Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some cr...

Full Text Search Details
...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ies Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith 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... ...r a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flash- ing swords at us for some critical observations of... ...hile Lords and Commons suggest the decapitation of the leading figure. The united three, however, no longer cast re- flections on one another, and wer... ...ry, drawing their strategy from maga- 23 George Meredith zine articles by military pens, reverberations of the extinct voices of the daily and weekly... ...us. It’s an infernally tripping motto for a composite struc- ture like the kingdom of Great Britain and Manchester, boy Nevil. We can fight foreigners... ...ent. Commander Beauchamp, in responding to the invitation of the great and united Liberal party of the borough of Bevisham, obeyed the inspirations of...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Enter Dame Gossip As Chorus. Everybody has heard of the beautiful Countess of Cressett, who was one of the lights of this country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity?s sake to be amused after their tiresome work of slaughter: and ...

Full Text Search Details
...GE By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ries Publication The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith 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... ... 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... ...now now that he was only a mathematician and astronomer, all for inventing military engines. The brother and sister were great friends in their youth,... ...f the infernal factory, third turning to the right off the grand arcade in Kingdom-come, where the night-porter has to wear wet petticoats, like a Hig... ...associated in the inventions. They had an improved rocket that would force military chiefs to change their tac- tics: they had a new powder, a rifle, ... ...xes of those our most important fighting-ulti- mately, we will hope, to be united-syllables, and the when for men, the when for women, to select the o... ...les adopted and was proud of her in any costume. Welshmen North and South, united for the nonce, now propose her gallantry as a theme to the rival Bar...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells.

Full Text Search Details
...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publicatio... ...e Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...uture: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells 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... ...insistent upon the way in which all Venetia was being opened up by the new military roads; there has been scarcely a new road made in Venetia since Na... ...Wells war zone, and it is doubtful how far the sanitary precautions of the military authorities avails against a considerable propa- ganda of disease.... ...war on that level might be as tedious as the South African war. But if the United States preferred to go into Mexican affairs with what I may perhaps ... ...rought upon the western front. These are Britain, France, Germany, and the United States of America. Less certainly equal to the effort are Italy, Jap... ...posal, and if bishops must dispute about stipends instead of preaching the kingdom of God, then they are bound to face it. The sooner they do so, the ...

Description Details
...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate th...

Excerpt Details
...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before i...

Full Text Search Details
...onathan Cross 2 J.Cross/Artemis THE VATICAN CONSPIRACY A Novel by Jonathan Cross ... ...s 3 J.Cross/Artemis CHAPTER 1 THE VATICAN Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel n... ...l chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows acr... ...fix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and conne... ... to know about him first. The second name on the list is Alexander Artemis, a United States Senator. His picture, conveniently enough, was all over ... ...e me what I have always dreamed of, but never imagined possible. To go to the United States is more than a dream come true.” Antonio fell to his knee... ... for the first time, he wondered about the phrase from the Lord's Prayer, "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth, as it is in Heaven". It was ... ...ge in 'off the record' conversations, which the Joint Chiefs appreciated. The military hierarchy hated testifying before Congress. Seasoned members,... ...as gathering like dark clouds on the horizon. The old KGB and the disgruntled military against the Russian people could amount to another Stalinesque...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 1 Exposition. Notwithstanding the discipline which Marechal Suchet had introduced into his army corps, he was unable to prevent a short period of trouble and disorder at the taking of Tarragona. According to certain fair-minded military men, this intoxica...

Full Text Search Details
...a by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...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... ...and disorder at the taking of T arragona. According to certain fair-minded military men, this intoxica- tion of victory bore a striking resemblance to... ...artered in its respective lines, and the commandant of the city appointed, military administration began. The place assumed a mongrel aspect. Though a... ...he military service too late, obtained neither a Grand Duchy of Berg nor a Kingdom of Naples, nor balls at the Pizzo. But if he won no crown he had am... ...est and also the warmest of painters. In this young girl three things were united, a single one of which would have sufficed for the glory of a woman:... ...ies had, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, mutual interests which united and disunited them by perpetual war- 13 Balzac fare, the name Maran...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and fri...

Table of Contents Details
...CE. ........................................................................................................................................ 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND ...

