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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... ...e Dove by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...e of any kind. Any per- son 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 Wings of the Dove by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ject to a decent compactness. For already, from an early stage, it had be- gun richly to people itself: the difficulty was to see whom the situation I... ...fteen or twenty weeks to America. The idea of a series of letters from the United States from the strictly social point of view had for some time been... ...ect up—that was just what they wanted; and it would take more than all the United States together, visit them each as he might, to let him down. It wa... ...state of uplifted and unlimited possession that had noth- ing to gain from violence. She was looking down on the kingdoms of the earth, and though ind... ...t dropped the form of stating, of explaining, and threw herself, with- out violence, only with a supreme pointless quaver that had turned the next ins...

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...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck...

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...y received. There was no opening to nominate him for Superintendent of Public Instruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legislature? It seems to me he would be hard to beat. What objection could be made to hi...

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...Excerpt: An Ambuscade. Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on...

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Excerpt: The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper.

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...Excerpt: How he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so ...

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Excerpt: Predictions for the year 1708. Wherein the month, and day of the month are set down, the persons named, and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from b...

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