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...s A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...rsity is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells THE NEW MACHIAVELLI by H. G. Wells BOOK THE FIRST THE MAKING OF A MAN CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER C... ...man. 2 2 2 2 2 In Machiavelli’s outlook the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the ... ...or- 12 The New Machiavelli tions.) And out towards the coal-scuttle was a region near the impassable thickets of the ragged hearthrug where lived cer... ...ippled fauna, and I was wont to increase the uncultivated wildness of this region further by trees of privet-twigs from the garden hedge and box from ... ... 198 The New Machiavelli found the talk about Parliamentary procedure and etiquette particularly trying. We dined with the elder Cramptons one evenin... ...or look them in the face as I did so. T owards the end the House evoked an etiquette of salutation. 4 4 4 4 4 There was a tendency, even on the part o... ...e evening, in a note of suppressed passion, and presently, against all our etiquette, he got up and went out. For some years after my marriage, I too ...

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...Excerpt: If you remember, madame, the pleasure your conversation gave to a traveler by recalling Paris to his memory in Milan, you will not be surprised to find him testifying his gratitude for many pleasant evenings passed beside you by laying one of his works at your feet, and begging you to protect it wit...

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...A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...ley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania S... ...ps, of something I enjoy. Ferdinand would be furious if I did not obey the etiquette he prescribes for his wife; he frightens me. In the midst of this... ...rable reserve, kept his wife, by deliberate calculations, in the temperate regions of conjugal affection. He never condescended to seek a reward or ev... ... Ivanhoe, and love and protect him. It was all, of course, in the ethereal regions of sentiment. Forget-me-nots are not more blue, lilies not more whi...

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...obert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Robert Louis Stevenson Essays of T ravel by Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I—THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT T... ...o several on board, and even intimate with one of the engineers; but it was plainly not the etiquette of such occasions for the authorities to avow th... ...ties. And the workman dwells in a borderland, and is always within sight of those cheerless regions where life is more difficult to sustain than worth... ...siness. I lost my temper at last, said I was a stranger in America and not learned in their etiquette; but I would assure him, if he went to any book-...

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...The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume One by Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The... ...ectronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ... electronic transmission, in any way. The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...ently free from the demands of social position not to feel the trammels of etiquette. Such as at the commencement of the repast had not been able to s... ...pect I have, for that is too deeply engraved in my heart, but the rules of etiquette.” “Go on, go on, sir,” replied the king; “you have to-day earned ... ...untry to see whether such a thing as the raising of grain in those parched regions was practicable. Each stalk served as a perch for a grasshopper, wh... ...low had been caught wandering nearer to the harem of the Bey of Tunis than etiquette permits to one of his color, and he was con- demned by the bey to... ...sh is beginning its work. Well, unfurl your wings, and fly into superhuman regions; fear nothing, there is a watch over you; and if your wings, like t... ...t Palermo, and he was then on the point of setting out for the most remote regions; so that I fear he will never return.” “Oh, monsieur, this is cruel...

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Excerpt: Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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Excerpt: Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...t hope that our sketch may serve as an inducement to some young readers to make acquaintance with the delectable old Canon for themselves, undeterred by the size of his tomes....

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...sity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e THE LANCES OF LYNWOOD by CHARLOTTE M. YONGE PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE FOR A... ...d Fulk, will you see your young Lord carried off to perish in some unknown region, and your- selves left a prey to an adventurer and freebooter?” “For... ...unusual rank as Knight Banneret stood in his way, since it was contrary to etiquette for him to put himself under the command of a Knight Bachelor. He...

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...THE FOOD OF THE GODS AND HOW IT CAME TO EARTH By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Food... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Food of the Gods and How It Came Down to Earth by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. Thi... ...ansmission, in any way. The Food of the Gods and How It Came Down to Earth by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...the Gods idea of how to behave under such circumstances than he had of the etiquette of the Day of Judgment. He was still dash- ing about the flat ask... ...to keep out greatness became abundant and incessant. In that south-eastern region of London at that time, and all about where Cossar and his children ... ...world!” “Where?” “He does not know. Vaguely somewhere in the world a great region is to be set apart…. And you are to make no more of the Food, to hav...

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

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...THE DOVE IN THE EAGLE’S NEST by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pulication T... ... State Electronic Classics Series Pulication The Dove In The Eagle’s Nest by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Dove In The Eagle’s Nest by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Clas... ...d the savagery of the independent barons made the former the more suitable region for the adventures. The time could only be before the taming and bri... ...w open. What think you of the Eagle’s Nest?” For, having passed beyond the region of wood they had come forth upon the mountain-side. A not immoderate... ... the spirit even of the Latin, as indeed she had come to the border of the region where human tongues and languages are no more. She was all but gone ... ... Ursel tied over her young mistress’s head, were the only traces that such etiquette had ever been heard of. But when Baron Kasimir had clanked up the...

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Excerpt: The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

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...e Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. DRACULA by Bram Stoker 1897 edition CHAPTER 1 Jonathan Harker’s Journal 3 May. B... ... our own Ordance Survey Maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well known place. I shall enter here some ... ...in my carafe, and was still thirsty. Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous knocking at my door, so I guess I must have been sleepi... ...e has been concealed. “That treasure has been hidden,” he went on, “in the region through which you came last night, there can be but little doubt. ... ...an, the Saxon, and the Turk. Why, there is hardly a foot of soil in all this region that has not been enriched by the blood of men, patriots or invade... ...ad been opened, but the blinds were already down, with that obedience to the etiquette of death which the British woman of the lower classes always ri... ...school. I felt it very improper, for you can’t go on for some years teaching etiquette and decorum to other girls without the pedantry of it biting in...

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...MEN’S WIVES by William Makepeace Thackeray MEN’S WIVES BY G . FITZ-BOODLE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Men... ...TZ-BOODLE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Men’s Wives by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Men’s Wives by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ... and ‘Gina looked at mamma; and then mamma gave ‘Gina a little blow in the region of her little waist, and then both burst out laughing, as ladies wil... ...ff. I have no doubt he was longing, like all of us, to see the battle; but etiquette, you know, forbade. When we went out into the green, Old Hawkins ...

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...LOVE AND LIFE An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume By CHARLOTTE M. YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... .... YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Love and Life by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Love and Life by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- ... ...by atten- dance on her injured son, commanded Psyche to visit the Infernal Regions and obtain from Proserpine a closed box of cosmetic which was on no... ...led her beau, and her cheeks burnt; but the recent disagreeable lecture on etiquette showed her that it would only have led to embarrassment and vexat...