Description Details
...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic ...

Table of Contents Details
...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans ...

Full Text Search Details
... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ht January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and ... ...09 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the titl... ...tness Chapter One: The Universe 1 How the Universe Came into Being. In order to understand how the Big Bang happened, some basic facts must be... ...ad. The concept of a metal that is yellow being sacred and reserved only for royal use; comes from our seeing the dirty yellow color of lions stan... ... second ball. Then Tennis would for once become a gentleman’s game, and a ladies’ game… where two people trade shots only for the purpose of ke... ...ed, pre-eminent scientist ever born? The very fact that Science has glorified Albert Einstein to the point of sainthood speaks of their utter evilne... ... phonographs: obediently listening to the voice of his master. Just as Queen Victoria was listened to by the entire British Empire. Class racism. ...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

Table of Contents Details
...Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom?s early life. III. Tom?s meeting with the Prince. IV. The Prince?s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The...

Full Text Search Details
... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Tw... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (Samuel... ...tronic Classics Series Publication The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State Universi... ...e. IV. The Prince’s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom’s first royal dinner. VIII. The question of... ...f Wales, who lay lapped in silks and sat- ins, unconscious of all this fuss, and not knowing that great lords and ladies were tending him and watching... ...ent in them. All Offal Court was just such another hive as Canty’s house. Drunkenness, riot and brawling were the order, there, every night and nearly... ...and pass in procession, the bowing to the Governors being curiously formal. This spectacle was witnessed by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1845. ... ...on, the bowing to the Governors being curiously formal. This spectacle was witnessed by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1845. Among the more emine...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Landfall and departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman?s life and of a ship?s career. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The ...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents: I. Landfalls and Departures IV. Emblems of Hope VII. The Fine Art X. Cobwebs and Gossamer XIII. The Weight of the Burden XVI. Overdue and Missing XX. The Grip of the Land XXII. The Character of the Foe XXV. Rules of East and West...

Full Text Search Details
... Sea by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...eph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ... away, the days, the weeks, the months. Nothing but a gale can disturb the orderly life of the ship; and the spell of unshaken monotony that seems to ... ... masters of the fine art. 28 The Mirror of the Sea Some of them were like Royal Academicians of a certain kind. They never startled you by a touch of... ...way, with its men-of-war moored in line, and the long wooden jetty of Port Victoria, with its few 90 The Mirror of the Sea low buildings like the beg... ...ze of smoke and dust. This stretch of the Thames from London Bridge to the Albert Docks is to other watersides of river ports what a virgin forest wou... ...ms of simple millionaires. Obviously it was a vain hope in 187- to see the ladies of a royal household walk in chequered sunshine, with bas- kets of l...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

Table of Contents Details
...................................................................................................................................................... 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE .....................................

Full Text Search Details
...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What ... ...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ... and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rsonal merit in it anywhere; it will all have come from the outside. The Victoria Cross breeds more heroes than— Y.M. Hang it, where is the sense in... ...k T wain 15 his life away, ungenerously leaving them to lifelong sorrow in order that he might stand well with a foolish world. In the then condition ... ...odging about in the midst of a great drawing room throng of finely dressed ladies and gentlemen, and wondering how I got there. And so on and so on, p... ...apter.” Four months later—almost to the day—(April 21st) he was with Jean. Albert Bigelow Paine. Stormfield, Christmas Eve, 11 A.M., 1909. What Is Ma... ...six of the Henrys cover 227 years. It might have been well to name all the royal princes Henry, but this was overlooked until it was too late. ( Image...

Full Text Search Details
... Classics Series Publication Vittoria by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...assics Series Publication Vittoria by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...and purple. You behold a burnished realm of mountain and plain beneath the royal sun of Italy. In the foreground it shines hard as the lines of an irr... ...c issue, the people of Italy first felt and acted as a nation, and Charles Albert, called the Sword of Italy, aspired, without compre- hension of the ... ...na was a fighting soldier, who stated what he knew, listened, and took his orders. Giulio Bandinelli was also little better than the lieutenant in an ... ...es said that the Englishman should not meet you yet, if he could help it.” Victoria stood brooding. “Who can it be,—who is an En- glishman, and an Aus... ...d descried the advanced troop of a pro- cession of gravely-heated climbers ladies upon donkeys, and pedestrian guards stalking beside them, with couri...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The War in the Air by H. G. Wells.

