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... H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...tate University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells The World Set Free by H.G. Wells [Herbert George Wells] We are all things that make a... ...nscribes itself. PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE The World Set Free was written in 1913 and published early in 1914, and it is the lat... ... overriding any national and pa- triotic consideration, and that is in the working class move- ment throughout the world. And labour internationalism ... ... summary of the nine- teenth century. ‘For us there remains little but the working out of detail.’ The spirit of the seeker was still rare in the worl... ...ction there was also a huge destruction of values. These glaring factories working night and day, these glittering new vehicles swinging noiselessly a... ...t came down to me. 76 The World Set Free All through this time I had been working to the very limit of my mental and physical faculties, and my only ... ...es; he got the man who acted as barge engineer at his post and the engines working, he cast loose from his moorings. Then he bethought himself of food...

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... It had just struck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer?s plate. Then she went down to the front door for the damp, twisted roll of the Sunday morning?s paper, and came back and rang the breakfast-bell for the second time....

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...ce in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer’s plate. Then she went down to the front do... ...been more delightful than these sloe-brown, glint- ing little eyes of hers set off by her white skin and yel- low hair. She impressed one as being a v... ... five Travis bestirred herself. It was Victorine’s af- ternoon out. Travis set the table, spreading a cover of blue denim edged with white braid, whic... ... of blue denim edged with white braid, which showed off the silver and the set of delft—her great and never-end- ing joy—to great effect. Then she tie... ...alian fisher boy and girl kept com- pany with the clock, a huge timepiece, set in a red plush palette, that never was known to go. But at the right of... ...e ignored by the most experienced of fiction readers. He read steadily on, working himself into a positive excitement as he approached the passage. He... ...ho have read your stories say the same thing. You could spend twenty years working as you are now, and at the end what would you be? Just an assistant... ...e, hating the effort, happy only with the termination of each chapter, and working away, hour by hour, minute by minute, with the dogged, sullen, hamm... ...trung, and all the blood of his body apparently concentrated in his brain. Working at night after writing all day long was telling upon him, and he kn...

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...ious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called Written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson with a preface by Mr. Stevenson...

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...e, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called Written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson with a preface by Mr. Stevenson Preface... ...d his father’s name on the fly-leaf; and in the meanwhile it pleases me to set it there, in memory of many days that were happy and some (now perhaps ... ...s of your friend, R.L.S. Skerryvore, Bournemouth. 8 Kidnapped CHAPTER I I set off upon my journey to the House of Shaws I WILL BEGIN THE STORY of my ... ...m. “Well, Davie, lad,” said he, “I will go with you as far as the ford, to set you on the way.” And we began to walk forward in silence. “Are ye sorry... ... he resumed, “it lies near upon my conscience to improve this parting, and set you on the right guard against the dangers of the world.” Here he cast ... ...e very hard; then held me at arm’s length, looking at me with his face all working with sorrow; and then whipped about, and crying good-bye to me, set... ...ith that he seemed to come a little to himself, 29 Robert Louis Stevenson working his mouth and fluttering his eyelids. At last he looked up and saw ... ... came to the brig, he seemed to suffer along with her. All the time of our working at the boat, I remember only one other thing: that I asked Alan, lo... ... military manner. Altogether, I had a fair chance to see some of the inner workings of a Highland clan; and this with a proscribed, fugitive chief; hi...

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...nts, and nurses—made a lively realisation of the fancies of childhood; and set me thinking how all the trees that grow and all the things that come in... ... face was im- movable, but I was not afraid of her. Perhaps that fixed and set change coming over a real face, infused into my quickened heart some re... ..., taken out of a box, and fitted, one by one, upon a stiff and lazy little set of lazy-tongs; no old woman, made of wires and a brown-paper compositio... ...o fish. What Barmecide justice have I done to the noble feasts wherein the set of wooden platters figured, each with its own peculiar delicacy, as a h... ...ve me such a tea-drinking as I have had through the means of yonder little set of blue crockery, which really would hold liquid (it ran out of the sma... ...path through the branches and the fallen leaves, and carrying burdens, and working hard. Sometimes, they came to a long green avenue that opened into ... ...pened a new and high existence to the humblest, whose skill had filled the working man’s world with accumulated wonders. Whereas, he did find others w... ...s of the world, the greatness of creation, the mighty changes of time, the workings of nature and the beauties of art—to show him these things, that i...