Full Text Search Details
...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEA... ...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY... ...M MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty ... ...THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, ... ........................................... 139 BOOK II CONTAINS MR. ESMOND’S MILITARY LIFE, AND OTHER MATTERS APPER- TAINING TO THE ESMOND FAMILY.......... ...ently, was made Knight and Baronet by King James the First; and being of a military disposition, remained long in Germany with the Elec- tor-Palatine,... ...nty of beef, and blankets, and medicine for the poor at Castlewood Hall. A kingdom was changing hands whilst my lord and lady were away. King James wa... ...h!) Henry Esmond hath been Marquis of Esmond and Earl of Castlewood in the United Kingdom, and Baron and Viscount Castlewood of Shandon in Ireland, an... ...d lonely under its ruined old roof? We were all so, even when together and united, as it seemed, following our separate schemes, each as we sat round ...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells.

Full Text Search Details
...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION ... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...IC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...s reached: the mystery of the individual. Will England presently produce a military genius? or what will Mr. Belloc say the day after to-morrow? The m... ... Brighton before 1910, which is still a dream, but he doubted if effective military aviation or aerial fighting would be possible before 1950, which i... ...of their sovereignty as the constituent sovereign States which make up the United States of America have surrendered to the Federal Government; if the... ...here is no means of settling boundary dis- putes. Moreover, as between the united States of the world and the United States of America there is this f... ...ritain that we are confronted with the spectacle of this great and ancient kingdom reconstructing itself perforce, while it wages the greatest war in ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Rumour: Open your ears; for which of you will stop The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders r...

Full Text Search Details
...This electronic book is a publication of The Pennsylvania State University’s Electronic Classics Series, Jim Mani... ...This electronic book is a publication of The Pennsylvania State University’s Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, ... ... Faculty Editor. William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...culty Editor. William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...To build at all? Much more, in this great work, Which is almost to pluck a kingdom down And set another up, should we survey The plot of situation and... ...ike him: so that in speech, in gait, In diet, in affections of delight, In military rules, humors of blood, He was the mark and glass, copy and book, ... ...here as a physician, Nor do I as an enemy to peace Troop in the throngs of military men; But rather show awhile like fearful war, To diet rank minds s... ..., If we do now make our atonement well, Our peace will, like a broken limb united, Grow stronger for the breaking. MOWBRAY: ... ...a shelter to thy friends, A hoop of gold to bind thy brothers in, That the united vessel of their blood, Mingled with venom of suggestion— As, force p...

Table of Contents Details
...TH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope 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... ...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 any- o... ...ION It has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country with this obj... ... visit the country with this object before the in- testine troubles of the United States government had com- menced. I have not allowed the division a... ...ips and men and goods contraband of war, and all those semi-nautical, semi-military rules and axi- oms which it is necessary that all attorneys-genera... ...ith Southern politics. The South for many years had had the disposition of military matters, and the power of distributing military appliances of all ... ... to her colonies. But what shall be the new form of government for the new kingdom? That is a speculation very interesting to a politician, though one...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents Volume One ..................................................................... 4 THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK.......................................................................................................... 4 THE SPANISH NUN ....................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...arrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...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... ...r little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God’— met her eye, and, by the thoughts they awakened, made me f... ...ich is to this day a name rooted in Biscay. Her father, the hidalgo, was a military officer in the Spanish service, and had little care whether his ki... ...erest which arose in her history subsequently amongst all the men of rank, military or ecclesiastical, whether in Italy or Spain. The date of these wo... ...or two hundred and twenty years. It is enough that she is reported to have united the stately tread of Andalusian women with the innocent voluptuousne... ...; and the French reporter of Catalina’s memoirs dwells upon the theme. She united, he says, the sweetness of the German lady with the energy of the Ar...

Full Text Search Details
...Publication War and Peace – Book Fourteen by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...lication War and Peace – Book Fourteen by Leo Tolstoy 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... ...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 any- o... ...ns a victory by killing three, five, or ten thousand men, and subjugates a kingdom and an entire nation of several millions, all the facts of history ... ...directly infringes that rule. This contradiction arises from the fact that military science 7 Tolstoy assumes the strength of an army to be identical... ...olstoy assumes the strength of an army to be identical with its num- bers. Military science says that the more troops the greater the strength. Les gr... ...new nor waited to know anything of all this. He was in a fairy 33 Tolstoy kingdom where nothing resembled reality. The big dark blotch might really b... ...of prisoners, and Junot’s baggage train—still con- stituted a separate and united whole, though each of the groups was rapidly melting away. Of the ar...

