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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ...y would cease to exist. The King is bound to accept and act upon the advice of his ministers ... for the King to broadcast in disregard of that adv... ...for the crimes members of the administration of the Young Turks, including cabinet ministers. Many of the perpetrators fled the country only to re... ...ountess Erszebet Bathory was tried - though, being a noblewoman, not convicted - in Hungary for slaughtering 612 young girls. The true figure may h... .... For a hundred years after her death, by royal decree, mentioning her name in Hungary was a crime. http://www.angelfire.com/realm/shades/de... ...Bulgaria's ($19 billion gross domestic product per year), the Czech Republic (91), Hungary (77), Romania (53), Slovakia (27), Ukraine (47), Kazakhs... ... served a term in office of seven years. He appointed and dismissed the Chancellor (prime minister) and commanded the Republic's much-reduced armed ...

Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...40-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 ... ...an of the Revolutionary Council (since November 1986); Soltan Ali KESHTMAND, Prime Minister (since June 1981) Suffrage: universal from age 18 Politica... ...ation Day, 29 November Branches: legislature (People's Assembly), Council of Ministers, judiciary Government leaders: Ramiz ALIA, Chair- man, Presidiu... ... Col. Chadli BENDJEDID, President (since February 1979); Abdelhamid BRAHIMI, Prime Minister (since January 1984) Suffrage: universal adult at age 18 E... ... popularly elected House of Representatives and 17-member Senate; executive, Prime Minister and Cabinet; judiciary, Court of Appeals Government leader... ...intment of the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, and other Cabinet-rank ministers and defined the powers of the President National holiday: Natio... ...ompulsory ICJ jurisdiction National holiday: 17 December Branches: appointed ministers; 150-member indirectly elected National Assembly consisting of ...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...e Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam... ..., non-Marxist interpretation of history and of the role of the United States - the prime specimen of capitalism - in it. Economy, admits the author... ...st on the dozens of "new democracies" the world over. Many of these presidents and prime ministers, though democratically elected (multiply, in som... ...the dozens of "new democracies" the world over. Many of these presidents and prime ministers, though democratically elected (multiply, in some case... ...or Saparmurat Niyazov, the Russian energy giant Gazprom, headed by the then Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, and the US firm Unocal, con... ... of $27 million to the International Monetary Fund. The Russian and Romanian prime ministers met and signed bilateral agreements for the first time... ...wo of the palaces. Iraqi state television reported in June that Saddam exhorted his ministers to avoid corruption and nepotism. Reconstruction reac...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...tml http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freed... ...donians III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the Swastika V. KLA – The Army of Liberation VI. Appendix: Pathological Narcissism, Group Behav... ... Bulgaria it collaborated with Todor Alexandrov in the overthrow and murder of the Prime Minister, Alexandur Stamboliyski (June 1923) and in the ap... ...Greece as well. These were exactly the kind of international tensions the murdered Prime Minister was keen to terminate and the IMRO no less keen t... ... it was disbanded (together with other parties) by Colonel Kimron Georgiev, the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria and a senior figure in the Zveno asso... ...r 8 long years he had to endure a kaleidoscope of governments, a revolving door of ministers, violence in the Assembly and ever-escalating Croat de... ... return to liberated Kosovo. It interfaced marvellously with both youthful prime ministers - Albania's Pandeli Majko and Macedonia's Ljubco Georg... ...lysed Thaci's self-proclaimed and self-appointed government, absorbing many of its ministers and officials with lucrative offers of salaries and bu...

