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The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ........................................................................ 169 WAR OR PACIFISM .............................................................. ...oint ................................................... 396 QUESTIONS OF WAR .......................................................................... ...human values really fascinates me. The most important discussions in this world are about values of one sort or another. My friends and I once share... ...ety?‖ --―I hate to say it but I do. Being invited to speak around the world and teaching in major universities makes me feel that I am important... ...ee the God-inspired wars of the Jews in the Old Testament and the unending battles in the name of God during the last two millennia by the Christians... ...ed in expenditures of the Constitutional mandates to provide military and naval forces and to fight piracy. ―The best countries to live in, ac... ...the more rational liberals dates from the 800s in Iraq. But inter-Islamic battles about who should lead the various sects also goes back to the begi...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ... J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LAND... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...d Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVE... ... SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAGES, DISCOVERIES, ADVENTURES, BATTLES, DARINGS AND SUFFERINGS OF THE HEROIC CHARACTERS, BOLD EXPLO... ...ah's Ark compared with modern vessels -- Egypt a country of marvels -- A great naval battle 1250 B.C. -- The monstrous ship built by Ptolemy IV, which... ...attle. -- Genghis demands the daughter of Umcan for a wife -- Refusal leads to war -- Ceremony performed by the astrologers to forecast the result -- ... ...avery of the Buccaneers -- Cromwell's defeat of Charles I -- The effect on the naval war with Spain -- English are driven from their designs on Hayti ... ...ng been careful to arouse their fervor by declaring that God would fight their battles for them, and that they were but instruments in His hands to ex...

...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

...thor: JONATHAN CROSS Language: English Subject: Fiction, Literature Publisher: World Public Library Association Copyright © 20, All Rights Reserv... ...d Public Library Association Copyright © 20, All Rights Reserved Worldwide by World Public Library, www.WorldLibrary.net Th... ...y, www.WorldLibrary.net is an effort to preserve and disseminate classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias,... ...liographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Our mission is to serv... ... he, Seattle, would buy time. He would be patient, and watch the outcome of the battles between the Great Sioux Nation and the blue coats. In his ni... ... and traded the land of our ancestors for a reservation. 1 did it to buy time. War would have destroyed the best of our people. But more importantl... ...e a true grass-roots move­ ment for product safety. I'm sure you're aware of his battles with General Motors." "I'm sorry. You're right. This is a g... ...ng up in Yugoslavia flashed before him in a spiteful collage. There was always war. It was the Germans then, but his coun­ try had had hundreds of y... ...or punched the intercom button, "Alice, get me the Medical Examiner at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland." A moment later. "Dr. Henry Chadsworth i...

A One man's quest for truth, freedom and pure spirituality in a world without.

...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connect...

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ... Pg 287 Freedom and Irresponsibility Pg 288 Ownership Pg 290 Law Pg 291 War Pg 296 Conclusion Chapter Six ‘A’: Civilization The Beginning... ...tion of light bending around the moon was discovered to be actually true, the world of Science swallowed his completely fallacious explanation for i... ...ts path, not attractive forces. What Einstein and the rest of the Scientific world did not realize was that in order to see any light rays coming f... ...he culture of lions is based upon hatred, blood-letting and constant wars and battles against all other animal species in their territory. THE P... ... Thomas Edison patented his ideas? He died a pauper because of all the legal battles over the ownership of his patents. And what has happened since... ...her side. The Japanese adopted the tactics of a Ninja assassin as their basic Naval THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six A: Civilization The Effect ... ... ever been attacked by sharks, and I mean never. Not in the entire history of naval history has there ever been a recorded instance where survivors ...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...e aged man gave Sang Huin a look as if he had wasted his time talking to the world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem... ...e on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world. Even though he cared about family (what was left of it with both h... ...red an article he had forgotten to bring to them: the Taliban's restraint of war ravaged widows from work. The doctors liked such things. As Dr. Lee ... .... The hail seemed to her like the bullets that she imagined from the distant war that America wedged against Iraq. Then he saw the antithesis of this:... ...eving that a relentless cold stare would attenuate their cruelty, and yet no battles did she win with the Antarctic blasts that she sent their way una... ...y survive. It is a place for a young woman to hope that one of the American naval officers that she sells herself to will actually want more than a..... ...ught about this twenty minute chocolate candyman, whom she named as Candyman II (Roman numerals giving him a sense of eminence). She told herself tha...