Full Text Search Details
...ion War and Peace – Epilogues One and Two by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ... War and Peace – Epilogues One and Two by Leo Tolstoy 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... ...ps of people formed and dissolved, the coming formation and dissolution of kingdoms and displace- ment of peoples was in course of preparation. The se... ...nt to Moscow it was necessary: (1) that they should form themselves into a military group of a size able to endure a collision with the warlike milita... ... abandon all established traditions and customs, and (3) that during their military movement they should have at their head a man who could justify to... ...esults are always simple ones. My whole idea is that if vicious people are united and constitute a power, then honest folk must do the same. Now that’... ...scow, and the Emperor Alexander, helped by the advice of Stein and others, united Europe to arm against the disturber of its peace. All Napoleon’s all...

Full Text Search Details
...s Publication War and Peace: Book Fifteen by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ublication War and Peace: Book Fifteen by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...o-oo-oo-oo! That’s it. All together! Heave away, boys!…” but despite their united efforts the wattle hardly moved, and in the silence that fol- lowed ... ...nally in a few days’ time. The old man, experienced in court as well as in military af- fairs-this same Kutuzov who in August had been chosen com- man... ...not merely from the attitude of the court. He saw on the one hand that the military business in which he had played his part was ended and felt that h... ... good of freedom to me, your excellency? We lived under the late count—the kingdom of heaven be his!— and we have lived under you too, without ever be...

Full Text Search Details
...ries Publication War and Peace – Book One by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...s Publication War and Peace – Book One by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...ho now lay dying in Moscow. The young man had not yet entered ei- ther the military or civil service, as he had only just returned from abroad where h... ...sake he is leaving the university and me, his old father, and entering the military service, my dear. And there was a place and everything waiting for... ...p in you, and that in spite of the dis- tance separating us our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against fate and in spite of ... ...a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God, are terribly true. I pity Prince V asili but am still more ...

Table of Contents Details
........................................................................................................................................ 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR .......................................................................................................... 47 CHAPTER IV: WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS ............................................................

Full Text Search Details
...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope 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... ...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 any- o... ..................................... 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ................................................................ ......................... 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LA W COURTS AND LA WYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ........................................... 242 CHAPTER XII: ... ...ia, they could not go at all. Up to Washington they could not go without a military pass, not to be obtained without some cause given. All trade was a... ...e question originally under debate was the relative power of the civil and military authority. Congress had desired to declare its ascendency over mil... ...ulating in the 277 Trollope United States is less than that of the United Kingdom. In making any comparison between them, I am obliged to arrive at f...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: It came without warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wonderin...

Table of Contents Details
...N ENFORCED ........................................................................................................................................ 4 THE RECALL ................................................................................................................................................................. 35 GARM?A HOSTAGE......................................

Full Text Search Details
...ies Publication Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Publication Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...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... ...d improve- ments, they had soon fallen in with the customs of their hidden kingdom, and moved about the soft-footed ways by woodland, hedgerow, and sh... ...A A AGE GE GE GE GE 0 NE NIGHT, a very long time ago, I drove to an Indian military cantonment called Mian Mir to see amateur theatricals. At the back... ...re any one caught him; but he fell under the pole, and I heard voices of a military guard in search of some one. The driver and I coaxed him into the ... ...h powers, it might be angelic, be- yond their comprehension, and that they united daily in prayers for his safety. “Pray for me,” he says upon the eve...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by...

Full Text Search Details
... BY CHARLOTTE M.YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...E M.YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...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... ...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... ...rn liegeman of the King of France, and heir to estates in his 22 Yo n g e kingdom, meseemeth that before you are come to years of discretion it were ... ...ot but draw such a fate on himself. Now all is smooth, the estates will be united in their true head, and you—you too, my child, will be provided for ... ...xu- ries he had been wont only to enjoy for a few weeks at a time, with in military occupation of some Italian town. Three months of festivities had b... ... light gone out from the earth! Reckless and weary, she had let herself be united to M. de Selinville, and in her bridal honours and amusements had tr... ... at his head, and make gestures of tearing his thin gray locks; and many a military oath did he swear under his breath as he thought to what a pass th...

