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...take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct h... ...lly until Mergenthaler built his Linotype. But Ottmar’s name fell through history’s cracks. 18. ―The Eighth Wonder of the World‖ Although as lat... ...to the start of the Epilogue. This is because my own perspective on the history of the written word is tied so powerfully to the history of eBooks... ...dford‘s perspective that gives weight—well-deserved weight—to portions of history he has pulled out from shadows of the past. Mr. Bradford starts ... ...revolution got underway, those experiences set me looking into the hidden history of information technologies that preceded the present Age of Cyber... ...-letter Hawaiian system. The Golden Alphabet Age Passed on to the Etruscans and Romans, the enormously enriched Greek alphabet fueled Rome‘s...

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... as I sat by him. I could not recall such an assembly in years: Scythian, Etruscan, VOICES FROM THE PAST 20 Turkish, Negro. Bowls of incense ... ...An amethyst was set in the center with characters engraved around it. “An Etruscan scarab should make a pretty keepsake,” he said. “Then I think you... ... VOICES FROM THE PAST 66 me the poet’s advice to his brother. How history repeats itself! Family problems haven’t changed: this is an earlier... ...d in my room throughout the day. I have enjoyed the detail from my fresco—Etruscan girl strewing flowers, hair streaming over her shoulders, face fi... ... will I smell the cabin’s wick and the nets? Oh, drown me, Egyptian lion, Etruscan charioteer, lunge and shield: yours is the tyranny. Surely femin... ...ter. The wick struggles into flame, as if reluctant to leave the past. My Etruscan wall girl comes alive. “Ah-hah-who.” I take off my chain and pea... ...sical A VOICES FROM THE PAST 182 Hebrew until it came easily. The history of man became an important part of my meditations. Silence and the... ...shepherd, I still follow hills, hills of resurrection they may be. Perhaps history may call me a man of righteousness. Perhaps history may not stop. ... ... call me a man of righteousness. Perhaps history may not stop. I speak to history. I say, once again: “Go and teach all nations, baptizing them in t...

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... Pg 598 Inflation Pg 607 Modern Racism Pg 609 Ego-gratification Pg 625 History Pg 694 The Unclearness of History Pg 694 Wisdom Pg 697 In... ...210 Human Wisdom Pg 1220 Bicycle Cards Pg 1221 Intelligence Pg 1224 Pre-History and Ancient History Pg 1266 Burial of the Dead Pg 1268 Deca... ...cious Pg 1393 Social Form and Function Pg 1395 The Power of Myth Pg 1397 History and Myth Pg 1398 Midas and Croesus Pg 1401 Progress and Ret... ...Possession and Violation and Poison Pg 1794 The Growth of Poison Throughout History and Undead Evil Pg 1795 The Reason for the 7 th chapter Pg ... ...y splitting into Time, Space and Energy explains the entire 1 st half of the history of the Universe which Science calls the Big Bang. No sci... ...r than they were. They killed off the original inhabitants in their area; the Etruscans: because they were more affluent, they had better pottery, b... ...ural offshoot of Greece. The original Romans came from Greece. The original Etruscans living in Italy were crushed and sublimated into a sterile Gr...

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...s. The Odyssey is the greatest love story that has ever been told in the history of world literature. It is based not on love and death (like the ... ...ted to be the guarantors of their followers’ immortality. This is human history. So who is Ulysses to say no to the immortality that Circe and ... ... Socrates. The Greeks and other Mediterranean peoples, particularly the Etruscans, were convinced that the Odyssey was not an adventure story but... ...rstand how they really belong to the two of them and to their own personal history). ¤ ULYSSES’ LANDING ON THE PHAEACIAN ISLAND. - Ulysses cele... ... from chapter 21 on; now I would like to say something about alchemy. The history of alchemy stretches across thousands of years and it has existed ... ...k. While keeping in mind that here we are dealing with a myth and not history, we can attempt to read into what the myth is telling us on a dee...