...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

...ir by 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 Un... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells 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... ...tells us in this book, as he has told us in others, more especially in The World Set Free, and as he has been telling us this year in his War and the ... ...-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years have but added an en... ...ise was planned. They decided at first that they would call themselves the Naval Mr. O’s, a plagiarism, and not perhaps a very good one, from the titl... ...serge, with a lot of gold lace and cord and ornamenta- tion, rather like a naval officer’s, but more so. But that had to be abandoned as impracticable... ...hips—when the international situation became acute. It was made up of four battleships and five armoured cruisers ranking almost with battleships, not... ...claration of war—indeed,on Whit Monday— the whole German fleet of eighteen battleships, with a flo- tilla of fuel tenders and converted liners contain...

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...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Ha... ...TE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...shed.… The selections are The affliction of Childhood, Introduction to the World of Strife, A Meeting with Lamb, A Meeting with Coleridge, Recollectio... ...sant so much below the grandeur and the sorrow of the times as to confound battles such as these, which were gradually moulding the destinies of Chris... ...aving bearded the élite of their troops, and having beaten them in pitched battles! Five years of life it was worth paying down for the privilege of a... ...me of water— viz., the Tiber—has contrived to make itself heard of in this world for twenty-five centuries to an extent not reached as yet by any rive... ... had suffered some deep personal affliction in connexion with this Spanish war. Here, now, was the case of one who, having formerly suf- fered, might,... ...umulation of foreign mails this night, ow- ing to irregularities caused by war, by wind, by weather, in the packet service, which as yet does not bene... ... have such ardent females among us, and in a long series; some detected in naval hospitals when too sick to remember their disguise; some on fields of...

...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lan...

...................................................................................................................................................... 5 II. CRITICAL REMARKS ......................................................................................................................................... 7 III. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE..........................................

...inibus Puerisque & Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. 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... ...ourse you may use and misuse a word as much as you please, if you have the world along with you. But love is at least a somewhat hyperbolical expressi... ...plain the poets have been fooling with mankind since the foundation of the world. And you have only to look these happy couples in the face, to see th... ...you will, but you cannot help some emotion when you read of well- disputed battles, or meet a pair of lovers in the lane. Certainly, whatever it may b... ... and on great and perilous waters; and to take a cue from the dolorous old naval bal- lad, we have heard the mer-maidens singing, and know that we sha... ... were attainable in a world where there are so many marriages and decisive battles, and where we all, at certain hours of the day, and with great gust... ...of what is imposing to the imagination. And our 82 Robert Louis Stevenson naval annals owe some of their interest to the fantastic and beautiful appe... ... fight, so they discovered a startling eager- ness for battle, and courted war like a mistress. When the news came to Essex before Cadiz that the atta...

......................... 4 CHAPTER I ? ?VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE?................................................................................ 4 CHAPTER II ? CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH ......................................................................... 38 CHAPTER III ? AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS.......................................................................... 49 CHAPTER ...

...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the First T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited ... ...es P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William ... ....................................................... 374 CHAPTER XLVIII OF WAR HORSES, OR DESTRIERS ..................................................... ...als. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancient currents of thought into new channels. It to... ...made his intellectual and physi- cal organism public property. He took the world into his confidence on all subjects. His essays were a sort of litera... ...as two war vessels, which remain in atten- dance on him. His functions are naval. I tell you what I learn, and mix up together the more or less probab... ... in the wars against them. In like manner certain of the Indians, in their battles with the Spaniards, carried with them the bones of one of their cap... ...selves, put to death their brave captains newly returned triumphant from a naval victory they had obtained over the Lacedaemonians near the Arginusian... ...has it not put arms into their hands, and made them raise armies and fight battles? And does she not, by her own precept, instruct the most ignorant v...

Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

............................................................................................................................................. 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ...................................................................................................................................... 9 THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE .....................................................

...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...ng agitations and the un- conquerable impatience of my nervous malady. 2. “War.”** —In this paper, from having faultily adjusted its proportions in th... ...ount of killed and wounded, but as the battle which terminated a series of battles, having one common object, namely, the overthrow of a frightful tyr... ...political events, and especially the great 12 Memorials, and Other Papers battles during a conflict of unparalleled grandeur. These hon- orary distin... ... Suppose the case, therefore, that Kate’s memoirs had been thrown upon the world with no vouchers for their authen- ticity beyond such internal presum... ...ave pronounced a favorable award; since it is easy to understand that in a world so vast as the Peru, the Mexico, the Chili, of Spaniards during the f... ...tack, seems never to have been fully rooted out from the little creeks and naval fastnesses of the Morea, and of some of the Egean islands. Not, perha... ...power, as their extraordinary gains were altogether depen- dent on war and naval blockades. 228 Memorials, and Other Papers this was on the ninth of ...

...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought ...

... I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................................

