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... THE DEVIL‘S LEGACY. TO EARTH MORTALS. BEING THE KEY NOTE TO BLACK ARTS!! WITCHCRAFT, DEVINATION , OMENS, FOREW... ...ITIONS, SORCERY, DAEMONOLOGY, DREAMS, PREDICTIONS, VISIONS, AND Compacts with the Devil!! WITH THE MOST AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF SALEM WITCHCRAFT! ... ...vil!! WITH THE MOST AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF SALEM WITCHCRAFT! Compiled by the publisher. NEW YORK: M. YOUNG, PUBLISHER, 173 GREENWICH S... ... statute against witchcraft enacted in England, was passed by the reign of King Henry VI.; and additional laws of great stringency and severity, sor... ...great stringency and severity, sorely needed, were enacted under the Tudors, by Henry VIII., Queen Elizabeth, and James I. In the year 1604, the grea... ...afternoon, the sun being west.‖ The Prince of Navarre, afterwards King Henry IV., of France, while playing at dice with a company at the co... ...re is a man in this country who believes as strongly in the divining rod as the navigator does the mariner‘s compass. He is not an illiterate, super...
...Perhaps the title of this Book – The Devil‘s Legacy to Earth Mortals may at first seem somewhat strange; they will pause as they do at a Witches Prayer, and wonder whether they had best look into it or no, lest they should really rai...
...The power of these witches as we find in their earliest records originated in their intercourse with familiar spirits, invisible beings who must be supposed to be enlisted in the armies of the prince of darkness. We do not re...
... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group... ...written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ... M XIII. N XIV. O XV. P-Q XVI. R XVII. S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis ... ...ing after a crown.' In Bogotá the U. S. minister and future president, Gen. William Henry Harrison, accused Bolívar of planning to turn Gran Colombi... ...can Republic. Though he knew the earth was spherical and not flat, how good a navigator he was is debatable. He was actually looking for a pat... ...h his domineering and fanatically religious mother, Augusta, and his older brother, Henry, on a 195- acres family homestead outside Plainfield, Wisco... ...y rest at 10 West Thirty-Third Street in the penthouse studio/apartment of sculptor Henry Hering, who was off playing golf in Scarsdale at the time"...
... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia a... ...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 by ... ...NDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVI... ...rs of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- I... ...gs of the great philosophers -- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking navigators -- Overrunning Europe, yet in the van of the Crusaders -- Di... ...Spirit of discovery excited by Columbus' first voyage 59-66 CHAPTER IV. Early Navigators and Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the pla... ... Rica adopted as a base for operations -- Objection to Buccaneer government -- Henry Morgan the sea bandit -- His first service, when a boy, as servan... ... charter of donation, fitted out a fleet, conducted under letters- patent from Henry VII., who gave the command to John Cabot, a native of Venice, who... ...also sought for in vain, he returned to England, and was loaded with honors by Henry VII., who appreciated to the fullest extent the importance of the...
...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 the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings amo...
...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 -- T...
...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...r her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book. Epigraph Neither to persuade nor indoctri... ...to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents ... ... 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily halluc... ...iam Caxton’s print shop helps standardize The Treasure of Our Tongue, and Henry VIII’s first act as ―pope‖ orders and then funds the first printed En... ...rinted fifteen years before Columbus‘s first voyage to America. The great navigator‘s son, Ferdinand, founded the Columbian Library at Seville, wher... ...thy merchant-diplomat who turned pioneer printer, two defiant clergy, and Henry VIII with his mistress-wife Anne Boleyn. “Black Plague” set stage fo... ...e, but their input is no less appreciated. About the Author A B-29 navigator when he ended three years WWII service in 1946, Brad Bradford re...
...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books...
...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every...
...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift ...
... TODAY'S TAKE ON EINSTEIN’S RELATIVITY PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE OF 18 FEB 2005 Cover Montage by Bob Wise Models of X-1 R... ...Montage by Bob Wise Models of X-1 Rocket Plane & San Francisco Cable Car by the Danbury Mint Edited by Homer B. Tilton and Florentin Smarandache ... ...hahdara, Delhi-110032, India. More science books can be downloaded from the E-Library of Science: www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooks-otherfo... ..., as the limit of Tanh is 1.0 as its argument approaches infinity. But the navigator in the rocket after one year of rocket clock time thinks he sh... ... say that the rocket does not exceed the velocity of light. What about the navigator in the rocket? He will see the observer at the start point re... ...ey can make without references other than the observers themselves. So the navigator will be very puzzled because he should be traveling at the vel... ... hertz. This means that, if the inductance of the circuit is about 10 -6 henrys, and with the above frequency of, 10 7 hertz, then the capacitan... ...have been exactly that, but it seems Einstein ignored physicist/philosopher Henry Margenau's admonition that "The tree is real ... because it satis...
