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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...iar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson 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 anyone... ...emony can do aught to fix the wandering affec- tions, here were two people united for life. Mary came of a superstitious family, so that she perhaps i... ... but I am sure I have the meaning correctly. It is this; He thought it bad economy and worthy of no true virtuoso to spoil the natural rapture of the ... ...st be an answer, yet some- how cannot find it. So it is with his system of economy. He cuts through the subject on so new a plane that the accepted ar... ...come back again enriched with his observations, and make a great and happy kingdom of Japan. Thus equipped, this pair of emigrants set forward on foot... ...ons they held through the prison wall, and dear was the sympathy that soon united them. It fell first to the lot of Kusakabe to pass before the judges...

...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...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume 3

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ...OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF ... ...ORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Three is a publ... ... _230 Unfurled their pinions to the winds of Heaven. The Body and the Soul united then, A gentle start convulsed Ianthe’s frame: Her veiny eyelids qui... ...ch should limit its duration? A husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each other: any law which should bind them to cohabitat... ...man qualities and governing the universe as an earthly monarch governs his kingdom. Their addresses to this imagi- nary being, indeed, are much in the... ...poisons. The change which would be produced by simpler habits on political economy is sufficiently remarkable. The monopolizing eater of animal flesh ...

Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Three.

...MER?S HYMN TO CASTOR AND POLLUX .................................................................................................. 26 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE MOON ....................................................................................................................... 26 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE SUN ........................................................................

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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 CLASS... ...A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES... ...reatise on Government by Aristotle, trans. William Ellis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...tise on Government by Aristotle, trans. William Ellis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...nceptions of the good. In so far as men conceive the good rightly they are united. The state represents their common agreement, force their failure to... ...ts, the rivalry of parties, and the struggle of classes, instead of in the united seeking after a common good. Plato and Aristotle were familiar with ... ...then, some one may doubt whether the getting of money is the same thing as economy, or whether it is a part of it, or something subservient to it; and... ...e. It is evident then that the get- ting of money is not the same thing as economy, for the business of the one is to furnish the means of the other t... ...f the citizen. For which reason Jason declared that was he deprived of his kingdom he should pine away with regret, as not knowing how to live a priva...

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An Unsocial Socialist

By: George Bernard Shaw

...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... ...am su’prised at a lady like you, chock full o’ moral science and political economy, wanting to put a poor man off. Where’s your wages fund? Where’s yo... .... As if a benevolent despot might not by any error of judgment destroy his kingdom, and then say, like Romeo when he got his friend killed, ‘I thought... ...hepherds. Sir John even condescended to explain that the laws of political economy bind employers to buy labor in the cheapest market, and our poor fr... ..., for instance. That one is France; that, British India. Here you have the United States of America, home of liberty, the- atre of manhood suffrage, k... ...you at?” “The third.” “Then the hero and heroine are on the point of being united?” “I really don’t know. This is one of your clever novels. I wish th...

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The Prince

By: Nicolo Machiavelli

...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... ... to the hereditary state of the prince who has ac- quired them, as was the kingdom of Naples to that of the King of Spain. Such dominions thus acquire... ...for an example. The Achaeans and Aetolians were kept friendly by them, the kingdom of Macedonia was humbled, Antiochus was driven out; yet the merits ... .... Hence, he who at- tacks the Turk must bear in mind that he will find him united, and he will have to rely more on his own strength than on the revol... ...secure to Alexander, for the above reasons. And if his successors had been united they would have enjoyed it securely and at their ease, for there wer... ...e he will come to be more considered than if liberal, seeing that with his economy his revenues are enough, that he can defend himself against all att...

...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....

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The Treaty of the European Union the Maastrict Treaty, 7Th February, 1992

By: Various

...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... ..., THE PRESIDENT OF THE PORTUGUESE REPUB- LIC, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KING- DOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND RESOLVED to mark a n... ...; Jorge BRAG de MACEDO, Minister for Finance; HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KING- DOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRE- LAND: The Rt. Hon. Doug... ...jectives, and conducted in accordance with the principle of an open market economy with free competition. 2. Concurrently with the foregoing, and as p... ...ies in the Community, in accor- dance with the principle of an open market economy with free competition. 3. These activities of the Member States and... ...Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxem- bourg, Netherlands, Portugal, United Kingdom; —for the following cycle of six years: Denmark, Bel- gium, Greece,...

