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...Contents CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?..........

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...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE..........................................

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total o...

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...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Introduces Mr. Lewisham. The opening chapter does not concern itself with Love-- indeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the third--and Mr. Lewisham is seen at his studies. It was ten years ago, and in those days he was assistant maste...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the ...

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is a...

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...MER?S HYMN TO CASTOR AND POLLUX .................................................................................................. 26 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE MOON ....................................................................................................................... 26 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE SUN ........................................................................

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... SHELLEY VOLUME 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON... ...OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF ... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Three is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...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... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Three, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ... ATIONS TIONS TIONS TIONS TIONS Of the Translations that follow a few were published by Shelley himself, others by Mrs. Shelley in the “Posthumous Poe... ...O MER O MERCUR CUR CUR CUR CURY Y Y Y Y Translated from the Greek of Homer Published by Mrs. Shelley, “Posthumous Poems”, 1824. This alone of the “Tra... ...ny possible definition of its nature. It is probable that the word God was originally only an expression denoting the unknown cause of the known event... ...ter, when in Italy, a bookseller published an edition of “Queen Mab” as it originally stood. Shelley was hastily written to by his friends, under the ...

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...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 I was received there in the very best society, and un...

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...Introduction: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was b...

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...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development and o...

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...Y H. G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... .... G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...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... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing... ...tchiness ceases to be a sin, when the mere facts of irresponsibility and * Published by Harper Bros. ** Nature, vol. lxv. (1901-2), p. 326, and reprin... ...emporary spe- cialist, and to myself. 5 H G Wells These papers were first published in the British Fortnightly Review and in the American Cosmopolita... ... Even when the devo- tee most strenuously renounces this world and all its works, when St. Anthony flees into the desert or the pious Durtal wrestles ... ...eneral affairs to place under a parallel system. As the community that had originally been small enough and intimate enough to decide on the guilt or ... ...minute authority with a boundary line that appears to have been determined originally about 1850 by mapping out the wanderings of an intoxicated excur...

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...Contents Volume One ..................................................................... 4 THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK.......................................................................................................... 4 THE SPANISH NUN ....................................................................................

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...CE. ........................................................................................................................................ 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND ...

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