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...AGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...l point rises abruptly out of the depths of the ocean. Its mineral- ogical constitution is not simple; in some parts the rock is of a cherty, in other... ... was enabled to observe, during the few hours we stayed at this place, the constitution of the island is volcanic, but probably not of a recent date. ... ...however, I ascertained that some pinnacles, of a nearly similar figure and constitution, had been formed by the injection of melted rock into yielding... ... given of these confervae. They ap- pear especially common in the sea near Australia; and off Cape Leeuwin I found an allied but smaller and apparentl... ...e; Voyage of the Astrolabe and of the Co- quille; Captain King’s Survey of Australia, etc. 23 Charles Darwin and of a different shape from the other.... ...and the stream rapid. Captain Sturt,* when descending the Murrumbidgee, in Australia, saw two emus in the act of swimming. The inhabitants of the coun...

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...Excerpt: A chapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the strug...

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...lassics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... the public service of heading the chase of the fox, with benefit to their constitutions. Hence a manly as well as use- ful race of little princes, an... ...en, or a word unsaid, offered the picture of him in America, Japan, China, Australia, nay, the continent of Europe, holding an English review of his M... ...craves nothing save that you continue in being—her sun: which is your firm constitutional endeav- our: and thus you have a most exact alliance; she su... ...er diem prognosticates disintegration, with its accompanying recklessness. Constitutionally , let me add, I bear three. I speak for posterity.” During...

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...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................

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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... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...on a far huger scale from India into Africa, and from China and Japan into Australia and America are prevented. All the indications point to a time wh... ...h the heart and arteries of a mouse. Then here, again, are New Zealand and Australia, facing South America and the teeming countries of Eastern Asia; ... ...nder mental nourishment, have developed their own ver- nacular Press, that Australia and New Zealand even now gravi- tate to America for books and tho... ...on of the Prince’s revenues. It is the very spirit of eigh- teenth century Constitutionalism. And his Whiggery bears Utilitarianism instead of the van... ...ople all the time.” The thing is in the very opening words of the American Constitution, and Theodore Parker calls it “the American idea” and pitches ... ...f fruits of the speculations of the eigh- teenth century, and the American Constitution is its most perfect expression. One turns, therefore, inevitab...

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.................... 34 THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF......................................................................................... 53 THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS ............................................................................................ 68 THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA ........................................................................................

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

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........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...

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...ents THE SUICIDE CLUB ....................................................................................................................... 4 STORY OF THE YOUNG MAN WITH THE CREAM TARTS .......................................................................... 4 STORY OF THE PHYSICIAN AND THE SARATOGA TRUNK....................................................................

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...Excerpt: When The Duchess Was Dead No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the first nine months after he had left office he and the Duchess remained in England. Then they had gone abroad, takin...

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...ol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative practice, which had enabled him to maintain and educate a family with all the advantages which money can give in this country. Mark was his eldest son and second child; and the fi...

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