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

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A A A A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP... ...UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ON... ...says and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...to this hour the weather is a mystery. Human health—how transparent is its economy under ordinary cir- cumstances! abstinence and cleanliness, labor a... ...old laws;’ that is, not teaching such laws, not formally prescribing a new economy of life, so much as inspiring it indirectly through a new atmospher... ...ans the Evangelists found wings, as it were, for flying abroad through the kingdoms of the earth; secondly, the Hebraizing of this language, by which ... ... dogs. Hypocrisy, the cringing of sycophants, and the credulities of fear, united to conceal this misotheism; but we may be sure that it was widely di... ...ly, is found the outermost expansion, the centrifugal, of the TO catholic, united with the innermost centripetal of the personal con- sciousness. Had,...

...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FO...

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

By: Adam Smith

...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES... ...Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publicati... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ......................................... 330 BOOK IV OF SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY ...................................................... 341 CHAPTER ... ...CHAPTER IX OF THE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS, OR OF THOSE SYSTEMS OF PO- LITICAL ECONOMY WHICH REPRESENT THE PRODUCE OF LAND, AS EITHER THE SOLE OR THE PRIN... ...ivided into any number of parts, as by fusion those parts can easily be re-united again; a quality which no other equally durable commodities possess,... ...nerally the same, or very nearly the same, through the greater part of the united king- dom. These, and most other things which are sold by retail, th... ...ommodities, not only from one parish to an- other, but from one end of the kingdom, almost from one end of the world to the other, as would soon reduc...

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

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

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

...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... ..., America, lie folded already in the first man. Ep- och after epoch, camp, kingdom, empire, republic, de- mocracy, are merely the application of his m... ... consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind. They shed an united light on the advancing actor. He is attended as by a visible escort ... ... the windows, and the gnomes and vices also. By all the vir- tues they are united. If there be virtue, all the vices are known as such; they confess a... ...ety who is magnanimous; who is sure that greatness and goodness are always economy; who is not swift to intermeddle with his fortunes. Let him not int... ...entle repairing. I have no skill to make money spend well, no genius in my economy, and whoever sees my garden discovers that I must have some other g...

...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...

.................................................................................................................................................... 127 THE OVER-SOUL .................................................................................................................................................. 137 IX. THE OVER-SOUL .............................................

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...arrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...r little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God’— met her eye, and, by the thoughts they awakened, made me f... ...or two hundred and twenty years. It is enough that she is reported to have united the stately tread of Andalusian women with the innocent voluptuousne... ...; and the French reporter of Catalina’s memoirs dwells upon the theme. She united, he says, the sweetness of the German lady with the energy of the Ar... ... then upon, art,—if upon art and science, then upon every branch of social economy, upon every organ of civilization, his reformations and advances ar... ...it required a double ratification. Neither was it called for on motives of economy, for James was unusually rich. This voluntary arrangement was, ther...

...Contents Volume One ..................................................................... 4 THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK.......................................................................................................... 4 THE SPANISH NUN ....................................................................................

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Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity

By: George Bernard Shaw

...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... ...r two grotesque attempts at it by in- 8 Shaw adequate people, such as the Kingdom of God in Munster, which was ended by crucifixion so much more atro... ...f the Authorized Version is rapidly becoming obsolete; so that even in the United States, where the old tradition of the verbal infalli- bility of “th... ...orld is at hand, and that it will presently pass away and be replaced by a kingdom of happiness, justice, and bliss in which the rich and the oppresso... ...igarchy. Democracy in the most democratic modern republics: Prance and the United States for example, is an imposture and a delusion. It reduces justi... ...suism. Just as in the XIX century Karl Marx, not content to take political economy as he found it, insisted on rebuilding it from the bottom upwards i...

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? ....................................................................................................

