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...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS .....................................................................................................................

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...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume T wo, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...rch it there, 39 where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history; Enough, that virtue fill’d the space between; Proved, by the ends ... ...tish fair. T o-night our homespun author would be true, At once to nature, history, and you. 20 Well pleased to give o... ...MR LEMUEL GULLIVER, THE GRATEFUL ADDRESS OF THE UNHAPPY HOUYHNHNMS, NOW IN SLAVERY AND BONDAGE IN ENGLAND. To thee, we wretches of the Houyhnhnm band,... ...rson (Bishop Burnet’s) death, and many years before the appearance of that history of which they are pretended to be an abuse. Most true it is that Mr... ...world,—all equally concurring to narrow the understanding, and estab- lish slavery and error in literature, philosophy, and politics. The whole finish...

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...Excerpt: THE PREFACE; If ever the story of any private Man?s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and were acceptable when Publish?d, the Editor of this Account thinks this will be so. The Wonders of this Man?s Life exceed all that (he thinks)is to be...

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Table of Contents: THE PREFACE, 1 -- THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c., 2 -- THE JOURNAL., 51

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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 ...

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...ion: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a ...

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...liant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that evening....

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............................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HA...

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...Excerpt: The third section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to det...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. 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... ...are martial law. This was accordingly done on the 25th day of April, 1862. Slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible. The ... ... ought to co-operate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State, in i... ...- stand this, and do the best you can with the force you have. A. LINCOLN. HISTORY OF CONSPIRACY OF REBELLION MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. MAY 16, 1862 TO THE... .... Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history and cherished memories are vindicated, and its happy future fully a... ...erewith is the draft of the bill to compensate any State which may abolish slavery within its limits, the passage of which, sub- stantially as present... ...54 until this moment. I now learn, what I knew nothing of before, that the history of the order is as fol- lows: When General McClellan telegraphed as...

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...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ?the man who...

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Excerpt: The Poems of Goethe, translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring.

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...n. ..................................................................................................................................... 21 The Poems of Goethe. ................................................................................................................................................... 22 Dedication. ......................................................

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...red Bowring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...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... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring, the Pennsylvania State University, ... ...he speaks and lets me know All her tale of joy and woe. All her lifetime’s history Now is fully known to me. Who in child or woman e’er Soul and body ... ... the fearful sack of Magdeburg, by Tilly, in the year 1613, see Schiller’s History of the Thirty Years ’ W ar.] OH, Magdeberg the town! Fair maids thy... ... me Against the Titans’ insolence? Who rescued me from certain death, From slavery? Didst thou not do all this thyself, My sacred glowing heart? And g... ...s resemble the strangest of old times, Which are preserved in the pages of history , sacred or common. He in these days who has lived to-day and yeste...

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...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...

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...The full title of this book is Bible Defense of Slavery; and Origin, Fortunes, and History of the Negro Race, by Rev. Josiah Priest, A. M. 5th edition. This is a compilation of pro-slavery literature and propaganda that went through numerou...

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............................................................................................................................. 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR .......................................................................................................... 47 CHAPTER IV: WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS .......................................................................

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...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope 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 person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e calm individual excellence of the man. Considering the circumstances and history of the place, the position of Mount Vernon, as I saw it, was very r... ...iculty of the position by branching off into an eloquent discourse against slavery, and by causing a chapter to be read out of the Book of Joshua. On ... ...be glad to imagine, from the essays of Mr. Everett and of Mr. Motley, that slavery has had little or nothing to do with it. I must acknowledge it to b... ...ttle or nothing to do with it. I must acknowledge it to be my opinion that slavery in its various bearings has been the single and necessary cause of ... ...table. It is written on the whole record of our race, British and American history is made up of re- bellion and revolution. Hampden, Pym, and Oliver ... ...y by any one who is afraid to go back upon the subject, and take its whole history since one man first claimed and exercised the right of forcing labo...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists...

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...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ... system is dead to-day, how much has to be remade. Since the beginnings of history there has been a credible promise of gold payments underneath our f... ...t happen again on a larger scale between white Eu- rope and middle Africa. Slavery in Africa, open or disguised, whether enforced by the lash or broug... ...n of authority. Every one should know, though unhappily the badness of our history teaching makes it doubtful if every one does know, that the Federal... ...ok much more clearly than has ever hitherto been done. Never before in the history of man- kind has opinion counted for so much and persons and or- ga... ...was a plutocracy. Now the modern intelligence, being under a sort of magic slavery to the ancient Greeks, has to adapt all these terms to the problems...

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...led it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted ...

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........................................................................................................................................... 36 THE POWER OF THE DOG ............................................................................................................................................51 THE MOTHER HIVE ..........................................................

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...ies Publication Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ou, I’m sure,” said Sophie, and curt- sied to the ground. “George, this is history I can under- stand. We began here.” She curtsied again. The June su... ...nder the sun we talked about! He was awfully open-minded. He be- lieved in slavery, of course, but he quite saw that it would have to die out. That’s ... ...t somehow forgot about it. The new draft marks a new chapter in the Hunt’s history. From an isolated phenomenon in a barge it became a per- manent ins... ... could recall that in any way bore on the house, and what they knew of its history. We went to bed in a fortifying blaze of electric light. My one fea...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Political Power. Firstly, it having been shown in the foregoing discourse:* Firstly. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood or by positive donation from God, any such authority over his children, nor dominion over the world, as is pretended. Secondly, that if he had, his heirs yet had no right to it. Thirdly, that if his heirs had, t...

