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...American Notes by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Penn... ...es by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...n when things got too bad they would toll the city bell, and the Vigilance Committee turned out and hanged the suspicious characters. A man didn’t beg... ... people,” the certainty with which they can be trusted to manage their own affairs in their own way, and the speed with which they are making for all ... ...ut false pride, that they would as soon concern themselves with the public affairs of the city or state as rake muck with a steam-shovel. It may be th... ...A man rose up and told them that they were the chosen of God, the elect of Israel; that they were to obey their 60 American Notes priests, and that t...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................

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...d Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication ... ...18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...at surrounded my fate; whether, as a 58 Thomas de Quincey trophy won from Israel, I should be dedicated to the service of some Manchester Dagon, or p... ...nto the room of Mrs. Evans. This Mrs. Evans was an important person in our affairs. My mother, who never chose to have any direct communication with h... ...all men of honor and integrity; but their hands were filled with their own affairs. One (my tutor) was a cler- gyman, rector of a church, and having h... ...succeeded in arresting a large body of the leading conspirators. The whole committee of Leinster, amounting to thirteen members, was captured on 211 ...

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...Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. We... ...ON What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document fi... ...ophet not to break into exhortation after the fashion of the proph- ets of Israel. The first difficulty in the way of establishing a world peace is th... ...rld peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provision made even for... ...ce of all those who are in con- trol, or interested in the control, of the affairs of sovereign States of the world as they are at present; the resist... ...rica. President Wilson, for example, is quite sufficiently occupied by the affairs of the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interfere... ... the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no mo... ...a little detail, but a very significant one in this connec- tion, that the committee that organised the various great suffrage processions in London w...

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...ORY Volume Three by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carl... ...ON The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document fi... ... defend itself from foreign Despots; crowds towards Townhalls and Election Committee-rooms, to de- fend itself from domestic Aristocrats. Let the Read... ...he Townhall, these astonishing tricolor Municipals; in Council General; in Committee of Watchfulness (de Surveillance, which will even become de Salut... ...uses broken into (by a tumult of Patri- ots, among whom red-capped Varlet, American Fournier loom forth, in the darkness of the rain and riot); had th... ...pot. (Hist. Parl. xv. 397.) 135 Thomas Carlyle But now in such posture of affairs, virtuous Petion rose, next morning, to lament these effervescences... ... and Municipality; we will make a new June- Second of it: to your tents, O Israel! In this key pipes Jacobinism; in sheer tumult of revolt. Let Tallie...

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... Common Sense by Thomas Paine is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document... ...8201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project, The Pennsylvania State University’s Electronic Class... ...s first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ... ...them. The history of that transaction is worth attending to. The children of Israel being oppressed by the Midianites, Gideon marched against them wit... ...er lived. “Common Sense” Thomas Paine 25 THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF AMERICAN AFFAIRS IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES I offer nothing more than simpl... ... “Common Sense” Thomas Paine 25 THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF AMERICAN AFFAIRS IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES I offer nothing more than simple facts, ... ...all it. France and Spain never were. nor perhaps ever will be our enemies as AMERICANS, but as our being the sub jects of GREAT BRITAIN. But Britain ... ...FER ENCE be held, in the following manner, and for the following purpose. A committee of twenty six members of Congress, viz. two for each colony. Tw... ... Thomas Paine 45 when a man seriously reacts on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced, that it is in finitely wiser and safe...