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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... ...ost popu lous portions of the globe, and where the animal and veg etable kingdoms attain their greatest perfection. I had often stood on the banks o... ...d not, 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 arc... ...he grand security and serenity of nature, to observe the still undisturbed economy and con tent of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regu... ...and nobler all the actions of man might be, and that our life in its whole economy might be as beautiful as the fairest works of art or nature. The su... ...eum, where “the only perfect skeleton of a Greenland or river whale in the United States” was to be seen, and I also read in its directory of a “Manch...

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

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Up from Slavery : An Autobiography

By: Booker Taliaferro Washington

...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... ...n- nection with the scene was that some man who seemed to be a stranger (a United States officer, I presume) made a little speech and then read a rath... ...ge of some one industry, together with the spirit of industry, thrift, and economy, that they would be sure of knowing how to make a living after they... ...e him, and that back of the ballot he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character, and that no race without these elemen... ...d of people anxious to shake hands with me. The papers in all parts of the United States published the address in full, and for months afterward there... ...ey had also sent letters to other persons in different parts of the United Kingdom, apprising these people of our com- 171 Booker T. Washington ing. ...

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...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... ...unity University. 1854 WALDEN Or Life In The Woods by Henry David Thoreau ECONOMY W HEN I WROTE the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I... ...uld not have frozen to death in such a box as this. I am far from jesting. Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cann... ...same all the world over, whether the building be an Egyptian temple or the United States Bank. It costs more than it comes to. The mainspring is vanit... ...leav ing the foe to select among his own members; and so there were three united for life, as if a new kind of attraction had been invented which put... ...den all over and all through; are them selves small Waldens in the animal kingdom, Waldenses. It is surprising that they are caught here that in thi...

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The Subjection of Women

By: John Stuart Mill

...Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL The Subjection of Women by Jo... ...Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill ... ...TUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnis... ...RT MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnished... ... why need I go back to Aristotle? Did not the slave owners of the Southern United States maintain the same doctrine, with all the fanaticism with whic... ...ear more urgent. Though there are not in this country, as there are in the United States, periodical conventions and an organised party to agitate for... ... manage ment of the household is likely to be so bad, as even in point of economy to be a great drawback from the value of the wife’s earnings. In an... ...lmost everyone, in the existing state of opinion in politics and political economy, would admit the in The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill 5... ...by Hindoo institutions, a woman cannot reign, she is the legal regent of a kingdom during the minority of the heir; and minorities are frequent, the l...

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...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... ..., but full of solemnity and loveliness? How has the belief of a Saint been united in this high and true mind with the clearness of a Sceptic; the devo... ...erably wide court, sur- rounded by irregular buildings, which were now all united into one dwelling. We usually hastened at once into the gar- 57 Goe... ...able travels, under the title, “Homer’s Description of the Conquest of the Kingdom of Troy,” ornamented with copperplates in the theatrical French tas... ...is enabled to gratify his wishes in his own way. 151 Goethe The household economy of many crafts, which took its form and color from the occupation, ... ...f his time, or found no opportunity for turning it to account, carried his economy of time and abilities so far, that nothing gave him greater pleasur...

...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...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...ion War and Peace – Epilogues One and Two by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ... War and Peace – Epilogues One and Two by Leo Tolstoy 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 anyone... ...ps of people formed and dissolved, the coming formation and dissolution of kingdoms and displace- ment of peoples was in course of preparation. The se... ...esults are always simple ones. My whole idea is that if vicious people are united and constitute a power, then honest folk must do the same. Now that’... ...scow, and the Emperor Alexander, helped by the advice of Stein and others, united Europe to arm against the disturber of its peace. All Napoleon’s all... ... be studied side by side with the laws of statistics, geography, political economy, comparative philology, and geology, which directly contradict its ...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume One

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...VE VOLUMES Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One is a publication o... ... Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One is a publication of the Penn... ...e Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One 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... ...urred in 1829, Poe, through the aid of Mr. Allan, secured admission to the United States Military Academy at West Point. Any glamour which may have at... ...nd to disregard his duties, his aim being to secure his dismissal from the United States service. In this he succeeded. On March 7, 1831, Poe found hi... ...w at the loss of his child- wife: I was a child and she was a child, In a kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love— I a... ...aven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago; In this kingdom by the sea. A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Anna... ...and, upon the income arising from this, he managed, by means of a rigorous economy, to procure the necessaries of life, without troubling himself abou...

