... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante Paradise , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of th... ...omedy of Dante Paradise , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsyl vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...le, 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... ...an impress as a seal: And as the soul, that dwells within your dust, Through members different, yet together form’d, In different pow’rs resolves itse... ...s home ‘Gainst Brennus and th’ Epirot prince, and hosts Of single chiefs, or states in league combin’d Of social warfare; hence Torquatus stern, And Q... ...bylonian exile won, When gold had fail’d them. Here in synod high Of ancient council with the new conven’d, Under the Son of Mary and of God, Victorio... ...our Liege Wills of his grace that thou, or ere thy death, In the most secret council, with his lords Shouldst be confronted, so that having view’d The... ... your teacher.] Aristole. De Rep. 1. iii. c. 4. “Since a state is made up of members differing from one another, (for even as an animal, in the first...

... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Univer... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Universit... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Por... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...le, 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... ...ransmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , the Pennsylvania State Uni versity, Electronic Classics Series ... ...ns to that Al mighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human d... ...ers on the element common to all and to violate the sacred title which every member of the society has to its protection. I need not call into view th... ...a conquering force by attempts to disorganize our political society, to dis member our confederated Republic. Happily, like oth ers, these will reco...

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

...ted by W. K. Marriott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli, trans. W. K. Marriott is a publication of... ... The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli, trans. W. K. Marriott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...he Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli, trans. W. K. Marriott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e repute, and of Bartolommea di Stefano Nelli, his wife. Both parents were members of the old Florentine nobility. His life falls naturally into three... ... own writings. A mere recapitulation of a few of his transactions with the statesmen and soldiers of his time gives a fair indication of his activitie... ...of the duke for the benefit 6 The Prince of usurpers who wish to keep the states they have seized; he can, indeed, find no precepts to offer so good ... ...li with others was consulted upon a new constitution under which the Great Council was to be restored; but on one pretext or another it was not promul... ...r entirely new, as was Milan to Francesco Sforza, or they are, as it were, members an- nexed to the hereditary state of the prince who has ac- quired ...

...Introduction: Nicolo Machiavelli was born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. He was the second son of Bernardo di Nicolo Machiavelli, a lawyer of some repute, and of Bartolommea di Stefano Nelli, his wife. Both parents were members of the old Florentine nobility....

...The Treaty of the European Union The Maastrict Treaty, 7th February, 1992. The Treaty of the European Union... ...f the European Union The Maastrict Treaty, 7th February, 1992. The Treaty of the European Union: The Maastrict Treaty – February 7, 1992 is a publica... ...e Maastrict Treaty, 7th February, 1992. The Treaty of the European Union: The Maastrict Treaty – February 7, 1992 is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e European Union: The Maastrict Treaty – February 7, 1992 is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...n a manner demonstrating consistency and solidarity, relations between the Member States and between their peoples. ARTICLE B The Union shall set itse... ...ner demonstrating consistency and solidarity, relations between the Member States and between their peoples. ARTICLE B The Union shall set itself the ... ...engthen the protection of the rights and interests of the nationals of its Member States through the introduction of a citizenship of the Union; - to ... ... the protection of the rights and interests of the nationals of its Member States through the introduction of a citizenship of the Union; - to develop... ...f its external relations, security, economic and development policies. The Council and the Commission shall be re- sponsible for ensuring such consist...

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

...agitica, Comus, “L’Alegro,” “Il Penseroso,” and “Lycidas” is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fu... ...tica, Comus, “L’Alegro,” “Il Penseroso,” and “Lycidas” is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Edi tor, nor an... ...ace: What can be juster in a state than this? Euripid. Hicetid. They, who to states and governors of the Common wealth direct their speech, High Cour... ... to be grand her etics were examined, refuted, and condemned in the general Councils; and not till then were prohibited, or burnt, by authority of th... ...h no interdict that can be cited, till about the year 400, in a Carthaginian Council, wherein bish ops themselves were forbid to read the books of Ge... ...do, till her Master’s second coming; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal fea ture of loveliness and... ...imed and sounded forth the first tidings and trumpet of Reforma tion to all Europe? And had it not been the obstinate perverseness of our prelates ag...

