...IES PUBLICATION Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...presses her final charity with all men; and not only so, but they are even locally sepa- rated and sequestrated. Ground the most hallowed, and popu- l... ...began to make researches,) has availed us little or noth- ing. Neither the local traditions of his provincial birthplace, though sharing with London t... ... the last age would have induced him to make some inquiries concerning the history of his theatrical career, and the anecdotes of his private life.” A... ...estimonies of his preference when founding a family mansion,) such a man’s history, and the personal recollections 17 Thomas de Quincey which cling s... ...entence most justly incurred, and mercifully mitigated by the hostile Whig government. On the bishop’s trial a circumstance occurred to Pope which fla... ... in those bodies, however, it was, in those as connected with tyranni- cal governments, each academic body being shackled to its own petty centre of l...

...Excerpt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he ...

...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...n who had been charged with some act of infidelity to her husband. And the local government, being indignantly summoned to interfere by some Christian... ...had been charged with some act of infidelity to her husband. And the local government, being indignantly summoned to interfere by some Christian stran... ...nal ven- geance which overtook it was complete and tearful beyond all that history has recorded. 10 Memorials, and Other Papers arrived at the power ... ...nd not meaning to offer itself for anything else, had been read as genuine history. Here, on the other hand, the adventures of the Span- 14 Memorials... ...rown out of merits and qualities purely personal, and was kept alive by no local or family memorials rooted in the land, or surviving herself, it was ... ... to direct appropriation of another man’s purse. I, on my part, held, that government, having often defrauded me through its agent and creature the po...

...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought ...

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

...Considerations on Representative Government By JOHN STUART MILL A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES... ...LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...d uct, and the science of government as a branch (so to speak) of natural history. According to them, forms of government are not a matter of choice.... ...e ancient world, though there might be, and often was, great individual or local independence, there could be noth ing like a regulated popular gover... ...e more and more difficult to check, until it reached a state often seen in history, and in which many large portions of mankind even now grovel; when ... ... opinion to form and express itself on na tional affairs. He might suffer local interests to be managed, without the interference of authority, by th...

...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the p...

....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................

...Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Ch... ...d edited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...be best written by himself; had he employed in the preservation of his own history, that clear- ness of narration and elegance of language in which he... ... this circumstance, and insisted upon it with very unfair aggravation. The history of his mind as to religion is an important article. I have mentione... ... by appearance, impulses, dreams or in any other manner agree- able to thy Government. Forgive my presump- tion, enlighten my ignorance, and however m... ...ribe to Johnson, to desert his avowed principles, and become the tool of a government which he held to be founded in usurpation. I have taken care to ... .... No, Sir, knowledge and virtue may be acquired in all countries, and your local consequence will make you some amends for the intellectual gratifica-... ... ried again.’ Boswell. ‘But he is not restless.’ Johnson. ‘Sir, he is only locally at rest. A chymist is locally at rest; but his mind is hard at work...

...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing wi...

.... . . . . . 1 The White Silence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The W... ...2 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the N... ... . . 44 An Odyssey of the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Law of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The God of His... .... . . 391 The Mexican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 Told in the Drooling Ward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428 CONTENTS ii... ...udicrous happening. Prince was led away by these uncrowned heroes who had seen history made, who regarded the great and the romantic as but the ordina... ...the willow bud, the fall of the yellow leaf — in this alone was told the whole history. But one task did Nature set the individual. Did he not perform... ... score fighting tribes of Malaita. Mauki 353 More than his fear of the British government was Mauki’s fear of the all powerful Moongleam Soap Company;... ...a wizzy wooz if anybody should ask you. He ’ll make Ward sit up with a show of local talent that ’ll make the rest of you sit up. I won’t say he ’ll l... ...eart got into it. He just went out like a streak and cleaned up all the little local fellows. Seemed to want the money, and he ’s won a bit, though hi...

...But I say, Kid, isn?t that going it a little too strong? Whiskey and alcohol?s bad enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll le...

...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...

...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... .......................................................... 185 CHAPTER X: THE GOVERNMENT ................................................................... ...places are, or is sure of their existence, and then between their presumed locali- ties the country is wild, trackless, unbridged, uninhab- ited, and ... ...atter days, do not collect themselves in unhealthy places. Men desert such localities—or at least do not congregate at them when their character is on... ...rs by men who had studied the laws of social life and the theories of free government. He was justus et tenax prop- ositi; and in periods that might w... ...e calm individual excellence of the man. Considering the circumstances and history of the place, the position of Mount Vernon, as I saw it, was very r... ...table. It is written on the whole record of our race, British and American history is made up of re- bellion and revolution. Hampden, Pym, and Oliver ...

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...eries Publication Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens 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 ... ...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...m to the coast of China; a hat to get him into a permanent situation under Government. He has fre 15 Charles Dickens quently been exactly seven and ... ...econdly, that the military creature’s arm is a national affront, which the government at home ought instantly to ‘take up.’ The British mind and body ... ...Mine are no new views of the noble savage. The greatest writers on natural history found him out long ago. Buffon knew what he was, and showed why he... ...ver he wants to go. So thoroughly are all these houses open to him and our local guide, that, granting that sailors must be enter tained in their own... ...they had had a long time. And now comes the most extraordinary part of the history of this Prince. When he had turned out those servants, of course he... ...ndent constituents, and to render an account (as he in formed them in the local papers) of the trust they had con fided to his hands—that trust whic...

............. 5 THE BEGGING-LETTER WRITER ........................................................................................... 14 A CHILD?S DREAM OF A STAR................................................................................................. 21 OUR ENGLISH WATERING-PLACE ...........................................................................................

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... yet wider knowledge, not only of a country foreign to the author by race, history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two A... ...emans and the Furnivalls, sets himself up to right the wrongs of universal history and criticism. Now, it is one thing to write with enjoyment on a su... ... of- ficer; and, though he sometimes tempered severity with mercy, we have local testimony oddly representing the pub- lic feeling of the period, that... ...he would not “for an instant recognise that political organisation for his government which is the slave’s government also.” “I do not hesitate to say... ... effectually withdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of Massachusetts.” That is what he did: in 1843 he ceased to pay... ...compression, a brutal vivacity of epi- thet, a homely vigour, a delight in local personalities, and an interest in many sides of life, that are often ...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...