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...nd My Freedom By Frederick Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publicatio... ...-1291 is a Por- table Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...stances; it is, moreover, a noble vindica- tion of the highest aims of the American anti-slavery move- ment. The real object of that movement is not o... ...these remarkable men, and is still rising toward highest rank among living Americans, are abundantly laid bare in the book before us. Like the autobio... ...pure. “You are the man, the Moses, raised up by God, to deliver his modern Israel from bondage,” was the spontaneous feeling of my heart, as I sat awa... ... withstand a cause so good, so holy, so indescribably glorious. The God of Israel is with us. The might of the Eternal is on our side. Now let but the... ...ves.” Thus, I was in a pretty fair way to be denounced as an impostor. The committee of the Massachusetts anti-slavery society knew all the facts in m... ...y condition in this respect is exceedingly pleasant. So far as my domestic affairs are concerned, I can boast of as comfortable a dwell- ing as your o... ...lasting peace, as it is to think there is no God to take cognizance of the affairs of men. There can be no peace to the wicked while slavery continues...

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...Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...uncture—is neither a college president nor a lot of monkeying with foreign affairs, but a good— sound economical—business—administration, that will gi... ...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...served, “not if they stay home and study their geometry and mind their own affairs instead of hang- ing around a lot of poolrooms and soda-fountains a... ...lieved that the earth is flat, that the English are the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, and that the United States is a de- mocracy. At that moment the ste... ... crushed when the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce had re- ported to a committee of manufacturers that in every city where he had appeared, Mr. Mo... ...st dances on Royal Ridge. Rountree was chairman of the convention program- committee. Babbitt had growled to him, “Makes me tired the way these doctor...

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...ia by Frank Norris A P A P A P A P A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication enn State Elec... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication enn State Elec... ... at her skirts. Minna, her oldest daughter, a very pretty girl, whose love affairs were continually the talk of all Los Muertos, was visible through a... ...re the best of friends. More than once, Presley marvelled at this state of affairs, telling himself that he and Annixter had nothing in common. In all... ...he half-inspired shepherds of the Hebraic legends, the younger prophets of Israel, dwellers in the wilderness, beholders of visions, having their exis... ...attained not by orations before senates and assemblies, but by sessions of committees, caucuses, com- promises and expedients. His goal was to be in f... ...ds of the Hebraic legends, living close to nature, the younger prophets of Israel, dwellers in the wilderness, solitary, imaginative, believing in the... ...ffices to an empty church—’the voice of one crying in the wilderness.’ You Americans are not good churchmen. Sundays you sleep— you read the newspaper... ...cists, repeated from page to page with wearying insistence. “I, too, am an American Citizen. S. D.,” “As the T wig is Bent the T ree is Inclined,” “Tr...

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... N N The French Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...do it. For indeed, to say it in a word, in those days there was no King in Israel, and every man did that which was right in his own eyes. (See Deux A... ... sea cockfight it is, and of the hottest; where British Serapis and French-American Bon Homme Richard do lash and throttle each other, in their fashio... ...n—V olume Two What a progress, since the first salient-point of the Breton Committee! It worked long in secret, not languidly; it has come with the Na... ...s of Federates, of this Fed- eration, will have enough to do! Harangue of ‘American Committee, ’ among whom is that faint figure of Paul Jones ‘as wit... ... 23 Avril, 1791.) Simulation and dissimulation mingle extensively in human affairs. We observe, however, that Count Fersen is often using his Ticket o... ...lands have been in Paris; arranging with Assembly Committees the Municipal affairs of Lyons, affairs all sunk in debt;—communing, the while, as was mo... ... others, and no Forfeiture pronounced. Wherefore in fine, To your tents, O Israel! The Mother-Society ceases speaking; groups cease ha- ranguing: Patr...

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...n In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six ... ...cation The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document ... ...y 21, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL McCLELLAN: I have just been waited on by a large committee who present a petition signed by twenty-three senators and eighty... ...ng all reinforcements that you may deem needful to sustain our government. Israel W ashburn, Jr., Governor of Maine. H. S. Berry, Gov- ernor of New Ha... ... This afternoon the President of the United States gave an au- dience to a committee of colored men at the White House. They were introduced by Rev. J... ...r- thy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. In the American Revolutionary war sacrifices were made by men engaged in it, but t... ...r newer States, and less than in some of our larger ones. They are not all American colonists or their descendants. Something less than 12,000 have be... ...ed un- less we try, and we think with care we can succeed. The po- litical affairs in Central America are not in quite as satisfactory a condition as ... ...ime and wise way all will yet be well. The correspondence touching foreign affairs which has taken place during the last year is herewith submitted, i...

