Description Details
...eloped from a paper I wrote for Russian and Baltic country psychologists. They had come to Italy to the Institute in Ascoli Piceno, which is a member of the Sophia University of Rome, to participate in a seminar on Sophia- Art and Cosmo-Art. The same paper was expanded and presented at the Second Ulyssiads of the Sophia University of Rome, organized by the Institute in Te...

Full Text Search Details
... 1 Antonio Mercurio THE MYTH OF ULYSSES AND SECONDARY BEAUTY ... ... 2 Copyrighted material Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) Copyrignt 2009 by SOP... ... UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) Copyrignt 2009 by SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME All rights reserved. Original title: Il Mito di Ulis... ...suffering has not ended at all: … There were no safe ports for ships, no bays, there were only sharp crags and rocks and cliffs. ... “Woe is ... ... language of their nations. The Spanish language passed from one support – Spain – to another one: South America. Every language is created becaus...

Description Details
...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

Excerpt Details
...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

Full Text Search Details
... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...NDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM T... ...s -- A desperate fight with the natives -- Discovery of the Amazon, and of New Spain -- A search for the fountain of youth -- Balboa discovers the Pac... ...s -- Execution of Guatemozin -- Fresh troubles weigh upon Cortez -- He goes to Spain to answer charges -- His marriage to a noble lady -- Return to Me... ...rtunes in fruitless expeditions -- -- Divested of all authority -- Proceeds to Spain with a petition to his sovereign -- Disappointments destroy all h... ...e he came to the shore at the ruins of a small chapel that stood in one of the bays of the South of Galway, and inquired, "Is it time?" when a voice f... ...e were also said to be opulent with precious pearls, yielded by oysters in the bays and inlets of the island. Reports of these fabulous riches having ... ... the present day unknown, had sailed along the Indian coast and settled in its bays and harbors. By some this was supposed to be the prophesied invasi...

Full Text Search Details
... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...40-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 ... ...gapore 219 Solomon Islands 220 Somalia 221 South Africa 223 Soviet Union 224 Spain 226 Page Sri Lanka 228 Sudan 230 Suriname 231 Swaziland 232 Sweden... ...nan, France, or to the Ecclesiasti- cal Court of the Bishop of Seo de Urgel, Spain Government leaders: head of state French Co-Prince Francois MITTER-... ...panish Episcopal Co-Prince Mgr. Juan MARTI y Alanis (Bishop of Seo de Urgel, Spain, since 1971); Syndic Fran- cesc CERQUEDA Pasquet (since 1982); Subs... ... forest and woodland; 59% other; includes 3% irrigated Environment: numerous bays provide good harbors Special notes: strategic location in central Me...

Description Details
...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: ...

Full Text Search Details
...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ... allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus;... ...n years ago, at Piombino, that green shadows sprawled across the walls of bayside houses, with sun, hot sun, on the bay? Sun on the moat of the town... ...oat, we sailed the harbor, weathering calms and wild gusts, in and out of bays, eating cheese and bread, sipping port, catching fish, his oars a pai... ...ition, kegs and kegs of powder; then, by God, we’d have run them clean to Spain, run them, not waited, our guns useless. We had to sit it out, wait—... ...ey the property, measure it, plan a city layout. The barouche horses are bays, a young pair, well-trained, handsomely har- nessed. My driver is a st...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Predictions for the year 1708. Wherein the month, and day of the month are set down, the persons named, and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from being farther imposed on by vulgar almanack...

Full Text Search Details
... The Bickerstaff Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...rsity. 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... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...e other. As for the most signal events abroad in France, Flanders, Italy and Spain, I shall make no scruple to predict them in plain terms: Some of th... ...o apartments hung in close mourning, will be sufficient, and only a strip of bays round the other rooms. The Doctor must needs die rich, he had great ... ...omewhat obscure, is wonderfully adapt. Geryon is said to have been a king of Spain, whom Hercules slew. It was a fiction of the poets, that he had thr... ...that he had three heads, which the author says he shall have again: That is, Spain shall have three kings; which is now wonderfully verified; for besi...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan.

Table of Contents Details
...Contents LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE.................................................................................................................................. 6 PREFACE2......................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...I. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Expl... ...ation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. 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... ...ept, O Garth 9 the Muse’s early lays, That adds this wreath of ivy to thy bays; 10 Hear what from love unpractised hearts en... ... yon mountain let me tune my lays, Embrace my love, and bind my brows with bays. That flute is mine which Colin’s tuneful breath Inspired when living,... ...ound my grave!’ Sing, while beside the shaded tomb I mourn, And with fresh bays her rural shrine adorn. 20 THYRSIS. Ye gentle Muse... ... tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquer’d Spain. Envy must own, I live among the great, No pimp of pleasure, and no s... ...ge II., then ex- cessively unpopular for refusing to enter into a war with Spain, which was supposed to have insulted our commerce. 230 The Poetical ... ...rive ill, because delay’d: Nay, hints ’tis by connivance of the court That Spain robs on, and Dunkirk’s still a port. Not more amazement seized on Cir...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: I come no more to make you laugh: things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow, Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Those that can pity, here May, if they think it well, let fall a tear; The subject will deserve it. Such as give Their money out of hope they may be...

