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...ORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the ... ...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... .............................................................. 76 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ............................................................... ......................................... 293 Chapter 2.5.II. The Book of the Law. ......................................................................... ...ory many things, in that sick-room of Louis, are now visible, which to the Courtiers there present were invisible. For indeed it is well said, ‘in eve... ... teach us, How they grow; and, after long stormy growth, bloom out mature, supreme; then quickly (for the blossom is brief) fall into decay; sorrowful... ...strength of Heaven assisting him, to avoid the like—for the future!” Words listened to by Richelieu with mastiff-face, growing blacker; answered to, a... ... In that Chateau of Versailles, we have Nestor, King, Queen, ministers and clerks, with paper-bundles tied in tape: but the Govern- ment? For Governme... ...c Oath, of the One- 70 The French Revolution and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new- idea, which, in these coming years, shall ...

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...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Moth...

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...sics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...s Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...done that violence to good manners, in the days of a Russian war, and of a Court of Inquiry at Chelsea. If I might make so bold as to defend that extr... ... prolonged the strain until the door clashed. Monsieur Rigaud, finding the listening John Baptist in his way before the echoes had ceased (even the ec... .... ‘Supposing she was tender- hearted, and they came over her. Where’s your law for tying it up then?’ The deepest character whom the turnkey sounded, ... ...the difficult art of governing a country, was first distinctly revealed to statesmen. It had been foremost to study that bright revelation and to carr... ...n them, secre- taries minuted upon them, commissioners gabbled about them, clerks registered, entered, checked, and ticked them off, and they melted a... ...overty; and so dragged at by poverty and the children together, that their united forces had already dragged her face into wrinkles. ‘All such things ... ...st each other, and in seeing Clennam startled by what they said. Having as supreme a con- tempt for the class that had thrown him off as for the class...

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...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Moth...

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...tion Little Dorrit, Book One: Poverty by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...n Little Dorrit, Book One: Poverty by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...done that violence to good manners, in the days of a Russian war, and of a Court of Inquiry at Chelsea. If I might make so bold as to defend that extr... ... prolonged the strain until the door clashed. Monsieur Rigaud, finding the listening John Baptist in his way before the echoes had ceased (even the ec... .... ‘Supposing she was tender- hearted, and they came over her. Where’s your law for tying it up then?’ The deepest character whom the turnkey sounded, ... ...the difficult art of governing a country, was first distinctly revealed to statesmen. It had been foremost to study that bright revelation and to carr... ...n them, secre- taries minuted upon them, commissioners gabbled about them, clerks registered, entered, checked, and ticked them off, and they melted a... ...overty; and so dragged at by poverty and the children together, that their united forces had already dragged her face into wrinkles. ‘All such things ... ...st each other, and in seeing Clennam startled by what they said. Having as supreme a con- tempt for the class that had thrown him off as for the class...

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...Series Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ies Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...ob Joe, for I never thought of any of the house- keeping property as his – united to the necessity of always keeping one hand on my bread-and-butter a... ...at the mist all round us, and often stopping – even stopping his jaws – to listen. Some real or fancied sound, some clink upon the river or breathing ... ...red over to her, to be dealt with according to the outraged majesty of the law. I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposi- ti... ...mained, all the lower 51 Charles Dickens were rustily barred. There was a court-yard in front, and that was barred; so, we had to wait, after ringing... ...I think she is very insulting.” (She was looking at me then with a look of supreme aversion.) “ Anything else?” “I think I should like to go home.” “ ... ...ugh be- fore, I complicated its confusion fifty thousand-fold, by hav- ing states and seasons when I was clear that Biddy was im- measurably better th... ...n- 151 Charles Dickens tage, as his master had. I wondered how many other clerks there were up-stairs, and whether they all claimed to have the same ...

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....................................................................................................................... 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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...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...

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

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...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...

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

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...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...

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...Table of Contents: Book I ?Miss Brooke, 1 -- Prelude, 1 -- Chapter I., 3 -- Chapter II., 10 -- Chapter III., 16 -- Chapter IV., 25 -- Chapter V., 31 -- Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- ...

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...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...XLII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Book V — The Dead Hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Chapter ... ...lundering lives are due to the inconvenient indefi niteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level o... ...ht that she could urge him to many good actions when he was her brother in law. Mr. Casaubon turned his eyes very markedly on Dorothea while she was s... ...reader for my evenings; but I am fastidious in voices, and I cannot endure listening to an imperfect reader. It is a misfortune, in some senses: I fee... ...ile complete knowledge with devoted piety; here was a modern Augustine who united the glories of doctor and saint. The sanctity seemed no less clearly... ...efer Celia, especially when Dorothea was gone. The truth is, you have been courting one and have won the other. I can see that she admires you almost ... ...cceed each other like the magic lantern pictures of a doze; and in certain states of dull forlornness Dorothea all her life continued to see the vastn... ...andwriting, but at the vision of himself as liable to be ranked with office clerks. “Do? Why, you must learn to form your letters and keep the line. Wh...

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