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Man with No Name

By: Wally Amos

...CENSORED* How the founder of the Cookie Company lost everything, including his nome - and turned adv... ...CENSORED* How the founder of the Cookie Company lost everything, including his nome - and turned advers... ...erything, including his nome - and turned adversity into opportunity *by court order WITH CAMILLA DENTON Man with No Name Turn Lemons Into Lem... ...t ed. p. em. ISBN 0-944031-57-9 : $9.95 1. Amos, Wally. 2. Businessmen--United States--Biography. 3. Cookie industry--United States. 4. Uncle Nona... ...p. em. ISBN 0-944031-57-9 : $9.95 1. Amos, Wally. 2. Businessmen--United States--Biography. 3. Cookie industry--United States. 4. Uncle Noname Cook... ...ys it took more than nine innings to get through a game. But this was the law of the land-Ruby's land. And there was no breaking that law, even in R... ... had moved to another city, which left me disap­ pointed. I decided not to listen to any promises I could not cash in on right away. Then I met a gi... ...500 square foot stock room. The room was given a thorough cleaning by the clerks who worked with me, and I worked as hard as they to make it the way... ...support and saw me as a friend. Later, I went on to book and promote The Supremes, The Temptations, Dionne Warwick, Helen Reddy, and Marvin Gaye, ...

...The story of how the founder of the Famous Amos Cookie Company lost everything, including his name----and turned adversity into opportunity. This revealing book chronicles Wally's loss of the cookie empire that he had built, ...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Univer... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Universit... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. T... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Por... ...sembly of Congressmen, Cabinet officers, j udges of the federal and district courts, foreign officials, and a small gathering of Philadelphians, the P... ... offered the shortest inaugural address ever given. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court William Cushing administered the oath of office. INAUGURAL ... ... Constitution, all will, of course, arrange themselves under the will of the law, and unite in com mon efforts for the common good. All, too, will be... ...of our people. The recent demonstration of public sentiment inscribes on the list of Executive duties, in characters too legible to be overlooked, the... ..., and heal us when we are sick—professionals, industrialists, shop keepers, clerks, cabbies, and truckdrivers. They are, in short, “We the people,” t...

Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.

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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... ...r to the fact; all the facts of history preexist in the mind as laws. Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant, and the limits of nature ... ... ultimate reason; all express more or less distinctly some command of this supreme, illimitable essence. Property also holds of the soul, covers great... ...thens and London, to him- self, and not deny his conviction that he is the court, and if England or Egypt have any thing to say to him he will try the... ... infusions. Every thing the individual sees without him corresponds to his states of mind, and every thing is in turn intelli- gible to him, as his on... ... 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 ... ...s faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. Why need you choose so painfully yo... ... and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks. God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenev...

...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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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...he Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Thou shalt be left: for that Almighty King, Who reigns above, a rebel to his law, Adjudges me, and therefore hath decreed, That to his city none throu... ...nd she with gentle voice and soft Angelically tun’d her speech address’d: “O courteous shade of Mantua! thou whose fame Yet lives, and shall live lon... ...ice the founder of my fabric mov’d: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, s... ...ted me, Honouring they greet me thus, and well they judge.” So I beheld united the bright school Of him the monarch of sublimest song, That o’er ... ...om his which newly they had worn, And inwardly restrain’d it. He, as one Who listens, stood attentive: for his eye Not far could lead him through the... ...d not serve us for report so long. In brief I tell thee, that all these were clerks, Men of great learning and no less renown, By one same sin pollute... ...mong the inhabitants of that city, and among the leaders of the neighbouring states. v. 70. The pleasant land.] Lombardy. v. 72. The twain.] Guido d...

