Excerpt Details
...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, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

Full Text Search Details
...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. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, 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... ... this fact may not have operated to blunt the suspicions of the Protestant churches. I do not mean that such a fact would have absolutely deafened Pro... ...ive my vote (and, if I had a thousand votes, to give all my votes) for the former. Fresh from such a training as this, and at a time when his addition... ...akably the grand and varied sys- tem of chanting in the Romish and English churches. And, looking back at this day to the ineffable benefits which I d... ...” I settled that, henceforwards, it must go through the post office. In my former captures, there had been nothing special or worthy of commemoration ... ..., They are good Christians. Wherefore, then, that low door in the Pyrenean churches, through which the Cagots are forced to enter, and which, obliging... ...at an abstract desire of kicking seized him always after hearing good per- formers on particular instruments, especially the bagpipes. 88 Thomas de Q...

Excerpt Details
...makes the memory of what once filled it a treasure to be brought forward with joy and thankfulness. Nor would it be well that some of those mentioned in the coming narrative should be wholly forgotten, and their place know them no more....

Full Text Search Details
...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment 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. Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge, 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... ...alt had no business to get into the way. Yet this was a great advance upon former Confirmations, and the Bishop met my father afterwards, and inquired... ...uld do nothing but knit in the long evenings, and was most grateful to her former pupil for coming, as often as he could, to talk or read to her. She ... ...s a legitimate part of the Christmas pleasures; and after we had eaten our turkey, we found the evening long, except that Martyn escaped to snapdragon... ... that his nervous imaginings—whether in- voluntary or acted, she hoped the former, and wished she could be sure—had infected us; and, as she was reall... ...f you; though, perhaps, you never guessed that the foundation of all those churches and their grand dependent works of pi- ety, mercy, and beneficence... ...st on the anniversary of the dedication of the first of the numer- ous new churches of Beachharbour. There was no want of cordiality on that occasion,...

Table of Contents Details
...NY OF THE INTERVIEW OF PRINCES ..................................................... 104 CHAPTER XIV THAT MEN ARE JUSTLY PUNISHED FOR BEING OBSTINATE IN THE DEFENCE OF A FORT THAT IS NOT IN REASON TO BE DEFENDED .......................................................................... 105 CHAPTER XV OF THE PUNISHMENT OF COWARDICE .............................................

Full Text Search Details
...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 docu- ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles C... ...o- ing 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... ...of the crows’ and sparrows’ nests built in the walls and arches of the old churches, destroyed by the Huguenots. Again, he was appre- hensive, seeing ... ...ood on horseback or on foot, in visits, in observations of every kind. The churches, the stations, the processions even, the sermons; then the palaces... ...s, would demand a far better ability than mine: because, although, when in former years he discoursed on serious and important matters, he handled the... ...ware of involving your family in such broils; let it continue to enjoy its former repu- tation and happiness. M. de Beauregard, take what I say in goo... ...use. This pernicious licence in respect to the distribution of praise, has formerly been confined in its area of operations; and it may be the reason ... ...pose it was that men first appointed the places of sepulture adjoining the churches, and in the most frequented places of the city , to accustom, says...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: St. Ives, The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Full Text Search Details
... ! "# ! St. Ives, The ... ...on of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu... ...anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any re- sponsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file a... ...pears it was the sailor who had insisted on succeeding me: as soon as my continued silence had as- sured him the rope was long enough, Gautier, for th... ... of escape should be so small. The man who had fallen was one Sombref, a peasant; he was one who slept in a different part of the Castle; and I was th... ...your daughter alive and restored.’ ‘That is past praying for,’ said the Colonel; and immedi- ately the brief fire died out of him, and, returning to t... ...nger, and an accumulation of discomforts that might have daunted the most brave; and the white table napery, the bright crystal, the reverberation of ... ...t last until the end; for if Dr. Gray were long, Mr. McCraw was not only longer, but more incoherent, and the matter of his sermon (which was a direct...

Full Text Search Details
...ennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...ssociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an elect... ...s, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical w... ...nobody loves you!’ I would I could tell you the moving story of our cart and cart-horses; the latter are dapple-grey, about sixteen hands, and of enor... ...e shut above; dry bed of the stream much excavated, so that I passed under fallen trees without stooping. Suddenly it turned sharply to the north, at ... ...nces, and we got to Apia a be- draggled enough pair. All the way along the coast, the pate (small wooden drum) was beating in the villages and the peo... ...difficult. (1) Will Mataafa surrender?(2) Will his people allow themselves to be disarmed?(3) What will happen to them if they do?(4) What will any of... ...er, to the prison; a huge gift of ava and tobacco under the seats. The prison is now under the pule of an Austrian, Captain Wurmbrand, a soldier of fo...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Part I, 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 ...

