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...ssive Title with your Swords. I was the first borne Sonne, that was the last That wore the Imperiall Diadem of Rome: Then let my Fathers Honours live in me, Nor wrong mine Age with this indignitie. Bassianus. Romaines, Friends, Followers, Favourers of my Right: If ever Bassianus, Caesars Sonne, Were gracious in the eyes of Royall Rome, Keepe then this passage to the Capito...

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...re the Imperiall Diadem of Rome: 13 Then let my Fathers Honours liue in me, 14 Nor wrong mine Age with this indignitie. 15 Bassi... ...Right: 17 If euer Bassianus, Caesars Sonne, 18 Were gracious in the eyes of Royall Rome, 19 Keepe then this passage to the Capitol... ...ate 22 To Iustice, Continence, and Nobility: 23 But let Desert in pure Election shine; 24 And Romanes, fight for Freedome in your Ch... ...o him that flourisht for her with his Sword: 347 A Valliant sonne in- law thou shalt enioy: 348 One, fit to bandy with thy lawlesse Sonnes, ... ... no lesse, and so I take my leaue. 452 Sat. Traytor, if Rome haue law, or we haue power, 453 Thou and thy Faction shall repent this Rape... ... Ti. If they did kill thy husband then be ioyfull, 1260 Because the law hath tane reuenge on them. 1261 No, no, they would not doe so foule... ...mistris: this my selfe, 1791 The vigour, and the picture of my youth: 1792 This, before all the world do I preferre, 1793 This mauger all ...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 1 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume One is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...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... ... lan- guage. A lawyer lent him a copy of Blackstone, and he began to study law. People would look wonderingly at the grotesque figure lying in the gra... ...use. Together with his reputation and influence as a politi- cian grew his law practice, especially after he had removed from New Salem to Springfield... ...ver- whelm his hearers, and make him fairly irresistible. Even an ordinary law argument, coming from him, seldom failed to produce the impression that... ...danger was apprehended from it till, by the invention of the cotton gin in 1792, cotton culture by negro labor became at once and forever the leading ...

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...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. A Treatise on Government by Aristotle, trans. William Ellis, t... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...tates, except those perversions which Aristotle criticises as being “above law,” worked under rigid constitutions, and the constitution was only chang... ...ing, to plan the streets of the city, and Protagoras as the best expert in law-making, to give the city its laws. In the Laws Plato represents one of ... ... actual life. The Greeks thought administration should be demo- cratic and law-making the work of experts. We think more naturally of law-making as th... ... Poetica, with Notes from the French of D’Acier, 1705; by H. J. Pye, 1788, 1792; T . T win- ing, 1789,1812, with Preface and Notes by H. Hamilton, 185...

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...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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...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. Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvan... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ent of any power to make such a transfer that I may be found to possess by law or custom in America. I wish this transfer were likely to be of more va... ...the collision neared,—all these ele- ments of the scene blended, under the law of association, with the previous and permanent features of distinction... ...t— if there be anything amiss—let the Dream be responsible. The Dream is a law to itself; and as well quarrel with a rain- bow for showing, or for not... ...master watchword of his secret policy. And on the 1st of June, in the year 1792, he commenced his second war against the Suliotes, at the head of twen...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of...

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...ist of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the President of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services and gallantry in action against an enemy, be restored to t...

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...re; Actus Primus -- Scena Prima -- Enter Duke, Escalus, Lords. Duke. Escalus. Esc. My Lord. Duk. Of Government, the properties to unfold, Would seeme in me t? affect speech & discourse, Since I am put to know, that your owne Science Exceedes (in that) the lists of all aduice My strength can give you: Then no more remaines But that, to your sufficiency, as your worth is abl...

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... Duk. Of Gouernment, the properties to vn-|(fold, 7 Would seeme in me t’ affect speech & discourse, 8 Since I am put to know, that y... ... 8 Since I am put to know, that your owne Science 9 Exceedes (in that) the lists of all aduice 10 My strength can giue you: Then no... ...nstitutions, and the Termes 14 For Common Iustice, y’are as pregnant in 15 As Art, and practise, hath inriched any 16 That we rememb... ...e to vse, and libertie, 415 Which haue, for long, run- by the hideous law, 416 As Myce, by Lyons) hath pickt out an act, 417 Vnder whos... ... seruants, Iustice. 451 Ang. We must not make a scar- crow of the Law, 452 Setting it vp to feare the Birds of prey, 453 And let it... ...6 Er’d in this point, which now you censure him, 467 And puld the Law vpon you. 468 Ang. ’Tis one thing to be tempted (Escalus) [... ...enquir’d after: I haue sat 1790 here all day. 1791 Enter Isabell. 1792 Duk. I doe constantly beleeue you: the time is come 1793 eu...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing wi...

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...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. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an i... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up Law’s Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting to find it a dull book (as suc... ...ook (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me; and this was the first occasion of my thinki... ... pany of ladies, particularly at Mr. Walmsley’s, whose wife and sisters-in-law, of the name of Aston, and daughters of a Baronet, were re- markable fo... ... tion, and the time at which this work is passing through the press, (June 1792,) the following persons, now dead, were members of it: Mr. Dunning, (a...

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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 I was received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of ...

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...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. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ns’s marriage had an evil influence is, with this class, to deny the moral law. Yet such is the fact. It was bravely done; but he had pre- sumed too f... ...y about the book. The terror we thus feel is a terror for the machinery of law, that we can hear tearing, in the dark, good and bad between its formid... ... silent inclemency of phenomena going their own way, and the great general law, implacable and passive:” “a conspiracy of the indifferency of things” ... ... Burns’s stomach. Nor was this the front of his offending. On February 27, 1792, he took part in the capture of an armed smuggler, bought at the subse...