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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest ...

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...ONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the h... ...tion -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -... ...ditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthagin... ... with which they made voyages to adjacent lands. They soon became known to the Greeks, whose country they visited, and by these were given the name Ph... ..., and by these were given the name Phoenicians, a designation derived from the Greek word for palms, great numbers of which grow in the Holy Land. BU... ...e earliest navigators, there are other peoples who lay claim to the honor, the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Indians, each asserting that they were the e... ...hantom Vessel is the best known and most poetical of all the nautical legends. Novelists have used it, poets have embellished it, dramatists have put ...

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...e are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philosophers have added to the mix. As have playwrights, poets, witch doctors, noveli... ...logical problems. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancien... ...problems. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancient Greek ... ...thers. I can then pursue the highest human needs, those of ‗self-actualization.‘ These needs Maslow called the meta needs. ‗Meta‘ is from the Greek ... ...slims, Christians and Jews against each other—and even against themselves. Look at the clashes between the Orthodox Armenians and the Orthodox Greek ... ...l minstrels stirred desires with the ideas of what boy-girl love could be. The Kama Sutra graphically describes love-making techniques of the ancien...

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...o Chapter 2 34 -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 34 ancient Persia. (In Mr. Helprin’s utopia, presumably, a royalty stream wo... ...ight. “The lords and nobles were up- setting the social order, breaking down ancient law and custom, sometimes by means of violence, often by pressure... ...hen, and each time it was also extended retrospectively. Artists, musicians, novelists, and filmmakers who had created their works on the understanding... ...ructed.” And to give lawyers fits. But that is getting ahead of ourselves. In Greek mythology, Procrustes had a bed to which he fitted its prospective o... ...vanescent subject matter; a favorite title of mine is I. Trotter Hardy, “The Ancient Doctrine of T respass to Web Sites,” 1996, art. 7, Journal of Onl...

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...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble s...

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...CT of merry England which is wa- tered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hi... ...te battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses; and here also flourished in ancient times those bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendere... ...e reduced to some degree of subjection to the crown, had now resumed their ancient license in its utmost extent; despising the feeble interference of ... ...siness with him. Isaac at once replaced on the table the untasted glass of Greek wine which he had just raised to his lips, and saying hastily to his ... ...aid Malvoisin apart to Mont- Fitchet, “were it well directed—but, like the Greek fire, it burns whatever approaches it.” The Judges had now been two h... ... obvious expedient. The name of Ivanhoe was suggested by an old rhyme. All novelists have had occasion at some time or other to wish with Falstaff, th...

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...ivil disobedience or revolt. Now, when we con- sider how intimate, and how ancient, was the connection 9 Thomas de Quincey press voice of God. Such a... ...pted into our grave political faith the rash and malicious sketches of our novelists. With Fielding commenced the practice of systematically traducing... ...fty years back (though manifestly at utter war, in the portraitures of our novelists, with the realities handed down to us by our Parliamentary annals... ...vailing conception of his order, as sketched by satiric and often ignorant novelists, he might be regarded, in all that concerned the liberalization o... ...lating general expres- sions (such as recorded a moral indignation against ancient fallacies or evasions connected with the dispute) into direct ebull... ... saw young Mrs. Harvey, as well as Colonel Watson. And amongst them was an ancient German gentle- man, to what century belonging I do not know, who ha... ...nd when she was *Falsely, because poxphuxeos rarely, perhaps, means in the Greek use what we mean properly by purple, and could not mean it in the Pin... ...t the purpureus of the ancients might have been evaded by attending to its Greek designation, namely, porphyry-colored: since, said he, porphyry is al... ...uth is, colors were as loosely and latitudinarially dis- tinguished by the Greeks and Romans as degrees of affinity and consanguinity are everywhere. ...

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...see in the stranger some great criminal, the possessor of enormous wealth. Novelists described the old man’s life and gave some really interesting det... ...asters as much as his schoolmates. Instead of learning the elements of the Greek language, he drew a picture of the reverend father who was interpreti... ... find beneath the cold skies of Paris the rich and satisfying creations of ancient Greece. La Zambinella displayed in her single person, intensely ali... ... marvelous charms of the Venuses worshiped and copied by the chisel of the Greeks. The artist did not tire of admiring the inimitable grace with which...

