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...n some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read...

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........................................................................ 169 WAR OR PACIFISM .............................................................. ...oint ................................................... 396 QUESTIONS OF WAR .......................................................................... ... --―Good morning Commander. Did you have a restful night?‖ ---―I slept well, Dr. Wang. I‘m still getting used to these earthly beds. When ... ... and you don‘t have to worry about the weight of your body on a mattress. I had trouble sleeping on my bed in California, but these air flotation ma... ...human values really fascinates me. The most important discussions in this world are about values of one sort or another. My friends and I once share... ...ety?‖ --―I hate to say it but I do. Being invited to speak around the world and teaching in major universities makes me feel that I am important... ...ges than the rural areas. Atheists and agnostics make up 20 to 30% of the Canadian population. ―When we look at scientific studies of any... ... couldn‘t have foreseen and probably would disapprove. ―One of our poets put it this way: Is there heaven or is there hell? No book nor sage... ...ups. It put the net cost to California residents at $433 per European and Canadian immigrant household, $1,240 per Asian immigrant household and $8,1...

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...rnet – A Medium or a Message? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ... ...m): E-books and e-publishing The Future of Electronic Publishing I. The Disintermediation of Content II. E(merging) Books III. Invasio... ...Web Technology and Trends Thoughts on the Internet’s Founding Myths I. Bright Planet, Deep Web II. The Seamless Internet III. The Polyglo... ...management. It offers only some minor synergies with non-cyberspace, real world, franchises and media properties. The likes of Disney and Bertelsmann... ...and, lately, through Selective Dissemination of Information, or SDI). The war is by no means decided. "Progress" may yet consist of the assimilation ... ...an even paperbacks. John Bell (competing with Dr. Johnson) published "The Poets of Great Britain" in 1777-83. Each of the 109 volumes cost six shill... ... debating the issue. So do Luxemburg and Norway. According to Wired, the Canadian Private Copying Collective, the music industry trade group, has p... ...s and MP3 players." Precedent is hardly encouraging. The aforementioned Canadian Collective has yet to distribute to its members even one tax doll... ...nformation and opinion that is a prerequisite to both (a) and (b). It is a war zone where many fear to tread. the Wikipedia is a negative filter (see...

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...alled to him, “Mr. Green.” Hiram balled his fist around the money. “Yuh?” “I don’t know what the future will bring — but I’d appreciate it i... ...ng a hand over his silvering dark hair. “Like Hiram, too much Saturday night.” “I got a sample in my case for that, but a hair of the dog’ll do b... ... can tell me whatever you want. I don’t hold a man to rash promises when he’s in a world of hurt.” He turned for the front door. “Go get a hair of... ...e’d traveled with before she left his cave camp in the green mountains. Her former World News colleagues didn’t know his fate because her successor... ...” “No,” she said, walking around the chalked outline. “Inhumanity and death during war ceases to be extraordinary when the numbness of daily slaugh... ... of the night. Were you up to mischief? I don’t know, ever since you went off to war…” “Mama, Royce is — was — my attorney. When I got the ba... ... ready-made cocktails on a tray — a gin and tonic for Johnnie, Glenfiddich for her, Canadian and Coca-Cola with lime for Clay. The three sipped as ... ...?” “The O’Connells are a venerable old Georgia family famous for its war heroes and poets. Statues of Black Bert O’Connell are on every town square...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war ...

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...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...tronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ... CE CE CE CE IN THE LATTER HALF OF 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a “War of Ideas.” A phrase, “The War to end War,” got into circulat... ...ay many men, essen- tially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent w... ...olutionized Germany, an idea to which, in common with most British people, I am bitterly opposed. Walsh’s “World Rebuilt” is a good exhortation, and M... ...lishing pamphlets and conducting propaganda. All these books and pamphlets I have named happen to lie upon my study table as I write, but I have made ... ...rite some language or other; Bogota with a population of a million, mostly poets; Hayti with a population of a mil- lion and a third, almost entirely ... ...now, or are we to look for the time when we, too, like the Africander, the Canadian and the Austra- lian, will be your confessed and equal partners?” ... ...imes has styled the crown the “golden link” of the empire. Australians and Canadians, it was argued, had little love for the motherland but the greate...

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...................................................................................................................... 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR .......................................................................................................... 47 CHAPTER IV: WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS ..............................................................................

