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Excerpt: My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...ograph By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Publication My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication ... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania... ...University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charlotte M. Yonge My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph By Charlotte M. Yonge PREF PREF PREF PR... ...E IDEAS HAVE A TYRANNOUS POWER of insisting on being worked out, even when one fears they may be leading in a track al- ready worthily preoccupied. Bu... ... worthily preoccupied. But the Hercules myth did not seem to me to be like one of the fairy tales that we have seen so gracefully and quaintly moderni... ... since the facts of nature and of history are Divine parables. And as each one’s conquest is, in the track of his Leader, the only true Conqueror, so ... ...he sales! Crabbe objected vehemently, but was in the minority. The greater number were thoroughly believers in the discovery made on that unlucky nigh... ...nd regarded it with little favour. “She will rub him off more easily among numbers,” I said, as he settled down by me. “But is this really so, Dermot?...

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...Excerpt: In the first narrative of my experience in slavery, written nearly forty years ago, and in various writ ings since, I have given the public what I considered very good reasons for withholding the manner of my escape. In substance these reasons were, f...

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... By Frederick Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Escape from Slavery and Reconstruction by Frederick Douglas is a publica... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. My Escape from Slavery and Reconstruction by Frederick Douglas, the Pennsyl... ...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents MY ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY ...... 4 RECONSTRUCTION ..................... 16 4 ... ...ntification. This device in some mea- sure defeated itself—since more than one man could be found to answer the same general description. Hence many s... ...al description. Hence many slaves could escape by personating the owner of one set of papers; and this was often done as follows: A slave, nearly or s... ...r otherwise, would return them to the owner. The operation was a hazardous one for the lender as well as for the borrower. A failure on the part of th... ...nd tumble of an outdoor world, to take my chance with the rest of its busy number. I have often been asked how I felt when first I found myself on fre...

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... H. Lawrence A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication England, My England by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. England, My England by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents England, My England ................................................................... ...he wood which he had chopped himself sput- tered on the hearth! Himself on one side the angle, and Winifred on the other. Ah, how he had wanted her: W... ...anding back from the road across a bare 6 D. H. Lawrence grassed yard. On one side of this quadrangle was the long, long barn or shed which he had ma... ...shed which he had made into a cottage for his youngest daughter Priscilla. One saw little blue-and-white check curtains at the long windows, and insid... ...ice. Out of the sky came the sharp cry of the directions, then the warning numbers, then ‘Fire!’ The shot went, the piston of the gun sprang back, the... ...ith constant and unfailing homage, and he was chivalrously fond of quite a number. But if they seemed to encroach on him, he withdrew and detested the... ... piqued. The two soldiers went into town, smartened up. Albert knew a fair number of the boys round about; there would be plenty of gossip in the mark...

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...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; v...

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...ore in suffering flesh, shall come hereafter in glory. DEARLY BELOVED IN THE LORD. My soul is greatly afflicted because of the present unawakene... ...ll period preceding the conflagration and annihilation of this earth; I have thought it my duty to translate the same into the English tongue for yo... ...diation or instrumentality of man’s teaching, I have felt that in a still higher degree my acknowledgments are due unto the Holy Spirit, and that the... ... the fathers. When I obtained this light, I did not make haste to communicate it to any one, but pondered the matter for several months in my own he... ...ject of their hope and desire; and for these three great reasons. —1 st . That then the number of the elect is accomplished; 2 nd . That then their ... ...each, that this body of baptized men, which I call the Gentile church, who should every one of them have been a saint; being “by baptism ingrafted i... ...ion I judge to be close at hand, both by the signs of the times, and from the prophetic numbers expressly given to guide us in the anticipation of t... ...irit among the Gentiles, and enraged infidel spirit among the Jews, may amalgamate with one another, to produce a spurious restoration of the nation... ...procure and read those books expressly which were prohibited by the Inquisition. In the number of which finding this work of Ben-Ezra, the society t...