...Excerpt: They, who to states and governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, wanting such access in a private condition, write that which they foresee may advance the public good; I suppose them, as at the begi...

...Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...Republic; thinking of the one continuous great problem that generations of statesmen had wrangled over, and a million men fought about, and that had s... ...ght about, and that had so dwarfed the mass of English men in the Southern States as to hold them back a hundred years behind their fellows in every o... ...re dis- cussed, the primal one was that of slavery. Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a c... ...rue that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust. As a rule, not... ... at Tuskegee or not, centres in what we call the executive coun- cil. This council meets twice a week, and is composed of the nine persons who are at ...

...y GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of ... ...D SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...reasons, by the substitution for that tribunal of a Committee of the Privy Council, which is to be the final authority on the fitness of a play for re... ...ble to ask questions there concerning his proceedings, especially now that members have discovered a method of doing this indirectly. And so on, and s... ...oth by the interests on which they have to sit in judgment and, when their members are party politicians, by the votes at the back of those inter- est... ...es of 1649 to see themselves, as it certainly helped gen- erations of Whig statesmen to see them, in a heroic light; and it unquestionably vindicates... ...popular feeling was excited as to the relations of Austria with the Balkan States. Now if a comedy so remote from political passion as Arms and The Ma...

... play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived playgoers whose point of honor is to deride all official and conventional sermons....

...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T r... ...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... ...Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by ... ...nante, the object of which seems to be to find fault with and laugh at the members and the authorities of the Catholic Church, I protest that he did n... ... shall time past be cried up then. He who was made of wax shall lodge each member Close by the hinges of a block of timber. We then no more shall Mast... ...ll the ways and means of peace: that I resolve upon. Then assembled he his council, and proposed the matter as it was indeed. Whereupon it was conclud... ...raw them to peace but by sharp and fierce wars. Chapter 1.XXXIII. How some statesmen of Picrochole, by hairbrained counsel, put him in extreme danger.... ...turned into his country, he called a parliament, where all the princes and states of his kingdom being assembled, he showed them the humanity which he...

...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....

...PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By George Bernard Shaw 1912 A Penn State Elec... ...PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By George Bernard Shaw 1912 A Penn State Electronic Classic... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw is a publ... ...cs Series Publication Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...found by Christ’s will if he had undertaken the work of a modern practical statesman. Pray do not at this early point lose patience with me and shut t... ...drop on it from heaven like hailstones. Chris- tianity interests practical statesmen now because of the doc- trines that distinguished Christ from the... ...ng the supernatural powers is as well within the means of the least of the members as within those of the headman, yet when commercial civili- zation ... ...nception of society in which you are not an inde- pendent individual but a member of society, your neighbor being another member, and each of you memb... ...nder the governorship of Pontius Pilate, or even Pontius Pilate himself in council with all the wisdom of Rome, could have worked out applications of ...

Preface: Androcles and the Lion. On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw.

...Contents PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY............................................................. 7 WHY NOT GIVE CHRISTIANITY A TRIAL? ....................................................................................................

... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...he Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...le, 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... ...he foss are plac’d The father of his consort, and the rest Partakers in that council, seed of ill And sorrow to the Jews.” I noted then, How Virgil ga... ... Two arms were made: the belly and the chest The thighs and legs into such members chang’d, As never eye hath seen. Of former shape All trace was va... ...n as the rest Of the sad flock pac’d onward. By the hair It bore the sever’d member, lantern wise Pendent in hand, which look’d at us and said, “Woe’s... ...mong the inhabitants of that city, and among the leaders of the neighbouring states. v. 70. The pleasant land.] Lombardy. v. 72. The twain.] Guido d... ...ne of the wisest and most valorous knights the best speaker, the most expert statesman, the most renowned and enterprising, man of his age in Italy, ...

...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, m...

