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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mu...

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... the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

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...h between what is great in it, and what is mean; and many and many is the puzzle that I have had in reading History (or the works of fiction which go by that name), to know whether I should laud up to the skies, and endeavor, to the best of my small capabilities, to imitate the remarkable character about whom I was reading, or whether I should fling aside the book and the ...

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...The Chouans by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ... Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of... ...h reached to the hips only, a garment peculiar to the peasantry of western France. Beneath this jacket, which was worn open, a waistcoat of the same l... ...o the secrets of the civil discords which were then agitating the whole of France could easily have distinguished the few in- dividuals on whose fidel... ...omparison of ideas. There are no villages. The rickety buildings which the people call homes are sparsely scattered through the wilder- 16 The Chouan... ...nders of the monarchy came to recruit men among these ignorant and violent people they vainly tried to give, for the honor of the white flag, some gra... ...of the four men were finally lost to sight, Captain Merle returned, having executed the commandant’s orders with rapidity. Hulot, with two or three sh... ...o such that truth and light are due. Unjust laws have been promulgated and executed; ar- bitrary acts have threatened the safety of citizens and the l... ...ir guns. Every time the road is shady under the trees I fancy I shall hear firing, and then my heart beats and a new sensation comes over me. It is ne...

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...ction of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service...

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...21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority ... ...the squadron which recently rendered such im- portant service to the Union by his successful operations on the lower Mississippi and capture of New Or... ...uch as you, than to me. It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free ... ...e na- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six tion to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. To the people of ... ...in pontoons over the Chickahominy before morning, and that there was heavy firing on the Richmond side, begun at 5 and ceased at 7 A.M. Saturday. On t... ...bt, and for other purposes,” approved August 5, 1861, can not be peaceably executed; and that the taxes legally chargeable upon real es- tate under th... ...ral McClellan’s to General Burnside be- ing the same, of course we wish it executed as promptly as possible. A. LINCOLN. 77 The Writings of Abraham L... ...complaints. This proposition has been made especially to Great Britain, to France, to Spain, and to Prussia. In each case it has been kindly received,... ... expected to result from these measures. Our relations with Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Prussia, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, the Net...

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...OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...f Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ut still, even when his eyes were closed, his thoughts were with the young people, playing among the flowers and shrubbery of the garden. He heard the... ...em too. They would teach him something about the history and distinguished people of his country which he has never read in any of his schoolbooks.” C... ... in the midst of it they dragged her to prison. 29 Hawthorne “And was she executed?” asked Laurence. “She was,” said Grandfather. “Grandfather,” crie... ...the persecution to a close. “In 1660, the same year in which Mary Dyer was executed,” said he, “Charles II. was restored to the throne of his fathers.... ...d king, by the name of William III. Poor old King James made his escape to France.” Grandfather told how, at the first intelligence of the land ing o... ...with. He then spoke of the public affairs of the period. A new War between France and England had broken out in 1702, and had been raging ever since. ... ...ults and violence which had been offered to the soldiers justified them in firing at the mob.” “The Revolution,” observed Laurence, who had said but l...

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Excerpt: When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells.

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...of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this ...

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...The Country of the Blind And Other Stories by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Cou... ...c Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ...sh, and Mr. Frank Harris was not only printing good short stories by other people, but writing still better ones himself in the dignified pages of the... ...d better sort of pay that the short stories of the ‘nineties were written. People talked about them tremendously, compared them, and ranked them. That... ...nd the west of En- gland. For now I could see the outlines of the north of France and Ireland, and all this Island of Britain, save where Scot- land p... ...ring bleached dissections in spirits, sur- mounted by a row of beautifully executed anatomical draw- ings in white-wood frames and overhanging a row o... ...e weather changed, and the frost that had gripped all Cen- tral Europe and France and England softened towards a thaw. But you must not imagine, becau... ...am forgetting everything,” he said. “And they carried guns?” “Little guns, firing high explosive shells. They fired the guns backwards, out of the bas... ... as for me, I was out of it. I was like a man who might have prevented the firing of a magazine. The time had gone. I was no one; the vainest striplin...

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Excerpt: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.

