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...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War... ...SSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and the Future by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...eat war is its failure to produce great and imposing personalities, mighty leaders, Napoleons, Caesars. I would indeed make that the essential thing i... ...choose the figure of General Joffre. He is something new in history. He is leadership without vulgar ambition. He is the extreme an- tithesis to the I... ...ally a force of aeroplanes supported by automobiles. Several of the French leaders with whom I talked seemed to be con- vinced that the horse is absol... ...and So was 104 War and the Future put into a damp bed and has got a nasty cold. Then I recall a jolly vanload of wounded men I saw out there…. But af... ...nd genuine humanities in; our disingenuous Anglican com- promise is like a cold in the English head, and the higher education in England is a training...

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...CUMSPECTION, into the an nual records of time, will find it remarked that War is the child of Pride, and Pride the daughter of Riches: the former of... ...at the whole commonwealth of that street is reduced to a manifest state of war, of every citizen against every citizen, till some one of more courage,... ...py dog. Again, if we look upon any of these republics engaged in a foreign war, either of invasion or defence, we shall find the same reasoning will s... ... maintained on the one part by resolution, and by the courage of cer tain leaders and allies; but, on the other, by the greatness of their number, up... ...mer gency. The Moderns were in very warm debates upon the choice of their leaders; and nothing less than the fear im pending from their enemies coul... ...anded by Cowley and Despreaux. There came the bowmen under their val iant leaders, Descartes, Gassendi, and Hobbes; whose strength was such that they... ...hy do we one passion call? When ’tis a compound of them all; Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet; Where pleasures m... ...wears she saw a thing in white. Doll never flies to cut her lace, Or throw cold water in her face, Because she heard a sudden drum, Or found an earwig...

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...n roving home if we would escape destruc tion, for we are being cut down by war and pesti lence at once. Let us ask some priest or prophet, or some ... ...e Achæans do your bidding, ei ther on foray or in open fighting? I came not war ring here for any ill the T rojans had done me. I have no quarrel wi... ...d not forth to fight, but gnawed at his own heart, pining for battle and the war cry . Now after twelve days the immortal gods came back in a body to ... ...ine, Myrsinus upon the sea shore, the rock Olene and Alesium. These had four leaders, and each of them had ten ships, with many Epeans on board. Their... ... celery. The chariots were housed under cover, but their owners, for lack of leadership, wandered hither and thither about the host and went not forth... ...ing Agamemnon when he saw them. “No need,” he cried, “to give orders to such leaders of the Argives as you are, for of your own selves you spur your m... ...ape of his neck: it went under his tongue all among his teeth, so he bit the cold bronze, and fell dead in the dust. And Eurypylus, son of Euæmon, kil... ...th a fringe, and on it were Strife, and Strength, and Panic whose blood runs cold; moreover there was the head of the dread monster Gorgon,, grim and ... ...he other gods stand in awe.” Iris, fleet as the wind, obeyed him, and as the cold hail or snowflakes that fly from out the clouds before the blast of ...

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...Excerpt: There was a large, brilliant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that ev...

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...X: CHAPTER X: CHAPTER X: CHAPTER X: CHAPTER X: THE THE THE THE THE W W W W WAR A AR A AR A AR A AR AGAIN GAIN GAIN GAIN GAIN ............................ ... and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christ- mas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace.... ... He picked up the tree, and held it erect by the topmost twig. He felt the cold as he stood in the yard coatless, and he twitched his shoulders. “Isn’... ...o!” came the woman’s high im- perative voice, from the kitchen. “We aren’t cold,” protested the girls from the yard. “Come and put something on,” insi... ... hastily. The two children ran indoors, the man stood contemplative in the cold, shrugging his uncovered shoulders slightly. The open inner door showe... ...n Sisson, this was home, this was Christmas: the unspeakably familiar. The war over, nothing was changed. Yet everything changed. The scullery in whic... ...nowing dimly that the game was but a game, and that they were the helpless leaders in the game. They had a certain basic ordinariness which prevented ...

