Full Text Search Details
... inconsistency and formlessness; for these later born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could perform the function of k... ... M iss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear ... ...and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quot... ...ain, without any special object, save the vague pur pose of what he calls culture, preparation for he knows not what. He declines to choose a profess... ...“Messiah,” and several volumes of the “Gentleman’s Magazine.” “Read me the names o’ the books. Come now! you’re a college man.” Fred gave him the titl... ...f me dial evidence—any glimmering of these can only come from a scientific culture of which country practitioners have usually no more notion than the... ..., and looking rather absently at the insects ranged in fine gradation, with names subscribed in exquisite writing. “The shortest way is to make your va... ...dgate, and Lydgate with Tyke; and owing to this variety of interchangeable names for the chaplaincy question, diverse minds were enabled to form the s... ...aving off because they were “no good,” and observing that, after all, self culture was the principal point; while in politics he would have been sympa...

Full Text Search Details
...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Dombey & Son Volume 2 by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity.... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dombey & Son Volume 2 by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...n equal opportunity university. 3 Charles Dickens Dombey and Son Volume 2 by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 29. THE OPENING OF THE EYES OF MRS CHICK MISS T ... ...a season, is to make her mortified bonnet go down with a dip— writes their names like this good lady!’ Mr Sownds the Beadle thinks it is a truly spank... ...e children all round— which Mr Toodle much admired -and booked their ages, names, and acquirements, on a piece of paper. This ceremony , and a little ... ...d not, however, in his musings, neglect his own improvement, or the mental culture of Rob the Grinder. That young man was generally required to read o... ...d by a perpetual bruising of his intellectual shins against all the proper names of all the tribes of Judah, and by the monotonous repetition of hard ...

Full Text Search Details
... VO L L L L L UTI UTI UTI UTI UTI O O O O O N N N N N A HISTORY Volume One by TH TH TH TH THO O O O OMA MA MA MA MAS CA S CA S CA S CA S CAR R R R RL ... ... TI TI TIO O O O ON N N N N The French Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. ... ...ic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics S... ... the sons of the Saxon Puritans, with their Old-Saxon tem- per, Old-Hebrew culture, sleek Silas, sleek Benjamin, here on such errand, among the light ... ...ea- tures, how shall he, in all Philosophe-soirees, and saloons of elegant culture, become notable as a Friend of Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes... ...adi, in- flamed with ‘violent motions all night at the Palais Royal?’ Fame names him, ‘Young M. Meillar’; (Tableaux de la Revo- lution, Prise de la Ba... ... I should for ever bless the greatness of Monseigneur.’ Poor Prisoner, who namest thyself Queret Demery, and hast no other history,—she is dead, that ... ...mrades hardly snatched him in again alive. Miomandre and Tardivet: let the names of these two Bodyguards, as the names of brave men should, live long....

Full Text Search Details
... The Scarlet Letter NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 1850 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. NATHANIEL HAWT... ...ugh to find a listener or two on the former occasion — I again seize the public by the button, and talk of my three years’ experience in a Custom House... ...vided segment of the writer’s own nature, and complete his circle of existence by bringing him into communion with it. It is scarcely decorous, howeve... ...; after growing fastidious by sympathy with the classic refinement of Hillard’s culture; after becoming imbued with poetic sentiment at Longfellow’s he... ..., un 20 The Scarlet Letter folding one and another document, and reading the names s a pickle he possessed no higher attribute, and neither ted any ... ...ree, Phillips, Shep ard, Upton, Kimball, Bertram, Hunt — these and many other names, which had such classic familiarity for my ear six months ago, — ... ... to everybody that meets him here among the trees; and they are to write their names with their own blood; and then he sets his mark on their bosoms. ... ...so inadequate to sustain the hardships of a forest life, his native gifts, his culture, and his entire development would secure him a home only in the...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.

Full Text Search Details
...ENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. ... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics... ...n equal opportunity university. 3 Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin ‘But with regard to the material world, we can at least g... ...much elongated wing and tail feathers. The trumpeter and laugher, as their names express, utter a very differ- ent coo from the other breeds. The fant... ...n inhabited by quite uncivilised man, has afforded us a single plant worth culture. It is not that these countries, so rich in species, do not by a st... ...and pistils alone in another flower or on an- other plant. In plants under culture and placed un- der new conditions of life, sometimes the male or- g... ...cular animal will breed under con- finement or any plant seed freely under culture; nor can he tell, till he tries, whether any two species of a genus... ... simple a man- ner. If a branching diagram had not been used, and only the names of the groups had been written in a linear series, it would have been... ...f the arm and forearm, or of the thigh and leg, transposed. Hence the same names can be given to the homologous bones in widely different animals. We ...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

