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Man with No Name

By: Wally Amos

...CENSORED* How the founder of the Cookie Company lost everything, including his nome - and turned adv... ...ame Turn Lemons Into Lemonade by Wally Amos with Camilla Denton Aslan Publishing Lower Lake, California U.s.A. Published by AsIan Publishing... ...ng P.O. Box 108 Lower Lake, CA 95457 (707) 995-1861 For a free catalog of all our titles, or to order more copies of this book please call (800)... ...or to order more copies of this book please call (800) 275-2606. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Amos, Wally. Man with no name:... ...opy, recording or otherwise, with­ out prior written permission from Asian Publishing, Lower Lake, California, USA, with the exception of short excer... ... husband and wife team of Dawson Church and Brenda Plowman, who own AsIan Publishing. Daw­ son's insightful and steady editing, and Brenda's careful ... ...ameless) Amos for a year. They had a good track record of running service companies, but they were , not able to master the demands of a retail ope... ...re's Gateway, Portola set up a ven­ ture capital firm to locate struggling companies, buy them, turn them around, then sell them for a profit. The Gr... ...iving and loving. 93 94 • Man with No Name We contracted with various companies to make dolls, T-shirts, cookie jars and other fun accessories. ...

...The story of how the founder of the Famous Amos Cookie Company lost everything, including his name----and turned adversity into opportunity. This revealing book chronicles Wally's loss of the cookie empire that he had built, to the ope...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...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... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ... About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of r... ...y weekly called the "World". Following a crossword craze launched by a nascent publishing company called "Simon and Schuster" in 1924, the Sun... ...y criticized when it was first published that, fora few years thereafter he ceased publishing altogether. http://www-gap.dcs.st- and.ac.uk/~hist... ...954 and The Nobel prize for Peace in 1962. http://www.nobel.se/ Nokia Some companies have at least nine lives, it would seem. Nokia was fou... ...ing the presidency of Warren G. Harding. It involved the secret leasing to private companies of oil-containing tracts owned by the Navy, mainly in ... ... Tel- Aviv, Israel. 1982 to 1985 Senior positions with the Nessim D. Gaon Group of Companies in Geneva, Paris and New-York (NOGA and APROFIM SA): ...

Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know : About Where to Invest Your Money

By: Lillian R. Villanova

...t your money! A Practical Step-by-Step Guide to Navigating the world of high yield, low risk Tax Lien and Tax Deed Sales Includes Gloss... ...ounting or tax advice. When in doubt, the reader is cautioned to seek the advice of the appropriate professional. © 2001 by Lillian R. Villanova. ... ... professional. © 2001 by Lillian R. Villanova. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, restored in a retrieval system, or ... .....................135 ix Preface Ever think about how banks and insurance companies invest their money? Ever think about how much money they ... ... paying you. What most people don’t know is that, for decades, banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions have been making Tax Def... ...each, FL 32136 or email me at: successteam@hotmail.com Additionally, I will be publishing quarterly updates to this book as needed. For additional... ...ery day by savvy investors who know how to market their properties. As to title companies and their seeming reluctance to immediately insure these ... ...t, Ketchikan, Kobuk, Kodiak, Matanuska- Susitna, Nome, Outer Ketchikan, Prince of Wales, Seward, Sitka, Skagway-Yakutat, Southeast Fairbanks, Upper U...

...It’s time to step out of the box and shift your paradigm. It’s time to put everything you know about a high rate of return being equal to high risk to the side. What I’m about to tell you could turn the way you think about investing upside down. A...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

... ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: ht... ...ng business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related ... ... This letter constitutes a permission to reprint or mirror any and all of the materials mentioned or linked to herein subject to appropriate cred... ... AUTHOR BIO: Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the... ...om The Articles (please scroll down to review them): E-books and e-publishing The Future of Electronic Publishing I. The Disintermediati... ...ontact Info: palma@unet.com.mk; samvaknin@gmail.com E-BOOKS AND E-PUBLISHING The Future of Electronic Publishing First published by Unite... ...tes to every information product, no matter how superior. Web based media companies (such as Salon and Britannica.com) have been experimenting with p... ... Sam Vaknin Are content brokers - publishers, distributors, and record companies - a thing of the past? In one word: disintermediation The... ...similar labour market trends. But distributors, publishers, and record companies are not going to vanish. They are going to metamorphose. This is...

...Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....

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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... ..." "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 ... ...NDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM T... ... FAMOUS ARTISTS. PUBLISHED AND MANUFACTURED BY HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, PA. ST. LOUIS, MO. ... ... briny liquid. STORIES ABOUT SPECTRAL CREWS. Occasionally the spectres come in companies. The Maine fishermen have a story of the Hascall, a fishing v... ...t. Morgan divided his available force into three battalions, and deployed four companies, about two hundred men, to act as skirmishers to bring on the... ...serve line. Suspecting nothing, the colonists and freebooters marshalled their companies, marched out of the city in good order, took the road to the ... ...tist, John Reinhold Foster and his son, naturalists, William Baily and William Wales, astronomers, and a historiographer. IN A REGION OF INTENSE COLD.... ...third; all except one were broken by the fall, or in some measure defaced. Mr. Wales measured this one, and found it to be fifteen feet in length, and...

...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 -- The first boats -- ...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2... ...to induce people to be authors or to be the investors who put money into the publishing or pharmaceutical business? It is important to pause at this p... .... Rowling is dust, we will all be forbidden from making derivative works, or publishing cheap editions or large-type versions, or simply reproduc- ing... ... the Statute of Anne, the first true copyright legislation, the regulation of publishing was through a set of “privileges” given to printers, not right... ...r daily actions you scrupulously ob- served the rights—all the rights—of the companies that have interests in the texts, tunes, images of celebrities,... ...uld be made, but subsequent changes would be harder and harder as people and companies built their activities around the rules that had been laid down... ...llers the right to define the rules under which the newfangled electric light companies would operate.) There would be no easy counterweight to these p...

...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...trations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), ... ...the Generative Net 14 The business world took up PCs slowly—who could blame companies for ignoring something called “personal computer”? In the early... ...In such a world, people would use smart typewriters for word processing from companies like Brother: all-in-one units with integrated screens and prin... ...mming areas” became relics, and the Hol- lerith model prevailed. Perhaps the companies surmised that little value could come to them from user and thi... ...rue in a completely different setting. He has stud- ied innovation within the publishing industries, and has found cultural barriers to it across studi... ...enying them to the next round of innovators. First among the injured are the publishing industries whose intellectual property’s value is premised on ... ...n-Temple- Wharton Colloquium, as well as a vehement free-for-all on Groklaw. Publishing mavens Will Goodlad, Michael O’Malley, Caroline Michel, and Je...

...xtraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation?and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. (futureoftheinternet.org)...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ...ations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. T... ...own. © 1982 by Joseph Epes Brown. Reprinted by permission of The Crossroad Publishing Company. The Crossroad Publishing Company, New York, 1982. The ... ...ous forms of Depth Psychology. Pierre Janet and Sigmund Freud were already publishing or preparing their major works and it was but a few years before... ...lves. 109 At approximately the same time that William James was giving and publishing his lectures from which the quotations above have been taken, Ca... ...tes from destruction by mining THE SACRED LAND: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES 269 companies, as at Noonkanbah in 1979-80. Even though these places are not at... ...Aboriginal Religions, Nelen Yubu Missiological Unit, Kensington (New South Wales), 1986. Zaehner, R.C.: The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism, Weide...

...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live...

...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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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 ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ...ur government is often directed by rich special interest groups, like oil companies, farmers, unions and even the Native Americans. We admit that lar... ...f oil increases by $5 a barrel? What effect will that have on large steel companies, on every utility, on the local baker, on pension fund interest o... ... they are usually immediately available. ―The U.S. citizens in big companies and in the public sector have health insurance. Older workers ha... ...afraid for our species and our world. It is no wonder that Darwin put off publishing ‗The Origin of the Species‘ for twenty years. He knew it would ... ...about the same time that Austria and France gave up their Catholicism and Wales gave up the Anglican religion. More recently Spain and Italy have gi... ...reedom of speech in the U.S. Constitution dealt with speaking, writing and publishing political ideas.(61) Some have taken it to mean that you can sa...

