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.... BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE............................................................................................................................ 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH ...

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...on Haight Turk, Ph.D. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publicatio... ...nglish Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...on: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1895. 9. E. T . MASON. Personal T raits of British Authors. New York, 1885. [4 vols. The volume subtitled Scott, Hogg,... ...hat are called “short terms”; that is, the four terms of Michaelmas, Lent, Easter, and Act, were kept by a residence, in the aggregate, of ninety- one... ...for shelter? Is a prison the safest retreat? or a lunatic hospital? or the British Museum?” I should have replied, “Oh no; I’ll tell you what to do. T... ...s, at height insuperable to man, rose an altar of purest alabaster. On its eastern face was trembling a crimson glory. A glory was it from the reddeni... ...Quincey trunk arteries between two mighty realms,* and haunted for ever by wars or rumours of wars, decussated (for anything I know to the contrary) a... ... the eye in one poem, unless by sacrificing all unity of theme, or else by involving the earlier half, as a narrative episode, in the latter; which, h... ...er the independent jurisdiction of chiefs who claimed the right of private wars.” 74 7 THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLARS: This most famous of the milita...

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...Contents THE LONG VOYAGE ...................................................................................................................... 5 THE BEGGING-LETTER WRITER .................................................................

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...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publicatio... ...e gave us a longer credit than she gave to France or Germany or Russia. To British centenar- ians who died in their beds in 1914, any dread of having ... ... maintain its environment in a favorable condition, a process incidentally involving the ruthless destruction or subjection of its competitors for the... ...galler- ies and museums and schools at once occupied by war work- ers. The British Museum itself was saved only by a hair’s breadth. The sincerity of ... ... writing these words contains a calculation that no less than twenty-three wars are at present being waged to confirm the peace, England is no longer ... ...o write; for me, another comedy to stage. Perhaps, after all, that is what wars are for, and what historians and playwrights are for. If men will not ... ... and the house is a flagstaff on a little esplanade, with a hammock on the east side and a long garden seat on the west. A young lady, gloved and hatt... ...invented? MRS HUSHABYE. Five hundred pounds; and I have made it last since Easter! CAPTAIN SHOTOVER. Since Easter! Barely four months! Monstrous extra...

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Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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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 OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of B...

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