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...Life of Johnson by James Boswell Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...sgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charles Grosv... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charles Grosv... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...s, masses of diverting material which would have tempted a less scrupulous writer beyond resistance. ‘I observed to him,’ said Boswell, ‘that there we... ...ruth, brilliance, and lifelike spontaneity of Boswell’s art. It is in such works as these that we shall find the real Johnson, and through them that h... ...talk and other anecdotes of our cel- 20 Boswell’s Life of Johnson ebrated writers is valued, and how earnestly it is regretted that we have not more,... ... part of the book. What he read during these two years he told me, was not works of mere amusement, ‘not voyages and travels, but all literature, Sir,... ... amusement, ‘not voyages and travels, but all literature, Sir, all ancient writers, all manly: though but little Greek, only some of Anacreon and Hesi...

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...sity s Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor The Republic by Plato is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Porta... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Republic by Plato , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, ... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...e of them. Copyright © 1998 The Pennsylvania State University Cover design by Jim Manis, Statue of Plato. The Pennsylvania State University is an equa... ...njamin Jowett THE INTRODUCTION The Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them... ...m and institutions of the State are more clearly drawn out in the Laws; as works of art, the Sympo sium and the Protagoras are of higher excellence. ... ...nted by Plato. The 3 greatest of all logical truths, and the one of which writers on philosophy are most apt to lose sight, the difference be tween ... ..., not only in the works of the Cambridge Platonists, but in great original writers like Berkeley or Coleridge, to Plato and his ideas. That there is a... ...rom an enlargement of the plan; or from the imperfect reconcilement in the writer’s own mind of the struggling elements of thought which are now first...

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...NGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...iversity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e THE LONG VACATION BY CHARLOTTE M. YONGE How the children leave us, and no traces Linger of t... ...ns are proverbially failures, and yet it is per- haps a consequence of the writer’s realization of characters that some seem as if they could not be p... ...modified and altered, and the effect thus far changed. Thus it is with the writers of fiction. The young write in full sympathy with, as well as for, ... ...oor Fernan, you do him an injustice.” “Oh, yes, he does quantities of good works, and so does Marilda, till I am quite sick of hearing of them! The pi... ...ey want them read and explained, and answered sometimes.” “A means of good works,” observed Gerald. “How would you like it? Docketing the crumbs from ... ...erings at the circus, and the history of her escape, demonstrating (to the writer’s own satisfaction) that there was no other means of securing the po...

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...s of heart, gave him every degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence. By a former marriage, Mr. Henry Dashwood had one son: by his present lady, three daughters. The son, a steady respectable young man, was amply provided for by the fortune of his mother, which had been large, and half of which...

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... Sense and Sensibility JANE AUSTEN 1811 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents I 1 C... ...receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence. By a former marriage, Mr. Henry Dashwood had one son: by his present la... ...ree daughters. The son, a steady respectable young man, was amply provided for by the fortune of his mother, which had been large, and half of which d... ...nsensible indeed, not to become an immediate convert to the excellence of such works, however disregarded before. Their taste was strikingly alike. Th... ...hatever — a letter of which every line was an insult, and which proclaimed its writer to be deep in hardened villany. She paused over it for some time... ...eed! — as I talked of t’other day. — No, no, they must get a stout girl of all works. — Betty’s sister would never do for them now.” The next morning ... .... As soon as Elinor had finished it, she performed what she concluded to be its writer’s real design, by placing it in the hands of Mrs. Jennings, who ... ... for a lady’s maid, I am sure I can’t tell. She is an excellent housemaid, and works very well at her needle. However, you will think of all that at y... ...ful. — Every line, every word was — in the hackneyed metaphor which their dear writer, were she here, would forbid — a dagger to my heart. To know tha...

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...essed to Father Paissy. After taking the communion, the service of extreme unction followed. The monks assembled and the cell was gradually filled up by the inmates of the hermitage. Meantime it was daylight. People began coming from the monastery. After the service was over the elder desired to kiss and take leave of everyone. As the cell was so small the earlier visitors...

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...THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky translated by Constance Garnett PART II A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Public... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brothers Karamazov – Part II by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett is a publicatio... ...s an electronic transmission, in any way. The Brothers Karamazov – Part II by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett, the Pennsylvan... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...she concluded. The letter had been written in haste, the excitement of the writer was apparent in every line of it. But Alyosha had no need to tell th... ...eak and write too—the Je- suits, at any rate. I have read it myself in the works of their theologians. ‘Hast Thou the right to reveal to us one of the... ...east that is so near to man; or the lowly, pensive ox, which feeds him and works for him; look at their faces, what meekness, what devotion to man, wh...