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............................................................................................................................................... 14 DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE BY N. P. WILLIS........................................................................................................ 19 THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURES OF ONE HANS PFAAL............................................

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The Perfect Wagnerite : A Commentary on the Ring of the Niblungs

By: George Bernard Shaw

...The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ... Ring by Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by George Bernard... ...Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by George Bernard Shaw is a publica- tion 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... ...etty women as he may like to buy for the slaking of his own lusts. In that kingdom of evil he sees that there will be no power but his own. These gods... ...es have discovered such systems, their natural bent being towards welfare, economy, and life instead of towards corruption, waste, and death, neverthe... ...obeyed Wotan implicitly, taking her work as the holiest and bravest in his kingdom; and now he tells her what he could not tell Fricka—what indeed he ... ...ve. Now a human being is both man and woman: it is only when these two are united that the real human being exists; and thus it is only by love that m...

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...Contents Preface to the First German Edition................................................................................................ 5 Preface to the Second Edition ...........................................................................

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Cashel Byron's Profession

By: George Bernard Shaw

...ication Cashel Byron’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...tion Cashel Byron’s Profession 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 anyone... ...ence.” “So you can. Publish your lessons. ‘T welve lectures on po- litical economy, by Cashel Byron.’ I will help you to publish 92 Cashel Byron’s Pr... ... if you wish.” “Bless your innocence!” said Cashel: “the sort of political economy I teach can’t be learned from a book.” “You have become an enigma a... ...storical event of a common kind. England, a few years before, had stolen a kingdom from a considerable people in Africa, and seized the person of its ... ...he ring are common men mostly; and so, though they are the best men in the kingdom, ladies are cut off from their society. But it has been your good l... ...e talking—now for a screech, Miss Carew!—to the champion of Australia, the United States, and England, holder of three silver belts and one gold one (...

...Excerpt: MONCRIEF HOUSE, Panley Common. Scholastic establishment for the sons of gentlemen, etc. Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rushes, stretching away to the western horizon....

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Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

...Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated... ...ench Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French by by by by by Eleanor Marx-Aveling E... ...e Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, trans. Eleanor Marx-Aveling 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... ...s village who had taught him his first Latin; his parents, from motives of economy, having sent him to school as late as possible. His father, Monsieu... ... in the same way after the cer- emony in the church. The procession, first united like one long coloured scarf that undulated across the fields, along... ...d that “was quite good enough for the country.” His mother approved of his economy, for she came to see him as formerly when there had been some viole... ...s, good authors. However, if it were only those persons of different sexes united in a bewitching apartment, deco- rated rouge, those lights, those ef... ...would have known one another, loved one another. With him, through all the kingdoms of Europe she would have travelled from capital to capital, sharin...

...Excerpt: PART I. Chapter One. We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a ?new fellow,? not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his work. The head...

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At the End of the Winter, In the Shtcherbatskys House

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...enina – Part Two by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...na – Part Two by Leo Tolstoy, 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 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... ...do with my mission of peace.” “ Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven, ’” said Betsy, vaguely recollecting she had heard some s... ...ce on the laborer too.” “Yes, but wait a bit. I’m not talking of political economy, I’m talking of the science of agriculture. It ought to be like the... ...g, feign- ing, and continually thinking of others, when the pas- sion that united them was so intense that they were both oblivious of everything else...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. At the end of the winter, in the Shtcherbatskys? house, a consultation was being held, which was to pronounce on the state of Kitty?s health and the measures to be taken to restore her failing strength. She had been ill, and as ...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

...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... ..., nor raised by servitude: To balance fortune by a just expense, Join with economy, magnificence; With splendour, charity; with plenty, health; Oh tea... ... might’st inspire! My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoil’d of his kingdom, and deprived of eyes; Guideless I wander, unregarded mourn, Whilst... ...Presumptuous Crete, that boasts the tomb of Jove? And shall not Tantalus’s kingdoms share Thy wife and sister’s tutelary care? Reverse, O Jove! thy to... ...d for wit! See under Ripley rise a new Whitehall, While Jones’ and Boyle’s united labours fall; 379 While Wren with sorrow to the grave descends, 229... ... Button’s, and a justice of the peace.’—P . 379 ‘While Jones’ and Boyle’s united labours fall:’ at the time when this poem was written, the banquetin...

