...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ...ishing that he had been born a woman; and except for once of saying, "Well...I understand, but" (and stopping not knowing what to throw in as the "but... ...had hesitated feebly. The coarse words and tone had surprised both of them. "I hear that doctors can now make a man half pigeon if he dares to have a ... ...e aged man gave Sang Huin a look as if he had wasted his time talking to the world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem... ...e on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world. Even though he cared about family (what was left of it with both h... ...red an article he had forgotten to bring to them: the Taliban's restraint of war ravaged widows from work. The doctors liked such things. As Dr. Lee ... .... The hail seemed to her like the bullets that she imagined from the distant war that America wedged against Iraq. Then he saw the antithesis of this:... ...th the environment and Islamic extremists; more and more societies possessed weapons of mass destruction that had the potential force that was beyond ... ...ed innate aggression behind terms like axis of evil, rogue country harboring weapons of mass destruction, links to Al Queida, and liberation for the I...

...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

...Publication The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...m after kingdom during his meteor life. In the minds of the Roman Catholic world, the convent stood out pre-eminent for a stern discipline which nothi... ...uite unaware how absolutely the Carmelites were cut off from 7 Balzac the world; but he knew that there might be among them one whom he held dearer t... ... in the praise sent up to God, seemed now to say to her lover, “Yes, it is I. I am here. My love is unchanged, but I am beyond the reach of love. You ... ...d the reach of love. You will hear my voice, my soul shall enfold you, and I shall abide here under the brown shroud in the choir from which no power ... ...undoubtedly the sovereigns nowadays. The times are changed, and so are the weapons. The knight-banneret of old wore a coat of chain armour and a haube... ...usly thought of bidding the son of the house take up arms from the pile of weapons which the nine- teenth century flings down in the market-place. Y o... ...list mind the only pos- sible way of putting an end to the miseries of the war. The Ducs de Navarreins and de Langeais had been faith- ful throughout ... ...riveau, noble though he was, was put on half-pay. Perhaps the heads of the War Office took fright at uncompromising upright- ness worthy of antiquity,...

...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none...

...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the First T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited ... .................................................................. 24 CHAPTER I THAT MEN BY V ARIOUS WAYS ARRIVE AT THE SAME END............................ ....................................................... 374 CHAPTER XLVIII OF WAR HORSES, OR DESTRIERS ..................................................... ...als. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancient currents of thought into new channels. It to... ...made his intellectual and physi- cal organism public property. He took the world into his confidence on all subjects. His essays were a sort of litera... ...an he was—what he felt, thought, suf- fered—and he succeeded immeasurably, I apprehend, be- yond his expectations. It was reasonable enough that Monta... ...he work of a gentle- man of mark,—[Meaning Xenophon.]—a man illustrious in war and peace, as because it has taken its second shape from a personage wh... ... patior telis vulnera facta meis.” [“ Alas! The wounds were made by my own weapons.”—Ovid, Ep. Phyll. Demophoonti, vers. 48.] They who give the first ... ...s much as possible at our own command: wherefore I should advise to choose weapons of the shortest sort, and such of which we are able to give the bes...

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

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

...y R. S. Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott is a publication of t... ...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... ...ur wanderings and separations, and tri- umphed over the busy malice of the world. This feeling is hardly likely now to change. The goodly company of f... ...es aimed at my too prolific pen, as though it could rival in fertility the world from which I draw my models! Would it not be a fine thing, George, if... ...o prolific pen, as though it could rival in fertility the world from which I draw my models! Would it not be a fine thing, George, if the future antiq... ...s bound by pure and holy ties, the illustrious figures of the century? May I not justly pride myself on this assured possession, rather than on a popu... ... known youth, but passed straight from his mother’s arms to the embrace of war, and from the joys of his country home to the frosts and forced labor o... ...is all innocent, armed with the pointed shafts of meditation, and, lo! the weapons of that purely ideal experience have turned against your own breast... ...ousand times, yes, it is true that nature and society are at one in making war on absolute happiness, because such a con- dition is opposed to the law...

...that it should bear witness to the solid friendship between us, which has survived our wanderings and separations, and triumphed over the busy malice of the world....

...don . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind . 126 Book Ninth Residence in France... ...Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 ii The Prelude of 1805 Book First Introduction: Childhood and School time OH, there is ... ...rom yon city’s walls set free, A prison where he hath been long immured. Now I am free, enfranchised and at large, May fix my habitation where I will. ... ...ll receive me, in what vale Shall be my harbour, underneath what grove Shall I take up my home, and what sweet stream Shall with its murmurs lull me t... ...ray, And to the combat, Lu or Whist, led on thick ribbed Army; not as in the world Neglected and ungratefully thrown by Even for the very service they... ... The gravitation and the filial bond 265 Of nature, that connect him with the world. Emphatically such a Being lives, An inmate of this active universe... ...at times Rebellious, acting in a devious mood, A local spirit of its own, at war With general tendency, but for the most 390 Subservient strictly to t... ...f awakened from sleep, the nations hailed Their great expectancy; the fife of war Was then a spirit stirring sound indeed, A blackbird’s whistle in a v... ...te—not wise enough to avoid. 655 Giants in their impiety alone, But in their weapons and their warfare base As vermin working out of reach, they leagu...

...ing in this gentle breeze, That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! A captive greets thee, coming from a house Of bondage, from yon city?s walls set free, A prison where he hath been long immured. Now I am free, enfranchised and at l...

...Table of Contents: Book First Introduction: Childhood and School-time, 1 -- Book Second Childhood and School-time (Continued), 20 -- Book Third Residence at Cambridge, 34 -- Book Fourth Summer Vacation, 53 -- Book Fifth Books, 67 -...

...THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE VOL. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by THE REV. GE... ...I. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Expl... ......................................................................... 116 I. CHAUCER ................................................................... ...re characteristic production from his pen was ushered anonymously into the world. This was the “Es- say on Criticism,” a work which he had first writt... ...ume One which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of liter- ary war before known or heard of—(MacFlecknoe, the Re- hearsal, &c.)—were mercy... ...he grand Scripture principles of a Fall, of a Divine Redeemer, of a Future World, and the glorious light or darkness which these and other Christian d... ...rilegious hands; Secure from flames, from envy’s fiercer rage, Destructive war, and all-involving age. See from each clime the learn’d their incense b... ...ts confusedly rise, And bass and treble voices strike the skies. No common weapons in their hands are found, Like gods they fight, nor dread a mortal ... ...shall attend her there: There purple Vengeance bathed in gore retires, Her weapons blunted, and extinct her fires: There hateful Envy her own snakes s...

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......................................................................

...ation The Dove In The Eagle’s Nest by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ION ODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION IN SENDING FORTH this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of h... ... was probably Freytag’s first series of pictures of German Life: probably, I say, for its first commencement was a dream, dreamt some weeks after read... ... his adversary, was thenceforth at liberty to revenge himself by a private war, in which, for the wrong 4 The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest inflicted, no ... ...adth ‘scapes. “It was plain,” he used to say, “that God Almighty ruled the world, or how could things go on with a rogue like Alexander VI. at the hea... ...rough-looking peasant woman, who stared at her like something from another world, but at length showed her a nook behind a mud partition, where she co... ...eached a point whence they retrograded grievously during the Thirty Years’ War, even to an extent that they have never entirely recovered. The country... ...knights of ro- mance. Except that he was fairly conversant with the use of weapons, and had occasionally ridden beyond the shadow of his own mountain,... ...erchiefs; men drove sheep, goats, or pigs to barter for knives, spades, or weapons; others were gazing at simple shows—a dancing bear or ape—or cluste...

...Introduction: In sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytag?s first series of pictures of German Life: probably, I say, for its first com...

...wn as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itse... ... people of course never do—the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in be ginning to unfold this simple history offered an ad... ... history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English cou... ...ast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of ... ...asked. “Perhaps it’s Mrs. Touchett’s niece—the independent young lady,” Lord War burton suggested. “I think she must be, from the way she handles the... ... seemed to emerge most vividly. She had had the best of everything, and in a world in which the circumstances of so many people made them unenviable i... ...ly a proof. He wished his daughters, even as children, to see as much of the world as possible; and it was for this purpose that, before Isabel was fo... ...orgiving them much bad painting for the sake of the subject. While the Civil War went on she was still a very young girl; but she passed months of thi... ...tely equipped for the social battle. She carried her flag discreetly, but her weapons were polished steel, and she used them with a skill which struck ...

...ew hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implement...

...Table of Contents: CHAPTER 1, 1 -- CHAPTER 2, 10 -- CHAPTER 3, 15 -- CHAPTER 4, 22 -- CHAPTER 5, 28 -- CHAPTER 6, 38 -- CHAPTER 7, 46 -- CHAPTER 8, 54 -- CHAPTER 9, 60 -- CHAPTER 10, 66 -- CHAPTER 11, 77 -- CHAPTER 12, 83 -- CHAPTE...

...rriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication ... ...r me the approval of others, and protect this attempt of mine? So proud am I to have gained your good opinion, that I have striven to deserve it by co... ...ments without which you could never have given your monumental work to the world of letters. Your sympathy with such labor as you yourself have bestow... ...uld the Marquis d’Esgrignon of the elder branch accept the title of duke. “I hold my marquisate as His Majesty holds the realm of France, and on the s... ...tois was “Mon- sieur” at court. Now, not only had that marriage produced a war after the provincial manner, in which all weapons are fair; it had hast... ...had that marriage produced a war after the provincial manner, in which all weapons are fair; it had hastened the separation of the great and little no... ...f fools which holds up hands for those that are clever enough to serve out weapons to them. Individuals are identified with their political opin- 18 ... ...ceforward were directed at du Croisier’s salon; he stirred up the fires of war, not knowing how far the spirit of revenge was to urge the rival factio... ...hought of all for a father, the young Count would have made his way in the world by his own merits even if he had not been a d’Esgrignon. All through ...

...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you not one of the most impor...

... ... ... Twenty Years After (The Third Volume of The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Dumas is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Porta... ... and defenceless, as he well knew. “Foreigner!” he ejaculated, “Italian! that is their mean yet mighty byword of reproach—the watchword with which the... ...Mazarin continued, whilst his wonted smile, full of subtlety, lent a strange expression to his pale lips; “yes, these noises prove to me, indeed, that... ...his head. “Ah!” he said; “some ministers are fortunate and find out all that they wish to know.” “My lord,” replied Guitant, “such ministers do not we... ...t he might get me out of this, if he were favorably inclined to me.” “Y ou are probably nearer freedom than he is, so it will be your business to get ... ...them?” “Almost.” “What has become of them?” “I don’t know; we separated, as you know. They are alive, that’s all that I can say about them; from time ... ... They are alive, that’s all that I can say about them; from time to time I hear of them indirectly, but in what part of the world they are, devil take... ...t day and also with regard to the shooting party which had been proposed. 108 Twenty Years After “Tell me, Mouston,” said Porthos, “are my arms in go...

