...lassics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ... the public service of heading the chase of the fox, with benefit to their constitutions. Hence a manly as well as use- ful race of little princes, an... ...craves nothing save that you continue in being—her sun: which is your firm constitutional endeav- our: and thus you have a most exact alliance; she su... ...er diem prognosticates disintegration, with its accompanying recklessness. Constitutionally , let me add, I bear three. I speak for posterity.” During... ...; loved rusticity, he said, sighed for a country life, fancied retiring to Canada to culti- vate his own domain; “modus agri non ita magnus:” a de- li...

...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 strug...

...klin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. An An An An Any per y per y per y per y person using this do... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eli... ... may like to know something of his person and character. He had an excellent constitution of body, was of middle stature, but well set, and very stron... ...tter in structed, tastes and appetites. My mother had likewise an excellent constitution: she suckled all her ten children. I never knew either my fa... ...his adopt ing the doctrine of using no animal food. “I doubt,” said he, “my constitution will not bear that.” I assur’d him it would, and that he wou... ...son, who had in the preceding war been an officer in the army rais’d against Canada, was my aid de camp, and of great use to me. The Indians had burn... ...respondence; appointed one of the commissioners to secure the cooperation of Canada. 1776 Placed on the committee to draft a Declaration of In depend...

...ion: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a ...

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...er thrown out in unnatural isolation, but is resumed into its place in the constitution of things. It is this change in the manner of regarding men an... ... from year to year and age to age. The Tw a Dogs has already outlasted the constitution of Sieyes and the policy of the Whigs; and Burns is better kno... ...n, and reached a good age. That drink and debauchery helped to destroy his constitution, and were the means of his un- conscious suicide, is doubtless... ... full quantity upon the reader in such books as Cape Cod, or The Yankee in Canada. Of the latter he con- fessed that he had not managed to get much of... ...d to get much of himself into it. Heaven knows he had not, nor yet much of Canada, we may hope. “Nothing,” he says somewhere, “can shock a brave man b... ...there are few spots more shocking to the brave than the pages of Yankee in Canada. There are but three books of his that will be read with much pleasu...

...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...