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Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her hus band that she could not go on living in... ...the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of thei... ...ot only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house ... ...of his mother’s fortune, and the last scandal, when he had gone to a western province in an official capacity, and there had got into trouble for assau... ...e was used to. “Impossible!” he cried, letting down the pedal of the washing basin in which he had been sousing his healthy red neck. “Impossible!” he... ...ng reminiscences. These wounds never healed. And with these memories was now ranged his rejection and the pitiful position in which he must have appea... ...e roused to struggle against this, as it seemed, elemental force continually ranged against him, for which he could find no other expression than “as G... ...e racers could leap or wade through as they preferred. Three times they were ranged ready to start, but each time some horse thrust itself out of line... ...I — Chapter 3 641 expanses in the East. “One may easily be led into error in basing any conclusion on the general vocation of a people,” said Metrov, ...

... Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their f...

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The Firm of Nucingen

By: Honoré de Balzac

...syl- vania 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... ... manitarian language.) For these, all material interests lie with- out the range of sentiment. They give their time, their life, their honor to a woma... ...ly rising and falling upon a small round freestone slab in the middle of a basin some six feet across; they would rise early of a morning to see if th... ...the legislature. The great men of their districts are sent up to us by the provinces, crammed with parochial no- tions of right and wrong; and ideas t...

...Excerpt: To whom, madame, but to you should I inscribe this work; to you whose lofty and candid intellect is a treasury to your friends; to you that are to me not only a whole public, but the most indulgent of sisters as well? Will you deign to accept a token of the friendship of which I am proud? You, and so...

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The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...sylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ...ty. There are one or two other points which indicate Hawthorne’s method of basing his compositions, the result in the main of pure invention, on the s... ...before beginning the work, “this valley in which I dwell seems like a vast basin filled with golden Sunshine as with wine;” and, happy in the companio... ...n’s part became still more unaccountable, when the second dignitary of the province made his appearance, and found no more ceremonious a reception. Th... ...furnished room, of moderate size, somewhat darkened by curtains; books ar- ranged on shelves; a large map on the wall, and likewise a portrait of Colo... ...f inter- 56 The House of the Seven Gables est, as a clergyman does in the range of his parishioners. Not that he laid claim to the tithe pig; but, as... ...o say, —had thought it worth their while to come hither, possibly from the range of hives beside some farm-house miles away. How many aerial voyages m...

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The Daisy Chain: Or, Aspirations : A Family Chronicle

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...sylvania State Univer- sity. 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 Pennsyl- vania S... ...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... ...a gave a glance of warning, but Ethel’s short-sighted eyes were beyond the range of correspondence, and Miss Anderson continued. “It must have been a ... ...et- tling the room. It was a tidy room, but it seemed very small when they ranged the benches, and opened the door to the seven-and- twenty children, ... ...delight of Mary and Blanche, who found it as good or better than play, and ranged their performances in rows, till the room looked like a ba- zaar. To... ...e ushered into the drawing-room; and Blanche instantly fled away, with her basin, to hide herself in the schoolroom. Meta skipped out, and soon was es... ...to choose the words. “I believe!” he repeated. “What—when we go beyond the province of reason—human, a thing of sense after all! How often have I so a...

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Celt and Saxon

By: George Meredith

... George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Celt and Saxon by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...good bow and short speech. Here we are, and the room’s lighted. Off to the basin, give me the key; and here’s hot water in trip- 53 George Meredith p... ... have caught Rockney’s deliberate gaze. ‘The effect of it, I’m told in the provinces is astonishing for promoting enlistment. Hear it any morning in y... ...e dancing away like harmless wood-nymphs when the Satyr slumbers. His eyes ranged over his guests despondently, and fixed in desperation on Mr. 98 Ce... ...view were not attributed to a fluctuating devotion; they passed out of the range of criticism upon inconsistency, notwithstanding that the commencemen... ...green of the earth green- ing out from under wings of shadow, the mountain ranges holding hands about an immensity of space. It was one of our giant d...