...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, m...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T r... ...y worn-looking. On his head he wears the square cap of the doctors and the clerks, and his dominant expression, somewhat rigid and severe, is that of ... ...veries and surprises in store for the lucky searcher. Moreover, as in this law treatise Tiraqueau attacked women in a merciless fashion, President Ama... ...ciety diversions of the Duchesses of Burgundy and of the great ladies of a court more luxuri- ous and more refined than the French court, which revell... ...s attached and name of Gargantua. It was, of course, quite right to make a list of these, to draw up, as it were, a chart of them, but the conclusion ... ...ense that, in order to lose as little as possible, they have collected and united what originally were variations—the revisions, in short, of the orig... ...ink that these atrocious abuses are hidden from the eternal spirit and the supreme God who is the just re- warder of all our undertakings? If thou so ... ...raw them to peace but by sharp and fierce wars. Chapter 1.XXXIII. How some statesmen of Picrochole, by hairbrained counsel, put him in extreme danger....

...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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Resurrection

By: Mrs. Louis Maude

...lication Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louis Maude is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ation Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louis Maude is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...en, as the chief criminal, to be conducted sepa- rately), had to appear at Court. So now, on the 28th of April, at 8 o’clock, a jailer and soon after ... ...street. Isvostchiks [cabmen], tradespeople, cooks, workmen, and government clerks, stopped and looked curiously at the prisoner; some shook their head... ...reminding you that on this the 28th day of April you have to appear at the Law Courts, as juryman, and, in consequence, can on no account accom- pany ... ... pay a large sum to her opponent. “The advocate is a genius,” he said. The listeners heard it all with respectful attention, and several of them tried... ...ve brought on by life in Petersburg and in the army, this animal man ruled supreme and completely crushed the spiritual man in him. But when he saw Ka... ... I think this is a case for putting Article 817 into practice (Article 817 states that if the Court considers the decision of the jury unjust it may s... ...red and that an important change was going on in her soul, and this change united him not only to her but also to Him for whose sake that change was b...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pe... ...ne Comedy of Dante Hell , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Thou shalt be left: for that Almighty King, Who reigns above, a rebel to his law, Adjudges me, and therefore hath decreed, That to his city none throu... ...nd she with gentle voice and soft Angelically tun’d her speech address’d: “O courteous shade of Mantua! thou whose fame Yet lives, and shall live lon... ...ice the founder of my fabric mov’d: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, s... ...ted me, Honouring they greet me thus, and well they judge.” So I beheld united the bright school Of him the monarch of sublimest song, That o’er ... ...om his which newly they had worn, And inwardly restrain’d it. He, as one Who listens, stood attentive: for his eye Not far could lead him through the... ...d not serve us for report so long. In brief I tell thee, that all these were clerks, Men of great learning and no less renown, By one same sin pollute... ...mong the inhabitants of that city, and among the leaders of the neighbouring states. v. 70. The pleasant land.] Lombardy. v. 72. The twain.] Guido d...

...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, m...

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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... ...ut one seventh of the whole territory in meadow; this standing next in the list after pas turage and unimproved lands, and, judging from the returns ... ...ng the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following the same law with the system, with time, and all that is made; the weeds at the bott... ...us shove we launched our boat from the bank, while the flags and bulrushes courtesied a God speed, and dropped silently down the stream. Our boat, whi... ...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... ...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 arched the... ...rica solid men must have lived, select from year to year; a series of town clerks, at least; and there are old records that you may search. Some sprin... ...s. I fancy that some indefatigable spinster of the old school, who had the supreme felicity to be born in “days that tried men’s souls,” hearing this,...

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

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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

...nett Complete Edition A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance ... ... Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ... being debated everywhere at the time—the position of the ecclesi- astical courts. After discussing several opinions on the subject he went on to expl... ...en planning to bring an action against him. The family , I repeat, was now united for the first time, and some of its members met for the first time i... ...showed no par- ticular emotion at the sight of his mother’s grave. He only listened to Grigory’ s minute and solemn account of the erec- tion of the t... ...n our time, and does regenerate and transform the criminal, it is only the law of Christ speaking in his conscience. It is only by recognising his wro... ... to bring down heavenly powers on earth. Not to speak of Dante, in France, clerks, as well as the monks in the mon- asteries, used to give regular per... ...v . Y ou have perhaps heard of him? A man of vast intellect, the mind of a statesman… he knows you, too… spoke of you in the highest terms…” Mitya bro... ..., “but I have come to you on a matter of great importance…. On a matter of supreme importance for me, that is, madam… for me alone… and I hasten—“ ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov. Alexy Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall des...

