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Excerpt: A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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...iversity assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Tramp ... ...9) Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. 3 A Tramp Abroad A TRAMP ... ... say that the first movable types were made on birch sticks—BUCHSTABE—hence the name. I was taught a lesson in political economy in Frankfort. I had b... ...ne as their clothes. In one of the shops I had the luck to stumble upon a book which has charmed me nearly to death. It is entitled THE LEGENDS OF THE... ...he carpetway clear. Nobody moved or spoke any more but only waited. In a short time the shrill piping of a coming train was heard, and immediately gro... ...e lofty Neckar hills to their beguiling and im- pressive charm in any country; but German legends and fairy tales have given these an added charm. The... ...lace, he shows no sign of feeling offended. If the place be difficult to find, ten to one the man will drop his own matters and go with you and show y... ...l signs—airy, easy-going refer- ences to grand distances and foreign places. ‘Well good-by, old fellow—if I don’t run across you in Italy, you hunt me... ...t accident. The way now led, by a gentle ascent, carpeted with fresh green grass, to the church at Winkelmatten. Without stopping to examine this edif...

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...y Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Kim by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Kim by Rudyard Kipling , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... ...d away, till he came across the woman who took opium and learned the taste from her, and died as poor whites die in India. His estate at death consist... ...ith an immense success. T rue, he knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi 5 Rudyard Kipling Gate to the outer Fort Ditch; was hand in... ...riend of all the World’; and very often, being lithe and inconspicuous, he executed commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny ... ...ead to one side, considering and interested. ‘Give me the bowl. I know the people of this city–all who are charitable. Give, and I will bring it back ... ...hild the old man handed him the bowl. [start here] ‘Rest, thou. I know the people.’ He trotted off to the open shop of a kunjri, a low caste vegetable... ...was the tenth, and at times his soul yearned for the crowded rooms in easy London where silver haired, bald headed gentlemen who know nothing of the A... ...f Bengali Gods, University text books of education, and the Royal Society, London, England. Next dawn the bobbing blue and white umbrella goes forward...

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...A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens A story of the French Revolution A PSU Electronic Classi... ...earance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock lane ghost had been laid only a round... ...es in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to A... ...e earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to A Tale of... ... some tillers of the heavy lands adja cent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, s... ...magnificent potentate, the Lord Mayor A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens 4 of London, was made to stand and deliver on T urnham Green, by one highwayman,... ...ng a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on T uesday; now, burning people in the hand at Newgate by the dozen, and now burning pamphlets at th... ...y whisper at the fountain, that although condemned to death he will not be executed; they say that petitions have been presented in Paris, showing tha... ...,” resumed the countryman, “that he is brought down into our country to be executed on the spot, and that he will very certainly be executed. They eve...

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...PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...left vaguely unsatisfied by that epitome of civiliza- tion which stretches from the Arc de Triomphe to the Gymnase theatre. It had already been intima... ...one rainy morning in mid-September, for the charming little city of Tours, from which point it seemed possible to make a variety of fruit- ful excursi... ...ng in, which the French, as the vota- ries of art for art, excel all other people. The little sol- diers, weighed down by the contents of their enormo... ...le an image of the good King Louis. Good as he had been,—the father of his people, as he was called (I believe he remitted various taxes),—he was not ... ...on bars of the grim-looking balcony, to which the heads of the Hugue- nots executed on the discovery of the conspiracy of La Renaudie are rumored to h... ...sons, from the horrible Merechal de Retz, who in the fifteenth century was executed at Nantes for the murder of a couple of hundred young children, sa... ...Protestant painter; no one can forget that, who in the National Gallery in London has looked at the picture in which he represents several young ladie... ...ad met in the afternoon at Tarascon, and more remotely, in other years, in London; the other was that there sat enthroned behind the counter a splendi...

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...es Publication Vanity Fair: Volume One (Chapters One through Twenty-five) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...to the present story of 4 V anity Fair – V olume One “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...profound bow to his patrons, the Man- ager retires, and the curtain rises. London, June 28, 1848 Chapter I Chiswick Mall WHILE THE PRESENT CENTURY was... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ...ff, exceedingly flurried and nervous. Miss Sedley’s papa was a merchant in London, and a man of some wealth; whereas Miss Sharp was an articled pupil,... ...ere; the country dances, formed by bouncing cockneys and cockneyesses, and executed amidst jumping, thumping and laughter; the signal which announced ... ...promised he’d let me have Jibb’s field and the Six-acre Meadow—and much he executed his promises! And it’s to this man’s son—this scoundrel, gambler, ...

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...Barnaby Rudge A Tale of the Riots of Eighty by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bar... ...n the bloom of his youth, when he was discovered in a modest retirement in London, by a friend of mine, and given to me. He had from the first, as Sir... ... modest retirement in London, by a friend of mine, and given to me. He had from the first, as Sir Hugh Evans says of Anne Page, ‘good gifts’, which he... ...e superiority of his genius, to walk off unmolested with the dog’s dinner, from before his face. He was rapidly rising in acquirements and virtues, wh... ... a drunken man’—which I never did, having (un fortunately) none but sober people at hand. But I could hardly have respected him more, whatever the st... ... made in 1777. ‘Under this act,’ the Shop lifting Act, ‘one Mary Jones was executed, whose case I shall just mention; it was at the time when press wa... ...pon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance of about twelve miles from London— measuring from the Standard in Cornhill,’ or rather from the spot o... ...nce, sir!’ returned his father, ‘what do you mean by talking, when you see people that are more than two or three times your age, sitting still and si... ...ese requests portended, the triumvirate broke up; Dolly, to see the orders executed with all despatch; Gabriel, to some out of door work in his little...