...es Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...rance of the fiendish heart was to be expressed and made sensible. Another world has stepped in; and the murderers are taken out of the region of huma... ...t he was born of woman; both are conformed to the image of devils; and the world of devils is suddenly revealed. But how shall this be conveyed and ma... ...ire a thief per se, and, as to Mr. Howship, it is well known that he makes war upon all ulcers; and, without suffering himself to be se- duced by thei... ... other’s toes. The philosopher, therefore, sees clearly the necessity of a war, and regrets that sometimes nations do not wait for grounds of war so s... ...r accordingly was cheerfully granted 59 to them in three great successive battles by the English and by the Turkish sultan, viz., at Crécy, at Nicopo... ...ury; but this resurrection of their trumpet wails made the whole series of battles and endless skirmishes take their stations as parts in one drama. T... ...have such ardent females amongst us, and in a long series—some detected in naval hospitals, when too sick to remember their disguise; some on fields o...

...From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my...

...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE..................................................................................................... 11 Second Paper on Murder, Considered as One of the Fine...

...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ...ockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of... ... I am. Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy stron... ... without chewing, as if it had been a sprat in the mouth of a whale.” Holy War. “That seabeast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest th... ... all over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years’ War, and just escaped from it with a sticking plaster shirt. Still more, hi... ... presented to the company as a harpooneer, say; and if in emulation of the naval officers he should append the initials S.W.F. (Sperm Whale Fishery) to... ...ike craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they yield their beaches to wild barbar ian... ...where the beholder fights his way, pell mell, through the consecutive great battles of France; where every sword seems a flash of the Northern Lights, a...

... and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ....… TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: I submit herewith a list of naval officers who commanded ves- sels engaged in the recent brilliant oper... ...more fully soon. Will say now that all your despatches to the Secretary of War have been promptly shown to me. Have done and shall do all I could and ... ... 24 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six insurgents, and military and naval forces which had been called out by the government for the defense of... ...everal of the Southern States, thus practically restoring to the civilized world our great and good government. All believe that the decisive moment i... ...e. As you would perpetuate popular govern- ment for the best people in the world, I beseech you that you do in nowise omit this. Our common country is... ...believe 23,500 will cover all the killed, wounded, and missing in all your battles and skirmishes, leav- ing 50,000 who have left otherwise. No more t... ...I am very ungenerously attacked for it! For instance, when, after the late battles at and near Bull Run, an expedition went out from Washington under ...

...Excerpt: The third section 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 det...

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...itings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...tober 28, 1863. GENERAL JOHN M. SCHOFIELD: There have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three commun... ...f the United States under the super- vision and upon the responsibility of naval officers of such gov- ernments and in conformity to such regulations ... ...ere, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can neve... ...ed States to aid the rebellion; all who are or shall have been military or naval officers of said so-called Confederate Government above the rank of c... ...mmander to sentinel, who compose them, and to whom more than to others the world must stand indebted for the home of freedom disenthralled, regenerate... ...temporary assignment of General Sherman, in command of a corps through the battles in front of Chattanooga, and in the march to the relief of Knoxvill... ...re worthy of the most that we can do for the soldier who goes to fight the battles of his coun- try. >From the fair and tender hand of women is much, ...

...altimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported the evidence....

....S.A. .S.A. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Iliad of Homer, trans. Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckl... ...otes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M. A., F . S. A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...enzie’s note, p. xiv.] With a love of economy, which shows how similar the world has always been in its treat- ment of literary men, the pension was d... ...sian sovereign; the pre-eminent value of the ancient poetry on the T rojan war may thus have forced the national feeling of the Athenians to yield to ... ...many more equally bad. With equal sagacity, Father Hardouin astonished the world with the startling announcement that the Æneid of Virgil, and the sat... ... into heroes of the time being, we in imagination must fight over the same battles, woo the same loves, burn with the same sense of injury, as an Achi... ...nts and events, and crowded with a greater number of coun- cils, speeches, battles, and episodes of all kinds, than are to be found even in those poem... ... High o’er them all a general tomb be raised; Next, to secure our camp and naval powers, Raise an embattled wall, with lofty towers; From space to spa... ...nd round the pile a general tomb they rear’d. Then, to secure the camp and naval powers, They raised embattled walls with lofty towers: 146 From space...

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...lassics Series Publication Billy Budd by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ally have his atten- tion arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-of- war’s men or merchant-sailors in holiday attire ashore on liberty. In certa... ...In fact he was one of those sea-dogs in whom all the hardship and peril of naval life in the great pro- longed wars of his time never impaired the nat... ... repress- ing a smile. To be sure, Billy’s action was a terrible breach of naval decorum. But in that decorum he had never been in- structed; in consi... ...ansition from his former and simpler sphere to the ampler and more knowing world of a great war-ship; this might well have abashed him had there been ... ...ht arm of a Power then all but the sole free conser- vative one of the Old World- the blue-jackets, to be num- bered by thousands, ran up with huzzas ... ...and the naval crown of crowns for him at Trafalgar. To the mutineers those battles, and especially Trafalgar, were a plenary absolution and a grand on... ... goes to make up scenicnaval display, heroic mag- nificence in arms, those battles, especially Trafalgar, stand unmatched in human annals. 16 Billy B...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable sea-port would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-ofwar?s men or merchant-sailors in holiday attire ashore on liberty. In certain instances they would flank, or, l...

