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...blication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...cation My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas 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 Edi- tor, nor anyo... ... and My Freedom he delivered an address in the assembly chamber before the members of the legislature of the state of New York. An eye witness 5 desc... ...s of free society—restraints which are necessary to the freedom of all its members, alike and equally—Capt. Anthony might have been as humane a man, a... ...owhide, the cowardly brute had dealt her a blow on the head with a hickory club, which cut a horrible gash, and left her face literally covered with b... ...e whole dis- tance in the woods, keeping far enough from the road to avoid detection and pursuit. But, I had not gone far, before my little strength a... ... from his head one ear; for keeping or car- 277 Frederick Douglas rying a club, thirty-nine lashes; for having any article for sale, without a ticket...

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...Introduction: A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting ?her sister and her foe,? the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have ap...

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...assics Series Publication Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ics Series Publication Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott 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 child knows it. But my poor head forgets all it should remember, and re- members only what it would most willingly forget. My brain has been at faul... ... Dock yonder at Deptford, to look out such a hull; as they may purchase by clubbing their broken fortunes; and as soon as all is over, we will lay our... ... do my turn, and all facilities for concealment or escape, should there be detection?” “All, all, and everything, thou infidel in all but the impossi-... ...a singular manner. Upon the battlements were placed gigantic warders, with clubs, battle-axes, and other implements of ancient warfare, designed to re... ...im- mediate departure, all chance of what would probably have ended in his detection and ruin. For this purpose he called for Lambourne, and was excee...

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...Romance By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sics Series Publication The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells 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... ...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... ...ncidents, the circumstances of his stay until the extraordinary day of the club festival may be passed over very cursorily. There were a number of ski... ...ccurred in the small hours of Whit Monday, the day devoted in Iping to the Club festivities. Mrs. Bunting, it seems, woke up sud- denly in the stillne... ...lled the air with a pungent flavour of oil and with equally pungent music. Members of the club, who had attended church in the morning, were splendid ... ...h was happily clear, and hardly heeding which way I went, in the fright of detection the incident had given me, plunged into the after- noon throng of...

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...lassics Series Publication Dr Thorne by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sics Series Publication Dr Thorne by Anthony Trollope 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... ... in which mar- kets are held and county balls are carried on; which return members to Parliament, generally—in spite of Reform Bills, past, present, a... ...relations. It is true that he still called himself a Tory, belonged to the club of which his father had been one of the most honoured members, and in ... ...belonged to the club of which his father had been one of the most honoured members, and in the days of the great battle got his head broken in a row, ... ...village, and each gate was guarded by the effigies of two huge pagans with clubs, such being the crest borne by the family; from each entrance a broad... ...e sover- eigns? No. Purity was much too rampant for that, and the means of detection too well understood. But purity was to be carried much further th...

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...Excerpt: The talisman towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted th...

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...ted by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication ... ...The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage 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... ... presence of a listless crowd that is burdened by its wealth! When one re- members all this, suicide looms large. Between a self-sought death and the ... ...ted with all the difficulties of my position to stay in it without fear of detection if undisturbed by cramp, coughs, or sneezings. To avoid useless f... ... at Aix, returned from the promenade and met together in the salons of the Club. Raphael remained alone by a window for a long time. His back was turn... ...real nature too well. “His complaint is contagious.” “The president of the Club ought to forbid him to enter 206 The Magic Skin the salon.” “It is co...