...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publica... ...ritings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...dvocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes us... ...n is settled. He says the bill he introduced into the Senate of the United States on the 4th day of January, 1854, settled the slavery question foreve... ...er of per- sons who are afterwards to inhabit that Territory, or the other members of the families of communities, of which they are but an incipient ... ...lions of free men. That gen- eration of men, though not to the full extent members of the convention that framed the Constitution, were to some extent... ... which support has been promised me upon this occasion. I thank your great commonwealth for the overwhelming support it recently gave, not me personal...

...Excerpt: Sydney Spring. My dear sir, your letter introducing Mr. Faree was duly received. There was no opening to nominate him for Superintendent of Public Instruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legisl...

... Plutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...lutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...dily embrac- ing such good advice, to those of greater power he promised a commonwealth without monarchy , a democracy, or people’s government in whic... ...e Pitthean maid, To your town the terms and fates, My father gives of many states. Be not anxious nor afraid; The bladder will not fail so swim On the... ...actions of his former life. Theseus was now fifty years old, as Hellanicus states, when he carried off Helen, who was yet too young to be married. Som... ... in the basin, the suitor was rejected, so desirous were they that all the members of the company should be agreeable to each other. The basin was cal... ...rosecute the wrongdoer; intend- ing by this to accustom the citizens, like members of the same body, to resent and be sensible of one another’s inju- ...

.... 5 ROMULUS ........................................................................................................................... 34 COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS .............................................................. 64 LYCURGUS .......................................................................................................................... 68 ...

... by Anthony T rollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...eries Publication The Prime Minister 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... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...verett Wharton at a new club, called the Progress, of which they were both members. The Progress was certainly a new club, having as yet been open har... ...nd smoked and played billiards and pre- tended to read. Some few energetic members still hoped that a good day would come in which their grand ideas m... ...ad gone rather deep into poli- tics, and that he was entitled to call many statesmen asses 15 Anthony Trollope because they did not see the things wh... ... lous of matrons are talked out of their virtue; the most expe- rienced of statesmen are talked out of their principles. And who can really calculate ... ...dinand Lopez had paid no attention to the great political questions of the Commonwealth. He knew nothing of Labour and Capital, of Unions, Strikes, an...

Excerpt: The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope.

...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of... ...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story... ...f Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago By By By By By F F F F FRANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NOR... ...RIES P P P P PUBLICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA TION TION TION TION TION The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsyl... ... Jadwin, unlike Mr. Cressler, was not opposed to speculation. Though not a member of the Board of T rade, he nevertheless at very long intervals took ... ...hteen he had cher- ished an ambition to become the President of the United States. “Yes, yes,” he said to Laura, “the bridge was turned. It was an imp... ...e South, that she had from her mother, flamed up in Laura at last, and the members of the “committee,” before they were well aware, came to themselves... ...ndous. All around, on every side, in every direction the vast machinery of Commonwealth clashed and thundered from dawn to dark and from dark till daw... ...rowding the Sault Sainte Marie. For her and because of her all the Central States, all the Great Northwest roared with traffic and industry; sawmills ...

Excerpt: The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris.

...y Nathaniel Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsyl... ... Publication The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...rather, I do not doubt at all—whether any public functionary of the United States, either in the civil or military line, has ever had such a patriarch... ...m bold to say, of the respectable body of tide waiters all over the United States— was a certain permanent Inspector. He might truly be termed a legit... ... one of the most apt of metaphors, it is my sincere belief that the active members of the victorious party were sufficiently excited to have chopped o... ...range and freedom of ideas, that he would have vainly looked for among the members of his own profession. In truth, he was startled, if not shocked, t... ...as a favourite one with our forefa thers, as betokening that their infant commonwealth was under a celestial guardianship of peculiar intimacy and st...

