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Le Morte Darthur

By: Thomas Malory

...Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory»s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table Book Seventeen A... ...n Le Morte D’Arthur: Book Seventeen by Sir Thomas Malory is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...save only one: and there he and his knight went till that they came toward Ireland, and there he found the ship. And when he saw the letters and under... ...awaked his wife, and told her of the adventures of the ship. Now saith the history that a great while the three fellows beheld the bed and the three s... ... sister lay dead, and how he met with Sir Galahad, his son. N ow saith the history, that when Launcelot was come to the water of Mortoise, as it is re... ...So three of them said they were of Gaul, and other three said they were of Ireland, and the other three said they were of Denmark. So as they sat thus... ...hilst our lives may last. Sir, said he, I will as ye will. Thus endeth the history of the Sangreal, that was briefly drawn out of French into English,...

...Excerpt: How Sir Galahad fought at a tournament, and how he was known of Sir Gawaine and Sir Ector de Maris. Now saith this story, when Galahad had rescued Percivale from the twenty knights, he yede tho into a waste forest wherein he rode many journeys; and he found many adventures the which he...

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Merry Men

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ronic Classics Series Publication Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purp... ...s, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical w... ...ing great disasters. It was here that a certain saint first landed on his voyage out of Ireland to convert the Hebrideans. And, indeed, I think he had... ... shoe-buckle bought but the other day and worn by a man of my own period in the world’s history, hearing the same news from day to day, thinking the s... ...f mariners on the sea, all that counter-marching of tribes and races that confounds old history with its dust and rumour, sprang from nothing more abs... ... who sometimes blundered into good – and Gretz was taken, sacked, and burned. It is the history of many towns; but Gretz never rose again; it was neve...

.........................90 OLALLA .....................................................................................................100 THE TREASURE OF FRANCHARD......................................................140...

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War and the Future; Italy, France and Britain at War

By: H. G. Wells

...e Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... Russians; nonsense about “the freedom of the seas”—the emptiest phrase in history—childish at- tempts to sow suspicion between the Allies, and still ... ...should I think choose the figure of General Joffre. He is something new in history. He is leadership without vulgar ambition. He is the extreme an- ti... ...he thing I have called the Effigy, is not new but old, the oldest thing in history, the departing thing. It depends not upon the advance of the specie... ...ctively; it will wreck the empire rather than relinquish its ascendancy in Ireland. It is densely self-satisfied and in- stinctively monopolistic. It ... ...ame desolatingly inadaptable class. The British are still wearing spurs in Ireland; they are wear- ing them in India; and the age of the spur has pass... ...ritation and the accumulation of future dangers in 122 War and the Future Ireland, Egypt, India, and elsewhere, for an apparent absence of internal f...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...n hundred and four, or five, they vanished! Then there was those people in Ireland—no, I forget their names. Everybody said they could fly. They went.... ...he most astounding incident in the whole of that dramatic chapter of human history, the coming of flying, occurred. People talk glibly enough of epoch... ...ying power of from seventy to two hundred tons. How many Germany possessed history does not record, but Bert counted nearly eighty great bulks recedin... ...tered over the globe, and dis- tracted now by insurrectionary movements in Ireland and among all its Subject Races. It had given these subject races c... ... the paradox of the time. It was a period altogether unique in the world’s history. The apparatus of warfare, the, art and method of fighting, changed... ...that in the interval he had been across France, Belgium, Germany, England, Ireland, and a number of other countries. It was an interesting thought and...

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The Life of Henry the Fifth

By: William Shakespeare

...e Life of Henry the Fift by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc.... ...s ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Life of Henry the Fif... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Actus Quintus. - i - The Life of Henry the Fift h1 1 Enter Prologue. 2 O For a Muse of Fir... ...ne, 376 Tomblesse, with no remembrance ouer them: 377 Either our History shall with full mouth 378 Speake freely of our Acts, or else o... ... then belike she was old and gentle, and you 1679 rode like a Kerne of Ireland, your French Hose off, and in 1680 your strait Strossers. 1681... ...e Generall of our gracious Empresse, 2881 As in good time he may, from Ireland comming, 2882 Bringing Rebellion broached on his Sword; 2883 ... ... (English) euery one. [ 2999 Quee. So happy be the Issue brother Ireland 3000 Of this good day, and of this gracious meeting, 3001 A...

