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...Contents PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE .................................................................................................................................. 6 A TALE OF JERUSALEM ..............................................................

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...Volume Five A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five is a publication of the Pen... ...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... ...d marbles and colours. In France, meliora probant, deteriora sequuntur—the people are too much a race of gadabouts to maintain those household propri-... ... in which a parvenu rivalry may at any time be successfully attempted. The people will imitate the nobles, and the result is a thor- ough diffusion of... ...he grew so black in the face that one might have mistaken him for a little African, and no effect had been produced beyond that of making him wriggle ... ... and con- sequently prevented, when the object picked up was found to be a Spanish knife which a dozen persons at once recognized as belonging to Mr. ... ... of him as of a prodigy Pre-eminent in arts and arms, and wealth, And high descent. We’ll have him at the wedding. Aless. I have heard much of this Po...

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...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can under...

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...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ormation in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it; a v... ...nd decorum of their dance. Thus of the genius of 12 Essays one remarkable people we have a fourfold representa- tion: and to the senses what more unl... ...; requires beneficence, but is somewhat better; so that there is a kind of descent and accommodation felt when we leave speaking of moral nature to ur... ...ive generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not ... ...Sheridan must wait.” Lover of liberty, friend of the Hindoo, friend of the African slave, he possessed a great personal popularity; and Napoleon said ... ...ot do the work of Webster. We conceive dis- tinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German ge- nius, and it is not the less real that perhaps we s...

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...lassics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...tch of eyes visible and invisible over the infancy of Willoughby, fifth in descent from Simon Patterne, of Patterne Hall, premier of this family, a la... ...th tell us, royal blood in common trades. For all our pride we are a queer people; and you may be ordering butcher’s meat of a T udor, sitting on the ... ...had been strictly sagacious. “Patternes marry money; they are not romantic people,” she said. Miss Durham had money, and she had health and beauty: th... ... his answers were as ready as the guns of the good ship Cap- tain, for the Spanish four-decker. “ And that you owe to Mr. Whitford,” said Miss Middlet... ...ted Captain Patterne to visit me: just pre- vious to his departure for the African Coast, where Govern- ment despatches Marines when there is no other... ...ht surmise. A change from quarters like these to a French hotel would be a descent!—’this the seat, this mournful gloom for that celestial light.’ I a... ... whether it shall commit suicide to supply me a supper, I behold a pair of Spanish eyes like violet lightning in the black heavens of that favoured cl...

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...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania State Universit... ... Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old ... ...nd find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, per chance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ... good, I should run for my life, as from that dry and parching wind of the African deserts called the simoom, which fills the mouth and nose and ears ... ...d boiled, will come out an excellent dunfish for a Saturday’s dinner. Next Spanish hides, with the tails still preserving their twist and the angle of... ...hey had when the oxen that wore them were careering over the pampas of the Spanish Main na type of all obstinacy, and evincing how almost hopeless and... ...in the re treat from Concord where he is styled “Sippio Brister” Scipio Africanus he had some title to be called n“a man of color,” as if he were d... ...us line; and in Boston and London and Paris and Rome, thinking of its long descent, it speaks of its progress in art and science and literature with s...

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...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 13...

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...den Economy 1 Economy W HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a hous... ... a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the la... ...ed for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old ... ...y and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ...me good, I should run for my life, as from that dry and parching wind of the African deserts called the simoom, which fills the mouth and nose and ears... ...and boiled, will come out an excellent dun fish for a Saturday’s dinner. Next Spanish hides, with the tails still preserving their twist and the angle ... ... they had when the oxen that wore them were careering over the pampas of the Spanish main, — a type of all obsti nacy, and evincing how almost hopele... ...in the retreat from Concord, — where he is styled “Sippio Brister,” — Scipio Africanus he had some title to be called, — “a man of color,” as if he we... ...ious line; and in Boston and London and Paris and Rome, thinking of its long descent, it speaks of its progress in art and science and literature with...