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.... She is not a prepossessing woman. No woman looks her best after sitting up all night; and Mrs. Dudgeon?s face, even at its best, is grimly trenched by the channels into which the barren forms and observances of a dead Puritanism can pen a bitter temper and a fierce pride....

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... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Devil’s Disciple by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- s... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Devil’s Disciple by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas-... ...rsity is an equal opportunity university. 3 GB Shaw THE DEVIL ’S DISCIPLE By Bernard Shaw ACT I At the most wretched hour between a black night and a... ...k to under the leadership of Mr. Philip Webb and his disciples in domestic architecture, though no genteel clergyman would have tolerated it fifty yea... ... tual eminence, sir. I can only do my best, and rely on the devotion of my countrymen. BURGOYNE (suddenly becoming suavely sarcastic). May I ask are y... ...swickers, German dragoons, and Indians with scalping knives. These are the countrymen on whose devotion you rely! Suppose the colonists find a leader!... ... way on any occasion, had arranged to call at his office on his way to the country to sign the dispatches; but as those addressed to Howe had not been...

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...Ferragus Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of... ...an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania S... ...tments, and was satisfied to humbly pay in the lowest coin his debt to the country. Thanks to Jules, his position had been much ameliorated by a worth... ...ll is discord, even the external decoration. The cabajoutis is to Parisian architecture what the capharnaum is to the apart- ment,—a poke-hole, where ... ...erragus is, with only a partition between them. My neighbor is away in the country for ten days. Therefore, if I make a hole to- night while Monsieur ... ...ve done was to have taken Madame Jules to one of Desmaret’s estates in the country; and there, under the good-natured authority of some village mayor ...

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...sity s Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor The Republic by Plato is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Porta... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Republic by Plato , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, ... ...e of them. Copyright © 1998 The Pennsylvania State University Cover design by Jim Manis, Statue of Plato. The Pennsylvania State University is an equa... ...n merits but because he was an Athenian: ‘If you had been a native of my country or I of yours, neither of us would have been famous. ’ And to tho... ... salt, and olives, and cheese, and they will boil roots and herbs such as country people prepare; for a dessert we shall give them figs, and peas, an... ...ll have much greater need of physicians than before? Much greater. And the country which was enough to support the origi nal inhabitants will be too ... ...ive art are full of them,—weaving, embroi Plato’s The Republic 87 dery, architecture, and every kind of manufacture; also na ture, animal and vege... ...hich is defined and distinguished from other kinds and is therefore termed architecture. Certainly. Because it has a particular quality which no other...

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...The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- si... ...as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...igits therein contained. It was such a room as is often to be found in old country town houses, the two large windows looking out on a broad old-fashi... ...tion. Market Stoneborough was a fine old town. The Minster, grand with the architecture of the time of Henry III., stood beside a broad river, and rou... ... like the stuff every one talks in stupid books. I want him to say—Rome—my country—the eagles—must win, if they do—never mind what becomes of me.” “Bu... ...sky, and was drawing me upwards. There—it is a queer dream for a sober old country doctor. I don’t know why I told you, don’t tell any one again.” And... ...edwich glanced at the mistress’s watch, in its pasteboard tower, in Gothic architecture, and insisted on proceeding to business. So they all sat down ... ...Mrs. Ward, began to talk at once. There was a great deal about Elizabethan architecture, crossed by much more, in which normal, industrial, and common...

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... The Scarlet Letter NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 1850 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. NATHANIEL HAWT... ...ugh to find a listener or two on the former occasion — I again seize the public by the button, and talk of my three years’ experience in a Custom House... ...vided segment of the writer’s own nature, and complete his circle of existence by bringing him into communion with it. It is scarcely decorous, howeve... ...ent which I speak of is the mere sensuous sympathy of dust for dust. Few of my countrymen can know what it is; nor, as frequent transplantation is per... ...d soon afterwards — as if their sole principle of life had been zeal for their country’s service — as I verily believe it was — withdrew to a better w... ... England hardihood, comprehending all perils, and encountering all. If, in our country, valour were rewarded by heraldic honour, this phrase — which i... ...es, the huge cathedrals, and the public edifices, ancient in date and quaint in architecture, of a continental city; where new life had awaited her, st...

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...r a bachelor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the highest degree of self-satisfaction ever registered by a human countenance....

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...an be gathered from their titles, which in any case were not given to them by their author. Nor do these titles suggest any very compact unity in the ... ... correspond to the several books in each work. The tendency to take up one by one the various problems which had suggested them- selves in the wide fi... ...ons are equally erroneous. The clue to the right interpreta- tion is given by Aristotle himself, where in the last chapter of the Ethics he is paving ... ...t for his parents also and children and wife, and, in general, friends and countrymen; for man is by nature adapted to a social existence. But of thes... ...one by the other, that is, Doing is not Making, nor Making Do- ing. Now as Architecture is an Art, and is the same as “a certain state of mind, conjoi... ...true likewise that he does many things for the sake of his friends and his country, even to the extent of dying for them, if need be: for money and ho... ...trifling ones. And this is perhaps that which befals men who die for their country and friends; they choose great glory for themselves: and they will ... ...cular points more completely: in like manner men who are fond of music, or architecture, or anything else, improve each on his own pursuit, because th... ...l be in those of [Greek: phronaesis] and [Greek: sophia]. We commonly call Architecture an Art, and it is so and so, therefore the name Art and this s...

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...Excerpt: PREFACE; Among 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...

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... . . . . . 411 PREFACE iii PREFACE A mong many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with “The Golden Bowl” what perhaps most stands... ...e terms of this person’s access to it and estimate of it contributing thus by some fine little law to intensification of interest. The somebody is often... ...among my shorter tales I recognise, but an unnamed, unintroduced and (save by right of intrinsic wit) unwarranted participant, the impersonal author’s... ...o have read as a boy a wonderful tale by Allan Poe, his prospective wife’s countryman— which was a thing to show, by the way, what imagination America... ... to think the whole thing a tremendous lark. “We’re very simple folk, mere country cousins compared with you,” he had also observed, “and Paris, for m... ...n for her running to and fro.” “On the contrary. But she does n’t like her country.” “Hers, my dear man?—it’s little enough ‘hers’.” The attribution f... ...t of a prince in very truth, a ruler, war rior, patron, lighting up brave architecture and diffusing the sense of a function. It had been happily sai...

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...THE KORAN Translated from the Arabic by the Rev. J.M. Rodwell, M.A. with an Introduction by the Rev. G. Margolio... ...CATION The Noble Qur'an The Koran trans. Rev. J. M. Rodwell, Introduction by Rev. G. Margoliouth is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State Univers... ...ransmission, in any way. The Koran trans. Rev. J. M. Rodwell, Introduction by Rev. G. Margoliouth, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...torical and poetical forms as he deemed most likely to win and attract his countrymen, and who gradually proceeded from the dog- matic teacher to the ... ...re poetical parts, which are his own creation, the legends of his time and country, Jewish traditions based upon the Talmud, or perverted to suit his ... ... did and wrote, Muhammad was actuated by a sin- cere desire to deliver his countrymen from the grossness of its debasing idolatries–that he was urged ... ...es, owed much of her knowledge of dialectic phi- losophy, of medicine, and architecture, to Arabian writers, and that Muslims formed the connecting li...

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