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...Preface: An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considere...

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...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...

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

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...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... ...ademician plus bete que nature, his hate for an architect plus mauvais que la gale; he is in the thick of it all. He feels with the Duc de Mora and wi... ...Colettes, and his Saphos. He vibrates together with his universe, and with la- mentable simplicity follows M. de Montpavon on that last walk along the... ...on on that last walk along the Boulevards. “Monsieur de Montpavon marche e la mort,” and the creator of that unlucky gentilhomme follows with stealthy... ...mon weak- ness of affection. He feels that men born in ignorance as in the house of an enemy, and condemned to struggle with error and passions throug... ...r-distant places; pursued by gendarmes, whose brigadier assures the uneasy householders that he “knows that scamp very well, and won’t be long in layi... ...re landladies devoured with jealousy, astute 58 Notes on Life and Letters housekeepers, delightful boys, wise peasants, touchy shopkeepers, all the c...

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...ublication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell 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... ... by few, develop, on an ever extending scale, the co-operative form of the la- bor-process, the conscious technical application of science, the method... ... The attitude of Syndicalists to Marx may be seen in Sorel’s little book, “La Decomposition du Marxisme,” and in his larger work, “Reflections on Viol... ...n first got the vote in England and universal suffrage was granted by Bis- marck in Northern Germany. It was natural that great hopes 28 Proposed Roa... ...the conquest of these employ- ments, and they are analogous to the State.”[La Decomposi- tion du Marxisme,’’ p. 53.] Syndicalists aim at organizing me... ...lying everybody with the comfort of a mod- erately well-to-do middle-class house, if we all gave ourselves to productive work, and if we did not waste... ... at most times, be agreement between the dominant personalities in the two Houses. And such harmony would filch away from the indi- vidual the liberty...