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Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...JOURNEY FROM CORNHILL TO GRAND CAIRO by William Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Notes on a Journey from Cornh... ...ay A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- t... ...airo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and withou... ...r the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Penn- sylv... ...s a warm and soft one; quite different to the rigid air we had left behind us, two days since, off the Isle of Wight. The bell kept tolling its half-h... ... captain dare only disobey him suo periculo. It was agreed that a party of us should land for half-an-hour, and taste real Spanish chocolate on Spanis... ...moke had darkened the whole city with soot, and when, according to the old writers, there really was bright weather. The fleets of caiques bustling al... ...oor widow fall as dead upon him as the smiles of the brightest eyes out of Georgia. He can’t stir abroad but those abominable cannon begin roaring and... ...mo- rial accorded to the Christians of the Latin rite in Syria. All French writers and travellers speak of this protection with de- lightful complacen...

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The Research Magnificent

By: H. G. Wells

...EARCH MAGNIFICENT by H. G. Wells (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H... ...e Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and witho... ...stocratic life.” But by “aristocratic” he meant something very differ- ent from the quality of a Russian prince, let us say, or an English peer. He me... ...meant something very differ- ent from the quality of a Russian prince, let us say, or an English peer. He meant an intensity, a clearness… . Nobility ... ...ngs with a helmet of paste- board and a white-metal sword. We have most of us been at least as far as that with Benham. And we have died like Horatius... ...ur sense of humour and congratulate ourselves on a certain amiable freedom from priggishness or presumption, but for Benham that easy de- clension to ... ...ad still to reckon with stupidity. He believed in the statecraft of leader-writers and the sincerity of political programmes. And so regarded, what an... ...ming merely an 105 H G Wells intellectual like those wordy Fabians, those writers, poseurs, and sham publicists whose wrangles he had attended? And, ... ...damned. That was their status, exclusion, damnation, as fixed as colour in Georgia or caste in Bengal. But if his mother’s mind worked in that way the...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 5 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Linco... ...coln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...ters? He is true as steel, and his judgment is very good. The last I heard from him, he rather thought Weldon, of De Witt, was our best timber for rep... ...uly 16, 1858. HON. JOSEPH GILLESPIE. MY DEAR SIR:—I write this to say that from the specimens of Douglas Democracy we occasionally see here from Madi-... ...unding country. A.L. FRAGMENT OF SPEECH AT PARIS, ILL., SEPT. 8, 1858. Let us inquire what Judge Douglas really invented when he introduced the Nebras... ...rds. If Judge Douglas did not invent this kind of popular sovereignty, let us pursue the inquiry and find out what kind he 13 The Writings of Abraham... ...t will be an equally good one why Congress should not hinder the people of Georgia from importing slaves 35 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Fiv... ...rinciple, to have slaves, if they want them. Then I say that the people in Georgia have the right to buy slaves in Africa, if they want them; and I de... ...ish you with copies of letters in my possession without the consent of the writers. No impression has been made on my mind against the honor or integr...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is ... ...ublication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...y was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses,... ... hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure... ...a good meal after the day’s work, but it would be a good thing for both of us if we took lighter lunches.” “But Georgie, here at home I always do have... ...ave a swell time if you had to eat the truck that new steward hands out to us at the Ath- letic Club! But I certainly do feel out of sorts, this morn-... ...air Lewis Zenith could not have told whether he was in a city of Oregon or Georgia, Ohio or Maine, Oklahoma or Manitoba. But to Babbitt every inch was... ...ay Evening Post—an elm-lined snowy street of these new 90 Babbitt houses, Georgian some of ‘em, or with low raking roofs and—The kind of street you’d... ...e to ruin this business than all the plots and stuff that these fool story-writers could think up in a month of Sundays.” That afternoon, when the old...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...Main Street by Sinclair Lewis A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis... ...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...ly fascinating pursuit of that malevolent fly if I were to ask you to tell us that you do not know anything about King John?” He spent three delightfu... ... use it just as well in the home. And gee, Carol, just think of a bunch of us going out on an auto picnic, some nice spring evening.” “Yes.” “And slei... ...hose nature was not very clearly revealed to her, turn a prairie town into Georgian houses and Japanese bungalows. The next day in library class she h... ...his coat pocket, wipes the tobacco crumbs off, and plays “Marching through Georgia” till every head in the car begins to ache. The news-butcher comes ... ..., Lamb, De Quincey, and Mrs. Humphry Ward, who, it seemed, constituted the writers of English Fiction and Es- says. Not till she inspected the rest-ro... ... I guess the feminine mind is too innocent to understand all these immoral writers. I’m sure I don’t want to criticize Bernard Shaw; I understand he i...

