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Chapter XIX
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

In the course of an early morning constitutional I visited Charlestown.* Among the changes, too numerous to attempt to indicate, which mark the lapse of a century in that quarter, I particularly noted the total disappearance of the old state prison.*...

“That went...
Postscript
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

THE RATE OF THE WORLD’S PROGRESS

To the Editor of the Boston Transcript: The Transcript of March 30, 1888, contained a review of Looking Backward, in response to which I beg to be allowed a word. The description to which the book...
Chapter V
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

When, in the course of the evening the ladies retired, leaving Dr. Leete and myself alone, he sounded me as to my disposition for sleep, saying that if I felt like it my bed was ready for me; but if I was inclined to...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

When I awoke I felt greatly refreshed, and lay a considerable time in a dozing state, enjoying the sensation of bodily comfort. The experiences of the day previous, my waking to find myself in the year 2000, the sight of the new Boston, my...
2. From father-in-law to mother-in-law
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

’Listen Monsieur Crevel,’ continued the Baroness, whose mood was too serious to permit of laughter. ‘You are 50 years old. That’s ten years less than Monsieur Hulot, I know. But, at my age, a woman’s folly has to be justified by good looks, or youth,...
18. The adventure of a spider who finds in her web a beautiful fly that is too big for her
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

The next day Mademoiselle Fischer enquired from the manufacturers to whom she took her work about the profession of sculptor. By dint of questioning she managed to find out about the studio of Florent and Chanor, a firm which specialized in casting and engraving rich...
20. One woman lost, one woman found
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Hulot went home, striding along like a madman, talking to himself; he found his family calmly playing the game of whist for two sous stakes that he had seen them begin.

When she saw her husband, poor Adeline thought there must have been some terrible...
27. Final secrets
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

‘I have all the outward appearance of virtue,’ Madame Marneffe continued, laying her hand on Lisbeth’s as if to accept her good faith. ‘I’m a married woman and I’m my own mistress; so much so that if Marneffe feels like saying goodbye to me before...
36. The two brides
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

When the party was in full swing, Crevel took the Baron by the arm and whispered to him in the most natural possible way.

‘’Pon my soul, what a pretty little woman that is in pink who is peppering you with her glances.’

‘Who?’

‘The...
44. The dinner
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Lisbeth, like a spider at the centre of its web, watched all their faces. She had known Hortense and Victorin since they were born and, for her, their faces were like glass through which she could read their young souls. And from certain glances directed...
59. Reflections on beauty spots
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Valérie, informed of this success that very evening, insisted that Baron Hulot should invite Stidmann, Claude Vignon, and Steinbock to dinner; for she was beginning to tyrannize over him as such women know how to tyrannize over the old men who trot around the town,...
67. A suspicion always follows the first dagger-blow
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

When Wenceslas and his wife had returned to their room after seeing the Baroness out, Hortense said to her husband:

‘Tell me about your evening.’

And she studied her husband’s face as he told his story, interrupting him with all the questions that spring to...
72. The five Fathers of the Marneffe Church
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Baron Montes was announced. Valérie got up and ran to meet him. She whispered to him for a few moments and made the same reservations about her demeanour towards him as she had just done to Wenceslas, for the Brazilian wore a diplomatic expression appropriate...
73. Exploitation of the father
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

About eleven o’clock just as the party was at its height, for the drawing-room was full of people. Valérie drew Hector aside on to a corner of her sofa.

‘My dear old thing,’ she whispered to him, ‘your daughter is so angry at Wenceslas’s coming...
76. A brief history of favourites
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

An argument was taking place at the door between Mariette and a soldier, who became so insistent that the cook came into the drawing-room.

‘Monsieur, a regimental quartermaster just back from Algeria says he must speak to you.’

‘Tell him to wait.’

‘Monsieur,’ said...
81 The cards are reshuffled
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

The police commissioner, standing firmly in shoes tied with bedraggled laces, was topped by a yellow cranium with scanty hair; he looked a crafty, ribald, facetious fellow, for whom Parisian life held no secrets. His eyes pierced the glass of his spectacles with...
82. A surgical operation
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

The Baron, who had to sign the official report, remained in a stunned state, alone with the police commissioner. When the Councillor of State had signed the report, the officer looked at him knowingly over his spectacles.

‘You’re very fond of that little lady, Monsieur...
85. Another disaster
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Lisbeth, who to all appearances had broken with Madame Marneffe, had been installed in Marshal Hulot’s house.

