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

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Contents THE PURLOINED LETTER ...................................................................................................................................... 4 THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE......................................................................... 21 A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTR™M. ............................................................................................................... 39 VON KEMPELEN AND HIS DISCOVERY............................................................................................................. 54 MESMERIC REVELATION .................................................................................................................................... 61 THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR ................................................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT...................................................................................................................................................... 79 THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER ...................................................................................

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THE SIXTY-FIFTH BOOK OF THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED & REVISED SET FORTH IN 1611 AND COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE KING JAMES VERSION...

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called -- 2. Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied -- 3. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints -- 4. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ....

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Excerpt: During an interval in the Melvinski trial in the large building of the Law Courts the members and public prosecutor met in Ivan Egorovich Shebek?s private room, where the conversation turned on the celebrated Krasovski case. Fedor Vasilievich warmly maintained that it was not subject to their jurisdiction, Ivan Egorovich maintained the contrary, while Peter Ivanovich, not having entered into the discussion at the start, took no part in it but looked through the Gazette which had just been handed in....

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Excerpt: The Second Epistle General of Peter, the Sixty-first Book of the King James Version of the Bible.

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Excerpt: This treatise, which is grown up under your lordship?s eye, and has ventured into the world by your order, does now, by a natural kind of right, come to your lordship for that protection which you several years since promised it. It is not that I think any name, how great soever, set at the beginning of a book, will be able to cover the faults that are to be found in it. Things in print must stand and fall by their own worth, or the reader?s fancy....

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Contents AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING (1690) ......................................................................... 6 EPISTLE TO THE READER .......................................................................................................................................... 9 INTRODUCTION:....................................................................................................................................................... 22 BOOK I Neither Principles nor Ideas Are Innate ..................................................................................................... 27 Chapter I No Innate Speculative Principles ...................................................................................................................... 27 Chapter II No Innate Practical Principles ......................................................................................................................... 46 Chapter III Other considerations concerning Innate Principles, both Speculative and Practical .......................................... 67 BOOK II Of Ideas .................................................

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Excerpt: The Pennsylvania State University?s Electronic Classics Series was founded in August 1997, on the Hazleton campus of the Pennsylvania State University, to provide easily readable and printable electronic books for those wishing to access the classics, in English, by electronic device. The books or free to anyone wishing to download them via the Internet, for their own private use. However, they may not be used for the purposes of reproduction with the intent to make a profit. Nor are they in any way provided as a substitute for traditional, paper books. No electronic media, at the time of this publication (October 1998) has approached the readability of traditionally printed text. However, some readers find that the ability to access texts electronically suits an immediate purpose. It is the hope of the Pennsylvania State University, and the editor, that these publications may prove of use to those who access them....

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Contents of The Snow Image & Other Stories 4 THE SNOW-IMAGE: A Childish Miracle 19 THE GREAT STONE FACE 37 ETHAN BRAND 53 THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS 62 THE DEVIL IN MANUSCRIPT 69 MY KINSMAN, MAJOR MOLINEUX...

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Zanoni, a timeless Rosicrucian brother, cannot fall in love without losing his power of immortality; but he does fall in love with Viola Pisani, a promising young opera singer from Naples, the daughter of Pisani, a misunderstood Italian violinist. An English gentleman named Glyndon loves Viola as well, but is indecisive about proposing marriage, and then renounces his love in order to pursue occult study. The story develops in the days of the French Revolution in 1789. Zanoni has lived since the Chaldean civilization. His master Mejnor warns him against a love affair but Zanoni does not heed. He finally marries Viola and they have a child. As Zanoni experiences an increase in humanity, he begins to lose his gift of immortality.( Summary by Wikipedia )...

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Summary from The Path of Prosperity: I looked around upon the world, and saw that it was shadowed by sorrow and scorched by the fierce fires of suffering. And I looked for the cause. I looked around, but could not find it; I looked in books, but could not find it; I looked within, and found there both the cause and the self-made nature of that cause. I looked again, and deeper, and found the remedy. I found one Law, the Law of Love; one Life, the Life of adjustment to that Law; one Truth, the truth of a conquered mind and a quiet and obedient heart. And I dreamed of writing a book which should help men and women, whether rich or poor, learned or unlearned, worldly or unworldly, to find within themselves the source of all success, all happiness, all accomplishment, all truth. And the dream remained with me, and at last became substantial; and now I send it forth into the world on its mission of healing and blessedness, knowing that it cannot fail to reach the homes and hearts of those who are waiting and ready to receive it....

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Excerpt: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

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Excerpt: The Poetics of Aristotle translated by S. H. Butcher.

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Analysis of Contents I ?Imitation? the common principle of the Arts of Poetry. II The Objects of Imitation. III The Manner of Imitation. IV The Origin and Development of Poetry. V Definition of the Ludicrous, and a brief sketch of the rise of Comedy. VI Definition of Tragedy. VII The Plot must be a Whole. VIII The Plot must be a Unity. IX (Plot continued.) Dramatic Unity. X (Plot continued.) Definitions of Simple and Complex Plots. XI (Plot continued.) Reversal of the Situation, Recognition, and Tragic or disastrous Incident defined and explained. XII The ?quantitative parts? of Tragedy defined. XIII (Plot continued.) What constitutes Tragic Action. XIV (Plot continued.) The tragic emotions of pity and fear should spring out of the Plot itself. XV The element of Character in Tragedy....

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THE FORTY-NINTH BOOK OF THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED & REVISED SET FORTH IN 1611 AND COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE KING JAMES VERSION...

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus -- 2. Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ -- 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ -- 4. According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love -- 5. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will....

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Excerpt: Overruled by George Bernard Shaw.

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Excerpt: MONCRIEF HOUSE, Panley Common. Scholastic establishment for the sons of gentlemen, etc. Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rushes, stretching away to the western horizon....

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. Princess Shtcherbatskaya considered that it was out of the question for the wedding to take place before Lent, just five weeks off, since not half the trousseau could possibly be ready by that time. But she could not but agree with Levin that to fix it for after Lent would be putting it off too late, as an old aunt of Prince Shtcherbatsky?s was seriously ill and might die, and then the mourning would delay the wedding still longer. And therefore, deciding to divide the trousseau into two parts--a larger and smaller trousseau--the princess consented to have the wedding before Lent. She determined that she would get the smaller part of the trousseau all ready now, and the larger part should be made later, and she was much vexed with Levin because he was incapable of giving her a serious answer to the question whether he agreed to this arrangement or not. The arrangement was the more suitable as, immediately after the wedding, the young people were to go to the country, where the more important part of the trousseau would not be wanted....

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At the Court of Liang at the period of Yang Chu, about 300 B.C., the philosophers were treated as guests of the reigning king, who reserved for them lodging and maintenance, and encouraged all who had any pretence to the pursuit of truth and wisdom. Whether or not Yang Chu was actually a native of the Wei State, or whether he came there drawn by the attraction of a critical and unrivalled audience, it is at least certain that he settled there as small proprietor, probably in the reign of King Hwei, and continued there till his death, about 250 B.C. One may imagine a condition of life in many respects somewhat analogous to the life of Epicurus in his famous Athenian Garden. To the philosopher of pleasure and contentment came pupils and disciples, discourses were held in much the same way as at an identical period discourses were held in the garden at Athens, and it is to these discourses, memorised and recorded by his favourite pupil Meng-sun-Yang, that we most probably owe the single fragment of the teaching of Yang Chu that remains, a fragment complete and explicit enough to enable us to form a clear estimate of his teaching and ph...

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