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... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ...ey AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRACT FR ... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ... power to lay aside reserve; and many, again, cannot be so with particular people. I have witnessed more than once the case, that a young female danc... ... see it divide into two hemispheres: first, an ethi- cal system, differing centrally from any previously made known to man; secondly, a mysterious an... ...r; but raptures are modes of troubled plea- sure. The peace, the rest, the central security which belong to love that is past all understanding,—these... ...he deep chords from some accompaniment in the bass, I saw through the wide central field of the window, where the glass was uncolored, white, fleecy c...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. ?KASPAR! MAKAN!? The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the present hour. An unpleasant voice too. He had heard it for many years, and with every year he liked it less. No matter; there would be an end to all this ...

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...ad CHAPTER I “KASPAR! MAKAN!” The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the pres... ...imself and Nina. He absorbed himself in his dream of wealth and power away from this coast where he had dwelt for so many years, forgetting the bitter... ...aw a young and slim Almayer, clad all in white and modest-looking, landing from the Dutch mail-boat on the dusty jetty of Macassar, coming to woo fort... ...ity amongst the rafters. The front wall was cut in two by the doorway of a central passage closed by a red curtain. The women’s room opened into that ... ...shape- less heap, slept a Malay, one of Almayer’s domestic slaves— ”my own people,” he used to call them. A numerous and rep- resentative assembly of ... ...known; otherwise she accepted her position calmly, after the manner of her people, and even considered it quite natural; for was she not a daugh- ter ... ...ise. “He was coming back soon. There would be no difficulties,” he wrote; “people would rush in with their money.” Evidently they did not, for there w... ...he white man the Malay chief preferred to make his way quietly through the central passage of the house, and would come out into the garden at the bac... ...and passed into a large room she shared with her mother on the left of the central passage. Entering, she saw that Mrs. Almayer had deserted the pile ...

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...ned room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but th...

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...eries of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume....

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...pace and Time, no short story of mine of the slight- est merit is excluded from this volume. Many of very ques- tionable merit find a place; it is an ... ...ears I have made scarcely one a year. The bulk of the fifty or sixty tales from which this present three-and-thirty have been chosen dates from the la... ...well as to myself, and in spite of the kindliest encouragement to continue from editors and read- ers. There was a time when life bubbled with short s... ...sh, and Mr. Frank Harris was not only printing good short stories by other people, but writing still better ones himself in the dignified pages of the... ...d better sort of pay that the short stories of the ‘nineties were written. People talked about them tremendously, compared them, and ranked them. That... ...me. I make no claims for them and no apology; they will be read as long as people read them. Things written either live or die; unless it be for a pla... ...lames, stood the great cylinders of the Jeddah Company Blast Furnaces, the central edifices of the big ironworks of which Horrocks was the manager. Th... ...revious god, just as they’d left me overnight. I’d got my back against the central pillar of the hut, and, practically, I was asleep. And that’s how I... ...o satisfy me yet,” he told me nearly a year ago. “Either they increase the central energy without affecting the nerves, or they simply increase the av...

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...stocratic life.” But by “aristocratic” he meant something very differ- ent from the quality of a Russian prince, let us say, or an English peer. He me... ...ur sense of humour and congratulate ourselves on a certain amiable freedom from priggishness or presumption, but for Benham that easy de- clension to ... ...lexingly just isn’t… . 2 2 2 2 2 Benham did not go about the world telling people of this con- suming research. He was not the prophet or preacher of ... ...on; in a mighty writing and stowing away of these papers he found a relief from the unpleasant urgency to confess and ex- plain himself prematurely. S... ...ome a smash in a minute!’ Far ahead I saw the grey sheds of Eastchurch and people strolling about apparently unaware of our disaster. There was a sudd... ...nd assure him- self of his own comfort in the midst of his reading. Y oung people and unseasoned people, Benham argued, are apt to imagine that if fea... ...ttle inn. And then he negotiated a satisfying meal, with beef-steak as its central fact, and stipulated for a fire in his bedroom. The landlord was a ... ...ng between them through- out a fitful and lengthy exploration of north and central Italy. She could not understand his disgust with the mediaeval colo... ...itself indolently into three shining branches so as to make islands of the central portion of the place. And on this river swarmed for ever a vast flo...

