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Modern Broods or Developments Unlooked For

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...nge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Modern Broods, or Developments Unlooked For by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pen... ...roods, or Developments Unlooked For by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ds, or Developments Unlooked For by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Modern Broods, or Developments Unlooked For by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...be said of the room, where heavy old-fashioned furniture, handsome but not new, was concealed by various flimsy modernisms, knicknacks, fans, brackets... ...n if you cannot unpack.” She led the way, and disposed of each girl in her new quarters, explaining to Agatha that her’s and her little lodger were on... ... she had resolved to endeavour at a thorough teach- ing of the Old and New Testaments for the first hour on alternate days, giving one day in the week...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Clas... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ... Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsy... ..., though not attaining to what was expected from his capabilities; but the development of his nature was slow, and therefore perhaps ultimately the mo... ... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the ... ...l long after, when the wish had become purpose. Meantime the boy’s natural development put these visions into the background. He was going on with ord... ...eaving En- gland he was constantly using Olshausen’s Commentary on the New Testament, a book he was as thoroughly versed in as Archbishop T rench hims...

...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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God the Invisible King

By: H. G. Wells

...NG by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication God the Invisible King by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...Series Publication God the Invisible King by H. G. Wells 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ...ed thought in textual interpretation. That swamping came very early in the development of Christian- ity. The writer of St. John’s gospel appears stil... ...ther and Son in its distinction between the Old Dispensa- tion (of the Old Testament) and the New. Every possible change is rung in the great religion... ... distinction between the Old Dispensa- tion (of the Old Testament) and the New. Every possible change is rung in the great religions of the world betw... ...nce, and already in a state of diffusion. People have begun to hear of the new belief first here and then there. It is interesting, for example, to tr... ... Eden or a Heaven, nor sit upon a throne. But current Christianity, modern developments of Islam, much Indian theological thought—that, for instance, ...

...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statemen...

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The Soul of a Bishop

By: H. G. Wells

...Bishop by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ... H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...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 Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...nd weak, and left him a prey to strange disturbances, rather than that any new process of thought was eating into his mind. These doubts in his mind w... .... The fine old abbey church of Princhester, which was the cathedral of the new diocese, looked when first he saw it like a lady Abbess who had taken t... ... and a new person masquer- ades as yesterday’s child until some unexpected development betrays the cheat. The bishop had still to learn this perennial... ...erature of church history and the controversies aris- ing out of doctrinal development became the employment of the bishop’s leisure and a commanding ... ...im old Likeman breakfasted in bed on Benger’s food, and searched his Greek Testament for tags to put to his letters. And here was the familiar palace ...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...LICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...r of mine, that paper I should wish to cancel. So that, upon the whole, my new and revised edition is likely to differ by very consid- erable changes ... ...at quadrata rotundis,) it is my purpose to enlarge this edition by as many new papers as I find available for such a station. These I am anxious to pu... ...ellectual grandeur,— 22 Thomas de Quincey thou whose head, for its superb developments, was the as- tonishment of science, 5 —thou next, but after an... ... its circumstances executed in dreams, which, under advanced stages in the development of opium, repeat with marvellous accuracy the longest successio... ...ed my ambition; so that I could barely construe books as easy as the Greek Testament and the Iliad. This was considered quite well enough for my age; ...

...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expre...

...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .........................................................

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The Village Rector

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley ... ...r by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ... Sauviat wore a frock-coat of maroon cloth, so well taken care of that two new ones were all he bought in twenty years. The living of galley-slaves wo... ...aught her the history of the people of God, the catechism, the Old and the New Testaments, and a very little arithmetic. That was all; the worthy sist... ...t her the history of the people of God, the catechism, the Old and the New Testaments, and a very little arithmetic. That was all; the worthy sister t... ...may rush to my greenhouse with eager feet, as you go to yours to watch the development of your plants, to bud and bloom with them, to admire what you ... ...of those flowing shrubs, dwarf elsewhere, but here attaining to gi- gantic development, and often as old as the soil itself. She saw, with a sensation...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis 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... ...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... ...sting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses, homes—they seemed—for laughter and tranquillity. Over a concret... ...elow the bridge curved a railroad, a maze of green and crimson lights. The New York Flyer boomed past, and twenty lines of polished steel leaped into ... ...to-date!” While he stared he thought of a community garage for his acreage development, Glen Oriole. He stopped puffing and jig- gling. His arms were ... ...ylock, resident salesman out at the 31 Sinclair Lewis Glen Oriole acreage development—an enthusiastic person with a silky mustache and much family; M... ...izes were a lot of folderols and doodads like poetry books and illustrated Testaments, instead of something a real live kid would want to work for, li...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... ... 1 Loomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2 The Carpet Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3 The... ...3 The Spouter Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4 The Counterpane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 5 Br... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... the Pacific Ocean. ” By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York. 1821. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was pipin... ...pen the haunts of the whale, the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpubli... ...t does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks 18 Chapter 1 Loomings... ...you get near twenty feet from the forehead do you come to the full cranial development. So that this whole enormous boneless mass is as one wad. Final... ...ip and Dough Boy made a match, like a black pony and a white one, of equal developments, though of dissimilar color, driven in one eccentric span. But...