...Excerpt: The Life of Henry the Fifth; Enter Prologue. O For a Muse of Fire, that would ascend The brightest Heaven of Inuention: A Kingdome for a Stage, Princes to Act, And Monarchs to behold the swelling Scene. Then should the Warlike Harry, ...

...Table of Contents: The Life of Henry the Fift, 1 -- Actus Primus. Scoena Prima., 1 -- Actus Secundus., 23 -- Actus Tertius., 39 -- Actus Quartus., 55 -- Actus Quintus., 63...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

... Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...es. In virtue of my office as Assistant Professor in the Museum of Natural History in Paris, the French Government had attached me to that expedition.... ...ained for me a special reputation in this rather obscure branch of Natural History. My advice was asked. As long as I could deny the reality of the fa... ... that chance has brought before me M. Pierre Aronnax, Professor of Natural History at the Museum of Paris, entrusted with a scientific mission abroad,... ...urred which ruined the enterprise. It was within 638 miles of the coast of Ireland; and at half-past two in the afternoon they discovered that communi... ... was not more than 500 miles from Newfoundland, when they telegraphed from Ireland the news of the armistice concluded between Prussia and Austria aft... ...y, and the Nautilus was then not more 263 Jules Verne than 120 miles from Ireland. Was Captain Nemo going to land on the British Isles? No. To my gre...

...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

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Essays of Travel

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of th... ...ania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any ... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...nd early on the Friday forenoon we took in our last batch of emi- grants at Lough Foyle, in Ireland, and said farewell to Eu- rope. The company was no... ...talk. His accent and language had been formed in the most natural way, since he was born in Ireland, had lived a quarter of a century on the banks of ... ...fternoon, Lough Foyle being already far be- hind, and only the rough north-western hills of Ireland within view, Alick appeared on deck to court inqui... ... far as Paris to sow his wild oats; and so the cases of father and son mark an epoch in the history of centralisation in France. Not until the latter ... ...y, it will become the ground of science to-morrow. From the mind of childhood there is more history and more philosophy to be fished up than from all ...

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The Third Part of Henry the Sixth

By: William Shakespeare

...The third Part of Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Duke of Y O R K E. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Te... ...the Duke of Y O R K E. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc.... ...s ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The third Part of Henry the ... ...rth, by the Grace of God, King of 2582 England and France, and Lord of Ireland, &c. 2583 Mount. And whosoe’re gainsayes King Edwards righ... ... better brooke thy Daggers point, 3102 Then can my eares that Tragicke History. 3103 But wherefore dost thou come? Is’t for my Life? 3104 ...

...Excerpt: The Third Part of Henry the Sixth with the Death of the Duke of Yorke; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- Alarum. Enter Plantagenet, Edward, Richard, Norfolke, Mount-ague, Warwicke, and Souldiers. Warwicke. I Wonder how the King escap?d our ha...

Table of Contents: The third Part of Henry the Sixt, 2 -- Actus Primus. Scoena Prima., 2

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Aaron's Rod

By: D. H. Lawrence

...lassics Series Publication Aaron’s Rod by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... corner to them- selves, and with a bottle of Burgundy she was getting his history from him. His father had been a shaft-sinker, earning good money, b... ...talk. “What? There’s something big coming,” said Jim. “Where from?” “Watch Ireland, and watch Japan—they’re the two poles of the world,” said Jim. “I ... ...They’ll depend on Ire- land and Japan. I know it. I’ve had a vision of it. Ireland on this side and Japan on the other—they’ll settle it.” “I don’t se... ...- patrick.” “Anyhow you live in England.” “Because they won’t let me go to Ireland.” The talk drifted. Jim finished up all the beer, and they prepared... ...treet.” “Oh, I meant to tell you,” said Lilly. “I was reading an old Baden history. They made a law in 1528—not a law, but a regulation—that: if a man... ...ng. So there sat our friend Aaron, amusingly unbosoming himself of all his history and experiences, drawn out by the arch, subtle attentiveness of the...

