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...arrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...t folio volume, in which were entered all the charges, of whatever nature, involving any serious ten- dency—in fact, all that exceeded a misdemeanor—i... ... Wellington trousers made in the chestnut forest; for, understand that the Papal indulgence, as to this point, runs backwards as well as forwards; it ... ...of this paper have been translated by the Jesuit missionaries. The Emperor states the whole motives of his conduct and the chief incidents at great le... ... sixty or seventy years ago. The canon, being a beneficed clergyman in the Papal church, was naturally an infidel. He wished exceedingly to refute Mos... ...d countenanced by innumer- able books) as to the true historical origin of wars in many notorious instances. If these had arisen on trivial impulses, ... ...d them. If a man has once persuaded himself, that long, costly, and bloody wars had arisen upon a point of ceremony, upon a personal pique, upon a has... ... trade in slaves. And one thing is clear, that when all the causes of war, involving manifest injustice, are banished by the force of European opinion...

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...T wo With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, B B B B By the y the y the y the y the RE RE RE RE REV V V V V. GEOR . GEOR . GEOR . G... ...GILFILLAN AN AN AN AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pe... ...dy, as over the body of Patroclus, there has raged a critical controversy, involving not merely his character as a man, but his claims as a poet. For ... ...rdest things, 42 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 Can pocket states, can fetch or carry kings; A single leaf shall waft an army o’er, Or... ...n knights and squires confound, Or water all the quorum ten miles round? A statesman’s slumbers how this speech would spoil! ‘Sir, Spain has sent a th... ...ry, some religious rage, Barbarian blindness, Christian zeal conspire, And Papal piety, and Gothic fire. Perhaps, by its own ruins saved from flame, S... ...her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll’d, And vanquish’d realms supply recording gold? Here, rising bo... ...o sing of Cæsar’s fame; Meanwhile, permit that my preluding Muse In Theban wars an humbler theme may choose: 50 Of furious hate survivin...

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...ted by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication ... ... Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...ests of Alexander, the massa- cres of Pizarro in a matchbox, and religious wars disorderly, fanatical, and cruel, in the shadows of a helmet. Joyous p... ...maginary sera- glio I have all the women that I have never possessed. Your wars and revolutions come up before me for judgment. What is a feverish fug... ...y, “I can see no halting-place between the unbeliever’s arithmetic and the papal Pater noster. Pshaw! let us drink. Trinq was, I be- lieve, the oracul... ...aphael. I do not want to make either an advocate or a notary of you, but a states- man, who shall be the pride of our poor house … . Good- night,’ he ... ...nflict like a battlefield; I must work day and night; seek interviews with statesmen, surprise their convictions, try to interest them in our affairs,... ...ging the desires of youth; but now I became my own master, and in dread of involving us both in ruin by some piece of negligence, I did not dare to al... ... a presentiment that there would be some inheritance to sample and divide, involving inventories and engrossing; an inheritance rich in fees and deeds...

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

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...E VOLUMES Volume Four A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four is a publication ... ... Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ut a veto on the wishes of a temporal king, or restrained with the fiat of papal supremacy the rebellious sceptre of the Arch-enemy. There, the dark, ... ...dam Kirschenwasser. Thus re- venged himself the Angel of the Odd. [Mabbott states that Griswold “obviously had a revised form” for use in the 1856 vol... ...ffair so delicate—so delicate, I 131 V olume Four repeat, and at the time involving the interests of a third party whose sulphurous resentment I have... ...r. Maelzel. Of late years it has visited the principal towns in the United States. Wherever seen, the most intense curiosity was excited by its appear... ...at the popular preju- dices and vulgar errors in regard to pestilences and wars — errors which were wont to prevail upon every appearance of a comet—w...