Description Details
...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the m...

Full Text Search Details
... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ... ... Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 ... ... E.M. Forster, 1924 This book is a work of fiction. Places, events, and situations in this story are purely fictional. Any resemblan... ...s, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author. ISBN: 1-4033-8037-6 (e-book) ISBN: ... ...ir enterprise would one day, with an army more powerful than any in Europe (except, perhaps, the French) and a revenue greater than that of Great Br... ... had married. THE CURSE OF KALI 3 England 1854 It was a beautiful autumn day when Sir Terence French informed Helen of the family’s wish that sh... ...eave you, my dearest child, but my dear friend Sir Terence, has promised to take my place as your guardian.’ The letter went on to emphasise her fat... ...as Lord Buddha. The East India Company has, of course, realised the strategic importance of this Imperial Road, as it was known in Moghul times. It ... ...sequently, the orgies of retribution, drunkenness and looting by some British troops (which their commanders seemed unable, or Audrey Blankenhagen ...

Description Details
...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 earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings amo...

Excerpt Details
...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 -- T...

Full Text Search Details
... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia a... ...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 by ... ... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... -- A glorious day in Seville -- A procession of notables -- Appearance of the commanders -- A sight of bewildering splendor -- The departure from Sev... ...lves -- Formation of a communistic settlement -- Occupation by the English and French of many islands -- A fort built at Tortuga -- Capture of the pla... ... and massacre of the people -- A few survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish ships Rapid... ...ly common in the Middle Ages, and their influence upon early voyagers, whether commanders or common sailors, render a chapter on sea superstitions not... ...til in the spring of 1275 the three reached Xanadu, where they were met by the imperial courtiers of Kubia Khan who conducted them to Cambaluc. Though...

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

Full Text Search Details
... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...ml Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United S... ... of "true" Islam. On the contrary, it is the purest expression of its nature as an imperialistic religion which demands unmitigated obedience from ... ... fundamentalists have more in common with Muslim militants than with East Coast or French intellectuals. Muslims have always been the West's most... ...llies and either conquered or otherwise absorbed them into its body politic. Roman commanders and procurators meddled in the internal affairs of th... ...May 29, 1453 Turkish soldiers forced their way into the shattered city. Most of the commanders (among them Venetians and Genoese) were dead or wound... ... time. Napoleon justified his gory campaigns by claiming that they served to spread French ideals throughout a barbarous world. Kipling bemoaned th...

Description Details
...Narcissistic and psychopathic leaders come in all shapes and degrees of virulence. Learn to recognize them in various settings (the workplace, religion, politics) and to cope with the toxic fallout of their "leadership"....

Full Text Search Details
... Pathological Narcissism – An Overview A Primer on Narcissism and the Narcissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's Ent... ...t of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliog... ...abulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace The Narcissist in the Workplace Narcissism in the... ...ssism in the Boardroom The Professions of the Narcissist Narcissists in Positions of Authority Narcissistic Leaders Narcissists in Positi... ...to selective data and analyses. The narcissist's cult is "missionary" and "imperialistic". He is always on the lookout for new recruits – his spous... ...very reminiscent of Vladimir Putin's reign in post-Yeltsin Russia. Like the French Second Empire, it follows a period of revolutions and counter-rev... ...tine security apparatus which regularly gathered information on millions of Frenchmen and foreigners. Modernization and Reform Putin is considerably ... ...hy ad depicting the precocious leader berating his pusillanimous and craven commanders ahead of a crucial battle. He speaks fluent Macedonian (the ... ... return to Babylon, once there, he executed scores of his satraps, military commanders, and other functionaries. Alexander was known for his hubris ...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History (Volume Two).

Table of Contents Details
...Contents VOLUME II.?THE CONSTITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES .............................................................

