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...ir by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells 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... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...tells us in this book, as he has told us in others, more especially in The World Set Free, and as he has been telling us this year in his War and the ... ...-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years have but added an en... ...ague to Enforce Peace. K. 4 The War in the Air THE WAR IN THE AIR CHAPTER I: OF PR CHAPTER I: OF PR CHAPTER I: OF PR CHAPTER I: OF PR CHAPTER I: OF P... ...hips—when the international situation became acute. It was made up of four battleships and five armoured cruisers ranking almost with battleships, not... ...claration of war—indeed,on Whit Monday— the whole German fleet of eighteen battleships, with a flo- tilla of fuel tenders and converted liners contain...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ...MMAR SCHOOL.) The pale Usher — threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a qu... ...ockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of... ...ing our own. So fare thee well, poor devil of a Sub Sub, whose commentator I am. Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this w... ... I am. Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy stron... ... without chewing, as if it had been a sprat in the mouth of a whale.” Holy War. “That seabeast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest th... ... all over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years’ War, and just escaped from it with a sticking plaster shirt. Still more, hi... ...where the beholder fights his way, pell mell, through the consecutive great battles of France; where every sword seems a flash of the Northern Lights, a...

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...nrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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... ...d following upon the publication of the “Typhoon” volume of short stories. I don’t mean to say that I became then conscious of any impending change in... ... the “Typhoon” volume it seemed somehow that there was nothing more in the world to write about. This so strangely negative but disturbing mood lasted... ...ardly have been two exploits of that peculiar kind in the same part of the world and both connected with a South Ameri- can revolution. The fellow had... ...he studied the 33 Joseph Conrad thick volume. He carried it with him into battles. Now it was his only reading, and in order not to be deprived of it... ...hing for the wrongs of down-trodden nations. They listened to his tales of war readily, but seemed to ask themselves what he had got out of it after a... ...ces had given that small adhesion a fortuitous importance. The fortunes of war served him marvellously, and the victory of Rio Seco (after a day of de... ...political out- rage; friends, relatives, ruined, imprisoned, killed in the battles of senseless civil wars, barbarously executed in ferocious proscrip...

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...Excerpt: A Dispersion. ?A telegram! Make haste and open it, Jane; they always make me so nervous! I believe that is the reason Reginald always will telegraph when he is coming,? said Miss Adeline Mohun, a very pretty, well preserved, though delicate-looking lady of some age about forty, as her elder sister, brisk and live...

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...Publication Beechcroft At Rockstone by Charlotte M Yonge 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... ...echcroft At Rockstone BEECHCROFT AT ROCKSTONE by Charlotte M Yonge CHAPTER I. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER I. A DISP A DISP A DISP A DISP... ...s and Lady Rigdum?’ ‘And Ruff and Ring? They are the sweetest doves in the world.’ ‘Doves! Oh, Mysie, they would drive your aunt Ada dis- 9 Beechcrof... ...l so tiresome. I shall make mamma a beautiful crewel cushion, with all the battles in history on it. And won’t she be surprised!’ ‘I think mamma meant... ...it, for the little girls had already vowed to be the greatest chums in the world, and would have gone home with arms entwined, if Aunt Jane had not de... ...down the cross road to Bellevue, barring her way, and executing a derisive war-dance around her, and when she, almost crying, made an attempt to dash ... ...nd had hopes of the drawing prize, and how little Petros devoured tales of battles, and would hear of nothing but being a soldier. Now and then, too, ... ...en and then burst out, ‘Cousin David! Hurrah! Scrumptious!’ com- mencing a war-dance at the same moment. ‘What is it? Has David asked you?’ demanded b...

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...Excerpt: ?HOLE!? said Mr. Polly, and then for a change, and with greatly increased emphasis: ??Ole!? He paused, and then broke out with one of his private and peculiar idioms. ?Oh! Beastly Silly Wheeze of a Hole!?...

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... G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...e B eginnings, and the B eginnings, and the Bazaar azaar azaar azaar azaar I I I I I “HOLE!” said Mr. Polly, and then for a change, and with greatly i... ...as he lacked introspection he projected the associated discomfort upon the world. Every afternoon he discovered afresh that life as a whole and every ... ...garding his wife from under the brim. In a voice thick with fury he said: “I s’pose you’d like me to wear that silly Mud Pie for ever, eh? I tell you ... ...stile, and looked with eyes that seemed blurred with impalpable flaws at a world in which even the spring buds were wilted, the sunlight metallic and ... ...uld have glimpsed, that indeed he was not so much a human being as a civil war. Wonderful things must have been going on inside Mr. Polly . Oh! wonder... ...es of time after meals, when all one’s courage had descended to the unseen battles of the pit, that life seemed stripped to the bone and one saw with ... ... enchanted!” “And here am I—clad in steel. Well, not exactly, but my fiery war horse is anyhow. Ready to absquatulate all the drag- ons and rescue you...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings ...