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...though nothing like this had ever happened to him before-- not that such a history had to be a prerequisite for frayed nerves in the incessant Heracli... ...ic state for he had lost sovereignty and restraint of himself. A lack of a history of mental illness meant nothing for, had he been able to consider i... ...onetheless meaning that war called family which happened so briefly in the history of a life as if it had never been, though undoubtedly had occurred ... ...h him urging him to find one for herself that more accurately depicted the history of Nongkai. Every time he thought of going straight into Vientiane ... ... to pacify the jealous instincts of women who long ago in antediluvian pre-history feared the loss of a provider. If ethical, he told himself, a man ... ...nt seemed particularly vacuous and the blessing a curse. He read a book on Etruscan art for a few hours before his already aching buttocks began to hu...

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... Sang Huin lost the address book and key chain from the souvenir shop at the history museum Sung Ki had given to him. He lost both by leaving them in ... ...le, she thought, did not camouflage their barbarity in "goodness." Early in history, except for notable flare- ups, Germans were aware of their barba... ...All one had were one's concoctions of plausible scenarios about the person's history and how he or she might behave from empirical personal experience... ...o one's whore. She just painted and studied toward a Master's degree in art history, passively delegating the obstructive clutter of motherhood and a... ...e hour and yet he had no career aspirations. His Bachelor's degree in music history was worthless. He probably had no special aptitude for teaching ... ...ca in Vatican City, and the catacombs. Their final whole day was filled with Etruscan art, a return to the Coliseum, another meandering around the anc... ...oney and things to flash at others how different would you be from any naked Etruscan savage apart from not being dead and living in America?" " I don...

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...f the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer af...

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...f delightful. Those that I have in mind in be ginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implemen... ...given it marching orders and it had been trudging over the sandy plains of a history of German Thought. Suddenly she became aware of a step very diffe... ... group, was the wife of an officer of the United States Engineers, and as our history is not further concerned with her it will suffice that she was ind... ...ounced the time, according to the rule I have hinted at, a foolish period of history. He sometimes wrote to her and had within a week or two written f... ...lled some three years before the occurrence of the incidents with which this history opens: he had on that occasion remained later than usual in Engla... ...nd regret, that she recalled to 468 Portrait of a Lady herself one of those Etruscan figures couched upon the receptacle of their ashes. There was not...

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...en given, as for the most [Page] part the narratives lie on the surface of history. For the de- scription of the Coliseum, I have, however, been indeb... ...make the situation comprehen- sible, even without knowledge of the general history. This has been done in the hope that these extracts may serve as a ... ...ure is capable—the truly golden and priceless deeds that are the jewels of history, the salt of life. And it is a chain of Golden Deeds that we seek t... ...hemselves, all for pity and mercy’s sake, was one of the noblest acts that history can show. Y et, it was paralleled in the time of the Indian Mutiny,... ...HE CUP OF THE CUP OF W W W W WA A A A ATER TER TER TER TER NO TOUCH in the history of the minstrel king David gives us a more warm and personal feelin... ...expelled from Rome, when they were endeavoring to return by the aid of the Etruscans. Lars Porsena, one of the great Etruscan chieftains, had taken up... ...ded by a fort, called the Janiculum. But the vanguards of the overwhelming Etruscan army soon 21 Yo n g e took the fort, and then, in the gallant wor... ...inion over the cen- tral part of Italy. They were well used to Italian and Etruscan ways of mak- ing war, but after nearly 400 years of this kind of f... ...ched over the shades of the dead. Probably these older Romans held the old Etruscan belief, which took these ‘gods beneath’ to be winged beings, who b...