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...Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around ... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. Thi... ...t whom little was known, except that he was a pol- ished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron—at least that his head was Byronic; but... ...her wife or chil- 5 Jules Verne dren, which may happen to the most honest people; either relatives or near friends, which is certainly more unusual. ... ... sergeant fireman at Paris, and assisted at many a big fire. But I quitted France five years ago, and, wishing to taste the sweets of domestic life, t... ...d! T o Calais; good again! After all, Passepartout, who had been away from France five years, would not be sorry to set foot on his native soil again.... ... of his sturdy shoulders in the great exhibition of the “human pyra- mid,” executed by the Long Noses of the god Tingou. This “great attraction” was t... ...bats and gymnasts. The turning on ladders, poles, balls, barrels, &c., was executed with wonderful precision. But the principal attraction was the exh... ...he car. The seconds, remaining outside, shut them in. They were to be- gin firing at the first whistle of the locomotive. After an in- terval of two m...

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Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Cla... ...ate Electronic Classics Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...; for, to young wives who come merely to say, “I have seen it,” to country people, to inexperienced youths, and to foreigners, the opera house must on... ...easure; the fashion of rats so completely went out, that in these days few people knew anything of this detail of fashionable life before the Restora-... ...it had Madame Tallien! In these days there is certainly a throne to let in France which is for her who can fill it. We among us could make a queen. I ... ... beauty which were found severally in per- fection in each one of them. In France it is extremely rare, not to say impossible, to meet with the thirty... ...s feeling has mounted to the brain of one of these great little men, after firing his heart and absorbing his senses, the poet becomes as far superior... ...er, pointing to this paragraph: “Toulon—Yesterday, Jean Francois Durut was executed here. Early in the morning the garrison,” etc. Prudence dropped th... ...murders since his dismissal from the hulks. The certainty that he would be executed, not less than the large fortune he was supposed to have, made thi...

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...A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Cl... ... Publication A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...the hideous furniture bought second-hand, or much the worse for wear. Some people no longer look the same when detached from the background of faces, ... ...of the Council to introduce you to those houses; but you will meet so many people at Mme. d’Espard’s, that you are not likely to require me. So far fr... ...t with the exception of a few knots of young fellows from the same part of France who make a group about the end of a table, the gravity of the diners... ... A second-hand carpet covered the floor—a nec- essary luxury, for it saved firing. A common office armchair, cushioned with leather, crimson once, but... ... genius for the sake of providing family reading for prud- ish England. In France you have the charming sinner, the brightly-colored life of Catholici... ... human flesh, cajoled Lucien, and did his best to secure a recruit for the squadron under his command. And Coralie watched the manoeuvres of this purv... ... purely literary articles; they will not compromise you, and we shall have executed our agreement.” Lucien saw nothing but good-fellowship and a shrew...

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Excerpt: Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...nia State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any w... ...: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 V ailima Lett... ...lone, in a place where by rights none should be beyond me, I was aware, upon interrogation, if those blows had drawn nearer, I should (of course quite... ... tion of the devil’s, the High Woods. I have been once down to Apia, to a huge native feast at Seumanutafa’s, the chief of Apia. There was a vast mass... ...age-long talk about Edinburgh folk; it was very pleasant. He has been studying in Edinburgh, along with his son; a pretty relation. He told me he knew... ...rday, I did some History in the morning, and slept most of the afternoon; and to-day, being still averse from physical labour, and the mail drawing ni... ...ein Are Set Forth the Misfortunes in Which He Was Involved upon the Appin Murder; His Troubles with Lord Advocate Prestongrange; Captivity on the Bass... ...ore. 118 Robert Louis Stevenson WEDNESDAY, I BELIEVE, 8TH JUNE. Lots of David, and lots of David, and the devil any other news. Yesterday we were sta... ...XIII. The gardener’s ladder. XXIV . The officers. XXV . Trouble with the Duke. XXVI. Fouquet again. XXVII. The Aeronaut. XXVIII. The True-Bloode...

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...nt, eldest son of William Earl of Airth and Menteith, and the singular circumstances attending the birth and history of James Stewart of Ardvoirlich, by whose hand the unfortunate nobleman fell....