...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career 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... ...ost we could muster a few old ships, a couple of experimental ves- sels of war, and twenty-five thousand soldiers indifferently weaponed. We were in f... ...is comparative subjugation (on the whole, it seems complete) of the animal world. By-and-by the struggle is transferred to higher ground, and we begin... ...despatched to sea. He went unwillingly; not so much from an objection to a naval life as from a wish, incomprehensible to grown men and boys, and espe... ...darkness, the still-trembling gloomy quiver—the brain of the lightnings of battles. Now this boy nursed no secret presumptuous belief that he was fitt... ...lf-a-dozen crescent lines cunningly turned, sketched her figure before the world, and the reflection for one ready to die upholding her was that the p... ...in- gers at them. Everard expected, he had prepared himself for, the young naval politician’s crow, and he meant to admit frankly that he had been wro... ..., writing him down, declaring, all the time he was fighting his first hard battles, that his cause was hopeless—that resistance to Napoleon was imposs...

...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observ...

... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve 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... ...d off. He would have seen that, at the end of the most destruc- tive civil war that ever occurred, when animosities of the bitterest sort had banished... ... resolved by personal observation of the re- sults of democracy in the New World to ascertain its natural consequences, and to learn what the nations ... ...erned something analogous to the spec- 13 Tocqueville tacle which the New World presented to me. I observed that the equality of conditions is daily ... ...native strength. Religion is no less the com- panion of liberty in all its battles and its triumphs; the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source ... ...ties, took possession of the State: every class was enlisted in its cause; battles were fought, and victories obtained for it, until it became the law... ...cial prosperity can be durable if it cannot be united, in case of need, to naval force. This truth is as well understood in the United States as it ca... ...is- memberment of the Union would not have the effect of di- minishing the naval power of the Americans, but that it would powerfully contribute to in...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...

...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...ote by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...le credit for his work, indeed it may be said none, for it is known to the world in general as Jarvis’s. It was not published until after his death, a... ...hivalrous Spain had passed away. The new Spain was the mightiest power the world had seen since the Roman Empire and it had not yet been called upon t... ...to the Azores in 1582 and the following year, and on the conclusion of the war returned to Spain in the autumn of 1583, bringing with him the manuscri... ...w full of what he used to read about in his books, enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, wooings, loves, agonies, and all sorts of impo... ...in his head.” “Hush, friend Sancho,” replied Don Quixote, “the fortunes of war more than any other are liable to frequent fluctuations; and moreover I... ...leteers, who had no idea of a joke and did not under- stand all this about battles and spoils, seeing that Don Quixote was some distance off talking t... ...remained alive and victorious) I alone was miserable; for, instead of some naval crown that I might have expected had it been in Roman times, on the n...

...r by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...e Village Rector II VERONIQUE THERE ARE, no doubt, many young girls in the world as pure as Veronique, but none purer or more modest. Her confes- sion... ...icture of mutual love, half Biblical and worthy of the earlier ages of the world, ravaged her heart. A hand—was it divine or devilish?—raised the veil... ...the government, abandoned by the nobility, use- less to industry,—what but war against society which disre- garded its duty? Consequently, the inhabit... ... how, 72 The Village Rector twenty years earlier, the inhabitants were at war with society. The great upland plain, flanked on one side by the valley... ... with the gendarmes and the soldiers too; I’m told he was in seven regular battles—” “They say he killed two soldiers and three gendarmes,” put in Cha... ...on the right to choose the career that pleased me most,—either military or naval engineering, artillery, or staff duty, or the civil engineering of mi... ...- ings for the fame of its engineers than it can declare war merely to win battles and bring to the front great generals; but, then, as men of genius ...

... Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevens... ... Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and... ... to beg twenty dollars because he heard I was a Scotchman, offering to leave his portmanteau in pledge. Settle this, and on again; and here my house c... ...at, for, me, it had come true; and I thought, forbye, that, if the great powers go on as they are going, and the Chief Justice delays, it would come t... ...at a time. We tried how long it took one to recover; ’tis a sanguine creature; it is all abroad again before (I guess again) two minutes. It is odd ho... ...of poeshie continues, I’ll send you a whole lot to damn. Y ou never said thank-you for the hand- some tribute addressed to you from Apemama; such is t... ... degrees are united in heartfelt opposition to the Men of Mulinuu. The news of the fighting was of no concern to mortal man; it was made much of becau... ... Arab, I suppose, and was sur- rounded by seven people, fondling his limbs as he lay: he was shot through both lungs. And an orderly was sent to the t... ...the 207 V ailima Letters Curacoas. She is really a model ship, charming officers and charming seamen. They gave a ball last month, which was very rac...

