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Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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...ROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ...............................................................................

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...ture by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William J... ...s Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James 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... ...cs is termed “the apperceiving mass” by which we comprehend them. The only novelty that I can imagine this course of lectures to possess lies in the b... ...bearded man- hood of this time, there is none but has left me honey in the hive of memory that I now feed on for present delight. When I recall the ye... ...mber perfectly that when I was coming to man- hood, the half-philosophical novels of the time had a deal to say about the young men and maidens who we... ...rce of personal faith, enthusiasm, and example, and above all the force of novelty, are always the prime suggestive agency in this kind of success. If...

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...TH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................................

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...ication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope 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 any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ..., are surer signs of a country’s 56 North America V ol. 1 prosperity than hives of men and smoking chimneys. He has probably all the upper classes of... ...ation. If the reading world were to take to sermons again and eschew their novels, Messrs. Thackeray, Dickens, and some others would look about them a... ...g also where dispraise is, or to him seems to be, deserved. The trade of a novelist is very much that of describing the softness, sweetness, and lov- ... ...author of the “Scarlet Letter” I regard as certainly the first of American novelists. I know what men will say of Mr. Cooper,—and I also am an admirer...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in ...

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...na – Part One by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...owder and red coats. From the rooms came a constant, steady hum, as from a hive, and the rustle of movement; and while on the landing between trees th... ... the arm of her seat, and took from her bag a paper knife and an En- glish novel. At first her reading made no progress. The fuss and bustle were dist... ...ad too great a desire to live herself. If she read that the heroine of the novel was nursing a sick man, she longed to move with noiseless steps about... ...per knife in her little hands, she forced herself to read. The hero of the novel was already almost reaching his English happiness, a baronetcy and an...

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..................................................................................................................................................... 33 THE WIDOW AT WINDSOR ...................................................................................................................................... 35 BELTS ...............................................................

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...IES PUBLICATION Verses 1889 - 1896 by Rudyard Kipling 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... from a heathen port to be robbed on a Christian coast? Ye have smoked the hives of the Laccadives as we burn the lice in a bunk, We tack not now to a... ...THREE-DEC THE THREE-DEC THE THREE-DECKER KER KER KER KER “The three-volume novel is extinct.” Full thirty foot she towered from waterline to rail. It ...

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... War and Peace – Epilogues One and Two by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ee- keeper, seeing the bee collect pollen from flowers and carry it to the hive, says that it exists to gather honey. Another beekeeper who has studie... ... exists to gather honey. Another beekeeper who has studied the life of the hive more closely says that the bee gathers pollen dust to feed the young b... ...mands. Pierre was greatly surprised by his wife’s view, to him a perfectly novel one, that every moment of his life belonged to her and to the family.... ...rom Gibbon to Buckle, despite their seeming disagreements and the apparent novelty of their outlooks, lie those two old, un- avoidable assumptions. In...

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...Excerpt: ?IT IS VERY KIND in the dear mother.? ?But--what, Rachel? Don?t you like it! She so enjoyed choosing it for you.? ?Oh yes, it is a perfect thing in its way. Don?t say a word to her; but if you are consulted for my next birthday present, Grace, c...

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...y Charlotte M. Y onge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of th... ...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 any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ...ce from church. Who would take us? No more Mr. Davisons! There was no more novelty, and too much smartness to in- vite self-devotion. So we were drive... ...and for a sort of popular lecture. Cricket was to succeed the singing, and novelty car- ried the day, but only by the desertion of her scholars did Ra... ... brother, that Rachel, spite of herself, was absolutely fascinated by this novel form of endearment. An answer was spared her by Miss 143 Yo n g e Ke... ...id not know, mother. Any way it is better than her being in Mrs. Kelland’s hive of children.” “You are not going back to her, Rachel, I entreat!” “Mot...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Enter Dame Gossip As Chorus. Everybody has heard of the beautiful Countess of Cressett, who was one of the lights of this country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity?s sake to be amused after their tiresome work of slaughter: and you...

