Description Details
...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland...

Full Text Search Details
...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 ... ...ää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. Published by the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Anthropological Society 2004. ISBN 951-746-603-X (SKS) ;... ... This work may be freely quoted, copied, duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ... city sprouts ever larger commercial properties, hotels and supermarkets, monuments for the new centralized power. The new hierarchy of development ... ... place over the years. Spirit houses erected for accident victims are like memorials where family members regularly bring offerings for their departed... ...ave been the unnamed and forgotten actors who have built the countries and monuments of their time. Villagers presently farming land occupy the lowest... ... Bertens, Hans 1995. The Idea of the Postmodernism. A History. Routledge, London. Bhamorabutr, Abha 1983 (1980). Thai Proverbs. Bangkok. Bissing, W... ...ng of South East Asia. Translated by H. M. Wright. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London. Castells, Manuel 1997. The Information Age: Economy, Society, Cult...

Description Details
...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 perilou...

Excerpt Details
...e 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 -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago...

Full Text Search Details
... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "T... ...thor of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descripti... ... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ...d which, except to those who are able to read the almost faded record, left no memorials of their existence. Thus the casual reader will declare that ... ...th century, and which was so little known in England that it was first used in London in 1240, nor was it in common use until sixty years later. CHAP... ...other of silver, but of what thickness our traveller does not state. These two monuments were set up in honor of his soul, and with the intent that hi... ... as they did so were taken under home protection. Governors were sent out from London and Paris, and as they came they brought with them favorites, an... ...odern invaders. In and around abandoned houses were discovered bones and stone monuments of uncertain age. Uncertain, because in the Arctic regions gr...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so wid...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ...............................

Full Text Search Details
... By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pen... ... DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvan... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ine Arts”* seemed to exact from me some account of Williams, the dreadful London murderer of the last generation; not only because the amateurs had s... ...s in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, 1853’) are published some atrocious monuments of the Assyrian cruelty in the treatment of military captives. In... ...ed into a hall of vast proportions; to judge by the catafalques, and mural monuments, scattered at intervals along the vast expanse of its walls, this...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the gran...

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...ce, none at all—in the grandeur of architectural display. Speaking even of London, we ought in all reason to say—the Nation of London, and not the Cit... ...n, we ought in all reason to say—the Nation of London, and not the City of London; but of Rome in her palmy days, nothing less could be said in the na... ...odigious growths out of so small a stem. In that view they will be endless monuments in attes- tation of the marvels which are lodged in civilization.... ...e day of Allia,—Collina, more dismal than Cannæ,—had in- flicted such deep memorials of wounds, that, from bitter experi- ence of thy own valor, no en... ...ime, it is remarkable that no field has been less trodden than the private memorials of those very Cæsars; whilst at the same time it is equally remar...

Excerpt Details
... with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary work that might live, it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such an employment. ?As subsidiary to this preparation, he undertook to record, in verse, the origin and progress of his own powers, as far as he was acquainted w...

Table of Contents Details
...Table of Contents: ADVERTISEMENT, ii -- BOOK FIRST INTRODUCTION?CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIME 1 -- BOOK SECOND SCHOOL-TIME (continued), 19 -- BOOK THIRD RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE, 33 -- BOOK FOURTH SUMMER VACATION, 51 -- BOOK FIFTH BOOKS, 64 -- BOOK SIXTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS, 81 -- BOOK SEVENTH RESIDEN...

