...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen... ...tion; for if a writer takes upon himself the office of annalist of his own time, he is bound to touch on many sore subjects. The house was called the ... ... he told the Constable de Luynes, a very paltry fellow in his eyes at that time. You may be sure that d’Esgrignons lost their heads on the scaffold du... ...utting myself so that I could see the out- lines of her face lit up by the daylight, and feel the fascination of those dreamy emerald eyes, which sent... ... inexhaustible. The eighty thousand francs thus squandered represented his savings, accumulated for the day when the Marquis should send his son to Pa... ...n has debts. Perhaps you would rather that Victurnien should bring you his savings?—Do you know that our great Richelieu (not the Cardinal, a pitiful ... ...you do not bear us such a grudge that you will not listen to terms. Before daylight the young man ought to be at liberty.” “The whole town knows that ... ...pot which appeared to con- tain a piece of mildewed rattan; “it comes from Australia. You are very young, sir, to be a horticulturist.” “Dear M. Blond...

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

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvan... ...popular. Cricket-matches, where a hundred played upon a side, en- dured at times for weeks, and ate up the country like the 9 Robert Louis Stevenson ... ...l- lage attend to prepare the kava bowl and entertain them with the dance; time flies in the enjoyment of every pleasure which an islander conceives; ... ...nama canal, caught the fever, and came (for the sake of the sea voyage) to Australia. He had that natural love for the tropics which lies so often lat... ...ys dined “near where the fire was.” They come to a “newly-formed place” in Australia, where the AL- BATROSS was lying, and a British ship, which he kn... ...epicts the man’s effrontery as that he should have conceived the design of saving both, – of re-establishing only so much of the neutral territory as ... ...ugh, or seen standing on end against the breast of billows. The Trenton at daylight still maintained her position in the neck of the bottle. But five ... ...eyond question, much was very honestly returned. On both accounts, for the saving of life and the restoration of property, the government of the Unite...

...Preface: An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considered, it is hoped that, in s...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, t... ...paper of mine, ‘On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts;’ at the same time proving the sincerity of their praise by one hesi- tating expression o... ...ut, at all events, after the personal interests have been tranquillized by time, inevitably the scenical features (what aesthetically may be called th... ...t, the whole course and evolution of the subsequent drama becomes clear as daylight. The mur- derer, it is evident, had opened gently, and again close... ...feet of the lurking boy. That night they passed through Manches- ter. When daylight returned, they slept in a thicket twenty miles distant from the sc... ...ry of) Hypermnestra. Now, suppose a man to object, that young ladies, when saving their youthful husbands at midnight from assassination, could not be... ... the vermin, locally called Squatters, 1 both in the wilds of America and Australia, who pre-occupy other men’s estates, have latterly illustrated th...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Penn... ...its of their walls are to be seen still, built of very small bricks. Some- times people dig up a bit of the beautiful pavement of col- ored tiles, in ... ...el faces, and they ought to be heirs with the angels in heaven.” From that time this good man tried to find means to send teachers to teach the Englis... ..., and to it clung a butcher and the owner of the ship all night long. When daylight came, and the owner knew that the king’s son was really dead, and ... ...ncers were put to a cruel death, though Edward gave himself up in hopes of saving them. The queen and her friends made him own that he did not deserve... ...ot work or food enough for them at home, and went to settle in Canada, and Australia, and Van Dieman’s Land, and New Zealand, making, in all these dis...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvan... ...ing a hundredweight or so of ex- plosive upon the printing machines of The Times, and return- ing securely to Calais for another similar parcel. They ... ...and behind them. Are we an awakening people? It is the vital riddle of our time. I look out upon the windy Channel and think of all those millions jus... ...on a far huger scale from India into Africa, and from China and Japan into Australia and America are prevented. All the indications point to a time wh... ... the work that has to be done to keep our community going in far more toil-saving and life-saving ways than we follow at the present time. So far scie... ...I, and the rest of us who must to- gether go on with the perennial task of saving the country by firstly, doing our own jobs just as well as ever we c... ...fixation of conditions that were once fluid and adventurous goes on in the daylight visibly to everyone. And it has to be borne in mind also that thes... ...imordial dream-stuff of lewdness and jealousy and cruelty, pale before the daylight which filters between his eyelids. In a little while we individual...

...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and t...