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...t a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. It must be, if ... ...han our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from ... ...inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only es- cape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them. A... ...rst upon us six years ago now. As Mars ap- proached opposition, Lavelle of Java set the wires of the as- tronomical exchange palpitating with the amaz... ...ons of miles it was from us—more than forty millions of miles of void. Few people realise the im- mensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material... ...elow in the darkness were Ottershaw and Chertsey and all their hundreds of people, sleeping in peace. He was full of speculation that night about the ... ...hotograph of the planet for the illustrated paper he edited in those days. People in these latter times scarcely realise the abundance and enterprise ... ...London, for at that time the furious terror of the people had rendered the central termini impossible. Near this place they halted for the rest of the... ...hurry to extend the field of their operations, and did not come beyond the central part of London all that day. It is possible that a very considerabl...

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...ashes out of a man’s life into such receptacles. I would catch sight of it from time to time with a distinct feeling of satisfaction till, one day, I ... ...ing side by side, both encrusted with ink and completely undistinguishable from each other. It was very distressing, but being determined not to share... ...My next effort in short-story writing was a depar- ture—I mean a departure from the Malay Archi- pelago. Without premeditation, without sorrow, withou... ...n Outpost of Progress” is the lightest part of the loot I carried off from Central Africa, the main por- tion being of course “The Heart of Darkness.”... ...after one short grasp, return to rest on a chased hilt. They were Karain’s people—a devoted following. Their movements hung on his lips; they read the... ..., too much of an essential condition for the existence of his land and his people, to be destroyed by any- thing short of an earthquake. He summed up ... ...th had indeed rolled away from under his land, and he, with his handful of people, stood surrounded by a silent tumult as of contending shades. Certai... ...ountain and lowlands stretching away in sunshine from west to east. It was Java. We said, ‘They are there; their time is near, and we shall return or ... ... . . Why? She was always by our side. . . . We starved. We begged. We left Java at last. “We went West, we went East. We saw many lands, crowds of str...

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...nly 7 Robert Louis Stevenson dignity but power, and the holder is secure, from that mo- ment, of a certain following in war. But I cannot find that t... ..., the first step of military prepara- tion. The religious sentiment of the people is indeed for peace at any price; no pastor can bear arms; and even ... ...ief, “we have just been puzzling ourselves to guess where that custom came from. But, Misi, is it not so that when David killed Goliath, he cut off hi... ...able. They are easy, merry, and pleasure-loving; the gayest, though by far from either the most capable or the most beautiful of Polynesians. Fine dre... ...the long hours. But the special delight of the Samoan is the malanga. When people form a party and go from village to village, junketing and gossiping... ...e shaken. Pot boil and caldron bubble! Within the memory of man, the white people of Apia lay in the worst squalor of degradation. They are now unspea... ...of dispute between white and brown to be eliminated, taxes to be raised, a central power created, the country opened up, the native race taught indust... ... the old local jealousies and 48 A Footnote to History bonds, and found a central or national party in the islands. Looking far before, and with a wi... ...n continued to pass through the army, habits of discipline and industry, a central sentiment, the principles of the new cul- ture, and actual gardens ...

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...W ITHIN THE T IDES Four Stories by Joseph Conrad from the 1919 J. M. Dent edition A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S ERIES... .................................... 119 4 Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad from the 1919 J. M. Dent edition THE PLANTER OF MALATA CHAPTER I IN THE PRI... ... was old. He had been an emi- nent colonial statesman, but had now retired from active poli- tics after a tour in Europe and a lengthy stay in England... ...plants. Forgot there was such a thing probably. I must say there were more people there than I ex- pected to meet. Quite a big party.” “I was asked,” ... ...s. I don’t know how it is that, when I come to town, the appearance of the people in the street strike me with such force. They seem so awfully expres... ...sly. I take the plantation boys for granted.” “W ell, and we here take the people in the streets for granted. And that’s sanity.” The visitor said not... ... feeling suddenly as steady as a rock. “But I can show you a view from the central hill which your father has not seen. A view of reefs and of broken ... ...danger on account of the dollars. He told her, he said, that there were no Java-sea pirates nowa- days except in boys’ books. He had laughed at her fe... ... been up that creek, where no European vessel had ever been seen before. A Javanese passenger he had on board offered him fifty dollars to call in the...