...Excerpt: A young Irish gentleman of the numerous clan O?Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landowner of those marches, the Squire ...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...ELIGIOUS DIMENSION by DONALD BROADRIBB With contributions by Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons Second Edition Published by the Author York, Western Austra... ... Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the p... ...uthor, Donald Broadribb, owner of the publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using ... ...ing to Buddhist tradition, King Milinda (c. 155 BC) was a local ruler of a province in India that had been part of the conquests of Alexander the Grea... ...entually became the Christ, and therefore God, the statement is within the range of reasonable definition. But with the official proclamation of the d... ... prayers, and in many cases sacraments and special holy actions. These may range from baptism and the Eucharist (Holy Communion) among Christians to p... ...low of his throat to his pubic hair], and drew out my heart. Then a golden basin, filled with faith, was brought. He washed my heart and intestines in ... ... the temperate southern woodlands and grassy tablelands, forests, mountain ranges and coastal plains, and the vast sands of the central deserts which ...

... went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been only in the past two or three centuries that religious questioning has occupied the minds and hearts of a large share of the population. Religious questioningis now a concern of the entire world, West and East alike. One sign of this is the extraordinary proliferation of new religiouscreeds and organizations. It s...

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Speeches: Literary and Social

By: Charles Dickens

...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...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... ...ng good is in compatible with justice; there must be an international ar rangement in this respect: England has done her part, and I am confident th... ...y heaps of earth. The poor man in crowded cities gardens still in jugs and basins and bottles: in factories and workshops people garden; and even the ... ... al ways few—and has there found at once its highest purpose, its natural range of action, and its best reward. Therefore it is right also, as it see... ...ircle in the water, in the first instance, the people are nearer the wider range outside, and the Sister Arts, while they instruct them, derive a whol... ...nd the reception of that picture here is an example that it is not now the province of art in painting to hold itself in monastic seclusion, that it c... ...lly interrupted endeavours to eat something with a knife and fork out of a basin, by a dusty fire, in that extraordinary little gritty room, upon whic...

Excerpt: Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens.

...: BIRMINGHAM, FEBRUARY 28, 1844. ............................................................................................... 33 SPEECH: GARDENERS AND GARDENING. ...................................................................................................... 39 LONDON, JUNE 14, 1852. ....................................................................................

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Biographical Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...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... ...manated from the capital, all opinions must have travelled slowly into the provinces. But even then, whilst the perfect organs of communication were w... ...pen between the great central organ of the national mind, and the remotest provinces. Parliaments were occasionally summoned, (for the judges’ circuit... ...and explicit imitation. Possibly, as we have already suggested, within the range of 80 Biographical Essays English literature Pope might have found a... ...improved in its arithmetic by Sir Isaac Newton. But in literature such ar- rangements are degrading; and, above all, in a work which was but too much ... ...t because the compass and sweep of his perfor- mances lies more within the range of ordinary judgments. Many questions that have been raised upon Milt... ...an gains his first chance of entering the po- 136 Biographical Essays lar basin, or of running ahead on the true line of approach to it. The very rea...

...Excerpt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on th...

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The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... . . . . . . . . 19 An Invocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Anna and Harland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 To the Evening Star . ... ... ‘‘Morning Chronicle’’ in December 1794 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 and January 1795 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 To the Honourable Mr. E... ...’ To Robert Southey of Baliol College, Oxford, Author of The ‘‘Retrospect’’, and other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Poems . . . . . . . ... ...l self-affirming act!) All his involvØd Monads, that yet seem With various province and apt agency Each to pursue its own self-centering end. Some... ...ed and pure. If there be Beings of higher class than Man, I deem no nobler province they possess, Than by disposal of apt circumstance To rear up ... ...vale with mine eyes — green meadows and lake with green island, Dark in its basin of rock, and the bare stream flowing in brightness, Thrilled with ... ...loved! O long unharmed May all its agØd boughs o’er-canopy The small round basin, which this jutting stone Keeps pure from falling leaves! Long may... ...nstancy to an Ideal Object ?1826 Since all that beat about in Nature’s range, Or veer or vanish; why should’st thou remain The only constant i...