Excerpt: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... children, sickness, and cooks—their own shop-talk. She was piqued. She re-membered visions of herself as a smart married woman in a drawing-room, fen... ... Cyrus N. Bogart, a boy of fourteen who was still at home, the most brazen member of the toughest gang in Boytown. Mrs. Bogart was not the acid type o... ...es the permanent Mother Chautauqua, in New York, there are, all over these States, commercial Chautauqua companies which send out to every smallest to... ...l derived from them were: Lincoln was a celebrated president of the United States, but in his youth extremely poor. James J. Hill was the best-known r... ... sure as God made little apples, the thing that distinguishes our American commonwealth from the pikers and tin-horns in other countries is our Punch....

...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ... One by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...e by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...te, “that this is done to divert our idle thoughts; and as in well-ordered states games of chess, fives, and billiards are allowed for the diversion o... ...mplain of thyself for having been the cause of her ruin and thine own. Re- member there is no jewel in the world so precious as a chaste and 292 Don ... ...said, may have given no cause for them; for as the pain of the foot or any member of the body is felt by the whole body, because all is one flesh, as ... ... arms make answer that without them laws cannot be maintained, for by arms states are defended, kingdoms preserved, cities protected, roads made safe,... ...igent art; for which reason they deserve to be banished from the Christian commonwealth as a worthless breed.” The curate listened to him attentively ...

... DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Milton Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Areopagitica - i - ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Areopagitica - i - Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England (1644) ... ... . . . . . . . 1 Areopagitica - i - Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England (1644) THEY, who... ...of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England (1644) THEY, who to states and governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Cour... ...o the Parliament of England (1644) THEY, who to states and governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, wan... ... Parliament of England (1644) THEY, who to states and governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, wanting ... ...t the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth that let no man in this world expect; but when complaints ar... ...do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary therefore what persecuti... ...do, till her Master’s second coming; He shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and...

...Excerpt: Areopagitica; A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England () -- THEY, who to states and governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, wanting such access in a private condition, write...

Table of Contents: Areopagitica, 1

...fe on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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 i... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ... THE M ISSISSIPPI is the body of the nation . All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations t... ...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 ... ...om supper until every body else had finished. I did not feel so much like a member of the boat’s family now as before. However, my spirits re turned... ...ore upon their heads tall felt cones that were suggestive of the days of the Commonwealth. I was a cipher in this august company, and felt subdued, no...

...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and...

...The Smalcald Articles Martin Luther The Smalcald Articles of Doctor Martin Luther, Trans. F . Bente and W.H.T .... ...The Smalcald Articles Martin Luther The Smalcald Articles of Doctor Martin Luther, Trans. F . Bente and W.H.T . Dau is a publication... ...f Doctor Martin Luther, Trans. F . Bente and W.H.T . Dau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnis... ...octor Martin Luther, Trans. F . Bente and W.H.T . Dau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnished... ...portance to improve. There is the disagreement between the princes and the states; usury and avarice have burst in “The Smalcald Articles” – Martin Lu... ... for [the political administration of ] the secular government [or for the commonwealth] in cities and countries, and well educated, maidens for mothe... ...e, it would easily and in a short time be despised, and at last retain no member; neither would it have to be forever confined to Rome or any other p... ...ders and tor tures all Christians who do not exalt and honor these abomi nations [of the Pope] above all things. Therefore, just as little as we can... ...s Paul, Rom. 7, 14 25, [shows] testifies that he wars with the law in his members, etc.; and that, not by his own powers, but by the gift of the Holy...

...Excerpt: The Smalcald Articles of Doctor Martin Luther, translated by F. Bente and W.H.T. Dau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. An ...

