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Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.

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...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen a...

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...Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ... any man, he can un- derstand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign age... ... infusions. Every thing the individual sees without him corresponds to his states of mind, and every thing is in turn intelli- gible to him, as his on... ... consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind. They shed an united light on the advancing actor. He is attended as by a visible escort ... ...hen urged from reason and from Scripture a compensation to be made to both parties in the next life. No offence appeared to be taken by the congregati... ...s faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. Why need you choose so painfully yo... ... an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridicu- lous. They acquire democratic manners, they foam at the mouth, they hate and deny. Worse, I ob...

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Excerpt: Treaty On European Union. A new stage in the process of European integration undertaken with the establishment of the European Communities.

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...The Treaty of the European Union The Maastrict Treaty, 7th February, 1992. The Treaty of the European Union... ...f the European Union The Maastrict Treaty, 7th February, 1992. The Treaty of the European Union: The Maastrict Treaty – February 7, 1992 is a publica... ...e Maastrict Treaty – February 7, 1992 is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and withou... ..., THE PRESIDENT OF THE PORTUGUESE REPUB- LIC, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KING- DOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND RESOLVED to mark a n... ...story, their culture and their traditions, DESIRING to enhance further the democratic and effi- cient functioning of the institutions so as to enable ... ...s: TITLE1 COMMON PROVISIONS ARTICLE A By this Treaty, the High Contracting Parties establish among themselves a European Union, hereinafter called “th... ...ner demonstrating consistency and solidarity, relations between the Member States and between their peoples. ARTICLE B The Union shall set itself the ... ...ny new restrictions on transfers connected with the invisible transactions listed in Annex III to this Treaty. The progressive abolition of existing r... ...plenary session when a Mem- ber State or a Community institution that is a party to the proceedings so requests. Should the Court of Justice so reques...

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...A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau Read to the citizens of Concord, Mass., Sunday Evening, October 30, 1859 A Penn Sta... ...A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau Read to the citizens of Concord, Mass., Sunday Evening, October 30, 1859 A Penn State Electronic... ...to the citizens of Concord, Mass., Sunday Evening, October 30, 1859 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Plea for Captain John Brown... ...les in Kansas began, he sent several of his sons thither to strengthen the party of the Free State men, fitting them out with such weapons as he had; ... ...n troop, he observed that he would have been glad to add a chaplain to the list, if he could have found one who could fill that office worthily. It is... ...who could fill that office worthily. It is easy enough to find one for the United States army. I be- lieve that he had prayers in his camp morning and... ...ld fill that office worthily. It is easy enough to find one for the United States army. I be- lieve that he had prayers in his camp morning and evenin... ... State after another, for half the length of the North, conspicuous to all parties, with a price set upon his head, going into a court-room on his way... ...es the honor to rec- ognize him. He needs none of your respect. As for the Democratic journals, they are not human enough to affect me at all. I do no...

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Excerpt: The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill.

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...Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL The Subjection of Women by Jo... ...Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill ... ...ection of Women by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without... ...nts to prove a negative. And even if I could do all and leave the opposite party with a host of unanswered arguments against them, and not a single un... ...reated. Though slaves were no part of the commonwealth, it was in the free states that slaves were first felt to have rights as hu man beings. The St... ...h Revolution, though in England the earlier and better organisation of the democratic classes put an end to it sooner, by establishing equal laws and ... ... why need I go back to Aristotle? Did not the slave owners of the Southern United States maintain the same doctrine, with all the fanaticism with whic... ... it is accepted voluntarily; women make no com plaint, and are consenting parties to it. In the first place, a great number of women do not accept it... ... to queens and em presses, we add regents, and viceroys of provinces, the list of women who have been eminent rulers of man kind swells to a great l...

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Excerpt: Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.

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... play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived playgoers whose point of honor is to deride all official and conventional sermons....

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...THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET By GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posn... ...y GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of ... ...D SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...language, that whenever an abuse becomes oppressive enough to persuade our party parliamentarians that something must be done, they immediately set to... ...ssumption is that the country is in danger, and that the first duty of all parties, politi- cians, and governments is to save it. But as the ef- fect ... ... abject Committee, and by a powerful smell of carnations, heading the long list of playwrights who came there to testify against the censorship, and w... ...es of 1649 to see themselves, as it certainly helped gen- erations of Whig statesmen to see them, in a heroic light; and it unquestionably vindicates... ...festly doomed to the dustbin, the sooner it goes there the better; for the democratic control which naturally suc- ceeds it can easily be limited so a... ...ess and speech are those of pioneers of civilisation in a territory of the United States of America, are seated round the table and on the benches, sh...

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...Excerpt: To the People 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 subjec...

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...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow...

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...Contents Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life .............................................................................. 5 Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function .............................................................................. 14 Chapter Th...

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Excerpt: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by U.S. Grant.

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...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and mos...

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...Excerpt: The subject of this essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of...

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four.

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...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby ...

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...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State... ...A IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia ... ...e Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... .... And of the two atmospheres it is hard to say which was the more fatal to statesmanship. Revolution on the Shelf Heartbreak House was quite familiar ... ... wrath on which many suns go down before it is appeased. Yet it was in the United States of America where nobody slept the worse for the war, that the... ...hat our own militarism and our own political constitution are millennially democratic (which they certainly are not); but when it came to frantic denu... ...rain, complicated by the offended economic sense, produced by the casualty lists. The stupid, the selfish, the narrow-minded, the callous and unimagin... ...o apologize publicly for bawling Pacifist or Pro-German at their opponent. Party leaders seek such followers, who can always be depended on to walk ta... ...que that I cannot mention them without enabling the reader to identify the parties, which would not be fair, as they were no more to blame than thousa...