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

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

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...ugust 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Pres... .../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ... www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Crea... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...essed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Con... ... Benkler have each given far more than they received from me in the “sharing economyof scholarship. If the ideas I de- scribe here have a future, it... ...For several years now I have been a columnist for the Financial Times’s “New Economy Policy Forum.” Portions of Chapter 5 and Chapter 9 had their orig... ... 1 Each person has a different breaking point. For one of my students it was United States Patent number 6,004,596 for a “Sealed Crustless Sandwich.” ... ...he history of intellectual property in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Certainly the U.S. Supreme Court has offered sup- port for that ...

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

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...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... ...overnment, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehend... ...he prosperity of the people of America depended on their continuing firmly united, and the wishes, prayers, and efforts of our best and wisest citizen... ...f policy, and at the hazard of the safety and independence, as well of the kingdom over which he presided by his counsels, as of Europe in general. Fo... ...he continent of Europe, though they bear a malignant aspect to liberty and economy, have, not- withstanding, been productive of the signal advantage o... ... of signal importance, either in the view of naval strength or of national economy. Some of the Southern and of the Middle States yield a greater plen...

...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...

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The History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

By: Friedrich Schiller

...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... ...ion had en- kindled a civil war which, under four stormy reigns, shook the kingdom to its foundations, brought foreign armies into the heart of the co... ...hrough the Ref- ormation an attractive centre of interest, and began to be united by new political sympathies. And as through its influence new relati... ...n of the tenth and the twentieth penny, the See of Rome had never lost the United Netherlands. Princes fought in self-defence or for aggrandizement, w... ...airs demanded all his attention, and his exhausted finances the most rigid economy, diverted his attention from state affairs, and involved him in per... ...k wasted his time in amusements; instead of filling his treasury by a wise economy, he squandered his revenues by a needless theatrical pomp, and a mi...

...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 ...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...HAPTER IV — CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . .... ...9 CHAPTER VII — MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . ... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ... 5 to. For not this man and that man, but all men make up mankind, and their united tasks the task of mankind. How often have we seen some such advent... ...fer of Heuschrecke’s. Form rose out of void solution and discontinuity; like united itself with like in definite arrangement: and soon ei ther in actu... ...of Sines and Tangents, Codification, and Treatises of what you call Political Economy, are the Meal? And what is that Science, which the scientific head... ...e dark bottomless Abyss, that lies under our feet, had yawned open; the pale kingdoms of Death, with all their innumerable silent nations and generati... ...cher fruit: that it takes scientific rank beside Cod ification, and Political Economy, and the Theory of the British Constitution; nay rather, from its...

...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more...

...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29...

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Autobiography

By: John Stuart Mill

...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... ...is same year, 1819, that he took me through a complete course of political economy. His loved and intimate friend, Ricardo, had shortly before publish... ...rtly before published the book which formed so great an epoch in political economy; a book which would never have been published or written, but for t... ...d speak 73 John Stuart Mill ers of the Cambridge Union and of the Oxford United De bating Society. It is curiously illustrative of the tendencies o... ... the name of friendship, in a really earnest mind. All these circumstances united, made the number very small of those whose society, and still more w... ...se opinions, and especially the response made from almost all parts of the kingdom to the demand for women’s suffrage, fully justified the timeliness ...

...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...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ...ch promotes the one, conduces, by the very same excellences, to the other. Economy, for example, equally preserves the existing stock of national weal... ... in the opposite type. The striving, go ahead character of England and the United States is only a fit subject of disapproving criticism on ac count ... ...atural accompaniment of any, even nominal, repre sentation. In the modern kingdom of Greece, for example, it can hardly be doubted, that the place hu... ...a physics useless, poetry and the fine arts idle and frivolous, political economy purely mischievous? Even history has been pronounced useless and mi...

