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...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...t Present Evils Mr. Iloiiior Fulks of New York oity, viooohairinuii of thn National Child Labor o(jMiinitleo, addreBHed tlio Good Governmen t club in ... ...Next Door to Watson's N. H. SANFORD, Proprietor Spring Street WILLIAMSTOWN National Bank Capital, --•... 150,000 Surplus and Net Profits, ij.ocxj Usua... ...d. Jr., 1908 of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Roger Sherman Loomis 1909 of Yokoliaran, Japan: Henry Wolcott Toll 1909 of Den- ver, Col. Brown Hockey Captain Downi... ...rfeit game to its credit; or, in other words, Williams will include in its list of game-scores at the end of next season both a victory over and a def... ...ion occur the league would immediately beco.me eligible for a place on the list of former leagues which have passed their period of usefulness, so far... ...ing, bas- ing his talk on tlie parable of the rich man who tried to lay up treasures for himself on earth. Did not Jesus in his answer to the rioh man... ... in as good taste as the other decora- tions. High above the floor, from a Japanese umbrella suspended under the canopy, were hung three electric-ligh...
...lliams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue ...
... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...Reductio ad absurdum: if, in the far future, research will unequivocally prove that listening to a certain kind of music or entertaining certain tho... ...tion, disturbance, drugs, violence or aggression witnessed by him, to social or to national conflict, to elation and even to sexual excitation. The... ...naciously, through countless generations, their language, habits, creed, dress, and national ethos. Only Jews become automatic citizens of Israel (t... ...s a serious study of the Jews and their role in history, past and present. Endless lists of prominent people of Jewish descent are produced in supp... ... in godforsaken battle zones such as Congo (formerly Zaire), or among the defeated Japanese soldiers in World War II. Similarly, human organs and f... ...d produced movie are already available everywhere and always. So will the internet treasures of knowledge and entertainment. 2. Interactions with... ...tely. Resources which were considered "free", suddenly are transformed to "national treasures not to be dispensed with cheaply, casually and with fr...
Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.
...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....
... ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: ht... ... This letter constitutes a permission to reprint or mirror any and all of the materials mentioned or linked to herein subject to appropriate cred... ...... ... may well follow suit shortly. Earlier this year, Microsoft has shut down ListBot (a host of discussion lists). Suite101 has stopped paying its edito... ... the ARPANET. Other government departments joined the fray, headed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) which withdrew only lately from the Inte... ...ed in the USA in 1934. It was meant to transform radio frequencies into a national resource to be sold to the private sector which was supposed to us... ...urces which were considered "free", suddenly are transformed to "national treasures not to be dispensed with cheaply, casually and with frivolity". ... ... Balkan. It is one of countless such collections. Similar and much larger treasures have perished since the dawn of the digital age in the 1920's. V... ... So far we have English, Latin, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portuguese, Old Dutch, Bulgarian, Dutch/...
...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... .................................................... 163 BUDGET DEFICITS AND NATIONAL DEBTS ............................................................... ... is a retired businessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. Th... ...ricans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happiness list than are the French, who vacation a lot. ―Money only makes ... ...ch inabilities be partly responsible for America‘s voting preferences for national offices? ―Is this the reason that President George W. Bus... ...ether it is the Cosa Nostra in the U.S., the mafia in Italy, the yakuza in Japan, or the Latin American drug lords--criminals in business are the rul... ...ry with 85% non- believers. Vietnam was next, followed by Denmark, Norway, Japan, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, South Korea and Estonia, with ... ...of a needle? ― —―Then why doesn‘t the Pope auction off his church‘s treasures at Sotheby‘s and join the poor and the hungry on their hajj to h...
...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...
... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...e -- How they were built and propelled -- The fight for Zipangu -- Invasion of Japan -- Houses covered with gold -- A story of wealth that exceeded th... ...pillage of the people -- Torturing prisoners to force exposure of their hidden treasures -- A riot of outrage -- Abandonment of the sacked city and re... ...of the ransom money -- Treachery of the commander -- Morgan gathers up all the treasures and abandons his compatriots 307- 317 CHAPTER XXIX. Decline o... ...ion of those of Vinland, as the two were bound together by both commercial and national ties; and unless the Vinland colonists had been self-supportin... ...a ship the name of which begins with a letter S or 0, for he can recall a long list of vessels whose names began with these unlucky letters, and every... ...ave pushed the old sailor into the background; the world has no longer time to listen to his stories; the steam engine does his work, heaves his ancho... ...ergo, as by hatred and jealousy of the commander because he was of a different nationality from themselves, the four captains formed a conspiracy to d...
...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...
...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...
... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ... it. If you live by it, and sit under its shade and wonder about it. If you listen to the wind soughing through its branches and enjoy its beauty ... ...s, nobody would The Path of Splitness Chapter One: The Universe 70 have listened to him. In fact, if he had not used two expedient constants: ... ...ed Cape Kennedy because Kennedy was the most virile President who created this National effort to get to the Moon. The most virile mission won. The... ...-created abstract lines and actual human conditions. After every war: the new national boundaries which are enforced; merely become a cause for the ... ... worse gang of thieves into office. The list goes on and on… from Mexico, to Japan, to the Philippines, to Brazil, to Korea: as banks try desperate... ...l the palaces in the world that have been turned into museums. Into national treasures, into historical icons. Into historical preserves. They ar... ... into uselessness. Most European folk tales and fairy tales are about buried treasures and hidden wealth, and evil, greedy people being punished. ...
...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...
...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...n loudly proclaimed; but it is very likely to have indisposed them towards listening. Meantime, so far as I am acquainted with these Roman Catholic de... ...s, when made vocal to the meditative heart by the truths and services of a national church, God holds with children “communion undisturbed.” Solitude,... ...s in my family as otherwise might be unimportant, I here record the entire list of my brothers and sisters, according to their order of succession; an... ... centre, in favor of any invaders better able than the natives to make its treasures available. For, of old, it was an article in my brother’s code of... ...racter of the British policy as to all external demonstrations of pomp and national pretension, and its strong opposition to that of France under corr... ...remarked, that, in this remanufactured form, the title might be said to be japanned; alluding to this fact, that amongst insular sovereigns, the only ... ...e known to Christian diplomacy by the title of emperor is the Sovereign of Japan. 4 For the sake of those who are no classical scholars, I ex- plain:...
...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to di...
...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................
...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ...Editor’s Notes at the 9 Shelley end of the V olume 3 the reader will find lists of the punctual variations in the longer poems, by means of which the... ...brary Edition of the “Poetical Works” published in the same year. See the “List of Editions”, etc. at the end of Volume 3.); but, important as his edi... ...ntellect were extinguished before they had bestowed on them their choicest treasures. T o his friends his loss is irremediable: the wise, the brave, t... ...e Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national history or mythology, employed in their treatment of it a certain ... ..., and my servant instantly recognized it as the portrait of La Cenci. This national and universal interest which the story pro- duces and has produced... ...for more. _195 436 V olume One Yet in its depth what treasures! You will see That which was Godwin,—greater none than he Though ... ... at such a stagnant and miserable state of social institution as China and Japan possess. The human form and the human mind attained to a per- fection...
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.................................. 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824...................................................................
...ssics Series Publication The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott 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... ...good deal of assistance; and as no one knew how much aid had been given by others, the wonder of each individual remained undiminished. 10 The propri... ..., ‘Am I a toad, woman! that ye spit at me—that ye spit at me?’ and without listening to any answer or excuse, drove her out of his garden with impreca... ...she asked, in her turn, why they would not 14 permit the dead to rest? To others, who pressed for some account of her parents, she answered in the sa... ... indig- nant at the terms on which their legislature had surrendered their national independence. The general resentment led to the strangest leagues ... ... hand, and in such a bogilly bit too, where we know not what beings may be listening to us!” 26 “Hush, hush!” said Hobbie, drawing nearer to his com-... ...m.—Well, then, I must take him myself, I suppose, and put him into mamma’s Japan cabinet, in order to show that Scotland can produce a specimen of mor... ...flection, that more was necessary from him than from others,—lavishing his treasures as if to bribe mankind to re- ceive him into their class. It is s...
...: As I may, without vanity, presume that the name and official description prefixed to this Proem will secure it, from the sedate and reflecting part of mankind, to whom only I would be understood to address myself, such attention as is due to the sedulous instructor of youth, and the careful performer of my Sabbath duties, I will forbear to hold up a candle to the dayligh...
...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli 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... ...ued so that at times he produced an effect of weird world-forgetfulness. I listened puzzled, and at that time not upderstanding many things that after... ...the Cage Fields, and presently extended right up the London Road. A single national school in an inconve- nient situation set itself inadequately to c... ... to man’s estate and developed a more and more com- prehensive view of our national process and our national needs, I am more and more struck by the o... ...to do any fine writing,” said Shoesmith. “What you’ve got to do is just to list all the chaps and put a note to their play:—’Naylor minor must pass mo... ...sh Prussia or New Jersey or North Italy. No doubt you would find it in New Japan. These men have raised themselves up from the general mass of untrain... ...en— an immense capacity for loyalty and devotion. There she was with these treasures untouched, neglected and perplexed. A woman who loves wants to gi... ...und’ wet tissue paper!” My best answer on the spur of the moment was: “The Japanese did.” Which was absurd. I went on to some other reply, I forget ex...
