...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... ... We have, in Scot- land, far fewer ancient buildings, above all in country places; and those that we have are all of hewn or harled masonry. Wood has ... ...beyond all the impudencies of logic, considering a reference to the parish register worth all the reasons in the world, “I am old and well stricken in... ...ays. He spoke of castles and parks with a humbling familiarity. He told of places where under-gardeners had trembled at his looks, where there were me... ...; when once youth has flown, each new impression only deepens the sense of nationality and the desire of native places. So may some cadet of Royal Eco... ...strata. Masses of experience, anecdote, incident, cross-lights, quotation, historical instances, the whole flotsam and jetsam of two minds forced in a... ...E WORDS WILL BE familiar to all students of Skelt’s Juve- nile Drama. That national monument, after having changed its name to Park’s, to Webb’s, to R... ...in the Vicomte, he had much to do with the contest of Fouquet and Colbert. Historic justice should be all upon the side of Colbert, of official honest...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent 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 ...

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...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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... ...t of these men re-created Scotland, and the second is its most essentially national production. T o treat fitly of Hugo and Villon would involve yet w... ... in force and fitness, – seeing the true prophet doubled, as I thought, in places with the Bull in a China Shop, – it appeared best to steer a middle ... ...foreshadowed on the horizon; the fatality of distant events, the stream of national tendency, the salient framework of causation. And all this thrown ... ...st as the plot is an abstract judicial difficulty, the hero is an abstract historical force. And this has been done, not, as it would have been before... ...world as it is, and the whole world as it is, physical, and spiritual, and historical, with its good and bad, with its mani- fold inconsistencies, is ... ...ay, a shameful and useless ceremony; the very greffier, entering it in his register, wrote in the mar- gin, “Pax, pax, inquit propheta, et non ext pax... ...ere is one letter, however, in this budget, addressed to the wife of Clerk-Register Mackgil, which is worthy of some further mention. The Clerk-Regist...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15...

...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...efore Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a century later – in the 1980s – digi... ...enthaler, and an even smaller minority if you are aware of his Linotype‘s historic importance. This book germinated from seeds planted in the 1930s... ... we speak, we can:  Describe past events  Forecast events  Recall places and actions far removed  Abstract, generalize, and synthesize. ... ...de it available for others to imitate. He instructed his pupils to select places and then form mental images in them. That way the order of the pl... ... 1998. Freshwater sands were discovered later on the salt sea‘s bottom by National Geographic expeditions led by Robert Ballard, famed for his recov... ...kens transmitted knowledge through both time and space. Then, primarily to register accounts, Sumerian scribes wrote similar symbols on clay tablets ... ... at all. By the fourteenth century, a patriotic desire for a complete national Bible had arisen. “Poor priests” followed Wycliffe Foremost am...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...