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...THE PIONEERS OR, THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper is a public... ... Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- n... ...cenes, and perhaps he may add characters, that were so familiar to his own youth, there was a constant temptation to delineate that which he had known... ...etermine the question of right to the satisfac- tion of us both,” said the youth firmly but respect fully, and with a pronunciation and language vastl... ...against yourself, my young advocate; where is the fifth?” “Here,” said the youth, throwing aside the rough over coat that he wore, and exhibiting a ho... ...aking, she was too much em- ployed in helping her father to remove certain articles of bag- gage to hear him. Unable to resist the kind urgency of the... ...s, or chopping jobs, was of great stature, and carried in his very air the index of his character. He was a noisy, boisterous, reckless lad, whose goo... ... use of a forefinger, that was bent like some of his own characters, as an index to point out his meaning. The first thing referred to by the sheriff ...

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... Classics Series Publication Vittoria by George Meredith 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... ...s, and a continuous leaping of its rivulets, give the Motterone a voice of youth and homeliness amid that stern company of Titan-heads, for whom the h... ...enery had few awakening charms. The remaining couple were an old man and a youth, upon whose shoulder the veteran leaned, and with a whimsical turn of... ...e it. He was carelessly wrapped about in long loose woollen stuff, but the youth was dressed like a Milanese cavalier of the first quality, and was ev... ...would desire him to march before the central bureau, and exhibit proofs of articles and the items of news for inspec- tion, for correction haply, and ... ...he street of the arcades, where they made purchases of numerous need- less articles, not daring to enter the Italian’s shop. A woman at a fruitstall o... ...from Carlo. “Hold fast to it that he means it: conduct is never a straight index where the heart’s involved,” said the chuckling old man; “or it is no...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...ry Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...he characteristic of the highest education of their day, their boyhood and youth were full of the unstained mirth that gives such radiance to recollec... ... charm, joining the venerable grandeur of age to the freshness and life of youth, so as to rivet the affections in no common degree. It was during the... ...hers, and calling to mind Chalon’s water-colours of the Queen in her early youth. He finishes the description with a quaint little bit of moralising. ... ... guard of a sword, and ascer- tained from him that the natives had several articles, such as china, glass, and the handle of a silver fork, which evid... ...silver fork, which evidently came from a ship. He had been told that these articles had been procured from another isle called Vanikoro, where two lar... ...ot looking for that kind of thing. You want to see how far the face is any index of the character and life and work. I don’t think it odd that I shoul...

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Excerpt: The Wheels of Chance, A Bicycling Idyll by H. G. Wells.

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...ublication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith 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... ...was touched or an old blocked path of imagination thrown open, a sensitive youthfulness; still quick to blush as far as the skin of a grandmother matr... ...ey were for holiness. My brother, Lord Ormont, has never been still in his youth or his manhood. See him now. He counts his years by scores; and be ha... ...stoutly and cognizantly on the climb, with a good aim overhead, axed green youth’s enthusiasms a step below his heels: one of the lovers of life, beau... ...e. The Countess of Ormont’s manner toward him was to be read as a standing index of the course he should follow; and he thanked her. He could not quit... ...ivious that he 117 George Meredith had seen his name of late eulogized in articles and in books for the right martial qualities. Can a country treati...

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... Twist or the Parish Boy’s Progress 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 ... ...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... ...ight happen to eat the boy who slept next him, who happened to be a weakly youth of tender age. He had a wild, hungry eye; and they implicitly believe... ...r, there was one obstacle: namely, that pocket handkerchiefs being decided articles of luxury, had been, for all future times and ages, removed from t... ...nder their hands and seals. There was a still greater obstacle in Oliver’s youth and child ishness. He only cried bitterly all day; and, when the lon... ...which did him great credit. It is difficult for a large headed, small eyed youth, of lumbering make and heavy countenance, to look dignified under any... ...lf of the expiring light of the candle to tie up in a handkerchief the few articles of wearing apparel he had, sat himself down upon a bench, to wait ... ... a vent in a hideous disease which had made 369 OLIVER TWIST your face an index even to your mind—you, Edward Leeford, do you still brave me!’ ‘No, n...

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...RIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...doubting, but it was Benham’s own temperament took him on to de- nial. His youthful atheism had been a matter for secret con- 10 The Research Magnifi... ...ning that he sub- sequently embodied in five very stimulating and intimate articles for the school world, but never put into more than partial operati... ..., but never put into more than partial operation. “I have read my father’s articles upon this subject,” wrote Benham, “and I am still perplexed to mea... ...e peculiar atmosphere she cre- ated about her. All sorts of clumsiness and youthfulness in himself and his associates he felt she wouldn’t accept, cou... ...irst of Benham’s early essays was written in an almost boyish hand, it was youthfully amateurish in its nervous dis- position to definitions and disti... ...t hand which had hitherto taken no part in the controversy, had raised its index finger by imperceptible degrees. It had been raised almost subconscio...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? ...

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...George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ... breath of her soul,’ as she called it, and as it may be felt in the early youth of a lively nature. She, especially, with her multitude of quick perc... ... history we perceive nothing histrionic. Capricious or enthusiastic in her youth, she never trifled with feeling; and if she did so with some showy ph... ...y mixed the diverse readings in thought, after the fashion of the ardently youthful. Romance affected politics, transformed economy, irradiated philos... ...rest of him was all cloud. As usual with these conjurations of a face, the index of the nature conceived by him displayed itself, and no more; but he ... ...you say to my being invited by Mr. Whitmonby to aid him in writing leading articles for the paper he is going 163 George Meredith to conduct! “write ... ...at of brow for her friend, the print of her features had been on him as an index of depth of character, imposing respect and admi- ration—a sentiment ...

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.................................... 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY................................................................................................ 30 SECTIO...

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...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Ha... ...TE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...secured for him, in preference to other writers of his class, the favor of youthful readers. It would be too much to say that the talent that attracts... ...h ever-increasing sympathy the lonely and sensi- tive child, the wandering youth, the neuralgic patient, into the terrible grasp of opium, who realize... ... The Macmillan Co. 14 vols., with footnotes, a preface to each volume, and index. Reis- sued in cheaper form. The standard edition.] 2. The Works of T... ...dition. Bos- ton: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1877. [12 vols., with notes and index.] 3. Selections from De Quincey. Edited with an Introduction and Note... ... wheels. Who and what could it be? Was it industry in a taxed cart? Was it youthful gaiety in a gig? Was it sorrow that loitered, or joy that raced? F... ...? Do you suppose, reader, that the junior lords of the admiralty are under articles to darn for the navy? The reason, meantime, for my systematic hatr...

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