Ten days after these events, the first banns of the old maid’s marriage to the distinguished old man were published. To obtain his consent Adeline told him of...
99. A peg to hang on
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

‘You can’t live without women. That makes up for everything. At the foot of la Courtille, Rue Saint-Maur-du-Temple, I know a poor family which has a treasure: a little girl, even prettier than I was at 16. Oh, there’s a glint in your eye already!...
103. Baron Hulot’s friend
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Just then, Louise came up to the family group; the two Hulot children and little Wenceslas had joined it to see if there were any sweets in their grandmother’s pockets.

‘What is it, Louise?’ they asked.

‘There’s a man asking for Mademoiselle Fischer.’

‘What kind...
112. The effects of blackmail
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

At three o’clock Maître Berthier, Cardot’s successor, read the marriage contract after a short conference with Crevel, for certain provisions depended on the decision young Monsieur and Madame Hulot would take.

Crevel settled on his future wife a fortune comprising: (1) an income of forty...
121. The hand of God and the Brazilian’s too
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

‘Monsieur, have you any hope of saving Monsieur and Madame Crevel?’ Victorin asked Bianchon.

‘I hope to, but have no faith that I shall,’ replied Bianchon. ‘The case is inexplicable to me. The disease is peculiar to negroes and native Americans, whose skin structure is...
129. Atala’s last word
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

The stove-fitter came to say goodbye to his benefactress, who told him to fetch a cab. When he returned, the Baroness asked him to take little Atala Judici home with him and to do so there and then.

‘You can tell her’, she added, ‘that...
The Journal
Authors: Defoe Daniel
Published: December 2020

September 30, 1659. I poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being ship-wreck’d, during a dreadful Storm, in the offing, came on Shore on this dismal unfortunate Island, which I call’d the Island of Despair, all the rest of the Ship’s...
How maestro Cherry, a carpenter, found apiece of wood which laughed and cried like a child.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

Once upon a time there was ...

‘A king!’ my little readers will say straight away. No, children, you are mistaken. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.*

It was not expensive wood, but just a bit of firewood, like the...
How Old Joe, having reached home, begins at once to make the puppet and gives him the name Pinocchio. The puppet’s first pranks.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

Old Joe lived in a basement room lit by a skylight under the front steps.* The furniture could not have been more simple: an awkward chair, an uncomfortable bed and a broken table. On the back wall there was a hearth...
How Pinocchio, because he has not heeded the good advice of the Talking Cricket, encounters the murderers.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

‘Really,’ the puppet said to himself as he started off again, ‘we poor children, how unlucky we are! Everybody tells us off, everybody admonishes us, everybody gives us advice. If you let them have their way, they’d all take it upon themselves to be our...
How Pinocchio eats the sugar but refuses to take his medicine; but when he sees the grave-diggers coming to take him away, then he decides to swallow it. Further, how he tells a lie and as a punishment his nose grows long.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

As soon as the three doctors had left the room, the Fairy drew near to Pinocchio, and stroking his forehead she realized that he was suffering from an indescribably high fever.

So she dissolved a certain white powder in half a glass of water, and...
How Pinocchio meets the Fox and the Cat again, and goes with them to sow the four coins in the Field of Miracles.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

As you can imagine, the Fairy let the puppet cry and howl for a good half-hour on account of that nose of his that would no longer go through the door, and she did that to teach him a hard lesson, so that he would...
How Pinocchio grieves for the death of the beautiful Little Girl with the indigo hair; and how he then finds a Pigeon, that takes him to the seashore, and how he throws himself into the water to go to the aid of his papa, Old Joe.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

No sooner did Pinocchio feel the lifting of that terribly heavy and humiliating weight of the collar around his neck, than he set about making his escape across the fields, and he didn’t stop for a single minute until he had reached the highway, which...
How Pinocchio goes with his school-friends to the seashore, to see the ferocious Shark.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

The next day Pinocchio went to the local school.

You can imagine those schoolboy scamps when they saw a puppet walk into their schoolroom! There was such a roar of laughter that went on and on. Some played tricks on him, some made jokes, some...
How he returns to the Fairy’s house, and she promises him that the next day he will no longer be a puppet, hut will become a boy. Grand breakfast of coffee with milk to celebrate this great event.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

Just as the fisherman was on the point of tossing Pinocchio into the frying-pan, a large dog came into the cave, attracted by the pungent smell and greedy for fried fish.

