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...e by Somerset Maugham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...st be treated with respect and which were in low water . Now and then long lists of figures were given him to add up. He at- tended lectures for his f... ...Medical School. Just inside the door a num- ber of notices were pinned up, lists of lectures, football fixtures, and the like; and these he looked at ... ...ly the question recurred, but flung now like a challenging gauntlet in the lists: Why not order today? “I’m the press representative of Lynn and Sedle... ... wives who dined with us, and the literary stock- brokers, and the budding politicians; oh, she was a charming woman. She made me go to church in a si... ...nd took a cab to Doc- tor South’s. It was a broad low stucco house, with a Virginia creeper growing over it. He was shown into the consulting-room. An...

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...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...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... ...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... ...f a large portion of the population whose in- terests go beyond the State. Politicians and statesmen, being the last people in the world to notice wha... ... We have come to see more and more clearly how little we can hope for from politicians, societies and organised movements in these es- sential things.... ...copyright; and then—with perhaps a secretary or so—he would revise all his lists and 127 H. G . Wells mark against every book whether he would have t... ... the heroes of temporary sensations may run a considerable chance upon the lists. My own estimate of the popular wisdom is against the idea that any v... ...d feet. Even the highly feudal slave-holding “county family” traditions of Virginia and the South pass now out of memory. So that in a very real sense... ...sunny and enervating place through the negligently cultivated coun- try of Virginia, and one discovers the slovenly, unfinished promise of a city, bro...

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...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks it...

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...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...s. What more natural than that they should be disposed to exclude from the lists such dangerous competitors? This branch of trade ought not to be cons... ...into several confederacies, there will be as many different national civil lists to be provided for—and each of them, as to the principal de- partment... ...aken ground. If, in addition to the consideration of a plurality of civil lists, we take into view the number of persons who must necessarily be empl... ...etween several of the American States, it would furnish a like result. Let Virginia be contrasted with North Carolina, Pennsylvania with Connecticut, ... ...eleware an equal voice in the national deliberations with Pennsylvania, or Virginia, or North Caro- lina. Its operation contradicts the fundamental ma... ... equal dis- tance to subdue the refractory haughtiness of the aristocratic Virginians. Do the persons who rave at this rate imagine that their art or ...

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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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...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ... of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, De... ...dreds of miles southwest of Boston, at Dulles International Airport in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., five more men were preparing to take ... ... Sector Graphics courtesy of ESRI Final1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM Page 15 Virginia, which oversees daily traffic flow within the entire airspace syst... ...ard Base in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Langley Air Force Base in Hampton,Virginia. 100 Other facilities, not on “alert, ” would need time to arm the... ... In the first months of 1999, the Joint Staff had developed broader target lists to undertake a “focused campaign” against the infrastructure of Bin L... ...uld have suggested changes to fix glaring vulnerabilities—expanding no-fly lists, searching passen- gers identified by the CAPPS screening system, dep... ...locate your base? Some of the same places come up again and again on their lists: • western Pakistan and the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region • sout...

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...Preface: This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its mani...

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...CATION Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow 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... ...den does not mean that these things are necessarily evil; but rather, that politicians believe there is a demand for such legislation from the class o... ... law as sacred. T rue they have no more acquaintance with law-mak- ers and politicians in general than with the criminal class, which, of course, is o... ... the books. It is very hard to get it repealed. Men are lazy and cowardly; politicians look for votes; members of legislatures and Con- gress are not ... ...the English society that banished them for England’s good. The colonies in Virginia with access to land and a chance to make homes for themselves esta... ...eir catalogues of causes that are responsible for crime, and most of these lists are more or less correct. There can be no doubt that more crimes agai...

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...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... ...greater political phenomena depend, are not ame nable to the direction of politicians or philosophers. The government of a country, it is affirmed, i... ...m would have their votes counted for the next person on their respec tive lists who needed them, and could by their aid complete the quota. T o deter... ... question practically asked of the primary elector will be, which of these lists he will support. The case in which election by two stages answers wel... ...t in the affair, what moral obligation is he likely to feel as to his own? Politicians are fond of treating it as the dream of en thusiasts that the ... ...one in whose case absolute impartiality , and freedom from connection with politicians or sections of politicians, are of any thing like equal importa... ...ident and of Congress were binding solely on the governments of New Y ork, Virginia, or Pennsylvania, and could only be carried into effect through or...

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............................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HA...

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...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its...

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...the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch h...

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...sics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e by making out that I have lived by my wits—how do your lawyers live—your politicians—your intriguers—your men of the Exchange?’ He kept his small sm... ...rseilles. I admit that I was poor; I had been ill. When your lawyers, your politicians, your intriguers, your men of the Exchange fall ill, and have n... ...as the great study and ob- ject of all public departments and professional politicians all round the Circumlocution Office. It is true that every new ... ...unity of doing so, and you must be very well aware that there was Paul and Virginia which had to be re- turned and which was returned without note or ... ...was as constant as Death to man, arrayed themselves to fight it out in the lists of Society, sworn rivals. And Little Dorrit, seeing all these things ...