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The Treason and Death of Benedict Arnold; A Play for a Greek Theatre

By: John Jay Chapman

...ENEDICT ARNOLD. JOSHUA SMITH. kox ANDR~. Mas. ARNOLD. W- ABNOLD, A Boy of Eight, Sun to Benedict. FATHER HUDSON. CHOBUS OF WAVEB (Men). C~oaus ... ... HUDSON. CHOBUS OF WAVEB (Men). C~oaus OF CLOUDS (Women). CHORUS-LEADER OF MEN. CHORUS-LEADER OF WOMEN. TREASON. DEATH. Two PICEETS. A SEBVANT... ...OMEN. TREASON. DEATH. Two PICEETS. A SEBVANT. SCENE ACT I. THE SHORE OF THE HUDSON NU WEBT POINT. ACT 11. SITTING-ROOM. OF BENEDICT ARNOLD IN ... ... shadows of the dawn. Would God the releasing trumpet would blow and the flag flutter on the mountain side, and that I might find all well! Genera... ...chard Montgomery, was honor's dar- ling; And when his body fell, scaling Quebec, Down the sheer rock it left a track of light Which sped in oppos... ...n his horse, And Andr6 like a Genius at his side, Guiding the host! That flag shall fall When next we meet: up run the British colors ! England f... ...n white, each @antic wreath, inscribed with d's mctories: - The Maine , Quebec, Valcour's Island, St. [ 75 I THE END TREASON AND DEATH I John...

THE TREASON & DEATH OF BENEDICT ARNOLD A PLAY FOR A GREEK THEATRE BY JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ... Annexation Manifesto were signed by the entire business community in Montreal and Quebec and by the nationalists, who, contrary to their name, wer... ...ed the United Arab Republic (UAR) and had the hallmarks of a unitary state: single flag and anthem, shared armed services and common foreign policy... ... been the symbol of the Zionist movement since 1897. It is an important part of the flag of the State of Israel. It has been a Jewish symbol for a m...

Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...NDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM T... ...corn killing a hunter........................................ 131 John Cabot's Flag-ship.................................................. 136 Fleet o... ...ens). Here coming to anchor, the natives came flocking upon the shore waving a flag. Like demonstrations were made in return by the crew, which were f... ...ed only by a daring stratagem. Sending for all the pilots to come on board the flag-ship with their maps, charts and instruments, he put the men in ir... ...rcury, and attached to the squadron sent out to co- operate with Gen. Wolfe at Quebec. He led the attack at Montmorency, and conducted the disembarkme... ...ne of his charts which he had prepared of the channel of the St. Lawrence from Quebec to the sea. His reputation so increased that he was soon afterwa...

...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...TITU POPESCU THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2... ...) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, ... ... ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ...ail/ in concentric circles”, “the land is sowing cultivated fields”, “the flag of the light shadows”, “a dream - / ambassador to the sun” etc. Ther... ...n expressions Non-biographical autobiography Puzzle in the novel The flag (black, of course) drawn in the novel Blank pages turned upside down... ...e deviendrait la Poésie?!, Les Editions De La Tombee Enr., Berthierville, Quebec, Canada, 1993; 29. Leitmotive / discours, prose, poèmes, Aius, Crai... ... que deviendra la poésie? translated from Romanian by the author, Canada, Quebec, Les Editions de la Tombée, 1993. Smarandache, Florentin, Fled... ...

...In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and significant moments, the strongly affirmative stages - then the imposition of the optimizing novelties - have depended on the name and prestige of a personality. R...

...In aesthetics, the paradox means the apparent resolution of an enigmatic situation (the result of such a process is the satisfaction of a distention), the emotional moving force being the unforeseen, the unexpected (which generates and also perturbs a new tension). Therefore, the...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ... ownership works. European explorers traveled to other continents and planted flags of their rulers in the soil. And by reading certain official sa... ...ch children from helping poor children by sticking the false front, the false flag of charity onto the greediest most evil corporations in the world... ...e she was one of the ultra rich who knew about it and profited from the false flag operation. The point is: nothing is as it seems when it comes to ... ...and more effectively than the English ever did. The same tactic was used in Quebec by the rich French ruling class for over three hundred years. T... ... By contact with a New World in the West. By The French Colonial outpost of Quebec coming in contact with the biggest trading Nation in North Amer... ... Law whatsoever. The idea of Equality and Fraternity came from the Hurons in Quebec. This is where Modern Democracy actually came from. What did...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