...liant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that evening....

........... 16 CHAPTER III: ?THE LIGHTED TREE? .............................................................................. 25 CHAPTER IV: ?THE PILLAR OF SALT? ............................................................................. 38 CHAPTER V: AT THE OPERA ............................................................................................ 45 CHAPTER VI: TAL...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...NDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM T... ...H STRANGE BELIEFS OPPOSED TO EXTENDED VOYAGES. COMPRISING ALSO AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its ... ...E HEROIC CHARACTERS, BOLD EXPLORERS AND DAUNTLESS SPIRITS WHO HAVE MADE OCEAN HISTORY AND ESTABLISHED CHRISTIAN SUPREMACY OVER THE MOST SAVAGE LANDS... ...PA. ST. LOUIS, MO. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no mo... ...rved his captors -- The Aztecs of Mexico -- Final rescue -- Attacked by savage Irelanders -- Zichmni makes a settlement in the New World -- Speculatio... ....................................................... 63 First meeting with the Irelanders........................................ 64 Zichmni landing o... ...ore the time of Columbus. Brazil was formerly placed a hundred leagues west of Ireland, and was called Vanishing Island, because while people implicit...

...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

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A Child's History of England

By: Charles Dickens

...les Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University,... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...NGLAND UNDER HENRY THE SECOND PART THE FIRST .............. 92 A Child’s History of England iii PART THE SECOND....................................... ... sphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Is lands. Ire... ...of the Is lands. It is probable that other people came over from Spain to Ireland, and settled there. Thus, by little and little, strangers became mi... ...A few years more, and the Scots (which was then the name for the people of Ireland), and the Picts, a northern people, began to make frequent plun de...

...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Irela...

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Prolonged Wars : A Post-Nuclear Challenge

By: Dr. Karl P. Magyar

...Essays Introduction: The Protraction and Prolongation of Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Karl P. Magyar Iran-Iraq: Protracted Conflict, Prolonged War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 M. A. Shahriar Shirkhani and Con...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...e Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam... ...t party's mouthpiece People's Daily. Expansionism is an "eternal theme" in American history and a "main line" running through its foreign policy. ... ...agnet, as exclaiming, during the US-Spanish War, that "If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade wi... ...hod of Crusades." This is a patently non-Orthodox, non-Marxist interpretation of history and of the role of the United States - the prime specime... ...terrorist groupings ultimately join the mainstream. Many countries - from Israel to Ireland and from East Timor to Nicaragua - are governed by form... ...ented various models. In the United Kingdom, regions, such as Scotland and Northern Ireland were granted greater autonomy. The EU's "ever closer un... .... Sam Vaknin Also published by United Press International (UPI) Saturday's vote in Ireland was the second time in 18 months that its increasingly d...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...40-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 ... ...8 Hungary 110 iv Page Iceland 111 India 112 Indonesia 114 Iran 116 Iraq 117 Ireland 119 Israel (West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) 120 Italy... ..., 1 seat Communists: no known Communist orga- nization; Koma of BNF has long history of Communist contacts Member of: AfDB, Commonwealth, FAO, G-77, G... ...ndary disputes: none; Rockall conti- nental shelf dispute involving Iceland, Ireland, and UK Climate: temperate; humid and overcast; mild winters and ... ...ndary disputes: none; Rockall conti- nental shelf dispute involving Denmark, Ireland, and UK Climate: temperate; Gulf Stream influ- ence; mild, windy ...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... Bruno or Shelley have walked there in the past. To the prophetic mind all history is and will con- tinue to be a prelude. The prophetic type will ste... .... Mechanical novelties will probably play a very small part in that coming history. This world- wide war means a general arrest of invention and enter... ...s opposed to the claims of State and commonweal, unequalled in the world’s history. The next course of a nation in need is to tax and pay for what it ... ...h rents are to be sent up and wages down, while the old feuds of Wales and Ireland, ancient theological and sec- tarian jealousies and babyish loyalti... ... middle of the road is to be found all over the world. You will find it in Ireland and the gentlemen who trade on the jeal- ousies of the north side a... ...olution of the Irish difficulty along the belt between Ulster and Catholic Ireland lies in the same arrangement. Then; thirdly, there are the regions ...

