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...In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, a...

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...poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a carefu... ...ty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett re... ...ving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose inti... ... xiii PREFACE Steven James Bartlett Senior Research Professor of Philosophy, Oregon State University and Visiting Scholar in Psychology & ... ...iest ones, and read several passages. But I could not continue; I felt my mind wrapped in fog; my hands became icy. I shut my eyes and said to mysel... ...me and suggested we stroll in private. Obviously, he had something on his mind! He began by offering me an exquisite scarab, saying he had purchased... ...c as an amphora; little by little I must mold its lines on the wheel of my mind. It is the structure, containing the song. It must be graceful, stron...

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...ing in this gentle breeze, That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! A captive greets thee, coming from a house Of bondage, from yon city?s walls set free, A prison where he hath been long immured. Now I am free, enfranchised and at l...

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...Table of Contents: Book First Introduction: Childhood and School-time, 1 -- Book Second Childhood and School-time (Continued), 20 -- Book Third Residence at Cambridge, 34 -- Book Fourth Summer Vacation, 53 -- Book Fifth Books, 67 -...

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...don . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind . 126 Book Ninth Residence in France... ...Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 ii The Prelude of 1805 Book First Introduction: Childhood and School time OH, there is ... ...clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! 5 A captive g... ...cannot miss my way. I breathe again— Trances of thought and mountings of the mind 20 Come fast upon me. It is shaken off, As by miraculous gift ’tis s... ...services. Great hopes were mine: My own voice cheared me, and, far more, the mind’s Internal echo of the imperfect sound— 65 To both I listened, drawi... ...rn from the trees Fell audibly, and with a startling sound. Thus occupied in mind I lingered here 95 Contented, nor rose up until the sun Had almost t... ...ess tales, we bless you then— 550 Impostors, drivellers, dotards, as the ape Philosophy will call you—then we feel With what, and how great might ye a... ...was neither these nor aught Of wild belief engrafted on their names By false philosophy, that caused the woe, But that it was a reservoir of guilt And... ... it. This was the time when, all things tending fast 810 To depravation, the philosophy That promised to abstract the hopes of man Out of his feelings...

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...ew hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implement...

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...wn as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itse... ... course never do—the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in be ginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable se... ... history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English cou... ...wn of an old English country house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much... ... health is so poor,” his father explained to Lord Warburton. “It affects his mind and colours his way of looking at things; he seems to feel as if he ... ...ble to cosmic treacheries; she kept her eyes on her book and tried to fix her mind. It had lately occurred to her that her mind was a good deal of a va... ...r of age; if he had neither inno cence nor weakness, so he had no practical philosophy. His jaw showed the same voluntary cast as in earlier days; bu...

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...Martin Luther goes through the seven sacraments of the medieval Catholic Church with his interpretation of the Bible. He teaches his opinions on the different pratices taken place within the Catholic Church and what they should or do represent. The book is seemingly set ...

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...“Rise up then, you popish flatterers, one and all! Get busy and defend yourselves against the charges of impiety, tyranny, and lèse-majesté against the gospel, and of the crime of slandering your brethren. You decry as heretics those who refuse to contravene such plain and powerful words of Scripture in order to acknowledge t...

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...ederick C. Ahrens and Abdel Ross Wentz INTRODUCTION The primary importance of this treatise for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courage... ... for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courageous interpretation of the sacraments. But it is important also for its place in Luther’s pro... ... also for its place in Luther’s progressive assault upon the total position of the Romans. In An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility 1 Luther dem... ...f these coxcombs, 6 with which they so adroitly prop up their idol (for my mind is not altogether unteachable in these matters), I now know for cer... ...orthy of it, I pray that Christ in his mercy may bring them back to a sound mind. If they are not worthy, I pray that they may never leave off writin... ...stly complain that he finds nothing in it which cultivates or instructs his mind or which furnishes any food for learned reflection. For you know ho... ...out support of Scripture or reason that it seems to me he knows neither his philosophy nor his logic. For Aristotle speaks of subject and accidents ... ...ransubstantiation (a monstrous word and a monstrous idea), until the pseudo philosophy of Aristotle began to make its inroads into the church in the... ... How ridiculous! The laymen have never become familiar with their fine-spun philosophy of substance and accidents, and could not grasp it if it were ...

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...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you not one of the most impor...

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...rriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania... ...ou and your work find you at Dobling, dear Baron, and put you and yours in mind of one of your most sincere admirers and friends. De Balzac. 4 The Co... ...visits me now sometimes across the mists of dreams.” Keep this portrait in mind; it is a faithful picture and sketch of character. Mlle. d’Esgrignon i... ...as invested with all the majesty of ruined greatness. His chivalrous fair- mindedness was so well known, that litigants many a time had referred their... ...to good account by women of fashion, whose breasts were lined with a stout philosophy, for they could cloak no inconsiderable exactions with these lit...

