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...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighboring islands, which are so small upon the Map a...

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Excerpt: Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens.

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...Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Pictures from ... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Th... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Porta... ...nting them out, severally, with a wand. There was a cen tre puppet of the Virgin Mary; and close to her, a small pi geon hole, out of which another ... ...sities, ancient frames of carved wood, old chairs, ghostly tables, saints, virgins, angels, and staring daubs of portraits, being exposed for sale ben... ...rtified heights, of the beautiful Mediterranean, with its lovely rocks and islands, is most delightful. These heights are a desirable retreat, for les... ...e on, nothing daunted, proceeded to entertain him with an ordinance of the British Government, regulating the state he should preserve, and the furnit... ...uld gaze upon the favourite comic scene of the travelling English, where a British nobleman (Lord John), with a very loose stomach: dressed in a blue ... ...y was just declining, when we came upon the Lago Maggiore, with its lovely islands. For how ever fanciful and fantastic the Isola Bella may be, and i...

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...American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American... ...American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes f... ...tronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Porta... ...or an answer. ‘Yes. Every house without a signal will be fired upon by the British troops. No harm will be done to the others. No harm at all. Those t... ... journeys, and making for the broad sea. Beyond, were shining heights, and islands in the glancing river, and a distance scarcely less blue and bright... ...try at home, as the distinguished gentleman who is now its Minister at the British Court sustains its highest character abroad. I visited both houses ... ...mpany, in a new chapter. CHAPTER IX —A NIGHT STEAMER ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. VIRGINIA ROAD, AND A BLACK DRIVER. RICHMOND. BALTIMORE. THE HARRISBURG MAIL... ...ng away; the sheds are patched and half roofless; the log cabins (built in Virginia with external chimneys made of clay or wood) are squalid in the la... ...anging James River; a sparkling stream, studded here and there with bright islands, or brawling over broken rocks. Although it was yet but the middle ...

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...House, Volume Two, Containing Chapters Thirty five through Sixty seven by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...olume Two, Containing Chapters Thirty five through Sixty seven by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...House, Volume Two, Containing Chapters Thirty five through Sixty seven by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics S... ...olume Two, Containing Chapters Thirty five through Sixty seven by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series , ... ...a word with you?” Mr. Guppy is engaged in collecting the Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty from the wall and depositing those works of art in their old... ...f Volumnia, in high heeled shoes, very like her—casting the shadow of that virgin event before her full two centuries—shoots out into a halo and becom... ...ter for the national glory even that the sun should sometimes set upon the British dominions than that it should ever rise upon so vile a wonder as To... ...ter meadows are fresh and green, and the stream sparkles on among pleasant islands, murmuring weirs, and whispering rushes; not only does the stillnes...

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...OUR MUTUAL FRIEND Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Our Mutual Fri... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ...olybius (pronounced Polly Beeious, and supposed by Mr Boffin to be a Roman virgin, and by Mrs Boffin to be responsible for that necessity of dropping ... ...mentary flare out of the candle, as that the ba- bies—Hindoo, African, and British—the ‘human warious’, the French gentleman, the green glass-eyed cat... ...ursued Mr Podsnap, with dignity , ‘Many Evidences that Strike Y ou, of our British Constitution in the Streets Of The World’s Metropolis, London, Lond... ...ere the sun was setting, she may have had some vaporous visions of far-off islands in 350 Our Mutual Friend the southern seas or elsewhere (not being...

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...Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens Volume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Dombe... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Dombey & Son Volume 1 by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. T... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication Dombey & Son Volume 1 by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Port... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dombey & Son Volume 1 by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ...is painful duty to bully him if he did, ‘that is known and honoured in the British possessions abroad. It is a name, Sir, that a man is proud to recog... ... interest in Paul, Major,’ returned Mr Dombey on behalf of that blush- ing virgin. ‘Damme Sir,’ said the Major, ‘I’m jealous of my little friend. I’m ... ...tle friend, and bring him quickly for- ward, I daresay. I daresay. Quite a virgin soil, I believe you said, Mr Dombey?’ ‘Except some ordinary preparat... ... be glad to leave him, though I was going to be made Gover- nor of all the Islands in the West Indies, that’s enough. I’m a fixture.’ ‘W al’r, my lad,... ...od as incessantly leaving cards at Mr Dombey’s door. No taxgatherer in the British Dominions—that wide- spread territory on which the sun never sets, ...

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