Description Details
The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

Full Text Search Details
... Wars and Empire 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...ed by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. ... ...I. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghanistan I. Afghan Myths II. Pakistan’s Nice Little... ...sion. The Pew Research Center published in December 2002 a report titled "What the World Thinks in 2002". "The World", was reduced by the pollsters... ...rer nations of the world close to $200 million - its arrears to the UN peacekeeping operations, usually asked to mop up after an American invasion o... ... mercenaries against the Christian enemies of Christian Byzantium - the Serbs, the Italians, and the Bulgarians. Orhan became the principal ally of... ...sional conscience and one's propensity to live the good life. Only saints win such battles. Whatever UNMIK is - it is decidedly not saintly. But, a...

Description Details
...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 u...

Excerpt Details
...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a cen...

Full Text Search Details
...chnology Tales Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...es Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...lance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue by Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For bec... ...‘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... ...coupling of those two words was in 1978, the same year I bought the Apple II desktop computer that introduced me to modern Information Technology. ... ...rvings passed down stories to future generations with images of hunts and battles. Other ways to expand memory included textile patterns that tell s... ... launched a mini-renaissance about five centuries before the start of the Italian Renaissance. The cleric was a scholarly monk named Alcuin. The wa... ... revolutionary InfoTech invention in the fifteenth century. Charlemagne’s war against ignorance Roman Catholic Church monasteries in the darkest of ... ...n, ending two centuries of single- sex education, and initiated year-round operations, which allowed the student body to expand without expanding phy...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: War and Peace: Five by Leo Tolstoy.

Full Text Search Details
... 806-0 806-07 7 7 7 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Five by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...-0 806-07 7 7 7 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Five by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...ies Publication War and Peace – Book Five by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ... Publication War and Peace – Book Five by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ld add a hair’s breadth to happiness or peace of mind. Can anything in the world make her or me less a prey to evil and death?—death which ends all an... ...oid that look, but the bright old eyes attracted him irresistibly. CHAPTER II “I HA VE THE PLEASURE of addressing Count Bezukhov, if I am not mistaken... ...ot know, with a peculiar cross hanging from his neck. On his right sat the Italian abbe whom Pierre had met at Anna Pavlovna’s two years before. There... ... river, and the Crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which operations according to him were con- nected with such complicated measures... ...he debt to his parents. Our army, after repeated retreats and advances and battles at Pultusk and Preussisch-Eylau, was concentrated near Bartenstein....

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: I. Introduction to a legend of Montrose. The Legend of Montrose was written chiefly with a view to place before the reader the melancholy fate of John Lord Kilpont, eldest son of William Earl of Airth and Menteith, and the singular circumstances attendi...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents I. INTRODUCTION TO A LEGEND OF MONTROSE. .............................................................. 4 II. INTRODUCTION (Supplement). ............................................................................................. 16 III. A LEGEND OF MO...

Full Text Search Details
...Walter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ... Publication A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...MONTROSE. .............................................................. 4 II. INTRODUCTION (Supplement). ............................................... ...lead the Scots abroad into the military service of countries which were at war with each other. They were distinguished on the Continent by their brav... ...of sergeant-major of artillery, by hard service in various quarters of the world, and was reck- oned one of the most tried and trusty men of the Scotc... ...seen the fields of Leipsic and of Lutzen, may be said to have seen pitched battles. And one who hath wit- nessed the intaking of Frankfort, and Spanhe... ...struments, each playing his own favourite tune with such a din, that if an Italian musician had lain buried within ten miles of them, he must have ris... ... their appointments; and as much as you chance to know about their plan of operations.” “Just to satisfy your curiosity,” said Dalgetty, “and without ...

Description Details
...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...

Excerpt Details
...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 -- T...

