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...Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY.......................................................................................................... 12 VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE ...............................................................

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...ORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the ... ...by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn... ...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... ...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 any- o... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsyl... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ................................................... 290 BOOK 2.V . PARLIAMENT FIRST ........................................................................ ...guillon postpone the rebuilding of his Chateau, and rebuild his for- tunes first. For stout Choiseul would discern in the Dubarry nothing but a wonder... ...little or nothing. (Weber, Memoires concernant Marie- Antoinette (London, 1809), i. 22.) So it has lasted for the better half of a fortnight; the Dub...

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...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you...

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...ted by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is... ...Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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 Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen... ...ar Baron,—Y ou have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast “History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,” you have given me so much encour... ...the Church or Finance. Intrusted in the days of yore with the keeping of a French March, the title of marquis in their family meant no shadow of imagi... ... from the fatal list, and some few emigres began to return. Among the very first nobles to come back to the old town were the Baron de Nouastre and hi... ...hing during nine hun- dred years has changed their scutcheon; as it was at first, so it is to-day. Hence our device, Cil est nostre, taken at a tourna... ... the landlord would get the benefit at the expiration of leases granted in 1809. The Marquis himself knew nothing of the details of the management of ...

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...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 Ru...

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...s. D. J. Hogarth, with an introduction by John Cournos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, trans. D. J. Hogarth, ... ...nos Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, born at Sorochintsky, Russia, on 31st March 1809. Obtained government post at St. Pe- tersburg and later an appointment... ...me from 1836 to 1848. Died on 21st February 1852. INTRODUCTION Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing... ...ver considerable the influences of Cervantes and Dickens may have been—the first in the matter of structure, the other in background, humour, and deta... ... hardly be told what this implies; it might be defined in the words of the French critic just named as “a tendency to pity.” One might indeed go furth... ...al point of view.” Gogol was born at Sorotchinetz, Little Russia, in March 1809. He left college at nineteen and went to St. Peters- burg, where he se...

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...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wish al...

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.... BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE............................................................................................................................ 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH ...

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...on Haight Turk, Ph.D. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publicatio... ...nglish Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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 English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey, th... ...ol there. Thomas, the future opium-eater, was a weak and sickly child. His first years were spent in solitude, and when his elder brother, William, a ... ..., of congeniality of pursuits”—for nineteen months, and then ran away. His first plan had been to reach Wordsworth, whose Lyri- cal Ballads (1798) had... ...al years before. His acquaintance with Wordsworth led to his settlement in 1809 at Grasmere, in the beautiful English Lake District; his home for ten ... ...l western or central Eu- rope, through whose pusillanimity it was that the French domination had prospered. The mail-coach, as the national organ for ... ...ter; no man had drunk deeper from the cup of humiliation than Soult had in 1809, when ejected by us with headlong violence from Oporto, and pursued th...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This vi...

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE........

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...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...says and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...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... ... of these acts? IV . What are the remote results yet to be apprehended? I. First, then, WHAT is it that has been done? Up to the month of May in 1834,... ... mortal feuds upon two points abso- lutely without interest to the nation; first, upon a demand for creating clergymen by a new process; secondly, upo... ...old and lifeless state of public religion prevailed up to the American and French Revolutions. These great events gave a shock everywhere to the medit... ..., under the title of Die Hebraerin am Putztische und als Braut, Amsterdam, 1809. (The Hebrew Woman at her Toilette, and in her Bridal character.) I un... ...ginally invented upon the encouragement of the Pen- insular campaigns from 1809 to 1814, and subsequently improved, would meet all ordinary wants. It ...

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Presco... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Kath... ...Consolation by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley FIRST EPISODE MADAME DE LA CHANTERIE I THE MALADY OF THE AGE ON A FINE EVEN... ...r some career or find some connection that should further his fortunes. He first thought of journal- ism, which always opens its arms to any capital t... ...l religion was so thor- oughly blended with all that is most majestic in a French woman that Godefroid resolved to leave no stone unturned to make him... ...cial Criminal Court established by imperial decree under date Septem- ber, 1809, and sitting at Alencon, states to the Imperial Court the following fa... ...he government and the French Empire were in the secret of the coalition of 1809 through com- munication with the royalist party in foreign countries. ...

