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...Part I Chapter I I T IS A TRUTH universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However lit... ... a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surround ing families, that he is considered as th... ...ng man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with i... ...nder him supercilious; on the contrary, he was all attention to every body. By nature inoffensive, friendly and obliging, his presentation at St. Jame... ...t I have ever read, I am con vinced that it is very common indeed, that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us w... ...elp him on.” Pride and Prejudice 19 “But she does help him on, as much as her nature will allow. If I can perceive her regard for him, he must be a s... ...w all. I will read you the passage which particularly hurts me. I will have no reserves from you.” “Mr. Darcy is impatient to see his sister, and to c... ...at after their removal, it had been every where discussed; that he had then no reserves, no scruples in sink ing Mr. Darcy’s character, though he had... ... whispering a few words to her sister, ran out of the room. Jane could have no reserves from Elizabeth, where confidence would give pleasure; and insta...

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...d rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her....

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...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and t...

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...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attem...

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...Y H. G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...e of any kind. Any per- son 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. Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...when the mere facts of irresponsibility and * Published by Harper Bros. ** Nature, vol. lxv. (1901-2), p. 326, and reprinted in the Smithsonian Report... ...et you go.” Nowadays there is a real disposition to accept the quali- fied nature of one’s private certainties. One may have arrived at very definite ... ...ness, Duty or Beauty, and to hold fast to the assertion of the fundamental nature of life as a tissue and succession of births. These other things may... ...action. Something of this kind is to a slight degree already the case with Scotland, which sends out its hardy and capable sons wherever the world has... ...issioner of Police of the Metropolis. “Metropolitan Police Office, “New Scotland Yard, “January 28th, 1902.” 72 Mankind in the Making IV IV ... ...present is an altogether different thing. There are, one submits, enormous reserves of intellectual force unworked and scarcely touched, even to-day. ...

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...nment, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently r...

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...ke her with them, for their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.?...

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