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...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli 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... ...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... ... great analogue, that a certain Niccolo Machiavelli chanced to fall out of politics at very much the age I have reached, and wrote a book to en- gage ... ...ted to do. He wrote about the relation of the great constructive spirit in politics to individual character and weaknesses, and 4 The New Machiavelli... ...ympathy not only by reason of the dream he pursued and the humanity of his politics, but by the mixture of his nature. His vices come in, essential to... ...nce with Dionysius of Syracuse has perished; or to Confucius who travelled China in search of a Prince he might instruct, with lapses and indignities ... ...n near the impassable thickets of the ragged hearthrug where lived certain china Zulus brandishing spears, and a mountain coun- try of rudely piled br... ...and Roper, teaching Greek like passionate missionar- ies, as a progressive Chinaman might teach English to the boys of Pekin, clumsily, impatiently, w...

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...ris to his memory in Milan, you will not be surprised to find him testifying his gratitude for many pleasant evenings passed beside you by laying one of his works at your feet, and begging you to protect it with your name, as in former days that name protected the tales of an ancient writer dear to the Milanese....

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...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica... ...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ... de Granville, a wise and upright magistrate (though sometimes led away by politics), refrain from protecting the helpless little creatures from such ... ...e world of love as many disenchantments as he had met with in the world of politics. That ideal of womanhood and of passion, the type of which—perhaps... ... knew his own heart was withered by the world and by 22 A Daughter of Eve politics, and he felt that he was giving in exchange for a dawn- ing life t... ...’s personal convenience until evening,—her bed, a table, a few chairs, and china enough to give her guests their breakfast. Having gone to sleep benea... ...ed the com- forts of an old sofa-cushion, near which could be seen a white china cup and plate. But what no pen can describe was the state into which ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? ...

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...George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...rrogation over its own full stop. Great ladies must they be, at the web of politics, for us to hear them cited discoursing. Henry Wilmers is not conte... ...pponent of the eminent Peer who yields the second name to the scandal, and politics in his day flushed the concep- tions of men. His short references ... ...r which renders it 13 George Meredith untrustworthy,’ is light enough. On Politics she is rhetorical and swings: she wrote to spur a junior politicia... ...r rather too briskly, contrived the next minute to break a precious bit of China standing by his elbow; and Lady Pennon cried out, with sympathetic an... ...is head: ‘As long as it is we who are the cracked.’ ‘Did we not start from China?’ ‘We were consequently precipitated to Stamboul.’ ‘You try to elude ... ...ting the world. He was witness of Mr. Hepburn’s pre- sentation of a costly China vase, to repair the breach in her array of ornaments, and excuse a vi...

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...ormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley ... ...u by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ... You would not listen to me, and now the ruin has come. T o play a part in politics you must have money: have we any? What! would you burn your sign, ... ... to others. He who puts his hand in the fire gets burned,—isn’t that true? Politics burn in these days. We have one hundred good thousand francs inves... ...ss the winters in Paris with our son-in-law; we shall be happy; nothing in politics or commerce can then change our way of life. Why do you want to cr... ... I have spent in finding it. We had to ransack all Ger- many to find it on China paper before lettering. I knew that you wished for it and that your o... ...te: where should she find the plate, the glass-ware, the refreshments, the china, the ser- vants? Who would superintend it all? She entreated Birottea... ...l-dress?” “Yes, papa, it will be all ready. Mamma thinks she will wear her china-crape like mine. The dressmaker is sure there is no need of trying it...

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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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...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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...Excerpt: He had been told the ladies were at church, but this was corrected by what he saw from the top of the steps--they descended from a great height in two arms, with a circular sweep of the most charming effect--at the threshold of the door which, from the long bright gallery, overlooked the immense lawn. Three gentlemen, ...

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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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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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