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...er seems to have dwindled since the site was chosen, and at present it is, I think, evident that Washington can never be great in its ship- ping. Stat... ...n in an enemy’s possession since the United States became a nation. In the war of 1812 it fell into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third ... ...n the borders of the nation to which it belongs, instead of at its center. I fear, therefore, that we must acknowledge that the site chosen for his co... ... in 1815, the former Capitol having been de- stroyed by the English in the war of 1812-13. It was then finished according to the original plan, with a... ...ide which is on your right as you leave the Capitol. Of the other side the world knows nothing. And very bad shops they are. I doubt whether there be ... ...ing. And very bad shops they are. I doubt whether there be any town in the world at all equal in importance to Washington which is in such respects so... ...n historians are acknowledged as great au- thors, and as regards their own poets, will sometimes de- mand your admiration for strains with which you h... ...tween us and them, it would depend mainly, I think, on the feelings of the Canadians. Neither could they annex Canada without the good-will of the Can...

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...forth without explaining the old fable on which it was founded--a fable recurring again and again in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very late period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius, of the province of Africa, sometimes called the earliest novelist. There are, however, fragments of the same story in the popular tales of all count...

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...urring again and again in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very late period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius... ...ated Psyche, and gave her a place among the gods. 6 Love and Life CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I A SYLL A SYLL A SYLL A SYLL A SYL... ...AB AB ABUB P UB P UB P UB P UB PAR AR AR AR ART T T T TY Y Y Y Y Oft had I shadowed such a group Of beauties that were born In teacup times of ... ...ool, and has the bowl frothing in a moment.” “I would not have done so for worlds,” said Harriet; “I dreaded every moment to be asked where Miss Delav... ...s, and had afterwards entered the Austrian army, and fought in the Turkish war, until he had been disabled before Belgrade by a terrible wound, of whi... ...ing of the mail, for his foreign experiences gave him keen interest in the war between France and Austria, and he watched the campaigns of his beloved... ... beauty, for it fell less familiarly on his ear than her passages from the poets. At the end he said: “Yes, that is true poetry. Praise fits well with... ...lf, and given herself the trouble of learning the choicest passages of the poets to repeat to me.” “You are very good, sir,” returned Aurelia; “it is ... ...t once called upon to go out to America to superintend the defences of the Canadian frontier, and he resolved on taking his family out, obtaining land...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reaso...

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....................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..................................................................................... 6 CHAPTER I: THE AFFLICTION OF CHILDHOOD ................................................................ 16 CHAPTER II: INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF STRIFE ........................................... 42 CHAPTER III: INFANT LITERATURE....

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................................................................... 6 CHAPTER I: THE AFFLICTION OF CHILDHOOD ............................................... .......................................... 16 CHAPTER II: INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF STRIFE ........................................... 42 CHAPTER III:... ................................................................118 CHAPTER V I: AM INTRODUCED TO THE WARFARE OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL.......... 131 CHAPTER VI... ... said that, after all efforts to publish itself, still it remains, for the world of possible read- ers, “as good as manuscript”? Not to insist, howeve... ...upon medical men as people privileged, and naturally commissioned, to make war upon pain and sickness, I never had a misgiving about the result. I gri... ...nce! Such a disproportion, it seems, might exist, in the case of a ghostly war, between the harvest of possible results and the slender band of reaper... ...ice in the art of contending with the rapids of the St. Lawrence and other Canadian streams. However, as the danger had been considerable, he was pro-... ...ed, I knew, and I know that, had I chosen to enlist amongst the soi disant poets of the day ,—amongst those, I mean, who, by mere force of talent and ... ...I also could have taken and sustained a place taliter qualiter amongst the poets of the time. Why not then? Simply because I knew that me, as them, wo...

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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mi...

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...MMAR SCHOOL.) The pale Usher — threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a qu... ...ockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of... ...gy. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or en tertaining,... ...ing our own. So fare thee well, poor devil of a Sub Sub, whose commentator I am. Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this w... ... I am. Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy stron... ... without chewing, as if it had been a sprat in the mouth of a whale.” Holy War. “That seabeast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest th... ... all over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years’ War, and just escaped from it with a sticking plaster shirt. Still more, hi... ...com plete. Reference to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great poets of past days, will satisfy you that the Greenland whale, without one ... ...last they carry home the oil of forty fish. Whereas, in the days of the old Canadian and Indian hunters and trappers of the West, when the far west (in...