Full Text Search Details
...he Air by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...y dropped as ballase. Some of the plants was broke, and some was buried.” “Ladies, they say, goes up!” “I suppose we got to call ‘em ladies,” said Mr ... ...l mischief began when Brennan sprang his gyroscopic mono-rail car upon the Royal Society. It was the leading sen- sation of the 1907 soirees; that cel... ...fy this supposition by the use of the submarine crawler invented by Doctor Alberto Cassini. By a happy mingling of reasoning and intuition peculiar to... ...ed tape! There are nations that will not fling away the empire of earth in order to slight an un- known man and insult a noble woman whose boots they ... ...an shore and the wreckage of hotels and houses and the fallen trees of the Victoria Park, pink now in the light of sundown. Not a human being was per...

Excerpt Details
...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...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED..................

Full Text Search Details
...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...on A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...r property by the Romans who were settled in England, she was scourged, by order of Catus a Roman officer; and her two daughters were shamefully insu... ... vast numbers slain in it. After that, he had a quiet reign; the lords and ladies about him had leisure to become polite and agreeable; and foreign pr... ... lovely girl of only seven teen or eighteen, to be stolen from one of the Royal Palaces, branded in the cheek with a red hot iron, and sold into sla... ...ear one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and reigned seven years. Queen Victoria, his niece, the only child of the Duke of Kent, the fourth son of ... ...e, one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven. She was married to Prince Albert of Saxe Gotha on the tenth of February, one thousand eight hundred a...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Sketches of Young Couples by Charles Dickens.

Full Text Search Details
... Sketches of Young Couples by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is fu... ... Sketches of Young Couples by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furni... ...nnsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ... THEIR FAITHFUL FELLOW SUBJECT, SHE WETH, — THAT Her Most Gracious Majesty, Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and... ...ploy the words — ‘It is my intention to ally myself in marriage with Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha.’ THAT the present is Bissextile, or Lea... ...ches of Young Couples Charles Dickens 3 filled the heads of divers young ladies in this Realm with certain new ideas destructive to the peace of m... ...es to the Exhibition of the Sketches of Young Couples Charles Dickens 11 Royal Academy; — but that is often more shocking than the stage itself, a... ...they should come down and taste the pudding. The friend turns pale when this order is given, and paler still when it is followed up by a great patter...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.

Full Text Search Details
...Worlds by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ar of the Worlds dows. Henderson went into the railway station at once, in order to telegraph the news to London. The newspaper ar- ticles had prepare... ...t there was altogether quite a considerable crowd—one or two gaily dressed ladies among the others. It was glaringly hot, not a cloud in the sky nor a... ... tall, fair-haired man that I afterwards learned was Stent, the Astronomer Royal, with several workmen wielding spades and pickaxes. Stent was giving ... ... wheel. He was dirty and white in the face. My brother turned down towards Victoria, and met a num- ber of such people. He had a vague idea that he mi... ...s a torrent of water that was rushing down from the waterworks towards the Albert Road), and emerged upon the grass before the rising of the sun. Grea...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at t...

Full Text Search Details
...e by Somerset Maugham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...s Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...h an elder sister, who had resigned herself content- edly to old age. T wo ladies, whom Philip did not know , were calling, and they looked at him cur... ...ecially seemed preposterous. Immediately after Mrs. Carey’s death Emma had ordered from the florist masses of white flowers 11 W. Somerset Maugham fo... ...outing at a foot- ball match, or from club windows in Pall Mall cheering a royal procession. It is because of them that man has been called a social a... ...he should become articled to a solicitor. They wrote to the family lawyer, Albert Nixon, who was co- executor with the Vicar of Blackstable for the la... ... Jones.” “Who was Ruskin anyway?” asked Flanagan. “He was one of the Great Victorians. He was a master of English style.” “Ruskin’s style—a thing of s...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: A Scandal in Bohemia; TO SHERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one...

Table of Contents Details
...Table of Contents: A Scandal in Bohemia, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 9 -- III, 18 -- The Red-headed League, 21 -- A Case of Identity, 41 -- The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 56 -- The Five Orange Pips, 77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The...

