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Excerpt: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.

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...by Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...erne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...rge 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 Pennsylvania State U... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...his turn. Passepartout remained alone in the house in Saville Row. Chapter II IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS CONVINCED THAT HE HAS AT LAST FOUND HIS IDEAL “... ...lse deal. “But that doesn’t take into account bad weather, contrary winds, shipwrecks, railway accidents, and so on.” “All included,” returned Phileas... ...ut beyond Hong Kong, a simple warrant would be of no avail; an extradition war- rant would be necessary, and that would result in delays and obstacles... ...ame into the possession of the English by the T reaty of Nankin, after the war of 1842; and the colonising genius of the English has created upon it a...

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...Contents CHAPTER I OF PROFIT AND HONESTY................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II OF REPENTANCE ................................................................................................. 21 CHAPTER III OF THREE COMMERCES ...............................................................................

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...e of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Michel De Montaigne, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. Willi... ................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II OF REPENTANCE ............................................................. ...he vast sea, to witness from land the peril of other persons.”— Lucretius, ii. I.] of the seeds of which qualities, whoever should divest man, would d... ...de, preserved himself by his moderation in that universal shipwreck of the world, amongst so many mutations and diversities? For private man, as he wa... ...s; and thus Gelo, the tyrant of Syracuse, suspended his inclination in the war betwixt the Greeks and barbarians, keeping a resi- dent ambassador with... ...gainst his will. And yet even those who wholly engage themselves in such a war may behave them- selves with such temper and moderation, that the storm... ...rmerly called me to the public service, and my own advancement towards the world’s opinion, I know I should, in spite of all my own arguments to the c... ... malo tiro.” [“To meditate upon banishments, tortures, wars, diseases, and shipwrecks, that thou mayest not be a novice in any disaster.”—Seneca, Ep.,...

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...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed thei...

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...Excerpt: ?Truth is strange, Stranger than fiction.? I think it but right that in making my appearance before the public I should at once acquaint them with my titles and name. My card, as I leave it at the houses of the nobility, my friends, is as follows:--...

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...m Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan by William Makepeace Thackeray i... ...rge 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 Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan by William Makepeace... ...egular Horse, AHMEDNUGGAR. Seeing, I say, this simple visiting ticket, the world will avoid any of those awkward mistakes as to my person, which have ... ... me. The writers of marine novels have so exhausted the subject of storms, shipwrecks, mutinies, engagements, sea-sickness, and so forth, that (althou... ... through the body, was second Major. We were on the eve of that remarkable war which was speedily to spread throughout the whole of India, to call for... ...uke and a Marshal, I but a simple Major of Irregulars. Such is fortune and war! But my feelings carry me away from my narrative, which had bet- ter pr... ...s: she was fat, lying, ugly, and stingy—she hated and was hated by all the world, and by her jolly husband as devoutly as by any other. She did not pa... ...wooing was no longer Miss Julia Jowler, she was Mrs. Chowder Loll! CHAPTER II: ALLYGHUR AND LASWAREE I SA T DOWN TO WRITE gravely and sadly, for (sinc...

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Excerpt: Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville.

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...Excerpt: The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable inci dent, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind...

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...rge 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 Pennsylvania State U... ...of the marvellous, we can understand the excitement produced in the entire world by this supernatural apparition. As to classing it in the list of fab... ...nster. Upon this imaginary creature rested the responsibility of all these shipwrecks, which unfortunately were consider- able; for of three thousand ... ...ean.* *Member of the whale family. 8 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea CHAPTER II PRO AND CON AT THE PERIOD when these events took place, I had just retur... ...heory, plausible as it was, could not stand against inquiries made in both worlds. That a private gentleman should have such a machine at his command ... ... times, when the inge- nuity of man has multiplied the power of weapons of war, it was possible that, without the knowledge of others, a State might t... ...ers, a State might try to work such a formidable engine. But the idea of a war machine fell before the declara- tion of Governments. As public interes... ...with the vague glimmerings of an aurora borealis. 139 Jules Verne CHAPTER II A NOVEL PROPOSAL OF CAPTAIN NEMO’S ON THE 28TH OF FEBRUARY, when at noon... ...ongst currents of which they scarcely knew anything. Under such conditions shipwrecks were, and must have been, numerous. But in our time, steamers ru...

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...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the household were, his daughter Dorothy Beltham; a marr...

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Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two.

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...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS ...............................................................................................

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...Contents Volume One ..................................................................... 4 THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK.......................................................................................................... 4 THE SPANISH NUN ....................................................................................

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...Excerpt: BOOK I: Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc?d by fate, And haughty Juno?s unrelenting hate, Expell?d and exil?d, left the Trojan shore. Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore, And in the doubtful war, before he won The Latian realm, and bu...

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...Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................................................................... 4 NOONDAY IN CHEPE ....................................................................................................................... 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL............................................................................

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...Excerpt: ?Dearest Meg, ?It isn?t going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and altogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroom or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and th...

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...assics Series Publication Howards End by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...rge 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 Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Howards End by E.M. Forster, the Pennsylvania State University,... ... love—the younger son who only came here Wednesday.” 7 EM Forster CHAPTER II MARGARET glanced at her sister’s note and pushed it over the breakfast-t... .... When Mr. Wilcox said that one sound man of business did more good to the world than a dozen of your social reformers, she had swallowed the curious ... ...en thought about it, Helen. It’s one of the most interesting things in the world. The truth is that there is a great outer life that you and I have ne... ...rse, not so as to disturb the others—or like Helen, who can see heroes and shipwrecks in the music’s flood; or like Margaret, who can only see the mus... ...rue; just as the remark, “England and Germany are bound to fight,” renders war a little more likely each time that it is made, and is therefore made t... ... to Uganda this evening,” came from the table behind. “Their Emperor wants war; well, let him have it,” was the opinion of a clergyman. She smiled at ...