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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...s ies ies ies Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State U... ...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...though, with the quickness of memory and perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of the head that he was considering this ... ... ness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman with a sense of relief at having performed a vexa- tious duty and did not return to her the... ...the mainte- nance of the balance of power of Europe, and it would save the world!” “But how are you to get that balance?” Pierre was beginning. At tha... ...his spectacles. “Come, I will go with you. Try to weep, nothing gives such relief as tears.” She led him into the dark drawing room and Pierre was gla... .... The Imperial army, strictly speaking, was one third com- posed of Dutch, Belgians, men from the borders of the Rhine, Piedmontese, Swiss, Genevese, ...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...8 81 1 1 1 12 2 2 2 2 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace: Book Ten by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace: Book Ten by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State ... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace: Book Ten by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, ... ...s was the only way an army of eight hun- dred thousand men—the best in the world and led by the best general—could be destroyed in conflict with a raw... ...to Timokhin and the like—people quite new to him, belonging to a different world and who could not know and understand his past. As soon as he came ac... ...yet felt an irresistible desire to do so. A new sensation of com- fort and relief came over him when, seeing these girls, he real- ized the existence ... ... he whistled just audibly as he rode into the yard. His face expressed the relief of relaxed strain felt by a man who means to rest after a ceremony. ... ...ns. The Imperial army, strictly speaking, was one third composed of Dutch, Belgians, men from the borders of the Rhine, Piedmontese, Swiss, Genevese, ...

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The Enormous Room

By: E. E. Cummings

...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings, the Pennsy... ...fling experiences, I turn to you—burdened though I know you to be, in this world crisis, with the weightiest task ever laid upon any man. But I have a... ... eyes of French- men as Roman citizenship was in the eyes of the an- cient world. Then it was enough to ask the question, “Is it lawful to scourge a m... ...ullied and in- sulted. I was myself and my own master. In this delirium of relief (hardly noticing what I did) I inspected the pile of straw, decided ... ...rom the canteen in his slightly unsteady and delicately made hand. He is a Belgian. Volun- teered at beginning of war. Permission at Paris, overstayed... ...y and delicately made hand. He is a Belgian. Volun- teered at beginning of war. Permission at Paris, overstayed by one day. When he reported to his of... ...jabbings of strange tongues. Some high boy’s voice is appeal- ing to me in Belgian, Italian, Polish, Spanish and—beautiful English. “Hey, Jack, give m... ... together in the Deutsche Küchen on 13th street. I gasped with pleasurable relief. Monsieur le Gestionnaire looked as if he was trying very hard, with...

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Three Soldiers

By: John Dos Passos

...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ear bawlin’ at the picture of the feller leavin’ his girl to go off to the war,” said Fuselli. “Did yer?” “It was just like it was with me. Ever been ... ...o himself. It was in this that he would take refuge from the horror of the world that had fallen upon him. He was sick of revolt, of thought, of carry... ... scorn. Scorn—that was the quality he needed. It was such a raw, fantastic world he had suddenly fallen into. His life before this week seemed a dream... ... do things, to show what he was good for. “Gee,” he said to himself, “this war’s a lucky thing for me. I might have been in the R.C. Vicker Company’s ... ...ching into towns, pursuing terrified Huns across po- tato fields, saving Belgian milk-maids against picturesque backgrounds. “Does many of ‘em come ... ... step forward, when he found himself sinking into the puddle. A feeling of relief came over him. His legs sunk in the puddle; he lay without moving ag... ...ange, he kept telling him- self that another epoch was closed. It was with relief that he felt that he would never see the hospital again or any of th...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ... brother, Solomon, held com- missions in the English army, in 1756, in the war against the French and Indians. Both were killed that year. My grandfat... ..., also named Noah, was then but nine years old. At the breaking out of the war of the Revolution, after the battles of Concord and Lexington, he went ... ...ndependence, after many years of war, it was the most natural thing in the world that they should adopt as their own the laws then in exist- ence. The... ...readily be brought. The American traders and Mexican smugglers came to the relief. Contracts were made for mules at from eight to eleven dollars each.... ... with a rapidity that would have been commendable had he been going to the relief of a beleaguered garrison. The length of the marches was regulated b... ...ed the only means of communication between Humboldt and the balance of the world. I was obliged to remain in San Francisco for several days before I f... ...o the old United States flint-lock muskets changed into percussion, or the Belgian musket imported early in the war—almost as dangerous to the per- so...

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The Good Soldier

By: Ford Madox Ford

...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...o of them are actually dead. I don’t know …. I know nothing—nothing in the world—of the hearts of men. I 6 The Good Soldier only know that I am alone... ...t have been enough time to get the tremendously long conversations full of worldly wisdom that Leonora has reported to me since their deaths. And is i... ...an Irish Catholic?” 31 Ford Madox Ford V THOSE WORDS gave me the greatest relief that I have ever had in my life. They told me, I think, almost more ... ...the other guests. I have been exceedingly impatient at missing trains. The Belgian State Railway has a trick of letting the French trains miss their c... ...e, you come by Calais—you have to make the connection at Brussels. And the Belgian train never waits by so much the shade of a second for the one comi... ...oment, if Mrs Maidan had been her husband’s mistress. It might have been a relief from Edward’s sentimental gurglings over the lady and from the lady’... ...hey tried to get the Hampshire magistrates degraded; they suggested to the War Ministry that Edward was not the proper person to hold the King’s commi...

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