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............................................................................................................................. 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR .......................................................................................................... 47 CHAPTER IV: WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS .......................................................................

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...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope 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... ..................................... 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ................................................................ ......................... 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LA W COURTS AND LA WYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ........................................... 242 CHAPTER XII: ... ...uence of secession. In this house the Vice- President of the United States acts as President, but has by no means so hard a job of work as his brother... ...n Affairs, which position is as near akin to that of a British minister in Parliament as can be attained under the existing Constitution of the States... ...is to go for nothing; she merely resolves that such shall be the case, and acts accordingly. An observer could not but perceive that in those days Con... ...ulating in the 277 Trollope United States is less than that of the United Kingdom. In making any comparison between them, I am obliged to arrive at f... ...els franked by members of Congress. The gross postal revenue of the United Kingdom was in the last year, in round figures, £3,358,000, exclusive of a ...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...

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... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve 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... ...e eleven years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our writ... ...on, all of whom were young men, in building upon the Inde- pendence of the United States that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever... ...ereof do enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and officers, from time to time, as shall be thought m... ...hem are the various charters granted by the King of England, and the first acts of the local governments. See also the analysis of all these charters ... ...public affairs of chance, but by a chance which recurs every day. When the Parliament of Paris remonstrated, or refused to enregister an edict, or whe... ... d’Etat in France was a great tribunal, established in the cen- tre of the kingdom, which exercised a preliminary and some- what tyrannical jurisdicti... ...the Confederation is therefore more cen- tralized in this respect than the kingdom of Spain. It is true that the power of the Crown in France or in Sp...

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...................

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...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V... ... Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ly different under the different ecclesiastical administrations of the two kingdoms. And the church courts of Scotland do not exist in England. We wri... ...what agencies and influence? III. What were the immediate results of these acts? IV . What are the remote results yet to be apprehended? I. First, the... ...h a parish clergyman is created, subdivides itself into several successive acts. The ini- tial act belongs to the patron of the benefice: he must ‘pre... ...ealt with by a secular law. But the rest were acts which belonged not to a kingdom of this world. ‘These,’ with a newborn scrupulosity never heard of ... ...ages by law. What law? The law as laid down in Lord Aberdeen’s late Act of Parliament. This statement should, historically speaking, have found itself... ... is thus al- ready made to what is technically known as Voluntaryism. The ‘United Secession,’ that is the old collective body of Scottish Dissenters, ... ...uation, combined with one of their two characteristic principles. The same United Secession journal openly anticipates an- other and more diffusive re...

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

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

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...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 ... ...we have is that in 1554 he received the appoint- ment of councillor in the Parliament of Bordeaux; in 1559 he was at Bar-le-Duc with the court of Fran... ... there being some sort of relationship be- tween them), “since I have been united to you by marriage, which is one of the most weighty and sacred ties... ...phy. He then took my hand, and continued: “Brother, friend, there are many acts of my life, I think, which have cost me as much difficulty as this one... ...ut unite. Y ou perceive what disasters our quarrels have brought upon this kingdom, and I anticipate still worse mischiefs; and in your goodness and w... ...hall happen, let us determine by valour.”—Cicero, De Offic., i. 12] In the kingdom of Ternate, amongst those nations which we so broadly call barbaria... ...And, come the worst that can come, the distribution and variety of all the acts of my comedy are performed in a year. If you have observed the revolut... ... government is a structure composed of divers parts and members joined and united together, with so strict connection, that it is impos- 166 Essays: ...

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...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... ...rgan of the downtrodden, edited and published by one of themselves, in the United States. 13 Frederick Douglas The result of this visit was, that on ... ... Frederick Douglas The result of this visit was, that on his return to the United States, he established a newspaper. This proceeding was sorely again... ...e drives her from his presence without redress, or the hope of redress, he acts, generally , from motives of policy, rather than from a hardened natur... ...the master insists upon his further speaking, and re- capitulates the many acts of kindness which he has performed toward the slave, and tells him he ... ...od would bless them in basket and in store, and save them, at last, in his kingdom. But I proceed with the argument. It was necessary that right to st... ...isited and lectured in nearly all the large towns and cities in the United Kingdom, and en- joyed many favorable opportunities for observation and in-... ...before him, where to choose;” and poor as may be my opinion of the British parliament, I can- not believe that it will ever sink to such a depth of in...

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... and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

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...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it?” Edmund Burke’s reference in Parliament to the Nantucket Whale Fishery. “Spain —— a great whale stranded... ...n something like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL. “BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANIST... ... slabs laced together, mutually sloped towards each other, and at the apex united in a tufted point, where the loose hairy fibres waved to and fro like... ...ntials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology. Chapter 32 Cetology 139 no doubt to enhance its value... ...ple of Chapter 32 Cetology 143 the Unicornism to be found in almost every kingdom of animated nature. From certain cloistered old authors I have gath... ...d that, if the sperm whale, once struck, is allowed time to rally, he then acts, not so often with blind rage, as with wilful, deliberate designs of d... ...ing flukes. First: Being horizontal in its posi tion, the Leviathan’s tail acts in a different manner from the tails of all other sea creatures. It ne...