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...y a principle essential to Christianity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING; so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, necessarily excludes the i... ...F THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF AN AFFLICTED, DESPISED AND DEEPLY OUT- RAGED PEOPLE, BY RANKING SLAVERY WITH PI- RACY AND MURDER, AND BY DENYING IT EITH... ...al plea—”not guilty;” the case must, therefore, proceed. Any facts, either from slaves, slaveholders, or by-standers, calculated to enlighten the publ... ... to do it. Not only is slavery on trial, but unfortunately, the en- slaved people are also on trial. It is alleged, that they are, naturally, inferior... ...wrongs, and do not apprehend their rights. Looking, then, at your request, from this stand-point, and wishing every- thing of which you think me capab... ...- thing of which you think me capable to go to the benefit of my afflicted people, I part with my doubts and hesitation, and proceed to furnish you th... ...France; teas of various flavor, from China; and rich, aromatic coffee from Java, all conspired to swell the tide of high life, where pride and indolen... ...he first business of the enslaver of men to blunt, deaden, and destroy the central principle of human respon- sibility. Conscience is, to the individu... ...ming a union of hatred. “Pilate and Herod are thus made friends.” Even the central organ of the whig party is extending its beggar hand for a morsel f...

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...s not true.” —Hackluyt “Whale. ... Sw. and Dan. Hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. Hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —W ebst... ...ed or vaulted.” —W ebster’ s Dictionary “Whale. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richard... ..., however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ...— Montgomery’ s World before the Flood. “Io! Paean! Io! sing. To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knock- ing people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I c... ...gh yon low-arched way—cut through what in old times must have been a great central chimney with fireplaces all round—you enter the pub- lic room. A st... ...d deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don’t know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping. And when it comes to slee... ...ned cala- bash like a punchbowl; and this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on the braided mat where the feast is held. Now a certain ... ...rial brain; then, the plebeian herds crouch abased be- fore the tremendous centralization. Nor, will the tragic drama- tist who would depict mortal in...

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... met with the most considerate, most delicately ex- pressed criticism free from all antagonism and in its conclusions showing an insight which in itse... ... … There is, for instance, the kind of audacity almost indistinguish- able from impudence… . I must believe that in this case I have not been impudent... ... of a work so far advanced was a very awful decision to take. It was wrung from me by a sudden conviction that there only was the road of salvation, t... ...s of birth, position, and intelligence; who had only his sympathy with the people of forests and sea he un- derstood and loved so well. They can not b... ... called it— and I think so, too. Unless with Chinamen, or niggers, or such people as must be kept in order and won’t listen to reason; having not sens... ... an open enve- lope, addressed to the commander of any British ship in the Java Sea. The paper was thick, had an em- bossed heading: “Schooner-yacht H... ...sion. “I know ex- actly where she is, and I must go to the rescue of those people. It’s most fortunate you’ve fallen in with me, Mr. Carter. Fortunate... ... battling with a heavy monsoon in the Bay of Bengal, lying becalmed in the Java Sea, or gliding out sud- denly from behind a point of land, graceful a... ... other at the southern edge of the sands as if afloat on the open sea. The central ridge heaped up by the winds masked from them the very mastheads of...

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...not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster... ...ed or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richards... ...how ever authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ...ked fangs.” Montgomery’s Pelican Island. “Io! Paean! Io! sing, To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...t me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I... ... yon low arched way — cut through what in old times must have been a great central chimney with fire places all round — you enter the public room. A st... ...d deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don’t know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping. And when it comes to slee... ...ained calabash like a punchbowl; and this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on the braided mat where the feast is held. Now a certain ... ...perial brain; then, the plebeian herds crouch abased before the tremendous centralization. Nor, will the tragic dramatist who would depict mortal indo...

