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Dead Souls

By: D. J. Hogarth

...rans. D. J. Hogarth, with an introduction by John Cournos 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... ... tor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... was fashioned of the oakwood usually thought suit- able only for mills or ships. In short, wherever Chichikov’s eye turned he saw nothing that was no... ... glory—so much so that foreigners marvelled at it), peasants on the census lists who had ended their earthly careers were nevertheless, on the renderi... ...had ended their earthly careers were nevertheless, on the rendering of new lists, returned equally with the living, to the end that the courts might b... ... and camphor. Also, to while away the hours, he made new and more detailed lists of the souls which he had bought, perused a work by the Duchesse de l...

...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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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And the Heroic in History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle 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... ... ranking home at evening- time, “and,” adds he, “and are a credit to you!” Ships also,— he talks often about ships: Huge moving mountains, they spread... ...kspeare into being? No dining at Freemason’s T avern, opening subscription-lists, sell- ing of shares, and infinite other jangling and true or false e... ...it has cunning in its ten fingers, strength in its right arm; it can steer ships, fell forests, remove mountains;—it is one of the strongest things un...

...Excerpt: The text is taken from the printed ?Sterling Edition? of Carlyle?s Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin charact...

................................................. 68 LECTURE IV. THE HERO AS PRIEST. LUTHER; REFORMATION: KNOX; PURITANISM. 99 LECTURE V.THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOHNSON, ROUSSEAU, BURNS. ........ 131 LECTURE VI.THE HERO AS KING. CROMWELL, NAPOLEON: MODERN REVOLUTIONISM............................................................................................................

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Persuasion

By: Jane Austen

...ic Classics Series Publication Persuasion by Jane Austen 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... ...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... ...w, by successive captures, have made a handsome fortune. She had only navy lists and newspapers for her authority, but she could not doubt his being r... ... matters, so unobservant and incurious were they as to the names of men or ships, that it had made scarcely any impression at the time; and that Mrs M... ...to pore over it, with 52 Persuasion the professed view of finding out the ships that Captain Wentworth had commanded. “Your first was the Asp, I reme... ...Hall,” (with a kind bow to Anne), “beyond what I always had in most of the ships I have lived in; and they have been five altogether.” “Nothing to the...

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The Octopus a Story of California

By: Frank Norris

...on enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...ompany was not my only investment. I have other interests. The building of ships—steel sailing ships—has been an ambition of mine,—for this purpose, M... ...ut of the proceeds, buys a corner lot. The economist who laments the hard- ships of the poor, allows himself to grow rich upon the sale of his book.” ... ...ilma to action. Then ensued a most delicious week. Armed with formi- dable lists, written by Annixter on hotel envelopes, they two descended upon the ... ...been reduced eighty cents a ton.” “Why, rot,” cried Annixter, “no one ever ships wheat that way.” “The Salinas rate,” continued Lyman, “has been low- ...

Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation Part Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ... Two by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...y. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...wo tall towers by way of legs, and whose arms are like the masts of mighty ships, and each eye like a great mill-wheel, and glowing brighter than a gl... ... cross the Rubicon? And to come to more modern examples, what scuttled the ships, and left stranded and cut off the gallant Spaniards under the comman... ...laza; a knight shows to advantage arrayed in glittering armour, pacing the lists before the ladies in some joyous tournament, and all those knights sh... ...y’s 1922 ed. a comb from one of her neighbours; for I would have your wor- ships know that the ladies of Aragon, though they are just as illus- trious... ...was greatly pleased at the news, and promised himself to do wonders in the lists, and reckoned it rare good fortune that an opportunity should have of... ...r seen or heard of such a one. The first person to enter the-field and the lists was the master of the ceremonies, who surveyed and paced the whole gr...

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Prince Otto a Romance 1905 Edition

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...Otto – A Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905 Edition) is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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 Por- table Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...n is idiotic; it must be Ratafia’s. But hear me. Y ou know the Prince wor- ships me?’ ‘I know,’ he said. ‘Poor Featherhead, I cross his destiny!’ ‘Wel... ...ngling French rhymes and correcting joint proofs. Still following the book-lists, I perceive that Mr. Swinburne has dedicated a rousing lyric and some...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...ry Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e higher privileges and enjoyments of the University, the studies, friend- ships, and influences, as early youth sometimes fails to do. He was felt by... ...n to found a colony on San Cristoval, and set forth with his wife and four ships. But the Bauro people were spared that grievous misfortune of a Spani... ..., and where their two boats’ crews were massacred, and the boats lost. The ships came to Port Jackson, in Australia, to build fresh boats, left it in ... ...n my mind about it. Sometimes I think these Banks Islanders may be evange- lists beyond the limits of their own islands. So many of the natives of oth...

