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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total o...

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...IDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE, 33 -- BOOK FOURTH SUMMER VACATION, 51 -- BOOK FIFTH BOOKS, 64 -- BOOK SIXTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS, 81 -- BOOK SEVENTH RESIDENCE IN LONDON, 103 -- BOOK EIGHTH RETROSPECT?LOVE OF NATURE LEADING TO -- LOVE OF MAN, 125 -- BOOK NINTH RESIDENCE IN FRANCE, 144 -- BOOK TENTH RESIDENCE IN FRANCE (continued), 161 -- BOOK ELEVENTH FRANCE (concluded), 178 -- BOOK...

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...XTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 BOOK SEVENTH RESIDENCE IN LONDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 BOOK EIGHTH RETROSPECT—LOVE OF NA... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 BOOK NINTH RESIDENCE IN FRANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 BOOK TENTH RESIDENCE IN FRANC... ...ENT T he following Poem was commenced in the beginning of the year 1799, and completed in the summer of 1805. The design and occasion of the work are ... ...e described by the Author in his Preface to the Excursion, first published in 1814, where he thus speaks:— “Several years ago, when the Author retired ... ...arily included in those edifices.” Such was the Author’s language in the year 1814. It will thence be seen, that the present Poem was intended to be in... ... be introductory ADVERTISEMENT iii to the Recluse, and that the Recluse, if completed, would have consisted of Three Parts. Of these, the Second Part... ... new Had ceased to dazzle, ofttimes did I quit My comrades, leave the crowd, buildings and groves, And as I paced alone the level fields Far from those... ...euds, factions, flatteries, enmity, and guile, Murmuring submission, and bald government, (The idol weak as the idolater), And Decency and Custom starv... ...aculties of man, receive Gladly the highest promises, and hail, As best, the government of equal rights And individual worth. And hence, O Friend! If ...

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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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by... ...ught him to town; he had hopes of an appointment as secretary-general to a government department, and meant to take a seat in the Council of State as ... ...he poorest and darkest slums, shut in be- tween three churches and the old buildings of the Sorbonne. I have a furnished room on the fourth floor; it ... ...the potato enjoys a privilege that women might envy; such as you see it in 1814, so shall you find it in 1840. Mutton cutlets and fillet of beef at Fl... ...e of an onion. Iron-gray ribbed stockings, and shoes with silver buck- les completed is costume. The old man’s head was bare, and ornamented with a fr... ...nts and Catholics is depicted as a struggle between two opposed systems of government, in which the throne is seriously endangered. I have taken the C... ...f armchairs, scarcely fit for the shabbi- est lodging-house in the street, completed the inventory. The dirty, cheerless room told a tale of a restles... ... the wooden planks laid over the cellars where men were at work on the new buildings; and when the squalid wooden erections were finally taken down, g...

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...ill equal your almost maternal kindness to me, would last beyond the limits prescribed for human affection. This sublime privilege of prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work we leave behind us would be (if we could only be sure of gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immortality....

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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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Pr... ...ut-trees and slim young poplars with their pale- gold leaves; dot graceful buildings here and there along the grassy slopes where sight is lost beneat... ...ions by ties known only to the soul. We crossed a court-yard surrounded by buildings necessary for the farm work,—a barn, a wine-press, cow-sheds, and... ...reached Maine, where, by some accident of the civil war, the revolutionary government had forgotten to sell one of his farms of considerable extent, w... ... present life, with its growth of new suffer- ings, crushed his spirit and completed its destruction. The countess guessed the past from the present, ... ...d, but without any risks, a position which put me at the very heart of the government and has been the source of all my subsequent prosperity. Madame ... ...aris, constant intercourse with the king, the habits of a life at ease, my completed growth, a youthful countenance, which derived a lustre from the p... ... Yet I was rich, political life courted me; I was not the weary plodder of 1814. Then my heart was full of eager desires, now my eyes were full of tea...