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... private and familiar existence, and were not wholly contained within that cold array of outward action which we are compelled to receive as the adequ... ...ho can struggle with wild beasts and wild men, and can toil in the heat or cold, and can keep their hearts firm against all difficulties and dangers. ... ...e were the dissensions that it was feared the conse quence would be civil war and bloodshed. But Winthrop and the ministers being the most powerful, ... ...e French colony was then signed.” “Did England allow Massachusetts to make war and peace with foreign countries?” asked Laurence. “Massachusetts and t... ...pendent of the mother country,” said Grandfa ther. “There was now a civil war in England; and the king, as you may well suppose, had his hands full a... ...never was restored to a flour ishing condition. But his zeal did not grow cold; and only about five years before his death he took great pains in pre... ...slain or imprisoned.” “For what?” inquired Charley. “Because they were the leaders of the people, Charley,” said Grandfather. “A minister was a more f... ...husetts returned in peace to their families. Now the stately and dignified leaders, such as Gen eral Lincoln and General Knox, with their powdered ha...

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..., to an alternate monarchy, T amasese taking the first trick of two years. War was imminent, when the consuls interfered, and any war were preferable ... ...r, and the holder is secure, from that mo- ment, of a certain following in war. But I cannot find that the further step of election to the kingship im... ...follow they will assemble. If he be too flagrantly disobeyed, he can go to war. But so he could before, when he was only the chief of certain province... ...ght wait at table, and (at her own request) some warm clothing against the cold mornings of the bush. She went on a visit to her family, and returned ... ...to surprise and seize Mulinuu. The timely dis- covery averted all; and the leaders hastily withdrew towards the south side of the island, leaving in t... ... sister of one of the dead lamenting in the island fashion and kissing the cold face. Soon after, a small grave was dug, the heads were buried in a be... ...s were detained in Mulinuu; the commons trooped to the bush under inferior leaders. A camp was chosen near Faleula, threat- ening Mulinuu, well placed... ...and these were found sufficient. He and his wife had no ambition to be the leaders of society; the consulate was in their time no house of feast- ing;... ...s; either to accept defeat, or take frenzy for a counsellor. Yesterday, in cold blood, he had judged it necessary to have the woods to the westward gu...

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...lead the Scots abroad into the military service of countries which were at war with each other. They were distinguished on the Continent by their brav... ...quarrel, and might plun- der the peasantry subjected to him by the fate of war with the most unrelenting rapacity; but he must beware how he sustained... ...ected, was, by tradition and common opinion, held to represent the ancient leaders and fathers of the expelled fugi- tives; and it had hitherto been o... ...d knocks. —Butler. It was during the period of that great and bloody Civil War which agitated Britain during the seventeenth century, that our tale ha... ...anization of the church, and had distributed honours and rewards among the leaders of the party which had shown themselves most hostile to his interes... ...he invincible Gustavus, the Lion of the North, and under many other heroic leaders, both Lutheran and Cal- vinist, Papist and Arminian.” After exchang... ...rd Menteith, “you have gone through some hot service, as well as this same cold duty you talk of?” “Surely, my lord, it doth not become me to speak; b... ...Martinmas wind shalt blow shall lie there stark enough, and reck little of cold or lack of covering.” “Do not forespeak us, brother,” said Angus; “tha... ...PHAN MAID. November’s hail-cloud drifts away, November’s sunbeam wan Looks coldly on the castle grey, When forth comes Lady Anne. The orphan by the oa...

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...an Thong, the hangman, was merciful in his office, and stamped thee with a cold iron.” “T ush, uncle—truce with your jests. Keep them to season your s... ...omewhat of the driest. And if you do get into peril, be- ware of taking to cold steel; but send for me, Giles Gosling, the head-borough, and I may be ... ...hine—sharper, vain man; for the best deeds thou hast ever done in peace or war were as unwor- thy to be named with his, as thy obscure rank to match i... ...nemy?” “ Abject! abject!” repeated Lambourne; “that shall be answered with cold steel whenever a bowl of sack has washed out memory of the morning’s d... ...se-judging men, can match Burleigh and Walsingham in policy, and Sussex in war, becomes pupil to his own menial—and all for a hazel eye and a little c... ...tugal and the Spaniard, both the Dutchman and the Frenchman, and have made war on our own account with a crew of jolly fellows, who held there was no ... ...s standard, and was taken fighting desperately at Stoke, where most of the leaders of that unhappy army were slain in their harness. The good knight t... ...utual aggression. But they were restrained by the strict commands of their leaders, and overawed, perhaps, by the presence of an armed guard of un- us... ... ceased their mimic strife, and collecting themselves under their original leaders, or present- ers, for such was the appropriate phrase, seemed to sh...

