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...e document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Common Sense by Thomas Paine, the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Fac... ...he Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. Common Sense By Thomas Paine INTRODUCTION PERHAPS THE SENTIMENTS contained in ... ...nal among our selves. Compliments as well as censure to individuals “Common Sense” Thomas Paine 3 make no part thereof. The wise, and the worthy,... ...e influence of reason and principle. Philadelphia, February 14, 1776 “Common Sense” Thomas Paine 4 OF THE ORIGIN AND DESIGN OF GOVERN MENT IN GENE... ...FORE, security being the true design and end of government, it unan “Common Sense” Thomas Paine 5 swerably follows, that whatever FORM thereof app... ...able to vice, it will unavoidably happen, that in proportion as they “Common Sense” Thomas Paine 6 surmount the first difficulties of emigration, w... ...r form to them selves an interest separate from the ELECTORS, pru “Common Sense” Thomas Paine 7 dence will point out the propriety of having el... ...t, subject to convulsions, and incapable of producing what it seems “Common Sense” Thomas Paine 8 to promise, is easily demonstrated. Absolute gov... ...ing hereditary, are independent of the people; wherefore in a CONSTITUTIONAL SENSE they contribute nothing towards the freedom “Common Sense” Thomas...

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...bility by Jane Austen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...lvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811) CHAPTER 1 THE FAMILY OF DASHWOO... ...roperty, could be but small. Their mother had nothing, and their father 4 Sense & Sensibility only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; for the... ...on feelings, must have been highly unpleasing;—but in her mind there was a sense of honor so keen, a generosity so romantic, that any offence of the k... ...uld have quitted the house for ever, had not the entreaty of her eldest 6 Sense & Sensibility girl induced her first to reflect on the propriety of g... ...eady imbibed a good deal of Marianne’s romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more ad... ...; ten to one but he was light-headed at the time. Had he been in his right senses, he could not have thought of such a thing as beg- ging you to give ... ...hem, and make their situation more comfortable than it was in his power 8 Sense & Sensibility to do. Perhaps it would have been as well if he had lef...

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...er 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 ii Sense and Sensibility Chapter 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...ns of his uncle, by such attractions as are by no means unusual in children 4 Sense and Sensibility of two or three years old; and imperfect articula... ...mmon feelings, must have been highly unpleasing; — but in her mind there was a sense of honour so keen, a generosity so romantic, that any offence of ... ...e her mother to similar exertion, and encourage her to similar forbearance. 6 Sense and Sensibility Margaret, the other sister, was a good humoured w... ... already imbibed a good deal of Marianne’s romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a mor... ... say; ten to one but he was light headed at the time. Had he been in his right senses, he could not have thought of such a thing as begging you to giv... ...the good effects of it as well as herself. A hundred a year would make them 8 Sense and Sensibility all perfectly comfortable.” His wife hesitated a ... ...nting before; and he finally resolved, that it would be absolutely unneces 10 Sense and Sensibility sary, if not highly indecorous, to do more for th... ... feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.” “You may esteem him.” 12 Sense and Sensibility “I have never yet known what it was to separate e...

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...o your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. To smooth the frown upon their brow, to soften the pout upon their lips, what obstacles we miraculously overcome! We shed our blood, we risk our future!...

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... love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. To smooth the frown upon their brow, to soften the pout upon their l... ...n all Paris rushed to the feet of the Emperor on his return from Elba. The sense of this dominion exercised over the masses, whose feelings and whose ... ... me a cold, severe glance, under which my own eyelids fell, as much from a sense of humiliation as to hide the tears that rose beneath them. She saw t... ...ce that solemn evening I have never heard it with- out infinite delight. A sense came to me then of the marble wall against which my feelings had hith... ...adame de Mortsauf deceived the world. When alone in my little bed- room, a sense of the full truth made me spring from my bed; I could not bear to sta... ...ng the black veil which had hidden till then the glorious future. Soul and senses were alike charmed. With what passion my thoughts rose to her! Again... ...rom his wife was enough to console me, and it frequently recalled him to a sense of politeness and good- breeding. But before long I fell into the fur... ...e considering, as a Lenoncourt, what an aristocracy ought to be, my common-sense as a woman of the people tells me that societies can exist only throu... ...a knowl- edge of these debates, there were moments when I was happy in the sense that she rested upon my heart; for she told me of these new troubles....