Full Text Search Details
... U UB B B B BLI LI LI LI LICA CA CA CA CATI TI TI TI TIO O O O ON N N N N The French Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a public... ...B B B B BLI LI LI LI LICA CA CA CA CATI TI TI TI TIO O O O ON N N N N The French Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a publicatio... ...h Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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 French Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvan... ...to no purpose. For, in far lands, with scarlet Nassau-Siegens, with sinful Imperial Catherines, is not the heart-broken, even as at home with the mean... ...to be faithful not to the King only, but to the Law and the Nation. Do our commanders love the Revolu- tion? ask all soldiers. Unhappily no, they hate... ... being, ghost whom we do not name, does write to Municipalities and King’s Commanders, that they shall, by all conceivable methods, obstruct this Fede...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History.

Table of Contents Details
...Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY.......................................................................................................... 12 VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE ...............................................................

Full Text Search Details
...ORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the ... ...by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn... ...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... ...e, for 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- o... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsyl... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...itterest wailings, soft womanly meltings, though thou hast the heart of an imperial Theresa’s Daughter. Thou doomed one, shut thy eyes on the future!—... ...to be faithful not to the King only, but to the Law and the Nation. Do our commanders love the Revolution? ask all sol- diers. Unhappily no, they hate... ... being, ghost whom we do not name, does write to Municipalities and King’s Commanders, that they shall, by all conceivable methods, obstruct this Fede...

Excerpt Details
...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 mercha...

Full Text Search Details
...sics Series Publication Billy Budd by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...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... ...e, for 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 anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Billy Budd by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ted them to be marched up by Anacharsis Cloots before the bar of the first French 4 Billy Budd Assembly as Representatives of the Human Race. At each... ...er of Thomas Paine whose book in rejoinder to Burke’s arraign- ment of the French Revolution had then been published for some time and had gone everyw... ...ns for it—buoying the deadly way and mapping it out, as at Copenhagen— few commanders have been so painstakingly circumspect as this same reckless dec... ... The isolated leisure, in some cases so wearisome, falling at intervals to commanders even during a war- cruise, never was tedious to Captain Vere. Wi... ... occupying the position we do, private conscience should not yield to that imperial one formulated in the code under which alone we officially proceed...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of ...

Full Text Search Details
... ... ...uma [Pere] is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. A... ...te University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose... ...m Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the... ...y the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a s... ...lcons upon a perch, the other a hunting-horn, which he blew with a careless note at twenty paces from the castle. Every one about this listless prince... ...which falls back again into the wells — a sad, funereal, solemn sound, which strikes the ear of the child and the poet — both dreamers — which the Eng... ...t, that sacrifice must be made; we can get the horses in the country — they are not bad, besides. But I forgot — peste! Three bands — that necessitate... ...cans, and escorted by two archdeacons, a treasurer, a penitent and twelve can- ons. A singer with a thundering voice — a man certainly picked out from...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expre...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .........................................................

Full Text Search Details
...LICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...e, for 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 anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... .............................................................. 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI... ...hat then desolated France; for, on the contrary, they detested every thing French, and answered with brotherly signals to the cry of “Church and king,... ...from my mother an invitation to Greenhay; and to Greenhay she came. On the imperial of her carriage, and else-where, she described herself as the Hon.... ...gdoms; and in effect we adopt that view of the case in giving the title of imperial to the parliament, or common assembly of the three kingdoms. Howev... ...be adopted. These reprisals, but for the fortunate influence of the French commanders, and but for their great energy in applying that influence accor...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.

Full Text Search Details
...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...nic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...e of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, 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. Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Du... ...f the Duc de Saint-Simon. They stand, by universal consent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all histo... ...thor shows to be anything but grand—and of the Regency. The opinion of the French critic, Sainte-Beuve, is fairly typi- cal. “With the Memoirs of De R... ...ursued by another; and how important it was to draw off detachments of the Imperial forces from Germany into Flanders, and how, by sending an army int... ... their very eyes in open daylight, and in a moment as it were. Such of the Imperial Generals as were out riding ran from all parts to the banks of the... ... order that it was impossible to give the palm to any one corps, but their commanders added the finery and mag- nificence of the Court to the majestic...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and fri...

