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... On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ...Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any Any Any Any Any person using thi... ...thority over dissentients openly controverted. The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted free... ...its, of combination among individuals; freedom to unite, for any purpose not involving harm to others: the persons combining being supposed to be of f... ...ies has been so of ten discussed, I venture on one discussion more. CHAPTER II: CHAPTER II: CHAPTER II: CHAPTER II: CHAPTER II: OF THE LIBER OF THE L... ...nd a third, of still briefer duration, in the intellectual fermenta tion of Germany during the Goethian and Fichtean period. These periods differed w... ...it is not On Liberty — Mill 63 of the nature of assassination but of civil war. As such, I hold that the instigation to it, in a specific case, may ... ... is man himself. Supposing it were possible to get houses built, corn grown, battles On Liberty — Mill 69 fought, causes tried, and even churches er... ...to each, the obser vance by others of the custom, by suspending the greater operations of industry on a particular day. But this justification, groun...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Enter Dame Gossip As Chorus. Everybody has heard of the beautiful Countess of Cressett, who was one of the lights of this country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity?s sake to be amused after their tiresome work of slaughter: and ...

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...ries Publication The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ING MARRIAGE By George Meredith 1895 BOOK 1 I. Enter Dame Gossip as Chorus II. Mistress Gossip T ells of the Elopement of the Countess of Cressett wit... ...ures of a broomstick, with the aid of a yashmak and an ankle, may know the world; you had better not know him—that is my remark; and do not trust him.... ...ocked in his hand, and he said: ‘Many would take that for a declaration of war, but I know it ‘s only your lordship’s diplomacy’; and then he let loos... ...m exile that very day, thanks to the praiseworthy early hours of brave old Germany. He had swallowed a cup of coffee with a roll of stale bread, in th... ...e it to me,’ his uncle said: and we hear of business affairs between them, involving payment of moneys due to the young man; and how, whenever he touc... ...nd Howell Edwards, whom his master had prepared to stand against immediate operations. A mounted messenger had been despatched. But it was true, the d... ...ay, he swears. You know what a pas- sion is; you have it for mountains and battles, I for music. I do remember, one morning before sunrise, driving ba...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religio...

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...NIC CONVERSATION.................................................................................................................... 134 EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE...................................................................................... 137 THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE .........................................................................................

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...n n n A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of ... ...st and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...business woman; but in the cozy living room at night they put the plodding world away, and lived in another and a fairer, reading romances to each oth... ...d stir and splendor of noble palaces and grim and ancient castles. CHAPTER II NOW CAME GREAT NEWS! Stunning news—joyous news, in fact. It came from a... ...ble cause—the modern Achilles, who gained so many victories in the Florida War?” “I bear that name,” said the Major, “and those titles, trusting at ... ...and were united with all the solemnities that usually attended such divine operations. There is but one Homer, there is but one Shakespeare, there is ... ...dually owed, as a gentleman, to the parents of Ambulinia, a duty in itself involving not only his own happiness and his own standing in society, but o... ... shouts it at you—every time. And when he prints it, in En gland, France, Germany, and Italy, he italicizes it, puts some whopping exclamation points... ...ations and death of President Washington, the surrender of Cornwallis, the battles of T renton and Monmouth, the suf ferings of the patriot army at V...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a ...

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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...n they deserve to be, and the one to whom most of all is due, one whom the world had no opportunity of knowing. The reader whom these things do not in... ...is Own Time , though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the his torical part of the Annual Register, from the beginn... ...lties, and in Paoli, the Corsican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like a child as I was (until set right by my father) o... ...y opinion and feeling from that time forward. 23 John Stuart Mill CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II MORAL INFL MORAL INFL MORAL ... ...son to fears, wishes, and affections, which enable them to accept a theory involving a contradiction in terms, prevents them from perceiving the logic... ...or excur sions, alone or with other friends. France, Belgium, and Rhenish Germany were within easy reach of the annual holi day: and two longer abse... ...nons of evidence, can do by themselves towards guiding or recti fying the operations of the understanding. Combined with other requisites, I certainl...