Full Text Search Details
... King Henry VIII, by William Shakespeare 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. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...f an excellent And unmatch’d wit and judgment: Ferdinand, My father, king of Spain, was reckon’d one The wisest prince that there had reign’d by many ... ...efore I humbly Beseech you, sir, to spare me, till I may Be by my friends in Spain advised; whose counsel I will implore: if not, i’ the name of God, ... ...er, six personages, clad in white robes, wearing on their heads garlands of bays, and golden vizards on their faces; branches of bays or palm in thei...

Table of Contents Details
........................................................................................................................... 77 Chapter 3.2.V. Stretching of Formulas. ............................................................................................................................ 80 Chapter 3.2.VI. At the Bar. ...........................................................

Full Text Search Details
...ch Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e met by gloomy answers. Of Sardinia rising to invade the South- East, and Spain threatening the South, we do not speak. But are not the Prussians mas... ...ndee, South-West, it is as we saw; and Sardinia is in the South- East, and Spain is in the South, and Clairfait with Austria and sieged Thionville is ... ... Earth: that of Regicide? Foreign Courts interfere in this Trial of Louis; Spain, En- gland: not to be listened to; though they come, as it were, at l... ...e-counting of the votes, which are found correct as they stood! Patriotism bays fiercer than ever; Patriotism, by long-watching, has become red-eyed, ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

Full Text Search Details
... Don Juan by George Byron 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. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...ows — true — but poets still, And duly seated on the immortal hill. Your bays may hide the baldness of your brows— Perhaps some virtuous blush... ... Hebrew blood, he traced his source Through the most Gothic gentlemen of Spain; A better cavalier ne’er mounted horse, Or, being mounted, e’... ... with her Moorish origin (Her blood was not all Spanish, by the by; In Spain, you know, this is a sort of sin); When proud Granada fell, and, ... ... Boabdil wept, of Donna Julia’s kin Some went to Africa, some stay’d in Spain, Her great great grandmamma chose to remain. Byron’s Don Juan “...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...

Full Text Search Details
...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...sity. 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... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmis- sion, in any way. A Book of Golden Deeds, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ...ase of the northern Pillar of Hercules, and es- teemed one of the gates of Spain. By it five hundred years previously had the Moorish enemy first ente... ...n. By it five hundred years previously had the Moorish enemy first entered Spain at the summons of Count Julian, under their leader Tarif-abu- Zearah,... ...ed ship that sailed in those waters, and whose descents upon the coasts of Spain, France, and Italy rendered life and property constantly inse- cure. ... ...k of Golden Deeds the Moorish pirates, who used to land in the unprotected bays, and carry off all the wretched beings they could catch, to sell for s... ...Malta is a deep bay, turned towards the north, and divided into two lesser bays by a large tongue of rock, on the point of which stood a strong castle...

Full Text Search Details
...es Publication Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. 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 ... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...hat kind. They often get wine at these suburban Trattorie, from France and Spain and Portugal, which is brought over by small captains in little tradi... ... towers, among trees on steep hill sides, or built upon the brink of noble bays: are charming. The vegetation is, everywhere, luxuriant and beau tifu... ...mers, and the building of small vessels on the beach. In some of the broad bays, the fleets of Europe might ride at anchor. In every case, each little... ...t of mind, have owned coast ing vessels in that place, and have traded to Spain and else where. Seen from the road above, it is like a tiny model on... ...inates; but, hence we may ride on, by an unbroken succession of enchanting bays, and beautiful scen ery, sloping from the highest summit of Saint Ang...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents of Within the Tides THE PLANTER OF MALATA......................................................................4 THE PARTNER ............................................................................................66 THE I...

Full Text Search Details
... S ERIES P UBLICA TION Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...such an inn anywhere, now. This one, the one of the title, was situated in Spain. That much I discovered only from internal evidence, because a good m... ...nd where- fore of his presence on that coast—presumably the north coast of Spain. His experience has nothing to do with the sea, though. As far as I c... ...of our men-of-war of the smaller kind were cruising off the north coast of Spain—as risky and disagreeable a station as can be well imagined. It looks... ...ly. “His steamer, being so small, could go up tiny creeks and into shallow bays and through reefs and over sand-banks, col- lecting produce, where no ...

Table of Contents Details
... 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?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER VI - RANDOM M...

Full Text Search Details
... Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson 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. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...homson, that his predeces- sor was called out of bed to welcome a Grandee of Spain, the Duke of Medina Sidonia, just landed in the harbour under- neat... ...of the meanest of man’s towns, and situate certainly on the baldest of God’s bays. It lives for herring, and a strange sight it is to see (of an after... ...s of the town. These, you are to conceive posted on a spit between two sandy bays, and sparsely flanked with villas enough for the boys to lodge in wi...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Several years ago, when the Author retired to his native mountains with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary work that might live, it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such an employment. ?As sub...

