...y Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...uld have had the power to bring death and devastation upon two flourishing provinces and cause serious anxiety to the leaders of the revolution in the... ...pair he let out. Señores, I know many men in my country, especially in the provinces most subject to earthquakes, who will neither eat, sleep, pray, n... ...tles of our own. He had been appointed mili- tary guardian of our southern province. He raised a partida. But his leniency to the conquered foe dis- p... ...y of movement which had made Gaspar Ruiz’ raids so famous. We followed the lower valleys up to their precipitous heads. The ride was not without its d... ...the fort. They were slow, but we could trace their toilful progress up the lower valleys. I won- dered why Ruiz did not march to attack and destroy th... ...elf down a little by letting your elbows bend, I will …’ “He leaped aside, lowering his port-fire, and a 59 Joseph Conrad burst of flame darted out o...

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...Contents AUTHOR?S NOTE .........................................................................................4 A SET OF SIX ..................................................................................................8 GASPAR RUIZ .................................................................................................8 AN IRON...

...ther stories by Ivan Turgenev, trans. Constance Garnett is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...tor, Hazleton, PA 18201- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ation. One came across heroes a la Marlinsky everywhere, especially in the provinces and especially among infantry and artillery men; they talked and ... ..., there was a birch copse through which flowed the same little stream that lower down encircled our village. The moon stood, a pale blur in the sky—bu... ...oms with the walls covered with reddish lilac paper somewhat frayed at the lower edge with a painted wooden sofa, chairs to match and two pots of gera... ...xious to purchase it. A week later he had moved to a dis- tance—out of the province; the new owner settled in and that very evening the inn was burnt ... ...e among the maids in Lizaveta Prohorovna’s house, but has sunk to a rather lower position; she is very poorly, almost dirtily dressed, and there is no... ...nd wore powder every day, which was looked upon as very exceptional in the provinces. He used to declare that he could not go without powder as he had...

...Excerpt: We all settled down in a circle and our good friend Alexandr Vassilyevitch Ridel (his surname was German but he was Russian to the marrow of his bones) began as follows: I am going to tell you a story, friends, of something that happened to me in the ?thirties ... forty years ago as you see. I will be brief--and don?t you interrupt me....

...ch Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...’s shopboard up to the High Senate-houses, Solemn Temples; nay through all provinces of Mind and Imagination, onwards to the outmost confines of artic... ...lease. Cimmeria and Civil War! Never was Republic One and Indivisible at a lower ebb.— Amid which dim ferment of Caen and the World, History specially... ...ubois-Crance, ‘with seventy thousand men, and all the Artillery of several Provinces, ’ bombarding Lyons day and night. Worse things still are in stor... ... Seven Years War. By which Seven Years War, did not the great Fritz wrench Silesia from the great Theresa; and a Pompadour, stung by epigrams, satisfy... ...t. This inference, for example, among the first: ‘That if the gods of this lower world will sit on their glittering thrones, indolent as Epicurus’ god...

........................................................................................................................... 77 Chapter 3.2.V. Stretching of Formulas. ............................................................................................................................ 80 Chapter 3.2.VI. At the Bar. ...........................................................

...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmis- sion, in any way. A Book of Golden Deeds, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ...der has been found in every robber, every pirate, and too often in all the lower grade of warriors, from the savage plun- derer of a besieged town up ... ...an Ocean and Persian Gulf, while he himself marched along the shore of the province, then called Gedrosia, and now Mekhran. It was a most dismal tract... ...on of the body. The souls of evil-doers would, they thought, pass into the lower and more degraded animals, while those of good men would be gradually... ... a serious matter, but he could not come himself against them, because his provinces in Armenia and Persia had refused their tribute, and he had to go... ...that they would not be absorbed; the tribes of Provence, the first Ro- man province, were already conquered, others were in alli- ance with Rome, and ... ...d porches, but these had been found inconvenient and were removed, and the lower story consisted of a large hall, and strong vault, with a spacious ro...

...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...

...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...- other sunset north-westward of the glory along the hills. Venice dropped lower and lower, breasting the waters, until it was a thin line in air. The... ...th that inner light of his- tory seen through the beauty Venice was like a lowered ban- ner. The great white dome and the campanili watching above her... ..., probably was not, for when he ceased it was to look on the beauty of her lowered eyelids, 122 Beauchamp’s Career rather with an idea that the weigh... ...ttend the Prussian cavalry manoeuvres last Autumn on the Lower Rhine or in Silesia— no matter where. He couldn’t go: he was engaged to shoot birds! I ... ...d by its humble slightness: ‘Things are the same, but for the jewel of the province, a lustre of France, lured hither to her eclipse’—meanings various... ... BEAUCHAMP IT WA S NOW the season when London is as a lighted tower to her provinces, and, among other gentlemen hurried thither by attraction, Captai...

