...The Prime Minister by Anthony T rollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...y Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Do... ... respect for those who by their own energies have raised themselves in the world; and when we hear that the son of a washerwoman has become Lord Chanc... ...ave endeavoured to describe. He did not know very much him- self, but what little he did know he kept altogether to him- self. He had no father or mot... ...ered no doubt;—but with Spartan consistency he so hid his trouble from the world that no one knew that he suffered. Those with whom he lived, and who ... ... tall, very dark and very thin, with regular well-cut features, indicating little to the physi- ognomist unless it be the great gift of self-possessio... ...he old Duke, among whose theories of official life forbearance to all col- leagues and subordinates was conspicuous. The withdrawal was therefore allo... ...ea there was so much pride about the Duke,’ Mr Boffin said to his old col- league, Sir Orlando. ‘Is it pride?’ asked Sir Orlando. ‘It may be shyness,’...

...ANITY FAIR BY William Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania St... ...akepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...e paint off his cheeks before he sits down to dinner with his wife and the little Jack Puddings behind the canvas. The curtain will be up presently, ... ...ave given satisfaction to the very best company in this empire. The famous little Becky Puppet has been pronounced to be un- commonly flexible in the ... ... her, she and her awful sister will never issue therefrom into this little world of history. But as we are to see a great deal of Amelia, there is no ... ...; the great gates were closed; the bell rang for the dancing les- son. The world is before the two young ladies; and so, fare- well to Chiswick Mall. ... ...eat credit for bringing over to him Sir Pitt and his col- 92 V anity Fair league for Queen’s Crawley, although Sir Pitt would have come over himself,...

...ast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...War by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Documen... ... who will.” It is surely as interesting that presently some founder of the World Republic, some obstinate opponent of militarism or legalism, or the m... ...nue to be a prelude. The prophetic type will steadfastly refuse to see the world as a museum; it will insist that here is a stage set for a drama that... ...r brightest young men. It is fairly safe to assume that there will be very little new furniture on the stage of the world for some considerable time; ... ... passion—and certain other restraining and qualifying forces. There can be little doubt that, if one could canvass all mankind and ask them whether th... ...imate confederation of the nations of the earth. Because, in the face of a league of the Central European Powers attempting recuperation, cherishing r... ...t there will be a gravita- tion of all other arrangements, all empires and leagues and 104 What Is Coming? what not, towards this rational and natura...

...Nuttie’s Father by Charlotte M Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Nuttie’s Father Nuttie’s Father by Charlotte M. Yonge i... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Nuttie’s Father by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State U... ...Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...on that fed, clothed, taught, and finally apprenticed them. So, though the little fellows were clad in surplices and cassocks, 4 Nuttie’s Father and ... ... Palace, Nuttie. The funds won’t bear it. Mr. Dutton says we must spend as little as possible on loco- motion.’ ‘I’m sure I don’t care for the Crystal... ...t the High School.’ ‘They don’t want to trust their Little Bear out in the world.’ ‘I think it is more than that,’ said the girl. ‘I can’t help thinki... ...ent thought it the wisest way to laugh and say: ‘You, of all people in the world, to want to make out a con- 10 Nuttie’s Father nection with the aris... ...called them, and more immediate causes of danger, but both he and his col- league, summoned from London, believed that she would have surmounted them ...

...o A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad is a ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ... the “Typhoon” volume it seemed somehow that there was nothing more in the world to write about. This so strangely negative but disturbing mood lasted... ...to write about. This so strangely negative but disturbing mood lasted some little time; and then, as with many of my longer stories, the first hint fo... ...ardly have been two exploits of that peculiar kind in the same part of the world and both connected with a South Ameri- can revolution. The fellow had... ...American girlhood I wouldn’t dare to affirm. But, for me, she is. Always a little in the back- ground by the side of her father (my venerated friend) ... ...e of the En- glishman who managed the silver mine in the moun- tains three leagues from the town. She was the only Englishwoman in Sulaco. Giorgio Vio... ...ida had reported that from the porch of the posada in Rincon, only a short league from the town, the lights on the mountain were visible, twinkling ab...

...Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad is a publication of... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...s by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ... rule we do not want much en couragement to talk about ourselves; yet this little book is the result of a friendly suggestion, and even of a little fr... ...en- gines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. What a dream—for a writer! Because written words have their accent t... ...is shouted, and fails to be heard, perhaps, and goes down-wind leaving the world unmoved. Once upon a time there lived an Emperor who was a sage and s... ...othing but derision. Nobody will expect to find between the covers of this little book words of extraordinary potency or accents of irresistible heroi... ...ed to go to sea voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end,... ...e for a pony: a quarter of a mile at most, hedged in by hundreds of square leagues of virgin forest. But who knows? The importation of that Bali Pony ...

...A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad is a publication of ... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...L RULE we do not want much encouragement to talk about ourselves; yet this little book is the result of a friendly suggestion, and even of a little fr... ...r engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. What a dream for a writer! Because written words have their accent, ... ...s shouted, and fails to be heard, perhaps, and goes down-wind, leaving the world unmoved? Once upon a time there lived an emperor who was a sage and s... ...othing but derision. Nobody will expect to find between the covers of this little book words of extraordinary potency or accents of irresistible heroi... ... to go to sea voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon one an other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end,... ...e for a pony: a quarter of a mile at most, hedged in by hundreds of square leagues of virgin for- est. But who knows? The importation of that Bali pon... ...ars to be the only roof over my head. To return to the Electronic Classics Series, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/ faculty/jmanis/ jimspdf.htm To return ...

...Redgauntlet by Sir W alter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...y Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Do... ...heir prince, or so prudent as to be aware their complaints would meet with little sympathy from the world. It may be added, that the greater part of t... ...t as to be aware their complaints would meet with little sympathy from the world. It may be added, that the greater part of the banished Jacobites, an... ...—qualities which, if he had succeeded in his bold attempt, gave the nation little room to hope that he would have been found free from the love of pre... ... regard our purses as common, as well as our sentiments? I am alone in the world; my only guardian writes to me of a large fortune which will be mine ... ... sincere and good, were not firm enough to withstand the influence of this league between his wife and friend. The provost’s adieus, like Macbeth’s am...

...ronicle of Mistakes By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes by Ch... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201- 1291 is a Portable D... ...R I CHAPTER I ‘HAVE YOU TALKED it over with her?’ said Mr. Ferrars, as his little slender wife met him under the beeches that made an avenue of the la... ...ed?’ ‘That it is my fault. Before our marriage, you and she were the whole world to each other; but since I came, I have seen, as you say, that the cr... ...r your investigations. Did you see Colonel Bury?’ ‘I did, but he could say little more than we knew. He says nothing could be more exemplary than Kend... ...at his clear olive complexion had not the line of health, that there was a world of oppression on his broad brow and deep hazel eyes, and that it was ... ...ess. The next morning, she found out that it was not the world that was in league against her, but that she had fallen into the condition which she ha... ...e timid Gilbert. His individual story was thus:—He safely rode the ‘half a league’ forward, but when more than half way back, his horse was struck to ...

...Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Penns... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ... people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure considerably illuminated by cham... ...nticed him; it may have been resentment of return from this fine, bold man-world to a restricted region of wives and stenographers, and of suggestions... ...d, when with wet and soap-slippery fingers he tried to remove the horrible little envelope and crisp clinging oiled paper from the new blade. Then the... ...plift and flipflop and settlement- work and recreation is nothing in God’s world but the entering wedge for socialism. The sooner a man learns he isn’... ...ell, I guess he called up the Credit Association and the American Security League to see if I was all right— he certainly took long enough—or maybe he... ...his Dora Gibson Tucker that runs the Child Welfare and the Americanization League, and the only reason she’s got Drew beaten is because she has got so...

... OF THE DAISY CHAIN By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlott... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yon... ...Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...has been raging so long to get drained.’ ‘The knell has been ringing for a little child there,’ added Mary; ‘scarlatina, I believe—’ ‘But, Richard,’ b... ...le, so that they had been entirely one with each other; and there had been little of formal demand either of the maiden’s affection or her father’s co... ...on, was, though perfectly lady like, always re- garded by the Stoneborough world as something on the borders of presumption on the part of the entire ... ...w he won’t let me go back to Leonard.’ ‘But, Averil, the best nurse in the world can’t hold out for ever. People must sleep, and make themselves fit t... ...’ said the Doctor, smiling placably as his son returned. ‘You are all in a league to spoil that young- ster. He would be better if you would not try y...

...Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Desc... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...es Fenimore Cooper, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Do... ...the Alleghanies which cover the midland counties of New Y ork, and it is a little east of a meridional line drawn through the centre of the State. As ... ...ase of the former colony. Although the settlement of this part of Otsego a little pre- ceded the birth of the author, it was not sufficiently advanced... ...n; but as he has—in intention, at least—done his full share in amusing the world, he trusts to its good-nature for overlooking this attempt to please ... ...the veteran had soon a free indul- gence of his wishes. Whatever views the world might enter- tain of this act of the Major, to himself and to his chi... ...casion, while in command on the western frontier of Pennsylvania against a league of the French and Indians, not only his glory , but the safety of hi... ...youth, he was an In- dian warrior; or, what is the same thing, a white man leagued with the savages; and it is thought he has been concerned in many o...

...Sides of the Shield By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte M. Yonge is a ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylv... ...Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ... youngest of them all, and she thinks she is a young lady still, and wears little curls on her forehead, and a tennis pinafore, and makes her waist ju... ... gone to settle in New Zealand, and I have not seen her since I was a very little girl. Then there’s Aunt Emily, who is a very great swell indeed. Her... ... it; and she lay a little while hearing sounds that made it clear that the world was astir, and she could see that preparations had been made for her ... ...in the centre so as to form a gradual ascent with the tops and not for the world letting a second volume stand before its elder brother, but she soon ... ...lways talking about her precious, persecuted uncle. I be- lieve she was in league with him all the time!’ ‘That is nonsense,’ said Lady Merrifield, ‘a...

...Preface: It is sometimes treated as an impertinence to revive the personages of one story in another, even though it is after the example of Shakespeare, who revived Falstaff, after his death, at the behest of Queen Elizabeth. This precedent is, however, a true impertinence in calling on the very great to justify ...

...th America Volume Two by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...y Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...ad streets, as to the completion of which there can now, I imagine, be but little hope. Of all places that I know it is the most ungainly and most uns... ...population of Washington; and there are, I fear, few towns in the Union so little likely to enjoy any speedy increase. Three avenues sweep the whole l... ...ide which is on your right as you leave the Capitol. Of the other side the world knows nothing. And very bad shops they are. I doubt whether there be ... ...ing. And very bad shops they are. I doubt whether there be any town in the world at all equal in importance to Washington which is in such respects so... ...787, the different States endeavored to make their way in the world simply leagued together by certain articles of confederation. It was declared that... ... independence; and that the said States then entered severally into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defense. There was no...

...The Confidence- Man By Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville is a publication ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Do... ...rds were these: “Charity thinketh no evil.” As, in gaining his place, some little perseverance, not to say persistence, of a mildly inoffensive sort, ... ...own his shutters, and at a palm-tree angle set out in the iron fixture his little ornamental pole, and this without overmuch ten- derness for the elbo... ...etter done, church militant!” cried a voice. “The white cravat against the world!” cried another. “Bravo, bravo!” chorused many voices, with like enth... ...ther he be a Great Sage or a Great Simpleton “WELL, THERE is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no mor... ...s lethargy. Loneliness, like the sea-breeze, blow- ing off from a thousand leagues of blankness, he did not find, as veteran solitaires do, if anythin... ...out—” “But why don’t you smoke—come. You don’t think that tobacco, when in league with wine, too much entrances the latter’s vinous quality—in short, ...

...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor parcel. No porte...

...The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling is a publicati... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Do... ... mat- ter to you. Besides, boys ought to do these things.’ Dick grumbled a little at the arrangement, but went out and made the purchase, which the ch... ...gave him first aversion and then hate. Where he growing older had sought a little sympa- thy, she gave him ridicule. The many hours that she could spa... ...at the chain of discipline might not be weak- ened by association with the world, was generally beaten, on one account or another, before he had been ... ... but since it was the first, other than those demanded by duty, in all the world that either had ever given or taken, it opened to them new worlds, an... ...ndings in the Channel of Old England From Ushant to Scilly ’tis forty-five leagues.’ ‘Thirty-five-thirty-five,’ said Dick, petulantly. ‘Don’t tamper w... ... wander. With a knight of ghosts and shadows I summoned am to tourney— Ten leagues beyond the wide world’s end, Methinks it is no journey. —Tom a’ Bed...

