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Excerpt: The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850), Dictated by Sojourner Truth, edited by Olive Gilbert.

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...d by Sojourner Truth. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850), Dictated by Sojourner Truth, edite... ..., Dictated by Sojourner Truth, edited by Olive Gilbert is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ... for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ate Univer- sity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity assumes any responsibility for the mate... ... Uni- versity assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...bel sin- cerely), when she heard them all blame her so unspar- ingly, came forward, offering her sympathy and assis- tance; and when about to retire t...

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... THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY OF THE CHURCH 1520 Translated by A. T. W. Steinhäuser and revised by Fred... ...äuser and revised by Frederick C. Ahrens and Abdel Ross Wentz INTRODUCTION The primary importance of this treatise for the present-day reader of Lut... ...r the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courageous interpretation of the sacraments. But it is important also for its place in Luther’s progre... ...But it is important also for its place in Luther’s progressive assault upon the total position of the Romans. In An Open Letter to the Christian Nob... ...he Romans. In An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility 1 Luther demolished the three walls behind which Rome sat entrenched in her spiritual- tempor... ...er commanded nor advised, but left to the judgment of the church, he brings forward the Scriptures to prove that the use of one kind for the laity wa... ...er you with the filth of this vilesmelling cloaca. In conclusion, he brings forward I Cor. 11[:23], where Paul says that he received from the Lord a...

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... economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current...

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...Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Thomas Common is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...tate University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way.... ...any way. Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Thomas Common the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis,... ... This long lane backwards: it continueth for an eternity. And that long lane forward—that is another eternity. They are antithetical to one another, t... ...I sail along on uncertain seas; chance flattereth me, smooth-tongued chance; forward and back- ward do I gaze—, still see I no end. 149 Friedrich Nie... ...compatible. To be sure, they also learn in their way to stride on and stride forward: that, I call their hobbling.—Thereby they become a hindrance to ... ...Thereby they become a hindrance to all who are in haste. And many of them go forward, and look backwards thereby, with stiffened necks: those do I lik...

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