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... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Universit... ...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... ...ble Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy acce... ...al works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 1998 The Pennsyl... ... honorable issue. Our nation is in number more than half that of the British Isles. It is composed of a brave, a free, a virtuous, and an intelligent ... ...f power, a just proportion of the sover eignty, have improved their police, extended their settle ments, and attained a strength and maturity which ... ...y its position in the Gulf the Mississippi and other great waters within our extended limits, and thereby enables the United States to afford complete... ...ed to the Union in numbers nearly equal to those of the first Confederation. Treaties of peace, amity, and commerce have been concluded with the princ... ...avy of the United States; with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties and to appoint ambassadors and other officers; to give to Congre...

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

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...ication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope 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 any- o... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylva... ...een the lines of the two armies. The pickets of the Northern army had been extended be- yond it, not improbably with the express intention of keep- 2... ...rner and enjoy. As the Creator’s work has pro- gressed, this privilege has extended itself to regions farther removed and still farther from southern ... ...rk; but it is closed to the public when en- gaged in executive session. No treaties can be made by the President, and no appointments to high offices ... ... the Senate the power of debating with closed doors upon the nature of all treaties, and upon the conduct of the government as evinced in the nominati... ...Street and the Parliament of Westminster are paramount through the British isles. Such a mistake is natural; but not the less would it be a fatal bar ...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I: Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc?d by fate, And haughty Juno?s unrelenting hate, Expell?d and exil?d, left the Trojan shore. Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore, And in the doubtful war, before he won The Latian realm, and bu...

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...The Aeneid of Virgil The Aeneid by Virgil is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu ment file is furnish... ..., 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 Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and as such is a part of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ..., And iron bowels stuff the dark abode. In sight of Troy lies T enedos, an isle (While Fortune did on Priam’s empire smile) Renown’d for wealth; but, ... ...e princes, hear Y our pleasing fortune, and dispel your fear. The fruitful isle of Crete, well known to fame, Sacred of old to Jove’s imperial name, I... ...s fruitful bounds. Then, doubling Cape Pachynus, we survey The rocky shore extended to the sea. The town of Camarine from far we see, And fenny lake, ... ...l’s hope to cross, And caught the foot of Salius as he rose. So Salius lay extended on the plain; Euryalus springs out, the prize to gain, And leaves ... ...ia for your bride: Her from her plighted lord by force I took; All ties of treaties, and of honor, broke: On your account I wag’d an impious war With...

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Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two.

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...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS ...............................................................................................

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...T wo With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, B B B B By the y the y the y the y the RE RE RE RE REV V V V V. GEOR . GEOR . GEOR . G... ...GILFILLAN AN AN AN AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pe... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...” pomatum takes the place of poetry; the en- chanted lock, of an enchanted isle; and the transformation of original imagination into ingenious fancy i... ...d, to plant, judge paintings, what you will? Then why not Kent as well our treaties draw, Bridginan explain the gospel, Gibs the law? 56 The Poetical... ...he gods at once survey The realms of rising and declining day, And all th’ extended space of earth, and air, and sea. Full in the midst, and on a star... ... And in their hearts imbrues her cruel claws. The youths surround her with extended spears; But brave Choroebus in the front appears; Deep in her brea... ... nodded at the helm: The vapour mild o’er each committee crept; Unfinish’d treaties in each office slept; And chiefless armies dozed out the campaign;...

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...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the ...

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...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ... J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by th... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylv... ...er of these, and still less where the conditions of the founders generally extended to a system of doc- trines; for how is it conceivable that a perma... ... subterfuge to limit a newly spreading religion by the terms of obso- lete treaties? The Bohemian Protestants ap- pealed to the verbal guarantee of Ma... ...s of the Estates, (called the rights of presentation and visitation,) were extended also to the Lutherans, so that Protestant judges had a voice in Pr... ... this territory, the indivisibility of which had been guaranteed by solemn treaties; and the Emperor, who seemed disposed to enter upon it as a vacant... ...d, in a menacing tone, found the keys of every town and fortress, from the Isle of Rugen to the Maine, and knew also where to find a 222 The History ...