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...iard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And when you know the man’s re... ...refused to consider the pork and gave its whole blaz ing interest to that ancient incident. O.M. What was the incident? Y.M. An armed desperado slapp... ...e up of the facts of life, not creations. It took centuries to develop the Greek drama. It borrowed from preceding ages; it lent to the ages that came... ...and will fiercely fight for them. As instances, you have all history: the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the German... ...oc cupied. It is many and many a year since I have seen the like. In that ancient day Mrs. Clemens and I used to slip softly into the nursery at midn... ...m down—and of course, also, he was made to feel unwelcome, for this is the ancient law with man and the other animals. Hardy was thirty years old, and... ...ter Scott Charles Bronte Alfred the Great and Johnson were the first great novelists. Thomas Babington Makorlay graduated at Harvard and then studied ... ...toms of members of the Inns of Court and with legal life generally. “While novelists and dramatists are constantly making mistakes as to the laws of m...

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...end, a fraction of his debt, and gets his discharge. “B’s” feelings, as we novelists used to say, are “better imagined than described”; he does his be... ...cheapness is an old usurers’ age. England before the war was a paradise of ancient usuries; everywhere were great houses and enclosed parks; the multi... ...re to be sent up and wages down, while the old feuds of Wales and Ireland, ancient theological and sec- tarian jealousies and babyish loyalties, and s... ... Great Britain that we are confronted with the spectacle of this great and ancient kingdom reconstructing itself perforce, while it wages the greatest... ...an they do now, and they will in many cases be learning Russian instead of Greek or German. More of our boys will be going into the public service, an... ...pe that the Oxford and Cambridge of unphilosophical classics and Little-go Greek for everybody, don’s mathematics, bad French, ignorance of all Europe... ...peak it rather worse than a third-rate Babu speaks English, and of Ancient Greek by teachers who at best half know this fine lost language. They do no...

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... far behind as one of these clear headed children of the Roman forum and the Greek amphitheatre; and even if they have lost something of the sensation... ... de FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING 3 tached from the lingering spell of the ancient shadowy world in which trees and animals talked to each other, an... ... to birds and insects because in some remote and perhaps prehistoric past an ancient Gaul once decreed that “blackberries give the fever.” An hour awa... ...innocent self. Yet the blackberry has been condemned untried because of some ancient taboo that the French peasant dares not disregard. FRENCH WAYS A... ...French view of what are eu phemistically called “the facts of life” (as the Greeks called the Furies the “Ami able Ones”) is often spoken of as thou... ...oman is totally different from the person depicted under that name by French novelists and dramatists; but in truth every literature, in its main line...

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...by Church, Crown, Empire, decorum, respectability, solvency—and compulsory Greek at the Little Go—as his father had done before him. If in his undergr... ... tolerate the world as it is if it were not for smoking and drinking. Even novelists have their moments of lucidity. Certainly these things soothe the... ...as old and shriv- elled up, it was the patched-up speculations of vanished Greeks and Egyptians, it was a mummy of ancient disputes, old and dry, that... ...atched-up speculations of vanished Greeks and Egyptians, it was a mummy of ancient disputes, old and dry, that fell to dust as I unwrapped it. And I w... ...rd—shall I say suggestion? To stand by the altar bearing strange names and ancient symbols, speak- ing plainly to all mankind of the one true God—!” 4... ...idents—just as the severance of an Angli- can from a Roman communion and a Greek orthodox com- munion are temporary accidents. You will remark that wi... ... Earth,” he summed it up. “And you want to become a detached and wandering Ancient Mariner from your shipwreck of faith with something to explain—that...

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... baffling shades of the mental life, which in the hands of many latter-day novelists build up characters far too thin and too unconvincing, in the han... ...your nose there’s beauty; but you can’t try after all kinds of beauty. The ancients, they didn’t try after it; beauty came down of itself upon their c... ...ly I’m afraid of being late. Look at the river; it seems to beckon us. The ancient Greeks would have beheld a nymph in it. But we are not Greeks, O ny... ...fraid of being late. Look at the river; it seems to beckon us. The ancient Greeks would have beheld a nymph in it. But we are not Greeks, O nymph! we ... ...rned public has been caught by his two articles: ‘On some peculiarities of ancient law as regards judicial sen- tences,’ and ‘On the significance of c...