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... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics... ... against the MacGregors [See Appendix No. II]. This fearful commission was executed with uncommon fury. The late excellent John Buchanan of Cambusmore... ...domination, had fired the train, by attempting to impose upon the Scottish people church ceremonies foreign to their habits and opinions. The success ... ...ifying the obli- gation to reform the Church of England, as a change to be executed “according to the word of God, and the best re- formed churches.” ... ...allowances unchallengeable; but then, sir, they are a preceese, scrupulous people, and will allow nothing for peccadilloes. So that if a boor complain... ...ashing the cup and spilling the ale, and be tamned to her!” “I was bred in France,” answered Anderson, “where no- body drinks after another out of the... ...alry. The Highlanders poured on with the proverbial fury of their country, firing their guns, and discharging their arrows, at a little distance from ... ...y to cut him down with his broadsword, as he turned from him in the act of firing the pistol. Allan M’Aulay came up at this moment. They were, ex- cep...

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Excerpt: Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott.

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...ter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics... ...h her husband, and confined with unmanly severity. Dr. Cameron was finally executed with all the severities of the law of treason; and his death remai... ... to inquire about a considerable sum of money which had been remitted from France to the friends of the exiled family. He had also a commission to hol... .... Some years after he was re- leased from his prison, and conducted out of France, he sent for this girl, who soon acquired such a dominion over him, ... ...you will say. He lays the blame of former inaccuracies on evil company—the people who were at the livery-stable were too seductive, I suppose—he denie... ...hich he wished to attain, by preserving me from the society of other young people, that, upon my word, I am always rather astonished how I should have... ...! You, who stand upon your courage, may remem- ber that I took the risk of firing the said pistol for the first time, while you stood at twenty yards’... ...bits of the people on that frontier country, where warrants are not easily executed owing to the jealousy entertained by ei- ther country of the legal...

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Excerpt: The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper.

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...Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer-... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...nce from the ground. The reader is to anticipate none of the appliances of people of condition in the description of the personal appearances of the g... ...ld, there is more or less ocean all round the land; that’s what I tell the people ashore, youngster. They are living, as it might be, in the midst of ... ...showed that here he would be com- pelled to swim. A short cessation in the firing now took place on the part of the Indians, who gathered about the ca... ...none but French to speak to.” “You don’t mean to tell me, Pathfinder, that France lies hereaway, on the opposite coast?” cried Cap, jerking a thumb ov... ...Canadas; “that one side of this bit of fresh water is Y ork, and the other France?” “I mean to tell you this is Y ork, and that is Upper Canada; and t... ...n-board at every plunge of the vessel, the duty just mentioned having been executed with the bodies of the crew frequently buried in the water, and wa... ...nchor, without the breakers, resembling some well- imagined and accurately-executed toy, intended rather for a glass case than for struggles with the ...

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Excerpt: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville.

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...Typee A Romance of the South Seas By Herman Melville A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Typ... ...ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...s see anything like stirring adventure; and many things which to fire-side people ap- pear strange and romantic, to them seem as common-place as a jac... ...r with a life of adventure. In his account of the singular and interesting people among whom he was thrown, it will be observed that he chiefly treats... ...aid them all the honours clue to royalty;— 25 Melville manning our yards, firing a salute, and making a prodigious hubbub. They ascended the accommod... ...beauty was lost to me then, and I saw nothing but the tri-coloured flag of France trailing over the stern of six vessels, whose black hulls and bristl... ...of his ancestors, the disinterested strang- ers have come all the way from France: they are determined that his title shall be acknowledged. If any tr... ... perhaps three inches in length, the interval being filled with delicately executed figures. These narrow bands of tat- tooing, thus placed, always re... ... the unconnected sketching usual among these natives—appeared to have been executed in conformity with some general design. The tattooing on his back ...

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Excerpt: Unknown To History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scottland by Charlotte M Yonge.