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...mportant ones. — M. T.] WELL, IT WAS THE NEXT SPRING after me and Tom Sawyer set our old nigger Jim free, the time he was chained up for a runaway sla... ...away slave down there on Tom’s uncle Silas’s farm in Arkansas. The frost was working out of the ground, and out of the air, too, and it was getting cl... ...om the same old tedious things you’re so used to seeing and so tired of, and set some thing new. That is the idea; you want to go and be a wanderer; ... ...ned Tom would fly at his aunt and hug her head off; but if you believe me he set there like a rock, and never said a word. It made me fit to cry to se... ...ose it if he didn’t speak up and show he was thank ful and grateful. But he set there and studied and studied till I was that distressed I didn’t kno... ... said. She was setting there in a brown study, with it laying in her lap. We set down, and she says: “They’re in considerable trouble down there, and ... ...ee years, and Brace wanted to marry Benny and she shook him, and Jubiter was working for Uncle Silas, and him and Uncle Silas quarreling all the time ... ...the wall just as it used to was, even to Uncle Silas’s old faded green baize working gown with the hood to it, and raggedy white patch between the sho... ... we had watched long enough to see that Jake was getting along all right and working his signs very good, we loafed along again, al lowing to strike ...

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...any, with every external furtherance, it is of such internal quality as to set Neglect at defiance.... A work,” concludes the well-nigh enthusiastic R... ...dividuals, there is an incessant, indubitable, though in- finitely complex working of Cause and Effect: every snip of the Scissors has been regulated ... ...ecting vitality. Cast forth thy Act, thy Word, into the ever-living, ever- working Universe: it is a seed-grain that cannot die; un- noticed to-day (s... ...ad alone, were it screwed off, and (like the Doctor’s in the Arabian Tale) set in a basin to keep it alive, could prosecute without shadow of a heart,... ...and lost, there are Forces in it and 52 Sartor Resartus around it, though working in inverse order; else how could it rot? Despise not the rag from w... ... I could reach by climb- ing, or still more easily if Father Andreas would set up the pruning-ladder, my porringer was placed: there, many a sunset, h... ... the Hierarch of this lower world?” It is maintained, by Helvetius and his set, that an infant of genius is quite the same as any other infant, only t... ...so, for the Millers! They themselves needed not to work; their attempts at working, at what they called Edu- cating, now when I look back on it, fill ... ...Man, indeed,’ I would answer, ‘has a Digestive Faculty, which must be kept working, were it even partly by stealth. But as for our Miseducation, make ...

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...uns a graveled walk bordered by geraniums and ole- anders and pomegranates set in great blue and white glazed earthenware pots. Access into the gravel... ...f the sideboards that line the room. In a corner stands a box containing a set of numbered pigeon- holes, in which the lodgers’ table napkins, more or... ... shows her face; she is tricked out in a net cap attached to a false front set on awry, and shuffles into the room in her slipshod fashion. She is an ... ... oldish woman, with a bloated countenance, and a nose like a parrot’s beak set in the middle of it; her fat little hands (she is as sleek as a church ... ...; there are wrinkles about the eyes that vary in their expression from the set smile of a ballet-dancer to the dark, suspicious scowl of a discounter ... ...e morning. The persevering stu- dent meant to make up for the lost time by working until daylight. It was the first time that he had attempted to spen... ...t of detective system of his own; it is widespread and mysteri- ous in its workings. We have had spies all about him for a twelvemonth, and yet we cou... ...84 Father Goriot at your lodging the whole time since morning. I have been working like a porter in my shirt sleeves, helping to carry in the furnitur...

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...o console him. The next morning at seven o’clock Fougeres was at his easel working over the rejected picture; he warmed the colors; he made the correc... ...about painting.” Fougeres had not the heart to return to the boulevard. He set about another picture, and spent two months upon it,— eating mouse’s me... ...t another picture, and spent two months upon it,— eating mouse’s meals and working like a galley-slave. One evening he went to the boulevard, his feet... ... d’Avray!” “Bottles and corks! bottles and corks!” said the painter; “they set my teeth on edge.” “Safe from want for the rest of your days,” said Eli... ...ife. “If you move about you’ll make monsieur miss; you should just see him working, and then you’d understand.” “Oh! why didn’t you have me taught the...