...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

... palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/au... ...ide.html ISBN: 9989-929-27-0 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA 100 articles and essays (microeconomics ... ...pod.com/internet.html http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Table of Contents I. Battling Unemployment II. The Labour Divide - I. Emp... ...mployment practices, opportunities, market requirements, etc. should be a prime component of the activity of the Employment Bureau. It must transfor... ...both public and private. 13. All senior government officials, including ministers, will meet small business owners and entrepreneurs on a regular ... ...rial “Committee for Small Business and Entrepreneurship”, chaired by the Prime Minister. This will be a steering committee with executive powers. ... ... employment practices, opportunities, market requirements, etc. will be a prime component of the activity of the Employment Bureau. It will transfor... ...both public and private. 26. All senior government officials, including ministers, will meet small business owners and entrepreneurs on a regular ... ...s 85 and 86 of the Rome Convention and in Regulation 17 of the Council of Ministers, 1962. Still, the two most important economic blocks of our time...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...URE UNIQUE CROPS WIND POWER WELCOME APEC DELEGATES DISCOVER ANOTHER SIDE OF HAWAI‘I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 3 ... ...itton Prada Salvatore Ferragamo Tiffany & Co. Hawaii’s largest collection of luxury retailers amidst 290 STORES AND RESTAURANTS. Walking distance fr... ...mber Production Manufacturing Jobs Electronic Tree Tracking/ Secured Chain of Custody Research & Development Eco-Tourism Funding Sources for Non-Pro... ... of the State of Hawai‘i, I would like to extend my aloha to the leaders, ministers, CEOs, distinguished guests and visitors from the member economie... ...nd • France • French Polynesia • Germany • Greece • Guatemala Hong Kong • Hungary • India • Indonesia • Iraq • Ireland • Israel • Italy • Jamaica • J... ...under the astronomy. The university’s Institute for Astronomy has been a prime mover in research into galaxies, cosmology, stars, planets and the ... ... Award for putting DeconGel to work decontaminating spills in Japan and Hungary. Another unit, TruTags, uses nanotechnology to detect counterfeit ... ...nd to do things they could never do before.” JERRIS R. HEDGES “Hawai‘i is primed for biotech-business growth unlike that experienced elsewhere in ... ...icine and health. That’s why he feels qualifed to point out: “Hawai‘i is primed for biotech-business growth, with unique attributes that distingui...

Hawaii Business Magazine in tribute to the APEC meeting of 2011.

...- 32 Air Conditioning from Seawater -- 36 America’s Most Diverse State -- 38 Local Economy -- 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies -- 42 A History of Innovation -- 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences -- 48 Turning Science Into Practical Inventions -- 56 Winners of the Hawai‘i Business Innovation Showcase -- 60 Breakthroughs in Health and Medicine -- 68 Hawai‘I Di...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ...9 2 Table of Contents THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING ........................................ ...ing. We arrived on an early Monday morning and were surprised to have the Prime Minister meet us in person. —“Mr. Yuen, good morning. I‟m deli... ...men, because of their typical gross insecurity, marry below their station. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew exposed this national problem in 1983 when poi... ...n have been proving themselves in every area, from national leadership in prime ministerial positions to leadership in every scientific and business ... ...at seeing violence makes it more permissible to do—even if our mothers and ministers tell us to avoid being violent. A fourth theory is that watching... ... wiser? Then there is the religious garb of so many Christian priests and ministers. We don‟t think that clothes should be able to give unearned res... ... —“But the father was not a low class worker. He was a minor aristocrat in Hungary. He was escaping the Nazis. So his son had a bit of „cultural capi...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...et http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neg... ...O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – On Volatility IV.... ...s, industrial processes, other forms of innovation, copyrighted material, etc. The prime example is Japan, which constructed its whole mega-economy... ...rparts are the "Industrial Bases". Within the former Eastern Bloc, Russia, Poland, Hungary and Slovenia are, to a limited extent, such generators. ... ...r to be identified with the originals, which serve as mere triggers. Again, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia (and to a lesser extent, Croatia) come to mind... ...olutions backed by ideologies disguised as "scientific knowledge". Communism is a prime example, of course – but so is the "Free Market" variant o... ...survival (and opportunistic managerial plunder) replaced client satisfaction as the prime value. 8. The decline of the professional guilds on the o... ...d where? Few governments know the answers to these economically crucial questions. Ministers of finance and industry the world over religiously rep...

Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...le of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties toward... ...cal of the personality disordered. An impairment of the empathic sensitivities is a prime symptom in many of them (in the Narcissistic, Antisocial, ... ...Israel/Palestine. The Anti-Israeli: The "Status Quo" promulgated by Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, confined institutionalized re... ...n articles 85 and 86 of the Rome Convention and in Regulation 17 of the Council of Ministers, 1962. Still, the two most important economic blocks o... ...st on the dozens of "new democracies" the world over. Many of these presidents and prime ministers, though democratically elected (multiply, in som... ...the dozens of "new democracies" the world over. Many of these presidents and prime ministers, though democratically elected (multiply, in some case... ...n articles 85 and 86 of the Rome Convention and in Regulation 17 of the Council of Ministers, 1962. Still, the two most important economic blocks o...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...le of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties toward... ...cal of the personality disordered. An impairment of the empathic sensitivities is a prime symptom in many of them (in the Narcissistic, Antisocial, ... ...Israel/Palestine. The Anti-Israeli: The "Status Quo" promulgated by Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, confined institutionalized re... ...n articles 85 and 86 of the Rome Convention and in Regulation 17 of the Council of Ministers, 1962. Still, the two most important economic blocks o... ...st on the dozens of "new democracies" the world over. Many of these presidents and prime ministers, though democratically elected (multiply, in som... ...the dozens of "new democracies" the world over. Many of these presidents and prime ministers, though democratically elected (multiply, in some case... ...n articles 85 and 86 of the Rome Convention and in Regulation 17 of the Council of Ministers, 1962. Still, the two most important economic blocks o...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ................................................................................................................................. 17 Combinations of Nee... ...eer for a winning team, teenagers who own a car, adults who own a house—so many things can give us that power pat on our psychological rumps. Minist... ...ysical impediments just test our mettle and increase the height of the hurdles we must clear. ―And on the mental side, wartime British Prime ... ...re is also power in being greedy and selfish. There is power in knowing the truth as we find in most religions, especially in the all-knowing minist... ...eal man. A bloody physical defeat is neither orgasmic nor ego gratifying. ―Power, not a love of God, drives most zealots. Either as a prime ... ... religious power in societies. There‘s no doubt that in some nations the religious power supersedes that of the elected legislators. Iran is a prime ... ...values that we are conscious of. They may be values we have developed ourselves, but most were probably put into us by our parents, teachers, minist...