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...Main Street by Sinclair Lewis A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...alacrity with which he took that freedom and escaped to the world of men’s affairs. She gazed about their bedroom, and its full dismalness crawled ove... ...y per- 51 Sinclair Lewis sonalities to a larger world of abstractions and affairs? She made her best curtsy to Mrs. Dawson; she twit- tered, “I won’t... ... make ‘em lively, if nothing else. I’ll make ‘em stop regarding parties as committee-meetings.” Kennicott usually considered himself the master of the... ...able subject for next year, I believe that it would be nice if the program committee would try to work in another day entirely devoted to English poet... ...arge-bosomed, white-bloused, hot-necked, spectacled matrons—the Mothers in Israel, pioneers and friends of Mrs. Champ Perry—waved their palm-leaf fans...

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... OUR CONQUERORS By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith is a publication of t... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, t... ... squire, flat-headed, paunchy, assiduously servile, are shown blacking Ben-Israel’s boots and grooming the princely stud of the Jew, had come so near ... ...t, that the matter was personal; and the intimation of a touch on domestic affairs caused sinkings in his vacuity, much as though his heart were havin... ... the copious outpouring of Vic- tor Radnor’s confidences upon his domestic affairs; and the unwonted excitement of Victor’s manner of speech would hav... ... I shall take my name off my Club up West.’ ‘More like monasteries, with a Committee for Abbot, and Whist for the services,’ Fenellan said. ‘Or tabern... ... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip...

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... THE INVISIBLE KING by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication God the Invisible King by H. G. Wells is a publication of the ... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ... women he has met. They have been people of very various origins; English, Americans, Bengalis, Russians, French, people brought up in a “Catholic atm... ...pon the table as I write a modest pe- riodical called The Northern British Israel Review, illustrated with portraits of various clergymen of the Churc... ...d of * It is not so generally understood as it should be among English and American readers that a very large proportion of early Christians before th... ...ld be burn- ing Sodom and Gomorrah, now he would be inciting his congenial Israelites to the most terrific pogroms. This divine “frightfulness” is of ... ...orship. Kings, owners, and all who claim rule and decisions in the world’s affairs, must either show themselves clearly the fellow-servants of the bel... ...eliever is to do the work for which he is best fitted, and since all state affairs are to become the affairs of God’s kingdom it is of primary importa... ...the individual for the individual’s sur- render. He takes no cognisance of committees. Those who are most alive to the realities of living religion ar...

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... The Uncommercial Traveller ... ...nsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as par... ...g come but the jug of ale and the bread, you implore your waiter to ‘see after that cutlet, waiter; pray do!’ He cannot go at once, for he is carrying... ...as already in the un- commercial line. This was a man who, though not more than thirty, had seen the world in divers irreconcilable capacities—had bee... ...other person to meet him or obstruct him, Lyons Inn was dreaming, drunk, maudlin, moody, betting, brooding over bill-discounting or renewing—asleep or... ...mmercial Traveller 169 He was much watched and suspected, he said, and had had enough to do to keep himself out of trouble. This, and his not having p... ...e about as well in- formed on the matter as most other people. Distinguished speakers were invited down, and very nearly came (but not quite). Subscri... ...ocks, you may buy polonies, saveloys, and sausage preparations various, if you are not particular what they are made of besides seasoning. Down by the... ...anuary, 1862, which is highly remarkable for its philosophical and liter- ary research concerning these Latter-Day Saints. I find in it the following ...

