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Veneta Serenissima Repubblica : Storia ed Istituzioni: Storia ed Istituzioni

By: Edoardo Rubini

...In the sixteenth century the N.H. Marin Sanudo said that the Venetian Republic would last forever, forever and ever. His opinion was not isolated, but a widespread belief. Even this shows how our fathers were distant from the co...

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1797-1866 : I ani vanti l’anesion de la Venesia al Regno d’Italia

By: Giorgio Roncolato

...The history of Italy, from 1797 through 1866, focusing on Venesia (Venice). The Republic of Venice, had been an independent state for more than a millennium. The Republic wasn't restored at the Congress of Vienna after the Na...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia a... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by ... ...H STRANGE BELIEFS OPPOSED TO EXTENDED VOYAGES. COMPRISING ALSO AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its ... ...E HEROIC CHARACTERS, BOLD EXPLORERS AND DAUNTLESS SPIRITS WHO HAVE MADE OCEAN HISTORY AND ESTABLISHED CHRISTIAN SUPREMACY OVER THE MOST SAVAGE LANDS... ...-- Eastward and westward of human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthage -- Venice the mistress of the sea -- Beliefs respecting the earth's shape ... ...Meeting the old chief of Amsterdam - - Description of the people -- An Utopian Republic -- A singular punishment for thieving -- Characteristics of th... ...and remained in the fortress of Genoa until peace was declared between the two republics, in July of the following year. During his imprisonment, he w...

...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- T...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...INOIS LIBRARY AT URBANACHAMPAIGN BOOKSTACKS Central Intelligence Agency The World Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should o... ... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ...ctbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through liaiso... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...dia 40 Cameroon 41 Canada 42 Cape Verde 44 Cayman Islands 45 Central African Republic -l(i Chad 47 Chile 49 China (Taiwan entry on page 274) 50 Christ... ...9 Cyprus 61 Czechoslovakia 62 D Denmark 64 Djibouti 05 Dominica 66 Dominican Republic 67 Ecuador 69 Egypt 70 El Salvador 72 Equatorial Guinea 74 Ethio... ..., 1 seat Communists: no known Communist orga- nization; Koma of BNF has long history of Communist contacts Member of: AfDB, Commonwealth, FAO, G-77, G... ...lides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, flooding, pollution; land sinkage in Venice Special notes: strategic location dominat- ing central Mediterrane...

...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and sp...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...n.tripod.com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. Abo... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...ml Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United S... ...he space of two years in Slovakia (down 14 percent), in Poland (-7), in the Czech Republic (-6) and even in fervently pro-Western Bulgaria (-4 per... ...t party's mouthpiece People's Daily. Expansionism is an "eternal theme" in American history and a "main line" running through its foreign policy. ... ...agnet, as exclaiming, during the US-Spanish War, that "If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade wi... ...as reduced to penury by these events and by the Black Death of 1347. It fought with Venice against Genoa only to lose tax revenues hitherto paid by ...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................................... ...—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING ............... 24 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES ......................... 28 SELF-CENTERED A... ...uld it vary? 19 Should every rule be universal—never changing through history? The Ten Commandments are such a universal moral code. What if Hit... ... devil? Global warming is an alarmist misreading of a natural blip in the history of climate. There is no overpopulation problem—there is plenty roo... ...sons for attacking Iraq were for its oil or to establish an American-like republic in the country, the reasons he gave to the world were that it was ... ...or an atheist. He would have about a zero chance of getting elected. Your Republicans seem to really play the God card. Yet it seems that they are th... ...e Prophet lived and the earliest complete text surviving comes to us from Venice 900 years after the Prophet lived. ―But there are many other...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ht January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and ... ...e various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentar... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ... Pg 598 Inflation Pg 607 Modern Racism Pg 609 Ego-gratification Pg 625 History Pg 694 The Unclearness of History Pg 694 Wisdom Pg 697 In... ...210 Human Wisdom Pg 1220 Bicycle Cards Pg 1221 Intelligence Pg 1224 Pre-History and Ancient History Pg 1266 Burial of the Dead Pg 1268 Deca... ...o Bonaparte’s new, more egalitarian legal system; and France finally became a Republic in name only… as it was the Emperor’s own nephew that won the ... ...n England, a similar change-dynamic happened with Cromwell’s severe religious Republicanism. As a result of this: England became a land of cottage-i... ...nse out of them. Look at the history of European colonialism. Italy and Venice were the dominant trading power in the Mediterranean for centur...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic ...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern Sino-Provin... ...-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ................................................................... 6 TOUR OF THE AREA .................................................................... ........................................................................... 7 THE HISTORY OF CHINA ....................................................... ...................................................................... 7 THE HISTORY OF CHINA ............................................................ ...e in the ways of business and statesmanship. All this in a brief moment of history. It‟s like a cosmic Siegfried and Roy changing a paper tiger into... ...al farming is decreasing. ―The realities of politics in a democratic-republic is that to get the necessary votes for a measure you may have to... ...e growers had donated over $30,000 to his campaigns. And so it goes in our republic, where lobbyists tilt the wheels of progress so that the governm... ...owered radio that he used to take to the beach when he was lifeguarding at Venice Beach.‖ --―As I understand it, it was a combination of fact...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...onathan Cross 2 J.Cross/Artemis THE VATICAN CONSPIRACY A Novel by Jonathan Cross ... ...s 3 J.Cross/Artemis CHAPTER 1 THE VATICAN Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel n... ...l chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows acr... ...fix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and conne... ...but then he quickly reminded himself that this was the first American Pope in history, and more importantly the first one of Jewish decent, except f... ...lfredo said, sounding like a professor, “Politics has always been part of the history and doctrine of the Church.” 6 J.Cross/Artemis “You’re r... ...re upbeat. “Your first Audience is with a group of young Jesuit Priests from Venice. After that...” As Alfredo read off the day’s business, the P... ...ported, any and all, of the many Juntas that came to power during the 'Banana Republic' era. His father had turned down every offer to work for the r... ...f somehow it would erase away his thoughts. "He's right," Nolan said. "The Republican's will have a field day. The opposition in Congress will be...