...SUSAN BRACKEN Copyright © 2010 Susan Bracken. All rights reserved. No part of this print publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, ... ..., mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author. ISBN: 978-0-9864879-1-0 The first part of this book (excludi... ...9864879-1-0 The first part of this book (excluding the Appendix) is a work of fiction. Names, characters and events are a product of the author’s imag... ...rite.” 41 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE JAKE EDMONDS looked over the railing at his flag-ship book- store while he munched on a sandwich. The open concept stor... ... 65 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE The house was beautifully decorated, and they ate Quebec pork pie, roast potatoes and candied yam for dinner, with pudding or... ...o book fairs. Ted and I went to the Bahamas. And I’ve been to Montreal and Quebec City. I haven’t been anywhere for a while though. I think I must be ... .... Randall and Missy Bush, remember them? They got to the highway first and flagged down cars. The police came and the ambulances. Oh, Mom, I thought y...

... fame and riches as a popular author, and finds true love and happiness with wealthy entrepreneur, Jake Edmonds. Then cancer strikes. Lacey is afraid of the pain and indignity she thinks is coming and wants to die. Her beloved daughter, Jana, will help her. But her doctor does not approve. To complicate matters, Jana and the doctor are in love. Will Lacey get her wish?...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ...h and state. They want ‗under God‘ out of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, ‗in God we trust‘ off of the currency, and school prayers out of publ... ...ds. ―Then there is the required daily Pledge of Allegiance to your flag and the daily repeating of ‗this nation under God‘ that is undoubtedl... ...d christen ships? ----―‖But they give a country a figurehead, like a flag, to give more meaning to their state. Kings give us that link to the ... ...a, Israel and her neighbors, North and South Korea, India and Pakistan or Quebec and the rest of Canada. How can a society solve these problems of p...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... 54 The Town Ho’s Story(As told at the Golden Inn.) . . . . . . . . 237 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 56 Of... ...till the whole was deposited within, leaving him impregnable in his little Quebec. I pondered some time without fully comprehending the reason for thi... ... outworks, like the innermost citadel within the amplified fortifications of Quebec. So like a choice casket is it secreted in him, that I have known so...

... body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

...American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation... ...rican Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens 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 ... ... the shore, we turned and saw from the vessel’s mast her name signalled in flags of joyous colours, and fluttering by their side the beautiful America... ...trumpet; the officers take their stations; all hands are on the alert; the flagging hopes of the passengers re vive; the cooks pause in their savoury... ...s of snow; white wooden houses; people at their doors; telegraphs working; flags hoisted; wharfs appearing; ships; quays crowded with people; distant ... ...on at the word of God. CHAPTER XV —IN CANADA; TORONTO; KINGSTON; MONTREAL; QUEBEC; ST. JOHN’S. IN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN; LEBANON; THE SHAKER VILLAGE... ...eap from barren winter, to the blooming youth of summer. The steamboats to Quebec perform the journey in the night; that is to say, they leave Montrea... ...; that is to say, they leave Montreal at six in the evening, and arrive at Quebec at six next morning. We American Notes – Dickens 221 made this exc...

...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any existence not in my imagination. The...

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The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia S... ...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 file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...found it was a French merchant ship of three-hundred tons, home-bound from Quebec. The master gave us a long account of the distress of his ship; how ... ...ately ordered the boat out, taking Friday with me, and hanging out a white flag, I went directly on shore, taking with me the young friar I mentioned,... ...fe I had saved. He came towards the boat, attended by one more, carrying a flag of truce also; and he not only did not know me at first, but he had no... ...ey catch the fish), where, meeting with a French ship bound from France to Quebec, and from thence to Martinico, to carry provisions, he thought he sh... ...ld have an opportunity to com- plete his first design, but when he came to Quebec, the mas- ter of the ship died, and the vessel proceeded no further;... ...rd, they would follow her. So they cut the cord, which was made of twisted flags, and the cow went on before them, directly to the town; which, as the...

