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...mmer was half over, but Sergey Ivanovitch was only just preparing to leave Moscow. Sergey Ivanovitch?s life had not been uneventful during this time. A year ago he had finished his book, the fruit of six years? labor, ?Sketch of a Survey of the Principles and Forms of Government in Europe and Russia.?...

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...ton, an ordinary young business man of thirty or less, is taking his weekly Friday to Tuesday in the house of his father, John Tarleton, who has made a great deal of money out of Tarleton?s Underwear. The house is in Surrey, on the slope of Hindhead; and Johnny, reclining, novel in hand, in a swinging chair with a little awning above it, is enshrined in a spacious half hem...

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... around him. It could hardly have been more violent, indeed, had he burned down the Custom House, and quenched its last smoking ember in the blood of a certain venerable personage, against whom he is supposed to cherish a peculiar malevolence. As the public disapprobation would weigh very heavily on him, were he conscious of deserving it, the author begs leave to say, that...

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...BARRACK- ROOM BALLADS by RUDYARD KIPLING A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Barrack-Room Ballads b... ...ic Classics Series Publication Barrack-Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Documen... ...c Clas- sics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication... ...ssical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The P... ... Curse, curse, curse of a soldier . . . When first under fire an’ you’re wishful to duck, Don’t look nor take ‘eed at the man that is struck, 36 Bar... ...low, She’d git ‘er little banjo an’ she’d sing “Kulla-lo-lo!” With ‘er arm upon my shoulder an’ ‘er cheek agin’ my cheek We useter watch the steamers ... ... no chorus ‘ere to give, Nor there ain’t no band to play; An’ I wish I was dead ‘fore I done what I did, Or seen what I seed that day... ... Salaam!” Inside — “Brother”, an’ it doesn’t do no ‘arm. We met upon the Level an’ we parted on the Square, An’ I was Junior Deacon in... ... Salaam!” Inside — “Brother”, an’ it doesn’t do no ‘arm. We met upon the Level an’ we parted on the Square, An’ I was Junior Deacon in...

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...kings of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped, we have heard, and what honor the athelings won! Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes, from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore, awing the earls. Since erst he lay friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him: for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve, till before him the folk, both far and near, who house by the whale-pa...

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...Contents PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY............................................................. 7 WHY NOT GIVE CHRISTIANITY A TRIAL? ........................................................................................................ 7 WHY JESUS MORE THAN ANOTHER? ...................................................................................

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