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History of the Hawaiian Kingdom Vol. 3

By: Ralph S. Kuykendall

...This third volume of the definitive history of the Hawaiian Kingdom completes the project launched over forty years ago by the Historical Commission of the Territory of Hawaii and taken over in 1932 by the Department of History of the Universi...

...In his history of the last years of the Hawaiian monarchy (1874–1893), Professor Kuykendall shows clearly the effects of the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 with the United States, tying Hawaii so closely to its nearest neighbor, economically, t...

...Chapter 1. Kalakaua Becomes King. 3 -- Chapter 2. Reciprocity: The Dream Comes True. 17 -- Try, Try Again. 17 -- Negotiation Of The Treaty. 22 -- Amendment, Ratification, And Legislation. 26 -- British Reaction To The Reciprocity Treaty. 40 -- Chapter 3. Reciprocity And The Hawaiian Economy: The Sugar Industry. 46 -- Sugar And Rice, But Mainly Suga...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ................................................................................................................................. 17 Combinations of Nee... ...iful women half his age? His retort was that ‗power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.‘ So I guess its true from mice to men. Get your power through politi... ...t expensive birthday parties, weddings, bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs, and sweet 16 parties. Wealth is so often thought of as power, We see it in politi... ...violent conquerors subdue by showing love and calling for justice. Just the exact opposite of those using power to subdue others in business, politi... ...eed everyone to understand that they must be concerned with their descendents and with their international responsibilities. ―Although China‘... ... spite of its improved economics. In one major study of 178 countries, the USA came out 23 rd , Germany 35 th , the UK 41 st , France 62 nd , China ...

...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...

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The Long Vacation

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ries Publication The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...hose of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns and the Underwoods. Continuations are proverbially f... ...om primrose marauders. You know the great agitation. They want to set up a china clay factory on Penbeacon, and turn the Ewe, not to say the Leston, i... .... Then there were constraints. He could not stand Angela’s freaks. And his politics—” “He was not so very much advanced.” “Enough not to like the ‘Pur... ...ke the camel’s back, when she heard of the company that only waited to dig china clay out of Penbeacon and wash it in the Ewe till they could purchase... ... and laver.” The ‘Censor’ was an able paper on the side of philosophi- cal politics, and success in that quarter was a feather in the young man’s cap,... ...tella looked as daintily, delicately pretty as ever, at first sight like a china shepherdess to be put under a glass shade, but on a second view, with...

...Preface: If a book by an author who must call herself a veteran should be taken up by readers of a younger generation, they are begged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns ...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...rth America V ol. 1 chew the cud and digest the bearings of those external politics. But it is unjust in the one to decide upon the political aspirati... ...on of ideas which I take to be neces- sary to the understanding of English politics! The gentle- man who scorned my wife for hugging her chains had ce... ...rstand accurately their own constitution, or the true bearing of their own politics! But when this knowledge has been attained, it has generally been ... ... had we so acted! We, forsooth, who carry passengers about the world, from China and Australia, round to Chili and Peru, who have the charge of the wo... ...ize the fourth city in the world—putting out of the question the cities of China, as to which we have heard so much and believe so little. But in maki...

....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...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 of Ben- gal, in the East Indies, and in some of the eastern provinces of China, though the great extent of this antiquity is not authenti- cated by ... ... in the same manner as the Nile does in Egypt. In the eastern provinces of China, too, several great rivers form, by their different branches, a multi... ... for which he is likely to sell them. Half an ounce of silver at Canton in China may com- mand a greater quantity both of labour and of the necessarie... ...The wealth of neighbouring nations, however, though danger- ous in war and politics, is certainly advantageous in trade. In a state of hostility, it m... ...hich sometimes come from the wheel of the great state lottery of Brit- ish politics. Unless this or some other method is fallen upon, and there seems ... ...ddy ambition it naturally presents itself, amidst the confused scramble of politics and war, as a very dazzling object to fight for. The dazzling sple...

