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Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two.

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...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS .....................................................................................................................

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...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... “Poets should be poor, and Pope is independent,” growled Grub Street. The ancients could not endure that a “poet should build an house, but this varl... ...was very well qualified to have translated Homer, barring his ignorance of Greek. But every page of his writings proves a wide and diversified knowled... ...g than of that thorough and genial insight which sympathy produces. He has listened at the keyhole, not by any “Open Sesame” entered the chamber. He h... ...er, each doing his best to render Homer, but none of them is the grand old Greek, whose lines are all simple and plain as brands, but like brands poin... ...With spurning heels, and with a butting head: To White’s be carried, as to ancient games, Fair coursers, vases, and alluring dames. ... ... double day. The monarch then his solemn silence broke, The still creation listen’d while he spoke; 74 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 ... ...of these apprehensions, she is secured by a hearty address from the minute philosophers and free- thinkers, one of whom speaks in the name of the rest...

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...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroe...

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...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observ...

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...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...they were sure he would defend them. The men he addressed were civil. They listened to him, sometimes with smiles and sometimes with laughter, but app... ... his downrightness, passed with approval his compliments to France and the ancient high reputation of her army, and, seeing that a loophole was left f... ...mpany better than that of his equals, and learnt more from them. They also listened deferentially to their instructor. The conversation he delighted i... ...of us. Gentlemen, to the exact number of the Graces, dressed in drab of an ancient cut, made a pilgrimage to the icy despot, and besought him to give ... ...t to be visited by the guests at T ourdestelle. In common with some French philosophers and English matrons, he cherished a sentimental sad enthusiasm... ... small things producing great consequences, which have inspired diminutive philosophers with ironical visions of history and the littleness of man), i... ...t. Both the men laughed at the constant employment she gave them among the Greek islands in furnishing her severely accurate accounts of sea-fights an...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Enter Dame Gossip As Chorus. Everybody has heard of the beautiful Countess of Cressett, who was one of the lights of this country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity?s sake to be amused after their tiresome work of slaughter: and ...

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...books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its exten...

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...ER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TA...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

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...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

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...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...oad could atone for slavery, even as no bills in Parliament can redeem the ancient wrongs of Ireland. But here at least is a new light shed on the Wal... ... paraphrase of one tough verse of the original; and for those who know the Greek poets only by paraphrase, this has the very quality they are accustom... ...e, this has the very quality they are accustomed to look for and admire in Greek. The contemporaries of Burns were surprised that he should visit so m... ... vacation from humbler toil having com- menced, devote himself to oriental philosophers, the study of nature, and the work of self-improvement. Pruden... ...es, “that a soul which has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul such an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressi... ... being, but must be coopering a barrel, forsooth.” Ay, or reading oriental philosophers. It is not the nature of the rival occupation, it is the fact ... ... many crude but genuine feelings tumble together for the mastery as in the lists of tournament, we are tempted to think of the Large 139 Familiar Stu...

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...ion: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a ...

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...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 -- The first boats -- ...

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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "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 ... ...ONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the h... ...tion -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -... ...s of the sea -- Beliefs respecting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great philosophers -- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking navigato... ... with which they made voyages to adjacent lands. They soon became known to the Greeks, whose country they visited, and by these were given the name Ph... ..., and by these were given the name Phoenicians, a designation derived from the Greek word for palms, great numbers of which grow in the Holy Land. BU... ...a ship the name of which begins with a letter S or 0, for he can recall a long list of vessels whose names began with these unlucky letters, and every... ...ave pushed the old sailor into the background; the world has no longer time to listen to his stories; the steam engine does his work, heaves his ancho...

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........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...

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....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

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...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

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... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...7% that same as a chimpanzee and about 60% the same as a chicken, we would have to assume that we have some instincts. ―Psychologists, philos... ...logical problems. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancien... ...problems. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancient Greek ... ...never have dreamed of. ―In another university study students were told to administer electric shocks to others who were to learn word lists.... ...? ―In our human species we don‘t need a partner for an orgasm. We can masturbate like many animals do. Is that why Abraham Maslow listed... ...thers. I can then pursue the highest human needs, those of ‗self-actualization.‘ These needs Maslow called the meta needs. ‗Meta‘ is from the Greek ... ...l minstrels stirred desires with the ideas of what boy-girl love could be. The Kama Sutra graphically describes love-making techniques of the ancien...