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...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...eforth pray to, with up- turned awestruck eye, not without hope? The white European mocks; but ought rather to consider; and see whether he, at home, ... ...n each bank, and become City of Paris, sometimes boasting to be ‘Athens of Europe,’ and even ‘Capital of the Universe.’ Stone towers frown aloft; long... ...ing! What a course was thine: from that first trucklebed (in Joan of Arc’s country) where thy mother bore thee, with tears, to an unnamed father: forw... ...t devoured. There too an unruly Linguet, still unguillotined, when his own country has become too hot for him, and his brother Advocates have cast him... ...; for he professes to have some Anglo- mania, of a sort. Why, in that free country, does one Minister, driven out by Parliament, vanish from his King’... ...ve, in a singular manner, divide the Republican Year. Then as to mi- nuter subdivisions, let us venture at once on a bold stroke: adopt your decimal s...

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...nd that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife t... ...hree days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every pers... ...ance in any inn had more in com mon with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not leave her ... ... at the sight of Levin. How often he had seen him come up to Moscow from the country where he was doing something, but what precisely Stepan Arkadyevi... ...scarcely perceptible smile. “How was it you used to say you would never wear European dress again?” he said, scanning his new suit, obviously cut by a... ...ye till then.” “Now mind, you’ll forget, I know you, or rush off home to the country!” Stepan Arkadyevitch called out laughing. “No, truly!” And Levin... ...n early in the winter of this year Levin came to Moscow, after a year in the country, and saw the Shtcherbatskys, he realized which of the three siste... ...y one else, every one even visits every one else. but this great set has its subdivisions. Anna Arkadyevna Karenina had friends and close ties in thre... ...ows” (he continued to crook his fat fingers, though the three cases and their subdivisions could obviously not be classified together): “physical defect...

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...NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ............................................................................

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...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...receiving instruction from the living voice, as well as from the books, of European scholars, is very familiar. At my own University of Harvard, not a... ...is- iting our land. It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk. The contrary habit, of talking whilst the Europeans listen,... ... hope it may continue to do so. As the years go by, I hope that many of my countrymen may be asked to lecture in the Scottish universities, changing p... ...nary religious believer, who follows the con- ventional observances of his country, whether it be Buddhist, Christian, or Mohammedan. His religion has... ...y fine weather, and until within a few years used to walk Sundays into the country, twelve miles often, with no fatigue, and bicycle forty or fifty. I... ...ur time would not suffice, for one thing; and moreover, I confess that the subdivisions and names which we find in the Catholic books seem to me to re...