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Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.

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...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subjec...

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...The Federalist Papers A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e and without any charge 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... ...overnment, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehend... ...nt, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in ... ...ics, the great- est number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants. In the cour... ...consistent; and that, as well from the vari- ety of independent courts and judges appointed by different and independent governments, as from the diff... ... which attended the progress of the controversy between this State and the district of V ermont, can vouch the opposition we experienced, as well from... ...ey will most naturally league them- selves under two governments. The four Eastern States, from all the causes that form the links of national sympath...

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...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and mos...

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....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................

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...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ons on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e and without any charge 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... ...equisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on. These deplorable states of feel ing, in any people who have emerged from savage life, are, ... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ... condition of the people is such that the witnesses generally lie, and the judges and their subordinates take bribes? Again, how can institutions prov... ...il, of the conduct and working of every branch of administration, in every district of the country, and must be able, in the twenty four hours per day... ...ich they called fiscal arrangements, and in the secrecy of their frightful courts of justice. It must be acknowledged that the benefits of freedom, so... ... is condemned by its local situation to form part of a Slavonian state. In Eastern Germany itself there is a large Slavonic population; Bohemia is pri...

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...Introduction: Nicolo Machiavelli was born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. He was the second son of Bernardo di Nicolo Machiavelli, a lawyer of some repute, and of Bartolommea di Stefano Nelli, his wife. Both parents were members of the old Florentine nobility....

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...ted by W. K. Marriott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli, trans. W. K. Marriott is a publication of... ... The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli, trans. W. K. Marriott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e and without any charge 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... ... post at Florence which in- cluded diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned in Florence, 1512; later exiled and returned to San Casc... ... own writings. A mere recapitulation of a few of his transactions with the statesmen and soldiers of his time gives a fair indication of his activitie... ... consideration those maxims of state which still furnish some European and eastern statesmen with principles of action, “The Prince” is bestrewn with ... .... Hence, he who at- tacks the Turk must bear in mind that he will find him united, and he will have to rely more on his own strength than on the revol... ... men, and especially of princes, which it is not prudent to challenge, one judges by the result. For that reason, let a prince have the credit of con-... ... become supreme in Italy. Upon this a meeting was called at Magione in the district of Perugia, to which came the cardinal, Pagolo, and the Duke di Gr...

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...Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e and without any charge 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... ...Republic; thinking of the one continuous great problem that generations of statesmen had wrangled over, and a million men fought about, and that had s... ...n- nection with the scene was that some man who seemed to be a stranger (a United States officer, I presume) made a little speech and then read a rath... ...est years were compelled then, as is now true I fear, in most coal- mining districts, to spend a large part of their lives in these coal-mines, with l... ...me there were no through trains connecting that part of West Virginia with eastern Virginia. Trains ran only a por- tion of the way, and the remainder... ...e of the young men that I sent to Hampton in this way is now Dr. Samuel E. Courtney, a successful physician in Boston, and a mem- ber of the School Bo... ...e President of Johns Hopkins University, who had been made chairman of the judges of award in connection with the Atlanta Exposition:— Johns Hopkins U...

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...ication tion tion tion tion Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...tion tion tion tion tion Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e and without any charge 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... ...seen, wine-presses, cellars, storehouses, bakeries, and arse- nals, with a court for elephants, dens for wild beasts, and a prison for slaves. Fig-tre... ...amilcar’ s palace they ought to strike to the left and cross the Mappalian district. “No,” said Spendius, “take me to the temple of T anith.” Matho wi... ...ted himself before the gates of Utica. He had a trumpet sounded. The three Judges of the town appeared in the opening of the battlements on the sum- m... ...nd ran after his troops, who were hastening towards those from Utica. They united so rapidly that the Suffet had not time to draw up his men in battle... ...pire. Strengthened by Punic money , the adventurer had raised the Numidian States with promises of freedom. But Narr’ Havas, warned by his nurse’ s so... ... confidence, had gradually advanced and approached; and now the men of the eastern regions were lying on the sandhills of Clypea on the other side of ...

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...Excerpt: It would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also ...

