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... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Univer... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , the Pennsylvania State Uni vers... ... success so complete. If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people... ...dignant Roman, I fear that a strict examination of the annals of some of the modern elective governments would develop similar in stances of violated... ... of the most approved writers upon that species of mixed government which in modern Europe is termed monarchy in contradistinc tion to despotism is c... ...n conscience; of every shade of opinion, and the most free inquiry; of every art, trade, and occupation consis tent with the laws of the States. And ... ... Corps band. The ball was held at the Smithsonian Institution’s new National Museum (now the Arts and Industries Building). FELLOW C ITIZENS: We stand... ...THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 272 are seeking a larger vision through art, literature, sci ence, and travel; that they are moving toward stron...

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...sics Series Publication Pygmalion 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...n throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art shoul... ...essor Higgins in the flower girl is neither impos- sible nor uncommon. The modern concierge’s daugh- 7 Shaw ter who fulfils her ambition by playing t... ... I am sorry to say that in spite of the efforts of our Academy of Dramatic Art, there is still too much sham golfing English on our stage, and too lit... ...d to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of th... ... two months. The re- sult was a conversion of a kind quite common today. A modern Acts of the Apostles would fill fifty whole Bibles if anyone were ca... ... the arcade of a railway station not very far from the Victoria and Albert Museum; and if you live in that neighborhood you may go there any day and b...

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...cs Series Publication A Room with a View by E.M. Forster 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...“What is it about?” “It will be a novel,” replied Mr. Beebe, “dealing with modern Italy. Let me refer you for an account to Miss Catharine Alan, who u... ...her day that she had got up all the local colour—this novel is to be about modern Italy; the other was historical—but that she could not start till sh... ...arming, and Miss Bartlett had per- suaded her to do without it. (A pity in art of course signified the nude.) Giorgione’s “Tempesta,” the “Idolino,” s... ... deficient physically, he remained in the grip of a certain devil whom the modern world knows as self-consciousness, and whom the medieval, with dimme... ...ng is made.” “Italy has done it.” “Perhaps,” she murmured, thinking of the museum 119 EM Forster that represented Italy to her. “It is just possible.... ...uch pleasanter. How wet it is! Let’s turn in here.” “Here” was the British Museum. Mrs. Honeychurch refused. If they must take shelter, let it be in a...

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...Excerpt: ?THE COW IS THERE,? said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, ?She is there, the cow. There, now.? ?You have not proved it,? said a voice. ?I have proved it to myself.? ?I have proved to myself that she isn?t,? said the voice. ?The cow is not t...

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...s Series Publication The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...nd, had it a conscious policy like Lanc- ing, Wellington, and other purely modern founda- tions. Where tradition served, it clung to them. Where new d... ... life. His technical position was that of master to a form low down on the Modern Side. But his work lay elsewhere. He organized. If no organization e... ...an brickwork, ruddy and beautiful amidst the machine-squared stones of the modern apse. The 45 EM Forster two men, who had so little in common, were ... ...s face. “And Gerald walks like a ma- niac.” “I had a little thought of the Museum this morn- ing,” said Mr. Pembroke. “It is very strong in flint arro... ...joke. XX ANSELL WAS IN HIS FAVOURITE HAUNT—the reading-room of the British Museum. In that book-encircled space he always could find peace. He loved ... ...hile he turns into stone. Two philo- sophic youths repining in the British Museum! What have we done? What shall we ever do? Just drift and criticize,...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. The garden of IVANOFF?S country place. On the left is a terrace and the facade of the house. One window is open. Below the terrace is a broad semicircular lawn, from which paths lead to right and left into a garden. On the right are sev...

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...CHARACTERS NICHOLAS IVANOFF, perpetual member of the Council of Peasant Affairs ANNA, his wife. Nee Sarah Abramson MATTHEW SHABELSKI, a count, uncle of Ivanoff PAUL LEBEDIEFF, President of the Board of the Zemstvo ZINAIDA, his wife SASHA, their daughter, twenty years old...

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...sics Series Publication Ivanoff, a Play by Anton Checkov 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...great thinker, a master-mind. He deserves a memorial. He is the essence of modern ingenuity, and com- bines in himself alone the genius of the lawyer,... ...e all experts. Just give them—give them— LEBEDIEFF . Simply to drink is no art. A horse can drink. No, it must be done in the right way. In my young d... ...t a great deal of darkness into our lives. I feel as if I were living in a museum; I look about me and don’t under- stand anything I see. This is tort...

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...Excerpt: This is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy--or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good glove?s with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possibl...

