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...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable o... ...lic before. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...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... ...t may pass with them rather for a direction to themselves to act by than a history of my actings, seeing it may not he of one farthing value to them t... ...nswer for any mistakes, I shall give as distinctly as I can, believing the history will be a very good pattern for any poor man to follow, in case the... ...id that the relating has been unprofitable. I say all this previous to the history, having yet, for the present, much more to say before I quit my own... ...nsiderable places in England were visited more or less, and the kingdom of Ireland in some places, but not so universally. How it fared with the peopl... ... to the Canaries, to Guinea, and to the West Indies, and par- ticularly to Ireland; but as the plague spread itself every way after it had been in Lon...

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...rite a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit per se. Its profits, like its labor, belong to me: its morals, its manners, its philosophy, its influence on the young, are for y...

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...books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its exten...

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...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish moun- tains still cling, in part, to their... ...n the experience of Scots. England and Scotland differ, indeed, in law, in history, in religion, in education, and in the very look of nature and men’... ...inds us more nearly together. No Englishman of Byron’s age, character, and history would have had patience for long theological discussions on the way... ...Nor must we omit the sense of the nature of his country and his country’ s history gradually growing in the child’s mind from story and from observati... ...veterans leaped out and kissed the earth at Port Patrick. They had been in Ireland, stationed among men of their own race and language, where they wer... ...Austrian Empire would seem to answer, no; the far more galling business of Ireland clenches the nega- tive from nearer home. Is it common education, c...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

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...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... yet wider knowledge, not only of a country foreign to the author by race, history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two A... ...emans and the Furnivalls, sets himself up to right the wrongs of universal history and criticism. Now, it is one thing to write with enjoyment on a su... ...or nations, should have gone far to wipe away the guilt of slavery. But in history sin always meets with condign punishment; the generation passes, th... ...r slavery, even as no bills in Parliament can redeem the ancient wrongs of Ireland. But here at least is a new light shed on the Walden episode. Secon...

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

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...klin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. An An An An Any per y per y per y per y person using this do... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eli... ...ew England, of whom honorable mention is made by Cotton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly... ...rticu larly procur’d us from the Quakers the printing forty sheets of their history, the rest being to be done by Keimer; and upon this we work’d exc... ..., Sir, I solicit the his tory of your life from the following motives: Your history is so remarkable, that if you do not give it, somebody else will ... ...and enriching of the family. About the year 1734 there arrived among us from Ireland a young Presbyterian preacher, named Hemphill, who deliv ered wi... ...se in which they began has been half consumed. In 1739 arrived among us from Ireland the Reverend Mr. Whitefield, who had made himself remarkable ther... ...to yield three times as much clear revenue to the crown as the postoffice of Ireland. Since that imprudent transaction, they have receiv’d from it—not...