...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...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... ...se gems of women,’ instead of Sister Katherine and Sister Frances. CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II Good words are silver, but g... ...on, was, though perfectly lady like, always re- garded by the Stoneborough world as something on the borders of presumption on the part of the entire ... ...w he won’t let me go back to Leonard.’ ‘But, Averil, the best nurse in the world can’t hold out for ever. People must sleep, and make themselves fit t... ...eep in an argu- ment in which the lieutenant’s Indian reminiscences of the Naval Brigade were at issue with the captain’s Southdown practice, and the ... ...rvid heat of the first commencements of disunion and threatenings of civil war. After the ladies had repaired to their saloon, with its grand ottomans... ...f it were safe to invest money in a country apparently on the eve of civil war? He laughed the idea to scorn. How could the rebel states make war, wit... ...r blood- stained flag. Mordaunt Muller had fallen in one of the ter- rible battles on the Rappahannock; and Cora, while, sob- bing in Averil’s arms, h...

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...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ... One by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...le credit for his work, indeed it may be said none, for it is known to the world in general as Jarvis’s. It was not published until after his death, a... ...hivalrous Spain had passed away. The new Spain was the mightiest power the world had seen since the Roman Empire and it had not yet been called upon t... ...to the Azores in 1582 and the following year, and on the conclusion of the war returned to Spain in the autumn of 1583, bringing with him the manuscri... ...w full of what he used to read about in his books, enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, wooings, loves, agonies, and all sorts of impo... ...in his head.” “Hush, friend Sancho,” replied Don Quixote, “the fortunes of war more than any other are liable to frequent fluctuations; and moreover I... ...leteers, who had no idea of a joke and did not under- stand all this about battles and spoils, seeing that Don Quixote was some distance off talking t... ...remained alive and victorious) I alone was miserable; for, instead of some naval crown that I might have expected had it been in Roman times, on the n...

...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ...ckingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of... ... I am. Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy-stron... ... all over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years’ War, and just escaped from it with a sticking-plaster shirt. Still more, hi... ... Behring’s Straits; and in all seasons and all oceans declared everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that has survived the flood; most mons... ... presented to the company as a harpooneer, say; and if in emulation of the naval officers he should append the initials S.W .F. (Sperm Whale Fishery) ... ...ke craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they yield their beaches to wild barbarians,... ...ere the beholder fights his way, pell- mell, through the consecutive great battles of France; where every sword seems a flash of the Northern Lights, ...

... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles D... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free... ...chyard in the years to come; I thought of the many people in Australia, who would have an interest in such a shipwreck, and would find their way here ... ...atent under the gen- eral monotony and uniformity of colour, attitude, and con- dition. The form a little coiled up and turned away, as though it had ... ...plauded the agreeable fact. In an allegorical way, which did as well as any other way, we and the Spirit of Liberty got into a kingdom of Needles and ... ... journey was to see some discharged soldiers who had recently come home from India. There were men of Havelock’s among them; there were men who had be... ...legs, and the firmness with which they sustained the different positions, was truly remarkable. The broadsword exercise over, suddenly there was great... ... no premium at all? That they are also much esteemed in the Royal Navy, which they prefer, ‘because everything is so neat and clean and or- derly’? Or... ... at first. There were peep-shows in this Fair, and I had the pleasure of recognising several fields of glory with which I became well acquainted a yea...

...eorge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...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... ...nymous gentleman, who in this bashful man- ner gave a bruised heart to the world. He made no pretension to novelty. “Our new thoughts have thrilled de... ...sed to be his equal, and he judged her as his equal. She had blackened the world’s fair aspect for him. In the presence of that world, so different to... ...g negro chief up the Niger. Some of the gal- lant lieutenant’s trophies of war decorated the little boy’s play- shed at Raynham, and he bequeathed his... ...you another power. You are mounting to the table-land of life, where mimic battles are changed to real ones. And you come upon it laden equally with f... ...h plen- tiful cap-puckers, there hung a passably executed half-figure of a naval officer in uniform, grasping a telescope under his left arm, who stoo... ...icate his rank, had also recorded the juvenility which a lieutenant in the naval ser- vice can retain after arriving at that position, by painting him... ...y, almost every evening that he comes we read History, and he explains the battles, and talks to me about the great men. And he says I’m not silly, Mr...