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

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Why We Are at War

By: Woodrow Wilson

...s Series Publication Why We Are at War by Woodrow Wilson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...r- ance and the logic of events reflected in these consecutive chapters of history. While the great war message of April 2d is obviously the most mome... ...lligerents or of. neutrals, that should seek to approach Great Britain and Ireland, the Atlantic coasts of Europe, or the harbors of the eastern Medit... ...every vessel that sought to approach either the ports of Great Britain and Ireland or the western coasts of Europe or any of the ports controlled by t... ...ngaged in pursuits which have always, even in the darkest periods of modem history, been deemed innocent and legitimate. Property can be paid for; the...

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King Henry Vi, Part Iii

By: William Shakespeare

... King Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is f... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...rd the Fourth, by the grace of God, king of England and France, and lord of Ireland, &c. MONTAGUE: And whosoe’er gainsays King Edward’s right, By th... ...! My breast can better brook thy dagger’s point Than can my ears that tragic history. But wherefore dost thou come? is’t for my life? GLOUCESTER: Thi...

...Excerpt: While we pursued the horsemen of the north, He stole away and left his men: Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland, Whose warlike ears could never brook retreat, Cheer?d up the drooping army; and himself, Lord Clifford and Lord Stafford, all abreast, Ch...

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Henry Iv, Part 2 Shakespeare’S

By: William Shakespeare

...This electronic book is a publication of The Pennsylvania State University’s Electronic Classics Series, Jim Mani... ... Faculty Editor. William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...,” 1760s. Oil on canvas, approximately 40 x 49 inches. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. Copyright © 1998 The Pennsylvania State University The Pen... ... same time’s condition And the division of our amity. WARWICK: There is a history in all men’s lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased; The ... ...e his tables clean And keep no tell tale to his memory That may repeat and history his loss To new remembrance; for full well he knows He cannot so pr...

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

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Beauchamp's Career

By: George Meredith

...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...d ride and fish and shoot, and breed largely: we were athletes with a fine history and a full purse: we had first-rate sporting guns, unrivalled park-... ...en, whose high, stout, Western castle had weathered our cyclone periods of history without changeing hands more than once, and then but for a short ye... ... Rosamund Culling that he thought the parsons happy in having time to read history. And oh, to feel for certain which side was the wrong side in our C... ...fit to drain relishingly every private bogside or mountain-side tap in old Ireland in its best days—the illicit, you understand. Further, to quote Mr.... ...b-nail boots to dance on our heads. Stukely says you should be off over to Ireland. There you’d swim in your element, and have speechifying from insti...

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

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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

... G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Penns... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ccess of Pawkins, and now Pawkins outshone by Hapley, belong rather to the history of entomology than to this story. * “Remarks on a Recent Revision o... ...he memories that had slipped out. I stopped opposite Stevens’, the natural history dealer’s, and cudgelled my brains to think what he had to do with m... ...illiant white of the clouds that lay scat- tered in flocculent masses over Ireland and the west of En- gland. For now I could see the outlines of the ... ... of En- gland. For now I could see the outlines of the north of France and Ireland, and all this Island of Britain, save where Scot- land passed over ... ...eedles were gorgeous with clumps of fungi,—he recapitulated the melancholy history of his marriage. It was brief and com- monplace enough. He now perc...

...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of l...

...RODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5 THE JILTING OF JANE ................................................................................10 THE CONE.....................................................................................................16 THE STOLEN BACILLUS......

