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...Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. Thi... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...was gradually filling. The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle... ...d he stood waiting for an op- portunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. CHAPTER III ANNA PA VLOVNA’S RECEPTION was in ful... ...s toes, now on his heels; until, turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspir... ...oom. 41 Tolstoy In this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burn... ...in some Swed- ish forces at Stralsund; how two hundred and twenty thousand Austrians, with a hundred thousand Russians, were to operate in Italy and o... ...mmander, for in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the Austrian commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred mile... ...The slur on my name and honor—that’s all apart from myself. “Louis XVI was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a criminal,” came into P...

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...th the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and throbbings. Then in elfin tones the real message comes through: ?Bleriot has crossed the Channel.... An article ... about what it means.?...

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...THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An ... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... .............................................................. 175 IS THERE A PEOPLE? ...................................................................... ... an astonishing effect of ease, that was incredible not simply to ignorant people but to men well informed in these mat- ters. It cannot be fifteen ye... ..., such as leaping chasms or killing an ox or es- caping from the roof of a burning house. You have to decide upon a certain course on such occasions a... ...on such occasions and maintain a con- tinuous movement. If you wait on the burning house until you scorch and then turn round a bit or move away a yar... ...e to send. Germany and Switzerland send only a few. The South European and Austrian supply is not as abundant as it was. There may come a time when Eu... ... Utopian requirements, so far as the material side of things goes, will be executed and delivered with at last the utmost promptness…. It is in quite ...

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace: Book Nine by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. Th... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace: Book Nine by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Se... ...nged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them. To us, their descend... ...toric significance. The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the more people he is connected with and the more power he has over others, the more... ... him and following these verbal fireworks with difficulty, “the troops are burning with eagerness…” “I know everything!” Napoleon interrupted him. “I ... ... decided. Already from his military experience and what he had seen in the Austrian campaign, he had come to the con- clusion that in war the most dee... ...ated from the man who gave it or from the Emperor and whether it had to be executed or not. But this was only the external condition; the essential si... ...lties the whole fault lay in the fact that his plan had not been precisely executed. He kept laughing sarcastically, he demonstrated, and at last cont... ...ing hour, gazing at the dark face of the Virgin illuminated by the candles burning before it and by the morning light falling from the win- dow, she l...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace: Book Ten by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace: Book Ten by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...ish for a gallop across a level field; and in the same way the innumerable people who took part in the war acted in accord with their personal charact... ...a winter campaign and, on the other, the character given to the war by the burning of Russian towns and the hatred of the foe this aroused among the R... ...f Russian towns and the hatred of the foe this aroused among the Rus- sian people. But no one at the time foresaw (what now seems so evident) that thi... ...letting the enemy even reach Smolensk, still less could he contemplate the burning of Moscow, and when our armies did unite he was displeased that Smo... ...all crimi- nals. And so thinks Timokhin and the whole army. They should be executed! Since they are my foes they cannot be my friends, whatever may ha... ...ll this, like the other parts of the disposition, was not and could not be executed. After passing through Borodino the vice-King was driven back to t... ... who crossed the Vistula,” he wrote further of the Russian war, “half were Austrians, Prussians, Saxons, Poles, Bavarians, Wurttembergers, Mecklenburg...

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...RY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ... Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylva... ... last an extraordi- nary brightness and freshness of complexion; nor would people believe that she did not wear rouge. At sixty years of age she still... ...eard my father use a rough word, ’twas extraordinary with how much awe his people regarded him; and the servants on our plantation, both those assigne... ... and Harry saw that the smoke came from a great flame of papers which were burning in a brazier when he entered the Chaplain’s room. After giving a ha... ...would only sigh and shake her head. Before those fatal decrees in life are executed, there are always secret pre- visions and warning omens. When ever... ... Lord— my Lord Murderer—(I will never name him)—was let loose, a woman was executed at Tyburn for stealing in a shop. But a man may rob another of his... ...s Grace, in which he hoped that as Don Scipio had formerly served with the Austrians against the French, ’twas to be hoped that his Excellency would n... ... Excellency would now declare himself against the French King, and for the Austrian in the war be- tween King Philip and King Charles. But his Excelle...