Full Text Search Details
... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "T... ... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia a... ... 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... ... SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAGES, DISCOVERIES, ADVENTURES, BATTLES, DARINGS AND SUFFERINGS OF THE HEROIC CHARACTERS, BOLD EXPLO... ...ass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empire 33-44 CHAPTER II. Visions of the past. -- Eastward and westward of human life -- The ... ...attle. -- Genghis demands the daughter of Umcan for a wife -- Refusal leads to war -- Ceremony performed by the astrologers to forecast the result -- ... ...oat band -- Ambitions of Mansvelt the bold -- Costa Rica adopted as a base for operations -- Objection to Buccaneer government -- Henry Morgan the sea... ...e continent. The statement was true. There were Portuguese, and Spaniards, and Italians, a few Frenchmen from Marseilles and Lyons, a few Dutchmen fro...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. In the present case...

Full Text Search Details
...by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ... Series Publication The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... story is likewise invention, though, as Froissart ascribes to King Robert II. ‘eleven sons who loved arms,’ Malcolm may well be supposed to be the so... ...ing, appealing, almost piteous gaze, as though their owner had come into a world that was much too hard for him, and were looking out in bewilderment ... ...son!’ ‘And so Lilias must pine, and Patrick wander off to the weary French war,’ sighed Malcolm; ‘and I must be scorned by my cousins whenever the Hou... ...ty at Oxford or at Paris, or he shall ride with me, and see how cities and battles are won. Speak not yet, cousin; it takes many months to shake out t... ...ly distasteful to the soldiery. How hard they laboured in the direct siege operations they cared not, but to be set to drain French fields seemed to t... ...urpose in speaking them. He began to understand that to bury himself in an Italian university and dive into Aristotle’s sayings, to heap up his own me...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History (Volume Three).

Table of Contents Details
...Contents VOLUME III. THE GUILLOTINE................................................................................................................................. 6 BOOK 3.I. SEPTEMBER ..............................................................

Full Text Search Details
...ree by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publ... ...ch Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ............................................................... 6 Chapter 3.1.II. Danton. .................................................................. ................................................ 146 Chapter 3.4.II. In Civil War. ......................................................................... ...rovised Commune. Ye have roused her, then, ye Emigrants and Despots of the world; France is roused; long have ye been lecturing and tutoring this poor... ... National Convention gives of itself; by this scientific program shall its operations and events go on. But from the best scien- tific program, in suc... ... Jourdan, late Serjeant Jourdan, commands in his stead: he, in long-winded Battles of Watigny, ‘murderous artillery-fire mingling itself with sound of... ...the little bronzed-complexioned Artillery-Officer of Toulon, home from the Italian Wars! Grim enough; of lean, almost cruel aspect: for he has been in...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume One, Containing Books I through VIII.

Full Text Search Details
...ry Fielding: Volume One, Containing Books I through VIII is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur n... ...Fielding: Volume One, Containing Books I through VIII is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur nish... ...sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur nished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...r gone through all the several species of animal and vegetable food in the world, than an author will be able to exhaust so extensive a subject. An ... ...ountry, and shall hereafter hash and ragoo it with all the high French and Italian seasoning of affecta tion and vice which courts and cities afford.... ...ill be the product of all three. BOOK II CONTAINING SCENES OF MATRIMONIAL FELICITY IN DIFFERENT DEGREES OF... ...ional strength before he openly declares himself and proceeds upon hostile operations: and such additional strength soon arrived to corroborate her su... ... Chapter 4 Containing one of the most bloody battles, or rather duels, that were ever recorded in domestic history For... ...aked to the middle. It is lucky for the women that the seat of fistycuff war is not the same with them as among men; but though they may seem a litt...

Description Details
A One man's quest for truth, freedom and pure spirituality in a world without.

Excerpt Details
...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connect...

