Excerpt Details
... play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived playgoers whose point of honor is to deride all official and conventional sermons....

Full Text Search Details
...y GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of ... ...D SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...iving reasons, by the substitution for that tribunal of a Committee of the Privy Council, which is to be the final authority on the fitness of a play ... ...reasons, by the substitution for that tribunal of a Committee of the Privy Council, which is to be the final authority on the fitness of a play for re... ...ble to ask questions there concerning his proceedings, especially now that members have discovered a method of doing this indirectly. And so on, and s... ...oth by the interests on which they have to sit in judgment and, when their members are party politicians, by the votes at the back of those inter- est... ...ishing the Star Chamber (a criminal court consisting of a committee of the Privy Council without a jury) no- body objected until, about a century and ...

Excerpt Details
...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....

Full Text Search Details
...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T r... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by ... ...nante, the object of which seems to be to find fault with and laugh at the members and the authorities of the Catholic Church, I protest that he did n... ...rhyme gallantly, and rhyme till I become hoarse with rheum. Hark, what our privy says to the skiters: Shittard, Squirtard, Crackard, T urdous, Thy b... ...y came down from the top to the bottom, with such an even com- position of members that by the fall he would catch no harm. He did cast the dart, thro... ...ll the ways and means of peace: that I resolve upon. Then assembled he his council, and proposed the matter as it was indeed. Whereupon it was conclud... ...some for wiping of them. Then said Pantagruel, How dost thou know that the privy parts of women are at such a cheap rate? For in this city there are m...

Excerpt Details
...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, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen a...

Table of Contents Details
.................................................................................................................................................... 127 THE OVER-SOUL .................................................................................................................................................. 137 IX. THE OVER-SOUL .............................................

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ............ 315 5 Emerson Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson HISTORY There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all: And where it cometh, all th... ...ociety everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock com- pany, in which the members agree, fo... ...ture to the powers of dis- simulation. Truth tyrannizes over the unwilling members of the body. Faces never lie, it is said. No man need be deceived w... ... he knows and tells; he is the only teller of news, for he was present and privy to the appearance which he describes. He is a beholder of ideas and a... ...o could make the truth plain, but possibly a college, or an ecclesiastical council might. I have not been able either to persuade my brother or to pre...

Excerpt Details
...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 subjec...

Full Text Search Details
...The Federalist Papers A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...mended to the people the plan produced by their joint and very unani- mous councils. Admit, for so is the fact, that this plan is only recommended, no... ...f the convention, for it is well known that some of the most distinguished members of that Congress, who have been since tried and justly approved for... ...es, and who have grown old in acquiring political informa- tion, were also members of this convention, and carried into it their accumulated knowledge... ...individuals of whom they are com- posed. It is contended that the national council ought to have no concern with any object of internal administration... ...able in Great Britain, in the last resort, before the king himself, in his privy council, where the fact, as well as the law, undergoes a re-examinati...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the ...

Full Text Search Details
...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ... J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by th... ...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...h Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...d princes venture to bring the affairs of other countries before their own councils; for the first time could they hope for a willing ear to their own... ...e was ef- fected; a guarantee, which, being rejected by the Roman Catholic members of the Diet, and only inserted in the treaty under their protest, c... ...other; the eccle- siastical princes in particular, as the most defenceless members of the empire, were in- cessantly tormented by the ambition of thei... ...Thirty Y ears’ War This choice now occupied the attention of the Emperor’s privy council, and divided the opin- ions of its members. In order to oppos... ...usand voices; while their opinions found supporters, even in the Emperor’s privy council. 266 The History of the Thirty Y ears’ War Their repeated re...

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

Table of Contents Details
...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS ...............................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...T wo With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, B B B B By the y the y the y the y the RE RE RE RE REV V V V V. GEOR . GEOR . GEOR . G... ...GILFILLAN AN AN AN AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pe... ...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... ... treats of ethics, or practical morality; and would have consisted of many members; of which the four following epistles were detached portions: the t... ...d alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury, 42 and love; Or just as gay, at council, in a ring Of mimick’d statesmen, and their merry king. ... ... a year by turns, and the first lot is obtained by Eteocles. Jupiter, in a council of the gods, de- clares his resolution of punishing the Thebans, an... ...impudent, publishes at length the two most sacred names in this nation, as members of the Dunciad. 173 This is prodigious! yet it is almost as strange... ... are—the King, the Queen, his late Majesty, both Houses of Parliament, the Privy Council, the Bench of Bishops, the Established Church, the present Mi...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five.

Table of Contents Details
...Contents PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE .................................................................................................................................. 6 A TALE OF JERUSALEM ..............................................................

Full Text Search Details
...E VOLUMES Volume Five A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five is a publication ... ...Volume Five A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five is a publication of the Pen... ... Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ... the summons of the king they found him sitting at his wine with the seven members of his cabinet council; but the monarch appeared to be in a very il... ...g they found him sitting at his wine with the seven members of his cabinet council; but the monarch appeared to be in a very ill humor. He knew that H... ...d women. The contrast is inimitable!” “It must be,” said the king: and the council arose hurriedly (as it was growing late), to put in execution the s... ...at manner of people these maskers are. They are a great king and his seven privy-coun- cillors,—a king who does not scruple to strike a defenceless gi... ...’” Here- upon some little squibbing and bickering occurred among vari- ous members of the crowd, and especially between “Old Char- ley” and Mr. Pennif...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more...

Table of Contents Details
...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29...

Full Text Search Details
... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...HAPTER IV — CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . .... ...9 CHAPTER VII — MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . ... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ... Noir languidly emits its voice of destiny to haggard hungry Villains; while Councillors of State sit plotting, and playing their high chess game, whe... ... might have seemed wonderful how Herr Heuschrecke should be named a Rath, or Councillor, and Counsellor, even in Weissnichtwo. What counsel to any man... ...ure: the beginning of Creation is—Light. Till the eye have vision, the whole members are in bonds. Divine mo ment, when over the tempest tost Soul, a... ...or already can the Society number, among its office bearers or corresponding members, the highest Names, if not the highest Persons, in Germany, Engla... ...ound est ignorance: in the Wahngasse all lies swept, silent, sealed up; the Privy Council itself can hitherto elicit no answer. “It had been remarked...