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Excerpt: When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells.

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...spects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and probably in habitable capacity, having about eight-ninths of its area; then comes that of the Yenisei, wit...

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...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) , the Pennsylvania State University, J... ...tate University is an equal opportunity University. Life on the Mississippi By Mark Twain [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] THE BODY OF THE NA... ...dense population. As a dwell ing place for civilized man it is by far the first upon our globe. EDITOR’S TABLE, HARPER’S MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 1863 C... ...te way of theirs is to play a friendly swindle upon the candidate. Mr. Bixby served me in this fashion once, and for years afterward I used to blush e... ...road stretching up through Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky, to Northern railway centers, began to divert the passenger travel from the steam ers... ...ons DURING THE TWO OR TWO AND A HALF YEARS of my appren ticeship, I served under many pilots, and had experience of many kinds of steamboatme... ...ich has not suffered from the assaults of the scientists. “AFTERNOON. At the railway stations the loafers carry both hands in their breeches pockets;... ...not suffered from the assaults of the scientists. “AFTERNOON. At the railway stations the loafers carry both hands in their breeches pockets; it was ... ...e, they were no longer mortal, but spirits, and they were assigned different stations in the invisible world. Only Mudjikewis’s place was, however, na...

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Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.

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...The Octopus A Story of California by Frank Norris A P A P A P A P A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...about dose ting?” “I don’t hear about anything, Bismarck. I don’t know the first thing about how the ranch is run.” “Und der pipe-line ge-mend,” Hoove... ...is superintendents on Three and Four to send in such grain as they had re- served for seed. On Two the wheat had not even shown itself above the groun... ...r recovered as to be able to stand it. But, unfortunately, the pudding was served with a sauce that he abhorred—a thick, gruel-like, colourless mixtur... ...ll around the walls was the inevitable series of pictures representing the Stations of the Cross. They were of a hideous crudity of design and composi... ...d for some time studying it thoughtfully. It was a commissioner’s official railway map of the State of California, completed to March 30th of that yea... ...of California, completed to March 30th of that year. Upon it the different railways of the State were accurately plot- ted in various colours, blue, g... ...lder. The hours passed. Midnight came and went. Annixter, checking off the stations, noted their pas- 323 Frank Norris sage of Modesto, Merced, and M...

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...th A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...eed largely: we were athletes with a fine history and a full purse: we had first-rate sporting guns, unrivalled park-hacks and hunters, promising babi... ...ains, to resist a sudden sharp trial of the national mettle? Where was the first line of England’s defence, her navy? These were questions, and Minist... ...th. No con- spicuously great man was born of the Romfreys, who were better served by a succession of able sons. They sent undis- tinguished able men t... ...er the impression that the country suffered, not he at all. The letter had served its ob- ject: ever since the transmission of it the menaces and insu... ... sir, she is not a Radical. Do you take me?’ Rosamund Culling drove to the railway station on her way to Bevisham within an hour after Mr. Romfrey’s e... ...the public debt and remit taxa- tion, by originally retaining the lines of railway, and fasten- ing on the valuable land adjoining stations. Hundreds ... ...ining the lines of railway, and fasten- ing on the valuable land adjoining stations. Hundreds of millions of pounds! She dropped a sigh at the prodigi...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the truth which they perceive. S...

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... STEVENSON A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ...Louis Stevenson LAY MORALS CHAPTER 1 T HE PROBLEM OF EDUCATION is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an ... ...- plained and applied. And thus, to learn aright from any teacher, we must first of all, like a historical artist, think ourselves into sympathy with ... ... settlement] ‘there followed a brief term of office by Father Damien which served only to pub- lish the weakness of that noble man. He was rough in hi... ...e it, and observe with wonder how 52 Robert Louis Stevenson well you were served by your gossips, how ill by your intel- ligence and sympathy; in how... ...ture of capital and competition; it stands and falls with millionaires and railway bonds and all the abuses and glories of to-day; and as soon as the ... ...rivate property, the days of the independent jour- nal are numbered. State railways may be good things and so may State bakeries; but a State newspape... ...’ cried the old man. ‘Come now, Mr. Archer, you and me belong to different stations; and I know mine– no man better– but since we have both been rooke...

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...Preface: To explain the present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of ...

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...JOHN KEBLE’S PARISHES A HISTORY OF HURSLEY AND OTTERBOURNE By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...s Publication John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ... of Hursley, belonged to the Bishops of Winchester by a grant of Oynegils, first Christian King. Milner, in his History of Winchester, wishes to besto... ...as it is in the book, appear there. It had once belonged, as did Baddesley first, at first to one named Chepney, then to Roger de Mortimer, that fierc... ...rous manors in the diocese, and these were really not only endowments, but stations whence the episcopal duty of visitation could be performed. Riding... ... part of which was still legible in 1839. Otterbourne was apparently still served by the vicar of Hursley or his assistant. Parish Registers began at ... ...etween Hursley and Baddesley, at a spot called High Trees Corner, near the railway, is marked in the old map, “Here stode Gospell Oke.” It is not far ... ...as White Esq., son of Ignatius White Esq. of Fiddleford in Dorsetshire. He served three kings and Queen Ann as a Commander in the guards, and was much... ...itants, who chiefly lived along the high road. Moreover, the South Western Railway was being made, and passed so near, that to those whose ears were u...