‘Go away!’ shouted the fisherman threateningly, while still holding the floury puppet in his...
How at last Pinocchio stops being a puppet and becomes a boy.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

While Pinocchio was swimming fast to reach the shore, he noticed that his father, who was riding piggy-back and whose legs were half in the water, was trembling terribly, as if the poor man were stricken with malaria.*

Was he trembling with cold or...
Polikushka
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

I

‘As you wish, ma’am! Only it’s a pity for the Dutlovs. They’re all good men and if we don’t send at least one of the house-serfs, one of them must go,’ said the steward. ‘As it is now, everyone is suggesting them. But as...
Chapter V: Containing a full Account of the Installation of Mr. Pecksniff’s new Pupil into the Bosom of Mr. Pecksniff’s Family. With all the Festivities held on that Occasion, and the great Enjoyment of Mr. Pinch
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The best of architects and land surveyors kept a horse, in whom the enemies already mentioned more than once in these pages, pretended to detect a fanciful resemblance to his master. Not in his outward person, for he was a raw-boned, haggard horse, always...
Chapter X: CONTAINING STRANGE MATTER; ON WHICH MANY EVENTS IN THIS HISTORY, MAY, FOR THEIR GOOD OR EVIL INFLUENCE, CHIEFLY DEPEND
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

But Mr. Pecksniff came to town on business. Had he forgotten that? Was he always taking his pleasure with Todgers’s jovial brood, unmindful of the serious demands, whatever they might be, upon his calm consideration? No.

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith...
Chapter XVII: Martin enlarges his Circle of Acquaintance; increases his Stock of Wisdom; and has an excellent Opportunity of comparing his own Experiences with those of Lummy Ned of the Light Salisbury, as related by his Friend Mr. William Simmons
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was characteristic of Martin, that all this while he had either forgotten Mark Tapley as completely as if there had been no such person in existence, or, if for a moment the figure of that gentleman rose before his mental vision, had dismissed...
Chapter XX: Is a Chapter of Love
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“Pecksniff,” said Jonas, taking off his hat, to see that the black crape band was all right; and finding that it was, putting it on again, complacently; “what do you mean to give your daughters when they marry?”

“My dear Mr. Jonas,” cried...
Chapter XXVIII: Mr. Montague at Home. And Mr. Jonas Chuzzlewit at Home
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There were many powerful reasons for Jonas Chuzzlewit being strongly prepossessed in favor of the scheme which its great originator had so boldly laid open to him; but three among them stood prominently forward. Firstly, there was money to be made by it. Secondly,...
Chapter XXXV: Arriving in England., Martin witnesses a Ceremony, from which he derives the cheering Information that he has not been Forgotten in his Absence
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was mid-day, and high water in the English port for which the Screw was bound, when, borne in gallantly upon the fulness of the tide, she let go her anchor in the river.

Bright as the scene was; fresh, and full of motion; airy,...
Chapter XXXVIII: Secret Service
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In walking from the city with his sentimental friend, Tom Pinch had looked into the face, and brushed against the threadbare sleeve, of Mr. Nadgett, man of mystery to the Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Insurance Company. Mr. Nadgett naturally passed away from Tom’s...
Chapter XL: The Pinches make a New Acquaintance, and have fresh occasion for Surprise and Wonder
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There was a ghostly air about these uninhabited chambers in the Temple, and attending every circumstance of Tom’s employment there, which had a strange charm in it. Every morning when he shut his door at Islington, he turned his face towards an atmosphere of...
Chapter XLII: Continuation of the Enterprise of Mr. Jonas and his Friend
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The doctor’s prognostication in reference to the weather, was speedily verified. Although the weather was not a patient of his, and no third party had required him to give an opinion on the case, the quick fulfilment of his prophecy may be taken as...
Chapter XLVI: In which Miss Pecksniff makes Love, Mr. Jonas makes Wrath, Mrs. Gamp makes Tea, and Mr. Chuffey makes Business
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

On the next day’s official duties coming to a close, Tom hurried home without losing any time by the way; and, after dinner and a short rest, sallied out again, accompanied by Ruth, to pay his projected visit to Todgers’s. Tom took Ruth with...
Chapter L: Surprises Tom Pinch very much, and shows how certain Confidences passed between Him and his Sister
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was the next evening; and Tom and his sister were sitting together before tea, talking, in their usual quiet way, about a great many things, but not at all about Lewsome’s story or anything connected with it; for John Westlock—really John,...
IV: The Spectre of The Catacomb
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

“Surely, she cannot be lost!” exclaimed Kenyon. “It is but a moment since she was speaking.”

“No, no!” said Hilda, in great alarm. “She was behind us all; and it is a long while since we have heard her voice.”