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...ater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruth- less, self-denying, and self-de... ...sons, the birds, the beasts, 4 The Last of the Mohicans and the vegetable world. In this, perhaps, he does no more than any other energetic and imagi... ... mutually exhorted each other to be of use in the event of the chances of war throwing either of the parties into the hands of his enemies. Whatever ... ...rses, as by chance they displeased or satisfied his judgment. “This beast, I rather conclude, friend, is not of home raising, but is from foreign land... ...s and sweetness of its tones, as was his person for its rare proportions; “I may speak of these things, and be no brag- gart; for I have been down at ... ...ot have my confidence, and least of all at this moment. He is said to be a Canadian too; and yet he served with our friends the Mohawks, who, as you k... ...their guide, in order to diminish the marks of their trail, if, haply, the Canadian savages should be lurking so * In the state of Rhode Island there ... ...e of those unaccountable freaks which nature sometimes plays in the animal world, gave rise to a breed of horses which were once well known in America... ...n New England’.” During this eulogium on the rare production of his native poets, the stranger had drawn the book from his pocket, and fitting a pair ...

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...3 Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne PART ONE CHAPTER I A SHIFTING REEF T HE YEAR 1866 was signalised by a remarkable inci dent, ... ...of the marvellous, we can understand the excitement produced in the entire world by this supernatural apparition. As to classing it in the list of fab... ...the Sea CHAPTER II PRO AND CON AT THE PERIOD when these events took place, I had just returned from a scientific research in the disagreeable territor... ...heory, plausible as it was, could not stand against inquiries made in both worlds. That a private gentleman should have such a machine at his command ... ... times, when the inge- nuity of man has multiplied the power of weapons of war, it was possible that, without the knowledge of others, a State might t... ...ers, a State might try to work such a formidable engine. But the idea of a war machine fell before the declara- tion of Governments. As public interes... ... still she had on board Ned Land, the prince of harpooners. Ned Land was a Canadian, with an uncommon quick- ness of hand, and who knew no equal in hi... ...is look, which gave a singular ex- pression to his face. Who calls himself Canadian calls himself French; and, little communicative as Ned Land was, I... ... nothing but love and emotion; it is the `Living Infinite,’ as one of your poets has said. In fact, Professor, Nature manifests herself in it by her t...

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...hed him. Serious blame is not necessarily due to any serious disaster, and I cannot say that in this case any of the officers are de- serving of serio... ...tober 28, 1863. GENERAL JOHN M. SCHOFIELD: There have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three commun... ...mitted.] A majority of these are shown to have been in the rebel service. I believe it could be shown that the government here has deliberately armed... ... like of them ever will be announced or decided. TELEGRAM TO W. H. SEWARD. WAR DEPART- MENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., November 1, 1863. HON. W . H. SEW ARD... ...ere, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can neve... ...mmander to sentinel, who compose them, and to whom more than to others the world must stand indebted for the home of freedom disenthralled, regenerate... ...incoln: V ol Seven must say, that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were ap- plied to ... ... view of the insecurity of life and property in the region adjacent to the Canadian border, by reason of recent assaults and depredations committed by...

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...LM-TREES ........................................................ 160 WHEN I WOULD IMAGE ................................................................ ..................................................................... 180 THE WORLD’S ADVANCE .............................................................. .........................................................185 ON THE DANGER OF WAR .......................................................................... ........................................ 474 THE INVECTIVE OF ACHILLES—Iliad, i. 149 ....................................................................... ... of human sorrowing T o think there may be such a doubt That from the next world she’ll be shut out, And parted from me! And well I mind How, when my... ...the nations show Contempt for all whom seas divide; 22 ’Tis not to pamper war and woe, Nor feed traditionary pride; ’Tis not to make the floating bul... ...ed night? Proclaim this evil human page Will ever blot the Golden Age That poets dream and saints invite, If it be unredeemed this night? This night o... ...s manly god must not exceed Proportions of the natural nursing size. Great poets and great sages draw no prize With women: but the little lap-dog bre... ...ruth once scored on Britain’s breast Now keeps her mind awake. Australian, Canadian, T o tone old veins with streams of youth, Our trust be on the bes...

