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...ish country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would not arrive for many hours; but the flood of summer light had begun to ebb, the air had grown mellow, the shadows were long upon the smooth, dense turf. T...

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... summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would no... ...dows were long upon the smooth, dense turf. They lengthened slowly, however, and the scene expressed that sense of leisure still to come which is perh... ...of pleasure. The persons concerned in it were taking their pleasure quietly, and they were not of the sex which is supposed to furnish the regular vot... ... and an expression of placid acuteness. It was evidently a face in which the range of rep resentation was not large, so that the air of contented shr... ...grey eyes, a little too firm perhaps in her graver moments, had an enchanting range of concession. They walked slowly up one side of the gallery and do... ... shyness of demeanour, and of having, as she thought, eyes like the balanced basins, the circles of “ornamental water,” set, in parterres, among the g... ... bribe and yet turning away from it. Sometimes Caspar Goodwood had seemed to range himself on the side of her destiny, to be the stubbornest fact she ... ...a friend so honourably old that he vaguely asked himself what queer temporal province she was annexing. He exchanged greetings with Mr. Osmond, to who...

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...work. If the irony is depreciatory, posterity is but too likely to say, ?Many a true word is spoken in jest;? if it is encomiastic, the same ruthless and ungrateful critic is but too likely to take it as an involuntary confession of folly and vanity. But when Fielding, in one of his serio-comic introductions to Tom Jones, described it as ?this prodigious work,? he all unin...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...was not much inferior to Shakespeare’s, or at least to Fielding’s; but the range and the results of it were cramped by his single theological purpose,... ...ders, as William the Quaker; but he had conquered, subdued, and settled no province therein. I like Pamela; I like it better than some persons who adm... ...ble to refer it to the epic; at least, as no critic hath thought proper to range it under any other head, or to assign it a particular name to itself.... ...he fire, which T rulliber granted. Mrs T rulliber would have brought him a basin of water to wash his face, but her husband bid her be quiet like a fo... ...ve appeared aloft in his pulpit, trum- peting forth the praises of a china basin, and with astonish- ment wondering that “Nobody bids more for that fi... ...hich sat a king and on the other a queen, with their guards and attendants ranged on both sides; to them was introduced an ambassador, which part Socr...

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...nning independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student ...

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...THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches... ...s of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands and oiroled around the bon- fire on the old OHinpuH Saturday night and sang... ...aturday night and sang " TheMountains, " all enmity between tliesophomores and freshnien was buried. The oolebration itself wns entirely suo- oessful,... ... box which he thought contained them, until he was asked to get off. Chief Ranger Wadsworth, with right bower Stern and left bower Jenkins searched fo... ...was jjiven under the auspices of the Lyceum of Natural History and was ar- ranged for by Dr. Howard. There were about fifty lantern slides consisting ... ... will take place in Harmony hall Wednesday evening, April 10, Extensive ar rangemeiils have been made by the club inanngeinent to make this concert a ... ... tf "'^mbers of the Williams baseball MONDAY, OCTOBER 28 6.80 p. m.—Annual basinesa meeting and bauqaet of Conn. ValleyAlumni Aesocia- tion, Cooley's ... ...rate, and the oirouitoua route around the range was traversed instead. The basin of Chinese Turkes- slan. lying beyond the wall of the mountains, is a... ...or at the eastern end of the Turkestan desert. All the large rivers of the basin which do not disappear in the gravel zone or the Band, eventually fin...

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...n the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to express...

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... Ten Years Later– Volume One (The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Duma [Pere] is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...re Duma [Pere] is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kin... ... Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to ... ...re, she did not walk — she bounded. The other, she who was writing, looked at her turbulent companion with an eye as limpid, as pure, and as blue as t... ... majesty.” “Speak on, my brother — speak on.” “Y ou know, sire, that being called in 1650 to Edinburgh, during Cromwell’s expedition into Ireland, I w... ...Artagnan. Stop, you rascals!” These last words were addressed to the lackeys who pushed and dragged him. The box stopped, and the four lackeys, with a... ...ent of Latin, nodded his head, in ca- dence, at every roll which La Fontaine impressed upon his body, according to the undulations of the dactyls and ... ...iastic success. The populace had come to witness an execution, and here was an opportunity offered them of performing one themselves. It was this that... ...n movements of earth about which the eye of a sol- dier could not be mistaken. At the two extremities of the port, in order that their fires should co...

