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...TEVENSON 1918 edition A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1918 ed.) is a publication of the Penn... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1918 ed.), the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...................................................................... 109 8 New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1918) New Poems by Robert Louis Steven... ...hee Lest I should fall: Show me Thyself in all I see, Thou Lord of all. 9 New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1918) LO! IN THINE HONEST EYES I READ ... ...ight; And thou shalt ever rule in me Crowned with the light of memory. 10 New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1918) MY HEART, WHEN FIRST THE BLACK-B... ..., But priest and people slumber hard. We two are early forth, and hear The nations snoring far and near. So peacefully their rest they take, It seems ... ..., friend. To thee I own my weakness. Not for me To sing the enfranchised nations’ glee, Or count the cost Of warships foundered far at sea And battl... ...he uncertain poise of merchant weal, Heaven of famine, fire and steel When nations fall; These, heedful, from afar I feel – I mark them all. But not, ... ...ight into my eyes – For notice still the writer cries. In any civil age or nation, The book that is not talked of dies. So that shall be my terminatio...

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...LI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells THE NEW MACHIAVELLI by H. G. Wells BOOK THE FIRST THE MAKING OF A MAN CHAPTER C... ... ceived books. One does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way of living, and I have found myself with the teeming interests of th... ...tive spirit in politics to individual character and weaknesses, and 4 The New Machiavelli so far his achievement lies like a deep rut in the road of ... ...ft and crime. No King, no council, can seize and torture me; no Church, no nation silence me. Such powers of ruthless and complete suppres- sion have ... ...o stimulate them by money payments. The State set up a machinery of exami- nation both in Science and Art and for the elementary schools; and payments... ...the Cage Fields, and presently extended right up the London Road. A single national school in an inconve- nient situation set itself inadequately to c... ...wift retribution that fell upon individuals for Sabbath-breaking, and upon nations for weakening towards Ritualism, or treating Ro- man Catholics as t...

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... the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Atalantis by Francis Bacon, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. THE NEW ATLANTIS by FRANCIS BACON. (Written in 1626.) NEW ATLANTIS WE SAILED... ...ds or continents that hitherto were not come to light. Wherefore we bent The New Atlantis – Bacon 3 our course thither, where we saw the appearance ... ...e cross to that instrument was to us a great rejoicing, and as it were a The New Atlantis – Bacon 4 certain presage of good. Our answer was in the S... ...u, by the mer its of the Saviour, that ye are no pirates; nor have shed The New Atlantis – Bacon 5 blood, lawfully or unlawfully, within forty days... ...of our mouths ere we should forget either this reverend person or this whole nation, in our prayers. We also most humbly besought him to accept of us ... ...from the land where our Saviour walked on earth) who was the apostle of that nation, and how it was converted to the faith? It appeared in his face th... ...happy island, where we now stood, was known to few, and yet knew most of the nations of the world, which we found to be true, considering they had the... ...g or glimpse of this island. This we found won derful strange; for that all nations have interknowledge one of another, either by voyage into foreign...

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...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electron... ...Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of... ... in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania S... ...ather sChair THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A A A A AUTHOR’S PREF... ...t as to manufacture delicate playthings out of the granite, rocks on which New England is founded. 6 TheWholeHistoryofGrandfather sChair GRANDFATHER’... ...erhaps their feelings of brother hood were the stronger because different nations had formed settlements to the north and to the south. In Canada and... ...ce. “No,” replied Grandfather; “the different colonies did not compose one nation together; it was merely a confederacy among the governments: It some... ...ced in the Earl of Lincoln’s hall. And what vast changes of society and of nations had been wrought by sudden convulsions or by slow degrees since tha... ... have taught him that the poor man’s hearth is sacred, and that armies and nations have no right to violate it. It should have made him feel that Engl...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 squar...

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...sippi By Mark Twain [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] THE BODY OF THE NATION BUT THE BASIN OF THE M ISSISSIPPI is the body of the nation ... ...o this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains... ...ifty feet. But at Bayou La Fourche the river rises only twenty four feet; at New Orleans only fif teen, and just above the mouth only two and one hal... ...fif teen, and just above the mouth only two and one half. An article in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, state... ...k. The world and the books are so accustomed to use, and over use, the word ‘new’ in connection with our country, that we early get and permanently re... ...arted down the Illinois, with a fol lowing of eighteen Indians brought from New England, and twenty three Frenchmen. They moved in procession down th... ...igns had occupied the throne of England, America had become an indepen dent nation, Louis XIV . and Louis XV . had rotted and died, the French monarc... ...isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the de struction of nationalities the serious business of my life! The boundless vastness of ... ...know for?” I said I thought it might be a convenience to him. “Convenience D nation! Didn’t I tell you that a man’s got to know the river in the night...

