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...ssics Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...the very pink of general propitiation and politeness. From a long habit of listening admiringly to everything that was said in her presence, and looki... ...s time you roused yourself a little? Eh?’ She bent her ear to the bed, and listened: at the same time 14 Dombey & Son looking round at the bystanders... ...ts. Bell-handles, window-blinds, and looking- glasses, being papered up in journals, daily and weekly, ob- truded fragmentary accounts of deaths and d... ...You can let her come and go without regarding me.’ The child shrunk as she listened—and was gone, before her humble friend looked round again. However... ...s relation. There were railway patterns in its drapers’ shops, and railway journals in the windows of its newsmen. There were railway hotels, of- fice... ...face, and went out thoughtfully to buy some neces- saries for their table, planning and conniving, as she went, how to save. So sordid are the lives o...

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...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development an...

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... SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... of fluctuating legislation, this committee, except for an extremely short list of absolute prohibitions, would decide to leave matters almost exactly... ...u will add “sanity.” And the reader of Mr. Archdall Reid will round up the list with “immunity” from dipsoma- nia and all contagious diseases. “Let us... ...uld not marry” for “should not procreate,” and he gives the following as a list of “bars to marriage”: pulmonary consumption, organic heart disease, e... ...ons of the child to “nature,” art, and literature. To read the educational journals, to hear the scholastic enthusi- ast, one would think that no huma... ... class of boys at present demands so much special thought, so much private planning, so much sheer toil on the part of the teacher, that it becomes pr... ...or jealousy are to be tampered with lightly. We are making men, we are not planning a society of regulated slaves; we want fine upstanding personaliti...

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from h...

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...cs Series Publication Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...s a mark of esteem for his valuable services ren- dered to the parish. The list of subscriptions was filled up in no time; the contest was, not who sh... ...lady, who resided in our parish long before our name was registered in the list of baptisms. Our parish is a suburban one, and the old lady lives in a... ... the passage, waiting for their weekly gratuity. Her name always heads the list of any benevolent subscriptions, and hers are always the most liberal ... ...dvo- cates the repeal of the stamp duty on newspapers, be- cause the daily journals who now have a monopoly of the public, never give verbatim reports... ...the strangest confu- sion. He was always making something for somebody, or planning some party of pleasure, which was his great forte. He invariably s...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown o...

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...the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch h...

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...sics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... prolonged the strain until the door clashed. Monsieur Rigaud, finding the listening John Baptist in his way before the echoes had ceased (even the ec... ...Dorrit the grate and tried to shake it, leaped down and ran, leaped up and listened, and never rested until the noise, becoming more and more distant,... ...he couch. ‘Good-bye!’ said Mr Meagles. ‘This is the last good-bye upon the list, for Mother and I have just said it to Mr Clennam here, and he only wa... ...id the poor little anxious Child of the Marshalsea, always calculating and planning for Tip, in the front rank of her charges. ‘I am so tired of it,’ ... ... had been mentioned at the Daybreak, she remarked, on the authority of the journals, that he had been kept in prison for his own safety. However that ... ...e must have Dan here. Now, I tell you, my love, it’s of no use writing and planning and conditionally speculating upon this and that and the other, at...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov. Alexy Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its p...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religio...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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...the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch h...

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...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks it...

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...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...s. What more natural than that they should be disposed to exclude from the lists such dangerous competitors? This branch of trade ought not to be cons... ...ates are united under one government, there will be but one national civil list to support; if they are divided into several confederacies, there will... ...into several confederacies, there will be as many different national civil lists to be provided for—and each of them, as to the principal de- partment... ...s in general characterized the proceedings of Congress? A perusal of their journals, as well as the candid acknowledgments of such as have had a seat ... ...tracy. Men often oppose a thing, merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike... ...tracy. Men often oppose a thing, merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike...

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...NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ............................................................................

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...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James 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... ...ing as they were vis- iting our land. It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk. The contrary habit, of talking whilst the... ...st the Europeans talk. The contrary habit, of talking whilst the Europeans listen, we have not yet acquired; and in him who first makes the adven- tur... ... docu- ments that will make a more delectable and curious entertainment to listen to than mine. Yet I doubt whether he will necessarily, by his contro... ... and carnal company, and was enabled to forsake them.”[120] [120] Life and Journals, Boston, 1806, pp. 31-40, abridged. 217 William James Young Mr. A... ... conviction they may them- selves possess. In short, you suspect that I am planning to defend feeling at the expense of reason, to rehabilitate the pr... ...mense literature relating to answers to petitional prayer. The evangelical journals are filled with such answers, and books are devoted to the sub- je...