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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... ... into a wrangle, in a thoroughfare, on London Bridge, of all places in the world!—he, so popular, renowned for his affability, his amiability; having ... ...f the Jew Dominant in London City, over England, over Europe, America, the world (a picture drawn in literary sepia by Colney: with our poor hang neck... ...es, masking hills, dividing rivers. He had mapped for himself mentally the battles of conquerors in his favourite historic reading; and he understood ... ...ad pretty cheap, and were accounted tasty. Skepsey’s main thought was upon war: the man had dis- coursed of pigs. He informed the man of his having he... ...s having heard from a scholar, that pigs had been the cause of more bloody battles than any other animal. How so? the pork-butcher asked, and said he ... ...heir own, the pork-butcher said; and he praised Old En- gland for avoiding war. Skepsey nodded. How if war is forced on us? Then we fight. Suppose we ... ...sparkling to him. Skepsey enjoyed it, at the back of thoughts military and naval. Visible sea, this girdle of Britain, inspired him to exultations in ...

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...redith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Adventures of Harry Richmond 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... ...ew the best-bottled temper right or left, go where you will one end o’ the world to the other, by God! And here ‘s a scoundrel stinks of villany, and ... ... she knew, and more than could be expected of a lone widow woman. ‘Not for worlds!’ she answered my peti- tion to accompany her. She would not, she sa... ...t several of the boys upon Dido’s history, but Heriot was condemned to the battles with T urnus. My share in this event secured Heriot’s friendship to... ... replied, ‘ Army or Navy. I don’t much care which. We’re sure of a foreign war some time. Then you’ll see fellows rise: lieutenant, captain, colonel, ... ...until I could have dropped my finger on it blindfold. Two or three pitched battles brought us to a friendly ar- rangement. The colonel exacted my prom... ...ry when they entertain brains. Now at present, just at present, an English naval officer, and a poet, stand higher in the es- teem of that young Princ... ...he made something his own that won’t go under lock and key. No military or naval man ought ever to marry.’ ‘Stop,’ said T emple, ‘is the poor old coun...

...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the househ...

...ublication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ...e was a brave girl, ready to go all over the 6 Lord Ormont and His Aminta world with him; had taken to him as he to her, shot for shot. Her taking to... ...dash threat- ening the headstroke—about the same as disabling sails in old naval engagements. That was the part for the officer; we are speaking of th... ...n eye for the field and the moment for his arm to strike as any Murat. One world have liked to see Murat matched against the sabre of a wily Rajpoot! ... ... enthusiasms were salt to a man; and he liked Shalders for spelling at his battles and thinking he understood them, and admiring Murat, and leading Vi... ...mselves as imitative servants of their god Mars, on the fields of love and war, stood necessarily prepared to vindicate their conduct as the field of ... ...ion on Beatrice, nearer Leo’s age, in talk about games and story-books and battles; nothing that he did when the girls were present be- trayed the str... ...ndefensible brazen Mrs. Amy May, who was only the daugh- ter of a half-pay naval captain, and that Marquis of Collestou, who would, they say, decorate...

...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... ...ous creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses... ...res of this chronicle among the rest—along the roads that lay before them. II The Mail IT WAS THE D OVER ROAD that lay, on a Friday night late in N... ... and coachman and guard, however, in combination, had read that article of war which forbade a purpose otherwise strongly in favour of the argument, t... ...ers at leap frog might have declined him, as the most dangerous man in the world to go over. While he trotted back with the message he was to deliver ... ...ry. “Is it possible!” repeated Defarge, bitterly. “Y es. And a beau tiful world we live in, when it IS possible, and when many other such things are ... ... from? He don’t get no iron rust here!” A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens 52 II A Sight “YOU KNOW THE O LD B AILEY, well, no doubt?” said one of the o... ...house of Monseigneur. Military officers destitute of military knowl edge; naval officers with no idea of a ship; civil officers with out a notion of...

...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 ...

...on enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. 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... ... fashion, Presley was determined that his poem should be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hardy, brave, a... ...wearied him. He cared for none of these things. They did not belong to his world. In the picture of that huge romantic West that he saw in his imagina... ...een wheat at two dollars and five cents in the year of the T urko- Russian War! He turned back to the house after giving Phelps final directions, gloo... ...I was maker von vagons in Carlsruhe, und I nef’r gedt home again. Vhen der war hef godt over, I go beck to Ulm und gedt marriet, und den I gedt demn s... ... and a white waistcoat, and in some indefinable manner suggested a retired naval officer, was sitting at their table smoking a long, thin cigar. At si... .... Men, Liliputians, gnats in the sunshine, buzzed impudently in their tiny battles, were born, lived through their little day, died, and were forgotte... ...Why, Magnus, it’s like me going out in a paper boat and shooting peas at a battleship.” “Is that all you wished to see me about, Mr. Genslinger?” rema...

Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.

...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H... ...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nvention M. Blériot’s aeroplane points also to the fleet. The struggle for naval supremacy is not merely a struggle in shipbuilding and expenditure. M... ...wer that has the most ships or the biggest ships that is going to win in a naval conflict. It is the Power that thinks quickest of what to do, is most... ...nd mechanical contrivance. I am reminded again of the days during the Boer war, when one realised that it had never occurred to our happy-go-lucky Arm... ...World sented a united and resistant front. Our Empire, for all its roll of battles, was not created by force; colonisation and diplomacy have played a... ...ng ahead and being thoroughly safe. This confidence in big, very expensive battleships is, I be- lieve and hope, shared by the German Government and b...

...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................

...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...ke a certain South Ameri- can general who used to say that no emergency of war or peace had ever found him “with his boots off”; but I may say that wh... ...y (after the process of tidying up), a little bowed, and receding from the world not because of weariness or misanthropy but for other reasons that ca... ...le to the mind and the heart of the artist. After all, the cre- ation of a world is not a small undertaking except perhaps to the divinely gifted. In ... ...f his art, but of his character, like the deeds that make up his record of naval service. To the art- ist his work is interesting as a completely succ... ... war hung in the balance for more than a fort- night. The famous three-day battles, for which his- tory has reserved the recognition of special pages,... ...y and the talents of men who have provided us with words to read about the battles in Manchuria. I only wished to suggest that in the nature of things... ...e the grandchildren, of my pacific teachers are out in trawlers, under the Naval flag, dredging for German submarine mines. III I HAVE SAID that the N...

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...ublication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell 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... ........................................................ 107 CHAPTER VIII THE WORLD AS IT COULD BE MADE .................................................... ...del for the Utopias of subsequent phi- losophers. Whoever contemplates the world in the light of an ideal—whether what he seeks be intellect, or art, ... ...whom the “herd” feels ill-will. This class includes, of course, enemies in war, and criminals; in the minds of those who consider the preservation of ... ...ficer in the Navy, but dismissed for a pamphlet critical of the methods of naval discipline, author of “Labour Defended Against the Claims of Capital”... ...the workers are victori- ous, but only for a time. The real fruit of their battles lies, not in the immediate result, but in the ever-expanding union ... ...[Literary Digest, May 2 and May 16, 1914.] Many other instances of pitched battles could be given, but enough has been said to show the peculiar chara... ...mize these risks the financiers call in the assistance of the military and naval forces of the country which they are momentarily as- serting to be th...

... 11 CHAPTER I MARX AND SOCIALIST DOCTRINE................................................................................................. 11 CHAPTER II BAKUNIN AND ANARCHISM........................................................................................................... 29 CHAPTER III THE SYNDICALIST REVOLT...........................................................

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ...ment 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of B... ...M 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Buil... ...adin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghani... ...TERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the... ...’s agenda stood out.While his allied Islamist groups were focused on local battles, such as those in Egypt, Algeria, Bosnia, or Chechnya, Bin Ladin co... ...gement and his concerns in another commence- ment speech, this time at the Naval Academy, in May 1998, the President said: First, we will use our new ... ...ll the details of the operation.When Nashiri had diffi- culty finding U.S. naval vessels to attack along the western coast of Y emen, Bin 152 THE 9/11...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative 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 Democra...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

...e Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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... ...lay which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the profes... ... futilization in that overheated drawingroom atmosphere was delivering the world over to the control of ignorant and soulless cunning and energy, with... ... came upon horsebreakers and heartbreakers who could make the best of both worlds. As a rule, however, the two were apart and knew little of one anoth... ...y because they had not been prevented. They were not undone by winning the war. The earth is still bursting with the dead bodies of the victors. The W... ..., over an item of seven shil- lings for refreshments? Little Minds and Big Battles Nobody will be able to understand the vagaries of public feeling du... ...n which the Government yielded to a child- ish cry for the maltreatment of naval prisoners of war, and, to our great disgrace, was forced by the enemy... ...le romance. I knew there had been somebody. RANDALL. They will fight their battles over again and en- joy themselves immensely. LADY UTTERWORD [irrita...

...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreig...

...lassics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the represen... ...l see. But there is a question of the value of a run at his heels. Now the world is possessed of a certain big book, the big- gest book on earth; that... ...ousness has enfolded us as with the arms of Amphitrite! We hear a shout of war for a diversion.—Comedy he pronounces to be our means of read- ing swif... ...ole day in the rain, he soon knew of his great nature. His passion for our naval service was a means of screwing his attention to lessons after he had... ...he commanded him to tell her which was the glorious Valentine’s day of our naval annals; the name of the hero of the day, and the name of his ship. T ... ...t she had plunged herself in the thick of the strife of one of their great battles. Her personal position, however, was instilling knowledge rapidly, ... ...hinking over it, you mean to escape, you must make up your mind to pitched battles, and not be de- jected if you are beaten in all of them; there is y...