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...: for I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe, though it be told you -- 6. For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not their?s -- 7. They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves....

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...h it be told you. 6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the... ...hall they therefore empty their net, and not spare con tinually to slay the nations? Chapter 2 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the towe... ...s hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: 6 Shall not all these take up a... ..., and thou shalt be for booties unto them? 8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s... ...s feet. 6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hil...

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...if we except the cities of Greece, none at all--in the grandeur of architectural display. Speaking even of London, we ought in all reason to say--the Nation of London, and not the City of London; but of Rome in her palmy days, nothing less could be said in the naked severity of logic. A million and a half of souls--that population, apart from any other distinctions, is per...

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...ctural display. Speaking even of London, we ought in all reason to say—the Nation of London, and not the City of London; but of Rome in her palmy days... ...arliest Cæsar, had prosper- ously begun. And thus by one godlike man was a nation-city matured; and from the everlasting and nameless* city was a man ... ...r revealed. 6 The Cæsars were no longer the rulers of a vast and polished nation. They were regarded as barbarians—potent only by their standing army... ...elf, are the four monarchies. Four times have the dis- tributive forces of nations gathered themselves, under the strong compression of the sword, int... ...ll confine ourselves as much as possible to those which are susceptible of new as- pects. For the whole gallery of those who follow, we can un- dertak... ...n has ever been applied to them, and that many might easily be placed in a new light. Indeed, the whole of this most momentous sec- tion of ancient hi... ...ibution of Roman influence, were such as to leave a pos- sibility that any new triumvirate should arise—so long Augustus was secretly meditating a ret... ...ud- denly it was suggested, as if by chance, that a ship of the emperor’s, new and properly equipped, was moored at a neighboring station. This was re... ...- ing the difficulty. In reality, the citizens of Rome were at this time a new race, brought together from every quarter of the world, but especially ...

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...Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations -- 6. Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child....

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...HE THE THE THE THE O O O O OLD LD LD LD LD AND AND AND AND AND N N N N NEW EW EW EW EW T T T T TEST EST EST EST ESTAMENTS AMENTS AMENTS AMENTS... ... out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. 6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a ch... ... have put my words in thy mouth. 10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destro... ...edar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. 11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have change... ...At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: n... ... king’s house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD’s house. 11 Then spake the priests and the prophets un... ...lt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? For the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man. 23 Thus saith the LORD... ... set on edge. 31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not ... ...ah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD’s house, in the ears of all the people. 11 When Michai...

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...venties, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New Y ork. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropo... ...f the erection, in remote metropolitan distances “above the Forties,” of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those... ...cher- ished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the “new people” whom New Y ork was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and ... ...in the house where Mrs. Ar- cher allowed smoking. But, in the first place, New Y ork was a metropolis, and perfectly aware that in metropolises it was... ... was or was not “the thing” played a part as important in Newland Archer’s New Y ork as the inscrutable totem terrors that had ruled the destinies of ... ...ithout a word seemed to the young man to bring them nearer than any expla- nation would have done. Her eyes said: “Y ou see why Mamma brought me,” and... ...ir ambassadors. The guests had been selected with a boldness and discrimi- nation in which the initiated recognised the firm hand of Catherine the Gre... ...rcher, getting up. “Look here—the fog’s lifting. If we made a dash for the National Gallery we might manage to catch a glimpse of the pictures.” THE N... ...rivate tu- tor—or a `private’ anything—is almost as chilling to the imagi- nation as a second secretaryship at Bucharest. Sometimes I feel I must make...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Who will be the new bishop? In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be the new Bishop? The ...