...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate th...

...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before i...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ...owning him with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...re and less fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Tok... ...writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (k... ... Sang Huin lost the address book and key chain from the souvenir shop at the history museum Sung Ki had given to him. He lost both by leaving them in ... ...le, she thought, did not camouflage their barbarity in "goodness." Early in history, except for notable flare- ups, Germans were aware of their barba... ...you guys are taking in Rome?" "Yes and other bits here and there. We were in Venice a couple days ago. Nice--well worth seeing as I'm sure Florence w... ..." she bantered. He smiled morosely. "The article said that in the Democratic Republic of Congo a door of a cargo plane fell open. The article said th...

...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) 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... ............................................. ................ 86 HOW TO MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK .......................................................... .......................................... ........... 108 A SCRAP OF CURIOUS HISTORY ...................................................................... ... Mohammedan, the Spiritualist a Spiritualist, the Democrat a Democrat, the Republican a Republican, the Monarchist a Monarchist; and if a humble, earn... ...ir immaterials. Both have been zealous Democrats; both have been zeal ous Republicans; both have been zealous Mugwumps. Bur gess has always found ha... ...nce, almost palpable, lay upon the mutest city in the world. The spirit of Venice is there: of a city where Age and Decay, fagged with distributing d...

...................................................................................................................................................... 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE .....................................

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Cousin Betty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...on Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring 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 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 any- o... ...pe to the Christian Church, that I dedi- cate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante. It was you who led me t... ...otion of a good and beautiful woman; and this, in a few words, is her past history. THREE BROTHERS, simple laboring men, named Fischer, and living in ... ...llage situated on the furthest frontier of Lorraine, were compelled by the Republican conscription to set out with the so-called army of the Rhine. In... ...ds. To maintain her place in the esteem of this blameless and spotless old republicanof whom Napoleon had said, “That brave old Hulot is the most obs... ...ssed the smallest opportunity of being stupid. We should have in Paris ten Venices if our retired merchants had had the instinct for fine things chara...

...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commenta...

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The Collection of Antiquities

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ted by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is... ...rriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication ... ...Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage 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 a... ... To Baron Von Hammer-Purgstall, Member of the Aulic Council, Author of the History of the Ottoman Empire. Dear Baron,—Y ou have taken so warm an inter... ... Empire. Dear Baron,—Y ou have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast “History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,” you have given me so ... ... to a portion of the emigre’s lands. T o Mlle. d’Esgrignon, therefore, the Republic made over the castle itself and a few farms. Chesnel [Choisnel], t... ... was a beautiful woman. An ex-contractor for for- age to the armies of the Republic, a man of the district, with an income of six thousand francs, per... ... code of their own for nephews and sons and brothers. Mlle. Armande was in Venice; she saw the lines of fairy palaces that stand on either side of the...

...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you not one of the mo...

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My Dear Strunz: I Should Beungrateful If I Did Not Set

By: Honoré de Balzac

...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring 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 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... ...n Europe. Its Libro d’Oro dates from before the Crusades, from a time when Venice, a survivor of Imperial and Christian Rome which had flung itself in... ...llen into utter ruin. Among the gondoliers who serve the En- glish—to whom history here reads the lesson of their future fate—there are descendants of... ... the elder branch vanished from Venice thirty years before the fall of the Republic, condemned for various crimes more or less criminal. The branch on... ... one who could have found courage enough to study him, would have seen his history written by base passions on this noble clay degraded to mud. Here w... ... would be a radical cure,” replied the physician. “The Genoese regrets his republic, the Milanese pines for his independence, the Piemontese longs for...