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...Contents CHAPTER I OF POLITICAL POWER............................................3 CHAPTER II OF THE STATE OF NATURE.....................................5 CHAPTER III OF THE STATE OF WAR......................................12 CHAPTER IV OF SLA...

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...RNMENT SECOND ESSAY : AN ESSAY CONCERNING THE TRUE ORIGINAL EXTENT AND END OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT by John Locke Concerning Civil Government, Second Essa... ...rnment, Second Essay: An Essay Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Govern ment by John Locke, trans. William Popple is a publicatio... ... Civil Govern ment by John Locke, trans. William Popple is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu ment File is furn... ...nd he does him no injury by it. For, whenever he finds the hardship of his slavery outweigh the value of his life, it is in his power, by resisting th... ...aw on himself the death he desires. 23. This is the perfect condition of slavery, which is nothing else but the state of war continued between a law... ...ed power on the one side, and obedience on the other, the state of war and slavery ceases as long as the compact endures; for, as has been said, no ma... ...erent from a politic society. 85. Master and servant are names as old as history, but given to those of far different condition; for a free man make... ... men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read but the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary. He that... ...e first there is this to answer: That it is not at all to be wondered that history gives us but a very little account of men that lived together in th...

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...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e is a Lombard bond and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of Suvorov’s wars. Send it to the Academy. Here are some jottings f... ...id Dolokhov. “Qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?”** asked a Frenchman. “It’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it re- ferred to a former war. “The E... ...Emperors— that is to say, a slow movement of the hand on the dial of human history . Prince Andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on ... ...ok. She felt strange and awkward. “Oh yes, an artful tale! Follow her into slavery! Pull down your houses and go into bondage! I dare say! ‘I’ll give ...

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...Introduction: To the irreverent--and which of us will claim entire exemption from that comfortable classification?-- there is something very amusing in the attitude of the orthodox criticism toward Bernard Shaw. He so obviously disregards all the canons and unities an...

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...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreig...

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............................................................................................................................. 33 II. THE ACADEMIC CHAIRS OF VIRTUE................................................................................................................. 35 III. BACKWORLDSMEN ...................................................................................

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...ke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Thomas Common is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. 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... ...ditor, Hazleton, PA 18201- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ... CAME INTO BEING “ZARATHUSTRA” IS MY BROTHER’S most personal work; it is the history of his most individual experiences, of his friend- ships, ideals,... ... my fancy. Persians were the first to take a broad and comprehensive view of history. Every series of evolutions, according to them, was presided over... ...s of his book according to this resolution. Already at the beginning of this history I hinted at the reasons which led my brother to select a Persian ... ...and the preach- ers of death and the jailer: for lo, it is also a sermon for slavery:— Because they learned badly and not the best, and ev- erything t... ... “Nothing is worth while! Ye shall not will!” That, however, is a sermon for slavery. O my brethren, a fresh blustering wind cometh Zarathustra unto a...

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...Introduction: Homer?s ?Iliad? begins towards the close of the last of the ten years of the Trojan War: its incidents extend over some fifty days only, and it ends with the burial of Hector. The things which came before and after were told by other bards, who between them narrated...

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...nçois-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803) rose to fame in 1791 during the Haitian struggle for independence. In this revolt, he led thousands of slaves on the island of Hispañola to fight against the colonial European powers of France, Spain and England. The former slaves ultimately established the independent state of Haiti and expelled the Europeans. L’Ouverture ...

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.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

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...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... of confessing his innermost beliefs—which should console him for the hard slavery of the pen. III LIBERTY OF IMAGINATION should be the most precious ... ...the duality of man’s nature and the com- petition of individuals, the life-history of the earth must in the last instance be a history of a really ver... ...m cannot be contested, and that the posi- tion is unassailable. Fiction is history, human his- tory, or it is nothing. But it is also more than that; ... ...d on the reality of forms and the observation of social phenomena, whereas history is based on documents, and the read- ing of print and handwriting—o... ...o more unworthy supports: to the moral corrup- tion and mental darkness of slavery, to the mere brute force of numbers. This very ignominy of infatuat... ...ng else in the world, has moulded her institutions, and with the poison of slavery drugged the national temperament into the apathy of a hopeless fata...

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...Excerpt: Welcome to the ninth volume of Best of ?. For the past several years we have been publishing student writing with the intention of both celebrating the work that our students do and of sharing it with others for a variety of instructional purposes. Begi...

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...................................... 9 Andrew Michael ?How To Get Completely Lost? .......................................... 11 Chris Hanney ?The War of the Stars? ............................................................ 12 Dana Helsel ?Role Reversal within MacBeth? ................................................ 14 Douglas Webster ?What Are We Fighting For?? ...........

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...Best of Freshman Writing Best of Freshman Writing Volume 9 Student Voices A Commonwealth College Publicat... ... arper and Liz Liz Liz Liz Liz W W W W Wright right right right right Best of Freshman Writing is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...he Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Best of Freshman Writing Best of Freshman Writing: Student Voices is a publicati... ...s the country and soon becoming the most successful film in North American history. In 1978, Lucas began production of the second chapter of the trilo... ...assic story of good against evil. It is the same story told throughout the history of man but with a futuristic spin added to it. It is the combinatio... ...e obstacles we must overcome to fully achieve this freedom. Throughout our history, short as it may be, Ameri- cans have overcome many social obstacle... ... concept that many nations would scoff at. We have fought a war to abolish slavery, an insti- tution that would hold whites over blacks. We con- tinue...