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...Prologue: Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hinted at as their natal place. But the Author consen...

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...Contents THE THREE CLERKS OF ST. NICHOLAS ................................................................................. 8 THE CONTINENCE OF KING FRANCIS THE FIRST............................................................ 19 THE MERRY TATTLE OF T...

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...nd T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stor... ...ublication Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...the Author leaves to his friends his old shoes, and in order to make their minds easy, assures them that he has, legally protected and exempt from sei... ...to them, “Do you thoroughly understand, good people? Then go your ways and mind your own businesses.” The following, however, must be added, for the b... ...to go without catching their necks in the branches of trees, made up their minds to amuse them- selves, and live well, condemning certain hawkers or o... ...i- ous, and jovial kings. So you can laugh as loudly at those muckworms of philosophy who go about saying, “Our fa- thers were better,” as at the good... ...leshly garb, and live forever in his writings re- splendent with that good philosophy to which we shall al- ways be obliged to return. The good man ha... ...f our land, with spiteful tricks and apish pranks, unworthy of his Homeric philosophy, of this prince of wis- dom of this fatherly centre, from which ...

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...chitectures No Track One Leaf Direction The Seas It Doesn’t Last Tangled History, Futures Programme Singing In The Silence Human Gatherers Of Light Powerless Directions Mind Through You I See Make Riding The Earth Orbits The Silent Fire Arrow-flights Turnover Beyond Specifics Night Music Experience Not By Naming Getting There Looking Back One Pu...

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...The following treatise on Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been exhaustively and critically discussed by English scholars, there are few sources of information available to the student who wishes to make himself fa...

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...The Historical Relations Of Sextus Empiricus-Introductory paragraph.—The name of Sextus Empiricus. His profession.—The time when he lived.—The place of his birth.—The seat of the Sceptical School while Sextus was at its head.—The character of the wri...

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... SEXTUS EMPIRICUS AND GREEK SCEPTICISM A Thesis accepted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Bern Switzerland, November... ...RICUS AND GREEK SCEPTICISM A Thesis accepted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Bern Switzerland, November 1897 BY ... ...ty of Bern Switzerland, November 1897 BY MARY MILLS PATRICK PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accomp... ...OPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accompanied by a Translation from the Greek of the First Book of the "Pyrrhonic Sketches" by Sextus Empiricus CA... ...red to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been exhaus... ...r, Philosophie der Griechen, III. Auf., Leipzig, 1879—89. Lewes, History of Philosophy, Vol. I., London, 1866. Ueberweg, History of Philosophy, IV. ... ...sm is then the hope of ataraxia, and its origin was in the troubled state of mind induced by the inequality of things, and uncertainty in regard to t... ...s to its logical conclusion, and doubt the existence of anything outside of mind. He rather takes for granted that there is a something unknown outs... ...r schools of philosophy. The method, however, by which ataraxia or peace of mind could be reached, was peculiar to the Sceptic. It is a state of psy...

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.... They both traveled extensively through South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Claude now lives in France. Throughout his life, he kept diaries of his numerous professional and personal experiences. He decided then to put his notes into readable formats, whether short stories, novels or poetry. Claude still occasionally teaches and coaches people, but he is now foc...

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...SENSELESS LOVE p. 7 LEARN AND UNLEARN p. 11 RESPONSIBLE p. 17 UNIFORM p. 21 REVOLUTION p. 25 A STORY OF A TIME p. 29 IN AND OUT p. 33 EVERYMAN AND NOBODY p. 41 I AM NOT ME p. 43 NO MONEY WORLD p. 51 ONE DAY p. 55 EVIL GOOD p. 57 INFINITE p. 61 A STORY WITHOUT A PLOT p. 67 MY NEW ...

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...Quartering We’re Getting There, Back When Not Laughing, Gloating Fire Outside, Fire Within Higher, Deeper Such Stuff The Finding Understanding Mind Old-World Path Anthropocene For the Rest… Threnody Veils and Crowns Every Constellation Only a Pattern of Mind The Folded Thing Pollen In The Air Not There Until You Made It There The Purple Flower Can A Polar...

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...ny suggestions, criticisms, or inquiries. We ask Allah for guidance and enlightenment in our search for the truth. May Allah open our hearts and minds to it, and may He guide and extend His mercy upon us, for He is the one who grants all things. “Our Lord! Let not our hearts deviate from the truth after You have guided us, and grant us mercy from You; truly, You ar...

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...nemy? Whom do we call a friend? And why? Why do we have relationships at all? These are the questions Helena Harper eloquently asks in her collection of poems that examines the relationships in her own life. She has had to rethink her definition of 'enemy', not least because her father was English and her mother German and they met in the aftermath of World War II in Germa...

