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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

......................................................................... 292 ON WAR ....................................................................... ...................................................................... 292 ON WAR .......................................................................... ...sopher. All, amidst the sad vanity of their sighs and groans, labor to put on record and to establish this monotonous complaint, which needs not other... ... policeman. All that he said I could not hear; but this I heard—that I was wanted at the police office, and had better come off without delay. He seem... ...arelessly, and some maliciously.” “But what charges?” I cried, and then he wanted to speak privately to you. But I told him that of all persons he mus... ...ity. But the person, after all, that did most to serve our Kate, was Kate. War was then raging with Indians, both from Chili and Peru. Kate had always... ...d acharnement of the pursuers, and the bloody desperation of the miserable fugitives had reached its uttermost extremity. Let us briefly rehearse the ... ...been brought to a pause, was resumed at the very moment when the un- happy fugitives were anticipating a deep repose without fur- ther molestation, th... ... perspiration. But why trouble a festal remembrance with commemorations of crimes or criminals? What makes the Glasgow Observatory so pe- culiarly int...

........................ 264 TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT ................................................................................................... 292 ON WAR ........................................................................................................................................ 312 THE LAST DAYS OF IMMANUEL KANT .................................................

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

...on’s first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wall Street. Gene... ...w Freemason, Robert R. Livingston administered the oath of office. The Bible on which the oath was sworn belonged to New York’s St. John’s Masonic Lod... ... of uncertainty. The zeal and ardor of the people during the Revolu tionary war, supplying the place of government, com manded a degree of order suf... ...disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the ... ...e decisions of upright and enlight ened tribunals fall equally on all whose crimes subject them, by a fair interpretation of the law, to its censure.... ...l of any State or Territory, no matter what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes. I now reiterate these sentiments, and in doing so I only press up... ... section as to another. There is much controversy about the delivering up of fugitives from service or labor. The clause I now read is as plainly writ... ...asonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions. Shall fugitives from labor be surrendered by national or by State authority? Th... ...tric utili ties met with unmistakable defeat. The people declared that they wanted their rights to have not a political but a judicial determination,...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...qual opportunity university. Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANITY... .............................................................. 39 39 39 39 39 ON ON ON ON ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FOR ETERNIT THE SUPPOSED ... ...er. His literary fate was what might have been expected. After the Persian war, the reputation of his verses rapidly decayed. Wits arose in Athens, wh... ...purposes. But, for want of room, I confine myself to saying a few words on war, and the mode in which it will be extinguished by Christianity. WAR.—Th... ...onscience and will, not proved ostensively, but indirectly proved as being wanted in- dispensably, and presupposed in other necessities of our hu- man... ...logical principles were not quite so sound as his friends would wish. They wanted repairing a little. But, what was worse, I did 80 Theological Essay... ...urn belonging to great events, or revolutionary agencies, or vast national crimes; but the normal period and duration of all acts whatever, the time o... ...fe, which it is far better for us all to leave in their original darkness. Crimes that were often all but imaginary, extravagances of erring passion t... ...ives guaranteed. For the pris- oners of Gennesaret were chiefly aliens and fugitives from justice, who had no national or local interest in the cities...

...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPP...

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Phaedo

By: Plato

... these mystics, Socrates is now departing. This is his answer to any one who charges him with indifference at the prospect of leaving the gods and his... ...e world below, and that the living come from them. This he attempts to found on a philosophical assumption that all opposites—e.g. less, greater; weak... ...w unlikely, then, that the soul will perish and be dissipated into air while on her way to the good and wise God! She has been gath ered into herself... ... then rewarded for the good which they have done. Those who have com mitted crimes, great indeed, but not unpardonable, are thrust into T artarus, bu... ...hich are conferred on the greatest benefactors of mankind? And where are the crimes which according to Plato’s merciful reckoning,—more merciful, at a... ...was crying against them, and that for thirty thousand years they were to be ‘fugitives and vaga bonds upon the earth.’ The desire of recognizing a lo... ...n answer ready for him, you may as well tell me what I should say to him:—he wanted to know why you, who never before wrote a line of poetry, now that... ...ivalling him or his poems; to do so, as I knew, would be no easy task. But I wanted to see whether I could purge away a scruple which I felt about the...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume One

