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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...or through liaison channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence... ...shington, D.C. 20340-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State IN... ...27 Requesters outside the US Government may .... ' purchase this publication in photocopy or micro- form from: National Technical Information Service ... ... afghanis=US$l (November 1986) Fiscal year: 21 March-20 March Communications Railroads: 9.6 km (single track) 1.524- meter gauge, spur of Soviet line ... ... 180 km Ports: 3 minor river ports (Shir Khan is largest) Civil air: 5 major transport aircraft Airfields: 42 total, 34 usable; 12 with permanent-surf... ...ersion rate: 4.14 leks=US$l (1986) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Railroads: 437 km 425 1.435-meter standard gauge, single track, governmen... ...c tons; 1.946 billion metric tons/km; highways 1.298 billion metric tons/km; railways 618.8 million metric tons/km; internal waterways 29.2 million me... ...ral gas, 2,948 km Ports: 6 major, 6 secondary, 1 1 minor Civil air: 40 major transport aircraft Airfields: 154 total, 146 usable; 55 with permanent-su... ...86) Communications Railroads: none Highways: about 96 km Civil air: no major transport aircraft Airfields: none Telecommunications: international land...

...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disp...

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Jockeys and Jewels

By: Bev Pettersen

...s reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or a portion thereof, in any form. This book may not be resold or uploaded for distribution ... ...mud, blasted on his bugle, and the post parade began. Most fans sought refuge in the clubhouse, yet ten feet away two women in stylish raincoats als... ...idn’t know if Lazer Cat would run well either. The horse had performed poorly in four starts on a sunny day, but maybe he’d like the shitty weather. ... ...rack, hated to race. The phone in Kurt’s pocket vibrated. He pivoted from the rail, giving the two ladies a polite nod as he passed. Ignoring their ... ...ked over her shoulder for other runners before dropping the gelding in on the rail. On the backside, in front of the neat row of barns, she finally ... ...he horse rocketed forward, his powerful burst filling her with adrenaline. The rail knifed past as they hugged the turn and charged down the lane. Th... ...hat did you say the owner’s name was?” he asked. “Marcus Friedman. He’s from Belgium or Germany, someplace like that. Last year he saw me selling m... ...pressed redial on the phone. “Archer, the smugglers used hollowed-out pads to transport the stones. I found a couple in the garbage bin. Otto always ...

...ater track where his partner was last seen alive. Julie West, a dedicated but struggling jockey, pins her dreams of an elusive win on the new trainer in town, never suspecting she’s a person of interest—and not because of her riding skills.Kurt didn’t expect his contrary colt to flourish under Julie’s feminine touch nor for his own rusty heart to soften. However, his decei...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ... of the Market XIII. The Myth of the Earnings Yield XIV. Immortality and Mortality in the Economic Sciences XV. The Agent-Principal Conundrum XV... ... The Europeans followed suit. Despite this public display of commitment to the air transport industry, by January this year, no re-insurer agreed t... ...d that $21 billion in total annual premiums were paid to captives in 1999. The Air Transport Association and Marsh, an insurer, are in the process ... ...ial pricing is also - perhaps mostly - influenced by other considerations such as: transportation costs, disparate tax and customs regimes, cost of... ...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of th... ...technologies incorporate their own history. For instance: the distance between two rails in a modern railroad is identical to the width of Roman ro... ...nly the latest in a string of networks which spanned the globe (the telegraph, the railway, the radio, television). So, I went and had a look at ...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of thes... ...ers and speculators, businessmen and middlemen. Advances in telecommunications and transportation followed inexorably. The concept of intellectual ... ...therefore, becomes also a sexual joint venture. 9. Urbanization, communication, and transportation multiplied the number of encounters between men a... ...udience more easily but this, again, is the lonely, disembodied kind of "contact". Transportation made humanity more mobile, it fractured and fragm... ...ses" (the "symbolic analysts" in Robert Reich's less successful rendition) - freely railed against the "lowest common denominator". True, Lasch tri... ...hone have been similarly heralded as "global" and transforming. The power grid and railways were also greeted with universal enthusiasm and acclaim...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of thes... ...ers and speculators, businessmen and middlemen. Advances in telecommunications and transportation followed inexorably. The concept of intellectual ... ...therefore, becomes also a sexual joint venture. 9. Urbanization, communication, and transportation multiplied the number of encounters between men a... ...udience more easily but this, again, is the lonely, disembodied kind of "contact". Transportation made humanity more mobile, it fractured and fragm... ...ses" (the "symbolic analysts" in Robert Reich's less successful rendition) - freely railed against the "lowest common denominator". True, Lasch tri... ...hone have been similarly heralded as "global" and transforming. The power grid and railways were also greeted with universal enthusiasm and acclaim...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ...etectable radiation 13 billion light years away. Now, if you could magically transport the Hubble telescope 13 billion light years to the farthest ... ...new level; using these razor-sharp stone chips; they could butcher a kill into transportable pieces fast enough to escape with more food before they ... ...out cheap, mass produced, modular steel houses. Modular pieces that could be transported easily to a site, taking only 3 days to assemble. Have you... ...her obscene lie modern history books spout…the virtue of these new industrial railroads serving as cheap mass transportation for the poor. That is ... ...ving as cheap mass transportation for the poor. That is total bullshit. The railroads were built by rich Robber Barons to get rich quick. The ... ...oor into his Gulag death-labour camps. The English peasants were herded into railroad cars like cattle on the hoof. The first railroads were used ...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...y 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 Univer... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... itous fireworks for all the population of Bun Hill. And then had come the railway, and then villas and villas, and then the gas-works and the water-w... ...hed out of the Otterbourne and left it a dreadful ditch, and then a second railway station, Bun Hill South, and more houses and more, more shops, more... ...least so far as flying was concerned. But that was the great time of mono- rail development, and his anxiety was only diverted from the high heavens b... ... from the air-fleet. The airships were 133 H G Wells quite unequal to the transport of any adequate landing par- ties; their complement of men was ju... ...ir fight in the world, and that in the interval he had been across France, Belgium, Germany, England, Ireland, and a number of other countries. It was... ...s- works and whatever seems conducive to the building of air- ships or the transport of troops. Our retaliatory measures are slight in the extreme. Bu...