Full Text Search Details
...2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. First published in English, 1901. First published in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; ... ...t I Chapter 1 H APPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The ... ...and was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her hus band that she could no... ... (he stammered) “it’s a means for the coterie of the district to make money. Formerly they had wardships, courts of justice, now they have the distric... ... I was stupid. I knew nothing. I know they say men tell their wives of their former lives, but Stiva”—she corrected herself—“Stepan Arkadyevitch told ... ...e her. She felt sure she would dance the mazurka with him as she had done at former balls, and refused five young men, saying she was engaged for the m... ...f more disagreements and intrigues against the work of the unification of the churches, and departed in haste, as she had that day to be at the meeting... ...itable—she was in amicable relations with the highest dignitaries of all the churches and sects. Varenka lived with her all the while abroad, and ever... ...e answers were all based on official data furnished by governors and heads of churches, and founded on the reports of district magistrates and ecclesia...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: PREFACE; I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to ...

Full Text Search Details
...the way from church, and had come home rampant. PREFACE. I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall n... ...inclined, myself, to regard a coffin nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my un... ...’s Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own rampar... ... 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, put... ...ved its hand: saying 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 fa... ... 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, ...

Excerpt Details
...on his voyage to a country where your name is as well known as here. Wherever I am, I shall gratefully regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am....

Full Text Search Details
...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK ONE by WIL... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book One by W... ...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... ...or he knew not how the new owner would deal with him; and those to whom he formerly looked for protection were forgotten or dead. Pride and doubt too ... ...ing. For it ap- peared that Dr. Martin Luther’s hymns were not sung in the churches Mr. Holt preached at. “Y ou must never sing that song any more: do... ...ts. The Director and the Vicar of Castlewood agreed very well; indeed, the former was a perfectly-bred gentleman, and it was the latter’s business to ... ...heological sci- ence, and knowledge of the points at issue between the two churches; so that he and Harry would have hours of contro- versy together, ... ...etween her ladyship and the child’s mother there was little more love than formerly. There are some injuries which women never forgive one another; an... ... MY LADY MARY W ORTLEY MONTAGU brought home the custom of inoculation from Turkey (a perilous practice many deem it, and only a useless rushing into t...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but wh...

Full Text Search Details
...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 Food of the Gods and How It Came Down to Earth by H. G. Wel... ...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... ...h this story tells. Mr. Bensington was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a former president of the Chemical Society, and Professor Redwood was Profess... ...ely. “It might be Titanophorbia, you know. Food of Titans…. You prefer the former? “You’re quite sure you don’t think it a little too—” 8 The Food of... ...’t put- ting on weight… desperately anxious.—Winkles, a frightful duffer … former pupil of mine … no good…. Mrs. Red- wood—unmitigated confidence in W... ...e a ten-inch man amidst common nursery things. A great rug—indeed it was a Turkey carpet—four hundred square feet of it, upon which young Redwood was ... ...ships. T re- mendous growths will obscure and hide our houses, smother our churches, smash and destroy all the order of our cities, and we shall becom... ...or us; we go in misery along their narrow ways; we cannot worship in their churches…. “We see over their walls and over their protections; we look ina...

Table of Contents Details
... PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 2.1.II. In the Salle de Manege. ..................................

Full Text Search Details
...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 French Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle... ...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... ...afayette and the Municipality and universal Constitutionalism as- sert the former, and do what is in them to realise it. Such Patriotism as snarls dan... ... manual kind, in the steel battle-field;—much to the disad- vantage of the former. In the manual kind, where you front your foe with drawn weapon, one... ...ening Heaven too, since Julian the Apostate’s time and earlier; mad now as formerly. Ex-Censor Suard, Ex-Censor, for we have freedom of the Press; he ... ...Dissident Priests likewise give trouble enough. Expelled from their Parish Churches, where Constitutional Priests, elected by the Public, have replace... ...ke the ancient Stoics in their porches With fierce dispute maintain their churches. This Auto-da-fe of Saint-Huruge’s was on the Fourth of May, 1791.... ...t; or call it, Ecumenic Council, and General-Assembly of the Jean- Jacques Churches: the mother-society, namely! Mother-So- ciety with her three hundr...

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: In sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytag?s first series of pictures of German Life:...

