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...ir by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...tells us in this book, as he has told us in others, more especially in The World Set Free, and as he has been telling us this year in his War and the ... ...-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years have but added an en... ...on of the entire detestableness of Jessica. 24 The War in the Air CHAPTER II: HO CHAPTER II: HO CHAPTER II: HO CHAPTER II: HO CHAPTER II: HOW BER W B... ...hips—when the international situation became acute. It was made up of four battleships and five armoured cruisers ranking almost with battleships, not... ...claration of war—indeed,on Whit Monday— the whole German fleet of eighteen battleships, with a flo- tilla of fuel tenders and converted liners contain...

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...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lan...

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...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Ha... ...TE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ........................................................................... 5 II. CRITICAL REMARKS ......................................................... ...shed.… The selections are The affliction of Childhood, Introduction to the World of Strife, A Meeting with Lamb, A Meeting with Coleridge, Recollectio... ...sant so much below the grandeur and the sorrow of the times as to confound battles such as these, which were gradually moulding the destinies of Chris... ...aving bearded the élite of their troops, and having beaten them in pitched battles! Five years of life it was worth paying down for the privilege of a... ...me of water— viz., the Tiber—has contrived to make itself heard of in this world for twenty-five centuries to an extent not reached as yet by any rive... ... had suffered some deep personal affliction in connexion with this Spanish war. Here, now, was the case of one who, having formerly suf- fered, might,... ...umulation of foreign mails this night, ow- ing to irregularities caused by war, by wind, by weather, in the packet service, which as yet does not bene...

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......................... 4 CHAPTER I ? ?VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE?................................................................................ 4 CHAPTER II ? CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH ......................................................................... 38 CHAPTER III ? AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS.......................................................................... 49 CHAPTER ...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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............................................................................................................................................. 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ...................................................................................................................................... 9 THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE .....................................................

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...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought ...

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... I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................................

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...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey 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... ....................................... 194 MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. II. .......................................................................... ...ng agitations and the un- conquerable impatience of my nervous malady. 2. “War.”** —In this paper, from having faultily adjusted its proportions in th... ...ngs of his- tory, to show that the criminal (because trivial) occasions of war are not always its trifle causes, or to suggest that war (if resigned t... ...ount of killed and wounded, but as the battle which terminated a series of battles, having one common object, namely, the overthrow of a frightful tyr... ...political events, and especially the great 12 Memorials, and Other Papers battles during a conflict of unparalleled grandeur. These hon- orary distin... ... Suppose the case, therefore, that Kate’s memoirs had been thrown upon the world with no vouchers for their authen- ticity beyond such internal presum... ...ave pronounced a favorable award; since it is easy to understand that in a world so vast as the Peru, the Mexico, the Chili, of Spaniards during the f...

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...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controve...

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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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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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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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