Full Text Search Details
...Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. Thi... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...lvania State University is an equal opportunity university. War and Peace by Leo T olstoy/T olstoi BOOK ONE: 1805 CHAPTER I “WELL, PRINCE, so Genoa a... ...in love with that fat one in spectacles” (that was how Petya described his namesake, the new Count Bezukhov) “and now she’s in love with that singer” ... ...nce, de Hohenlohe, and finally Prishprish, and so on like all those Polish names.” “Be quiet, backbiter!” said Dolgorukov . “It is not true; there are... ...r several times to repeat words he had not clearly heard and the difficult names of villages. W eyrother complied and Dohkturov noted them down. When ... ...f Russia, or the balance of power in Europe, or a certain kind of European culture called “progress” appear to me to be good or bad, I must admit that... ...glance from under his brows. “Prince Theodore and all those. T o encourage culture and philanthropy is all very well of course. The aim is excellent b... ... states to the writers of general histories and the new his- tories of the culture of that period. The strangeness and absurdity of these replies aris...

Excerpt Details
... sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, by an entire change of life, and by a long absence from books and study, a weakness of the eyes, which had obliged me to give up my pursuits, and which no medical aid seemed likely to cure....

Full Text Search Details
... Two Years Before the Mast by Richard HENRY DANA 1840 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global ... ...GRESS HOMEWARD—A PLEASANT . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 SUNDAY—A FINE SIGHT—BY PLAY CHAPTER XXXIV — NARROW ESCAPES—THE EQUATOR—TROPICAL . . . . . . ... ...yage, which I had undertaken from a determi- nation to cure, if possible, by an entire change of life, and by a long absence from books and study, ... ...o leeward of us, and out of hailing distance; but the captain could read the names on their sterns with the glass. They were the ship Helen Mar, of Ne... ...ch an abundance. There were cod, breams, silverfish, and other kinds whose names thev did not know, or which I have forgotten. There is an ab... ...Kanaka,’’ they answer to, both collectively and individually. Their proper names, in their own language, being difficult to pronounce and remember... ...e hundred thousand inhabitants, with all the accompaniments of wealth and culture, and now (in 1859) the most quiet and well governed city of its s...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louis Maude.

Full Text Search Details
...RESURRECTION BY C OUNT LEO TOLSTOY Translated by Mrs. Louis Maude A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Re... ...is Maude A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louis Maude is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louis Maude, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...ll soon see.” And, taking a list from his pocket, he began calling out the names, looking at the men, some- times through and sometimes over his pince... ...elonged. The examination of the witnesses commenced: they were asked their names, religion, etc. Then, after some consul- tation as to whether the wit... ...eing of a dull white.” And so on for 13 paragraphs more. Then followed the names and signatures of the assistants, and the doctor’s conclusion showing... ...ple of a quite new and good type of civilised Euro- 470 Resurrection pean culture, grafted on a healthy, uncultivated peasant stem. The governor of t...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

Full Text Search Details
...T HE VOY AGE OF THE BEAGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of th... ...s Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. ... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics S... ...an indistinct idea that England, London, and North America, were different names for the same place; but the better informed well knew that London and... ...d that, “although they were not men of business, they could all sign their names:” with this they seemed to think every reasonable man ought to be sat... ...during my short excursions, I heard of many others, and the origin of such names as “the stream of the animal,” “the hill of the giant,” is obvi- ous.... ...s evident in this case, how naturally, in a race a little more advanced in culture, the elements would become personified. What the “bad wild men” wer...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill.

Full Text Search Details
...ESSAYS ON SOME UNSETTLED QUESTIONS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY by JOHN STUART MILL 1844 1844 1844 1844 1844 A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSI... ...ERIES PUBLICATION Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University... ...ssion, in any way. Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill, the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity, Electronic Classi... ... Economy rich themselves and the country. This object, under the vary- ing names of an extensive demand, a brisk circulation, a great expenditure of m... ...f profits to rise, by the successive introduction of improvements in agri- culture, and in the production of those manufactured ar- 83 John Stuart Mi...

Full Text Search Details
...THE KALEVALA The Epic Poem of Finland T ranslated into English By John Martin Crawford 1888 1888 1888 1888 1888 A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC... ...The Kalevala THE KALEVALA The Epic Poem of Finland Translated into English By John Martin Crawford 1888 1888 1888 1888 1888 To Dr. J.D. Buck, An Encou... ...e Baltic Sea, its area being more than 144,000 square miles, and inhabited by some 2,000,000 of people, the last remnants of a race driven back from t... ... the frequent use of endearing diminutives. By a series of suffixes to the names of human beings, birds, fishes, trees, plants, stones, metals, and ev... ..., and feelings, diminutives are obtained, which by their form, present the names so made in different colors; they become more naive, more childlike, ... ...life prolonged.” Thus it is that the map of Finland is to this day full of names like Pyhojarvi (sacred lake) and Pyhajoki (sacred river). Some of th... ...ee, dear mother, For thy tender care and guidance, For my birth and for my culture, Nurtured by thy purest life blood! Gratitude to thee, dear brother...