...Excerpt: ?WHAT do you think she?d do if she caught us? We oughtn?t to have it, you know,? said Maisie. ?Beat me, and lock you up in your bedroom,? Dick answered, without hesitation. ?Have you got the cartridges?? ?Yes; they?re in my pocket, but they are joggling horribly. Do pin-fire cartridges go off of their own accord?? ?Don?t know. Take the revolve...

...BEAUCHAMP’S CAREER By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ... a part she had to play in the composition of a singular people. She did a little mischief by dropping on the stock-markets; in other respects she was... ...m a curtain of volunteers and go to sleep again behind them; for they cost little in proportion to the much they pretend to be to him. Patriotic taxpa... ...is comparative subjugation (on the whole, it seems complete) of the animal world. By-and-by the struggle is transferred to higher ground, and we begin... ...lf-a-dozen crescent lines cunningly turned, sketched her figure before the world, and the reflection for one ready to die upholding her was that the p... ...build a cathedral of sound in the organ,’ said Dr. Shrapnel, casting out a league of leg as he sat beside his only 96 Beauchamp’s Career half-persuad... ...aeval style of our caricaturists:—Shrapnel stretched at his length, half a league, in slashed yellows and blacks, with his bauble be- side him, and pr...

...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

... T ales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling is a publ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania... ...by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Do... ... fear they might take her away to Simla, or somewhere out into the unknown world. One day, a few months after she was seventeen years old, Lispeth wen... ... and a ride back again. She covered between twenty and thirty miles in her little con- stitutionals, all about and about, between Kotgarth and Narkund... ... nurse that Englishman until he was well enough to marry her. This was her little programme. After a fortnight of slight fever and inflammation, the E... ...g enough to go away. It meant nothing at all to him, and everything in the world to Lispeth. She was very happy while the fortnight lasted, because sh... ...e was a Medical “Ring” at Simla, headed by the Surgeon-General, who was in league, apparently, with all the Hospital Assistants in the Empire. I forge...

... CUPID?S ARROWS ....................................................................................................................... 43 HIS CHANCE IN LIFE.................................................................................................................. 47 WATCHES OF THE NIGHT ..................................................................................

... English Opium-Eater By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Qu... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Documen... ... into any gaiety whatever, but, least of all, when the gaiety trespasses a little into the province of the extravagant. In such a case, not to sympath... ...y was its excuse; mere extravagance was felt to license and ac- credit the little jeu d’esprit, precisely as the blank impossibili- ties of Lilliput, ... ... flakes of cotton, often satu- rated with rum, and by what seemed absolute worlds of blaz- ing sparks, that lighted up all the upper chambers of the a... ...d, and the stranger that is within thy gates. But that rest must be in the world which lies beyond the grave. On this side the grave ye have all slept... ...ration of letters there has been a cabal, an academic interest, a factious league amongst universities, and learned bodies, and individual scholars, f... ...swell of the advancing tide, into the long thunder of billows breaking for leagues against the shore: ‘That to the height of this great argument I may...

...s de Tocqueville Translator – Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de ... ...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...trans. Henry Reeve, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ... resolved by personal observation of the re- sults of democracy in the New World to ascertain its natural consequences, and to learn what the nations ... ...erned something analogous to the spec- 13 Tocqueville tacle which the New World presented to me. I observed that the equality of conditions is daily ... ...yet so rapid that it cannot be guided: their fate is in their hands; yet a little while and it may be so no longer. The first duty which is at this ti... ... that had hitherto been hidden in the deep abyss.* Here and there appeared little islands perfumed with odoriferous plants, and resem- bling baskets o... ... to two opinions. It was the wish of one party to convert the Union into a league of independent States, or a sort of congress, at which the represent... ...these two theories were exceedingly different. The question was, whether a league was to be established instead of a national Government; whether the ...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of...