...r by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...ago, one of those shops which were scarcely changed from the period of the middle-ages. Large tiles seamed with a thousand cracks lay on the soil itse... ...ut on the rue de la Cite, the other on the rue de la Vieille-Poste. In the middle-ages no artisan was better lodged. The house had evidently belonged ... ...their corner pillar never failed (after 1799) to be wreathed with holly at Easter. In the summer season she was feted with bouquets kept fresh in tumb... ...ious duties, was hidden in the deepest secrecy and directed by the various rectors in the town, with whom Veronique had a full understanding in all he... ... which V eronique in her girlish youth had named the Ile de France. To the east the distance is closed by an ampitheatre of hills. The magic charm of ... ...that plainly showed the sovereign independence which the Church bestows on rectors in their parishes. But the feelings of the young abbe, far from ani... ...facts and medical observations, then the system practised in France in her technical schools is a fatal impairment and mutila- tion (in the style of L...

...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V... ... Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...av- ing been warned of the patron’s appointment, and having ‘received’ (in technical language) the presentee—that is, hav- ing formally recognised him... ... years hailed a very large section in that establishment—viz., the section technically known by the name of the Evangelical clergy—as brothers after t... ...ie through secret tribunals, like those of the dreadful Fehmgericht in the middle ages. It would be absurd, however, seriously to pur- sue these anti-... ...e Egyptian toilette, which were discovered in the cata- combs of Sahara in Middle Egypt, there was a single joint of a common reed containing an ounce... ... were, from the earliest times, a favorite ornament of the male sex in the East; and expressed the dignity of the wearer, as we see in the instances o... ...the conspicuous part which this reptile sustains in the mythologies of the East. From the earliest periods to which tradition ascends, serpents of var... ...as de Quincey national degradations inflicted by the imbecility of the Di- rectors, an appeal to the Assembly as Frenchmen, contrast- ing the glories ...

...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...................

...n Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott 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... ...r have anticipated a castle scarce less than that of Udolpho, of which the eastern wing had long been uninhabited, and the keys either lost, or consig... ... care of some aged butler or housekeeper, whose trembling steps, about the middle of the second vol- ume, were doomed to guide the hero, or heroine, t... ...th a set of subordinate characters from the elegantes of Queen Anne Street East, or the dashing heroes of the Bow Street Office? I could proceed in pr... ...leb! Caleb! Well, it was a shame to let poor Caleb starve, and so many fat rectors and squires among us. I gave him a dinner once a week; but, Lord lo... ...and why his memory, so alert upon most occasions, did not correctly retain technical phrases, and minute points of etiquette or field discipline. W av... ...ike a sibyl in frenzy out of one of these miserable cells, dashed into the middle of the path, and snatching up her own charge from among the sunburnt... ...partaking with their entertainer and his guest Captain Waverley, what they technically called deoch an doruis, a stir- rup-cup, to the honour of the B...

...e by Somerset Maugham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...ides of it, with heavy cur- tains of red rep; there was a big table in the middle; and at one end an imposing mahogany sideboard with a looking-glass ... ...or a dozen photographs. She was obliged to ask for a glass of water in the middle of the sitting; and the assistant, see- ing she was ill, suggested t... ...aid, “that’s the place where our blessed Lord was born.” She showed him an Eastern town with flat roofs and cupolas and minarets. In the foreground wa... ...opposite 39 W. Somerset Maugham page. It was a romantic narrative of some East- ern traveller of the thirties, pompous maybe, but fragrant with the e... ...grandfathers, great-grandfathers, had been educated there and had all been rectors of parishes in the diocese of Tercanbury; and they came to it with ... ...r picturesque attitude, made her an excellent sit- ter; and she had enough technical knowledge to offer useful criticisms. Since her passion for art w... ...ccuracy. That was nothing. He had 304 Of Human Bondage learned to despise technical dexterity. The im- portant thing was to feel in terms of paint. L...