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...tive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive... ...urces of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document fi... ...to this the country has continued to flourish. It is a singular feature in American life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of... ...al use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The latter draw a distinction between a sled, or sledge, and a s... ...his goods by” so pretty a spoken man,” Through these con- joint means, the affairs of Monsieur Le Quoi were again in a prosperous condition, and he wa... ...o dissipated. Y ou forget that she is my housekeeper, and that my domestic affairs must remain unattended to, should Louisa accept of half the kind of... ... earth. Where now are the Philistines, who so often held the chil- dren of Israel in bondage? or that city of Babylon, which ri- oted in luxury and vi... ... she had directed to be done. “It was a very pretty fight, Betty, that the Israelites had on that day with the Amalekites, It seams that they fout on ... ...les of this sport that it is proper I should remove. If you will appoint a committee, gentlemen, to wait on me this morning, I will draw up in writing...

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... Vailima Letters by Robert L... ...vania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of... .... MONDAY , 31ST? NOVEMBER. Near a week elapsed, and no journal. On Monday after- noon, Moors rode up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in... ... up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in the evening to the American Consulate; present, Consul-General Sewall, Lieut. Parker and Mrs. ... ...when Adams and Lafarge 29 V ailima Letters go also, it will be a great blow. I am getting spoiled with all this good society. On Friday morning, I ha... ...fore Lloyd. Meanwhile— was up here, telling how the Chief Justice was really gone for five or eight weeks, and begging me to write to the TIMES and de... ... with infinite difficulty a draft of a pe- tition to the King. . . . Then to dinner at M. ’s, a very merry meal, interrupted before it was over by... ...d. If that was Heaven, what, in the name of Davy Jones and the aboriginal night-mare, could Hell be?Take it for all in all, L’Antechrist is worth read... ...ell a piece of land. Is this the reason why war has disappeared?We ride back, stopping to sketch here and there the fords, a flag of truce, etc. I rid...

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... DAISY CHAIN By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yo... ...on The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document fi... ...artan mother at Abbotstoke, gallantly setting Margaret aside, sent for the committee at once to choose the very best place in the park.’ ‘Papa is chai... ... once to choose the very best place in the park.’ ‘Papa is chairman of the committee,’ added Aubrey, ‘he is mayor this year, so we must encourage it.’... ... and con- 173 Yo n g e fident that however bad were the present aspect of affairs, his professional eye would instantly find a clue. Aubrey was in an... ...ow could he suppose that any man could be crazed enough to prefer to be an American citizen, when he might remain a British subject? Repugnance to Ame... ....’ ‘Dr. Spencer was really helping, and Mr. Wright was there about his own affairs,’ said Ethel, in a tone of repression. ‘And Mrs. Ledwich wanted her... ... well as by Richard’s prudence, that interference was dangerous. No one in Israel was to go forth to the wars of the Lord save those who ‘willingly of... ...hate to see it, and to hear people say my roses will surprise the delicate Americans. Fancy, in a shop in London I met an old school-fellow, who was d...

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... GOLDEN DEEDS BY CHARLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...s of self was cast away. Among these we cannot forbear mentioning the poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle... ...l bear hoisting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we hear of an American Railway collision that befell a train on the way to Elmira with pr... ...ast, and in Egypt, and as he lived about the time of the dispersion of the Israelites, it is pos- sible that some of his purest and best teaching migh... ...nd he entreated as a favor to be allowed to return thither and arrange his affairs, engaging to return within a specified time to suffer death. The ty... ... one against the other; and when Fabius found how serious was the state of affairs in Etruria, he sent 56 A Book of Golden Deeds to Rome to entreat t... ...Zidonians, who were such dangerous foes, or more dangerous friends, to the Israelites. Carthage had, as some say, been first founded by some of the Ca... ...pulace till they reached the Abbaye. In the turnkey’s rooms sat a horrible committee, who acted as a sort of tribunal, but very few of the priests rea...