...ns. John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...found but scant acceptance at Berlin or Vienna. The princes of the smaller states surrounded them- selves with literature and art. The duke of Brunswi... ... rela- tions, may be presented by you in chronological order, and that the states of life and feeling which afforded the examples that influenced you,... ...ned an entrance, too, into the large and very simple ses- sion-room of the council. The walls as well as the arched ceil- ing were white, though wains... ...nscoting, and raised one step above the floor for the accommodation of the members of the assembly. This readily suggested to us why the order of rank... ... for the advantage of our opponents was denied or depreciated; and, as the members of the family on the other side did the same, they could not meet i...

...Excerpt: It would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful...

...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... infusions. Every thing the individual sees without him corresponds to his states of mind, and every thing is in turn intelli- gible to him, as his on... ...ociety everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock com- pany, in which the members agree, fo... .... A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has s... ...ture to the powers of dis- simulation. Truth tyrannizes over the unwilling members of the body. Faces never lie, it is said. No man need be deceived w... ...o could make the truth plain, but possibly a college, or an ecclesiastical council might. I have not been able either to persuade my brother or to pre...

...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen a...

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... VOLUMES Volume Three A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three is a publication... ...olume Three A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three is a publication of the Pe... ...Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM INTRODUCTORY NOTE UPON MY RETURN to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in the... ...essel upon the first good opportunity, leaving Jones altogether out of our councils. In the event of success, we were to run the brig into the first p... ...igator, and this, too, without encountering extraordinary difficulties. He states that although he was fre- quently hemmed in by ice before reaching t... ...ould be soon exhausted. On the fifteenth of February, as near as I can re- member, there was not a blade of this left, and the nuts were growing scarc... ...n thigh- bone, with which he appeared to have been just knocking down some member of the company for a song. Opposite him, and with her back to the do...

Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three.

...Contents NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM ..........................................................4 LIGEIA ........................................................................................................169 MORELLA.............................

... Classics Series Publication Howards End by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...assics Series Publication Howards End by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...one may coin the phrase—was strong in Mrs. Munt. She sat quivering while a member of the lower orders deposited a metal funnel, a sauce- pan, and a ga... ...ping Families, a round of which is always played when love would unite two members of our race. But they played it with unusual vigour, stating in so ... ...ly. Your po- ets too are dying, your philosophers, your musicians, to whom Europe has listened for two hundred years. Gone. Gone with the little court... ...ad no intention of telling. Perhaps he could not have told, for his mental states became obscure as soon as he had passed through them. He misliked th... ...ay?” “They will not have anything to do with us. They had a sort of family council when they heard I was married, and cut us off altogether.” Helen be...

...earest Meg, ?It isn?t going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and altogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroom or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and there are the stair...

...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The P... ...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania State Universit... ...Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, faculty editor. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ... Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...with civilization. I hardly need refer now to the laborers in our Southern States who produce the staple exports of this country, and are themselves a... ...h, in 1650, for the information of those who wished to take up land there, states more particularly that “those in New Netherland, and especially in N... ...ich had also taken shelter here from the rain, stalked about the room like members of the family, to humanized, methought, to roast well. They stood a... ...ider and rest thee by many brooks and hearth sides without misgiving. Re member thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Rise free from care before the... ...clarifying pro cess would be going on all the while. The Governor and his Council faintly remember the pond, for they went a fishing there when they ...

Excerpt: Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.

...vid Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication ... ...the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...till, as we read on the stone on our right, it “gave peace to these United States.” As a Concord poet has sung:— “By the rude bridge that arched the... ...iod; a tragic feature in the scenery of the river bottoms worthy to be re membered with Shakespeare’s description of the sea floor. They are rarely s... ...ature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind. The States have leisure to laugh from Maine to T exas at some newspaper joke, a... ...that some mon ster institution would at length embrace and crush its free members in its scaly folds; for it is not to be forgotten, that while the l... ...noticed where the Indians had gathered a heap of stones, perhaps for their council fire, which, by their weight having prevented the sand under them f...