...ing Approach of sweetly-smiling spring, When Nature?s clad in green: When feather?d songsters through the grove With beasts confess the power of love And brighten all the scene. Now youths the breaking stages load That swiftly rattling o?er the road To Greenwich haste away: While some with sounding oars divide Of smoothly-flowing Thames the tide All sing the festive lay. W...

... Muse, 11 -- Destruction of the Bastile, 12 -- Life, 14 -- Progress of Vice, 15 -- Monody on the Death of Chatterton, 16 -- An Invocation, 19 -- Anna and Harland, 20 -- To the Evening Star, 21 -- Pain, 22 -- On a Lady Weeping: Imitation from the Latin of Nicolaus Archius, 23 -- Monody on a Tea-kettle, 24 -- Genevieve, 26 -- On Receiving an Account that his Only Sister?s De...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...g a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens VOLUME ONE A ... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication V olume One of THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Account of the F... ...g a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens is a publicat... ...d turned up by some lucky chance since the interview of the previous day , ranged in a row on the opposite seat. Mr Squeers 51 Charles Dickens had be... ... a smile. Mrs Squeers stood at one of the desks, presiding over an immense basin of brimstone and treacle, of which delicious compound she administere... ...‘Here, you Smike; take away now . Look sharp!’ Smike shuffled out with the basin, and Mrs Squeers having called up a little boy with a curly head, and... ..., that gentleman called up the first class. Obedient to this summons there ranged themselves in front of the schoolmaster’s desk, half-a-dozen scarecr... ... with their flaxen tails towards them, and their faces to the fire; an ar- rangement which was no sooner perfected, than Mrs Kenwigs was overpowered b... ...and drawing in his breath with a hissing sound, ‘she oughtn’t to be in the provinces, she oughtn’ t.’ 289 Charles Dickens ‘What do you mean?’ asked t...

...Excerpt: Volume One of the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens....

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...g a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens A Penn State ... ...rles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Account of the F... ...g a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens is a publicat... ...d turned up by some lucky chance since the interview of the previous day , ranged in a row on the opposite seat. Mr Squeers 51 Charles Dickens had be... ... a smile. Mrs Squeers stood at one of the desks, presiding over an immense basin of brimstone and treacle, of which delicious compound she administere... ...‘Here, you Smike; take away now . Look sharp!’ Smike shuffled out with the basin, and Mrs Squeers having called up a little boy with a curly head, and... ..., that gentleman called up the first class. Obedient to this summons there ranged themselves in front of the schoolmaster’s desk, half-a-dozen scarecr... ... with their flaxen tails towards them, and their faces to the fire; an ar- rangement which was no sooner perfected, than Mrs Kenwigs was overpowered b... ...as, hurrying him back into the room. ‘There is no harm done, beyond what a basin of water can repair.’ ‘No harm!’ cried Newman, passing his hands hast...

...Excerpt: The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens....

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Selected Writings

By: Guy de Maupassant

...Selected Writings by Guy De Maupassant Short Stories of the T ragedy and Comedy of Life with a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget of the French Ac... ...medy of Life with a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...tion Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with acritical preface by Paul Bourget of the French Aca... ... dramatic incident, since, pro- duced by causes less general, these have a range more restricted. The truly scientific romance writer, proposing to pa... ...ing book. She welcomed me, and I went into the hall, where three children, ranged according to their height, were ranked for review, like firemen befo... ...k beard. Sud- denly I had a kind of vision, I know not why—the vision of a basin filled with noisome water, the water which should have been applied t... ...h their magnetic look had a happy, frank expression, and from the mere ar- rangement of her hair, one could see that she was fair among the fair. He u... ...uble, leaning on the parapet. Sometimes they would gaze out over the great basin of Argenteuil, where the skiffs might be seen scudding, with their wh... ...nt slowly out of the chapel, the old man following him with the holy-water basin in one hand, and a taper in the other. Then the police director left ...

...Excerpt: Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with a critical preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A....