Full Text Search Details
.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii BOOK FIRST INTRODUCTION—CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL TIME 1 BOOK SECOND SCHOOL TIME (continued) . . . . . . . . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 BOOK SIXTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 BOOK SEVENTH RESIDENCE IN LONDON ... ...XTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 BOOK SEVENTH RESIDENCE IN LONDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 BOOK EIGHTH RETROSPECT—LOVE OF NA... ... CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 BOOK SEVENTH RESIDENCE IN LONDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 BOOK EIGHTH RETROSPECT—LOVE OF NATUR... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 BOOK NINTH RESIDENCE IN FRANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 BOOK TENTH RESIDENCE IN FRANC... ... left those academic bowers When thou wert thither guided. From the heart Of London, and from cloisters there, thou camest. And didst sit down in temp... ...ocks 170 Immutable, and everflowing streams, Where’er I roamed, were speaking monuments. 130 The Prelude of 1850 Smooth life had flock and shepherd in ... ... a spirit Diffused through time and space, with aid derived Of evidence from monuments, erect, 615 Prostrate, or leaning towards their common rest In ... ...ope, the spirit of the Past 285 For future restoration.—Yet another Of these memorials:— One Christmas time, On the glad eve of its dear holidays, Fev...

Excerpt Details
...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, expressly to disown any one...

Table of Contents Details
... FIRST REBELLION.......................................................................................... 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI: TRAVELLING.................................................................................................... 243 CHAPTER XII: MY BROTHER ........................................

Full Text Search Details
...T C H E S S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PEN... ...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ...ble: for such annual resurrections of plants and flowers affect us only as memorials, or sugges- tions of some higher change, and therefore in connect... ...ek submission to his will. And all the time, whilst this tumult of sublime memorials held on as 31 Autobiographic Sketches the deep chords from some ... ... side, of Manchester. But so it was. Oxford Street, like its name- sake in London, was then called the Oxford Road; and dur- ing the currency of our a... ...lpably wrong. The nation is entitled to a free enjoyment of its own public monuments; not free only in the sense of being gratuitous, but free also fr... ...oble birth, I should have been delighted to see; St. Paul’s, and its naval monuments to Captain Riou and Captain ——, to- gether with its floating page...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey.

Full Text Search Details
...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...I. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the P... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...tmann’s seven outlines,) en- able any lady at the next great masquerade in London, to support the part of one of the ancient daughters of Palestine, a... ...r more caps in the form of a half oval, such are still to be seen upon the monuments of Egyptian and Persepolitan art, was fastened round the head by ... ...nd af- ter the destruction wrought amongst its slender chancery of written memorials by the revolution of one entire millenium. Still less could we ha... ...se, respectable nuisances— they are ancient, and of classical descent. The monuments still existing from pre-Christian ages, in memory of honest trave... ...troductions into the higher modes of aris- tocratic life, he may know that London and St. Petersburg are far more magnificent capitals than Paris; but...

Full Text Search Details
... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document... ... the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document... ... Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...ssoci- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an e... ... Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always wandering here and there from my ... ...references to those miniatures of women worn round the necks of rough men (and found there after death), those locks of hair, those scraps of letters,... ...Moelfra, Anglesey. His brother is the Reverend Hugh Robert Hughes, of Penrhos, Alligwy. CHAPTER III W APPING WORKHOUSE M Y DAY’S NO-BUSINESS BECKONING... ...n its outsetting tides, of the reflux to these churches of their congregations and uses. They remain like the tombs of the old citizens who lie beneat...

Excerpt Details
...English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up? Maybe it is set up by the Sultan?s orders for the impaling of a horde of Turkish robbers, one ...

Full Text Search Details
... The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document... ...f the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document... ...e Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...ne associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an e... ...ther large keys. ‘Hand me Mr. Sapsea’s likewise. Surely this is the heaviest of the three.’ ‘You’ll find ‘em much of a muchness, I expect,’ says Durdl... ... ‘It’s from Mr. Honeythunder, of course,’ said the old lady, folding her arms. ‘Of course,’ assented her son. He then lamely read on: ‘“Haven of Phila... ...two ends of any capacious old-fashioned chimneypiece, and by right should never have been seen apart, was the childless wife of a clergyman holding Co... ...ouching darkly within him? Repairing to Durdles’s unfinished house, or hole in the city wall, and seeing a light within it, he softly picks his course... ...various voyages. Stuffed, dried, repolished, or otherwise preserved, according to their kind; birds, fishes, reptiles, arms, articles of dress, shells...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