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The Saga of Grettir the Strong Author Unknown

By: Anonymous

... The Saga of Grettir the Strong is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu ment file is fu... ...sity. This Portable Docu ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmis sion, in any way. The Saga of Grettir the Strong , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Fac... ...or the winter, and spent the succeeding three summers harrying the coasts of Ireland and Scotland, after which they returned to Norway. CHAPTER II THE... ...r and wide in the western seas. Thrand and Onund Treefoot were going West to Ireland to join Thrand’s brother, Eyvind the Easterner, who had command o... ...mmer and winter. They had eight ships, and harried mostly round the coast of Ireland, where they did many an evil deed until Eyvind undertook the defe...

...Excerpt: There was a man named Onund, the son of Ofeig Clumsyfoot, who was the son of Ivar Horsetail. Onund was the brother of Gudbjorg, the mother of Gudbrand Knob, the father of Asta, the mother of King Olaf the Saint. His mother came from the Upplands, while his fathe...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...felt herself called upon to resent it. But the fairer analogy lies between Ireland and the South- ern States. The monster meetings and O’Connell’s tri... ... but that many of us can remem- ber the first demand for secession made by Ireland, and the line which was then taken by American sympathies. It is no... ...ican sympathies. It is not too much to say that America then believed that Ireland would secure secession, and that the great trust of the Irish repea... ... city popu- lation is ever the one that is going most ahead in the world’s history. If this be so, I say that the argument of my Canadian friend was n... ...e politicians heard so much in England. I am not going back to recount the history of the period, otherwise than to say that the En- glish Canadians a... ...t weakness on one side and pride on the other, is a problem in the world’s history yet to be solved. The most successful child that ever yet has gone ...

....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...her must have been painted to meet the intense interest which arose in her history subsequently amongst all the men of rank, military or ecclesiastica... ...a. Her first adventure was a bagatelle, and fitter for a jest- book than a history; yet it proved no jest either, since it led to the tragedy that fol... ...R AR AR AR TRIBE TRIBE TRIBE TRIBE TRIBE THERE IS NO GREAT EVENT in modern history, or perhaps it may be said more broadly, none in all history, from ... ...he answer of the ladies makes us aware that they are fresh from larking in Ireland, and in France. A glo- rious spree they had; lots of fun; and laugh... ...rtainly report. Not but we have seen better in the Nenagh paper, so far as Ireland is concerned. But the pet little joke was in La V endee. Miss Famin...

........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...

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The Amazing Marriage

By: George Meredith

...ries Publication The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...and they season their dish, the coxcombs do, by hinting a knowledge of her history. ‘Here we come to another portrait of the beautiful but, we fear, n... ... myself, and I own it to my shame; and if I happened to be ignorant of the history of Countess Fanny, I could not refute his wantonness. He has just t... ...he Shannon river and back drove the young Earl of Cresset straight over to Ireland to propose for her, he saying; that she was the girl to suit his bo... ...make them credible. Charles Dump, I say, is like a front-page picture to a history of those old quiet yet exciting days in England, and when once you ...

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

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...e document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...e Heroes...................371 There Was a Child Went Forth..........378 Old Ireland........................................380 The City Dead House...... ...himself,) Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be, I project the history of the future. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 12 TO T HEE O LD C AUSE... ...y up there—yet here or next door, or across the way? The saints and sages in history—but you yourself? Sermons, creeds, theology—but the fathomless hu... ...round a palace, loftier, fairer, ampler than any yet, Earth’s modern wonder, history’s seven outstripping, High rising tier on tier with glass and iro...

...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... “Help! Oiler! Fitter! Stoker! Help I’m choking,” it gasped. “Never in the history of maritime invention has such a calamity over-taken one so young a... ...entirely changes the situa- tion. We have found, for the first time in the history of ship- building, that the inward pull of the deck-beams and the o... ...ils. 81 The Day’s Work His quarters began to look like an amateur natural-history museum, in spite of duplicate heads and horns and skulls that he se... ...before the middle watch it was a sou’wester in airnest. “‘She’ll edge into Ireland, this gait,’ says Bell. I was with him on the bridge, watchin’ the ...

