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...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...

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...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocquevi... ...mited monarchies the power is divided between *See the Act of February 27, 1813. “General Collection of the Laws of Massachusetts,” vol. ii. p. 331. I... ...nwise, to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suit- able establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to ... ...se jails became more unwholesome and more corrupt in proportion as the new establishments were beau- tified and improved, forming a contrast which may... ...resentatives in Congress. This number continued to increase until the year 1813, when it reached to twenty-three; from that time it began to de- creas... ...e contrary direction: in 1790 it had ten rep- resentatives in Congress; in 1813, twenty-seven; in 1823, thirty-four; and in 1833, forty. The State of ... ...minutive. The Americans make associations to give entertainments, to found establishments for educa- tion, to build inns, to construct churches, to di...

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...noré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...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... ...or 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 ass... ...e University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material c... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Presco... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...eat Ecoles that they have not produced men superior to other edu- cational establishments, it is still more shameful that the grand prix of the Instit... ...rance will be without horses, as Napo- 182 The Village Rector leon was in 1813, when, being reduced to those of France only, he could not profit by h...

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...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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...N Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...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. Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvan... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...time, was elegant and comfortable, but not splendid. As usual in En- glish establishments, all the appointments were complete, and carried to the same... ...ollege, known by the name of Univer- sity College, one of twenty-five such establishments in Ox- ford, had regularly corrected it into “gates of the U... ... of professors and students, and a point of concentration to the different establishments of implements and machinery for elaborate researches [as, fo... ... and in the forty-third regiment; and subsequently, during the campaign of 1813, as a captain on the Russian staff. Thus brilliantly accomplished for ... ...y seven thousand stout and able sailors.” Pouqueville ascribes to them, in 1813, a force considerably greater. But the peace of Paris (one year after ...

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...an’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...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... ...or 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 ass... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Jame... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...lass of sugar and water to drink. This man seemed accustomed to such queer establishments; he knew all about it. He was quite at home there. This priv... ...h the motto: Grands faits, grand lieu. The present Viscountess, widowed in 1813, has a son and a daughter. Though she returned from the Emigra- tion a... ...ed by the Revolution, who might perhaps have been able to save Napoleon in 1813. To get rid of Peyrade, he was simply accused of conniv- ance in favor... ...ears’ penal servitude, was gain- ing information as to the various convict establishments. “Well, my boy,” Fil-de-Soie was saying sententiously as Jac...

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...re to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my pleasure, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as the tithe formerly belonged to the Church in memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect?...

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...noré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...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... ...or 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 ass... ...e University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material c... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Pr... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...eans of her brother, who appeared as a money-lender. If, between the years 1813 and 1830, Brigitte had capitalized sixty thousand francs, that sum can... ...he jeweller, dressmaker, milliner, lingere, etc. (all chosen from the best establishments in Paris), seemed to occupy the house. “It is like a process...

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...pt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Ma...

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...LICATION Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...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... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...by Johnson and Stevens, revised by Isaac Reed, in twenty-one vols. 8vo, in 1813; and the Plays and Poems, with notes by Malone, were edited by James B... ... 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... ...ruc- tion, as he had found experimentally, was poor. At the great national establishments his son would be a degraded person; one who was permanently ... ...bearance towards a fam- ily so nearly allied to that of St. Petersburg. In 1813 the grand duke was found at his post in that great gathering of the na...

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...arge 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 Stat... ...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 a... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate ri... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , ... ...in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , the Pennsylvania State Uni versity, Electronic Classics Series , Jim Manis, ... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...we have done well or ill. The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes... ...he use made of it in reducing the public debt, and in the valuable works and establishments everywhere multiplying over the face of our land. It is a ... ...es for the future. James Madison SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1813 Chief Justice John Marshall administered the oath of of fice in the...

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... 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, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty mill...

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...n Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...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... ...or 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 ass... ...e University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material c... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...f law. Shortly afterwards he bade adieu to Sesenheim. Frederike lived till 1813 23 Goethe and died single. Goethe’s return to Frankfort is marked by ... ... necessities; from thence to the factories, bleaching-grounds, and similar establishments, even to the burying-grounds,—for a little world lay within ...

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...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... ...or 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 ass... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...reparations for a removal to Kazan of the court and the girls’ educational establishments under the patronage of the Dowager Em- press. In Helene’s ci... ... pauvre mere**— he decided that he would place an inscription on all these establishments in large letters: “This establishment is dedi- cated to my d... ...self and his army, as he had done previously and as he did subsequently in 1813. His activity at that time was no less astounding than it was in Egypt... ...st difficult all through the Russo-French wars from Austerlitz to the year 1813. At Austerlitz he remained last at the Augezd dam, rallying the regime... ... had perished. And it is well for a people who do not—as the French did in 1813-salute according to all the rules of art, and, presenting the hilt of ...