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...my possessing . . . . . . . . . . . 90 88: When thou shalt be disposde to set me light . . . . . . . . . . 91 89: Say that thou didst forsake mee fo... ...re feasts so sollemne and so rare, Since sildom comming in the long yeare set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captaine Iewells in ... ...et, Is poorely immitated after you, On Hellens cheeke all art of beautie set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new: Speake of the spring, and ... ...me that gaue, doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfixe the florish set on youth, And delues the paralels in beauties brow, Feedes on the rar... ...eet birds sang. In me thou seest the twi-light of such day, As after Sun-set fadeth in the West, Which by and by blacke night doth take away, Deat... ...y face sweet loue should euer dwell, What ere thy thoughts, or thy hearts workings be, Thy lookes should nothing thence, but sweetnesse tell. How l...

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...his use for me. In spite of his vast prestige I claim kindred with him and set his name upon my title-page, in partial intimation of the matter of my ... ...ne; I see wide and far across a purple valley whose sides are terraced and set with houses of pine and ivory, the Gulf of Liguria gleaming sapphire bl... ..., it was reluctantly agreed to stimulate them by money payments. The State set up a machinery of exami- nation both in Science and Art and for the ele... ...feared that injustice might be done. Year after year these eminent persons set questions and em- ployed subordinates to read and mark the increasing t... ...ower. Away in the north they were casting iron in bigger and bigger forms, working their way to the production of steel on a large scale, applying pow... ...gain and doubled again, and be- came particularly teeming in the prolific “working-class” dis- trict about the deep-rutted, muddy, coal-blackened road... ...lashed out into parallelograms of untidy road, and built upon with rows of working-class cottages. The roads came,—hor- ribly; the houses followed. Th... ...therleigh, “if that isn’t so what the deuce are we up here for? Instead of working in mines? If some things aren’t to be thought about ever! We’ve got... ...crossed the Channel, but I had read copiously and I had formed a very good working idea of this round globe with its mountains and wildernesses and fo...

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... white, blending into an exquisite, delicate brownness towards the throat. Set in the middle of this paleness of brow and cheek, her deep brown eyes g... ... was unquestionably beautiful. Her mouth was a little large, the lips firm set, and one would not have expected that she would smile easily; in fact, ... ...eet in a search for a messenger boy, who would take a note to Cressler and set him right again; and his agitation was not allayed when Laura, in frigi... ...of the the- atre, that she had known only too seldom, but that in a second set her heart galloping. Every available space seemed to be occupied. Men, ... ...strict,’ he called 33 Frank Norris it. And these are the brokers’ offices working overtime— that Helmick deal, you know.” Laura looked, suddenly stup... ...ddenly stupefied. Here it was, then, that other drama, that other tragedy, working on there furi- ously, fiercely through the night, while she and all... ...matter came up. Yes, that was all very well, but Landry was a decent, hard-working young fellow, with all his way to make and no time to waste, and if... ...ess’, “that our little girlie has a little bit of an eye on a certain hard-working young fellow her- self.” And the answer invariably roused Page. “No... ... himself at Jadwin, “do we come in? If that same luck of yours is still in working order, here’s your chance, J., to make a killing. There’s just that...

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...oke, and Minerva fol lowed him. When they were within he took her spear and set it in the spear stand against a strong bearing post along with the m... ...e threw a cloth of dam ask. There was a footstool also for her feet, and he set another seat near her for himself, away from the suitors, that she mi... ... was in the house, the carver fetched them plates of all manner of meats and set cups of gold by their side, and a man servant brought them wine and p... ...rfully like him about the head and eyes, for we were close friends before he set sail for T roy where the flower of all the Argives went also. Since t... ... a pall.’ “This was what she said, and we assented; whereon we could see her working on her great web all day long, but at night she would unpick the ... ...and trusted more than any other of my men, said, ‘There is some one in side working at a loom and singing most beauti fully; the whole place resound... ...t could be seen from far. There we found a woman, or else she was a goddess, working at her loom and singing sweetly; The Odyssey – Book X 121 so th... ...or the virtue of the herb that I shall give you will prevent her spells from working. I will tell you all about it. When Circe strikes you with her wa... ...n put it in my mind to set up a great tambour frame in my room, and to begin working upon an enormous piece of fine needle work. Then I said to them,...