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...es in the Castle grounds, using their whips or canes to illustrate some new sword trick which they have heard about; and between the duels, on the day... ...no great deal of it, yet it was called the “Spectacu- lar Ruin.” Mark Twain 74 LEGEND OF THE “SPECTACULAR RUIN” THE CAPTAIN OF THE RAFT, who was as f... ...owed the advice of both parties. I set aside, for the Mu- 95 A Tramp Abroad seum, those articles which were the most frail and precious. Among these ... ...the side is not a bug, it is a hole. I bought this tear-jug of a dealer in antiquities for four hundred and fifty dollars. It is very rare. The man sa... ...the world. He said there was much false Henri II ware around, but that the genuineness of this piece was unquestionable. He showed me its pedi- gree, ... ...ywhere, but nowhere so impressive as where he is. Martyrdom is the luckiest fate that can befall some people. Louis XVI did not die in his bed, conseq... ...aint, and a wrong head. None of these qualities are kingly but the last. Taken together they make a character which would have fared harshly at the ha...

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...ing through those periods which prob- able reasoning can reach to and real history find a footing in, I might very well say of those that are farther ... ...ght, not without reason, ascend as high as to Romulus, being brought by my history so near to his time. Consider- ing therefore with myself Whom shall... ...mit to the purifying processes of Reason as to take the character of exact history. In any case, however, where it shall be found contumaciously sligh... ...and tales should be told. For these particularities we are indebted to the history of De- mon. There was then a place chosen out, and a temple erected... ... set sail and carried her away. An author named Menecrates, that wrote the History of Nicaea in Bithynia, adds, that Theseus, hav- ing Antiope aboard ... ...es: the second, Cornelius Cossus, who slew 504 V olume One T olumnius the Etruscan: after them Marcellus, having killed Britomartus king of the Gauls... ...nd twenty horse at most, (among whom there was not one Roman, but all were Etruscans, except forty Fregellans, of whose courage and fidelity he had on... ...d upon those who resisted. These were the forty Fregellans. For though the Etruscans fled in the very begin- ning of the fight, the Fregellans formed ... ...blast, as struck terror and amaze- ment into the hearts of the people. The Etruscan sages af- 746 V olume One firmed, that this prodigy betokened the...

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...e old tower! Its tall front is like a page of black letter, taken from the history of the Italian republics.” “I know little or nothing of its history... ...stretching back to- wards a grove of trees. “At some period of your family history,” observed Kenyon, “the Counts of Monte Beni must have led a patria... ...rance-room, which, by the solidity of its construction, might have been an Etruscan tomb, being paved and walled with heavy blocks of stone, and vault... ...e personage, Kenyon soon learned many curious particulars about the family history and hereditary peculiari- ties of the Counts of Monte Beni. There w... ...ever part of them they might con- sent to incorporate into their ancestral history, they steadily repudiated all that referred to their one distinctiv... ... older, indeed, in its effect on the imagination than Rome itself, because history does not lay its finger on these forgot- ten edifices and tell us a... ...s finger on these forgot- ten edifices and tell us all about their origin. Etruscan princes may have dwelt in them. A thousand years, at all events, w... ...was a bracelet, evidently of great cost, being com- posed of seven ancient Etruscan gems, dug out of seven sep- ulchres, and each one of them the sign... ...ng the imaginary adventures and catastrophe of its former wearer. Thus the Etruscan brace- let became the connecting bond of a series of seven won- dr...

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...held them. At a distance beyond—yet but a little way, considering how much history is heaped into the intervening space—rises the great sweep of the C... ...s,—at this bright sky, and those blue distant mountains, and at the ruins, Etruscan, Roman, Christian, venerable with a threefold antiquity, and at th... ... the visible world out of her own mind; of compelling scenes of poetry and history to live before men’s eyes, through conceptions and by methods indiv... ...Ah!” replied Hilda, shuddering,” I really had quite for- gotten Beatrice’s history, and was thinking of her only as the picture seems to reveal her ch... ...r way, continued to make reference, no doubt, to some strange and dreadful history of their former life, belonging equally to this dark man and to the... ...rance-room, which, by the solidity of its construction, might have been an Etruscan 166 The Marble Fawn tomb, being paved and walled with heavy block... ...s finger on these forgot- ten edifices and tell us all about their origin. Etruscan princes may have dwelt in them. A thousand years, at all events, w... ...was a bracelet, evidently of great cost, being com- posed of seven ancient Etruscan gems, dug out of seven sep- ulchres, and each one of them the sign... ...ng the imaginary adventures and catastrophe of its former wearer. Thus the Etruscan brace- let became the connecting bond of a series of seven won- dr...