...Excerpt: The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I.: indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease,...

.................... 34 THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF......................................................................................... 53 THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS ............................................................................................ 68 THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA ........................................................................................

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...l chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows acr... ...fix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and conne... ...verie, before bed, calmed him and connected his soul to the sublime obedience of God. During these moments of prayer, he put the chaos of his Office ... ...but then he quickly reminded himself that this was the first American Pope in history, and more importantly the first one of Jewish decent, except f... ...lfredo said, sounding like a professor, “Politics has always been part of the history and doctrine of the Church.” 6 J.Cross/Artemis “You’re r... ...ce, hung around the room. Artifacts of capes, picas, and swords detailing the history of Bull Fighting from Spain to Mexico were displayed in glass ... ...father would hold him on his lap and regale him with stories about his native Ireland: leprechauns and all. But, the stories that Joey loved hearing...

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

...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the eb...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ...take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct h... ...lly until Mergenthaler built his Linotype. But Ottmar’s name fell through history’s cracks. 18. ―The Eighth Wonder of the World‖ Although as lat... ...to the start of the Epilogue. This is because my own perspective on the history of the written word is tied so powerfully to the history of eBooks... ...spoke the Celtic tongue. Crossing over from central Europe to Britain and Ireland, their Celts ancestors had laid the Indo-European seedbed for the ...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...URE UNIQUE CROPS WIND POWER WELCOME APEC DELEGATES DISCOVER ANOTHER SIDE OF HAWAI‘I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 3 ... ...itton Prada Salvatore Ferragamo Tiffany & Co. Hawaii’s largest collection of luxury retailers amidst 290 STORES AND RESTAURANTS. Walking distance fr... ...mber Production Manufacturing Jobs Electronic Tree Tracking/ Secured Chain of Custody Research & Development Eco-Tourism Funding Sources for Non-Pro... ...se State 38 Local Economy 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies 42 A History of Innovation NATURAL SCIENCE 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sc... ...any • Greece • Guatemala Hong Kong • Hungary • India • Indonesia • Iraq • Ireland • Israel • Italy • Jamaica • Japan Jordan • Kazakhstan • Kenya • ... ... HAWAII BUSINESS We’re proud to be “America’s Best Bank” , with a year history of helping businesses throughout the Pacific navigate their way to ... ...at unifes Hawaiians, one begins to understand the cultural importance of history, inclusiveness and sharing, education and organization, a traditi...

Hawaii Business Magazine in tribute to the APEC meeting of 2011.

...t Grid -- 32 Air Conditioning from Seawater -- 36 America’s Most Diverse State -- 38 Local Economy -- 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies -- 42 A History of Innovation -- 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences -- 48 Turning Science Into Practical Inventions -- 56 Winners of the Hawai‘i Business Innovation Showcase -- 60 Breakthroughs in Health and Medicine -- 68 Ha...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ................................................................................................................................. 17 Combinations of Nee... ... learn and how we perceive things that I don‘t want to confuse you. I could probably start at a hundred different points, but let‘s go back in histor... ...ed on modern neuroscience. But there is no question that his insights were critical to Western thinking. He was one of the great minds of our histor... ...rtainly there are things that need to be learned by rote—spelling, writing, the multiplication tables, and so forth. But video games can teach histor... ... countries. I found evidence of sexual harassment and abuse in every country. Young girls have been raped by their coaches. Olympic coaches in Irelan... ...nd and Sweden generally in the top ten. Norway ranges from 10 to 19. Switzerland, Austria, Malta and Luxemburg are often in the top ten, with Irelan...

