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Excerpt: The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells.

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...s A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...es near Bromstead Station. They were big clumsy residences in the earliest Victorian style, interminably high and with deep damp basements and downsta... ...nt chiefly crude and ridiculous aspects. The distrust of government in the Victorian days was far too great, and the general intelli- gence far too lo... ... one boy, Britten, my especial chum, the son of the Agent-General for East Australia. We two discovered in a chance conversation a propos of a map in ... ...e gratifying spectacle of three trucks 120 The New Machiavelli laden with executed orders. Then we went up a creaking outside staircase to his little... ...d. Thank God! I’ll soon be out of it! The shame of it! The very savages in Australia initiate their children bet- ter than the English do to-day. Neit...

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Excerpt: My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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... The... ... University assumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...ng this page by the fireside at Home, and hearing the night wind rumble in the chimney, that slight obstruction was the uppermost fragment of the Wrec... ...f as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wales. I had heard of that clergy- man, as having buried many sc... ...the way was steep, and a horse and cart (in which it was wrapped in a sheet) were necessary, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was... ...was not there. There is no doubt about it. There was no such thing in that building, that Sunday evening. I have been told since, that the lowest part... ...The British Boaxe, was announced to be given at the close of the evening. In an evil hour, I determined to wait for this Boaxe, as became a Briton. It... ...those who are put in authority over us. Any animated description of a modern battle, any private soldier’s letter published in the newspapers, any pag... ... sat contemplating one another across bare counters, while the wasps, who seemed to have taken military possession of the town, and to have placed it ...

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...20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 ... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. Thi... ...a- tion Company, had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia. Captain Baker thought at first that he was in the presence of an... ...e form of the dilemma. Either we do know all the varieties of beings which people our planet, or we do not. If we do not know them all—if Nature has s... ...mplished under the most favourable auspices. It was then the bad season in Australia, the July of that zone corresponding to our January in Europe, bu... ...lled in its cage in the Jardin des Plantes, and have drawn all the curious people of the capital!” “As you say, Conseil. I fancy we shall run a fair c... ...micircle. “Right the helm, go ahead,” cried the captain. These orders were executed, and the frigate moved rap- idly from the burning light. I was mis... ...ea sion. The Nautilus easily avoided the breakers of Money to port and the Victoria reefs to starboard, placed at 130º long. and on the 10th parallel,...

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...The Clever Woman of the F amily by Charlotte M. Y onge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...ate Electronic Classics Series Publication The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...l hurry to the drawing-room, and tear open the black-edged letter with the Australian stamp. “All is right, mamma. She has been very ill, but is fast ... ...estioning and perplexed. “I was thinking,” said Grace, “that I believe the people at the Cliff Cottages are going away, and that Miss Williams might b... ...iving in state here,” said Rachel; “I never could enter into the cult some people, mamma especially, pay to their drawing-room.” The Major used to be ... ...r. “Nests are made to be taken,” said Francis. “I’ve got an egg of all the Australian birds the Major could get me,” said Conrade, “and I mean to have... ... was supposed to know intimately. “And they say you have the hero here—the Victoria Cross man—and that you know him. You must show him to me, and get ... ...ou know him. You must show him to me, and get me introduced.” “There is no Victoria Cross man here,” said Rachel, coldly. “Colonel Keith did not have ... ...d her content with the handsome creature’s black depth of eye; and the cat executed a promenade of tenderness upon Alick. “How are the peacocks, Alick...

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Excerpt: Young Folks? History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...th 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 throbbings. Then in elfin tones the real message comes through: ?Bleriot has crossed the Channel.... An article ... about what it means.?...

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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... ...ll set up some four years earlier. He died in a ferryboat accident on Lake Victoria just a few days after Bin Ladin arrived in Jalalabad, leaving Bin ... .... 21 On December 14, 1999, Ressam drove his rental car onto the ferry from Victoria, Canada, to Port Angeles,Washington. Ressam planned to drive to Se... ...held under a particular country’s criminal laws. Countries such as Britain,Australia, and Muslim friends, are committed to fighting terrorists.America...