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... anything else between it and “Almayer’s Folly.” The only doubt I suffered from, after the publication of “Almayer’s Folly,” was whether I should writ... ... “Why not go on writing,” it is very probable he would have scared me away from pen and ink for ever; but there was nothing either to frighten one or ... ...actly dark but obviously ugly. The only definite statement I could extract from any- body was that it was he who had “brought the Arabs into the river... ...the cocktails and with the intoxication of his own glory. As he often told people, he came east fourteen years ago—a cabin boy. A small boy. His shado... ...hing, do any- thing, aspire to anything. In another five years those white people who attended the Sunday card-parties of the Governor would accept hi... ...heard of the place, have you? Well, it’s up that river of mine about which people talk so much and know so little. I’ve found out the entrance for a s... ...pped his hands, and receiving no re- sponse was going to call, when in the central pas- sage of the house, behind the red curtain of the door- way ope... ...ted dwelling. “All’s well!” muttered Almayer to himself, taking some loose Java tobacco from a drawer in the table. “Now if anything comes out I am cl...

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............................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........................................................................................................................

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..................................................................77 A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” ............................................ ...ss One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever ... ...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ...the gilded equipage of the Millionary; the humbler, but yet larger vehicle from the green metropolitan suburbs (the Hang- ing Gardens of our Babylon),... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ...with us. As for the Rafael, I suppose you are aware that he was one of our people. But what are you gazing at? Oh! my sister—I forgot. Miriam! this is... ...Mare’s day my Saint Helenas quotid at 14 pm, were down at 1/2 discount; my Central Ichaboes at 3/8 discount; my Table Mounting & Hottentot Grand Trunk... ...0 for the account at 17 primmium, down to nix; my Juan Fernandez, my Great Central Oregons, prostrit. There was a momint when I thought I shouldn’t be... ...with steel of Damascus, formed of the branches of the famous Upas- tree of Java, and feathered with the wings of the ortolan. These purchases being co...

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...erly minds. This, to be frank about it, is a process of tidying up, which, from the nature of things, cannot be regarded as premature. The fact is tha... ...d, which was but a de- cent thing to do, but in no way polished, extending from the year ’98 to the year ’20, a thin array (for such a stretch of time... ...yes! Bribery? What can you expect? I never pretended to be better than the people in the next street, or even in the same street. This volume (includi... ...ttle dusty (after the process of tidying up), a little bowed, and receding from the world not because of weariness or misanthropy but for other reason... ... of the language. But I need not labour the point. There will be plenty of people sagacious enough to perceive the absence of all wisdom from these pa... ...was practical and I had to consider warily the preconceived notions of the people to whom it was implicitly addressed, and also their unjustifi- able ... ... of Russian might, overshadow- ing with its fantastic bulk the councils of Central and Western Europe, sat upon the gravestone of autoc- racy, cutting... ...ves us to consider its legacy—the fact (no phantom that) ac- complished in Central Europe by its help and con- nivance. The German Empire may feel at ... ...nciple of autocracy was in the West, in France, and that all the forces of Central Europe would be needed for its suppression. But the move- ment towa...

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...ed about the lattice side-work and the iron roof of the railway-line, hung from invisible staging under the bellies of the girders, clus- tered round ... ...contractors by the half-hundred—fitters and riv- eters, European, borrowed from the railway workshops, with, perhaps, twenty white and half-caste subo... ...g as remorse- lessly as they worked themselves. Findlayson thought it over from the beginning: the months of office-work destroyed at a blow when the ... ...he big gong had brought the dinghy back at racing speed, and Peroo and his people were stripped to the waist, working for the honour and credit which ... ...pling grow as fat as myself. And I, who am Ganesh of Good Luck, I bless my peoples.” “They have changed the face of the land-which is my land. They ha... ...Bhairon went on thickly. “By day and night they pray to me, all the Common People in the fields and the roads. Who is like Bhairon today? What talk is... ...t do. A clever Chinn passes for the Bombay Civil Service, and gets away to Central India, where everybody is glad to see him. A dull Chinn enters the ... ...epartment or the Woods and Forest, and sooner or later he, too, appears in Central India, and that is what gave rise to the saying, “Central India is ... ...en, had been known to break down in those waters, and the honest Malay and Javanese traders would sometimes aid them in their own peculiar way. But th...