...eets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. With an Introduction. By James M'Cune Smith

By: Frederick Douglas

...My Bondage and My Freedom By Frederick Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Bondage and My Freedom by ... ...e and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...y a principle essential to Christianity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING; so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, necessarily excludes the i... ...al plea—”not guilty;” the case must, therefore, proceed. Any facts, either from slaves, slaveholders, or by-standers, calculated to enlighten the publ... ...t rank among living Americans, are abundantly laid bare in the book before us. Like the autobiography of Hugh Miller, it carries us so far back into e... ...te, develop and sustain the latter. With these original gifts in view, let us look at his school- ing; the fearful discipline through which it pleased... ...rgive me for reminding them that the term “Caucasian” is dropped by recent writers on Ethnology; for the people about Mount Caucasus, are, and have ev... ...though scarcely a month passed without the sale of one or more lots to the Georgia traders, there was no apparent diminution in the number of his hu- ... ..., that, for having found fault with his master, he was now to be sold to a Georgia trader. He was immediately chained and handcuffed; and thus, withou...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...i by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and witho... ..., 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 associated wit... ...nce six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con ... ...con sider the extent of the valley of the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateau... ... miles of land between there and the Gulf was built by the river. This gives us the age of that piece of country, without any trouble at all—one hundr... ...or the present—I will give a few more of them further along in the book. Let us drop the Mississippi’s physical history, and say a word about its hist... ...free man and may speak the whole truth, regardless of his parish’s opinions; writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankl... ...was supposed that there was collusion between the association and the under writers, but this was not so. The latter had come to compre hend the exc... ...d a fellow by the name of Crenshaw gathered four good horses and started for Georgia. We got in com pany with a young South Carolinian just before we...

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The Girl with the Golden Eyes

By: Honoré de Balzac

...th the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Girl with the Golden Eyes... ...noré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...hold, gaunt, yellow, tawny. Is not Paris a vast field in perpetual turmoil from a storm of interests beneath which are whirled along a crop of human b... ...a movement of disgust towards the capital, that vast workshop of delights, from 4 The Girl with the Golden Eyes which, in a short time, they cannot e... ...ps amidst the putrid exhalations of courts and streets and sewers. But let us turn to the vast saloons, gilded and airy; the hotels in their gardens, ... ...rfect woman. If this hurried glance at the population of Paris has enabled us to conceive the rarity of a Raphaelesque face, and the pas- sionate admi... ...Paquita, tranquilly. “My dear Adolphe, she is my mother, a slave bought in Georgia for her rare beauty, little enough of which remains to-day. She onl... ...on of the most physical of our feelings, whereas serious and philosophical writers never employ its images except as the consequence or the corollary ... ...n’s feet. The chink of the gold was potent enough to excite a smile on the Georgian’s impassive face. “I come at the right moment for you, my sister,”...

...urely, the general aspect of the Parisian populace-- a people fearful to behold, gaunt, yellow, tawny. Is not Paris a vast field in perpetual turmoil from a storm of interests beneath which are whirled along a crop of human beings, who are, more often than not, reaped by death, only to be born again as pinched as ever, men whose twisted and contorted faces give out at ever...

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A Treatise on Government Translated from the Greek of Aristotle

By: William Ellis A. M.