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...ry James Preface “The Wings of the Dove,” published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old—if I shouldn’t perhaps rather say a very young—motive;... ...things worth working at all; yet there are subjects and subjects, and this one seemed particularly to bristle. It was formed, I judged, to make the wa... ... that invited and mysti- fied alike that attention; not being somehow what one thought of as a “frank” subject, after the fashion of some, with its el... ...t and to require much handling; though giving perhaps, with other matters, one of those chances for good taste, pos- sibly even for the play of the ve... ...exion that fortunately grew and grew, however, in proportion as I focussed my image—roundabout which, as it persisted, I repeat, the interesting possi... ... it was worth, and I give it here but as one of the ambiguities amid which my subject ended by making itself at home and seating itself quite in confi... ...ve way, see itself con- stituted; the rest of the interest would be in the number and nature of the particulars. Strong among these, natu- rally, the ... ...ocess of the general attempt is described from the moment the “blocks” are numbered, and that would be a true enough picture of my plan. Yet one’s pla... ...s excessive. It wounded them—there was the rub!—because it fell short. The number of new things our young lady looked out on from the high south windo...

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...way from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret -- pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions -- that I am in danger of wearyi...

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...ion tate Electronic Classics Series Publication Plutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Plutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electro... ............. 914 914 914 914 914 5 Plutarch’s Lives Plutarch’s Lives Volume One T T T T Translated b ranslated b ranslated b ranslated b ranslated by A... ... might, not without reason, ascend as high as to Romulus, being brought by my history so near to his time. Consider- ing therefore with myself Whom sh... ...e, was then first instituted by Theseus. For he took not with him the full number of virgins which by lot were to be carried away, but selected two yo... ...the least difference perceived; he, undiscovered by any, put them into the number of the Athe- nian maids designed for Crete. At his return, he and th... ...d this answer: Son of the Pitthean maid, To your town the terms and fates, My father gives of many states. Be not anxious nor afraid; The bladder will... ...lling the rest in honor, the husband- men in profit, and the artificers in number. And that Theseus 23 Plutarch’s Lives was the first, who, as Aristo... ...ves here before you, we hear great things of ourselves, the truth of which my present danger is likely to bring to the test. Our birth is said to have...

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...th is strange, Stranger than fiction.” I THINK IT BUT RIGHT that in making my appearance before the public I should at once acquaint them with my titl... ... before the public I should at once acquaint them with my titles and name. My card, as I leave it at the houses of the nobility, my friends, is as fol... ... visiting ticket, the world will avoid any of those awkward mistakes as to my person, which have been so frequent of late. There has been no end to th... ... specimen of my adventures, the reader will perceive that my life has been one of no ordi- nary interest; and, in fact, I may say that I have led a mo... .... a year. I need not say that with all these advantages I did that which a number of clever fellows have done before me—I fell in love, and proposed t... ... still! I recollect, off Ascension, she looked at me in her particular way one day at dinner, just as I happened to be blowing on a piece of scalding ... ...ctor’s, the mate’s—that of most part of the passengers, and a considerable number of the crew. For myself, I swore— ensign as I was—I would win her fo... ...he scene of the “Samuel Snob” over again, only heightened in interest by a number of duels. The following list will give the reader a notion of some o... ...must have been disarranged in some way by the bullet, for the repeater was one of Barraud’s, never known to fail before, and the circumstance occurred...

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...mes CHAPTER I “They’ve got him for life!” I said to myself that evening on my way back to the station; but later on, alone in the compartment (from Wi... ...istrict Railway) I amended this declaration in the light of the sense that my friends would probably after all not enjoy a monopoly of Mr. Saltram. I ... ...Let me not indeed, in saying this, neglect to declare that I shall falsify my counterfeit if I seem to hint that there was in his nature any ounce of ... ..., of emotion—particularly perhaps those of gratitude and of resentment. No one, I think, paid the tribute of giving him up so often, and if it’s rende... ... anecdotes that are to be gathered. Their name is legion, and this is only one, of which the interest is that it concerns even more closely several ot... ...hat it concerns even more closely several other persons. Such episodes, as one looks back, are the little dramas that made up the innumerable fac- ets... ...we can.” I held my tongue about the natural children, en- gendered, to the number of three, in the wantonness of his youth. I only remarked that he di...

