...lication Amelia by Henry Fielding, ed. George Saintsbury is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...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. Amelia by Henry Fielding, ed. George Saintsbury, the Pennsylvan... ...hat a man of Fielding’s temperament, of his wants, of his known habits and history, would have kept it when once finished long in his desk? and that c... ...r uniting in the state of matrimony will be the sub- ject of the following history. The distresses which they waded through were some of them so exqui... ... on his side before that magistrate; who, if he was ignorant of the law of England, was yet well versed in the laws of nature. He perfectly well under... ... a bitter sigh in private to that remembrance which neither philosophy nor Christianity could expunge. “My father’s advice, enforced by his example, t... ...ern custom, introduced by barbarous nations since 366 Amelia the times of Christianity; though it is a direct and audacious defiance of the Christian...

...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 with something...

...ublication Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...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. Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania... ...had quite forgotten her title of “Mistress of the Northern Hills.” Whether Christianity improved Lispeth, or whether the gods of her own people would ... ... her the original Diana of the Ro- mans going out to slay. Lispeth took to Christianity readily, and did not abandon it when she reached womanhood, as... ...grew impatient, and was told that the Englishman had gone over the seas to England. She knew where England was, because she had read little ge- ograph... ...patting himself on the back for being one of the most con- stant lovers in history, and warming to the work as he went on, he really fancied that he h... ...everything I am writing of took place in an almost pre-historic era in the history of British India. Some folk may remember the years before lawn-tenn...

...E DAWN ................................................................................................................................ 31 THE RESCUE OF PLUFFLES .................................................................................................... 38 CUPID?S ARROWS .................................................................................................

...n Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...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. Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott, the Pen... ...had only to seize upon the most sounding and euphonic surname that English history or topography affords, and elect it at once as the title of my work... ...he state of society in the northern part of the island at the period of my history, and may serve at once to vary and to illustrate the moral lessons,... ...ng them- selves to the new dynasty. But the wealthy country gentle- men of England, a rank which retained, with much of an- cient manners and primitiv... ...consequences of study being rendered too serious or severe. The history of England is now reduced to a game at cards,— the problems of mathematics to ... ...duty an indulgence which even the lights of nature, and much more those of Christianity, direct towards errors which may arise from youth and inexperi...

...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V... ...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ... Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...s yet in the rear. Meantime these great disturbances are not understood in England; and chiefly from the differences between the two nations as to the... ...t is not the less true; and, being mon- strous, it will yet be recorded in history, that the Scottish church has split into mortal feuds upon two poin... ... out of moral forces. And it may be well, therefore, rapidly to sketch the history of religion, which is the greatest of moral forces, as it sank and ... ...little suited to his own sacred calling, or to the noble sim- plicities of Christianity. Certainly it is unhappy for the Seceders, that the only disav... ...been private parties, insulated, disconnected, dis- owned. When we hear of Christianity prostituted to the ser- vice of Jacobinism—of divinity becomin...

...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...................

...The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne In Two Volumes Volume Two A Penn State... ...The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne In Two Volumes Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni: Volume Two by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pe... ...e of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e Rhine, or, from this central home of the world, to their native homes in England or America, which they are apt thenceforward to look upon as provin... ...e old tower! Its tall front is like a page of black letter, taken from the history of the Italian republics.” “I know little or nothing of its history... ...stretching back to- wards a grove of trees. “At some period of your family history,” observed Kenyon, “the Counts of Monte Beni must have led a patria... ...tages,” thought Hilda, “or 113 Hawthorne some of them at least, belong to Christianity itself? Are they not a part of the blessings which the system ... ...Provi- dence that led me hither, and made me feel that this vast temple of Christianity, this great home of religion, must needs contain some cure, so...

...Excerpt: The tower among the Apennines It was in June that the sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horse back at the gate of an ancient country house (which, from some of its features, might almost be called a castle) situated in a part of Tuscany somewhat remote from the ordin...

... Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...rsity. 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... ...harge 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... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift , the Pennsylvania State... ...m: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty’s reign, she did govern by a chie... ...men of the guards to bear it on a pole upon their shoul ders, as draymen in England do a barrel of ale. He was amazed at the continual noise it made,... ...he learning of this people is very defective, consist ing only in morality, history, poetry, and mathematics, wherein they must be allowed to excel. ... ...various expressions. I have perused many of their books, especially those in history and morality. Among the rest, I was much diverted with a little o... ... religion and learning; their choice of devout and able pastors to propagate Christianity; their cau tion in stocking their provinces with people of ...

...Excerpt: The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people c...

...ublication The Prince and the Page by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...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 Prince and the Page by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania... ...ett Green in her Lives of the Princesses, and that of Edward I. in Carte’s History, and more recently in the Greatest of the Plantagenets, furnished t... ...s of the story. The household accounts show that Earl Simon and Eleanor of England had five sons. Henry fell with his father at Evesham. Simon and Guy... ...hold books as possessing dogs, and having garments bought for him; but his history has not been traced after his mother left England. The youngest son... ... bought for him; but his history has not been traced after his mother left England. The youngest son, Amaury, obtained the hereditary French possessio... ...—which was, alas! in a state most unworthy of the last stronghold of Latin Christianity in the Holy Land. It was on a scorching June day, Whitsun Tues...

...ille A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...on Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...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... ...reater portion of the day, and chatting freely with the men, I learned the history of the voyage thus far, and everything respecting the ship and its ... ...red tons, Yankee-built and very old. Fit- ted for a privateer out of a New England port during the war of 1812, she had been captured at sea by a Brit... ...further account of him, for he figures largely in the narrative. His early history, like that of many other heroes, was enveloped in the profoundest o... ...perhaps, no race upon earth, less disposed, by nature, to the monitions of Christianity, than the people of the South Seas. And this assertion is made... ...ropics, are the greatest pos- sible hindrances to the strict moralities of Christianity. Added to all this is a quality inherent in Polynesians; and m...

Excerpt: Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville.

... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stev... ... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free ... ...ennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file... ...e associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an el... ...our, but continually modified my judg- ment. A polite Englishman comes to-day to the Marquesans and is amazed to find the men tattooed; polite Italian... ...unt of Cook: I have no doubt it is entirely fair. Take Krusenstern’s candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; co... ... gods; and not to be blamed if he profit by his liberty. The Jews were perhaps the first to interrupt this ancient comity of faiths; and the Jewish vi... ...sians than a stranger might have guessed; and yet how bald it is at best! I asked the brother if he did not tell them stories, and he stared at me; if... ... polygamy, human sacrifice, and tobacco-smoking have been prohibited, the dress of the native has been modi- fied, and himself warned in strong terms ...

Excerpt: In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson.

...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...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. Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Presc... ...ositions (which are, as it were, the arabesques of hy- pothesis) while the history most important to the present day, that of the Reformation, is full... ...en might properly be dedicated to an author who has written so much on the history of the Reformation; while at the same time I offer to the character... ... world hesitates between the famous song on Marlborough and the history of England, and it also hesitates between history and popular tradition as to ... ...evenge, like that of Beaumarchais on Bergasse (Bergearss) —Falstaff is, in England, a type of the ridiculous; his very name provokes laughter; he is t... ... but to bathe in the blood which refreshes 285 Balzac her,’ she replied. ‘Christianity, itself the essence of all truth, since it comes from God, was...

...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the ...

...lassics Series Publication Billy Budd by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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. Billy Budd by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...het, as the Great Mutiny. It was indeed a dem- onstration more menacing to England than the contem- porary manifestoes and conquering and proselyting ... ...er published along the naval line of battle what it was that upon occasion England expected of Englishmen; that was the time when at the mast-heads of... ...s treating of actual men and events no mat- 22 Billy Budd ter of what era—history, biography and unconventional writers, who, free from cant and conv... ...g men probably, and picked specimens among the earlier British converts to Christianity, at least nominally such, and taken to Rome (as to-day convert... ...ng clerical discourse is not wholly unlike the way in which the pioneer of Christianity full of transcendent miracles was received long ago on tropic ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable sea-port would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-ofwar?s men or mercha...