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...an Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Mela... ...on: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document fi... ...give enough expression of Bishop Patteson’s opinions upon Church and State affairs, to repre- sent his manner of thinking, without transcribing every ... ...ot fully understood:— ‘T uesday evening. ‘My dearest Father,—Hearing that “Israel in Egypt” was to be performed at Exeter Hall on Friday night, I went... ...n Patteson was nominated to the Privy Council, as a member of the Judicial Committee; where the business was chiefly conducted in writing, and he coul... ...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ... to learn. You may fancy I have enough to do, and then all my housekeeping affairs take up a deal of time, for I not only have to order things, but to... ...ou, when she saw him serving the Lord, the one upright man of the house of Israel?”’ No doubt these words were founded on those heartfelt as- surances... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave...

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... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Documen... ...8201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, t... ...an be bound to acknowledge and adore the In visible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED S... ...s deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care, it ... ...man Race in humble supplication that, since He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportuni ties for deliberating in perfect tranquil... ...nce only as may give firmness and effect to the legal administration of your affairs. I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I... ... too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowi... ...eme Court build ing now stands. A controversy resulted from the inaugu ral committees proposals concerning the use of the House Chamber on the secon...

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...obiography by BOOKER T. WASHINGTON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a... ...ublication Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document... ...youth of missionary parents, earned enough money to pay his expenses at an American college. Equipped with this small sum and the earnestness that the... ...he distinction of translation into more languages, I think, than any other American book; and I suppose that he has as large a per- sonal acquaintance... ... all, and under all the cir- cumstances, those in charge of the conduct of affairs did the only thing that could be done at the time. Still, as I look... ...ol year in Washington I was very pleasantly surprised to re- ceive, from a committee of three white people in Charles- ton, an invitation to canvass t... ... had little thought or knowledge of applying these rules to their everyday affairs of their life. One sub- ject which they liked to talk about, and te... ...icks in the general market. I had always sympathized with the “Children of Israel,” in their task of “making bricks without straw,” but ours was the t... ...ved a telegram from prominent citizens in Atlanta asking me to accompany a committee from that city to Washington for the purpose of appearing before ...

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...LUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a public... ...-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...ike a goddess of Beauty, the cynosure of all eyes; as yet mingles not with affairs; heeds not the future; least of all, dreads it. Weber and Campan (I... ...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ..., from all regions, have repaired hither, to see what is toward. Our Paris Committees, of the Sixty Districts, are busier than ever; it is now too cle... ...and bargained with (even rather tightly),—in some very singular posture of affairs, which Jean Jacques has not fixed the date of? Coming therefore int... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...do it. For indeed, to say it in a word, in those days there was no King in Israel, and every man did that which was right in his own eyes. (See Deux A... ... others, and no Forfeiture pronounced. Wherefore in fine, To your tents, O Israel! The Mother-Society ceases speaking; groups cease harangu- ing: Patr...

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...ANCO POSNET By GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a pu... ...-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ... it is, it only gives me an opportunity of telling the story of the Select Committee of both Houses of Parliament which sat last year to enquire into ... ...report of this Com- mittee. Its full title is REPORT FROM THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE STAGE PLAYS... ...aker of the House of Commons, the Bishop of Southwark, Mr. Hall Caine, Mr. Israel Zangwill, Sir Squire Bancroft, Sir Arthur Pinero, and Mr. Gilbert Ch... ...mote from public opinion and how full of their own little family and party affairs British governments, both Liberal and Unionist, still are. The cens... ...espects as wiser than himself assure him that it must be so, or the higher affairs of human destiny will suffer. Such admission is the more difficult ... ... other hand, it is some- times so vague, as for example in the case of the American law against obscenity, that it makes the magistrate virtually a ce... ...ough to hang you, anyway. [Going over to him threateningly]. Youre no true American man, to insult a 86 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet woman like th...