Full Text Search Details
...thor: JONATHAN CROSS Language: English Subject: Fiction, Literature Publisher: World Public Library Association Copyright © 20, All Rights Reserv... ... Worldwide by World Public Library, www.WorldLibrary.net The World Public Library, www.WorldLibrary.net is an effort to prese... ... The World Public Library, www.WorldLibrary.net is an effort to preserve and disseminate classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies... ...y, www.WorldLibrary.net is an effort to preserve and disseminate classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias,... ... he, Seattle, would buy time. He would be patient, and watch the outcome of the battles between the Great Sioux Nation and the blue coats. In his ni... ...you connect the right dots they will reveal the pathway to the The Soul Bearer II spirit world," he would say. As a child, using his finger, he dre... ... and traded the land of our ancestors for a reservation. 1 did it to buy time. War would have destroyed the best of our people. But more importantl... ...l." "Might make sense," Reynolds conceded. "Less uranium tail­ ings from mining operations. Fits into EPA standards to reduce radioactive levels." R... ..., alone in his Alexandrian Library staring, emotionless, into the flames of his Italian marble fireplace. The police had said that she was driving t...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: War and Peace: Three by Leo Tolstoy.

Full Text Search Details
... 1805 805 805 805 805 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Three by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...5 805 805 805 805 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Three by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...es Publication War and Peace – Book Three by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...Publication War and Peace – Book Three by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...think of injuring anyone for his own advantage. He was merely a man of the world who had got on and to whom getting on had become a habit. Schemes and... ...another part of his mind her image rose in all its womanly beauty. CHAPTER II IN NOVEMBER, 1805, Prince V asili had to go on a tour of in- spection in... ...unt Bezukhov) “and now she’s in love with that singer” (he meant Natasha’s Italian singing mas- ter), “that’s why she’s ashamed!” “Petya, you’re a stu... ...of the letter began. After a brief description of the campaign and the two battles in which he had taken part, and his promotion, Nicholas said that h... ...per- ors’ presence were eager for action. The strategic position where the operations would take place was familiar in all its details to the Austrian...

Description Details
Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

Full Text Search Details
... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...n@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samv... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V. E VI. F VII. G VIII. H IX. I-J X. K... ...ction. But whether an event or action is an achievement or not also depends on the world itself, the substrate of the actions. An achievement must ... ... The state has acquired monstrous proportions in the decades since the Second world War. It is about to grow further and to digest the few sectors h... ...ay? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Italians in the United States, political parties the world over ... ...ntation to the Psychological Society of Paris, 1901) that even simple mathematical operations require an "intuition of mathematical order" without ... ...nto decline. Instead of intelligently debating issues, they engaged in ideological battles, dogmatic quarrels, name-calling. The debate grew less p...

Description Details
...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

Full Text Search Details
... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...n@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samv... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V. E VI. F VII. G VIII. H IX. I-J X. K... ...ction. But whether an event or action is an achievement or not also depends on the world itself, the substrate of the actions. An achievement must ... ... The state has acquired monstrous proportions in the decades since the Second world War. It is about to grow further and to digest the few sectors h... ...ay? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Italians in the United States, political parties the world over ... ...ntation to the Psychological Society of Paris, 1901) that even simple mathematical operations require an "intuition of mathematical order" without ... ...nto decline. Instead of intelligently debating issues, they engaged in ideological battles, dogmatic quarrels, name-calling. The debate grew less p...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

Full Text Search Details
...s ies ies ies Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State U... ...s ies ies Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State Unive... ...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...though, with the quickness of memory and perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of the head that he was considering this ... ...ur family’s behalf that I’ll start my apprenticeship as old maid.” CHAPTER II ANNA P A VLOVNA’S drawing room was gradually filling. The highest Peters... ...at moment Anna Pavlovna came up and, looking severely at Pierre, asked the Italian how he stood Rus- sian climate. The Italian’s face instantly change... ...lish him up as they do the guns.” “I say, Fedeshon!... Did he say when the battles are to begin? You were near him. Everybody said that Buonaparte him... ... river, and the Crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which operations ac- cording to him were connected with such complicated measures...

Excerpt Details
...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]....

Table of Contents Details
...Contents LECTURES ON HEROES ............................................................................................................... 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM............................................... 38 LECTURE III. THE HERO AS POET. DANTE: SHAKSPEARE...