...Excerpt: That homely proverb, used on so many occasions in England, viz. ?That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh,? was never more verified than in the story of my Life. Any one would think that after thirty-five years? affliction, and a variety of unhappy circumstances, which few men, if any, ever went through before, and a...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

... Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 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... ...use in some Canadian provinces. The harpooner’s family was originally from Quebec, and was already a tribe of hardy fishermen when this town belonged ... ...nd roared. Just then a noise was heard outside. Steps sounded on the metal flags. The locks were turned, the door opened, and the steward appeared. Be... ...m. “Where are we, where are we?” exclaimed the Canadian. “In the museum at Quebec?” “My friends,” I answered, making a sign for them to enter, “you ar... ...of use to us. After leaving these charming islands protected by the French flag, from the 4th to the 11th of December the Nautilus sailed over about 2... ...water, incessantly ploughed by vessels of every nation, shel- tered by the flags of every nation, and which terminates in those two terrible points so... ...wrence empties itself, and that the St. Lawrence is my river, the river by Quebec, my native town—when I think of this, I feel furious, it makes my ha...

...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

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A Personal Record

By: Joseph Conrad

...CS SERIES PUBLICATION A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...efore spring set in. But indubitably it was a company, it had even a house-flag, all white with the letters F. C. T. C. artfully tangled up in a compl... ... mainmast head, and now I have come to the conclusion that it was the only flag of its kind in existence. All the same we on board, for many days, had... ...ing a unit of a large fleet with fort- nightly departures for Montreal and Quebec as advertised in pamphlets and prospectuses which came aboard in a l... ... our best quartermaster, deft at fine needlework, he who mended the ship’s flags and sewed buttons on our coats, was disabled by a kick on the shoulde...

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Some Reminiscences

By: Joseph Conrad

...S SERIES PUBLICATION Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ore spring set in. But indubitably it was a com- pany, it had even a house-flag, all white with the letters F.C.T.C. artfully tangled up in a complica... ...main-mast head, and now I have come to the conclusion that it was the only flag of its kind in existence. All the same we on board, for many days, had... ...being a unit of a large fleet with fortnightly departures for Montreal and Quebec as advertised in pamphlets and prospectuses which came aboard in a l... ...ur best quarter- master, deft at fine needlework, he who mended the ship’s flags and sewed buttons on our coats, was disabled by a kick on the shoulde...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...fe on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...missionarying among them, and drawing whole populations of them at a time to Quebec, and later to Montreal, to buy furs of them. Necessarily, then, th... ...e texas deck are fenced and ornamented with clean white railings; there is a flag gal lantly flying from the jack staff; the furnace doors are open a... ...ate it all with! Ten min utes later the steamer is under way again, with no flag on the jack staff and no black smoke issuing from the chimneys. Afte... ...gether and spreading abroad over the city. Every outward bound boat had its flag flying at the jack staff, and some times a duplicate on the verge s... ... relic of a time when one could travel from the mouths of the Mississippi to Quebec and be on French territory and under French rule all the way. Pres...

...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,00...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ...m- mars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old gramm... ...ll the whole was deposited within, leaving him im- pregnable in his little Quebec. I pondered some time without fully comprehending the rea- son for t... ...gne. Her ancient decks were worn and wrinkled, like the pilgrim-worshipped flag-stone in Can- terbury Cathedral where Becket bled. But to all these he... ...y in looking up at him; and a white man standing before him seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress. Curious to tell, this imperial negro,... ...utworks, like the innermost citadel within the amplified fortifications of Quebec. So like a choice casket is it secreted in him, that I have known so...

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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

...ters Thirty five through Sixty seven by Charles Dickens 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 ... ...tor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ing noiseless made an echoing sound Bleak House – Volume Two 30 upon the flags. Stopping to look at nothing, but seeing all I did see as I went, I w... ...hing itself straight and high into the lightsome air. Lastly, up comes the flag over Mr. T ulkinghorn’s unconscious head cheerfully Bleak House – Vo... ...hat she sees going wrong, sits in her gown of ceremony, an honoured guest. Quebec and Malta lay the cloth for dinner, while Woolwich, serving, as bese... ...s ever you was. If you wasn’t younger. Which you are. As everybody knows.” Quebec and Malta here exclaim, with clapping of hands, that Bluffy is sure ... ...king “salt!” at Malta with her right eye, and shaking the pepper away from Quebec with her head, “I begin to think George is in the roving way again. ... ...heerful town, where cricket players were assembling in bright groups and a flag was flying from a white tent that rippled in the sweet west wind. And ...

