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...Excerpt: ACT I. It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft?s house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in dark leather. A person sitting on it [it is vacant at present] would have, on...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Major Barbara G(eorge) B(ernard) Shaw, the Pennsylvania State ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...for once, and tell me about this horrible business of my father wanting to set me aside for another son. LADY BRITOMART [amazed] Another son! I never ... ... conscience against impulses of inhuman ridicule and fierce impatience bas set up a chronic strain which has visibly wrecked his constitution. He is a... ...ildren; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant... ...if I knew the tune. CUSINS. It is a wedding chorus from one of Donizetti’s operas; but we have converted it. We convert everything to good here, inclu... ...n amount of tosh about the Salvation Army. Now the claims of the Church of England— LADY BRITOMART. That’s enough, Charles. Speak of something suited ... ...to your mental capacity. 59 Major Barbara LOMAX. But surely the Church of England is suited to all our capacities. BARBARA [pressing his hand] Thank ...

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...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ained within the docu ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way . The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill, the Pennsylvani... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...in getting a verdict. If they do extort a hearing, they are subjected to a set of logical requirements totally different from those ex acted from oth... ...inent much of it continued to the time of the French Revolution, though in England the earlier and better organisation of the democratic classes put a... ...k at it from an impartial position, was the law of civilised and Christian England within the memory of persons now living: and in one half of Anglo S... ...reated with indulgence, and permitted to assume power, there is no rule to set limits to her encroachments. The law, not determining her rights, but t... ...oman from having written all the plays of Shakespeare, or composed all the operas of Mozart. But Queen Elizabeth or Queen Victoria, had they not inher... ... in precisely the things in which this absorption of the whole mind in one set of ideas and occupations may seem to be most requisite. Still, this dif...

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... inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty mill...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ve with re- gard to Goethe. If a writer indeed feel that he is writing for England alone, invisibly and inaudibly to the rest of the Earth, the tempta... ...or some small conclave, which he mistakenly thinks the rep- resentative of England, they may sway this way or that, as it chances. But writing in such... ...of demonstration: the merits and charac- teristics of a Poet are not to be set forth by logic; but to be gathered by personal, and as in this case it ... ... delight, and must soon pass away. With bold, with skilful hand, V oltaire set his torch to the jungle: it blazed aloft to heaven; and the flame exhil... ...I was anxious to comply with that very considerate request, and labored to set forth in succes- sion my internal emotions, external influences, and th... ... throughout, but we suffered ourselves to be carried away by them; and his operas, set to music by Hiller in an easy style, gave us much pleasure. Sch...

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...ilverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on behalf of the Crown, were employed on the local business of the Duke of Omnium, who is great in those parts, and altogether held their heads up high, as provincial lawyers often do. They--the Wa...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylva... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...y a sum of fifty pounds and that the payment had been made in five Bank of England notes of ten pounds each, which had been handed to his friend in th... ...ainly consisted of fifty pounds, and there had certainly been five Bank of England notes. He had put the notes into an envelope, which he had not clos... ...saw him once about the lanes, and I 42 The Last Chronicle of Barset never set my eyes on such an object in all my life! I would not believe that the ... ...have gone, if I had not believed that such was your purpose.’ ‘I wanted to set myself right with you, Miss Prettyman.’ ‘You are right with me—quite ri... ...t he pre- fers to be called Mr Dale, because he has left the army, and has set up as junior squire of the parish. Uncle Christopher 90 The Last Chron... ...ster Ter- race. And yet he heard of her dining out, and going to plays and operas; and when he did chance to see her, he found that she was a sprightl...