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...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravitat... ...we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philosophies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of In- toxicating Liquors? Man’s whole... ...h has been defended in Aprons! Nay, rightly considered, what is your whole Military and Police Establishment, charged at uncalculated millions, but a ... ...in all other external things whatsoever, no fashion will continue. “Of the military classes in those old times, whose buff- belts, complicated chains ... ...d, and marked successively, in gilt China-ink, with the symbols of the Six southern Zodiacal Signs, be- ginning at Libra; in the inside of which seale... ..., wended through our Village: northwards, truly, in the dead of night; yet southwards visibly at eventide. Not till my eighth year did I reflect that ... ... you to the end of the World! “Why mention our Swallows, which, out of far Africa, as I learned, threading their way over seas and mountains, corporat...

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...S SERIES PUBLICATION Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad 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... ...s on this earth are humble, not he- roic: and there have been times in the history of man- kind when the accents of heroic truth have moved it to noth... ...n 1868, when nine years old or thereabouts, that while looking at a map of Africa of the time and putting my finger on the blank space then represent-... ...xistence only seven chapters of “Almayer’s Folly,” but the chap- ter in my history which followed was that of a long, long illness and very dismal con... ... cabin door rattled slightly in the gusts of wind. It was in lati- tude 40 south, and nearly in the longitude of Green- wich, as far as I can remember... ...s in- 27 Joseph Conrad separable companion went on rolling with me in the south-east direction towards the Government of Kiev. At that time there was... ...ten him on active ser- vice, while bearing up bravely against the greatest military disaster of modern history, and, in a man- ner, for the sake of hi... ...less Lithuanian dog by my grand-uncle Nicho las B. in company of two other military and famished scarecrows, symbolised, to my childish imagination, t...

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...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ?the man who...

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...ics Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling 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... ... any Indian variety. Tales of the war I heard told by an ex-officer of the South over his evening drink to a colonel of the Northern army, my introduc... ...d violent in Montana and Dakota, of the loves of half-breed maidens in the South, and fantastic huntings for gold in mysterious Alaska. Above all, the... ...her twenty inexperienced summers. Item, a woman from cloud-land who has no history in the past or future, but is discreetly of the present, and strive... ...d exactly like Gallas (but the trade was never recruited from that side of Africa), some duplicates of Cameroon heads, and some Kroomen, if ever Kroom... ... has the money. We have the skill. He comes in winter to play poker at the military posts. We play poker—a few. When he’s lost his money we make him d... ... must be cut down fifty per cent, to the huge delight of the officers. The military needs of the States be three: (a) Frontier warfare, an employment ...

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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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...Contents: I. Landfalls and Departures IV. Emblems of Hope VII. The Fine Art X. Cobwebs and Gossamer XIII. The Weight of the Burden XVI. Overdue and Missing XX. The Grip of the Land XXII. The Character of the Foe XXV. Rules of East and West...

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...eph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...all that, as long as the coast she was about to leave remained in sight, a southern-going ship of yesterday had not in the sailor’s sense begun the en... ...hole year of more or less hard life before one, because there was hardly a southern-going voyage in the yesterday of the sea which meant anything less... ... of to-mor- row, already entered upon the possession of their inheritance. History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed awa... ...at seaman’s silent and trusted ad- viser, with one elbow upon the coast of Africa and the other planted in the neighbourhood of Cape Hatteras (it was ... ...beasts, strange turns of the tide, he would make the best of his way up, a military seaman with a short sword on thigh and a bronze helmet on his head... ...ofs, peep over the edge of the fore-shore, as it were a village of Central African huts imitated in iron. Bor- dered by the black and shining mud-flat... ...p and ceremony, but an anxious business progress at a crisis of na- tional history. The menace of that time has passed away, and now Tilbury is known ...

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...CS SERIES PUBLICATION A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad 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... ...ths on this earth are humble, not heroic; and there have been times in the history of mankind when the ac- cents of heroic truth have moved it to noth... ...n 1868, when nine years old or thereabouts, that while looking at a map of Africa of the time and putting my finger on the blank space then representi... ...xistence only seven chap- ters of “Almayer’s Folly,” but the chapter in my history which followed was that of a long, long illness and very dismal con... ...he cabin door rattled slightly in the gusts of wind. It was in latitude 40 south, and nearly in the longitude of Greenwich, as far as I can remember, ... ...upted obscurity, this inseparable companion went on rolling with me in the south- east direction toward the government of Kiev. At that time there was... ...eaten him on active service, while bearing up bravely against the greatest military disaster of modern history, and, in a man- ner, for the sake of hi... ...eard of; for grand- uncle Nicholas differed in this from the generality of military men of Napoleon’s time (and perhaps of all time) that he did not l...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more i...