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...Excerpt: Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with a critical preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A....

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...t Short Stories of the T ragedy and Comedy of Life with a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, ... ....A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with ... ...nd feel how surely they point to constant suffering on the part of him who executed them. This is the leading trait in the literary physiog- nomy of M... ...uence of his honesty and partly of mental despair. He never accepted other people’s views on the questions of life. He looked into such prob- lems for... ... officers laughed among themselves at that inoffensive courage, and as the people in the whole country round showed them- selves obliging and complian... ..., and made them formidable to the first comer, without rea- son. They even executed a few innocent people to prove that they knew how to kill; and, in... ...le, a monstrous pyre which lit up the whole country, a pyre where men were burning, and where He was burning also, He, He, my prisoner, that new Being... ... was, in whose company she constantly saw Don Escovedo. “Don Escovedo.” An Austrian count, who had a loud and silly laugh, said: “Who has saddled you ... ...ls met at a coffee-house; the Greek prince began to lie and boast, and the Austrian officer gave him the lie direct. In conse- quence, it was arranged...

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... Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ...pressed much more eloquently in the ingenious romance of Eugene Aram:—”The burning desires I have known—the resplendent visions I have nursed—the subl... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ...ress Josephine, at Malmaison (whom we loved a thousand times more than her Austrian successor, a sandy-haired woman, between ourselves, with an odious... ...—an excellent, gentle creature, quite unlike her husband—stood up with the Austrian ambassador. Besides, the famous artists Baron Gros, David and Nich... ...e Carbineers of Foy, and the Grenadiers of the Guard under Drouet d’Erlon, executed a carambolade on the right, with the precision which became those ... ...ld but get that fellow’s 156 Thackeray horse, thought I, I am safe; and I executed at once the plan which I hoped was to effect my rescue. I had, as ...

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...PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT by U. S. Grant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Persona... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. Th... ...over eight years old at the time. This transac- tion caused me great heart-burning. The story got out among the boys of the village, and it was a long... ...and but few east; and above all, there were no reporters prying into other people’s private affairs. Consequently it did not become generally known th... ...s in imitation of mine. The joke was a huge one in the mind of many of the people, and was much enjoyed by them; but I did not appreciate it so highly... ...followed the example set by Santa Anna himself a few years before, when he executed the en- tire garrison of the Alamo and the villagers of Goliad. In... ...hould be done, and of the time, place and distance separat- ing us, when I executed him. If I should do another such a wrong as to justify him in kill... ...lockade. She also joined, at first, with France and Spain in setting up an Austrian prince upon the throne in Mexico, totally disre- garding any right... ...very soon withdrew from the armed intervention for the establishment of an Austrian prince upon the throne of Mexico; but the governing people of thes...

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...Excerpt: Muirhead Library Of Philosophy. An admirable statement of the aims of the Library of Philosophy was provided by the first editor, the late Professor J. H. Muirhead, in his description of the original programme printed in Erdmann?s History of Philosophy under the date 1890. This was slightly modified in subsequent volumes to take the...

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... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity... ................................ 201 4 Bertrand Russell The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell 1921 MUIRHEAD LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHY An admirable statem... ...ny writers. Among these we may 12 Bertrand Russell take as an example his Austrian successor Meinong.* Accord- ing to him there are three elements in... ...d feel if you touched its walls; it is further con- nected with what other people see and feel, with services and the Dean and Chapter and Sir Christo... ... the talk they have to listen to can be explained with- out supposing that people think. Where you might expect a chapter on “thought processes” you c... ...it, ‘close box’ when he closes it, and ‘put doll in box ‘ when that act is executed. This is repeated over and over again. In the process of time it c... ...ly the word is uttered without the movement of going towards the box being executed…. Habits are formed of going to the box when the arms are full of ... ...f fire has a different effect upon a child which has had the sensations of burning than upon one which has not. More correctly, the observed effect, w... ... merely the neighbourhood of the fire, but this together with the previous burning. The general formula, when an animal has acquired experience throug...