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...GE By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ... 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... might not have heard correctly; she feared to ask and yet she perceived a novel softness in him that would have answered. Pain of an unknown kind mad... ...queen of the twilights; and his heart sprang into his brain to picture the novel beauty; language became a flushed Bacchanal in a ring of dancing simi... ...lights, the band music, the sitting groups and company of promenaders were novelties; the Ball of the ensuing night at the Schloss would be a wonder, ... ...en hills, her springy step dis- persed any misty fancies. Her short-winged hive set to work in her head as usual, building scaffoldings of great thing...

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...tion tion tion tion tion Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... Carthaginian dish held in abhorrence among other nations. Surprise at the novel fare excited the greed of the stomach. The Gauls with their long hair... ...pite of her disdain of other nations, Carthage had awkwardly borrowed this novel invention from them, 57 Flaubert just as Rome herself had built Puni... ...e wall, and were so numerous that the apartment was like the interior of a hive. They were brimful of myrobalan, bdellium, saffron, and violets. Gums,... ...bout a rat. All regretted their families, and their houses; the poor their hive-shaped huts, with the shells on the threshold and the hanging net, and...

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...ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens 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... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...genuine interest in its every member—it is, I say, something to be in this novel and happy frame of mind. And, as it is of your cre ation, and owes i... ...rcise, and, though last not least—for by this I set great store, as a very novel and excellent provision—its opportunities of blame less, rational en... ...and Social 25 man in this great town, accessible to every bee in this vast hive, who, for all these benefits, and the inestimable ends to which they l... ...ided for all anxious to seize the last chance of hearing the distinguished novelist give his own interpretation of the charac ters called into existe...

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...Contents The Education of Otis Yeere ............................................................................................................ 4 At the Pit?s Mouth ......................................................................

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...RA? DISCOURSES ................................................................................................................................ 33 I. THE THREE METAMORPHOSES ........................................................................................................................... 33 II. THE ACADEMIC CHAIRS OF VIRTUE............................................

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...Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Thomas Common is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ile, 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 anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...ed on this meadow! And how much honey of hope did I carry hence into my bee- hives! Those young hearts have already all become old—and not old even! o... ...1). In his feverish scurry to find entertainment and diversion, whether in a novel, a newspaper, or a play, the modern man condemns his own age utterl...

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...Excerpt: A chapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling out...

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...ve by George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... pitiable. Constantia was called “that mad thing”. Laetitia broke forth in novel and abundant merits; and one of the chief points of requisition in re... ...ogue and mistress of Patterne do not go together.” “Why not? She will be a novelty to our neighbourhood and an animation of the Hall.” “To be frank, r... ...ite: which in good sooth stands on the alternative of a consumption of the hive or of the creature it is for nourishing. Here do lovers show that they... ...ee beside you.” “Dear me, though; but that is investing the hamadryad with novel and terrible functions,” exclaimed Dr. Middleton. Clara said: “Miss D...

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...Excerpt: The talisman towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted th...

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...ted by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication ... ... Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage 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 any- o... ...used about the table, huddled together in a murmuring group like bees in a hive. The combination of timid embarrassment with coquettishness and a sort... ...ned me. “The next day I could not bear the tortures of delay; I borrowed a novel, and spent the whole day over it, so that I could not possibly think ... ...derstand a word of,’ whispered Rastignac; ‘he is a chemist, a historian, a novelist, and a political writer; he has gone halves, thirds, or quarters i... ...our place I should endeavor to die gracefully; and if you wish to invent a novel way of doing it, by struggling with life after this manner, I will be...

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...CONTENTS Preface to 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 Moth...

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...s Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...But the last item was long, long, long, in linking itself to the rest. The novelty of the place, the coming upon it without preparation, the sense of ... ... would wander about a little, and come back again. As long as eating was a novelty and an amusement, Maggy kept up pretty well. But that period going ... ... from the father mentioned that most unex- pectedly finding himself in the novel position of having been disappointed of a remittance from the City on... ...ting in it that Gowan would draw back as if he had put his hand into a bee-hive. There was yet another circumstance which went a long way to confirm L...