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...omas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...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... ...ght, on certain terms? What is indispens- able let us not omit to say. The history of a man’s child- hood is the description of his parents and enviro... ...his parents and environment: this is his inarticulate but highly important history, in those first times, while of articulate he has yet none. Edward ... ...or one); and doubtless fought well: but in the mess-rooms, among the young military and civil officials, with all of whom he was a favorite, he had ac... ..., “Captain 13 Thomas Carlyle of the Eighth Battalion of Reserve,” say the Military Alma- nacs of 1803,—in which year the quarters happened to be Derr... ...e or bigger hills, in the pleasant plain of Glamorgan; a short mile to the south of Cowbridge, to which smart little town it is properly a kind of sub... ...ually rise, in a miscellaneous manner, on the north side of it; but on the south are no mountains, not even land, only the Bristol Channel, and far of... ... into a state of great excitement, and massa- cre a good many thousands of Africans and Asiatics?—For the present, it appears, the English Education Q...

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...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ...

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...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Se... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ... which I am prone to identify myself, began. It presents itself to me as a history of a perception of the world of facts opening out from an accidenta... ...-bitten iris leaves and then the sea, greatly wrinkled and astir under the south- west wind. There is a boat going out which I think may be Jim Pain’s... ...t until it took me through the mineral and fossil galleries of the Natural History Museum, through the geological draw- ers of the College of Science,... ...ugh at it as absurd. If one sits on a popular evening in that long room at South Kensington which contains Raphael’s cartoons, one remarks that perhap... ...ocolate makers, and the practical slavery under the Portuguese of the East African negroes who grow the raw material for Messrs. Cadbury, is an illumi... ...ed at all complete or satisfactory until we have gone into the question of military service. T o-day, in an increasing number of countries, military s... ...rs, the Socialist and Socialistic parties, are most opposed to the idea of military 99 H. G . Wells service, and just those parties that defend indiv...

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...s Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne 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... ...dream. So this is Suez?” “Yes.” “In Egypt?” “Certainly, in Egypt.” “And in Africa?” “In Africa.” “In Africa!” repeated Passepartout. “Just think, mons... ...s the Indian peninsula. Among the passengers was a number of officials and military officers of various grades, the latter being either attached to th... ...iers, 2,400 pounds, and generals of divisions, 4,000 pounds. What with the military men, a number of rich young Englishmen on their travels, and the h... ... reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square mil... ...e Ganges at Benares, then departs from the river a little, and, descending south-eastward by Burdivan and the French town of Chandernagor, has its ter... ...rare intervals; and was almost as familiar as a native with the cus- toms, history, and character of India and its people. But Phileas Fogg, who was n... ... gratitude. Aouda confirmed the Parsee guide’s narrative of her touch- ing history. She did, indeed, belong to the highest of the native races of Indi...

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...led it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted ...

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........................................................................................................................................... 36 THE POWER OF THE DOG ............................................................................................................................................51 THE MOTHER HIVE ..........................................................

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...ies Publication Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling 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... ... Charing Cross. They were to go to Rockett’s—the farm of one Cloke, in the southern counties—where, she assured them, they would meet the genuine Engl... ...ou, I’m sure,” said Sophie, and curt- sied to the ground. “George, this is history I can under- stand. We began here.” She curtsied again. The June su... ...ran and returned swiftly. “Our land marches with Pardons for a mile on the south,” she explained, waving the full cup, “but one has quite enough to do... ...A A AGE GE GE GE GE 0 NE NIGHT, a very long time ago, I drove to an Indian military cantonment called Mian Mir to see amateur theatricals. At the back... ...re any one caught him; but he fell under the pole, and I heard voices of a military guard in search of some one. The driver and I coaxed him into the ... ...The word “Cape” rises across the face of a dial; a gong strikes: the South African mid-weekly mail is in at the Highgate Receiving Towers. That is all... ...t somehow forgot about it. The new draft marks a new chapter in the Hunt’s history. From an isolated phenomenon in a barge it became a per- manent ins...