...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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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005... ...duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indi... ... Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Cultu... ...at least seven cinemas, and it was also common practice for pharmaceutical companies to tour the villages with their cinema vans to show free films on... ... music Yupho 1960. Morton 1974; 1976. Phutharaporn 1998. 44. Davis 1976. Wales 1983. Rajadhon 1961; 1968. Tambiah 1969; 1970. Davis 1976. Klausner ... ... music Yupho 1960. Morton 1974; 1976. Phutharaporn 1998. 44. Davis 1976. Wales 1983. Rajadhon 1961; 1968. Tambiah 1969; 1970. Davis 1976. Klausner ... ... Ekachai Sanitsuda 1990. Behind the Smile: Voices from Thailand. The Post Publishing Co., Bangkok. — 2001. Keeping the Faith: Thai Buddhism at the C... ...ssion for Development, Bangkok. Kukrit, Pramoj 1961. Red Bamboo. Progress Publishing, Bangkok. Kulick, Elliot – Dick Wilson 1992. Thailand’s Turn: ... ...1st Century. NGO-Coordinating Committee on Rural Development. Bangkok. Wales, H. G. Quaritch 1983. Divination in Thailand. The Hopes and Fears of ...

...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. Th...

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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... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ... and Outer awareness. Science practices this double standard. So do lumber companies and mining companies, and chemical companies. Their adverti... ... natural resources cheaply to other countries? Do they allow other country’s companies to come in and take over their own hydroelectric power plants... ...ations… so one company, one corporation can become more successful than other companies. So one person can become richer than another person. By ke... ...lessly fighting and warring with their immediate neighbors: Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and France, and Holland. Their addiction to beef and ale. The... ... all the media: all newspapers, radio stations, TV stations, journalists, all publishing houses, all editors, all authors, all schools, colleges, un...

...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 aspects a...

...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 Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...e University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classic... ...al material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The Univer... ...10. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The University of Oregon. For nonprofit and educational uses only. Send comments and corr... ...was in time remedied by another kinde of raving. For himselfe avowing and publishing aforehand the infirmitie he was subject unto, the contention of ... ... an ill opinion, are rare, noble, and Philosophicall conditions. Being in companies he shall be put in minde, to cast his eyes round about, and ever... ...esires be kept under) let a yong man boldly be made fit for al Nations and companies; yea, if need be, for al disorders and surfetings; let him acqua... ...das punished those for wicked that were convicted to have frequented lewd companies. There is nothing so dis-sociable and sociable as man, the one f... ...mer of them; and they have some reason, being only hired to that end, and publishing nothing but their tittle-tattle to aime at nothing else so much... ...himselfe. And all just occasions are glorious enough; his owne conscience publishing them sufficiently to all men. Gloria nostra et testimonium cons...

...no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my forces are not capable of any such desseigne. I have vowed the same to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends: to the end, that losing me (which they are likely to do ere long), they may therein find some lineaments of my conditions a...

...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule ...

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The Prince and the Pauper

By: Mark Twain

...tronic Classics Series Publication The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State Universi... ...ion of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this d... ...lassics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication pr... ... by Mark Twain Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, to Lord Cromwell, on the birth of the Prince of Wales (afterward Edward VI.). From t... ...revellers making merry around them. There was no talk in all England but of the new baby, Edward Tudor, Prince of Wales, who lay lapped in silks and s... ...at fickle crowd snatch off their hats then. You should have heard them cheer, and shout, “Long live the Prince of Wales!” The soldiers presented arms ... ...d with minever; then a deputation of aldermen, in their scarlet cloaks; and then the heads of the different civic companies, in their robes of state. ... ...e bar, a fine of 3,000 pounds, and imprisonment for life. Three years after- wards he gave new offence to Laud by publishing a pam- phlet against the ...

...Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom?s early life. III. Tom?s meeting with the Prince. IV. The Prince?s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The question ...

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A Child's History of England

By: Charles Dickens

...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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 ... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...who gave battle to the Romans, with his army, among the mountains of North Wales. ‘This day,’ said he to his sol diers, ‘decides the fate of Britain!... ...r Puritan named Stubbs, and a poor bookseller named Page, for writing and publishing a pamphlet against it. Their right hands were chopped off for th... ...over again, but, at this very time, he did the mean and dissembling act of publishing his first answer and not his second—merely that the people might... ...d poundage, and increased them as he thought fit. He granted monopolies to companies of merchants on their paying him for them, notwithstanding the gr... ...n and A Child’s Histroy of England 402 gentlemen in rich dresses, by City companies, train bands, drummers, trumpeters, the great Lord Mayor, and the... ... the King of France, while he pocketed his money. As—notwithstand ing his publishing two papers in favour of Popery (and not likely to do it much ser...

...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Irela...

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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Ha... ...TE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...a guinea a week to carry out his later project of a solitary tramp through Wales. From July to No- vember, 1802, De Quincey then led a wayfarer’s life... ...d money he broke away entirely from his home by exchanging the solitude of Wales for the greater wilderness of London. Failing there to raise money on... ...French domination had prospered. The mail-coach, as the national organ for publishing these mighty events, thus diffusively influential, became itself... ... sluggish and irregular stage-coaches, the property of private persons and companies, by a new system of government coaches, in connexion with the Pos... ...istorian; one of his chief works is the Itinerarium Cambrica, or Voyage in Wales. 47 2 QUARTERING: De Quincey’s derivation of this word in his footnot... ...t nation, and, 4thly, in the function, almost a consecrated func- tion, of publishing and diffusing through the land the great political events, and e...

...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lan...

.................................... 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY................................................................................................ 30 SECTIO...

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...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... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...m cum dignitate, he negotiated with the government, whom he had alarmed by publishing the secrets which he had stolen. He succeeded. He sold himself t... ...ing to be waylaid by his ghost? But it is not that which startles him from publishing the secret demur which his heart prompts, upon hearing false pra... ...gency would then settle (ipso facto of that incapacity) upon the Prince of Wales; overlooking altogether the case in which there should be no Prince o... ...les; overlooking altogether the case in which there should be no Prince of Wales, and the case in which such a Prince might be as incapable, from yout... ...the office, as his father from dis- ease. Mr. Pitt denied that a Prince of Wales simply as such, and apart from any moral fitness which he might posse... ...sisted in living’ too long for the peace of an annuity office. So fare all companies East and West, and all annuity offices, that stand opposed in int...

Excerpt: The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE.....................

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles D... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free... ...arles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Documen... ... over the hill-slopes, and past the waterfall, and down the gullies where the land drains off into the ocean, the scattered quarrymen and fishermen in... ...s, he had left it where it was. It was the kind and wholesome face I have made mention of as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to se... ...but I doubt if they will ever do their Master’s service half so well, in all the time they last, as the Heavens have seen it done in this bleak spot u... ...de wood, are not eminently prepossessing, but are much less objectionable. There is a tramp-fellowship among them. They pick one another up at resting... ...throwing of stones at the windows of railway carriages in motion—an act of wanton wickedness with the very Arch-Fiend’s hand in it—had become a crying... ...ce from horseflesh through the whole length and breadth of the scale. This pledge will be in course of administration to all teetotal processionists, ...