Excerpt Details
...ible. I have observed that in a confined space even thought is cramped; When I was brooding over a future novel I liked to walk up and down the room. By the way, I always like better brooding over my works and dreaming how they should be written than actually writing them. And this really is not from laziness. Why is it?...

Full Text Search Details
...THE INSULTED AND INJURED by Fyodor Dostoevsky Translated by Constance Garnett A PENN STAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION ... ...NN STAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Insulted and Injured by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trnas. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Penn... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Insulted and Injured by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trnas. Constance Garnett, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ... Andreyevna grieved hopelessly , shed tears, called Natasha by the fondest names before me, bitterly complained against Nikolay Sergeyitch, and began ... ...e I keep kissing it as though I were kissing her, herself. I call her fond names, and make the sign of the cross over it every night. I talk aloud to ... ...t was incoherent. Nothing but exclamations; he called you by the tenderest names; he called for you.” “Called for me?” “Yes.” She wept quietly. “Poor ... ...riage, how satisfied with his lot, how benign! He was maintaining a highly cultured, literary conversation, even his soft, decorous bass had the note ... ...tured, literary conversation, even his soft, decorous bass had the note of culture. Little by little he drifted into liberal- ism, and then passed to ...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Full Text Search Details
...on A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ............................ 235 4 Robert Louis Stevenson New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson THE SUICIDE CLUB STORY OF THE YOUNG MAN WITH THE ... ...is emotion, he 93 New Arabian Nights began to look about him and read the names of the streets at whose intersection he had been deserted by the gard... ...e are some very exact treatises on astronomy, the use of the globes, agri- culture, and the art of making paper flowers. Upon the less apparent provin... ...yond them, at the constella- tions, of which he tried vainly to recall the names. The silence was broken by the church bell; it rang the four quar- te...

Full Text Search Details
...THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky translated by Constance Garnett Complete Edition A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett is a publicatio... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett, the Pennsylvan... ...tinguished among the Miusovs as a man of enlightened ideas and of European culture, who had been in the capitals and abroad. Towards the end of his li... ...t know exactly which. He regarded it as his duty as a citizen and a man of culture to open an attack upon the “clericals.” Hearing all about Adelaida ... ...onation of a thousand roubles, while another was a very wealthy and highly cultured land- owner, upon whom all in the monastery were in a sense de- pe... ...ny from my childhood up. I would have shot a man in a duel if he called me names because I am descended from a filthy beggar and have no father. And t... ...e. “Besides, all that’s by way of allegory in Gogol, for he’s made all the names have a meaning. Nozdryov was really called Nosov, and Kuvshinikov had... ...) It was brief, and Madame Hohlakov was not directly men- tioned in it. No names appeared, in fact. It was merely stated that the criminal, whose appr...

Excerpt Details
...essed to Father Paissy. After taking the communion, the service of extreme unction followed. The monks assembled and the cell was gradually filled up by the inmates of the hermitage. Meantime it was daylight. People began coming from the monastery. After the service was over the elder desired to kiss and take leave of everyone. As the cell was so small the earlier visitors...

Full Text Search Details
...THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky translated by Constance Garnett PART II A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Public... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brothers Karamazov – Part II by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett is a publicatio... ...s an electronic transmission, in any way. The Brothers Karamazov – Part II by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett, the Pennsylvan... ...ny from my childhood up. I would have shot a man in a duel if he called me names because I am descended from a filthy beggar and have no father. And t... ...out as a remembrance of it. But men, too, can be beaten. A well- educated, cultured gentleman and his wife beat their own child with a birch-rod, a gi... ...e merchant grows more and more eager for rank, and strives to show himself cultured though he has not a trace of culture, and to this end meanly despi...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: If a book by an author who must call herself a veteran should be taken up by readers of a younger generation, they are begged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, wh...

Full Text Search Details
...NGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...iversity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e THE LONG VACATION BY CHARLOTTE M. YONGE How the children leave us, and no traces Linger of t... ...is a high object not to alienate Gerald, as would certainly be done by the culture of the ugly—” “Or rather of that which pretends to be the reverse, ... ...ure a second-class passage to New York for G. F . Wood and Lydia Wood, the names which he meant to be called by. “The first name I knew,” he said, “th...