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...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 any man, he can under...

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...and before he went to Weimar, he began to write ?Egmont? After working on it at intervals for twelve years, he finished it at Rome in 1787. The scene of the drama is laid in the Low Countries at the beginning of the revolt against Spain. In the fifteenth century Philip of Burgundy had usurped dominion over several of the provinces of the Netherlands, and through him they h...

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... Acts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. Anna Swanwick 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 pur- pose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of lit... ... his descendant, the Emperor Charles V . This powerful ruler abolished the constitutional rights of the provinces, and introduced the Inquisition in o... ...de them within the pale of social order, subject them to the restraints of law,—do this, and you will at once tranquil- lize the insurgents. All other... ... A Citizen. Certainly! Vansen. Has not the burgher of Brussels a different law from the burgher of Antwerp? The burgher of Antwerp from the burgher of... ...e destiny of the morrow? Spare me these reflections, we will leave them to scholars and courtiers. Let them ponder and contrive, creep hither and thit...

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... Statesman by Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is f... ... 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... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...s, who are the established interpreters of the will of heaven, authorized by law. Nothing is more bitter in all his writings than his comparison of th... ...r royal 6 Statesman person. And the rule of a man is better and higher than law, because he is more able to deal with the infinite complexity of huma... ...nkind, in despair of finding a true ruler, are willing to ac- quiesce in any law or custom which will save them from the caprice of individuals. They ... ... since the two dialogues have been questioned by three such eminent Platonic scholars as Socher, Schaarschmidt, and Ueberweg. I. The hand of the maste... ... is. And thus Plato seems to stumble, almost by accident, on the notion of a constitutional monarchy , or of a monarchy ruling by laws. The divine fou...

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...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania State Universit... ... Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau 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... ...s of life, not only theoretically, but practically. The suc cess of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a court ier like success, not kingly, no... ...I should have to cut your acquaintance altogether. Such is the universal law, which no man can ever outwit, and with regard to the railroad even we ... ... supe rior to any consolation which the missionaries could offer; and the law to do as you would be done by fell with less persuasiveness on the ears... ... Roman and Grecian multitude could not hear, after the lapse of ages a few scholars read, and a few scholars only are still reading it. However much... ...of all obstinacy, and evincing how almost hopeless and in curable are all constitutional vices. I confess, that prac tically speaking, when I have l... ...With his hos pitable intellect he embraces children, beggars, insane, and scholars, and entertains the thought of all, adding to it commonly some bre...

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... Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication of the Penn... ...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... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ve at a matter unparticled—without particles—indivisible— one and here the law of impulsion and permeation is modified. The ultimate, or unparticled m... ...ee that I shall never know. But the unparticled matter, set in motion by a law, or quality, existing within itself, is thinking. P. Can you give ... ... and a prey to the most ungovernable passions. Weak-minded, and beset with constitutional infirmities akin to my own, my parents could do but little t... ...le sleeping apartment assigned to myself and some eighteen or twenty other scholars. The school-room was the largest in the house—I could not help thi... ...point, and that, lying in a personal peculiar- ity, arising, perhaps, from constitutional disease, would have been spared by any antagonist less at hi... ...and general manner were, without difficulty, appropriated; in spite of his constitutional defect, even my voice did not escape him. My louder tones we...

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............................................................................................................................................... 14 DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE BY N. P. WILLIS........................................................................................................ 19 THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURES OF ONE HANS PFAAL............................................

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

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...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant 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... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...were very indif- ferent. There were no free schools, and none in which the scholars were classified. They were all supported by subscrip- tion, and a ... ...ching much, even if they imparted all they knew—would have thirty or forty scholars, male and female, from the infant learning the A B C’s up to the y... ...S. Grant reflections upon my old teacher, Richardson. He turned out bright scholars from his school, many of whom have filled conspicuous places in th... ...tead of this the seceding States cried lustily,—“Let us alone; you have no constitutional power to interfere with us.” Newspapers and people at the No... ...e enemy. But when he was summoned to surrender by a band of guerillas, his constitutional weakness overcame him. He inquired the number of men the ene... ...mmanders could execute an order without his pres- ence. His difficulty was constitutional and beyond his con- trol. He was an officer of superior abil...