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Excerpt: The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther translated by F. Bente and W.H.T. Dau.

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...te and W . H. T . Dau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther trans. F. Bente and W.H.T. Dau is ... ...rge 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 the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther trans. F. Bente and W.... ... they imagine, to much higher matters], but others from sheer laziness and care for their paunches, assuming no other relation to this business than i... ...artin Luther who ought to be more properly swineherds and dog-tenders than care-takers of souls and pastors. And now that they are delivered from the ... ... but good, as from one who gives us body , life, food, drink, nourishment, health, protection, peace, and all necessaries of both temporal and eternal... ...mselves in their marriage-vows, that they have never had a happy hour or a healthful day , and thus perished miserably in body, soul, and possessions.... ... knaves who have fully deserved this punish- ment, and yet are not thereby reformed. We will have no favor and happiness, therefore it is but fair tha... ...ntence and punish. This is the right and regu- lar course for checking and reforming a wicked person. But if we gossip about another in all corners an...

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...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my ey...

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Excerpt: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...Excerpt: Old Moodie. The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part...

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Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One.

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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

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Excerpt: The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf.

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Excerpt: The Tragedy of Pudd?nhead Wilson by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-...

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...Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge 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 the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ... look after his digestion. There’s a lot of fellows that don’t take proper care of themselves. I tell you at forty a man’s a fool or his doctor—I mean... ...saying to Verg Gunch, just last evening, most people don’t take sufficient care of their diges—” “Shall we have the Gunches for our dinner, next week?... ...field proved it to them, out of history, economics, and the confessions of reformed radicals. Babbitt had a good deal of honest pride in being the nei... ...t like a jail, let ‘em behave ‘emselves and keep out of it. Besides, these reform cranks always exaggerate.” That was the beginning and quite complete... ... which he announced the beauty, convenience, cheapness, and supererogatory healthfulness of Glen Oriole. The only flaw was that the Glen Oriole sewers... ...t., which Babbitt and the Traction officials had given to him for “fixing” health inspectors and fire inspectors and a member of the State Transporta-...

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...Introduction: In 1828, three years after graduating from Bowdoin College, Hawthorne published his first romance, ?Fanshawe.? It was issued at Boston by Marsh & Capen, but made little or no impression on the public. The motto on the title-p...

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Excerpt: Septimius Felton; or, The Elixir of Life by Nathanial Hawthorne.

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...Excerpt: With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end of my pen, I will show you the roomy workshop o...

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...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When I ...

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Excerpt: The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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...................................................................................................................................................... 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ...................................................................................................................................... 9 THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE ............................................

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...Introduction: Fielding?s third great novel has been the subject of much more discordant judgments than either of its forerunners. If we take the period since its appearance as covering four generations, we find the greatest authority in the earliest, Johnson, speaking of it wi...

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...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong....

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