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...er on, alone in the compartment (from Wimbledon to Waterloo, before the glory of the District Railway) I amended this declaration in the light of the sense that my friends would probably after all not enjoy a monopoly of Mr. Saltram. I won?t pretend to have taken his vast measure on that first occasion, but I think I had achieved a glimpse of what the privilege of his acqu...

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...ry of the District Railway) I amended this declaration in the light of the sense that my friends would probably after all not enjoy a monopoly of Mr. ... ...o system of sponging— that was quite hand-to-mouth. He had fine gross easy senses, but it was not his good-natured appetite that wrought confusion. If... ...Frank Saltram, the night I came back from Wimbledon so agitated with a new sense of life that, in London, for the very thrill of it, I could only walk... ...before we got to Ebury Street I was struck with the fact that, save in the sense of being well set up on his legs, George Gravener had actually ceased... ...all him a real gentleman?” I started slightly at the question, for I had a sense of recognising it: George Gravener, years before, that first flushed ... ...n Fund thinking the whole man was in this assumption that in expressing my sense of what he had won I had fixed my thoughts on his “seat.” We straight... ...on who could carry a responsibility; but I leave the reader to judge of my sense of the aggravation, for either of us, of such a bur- den, when I hear... ...ord, the manner in which that attention had been rewarded relieved me of a sense of loss. I had of course a perfect general conscious- ness that somet... ...t this I sprang up with a groan. “Oh I’m so sorry!—when?” Small though her sense of humour, I think Adelaide laughed at my sequence. We discussed the ...

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... He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoulders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, it was plain that he was, in the extremest sense of the word, a stranger....

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...spers, wonderings of the crowd, it was plain that he was, in the extremest sense of the word, a stranger. In the same moment with his advent, he stepp... ...her shops besides barbers’: “NO TRUST .” An inscription which, though in a sense not less intrusive than the contrasted ones of the stranger, did not,... ...but manly; with a clear face and blue eye; innocence, tenderness, and good sense triumvirate in his air. “Oh yes, oh yes, ge’mmen,” he eagerly answere... ...with a kind of painful conscientious- ness, as though nothing but a proper sense of what he owed to himself swayed him. At length he spoke: 24 The Co... ...eing not unsusceptible to goodness, are some- times the ones whom a ruling sense of propriety makes ap- pear cold, if not thankless, under a favor. Fo... ...h enthusiasm and with Irish sincerity, to a bene- factor, who, if a man of sense and respectability, as well as kindliness, can but be more or less an... ..., will care to deny; neverthe- less, since St. Paul himself, agreeing in a sense with the pul- pit distinction, though not altogether in the pulpit de... ... the gratitude was on the other side. T o him, he said, charity was in one sense not an effort, but a luxury; against too great indulgence in which hi... ...eflected that here was the pride of the world glorying in a glass house, a sense of the fragility of worldly grandeur profoundly impressed me. And I s...

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...ss, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant. To my Publishers, for the aid their tact, their energy, their practical sense and frank liberality have afforded an unknown and unrecommended author....

