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...George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis,... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Diana of the Cro... ...gies will furnish one; and here we see England and Ireland changeing their parts, until later, after the breach, when the English- man and Irishwoman ... ... their mutual high standard of womankind. Diana was in eclipse, full three parts. The bulk of the gentlemanly official she had chosen obscured her. Bu... ...bjects, his talk was passable. The subjects treated of politics, pictures, Continental travel, our manufactures, our wealth and the reasons for it —ex... ...ailways are rapidly “polishing off” the individual.’ ‘They will spread the metropolitan idea of comfort.’ ‘I fear they will feed us on nothing but tha... ... digested.’ ‘I wonder whether it is affecting me !’ said Diana, musing. ‘A metropolitan hack! and while thinking myself free, thrice harnessed; and al...

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...ENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...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... ...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Portrait of ... ...always noted with 53 Henry James pleasure, was that of the more luxuriant parts of New England. At the end of his life he had become, on his own grou... ...rged with the light of a passion that had sifted itself clear of the baser parts of emotion—the heat, the vio- lence, the unreason—and that burned as ... ...ese days spent in sounding, tourist-fashion, the deeps and shallows of the metropolitan element. Isabel was full of premises, conclusions, emotions; i... ...She had arranged with her friend Miss Annie Climber, the young lady of the continental offers, that they should go together to make those purchases wh... ... arrive, Henrietta added; speaking quite as if Isabel were to start on her continental journey alone and making no allusion to Mrs. Touchett. Bearing ...

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...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ...ssumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiave... ...ing play of instinctive passion and desire against too abstract a dream of statesmanship. But things that seemed to lie very far apart in Machiavelli’... ...English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of some geographical work, a Voyage Round the World I think it was ca... ...ver the liberation of London from the corrupt and devastating control of a Metropolitan Board of Works. Then there were also School Boards; I was alre... ...ve to come.” “Things are being done?” “Oh!—no doubt of it. It’s one of the parts of the British machinery—that doesn’t show… . But nobody else could d... ...me those uneasinesses that had been aroused in me for the first time by my continental journey with Willersley and by Meredith’s “One of Our Conqueror...

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...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith 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... ...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis,... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beauchamp’s Care... ...red. He would have deemed it as vain a subject to dis- course of India, or Continental affairs, at a period when his house was full for the opening da... ...nding of public opinion, that are as little to be compared with the mighty metropolitan as are the fife and bugle boys practising on their instruments... ... grown, the outcome and image of our genius, and all are dissatisfied with parts of it; but, as each would preserve his own, the surest guarantee is o... ...r women,’ he remarked. ‘I map the places for pretty women in England; some parts of Norfolk, and a spot or two in Cumberland and Wales, and the island... ...ply to be regretted that Englishmen abroad— women the same, I fear—get the Continental tone in mor- als. But how Captain Beauchamp could expect to car...

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether...

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...s A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylva- ... ...ity. 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... ...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ...ssumes any responsi- bility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Life and Adven... ... wrong at home, so I then hoped that the good-humored people of the United States would not be generally disposed to quarrel with me for carrying the ... ... June and July, 1843—at about the time when I was engaged in writing those parts of the book; and which remain on the file of the Times Newspaper, of ... ... mem- bers as shall be introduced in these pages, have still many counter- parts and prototypes in the Great World about us. At present it contents it... ...he least regard (but he never had much) for the tailors’, where the newest metropolitan waistcoat patterns were hanging up, which by some strange tran... ...s I tell my friend, the beehive, the beehive. You projected a short little continental trip, my dear friend, of course?’ Jonas maintained a dogged sil...

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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 O...

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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... ...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni versity nor Jim Manis,... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiography by... .... Contemporaneously with the Organon, my father made me read the whole or parts of several of the Latin treatises on the scholastic logic; giving eac... ...er, owing to his obscure style and to the scholastic details of which many parts of his trea tise are made up, is little read, and seldom sufficientl... ...hat of having breathed for a whole year, the free and genial atmosphere of Continental life. This advan tage was not the less real though I could not... ...arried away from the society I saw, was a strong and permanent interest in Continental Liberalism, of which I ever afterwards kept myself au courant ... ... took up Whately’s Logic, then first republished from the Encyclo pedia Metropolitana, and finally the Computatio sive Logica of Hobbes. These boo... ...success. Another duty which was particularly incumbent on me as one of the Metropolitan Members, was the attempt to obtain a Municipal Govern ment fo...

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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... ...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Egoist by Ge... ...The Egoist allegiance. They are sometimes enervated by it: that must be in continental countries. Happily our climate and our brave blood precipitate ... ...e Egoist was at either hand of him; the only two that had ever, apart from metropolitan conquests, not to be recited, touched his emotions. Susceptibl... ...laves; he ruled arrogantly in the world of women; he was more himself. His metropolitan experiences did not answer to his liking the particular questi... ...e. Considering that she wounded him severely, her reversal of their proper parts, by taking the part belonging to him, and requiring his watchfulness,... ...Tis a genial advertisement of a vacancy,” said De Craye. “Precisely: three parts auctioneer to one for the property.” “Oh, if you have a musical quack...