...s Series Publication Why We Are at War by Woodrow Wilson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...eries Publication Why We Are at War by Woodrow Wilson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...E The Entente Powers have replied much more definitely and have stated, in general terms, indeed, but with sufficient defi- niteness to imply details,... ...n no doubt be done by the neutralization of direct rights of way under the general guarantee which will assure the peace itself. With a right comity o... ...my duty to keep in close touch with the Houses of Congress so that neither counsel nor action shall run at cross-purposes between us. On the 3d of Feb... ...eet it. The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and a temperateness of judgment befitting our char- acter and our m... ...fficient way possible. It will involve the immediate full equipment of the navy in all respects, but particularly in supplying it with the best means ...

...klin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...n with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. An An An An Any per y per y per y per y person using this do... ...her o t his or her own wn wn wn wn risk. risk. risk. risk. risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ... then fa mous man, Mr. George Brownell, very successful in his pro fession generally, and that by mild, encouraging methods. Under him I acquired fa... ...vern, espe cially in any case of difficulty; and upon other occasions I was generally a leader among the boys, and sometimes led them into scrapes, o... ...ew, in a little time, expert at selling. We lodg’d and, boarded together; he counsell’d me as a father, having a sincere regard for me. I respected an... ...old man to the people attending an auction. The bringing all these scatter’d counsels thus into a focus en abled them to make greater impression. The... ...een miles per hour. We had on board, as a passenger, Captain Kennedy, of the Navy, who contended that it was impossible, and that no ship ever sailed ...

...ion: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a ...

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...iar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. 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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...er, into notice; and thus something like a true, 6 Robert Louis Stevenson general impression of the subject may at last be struck. But in the short s... ...erior to the other and lesser aims, themselves more or less artistic, that generally go hand in hand with it in the conception of prose romance. The p... ...l, he was unrivalled as confidant. He could enter into a passion; he could counsel wary moves, being, in his own phrase, so old a hawk; nay, he could ... ... would have laughed and gone his way; let us be glad that Burns was better counselled by his heart. When we discover that we can be no longer true, th... ...s. In the exploits of Hawke, Rodney, or Nelson, this dead Mr. Pepys of the Navy Office had some considerable share. He stood well by his business in t...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...