...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

... ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: ht... ... This letter constitutes a permission to reprint or mirror any and all of the materials mentioned or linked to herein subject to appropriate cred... ... AUTHOR BIO: Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the... ...tbooks, Texas preparing for all textbooks to be e-Books. . . . Q. PG is a prime example of two phenomena characteristic to the early Internet: collab... ...ay for even longer in the form of continuous copyright extensions. The prime example, obviously the one I name my own work after when I started P... ...ng a continent-wide directive and directly confronting the communications ministers of the union. Paradoxically, it also decided, three months ago, ... ...m outer space, meteorological data and solve complex equations. This is a prime example of a collective brain in action. 2. The Intranet - a Logica... ...le networks) and despite a regulatory welcome in all three CE candidates (Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic). Luckily, mobile telephony - the... ...unreasonably high salaries and serving to boost the political fortunes of ministers and the like. But all this is changing. The new World Trade Orga...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...s fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Pala... ...large body of water one could always find Parmenides' entity and Aristotle's Prime Mover as one pursued that innate human need for physical movement. ... ...the proof is in the pudding. If it hurts to look up at it directly that is a prime indication to not do it." "Huh?" he asked. "Don't be so asinine. D... ...ol fairly soon. It was a bizarre version of stagnation in a life that by its prime purposes should not have been stagnating at all: by being a mother,... ...nd that they who were the benefactors of the world like presidents and prime ministers should be paid the least. She argued that only then, when equa... ... from work at the cosmetic counter of Dillards to greet her cat with "Are-U-Hungary" and laugh at the pseudo nation; and to darn her husbandチOs under...

...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...e University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classic... ...al material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The Univer... ...10. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The University of Oregon. For nonprofit and educational uses only. Send comments and corr... ...nd controversies betweene men: Honour it selfe, and practice of religious ministers, is drawne from our death and vices. 'No physitian delighteth in... ...for marriage, as a damosell very well brought up, faire, rich, and in the prime of her age: he writ unto her (as we see) that she should remove her ... ... only sound but blithe and wantonly lustfull. That state full of lust, of prime and mirth, made me deeme the consideration of sicknesses so yrkesome ... ...common-wealth, and in credit with their masters. Their instruction is the prime and creame of Philosophy, and presented with a plaine, unaffected, a... ...rs, so, the life ended, to distribute something to such as have beene the ministers of it. Marcellinus being of a frank and liberal disposition, cau... ...o in our dayes have gone about to checke the veritie of our Church by the ministers vice: she fetcheth her testimony from elsewhere. It is a foolish...

...no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my forces are not capable of any such desseigne. I have vowed the same to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends: to the end, that losing me (which they are likely to do ere long), they may therein find some lineaments of my conditions a...

...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule ...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparencies, the sha... ... determining feature of the meet. He states that the Will- iams team is in prime condition, and it is in this fact that its chief hope of success lies... ...e last objection there is a very ob- vipus remedy. We can foresee that the prime objection to this schedule will center about the early chapel fea tur... ...ulty is for the Church, by abandoning its creed, to recognize what its own ministers are preaching, that the SPIRIT of Christianity is strong enough t... ...rt for the interests of the oollege, and those to whom self-seeking is the prime factor in their oollege existence. Your re- sponse to tliB demands of... ...ork city and vicinity, are planning to hold a reunion and dinner at Little Hungary, on East Houston street, during the last week in February. There ar...