...Excerpt: I lay ill through several weeks, and the usual tenor of my life became like an old remembrance. But this was not the effect of time so much as of the change in all my habits made by the helplessness and inaction of a sick-room. Before I had been confined to it many days, everyt...

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The Last of the Mohicans, A Narrative of 1757

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...imore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper is a publicat... ...he Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...e temper and movements of man were lively and playful. Two little spotless flags were abroad, the one on a salient angle of the fort, and the other on... ...n bound behind him with thongs, made of the skin of a deer. The arrival of flags to cover the messengers of sum- mons, had occurred so often of late, ... ...isted, and with a roll and beat of the drum, and covered by a little white flag, Duncan left the sally-port, within ten minutes after his in- structio... ...iam Henry, and the resources of its garrison!” “I have not sat down before Quebec, but an earthen work, that is defended by twenty-three hundred galla... ...an open body would do no good? For what have the Frenchers reared up their Quebec, if fighting is always to be done in the clearings?” “All that you s...

Excerpt: The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper.

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...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... ...b. He rode his own horse, Greased Light- ning, and won the Garrison cup at Quebec races. There were other people besides Amelia who worshipped him. St... ... I say, Dob, I feel just as I did on the morning I went out with Rocket at Quebec.” “So do I,” William responded. “I was a deuced deal more nervous th... ...return. Nothing occurred during dinner-time except smiling Mr. Frederick’s flagging confidential whispers, and the clinking of plate and china, to int... ...mpanies, was an old General who had made his first campaign under Wolfe at Quebec, and was long since quite too old and feeble for command; but he too... ...e kitchen and smiled a “God bless you.” Amelia could hardly walk along the flags and up the steps into the parlour. How the floodgates were opened, an... ...shed to the churches, and crowded the chapels, and knelt and prayed on the flags and steps. The dull sound of the cannon went on rolling, rolling. Pre...

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Captains Courageous a Story of the Grand Banks

By: Rudyard Kipling

...Captains Courageous A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...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... .... The deck was deserted, and he crawled to the extreme end of it, near the flag- pole. There he doubled up in limp agony , for the Wheel- ing “stag” j... ...eling cross-trees, and let his eye rove till it caught the tiny black buoy-flag on the shoulder of a mile-away swell. “She’ s all right,” he hailed. “... ...t la nuit.... Que donneriez vous, belle, Qui 1’arnenerait ici? Je donneral Quebec, Sorel et Saint Denis.” “How was it my French didn’t go, and your si... ...r home, envying their good fortune. At last she cleared decks, hoisted her flag, – as is the right of the first boat off the Banks, – up-anchored, and... ...They left the cold gray of the Bank sea, saw the lum- ber-ships making for Quebec by the Straits of St. Lawrence, with the Jersey salt-brigs from Spai...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing- fleet....

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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

...sics Series Publication Bleak House by Charles Dickens 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 ... ...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... ...the rain all day; and the heavy drops fall—drip, drip, drip—upon the broad flagged pavement, called from old time the Ghost’s Walk, all night. On Sun ... ... The rain is ever falling—drip, drip, drip—by day and night upon the broad flagged terrace pavement, the Ghost’s Walk. The weather is so very bad down... ...look sharp!” With a buoyancy and hopefulness and a gaiety that hardly ever flagged, Richard had a carelessness in his character that quite per plexed... ...d of greens and taking her tub into the little room behind the shop. “Why, Quebec, my poppet,” says George, following, on invitation, into that depart... ...luous and has not a visible speck of dirt or dust in it, from the faces of Quebec and Malta to the bright tin pots and pannikins upon the dresser shel... ...lk up and down the little street, keeping step and time, until summoned by Quebec and Malta to do justice to the pork and greens, over which Mrs. Bagn...

...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had ...