...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...e boy’s sharp, stormy gusts of passion, and his mother’s steady refusal to listen to his ‘I will be good’ until she saw that he was really sorry for t... ... his last examination for the Newcastle, in the spring of 1845. Before the list was given out he had written to his father that the Divinity papers we... ...Yo n g e tal circumstances can confine it, it recognises no human ideas of nationality, or place, or time, but embraces like the dome of heaven all th... ...native habits, nor talk of learning, for which the giants saw no need. The national complexion here was of a lighter yellow, the costume a tat- tooed ... ...nking your worthy brother’s important pub- lications the most satisfactory treasures that any box could contain! The author’s feelings are seriously i... ... read about. What an age it is! America, how is that to end? India, China, Japan, Africa! I have Jowett’s books and “Essays and Reviews.” How much I s... .... ‘“Yes, JESUS is to us all a source of pardon, light, and life, all these treasures are in Him. But he distributes these gifts by His Spirit in His a...
...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...
...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...s Mormons—and so on? Y.M. You may answer your question yourself. O.M. That list of sects is not a record of studies, searchings, seekings after light... ...ts to. O.M. Not if it find another that suits it better. As a rule it will listen to neither a dull speaker nor a bright one. It refuses all persuasio... ...rench, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the T urks—a thousand wild and tame reli... ...t all in among the English pegs according to it date and regardless of its nationality. If the road pegging scheme had not succeeded I should have lod... ...body came down from London; there were no lamenting poems, no eulogies, no national tears—there was merely silence, and nothing more. A striking contr... ...to make brilliant and easy and admiration compelling use of these splendid treasures the moment he got to London. And ac cording to the surmisers, th... ...t. It is further surmised that the young Shakespeare accu mulated his law treasures in the first years of his sojourn in London, through “amusing him...
............................................................................................................................................ 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE ...............................................
...RIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...think he’ d kill a schoolboy for honest doubt. Even old Roddles—” “I can’t listen to you,” cried Latham the humourist, “I can’t listen to you. It’s—ho... ... heavy with the reek of the crushed flowers. For some time Benham remained listening to and peering at these preoccupied gluttons. At last he shrugged... ...y upon some mysterious errand. Heaven knows why Trinity Hall exhibited the treasures of its crockery thus stained and deified in the Cambridge streets... ...he went along the riverside he met a group of dusky stu- dents, Chinese or Japanese. Cambridge had abounded in Indians; and beneath that tall clock to... ...nds pointed out to him the value of working out some special aspect of our national political interests. A very useful speciality was the Balkans. Mr.... ...ere being overdone. Everybody went to the Balkans and came back with a pet nationality. She loathed pet nationali- ties. She believed most people loat... ...e act of kissing she transferred to him precious and entirely incalculable treasures. 140 The Research Magnificent CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CH...
...den Economy 1 Economy W HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a hous... ... a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the la... ...ly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and ... ...ded with fire; but so much for analogy. It appears, therefore, from the above list, that the expression, animal life, is nearly synonymous with the exp... ...more and more evident that my townsmen would not after all admit me into the list of town officers, nor make my place a sinecure with a moderate allowa... ..., three plates, one cup, one spoon, a jug for oil, a jug for molasses, and a japanned lamp. None is so poor that he need sit on a pumpkin. That is shi... ...rning revived, and scholars were enabled to discern from that remoteness the treasures of antiquity. What the Roman and Grecian multitude could not he... ...r respective musical bands stationed on some eminent chip, and playing their national airs the while, to excite the slow and cheer the dying combatant... ...use at the Mississippi or the Pacific, nor conduct toward a worn out China or Japan, but leads on direct a tangent to this sphere, summer and winter, d...
...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there tw...
...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 13...
...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle 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... ................................................... 323 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. ...poral one. The Church: what a word was there; richer than Golconda and the treasures of the world! In the heart of the remotest mountains rises the li... ...strength of Heaven assisting him, to avoid the like—for the future!” Words listened to by Richelieu with mastiff-face, growing blacker; answered to, a... ...has taken office with the noblest plainness of speech to that effect; been listened to with the noblest royal trustfulness. (Turgot’s Letter: Condorce... ...ncourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitu- tion, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...ofusion is too clear. Pecula- tion itself is hinted at; nay, Lafayette and others go so far as to speak it out, with attempts at proof. The blame of h... ...n angular Picture-writing, they are jab- bered and jingled of in China and Japan. Where will it stop? Kien-Lung smells mischief; not the remotest Dala...
...E ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................................
