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Doctor Grimshawe's Secret a Romance

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...he original settlers had been incorpo rated with the soil; those stalwart Englishmen of the Puritan epoch, whose immediate ancestors had been planted... ...d ing the bones and dust of the primeval ancestor—the cem etery was more English than anything else in the neighbor hood, and might probably have n... ... was put on the long extent of polished mahogany. There was a tuning up of musicians, an interrogative drawing of fiddle bows, and other musical twang... ...sions, will appear further on. Note 2. The foregoing passage was evidently experimental, and the author expresses his estimate of its value in the fol...

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One of Our Conquerors

By: George Meredith

...with applause of the boys and girls of both ages in this land; and all the English critics heap their honours on its brave old Simplicity: our nationa... ...was pencilling upon letters perused. ‘Skepsey’s craze: regeneration of the English race by box- ing—nucleus of a national army?’ ‘To face an enemy at ... ...t be a privilege to dine with him—to know him. I know what he has done for English Commerce, and to build a colossal fortune: genius, as I said: and h... ...-doggy-foxy circle down there. We want enliven- ing. If we had your set of musicians and talkers!’ Nataly smiled in vacuous kindness, at a loss for th... ...h still a little objects to see their born gentle- man acting as leader of musicians. A people of slow move- ment, developing tardily, their country i... ...t earnestness worn as a cloak, but issuing, we see; not simply a leader of musicians, 190 One of Our Conquerors a leader of men. The halo of the mill... ...heir whips. Colney could not or would not praise our modern adventur- ous, experimental, heroic, tramping active, as opposed to yon- der pursy passive...

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The Voyage Out

By: Virginia Woolf

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ce; on the other hand it was much bolder than the face of the usual pretty Englishwoman. “Oh, Rachel, how d’you do,” she said, shaking hands. “How are... ...y, eco- nomics, and the Icelandic Sagas. He had turned Persian poetry into English prose, and English prose into Greek iambics; he was an authority up... ...o be recognised, and held in respect. Meanwhile as they stood talking, the musicians were unwrapping their instruments, and the violin was repeating a... ... others; but she felt her, on the whole, a live if un- formed human being, experimental, and not always for- tunate in her experiments, but with power... ...very different, some practical, some ambitious, some stupid, some wild and experimental, some in love, and others long past any feeling except a feeli...

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...nd I think of lank and coaly steamships heaving on the grey rollers of the English Channel and darkling streets wet with rain, I recall as if I were b... ...d Wood’s Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound ... ...er cruelly by letting one aspect after another of his careless, sceptical, experimental temperament appear. Her mind was fixed and definite, she embod... ...e them in and see what came of it. We became for a time even intemperately experimental, and one of us, at the bare suggestion of an eminent psychic i... ...ke myself, come to regard the ostensible existence more and more as a mere experimental feeder and agent for that greater personality behind. And this... ... upon Margaret one evening. She was just back from the display of some new musicians at the Hartsteins. I remember she wore a dress of golden satin, v...

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, an... ...ixth century; no, it is only pretended that inasmuch as they existed in the English and other civiliza tions of far later times, it is safe to consi... ...ort of twilight; there was a stone railed gallery at each end, high up, with musicians in the one, and women, clothed in stunning colors, in the other... ... some times, to observe it the better and bet on it, and the ladies and the musicians stretched themselves out over their balus ters with the same ... ...g, the earliest samples of the real lady and real gentleman discoverable in English history — or in Eu ropean history, for that matter — may be sai... ... for a start in the newspaper line; nothing big, but just a small weekly for experimental circulation in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court ... ...es. I therefore considered the matter thoughtfully, and ended by having the musicians ordered into our presence to play that Sweet Bye and Bye again,...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...y Business College 50 Babbitt and instructor in Public Speaking, Business English, Sce- nario Writing, and Commercial Law. Though Babbitt ad- mired t... ...f-timbered, with Tudor leaded casements, an oriel, a somewhat musicianless musicians’-gallery, and tapes- tries believed to illustrate the granting of... ...ith you tightwads!” and guided Paul to one of the small tables beneath the musicians’- 54 Babbitt gallery. He felt guilty. At the Zenith Athletic Clu... ...at morning he had advocated lighter lunches and now he ordered nothing but English mutton chop, radishes, peas, deep-dish apple pie, a bit of cheese, ... ...ndship fortified Babbitt’s self-approval. At the Athletic Club he be- came experimental. Though Vergil Gunch was si- lent, the others at the Roughneck...