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...rse, is another type, like Samson of old, since the facts of nature and of history are Divine parables. And as each one’s conquest is, in the track of... ... he now stands before me in memory. 5 Charlotte M. Yonge Our family history is a strange one. I, Lucy Alison, never even saw my twin brothers—n... ... to wile Dora to look at the pictures in a curious big old Dutch Scripture history, the Sunday delight of our youth. Eustace came too, as if he wanted... ... himself, greeting Dermot heart- ily. Only then did we understand the full history of what had happened. The lion-tamer, whose part it was to exhibit ... ...ditary plough, might have found employment for thousands and prevented the history of your fathers and of myself? That bed of argillaceous deposit aro... ...ade his meaning more appar- ent. A venture in finer workmanship, imitating Etruscan ware, was to be made, and, if successful, would much increase trad... ...ich did not blow up anything or anybody, and the production of some lovely Etruscan vases and tiles, for which I copied the designs out of a book I ha... ...ent came home with him—namely, a little dainty flower-pot and pan, with an Etruscan pattern, the very best things that had been turned out of the pott... ...e to give it? I answered the question in his eyes by telling him a certain Etruscan flower-pot had stood in a certain window at Arked House all the wi...

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...ed on my shoulders, and in the bag of my railway rug the whole of Bancroft’s History of the United States, in six fat volumes. It was as much as I cou... ...ry and warm and full of inland perfume. MEXICANS, AMERICANS, AND INDIANS THE HISTORY OF MONTEREY has yet to be written. Founded by Catholic missionari... ...ur of the ancients. It was chosen before the day of that strange turn in the history of art, of which we now perceive the culmination in impressionist... ...ghters were in mourning. The date of my first visit was thus an epoch in the history of art: in a lesser way, it was an epoch in the history of the La... ...e wore for the warm weather! what beautiful maps, what an attractive work of history he carried in his knapsack! Y ou are to understand there was now ... ...silver wind-breaks run among the olives, and the stone-pine stand guard upon Etruscan sepulchres. Upon any American, the strangeness of this incident ...

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...y books have been written upon Italy, affording many means of studying the history of that interesting country, and the innumerable associations entwi... ...cture of this church, or any other, its dates, dimensions, endowments, and history, is it not written in Mr. Murray’s Guide Book, and may you not read... .... Before I quit this Palace of the Popes, let me translate from the little history I mentioned just now, a short anecdote, quite appropriate to itself... ...In another there was a collection, under a colonnade, of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan remains, pre sided over by an ancient man who might have been an ... ...A desert of decay, sombre and desolate beyond all expres sion; and with a history in every stone that strews the ground. ON S UNDAY, THE P OPE assis... ...eary stairs, and growing out of the darkness of the ghostly galleries. The History is written in the Painting; written, in the dying girl’s face, by N...

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...is great es- tates by marrying seven months before the night on which this history begins, Jeanne de Saint-Savin, a young lady who, by a not uncommon ... ...nd never was judicial astrology held in greater honor; for at no period in history was there a greater general desire to know the future. This ignoran... ...im by the hand and lead- ing him into the great hall. At this epoch of our history, a duke and peer, with great possessions, holding public offices an... ...course were traced with exquisite delicacy, like the red, pure outlines of Etruscan figures. Their slightest words brought a flood of ideas, because e...

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...ne, As numb to revelation As if my trade were bone. As far from time as history, As near yourself to-day As children to the rainbow’s scarf, ... ... LIX THE moon upon her fluent route Defiant of a road, The stars Etruscan argument, Substantiate a God. If Aims impel these Astral Ones, The... ...wn: Nobody knew his father, Never was a boy, Hadn’t any playmates Or early history. Industrious, laconic, Punctual, sedate, Bolder than a Brigand, Swi...

