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...LI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells THE NEW MACHIAVELLI by H. G. Wells BOOK THE FIRST THE MAKING OF A MAN CHAPTER C... ...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...lined and uncoordinated minority of inventors, experi- menters, educators, writers and organisers has achieved this development of human possibilities... ...the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of children, but only Imperial R... ...of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East Indians, here a p... ...ut I went on talking. It’s the grim irony in the lives of all politicians, writers, public teach- ers, that once the audience is at their feet, a new ...

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...with which his friends have 5 Yo n g e kindly supplied me, portraying him from their point of view; so that I could really trust that little more was... ...ary judgment in connecting and selecting. Nor until the work is less fresh from my hand will it be possible to judge whether I have in any way been al... ... does not look back at least as far as the lives of the father and mother, from whom the disposition is sure to be in part inherited, and by whom it m... ... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the ... ... things than the Vicarage of Feniton. Indeed, the subject was not entirely new to him, for Edward Coleridge was always deeply interested in mis- sions... ...h Greek and Roman customs, law courts and expressions, and Greek and Roman writers. I do not find myself wanting in making out a stiff bit of Greek or... ...orce’s new book, and this involved an examination of the question in other writers; but lately I have laid all controversial works aside almost entire... ...d interest in all questions of philology. Both were also readers of German writers on Church history and of critical interpretation of the New Testame...

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...ters? He is true as steel, and his judgment is very good. The last I heard from him, he rather thought Weldon, of De Witt, was our best timber for rep... ...uly 16, 1858. HON. JOSEPH GILLESPIE. MY DEAR SIR:—I write this to say that from the specimens of Douglas Democracy we occasionally see here from Madi-... ... it can only be done by carrying the Fillmore men of 1856 very differently from what they seem to [be] going in the other party. Below is the vote of ... ... any Buchanan, or Fremonters, have shifted ground, and how the majority of new votes will go, you can judge better than I. Of course you, on the groun... ...Aug. 5, 1858. HON. J. M. PALMER. DEAR SIR:—Since we parted last evening no new thought has occurred to [me] on the subject of which we talked most yes... ...orward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes use of the above quotatio... ...ome to a close. 182 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five ADDRESS AT JERSEY CITY , NEW JERSEY , FEBRUARY 21, 1860. MR. DAYTON AND GENTLEMEN OF T... ... JERSEY , FEBRUARY 21, 1860. MR. DAYTON AND GENTLEMEN OF THE STA TE OF NEW JERSEY:—I shall only thank you briefly for this very kind reception given m... ...ish you with copies of letters in my possession without the consent of the writers. No impression has been made on my mind against the honor or integr...

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...isters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoev... ...els run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears. A breeze which had crossed a thousan... ...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...- ness of her body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-bath. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed;... ...ed hero. Then she found a hobby in sociology. The sociology instructor was new. He was married, and 7 Sinclair Lewis therefore taboo, but he had come... ..., Lamb, De Quincey, and Mrs. Humphry Ward, who, it seemed, constituted the writers of English Fiction and Es- says. Not till she inspected the rest-ro... ... thin nose, and a silky indecisive brown mustache. He had a golf jacket of jersey, worn through at the creases in the sleeves. She noted that he did n... ... I guess the feminine mind is too innocent to understand all these immoral writers. I’m sure I don’t want to criticize Bernard Shaw; I understand he i...

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...ess of manner, said of her: ‘She is a smart woman.’ She had just come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, a... ...he said. ‘Do you feel like that?’ asked Gudrun. ‘I get no feeling whatever from the thought of bearing children.’ Gudrun looked at Ursula with a maskl... ...ravened. She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp ... ...rt dwelling- houses, utterly formless and sordid, without poverty. Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous... ... glisten like sunshine refracted through crystals of ice. And he looked so new, unbroached, pure as an arctic thing. Perhaps he was thirty years old, ... ... father was a Derbyshire Baronet of the old school, she was a woman of the new school, full of intellectuality, and heavy, nerve-worn with consciousne... ...water gleamed and the opposite woods were purplish with new life. Charming Jersey cattle came to the fence, breath- ing hoarsely from their velvet muz... ... at any rate.’ ‘What are they?—painters, musicians?’ ‘Painters, musicians, writers—hangers-on, models, ad- vanced young people, anybody who is openly ... ...sula and Birkin to follow. Gudrun was all scarlet and royal blue—a scarlet jersey and cap, and a royal blue skirt and stockings. She went gaily over t...