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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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Men’s Wives by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania St... ...n- noyed by his staying, he took his hat just as Miss Crump’s coiffure was completed, and saluting her and her mamma, left the room. “A tip-top swell,... ...ive thousand pounds; and they keep the ‘Bootjack’ public-house in Bunker’s Buildings, and they’ve got fourteen children. Is one of them handsome, eh, ... ... a present in his pocket, arrived at the “Bootjack Hotel,” Little Bunker’s Buildings, Berkeley Square (for it must out—that was the place in which Mr.... ...eek was over. Pam, of the Dragoons, came out, and instantly got a place as government courier—a place found so good of late years (and no wonder, it i... ...nferred upon him by the Grand Duke when here with the allied sovereigns in 1814. With this ribbon round his neck, on gala days, and in a white waistco... ...Thrum. Were you ever in college?” “I was at the Commemoration at Oxford in 1814, when the sovereigns were there, and at Cambridge when Sir George rece... ...now how many times, and quit- ted his country on account of a quarrel with Government re- garding certain articles published by him in the Phoenix new...

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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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ursula by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley,... ...kerchief twisted to a cord; a short neck, rolling in fat, and heavy cheeks completed the characteristics of brute force which sculptors give to their ... ...who was now (to use an expression of the peasantry) a “monsieur,” had just completed his legal studies and was about to take his degree as licentiate,... ...s at the end of the little town close to a great arch which frames it. For buildings, as for men, position does everything. Shaded by a few trees, and... ...obligations. 46 Ursula The answer was not long in coming. As a result, in 1814, before the allied occupation, Joseph Mirouet had a home in Paris, whe... ...d de Marsay. “If you had merely been put in the fiacre,” said Lucien, “the government would find you a place in diplomacy, but Saint-Pelagie isn’t the... ...f retaining in the navy a name already illustrious in its service, the new government had profited by a general change of officers to make Savinien an...

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...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvan... ...had been charged with some act of infidelity to her husband. And the local government, being indignantly summoned to interfere by some Christian stran... ... to direct appropriation of another man’s purse. I, on my part, held, that government, having often defrauded me through its agent and creature the po... ...turn to India, he received a civil appointment (Superintendent of Military Buildings in Ben- gal), highly lucrative, and the more so as it could be he... ...almost everywhere else? It announces little more, as respects the academic buildings, than that here is to be found the place of rendezvous—the exchan... ...ht be the immediate result from this careful tuition, Mr. Gordon has since completed his own education in the most comprehensive manner, and has carri... ...merie); their available strength was reckoned by Pouqueville (for the year 1814) at ten thousand men; and, as they were a very effectual little host f... ...rike a very effectual blow at the Vienna caravan, which had else so nearly completed their journey without loss or memorable privations;—and the knowl...

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...irty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and...

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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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...versity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Jane Austen Mansfield Park (1814) by Jane Austen (1775-1817) CHAPTER I About thirty years ago Miss Mari... ...be met with; and having once made up his mind, the whole business was soon completed. The new mare proved a treasure; with a very little trouble she b... ... called for. When this had lasted some time, the division of the party was completed by Tom Bertram and Mr. Yates walk- ing off together to consult fa... ...ndered at, if, after making all these good resolutions on the side of self-government, she seized the scrap of paper on which Edmund had begun writing... ...there was yet daylight for Fanny to look around her, and wonder at the new buildings. They passed the drawbridge, and entered the town; and the light ...

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...present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved c...

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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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by ... ...ear or more. Around the well, leaving only a small courtyard, were all the buildings of the castle meant for the Bishop’s household and soldiers. The ... ... conjectural plan and description of the castle. As soon as the Bishop had completed this much he would feel tolerably safe, but he would not be satis... ...ectory on the west, towards the east, sixteen perches and a half, with the buildings erected thereon.’ “Besides the above, John de Pontissara allotted... ...s of improv- ing the morals of the Court. John Hopkins and Robert Wis- dom completed the translation of the Psalms, which Fuller in his history says w... ... 34 John Kemble’s Parishes power and interest with the Cromwellian Government as to enable him, as they well knew, easily to defeat all their ... ...er by Napoleon I. at the rupture of the peace of Amiens, and detained till 1814. While he was a prisoner, his brother Charles caused all the limes in ... ...wished for in- formation on the practical working of the English system of government, and sent over two jurists to enquire into the working of the un...