“Torches! Torches!” cried...
VII: Beatrice
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Miriam was glad to find the Dove in her turret-home; for being endowed with an infinite activity, and taking exquisite delight in the sweet labour of which her life was full, it was Hilda’s practice to flee abroad betimes and haunt the galleries till...
XXVI: The Pedigree of Monte Beni
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

From the old butler, whom he found to be a very gracious and affable personage, Kenyon soon learned many curious particulars about the family-history and hereditary peculiarities of the Counts of Monte Beni. There was a pedigree, the later portion of which (that is...
XXIX: On the Battlements
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

The sculptor now looked through an embrasure, and threw down a bit of lime, watching its fall, till it struck upon a stone-bench at the rocky foundation of the tower, and flew into many fragments.

“Pray pardon me for helping Time to crumble away your...
XXX: Donatello’s Bust
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Kenyon, it will be remembered, had asked Donatello’s permission to model his bust. The work had now made considerable progress, and necessarily kept the sculptor’s thoughts brooding much and often upon his host’s personal characteristics. These it was his difficult office to bring out...
XLI: Snow-Drops and Maidenly Delights
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

It being still considerably earlier than the period at which artists and tourists are accustomed to assemble in Rome, the sculptor and Hilda found themselves comparatively alone there. The dense mass of native Roman life, in the midst of which they were, served to...
XLIV: The Deserted Shrine
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Kenyon knew the sanctity which Hilda (faithful Protestant, and daughter of the Puritans, as the girl was) imputed to this shrine. He was aware of the profound feeling of responsibility, as well earthly as religious, with which her conscience had been impressed, when she...
XLVII: The Peasant and Contadina
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

They descended into the excavation; a young peasant, in the short blue jacket, the small-clothes buttoned at the knee, and buckled shoes, that compose one of the ugliest dresses ever worn by man, except the wearer’s form have a grace which any garb, or...
XLVIII: A Scene in the Corso
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

On the appointed afternoon, Kenyon failed not to make his appearance in the Corso, and at an hour much earlier than Miriam had named.

It was Carnival-time.* The merriment of this famous festival was in full progress; and the stately avenue of the...
XLIX: A Frolic of the Carnival
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

The crowd and confusion, just at that moment, hindered the sculptor from pursuing these figures—the Peasant and the Contadina—who, indeed, were but two of a numerous tribe that thronged the Corso, in similar costume. As soon as he could squeeze a passage, Kenyon tried...
Book VI
Authors: de Staël Madame
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

Oswald’s indecisive nature, enhanced by his misfortunes, inclined him to be afraid of all irrevocable decisions. In his uncertainty he had not even dared to ask Corinne the secret of her name and fate, and yet his love for her...
Book VIII
Authors: de Staël Madame
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

After the day that had just passed, Oswald could not close his eyes all night. He had never been more ready to sacrifice everything to Corinne. He did not even want to ask her her secret, or at least, before knowing it,...
Chapter IV: MR. Sapsea
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Accepting the Jackass as the type of self-sufficient stupidity and conceit—a custom, perhaps, like some few other customs, more conventional than fair—then the purest Jackass in cloisterham is mr. thomas sapsea, Auctioneer.

Mr. Sapsea “dresses at” the Dean; has been bowed to for the Dean,...
Chapter XI: A Picture and a Ring
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Behind the most ancient part of Holborn, London, where certain gabled houses some centuries of age still stand looking on the public way, as if disconsolately looking for the Old Bourne that has long run dry, is a little nook composed of two irregular...
Sketch of the Analytical Engine (1843)
Authors: Lovelace Ada
Published: December 2020

In the early 1820s the mathematician Charles Babbage designed a steam-powered calculating machine, the ‘difference engine’, to generate tables of data without the errors introduced by human ‘calculators’. In the mid–1830s he abandoned the difference engine and began building a much more versatile, powerful machine,...
From An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854)
Authors: Boole George
Published: December 2020

A distinguished writer* has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science [of probability]:

‘The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it will take place.’

‘The measure of the probability of an...
From On the Power of Penetrating into Space by Telescopes (1800)
Authors: Herschel Sir William
Published: December 2020

If now it be admitted that the expressions we have laid down are such as agree with well known facts, we may proceed to vision at a distance; and first with respect to the naked eye.

