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...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; viz. Whether the ideas which we entertain concerning the coming of Messiah, that essentia...

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...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...l by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e cracks and crevices where the eye de- lights to wander. Here you see the Italian pine, the stone pine, with its red bark and its majestic parasol; h... ...-room. The eye is first attracted to the ceiling, painted in fresco in the Italian manner, where lightsome arabesques are frolicking. Female forms, in... ...usly and by lucky chances. If some soldiers are wily and astute and clever politicians, they are exceptions; a soldier is, usually, especially an acco... ...on- sieur Mariotte a great deal of money; for, besides the odium of having convicted and punished poor men, he was forced to pay all costs, because th... ...of public polity. The collection of taxes, recruiting, punishment of great crimes, as a general thing do systematically go on; but outside of such rec... ...ith the difficulties and necessities of administration, but whom pu- ritan politicians, doing infinitely worse things, call corrupt. The interior of G...

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Excerpt: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume One, Containing Books I through VIII.

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...ry Fielding: Volume One, Containing Books I through VIII is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur n... ...ty. This Portable Document file is fur nished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...ountry, and shall hereafter hash and ragoo it with all the high French and Italian seasoning of affecta tion and vice which courts and cities afford.... ... possible Mr. Allworthy might have required some stronger evidence to have convicted her; but she saved her accusers any such trouble, by freely confe... ...e would venture to call it, wicked lenity. To remit the punishment of such crimes was, he said, to encourage them. He enlarged much on the correction ... ... and the elder of parricide.” “And if they had been hanged too for those crimes,” cried Thwackum, “they would have had no more than their deserts. A... ...d avoid, if possible, treating this matter ludicrously, lest grave men and politicians, whom I know to be offended at a jest, may cry pish at it; but,... ...come one of us weak women, than that wise sex which heaven hath formed for politicians. Indeed, brother, you would make a fine plenipo to negotiate wi... ...ank heaven, are no slaves. We are not to be locked up like the Spanish and Italian wives. We have as good a right to liberty as yourselves. We are to ...

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Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.

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...on enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... .... Before this country editor, this paid speaker of the Railroad, he stood, convicted. The man had him at his mercy. The detected briber could not rese... ...er of government, ballot-box stuffer, descending to the level of back-room politicians, of bar-room heelers, he, Magnus Derrick, statesman of the old ... ...right- ened her. It was dark, gloomy, dirty, a place suggestive of obscure crimes and hidden terrors. For twenty minutes or half an hour, she hesitate... ... and analysis of erotic conditions—which had just been translated from the Italian. Stephen Lambert and Beatrice disputed over the merits of a Scotch ... ...f information. “What news do you mean?” he asked. “About Dyke. He has been convicted. The judge sen- tenced him for life.” For life! Riding on by the ...

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...Introduction: In several of the dialogues of Plato, doubts have arisen among his interpreters as to which of the various subjects discussed in them is the main thesis. The speakers have the freedom of conversation; no severe rules of art restrict the...

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... Gorgias by Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this Any person using this Any person using... ...hilosophers are ridiculous when they take to poli- tics, and I dare say that politicians are equally ridiculous when they take to philosophy: Every m... ...s essentially evil, and has the nature of disease and death. Especially when crimes are committed on the great scale the crimes of tyrants, ancient or... ...de of his disposition, may be found to take up arms against a whole tribe of politicians and lawyers, and be too much for them. Who is the true and wh... ... birth a new political conception. One or two only in modern times, like the Italian statesman Cavour, have created the world in which they moved. The... ...aps borrowed from another the faded reflec- tion of some French or German or Italian writer, have the better of him. Though we are not going to banish... ... they had been made good and gentle by him, at the very end of his life they convicted him of theft, and almost put him to death, clearly under the no... ...nd myself or others after this sort, I should blush for shame, whether I was convicted before many, or before a 147 Plato s Gorgias few, or by myself...

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

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...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS .....................................................................................................................

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...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...nt in our follies and our sins, Here honest Nature ends as she begins. Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last; As ... ...l torn my garments, and my bosom bare, 140 My woes, thy crimes, I to the world proclaim; Such inconsistent things are love and sham... ... 40 Your scene precariously subsists too long On French translation and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the stage, Be justly wa... ..., Sophonisba rose; The tragic Muse, returning, wept her woes. With her th’ Italian scene first learn’d to glow, And the first tears for her were taugh... ...us virtue, which causes all the visions of wild en- thusiasts, projectors, politicians, inamoratos, castle-builders, chemists, and poets. He is immedi... ...member of Parlia- ment, being prosecuted by the Duchess of Buckingham, and convicted of forgery, was first expelled the House, and then stood in the p... ...‘Ward in pillory:’ John Ward of Hackney, Esq., member of parliament, being convicted of forgery, was first expelled the House, and then sentenced to t...