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...held them. At a distance beyond—yet but a little way, considering how much history is heaped into the intervening space—rises the great sweep of the C... ...s,—at this bright sky, and those blue distant mountains, and at the ruins, Etruscan, Roman, Christian, venerable with a threefold antiquity, and at th... ... the visible world out of her own mind; of compelling scenes of poetry and history to live before men’s eyes, through conceptions and by methods indiv... ...Ah!” replied Hilda, shuddering,” I really had quite for- gotten Beatrice’s history, and was thinking of her only as the picture seems to reveal her ch... ...r way, continued to make reference, no doubt, to some strange and dreadful history of their former life, belonging equally to this dark man and to the... ...its wide surrounding Campagna,—no land of dreams, but the broadest page of history, crowded so full with memorable events that one obliterates another...

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... de cloches/, symbols of his long-for- gotten magisterial glory. The whole history of France is there. Next to a tottering house with roughly plastere... ...he neighborhood. The melancholy dwelling where the events of the following history took place is one of these mansions,—venerable relics of a century ... ...d, and will be suf- ficiently explained by certain events in the following history. Four sentences, precise as algebraic formulas, sufficed him usuall... ...ther parts of the dwelling will be found connected with the events of this history, though the forego- ing sketch of the hall, where the whole luxury ... ...himself. When they reached the first landing he saw three doors painted in Etruscan red and without casings,—doors sunk in the dusty walls and provide... ... he was hesitating and stuttering at will. Here it may be well to give the history of this impedi- ment of the speech and hearing of Monsieur Grandet....

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... know that people were not to be expected to answer stupid questions about history quite out of their own line, that was her fault. She did what she k... ...sired to hem. Each, how- ever, had a quarter of an hour’s reading aloud of history to do in turn, all from one big book, a history of Rome, and there ... ... others seemed to think very bad taste. Dolores knew nothing about ancient history, and thought it foolish to study anything that did not tell in a Ca... ...nt the war about the slaves—secession they called it.’ ‘That is not in the history of England,’ said Dolores, as if Mysie had no business to look beyo... ...e of tall daisies; another of odd-looking doves, one on each side of a red Etruscan vase, where the water must have been as much out of their reach as... ...ot the present system to perplex children with the myths of ancient Jewish history.’ Gillian was speaking rapidly, in the growing consciousness that h...

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... deal 44 The Age of Innocence more reasonant in a young woman with such a history. The dinner was a somewhat formidable business. Dining with the van... ..., and tight sleeves with a flounce uncovering just enough wrist to show an Etruscan gold bracelet or a vel- vet band. But Madame Olenska, heedless of ... ...ork wedding a rite 125 Edith Wharton that seemed to belong to the dawn of history. Everything was equally easy—or equally painful, as one chose to pu... ...th conscious intention but be- cause he did not want to miss a word of her history; and lean- ing on the table, her chin resting on her clasped hands,... ...euvre, and his failure promised to be one of the most discreditable in the history of Wall Street. The extent of the calamity left Mr. Letterblair whi... ...and Archer lit a cigar and took down a volume of Michelet. He had taken to history in the evenings since May had shown a tendency to ask him to read a...

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...en they were at home; he knew about a great many things—about mathematics, history, Greek, zoology, eco- nomics, and the Icelandic Sagas. He had turne... ...umber; he devoted January to Petronius, February to Catullus, March to the Etruscan vases perhaps; anyhow he had done good work in India, and there wa... ...as told, invent reasons for anything she said. The shape of the earth, the history of the world, how trains worked, or money was invested, what laws w... ...” “It’s the continuity,” said Richard sententiously. A vi- sion of English history, King following King, Prime Minis- ter Prime Minister, and Law Law ... ...years are not so easily described, and will never perhaps be re- corded in history books. Granted facility of travel, peace, good trade, and so on, th... ... of legs. Deep in an arm-chair he was reading the third volume of Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of Rome by candle- light. As he read he kno...