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...y Trollope Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER I WHO WILL BE THE NEW BISHOP? I n the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important ... ...y of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways—Who was to be the new Bishop? The death of old Dr Grantly, who had for many years filled the ... ...came at last a matter of intense inter- est to those concerned whether the new appointment should be made by a conservative or liberal government. Bis... ...nd wafted his name in eulogistic strains through every reading-room in the nation. It was discovered also, that he was the author of that great musica... ...e was the author of that great musical work, Harding’s Church Music,—and a new edi- tion was spoken of, though, I believe, never printed. It is, howev... ...d not but be satisfactory to the city and Bishop of Barchester, and to the nation at large. The wisdom of this scheme was testified by the number of l... ...n other things. The first threatenings of a huge war hung heavily over the nation, and the question as to Hiram’s heirs did not ap- pear to interest v... ...or, that notice was given that the reform was about to be carried out. The new law and the new bishop were among the earliest works of a new ministry,... ...y in a few 65 Anthony Trollope months be submitted to the councils of the nation. There was something so ambiguously frightful in this last threat th...

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...hat of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-for... ... violate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference to them. A. D. had no conc... ...onourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new part- ner in such a House, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stir... ... rather—not— ‘See,’ interposed the family practitioner with another incli- nation of the head. ‘Quite so,’ said Doctor Parker Peps,’ which we would ra... ...me, all that even his alliance could have made his own wife, that in every new rejection of a candidate he felt a secret pleasure. The time had now co... ...close-cut moneyed gentlemen who 22 Dombey & Son are glossy and crisp like new bank-notes, and who seem to be artificially braced and tightened as by ... ...e Captain proceeded gravely . ‘Cap’en Cuttle is my name, and England is my nation, this here is my dwelling-place, and blessed be creation—Job,’ said ... ...us last bottle but one of the old Madeira, in the little back parlour. The nation of ideas, thus awakened, did the Captain a great deal of good; it so... ... into total darkness, or whether, in the jumble of her faculties, a combi- nation of these effects had been shaken up, which is perhaps 533 Charles D...

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...ont of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new....

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...hat of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-for... ... violate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference to them. A. D. had no conc... ...onourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new part- ner in such a House, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stir... ... rather—not— ‘See,’ interposed the family practitioner with another incli- nation of the head. ‘Quite so,’ said Doctor Parker Peps,’ which we would ra... ...me, all that even his alliance could have made his own wife, that in every new rejection of a candidate he felt a secret pleasure. The time had now co... ...close-cut moneyed gentlemen who 22 Dombey & Son are glossy and crisp like new bank-notes, and who seem to be artificially braced and tightened as by ...

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................. 64 7. JIMMY GOGGLES THE GOD ................................................................................................ 76 8. THE NEW ACCELERATOR .................................................................................................... 88 9. MR. LEDBETTER?S VACATION.................................................................................

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.................................................................. 76 8. THE NEW ACCELERATOR .............................................................. ...ty was the elastic lining of the contractile balloon. He found he needed a new substance, and in the discovery and manufacture of that new substance h... ...or his contractile balloon was discovered to be useful for the valves of a new oil-engine, and he obtained the means for making a trial model of his i... ... witnesses of this affair, and those for the most part uneducated men. The New Rom- ney doctor saw the ascent but not the descent, his horse be- ing f... ...r some further screed upon the subject to Banghurst, the proprietor of the New Paper, and one of the ablest and most unscrupulous men in Lon- don jour... ... down and think out a case. Or a barrister—or a man cramming for an exami- nation.” “Worth a guinea a drop,” said I, “and more to men like that.” “And... ... some educa- tion,” he said, lighting a cigar. “No—don’t begin that expla- nation of yours. I know it will be long-winded from your face, and I am muc...

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...n have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wish also to thank for many favors the Committee and officers of the Glasgow University Library....

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... of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornel... ...es, which ac- cordingly appeared in the London Magazine in that year. This new sensation eclipsed Lamb’s Essays of Elia, which were ap- pearing in the... ... De Quincey seems to have believed that he was creating in such writings a new literary type of prose poetry or prose phantasy; he had, with his splen... ... WORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS 1. The Collected Writings of Thomas de Quincey. New and enlarged edition by David Masson. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1889-... ... enlarged edition by David Masson. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1889-1890. [New York: The Macmillan Co. 14 vols., with footnotes, a preface to each vol... ...ess, of danger—over- ruled all obstacles into one steady co-operation to a national result. For my own feeling, this post-office service spoke as by s... ...onflicts of ordinary warfare, so often no more than gladiatorial trials of national prowess. The victo- ries of England in this stupendous contest ros... ...more beneficial to ourselves than finally to France, our enemy, and to the nations of all western or central Eu- rope, through whose pusillanimity it ... ...ty it was that the French domination had prospered. The mail-coach, as the national organ for publishing these mighty events, thus diffusively influen...