...Excerpt: The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu. In a splendid chamber of the Palais Royal, formerly styled the Palais Cardinal, a man was sitting in deep reverie, his head supported on his hands, leaning over a gilt and inlaid table which was covered...

...ublication My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror by Sir Walter Scott 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... ...s to this Annual, before ap- plication was made to me to assist in it; and I accordingly placed with much pleasure at the Editor’s disposal a few frag... ...ion to this, when now included in a general collection of my lucubrations, I have only to say that it is a mere transcript, or at least with very litt... ...s if the mental eye gain’d power to gaze Beyond the limits of the existing world. Such hours of shadowy dreams I better love Than all the gross realit... ...n of chil- dren, excepting only that which attends their entrance into the world. We were a large family, of very different disposi- tions and constit... ... which I have not dared to ask myself. The answer de- pends on the fate of war. I shall, of course, go to headquarters, wherever they may happen to be... ...e; deliver my let- ters of introduction; learn as much of the noble art of war as may suffice a poor interloping amateur; and then take a glance at th... ...to keep the peace, while the hotter spirits on both sides brandished their weapons. But now, the period of the brief space during which the soothsayer...

...Introduction: The species of publication which has come to be generally known by the title of Annual, being a miscellany of prose and verse, equipped with numerous engravings, and put forth every year about Christmas, had flourished for a long while i...

...y by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...teful remembrance, from his guest at the Chateau de Sache. De Balzac. PART I CHAPTER I JUDAS THE AUTUMN of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the ... ...it entered the rond- point to the left. “No,” answered Michu, “but a brute I do not wish to miss, a lynx.” The dog, a magnificent spaniel, white with ... ...in of others, and that whoever was above him was an enemy against whom all weapons were good. A character like this is very common among the peasantry... ...greatly blamed by philosophers for declaring in former times that the same weapons might be employed against usurpers which the usurpers themselves ha... ...The gendarmes are here,—don’t you hear them? they are holding a council of war.” “Well, you have twice had luck to-night; go! bring my cous- ins here ... ...es are stolid with an indifference which he holds as a barrier against the world of fools who do not understand him; his forehead is adamant under ins... ...rentin’s inward rage. Laurence and the abbe (the two minds of their little world) had talked the man over and drawn their conclusions. Gothard and Cat... ...o harm,—in fact, so long as the brothers were facing danger the chances of war might end the difficulty; but what would be the result of this reunion?...

...Excerpt: The autumn of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy...

...Best of Freshman Writing 1 Best of Freshman Writing Formerly Best of Four Volume 7 Student Voices A Common... ..................................................... 18 Anne McBrearty “When I Grow Up, I Want to Be” .............................................. 21 ... ...College Calculus Exam Taking a college calculus exam, like the three exams I have taken this semester, can be a stressful and sometimes terrifying exp... ... work at Pepsi-Cola in Johnstown, Pennsylva- nia. By 9:30 a.m., the entire world was in shock as terrorists hijacked two commer- cial airliners and fl... ...acked two commer- cial airliners and flew them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. At that time, my father was notified t... ...led himself to see the world and meet new and exciting people. After World War II, he became inactive in the military and learned the trade of a tailo... ...iate it (Morrow 46). Instead of spray paint, they brought in semiautomatic weapons and bombs to do their dirty work. And if their motive was truly for... ...ror network” (B-4). While Manson committed murder in an effort to create a war against blacks, Bin Laden crafted a death mission to manifest a war aga... ...ce will only be met with more hijacking, possibly chemical or bio- logical weapons, and other forms of ter- ror. And suppose we drop a bomb that hits ...

...Excerpt: Welcome to the seventh volume of Best of ?. For the past half dozen years we were Best of Four, publishing the best writing in English 004 classes, primarily on the Hazleton campus. Two years ago we began accepting submissions from some of the other Commo...

........................... 16 Wendy Long ?Improving Citation Instruction? ..................................................... 18 Anne McBrearty ?When I Grow Up, I Want to Be? .............................................. 21 Patricia J. Popovitch ?Reflections of a City? .......................................................... 24 Jon Robison ?Why Is There Still Terrorism?...

... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ... J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LAND... ...d Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVE... ...COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, PA. ST. LOUIS, MO. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient C... ...attle. -- Genghis demands the daughter of Umcan for a wife -- Refusal leads to war -- Ceremony performed by the astrologers to forecast the result -- ... ... -- A meeting with the Tlascalans -- Their Independence maintained by constant war with Montezuma -- Wonderful walls about their capital city -- A blo... ...res for cessation of hostilities refused -- Retreating through a hail storm of weapons -- Towers built to provide protection for the retreating Spania... ...iac acts -- Reckless bravery of the Buccaneers -- Cromwell's defeat of Charles I -- The effect on the naval war with Spain -- English are driven from ... ... of a large and prosperous nation, Zingis armed his people with bows and other weapons, and began the conquest of other nations. Whenever he captured ...

...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 -- ...

...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the ... ...ives lie on the surface of history. For the de- scription of the Coliseum, I have, however, been indebted to the Abbé Gerbet’s Rome Chrétienne; for th... ...he dullness that cannot be interested in anything beyond its own immediate world, nor care for what it neither sees, touches, tastes, nor puts to any ... ... savage plun- derer of a besieged town up to the reckless monarch mak- ing war to feed his own ambition. There is a courage that breaks out in bravado... ...pirited young Duke d’Enghien, afterwards Prince of Condé, exclaimed, ‘Were I not a victor, I should have wished thus to die!’ and preserved the chair ... ...ely devoted to the holy work of softening the after sufferings that render war so hideous; whose very step and shadow car- ried gladness and healing t... ...ere filled with a deep, solemn thought that, by offering themselves to the weapons of the barbarians, they might atone for the sin sanctioned by the R... ...recog- nized him, they closed in on him, and pierced his breast with their weapons; but even as he fell the superstition that a devoted leader was sur...

