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...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...nally, they got married after the abdication, in France. Though Simpson became the Duchess of Windsor, she could not be addressed as "Her Royal Hig... ... years after the birth of Abraham. Why do the Bible call it Ur Kasdim? Abraham's family are described as pastoral nomads. Wandering shepherds rar... ...d to allow his body onto its soil. It took 12 years of constant petitioning by the family to let his remains be interred in the country that he hel... ....com/euthanasia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_vegetative_state Corset Catherine de Médicis, wife of King Henri II of France, hated the... ...and his mother wanted him to become a farmer. He was admitted to Trinity College at Cambridge as a "subsizar" - i.e., on condition that he performs ... ...ll at an early age. He was involved in a palace coup against Peter III, husband of Catherine the Great, whose lover Potemkin was rumored to have be...

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...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroe...

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...Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray “Catherine” A Story by Ikey Solomons, Esq., Junior. A Penn State Electronic ... ...lomons, Esq., Junior. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the P... ...cation Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. 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... ...ressed a long- ing to fire off one of the pistols in the holsters. As this family discussion was taking place, the gentlemen whose appearance had crea... ...well- grown girl, under encouraging circumstances—say, she is pretty, in a family of ugly elder sisters, or an only child and heiress, or a humble wen... ...n- ger, as it were, by the spectacle. I can recollect, when I was a gyp at Cambridge, that the “men” used to have breakfast- 105 Thackeray parties fo... ...er,” says he; “and I’m blessed if Polly Briggs shall not look as fine as a duchess.” “Polly Briggs is a low slut, Tom, and not fit for the likes of yo... ... ing. Y ou have been talking for an hour about the Regent’s death, and the Duchess of Phalaris, and sly old Fleury, and what not; and I care just as m...

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...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 glorious as the u...

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.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

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...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. 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... ...ar marked “Only 6 1/2d.”—That catty box, on which was the epigraph “Strong Family Congo only 3s. 9d,” was from the country of Confutzee—that heap of d... ...e True and Beautiful, has retired from business to the pastoral village in Cambridgeshire from which the noble Barnwells came. George’s cousin Annabel... ...he world—in all the cities of mankind there is One Home whither men of one family may resort. Over the entire world spreads a vast brotherhood, suffer... ...e?” asked the crowds who panted along the shore, encouraging, according to Cambridge wont, the efforts of the oarsmen in the race. Town and Gown alike... ...” “To wed the abominable Cambaceres!” I cried, stung with rage. “To wear a duchess’s coronet, Blanche! Ha, ha! Mush- rooms, instead of strawberry-leav... ...do battle against him, he was proclaimed the conqueror, and rode up to the duchess’s balcony to receive the gold chain which was the reward of the vic...

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...Preface: No one can be more sensible than is the Author that the present is an overgrown book of a nondescript class, neither the ?tale? for the young, nor the novel for their elders, but a mixture of both....

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...on The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. 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... ... here presented to those who have already made acquain- tance with the May family, and may be willing to see more of them. It would beg to be consider... ...e of them. It would beg to be considered merely as what it calls itself, a Family Chronicle—a domestic record of home events, large and small, during ... ... found he knew my old friend, Benson, whom I had not seen since we were at Cambridge together, and we got on that and other matters; London people hav... ...eir brothers called her—so droll of them—but Harvey called her a stuck- up duchess. In fact, it was the fashion to make a great deal of those Mays.” “... ... wave spread; And let it wear the graceful dress Of unadorned simpleness. —Catherine Fanshaw’s ‘Parody on Grey’. NOTHING transpired to the discredit o... ...ts, and he told stories of frolics that reminded Ethel of her father’s old Cambridge adventures. He was a new variety in her eyes, and entertained her... ...over- dose of nonsense, and made her believe, as Meta really did, that the Duchess Sarah was his model woman; for as they walked in the park in search...

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...s Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...poor Tom Fool, yonder behind the waggon, mumbling his bone with the honest family which lives by his tumbling; but the general impression is one more ... ...te of Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing har- ness, driven by a fat coa... ...nd rage in his soul (for he had promised the box to a young gentleman from Cambridge, who would have given a crown to a certainty), and Miss Sharp was... ...ght be said to be carrying her into the wide world. How the young man from Cambridge sulkily put his five great- coats in front; but was reconciled wh... ... merit had its reward you ought to be a Duch- ess—no, there ought to be no duchesses at all—but you ought to have no superior, and I consider you, my ... ...res regarding this female correspondent of Osborne’s—opining that it was a Duchess in London who was in love with him—or that it was a General’s daugh... ...he Court, while hampers of the cordons and decorations of the Wheel of St. Catherine of Schlippenschloppen were brought to ours. The French envoy got ...