Full Text Search Details
...otte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pulication The Dove In The Eagle’s Nest by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Dove In The Eagle’s Nest by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsyl... ...ion in the free cities and the savagery of the independent barons made the former the more suitable region for the adventures. The time could only be ... ... two dearest friends, Barbara Schmidt, and Regina Grundt, confiding to the former her cage of doves, and to the latter the myrtle, which, like every G... ...turn to its own bed, but had flowed in a fresh channel to the right of the former one. The Freiherren von Adlerstein claimed the ground to the old cha... ... balcony, or window, equally gay with hangings, while the bells of all the churches clashed forth their gayest chimes, and fitful bursts of music were... ...ritten.” “The Kaisar!” said Sir Eberhard. “Nay, the poor fellows I left in Turkey ever said he was too close of fist for them to have hope from him.” ...

Excerpt Details
...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 deligh...

Full Text Search Details
... 483 CHAPTER 1 1 CHAPTER 1 U nder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as a... ... dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course nev... ...ou partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in be ginning to unfold ... ...e I shall see her next week.” And Mrs. Touchett’s husband slowly resumed his former posture. “Before that,” said Miss Archer. “She’s coming down to di... ...ravelled from New York to Albany expressly to see her; having learned in the former city, where he was spending a few days and where he had hoped to fi... ...n an excellent linguist. He had good winters and poor winters, and while the former lasted he was sometimes the sport of a vision of virtual recovery.... ...in the world I envied—the Emperor of Russia, for instance, and the Sultan of Turkey! There were even moments when I envied the Pope of Rome—for the co... ...y “Yes, I came abroad for six months—soon after I saw you last. I’ve been in Turkey and Asia Minor; I came the other day from Athens.” He managed not ... ...he place where people had suffered. This was what came to her in the starved churches, where the marble columns, transferred from pagan ruins, seemed ...

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpiec...

Full Text Search Details
...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. Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, trans. D. J. Hogarth, ... ...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... ...hik*, cheek by jowl with a samovar**— the latter so closely resembling the former in appearance that, but for the fact of the samovar possessing a pit... ...e latter a fellow of about thirty, clad in a worn, over-ample jacket which formerly had graced his master’s shoulders, and possessed of a nose and a p... ... in spite of the cir- cumstance that he is accustomed to cringe before the former. With us, however, things are different. In Russian society there ex... ...trosity drew up at the gates of a house where the archpriest of one of the churches resided, and from its doors there leapt a damsel clad in a jerkin ... ... and that the moon is shining, and that you have reached a strange town of churches and old wooden cupolas and blackened spires and white, half-timber... ...d other urban appurtenances, and that even the steeples of the white stone churches had sunk below the horizon, he turned his attention to the road, a...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing wi...

Full Text Search Details
...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 Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an i... ...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... ...ll I should get at his school would be ascribed to my own labour, or to my former master. Yet he taught me a great deal.’ He thus discriminated, to Dr... ... we had a seat, wanted reparation, so I was to go and find a seat in other churches; and having bad eyes, and be- ing awkward about this, I used to go... ...s Life of Johnson As Mr. Pope’s note concerning Johnson, al- luded to in a former page, refers both to his London, and his Marmor Norfolciense, I have... ...rk he speaks of them with peculiar acrimony; for which, perhaps, there was formerly too much reason from the licentious and dissolute man- ners of tho... ...rodigious difference between the external form of one of your Presbyterian churches in Scot- land, and a church in Italy; yet the doctrine taught is e... ...s. But upon the whole I cannot make much acquaintance here; and though the churches, palaces, and some private houses are very magnificent, there is n...

Table of Contents Details
............................................................................................................................ 28 Chapter 1.2.II. Petition in Hieroglyphs. ...................................................................................................................... 34 Chapter 1.2.III. Questionable. ...........................................................

Full Text Search Details
...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 French Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle... ...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... ... Paris, all in terror, seemed a 7 Thomas Carlyle city taken by storm: the churches resounded with suppli- cations and groans; the prayers of priests ... ...his great Prince’ again lies sick; but in how altered circum- stances now! Churches resound not with excessive groanings; Paris is stoically calm: sob... ...d it is of apoplexy, so to speak, and a plethoric lazy habit of body, that Churches, Kingships, Social Institutions, oftenest die. Sad, when such Inst... ... there was such a melancholy (such a tristesse) about Court, compared with former days, as made it quite dispiriting to look upon. No wonder that the ... ...e but you shall rise impoverished on the mor- row: one might as well be in Turkey.” It is indeed a dog’s life. How singular this perpetual distress of... ...f re- prisal, to interdict the very Tax-gatherer. (Weber, i. 266.) “In all former contests,” as Malesherbes remarks, “it was the Parlement that excite...