...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Se... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... extensively or intensively, that is to say whether in relation to all the members of the species or in relation to an imaginary typical specimen. The... ... knowledge. Imagine a large clear jelly, in which at all angles and in all states of simplicity or contor- tion his ideas are imbedded. They are all v... ...wn for example from matter to atoms and centres of force and up to men and states and countries—if you will imagine the ideas lying in that manner—you... ...hat I throw them off as a child scribbles on a slate. Mr. Ruskin, if I re- member rightly, accused Whistler of throwing a pot of paint in the face of ... ... and superseded by the broad and scientific previsions of the co-operative commonwealth. 3.9. 3.9. 3.9. 3.9. 3.9. THE CASE OF THE CASE OF THE CASE OF ...

...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ...

... Plutarch’s Lives – Volume Two trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...lutarch’s Lives – Volume Two trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...eems to have admitted ambition and emulation, among the ingredients of his Commonwealth as the incen- tives of virtue, distinctly wishing that there s... ...d order in the cities, and without bloodshed or banishment of any of their members, reestablished the proper constitution in the governments, and now ... ...magogues and the orators in Thebes and Athens, and thus inciting those two States to hostility against Sparta. Having passed the Hellespont, he marche... ... ascendant which he had over Crassus; for he, the wealthiest among all the states- men of his time, and the most eloquent and greatest too, who had lo... ...faction conspired against him upon the fol- lowing occasion. Clodius was a member of a noble family, in the flower of his youth, and of a bold and res...

... ...................................................................................................................................... 31 COMPARISON OF SERTORIUS WITH EUMENES................................................................. 50 AGESILAUS ............................................................................................................................

... WITH NO WITH NO WITH NO WITH NO WITH NOTES BY TES BY TES BY TES BY TES BY THE THE THE THE THE RE RE RE RE REV V V V V. . . . . THEODORE AL THEODORE A... ....A. .S.A. .S.A. .S.A. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Iliad of Homer, trans. Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore A... ....S.A. .S.A. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Iliad of Homer, trans. Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckl... ...otes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M. A., F . S. A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... music’ among them. Many of these, like those of the negroes in the United States, were extempo- raneous, and allusive to events passing around them. ... ...like that of great ministers: though they are confessedly the first in the commonwealth of letters, they must be envied and calumni- ated only for bei... ... bleeding bodies threw; The vital spirit issued at the wound, And left the members quivering on the ground. From the same urn they drink the mingled w... ...eeds; Headlong he tumbles: his slack nerves unbound, Drop the cold useless members on the ground. When now Minerva saw her Argives slain, From vast Ol... ...wful silence broke; The heavens attentive trembled as he spoke: “Celestial states! immortal gods! give ear, Hear our decree, and reverence what ye hea...

Excerpt: The Iliad of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M.A., F.S.A.

... BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...SSICS SERIES PUBLICATION THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...In Macedon, in Achaia, in Syria, in Asia Minor, in Egypt,— every where the members of this empire had begun to knit; the cohesion was far closer, the ... ...ed with the same tranquil intrepidity. But for Cæsar, the all-accomplished statesman, the splendid orator, the man of elegant habits and polished tast... ...eyes were black and piercing. These circumstances continued to be long re- membered, and no doubt were constantly recalled to the eyes of all persons ... ...the excesses of the autocrat. Even in the bloody despotisms of the Barbary States, there has always existed in the religious prejudices of the people,... ...required, what a host of impeach- ments, sentences, executions, before the commonwealth can reassume its ancient integrity! What! shall I esteem as pr...

...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the col...

...lication Amelia by Henry Fielding, ed. George Saintsbury is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ation Amelia by Henry Fielding, ed. George Saintsbury is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ents in it are no more to be considered as mere accidents than the several members of a fine statue or a noble poem. The critics in all these are not ... ...good fortune of the person. Both Colonel James and his brother-in-law were members of parliament; for, as the uncle of the former had left him, togeth... ...vocate against it as any Roman matron would have been in those ages of the commonwealth when it was held to be infamous. For my own part, how great a ... ... all mere Utopia,” cries his lordship; “the chimeri- cal system of Plato’s commonwealth, with which we amused 461 Henry Fielding ourselves at the uni... ...ate of human affairs.” “Sure, my lord,” cries the doctor, “we have read of states where such doctrines have been put in practice. What is your lordshi...