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...cs Series Publication Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. 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... ...hing ridiculous. The evening altogether passed off pleasantly to the whole family. Mrs. Bennet had seen her eldest daughter much ad- mired by the Neth... ...ed to Miss Bingley as the most accomplished girl in the neighbourhood; and Catherine and Lydia had been fortunate enough never to be without partners,... ...think well of themselves, and meanly of others. They were of a respectable family in the north of England; a cir- cumstance more deeply impressed on t... ...nd to a milliner’s shop just over the way. The two youngest of the family, Catherine and Lydia, were particularly frequent in these attentions; their ... ... Catherine, that her 55 Jane Austen charming daughter seemed born to be a duchess, and that the most elevated rank, instead of giving her consequence... ...e liberally bestowed. My father supported him at school, and afterwards at Cambridge— most important assistance, as his own father, always poor from t...

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...Excerpt: Chapter I; IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that h...

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...Table of Contents: I 1 -- I 3 -- II 6 -- III 8 -- IV 12 -- V 15 -- VI 18 -- VII 24 -- VIII 29 -- IX 34 -- X 39 -- XI 45 -- XII 49 -- XIII 51 -- XIV 55 -- XV 58...

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...ter I I T IS A TRUTH universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the ... ...fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth i... ...ny thing ridiculous. The evening altogether passed off pleasantly to the whole family. Mrs. Bennet had seen her eldest daughter much admired by the Ne... ...tioned to Miss Bingley as the most accomplished girl in the neighbourhood; and Catherine and Lydia had been fortunate enough to be never without partn... ... to think well of themselves, and meanly of others. They were of a respectable family in the north of England; a circumstance more deeply impressed on... ...nt and to a milliner’s shop just over the way. The two youngest of the family, Catherine and Lydia, were particularly frequent in these attentions; th... ...nce observed to Lady Catherine, that her charming daughter seemed born to be a duchess, and that the most elevated rank, instead of giving her consequ... ...efore liberally bestowed. My father supported him at school, and afterwards at Cambridge; — most impor tant assistance, as his own father, always poo...

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...Preface: When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. In the present case, it is scarcely necessary...

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... Series Publication The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. 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... ...footsteps, and two young people entered the hall; the first a girl, with a family likeness to Malcolm, but tall, upright, beautiful, and with the rich... ...ency enabled the House of Albany to exercise over the orphans of the royal family, whose head was absent; and a captive knight could be no mischievous... ... France, and his romantic passion had fixed itself on her younger sis- ter Catherine, whom he endowed in imagination with all he had seen or supposed ... ...l friendship. Moreover, that conspiracy which cost the life of the Earl of Cambridge had taught James that cautious reserve was needed in dealing with... ...ired, with a creamy ivory skin, and fault- less form and feature, the fair Catherine would have been unmistakable, save that as Henry hurried forward,... ...n were—Jaqueline, the runaway Count- ess of Hainault in her own right, and Duchess of Brabant by marriage; Humfrey, duke of Gloucester, the King’s you... ... of blood and revelry. The Duke of Brabant was all for him, and so was the Duchess-mother; and though my uncles would not have chosen him, yet they du...

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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. Irela...

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...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sity. 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 ... ...mans by his false and base stepmother: and they car ried him, and all his family, in triumph to Rome. But a great man will be great in misfortune, gr... ...ched the Roman people who thronged the streets to see him, that he and his family were restored to freedom. No one knows whether his great heart broke... ... this time, what they called a Camp of Refuge, in the midst of the fens of Cambridgeshire. Protected by those marshy grounds which were difficult of a... ... his royal visitor. While the King conversed in a friendly manner with the Duchess, the Duke was quietly seized, hurried away, shipped for Calais, and... ... large amount of French territory, and to demanding the French prin cess, Catherine, in marriage, with a fortune of two millions of golden crowns. He... ...al that day, could not come; but the Queen came, and with her the Princess Catherine: who was a very lovely creature, and who made a real impression o... ...erson whom the doll was made to represent, was sure to happen. Whether the duchess was as ignorant as the rest of them, and really did make such a dol...

