...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...urdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings. The mist took pity ... ... hair. It gave him a tremendous forehead, arching up two inches beyond the former hair-line. But most wonder-work- ing of all was the donning of his s... ...ess, while between them, supporting the state, defend- ing the evangelical churches and domestic brightness and sound business, were Babbitt and his f... ... headline: “Money! Money!! Money!!!” The second announced that “Mr. P. R., formerly making only eighteen a week in a barber shop, writes to us that si... ...tificial pan- eling by strips of white-enameled pine. From the Bab- bitts’ former house had come two much-carved rocking- chairs, but the other chairs... ...f God, that the Day of Judgment is coming and all the members of the older churches are going straight to eternal damnation, because they only do lip-...

...bove 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-buildings....

...ge of any kind. Any per son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of litera ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... of transition very foreign to his usual character, he said, in pity for his former self, ‘Poor boy.’ and cried again. ‘I wish, ’ Scrooge muttered, pu... ...d its hand: say ing as it did so, ‘Let us see another Christmas.’ Scrooge’s former self grew larger at the words, and the room became a little darker... ...le, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice: ‘Yo ho, there. Ebenezer. Dick.’ Scrooge’s former self, now grown a young man, came briskly in, accompanied by his f... ...into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter. The immense relief of finding this a f... ...a winter season gone. Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs... ...e a baby. Hallo. Whoop. Hallo here.’ He was checked in his transports by the churches ringing out the lustiest peals he had ever heard. Clash, clang,...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive ... ...oing stu- dent publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... remote county, he was enabled to draw them from among the increase of the former colony. Although the settlement of this part of Otsego a little pre-... ...man of middle age and the other a female just entering upon womanhood. The former was of a large stature; but the 11 James Fenimore Cooper precaution... ...tion from the easy gliding of the sleigh by the sound of their voices. The former was thinking of the wife that had held this their only child to her ... ...ne to the other, and thus obtain, in order to reserve, that unity in their churches which properly belonged to a people of the same nation. But unexpe... ...impediment, and the ven- erable men who had been set apart by the American churches at length returned to their expecting dioceses, endowed with the m... ...nd thof that is not the same as having been at home, yet he must have seen churches in France too, and can form a small idee of what a church should b...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... towards failure, or towards success! The latter thou sharest with us; the former also is not all our own. BOOK II CHAPTER I GENESIS I n a psychologic... ...emporary, youthful, yet still afflictive derangement of head? Alas, on the former side alone, his case was hard enough. “It continues ever true,” says... ...or false, either seraphic or demoniac, Inspiration or Insanity. But in the former case too, as in common Mad- ness, it is Fantasy that superadds itsel... ...n these Judgment-Halls and Churchyards), and its bellows-engines (in these Churches), thou still seest; and its flame, looking out from every kind cou... ... currents of what we call Opinion; as preserved in Institutions, Polities, Churches, above all in Books. Beau- tiful it is to understand and know that... ...ten reprobate, as idol- breakers are wont to be, mark out the sites of new Churches, where the true God-ordained, that are to follow, may find audienc...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Henrietta ’s Wish; or, Domineering by Charlotte M. Yonge, the P... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ed, and her apologies were cut short by grandmamma calling them to eat her turkey before it grew cold. The spirits of all the party were perhaps dampe... ... are to have our hay made by one machine, our sheep washed by another, our turkeys crammed by a third— ay, and even the trouble of bird-starving saved... ...their eyes sparkled with delight. “I should like it exceedingly,” said the former; “I was just thinking what capabilities there are. And Henrietta wil... ...trance Mrs. Langford and Frederick both came to meet them in the hall, the former asking anxiously whether they had not been lingering in the cold and... ...ld not be at all too much for her, that she should be very glad to see her former neighbours, and that it would be a great treat to Henrietta and Fred... ...nt and irritation, “I do not see why young ladies should not like dressing churches for festivals better than arraying themselves for balls and dances...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On the afternoon of a warm day in the end of July, an open carriage was waiting in front of the painted toy-looking building which served as the railway station of Teignmouth. The fine bay horses stood patiently enduring the attacks of hosts of winged foes...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... those who are converts to a faith and those who are brought up in it. The former know it from outside as well as from within. They know not only that... ... late one night with a marked copy, a very indignantly marked copy, of the former work that an elderly colonel, a Wombash parishio- ner, an orthodox L... ... of the Filioque controversy. The idea of a reunion of the two great state churches of Russia and En- gland had always attracted him. But hitherto it ... ...n in our periodical literature. The writer boldly charged the “Chris- tian churches” with absolute ineffectiveness. This war, he declared, was above a... ...in some way muddling and mask- ing her revelation. “What is wrong with the Churches?” was, for example, the general heading of The Westminster Gazette... ...m he sought. And this time there was not even the elemental scenery of the former vision. He stood on nothing; there was nothing below and nothing abo...