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.... T o my Publishers, for the aid their tact, their energy, their practical sense and frank liberality have afforded an unknown and unrecommended Autho... ...hence his coffin was borne by the undertaker’s men; and, since that day, a sense of dreary consecration had guarded it from frequent intrusion. My sea... ... rush of wind or water: agitation, uncertainty, and an all-pre- dominating sense of terror confused my faculties. Ere long, I became aware that some o... ...convolvuli and rose- buds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be al- lowed... ...finished this reply, my soul began to expand, to exult, with the strangest sense of freedom, of triumph, I ever felt. It seemed as if an invisible bon... ...n tales; I sat down and endeavoured to read. I could make 38 Jane Eyre no sense of the subject; my own thoughts swam always be- tween me and the page... ... I suppose I have a considerable organ of veneration, for I retain yet the sense of admiring awe with which my eyes traced her steps. Seen now, in bro... ...ming, the licensed uproar, the confusion of many voices gave one a welcome sense of liberty. On the evening of the day on which I had seen Miss Scatch... ... pleasure of those who looked on her and listened to her, by a controlling sense of awe; and such was my feeling now: but as to Helen Burns, I was str...

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...if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, less dang?rous is th? Offence, To tire our Patience, than mis-lead our Sense: Some few in that, but Numbers err in this, Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss; A Fool might once himself alone expose, Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose....

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...wo, less dang’rous is th’ Offence, To tire our Patience, than mis lead our Sense: Some few in that, but Numbers err in this, Ten Censure wrong for ... ...Is by ill Colouring but the more disgrac’d, So by false Learning is good Sense defac’d. Some are bewilder’d in the Maze of Schools, And some made... ...Coxcombs Nature meant but Fools. In search of Wit these lose their common Sense , And then turn Criticks in their own Defence. Each burns alike, wh... ...; Launch not beyond your Depth, but be discreet, And mark that Point where Sense and Dulness meet. Nature to all things fix’d the Limits fit, And w... ... Invention’s Aid, Write dull Receits how Poems may be made: These leave the Sense, their Learning to display, And theme explain the Meaning quite awa... ...he writes) To teach vain Wits a Science little known , T’ admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own! Of all the Causes which conspire to blind Ma... ...ere Wit fails, steps in to our Defence, And fills up all the mighty Void of Sense ! If once right Reason drives that Cloud away, Truth breaks upon u... ...Women Men, for Dress: Their Praise is still— The Stile is excellent : The Sense, they humbly take upon Content. Words are like Leaves; and where t... ...Content. Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. False Eloquence , like the Prismatic Glas...

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..., brilliant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that evening....

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...alf frozen. It was Christ- mas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of th... ...ness and nervous excitement, nervous hilarity were in the air. There was a sense of electric surcharge every- where, frictional, a neurasthenic haste ... ...d as ice. The very danger and lustfulness of her, which had so pricked his senses, now made him colder. He disliked her at her tricks. He saw her once... ...ld no longer drown. Nothing would have pleased him better than to feel his senses melting and swimming into oneness with the dark. But impossible! Col... ...d Derbyshire, and he was not a gentleman in the snob- 26 Aaron’s Rod bish sense of the word. Yet he was well-to-do, and very stuck- up. His wife was ... ...s the whole private life of the street was threaded in lights. There was a sense of indecent exposure, from so many backs. He felt himself almost in p... ...n endless fascina- tion for him: never failed to soothe him and give him a sense of liberty. He liked the night, the dark rain, the river, and even th... ... the night, the dark rain, the river, and even the traffic. He enjoyed the sense of friction he got from the streaming of people who meant nothing to ... ...llen into country house parties before, but never into quite such a plushy sense of riches. He felt he ought to have his breath taken away. But alas, ...

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...oly of the trade in various articles by bringing them all together,-- all this is as nothing. Everything, so far, has been done to appeal to a single sense, and that the most exacting and jaded human faculty, a faculty developed ever since the days of the Roman Empire, until, in our own times, thanks to the efforts of the most fastidious civilization the world has yet seen...

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... any more than in the Charmides to the question, ?What is Temperance?? There are several resemblances in the two Dialogues: the same youthfulness and sense of beauty pervades both of them; they are alike rich in the description of Greek life. The question is again raised of the relation of knowledge to virtue and good, which also recurs in the Laches; and Socrates appears ...