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...y-one through Sixty-seven) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...e charming Madame Ravdonn Cravley. Messieurs de Truffigny (of the Perigord family) and Champignac, both attaches of the Embassy, were straightway smit... ... like. When the Countess of Fitz-Willis (her Ladyship is of the Kingstreet family, see Debrett and Burke) takes up a person, he or she is safe. There ... ...g, &c. After dinner Mrs. Crawley had an assembly which was attended by the Duchess (Dowager) of Stilton, Duc de la Gruyere, Mar- chioness of Cheshire,... ...f his generosity and greatness of mind whilst living with her; how a Royal Duchess had stopped and ad- mired him in Kensington Gardens; how splendidly... ...odigiously polite to the young ladies on board, whom, on the contrary, the Cambridge lads and their pale-faced tutor avoided with maiden coyness; ther... ...he Court, while hampers of the cordons and decorations of the Wheel of St. Catherine of Schlippenschloppen were brought to ours. The French envoy got ... ... was dying of weariness, when, luckily for her, young Mr. Eagles came from Cambridge, and his mother, seeing the impression which her little friend ma...

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...Excerpt: Phase the First; The Maiden -- I -- On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inc...

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...Table of Contents: Phase the First ? The Maiden, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 5 -- III, 10 -- IV, 16 -- V, 24 -- VI, 32 -- VII, 36 -- VIII, 39 -- IX, 43 -- X, 48 -- XI, 55 -- Phase the Second? Maiden No More, 61 -- XII, 61 -- XIII, 68 -- XIV, ...

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...Tess of the d’Urbervilles THOMAS HARDY 1891 Based on the Wessex Edition of 1912 Contents Phase the First — The Maiden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... Maiden 1 Phase the First — The Maiden I O n an evening in the latter part of May a middle aged man was walking home ward from Shaston to the village... ...eyfield, that you are the lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of the d’Urbervilles, who derive their descent from Sir Pagan d’Urbe... ...tremavilla in Normandy in his conquest of Glamorganshire. Branches of your family held manors over all this part of England; their names appear in the... ...u should ha’ seen how pretty she looked to day; her skin is as sumple as a duchess’s.’ ‘What says the maid herself to going?’ ‘I’ve not asked her. She... ...gel were not going to enter the church, what was the use of sending him to Cambridge? The University as a step to anything but ordination seemed, to t... ...ory of man, father.’ Perhaps if Angel had persevered he might have gone to Cambridge like his brothers. But the Vicar’s view of that seat of learning ... ... his dole of bread and ale. Behind the city swept the rotund upland of St. Catherine’s Hill; further off, landscape beyond landscape, till the horizon...

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...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A crisis had been reached, a...

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...ics Series Publication Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. 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... ...widow ladies who lived in the Morningside Park Avenue, there was a certain family of alien sympathies and artistic quality, the Widgetts, with which A... ...iterature at home. It was a cheerful, irre- sponsible, shamelessly hard-up family in the key of faded green and flattened purple, and the girls went o... ... whipped out to hand Miss Stanley to the platform as though she had been a duchess, and she descended as though such attentions from middle-aged, but ... ...d it, WE can’t. We can’t afford to turn our women, our Madonnas, our Saint Catherines, our Mona Lisas, our goddesses and angels and fairy princesses, ... ...f mutual criticism was going on now between the Im- perial College and the Cambridge Mendelians and echoed in the lectures. From beginning to end it w...

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...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...

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...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...sity. 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... ...tradition of an act of somewhat the same character sur- vived in a Slesvig family, now extinct. It was during the wars that ranged from 1652 to 1660, ... ...giving him as armorial bearings a wooden bottle pierced with an arrow! The family only lately became extinct in the person of an old maiden lady. HO H... ... page named Walter Straiton. There was no bar to the door. Yes, there was. Catherine Douglas, worthy of her name, worthy of the cognizance of the blee... ...nd violence do but enhance the loyal self-sacrifice of such doorkeepers as Catherine Douglas, Madame Auguier, or M. de Miomandre. ‘Such deeds can woma... ..., whose Christian name he bore. He had been in her Essex’s expedi- tion to Cambridge, and had afterwards served in the Low Countries, under Prince Mau... ...ne, 1837, during the illuminations at the wedding festival of the Duke and Duchess of Orleans, one of those frightful crushes that sometimes occur in ... ...r course of deserting the cause of their King and country. ‘Yes,’ said the Duchess de Donnissan, mother to the young wife of the Marquis de Lescure, ‘...