Full Text Search Details
...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASS... ...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS ... ...Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM....................................... ...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... ...- sians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong feelings, and of i... ...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... ...hese three-and- twenty years, as the centre of a world wholly in conflict. Battles with the Koreish and Heathen, quarrels among his own people, backsl... ...nism and Christianism; one great difference. Paganism emblemed chiefly the Operations of Nature; the destinies, efforts, com- binations, vicissitudes ...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: War and Peace: Book Ten by Leo Tolstoy.

Full Text Search Details
...8 81 1 1 1 12 2 2 2 2 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace: Book Ten by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ... 1 1 1 12 2 2 2 2 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace: Book Ten by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...eries Publication War and Peace: Book Ten by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...es Publication War and Peace: Book Ten by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...s was the only way an army of eight hun- dred thousand men—the best in the world and led by the best general—could be destroyed in conflict with a raw... ...ed, thus arriving at the very result which caused his destruction. CHAPTER II THE DAY AFTER his son had left, Prince Nicholas sent for Prin- cess Mary... ...his former way of life, devoting himself with special activity to building operations and the arrangement of the gardens and completely breaking off h... ...wenty-sixth the battle of Borodino itself took place. Why and how were the battles of Shevardino and Borodino given and accepted? Why was the battle o... ...123 Tolstoy graceful gesture. “Admirable!” With the natural capacity of an Italian for changing the ex- pression of his face at will, he drew nearer t...

Description Details
...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...

Excerpt Details
...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every...

Table of Contents Details
...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We 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 ...

Full Text Search Details
...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ... balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For bec... ...‘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... ...coupling of those two words was in 1978, the same year I bought the Apple II desktop computer that introduced me to modern Information Technology. ... ...rvings passed down stories to future generations with images of hunts and battles. Other ways to expand memory included textile patterns that tell... ... launched a mini-renaissance about five centuries before the start of the Italian Renaissance. The cleric was a scholarly monk named Alcuin. Th... ... revolutionary InfoTech invention in the fifteenth century. Charlemagne’s war against ignorance Roman Catholic Church monasteries in the darkest o... ...n, ending two centuries of single- sex education, and initiated year-round operations, which allowed the student body to expand without expanding phy...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: It would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A m...

Full Text Search Details
...ated by John Oxenford Introduction by Thomas Carlyle Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. John ... ...ns. John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...reign Litera ture, for all men anxious to see and understand the Eu ropean world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; ... ...rm; in the mean- ing which it may have borne long ago among the masters of Italian painting, and the fathers of Poetry in England; we say that we trac... ... noblest men have, even from the beginning, warring with the very evils we war with, both made and been what will be vener- ated to all time? A wide a... ... himself from beloved and highly valued persons. The quick succes- sion of battles and events left the parties neither quiet nor rest. We ever found a... ... caused him to accept the office of presi- dent at Lingen, which Frederick II. offered him; supposing that he was an enlightened, unprejudiced man, an... ...me that I had so to tear asunder, isolate, and, as it were, destroy, those operations of the mind which I had performed with the greatest ease from my...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History.

Table of Contents Details
...Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY.......................................................................................................... 12 VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE ...............................................................

Full Text Search Details
...ORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the ... ...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... .............................................................. 12 Chapter 1.1.II.Realised Ideals. .......................................................... ............................................ 104 Chapter 1.5.III. Broglie the War-God. ..................................................................... ...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... ... Chapter 1.3.IX. Burial with Bonfire. Besenval, during these extraordinary operations, of Payment two-fifths in Paper, and change of Prime Minister, h... ...unger? To some twin Dioscuri, oppression and revenge; so often seen in the battles of men? Poor Lackalls, all betoiled, besoiled, encrusted into dim d... ...ce-of-be- lief,—in consecrated dough-wafers, and the godhood of a poor old Italian Man! Nevertheless in that immeasurable Confusion and Corruption, wh...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