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War and the Future; Italy, France and Britain at War

By: H. G. Wells

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and the Future by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...st on the line between V erona and Milan through the gross negligence of a railway porter. But I doubt if they would have thrown any very conclusive l... ...uipment of a modern army advancing. Everywhere I saw new roads being made, railways pushed up, vast store dumps, hospitals; everywhere the villages sw... ... with hay. These carts seem as strange among the grey shapes of modern war transport as a Chinese mandarin in painted silk would be. They are the most... ... woodland in the eye of God and the aeroplane. I went about the network of rail- ways and paths under the trees that a modern battery re- quires, and ... ...ntains round about a valley must be won before that valley is safe for the transport of an advance. But on the other hand a surprise capture of some s... ... tion, or it floats for a moment over the dizzy edge while a train of mule transport blunders by. The unruly imagination of man’s heart (which is “onl...

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Nostromo a Tale of the Seaboard

By: Joseph Conrad

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylv... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...sness of her saloon, whereas the Ganymede was fitted out mainly for cattle transport, and to be avoided by coastwise passengers. The humblest In- dian... ...ow—with some Italian workmen, im- ported to work upon the National Central Railway, was at hand, and managed to snatch him away—for the time at least.... ...the protec- tion of the Company’s property. That and the prop- erty of the railway were preserved by the European residents; that is, by Captain Mitch... ...e harm the mob managed to achieve was to set fire to one—only one—stack of railway-sleepers, which, being creosoted, burned well. The main attack on t... ...table patience. “Lucia, Lucia di Lammermoor! I am passionate for music. It transports me. Ha! the divine—ha!—Mozart. Si! divine … What is it you were ... ...mstances, and the state of inland trade did not visibly require additional transport facili- ties; but the man seemed to find his account in it. A few...