Full Text Search Details
...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK TWO by WIL... ...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK TWO by WILLIA... ...M MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty ... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book Two by W... ...self: the Dowager Viscountess Castlewood, written in the strange barbarous French which she and many other fine ladies of that time—witness her Grace ... ...smond answered. “My father, when wounded at the Boyne, told the truth to a French priest, who was in hiding after the battle, as well as to the priest... ...thousand foot, English and Dutch, thirty squadrons, and three regiments of Imperial Cuirassiers, the Duke crossing the river at the head of the cavalr... ...ere driven back many times, and should not have carried them, but that the Imperialists came up under the Prince of Baden, when the enemy could make n... ...habby): and I remember our general returning from this dinner with the two commanders-in-chief; his honest head a little excited by wine, which was de...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chorus: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels, Leash?d in like hound...

Full Text Search Details
... William Shakespeare’s King Henry V is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu ment file is furn... ...arge 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 Stat... ...le, for 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 anyo... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. William Shakespeare’s King Henry V , the Pennsylvania State U... ... OF BOURBON : (BOURBON:) The Constable of France . 3 RAMBURES & GRANDPRE : French Lords. GOVERNOR: of Harfleur. MONTJOY: a French Herald. Ambassad... ... (First Ambassador:) (Messenger:) (French Soldier:) SCENE: England; afterwards France. KING HENRY V PROLOGU... ...vereign, and you peers, That owe yourselves, your lives and services To this imperial throne. There is no bar To make against your highness’ claim to... ...ectation in the air, And hides a sword from hilts unto the point With crowns imperial, crowns and coronets, Promised to Harry and his followers. The F... ...on under the form of a soldier. And such fel lows are perfect in the great commanders’ names: and they will learn you by rote where services were do...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Full Text Search Details
... Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Cloassics Series Publication The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of th... ...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... ...e, for 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 anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Penns... ...; for when King Savio died, leaving his brother Regent of the kingdom, and guardian of Savio’s or- phan infant, this unfaithful regent took no sort of... ...ery date in the history of Paflagonia, and every other coun- try. She knew French, English, Italian, German, Spanish, He- brew, Greek, Latin, Cappadoc... ...wing- master came, she took note of all he said and did; and the same with French, Italian, and all other languages—she learned them from the teacher ... ...have been 22 The Rose and the Ring acted a thousand nights running at the Imperial Theatre of Crim Tartary, and danced in a ballet there before the K... ...Army of Fidelity: it pottered along as nimbly as the gout of the principal commanders al- lowed: it consisted of twice as many officers as soldiers: a...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considered, it is hoped that, in s...

Full Text Search Details
...ation A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...e, for 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 anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvan... ... German who procured its overthrow. Captain Zembsch superseded him with an imperial appointment, one still remembered in Samoa as “the gentleman who a... ...as of the whites; in practice, they reduce it to a farce. I have heard the French resident in the Marquesas in talk with the French gaoler of Tai-o-ha... ... for a couple of months and be well treated, just as we Germans did to the French chief [Napo- leon III.] some time ago, whom we kept a while and care... ...ession, but to arbitrate on his remains. A confer- ence of the consuls and commanders met on board the Cal- liope, October 4th, Fritze alone being abs... ...ith difficulty, and the fear of whose misconduct marred the sleep of their commanders. Both paused aghast; both had time to recognise that not the who...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of pre...

Full Text Search Details
...rnhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...e, for 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 anyone... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Make... ...ooms were as clean as scrubbing and whitewash could make them; with simple French prints (with Spanish titles) on the walls; a few rickety half-finish... ...fan and mantle; to them came three or four dandies, dressed smartly in the French fashion, with strong Jewish physiognomies. There was one, a solemn l... ... article of dress, with the red fez. That of Mahmoud is decorated with the imperial aigrette. In this dismal but splendid museum, I remarked two littl... ...s displayed. The place is under the patronage of the Emperor Nicholas; an Imperial Prince has stayed in these rooms; the Russian consul performs a gr... ...cquain- tance with those honest bearded white-jacketed Majors and military Commanders, finding England here in a French hotel kept by an Italian, at t...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and fri...

