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Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.

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...on enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. 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... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...ith a mission; now a female elocutionist, whose forte was Byron’s Songs of Greece; now a high caste Chinaman; now a miniature painter; now a tenor, a ... ...cution- ist in cheese-cloth toga and tin bracelets, rendered “The Isles of Greece, where burning Sappho loved and sung.” The Chinaman, in the robes of... ...hat passed in- terminably before the gaze of the city, marshalled by “lady presidents,” exploited by clubs of women, by literary soci- eties, reading ... ...your dearest foes. You are to dine with the Gerard people, one of the Vice-Presidents of your bete noir, the P . and S. W . Railroad.” Presley started...

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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 the principles of government that were essential t...

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... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve 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... ...which is opposed by the two other branches of the legislature. But several Presidents of the United States have been known to lose the majority in the... ...own courts of justice. It cannot be doubted that the *This was the case in Greece, when Philip undertook to ex- ecute the decree of the Amphictyons; i... ...- eration. But it is easy to perceive that the South, which has given four Presidents, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, to the Union, which... ...respecting their slaves. The most profound and capacious minds of Rome and Greece were never able to reach the idea, at once so general and so 500 De... ...er say that it was by the luxuries of Rome and the Epicurean philosophy of Greece. If their social con- dition, their present circumstances, and their...

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...Genesis; Chapter 1 -- In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called...

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

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Excerpt: Treaty On European Union. A new stage in the process of European integration undertaken with the establishment of the European Communities.

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...f the European Union The Maastrict Treaty, 7th February, 1992. The Treaty of the European Union: The Maastrict Treaty – February 7, 1992 is a publica... ...e European Union: The Maastrict Treaty – February 7, 1992 is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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... ...mber States: —for a first cycle of six years: Belgium, Denmark, Ger- many, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxem- bourg, Netherlands, Portugal,... ...United Kingdom; —for the following cycle of six years: Denmark, Bel- gium, Greece, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Ireland, 69 The Maastrict Treaty Ne... ...Treaty ARTICLE 161 The Commission may appoint a Vice-President or two Vice-Presidents from among its members. ARTICLE 162 1. The Council and the Commi... ... and Social Committee shall be as follows: Belgium 12 Denmark 9 Germany 24 Greece 12 Spain 21 France 24 Ireland 9 Italy 24 Luxembourg 6 Netherlands 12... ... Treaty ARTICLE 11 The Commission may appoint a Vice-President or two Vice-Presidents from among its members. ARTICLE 12 Apart from normal replacement... ...Treaty ARTICLE 130 The Commission may appoint a Vice-President or two Vice-Presidents from among its members. ARTICLE 131 The Council and the Commissi...

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...the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Docu ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...thenon, of Baiae, and Athens with its sea walls, and Arcadia and Tempe. Greece, who am I that should remember thee, Thy Marathon and thy Thermop... ...e but I should betake myself in extremi ties to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country’s God. Jehovah, though with us he has acq... ...d. No god ever dies. Perhaps of all the gods of New England and of ancient Greece, I am most con 50 AWeekontheConcordandMerrimackRivers stant at his... ...ian earth? Though we know well, “That’t is not in the power of kings [or presidents] to raise A spirit for verse that is not born thereto, Nor a...

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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 subject speaks it...

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...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... be wise, it would, nevertheless, be natural. The history of the states of Greece, and of other countries, abounds with such instances, and it is not ... ..., stimulated by private pique against the Megarensians,* another nation of Greece, or to avoid a prosecution with which he was threat- ened as an acco... ... out of the contentions which so often distracted the ancient republics of Greece? Different answers, equally satisfactory, may be given to this quest... ...islative department. The speakers of the two legislative branches are vice-presidents in the executive department. The executive chief, with six other... ...brought to the test of the constitution. T wo of the members had been vice-presidents of the State, and several other members of the executive council...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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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 ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...ny Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel ... ...rds, droll expressions, sudden and surprising constructions. What had made Greece and the Athenians laugh was worth transporting to Paris. With an ins... ...And such a one is this, art’s masterpiece, A thing ne’er equall’d by old Greece: A thing ne’er match’d as yet, a real Golden Fleece. 35 Rabelais IV... ...stotle, who at that time was highly renowned above all the philosophers of Greece. After the same manner I tell you, that by this only discourse, whic... ...um. The Raver and idle Talker in cases of Conscience. The Fat Belly of the Presidents. The Baffling Flouter of the Abbots. Sutoris adversus eum qui vo... ...sent the greatest part of the lords of the court, the masters of requests, presidents, counsellors, those of the accompts, secretaries, advocates, and... ...difference of the two lords. Then Pantagruel, rising up, assembled all the presidents, counsellors, and doctors that were there, and said unto them, C...

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....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

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...Excerpt: Dear Speed, yours of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would su...

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...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................

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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 any man, he can under...

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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... ...ty. This Por- table 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... ...a of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. ... ...able agreed upon?” This life of ours is stuck round with 9 Emerson Egypt, Greece, Gaul, England, War, Colonization, Church, Court and Commerce, as wi... ...y. I will not make more account of them. I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Asia, Italy, Spain and the Islands, —the genius and creative princi... ...kind of tacit appeal. Each seems to say, ‘I am not all here.’ Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think th...