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...ry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve i... ... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... equipped with all their official entou- rage, aligned themselves in their places and took up the pow- ers and duties of local government in perfect o... ... masterpieces of the century. The first chapter, upon the exterior form of North America, as the theatre upon which the great drama is to be enacted, ... ...e offered to the public has been written under the impression of a kind of religious dread produced in the author’s mind by the contemplation of so ir... ...hough the vast country which we have been describing was inhabited by many indigenous tribes, it may justly be said at the time of its discovery by Eu... ... states by their origin is clearly distinguishable. At the period when the peoples of Europe landed in the New World their national characteristics we...

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... by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of th... ...Classics Series Publication Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ... other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes... ... who deserve a special word of condemnation. One of them was Scots; the other claimed to be American; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born i... ... and authority into the choice of a man’s own pleasures. I can excuse a person combating my religious or philosophical heresies, because them I have d... ...pacity of stranger, and requested to be told the names of all manner of hills and woods and places that I did not wish to know, and we stood together ... ...ld shepherd’s festival; and one could not help pictur- ing to oneself what havoc among good peoples purses, and tribulation for benignant constables, ... ...topics; but it was his specially to have a generous taste in eating. This was what was most indigenous in the man; it was here he was an artist; and I...

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...Septimius Felton; Or, The Elixir Of Life By Nathanial Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Septimius Felton; or, The Elixir of Life by Nathanial Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...was completed by her daughters. The book was then issued simultaneously in America and England, in 1871. Although “Septimius Felton” appeared so much ... ...towards the south, and its ridge and crowning woods defended them from the northern blasts and snow drifts, it was an admi rable situation for the fi... ...?” said Robert Hagburn. “And what would the people do who wish to fill our places? You are unfair, Septimius. Live and let live! Turn about! Give me m... ...ranged purposely for this end; a differ ence had come between two kindred peoples; a war had bro ken out; a young officer, with the traditions of an... ...h right there as if she had grown up out of the soil like one of the wild, indigenous flowers which she had been gazing at and handling. However that ... ...d insisted on everywhere, al though without any discoverable reference to religious or moral motives; and always when the author seemed verging towar...

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... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stev... ... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevens... ...stared, focused glasses, and wrangled over charts; and the sun was overhead and the land close ahead before we found them. To a ship ap- proaching, li... ...h was lined with palms and a tree called the purao, something between the fig and mulberry in growth, and bearing a flower like a great yellow poppy w... ...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...th other groups. Samoa is, for the moment, the main and the most instruc- tive exception to the rule. The people are the most chaste and one of the mo... ...gotten delicacies. Pierre Loti may like to know that he is M. Aussel’s favourite author, and that his books are read in the fit scenery of Hatiheu bay... ...ople plays the part of the Contagious Diseases Act; in-comers to fresh islands anxiously inquire if all be well; and syphilis, when contracted, is suc...

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...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FO...

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...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A A A A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP... ...says and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...radations would have arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of thei... ...divine things, becomes requisite; for all the direct terms, expressing the religious tem- per, are preoccupied by a taint of scorn. The word [Greek te... ... Oh, weariness of man’s spirit before that unresting mercenariness in high places, which neither, when his race clamored for justice, nor when it lang... ...rative truths, lifeless, and unvalued. Now, on the other hand, in England, America, France, societies are rising for making war upon war; and it is a ... ..., but a fiercely op- erative superstition, is unknown in England and other North- ern latitudes. On the contrary, to my thinking, the regular old vulg... ... Christians being exterminated, and the Moslem invaders being robbed of an indigenous working population, naturally inquires what it was that led to s...

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...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow...

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...Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ies Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...ion we speak of the life of a savage tribe, of the Athenian people, of the American nation. “Life” covers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories an... ...y social institution, economic, domestic, 11 John Dewey political, legal, religious, is its effect in enlarging and improving experience; yet this ef... ...a fish because it is necessary to the fish’s activi- ties—to its life. The north pole is a significant element in the environment of an arctic explore... ...themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences. In similar fashion, peoples still existing, but remote in space, Brit- ish, Germans, Italians, ... ...ology. We have already noted the defects of a psychology of learning which places the individual mind naked, as it were, in contact with physical obje... ...n that has nothing to do with the experi- enced facts of life, it is found indigenous in experience:— the factor by which past experiences are purifie...