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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... ...Republic; thinking of the one continuous great problem that generations of statesmen had wrangled over, and a million men fought about, and that had s... ...oks that I have read a second time or ever care again to read in the whole list (most of them by tiresome and unbalanced “reformers”) are “Uncle Remus... ...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... ...d individual and race should get much con- solation out of the great human law, which is universal and eternal, that merit, no matter under what skin ... ... taught any one who wanted to learn anything that I could teach him. I was supremely happy in the opportu- nity of being able to assist somebody else.... ...e of the young men that I sent to Hampton in this way is now Dr. Samuel E. Courtney, a successful physician in Boston, and a mem- ber of the School Bo... ...f any one individual. The whole executive force, including instructors and clerks, now numbers eighty-six. This force is so organized and subdi- vided...

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The Enormous Room

By: E. E. Cummings

...ward Estlin Cummings) A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings is a publication of the... ...tion The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nd impris- onment of her son. My boy’s mother had a right to be spared the supreme agony caused by a blundering cable from Paris saying that he had be... ... would appear that the authorities had not even conde- scended to tell the United States Embassy where this innocent American citizen was confined; so... ...appear that the authorities had not even conde- scended to tell the United States Embassy where this innocent American citizen was confined; so that a... ...ou understand? I am their marraine. I love them and look after them. Well, listen: I will be your marraine, too.” I bowed and looked around for someth... ..., and readjusted his slumbers. There was no one moving about in the little court. I lin- gered somewhat on the way upstairs. The stairs were abnor- ma... ...veral empty cabs had gone by during the peroration of 39 e e cummings the law, and no more seemed to offer themselves. After some minutes, however, o... ... of that extremely thin black ma- terial which occasionally is affected by clerks and dentists and more often by librarians. If ever I looked upon an ...

...Introduction: ?For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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Crime Its Cause and Treatment

By: Clarence Darrow

...CATION Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ION Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...omes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated ... ...less could be nothing else. Still if man’s actions are governed by natural law, the sooner it is recognized and understood, the sooner will sane treat... ...ent in human conduct. This is a fruitless task. In a sense, each one is of supreme importance in the outcome of a life. It is obvious that some struct... ...operty laws that have had no counterpart in the early history of man. This list has grown so fast that it is beyond the power of a large class of men ... ...hrough this instinct, man builds his villages and cities and organizes his states and nations. With the gregarious instinct and the parental in- stinc... ...nt qualities inherent in the tendencies and aspira- tions of a people. The United States of America, among the 60 nations, meets these conditions, an... ... is free from the disease. Conservative business men must have motor cars; clerks and salaried people who cannot afford them must get them; mechanics ...

...Preface: This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss ...

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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... ...overnment, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehend... ...nt, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in ... ...ics, the great- est number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants. In the cour... ... manner of inconveniences. “If a single member should attempt to usurp the supreme au- thority, he could not be supposed to have an equal authority an... ...slators but advocates and parties to the causes which they determine? Is a law proposed concerning private debts? It is a question to which the credit... ...s. What more natural than that they should be disposed to exclude from the lists such dangerous competitors? This branch of trade ought not to be cons... ...d by others. The sheriff, who is the summoner of ordinary juries, and the clerks of courts, who have the nomination of special juries, are themselves...

...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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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... ... limited and qualified freedom who will not co oper ate actively with the law and the public authorities in the repression of evil doers. A people wh... ...equisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on. These deplorable states of feel ing, in any people who have emerged from savage life, are, ... ...organization, it may choose; but the essence of the whole, the seat of the supreme power, is determined for it by social circumstances. That there is ... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ...it is sometimes quite as near; and in any case it ought to be respectfully listened to, in stead of being, as it is, not merely turned away from, but... ...ich they called fiscal arrangements, and in the secrecy of their frightful courts of justice. It must be acknowledged that the benefits of freedom, so... ...age conveyance at the cost of the state or of the locality. Hustings, poll clerks, and all the necessary machinery of elections, should be at the publ...