...A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC ... ...NMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Treatise on Government by A... ...l opportunity university. 3 Aristotle A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. LONDON &.TORONTO PUBLISH... ...eacher of virtue. Such a programme for a treatise on government might lead us to expect in the Politics mainly a description of a Utopia or ideal stat... ... criticism it is curiously inept, reveals his own attitude admirably: “Let us remember that we should not disregard the experience of ages; in the mul... ...of this sort. They do much better who enumerate the different vir- tues as Georgias did, than those who thus define them; and as Sophocles speaks of a... ...ion they stand to each other, which circumstance, we are informed by those writers who describe different parts of the world, does sometimes happen; f... ... what sort of government is best fitting for all cities: for most of those writers who have treated this subject, however spe- ciously they may handle... ...ant there thirty years, Periander forty-four, and Psammetichus, the son of Georgias, three years; the reason for which was, that Cypselus was a popula...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Por... ...se, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated wit... ... UNITED STATES 3 INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON TO BILL CLINTON George Washington FIRST INAUGURAL ... ...ed by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilec tion, and, i... ...to you my sentiments as they have been awakened by the occasion which brings us together, I shall take my present leave; but not without resorting onc... ...merican people, but of foreign nations. It may be foreign nations who govern us, and not we, the people, who govern ourselves; and candid men will ack... ...he Armies and Navy of the United States. If the opinion of the most approved writers upon that species of mixed government which in modern Europe is t... ... Democrats reclaimed the White House in the 1976 election. The Governor from Georgia defeated Gerald Ford, who had become President on August 9, 1974,...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...ocracy in America By Alexis de Tocqueville Translator – Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes... ... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...vident to all alike that a great democratic revolution is going on amongst us; but there are two opinions as to its nature and consequences. To some i... ...ient, and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history. Let us recollect the situation of France seven hundred years ago, when the terr... ...i. Section 8. **See the constitutions of Illinois, Maine, Connecticut, and Georgia. 129 Tocqueville him of his power, is to commit what all the world... ...r. The question was most elaborately considered in the case of Chisholm v. Georgia, and was decided by the majority of the Supreme Court in the affirm... ...he number of the public prints that, even if they were a source of wealth, writers of ability could not be found to direct them all. The journalists o... ...h the Americans can only learn from strangers or from experience. If great writers have not at present existed in America, the reason is very simply g...

...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 to the preservation of the libertie...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS BY CHARLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a p... ...s Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...ew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated 4 A Book of Golden Deeds (from Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ th... ...dventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabeth of Siberia, are from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the ... ... instances of Christian self-devotion, but want of materials has compelled us to stop short of recording those noble deeds by which delicate women and... ...EED? T IS A GOLDEN DEED? T IS A GOLDEN DEED? T IS A GOLDEN DEED? WE ALL of us enjoy a story of battle and adventure. Some of us delight in the anxiety... ...l deceit Punic faith, that is, Phoenician faith, and though no doubt Roman writers show them up in their worst colours, yet, after the time of Hiram, ... ... They were not dull, apathetic Turks, but chiefly natives of Circassia and Georgia, the land where the human race is most beautiful and nobly formed. ...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is furnished free and wi... ...se, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated wit... ..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ...Walt Whitman LEAVES OF GRASS Come, said my soul, Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,) That should I after return, Or, long, long he... ...fting and flickering around me, Living beings, identities now doubtless near us in the air that we know not of, Contact daily and hourly that will not... ... States as during life, each man and woman my neighbor, The Louisianian, the Georgian, as near to me, and I as near to him and her, The Mississippian ... ...n walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deer skin leggings, a Louisianian or Georgian, A boatman over lakes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier, Badger... ... The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres, The great speakers and writers are exiled, they lie sick in distant lands, The cause is asleep, ...

...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 power, Cheerful, f...

...ead the Book........................18 Beginning My Studies.........................18 Beginners............................................19 To the States.......................................19 On Journeys Through the States..........19 To a Certain Cantatrice.......................20 Me Imperturbe....................................20 Savantism...........................

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...North America Volume One by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume One by ... ............................................................. 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI............................................... ............................................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON .................................................... ...el in the United States to be beaten by what foreigners might truly say of us. I 7 Trollope shall never forget the look of a Frenchman whom I found o... ...cts, but the smaller inward politics of our neighbors. And do others spare us? will be the instant reply of all who may read this. In my counter reply... ...ned. They are Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missis- sippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The South will also claim Tenn... ...,607 886,658 Alabama 520,444 435,473 955,917 Florida 81,885 63,809 145,694 Georgia 615,366 467,461 1,082,827 South Carolina 308,186 407,185 715,371 No... ...so that it would be found that many more of the Americans were readers and writers by habit. In any large town in England it is probable that a higher... ...id, to an elderly female at New York, who had quoted to me some half dozen writers on international law, thinking thereby that I should trump her last...

...HAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...is publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania State University’s ongoing Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, faculty e... ... the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and withou... ...ing pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neigh bor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of W... ...rd of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sin cerely, it must have been in ... ...ospect life offers to another? Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant? We should live in all ... ...importance of what work we do; and yet how much W alden 10 is not done by us! or, what if we had been taken sick? How vigilant we are! determined not... ...seen fit to print the bulk of my contributions, and, as is too common with writers, I got only my labor for my pains. However, in this case my pains w... ...ith all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiq uity. They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they... ... of Califor nia and Texas, of England and the Indies, of the Hon. Mr.— of Georgia or of Massachusetts, all transient and fleeting phenomena, till I a...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 2 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Linco... ...ncoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...either Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or trouble about the matte... ...ur room (the same that Dr. Wallace occupied there) and boarding only costs us four dollars a week. Ann Todd was married something more than a year sin... ...ey and property. They live in Boonville, Missouri, and have not been heard from lately enough for 4 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two me to s... .... I most heartily wish you and your Fanny would not fail to come. Just let us know the time, and we will have a room provided for you at our house, an... ...om Milledgeville to Athens, and from Warrenton to Decatur, in the State of Georgia (numbered 2366 and 2380), were let to Reeside and Avery at $1300 pe... ...uary 2, 1848 DEAR WILLIAM:—I just take my pen to say that Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, a little, slim, pale-faced, consump- tive man, with a voice like L... ...Perhaps the papers on file will enable you to judge better than I can. The writers of the within are good men, resid- ing within the land district. Yo...

...ess matter here, you were right in supposing I would support the nominee. Neither Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or trouble about the matter; all will be harmony. In relation to the ?coming events? about which Butler wrote you, I had not heard one word before I got your letter; but I have...

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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends ; Selected and Edited with Notes and Introd. By Sidney Colvin : Volume 1

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...THE LETTERS OF R OBERT LOUIS STEVENSON V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis S... ...s of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with... ...hope you will find your house at Mentone nice. I have been obliged to stop from writing by the want of a pen, but now I have one, so I will con- tinue... ...se of justice forbids the receipt of less – than half-a- crown. – Greeting from, Sir, your most affectionate and needy son, R. STEVENSON. Letter: TO M... ...foam, spray, and great, grey waves. Of this hereafter; in the meantime let us follow the due course of historic narrative. Seven P .M. found me at Bre... ...lad to hear from you; you know, you and I have so many old stories between us, that even if there was nothing else, even if there was not a very since... ...hey talked very nicely, and are bright, likable women both. They come from Georgia. WEDNESDAY , 10.30. – We have all been to tea to-night at the Russi... ... of genius, that makes one rather sorry for one’s own generation of better writers, and – I don’t know what to say; I was going to say ‘smaller men’; ... ...re to look for more. One pleasant feature is the vast number of delightful writers I shall have to deal with: Burt, Johnson, Boswell, Mrs. Grant of La...

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

By: Adam Smith

...Y INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature an... ...ERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME .............. ...XTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEO... ...of the sailor, the mill of the fuller, or even the loom of the weaver, let us consider only what a variety of labour is requisite in order to form tha... ...uire by the toil of our own body. That money, or those goods, indeed, save us this toil. They contain the value of a certain quantity of labour, which... ...n, and have been more frequently taken notice of by histori- ans and other writers. We must generally, therefore, content our- selves with them, not a... ...mpence, however, seems to have been considered as the whole of it, by many writers who have collected the prices of labour and provisions in ancient t... ...er eminent teachers in those times appear to have acquired great fortunes. Georgias made a present to the temple of Delphi of his own statue in solid ... ...nd South Carolina, £8000 each. The civil establishments of Nova Scotia and Georgia are partly sup- ported by an annual grant of parliament; but Nova S...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...North America Volume Two by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume Two by ... ...f water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might... ... into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any ... ... difficult—I may say impossible— to sound his praises in his own land. Let us suppose that a courteous Frenchman ventures an opinion among En- glishme... ... were on a government boat, would not listen to their prayers, but carried us instead on board the “Pensacola,” a sloop-of-war which was now lying in ... ...s expressed in my first volume, be- cause I still see it stated by English writers that the se- cession ordinance of South Carolina should have been a... ...o man had yet heard. Of the slave States, Virginia, the two Carolinas, and Georgia were alone wedded to slavery. Then the matter might have been man- ... ...cratic in its nature—aristocratic and patriarchal. A large slaveowner from Georgia may call himself a democrat, may think that he reveres republican i... ...American of- fice has not taken upon itself the task of returning to their writers undelivered and undeliverable letters. This it is now going to do. ...

