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Excerpt: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

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...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the ...

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...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A ... ...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...or Frederick. — The Battle of Prague and total subjection of Bohemia. Book II. State of the Empire. — Of Europe. — Mansfeld. — Christian, Duke of Brun... ... Munster, scarcely any thing great or remarkable occurred in the political world of Europe in which the Reformation had not an important share. All th... ...the sub- ject contended too for his own cause, while he was fighting their battles. Fortunately at this date no European sovereign was so absolute as ... ...ts who had no repre- sentatives in the diet were little attended to in the pacification. In the ecclesiastical territories, indeed, where the unreform... ... Henry IV. and the German princes under- stood each other in their plan of operations, so much had the excellent king been mistaken in his instruments...

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

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

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...AL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE Volume 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 R... ...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... ...MPLE, LORD COBHAM.*............................................ 26 EPISTLE II.—TO A LADY. ............................................................... ...mpression he has made on, and impulse he has given to, his own age and the world. In other words, what were his native powers, and what has he done, f... ..., the breaking of a flower-pot or the fall of a China jar; for the tug and war of the elements, or the deadly strife of the passions, “‘Calm contempla... ...ulness, extended through her sub- ordinate instruments, in all her various operations. This is branched into episodes, each of which hath its moral ap... ... with demons in strange league engage, And earth, and heaven, and hell her battles wage. She eyed the bard, where supperless he sate, And pined, uncon... ...eternal praise, 280 Their full-fed heroes, their pacific mayors, Their annual trophies, and their monthly wars; Though long ...

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...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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...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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Excerpt: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by U.S. Grant.

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...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...cation Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... brother, Solomon, held com- missions in the English army, in 1756, in the war against the French and Indians. Both were killed that year. My grandfat... ...ine years old. At the breaking out of the war of the Revolution, after the battles of Concord and Lexington, he went with a Connecti- cut company to j... ...hat under which he had received his own education. 13 U. S. Grant CHAPTER II WEST POINT—GRADUATION IN THE WINTER OF 1838-9 I was attending school at ... ...ndependence, after many years of war, it was the most natural thing in the world that they should adopt as their own the laws then in exist- ence. The... ... weeks, awaiting the arrival of transports to carry it to its new field of operations. The transports were all sailing vessels. The pas- sage was a te... ...o have reached it. CHAPTER XIV RETURN OF THE ARMY—MARRIAGE— ORDERED TO THE PACIFIC COAST— CROSSING THE ISTHMUS—ARRIVAL AT SAN FRANCISCO MY EXPERIENCE ...

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