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...s Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 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... ...f mind, walking through an exhibition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or ... ...aritable frame of mind, and apply yourself to your books or your business. I have no other moral than this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity F... ...he Man- ager retires, and the curtain rises. London, June 28, 1848 Chapter I Chiswick Mall WHILE THE PRESENT CENTURY was in its teens, and on one suns... ...soon as I have recovered, for my health is very much shaken, I shall go to Scotland for some months, and am Truly yours, Jos Sedley 62 V anity Fair I... ..., since the tartans of the head of the family were embraced by the defunct Duncan’s lords and councillors, when the great ancestor of the House became... ...lords and councillors, when the great ancestor of the House became King of Scotland. Lady Steyne, after the music scene, succumbed before Becky, and p...

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...eries Publication The Prime Minister 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ersity. 3 Anthony Trollope The Prime Minister by Anthony T rollope VOLUME I CHAPTER 1 FERDINAND LOPEZ IT IS A CERTAINTY of service to a man to know w... ...ate himself, suffered trouble in his mind respecting his ancestors such as I have endeavoured to describe. He did not know very much him- self, but wh... ...ssed submission was allowed his own way with the legs and with the window. I would not say that Ferdinand Lopez was prone to do ill-natured things; bu... ...bition. I feel myself to be a Lady Macbeth, prepared for the murder of any Duncan or any Daubney who may stand in my lord’s way. In the mean time, lik... ...-night, old fellow. Pluck up, and send us plenty of grouse if you do go to Scotland.’ John Fletcher, as I hope may have been already seen, was by no m... ...the horses’ backs. A draught of hounds were being sent down to a friend in Scotland. And there was a Committee of Masters to sit on the moot question ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Who will be the new bishop? In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be the new Bishop? The death of old Dr. Grantly, who h...

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...A pamphlet printed in London in 1591 and likely written by James Carmichael who later advised King James VI on the writing of his book Daemonologie. It describes the infamous North Berwick witch trials in Scotland and the confessions given before the King. It was subsequently published in Daemonolgie by King James in 1597....

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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 images of the tru...

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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... ...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... ...s on which they have themselves so few and such confused opinions? Indeed, I do not know; the 5 Lay Morals least said, perhaps, the soonest mended; a... ...ung people are taught to be Christians. It may be want of penetration, but I have not yet been able to perceive it. As an honest man, whatever we teac... ...world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.’ Are they? I had been led to understand the reverse: that the Christian merchant, for ... ...rd, Edinburgh, 1661-1668.* T WO HUNDRED YEARS AGO a tragedy was enacted in Scotland, the memory whereof has been in great measure lost or obscured by ... ...om the first, in the shudder of uncontrollable jealousy with which he sees Duncan embracing Banquo. He may have some northern poetry of speech, but he... ...ni does not appear, and the spectator is left at the mercy of Macduffs and Duncans, the play would go twice as well, and we should be better able to f...

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from h...

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...cs Series Publication Sketches by Boz 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... ...s Boz is a pseudonym of Charles Dickens SKETCHES BY BOZ OUR PARISH CHAPTER I—THE BEADLE. THE PARISH ENGINE. THE SCHOOLMASTER. H OW MUCH IS CONVEYED in... ...six small chil- dren. ‘Where do you live?’ inquires one of the overseers. ‘I rents a two-pair back, gentlemen, at Mrs. Brown’s, Number 3, Little King ... ...’—’Well, well, ’ interrupts the overseer, taking a note of the ad- dress, ‘I’ll send Simmons, the beadle, to-morrow morn- ing, to ascertain whether yo... ...at the front door, and out at the back one. 65 Charles Dickens CHAPTER IV—SCOTLAND-YARD SCOTLAND-YARD IS A SMALL—a very small-tract of land, bounded ... ...of fourteen who is having his eyebrows smeared with soap and whitening, is Duncan, King of Scotland; and the two dirty men with the corked countenance... ...nd the wall, and one wing and another. ‘Places, places. Now then, Witches— Duncan—Malcolm—bleeding officer—where’s the bleed- ing officer?’—’Here!’ re...

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...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume T wo, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... .................................................................. 25 EPISTLE I.—TO SIR RICHARD TEMPLE, LORD COBHAM.*....................................... ......................... 133 EPIGRAM, ENGRA VED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG WHICH I GAVE TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. 134 THE TRANSLATOR. ............................ ...ntroduc- tory part of this concluding book.—Warburton. EP EP EP EP EPISTLE I.—T ISTLE I.—T ISTLE I.—T ISTLE I.—T ISTLE I.—TO SIR RICHARD O SIR RICHARD... ...also one who takes the name of H. STANHOPE, the maker of certain verses to Duncan Campbell, 179 in that poem, which is wholly a satire on Mr Pope, co... ...ature’s self inspires.—See Boswell’s ‘Johnson.’ 133 This gentleman was of Scotland, and bred at the univer- sity of Utrecht, with the Earl of Mar. He... ...s. After the peace, he was made one of the Commissioners of the Customs in Scotland, and then of T axes in England, in which having shewn himself for ...

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...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Prelu... ...de . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Chapter II... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668 iv CONTENTS Middlemarch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and ... ...arch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiment... ... 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 ... ...Christy, the boy next to her, was getting cheap learning and cheap fare in Scotland, having to his father’s disappointment taken to books instead of t... ... young lady she was— fine boarding school— fit for a lord’s wife—only Archie Duncan threw it at her out of spite, because she would have nothing to do w...