...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...estricted. It is not difficult to perceive why. Maupassant is an intensely national writer. He is so intensely national in his logic, in his clearness... ...his realm, indul- gent and penetrating, disillusioned and curious, finding treasures of truth and beauty concealed from less gifted magicians. Contemp... ...corded in the whole body of his work with the unerring lucidity of a great national writer. The first stirrings, the first gleams of the great forces ... ...alto- gether an outcast. Little girls seem to like him. One of them, after listening to some of his tales, remarked to her mother, “Wouldn’t it be lov... ...culiar sanity of a state of war: mostly among the Russians, of course. The Japanese have in their favour the tonic effect of success; and the in- nate... ... in- nate gentleness of their character stands them in good stead. But the Japanese grand army has yet another advantage in this nerve-destroying cont... ...e by one the thunderbolts of their Jupiter. They have removed war from the list of Heaven-sent visitations that could only be prayed against; they hav...
.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................
...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...F THE GEN- ERAL STOCK OF THE SOCIETY, OR OF THE EXPENSE OF MAINTAINING THE NATIONAL CAPITAL ............................................................. ... increase without it. The increase of revenue and stock is the increase of national wealth. The demand for those who live by wages, therefore, natural... ...ter, bring on the peculiar infirmity of the trade. If masters would always listen to the dictates of reason and humanity, they have frequently occasio... ...e neighbourhood of the mine, but extends to the whole world. The copper of Japan makes an article of commerce in Europe; the iron of Spain in that of ... ... govern- ments of Asia, besides, the almost universal custom of concealing treasures in the bowels of the earth, of which the knowledge fre- quently d... ... or regulation of commerce which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and 214 The Wealth of Nations ought nev... ...m this expedient as to compensate the loss of the fashion. The accumulated treasures of the prince have in former times afforded a much greater and mo...
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...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...
...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... ... Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...alled necessity, they are em ployed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and st... ...ith fire; but so much for anal ogy. It appears, therefore, from the above list, that the expression, animal life, is nearly synonymous with the W ald... ...re and more evident that my townsmen would not after all admit me into the list of town of ficers, nor make my place a sinecure with a moderate allow... ...three plates, one cup, one spoon, a jug for oil, a jug for molasses, and a japanned lamp. None is so poor that he need sit on a pumpkin. That is shift... ...g revived, and schol ars were enabled to discern from that remoteness the treasures of antiquity. What the Roman and Grecian multitude could not hear... ...ective musi cal bands stationed on some eminent chip, and play ing their national airs the while, to excite the slow and cheer the dying combatants.... ...e at the Mississippi or the Pacific, nor conduct toward a wornout China or Japan, but leads on direct, a tangent to this sphere, summer and win Walde...
...ics Series Publicaation Hard Times by Charles Dickens 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 ... ...own close rooms, from the corners of their own streets, where they lounged listlessly, gazing at all the church and chapel going, as at a thing with w... ...tance, Mr. M’Choakumchild was explaining to us about Natural Prosperity.’ ‘National, I think it must have been,’ observed Louisa. ‘Yes, it was.—But is... ...s, it was.—But isn’t it the same?’ she timidly asked. ‘You had better say, National, as he said so,’ returned Louisa, with her dry reserve. ‘National ... ... tell you plainly, that you are turning into the wrong road. You have been listening to some mischievous stranger or other—they’re always about—and th... ...ing, saw her there, regarded her as the Bank Dragon keeping watch over the treasures of the mine. What those treasures were, Mrs. Sparsit knew as litt... ... money; so Sissy passed him unrecognised, and they went in. The Emperor of Japan, on a steady old white horse sten cilled with black spots, was twirl... ...lotted with tears, that her words had too soon come true, and that all the treasures in the world would be cheaply bartered for a sight of her dear fa...
...these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!?...
...lassics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith 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... ...g deciding for Summer. You hear it giving the delicate spirit his liberty. Listen, for comparison, 6 The Egoist to an unleavened society: a low as of... ...e chuckling while Egoism is valiant, while sober, while socially valuable, nationally serviceable. They wait. Aforetime a grand old Egoism built the H... ...leness of self-satis- faction when you know that you have hit perfection), listen to them closely, have an inner pipe of that conceit almost ludicrous... ...ents. Had the standard of the public taste been set in philosophy, and the national enthusiasm centred in philosophers, he would at least have worked ... ... turn of the pen, or a word unsaid, offered the picture of him in America, Japan, China, Australia, nay, the continent of Europe, holding an English r... ... society without that happy consciousness of shining which calls forth the treasures of the man; and these it is no exaggeration to term unbounded, wh... ... youth, it comes to us for our sole riches when we are bankrupt of earthly treasures, and is the passport given by Abnegation unto Woe that prays to q...
...Excerpt: A chapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the strug...