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...crackled on the polished brass andirons whose flicker shone upon the superb habiliments of the lonely tenant of the room, which was illumined grandly by twin candelabra rich with wax-lights....

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... Twe... ...lence, her enemies within her frontiers—all proved the great Richelieu no longer in existence. In truth, that the red simar which occupied the wonted ... ...t the red simar which occupied the wonted place was his no longer, was still more strikingly obvious from the isolation which seemed, as we have obser... ... as from the distant and incessant sounds of guns fir- ing—let off, happily, without other end or aim, except to show to the guards, the Swiss troops ... ...se,” he continued, “of the parliament! Both Orleans and Montargis are ours. It will be a work of time, but those who have begun by crying out: Down wi... ...oth sides, without effect; sparks were emitted from the swords like water spouting forth. At last D’Artagnan thought it was time to try one of his fav... ... me.” “A woman! Y ou have assassinated a woman, then?” cried the monk. “You also!” exclaimed the executioner, “you use that word which sounds ever in ... ...out as you were in Lon- don. I am not your uncle, I know you not.” “My uncle,” replied Mordaunt, with his harsh and ban- tering tone, “you are mistake... ...ely, my uncle, I am sure, and you will soon be of my opinion,” added he, with a smile which sent a shudder through the veins of him he thus addressed....

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...TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...e as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim... ... 6 sulphur and stone and other obstructing inborn heredities, brought down from the old geologic ages—prejudices, let us call them. Prejudices which n... ...trong ones. In each case, to get the best results, you must free the metal from its obstructing prejudicial ones by education— smelting, refining, and... ...g. He correctly observed, and he marvelously painted. He exactly portrayed people whom God had cre ated; but he created none himself. Let us spare h... ...orm it. Mark T wain 19 O.M. But there is here and there a man who would. People, for instance, like the man who lost his life trying to save the chi... ...their experience; with a verdict arrived at, sentence passed, and judgment executed? Is it instinct?— thought petrified by ages of habit—or isn’t it b... ..., I knew What Is Man and Other Essays 110 that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New Y ork, San Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, C... ... February. T wo blank years follow. Then—1587—he makes a ten year visit to London, leav ing the family behind. Five blank years follow. During this p...

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..., Duke Humfrey, Salisbury, Warwicke, and Beau-ford on the one side. The Queene, Suffolke, Yorke, Somerset, and Buckingham, on the other. Suffolke. As by your high Imperiall Majesty, I had in charge at my depart for France, As Procurator to your Excellence, To marry Princes Margaret for your Grace; So in the Famous Ancient City, Toures, In presence of the Kings of France, a...

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...second Part of Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Good Duke HVMFREY. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Edition... ... and Buckingham, 6 on the other. 7 Suffolke. 8 As by your high Imperiall Maiesty, 9 I had in charge at my depart for F... ...t Folio 40 Her words yclad with wisedomes Maiesty, 41 Makes me from Wondring, fall to Weeping ioyes, 42 Such is the Fulnesse of my h... ...hee with the Sword. Cosin of Yorke, 71 We heere discharge your Grace from being Regent 72 I’th parts of France, till terme of eighteene Mo... ...of Henry the Sixt Shakespeare: First Folio 86 His valour, coine, and people in the warres? 87 Did he so often lodge in open field: 88 ... ...itch your hearts, be wise and circumspect. 165 What though the common people fauour him, 166 Calling him, Humfrey the good Duke of Gloster,... ...ord Protector, by this meanes 931 Your Lady is forth- comming, yet at London. 932 This Newes I thinke hath turn’d your Weapons edge; 933 ... ...ng. Well, for this Night we will repose vs here: 953 To morrow toward London, back againe, 954 To looke into this Businesse thorowly, 955 ... ... guilt should be but idly posted ouer, 1558 Because his purpose is not executed. 1559 No: let him dye, in that he is a Fox, 1560 By nature...

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...Stray Pearls Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont Viscountess of Bellaise By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...olicy of Louis XI., by which the nobles were to be kept down and prevented from threatening the royal power. This was seldom done by violence, but by ... ... peasantry, since the clergy and the nobles to all generations were exempt from taxation. The trade and all the resources of the country were taking s... ...mallpox. She had a stroke, and died before my father could be fetched from London; but I knew nothing of all that; I only grieved, and wondered that s... ... were quite well and tolerably free from pock- marks, my father took us to London with him, and there Eustace was sent to school at Westminster; while... ...th their chatter, which I could hardly follow, for it was about things and people of which I knew nothing, so that I could not un- derstand their laug... ...de by any decision except my father’s, which I daily expected. I overheard people saying how much M. de Bellaise was improved by his marriage, and how... ...s, as the Cavaliers called him, had been defeated, taken by treachery, and executed by hang- ing—yes, by hanging at Edinburgh! His followers were said... ...nburgh with a pack on his back the very day that the Marquis of Huntly was executed. He was safely embarked on board at Dutch lugger, making large eng...

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