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...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, t...

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...venties, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New Y ork. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropo... ...f the erection, in remote metropolitan distances “above the Forties,” of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those... ...cher- ished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the “new people” whom New Y ork was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and ... ...ost masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. When Newland ... ...her, leaning against the wall at the back of the club box, turned his eyes from the stage and scanned the op- posite side of the house. Directly facin... ...l pen-wipers made by female parishioners for fashionable clergymen, sprang from the moss beneath the rose-trees; and here and there a daisy grafted on... ...nflicting it; and by the uniform wording of the notes, in all of which the writers “regretted that they were unable to accept,” without the mitigating... ... Archers chanced to be lunching, the question as to who should meet her at Jersey City was immediately raised; and the material difficulties amid whic... ... to the debate. It was agreed that Mrs. Welland could not possi- bly go to Jersey City because she was to accompany her hus- band to old Catherine’s t...

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...members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen ...

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...o this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains... ...nce six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con ... ...con sider the extent of the valley of the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateau... ...ames. No other river has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, on the Atlant... ...ifty feet. But at Bayou La Fourche the river rises only twenty four feet; at New Orleans only fif teen, and just above the mouth only two and one hal... ...fif teen, and just above the mouth only two and one half. An article in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, state... ...free man and may speak the whole truth, regardless of his parish’s opinions; writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankl... ...was supposed that there was collusion between the association and the under writers, but this was not so. The latter had come to compre hend the exc... ...cattle, except what I was able to pick up in a week’s apprenticeship over in Jersey just before we sailed. My cattle culture and cattle enthusiasm hav...

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...e met the call of that particular transient occasion in which they arose; and others, it may be thought on review, might as well have been suppressed from the very first....

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

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... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ...ey AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRACT FR ... ...r of mine, that paper I should wish to cancel. So that, upon the whole, my new and revised edition is likely to differ by very consid- erable changes ... ...at quadrata rotundis,) it is my purpose to enlarge this edition by as many new papers as I find available for such a station. These I am anxious to pu... ...usage, solely and merely upon your own spontane- ous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those wh... ...iarisms in the “Paradise Lost” from Latin passages fathered upon imaginary writers, when these passages had previously been forged by Lauder himself f... ...rocken.”—This very striking phenom- enon has been continually described by writers, both Ger- man and English, for the last fifty years. Many readers,... ...ers; which, however, so far from reconciling her to the letters, or to the writers of the letters, had the unhappy effect of riveting her dislike (pre...

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...nst the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature h... ...s, regardless of Party Censure, is the AUTHOR. P.S. The Publication of this new Edition hath been delayed, with a View of taking notice (had it been... ...N MENT IN GENERAL. WITH CONCISE RE MARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION SOME WRITERS HAVE so confounded society with gov ernment, as to leave little... ..., nor erect it after it was removed; hunger in the mean time would urge him from his work, and every different want call him a different way. Disease... ...be death, for though nei ther might be mortal, yet either would disable him from living, and reduce him to a state in which he might rather be said ... ...them to be the base remains of two an cient tyrannies, compounded with some new republi can materials. FIRST The remains of monarchial tyranny in ... ...mains of aristocratical tyranny in the persons of the peers. THIRDLY The new republican materials in the per sons of the commons, on whose virtue... ...e character to be absurd and useless. “Common Sense” Thomas Paine 10 Some writers have explained the English constitu tion thus: The king, say the... ...should the present Proud Imitator of him, come to the same untimely end, the writers and publishers of the Testimony, are bound, by the doctrine it co...