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Two Poets

By: Honoré de Balzac

...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... ...ke marquises, financiers, doctors, and lawyers, would have been within the province of the writer of plays? And why should Comedy, qui castigat ridend... ...d at the back. A passage at the side led to the private office; but in the provinces the processes of ty- pography excite such a lively interest, that... ...half-a-dozen chairs with lyre- shaped backs and blue leather cushions were ranged round the room. The two clumsy arched windows that gave upon the Pla... ... stood a red tray with a pattern of gilt roses, and three cups and a sugar-basin of Limoges porce- lain. Eve slept in the little adjoining closet, whe... ...a very great man; but the Marquise laughed, and 88 Two Poets her laughter ranged her on Nais’ side. “You are very fortunate, monsieur,” said the Marq... ...ions that all the world can see and understand—the poet must con- tinually range through the entire scale of human intellects, so that he can satisfy ...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Where I Lived, and What I Lived For . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Reading . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Winter Animals ... ... I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two yea... ... a glimpse of some of the peaks of the still bluer and more distant mountain ranges in the north west, those true blue coins from heaven’s own mint, a... ...shed elevated perhaps by a mirage in their seething valley, like a coin in a basin, all the earth beyond the pond appeared like a thin crust insulated... ...ught, but to serious reading, than a university; and though I was beyond the range of the ordinary circulating library, I had more than ever come with... ...ced in some way, and reclaimed from Nature. For what reason have I this vast range and circuit, some square miles of unfrequented forest, for my priva... ...of water within the land not only horizontally but vertically, and to form a basin or independent pond, the direction of the two capes showing the cou... ...with its length, the water over the bar was deeper compared with that in the basin. Given, then, the length and breadth of the cove, and the character...

..., I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if very part...

...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 132 -- Brute Neighbors, 140 -- House-Warming...

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The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...E GOVERNOR’S HALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 8 THE ELF CHILD AND THE MINISTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 9 THE LEECH . . . . . .... ...CH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 10 THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 11 THE INTERIOR ... ... 13 ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 14 HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 15 HESTER AND... ...the captains of the rusty little schooners that bring firewood from the British provinces; a rough looking set of tarpaulins, without the alertness of ... ...ar minded; with an eye that saw through all perplexities, and a faculty of ar rangement that made them vanish as by the waving of an enchanter’s wand... ...in on his conscience, as to anything that came THE CUSTOM HOUSE 17 within the range of his vocation, would trouble such a man very much in the same w... ...athan Pine, as Surveyor of His Majesty’s Customs for the Port of Salem, in the Province of Mas sachusetts Bay. I remembered to have read (probably in... ...who felt it to be the best definition of happiness to live throughout the whole range of his faculties and sensibilities But, all this while, I was giv... ...dy marked the habits of the emigrants. It stood on the shore, looking across a basin of the sea at the forest covered hills, towards the west. A clump...

...Excerpt: PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; MUCH to the author?s surprise, and (if he may say so without additional offence) considerably to his amusement, he finds that his sketch of official life, introductory to THE SCARLET LETTER, has created an unprecedented excitement in the respectable commun...

...LACE, 33 -- 3 THE RECOGNITION, 40 -- 4 THE INTERVIEW, 47 -- 5 HESTER AT HER NEEDLE, 52 -- 6 PEARL, 59 -- 7 THE GOVERNOR?S HALL, 66 -- 8 THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER, 72 -- 9 THE LEECH, 79 -- 10 THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT, 87 -- 11 THE INTERIOR OF A HEART, 95 -- 12 THE MINISTER?S VIGIL, 100 -- 13 ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER, 108 -- 14 HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN, 114 -- 15 HESTER ...

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The Amazing Marriage

By: George Meredith

...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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania S... ...tion project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...as born, and for the reason of her first seeing the light in that Austrian province, she was chris- tened Carinthia Jane. She was her old father’s pet... ...ly topping their ancient guardian height, the triple peak and giant of the range, friendlier in his name than in aspect for the two young people cling... ...t and morning taking hands down the sweep of their rivers. Immense was the range of vision scudding the peaks and over the illimitable Eastward plains... ...ic prospect was hopeful. At sunset they stood on the hills overlooking the basin of the Baths, all enfolded in swathes of pink and crimson up to the s... ...elf, unaware of a spectator, he not knowing who she was;—the Fates had ar- ranged it so. That was why he took to her so rapidly. So he told her. She l... ... knee beside a girl’s lap, where the stripped child lay. Its mother held a basin for the dabbing at raw red spots. A sting of pain touched the memory ...

