Excerpt Details
Excerpt: St. Ives, The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Full Text Search Details
... ! "# ! ... ... ! "# ! St. Ives, The ... ...on of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu... ...anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any re- sponsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file a... ...ate University assumes any re- sponsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way... ...Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Stevenso... ...t a wicked, piggish donkey of a girl I have made of myself, to be sure! And there is no hope! O, Mr.—’ And at that she paused and asked my name. I am ... ...ve of my adventures. It was the same as you have read, but briefer, and told with a very different purpose. Now every incident had a particular bearin... ... its nose in the air to which I had compared him. ‘I cannot imagine how we got upon this subject,’ said Flora. ‘Madame, it was through the war,’ repli...

Table of Contents Details
...NY OF THE INTERVIEW OF PRINCES ..................................................... 104 CHAPTER XIV THAT MEN ARE JUSTLY PUNISHED FOR BEING OBSTINATE IN THE DEFENCE OF A FORT THAT IS NOT IN REASON TO BE DEFENDED .......................................................................... 105 CHAPTER XV OF THE PUNISHMENT OF COWARDICE .............................................

Full Text Search Details
...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 docu- ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles C... ...o- ing 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... ...in our literature—a library edition of the Essays of Montaigne. This great French writer deserves to be re- garded as a classic, not only in the land ... ...e did not disdain to help themselves; and, indeed, as Hallam observes, the Frenchman’s literary importance largely results from the share which his mi... ...collating the English text, line for line and word for word, with the best French edition. By the favour of Mr F . W . Cosens, I have had by me, while... ...uch more easy and natural than that of Gaza,—[Theodore Gaza, rector of the Academy of Ferrara.]—in which the precepts are so intricate, and so harsh, ... ...?”—Cicero, T usc. Quaes., iv. 33.] Neither will that very picture that the Academy presents of it, as I conceive, contradict me, when I say, that this... ... people are inimical to it. Finally, all that can be said in favour of the Academy is, that it was a love which ended in friendship, which well enough...

Full Text Search Details
...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. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the... ...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... ...- thy with the decent and self-respecting part of society, we must look to French literature, or to that part of the German which is tainted with the ... ... and defective sensibility 4 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater of the French. All this I feel so forcibly, and so nervously am I alive to reproac... ...he poison of 8000 drops of laudanum per day (just for the same reason as a French surgeon inoculated himself lately with cancer, an English one twenty... ...ed in wielding logic with a scholastic adroitness, might take up the whole academy of modern economists, and throttle them between heaven and earth wi... ...ions. Many years ago, when I was looking over Piranesi’s, An- tiquities of Rome, Mr. Coleridge, who was standing by, de- scribed to me a set of plates...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Part I, Chapter 1; HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to ...

Full Text Search Details
...2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. First published in English, 1901. First published in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; ... ...t I Chapter 1 H APPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The ... ... The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announ... ...and was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her hus band that she could no... ...ar European dress again?” he said, scanning his new suit, obviously cut by a French tailor. “Ah! I see: a new phase.” Levin suddenly blushed, not as g... ... possible perfection. Why it was the three young ladies had one day to speak French, and the next English; why it was that at certain hours they playe... ...ree children, no servant, and scarcely any means. He gets something from the Academy,” she went on briskly, trying to drown the distress that the quee... ...nd had been bought beforehand. The article reproached the government and the academy for letting so remarkable an artist be left without encouragement... ...scow butler, and has never had any sort of bringing up. When he got into the academy and made his reputation he tried, as he’s no fool, to educate him...

Table of Contents Details
.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

Full Text Search Details
...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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, ... ...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... ...fteen, he visited London, in order to acquire a more thorough knowledge of French and Italian. At sixteen, he wrote the “Pastorals,” and a portion of ... ...l, and accomplished—full of enterprise and spirit, too, although decidedly French in her tastes, manners, and character. Pope fell violently in love w... ...ung Maro in his boundless mind, 130 A work t’ outlast immortal Rome design’d, Perhaps he seem’d above the critic’s law, And but from Natur... ... I must bring you acquainted with. The best account I know of them is in a French book called ‘Le Comte de Gabalis,’ which both in its title and size ... ...died in 1648; a favourite of the Duke of Orleans, and member of the French Academy. 149 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One Ah, quit n... ...te trim, Neatness itself impertinent in him, 174 ‘Figs:’ a prize-fighting academy; ‘White’s:’ a gaming- house, both much frequented by the young nobi...

