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... 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 subsidiary to this preparation, he undertook to record, in verse, the origin and progress of his own powers, as far as he was acquainted w...

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...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, 64 -- BOOK SIXTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS, 81 -- BOOK SEVENTH RESIDEN...

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...ude or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind; an Autobiographical Poem WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 1805, 1850 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Language Resources... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii BOOK FIRST INTRODUCTION—CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL TIME 1 BOOK SECOND SCHOOL TIME (continued) . . . . . . . . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 BOOK SIXTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 BOOK SEVENTH RESIDENCE IN LONDON ... ...XTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 BOOK SEVENTH RESIDENCE IN LONDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 BOOK EIGHTH RETROSPECT—LOVE OF NA... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 BOOK NINTH RESIDENCE IN FRANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 BOOK TENTH RESIDENCE IN FRANC... ...ENT T he following Poem was commenced in the beginning of the year 1799, and completed in the summer of 1805. The design and occasion of the work are ... ... be introductory ADVERTISEMENT iii to the Recluse, and that the Recluse, if completed, would have consisted of Three Parts. Of these, the Second Part... ... new Had ceased to dazzle, ofttimes did I quit My comrades, leave the crowd, buildings and groves, And as I paced alone the level fields Far from those... ... RESIDENCE IN LONDON 121 Though reared upon the base of outward things, 650 Structures like these the excited spirit mainly Builds for herself; scene...

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...Excerpt: Landfall and departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman?s life and of a ship?s career. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The ...

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...Contents: I. Landfalls and Departures IV. Emblems of Hope VII. The Fine Art X. Cobwebs and Gossamer XIII. The Weight of the Burden XVI. Overdue and Missing XX. The Grip of the Land XXII. The Character of the Foe XXV. Rules of East and West...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge 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 Sta... ...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State ... ... the horse tramcars, appearing and disappearing in the opening between the buildings, like little toy car- riages harnessed with toy horses and played... ... wooden jetty of Port Victoria, with its few 90 The Mirror of the Sea low buildings like the beginning of a hasty settle- ment upon a wild and unexpl... ...irror of the Sea are studded thickly with scaffold-like, enormous tim- ber structures, whose lofty heads are veiled periodi- cally by the infernal gri... ...ty and hardihood had left no trace of greatness and glory upon the waters, completed the cycle of my initia- tion. There was an infinite depth of here... ...the bows of the Guerrier, took up an inshore berth. The combined fleets of 1805, just come out of port, and attended by nothing but the disturbing mem...

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...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of th... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...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... ...s Henri Clerel de T ocqueville, a French nobleman, born at Paris, July 29, 1805. Bred to the law, he exhibited an early predilection for phi- losophy ... ...ent powerful obstacles to its progress. In the United States it has nearly completed its work of destruction, and there we can best study its results.... ...change was effected in the interior of soci- ety, where the law of descent completed the abolition of lo- cal influences. At the very time when this c... ...e constitution of the United States, which consists of two distinct social structures, connected and, as it were, encased one within the other; two go... ...the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, Dock- Yards, and other needful Buildings; - And T o make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for ...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Penns... ...sylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thor... ...Fisherman’s Account Current, probably for the fishing sea son of the year 1805, during which months he purchased daily rum and sugar, sugar and rum, ... ...g aloud as if it were broad day, until at length, by three o’clock, we had completed our preparations and were ready to pursue our voyage as usual; so... ... considerable size, erected by the students of Williamstown College, whose buildings might be seen by daylight gleaming far down in the valley. It wou... ...awn into the rapids before it finally went down the stream. These old gray structures, with their quiet arms stretched over the river in the sun, appe... ...s been forming for count less ages, but others exist which must have been completed in a former geological period. In deepening the Pawtucket Canal, ...