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... his adversary, was thenceforth at liberty to revenge himself by a private war, in which, for the wrong 4 The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest inflicted, no ... ...eached a point whence they retrograded grievously during the Thirty Years’ War, even to an extent that they have never entirely recovered. The country... ... In spite of all endeavours to guard the windows and keep up the fire, the cold withered the poor child like a fading leaf, and she needed more and mo... ...ve, were revelations to him of what she meant by a true knight—the lion in war, the lamb in peace; the quaint oft-repeated por- traits, and still quai... ...slow declension in strength, ascribing all the change he saw to the bitter cold, and seeing but little even of that alteration, though he spent many h... ...signs of agitation, ex- cept the quivering of her whole frame, and the icy coldness of the hand, where Eberhard had to place the ring on each finger i... ...r, kept their men in array, awaiting the issue of the strife between their leaders—the fire of seventeen against the force of fifty-six. They closed i... ...angely mingled with a cry of agony, and both sides became aware that their leaders had 200 The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest fallen. Each party rushed to ... ... gentle nature, but for the impetuous desire to protect his brother. Their leaders down, the enemy had no one to rally them, and, in spite of their su...

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................................................ 146 Chapter 3.4.II. In Civil War. ......................................................................... ...ing Galleries; Prussian Brunswick, ‘over a space of forty miles,’ with his war-tumbrils, and sleeping thun- ders, and Briarean ‘sixty-six thousand’ (S... ...winds: and, in brief, for years coming, such a suite of scenes as glorious war has not offered in these late ages, not since our Albigenses and Crusad... ...stript human corpses, thrown pellmell; limbs sticking up:— seest thou that cold Hand sticking up, through the heaped embrace of brother corpses, in it... ...ough the heaped embrace of brother corpses, in its yellow paleness, in its cold rigour; the palm opened towards Heaven, as if in dumb prayer, in expos... ...r of Priests, Suspender of virtuous Petions, and his unfortunate Hot-grown-cold, detestable to Patriotism. He dies lamented of Europe; his blood spat-... ... remain hardly more than some Sixty Members: mere friends, or even secret- leaders; a remnant of the Mountain-crest, held in silence by Thermidorian t...

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...ere established, broad and ample, by the might of God, for angel dwellers, war dens of the soul. The angel legions knew the blessedness of God, celes... ...rouded in eternal night, and filled with woe, wrapped in fire and piercing cold, smoke veils and ruddy flame. And over that wretched realm He spread t... ...eights of heaven. VII (ll. 322 336) The other fiends who waged so fierce a war with God lay wrapped in flames. They suffer torment, hot and surging fl... ...h.) XI (ll. 442 460) Then God’s enemy began to make him ready, equipped in war gear, with a wily heart. He set his helm of darkness on his head, boun... ...nd showers of hail beat on us from the heavens, and frost cometh, wondrous cold, upon the earth, or, hot in heaven, shineth the burning sun, and we tw... ...e at last a fixed abode wherein to settle. Far and wide in days of old the leaders of that people, with their well loved men, possessed the land of Sh... ...e a sign that they had sought the land of Shinar, where of old the mighty leaders of the folk had lived at ease. And they sought out men for this wor... ...e dwellers of earth, and they might not prosper in their speech. Then the leaders of the work in pride of strength met together about the tower in ma... ...aptains of the folk. Behind them lay the goodly host of hearth retainers, cold in death, and in their track lay those who sacked the homes of Sodom ...

