... --Steven Sills "So he spoke, and the bright-eyed goddess, Athene, was pleased that she was the god he prayed... ... goddess, Athene, was pleased that she was the god he prayed to before all the others. She put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his he... ...e put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, which, though constantly brushed away from a man's skin, sti... ...ushed away from a man's skin, still insists on biting him for the pleasure of human blood." --The Iliad Homer Book I: P... ...ehind them again. It was time for Heineken, Singh, or Bush (not those two presidents). It was a time to celebrate and dunk the self in artificial dr... ...jumping around in motion but prudishly obdurate to change within. She was conventional-this Victorian whore of his. Like virtually everyone else, sh... ...ng various self-improvements seminars at different universities and at the Convention Center, neon animations of Barcelona's Bangkok tour for the Inv... ...he stops and that he be able to direct foreigners where they needed to go. National holidays (when he got them) were spent in the vicarious borrowing ... ...art museum at Silpakorn University and later, the temporary exhibit at the National Gallery showed that he must have cared about him. He must have bee...

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ...TURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast Asia 1 ... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ... Table of Contents THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING ..................................................... ...cy, but our leaders can be chosen without a majority vote. Sixteen of our presidents have been elected without a majority. Two of them twice, Bill C... ...ATION CONTROL SINGAPORE’S PROBLEM —“Lee Kuan Yew was the greatest national leader of the last few centuries. In his 31 years as Singapore‟s ... ... That‟s eight times what your president makes.” —“From Lee on, your presidents have been worth it. I can think of only a few of our presidents... ...e and incomes for more gum chewing. Just look at your country. Would your national debt be less, your stock market higher, your dollar worth more, y... ...erics in Iran blocked a Parliament passed acceptance of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. This is ano...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................................... ...—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING ............... 24 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES ......................... 28 SELF-CENTERED A... .................................................... 163 BUDGET DEFICITS AND NATIONAL DEBTS ............................................................... ...ch inabilities be partly responsible for America‘s voting preferences for national offices? ―Is this the reason that President George W. Bus... ...n paradise.‖ --―Right Lee, we don‘t find Saudi princes or Pakistani presidents driving suicide missions.‖ ---―What sort of values do ... ...mental financial support for religions and work done by religions. Its co-presidents include a former fundamentalist minister who became an atheist.... ... Bush‘s proposed changes in the interpretation of the rules of the Geneva Convention were immoral. Bush wanted to use interrogation methods on terro...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connect...

... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “. . . And ... ...o Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-... ... © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-0-1 3 Table of Contents THE RETURN FROM SPACE ...................................................... ............................................................................ 4 THE GOOD LIFE .............................................................. ... have been the approaches each country has taken to control or foster their national birth rates. The most startling and yet enlightening changes ha... ...ut health care. Socialized medicine sounded like a good idea. The British National Health Service has over a million people waiting for hospital ad... ...strive to follow what the UN Secretary General said when the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted. He said ‘We have no ... ...en have a fair shot at a productive and happy life finds support in this UN Convention. Article 24, Section 2, requires that parents be informed of t... ... religions as the salvation of the world. “Several elected African presidents have moved backward toward absolute monarchy. Drug lords, and...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

...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 ... ...owning him with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating ... ... 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... ...re and less fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Tok... ...foreign country, South Korea, which was his birth home and the source of his nationality. Now it was Kim Yang Kwam he kept thinking about in the bus. ... ...aphs of reciprocal eloquence would not be returned by someone clearly of her nationality. At last she would go away and the dinner would come for the ... ...rea, the Yonsei University student demonstrations, the convictions of the ex-presidents, and all of the most newsworthy of the world's unhappy events ... ...ropensity for it at all (usually something in between) + dispensing with any conventions that stifled an unbiased and uninhibited desire to play in id... ...ld be paid the most and that they who were the benefactors of the world like presidents and prime ministers should be paid the least. She argued that...

