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Excerpt: War and Peace: Five by Leo Tolstoy.

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...-0 806-07 7 7 7 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Five by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...ies Publication War and Peace – Book Five by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ... Publication War and Peace – Book Five by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... FIVE: 1806-07 CHAPTER I AFTER HIS INTERVIEW with his wife Pierre left for Petersburg. At the Torzhok post station, either there were no horses or the... ...ng. “Help comes from God alone,” he said, “but such measure of help as our Order can bestow it will render you, my dear sir. Y ou are going to Petersb... ...Pierre had only to tell the truth. Having entered the courtyard of a large house where the 13 Tolstoy Lodge had its headquarters, and having ascended... ... put on him: he was given a trowel and three pairs of gloves, and then the Grand Master addressed him. He told him that he should try to do nothing to... ... old aunt, a young man referred to in that drawing room as “a man of great merit” (un homme de beaucoup de merite), a newly ap- pointed maid of honor ... ... that enabled us to escape him. Buxhowden pursues us—we scuttle. He hardly crosses the river to our side before we recross to the other. At last our e...

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...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the ...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glori...

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................ 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL.............................................................................................................. 9 THE CONDEMNED CELL. ..............................................................................................................12 CODLINGSBY ....................................................................................

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Excerpt: Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad.

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.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

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...Excerpt: Inferno: Canto I. Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, Which in the very thought renews ...

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... Wadsworth Longfellow A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a... ...low A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a publication of th... ...- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...onduct me there where thou hast said, That I may see the portal of Saint Peter, And those thou makest so disconsolate.” Then he moved on, and I be... ...l I have thee know, ere thou go farther, That they sinned not; and if they merit had, ’Tis not enough, because they had not baptism Which is the p... ...ts boldness, and he said, with sighs, “Who has denied to me the dolesome houses?” And unto me: “Thou, because I am angry, Fear not, for I will con... ... as the disciple doth the master; So that your art is, as it were, God’s grandchild. From these two, if thou bringest to thy mind Genesis at the b... ...ast, for this one cometh not Instructed by thy sister, but he comes In order to behold your punishments.” As is that bull who breaks loose at the ... ... those that in its jaws it holds.” We were already where the narrow path Crosses athwart the second dike, and forms Of that a buttress for another...

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Excerpt: The Divine Comedy, Volume One, Hell [The Inferno] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eliot Norton.

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...Contents INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................7 AIDS TO THE STUDY OF THE DIVINE COMEDY .......................................................... 14 HELL .............................................................................. 16 CANTO I. Dante, astray in a wood, reaches the...

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Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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.................................................................................................................................. 9 Lecture I: RELIGION AND NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC .............................................................

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