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...tutionnels. Such Roy- alists, nicknamed Ultras by the opposition, took for leaders and heroes those courageous orators of the Right, who from the very... ...tois was “Mon- sieur” at court. Now, not only had that marriage produced a war after the provincial manner, in which all weapons are fair; it had hast... ...ceforward were directed at du Croisier’s salon; he stirred up the fires of war, not knowing how far the spirit of revenge was to urge the rival factio... ... every election du Croisier was regularly thrown out by the Royalists. The leaders of that party, taking their tone from the Marquis d’Esgrignon, had ... ...r to hour. One of his own party, who seconded him in these calculations of cold wrath, was the President of the T ribunal, M. du Ronceret, a little co... ...cript at the end of the letter, no un- pleasant reference to the sinews of war, which every young man makes in such a case. Mlle. Armande showed it to... ...k to you—” 67 Balzac “M. du Croisier,” repeated the old lawyer. A stab of cold misgiving gave him so sharp a pang at the heart that he dropped the to... ...nd! Yes; for him all would be at an end, and that soon. Already he saw the cold, ironical eyes which his associates would turn upon him, and their amu...

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...-making. For a time he heard no more, and stared with stony eyes at a Book-War proclamation in leaded type that filled half a column of the Times that... ...h at. And among human beings, too, women to begin with were the rulers and leaders; they owned all the property, they invented all the arts. The primi... ...hing would turn out for the best. The forgiveness and reconciliation was a cold and formal affair, and afterwards her father went off gloomily to his ... ...up and unlocked the door. Her aunt did not object to capital punishment or war, or the industrial system or casual wards, or flogging of crimi- nals o... ...at down by the pa- per-rack with a general feeling of resemblance to Vivie War- ren, and looked through the Morning Post and Standard and Telegraph, a... ...o the back seats of the gallery at Essex Hall, and heard and saw the giant leaders of the Fabian Society who are re- making the world: Bernard Shaw an... ...as done a certain experi- ence of life assured him that a girl is a locked coldness against a man’s approach. She had all the fascination of being abs... ...nse had become inflamed. Her mind turned and accused itself of having been cold and hard. She began to look for beauty and discover it in unexpected a... ... an appointment for you?” Miss Kitty Brett was one of the most conspicuous leaders of the movement. Ann Veronica snatched at the opportu- nity, and sp...

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...eman and his Servant were at the door, who had lossed their way, were very cold and begged leave to warm themselves by our fire. “Won’t you admit them... ...d by the combina- tion of Misfortunes under which I laboured, namely Fear, Cold and Hunger I hesitated not to ask admittance which at length I have ga... ...se though not with equal Cordiality, as Philippa. There was a disagreable cold- ness and Forbidding Reserve in her reception of me which was equally ... ...o be written or read; I shall therefore content myself with mentioning the leaders of the Gang. Cromwell, Fairfax, Hampden, and Pym may be consid- ere...

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...ell, then settled easily, pointing toward Lime Point. Wilbur felt a sudden coldness at his heart. “This isn’t going to be so much fun,” he muttered be... ..., smothering the decks knee-deep in a twinkling. The wind blew violent and cold, the spray was flying like icy small-shot. Without intermission the “B... ... Y Y Y Y IN SPITE OF his best efforts at self-control, Wilbur felt a slow, cold clutch at his heart. That sickening, uncanny lifting of the schooner o... ...op- 86 Moran of the Lady Letty ping upon their hands and knees, the three leaders crawled to the top of the break. Sheltered by a couple of sage- bus... ... you know, I love you for it.” 93 Frank Norris XI XI XI XI XI A CHANGE IN LEADERS A CHANGE IN LEADERS A CHANGE IN LEADERS A CHANGE IN LEADERS A CHANG... ...RS A CHANGE IN LEADERS A CHANGE IN LEADERS A CHANGE IN LEADERS A CHANGE IN LEADERS “WELL,” EXCLAIMED WILBUR at length, the excitement of the fight ret... ...urtle and abalone to be had for the catching. Some of the American men-of- war, I believe, come down to this bay for target-practice twice a year, and... ...e effect that they might expect to be taken off by a United States man-of- war within the month. Hoang did not readily recover his “loss of face.” The... ...er, Wilbur could discern the gleaming white hull of a United States man-of-war. With the glass he could make her out to be one of the moni- tors—the “...