Table of Contents Details
...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

Full Text Search Details
... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...UR REASONS FOR DOING ........................................................................................................... 10 FREUD--AND THE NE... ...REUD--AND THE NEED FOR PLEASURE ........................................................................................................... 12 The Po... ...with rewards and punishments. As he matured, however, he became a humanist--thinking that humans are quite different from others in the animal kingdo... ...us eye problems. The vitamin A in butter was not present in the margarine. So they began to add the vitamin to margarine. In the mid-1940s the United... ...qba ibn Nafi crossed the deserts of Egypt and began the first Muslim conquest of the Maghreb region of North Africa, establishing a number of milita... ...t seem to have these problems.‖ —―We guard against them. We have seen what has often happened in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and the United... ...efenses. We hate to see death, but sometimes for the good of the world those trying to improve it must defend themselves. We would never use a milita...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the ...

Full Text Search Details
...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ... J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by th... ...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...h Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ion had en- kindled a civil war which, under four stormy reigns, shook the kingdom to its foundations, brought foreign armies into the heart of the co... ...hrough the Ref- ormation an attractive centre of interest, and began to be united by new political sympathies. And as through its influence new relati... ...n of the tenth and the twentieth penny, the See of Rome had never lost the United Netherlands. Princes fought in self-defence or for aggrandizement, w... ...good of his house. But to carry out this 41 Friedrich Schiller project, a military force was requisite, and Rodolph actually assembled an army in the... ...l, armed his own subjects and chapter against him. The Elector assembled a military force; the chapter did the same. To ensure also the aid of a stron...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: BOOK I: Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc?d by fate, And haughty Juno?s unrelenting hate, Expell?d and exil?d, left the Trojan shore. Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore, And in the doubtful war, before he won The Latian realm, and bu...

Full Text Search Details
...The Aeneid of Virgil The Aeneid by Virgil is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu ment file is furn... ...The Aeneid of Virgil The Aeneid by Virgil is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu ment file is furnish... ...ty. This Portable Docu ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu ment file, for any purpose, and i... ..., 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... ...yours, O queen, to will The work which duty binds me to fulfil. These airy kingdoms, and this wide command, Are all the presents of your bounteous han... ...driv’n along, And thro’ the clouds pursued the scatt’ring throng: Now, all united in a goodly team, They skim the ground, and seek the quiet stream. A... ...d ready to receive The golden burthen, and their friends relieve; All with united force, combine to drive The lazy drones from the laborious hive: Wit... ... riders grace the steeds; the steeds with glory shine. Thus marching on in military pride, Shouts of applause resound from side to side. Their casques... ...ing shun; Broken, they break; and, rallying, they renew In other forms the military shew. At last, in order, undiscern’d they join, And march together...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: William Makepeace Thackeray was born at Calcutta, July 18, 1811, the only child of Richmond and Anne Thackeray. He received the main part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. T...

Table of Contents Details
...ROSE............................................................................................................ 4 INTRODUCTION TO W. M. THACKERAY?S ?THE FOUR GEORGES?............................... 4 A PAUSE IN THE STRIFE?1886 .................................................................................................. 6 LESLIE STEPHEN?1904 .............................

Full Text Search Details
...eries Publication Miscellaneous Prose by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...es Publication Miscellaneous Prose by George Meredith 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 to appease her cravings earlier than she would have had as much from the United Liberal Cabinet, but at a cost both to her and to England. Meanwhile... ...ng student and philosophical head that he had in him the making of a great military captain. He would not have been opposed to the profession of arms ... ...interested in the national movement as the middle and lower classes of the Kingdom, once so fear- fully misruled by the Bourbons. The Duke of Sant’ Ar... ...rontier. Having told him that they had a despatch to deliver either to the military governor of Mantua or to some officer sent by him to receive it, t...