...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...

...Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle 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... ...rint version have been retained. LECTURES ON HEROES [May 5, 1840.] LECTURE I THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGAN- ISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. W E HAVE ... ...scourse here for a little on Great Men, their manner of appearance in our world’s business, how they have shaped themselves in the world’s history, w... ... they did;—on Heroes, namely, and on their reception and performance; what I call Hero-worship and the Heroic in human affairs. Too evidently this is ... ...ke it, Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They... ...ral: herdsmen, carriers, traders, generally robbers too; being oftenest at war one with another, or with all: held 46 Thomas Carlyle together by no o... ...ike; in his eighteenth year one finds him a fighter following his Uncle in war. But perhaps the most significant of all his journeys is one we find no... ...ughable then; but nobody can manage to laugh at it now. Puritanism has got weapons and sinews; it has firearms, war-navies; it has cunning in its ten ...

...Excerpt: The text is taken from the printed ?Sterling Edition? of Carlyle?s Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin charact...

................................................. 68 LECTURE IV. THE HERO AS PRIEST. LUTHER; REFORMATION: KNOX; PURITANISM. 99 LECTURE V.THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOHNSON, ROUSSEAU, BURNS. ........ 131 LECTURE VI.THE HERO AS KING. CROMWELL, NAPOLEON: MODERN REVOLUTIONISM............................................................................................................

...rans. D. J. Hogarth, with an introduction by John Cournos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e, realised that “it is dangerous to jest with laughter.” “Everything that I laughed at became sad.” “And terrible,” adds Merejkovsky. But earlier his... ...so that one is not astonished to hear that not only did the Tsar, Nicholas I, give permission to have it acted, in spite of its being a criticism of o... ...in some fashion, however small, to help me. Every man who has lived in the world and mixed with his fellow men will have remarked something which has ... ...or of State Factories. True, the task of remembering every big-wig in this world of ours is not a very easy one; but at least our visitor displayed th... ...ong, for a mazurka started, to be followed by “Marlborough has gone to the war,” and to this, again, there succeeded an anti- quated waltz. Also, long... ...rgan was like, he was forced once more to hear how Marlborough went to the war. “Then, since you don’t care to give me any money for it,” persisted No... ...with him!” “Nevertheless, it is not as you suppose. Think, now! Armed with weapons from head to foot, he called upon this old woman, and said: ‘Sell m... ... de- cided to begin his career anew, and once more to arm himself with the weapons of patience and self-denial. The better to effect this, he had, of ...

...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown o...

...l chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows acr... ..., “you’ve got a full schedule today. By the way,” his voice rising slightly, “I should warn you that Cardinal Berini is on the warpath again. I hear... ...aid, removing his glasses and motioning him toward a chair next to his desk, “I want to talk to you.” The Pope’s usually robust and eager mood, to... ... newspapers ran bold headlines declaring the end of the Catholic Church as the world knew it. Cardinal Berini was furious, and made it known to every... ...hairman of the Armed Services Committee he controlled the purse strings of the world's most sophisticated Army. An Army designed to protect a Nation;... ... 22 J.Cross/Artemis Artemis thought for a long time before speaking. "A war on drugs!" he said vehemently, pounding the top of his desk. "No... ...ugs!" he said vehemently, pounding the top of his desk. "No, Senator. Not a war. There have been too many wars." "Father, I appreciate your senti... ...d to the crude: C-4, dynamite, nitro, or any untraceable explosives, plus any weapons that you may need. My laboratories can produce any form of exp... ...ain. Within twenty seconds it was done. Only a few bullets from the soldiers’ weapons penetrated the ceiling as they fell lifeless. Soule’ hurried ...

...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of...

...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the eb...

... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...................................................................... 292 ON WAR .......................................................................... ...e, to the luxurious happiness of this most delightful season. Happiness do I say? Yes, happiness; happiness to me above all others. For I also in thos... ...bove all others. For I also in those days was among the young and the gay; I was healthy; I was strong; I was prosperous in a worldly sense! I owed no... ... the young and the gay; I was healthy; I was strong; I was prosperous in a worldly sense! I owed no man a shilling; feared no man’s face; shunned no m... ...and Miscellaneous Papers superior in understanding and in knowledge of the world, whom, therefore, she leaned to for protection. On the other hand, sh... ...ed the door. We had one crow-bar amongst us, but beyond that had no better weapons than the loose stones found about some new- made graves in the chap... ...ity. But the person, after all, that did most to serve our Kate, was Kate. War was then raging with Indians, both from Chili and Peru. Kate had always... ...sert; but at length the savage clamors of hostile fury, and the clangor of weapons, unveiled to the Emperor the true nature of those unexpected calami...

........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...

...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ................................................................... 12 VOLUME I.—THE BASTILLE .............................................................. ................................................................... 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV . ....................................................... ............................................ 104 Chapter 1.5.III. Broglie the War-God. ..................................................................... ................................................ 455 Chapter 3.4.II. In Civil War . ........................................................................ ...is grand-nephew of the great Richelieu to glide about; unworshipped by the world; resolute Choiseul, the abrupt proud man, disdaining him, or even for... ...ves; lapped in soft music of adulation; waited on by the splendours of the world;—which nevertheless hangs won- drously as by a single hair. Should th... ... blindly without rule or rein; sav- age itself, yet with all the tools and weapons of civilisation; a spectacle new in History. In such a France, as i... ...landestine privateers armed. Paul Jones shall equip his Bon Homme Richard: weapons, military stores can be smuggled over (if the English do not seize ...

... THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY.......................................................................................................... 12 VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ...................................................

... TE TE TE TE E E E E ELE LE LE LE LECTR CTR CTR CTR CTRO O O O ON N N N NI I I I IC C C C C C C C C CL L L L LA A A A AS S S S SS S S S SI I I I IC C ... ...S S S S SS S S S SI I I I IC C C C CS S S S S S S S S SE E E E ER R R R RI I I I IE E E E ES S S S S P P P P PU U U U UB B B B BLI LI LI LI LICA CA CA... ...ench Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ............................................ 142 Chapter 1.5.III. Broglie the War-God. ..................................................................... ...s grand- nephew of the great Richelieu to glide about; unworshipped by the world; resolute Choiseul, the abrupt proud man, disdaining him, or even for... ...ves; lapped in soft music of adulation; waited on by the splendours of the world;—which nevertheless hangs won- drously as by a single hair. Should th... ...landestine privateers armed. Paul Jones shall equip his Bon Homme Richard: weapons, military stores can be smuggled over (if the English do not seize ... ...ious shadow of him hovers long in all heads and hearts. Neither, while the War yet lasts, will Gibraltar surrender. Not though Crillon, Nassau-Siegen,... ...Nation pen- etrate the most isolated Body-corporate: say rather, with such weapons, homicidal and suicidal, in exasperated po- litical duel, will Bodi...

...Contents VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE .................................................................................................................................. 6 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ..................................................

...r r r r r S S S S S t t t t t o o o o o r r r r r i i i i i e e e e e s s s s s b b b b b y y y y y ... ...a a a r r r r r k k k k k T T T T T w w w w w a a a a a i i i i i n n n n n A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...st and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...business woman; but in the cozy living room at night they put the plodding world away, and lived in another and a fairer, reading romances to each oth... ...m with it. But never mind about Tilbury, Aleck, let’s talk about something worldly. It does seem to me that that mine is the place for the whole thirt... ...ble cause—the modern Achilles, who gained so many victories in the Florida War?” “I bear that name,” said the Major, “and those titles, trusting at ... ...e. By the above compari son between his age and Ambulinia’s, we guess the war worn veteran to be twenty two; and the other facts stand thus: he had g... ...is dashing steed, yet I am as sured that it is only to arm me with divine weapons which will enable me to complete my long tried intention.” “Return ... ...is dashing steed, yet I am as sured that it is only to arm me with divine weapons which will enable me to complete my long tried intention.” “Return ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religio...

.... 134 EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE...................................................................................... 137 THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE ................................................................................................................................ 143 THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES ............................................................

...Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by George Bernard Shaw is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...an version of my book in the Manuscript of my friend Siegfried T rebitsch, I was struck by the inadequacy of the merely negative explanation given by ... ... of The Ring. That explanation is cor- rect as far as it goes; but, put as I put it, it now seems to me to suggest that the operatic character of Nigh... ...y simply because I should have perished of despair in my youth but for the world created for me by that great German dy- nasty which began with Bach a... ...s: in them alone am I truly at home: all my work is but to bring the whole world under this sanctification. And so, O worthy, respectable, dutiful, pa... ...he idea of forming a heroic bodyguard. He has trained his love children as war-maidens (Valkyries) whose duty it is to sweep through battle-fields and... ...him lying on the hearth. He explains that he has been in a fight; that his weapons not being as strong as his arms, were broken; and that he had to fl... ...called the Neidings, upon whom he and Wolfing thenceforth waged implacable war until the day when his father disappeared, leaving no trace of himself ... ...ers and is bound to avenge them. He tells the Volsung that in the morning, weapons or no weap- ons, he must fight for his life. Then he orders the wom...

...ts ...................................................................................................................................... 12 The Ring of the Niblungs ............................................................................................................................................. 14 The Rhine Gold ....................................................

...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... ...University Preface IN MAKING THIS abridgement of Boswell’s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell’s criti- cisms, comments, and notes, all of ... ...g with matters which were of greater importance in Boswell’s day than now. I have kept in mind an old habit, common enough, I dare say, among its devo... ...rily the artist, and he has cre- ated one of the great masterpieces of the world.* He created nothing else, though his head was continually filling it... ...ture. Johnson called him ‘clubbable,’ ‘the best traveling companion in the world,’ ‘one Scotchman who is cheerful,’ ‘a man whom everybody likes,’ ‘a m... ...ended in the years 1745 and 1746, those years which were marked by a civil war in Great-Britain, when a rash attempt was made to restore the House of ... ...every thing English prevailed much in France after Lord Chatham’s glorious war, he said, he did not wonder at it, for that we had drubbed those fellow... ... with great uniformity.’ I took upon me, for once, to fight with Goliath’s weapons, and play the sophist.—Garrick did not need a friend, as he got fro...

...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 with matters which were of gr...

...s Series Publication The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 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... ...ty university. 3 Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford PART I I THIS IS THE SADDEST STORY I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnha... ...se and easy and yet as close as a good glove’s with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybod... ...o of them are actually dead. I don’t know …. I know nothing—nothing in the world—of the hearts of men. I 6 The Good Soldier only know that I am alone... ...t have been enough time to get the tremendously long conversations full of worldly wisdom that Leonora has reported to me since their deaths. And is i... ...hey tried to get the Hampshire magistrates degraded; they suggested to the War Ministry that Edward was not the proper person to hold the King’s commi... ...to General Washington. For the Hurlbirds had backed the losing side in the War of Independence, and had been seriously impoverished and quite efficien... ...time of her existence. It seemed like a long, silent duel with invis- ible weapons, so she said. And it was rendered all the more diffi- cult by the g...

