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...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Se... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...sity. 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... ... nearly every person living within the confines of what was then the Roman Empire who left living offspring must have been ancestral to every person l... ... self-sacrifice this chivalrous cul- ture appears to have developed in the Japanese. These Samu- rai of mine were a sort of voluntary nobility who sup... ... look like Knight T emplars, who bear a name that recalls the swordsmen of Japan. What are they? Are they an hereditary cast, a specially educated ord... ...s main body is concerned still is, the pontifex maximus of the Roman world empire, an official who was performing sacrifices centuries before Christ w... ...sacrifices centuries before Christ was born. It is easy to assert that the Empire was con- verted to Christianity and submitted to its terrestrial lea...

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.................................. 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824...................................................................

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ... _315 With Death’s omnipotence. Thou hast beheld His empire, o’er the present and the past; It was a desolate sight—now gaze on ... ...ir dark and blasting ministries. 31 31 31 31 31. ‘In the world’s youth his empire was as firm As its foundations...Soon the Spirit of Good, Though in ... ...es are laid. 34 34 34 34 34. Nor are the strong and the severe to keep The empire of the world: thus Cythna taught _965 Even in the vis... ... at such a stagnant and miserable state of social institution as China and Japan possess. The human form and the human mind attained to a per- fection...

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Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan.

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...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of l...

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