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

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Best of Four

By: David Retz

...Best of Four Best of Four Best of Four Best of Four Best of Four Volume 6 Student Voices Student Voices St... ...is Lucy Morrison Liz Wright Suzanne Harper Student Editor David Retz Best of Four is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylva... ...Suzanne Harper Student Editor David Retz Best of Four is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an ... ............................................................. 7 Decisions for the Futrue Joseph M. Schifano ................................................ ... Bush believes it’s the nation’s next biggest oil find and will enable the United States to stop depending so much on foreign imports from the Middle ... ...idency of Decisions for the Futrue 8 Joseph M. Schifano Besto of Four the United States, “The Arctic Plain will be spared from the greedy hands of oi... ...ng my vacation. In addition, we went scuba diving, where we discovered the kingdom of the underwater world. I felt calm as I snorkeled past the variet... ...ing your sex life, comes along a set of all-ready-made in- structions. Our economy has profited by the well- liked mantra of having someone else run o...

...Excerpt: Welcome to the sixth volume of Best of Four. That?s right, we have been in business long enough to publish six volumes of the best student writing published in English 4 classes each fall, on the Hazleton Campus of Commonwealth College....

...Time: High School to College Alaina Watts ....................................................................................... 4 An Objective View of Cheerleading Erica Chinetski .......................................................................................... 5 She?s Come Undone Jill Giosa ..........................................................................

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

...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... ...accepted Christianity. Marx studied jurisprudence, philosophy, politi- cal economy and history at various German universities. In philosophy he imbibe... ... popula- tion connected with the lace trade, unknown in other parts of the kingdom, indeed, in the civilized world. . . . Children of nine or ten year... ...he working-class, a class always in- creasing in numbers, and disciplined, united, organized by the very mechanism of the process of capitalist produc... ...etical economics remain very near to Manchesterism: the orthodox political economy of his youth was accepted by him on many points on which it is now ... ...iste Francais (Jaures), there have been only two groups of Socialists, the United Socialist Party and the Independents, who are intellectuals or not w...

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

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...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... ... up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against fate and in spite of ... ...a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God, are terribly true. I pity Prince V asili but am still more ... ... his soul. He firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that... ...ir usual way of life, in which he took his part. He could talk about rural economy with the count, fashions with the countess and Natasha, and about a... ...e studied side by side with the laws of statistics, geography, politi- cal economy, comparative philology, and geology , which directly contradict its...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Five

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...E VOLUMES Volume Five A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five is a publication ... ...Volume Five A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five is a publication of the Pen... ... Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five 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... ...fensive to the eye of an artist than the interior of what is termed in the United States— that is to say, in Appallachia—a well-furnished apartment. I... ... shook awfully the curtains of the philosopher’s bed, and disorganized the economy of his pate- pans and papers. The huge folio sign that swung withou... ...sun! 137 V olume Five ANNABEL LEE It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden lived whom you may know By the name of ... ...n to love and be loved by me. I was a child and She was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love — I ...

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

...Contents PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE .................................................................................................................................. 6 A TALE OF JERUSALEM ..............................................................

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The Works of Aristotle

By: Aristotle

...mplete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS... ...emarks on Physiognomy A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Works of Aristotle, trans. Anon. is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...Physiognomy A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Works of Aristotle, trans. Anon. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...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... ...ng. “Where children thus are born with hairy coats Heaven’s wrath unto the kingdom it denotes” Another monster representing a hairy child. It was all ... ...oked upon as a forerunner of desolations which soon after happened to that kingdom, in which men to each other were more like brutes than human creatu... ...n Gen. ii. An ancient writer, contemplating this happy state, says, in the economy of Xenophon, “that the marriage bed is not only the most pleasant, ... ...viz., one vein, two arteries and the urachos, join near the navel, and are united by a skin which they have from the chorion and so become like a gut ... ...ration, or else it will be spiritless and dull; for if their hearts be not united in love, how should their seed unite to cause Conception? And this i...