Excerpt: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

...A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...reatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ir children in the way they think they should go. The old observation that members of large families get on in the world holds good because in large f... ...t, and excludes it if it happens to run counter to the opinions of all the members. The result is that his opinions are not worth considering. A churc... ...rder and rapine at worst, and, at best, lead to quar- rels and undesirable states of consciousness. Even when this excuse of bad manners, ill temper, ... ... the presence of a man with a white face. In the committee room of a local council or city corporation, the humblest employees of the committee find d... ...money as by those who are starved and degraded by it: our millionaires and statesmen are manifestly no more “captains of industry” or scientific polit...

...Publication An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...lication An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ears, “I told you you’d have to deal with me. Now hold your noise, and re- member where you are and who you’re speakin’ to; and per- haps I mayn’t loc... ...ange omission in the arrangements. The husband of the deceased was absent. Members of the family and inti- mate friends were told by Daniel Jansenius ... ...d gets into Sir Charles’s, and the difference between the first and second states is noth- ing but imagination, except that the last state is worse th... ...r tripe and onions on his part would provoke a remonstrance from the Privy Council. We dictate everything except his thoughts and dreams, and even the... ...nstance. That one is France; that, British India. Here you have the United States of America, home of liberty, the- atre of manhood suffrage, kingless...

... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pe... ...ne Comedy of Dante Hell , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Penn sylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor an... ...he foss are plac’d The father of his consort, and the rest Partakers in that council, seed of ill And sorrow to the Jews.” I noted then, How Virgil ga... ... Two arms were made: the belly and the chest The thighs and legs into such members chang’d, As never eye hath seen. Of former shape All trace was va... ...n as the rest Of the sad flock pac’d onward. By the hair It bore the sever’d member, lantern wise Pendent in hand, which look’d at us and said, “Woe’s... ...mpts of the Uberti. v. 90. Singly there I stood.] Guido Novello assembled a council of the Ghibellini at Empoli where it was agreed by all, that, in ... ...mong the inhabitants of that city, and among the leaders of the neighbouring states. v. 70. The pleasant land.] Lombardy. v. 72. The twain.] Guido d...

...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, m...

...nett Complete Edition A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance ... ... Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...odor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in... ...a far wider circle of readers, so that a great many people noticed and re- membered him. It was rather a curious incident. When he had just left the u... ...to his estate. He had come from Paris, which was his permanent home. I re- member that he was more surprised than anyone when he made the acquaintance... ...wn and the only one still among us was an elderly and much respected civil councillor, the father of grown-up daughters, who could hardly have spread ... ...v . Y ou have perhaps heard of him? A man of vast intellect, the mind of a statesman… he knows you, too… spoke of you in the highest terms…” Mitya bro... ...le, Alyosha, talented, modest, like you, and he has al- most the mind of a statesman, he talks so charmingly, and I shall certainly , certainly try an...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov. Alexy Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall des...

...ries by Anton Chekhov A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Schoolmistress and other stories by Anton Chekhov is a publication of t... ...on The Schoolmistress and other stories by Anton Chekhov is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ee frigid and sensible examiners at the school, while this one did not re- member a single prayer, or know what to ask questions about, and was exceed... ...nd had received the post of school inspector through influence. The School Council met very rarely, and there was no knowing where it met; the school ... ... thought of her pupils, of the examination, of the watchman, of the School Council; and when the wind 8 Anton Chekhov brought the sound of the retrea... ...ould get up from her seat and not venture to sit down in the presence of a member of the Zemstvo or the school guardian. And she used formal, deferent... ...that form of punishment out of date, immoral, and unsuitable for Christian States. In the opinion of some of them the death penalty ought to be re- pl...

Excerpt: The School mistress and other stories by Anton Chekhov.

...Contents THE SCHOOLMISTRESS ......................................................................................................................................... 4 A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN..................................................

