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...es Dickens Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pickwick Papers, Volume One by Charles Dickens is a publication of t... ...on The Pickwick Papers, Volume One by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ..., 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... ...T upman’s vision; and gradually had the capacious chin encroached upon the borders of the white cravat: but the soul of Tupman had known no change— ad... ...kwick Papers 28 ‘If you will take the trouble to turn into the field which borders the trench, take the foot path to the left when you arrive at an an... ..., or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry. On either side, the banks of the Medway, covered with corn fields and pastures, with here and ... ...sed by his loquacity. ‘Played it! Think I have—thousands of times—not here—West Indies—excit ing thing—hot work—very.’ ‘It must be rather a warm pur ... ...have stood aloof. ‘What is the name of the house?’ inquired Mr. Pickwick. ‘Westgate House, Sir. You turn a little to the right when you get to the end...

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...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed thei...

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...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...ic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...strations of mercy may be carried on, not only within the city, but on the borders of the camp itself—’the lady with the lamp’, whose health and stren... ... were performed, the spirit went wandering restlessly up and down upon the banks of a dark stream, unable to enter the home of the dead. Antigone sole... ...‘To arms! To arms! Sir Consul, Lars Porsena is here.’ On the low hills to westward The Consul fixed his eye, And saw the swarthy storm of dust Rise... ...alled Thermopylae, or the Hot Gates. A wall had once been built across the western-most of these narrow places, when the Thessalians and Phocians, who... ...d over all the country from the Mediterranean Sea even into Persia and the borders of India. He spoke Greek, and be- lieved in both the Greek and Roma...

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Excerpt: The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...tte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...rful freshness in the air that took away all sultriness, the sun tend- ing westward in his long day’s career, and casting welcome shadows from the tal... ... a circumstance that occurred this morning. I had occasion to visit Grey’s Bank, and while wait- ing in conversation with Mr. Grey, a person came in w... ...nd with Black Shag Island and its train of rocks projecting far out to the west, and almost immediately beneath him, to the left, the little steep str... ... the depths of the long, winding valleys and dingles, with the icicle-hung banks of their streamlets. He came home through the village at about half-p... ...t her experience of lovers was limited. Mary walked with Amy almost to the borders of Hollywell garden; and when the rest came up with them, though no...

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...Excerpt: A chapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the strug...

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...ve by George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...lassics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...s coat-collar was up, his hat was melan- choly; he had the appearance of a bankrupt tradesman ab- sconding; no gloves, no umbrella. As to the incident... ... Patterne bride. Her father, Sir John Durham, was a large landowner in the west- ern division of the county; a pompous gentleman, the pic- ture of a f... ...untstuart congratulated Sir Willoughby on the prize he had won in the fair western- eastern. “Let me see her,” she said; and Miss Middleton was intro-... ...rospect dashed out. The two, then, may marry, and live in a cottage on the borders of his park; and Vernon can retain his post, and Laetitia her devot... ...njunction that he is not to come on my grounds, and here I find him on the borders of my garden!” Sir Willoughby waved his hand to the abject figure o...

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...Introduction: The Koran admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful e...

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...1 96 Thick Blood or Clots of Blood 2 74 The Enwrapped 3 73 The Enfolded 4 93 The Brightness 5 94 The Opening 6 113 The Daybreak 7 114 Men 8 1 Sura I. 9 109 Unbelievers 10 112 The Unity...

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...THE KORAN Translated from the Arabic by the Rev. J.M. Rodwell, M.A. with an Introduction by the Rev. ... .... G. Margoliouth, M.A. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Noble Qur'an The Koran trans. Rev. J. M. Rodwell, Introduction by Rev.... .... Rev. J. M. Rodwell, Introduction by Rev. G. Margoliouth is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...o Arabian writers, and that Muslims formed the connecting link between the West and the East for the importation of numerous articles of luxury and us... ...nd devote thyself to Him with entire devotion. Lord of the East and of the West! No God is there but He! Take Him for thy protector, And endure what t... ...ir life lasted. What! see they not that we come to a land and straiten its borders 9 Is it they who are the conquerors? SAY: I only warn you of what ... ... take account. See they not that we come into their land and cut short its borders? 8 God pronounceth a doom, and there is none to reverse his doom. ... ...ase Him, or he who hath founded his building on the brink of an undermined bank washed away by torrents, so that it rusheth with him into the fire of ...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glori...

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................ 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL.............................................................................................................. 9 THE CONDEMNED CELL. ..............................................................................................................12 CODLINGSBY ....................................................................................

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...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...N CHEPE ’TWA S NOONDA Y IN CHEPE. High Tide in the mighty River City!— its banks wellnigh overflowing with the myriad-waved Stream of Man! The topplin... ...of ribald satire. The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives ha... ...plume and apron of variegated feathers, decorated the lintel. The East and West had sent their contri- butions to replenish the window. The poor slave... ...SIDERABLE SENSATION has been excited in the upper and lower circles in the West End, by a startling piece of good fortune which has befallen James Plu... ...hairs and sophies—hemrall green tabbinet curtings with pink velvet & goold borders and fringes; a light blue Haxminster Carpit, embroydered with tulip...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken image...

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..............................................4 FATHER DAMIEN.........................................................................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW................................................................74 COLLEGE PAPERS..................................................

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... SERIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...RIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...erently share throughout our lives:- but even to them, no more than to our Western saints and he- roes, does the law of the state supersede the higher... ...ditcher. Without an appetite, without an aspiration, void of appreciation, bank- rupt of desire and hope, there, in his great house, let him sit and l... ...ice into a sea of unusual profundity. This range of cliff is, from east to west, the true end and frontier of the island. Only in one spot there proje... ...ge in Peru, a haunt of German robbers, and a peaceful vale in the Scottish borders. There is a sad absence of strik- ing argument or real lively discu... ...passages began to crackle under foot with ice. Some half a mile beyond the borders of the wood the lights of the ‘Green Dragon’ hove in sight, and run...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on th...

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...Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES................................................................................ 1...

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...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...al of 13 Memories and Portraits Scotland, was yet composed in the city of Westminster. The division of races is more sharply marked within the border... ...ty of Westminster. The division of races is more sharply marked within the borders of Scotland itself than between the countries. Galloway and Buchan,... ...n. From this disaster, like a spent swimmer, he came desper- ately ashore, bankrupt of money and consideration; creep- ing to the family he had desert... ...y walks, and the splendid breadth of champaign that one saw from the north-west corner. The garden and gar- dener seem part and parcel of each other. ... ...drovers met in the wilderness, as to-day the deep-sea fishers meet off the banks in the solitude of the Atlantic; and in the one as in the other case ...