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...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1. Fellow Travelers. In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. It was vintage time in the valleys on the Swiss side of the Pass of the Great Saint Bernard, and along the banks of the Lake of Geneva....

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...S BOOK THE SECOND: RICHES 1. Fellow Travellers 2. Mrs General 3. On the Road 4. A Letter from Little Dorrit 5. Something Wrong Somewhere 6. Something Right Somewhere 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ?It Never Does? 9. Appearance and Disappearance 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit 12. In which a Gre...

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...Preface: When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. In the present case, it is scarcely necessary to do more than refer to the almost unique relations that subsisted between Henry V. and ...

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...Excerpt: It is no easy task in this world to distinguish between what is great in it, and what is mean; and many and many is the puzzle that I have had in reading History (or the works of fiction which go by that name), to know whether I should laud up to the skies, ...

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...Excerpt: It would appear that for 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 significan...

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...Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Translated by John Oxenford Introduct... ... Introduction by Thomas Carlyle Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. John Oxenford, with an int... ...tronic transmission, in any way. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. John Oxenford, with an int... ...ransfer ourselves in any measure into his peculiar point of vision, that a right study of him, for an Englishman, even of ingenuous, open, inquisitive... ...om the same creative hand. T ruly, a grain of seed that has lighted on the right soil! For if not firmer and fairer, it has grown to be taller and bro... ... and elocu- tion were nowise the least important qualities. Men thought it right that the heart should swell into magnanimity with Caractacus and Cato... ...ir horses. The stately, well-trained steeds were covered with richly laced housings, and ornamented in every way. The Elector Emeric Joseph, a handsom...

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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 con...

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...Contents Preface to the First German Edition................................................................................................ 5 Preface to the Second Edition ........................................................................

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Political Power. Firstly, it having been shown in the foregoing discourse:* Firstly. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood or by positive donation from God, any such authority over his children, nor dominion over the world, as is pretended. Secondly, that if he had, his heirs yet had no right to it. Thirdly, that if his heirs ...

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...Excerpt: Welcome to the sixth volume of Best of Four. That?s right, we have been in business long enough to publish six volumes of the best student writing published in English 4 classes each fall, on the Hazleton Campus of Commonwealth Colle...

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...Contents Transition Time: High School to College Alaina Watts ....................................................................................... 4 An Objective View of Cheerleading Erica Chinetski ................................................................

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...is an equal opportunity university Contents Transition Time: High School to College Alaina Watts ...................................................... ................................................................ 19 Adjusting to High School Chris Serra ................................................... ................................................................... 20 A Trip To Guatemala Cristina Ramirez ................................................ ...s, we especially thank Dr. Monica Gregory, DAA of the Hazleton campus, for housing the publication. Best of Four: Student V oices, the Pennsylvania St... ...dm12@psu.edu V olume 6 WELCOME to the sixth volume of Best of Four. That’s right, we have been in business long enough to publish six volumes of the b... ...le to stand up to our elected officials and challenge them into making the right decisions that per- tain to our environment. Hopefully Al Gore will b... ...the things essential to stay focused in life. I see the difference between right and wrong, and it makes me feel good about myself. I think that child...

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...ing and thinking it would be bad enough; but it goes further, into disastrous anarchical action. Because our marriage law is inhuman and unreasonable to the point of downright abomination, the bolder and more rebellious spirits form illicit unions, defiantly sending cards round to their friends announcing what they have done....

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and throbbings. Then in elfin tones the real message ...

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...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our bles... ...iv CONTENTS Middlemarch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under th... ...irl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from... ... mortification, is she not?” he continued, turning to Celia, who sat at his right hand. “I think she is,” said Celia, feeling afraid lest she should sa... ...ould die out with marriage. In short, he felt himself to be in love in the right place, and was ready to endure a great deal of predominance, which, a... ...on a true description, and wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding b... ...ut the way in which the health of the poor was affected by their miserable housing.” “Yes, indeed,” said Dorothea, brightening. “I shall be quite grat...

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