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...roft, had braved the journey from Yorkshire to bid her only daughter good-bye. Miss Abbott was likewise attended by numerous relatives, and the sight of so many people talking at once and saying such different things caused Lilia to break into ungovernable peals of laughter....

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...s Publication Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...don’t, let me beg you, go with that awful tourist idea that Italy’s only a museum of antiquities and art. Love and understand the Italians, for the pe... ...with that awful tourist idea that Italy’s only a museum of antiquities and art. Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous t... ...ve it. I admit she is a Philistine, appallingly ignorant, and her taste in art is false. Still, to have any taste at all is something. And I do believ... ...er. Irma was gratified; but con- versation flagged, for Philip had not the art of talk- ing to the young. Mrs. Herriton sat a little longer at 11 EM ... ... kept me awake for nights. The whole thing is like one of those hor- rible modern plays where no one is in ‘the right.’ But if we have mourning, it wi...

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...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...utre plaisir, meme celui de lire un conte.” —Stendhal P P P P PAR AR AR AR ART ONE: MAKING T ONE: MAKING T ONE: MAKING T ONE: MAKING T ONE: MAKING THE... ...f it only wasn’t so goddam black.” 40 Three Soldiers P P P P PAR AR AR AR ART T T T T T T T T TW W W W WO: O: O: O: O: THE MET THE MET THE MET THE ME... ...s had opened. They covered the head with a blan- ket. P P P P PAR AR AR AR ART T T T T THREE: MA THREE: MA THREE: MA THREE: MA THREE: MACHINES CHINES ... ...tempt to put this enlisted man at his ease. “Yes, I am very fond of music, modern music,” he said, leaning against the mantelpiece. “Are you a musicia... ...ow in the partition flew open and Henslowe shouted in to him: “T alk about modern conveniences. Y ou can converse while you bathe!” Andrews scrubbed h... ... Malmaison.” “Oh, you should go to St. Germain. M. Reinach’s prehis- toric museum is there. It is very beautiful. Y ou should not go home to your coun...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: ...

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...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ... allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus;... ...nique, beautifully designed books, many of them illustrated with original art specially created for each book. Each of our books aspires to be a wor... ...and drawings have been exhibited in more than 40 one-man shows in leading museums in the U.S. and Mexico. Archives of his work and literary correspo... ... For clarity, the calendar used by Sappho has been translated into our modern calendar. SAPPHO’S JOURNAL ... ... his easel, watching his brush, appreciating the light, I think: “We are moderns...we are scientific artists. The face, a. b. c. d., responds to li... ...orty one-man shows in leading galleries, including the Los Angeles County Museum, the Atlanta Art Museum, the Bancroft Library, the Richmond Art Ins... ... Art Museum, the Bancroft Library, the Richmond Art Institute, the Brooks Museum, the Instituto-Mexicano- Norteamericano in Mexico City, and many oth...

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...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2... ...d a search. Was it an official and prestigious institution? A university or a museum or a government? Sometimes those are our sources of information, o... ...en imagine it coupled to the efforts of the great state archives and private museums who themselves would be free to do the same thing. Think of the p... ...y tells us. After praising the novels of Samuel Richardson in terms that, to modern eyes, seem a little fervid (“No writings, those of Shakespeare exc... ...as and facts that he or she transmits. It is this “original expression” that modern copyright and the modern droits d’auteur actually cover. In today’... ...alid constitutional claim to fair use of a painting by photographing it in a museum. Fair use has never been held to be a guarantee of access to copyr... ...ghtable, that assessment changed. The levers and cogs of the machines of the modern economy are forged out of ones and zeros instead of steel and bras...

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...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...

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...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...

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... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ...OMANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 CHAPTER VI — SORROWS OF TEUFELSDR ¨ OCKH . . . . . . . . . 97 CHAPTER VII — THE EVERLASTING NO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BOOK III 133 CHAPTER I — INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 133 CHAPTER II — CHURCH CLOTHES . . . ... ...in every direction, so that not the smallest cranny or dog hole in Nature or Art can remain unilluminated,— it might strike the reflective mind with so... ...uch Architectural Idea: whether Grecian, Gothic, Later Gothic, or altogether Modern, and Parisian or Anglo Dandiacal. Again, what meaning lies in Colo... ...light of Oriental, Pelasgic, Scandinavian, Egyptian, Otaheitean, Ancient and Modern researches of every conceivable kind, he strives to give us in com... ...ps see it our duty ultimately to deposit these Six Paper Bags in the British Museum, farther descrip tion, and all vituperation of them, may be spare... ...ts with care: when did we see any injected Prepa ration of the Dandy in our Museums; any specimen of him preserved in spirits! Lord Herringbone may d...