...In a lecture that Einstein gave to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1921, he said the following: "Geometry predicates nothing about relations of real things, but only geometry together with the purport of physical laws can do so... The idea of the measuring...
...Preface. 5 -- About the cover 9 -- Welcome from Campus President, DrRaul Ramirez. 10 -- Registrants/Attendees. 11 -- Keynotes. 12 -- The light barrier: its construction and demolition. 14 -- Jim Malmberg. 17 -- DrDavid Iadevaia. 25 -- DrLarissa ...
...BEGIN the ADVENTURE How to Break the Light Barrier by A.D. 2070 Homer B. Tilton Florentin Smarandache ... ...rrier by A.D. 2070 Homer B. Tilton Florentin Smarandache 2 To the memory of Benjamin E. Tilton (1876-1955), a close contemporary of Alber... ...escu Street, Govora, Romania. More science books can be downloaded from the E-Library of Science: www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooks-otherform... ...barrier for accelerated particles. There is today this trend: Henry Margenau: "If sense data alone were recruits for reality, its domain ... ...lativity is reminiscent of the clock problems faced by early transoceanic navigators; those problems were finally solved by clocks designed and built... ...e leaves, and 51 when he returns to Earth. ... He, along with an engineer/navigator and two medical-life support types. All crew are heavily cross ...
...For most of the 20th century, both relativity and star travel fascinated this writer. The reasons Albert Einstein concluded there is an absolute barrier at the speed of light seemed at first clear, then later not so clear upon closer ex...
...One's reach should exceed one's grasp. Thus we reach for Alpha Centauri with a round-trip manned and womanned mission as the proposed overarching goal under a clear plan of exploration - a grand experiment described in later chapters. Whether or not we succeed in grasping the goal under this or under any plan is not as important as it is to se...
...Prefaces. 6 -- Ch.1. Introduction . 11 -- Ch.2. The Human Barrier. 14 -- Ch.3. An Overview. 18 -- Ch.4. Acceleration Due to Light Pressure. 21 -- Ch.5. Light Sailing is Not All There Is. 27 -- Ch.6. Einstein's Light Barrier. 32 -- Ch.7. The Phase One Experiment: The First...
...chnology Tales Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...r her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book. Epigraph Neither to persuade nor indoctri... ...to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents ... ... 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily halluc... ...iam Caxton’s print shop helps standardize The Treasure of Our Tongue, and Henry VIII’s first act as ―pope‖ orders and then funds the first printed En... ...rinted fifteen years before Columbus‘s first voyage to America. The great navigator‘s son, Ferdinand, founded the Columbian Library at Seville, wher... ...thy merchant-diplomat who turned pioneer printer, two defiant clergy, and Henry VIII with his mistress-wife Anne Boleyn. “Black Plague” set stage fo... ...re, but their input is no less appreciated. About the Author A B-29 navigator when he ended three years WWII service in 1946, Brad Bradford re...
...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable book...
...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a cen...
... APEC DELEGATES DISCOVER ANOTHER SIDE OF HAWAI‘I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 3 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS RESTO... ... · HAWAII BUSINESS HAWAI‘I: A PARADISE FOR INNOVATION BEST PLACE TO STUDY THE UNIVERSE ALGAE FOR FUEL WIND ENERGY UNDERWATER RESEARCH 2 APEC 2011 ·... ...luxury retailers amidst 290 STORES AND RESTAURANTS. Walking distance from the Convention Center or take the Pink Line Shopping Trolley which runs da... ... largest producer of pineapples under the Dole brand. In 1911, engineer Henry Ginaca invented a machine that revolutionized the industry by peeli... ...or centuries, the towering landmark served as a beacon to guide Hawaiian navigators home. Today, the dormant volcano peak is home to 13 scientifc ...
Hawaii Business Magazine in tribute to the APEC meeting of 2011.