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...d off. He would have seen that, at the end of the most destruc- tive civil war that ever occurred, when animosities of the bitterest sort had banished... ...t the power of the United States to withstand the severest shocks of civil war. Could he have traced the further course of events until they open the ... ... resolved by personal observation of the re- sults of democracy in the New World to ascertain its natural consequences, and to learn what the nations ... ..., nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of conditions. I readily dis- covered the prodigious influence which this primary fact exe... ...new maxims to the governing powers, and pe- culiar habits to the governed. I speedily perceived that the influence of this fact extends far beyond the... ...erned something analogous to the spec- 13 Tocqueville tacle which the New World presented to me. I observed that the equality of conditions is daily ... ..., they thought themselves transported into those fabulous regions of which poets had sung. The sea sparkled with phosphoric light, and the extraordina... ...ing seems to be more prejudicial to society than these virtues. The French Canadians, who have faithfully preserved the traditions of their pristine m... ...chased an extensive estate with the earnings of a short term of labor, the Canadian paid as much for land as he would have done in France. Nature offe...

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...sity. 3 Sinclair Lewis Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis To Edith Wharton CHAPTER I T he towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of s... ...nticed him; it may have been resentment of return from this fine, bold man-world to a restricted region of wives and stenographers, and of suggestions... ...ooth- paste. “Verona been at it again! ‘Stead of sticking to Lilidol, like I’ve re-peat-ed-ly asked her, she’s gone and gotten some confounded stinkum... ...plift and flipflop and settlement- work and recreation is nothing in God’s world but the entering wedge for socialism. The sooner a man learns he isn’... ...ggled, momentary victor in the greatest of Great Wars, which is the family war. Ted looked at her hope- lessly, then shrieked at Tinka: “For the love ... ...nd hand-shaking house- organs, as richly poured forth by the new school of Poets of Business. He had painfully written out a first draft, and he inton... ...inter or writer. “Why say, the letters that boy sent me on his trip to the Canadian Rockies, they just absolutely make you see the place as if you wer... ... period were somewhat less elaborate than the plans for a general European war. He fretted to Miss McGoun, “What time you going to lunch? Well, make s... ... The only thing is: I wonder if it sells the goods? Course, like all these poets, this Prince Albert fellow lets his idea run away with him. It makes ...

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...nd even perplexed It fits exactly to the next. —Adelaide a Proctor CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I ‘HAVE YOU TALKED it over with her... ...age. ‘Yes!’ was the answer, which the vicar was not slow to un- derstand. ‘I cannot say I expected much from your conversation, and perhaps we ought n... ...ed?’ ‘That it is my fault. Before our marriage, you and she were the whole world to each other; but since I came, I have seen, as you say, that the cr... ...at his clear olive complexion had not the line of health, that there was a world of oppression on his broad brow and deep hazel eyes, and that it was ... ...other Albinia bravely stood a desperate wringing of her hand at the tug of war. She was glad she had come, for the boy suf- fered a good deal, and was... ... more gentle and affectionate, and she made him tell her about the Persian poets, and promise to show her some specimens of the Rose Garden of Saadi—s... ...d to enjoy it; but by the time he had heard all her oral traditions of the war by way of notes, his attendance began to slacken; he stayed out later, ... ...rd the renewal of his broken story—the praise of his Emily, the fairest of Canadians, whom even the General could not dislike, though, thorough soldie... ... the smiling, confiding, animated face, not the less pleasant for a French Canadian grace that recalled Genevieve. ‘The right article for building a h...

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...Grammar School) The pale Usher—threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and gram- mars, with a ... ...ckingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of... ...gy. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, a... ...g our own. So fare thee well, poor devil of a Sub-Sub, whose com- mentator I am. Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this w... ... I am. Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy-stron... ... all over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years’ War, and just escaped from it with a sticking-plaster shirt. Still more, hi... ... Behring’s Straits; and in all seasons and all oceans declared everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that has survived the flood; most mons... ...y complete. Reference to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great poets of past days, will satisfy you that the Greenland whale, without one ... ...ast they carry home the oil of forty fish. Whereas, in the days of the old Canadian and Indian hunt- ers and trappers of the West, when the far west (...

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...e result of a friendly suggestion, and even of a little friendly pressure. I defended myself with some spirit; but, with charac- teristic tenacity, th... ...y voice insisted: “You know, you really must.” It was not an argument, but I submitted at once. If one must!… You perceive the force of a word. He who... ...en- gines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. What a dream—for a writer! Because written words have their accent t... ...is shouted, and fails to be heard, perhaps, and goes down-wind leaving the world unmoved. Once upon a time there lived an Emperor who was a sage and s... ...hartered the ship to the, I will not say short-lived, but ephemeral Franco-Canadian Trans- port Company. A death leaves something behind, but there wa... ...ated never to cross the Western Ocean was the absolute cause of the Franco-Canadian Transport Company’s failure to achieve even a single passage. It m... ...ould not have been ex- pected to preserve her mental and moral balance. At war with herself, she could not give to others that feeling of peace which ... ...rms and in the fun of incessant drilling. This child- ish passion, not for war but for mere militarism, achieved a desirable result. The Polish Army, ... ...iscences Quixote” in abridged editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some French poets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening be...

