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Excerpt: ?Take thou a book into thine hands as simon the just took the child jesus into his arms to carry him and kiss him. and when thou hast finished reading, close the book and give thanks for every word out of the mouth of god; because in the lord?s field thou hast found a hidden treasure.?...

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Contents PREFACE 3 THE PHILOBIBLON 7 NEWLY TRANSLATED 7 PROLOGUE 7 CHAPTER I 10 CHAPTER II 13 CHAPTER III 15 CHAPTER IV 17 CHAPTER V 23 CHAPTER VI 25 CHAPTER VII 29 CHAPTER VIII 32 CHAPTER IX 38 CHAPTER X 41 CHAPTER XI 44 CHAPTER XII 45 CHAPTER XIII 46 CHAPTER XIV 48 CHAPTER XV 50 CHAPTER XVI 53 CHAPTER XVII 56 CHAPTER XVIII 59 CHAPTER XIX 61 CHAPTER XX 63...

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Excerpt: The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850), Dictated by Sojourner Truth, edited by Olive Gilbert.

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Contents NARRATIVE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH ................................................................................................................................................................................ 4 HER BIRTH AND PARENTAGE.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 4 ACCOMMODATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 HER BROTHERS AND SISTERS ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 6 HER RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 THE AUCTION .....................................................

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Excerpt: Preface to Fanny?s First Play. Fanny?s First Play, being but a potboiler, needs no preface. But its lesson is not, I am sorry to say, unneeded. Mere morality, or the substitution of custom for conscience was once accounted a shameful and cynical thing: people talked of right and wrong, of honor and dishonor, of sin and grace, of salvation and damnation, not of morality and immorality. The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. Nowadays we do not seem to know that there is any other test of conduct except morality; and the result is that the young had better have their souls awakened by disgrace, capture by the police, and a month?s hard labor, than drift along from their cradles to their graves doing what other people do for no other reason than that other people do it, and knowing nothing of good and evil, of courage and cowardice, or indeed anything but how to keep hunger and concupiscence and fashionable dressing within the bounds of good taste except when their excesses can be concealed....

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Excerpt: He devils for the doctor by answering his letters, acting as his domestic laboratory assistant, and making himself indispensable generally, in return for unspecified advantages involved by intimate intercourse with a leader of his profession, and amounting to an informal apprenticeship and a temporary affiliation. Redpenny is not proud, and will do anything he is asked without reservation of his personal dignity if he is asked in a fellow-creaturely way. He is a wide-open- eyed, ready, credulous, friendly, hasty youth, with his hair and clothes in reluctant transition from the untidy boy to the tidy doctor....

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Excerpt: ACT I. It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft?s house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in dark leather. A person sitting on it [it is vacant at present] would have, on his right, Lady Britomart?s writing table, with the lady herself busy at it; a smaller writing table behind him on his left; the door behind him on Lady Britomart?s side; and a window with a window seat directly on his left. Near the window is an armchair....

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THE THIRTY-SEVENTH BOOK OF THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED & REVISED SET FORTH IN 1611 AND COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE KING JAMES VERSION...

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying -- 2. Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD?s house should be built -- 3. Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying -- 4. Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? -- 5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways....

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Excerpt: A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau.

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Excerpt: The Ethics. Part III -- On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions by Benedict de Spinoza, translated by R.H.M. Elwes.

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Excerpt: The Philanderer by George Bernard Shaw.

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Introduction: There are few modern poems of any country so perfect in their kind as the ?Hermann and Dorothea? of Goethe. In clearness of characterization, in unity of tone, in the adjustment of background and foreground, in the conduct of the narrative, it conforms admirably to the strict canons of art; yet it preserves a freshness and spontaneity in its emotional appeal that are rare in works of so classical a perfection in form....

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Excerpt: The First Book of Samuel, otherwise Called The First Book of the Kings, the Ninth Book of the King James Version of the Bible.