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...f recovering, from some good standpoint on the ground gained, the intimate history of the business—of retrac- ing and reconstructing its steps and sta... ...s, if one could do so subtle, if not so monstrous, a thing as to write the history of the growth of one’s imagination. One would describe then what, a... ...and Miss Stackpole, the definite array of contributions to Isabel Archer’s history. I recognised them, I knew them, they were the numbered pieces of m... ...f delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an inno- cent pastime. The implemen... ... chim- neys, its windows smothered in creepers. The house had a name and a history; the old gentleman taking his tea would have been delighted to tell... ...detached from hope and regret, that she re- called to herself one of those Etruscan figures couched upon the receptacle of their ashes. There was noth...

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...d ride and fish and shoot, and breed largely: we were athletes with a fine history and a full purse: we had first-rate sporting guns, unrivalled park-... ...en, whose high, stout, Western castle had weathered our cyclone periods of history without changeing hands more than once, and then but for a short ye... ... Rosamund Culling that he thought the parsons happy in having time to read history. And oh, to feel for certain which side was the wrong side in our C... ...l they tattle of me now? Nevil’s championship of her good name brought her history spin- ning about her head, and threw a finger of light on her real ... ...peatedly shared by many others: and I am bound to forewarn readers of this history that there is no plot in it. The hero is chargeable with the offici... ... it, for they stood for Night and Day,—both hung with gold; the bru- nette Etruscan, and the blonde Asiatic; and every Frenchman present was epigramiz...

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...ing armour who have set me free!” Then he let fall the cup and related his history. He was called Spendius. The Carthaginians had taken him in the bat... ... great funeral piles were erected for the men of Latin race, the Samnites, Etruscans, Campanians, and Bruttians. The Greeks dug pits with the points o... ...on the summit of a peak! In fact four hundred of the stoutest Mercenaries, Etruscans, Libyans, and Spartans had gained the heights at the beginning, a... ...d Greeks, fifteen hundred Campanians, two hundred Ibe- rians, four hundred Etruscans, five hundred Samnites, forty Gauls, and a troop of Naffurs, noma... ...g of Spendius. He drew up the Barbarians in six equal ranks. He posted the Etruscans in the centre, all being fastened to a bronze chain; the archers ... ...ls, the Carthaginians massacred them right and left at their ease. But the Etruscans, riveted to their chain, did not stir; those who were dead, being...

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...s old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in civilized history, until the fame of its grassy meadows and its fish attracted settle... ...allowance. The story is current, at any rate, though I believe that strict history will not bear it out, that the only bridge ever carried away on the... ... associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history. “Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, n... ...mains that we know, unless it be one brief page of hard but unquestionable history, which occurs in Day Book No. 4, of an old trader of this town, lon... ...he last refinements of civilized life, and what of sublim ity there is in history was there symbolized. For the most part, there was no recognition o... ..., only a few arrow heads are turned up by the plough. In the Pelasgic, the Etruscan, or the British story, there is nothing so shadowy and unreal. It ... ... days of the ancient festivals, games, and pro cessions of the Greeks and Etruscans, with a little incredu lity, or at least with little sympathy; b...

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... the box and slams the door). The Call Boy returns with a man in a hideous Etruscan mask, carrying a whip. They both rush down the passage into the ar... ... yourself about 47 GB Shaw it? (Another burst of applause). Two slaves in Etruscan masks, with ropes and drag hooks, hurry in. ONE OF THE SLAVES. How... ...d almost yield you my throne. It is a record for my reign: I shall live in history. Once, in Domitian’s time, a Gaul slew three men in the arena and g...

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...ng juice like that We pour to heaven from bowls of gold, what time The sleek Etruscan at the altar blows His ivory pipe, and on the curved dish We lay... ...nt eye. A marvellous display of puny powers, High hearted chiefs, a nation’s history, Its traits, its bent, its battles and its clans, All, each, shal...

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...n did not believe in romance nor in transfiguration, nor in parallels from history, nor in anything else that may disturb domestic life. She adroitly ... ... be omitted. The view from the Rocca (small gratuity) is finest at sunset. History: Monteriano, the Mons Rianus of Antiq- uity, whose Ghibelline tende... ...e teeth and laughing gas and the tilt- ing chair at a place which knew the Etruscan League, and the Pax Romana, and Alaric himself, and the Countess M...