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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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... By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publicati... ...te Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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 Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, t... ...l. If you are summoned to the spec- tacle of a great fire, undoubtedly the first impulse is—to as- sist in putting it out. But that field of exertion ... ...ating upon private property, pity for a neighbor’s calam- ity checks us at first in treating the affair as a scenic spec- tacle. But perhaps the fire ... ...haped. It was now re- membered that Williams had recently borrowed a large French knife of peculiar construction; and accordingly, from a heap of old ... ...as Viceroy to Ireland, where there was little to do; having previously, in 1809, been sent Ambassa- dor to the Spanish Cortes, where there was an affi... ...er books left in London; and others he forwarded to me in Westmoreland. In 1809 I saw him often: in the spring of that year, I happened to be in Londo...

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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 Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott... ...ine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Monsieur Charles Nodier, member of the French Acad- emy, etc. Here, my dear Nodier, is a book filled with deeds th... ... was told by Madame Hochon,—though not until after the doctor’s death. The first words of Madame Rouget, when informed by her husband that he meant to... ...t. She con- sidered the opinions of the grocer insulting to Maximilian the First. Already displeased with the manners of Descoings, this illustrious “... ...ed in Paris for a few days after his return to prepare for the campaign of 1809, was told of Bridau’s death he said: “There are men who can never be r... ...laiming, “It was all so natural that any one would have been taken in.” In 1809, Madame Descoings, who never told her age, was sixty-five. In her heyd...

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is...

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...nce on my book, can gain no new glory from this page. And yet it is neither self-interest nor diffidence which has led me to place it there, but only the wish that it should bear witness to the solid friendship between us, which has survived our wanderings and separations, and triumphed over the busy malice of the world....

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his f...

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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 o...

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley ... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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 Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Presco... ...their houses as into a fortress. Examining the interior, which, during the first twenty years of this century, was encumbered with old iron and brass,... ...rchaeologists as to the original use to which the building was put. On the first floor (above the ground-floor) was one room and the kitchen; on the f... ...e night reading the story,—one of the most touching bits of writing in the French language. The picture of mutual love, half Biblical and worthy of th... ...iocese, named the Abbe Dutheil. This priest belonged to the portion of the French clergy who incline toward certain concessions, who would be glad to ... ...ine axiom that the lawyer is the best judge of the client and the case. In 1809 he ob- tained his present post, the meagre salary of which just en- ab...

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...y received. There was no opening to nominate him for Superintendent of Public Instruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legislature? It seems to me he would be hard to beat. What objection could be made to hi...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publica... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State... ...ings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...be wide awake and actively working. Don’t neglect it; and write me at your first leisure. Y ours as ever, A. LINCOLN. TO JOHN MATHERS, JACKSONVILLE, I... ...Run down one of the poll- books of the Edwardsville precinct, and take the first hundred known American names. Then quietly ascertain how many of them... ... first, I believe, by the British Gov- ernment, in part at least, from the French. Before the estab- lishment of our independence it became a part of ... ... Virginia afterward to transfer it to the General Govern- ment. There were French settlements in what is now Illinois, and at the same time there were... ...OLN 92 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of...

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...Excerpt: The incident recorded in this sketch took place towards the end of the month of November, 1809, the moment when Napoleon?s fugitive empire attained the apogee of its splendor. The trumpet-blasts of Wagram were still sounding ...

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...Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Domestic Peace by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and C... ...CORDED in this sketch took place towards the end of the month of November, 1809, the moment when Napoleon’s fugitive empire attained the apogee of its... ...he end of the month of November, 1809, the moment when Napoleon’s fugitive empire attained the apogee of its splen- dor. The trumpet-blasts of Wagram ... ... had so many crowned heads thronged the shores of the Seine, never had the French aristocracy been so rich or so splendid. The diamonds lavishly scatt... ...cinated the fair sex. Hearts were as nomadic as the regiments. Between the first and fifth bulletins from the Grand armee a woman might be in successi... ...of her bust. What shoulders! what lily-whiteness!” “Who is she?” asked the first speaker. “Ah! that I do not know.” “Aristocrat!—Do you want to keep t...