Full Text Search Details
...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What ... ...ER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of t... ...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the docu ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens... ...dit belongs to their Maker. They are entitled to no honors, no praises, no monuments when they die, no remembrance. One is a complex and elaborate mac... ..., I knew What Is Man and Other Essays 110 that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New Y ork, San Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, C... ... February. T wo blank years follow. Then—1587—he makes a ten year visit to London, leav ing the family behind. Five blank years follow. During this p... ...en; take a rugged old Tom that’s scarred from stem to rudder post with the memorials of strenuous experience, and is so cultured, so educated, so limi... ...ries, such as Holiday Hill, Jackson’s Island, or Mark T wain Cave, are now monuments to his genius. Hannibal is glad of any opportunity to do him hono...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania... ...o days’ time at latest, and afterwards the detested coupe could go back to London. The day was still young, and after lunch and coffee upon a sunny la... ...y dis- tresses as very little incidents in that perspective. Away there in London the case is altogether different; after three hours or so of the Com... ...nd stripes upon them, a few stars and a few stripes, the Washington family monuments.” “It was not only from England that America came,” said Miss Gra... ...ad had worked up from a photograph and some notes. She flitted among these memorials, going from one to the other, undecided which to 164 The Secret ...

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania St... ...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Pickwick Papers Volume One by Charles Dickens , the Pennsy... ...n ery or associations may give rise, to the Pickwick Club, sta tioned in London. ‘That this Association cordially recognises the principle of every ... ...ved one of the covers. ‘Soles, Sir.’ ‘Soles—ah!—capital fish—all come from London stage coach proprietors get up political dinners—carriage of soles—... ...anged. The place seemed smaller than it used to be; but there were the old monuments on which he had gazed with childish awe a thousand times; the lit... ... remains of the early ages; in a village in which there still existed some memorials of the olden time, he—he, the chairman of the Pickwick Club—had d...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small pu...

Full Text Search Details
...ennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, ... ...ny charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania S... ...harge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift , the Pennsylvania State... ...have observed in the churchyard at Banbury in that county, several tombs and monuments of the Gullivers. Before he quitted Redriff, he left the custod... ...I could hardly understand the new. And I observe, when any Yahoo comes from London out of curiosity to visit me at my house, we neither of us are abl... ...ow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years. My father now and then sending ... ... afforded some opportunities for laughter and admiration. I had sent so many memorials and petitions for my liberty, that his majesty at length mentio... .... “These Struldbrugs and I would mutually communicate our observations and memorials, through the course of time; remark the several gradations by w...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melan... ...r, and passed on to King’s College, Cambridge, whence, in 1813, he came to London to study law. In 1816 he opened his chambers as a special pleader, a... ...lationship. Almost all, too, lived in near neighbourhood in those parts of London that now are comparatively deserted, but which were then the especia... ...one of them, Sir John Taylor Coleridge. ‘He has left few, if any, literary monuments to record what his intellectual powers were; and even in our comm... ...t only were gratefully read at the time, but became to the family valuable memorials of the heartfelt appreciation gained by a high-minded and upright... ... remember my inkstand in our drawing-room in London. So I value much these memorials of the first Missionary Bishop of the Church of England, in moder...

Table of Contents Details
.................................................... 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824.................................................

Full Text Search Details
... SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...s. They will hereafter appear in a separate publication. Mary W . Shelley. London, June 1, 1824. 26 V olume One THE DAEMON OF THE DAEMON OF THE DAEMO... ...in- ing other poems (see “Biographical List”, by Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, London, 1816 (March). Reprinted—the first edition being sold out—amongst th... ...te walls around, _120 43 Shelley He lingered, poring on memorials Of the world’s youth: through the long burning day Gazed on those... ...ard the story of their deeds; But dwellings of a race of mightier men, And monuments of less ungentle creeds _760 Tell ... ...esert there is built a home For Freedom. Genius is made strong to rear The monuments of man beneath the dome Of a new Heaven; myriads assemble there, ...

