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.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

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...Publication War and Peace – Book Fourteen by Leo Tolstoy 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...DINO, with the occupation of Moscow that followed it and the flight of the French without further conflicts, is one of the most instructive phenomena ... ..., and the rights and the strength of France increase. The victories of the French at Jena and Auerstadt destroy the independent existence of Prussia. ... ...stence of Prussia. 4 War and Peace – Book Fourteen But then, in 1812, the French gain a victory near Moscow. Moscow is taken and after that, with no ... ...Moscow. Moscow is taken and after that, with no further battles, it is not Russia that ceases to exist, but the French army of six hundred thousand, a... ...id simplic- ity, but consistently, and belabored the French till the whole invasion had perished. And it is well for a people who do not—as the French... ...ess and unattainable. The people had a single aim: to free their land from invasion. 58 War and Peace – Book Fourteen That aim was attained in the fi...

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.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

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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... ...to the history of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten yea... ...who play golf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in ... ...sleading smattering of physical science. Most of them never learn to speak French. Heaven alone knows what they do with their brains! The British read... ...es, and little towns among the farms. There were wars, crusades, barbarous invasions, set-backs, but to that state all Asia, Europe, North Africa work... ...touch of bad seasons and adversity to the desperate reliefs of war and the invasion of alien localities. And the nomadic and adventurous spirit of man... .... And the oscillations of empires and kingdoms, religious movements, wars, invasions, settlements leave upon the mind an impres- sion that the surplus...

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