...lliams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ...olving Cycles vs. Vicious Cycles Pg 545 Boredom Pg 548 Profit Pg 561 The Prime Imperative of Business Pg 591 The Minimum Wage Pg 595 Financi... ...Totality: something had to be there to make it split. That something was the Primeval Force called: Impetus. Impetus is the Basic Force that pushes... ...us of Splitness was not a knife: it was Raw, Primordial Force acting on a Raw Primeval Medium The Path of Splitness Chapter One: The Universe 1... ... They make it seem normal for Kings, and Dictators, and Presidents, and Prime Ministers: to go to War. They make it seem understandable, excusable ... ... servants broke away from the old church founded new churches, and when their ministers and preachers also came from the lower classes. Then the ide... ...unique way of community-life and culture. These were the traveling Christian ministers who claimed to have magical powers given to them by the orig...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...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... ...ing indifferent to its thunders: that the army was doing so, and also that ministers were doing so. In the States, the President and his ministers are... ...lways wish to have recourse to such an extreme measure as impeachment. The ministers are not in the houses, and cannot therefore personally answer que... ...ng Committees in both Houses; and these committees have relations with the ministers. But they have no constitutional power over the ministers; nor ha... ...it seemed he resolved to do. It must be understood that Mr. Seward was not Prime Minister. The President of the United States has no Prime Minister—or... ...desolation of such scenery. We in En- gland, when we read and speak of the primeval forests of America, are apt to form pictures in our minds of wood-... ...cursors of cultivation. They have been carried hither and thither, through primeval forests and over prairies, with small hope of other traffic than t...

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

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Bureaucracy

By: Honoré de Balzac

...y by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...rmies did not exist. The clerks, few in number, were under the orders of a prime minister who communicated with the sovereign; thus they directly serv... ...nts, and as meddlesome as an old tradeswoman. Delighted to see the various ministers con- stantly struggling against the four hundred petty minds of t... ...t.” Let us explain the Report. When the kings of France took to themselves ministers, which first happened under Louis XV ., they made them ren- der r... ...ouncils of state with the nobles. Under the constitutional government, the ministers of the various de- partments were insensibly led by their bureaus... ...ked it out in Malte-Brun: Goritz, in Latin Gorixia, situated in Bohemia or Hungary, or it may be Austria—” Bixiou. “T yrol, the Basque provinces, or S... ... fact, his misfortune was that of most other ministers who have passed the prime of life; he trimmed and shuffled under all his difficulties,—with jou...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is h...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...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... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmis- sion, in any way. A Book of Golden Deeds, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ... duty save by the voice of the minis- ters of God upon Earth. But as these ministers bear no charmed life, and are subjects themselves of the prince, ... ...ronger clouds, and a procession came for- ward—tall, well-made men, in the prime of their strength. Some carried a sword and a lasso, others a trident... ...hem in her atrocious thirst for vengeance. She was the wife of the King of Hungary, very clever and discerning, and also supposed to be very religious... ...ames him- 146 A Book of Golden Deeds self, brave and handsome, and in the prime of life, was the blithest of the whole joyous party. He was the most ... ...Skouratof, a T atar, noted as a favorite of the Tzar, and one of the chief ministers of his cruelty, came into his cell, and de- manded his blessing f... ...id from the Spanish king, Philip II., who wished to be con- sidered as the prime champion of Roman Catholic Christendom, and who alone had the power o...

...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

...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... ... of the Berlin Treaty must not be repeated. We cannot have another popular Prime Minister come triumphing back to England with a gross of pink spectac... ... dragging inadaptability of European statecraft. Everywhere the failure of ministers and statesmen to rise to the urgent definite necessities of the p... ... unity over diversity such as no other crown, unless it be that of Austria-Hungary, can be said to do. The British crown is not like other crowns; it ... ... day the British and French politi- cians haggle and argue with the German ministers upon petty points and debating society advantages, smart and cunn... ... en- tirely to be a Party Press in Great Britain, helps some adven- turous Prime Minister to flout and set aside the lower House altogether. There is ...

...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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The Poems

By: George Meredith

...ge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith 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 George Meredith by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ...As silently their influence they instil. O Sister! in the sweetness of thy prime, Thy hand has plucked the bitter flower of death; But this will dower... ...89 The winding river freshening the sight At intervals, the trees in leafy prime; The distant village-roofs of blue and white, With intersections of q... ... sneering at my profession, Haven’t you juggled a vast amount? There’s the Prime Minister, in one Session, Juggles more games than my sins ‘ll count. ... ...hen shook his head Sadly; held out his fist, and said: ‘—You’ve heard that Hungary’s floor’d? They’ve got her on the ground. A traitor broke her sword... ... name Gods; which are the righteous cause, The cause of man, and manhood’s ministers. Could France accept the fables of her priests, Who blest her ban...