... -- 17 Host Committee Chairman Peter Ho -- 20 Ideal Laboratory for Clean Power -- 24 Electric Vehicles -- 28 Firm But Renewable Energy -- 30 Building the Smart Grid -- 32 Air Conditioning from Seawater -- 36 America’s Most Diverse State -- 38 Local Economy -- 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies -- 42 A History of Innovation -- 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences...
...a Barier ă de Corali, dovedindu-ne c ă n u - i d o a r u n v a j n i c Columb navigator pe Oceanul Paradoxist, ci şi un paradoxal Cousteau! Pentru ... ...eastr ă şi- o juma’ de u şă-albastr ă!!... Deodat ă, Claudine spune: – Voila the moon! “Ce dracu-o fi însemnând «moon» în limba francez ă?”, îmi s... ...ând «moon» în limba francez ă?”, îmi scotoceam prin cotloanele creierilor. – The moon, repet ă ea. – Nu-n ţeleg, m ă fâstâcesc. – Luna, zice, luna... ...rate şi ata şate pe un tablou mai întins), Julio Gonzales (elemente tehnice), Henry Michaux (pictur ă automatic ă, foarte rapid executat ă; mâzg ăli... ...ad ă neagr ă)... Cu Jean în Parc, lâng ă “Palma care ascult ă” – statuia lui Henry de Miller... De când s-au inventat benzile magnetice de înregis... ...ozi ţie (pozasem un Chagall, “Von Monde”, 1911). Robert Motherwell, “Elegy to the Spanish Republic” (no. 133, 1975). Un realism sumbru – cea ţă, îns...
... Screw by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...ENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series,... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The Turn of the Screw by Henry James T he story had held us, ro... ...out at me as tigers and as Romans, but as Shakespeareans, astronomers, and navigators. This was so singularly the case that it had presumably much to ...
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...ublication Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... .................................................................... 15 Chase Henry ........................................................................ ..................................................................... 39 Hon. Henry Bennett ................................................................ .......................................................................... 89 Henry T ripp ................................................................. ...soul. 58 Spoon River Anthology Thomas Rhodes VERY well, you liberals, And navigators into realms intellectual, Y ou sailors through heights imaginati...
...Contents The Hill ........................................................................................................................................................................ 11 Hod Putt ......................................
...on A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... WILLIAM THE SECOND, CALLED RUFUS.............. 68 CHAPTER X ENGLAND UNDER HENRY THE FIRST, CALLED FINE SCHOLAR ........ 76 CHAPTER XIENGLAND UNDER MA... ................................................ 88 CHAPTER XII ENGLAND UNDER HENRY THE SECOND PART THE FIRST .............. 92 A Child’s History of En... ...JOHN, CALLED LACKLAND........................ 126 CHAPTER XV ENGLAND UNDER HENRY THE THIRD, CALLED, OF WINCHESTER 140 CHAPTER XVI ENGLAND UNDER EDWARD... ...se, in order to be beforehand with them sent out Admiral Drake (a famous navigator, who had sailed about the world, and had already brought great pl...
...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland ...
...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED......................
...e A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ... a rebellion by physical force. I fancy that it was the reading of Richard Henry Dana’s ‘Two Years Before the Mast’ which revived the spirit of ad- ve... ...by this book is a question of interest. Meeting with Mr. Charles 12 Typee Henry Webb (‘John Paul’) the day after Mr. Melville’s death, I asked him if... ...d, not to mention unnumbered pirated copies. Beside Hawthorne, Mr. Richard Henry Stoddard, of American writers, specially knew and appreciated Herman ... ... of the Marquess de Mendoza, then viceroy of Peru—under whose auspices the navigator sailed—he be- stowed upon them the name which denoted the rank of... ...a. This island, although generally called one of the Marquesas, is by some navigators considered as forming one of a distinct cluster, comprising the ... ...th the South Sea islanders, as their sacred rites. Although this prince of navigators was in many instances assisted by interpreters in the prosecutio...
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...Series Publication Love and Friendship by Jane Austen is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... IN LETTERS VEL IN LETTERS VEL IN LETTERS VEL IN LETTERS VEL IN LETTERS To Henry Thomas Austen Esqre. Sir I am now availing myself of the Liberty you ... ...ever she was sensible, she expressed a determination of going instantly to Henry, and was so wildly bent on this Scheme, that we had the greatest Diff... ...se her by every means in our power, but to no purpose. I talked to her of Henry. “Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occa- sion for your crying so much... ...’s reign. It was about this time that Sir Francis Drake the first English Navigator who sailed round the World, lived, to be the ornament of his Coun...