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...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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...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... ...nd he begun to shout like this— “Whoo oop! bow your neck and spread, for the kingdom of sorrow’s a coming! Hold me down to the earth, for I feel my po... ...of them that you are allowed to run at all down stream. There’s a law of the United States against it. The river may be rising by the time we get to 1... ...n the earth. Kings are but the hampered servants of parlia ment and people; parliaments sit in chains forged by their constituency; the editor of a n... ..., he promptly resented even the merest sugges tions. Indeed, the law of the United States forbade him to listen to commands or suggestions, rightly c... ...1843 Duke of Orleans “ “ 12 1843 Congress “ “ 12 20 1846 Ben Franklin (No. 6) “ 11 45 1852 Alleghaney ... ... and can never be gods again, but only figureheads, and answerable for their acts like com mon clay. Such benefactions as these compensate the tem p... ...In my terror and misery, I meanly began to sug gest other boys, and mention acts of theirs which were wickeder than mine, and peculiarly needed punis...

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...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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...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 ... ... and may we learn to live with such holiness here that we may hereafter be united for ever in Heaven.’ This letter is marked twice over ‘Only for Papa... ...e may sleep in Him as our hope is this our sister doth, and may be finally united with her in Heaven. Yesterday was a day of great trial to us all: I ... ...don, you know, came back, and acted Marquis Posa in “Don Carlos.” The play acts very much better than it reads. Schiller certainly has great dramatic ... ...ent, viz., that it may compose a Creed for him or herself; that the Spirit acts now in the ordinary, though not less real and heavenly manner; and tha... ...refore, if he is decidedly wrong, it is not for us to judge him. Read his “Kingdom of Christ,” and his early books; but he is on very slippery and dan... ...d to them the Scriptures and spoke to them of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. It was in those private classes that he exercised such wond... ... Curtis Island, and again with a favourable impres- sion; but the Brisbane Parliament had just been prorogued, 421 Yo n g e everyone was taking holid...

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...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley 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... ... in the reign of Louis XIV .; the dwelling, perhaps, of a president of the parliament, or that of a tranquil savant. Its noble free-stone blocks, dam-... ...igitte and Jerome, the former being twenty-seven, the latter twenty-three, united their ex- istence. Brother and sister were bound together by an ex- ... ... at last, a serene and peaceful autumn. The two women were still fur- ther united by the one sentiment that lay within them, namely, their adoration f... ...ffairs; the ministers are less for France than they are for the crown, and parliament has de- termined that the administration shall have, as in Engla... ... men all rose and bowed to Madame Thuillier. “Ah! Celeste, I would I had a kingdom to lay at your feet,” murmured Felix Phellion. The worthy Phellion ... ...ts. But ordinary good conduct is not sufficient; there must be some act or acts of great devotion, and truly Christian self-abnegation.” 203 Balzac “... ...en by the countess to the decora- tion of the room. A woman’s salon is her kingdom, and her absolute domain; there, in the fullest sense of the word, ...

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...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FO...

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...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A A A A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP... ...UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ON... ...ans the Evangelists found wings, as it were, for flying abroad through the kingdoms of the earth; secondly, the Hebraizing of this language, by which ... ...f the national worship:—In our Christian ritual I recognise these separate acts; viz. A, an act of Praise; B, an act of Thanksgiving; C, an act of Con... ... dogs. Hypocrisy, the cringing of sycophants, and the credulities of fear, united to conceal this misotheism; but we may be sure that it was widely di... ...ly, is found the outermost expansion, the centrifugal, of the TO catholic, united with the innermost centripetal of the personal con- sciousness. Had,... ...hristianity, is the power, the demiurgic power of this reli- gion over the kingdoms of human opinion. Did it ever strike the reader, that the Greeks a... ...ers,’ and his horrid ‘short-comings.’ Or, because Lon- don newspapers, and Acts of Parliament, are beginning to be more and more polluted with these b... ...d his horrid ‘short-comings.’ Or, because Lon- don newspapers, and Acts of Parliament, are beginning to be more and more polluted with these barbarism...

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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 what I have to relate can be interesting to th...

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........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...

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... Narrative and Miscellaneous 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... ... least culpable of the set into which accident had thrown him, as regarded acts and probable intentions; and as re- garded palliations from childish y... ...eavenly freight because your earthly freight is lost; and miss not, by any acts of wild and presumptuous despair, that final reunion with your Agnes, ... ...r little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God’— met her eye, and, by the thoughts they awakened, made me f... ...nctuaries of convents, like morning mists touched by earliest sunlight, of kingdoms overshadowing a new world which had been founded by her kinsmen wi... ...or two hundred and twenty years. It is enough that she is reported to have united the stately tread of Andalusian women with the innocent voluptuousne... ...; and the French reporter of Catalina’s memoirs dwells upon the theme. She united, he says, the sweetness of the German lady with the energy of the Ar... ... the reader as merely Pa- gan. Not at all. In England, at the close of the Parliamentary war, it was generally argued—that Providence had decided the ...

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Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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...NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ............................................................................

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...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... the Scottish universities, changing places with Scotsmen lecturing in the United States; I hope that our people may become in all these higher mat- t... ...sent to cry against that city, and call it The bloody city! For though the parliament had the minister one while, and the king another, and much blood... ...g that it cometh from the Lord.” And again: “Consider the little infants, united and joined to the breasts of their nursing moth- ers you will see th... ...ing about the two things differs, objects, moods, faculties concerned, and acts impelled to. Any general assimi- lation is simply impossible: what we ... ...ial feature of the story, and theology plays a vital part therein, yet the acts to which this sort of religion prompts are personal not ritual acts, t... ...so the man 50 The V arieties of Religious Experience is henceforth in the kingdom of heaven. This hell and this heaven are two good safe ways for a m... ...se up, and the gospel is preached to the poor.’ That is the ‘coming of the kingdom,’ or rather in these saving works the kingdom is already there. By ...