Here the power of penetrating into space, is not...
To the Chief Musician upon Nabla A Tyndallic ODE (1874)
Authors: Otis Laura
Published: December 2020

A nabla is a triangle-shaped harp. In mathematics, the quaternion operator has the same shape. Maxwell supported the use of quaternions—which could be used to represent complex numbers—in physics because of their usefulness in electrodynamics, while other physicists dismissed them as ‘empty language’. Because the...
The Sorting Demon of Maxwell (1879)
Authors: Thomson William , Kelvin Lord
Published: December 2020

The word ‘demon,’ which originally in Greek meant a supernatural being, has never been properly used as signifying a real or ideal personification of malignity.

Clerk Maxwell’s ‘demon’ is a creature of imagination having certain perfectly well-defined powers of action, purely mechanical in...
Letter to the Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the US Treasury
Authors: F. B. Morse Samuel
Published: December 2020

New York City University, September 27, 1837.

Dear Sir: In reply to the inquiries which you have done me the honor to make, in asking my opinion ‘of the propriety of establishing a system of telegraphs for the United States,’ I would say, in regard...
The Telephone (1878)
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

Of all modern inventions connected with the transmission of telegraphic signals, the telephone, devised by Mr Alexander Graham Bell, has excited the most wide-spread interest and wonder. Wherever Mr Bell has appeared before the public to give an account of his invention and the researches...
Mental Telegraphy (1891) A Manuscript with a History
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Note to the
Editor.—By glancing over the enclosed bundle of rusty old manuscript, you will perceive that I once made a great discovery: the discovery that certain sorts of things which, from the beginning of the world, had always been regarded as merely ‘curious...
I Sing the Body Electric [1855] (1867)
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: December 2020

I sing the Body electric;

The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them;

They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,

And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul.

Was...
From The Last Man (1826)
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

Set in the future, The Last Man depicts a plague that destroys all human life. In this passage Shelley’s narrator, the self-educated shepherd Lionel Verney, begins describing the epidemic and its first consequences.

I remember, after having witnessed the destructive effects of a fire, I...
Vivisection and Its Two-Faced Advocates (1882)
Authors: Power Cobbe Frances
Published: December 2020

The position in which we, the opponents of Vivisection, find ourselves at present is this:—

We seek to stop certain practices which appear to us to involve gross cruelty, and to be contrary to the spirit of English law. Our knowledge of them is derived...
From Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840)
Authors: Whewell William
Published: December 2020

The Idea of Time, like the Idea of Space, offers to our notice some characters which do not belong to our fundamental ideas generally, but which are deserving of remark. These characters are, in some respects, closely similar with regard to time and to space,...
From A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873)
Authors: Otis Laura
Published: December 2020

Haggard cliffs, of every ugly altitude, are as common as sea-fowl along the line of coast between Exmoor and Land’s End; but this outflanked and encompassed specimen was the ugliest of them all. Their summits are not safe places for scientific experiment on the principles...
From Essays on Heredity (1881–5)
Authors: Weismann August
Published: December 2020

The Continuity of the Germ-Plasm as the Foundation of a Theory of Heredity

When we see that, in the higher organisms, the smallest structural details, and the most minute peculiarities of bodily and mental disposition, are transmitted from one generation to another; when we find...
From Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is...
From Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891)
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The hot weather of July had crept upon them unawares, and the atmosphere of the flat vale hung heavy as an opiate over the dairy-folk, the cows, and the trees. Hot steaming rains fell frequently, making the grass where the cows fed yet more rank,...
From A Treatise on Insanity (1835)
Authors: Cowles Prichard James
Published: December 2020

Moral Insanity

This form of mental derangement has been described as consisting in a morbid perversion of the feelings, affections, and active powers, without any illusion or erroneous conviction impressed upon the understanding: it sometimes co-exists with an apparently unimpaired state of the...
The Case of George Dedlow (1866)
Authors: Mitchell S. Weir
Published: December 2020

On the 19th of September, 1863, occurred the battle of Chickamauga,* in which my regiment took a conspicuous part. The close of our own share in this contest is, as it were, burnt into my memory with every least detail. It was about...
From Body and Mind (1870)
Authors: Maudsley Henry
Published: December 2020

The British alienist Henry Maudsley (1835–1918) was one of the strongest advocates of the idea that mental illnesses had biological causes. His textbook Body and Mind went through numerous editions, and he was widely cited in popular journals.

I pass on now to exhibit the...
Unconscious Cerebration: A Psychological Study (1871)
Authors: Power Cobbe Frances
Published: December 2020

The laws which govern dreams are still half unexplained, but the most obvious of them singularly illustrate the nature of the processes of the unconscious brain-work which causes them. Much of the labour of our minds, conscious and unconscious, consists in transmuting Sentiments into Ideas....
From Manual of Political Economy (1793)
Authors: Otis Laura
Published: December 2020

Political Economy is at once a science and an art. The value of the science has for its efficient cause and measure, its subserviency to the art.