Table of Contents Details
............................................................................................................................ 27 Chapter 1.2.II. Petition in Hieroglyphs. ...................................................................................................................... 30 Chapter 1.2.III. Questionable. ...........................................................

Full Text Search Details
...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 French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsyl... ...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... ... the news of this, Paris, all in terror, seemed a city taken by storm: the churches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests an... ...‘this great Prince’ again lies sick; but in how altered circumstances now! Churches resound not with excessive groanings; Paris is stoically calm: sob... ...d it is of apoplexy, so to speak, and a plethoric lazy habit of body, that Churches, Kingships, Social Institutions, oftenest die. Sad, when such Inst... ... there was such a melancholy (such a tristesse) about Court, compared with former days, as made it quite dispiriting to look upon. No wonder that the ... ... of reprisal, to interdict the very Tax-gatherer. (Weber, i. 266.) “In all former contests,” as Malesherbes remarks, “it was the Parlement that excite... ... Chamber Royalists needing change of air; as most No-Chamber Royalists had formerly done. For, in truth, it is the second Emigration this that has now...

Full Text Search Details
...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. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pe... ...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... ...ome weeks I became a piti- able maniac, and in every sense the wreck of my former self; and seven entire weeks, together with the better half of an ei... ...began to arise that Barratt had practised the same or similar villanies in former instances. One case in particular was be- ginning to be whispered ab... ...of Barratt, the pro- prietor of the shop, being the same person who had in former instances persecuted her in the street; but the other was even more ... ...r flight. It was the purpose of Zebek-Dorchi that all the Rus- sian towns, churches, and buildings of every description, should be given up to pillage... ...body of trained riflemen, who had distinguished themselves in the war with Turkey. These men had contrived to crawl unobserved over the cliffs which s...

Full Text Search Details
...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 U... ...ained within the docu ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens... ...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, a... ...d have invented none; and so Shakespeare would have pro duced nothing. In Turkey he would have produced some thing—something up to the highest limit... ...e as bitter and persecuting and unappeasable, now, as they had been in the former case. The story is finished. What is your comment? What Is Man and ... ...him thirty five squares of red paper. These hens must face west, like the former ones. (Image not available—ed. ) This hen differs from the other one... ...inding white. It is said the Fridolin (the old Fridolin), a new saint, but formerly a missionary, gave the mountain its gracious name. He was an Irish... ... mild he looked by the tender light of the storm. The towers of the island churches loomed faint and far away in the dimness; the sailors in the riggi...

Excerpt Details
...of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction, so that not the smallest ...

Table of Contents Details
...?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29 -- CHAPTER VII? MISCELLANEOUS-HISTORICAL, 31 -- CHAPTER VIII? THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES, 34 -- CHAPTER IX? ADAMITISM, 39 -- CHAPTER X? PURE REASON, 43 -- CHAPTER XI? PROSPECTIVE, 47 -- ...

Full Text Search Details
...— CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . . . . . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BOOK III 133 CHAPTER I — INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 133 CHAPTER II — CHURCH CLOTHES . .... ...ne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps mo... ...it towards failure, or towards success! The latter thou sharest with us; the former also is not all our own. BOOK II. GENESIS 55 CHAPTER I GENESIS... ...n temporary, youthful, yet still afflictive derangement of head? Alas, on the former side alone, his case was hard enough. “It continues ever true,” sa... ...e or false, either seraphic or demoniac, Inspiration or Insanity. But in the former case too, as in common Madness, it is Fantasy that superadds itsel... ...RENCE 111 Judgment Halls and Churchyards), and its bellows engines (in these Churches), thou still seest; and its flame, looking out from every kind co... ...in currents of what we call Opinion; as preserved in Institutions, Polities, Churches, above all in Books. Beautiful it is to understand and know that... ... often 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 audien...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and gl...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................................................................... 4 NOONDAY IN CHEPE ....................................................................................................................... 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL............................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...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... ...o know that signal.” At once, and with a reverence quite distinct from his former nonchalant manner, he advanced towards the new-comer. He was an old ... ...Eugene Beauharnais, the son of the ill-used and un- happy Josephine by her former marriage with a French gentle- man of good family. Having a smack of... ...ell, that none knew they op- pressed her. She said she would try to forget former ties, and (so strong in her mind was duty above every other feeling!... ...devilled kidneys for supper, discovered the venerable form extended on the Turkey carpet with a glass of Madeira in his hand; but life was extinct: an... ...an elongation; and the Sunday sun was shining and the bells of the hundred churches of Cologne were clinking and tolling in pious festivity, and the b... ...er almoner, and Brother Thomas of Epsom, her leech. She lighted up all the churches in Y orkshire with wax-candles, the offer- ings of her piety. The ...