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...ns. John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e and without any charge 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... ..., but full of solemnity and loveliness? How has the belief of a Saint been united in this high and true mind with the clearness of a Sceptic; the devo... ...Frankfort; they held their par- liaments at Ratisbon, and at Wetzlar their courts of justice. It was the custom for young lawyers to attend the sittin... ...found but scant acceptance at Berlin or Vienna. The princes of the smaller states surrounded them- selves with literature and art. The duke of Brunswi... ...d every thing pointed to a period long past and unquiet, both for town and district. Gates and towers, which defined the bounds of the old city,— then... ...est; but my attention was particularly attracted by the inhabitants of the Eastern countries in their strange dresses, the Poles and Russians, and, ab... ...efore them, obser- vant, industrious, active, and believed, that, when one judges and acts correctly in one’s own circle, one may well presume to spea...

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...lication Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louis Maude is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ation Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louis Maude is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e and without any charge 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... ...en, as the chief criminal, to be conducted sepa- rately), had to appear at Court. So now, on the 28th of April, at 8 o’clock, a jailer and soon after ... ...this married woman, the unprincipled wife of the marechal de noblesse of a district where Nekhludoff was present at an election, the desire of van- qu... ...g on in the Civil Court as of a case well known to himself, mentioning the judges and a celebrated advocate by name. He was saying that it seemed wond... ... I think this is a case for putting Article 817 into practice (Article 817 states that if the Court considers the decision of the jury unjust it may s... ...red and that an important change was going on in her soul, and this change united him not only to her but also to Him for whose sake that change was b... ...plied, “You city gentlemen may think to surprise and perplex us, but we in Eastern Siberia also know what the law is, and may even teach it you.” The ...

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...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T r... ...e and without any charge 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... ...ciety diversions of the Duchesses of Burgundy and of the great ladies of a court more luxuri- ous and more refined than the French court, which revell... ...make of him a local author, the pride of some village, in order that their district might have the merit of being one of the causes, one of the factor... ...o practical joking. The women in the senile amour of the old Tognazzo, the judges, and the poor ser- geants, are no more gently dealt with by Folengo ... ...ense that, in order to lose as little as possible, they have collected and united what originally were variations—the revisions, in short, of the orig... ...raw them to peace but by sharp and fierce wars. Chapter 1.XXXIII. How some statesmen of Picrochole, by hairbrained counsel, put him in extreme danger.... ...fedlid and lified f. Well-stoned f. Corallory f. Crabbed and unpleasing f. Eastern f. Winded and untainted f. Sublime f. Kitchen haunting f. Crimson f...

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...Excerpt: The Revolt Against Marriage. There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. If the mischief stopped at talking and thinking it would be bad enough; but it goes further, into disastro...

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One.

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............................................................................................................................................... 14 DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE BY N. P. WILLIS........................................................................................................ 19 THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURES OF ONE HANS PFAAL............................................

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...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen a...

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.................................................................................................................................................... 127 THE OVER-SOUL .................................................................................................................................................. 137 IX. THE OVER-SOUL .............................................

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...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...e and without any charge 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... ...thens and London, to him- self, and not deny his conviction that he is the court, and if England or Egypt have any thing to say to him he will try the... ... infusions. Every thing the individual sees without him corresponds to his states of mind, and every thing is in turn intelli- gible to him, as his on... ... consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind. They shed an united light on the advancing actor. He is attended as by a visible escort ... ...magnetism in a line with the poles of the world. A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to ... ... prevailed at their entrance, and convinced the senses; as happened to the eastern magian who was sent to test the merits of Zertusht or Zoroaster. Wh... ...our economical mother dispatches a new genius and habit of mind into every district and condition of existence, plants an eye wher- ever a new ray of ...

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...Contents THE PURLOINED LETTER ...................................................................................................................................... 4 THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE..........................

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...VE VOLUMES Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication o... ... Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication of the Penn... ...e and without any charge 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... ...arely possible,” said Dupin. “The present peculiar condition of affairs at court, and especially of those intrigues in which D— is known to be involve... ...or two motives, each of a given value, have not, necessarily, a value when united, equal to the sum of their values apart. There are numerous other ma... ...eath.”’”* “Pooh!” said the king. “‘Continuing our progress, we perceived a district with veg- etables that grew not upon any soil but in the air.** Th... ...are yard, gives 2,230,272,000 Pigeons. — “Travels in Canada and the United States,” by Lieut. F . Hall. 34 Poe in Five V olumes “‘No sooner had we go... ...ng hue of the decorations of the chamber into which it opened. That at the eastern extremity was hung, for example, in blue — and vividly blue were it... ...; but with how terrible an exaggeration! I saw the lips of the black-robed judges. They appeared to me white—whiter than the sheet upon which I trace ...