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...HE SYNDICALIST REVOLT............................................................................................................ 43 PART II PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE ................................................................................................................... 60 CHAPTER IV WORK AND PAY .......................................................................

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...ublication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ctive and cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto existed is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plato, whose “Republic” set the model for ... ...opeless task, and in- deed in the past it has generally proved so. But the modern world, by the increase of education and the rise in the stan- dard o... ...y of these movements will be undertaken. Socialism and Anarchism, in their modern form, spring re- spectively from two protagonists, Marx and Bakunin,... ...on. From 1849 onward the greater part of his time was spent in the British Museum, accumulating, with German patience, the materi- als for his terrifi... ...the free road. The same spirit per- vades thousands of other institutions. Museums, free librar- ies, and free public schools; parks and pleasure grou... ...ing such valuable objects of art as would naturally be preserved in public museums. It may be contended that such forms of theft would be prevented by...

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...Contents PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE .................................................................................................................................. 6 A TALE OF JERUSALEM ..............................................................

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...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... ...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... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ..................................................................... 38 THOU ART THE MAN .................................................................. ...itish boudoir. But we have seen apartments in the tenure of Ameri- cans of moderns [possibly “modest” or “moderate”] means, which, in negative merit a... ...otophagi, Protestants in general; and, by the Harpies, the Dutch. Our more modern Scholiasts are equally acute. These fellows demonstrate a hidden mea... ...egulated mind were always pleasures, and babies, like tough steaks, or the modern Greek olive trees, are invari- ably the better for beating—but, poor... ...evering diplomacy, I have gained the assent of the Direc- tors of the City Museum, to my examination of the Mummy— you know the one I mean. I have per... ...ed the vast wealth of the deceased. The treasure had been deposited in the Museum precisely in the same condition in which Captain Sabretash had found...

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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... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume T wo, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...han a mass of prose. Let us hear Hazlitt: “Pope saw nature only dressed by art; he judged of beauty by fashion; he sought for truth in the opinions of... ...with a bag-wig and sword; but he does all short of this to make him a fine modern gentleman. Scott, we think, could have best rendered Homer in his ba... ...e, artistic calm, and judicial gravity, does he set about it! And once his museum of dunces is completed, with what dignity—the little tyrant that he ... ...is in vain to look, 140 These shelves admit not any modern book. And now the chapel’s silver bell you hear, That summons you to... ... use old bards describe in luscious rhymes, And critics learn’d explain to modern times. 380 By this the sheets were spread, the bri... ...ld Arab, was purchased by the consul of Alexandria, and transmitted to the Museum of Mummius; for proof of which he brings a passage in Sandys’s Trave...

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...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... ...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 because we had not thought to take glycerine. The per- petual novelty of modern conditions demands an imagina- tive alertness we eliminate. I do not... ...for war, oh!—in Arizona in 1890, and so far as I am able to judge the most modern sections of the army extant are organised for a colonial war in (say... ... among the miners. We have a Legislature almost antiquarian, com- piling a museum of Gladstonian legacies rather than govern- ing our world to-day. La... ...s possible as the highest good. And it is with such men that our insurgent modern Labour, with its vaguely apprehended wants, its large occasions and ... ...nd was invaded by the idea of classification, by memories of specimens and museums; and he initiated that accumulation of desiccated anthropological a... ...ber of units, has also to be abandoned here. We cannot put Humanity into a museum, or dry it for examination; our one single still living specimen is ...

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...rite a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit per se. Its profits, like its labor, belong to me: its morals, its manners, its philosophy, its influence on the young, are for y...

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...Excerpt: The subject of this essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately...

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...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreig...

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...ing it would be bad enough; but it goes further, into disastrous anarchical action. Because our marriage law is inhuman and unreasonable to the point of downright abomination, the bolder and more rebellious spirits form illicit unions, defiantly sending cards round to their friends announcing what they have done....

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...NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ............................................................................

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...Excerpt: Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with a critical preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A....

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...WARNING!: 5 Mister Editor (a letter arrived at the editorial office): 6 I: 7 Dedication: 10 The Adventures of Hon Hyn: 11 Happenings from Wodania: 23 II: 26 About patriotism: 28 The royal feast: 29 The press: 30 Post Office: 31 The State control: 32 Non-values’ Epoch: 36 Pluralism: 43 A leader not like anyone else: 45 I...