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** Transcriber’s Notes ** The printed edition from which this e-text has been produced retains the spelling and abreviations of Hakluyt’s 16th-century original. In this version, the spelling has been retained, but the following manuscript abbreviations have been silently expanded: – vowels with macrons = vowel + ‘n’ or ‘m’ – q; = -que (in the Latin) – y[e] = the; y[t] = that; w[t] = with This edition contains footnotes and two types of sidenotes....

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving CONTENTS:PrefaceThe Author’s Account of HimselfThe VoyageRoscoeThe WifeRip Van WinkleEnglish Writers on AmericaRural Life in EnglandThe Broken HeartThe Art of Book-makingA Royal PoetThe Country ChurchThe Widow and her SonA Sunday in LondonThe Boar’s Head TavernThe Mutability of LiteratureRural FuneralsThe Inn KitchenThe Spectre BridegroomWestminster AbbeyChristmasThe Stage-CoachChristmas EveChristmas DayThe Christmas DinnerLondon AntiquesLittle BritainStatford-on-AvonTraits of Indian CharacterPhilip of PokanoketJohn BullThe Pride of the VillageThe AnglerThe Legend of Sleepy HollowL’Envoy THE SKETCH-BOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT....

So it was that by torch-light gathered fully a hundred of the little people, prepared to battle the Evil One in his hidden fast-hold. With the coming of night they began marching in ragged columns into the foot-hills beneath the fulgent lunar rays. Ahead a burning cloud shone clearly through the purple dusk, a guide to their goal. For the sake of truth it is to be recorded that their spirits sank low long ere they sighted the foe, and as the moon grew dim and the coming of the dawn was heralded by gaudy clouds they wished themselves more than ever at home, dragon or no dragon....

The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit Being the adventures of the Bastable children in search of a fortune TO OSWALD BARRONWithout whom this book could never have been written The Treasure Seekers is dedicated in memory of childhoods identical but for the accidents of time and space CONTENTS The Council of Ways and Means2. Digging for Treasure3. Being Detectives4. Good Hunting5. The Poet and the Editor6. Noel’s Princess7....

DIARY OF J.R.KAZALLON, PASSENGER. By JULES VERNE. CHAPTER I. CHARLESTON, SEPTEMBER 27th, 1869.–It is high tide, and three o’clock in the afternoon when we leave the Battery-quay; the ebb carries us off shore, and as Captain Huntly has hoisted both main and top sails, the northerly breeze drives the “Chancellor” briskly across the bay. Fort Sumter ere long is doubled, the sweeping batteries of the mainland on our left are soon passed, and by four o’clock the rapid current of the ebbing tide has carried us through the harbour-mouth....

THE TORRENTS OF SPRING BY IVAN TURGENEV Translated from the Russian BY CONSTANCE GARNETT 1897 CONTENTS THE TORRENTS OF SPRING FIRST LOVE MUMU THE TORRENTS OF SPRING ‘Years of gladness, Days of joy, Like the torrents of spring They hurried away.’ –From an Old Ballad. … At two o’clock in the night he had gone back to his study. He had dismissed the servant after the candles were lighted, and throwing himself into a low chair by the hearth, he hid his face in both hands....

by Mariano Azuela Mariano Azuela, the first of the “novelists of the Revolution,” was born in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico, in 1873. He studied medicine in Guadalajara and returned to Lagos in 1909, where he began the practice of his profession. He began his writing career early; in 1896 he published Impressions of a Stu- dent in a weekly of Mexico City. This was followed by numer- ous sketches and short stories, and in 1911 by his first novel, Andres Perez, maderista....

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAIN TWO PARTSPART I1783-1830 BY EDWIN ERLE SPARKS, PH. D. PREFACE The story of the United States has frequently been told. It has been told in the spirit of boasting, as a marvel of local accomplishment. It has been told in the spirit of reverence, as the work of a chosen people under a special dispensation of Providence. Its glory has been ascribed now to one political party and now to another....

Notes: Universal Copyright Convention as Revised at Paris, 1971. Convention and protocols done at Paris July 24, 1971; Ratification advised by the Senate of the United States of America August 14, 1972; Ratified by the President of the United States of America August 28, 1972; Ratification of the United States of America deposited with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization September 18, 1972; Proclaimed by the President of the United States of America July 18, 1974; Entered into force July 10, 1974....

THE YOUNG EMIGRANTS; MADELAINE TUBE; THE BOY AND THE BOOK; AND THE CRYSTAL PALACE Charles Scribner, New York, 1851 [Illustration: Frontispiece] CONTENTS. THE YOUNG EMIGRANTS. CHAPTER I. Sights at Sea. CHAPTER II. The New World. CHAPTER III. A New Home, and a Narrow Escape. CHAPTER IV. An Intruder. CHAPTER V. Striving and Thriving. MADELAINE TUBE. CHAPTER I. The Broken Cup. CHAPTER II. A Picture of Poverty. CHAPTER III. Uneasiness. CHAPTER IV....