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Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Three.

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...MER?S HYMN TO CASTOR AND POLLUX .................................................................................................. 26 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE MOON ....................................................................................................................... 26 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE SUN ........................................................................

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... SHELLEY VOLUME 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON... ...OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF ... ...ORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Three is a publ... ...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... ...................................................................... 62 THE FIRST CANZONE OF THE CONVITO ................................................. ................................................................ 282 Index of First Lines...................................325 7 Shelley THE COMPLETE P... ...allow that it is impossible to form any idea of Him: they exclaim with the French poet, Pour dire ce qu’il est, il faut etre lui-meme. Lord Bacon says... ...GIUM OGIUM OGIUM OGIUM Published by Medwin, “Life of Shelley”, 1847; dated 1809. Inter marmoreas Leonorae pendula colles Fortunata nimis Machina dicit... ...GUE OGUE Published (without title) by Hogg, “Life of Shelley”, 1858; dated 1809. Included in the Esdaile manuscript book. DEA DEA DEA DEA DEATH: TH: T...

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...s Publication War and Peace: Book Nine by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace: Book Nine by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State... ...all resulted from the fact that the alliance between Russia and Austria in 1809 had not been sufficiently well concealed from Napo- leon, and from the... ...auses— to occasion the event. To us, the wish or objection of this or that French corporal to serve a second term appears as much a cause as Napoleon’... ... subsequent dictatorship and Empire, or all the things that pro- duced the French Revolution, and so on. Without each of these causes nothing could ha... ...he ballroom and remained there about another half-hour. Boris was thus the first to learn the news that the French army had crossed the Niemen and, th... ...rly startling after a month of unfulfilled expectations, and at a ball. On first receiving the news, under the influence of indignation and resentment...

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...ublication War and Peace – Book Eleven by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...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 any- o... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace – Book Eleven by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania St... ...e human wills, man’s mind postulates arbitrary and disconnected units. The first method of history is to take an ar- bitrarily selected series of cont... ...of these infinitesimals) can we hope to arrive at the laws of history. The first fifteen years of the nineteenth century in Europe present an extraord... ...lision till Smolensk was reached, and again from Smolensk to Borodino. The French army pushed on to Moscow, its goal, its impetus ever increasing as i... ...apoleon. Pierre knew all the details of the attempt on Bonaparte’s life in 1809 by a German student in Vienna, and knew that the student had been shot... ... once come to the conclusion that the chief mistake made by the student in 1809 had been to try to kill Napoleon with a dag- ger. But as his chief aim...

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... Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ted Prince V asili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna Pavlovna had had a cough for some da... ... used only by the elite. All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered by a scarlet-liveried footman that morn- ing, ran as ... ..., scented, and shining head, and complacently seated himself on the sofa. “First of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. Set your friend’s mind at r... ...e was much talk of the grandeur of this important meeting. CHAPTER XXII IN 1809 THE INTIMACY between “the world’s two arbi- ters,” as Napoleon and Ale... ... proposal for a reform of the army rules and regulations. In the spring of 1809 he went to visit the Ryazan es- tates which had been inherited by his ...

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...Excerpt: It would appear that for 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...

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... John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...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... ...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 ... ... decided, contemptuous Englishman, next to impossible. T o a reader of the first class, helps may be given, explanations will remove many a difficulty... ...ef productions which throw light on these, must for the present suffice. A French diplomatic personage, contem- plating Goethe’s physiognomy, is said ... ...em. Participating deeply in all the influences of his age, he has from the first, at every new ep- och, stood forth to elucidate the new circumstances... ... last into a highly-probable Nonentity. Follow- ing Locke’s footsteps, the French had discovered that ‘as the stomach secretes Chyle, so does the brai... ...e, it deals with the deepest problems which can engage the mind of man. In 1809 he finished The Elective Affinities. It was natural at the beginning o...

