Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: When The Duchess Was Dead No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the...

Full Text Search Details
...ries Publication The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State... ... that he would not know not to be stern and hard. But he must find out the history of it all. No doubt the man had been his son’s friend, and had join... ... not sent out into a market to be exposed as for sale. In his own personal history there had been a misfortune,—a misfor- tune, the sense of which he ... ...it;’—for she had been asked to sign papers, or in other words to surrender rights;—’but for that other matter it must be left to myself. ’ Then he ha... ...d Lady Mary. This child had a clear idea of what she thought to be her own rights. Being the child of rich parents she had the right to money. Being a... ...ay by the apparent justice of Tifto’s proposition. And what was the use of voting? Let them vote as they might, it was out of the question that Tifto...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Part I, Chapter 1; HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to ...

Table of Contents Details
...Table of Contents: Part I 1 -- Chapter 1, 1 -- Chapter 2, 3 -- Chapter 3, 6 -- Chapter 4, 9 -- Chapter 5, 13 -- Chapter 6, 20 -- Chapter 7, 23 -- Chapter 8, 24 -- Chapter 9, 27 -- Chapter 10, 32 -- Chapter 11, 38 -- Chapter 12, 42 ...

Full Text Search Details
...ETT DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. First published in English, 1901. First published in Rus... ...2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. First published in English, 1901. First published in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; ... ...nd that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife t... ...hree days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every pers... ...rony which we always have on the tip of our tongues. All I say is, give such rights as our local self government to any other European people—why, the... ...ace. If England can point to the most brilliant feats of cavalry in military history, it is simply owing to the fact that she has historically develop... ... And Sergey Ivanovitch carried the subject into the regions of philosophical history where Konstantin Levin could not follow him, and showed him all t... ...aiting till Pestsov had finished, “meaning the right of sitting on juries, of voting, of presiding at official meetings, the right of entering the civil... ...Konstantin Dmitrievitch,” he said, “your brother’s looking for you. They are voting on the legal point.” Levin walked into the room, received a white ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: A young Irish gentleman of the numerous clan O?Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landow...

Full Text Search Details
...ics Series Publication Celt and Saxon by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... Series Publication Celt and Saxon by George Meredith 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... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Celt and Saxon by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...nster, a subject rejected of poets, taking no hue in the flat chronicle of history: but a faithless woman, how shall we speak of her! Women, sacredly ... ...ecious, for an inspec- tion of which, as Patrick was bidden to understand, History humbly knocked at the Earlsfont hall-doors; and the proud muse made... ... her husband and her Harvey in one. Goodbye to my hop and skip. I ought by rights to have been down beside her at midnight. She’s the worthiest woman ... ...s to a nice little bowl of froth-flummery. But it’s when the Parliamentary voting is on comes the connubial pull. She’s a good woman, a dear good soul...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development an...

Full Text Search Details
...Y H. G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ... SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... much more spacious, it is not only that it has opened out from the little history of a few thou- sand years to a stupendous vista of ages, but, in ad... ... clad. Amidst the collapse of the old Individualistic Humanitarianism, the Rights of Man, Human Equality, and the rest of those broad generalizations ... ...f the sacred principle of Free T rade, of Empires and Zollvereins, and the Rights of the Parent to blockade the education of his children, but one hea... ...e assisting until the Sinbad of Charity broke down. And quite early in the history of Charities it was found that a very grave impediment to their ben... ... of devices for qualifying the present method by poll- ing; Mills’s plural voting for educated men will occur to the reader; Hare’s system of vote col... ...ll occur to the reader; Hare’s system of vote collection, and the negative voting of Doctor Grece; and the defects of these inventions have been suffi...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History.

Table of Contents Details
...Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY.......................................................................................................... 12 VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE ...............................................................

Full Text Search Details
...ENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle 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... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic ... ...is struggling for life and victory. A sympathetic France rejoices over the Rights of Man; in all saloons, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too beho... ...l not remain unimitated. Next comes indomitable Declaration, almost of the rights of man, at least of the rights of Parlement; Invocation to the frien... ...at first moot-point, as we see, is now settled. As for the second, that of voting by Head or by Order, it unfortu- nately is still left hanging. It ha... ...ve craftsman but will leave his workshop; if not to vote, yet to assist in voting? On all highways is a rustling and bustling. Over the wide surface o...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History (Volume One).

Table of Contents Details
...Contents VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE .................................................................................................................................. 6 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. .....................................................

Full Text Search Details
...E E E E VO VO VO VO VO L L L L L UTI UTI UTI UTI UTI O O O O O N N N N N A HISTORY Volume One by TH TH TH TH THO O O O OMA MA MA MA MAS CA S CA S CA S... ...LICA CA CA CA CATI TI TI TI TIO O O O ON N N N N The French Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvan... ...ench Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. 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... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...is struggling for life and victory. A sympathetic France rejoices over the Rights of Man; in all saloons, it is said, What a spectacle! Now too behold... ...l not remain unimitated. Next comes indomitable Declaration, almost of the rights of man, at least of the rights of Parlement; Invocation to the frien... ...at first moot-point, as we see, is now settled. As for the second, that of voting by Head or by Order, it unfortunately is still left hanging. It hang... ...ve craftsman but will leave his workshop; if not to vote, yet to assist in voting? On all highways is a rustling and bustling. Over the wide surface o...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Dear Speed, yours of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would su...