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... Family and More Family and More - Enemies or Friends? A collection of poems By Helena Harper Copyright 2008 All rights reserved – Helena Ha... ...By Helena Harper Copyright 2008 All rights reserved – Helena Harper No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means... ...ut the permission, in writing, from the publisher. Eloquent Books An imprint of AEG Publishing Group 845 Third Avenue, 6th Floor - 6016 New York, NY 1... ...n clerks how to impress with expert, efficient administration, teaching them mind-blowing, bewildering, English ordnance jargon. A slice of bread her... ...edle and thread. Catching the eye of an English colonel with a well-informed mind 17 and attractive appearance and manner. An unhurried courtship l... ...g the resolve to vanquish all problems, events that serve merely to engage mind and body, extracting solutions of admirable resource and great ing... ...tiable curiosity driving him to devour books galore on history and science, philosophy and war, to ask all he encounters, whether workmen in the road...

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...From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my...

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...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE..................................................................................................... 11 Second Paper on Murder, Considered as One of the Fine...

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...es Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...his understanding when it stands in opposition to any other faculty of his mind. The mere un- derstanding, however useful and indispensable, is the me... ...g, however useful and indispensable, is the mean- est faculty in the human mind, and the most to be distrusted; and yet the great majority of people t... ...instead of taking it in its proper sense, as the act of reproducing in our minds the feelings of another, whether for hatred, indignation, love, pity,... ...ve its ideal or perfect state. Really, gentlemen, I beg pardon for so much philosophy at one time, and now let me apply it. When a murder is in the pa... ...ife at- tempted, rest assured there is nothing in him; and against Locke’s philosophy in particular, I think it an unanswerable objection (if we neede... ...hat if these Friezland hounds had been “game,” we should have no Cartesian philosophy; and how we could have done without that, considering the worlds...

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...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE.....................

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...QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...evitable and perpetual ground in the spon- taneous tendencies of the human mind when left to itself. But no one will pretend that any corresponding pl... ...upon what it might be that, semi-consciously, was then passing through her mind; she said, that, notwithstand- ing the darkness, which would not permi... ...record of all that has passed in her absence. The poor girl, uneasy in her mind to an extent that she could but half understand, roamed up and down in... ...owever, is right in a graver reflection which he makes upon the prevailing philosophy of Swift, viz., that ‘all his views were directed towards what w... ... mons, for seeking refuge in a literal dinner from the oppres- sion of his philosophy. This was, perhaps, in part a scoff of his opponents. Yet there ... ...e read of his attempt to introduce the no- tion of negative greatness into Philosophy. Negative greatness! What strange bird may that be? Is it the or...

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...Excerpt: The text is taken from the printed ?Sterling Edition? of Carlyle?s Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin charact...

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................................................. 68 LECTURE IV. THE HERO AS PRIEST. LUTHER; REFORMATION: KNOX; PURITANISM. 99 LECTURE V.THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOHNSON, ROUSSEAU, BURNS. ........ 131 LECTURE VI.THE HERO AS KING. CROMWELL, NAPOLEON: MODERN REVOLUTIONISM............................................................................................................

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...Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e respectable, attributes such things to Allegory. It was a play of poetic minds, say these theorists; a shadowing forth, in allegorical fable, in per... ...legorical fable, in personifi- cation and visual form, of what such poetic minds had known and felt of this Universe. Which agrees, add they, with a p... ...rough every blade of grass, is not a God made visible, if we will open our minds and eyes? We do not worship in that way now: but is it not reckoned s... ...sinuate that the old Greek Mythists had any notion of lecturing about the “Philosophy of Criticism”!—On the whole, we must leave those bound- less reg... ...ture of the Literary Man.” Fichte, in conformity with the Tran- scendental Philosophy, of which he was a distinguished teacher, declares first: That a... ...! It was Superstition, Fanaticism, disgraceful ignorance of Constitutional Philosophy to insist on the other thing!—Liberty to tax oneself? Not to pay...

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...TH IN THE SCIENCES by René Descartes This Electronic Book Is a Publication of the Pennsylvania State University’s Electronic Classics Series, Jim Mani... ...eries, Jim Manis Faculty Editor Cogito Ergo Sum DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REASON, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES by Ren... ...N, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES by René Descartes , is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...THE METHOD 3 tion on the same objects. For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greates... ...nd is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to... ...those who, while they run, forsake it. For myself, I have never fancied my mind to be in any respect more perfect than those of the generality; on the... ... in treatises on morals; that theology points out the path to heaven; that philosophy affords the means of dis coursing with an appearance of truth o... ... was need of some special help from heaven, and of being more than man. Of philosophy I will say nothing, except that when I saw that it had been cult... .... As to the other sciences, inasmuch as these borrow their principles from philosophy, I judged that no solid super structures could be reared on fou...