...e by Somerset Maugham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...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. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania State... ...Papists re- quired an epithet, they were Roman Catholic; but the Church of England was Catholic in the best, the fullest, and the noblest sense of the... ...make perfect fools of themselves, spent the last quarter of an hour of the history lesson in construing for them the passage of Livy which had been se... ...Shelley’s treatment of Harriet; he 129 W. Somerset Maugham dabbled in the history of art (on the walls of his rooms were reproductions of pictures by... ... would they 263 W. Somerset Maugham should do unto you?” “I suppose so.” “Christianity . ” “No, it isn’t,” said Philip indignantly . “It has nothing ... ...y . ” “No, it isn’t,” said Philip indignantly . “It has nothing to do with Christianity . It’s just abstract morality . ” “But there’s no such thing a...

...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....

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...I. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Expl... ...ation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, ... ... whole passage is only one of those painful inci- dents which disgrace the history of letters, and prove how much spleen, ingratitude, and baseness of... ...; and subscription-papers, accordingly, were issued. Dean Swift was now in England, and took a deep interest in the success of this undertaking, recom... ...en- tioning that he had some papers of P .T .’s in reference to his family history, which he would shew him. Pope replied by three advertisements in t... ...den. 20 Hall has imitated and excelled this passage. See his pam- phlet, ‘Christianity consistent with a Love of Freedom.’ 66 The Poetical Works of ... ...n of Lord Clarendon, the historian. 139 ‘Tindal:’ the infidel, author of ‘Christianity as Old as the Creation.’ 227 The Poetical Works of Alexander ...

Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan.

...Contents LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE.................................................................................................................................. 6 PREFACE2......................................................................

...Captains Courageous A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...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. Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipl... ...it’ s Europe)?” Harvey gave his name, the name of the steamer, and a short history of the accident, winding up with a de- mand to be taken back immedi... ...e Irish coast?’ “‘Then fwhat are ye doin’ here?’ sez the tramp. ‘Sufferin’ Christianity!’ sez Counahan (he always said that whin his pumps sucked an’ ... ...s said that whin his pumps sucked an’ he was not feelin’ good)- ’Sufferin’ Christianity!’ he sez, ‘where am I at?’ ‘Thirty-five mile west-sou’west o’ ... ...as played. Men said that four out of ev- ery five fish-balls served at New England’s Sunday breakfast came from Gloucester, and overwhelmed him with f... ...n a low , even voice, without gesture and without expression; and it was a history for which a dozen leading journals would cheerfully have paid many ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing- fleet....

...Series Publication Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...e of any kind. Any per- son 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. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State U... ...them had been,—my creative readers may imagine. But was he so engaged? No; history and truth compel me to deny it. He was sitting easily in a lounging... ...the tendency of all human aspira- tions of rising priests in the Church of England. A lawyer does not sin in seeking to be a judge, or in compassing h... ... been confided. The bill, however, did pass, and at the time at which this history is supposed to commence, it had been or- dained that there should b... ... stood in the study of any decent high church clergy- man of the Church of England. The old curtains had also given away. They had, to be sure, become... ...t the condition of humanity? Is not modern stoicism, built though it be on Christianity, as great an outrage on human nature as was the stoicism of th...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Who will be the new bishop? In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be the new Bishop? The death of old...

...ics Series Publication Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...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. Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ost his address, which was a country-seat near a post-town in the south of England, and bid him an affectionate farewell. The mysterious stranger depa... ... made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England; and curiosity ex- tended his tour into the adjacent frontier of th... ...rontier of the sister coun- try. He had visited, on the day that opens our history, some monastic ruins in the county of Dumfries, and spent much of t... ...the trouble of telling the few events occurring dur- ing this chasm in our history, with which it is necessary that the reader should be acquainted. M... ...etaphysical acuteness, and energy of argument, brought into the service of Christianity. “Such,” he said, going out of the church, “must have been the...

...Excerpt: Introduction To Guy Mannering. The novel or romance of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in ...