...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...

...onathan Cross 2 J.Cross/Artemis THE VATICAN CONSPIRACY A Novel by Jonathan Cross ... ...s 3 J.Cross/Artemis CHAPTER 1 THE VATICAN Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel n... ...l chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows acr... ...fix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and conne... ...s. They control the people through terror; they corrupt the politicians, even Presidents of countries. No, Father, if we are to stop the drug trade w... ...mother was on vacation in Puerto Rico, and his father was attending a medical convention at the same hotel. Once, his mother described their meeting ... .... Brand’s reputation as one of the young, savvy political 'Turks' grew into national prominence, and was often asked for quotes from political 'ha... ...n't solve everything at once, but we can stop the drug trade, if we make it a national priority policy." Alex waved off the rest of the reporters cl...

...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate th...

...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before i...

... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania S... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Univer... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Universit... ...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... ...le, 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 anyo... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , the Pennsylvania State Uni versity, El... ...e of communities and interests, so, on another, that the foun dation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of priv... ...ombinations, partial conven tions, and insurrection, threatening some great national calamity. In this dangerous crisis the people of America were IN... ... with the British Government, bearing date on the 20th of October, 1818, the convention regulat ing the commerce between the United States and Great ...

Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publica... ...ritings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...nstruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the ... ...15 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five nomination by the Cincinnati convention, that the territory of Kansas would be tranquil in less than six... ...it at their own pleasure; and that all others—individuals, free States and national Government—are constitutionally bound to leave them alone about it... ...ch make me believe that Edmunds and Morrill will spend this week among the National Democrats, trying to in- duce them to content themselves by voting... ... constantly bear in mind that with you, and not with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office-seekers, but with you is the question, Shall th...

...Excerpt: Sydney Spring. My dear sir, your letter introducing Mr. Faree was duly received. There was no opening to nominate him for Superintendent of Public Instruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legisl...

...ree by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publ... ...ch Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...f a thing: the Commune (Municipality) of Paris, which is already here; the National Convention, which shall in few weeks be here. The Insurrectionary ... ...: the Commune (Municipality) of Paris, which is already here; the National Convention, which shall in few weeks be here. The Insurrectionary Commune, ... ...r-memo- rable Deliverance by explosion, must needs rule over it,— till the Convention meet. This Commune, which they may well call a spontaneous or ‘i... ... lucky!) the Electors shall begin electing Deputies; and so an all-healing National Convention will come to- gether. No marc d’argent, or distinction ... ...on; and there are still fifties on the President’s List. Nay these Gironde Presidents give their own party preference: we suspect they play foul with ...

Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History (Volume Three).

...Contents VOLUME III. THE GUILLOTINE................................................................................................................................. 6 BOOK 3.I. SEPTEMBER ..............................................................

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 1 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...olumes V olume 1 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume One is a publicat... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume One is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...tings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume One is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ... occur in similar cases. Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as... ...tes to Lyman Trumbull, who was then elected. Two years later, in the first national convention of the Republican party, the delegation from Illinois b... ...man Trumbull, who was then elected. Two years later, in the first national convention of the Republican party, the delegation from Illinois brought hi... ... United States when only thirty-nine years old. In the National Democratic convention of 1852 he appeared even as an aspirant to the nomination for th... ... into the hands of the very man he had insulted; for, had Lincoln, as most Presidents would have done, instantly dismissed Seward, and published the t...

...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 st...

...nrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...d A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad 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... ...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... ...self I needed there a Man of the People as free as possible from his class-conventions and all settled modes of thinking. This is not a side snarl at ... ...— invaluable fellow—with some Italian workmen, im- ported to work upon the National Central Railway, was at hand, and managed to snatch him away—for t... ...s that ever came to Sulaco with a general cargo before the building of the National Central. He left her on account of some very respect- able friends... ...er which his father desired ardently to “tear and fling into the faces” of presidents, members of judicature, and ministers of State. And this desire ... ...ecognized devotion weakened the shocking effect of her scorn for the rigid conventions regulating the life of Spanish-American girlhood. And, in truth...

