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... Penn State Electronic Cloassics Series Publication The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...ere many English chil- dren. In that city, if you wanted to give a child’s party, you could not even get a magic-lantern or buy Twelfth-Night charac- ... ...s cousin, whom he loved so fondly. The Prime Minister was Glumboso, an old statesman, who most cheerfully swore fidelity to King V aloroso, and in who... ...of two lionesses’ cubs whom King 13 Thackeray Padella and a royal hunting party shot—for he was King now, and reigned over Crim Tartary. ‘So the poor... ...face because the Prince could not be got to study the Paflagonian laws and constitution; but, on the other hand, the King’s gamekeepers and huntsmen f... ...hentic, is certainly most romantic. ‘The personage calling herself Rosalba states that she was brought out of the forest, fifteen years since, by a la... ...nd the Fairy Blackstick said, ‘Bless you, my darling children! Now you are united and happy; and now you see what I said from the first, that a little... ...ven up everything) were allowed to fraternise with the conquerors; and the united forces marched back by easy stages towards King Giglio’s capital, hi...

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... Woolf A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Th... .... Chailey handled the sheets as if she knew each by name, charac- ter, and constitution. Some had yellow stains, others had places where the threads m... ...fellow, but knows everything, I’m told. And that’s all. We’re a very small party. I’m dropping them on the coast.” Mrs. Dalloway, with her head a litt... ... tear herself away, promising to come back and be shown his sea-weeds. The party, which had seemed so odd to her the night before, was already gathere... ... to admit that; but I have never met a woman who even saw what is meant by statesmanship. I am going to make you still more angry. I hope that I never... ...rved in the Bechuanaland Expedition 1884-85 (honourably mentioned). Clubs: United Service, Naval and Military. Recreations: an en- thusiastic curler.’... ...ies of bankers, writers, clergymen, sailors, surgeons, judges, professors, states- men, editors, philanthropists, merchants, and actresses; what clubs... ...p into the air seemed like the fiery way in which lovers suddenly rose and united, leaving the crowd gazing up at them with strained white faces. But ... ...mires, though one does not feel, at least I do not feel—but then she has a constitution of iron.” Mrs. Elliot, brought back to the consideration of he...

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Excerpt: Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of the Riots of ?Eighty by Charles Dickens.

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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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...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...e gossip brought to him by his unsuspecting friends; for neither courtier, statesman, minister, nor friend ever looked upon those notes which this “li... ...owed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind, therefore, to escape from my leading-strings;... ...alting-places was Marienburgh, where we camped for the night. I had become united in friendship with Comte de Coetquen, who was in the same company wi... ...ho were already playing at ‘lansquenet’; Madame, who scarcely looked at a, party of ‘hombre’ at which she had seated herself; the Duc de Chartres, who... ...s- ter of the horse. On the Monday before Shrove Tuesday, all the marriage party and the bride and bridegroom, superbly dressed, re- paired, a little ... ...his days, and his pleasures the evenings. At last, age, tempera- ment, and constitution betrayed him. He fell ill at V ersailles. Given over by Fagon,... ...ition cost the King. M. le Duc presided this year over the Assembly of the States of Burgundy, in place of his father M. le Prince, who did not wish t... ...might well do so, for they had not been consulted in any way upon this new constitution. Father Tellier and his friends had had the art and the audaci...

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...transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism were rallying for their last struggle against the modern spirit, chiefly represented by Voltaire, the Encyclopedists, and Rousseau himself--a struggle to which, after many fierce intestine quarrels and sanguinary wars throughout Europe and America, has succeeded the prevalence of those more tolerant and ratio...

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...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 bo... ...the prevalence of those more tolerant and rational principles by which the statesmen of our own day are actuated. On these matters, however, it is not... ...ritings; France has issued a warrant against you: so do you come to me. My states offer you a peaceful retreat. I wish you well, and will treat you we... ...t altogether imaginary. The habit of liv- ing in this peaceful manner soon united me tenderly to my cousin Bernard; my affection was more ardent than ... ...lmost from my birth, preserved my purity beyond the age when the cold- est constitutions lose their insensibility; long tormented, without knowing by ... ...on, proper in themselves to re- tard the first explosions of a combustible constitution, were strengthened, as I have already hinted, by the effect th... ...exist- ence, I find elements, which, though seemingly incompat- ible, have united to produce a simple and uniform effect; while others, apparently the... ...bsurdi- ties and awkwardness, Madam D’Epinay would have me make one of the party to the Chevrette, a country-house, near Saint Denis, belonging to M. ... ...embled at the opera-house, under the box belonging to the queen. The other party filled up the rest of the pit and the theatre; but the heads were mos...