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

... Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...ssoci- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an e... ...Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classic... ... ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestri... ...man’s house, write thus, after leaving it: Dear and never-to-be-forgotten friends. I arrived here yester- day morning without accident, and am about t... ...bour the Black or Blue Boar, or Bull, who de- parted this life I don’t know when, and whose coaches are all gone I don’t know where; and I had come ou... ...ce lime-juice has been regularly stored and served out in our navy, surely that disease, which used to devastate it, has almost disappeared? Was there... ...rs of old, whom I inquired about, had either done superlatively well or superlatively ill— had either become uncertificated bankrupts, or been feloni-... ... Flipfield senior, opening her arms, exclaimed, ‘My T om!’ and pressed his nose against the counterfeit presentment of his other parent. In vain Miss ...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair: Volume Two (Chapters Twenty-six through Fifty) by ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...uarters. He could hear the cheering from the ships in the river, where the transports were already taking in their cargoes preparatory to dropping dow... ... Amelia Invades the Low Countries THE REGIMENT WITH ITS OFFICERS was to be transported in ships provided by His Majesty’s government for the occasion:... ...g,” the officers waving their hats, and the crews hurrahing gallantly, the transports went down the river and pro- ceeded under convoy to Ostend. Mean... ...e went backwards and for- wards from Ghent to Bruges perpetually until the railroads were invented, when he drowned himself on the last trip of the pa... ...d a carved bronze knocker. The foot- man occasionally lounging at the area railing, treated him with respect; the cook took her green stuff at his hou... ...n in the house between them, the servants com- municating through the area-railings; but Crawley and his wife and his friends did not know 200 and 202...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wel... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...aeroplanes of an improved pattern in 1950, or that there will be a through railway connection between Constantinople and Bombay and between Baku and B... ... power of Russia, which was still in those days a British bogey; in making Belgium the battle-ground in a coming struggle between the mid-European Pow... ... some considerable time; that if there is much difference in the roads and rail- ways and shipping it will be for the worse; that architecture, domest... ...n- couraged Austria to send an impossible ultimatum to Serbia, and invaded Belgium because Germany was being attacked. The Krupp-Kaiser Empire, he ass... ...d—as they should have been prepared when the Germans built their strategic railways— with trenches and gun emplacements and secondary and ter- tiary l... ...t- ting private profit aside in the common interest, handling agriculture, transport, shipping, coal, the supply of metals, the manufacture of a thous...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...t his wife and daugh- ter; and the next morning, with a headache, he would rail at the world for its neglect of his genius, and abuse, with a good dea... ...tt in a fury swore that if he ever caught ‘em poaching on his ground, he’d transport ‘em, by the lord he would. How- ever, he said, “I’ve sold the pre... ...nt and sell him up the next day; or have his laugh with the poacher he was transporting with equal good humour. His politeness for the fair sex has al... ...ast en garcon with Captain Crawley. The great family coach of the Osbornes transported him to Park Lane from Russell Square; where the young ladies, w... ...jingling spinets and women sing- ing; where little porter pots hang on the railings sunning them- selves; whither of evenings you see City clerks padd... ...e was asleep: who, if she strolled in the square, was guarded there by the railings and the beadle: who, if she walked ever so short a distance to buy...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair: Volume One (Chapters One through Twenty-five) by W... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...t his wife and daugh- ter; and the next morning, with a headache, he would rail at the world for its neglect of his genius, and abuse, with a good dea... ...tt in a fury swore that if he ever caught ‘em poaching on his ground, he’d transport ‘em, by the lord he would. How- ever, he said, “I’ve sold the pre... ...nt and sell him up the next day; or have his laugh with the poacher he was transporting with equal good humour. His politeness for the fair sex has al... ...ast en garcon with Captain Crawley. The great family coach of the Osbornes transported him to Park Lane from Russell Square; where the young ladies, w... ...jingling spinets and women sing- ing; where little porter pots hang on the railings sunning them- selves; whither of evenings you see City clerks padd... ...e was asleep: who, if she strolled in the square, was guarded there by the railings and the beadle: who, if she walked ever so short a distance to buy...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 7 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania Stat... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...less that those of 1863. The de- crease since 1860 in the annual amount of transportation has been only about twenty-five per cent, but the annual exp... ...residue dis- posed of under laws granting lands for military bounties, for railroad and other purposes. It also appears that the sale of the public l... ...r to their being reclaimed and rendered fit for cultivation; the grants to railway companies of alternate sections of land upon the contemplated lines... ...iven to this subject by the actual commence- ment of work upon the Pacific Railroad, under auspices so favorable to rapid progress and completion. Th... ...HON. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War . SIR:—Y ou are directed to have a transport (either a steam or sailing vessel, as may be deemed proper by the... ...untry such of the colonists there as desire to return. Y ou will have the transport furnished with suitable supplies for that purpose, and detail an ...

...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck...