...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ons on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...equisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on. These deplorable states of feel ing, in any people who have emerged from savage life, are, ... ...n all respects an adequate one, of the Pnyx and the Forum. There have been states of society in which even a monarchy of any great territorial extent ... ...le and seductive, from the apparently clean cut opposition between its two members, and the remarkable difference between the sentiments to 17 J S Mi... ... lar representative system if the electors do not care to choose the best member of Parliament, but choose him who will spend most money to be electe... ...thority, by the people them selves. He might even surround himself with a council or councils of government, freely chosen by the whole or some porti...

...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 mos...

....................................................................................................................... 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 .........................................................................

...The Federalist Papers A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...nt, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in ... ...rivate circles of those who oppose the new Constitution, that the thirteen States are of too great extent for any general system, and that we must of ... ...mended to the people the plan produced by their joint and very unani- mous councils. Admit, for so is the fact, that this plan is only recommended, no... ...f the convention, for it is well known that some of the most distinguished members of that Congress, who have been since tried and justly approved for... ...es, and who have grown old in acquiring political informa- tion, were also members of this convention, and carried into it their accumulated knowledge...

...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 subjec...

...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publicatio... ...e Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... .... And of the two atmospheres it is hard to say which was the more fatal to statesmanship. Revolution on the Shelf Heartbreak House was quite familiar ... ...quisition itself was a Liberal institution compared to the General Medical Council. Those who do not know how to live must make a Merit of Dying Heart... ... climax of legal lawlessness was reached in France. The greatest Socialist statesman in Europe, Jaures, was shot and killed by a gentleman who resente... ...t tea for herself]. THE CAPTAIN. I am neglecting my social duties. You re- member Dunn? Billy Dunn? LADY UTTERWORD. Do you mean that villainous sailor... ...essed, fifty. THE GENTLEMAN. Fancy Hesione’s feelings! May I ask are you a member of the family? MANGAN. No. THE GENTLEMAN. I am. At least a connectio...

...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby ...

...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ... J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by th... ...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...h Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...tavus Adolphus. — Swedish Army. — Gustavus Adolphus takes his leave of the States at Stockholm. — Invasion by the Swedes. — Their progress in Germany.... ...by their adhesion, it on the other was indispens- able to their interests. States which hitherto scarcely concerned themselves with one another’s exis... ...d princes venture to bring the affairs of other countries before their own councils; for the first time could they hope for a willing ear to their own... ...e was ef- fected; a guarantee, which, being rejected by the Roman Catholic members of the Diet, and only inserted in the treaty under their protest, c... ...other; the eccle- siastical princes in particular, as the most defenceless members of the empire, were in- cessantly tormented by the ambition of thei...

...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the ...

...ries Publication War and Peace: Book Nine by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...s Publication War and Peace: Book Nine by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...island 4 War and Peace – Book Nine of St. Helena). It naturally seemed to members of the English Parliament that the cause of the war was Napoleon’s ... ... express his devotion to his monarch except by cruelty. In the organism of states such men are necessary, as wolves are necessary in the organism of n... ...ex- treme, as always happens, was met by representatives of the other. The members of this party were those who had de- manded an advance from Vilna i... ...e Emperor had hinted at the day before, and would dispute and shout at the council, beating his breast and challenging those who did not agree with hi... ...ring not only of nobles but also of the merchant-class—les etats generaux (States- General)—evoked in him a whole series of ideas he had long laid asi...

...AUTOBIOGRAPHY A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of... ...f John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...r my father’s tu ition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re member the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon’s Cyropaedia and Memorials ... ...evious knowledge. As to my private reading, I can only speak of what I re member. History continued to be my strongest predilection, and most of all ... ...ub lished, they would, I am convinced, place his character as a practical statesman fully on a level with his eminence as a speculative writer. 18 A... ...spondence with India in one of the leading departments, that of the Native States. This contin ued to be my official duty until I was appointed Exami... ...cannot be suppressed. Inde pendent opinions will force their way into the council of the nation and make themselves heard there, a thing which of te...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of...

