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...Excerpt: With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end of my pen, I will show you...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been rem...

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............... 6 Adam Shaffer ?And Unknown Leader? .................................................................... 7 Khyati Valand ?A Neighborhood in India?............................................................... 9 Katie Aughenbaugh ?My Grandfather? ................................................................. 11 Devon Bowlin ?Almost Famous?.....................

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...Y 7, 1842. ............................................................................................................................... 15 SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842. ..................................................................................................... 19 SPEECH: MANCHESTER, OCTOBER 5, 1843. .........................................................

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...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................

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...Preface: To explain the 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, an...

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...JOHN KEBLE’S PARISHES A HISTORY OF HURSLEY AND OTTERBOURNE By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Cl... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pe... ...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 ... ...lect, some specimens are appended, which come from personal knowledge. The lists of birds and of flowers are both from the actual observation of long ... ...e disinterred before the time when diggers had learnt to preserve them for museums, and only reported that they had seen remains. Of human times, a br... ..., which was dug up by a labourer at Otterbourne, in the course of making a new road. He thought it one of the plates carried on the Roman stan- dards ... ...ng put under forest laws at the time when the district of Ytene became the New Forest. Probably the king was able to ride over down, heather, and wood... ...Parliament for the county of Hants, and had been placed at the head of the list of his father’s attempt at a House of Lords, and he allowed greatness ...

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...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...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. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ...ng they will meet the approval of the reader. U. S. Grant Mount MacGregor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERIC... ...ountered a ferocious dog that frightened the horses and made them run. The new animal kicked at every jump he made. I got the horses stopped, however,... ... offices are all located, the President resides, and much room is left for museums, re- ceptions, etc. This is the building generally designated as th... ...ngers had already been secured. The addition of over seven hundred to this list crowded the steamer most uncomfortably, espe- cially for the tropics i... ...dier-general, and that they had unani- mously recommended me as first on a list of seven. I was very much surprised because, as I have said, my acquai...

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...many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, the very straightest and closest poss...

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...Table of Contents: PREFACE, iii -- Volume I 3 -- Book I 3 -- Chapter 1, 3 -- Chapter 2, 15 -- Chapter 3, 25 -- Chapter 4, 35 -- Chapter 5, 50 -- Chapter 6, 58 -- Book II 69 -- Chapter 1, 69 -- Chapter 2, 79 -- Chapter 3, 85 -- Chap...

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...Bowl” what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked invet eracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indee... ... of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, t... ...erson who contributes to the case mainly a certain amount of criticism and in terpretation of it. Again and again, on review, the shorter things in e... ...ries have ranged themselves not as my own impersonal account of the affair in hand, but as my account of somebody’s impression of it—the terms of this... ...s in the clean glass held up to so many of the “short stories” of our long list and yet after all never a whit to the prejudice of his being just as ... ...t good stuff, sitting up, in its myriad forms, so touchingly responsive to new care of any sort whatever, seemed to pass with me a delightful bargain,... ...ns, obviously, that the whole thing was a living affair. The rate at which new readings, new conductors of sense interposed, to make any total sense a... ...ether better literary manners of “The Ambassadors” and “The Golden Bowl”—a list I might much extend by the mention of several shorter pieces. Inevitab... ... the bondage of ugliness he was in a position to measure—in this museum of museums, a palace of art which was to show for compact as a Greek temple wa...

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...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ... Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication of the Penn... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two 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... ...at I could hear a singular buzzing or humming sound; and the porter, after listening awhile, declared that he also could distinguish it. Presently it ... ... of Salem, Mass., presented the “Na- tional Institute” with an insect from New Zealand, with the following description: “ ‘The Hotte,a decided caterpi... ...ad, looking as pale as death, and held up one of his finger, as if to say ‘listen!’ “At first I could not make out what he meant—but soon a hideous th... ...oam. The boat made a sharp half turn to larboard, and then shot off in its new direction like a thunderbolt. At the same moment the roaring noise of t... ...t ministerial power—or purchasing increase of nobility—or collecting large museums of virtu—or playing the munificent patron of letters, of science, o...