Table of Contents Details
...Table of Contents: ADVERTISEMENT, ii -- BOOK FIRST INTRODUCTION?CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIME 1 -- BOOK SECOND SCHOOL-TIME (continued), 19 -- BOOK THIRD RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE, 33 -- BOOK FOURTH SUMMER VACATION, 51 -- BOOK FIFTH BOOKS,...

Full Text Search Details
...ESIDENCE IN LONDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 BOOK EIGHTH RETROSPECT—LOVE OF NATURE LEADING TO LOVE OF MAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... . . . 213 ADVERTISEMENT T he following Poem was commenced in the beginning of the year 1799, and completed in the summer of 1805. The design and occ... ... the year 1799, and completed in the summer of 1805. The design and occasion of the work are described by the Author in his Preface to the Excursion, ... ...hed the Roman Empire: how the friends 190 And followers of Sertorius, out of Spain Flying, found shelter in the Fortunate Isles, And left their usages... ...ters coloured by impending clouds. The sands of Westmoreland, the creeks and bays Of Cumbria’s rocky limits, they can tell 570 How, when the Sea threw... ...sun. With exultation, at my feet I saw Lake, islands, promontories, gleaming bays, A universe of Nature’s fairest forms Proudly revealed with instanta...

Full Text Search Details
... The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis ... ... The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished f... ... Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu... ... strange that all looked unfamiliar. “Chateau X-?” said I. “I never heard of that.” “I dare say not,” said he. “I had been reading one of X-’s novels.... ... the blue of heaven. Downwards indeed, from our rock 31 eyrie, we behold the greener side of nature; and the bearing of the pi...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody?s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But, if it should happe...

Full Text Search Details
...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift is a publication o... ...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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift , the Pennsylvania S... ...ers. As for the most signal events abroad, in France, Flanders, Italy, and Spain, I shall make no scruple to predict them in plain terms. Some of them... ...ven’s high bowers A sprig of Amaranthine flowers, In nectar thrice infuses bays, Three times refined in Titan’s rays: Then calls the Graces to her aid...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: My dear Strunz:--I should be ungrateful if I did not set your name at the head of one of the two tales I could never have written but for your patient kindness and care. Accept this as my grateful acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried--perhaps not very successfully-- to initiate me into t...

Full Text Search Details
...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ular pines, and the melancholy olive mingled pleasingly with orange trees, bays, and myrtles, and clear pools in which blue or russet fishes swam. Wha... ...h in love which fired his blood, and which of old inspired the painters of Spain, which gave Italy her Madonnas, cre- ated Michael Angelo’s statues an...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: THE PREFACE; If ever the story of any private Man?s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and were acceptable when Publish?d, the Editor of this Account thinks this will be so. The Wonders of this Man?s Life exceed all that (he thinks)is to be...

Table of Contents Details
Table of Contents: THE PREFACE, 1 -- THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c., 2 -- THE JOURNAL., 51

Full Text Search Details
...The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner DANIEL DEFOE 1719 Contents THE PREF... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c. . . . . . . 2 THE JOURNAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 ii CONTENTS THE PREFACE If ever the story of any private Man’s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and... ...sire; for had it blown southerly I had been sure to have made the Coast of Spain, and at least reacht to the Bay of Cadiz; but my Resolutions were, bl... ... all; but my Goods being all English Manufactures, such as Cloath, Stuffs, Bays, and things particularly valuable and desirable in the Country, I foun... ... was, had been carried on by the Assiento’s, or Permission of the Kings of Spain and Portugal, and engros’d in the Publick, so that few Negroes were b... ...o all People of Humanity, or of Christian Compassion: As if the Kingdom of Spain were particularly Eminent for the Product of a Race of Men, who were ... ... English broad Cloath, the best I could get in Lisbon, five Pieces of black Bays, and some Flanders Lace of a good Value. Having thus settled my Affair...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel...

Full Text Search Details
...andre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Penns... ...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... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ..., was the village of the Catalans. Long ago this mysterious colony quitted Spain, and settled on the tongue of land on which it is to this day. Whence... ...ealed himself until the arrival of a Genoese or Spanish vessel, escaped to Spain or Italy, where Mercedes and his father could have joined him. He had... ...the Island of Elba; bets were offered to any amount that she was bound for Spain; while Africa was positively reported by many persons as her intended... ...the Count of Monte Cristo had laid his hands on a “turnout” which sent his bays down to second place in the opinion of connois- seurs. “Most decidedly...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controversia...

Full Text Search Details
...E M.YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...sity. 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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...uch relished by the young King, for raising an army and striking a blow at Spain by aiding the Reformed in the Netherlands; and Coligny was as ardent ... ...urite project! He would do wisely not to brag of it so openly. The King of Spain has too many in his interest in this place not to be warned, and to b... ...hey who hinder the Duke of Guise from being a good Frenchman, and a foe to Spain.’ Politics had not developed themselves in Berenger’s mind, and he li... ...ded with bedding, which she signed to them to arrange in one of the little bays or niches that served to form a crown of lesser chapels around the cha... ...a semicircle, the high altar having been in the centre, and five tall deep bays forming lesser chapels embracing it, their vaults all gathered up into...