Excerpt: The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith.

........................... 23 THE WILD ROSE AND THE SNOWDROP ............................................................................. 24 THE DEATH OF WINTER .......................................................................................................... 25 SONG .......................................................................................................

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The Confessions

By: J. J. Rousseau

...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of... ... 1903 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publica... ... J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...on. My uncle Bernard, who was an engineer, went to serve in the empire and Hungary, under Prince Eugene, and distin- guished himself both at the siege... ...ce to my mind with any degree of satisfaction; but after having passed the prime of life, as I decline into old age (while more recent occurrences are... ...eve that priests, who gave such excellent dinners, might be as good as our ministers. Notwithstanding M. de Pontverre’s pedigree, I certainly possesse... ... who thought the height of merit consisted in writ- ing libels against the ministers of Geneva. Far from wishing to send me back, he endeavored to fav... ...suspected him of having been guilty of a perfidy with which he accused our ministers, and that he fabricated passages sometimes in or- der to evade an... ..., not even excepting Madam de Pompadour, whom I considered as a species of prime minister, and when it was reported that one of these two would expel ...

...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism we...

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The Deputy of Arcis

By: Honoré de Balzac

...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...raud,” in the triumph of the present system, by which the Chambers and the ministers are like the wooden puppets which the proprietor of the Guignolet... ...he famous Simeuse melodrama.” “It would be easier for you to make yourself prime-minis- ter,” said Madame Marion. “There will never be any alliance be... ... one course to take.” “What is that?” “T o serve those who make and unmake ministers. A letter was shown to me from one of those personages who repre-... ...ously. An admirable player, his partners were chiefly the great seigneurs, ministers, and ambassadors. He dined habitually with all the members of the... ...ressed myself to his wife,—a rather appetizing provincial, though past her prime.” “Yes, yes, I see; very good!” said Franchessini; “husband 218 The ... ...ther the boasted strata of Bohemia and Saxony nor even those of Russia and Hungary can be compared to those hidden in the Pyrenees, in the Alps from B...

...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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An Old Maid

By: Honoré de Balzac

...d by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...ic, is a land of noble chivalry and fine manners, especially in Poland and Hungary, where—” Here the chevalier stopped, fearing to slip into some allu... ...imself while apparently serving the interests of the community. He was the prime mover of insurance compa- nies, the protector of new enterprises for ... ...of education? Does it not invoke, from the enlight- ened solicitude of the ministers of Public Instruction, the creation of chairs of anthropology,—a ...

Excerpt: As a testimony to the affection of his brother-in-law?

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The Talisman

By: Sir Walter Scott

...sics Series Publication The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott 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... ...m hence to a place of safety, where you may bid defiance to Zohauk and his ministers.’ The fear of instant death, saith the poet, is like the rod of t... ...e-tie. There was an example—the noted precedent of the “King’s daughter of Hungary,” who thus generously encouraged the “squire of low degree;” and Ed... ...ly fallen into his hands, and discuss its comparative merits with those of Hungary and of the Rhine. An intimation of his purpose was, of course, answ... ...hus?” said the Earl Wallenrode, a gi- gantic warrior from the frontiers of Hungary. “Brethren and noble gentlemen, this man’s foot is on the honour of... ...n the midst of his most wayward mood, Richard respected the church and its ministers; and though offended at the intrusion of the hermit into his tent... ...e Talisman som. The riders were Georgian and Circassian slaves in the very prime of life. Their helmets and hauberks were formed of steel rings, so br...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...same genial climate there was; the same luxuriation of nature in her early prime; the same ignorance of his own origin in the tenant of this lovely sc... ...s of literature more conspicuously by the pomps with which it invested the ministers and machinery of education, than any entire university of the con... ... apostolatum meum is a language almost as becoming to the missionaries and ministers of knowledge, as to the ambassa- dors of religion. It is fit that... ...nturies) to her old ancestral honors, and kept up that decent household of ministers which corre- sponded to the altered ministrations of her temple. ... ... him.”* Then followed the treaty of Carlovitz, which stripped the Porte of Hungary, the Ukraine, and other places; and “henceforth” says Mr. Gordon, “...

...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house 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 ...

... I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................................