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The Confessions

By: J. J. Rousseau

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...m “one of the worst of men.” Literary Paris had combined with Hume and the English Government to sur- round him—as he supposed—with guards and spies; ... ...he chasubles of the priests, the mitres of the singers, the persons of the musicians; an old lame car- penter who played the counter-bass, a little fa... ...er mass, M. Venture received the highest com- pliments from the canons and musicians, which he answered jokingly, though with great grace. M. le Maitr... ...ribe my uneasiness, or to own how much I deserved it. Next day, one of the musicians, named Lutold, came to see me and was kind enough to congratulate... ...eeks, and by the event of this experi- ment learned to meddle no more with experimental Chem- istry while the elements were unknown to me. This advent... ... in consequence of this sublime theory, he set about, ‘in anima vili’, the experimental part of his art, but the means he was pleased to adopt in orde... ...tterly undo me. I know not by what whimsicallity I resolved to pass for an Englishman; however, in consequence of that determination I gave my- self o...

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

By: Anne Brontë

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...uld know beforehand to refuse the evil and choose the good, and require no experimental proofs to teach them the evil of transgression. I would not se... ...ing it no scandal to be present on the occasion, though one of the village musicians was engaged to direct our evolu- tions with his violin. But Mary ... ...vi- ous residence. Some will have it that you are a foreigner, and some an Englishwoman; some a native of the north country, and some of the south; so... ...and some of the south; some say—’ ‘Well, Mr. Fergus, I’ll tell you. I’m an Englishwoman— and I don’t see why any one should doubt it—and I was born in...

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Best of Freshman Writing 1 Best of Freshman Writing

By: Lucy Morrison

... student essays contained herein were produced by students regis- tered in English 004, within the Commonwealth College of the Pensylvania Univer- sit... ...Dean for Faculty and Rsearch Commonwealth College) Richard Kopley – Chair, English Department, Com- monwealth College) How to contact us: write to Jim... ...past half dozen years we were Best of Four, publishing the best writing in English 004 classes, primarily on the Hazleton campus. Two years ago we beg... ...her Best of Freshman Writing 25 in a celebration of sound as the talented musicians busk for loose change. As the afternoon continues, children appea... ...ay also be more likely to continue to finance a trial as it moves into the experimental stage. They can then make the decision about whether or not to...

...Excerpt: Welcome to the seventh volume of Best of ?. For the past half dozen years we were Best of Four, publishing the best writing in English 004 classes, primarily on the Hazleton campus. Two years ago we began accepting submissions from some of the other Commonwealth College campuses, and this year we made the big plunge into accepting submissions from al...

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Letters on England

By: Voltaire, 1694-1778

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ..., lost his kingdom in a manner that is hardly to be accounted for. All the English sectarists accepted from William III, and his Parliament the tolera... ... mansiones in domo patris mei (in my Father’s house are many mansions). An Englishman, as one to whom liberty is natural, may go to heaven his own way... ...d by their being ridicu- lously blended with religion. He is the father of experimental philosophy. It must, in- deed, be confessed that very surprisi... ...rom the earth. In a word, no one before the Lord Bacon was acquainted with experimental philosophy, nor with the several physical experiments which ha... ...Torricelli seized upon this 42 Letters on England truth. In a little time experimental philosophy began to be cultivated on a sudden in most parts of... ...endeavoured to lessen the character of that great comic poet. Such Italian musicians as despise Lully are themselves persons of no char- acter or abil...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