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...Excerpt: In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London -- perhaps in the neighborhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens--there was once a house of entertainment called the ?Bootjack Hotel.? Mr. Crump, the landlor...

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...roods, or Developments Unlooked For by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. 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... ...ill have a fall, poor dears!” “And it does not come from their side of the family,” said Mrs. Best. “Of course not! And it was wholly unexpected, was ... ...Are they here?” “Yes, poor Fred did not make his art succeed when he had a family to provide for, and he is the head of the Art School here. His son h... ...! T o which College? I have a daughter at Oxford, and a niece just leaving Cambridge. Such is our lot in these days. No, not this one, but her elder s... ...s seeing whether her dear Merrifields do,” said Paula. “Gillian did at St. Catherine’s. But you will know soon. Did I not hear something about a garde... ... coaxing ways. Her uncle is wrapped up in her, and so proud of her being a Duchess that he would condone anything. Indeed, I am always afraid of her p...

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...The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James A PENN STAT... ...Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...en spiritual heat. “Of the deplorably superficial morality of the age. The family sentiment, in our vulgarised brutalised life, has gone utterly to po... ...as well as your chance, if you’re capable of seeing it, is to use me. Show family feeling by seeing what I’m good for. If you had it as I have it you’... ...me round, he had come back, he insisted abundantly, to being a Briton: his Cambridge years, his happy connexion, as it had proved, with his father’s c... ...tly possible.” “Oh you’ve been great”—Susie was perfectly fair. “A duke, a duchess, a princess, a palace: you’ve made me believe in them too. But wher... ... Shepherd had compared this portion of the girl’s excursion to the Empress Catherine’s famous progress across the steppes of Russia; improvised settle...

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...Introduction: Queen Elizabeth herself, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton....

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...Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner and Fragmenta Regalia by Sir Robert Nau... ...LECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner, and Fragmenta Rega- lia by Sir Robert ... ...h notes by the translator and the editor. Sir Robert Naunton was of an old family with large estates, settled at Alderton, in Suffolk. He was at Cambr... ... old family with large estates, settled at Alderton, in Suffolk. He was at Cambridge in the latter years of Elizabeth’s reign, having entered as Fello... ... Christopher Hatton, son of William, grandson of John, of the most ancient family of the Hattons; one of the fifty gentlemen pensioners to Her Majesty... ... the style of King of Castile and Leon. She brought him one only daughter, Catherine, of whom, by Henry, are descended the Kings of Spain. His third w... ...e, of whom, by Henry, are descended the Kings of Spain. His third wife was Catherine, of a knight’s family, a woman of great beauty, by whom he had a ... ...r of Edward III. Upon another tomb is an honorary inscription for Frances, Duchess of Suffolk. The sense of it is, That titles, royal birth, riches, o... ... ancient extract of the Bartewes, but more ennobled by his mother, who was Duchess of Suffolk. He was a great master of the art military, and was sent...

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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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...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... ...s vir- tuous in itself, as attended by any other consequences than a large family and fortune. To hint that Burns’s marriage had an evil influence is,... ...ghly just in the general; that the bread that we eat, and the quiet of the family, and all that embellishes life and makes it worth having, have to be... ...carcely ever met any man whose conversation displayed greater vigour;” the Duchess of Gordon declared that he “carried her off her feet;” and, when he... ...ter was “agog with the ploughman poet.” Robertson, Dugald Stewart, Blair, “Duchess Gordon and all the gay world,” were of his acquaintance. Such a rev... ...int Benoit. Three of the most remarkable among his early acquaintances are Catherine de Vausselles, for whom he entertained a short- lived affection a... ...iate neighbourhood of the cloister. M. Longnon is almost ready to identify Catherine as the niece of Pierre; Regnier as the nephew of Etienne, and Col... ...till remembering Magdalene ale and his acquaintance with Mrs. Ainsworth of Cambridge. But youth is a hot sea- son with all; when a man smells April an...

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...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 with matters which were of gr...

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........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...

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