Excerpt: Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad.

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publicat... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...tings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ially attained. During the ex- isting war it is peculiarly the duty of the National Government to secure to the people a sound circulating medium. Thi... ...shall operate in such manner as, while protecting western Virginia and the national capital from dan- ger or insult, it shall in the speediest manner ... ... den down by minority? Why did they not hold popular meet- ings and have a convention of their own to express and en- force the true sentiment of the ... ...of the United States and the rights of their moral and loyal citizens. The convention with Hanover for the abolition of the state dues has been carrie... ...ly in debate—the only two of the fifty-five who signed it and were elected Presidents of the United States. Precisely fifty years after they put their...

...Excerpt: The third section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have th...

...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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 any- o... ...n remained in force; but that con- federation was an acknowledged failure. National great- ness could not be achieved under it, and individual enter- ... ...e the States, at the cost of some fond wishes, agreed to seek together for national power rather than run the risks entailed upon separate existence. ... ... behind him who were his equals. At his installation as president, four ex-presidents of Harvard College assisted. Whether they were all present at hi... ... United States, which is the splendid result of that failure, was “Done in Convention by the unanimous consent of the States present.”* Twelve States ... ... as President, was a pupil in this school, as indeed have been most of the Presidents of the United States. At the head of the other party, from which...

........................................................................................................................................ 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR .......................................................................................................... 47 CHAPTER IV: WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS ............................................................

...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...reality till the alarm-clock rang, at seven-twenty. III It was the best of nationally advertised and quantitatively produced alarm-clocks, with all mo... ...d four hundred thousand inhabitants now—he could see the top of the Second National Tower, an Indi- ana limestone building of thirty-five stories. Its... ...here’s more 27 Sinclair Lewis than six weeks in all before the Republican convention, and I feel a fellow ought to keep an open mind and give all the... ... not invited by them to dinner, he was yet accustomed to talking with bank-presidents, con- gressmen, and clubwomen who entertained poets. He was brig... ...t is, the men who were richer or had been rich for more gen- erations: the presidents of banks and of factories, the land-owners, the corporation lawy...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-...

...Joseph Conrad A P ENN S TAT E E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICA TION The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ... S ERIES P UBLICA TION The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad 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... ...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... ...sliked to be disturbed by sounds of distress in its quiet enjoyment of the national spectacle. When led away by a grave and protecting police- man, it... ...lutionary opinion.” 20 The Secret Agent “Are you in it?” “One of the Vice-Presidents,” Mr Verloc breathed out heavily; and the First Secretary of the... ... all chiefs of state. It’s almost con- ventional -especially since so many presidents have been as- sassinated. Now let us take an outrage upon—say a ... ...s- sions of humanity is the answer. Of course, there is art. A bomb in the National Gallery would make some noise. But it would not be serious enough.... ...ey are infe- rior. They cannot be otherwise. Their character is built upon conventional morality. It leans on the social order. Mine stands free from ...

Excerpt: The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad.

...MET BY H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ... G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ...e-like degree with secondary contrivances and adaptations, sup- pressions, conventions, and subterfuges. Base immediacies fouled the truth on every ma... ... undeserving friends. There was a long frameful of his work in the Clayton National School, for example, inscribed in old English lettering, “Italian ... ...lences. There came no initiation. There were books, stories of a curiously conventional kind that insisted on certain qualities in every love affair a... ...o the cottage, I fell talking rather more freely with her father about the nationalization of railways, and my spirits and temper had so far mended at... ... strut through their weird metamorphoses of caricature, those premiers and presidents, their height preposterously exaggerated by po- litical buskins,...

...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze an...

... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ... lived less than fifty years under our Constitution. In that time no great national commotion had occurred that tested its strength, or its power of r... ...ic then subdued to settle- ment, studying the methods of local, State, and national ad- ministration, and observing the manners and habits, the daily ... ...e authority of the Government, and their tendency, like that of the French Convention, is to appro- priate it entirely to themselves. Under these circ... ...which is opposed by the two other branches of the legislature. But several Presidents of the United States have been known to lose the majority in the... ...- eration. But it is easy to perceive that the South, which has given four Presidents, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, to the Union, which...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of th...

...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...Y H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publicat... ... 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... ...rth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...he suggestions made range from a mere advisory body, rather like the Hague convention, which will merely pronounce on the rights and wrongs of any in-... ...t, to the idea of a sort of Super-State, a Parliament of Mankind, a “Super National” Authority, prac- tically taking over the sovereignty of the exist... ... wider one. It is quite understandable that peoples aware of a distinctive national character and involved in some big existing political complex, sho... ...by side with a dissentient and probably revolutionary Labour and Socialist convention—both gatherings with unsatisfac- tory credentials contradicting ... ...hrase a reality and that the royal line may continue, a line of hereditary presidents, with some of the ancient trappings and something of the picture...

...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, essen...

...ssics Series Publication enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the... ...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... ...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... ...c and Southwestern, when, as a bonus for the construction of the road, the national gov- ernment had granted to the company the odd numbered sections ... ....” He could see no great obstacle in the way of controlling the nominating convention so far as securing the naming of two Railroad Commissioners was ... ...hat passed in- terminably before the gaze of the city, marshalled by “lady presidents,” exploited by clubs of women, by literary soci- eties, reading ... ...y and had gone at once to a certain hotel on Bush Street, behind the First National Bank, that he knew was kept by a family connection of the T rees. ... ...your dearest foes. You are to dine with the Gerard people, one of the Vice-Presidents of your bete noir, the P . and S. W . Railroad.” Presley started...

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

...et Free by H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free 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... ...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... ... recognition of the idea of a human commonweal as something overriding any national and pa- triotic consideration, and that is in the working class mo... ...ocial revo- lution. If world peace is to be attained through labour inter- nationalism, it will have to be attained at the price of the completest soc... ...nment was a compromise of aggressions and powers and lassitudes, and law a convention between interests, and that the poor and the weak, though they h... ...of the world. It was to be a conference without a name. Nine monarchs, the presidents of four republics, a 88 The World Set Free number of ministers ... ...ept for them and the still more infinitesimal pretensions of one or two ax-presidents of republics, no member of the council had even the shade of a r...

Excerpt: The World Set Free by H. G. Wells.

...x by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...f Guaisnic was still worth fifty thousand francs a year; but a vote of the National Assembly suppressed the seigneurs’ dues levied on inheritance. In ... ...s during the rise 35 Beatrix and fall of consols. By a certain diplomatic convention, dating from Septem- ber, 1825, when Mademoiselle de Pen-Hoel lo... ... admired her mind, men her beauty. Her conduct was regulated by all social conventions. Her friendships seemed purely platonic. There was, moreover, n... ...ery other social misery. These diverse manias create fictitious dignities, presidents, vice-presi- dents, and secretaries of societies, the number of ...

...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley... ...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...he information of countries so unfortunate as not to know the blessings of national repre- sentation, and which are, therefore, ignorant by what intes... ...esidents of the little place stand to each other. Life has there become so conventional that, ex- cept on Sundays and fete-days, a stranger meets no o... ...entary discussions, salons, elections, railways, the Cafe de Paris and the National Guard—what time have we, if you please, to go to work?” “Beautiful... ...in all social matters he has the 124 The Deputy of Arcis highest sense of conventional propriety, and as for jealousy, I think if I gave him the slig... ...eemed to him very strange. The next day, when the bureaus are constituted, presidents and secretaries appointed, and committees named, Sallenauve’s ab...

...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no...