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Levins had been three months in Moscow. The date had long passed on which, according to the most trustworthy calculations of people learned in such matters, Kitty should have been confined. But she was still about, and there was nothing to show that her time was any nearer than two months ago. The doctor, the monthly nurse, and Dolly and her mother, and most of all Levin, who could not think of the approaching event without terror, began to be impatient and uneasy. Kitty was the only person who felt perfectly calm and happy....

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. At the end of the winter, in the Shtcherbatskys? house, a consultation was being held, which was to pronounce on the state of Kitty?s health and the measures to be taken to restore her failing strength. She had been ill, and as spring came on she grew worse. The family doctor gave her cod liver oil, then iron, then nitrate of silver, but as the first and the second and the third were alike in doing no good, and as his advice when spring came was to go abroad, a celebrated physician was called in. The celebrated physician, a very handsome man, still youngish, asked to examine the patient. He maintained, with peculiar satisfaction, it seemed, that maiden modesty is a mere relic of barbarism, and that nothing could be more natural than for a man still youngish to handle a young girl naked. He thought it natural because he did it every day, and felt and thought, as it seemed to him, no harm as he did it and consequently he considered modesty in the girl not merely as a relic of barbarism, but also as an insult to himself....

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Excerpt: They, who to states and governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, wanting such access in a private condition, write that which they foresee may advance the public good; I suppose them, as at the beginning of no mean endeavour, not a little altered and moved inwardly in their minds: some with doubt of what will be the success, others with fear of what will be the censure; some with hope, others with confidence of what they have to speak....

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Contents Areopagitica ? 3 John Milton: A Brief Bio, 1608 - 74 ? 49 L?ALLEGRO ? 50 IL PENSEROSO ? 54 COMUS ? 58 LYCIDAS ? 86

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Excerpt: ?THE COW IS THERE,? said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, ?She is there, the cow. There, now.? ?You have not proved it,? said a voice. ?I have proved it to myself.? ?I have proved to myself that she isn?t,? said the voice. ?The cow is not there.? Ansell frowned and lit another match....

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Excerpt: Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata) by Torquato Tasso (first pub. Parma, Italy 1581), translated by Edward Fairfax (London 1600).

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Excerpt: Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett.

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Excerpt: The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy, the Fifty-fourth Book of the King James Version of the Bible.

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Excerpt: Are these the only works of Providence within us? What words suffice to praise or set them forth? Had we but understanding, should we ever cease hymning and blessing the Divine Power, both openly and in secret, and telling of His gracious gifts? Whether digging or ploughing or eating, should we not sing the hymn to God....

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Excerpt: The Palimpsest Review is the student literary publication for the Pennsylvania State University campuses outside the University Park main campus. All the short stories and poems published herein are the products of students enrolled on those campuses during the academic year prior to the semester of publication....

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Contents A Note on Submissions: .............................................................. 3 From the Editor?s Desk ............................................................... 3 Sarah Etter ? Berks ?Concaves? ................................................. 5 Marissa Molina ? Berks ?The Day I Wasn?t There? ................ 7 Andrew Timberlake-Newell ? Berks ?Smokie? ...................... 8 Anthony Kocur ? Berks ?To the Edge?? ............................... 10 David Kim ? Berks ?Young and Perverted? .......................... 17 Ryan Morini ? Berks ?B ? Movie Enthusiast? ........................ 18 Zachary Bricker ? Berks ?Bedtime Story? ............................ 21 Joe Giachero ? Berks ?Whatever Came First? ....................... 22 Meghan Elliott ? Delaware ?Sound? .................................... 28 Veronika L Daddona ? Delaware ?Driver? ......................... 29 Veronika L. Daddona ? Delaware ?Lamentia? ................... 30 Ronell Smith ? Fayette ?The 1988 Holiday Barbie? ............ 33 Charles Howells ? Berks ?Bandwagon Patriots? ................ 35 Andrew Noll ? Berks ? Ten Feet Behind J.F.K?. ............