...CONCERNING CIVIL GOVERNMENT SECOND ESSAY : AN ESSAY CONCERNING THE TRUE ORIGINAL EXTENT AND END OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT by John Locke Concern... ...RNMENT SECOND ESSAY : AN ESSAY CONCERNING THE TRUE ORIGINAL EXTENT AND END OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT by John Locke Concerning Civil Government, Second Essa... ...John Locke Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay: An Essay Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Govern ment by John Locke, trans... ...rnment, Second Essay: An Essay Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Govern ment by John Locke, trans. William Popple is a publicatio... ...nother for truth, and keeping of faith be longs to men as men, and not as members of society. 15. To those that say there were never any men in the... ...t state, and remain so till, by their own consents, they make them selves members of some politic society, and I doubt not, in the sequel of this dis... ...ur and industry began. And the leagues that have been made between several states and kingdoms, either expressly or tacitly disowning all claim and ri... ...abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge free dom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is n... ...resolutions of peace and war being ordinarily either in the people or in a council, though the war itself, which admits not of pluralities of governor...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Political Power. Firstly, it having been shown in the foregoing discourse:* Firstly. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood or by positive donation from God, any such authority over his children, nor dominion over the world, as is pretended. Secondly, that ...

...Contents CHAPTER I OF POLITICAL POWER............................................3 CHAPTER II OF THE STATE OF NATURE.....................................5 CHAPTER III OF THE STATE OF WAR......................................12 CHAPTER IV OF SLA...

...ublication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...and will which is necessary to place them- selves among the more fortunate members of the commu- nity; but very few among these are seriously concerne... ... compan- 9 Bertrand Russell ions or colleagues or friends, or in some way members of the same “herd”; the other toward those whom they regard as enem... ...illed by Anarchist violence, many millions are killed by the vio- lence of States. We may, therefore, dismiss from our minds the whole question of vio... ...ions. It recognizes that all actually existing political and authoritarian States, reduc- ing themselves more and more to the mere administrative func... ...national at the Hague in 1872. The meeting-place was chosen by the General Council (in which Marx was unopposed), with a view—so Bakunin’s friends con...

...ER II BAKUNIN AND ANARCHISM........................................................................................................... 29 CHAPTER III THE SYNDICALIST REVOLT............................................................................................................ 43 PART II PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE ...............................................................

...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...answer you all at once?” said Prince Andrew. “Besides, in the actions of a states- man one has to distinguish between his acts as a private person, as... ...as so plainly ill-suited to the family circle of which Pierre was almost a member. “Today when I remembered that all these delightful associations mus... ...ir which inspired respect. Princess Anna Mikhaylovna Drubetskaya, who as a member of the household was also seated in the drawing room, helped to rece... ...e conversation again turned on the war, on Bonaparte, and the generals and statesmen of the day. The old prince seemed convinced not only that all the... ...ady imagining how on reaching the army he would give an opinion at the war council which would be the only one that could save the army, and how he al...

...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...cation Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...chool, many of whom have filled conspicuous places in the service of their States. T wo of my contemporaries there —who, I believe, never attended any... ...y father re- ceived a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I believe... ...norable Thomas L. Hamer, one of the ablest men Ohio ever produced, was our member of Congress at the time, and had the right of nomination. He and my ... ...ss at the time, and had the right of nomination. He and my father had been members of the same debating society (where they were generally pitted on o... ...me. After the interview above related be- tween General Scott and the city council, orders were issued for the cautious entry of both columns in the m...

Excerpt: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by U.S. Grant.

...eries Publication Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...es Publication Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...t, I some- times wonder why it is so difficult to find an authentic living member of this dreaded army of convention outside the ranks of the people w... ... and nobody likes to give. What is driving our minis- ters of religion and statesmen to blurt it out at last is the plain fact that marriage is now be... ... disturbing one another’s sleep, seemed insoluble questions to me. But the members of the conference did not seem to mind. They were content to have t... ...inds nor their bodies to the full pitch of their capacities. Compared with statesmen, first- rate professional men, artists, and even with laborers an... ...y roused] Is Slattox taking an action against you, miss? Slattox is on the Council with me. Could I settle it? EDITH. He has not taken an action; but ...