...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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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ... in the same district, usually in the same village; and to that condition, law, custom, habits, morals, have adapted themselves. The whole plan and co... ...rom the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a str... ... Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a stream of ... ...lishmen, who have no place in the hierarchy of our land, who do not attend Courts nor encounter uniforms, whose function is at most spectacular, who s... ...imaginativeness which distinguishes all ex- cellent work, which shines out supremely in Cromwell’s cre- ation of the New Model, or Nelson’s plan of ac... ...ht amuse you as one is amused by looking out of a window into a street, or listening to a piece of agreeable music, and that might be the limit of its... ...hither, too, are drawn a multitude of journalists and political agents and clerks, a crowd of underbred, mediocre men. For most of them there is neith...

...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices i...

...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT...................................................................................

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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... ...ect, is that of committing to memory what my father termed vocables, being lists of common Greek words, with their signification in English, which he ... ...most un 17 John Stuart Mill usual, the English Constitution, the English law, and all par ties and classes who possessed any considerable influence... ...hrow into his drafts of despatches, and to carry through the ordeal of the Court of Directors and Board of Control, without having their force much we... ...ub lished, they would, I am convinced, place his character as a practical statesman fully on a level with his eminence as a speculative writer. 18 A... ...himself. I was appointed in the usual manner, at the bottom of the list of clerks, to rise, at least in the first instance, by seniority; but with the... ...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... ...ded by an organized body of spiri tual teachers and rulers, would be made supreme over every action, and as far as is in human possibility, every tho...

...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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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... ...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... .................................................... 125 ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT......................................................................... ...ham, “who would have made a capital Chancellor if he had had only a little law;” so Pope was very well qualified to have translated Homer, barring his... ...g than of that thorough and genial insight which sympathy produces. He has listened at the keyhole, not by any “Open Sesame” entered the chamber. He h... ...rdest things, 42 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 Can pocket states, can fetch or carry kings; A single leaf shall waft an army o’er, Or... ... shall approach my bed; Those are too wise for bachelors to wed. As subtle clerks by many schools are made, T wice-married dames are mistresses o’ th’... ...e Solomon! A wiser monarch never saw the sun: All wealth, all honours, the supreme degree Of earthly bliss, was well bestow’d on thee! For sagely hast... ...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...

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

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

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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... ...isconcerted by this reception. He had just entered, wearing an embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on his breast and a ... ...ow everything.” “What can one say about it?” replied the prince in a cold, listless tone. “What has been decided? They have decided that Buonaparte ha... ...answer you all at once?” said Prince Andrew. “Besides, in the actions of a states- man one has to distinguish between his acts as a private person, as... ... match she contemplated between Anatole and the little princess’ sister-in-law. “I rely on you, my dear,” said Anna Pavlovna, also in a low tone. “Wri... ... 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 ... ...on my honour that to me personally it would be a pleasure to hand over the supreme command of the army into the hands of a better informed and more sk... ...urned. Donors contributed Church property that had been stolen. Government clerks set up their baize-covered tables and their pigeonholes of documents...

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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... ..., if not in the external architecture of their residences, the English are supreme. The Italians have but little sentiment beyond marbles and colours.... ...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... ... 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. Its most... ...ot only the hues but the forms of all objects incumbent. A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good judge 8 EA Poe of a carpet must be a ge... ...tude to our master Pompeius, who, in his condescension, has thought fit to listen to your idolatrous importunities? The god Phoebus, who is a true god... ... narrative, professing jesters had not alto- gether gone out of fashion at court. Several of the great conti- 21 V olume Five nental ‘powers’ still r... ...own responsibility. They did not greatly excite my attention. The tribe of clerks was an obvious one and here I discerned two remarkable divisions. Th...

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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