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...A Journey to the Interior of the Earth By Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ty-seven consonants and fifty-five vowels. This is the proportion found in south- ern languages, whilst northern tongues are much richer in consonants... ...lst northern tongues are much richer in consonants; therefore this is in a southern language.” These were very fair conclusions, I thought. “But what ... ...ishment, in which won- ders are gathered together out of which the ancient history of the country might be reconstructed by means of its stone weapons... ...t as courteously received by the mayor, M. Finsen, whose appearance was as military, and disposi- tion and office as pacific, as the Governor’s. As fo... ...llent!” cried my uncle, to the great scan- dal of the professor of natural history. “What!” he cried. “Yes, yes; now it is all clear, now it is all un... ...rusive visits to fear. T ravellers who penetrate into the wilds of central Africa, and into the pathless forests of the New World, are obliged to watc... ...of domes placed in close array like the round, thatched roofs of a central African city. Yet I wanted to penetrate farther underneath, though a chill ...

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...fe on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...DITOR’S TABLE, HARPER’S MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 1863 Chapter 1 The River and Its History THE M ISSISSIPPI IS WELL WORTH READING ABOUT. It is not a co... ...n the two hundred years which have elapsed since the river took its place in history. The belief of the scientific people is, that the mouth used to b... ...coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in the south the Spaniards were robbing, slaughtering, enslaving and con vertin... ...he foot of lofty heights wrapped thick in forests.’ He continues: ‘T urning southward, they paddled down the stream, through a solitude unrelieved by... ...ircus to the menagerie was easy and natural; from the elephant to equatorial Africa was but a step; then of course the heathen savages would suggest r... ...ave built on the land for offices and for the employes of the ser vice. The military engineers of the Commission have taken upon their shoulders the ... ...n the nearest village I bought a pair of blue goggles. By and bye, when the military camp broke up, and Company Life on the Mississippi Mark T wai...

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.... 5 ROMULUS ........................................................................................................................... 34 COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS .............................................................. 64 LYCURGUS .......................................................................................................................... 68 ...

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... Plutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough 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... ...ing through those periods which prob- able reasoning can reach to and real history find a footing in, I might very well say of those that are farther ... ...ght, not without reason, ascend as high as to Romulus, being brought by my history so near to his time. Consider- ing therefore with myself Whom shall... ...y now being built, Romulus enlisted all that were of age to bear arms into military companies, each company consisting of three thousand footmen and t... ...ncertainty to be thought strange, seeing the manner of the death of Scipio Africanus, who died at his own home after supper, has been found capable ne... ...e chief of the augurs covered Numa’s head, and turned his face towards the south, and, standing behind him, laid his right hand on his head, and praye... ...s and helots. But Numa made none of these distinctions; he only suppressed military rapacity, allowing free scope to every other means of obtaining we... ... ending had, to all observation, been neither rainy nor much troubled with southern winds; and of the many lakes, brooks, and springs of all sorts wit...

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... ...................................................................................................................................... 31 COMPARISON OF SERTORIUS WITH EUMENES................................................................. 50 AGESILAUS ............................................................................................................................

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... Plutarch’s Lives – Volume Two trans. Arthur Hugh Clough 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... ...t than his open enemies, he nevertheless main- tained his ground, with the military skill of Metellus, the boldness of Pompey, the success of Sylla, a... ...cient to give him battle again, and Marius, also, now coming by sea out of Africa, proffered himself to serve under Cinna, as a private soldier under ... ...Cinna would not now pay as much attention to himself, when a man of higher military repute was present, or feared that the violence of Marius would br... ...terly lose their force before they reach the islands. The soft western and southerly winds which breathe upon them sometimes produce gentle sprinkling... ...mention for the sake of king Juba, of all monarchs the greatest student of history, whose ances- tors are said to have sprung from Diodorus and Sophax... ...ephaestion. Afterwards, when Nearchus, with a fleet, was to be sent to the Southern Sea, Alexander bor- rowed money of his friends, his own treasury b... ...t might be to gratify Pompey, whose father is described by Rutilius in his history, as the vilest man alive. From thence Pompey came to the city of Am...