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

Full Text Search Details
...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 1 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume One is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...syl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rectly to the popu- lar mind. Most of these letters stand among the finest monuments of our political literature. Thus he presented the singular spect... ...argue a cause, or transact other business, with any idea that Edinburgh or London had a monopoly of legal learning, science, or subtlety, they would c... ...ruth is, no such oppression exists. If it did, our people would groan with memorials and pe- titions, and we would not be permitted to rest day or nig... ...rto unexplored. It sees no dis- tinction in adding story to story upon the monuments of fame erected to the memory of others. It denies that it is glo...

Table of Contents Details
... PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 2.1.II. In the Salle de Manege. ..................................

Full Text Search Details
...- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle... ... 7 Decembre, 1789.) welcomed by National As- sembly, though they are but a London Club; whom Burke and Toryism eye askance. On thee too, for country’s... ...ar day-star, the herald of universal day. We claim to stand there, as mute monuments, pathetically adumbrative of much.—From bench and gallery comes ‘... ...n obscurely foreshadowed by Cagliostro (See his Lettre au Peuple Francais (London, 1786.) prophetic Quack of Quacks, when he, four years ago, quitted ... ...ileries Gardens; many people press round him, as usual, with applications, memorials; he says to the Friend who was with him: Take me out of this! And...

Excerpt Details
...ate. The preceding volume of this Collection concluded the last of the pieces originally published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the writer to continue longer in the possession of his incognito were communicated in 1827, in the Introduction to the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate, consis...

Table of Contents Details
..................................................................................................... 210 Note 8.?BATTLE BETWIXT THE ARMIES OF THE BRUCE AND MACDOUGAL OF LORN. ............. 212 Note 9.?MASSACRE OF GLENCOE. ................................................................................................................. 214 Note 10.?FIDELITY OF THE HIGHLANDERS....

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvan... ...ve her sister’s life by an act of perjury, and undertaking a pilgrimage to London to obtain her pardon, are both repre- sented as true by my fair and ... ...Walter Scott and an acute critic, [James Chalmers, Esq., Solicitor at Law, London, who (died during the publication of the present edition of these No... ...he rage of indiscriminate destruction, which has removed or ruined so many monuments of antiquity, when they were not pro- tected by their inaccessibl... ...cer’s stall erected in front of my ironmongery wares, garlanding the rusty memorials of ancient times with cresses, cabbages, leeks, and water purpy. ...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania S... ...ubt, statistics of the former com merce of Salem might be discovered, and memorials of her princely merchants—old King Derby—old Billy Gray—old Simon... ... most modern date; for it had been manu factured by a skilful armourer in London, the same year in which Governor Bellingham came over to New England... ... There was an aged handicraftsman, it is true, who had been a citi zen of London at the period of Sir Thomas Overbury’s mur der, now some thirty yea... ...ight to mingle. Yet one tomb stone served for both. All around, there were monuments carved with armorial bearings; and on this simple 209 Hawthorne ...

Excerpt Details
...ater times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism were rallying for their last struggle against the modern spirit, chiefly represented by Voltaire, the Encyclopedists, and Rousseau himself--a struggle to wh...

Full Text Search Details
...ousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London,... ...SSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confe... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ourney to Geneva, in the year 1754, was visiting Bossey, and reviewing the monuments of my infantine amusement, above all, the beloved walnut tree, wh... ... and render it the object of universal veneration? Whoever wishes to honor monuments of human salvation would only approach it on their knees. It was ... ...or this purpose required so many instructions, informations, certificates, memorials, etc., etc., that, lost a thousand times in the perplexing laby- ... ...ve since lamented that I did not preserve it. To these I added five or six memorials in manuscript, and a printed one, composed by the famous Micheli ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of...