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...spects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and probably in habitable capacity, having about eight-ninths of its area; then comes that of the Yenisei, wit...

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...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) , the Pennsylvania State University, J... ...er has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, on the Atlantic seaboard, and f... ...e in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six million tons ... ...l ing with the heat; they encountered and exchanged civilities with another party of Indians; and at last they reached the mouth of the Arkansas (abo... ...of them that you are allowed to run at all down stream. There’s a law of the United States against it. The river may be rising by the time we get to 1... ...aper cannot be indepen dent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to utter only half or two thirds of hi... ..., he promptly resented even the merest sugges tions. Indeed, the law of the United States forbade him to listen to commands or suggestions, rightly c... ... satisfactory long time dying. He had a wonder ful vitality, an astonishing constitution. Yes, he was a pleas ant long time at it. I got a chair and... ... Son. In big gilt frame, slander of the family in oil: papa holding a book (“Constitution of the United States”); guitar leaning against mamma, blue r...

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...its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, -- the city of the Hague, the capital of the Seven United Provinces, was swelling in all its arteries with a black and red stream of hurried, panting, and restless citizens, who, with their knives in their girdles, muskets on their shoulders, or sticks in their hands, were pu...

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...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...esign: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Dumas The... ... houses, with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, — the city of the Hague, the capital ... ...it is based. Cornelius de Witt, Ruart de Pulten, that is to say, war- den of the dikes, ex-burgomaster of Dort, his native town, and member of the Ass... ...nceived a most vio- lent affection for the Stadtholderate, which had been abol- ished for ever in Holland by the “Perpetual Edict” forced by John de W... ...nest Tyckelaer, with a heart full of spite and malice, and with no particular plan settled in his mind, was one of the foremost, being paraded about b... ...m, he began to parley with the burghers, under the protection of the cocked pistols of his dragoons, explaining to the val- iant townsmen, that his or... ...lius, “how angry those people are! Is it against you, or against me?” “I should say it is against us both, Cornelius. I told you, my dear brother, tha... ...nd Pension- ary, for whom he entertained the deepest veneration, and retired to his house at Dort, rich in his well-earned repose, his twenty-eight ye...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- v... ...told, without precedent; but it lacked all appear- ance of success. To the constitution of Samoa, which was already all wheels and no horses, the cons... ...ssible that anything so foolish should have been suddenly devised, and the constitution bears on its front the marks of dotage. But the king, once ele... .... But the special delight of the Samoan is the malanga. When people form a party and go from village to village, junketing and gossiping, they are sai... ...it. They figure but as the three ruffi- ans of the elder play-wrights. The United States have the cleanest hands, and even theirs are not immaculate. ... ...y figure but as the three ruffi- ans of the elder play-wrights. The United States have the cleanest hands, and even theirs are not immaculate. It was ... ...hed story. And the end of it spattered the credit alike of England and the States, when this man (the premier of a friendly sovereign) was kidnapped a... ...and in drafting these proposals; I am only surprised he should have been a party to enforcing them, perhaps the chief error in these islands of a man ... ...t Malietoa,” said Mataafa “but try to bring about a compromise, and form a united government.” “Very well,” said Tamasese, “leave it to me, and I will...

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Excerpt: Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ...ers, and in the bag of my railway rug the whole of Bancroft’s History of the United States, in six fat volumes. It was as much as I could carry with c... ...d in the bag of my railway rug the whole of Bancroft’s History of the United States, in six fat volumes. It was as much as I could carry with convenie... ... where nomenclature is so rich, poetical, hu- morous, and picturesque as the United States of America. All times, races, and languages have brought th... ...nomenclature is so rich, poetical, hu- morous, and picturesque as the United States of America. All times, races, and languages have brought their con... ...or their extreme plainness, nothing but wood entering in any part into their constitution, and for the usual ineffi- cacy of the lamps, which often we... ... immediately the emotion he had raised. The day faded; the lamps were lit; a party of wild young men, who got off next evening at North Platte, stood ... ...is rounds through the cars with some commodi- ties for sale, and coming to a party who were at SEVEN-UP or CASCINO (our two games), upon a bed-board, ... ...ed or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so bui...

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... of Nicholas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens....