Full Text Search Details
...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK THREE by W... ...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK THREE by WILL... ...M MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty ... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book Three by... ... but no longer very bitter against ours. She had a very good-natured, easy French director, Monsieur Gauthier by name, who was a gentleman of the worl... ...with his young pupil. 9 Thackeray The gazetteers and writers, both of the French and English side, have given accounts sufficient of that bloody batt... ...at in the Dutch quarters and our own, and amongst the very regi- ments and commanders whose gallantry was most conspicu- ous upon this frightful day o... ... a political hatred, but by personal rage against the old French King: the Imperial Generalissimo never forgot the slight put by Lewis upon the Abbe d... ...e comes back to his army cooled towards the Hanoverians, cautious with the Imperialists, and particularly civil and polite towards the Chevalier de St...

Excerpt Details
...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 havin...

Table of Contents Details
...s MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES...................................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...ATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for 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 anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvan... ...is to add, that this is the prin- ciple upon which our adult neighbors the French seem to value a battle. T o any man who, like myself, admires the hi... ...y man who, like myself, admires the high-toned, mar- tial gallantry of the French, and pays a cheerful tribute of respect to their many intellectual t... ...mbition, and even bloodier would have been the blood- polluted line of the imperial successions. Prudence, there- fore, it was, and state policy, not ... ...nier, the Prince of Saxe-Weimar, the Rhinegrave, and many other Protestant commanders, whose names and military merits were familiar to Paulina, thoug... ...ginal employers, under new arrangements, or from private jealousies of new commanders; great persons with special reasons for courting a temporary sec...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Prince and the Page by Charlotte M. Yonge.

Full Text Search Details
...By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prince and the Page by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Penns... ...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... ...e, for 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 anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Prince and the Page by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania... ...DAYS of exactness even a child’s historical romance must point to what the French term its pieces justficatives. We own that ours do not lie very deep... ...his mother left England. The youngest son, Amaury, obtained the hereditary French possessions of the family, and continued the line of Montfort as a F... ...am, but for the care and protection of this Gourdon—who healed his wounds, guarded him, robbed for him, for him spurned the offer of amnesty, and fina... ...sh lions embroidered in red and gold on his breast, and Richard was in the imperial purple, or rather scarlet, and the eagle of the empire on his brea... ... smiling. “Wild work she makes with our novices.” “Wilder with our Knights Commanders, maybe, Sir,” re- torted, laughing, a fair open-faced youth in h...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells.

Full Text Search Details
...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publicatio... ...uture: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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 the Future by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ychological inepti- tude of the Germans, it is probably the clumsiest. The French Maison de la Presse is certainly the best organisation in exist- enc... ...e of the “treacherous” English who allied themselves with the “degenerate” French and the “barbaric” Russians; nonsense about “the freedom of the seas... ... leadership without vulgar ambition. He is the extreme an- tithesis to the Imperial boomster of Berlin. He is as it were the ordinary common sense of ... ...men at Madame T ussaud’s. An antiquated figure. The effect of these French commanders upon me was quite different from my encounter with that last bel... ...eyes, explaining very simply and clearly the difficulties that this vulgar imperialism of Germany, seizing upon mod- ern science and modern appliances...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. I was returning home by the fields. It was midsummer, the hay harvest was over and they were just beginning to reap the rye. At that season of the year there is a delightful variety of flowers --red, white, and pink scented tufty clover; milk-white ...

Full Text Search Details
...HADJI MURAD by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy First Published in 1904 Translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLAS... ...i Murad by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude (original published in 1904) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... .... Louise and Aylmer Maude (original published in 1904) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnished... ... for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...rince Simon Mikhailovich Vorontsov , Com- mander of the Kurin Regiment, an Imperial Aide-de- Camp and son of the Commander-in-Chief. Vorontsov’ s wife... ... “He is delightful, your brigand!” said Marya V asilevna to her husband in french. “Bulka has been admiring his dagger, and he has given it to him.” ... ...so he revenged himself on the widow.” The princess translated this into French for her old friend Countess Choiseuil, who sat next to the Georgian ... ...hborhood of the Chechnya, where he could, with the help and consent of our commanders, have some intercourse with his fam- ily and regular news of the... ..., mollified his displeasure. “Your name?” said he. “Polosatov , your Imperial Majesty .” “…fine fellow!” The student continued to stand wi...