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

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The Chaplet of Pearls

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...E M.YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...at the imagination must necessarily form when dwelling upon the records of history. That faculty which might be called the passive fancy, and might al... ...at presumptuously deal with days gone by, as enabling the young to realize history vividly—and, what is still more de- sirable, requiring an effort of... ...uentin Durward’ and ‘Anne of Geierstein.’ Scott, however, willfully carved history to suit the purposes of his story; and in these days we have come t... ...e, who was named as Mr. Sidney, the son of the Lord 36 Yo n g e Deputy of Ireland. A couple of gentlemen who would in these times have been termed at...

...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controversia...

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... system is dead to-day, how much has to be remade. Since the beginnings of history there has been a credible promise of gold payments underneath our f... ...n of authority. Every one should know, though unhappily the badness of our history teaching makes it doubtful if every one does know, that the Federal... ...ok much more clearly than has ever hitherto been done. Never before in the history of man- kind has opinion counted for so much and persons and or- ga... ...s with the fullest powers of deciding upon the future of their country. If Ireland were not divided against herself she could be free and equal with E...

...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...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e calm individual excellence of the man. Considering the circumstances and history of the place, the position of Mount Vernon, as I saw it, was very r... ...table. It is written on the whole record of our race, British and American history is made up of re- bellion and revolution. Hampden, Pym, and Oliver ... ...y by any one who is afraid to go back upon the subject, and take its whole history since one man first claimed and exercised the right of forcing labo... ...ow Germany was made desolate, in order that Prussia might become a nation. Ireland was poor and wretched till her famine came. Men said it was a curse... ...tlemen in the man- agement of their private affairs. It has been common in Ireland, and in London has created the wealth of the pawn- brokers. In the ... ...une 30th, 1861, was 28,586. With us the number in England, Scot- land, and Ireland, at the same period, was about 11,400. The population served may be...

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

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ies Publication Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ou, I’m sure,” said Sophie, and curt- sied to the ground. “George, this is history I can under- stand. We began here.” She curtsied again. The June su... ...ween his horse’s ears, on the nearest water-channel. “Very like a ditch in Ireland,” he murmured, and smiled, dreaming of a razor-topped bank in dista... ...t somehow forgot about it. The new draft marks a new chapter in the Hunt’s history. From an isolated phenomenon in a barge it became a per- manent ins... ... could recall that in any way bore on the house, and what they knew of its history. We went to bed in a fortifying blaze of electric light. My one fea...

...led it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted ...

........................................................................................................................................... 36 THE POWER OF THE DOG ............................................................................................................................................51 THE MOTHER HIVE ..........................................................

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History of England from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 14)

By: Thomas Babington Macaulay

...This is volume 3 chapter 14 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1959 in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the history of England up until the Stuart kings and then starts to delve into a little more detail. Macaulay...

History

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History of England from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 15)

By: Thomas Babington Macaulay

...This is volume 3 chapter 15 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1959 in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the history of England up until the Stuart kings and then starts to delve into a little more detail. Macaulay...

History

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY... ...KEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Quee... ...THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, ... ...n Anne, Written by Himself by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Quee... ....................... 337 CHAPTER V MOHUN APPEARS FOR THE LAST TIME IN THIS HISTORY . ....................................................... 347 CHAPT... ...Sir Francis Esmond to the dignity of Vis- count Castlewood, of Shandon, in Ireland: and the Viscount’s estate being much impoverished by loans to the ... ...r clear- ness’ sake, be explained here. The Prince of Orange being gone to Ireland, where the King was ready to meet him with a great army, it was det... ...inckel; and, these overthrown, and their indomitable little master away in Ireland, ’twas thought that our side might move on London itself, and a con...

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

............................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HA...

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Miscellaneous Prose

By: George Meredith

...eries Publication Miscellaneous Prose by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ingly in love with their creations. The con- sequence is likely to be that Ireland will get her full measure of justice to appease her cravings earlie... ...hrust into it. Mr. Gladstone’s Bill for helping to the wiser government of Ireland has brought forth our busy citizens on the top-rubble in traversing... ...e sub- scribed. The one point for him is the statutory Parliament, so that Ireland may civilly govern herself; and standing be- fore the world as repr... ... the oc- casional despatch of commissions; and, in fine, we behold through History the Irish malady treated as a form of British constitutional gout. ... ...of illustrious personages, there are not a few humbler individu- als whose history is faithfully told (if you choose to credit it) by the painted insc... ...he satisfaction of having done my duty. I wait tranquilly the judgement of history.’ Assuming, for argument’s sake, that General Cerale mis- understoo...

