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Excerpt: North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope.

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Excerpt: The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A A A A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF ... ...ASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State Universit... ...says and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ht.’* Hence it has happened sometimes that minds of the highest order have entered into enmity with the Christian faith, have arraigned it as a curse ... ...nce it has happened sometimes that minds of the highest order have entered into enmity with the Christian faith, have arraigned it as a curse to man, ... ...our sight is feeble, the beautiful curve of the planet shall be dislocated into segments, by a parenthesis of darkness; be- cause our earth is in no t... ... that the twin maxims, the columns of Hercules through which Protestantism entered the great sea of hu- man activities, were originally but two aspect... ...wards. The stirring period of his life succeeded—the period of war, camps, treaties. Much time was not allowed him for meditation. But there is abunda...

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... Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time i...

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... The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...n with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...her o t his or her own wn wn wn wn risk. risk. risk. risk. risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...y. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot , the Pennsylva- nia State University, Jim Manis, Fac... ...orth a scheme for an Academy, which was taken up later and finally developed into the University of Pennsylvania; and he founded an “American The Auto... ...(who had the same kind of curiosity in collecting family anecdotes) once put into my hands, furnished me with several particulars relating to our ance... ...o an inn, within eight or ten miles of Burlington, kept by one Dr. Brown. He entered into conversation with The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 23 ... ...brave man, and might prob ably have made a figure as a good officer in some European war. But he had too much self confidence, too high an opin ion ... ...ee of Pennsylvania; sent to France as agent of the colo nies. 1778 Concludes treaties of defensive alliance, and of am ity and commerce; is received ...

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...A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...vid Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication ... ...c Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State Univer... ... Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...and flowing between Bedford and Carlisle, and through Billerica, emp ties into the Merrimack at Lowell. In Concord it is, in sum mer, from four to f... ...and when the wind blows freshly in a raw March day, heaving up the surface into dark and sober billows or regular swells, skirted as it is in the dist... ...ke any rill. We here left its channel, just above the Billerica Falls, and entered the canal, which runs, or rather is conducted, six miles through th... ...re widened with the process of the Suns.” There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the his... ...At length I heard a step in a distant apartment, which was the first I had entered, and went to see if the landlord had come in; but it proved to be o...