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...ein Veblen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...hand. Honorific epithets, in vogue among barbarian tribes as well as among peoples of a more advance culture, commonly bear the stamp of this unsophis... ...redatory efficiency are deeply ingrained in the habits of thought of those peoples who have passed under the discipline of a protracted predatory cul-... ...eeding is achieved in the case of a goodly number of families and lines of descent. This synco- pated gentle birth gives results which, in point of se... ...t to be passed over that it is precisely among these middle classes of the Germanic culture, with their strong surviving sense of the patriarchal prop... ...ng in this direction, and indeed, he commonly does; but with a still lower descent into the levels of indigence — along the margin of the slums — the ... ...nd we have, particularly, that bizarre survival of bellicose chivalry, the German student duel. In the lower or spurious leisure class of the delinque... ...stance, as a typical case, even so late as the middle of this century, the Norwegian peasants have instinctively formulated their sense of the superio...

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... Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...of Species Chapter VI Difficulties on Theory Difficulties on the theory of descent with modifica- tion — Transitions —Absence or rarity of transitiona... ...m — Rules and difficulties in classifi- cation, explained on the theory of descent with modi- fication — Classification of varieties — Descent al- way... ... now hardly one peculiar mammal, and France but few distinct from those of Germany and conversely, and so with Hungary, Spain, &c., but that each of t... ...eons have been watched, and tended with the utmost care, and loved by many people. They have been domesticated for thousands of years in several quart... ...to the sheep of parts of Yorkshire, that ‘as they generally belong to poor people, and are mostly in small lots, they never can be improved.’ On the o... ...sts con- sider our British red grouse as only a strongly- marked race of a Norwegian species, whereas the greater number rank it as an undoubted speci... ...as species. Look at the common oak, how closely it has been studied; yet a German author makes more than a dozen species out of forms, which are very ...

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.... 4 CHAPTER I ? DOMESTIC ANNALS...........................................................................................11 CHAPTER II ? THE SERVICE OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS I ......................................... 32 CHAPTER III ? THE BUILDING OF THE BELL ROCK ....................................................... 57...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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...Excerpt: When The Duchess Was Dead No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the first nine months after he had left office he and the Duchess remained in England. Then they had gone abroad, takin...

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...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania State Universit... ... Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old ... ...nd find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, per chance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ... dishes, five; and reduce other things in pro portion. Our life is like a German Confederacy, made up of petty states, with its boundary forever fluc... ...p of petty states, with its boundary forever fluctuat ing, so that even a German cannot tell you how it is bounded at any moment. The nation itself, ... ...r inches in diameter, which had been gnawed by mice the previous winter na Norwegian winter for them, for the snow lay long and deep, and they were ob... ...us line; and in Boston and London and Paris and Rome, thinking of its long descent, it speaks of its progress in art and science and literature with s...

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...den Economy 1 Economy W HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a hous... ... a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the la... ...ed for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old ... ...y and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ...ndred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion. Our life is like a German Confederacy, made up of petty states, with its boundary forever flu... ...ade up of petty states, with its boundary forever fluctuating, so that even a German cannot tell you how it is bounded at any moment. The nation itself... ...r inches in diameter, which had been gnawed by mice the previous winter, — a Norwegian winter for them, for the snow lay long and deep, and they were ... ...ious line; and in Boston and London and Paris and Rome, thinking of its long descent, it speaks of its progress in art and science and literature with...