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...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................

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...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H... ...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...HONE BELL rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gym- nastics on the lawn to deal with the irr... ...nd mechanical contrivance. I am reminded again of the days during the Boer war, when one realised that it had never occurred to our happy-go-lucky Arm... ... never really slumbered again since the chastening experiences of the Boer War. Since then the national spirit, hampered though it is by the tradi- ti... ...World sented a united and resistant front. Our Empire, for all its roll of battles, was not created by force; colonisation and diplomacy have played a... ...ng ahead and being thoroughly safe. This confidence in big, very expensive battleships is, I be- lieve and hope, shared by the German Government and b...

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................................................................................................................................................. 5 PART I?LETTERS ........................................................................................................................................................ 8 BOOKS?1905 ....................................................

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...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... ..................................................................... 5 P ART I—LETTERS .................................................................... ...ke a certain South Ameri- can general who used to say that no emergency of war or peace had ever found him “with his boots off”; but I may say that wh... ...y (after the process of tidying up), a little bowed, and receding from the world not because of weariness or misanthropy but for other reasons that ca... ... time. The time was about a month before the entrance of Roumania into the war, and though, honestly, I had seen already the shadow of coming events I... ...le to the mind and the heart of the artist. After all, the cre- ation of a world is not a small undertaking except perhaps to the divinely gifted. In ... ... war hung in the balance for more than a fort- night. The famous three-day battles, for which his- tory has reserved the recognition of special pages,... ...y and the talents of men who have provided us with words to read about the battles in Manchuria. I only wished to suggest that in the nature of things...

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...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...

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... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...................................................................... 292 ON WAR .......................................................................... ...ns are sometimes, and especially among some nations, wholesale calamities; battles yet more so; earth- quakes, the famine, the pestilence, though rare... ...e, to the luxurious happiness of this most delightful season. Happiness do I say? Yes, happiness; happiness to me above all others. For I also in thos... ... the young and the gay; I was healthy; I was strong; I was prosperous in a worldly sense! I owed no man a shilling; feared no man’s face; shunned no m... ...and Miscellaneous Papers superior in understanding and in knowledge of the world, whom, therefore, she leaned to for protection. On the other hand, sh... ...ity. But the person, after all, that did most to serve our Kate, was Kate. War was then raging with Indians, both from Chili and Peru. Kate had always... ...that had rocked upon fifty storms, and had wrestled for life through fifty battles. The reader knows all that followed. The sisterly love which Catali...

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...Excerpt: A chapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the strug...

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Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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.............................................................................................................................................. 9 Lecture I: RELIGION AND NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC .................................................

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...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ................................................................... 9 Lecture I: RELIGION AND NEUROLOGY .................................................... ...Querulous melancholy— Vital zest is a pure gift— Loss of it makes physical world look different— Tolstoy— Bunyan— Alline—Morbid fear— Such cases need ... ...efs— Leuba quoted— Characteristics of the faith-state: sense of truth; the world appears new— Sensory and motor automatisms— Permanency of conversions... ...g; origin in automatic utter- ance generally—these origins have been stock war- rants for the truth of one opinion after another which we find represe... ... of seventy-three: “As for myself,” he says, “weak as I am, I carry on the war to the last mo- ment, I get a hundred pike-thrusts, I return two hun- d... ...y take are often pathetic enough. The early Quakers, for example, had hard battles to wage against the worldliness and insincerity of the ecclesiastic... ...it takes the whole of us to spell the meaning out completely. So a “god of battles” must be allowed to be the god for one kind of person, a god of pea...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religio...

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.... 134 EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE...................................................................................... 137 THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE ................................................................................................................................ 143 THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES ............................................................

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...many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, the very straightest and closest poss...

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...Table of Contents: PREFACE, iii -- Volume I 3 -- Book I 3 -- Chapter 1, 3 -- Chapter 2, 15 -- Chapter 3, 25 -- Chapter 4, 35 -- Chapter 5, 50 -- Chapter 6, 58 -- Book II 69 -- Chapter 1, 69 -- Chapter 2, 79 -- Chapter 3, 85 -- Chap...

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