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...Excerpt: He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ?fire-breathing dragon?, hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze pie...

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Excerpt: The Nibelungenlied, translated by Daniel B. Shumway.

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...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publicatio... ...uture: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...r I would make General Joffre the frontispiece. 4 4 4 4 4 As we swung back along the dusty road to Paris at a pace of fifty miles an hour and upwards,... ...ike logs, half buried in-clay. Some slept on the firing steps. As one went along one became aware ever and again of two or three pairs of clay-yellow ... ...idst the shell craters and the fragments and the red-rusted wire, with the silken shiver of passing shells in the air and the blue of the lower sky co... ...g the grey shapes of modern war transport as a Chinese mandarin in painted silk would be. They are the most individual of things, all two-wheeled, all... ...witchback that followed the ups and downs of the ruins. It is not in these places that one must look for the real destruction of modern war. The real ... ... eye, mountains as high as Snowdon. But the Italians of such beautiful old places and Vicenza, Marostica, and Bassano could watch the Austrian shells ... ... not accustomed to read books or talk shop, in the Boer war. In the thinly populated war region of South Africa the difficulties of forc- ing entrench...

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...ad A PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...id it. At about eleven o’clock of a nice London night, Edward and I walked along in- terminable streets talking of many things, and I re- member that ... ...onrad catch only snatches of mumbled sentences. Then one morning as I came along the deck to take my place at the breakfast table Almayer checked hims... ...rity began. As years went on it grew apace. Always visiting out-of-the-way places of that part of the world, always in search of new markets for his c... ...earily the half-intoxicated foreign 19 Joseph Conrad skippers amongst the places of cheap delights, re- turning home late, sick with too much smoking... ...ry bone in his body,” finished up Hudig, wiping his purple face with a red silk handkerchief nearly as big as a counterpane. Noiselessly Willems went ... ...’s a … gazelle you are after, my honoured guest. You want gold anklets and silk sarongs for that game—my mighty hunter. And you won’t get those for th... ...d shrilly: “O! Kapal layer! Hai!” while the Flash swept slowly through the populated reach, to enter the lonely stretches of sparkling brown water bor...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too st...

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Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.

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... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Universit... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ... governments have been estab lished without some return of pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past ... ...s of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety. I repair, then, fel... ...to extend those limits, and to apply such a sur plus to our public debts as places at a short day their final redemption, and that redemption once ef... ...ithin the temper ate zone, and extending through many degrees of lati tude along the Atlantic, the United States enjoy all the varieties of climate,... ...ur banner have become nearly threefold their origi nal number; your densely populated possessions skirt the shores of the two great oceans; and yet t... ...er confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts;... ... can celebrate the quieter, deeper suc cesses that are made not of gold and silk, but of better hearts and finer souls; if he can do these things, th...

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... enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sin...

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...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old Men, 117 -- B?at...

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...Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. JACK LONDON Contents To the Man on Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The White ... .... . . . . 12 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyss... ... I ’ve seen your face; I like it. And I ’ve seen — why, damn you, hit the high places for salt water and that wife of yours, and” — Here the Kid unmit... ...culty overcome; the sleds were under way again, the dying dog dragging herself along in the rear. As long as an animal can travel, it is not shot, and... ...ay.” “Ay!” rang out eight voices, — voices destined to string a trail of oaths along many a hundred miles of pain. “Contrary minded?” “No!” For the fir... ...is movements as the fragile footing swayed and threatened beneath him. In such places death was quick and easy; but it was not his desire to endure no... ...told the tale of one who knew but the law of might. Of the yellow of ripe corn silk, his frost incrusted hair swept like day across the night, and fel... ...arefully, every square inch of her. Especially did he appear interested in her silky brown hair, and in the color of her cheek, faintly sprayed and so... ...sian, while the inhabitants of the Solomons are Melanesian. Lord Howe has been populated by the westward Poly nesian drift which continues to this da...