...Introduction: Fielding?s third great novel has been the subject of much more discordant judgments than either of its forerunners. If we take the period since its appearance as covering four generations, we find the greatest authority in the earliest, Johnson, speaking of it wi...

...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...ote by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ... by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...te, “that this is done to divert our idle thoughts; and as in well-ordered states games of chess, fives, and billiards are allowed for the diversion o... ...mplain of thyself for having been the cause of her ruin and thine own. Re- member there is no jewel in the world so precious as a chaste and virtuous ... ...said, may have given no cause for them; for as the pain of the foot or any member of the body is felt by the whole body, because all is one flesh, as ... ... arms make answer that without them laws cannot be maintained, for by arms states are defended, kingdoms preserved, cities protected, roads made safe,... ...igent art; for which reason they deserve to be banished from the Christian commonwealth as a worthless breed.” 370 Don Quixote The curate listened to...

...n by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ries Publication The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope 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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... and McCloskies, who on such an occasion were bound to show themselves, as members of the family. With them and his two sons the Duke walked across to... ...letely made good his footing with the Duchess,—with what effect on another member of the Palliser family the reader already knows. The young man was c... ...f all men it could not be refused. And then the very altitude of the great Statesman whom he was invited to befriend,—the posi- tion of this Duke who ... ...in as they are born,—unless they are very wise indeed. When men come to be statesmen, and all that kind of thing, of course they can change backwards ... ...he has shirked out of school. He is not doing his share of the work of the Commonwealth. ’ ‘Pitt was not married, sir. ’ ‘No;—and a great many other g...

...Excerpt: When The Duchess Was Dead No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the...

... Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...ile, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...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... ...nomenclature is so rich, poetical, hu- morous, and picturesque as the United States of America. All times, races, and languages have brought their con... ...Olivier de Penne. Only Barbizon, since the death of Millet, was a head- less commonwealth. Even its secondary lights, and those who in my day made the... ... utterance of which he had the secret – “Suivez!” said he. The arrest of the members, the oath of the T ennis Court, the signing of the declaration of... ... Buddhist and author of The Abode of Snow. Before these learned pundits, one member laid the following ingenious problem: “What would be the result of...

Excerpt: Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson.

...Contents CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?..........

...American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation... ...rican Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...an Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...aken. Prejudiced, I never have been otherwise than in favour of the United States. No visitor can ever have set foot on those shores, with a stronger ... ...ced, I am not, and never have been, otherwise than in favour of the United States. I have many friends in America, I feel a grateful interest in the c... ...sation, and how astoundingly gay everybody was: the forced spirits of each member of the little party having as much likeness to his natural mirth, as... ...h; the Opposition declared there never was such a bad one; the Speaker and members of the House of Assembly withdrew from the bar to say a great deal ... ... their ratification, and preserved in the office of the Secre tary to the Commonwealth. These signatures, traced of course by their own hands, are ro...

...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any existenc...

...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Third T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited ... ...Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Third T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 18... ...es P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel De Montaigne, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt i... ...gne, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...s does this raving put our faces into! what sallies and agitations both of members and voices does it inspire us with! Does it not seem that this indi... ...gration is extinguished by fire.”] In the greatest part of the world, that member of our body was deified; in the same province, some flayed off the s... ..., exercises, and vocations, both 129 Montaigne military and civil, in his Commonwealth; and the philoso- pher Antisthenes rejected all distinction be... ...v. 7, 43.] we are not, peradventure, at our last gasp. The conservation of states is a thing that, in all likelihood, surpasses our un- derstanding;—a... ...t us everyway cast our eyes; everything about us totters; in all the great states, both of Christendom and elsewhere, that are known to us, if you wil...

Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

...Contents CHAPTER I OF PROFIT AND HONESTY................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II OF REPENTANCE ................................................................................................