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Excerpt: The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells.

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...AVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli 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... ...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... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...e nowhere in particular. No, the Victorian epoch was not the dawn of a new era; it was a hasty, trial experiment, a gigantic experiment of the most sl... ...ng a school, but of a man captured and directed by a school. Dead and gone Elizabethans had begotten a monster that could carry him about in its mouth... ...fore the sunrise, giving place in the most simple and obvious manner to an era of Right and Justice and Virtue and Well Being, 86 The New Machiavelli...

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Excerpt: The World Set Free by H. G. Wells.

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...et Free by H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free 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... ...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... ...excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), meeting obscurely amidst a world-wide disre- gard t... ...the first recorded suggestion for the use of steam was in war; there is an Elizabethan pamphlet in which it is pro- posed to fire shot out of corked i... ... it boil away, seeing the lids of vessels dance with its fury; millions of people at different times must have watched steam pitching rocks out of vol... ...onflicts of that chaotic time there was already dawning the light of a new era. The spirit of humanity was escaping, even then it was escaping, from i... ...hed by his national failing. He sug- gested now that there should be a new era, starting from that day as the first day of the first year. The king de...

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Excerpt: The Tapestried Chamber and Death of the Laird?s Jock by Sir Walter Scott.

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...Excerpt: Accusations of ingratitude, and just accusations no doubt, are made against every inhabitant of this wicked world, and the fact is, that a man who is ceaselessly engaged in its trouble and turmoil, borne hither and thither upon the fierc...

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...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When...

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...tt, Bart. Edited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Cl... ... Bart. Edited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Class... ...ge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M. is a p... ... Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M. is a publicatio... ...urn to them for help without finding it. Scott is much given to the use of Elizabethan words and constructions, and I have quoted many “ parallelisms ... .... XXII. Lament. ‘And art thou cold and lowly laid, Thy foeman’s dread, thy people’s aid, Breadalbane’s boast, Clan-Alpine’s shade! For thee shall none... ...eath. Another writer, in 1843, says that the pool is still visited, not by people of the vicinity, who have no faith in its virtue, but by those from ... ...al meal to part and share, Had found a bloody sheath.” 142. Turned him. In Elizabethan, and still more in earlier English, personal pronouns were ofte...

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Excerpt: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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Excerpt: The Professor by Charlotte Bronte.

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Excerpt: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte.

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...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ...

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Excerpt: The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf.

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...Excerpt: Herman Melville. I and my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in the country. We are, I may say, old settlers here; particularly my old chimney, which settles more and more every day. Though I always say, I and my chimney, as Cardinal Wolsey used to say, ?I and my king,? yet this egotistic...

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Excerpt: Septimius Felton; or, The Elixir of Life by Nathanial Hawthorne.

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world se...

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...Excerpt: The United Force of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with the aid of diaries and letters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been ...

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...Preface: No one can be more sensible than is the Author that the present is an overgrown book of a nondescript class, neither the ?tale? for the young, nor the novel for their elders, but a mixture of both....

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...By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of t... ...on The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsyl- vania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...er.” “But, my dear, has your mamma considered? They are such a set of wild people at Cocksmoor; I don’t think we could walk there alone.” “It is Satur... ... yes!” cried Ethel, “but no one fit to speak to would do that!” “Plenty of people do, I can tell you,” said Norman. “Then I hope I shall never know wh... ..., and quiet Mrs. Ward, began to talk at once. There was a great deal about Elizabethan architecture, crossed by much more, in which normal, industrial...

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...MET BY H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ... G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ...ering of a palace, of a terrace, of the vista of a great roadway with many people, people exaggerated, im- possible-looking because of the curvature o... ... Change, so far as it has affected my own life and the lives of one or two people closely connected with me, primarily to please myself. Long ago in m... ...ed in his vestments and lifting his voice manfully to the quality of those Elizabethan prayers, seemed, I think, to give her a special and peculiar in... ...ith incredible pride and zeal, and if you would really understand this mad era the comet brought to an end, you must keep in mind that every phase in ... ...t made savages pine away and die because they had been photographed, or an Elizabethan farmer turn back from a day’s expedition because he had met thr...

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...Preface: A preface generally begins with a truism; and I may set out with the admission that it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and...

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