Full Text Search Details
... 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on issues of The Strand July 1891 through June 1892. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Contents... ...01 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on issues of The Strand July 1891 through June 1892. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Contents A ... ...ve seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emot... ...ed by someone who has very care lessly scraped round the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. Hence, you see, my double deductio... ...u upon a matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may safely be tr... ...k frockcoat, unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as an orn... ...ered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive who had known dad in the old days in Victoria.” “Ha! ln Victoria! That is important.” “Yes, at the mines.” “... ...nsists upon seeing me. She is waiting now in the sitting room. Now, when young ladies wander about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and kno...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: ?WHAT do you think she?d do if she caught us? We oughtn?t to have it, you know,? said Maisie. ?Beat me, and lock you up in your bedroom,? Dick answered, without hesitation. ?Have you got the cartridges?? ?Yes; they?re in my pocket, but they are joggling horribly. Do pin-fire cartridges go off of their own accord?? ?Don?t know. ...

Full Text Search Details
...ed by Rudyard Kipling A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...IES PUBLICATION The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...- thy, she gave him ridicule. The many hours that she could spare from the ordering of her small house she devoted to what she called the home-trainin... ...at I can do with the selvage. I don’t think there’s enough to pro- tect my royal body from the cold blast as it is. What are you doing with that everl... ...ntry,’ said Dick. ‘But where are we going?’ ‘Wait and see.’ The stopped at Victoria, and Dick sought tickets. For less than half the fraction of an in... ... the hearts of the gipsies of the sea— ‘Farewell and adieu to you, Spanish ladies, Farewell and adieu to you, ladies of Spain.’ Dick turned uneasily o... ...ed him to a friendly policeman, who led him to a four-wheeler opposite the Albert Hall. He never told Mr. Beeton of Alf’s forgetfulness, but … this wa...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells.

Full Text Search Details
...AVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...s that have had a kindred aspiration, have dreamt of a world of men better ordered, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful ... ...es near Bromstead Station. They were big clumsy residences in the earliest Victorian style, interminably high and with deep damp basements and downsta... ...and in railway and mine disasters and in the minutest domesticities of the Royal Family . Most of the books at home were my father’s, and I do not thi... ... me in these habiliments they seemed not so much books as confederated old ladies. My mother was also very punctual with her religious du- ties, and r... ...er rough tears by on a motor bicycle, and 201 H G Wells presently, on the Albert Embankment, every seat has its one or two outcasts huddled together ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-...

Full Text Search Details
...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...use was not large it had, like all houses on Floral Heights, an altogether royal bathroom of porce- lain and glazed tile and metal sleek as silver. Th... ...re thin bars of gold. In them he was the modern business man; one who gave orders to clerks and drove a car and played occasional golf and was 10 Bab... ... they whooped back—Vergil Gunch, the coal- dealer, Sidney Finkelstein, the ladies’-ready-to-wear buyer for Parcher & Stein’s department-store, and Pro... ...can thought and originality to-day? Why, the fellow that writes the Prince Albert Tobacco ads! Just listen to this: It’s P.A. that jams such joy in ji... ...our permission to go with me? You act like you were a combination of Queen Victoria and Cleopatra. You fool, can’t you see how people snicker at you, ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of s...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE..........................................

Full Text Search Details
...es Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...is suddenly revealed. But how shall this be conveyed and made palpable? In order that a new world may step in, this world must for a time disappear. T... ...e plagiarism from hints that I threw out! Besides, his style is as hard as Albert Durer, and as coarse as Fuseli.” Many thought that this was mere jea... ...s court, at Chinon: and here came her first trial. She was to find out the royal personage amongst the whole ark of clean and unclean creatures. Faili... ... the oracle within had told her, would ruin France. Our own sovereign lady Victoria rehearses annually a trial not so severe in degree, but the same i... ... a theatre, everything that goes on within the carriage. It contains three ladies, one likely to be “mama,” and two of seventeen or eighteen, who are ...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

Full Text Search Details
...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Clas... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ages, all spent a good deal of time to- gether, and it was not unusual for ladies to go a great part of the circuit with their husbands, especially wh... ...hile they anticipate ‘Montem.’ That of 1838 was a brilliant one, for Queen Victoria, then only nineteen, and her first year of sovereignty not yet ac-... ...om the Castle to be driven in an open carriage to Salt Hill and bestow her Royal contribution. In the throng little Patteson was pressed up so close t... ...h the Eton and Royal arms in the middle, and “Gratulatur Etona Victoria et Alberto” It cost £150, and there were 5,000 lamps hung on it. Throughout th... ...school. His cheerfulness and good- ness were the surest guarantee for good order amongst his schoolfellows. There was no Puritanism in him, he was up ...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Young Folks? History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge.

