...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...IES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone a... ...d altogether unique in the world’s history. The apparatus of warfare, the, art and method of fighting, changed absolutely every dozen years in a stupe... ...light, amidst thunder and rain. They came from the yards of Washington and Philadelphia, full tilt in two squadrons, and but for one sentinel airship ... ...176 The War in the Air feet of the ground. Bert could see men on the lower galleries of the Germans, firing rifles; could see Asiatics clinging to the... ...at reminded him of the engine-turned cover of a watch. They had no hanging galleries, but from little open- ings on the middle line peeped out men and... ...ed some black oily stuff for his hands and face. For the first rule in the art of repairing, as it was known to the firm of Grubb and Smallways, was t...

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...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many miles away marks a city. A...

...ion North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...or 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 any- one a... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ... Englishmen. As, for instance, when I was tapped on the back in one of the galleries of Florence by a countryman of mine, and asked to show him where ... ...cenery is given by nature; but the prettiness of home scenery is a work of art. It comes from the thorough draining of land, from the planting and sub... ... badly mouthed, and that which my wife rode was altogether ignorant of the art of walking. We hired them from an Englishman who had established himsel... ...’s name. And of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg and not 38 North America V ol. 1 Philadelphia is the capital. I think the idea has been that old-fashioned n... ...-angled parallelograms. A right-angled parallelogramical city, such as are Philadelphia and the new portion of New York, is from its very nature odiou...

...ion North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...or 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 any- one a... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ities, and commerce has refused to back the general’s choice. New York and Philadelphia, without any political power, have become great among the citi... ...but I doubt whether the experiment will be more successful. A new town for art, fashion, and politics has been built at Munich, and there it seems to ... ... an un- swerving faith; and Fifth Avenue is calculated to inspire a faith. Philadelphia to a Philadelphian is the center of the universe; and the prog... ...one, and that every effort both of North and South was concentrated on the art of 22 North America V ol. 2 killing; when he saw that this was done on... ...avy. In the Senate House, as in the other house, there are very commodious galleries for strangers, running round the entire chambers, and these galle...