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...he end, — and so forth: but I fancy I can discern in the fine bonnet of the working man’s wife, or the feather bedizened hat of his child, no incons... ... on the dresses of the congregation, and congratulating themselves on having set so excellent an example to the community in general, and Sunday pleas... ...oving nature of his eloquence. Encouraged by these symptoms of approval, and working himself up to a pitch of enthusiasm amounting almost to frenzy, h... ...iting for the Sunday dinner. Look at the group of children who surround that working man who has just emerged from the baker’s shop at the corner of t... ...ggling through very limited means, about the young man, which induces one to set him down at once as a junior clerk to a tradesman or attorney. The gi... ...h the whole Sunday afternoon, in defiance of the law. Every act of hiring or working, every act of buying or selling, or delivering, or causing anythi... ...ach, the hired gig, or the taxed cart, cannot possibly be ‘necessary’ to the working man on Sunday, for he has it not at other times. The sumptuous di... ...f monasteries and builders of churches, in ruder days — establishing a good set claim upon their Maker. CHAPTER III AS IT MIGHT BE MADE T he supporte... ... worthier man ner, devote their seventh to a different purpose. Let divines set the example of true morality: preach it to their flocks in the mornin...

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...t take for fire. From this time Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence; Set your entreatments at a higher rate Than a command to parley. For Lord... ...not, my lord. HAMLET: Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life in a pin’s fee; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Bein... ... woman! O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tables,—meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; At least I’... ..., I pray. The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right! Nay, come, let’s go together. [Exeunt.] Hamlet, Act I, scen... ...ing these slight sullies on my son, As ‘twere a thing a little soil’d i’ the working, Mark you, Your party in converse, him you would sound, Having ev... ... for this enterprise, On such regards of safety and allowance As therein are set down. KING CLAUDIUS : It likes us well; And a... ...a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann’d, Tears in his eyes, distraction in’s aspect...

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... any one off the ground; but it behooves you to be wide awake and actively working. Don’t neglect it; and write me at your first leisure. Y ours as ev... ...the other fifty, that is, make sure of all you can, at all events. We will set other agencies to work which shall compensate for the loss of a good ma... ...s before the author of the Nebraska Bill was born— indeed, before Columbus set foot on this continent. In the year 1776 it took form in the noble word... ...r And I fancied that she was the singer. May emotions as pure as that song set astir Be the wont that the future shall bring her. 20 The Writings of ... ...PRINGFIELD, Nov.20, 1858. DR. C. H. RA Y MY DEAR SIR:—I wish to preserve a set of the late debates (if they may be called so), between Douglas and mys... ...ot like. But he now not only swears by the court, the courts having got to working for you, but he denounces all men that do not swear by the courts, ... ...their own land to work upon, or shops to work in, and who are benefited by working for others, hired laborers, receiving their capital for it. Thus a ... ...sted, down to the time that the Lecompton Bill was introduced, that it was working admira- bly, and that its inevitable tendency was to remove the que... ...ing that you have expected of me. I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that the...

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... administrative philanthropy. He knew the Webbs. He was as successful with working-class audiences as with fashion- able congregations. His home life ... ...h people of the country were self- made and inclined to nonconformity, the working-people were not strictly speaking a “poor,” they were highly paid, ... ...It makes them fancy that they are It. Encourages them to forget duties and set up preposterous claims. Class war and all that sort of thing. You gentl... ...ed he had plenty of time to speak before his bishop. “Because you will not set yourselves to understand the symbolism of her ritual,” he said. “If the... ... . The labour leader became impatient with the ritualistic controversy; he set his tea-cup aside out of danger and leant across the corner of the tabl... ... The bishop reflected. “She wants to go to College.” “They want to go in a set.” 30 The Soul of a Bishop “I wonder if college can be much worse than... ...five hun- dred years ago…. the increasingly educated and practical- minded working classes will not come to church, weekday or Sunday.” The bishop hel... ...ver it was pos- sible for him to get back to his home. The morning was his working time. His books and hymns had profited at the cost of missing many ... ...ruth, is hidden. Always. Of course there must be a measure of truth in our working illusions, a working measure of truth, or the creature would smash ...