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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. With an Introduction. By James M'Cune Smith

By: Frederick Douglas

...blication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Por- table Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...t he has expended twelve thousand dollars of his own hard earned money, in publishing this paper, a larger sum than has been contributed by any one in... ...ion is situated on Wye river—the river receiving its name, doubtless, from Wales, where the Lloyds originated. They (the Lloyds) are an old and hon- o... ... most brutal chastisement. Under his heavy blows, blood flowed freely, and wales were left on my back as large as my little finger. The sores on my ba... ...E’S ESCAPE ABOUT AS DANGEROUS AS POSITIVE EVIDENCE—WANT OF WISDOM SHOWN IN PUBLISHING DETAILS OF THE ESCAPE OF THE FUGITIVES—PUBLISHED AC- COUNTS REAC... ... might clear himself of the chains and fetters of slavery. The practice of publishing every new invention by which a slave is known to have escaped fr... ...n of the people, and the threatened enactment of a law compelling railroad companies to respect the rights of travel- ers. Hon. Charles Francis Adams ...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...eat nation; and, 4thly, in the function, almost a consecrated function, of publishing and diffusing through the land the great political events, and e... ...lasquez, who had in 1623 executed a portrait of Charles I. (then Prince of Wales), was amongst those who in the three or four following years minister... ...ssing the violated equi- librium to our feelings, we subscribed throughout Wales to extort six horses from the astonished innkeepers, most of whom dec... ...n forty years old) is universally supposed to have read, which for him was publishing, his history. In this work two insinu- ations of the same kind o... ... tyranny; for, the captains and *Originally, it seems, there were fourteen companies (or capitanerias) settled by imperial diplomas in the mountains o... ...hey had gradually swelled into a train of sixteen hundred, in- cluding two companies of dragoons, who had joined them by the emperor’s orders at one o...

...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought ...

... I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................................

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... publication of any book which interests them is secured at once; and this publishing influ- ence passes downwards; but rare, indeed, is the inverse p... ...t fancy; since the summit of a mountain, like Plinlimmon or Cader Idris in Wales, like Skiddaw or Helvellyn in England, constitutes a central object o... ... be ready for sunrise—a common practice with tourists both in Switzerland, Wales, Cumberland, &c.; but, as all must see who take the trouble to reflec... ...miles after leaving Shrewsbury, somewhere about Oswestry, it entered North Wales; a stage farther brought us to the celebrated vale of Llangollen; and... ...- lantly threw themselves upon the most trying services in ad- vance. Some companies of the Donegal militia, not muster- ing above 200 men, marched im...

...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to di...

...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...f Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is... ...d His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...he blood royal, should be exempt from serving for a year in one of his two companies of musketeers; and passing afterwards through the ordeal of being... ...e- quence to serve longer. Thereupon the King demanded in which of the two companies he wished to put me; and my 8 Saint-Simon father named that comm... ...King relied much upon the information given him by the captains of the two companies of Muske- teers, as to the young men who served in them. I have r... ...ant. The King told him that he might die in peace respecting the Prince of Wales, whom he would recognise as King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. T... ...de promptly, if not publicly. It was seen, that to recognise the Prince of Wales was to act in direct opposition to the recognition of the Prince of O... ...w not what confused murmurs, the origin of which could not be pointed out, publishing that either the State or Chamillart must perish; that already hi...

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Redgauntlet

By: Sir Walter Scott

...ssics Series Publication Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... in the text. The play was acted in presence of Charles II, then Prince of Wales, in 1641. The catch in the text has been happily set to music.] As th... ...useful in this matter, either by ad- vertising for Mr. Latimer as missing, publishing a reward, or otherwise, I will obey your respected instructions,... ...e Highlands—you’ll as soon get a grunt from a dead sow as any comfort from Wales or Cheshire. You think because the pot is boiling, that no scum but y... ...led, but he was obliged to go on a pilgrimage to Saint Winifred’s Well, in Wales.’ (Here Dick gave a short dry cough, which, as if he had found it bet... ...ile she found it impossible to repress it. About this time the Independent Companies, formed for the pres- ervation of the peace of the Highlands, wer...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...fe on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...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... ...he area of its drainage basin is as great as the combined areas of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Aus tria, It... ...ife I would have. Two miles away, several regi ments were in camp, and two companies of U.S. cavalry. When I learned that Captain Blakely, of Compan... ... teller. Not to seem partial, I made friends and told fortunes among all the companies garrisoned there; but I gave Company C the great bulk of my att... ...swiftly all about America and England, and through the great English reprint publishing houses of Germany—as witness the experience of Mr. Cable and U... ...rm, and an admirable paid fire department, consisting of six hook and ladder companies, four steam fire engines, and thirty churches. Davenport is the...