...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmis sion, in any way. The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Cle... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ...t between meekly bearing it and resenting it, the advantage all lay with the former policy. The few times that his persecutions had moved him beyond c... ...implacability in voice and manner which made T om almost realize that even a former slave can remember for ten min utes insults and injuries returned... ... young Marse Tom Driscoll’s pappy died, en all de Ma sons en Odd Fellers en Churches turned out en give him de bigges’ funeral dis town ever seed? Da... ... a while with the subsidence of the storm, both began to settle toward their former places. He dropped gradually back into his old frivolous and easyg... ...SGIVING DAY. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys; they use plumbers...

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania Stat... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...I look forward with pleasure to the fulfillment of the promise made in the former to visit Washington the following winter and to “call.” Give yoursel... ...cretary of the Navy. The school is now more full and complete than at any former period, and in every respect entitled to the favorable consideration... ...ed the entire expenditures, the latter amounting to $11,314,206.84 and the former to $11,163,789.59, leaving a deficiency of but $150,417.25. In 186... ...nited States Government must not, as by this order, under- take to run the churches. When an individual, in a church or out of it, becomes dangerous ... ... it, becomes dangerous to the public interest, he must be checked; but the churches, as such, must take care of them- selves. It will not do for the ... ...he United States to appoint trustees, supervisors, or other agents for the churches.” This letter going to General Curtis, then in command there, I su...

...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...y. Sects have risen, and cried by every pen, “Arise, working-men!” just as formerly they cried, “Arise!” to the “tiers etat.” None of these Erostrates... ...emark some persons will expect to see the flash- ing of the cuirass of the former colonel of the guard, and the raging of his anger as he falls like a... ... the river. The sole garments of this curious fig- ure were an old blouse, formerly blue, and trousers of the coarse burlap used in Paris to wrap bale... ...columns with niches, which terminate in spires. This portal, often seen in churches of the same period when chance has saved them from the ravages of ... ...f those princes of color. There were old women with necks 271 Balzac like turkeys, and hairless, scarlet eyelids, who stretched their heads forward l...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Warden by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...to which, under the will of John Hiram, they were declared to be entitled. Formerly, indeed—that is, till within some fifty years of 5 Anthony Trollo... ...t was now wholly in the bishop’s gift, and though the dean and chapter, in former days, made a stand on the subject, they had thought it more condu- c... ...of the Church of En- gland are gorged with the wealth which the charity of former times has left for the solace of the aged, or the education of the y... ...ad he so much power, would shut up all cathedrals, and probably all parish churches; distribute all tithes among Methodists, Baptists, and other savag... ... themselves to stroll by moonlight round the towers of some of our ancient churches. Who would not feel charity for a prebendary when walking the quie... ... tower was seen with all its variegated pinnacles and parapets. Few parish churches in England are in better repair, or better worth keeping so, than ...

...tate University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpos... ...h the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmi... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... 23 A Tramp Abroad on the side of his head and gave his opponent one like it. In the third round the latter received another bad wound in the head, a... ...antagonist’s ear and cut an artery which could not be reached if the sword remained whole. This has happened, sometimes, and death has resulted on the... ...keep swords, but do not allow them to use them. This is law is rigid; it is only the execution of it that is lax. 29 A Tramp Abroad defeated him. The... ...es. The general level of the massed roofs is gracefully broken and relieved by the dominating towers of the ruined castle and the tall spires of a cou... ...of a more bitter and malignant character than the week-day profanity, too. It is produced by the cracked-pot clangor of the cheap church-bells. We bui... ...hing; but they don’t do that, they pass the sliced meat around on a dish, and so you are perfectly calm, it does not stir you in the least. Now a vast...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melan... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... jolly old fellow. He has white frizzle hair and large white whiskers. The former, I suspect, is a wig. The cheering was tremendous, but behind the ro... ... was difficult to see how this latter advantage could fail to outweigh the former defect; and everybody knew that they can’t find a lawyer to fill you... ...re languages, modern as well as ancient. You know I have often pressed the former on your and Jem’s notice, from myself feeling my deficiency and regr... ...ed by men of energy, and power, and high 113 Yo n g e character; in fact, churches must be organised, the Gospel must be preached by men of earnest z... ...oard of her, and make himself useful on Sundays, according to need, in the churches on shore, a desultory life very trying to him, but which he bore w... ... but later an arrangement was made which set them more at liberty. And the churches at Sydney were a great delight to Patteson; the architecture, musi...