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...ual opportunity university. 3 The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott I. TALES OF MY LANDLORD Collected and Reported by Jedediah Cleishbotham, Schoolmas- ter... ...eflecting part of man- kind, to whom only I would be understood to address my- self, such attention as is due to the sedulous instructor of youth, and... ...s is due to the sedulous instructor of youth, and the careful performer of my Sabbath duties, I will forbear to hold up a candle to the daylight, or t... ...arning and good principles cannot (lauded be the heavens) be denied by any one, yet that my situation at Gandercleugh hath been more favourable to my ... ...writer, redacter, or compiler, of the Tales of my Land- lord; nor am I, in one single iota, answerable for their con- tents, more or less. And now, ye... ...necessary small pains and less thought. And hence I have chid him as being one of those who bring forward the fatal revolution proph- esied by Mr. Rob... ... the deer and ane for mysell.” He fired off his piece accordingly, and the number of lights were seen to traverse the house, and even to gleam before ... ... his motions, no sooner perceived to what they tended, than he sent down a number of spars of wood suitable for forming the roof, which he caused to b... .... On all occasions his manners were rude and unso- cial; and his words, in number, just sufficient to express his meaning as briefly as possible, and ...

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...southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, t... ...was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself re- moved fro... ...unded by all the cir- cumstances of wealth, there is a luxury in admitting my ex- tremity. I can admit, even, that to a certain extent my disas- ters ... ...n admit, even, that to a certain extent my disas- ters were conceivably of my own making. It may be there are directions in which I have some capacity... ...o the giving. Reluctantly enough. Even when I had got out of ev- erything, one cantankerous creditor saw fit to be malignant. Perhaps you have met tha... ...t, you know, it had flavour. I had a coffee-pot, a sauce-pan for eggs, and one for potatoes, and a frying-pan for sausages and bacon—such was the simp... ...ast by accident, when Mr. Cavor least expected it. He had fused together a number of metals and certain other things—I wish I knew the particu- lars n... ...here!” “Is there time?” “We shall be an hour.” I looked out. It was an old number of Tit-Bits that one of the men must have brought. Farther away in t... ...hin the sphere, but the shape of the open window was marked by an infinite number of stars. Those who have only seen the starry sky from the earth can...

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...arine Prescott Wormeley Dedication To Constance-Victoire. Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pl... ...esent judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my pleasure, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as t... ...ious questions,—questions which ought to be kept out of it for the sake of one so pious as yourself; and also because of what a great writer has latel... ...in matters of religion.” May the double signification of your names be for my book a prophecy! Deign to find here the respectful grati- tude of him wh... ...ages, like that described in “Fame and Sorrow” (Scenes from Private Life), one or two specimens of which exist to the present day; some- times a house... ...” Made- moiselle Thuillier said one day; “but I am thinking of invest- ing my savings in a way that will cut out work for him. Yes; it will be somethi... ... He had taken his degree about five years earlier, and had kept the proper number of terms to become a barrister. Circumstances, however, about which ... ...lence my ambition. Knowing myself at the bot- tom of the bag like the last number in a family lottery, I can only offer you my arm and not my heart. I... ...on me, fair lady,” began Thuillier, twisting his body, and pausing in pose number two of his imperial repertory, “for having allowed this invitation t...

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... Mniszech: Some envious being may think on seeing this page illustrated by one of the most illustrious of Sarmatian names, that I am striving, as the ... ... you and a few others, dear count, will know that I am only seeking to pay my debt to T alent, Memory, and Friend- ship. CHAPTER I A CHURCH SCENE OF T... ...not yet finished) the deepest obscurity prevailed. Neverthe- less a goodly number of tapers were burning in honor of the saints on the triangular cand... ...risk of being called a bad Catholic. On which, a nobleman, leaning against one of the enormous columns that surround the choir, hastened to take posse... ... to the heart and pierced it. But the stranger, carried away, no doubt, by one of those paroxysms of passion which stifle conscience, remained in his ... ...eeing no one to distrust, he said to his wife:— “What are you thinking of, my dear?” “The smell of the incense turns me sick,” she replied. “It is par... ...n, silenced by a difficulty he had not foreseen. “Why did you tear me from my husband?” she asked in a sort of terror. 10 Maitre Cornelius “Alas!” sa... ...orses towards the end of the street. The crowd, seeing one or two of their number knocked down by the horses and trampled 36 Maitre Cornelius on, and...