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...shed on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the Great Saint-Bernard, and the valley of Aosta....

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...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...y A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania S... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...le at the same time I offer to the character and fidelity of a monarchical writer a public homage which may, per- haps, be valuable on account of its ... ...heir readers. Historical independence has shown itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of... ...rs endorsed by historians, made and published to the world very remarkable works. Thus Monsieur de Launoy, nicknamed the “Expeller of Saints,” made cr... ...re of his century, has, in our day, a reputation the exact opposite of his works and of his character; a reputation which he owes to a grossness of wi... ... it with admirable courage and persistency. The reproaches which Calvinist writers have cast upon her are to her glory; she incurred them by reason on...

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... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 6 OUR PSYCHOLOGICAL MOTIVATIONS By ... ...................................................................................................... 54 POWER THRU SOCIAL TRADITIONS SANCTIFIED BY REL... ...o--to accept or reject such very different values, to accept or reject the leadership of the society, to accept or reject the lifestyles lived by our... ... the leadership of the society, to accept or reject the lifestyles lived by our parents. ―As I have said, on my voyage I was able to read the works ... ...ion in literature and to popular songs and other media. Psychologists have recently separated the real roots of love from the images romantic writer... ...lity for the cleanliness of our country. We support the public parks and the sporting and recreational activities which are offered. Everyone works ... ...sts of the child. He is enabling the behavior. The ‗tough love‘ approach has the parents tell the child to ‗shape up or ship out.‘ Often this works.... ...l violence is frowned on throughout our society. And we keep out of our media the Hollywood emphasis on violence for entertainment. Our media writer...

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...n many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for...

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...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...emarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether so-... ...must feel for the event. Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by ... ...ion of another class of men, who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country, 7 The Federalist Papers or will flatte... ...nearness of situation, constitutes nations natural enemies. An intelligent writer expresses himself on this sub- ject to this effect: “Neighboring nat... ...ent countries and ages, and has received the sanction of the most approved writers on the subject of politics. The opponents of the plan proposed have... ...cord, and the miserable objects of universal pity or contempt. Some of the writers who have come forward on the other side of the question seem to hav... ... it is incumbent on their successors to improve and perpetu- ate. If their works betray imperfections, we wonder at the fewness of them. If they erred... ...partments of nature have been arranged and assorted. When we pass from the works of nature, in which all the delineations are perfectly accurate, and ...

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Excerpt: A Theologico-Political Treatise: Part One -- Chapters One through Five by Baruch Spinoza, translated by R.H.M. Elwes.

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...of the word ?Spirit.? The different senses in which things may be referred to God. Different senses of ?Spirit of God.? Prophets perceived revelation by imagination. CHAPTER II ? Of Prophets. A mistake to suppose that prophecy can give knowledge of phenomena Certainty of prophecy based on: (1) Vividness of imagination, (2) A Sign, (3) Goodness of the Prophet. Variation of ...

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... threat to world peace. All the states are fearful of hegemonic attitude of super powers. They fear that undesirable prohibitions shall be imposed by super powers any time on them and these weaker nations could be proceeded against on fake charges of defiance. The oppressed people are getting more oppressed and oppressors have more free hands to subdue weaker states. Hu...

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...t 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash sit... ...onsideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation’s capital at a time of great partisan di... ...nal oversight and resource allocation, and other areas determined relevant by the Commission. In pursuing our mandate, we have reviewed more than 2.5 ... ...cies to explain their world. Bin Ladin also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.A mem- ber of the Muslim Brotherhood 11 executed in 1966... ...ndisputably in charge of what remained of the MAK and al Qaeda. 27 Through writers like Qutb, and the presence of Egyptian Islamist teachers in the Sa... ...vestigation.The FBI does not have a general grant of authority but instead works under specific statutory authorizations. Most of its work is done in ... ... Bin Ladin unit did not have “cases” in the same sense as an FBI agent who works an investigation from beginning to end.Thus, when the trail went cold... ...indoctrinating them in isolated, desert camps. It built up logistical net- works, running through Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates. Al Qaeda also... ...onspirator arrested in Y emen for the USS Cole attack Sayyid Qutb Egyptian writer; member of Muslim Brotherhood (deceased) Eyad al Rababah Jordanian;...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should ...

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