...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad 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... .... The story of “The Schoo- ner with a Past” may be heard, from the Straits east- ward, with many variations. Out in the Pacific the schooner becomes a... ...emed stealthy and remote. There was about that figure the scent of the far East, like the peculiar atmo- sphere of a Mandarin’s back yard, and the mus... ... peculiar atmo- sphere of a Mandarin’s back yard, and the mustiness of the Middle Ages, that epoch when mankind tried to stand still in a monstrous il... ...out. The truth is that the Russia of our fathers, of our childhood, of our middle-age; the testamentary Rus- sia of Peter the Great—who imagined that ... ...yet gasping from a narrow escape should have, I wouldn’t say a tincture of technical information, but enough knowledge of the subject to direct the tr... ...ese pretty-pret- ties, was, in the case of this ship, little better than a technical farce. It is amusing, if anything connected with this stu- pid ca... ...ther scapegoats in this matter nor yet penal servitude for anyone. The Di- rectors of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company did not sell “safety at sea...

.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... foreigner is ahead of us in education, and this is especially true of the middle and upper classes, from which invention and enterprise come—or, in o... ...hings in the endowment of re- search. Not one in twenty of the boys of the middle and upper classes learns German or gets more than a misleading smatt... ...ST FLIGHT MY FIRST FLIGHT MY FIRST FLIGHT MY FIRST FLIGHT MY FIRST FLIGHT (EASTBOURNE, (EASTBOURNE, (EASTBOURNE, (EASTBOURNE, (EASTBOURNE, A A A A Aug... ...s of evolution by way of a start.... The waterplane in which I soared over Eastbourne this morning with Mr. Grahame-White was as steady as a mo- tor-c... ...ands” as being also in their degree “heads,” would include a department of technical and business instruction for its own people. From such ideas one ... ... we shall find it easier to explain our intention in employing as a second technical- ity the phrase of The Great State as an opposite to the Nor- mal... ...h at all. Yet Mr. Gilkes can permit this old assertion, so dear to country rectors and the classical scholar, to appear within a column’s distance of ...

...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................

...iot [Mary Anne Evans] A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ... Classics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Middlemarch by George Eliot, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ...r the setting sun. This was the happy side of the house, for the south and east looked rather melancholy even under the brightest morning. The grounds... ...d vase below, had no oppression for her, and seemed more cheerful than the easts and pictures at the Grange, which her uncle had long ago brought home... ...ke of Tipton, who had lately allowed himself to be put on the board of di- rectors in his turn, but had never before attended, his atten- dance now be... ... his secretions. For Lydgate was acute enough to indulge him with a little technical talk. It may be imagined that Mr. Trumbull rose from his couch wi... ...t, object to the discussion of Human Nature, because that is the nature of rectors’ wives.” Later in the evening, after Mrs. Cadwallader was gone, Cel...

...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walkin...

...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668 iv CONTENTS Middlemarch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the h... ...arch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiment... ...sed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long recognizable deed. Middlemarch 3 Chapter I. “Since I can do no good because a woman, Reach con... ...r the setting sun. This was the happy side of the house, for the south and east looked rather melancholy even under the brightest morning. The grounds... ...d vase below, had no oppression for her, and seemed more cheerful than the easts and pictures at the Grange, which her uncle had long ago brought home... ... is painfully doubtful. On leaving Rugby he de clined to go to an English university, where I would gladly have placed him, and chose what I must con... ... his secretions. For Lydgate was acute enough to indulge him with a little technical talk. It may be imagined that Mr. Trumbull rose from his couch wi... ...t, object to the discussion of Human Nature, because that is the nature of rectors’ wives.” Later in the evening, after Mrs. Cadwallader was gone, Cel...

...Excerpt: Prelude; Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walkin...

...Table of Contents: Book I ?Miss Brooke, 1 -- Prelude, 1 -- Chapter I., 3 -- Chapter II., 10 -- Chapter III., 16 -- Chapter IV., 25 -- Chapter V., 31 -- Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- ...