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...t) A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet), the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ................................. 96 4 Letters on England Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) INTRODUCTION FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET, who... ...ke, Mr. Le Clerc, etc., the greatest philoso- phers, as well as the ablest writers of their ages, should scarcely have been able to raise a little flo... ...y as to make himself a great philosopher, a good historian, and an elegant writer; and a still more surprising circumstance is that he lived in an age... ...a true attractive power. This forerunner in philosophy was also an elegant writer, an historian, and a wit. His moral essays are greatly esteemed, but... ... very desirous of being at the head of a party. But what do I say? All the works of the modern philosophers put together will never make so much noise... ...ing. This imagina- tion could not conceal itself even in his philosophical works, which are everywhere adorned with very shining, ingenious metaphors ...

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...Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Note... ...NN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. T... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Se... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...in the world were a source of proud and unholy joy unto some of the modern writers. That frame of mind is not the proper one in which to approach seri... ...nd I would not grudge him the proud illusion that will come sometimes to a writer: the illusion that his achievement has almost equalled the greatness... ...o be grateful to the au- thor of The Ambassadors—to name the latest of his works. The favours are sure to come; the spring of that benevolence will ne... ...significant tides of reality. Action in its essence, the creative art of a writer of fiction may be compared to rescue work carried out in darkness ag... ...cker of light on a black sky, to hear the last word uttered in the stilled workshop of the earth. It is safe to affirm that, if anybody, it will be th...

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...ia State University. All the student essays contained herein were produced by students registered in English 004, 015 and 030, within the Commonwealth... ..., during the academic year of 2003-04, and the essays appear here with the writers’ express written permission. No portion of Best of Freshman Writing... ...s produced in the courses listed above, and the essays must be submit- ted by faculty members from the campuses. In other words, Best is not an “open ... ... them. All documentation should be in MLA parenthetical style and verified by the student’s instructor. (Please see the edito- rial at the end.) Facul... ...dition is, for the most part, gone. My older brother is now twenty-two and works full time, unable to make time to spend Sun- days with the family, al... ...ave exchanged roles, and by doing so, the sin- ister balance is preserved. Works Cited Frye, Roland Muschat. “Macbeth’s Usurping Wife.” Renaissance Ne... ...for our rights and the rights of our neigh- bor, or we will never be free. Works s s s s Cited Bush, George W. State of the Union Address. 19 January ... ...is most often a matter of demonstrating to an audience the validity of the writer’s argument and a mastery of the materials pertinent to making such a... ...hink” or “I believe” has little resonance with educated readers unless the writer’s point is a lack of total conviction. In order to validate one’s co...

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...cation at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. To judge by quotations and allusions, his favourite of the classics was Horace, the chosen of the eighteenth century, and generally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. His voyage from India gave him sight of Napoleon ...

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... Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ............................................................. ...correct as that in the “Last of the Barons,” or in “Eugene Aram,” or other works of our author, in which Sen- timent and History, or the True and Beau... ...who served with him knew, and none more so than Philip Fogarty, the humble writer of this tale of war. Our embrasure was luckily bomb-proof, and the d... ...lot and act on it yourself. Y ou are a known man; the public relishes your works; any- thing bearing the name of Snooks is eagerly read by the masses;... ...h manuscript finishes here: it is many weeks since we saw the accomplished writer, and we have only just learned his fate. We are happy to state that ... ...e anecdote is trivial, but it shows the power of Julia Jowler over me. The writers of marine novels have so exhausted the subject of storms, shipwreck...

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...s. How, then, comes it, may the reflective mind repeat, that the grand Tissue of all Tissues, the only real Tissue, should have been quite overlooked by Science,--the vestural Tissue, namely, of woollen or other cloth; which Man?s Soul wears as its outmost wrappage and overall; wherein his whole other Tissues are included ......

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...f Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents BOOK I ... ...ssue of all Tissues, the only real Tissue, should have been quite overlooked by Science,— the vestural Tissue, namely, of woollen or other cloth; whic... ...speculations they have tacitly figured man as a Clothed Animal; whereas he is by nature a Naked Animal; and only in certain circumstances, by purpose a... ...end that this Work on Clothes entirely contents us; that it is not, like all works of genius, like the very Sun, which, though the highest published c... ...uries it.—On the other hand, let us be free to admit, he is the most unequal writer breathing. Often after some such feat, he will play truant for lon... ... ten intervene! On the whole, Professor Teufelsdr¨ ockh, is not a cultivated writer. Of his sentences perhaps not more than nine tenths stand straight... ...d millions, but a huge scarlet colored, iron fastened Apron, wherein Society works (uneasily enough); guarding itself from some soil and stithy sparks... ...ms he, “proceed in the small chink lighted, or even oil lighted, underground workshop of Logic alone; and man’s mind become an Arithmetical Mill, wher... ...yment to read character in speculation, and from the Writing to construe the Writer. A certain groundplan of Human Nature and Life began to fashion it...

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...ondescend on error; and the best of education is to throw out some magnanimous hints. No man was ever so poor that he could express all he has in him by words, looks, or actions; his true knowledge is eternally incommunicable, for it is a knowledge of himself; and his best wisdom comes to him by no process of the mind, but in a supreme self-dictation, which keeps varying f...

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... STEVENSON A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing... .....................................187 4 Robert Louis Stevenson Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson LAY MORALS CHAPTER 1 T HE PROBLEM OF EDUCATION is... ...hly agrees with the eighth commandment. But he got hold of some unsettling works, the New T estament among others, and this loosened his views of life... ...irthright and outfit have been swal- lowed up in his, or to further public works and institutions. At this rate, short of inspiration, it seems hardly... ...e supposed the ant-heap to be financially sound. I am no economist, only a writer of fiction; but even as such, I know one thing that bears on the eco... ...ege; and ‘Car- riage Entrance’ was posted above the main arch, on what the writer pleases to call ‘coarse, unclassic boards.’ The benches of the ‘Spec... ...ar as I am aware) by Herschel, Dove, Glaisher, T ait, Buchan, or any other writer; nor do I pretend to supply the defect. I venture, however, to throw...

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...Juana by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...escott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Juana by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Juana by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania S... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...said he was artistic, and he made prizes (like two celebrated generals) of works of art, solely, he declared, to preserve them for pos- terity. His mi... ...pictures with which the former quartermaster adorned his handsome mansion. Works of art purchased the night before were said to be spoils from Spain; ... ...ve you finished?” he said to the sheriff after a pause. “Yes,” replied the writer. The doctor signed the report. Juana, who had followed him into the ...

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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 the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should ...

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... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- ti... ...e file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition), the Penn- sylva... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... .........................117 4 Robert Louis Stevenson Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson 1912 Chatto and Windus edition. NOTE THIS VOLUME ... ... mentous fields of life where destiny awaits us. Upon the av- erage book a writer may be silent; he may set it down to his ill-hap that when his own y... ...and third, in a laborious pasticcio of Sir Thomas Browne. So with my other works: Cain, an epic, was (save the mark!) an imitation of Sordello: Robin ... ...ly from a school. It is only from a school that we can expect to have good writers; it is almost invariably from a school that great writers, these la... ...orms, as they did the other day to General Boulanger; and buy his literary works, as I hope you have just done for me. Our fathers, when they were upo... ...t only by endless avatars, the original re-embodying after each. So that a writer, in time, begins to wonder at the perdu- rable life of these impress...