...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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Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son 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... ...fore he felt it safe to close with it; finally, splashing it into the slop-basin, where I took the lib- erty of laying hands upon it. As to his shirt-... ...templation of domestic bliss. Little Alick in a frock has already made ar- rangements for his union with a suitable young person at Kew . And indeed, ... ... and his comrade. The neighbourhood, however, highly approved of these ar- rangements, and we were much admired as we went through the village; the mo... ...glorious in being members of so distin- guished a procession. And now, the range of marshes lay clear before us, with the sails of the ships on the ri... ... and was anything but easy to find. It was called Mill Pond Bank, Chinks’s Basin; and I had no other guide to Chinks’ s Basin than the Old Green Coppe... ...o gentle in her, so much needing protection on Mill Pond Bank, by Chinks’s Basin, and the Old Green Copper Rope-Walk, with Old Barley growling in the ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. My father?s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip....

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...nsylvania 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... ...r, dear!” cried Mother, breaking out again, “when I saw all those children ranged tier above tier, and appealing from the father none of them has ever... ...to judge by his panting, he had brought from the cellar), a lemon, a sugar-basin, and a spice box. With these materials and the aid of the kettle, he ... ...ngue. ‘It is quite unnecessary to say to a person of your good sense, wide range of experience, and cultivated feeling,’ said Mrs Merdle from her nest... ...alendar. But he invited Y oung John to dinner, and even brought him within range of the dangerous (because expensive) fascina- tions of Miss Rugg. The... ...ft in the world, when all these deductions were made, it was Mrs General’s province to varnish. In that formation process of hers, she dipped the smal... ...rench colloquial powers of Edward Dorrit, Esquire, and scarcely within the province of the ladies. Miss Fanny, how- ever, now supported her father wit...

...on. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them dur...

...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Governmen...

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Happy Families Are All Alike; Every Unhappy Family Is Unhappy in Its Own Way

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...nsylvania 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... ...as instilled into the princess that in our times young people ought to ar- range their lives for themselves, she was unable to be- lieve it, just as s... ... his mother’s fortune, and the last scandal, when he had gone to a western province in an official capacity, and there had got into trouble for assaul... ...was used to. “Impossible!” he cried, letting down the pedal of the washing basin in which he had been sousing his healthy red neck. “Impossible!” he c...

... Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their f...