...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,00...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the First T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited ... ...es P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William ... ... First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...alleys ready to descend on Brouage is confirmed as certain; they carry two companies of foot. M. de Mercure is at Nantes. The Sieur de la Courbe said ... ...her opposite) have sometimes wrought the same effect.”—] Edward, Prince of Wales (the same who so long governed our Guienne, a personage whose conditi... ... let a young man, in God’s name, be ren- dered fit for all nations and all companies, even to debauch- ery and excess, if need be; that is, where he s... ... think to derive any great renown from bab- bling and prating; even to the publishing of their private letters to their friends, and so withal, that t... ...ater and of greater worth than he.” In the battle of Crecy, the Prince of Wales, being then very young, had the vanguard committed to him: the main s...

Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

............................................................................................................................................. 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ...................................................................................................................................... 9 THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE .....................................................

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Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since

By: Sir Walter Scott

...n Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...‘The Sidier Dhu? the black soldier; that is what they call the independent companies that were raised to keep peace and law in the Highlands. Vich Ian... ...ine these forces, from having ob- tained command of one of the independent companies raised by Government to preserve the peace of the Highlands. Whil... ...too far, in making proposals to one of the young ladies of the family, and publishing the banns betwixt her and him- self in the public church. NOTE 7... ... The Jacobite sentiments were general among the western coun- ties, and in Wales. But although the great families of the Wynnes, the Wyndhams, and oth...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...ry Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... work and play, enjoying the pageantry of the christening of the Prince of Wales, and cheering himself hoarse and half-fran- tic when the King of Prus... ...ing interest at home. There was some- thing in his nature that shrank from publishing accounts of individual pupils as a breach of confidence, as much... ... between Sir William Wiseman and Sir John Young, the Governor of New South Wales, resulting in an offer from the latter of a grant of land on Norfolk ... ...f practical Christianity in the morals of our peasants of the west, and of Wales especially. ‘It is not that one should acquiesce in what is wrong her... ...he knowledge of the thought which, in the mind of an accurate thinker, ac- companies the utterance of the word. ‘I should think that three-fourths of ...

...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... a direct truth spiritual and intellectual; an accident of—I sup- pose—the publishing business acquiring a symbolic meaning from its negative nature. ... ...NTANCE with Stephen Crane was brought about by Mr. Pawling, partner in the publishing firm of Mr. William Heinemann. One day Mr. Pawling said to me: “... ... head sea and bound for the gateway of Dover Straits. Singly, and in small companies of two and three, they emerged from the dull, colourless, sunless... ...In my time I have never been able to detect any faint hearts in the ships’ companies with whom I have served in vari- ous capacities. But I reflected ... ...ted them from the nation’s admiring gaze. Those scat- tered distant ships’ companies seemed to the eyes of the earth only one degree removed (on the r... ...n; this was a real casualty of the sea. The indigna- tion of the New South Wales Premier flashed tele- graphically to Canada is perfectly uncalled-for...

.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

... SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ted is a little quintessential book better and cheaper than any publisher, publishing for gain, could possibly produce, a book so good that imitation ... ...practically reserved, who will own some great business, perhaps, or direct companies, and worm your way through the tough hide of style and restraint ... ...e of activity. It may be objected that the organization of bookselling and publishing is the discussion of trivial details in the intel- lectual life ... ...al literature of the subject.* Such an Association in the present state of publishing would become—in Great Britain, at any rate—quite inevitably a Pu... ...lmost any general public service, I would say, “give me the company.” With companies one may hope to deal later; they will not stand in the way of dev... ...l such public services, I would prefer to see these things in the hands of companies, and I would stipulate only for the maximum pub- licity for their...