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...ssed of Miss Bridget, and reconciled to Allworthy, than he began to show a coldness to his brother which increased daily; till at length it grew into ... ... which they before called justice. They now exclaimed against punishing in cold blood, and sang forth the praises of mercy and forgiveness. These cr... ...—?” He was proceeding when Mr. Allworthy interposed, tell ing them very coldly, they had both mistaken his meaning; for that he had said nothing of... ...aked to the middle. It is lucky for the women that the seat of fistycuff war is not the same with them as among men; but though they may seem a litt... ...ron was to be used in digging no bowels but those of the earth. Then would war, the pastime of monarchs, be almost inoffensive, and battles between gr... ...ourage the recruiting those num bers which we are every day losing in the war.—But where is she? Prithee, Tom, show me.” He then began to beat about,... ...ceeding heroes tread! With pomp the shining images succeed, What leaders triumph, and what monarchs bleed! Perform the party thy provid...

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...42 And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shal... ...her hath not planted, shall be rooted up. 14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall in... ...eive many. 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved....

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... little church in the park is mouldy; the oaken pul pit breaks out into a cold sweat; and there is a general smell and taste as of the ancient Dedloc... ...everything associated with my Lady Dedlock as one of a class—as one of the leaders and representatives of her little world. She supposes herself to be... ...st leave it, if you please, to me, for I have been accustomed to study the leaders of my high connexion, sir, and I may tell you without vanity that I... ... raised me, sat in her chair, and standing me before her, said slowly in a cold, low voice— I see her knitted brow and pointed finger—”Your mother, Es... ...nough of a favourite with her to make her sorry then. When she gave me one cold parting kiss upon my forehead, like a thaw drop from the stone porch—i... ...g out of that affair with Hoodle. Then, giving the Home Department and the leadership of the House of Commons to Joodle, the Exchequer to Koodle, the ... ...n the young men! My friends, why do I wish for peace? What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and ple... ...use it is not hardening, because it is softening; because it does not make war like the hawk, but comes home unto us like the dove. Therefore, my frie... ...es on to terrify commoners as the chiefs of some other tribes put on their war paint. There was a Sir Somebody Dedlock, with a battle, a sprung mine, ...

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... of the sunset faded out of them 5 Little Dorrit – Book Two and left them coldly white, they were yet distinctly defined in their loneliness above th... ... drink at the streams of melted ice and snow, was changed to the searching cold of the frosty rarefied night air at a great height, so the fresh beaut... ...ide conversed. There was no speaking among the string of riders. The sharp cold, the fatigue of the journey, and a new sensation of a catching in the ... ...- stowed in England upon all peaceful public benefactors, and upon all the leaders of all the Arts and Sciences, with all their works to testify for t... ...aid all he wanted to say, and more. He wrung his hand, only adding, ‘Blind leaders of the blind, Pancks! Blind 279 Little Dorrit – Book Two leaders o... ...nt—not my own wrongs—what was I! but all the rejection of sin, and all the war against it, in which I had been bred?’ She laid her wrathful hand upon ... ...ed he might—so frail we are, and so do the corrupt affections of the flesh war with our trusts and tasks; but he always re- spected me and ordered him...

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...The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication T... ... 3 Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane CHAPTER I THE COLD PASSED reluctantly from the earth, ... ...ourage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane CHAPTER I THE COLD PASSED reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an a... ...d disappeared forever. From his home his youthful eyes had looked upon the war in his own country with distrust. It must be some sort of a play affair... ...ieved that he must be a hero. There was a lavish ex-penditure of bread and cold meats, coffee, and pickles and cheese. As he basked in the smiles of t... ...ight all right, I guess, after they once get into it,” said the other with cold judg-ment. He made a fine use of the third person. “There’s been heaps... ...he straining pace ate up the ener-gies of the men. As if by agreement, the leaders began to slacken their speed. The volleys di-rected against them ha...