...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...f Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is... ...nic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...seat of the officer who distributed them, and then betake himself early to church in order to have a good one, and wait about in order to put himself ... ... so little fitted for the cloister, was nevertheless, at bottom, as good a churchman as with such a character he could be. He was a great favourite wi... ...ch would be read with more plea- sure if there were less spite against the Catholic religion, and less passion against the King. With those exceptions... ... would have been difficult to have found two instructors so opposed to the Catholics and to France, or so well suited to the King as teachers of his s... ...the author glide over that dangerous ice on his Jesuit skates! In due time critics condemned the work which, after so much applause, was recognised as...

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...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed fo... ...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of... ...E CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 A Penn State Electronic Class... ... 1903 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publica... ...he reader, almost seeming to justify the remark of one of his most lenient critics—that, after all, Rousseau had the soul of a lackey. He possessed, h... ...ation, his taste and good sense being most conspicuous. The history of the Church and 14 The Confessions Empire by Le Sueur, Bossuett’s Discourses on... ...n to lament. The king, who was fond of appearing a zealous promoter of the Catholic faith, took her under his protection, and complimented her with a ... ...former faith, but no inclination to return to it. She not only died a good Catholic, but truly lived one; nay, I dare affirm (and I think I have had t... ...ns, it was clearly seen whom I had in view, and the remark had not escaped critics, because Madam de Boufflers had several times mentioned the subject...

...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutis...

... I: The First T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...st T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stor... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stories, Volume One: The First Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsyl- va... ...ries, Volume One: The First Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...he publisher’s name, replied to those attacks which he anticipated certain critics would make upon his hardy experiment. He claimed for his book the p... ...spect for the refuse of our Gallic antiquities. Bear in mind also, ye wild critics, you scrapers-up of words, harpies who mangle the intentions and in... ... every one sucked the breasts of our Holy Mother 9 Droll Stories – Vol. 1 Church and yet they were not drained, a miracle which proved beyond doubt t... ...st were all for her. Although accustomed to the curl-paper devotion of the church- men, she was well satisfied that she had made a conquest of the you... ...nced all the cowardice of the priest. She was not then a sufficiently good Catholic to pardon her lover deceiving her, by not know- ing how to die for...

...Excerpt: When, in March, 1832, the first volume of the now famous Contes Drolatiques was published by Gosselin of Paris, Balzac, in a short preface, written in the publisher?s name, replied to those attacks which he anticipated certain critics would make u...

..... 4 PROLOGUE ..................................................................................................................................... 6 THE FAIR IMPERIA........................................................................................................................ 8 THE VENIAL SIN...........................................................................

... Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson 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. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ile, 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... ...me was Dickson and you a journeyman baker; but beyond that, whether you were Catholic or Mormon, dull or clever, fierce or friendly, was all one to th... ...ICANS, AND INDIANS THE HISTORY OF MONTEREY has yet to be written. Founded by Catholic missionaries, a place of wise beneficence to In- dians, a place ... ...d and the great Pacific, passes a ruined mission on a hill. From the mission church the eye embraces a great field of ocean, and the ear is filled wit... ...might have told you from 116 Across the Plains the beginning, only that the critics murmur over my consis- tent egotism; – and as I am positively for... ...rators, if I here toss them over, bound hand and foot, into the arena of the critics? For the business of the powders, which so many have censured, is...

Excerpt: Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson.

...Contents CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?..........

...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Second T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited... ...Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Second T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1... ...es P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Book the Second trans. Charles Cotton, ed. William ... ...tion ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Book the Second trans. Charles Cotton, ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publicati... ...is life, that he has slipped away clear and undecided from the most daring critics. I can more hardly believe a man’s constancy than any other virtue,... ...as reduced to the necessity of causing it to be pro- claimed in her parish church, that whoever had done that deed and would frankly confess it, she d... ...ivil wars is manifest enough; and whoever could at this time unite us all, Catholic and Huguenot, into one body, and set us upon some brave common ent... ... set before us. ’Tis an effect of the divine Providence to suffer the holy Church to be afflicted, as we see it, with so many storms and troubles, by ...

Excerpt: Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Book the Second translated by Charles Cotton, ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

...Contents CHAPTER I OF THE INCONSTANCY OF OUR ACTIONS ...................................................... 5 CHAPTER II OF DRUNKENNESS .............................................................................................. 14 CHAPTER II...

... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Don Juan by George Byron 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. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...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... ...d, at least, in the right road to heaven, For half his days were pass’d at church, the other Between his tutors, confessor, and mother. At six, ... ...,’ I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies; Should captains the remark, or critics, make, They also lie too—under a mistake. The public approbat... ...undred souls Had left their bodies; and what ‘s worse, alas! When over Catholics the ocean rolls, They must wait several weeks before a mass... ...breath, You hardly could perceive when he was dead. He died as born, a Catholic in faith, Like most in the belief in which they ‘re bred, ... ...tell where it may not run. No doubt, if I had wish’ to pay my court To critics, or to hail the setting sun Of tyranny of all kinds, my concisi...

...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

... Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...elding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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 ... ..., 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... ...s,” says he, “used indeed to doubt whether they were lawfully married in a church or no. But for my part, that’s no business of mine; I must own, if I... ...apter 1 Containing instructions very necessary to be perused by mod ern critics Reader, it is impossible we should know what sort of per son tho... ...a servile imita tion of Dido, but that happily very few of our play house critics understand enough of Latin to read Virgil. In the next place, we ... ...ow, in the imagination of the half drunk clown, as he staggers through the churchyard, or rather charnelyard to his home, fear paints the bloody hobgo... ...ld, will you distress them as much as you can?” By the force of the true Catholic faith, St. Anthony won upon the fishes. Orpheus and Amphion went a...