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...e result of a friendly suggestion, and even of a little friendly pressure. I defended myself with some spirit; but, with characteristic tenacity, the ... ... voice insisted, “Y ou know, you really must.” It was not an argument, but I submitted at once. If one must! … You perceive the force of a word. He wh... ...r engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. What a dream for a writer! Because written words have their accent, ... ...s shouted, and fails to be heard, perhaps, and goes down-wind, leaving the world unmoved? Once upon a time there lived an emperor who was a sage and s... ...r- tered the ship to the, I will not say short-lived, but ephemeral Franco-Canadian Transport Company. A death leaves some- thing behind, but there wa... ...ated never to cross the Western Ocean was the absolute cause of the Franco-Canadian Transport Company’s failure to achieve even a single passage. It m... ...ould not have been expected to preserve her mental and moral bal- ance. At war with herself, she could not give to others that feeling of peace which ... ...forms and in the fun of incessant drilling. This childish passion, not for war, but for mere militarism, achieved a desirable result. The Polish army,... ...and “Don Quixote” in abridged editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some French po- ets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening ...

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...orge Meredith ONE OF OUR CONQUERORS By George Meredith 1897 BOOK 1 CHAPTER I ACROSS LONDON BRIDGE A GENTLEMAN, noteworthy for a lively countenance and... ...h-century billow of democratic ire craved the word to be set swelling. ‘Am I the fellow you mean, sir?’ the man said. He was answered, not ungraciousl... ... into a wrangle, in a thoroughfare, on London Bridge, of all places in the world!—he, so popular, renowned for his affability, his amiability; having ... ...f the Jew Dominant in London City, over England, over Europe, America, the world (a picture drawn in literary sepia by Colney: with our poor hang neck... ...g forest, your London citizen of good estate has reproached his country’ s poets for not pouring out, succinctly and melodiously, his multitudinous la... ... the tablets of the quotable at festive boards. This he can promise to his poets. As for otherwhere than at the festive, Commerce invoked is a Goddess... ...ad pretty cheap, and were accounted tasty. Skepsey’s main thought was upon war: the man had dis- coursed of pigs. He informed the man of his having he... ...heir own, the pork-butcher said; and he praised Old En- gland for avoiding war. Skepsey nodded. How if war is forced on us? Then we fight. Suppose we ... ...n, and Mr. Pempton took their usual places. There was no fluting. A famous Canadian lady was the principal singer. A Galician 340 One of Our Conquero...

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...many waters, and has barely gathered any portion of his harvest. Thus what I have written of Bishop Patteson, far more what I have copied of his lette... ...dence which has formed the staple material. Letters upon the unhappy Maori war have been purposely omitted; and, as far as possible, such criticisms o... ...nd forgotten, because correspondence served him in- stead of conversation. I think I have represented fairly, for I have done my best faithfully to se... ... generosity grew up almost spontaneously to- wards one another and all the world. On this disposition was grafted that which was the one leading chara... ...n enjoyed in such large measure, should furnish ‘nerves and sinews’ to the war which her son was about to wage with the darkness of heathenism, thus t... ...ather, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be One in Us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me.’ And here again we find one of th... ...s dull, and Livy apparently easy and really very hard. So, again, with the poets; and most of all I found no interest (fancy!) in Plato and Aristotle.... ...ith a mo- notonous, not unpleasing refrain, reminded us of some old French Canadian ditties. I remember well the excitement when the Bishop sent up a ...

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...nity university. 3 Virginia Woolf Night and Day by Virginia Woolf CHAPTER I It was a Sunday evening in October, and in common with many other young l... ...er had invited him—anyhow, he would not be easily combined with the rest. “I should think there would be no one to talk to in Manchester,” she replied... ... friendliness, which embraced him, and passed on to contemplate the entire world. The paint 9 Virginia Woolf had so faded that very little but the be... ...r grandfather’s poems—”we don’t even print as well as they did, and as for poets or painters or novelists—there are none; so, at any rate, I’m not sin... ...arge blue eyes, at once sagacious and innocent, which seemed to regard the world with an enormous desire that it should behave itself nobly, and an en... ...flower that any family can boast, a great writer, a poet eminent among the poets of England, a Richard Alardyce; and having pro- duced him, they prove... ... it all, that center which was constantly in the minds of people in remote Canadian forests and on the plains of India, when their thoughts turned to ... ... its excitement. “You’ve not read ‘The Idiot’!” she exclaimed. “I’ve read ‘War and Peace’,” William replied, a little tes- tily. “‘War and Peace’!” sh...