...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations o...

...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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Kenilworth

By: Sir Walter Scott

...assics Series Publication Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ics Series Publication Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott 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... ...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... ...it seems, was proved by the report of Dr. Walter Bayly, sometime fellow of New College, then living in Oxford, and professor of physic in that univers... ...ing boys to bring my harvests home, Or I shall hear no flails thwack. —The New Inn. IT IS THE PRIVILEGE of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn,... ...all clean turnen so up so down, And pave it all of silver and of gold. The Canon ’s Yeoman ’s Prologue, Canterbury T ales. THE ARTIST COMMENCED his na... ... learned doctors in foreign universities justify the practice from the Old Testament,” said Varney. “ And after all, where is the harm? The beautiful ... ...idcote Hall, and there she might remain in safety until time permitted the development of this mystery.” Leicester was silent, but stood looking eager...

...Introduction: A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting ?her sister and her foe,? the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have ap...

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Roderick Hudson

By: Henry James

...assics Series Publication Roderick Hudson by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ics Series Publication Roderick Hudson by Henry James 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... ...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... ...owland spent his days at her side and felt before long as if he had made a new friend. All his impressions at this period were commented and interpret... ...well. It had the stamp of genius. Rowland envied the happy youth who, in a New England village, without aid or encourage- ment, without models or reso... ... we have a right to ask more: to demand that you guarantee us not only the development of the artist, but the security of the man.” Rowland became gra... ...may make a David,” said Roderick, “but I shall not try any more of the Old Testament people. I don’t like the Jews; I don’t like pendulous noses. Davi... ...de against a warning offered you altogether in the interest of your freest development? Do you really mean that you have an inexorable need of embarki...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ...OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF ... ...ORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a public... ...eedom as the direct agent to effect the happiness of mankind; and thus any new-sprung hope of liberty inspired a joy and an exultation more intense an... ...rt the operation of his arduous struggles. His spirit gathers peace in its new state from the sense that, though late, his exer- tions were not made i... ...n- gland. T o these may be added a constant perusal of portions of the old Testamentthe Psalms, the Book of Job, the Prophet Isaiah, and others, the ... ...op of following page] 182 V olume One 1 The Author was pursuing a fuller development of the ideal character of Athanase, when it struck him that in ... ...pressive form of the Christian religion. We owe Milton to the progress and development of the same spirit: the sacred Milton was, let it ever be remem...

Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One.

.................................. 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824...................................................................

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...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 ... ...ENN 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 State Univers... ...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... ...k chatter. His master now had had time to follow and to see that Bunchie’s new friend 30 The Portrait of a Lady was a tall girl in a black dress, who... ...’s ill-health. Meantime the two other gentlemen had also taken note of the new-comer. “Dear me, who’s that strange woman?” Mr. Touchett had asked. “Pe... ...in the year, by calling her a rank egoist. She was always planning out her development, desiring her perfection, observing her progress. Her nature ha... ...of the national banner. Isabel’s chief dread in life at this period of her development was that she should appear narrow- minded; what she feared next... ...pronounce the names right in the Bible. They’re very difficult, in the Old Testament particularly. I can’t be a lawyer; I don’t understand—how do you ...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...U nder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circ... ...wn as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itse... ...as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself ... ... history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English cou... ...ick chatter. His master now had had time to follow and to see that Bunchie’s new friend was a tall girl in a black dress, who at first sight looked pre... ...er’s ill health. Meantime the two other gentlemen had also taken note of the new comer. “Dear me, who’s that strange woman?” Mr. Touchett had asked. “... ...y in the year, by calling her a rank egoist. She was always planning out her development, desiring her perfection, observing her progress. Her nature ... ...s of the national banner. Isabel’s chief dread in life at this period of her development was that she should appear narrow minded; what she feared nex... ...’t pronounce the names right in the Bible. They’re very difficult, in the Old Testament particularly. I can’t be a lawyer; I don’t understand— how do y...

