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...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...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ... generosity grew up almost spontaneously to- wards one another and all the world. On this disposition was grafted that which was the one leading chara... ...here was a mixture of the utile with the dulce. Our constant visits to the theatre were strong incentives to a preparatory study of the plays of Goeth... ...of Goethe, Schiller, and Lessing. What noble acting we saw in that Dresden theatre! ‘With regard to the opera, I have never seen Weber or Meyerbeer’s ... ... care of the first Bishop the multitudinous islands scattered in the South Pacific. The technical bounds of the diocese were not defined; but mat- te... ...s sunsets and sun- rises, and star-light nights, and the great many-voiced ocean, the winds and waves chiming all night with a solemn sound, lapping a... ...be “settled” (if I live) on some one of the countless islands of the South Pacific, looking after a kind of Protestant Propaganda College for the educ... ...oleridge Patteson earth after all, and I have the “many-twinkling smile of Ocean,” though there is no soft woodland dell to make it more beautiful by ...

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...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had...

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...t island first when it was neither night nor morning. The moon was to the west, setting, but still broad and bright. To the east, and right amidships of the dawn, which was all pink, the daystar sparkled like a diamond. The land breeze blew in our faces, and smelt strong of wild lime and vanilla: other things besides, but these were the most plain; and the chill of it set ...

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...Excerpt: To Maria, may your name, that of one whose portrait is the noblest ornament of this work, lie on its opening pages like a branch of sacred box, taken from an unknown tree, but sanctified by religion, and kept ever fresh and green by pious hands to bless t...

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...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had ...

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...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H... ...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nd mechanical contrivance. I am reminded again of the days during the Boer war, when one realised that it had never occurred to our happy-go-lucky Arm... ...there came a tele- gram to bid me note how a certain Mr. Holt was upon the ocean, coming back to England from a little excursion. He had left London l... ...ir renewal. I have tried to suggest that, whatever im- mediate devices for pacification might be employed, the only way to a better understanding and ... ... new basis—and that and no less is what this Labour Unrest demands for its pacification—is just one of those large alterations which will never be mad... ...riters and artists, for example, nor the stage—though it may build and own theatres—the tailor, the dressmaker, the restaurant cook, an enormous multi...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy 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 powe...

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...Contents 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 T...

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

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...n Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... was now ending his days as the con- ductor of an orchestra in a boulevard theatre, and a music master in several young ladies’ boarding-schools, a po... ...life always fell short of the ideals which Pons cre- ated for himself; the world without was not in tune with the soul within, but Pons had made up hi... ... upon the short-lived follies of Paris, produces its Pons. No place in the world is so inexorable in great things; no city of the globe so disdainfull... ...s still composing, on scanty pay, for his own orchestra or for neighboring theatres. And yet, the worthy man did justice to the great masters of our d... ...Never, perhaps, did two souls, so much alike, find each other in the great ocean of humanity which flowed forth, in disobedience to the will of God, f... ...d with a homely cheerfulness found in the romances of August Lafontaine of pacific memory; but the predominating element in the compound of artless- n... ...ed Schmucke’s soul—he was moved to call Pons’ amphitryons “fools.” For his pacific nature that impulse equaled the wrath of Roland. With wise foresigh...

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