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The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, the Pennsylvania State... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...r the last time. The stranger, then perceiving that the matter went beyond raillery, drew his sword, saluted his adversary, and seriously placed himse... ...im the strongest he had ever heard of even in Gascony. He believed himself transported into that famous country of giants into which Gulliver afterwar... ...te him—to tell his spy that the best means of making his court to me is to rail at him. There- fore, in spite of all my protestations, if it be as I s... ...as forbidden it. Pass on your way, then; it is the best thing to do.” This raillery exasperated Jussac. “We will charge upon you, then,” said he, “if ... ...success of one of Monsieur Patru’s pleadings.” “Please God!” cried Aramis, transported. “There it is,” cried the Jesuit; “the world still speaks withi... ...rt was returning empty to Paris, and the two lackeys had agreed, for their transport, to slake the wagoner’s thirst along the route. “What is this?” s...

...Preface: In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names? ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them....

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Dynevor Terrace

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dynevor Terrace: or The Clue of Life, Volume One by Charlotte M... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...y, ‘but not quite as you suppose. See here,’ as he held up mali- ciously a railway novel. ‘I am afraid I know where it came from,’ said Lord Ormersfie... ...lad you appreciate it,’ he exclaimed; ‘I will finish it off now, and put a rail. I did not care to go on when I had lost the poor fellow who helped me... ...ur whole population of Ormersfield, except a few necessary retainers, were transported bodily from betwixt the wind and our nobility, located on a moo... ... do say Nanny Hodgekin, she as was one of the Blacketts, whose husband was transported, took in two ducks next morning to Northwold. Warren couldn’t m... ... came at last, all too soon for poor Louis, who suf- fered terribly in the transport, and gave few tokens of con- sciousness, except a cry now and the... ... and in good time before breakfast, all was successfully completed,—a hand-rail affixed, and the passage cleared out, till it looked so creditable, as...

...Excerpt: An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chestnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slender white arms, and her ti...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume Two

By: Alexandre Dumas

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas, the Pe... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...est in the pursuit of some whim as you do, M. Danglars, in promoting a new railway line; you, M. de Villefort, in condemning a culprit to death; you, ... ...ne into the garden, and was talking with Major Cavalcanti on the projected railway from Leghorn to Flo- rence. Monte Cristo seemed in despair. He took... ...; that was your business. In March there was a question about a grant to a railway. Three com- panies presented themselves, each offering equal securi... ...error became an irresist- ible reality, and by one of the incomprehensible transports of youth, he bounded from his hiding-place, and with two strides... ...of the bells of the lemonade-sellers, and now I feel as if I were suddenly transported to the East; not such as I have seen it, but such as my dreams ... ...d have slain you, — but God, in his mercy, spared your life.” “Pardieu, to transport me for life, how merciful!” “You thought it a mercy then, miserab...

...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his f...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Three

By: Thomas Carlyle

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carly... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... would to Heaven, for Fatherland’s sake and his, they were come! Meanwhile railings are torn up; hammered into pikes: chains themselves shall be welde... ...tead; polished satire changed now into coarse pike-points (hammered out of railing); all logic reduced to this one primitive thesis, An eye for an eye... ...on and Lacroix, when it was they that were Commissioners, would needs join Belgium to France;—of which Dumouriez might have made the pret- tiest littl... ...ous Mountain-men; but cannot fling him down, for he ‘cramps himself on the railing;’ and ‘his clothes get torn. ’ Brave Senator, worthy of pity! Neith... ...the battle; it is their task to conquer: the married men shall forge arms, transport baggage and artil- lery; provide subsistence: the women shall wor... ...ate the Apotheosis of Marat; lift his body from the Cordeliers Church, and transport it to the Pantheon of Great Men,—flinging out Mirabeau to make ro...

........................................................................................................................... 21 Chapter 3.1.IV. September in Paris. ............................................................................................................................... 24 Chapter 3.1.V. A Trilogy. .............................................................

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...here was strength to borrow and use…. Then suddenly man woke up to it, the railways spread like a network over the globe, the ever enlarging iron stea... ...s with the lightning. Frogs’ legs must have hung by copper hooks from iron railings and twitched upon count- less occasions before Galvani saw them. E... ... an equal speed atomic engines of various types invaded industrialism. The railways paid enormous premi- ums for priority in the delivery of atomic tr... ...ere were large developments of the engineer- ing arm, concerned with motor transport, motor-bicycle scouting, aviation, and the like. 40 The World Se... ...ch. All the barges and shipping upon the canals had been requisitioned for transport. In that clear, bright, warm weather, it would all have looked fr... ...orld Set Free speedily if entire depopulation was to be avoided, and their transportation and the revival of communications generally absorbed a certa...