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...nnsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 The Art of Writing The Art of Writing by Robert L... ... that ‘Still the less they understand, The more they admire the sleight-of-hand,’ many are conscious at each new disclosure of a diminution in the ard... ...ll, Orlando’s speech to Adam, with what passage it shall please you to select – the Seven Ages from the same play, or even such a stave of nobility as... ...et be said. My next example was recently quoted from Shakespeare as an example of the poet’s colour sense. Now, I do not think literature has anything... ...esh from Claverhouse and Killiecrankie, here, with elucidative spelling, was my reward: ‘Meanwhile the disorders of Kannon’s Kamp went on inKreasing. ... ...e indeed King James’s Kommission, and were Kalled Kolonels and Kaptains, but who were Kolonels without regiments and Kaptains without Kompanies.’ A mo... ... wage, he is in a position to do consider- able services; that it is in his power, in some small measure, to protect the oppressed and to defend the t... ...s with much vivacity; and the next moment I had seen the circumstance trans- planted from India and the tropics to the Adirondack wil- derness and the...

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... T T T T TO O O O O THE READER THE READER THE READER THE READER THE READER I HERE PRESENT YOU, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable perio... ...cord of a remarkable period in my life: according to my application of it, I trust that it will prove not merely an interesting record, but in a consi... ...of time have deployed into life, as it were, upon this planet) our English poets have possessed in the highest degree, and Scottish pro- fessors 3 in... ... to no purpose. One, who was more reasonable and had more knowledge of the world than the rest, lived at a distance; two of the other three re- signed... ...nestly in his face, thinking to myself, “He is old and infirm, and in this world I shall not see him again.” I was right; I never did see him again, n... ...-money, for one of the brothers, who had served on board an English man-of-war; and, more privately, two love-letters for two of the sisters. They wer... ... even to gentlemen, if I am no to have the article good of its kind? No, a Canadian winter for my money, or a Rus- sian one, where every man is but a ... ...t of gratitude, to mention what that was. The sublimer and more passionate poets I still read, as I have said, by snatches, and occasionally. But my p... ... with one period of English history, viz., the period of the Parliamentary War, having been attracted by the moral grandeur of some who figured in tha...

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...6) PERHAPS THIS BOOK is an instance to be adduced in support of the advice I have often given to young authors—not to print before they themselves are... ... themselves are old enough to do justice to their freshest ideas. Not that I can lay claim to its being a production of tender and interesting youth. ... ...might have enabled me to avoid; and I would not again have given it to the world if the same characters recurring in another story had not excited a c... ...s turned off by the farmers for refusing to remove his child. Now that the war was carried on so openly, Mr. Mohun considered it his duty to withdraw ... ... and though Mr. Mohun did per- suade him to own that it was wrong to be at war with the clergyman, the effect of his arguments was soon done away with... ...!’ said Claude. ‘A fine demonstration of the rule of love, to go about the world slandering your sister!’ ‘To go about the world! Oh! Claude, it was o... ...nt back to Miss Weston, but then up comes William, as savage as one of his Canadian bears; he orders me off too, and so here I am! I am sure I am not ... ...feast, and revelry, And mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as useful poets dream On summer eves, by haunted stream.’ ON THE MORNING OF A FINE DA...

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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust i...

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...RICAN NOTES” It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as i... ...ties of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any existence not in my imagination. They can e... ...ecollect trying to think about something (about anything in the whole wide world, I was not particular) without the smallest ef fect. I could not eve... ...ed the Eastern passage; and so we were. It was about the last place in the world in which we had any busi ness or reason to be, but a sudden fog, and... ...ore, he had risen up and said, ‘A gang of male and female slaves for sale, war ranted to breed like cattle, linked to each other by iron fetters, are... ...im self. He looked somewhat worn and anxious, and well he might; being at war with everybody —but the ex pression of his face was mild and pleasant,... ...ch the changing rain bows made! I never stirred in all that time from the Canadian side, whither I had gone at first. I never crossed the river again... ... secret despatches for the self styled Patriots on Navy Island, during the Canadian Insurrec tion: sometimes dressing as a girl, and carrying them in... ...are for poetry:’ though we DO, by the way, profess to be very proud of our poets: while healthful amusements, cheerful means of recreation, and wholes...

