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

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Excerpt: The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad.

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...Joseph Conrad A P ENN S TAT E E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICA TION The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ... S ERIES P UBLICA TION The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...e and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the... ...iness of a seller of shady wares, exercised his vocation of a protector of society, and cultivated his domestic virtues. These last were pronounced. H... ...ccupied by drawing circles with compass and pencil on a piece of paper. He applied himself to that pastime with great industry, with his elbows spread... ...lutionary opinion.” 20 The Secret Agent “Are you in it?” “One of the Vice-Presidents,” Mr Verloc breathed out heavily; and the First Secretary of the... ...expression, it would be really telling if one could throw a bomb into pure mathematics. But that is impossible. I have been trying to educate you; I h... ...ntrating the power and the tools of production in great masses, perfecting industrial processes, and in the madness of self-aggrandisement only prepar...

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...Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...rtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...e and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the... ...r, some citizen soul suspicious of infidelity. For in fact, in really high society, no one courts such humiliating proofs. Several masks had laughed a... ...ench cardinal. Richelieu met with opposition from the great nobles, and he applied the axe; he died in the flower of his success, worn out by this due... ...eased, and are not retained in the midst of the commercial, political, and industrial revolutions of the present day but at the cost of immense losses... ...n the west. Formerly the Prefecture de Police, once the resi- dence of the Presidents of Parlement, was a dependency of the Palace. The Court of Exche... ...e there is in a man wound up to the highest pitch of passion. Dynamics and mathematics have no formulas or symbols to express that power. Why, only ye...

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Excerpt: Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens.

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Excerpt: Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad.

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

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Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History.

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...ORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the ... ...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...e and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the... ...that its heart is sound, it is not so with the man; how much less with the Society, with the Nation of men! Of such it may be affirmed even that the s... .... Men of the sword, men of the robe; Peers, dignified Clergy, Parlementary Presidents: di- vided into Seven Boards (Bureaux); under our Seven Princes ... ... repent it.” Like the Horse in the Fable, who, to be avenged of his enemy, applied to the Man. The Man mounted; did swift execution on the enemy; but,... ... (hadst thou known it), in the Military School hard by there sat, studying mathematics, a dusky-complexioned taciturn Boy, under the name of: Napo- le... ...ny householders or hearth-holders do severally fling down their crafts and industrial tools; gird them- selves with weapons of war, and set out on a j...