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...ting public sympathy in behalf of the inhabitants, I design here to give a history of the calamitous events which have so lately occurred within its l... ...enobia, which I cannot sufficiently recommend to your attention. It is the history of a young per- son who goes to sleep under the clapper of a church... ...- culty lay! So wags the world. Tempora mutantur—excuse me for quoting the Etruscan. What would we do without the Atalantic telegraph? (Pundit says At... ...vature had become apparent dur- ing the brief period of their astronomical history—during the mere point—during the utter nothingness of two or three ... ...ear. Before entering upon this subject it would be as well to give a brief history and description of the Chess-Player for the ben- efit of such of ou... ... with Nubia, more crafty than either, the turbulent mother of all Arts. In history of these re- gions I met with a ray from the Future. The individua...

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...ne, of course) to her sister. When the day broke, it so happened that this history was not alto- gether finished, and that Scheherazade, in the nature... ...ent manner, by clock- work, and was wound up with an indigo key. With this history the king was even more profoundly interested than with the other — ... ...nged these matters to her satisfaction, re-entered thus, at once, into the history of Sinbad the sailor: “‘At length, in my old age, [these are the wo... ...ing thus expressed himself, we are told, the fair Scheherazade resumed her history in the following words: “Sinbad went on in this manner with his nar... ...ing the tightening of the bowstring,) from the reflection that much of the history re- mained still untold, and that the petulance of her brute of a h... ...on which were a few goblets fantastically stained, together with two large Etruscan vases, fashioned in the same extraordinary model as that in the fo...

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...d. With this view of the nature and end of man Dante’s con- ception of the history of the race could not be other than that its course was providentia... ...chadnezzar (Daniel ii. 31-33). It is the type of the ages of tradition and history, with its back to the past, its face toward Rome,—the seat of the E... ...who first had chosen the place, they called it Mantua, without other 5 An Etruscan haruspex of whom Lucan tells,—Arens incoluit desertae moenia Lanae...

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...tand god- mother. The Quartier de l’Europe was a revival of the same idea; history repeats itself everywhere in the world, and even in the world of sp... ...is wizened youth was the work of a stepmother. Herewith begins the curious history of a prodigal son of Frankfort-on-the-Main—the most extraordinary a... ...self when fashionable Paris filled the house,—if these could have seen the history played out upon the stage before the prompter’s box, they would hav... ...of riches if ever a second fortune should come to their door. This was the history which Wilhelm Schwab related in German, at much greater length, to ... ... he resumed, “is frequently all that remains of vanished civilizations. An Etruscan jar, and a necklace, which sometimes fetch forty and fifty thousan... ... the perfection of art at the time of the siege of T roy, proving that the Etruscans were T rojan refugees in Italy.” This was the President’s cumbrou... ...e back from the law-courts, Pons had scarcely made an end of the marvelous history of his acquaintance, M. Frederic Brunner. Cecile had gone straight ... ...n these treasures. Still, they were surprised by the beauty of some of the Etruscan trinkets and the solid value of the snuff-boxes, and out of polite...

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...considering that the word religion is originally Roman, [probably from the Etruscan,] it seems probable that it presented the idea of religion under s... ...et of legendary tales undoubtedly there was, connected with the mythologic history of each separate deity. But in what sense you understood these, or ... ...y that a genus comprehends the subordinate species. He has even a personal history: he has passed through cer- tain adventures, faced certain dangers,... ... deadly enmity, to be explained only by one who should know the mysterious history of both parties from the eldest times. It is extraordinary, however... ...So construed, the book is, indeed, a most extraordinary one, and exposes a history that almost shocks one of the strides made in religious specula- ti... ... the other treatment applies itself to what is casual and vanishing in the history (or the origin) of Protestantism. For, after all, it would be no gr...