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...r slough the dross of Earth — E’en as he trod that day to God so walked he from his birth, In simpleness and gentleness and honour and clean mirth. So... ...waddy chills, An’ a Zulu impi dished us up in style: But all we ever got from such as they Was pop to what the Fuzzy made us swaller; We ‘eld our ... ... SOLDIER, SOLDIER SOLDIER, SOLDIER SOLDIER, SOLDIER “Soldier, soldier come from the wars, Why don’t you march with my true love?” “We’re fresh from of... ...ken away my long jezail, My shield and sabre fine, And heaved me into the Central jail For lifting of the kine. The steer may low within the byre, ... ...us Gods are made, And whoso makes them otherwise shall die.” And all the people praised him. . . . Then he died. Read here the story of Evarra — ma... ... 1889 to 1896 129 And whoso makes them otherwise shall die.” And all the people praised him… . Then he died. Read here the story of Evarra — man — ... ...ding their neighbours’ tails: — “Our fathers lived in the forest, Foolish people were they, They went down to the cornland To teach the farmers to p... ...the Mary Gloster. My heart, how young we were! So I went on a spree round Java and well-nigh ran her ashore, But your mother came and warned me and I...

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...Stack up on that fer a high cyard,” approved Big Jim Belden, who had come down from his claim on Mazy May to spend Christ mas, and who, as every one ... ... ask Father Roubeau here: he performed the ceremony.” The Jesuit took the pipe from his lips, but could only express his gratification with patriarchal... ...ow, and jest and song and tales of past adventure went round the board. Aliens from a dozen lands, they toasted each and all. It was the Englishman, P... ...ngers), “all the time water, bad water. Then you come to great village, plenty people, just the same mosquitoes next summer. Wigwams oh, so high, — te... ...tside next year, — her and I, — but it ’s too late. Don’t send her back to her people, Kid. It ’s beastly hard for a woman to go back. Think of it! — ... ...ot good for her to have tried our ways, to come to know they ’re better ’n her people’s, and then return to them. Take care of her, Kid, — why don’t y... ...ive. Bill Totts had behaved abominably. Not only had he met Mary Condon at the Central Labor Council, but he had stopped in at a chop house with her, ... ... northwest monsoon, is also evident. Nobody ever comes to Lord Howe, or Ontong Java as it is some times called. Thomas Cook & Son do not sell tickets... .... He was the god of a dozen allied villages similar to this one, which was the central and commanding village of the federation. By virtue of the Red ...

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... Roy, of having some scien- tific person on board, accompanied by an offer from him of giving up part of his own accommodations, that I volunteered my... ...o him; and to add that, during the five years we were together, I received from him the most cordial friendship and steady as- sistance. Both to Capta... ...ollected, and I trust that many others will here- after follow. The plants from the southern parts of America will be given by Dr. J. Hooker, in his g... ...ar water. It happened to be a grand feast-day, and the village was full of people. On our return we overtook a party of about twenty young black girls... ...st falls in such quantities as to dirty every- thing on board, and to hurt people’s eyes; vessels even have run on shore owing to the obscurity of the... ...dday at Ithacaia; this small village is situated on a plain, and round the central house are the huts of the negroes. These, from their regular form a... ...his day I found a specimen of a curious fungus, called Hymenophallus. Most people know the English Phallus, which in autumn taints the air with its od... ...und is clear beneath, the Epeira seldom falls, but moves quickly through a central passage from one to the other side. When still further disturbed, i... ...s even the same species with mine. I cannot, however, recollect see- ing a central nest as large as a hat, in which, during autumn, when the spiders d...