...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development an...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...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... ... war, not only private people of the best credit, but some of the greatest companies in London, commonly borrowed at five per cent. who, before that, ... ...ds illustrated by figures to explain them. In the history of the arts, now publishing by the French Academy of Sciences, several of them are actually ... ... of London would afford a considerable rent. In many parts of Scotland and Wales it affords none. Barren timber for building is of great value in a po... ...r thirty years, been performed in Scotland, by the erection of new banking companies in almost every considerable town, and even in some country villa... ...te, and gold still seldomer. But though the conduct of all those different companies has not been unexcep- tionable, and has accordingly required an a... ...s- tence from their wages. A great revenue, half a million, perhaps {Since publishing the two first editions of this book, I have got 594 The Wealth ...

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...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

...ublication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...noble ladies bidden to the ball in honor of the newly-imported Princess of Wales. Mary Anne Walkley had worked without intermission for 26 1/2 hours, ... ... co- operation generally. He points out that in such cases the dif- ferent companies or authorities concerned each appoint a del- egate, and that the ... ...is point in his book on “The Evolution of Modern Capitalism.”[Walter Scott Publishing Company, 1906, p. 262.] He says: The economic tap-root, the chie... ...ere still remain some not altogether easy problems. Take, for example, the publishing of books. There will not, under Socialism, be private publishers... ... an evil. Probably some similar method would be desirable as re- gards the publishing and performing of new music. What we have been suggesting will, ...

...HE SYNDICALIST REVOLT............................................................................................................ 43 PART II PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE ................................................................................................................... 60 CHAPTER IV WORK AND PAY .......................................................................

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Biographical Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...IES PUBLICATION Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...at poet’s fame, of rank and 13 Thomas de Quincey of genius. The Prince of Wales and John Milton; the first being then about sixteen years old, the ot... ...dent, it is notorious that mere legal necessity and usage would compel all companies of actors, upon coming into any town, to seek, in the first place... ... successively in 1716, 1717, 1718; and in 1720, Pope completed the work by publishing the fifth volume, containing five books, and the sixth, containi... ... Arbuthnot most wittily called Curll “one of the new terrors of death.” By publishing all, Pope would have disarmed Curll beforehand; and that was in ... ...hat, having a public and a partisan interest, (the birth of that Prince of Wales, who was known twenty-seven years afterwards as the Pretender,) would... ... of ‘diddle,’ I apprehend that he was too well acquainted with joint-stock companies!” Com. “And your opinion is, that he may have diddled Mr. Lamb?” ...

...Excerpt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he ...

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The $30,000 Bequest : And Other Stories

By: Mark Twain

...st and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. 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 ... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...diently thank ful for the bequest, and just the same as confessing it and publishing it, right in the face of the prohibition. For the rest of the da... ... whole fortune in a purchase of all the railway systems and coal and steel companies in the country on a margin, and she was now trembling, every Sab ... ... In one place, where a busy little city with banks and newspapers and fire companies and a mayor and aldermen had been, was nothing but a wide expanse... ... better than reproduce the article in full in his next monthly Memoranda. (Publishing the above paragraph thus, gives me a sort of authority for repro... ...same with the army; the same with the literary and journalistic craft; the publishing craft; the cod fishery craft; Standard Oil; U. S. Steel; the cla... ...stes in mementos. It accounts for the large private trade in the Prince of Wales’s hair, which chambermaids were able to drive in that article of comm...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religio...

.... 134 EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE...................................................................................... 137 THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE ................................................................................................................................ 143 THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES ............................................................

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Speeches: Literary and Social

By: Charles Dickens

...n ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. 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 ... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...much delight to honour. Elsewhere, through the agency of the great railway companies, some of which are bestirring themselves in this matter with a ga... ..., as it was established nine years ago, that this is the ninth occasion of publishing from this chair the banns between this institution and the publi... ...the large central room, and covers were laid for 200 guests. The Prince of Wales acknowledged the toast of his health and that of the Princess, the Du... ... recent death of Daniel Maclise) to which his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales made allusion, and to which the president referred with the eloquence...