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...syl- vania 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... ...so much pleasure, and, but for Allen, the studio would never have been ar- ranged. But no sooner was her time engrossed, than the art- ist fever awoke... ...th an exclamation. Armine again offered to rub it for him, and the two ar- ranged themselves for this purpose, the curtain of damp woolliness seeming ... ... to go near him. Then, if he is awake—” “If—” ejaculated John. “Give him a basin of soup—Liebig, if you can’t get any- thing here.” “Liebig!” broke ou... ...responsible for your lordship to your mamma, and it does not lie within my province to leave you on any account.” 246 Magnum Bonum Reeves always call... ...e in numbers, size, or beauty with the Kencroft flock, the Belforest party ranged well in their seat at Church, for Robert never failed to accompany h... ...midst, however, in marched Reeves, with a tray and a napkin, and a regular basin of invalid soup, 477 Yonge which he set down before John in his easy...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Joe Brownlow?s Fancy. The lady said, ?An orphan?s fate Is sad and hard to bear.? --Scott ?MOTHER, you could do a great kindness.? ?Well, Joe?? ?If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she has had the measles last and worst, and...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...ESTORING SIGHT ELECTRIC VEHICLES ENERGY SOLUTIONS NANOTECHNOLOGY MEETINGS AND CONVENTIONS MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS AQUACULTURE UNIQUE CROPS WIND POWER ... ...ESTORING SIGHT ELECTRIC VEHICLES ENERGY SOLUTIONS NANOTECHNOLOGY MEETINGS AND CONVENTIONS MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS AQUACULTURE UNIQUE CROPS 2 APEC 2011... ...ESTORING SIGHT ELECTRIC VEHICLES ENERGY SOLUTIONS NANOTECHNOLOGY MEETINGS AND CONVENTIONS MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS AQUACULTURE UNIQUE CROPS WIND POWER ... ... a $1.5 million, 6-MW, solar-power plant in Thailand’s Nakorn Ratchasima province. Under the agreement, MAI also holds the rights to distribute So... ...th low-pressure and high-temperature, so it can be deployed in the 50-MW range and lower in global markets. Sopogy installations are already built... ...d 2008, it signed multiple contracts in the $200-million to $400-million range to supply polysilicon to major PV panel manufacturers in China, Hon... ...USINESS 36 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS KAUA‘I 1 Līhu‘e 2 Pacifc Missile Range (test site for U.S. anti- missile defenses and other advanced system... ...Taiwan Hawai‘i Overseas Offces Hawai‘i’s sister-state relationships with provinces in the APEC economies China: Guangdong, Hainan, Tianjin Taiwan ... ...ational meetings. Just ask the International Chemical Congress of Pacifc Basin Societies, the largest chemical conference in the Pacifc region. Pa...

...ater -- 36 America’s Most Diverse State -- 38 Local Economy -- 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies -- 42 A History of Innovation -- 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences -- 48 Turning Science Into Practical Inventions -- 56 Winners of the Hawai‘i Business Innovation Showcase -- 60 Breakthroughs in Health and Medicine -- 68 Hawai‘I Diversity Ideal for Medical Resea...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

... 3 CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY C ONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, wit... ...brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still bur... ...and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulph... ... censured wanderer light on some out lying, neglected, yet vitally momentous province; the hidden treasures of which he first discovered, and kept proc... ...efrom in quite another than that omniscient style, are my humbler and proper province.” THE WORLD IN CLOTHES 25 Acting on which prudent restriction, ... ...ise half naked Vulcans hammer and smelt in their smelt furnace,—is there not range enough in the fashion and uses of this Vestment? How much has been ... ...e, were it screwed off, and (like the Doctor’s in the Arabian Tale) set in a basin to keep it alive, could prosecute without shadow of a heart,—but on... ...culiar feeling it is that will rise in the Traveller, when turning some hill range in his desert road, he descries lying far below, embosomed among it... ...lowly arranging their descent towards every quarter of the sky. The mountain ranges are beneath your feet, and folded together: only the loftier summi...

...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely th...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...sylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ...wiser than you and me, though we knelt to hand her a letter or a wash-hand basin. Why shall History go on kneeling to the end of time? I am for having... ...s his parrain—that he was to live at the great house of Castlewood, in the province of ——shire, where he would see Madame the Viscountess, who was a g... ..., as page, waiting at her chair, bringing her scented water and the silver basin after dinner—sitting on her carriage- step on state occasions, or on ... ...nd ugly names, who made nothing of boxing his ears, and tilting the silver basin in his face which it was his business to present to her after dinner.... ...ial differences which were now permanent, while of course Mistress Beatrix ranged with her father. When heads of families fall out, it must natu- rall... ...speak to her now. Did you see her at Bushy, Harry? She is furious, and she ranges about the park like a lioness, and tears people’s eyes out.” “And th...

...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship which I owe to you and yours. My volum...

........................................................................................................ 26 CHAPTER IV I AM PLACED UNDER A POPISH PRIEST AND BRED TO THAT RELIGION.?VISCOUNTESS CASTLEWOOD .................................................................................................................................................... 36 CHAPTER V MY SUPERIORS ...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...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 ...

