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... by Anthony T rollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...eries Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther t... ...been long before the world. It was known of him that he had been at a good English private school, and it was re- ported, on the solitary evidence of ... ...verett Wharton at a new club, called the Progress, of which they were both members. The Progress was certainly a new club, having as yet been open har... ... wealth,—meaning always themselves,—would be sup- plied with sure seats in Parliament and a probably share in the Government. But no such results had ... ...at last, and he would be, to her thinking, the leading man in the greatest kingdom in the world. But she felt in regard to him somewhat as did Lady Ma... ...ernment, —the work of getting a team together had been accomplished by the united energy of the two dukes and other friends. The filling up of the gre... ...ge election. We are of the opinion that all interference by peers with the constituencies of the country should be put down by the strong hand of the ...

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Excerpt: The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells.

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...AVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...of an accurately transposed French Revolution. We rebuilt London by Act of Parliament, and once in a mood of hygienic enterprise we transferred its po... ... there can be no disputing. 6 6 6 6 6 Kinghamstead was one of the earliest constituencies fought, and we came back—it must have been Saturday—trium- p... ...easy, but its shifting audience, the comings and goings and hesitations of members behind the chair—not mere audience units, but men who matter—the de... ...o Republican and Democrat, for example, and you have the conditions in the United States. The Crown or a dethroned dynasty, the Estab- lished Church o... ...ues of the fam- ily group altogether, and make the home indeed the women’s kingdom and the mother the owner and responsible guard- ian of her children...

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...et Free by H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the... ...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... land a poor little League of (Allied) Nations (excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), mee... ...bsurdities of courts and the indignities of rep- 51 H G Wells resentative parliamentary government, coupled with the opening of vast fields of opport... ... to it on foot. This was King Egbert, the young king of the most venerable kingdom in Europe. He was a rebel, and had always been of deliberate choice... ...ays I hope to place things in the hands of a more efficient caterer….’ The members of the new world government dined at three long tables on trestles,... ...sex from pole to pole was given a vote, and the world was divided into ten constituencies, which voted on the same day by means of a simple modificati...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1. Fellow Travelers. In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. It was vintage time in the valleys on the Swiss side of the Pass of the Great Saint Bernard, and along the banks of the Lake of Ge...

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...CONTENTS BOOK THE SECOND: RICHES 1. Fellow Travellers 2. Mrs General 3. On the Road 4. A Letter from Little Dorrit 5. Something Wrong Somewhere 6. Something Right Somewhere 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded t...

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...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development an...

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...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being r...

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...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Moth...

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...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and mos...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of...

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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... ...By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsy... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...e and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the... .......................................................... 178 THE DISEASE OF PARLIAMENTS .................................................................. ...rom the 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 str... ...ee. Such a method is to be found in proportional representation with large constituencies, and to that we must look for our ultimate liberation from o... ...oportional representation, with large constituencies return- ing each many members, there is to be found a way of escape from this disastrous embarras... ...g influences and of wider relevancies. And the oscillations of empires and kingdoms, religious movements, wars, invasions, settlements leave upon the ...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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