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The Whole History of Grandfathers Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...RNE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 ... ...m New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne 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... ...ories were defended. But the most earnest wish of their hearts was to take Quebec, and so get possession of the whole province of Canada. Sir William ... ...tears of a compassionate man. Over the door of almost every dwelling a red flag was flutter ing in the air. This was the signal that the small pox ha... ...d been sleeping from the time of Sir Hovenden W alker’s expedition against Quebec until the death of Governor Burnet,—a period of about eighteen years... ...of Ticonderoga, stone piled on stone, bristling with cannon, and the white flag of France floating above. There were simi lar fortifications on Lake ... ...d triumphs ever written in her history. Grandfather described the siege of Quebec, and told how Wolfe led his soldiers up a rugged and lofty precipice...

...Preface: In writing this ponderous tome, the author?s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the young may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. For this purpose, while ostensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbrok...

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ies Publication Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...and buried her face on Scottie’s neck. At last a horse’s feet clinked upon flags, rustled in the old grey straw of the rickyard, and she found herself... ... them she was looking at her mother’s maiden name, fairly carved on a blue flagstone on the pew floor: Ellen Lashmar. ob. 1796. aetat 27. She nudged G... ...r stages of one of the G.P.O. outward mail towers. My purpose was a run to Quebec in “Postal Packet 162 or such other as may be appointed”; and the Po... ... The two clerks, its crew, do not even look up as it comes into place. The Quebec letters fly under their fin- gers and leap into the docketed racks, ... ..., all down the Park that the wisdom of our fathers—but every one knows the Quebec run. We dropped to the Heights Receiving Towers twenty min- utes ahe... ...ded for beginners. Also, by private treaty, racing B.B. Tarpon (76 winning flags) 120 knt., 60 ft.; Long-Davidson double under-rake rudder, new this s...

...led it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted ...

........................................................................................................................................... 36 THE POWER OF THE DOG ............................................................................................................................................51 THE MOTHER HIVE ..........................................................

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Redgauntlet

By: Sir Walter Scott

...ssics Series Publication Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table 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... ...ch he placed by the right-hand cover at, the upper end of the table, was a flagon of silver, and dis- played armorial bearings. Beside this flagon he ... ... the table. He himself assumed the seat of honour, beside which the silver flagon was placed, and beckoned to me to sit down beside him. Thou knowest ... ..., and behold what occurs first to my eye!—Lo you there— “Catilina … omnium flagitiosorum atque facinorosorum circum se habebat.” And then again— “Etia... ... fertile as Yorkshire—the dazzling lustre of the victo- ries of Minden and Quebec have been dimmed by the dis- grace of the hasty peace—by the war, En...

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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

...g Chapters One through Thirty four by Charles Dickens is a publica tion 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 ... ...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... ...the rain all day; and the heavy drops fall—drip, drip, drip—upon the broad flagged pavement, called from old time the Ghost’s Walk, all night. On Sun ... ... The rain is ever falling—drip, drip, drip—by day and night upon the broad flagged terrace pavement, the Ghost’s Walk. The weather is so very bad down... ...look sharp!” With a buoyancy and hopefulness and a gaiety that hardly ever flagged, Richard had a carelessness in his character that quite per plexed... ...d of greens and taking her tub into the little room behind the shop. “Why, Quebec, my poppet,” says George, following, on invitation, into that depart... ...luous and has not a visible speck of dirt or dust in it, from the faces of Quebec and Malta to the bright tin pots and pannikins upon the dresser shel... ...lk up and down the little street, keeping step and time, until summoned by Quebec and Malta to do justice to the pork and greens, over which Mrs. Bagn...

...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had...

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The Pathfinder

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...ries Publication The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper 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... ...e, giving directions about showing them below here, and a that, he got the flag union down!” “That might have been accident,” returned the Sergeant, “... ...ng has happened to myself; besides, the halyards lead to a pulley, and the flag would have come right, or not, according to the manner in which the la... ...arker than ever with water, the roof of a house or two, the tall, solitary flagstaff, with its halyards blown steadily out into a curve that appeared ... ...on this island; unless, in- deed, we have the alternative of the castle at Quebec. Yon Jasper Eau-douce is a vagrant sort of a lad, and they have repo...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...ublication North America: Volume One 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... ... New Hampshire—the American Alps, as they love to call them—and then on to Quebec, and up through the two Canadas to Niagara; and this route we follow... ... a branch striking from Richmond, a little within the limits of Canada, to Quebec, and down the St. Lawrence to Riviere du Loup. The main line is cont... ...only during those months in which it is shut out from the St. Lawrence and Quebec by ice. But the St. Lawrence and Quebec cannot offer the advan- tage... ... to be waved over them in pity. The star-spangled banner is in fact a fine flag, and has waved to some purpose; but those who live near it, and not un... ...ans that all the continent north of the isthmus should be united under one flag, has already been thrown from its saddle. The North and South are virt... ...pel, and there saw, displayed as trophies, two of our own dear old English flags. I have seen many a banner hung up in token of past 196 North Americ...

