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...so much confidence in the judgment of Butler on such a subject that I incline to think there may be some reality in it. What day does Butler appoint? By the way, how do ?events? of the same sort come on in your family? Are you possessing houses and lands, and oxen and asses, and men-servants and maid-servants, and begetting sons and daughters? We are not keeping house, but...

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...ne to think there may be some reality in it. What day does Butler appoint? By the way, how do “events” of the same sort come on in your family? Are yo... ...eping house, but boarding at the Globe Tavern, which is very well kept now by a widow lady of the name of Beck. Our room (the same that Dr. Wallace oc... ... a week. Ann Todd was married something more than a year since to a fellow by the name of Campbell, and who, Mary says, is pretty much of a “dunce,” t... ...e- cisely the case of the Tories of our own revolution. It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both, and m... ...nding factions, and a government subject to constant changes by successive revolutions, the continued success of our arms may fail to secure a satisfa... ...’s eloquence did not consist, as many fine speci- mens of eloquence do, of types and figures, of antithesis and elegant arrangement of words and sente... ...ung; and yet at the next Presidential election you will vote for the exact type and representative of Stringfellow. The slave-breed- ers and slave-tra... ...ill begin to make things of poor white men? [Ap- plause.] Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward. The founder of the Democratic party declare...

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...uncil, holding office from the King, and wholly independent of the country; laws made and taxes levied without concurrence of the people immediate or by their representatives; the rights of private citizens violated, and the titles of all landed property declared void; the voice of complaint stifled by restrictions on the press; and, finally, disaffection overawed by the f...

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...orne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- s... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ................................. 208 4 Twice Told Tales T wice T old T ales by Nathaniel Hawthorne THE GRA THE GRA THE GRA THE GRA THE GRAY CHAMP Y CHA... ...granite, with a slab of slate inlaid, commemorates the first fallen of the Revolutions. And when our fathers were toiling at the breastwork on Bunker’... ...r’s step pollute our soil, still may the Gray Champion come, for he is the type of New England’s he- reditary spirit; and his shadowy march, on the ev... ...ill,” said he, “so far as my vow may suffer me. Know, then, this veil is a type and a symbol, and I am bound to wear it ever, both in light and darkne... ...d by a black veil.” “But what if the world will not believe that it is the type of an innocent sorrow?” urged Elizabeth. “Beloved and respected as you...

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Excerpt: The Iliad of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M.A., F.S.A.

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...THE ILIAD OF HOMER TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER POPE, WITH NO WITH NO WITH NO WITH NO WITH NOTES BY TES BY TES... ...Y ALEXANDER POPE, WITH NO WITH NO WITH NO WITH NO WITH NOTES BY TES BY TES BY TES BY TES BY THE THE THE THE THE RE RE RE RE REV V V V V. . . . . THEOD... ...S SERIES PUBLICATION The Iliad of Homer, trans. Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M. A., F . S. A. is a publication of th... ...stribution of ranks and duties, its con- tentions for power and occasional revolutions, its public meetings in the agora of Olympus, and its multitudi... ... p. 91, note. 43 This sceptre, like that of Judah (Genesis xlix. 10), is a type of the supreme and far-spread dominion of the house of the Atrides. Se... ...to draw the bow freely; this was at once a 466 The Iliad of Homer general type, stimulating to the fancy of the poet, and a theme eminently popular w...

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...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS BY CHARLOTTE M YONGE PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE AS THE... ...of materials has compelled us to stop short of recording those noble deeds by which delicate women and light-hearted young soldiers showed, that in th... ...ring, bloodshed, and even barbarity—feeling our spirits moved and elevated by con- templating the courage and endurance that they have called forth. N... ...olden Deeds may we pass by her to whom our title page points as our living type of Golden Deeds—to her who first showed how woman’s ministrations of m... ...the control of the treasure of France; but a century of changes, wars, and revolutions has not blotted out the memory of the self-devotion of the chev... ...ot to be struck with ad- miration and almost reverence for the unconscious type of the one great act that has hallowed every other sacrifice. Thus it ...

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...ondescend on error; and the best of education is to throw out some magnanimous hints. No man was ever so poor that he could express all he has in him by words, looks, or actions; his true knowledge is eternally incommunicable, for it is a knowledge of himself; and his best wisdom comes to him by no process of the mind, but in a supreme self-dictation, which keeps varying f...

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...e mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely soon to make ...

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...ent or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...ty university . ON LIBER ON LIBER ON LIBER ON LIBER ON LIBER TY TY TY TY TY By JOHN STUART MILL CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I... ...erty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by soci ety over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ev... ... has always been the rule, and many sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another ... ...that by attempting to form the mind and feelings on an exclusively religious type, and dis carding those secular standards (as for want of a better n... ...theirs, there will result, and is even now resulting, a low, abject, servile type of character, which, submit itself as it may to what it deems the Su... ...ong tendency to this narrow theory of life, and to the pinched and hidebound type of human char acter which it patronizes. Many persons, no doubt, si...

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... The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...y. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot , the Pennsylva- nia State University, Jim Manis, Fac... .... THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES EDITED BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, L.L.D., P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, NEW YORK (1909)... ...n, however, with the undertak ing, and after having worked in composing the types and printing off the sheets, I was employed to carry the papers thr... ...e could not be said to write them, for his manner was to compose them in the types directly out of his head. So there being no copy, but one pair of c... ...g. He lik’d it, but ask’d me if my being on the spot in England to chuse the types, and see that every thing was good of the kind, might not be of som... ... in Library, May 19th, 1731. “That the great affairs of the world, the wars, revolutions, etc., are carried on and affected by parties. “That the view...

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...FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN & BOOKS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ... an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ...d liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much realised as widely sought after among the l... ... indeed, one. Gilliat, alone upon the reef at his herculean task, offers a type of human industry in the midst of the vague “diffusion of forces into ... ...e pleasant enough companions; but the former is nearly as much an abstract type as the latter. There is a beginning, also, of an abuse of conventional... ... VILLON, STU- DENT, POET, AND HOUSEBREAKER PERHAPS ONE OF THE MOST curious revolutions in literary his- tory is the sudden bull’s-eye light cast by M.... ... of his temper could not fail to be impressed at the thought of disastrous revolutions in the fortunes of those he knew. He would feel painfully the t...