...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli 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... ...o be morasses), and on a keel of whole bricks it was possible to construct ships to push over the high seas to the remotest port in the room. And a di... ...I seem to remember, came and went; one or two clockwork boats, toy sailing ships that, being keeled, would do nothing but lie on their beam ends on th... ...hands would descend, pluck- ing garrisons from fortresses and sailors from ships, jum- bling them up in their wrong boxes, clumsily so that their rifl... ... and forensic 213 H G Wells “crushers.” The New Year and Birthday honours lists are al- ways very sagely and exhaustively considered, and anecdotes a...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...s Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...lington-town, hard by London, though she’s always bragging of her father’s ships, and pointing them out to us as they go up the river: and Mrs. Kirk a... ... when he returned to his own quarters. He could hear the cheering from the ships in the river, where the transports were already taking in their cargo... ... the Low Countries THE REGIMENT WITH ITS OFFICERS was to be transported in ships provided by His Majesty’s government for the occasion: and in two day... ...gs of exultation and gratitude, bereavement and sickening dismay, when the lists of the regimental losses were gone through, and it became 358 V anit... ...t, even now, feel at second-hand this breathless pause of expectation. The lists of casualties are carried on from day to day: you stop in the midst a... ...ine carriage, and her fine horses, and her name on half the public charity-lists of the town, was a lonely, miserable, persecuted old maid. She though...

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

By: Bram Stoker

... This publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. 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... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...Directory, the “Red” and “Blue” books, Whitaker’s Almanac, the Army and Navy Lists, and it somehow gladdened my heart to see it, the Law List. Whils... ...as. Between her and the port lay the great flat reef on which so many good ships have from time to time suf fered, and, with the wind blowing from ... ... the slave of the galley, than the madman in his cell. He cannot go where he lists, he who is not of nature has yet to obey some of nature’s laws, why... .... Omme Ignotum pro magnifico. And so with heavy hearts we start to find what ships leave for the Black Sea last night. He was in sailing ship, since M... ...o, by sugges tion of Lord Godalming, to your Lloyd’s, where are note of all ships that sail, however so small. There we find that only one Black Sea ...

...Excerpt: Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible....

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...ote by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.) 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... ... the rest of the household had gone to dinner. Lothario saw himself in the lists according to his friend’s wish, and facing an enemy that could by her... ...it was no easy matter to find so many just then, because there were twenty ships out on a cruise and they had taken all the rowers with them; and thes... ...22 ed. “Would it not be better,” said Zoraida, “to wait for the arrival of ships from Spain and go with them and not with the French who are not your ... ... never share heaven,” said the poor barber, “if your wor- 354 Don Quixote ships are not all mistaken; and may my soul appear before God as that appea... ...laza; a knight shows to advantage arrayed in glittering armour, pacing the lists before the ladies in some joyous tournament, and all those knights sh... ...was greatly pleased at the news, and promised himself to do wonders in the lists, and reckoned it rare good fortune that an opportunity should have of...

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Of Human Bondage

By: Somerset Maugham

...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... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...h the nail had a little black edge to it, was point- ing out how the Greek ships were placed and how the Persian. 78 Of Human Bondage XVII PHILIP P A... ... to go to Oxford, and now that there was no chance of his getting scholar- ships even Mr . Carey came to the conclusion that he could not afford it. H... ...st be treated with respect and which were in low water . Now and then long lists of figures were given him to add up. He at- tended lectures for his f... ...Medical School. Just inside the door a num- ber of notices were pinned up, lists of lectures, football fixtures, and the like; and these he looked at ... ...course she refused. He should have allowed for her pride. He had burnt his ships behind him. It would not be so hard to bear if he thought that she wa... ...ly the question recurred, but flung now like a challenging gauntlet in the lists: Why not order today? “I’m the press representative of Lynn and Sedle...

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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

... G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Penns... ...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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...n search of it out of their accustomed zone; first waylaying and following ships, and so coming to our shores in the wake of the Atlan- tic traffic. B... ...ed to and fro from the College with little slips of mnemonics in his hand, lists of crayfish appendages, rabbits’ skull-bones, and vertebrate nerves, ... ...and crowded all night long. And in all the seas about the civilized lands, ships with throbbing engines, and ships with bellying sails, crowded with m... ... I have spoken of people praying through the night and people going aboard ships and people fleeing towards mountainous country, that the whole world ...

...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of l...

...RODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5 THE JILTING OF JANE ................................................................................10 THE CONE.....................................................................................................16 THE STOLEN BACILLUS......