...Excerpt: Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love.? Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said ?No, my friend never will I comply w...
......... 34 LESLEY CASTLE .......................................................................................................................... 35 THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND ................................................................................................... 61 A COLLECTION OF LETTERS ..............................................................................
...rn Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley , is a publication of the Pennsyl vania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...ur. There—for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators—there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm se... ... two stiff gales and the springing of a leak are accidents which experienced navigators scarcely remember to record, and I shall be well content if no... ... I united myself in the bonds of the closest friend ship to one among them. Henry Clerval was the son of a merchant of Geneva. He was a boy of singul... ...trader and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son. Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal educati... ...opped just where I was standing, and on the door being opened, I per ceived Henry Clerval, who, on seeing me, instantly sprung out. “My dear Franken... ...he valued. He reminds me how often the same accidents have happened to other navigators who have attempted this sea, and in spite of myself, he fills ...
...Excerpt: You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undert...
...LICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...by extinguishing all further call for their services; 7. a second Jane; 8. Henry, a posthumous child, who belonged to Brazennose College, Oxford, and ... ...ng and dancing, my youngest sister, a second Jane, and my youngest brother Henry, a posthumous child, feeble, and in his nurse’s arms, but on this mor... ... honored by the piratical custom and “good will” was one known to American navigators as “The Woodcutter’s Island.” There was some old tradition—and I... ...ascar. The question is to avoid a sunk rock: trust the rudder to him, as a navigator, who un- derstands the art of steering to a nicety. 7 For this l...
...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expre...
...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .........................................................
...Captains Courageous A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...s the whims of the sea took her. “See her sayin’ her piece. She’ s Patrick Henry naow ,” said Dan. She swung sideways on a roller, and gesticulated wi... ...ton that was took with inflam’try rheumatism an’ couldn’t go. Counahan the Navigator we called him.” “Nick Counahan he never went aboard fer a night ‘... ... his board free fer a year or more on account of his stories. Counahan the Navigator! Tck! Tck! Dead these fifteen year, ain’t he?” “Seventeen, I gues... ...e’ll turn in like little men. Counahan is the b’y ,’ sez he. ‘Counahan the Navigator!’ “Nex’ cast they got ninety . Sez Counahan: ‘Either the lead-lin... ...sked the King Philip. “Hey , Tom Platt! Come t’ supper to-night?” said the Henry Clay; and so questions and answers flew back and forth. Men had met o...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing- fleet....
...nslated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a public... ...ssion in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...eir father, as unknown in the world as the northwest passage is unknown to navigators. M. d’Espard 33 Balzac was supposed to be an eccentric personag... ...cter of the architecture showed that it had been built under the reigns of Henry III., Henry IV ., and Louis XIII., at the time when the hotels Mignon...
...Excerpt: IN 1828, at about one o?clock one morning, two persons came out of a large house in the Rue du Faubourg Saint- Honore, near the Elysee-Bourbon. One was the famous doctor, Horace Bianchon; the other was one of the most elegant men in Paris, the Baron de Rastignac; they were friends of long standing. Each had ...
... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...irs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads — God knows where: Those navigators must be able seamen Whose charts lay down its current to a... ...eem, which ends In making men what courtesy calls friends. And thus Lord Henry, who was cautious as Reserve and pride could make him, and full... ...er training, ‘T will make, if proved, vast efforts without paining. Lord Henry also liked to be superior, As most men do, the little or the gr... ...e and free quill, At which all modern nations vainly aim; And the Lord Henry was a great debater, So that few members kept the house up later....
...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, to my ey...
... Sea by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...anean, the venerable (and sometimes atrociously ill-tempered) nurse of all navigators, was to rock my youth, the providing of the cradle neces- sary f... ...ms for a decade or so to have led a wandering life in the Old World. As to Henry C-, the next in age and wis- dom of our band, he had broken loose fro... ...ly, not so much at the sonnets, which she could not but esteem, as at poor Henry’s French accent, which was unique, re- sembling the warbling of birds...
...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 term ?Landfall? is ...
...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...