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...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the househ...

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...Contents The Translator?s Original Dedication to the Countess Granville. ..................................................................................... 17 Original Preface. .........................................................

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...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... 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... ...ung Man had been c an had been c an had been c an had been c an had been c on on on on onv v v v versing ersing ersing ersing ersing.. ... T T... ...steam en gine is made? Young Man. Iron, steel, brass, white metal, and so on. O.M. Where are these found? Y.M. In the rocks. O.M. In a pure state? Y.... ...Henry was superintendent of the Sunday school. At twenty six George was a wanderer, a tramp, and Henry was pastor of the village church. Then George ... ...ernoon the Jungfrau’s aspect is that of a spotless desert of snow set upon edge against the sky. But by mid afternoon some elevations which rise out o... ...d of knowledge the learned then possessed, and every kind of humble knowl edge possessed by the lowly and the ignorant; and added What Is Man and Ot...

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...RUDIN a novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett Introduction by S. Stepniak A Penn State E... ...ication Rudin by Ivan Turgenev, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...tion Rudin by Ivan Turgenev, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...w equals among the great novelists of other lands. T wenty-five years ago, on reading the translation of one of his short sto- ries (Assya), George Sa... ...e himself almost exclusively the poet of the gentler side of human nature. On the fringe of his pictures or in their background, just for the sake of ... ...at frightens you so much in that word? Every system is founded on a knowl- edge of fundamental laws, the principles of life——’ ‘But there is no knowin... ...y, ‘So that’s how it is. That must be brought to Darya Mihailovna’s knowl- edge.’ And he vanished. VIII ON HIS RETURN HOME, V olintsev was so gloomy a... ...of home, who has a warm corner in safety… . And the Lord help all homeless wanderers! On a sultry afternoon on the 26th of July in 1848 in Paris, when...

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...eries Publication Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...es Publication Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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 ... ..., 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... ......................................................................... 130 ON DUTY WITH INSPECTOR FIELD ................................................. ... never have been shipwrecked, ice environed, tomahawked, or eaten. Sitting on my ruddy hearth in the twilight of New Year’s Eve, I find incidents of t... ...Half awake and half asleep, this idle morning in our sunny win dow on the edge of a chalk cliff in the old fashioned water ing place to which we are... ...ce now, red hot cannon balls are less improb able. Sometimes, a misguided wanderer of a Ventriloquist, or an Infant Phenomenon, or a juggler, or some... ...ttle instruments? Is my son a Nutmeg, that he is to be grated on the stiff edges of sharp frills? Am I the parent of a Muslin boy, that 61 Charles Di...

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...Preface: In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names? ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them....

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...rs by Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ries Publication The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 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... ...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... ...which no one before ourselves had given a thought. D’Artagnan relates that on his first visit to M. de T reville, captain of the king’s Musketeers, he... ...r else that the bearers of these borrowed names had themselves chosen them on the day in which, from ca- price, discontent, or want of fortune, they h... ...eat, ranging his long rapier up his lanky leg, and keeping one hand on the edge of his cap, with that half-smile of the embarrassed a provincial who w... ... an Englishman.” “Well, and by my faith,” said Athos, “it must be acknowl- edged that this Englishman is worthy of being loved. I never saw a man with... ... procurator’s wife were about to open to his admiring looks. And then he—a wanderer on the earth, a man without 325 Alexandre Dumas fortune, a man wi...

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...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ?the man who...

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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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...xcerpt: Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken, in most instances, such a weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority is proved to be fallible. Everybody may sometimes be right; ?but tha...

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...es Publication Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Publication Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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 ... ..., 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... ...ry. No visitor of that beautiful land can fail to have a strong conviction on the subject; but as I chose when residing there, a Foreigner, to abstain... ...any such questions with any order of Italians, so I would rather not enter on the inquiry now. During my twelve months’ occupation of a house at Genoa... ...connected with the Fall of Mankind. It is not unusual to see, lying on the edge of the tank at these times, or on another flat stone, an unfortunate b... ...ant water, above. The red sun looked strangely on them, as with the knowl edge that they were made for caverns and darkness; and the melancholy water... ...carriages, to get hold of them by main force; others, chasing some unlucky wanderer, round and round his own coach, to blow out the light he has begge...