...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 much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...d Mr. Nicholson found in them the milk of lions. About the period when the churches convene at Edinburgh in their annual assemblies, he was to be seen... ... dollars. How he had come to deserve this wealth, any more than how he had formerly earned disgrace at home, was a prob- lem beyond the reach of his p... ...nd him, not only equipped with money of his own, but once more (as on that former occasion) saddled with a considerable sum of other people’s. Now it ... ...e garden walls, which were, indeed, conventual, and, as John had tested in former days, defied the climbing schoolboy. The lamp of the cab threw a gle... ...the wide oak staircase landed al- most in the street; there was room for a Turkey rug and nothing more between the threshold and the last round of the...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...t along the paths of greatest usefulness.” Neither sort tempted Carol. The former seemed insincere (a favorite word of hers at this era). The earnest ... ...ack, as though she had bought it second-hand and was afraid of meeting the former owner. They were shy. It was “Professor” George Edwin Mott, superint... ...an, Dr. Will Kennicott. All present spoke of the many charms of the bride, formerly Miss Carol Milford of St. Paul. Games and stunts were the order of... ...the Word of God preached more fearlessly than even in the finest big brick churches in the big and so-called advanced cities of to- day, but he did no... ...or that the Thanatopsis would be the right instrument. After all, it’s the churches, isn’t it, that are the real heart of the community. As you may po... ...all move- ments that make for morality and prohibition. Here, the combined churches could afford a splendid club-house, maybe a stucco and half-timber...

...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 Ohi...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...old on ten shillings a head a week. You could run over all Europe, barring Turkey and Russia, without even a passport. You could get to Italy in a day... ...e— loose. We don’t know where we are nor what to do. The psychology of the former time fails to give safe responses, and the psychology of the New Age... ... you find you are?” 85 H G Wells “Europeans. Who came away from kings and churches-@- and Corinthian capitals.” “You feel all this country belongs to... ... amount of prop- erty as well. She had no illusions about the power of the former class. It didn’t exist. They were steered to their deci- sions by pe... ...ng with pictures and adorned with sculpture to an astonishing extent; some former proprietor must have had a mania for replicas and the place is event...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Professor by Charlotte Brontë, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... it; we left the clean streets where there were dwelling-houses and shops, churches, and public buildings; we left all these, and turned down to a reg... ...t de vous.” Sylvie looked calmly pleased, Eulalie swelled like an incensed turkey, but the mutiny was quelled: the conceited coquetry and futile flirt... ...fficile, monsieur, quand on n’en a plus l’habitude.” “You had the habitude formerly, I suppose? Now answer me in your mother tongue.” “Yes, sir, I spo... ...omfort they could not drain, a pillar of support they could not overthrow: formerly, when insulted, she wept; now, she smiled. The public reading of o... ...heard with a grim calm very different from the petulant pleasure they were formerly wont to excite. For a long time Pelet bore with my frigid demeanou...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ue de Cluny, one of the poorest and darkest slums, shut in be- tween three churches and the old buildings of the Sorbonne. I have a furnished room on ... ...mystical genius, one of the most extraordinary intellects of the age. This former leader had gone back to his province for reasons on which it serves ... ...s as much accus- tomed to his work in the office as to the fatigue duty of former days, understanding as much or as little about it as the why and whe... ...treet, as much bewildered by this picture of the newspaper world as he had formerly been by the prac- tical aspects of literature at Messrs. Vidal and... ...tact with a stubble chin, and left on exhibition a throat as wrinkled as a turkey-gobbler’s. This was the individual whom Etienne and Lucien discov- e...

...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Pickwick Papers, Volume T wo by Charles Dickens , the Penn... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ime of life, but I’m pretty tough, that’s vun consolation, as the wery old turkey remarked wen the farmer said he wos afeerd he should be obliged to k... ...ing his firm persuasion that the late Mr. Dibdin, seeing the errors of his former life, had written that song to show the advantages of abstinence. It... ...at his name was Dowler; that he was going to Bath on pleasure; that he was formerly in the army; that he had now set up in business as a gentleman; th... ... green spectacles, grinned the identical grin of Robert Saw yer, Esquire, formerly of Guy’s Hospital in the Borough, with a private residence in Lant... ... dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, haystacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity an...

...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so Any person using this document file, for any purpose, an... ... any way does so Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so Any person using this document file, for any purpose, an... ... any way does so Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so Any person using this document file, for any purpose, an... ... ESQUIRE, M Y MOST HONOURED F RIEND Sir,— I have made so ill use of your former favours, as by them to be encouraged to entreat, that they may be en... ...e Hobby and Jack: There is the Stelletto of Spain, The Blood red Rook from Turkey, The Waskite from Virginia: And there is of short winged Hawks, The ... ...rt, and an art not easily attained to; and you have so won upon me in your former discourse, that I am very desirous to hear what you can say further ... ...s recreations, was the first inventor of Angling: and some others say, for former times have had their disquisitions about the antiquity of it, that S... ...the Pike, and save himself, the Perch will set up his fins, much like as a turkey cock will sometimes set up his tail. But, my scholar, the Perch is n... ...s man advised his friend, that, to beget mortification, he should frequent churches, and view monuments, and charnel houses, and then and there consid...

...Excerpt: I have made so ill use of your former favors, as by them to be encouraged to entreat, that they may be enlarged to the patronage and protection of this Book: and I have put on a modest confidence, that I shall not be denied, because it is a discourse of Fi...