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...rtunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens VOLUME ONE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publi... ...tty well!’ echoed Mr Bonney. ‘It’s the finest idea that was ever started. “United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muf- fin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual D... ...nto consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament in favour of the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Del... ...Noggs, and nobody knows to this day how he ever came to make it, the other party being wholly unknown to him, but he drew a long breath and actually s... ..., and stop till ten or eleven o’clock at a tavern he much affected. As the party was not in his way , therefore, but rather afforded a means of com- p... ...he prepara- tions; more, indeed, than she, being of a delicate and genteel constitution, could have sustained, had not the pride of house- wifery uphe... ...s might be; but per- haps this was occasioned by senatorial gravity, and a states- manlike habit of keeping his feelings under control. He was a tough... ...sullied. Actuated by no personal motives, but moved only by high and great constitutional considerations; which I will not at- tempt to explain, for t... ..., that your poor papa went bail for, who afterwards ran away to the United States, and sent us a pair of snow shoes, with such an affectionate letter ...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Book the Second translated by Charles Cotton, ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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...ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877... ...eir most important affairs after being well warmed with wine. My taste and constitution are greater enemies to this vice than my discourse; for beside... ...d age we have our palate furred with phlegms or depraved by some other ill constitution, the wine tastes better to us as the pores are cleaner washed ... ...so that the violence seems to be mixed with a little consent of the forced party. The ecclesiastical history has several examples of devout persons wh... ...at they will, I understand nothing of Greek; but I meet with sense so well united and maintained throughout his whole translation, that certainly he e... ... of our civil wars, met a gentle- man of good sort. He was of the contrary party, though I did not know so much, for he pretended otherwise: and the m... ...l qualities, in gross and piecemeal, the diversity of means by which he is united and knit, and the accidents that threaten him. Now those that write ... ...The diseases and conditions of our bodies are, in like manner, manifest in states and governments; king- doms and republics are founded, flourish, and... ...else a repletion of evil humours, which is the ordinary cause of sickness. States are very often sick of the like repletion, and 207 Montaigne variou...

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...e had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost too heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge. Now, in less than three months, if all went well, his Excellency the Viceroy would open the bridge in state, an archbishop would bl...

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...THE DAY’S WORK THE DAY’S WORK THE DAY’S WORK by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The... ...ner yet no Vermont, in our business. There’s jest two kind o’ horse in the United States—them ez can an’ will do their work after bein’ properly broke... ... no Vermont, in our business. There’s jest two kind o’ horse in the United States—them ez can an’ will do their work after bein’ properly broke an’ ha... ...touched yet. After this little fracas is fixed up, you an’ me’ll make up a party an’ ‘tend to it. Marcus did not answer for a long time, then he said:... ...n unseemly sight, but the proprieties had been left ages ago, with the tea-party at Amritsar Station, fifteen hundred miles to the north. “They are co... ...r his breath. “They don’t hanker after her any in the yard.” “But, with my constitution and temperament—my work lies in Boston—I find your outrecuidan... ...oney. “When the Purple Emperor ain’t on time, it’s about time to amend the Constitution. The first stroke of twelve is—” “Boom!” went the clock in the... ... par- ticulars from ours. And do you always stop trains in this way in the States, Mr. Sargent?” “I should if occasion ever arose; but I’ve never had ... ...d for a constable! lock him up! “ said that man, adjusting his collar; and unitedly they cast him into the lamp-room, and turned the key, while the dr...

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...re Cooper A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S ERIES PUBLICATION New York by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...e it bore but a sec- ondary rank among what were then considered the great States of the Confederacy. Massachusetts, proper and singly , then outnumbe... ...rk has none of this adventitious aid. Both of the Governments, that of the United States and that of the State, have long been taken from her, leaving... ...none of this adventitious aid. Both of the Governments, that of the United States and that of the State, have long been taken from her, leaving her no... ... in many of the largest towns of that quarter of the world. At a convivial party in one of the most considerable dwellings in Broad- way , the convers... ... No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular State, but to the United States. The revenue paid into the treasury , at this point, comes in... ...celebrated doctrine of the equilibrium, for which we look in vain into the Constitution for a single sound argu- ment to sustain it, are merely the ex... ... give a passing glance at this very material subject. At the time when the Constitution was adopted, three classes of persons were “held to service” i... ...Europe can look with confidence to the com- pliance of their subordinates. Party is the most potent despot of the times. Its very irresponsibil- ity g...

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Excerpt: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII.