...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ... Confederation Generale du Travail, feminism vs. haremism, Chinese lyrics, nationalization of mines, Christian Sci- ence, and fishing in Ontario. She ... ...grounds. 40 Main Street The State Bank, stucco masking wood. The Farmers’ National Bank. An Ionic temple of marble. Pure, exquisite, solitary. A bras... ...st manufacturer is but a busier Sam Clark, and all the rotund senators and presidents are village lawyers and bankers grown nine feet tall. Though a G... ... year Kennicott had talked of at- tending the American Medical Association convention, “and then afterwards we could do the East up brown. I know New ... ...year.” Toward the end of July he proposed, “Say, the Beavers are holding a convention in Joralemon, street fair and everything. We might go down tomor...

...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

...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... ... and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...t all in among the English pegs according to it date and regardless of its nationality. If the road pegging scheme had not succeeded I should have lod... ... to a style of art practiced by the Phoenicians. Quarternions, a religious convention held every hundred years. Sibilant, the state of being idiotic. ... ...body came down from London; there were no lamenting poems, no eulogies, no national tears—there was merely silence, and nothing more. A striking contr... ...imants, impostors, chemists, biologists, geologists, philologists, college presidents and professors, architects, engineers, painters, sculptors, poli...

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

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...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the ...

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ... Staff List xiii–xiv Preface xv 1. “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National C... ....1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47... ...Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 ... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ...ain? To answer these questions, the Congress and the President created the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Public Law... ...’s function expanded, the procedures and structure of the advisor’s staff, conventionally called the National Security Council staff, became more form... ...ity tends not to rise very high on the list of congressional prior- ities. Presidents are selective in their use of political capital for internationa... ... tember 10, 2001. 7 Whatever the weaknesses in the CIA’s portraiture, both Presidents Bill Clin- ton and George Bush and their top advisers told us th...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans an...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

...ORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the ... ...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle 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 any- o... ................................................... 323 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. ...ncourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitu- tion, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... .... Men of the sword, men of the robe; Peers, dignified Clergy, Parlementary Presidents: di- vided into Seven Boards (Bureaux); under our Seven Princes ... ..., by aid of ushers and swift runners, the Parlement, with its Counsellors, Presidents, even Peers, sits anew assembled. The assembled Parlement declar... ...ay faded into the distance as an incredible tradition, and even the age of Conventionalities was now old; and Man’s Existence had for long generations...

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...Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY.......................................................................................................... 12 VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE ...............................................................

... U UB B B B BLI LI LI LI LICA CA CA CA CATI TI TI TI TIO O O O ON N N N N The French Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle is a public... ...ench Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...h Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...iancourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitution, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...st there used to be, some communi- cation with the interior deep; they are national Institu- tions in virtue of that. Had they even become personal In... .... Men of the sword, men of the robe; Peers, dignified Clergy, Parlementary Presidents: divided into Seven Boards (Bu- reaux); under our Seven Princes ... ..., by aid of ushers and swift runners, the Parlement, with its Counsellors, Presidents, even Peers, sits anew assembled. The assembled Parlement declar... ...ay faded into the distance as an incredible tradition, and even the age of Convention- alities was now old; and Man’s Existence had for long gen- erat...

Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History (Volume One).

...Contents VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE .................................................................................................................................. 6 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. .....................................................

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publicat... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...tings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...different places are endeavoring to secure the honor of the sitting of the convention at their towns respectively, and I fear that they would not feel... ...pport the war by levying con- tributions on Mexico. At one time urging the national honor, the security of the future, the prevention of foreign inter... ...ng all its expenses, without a purpose or defi- nite object.” So then this national honor, security of the future, and everything but territorial inde... ...le, if any, difference on this question between General Taylor and all the Presidents; and he seems to think it sufficient de- traction from General T... ...rely clear to his own mind. He thinks the ark of our safety is gone unless Presidents shall always veto such bills as in their judgment may be of doub...

...Excerpt: Dear Speed, yours of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would su...

