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...person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...WER WER WER WER WER I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so ... ...ering of a palace, of a terrace, of the vista of a great roadway with many people, people exaggerated, im- possible-looking because of the curvature o... ... Change, so far as it has affected my own life and the lives of one or two people closely connected with me, primarily to please myself. Long ago in m... ...e gave two evenings a week to the evening classes of the organized science school in Overcastle, physi- ography was his favorite “subject,” and throug... ...been very terrible; there was a devil, who was also ex officio the British King’s enemy, and much denunciation of the wicked lusts of the flesh; we we... ... has been in most things accomplished, in a time when every one is be- ing educated to a sort of intellectual gentleness, a gentleness that abates not... ...to do my duty. 33 H. G . Wells “If we punish those who would betray us to Kings,” said I, with a sorrowful deliberation, “how much the more must we p... ...the Days of the Comet my time, I was ill clothed, ill fed, ill housed, ill educated and ill trained, my will was suppressed and cramped to the pitch o...

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...Excerpt: 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...

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