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Five Works of : Areopagitica, Comus, Lalegro, Il Penseroso, And Lycidas

By: John Milton

...agitica, Comus, “L’Alegro,” “Il Penseroso,” and “Lycidas” is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fu... ...tica, Comus, “L’Alegro,” “Il Penseroso,” and “Lycidas” is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Edi tor, nor an... ...ble Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy acce... ...ace: What can be juster in a state than this? Euripid. Hicetid. They, who to states and governors of the Common wealth direct their speech, High Cour... ...learning, that when Carneades and Critolaus, with the Stoic Diogenes, coming ambassadors to Rome, took thereby occasion to give the city a taste of th... ...d can be built. And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world; neither... ... he see our small divided maniples cutting through at every angle of his ill united and unwieldy brigade. And that we are to hope better of all these ...

...Excerpt: They, who to states and governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, wanting such access in a private condition, write that which they foresee may advance the public good; I suppose them, as at the b...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ION It has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country with this obj... ...has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country with this object bef... ... visit the country with this object before the in- testine troubles of the United States government had com- menced. I have not allowed the division a... ... and Mason. But the lawyers soon waxed stronger. The men were mani- festly ambassadors, and as such contraband of war. Wilkes was quite right, only he... ...vessel also. He was quite right, for though Slidell and Mason might not be ambassadors, they were undoubtedly carry- ing dispatches. In a few hours th...

...NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI .........................................................................................

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The History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

By: Friedrich Schiller

...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... ... J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by th... ...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.... ...h Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...tavus Adolphus. — Swedish Army. — Gustavus Adolphus takes his leave of the States at Stockholm. — Invasion by the Swedes. — Their progress in Germany.... ...hrough the Ref- ormation an attractive centre of interest, and began to be united by new political sympathies. And as through its influence new relati... ...n of the tenth and the twentieth penny, the See of Rome had never lost the United Netherlands. Princes fought in self-defence or for aggrandizement, w... ...ord failed, did not scruple to employ the dagger; and con- verted even its ambassadors into incendiaries and assassins. What it had lost in three quar... ... 1629, from which Wallenstein, with studied contempt, excluded the Swedish ambassadors who came to inter- cede for Mecklenburgh, all the conquests tak...

...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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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...UBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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 a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...nterests of eternal justice (and recent friendship), does not apply to the United States of America. There, if one may believe the long and helpless i... ...s of eternal justice (and recent friendship), does not apply to the United States of America. There, if one may believe the long and helpless indignat... ...avours to come, it becomes very easy to be grateful to the au- thor of The Ambassadorsto name the latest of his works. The favours are sure to come; ... ...ds the introductory chapter of the story which, as the author’s dedication states, has inspired an admirable draughtsman and a skilful dramatist, each... ...il n’y a plus d’Europe!” There is, indeed, no Europe. The idea of a Europe united in the solidarity of her dynasties, which for a mo- ment seemed to d...

.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...E OF THE BEAGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...AGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...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, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ing of a hard glossy substance with a pearly lus- tre, which is intimately united to the surface of the rocks. This, when examined with a lens, is fou... ...es, finely coni- cal at both ends. Two of these are shown in the wood- cut united together. They vary in length from .04 to .06, and even to .08 of an... ...mpelled to vomit up the carrion it may have recently gorged. Lastly, Azara states that several Carranchas, five or six together, will unite in chase o... ... and the other three were taken alive. They turned out to be messengers or ambassadors from a large body of Indians, united in the common cause of def... ...st of mare’s flesh was ready, and the dance prepared: in the morn- ing the ambassadors were to have returned to the Cordillera. They were remarkably f...

Excerpt: The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...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... ...UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ON... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... dogs. Hypocrisy, the cringing of sycophants, and the credulities of fear, united to conceal this misotheism; but we may be sure that it was widely di... ...ly, is found the outermost expansion, the centrifugal, of the TO catholic, united with the innermost centripetal of the personal con- sciousness. Had,... ...the following little diplomatic secret:—On the rise of the Parthian power, ambassadors had been sent to Antipater, the father of Herod, offering the P... ...ontemplated in general rules. The tendency of such varia- tions is, in all states of complex civilization, to absolute in- finity.* It is our present ... ...denied it. Their mission was to cleanse the earth from Polytheism; and, as ambassadors from 211 Thomas de Quincey God, to tell the nations—‘Ye shall ...

