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... on Wall Street. General Washing ton had been unanimously elected President by the first electoral college, and John Adams was elected Vice Presi de... ...e with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and re ceived on the 14th day of the present month. On th... ...ceived on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love,... ...e of opinion is not a differ ence of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all ... ...ch them agri INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 23 culture and the domestic arts; to encourage them to that industry which a... ...g no pretensions to the high and commanding claims of my predecessors, whose names are so much more conspicuously identified with our Revolution, and ... ...on are much more so, for no such nation can long exist with out the careful culture of those feelings of confidence and affection which are the effec... ...vering and have been able to meet all the requirements of the service. Agri culture has been very slow in reviving, but the price of cereals at last ... ...d of new promise. May those generations whose faces we cannot yet see, whose names we may never know, say of us here that we led our beloved land into...

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...d Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry David Thoreau Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau THE HISTORY OF THE APPLE-TREE I T IS REMARKABLE how ... ...to * The stories of the early Scandinavians. **An English authority on the culture of orchards and gardens. 5 Henry David Thoreau England, thence to ... ...Apples THE NAMING OF THEM I T WOULD BE A PLEASANT PASTIME to find suitable names for the hundred varieties which go to a single heap at the cider-mill... ...te a few of these. I find myself com- pelled, after all, to give the Latin names of some for the ben- efit of those who live where English is not spok... ... An iron voice, could I describe all the forms And reckon up all the names of these wild apples.” *The tramp’s comfort. **See p. 172 (Proof read...

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...ty is an equal opportunity university. 3 GB Shaw Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw 1910 PREFACE TO THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS How the... ...ous on the assumption that he was to me a mere name among the thousands of names in the British Museum catalogue. Therefore I make it clear that I had... ...elieve that gentlemen are born and not made by a very elaborate process of culture. Even kings are taught and coached and drilled from their earliest ... ...ith that freedom of adventure, that personal refine- ment and intellectual culture, that scope of action, which the higher and subtler drama demands. ... ...f-possession] Bad? Oh no. Human, Master Warder, human. We call one another names when we are offended, as children do. That is all. THE BEEFEATER. Ay ...

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.... Forster A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Howards End by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Howards End by E.M. Forster, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ...e University is an equal opportunity university. 3 EM Forster Howards End by E. M. Forster ONE MAY AS WELL BEGIN with Helen’s letters to her sis- ter... ...do 12 Howards End keep clear of the relatives. We have scarcely got their names straight yet, and, besides, that sort of thing is so uncivilised and ... ... they are too). It was interesting, and down at Swanage no one appreciated culture more than Mrs. Munt; but it was dangerous, and disaster was bound t... ...ars, to such life as is conferred by the stench of motor-cars, and to such culture as is implied by the advertisements of antibilious pills. To histor... ...seemed wonderful. When Charles and Aunt Juley drove up, calling each other names, Mrs. Wilcox stepped in from the garden and made everything less terr... ...legels on the whole at that time— 37 EM Forster and while her lips talked culture, her heart was plan- ning to invite him to tea. “How tired one gets... ...ld have caught the world. Oh, to acquire culture! Oh, to pronounce foreign names correctly! Oh, to be well informed, discoursing at ease on every subj...

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...Cashel Byron’s Profession By George Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cashel Byron’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cashel Byron’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ... circumstances, she enjoyed a reputation for vast learn- ing and exquisite culture. It was said in Wiltstoken that she knew forty-eight living languag... ...nionship of my fellows was a necessity to me, I volun- tarily set aside my culture, relaxed my principles, and ac- quired common tastes, in order to f... ...luences of art as you do because he knows and adopts the classification of names and schools with which you are fa- miliar; or that because he agrees ... ... seems.” “Why?” “Because you are so learned, and he so ignorant. He has no culture save that of the turf. But perhaps you have more sympathy with his ... ...ned upon him curtly, and said, “Don’t you make so free with other people’s names, or perhaps you may get into trouble yourself.” The little man retrea... ...t them have such fine feelings that they can afford to call prize-fighters names? Look at the men that get killed or lamed every year at steeple-chasi...

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...ANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Constance Garnett PART FOUR A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBL... ...NN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Anna Karenina – Part Four by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Anna Karenina – Part Four by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett, the Pennsylvania State University... ...sted her. “No; how so?” she replied. “He’s seen a great deal, anyway; he’s cultured?” “It’s an utterly different culture—their culture. He’s cultivate... ...rm and led him away to Karenin. “Let me introduce you.” He mentioned their names. “Very glad to meet you again,” said Alexey Alexandrovitch coldly, sh... ...novitch put in with a subtle smile. “It is the accepted view now that real culture must be purely classical; but we see most intense disputes on each ... ...Stepan Arkadyevitch. “I am not expressing my own opinion of either form of culture,” Sergey Ivanovitch said, holding out his glass with a smile of con...

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...nis; art work: V esuvius from Castellammare di Stabia, 1978. Photo furnished by Leo C. Curran, copyright 1997 . lccurran@acsu.buffalo.edu http://wings... ........................................................102 29 BC THE GEORGICS by Virgil GEORGIC I What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star Mae... ...rious! ye that lead the gliding year Along the sky, Liber and Ceres mild, If by your bounty holpen earth once changed Chaonian acorn for the plump whe... ...n first the streams were ware Of hollowed alder hulls: the sailor then Their names and numbers gave to star and star, Pleiads and Hyads, and Lycaon’s ... ...tilth to each belongs According to their kinds, ye husbandmen, And tame with culture the wild fruits, lest earth Lie idle. O blithe to make all Ismaru... ...umastus, with plump clusters swollen. But lo! how many kinds, and what their names, There is no telling, nor doth it boot to tell; Who lists to know i... ...ith these The V olscian javelin armed, the Decii too, The Marii and Camilli, names of might, The Scipios, stubborn warriors, ay, and thee, Great Caesa...

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...rd A Penn State Electronic Clas- sics Series Publication The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...ty is an equal opportunity university. 3 Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford PART I I THIS IS THE SADDEST STORY I have ever heard. We... ...epsie graduate. I guess Flo- 11 Ford Madox Ford rence wanted to raise the culture of the Stuyvesant crowd and did it as she might have gone in slummi... ...akes me think of that fellow Peire Vidal. Because, of course, his story is culture and I had to head her towards culture and at the same time it’s so ... ...together. It really worried poor Florence that she couldn’t, in matters of culture, ever get the better of Leonora. I don’t know what Leonora knew or ... ...cer, and Zwingli, and Ludwig the Courageous ….” I may have got some of the names wrong, but I know that Luther and Bucer were there. And her animation... ...ave a taste for good cookery and a watering tooth at the mere sound of the names of certain comestibles. If Florence had discovered this secret of min... ...or by moral force, has per- suaded Miss Florence that no memorial to their names shall be 127 Ford Madox Ford erected in the city of Waterbury, Conn....