TWO EXPEDITIONS INTO THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA DURING THE YEARS 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831 WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE SOIL, CLIMATE AND GENERAL RESOURCES OF THE COLONY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I. “For though most men are contented only to see a river as it runs by them, and talk of the changes in it as they happen; when it is troubled, or when clear; when it drowns the country in a flood, or forsakes it in a drought: yet he that would know the nature of the water, and the causes of those accidents (so as to guess at their continuance or return), must find out its source, and observe with what strength it rises, what length it runs, and how many small streams fall in, and feed it to such a height, as make it either delightful or terrible to the eye, and useful or dangerous to the country about it....

After downloading a specific file, the location and complete context of the quotations may be found by inserting a small part of the quotation into the ‘Find’ or ‘Search’ functions of the user’s word processing program. The quotations are in two formats: 1. Small passages from the text. 2. Lists of alphabetized one-liners. The editor may be contacted at for comments, questions or suggested additions to these extracts. D.W. QUOTATIONS FROM THREE COLLECTIONS OF MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON Contents: Memoirs of Napoleon, V1, by Bourrienne [NB#01][nb01v10....

ZULEIKA DOBSONOR AN OXFORD LOVE STORY byMax Beerbohm NOTE to the 1922 edition I was in Italy when this book was first published. A year later (1912) I visited London, and I found that most of my friends and acquaintances spoke to me of Zu-like-a — a name which I hardly recognised and thoroughly disapproved. I had always thought of the lady as Zu-leek-a. Surely it was thus that Joseph thought of his Wife, and Selim of his Bride?...

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES–My Mark Twain by William Dean Howells MY MARK TWAIN I. It was in the little office of James T. Fields, over the bookstore of Ticknor & Fields, at 124 Tremont Street, Boston, that I first met my friend of now forty-four years, Samuel L....

COMPILED FROM THE JOURNALS OF THE BROTHERS, AND EDITED BY FREDERICK J. BYERLEY, (ENGINEER OF ROADS, NORTHERN DIVISION OF QUEENSLAND). BRISBANE PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. W. BUXTON, BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER. 1867. TO SIR CHARLES NICHOLSON, BART., CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, etc., etc., etc., AS ONE OF OUR OLDEST AND MOST DISTINGUISHED COLONISTS. THE NARRATIVE IS INSCRIBED WITH GREAT RESPECT, BY THE EDITOR. PREFACE. THE Settlement of Northern Australia has of late years been of such rapid growth as to furnish matter for a collection of narratives, which in the aggregate would make a large and interesting volume....

The Outdoor GirlsatWild Rose LodgeorThe Hermit of Moonlight Falls byLaura Lee Hope Author of “The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale,” “The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point,” “The Moving Picture Girls,” “The Bobbsey Twins,”“Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue,”“Six Little Bunkers at GrandmaBell’s,” Etc. Contents I Just Fun. II The Falling Tree. III The Queer Little Man. IV Good News. V Betty Takes a Dare. VI Nearly Wrecked. VII Bad Tidings Confirmed....

A SEQUEL TO “FAIR MARGARET” BY F. MARION CRAWFORD AUTHOR OF “SARACINESCA,” “SANT’ ILARIO,” “FAIR MARGARET,” ETC., ETC. 1908 [Illustration] CHAPTER I When the accident happened, Cordova was singing the mad scene in Lucia for the last time in that season, and she had never sung it better. The Bride of Lammermoor is the greatest love-story ever written, and it was nothing short of desecration to make a libretto of it; but so far as the last act is concerned the opera certainly conveys the impression that the heroine is a raving lunatic....

[Illustration: THE WOMAN] THE ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF A WIDELY KNOWN BUSINESS MAN OF NEW YORK BY HIMSELF (WILLIAM INGRAHAM RUSSELL) TO MY WIFEWho, after more than forty years of married life, is still my sweetheart TO MY READERS A true story of a life I give you; not in its completion, for it is still unfinished. The romance of youth has lingered through all the later years and the tragedy of these years could not destroy it....

TONED STONE CONTENTS THE JAIL-BREAKERSTHE TRESPASSERSTHE KIDNAPPERS THE SCARLET CAR ITHE JAIL-BREAKERS For a long time it had been arranged they all should go to the Harvard and Yale game in Winthrop’s car. It was perfectly well understood. Even Peabody, who pictured himself and Miss Forbes in the back of the car, with her brother and Winthrop in front, condescended to approve. It was necessary to invite Peabody because it was his great good fortune to be engaged to Miss Forbes....

The square brackets, i.e. [ ] are copied from the printed book, without change, except thata closing bracket “]” has been added to the stage directions. FOOTNOTES: For this E-Text version of the book, the footnotes have been consolidated at the end of the play. Numbering of the footnotes has been changed, and each footnote is given a unique identity in the form . CHANGES TO THE TEXT: Character names have been expanded....