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...humanity into the perfected and defective. Dictated by science and technology, the search for immortality near destroyed the human race. What remains of mankind, struggles to survive in barbaric clans suppressed by Masters and false doctrine. Known as Project Noah, an underground community seeks to restore civilization by rehabilitating those snatched from the surface. An ...

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...n e s 1 Copyright © 2007 by Christine Jones. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,... ...em, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product... ...dstill. On the surface, his fight for survival had fine tuned his senses. Listening intently, he concluded something was wrong. It dawned on him tha... ... that morning, stupid mistakes, which shouldn't have been made. If they'd listened to her instead of Isaac of team three, they would have been there... ...hummed, data flickered on several screens and Medtechs came and went with instruments and components. Gabriel stood on the other side of the bed, aw... ...proved him to be nothing more than a dictator and mad man. He and a multi national delegation of Techtronic experts devised a way to achieve immortal... ...ibres of the beige carpet, extending the entire reception area. Classical music played lowly in the background and a sweet fragrance filled the air.... ...e desk computer system. All the screens behind the counter went black and music in the background went silent. "We’re now free to walk throughout th...

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...Excerpt: Good Comedies are such rare productions, that notwithstanding the wealth of our literature in the Comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over the English list. If they are brought to the test I shall propose, very reputable Comedies will be found unworthy of their station, like the ladi...

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...Series Publication An Essay on Comedy by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... in the Comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over the English list. If they are brought to the test I shall propose, very reputable Comed... ...the acting of Wycherley’s Country Wife were past blushing. Our tenacity of national impressions has caused the word theatre since then to prod the Pur... ...’s roseate prepossession, you share it with him by comic sympathy, and can listen with no more than a tremble of the laughing muscles to the instance ... ... waylays them in the flight. Here and there a Volkslied or Marchen shows a national aptitude for stout animal laughter; and we see that the literature... ...ght or wrong in his politics and his criti- cisms, and bearing in mind the instruments he played on and the audience he had to win, there is an idea i... ... watch and are silent, their force of char- acter tells. They are kings in music, we may say princes in poetry, good speculators in philosophy, and ou...

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...TITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..........................................................

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...ench Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ................................................... 216 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. ..., regarnished into a golden Royal Resi- dence; and Lafayette with his blue National Guards lies encompassing it, as blue Neptune (in the language of p... ...has got a new ground-tone: ever-enduring; which has been heard, and by the listening Heaven too, since Julian the Apostate’s time and earlier; mad now... ...lume Two which, many say, shall be stamped with the Head of hanged Favras. List, Dom Gerle, with that poor addled poll of thine; list, O list;—and hea... ...ional Guards by the thousand seen filing, from far and near, with military music, with Munici- pal officers in tricolor sashes, towards and along the ... ...amp-de-Mars Federation, with three hundred drummers, twelve hun- dred wind-musicians, and artillery planted on height after height to boom the tidings... ..., with the pricking of semstresses stilettos, scissors, and female pointed instruments. Horrible to behold; the ancient Dead, and Petrarchan Laura, sl...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown o...

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... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publi... ...y Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any ... ...following: “THE KNAVE OF BERGEN” “In Frankfort at the Romer was a great mask-ball, at the coronation festival, and in the illuminated saloon, the clan... ... this one gives. The first night we were there, we went to bed and to sleep early; but I awoke at the end of two or three hours, and lay a comfortable... ...or. Well, one Sunday morning 13 A Tramp Abroad I was sitting out here in front of my cabin, with my cat, taking the sun, and looking at the blue hill... ... memorandum-book to keep record of the time and the number and nature of the wounds; a gray- haired surgeon was present with his lint, his bandages, a... ...g weak and confused under the strain which had been put upon it. He named sixty-five yards. I nearly lost my patience. I said: “Sixty-five yards, with... ...endid gamblers are gone, only her microscopic knaves remain. An English gentleman who had been living there several years, said: “If you could disguis... ...y insolence here. These shopkeepers detest the English and despise the Americans; they are rude to both, more es- Mark Twain 102 pecially to ladies o...

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...Excerpt: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the ...