Full Text Search Details
...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of th... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... were able to go back to the elements of states, and to examine the oldest monuments of their history, I doubt not that we should discover the primal ... ...om very fatal consequences of their own mistakes, and has procured lasting monuments of their gratitude to the men who had courage and magnanimity eno... ..., p. 304.) The tonnage of the English ves- sels which entered the ports of London, Liverpool, and Hull, in the years 1820, 1826, and 1831, amounted to... ... roads which are called Roman roads. These things are at once the splendid memorials of their ignorance and of their greatness. A people which should ... ...ngst a democratic people poetry will not be fed with legendary lays or the memorials of old traditions. The poet will not attempt to people the univer...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

Full Text Search Details
...Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ...y charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvani... ...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania St... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ,... ...t was greatly changed, but it did not seem so; because in St. Louis, as in London and Pittsburgh, you can’t persuade a new thing to look new; the co... ...shington’s mouth, originally—artist should have built to that. These two are memorials of the long ago bridal trip to New Orleans and the French Marke... ...do not include the sums invested in burial grounds and expended in tombs and monuments, nor the loss from depreciation of property in the vicinity of ... ...ld certainly last but a very brief time; as brief a time as it would last in London. For the soul of it is the romantic, not the funny and the grotesq...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pl...

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University,... ... such was Gurth’s occupation, was seated, upon one of the fallen Druidical monuments, a person about ten years younger in appearance, and whose dress,... ... have no room to repent it—neglect what is now told you, and the T ower of London shall not protect you against our revenge.” “Good night to you, kind... ...ousand silver pounds, after the just mea- sure and weight of the T ower of London.” “Holy Abraham!” returned the Jew, finding voice through the very e... ...e castle, is pointed out as the tomb of the memorable Hengist; and various monuments, of great antiq- uity and curiosity, are shown in the neighbourin... ...at beneath. The neighbourhood of Stamford, on the Derwent, con- tains some memorials of the battle. Horseshoes, swords, and the heads of halberds, or ...

Excerpt Details
...tant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties. But as he finds an account of the circumstances given in the Notes to Law?s Memorials, by his ingenious friend, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq., and also indicated in his reprint of the Rev. Mr. Symson?s poems appended to the Large Description of Galloway, as the original of th...

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State... ...ut as he finds an account of the circumstances given in the Notes to Law’s Memorials, by his ingenious friend, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq., and a... ...s hypothesis is inconsistent with the account given in the note upon Law’s Memorials, but easily reconcil- able to the family tradition. In all Stair’... ...had long detained her in Edinburgh had afterwards induced her to travel to London, not without the hope that she might contribute her share to disconc... ...e to be consulted in the first instance.” “Be it so,” replied Ravenswood. “London is distant, but a letter will reach it and receive an answer within ... ...ns had been buried there of old, but their names were forgotten, and their monuments demolished. The only sepulchral memorials which remained were the...

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltaire was born in the year 1694. He lived un...

Table of Contents Details
............................................................................................................................ 43 LETTER XIV.?ON DESCARTES AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON........................................................................... 49 LETTER XV.?ON ATTRACTION.........................................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet), the Pen... ...eased was to ask for a passport to England. V oltaire left France, reached London in August, 1726, went as guest to the house of a rich merchant at Wa... ...tune and to his desires, and was settled in a little solitude not far from London. Being come into it, I per- ceived a small but regularly built house... ...upon her as a prostitute, an adulteress, a murderer. Thus the English have memorials of the several reigns, but no such thing as a history. There is, ... ...ion of the spec- tator is not the mausoleums of the English kings, but the monuments which the gratitude of the nation has erected to perpetuate the m... ...viewed in Athens; and I am persuaded that the bare sight of those glorious monuments has fired more than one breast, and been the occasion of their be...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing wi...