...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... ...on what great bodies of men have done, and the crises of his life refer to national crises. Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind, an... ...nt of what manner of persons they were and what they did. We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature, in epic and lyric... ... our slavish respect for numbers. The political par- ties meet in numerous conventions; the greater the con- course and with each new uproar of announ... ...re by a new thousand of eyes and arms. In like manner the reformers summon conventions and vote and resolve in multitude. Not so, O friends! will the... ...kind of tacit appeal. Each seems to say, ‘I am not all here.’ Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think th...

...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...

.................................................................................................................................................... 127 THE OVER-SOUL .................................................................................................................................................. 137 IX. THE OVER-SOUL .............................................

...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...UBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...and unlawful, through resignation or revolt, by the clever manipulation of conventions or by sol- emn hanging on to the skirts of the latest scientifi... ...ear exposition of vital facts. Words alone strung upon a 29 Joseph Conrad convention have fascinated us as worthless glass beads strung on a thread h... ...estricted. It is not difficult to perceive why. Maupassant is an intensely national writer. He is so intensely national in his logic, in his clearness... ...corded in the whole body of his work with the unerring lucidity of a great national writer. The first stirrings, the first gleams of the great forces ... ...nd has 94 Notes on Life and Letters made the speeches of Emperors, Kings, Presidents, and Ministers monotonous with ardent protestations of fidelity ...

.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...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... ...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 Edi- tor, nor anyo... ...e meaning, I think, stands out plainly enough, unpal- atable enough to our national pride. This thing from first to last was made abroad. Of all that ... ...ere any reason to suppose that our Navy is going to keep above the general national level in these things? Is the Navy bright? The arrival of M. Bléri... ...going to have larger families under existing conditions, though all the ex-Presidents and all the pulpits in the world clamour together for them to do... ...by personality, and to place affairs in the hands of autocratic mayors and presidents rather than to carry out democratic methods to the logical end. ... ... the ideal of equal and independent citizenship, and active critics of the conventions under which women live to-day. It is at least plausible to supp...

...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices i...

...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT...................................................................................

...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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 any- o... ...English feeling on the American question was as follows: “This wide-spread nationality of the United States, with its enormous territorial possessions... ...the time when Englishmen were saying how impossible it was that so great a national power should ignore its own greatness and destroy its own power by... ...ates had, as all men know, been in power for many years. Ei- ther Southern Presidents had been elected, or Northern Presidents with Southern politics.... ...oment of Northern ascendency. “We submitted,” the North says, “to Southern Presidents, and Southern statesmen, and Southern councils, because 129 Tro... ... entitled to no observance which is incompatible with truth. Women, by the conventional laws of society, are allowed to exact much from men, but they ...

...TH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................................

... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is furn... ...ity. 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 i... ...le, 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 anyo... ...till though the one I sing, (One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality, I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O qu... ...at their benches with tools—see from among them superior judges, philosophs, Presidents, emerge, drest in working dresses, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 3... ...s space enough and air enough at last! To be absolv’d from previous ties and conventions, I from mine and you from yours! To find a new unthought of n... ...t and lusty flesh clear of taint, Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents and governors, as to say Who are you? Those of earth born pass... ...ly shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space, You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal’d but ever alert, You past an...

...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 ...

...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...

...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 ... ... found all the land round about in peace and quiet, without any meeting or convention at all; which Picrochole understanding, commanded that everyone ... ...um. The Raver and idle Talker in cases of Conscience. The Fat Belly of the Presidents. The Baffling Flouter of the Abbots. Sutoris adversus eum qui vo... ...sent the greatest part of the lords of the court, the masters of requests, presidents, counsellors, those of the accompts, secretaries, advocates, and... ...on the top of both, then was it that Jupiter held a parliament, or general convention, wherein it was unanimously resolved upon and condescended to by... ...gentler en- emies than they were before; but since the denunciation of the national Council of Chesil, whereby they were roughly 602 Gargantua & Pant...

...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....