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

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...UBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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 Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylva... ...ns by being a rebel, and I do not see myself how any mercy can possibly be extended to Mr. Luffmann. He is a convert from the creed of strenuous life.... ...irst breath of free- dom, the counsels he will hear, the hands he may find extended, the endless days of toil that must follow, wherein he will have t... ... of growth and development was, later, modified and confirmed by two other treaties, which guaranteed to all the parties in a just and eternal union a... ...story shows that such an arrangement, however hedged in by the most solemn treaties and declarations, cannot last. In this case it would lead to a tra... ...3 Joseph Conrad The successive generations that went out to sea from these Isles went out to toil desperately in ad- venturous conditions. A man is a ...

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...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...

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

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...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... ...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 Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...by wa- ter along the trade routes. And such toleration as there was rarely extended to active teaching and propaganda. Even in liberal Athens the heml... ...rs from the east end of Lon- don into Kent, but that is a mere hint of the extended picnic which a broadly planned cultivation might afford. A fully d... ...ms to be drift- ing very rapidly towards a social explosion in the British Isles. The organised masses of labour find themselves baffled both by their... ...groups each pledged to specific measures and making the most extraordinary treaties and sacrifices of the public inter- est in order to secure the pas...

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...Excerpt: A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: ?Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That?s all right!? He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mocking-bird that hung on the...

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...Contents THE AWAKENING........................................................................3 Beyond the Bayou.........................................................................86 Ma?ame Pelagie...................................

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.......................................................................3 Beyond the Bayou................................................................... ...le Woman..................................................................99 The Kiss.................................................................... ...ble Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy acce... ...al works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 1999 The Pennsyl... ...Sunday; the paper was a day old. The Sunday papers had not yet reached Grand Isle. He was already acquainted with the market reports, and he glanced r... ...was spending his summer vacation, as he always did, with his mother at Grand Isle. In former times, before Robert could remember, “the house” had been... ...l that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened t... ...the porch, side by side, with their backs against the pillows and their feet extended. Ma dame Ratignolle removed her veil, wiped her face with a rat... ... not say good night until she had become supple to his gentle, seductive en treaties. XXXII XXXII XXXII XXXII XXXII When Mr. Pontellier learned of hi...

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...Excerpt: Introduction to the bride of Lammermoor. The author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occurring at a distant period, it might possibly be unpleasi...

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...s Publication Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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 Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy acce... ...orks of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ...ke upon me to determine; but it’s certain her coffin stands upright in the isle of the church of Kirklistown, the burial-place belonging to the family... ...ss of prac- tice, until the old tailor, yielding to destiny and to the en- treaties of his son, permitted him to attempt his fortune in a line for whi... ... indignant priude, testified by the manner in which he raised his head and extended his arm, seemed to be urging a claim of right, rather than of favo... ...ore the same name with the castle itself, which was Ravenswood. Their line extended to a remote period of an- tiquity, and they had intermarried with ... ...he was identifying herself with the simple yet noble-minded Miranda in the isle of wonder and enchantment. But in her exterior relations to things of ...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

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...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

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...iar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylva... ...ry reasons. For, first, there is, in our drunken land, a certain privilege extended to drunkenness. In Scot- land, in particular, it is almost respect... ...at enfranchise- ment. With Scott the Romantic movement, the movement of an extended curiosity and an enfranchised imagination, has begun. This is a tr... ...covery, but it does not appear conclusively that he ever touched the happy isle. A man brings to love a deal of ready-made sentiment, and even from ch... ...once he was himself permitted to visit France; where he worked on abortive treaties and showed himself more eager for his own deliverance than for the... ...here must certainly be some mistake. Had not he himself made anti-national treaties almost before he was out of his nonage? And for the matter of that...

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...ion: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a ...

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...klin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...n with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. An An An An Any per y per y per y per y person using this do... ...her o t his or her own wn wn wn wn risk. risk. risk. risk. risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ble Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy acce... ...al works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and as such is a part of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...example, was by some confined to eating and drinking, while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclinati... ...ervation, shap’d his course, as he thought, so as to pass wide of the Scilly Isles; but it seems there is sometimes a strong indraught setting up St. ... ...ee of Pennsylvania; sent to France as agent of the colo nies. 1778 Concludes treaties of defensive alliance, and of am ity and commerce; is received ...