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...n In Seven V olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two ... ...cation The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document ... ...aster-General to make arrangements with railroad for carrying the mails—in Committee of the Whole], but had failed. One of the objects he had then had... ...o state to gentlemen who might have entertained such impressions, that the Committee on the Post-office was composed of five Whigs and four Democrats,... ...takable sign is that all the odds and ends are with us—Barnburners, Native Americans, Tyler men, disappointed office-seeking Locofocos, and the Lord k... ...onal question. In 1826 Chancellor Kent first published his Commentaries on American law. He devoted a portion of one of the lectures to the question o... ... Governor of Michigan terri- tory, and ex-officio Superintendent of Indian Affairs, from the 9th of October, 1813, till the 31st of July, 1831—a perio... ...ed for office rent, clerk hire, fuel, etc., in superintendence of In- dian affairs in Michigan, at the rate per year of $1500. (3) As compensation and... ... shall find a way to do it, however great the task may be. The children of Israel, to such numbers as to include four hundred thousand fighting men, w...

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... & BOOKS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is... ...lication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document f... ... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...ate sensation novelist. Little as he seems to know of the sea and nautical affairs, he must have known very well that ves- sels do not go down as he m... ...ion with talents that we respect or virtues that we admire. David, king of Israel, would pass a sounder judgment on a man than either Nathaniel or Dav... ...air enslavers in the background. Many – or may we not say most? – of these affairs were entirely artificial. One, he tells us, he began out of “a vani... ... have such a treasure as you! . . . ‘The Lord God knoweth,’ and, perhaps, ‘Israel he shall know,’ my love and your merit. Adieu, Clarinda! I am going ... ...ss account than what you will get from him in (as the French say) a little committee. And Thoreau wanted geniality; he had not enough of the superfici...

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... R OBERT LOUIS STEVENSON V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publicati... ...01-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...AR BAXTER, – I don’t know what you mean. I know nothing about the Standing Committee of the Spec., did not know that such a body existed, and even if ... ...uary 1st: this morning I got January 3rd. Into the bargain with Marie, the American girl, who is grace itself, and comes leaping and dancing simply li... ...RS. SITWELL [MENTONE, JANUARY 1874.] … Last night I had a quarrel with the American on poli- tics. It is odd how it irritates you to hear certain poli... ...irly count. I am afraid I bore you sadly with this perpetual talk about my affairs; I will try and stow it; but you see, it touches me nearly. I’m the... ...tyx and go thence to the eternal mountains? Such a revo- lution in a man’s affairs, as I have somewhere written, would set anybody singing. When we ge... ..., 1880 This letter is a report of a long sederunt, also steterunt in small committee at Davos Platz, Dec. 15, 1880. Its results are unhesitatingly sho... ... Shakespeare. 2. The journals and Private Correspondence of David, King of Israel. 3. Poetical Works of Arthur, Iron Dook of Wellington, including a M...

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...mack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Tho... ... A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Portable Document ... ...y sometimes see the curious circular nests of the Lamprey Eel, Petromyzon Americanus, the American Stone Sucker, as large as a cart wheel, a foot or ... ...d, and referring him to some new ge nealogy. “Son of——and——. He aided the Americans to gain their independence, instructed mankind in economy, and dr... ...another. Yet the New Testament treats of man and man’s so called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone... ...o the backbone Unto itself alone, And false to none; Born to its own affairs, Its own joys and own cares; By whom the work which God begun ... ...there is science in their religion. Let us make haste to the report of the committee on swine. A man’s real faith is never contained in his creed, nor... ...e is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel.’” His son Wannalancet carefully followed his advice, and when Phili...