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Diana of the Crossways

By: George Meredith

...George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...resence for a cur masquerading as a cat. ‘ And that is not the scoundrel’s prime offence. For what d’ 34 Diana of the Crossways ye think? He trumps u... ...d home-fed filled them with stuff to make good meat and fat ‘what we calls prime bacon.’ As it is not right to damp a native enthusiasm, Redworth let ... ...had loved to look on them! And it was no wonder that Andrew Hedger enjoyed prime bacon. Bacon frizzling, fat rashers of real homefed on the fire-none ... ...n. The elder brother, Lord Creedmore, is a common Nimrod, always absent in Hungary, Russia, America, hunting somewhere. Mr. Dacier will be in the Cabi... ...ans. If he flourishes his thousands! The wonder is, he doesn’t corrupt the Ministers’ wives. Perhaps he does. Marriage will become a danger-sign to Pa...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? ...

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The Country Doctor

By: Honoré de Balzac

...by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell 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... ...worthy of them.” “I have come across Moravians and Lollards in Bohemia and Hungary,” said Genestas. “They are a kind of people something like your mou... ... dynasty of kings, you have a constantly changing and costly succession of prime ministers. There comes a Mirabeau or a Danton, a Robespierre or a Nap... ...ty of kings, you have a constantly changing and costly succession of prime ministers. There comes a Mirabeau or a Danton, a Robespierre or a Napoleon,...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a ...

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Sons of the Soil

By: Honoré de Balzac

...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...l by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...years have heard no sound of axe. One might think it a virgin forest, made primeval again through some phenomenon granted exclu- sively to forests. Th... ...lves. Come, my dear abbe, give me your arm. Leave the general with his two ministers, and let us go to the gate of the Avonne to see Madame Michaud, f... ...of his predecessor. Mademoiselle Laguerre then made Francois Gaubertin her prime minister, as much through policy as from gratitude. The late steward ... ...d the meaning of the conversation which he had with what he called his two ministers, after Madame de Montcornet, the abbe, and Blondet left the break... ... in Illyria and Dalmatia when it received sudden orders to advance through Hungary and cut off the retreat of the Austrian army in case the Emperor wo...

Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume Two

By: Alexandre Dumas

...andre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Penns... ...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... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... order?” “Precisely,” said the count; “six years since I bought a horse in Hungary remarkable for its swiftness. The thirty-two that we shall use to-n... ...woman should thus through selfishness consent to my death when I am in the prime of life and strength; it is impossible that she can carry to such a p... ...till, I assure you, he passed very well with many people; I saw him at the ministers’ houses.” “Ah, yes,” said Chateau-Renaud. “The idea of thinking m... ...au-Renaud. “The minister’s wife, pardieu!” “Oh, your pardon! I never visit ministers; I leave that to the princes.” “Really, You were only before spar...

...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his father?s room,...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante Paradise , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of th... ...rsity. 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 the file as an elec tronic transmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante Paradise , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pennsylvania State Un... ...est, that to my wond’ring thoughts l found. “O thou of primal love the prime delight! Goddess! “I straight reply’d, “whose lively words Still sh... ...came devolv’d. Caesar I was, And am Justinian; destin’d by the will Of that prime love, whose influence I feel, From vain excess to clear th’ encumbe... ... Alpine rocks, whence glide thy currents, Po! Beneath its guidance, in their prime of days Scipio and Pompey triumph’d; and that hill, Under whose sum... ...’d with him Of Ratza, who hath counterfeited ill The coin of Venice. O blest Hungary! The Divine Comedy of Dante Paradise 56 If thou no longer pat... ...d reason in some sort discerns the same, Who scarce would grant the heav’nly ministers Of their perfection void, so long a space. Thus when and where ... ...e time been more.] The spirit now speaking is Charles Martel crowned king of Hungary, and son of Charles 11 king of Naples and Sicily, to which domin...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...pointments of a minister may be checked by Parliament; and the interest of ministers in defending, and of rival partisans in attacking, secures a tole... ...its bad measures until they have reached the dimensions of national evils. Ministers and administrators see them approaching, and have to bear all the... ... members of a cabinet. It is enough that it virtually decides who shall be prime minister, or who shall be the two or three individuals from whom the ... ...he general wishes and inclinations manifested by Parliament, and the other ministers on the recommendation of the chief; while every minister has the ... ...f the representative body; or the body must content itself with naming the prime min ister, and making him responsible for the choice of his asso ci... ...om pletely dependent upon the votes of a representative assem bly as the prime minister is in England, and is without in convenience. If it were th...

...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 most of the p...