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The Nibelungenlied

By: Daniel B. Shumway

...Publication The Nibelungenlied, trans. Daniel B. Shumway 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... ...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... ... 90 The Nibelungenlied left undone) afore Kriemhild, the fair, down to the ships. Then the fair-fashioned ladies were lifted from the palfreys. The ki... ...it were solid earth. The wayworn ladies had their ease and rest. Many good ships were lashed to- gether, that neither waves nor flood might do them ha... ...y’ll give no meed to King Gunther’s men.” The doughty Folker rode into the lists again, which soon gave many a dame great dole. His spear he thrust th...

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The Poems of Goethe Translated in the Original Metres

By: Edgar Alfred Bowring

...red Bowring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...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... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring, the Pennsylvania State University, ... ... heart With creative pow’r arise. During many a beauteous year I have seen ships ‘neath me steer, As they seek the shelt’ring bay; But, alas, each las... ... Neither lamb nor steer, But the altars reek with human gore.” And he lists, and ev’ry word he weighs, While his eager soul drinks in each soun... ... thy fields thou tendest well, It o’er them spreads its slime and mud. The ships descend ere daylight wanes, The prudent fisher upward goes; Round ree...

Excerpt: The Poems of Goethe, translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring.

...n. ..................................................................................................................................... 21 The Poems of Goethe. ................................................................................................................................................... 22 Dedication. ......................................................

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ere d’ you think you’d be if it wasn’t for our capital behind you, and our lists of properties, and all the prospects we find for you? All you got to ... ...- ments was the dun background of office-routine: leases, sales-contracts, lists of properties to rent. The evenings of oratory and committees and lod... ...nventions and understand each other and become acquainted right away, like ships that pass in the night?” “I certainly do! I certainly do!” He was no ... ...beer on the other, you got to give up even old friend- 299 Sinclair Lewis ships. ‘He that is not with me is against me. ’” “Ye-es, I suppose—” “How a...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Third

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Third T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited ... ...es P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel De Montaigne, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt i... ...taigne, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... and festivals: he would that their greatness should be seen in numbers of ships well equipped, and good armies well provided for; and there is good r... ...ly, to be overflowed by a deep sea, full of sea mon- sters, and laden with ships of war, to represent a naval battle; and, thirdly, to make it dry and... ...good as the other common and fortuitous ones with Four neighbours: friend- ships that are purely of our own acquiring ordinarily carry it above those ... ...elves order and reason. I find some who rashly and furiously rush into the lists and cool in the course. As Plutarch says, that those who, through fal...

Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

...Contents CHAPTER I OF PROFIT AND HONESTY................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II OF REPENTANCE ................................................................................................

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Roderick Hudson

By: Henry James

...assics Series Publication Roderick Hudson by Henry 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... ...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... ... Miss Rowland, the daughter of a retired sea-captain, once fa- mous on the ships that sailed from Salem and Newburyport. He had brought to port many a... ...unced his career at home and embraced his present one. I made him burn his ships. I brought him to Rome, I launched him in the world, and I stand sure... ...ve traveled through Europe on cold water. The most varied and at- tractive lists of wines are offered me, but I brush them aside. No cork has ever bee... ...as dumb. The mother and daughter had it out together. Mrs. Light burnt her ships. When she came out she had three lines of writing in her daughter’s h...

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Beauchamp's Career

By: George Meredith

...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ent that we had no navy and no army. At the most we could muster a few old ships, a couple of experimental ves- sels of war, and twenty-five thousand ... ...ling fire or water, as the occasion may require. It turned out that we had ships ready for launching, and certain regiments com- ing home from India; ... ...ur waters, to the rotting wild bees’ nest in our trees, to the worm in our ships’ timbers, and to lamentable afflictions of the human frame, and of sh... ...mmand over him, that in spite of my nursery tastes, he drags me whither he lists. It is artless art and monstrous innovation to present so wilful a fi...

...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observ...

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Night and Day

By: Virginia Woolf

...ssics Series Publication Night and Day by Virginia Woolf 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... ...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... ...were, and that’s better than doing. They seem 98 Night and Day to me like ships, like majestic ships, holding on their way, not shoving or pushing, n... ...shing, not fretted by little things, as we are, but taking their way, like ships with white sails.” Katharine tried to interrupt this discourse, but t... ...mehow suggested the extreme of intimacy; there were two or three keys, and lists of com- missions against which crosses were set at intervals. But she... ..., and the sea not very far off, so that one could hear the waves at night. Ships just vanishing on the hori- zon—” She broke off. “Shall you be near t...

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