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...uth--he looked like a merchant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bachelor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the highest degree of self-satisfaction ever registered by a human countenance....

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...tion project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...e Marville since their marriage; she had shared the early struggles in the provinces when M. Camusot was a judge at Alencon; she had helped them to ex... ...e afoot for a quarter in which every street was to be named after a French province, and all should converge in a handsome square to which La France s... ...ic which all the angels in heaven were making for him. He had won the lost province in his friend’s heart! For nearly three months Pons and Schmucke d... ...plaint known as a “churchyard cough,” and had recourse to an earthen- ware basin half full of herb tea, which he drained. “But for Poulain, my dear ma... ...ot’s ear had prompted a daring piece of acting, somewhat beyond La Cibot’s range, it may be, though she played her part through- out in a masterly sty...

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...s country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity?s sake to be amused after their tiresome work of slaughter: and you know what a dread they have of moping. She was famous for her fun and high spirits besides her good looks, which you may judge of for yourself on a walk down most of our great noblemen?s collections of pictures in Eng...

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...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and special notes. In ...

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...stern coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, by an entire change of life, and by a long absence from books and study, a weakness o...

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...RS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS, 87 -- CHAPTER XXII ? LIFE ON SHORE?THE ALERT, 90 -- CHAPTER XXIII ? NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES?MY WATCHMATE, 94 -- CHAPTER XXIV ? SAN DIEGO AGAIN?A DESCENT?HURRIED DEPARTURE?A -- NEW SHIPMATE, 104 -- CHAPTER ...

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... FROM HOME—’’BURNING THE WATER’’ . . . . . . . 87 CHAPTER XXI — CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS . . . . . . . . . 90 CHAPTER XXII — LIFE ON SHORE—TH... ... CHAPTER XXII — LIFE ON SHORE—THE ALERT . . . . 94 CHAPTER XXIII — NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES—MY WATCHMATE CHAPTER XXIV — SAN DIEGO AGAIN—A DESCENT—HUR... ...GO CHAPTER XXVIII — AN OLD FRIEND—A VICTIM—CALIFORNIA . . . . . . . . . 128 RANGERS—NEWS FROM HOME—LAST LOOKS CHAPTER XXIX — LOADING FOR HOME—A SURP... ...fternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in full sea rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years’ voyage... ...ween the 22d and 38th degrees of north latitude. It is subdivided into two provinces—Lower or Old California, lying between the gulf and the 32d de... ... could blow, except the north west, and that came over a flat country with a range of more than a league of water. As soon as everything was snug on ... ...een our crew and the others, whether the new comers or the old Califor- nia rangers should treat first; but it being settled in favor of the latter, ... ...deur. A large stone fountain threw out pure water, from four mouths, into a basin, before the church door; and we were on the point of riding up to l... ...and there is very little communication between the capital and this distant province, a member usually stays there, as permanent member, knowing ver...

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...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth ...

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...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ot with that thoroughness, justice of comparison, and effectiveness of ar- rangement at which Mr. Casaubon aimed) that all the mythical systems or err... ... of truth was no light or speedy work. His notes already made a formidable range of volumes, but the crowning task would be to condense these volumino... ... writing a hand in which each letter was distinguishable without any large range of conjecture, and she meant to make much use of this accomplishment,... ...y one on the ground of poverty: a De Bracy reduced to take his dinner in a basin would have seemed to her an example of pathos worth exaggerating, and... ...otion to her future husband that she wished to know Latin and Creek. Those provinces of masculine knowledge seemed to her a standing-ground from which... ...t the sea is not within sight—that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin. In their conversation before marriage, Mr. Casaubon had often dwelt ...

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... Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- Chapter X., 65 -- Chapter XI., 74 -- Chapter XII., 82 -- Book II ?Old and Young., 97 -- Chapter XIII., 97 -- Chapter XIV., 104 -- Chapter XV., 113 -- Chapter XVI., 124 -- Chapter XVII., 135 -- Chapter XVIII., 142 -- Chapter XIX., 151 -- Chapter XX., 154 -- Chapter XXI., 164 -- Chapter XXII., 17...

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