Full Text Search Details
...Life of Johnson by James Boswell Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State E... ...ic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publicatio... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an i... ...nothing that he could use. ‘I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London, in order to fix a date correctly.’ He agonized over his work with t... ...ne must reckon in considering any important matter of his day. His love of London is but a part of his hunger for men. ‘The happiness of London is not... ...ing dili- gence enough to form them into a regular com- position. Of these memorials a few have been 18 Boswell’s Life of Johnson preserved; but the ... ... Meditations, published by the Reverend Mr. Strahan, as well as from other memorials, two of which I select, as strongly marking the tenderness and se... ...ink that he had read Spenser.’ A proposition which had been agitated, that monuments to eminent persons should, for the time to come, be erected in St...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey.

Table of Contents Details
......... 189 MODERN SUPERSTITION ........................................................................................................ 224 COLERIDGE AND OPIUM-EATING ........................................................................................ 264 TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT ..................................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
... DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penns... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pe... ...ccordingly, much in the same way as was many years afterwards practised in London, when a hosier had caused several young people to be prosecuted to d... ...e could rest as upon a sofa. Previously we had stood upon graves, and with monuments more or less conspicuous all around us: some raised by friends to... ...or other relative, who had died in captivity. I was grieved that these sad memorials should meet the eye of my wife at this moment of awe and terrific... ...n the pew, I might at least liberate her for the moment from the besetting memorials of sorrow and calamity. But, as if in the very teeth of my purpos... ...mpestuous mania, raving frenzy, or moping idiocy. T wo great commemorative monuments arose in after years to mark the depth and per- manence of the aw...

Excerpt Details
...e 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 extent such si...

Table of Contents Details
.............................. 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TALKERS ............................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER XI: TALK AND TALKERS ..........................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...is Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto a... ...w England States and nothing more. He wonders at the amount of drinking in London; let him try San Francisco. He wittily reproves English ignorance as... ...wn door. There is one country, for instance – its frontier not so far from London, its people closely akin, its language the same in all essentials wi... ...eet; and in the morning the shadow of the prison turrets, and of many tall memorials, fall upon the graves. There, in the hot fits of youth, I came to... ...veyard alleys and to read, with strange extremes of pity and derision, the memorials of the dead. Books were the proper remedy: books of vivid human i... ...ny are strangely fled. They do not stand merely to the dead, these foolish monuments; they are pillars and legends set up to glorify the difficult but...

Excerpt Details
...tened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II, the bigoted successor of Charles the Voluptuous, had annulled the charters of all the colonies, and sent a harsh and unprincipled soldier to take away our liberties and endanger our religion. The administration of Sir Edmund Andros lacked scarcely a single characteristic of tyranny: a Governor and Council, holding offic...

Table of Contents Details
................. 183 THE SHAKER BRIDAL.................................................................................................... 202 ENDICOTT AND THE RED CROSS ................................................................................ 208...

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylvania State... ... of monumental marble, the tributes of private affection, or more splendid memorials of historic dust. With such a place, though the tumult of the cit... ...estal days of soberer men. In their train were min- strels, not unknown in London streets; wandering players, whose theatres had been the halls of nob... ...ould be reprinted from Maine to Florida, and per- haps form an item in the London newspapers; and many a miser would tremble for his money bags and li... ...ce Told Tales whether all’s right?” “Old and young, we dream of graves and monuments,” murmured the stranger youth. “I wonder how mariners feel when t...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the truth which they perceive. Speech which goe...

Full Text Search Details
...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Un... ... fallen a victim to those bloody persecutions which, later, sent their red memorials to the sea by many a burn. By a merciful Providence all this was ... ...ses, a similar irruption of Christmas fairies would most likely convulse a London theatre from pit to gallery with inextinguishable laughter. It is, I... ...is, as it *Duchess of Malfi. 135 Lay Morals were, fringed with quaint old monuments, rich in death’s- heads and scythes and hour-glasses, and doubly ... ...lling-houses, and every here and there a clothes-pole projects between two monuments its fluttering trophy of white and yellow and red. With a grim ir... ...ll a robbery, this five years’ time. Further south, of course, it’s nearer London, and another story,’ he added. ‘Well, then, if that’s so,’ concluded...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four.

