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...Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY.......................................................................................................... 12 VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE ...............................................................

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...THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A Hist... ...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...volution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...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... ...k domino, like a black night-bird, and disturb the fair Antoinette’s music-party in the Park: all Birds of Paradise flying from thee, and musical wind... ...n! Finally he descends; welcomed by the universe. Duchess Polignac, with a party, is in the Bois de Boulogne, waiting; though it is drizzly winter; th... ...certain transitionary state; getting regenerated from old Monarchic to new Democratic; no Official yet knows clearly what he is. Nevertheless, Mayors ... ...he Versailles Municipality (an old Monarchic one, not yet refounded into a Democratic) instantly second the proposal? Nay the very Versailles National... ...’s fly sat on the chariot-wheel, exclaiming, What a dust I do raise! Great Governors, clad in purple with fasces and insignia, are governed by their v...

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...Contents Volume One ..................................................................... 4 THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK.......................................................................................................... 4 THE SPANISH NUN ....................................................................................

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...NARRATIVE and MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Narrative and Miscellaneous P... ... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...arrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...ellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...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... ... been requisite: for it is proper to mention, that every person directly a party to the case has been long laid in the grave: all of them, with one so... ... and excitement, since our little Francis had become of an age to join our party, which made some aspects of her character trebly interesting. She was... ... now its unity was broken. A new element was introduced into the question: Democratic feelings were armed against this outrage; gentlemen and nobles, ... ...; but above all, the insolent contempt, or even outrages which the Russian governors or great military com- mandants tolerated in their followers towa...

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...ion: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a ...

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...klin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...on and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and witho... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. An An An An Any per y per y per y per y person using this do... ...r own wn wn wn wn risk. risk. risk. risk. risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated wit... ...reflected that I had already made myself a little obnoxious to the governing party, and, from the arbitrary proceedings of the Assembly in my brother’... ...at we plant our chief habits and prejudices; it is in youth that we take our party as to profession, pursuits and matrimony. In youth, there fore, th... ...ey dislik’d my late intimacy with the members of council, who had join’d the governors in all the disputes about military preparations, with which the... ...much prerogative in it, and in England it was judg’d to have too much of the democratic. The Board of Trade therefore did not approve of it, nor recom... ...scheme was form’d, supposed to answer the same pur pose better, whereby the governors of the provinces, with some members of their respective council...

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...Excerpt: The subject of this essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be ...

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... On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ... On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnished free and witho... ...wn risk. her own risk. her own risk. her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated wit... ...en ceased to think it a necessity of On Liberty — Mill 4 nature that their governors should be an indepen dent power, opposed in interest to themse... ...mporary rulers became the prominent object of the exertions of the popu lar party, wherever any such party existed; and su perseded, to a considerab... ...tbreak against monarchi cal and aristocratic despotism. In time, however, a democratic republic came to occupy a large portion of the earth’s surface... ...wer are regularly accountable to the community , that is, to the stron gest party therein. This view of things, recommend ing itself equally to the ... ...oned. There is confessedly a strong tendency in the mod ern world towards a democratic constitution of so ciety, accompanied or not by popular polit... ...lete is the bondage of all, the members of the bureaucracy included. For the governors are as much the slaves of their organization and discipline, as...

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...Excerpt: The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I.: indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, disco...

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...Contents THE BRIDGE-BUILDERS ............................................................................................................. 4 A WALKING DELEGATE..............................................................................

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...ens Charles Dickens Charles Dickens Charles Dickens Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Penn State Electronic Classi... ...ies Publication A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Penn State Electronic Classi... ...n ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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 ... ...r here, even here, upon neutral ground, where we have no more knowledge of party difficulties, or public ani mosities between side and side, or betwe... ...terary and Social 37 The good work, however, in spite of all political and party differences, has been well begun; we are all interested in it; it is ... ... right belonging to it. I will use, instead of these words, the terms, the governors and the governed. These two bodies the Association finds with a g... ...y for merit everywhere: accepting it equally whether it be aristocratic or democratic, only asking whether it be honest or true, is, I take it, the tr...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of...

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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of... ...l Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...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... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated wit... ...the evi dence of Livy, and upheld, to the best of my ability, the Ro man Democratic party. A few years later, in my contempt of my childish efforts,... ...nce of Livy, and upheld, to the best of my ability, the Ro man Democratic party. A few years later, in my contempt of my childish efforts, I destroye... ...ory. Saturated as the book is with the opinions and modes of judgment of a democratic radicalism then regarded as ex treme; and treating with a sever... ...blic and private. He was acquainted with many of the chiefs of the Liberal party, and I saw various noteworthy persons while staying at this house; am... ...ainst being put to some trouble and expense in order to avoid it. Colonial governors and other persons in authority, will have a considerable motive t...

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Excerpt: The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung?s Ring by George Bernard Shaw.

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...Contents Preface to the First German Edition................................................................................................ 5 Preface to the Second Edition ...........................................................................

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhap...

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...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29...

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... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ... I. PRELIMINARY 3 CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY C ONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished an... ...ed of, might endanger the circulation of any Journal extant? If, indeed, all party divisions in the State could have been abolished, Whig, Tory, and R... ...he circulation of any Journal extant? If, indeed, all party divisions in the State could have been abolished, Whig, Tory, and Radical, embracing in di... ...cademical beer. 12 SARTOR RESARTUS day, he would probably be hanged for his democratic sentiments. Wo steckt doch der Schalk? added they, looking rou... ...ired Armies, and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of Printing. The first ground ha... ...able that, by the “good Gretchen Futteral,” or some other perhaps interested party, he has himself been deceived? Should these sheets, translated or n... ...y Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen out; and instead of shooting one another, had the cu... ...re your Priest has no tongue but for plate licking: and your high Guides and Governors cannot guide; but on all hands hear it passionately proclaimed:...