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...uth had manifestly gone from him, since he had ceased to be jealous of the ancients. There was a half- sigh floating through his pages for those days ... ...ourer and a travelling tinker had propounded and discussed one of the most ancient theories of transmundane dominion and influence on mundane affairs.... ...e, a cant phrase, a fatherly man- ner, might have wrecked him, by arousing ancient or latent opposition. The born preacher we feel instinctively to be... ...dition! I think we have in this country what will match the Italian or the Greek.” His mind flutters to Mrs. Doria, Richard blushes before the vision ... ...ou know.” “And the marriage is valid?” “You can dispute it.” “Yes, and the Greeks and the Trojans can fight. It holds then?” “Both water and fire!” Th... ... attribute their successes and reverses. They are useful impersonations to novelists; but my opinion is sufficiently high of flesh and blood to believ... ...n,” said Ri- chard under his breath to Adrian, who was serenely chant- ing Greek hexameters, and answered, in the swing of the caesura, “He might as w...

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...th a black ribbon. From a square, tableted broach, curiously engraved with Greek characters, he seemed a collegian—not improb- ably, a sophomore—on hi... ...t in obscurity, but transparency, which, indeed, is the practice with most novelists, and is, perhaps, in certain cases, someway felt to be a kind of ... ...made. At least, something like this is claimed for certain psycho- logical novelists; nor will the claim be here disputed. Yet, as touching this point... ... from an immense hereditary experience—see what Horace and oth- ers of the ancients say of servants—coming to the conclu- sion, I say, that boy or man... ...what do you conjecture him to be?” “I conjecture him to be what, among the ancient Egyp- tians, was called a—— “ using some unknown word. “A——! And wh... ...ok on the theology of Plato, defines as————” coming out with a sentence of Greek. Holding up his glass, and steadily looking through its trans- parenc... ...clearly, because, as before said, I con- jecture him to be what, among the ancient Egyptians—” “Pray, now,” earnestly deprecated the cosmopolitan, “pr...

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...ews in her earlier scenes has touches of greatness which a thousand French novelists lavishing “candour” and reckless of exag- geration have not equal... ...r any other heroine of the tender sex, which his- tory, sacred or profane, ancient or modern, false or true, hath recorded. We desire such critics to ... ...fy any the least unnecessary expence. Simply to be poor, says my favourite Greek historian, was not held scandal- ous by the wise Athenians, but highl... ... Fielding familiarity, as he was truly possessed of that quality which the Greeks considered in the highest light of honour, and which we term modesty... ...tty good mistress of the Latin language, and had made some progress in the Greek. I believe, madam, I have formerly acquainted you, that learn- ing wa... ... heard it, great satisfaction; for I may at least, with the modesty of the ancient philosophers, call myself a lover of generosity, but when I became ... ...e to the bottom,” an- swered Amelia; “and your mind is the treasury of all ancient and modern learning.” “You are a little flatterer,” cries the docto...

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...of taking it. There are methods of so-called presentation, I believe among novelists who have appeared to flourish—that offer the situation as indiffe... ...for it to which she currently alluded; they bore upon minor points of that ancient order, but for Mrs. Touchett they amply justified non-residence. Sh... ...he finest thing in na- ture. It’s finer than the finest work of art—than a Greek bas-relief, than a great Titian, than a Gothic cathedral. It’s very p... ... happen. Sud- denly I receive a Titian, by the post, to hang on my wall— a Greek bas-relief to stick over my chimney-piece. The key of a beautiful edi... ...hatched and timbered, past ale-houses latticed and sanded, past patches of ancient common and glimpses of empty parks, between hedgerows made thick by... ...as a nobleman of the newest pattern, a reformer, a radical, a contemner of ancient ways. His other brother, who was in the army in India, was rather w... .... It is impossible, in Rome at least, to look long at a great com- pany of Greek sculptures without feeling the effect of their noble quietude; which,...