......................................................................................................... 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES .................................................................... 185 CHAPTER X: THE GOVERNMENT ..................................................................................................................... 2...

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

... THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipat... ...ations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ... PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE 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 e... ...half ago, and since then this “war of ideas” has gone on to a phase few of us had dared hope for in those opening days. The Russian revolution put a m... ...duce now as a pair of skates in winter when the ice begins to bear. All we writers find ourselves engaged perforce in some part or other of a world-wi... ... the last year the writer has been doing what he can—and a number of other writers have been doing what they can—to bring about a united declaration o... ...ve no possible interest; they will have come at these questions themselves from different angles and they will have long since got to their own conclu... ... of Mr. Fayle’s “Great Settle- ment” (1915), a frankly sceptical treatment from the British Imperialist point of view, on the other. An illuminating d... ..., or the Jews in Roumania, or the Poles in West Prussia, or the negroes in Georgia, or the Indi- ans in the T ransvaal make such an appeal? Could any ...

...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, towards taking ...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

... by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ... 6 sulphur and stone and other obstructing inborn heredities, brought down from the old geologic ages—prejudices, let us call them. Prejudices which n... ...inborn heredities, brought down from the old geologic ages—prejudices, let us call them. Prejudices which nothing within the rock it self had either ... ...trong ones. In each case, to get the best results, you must free the metal from its obstructing prejudicial ones by education— smelting, refining, and... ...ed with it. O.M. Then it came from outside. Adam is quite big enough; let us not try to make a god of him. None but gods have ever had a thought whi... ...uestion without any hesitancy. “General, who planned the the march through Georgia?” “The enemy!” He added that the enemy usu ally makes your plans... ...vity contains either What Is Man and Other Essays 154 wit or information. Writers of this school go in rags, in the matter of state directions; the m... ...plined service. Over and over again, where such knowledge is unexampled in writers unlearned in the law, Shakespeare appears in perfect possession of ...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT by U. S. Grant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Gra... ...thing for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not appare... ...he aid of my eldest son, F . D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given. The comments are my own, an... ...acquainted in that vicinity. Sometimes one of the brothers would accompany us, sometimes one of the younger sisters. If the 4th infantry had remained ... ... we would join our fortunes, and not let the removal of a regiment trouble us. This was in May, 1844. It was the 22d of August, 1848, before the fulfi... ...wenty years after the close of the most stupendous war ever known, we have writers —who profess devotion to the na- 89 U. S. Grant tion—engaged in tr... ... of that place. His tactics have been se- verely criticised by Confederate writers, but I do not believe his fallen chief could have done any better u... ...Sheridan, who had been far to the south, that Bragg in person was at Rome, Georgia, with his troops moving by rail (by way of Mobile) to Chatta- nooga... ...n driven out of Raymond. Johnston had been reinforced; during the night by Georgia and South Carolina regiments, so that his force amounted to eleven ...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...The Federalist Papers A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a pu... ...- cieties of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend ... ...alist Papers or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial con- federacies tha... ...hem to suspi- cion) into interested or ambitious views. Candor will oblige us to admit that even such men may be actuated by upright intentions; and i... ... of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the in- trodu... ...ent countries and ages, and has received the sanction of the most approved writers on the subject of politics. The opponents of the plan proposed have... ...r Vir- ginia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, North Caro- lina, nor Georgia can by any means be compared with the models from which he reasoned... ...cord, and the miserable objects of universal pity or contempt. Some of the writers who have come forward on the other side of the question seem to hav... ...in greatest need of its strength and resources. It may be inconvenient for Georgia, or the States forming our western or northeastern borders, to send...

...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 its own i...