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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends ; Selected and Edited with Notes and Introd. By Sidney Colvin : Volume 1

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ity. 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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...the Highlands. I. THIRTY YEARS’ INTERV AL (1) Rob Roy. (2) The Independent Companies: the Watches. (3) Story of Lady Grange. (4) The Military Roads, a... ...ted the Picture Gallery, I hoped they might amuse you. You see, we do some publishing hereaway. I shall hope to see you in town in May. – Always yours... ... that of Prince Alfred; and Willie, still a little sulky, as the Prince of Wales. We were all in a buck basket about half-way between the swing and th... ...beg! Here is my beggary:– 1. Sellar’s Trial. 2. George Borrow’s Book about Wales. 3. My Grandfather’s Trip to Holland. 4. And (but this is, I fear, im... ...e always said: go on. The draw- ing of character is a different thing from publishing the details of a private career. No one objects to the first, or...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...f all kinds, for he had written Academic Prize Essays, struggled for India Companies, given dinners to Philosophes, and ‘realised a fortune in twenty ... ...s; Books on the Prussian Monarchy, on Cagliostro, on Calonne, on the Water Companies of Paris:—each book comparable, we will say, to a bituminous alar... ...ismissed. Worst of all, the Gardes Francaises seem indisposed to act: ‘two Companies of them do not fire when ordered!’ (Histoire Parlementaire, ii. 2... ... of baulked Patriotism, what with closed theatres, and Proclamations still publishing themselves by sound of trumpet, the fervour of men’s minds, this... ... together. A Glorious Revolution, oversetting State-Prisons and Feudalism; publishing, with out- burst of Federative Cannon, in face of all the Earth,... ... drawn up, the same week, in all plainness of speech; waiting the time for publishing it: to which Secret Protest his signa- ture, and that of other h...

...E ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................................

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...ny Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel ... ...ench printing-press, save for an edition issued at Troyes in 1613, gave up publishing Rabelais, and the work passed to foreign countries. Jean Fuet re... ...ter and a Robin Goodfellow; for under this name am I welcome in all choice companies of Pantagruelists. It was upbraided to Demosthenes by an envious ... ...arched forward towards a pass or ford called the Gue de Vede, except seven companies of foot and two hundred lancers, who, staying there, broke down t... ...here all merry. How is it, then, that they exclude the monks from all good companies, calling them feast-troublers, marrers of mirth, and disturbers o... ...a competent dimension of its beams, as if they had been the ribs and chain-wales of the keel; which was a pleasant sight. The physeter then giving up ... ...vering, the poor dog fled to Friar John, who was then sitting by the chain-wales of the starboard side of the ship, and prayed him heartily to take pi...

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Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

...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... ...a manner in Johnson’s life of him. Johnson was certainly well warranted in publishing his nar- rative, however offensive it might be to the lady and h... ...ting this name: ‘What must be done, Sir, will be done. When I was to begin publishing that pa- per, I was at a loss how to name it. I sat down at 71 ... ...with Mrs. Williams, who told us a story of second sight, which happened in Wales where she was born. He listened to it very attentively, and said he s... ...y to the Hebrides, and am leaving the press to take an- other journey into Wales, whither Mr. Thrale is going, to take possession of, at least, five h... ...be a fine talker; so he goes to Buxton, and such places, where he may find companies to listen to him. And, Sir, he is a valetudinarian, one of those ... ...e of this, Sir Joshua observed, was, that his common con- versation in all companies was such as to se- cure him universal attention, as something abo...

...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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The History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

By: Friedrich Schiller

...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...h Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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... ..., and with it the policy of Henry the Great. The marriage of the Prince of Wales with Henrietta of France, established a close union between the two c... ...nction and about 4,000 men were killed in the field of battle; and several companies of foot, in the flight, who had thrown themselves into the town-h... ...eliverance he had engaged in this war, Gustavus was under the necessity of publishing to the world a justification of his own conduct. He had attacked... ...n earnest to besiege it. The garrison consisted of not more than fif- teen companies, mostly newly-raised soldiers; although that number was more than...

...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 first publication of the original works; a...

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