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...Woolf The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf Chapter I A s the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk... ... beyond the reach of malice and unpopularity. In his guess one might guess from the moving lips that it was thought; and in hers from the eyes fixed s... ...it was sorrow. It was only by scorn- ing all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently pain... ...olume of Pindar when Willoughby was launching his first ship. They built a new factory the very year the commentary on Aristotle—was it?—appeared at t... ... about the Reality of Matter, or the Nature of Good. Round her men in blue jerseys knelt and scrubbed the boards, or leant over the rails and whistled... ...They had dropped anchor in the mouth of the Tagus, and instead of cleaving new waves perpetu- ally, the same waves kept returning and washing against ... ...ith fixed eyes, she burst out: “So that’s why I can’t walk alone!” By this new light she saw her life for the first time a creeping hedged-in thing, d... ...n’s feet she went on turning the pages and reading biographies of bankers, writers, clergymen, sailors, surgeons, judges, professors, states- men, edi... ...she could not widen her point of view to believe that there could be great writers in existence at the present day, or if there were, that any one she...

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...y a principle essential to Christianity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING; so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, necessarily excludes the i... ...ss in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York TO HONORABLE GERRIT SMITH, AS A SLIGHT TOKEN OF ESTEEM FOR HIS CHA... ...al plea—”not guilty;” the case must, therefore, proceed. Any facts, either from slaves, slaveholders, or by-standers, calculated to enlighten the publ... ...wrongs, and do not apprehend their rights. Looking, then, at your request, from this stand-point, and wishing every- thing of which you think me capab... ... in Maryland, our au- thor escaped into the caste-slavery of the north, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Here he found oppression assum- ing another, an... ...ety, May, 1854. Four years or more, from 1837 to 1841, he struggled on, in New Bedford, sawing wood, rolling casks, or doing what labor he might, to s... ...rgive me for reminding them that the term “Caucasian” is dropped by recent writers on Ethnology; for the people about Mount Caucasus, are, and have ev... ... a state of Massachusetts. I had heard of Pennsylva- nia, Delaware and New Jersey, and all the southern states, but was ignorant of the free states, g...

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...g the last half of the twelfth century, it received its great est impulse from Crestien de T roies, the most distinguished of the trouvères. The met... ...year of his birth or of his death, but we know that he lived approximately from 1100 to 1175. Practically all our information about his life is what h... ...omance language, I say and I will say to him that I am Wace of the isle of Jersey, which lies in the sea, toward the west, and is a part of the fief o... ... study of letters; afterward I studied long in France. 1 When I came back from France, I dwelt long at Caen. I busied myself with making books in Ro ... ...frey’s Arthurian history, but his real contribu tion to the legend is the new spirit that he put into it. In the first place his vehicle is the swift... ...Glasgow, 1894. H. MAYNADIER, The Arthur of the English Poets , Boston and New York, 1907. G. PARIS, Histoire littéraire de la France , Paris, 1888. ... ... W.H. SCHOFIELD, English Literature from the Norman Conquest to Chaucer , New York and London, 1906. B. TEN BRINK, Geschichte der Englischen Literat... ... WORKS ON LAYAMON— Introduction, Madden’s ed. of Brut. H. Morley, English Writers, London, 1888 1890, III, 206 231. L. Stephen and S. Lee, Dictionar... ...chen Philologie, Strassburg, 1888 1902, II, i, 635 ff. H. Morley, English Writers , III, 55. G. Paris, Romania, IX, 592 ff. L. Stephens and S. Lee, ...