Full Text Search Details
...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T r... ...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by... ...ook III. appeared posthumously in 1693, with a new edition of Books I. and II., under Motteux ’s editorship. Motteux ’s rendering of Books IV. and V. ... ...ing success of Aretino must not be forgotten, nor the licence of the whole Italian comic theatre of the sixteenth century. The Calandra of Bibbiena, w... .... Queen Anne was, without any doubt, one of the most virtuous women in the world. Yet she used to go up the staircase of her chateau at Blois, and her... ...like the Italian, he revels in drinking scenes, junkettings, gormandizing, battles, scuffles, wounds and corpses, magic, witches, speeches, repeated e... ...d, and of Grangousier’s unwillingness and aversion from the undertaking of war. Whilst the monk did thus skirmish, as we have said, against those whic... ...ion, deliberation, ratiocination, and memory have their rise, actings, and operations. Cops body, I sink, I drown, I perish, I wander astray, and quit...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

Full Text Search Details
...vid Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication ... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Penns... ...the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ins of the Moon, have a kind of personal impor tance in the annals of the world. The heavens are not yet drained over their sources, but the Mountain... ...th Bridge,” over which in April, 1775, rolled the first faint tide of that war, which ceased not, till, as we read on the stone on our right, it “gave... ...fatigues Edwin had himself experienced.” This is worth all Arthur’s twelve battles. “Through the shadow of the world we sweep into the younger day: ... ...efence of the city of Londonderry, when besieged by the army of King James II. A. D. 1688 9. He afterwards relinquished a military life for the cleri ... ...the actual ones, and so we get no valuable report from them at all. In his Italian Travels Goethe jogs along at a snail’s pace, but always mindful tha... ...even exaggerated style in which some of the older naturalists speak of the operations of Na ture, though they are better qualified to appreciate than...

Excerpt Details
...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 ...

Full Text Search Details
...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A ... ...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...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.... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...or Frederick. — The Battle of Prague and total subjection of Bohemia. Book II. State of the Empire. — Of Europe. — Mansfeld. — Christian, Duke of Brun... ... 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... ...the sub- ject contended too for his own cause, while he was fighting their battles. Fortunately at this date no European sovereign was so absolute as ... ...the Flemings, a similar revolt from the Spaniards. To the Pope and all the Italian republics no in- ducement could be more powerful than the hope of d... ... Henry IV. and the German princes under- stood each other in their plan of operations, so much had the excellent king been mistaken in his instruments...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices i...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT...................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H... ...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...nd mechanical contrivance. I am reminded again of the days during the Boer war, when one realised that it had never occurred to our happy-go-lucky Arm... ...t flow to and fro across the Atlantic of labourers from the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the sp... ...World sented a united and resistant front. Our Empire, for all its roll of battles, was not created by force; colonisation and diplomacy have played a... ...o come. It was not in the Norman Conquest, not in the flight of King James II, nor the overthrow of Napoleon; it is here and now. It falls to them to ... ... there will remain, more particularly in the summer, a vast amount of hand operations, invigorat- ing and even attractive to the urban population Give...

Table of Contents Details
................................................................................................................................. 4 SOCIALISM, ANARCHISM AND SYNDICALISM................................................................................................... 11 PART I HISTORICAL.............................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...ublication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... .................................................................. 11 CHAPTER II BAKUNIN AND ANARCHISM...................................................... ........................................................ 107 CHAPTER VIII THE WORLD AS IT COULD BE MADE .................................................... ...whom the “herd” feels ill-will. This class includes, of course, enemies in war, and criminals; in the minds of those who consider the preservation of ... ...the workers are victori- ous, but only for a time. The real fruit of their battles lies, not in the immediate result, but in the ever-expanding union ... ...hing conviction. In France[And also in Italy. A good, short account of the Italian movement is given by A. Lanzillo, “Le Mouvement Ouvrier en Italie,”... ...ollverein under the suzerainty of the United States, the financial area of operations receives a notable ac- cession. China as a field of railway ente...