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..................................................................... 5 P ART I—LETTERS .................................................................... ... 5 Joseph Conrad Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad AUTHOR’S NOTE I DON’T KNOW whether I ought to offer an apology for this collection which ... ...ke a certain South Ameri- can general who used to say that no emergency of war or peace had ever found him “with his boots off”; but I may say that wh... ...y (after the process of tidying up), a little bowed, and receding from the world not because of weariness or misanthropy but for other reasons that ca... ... time. The time was about a month before the entrance of Roumania into the war, and though, honestly, I had seen already the shadow of coming events I... ...le to the mind and the heart of the artist. After all, the cre- ation of a world is not a small undertaking except perhaps to the divinely gifted. In ... ...y poetry. Meantime, unblushing, unseen, and often unheard, the guile- less poets have gone on singing in a sweet strain. How they dare do the impossib... ...in wrote The Loves of the Plants and a scoffer The Loves of the Triangles, poets have been sup- posed to be indecorously blind to the progress of scie... ... in this matter nor yet penal servitude for anyone. The Di- rectors of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company did not sell “safety at sea” to the people...

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...nts, And fairer rivers dost ascend, Be thou my Muse, my Brother—. I am bound, I am bound, for a distant shore, By a lonely isle, by a far ... ...y a lonely isle, by a far Azore, There it is, there it is, the treasure I seek, On the barren sands of a desolate creek. 4 AWeekontheConcordand... ...ch abused Concord River with the most famous in history. “Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream ... ...taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.” 11 HenryDavidThoreau The Mississippi, the Gan... ...ins of the Moon, have a kind of personal impor tance in the annals of the world. The heavens are not yet drained over their sources, but the Mountain... ...th Bridge,” over which in April, 1775, rolled the first faint tide of that war, which ceased not, till, as we read on the stone on our right, it “gave... ...re once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. “The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silen... ...re ground, on waves of Concord, in which was long since drowned the din of war. But since we sailed Some things have failed, And many a dream ... ... a naturalness, an un pretending and cold life in this traveller, as in a Canadian winter, what life was preserved through low temperatures and front...

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...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 132 -- Brute Neighbors, 140 -- Hous...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Where I Lived, and What I Lived For . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Re... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 ii Walden Economy 1 Economy W HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, i... ...your condition, especially your outward condition or circum stances in this world, in this town, what it is, whether it is necessary that it be as ba... ...ough each other’s eyes for an instant? We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Myt... ... market; to keep yourself informed of the state of the markets, prospects of war and peace every where, and anticipate the tendencies of trade and civ... ...airest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their... ...he says, for he is above that, but to “keep himself in practice,” he being a Canadian by birth; and when I ask him what he considers the best thing he... ..., to make this frequent meeting tolerable, and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the sociable, and about the firesid... ...ad so suitable and poetic a name that I am sorry I cannot print it here, — a Canadian, a wood chopper and post maker, who can hole fifty posts in a day...

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.... 1854 WALDEN Or Life In The Woods by Henry David Thoreau ECONOMY W HEN I WROTE the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in... ... I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neigh bor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts,... ...ur condition, especially your outward condi tion or circumstances in this world, in this town, what it is, whether it is necessary that it be as bad ... ...gh each other’s eyes for an instant? We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mytho... ...ket; to keep yourself informed of the state of the markets, pros pects of war and peace everywhere, and anticipate the tendencies of trade and civili... ...rest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the chil dren of Aurora, and emit their... ... says, for he is above that, but to “keep himself in practice,” he being a Canadian by birth; and when I ask him what he considers the best thing he c... ...o make this fre quent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the so ciable, and about the fires... ...ad so suitable and poetic a name that I am sorry I cannot print it here a Canadian, a woodchopper and post maker, who can hole fifty posts in a day, ...

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...s 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 received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of editors; and second, that the proprietors have allowed me to republish so considerable an amount ...

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...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTER II ? SOME ASPECTS OF ROBERT BURNS.......................................................... 34 CHAPTER III ? WALT ...