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

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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 a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...r author, in which Sen- timent and History, or the True and Beautiful, are united. CHAPTER XXIV BUTTON’S IN PALL MALL. THOSE WHO FREQUENT the dismal a... ...g waits.” The Bishop ran off, with more than youthful agility, to seek the United States’ Minister. “These Republi- cans,” he added, confidentially, a... ....” The Bishop ran off, with more than youthful agility, to seek the United States’ Minister. “These Republi- cans,” he added, confidentially, and with... ...f the flag of truce was a Jew—the people were employed continually then as ambassadors between the two races at war in Spain. “I come,” said the old J... ... all the most desirable bachelors of the people were ready to bid for her. Ambassadors came from all quarters to propose for her. Her own uncle, the v...

...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glori...

................ 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL.............................................................................................................. 9 THE CONDEMNED CELL. ..............................................................................................................12 CODLINGSBY ....................................................................................

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... 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... ...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, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...or two hundred and twenty years. It is enough that she is reported to have united the stately tread of Andalusian women with the innocent voluptuousne... ...; and the French reporter of Catalina’s memoirs dwells upon the theme. She united, he says, the sweetness of the German lady with the energy of the Ar... ...of this paper have been translated by the Jesuit missionaries. The Emperor states the whole motives of his conduct and the chief incidents at great le... ...s ogy, when men talk of substances in different stages, or of transitional states, they do not mean that they have watched the same individual stratum... ...tion,—that God could wilfully interfere with his own plans, by accrediting ambassadors to reveal astronomy, or any other science, which he has command...

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

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The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

By: George Bernard Shaw

...y GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of ... ...D SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ity. 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, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...es of 1649 to see themselves, as it certainly helped gen- erations of Whig statesmen to see them, in a heroic light; and it unquestionably vindicates... ...popular feeling was excited as to the relations of Austria with the Balkan States. Now if a comedy so remote from political passion as Arms and The Ma... ...rm a play incit- ing the country to that war without interference from the ambassadors of the menaced country. I may “give pain to many worthy people,... ...ess and speech are those of pioneers of civilisation in a territory of the United States of America, are seated round the table and on the benches, sh... ...oly Bible if they touched it. I say thats the law; and if you are a proper United States Sheriff and not a low-down lyncher, youll hold up the law and...

...Excerpt: This little play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived playgoers whose point of honor is to deride all official and conventional sermons....

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...ture by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William J... ...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...s Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...gion on that account—Theory that religion has a sexual origin refuted— All states of mind are neurally conditioned— Their significance must be tested ... ...h. LECTURES XVI AND XVII MYSTICISM Mysticism defined— Four marks of mystic states— They form a distinct region of consciousness— Examples of their low... ... the Scottish universities, changing places with Scotsmen lecturing in the United States; I hope that our people may become in all these higher mat- t... ...g that it cometh from the Lord.” And again: “Consider the little infants, united and joined to the breasts of their nursing moth- ers you will see th... ... volume called, “Oahspe, a new Bible in the Words of Jehovah and his angel ambassadors,” Boston and London, 1891, written and illustrated automaticall...

Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

...NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ............................................................................

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T r... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by ... ...ense that, in order to lose as little as possible, they have collected and united what originally were variations—the revisions, in short, of the orig... ...raw them to peace but by sharp and fierce wars. Chapter 1.XXXIII. How some statesmen of Picrochole, by hairbrained counsel, put him in extreme danger.... ...llay, of Narsay, of Cande, of Montsoreau, and other bordering places, sent ambassadors unto Grangousier, to tell him that they were advised of the gre... ...turned into his country, he called a parliament, where all the princes and states of his kingdom being assembled, he showed them the humanity which he... ...nd binary, the first of the even numbers, as of a male and female knit and united together. In very deed it was the fashion of old in the city of Rome...

...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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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...itors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 The Bean Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...he Bean Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...den Economy 1 Economy W HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a hous... ... a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the la... ...t with civilization. I hardly need refer now to the laborers in our Southern States who produce the staple exports of this country, and are themselves... ...tch, in 1650, for the information of those who wished to take up land there, states more particularly, that “those in New Netherland, and especially i... ...e same all the world over, whether the building be an Egyptian temple or the United States Bank. It costs more than it comes to. The mainspring is van... ...stice, though the slightest amount or new variety of it, along the road. Our ambassadors should be instructed to send home such seeds as these, and Co... ...eg, leaving the foe to select among his own members; and so there were three united for life, as if a new kind of attraction had been invented which p...

...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the ...

...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 13...

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