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...miles away marks a city. All the appointments of this room were orderly and beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple costume the man wore suggested neither period nor country. It might, I thought, be the Happy Future, or Utopia, or the Land of Simple Dreams; an erra...

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... beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple... ...nd I am out of touch with my youth. The old life seems so cut off from the new, so alien and so unreasonable, that at times I find it bordering upon t... ...ssion; and a curious accident put me for a time in the very nucleus of the new order. My memory takes me back across the interval of fifty years to a ... ... in hand, and sought and found and was uncertain about and lost again, the new comet. I thought the comet no more than a nuisance then be- cause I wan... ...e heed to the things he told me. It was the first time I had heard of this new speck among the countless specks of heaven, and I did not care if I nev... ... undeserving friends. There was a long frameful of his work in the Clayton National School, for example, inscribed in old English lettering, “Italian ... ...o the cottage, I fell talking rather more freely with her father about the nationalization of railways, and my spirits and temper had so far mended at... ...units of energy, it effected noth- ing. The old war of savage and barbaric nations did at least change humanity, you assumed yourselves to be a superi... ...head —they could have bought the whole of that preposterous imitation of a nation for a tenth of that sum—and except for a few substitutions of person...

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...Excerpt: Your name, dear George, while casting a reflected radiance on my book, can gain no new glory from this page. And yet it is neither self-interest nor diffidence which has led me to place it there, but only the wish that it should bear witness to the solid friendship between us, which has survived our wanderi...

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... dear George, while casting a reflected radi- ance on my book, can gain no new glory from this page. And yet it is neither self-interest nor diffidenc... ...e materials necessary for writing to you, meditat- ing all the while on my new situation. This, my fair sweetheart, is a true and veracious account of... ...has ceased to exist; we have only individuals. In their desire to become a nation, French- men have abandoned the idea of empire; in proclaiming the e... ...e left but penal or fiscal laws—your money or your life. The most generous nation on the earth will have ceased to obey the call of noble instincts. W... ...through the lesson. Like a man roused from lethargy, he re- vealed to me a new world of thoughts. He told me the story of some poor devil of a valet w... ... coldness, Louis grew bolder, and his nature expanded. I saw on his face a new expression, a look of youth. The greater refinement which I introduced ... ...y one joy, and it is supreme, springs from the certainty of having brought new life to my husband before I have borne 64 Letters of Two Brides him an... ...t short. My heart turned to ice within me as, hopeless of any other expla- nation, I concluded that you had ceased to love me. With heavy heart, and y... ... in all the innocent pleasures of a clandestine love affair. If the culmi- nation of your love begins with disappointment, dislike, nay, even with pai...

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...ost and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the boat up on the landing-stage before we went up to the riverside inn, where we found our new acquaintance eating his dinner in dignified loneliness at the head of a long table, white and inhospitable like a snow bank....

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...e landing-stage before we went up to the riverside inn, where we found our new acquaintance eating his dinner in dignified loneliness at the head of a... ...hands. “That day I wouldn’t have called the Queen my cousin,” declared our new acquaintance enthusiastically. At that time the Marine Board examinatio... ...the trying to get an officer’s berth with nothing much to show but a brand-new certificate. It is surprising how useless you find that piece of ass’s ... ...to him. His desk is by the win- dow. Go up boldly and say I sent you.” Our new acquaintance looking from one to the other of us declared: “Upon my wor... ...mur- mured that he “remembered him very well.” Then there was a pause. Our new acquaintance had be- come involved in a vexatious difficulty with his p... ... of time had not the high-toned governess threatened to send in her resig- nation. She didn’t care for the child a bit, and the lonely, gloomy Priory ... ... with righ- teousness, the inseparable companion and backer up of all such national catch-words, looking everybody in the eye as it 54 Chance were. T... ...he grave tones of the dailies rumbling with compassion as if they were the national bowels. All this lasted a whole week of industri- ous sittings. A ... ...om in which the voice of the amiable visitor resounded with a vulgar into- nation exhorting the strayed sheep to return to the delightful 123 Joseph ...