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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 . . . . . . . . . ... ... or natural grotto: but for Decoration he must have Clothes. Nay, among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to Clothes. The first spi... ...nal sat isfying, they resolved, as in such circumstances charitable prudent people needs must, on nursing it, though with spoon meat, into whiteness,... ...f possible, for happiness. Topbooted Graziers from the North; Swiss Brokers, Italian Drovers, also topbooted, from the South; these with their subalte... ..., where valleys in complex branchings are suddenly or slowly arranging their descent towards every quarter of the sky. The mountain ranges are beneath... ...t as articulately perhaps as the case admitted. Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and bat tle... ...Parisian life was at best but a scientific Hortus Siccus, bedizened with some Italian Gumflowers, such virtue could come out of it; what is to be looked... ..., considerably involved in haze. To the first English Edition, 1838, which an American, or two American had now opened the way for, there was slighting...

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...klin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. An An An An Any per y per y per y per y person using this do... ...nd finally developed into the University of Pennsylvania; and he founded an “American The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3 Philosophical Society”... ... the colony, and for five years he remained there, striving to enlighten the people and the ministry of En gland as to Colonial conditions. On his re... ...ned he received a place only second to that of Washington as the champion of American indepen The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He die... ...thout vanity I may say,” &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselve... ...at the task should be a version of the eighteenth Psalm, which describes the descent of a Deity. When the time of our meeting drew nigh, Ralph called ... ...t, opposite to the Romish Chapel. It was two pair of stairs backwards, at an Italian warehouse. A widow lady kept the house; she had a daughter, and a... ...f the French as to be able to read the books with ease. I then undertook the Italian. An acquaintance, who was also learning it, us’d often to tempt m...

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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 ...

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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... ... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...clerks, bears witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind peopled with childish phantoms. In relation to his contemporaries, Charles ... ...enewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested them- selves in them before ... ...ialect in the sister country, and a different school of poetry tracing its descent, through King James I., from Chaucer. The dialect alone ac- counts ... ...f accent on the different syllables, almost as in French, the vowels as in Italian, but the consonants in the English manner – except the J, which has... ...ature the same face of awe and terror as to these courageous Japanese. The descent of Ulysses into hell is a parallel more near the case than the bold...