Excerpt Details
...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 Details
...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...

Full Text Search Details
... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ... CHAPTER I — PRELIMINARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 CHAPTER II — EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 CHAPTER III — REM... ...HAPTER IV — CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . .... ...ER IV — CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . . . .... ... 3 CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY C ONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, wit... ...as with the Prince of Lies and Darkness, we do at all times wage internecine war. This assurance, at an epoch when puffery and quackery have reached a... ...e, outwatching the Bear, it was that the indomitable Inquirer fought all his battles with Dulness and Darkness; here, in all probability, that he wrot... ...s man proceed by mere Accident, but the hand is ever guided on by mysterious operations of the mind. In all his Modes, and habilatory endeavors, an Ar... ...f possible, for happiness. Topbooted Graziers from the North; Swiss Brokers, Italian Drovers, also topbooted, from the South; these with their subalte...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and fri...

Table of Contents Details
...CE. ........................................................................................................................................ 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND ...

Full Text Search Details
...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEA... ...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY... ...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II RELA TES HOW FRANCIS, FOURTH VISCOUNT, ARRIVES A T CASTLEWOOD ............. ... poor George, who had taken the King’s side in our lamentable but glorious war of independence. Neither my father nor my mother ever wore powder in th... ...hing to put an end to this prosing. I don’t say No. I can’t but accept the world as I find it, including a rope’s end, as long as it is in fashion. CH... ...ms of money to that unfor- tunate Prince; and receiving many wounds in the battles against the Imperialists, in which Sir Francis engaged. On his retu... ...and must impart it to some one. She made herself a good scholar of French, Italian, and Latin, having been grounded in these by her father in her yout... ..., as well as master his grief. Successful as had been this great General’s operations in the past year, they were far enhanced by the splendor of his ...

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

Table of Contents Details
...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS ...............................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...AL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE Volume T wo With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, B B B B By the y the y the y the y the RE RE RE RE R... ...T wo With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, B B B B By the y the y the y the y the RE RE RE RE REV V V V V. GEOR . GEOR . GEOR . G... ...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...MPLE, LORD COBHAM.*............................................ 26 EPISTLE II.—TO A LADY. ............................................................... ...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... ..., 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... ... 40 Your scene precariously subsists too long On French translation and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the stage, Be justly wa... ...ulness, extended through her sub- ordinate instruments, in all her various operations. This is branched into episodes, each of which hath its moral ap... ... with demons in strange league engage, And earth, and heaven, and hell her battles wage. She eyed the bard, where supperless he sate, And pined, uncon...

Excerpt Details
...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 glori...

Table of Contents Details
................ 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL.............................................................................................................. 9 THE CONDEMNED CELL. ..............................................................................................................12 CODLINGSBY ....................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...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... ...n the crowd. It was noon in Chepe. And George de Barnwell was alone. V ol. II. WE HA VE SELECTED the following episodical chapter in prefer- ence to a... ...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 ... ... I datest Screw,”—and so forth. Then the diary re- lates to Stock Exchange operations, until we come to the time when, having achieved his successes, ... ...re remarkable life than any man in the service—I have been at more pitched battles, led more forlorn hopes, had more suc- cess among the fair sex, dru... ...rom one to twenty-four: the day Mac landed at Naples his repeater rung the Italian hours, from one to twenty-four; as soon as he crossed the Alps it o...

Excerpt Details
...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 subjec...

Full Text Search Details
...The Federalist Papers A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...mposed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved ... ...els, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence. This country ... ... more than once in wars of ambition, till, becoming an object to the other Italian states, Pope Julius II. found means to accomplish that formidable ... ...mbition, till, becoming an object to the other Italian states, Pope Julius II. found means to accomplish that formidable 26 The Federalist Papers lea... ...nations subdued and empires overturned, but of towns taken and retaken; of battles that decide nothing; of retreats more beneficial than victories; of... ...and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of the government. No man is allowed to be a judge in his own ca...