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Excerpt: Statesman by Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett.

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... Statesman by Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is f... ... Statesman by Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ree and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither t... ...thin the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Statesman by Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...he legislator is to contrive human bonds, by which dissimilar natures may be united in marriage and supply the deficiencies of one another. As in the ... ... over these operations is the art of weaving. But why did we go through this circuitous pro- cess, instead of saying at once that weaving is the art o... ...rates ap- pointed by them are summoned before an ignorant and unprofessional court, and may be condemned and punished for breaking the regulations. Th... ..., are supposed to have preserved a recollec- tion of a previous one. He also appeals to internal evidence, viz. the perfect coherence of the tale, tho... ...ive man, or with the description of the gradual rise of a new society in the Third Book of the Laws. Some dis- crepancies may be observed between the ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Joe Brownlow?s Fancy. The lady said, ?An orphan?s fate Is sad and hard to bear.? --Scott ?MOTHER, you could do a great kindness.? ?Well, Joe?? ?If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of gr...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. My father?s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip....

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two.

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...Contents THE PURLOINED LETTER ...................................................................................................................................... 4 THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE..........................

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........................................................................................................................................ 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR .......................................................................................................... 47 CHAPTER IV: WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS ............................................................

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...................................................................................................................................................... 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE .....................................

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on th...

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