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...ere are several resemblances in the two Dialogues: the same youthfulness and sense of beauty pervades both of them; they are alike rich in the descrip... ...ns appear to be struggling or balancing in the mind of Socrates:— First, the sense that friendship arises out of human needs and wants; Secondly , tha... ...dge, so here by the introduction of the good, is deserving of attention. The sense of the inter dependence of good and evil, and the al lusion to the... ...n, and consists in asking a leading question which can only be answered in a sense contrary to the intention of the question: ‘Y our fa ther and moth... ...nticipate his wants. He will discover ways of helping him without creating a sense of his own superiority; he will find out his mental trials, but onl... ...or if that is possible, then I think, Lysis and Menexenus, there may be some sense in our argument about friendship. But if the congenial is only the ...

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...f all human activity which is not directed merely to knowledge or truth. The two parts of this treatise are mutually complementary, but in a literary sense each is independent and self-contained. The proem to the Ethics is an introduction to the whole subject, not merely to the first part; the last chapter of the Ethics points forward to the Politics, and sketches for that...

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...e two parts of this treatise are mutually complementary, but in a literary sense each is independent and self-contained. The proem to the Ethics is an... ...hich it is not yet and which under certain conditions it is to be. In that sense Greek Moral Philosophy is essentially idealistic. Further it is alway... ... (1) What is charac- ter? and (2) How is it formed? (for character in this sense is not a natural endowment; it is formed or produced). Aristotle deal... ...nature of the agent consents to and enters into the act, and in a peculiar sense they are his, they are him in action, and the most significant eviden... ...ssion misconceived. Aristotle is here dealing with justice in a restricted sense viz as that spe- cial goodness of character which is required of ever... .... The directness of such apprehension makes it analogous to sen- sation or sense-perception; but it is on his view in the end due to the existence or ... ...d still higher ideal—that of a life not distinctively human or in a narrow sense practical, yet capable of being participated in by man even under the... ...ife possible to man is “the contemplative life”; it is only in a secondary sense and for those incapable of their life, that the practical or moral id... ...nother fashion. It is manifest then that the goods may be so called in two senses, the one class for their own sakes, the other because of these. V er...

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... THE GREAT STATE ...................................................................................................................... 72 THE COMMON SENSE OF WARFARE ..................................................................................... 99 THE CONTEMPORARY NOVEL ...............................................................................................1...

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............................................................... 72 THE COMMON SENSE OF WARFARE ............................................................. ...gets a dis- agreeable quiver up one’s backbone from the wheels, and a real sense of falling. It is quite peculiar to flying that one is incredulous of... ...d in the street and watch the dignitar- ies and the liveries pass by, this sense of critical expectation is perhaps greater than it is for those more ... ... no doubt, as the guaranteeing of a gen- eral peace goes, we may develop a sense of participation in that way. But it is well in these islands to reme... ...nd unjust. The working man of to-day reads, talks, has general ideas and a sense of the round world; he is far nearer to the ruler of to-day in knowle... ... It is not the man I would criticise, but the manifest absence of any such sense of the supreme dignity of his posi- tion as would have sustained him ... ...Democracy, lies in an exaltation of the standard of achievement and of the sense of responsibility in the pos- sessing and governing classes. It is no... ...he commu- nity. They have lost their self-discipline, their gravity, their sense of high aims, they have become the victims of their advantages and La... ...w themselves to be irritated by far more limited prob- lems. Nobody in his senses expects a panacea for the com- paratively simple and trivial busines...

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...un to ebb, the air had grown mellow, the shadows were long upon the smooth, dense turf. They lengthened slowly, however, and the scene expressed that sense of leisure still to come which is perhaps the chief source of one?s enjoyment of such a scene at such an hour. From five o?clock to eight is on certain occasions a little eternity; but on such an occasion as this the in...