Full Text Search Details
...ries Publication War and Peace: Book Nine by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...s Publication War and Peace: Book Nine by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...which accompanied him everywhere disturbed him and distracted him from the military cares that had occupied him from the time he joined the army. He r... ...bjects he was abandoning, latterly, after he had been ordered to return to military ser- vice—and especially since his last interview with Napoleon in... ...chia, and now he won’t have those splen- did provinces. Y et he might have united them to his empire and in a single reign would have extended Russia ... ...n a Ger- man theorist in whom all the characteristics of those others were united to such an extent. Pfuel was short and very thin but broad-boned, of... ...rises against us; these lawless men are gathered together to overthrow Thy kingdom, to destroy Thy dear Jerusalem, Thy beloved Russia; to defile Thy t...

Full Text Search Details
...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...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... ...ke he is leav- ing the university and me, his old father, and entering the military service, my dear. And there was a place and everything waiting for... ... waited in expectation of an important order for an expensive funeral. The Military Governor of Moscow, who had been assiduous in send- ing aides-de-c... ... up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against fate and in spite of ... ...a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God, are terribly true. I pity Prince V asili but am still more ... ... his soul. He firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that...

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

Full Text Search Details
...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...UBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...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... ...nterests of eternal justice (and recent friendship), does not apply to the United States of America. There, if one may believe the long and helpless i... ... is the chronicler of the adventures of mankind amongst the dangers of the kingdom of the earth. And the kingdom of this earth itself, the ground upon... ...om- pel our intellectual admiration. In this volume the trifle called “The Military Manoeuvres at Montil,” apart from its far-reaching irony, embodies... ...ts lurid blaze the in- sufficiency of Europe, the inferiority of minds, of military and administrative systems, stood exposed with pitiless vividness.... ...il n’y a plus d’Europe!” There is, indeed, no Europe. The idea of a Europe united in the solidarity of her dynasties, which for a mo- ment seemed to d...

Full Text Search Details
...eries Publication War and Peace: Book Ten by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...es Publication War and Peace: Book Ten by Leo Tolstoy 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ...sia, while on the French side, despite Napoleon’s experience and so-called military genius, every effort was directed to pushing on to Moscow at the e... ...ce of a battle (which we could not have refrained from had the armies been united and had someone else, in- stead of Barclay, been in command) and on ... ...unc- tion will be effected on the 22nd instant, and both armies with their united forces will defend our compatriots of the province entrusted to your... ...m without an armed force, and would it not be better first to send for the military? “I’ll give them armed force… I’ll ‘overresist’ them!” uttered Ros... ...e open with dismay and then took off his cap and crossed himself: “May the kingdom of Heaven be his! God’s will be done to us all!” He sighed deeply, ...

Full Text Search Details
...s Publication War and Peace – Book Eleven by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ublication War and Peace – Book Eleven by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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 any- o... ...ions addressed to him, which constantly conflict with one another. Learned military authorities quite seriously tell us that Kutuzov should have moved... ...the state of the army, the plans sug- gested, the situation of Moscow, and military questions gener- ally. Though they had not been summoned for the p... ...ll. To unite all?” he asked himself. “No, not to unite. Thoughts cannot be united, but to harness all these thoughts together is what we need! Y es, o... ...ood as to step in. Makar Alexeevich, the brother of my late master—may the kingdom of heaven be his—has re- mained here, but he is in a weak state as ... ...fied me… I shall rise… shall rise… shall rise. They have torn my body. The kingdom of God will be overthrown… Thrice will I overthrow it and thrice re...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby ...

Full Text Search Details
...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publicatio... ...e Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...ary organizations for doing what was plainly the business of the civil and military authorities, but actually handed out money to any thief in the str... ...r as criminal or unchristian. The Act of Parliament introducing Compulsory Military Service thoughtlessly exempted these persons, merely requiring the... ... wrath on which many suns go down before it is appeased. Yet it was in the United States of America where nobody slept the worse for the war, that the... ...ain, why do so many more men attain it? At all events it is clear that the kingdom of the Prince of Peace has not yet become the kingdom of this world...

Full Text Search Details
...es Publication War and Peace – Book Eight by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...Publication War and Peace – Book Eight by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...k at our youths, look at our ladies! The French are our Gods: Paris is our Kingdom of Heaven.” He began speaking louder, evidently to be heard by ever... ...he Nizhegorod forests). Anna Mikhaylovna regarded the refined sadness that united her son to the wealthy Julie with emotion, and resignation to the Di... ... Makarin dashed past. Anatole was sit- ting upright in the classic pose of military dandies, the lower part of his face hidden by his beaver collar an...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans an...