...Excerpt: The Famous Philosopher. Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...ture by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William J... ...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...s Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... the Scottish universities, changing places with Scotsmen lecturing in the United States; I hope that our people may become in all these higher mat- t... ...g that it cometh from the Lord.” And again: “Consider the little infants, united and joined to the breasts of their nursing moth- ers you will see th... ...so the man 50 The V arieties of Religious Experience is henceforth in the kingdom of heaven. This hell and this heaven are two good safe ways for a m... ...se up, and the gospel is preached to the poor.’ That is the ‘coming of the kingdom,’ or rather in these saving works the kingdom is already there. By ... ...tant dust-and-ashes state of mind. The Epicurean still awaits results from economy of indulgence and damp- 144 The V arieties of Religious Experience...

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

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

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Heartbreak House : A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes

By: George Bernard Shaw

...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... ... wrath on which many suns go down before it is appeased. Yet it was in the United States of America where nobody slept the worse for the war, that the... ...hat production should be increased by the most scientific organization and economy of labor, and though no fact was better established than that exces... ...ain, why do so many more men attain it? At all events it is clear that the kingdom of the Prince of Peace has not yet become the kingdom of this world...

...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 ...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...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... ... should ever distinguish him who aspires to the title of historian. By the united aid of medals, manuscripts, and inscriptions, I am enabled to say, p... ..., the basis of all physical principle—to go behind which we must enter the Kingdom of Metaphysics. Kepler guessed— that is to say imagined. He was ess... ...nturies ago, certainly—the North- ern and Southern Kanadaw continents were united; the Kanawdians, then, would have been driven, by necessity, to a gr... ...ectable, and independent of the ordinary occupations. My strict integrity, economy, and rigorous business habits, here again came into play. I found m...

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

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

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Man and Superman a Comedy and a Philosophy

By: George Bernard Shaw

...uperman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...rman: A Comedy and a Philosophy 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 anyone... ...nk either. TANNER. For Heaven’s sake, Tavy, don’t start him on po- litical economy. He knows all about it; and we don’t. You’re only a poetic Socialis... ...dity in the frequent patches of stones: Spanish magnifi- cence and Spanish economy everywhere. Not very far north of a spot at which the high road ove... ...r, sir! Oh, by what irony of fate was this cold selfish egotist sent to my kingdom, and you taken to the icy mansions of the sky! THE STATUE. I can’t ... ... Ottavio: well, did you ever open the spinet from the hour when the Church united him to you? ANA. You are a fool, Juan. A young married woman has som...

...Excerpt: My dear Walkley, you once asked me why I did not write a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit p...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

...Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ies Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey 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... ..., trans- portation, intercommunication, and emigration, countries like the United States are composed of a combination of different groups with differ... ...f intellectual and emotional disposition as well as an in- crease in ease, economy, and efficiency of action. Any habit marks an inclination—an active... ...n he could without training: “better” signifying greater ease, efficiency, economy, promptness, etc. That this is an outcome of education was indicate... ...wledge re- sults if the mind discriminates and combines things as they are united and divided in nature itself. But the im- portant thing for educatio... ...e an artificial, corrupt, and inequitable social order by a new and better kingdom of humanity. Unrestrained faith in Nature as both a model and a wor...

...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow...

...Contents Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life .............................................................................. 5 Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function .............................................................................. 14 Chapter Th...

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The Insulted and Injured

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

...by Constance Garnett A PENN STAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Insulted and Injured by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trnas. Constance Garnett is ... ...nd Injured by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trnas. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...Injured by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trnas. 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 purpose, and in a... ...candalous renown. He scattered money without stint in spite of his natural economy , which almost amounted to niggardliness; he lost money at cards wh... ...CHAPTER XII THE ICHMENYEVS were very fond of each other. They were closely united by love and years of habit. Yet Nikolay Sergeyitch was not only now,... ...get them if I had to dig for them underground. I’ d send for them from the kingdom of China.” “T wo words, Anna T rifonovna, darling; is Sizobryuhov h...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Last year, on the evening of March 22, I had a very strange adventure. All that day I had been walking about the town trying to find a lodging. My old one was very damp, and I had begun to have an ominous cough. Ever since the autumn I had...

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