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...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Edi- tor, nor anyo... ... Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a stream of ... .... Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the Britis... ...mong the inhabitants of Netting Hill. Election of represen- tatives in one-member local constituencies by a single vote gives a citizen practically no... ...e off the names of about half of these selected gentlemen. Take almost any member of the present Government and consider his case. You may credit him ... ...may pos- sibly be spared from the necessary occupations and affairs of the commonwealth, all that the citizens should withdraw from the bodily service...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

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...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...iar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. 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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...erstition and social exigency having been thus dealt with in the first two members of the series, it remained for Les Travailleurs de la Mer to show m... ...of the Bachelors’ Club at T arbolton provides that “every man proper for a member of this Soci- ety must be a professed lover of one or more of the fe... ...Whitman’s intense Americanism, his unlimited belief in the future of These States (as, with reverential capitals, he loves to call them), made the war... ...rose and Poetry . . . for the most cogent purposes of those great in- land states, and for T exas, and California, and Oregon;” – a statement which is... ...an wisdom to consider, or provi- dence to foresee, what is profitable to a commonwealth. Women have been ever lightly esteemed; they have been denied ...