Table of Contents Details
...Contents Young Folks? History of England ..................................... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418........

Full Text Search Details
...te M. Yonge A Penn State Classics Series Publication Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... .......................................................... 128 CHAPTER XLVIII VICTORIA. A.D. 1837—1855 ..................................................... ...bade his friend fling his sword into the river, and that then three lovely ladies came in a boat, and carried him away to a secret island. The Welsh k... ... used to build their abbeys by some forest or marsh, and bring it all into order, turning the wild place into fields, full of wheat. Others used to co... ...r of Malcolm Greathead, King of Scotland, and of a lady of the old English royal line. They loved her greatly, and called her good Queen Maude. Robert... ...p from her throne to help him. Three years later she was married to Prince Albert of Saxe- Coburg, a most excellent men, who made it his whole busi- n...

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 glori...

Table of Contents Details
................ 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL.............................................................................................................. 9 THE CONDEMNED CELL. ..............................................................................................................12 CODLINGSBY ....................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...h its private freight; the brisk curricle of the letter- carrier, robed in royal scarlet: these and a thousand others were laboring and pressing onwar... ...e savage Mohock? The whole town is in tears about the good knight; all the ladies at Church this afternoon were in mourning; all the booksellers are w... ...e was luckily bomb-proof, and the detach- ment of the Onety-oneth under my orders suffered compara- tively little. “Be cool, boys,” I said; “it will b... ...y. The three-and-twenty young- est Princes of England, sons of her Majesty Victoria, had en- livened the balls by their presence; the Emperor of Russi... ...rt, and a—hupp! which made all his horses stop stock-still at an instant. “Albert!” screamed my dear Jemmy: “Albert! Bahbahbah— baron!” The Sarmatian ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: ?Dearest Meg, ?It isn?t going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and altogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroom or drawing-room....

Full Text Search Details
... Classics Series Publication Howards End by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...assics Series Publication Howards End by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ase—was strong in Mrs. Munt. She sat quivering while a member of the lower orders deposited a metal funnel, a sauce- pan, and a garden squirt beside t... ...o his rooms some midnight or other and steal his walk- ing-stick too. Most ladies would have laughed, but Margaret really minded, for it gave her a gl... ...Do you go there much?” “When my work permits, I attend the gallery for the Royal Opera.” Helen would have exclaimed, “So do I. I love the gallery,” an... ...ve you another example. It’ll shock you, but I don’t care. Sup- pose Queen Victoria gave a dinner-party, and that the guests had been Leighton, Millai... ...ue. Only once had it quickened— when speaking of Howards End. “Charles and Albert Fussell have known one an- other some time. They belong to the same ...

Full Text Search Details
...sics Series Publication Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...s Series Publication Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ear. She is no doubt as clean as she can afford to be; but compared to the ladies she is very dirty. Her features are no worse than theirs; but their ... ... elocution] Oh, indeed! I’m mad, am I? Very well, Mrs. Pearce: you needn’t order the new clothes for her. Throw her out. LIZA [whimpering] Nah—ow. You... ...t until Eliza comes? MRS. HIGGINS. Henry: you are the life and soul of the Royal Society’s soirees; but really you’re rather trying on more commonplac... ...strong. CLARA [all smiles] I will. Good-bye. Such nonsense, all this early Victorian prudery! HIGGINS [tempting her] Such damned nonsense! CLARA. Such... ...p is in the arcade of a railway station not very far from the Victoria and Albert Museum; and if you live in that neighborhood you may go there any da...

Full Text Search Details
...Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...yl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...nt where I could se- cure and eat ginger-cakes in the way that I saw those ladies doing. Of course as the war was prolonged the white people, in many ... ...those held in bondage was a result of their kindly and generous nature. In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the pla... ...ncluding an invocation from Bishop Nelson, of Georgia, a dedicatory ode by Albert Howell, Jr., and addresses by the President of the Exposition and Mr... ...lub. I was also the principal speaker at the Commencement exercises of the Royal College for the Blind. These exercises were held in the Crystal Palac... ...e International Congress of Women, then in session in London, to see Queen Victoria, at Windsor Castle, where, afterward, we were all the guests of he...