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...harge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton , the Pe... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ... MEMPHIAN Kings, Learn how thir greatest Monuments of Fame, And Strength and Art are easily outdone By Spirits reprobate, and in an hour What in an ag... ... veins of liquid fire Sluc’d from the Lake, a second multitude With wondrous Art founded the massie Ore, Severing each kinde, and scum’d the Bullion d... ...sart soile Wants not her hidden lustre, Gemms and Gold; Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can Heav’n shew more? Ou... ...dow from body opaque can fall, and the Aire, No where so cleer, sharp’nd his visual ray To objects distant farr, whereby he soon Saw within kenn a glo... ...em fair with open Front And Brest, (what could we more?) propounded terms Of composition, strait they chang’d thir minds, Flew off, and into strange v... ...that promis’d clearer sight Had bred; then purg’d with Euphrasie and Rue The visual Nerve, for he had much to see; And from the VVell of Life three dr...

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...in the blissful Seat, Sing Heav?nly Muse, that on the secret top Of OREB, or of SINAI, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav?ns and Earth Rose out of CHAOS: Or if SION Hill Delight thee more, and SILOA?S Brook that flow?d Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song, That with no middle flig...

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...of SINAI, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav’ns and Earth Rose out of CHAOS: Or if SIO... ...o soar Above th’ AONIAN Mount, while it pursues 15 Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime. And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before... ...20 Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad’st it pregnant: What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the hi... ...AN Kings, Learn how thir greatest Monuments of Fame, 695 And Strength and Art are easily outdone By Spirits reprobate, and in an hour What in a... ...ns of liquid fire Sluc’d from the Lake, a second multitude With wondrous Art founded the massie Ore, - 16 - BOOK I. Milton: Paradise Lost Sever... ...ile 270 Wants not her hidden lustre, Gemms and Gold; Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can Heav’n shew more? ... ...w from body opaque can fall, and the Aire, No where so cleer, sharp’nd his visual ray 620 To objects distant farr, whereby he soon Saw within ken... ...air with open Front And Brest, (what could we more?) propounded terms Of composition, strait they chang’d thir minds, Flew off, and into strange... ... promis’d clearer sight Had bred; then purg’d with Euphrasie and Rue The visual Nerve, for he had much to see; 415 And from the Well of Life thre...

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...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PU... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... well be a revelation in spite of errors and passions and deliberate human composition, if only it be a true record of the inner experiences of great-... ...ts breast, and thanking Heaven that it hasn’t a single morbid fiber in its composition, would be sure to hide forever from its self-satisfied possesso... ...- nent in proportion to their purity. [They] affect us more than all other compositions. The sentences of the olden time, which ejaculate this piety, ... ...arch, the sense of presence devel- oped in a few moments into a distinctly visualized hal- lucination—but I leave that part of the story out. “I had r... ...- 66 The V arieties of Religious Experience tency,”[24]— and hereupon the visual hallucination came. [24] Journal of the S. P. R., February, 1895, p.... ...ly intelligent 67 William James reporter. He is entirely without internal visual imag- ery and cannot represent light or colors to himself, and is po...

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

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...ION .................................................................................................................................... 61 THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR ................................................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT.....................................................................................

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...some person who contributes to the case mainly a certain amount of criticism and interpretation of it. Again and again, on review, the shorter things in especial that I have gathered into this Series have ranged themselves not as my own impersonal account of the affair in hand, but as my account of somebody?s impression of it--the terms of this person?s access to it and es...

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...erson who contributes to the case mainly a certain amount of criticism and in terpretation of it. Again and again, on review, the shorter things in e... ...ries have ranged themselves not as my own impersonal account of the affair in hand, but as my account of somebody’s impression of it—the terms of this... ...ness—that is, as I say, its effective interest—enriched by the way. I have in other words constantly inclined to the idea of the particular attaching ... ... me the moral of the endless interest, endless worth for “delight,” of the compositional contribution. Their chronicle strikes me as quite of the stuf... ...m, set up some semblance of them in his own other medium, by his own other art—nothing could better consort than that, I nat urally allow, with the d... ...convenience for those who passionately cultivate the image of life and the art, on the whole so beneficial, of projecting it. The seer and speaker unde... ...do so to the effect either of seeing the buried, the latent life of a past composition vibrate, at renewal of touch, into no activity and break throug... ...e possible effect of this process of re dreaming on many of these gathered compositions, shorter and longer; I have prayed that the finer air of the be... ...ith her one of his most artlessly familiar signals. This simplicity of his visual attention struck her, even with the other things she had to think ab...

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............................................................................................................................ 27 Chapter 1.2.II. Petition in Hieroglyphs. ...................................................................................................................... 30 Chapter 1.2.III. Questionable. ...........................................................

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsyl... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...t reduce us to two-thirds!” And so have these individuals (verily by black-art) built them a Domdaniel, or enchanted Dubarrydom; call it an Armida-Pal... ...his day present it; and save the Monarchy and World. Unaccountable pair of visual-objects! Ye should be men, and of the Eighteenth Century; but your m... ...nstables have shut the Thespian barn, and her Antony pleaded in vain? Such visual spectra flit across this Earth, if the Thespian Stage be rudely inte... ...m home, in the in- terim, over to Montmedi. These are of the Phenomena, or visual Appearances, of this wide-working terrestrial world: which truly is ... ...e magnitude; all in his Majesty’s hand, and evidently of his Majesty’s own composition; addressed to the National Assembly. It details, with earnestne... ...dy and rhythm; into his Hymn or March of the Marseillese: luckiest musical-composition ever promulgated. The sound of which will make the blood tingle...

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...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...head drooped. Any metaphor silenced him. He never thought of replying that art is not a ladder—with a curate, as it were, on the first rung, a rector ... ...and generally ungraceful work, but it is not drudgery. For drudgery is not art, and cannot lead to it. “Of course I don’t really think about writing,”... ...ked the soldier after all, nor whether he had been wise in showing him his compositions. “‘Old Em’ly she limps, And as—’” “All right, Thomas. That’ll ... ... They entered the sec- ond entrenchment, which was in height, breadth, and composition, similar to the first, and excluded still more of the view. His... ...erful voice gave orders to the servants. As he sat in the study correcting compositions, she would dart in and give him a kiss. “Dear girl—” he would ... ... the square shall be a circle, within the circle another square, until the visual eye is baffled. Here is mean- ing of a kind. His mother had forgotte...

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...Introduction: In September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed ?The Scarlet Letter,? he began ?The House of the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, ...

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... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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...EOPARD .............................................................................................................................. 108 THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE............................................................................................................ 115 THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET. ......................................................................

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