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...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...s fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Pala... ...ng Ki gave Sang Huin his beeper number. Sang Huin invited him to a Christmas party held for students at a language institute but stayed contained to h... ...rear. Strange ideas like the talking bus and the clawing chair, in the back regions of the mind, were only experienced by the lonely and the isolated... ...lessly, she fell into hysterical laughter at the sketch of an old woman in a party hat, who smiles on sweetly as her grandson, abandoning all of the p... ...ople have scheduled a meeting with your uncle so they'll be at your birthday party. To wine and dine them, as our family should, is very little to do ... ...." "Kennedy Smith of the Kennedy dynasty--are you from the family of wealthy politicians?" "No, nothing special. Hardware store." "A hardware tycoon....

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to di...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...s, in that final stage of her transmutations to which Cicero was himself a party—and, as I maintain, a most selfish and un- patriotic party. He was go... ...tributed. Coleridge ascended the Brocken on the Whitsunday of 1799, with a party of English stu- dents from Goettingen, but failed to see the phantom;... ...oast of Devonshire, &c. But I, as a younger child, had not been one of the party selected for such excur- sions from home. And now, at last, when all ... ...power; Legions or cohorts, turns of horse and wings; Or embassies from regions far remote, In various habits on the Appian road, Or on the Emi... ...epaul, to present his report of the war in that territory, and in adjacent regions— names as yet unknown in Europe; the governor of the Lee- ward Isla... ...llion and a quarter, derived from the surviving accounts of the different “regions,” apply to Rome within the Pomaerium, and are, therefore, no more v...

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...inibus Puerisque & Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...uspicious lover were not more easy to offend than a meeting of indifferent politicians! Nay, and the orator treads in a beaten round; the matters he d... ...herein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy ... ... pinch, is irrevocable ruin. And yet we go spinning through it all, like a party for the Derby. Perhaps the reader remembers one of the humorous devic... ...be enough to change the issue of a pitched battle; for it gives to the one party a feeling that Right and the larger interests are with them. If an En... ...rtise the home of slander- ous Figaro, which is a backshop to the infernal regions; but where soft joys prevail, where people are convoked to pleasure...

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...Excerpt: The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu. In a splendid chamber of the Palais Royal, formerly styled the Palais Cardinal, a man was sitting in deep reverie, his head supported on his hands, leaning over a gilt and inlaid table which was covered...

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... ... ... Twenty Years After (The Third Volume of The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Dumas is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Porta... ... the Pennsylvania State University assumes any re- sponsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans-... ...d a wax-light; the cardinal took a key from his bureau and opening the door of a secret stair descended into the court of the Palais Royal. 13 Dumas ... ...tion ever does the same thing twice.” “No, but they mean to make a Fronde, as they call it,” said Guitant. “And what is a Fronde?” inquired Mazarin. “... ... of the escort. “Just so,” muttered Comminges, looking after Mazarin. “True, I forgot; provided he can get money out of the people, that is all he wan... ...ks, I closed my eyes and thought of you.” “In honest truth, Raoul?” said Athos, pressing his hand. “Y es, sir; at that instant there was such a ratapl... ...Down with Mazarin,” and pleased with Gondy’s suppres- sion of this fact, he said with his sweetest voice and his 385 Dumas most gracious expression: ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religio...

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.... 134 EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE...................................................................................... 137 THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE ................................................................................................................................ 143 THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES ............................................................

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...st and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. 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 ... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...hey were rich, they had decided that they must celebrate. They must give a party—that was the idea. But how to explain it—to the daughters and the nei... ... Then they fell silent, and drifted away upon their dream wings to the far regions of the earth to invite all the crowned heads and their families and... ... to know it, but Helen spent the night at the Sloanes’. There was a little party there, and, although she did not want to go, and you so sick, we pers... ...ed your intellect; you are above the atmosphere, dwelling in the celestial regions; nothing is there that urges or hinders, nothing that brings discor... ...e fields for their operation. But they are not destined simply to take the regions of the heart for their dominion, they are not satisfied merely with... ...rink, and she’s here!” Joe brought the glasses on a waiter, and served the party. I reached for one of the two remaining glasses, but Joe growled unde...