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...Unknown to History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland By Charlotte M Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication U... ...lication Unknown To History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scottland by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ... was cruising on the eastern coast to watch over the inter- course between France and Scotland, whether in the interest of the imprisoned Mary, or of ... ... the babe might belong to some of the Queen of Scotland’s party fleeing to France, others fathering her on the refugees from the persecutions in Fland... ...one Master Snigg, or Sniggius, for the children of the numerous colony who peopled the castle. Girls, as well as boys, were taught there, and thus Cis... ...dgefield part of her regular rounds, and took little commissions which she executed for the household of Sheffield, who were, as the Cavendish sisters... ... go and spoil it all with folly about Papists, and Spaniards, and grown-up people’s non- sense that nobody cares about!” Cis had a rare power over bot... ...wool, a piece of unbleached linen, and a skein of white thread. Queen Mary executed therewith an exquisite piece of em- broidery, which having escaped... ... the Lady at Fotheringhay . I prom- ise you there was ringing of bells and firing of cannon, and 367 Charlotte M. Yonge lighting of bonf...

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...arrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this report withou...

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...t 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash sit... ...esident of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five... ...onsideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation’s capital at a time of great partisan di... ...mitted to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public testimony ... ...ucted it to poll all its centers about suspect aircraft.The Command Center executed the request and, a minute later, Cleveland Center reported that “U... ...e wanted to make sure the Presi- dent was told that the Vice President had executed the order. He said he had not heard any prior discussion on the su... ...ge taking in the 1970s. In June 1976, Palestinian terrorists seized an Air France plane and landed it at Entebbe in Uganda, holding 105 Israelis and o... ...m, the 1986 strike on Libya and the 1993 strike against Iraq.They proposed firing Tomahawks against eight terrorist camps in Afghanistan, including Bi... ...wearing Western clothes and occasionally renting cars for trips to Berlin, France, and the Netherlands. 71 As a student, Shehhi was less than a succes...

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...THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The ... ...E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Th... ...urches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...ich this great Prince has earned. ’ (Abrege Chronologique de l’Histoire de France (Paris, 1775), p. 701.) So stands it written; in lasting memorial of... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been carried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and been ... ... Maupeou: 13 Thomas Carlyle these, as they sit in their high places, with France harnessed under their feet, know well on what basis they continue th... ...kness. The device seems feasible, it is eminently needful: be it once well executed, great deliverance is wrought. Silent, then, and steady; now or 6... ...sign capitu- lation; to engage that the Lettres-de-Cachet shall remain un- executed, and a beloved Parlement stay where it is. Besancon, Dijon, Rouen,... ... Besenval indeed is at hand with sol- diers; but they have orders to avoid firing, and are not prompt to stir. On Monday morning the explosion of peta...

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Excerpt: War and Peace: Book Nine by Leo Tolstoy.

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace: Book Nine by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. Th... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace: Book Nine by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Se... ...nged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them. To us, their descend... ...ad there not been an auto- cratic government in Russia, or a Revolution in France and a subsequent dictatorship and Empire, or all the things that pro... ...toric significance. The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the more people he is connected with and the more power he has over others, the more... ...a, especially when that de- mand became generally known and the dignity of France was thereby offended. Balashev replied that there was nothing offens... ...ated from the man who gave it or from the Emperor and whether it had to be executed or not. But this was only the external condition; the essential si... ...lties the whole fault lay in the fact that his plan had not been precisely executed. He kept laughing sarcastically, he demonstrated, and at last cont... ... Before Rostov had had time to consider and determine the distance of that firing, Count Ostermann-Tolstoy’s adjutant came galloping from Vitebsk with...

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Excerpt: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

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...Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. Thi... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...was gradually filling. The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle... ...d he stood waiting for an op- portunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. CHAPTER III ANNA PA VLOVNA’S RECEPTION was in ful... ...e. The princess listened, smiling. “If Buonaparte remains on the throne of France a year longer,” the vicomte continued, with the air of a man who, in... ...s toes, now on his heels; until, turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspir... ... of some seven hundred yards was all that separated them. The enemy ceased firing, and that stern, threatening, inac- cessible, and intangible line wh... ...feel that we are being deceived, my instinct tells me of negotiations with France and projects for peace, a se- cret peace concluded separately.” “Imp... ...The slur on my name and honor—that’s all apart from myself. “Louis XVI was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a criminal,” came into P...