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...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Don Juan by George Byron , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty E... ...ching, leaving still behind Something of which its masters are afraid, States to be curb’d and thoughts to be confined, Conspiracy or Congress... ...es, making history change its tune, Then spur away o’er empires and o’er states, Leaving at last not much besides chronology, Excepting the po... ... Love’s, and Night’s, and Ocean’s solitude, O’erflow’d her soul with their united power; Amidst the barren sand and rocks so rude She and her ... ... their witness, and the cave their bed, By their own feelings hallow’d and united, Their priest was Solitude, and they were wed: And they were... ...e. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Four” 114 By one of these, the buffo of the party, Juan was told about their curious case; For although destine... ...corporal Some Cossacques, hovering like hawks round a hill, Had met a party towards the twilight’s fall, One of whom spoke their tongue—or we... ...ce to Quit; and though death had threaten’d an ejection, His youth and constitution bore him through, And sent the doctors in a new directio... ...o the sun my little taper? Mankind just now seem wrapt in mediation On constitutions and steam boats of vapour; While sages write against al...

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Excerpt: The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung?s Ring by George Bernard Shaw.

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...phy. I have simply been a student giving the subject such attention as I could during a fairly busy life. No doubt some of the scientific conclusions stated are still debatable and may finally be rejected. The scientific mind holds opinions tentatively and is always ready to reexamine, modify or discard as new evidence comes to light....

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...C R I M E ITS CAUSE AND TREATMENT BY CLARENCE DARROW 1922 1922 1922 1922 1922 A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSIC... ...ife shall not be extinct, Nature plants the life-giving desire deep in the constitution of man. The creation of life comes from an instinct so profoun... ...hrough this instinct, man builds his villages and cities and organizes his states and nations. With the gregarious instinct and the parental in- stinc... ...he herd instinct in animal species develops packs and clans and tribes and states. Man is the heir to all the past, and the instincts and emotions of ... ...rmination to preserve the species, has planted sex hunger very deep in the constitution of man. The fact that it is necessary for the preservation of ... ...nt qualities inherent in the tendencies and aspira- tions of a people. The United States of America, among the 60 nations, meets these conditions, an... ...he main reason for the seemingly abnormal number of property crimes in the United States. Man’s infinitely long past developed the hunger instinct, wh... ...oved, they must be punished; with the restriction, however, that where the party denies he is 134 a Christian, and shall make it evident that he is n... ... and reaches the tracks just in time to be struck by the engine. The merry party meets disaster. No power could fore- see the catastrophe, nor provide...

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...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ...A IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia ... ...tion Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... .... And of the two atmospheres it is hard to say which was the more fatal to statesmanship. Revolution on the Shelf Heartbreak House was quite familiar ... ... climax of legal lawlessness was reached in France. The greatest Socialist statesman in Europe, Jaures, was shot and killed by a gentleman who resente... ... wrath on which many suns go down before it is appeased. Yet it was in the United States of America where nobody slept the worse for the war, that the... ... leav- ing it to be inferred that our own militarism and our own political constitution are millennially democratic (which they certainly are not); bu... ...o apologize publicly for bawling Pacifist or Pro-German at their opponent. Party leaders seek such followers, who can always be depended on to walk ta... ...lowers, who can always be depended on to walk tamely into the lobby at the party whip’s orders, provided the leader will make their seats safe for the...

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...otterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come into Holland again....

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...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorial... ...which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made public befor... ...en who continued all the while in London. Never made public before. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journal of the Plague Year ... ...to say it had twice as many , because all the ruined families of the royal party flocked hither. All the old soldiers set up trades here, and abundanc... ... many fine speeches, examined them of the state of their health and of the constitution of their bodies, and told them many good things for them to do... ... twelve- pence a body searched by them, to be paid out of the goods of the party searched, if he be able, or otherwise by the parish. 38 Journal of t... ...the distem- pered people went day by day about the streets; and it was our united opinion that a method to have removed the sound from the sick, in ca... ...s I suppose all distempers do, operated in a different manner on differing constitutions; some were immediately overwhelmed with it, and it came to vi... ...ome time the capers were either afraid to take them, or their masters, the States, were afraid they should, and forbade them, lest the plague should b...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should ...

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... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- ti... ...e file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition), the Penn- sylva... ... should arise with particular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many dif... ... in half a hundred vary- ing stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and – setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigner... ...ohn Bull, but he is tarred with the English stick. For Mr. Grant White the States are the New England States and nothing more. He wonders at the amoun... ...mmon provocations. A Scotchman may tramp the better part of Europe and the United States, and never again receive so vivid an impression of foreign tr... ...s not alone in scenery and architecture that we count England foreign. The constitution of society, the very pillars of the empire, surprise and even ... ... in another church, held dif- ferent morals, and obeyed a different social constitution from his fellow-countrymen either of the south or north. Even ... ... the city of my childhood with the sea. When, upon any Saturday, we made a party to behold the ships, we passed that corner; and since in those days I...

