...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... ...manners, and of whom, amidst our general ignorance, thus much is perfectly established, that the term gentle was al- most as generally and by prescrip... ...n the general sympathies out of his own country, he takes his sta- tion in libraries, he is lead by the man of learned leisure, he is known and valued... ... enough, considering the popery of his descendants) was a clergyman of the established church in Hampshire. This grandfather had two sons. Of the elde... ...erature of the land; and in the most worthless of all his poems, Walsh, an established authority, and whom Dryden pronounced the ablest critic of the ... ...therwise than childishly by one who should rely upon the encyclopaedias of 1800? or comparative physiology by the most ingenious of men unac- quainted...

...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...

...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... ... part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some... ...ve no opportunity for correction); and al- ways written at a distance from libraries, so that very many statements, references, and citations, were ma... ...light was ever thrown—all these capi- tal heads of the narrative have been established beyond the reach of scepticism: and, in consequence, the story ... ...ism: and, in consequence, the story was soon after adopted as historically established, and was reported at length by journals of the highest credit i... ...ve to her, in throwing open for her use various local advantages of baths, libraries, picture-galleries, etc., were the wife and daughters of Mr. Whit... ...kirmishes through the monotonous pages of history, or by the catalogues of libraries stretching over a dozen measured miles, could not be erased, but ...

...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...

...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... ...fore, practical and thorough. When the Constitution was thus perfected and established, a new form of government was created, but it was neither specu... ...rchs in many contests, in many countries, and were grouped into creeds and established in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the... ...e. They were consecrated theories, but no govern- ment had been previously established for the great purpose of their preservation and enforcement. Th... ...e the Greek and Roman republics with these American States; the manuscript libraries of the former, and their rude population, with the innumerable jo... ...tion amounts to nearly 4,000,000.* The city of Wash- ington was founded in 1800, in the very centre of the Union; but such are the changes which have ... ...on amounts to nearly 4,000,000.** The city of W ash- ington was founded in 1800, in the very centre of the Union; but such are the changes which have ...

...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...

... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...s were junked before 2000. 19. Free Self-Learning Laboratories. Public libraries give the ordinary citizen access to reading material previously a... ... even on into the Atlantic Ocean. Sailing out from their homeland, they established trading centers and gradually spread their alphabet‘s use to p... ...cripted the angry words of those biblical prophets who so freely attacked established practices?) It‘s quite ironic, however, that:  The alphabe... ... (Professor Hart points out that paper‘s low cost made it possible for libraries not only to afford to stack more books but also to produce inexp... ... took from the sixth to the tenth century for this type of plow to become established in Europe, partly because it was only effective on large fields... ...the very wealthy could afford them. Books were still so precious that libraries linked them to desks with metal chains to prevent theft. One had...

...first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...