Full Text Search Details
...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...e old system be thought to be vague, as to all the delegates of the county voting the same way, or as to instructions to them as to whom they are to v... ...United States, by consent or by compulsion, either by accepting office, or voting at elections, or paying tax, or serving on juries, or having process... ... side with me in the vote that you seem dissatisfied with. The latter, the history of whose capture with Cassius Clay you well know, had not arrived h... ...alues the evidence of the past. He tells us that at a certain point of our history more than two hun- dred millions of dollars had been applied for to... ...o the general cause of republican lib- erty, and not violative of the just rights of any nation or people. 113 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol ... ...f contending dynasties, and when the struggle for supremacy imperilled the rights of all neutral nations. His voice spoke war and peace in the contest...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the ...

Table of Contents Details
...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 13...

Full Text Search Details
... 1854 DjVu Editions Copyright © 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...als . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 The Pond in Winter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Spr... ...den Economy 1 Economy W HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a hous... ... HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myse... ... a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the la... ...custom, by how many modes, only not state prison offences; lying, flattering, voting, contracting yourselves into a nutshell of civility, or dilating i... ... in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology! — I know of no reading of another’s experienc... ...bly surprise those of my readers who are somewhat acquainted with its actual history; it would certainly astonish those who know nothing about it. I w... ... a Pythagorean, so far as beans are concerned, whether they mean porridge or voting, and exchanged them for rice; but, perchance, as some must work in...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little...

Full Text Search Details
... Classics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...eenth year of our blessed union. PRELUDE W HO THA T CARES MUCH to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying ex... ...derstood for many years to be engaged on a great work concerning religious history; also as a man of wealth enough to give lustre to his piety, and ha... ...ave made such a calculation in his own case. And now, when the question of voting had come, this repul- sive fact told more strongly against Mr. Fareb... ... own best purposes by getting on bad terms with Bulstrode; he did not like voting against Farebrother, and help- ing to deprive him of function and sa... ...s cordial. “Some people would be ashamed to fill up a place belong- ing by rights to others,” said Mrs. Waule, turning her narrow eyes in the same dir... ...,” said Mr. Hawley; “some emissary. He’ll begin with flourishing about the Rights of Man and end with murdering a wench. That’s the style.” “Y ou must...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Prelude; Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little...

Table of Contents Details
...Table of Contents: Book I ?Miss Brooke, 1 -- Prelude, 1 -- Chapter I., 3 -- Chapter II., 10 -- Chapter III., 16 -- Chapter IV., 25 -- Chapter V., 31 -- Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- ...

Full Text Search Details
...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... ...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... Middlemarch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying ex... ...arch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiment... ...derstood for many years to be engaged on a great work concerning religious history; also as a man of wealth enough to give lustre to his piety, and ha... ...ave made such a calculation in his own case. And now, when the question of voting had come, this repulsive fact told more strongly against Mr. Farebro... ... own best purposes by getting on bad terms with Bulstrode; he did not like voting against Farebrother, and helping to deprive him of function and sala... ... his cordial. “Some people would be ashamed to fill up a place belonging by rights to oth ers,” said Mrs. Waule, turning her narrow eyes in the same d... ...” said Mr. Hawley; “some emissary. He’ll begin with flour ishing about the Rights of Man and end with murdering a wench. That’s the style.” “You must ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices i...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT...................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... skill enough to lead in this matter. I do not see how one can go into the history of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French ... ...e, and for the sake of securer food man teth- ered himself to a place. The history of man’s progress from savagery to civilisation is essentially a st... ...y, and you will find a new co-operation in government; stick to your legal rights, draw the net of re- pressive legislation tighter, then you will pre... ..., and the voter is at once reduced to 58 An Englishman Looks at the World voting not to secure the return of the perhaps less hopeful candidate he li... ...our whole national life, could be largely remedied by an infinitely better voting system known as Proportional Representation. Thereupon the _Westmins... ...ld even go further, and have no law as between the members of a family, no rights, no private property within that limit. The family would be the soci...

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: 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 b...

Full Text Search Details
...klin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...n with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...r an or any pur y pur y pur y pur y purpose pose pose pose pose, , , , , and in an and in an and in an and in an and in any w y w y w y w y wa a a a a... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and ... ...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... ...d we would not call for their assistance if we could do without it, as their voting for such a measure might em broil them with their elders and frie... ... pre senting them with a set of resolutions I had drawn up, de claring our rights, and that we did not relinquish our claim to those rights, but onl...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of...

Full Text Search Details
...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve 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... ...of government, which embraced every security for their liberties and equal rights and privileges to all in the pursuit of happiness. He came as an hon... ...e assault is thoroughly desperate. Had De Tocqueville lived to examine the history of the United States from 1860 to 1870, his misgivings as to this p... ...o changed this, that those who were then negro slaves are clothed with the rights of citizenship, including the right of suffrage. This was a politica... ... the most ancient, and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history. Let us recollect the situation of France seven hundred years ago, ... ... New England: the intervention of the people in pub- lic affairs, the free voting of taxes, the responsibility of au- thorities, personal liberty, and... ... ecutes the plans of the Legislature; it often happens that the latter, in voting a measure, names special agents to superin- tend the execution of it...