....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

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Verses 1889-1896

By: Rudyard Kipling

...SERIES PUBLICATION Verses 1889 - 1896 by Rudyard Kipling 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ............................................................. 133 THE ENGLISH FLAG ......................................................................... ... The North and the South shall open their mouth to a Ghilzai flag unrolled, When the big guns speak to the Khyber peak, and hi... ...or a merchantman from Sandy Hook to the Nore. He would not fly the Rovers’ flag — the bloody or the black, Kipling 102 But now he floated the Gridiro... ... lie, The Warden of the Honour of the North, Sleepless and veiled am I! QUEBEC AND MONTREAL Peace is our portion. Yet a whisper rose, Foolish and...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...and’ ghosts, who sank shamefully on so many battle-fields from Rossbach to Quebec, that thy Harlot might take revenge for an epigram,—crowd round thee... ...rst: which battle-prize whosoever seizes it—may thenceforth bear as battle-flag, with the best omens! But so, at least, by Royal Edict of the 24th of ... ... Twenty-five Millions of suspicious minds! Brigands and Broglie, open Con- flagration, preternatural Rumour are driving mad most hearts in France. Wha... ...volence. (Fauchet’s Narrative (Deux Amis, i. 324.).) These wave their Town-flag in the arched Gateway; and stand, rolling their drum; but to no purpos...

...E ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................................

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray 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... ...ope was little more—emptied the contents of the brandy-flask into a silver flagon, and quaffed it gayly to the health of the company assembled. ’Twas ... ...d the sands of Baalbec, or wind through the date-groves of Damascus; their flag was raised, not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but... ...h allies. Irish traitors are not here; they march alone under the accursed flag of the Saxon, whom the great Napoleon would have swept from the face o... ...“I believe, your Excellency, Tatua has done good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill,...

...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the u...

.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

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Young Folks, History of England

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...te M. Yonge A Penn State Classics Series Publication Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- ... ...m carried a little brass figure of an eagle on a long pole, with a scarlet flag flying below, and wherever the eagle was seen, they all followed, and ... ...ng up to the shore, with a serpent for the figure-head, and a raven as the flag, and crowds of fierce warriors with axes in their hands longing for pr... ...on the very early morning, to the Heights of Abraham, close to the town of Quebec. He was struck down by a shot early in the fight, and lay on the gro... ...ssible. They all wore red crosses on their sleeves, and put up a red-cross flag over the houses where they were taking care of the sick and wounded, a...

Excerpt: Young Folks? History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge.

...Contents Young Folks? History of England ..................................... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418........

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The French Revolution a History Volume One

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ench Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania 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... ...and’ ghosts, who sank shamefully on so many battle-fields from Rossbach to Quebec, that thy Harlot might take revenge for an epigram,—crowd round thee... ...de-Boeuf dolorously grumbles; were we not well as we stood,—quenching con- flagrations by oil? Constitutional Philosophedom starts with 65 Thomas Car... ...rst: which battle-prize whosoever seizes it—may thenceforth bear as battle-flag, with the best omens! But so, at least, by Royal Edict of the 24th of ... ...volence. (Fauchet’s Narrative (Deux Amis, i. 324.).) These wave their Town-flag in the arched Gateway; and stand, rolling their drum; but to no purpos...

... .................................................................................................................................. 6 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. ................................................

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The Long Vacation

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ries Publication The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... .... “Yes,” said Lance; “these young things are apt to tear our old traps and flags to pieces. By the bye, who is this Captain Armytage, who happily will... ...hite sails of yachts and pleasure-boats, with brilliant festoons of little flags, and here and there the feather of steam from a launch. He could look... ... and exposure before the boat was picked up, and she was finally landed at Quebec, where she was laid up with pleurisy in the hospital. And there was ...

...Preface: If a book by an author who must call herself a veteran should be taken up by readers of a younger generation, they are begged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns ...

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