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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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...Introduction: A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting ?her sister and her foe,? the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have ap...

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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... ...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. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ... ... his hand from one sort of employment to another. When he first begins the new work, he is seldom very keen and hearty; his mind, as they say, does no... ...ght pence a-day; tenpence, some- times a shilling, about Edinburgh, in the counties which border upon England, probably on account of that neighbourho... ...ter, bring on the peculiar infirmity of the trade. If masters would always listen to the dictates of reason and humanity, they have frequently occasio... ...ake of self defence. It is not more than fifty years ago, that some of the counties in the neighbourhood of Lon- don petitioned the parliament against... ... or regulation of commerce which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and 214 The Wealth of Nations ought nev...

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...Excerpt: It came without warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorag...

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...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope 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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...makes great cities, and commerce has refused to back the general’s choice. New York and Philadelphia, without any political power, have become great a... ...eum of models of all patents taken out. I wandered through it, gazing with listless eye now upon this and now upon that; but to me, in my igno- rance,... ...nded. But our stern commander, for we were on a government boat, would not listen to their prayers, but carried us instead on board the “Pensacola,” a... ... that this is not as though certain aristocratic families in a few English counties should find themselves divided off from the politics and national ... ...t courts, the districts or States having been grouped into circuits as the counties are grouped with us. To each of these circuits is assigned one of ...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and gl...

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...Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................................................................... 4 NOONDAY IN CHEPE ....................................................................................................................... 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL............................................................................

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...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray 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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania Sta... ... weapons of the Artist? the colors of his palette? the chords of his lyre? Listen! I tell thee a tale— not of Kings—but of Men—not of Thrones, but of ... ...not of Kings—but of Men—not of Thrones, but of Love, and Grief, and Crime. Listen, and but once more. ’Tis for the last time (probably) these fingers ... ...e congregated the habitations of men. In Tehran, or Pekin, or Stamboul, or New Y ork, or Timbuctoo, or London, there is a certain district where a cer... ...in piping bullfinches; and a Cardinal in disguise, with a pro- posal for a new loan for the Pope, were heard by turns; and each, after a rapid colloqu... ...‘Trent, bring us a bottle of Bristol amid Hexeter!’ or, ‘Put some Heastern Counties in hice!’ HE knows what I mean: it’s the wines I bought upon the h...

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...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the p...

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...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill 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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mil... ...ht forward in their support. Several of the opinions at all events, if not new, are for the present as little likely to meet with general acceptance a... ...it is sometimes quite as near; and in any case it ought to be respectfully listened to, in stead of being, as it is, not merely turned away from, but... ...e government and of all other inter ests and opinions, can compel them to listen, and either com ply, or state clearly why they do not, is in itself... ...reation of geography and statistics. Parliament must rep resent towns and counties, not human beings. But no one seeks to annihilate towns and counti... ...uman beings. But no one seeks to annihilate towns and counties. T owns and counties, it may be presumed, are represented when the human be ings who i...