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Excerpt: North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope.

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...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ....................... 321 4 North America V ol. 1 North America Volume One by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION It has been the ambition of my l... ...philosophico-political or po- litico-statistical, or statistico-scientific writer; but it can hardly be done by a man who professes to use a light pen... ...n, and to manufacture his article for the use of general read- ers. Such a writer may tell all that he sees of the beauti- ful; but he must also tell,... ...ds to give a favor- able verdict. There are of course those against whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom ... ... recommend it beyond the beauty of its situation. Its public buildings and works of art do not deserve a long narrative. It stands at the confluence o... ...ing in the winter of 1861; and, as is necessary in Canadian win- ters, the works are suspended. But unfortunately they were suspended in the early par...

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... past the height of four feet six inches. Despite these challenges, Pope flourished in English society and was likely its first professional literary writer having garnered significant income from the sales of books to the public as opposed to traditional patronages, capitalizing mostly on his excellent translations of Homer and an edited edition of Shakespeare. A close fr...

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...ature affords at least a glimm’ring light; The lines, tho’ touch’d but faintly, are drawn right: But as the slightest sketch, if justly traced, Is by ill col’ring but the more disgraced, So by false learning is good sense defaced: Some are bewilder’d in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools: In search of wit these lose their common sense...

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... for Music on St. Cecilia’s Day Argus The Balance of Europe The Translator On Mrs. Tofts, a Famous Opera-Singer Epistle to Mrs. Blount, with the Works of Voiture Adriani Morientis Ad Animam Epistle to Mr. Jervas Impromptu to Lady Winchilsea Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady Messiah The Rape of the Lock Canto I Canto II Canto III Canto IV Canto V P...

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... alarming frequency to young student aviators from the campus really accidents -- or is some unknown conspiracy afoot? This mystery novel was written by Daniel A Lord, S.J., a priest and popular American Catholic writer. The subjects of the works in his bibliography range from religion, humor, plays, songs, mysteries and even politics. His most influential work was possibl...

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...ia State University. All the student essays contained herein were produced by students registered in English 004, 015 and 030, within the Commonwealth... ..., during the academic year of 2003-04, and the essays appear here with the writers’ express written permission. No portion of Best of Freshman Writing... ...s produced in the courses listed above, and the essays must be submit- ted by faculty members from the campuses. In other words, Best is not an “open ... ... them. All documentation should be in MLA parenthetical style and verified by the student’s instructor. (Please see the edito- rial at the end.) Facul... ...dition is, for the most part, gone. My older brother is now twenty-two and works full time, unable to make time to spend Sun- days with the family, al... ...ave exchanged roles, and by doing so, the sin- ister balance is preserved. Works Cited Frye, Roland Muschat. “Macbeth’s Usurping Wife.” Renaissance Ne... ...for our rights and the rights of our neigh- bor, or we will never be free. Works s s s s Cited Bush, George W. State of the Union Address. 19 January ... ...is most often a matter of demonstrating to an audience the validity of the writer’s argument and a mastery of the materials pertinent to making such a... ...hink” or “I believe” has little resonance with educated readers unless the writer’s point is a lack of total conviction. In order to validate one’s co...

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...cation at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. To judge by quotations and allusions, his favourite of the classics was Horace, the chosen of the eighteenth century, and generally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. His voyage from India gave him sight of Napoleon ...

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...h A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Miscellaneous Prose by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Miscellaneous Prose by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing... ............................... 14 4 Miscellaneous Prose MISCELLANEOUS PROSE By George Meredith INTRODUCTION TO W. M. THACKERAY’S “THE FOUR GEORGES” WIL... ...ed disposi- tion to satire, the singular critical drollery, notable in his works. His parodies, even those pushed to burlesque, are an expression of c... ...nd if what ap- pears incurable remains with us, a continued reading of his works will at least help to combat it. 6 Miscellaneous Prose A PAUSE IN TH... ..., there was conversation which would have made the presence of a shorthand writer a benefaction to the country. A pause to it came at the examination ... ...erature will be reviewed by his lieutenant of Tramps, one of the ablest of writers!—[Frederic W. Maitland.]—The memory of it remains with us, as being...

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Excerpt: Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Thomas Common.

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...Contents INTRODUCTION BY MRS FORSTER-NIETZSCHE .................................................................................................. 7 FIRST PART: ZARATHUSTRA?S DISCOURSES..................................................................

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...the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Thomas Common the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...roduced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing... ... State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents INTRODUCTION BY MRS FORSTER-NIETZSCHE ................................................... ............................................................ 157 LI. ON PASSING-BY ......................................................................... ...ide of all—is called “life.” Just see these superfluous ones! They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the wise. Culture, they call ... ...—AND I SAW a great sadness come over mankind. The best turned weary of their works. A doctrine appeared, a faith ran beside it: ‘All is empty, all is ... ...OULD be as well to start out with a broad and rapid sketch of Nietzsche as a writer on Morals, Evolution, and Sociology, so that the reader may be pre... ...f original thinkers. In the “Dawn of Day”, Nietzsche actually cautions young writers against the danger of allowing their thoughts to be moulded by th...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that...

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...FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN & BOOKS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ... an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...his style of writing. Of these disadvantages a word must here be said. The writer of short studies, having to condense in a few pages the events of a ... ...pression of the subject may at last be struck. But in the short study, the writer, having seized his “point of view,” must keep his eye steadily to th... ...; it will take longer to appreciate the moral bias of Carlyle. So with all writers who insist on forc- ing some significance from all that comes befor... ...cond in order of interest among the reformers, lies dead and buried in the works of the learned and unreadable M’Crie. It remains for some one to brea... ...let it be understood, in every so-called novel. The great majority are not works of art in anything but a very secondary signification. One might almo...