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...A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...essity I can turn to account some scraps of German and a little oper- atic Italian; but these I was never taught at school. Instead, I was taught lyin... ...roused to unrea- soning fury, and sometimes to the commission of atrocious crimes, by the slightest challenge to their authority. Thus a laborer may b... ...of the nation get cured of this dis- ability. University men, sailors, and politicians are compara- tively free from it, because the communal life of ... ...h symphony, because they never hiss when it is mur- dered. I have heard an Italian conductor (no longer living) take the adagio of that symphony at a ... ... as vice is forbidden. The Creator is explicitly prayed to, and implicitly convicted of indecency every day. An association of vice and sin with every... ... and statesmen are manifestly no more “captains of industry” or scientific politicians than our book- makers are mathematicians. For some time past a ...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of gr...

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...Excerpt: Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the threshold one reads that the firm consists of Mr. Lawrence Doyle and Mr. Thomas Broadbent, and that their rooms are on the first floor. Most of their rooms are private; for the ...

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...lication John Bull’s Other Island by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... an Englishman’s first duty is his duty to Ireland? Unfortunately, we have politicians here more unscrupulous than Bobrikoff, more bloodthirsty than A... ... on the name of their 31 GB Shaw projector, one Bianconi, an enterprising Italian. The three pas- sengers are the parish priest, Father Dempsey; Corn... ...teady. Come along: come. [He is led down to the road in the character of a convicted drunkard. To him there it something divine in the sympathetic ind... ...he Indian revealed to me—perhaps he was sent to reveal it to me to expiate crimes committed by us in a former existence. AUNT JUDY [awestruck]. Heaven... ... capital while you slave like bees for it and revenge yourselves by paying politicians and penny newspa- pers out of your small wages to write article...

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...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...

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... 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... ...he dusky Jewess, the tall, fair Scandinavian, the dark and brilliant south Italian, the noble Roman, the dainty Japanese—to name no others. Each of th... ... are, I gather, about equally deadly with seventy- five per cent., and the Italian institutes run to about ninety per cent. The Florentine boasts a ve... ...n the hands of every one of them come de- serted children, the children of convicted criminals, the chil- dren of pauper families, a miscellaneous pit... ...r. At present that is our hideous practice. So long as the parents are not convicted criminals, so long as they do not practise indictable cruelty upo... ...erning bodies with power to “co-opt.” Of course they “co-opt” their fellow politicians, rejected candi- dates, and so on. Among other expedients that ... ... appointment of officials by noble patrons on the one hand, and of rule by politicians exercising patronage on the other, there is added in the Britis... ...ion, might be drawn up. It might be found desirable in the case of certain crimes and misdemeanours, to add to existing penalties the transfer of all ...

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Excerpt: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

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...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

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...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...ssive application to their peculiar species of work. Ramuzzini, an eminent Italian physician, has written a particular book concerning such diseases. ... ...; but if any man were to sell such a bargain for such a price, he would be convicted of the most evident folly.” He certainly does not mean here to ex... ...tageous to plant a new vineyard, was a matter of dispute among the ancient Italian husbandmen, as we learn from Col- umella. He decides, like a true l... ...es upon actions which, antecedent to the statutes that declared them to be crimes, had always been un- derstood to be innocent. But the cruellest of o... ...that is, about four or five times the value. Any merchant, or other person convicted of this offence, is disabled from requir- ing any debt or account... ...ks greatly to overbalance our imports, to the unspeakable comfort of those politicians, who mea- sure the national prosperity by what they call the ba... ... trade to the West Indies would, by a certain spe- 781 Adam Smith cies of politicians, be considered as extremely disadvantageous. But it so happens,...

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...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks it...

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...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers 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... ...best and wisest citizens have been constantly directed to that object. But politicians now appear, who in- sist that this opinion is erroneous, and th... ... more than once in wars of ambition, till, becoming an object to the other Italian states, Pope Julius II. found means to accomplish that formidable ... ...nding the Emperor, the King of France, the King of Aragon, and most of the Italian princes and states. ** The Duke of Marlborough. 27 The Federalist ... ... short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneous... ... impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable... ...lconduct by the House of Representatives, and tried by the Senate; and, if convicted, may be dismissed from office, and disqualified for holding any o... ...y office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States; but the party convicted shall, nevertheless, be liable and subject to indictment, trial, ...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. How did he get it? ?I can never bring myself to believe it, John,? said Mary Walker the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on behalf of...

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