...Excerpt: The Revolt Against Marriage. There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. If the mischief stopped at talking and thinking it would be bad enough; but it goes further, into disastro...

...The Aeneid of Virgil The Aeneid by Virgil is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu ment file is furn... ...The Aeneid of Virgil The Aeneid by Virgil is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu ment file is furnish... ...ty. This Portable Docu ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu ment file, for any purpose, and i... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...n, when fate Aeneas calls, Then shalt thou bear him up, sublime, to me: No councils have revers’d my firm decree. And, lest new fears disturb thy happ... ...Panting, but past the danger, now I seiz’d The craggy cliffs, and my tir’d members eas’d. While, cumber’d with my dropping clothes, I lay, The Aeneid ... ...ill’d with equal flame; As much as earthy limbs, and gross allay Of mortal members, subject to decay, Blunt not the beams of heav’n and edge of day. F... ...n saw, and turn’d his ships to shore. ‘T was on a solemn day: th’ Arcadian states, The king and prince, without the city gates, Then paid their off’ri... ...relied; Who promis’d, who procur’d, the Spartan bride? When all th’ united states of Greece combin’d, T o purge the world of the perfidious kind, Then...

...Excerpt: BOOK I: Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc?d by fate, And haughty Juno?s unrelenting hate, Expell?d and exil?d, left the Trojan shore. Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore, And in the doubtful war, before he won The Latian realm, and bu...

...E VOLUMES Volume Four A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four is a publication ... ...Volume Four A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four is a publication of the Pen... ... Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...- tric fluid evident on the summit of the steeple of the House of the Town-Council. I do not choose, however, to commit my- self on a theme of such im... ...ed my eyes in an inquiring manner toward my host. “No,” he said, “oh, no—a member of my family—my niece, and a most accomplished woman.” “I beg a thou... ... number of antiquated notions; and then, too, upon conversing with several members of the company, my apprehensions were immediately and fully dispell... ...dam Kirschenwasser. Thus re- venged himself the Angel of the Odd. [Mabbott states that Griswold “obviously had a revised form” for use in the 1856 vol... ...r. Maelzel. Of late years it has visited the principal towns in the United States. Wherever seen, the most intense curiosity was excited by its appear...

Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four.

...Contents THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY ................................................................................................................................... 4 LIONIZING ............................................................

...T wo With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, B B B B By the y the y the y the y the RE RE RE RE REV V V V V. GEOR . GEOR . GEOR . G... ...GILFILLAN AN AN AN AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pe... ...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ... treats of ethics, or practical morality; and would have consisted of many members; of which the four following epistles were detached portions: the t... ...rdest things, 42 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 Can pocket states, can fetch or carry kings; A single leaf shall waft an army o’er, Or... ...n knights and squires confound, Or water all the quorum ten miles round? A statesman’s slumbers how this speech would spoil! ‘Sir, Spain has sent a th... ...d alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury, 42 and love; Or just as gay, at council, in a ring Of mimick’d statesmen, and their merry king. ... ...impudent, publishes at length the two most sacred names in this nation, as members of the Dunciad. 173 This is prodigious! yet it is almost as strange...

Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two.

...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS ...............................................................................................

... Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...le, 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... ...e tgruth of this prophecy, and what to determine thereon he refers to a full council. What his associates thence attempt. Pandemo nium the palace of ... ...Satan rises, suddenly built out of the deep: the infernal peers there sit in council. Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tre... ... serves His glory to augment. The bold design Pleas’d highly those infernal States, and joy Sparkl’d in all thir eyes; with full assent They vote: wh... ...er shape, If shape it might be call’d that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joynt, or limb, Or substance might be call’d that shadow seem’d, ... ...MEMNONIAN Palace high Came to the Sea, and over HELLESPONT Bridging his way, EUROPE with ASIA joyn’d, And scourg’d with many a stroak th’ indignant wa...