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... the Old Man should be roused. All the world over, even to this day, these ancient inevitable taboos can be traced.) And now instead of caves came hut... ...aths, walks in the summer sunlight and tales by the winter fire- side, the ancient sequence of hope and acts and age perenni- ally renewed, eddying on... ...licately beautiful facade, along the South Bank of the Thames opposite the ancient dignity of Somerset House. Such thought was interwoven with the ver... ...t out of this great institution in favour of modern methods; and he learnt Greek and Latin as well as he had learnt German, Spanish, and French, so th... ...n’ who ‘spoke Latin with a Wiltshire accent and manifest discomfort, wrote Greek letters with his tongue out, and seemed to think a Greek sentence a c... ...cutely aware of secu- lar change than their predecessors were. The earlier novelists tried to show ‘life as it is,’ the latter showed life as it chang... ... of the world coming about like a ship that sails into the wind. Our later novelists give a vast gallery of individual conflicts in which old habits a...

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... stood by their bedside in the morning when they woke; and all about their ancient cities, where they bought and sold, or where they piped and wrestle... ...not of the confraternity. The sentimental old maid is a commonplace of the novelists; and he must be rather a poor sort of human being, to be sure, wh... ...careering in the windy, bottomless inane, or read about like characters in ancient and rather fabulous annals. Our offspring would no more think of co... ...some one branch or another of accepted lore, come out of the study with an ancient and owl-like demeanour, and prove dry, stockish, and dyspeptic in a... ...a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas? When the Greeks made their fine saying that 77 Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers ... ...do all our fiddling, and hold domestic tea-parties at the arbour door. The Greeks figured Pan, the god of Nature, now terribly stamping his foot, so t... ...lling on his pipe until he charmed the hearts of upland ploughmen. And the Greeks, in so figuring, uttered the last word of human ex- perience. To cer...

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...ut cakes that were lying neglected in a plate near him, and certainly (for novelists have the privilege of knowing everything) he thought a great deal... ...troduced by the patronage of his grandfather, Lord Binkie, by studying the ancient and modern orators with great assidu- ity, and by speaking unceasin... ... Hawky. Either of these young ladies is perfectly qualified to instruct in Greek, Latin, and the rudiments of Hebrew; in mathematics and history; in S... ... Miss Wirt their gov- erness, that raw-boned V estal. They took her to the ancient concerts by way of a treat, and to the oratorio, and to St. Paul’s ... ...place in mere story-books, and we are not going (after the fashion of some novelists of the present day) to cajole the.public into a sermon, when it i... ... Bute followed the track of Sharp and his daughter back to the lodgings in Greek Street, which the defunct painter had occupied; and where por- traits... ... gusty, raw day at the end of April—the rain whipping the pavement of that ancient street where the old Slaughters’ Coffee-house was once situated—Geo... ...XXX “The Girl I Left Behind Me” WE DO NOT CLAIM to rank among the military novelists. Our place is with the non-combatants. When the decks are cleared... ... and quacks that weren’t fit to get their living but by grinding Latin and Greek, and a set of super- cilious dogs that pretended to look down upon Br...

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...usketeers gathered round it with dry lips. They drank my health in due and ancient form, and thereafter tobacco tasted sweeter than ever. They absorbe... ...odiment—all this trouble would have been averted. They compared him to the Ancient Mariner, but none the less they were proud of him and proud of the ... ... she dwelt upon the wall. —Joshua ii. 15 LALUN IS A MEMBER of the most ancient profession in the world. Lilith was her very-great-grandmamma, and ... ...ould rave over and paint amid impossible sur- roundings—a face that female novelists would use with de- light through nine hundred pages. In reality h... ...lun’s little white room was always large and talked more than before. ‘The Greeks,’ said Wali Dad who had been borrowing my books, ‘the inhabitants of... ... of the heterodox women—is it not?—who were amusing and not fools. All the Greek philosophers delighted in their company. Tell me, my friend, how it g...

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...s not easy to trace how he became possessed of his black vizard, which was anciently made in the resemblance of the face of a cat; but it seems that t... ...r called Wolf ’s Crag, which the public more generally identified with the ancient tower of Fast Castle.] The scraps of poetry which have been in most... ...acter and in structure. They had only to turn their eyes to the history of ancient Greece, although he did not pre- tend to be very deeply versed in i... ...on Elspat MacTavish, or the Woman of the T ree, as they called her, as the Greeks considered those who were pursued by the Furies, and endured the men... ...e, in some degree worn out by the incessant labour of modern romancers and novelists, who, finding in those remote regions primitive habits and manner...