According to the principle of utility in every branch of the art of legislation, the object or...
From Hard Times (1854)
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

‘Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of...
From The Races of Men (1850)
Authors: Knox Robert
Published: December 2020

Knox began his career as an anatomist, lecturing at the University of Edinburgh in the late 1820s. He left his position after his name was linked to a scandal involving the source of cadavers for medical students’ dissections. He supported himself by writing...
From London Labour and the London Poor (1851)
Authors: Mayhew Henry
Published: December 2020

Of the Wandering Tribes of this Country

The nomadic races of England are of many distinct kinds—from the habitual vagrant—half-beggar, half-thief—sleeping in barns, tents, and casual wards—to the mechanic on tramp, obtaining his bed and supper from the trade societies in the different towns, on...
From The Criminal Man (1876)
Authors: Lombroso Cesare
Published: December 2020

At the end of his career Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909) collaborated with his daughter, Gina Lombroso Ferrero (1872–1944), to prepare an English language summary of The Criminal Man (1876). Lombroso Ferrero, who did much of the writing, refers to Lombroso as ‘my father.’

This is the...
From The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

‘How sad it is!’ murmured Dorian Gray, with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. ‘How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of...
Enter Book Title Here
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought...
3
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

Percy
Driscoll slept well...
5
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar

Remark of Dr Baldwin’s, concerning upstarts: We don’t care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s...
10
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

All say, ‘How hard it is that we have to die’—a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar

Every now and...
11
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read one of his books; 2, to tell him you have read all of his books; 3, to ask him to...
12
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!—incomparably the bravest of all the creatures...
Those Extraordinary Twins
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

A Man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no...
9
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

During Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday the twins grew steadily worse; but then the doctor was summoned South to attend his mother’s funeral, and they got well in forty-eight hours. They appeared on the street on Friday, and were welcomed with enthusiasm by the new-born...
IV
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

At home the Richardses had to endure congratulations and compliments until midnight. Then they were left to themselves. They looked a little sad, and they sat silent and thinking. Finally Mary sighed and said:

‘Do you think we are to blame, Edward—much to...
Chapter IV
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

After a night’s rest in London, less strongly impressed with the loss of her father, reconciled, if not already attached to her new acquaintance, her thoughts pleasingly occupied with the reflection she was in that gay metropolis—a wild rapturous picture of which her active...
Chapter VI
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

In anxious desire that the affection, or acquaintance, between Lord Frederick Lawnly and Miss Milner might be finally broken, her guardian received with the highest satisfaction, overtures from Sir Edward Ashton, in behalf of his passion for that young lady.—Sir Edward was not young...
Chapter XI
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

With this party Miss Milner arrived at her country house, and for near six weeks all around was the perfect picture of tranquillity;—her satisfaction was as evident as every other person’s; and every severe reflection being at this time unnecessary, either to tease her...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Notwithstanding the seeming readiness with which Miss Milner had resigned all farther acquaintance with Lord Frederick, during the short ride home she appeared to have lost great part of her wonted spirits; she was thoughtful, and once sighed most heavily. Dorriforth began to fear...
Chapter XV
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

This taunting reproof from Sandford made little impression upon Miss Milner, whose thoughts were all fixed on a subject of much more importance than the opinion he entertained of her.—She threw her arms about Miss Woodley as soon as they were left alone, and...
Chapter V
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Of the many restless nights Miss Milner passed, this was not one; it is true she had a weight of care upon her heart, even heavier than usual, but its burthen had overcome her strength; and wearied out with hopes, with fears,...
Chapter VI
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Miss Woodley stood for some time to consider which way she was to go.—The first person she met would enquire, why she had been weeping to that excess her eyes were scarce discernible? and if Miss Milner was to ask the question, in what...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Miss Woodley, for the first time, disobeyed the will of Mr. Sandford; and as soon as Miss Milner and she were alone, informed her of all he had revealed to her; accompanying the recital with every testimony of sympathy and affection.—But had the genius...
Chapter XI
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

