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...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the ...

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...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ... J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by th... ...e of events, religious disputes were the means of cementing a closer union among the nations of Europe. Fearful indeed, and destructive, was the first... ...s, religious disputes were the means of cementing a closer union among the nations of Europe. Fearful indeed, and destructive, was the first 8 The Hi... ...ependent. In it she first learned to recog- nize herself as a community of nations; and this intercommunion of states, which originated in the thirty ... ...while its benefi- cent influence still survives; and this general sympathy among the states of Europe, which grew out of the troubles in Bohemia, is o... ...ies contin- ued long after their separation to divide the two nations. The Danish kings could not abandon their pretensions to the Swedish crown, nor ... ...pretensions to the Swedish crown, nor the Swedes banish the remembrance of Danish oppression. The contiguous boundaries of the two kingdoms constantly... ... from every obligation towards his former benefactor. In the disguise of a righteous re- taliation, the projects dictated by his ambition now appeared...

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...ies Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...s Pip. “Hold your noise!” cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. “Keep still, you little d... ... out the place!” I pointed to where our village lay , on the flat in-shore among the alder-trees and pollards, a mile or more from the church. The man... ...d in two arm- chairs on a kitchen-table, holding a Court. The whole of the Danish nobility were in attendance; consisting of a noble boy in the wash-l... ... dirty face who seemed to have risen from the people late in life, and the Danish chivalry with a comb in its hair and a pair of white silk legs, and ... ...way , and squeezing the wretched little washing- stand in quite a Divinely Righteous manner. As I had asked for a night-light, the chamberlain had bro... ...wer to part you and Tickler in sunders, were not fully equal to his incli- nations. Therefore, think no more of it as betwixt two sech, and do not let...

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... Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ... to be so tiresome that it wea- ried him to look at or listen to them. And among all these faces that he found so tedious, none seemed to bore him so ... ... Monsieur Buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of the nations? Adorable! It is enough to make one’s head whirl! It is as if the w... ...ce, which produced an effect unfavorable to the narrator. Several persons, among them the elderly lady and Anna Pavlovna, did however smile. “She went... ... fear would pre- vent her understanding any of her father’s further expla- nations, however clear they might be. Whether it was the teacher’s fault or... ...ning them. That is the actual phrase used by the Vienna cabinet,” said the Danish charge d’affaires. “The doubt is flattering,” said “the man of profo... ...pire us with true love one for another, arm us with unity of spirit in the righteous defense of the heritage Thou gavest to us and to our fathers, and... ...that prayer. She shared with all her heart in the prayer for the spirit of righteousness, for the strengthening of the heart by faith and hope, and it...