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...gainst the Lapithae and the aid furnished to him by Heracles, and with the history of Aegimius and his sons. Otto Muller suggests that the introductio... ... the world and the wars of heaven. In the end there existed a kind of epic history of 21 Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica the world, as known ... ...lays, we may suppose that in outline the story corresponded closely to the history of Oedipus as it is found in the Oedipus Tyrannus. The “Thebais” se... ...Homer and the Homeric poems proper back in the ages before chrono- logical history began, and at the same time assigns the purely Cyclic poems to defi... ..., and Homerica THE IDAEAN DACTYLS (fragments) Fragment #1 — Pliny, Natural History vii. 56, 197: Hesiod says that those who are called the Idaean Dact... ...ord with OMOS. L. and S. give = OMOIOS, ‘common to all’. (30) Probably not Etruscans, but the non-Hellenic peoples of Thrace and (according to Thucydi...

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...h gleeful reverence before the god Priapus, wrought in the fine clay of an Etruscan vase? The Latin queen caressed her chimera. The whims of Imperial ... ...old!” All at once marble takes an animal shape, the dead come to life, the history of the world is laid open before you. After countless dynasties of ... ...ummon before me whole countries, places, extents of sea, the fair faces of history. In my imaginary sera- glio I have all the women that I have never ... ...ocked down. “What is all this about?” “Come along, and I will tell you the history of it as we go.” By fair means or foul, Raphael must go along with ... ... of the hydraulic machine on the Pont Notre Dame?” “Ah, if you but knew my history!” “Pooh,” said Emile; “I did not think you could be so com- monplac... ... when science has attained to a pitch that enables us to study the natural history of hearts, when they are named and classified in genera, sub-genera...

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...blue and white Dutch tiles bearing marvellous representations of Scripture history, and was protected by a very tall green guard; the chairs were much... ...ged in a reverie. She had heard in books of girls writing poetry, romance, history—gaining fifties and hundreds. Could not some of the myriads of fanc... ...onveyed in his tone so opened Ethel’s heart that she went on eagerly:—”The history of it is this. Last time we walked here, that day, I said, and I me... ...at once. You have not told me about the girl.” Ethel proceeded to tell the history. “There!” said Margaret cheerfully, “there are two ways of helping ... ...ou would know those things much better than I do, as you know how to learn history.” “It is quite a different sort of cleverness,” said Flora. “Rec- o... ...h for mere decoration. There are two splendid vases in potichomanie, in an Etruscan pattern, which are coming for me to finish.” “Mrs. Taylor, at Cock... ...ual antima- cassars, and that the potichomanie could look so dignified and Etruscan. “Here you are!” cried Meta Rivers, springing to meet them. “Good ... ...his congratulations to Ethel, that she might make a wedding present of her Etruscan vases, the Cupids on which must have been put there by anticipatio...

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...ature, and at one time had made several lively excursions into medi- aeval history. His friends thought him very clever, and at the same time had an e... ...armed the brown surface of the city-wall, and lighted the hol- lows of the Etruscan hills. Longueville settled himself on the empty bench, and, arrang... ...years—a period of his life of which it is not proposed to offer a complete history. The East is a wonderful region, and Bernard, investigating the mys... ...I think he would believe you, because he knows you know a great deal about history and all that. I don’t mean this evening, but some time when it is c...

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...oo much to say that Mrs. Mountstuart’s little word fetched an epoch of our history to colour the evening of his arrival at man’s estate. He was all th... ... Mr. Whitford, and the consequence is you are ig- norant of your country’s history.” Miss Middleton rebuked him, enjoying his wriggle between a percep... ...t a county dinner-table by an allusion to Vernon “at work at home upon his Etruscans or his Dorians”; and he paused a moment to let the allusion sink,... ...for the drum. Dr. Middleton was tongue-tied there. Sir Willoughby gave the history of his wine in heads of chapters; whence it came to the family orig... ...my sky. There were applicants. In Italy she was besought of me. She has no history. You are the first heading of the chapter. With you she will have h... ...though they be to us, light up candelabras in the brain, to illuminate all history and solve the secret of the destiny of man? They cannot; they canno...