In vain, for three long days, did Miss Milner wait impatiently for this submission; not a sign, not a symptom appeared—nay, Lord Elmwood had, since the evening of Lord Frederick’s visit, (which, at the time it happened, seemed to affect him so exceedingly) become...
Chapter I
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Throughout life, there cannot happen an event to arrest the reflection of a thoughtful mind more powerfully, or to leave so lasting an impression, as that of returning to a place after a few years absence, and observing an entire alteration in respect to...
Chapter VI
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It was on a dark evening in the month of March, that Lady Matilda, accompanied by Sandford and Miss Woodley, arrived at Elmwood Castle, the magnificent seat of her father.—Sandford chose the evening; rather to steal into the house privately, than by any appearance...
Chapter VII
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The next day the whole Castle appeared to Lady Matilda (though she was in some degree retired from it) all tumult and bustle; as was usually the case while his lordship was there. She saw from her windows servants running across the yards and...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

When Lord Elmwood had been at his country seat about six weeks, Mr. Rushbrook, his nephew, and his adopted child, the friendless boy whom poor Lady Elmwood first introduced into his uncle’s house, and by her kindness preserved there—arrived from his travels, and was...
Chapter XI
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Young as Lady Matilda was during the life of her mother, neither her youth, nor the recluse state in which she lived, had precluded her from the notice and solicitations of a nobleman who had professed himself her lover. Viscount Margrave had an estate...
Chapter II
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Rushbrook, who at twenty miles distance, could have no conjecture what had passed at Elmwood House, (during the short visit Lord Elmwood made there) went that way with his dogs and gun in order to meet his lordship’s chariot on its return and ride...
Chapter V
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The repulse Lord Margrave received, did not diminish the ardour of his pursuit; for as he was no longer fearful of resentment from the Earl, whatever treatment his daughter might receive, he was determined the anger of Lady Matilda or of her female friend,...
Chapter VII
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Miss BrontË; left Roe Head in 1832, having won the affectionate regard both of her teacher and her school-fellows, and having formed there the two fast friendships which lasted her whole life long; the one with ‘Mary,’ who has not kept her letters; the...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

On the 29th of July, 1835, Charlotte, now little more than nineteen years old, went as teacher to Miss W——’s. Emily accompanied her as a pupil; but she became literally ill from home-sickness, and could not settle to anything, and after passing only three...
Chapter XII
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Towards the end of January, the time came for Charlotte to return to Brussels. Her journey thither was rather disastrous. She had to make her way alone; and the train from Leeds to London, which should have reached Euston-square early in the afternoon, was...
Chapter III
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

An article on ‘Vanity Fair’ and ‘Jane Eyre’ had appeared in the Quarterly Review of December, 1848.* Some weeks after, Miss Brontë wrote to her publishers, asking why it had not been sent to her; and conjecturing that it was unfavourable, she...
Chapter V
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Her life at Haworth was so unvaried that the postman’s call was the event of her day. Yet she dreaded the great temptation of centring all her thoughts upon this one time, and losing her interest in the smaller hopes and employments of the...
Chapter VII
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Her father was always anxious to procure every change that was possible for her, seeing, as he did, the benefit which she derived from it, however reluctant she might have been to leave her home and him beforehand. This August she was invited to...
Chapter IX
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Immediately after the republication of her sister’s book she went to Miss Martineau’s.*

‘I can write to you now, dear E——,* for I am away from home, and relieved, temporarily, at least, by change of air and scene, from the heavy burden...
• Chapter 2 • The Flower of Utah
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

This is not the place to commemorate the trials and privations endured by the immigrant Mormons before they came to their final haven. From the shores of the Mississippi to the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains* they had struggled on with...
• Chapter 4 • A Flight for Life
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

On the morning which followed his interview with the Mormon Prophet, John Ferrier went in to Salt Lake City, and having found his acquaintance, who was bound for the Nevada Mountains, he entrusted him with his message to Jefferson Hope. In it he told...
The Events of Ten Weeks
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

§ 1. From September the twenty-first to the middle of November

The foremost figure within Cytherea’s horizon, exclusive of the inmates of Knapwater House, was now the steward, Mr. Manston. It was impossible that they should live within a quarter of a mile of each...
The Events of Three Weeks
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

§ 1. From the twelfth of February to the second of March

Owen Graye’s recovery from the illness that had incapacitated him for so long a time was, professionally, the dawn of a brighter prospect for him in every direction, though the change was at...
Chapter I
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing-fleet.

