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...idence at Cambridge, 34 -- Book Fourth Summer Vacation, 53 -- Book Fifth Books, 67 -- Book Sixth Cambridge and the Alps, 85 -- Book Seventh Residence in London, 105 -- Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind, 126 -- Book Ninth Residence in France, 150 -- Book Tenth Residence in France and French Revolution, 176 -- Book Eleventh Imagination, How Im...

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...and the Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Book Seventh Residence in London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Book Eighth Retrosp... ...ospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind . 126 Book Ninth Residence in France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Book Tenth Reside... ...in France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Book Tenth Residence in France and French Revolution . . . . . . . . . 176 Book Eleventh Imagi... ...Withering the oppressor; how Gustavus found Help at his need in Dalecarlia’s mines; How Wallace fought for Scotland, left the name Of Wallace to be fo... ...upon all forms the characters 500 Of danger or desire, and thus did make The surface of the universal earth With triumph, and delight, and hope, and f... ...nd the azure heavens Spangled with kindred multitudes of stars, Could find no surface where its power might sleep, Which spake perpetual logic to my so... ... comprehension with delight And mingling playful with pathetic thoughts. The surfaces of artificial life 595 And manners finely spun, the delicate race ... ...cture and record. 775 ’Tis true the history of my native land, With those of Greece compared and popular Rome— Events not lovely nor magnanimous, But ...

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.................................................................................................................................. 160 THE REVOLUTION OF GREECE. ....................................................................................................................... 194 MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. II. ..........................................................

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.............. 124 CASUISTRY ....................................................................................................................... 143 GREECE UNDER THE ROMANS..................................................................................... 189...

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...who, forc?d by fate, And haughty Juno?s unrelenting hate, Expell?d and exil?d, left the Trojan shore. Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore, And in the doubtful war, before he won The Latian realm, and built the destin?d town; His banish?d gods restor?d to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line, From whence the race of Alban fathers come, And the long g...

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... 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Aeneid by Virgil , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim M... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, a... ... it was in fate; Nor could forget the war she wag’d of late For conqu’ring Greece against the Trojan state. Besides, long causes working in her mind, ... ...to wind and weather lay. There was their fleet conceal’d. W e thought, for Greece Their sails were hoisted, and our fears release. The Trojans, coop’d... ...ains, my words shall be sincere: I neither can nor dare my birth disclaim; Greece is my country, Sinon is my name. Tho’ plung’d by Fortune’s pow’r in ... ...d dive below: Like these, the steerage of his wings he plies, And near the surface of the water flies, Till, having pass’d the seas, and cross’d the s... ...ed more for battle Ilva joins, An isle renown’d for steel, and unexhausted mines. Asylas on his prow the third appears, Who heav’n interprets, and the...

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...nslation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be called for here in order that the following poem may be t...

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...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 Kalevala trans. John Martin Crawford , the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... knows no master.” The Finnish deities, like the ancient gods of Italy and Greece, are generally represented in pairs, and all the gods are probably w... ...e wicked hostess of the dismal Sariola, he, like Atlas in the mythology of Greece, relinquishes the support of the heavens, thunders along the borders... ...tation. The Kalevala, perhaps, more than any other, uses its lines on the surface in symbolism to point the human mind to the brighter gems of truth ... ...torm winds into slumber; Overburdened now the maiden Cannot rise above the surface; Seven hundred years she wandered, Ages nine of man’s existence, Sw... ... 36 The Kalevala In the summer of the tenth year, Lifts her head above the surface, Lifts her forehead from the waters, And begins at last her working... ...ng, Waving grain on many acres, On his mountains gold and silver, Rich his mines of shining copper, Highlands filled with magic metals, Chests of jewe...

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...of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction, so that not the smallest ...

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...?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29 -- CHAPTER VII? MISCELLANEOUS-HISTORICAL, 31 -- CHAPTER VIII? THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES, 34 -- CHAPTER IX? ADAMITISM, 39 -- CHAPTER X? PURE REASON, 43 -- CHAPTER XI? PROSPECTIVE, 47 -- ...

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...— CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . . . . . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BOOK III 133 CHAPTER I — INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 133 CHAPTER II — CHURCH CLOTHES . .... ...ne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps mo... ...ing was to be had but the toil of a rough journey; as if, forsaking the gold mines of finance and that political slaughter of fat oxen whereby a man hi... ...s of guilt,—wend to and fro with aimless speed. Thus must he, over the whole surface of the Earth (by footprints), write his Sorrows of Teufelsdr¨ ock... ...re to guide our British Friends into the new Gold country, and show them the mines; nowise to dig out and exhaust its wealth, which indeed remains for... ... both slopes of the Altaic chain, in the central Platform of Asia; in Spain, Greece, Turkey, Crim Tartary, the Curragh of Kildare? One man, in one yea...

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...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. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...- geant in charge of the cannon which was to give the sig- nal to fire the mines and blow up the bridge, this ser- geant, seeing that the French troop... ..., and the sun’s vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, crimson float on the surface of that milky sea of mist. The whole French army, and even Napoleon... ...had expe- rienced the feeling of one who confidently steps onto the smooth surface of a bog. When he put his foot down it sank in. To make quite sure ... ...ly entreated someone. And suddenly thoughts and feelings again swam to the surface of his mind with peculiar clearness and force. “Y es—love,” he thou... ...rs-off” and “breakers-up,” who had first wanted to effect a diver- sion in Greece and then in Warsaw but never wished to go where he was sent: Chichag...

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...r 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 singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Country to the Moor of Rannoch. It is not only when we cross the seas that we go abroad; there are foreign part...

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...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... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...have had patience for long theological discussions on the way to fight for Greece; but the daft Gordon blood and the Aberdonian school-days kept their... ...e curded froth of many other mills solemnly steer- ing to and fro upon the surface. Or so it was when I was young; for change, and the masons, and the... ... like ploughing, should turn up a large sur- face of life, rather than dig mines into geological strata. Masses of experience, anecdote, incident, cro...