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...A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens A story of the French... ...the French Revolution A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...land, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring bur glaries by armed men, and highway robberies,... ...arning voice, looking down from his box. “What do you say, Tom?” They both listened. “I say a horse at a canter coming up, Joe.” “I say a horse at a g... ...ed from the coachman to the guard, and from the guard to the coachman, and listened. The coach man looked back and the guard looked back, and even th... ... is if you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it! If you touch, in touching my ... ...t to break down in this attempt to practise for popular ity on the lowest national antipathies and fears, and there fore Mr. Attorney General had ma... ...to discuss the question. I am, as you say, at a disadvantage. These little instruments of correction, these gentle aids to the power and honour of fam... ...urious dumb show. “The Prisoners!” “The Records!” “The secret cells!” “The instruments of torture!” “The Prisoners!” Of all these cries, and ten thous...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is h...

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ...Editor’s Notes at the 9 Shelley end of the V olume 3 the reader will find lists of the punctual variations in the longer poems, by means of which the... ...brary Edition of the “Poetical Works” published in the same year. See the “List of Editions”, etc. at the end of Volume 3.); but, important as his edi... ...eezes sweep. _55 Floating on waves of music and of light, The chariot of the Daemon of the World Descends in sile... ...Confounded burst in ruin o’er the world: And they did build vast trophies, instruments Of murder, human bones, barbaric gold, Skins torn from living m... ...ch had adorned his life in happier hours, _255 And instruments of music—you may guess A stranger could do little more or less ... ...e Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national history or mythology, employed in their treatment of it a certain ... ..., and my servant instantly recognized it as the portrait of La Cenci. This national and universal interest which the story pro- duces and has produced...

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...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When...

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...tt, Bart. Edited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Cl... ... Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M. is a publicatio... ...A moment gazed adown the dale, A moment snuffed the tainted gale, A moment listened to the cry, That thickened as the chase drew nigh; Then, as the he... ...nt, And locks flung back, and lips apart, Like monument of Grecian art, In listening mood, she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. XVII... ...s enchanted hall, Hands unseen thy couch are strewing, Fairy strains of music fall, Every sense in slumber dewing. Soldier, rest! thy warfare o’... ... writings on Highland subjects were qualified to interest the reader, mere national prejudices were, in the present day, very unlikely to 118 The Lad... ...e now only heard of in the Highlands in ancient song. At what period these instruments ceased to be used, is not on record; and tradition is silent on... ...cture—the effect of the sounds —and the wild character and strong peculiar national- ity of the whole procession, are given with inimitable spirit and... ... the Grahames and Buchanans, on the other, are said to have been the chief instruments in sup- pressing this devoted clan. The Laird of Macgregor surr...

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Excerpt: One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith.

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...y George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... ‘There you’re wrong; nor wouldn’t be.’ ‘What’s that?’ was the gentleman’s musical inquiry. ‘That’s flat, as you was half a minute ago,’ the man re- j... ...ood for it; plentiful din- ners, country excursions, stout menagerie bars, music, a dance, and to bed: he was for patting, stroking, petting the mob, ... ...nd hillocks, and Death and Man are at grip for the haul. There we find our nationality, our poetry, no Hebrew com- peting. We do: or there at least we... ...ll the English critics heap their honours on its brave old Simplicity: our national literary flag, which signalizes us while we float, sub- sequently ... ...of his youth, the sole bad step chargeable upon his antecedents. But do we listen to them? Shall we not have them turned out? He gives the sign for it... ... there, and he could not induce his legs to take advantage of the gaps; he listened to a warning that he would be down again if he tried it, among tho... ...hat induced him to reply: ‘Before the world. But not, I repeat …’ The band-instruments behind the sheltering glass flour- ished on their termination o...

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...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism we...

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...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of... ... 1903 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publica... ...ears, in a street which now bears his name, and gained a living by copying music. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, the author of ‘Paul and Virginia’, who be... ...mble round thy throne an innumerable throng of my fellow-mortals, let them listen to my confessions, let them blush at my depravity, let them tremble ... ...ectations are already on the stretch for the noble history of the terrace, listen to the trag- edy, and abstain from trembling, if you can, at the hor... ...t part of my time to select the music, assemble the musicians, look to the instruments, and write out the several parts. Madam de Warrens sang; Father... ...even have contracted a fondness for astronomy, had I been in possession of instruments, but was obliged to content myself with some of the elements of... ...for no other reason than because, not being a Frenchman, I had no right to national protection, and that it was a private affair between him and mysel... ...es, and of whom she produces too few for her glory. He had not the violent national passions common in his own country. The idea of vengeance could no...

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...Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom?s early life. III. Tom?s meeting with the Prince. IV. The Prince?s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The question ...

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...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none...

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