...Excerpt: My dear Strunz:--I should be ungrateful if I did not set your name at the head of one of the two tales I could never have written but for your patient kindness and care. Accept this as my grateful acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried--perhaps not very successfully-- to initiate ...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...U nder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circ... ...wn as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itse... ...as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself ... ...f delightful. Those that I have in mind in be ginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implemen... ... history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English cou... ...given it marching orders and it had been trudging over the sandy plains of a history of German Thought. Suddenly she became aware of a step very diffe... ... a view of French life; and it’s a fact that I want very much to see the new Republic. Mr. Bantling doesn’t care much about the Republic, but he think... ...d to know what one had crossed that odious Atlantic for but to get away from republics. “Why, madam, sitting in the Champs Elysees, opposite to the Pa... ... been announced by Mr. Bantling, who, coming down from Nice while she was at Venice, and expecting to find her in Florence, which she had not yet reach...

...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1; Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in m...

...Table of Contents: CHAPTER 1, 1 -- CHAPTER 2, 10 -- CHAPTER 3, 15 -- CHAPTER 4, 22 -- CHAPTER 5, 28 -- CHAPTER 6, 38 -- CHAPTER 7, 46 -- CHAPTER 8, 54 -- CHAPTER 9, 60 -- CHAPTER 10, 66 -- CHAPTER 11, 77 -- CHAPTER 12, 83 -- CHAPTE...

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Catherine de Medici

By: Honoré de Balzac

...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley 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 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... ...ositions (which are, as it were, the arabesques of hy- pothesis) while the history most important to the present day, that of the Reformation, is full... ...en might properly be dedicated to an author who has written so much on the history of the Reformation; while at the same time I offer to the character... ..., aware of treachery among the leaders of the Catholic party, foreseeing a republic in the Calvinist party, Catherine employed the most dangerous but ... ...nd the Reformers (the Radicals of those days) who dreamed of an impossible republic—like those of our time; who have, however, nothing to reform. Cons... .... Thus Pope and emperor were prompted by the same sentiment. At this epoch Venice had the commerce of the world; Rome had its moral govern- ment; Ital...

...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the ...

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A Little Tour in France

By: Henry James

...ERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James 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 a... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...rs in the current of the Loire. Some of the most striking events of French history have occurred on the banks of that river, and the soil it waters bl... ...on. And he was, moreover, the product of a soil into which a great deal of history had been trodden. Balzac was genuinely as well as affectedly monarc... ... for it; and if the hopes of another restoration are in the follies of the Republic, a little reflection on that elo- quence of ruin ought to put the ... ... has that perfect grace. This excellent creature used to crook his arm, in Venice, when I stepped into my gondola; and I now laid my hand on that memb... ...provinces I rarely encountered a well-dressed male. Can it be possible the republics are unfavorable to a certain attention to one’s boots and one’s b...

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New York

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...CS S ERIES PUBLICATION New York by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...S ERIES PUBLICATION New York by James Fenimore Cooper 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... ... mouth of the Hudson—a name that is more ancient and better adapted to the history , associations, and con- venience of the place than any other—conti... ...lated, or , if contemplated, attempted, they have been dead letters in the history of its progress. We are not aware that Government has ever ex- pend... ...the objects with which he had been familiar in London and Paris, and Rome, Venice, Naples, etc., and feeling how very provincial was the place where h... ... political power, aristocracy being, in truth, more closely assimilated to republicanism than democracy. Republicanism means the sover- eignty of publ... ...many heresies ap- pear to us to have crept into the political creed of the Republic, purely from the struggles of faction. When men have a specific an...

...Excerpt: The increase of the towns of Manhattan, as, for the sake of convenience, we shall term New York and her adjuncts, in all that contributes to the importance of a great commercial mart, renders them one of the most remarkable p...

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Beauchamp's Career

By: George Meredith

...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ies Publication Beauchamp’s Career 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 person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...d ride and fish and shoot, and breed largely: we were athletes with a fine history and a full purse: we had first-rate sporting guns, unrivalled park-... ...en, whose high, stout, Western castle had weathered our cyclone periods of history without changeing hands more than once, and then but for a short ye... ...xistence of heroes: but this, very likely, is noth- ing more than a fit of Republicanism in the nursery, and a deposition of the leading doll for lack... ... during the interregnum. Nursery Legitimists will be against him to a man; Republicans likewise, after a queer sniff at his preten- sions, it is to be... ...act upon the spontaneous sentiments of a loving relative, and join them in Venice to watch over his nephew’s recovery. Already M. Nevil was stron- ger...

...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some cr...

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The Research Magnificent

By: H. G. Wells

... (1915) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...RIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...chool, and Benham, after some self-examination, professed an atheisti- cal republicanism rather in the manner of Shelley. This brought him into open c... ...e manner of Shelley. This brought him into open conflict with Roddles, the History Master. Roddles had discovered these theological controver- sies in... ... very clearly. His struggle with fear was the very beginning of his soul’s history. It continued to the end. He had hardly decided to lead the noble l... ...y had to be united in spite of all the rotten little dukes and princes and republics, just as Germany had to be united in spite of its scores of kingd... ... in North Italy with his mother, and escaped from the glowing lassitude of Venice for some days of climbing in the Eastern Alps. In January, in an out...

Excerpt: The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells.

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