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...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ther a Presentation-copy of his Book; with compliments and encomiums which modesty forbids the present Editor to rehearse; yet without indicated wish ... ...aughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man! Some men wear an everlasti... ...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 Arch... ...he hand is ever guided on by mysterious operations of the mind. In all his Modes, and habilatory endeavors, an Architectural Idea will be found lurkin... ...n the midst of Won- ders and Terrors. But indeed man is, and was always, a blockhead and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and c... ... picture of these University, and the subsequent, years; much more, to de- cipher therein any illustrative primordial elements of the Clothes-Philosop... ...t; and instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor block- heads shoot.—Alas, so is it in Deutschland, and hitherto in all othe...

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...Excerpt: Sydney Spring. My dear sir, your letter introducing Mr. Faree was duly received. There was no opening to nominate him for Superintendent of Public Instruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legisl...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...ritings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ct and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased but has con... ... that to-day and in all com- ing days it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression. Y our o... ...e supreme law of the land. Now, gentlemen, if it were not for my excessive modesty, I would say that I told that very thing to Judge Douglas quite a y... ...te a year ago. This argu- ment is here in print, and if it were not for my modesty, as I said, I might call your attention to it. If you read it, you ... ...qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond “readin’, writin’, and cipherin”’ to the Rule of Three. If a straggler supposed to un- derstand La... ... came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three, but that was all. I have not been to school si... ...rs very truly, A. LINCOLN. 149 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five BLOCKING “COMPROMISE” ON SLA VERY ISSUE TO E. B. W ASHBURNE (Private and Co...

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...erpt: Old Moodie. The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street....

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...lication The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...n balmy, by a lodger, like myself, in one of the midmost houses of a brick block,—each house partaking of the warmth of all the rest, besides the sult... ... developed figure, in Eve’s earliest garment. Her free, careless, generous modes of expression often had this effect of creating images which, though ... ... a woman!” Not that I would convey the idea of especial gentleness, grace, modesty, and shyness, but of a certain warm and rich char acteristic, whic... ...whatever. There is not human nature in it.” “Why are you so secret in your operations?” I asked. “God forbid that I should accuse you of intentional w... ... bond of love among us) was yet found rather inconvenient in its practical operation, mortal tempers be ing so infirm and variable as they are. If on... ...rchants, the politicians, the Cambridge men, and all those respectable old blockheads who still, in this intangibility and mistiness of affairs, kept ... ...e I showed Hollingsworth a delicate handkerchief, marked with a well known cipher, and told where I had found it, and other circumstances, which had f...

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism we...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to di...

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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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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ..., and also (but more emphatically) the Suspiria de Profundis. On these, as modes of impassioned prose ranging under no precedents that I am aware of i... ...perfect sensibilities. Raptures there might be in arrear; but raptures are modes of troubled plea- sure. The peace, the rest, the central security whi... ...despised my pretensions too entirely to waste a thought or a menace upon a cipher so abject. This change, therefore, being so sudden and so total, oug... ...articulate or brutal sounds of the globe must be all so many languages and ciphers that somewhere have their cor- responding keys—have their own gramm... ...on would be made an argument for selling them. And such, when we trace the operation of this law to its final stage, is the ultimate result of an infr... ...s means for evading British acts, even within their own separate sphere of operation. On these considerations, even an Irishman must grant that public... ...ng and billowing from the thatched roofs and blazing rafters, beginning to block up the avenues of escape. Then began the agony and uttermost conflict...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more i...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel...

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