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...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

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To Build a Fire : And Other Stories

By: Jack London

...2 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the N... ... . . 44 An Odyssey of the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Law of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The God of His... ... 90 The God of His Fathers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 The League of the Old Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Bˆ atard . . . . .... ... . . 254 South of the Slot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 The Chinago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 A Piece o... ...ther for company, begin to quarrel. Weatherbee loved to discourse blatantly on politics, while Cuth fert, who had been prone to clip his coupons and ... ...f the more remotely allied, were the Chicken Pickers and the Undertakers. The Chinago 16 The coral waxes, the palm grows, but man departs. — Tahitian... ... no foreign devil had seen the killing. But these Frenchmen were so stupid. In China, as Ah Cho well knew, the magistrate would order all of them to t... ... an institution, you know. It belongs to the State of California and is run by politics. I know. I’ve been here a long time. Everybody trusts me. I ru... ...y. We know it, but we never talk about it except amongst ourselves. His job is politics, too, and we don’t want him to lose it. I play the drum. They ...

...t when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole...

...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Univer... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , the Pennsylvania State Uni vers... ... of Con gress. We are nearly two years from a Congressional elec tion, and politics cannot so greatly distract us as if such contest was immediately... ...he part which the United States bore so honorably in the thrilling scenes in China, while new to American life, has been in harmony with its true spir... ...nd the judge and the brother are one. We know our task to be no mere task of politics but a task which shall search us through and through, whether we... ...te and quicken the processes of our national genius and energy, and lift our politics to a broader view of the people’s essen tial interests. It is a... ...DRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 304 soldier who dies in Indo China, the British soldier killed in Malaya, the American life given in K...

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Two Poets

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ion Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage 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 lit- ... ...the other de- pendent invention of printing, was known in ancient times in China. Thence by the unrecognized channels of commerce the art reached Asia... ...o this problem is one of the first importance for literature, science, and politics. “One day, in my office, there was a hot discussion going on about... ...an to think of the reeds that grow here in France. “Labor is very cheap in China, where a workman earns three halfpence a day, and this cheapness of l...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...den Economy 1 Economy W HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a hous... ... a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the la... ...of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am... ..., there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and ... ... town has spent seventeen thousand dollars on a town house, thank fortune or politics, but probably it will not spend so much on living wit, the true ... ...es not pause at the Mississippi or the Pacific, nor conduct toward a worn out China or Japan, but leads on direct a tangent to this sphere, summer and ... ...tise Christian meekness and charity with goodness aforethought! Consider the China pride and stagnant self complacency of mankind. This generation re ...

...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there tw...

...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 13...

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Sense and Sensibility

By: Jane Austen

.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 Part I Chapter 1 3 Chapter 1 T HE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, an... ...Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so re... ... had lived in so respectable a manner, as to en gage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a ... ...nd mother moved to Norland, though the furniture of Stanhill was sold, all the china, plate, and linen was saved, and is now left to your mother. Her ... ... very pleasant addition to our own stock here.” “Yes; and the set of breakfast china is twice as handsome as what belongs to this house. A great deal ... ...re was all sent round by water. It chiefly consisted of household linen, plate, china, and books, with an handsome pianoforte of Mar ianne’s. Mrs. Joh... ... the gentlemen had supplied the discourse with some va riety — the variety of politics, inclosing land, and breaking horses — but then it was all ove...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1; THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner, as to enga...

...Table of Contents: I 1 -- Chapter 1, 3 -- Chapter 2, 6 -- Chapter 3, 10 -- Chapter 4, 13 -- Chapter 5, 17 -- Chapter 6, 19 -- Chapter 7, 22 -- Chapter 8, 24 -- Chapter 9, 27 -- Chapter 10, 31 -- Chapter 11, 35 -- Chapter 12, 38 -- ...

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Sons and Lovers

By: D. H. Lawrence

...ics Series Publication Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... What she liked most of all was an argument on reli- gion or philosophy or politics with some educated man. This she did not often enjoy. So she alway... ...ere what they should be, and warm. And then he was proud of the table; the china was pretty, the cloth was fine. It did not matter that the spoons wer... ...terrupting her in her talk. There was a lot of room at the oval table; the china of dark blue willow-pattern looked pretty on the glossy cloth. There ...