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...OF WALES, AND LIKEWISE THE YOUNG LADIES RESI DENT IN THE ISLES OF GUERNSEY, JERSEY, ALDER NEY, AND SARK, THE HUMBLE DEDICATION OF THEIR DEVOTED ADMI... ...uld be the best companions of the Young Ladies; and extending the comparison from animals (to quote the disrespectful lan guage of the said Quiz) to ... ...ely single lady, of two or three and thirty. This most flattering salutation from a perfect stranger, would have gratified us not a little as a token ... ...d for that reason been desirous of our acquaintance, if we had not suspected from the first, that the young gentleman, in making a desperate effort to... ...oman that ever lived; and when they praise the good looks of Mr. Hawkins the new member, says he’s very well for a representative, all things consider... ...pics of the day, he sustains his character to admira tion. He considers the new tragedy well enough for a new tragedy, but Lord bless us—well, no mat... ...d by sundry contortions of countenance, imitative of the clown in one of the new pantomimes, which were so extremely successful, that one stout gentle... ...rincipal dramatic genius and poet of the day; but holds that there are great writers extant besides him, in proof whereof he refers you to vari ous...

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...tensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. ...

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...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Ele... ...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electron... ...ries Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publicati... ...Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of... ...sion, in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylva... ... in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania S... ...rincipal object was, to rear up pious and learned ministers; and hence old writers call Harvard College a school of the prophets.” “Is the college a s... ...Province House. In 1760 Sir Francis Bernard, who had been’ governor of New Jersey, was appointed to the same office in Massachusetts. He looked at the... ...istance. “It is marvellous,” said Grandfather, “to see how many pow erful writers, orators, and soldiers started up just at the time when they were w...

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...oss The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I ACROSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDA... ...CHAPTER I ACROSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDAY. – It was, if I remember rightly, five ... ... present at the Ferry Depot of the railroad. An emigrant ship had arrived at New York on the Saturday night, another on the Sunday morning, our own on... ...; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of the passengers from these four ships was concentrated on the train by which I was to tra... ...misery and danger. I followed the porters into a long shed reaching downhill from West Street to the river. It was dark, the wind blew clean through i... ...old coun- try mornings; more purple, brown, and smoky orange in those of the new. It may be from habit, but to me the com- ing of day is less fresh an... ...ast, the king’s highway of progress. Here, in England, too many painters and writers dwell dis- persed, unshielded, among the intelligent bourgeois. T... ...and pleasant fact is this, that they were never needed. Painters, sculptors, writers, singers, I have seen all of these 62 Across the Plains in Barbi... ...ining-room at Siron’s. CHAPTER V RANDOM MEMORIES I. – THE COAST OF FIFE MANY WRITERS HAVE vigorously described the pains of the first day or the first...

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...rade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shortly after the Revolu- tion, at the early age of forty-six... ...eat tenderness and care. Once, when three years old, he nar- rowly escaped from an angry cow, but was wounded in the throat. He was remarkable as a ch... ...ed in the throat. He was remarkable as a child for his amiable temper; and from the sweetness of his voice, received the name of the Little Nightingal... ... in his studies, and when his verses did not please him, sent him back to “new turn” them, saying, “These are not good rhymes.” His prin- cipal favour... ...re known or heard of—(MacFlecknoe, the Re- hearsal, &c.)—were mercy to the new tempest of havoc which burst from the brain of this remorseless poet. A... ...EF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE 2 I am inclined to think that both the writers of books, and the readers of them, are generally not a little unrea... ...ld be sacrificed to its entertainment. Therefore I cannot but believe that writers and readers are under equal obligations for as much fame, or pleasu... ...nd our Spenser. Tasso in his ‘Aminta’ has as far excelled all the pastoral writers, as in his ‘Gierusalemme’ he has outdone the epic poets of his coun... ...ets of his country. But as this piece seems to have been the original of a new sort of poem—the pastoral com- edy—in Italy, it cannot so well be consi...

