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...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the househ...

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...ND By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith is a publication of the... ...redith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...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... ...if I remember rightly, he dreamed he was in a ship of cinnamon-wood upon a sea that rolled mighty, but smooth immense broad waves, and tore thing from... ... George Meredith before I had eaten. It was a memorable feast. I had soup, fish, meat, and pastry, and, for the first time in my life, a glass of wine... ...lebank duck his wand in a coaxing way, like an angler dropping his fly for fish; he made all sorts of curious easy flourishes against the sky and bran... ...n your assumption of a superior knowledge of horseflesh. We Germans in the Baltic provinces and in the Austrian cavalry think we have a right to a rem... ...Europe. India was for the land with the largest sea-board. Mistress of the Baltic, of the North Sea and the East, as eventually she must be, Germany w...

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...Preface: Rechauffes are proverbially dangerous, but everyone runs into them sooner or later, and the world has done me the kindness so often to inquire after my first crude attempt, that after it has lain for many years ?out of print,? I have ventured to launch it once more-- imperfections and all-- though it is guilty o...

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...h, or Self-control and Self-conceit by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...or Self-control and Self-conceit by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...y-cowries, and another of Indian shot, the seed of the mahogany tree, some sea-eggs, a false book made of the wreck of the Royal George, and some piec... ...ou remember Aunt Anne’s laughing at me for arguing that Bohemia was on the Baltic, because Perdita was left on its coast? And now, I believe that Coeu... ...t I felt more comfortable there than anywhere else. I liked be- ing by the sea, and having a garden, and being out of the way of the officers. Papa an... ...d when George and Allan were at home; but then they had leave to shoot and fish, and enjoyed them- selves very much.’ ‘Really, Lucy,’ said Helen, ‘I c... ...d. ‘A fine scrape you have got into!’ cried Katherine. ‘A pretty kettle of fish you have brought us into!’ exclaimed Harriet. ‘But what is the matter,...

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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his con...

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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... ...cs Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens 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... ...-dressed, she wore round her neck the barrenest of lockets, representing a fishy old eye, with no approach to speculation in it. These and other appea... ...ght spar within her arms, the mother drifted out upon the dark and unknown sea that rolls round all the world. 15 Charles Dickens CHAPTER 2. IN WHICH... ...ent its philosophical composure from being disturbed by the rolling of the sea. Such extraordinary precautions were taken in every instance to save ro... ...s a mere slab, as some were, or something between a cocked hat and a star- fish, as others were, and those quite mild and modest boxes as compared wit... ...at held this wine. Why, when the Charming Sally went down in the—‘ ‘In the Baltic Sea, in the dead of night; five-and-twenty minutes past twelve when ...

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...Excerpt: Preface To The American Edition. On the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two cons...

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...ouis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsy... ...n Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 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... ...eeming’s grandfather – Mrs. Buckner’s fortune – Fleeming’s father; goes to sea; at St. Helena; meets King T om; service in the West Indies; end of his... ...ite by the service of six men and a constable to defend the passage of the sea at Sandgate. It had a chequered history before it fell into the hands o... ...o cable to lay; but] ‘is going out in the beginning of May to endeavour to fish up the cables Mr. – lost. There are two ends at or near the shore: the... ... are rays of yellow adhering to the inside; these I eat, but they are very fishy. ‘We are silent and shy of one another, and soon go out to watch whil... ...t was impossible to take up our buoy. The ELBA recommenced rolling in true Baltic style and towards noon we ran for land. ’27th, Sunday. ‘THIS MORNING...

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...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

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... by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ... Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 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... ...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 say that the dwarfed condi- tion of shells in the brackish waters of the Baltic, or dwarfed plants on Alpine summits, or the thicker fur of an anima... ...s, must suffer destruction during some period of its life, and during some sea- son or occasional year, otherwise, on the principle of geometrical inc... ...rtant part in determining the average numbers of a species, and periodical sea- sons of extreme cold or drought, I believe to be the most effective of... ...termi- nated. And it is in fresh water that we find seven genera of Ganoid fishes, remnants of a once prepon- derant order: and in fresh water we find... ...s should be very anomalous, as Agassiz has remarked in regard to the blind fish, the Amblyopsis, and as is the case with the blind Pro- teus with refe...

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...Excerpt: It came without warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wonderin...

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...ies Publication Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Publication Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling 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... ...either side delicately moulded doors gave on to wool-lumbered rooms, whose sea-green mantelpieces were adorned with nymphs, scrolls, and Cupids in low... ...et won From Proteus by Cyrene’s son How the dank sea-god sowed the swain Means to restore his hives again ... ... of course: 88 Actions and Reactions Mother Rugen’s tea-house on the Baltic Forty couple waltzing on the floor! And you can watch my ... ... the covering-plates: Nor-Nor-Nor-Nor West from Sourabaya to the Baltic— Ninety knot an hour to the Skaw! Mother Rugen’s tea-hous... ...servants, returned from their day’s outing, gave us a supper of cold fried fish, M’Leod had sense enough to open no wine. We had been practically drun...

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...Excerpt: Lo, praise of the prowess of people-kings of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped, we have heard, and what honor the athelings won! Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes, from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore, awing the earls. Sin...

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...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of 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 not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little...

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...Excerpt: It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, mong the rest of my neighbors, heard in ordinary dis course that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotter...

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...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable o... ...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occu... ...le occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all t... ...lic before. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ... vault into any garden near about the city . Care to be had of unwholesome Fish or Flesh, and of musty Corn. ‘That special care be taken that no stink... ... or Flesh, and of musty Corn. ‘That special care be taken that no stinking fish, or un- wholesome flesh, or musty corn, or other corrupt fruits of wha... ... able to work very hard, had for some time been em- ployed at a baker’s of sea-biscuit in Wapping. The brother of this man was a seaman too, but someh... ...oo, but somehow or other had been hurt of one leg, that he could not go to sea, but had worked for his living at a sailmaker’s in Wapping, or thereabo... ... and Portugal, Italy and Barbary, as also Hamburg and all the ports in the Baltic, these were all shy of us a great while, and would not restore trade...