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...h, dense turf. They lengthened slowly, however, and the scene expressed that sense of leisure still to come which is perhaps the chief source of one’s... ...teresting.” A momentary silence marked perhaps on the part of his auditors a sense of the magnanimity of this speech, for it was a secret neither for ... ... two of my late aunt’s daughters. But who’s ‘quite independent,’ and in what sense is the term used?—that point’s not yet settled. Does the expression... ...characterize her sisters equally?—and is it used in a moral or in a financial sense? Does it mean that they’ve been left well off, or that they wish to... ...t was on the contrary because she felt too wide eyed and wished to check the sense of seeing too many things at once. Her imagination was by habit rid... ...encouragement to the faculty of seeing without judging. At present, with her sense that the note of change had been struck, came gradually a host of i... ...s view of the matter would have excited Isabel’s indignation, for to her own sense her opportunities had been large. Even when her father had left his... ...d everything a girl could have: kindness, admiration, bonbons, bouquets, the sense of exclu sion from none of the privileges of the world she lived i... ...l delayed for some minutes to go to him; she moved about the room with a new sense of complications. But at last she presented herself and found him s...

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... my lamp is burning low, the horrible contraction will begin at my chest. I shall only have time to reach the bell, and pull it violently, before the sense of suffocation will come....

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... wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not leave h...

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... painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought togethe... ... and in no way remarkable or interesting, merely a good mother, ought from a sense of fairness to take an indulgent view. It had turned out quite the ... ...n. He read the leading article, in which it was maintained that it was quite senseless in our day to raise an outcry that radicalism was threatening t... ..., has not been received by me through sensation; indeed, there is no special sense organ for the transmission of such an idea.” “Yes, but they—Wurt, a... ...de up his mind to put a question to the professor. “According to that, if my senses are annihilated, if my body is dead, I can have no existence of an... ...to do with one another. Oblonsky had more than once experienced this extreme sense of aloofness, instead of intimacy, coming on after dinner, and he k... ...tector. And at once in the conversation with the aide de camp Oblonsky had a sense of relaxation and relief after the conversation with Levin, which a... ...ho had at one time, as she fancied, a feeling for Levin, might, from extreme sense of honor, refuse Vronsky, and that Levin’s arrival might generally ... ...king at Vronsky, and guessing that it had been his suggestion. “There’s some sense in that, anyway.” Vronsky looked wonderingly at the prince with his...

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...cess and the effect of representation, my irrepressible ideal--than the mere muffled majesty of irresponsible ?authorship.? Beset constantly with the sense that the painter of the picture or the chanter of the ballad (whatever we may call him) can never be responsible enough, and for every inch of his surface and note of his song, I track my uncontrollable footsteps, right...

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... in brackets; and 4 The Upanishads everything has been done to remove the sense of strange- ness in order that the Occidental reader may not feel him... ...anishads are called Srutis, “what is heard.” The term was also used in the sense of revealed, the Upanishads being regarded as direct revela- tions of... ... many times. IV That One, though motionless, is swifter than the mind. The senses can never overtake It, for It ever goes before. Though immovable, It... ...ition and all forms of selfishness. With the real- ization of oneness, the sense of diversity vanishes and the cause of misery is removed. VIII He (th... .... In the subsequent verses Vidya and Avidya are used in something the same sense as “faith” and “works” in the Christian Bible; neither alone can lead... ... have drunk water, eaten grass and given milk for the last time, and their senses have lost all vigour. He who gives these undoubtedly goes to joyless... ... It is more than mere faith. It also implies self-reliance, an independent sense of right and wrong, and the courage of one’s own conviction. As a boy... ...ketas said: O Death, these are fleeting; they weaken the vigour of all the senses in man. Even the longest life is short. Keep thou thy chariots, danc... ...ne, and having re- flected upon the nature of enjoyment through beauty and sense pleasure, would delight in long life? XXIX O Death, that regarding wh...

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...een and am! but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing ... ... not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over acuteness of the senses?—now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such ...