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...War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy FIRST EPILOGUE: 1813-20 SECOND EPILOGUE A Penn State Electronic Classics Se... ... War and Peace – Epilogues One and Two by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace – Epilogues One and Two by Leo Tolstoy, the Penns... ...s an equal opportunity university. 3 Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy FIRST EPILOGUE: 1813-20 CHAPTER I SEVEN YEARS HAD PASSED. The storm-tossed ... ...ch would have to be committed during that movement. And beginning with the French Revolution the old inad- equately large group was destroyed, as well... ...western forces push toward the east several times in 1805, 1806, 1807, and 1809, gaining strength and growing. In 1811 the group of people that had fo... ...s from east to west—simi- lar to the contrary movements of 1805, 1807, and 1809— precede the great westward movement; there is the same coa- lescence ...

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...Excerpt: There is a special variety of human nature obtained in the Social Kingdom by a process analogous to that of the gardener?s craft in the Vegetable Kingdom, to wit, by the forcing-house--a species of hybrid which can be raised neither from seed nor from slips. This product is kn...

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... Reconciled by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, ... ...n to a staircase that led to the parlor occupied by the two bankers on the first floor of their hotel. This done, he had sat down at his desk again, a... ...passage was wide open; the stranger must have entered by that way. For the first time in his life the old soldier felt a sensation of dread that made ... ...im in an enve- lope, and helped himself to five hundred thousand francs in French and English bank-notes from the safe, which he locked. Then he put e... ...Melmoth Reconciled acting with such ludicrous effect, nor hear the English-French that had filled the house with roars of laughter; instead of all thi... ...ee- fold Life of Man, page 75; the edition was published by M. Migneret in 1809. It was translated into French by a phi- losopher who had a great admi...

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...S BULBA.............................................................. 13 ST. JOHN?S EVE ......................................................... 130 THE CLOAK ................................................................ 146 HOW THE TWO IVANS QUARRELLED .................. 176 THE MYSTERIOUS PORTRAIT ................................ 223 THE CALASH .........................

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...Excerpt: Towards three o?clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if ...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of ...

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...s LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause.......................

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Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One.

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.... 14 DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE BY N. P. WILLIS........................................................................................................ 19 THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURES OF ONE HANS PFAAL......................................................................... 26 Notes to Hans Pfaal ......................................................................................

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...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...VE VOLUMES Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One is a publication o... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...e Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ..., The wit and wisdom of their king. Born in poverty at Boston, January 19 1809, dying under painful circumstances at Baltimore, October 7, 1849, his ... ...alsehood and how magnificently has Poe come into his own, For “The Raven,” first published in 1845, and, within a few months, read, recited and parodi... ...compelled him to make his own way in the world. Early in 1827 Poe made his first literary venture. He induced Calvin Thomas, a poor and youthful print... ...Speculative Astronomy, written either by Professor Encke of Berlin or by a Frenchman of somewhat similar name. I had some little tincture of informati... ...ot a particle of silver. All was gold of antique date and of great variety—French, Spanish, and German money, with a few English guineas, and some cou...

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three.

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..............................169 MORELLA..................................................................................................184 A TALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS.............................................189 THE SPECTACLES ...................................................................................198 KING PEST ...............................................

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...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Three A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Public... ... VOLUMES Volume Three A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three is a publication... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State ... ...Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ting; and it will also be understood that no fact is misrepresented in the first few pages which were written by Mr. Poe. Even to those readers 6 Poe... ... and if there was a man run down, it was nobody’s fault but Henderson, the first mate, now took the matter up, being justly indignant, as well as the ... ...It was first discovered in 1772, by the Baron de Kergulen, or Kerguelen, a Frenchman, who, thinking the land to form a portion of an extensive souther... ...the Portuguese, and was visited afterward by the Dutch in 1643, and by the French in 1767. The three islands together form a triangle, and are distant... ...aper published by the Royal Hydrographical Soci- ety of Madrid in the year 1809, the following language is used respecting this expedition: “The corve...