Excerpt: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII.

...The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ... Ring by Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by George Bernard... ...Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by George Bernard Shaw is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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... ...s a Bible. In those days Darwin and Helmholtz were the real fathers of the Church; and nobody would lis- ten to religion, poetry or rhetoric; so that ... ...l, for the sake of the homesteads that will grow up in security round that church-castle. This only, however, whilst the golden age lasts. The moment ... ...and political mugwump that the term “art- ist” seems to suggest to so many critics and amateurs—that is, a creature in their own lazy likeness—he need... ...ce at our orchestral concerts really means that our audiences are entirely catholic in their respect for life in all its beneficently creative func- ... ...s definitely conscious of his thesis as I. All the stupid people, and some critics who, though not stupid, had not themselves written what the Germans...

Excerpt: The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung?s Ring by George Bernard Shaw.

...Contents Preface to the First German Edition................................................................................................ 5 Preface to the Second Edition ...........................................................................

...agitica, Comus, “L’Alegro,” “Il Penseroso,” and “Lycidas” is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fu... ...tica, Comus, “L’Alegro,” “Il Penseroso,” and “Lycidas” is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...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 Edi tor, nor an... ... and civil wisdom. I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselv... ... of Florence. I have seen this present work, and find nothing athwart the Catholic faith and good manners: in witness whereof I have given, etc. ... .... We have it not, that can be heard of, from any ancient state, or polity or church; nor by any statute left us by our ancestors elder or later; nor f... ...ationer, but has a quick return: The State shall be my governors, but not my critics; they may be mistaken in the choice of a licenser, as easily as t...

...Excerpt: They, who to states and governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, wanting such access in a private condition, write that which they foresee may advance the public good; I suppose them, as at the beginning of no mean ende...

...uperman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...rman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. 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... ...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... ...last words of the XVIII century on the subject; and by the time the polite critics of the XIX century, ignoring William Blake as superfi- cially as th... ...omplicated by the genius being a woman, then the game is one for a king of critics: your George Sand becomes a mother to gain experience for the novel... ... a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, and the more I see of the efforts of our churches and univer- sities and literary sages to raise the mass above its ... ...r very hearths and homes; but when we, too, fought for that mighty idea, a Catholic Church, we swept them back to Africa. THE DEVIL. [ironically] What... ... Church, we swept them back to Africa. THE DEVIL. [ironically] What! you a Catholic, Senor Don Juan! A devotee! My congratulations. THE STATUE. [serio...

...Excerpt: My dear Walkley, you once asked me why I did not write a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit p...

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...iar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. 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... ...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... ... by criticising myself, seek to disarm the wrath of other and less partial critics. HUGO’S ROMANCES. – This is an instance of the “point of view.” The... ...nd blood, a mere anodyne to lull his pains. The most tem- perate of living critics once marked a passage of my own with a cross ar d the words, “This ... ...nequal towns on either hand. We forget all that enumeration of palaces and churches and convents which occupies so many pages of admirable description... ...mond of Hawthornden, and a good pugilist like Cap- tain Barclay. They were catholic, as none but the entirely idle can be catholic. It might be Pierre... ...duction to a book* in which he exposes the hypocritical de- mocracy of the Catholics under the League, steps aside for a moment to stigmatise the hypo...

...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 ...

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

...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. 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... ...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... ...onder. Along the flat horizon there arise the frequent venerable towers of churches. He sees at the end of airy vistas the revolution of the windmill ... ...ore a different costume, spoke a different language, worshipped in another church, held dif- ferent morals, and obeyed a different social constitution... ...t merit of the unworthy takes.” In flowers his taste was old-fashioned and catholic; affect- ing sunflowers and dahlias, wallflowers and roses and hol... ...e never con- demned anybody else. I have no doubt that he held all Ro- man Catholics, Atheists, and Mahometans as considerably out of it; I don’t beli... ...h as we love to prefigure for our- selves; and in the end, in spite of the critics, we may hesitate to give the preference to either. The one may ask ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on th...

...Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES................................................................................ 1...

...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... ... This anecdote I had from my uncle Benjamin. The family continued all of the Church of En * Here follow in the margin the words, in brackets, “here i... ...ontinued all their lives: the rest of the family remained with the Episcopal Church. Josiah, my father, married young, and carried his wife with three... ... bred a Protes tant, being a clergyman’s daughter, but was converted to the Catholic religion by her husband, whose memory she much revered; had live... ...tired manner, of whom my landlady gave me this account: that she was a Roman Catholic, had been sent abroad when young, and lodg’d in a nunnery with a... ...he Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 100 deny’d; but litera scripta monet. Critics attack’d his writings violently, and with so much appearance of r...

...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 ...

...dija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...tml http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freed... ...IA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters II. Macedonia to the Macedonians III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the ... ...the ever escalating ferocity of the occupiers. A collaboration emerged between the Church and the less than holy members of society. Natanail himse... ...declared it on October 1929. It was a union of East and West, the Orthodox and the Catholic, Ottoman residues with Austro-Hungarian structures, the... ...ous reversal of pan-Serbist beliefs: "If there were more freedom... Serbia would be Catholic in twenty years. The most ideal thing would be for the ... ...gitimately. As we know, totalitarian regimes are not disposed kindly towards their critics. Totalitarian governments rule by fear and terror. Accor... ... the result of the historical chance. They are corrupt and incompetent. Their only critics of substance, and some measure of safety, are the Orthod...

...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a ...