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltaire was born in the year 1694. He lived un...

Table of Contents Details
....?ON SIR ISAAC NEWTON?S OPTICS ......................................................................................... 62 LETTER XVII.?ON INFINITES IN GEOMETRY, AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON?S CHRONOLOGY............. 65 LETTER XVIII.?ON TRAGEDY ............................................................................................................................ 71 LETTER XI...

Full Text Search Details
...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. Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet), the Pen... ...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... ...aste their native country, in the same manner as the Guelphs and Ghibelins formerly did theirs. It was absolutely necessary for both parties to call i... ...e priests of this sect receive but very inconsiderable stipends from their churches, and consequently cannot emulate the splendid luxury of bishops, t... ...eaches through the nose, and gives the name of the whore of Babylon to all churches where the ministers are so fortunate as to enjoy an annual revenue... ...lord, your lordship, or your eminence. These gentlemen, who have also some churches in England, introduced there the mode of grave and severe exhortat... ...e.” Methinks our sagacious Thuanus does not give in to such fustian, which formerly was looked upon as sublime, but in this age is justly called nonse... ...egard to these new philosophers is, that the latter was a dreamer, and the former a sage. Very few people in England read Descartes, whose works indee...

Excerpt Details
...n two experiences, is doubly relative. The speaker buries his meaning; it is for the hearer to dig it up again; and all speech, written or spoken, is in a dead language until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Such, moreover, is the complexity of life, that when we condescend upon details in our advice, we may be sure we condescend on error; and the best of education ...

Full Text Search Details
...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. Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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.... ...nce, and lay aside, as far as the treachery of the reason will permit, all former meanings attached to the word righteousness. What is right is that f... .... Are you surprised? It is even so. And you repeat it every Sunday in your churches. ‘It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle tha... ...the using as the dainties that he took, be- twixt sleep and waking, in his former callous and somnambulous submission to wealth. The true Bohemian, a ... ...tting any kindness that was done to him with some qualifying souve- nir of former harshness, and gloating over any injury, mis- take, or folly, which ... ...-digging. ‘Na, na,’ said the one, ‘ye’re a’ wrang.’ ‘The English and Irish Churches,’ answered the other, in a tone as if he had made the remark befor... ...remark before, and it had been called in question – ‘The English and Irish Churches have impoverished the country.’ ‘Such are the results of education...

Excerpt Details
...on his voyage to a country where your name is as well known as here. Wherever I am, I shall gratefully regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am, Your obliged friend and servant....

Table of Contents Details
............................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II RELATES H...

Full Text Search Details
...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKE... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself by William Mak... ...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... ...or he knew not how the new owner would deal with him; and those to whom he formerly looked for protection were forgotten or dead. Pride and doubt too ... ...ing. For it ap- peared that Dr. Martin Luther’s hymns were not sung in the churches Mr. Holt preached at. “Y ou must never sing that song any more: do... ...ts. The Director and the Vicar of Castlewood agreed very well; indeed, the former was a perfectly-bred gentleman, and it was the latter’s business to ... ...heological sci- ence, and knowledge of the points at issue between the two churches; so that he and Harry would have hours of contro- versy together, ... ...etween her ladyship and the child’s mother there was little more love than formerly. There are some injuries which women never forgive one another; an... ...; but where he endeavored to reopen the controversial question between the churches once more, and to recall Esmond to that religion 302 Henry Esmond...

Excerpt Details
...r congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Country to the Moor of Rannoch. It is not only when we cross the seas that we go abroad; there are foreign part...

Full Text Search Details
...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 electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto a... ...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... ...onder. Along the flat horizon there arise the frequent venerable towers of churches. He sees at the end of airy vistas the revolution of the windmill ... ...hard hap to meet in the valley with Apollyon, yet I must tell you, that in former times men have met with angels here; have found pearls here; and hav... ... its rooms in the very buildings of the Uni- versity of Edinburgh: a hall, Turkey-carpeted, hung with pictures, looking, when lighted up at night with... ...ble, many prints of famous members, and a mural tablet to the virtues of a former secretary. Here a member can warm himself and loaf and read; here, i... ... corridor, under the mural tablet that records the virtues of Macbean, the former secretary . We would often smile at that ineloquent memorial and tho... ...l this is not generally characteristic of Scotch piety; Scotch sects being churches militant with a vengeance, and Scotch believers perpetual crusader...