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...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... ...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... ...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... ...ozen in the town who own their farms free and clear. If you would know the history of these homesteads, inquire at the bank where they are mortgaged. ... ...own, the big guns sounded as if a puffball had burst; and when there was a military turnout of which I was ig norant, I have sometimes had a vague se... ...appened previous to the expulsion of the tyrant Christiern the Second from Sweden.” The battle which I witnessed took place in the Presidency of Polk,...

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...Introduction: In an age of materialism like our own the phenomenon of spiritual power is as significant and inspiring as it is rare. No longer associated with the ?divine right? of kings, it has survived the downfall of feudal and theocratic systems...

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...ries by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude is a publi cation 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... ...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... ...ss was stifled by the most rigid censorship. In this lamentable manner the history of Russia’s internal misrule and disorder has continued to repeat i... ...eography, and science. Little leisure remained for the service of Art. The history of Tolstoy as a man of letters forms a separate page of his biograp... ... with it, not because it demonstrated Lermontov’s position in the literary history of Russia, but because it pointed out the moral aims which under l... ...n these later stories. “After the Ball” gives a painful picture of Russian military cruelty; “The Forged Coupon” traces the cancerous growth of evil, ... ...y was, in addition, a medium by which Tolstoy emphasised his abhorrence of military service, and prob ably for this reason its production is absolute... ... a century, Tolstoy gave vent in “Hadji Murat” to the resentment which the military despotism of Nicholas I. had roused in his sen sitive and fearles...

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...Excerpt: Introduction and Analysis. The critias is a fragment which breaks off in the middle of a sentence. It was designed to be the second part of a trilogy, which, like the other great Platonic trilogy of the Sophist, Statesman, Philosopher, was never completed. Timaeus had brought down the origin of the world to ...

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...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ips and men and goods contraband of war, and all those semi-nautical, semi-military rules and axi- oms which it is necessary that all attorneys-genera... ...ith Southern politics. The South for many years had had the disposition of military matters, and the power of distributing military appliances of all ... ...upulous. But I do not believe that any President previous to Buchanan sent military materials to the South with the self-acknowledged purpose of using... ... 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... ...t weakness on one side and pride on the other, is a problem in the world’s history yet to be solved. The most successful child that ever yet has gone ...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists...

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...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; a...

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...ries Publication War and Peace: Book Nine by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...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... ... of which we do not understand). The more we try to explain such events in history reasonably, the more unreasonable and incomprehensible do they beco... ...n performed at a certain moment in time becomes irrevocable and belongs to history, in which it has not a free but a predestined significance. 6 War ... ...is every action. “The king’s heart is in the hands of the Lord.” A king is history’s slave. History, that is, the unconscious, general, hive life of m... ...which accompanied him everywhere disturbed him and distracted him from the military cares that had occupied him from the time he joined the army. He r... ...bjects he was abandoning, latterly, after he had been ordered to return to military ser- vice—and especially since his last interview with Napoleon in... ...hat to decide on, and time passes bringing no result. Bagration alone is a military man. He’s stupid, but he has experience, a quick eye, and resoluti...

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...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltair...

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