...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1; Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in m...

...Table of Contents: CHAPTER 1, 1 -- CHAPTER 2, 10 -- CHAPTER 3, 15 -- CHAPTER 4, 22 -- CHAPTER 5, 28 -- CHAPTER 6, 38 -- CHAPTER 7, 46 -- CHAPTER 8, 54 -- CHAPTER 9, 60 -- CHAPTER 10, 66 -- CHAPTER 11, 77 -- CHAPTER 12, 83 -- CHAPTE...

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles D... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dick... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free... ...ument file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his o... ...rising and falling of the Tug-steamer, the Lighter, and the boat—the turning of the windlass—the coming in of the tide—that I myself seemed, to my own... ... little garden in coming out to meet me, not half an hour ago. So cheerful of spirit and guiltless of affectation, as true practical Christianity ever... ...h bags. Witch Two laughs at us. Witch Three scowls at us. Witch sisterhood all, stitch, stitch. First Witch has a circle round each eye. I fancy it li... ... out my hand to stay it—for it recoiled as it whined and snapped—and laid my hand upon its shoulder. Instantly, it twisted out of its garment, like t... ...im to toss his obliging patron like a mad bull. For, how often have I heard the unfortunate working man lectured, as if he were a little charity-child...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume One

By: Alexandre Dumas

...ne by Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of... ...andre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Penns... ...he Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...t adherents of the exiled princes, your father lost no time in joining the new government; and that while the Citizen Noirtier was a Girondin, the Cou... ... felt sure it must be you.” “Well, then, if you felt so sure,” replied the new-comer, putting his cane in a corner and his hat on a chair, “allow me t... ...nd in your possession, sir? Did Edmond make you his heir?” “No, merely his testamentary executor. `I once possessed four dear and faithful friends, be... ...n this corner is a crucifix in holy wood — here on this shelf is my wife’s testament; open this book, and I will swear upon it with my hand on the cru... ...mployed in entering a court of justice. He was the same man, or rather the development of the same man, whom we Alexandre Dumas 477 have heretofore s...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If...

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The Two Sides of the Shield

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the P... .... Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ...nwel- come; while I have tried to make the story stand indepen- dently for new readers, unacquainted with the tale in which Lady Merrifield and her br... ...hem, I believe; but she has married a sailor captain and gone to settle in New Zealand, and I have not seen her since I was a very little girl. Then t... ...Dolores found a table ready for her with the books. A pas- sage in the New Testament was given out and read verse by verse, to the end of the subject,... ... a second-rate boarding-school is capable of, or what it is to have had no development of conscience. What shall you do? send her to school?’ ‘After t... ...e screens, and somebody said it was 226 The Two Sides of the Shield a new development of fruit. Lady Rotherwood asked them what they were doing there...

...Preface: It is sometimes treated as an impertinence to revive the personages of one story in another, even though it is after the example of Shakespeare, who revived Falstaff, after his death, at the behest of Queen Elizabeth. This precedent is, however, a true impertinence in calling o...

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Scenes from a Courtesans Life

By: Honoré de Balzac

...Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...rtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring 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... ...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... ... out reserve. “Well, Rastignac, have you seen Lucien? He has come out in a new skin.” “If I were half as good looking as he is, I should be twice as r... ...rt false dealing. “Hallo! Lucien, my boy, why here we are patched up again—new stuffing and a new cover. Where have we come from? Have we mounted the ... ... a necessary factor in your career, and God preserve me from hindering the development of your fortunes. “That marriage will be my death. But I will n... ...hat is your real name?” Camusot asked Jacques Collin. “Don Carlos Herrera, canon of the Royal Chapter of To- ledo, and secret envoy of His Majesty Fer... ...dying to be with Juliet. This is what he wrote:— “This is my last will and testament. “At the Conciergerie, May 15th, 1830. “I, the undersigned, give ...

