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...LI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...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... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells THE NEW MACHIAVELLI by H. G. Wells BOOK THE FIRST THE MAKING OF A MAN CHAPTER C... ...ed along on either side, crouching and gathering behind hedges, crest- ing ridges, occupying copses, rushing open spaces, fighting from house to house... ...the slightest modifications in the Pas de Calais or Rhenish Prussia or New Jersey or North Italy. No doubt you would find it in New Japan. These men h...

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...assics SeriesPublication Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton 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 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... ... 3 Edith Wharton Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton PART I I IN THE DAYS when New York’s traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse-car, when societ... ...tted herself the frivolity of wav- ing her pale hair, and its tight little ridges, stiff as the tresses of an Assyrian statue, were flattened under a ... ... “The baby-waists?” “Yes.” “There, I knew it! Y ou swore to me you’d buy a new pair of shoes with that money.” “Well, and s’posin’ I didn’t want ‘em—w... ...osin’ I didn’t want ‘em—what then? I’ve patched up the old ones as good as new—and I do declare, Evelina Bunner, if you ask me another question you’ll... ... cousin Emma McIntyre’s wed- ding, her that married the apothecary over in Jersey City, though her mother appeared to her in a dream and told her she’...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,00...

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Excerpt: The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.

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...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ... concerns as they did. I remember how jubilant Markham was at secur- ing a new photograph of the planet for the illustrated paper he edited in those d... ...e peculiar V- shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessan... ... point of vantage and continually looking at the sand heaps that hid these new-comers to our earth. Once a leash of thin black whips, like the arms of... ...was this, as much as anything, that gave people courage, and I suppose the new arrivals from Woking also helped to restore confidence. At any rate, as... ... near, and leaving us astonished. “Here they are!” shouted a man in a blue jersey. “Yonder! D’yer see them? Yonder!” Quickly, one after the other, one...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...ry Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the ... ... things than the Vicarage of Feniton. Indeed, the subject was not entirely new to him, for Edward Coleridge was always deeply interested in mis- sions... ... and blue Scotch caps, and the more delicate a thick 195 Yo n g e woollen jersey in addition; and with all these precautions they were continually ca... ...They are nothing but rugged coral, in an early stage of development; great ridges, upheaved, bare and broken, and here and there with pits that have b... ...ches, strips of burning sunshine fringing the masses of forest rising into ridges of hills, covered with a dense mat of vegetation. Hundreds of people...

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...Excerpt: Landfall and departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman?s life and of a ship?s career. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term ?Landfall? is more easily understoo...

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...Excerpt: The journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all travelers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world -- all, too, travelers with a donkey: and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to di...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey 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... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...r of mine, that paper I should wish to cancel. So that, upon the whole, my new and revised edition is likely to differ by very consid- erable changes ... ...at quadrata rotundis,) it is my purpose to enlarge this edition by as many new papers as I find available for such a station. These I am anxious to pu... ...usage, solely and merely upon your own spontane- ous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those wh... ...the collateral chambers of these ruts kept from becoming confluent by thin ridges, such as the Ro- mans called lirae, to maintain the footing upon whi... ...ith The Mount V ernon Hotel at Cape May, N. J., (meant, I suppose, for New Jersey,) which advertises itself in the “New York Herald,” of April 12, 185...

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...THE PIONEERS OR, THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper is a public... ... Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- n... ...racters in their classes, than by a too fastidious attention to originals. New York having but one county of Otsego, and the Susquehanna but one prope... ...oon told. Otsego, in common with most of the interior of the prov- ince of New Y ork, was included in the county of Albany pre- viously to the war of ... ...ong those low spurs of the Alleghanies which cover the midland counties of New Y ork, and it is a little east of a meridional line drawn through the c... ...ciety, in the peaceful and unenterprising colonies of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, The posterity of Marmaduke did not escape the common lot of those w... ...safety. Thou mayst practise thy skill in horsemanship on the plains of New Jersey with safety; but in the hills of Otsego they may be suspended for a ... ...e other hills. But the place I mean is next to the river, where one of the ridges juts out a little from the rest, and where the rocks fall, for the b...

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...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...

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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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...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... ... languor or violence in its force, never running back upon itself, opening new visions at every turn of its course through that richly inhab- ited cou... ...s loves and its hates about every twenty-five years—at the coming of every new and wiser generation. One of the most generous of the dead is Daudet, w... ...ome he secured for his tales in this country was from Mr. W. Henley in the New Review and later, towards the end of his life, from the late Mr. Willia... ...ers green expanse of smudgy waters grinning angrily at one with white foam-ridges, and over all a cheer- less, unglowing canopy, apparently made of we... ...venteen was cox (and a first-rate cox he was too); a fellow in a torn blue jersey, not much older, of the usual riverside type, looked after the engin...