...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observ...

...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... and improvement of the latter country. The corn of France is, in the corn-provinces, fully as good, and in most years nearly about the same price wit... ...Upper Egypt extends itself nowhere above a few miles from the Nile; and in Lower Egypt, that great river breaks itself into many different canals, whi... ...d manufactures seem like- wise to have been of very great antiquity in the provinces of Ben- gal, in the East Indies, and in some of the eastern provi... ...gable canals, in the same manner as the Nile does in Egypt. In the eastern provinces of China, too, several great rivers form, by their different bran... ...circumstances which regulate the rent of land, and which ei- ther raise or lower the real price of all the different substances which it produces. CHA... ...e former are disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower, the wages of labour. It is not, however, difficult to foresee which ...

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...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...gour and va- cuity is the lot of the Upper, and want and stagnation of the Lower, and universal misery is very certain, what other thing is certain? T... ...tasms, from its shafts of light; let the Absurd fly utterly forsaking this lower Earth for ever. It is Truth and Astraea Redux that (in the shape of P... ...th their long greasy hair; the up- per part of the visage waxing pale, the lower distorting itself into the attempt at a cruel laugh and a sort of fer... ...uack-like pretended to be doing, and been only eating and misdoing, in all provinces of life, as Shoeblack or as Sovereign Lord, each in his degree, f... ...eacherous, sudden! For one thing, we hear it whispered, ‘the Intendants of Provinces ‘have all got order to be at their posts on a certain day.’ Still... ...h part of the symptom, and exasperated the other eleven! The Intendants of Provinces, the Military Commandants are at their posts, on the appointed 8t...

...E ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................................

...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...h Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...and possessing also ready means of shaking it off. In regard to the latter provinces, moreover, the rival pretensions of France, and the neighbourhood... ...lready in their posses- sion would it was evident soon be so. The whole of Lower Germany was already secularized; and if it were otherwise in Upper Ge... ...ties and Maximilian’s mildness, had met with a rapid success. The Austrian provinces exhibited in miniature what Germany did on a larger scale. The gr... ...ion. The more unfortunate each nation felt itself in being degraded into a province of a foreign king- dom, the stronger desire did they feel to obey ... ...ample had already been set in several of the ecclesi- astical benefices of Lower Germany, and at- tended with success. Several canons of Cologne had a... ...s that the blow would fall on the south rather than the north, because, in Lower Germany, the Prot- estants were connected together through a long 51...

...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; a...

...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ssed as be 20 Considerations on Representative Government longing to the province of Order. Yet what can be more con ducive to Progress? A financia... ...heir own particular business ill, the effect is felt in a thousand ways in lowering the morality and deadening the intelligence and activity of the pe... ...e same kind, though far less in degree, is pro duced on Englishmen of the lower middle class by their li ability to be placed on juries and to serve... ...dapted in proportion to their degree of general improvement. As they range lower and lower in development, that form of government will be, generally ... ... ought to take personally upon itself. With regard to the rest, its proper province is not to do it, but to take means for having it well done by othe... ...to secure this amount, the assembly will encroach, by special acts, on the province of the executive; it will expel a good, or elevate and uphold a ba...

...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the p...

....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................

...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... is like! His quiet days require no fewer than forty-two of the forty-nine provinces of Spain to take their ease in. For his unquiet days, I presume, ... ...res is defined precisely by their frontier line running through the Polish provinces. Without indulging in excessive feelings of indignation at that c... ... of military assistance with mer- ciless advice. The thought of the Polish provinces accepting a frank reconciliation with a humanised Russia and brin... ... exception, behaved admirably. The chief officer with his watch managed to lower the No. 3 boat. Two other boats had been shattered by the explosion, ... ...n, and though another lifeboat was cleared and ready, there was no time to lower it, and “some of us jumped while others were washed over- board. Mean... ... for abandoning ship and would do the work efficiently. The boats could be lowered with sufficient dispatch. One does not want to let rip one’s boats ...

.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................