....................................................................................................................... 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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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...rsity. 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 the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pennsylvania State University, J... ...times With purpose to retrace my steps I turn’d. The hour was morning’s prime, and on his way Aloft the sun ascended with those stars, That with ... ...fabric mov’d: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, an... ...ach’d; but fear In him was none; for that high Providence, Which plac’d them ministers of the fifth foss, Power of departing thence took from them all... .... and b. 6 c. ii. st. 35. CANTO III v. 5. Power divine Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.]The three persons of the blessed Trinity. v. 9. all hope ... ...d low Thy knees; behold God’s angel: fold thy hands: Now shalt thou see true Ministers indeed. Lo how all human means he sets at naught! So that nor o... ...ct, seen Remotely, plays on the misdeeming sense, Then did the faculty, that ministers Discourse to reason, these for tapers of gold Distinguish, and ...

...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Re...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...ublication North America: Volume One 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...rd Northern gentlemen complaining of the President, complaining of all his ministers, one after another, com- plaining of the contractors who were rob... ...land never scramble. Her father and mother, who are no more than her chief ministers, walk before her out of the saloon, and then she—swims after them... ...iend, or perhaps a pair of sisters, and in his wagon he will go up through primeval forests to the Glen House. When there, he will ascend Mount Washin... ...to the country; and, for the short period of his reign, he is as it were a Prime Minister of the State, with certain very limited regal attributes. He... ...ything. The Crown has no such power in England, because it must change its ministers whenever called upon to do so by the House of Commons. But the Co... ...use of Commons. But the Colonial Minister in Downing Street is the Crown’s Prime Minister as regards the colonies, and he is changed not as any coloni...

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

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Framley Parsonage

By: Anthony Trollope

...Series Publication Framley Parsonage 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...rtainly had a hankering after such a judgement-seat. Of whom generally did prime ministers and official big- 37 Anthony Trollope wigs think it expedi... ...y had a hankering after such a judgement-seat. Of whom generally did prime ministers and official big- 37 Anthony Trollope wigs think it expedient to... ...k upon himself to rule all questions of mind without the assistance of any ministers whatever. And Baron Brawl was of the party, one of Her Majesty’s ... ...d so the occasion suited well for the interchange of a few ideas. The then prime minister, angry as many men were with him, had not been altogether un... ...rd Brock had sent for him yes- terday. ’ Now at this period Lord Brock was Prime Minister. ‘So he did, and Harold was with him backwards and for- ward... ...d Smith is not made of the 216 Framley Parsonage stuff from which Cabinet ministers should be formed. ’ Mr Harold Smith, as he read this, seated at h...

...ol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative practice, which had enabled him to maintain and educate a family with all the advantages which money can give in this country. Mark was his eldest son and second child; and the fi...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 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... ...ho brings it to market; for though, in common language, what is called the prime cost of any com- modity does not comprehend the profit of the person ... ...the greater part of them must be brought from a much greater distance. The prime cost of grocery goods, there- fore, being the same in both places, th... ...places, they are cheapest where the least profit is charged upon them. The prime cost of bread and butchers’ meat is greater in the great town than in... ...s. It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to re... ...ustry which procures the former, must nec- essarily be prior to that which ministers to the latter. The cultiva- tion and improvement of the country, ... ...tile source of discord and animosity. The capricious ambition of kings and ministers has not, during the present and the preceding century, been more ...

Excerpt: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...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 ... ...sest of men. Where it is good, it reaches the exquisite, the very best; it ministers to the most delicate tastes.’ Putting aside the rather slight con... ...s Democritizing. When they had done laughing, Gargantua consulted with the prime of his retinue what should be done. There Ponocrates was of opinion t... ... At love. At primero. At the ches... ... use you after the like manner, and therefore remember it. Then Marquet, a prime man in the confraternity of the cake-bak- ers, said unto him, Yea, si... ...ct the pleaders, litigants, and law-suitors are happier than the officers, ministers, and administrators of justice. For beatius est dare quam acciper... ...h use of these cross glosses and expositions in the mouths and pens of his ministers and servants, the perverse advocates, bribing judges, law-monging...

...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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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...great city, which is the scene of my narrative, a woman, from some part of Hungary, who pretended to the gift of looking into futurity. She had made h... ...ouder and a louder sound. The government itself began to be disturbed; the ministers of the sovereign were agitated; and, had no menaces been thrown o... ... shore stood, ready to receive her, in front of all this mighty crowd, the Prime Minister of Spain, the same Conde Olivarez, who but one year before h... ...so far as not at all to deny the injustice or the impolicy of the Imperial Ministers, it is contended by many persons who have reviewed the affair wit... ...; and, in this, it re- sembles that service, that there are two classes of ministers attending on his pleasure. For, as in the trains of kings are som...