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...ng on a stile between two threadbare looking fields, and suffering acutely from indigestion. He suffered from indigestion now nearly every afternoon i... ...le difficulty in finding his cap before he came out. He wanted his cap—the new golf cap—and Mrs. Polly must needs fish out his old soft brown felt hat... ...r quarter of his face, and he spoke with a wrathful eye regarding his wife from under the brim. In a voice thick with fury he said: “I s’pose you’d li... ...d not seem to her to justify his ingratitude. There had been the cold pork from Sunday and some nice cold potatoes, and Rashdall’s Mixed Pickles, of w... ...ojecting cor- ners, technically a “wing-poke”; that and his tie, which was new and loose and rich in colouring, had been selected to encourage and sti... ...valu- able hints—and by his fifth birthday the perfect rhythms of his nice new interior were already darkened with perplexity…. His mother died when h... ...ul and support and respect (I suppose) a perfect horde of pro- fessors and writers and artists and ill-groomed difficult people, instead of using our ... ...E FOLLOWED an anxious peace for three days, and then a rough man in a blue jersey, in the intervals of trying to choke himself with bread and cheese a... ...oughtfully. “I dessay ‘e ‘ad a use for it,” said the gentleman in the blue jersey, and he took a mouthful that amounted to conversa- tional suicide. T...

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...were Best of Four, publishing the best writing in English 004 classes, primarily on the Hazleton campus. Two years ago we began accepting submissions from some of the other Commonwealth College campuses, and this year we made the big plunge into accepting submissions from all twelve of the campuses that comprise the Commonwealth College....

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...ity, during the fall semester of 2000, and the essays appear here with the writers express written permission. No portion of Best of Freshman Writing... ...arily on the Hazleton campus. Two years ago we began accepting submissions from some of the other Com- monwealth College campuses, and this year we ma... ... campuses, and this year we made the big plunge into accepting submissions from all twelve of the campuses that comprise the Commonwealth College. And... ...of all it’s hard to say, and that means it’s hard to re- member. We need a new name, something catchy that also tells folks something about what we’re... ...nt work, but we’ve also tried to maintain the meaning and purpose that the writers have set forth. It’s important to remember that the work contained ... ... forth. It’s important to remember that the work contained here is that of writers who are just beginning their careers in higher education. Of course... ...ontributed to my growing imagination. Located approximately twenty minutes from the nearest town, Hobbie pro- vided me with a safe haven from busy str... ...h the kids who camped regularly at the campground. They came from Florida, New Jersey, Maine, and many other states. We would ride our bikes, play in ... ...om Moyer’s Grove Campground allowed me to expand my imagi- nation and make new friends. I learned about many different people and places while living ...

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...Excerpt: Landfall and departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman?s life and of a ship?s career. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term ?Landfall? is more easily understood; you fall in with the land, and it is a m...

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...TURE mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman’s life and of a ship’s ca reer. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship’s earthly fate. ... ...phere. 4 The Mirror of the Sea The Departure is not the ship’s going away from her port any more than the Landfall can be looked upon as the synonym ... ...of the land on the part of a sailor. It is the technical, as distinguished from the sentimental, “good-bye.” Henceforth he has done with the coast ast... ...hen the great soul of the world turned over with a heavy sigh, a perfectly new, extra-stout foresail vanish like a bit of some airy stuff much lighter... ...th the man on board, but it was hopeless for Captain S- to try to make his new iron clipper equal the feats which made the old Tweed a name of praise ... ...provided for, anyhow. A heavy sea took him off the poop in the run between New Zealand and the Horn.” Thus P- passed away from amongst the tall spars ... ...way- station, where, in those days, the everyday male crowd was attired in jerseys and pilot-cloth mostly, and had the air of being more conversant wi... ... Indeed, I suspect that, leaving aside the pro- testations and tributes of writers who, one is safe in saying, care for little else in the world than ...

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...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 the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...

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... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ... and thorough. When the Constitution was thus perfected and established, a new form of government was created, but it was neither speculative nor expe... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...es sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, but no govern- ment had ... ...he love of God – had matured, in the excellent wisdom of their counsels, a new plan of government, which embraced every security for their liberties a... ...eople and in vin- dication of truths that will stand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the pu... ...he number of the public prints that, even if they were a source of wealth, writers of ability could not be found to direct them all. The journalists o... ...h the Americans can only learn from strangers or from experience. If great writers have not at present existed in America, the reason is very simply g... ...ce of their political institutions. America has hitherto produced very few writers of distinc- tion; it possesses no great historians, and not a singl...