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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ...as sung out from the mast head. “Where away?” demanded the captain. “Three points off the lee bow, sir.” “Raise up your wheel. Steady!” “Steady, sir.”... ...unds it with her surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme down town is the Battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves,... ...d seem ingly bound for a dive. Strange! Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder wareho... ...rd, and then keeping that on the larboard hand till we made a corner three points to the starboard, and that done, then ask the first man we met where ... ...al, was carried on between Europe and the long line of the opulent Spanish provinces on the Pacific coast. It was the whaleman who first broke through t... ...last they carry home the oil of forty fish. Whereas, in the days of the old Canadian and Indian hunters and trappers of the West, when the far west (in...

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....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

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...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope 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... ...the nature of his intelligence, he understands why it is that he is at all points a free man. But if this be so of our own politics; if it be so rare ... ...wo have agreed to differ. But slavery has not caused it, seeing that other points of difference are to be found in every circumstance and feature of t... ...nd, but is shared by New York and Washington, and in ordinary years by the extreme South. It is the habit of Americans to go to some watering-place ev... ...oyalty. If the Canadas were to rebel now, I should be for putting down the Canadians with a strong hand; but not the less have I an idea that it will ... ...ot obliged to reach that place via Montreal. Quebec is the present seat of Canadian government, its 52 North America V ol. 1 turn for that honor havi... ...e municipalities of which I speak extend, I believe, to all Canada—the two provinces being divided into counties, and the counties subdivided into tow... ...ld be over. The saw-mills, however, were at full work, and to my eyes were extremely picturesque. I had been told that the beauty of the falls had bee...

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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... ...make. For the price of a Dreadnought one might have hundreds. They will be extremely hard to hit with any sort of missile. I do not think a large army... ... of missile. I do not think a large army of under-educated, under-trained, extremely unwilling con- scripts is going to be any good against this sort ... ...ehindhand in our mechanical knowledge and invention M. Blériot’s aeroplane points also to the fleet. The struggle for naval supremacy is not merely a ... ...presses, tubes, motor-buses and motor cars are just the bright, remarkable points—is this: that it dissolves almost all the reason and necessity why m... ...hem that the whole next 34 An Englishman Looks at the World generation of Canadians has drawn its ideas mainly from American publications, that India... ... contrast of “modern” with “serious” literature, that babbles about in the provinces so incessantly. Gramophones thinly disguised as bishops, gramopho... ...e French Catholic population of Louisiana, the Irish Catholics, the French-Canadians who are now ousting the sterile New Englander from New England, t...

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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of... ...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... ...oic defence of the Knights of Malta against the Turks, and of the revolted Provinces of the Netherlands against Spain, excited in me an intense and la... ...e whitewashing of despots, and blackening of popular institu tions. These points he discoursed on, exemplifying them from the Greek orators and histo... ...ere wars and conquests of the Romans. I dis cussed all the constitutional points as they arose: though quite ignorant of Niebuhr’s researches, I, by ... ...ese languages altogether from general educa tion. If I had been by nature extremely quick of apprehen 20 Autobiography sion, or had possessed a ver... ... most anxiously guarded against. This was self con ceit. He kept me, with extreme vigilance, out of the way of hearing myself praised, or of being le... ...accepted from them the task of ascertaining and removing the causes of the Canadian rebellion; he had shown a disposition to surround himself at the o... ...eared to be returning a defeated and discred ited man. I had followed the Canadian events from the be ginning; I had been one of the prompters of hi...

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....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................

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...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill 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... ...itted to fulfill those pur poses. Having satisfied ourselves on these two points, and ascertained the form of government which combines the greatest ... ...desire, and most probably to demand. I am far from condemning, in cases of extreme exigency, the assumption of absolute power in the form of a tempo ... ... representative government by the contrary fault to that last specified—by extreme pas siveness, and ready submission to tyranny. If a people thus pr... ...hey can be. Parlia ment does not nominate any minister, but the crown ap points the head of the administration in conformity to the general wishes a... ...ecognized doctrine of some representative governments. In the Dutch United Provinces, the members of the States General were mere delegates; and to su... ...faction among the colonists; and this persistence in domineering cost us a Canadian rebellion before we had the happy thought of giving it up. England... ...rly lost, Sir William Molesworth, when he appointed Mr. Hinckes, a leading Canadian politician, to a West In dian government. It is a very shallow vi...

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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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...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...with a clear felicity of tone—as a bird sings. He saw life around him with extreme clear- ness, and he felt it as it is—thinner than air and more elus... ... the feminine mind. It cannot be denied that he thinks very little. In him extreme energy of perception achieves great results, as in men of action th... ... is like! His quiet days require no fewer than forty-two of the forty-nine provinces of Spain to take their ease in. For his unquiet days, I presume, ... ...ve the desired effect to the doctrines of science. In uninspired phrase he points to the arts playing once upon a time a part in “popularising the Chr... ...res is defined precisely by their frontier line running through the Polish provinces. Without indulging in excessive feelings of indignation at that c... ... in this matter nor yet penal servitude for anyone. The Di- rectors of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company did not sell “safety at sea” to the people... ...dgment of the men in command, away from their possible errors and from the points the Court will have to decide, if we ask ourselves what it was that ...