Table of Contents Details
...Contents THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY ................................................................................................................................... 4 LIONIZING ......................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Four A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State U... ...ylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...he least interesting of which is the fact that a thousand years ago actual monuments had fallen into disuse— as was all very proper —the people conten... ...is full share of the blessings of mortality? He was the originator of tall monuments—shot-towers—lightning- rods—Lombardy poplars. His treatise upon “... ... run regular trips (fare either way only twenty pounds sterling) be- tween London and Timbuctoo. And who shall calculate the immense influence upon so... ... Vienna, and other continen- tal cities. In 1783 and 1784, it was taken to London by Mr. Maelzel. Of late years it has visited the principal towns in ... ... and secret things be known, and many centuries shall pass away, ere these memorials be seen of men. And, when seen, there will be some to disbelieve,...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

Full Text Search Details
...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Penns... ...sylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thor... ...ua, an old gray town where men grow old and sleep already under moss grown monuments,—outgrow their usefulness. This is ancient Billerica, (Villarica?... .... It is only white man’s poetry. Homer and Ossian even can never revive in London or Bos ton. And yet behold how these cities are refreshed by the me... ...comes in a little lower down, draining the meadows of Pelham, Windham, and Londonderry. The Scotch Irish settlers of the latter town, ac cording to t... ...a distance of time, but a distance of relation, which makes thus dusky its memorials. What is near to the heart of this generation is fair and bright ... ... by it; but these did seem a little heathenish to us; and so are all large monuments over men’s bodies, from the pyramids down. A monument should at l...

Excerpt Details
...shed by the number 36, without too much deliberation. ?Your hat, sir, if you please?? a thin, querulous voice called out. A little old man, crouching in the darkness behind a railing, suddenly rose and exhibited his features, carved after a mean design....

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the ... ...e towers of Notre Dame, of the Palais, the Pont des Arts; all these public monuments seemed to have taken their tone from the heavy gray sky. Fitful g... ...ve bouteille and the final conclusion of Pantagruel.” “We owe our arts and monuments to the Pater noster, and our knowledge, too, perhaps; and a still... ... I proceed to tell you that by an almost miraculous chance the most poetic memorials of the material world had but just then been summed up for me as ... ... or to people likely to be useful to us. My relaxations were lawsuits, and memorials still furnished the staple of my conversation. Hitherto my life h... ...you manage at the Italiens this evening? An English family is returning to London, and I have taken their box for the rest of the sea- son, and it is ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; MUCH to the author?s surprise, and (if he may say so without additional offence) considerably to his amusement, he finds that his sketch of official life, introductory to THE SCARLET LETTER, has created an unprecedented excitement in the respectable commun...

Table of Contents Details
...LACE, 33 -- 3 THE RECOGNITION, 40 -- 4 THE INTERVIEW, 47 -- 5 HESTER AT HER NEEDLE, 52 -- 6 PEARL, 59 -- 7 THE GOVERNOR?S HALL, 66 -- 8 THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER, 72 -- 9 THE LEECH, 79 -- 10 THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT, 87 -- 11 THE INTERIOR OF A HEART, 95 -- 12 THE MINISTER?S VIGIL, 100 -- 13 ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER, 108 -- 14 HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN, 114 -- 15 HESTER ...

Full Text Search Details
...E GOVERNOR’S HALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 8 THE ELF CHILD AND THE MINISTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 9 THE LEECH . . . . . .... ...CH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 10 THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 11 THE INTERIOR ... ...E CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 20 THE MINISTER IN A MAZE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 21 THE NEW ENGLAN... ...e, introductory to THE SCARLET LETTER, has created an unprecedented excitement in the respectable community immediately around him. It could hardly ha... ... no doubt, statistics of the former commerce of Salem might be discovered, and memorials of her princely merchants — old King Derby — old Billy Gray —... ...of the most modern date; for it had been manufactured by a skilful armourer in London, the same year in which Governor Bellingham came over to New Eng... ...ion. There was an aged handicrafts man, it is true, who had been a citizen of London at the period of Sir Thomas Overbury’s murder, now some thirty y... ...no right to mingle. Yet one tomb stone served for both. All around, there were monuments carved with armorial bearings; and on this simple slab of sla...