...Excerpt: This is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy--or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good glove?s with your hand. My wif...

...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves... ... then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking di... ...and in the initial transition to digital phototypesetting. At sixty-four, I bring another full lifetime lived both at that exact moment where my exp... ...d to my appointment as adjunct professor at Benedictine University, where I built the world‘s first electronic library in 1988. You could walk into ... ... revolutionary InfoTech invention in the fifteenth century. Charlemagne’s war against ignorance Roman Catholic Church monasteries in the darkest o... ...use he needed to assemble a council of his leaders to approve his call to war. His decision to cross the Gobi and invade the Jurched territory unl... ...stors share the knowledge needed to control fire and master the tools and weapons that let our species dominate this planet. Then:  Writing s...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...S POWER ................................................................................................................................... 41 WAR AN... ... 5 Meeting Dr. Chan —―Good morning gentlemen. I want... ... meet you Dr. Chan. Wanda Wang suggested that we meet you when we were in Singaling.‖ —―Glad to meet you all. Please just call me Chuck. I know... ...robots who can be programmed by behaviorist planning -- like so many rats in a maze. ―Oh, if I only had infinite knowledge and could tell the world ... ...unlike the ‗hard‘ sciences, our variables are nearly infinite. But not as infinite as the possibilities expressed by the many religions of the world.... ...Let‘s look at the case for some vitamins. ―The Danes found that when they sold butter to other countries during and after the World War. ... ...d violence sure sells in films, on TV and in computer games. Have we always been so violent or are the media pushing us that way? Or is it the weapon... ...ith our family and neighbors. But that is not enough today. The Internet, cell phones, television, CNN, a globalized economy, the existence of weapon...

...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A ... ...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. is... ...y of the Thirty Y ears’ War Contents History of the Thirty Years’ War Book I. Introduction. — General effects of the Refor- mation. — Revolt of Matthi... ...of the Thirty Years’ War. History of the Thirty Years’ War in Germany Book I F ROM THE BEGINNING of the religious wars in Germany, to the peace of Mun... ... Munster, scarcely any thing great or remarkable occurred in the political world of Europe in which the Reformation had not an important share. All th... ...e belief? — if from Protes- 25 Friedrich Schiller tants they borrowed the weapons against Prot- estants? — if, in the midst of this clashing of opini... ...e credit. Far more honourable was his second appear- ance in the political world. Perceiving that his repeated remonstrances with the Emperor were una... ...any longer keep- ing the field. And yet it was dangerous to lay down their weapons in the sight of an armed enemy. To secure themselves at least on on...

...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...

...eries Publication Miscellaneous Prose by George Meredith 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... ..........................................1 3 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14 4 Miscella... ... common against all satirists, Thackeray had to bear with them. The social world he looked at did not show him heroes, only here and there a plain goo... ...rical way of an English father patting a son on the head. He described his world as an accurate observer saw it, he could not be dishonest. Not a page... ...ypocrites and crafty conspirators; and numbers in England, affected by the weapons they have used to get to their present strength, do think it; forge... ...ge the issue. For the sole alternative is distinct antago- nism, a form of war. Mr. Gladstone’s Bill has brought us to that definite line. Ireland hav... ...tions and novel or ultra theories might almost be written down beforehand. I should, for my part, anticipate a greater danger in the familiar attitude... ... tried passes in the higher Alps, and he had no mercy for pursy followers. I have often said of this life-long student and philosophical head that he ...

...Excerpt: William Makepeace Thackeray was born at Calcutta, July 18, 1811, the only child of Richmond and Anne Thackeray. He received the main part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. To judge by quot...

...EN?1904 ............................................................................................................. 13 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14...

...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... ..................................................................... 5 P ART I—LETTERS .................................................................... ... 5 Joseph Conrad Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad AUTHOR’S NOTE I DON’T KNOW whether I ought to offer an apology for this collection which ... ...ke a certain South Ameri- can general who used to say that no emergency of war or peace had ever found him “with his boots off”; but I may say that wh... ...y (after the process of tidying up), a little bowed, and receding from the world not because of weariness or misanthropy but for other reasons that ca... ... time. The time was about a month before the entrance of Roumania into the war, and though, honestly, I had seen already the shadow of coming events I... ...le to the mind and the heart of the artist. After all, the cre- ation of a world is not a small undertaking except perhaps to the divinely gifted. In ... ...en heard urging the warrior still panting from the fray to fling his tried weapons on the altar of peace, for they would be needed no more! And such v...

................................................................................................................................................. 5 PART I?LETTERS ........................................................................................................................................................ 8 BOOKS?1905 ....................................................

...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...y NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS GEORGE DE BARNWELL BY SIR E. L. B. L., BART. VOL I. IN THE MORNING OF LIFE THE T RUTHFUL wooed the Beautiful, and their offs... ...s as the untired Sun-God. He is Eros, the ever young. Dark, dark were this world of ours had either Divinity left it—dark without the day- beams of th... ...the Love that bleeds, are not these with us Still? are not these still the weapons of the Artist? the colors of his palette? the chords of his lyre? L... ... of the Artist? the colors of his palette? the chords of his lyre? Listen! I tell thee a tale— not of Kings—but of Men—not of Thrones, but of Love, an... ...s. Inspired by Millwood and love, George robs the till, and mingles in the world which he is destined to ornament. He outdoes all the dandies, all the... ...and drained it with a health to the donors. How strange are the chances of war! But half an hour be- fore he and I were engaged in mortal combat, and ... ...w, and none more so than Philip Fogarty, the humble writer of this tale of war. Our embrasure was luckily bomb-proof, and the detach- ment of the Onet... ...relled gun to your lodgings; and, though heaven forbid you should use such weapons, you might sell them, you know, and we could make merry with the pr...

