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...y T rollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...eries Publication The Prime Minister 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... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ... He was a man, however, naturally reticent, who never al- luded to his own affairs unless in pursuit of some object the way to which was clear before ... ...he old woman who looked after his linen,—ever really knew the state of his affairs. He was certainly a handsome man,—his beauty being of a sort which ... ... been induced to go up the Rhine; but had never repeated the experiment of foreign travel. Emily sometimes went abroad with her cousins dur- ing which... ...scan with the closest observation, was not what he called a gentleman. The foreign blood was proved, and that would suffice. As he looked at Lopez, he... ... forces of Germany and France, that India would be sold by those powers to Russia, that Canada would be annexed to the States, that a great independen...

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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...altimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported the evidence....

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...itings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...to 1900? A. LINCOLN. ORDER CONCERNING THE EXPORT OF TO- BACCO PURCHASED BY FOREIGN NATIONS. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, November 10, 1863. In cons... ...d. For these, and espe- cially for the improved condition cf our national affairs, our renewed and profoundest gratitude to God is due. We remain in ... ...rofoundest gratitude to God is due. We remain in peace and friendship with foreign powers. The efforts of disloyal citizens of the United States to in... ...a representative from the United States of Colombia, and have accredited a minister to that Republic. Incidents occurring in the progress of our civil... ...ties may be peacefully overcome. I ask your attention to the claim of the minister residing there for the damages he sustained in the de- struction b... ...n at Y edo. Satisfactory arrangements have been made with the Em- peror of Russia, which, it is believed, will result in effecting a continuous line o... ...or useful and varied infor- mation in relation to the public lands, Indian affairs, patents, pensions, and other matters of public concern pertaining ...

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...Excerpt: Sydney Spring. My dear sir, your letter introducing Mr. Faree was duly received. There was no opening to nominate him for Superintendent of Public Instruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legisl...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...ritings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...What does that mean? It means the sovereignty of the people over their own affairs—in other words, the right of the people to govern themselves. Did J... ...pon the rates of postage, or questions of ad valorem or specific duties on foreign goods, or live-oak timber contracts, they are not fit to decide the... ...e of ’87 to resist the spread of slavery than was ever done to abolish the foreign slave trade. Lest I be misunder- stood, I say again that at the tim... ...d old max- ims of the Bible axe applicable, and truly applicable, to human affairs, and in this, as in other things, we may say here that he who is no... ...ef that slavery is right. The property influences his mind. The dissenting minister who ar- gued some theological point with one of the established ch... ... see it so.” He opened a Bible and pointed him a passage, but the orthodox minister replied, “I can’t see it so.” Then he showed him a single word —”C... ...cat- egorically, at once. I would seek explanations from Great Britain and Russia, and send agents into Canada, Mexico, and Central America to rouse a...

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...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gentil, the man-se...

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...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...nourable gathering of leading men, Englishman meeting German and Frenchman Russian, brothers in their offences and in their disaster, upon the hills o... ...ttle League of (Allied) Nations (excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), meeting obscurely ... ...stead- fastness of will as an effectual effort to turn the rush of hu- man affairs demands. The inertia of dead ideas and old insti- tutions carries u... ...ble dis- locations this flood of inexpensive energy would produce in human affairs. The world in these days was not really gov- erned at all, in the s... ...rchs, the presidents of four republics, a 88 The World Set Free number of ministers and ambassadors, powerful journalists, and such-like prominent an... ...tic models. His tactics were ably seconded by Doctor Pestovitch, his chief minister. Failing to establish his claims to complete independence, King Fe... ...sounds in use upon the continent of Europe, and a process of incorporating foreign nouns and verbs com- menced that speedily reached enormous proporti...

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...Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...n Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, trans. R. S. Townsend is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. 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... ...n the V olkoff Cemetery, St. Petersburg. The grey crow he had once seen in foreign fields and addressed in a fit of homesickness “Crow, crow, You are ... ...o talk over with him,” he said aloud. “What about?” Ostrodumov asked. “Our affairs?” “Perhaps yours; that is, our common affairs.” Ostrodumov hummed. ... ...uite a celeb- rity, a chamberlain, one of our pillars of society, a future minister!” “I have never heard of him,” Nejdanov remarked deject- edly. Pak... ...Thirty Years’ W ar. Simion Petrovitch was a chamberlain, and served in the ministerial court. His patriotism had prevented him from entering the diplo... ...e remarked, her face darkening. “He is over-worked, and it seems to me his affairs are in a bad way,” Nejdanov said. “I was not thinking of that.” “Wh... ...ng spent himself somewhat and got rather irritable, he at last turned from foreign Jacobins to home- bred nihilists and socialists, and ended by flyin...

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...ublication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ...ith thoughts of their own. Our gallant fellows forgot the intrusion of the foreign as soon as it had passed. A sarcastic discharge was jerked by chanc... ...Farrell might pass; Aminta was debated. This female Chris- tian name had a foreign twang; it gave dissatisfaction. Boy after boy had a try at it, with... ...e, for climbing the peaks! Shalders, too, might interest him in mili- tary affairs and Murat; he did no harm, and could be amus- ing. It rather added ... ...and flame of a bonfire. That was fun to set boys jigging. No wonder how in Russia the Cossacks feared him, and scampered from the shadow of his plumes... ...rcussy style. Shalders went so far as to defend Murat for attending to the affairs of his kingdom, instead of galloping over hedges and ditches to swe... ...alked. She was excited, and ran her sentences to blanks, a cunning way for ministering consolation to her hearing, where the sen- 29 George Meredith ... ...eard to state it more or less publicly and repeatedly—suitable to ab- ject ministers and throngs at the court of an Indian rajah, that he did not hesi...

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...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...l by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...arry jas- mine that climbed the balustrade,—a woman, a Frenchwoman born in Russia, who said as I approached her, “I had almost given you up.” She had ... ...he old moons. In 1790 Mademoiselle Laguerre, alarmed at the turn of public affairs, came to settle at Les Aigues, bought and given to her by Bouret, w... ...refore unapproachable; the master of the house is out and about on his own affairs; a Parisian is there- fore compelled to be alone from eight to elev... ...ght to begin by giving him trousers, my dear abbe,” said Blondet. “In your foreign missions don’t you be- 64 Sons of the Soil gin by coaxing the sava... ...tical questions.” Just then Francois announced Monsieur Sibilet. “He is my minister of finance,” said the general, smiling; “ask him in. He will expla... ...these things merely to terrify the inhabitants of Les Aigues. “This is the minister of war,” said the general to Blondet, nodding at Michaud. “Pardon ... ...lae Socquard boldly served three bits of it of the size of hazel-nuts to a foreign merchant who had rashly asked for the literary beverage. The wall d...

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...Excerpt: After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal....

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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