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...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE.....................

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...QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...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... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ........................... 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE ...................... 54 SCHLOSSER’S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHT... ... as soon as I heard your voice, I should be tranquil.’ Poor girl! had this outline sketch of Mr. Williams been filled in and realized, she would have ... ...lly behind the counter, with his hands so occupied as to confirm the whole outline of the affair as I have here suggested it. Probable enough it is th... ...to each other, it was necessary that they should preconcert some gen- eral outline of their plan; since it would on this scheme be impossible, without... ...HE BIBLE THE BIBLE T T T T TO MEREL O MEREL O MEREL O MEREL O MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE Y HUMAN SCIENCE Y HUMAN SCIENCE Y HUMAN SCIENCE Y HUMAN SCIENCE IT ... ...d. Spence’s ‘Polymetis,’ however, might have been had by favor of any good library; and the ‘Bibliotheca’ of Apollodorus, who is the cock of the walk ...

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...Excerpt: On a winter?s night, about two in the morning, the Comtesse Jeanne d?Herouville felt such violent pains that in spite of her inexperience, she was conscious of an approaching confinement; and the instinct which makes us hope for ease in a change of posture induced her to sit up in her bed, either to study the nature of these new sufferings, ...

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Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

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...A Journey to the Interior of the Earth By Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...rouble myself about that. Come, there’s no time to lose; I am going to the library. Perhaps there is some manuscript of Saknussemm’s there, and I shou... ...place M. Fridrikssen wanted to know what suc- cess my uncle had had at the library. “Y our library! why there is nothing but a few tattered books upon... ...e, “will you be kind enough to tell me what books you hoped to find in our library and I may perhaps enable you to consult them?” My uncle’s eyes and ... ...llow came out best. The rugged peaks of the trachyte rocks presented faint outlines on the eastern hori- zon; at times a few patches of snow, concentr... ...e ceaseless action of the surf. Farther on the eye discerned their massive outline sharply defined against the hazy distant horizon. It was quite an o... ...of trees of moderate height, formed like umbrellas, with exact geometrical outlines. The currents of wind seemed to have had no effect upon their shap...

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...Excerpt: Louis Lambert was born at Montoire, a little town in the Vendomois, where his father owned a tannery of no great magnitude, and intended that his son should succeed him; but his precocious bent for study modified the paternal decision. For, indeed, the tanner and his wife adored Louis, their only child, and never contradicte...

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...Excerpt: ENVOI. Felix de Vandenesse to Madame la Comtesse Natalie de Manerville: I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. To smooth the frown upon their brow, to soften the pout upon their lips, what obstacles we miraculously...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Passing over Ickleworth Bridge and rounding up the heavily shadowed river of our narrow valley, I perceived a commotion as of bathers in a certain bright space immediately underneath the vicar?s terrace-garden steps. My astonishment was considerable when it became evident to me that the vicar himse...

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...ears ago, and in those days he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley, Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to afford fifteen shillings a week during term time to lodge with Mrs. Munday, at the little shop in the West Street....

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... SERIES PUBLICATION Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. Wells 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... ...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... ... over the yellow-painted box upon which—for lack of shelves—Mr. Lewisham’s library was ar- ranged, was a “Schema.” (Why he should not have headed it “... ...erature”—an astonishing conception! In the after- noon mathematics and the sciences. Could anything be sim- pler or more magnificent? In six years Mr.... ...e a number of times, in the corridors of the schools, in the big Education Library, and in the Art Museum. After a time those meetings appear to have ... ...Or write? If he wrote now he could get the advantage of the evening at the Library. He must ask her to forgo these walks home—at least until the next ... ...d promised Ethel it should be done. Presently Miss Heydinger knew the main outline of his story, knew all his story except, the emotion that made it c... ...or a moment they scrutinised one another. To her he was no more than a dim outline. Impulsively he held out his arms…. Then at the sound of a movement...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is h...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more i...

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.................................... 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY................................................................................................ 30 SECTIO...

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...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Ha... ...TE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...thank for many favors the Committee and officers of the Glasgow University Library. If a word by way of suggestion to teachers be pertinent, I would v... ...ts of De Quincey not included by Japp or Hogg.] 10. L. STEPHEN. Hours in a Library. Vol. I. New York, 1892. 11. W . MINTO. Manual of English Prose Lit... ...ta, but not imperfect in its ever-memo- rable heroism. I told her the main outline of the battle. The agitation of her enthusiasm had been so conspicu... ...g between the gates of life and death: this, to a man of apprehensive con- science, would mingle the misery of an atrocious criminality with the miser... ...ly are summoned to face such awful trials. But potentially, and in shadowy outline, such a trial is mov- ing subterraneously in perhaps all men’s natu... ...re, if more at all, than seventy seconds. “Such was the scene, such in its outline, from which the whole of this paper radiates as a natural expansion...

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Excerpt: The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...Excerpt: As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It ...

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...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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Excerpt: As a testimony to the affection of his brother-in-law?

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