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...et, N. P . Willis, is- sued this touching appeal to the admirers of genius on behalf 5 V olume One of the neglected author, his dying wife and her de... ...e session. 7 V olume One Official records prove that he was not expelled. On the con- trary, he gained a creditable record as a student, although it ... ...d keep up with the march of intellect and the spirit of the age. If a fire wanted fanning, it could readily be fanned with a newspaper, and as the gov... ...fully completed these arrangements and filled the chamber as explained, it wanted only ten minutes of nine o’clock. During the whole period of my bein... ... where are some miserable frame buildings, tenanted, during summer, by the fugitives from Charleston dust and fever, may 76 Poe in Five V olumes be f... ...uced was sung by the rabble upon the occasion of Aurelian, in the Sarmatic war, having slain, with his own hand, nine hundred and fifty of the enemy. ... ...some measure implicated in their perpetration. Of the worst portion of the crimes committed, it is probable that he is innocent. I hope that I am righ... ...e body into the river before midnight. Those who are guilty of such horrid crimes, choose darkness rather the; light… . Thus we see that if the body f... ...is a few months more than the general period of the cruises of our men- of-war. Had the lover been interrupted in his first villany by the necessity o...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...s ies ies ies Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State U... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...ring an embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that re... ...o her his bald, scented, and shining head, and complacently seated himself on the sofa. “First of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. Set your frie... ...eror Alexander’s loftiness of soul. She has refused to evacuate Malta. She wanted to find, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. What an... ...emony of greeting this old aunt whom not one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know , and not one of them cared about; Anna Pavlovna observed th... ... with bright red cheeks were sitting on some feather beds. Evidently these fugitives were allowed to pass by special permission. The eyes of all the s... ... was the first to seize the surrendering French officer by his collar. Our fugitives returned, the battalions re- formed, and the French who had nearl... ...n nature. Millions of men perpetrated against one another such innumerable crimes, frauds, treacheries, thefts, forgeries, issues of false money, burg...

Excerpt: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

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The Aeneid of Virgil

By: Virgil

...jan shore. Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore, And in the doubtful war, before he won The Latian realm, and built the destin’d town; His banis... ...rs come, And the long glories of majestic Rome. O Muse! the causes and the crimes relate; What goddess was provok’d, and whence her hate; For what off... ...n woe? Against the Tiber’s mouth, but far away, An ancient town was seated on the sea; A T yrian colony; the people made Stout for the war, and studio... ...own was seated on the sea; A T yrian colony; the people made Stout for the war, and studious of their trade: Carthage the name; belov’d by Juno more T... ...nd her tow’rs deface; Nor thus confin’d, the yoke of sov’reign sway Should on the necks of all the nations lay. She ponder’d this, and fear’d it was i... ...ency implore. Forbid the fires our shipping to deface! Receive th’ unhappy fugitives to grace, And spare the remnant of a pious race! We come not with... ...ng train, And strangers in your palace entertain: What thanks can wretched fugitives return, Who, scatter’d thro’ the world, in exile mourn? The gods,... ...nds,) Make me but happy in his safe return, The Aeneid Virgil 223 Whose wanted presence I can only mourn; Y our common gift shall two large goblets... ...sky descends, Solicits hell for aid, and arms the fiends. That new example wanted yet above: An act that well became the wife of Jove! Alecto, rais’d ...

...ate, And haughty Juno?s unrelenting hate, Expell?d and exil?d, left the Trojan shore. Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore, And in the doubtful war, before he won The Latian realm, and built the destin?d town; His banish?d gods restor?d to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line, From whence the race of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majest...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

... of the sub- sisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks ... ...ther they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at w... ...els, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence. This country ... ...l rights, privi- leges, and protection. As a nation we have made peace and war; as a nation we have vanquished our common enemies; as a nation we have... ...ld be her immediate customers and paymasters for those articles which were wanted for the supply of our markets. But would not her navigation be mater... ...that the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice, excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and i... ... impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable... ... this account, their plan would have been inexcusably defective, if it had wanted this impor- tant feature of good government. The experience of Great... ...ince, or foreign state.’’ Article 3, section 2, clause 3 “The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial sh...

...e of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...versal history and criticism. Now, it is one thing to write with enjoyment on a subject while the story is hot in your mind from recent reading, colou... ... to condense in a few pages the events of a whole lifetime, and the effect on his own mind of many various volumes, is bound, above all things, to mak... ...d, of a painter in France who, 17 Familiar Studies of Men & Books when he wanted to paint a sea-beach, carried realism from his ends to his means, an... ...arose in part from his lax views about religion; for at this time that old war of the creeds and confessors, which is always grumbling from end to end... ...rry in the pocket, and fastened with a pin,” which he scribbled during the war by the bedsides of the wounded or in the excitement of great events. Th... ...he hermits; but Thoreau made no fetish of his own example, and did what he wanted squarely. And five years is long enough for an experiment and to pro... ...eir country, told at length the ille- gality of the Shogun’s power and the crimes by which its exercise was sullied. So, having said his say for once,... ...enturies afterwards, it is odd and pitiful to watch the order in which the fugitives are captured and dragged in. Montigny was the first. In August of... ...“may not pretermit” to give the lie in the throat to his accuser, where he charges him with seeking support against his native coun- try. “What I have...

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