...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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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Book II — Old and Young. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Chapter XIII.... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 Book VI — The Widow and the Wife. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 Chapter LIV . . . . .... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576 Book VIII — Sunset and Sunrise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590 Chapter LXXII. .... ... 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... ...tume, with that nymph like figure and pure blindness which give the largest range to choice in the flow and color of drapery. But these things made only... ...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 ...

...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 ...

... 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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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

...sylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...e days’ delay, which caused great uneasiness in Liverpool, she entered the basin of the company. The engineers visited the Scotia, which was put in dr... ...gether. Then turning back I struck against a wooden table, near which were ranged several stools. The boards of this prison were concealed under a thi... ...rter of the horizon at once. This faculty—(I verified it later)—gave him a range of vision far superior to Ned Land’s. When this stranger fixed upon a... ...t, his eyebrows met, his large eyelids closed around so as to contract the range of his vision, and he looked as if he magnified the objects lessened ... ...idacne, a goblet which could have contained a whole lake of holy- water, a basin the breadth of which was more than two yards and a half, and conseque... ...e out of this sea of fire. The next day, the 16th of February, we left the basin which, between Rhodes and Alexandria, is reckoned about 1,500 fathoms...

...Excerpt: The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable inci dent, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of th... ...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... ...nions shall be first fined, then imprisoned, and finally driven out of the province. – “Historical Collection of State Papers,” vol. i. p. 630. ****By... ...ssantly direct our attention. It may be regarded as a central point in the range of human observation, and the common termina- tion of all inquiry. So... ... the western side of the Alleghanies. If the Union goes on to subsist, the basin of the Mississippi is evidently marked out, by its fertility and its ... ... the western side of the Alleghanies. If the Union goes on to subsist, the basin of the Mississippi is evidently marked out, by its fertility and its ... ...its, and many of the most important of human opinions are removed from the range of its influence. The second circumstance to which I have alluded is ... ...guidance, and to open to the mind of every man a void and almost unlimited range of speculation. When equality of conditions succeeds a pro- tracted c...

...ca were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which had been won at great cost and with heroic labors and sacrifices. Their studies were conducted in view of the imperfections that experience had developed in the government of the Confederation, and they were, therefore, practical and thorough....

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What ... ...ER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of t... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...ay in the dimness; the sailors in the rigging of the ships that lay in the Basin wrought like phantoms among the shrouds; the gondolas stole in and ou... ...rt, T axhem, Citeaux, Meloria, Zutphen. The highest peaks of the Karakorum range. The number of universities in Prussia. Why are the tops of mountains... ...way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so hap... ...o back to his gate post, and content himself with watching me fall at long range. There was a row of low stepping stones across one end of the street,... ..., so limitlessly erudite that one may say of him “all cat knowledge is his province”; Mark T wain 213 also, take a mouse. Lock the three up in a hole... ...to his uncle, Lord Burleigh, he said, “I have taken all knowledge to be my province.” Though Bacon did not arm his philosophy with the weap ons of lo...

Excerpt: What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...nsylvania 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... ... been thus viv- idly brought before us and have had time to settle and ar- range themselves in our minds, some day there will be found the man of scie... ... In Pace, for example, in spite of its strength, verges dangerously on the province of the penny novelist. I do not believe that Quasimodo rode upon t... ...be an ad- mirable poem; but its significance is trebled, and the power and range of the poet first appears, when it is set beside the Jolly Beggars. T... ...tious, and coin- cides roughly with what Schopenhauer has laid down as the province of the metaphysician. The poet is to gather together for men, and ... ...herry-trees, where there is a fountain, and a lady gathering cherries in a basin.” These were some of the pictures over which his fancy might busy its... ...it was no inapt, as it was certainly no timid, spirit that selected such a range of themes. Of “Gaze not on Swans,” I know no more than these four wor...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of editors; and second, that the proprietors ...

...ITMAN............................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER IV ? HENRY DAVID THOREAU: HIS CHARACTER AND OPINIONS........... 84 CHAPTER V ? YOSHIDA-TORAJIRO..................................................................................... 107 CHAPTER VI ? FRANCOIS VILLON, STUDENT, POET, AND HOUSEBREAKER.........117 CHAPTE...

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