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...MER?S HYMN TO CASTOR AND POLLUX .................................................................................................. 26 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE MOON ....................................................................................................................... 26 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE SUN ........................................................................

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ...OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF ... ... Who moves? What art thou?— DAEMON: DAEMON: DAEMON: DAEMON: DAEMON: ’Tis a foreign gentleman. _60 Even ... ...me 3 Which desolates the discord-wasted land. From kings, and priests, and statesmen, war arose, _80 Whose safety is man’s deep unbettered woe,... ... _230 Unfurled their pinions to the winds of Heaven. The Body and the Soul united then, A gentle start convulsed Ianthe’s frame: Her veiny eyelids qui... ...nd more perpendicular to the ecliptic. The strong evidence afforded by the history of mythology, and geological researches, that some event of this na... ...would produce gentler manners, and the excessive complication of political relations would be so far simplified that every indi- vidual might feel and...

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...A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASS... ...A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES... ...r Aristotle did not separate, as we are inclined to do, the spheres of the statesman and the moralist. In the Ethics he has described the character ne... ...tic study of a wide range of facts. His criticism of Plato in the light of history, in Book II. chap, v., though as a criticism it is curiously inept,... ...nceptions of the good. In so far as men conceive the good rightly they are united. The state represents their common agreement, force their failure to... ...is governed by the elder, as are the branches thereof, on account of their relationship thereunto, which is what Homer says, “Each one ruled his wife ... ...but this 22 A Treatise on Government probably would be a disquisition too foreign to our present purpose. Every living thing in the first place is co...

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...Introduction: The Menexenus has more the character of a rhetorical exercise than any other of the Platonic works. The writer seems to have wished to emulate Thucydides, and the far slighter work of Lysias. In his rivalry with the latter, t...

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... Menexenus by Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is f... ... Menexenus by Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...med to a regular type. They began with Gods and ancestors, and the legendary history of Athens, to which succeeded an almost equally fictitious accoun... ...ler and finer man than I was before. And if, as often happens, there are any foreigners who accompany me to the speech, I become suddenly conscious of... ... or obscurity of origin, nor honoured by reason of the opposite, as in other states, but there is one principle he who appears to be wise and good is... ...daemonians as well as the Athenians took part in the struggle; they were all united in this greatest and most terrible conflict of all; wherefore thei... ...nd in many respects at variance with the Symposium in the description of the relations of Socrates and Alcibiades. Like the Lesser Hippias and the Men...

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Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.

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... Orations by John Quincy Adams is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ... Orations by John Quincy Adams is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ngton the sol emn oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States, and to the best of his ability to pre serve, protect, and... ...he sol emn oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States, and to the best of his ability to pre serve, protect, and defend... ...n of the United States, a shield, embossed by heavenly hands with the future history of his country? Yes, gentlemen, on that shield the Constitution o... ...m shortly after the peace, in the capacity of Secretary to the Congress for Foreign Affairs. The incompetency of the Articles of Confederation for th...

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...Excerpt: It would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less ...

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...ns. John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rd INTRODUCTION By Thomas Carlyle I T WOULD APPEAR that for inquirers into Foreign Litera ture, for all men anxious to see and understand the Eu ropea... ..., but full of solemnity and loveliness? How has the belief of a Saint been united in this high and true mind with the clearness of a Sceptic; the devo... ...terary fame in his own country; and even determined his subsequent private history, for they brought him into contact with the Duke of Weimar; in conn... ... life. His cure proceeded slowly , and he had several relapses. His family relations were not pleas- ant. His father showed but little sympathy with h... ...found but scant acceptance at Berlin or Vienna. The princes of the smaller states surrounded them- selves with literature and art. The duke of Brunswi...

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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 ... ...peri ence of life. That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the o... ... of the primitive condition of humanity; and only the few who have studied history accurately, or have much fre quented the parts of the world occupi... ...reated. Though slaves were no part of the commonwealth, it was in the free states that slaves were first felt to have rights as hu man beings. The St... ... why need I go back to Aristotle? Did not the slave owners of the Southern United States maintain the same doctrine, with all the fanaticism with whic... ...rce, in the sense involving liberty of remarriage, is one into which it is foreign to my purpose to enter. All I now say is, that to those to whom not...

