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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman...

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...erican by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The American by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...an by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The American by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The American by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...liant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the... ... life, with a vague self-mistrust. An observer with anything of an eye for national types would have had no difficulty in determining the local ori- g... ...ething of that sort. We were very young.” “It was in St. Louis, during the war. You were in the army.” “Oh no, not I! But you were.” “I believe I was.... ...a hack and went about my business, and it was in this hack— this immortal, historical hack—that the curious thing I speak of occurred. It was a hack l... ... homesick,” he said, “you must come up here. We’ll stick you down before a register, under a good big burner, and—” “And you will soon get over your h... ...u wear a blanket and feathers. There are different shades.” “I am a highly civilized man,” said Newman. “I stick to that. If you don’t believe it, I s...

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...Preface: A preface generally begins with a truism; and I may set out with the admission that it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and...

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...or Grimshawe’s Secret: A Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Grimshawe’s Secret: A Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...s Lathr arsons Lathr op op op op op, , , , , The S The S The S The S The S on in Law and D on in Law and D on in Law and D on in Law and D on in Law a... ...gent and wide spread than it used to be; and the later development of our national literature has not, perhaps, so entirely exhausted 4 Doctor Grims... ...the port, who followed the East and West Indian, the African and the South American trade, it was supposed that this odd philosopher was in the habit ... ...ess horrible emblem,—he resumed his tale. He said that, a long time ago, a war broke out in the old country between King and Parliament. At that perio... ...o consist of letters, genealogical lists, certified cop ies of entries in registers, things which must have been made out by somebody who knew more o... ... learned authorities,—or in abstract labor, whether moral, metaphysical or historic; there was a volume of trans lations of Mother Goose’s Melodies i... ...to, in the little time that he had been in England, Redclyffe had received civil and even kind treat ment from the English with whom he had come casu...

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Excerpt: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.

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... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stev... ... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevens... ...ghost, and be carried like a bale, among scenes that had attracted me in youth and health. I chartered accordingly Dr. Merrit’s schooner yacht, the Ca... ...I had made friends; I had learned new interests; the time of my voy- ages had passed like days in fairyland; and I decided to remain. I began to prepa... ...rstand one word; all trying to trade with us who had no thought of trading, or offering us island curios at prices palpably absurd. There was no word ... ...werving cabin, with innocent excitement and surprise. Her Majesty was often recognised, and I have seen French subjects kiss her photograph; Captain S... ...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...t Louis Stevenson This proneness to suicide, and loose seat in life, is not peculiar to the Marquesan. What is peculiar is the wide- spread depression... ...n thought ex- ception, as in the case of mountain outlaws, such as fell by the hand of Theseus. In Tahiti, a single circumstance sur- vived, but that ...

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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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...Excerpt: It came without warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wonderin...

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

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...NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 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... ...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... ....................................... 502 WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910): A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF “THE V ARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPE- RIENCE” .................. ... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...s, when they delivered their utterances? These are manifestly questions of historical fact, and one does not see how the answer to them can decide off... ...g; origin in automatic utter- ance generally—these origins have been stock war- rants for the truth of one opinion after another which we find represe... ... and accordingly he thinks that our Music, our Science, and our so-called “Civilization,” as these things are now organized and admiringly believed in... ...uncon- sciousness was entirely real. He never spoke depre- catingly of any nationality or class of men, or time in the world’s history, or against any... ...of vestiges of sensible experience (whether inat- tentively or attentively registered), and for their elabo- ration according to ordinary psychologica...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on th...

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...Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES................................................................................ 1...

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...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 ...

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

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