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... The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...vice in home politics was his reform of the postal system; but his fame as a statesman rests chiefly on his services in connec tion with the relation... ...tal Congress and in 1777 he was dispatched to France as commissioner for the United States. Here he re mained till 1785, the favorite of French socie... ...gress and in 1777 he was dispatched to France as commissioner for the United States. Here he re mained till 1785, the favorite of French society; and... ... may like to know something of his person and character. He had an excellent constitution of body, was of middle stature, but well set, and very stron... ...tter in structed, tastes and appetites. My mother had likewise an excellent constitution: she suckled all her ten children. I never knew either my fa... ...reflected that I had already made myself a little obnoxious to the governing party, and, from the arbitrary proceedings of the Assembly in my brother’... ...o disuse thirty years ago; it is very properly rejected entirely in the United States.”—W. T. F. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 44 them,... ...at we plant our chief habits and prejudices; it is in youth that we take our party as to profession, pursuits and matrimony. In youth, there fore, th...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that...

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...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15...

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...FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN & BOOKS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ...er thrown out in unnatural isolation, but is resumed into its place in the constitution of things. It is this change in the manner of regarding men an... ...irulent skirmish; and Burns found him- self identified with the opposition party, – a clique of roar- ing lawyers and half-heretical divines, with wit... ...emony can do aught to fix the wandering affec- tions, here were two people united for life. Mary came of a superstitious family, so that she perhaps i... ...period opens in the story of the poet’s random affections. He met at a tea party one Mrs. Agnes M’Lehose, a married woman of about his own age, who, w... ... from year to year and age to age. The Tw a Dogs has already outlasted the constitution of Sieyes and the policy of the Whigs; and Burns is better kno... ...Whitman’s intense Americanism, his unlimited belief in the future of These States (as, with reverential capitals, he loves to call them), made the war... ...rose and Poetry . . . for the most cogent purposes of those great in- land states, and for T exas, and California, and Oregon;” – a statement which is... ...ons they held through the prison wall, and dear was the sympathy that soon united them. It fell first to the lot of Kusakabe to pass before the judges...

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...on A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ...ho give me countenance. Gentlemen, you shall wait no longer. Al- though my constitution is shattered by previous excesses, at the risk of my life I li... ...fica- tions in other lands, I am myself uninformed; and what I know of its constitution, I am not at liberty to communi- cate to you. To this extent, ... ... cheroot with more than usual care. Indeed, he was now the only man of the party who kept any command over his nerves. The bill was discharged, the Pr... ...l in the centre of a round table, and the hats and coats of a considerable party hung round the wall on pegs. “What sort of a den is this?” said Geral... ...ell divest himself at once of all hope of being acclaimed President of the United States, and leaving be- hind him a statue, in the worst possible sty... ...est himself at once of all hope of being acclaimed President of the United States, and leaving be- hind him a statue, in the worst possible style of a... ...nds. Indeed I may say there is hardly a better place of concealment in the United Kingdom. I de- termined to pass a week in the Sea-Wood of Graden Eas...

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...LAWS FOR SOCIETY 112 SOCIAL CONCERNS—DO UNTO OTHERS 114 ECONOMIC CONCERNS WHEN ESTABLISHING YOUR IDEAL SOCIETY 115 ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY117 THE WELFARE STATE—CRADLE TO GRAVE BENEFITS 119 RETIREMENT PENSIONS 125 HEALTH CARE128 HEALTH CARE AND AGING POPULATIONS 130 WORKING AND RESTING IN THE WELFARE STATE 131 POVERTY IS RELATIVE 134 PENSIONS 134 SICK LEAVE 135 HIGH TAXES 137 B...

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... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 6 OUR PSYCHOLOGICAL MOTIVATIONS By ... ...us eye problems. The vitamin A in butter was not present in the margarine. So they began to add the vitamin to margarine. In the mid-1940s the United... ...problems. The vitamin A in butter was not present in the margarine. So they began to add the vitamin to margarine. In the mid-1940s the United States... ... of ‗liberty‘ which means you are free to do about anything, and the 33 Consti... ... 49 ―In the famous Texas polygamy case the prophet controlled everyone. He even sent husbands to other states... ...t seem to have these problems.‖ —―We guard against them. We have seen what has often happened in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and the United... ...xtroversion or being outer directed as being motivational forces. The meditating Zen monk shows much more of the inner directedness, while the party ... ...tate that had removed the insanity plea from its legal code. The defendant wanted the court to rule that the insanity plea was legal under the Consti... ...hort term goals should probably include: completing college and law school, participating in college activities, and working with a political party....