‘That Cheyne boy’s* the biggest nuisance aboard,’ said a man in a frieze overcoat,*...
Chapter II
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

‘I warned ye,’ said Dan, as the drops fell thick and fast on the dark, oiled planking. ‘Dad ain’t noways hasty, but you fair earned it. Pshaw! there’s no sense takin’ on so.’ Harvey’s shoulders were rising and falling in spasms of dry...
Chapter IX
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Whatever his private sorrows may be, a multi-millionaire, like any other working man, should keep abreast of his business. Harvey Cheyne, senior, had gone East late in June to meet a woman broken down, half mad, who dreamed day and night of her son...
Chapter X
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

But it was otherwise with the We’re Here’s silent cook, for he came up, his kit in his handkerchief, and boarded the ‘Constance’. Pay was no particular object, and he did not in the least care where he slept. His business, as...
Chapter III
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

In the forward part of the boat, not the least attractive object, for a time, was a grotesque negro cripple, in tow-cloth attire and an old coal-sifter of a tambourine in his hand, who, owing to something wrong about his legs, was, in effect,...
Chapter X
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Stools, settees, sofas, divans, ottomans ; occupying them are clusters of men, old and young, wise and simple; in their hands are cards spotted with diamonds, spades, clubs, hearts; the favourite games are whist, cribbage, and brag. Lounging in arm-chairs or sauntering among the...
CHAPTER XII
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

It appeared that the unfortunate man had had for a wife one of those natures, anomalously vicious, which would almost tempt a metaphysical lover of our species to doubt whether the human form be, in all cases, conclusive evidence of humanity, whether, sometimes, it...
CHAPTER XIII
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Years ago, a grave American savant,* being in London, observed at an evening party there, a certain coxcombical fellow, as he thought, an absurd ribbon in his lapel, and full of smart persiflage, whisking about to the admiration of as many as...
CHAPTER XVII
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

In a kind of ante-cabin, a number of respectable-looking people, male and female, way-passengers, recently come on board, are listlessly sitting in a mutually shy sort of silence.

Holding up a small, square bottle, ovally labelled with the engraving of a countenance full of soft...
CHAPTER XXI
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘ Yarbs, yarbs ; natur, natur ; you foolish old file*you ! He diddled you with that hocus-pocus, did he ? Yarbs and natur will cure your incurable cough, you think.’

It was a rather eccentric-looking person who spoke ; somewhat ursine...
CHAPTER XXIII
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

At Cairo*, the old-established firm of Fever & Ague is still settling up its unfinished business ; that Creole gravedigger, Yellow Jack*—his hand at the mattock and spade has not lost its cunning ;* while Don Satuminus Typhus...
CHAPTER XXXIV
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘ Charlemont was a young merchant of French descent, living in St. Louis—a man not deficient in mind, and possessed of that sterling and captivating kindliness, seldom in perfection seen but in youthful bachelors, united at times to a remarkable sort of gracefully...
CHAPTER XXXV
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘ Well, what do you think of the story of Charlemont ? ’ mildly asked he who had told it.

‘ A very strange one,’ answered the auditor, who had been such not with perfect ease, ‘ but is it true ? ’

‘...
CHAPTER XXXVIII
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

In the master’s presence the disciple had stood as one not ignorant of his place ; modesty was in his expression, with a sort of reverential depression. But the presence of the superior withdrawn, he seemed lithely to shoot up erect from beneath it,...
CHAPTER XXXIX
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘ Charlie, I am going to put confidence in you.’

‘ You always have, and with reason. What is it, Frank ? ’

‘ Charlie, I am in want—urgent want of money.’

‘ That’s not well.’

‘ But it will be well,...
CHAPTER XL
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘ China
Aster* was a young candle-maker of Marietta,* at the mouth of the Muskingum—one whose trade would seem a kind of subordinate branch of that parent craft and mystery of the hosts of heaven, to be the means, effectively...
CHAPTER XLI
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘With what heart,’ cried Frank, still in character, ‘ have you told me this story ? A story I can no way approve ; for its moral, if accepted, would drain me of all reliance upon my last stay, and, therefore, of my...
CHAPTER XLIII
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘ So you are a philanthropist, sir,’ added the barber with an illuminated look ; ‘ that accounts, then, for all. Very odd sort of man the philanthropist. You are the second one, sir, I have seen. Very odd sort of man, indeed, the philanthropist....
The Impressionists
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

They had dropped into the chaplain’s study for a Saturday night smoke—all four House—masters—and the three briars and the one cigar reeking in amity proved the Rev. John Gillett’s good generalship. Since the discovery of the cat, King had been too ready to see...
A Little Prep.
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Newbolt.

The Easter term was but a month old when Stettson major, a day-boy, contracted diphtheria, and the Head was very...
The Propagation of Knowledge
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

The Army Class ‘English,’ which included the Upper Fifth, was trying to keep awake; for ‘English’ (Literature—Augustan epoch—eighteenth century) came at last lesson, and that, on a blazing July afternoon, meant after every one had been bathing. Even Mr. King found it hard to...