..................................................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I THE EARLY MARRIED LIFE OF THE MORELS ............................................................................ 4 CHAPTER II THE BIRTH OF PAUL, AND ANOTHER BATTLE......................................................................... 31 CHAPTER...

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Against the War : A Novel of the Vietnam War Era

By: Roland Menge

...AGAINST THE WAR follows the intertwined lives of four friends, rowing team mates, who graduate from college at the height of the Vietnam War and struggle to make decisions about the war and the military draft. Two become involved in the war, one as a combat pilot and one...

...234. Morris is relocated from Sam Neua to a Lao village From Sam Neua, the group that included prisoner of war James Morris headed southwest, so far as he could determine from occasional glimpses of the sun through the canopy of leaves above the road on which the caravan was traveling. Then the shield of leaves dropped away bri...

...o the boat club 2. Brandt and Morris argue about the Vietnam war 3. O’Rourke steps in to bring the crew on task 4. Morris offers Steward a way out of the draft 5. Brandt asks about his dad’s experience in World War Two 6. Brandt struggles to accommodate to Mary Kass’s cultural interests 7. Brandt leaves Mary behind to avoid an audience discussion 8. Mary goes after ...

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ...t will give a monstrous importance to the illiterate millions of India and China. Ingenious statistical schemes have been framed in which the number o... ...hat one can do with Russia just now—with a note of interrogation. Some day China may be war capable— I hope never, but it is a possibility. Personally... ... may resent it, the two great English-speaking communi- ties, Italy, Japan China, and presently perhaps a renascent Russia, are jointly going to contr... ...erisive about the “ignorance” of Labour. “What can they know about foreign politics?” she said, with gestures to indi- cate her conception of them. I ... ...East for free institutions, the entry of the American republics into world politics—these things slam the door on any idea of working back to the old ... ...In the Fourth Year about what democracy really means in relation to modern politics, first to make a quite fresh classification in order to find what ...

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

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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 ... ...esort. The influences about him create his preferences, his aversions, his politics, his tastes, his mor als, his religion. He creates none of these ... ... a voter wears, you know what his associations are, and how he came by his politics, and which breed of news paper he reads to get light, and which b... ...lready old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New Y ork, San Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape T own, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, and that the entire... ...VIII. “Intellectual”; IX. Phi losophy; X. Physiology; XI. Astronomy; XII. Politics; XIII. Music; XIV. Oratory; XV. Metaphysics. You perceive that the...

............................................................................................................................................ 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE ...............................................

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...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... ...nt spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties. For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes ... ...will be more their policy, to restrain than to promote it. In the trade to China and India, we interfere with more than one nation, inasmuch as it ena... ...rit of mutual amity and concord. Is it not (we may ask these projectors in politics) the true interest of all nations to cultivate the same benevolent... ...from long observation of the progress of society become a sort of axiom in politics, that vicinity or nearness of situation, constitutes nations natur...

...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks it...

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

...ublication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell 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... ...had a prosperous career as a professor or an official, but his interest in politics and his Radical views led him into more arduous paths. Already in ... ...ng occasion, abstract and metaphysical, except when they deal with current politics. He does not come to close quarters with economic facts, but dwell... ...rom these regions, he is much more at the mercy of current inter- national politics than Marx, much less imbued with the con- sequences of the belief ... ...government. Take, for example, the liquor traffic, or the opium traffic in China. If alcohol could be obtained at cost price without taxa- tion, still... ...ve that there would not be a great and disastrous increase of drunkenness? China was brought to the verge of ruin by opium, and every patriotic Chinam... ...d States, the financial area of operations receives a notable ac- cession. China as a field of railway enterprise and general in- dustrial development...

...HE SYNDICALIST REVOLT............................................................................................................ 43 PART II PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE ................................................................................................................... 60 CHAPTER IV WORK AND PAY .......................................................................