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................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I – VICTOR HUGO’S ROMANCES ................................................... ...ne in MacMillan’s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. T o the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very... ... than if he had 9 Familiar Studies of Men & Books turned on his heel with Worldly Wiseman, married a conge- nial spouse, and lived orderly and died r... ...edibly to Mrs. Grundy, I have been led into certain airs of the man of the world, which are merely ridiculous in me, and were not intentionally discou... ...arose in part from his lax views about religion; for at this time that old war of the creeds and confessors, which is always grumbling from end to end... ...vid medium for all that had to do with social life. Hence, whenever Scotch poets left their laborious imitations of bad English verses, and fell back ... ...hrase of one tough verse of the original; and for those who know the Greek poets only by paraphrase, this has the very quality they are accustomed to ... ...rry in the pocket, and fastened with a pin,” which he scribbled during the war by the bedsides of the wounded or in the excitement of great events. Th... ... man for any genuine quali- ties, as we see by his admirable sketch of the Canadian wood- cutter in Walden; but he would not consent, in his own words...

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...Table of Contents: Ktaadn, 1 -- Chesuncook, 51 -- The Allegash and East Branch, 96 -- Appendix, 184 -- I. TREES., 184 -- II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS., 185 -- III. LIST OF PLANTS., 188 -- IV. LIST OF BIRDS, 196 -- V. QUADRUPEDS., 197 -- VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION., 198 -- VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS., 199...

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...pendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 I. TREES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by... ...rs in the very name of the white man’s canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian V oyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe a... ... of home or abroad steads, for their life is domi aut militiæ, at home or at war, or now rather venatus, that is, a hunting, and most of the latter. T... ...trim looking building, but that is not Abenaki, that was Rome’s doings. Good Canadian it may be, but it is poor Indian. These were once a powerful tri... ...as no other evidence of man but this huge shingle palace in this part of the world; but sometimes even this is filled with travellers. I looked off the... ...that country, cheerfully. I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting fo... ...ween it and me. It reminded me of the creations of the old epic and dramatic poets, of Atlas, Vulcan, the Cyclops, and Prometheus. Such was Caucasus a... ...e. The white pine tree was at the bottom or farther end of all this. It is a war against the pines, the only real Aroostook or Penobscot war. I have n...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagi...

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... university. 3 John Stuart Mill AUTOBIOGRAPHY by JOHN STUART MILL CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHILDHOOD AND EARL CHILDHOOD AND ... ... AND EARL Y EDUCA Y EDUCA Y EDUCA Y EDUCA Y EDUCA TION TION TION TION TION I T SEEMS PROPER that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch... ...n they deserve to be, and the one to whom most of all is due, one whom the world had no opportunity of knowing. The reader whom these things do not in... ...lties, and in Paoli, the Corsican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like a child as I was (until set right by my father) o... ...sons, and a collection (Hawkesworth’s, I be lieve) of V oyages round the World , in four volumes, beginning with Drake and ending with Cook and Boug... ...ame year in which I began Latin, I made my first commencement in the Greek poets with the Iliad. After I had made some progress in this, my father put... ...e, while about modern history, except detached passages, such as the Dutch War of Inde pendence, I knew and cared comparatively little. A volun tary... ...accepted from them the task of ascertaining and removing the causes of the Canadian rebellion; he had shown a disposition to surround himself at the o... ...eared to be returning a defeated and discred ited man. I had followed the Canadian events from the be ginning; I had been one of the prompters of hi...

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...niversity. 3 GB Shaw An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw CHAPTER I IN THE DUSK of an October evening, a sensible looking woman of forty came... ...“It’s a mercy your neck ain’t broken,” replied some palpi- tating female. “I’ll tell of you this time, Miss Wylie; indeed I will. And you, too, Miss C... ...trimony. Already I am undeceived. You are to me the loveliest woman in the world. Well, for five weeks I have walked and tallied and dallied with the ... ...eeks I have walked and tallied and dallied with the loveliest woman in the world, and the upshot is that I am flying from her, and am for a hermit’s c... ...r when he could not get enough of raw cotton, as happened during the Civil War in America. Then he adapted himself to cir- cumstances by turning away ... ...tton for; and they, of course, starved or subsisted on charity. During the war-time a big subscrip- tion was got up for these poor wretches, and my fa... ...ense and all-embracing con- ception of nature, shared only by her favorite poets and he- roes of romance and history. Hence she was in the common yout... ...nce was welcome, and Miss Ward allowed him to put on her skates. She was a Canadian, and could skate well. Jane, the first to follow her, was anxious ... ...nscanadian Railway Company, having got a great deal of spare land from the Canadian government for nothing, thought it would be a good idea to settle ...