...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...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... ... completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the prin- ciples of gove... ... were essential to the preservation of the liberties which had been won at great cost and with heroic labors and sacrifices. Their studies were conduc... ...e imperfectly known in Europe, and not completely triumphant even in Great Britain, in the seven- teenth century – were all recognized and determined ... ...nwise, to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suit- able establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to ... ...e to introduce monarchy, were hostile to France and under the influence of Britain; that they were a paper nobility, whose extreme sensibility at ever... ...se jails became more unwholesome and more corrupt in proportion as the new establishments were beau- tified and improved, forming a contrast which may... ..., and it was enacted that all children born of slave parents after July 4, 1799, should be free. No in- crease could then take place, and although sla...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of...

...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ...tion, and other changes made, which, even to the old parts, by giving very great expansion, give sometimes a character of absolute novelty. Once, ther... ...hat these writings have been in some sense published. But publication is a great idea never even approximated by the utmost anxieties of man. Not the ... ...partially distributed. Coleridge ascended the Brocken on the Whitsunday of 1799, with a party of English stu- dents from Goettingen, but failed to see... ... This was the final ratification of the bill which united Ireland to Great Britain. I do not know that any one public act, or celebration, or solemnit... ...o all points of the compass, and too often (as must happen in such immense establishments) blundered into my room with that appalling, “Now, sir, the ... ...the best features, as to cleanliness and neatness, of well-managed private establishments. NO NO NO NO NOTES TES TES TES TES 1 It marks the rapidity ...

...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...AKSPEARE EARE EARE EARE EARE 1 W ILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was bor... ...inances of religion, would much delay the adoption of their child into the great family of Christ. Considering the extreme frailty of an infant’s life... ...of letters, Pope the second, and Sir Walter Scott the third, who, in Great Britain, has ever realized a large fortune by literature; or in Christendom... ...engage in the pleasant, nay elegant, labors of the hay field; but in Great Britain women are never suffered to mow, which is a most athletic and exhau... ... public schools; but in reality he knew nothing of public schools. All the establishments for Papists were nar- row, and suited to their political dep... ...te educa- tion? And where was such an education to be sought? At the petty establishments of the suffering Catholics, the instruc- tion, as he had fou... ...cts; and he was eager to enroll Schiller in the body of his professors. In 1799 Schiller received the chair of civil history; and not long after he ma...

...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 cert...

...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pe... ... THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK WRECK WRECK WRECK WRECK ‘TO BE WEAK,’ we need not the great archangel’s voice to tell us, ‘is to be miserable.’ All weakness is s... ...nation, make many ruins in each particular day. ‘Babylon in ruins,’ says a great author, ‘is not so sad a sight as a human soul overthrown by lunacy.’... ...enditure by uniting their slen- 44 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers der establishments. One of the rules applied to the manage- ment of this vast m... ...e- thing must be done at once for a livelihood. Urquiza had two mercantile establishments, one at Trujillo, to which he repaired in person, on Kate’s ... ...e, and carries its public verification along with itself. In the spring of 1799, when Napoleon was lying before Acre, he became anxious for news from ... ...English cruisers; but immediately after the battle with the Vizier in July 1799, an English admiral first informed the French army of Egypt that Masse... ... as anything beyond a great idea, unless he can prove a residence in Great Britain. One sole case he cites of a din- ner on the Elbe, when a particula...

...TER TER, ET , ET , ET , ET , ETC. ET C. ET C. ET C. ET C. ETC. C. C. C. C. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION... ...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... ... conscience and the nobler affections, But I suspect that originally these great faculties were absolutely excluded from the point of view. Probably t... ... I affirm this peremptorily; and with the more emphasis, because there are great conse- quences suspended upon that question. What, then, is religion?... ...ike a hornet. To be a Cambridge man in those days was to be a hater of all Establishments in England; things and persons were hated alike. I hope the ... ...left out of view. Let us state the circumstances:—On the 11th of February, 1799, Napoleon, then and for seven months before in mili- tary possession o... ...ess themselves sensibly to human knowl- edge, the annual report from Great Britain, its annual bal- ance-sheet, by comparison with those from continen... ... But we choose rather to throw ourselves upon the general history of Great Britain, upon the spirit of her policy, domestic or foreign, and upon the u...