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...THE period covered by the inception, the publication, and the completion of the Sacred Books of the East exactly coincides with the thirty-four years that I have spent in Oxford. When I matriculated, Professor Max Muller, the editor of the series, was about to begin work on the first volume, which appeared whi...

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...rofessor Max Muller first suggested to me that I should compile a General Index of the names and subject-matter for the complete series of the Sacred Books of the East. Such an Index, he thought, would be a great help to all students of the Sacred Books of tile East, and of the greatest value for the study of the history of religions....

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...EDIC HYMNS, in 2 vols. : F. Max Muller & H. Oldenb("rg 33 . THE MINOR LAW-BOOKS: Julius J olly. 34, 3S. THE VEDANTA-SUTRAS, in 2 vols. ; with Sailka... ...ernitz. A GENERAL INDEX TO THE NAMES AND SUBJECT-MATTER OF THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST COMPILED BY M . WINTERNITZ PROFESSOR OF INDIAN PHILOLO... ...vered by the inception, the publication, and the completion of the Sacred Books of the East exactly co­ incides with the thirty-four years that I hav... ... lines as his. I consequently always took a lively interest in the Sacred Books edited by him as they successively ap­ peared during the course of a ... ...y way of preface the volume that brings the series to an end. The Sacred Books of the East include all the most important works of the seven non-Ch... ...wo. Eight volumes comprise translations of the 1 I viii PREFACE sacred books of the Persians. Two volumes represent Islam, and six the two main i... ... for the study of Oriental religions as far as represented by the Sacred Books of the East. By saving the student of these volumes an immense amoun... ...ence if I were asked to select any one of the fifty volumes of the Sacred Books of the East as specially useful, I should certainly choose the last.... ...ex of the names and subject-matter for the complete series of the Sacred Books of the East. Such an Index, he thought, would be a great help to all...

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volunteers offer you 8 different recordings of His Books by Robert Southey. This was the fortnightly poetry project for April 11th, 2010.

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Lang discussed literary subjects with the same humour and acidity that marked his criticism of fellow folklorists, in Books and Bookmen (1886).

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...To the Viscountess Wolseley -- Preface -- Elzevirs -- Ballade of the Real and Ideal -- Curiosities of Parish Registers -- The Rowfant Books -- To F. L. -- Some Japanese Bogie-books -- Ghosts in the Library -- Literary Forgeries -- Bibliomania in France -- Old French Title-pages -- A Bookman's Purgatory -- Ballade of the Unattainable -- Lady Book-lovers....

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...volunteers bring you thirteen different readings of the short poem Where My Books Go by William Butler Yeats, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)...

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...d wax tablets. However, Rawlings acknowledges the sparse nature of this first fragile evidence, and limits speculation. Later, libraries of religious books grew in Europe, where monks copied individual books in monasteries. The block printing technique began with illustrations carved in wood blocks, while the text needed to be written by hand. Eventually, entire pages were...

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...In Books 3 and 4 of Leviathan , Thomas Hobbes elaborates on the political philosophy set forth in the first two books, by considering the nature of a Christian commonwealth. Book 3 begins with a wealth of biblical scholarship, d...

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...Books by VED from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS This file contains the sample pages of some of my books. It may be noted that all these books are available for free reading on http://www.victoria.org.in/. However, readers who are in...

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...The Sixth Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of S, Calidore or of Cvrtesie.' Apart from Books 1-6, the only surviving section of the Faerie Queene is a short isolated fragment known as the Mutabilitie Cantos (traditionally numbered Book 7, cantos 6-8); this fragment is also included in the present recording. Alt...

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... 1 -- Book Second Childhood and School-time (Continued), 20 -- Book Third Residence at Cambridge, 34 -- Book Fourth Summer Vacation, 53 -- Book Fifth Books, 67 -- Book Sixth Cambridge and the Alps, 85 -- Book Seventh Residence in London, 105 -- Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind, 126 -- Book Ninth Residence in France, 150 -- Book Tenth Reside...

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... The Prelude of 1805, in Thirteen Books WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 1805 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global... ...th Summer Vacation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Book Fifth Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Book S... ...round, as thick as chairs could stand, With loyal students faithful to their books, Half and half idlers, hardy recusants, And honest dunces; of impor... ...orning hours, Drifted about along the streets and walks, Read lazily in lazy books, went forth 255 To gallop through the country in blind zeal Of sens... ...cts of its love, A winning power beyond all other power. Not that I slighted books—that were to lack All sense—but other passions had been mine, More ... ...When, in forlorn and naked chambers cooped And crowded, o’er their ponderous books they sate Like caterpillars eating out their way 470 In silence, or... ...wisdom and the pledges interchanged With our own inner being, are forgot. To books, our daily fare prescribed, I turned With sickly appetite; and when... ...ir human names, have into phantoms passed Of texture midway betwixt life and books. I play the loiterer, ’tis enough to note That here in dwarf propor... ...day been mine, 280 A wild, unworldly minded youth, given up To Nature and to books, or, at the most, From time to time by inclination shipped One amon...

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...Idylls of the King In Twelve Books In Twelve Books In Twelve Books In Twelve Books In Twelve Books by Al... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication Idylls of the King: In Twelve Books by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State... ...as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Idylls of the King: In Twelve Books by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electr... ................................ 211 4 Tennyson Idylls of the King IN TWELVE BOOKS by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Flos Regum Arthurus (Joseph of Exeter) Dedic... ...ght away to Heaven, and disappeared. ’ To whom the monk: ‘From our old books I know That Joseph came of old to Glastonbury, And there the heathen ... ...m the marsh A little lonely church in days of yore, For so they say, these books of ours, but seem Mute of this miracle, far as I have read. But who f... ...ur’s wars. ’ ‘O brother, ’ asked Ambrosius,—’for in sooth These ancient books—and they would win thee—teem, Only I find not there this Holy Grail, ...

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...This essay of Kant’s on copyright argues that the unlicensed copying of books cannot possibly be permissible, due to the fact that it assumes a consent on the part of the author which it is logically impossible for the author to give. The argument is dependent upon an assumption that the writings...

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...FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN & BOOKS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...ile as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ..................... 190 4 Robert Louis Stevenson Familiar Studies of Men & Books by Robert Louis Stevenson PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. These studies ... ... another, one study to another. The first was 5 Familiar Studies of Men & Books published with trepidation. Since no bones were broken, the second wa... ...ature. Hence, it will be, at least, honest to 7 Familiar Studies of Men & Books offer a few grains of salt to be taken with the text; and as some wor... ...at frantic effort to do right, than if he had 9 Familiar Studies of Men & Books turned on his heel with Worldly Wiseman, married a conge- nial spouse... ...m together, and he had understood how I was looking at the man through the books, while he had long since learned to read the books through the man, I... ..., it was not merely with designs of self-im- 11 Familiar Studies of Men & Books provement, but to serve mankind in the highest sense. Hither came the...