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ...OMANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 CHAPTER VI — SORROWS OF TEUFELSDR ¨ OCKH . . . . . . . . . 97 CHAPTER VII — THE EVERLASTING NO... ...euschrecke, in a too long winded Letter, full of compliments, Weiss nichtwo politics, dinners, dining repartees, and other ephemeral trivialities, pr... ...considerable PAPER BAGS, carefully sealed, and marked successively, in gilt China ink, with the sym bols of the Six southern Zodiacal Signs, beginni... ...trees of Tadmor; smoked a pipe among the ruins of Babylon. The great Wall of China I have seen; and can testify that it is of gray brick, coped and co... ...r loss: yet still comes there the shadow of a suspicion out of Paris and its Politics. For example, when the Saint Simonian Society transmitted its Pr... ... or Counsellor Heuschrecke ever existed; that the six Paper bags, with their China ink inscriptions and multifarious contents, are a mere figment of th... ...exhibiting in the most just and novel light the present aspects of Religion, Politics, Literature, Arts, and Social Life. Under all his gayety the Wri...

...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more...

...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29...

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The Collected Poems

By: William Butler Yeats

... William Butler Yeats 1889 1939 Contents LYRICAL 3 CROSSWAYS 5 THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 THE SAD SHEPHERD . . ... ...IAN TO HIS LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 THE FALLING OF THE LEA VES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 EPHEMERA . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE STOLEN CHILD . ... ... . . 355 THE CIRCUS ANIMAL DESERTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 POLITICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...e, My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me. Though lads are making pikes again For s... ...head abashed. THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE 149 HIS PHOENIX THERE is a queen in China, or maybe it’s in Spain, And birthdays and holidays such praises can ... ...wn secret meditation Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made In art or politics; Some Platonist affirms that in the station Where we should cast of... ...ngs fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay. Two Chinamen, behind them a third, Are carved in lapis lazuli, Over them flies a... ...h doubtless plum or cherry branch Sweetens the little half way house Those Chinamen climb towards, and I Delight to imagine them seated there; There, ...

...Excerpt: THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD; THE woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Grey Truth is now her painted toy; Yet still she turns her restless head: But O, sick children of the world...

...Table of Contents: LYRICAL 3 -- CROSSWAYS 5 -- THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, 5 -- THE SAD SHEPHERD, 6 -- THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, 7 -- ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, 8 -- THE INDIAN UPON GOD, 11 -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- ...

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Bride of Lammermoor

By: Sir Walter Scott

...ir Walter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...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... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ome too dear to be hazarded without some better reasons than specu- lative politics.” “It is fine talking,” answered Bucklaw; “but my heart is with th... ... is. This gentle- man here couldna but hear the clash of our haill dishes, china and silver thegither?” The Lord Keeper’s domestic, though a statesman... .... He then disappeared, and presently entered with two earthen flagons (the china, he said, had been little used since my lady’s time), one filled with... ...uarter concerning the expected change of 200 Bride of Lammermoor Scottish politics, and the probable strength of the parties who were about to strugg... ...selves, the Cavaliers, were more consistent, if not so pru- dent, in their politics, and viewed all the changes now made as preparatory to calling to ...

...Excerpt: Introduction to the bride of Lammermoor. The author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occurring at a distant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the fee...

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Crime Its Cause and Treatment

By: Clarence Darrow

...CATION Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ield of industry formerly monopolized by man, and as she takes her part in politics and sits on juries, the percentage of female criminals will rapidl... ...or advocacy of a change of political systems. Questions of race, religion, politics, labor and the like have always awakened violent feelings on all s... ...c- tion of property. Although it is related to literature, architec- ture, politics, art and the like; even these things if not actu- ally rooted in p... ...e obedience leads to submission, to aggression and to despotism. Doubtless China has fewer crimes than England. The power of resistance is so crushed ...

...Preface: This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its mani...

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The Analysis of Mind

By: Bertrand Russell

... Russell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongo- ing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ... Desire, has been published in the Athenaeum. There are a few allusions to China in this book, all of which were written before I had been in China, a... ...ntended to be taken by the reader as geographically accurate. I have used “China” merely as a synonym for “a distant country,” when I wanted illustrat... ...nourable in business, phil- anthropic towards the poor, public-spirited in politics.” So long as we refuse to allow ourselves, even in the watches of ... ...as originally an inde- pendent language, as it has remained to this day in China. Writing seems to have consisted originally of pictures, which gradua...