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Twilight in Italy

By: D. H. Lawrence

...s Series Publication Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...eries Publication Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ...d accompanied by the great bishops, must have planted the holy idol like a new plant among the mountains, there where it multiplied and grew according... ...other looming shadowily under their hoods, the crucifixes seem to create a new atmosphere over the whole of the countryside, a darkness, a weight in t... ...is a Dove, or an Eagle. In the Old Testa- ment it was an Eagle; in the New Testament it is a Dove. And there are, standing over the Christian world, t... ...on. Be- tween the clerical party and the radicals and the socialists, what canons were left that were absolute? Besides, these wild villages had alway... ...ensuous Alfredo in submission, besides all the others, who had some little development of mind. ‘Sa signore,’ said the Giuseppino to me, quiet, almost...

...Contents ITALIANS IN EXILE ......................................................................................4 THE RETURN JOURNEY ..............................................................................4 The Crucifix Across the Mountains ...............................................................................................

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...iar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...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... ...M. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan’s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. T... ...en presented. It is only possible to write another study, and then, with a new “point of view,” would follow new perversions and per- haps a fresh car... ... that Hugo has ever made: there is here certainly the ripest and most easy development of his powers. It is the moral intention of this great novel to... ... remains 26 Robert Louis Stevenson of masterly conception and of masterly development, full of pathos, full of truth, full of a high eloquence. Super... ...llections of the marching measures of some of the prose in our English Old Testament. According to Whitman, on the other hand, “the time has arrived t...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A A A A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP... ...UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ON... ...says and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. 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... ...usehold laws;’ that is, not teaching such laws, not formally prescribing a new economy of life, so much as inspiring it indirectly through a new atmos... ...ring it indirectly through a new atmosphere surround- ing all objects with new attributes. But there is also in Chris- tianity, 4thly. A doctrinal par... ... apprehend, this etalage of bold results, rather than any success in their development, which has fixed the public attention. Development, indeed, app... ...I choose out these three articles to toy with:—first, Bibliolatry; second, Development applied to the Bible and Christianity; third, Philology, as the... ...ible disturbance offered to the Christian by vari- ous readings in the New Testament. You thought that the carelessness, or, at times, even the treach...

...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FO...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...ture by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William J... ...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...s Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...Brad- ley—The psychology of character-changes—Emo- tional excitements make new centres of personal en- ergy—Schematic ways of representing this— Starb... ...ted— Characteristics of the faith-state: sense of truth; the world appears new— Sensory and motor automatisms— Permanency of conversions. 7 William J... ... good.” “Spiritual milk for American babes, drawn from the breasts of both testaments,” is a sub-title of the once famous New England Primer, and Chri... ...e essentially phenomena of adolescence, and therefore synchronous with the development of sexual life. To which the retort again is easy. Even were th... ...n has admira- bly shown, seems to consist in nothing so much as in a large development of the faculty of association by similarity. 32 The V arieties...

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

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...arrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...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... ... the dawn. When you saw only her superb figure, and its promise of womanly development, with the measured dig- nity of her step, you might for a momen... ...d has at the moment of restoration literally the force and liveliness of a new birth—the very same pang, and no whit feebler, as that which belonged t... ...o sudden life on our first awaking, and is to all in- tents and purposes a new and not an old affliction—one which brings with it the old original sho... ...red a peculiar predisposition that 45 Thomas de Quincey favored the rapid development of this contagion. However this might be, the result was, that ... .... But the capital argument against such doctrine is to be found in the New Testament. Strange that Milton should overlook, and strange that moralists ...

...Contents Volume One ..................................................................... 4 THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK.......................................................................................................... 4 THE SPANISH NUN ....................................................................................

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The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...y Nathaniel Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of th... ...l Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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... ...t the date of this edition, near the Stockbridge Bowl. “I sha’n’t have the new story ready by November,” he ex- plained to his publisher, on the 1st o... ...ening its hues.” But by vigorous applica- tion he was able to complete the new work about the middle of the January following. Since research has disc... ...d skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work of fiction, may add an artistic glory, but is never a... ...rs growing there in a wilderness of neglect, and obstructing one another’s development (as is often the parallel case in human society) by their unedu... ...ts, but unnecessary here to be specified. By Uncle Jaffrey’s last will and testament, as you are aware, his entire property was bequeathed to me, with...

...Introduction: In September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed ?The Scarlet Letter,? he began ?The House of the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occu...

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