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...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...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... ...o keep the peace in the Balkans and Asia, to establish a relationship with China, and organise joint and several arbitration arrangements with America... ...f man in conflict with mankind. It is the way to Harwich, Holland, Russia, China, and the whole wide world. Even at the first glance it impresses one ... ...n- glish in the case of the French and Russians, are essentially governess languages; any intelligent boy or girl from a rea- sonably prosperous home ... ...f expression. Educational needs and public neces- sity point alike to such languages as Russian or, in the case of Great Britain, Hindustani to supply... ... and no posi- tion should be attainable by half accomplishment. Of course, languages and mathematics do not by any means round off the education of a ... ...developed, having also a common interest in maintain- ing the integrity of China and preventing her development into a military power; it is a zone wi...

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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... ...ry meaning at- tached to them, unless they can be illustrated from cognate languages. Now I have a taste for these things, and have in three weeks pro... ...now without doubt, that I have laid the foundation for a study of Oriental languages, if I have time and opportunity that may be fairly given to them.... ... and not say anything about it. I am heartily glad that you should acquire languages, modern as well as ancient. You know I have often pressed the for... ...here, a retired sea captain who had spent some twenty years of his life in China, and his widow was a Chinese woman, a little dot of a thing, rather n... ...already eaten a mouldy biscuit and had a glass of beer at the house of the Chinawoman, so I only said grace for them, and after talking a little while... ... and ascer- tained from him that the natives had several articles, such as china, glass, and the handle of a silver fork, which evidently came from a ...

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...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air 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 person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...ans of megaphones, in a weird and startling ipanner, in a great variety of languages. Official-looking per- sons had signalled to him by means of flag... ... Next came the great alliance of Eastern Asia, a close-knit coalescence of China and Japan, advancing with rapid strides year by year to predominance ... ...always clung to the illusion that Germans were fat, absurd men, who smoked china pipes, and were addicted to knowledge and horseflesh and sauerkraut a... ...g because of the different names of the letters of the alphabet in the two languages. “And now, Mr. Schmallvays,” he said at last, leaning back and re... ...Francisco. We haf mate a camp at Niagara. Dat is whad they are telling us. China has cot drachenflieger and luftschiffe beyont counting. All de vorlt ...

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...RIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells 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... ...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... ...ting the Frenchman, the Russian, the German, the American, the Indian, the Chinaman, and, in- deed, the greater part of mankind from the problem—might... ...ath, expected to go in to the bright warmth and white linen and silver and china of his breakfast-table. And there he found letters and invitations, l... ... world he was to ex- perience. He had been reading about Benares and North China. As he talked Amanda, who had been animated at first, fell thoughtful... ...h a queer little worn book, a parallel vocabulary of half-a-dozen European languages. He turned over the pages and pointed to a word. “May! Ah! Slays!... ... a man robed in marvellous silks and subtle of speech even in the European languages he used, and meanwhile Prothero, it seemed, had gone down into th...

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...e Quincey A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...of her master (and doubtless giving me credit for a knowl- edge of all the languages of the earth besides perhaps a few of the lunar ones), came and g... ...s, I addressed him in some lines from the Iliad, considering that, of such languages as I possessed, Greek, in point of longitude, came geographically... ...e often thought that if I were compelled to forego England, and to live in China, and among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go... ...sublimity to the feelings associated with all Oriental names or images. In China, over and above what it has in common with the rest of southern Asia,... ...es, that are found in all tropical regions, and assembled them together in China or Indostan. From kindred feelings, I soon brought Egypt and all her ...

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...n by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e of reading, until her mind be- came sodden in it. Born to the use of two languages, she could speak and read German quite as well as French; she had... ...had acquired a precious flexibility of organ through the practice of three languages. This advantage was still further enhanced by a natural bell-like... ...heir fortunes. Dumay had received from a sea-captain just arrived from the China Seas the following letter containing the first news of his patron and... ...y at large what is she? noth- ing. At this moment the greatest mandarin in China may be yielding up the ghost and putting half the universe in mourn- ... ...handsome soldierly face, so pure in outline and now bronzed by the suns of China and the southern seas, had acquired an air of dignity which his prese...

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...Excerpt: An ancient English cathedral tower? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up? Maybe it is set up...

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...Excerpt: ?HOLE!? said Mr. Polly, and then for a change, and with greatly increased emphasis: ??Ole!? He paused, and then broke out with one of his private and peculiar idioms. ?Oh! Beastly Silly Wheeze of a Hole!?...

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...From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my...

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... and which I hope will equal your almost maternal kindness to me, would last beyond the limits prescribed for human affection. This sublime privilege of prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work we leave behind us would be (if we could only be sure of gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immo...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Alkahest (The House of Claes) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormely is a publi... ...s) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormely 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... ...- ward; while its trade with India poured into it the grotesque designs of China and the marvels of Japan. 6 The Alkahest And yet, in spite of its pa... ...-boards and buffets, on whose shelves stood many a curious piece of family china. The walls were hung with violet leather, on which designs of game an... ... a sense of pure and equable happiness. The silken coverings, brought from China, gave forth a soothing perfume that penetrated the system with- out f... ...ent of his tutor, Monsieur de Solis, worked studiously, acquired for- eign languages, and prepared to pass the necessary examina- tions to enter the E...