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... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...own courts of justice. It cannot be doubted that the *This was the case in Greece, when Philip undertook to ex- ecute the decree of the Amphictyons; i... ...natural principle, it always presupposes the existence of a high degree of culture and enlightenment in society.* At the first glance it may be imagin... ...respecting their slaves. The most profound and capacious minds of Rome and Greece were never able to reach the idea, at once so general and so 500 De... ...s degree, amongst all democratic nations. Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sci- ences, or of the more elevated departments of sc... ...the midst of a democracy, not unprepared by ancient traditions and present culture to partake in the pleasures of the mind. Ranks are there inter- min... ...er say that it was by the luxuries of Rome and the Epicurean philosophy of Greece. If their social con- dition, their present circumstances, and their...

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...Volume Four A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four is a publication of the Pen... ...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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...s called Bendis in Thrace, Bubastis in Egypt, Dian in Rome, and Artemis in Greece. There was a Grand Turk from Stamboul. He could not help thinking th... ..., might possibly, while retaining the necessary idea of art or interest or culture, so imbue his designs at once with extent and novelty of Beauty, as... ...ess, vastness, definitiveness, and magnificence, shall inspire the idea of culture, or care, or superintendence, on the part of intelligences superior... ...tion in the perversion of our taste, or rather in the blind neglect of its culture in the schools. For, in truth, it was at this crisis that taste alo... ... indefinite, and was the shadow nei- ther of man nor of God—neither God of Greece, nor God of Chaldaea, nor any Egyptian God. And the shadow rested up...