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... VOLUME II.?THE CONSTITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ......................................

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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... ...t the young author Wolcott Balestier, at that time connected with a London publishing house. A strong attachment grew between the two, and sev- eral m... ...r and jurist, who was selected in 1871 by Secretary Hamilton Fish to go to Japan as the Mikado’s adviser in international law. The ancestral home of t... ...I had come with a grievance upon me—the grievance of the pirated En- glish books. Then a reporter leaped aboard, and ere I could gasp held me in his t... ...ven-storied warren of humanity with a thousand rooms in it. All the travel books will tell you about hotel arrangements in this country. They should b... ...ass and laughed with sheer bliss of being alive. This have I known once in Japan, once on the banks of the Columbia, what time the salmon came in and ... ...at present constituted, is made up of:—Twenty-five regiments infantry, ten companies each. Ten regiments cavalry, twelve companies each. Five regiment... ...regiments cavalry, twelve companies each. Five regiments artillery, twelve companies each. Now there is a notion in the air to reorganize the service ...

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...assics Series Publication A Modern Utopia 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... ...T T TO O O O O THE READER THE READER THE READER THE READER THE READER THIS BOOK is in all probability the last of a series of writings, of which—disre... ... my art or trade (or what you will) of an imaginative writer. I wrote that book in order to clear up the muddle in my own mind about in- numerable soc... ...r, and the New Atlantis and the Uto- pia of More in theory, like China and Japan through many centuries of effectual practice, held themselves isolate... ...ation, and the rest will pass on to private individuals or to distributing companies at a uni- form fixed rate for private lighting and heating, for m... ...s, of all possible family group- ings, of neighbours and neighbourhood, of companies, as- sociations, unions, secret and public societies, religious g... ...tle difficult to understand. He says I am one of the samurai, which sounds Japanese, “but you will be degraded,” he says, with a gesture almost of des... ...between rival Universities. In Utopia, any author has the option either of publishing his works through the public bookseller as a private speculation...

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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 ... ...le must make them so happy, ‘a belief he must have gleaned from his Prayer-book for himself, since the doctrine was not in those days made prominent.’... ...sons for the day with the four children, and after these a portion of some book of religious instruction, such as ‘Horne on the Psalms’ or ‘Daubeny on... ...ing interest at home. There was some- thing in his nature that shrank from publishing accounts of individual pupils as a breach of confidence, as much... ... read about. What an age it is! America, how is that to end? India, China, Japan, Africa! I have Jowett’s books and “Essays and Reviews.” How much I s... ...hen of Melanesia. And so one’s thoughts float out to India, and China, and Japan, and Africa, and the islands of the sea, and the very vastness of the... ...he knowledge of the thought which, in the mind of an accurate thinker, ac- companies the utterance of the word. ‘I should think that three-fourths of ...

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...uck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer?s plate. Then she went down to the front door for the damp, twisted roll of the Sunday morning?s paper, and came back and rang the breakfast-bell for the second time....

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

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...e by Somerset Maugham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...or a moment neither Mr. Carey nor his wife knew what to do. “I’ll put some books under him,” said Mary Ann. She took from the top of the harmonium the... ...Ann. She took from the top of the harmonium the large Bible and the prayer-book from which the Vicar was accustomed to read prayers, and put them on P... ...een to a play in his life till then (poor 147 W. Somerset Maugham touring companies sometimes came to the As- sembly Rooms at Blackstable, but the Vi... ...licitor explained that the growth of modern businesses and the increase of companies had led to the formation of many firms of accoun- tants to examin... ... strong with the English and his compatriots, and the discerning collected Japanese prints. The old masters were tested by new standards. The esteem i... ...red also to the students at the Royal Academy . He had lived many years in Japan, with a post at the University of T okyo, and he flattered himself on... ... mean- ingless unless you discover it for yourself.” LXXXIII CRONSHAW WA S publishing his poems. His friends had been urging him to do this for years,...

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...altimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported the evidence....

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...Excerpt: Introduction to Chronicles of the Canongate. The preceding volume of this Collection concluded the last of the pieces originally published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the wri...

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...Contents INTRODUCTION TO CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE. .......................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his father?s room,...

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...E I.?THE BASTILLE ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................

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...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle 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... .......................................................................... 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV . ................................................ .......................................................................... 22 BOOK 1.II. THE PAPER AGE ..................................................... ...f all kinds, for he had written Academic Prize Essays, struggled for India Companies, given dinners to Philosophes, and ‘realised a fortune in twenty ... ...s; Books on the Prussian Monarchy, on Cagliostro, on Calonne, on the Water Companies of Paris:—each book comparable, we will say, to a bituminous alar... ... of baulked Patriotism, what with closed theatres, and Proclamations still publishing themselves by sound of trumpet, the fervour of men’s minds, this... ... together. A Glorious Revolution, oversetting State-Prisons and Feudalism; publishing, with out- burst of Federative Cannon, in face of all the Earth,... ...n angular Picture-writing, they are jab- bered and jingled of in China and Japan. Where will it stop? Kien-Lung smells mischief; not the remotest Dala...

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...................................................................................................................................................... 8 BOOKS?1905 ............................................................................................................................................................. 8 HENRY JAMES?AN APPRECIATION?1905 ........................

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...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

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...n ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. 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 ... ... for the sculptured horrors which disgrace the tomb. If I have put into my book anything which can fill the young mind with better thoughts of death, ... ...ish life was all light and no shadows, and I began to doubt that beautiful book to which I have turned again and again, always to find new beauties an... ...much delight to honour. Elsewhere, through the agency of the great railway companies, some of which are bestirring themselves in this matter with a ga... ...he wilds of Australia, or communicating Greenwich time to Coventry Street, Japan. Once again, and finally, I thank you; and from my heart of hearts, I... ..., as it was established nine years ago, that this is the ninth occasion of publishing from this chair the banns between this institution and the publi...