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ... Japanese-look- ing Mississippi cotton-planters; Quakers in full drab, and United States soldiers in full regimentals; slaves, black, mu- latto, quadr... ...se-look- ing Mississippi cotton-planters; Quakers in full drab, and United States soldiers in full regimentals; slaves, black, mu- latto, quadroon; mo... ...ry that such an one should be reputed wise, and Thucydides be esteemed the statesman’s manual! But T acitus—I hate T acitus; not, though, I trust, wit... ...of air: “T o you, an Ishmael, disguising in sportiveness my intent, I came ambassador from the human race, charged with the assur- ance that for your ... ...ptivating kindliness, seldom in perfection seen but in youthful bachelors, united at times to a remarkable sort of gracefully devil-may-care and witty...

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...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 I ...

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... 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 Class... ...ge, Mass. 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 p... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ... prisoner by a knight, And Douglas hath himself and cause Submitted to our kingdom’s laws. The tidings of their leaders lost Will soon dissolve the mo... ... century earlier, would have rendered the richer and wealthier part of the kingdom indis- posed to countenance a poem, the scene of which was laid in ... ...their proscription, which had only the effect of rendering them still more united and desperate. It is a most extraordinary proof of the ardent and in... ...manners of that period, has given us evidence: ‘In this year there came an ambassador out of England, named Lord William Howard, with a bishop with hi... ...nd dancing; and therefore the Anglo-Saxon version of Saint Mark’s Gos- pel states Herodias to have vaulted or tumbled before King Herod. In Scotland t...

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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 wi...

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...ation Amelia by Henry Fielding, ed. George Saintsbury is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ... wife of the one and the sister of the other. Colonel Bath has necessarily united all suffrages. He is of course a very little stagey; he reminds us t... ...) that Mr. Hebbers was already married to a woman in a distant part of the kingdom. “I will not tire you with all that past at our next interview. I c... ...sold I was obliged to sell cheaper, than any other. In fact, they were all united, and, while they every day committed trespasses on my lands with imp... ...n of all we meet, treated with contempt and ridicule? Are we not, in fact, ambassadors from heaven to the world? and do they not, therefore, in denyin... ...ate of human affairs.” “Sure, my lord,” cries the doctor, “we have read of states where such doctrines have been put in practice. What is your lordshi...

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Excerpt: The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells.

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...AVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...ing play of instinctive passion and desire against too abstract a dream of statesmanship. But things that seemed to lie very far apart in Machiavelli’... ... a condition of affairs infinitely more complex, in which every prince and statesman is something of a servant and every intelligent human being somet... ...with a north-country quality in his speech. We made reassuring noises. The Ambassador of the Workers stirred his tea earnestly through an uncomfortabl... ...o Republican and Democrat, for example, and you have the conditions in the United States. The Crown or a dethroned dynasty, the Estab- lished Church o... ... of their possible babies in the fur- naces that run the machinery. In the United States the na- tive Anglo-American strain has scarcely increased at ...