...sics Series Publication Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...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. Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...to have descended from a member of the great house of Hapsburg who came to England in the reign of Henry II., distinguished itself in the Wars of the ... ...r rather made his debut in it, with the immortal book now republished. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his Friend Mr Abraham Adam... ...entia, his observation of the details of life. And first of the first. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his friend Mr Abraham Adams... ...nt, groaning and lamenting that it was possible, in a coun- try professing Christianity, for a wretch to starve in the midst of his fellow-creatures w... ...to be described, and which, in a land of humanity, and, what is much more, Christianity, seems a strange punishment for a little inadvertency and indi...

...Excerpt: General Introduction: There are few amusements more dangerous for an author than the indulgence in ironic descriptions of his own work. If the irony is depreciatory, posterity is but too likely to say, ?Many a true word is spoken in jest;? if it is encomiastic, the same ruthless and ungrateful critic is but too likely t...

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ... Pg 598 Inflation Pg 607 Modern Racism Pg 609 Ego-gratification Pg 625 History Pg 694 The Unclearness of History Pg 694 Wisdom Pg 697 In... ...210 Human Wisdom Pg 1220 Bicycle Cards Pg 1221 Intelligence Pg 1224 Pre-History and Ancient History Pg 1266 Burial of the Dead Pg 1268 Deca... ... The earliest symbol of Christianity also represents a Big Bang: it represents the huge expans... ...troduced he was respected. Alas: this did not happen. A century earlier in England, a similar change-dynamic happened with Cromwell’s severe relig... ...be sacred. Even if they detail a system that goes against the very ethics of Christianity these supposedly holy monks were supposed to believe-in, ...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

...Series Publication God the Invisible King by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...e of any kind. Any per- son 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. God the Invisible King by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State U... ...s possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless... ...hat the Alexandrine speculations which were then conclusively imposed upon Christianity merit only disrespectful attention at the present time. There ... ...ery protected by curses to save it from a reductio ad absurdam. The entire history of the growth of the Christian doctrine in those dis- ordered early... ...rowth of the Christian doctrine in those dis- ordered early centuries is a history of theology by commit- tee; a history of furious wrangling, of hast... ...t is, I should judge, a sub-sect entirely within the Established Church of England, that is to say within the Anglican com- munion of the T rinitarian...

...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or...

... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...arge 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 Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Don Juan by George Byron , the Pennsylvania State University,... ..., sciences, no branch was made a mystery To Juan’s eyes, excepting natural history. The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most... ...; They are a sort of post house, where the Fates Change horses, making history change its tune, Then spur away o’er empires and o’er states,... ...OND. Oh ye! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, ... ... Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very soon may know it; And in ... ...querading Tartars, And that beneath each Turkish fashion’d vest Lurk’d Christianity; which sometimes barters Her inward grace for outward show...

...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, t...

...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of Th... ...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ng Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, faculty editor. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ... Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...andwich Islanders as you who read these pages, who are said to live in New England; something about your condition, especially your outward condi tio... ...n all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology! I know of no reading of another’s experience s... ...y surprise those of my readers who are somewhat acquainted with its actual history; it would certainly astonish those who know nothing about it. I wil... ...ight, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven. We have adopted Christianity merely as an improved method of agriculture. We have built for... ...re barbaric and heathenish build splendid temples; but what you might call Christianity does not. Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its t...

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... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Univer... ...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... ...arge 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 Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , ... ...ederacies, the only examples which remain with any detail and preci sion in history, and certainly the only ones which the people at large had ever c... ...f others? Or have we found an gels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. Let us, then, with courage and confidence p... ... at the com mencement of the War of the Revolution the most stu pid men in England spoke of “their American subjects.” Are there, indeed, citizens o... ...racter of protector of the liber ties of the people, became the dictator of England, and Bolivar possessed himself of unlimited power with the title ... ...is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patrio tism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this ...

