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... Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document... ...8201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, t... ...my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some re lation between us on the mother’s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary o... ...IS COUSIN SYMPSON. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1727. I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and freq... ...shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with d... ...ay bring to your mind how often I desired you to consider, when you insisted on the mo tive of public good, that the Yahoos were a species of Gulliv... ...uke in England; yet I allow he preceded me in right of his post. These false informations, which I afterwards came to the knowledge of by an accident ... ...otes of it as soon as he left me:– “You are to know,” said he, “that several committees of council have been lately called, in the most private manner... ... proceeded: – “Out of gratitude for the favours you have done me, I procured information of the whole proceedings, and a copy of the articles; wherein...

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...Excerpt: Plashwater Weir Mill Lock looked tranquil and pretty on an evening in the summer time. A soft air stirred the leaves of the fresh green trees, and passed like a smooth shadow over the river, and like a smoother shadow over the yielding grass. The voice of the falling water, lik...

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...OUR MUTUAL FRIEND Charles Dickens Volume Four BOOK THE FOURTH A TURNING A Publication of the Penn State Electronic Classics Series Our Mutual Friend... ...nic Classics Series Our Mutual Friend Volume Four by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document f... ...-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...apter 1 SETTING TRAPS PLASHWATER WEIR MILL LOCK looked tranquil and pretty on an evening in the summer time. A soft air stirred the leaves of the fres... ...contemplative lis- tener; but not particularly so to Mr Riderhood, who sat on one of the blunt wooden levers of his lock-gates, dozing. Wine must be g... ... ing it easily, in so light a boat that the Rogue remarked: ‘A little less on you, and you’ d a’most ha’ been a W agerbut’; then went to work at his w... ...ce of Society. My dear Mrs Veneering, do let us re- solve ourselves into a Committee of the whole House on the subject.’ Mrs V eneering, always charme... ...by this rattling sylph, cries. ‘Oh yes! Do let us resolve ourselves into a Committee of the whole House! So delicious!’ Veneering says, ‘ As many as a... ...ut nobody takes the slightest notice of his joke. ‘Now, I am Chairwoman of Committees!’ cries Lady Tippins. (‘What spirits she has!’ exclaims Mrs Vene...

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...The War in the Air 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 Penn... ...A 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...hese warn- ings by the standard of a decade of realities. The book is weak on anti-aircraft guns, for example, and still more neg- ligent of submarine... ... been telling us this year in his War and the Future, that if mankind goes on with war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the... ...Y Y Y Y 1 1 1 1 1 “THIS HERE PROGRESS,” said Mr. T om Smallways, “it keeps on. “You’d hardly think it could keep on,” said Mr. Tom Smallways. It was a... ... of the traf- fic-tortured high road, to add himself as one more voluntary public danger to the amenities of the south of England. “Orf to Brighton!” ... ...Councils of Defence, and, in the cases of India and Egypt, insurrectionary committees taking charge of the re-arming of the population, of the making ... ... 3 3 3 3 So what historians have come to call the Phase of the Emer- gency Committees sprang from the opening phase and from the phase of social colla... ...c associa- tions, brotherhoods of order, city mayors, princes, provisional committees, trying to establish an order below and to keep the sky above. T...

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...HY WE ARE AT WAR By Woodrow Wilson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Why We Are at War by Woodrow Wilson is a publication of the Pe... ...02-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, t... ...d also in connection with the President’s procla- mation of a state of war on April 6th and his message to the American people of April 15th. While th... ...al of Presi- dent Wilson was very naturally requested and obtained for the publication of these messages in collected form, the Pub- lishers are respo... ... which they have published President Wilson’s When a Man Comes to Himself, On Being Human, and The President of the United States. *Harper & Brothers’... ... FOR PEACE Message to the Senate January 22, 1917 GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE: On the 18th of December last I addressed an identic note to the Governments... ...l executive departments of the Government, for the consider- ation of your committees measures for the accomplishment of the several objects I have me... ...are happily impossible where public opinion commands and insists upon full information con- cerning all the nation’s affairs. PEACE THROUGH FREE PEOPL... ...s and T erritories thereof, and to refrain from actual hostility or giving information, aid or comfort to the enemies of the United States, and to com...