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...Introduction: ?For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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...gs) A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ese young men were arrested, subjected to many indignities, dragged across France like criminals, and closely confined in a Concentration Camp at La F... ... of the situa- tion to say that young Cummings is an enthusiastic lover of France and so loyal to the friends he has made among the French soldiers, t... ...d- ded a number of times. The moustache rang. I understood that these kind people were planning to make me out the innocent victim of a wily villain, ... ... as my friend has so often said to me, the French are after all the finest people in the world.” This double-blow stopped Noyon dead, but only for a s... ...myself. I should make a great speech (in Midi French). I should say to the firing squad: “Gentlemen, c’est de la blague, tu sais? Moi, je connais la s... ...gy creature and as his longish black suit was somewhat too big for him, he executed a series of profound efforts in extin- guishing the candles. In fa... ...th black eyes and a great smile and woolly paws—which noise, conceived and executed by The Lobster, sent The Enormous Room into an absolute and incura...

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...the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; and in several instances these versions have been incorporated, after some revision or necessary correction, into the following collection; but on the oth...

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...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn... ...ectronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. is a p... ... Dis- pute respecting the Succession of Juliers. — Designs of Henry IV. of France. — Formation of the Union. — The League. — Death of the Em- peror Ro... ...es the 5 Friedrich Schiller Command of the Imperial Troops. — Treaty with France. — Congress at Leipzig. — Siege and cruel fate of Magdeburg. — Firmn... ...werless would have been the ar- guments of theologians; and the cry of the people would never have met with princes so willing to espouse their cause,... ...r blood for the personal objects of their princes. And well was it for the people that, on this occasion, their interests coincided with those of thei... ...si- bly to wheel northwards, and the rapidity with which this movement was executed left no time to the enemy to prevent it. Tilly at last left his he... ... which amidst a tremendous fire from the Swedish artillery he successfully executed. The conquest of Donauwerth opened to the king the further side of... ...nged to the rebels, fired their muskets after him, but without effect. The firing, however, aroused the town-guard, and all Leslie’s presence of mind ...

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Excerpt: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by U.S. Grant.

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...RY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ... Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylva... ............................................... 365 CHAPTER VIII I TRA VEL TO FRANCE AND BRING HOME A PORTRAIT OF RIGAUD. .................................. ... last an extraordi- nary brightness and freshness of complexion; nor would people believe that she did not wear rouge. At sixty years of age she still... ...eard my father use a rough word, ’twas extraordinary with how much awe his people regarded him; and the servants on our plantation, both those assigne... ...ll off her periwig and cease to be court-ridden? Shall we see something of France and England besides V ersailles and Windsor? I saw Queen Anne at the... ...t to Whitefoot, and she trotted home. We rode on towards Newbury; we heard firing towards midday: at two o’clock a horseman comes up to us as we were ... ...would only sigh and shake her head. Before those fatal decrees in life are executed, there are always secret pre- visions and warning omens. When ever... ... Lord— my Lord Murderer—(I will never name him)—was let loose, a woman was executed at Tyburn for stealing in a shop. But a man may rob another of his...

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... sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, by an entire change of life, and by a long absence from books and study, a weakness of the eyes, which had obliged me to give up my pursuits, and which no medical aid seemed likely to cure....

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... Two Years Before the Mast by Richard HENRY DANA 1840 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global ... ...GRESS HOMEWARD—A PLEASANT . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 SUNDAY—A FINE SIGHT—BY PLAY CHAPTER XXXIV — NARROW ESCAPES—THE EQUATOR—TROPICAL . . . . . . ... ...l at fault. Unintelligible orders were so rapidly given and so immediately executed; there was such a hurrying about, and such an intermingling of... ... about; loud and, to me, unintelligible orders constantly given and rapidly executed, and the sailors ‘‘singing out’’ at the ropes in their hoarse an... ...e no one cares for; so that when ‘‘the mate’’ thinks fit to entertain ‘‘the people’’ with a coarse joke or a little practical wit, every one feels b... ...t among landsmen about a sailor’s life. Nothing is more common than to hear people say—‘‘Are not sailors very idle at sea?—what can they find to do?’... ...ames were drawn out, and the men took their stations with their rifles, and, firing at the word, laid him dead. He was decently buried, and the place ... ...ve served his time in the smuggling trade between Germany and the coasts of France and England. Thus he accounted for his knowledge of the French la... ...ews was all over the ship that there was a war between the United States and France. Exag- gerated accounts reached the forecastle. Battles had been...