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...tinguishing between Varieties and Species — Origin of Domestic Variet- ies from one or more Species — Domestic Pigeons, their Differences and Origin —... ... Competition universal 5 Charles Darwin — Effects of climate — Protection from the number of individuals — Complex relations of all animals and plant... ...ection, through Divergence of Character and Extinction, on the descendants from a common par- ent — Explains the Grouping of all organic beings. Chapt... ...eons have been watched, and tended with the utmost care, and loved by many people. They have been domesticated for thousands of years in several quart... ...to the sheep of parts of Yorkshire, that ‘as they generally belong to poor people, and are mostly in small lots, they never can be improved.’ On the o... ...fficulty in pair- ing them; in donkeys, from only a few being kept by poor people, and little attention paid to their breed- ing; in peacocks, from no... ...ver have expected that the branching of the main nerves close to the great central ganglion of an insect would have been variable in the same species;... ...us and Umbelliferous plants. Every one knows the difference in the ray and central florets of, for instance, the daisy, and this difference is often a... ...may be connected with some difference in the flow of nutriment towards the central and external flowers: we know, at least, that in irregular flowers,...

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...s—the Dutch borough of V ondervotteimittiss. Y et as it lies some distance from any of the main roads, being in a somewhat out-of-the-way situation, t... ... to say, positively, that the borough of V ondervotteimittiss has existed, from its origin, in precisely the same condition which it at present preser... ...cumference, and entirely surrounded by gentle hills, over whose summit the people have never yet ventured to pass. For this they assign the very good ... ...ust look, of course, to the centre of the plain, which is just sixty yards from the front door of each dwelling. Every house has a small garden before... ...e fond of their sauer-kraut, but then they were proud of their clocks. All people who hold sinecure offices are held in more or less respect, and as t... ...t idea in the world of such a thing as keeping time in his steps. The good people of the borough had scarcely a chance, however, to get their eyes tho... ...se, he should have at least adhered to analogy in its development. A great central orb was, in fact, suggested; so far Mudler was consis- tent. This c... ... very locality near which, at least, must be situated this incon- ceivable central sun. The astronomer, perhaps, at this point, took refuge in the sug... ...minosity; and here anal- ogy was suddenly let fall. But even admitting the central orb non-luminous, how did he manage to explain its failure to be re...

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... OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES EDGAR ALLAN POE AN APPRECIATION Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followe... ... Hope that melancholy burden bore Of “never—never more!” THIS STANZA from “The Raven” was recommended by James Russell Lowell as an inscription ... ... which inthralls every reader, Mr. Lowell suggested this additional verse, from the “Haunted Palace”: And all with pearl and ruby glowing Was the fai... ...lk-and-water way. Our capital city, unlike London or Paris, is not a great central heart from which life and vigor radiate to the extremities, but res... ... “He was at all times a dreamer-dwelling in ideal realms-in heaven or hell-peopled with the creatures and the accidents of his brain. He walked-the st... ...n season’ from you made ‘The Raven,’ and made ‘Ulalume’ (which by-the-way, people have done me the honor of attributing to you), there- fore, I would ... ... on the — — day of — — (I am not positive about the date), a vast crowd of people, for purposes not specifically mentioned, were assembled in the grea... ...t my three duns working with great diligence, pounding down ice around the central cask, and stirring the acid in the others. They did not cease, howe... ...ll its rays were polarized. Just before sinking within the turgid sea, its central fires suddenly went out, as if hurriedly extinguished by some unacc...

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...ony Motteux The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initia... ...on (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initialled ‘M.’ are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translato... ...(as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by Ozell. 4 Gargantua & Pantagruel Introduction ... ...harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, to excite people unto laughter, as Silenus himself, who was the foster-father of good... ...ht of force in all countries whatsoever. For you know well enough that all people, and all languages and nations, except the ancient Syracusans and ce... ...the city, and was beheld of everybody there with great admiration; for the people of Paris are so sottish, so badot, so foolish and fond by nature, th... ...g through the air. T aproban hath seen the heaths of Lapland, and both the Javas and Riphaean mountains; wide distant Phebol shall see Theleme, and th... ...ns; and that the meanest capacities might be informed of this, just at the central perpendicular line, on the chapter of the first pillar, which was o... ... ceased to boil; and then she took Panurge into the greater temple, in the central place, where there was the enlivening fountain. There she took out ...