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...D COUPON And Other Stories BY LEO TOLSTOY A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication The Forged Coupon and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, trans. ... ...01 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ...ations, his nationality. Such a key is peculiarly necessary to English or American students of Tolstoy, because of the marked contrast existing be t... ...f the marked contrast existing be tween the Russian and the Englishman or American in these respects, a contrast by which Tolstoy himself was forcibl... ...entative. In money matters careless and extravagant, dilatory and venal in affairs; fond, especially in the peasant class, of singing, dancing, and ca... ...n’s history, emanating principally from the inspired prophets and seers of Israel, India, and Leo Tolstoy 32 China. Finally, in 1909, in a letter to ... ... helped him in his business as well. Stepan knew all about the innkeeper’s affairs – how he had wronged the peasant, and how the woman who was living ... ...re long. XIII NATALIA I VANOVNA S VENTIZKY’S TELEGRAM proved useless. The committee appointed to deal with the petitions in the Emperor’s name, decid... ... case was dis cussed at the Emperor’s luncheon table, the chairman of the committee, who was present, mentioned the tele gram which had been receive...

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...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania Sta... ...ulty editor. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document f... ...resent I am a sojourner in civilized life again. I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the no tice of my readers if very particular inquiries ... ... to prescribe rules to strong and valiant natures, who will mind their own affairs whether in heaven or hell, and perchance build more magnificently a... ...the Lord God, ye shall not have occa sion any more to use this proverb in Israel. “Behold all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also th... ...map. Con trast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race before... ...t perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whoop ing cough. A... ...thoughtfully while it goes by. What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from some body. God ...

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...Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Magnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is... ...lication Magnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document ... ...lk, and had no sooner done breakfast than she went off to her housekeeping affairs and others, which she managed unusually to prolong. Carey was tryin... ... small sum, which had remained to poor Captain Allen, when he wound up his affairs, after paying the debts in which his early and imprudent marriage h... ...me coloured, and white, flowering trees. “They said they would show me the Americans,” she said. “Why was it, mother? I thought Americans were like th... ...es, and a pond, and statues standing round it, and I don’t think they were Americans, for I know one was Diana, because she had a bow and quiver. I wa... ..., while at the other end of the court, sheltered by a great orange-tree, a committee of the “T raveller’s Joy” was held. For that serial still survive... ...and they used to try not to let me go—and I felt just like the children of Israel in Egypt, as if I had got into heavy bondage, and the land of captiv...

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...ANEOUS PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a p... ...A 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to ... ... rapidly coming to be regarded as a hinder- ance to the movement of public affairs; and the recollection that I might again have occasion for some app... ...after so long a voyage, she only, out of the total crew, was thrown on the American shore, with one hundred and five pounds in her purse of clear gain... ...foot of Kate’s little account. But unhappily for Kate’s début on this vast American stage, the case was otherwise. Mr. Urquiza had the misfortune (equ... ..., entreated her to become his second in a duel. Such things were every-day affairs. However, Kate had reasons for declining the service, and did so. B... ...Exodus, therefore, in so far resembling the great Scriptural Exodus of the Israelites, under Moses and Joshua, as well as in the very peculiar distinc... ...t part, to any contest with the ca- lamities before them. The Children of Israel were in the same circumstances as to the accompaniment of their fami... ...ury to century, if it is an inconvenience from year to year. The Abolition Committees, it is to be feared, will be very angry at both propositions. Ye...

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...LSTOY Leo TOLSTOY Leo TOLSTOY Leo TOLSTOY A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication PREFACE....3 GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS ....5 A PRISONER IN... ...e Tales by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude is a publication of the Pennsyl vania State University. This Portable Document ... ...heerful mood, and as soon as he was out of the village forgot all his home affairs. His only care was how to please his comrade, how to avoid saying a... ...ve his old wife what money he had left. Then he questioned them about home affairs. Everything was going on well; all the work had been done, nothing ... ...Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. None does He protect but His chosen people, the Israelites. From the commencement of the world, our nation has been beloved... ...salem — the wonder of the ancient world — restored to its splendour, shall Israel be established a ruler over all nations.’ So spoke the Jew, and burs... ... Ministers considered and reconsidered. They assembled a Commission, and a Committee, and a Sub Committee, and at last they de cided that the best th... ..., DEATH AND SICKNESS A LEGEND. THIS IS A LEGEND current among the South American Indi ans. God, say they, at first made men so that they had no ne...