...Excerpt: A chapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the strug...

...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers 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... ...mposed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved ... ...its borders, as if to bind it together; while the most noble rivers in the world, run- ning at convenient distances, present them with highways for th... ...els, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence. This country ... ...l rights, privi- leges, and protection. As a nation we have made peace and war; as a nation we have vanquished our common enemies; as a nation we have... ...nations subdued and empires overturned, but of towns taken and retaken; of battles that decide nothing; of retreats more beneficial than victories; of... ...rade, which is the support of their navigation and the foundation of their naval strength. Those of them which have colonies in America look forward t... ...nt. The more southern States furnish in greater abundance certain kinds of naval stores—tar, pitch, and turpentine. Their wood for the construction of...

...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks it...

... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Univer... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...hich can win the affections of its citi zens and command the respect of the world. I dwell on INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STA... ... of uncertainty. The zeal and ardor of the people during the Revolu tionary war, supplying the place of government, com manded a degree of order suf... ...vices, the gratitude of mankind, the happy fruits of them to himself and the world, which are daily increas ing, and that splendid prospect of the fu... ...reat Britain at the time of James Madison’s second inauguration. Most of the battles had occurred at sea, and the physical reminders of war seemed rem... ...other countries, and not only of permitting but compelling them to fight its battles against their native country. They have not, it is true, taken in... ...ecessity of another resort to them. Already have the gallant exploits of our naval heroes proved to the world our inherent capacity to maintain our ri... ...of these are amply recompensed, in their turn, by the nursery for seamen and naval force thus formed and reared up for the support of our com mon rig...

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... SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and political world as aspects of one universal evolving scheme, and placing all social a... ...knows what seems true to one’s self, but we are coming to realize that the world is great and complex, beyond the utmost power of such minds as ours. ... ... party passion at the clash of these names, than we are to fight again the battles of the Factio Albata or the Factio Prasina. These current dramas, t... ... height of the more favoured classes at the same ages. Public school-boys, naval and military cadets, medical and university students, were taken to r... ...eal the history as an affair of dated events, a record of certain wars and battles, and legislative and social matters quite beyond the scope of a chi... ...d training “gentlemen.” When they met them socially no doubt was meant; in war the disadvantage might prove the other way about. 157 H G Wells the st... ... for the engineering trades, for the profession of soldiering,* or for the naval and mercantile *I may perhaps explain that my conception of military ...

...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development an...

...ries Publication The Amazing Marriage 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... ...ures of a broomstick, with the aid of a yashmak and an ankle, may know the world; you had better not know him—that is my remark; and do not trust him.... ...e, and Countess Fanny no more than three and twenty, a young beauty of the world of fashion, courted by the highest, and she in love with him! Go and ... ...at he never forgave the Admiralty for striking him off the list of English naval captains: which is no doubt why in his old age he nursed a grudge aga... ...ocked in his hand, and he said: ‘Many would take that for a declaration of war, but I know it ‘s only your lordship’s diplomacy’; and then he let loos... ...was knocked off by the wind of a cannon-ball. He lost both legs before the war was over, and said merrily, ‘Stumps for life’’ while they were carry- i... ...horse-artillery. You know his vanity to be a mili- tary quite as much as a naval commander like the Greeks and Romans, he says. We took the bruised ma... ...ay, he swears. You know what a pas- sion is; you have it for mountains and battles, I for music. I do remember, one morning before sunrise, driving ba...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Enter Dame Gossip As Chorus. Everybody has heard of the beautiful Countess of Cressett, who was one of the lights of this country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity?s sake to be amused after their tiresome work of slaughter: and ...

...AUTOBIOGRAPHY A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of... ...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... ...n they deserve to be, and the one to whom most of all is due, one whom the world had no opportunity of knowing. The reader whom these things do not in... ...is Own Time , though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the his torical part of the Annual Register, from the beginn... ...lties, and in Paoli, the Corsican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like a child as I was (until set right by my father) o... ...sons, and a collection (Hawkesworth’s, I be lieve) of V oyages round the World , in four volumes, beginning with Drake and ending with Cook and Boug... ...e, while about modern history, except detached passages, such as the Dutch War of Inde pendence, I knew and cared comparatively little. A volun tary... ...y opinion and feeling from that time forward. 23 John Stuart Mill CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II MORAL INFL MORAL INFL MORAL ... ...all the correspon dence with the Indian Governments, except the military, naval, and financial. I held this office as long as it continued to exist, ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of what I have to relate can be interesting to th...