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...s Publication War and Peace – Book Eleven by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...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... ...never expressed by the activity of a single historic personage. Historical science in its endeavor to draw nearer to truth continually takes smaller a...

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...The Joyful Wisdom, written in 1882, just before Zarathustra, is rightly judged to be one of Nietzsche's best books. Here the essentially grave and masculine face of the poet-philosopher is seen to light up and suddenly break into a delightful smile. The warmth and kindness that beam from his features will astonis...

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...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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...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... ...te sta- tion fallen to him. His character was mild, he loved peace and the sciences, particularly as- tronomy, natural history, chemistry, and the stu... .... The Roman Catholics of the town were allowed the fullest liberty of con- science; and of all the churches they had wrested from the Protestants, fou... ...s matched to man, the useless musket exchanged for the sword and pike, and science gave way to des- 303 Friedrich Schiller peration. Overpowered by n...

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...Preface: The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be calle...

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...Excerpt: This volume is divided into seven parts. First we have Tales for Children, published about the year 1872, and reminding us of the time when Tolstoy was absorbed in efforts to educate the peasant children. This section of the book contains the two stories which of all that he has written Tolstoy likes best. In What is Art? he claims no place among...

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...ONER IN THE CAUCASUS ....13 THE BEAR-HUNT ....40 WHAT MEN LIVE BY ....49 A SPARK NEGLECTED ....71 TWO OLD MEN ....86 WHERE LOVE IS, ....109 THE STORY OF IV?N THE FOOL, .....122 EVIL ALLURES, BUT GOOD ENDURES ....149 LITTLE GIRLS WISER THAN MEN ....152 ILY?S....154 PART V ....159 FOLK-TALES ....159 THE THREE HERMITS ....159 THE IMP AND THE CRUST ....166 HOW MUCH LAND DOES...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more...

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... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ...OMANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 CHAPTER VI — SORROWS OF TEUFELSDR ¨ OCKH . . . . . . . . . 97 CHAPTER VII — THE EVERLASTING NO... ...ARY C ONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect... ...hitherto little or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Th... ...e of all Tissues, the only real Tissue, should have been quite overlooked by Science,— the vestural Tissue, namely, of woollen or other cloth; which M... ...crowberries, and be swallowed up at last in remote peat bogs. Of that unwise science, which, as our Humorist expresses it, By geometric scale Doth tak... ...glish culture and endeavor, cramps the free flight of Thought,—that this, not Philosophy of Clothes, but recognition even that we have no such Philosop... ...last months, did the above very plain considerations, on our total want of a Philosophy of Clothes, occur to him; and then, by quite foreign suggestio...

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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... ...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... .......................................................... 365 Lecture XVIII: PHILOSOPHY ................................................................... ...ableness— Liberal Christianity shows it— Optimism as encouraged by Popular Science— The “Mind-cure” movement— Its creed— Cases— Its doctrine of evil— ... ...lthy- mindedness and repentance— Essential pluralism of the healthy-minded philosophy— Morbid- mindedness: its two degrees—The pain-threshold varies i... ... states— They strengthen monistic and optimistic hypotheses. LECTURE XVIII PHILOSOPHY Primacy of feeling in religion, philosophy being a secondary fun... ...d proof— What philosophy CAN do for religion by transforming herself into “science of religions.” LECTURE XIX OTHER CHARACTERISTICS Aes- thetic elemen... ...f religious characteristics— Men’s religions need not be identi- cal— “The science of religions” can only suggest, not proclaims a religious creed— Is...

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...Preface: This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its mani...

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...Food Security Regulations on Sustainability and Climate Change How Government Meets the Challenge Answering the Question Chapter 3 The Success of the West Balancing the Bias Aid to Do What? Facing Some Facts Famine in the West 20th Century Famine in Europe Answering the Question Chapter 4 What are we Feeding? Language in Religion, Science and Spirit Feed...

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...F. Ayatollah, etc. : Some faces of Smarandache semigroups' concept in transformation semigroups' approach 1 G. Feng : On the F.Smarandache LCM function 5 N. Quang and P. Tuan : An extension of Davenport's theorem 9 M. Zhu : On the hybrid power mean of th...

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...Excerpt: Introduction to the bride of Lammermoor. The author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occurring at a distant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the fee...

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...books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its exten...

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...ER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TA...

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...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion 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... ...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... ...se Boards, so that Edinburgh was a world centre for that branch of applied science; in Germany, he had been called “the Nestor of light- house illumin... ...ld have succeeded in one of the most abstract and arduous walks of applied science. The second remark is one that applies to the whole family, and onl... ...om these troublesome humours in his work, in his lifelong study of natural science, in the society of those he loved, and in his daily walks, which no... ...er by words, but by the instancing of whole biographies, epics, systems of philosophy, and epochs of history, in bulk. That which is understood excels... ...oment he transmigrates, dons the required character, and with moon- struck philosophy justifies the act in question. I can fancy nothing to compare wi... ...men than increase of knowl- edge or clarity of thought. The drama, not the philosophy, of life is the sphere of their intellectual activity. Even when...