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...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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...Excerpt: ?Dearest Meg, ?It isn?t going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and altogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroom or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and th...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft?s house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in dark leather. A person sitting on it [it is vacant at present] would have, on...

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... inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty mill...

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Excerpt: Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.

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...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of Th... ...ng Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, faculty editor. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...ee young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquire... ...of life with freedom and a prospect of success. Man has invented, not only houses, but clothes and cooked food; and possibly from the accidental disco... ...warmth of the same kind, as more and richer food, larger and more splendid houses, finer and more abundant clothing, more numerous, incessant, and hot... ...ystem is the best mode by which men may get clothing. The condition of the operatives is becoming every day more like that of the English; and it cann... ...complished. Such too, to a greater or less extent, is the condition of the operatives of every denomination in England, which is the great workhouse o... ...ho makes this a subject of speculation, and he em ploys Irishmen or other operatives actually to lay the foundations, while the students that are to ...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room of her farm house on the outskirts of the town of Websterbridge. She is not a prepossessing woman. No woman looks her be...

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................................................................................................................... 13 COMMENCEMENT OF ISABELLA?S TRIALS IN LIFE ................................................................................................................................................... 14 TRIALS CONTINUED ....................................................

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three.

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........................198 KING PEST .................................................................................................221 THREE SUNDAYS IN A WEEK...............................................................232...

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...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Three A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Public... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State ... ...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... ... plunge forward. It was indispensable, too, that we should be quick in our operations, for every minute we expected the mate to be up to set the pumps... ...the weather warm and pleasant. The brig was out of sight. We commenced our operations by wrenching off, with some trouble, another of the forechains; ... ...olved to enter into negotiations with Too-wit for the erection of suitable houses in which to cure the article, and for the services of himself and tr... ... getting them quickly in order 139 V olume Three for the framework of the houses, which in two or three days were so far under way that we could safe... ...er whatever, although he bad been willing enough to labor in all the other operations. The sight of the linen seemed to affect him in a very singular ... ... winding alleys than streets, and absolutely swarmed with inhabitants. The houses were wildly picturesque. On every hand was a wilderness of balco- ni...

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...Excerpt: PART I. Chapter One. We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a ?new fellow,? not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. At the end of the winter, in the Shtcherbatskys? house, a consultation was being held, which was to pronounce on the state of Kitty?s health and the measures to be taken to restore her failing strength. She had been ill, and as spring came on she grew...

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...TER TER, ET , ET , ET , ET , ETC. ET C. ET C. ET C. ET C. ETC. C. C. C. C. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION... ...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. Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Qu... ...t forms of worship, or the most revolting mythological legends, might have operated to neutralize their 19 Thomas de Quincey horrors, or even to alle... ...e benevolent scheme his little essay un- der the same title; and others in England subscribed a guinea each to the fund for the suppression of war. Th... ... the honors and powers of the state, into the hands of some forty or fifty houses, rich enough to bribe, and bribing systematically. Caesar, undertaki... ...d be sure to blackball me as an honest Tory, I would send him a copy of my Opera Omnia, requesting his Holiness to say, by return of post, whether I r... ...egradation. All parts of Scripture, in fact, would thus be made active and operative in degrading each other. Such is Phil.’s way of explaining [Greek... ...eners watering and tending luxuriant crops of crime in hot-beds or forcing-houses. In London, many are the tradesmen, who, being reflective as well as...

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...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, a...

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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. Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylv... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...est that the celebrated Leitch himself might envy; an arm that was like an opera-dancer’s leg; a stomach so elastic that it would accommodate itself t... ... the buxom fea- tures of the little country beauty, that the Count’s first opera- tions had been highly successful. When following up his at- tack, he... ...etty clearly that each of the two military com- manders was conducting his operations with perfect success. Three of the detachment of five attacked b... ...r of the establishment how they take most thieves, he will tell you at the houses of the women. They must see the dear creatures though they hang for ... ... and tything-men, to enter and, if need be, to break open the doors of any houses where they shall believe deserting seamen to be; and for the further... ...at the politest ordinary in Covent Garden; I frequented the best of coffee-houses, and knew all the pretty fellows of the town; I cracked a bottle wit...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that ...

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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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto a... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...E; I ken by the biggin’ o’t.” T wo recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well ... ... only when we cross the seas that we go abroad; there are foreign parts of England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet mana... ...ill farm will have a massy, square, cold and permanent appearance. English houses, in comparison, have the look of cardboard toys, such as a puff migh... ...ver becomes used. His eye can never rest consciously on one of these brick houses – rickles of brick, as he might call 9 Memories and Portraits them ... ... married; his eyes are not at home in an English landscape or with English houses; his ear continues to remark the English speech; and even though his... ...Memories and Portraits tion, pitched on the northern inlet as the scene of opera- tions. For it was no accident that had brought the light- house stea...