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...detract. Mr. Pericles grimaced bitterly at any claim to excellence be- ing set up for the mysterious voice in the woods. T apping one forefinger on th... ... too deeply impressed to pursue their play with him. Real emotions at once set aside the semi-credence they had given to their own suggestions. “Hush!... ...ough they could discern nothing save the glimmer of the instrument and one set of fingers caressing it. How she viewed their rather impertinent advanc... ...he answered; and Mr. Pole took it up: “That’s our discipline, my boy. Must set an example: do our duty. All the house goes to worship in the country.”... ...ght be going. This (he was hap- pily as ignorant as any other youth of the working of his machinery) prompted him to bid her sing before they parted. ... ... were, the band of the regiment of adorers, marching ahead, while we sober working soldiers follow to their music. “If she grows famous, why then I ca... ...young clerk grasped it, and drew him to a chair. “T ush,” said his master, working his feverish fingers across his forehead. “Want of food. I don’t ea... ...an (a tenore), who shared her fame and more with her. In the rear were two working baritones; and behind them, outside, Ital- ian heads might be disce... ...minutes, Mrs. Chump was struck with a notion that Braintop’s sinfulness in working on a Sunday, or else the shortness of the prayer he had put up to g...

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...e Daughter, 587 Be somewhat scanter of your Maiden presence; 588 Set your entreatments at a higher rate, 589 Then a command to parley. ... ... Lord. 653 Ham. Why, what should be the feare? 654 I doe not set my life at a pins fee; 655 And for my Soule, what can it doe to th... ...aine, smiling damned Villaine! 792 My Tables, my Tables; meet it is I set it downe, 793 That one may smile, and smile and be a Villaine; 79... ... time is out of ioynt: Oh cursed spight, 886 That euer I was borne to set it right. 887 Nay, come let’s goe together. Exeunt. Actus ... ...ght sulleyes on my Sonne, 933 As ’twere a thing a little soil’d i’th’ working: 934 Marke you your party in conuerse; him you would |(sound, ... ... 1104 On such regards of safety and allowance, 1105 As therein are set downe. 1106 King. It likes vs well: 1107 And at our more co... ...3 Could force his soule so to his whole conceit, 1594 That from her working, all his visage warm’d; 1595 Teares in his eyes, distraction in...

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...eral effect, as yet. On the brow of Dombey , Time and his brother Care had set some marks, as on a tree that was to come down in good time—remorseless... ...bly and shaky I have been from head to foot in expectation of it, has been working at a little gift for Fanny , which I promised to present. Miss T ox... ...arved to death. Paul is so very particular—naturally so, of course, having set his whole heart on this one boy— and there are so many objections to ev... ...ere seemed to be no flaw in the title of Polly Toodle after his sister had set it forth, with many commendations on the indefatigable friendship of Mi... ...ower, confiding by constraint in the wife of an ignorant Hind who has been working ‘mostly underground’ all his life, and yet at whose door Death had ... ...ce—’ ‘No,’ interrupted Susan Nipper. ‘Not once since, and he hadn’t hardly set his eyes upon her before that for months and months, and I don’t think ... ...ial accomplishments very little his superior. She had been good-humouredly working and drudging for her life all her life, and was a sober steady-goin... ...xtants, quadrants, and specimens of every kind of instru- ment used in the working of a ship’ s course, or the keeping of a ship’s reckoning, or the p... ...not the newspa- 42 Dombey & Son per boy in the oilskin cap who was slowly working his way along the piece of brass outside, writing his name over Mr ...

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... sings only to the leaves overshadowing it. They were men who had sworn to set a nation free,—free from the foreigner, to begin with. (He who tells th... ...by a complacent readiness to give him distinct replies. He then turned and set off at full speed down the mountain. “She is sighted at last,” Agostino... ...about a rusty beast, evidently bound for the South-eastern gate, his brows set like a black wind. “Blessings on his going!” thought Luigi, and sang on... ...selves, this Greek—and he’s quite right—is trying to get her away from the set of snuffy vagabonds who are prompting her for mis- chief, and don’t kno... ...esterreich,’ and saw the weak and helpless bleeding man, with his eyeballs working under the lids, and the palms of his hands stretched out open-weak ... ...y bubbles under and silvery canopy above, the chattering and huzzaing; all working on to the one-toned fall beneath the rainbow on the castle-rock. Ne... .... Thenceforward his existence fed on the move- ments of his companion, the workings of whose mind he began to read with a marvellous insight. He knew ... ...ered about her, for three weeks Vittoria had been in full operatic career, working, winning fame, believing that she was winning influence, and establ... ...hing and carrying for a smile and a pat on the head. I am ruined, and I am working my way up as best I can. My uncle disowns me. It is to General Scho...