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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...ny Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel ... ... eight and nine o’clock, whether it was day or not, for so had his ancient governors ordained, alleging that which David saith, Vanum est vobis ante l... ...l take into your hands Majorca, Minorca, Sardinia, Corsica, with the other islands of the Ligustic and Balearian seas. Going alongst on the left hand,... ...d Sicily, all ransacked, and Malta too. I wish the pleasant Knights of the Rhodes heretofore would but come to resist you, that we might see their uri... ...t our return. From thence we will sail eastwards, and take Candia, Cyprus, Rhodes, and the Cyclade Islands, and set 115 Rabelais upon (the) Morea. It... ...have it so, that Ponocrates be over- seer and superintendent above all his governors, with what- ever power and authority is requisite thereto, and th... ...ucy and mischievous, students sottish and duncical? Nothing but that their governors and tutors were not decretalists. But what, on your conscience, w...

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...ion: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a ...

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...A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES... ...reatise on Government by Aristotle, trans. William Ellis 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... ...h and others (with translation of para- phrase attributed to Andronicus of Rhodes), edited by E. Hatch, 1879; by F , H. Peters, 1881; J. E. C. Welldon... ... to the younger and imperfect. Now in the gener- ality of free states, the governors and the governed alternately change place; for an equality withou... ...are at that time magistrates, as they will, in their turns, alternately be governors and governed, as if they were different men: by the same method d... ...e particulars. He has also neglected in that treatise to point out how the governors are to be distinguished from the governed; for he says, that as o... ...om Peloponnesus, on the other, which looks towards Asia, from Triopium and Rhodes. By means of this situation Minos acquired the em- 68 A Treatise on... ...se also who expect an injury, that they may prevent it; as was the case at Rhodes, when the nobles conspired against the people on account of the decr...

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...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers 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... .... These were New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. New Jersey and Rhode Island, upon all occa- sions, discovered a warm zeal for the independ... ...ticut in conse- quence of the enormities perpetrated by the Legislature of Rhode Island; and we reasonably infer that, in similar cases, under other c... ...lished in Massachusetts, would have upon the liberties of New Hampshire or Rhode Island, of Connecticut or New York? The inordinate pride of State imp... ...t to impose a new tax. The conse- quence is that he permits the bashaws or governors of prov- inces to pillage the people without mercy; and, in turn,... .... But the constitutions of several of the States ex- pressly declare their governors to be commanders-in-chief, as well of the army as navy; and it ma... ...ar, do not, in this instance, confer larger powers upon their respec- tive governors, than could be claimed by a President of the United States. Third...

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

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...Excerpt: Dear Speed, yours of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would su...

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