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...e Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, trans. Eleanor Marx-Aveling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...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. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, trans. Eleanor Marx-Aveling,... ... letter to his mother with red ink and three wafers; then he went over his history note-books, or read an old volume of “ Anarchasis” that was knockin... ...s about the middle of the class; once even he got a certificate in natural history . But at the end of his third year his parents withdrew him from th... ...iss Arabella” and “Romolus,” and won two thousand louis jumping a ditch in England. One complained that his racehorses were growing fat; another of th... ...“prayer! Why, aren’t you a Christian?” “Excuse me,” said Homais; “I admire Christianity. T o be- gin with, it enfranchised the slaves, introduced into... ... ‘Letters of some Portuguese Jews,’” said the other; “read ‘The Meaning of Christianity,’ by Nicolas, formerly a magistrate.” They grew warm, they gre...

...Excerpt: PART I. Chapter One. We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a ?new fellow,? not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his ...

...agitica, Comus, “L’Alegro,” “Il Penseroso,” and “Lycidas” is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fu... ...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... ...arge 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 Stat... ...n tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Five Works of John Milton: Areopagitica, Comus, “L’Alegro,”... ...ilton A SPEECH FOR THE LIBERTY OF UNLICENSED PRINTING TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND This is true liberty, when free born men, Having to advise the pu... ...r, next to your faithful guidance and undaunted wisdom, Lords and Commons of England. Neither is it in God’s esteem the diminution of his glory, when ... ...r the writings of heathen authors, unless they were plain invectives against Christianity, as those of Porphyrius and Proclus, they met with no interd...

...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 beginning of no mean ende...

...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...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. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subject of the United States have hitherto dealt chiefly wit... ... city popu- lation is ever the one that is going most ahead in the world’s history. If this be so, I say that the argument of my Canadian friend was n... ...e politicians heard so much in England. I am not going back to recount the history of the period, otherwise than to say that the En- glish Canadians a... ...sumed that every man will worship a God, and no allu- sion is made even to Christianity. In Massachusetts they are again hardly honest. “It is the rig... ...sts, Pres- byterians, Methodists, Anabaptists, and every denomina- tion of Christianity; and the meeting-houses prepared for these sects are not, as w...

....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

...Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Ch... ...d edited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...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. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an i... ...y wrought, of Johnson amid widely various set- tings of Eighteenth-Century England. And sub- ject and setting are so closely allied that each borrows ... ...be best written by himself; had he employed in the preservation of his own history, that clear- ness of narration and elegance of language in which he... ... this circumstance, and insisted upon it with very unfair aggravation. The history of his mind as to religion is an important article. I have mentione... ... for the Sabbath, yet without that attention to its religious duties which Christianity requires; ‘1. To rise early, and in order to it, to go to slee... ... a Deist; for no man could be so after a fair examination of the proofs of Christianity.’ I named Hume. Johnson. ‘No, Sir; Hume owned to a clergyman i...

...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 wi...

...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...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. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University... ...t avenge the blood of the just one.... Whom, I ask you, can we rely on?... England with her commercial spirit will not and cannot understand the Emper... ...e is a Lombard bond and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of Suvorov’s wars. Send it to the Academy. Here are some jottings f... ...id Dolokhov. “Qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?”** asked a Frenchman. “It’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it re- ferred to a former war. “The E... ...er- stood it to Prince Andrew. He said that Freemasonry is the teaching of Christianity freed from the bonds of State and Church, a teaching of equali... ... said it. “But they insisted on their own view: love of one’s neighbor and Christianity—and all this in the presence of young Nicho- las, who had gone...

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...HE SYNDICALIST REVOLT............................................................................................................ 43 PART II PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE ................................................................................................................... 60 CHAPTER IV WORK AND PAY .......................................................................

...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... ...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... ...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. Autobiography by John Stuart Mill , the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...f more, if not of profounder, study than at any former pe riod of English history, it may be useful that there should be some record of an education ... ... and was 4 Autobiography the eldest son of James Mill, the author of the History of British India . My father, the son of a petty tradesman and (I b... ...what can properly be called my les sons: when I was about fourteen I left England for more than a year; and after my return, though my studies went o... ...benevolent maker and ruler of such a world as this, can say little against Christianity but what can, with at least equal force, be retorted against t... ... to be embodied in what is commonly presented to man kind as the creed of Christianity. Think (he used to say) of a being who would make a Hell—who w...