Table of Contents Details
............................................................................................................................ 27 Chapter 1.2.II. Petition in Hieroglyphs. ...................................................................................................................... 30 Chapter 1.2.III. Questionable. ...........................................................

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsyl... ...t suffer Death to be spoken of; avoided the sight of churchyards, funereal monuments, and whatsoever could bring it to mind. It is the resource of the... ...nd said little or nothing. (Weber, Memoires concernant Marie- Antoinette (London, 1809), i. 22.) So it has lasted for the better half of a fortnight;... ...ier d’Eon, now in petticoats, now in breeches, is no less problem- atic in London than in Paris; and causes bets and lawsuits. Beautiful days of inter... ...ar day-star, the herald of universal day. We claim to stand there, as mute monuments, pathetically ad- umbrative of much.—From bench and gallery comes... ...eries Gardens; many people press round him, as usual, with applica- tions, memorials; he says to the Friend who was with him: Take me out of this! And...

Table of Contents Details
...ERS OF THE BODY .......................................................................................................................... 40 V. JOYS AND PASSIONS .......................................................................................................................................... 42 VI. THE PALE CRIMINAL....................................................

Full Text Search Details
...Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, ... ...ny charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania S... ...harge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Thomas ... ...scord in thee? I would have thy victory and freedom long for a child. Living monuments shalt thou build to thy victory and emancipation. Beyond thysel... ...ejoicing where old Gods lie buried, world-blessing, world-loving, beside the monuments of old world-maligners:— —For even churches and Gods’-graves do... ...y become thankful. Not long will it be ere they devise festivals, and put up memorials to their old joys. They are convalescents!” Thus spake Zarathus... ... not given to these Notes by any means their final form. ANTHONY M. LUDOVICI London, February 1909. To return to the Electronic Classics Series page, ...

Excerpt Details
...gnomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

Table of Contents Details
...s LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause.......................

Full Text Search Details
...nsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ...y charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania ... ...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...rsburg, Berlin, Constantinople, I am of Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne, I am of London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Limerick, I am of Madrid, Cadiz, ... ...is belov’d by these, and loves them in return and understands them, Where no monuments exist to heroes but in the common words and deeds, Where thrift... ...rs dear, Doctrines, politics and civilization exurge from you, Sculpture and monuments and any thing inscribed anywhere are tallied in you, The gist o... ...w I am willing to disregard burial places and dispense with them, And if the memorials of the dead were put up indifferently everywhere, even in the r...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton.

Full Text Search Details
...Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, ... ...ny charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania ... ...harge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton , the Pe... ...hor John Milton The Second Edition Revised and Augmented by the Same Author. London, Printed by S. Simmons next door to the Golden Lion in Aldersgate-... ...ring tell Of BABEL, and the works of MEMPHIAN Kings, Learn how thir greatest Monuments of Fame, And Strength and Art are easily outdone By Spirits rep... ...es, of Orders, and Degrees; Or in thir glittering Tissues bear imblaz’d Holy Memorials, acts of Zeale and Love Recorded eminent. Thus when in Orbes O...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: It would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A m...

Full Text Search Details
...ated by John Oxenford Introduction by Thomas Carlyle Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. John ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann ... ... examples of misdeeds punished, “Miss Sarah Sampson,” and “The Merchant of London,” were very ener- getically cited on my part: but, on the other hand... ...ercial activity, comfort and wealth, which announces itself to us in these monuments. Yet quite to my taste were 227 Goethe the houses, which to me s... ...his passion, recklessly devoting powers, time, care, and property to these memorials of a past world,—then am I re- minded with pleasure that what I f...