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...Publication An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...lication An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... took off his coat, seized the roller, and began to pull it with an energy foreign to the measured millhorse manner of the accustomed laborer. Miss Wi... ...n of nature, shared only by her favorite poets and he- roes of romance and history. Hence she was in the common youthful case of being a much better j... ...articular Henry or Augustus was a phoenix to whom the laws that govern the relations of ordinary lads and lasses did not ap- ply, Agatha laughed in he... ...d gets into Sir Charles’s, and the difference between the first and second states is noth- ing but imagination, except that the last state is worse th... ..., for instance. That one is France; that, British India. Here you have the United States of America, home of liberty, the- atre of manhood suffrage, k...

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...lication Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louis Maude is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ation Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louis Maude is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...nd his readiness to atone for it; but at the same time he pronounced their relations to be at an end, for her own good, as he expressed it. To this le... ... I think this is a case for putting Article 817 into practice (Article 817 states that if the Court considers the decision of the jury unjust it may s... ...e being led in. The convicts, bearded, clean-shaven, old, young, Russians, foreigners, some with their heads shaved and rattling with the chains on th... ...red and that an important change was going on in her soul, and this change united him not only to her but also to Him for whose sake that change was b... ... no edu- cated man of our time can help being convinced who knows a little history and how the religions, and espe- cially Church Christianity, origin...

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...Chapters XVI to XX by Baruch Spinoza, trans. R.H.M. Elwes is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...pters XVI to XX by Baruch Spinoza, trans. R.H.M. Elwes is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...to define private civil right, wrong, jus- tice, and injustice, with their relations to the state; and also to determine what constitutes an ally, or ... ...t equally, neither envying the rich nor despising the poor. The men of two states become allies, when for the sake of avoiding war, or for some other ... ...gs secular or religious, than is set down in the treaty, or allowed by the foreign government. W e may see this exemplified in the Dutch treaty with t... ...ng of Divine revelation to Moses in this respect, and we will consider the history and the suc- cess of the Jews, gathering therefrom what should be t... ...ad the force of commands and decrees {Like the separation of powers in the United States of America.} The high priest, both in the case of Aaron and o...

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...Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... them. I saw again all the old plantations that I had ever seen; the whole history of the Negro ran through my mind; and the inexpressible pathos of h... ...Republic; thinking of the one continuous great problem that generations of statesmen had wrangled over, and a million men fought about, and that had s... ...e whites, and where he had to adjust it at every step to the strained race relations—that is so very different and more difficult a thing that the man... ...n- nection with the scene was that some man who seemed to be a stranger (a United States officer, I presume) made a little speech and then read a rath... ...remember that the first coloured man whom I saw who knew some- thing about foreign languages impressed me at the time as being a man of all others to ...

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Excerpt: Treaty On European Union. A new stage in the process of European integration undertaken with the establishment of the European Communities.

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Excerpt: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

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Excerpt: Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.

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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 P... ...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania State Universit... ... for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no t... ...e so frivolous, I may almost say, as to attend to the gross but some what foreign form of servitude called Negro Slavery, there are so many keen and ... ...n 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 experience s... ...with civilization. I hardly need refer now to the laborers in our Southern States who produce the staple exports of this country, and are themselves a... ...same all the world over, whether the building be an Egyptian temple or the United States Bank. It costs more than it comes to. The mainspring is vanit...

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Excerpt: The Ethics. Part IV -- Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Emotions by Benedict de Spinoza, translated by R.H.M. Elwes.

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...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought,...

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...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents I. HISTORY ...................................................................... ...h has its own perils of monotony and deterioration, if not stimu- lated by foreign infusions. Every thing the individual sees without him corresponds ... ... infusions. Every thing the individual sees without him corresponds to his states of mind, and every thing is in turn intelli- gible to him, as his on... ...ct in nature, to reduce it under the dominion of man. A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world. His fac... ... consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind. They shed an united light on the advancing actor. He is attended as by a visible escort ...

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...Introduction: Nicolo Machiavelli was born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. He was the second son of Bernardo di Nicolo Machiavelli, a lawyer of some repute, and of Bartolommea di Stefano Nelli, his wife. Both parents were members of the old Florentine nobility....

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...Introduction: Queen Elizabeth herself, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton....

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...Introduction: ?For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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