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The American

By: Henry James

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The American by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...ese remarks, had remained standing where they met, and leaning against the rail which protected the pictures. Mr. Tristram at last declared that he wa... ...it was always more or less of a trouble to get ten-button gloves. When she railed at this serviceable city and you asked her where she would prefer to... ... odiously successful.” “Successful in copper,” said Newman, “only so-so in railroads, and a hopeless fizzle in oil.” “It is very disagreeable to know ... ...Our friend was intelligent, and he could not help that. He lounged through Belgium and Holland and the Rhineland, through Switzerland and Northern Ita... ...ily, in a scheme of pleasure. To set a large group of people in motion and transport them to a distance, to have special convey- ances, to charter rai... ...rations. Then, one morning, at haphazard, he drove to the train that would transport him to Boulogne and dispatch him thence to the shores of Britain....

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been rem...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

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... PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 2.1.II. In the Salle de Manege. ..................................

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The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Happiness . . . . . . . . . . . 43 A Wish: Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Ode in the ... ... . . . . 45 To Disappointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Ode . . . .... ...n an Autumnal Evening . . . . . . . . . . 66 To Fortune: On buying a ticket in the Irish Lottery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Perspiration. A Travel... ...atch the jocund noise: Without a tear, without a sigh Their moments all in transports fly Till evening ends their joys. But little think their joy... ...loat the scientific line? Or with dishevell’d hair all madly do ye run For transport that your task is done? For done it is — the cause is tried! ... ...ys celestial move, And what so sweet below as Woman’s love? With such high transport every moment flies, I curse Experience that he makes me wise; ... ...ptive Martyrs shed; By each pale Orphan’s feeble cry for bread; By ravag’d Belgium’s corse-impeded Flood, And Vendee steaming still with brothers’ ... ...s soon as it is light, O Rain! you will but take your flight, I’ll neither rail, nor malice keep, Though sick and sore for want of sleep. But only... ...iss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought a...

...Excerpt: Easter Holidays; Hail! festal Easter that dost bring Approach of sweetly-smiling spring, When Nature?s clad in green: When feather?d songsters through the grove With beasts confess the power of love And brighten all the scene. Now youths the breaking stages load That swiftly rattling o?er the road To Greenwich haste away: While som...

...On Quitting School for College, 38 -- Absence: A Farewell Ode on Quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge, 39 -- Happiness, 40 -- A Wish: Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792, 43 -- An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon, 44 -- To Disappointment, 45 -- A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room, 46 -- Ode, 47 -- A Lover?s Complaint to his Mistress, 49 -- With Fielding?s ??Amelia??, ...

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Three Soldiers

By: John Dos Passos

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The Schoolmistress and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

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..................................................................................................................................................... 49 IN EXILE .................................................................................................................................................................... 53 THE CATTLE-DEALERS ................................

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

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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 and t...

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The Long Vacation

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

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...gged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns and the Underwoods....

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Cashel Byron's Profession

By: George Bernard Shaw

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsyl... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ackle for crumbs from young royal fingers: the little Dauphin has a little railed garden, where he is seen delving, with ruddy cheeks and flaxen curle... ...and Royalist plotters, to provoke the people into illegality, obstruct the transport of grains. Quick, ye organised Patriot Authorities, armed Nationa... .... Tough Abbe Maury, when the obscure country Royalist grasps his hand with transport of thanks, answers, rolling his indomitable bra- zen head: “Helas... ...things, however, Duke Castries may justly ‘write to the President,’ justly transport himself across the Marches; to raise a corps, or do what else is ... ...ich is beyond the enchanted Constitutional Circuit, separated from it by a rail. To such Lodge of the Logographe, measuring some ten feet square, with... ...t may not the Lodge of the Logographe be forced from behind? Tear down the rail- ing that divides it from the enchanted Constitutional Circuit! Ushers...

............................................................................................................................ 27 Chapter 1.2.II. Petition in Hieroglyphs. ...................................................................................................................... 30 Chapter 1.2.III. Questionable. ...........................................................

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

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......................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898.......................................................................................................................... 53 A HAPPY WANDERER?1910 ..................................................................

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

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...uous attention than anyone else can have given them during its desultory publication, it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished....

...rrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream 16. Nobody?s Weakness 17. Nobody?s Rival 18. Little Dorrit?s Lover 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations 20. Moving in Society 21. Mr Merdle?s Complaint 22. A Puzzle 23. Machinery in Motion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nobody?s State of Mind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody?s Disapp...

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