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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence...

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... An apartment in the DUKE?S palace. [Enter DUKE VINCENTIO, ESCALUS, Lords and Attendants.] DUKE VINCENTIO: Escalus. ESCALUS: My lord. DUKE VINCENTIO: Of government the properties to unfold, Would seem in me to affect speech and discourse; Since I am put to know that your own science Exceeds, in that, the lists of all advice My strength can give you: then no more remains, B...

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... Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is f... ... 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... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...99 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 MEASURE FOR MEASURE William Shakespeare ... .... He—to give fear to use and liberty, Which have for long run by the hideous law, As mice by lions—hath pick’d out an act, Under whose heavy sense you... ...nd other Attendants, behind .] ANGELO: We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, ... ...e in your life Err’d in this point which now you censure him, And pull’d the law upon you. ANGELO: ’Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thi... ...t all, but charity. ANGELO: Pleased you to do’t at peril of your soul, Were equal poise of sin and charity. ISABELLA: That I do beg his life, if it ... ...e upon him! he will dis credit our mystery. Provost: Go to, sir; you weigh equally; a feather will turn the scale. [Exit.] POMPEY: Pray, sir, by yo...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of gr...

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...Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Ch... ...d edited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...ty. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Boswell’s Life of Johnson Life of Johnson ... ...ot distinguish between ignorance and negli- gence; for he would beat a boy equally for not knowing a thing, as for neglecting to know it. He would ask... ... went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up Law’s Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting to find it a dull book (as suc... ...ook (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me; and this was the first occasion of my thinki... ... pany of ladies, particularly at Mr. Walmsley’s, whose wife and sisters-in-law, of the name of Aston, and daughters of a Baronet, were re- markable fo... ...well of you before; but I did not imagine you could have written any thing equal to this.’ Distant praise, from whatever quarter, is not so delightful...