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...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics... ....................... 321 4 North America V ol. 1 North America Volume One by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION It has been the ambition of my l... ...ite a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country with this object before the in- testine troubles of the United Stat... ... describe, as well as I can, the present social and political state of the country. This I should have attempted, with more personal satis- faction in... ...I had cause to be proud of my work. But it is very hard to write about any country a book that does not represent the country described in a more or l... ...l drop by drop the pleasant springs of his liberty creep into his mind and water his heart; and thus, earlier or later in life, according to the natur... ... cific: a huge amount of territory, of which the most fer- tile portion is watered by the Mississippi and its vast tribu- taries. That river and those... ...ief of all politicians in Europe, and of many of those who live across the water. But as separate nations they may yet live together in amity, and sha...

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...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Five by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. Th... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace – Book Five by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Se... ...te University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy BOOK FIVE: 1806-07 CHAPTER I AFTER HIS INTERVIEW with his wi... ...ands, he poured drops from a medicine bottle into a wineglass half full of water. “What is it?” he said crossly, and, his hand shaking uninten- tional... ...nto the glass. He threw the mixture onto the floor and asked for some more water. The maid brought it. There were in the room a child’s cot, two boxes... ... not be a healthy man left in it by spring. “‘Grant leave to retire to his country seat to an old man who is already in any case dishonored by being u... ...campaign can give you no idea. Half the regiments form bands and scour the countryside and put every- thing to fire and sword. The inhabitants are tot... ...ot seen for two years. Bogucharovo lay in a flat uninteresting part of the country among fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut do... ...ly laid out. The fences and gates were new and solid; two fire pumps and a water cart, painted green, stood in a shed; the paths were straight, the br...

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Two by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. Th... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace – Book Two by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Se... ...te University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Tolstoy WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy BOOK TWO: 1805 CHAPTER I IN OCTOBER, 1805, a Russian army wa... ...y for the regiment, and welcome for the approaching chief. Along the broad country road, edged on both sides by trees, came a high, light blue Viennes... ...“Don’t you understand that either we are officers serving our Tsar and our country, rejoicing in the suc- cesses and grieving at the misfortunes of ou... ...the Danube, vessels, an island, and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence of the Enns and the Danube became visible, and the... ...neral in command of the rearguard stood with a staff officer, scanning the country through his fieldglass. A little behind them Nesvitski, who had bee... ...ther, and all pressed toward the exit from the bridge. Looking down at the waters of the Enns under the bridge, Nesvitski suddenly heard a sound new t... ...m, of something swiftly approaching… something big, that splashed into the water. “Just see where it carries to!” a soldier near by said sternly, look...

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...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Fourteen by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...e as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace – Book Fourteen by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...te University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy BOOK FOURTEEN: 1812 CHAPTER I THE BATTLE OF BORODINO, with t... ...arm rainy autumn day. The sky and the horizon were both the color of muddy water. At times a sort of mist descended, and then suddenly heavy slanting ... ...wed the road. The men sat huddled up trying not to stir, so as to warm the water that had trickled to their bodies and not admit the fresh cold water ... ... front, rumbled over the tree stumps and branches and splashed through the water that lay in the ruts. Denisov’s horse swerved aside to avoid a pool i... ...said a few words in the elder’s presence about loyalty to the Tsar and the country and the hatred of the French that all sons of the fatherland should... ...ng to. Coming out onto the road Dolokhov did not ride back across the open country, but through the village. At one spot he stopped and listened. “Do ... ...ing a conclusion from them, Pierre closed his eyes, seeing a vision of the country in summertime mingled with memories of bathing and of the liquid, v...

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...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Seven by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. Th... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace – Book Seven by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...te University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy BOOK SEVEN: 1810-11 CHAPTER I THE BIBLE LEGEND TELLS US that... ...o scraggy oaks rising above the aspen un- dergrowth and the gully with its water-worn side and “Uncle’s” cap just visible above the bush on his right.... ...orway and behind hers other faces… 34 War and Peace – Book Seven Fetching water clear and sweet, Stop, dear maiden, I entreat- played “Uncle” once mo... ...ought there was some- thing lacking in her.” “No, it’s the chorus from The Water-Carrier, listen! “ and Natasha sang the air of the chorus so that Son... ...- erly laughter. “My little Sasha! Look at Sasha!” she said. After Russian country dances and chorus dances, Pelageya Danilovna made the serfs and gen... ... Natasha felt sure he had already arrived. So the countess remained in the country, and the count, tak- ing Sonya and Natasha with him, went to Moscow...

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...to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover design by Jim Manis; art: Sir John Gilbert (Sir John Falstaff Reviews His Ragged R... ...alstaff Reviews His Ragged Regiment, 1859; oil on canvas, approximately 47 by 71 inches; City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England). Copyright... ...tate University is an equal opportunity University. KING HENRY IV, PART I By William Shakespeare (written about 1597 1598) DRAMATIS PERSONAE KING HEN... ...boots. Chamberlain: What, the commonwealth their boots? will she hold out water in foul way? GADSHILL: She will, she will; justice hath liquored her... ...eap. They call drinking deep, dyeing scarlet; and when you breathe in your watering, they cry ‘hem!’ and bid you play it off. To conclude, I am so go... ...om whom you now must steal and take no leave, For there will be a world of water shed Upon the parting of your wives and you. HOTSPUR: Methinks my mo... ...o heavy on the commonwealth, Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep Over his country’s wrongs; and by this face, This seeming brow of justice, did he wi...

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... soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but the Combine that had shivered beneath his knife gave him all the honours of war: Gunsberg himself, full of condolences, came to the steamer and fi...

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... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 6 OUR PSYCHOLOGICAL MOTIVATIONS By ... ...................................................................................................... 54 POWER THRU SOCIAL TRADITIONS SANCTIFIED BY REL... ...lly with your psychological input and her ideas on values we can get a better handle on what makes people tick. ―Having now looked at my own countr... ...o--to accept or reject such very different values, to accept or reject the leadership of the society, to accept or reject the lifestyles lived by our... ...l scientists don‘t have the potential of certainty that a chemist or physicist has. When a hundred chemists gather to discuss the elements in water ... ... 16 teenage sex or drugs? What is it that keeps them so contented. Certainly people in my countr... ...tomorrow we die.‘ That was the call of the Beatniks of the 50's, the hippies of the 60's, and the uncommitted of today. ―But too many of my countr... ...o think much about my desire for sex. ―The need for safety comes next up the hierarchy. If Tarzan has satisfied his needs for food and water ... ...ssible with today‘s measuring tools. It‘s just not the same as a chemist putting two hydrogen atoms with an oxygen atom to make a molecule of water ...