...Papers by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Aspern Papers by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Aspern Papers by Henry 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... ...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... ...r rejoicing in the return of the sea- son of strong effects. The wonderful church, with its low domes and bristling embroideries, the mystery of its m... ...ntinued, addressing herself to me. “What have they done with the funny old church? I hope it hasn’t tumbled down. let her look at the shops; she may t... ...h a rough way of treading it down.” “Oh, I like the past, but I don’t like critics,” the old woman declared with her fine tranquility. “Neither do I, ... ...urano. It appeared from these circumstances that the Misses Bordereau were Catholics, a discovery I had never made, as the old woman could not go to c...

...Excerpt: I had taken Mrs. Prest into my confidence; in truth without her I should have made but little advance, for the fruitful idea in the whole business dropped from her friendly lips. It was she who invented the short cut, who severed the Gordian knot. It is not supposed to be the nature of women to rise as a general thing to the large...

... 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.

...cs Series Publication Evan Harrington by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Series Publication Evan Harrington by George Meredith 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ..., and en- gaged that her children should be brought up in the faith of the Catholic Church: which Lymport gossips called, paying the Devil for her pri... ... gaged that her children should be brought up in the faith of the Catholic Church: which Lymport gossips called, paying the Devil for her pride. The t... ...Nick. As usual, the men took a middle position. Theirs was the pleasure of critics, which, 127 George Meredith being founded on the judgement, lasts ... ... He lashed out at every ball, and far flew every ball that was bowled. The critics saw, in this return to his old practices, promise of Nick’s approac... ...Bonner’s apartments, alone with the old lady. ‘To make up for lost time in Catholic Portugal!’ she explained it to the household. On the morning after...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Above Buttons. Long after the hours when tradesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the shutters of a certain shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea remained significantly closed, and it became known that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec Harrin...

...ries Publication Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...s Publication Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...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... ...ents, the fitting representatives of prelacy and persecution, the union of church and state, and all those abominations which had driven the Puritans ... ...dark attire, and on the other, the group of despotic rulers, with the high churchman in the midst, and here and there a crucifix at their bosoms, all ... ...dy heard in many lands of Christendom; and she had pined in the cells of a Catholic Inquisition before she felt the lash and lay in the dungeons of th... ...t corre- sponded, in all points, with his idea of the Great Carbuncle. The critics say, that, if his poetry lacked the splendor of the gem, it retaine... ...r good fortune for our sketch, the head of an Episco- palian and suspected Catholic was grotesquely incased in the former machine while a fellow-crimi...

...Excerpt: There was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II, the bigoted successor of Charles the Voluptuous, had annulled the charters of all the colonies, and sent a harsh and ...

...Contents THE GRAY CHAMPION....................................................................................................... 4 THE WEDDING KNELL .......................................................................................

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ... Staff List xiii–xiv Preface xv 1. “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National C... ...Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 ... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ...mes had closed off nearly all paths for peaceful opposition, forcing their critics to choose silence, exile, or violent opposition. Iran’s 1979 revolu... ...ed into general investigations of foreign and domestic intelligence by the Church and Pike committees. 14 They disclosed domestic intelligence efforts... ... that investigation of terrorism could cross the line separating state and church. 16 In 1986, Congress authorized the FBI to investigate terrorist at... ...ive to either Secretary Albright or First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton—both critics of the Taliban’s record on women’s rights. 86 The proposal seems to... ...t through a document vendor who stole a blank baptismal certificate from a Catholic church.With this document he was able to obtain a Canadian passpor...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans an...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

...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 ...