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Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries - Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author In the ensuing volume I have attempted to give a defined and permanent form to a variety of thoughts, which have occurred to my mind in the course...

Editorials from the Hearst NewspapersPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million...

Thomas Hart Benton's Remarks to the Senate on the Expunging ResolutionIt is now three years since the resolve was adopted by the Senate, which it is my present motion to expunge from the journal. At the moment that this resolve was adopted, I gave...

Remarks of Mr. Calhoun of South Carolina on the bill to prevent the interference of certain federal officers in elections: delivered in the Senate of the United States February 22, 1839At the last session of Congress, it was avowed on all sides that the...

Henry Clay's Remarks in House and SenateWHAT patriotic purpose is to be accomplished by this Expunging resolution? What new honor or fresh laurels will it win for our common country? Is the power of the Senate so vast that it ought to be circumscribed,...

The Puzzle of Dickens's Last PlotForster tells us that Dickens, in his later novels, from Bleak House onwards (1853), assiduously cultivated construction, this essential of his art. Some critics may think, that since so many of the best novels in the world have no...

The Bobbsey Twins at School "Are you getting tired?" asked Nan's brother Bert. "If you are I'll sit next to the window, and watch the telegraph poles and trees go by. Maybe that's what tires you, Nan," he added, and his father smiled, for...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 In a style less grave than that of history, I should perhaps compare the emperor Alexius 1 to the jackal, who is said to follow the steps, and to devour the...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Introduction, Worship, And Persecution Of Images.Revolt Of Italy And Rome.Temporal Dominion Of The Popes.Conquest Of Italy By The Franks.Establishment Of Images.Character And Coronation Of Charlemagne.Restoration And Decay Of The Roman Empire...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Zeno And Anastasius, Emperors Of The East.Birth, Education, And First Exploits Of Theodoric The Ostrogoth.His Invasion And Conquest Of Italy.The Gothic Kingdom Of Italy.State Of The West.Military And Civil Government.The Senator...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Invasion Of Italy By Alaric.Manners Of The Roman Senate And People.Rome Is Thrice Besieged, And At Length Pillaged, By The Goths.Death Of Alaric.The Goths Evacuate Italy.Fall Of Constantine.Gaul And Spain Are...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 The Government And Death Of Jovian.Election Of Valentinian, Who Associates His Brother Valens, And Makes The Final Division Of The Eastern And Western Empires. Revolt Of Procopius.Civil And Ecclesiastical Administration.Germany.Britain.Africa.The East....

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 I now discharge my promise, and complete my design, of writing the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, both in the West and the East. The whole...

Oliver Twist Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit,...

Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Chapters 1 and 2Just why Peter Samson was wandering around in Building 26 in the middle of the night is a matter that he would find difficult to explain. Some things are not spoken. If you were like...

Emile Zola In these times of electrical movement, the sort of construction in the moral world for which ages were once needed, takes place almost simultaneously with the event to be adjusted in history, and as true a perspective forms itself as any in...

The Star-Spangled BannerSIR: Having been called upon by the Governor-General of the Canadas to aid him in carrying into effect measures of retaliation against the inhabitants of United States for the wanton destruction committed by their army in Upper Canada, it has become imperiously...

A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction It is consoling as often as dismaying to find in what seems a cataclysmal tide of a certain direction a strong drift to the opposite quarter. It is so divinable, if not so perceptible, that its presence may...

Men of Invention and Industry "Men there have been, ignorant of letters; without art, without eloquence; who yet had the wisdom to devise and the courage to perform that which they lacked language to explain. Such men have worked the deliverance of nations and...

The Man of Letters as a Man of Business I think that every man ought to work for his living, without exception, and that when he has once avouched his willingness to work, society should provide him with work and warrant him a living....