...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and...

.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

...a by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...eley Dedication T o Madame la Comtesse Merlin. JUANA (THE MARANAS) CHAPTER I EXPOSITION NOTWITHSTANDING the discipline which Marechal Suchet had intro... ...uke of Alba encourage him in thinking 6 Juana that the worst trade in the world was the involuntary exchange of a crown for a bullet? Hence, Montefio... ... never be of any consequence to him if by chance they survived the present war, which seemed to be one of extermination. He relied on his face to win ... ...ntment of their hopes by the expectation of future fame. Both regarded the war in its re- sults, not its action; they simply considered those who died... ...her for madonnas of flesh and blood. In what part of Tarragona it happened I cannot say, but Diard presently recognized by its architecture the portal... ..., a prostitute. In those days women of that sort had a certain rank in the world of which nothing in our day can give an idea. Ninon de l’Enclos and M... ...ard to please. If she wants a husband I am ready to marry her. Put up your weapons; there is no trouble here.” The Marana pulled the Italian to the si... ...t el- egant, polished contempt against which a new-made man has seldom any weapons. The manners, the semi-Italian gesticu- lations, the speech of Diar...

...hapter 1 Exposition. Notwithstanding the discipline which Marechal Suchet had introduced into his army corps, he was unable to prevent a short period of trouble and disorder at the taking of Tarragona. According to certain fair-minded military men, this intoxication of victory bore a striking resemblance to pillage, though the marechal promptly suppressed it. Order being r...

... This publication of “The Communist Manifesto” is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... as against its reactionary ad versaries? Two things result from this fact. I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European Powers to be itself... ...II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this n... ...ished in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages. I. BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS The history of all hitherto existing socie... ...industrial armies, the modern bourgeois. Modern industry has established the world market, for which the discovery of America paved the way. This mark... ... into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; ... ...ctive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented. The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feu dalism to the ground are n... ...gainst the bour geoisie itself. But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into exist ence t... ...e develop ment of the proletariat, we traced the more or less veiled civil war, raging within existing society, up to the point where that war break...

...Excerpt: A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police- spies. Where is the party in opposition that has ...

...n Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents LETTER I.—ON THE QUAKERS ............................................................ ... the age of thirty- two to the age of thirty-five. He was here when George I. 6 Letters on England died, and George II. became king. He published her... ... many other Christians for- swear themselves on the holy Gospels. We never war or fight in any case; but it is not that we are afraid, for so far from... ...teen hundred years. But there were always a few Quakers con- cealed in the world, who carefully preserved the sacred fire, which was extinguished in a... ...d to foot, and travelled from one village to another, ex- claiming against war and the clergy. Had his invectives been levelled against the soldiery o... ... a proper period of time. Were Car- dinal de Retz to return again into the world, neither his elo- quence nor his intrigues would draw together ten wo... ...the strong as well as the weak side of the human mind, and who fought with weapons whose temper he knew. If I might presume to give my opinion on so d... ...s how to reason, and enabled them 54 Letters on England to employ his own weapons against himself. If Descartes did not pay in good money, he however...

...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...

...Contents LETTER I.?ON THE QUAKERS .............................................................................................................................. 6 LETTER II.?ON THE QUAKERS .......................................................

...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... .................................................................. 25 EPISTLE I.—TO SIR RICHARD TEMPLE, LORD COBHAM.*....................................... ......................... 133 EPIGRAM, ENGRA VED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG WHICH I GAVE TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. 134 THE TRANSLATOR. ............................ ...mpression he has made on, and impulse he has given to, his own age and the world. In other words, what were his native powers, and what has he done, f... ...he judged of beauty by fashion; he sought for truth in the opinions of the world; he judged the feelings of others by his own. The capacious soul of S... ..., the breaking of a flower-pot or the fall of a China jar; for the tug and war of the elements, or the deadly strife of the passions, “‘Calm contempla... ... charity should own, Must act on motives powerful, though unknown. P. Some war, some plague, or famine, they foresee, Some revelation hid from you and... ...miled serene, ‘Take at this hand celestial arms: 2 ‘Secure the radiant weapons wield; This golden lance shall guard desert; And if a vice da... ...stab it to the heart.’ 3 Awed, on my bended knees I fell, Received the weapons of the sky; And dipp’d them in the sable well, The fount of f...

Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two.

...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS .....................................................................................................................

...Volume Five A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five 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... ............................................................... 228 “IN YOUTH I HA VE KNOWN ONE” ........................................................... ...e must have a covering of small—yet this is not all the knowl- edge in the world. As regards texture, the Saxony is alone admissible. Brussels is the ... ...i- nations is unequal broken, and painful. It alone is sufficient to mar a world of good effect in the furniture subjected to its influence. Female lo... ...ted perambulators)— “by the five corners of that beard which, as a priest, I am forbidden to shave!—have we lived to see the day when a blaspheming an... ...lier. Additional sconces were set in various parts of the hall, out of the war, and a flambeau, emitting sweet odor, was placed in the right hand of e... ... with affright; and had not the king taken the precau- tion to exclude all weapons from the saloon, his party might soon have expiated their frolic in... ...colors than a pirate runs up, one after the other, when chased by a man-of-war. “Are you quite sure he said that? W ell, at all events I am in for it ...

Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five.

...Contents PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE .................................................................................................................................. 6 A TALE OF JERUSALEM ..............................................................

... SERIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson 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... ...s on which they have themselves so few and such confused opinions? Indeed, I do not know; the 5 Lay Morals least said, perhaps, the soonest mended; a... ...ung people are taught to be Christians. It may be want of penetration, but I have not yet been able to perceive it. As an honest man, whatever we teac... ...not? And our whole system is to teach us how we can! ‘The children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.’ Are they? ... ... of repute had written a conclusive treatise ‘How to make the best of both worlds.’ Of both worlds indeed! Which am I to believe then– Christ or the a... ... from the letter to the spirit. For morals are a per- sonal affair; in the war of righteousness every man fights for his own hand; all the six hundred... ...though he were eternal, plunges with his vulnerable body into the shock of war, and daily affronts death with unconcern. He cannot take a step without... ...dierly ways, garrison ways, as I had almost called them; with his taste in weapons; his delight in any that ‘he found to be a man of his hands’; his c...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the tru...

...................4 FATHER DAMIEN.........................................................................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW................................................................74 COLLEGE PAPERS.............................................................................

...THE KALEVALA The Epic Poem of Finland T ranslated into English By John Martin Crawford 1888 1888 1888 ... ...o the Finnish. Both belong to the Ugrian stock of agglutinative languages, i.e., those which preserve the root most carefully, and effect all changes ... ...ent to the French eu) of the first syllable must be followed by an e or an i. The Finnish, like all Ugrian tongues, admits rhyme, but with reluctance,... ...of the forest demons, and is inconceivably wicked. He was brought into the world consentaneously with Suoyatar, from whose spittle, as sung in The Kal... ...o, is thought by the Finlanders to have a hand in all the evil done in the world. T urning from the outer world to man, we find deities whose energies... ... enchanted arrows, Arrows for the great magician, There to shape them into weapons, Weapons for the skilful archer, Since the mighty oak has fallen, N... ...m, That the one may hear the other, That the one may judge the other, In a war of wizard sayings.” 49 The Kalevala Wainamoinen, wise and ancient, Thu... ...dless blue sea, Like a pretty song bird perished. Never bring thy prancing war horse, Never bring thy royal racer, Never bring thy steeds to water, To... ...l Youkahainen Slew my steed with bow and arrow, T ried to slay me with his weapons. On the waters fell I headlong, Plunged beneath the salt sea’s surf...

...Preface: The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be calle...

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...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... ... university. 3 John Stuart Mill AUTOBIOGRAPHY by JOHN STUART MILL CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHILDHOOD AND EARL CHILDHOOD AND ... ... AND EARL Y EDUCA Y EDUCA Y EDUCA Y EDUCA Y EDUCA TION TION TION TION TION I T SEEMS PROPER that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch... ...n they deserve to be, and the one to whom most of all is due, one whom the world had no opportunity of knowing. The reader whom these things do not in... ...lties, and in Paoli, the Corsican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like a child as I was (until set right by my father) o... ...sons, and a collection (Hawkesworth’s, I be lieve) of V oyages round the World , in four volumes, beginning with Drake and ending with Cook and Boug... ...e, while about modern history, except detached passages, such as the Dutch War of Inde pendence, I knew and cared comparatively little. A volun tary... ...es, holding some of the principles of both, and supplying to both powerful weapons of attack and defence, I now looked upon him as one of the pillars,...

...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 imagi...

...n Captain Brassbound’s Conversion by George Bernard Shaw 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... ...nd’s Conversion Captain Brassbound’s Conversion by George Bernard Shaw ACT I On the heights overlooking the harbor of Mogador, a sea- port on the west... ...ffle all the traditional vowel pronunciations. He pronounces ow as ah, and i as aw, using the ordinary ow for o, i for a, a for u, and e for a, with t... ... captains, but of thr Maaker. And there are gentlemen and gentlemen in the world, espaecially in these latitudes. Which sort of gentleman is he? DRINK... ...ve matters as they were for many years; for I had my own posi- tion in the world to make. But at last I made it. In the course of a holiday trip to th... ...he railway from the Cape to Cairo. Who are you, that a nation should go to war for you? If you are missing, what will your newspapers say? A foolhardy... ...e hands of them that set the sea on fire but yesterday with their ships of war? Where are the Franguestani cap- tives? LADY CICELY. Here we are, Cadi.... ...earts and strike fire from the hard kind ones. He handles the other lethal weapons as familiarly as the pen: medieval sword and mod- ern Mauser are to...

...Excerpt: ACT I. On the heights overlooking the harbor of Mogador, a seaport on the west coast of Morocco, the missionary, in the coolness of the late afternoon, is following the precept of Voltaire by cultivating his garden. He is an elde...

...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... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................... ... gone before us in the battle – taken together, they build up a face that “I have loved long since and lost awhile,” the face of what was once myself.... ...dred miles between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Book English has gone round the world, but at home we still preserve the racy idioms of our fathers, and ev... ...tory. A passing enthusiasm for some foreign art or fashion may deceive the world, it cannot impose upon his intimates. He may be amused by a foreigner... ... And that same night he was tossing in a brain fever. People are afraid of war and wounds and dentists, all with excellent reason; but these are not t... ...to civilities; his hail at sight of me began to have less of the ring of a war- slogan; soon, we never met but he produced his snuff-box, which was wi... ...nding, should hear these young fellows talking of his own subject, his own weapons that he had fought the battle of life with, – “and – h’m – not unde...

...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 s...

...Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES..................................................................................