...Excerpt: Muirhead Library Of Philosophy. An admirable statement of the aims of the Library of Philosophy was provided by the first editor, the late Professor J. H. Muirhead, in his description of the original programme printed in Erdmann?s History of ...

...Contents MUIRHEAD LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHY .............................................................................................................. 4 PREFACE .............................................................................................

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

... Classics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ut really blushing a little at the impeachment. “Casaubon and I don’t talk politics much. He doesn’t care much about the philanthropic side of things;... ... conscience and an empty pocket?” “I don’t pretend to argue with a lady on politics,” said Mr. Brooke, with an air of smiling indifference, but feelin... ...nd is ready, in the interests of com- merce, to take up a firm attitude on politics generally, he has naturally a sense of his importance to the frame... ...ey had nearly the same preferences in silks, pat- terns for underclothing, china-ware, and clergymen; they con- fided their little troubles of health ... ...he globe:—`Observation with extensive view,’ must look every- where, `from China to Peru,’ as somebody says—Johnson, I think, `The Rambler,’ you know....

...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walkin...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...Volume Four A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four 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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...y of outrider. Between each cabbage and the time-piece, again, is a little China man having a large stomach with a great round hole in it, through whi... ...thod of composition. This method is very simple, but not so much so as the politics. Upon my calling at Mr. B.’s, and making known to him the wishes o... ...ivili- zation. I had imbibed a prescience of our Fate from compari- son of China the simple and enduring, with Assyria the archi- tect, with Egypt the...

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

.......................................................................................................................................... 23 THE SYSTEM OF DOCTOR TARR AND PROFESSOR FETHER ...................................................................... 31 HOW TO WRITE A BLACKWOOD ARTICLE .....................................................................................

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... luxu- rious dining room. Everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore that imprint of newness found in the households of th... ...eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask table linen, he would call Dmitr... ...here in Moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal than with politics,” said he in his quiet ironical tone. “I know nothing about it and... ...he men of the day were mere babies who did not know the A B C of war or of politics, and that Bonaparte was an insignificant little Frenchy, successfu... ...s which, according to him, Bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics. His son made no rejoinder, but it was evident that whatever argum... ...army. Sonya was in the ballroom looking after the packing of the glass and china. Natasha was sitting on the floor of her dismantled room with dresses...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James 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... ..., and liberal Protes- tants with older Protestant notions; it is thus that Chinamen judge of us, and that all of us now living will be judged by our d... ...iastical institutions with corporate ambitions of their own. The spirit of politics and the lust of dogmatic rule are then apt to enter and to contami... ...ction with which the German emperor addressed his troops upon their way to China, that the conduct which he suggested, and in which other Christian ar... ...raises the Lord for delivering his enemies into his hands for “execution.” Politics come in in all such cases; but piety finds the partnership not qui... ...tive psychology, possessed a will equal to any emergency, great talent for politics and business, a buoyant disposition, and a first-rate literary sty...

Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

...NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ............................................................................

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ... of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, De... ...4 9:12 AM Page 57 son,Arizona, in the late 1980s, went as far afield as China, Malaysia, the Philip- pines, and the former Soviet states of Ukraine... ...existence as a nation, Pakistan’s identity had derived from Islam, but its politics had been decidedly secular.The army was—and remains—the country’s ... ...0s onward, religion had become an increasingly powerful force in Pakistani politics.After a coup in 1977, military leaders turned to Islamist groups f... ...hese casing missions included state-of-the-art video cameras obtained from China and from dealers in Germany.The casing team also reconnoitered target... ...security were dominated by other issues—among them, Haiti, Bosnia, Russia, China, Somalia, Kosovo, NATO enlargement, the Middle East peace process, mi... ...rred to the World Trade Center,“arts” the Pentagon,“law” the Capitol, and “politics” the White House. 166 Binalshibh reminded Atta that Bin Ladin want...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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