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

...EN?1904 ............................................................................................................. 13 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14...

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The Collected Poems

By: William Butler Yeats

... William Butler Yeats 1889 1939 Contents LYRICAL 3 CROSSWAYS 5 THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 THE SAD SHEPHERD . . ... ...IAN TO HIS LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 THE FALLING OF THE LEA VES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 EPHEMERA . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE STOLEN CHILD . ... .... . . 43 TO SOME I HA VE TALKED WITH BY THE FIRE . . . . . . . . . . 44 TO IRELAND IN THE COMING TIMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 THE WIND AMO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 RED HANRAHAN’S SONG ABOUT IRELAND . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 THE OLD MEN ADMIRING THEMSELVES IN THE W... ...IX THOSE DANCING DAYS ARE GONE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 XX ‘I AM OF IRELAND’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 XXI THE DANCER... ...Nor be I any less of them, Because the red rose bordered hem Of her, whose history began Before God made the angelic clan, Trails all about the writte... ...he hands that play. The notes they waken shall live on When all this heavy history’s done; Our hands, our hands must ebb away. Three Voices [together]... ...thought to have fled, Being certain it was no right rock Because an ancient history said Hell Mouth lay open near that place, And yet stood still, beca...

...Excerpt: THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD; THE woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Grey Truth is now her painted toy; Yet still she turns her restless head: But O, sick children of the world...

...Table of Contents: LYRICAL 3 -- CROSSWAYS 5 -- THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, 5 -- THE SAD SHEPHERD, 6 -- THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, 7 -- ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, 8 -- THE INDIAN UPON GOD, 11 -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- ...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...the duality of man’s nature and the com- petition of individuals, the life-history of the earth must in the last instance be a history of a really ver... ...m cannot be contested, and that the posi- tion is unassailable. Fiction is history, human his- tory, or it is nothing. But it is also more than that; ... ...d on the reality of forms and the observation of social phenomena, whereas history is based on documents, and the read- ing of print and handwriting—o... ... Joseph Conrad PROTECTION OF OCEAN LINERS*—1914 THE LOSS of the Empress of Ireland awakens feelings somewhat different from those the sinking of the T... ...nished seamen for the faults of shipowners—as, *The loss of the Empress of Ireland. 212 Notes on Life and Letters indeed, it could not do even if it ... ...Company did not sell “safety at sea” to the people on board the Empress of Ireland. They never in the slightest degree pretended to do so. What they d...

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

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The Contest in America

By: John Stuart Mill

... UBLICATION The Contest in America by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... these ardent revolutionary principles con sent to their being applied to Ireland, or India, or the Ionian Islands. How have they treated those who d...

...Excerpt: Reprinted from Fraser?s Magazine. The cloud which for the space of a month hung gloomily over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has passed from over our heads without bursting. The fear has not been realized, that the only two first-rate Powers who ...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish moun- tains still cling, in part, to their... ...n the experience of Scots. England and Scotland differ, indeed, in law, in history, in religion, in education, and in the very look of nature and men’... ...inds us more nearly together. No Englishman of Byron’s age, character, and history would have had patience for long theological discussions on the way... ...Nor must we omit the sense of the nature of his country and his country’ s history gradually growing in the child’s mind from story and from observati... ...veterans leaped out and kissed the earth at Port Patrick. They had been in Ireland, stationed among men of their own race and language, where they wer... ...Austrian Empire would seem to answer, no; the far more galling business of Ireland clenches the nega- tive from nearer home. Is it common education, c...

...books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its exten...

...ER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TA...

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