...poses and entail certain con- sequences. A child growing up in a family of musicians will inevitably have whatever capacities he has in music stimulat... ...hich it works itself out. So- cial progress is an “organic growth,” not an experimental selection. Reason is all powerful, but only Absolute Rea- son ... ...in view and yet modifies it as condi- tions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action. (3) T... ...rmation and rational elaboration of a suggested conclusion, and the active experimental testing. While all thinking results in knowledge, ultimately t... ...te is trained by the more advanced study of languages, and still better by English literature; imagination by all higher language teaching, but chiefl... ...tin and Greek; for expression, Greek and Latin composition comes first and English composition next; for abstract reasoning, mathematics stands almost... ...be at all complete includes Latin, one modern language, some history, some English literature, and one science.” There is much in the word- ing of thi...

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Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

By: John Stuart Mill

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...g the relative value of the two articles in that country determined by the English costs of produc- tion, is enabled to purchase with 35 yards of line... ...f money. Notwithstanding, therefore, the general fall of money-prices, the English producers will be exactly as they were in all other respects, while... ...uments; and so, we must be permitted to add, were those who instructed the musicians, and all persons who, by the instructions which they may have giv... ...decisive experiment, similar to those which we can almost always obtain in experimental physics. Doubtless this would be the most conclusive evidence ...

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Evan Harrington

By: George Meredith

...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...e-a- tete, I do not say. I should think there he would be—a stick! All you English are. But what sort of a bow has he got, I ask you? How does he ente... ...man smile. O mio Deus! honeyed, my dears! But Evan has it not. None of you English have. You go so.’ The Countess pressed a thumb and finger to the si... ...awyer Perkins touched the arm of a mourner about to be 60 Evan Harrington experimental on Kilne’s port ‘I think we had better wait till young Mr. Har... ...the young Habral had been awaiting her for ages. None so pol- ished as he! Musicians started up, the floors were ready, and torches beneath them!—ther... ...ribulations of his friend as he would to those of a doll—the sport of some experimental child. By this time he knew something of old T om Cogglesby, a...

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The Gorgias

By: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893

...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...t as those of the good, or even greater. Not merely rhetoricians, but poets, musicians, and other artists, the whole tribe of statesmen, past as well ... ...er, and the terrible conse- quences which Plato foretells no longer await an English states- man, any one who is not actuated by a blind ambition will... ... skilled. POLUS: O Chaerephon, there are many arts among man- kind which are experimental, and have their origin in expe- rience, for experience makes...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...to twelve ounces, each of which contained a real ounce of good copper. The English pound sterling, in the time of Edward I. contained a pound, Tower w... ...f Robert Bruce, a pound of silver of the same weight and fineness with the English pound sterling. English, French, and Scots pennies, too, contained ... ...en, lawyers, physicians, men of letters of all kinds; players, buf- foons, musicians, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. The labour of the meanest of ... ...s imported from Ireland since their importa- tion was rendered free, is an experimental proof that our graziers have nothing to apprehend from it. It ...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...vlovna. “Y ou are staying the whole evening, I hope?” “And the fete at the English ambassador’s? Today is W ednesday. I must put in an appearance ther... ...e secret motive in our actions. What answer did Novosiltsev get? None. The English have not understood and cannot understand the self-abnega- tion of ... ...dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery. Pierre was sitting in the drawing-ro... ...e slender little girl. While the couples were arranging themselves and the musicians tuning up, Pierre sat down with his little part- ner. Natasha was... ...as the last figure of the ecossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted up to their gal- lery, addressing the first violin: “... ...tions. In regard to this question, history stands to the other sciences as experimental science stands to abstract sci- ence. The subject for history ... ...t of history, while free will itself is the subject of metaphysics. In the experimental sciences what we know we call the laws of inevitability, what ...

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