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...ies Publication Dombey & Son Volume 1 by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...n a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to to... ... Mr Pilkins who, from his position, is best acquainted with the patient’ s constitution in its normal state (an acquain- tance very valuable to us in ... ...lister, I believe,’ said Miss T ox, looking round upon the family, ‘is not constitutional, but accidental?’ The apple-faced man was understood to grow... ...tain, ‘that you’d read in the paper that a Cap’en of that name was gone to Australia, emigrating, along with a whole ship’s comple- ment of people as ...

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...ssics Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...n a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to to... ... Mr Pilkins who, from his position, is best acquainted with the patient’ s constitution in its normal state (an acquain- tance very valuable to us in ... ...lister, I believe,’ said Miss T ox, looking round upon the family, ‘is not constitutional, but accidental?’ The apple-faced man was understood to grow... ...tain, ‘that you’d read in the paper that a Cap’en of that name was gone to Australia, emigrating, along with a whole ship’s comple- ment of people as ...

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...My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...or what would Lady Diana’s feelings have been if Viola had carried home an Australian kiss? “This is Miss T racy.” Viola’s carriage was now actually c... ...t I could see that he was shocked at the contrast between our poor and the Australian settlers, where food and space were plenty and the wages high. I... ...at crush of her life had taken away her girlhood and left her no spring of constitution to resist illness, so that she had sunk into a regular cripple... ...e fair. This, however, was forbidden, with a hint about even the strongest constitution not being able to defy tetanus. This made us all look grave, a... ...s elicited from Harold what things he had done with the unbroken animal in Australia. I went off the scene at once, but when I returned to lun- cheon ... ...son was called on to answer him, and you are aware that, except to certain constitutions of intellect, as my uncle would say, certain animals cannot o...

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...Publication The Waste Land by T.(homas) S.(tearns) Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...verses 5-8. 42. Id. iii, verse 24. 46. I am not familiar with the exact constitution of the Tarot pack of cards, from which I have obviously depart... ...lad from which these lines are taken: it was reported to me from Sydney, Australia. 202. V. V erlaine, P ARSIF AL. 210. The currants were quoted a...

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...es Publication The House on the Beach by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...are in the presence of the tremen- dous elements of nature. It sounded the constitution more darkly-awful, and with a profounder testimony to stubborn... ...I’ll tell you, you inquire the route to Mr. Van Diemen Smith over there in Australia.” “Yes, papa,” interrupted his daughter, “only you must con- side... ... to present himself at the palace in his Court suit, seemed to stupefy his Australian intelligence. “What right has he got to go to Court?” Mr. Van Di... ...shattered chiwal-glass and the visit of Tinman’s old schoolmate fresh from Australia, was at many a breakfast-table before. Tinman heard a word of it,... ...with the pig-wash, so that it should not be entirely lost, but benefit the constitution of the pig. Herbert sipped at the remaining bottle, and findin...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...ry Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ten employing the willing services of his pupils in copying let- ters from Australia, Newfoundland, &c. 21 Yo n g e When the Bishop of New Zealand ca... ...gher than that of most men: his nature was prone to introspection, and his constitutional inertness rendered it so difficult for him to live up to his... ... the Matins were daily, and followed by a lecture. At this time Patteson’s constitutional shrinking from gen- eral society was in full force, and he a... ... John Coleridge Patteson the third fringe round the north-eastern curve of Australia, the New Hebrides, Banks Islands, and Solomon Isles, were almost ... ...pon it as the place most likely to agree alike with English and Melanesian constitutions, and therefore eminently fit- ted for the place of instructio... ... and maintained by the yearly visits of Bishop Selwyn, who usually visited Australia while the lads were wintering at their homes. But the ‘Border Mai...

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...An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ars, so delightfully mysterious as Grand Cairo. But the route to India and Australia has changed all this. Men from all countries going to the East, n... ...would listen to Mr. Damer by the half-hour as to the virtue of the British Constitution, and had even sat by almost with patience when Mr. Damer had e...

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...y Joseph Conrad A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time ... ...f three years out there … Because triumphant health in the general rout of constitutions is a kind of power in itself. When he went home on leave he r...

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...sics Series Publication Rhoda Fleming by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...No wonder, then, that his dream was of prairies, and primeval forests, and Australian wilds. He believed in his heart that he would be a man new made ... ...y for— there was the cream of it!—that was better than Peruvian bark to my constitution. It was as good to me as a sniff of sea-breeze and no excursio... ...temptation—one fellow cut his lucky with his master’s cash, dashed away to Australia, made millions, fit to be a lord, and there he was! liable to the... ... mortals, does not matter in the least. But we have nothing to do with the constitutionally luck- less: the calamitous history of a simple empty stoma... ...r man of the two! Anthony’s comfort was in the unfaltering strength of his constitution. He permitted his estimate of it to hint at the probability of... ...rried, and got the money, and the lease o’ my farm disposed of, I’m off to Australia and leave old England be- hind me, and thank ye, mother, thank ye...

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... by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...but plain enough, on the Admiralty charts. Was there not somewhere between Australia and China a Whalley Island and a Condor Reef? On that danger- ous... ...y his loneliness, he hastened to accept a rather unprof- itable freight to Australia simply for the opportu- nity of seeing his daughter in her own ho... ...mes: he had heard of one or two such cases. Others again … But, as it were constitution- ally, he was faithful to the belief that the conduct of 64 E...