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The Analysis of Mind

By: Bertrand Russell

...The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Analysis of Mind by Bertr... ...opinion is part of the whole evolution’. “By the co-operation of different writers in carrying out this plan it was hoped that a thoroughness and comp... ...tment, otherwise unattainable, might be secured. It was believed also that from writers mainly British and American fuller consideration of English Ph... ..., otherwise unattainable, might be secured. It was believed also that from writers mainly British and American fuller consideration of English Philoso... ...ing to-day, and few will deny that philosophy has much to do with enabling us to meet it, although no one, least of all Muirhead himself, would regard... ...Library of Phi- losophy it seemed not inappropriate to allow him to recall us to these aims in his own words. The emphasis on the history of thought a... ... making “matter” less and less material. Their world consists of “events,” from which “matter” is derived by a logical construction. Whoever reads, fo... ...ieve always may influence action. Sup- pose I am invited to become King of Georgia: I find the pros- pect attractive, and go to Cook’s to buy a third-... ...ment ago I considered the possibility of be- ing invited to become King of Georgia, but I do not believe that this will happen. Now, it seems clear th...

...Excerpt: Muirhead Library Of Philosophy. An admirable statement of the aims of the Library of Philosophy was provided by the first editor, the late Professor J. H. Muirhead, in his description of the original programme printed in Erdmann?s History of Philosophy under the date 18...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...(1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) ... ...newal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 7... ...86 CONTENTS v Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page v 3.5 . . . and in the State Department and the Defense Department 93 3.6 . . . and in the White... ... We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, ... ...Law 107-306, November 27, 2002). Our mandate was sweeping.The law directed us to investigate “facts and circumstances relating to the terrorist attack... ...rld by demanding redress of political grievances, but its hostility toward us and our values is limitless. Its purpose is to rid the world of religiou... ...ndisputably in charge of what remained of the MAK and al Qaeda. 27 Through writers like Qutb, and the presence of Egyptian Islamist teachers in the Sa... ...get to Chechnya at that time because many travelers were being detained in Georgia. He recommended they go to Afghanistan instead, where they could tr... ...ms. 71 After returning to Florida from their trips,Atta and Shehhi visited Georgia, staying briefly in Norcross and Decatur, and renting a single-engi...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s ca...

...adin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation? . . . ...

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The Contest in America

By: John Stuart Mill

...test in America by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...zed world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has passed from over our heads without bursting. The fear has not been realized, that ... ...d, would have been to invite a constant succession of insults and injuries from the same and from every other quarter. We could have acted no otherwis... ...onstrances, until we goaded them into at least ostensibly coöperating with us to prevent the enslaving of the negro—we, who for the last half century ... ... our pecuniary interest, and which many believed would ruin, as many among us still, though erroneously, believe that it has ruined, our colonies,— we... ...d on “rabid and fanatical abolitionists” across the Atlantic, and on those writers in England who attach a suffi ciently serious meaning to their Chr... ...rent aggres sion, but by the previous anti British effusions of newspaper writers and stump orators. It is hardly worth while to ask how far these ex... ...r. Olmsted has given a vivid description of the desolate state of parts of Georgia and the Carolinas, once among the richest specimens of soil and cul... ...their dependencies, forming parts of Virginia, North Carolina, T ennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, in which, from the nature of the climate and of the a...

...Excerpt: Reprinted from Fraser?s Magazine. The cloud which for the space of a month hung gloomily over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has passed from over our heads without bursting. The fear has not b...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...on and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and witho... ...turned to his former trade, and shortly set up a print ing house of his own from which he published “The Pennsyl vania Gazette,” to which he contrib... ...gent for the colony, this time to petition the King to resume the government from the hands of the proprietors. In London he actively opposed the pro ... ...f my future fortune being known to Him only in whose power it is to bless to us even our afflictions. The notes one of my uncles (who had the same kin... ...I was a boy he came over to my father in Boston, and lived in the house with us some years. He lived to a great age. His grand son, Samuel Franklin, ... ...’d and strengthen’d the clamor for more money, and they happening to have no writers among them that were able to answer it, their opposition slacken’... ...h in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numer ous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the same name. Temperance, for... ... Whitefield, in leaving us, went preaching all the way thro’ the colonies to Georgia. The settlement of that prov ince had lately been begun, but, in... ... which I myself was an instance. I did not disapprove of the design, but, as Georgia was then destitute of materials and workmen, and it was pro pose...

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