........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James 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... ...breasts of both testaments,” is a sub-title of the once famous New England Primer, and Christian devotional literature indeed quite floats in milk, th... ...oods. “The simplest functions of physiological life,” he writes may be its ministers. Every one who is at all acquainted with the Persian mystics know... ...nthusiasm, and example, and above all the force of novelty, are always the prime suggestive agency in this kind of success. If mind-cure should ever b... ...effectually removed from all distractions, as though he were alone in some primeval wood. Taking his difficulty with him into the mystic silence in th... ...nt. Even repentance and remorse, affections which come in the character of ministers of good, may be but sickly and relaxing impulses. The best repent... ...heme already established in their minds. And it be- comes natural also for ministers, who have to deal with those who insist upon distinctness and cle...

Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

...NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ............................................................................

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY... ...THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, ... ...n Anne, Written by Himself by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...nsual? Not all the marriage oaths sworn before all the parsons, cardinals, ministers, muftis, and rabbins in the world, can bind to that monstrous all... ...nce his Grace came immediately to the Hague, where he received the foreign ministers, general officers, and other people of quality. The greatest hono... ...with sixty-five Louis in it, and a bundle of love- letters, and a flask of Hungary-water. Vive la guerre! there are the ten pieces you lent me. I shou... ...d to do him a wrong. But the Queen was timid by nature, and the successive Ministers she had, had private causes for their irresolution. The bolder an... ... Esmond, that I promise you,” says the good Bishop, assuming the airs of a Prime Minister. “The Prince hath expressed himself most nobly in regard of ... ...stfallen Boniface’s stairs, but into our coaches again. The Prince and his Prime Minister in one, Esmond in the other, with only his dear mistress as ...

...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship whi...

............................................................................................................................... 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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The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Aligheri

...low A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a publication of th... ...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 Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...o think The world ofttimes converted into chaos; And at that moment this primeval crag Both here and elsewhere made such overthrow. But fix thine ... ...as not afraid; For the high Providence, which had ordained To place them ministers of the fifth moat, The power of thence departing took from all.... ...the dismal forest; He leaves it such, a thousand years from now In its primeval state ’tis not re-wooded.” As at the announcement of impending ill... ... When thou didst say: ‘The age renews itself, Justice returns, and man’s primeval time, And a new progeny descends from heaven.’ Through thee I Po... ... So upon that celestial chariot A hundred rose ‘ad vocem tanti senis,’ Ministers and messengers of life eternal. They all were saying, “Benedictus... ...care That theme whereof I have been made the scribe. The greatest of the ministers of nature, Who with the power of heaven the world imprints An...

...Excerpt: Inferno: Canto I. Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, Which in the very thought renews the fear....

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Second

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Second T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited... ...es P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Book the Second trans. Charles Cotton, ed. William ... ... Second trans. Charles Cotton, ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...vy, xlv. 13.] ’Tis probable that Solyman, whom we have seen make a gift of Hungary and other principalities, had therein more respect to this consider... ...imes have at- tempted to shake the truth of our Church by the vices of her ministers; she extracts her testimony elsewhere; ’tis a foolish way of argu... ...of Lorraine with Seneca; their for- tunes, in having both of them been the prime ministers in the government of their princes, and in their manners, c... ...raine with Seneca; their for- tunes, in having both of them been the prime ministers in the government of their princes, and in their manners, con- di...

Excerpt: Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Book the Second translated by Charles Cotton, ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

...Contents CHAPTER I OF THE INCONSTANCY OF OUR ACTIONS ...................................................... 5 CHAPTER II OF DRUNKENNESS .............................................................................................. 14 CHAPTER II...

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Joseph Andrews

By: Henry Fielding

...sics Series Publication Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding 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... ...is- take of her maid, for that she had ordered her to fill the bottle with Hungary-water. As soon as the fellows were departed, the lawyer, who had, i... ...ces, equipages, dress, furniture, rich dainties, and vast fortunes, of her ministers. Surely those things, which savour so strongly of this world, bec... ...IES or secrets in all trades, from the highest to the lowest, from that of prime-ministering to this of authoring, which are seldom discovered unless ...

...Excerpt: General Introduction: There are few amusements more dangerous for an author than the indulgence in ironic descriptions of his own work. If the irony is depreciatory, posterity is but too likely to say, ?Many a true word is spoken in jest;? if it is encomiastic, the same ruthless and ungrateful critic is but too likely to take it as an involun...

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