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...Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The D... ...Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document fi... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...as a cynic, person- ally liked for his disposition, enjoying consideration on ac- count of the prestige of his social connections, inspiring fear in t... ...n Volume One CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I I WA S BORN on the night of the 15th of January, 1675, of Claude Duc de Saint-Simon, Pe... ...enough to ward off from me this danger; and my mother repeatedly impressed on, me how necessary it was for a young man, the son of the favourite of a ... ...d by Maupertuis, who was one of his friends. The King relied much upon the information given him by the captains of the two companies of Muske- teers,... ... of the forces and supplies he required. Fearing that if he wrote out this information it might fall into the hands of Barbezieux, and never reach the... ...nds and still more debts, so that this tangle is not yet unravelled by the committee of the council appointed to arrange his affairs with his creditor...

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... of the Aldus Society London, 1903 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, tr... ...ssions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document fi... ...02-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...nd rational principles by which the statesmen of our own day are actuated. On these matters, however, it is not our province to en- large; nor is it n... ...most other autobiogra- phies. Many censors have elected to sit in judgment on the fail- ings of this strangely constituted being, and some have pro- n... ...near akin to Rousseau’s, whose writ- ings naturally made a deep impression on the poet’s mind, and probably had an influence on his conduct and modes ... ...rom her lovers; particularly a M. de Tavel, who, possessing both taste and information, endeav- ored to adorn with them the mind of her he loved. Thes... ...se. My uncle Bernard did the same thing, he arrived at Consignon, received information that I was gone to Annecy, and immediately returned back to Gen... ...nced this paper highly disrespectful to the councils, and injurious to the committee of fortification. 206 The Confessions expense which the acquisit...

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...Night and Day by Virginia Woolf A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Night and Day by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsy... ...02-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...und the tea-table for less than twenty minutes, the anima- tion observable on their faces, and the amount of sound they were producing collectively, w... ...empty space of the drawing-room, all silver where the candles were grouped on the tea-table, and ruddy again in the firelight. With the omnibuses and ... ...ly people were mellowed, at some distance from each other, and had a bloom on them owing to the fact that the air in the drawing-room was thickened by... ...tops of professions, with letters after their names; they sit in luxurious public offices, with private secretaries attached to them; they write solid... ...her’s daughter could hardly be anything else. I think I’ve been on as many committees as most people. Waifs and Strays, Rescue Work, Church Work, C. O... ...ary remarked, “I’ve a great deal to say to you, but I must go on—we have a committee.” She rose, but hesitated, looking down upon him rather gravely. ... ...orm of expostulating with her about her work. “What d’you want to sit on a committee for?” he asked. “It’s waste of your time, Mary.” “I agree with yo...

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...nd which, in its thinness, had a deep dry line, a sort of premature wrinkle, on either side of the mouth. He was tall and lean, and dressed throughout... ...y added to his stature; it was a head to be seen above the level of a crowd, on some judicial bench or political platform, or even on a bronze medal. ... ...re, might have indicated that he was to be a great Ameri can statesman; or, on the other hand, they might simply have proved that he came from Caroli... ...ourse of our history I shall be under the necessity of imparting much occult information, was subject to fits of tragic shyness, during which she was u... ...d only be private and passive, and have no feeling but I for that, and leave publicity to the sex of tougher hide! — Ransom was pleased with the visio... ...d have gone on foot to Boyl ston Street, and there she would have taken the public conveyance (in her heart she loathed it) to the South End. Boston ... ... lecture lamps; with its habit of an upward angle, it seemed turned toward a public speaker, with an effort of respiration in the thick air in which s... ...le associations. The people he had ever seen who were most in earnest were a committee of gentlemen who had investigated the phenomena of the ‘materia... ...oof, and she received her colleagues—she belonged to twenty associations and committees—only at preappointed hours, which she expected them to observe...

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...nd My Freedom By Frederick Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publicatio... ...-1291 is a Por- table Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...S PREF OR’S PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE If the volume now presented to the public were a mere work of ART, the history of its misfortune might be writ... ...seemed absolutely to require. I have never placed my opposition to slavery on a basis so narrow as my own enslavement, but rather upon the indestructi... ...iography, in preference to employing another to do it. Not only is slavery on trial, but unfortunately, the en- slaved people are also on trial. It is... ...Bondage and My Freedom There was little necessity for doubt and hesitation on the part of Mr. Douglass, as to the propriety of his giving to the world... ...ves.” Thus, I was in a pretty fair way to be denounced as an impostor. The committee of the Massachusetts anti-slavery society knew all the facts in m... ...ted by his state to perform, are many that can only be done efficiently on committees; and, in saying to these honorable senators, you shall not serve... ...es; and, in saying to these honorable senators, you shall not serve on the committees of this body, the sla- very party took the responsibility of rob...

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...aven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only....

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