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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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Penns... ...n by that sojourn in the Land of Sapience. So David learned his trade, and completed his education at the same time, and Didot’s foreman became a scho... ... crag, the old town is condemned to stagnation of the most fatal kind. The Government made an attempt about this very time to 31 Balzac extend the to... ...all the carrying trade of the Charente, in short, had lined the quays with buildings. So the Faubourg of L ’Houmeau grew into a busy and pros- perous ... ...as widened yet further. The better families, all devoted as one man to the Government, grew more exclusive here than in any other part of France. “The... ...ments of a magnificent edi- fice that had crumbled into ruin before it was completed, the stones of a heavenly Jerusalem—love, in short, without a lov... ...me idea of the ex- tent of the trade, you must know, mademoiselle, that in 1814 Cardon the banker, owner of the pulping troughs of Bruges and Langlee ...

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...on of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued in England. In the States, it has not been thought advisable to reproduce the whole; and the memoir appearing alone, shorn of that other matter which was at once its occasion and its justification, so large an account of a ma...

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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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsy... ... with an admiral. ‘I was not a little proud, you may believe,’ says he. In 1814, when he was thirteen years of age, he was carried by his father to Ch... ...slands, cruising after slavers, or carrying dollars and provisions for the Government. While yet a midshipman, he accompanied Mr. Cockburn to Caraccas... ...ied aid to Guadeloupe after the earthquake, and twice earned the thanks of Government: once for an expedition to Nicaragua to ex- 13 Robert Louis Ste... ...to the Permanent Secretaryship of Her Majesty’s Office of Works and Public Buildings; a position which he filled with perfect compe- tence, but with a... ...n- istrations in a soul-chilling class-room at the top of the Uni- versity buildings. His presence was against him as a profes- sor: no one, least of ... ...ntial to the project, up to the very last days of his work in life. He had completed almost every detail of the realisation of the system which was re...

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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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, t... ...tone. The spring sunlight, flooding white masonry reared but yesterday and buildings centuries old, shone full like- wise upon thousands of bronzed fa... .... Nearly a year had passed since the Emperor’s last review. In early March 1814 a caleche was rolling along the highroad from Amboise to Tours. As the... ... who seemed to ask for it, and the understanding between the two women was completed by the close grasp of their fingers. “Poor orphan child!” The wor... ...in Paris on some nonsense or other. It is very, very seldom that a cure is completed in these complaints, for they require constant 47 Balzac care, t... ... or color in the sky. Afar, the skyey spaces themselves seem to be full of buildings; near, wind the serpentine curves of waving trees and green footp... ... of History Camps, Madame Octave de (nee Cadignan) Madame Firmiani The Government Clerks A Daughter of Eve The Member for Arcis 174 A Woman o... ...hment Colonel Chabert A Start in Life The Commission in Lunacy The Government Clerks A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Scenes from a Cou...

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...irty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and...

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... Mansfield Park JANE AUSTEN 1814 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 by Global Language Resources, In... ...d pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a... ...most equal advantage. But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. Miss Ward, at ... ... she had fixed on the smallest habitation which could rank as genteel among the buildings of Mansfield parish; the White house being only just large eno... ... to be met with, and having once made up his mind, the whole business was soon completed. The new mare proved a treasure; with a very little trouble, ... ... 102 JANE AUSTEN When this had lasted some time, the division of the party was completed by Tom Bertram and Mr. Yates walking off together to consult ... ...ng change in the ways of the family, inde pendent of Lovers’ V ows. Under his government, Mansfield was an altered place. Some members of their societ... ... I think if we had had the disposal of events — if Mans field Park had had the government of the winds just for a week or two about the equinox, there... ...ile there was yet daylight for Fanny to look around her, and wonder at the new buildings. — They passed the Drawbridge, and entered the town; and the ...