Table of Contents Details
...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

Full Text Search Details
...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ... Staff List xiii–xiv Preface xv 1. “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National C... ...Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 ... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ... Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–... ...MS 215 7.1 First Arrivals in California 215 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 223 7.3 Assembling the Teams 231 7.4 Final Strategies and... ... plebiscite, and equal rights for women. It makes no dis- tinction between military and civilian targets. Collateral damage is not in its lexicon. We ... ...tly behind Lewin. Lewin had served four years as an officer in the Israeli military. He may have made an attempt to stop the hijackers in front of him... ... celebrated recent suicide bombings of American military facilities in the Kingdom. It praised the 1983 suicide bombing in Beirut that killed 241 U.S....

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleet...

Full Text Search Details
...blication Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...cation Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...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... ...ce like his father’s son,’ returned Sir Patrick, ‘who gat the bride with a kingdom for her tocher that these folks have well-nigh lost among them.’ ‘T... ...two poor young princesses might involve themselves, their brother, and the kingdom itself, by excit- ing the greed, jealousy, and emulation of the unt... ...koning Scotland into his province. Durham was at once too monastic and too military to have afforded much opportunity for re- cruiting the princesses’... ...reat outer court of the castle, where there was ample space for sports and military exercises, shooting with the long and cross bow, riding at the qui... ... across the breast—George Douglas among them, of course—and they presently united with the long train of clerks who belonged to the household of the C...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which ...

Full Text Search Details
...cation Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ion Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray 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... ...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 any- o... ... pike and gun-exercising, flag-flying, drum-beating, powder-blaz- ing, and military enthusiasm, as we can all remember in the year 1801, what time the... ...re penniless; one or two were priests, one a monk, six or seven in various military services, and the elder at home at Schloss Galgenstein breeding ho... ...need not be quoted at length here; but caused a mighty stir throughout the kingdom at the time when it was in force. As one has seen or heard, after t... ...heir graves in the far past, and in those brief moments flitted before the united ones! How sad was that delicious retrospect, and oh, how sweet! The ... ...ttle creature the sun never shone. And to this sordid wretch was Catherine united for ever. What a pretty rascal history might be read in yonder greas...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on th...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES................................................................................ 1...

Full Text Search Details
...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion 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... ... should arise with particular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many dif... ... arise with particular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different ... ...sh – of which I will go bail he knows nothing. His ignorance of the sister kingdom cannot be described; it can only be illustrated by anecdote. I once... ...mmon provocations. A Scotchman may tramp the better part of Europe and the United States, and never again receive so vivid an impression of foreign tr... ... child (unless Master James) but has hunted gold, and been a pirate, and a military com- mander, and a bandit of the mountains; but has fought, and su...

Excerpt Details
...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 ...

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

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...emony can do aught to fix the wandering affec- tions, here were two people united for life. Mary came of a superstitious family, so that she perhaps i... ...re than an imperfect outline. Y oshida-T orajiro was son to the hereditary military instruc- tor of the house of Choshu. The name you are to pronounc... ...owledge of these foreigners were things inseparable; by envying them their military strength, Yoshida came to envy them their culture; from the desire... ...come back again enriched with his observations, and make a great and happy kingdom of Japan. Thus equipped, this pair of emigrants set forward on foot... ...ons they held through the prison wall, and dear was the sympathy that soon united them. It fell first to the lot of Kusakabe to pass before the judges...

Excerpt Details
...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 ...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...tal Congress and in 1777 he was dispatched to France as commissioner for the United States. Here he re mained till 1785, the favorite of French socie... ...ple, was assumed by them as a surname when others took surnames all over the kingdom), on a freehold of about thirty acres, aided by the smith’s busin... ...o disuse thirty years ago; it is very properly rejected entirely in the United States.”—W. T. F. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 44 them,... ...d met every week to be instructed in the manual exercise, and other parts of military discipline. The women, by subscriptions among themselves, provid... ...e members of council, who had join’d the governors in all the disputes about military preparations, with which the House had long been harass’d, they ...