...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 what I have to relate can be interesting to th...

...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...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. Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mil... ...d uct, and the science of government as a branch (so to speak) of natural history. According to them, forms of government are not a matter of choice.... ...e more and more difficult to check, until it reached a state often seen in history, and in which many large portions of mankind even now grovel; when ... ...ast age, in which it was customary to claim representative de mocracy for England or France by arguments which would equally have proved it the only ... ...er, as being more in harmony with the sub mission due to the divine will. Christianity, as well as other religions, has fostered this sentiment; but ... ...her religions, has fostered this sentiment; but it is the preroga tive of Christianity, as regards this and many other perver sions, that it is able...

...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the p...

....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................

... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...— CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . . . . . . .... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BOOK III 133 CHAPTER I — INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 133 CHAPTER II — CHURCH CLOTHES . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BOOK III 133 CHAPTER I — INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 133 CHAPTER II — CHURCH CLOTHES . . . . . . .... ...e or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravit... ...d at the practicability of con veying “some knowledge of it, and of him, to England, and through England to the distant West:” a work on Professor Te... ...in, significance enough? “From Suicide a certain after shine ( Nachschein) of Christianity withheld me: per haps also a certain indolence of character... ... for thee!’—If Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre be, ‘to a certain extent, Applied Christianity,’ surely to a still greater extent, so is this. We have here...

...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 perhaps more...

...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...

... Classics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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. Middlemarch by George Eliot, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...eenth year of our blessed union. PRELUDE W HO THA T CARES MUCH to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying ex... ...ylor by heart; and to her the destinies of man- kind, seen by the light of Christianity, made the solicitudes of feminine fashion appear an occupation... ...derstood for many years to be engaged on a great work concerning religious history; also as a man of wealth enough to give lustre to his piety, and ha... ...t older: I should see how it was possible to lead a grand life here—now—in England. I don’t feel sure about doing good in any way now: everything seem... ...brella, and mincing little speeches. What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly—a...

...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little gir...

...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PU... ...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... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...eek feel- ing—Systematic healthy-mindedness— Its reason- ableness— Liberal Christianity shows it— Optimism as encouraged by Popular Science— The “Mind... ...ous in- cubation of motives— Self-surrender— Its impor- tance in religious history— Cases. LECTURE X CONVERSION—concluded Cases of sudden conversion— ... ... this lectureship, I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch ... ...rom the breasts of both testaments,” is a sub-title of the once famous New England Primer, and Christian devotional literature indeed quite floats in ... ...e- fer have still retained for the most part their nominal connection with Christianity, in spite of their discard- ing of its more pessimistic theolo...

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

...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto a... ...E; I ken by the biggin’ o’t.” T wo recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well ... ... only when we cross the seas that we go abroad; there are foreign parts of England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet mana... ...n the experience of Scots. England and Scotland differ, indeed, in law, in history, in religion, in education, and in the very look of nature and men’... ...inds us more nearly together. No Englishman of Byron’s age, character, and history would have had patience for long theological discussions on the way... ...haps valued highest in his work were his contri- butions to the defence of Christianity; one of which, in par- ticular, was praised by Hutchinson Stir...

...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 arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that ...

...ER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TA...

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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... ...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. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, th... ...in of thought in Scotland, – a country far more essentially different from England than many parts of America; for, in a sense, the first of these men... ... yet wider knowledge, not only of a country foreign to the author by race, history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two A... ...emans and the Furnivalls, sets himself up to right the wrongs of universal history and criticism. Now, it is one thing to write with enjoyment on a su... ...loam fell nineteen hundred years ago; yet we have still to desire a little Christianity, or, failing that, a little even of that rude, old, Norse nobi... ...“the satisfaction and aplomb of animals.” If he preaches a sort of ranting Christianity in morals, a fit consequent to the ranting opti- mism of his c...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...