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...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... ...tead of Valparaiso. The officer who had identified him had gone on without listening to his protestations. His doom was sealed; his hands were tied ve... ...ced the soldiers. An air of awestruck expectation had replaced their usual listless apathy. I heard the voice of Gaspar Ruiz shouting inside, but the ... ... could no longer be a soldier—not a good soldier at any rate. Nobody would listen to his explanations. What injustice it was! What injustice! And in a... ... Joseph Conrad and hats. Middle-sized and spare, his eyes alert in a long, Roman-nosed countenance, X walked on his neat little feet, with short steps... ...eo—(and by the by he had expressed his dislike of the busts and statues of Roman emperors in the gallery of marbles: their faces were too vigorous, to... ...ly one which suited him was the climate of the Gulf of Naples. The ancient Romans, who, he pointed out to me, were men expert in the art of living, kn...

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Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One.

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.................................. 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824...................................................................

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...Editor’s Notes at the 9 Shelley end of the V olume 3 the reader will find lists of the punctual variations in the longer poems, by means of which the... ...brary Edition of the “Poetical Works” published in the same year. See the “List of Editions”, etc. at the end of Volume 3.); but, important as his edi... ... the er- rors of the press are so numerous,” adding, “I shall send you the list of errata in a day or two.” This was probably “the list of errata writ... ...arth might become such, did mankind them- selves consent. The charm of the Roman climate helped to clothe his thoughts in greater beauty than they had... ...erest; and that the feel- ings of the company never failed to incline to a romantic pity for the wrongs, and a passionate exculpation of the hor- ribl... ... _130 412 V olume One To see what was romantic there. 12. 12. 12. 12. 12. And all this, though quite ideal,— Read...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists...

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...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ...any sufficiently well to recommend them. It is incredible that neither the Roman Catholic Church, the English Episcopal Church, nor any Nonconformist ... ...ant demo- cratic air; one sovereign state, one vote. Now let us run over a list of sovereign states and see to what this leads us. We find our list in... ...le prod- ucts in the world. I will not go in detail over the items of this list, because the reader can fill in the essentials of the argu- ment from ... ...th the latter was associated the tradition of the European unity under the Roman empire; all the Germanic monarchs had an itch to be called Caesar. Th... ...nce, and have to be abolished and swept away altogether everywhere, as the Romanoffs have already been swept away in Russia, or whether it will be abl... ...y represented as complex. It is really almost ideally simple. You mark the list of candidates with numbers in the order of your preference. For exampl...

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...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...nd flushed under his matted hair, gesticulating to his gaping, incredulous listener, gripping his wrist to keep him attentive, was the most marvellous... ...The history of Europe is the history of the victory and breaking up of the Roman Empire. Every ascendant monarch in Europe up to the last, 10 The Wor... ... gas mantle—cer- tainly is; actinium. I feel that we are but beginning the list. And we know now that the atom, that once we thought hard and impenetr... ...n. He walked to Saint Paul’s Cathedral, and stood for a time near the door listen- ing to the evening service. The candles upon the altar re- minded h... ...k how long that beauti- 92 The World Set Free ful old life lasted. In the Roman times and long ages before ever the rumour of the Romans had come int... ... official mis- tress, for his semi-barbaric court was arranged on the best romantic models. His tactics were ably seconded by Doctor Pestovitch, his c...

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...Excerpt: The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- Enter Demetrius and Philo. Philo. Nay, but this dotage of our Generals Ore- flowes the measure: those his goodly eyes That o?re the Files and Musters of the Warre, Ha...

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...nthonie, and Cleopatra. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc.... ...s ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Tragedie of Anthonie, and C... ... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. - i - The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra vv6v Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. 2 ... ... 163 Cleo. He was dispos’d to mirth, but on the sodaine 164 A Romane thought hath strooke him. 165 Enobarbus? 166 Enob. Mad... ...this is not the best. Looke prythee Charmian, 402 How this Herculean Roman do’s become 403 The carriage of his chafe. 404 Ant. Ile... ...t thence. 572 Alex. Good Friend, quoth he: 573 Say the firme Roman to great Egypt sends 574 This treasure of an Oyster: at whose fo... ...tas, 1832 The Kings of Mede, and Licoania, 1833 With a more larger List of Scepters. 1834 Octa. Aye me most wretched, 1835 That ha... ...boyes is vnder the Stage. 2483 2 Peace, what noise? 2484 1 List, list. 2485 2 Hearke. 2486 1 Musicke i’th’ Ayre. 2487... ...se night. 2701 2 What man is this? 2702 1 Stand close, and list him. 2703 Enob. Be witnesse to me (O thou blessed Moone) 2704...

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