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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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...Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Ch... ...d edited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...ty. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ith contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him and ... ...uisitions had been made by fits and starts, by violent irruptions into the regions of knowledge; and it could not be expected that his impatience woul... ...d affluence of conversation; but I would not talk to him of the Rockingham party.’ Goldsmith. ‘But, Sir, when people live together who have something ... ...ht, as to maintain, that a member of parlia- ment should go along with his party right or wrong. Now, Sir, this is so remote from native virtue, from ... ... to a gentleman from that country, on the subject of an union which artful Politicians have often had in view—’Do not make an union with us, Sir. We s...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists...

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...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ...d single vote method of election is employed it has to be fought on purely party lines. He is the select man of the Democratic half, or of the Republi... ...fic method of proportional representation could be used. But I suppose the party politician in this, as in most of our affairs, must still have his po... ... have any enthusiasm for the Old Man. It is difficult again— by the dinner-party standards—to know how Lord Curzon can be restrained. But we common pe... ...m and Lorraine because of the stra- tegic and economic importance of those regions to Germany, and he was arguing that before we English got into such... ...tewardship. For an unchecked fragmentary control of tropical and cha- otic regions, it substitutes the possibility of a general author- ity. And this ... ... (2) Shipping and international trade; and (3) Small nationalities and all regions in a state of political impotence or confusion? It is our case agai...

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............................................................................................................................................ 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE ...............................................

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...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) 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 ... ...ainless private morals who votes for a thief for public office, on his own party’s ticket, and against an honest man on the other ticket. O.M. He has ... ...ent his spirit. He has no public morals; he has no private ones, where his party’s prosperity is at stake. He will always be true to his make and trai... ... by accident he get more light than he wants. In America if you know which party collar a voter wears, you know what his associations are, and how he... ...and month by month, on the journey, and by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it left. It was no longer a fresh event, it... ...ised up prize fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little and big politicians, and big and little charity founders, and bicycle champions, an... ...r theoretically, not practically. I have been a quartz miner in the silver regions—a pretty hard life; I know all the palaver of that business: I kno...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of what I have to relate can be interesting to th...

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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of... ...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... ...nce of Livy, and upheld, to the best of my ability, the Ro man Democratic party. A few years later, in my contempt of my childish efforts, I destroye... ...blic and private. He was acquainted with many of the chiefs of the Liberal party, and I saw various noteworthy persons while staying at this house; am... ...ew . Contrary to what may have been supposed, my father was in no degree a party to setting up the Westminster Review. The need of a Radical organ to... ... to a favourite poet, when needing to be carried up into the more elevated regions of feeling and thought. I may observe by the way that this book cur... ...t a child compared with what she ultimately became. Alike in the high est regions of speculation and in the smaller practical con cerns of daily lif... ...lings are wholly identified with its radical amendment, there are two main regions of thought. One is the region of ultimate aims; the constituent ele...

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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... ...d, ashamed to see Senates degenerate, patriots disagree, And nobly wishing party-rage to cease, T o buy both sides, and give thy country peace. ... ...st these dreadful accents broke: 80 ‘Ye gods! that o’er the gloomy regions reign, Where guilty spirits feel eternal pain; Thou, sable Styx! wh... ... 350 Must I, O Jove! in bloody wars contend? Thou know’st those regions my protection claim, Glorious in arms, in riches, and in fame: Thou... ...ge race, Wide o’er th’ aerial vault extend thy sway, And o’er th’ infernal regions void of day. On thy third reign look down; disclose our fate, In wh... ... abused all, even to women, and whose prostituted papers (for one or other party, in the unhappy divisions of their country) have in- sulted the falle... ...e fourth, the bawling Critic, or noisy Poet; the fifth, the dark and dirty Party-writer; and so of the rest; assigning to each some proper name or oth...

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...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltair...

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...S......................................................................................................................... 16 LETTER V.?ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND .................................................................................................. 20 LETTER VI.?ON THE PRESBYTERIANS....................................................................................

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...n Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 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... ...er, finding them increase daily, was desirous of bringing them over to his party, and for that purpose at- tempted to bribe them by money. However, th... ...llious without a cause, factious without design, and head of a defenceless party, caballed for caballing sake, and seemed to foment the civil war mere... ...ual is hardly found in a thousand years, is the truly great man. And those politicians and conquerors (and all ages produce some) were generally so ma... ..., the Lord Bolingbroke was appealed to (who, having been in the oppo- site party, might perhaps, without the imputation of inde- cency, have been allo... ...fesses, taught that the soul after death does not see God in the celestial regions, but converses with Christ’s human nature only. However, he was not...