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Excerpt: The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill.

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...Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL The Subjection of Women by Jo... ...Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill ... ...TUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnis... ...RT MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnished... ...le which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong itself, and now one of... ...ng no share at all in public concerns, and each in private being under the legal obligation of obedience to the man with whom she has associated her d... ... reverse of this. In the first place, the opinion in favour of the present system, which entirely subordinates the weaker sex to the stron ger, rests... ...feeling or of interest in favour of it, than of any other of the customary abuses of force: for its motive was the love of gain, unmixed and undis gu... ...rates all attempts to maintain the power but protect the woman against its abuses. In no other case (except that of a child) is the person who has bee...

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

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...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...

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...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and mos...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of...

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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of... ...f John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...delight me through all my boyhood. It was no part, however, of my father’s system to exclude books of amusement, though he allowed them very sparingly... ...er sources and from his own mind, were not only a valuable introduction to legal studies, but an important portion of general education. With Mr. Aust... ...e of power; and finally, what he called its two props, the Church, and the legal profession. He pointed out the natural tendency of an aristocratic bo... ...all sides a spirit which had never shown itself before, of opposi tion to abuses in detail. Mr. Hume’s persevering scrutiny of the public expenditure... ... the predominance of pri vate over public interests in the State, and the abuse of the powers of legislation for the advantage of classes. Secondly, ...

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...Excerpt: The subject of this essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be ...

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

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Last year, on the evening of March 22, I had a very strange adventure. All that day I had been walking about the town trying to find a lodging. My old one was very damp, and I had begun to have an ominous cough. Ever since the autumn I had...

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...by Constance Garnett A PENN STAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Insulted and Injured by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trnas. Constance Garnett is ... ...nd Injured by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trnas. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...Injured by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trnas. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...tion when suddenly I heard a piercing female scream, followed by shouts of abuse in Mme. Bubnov’s yard. I peeped through the gate. On the wooden steps... ...you louse!” squealed the woman, letting out at one breath all her store of abuse, for the most part without commas or stops, but with a sort of gasp. ... ...m out and out, and got hold of his money. The old man, of course, had some legal documents to prove that the prince had had the money from him. The pr... ... The prince was equal to the occasion this time too; he gave her a formal, legal promise of marriage in writing. By so do- 213 Dostoevsky ing he pers... ...ock in the morning. It was raining The night was dark…. *Under the Russian system of regulation a girl in an irregular positionmay easily become the o...