Full Text Search Details
...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. Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson, ... ...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... ...erence for the single state. For that matter, if you turn to George Sand’s French version of As You Like It (and I think I can promise you will like i... ...piece of the person’s experience. I re- member an anecdote of a well-known French theorist, who was debating a point eagerly in his Cenacle. It was ob... ...e absolute 26 Robert Louis Stevenson expression of this midsummer spirit. Romeo and Juliet were very much in love; although they tell me some German ... ... place by the disregard of Diogenes. Where was the glory of hav- ing taken Rome for these tumultuous barbarians, who poured into the Senate house, and... ...k- 54 Robert Louis Stevenson ing love as they did before the Flood or the French Revo- lution; and the old shepherd telling his tale under the haw- t... ...ular merit and interest. They were exposed in the apartments of the Scotch Academy; and filled those who are accustomed to visit the annual spring exh...

Excerpt Details
...FACE; This book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observation, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; and the excuse for its publication lies in the fact that the very conditions which made more consecuti...

Table of Contents Details
...8 -- IV, 21 -- IV? Intellectual Honesty, 24 -- I, 24 -- II, 26 -- III, 28 -- V? Continuity, 31 -- I, 31 -- II, 32 -- III, 35 -- IV, 37 -- VI? The New Frenchwoman, 39 -- VII? In Conclusion, 48 -- I, 48 -- II, 52 -- III, 53...

Full Text Search Details
... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 VI — The New Frenchwoman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 VII — In Concl... ...I — The New Frenchwoman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 VII — In Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 I ... ...55 V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING 1 PREFACE T his book is essentially a desul... ... observa tion, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could ... ...e than a series of disjointed notes; and the excuse for its publication lies in the fact that the very conditions which made more consecutive work imp... ...gth of the link ought to be discoverable in the suddenly bared depths of the French heart. There are two ways of judging a foreign people: at first sig... ...—explains the existence of such re ally national institutions as the French Academy, and the French national theatre, the Th´ eˆ atre Franc ¸ais. The... ...ege des Quatre Nations,” the Institute of France, and the home of the French Academy. In 1635, at a time when France was still struggling with the hea... ...taste in speech, in culture, in manners,— as the fusing principle of his new Academy. The traditional point of view of its founder has been faithfully...

Description Details
...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 s...

Excerpt Details
...“Interest has revived in the works of Sextus Empiricus in recent times, especially, one may say, since the date of Herbart. There is much in the writings of Sextus that finds a parallel in the methods of modern philosophy. There is a common starti...

Table of Contents Details
...theory of Hirzel and Natorp.—Critical examination of the subject.. 63 -- Critical Examination Of Pyrrhonism-Pyrrhonism and Pyrrho.—Pyrrhonism and the Academy. Strength and weakness of Pyrrhonism.. 81 -- The First Book Of The Pyrrhonic Sketches By Sextus Empiricus, Translated From The Greek. 101 --...

Full Text Search Details
... GREEK SCEPTICISM A Thesis accepted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Bern Switzerland, November 1897 BY MARY MILLS ... ...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 ... ...The aim has been, accordingly, to give a concise presentation of Pyrrhonism in relation to its historical development and the Scepticism of the Acade... ...rrhonism in relation to its historical development and the Scepticism of the Academy, with critical references to the French and German works existin... ...elopment and the Scepticism of the Academy, with critical references to the French and German works existing on the subject. The time and manner of ... ...ION OF PYRRHONISM 81 Pyrrhonism and Pyrrho.—Pyrrhonism and the Academy. Strength and weakness of Pyrrhonism. THE FIRST BOOK OF T... ... familiarity with the customs, language, and laws of Athens, Alexandria and Rome, that he must have resided at some time in each of these cities. [... ... Euseb. Praep. Ev. XIV. E. 446. This was after the dogmatic tendency of the Academy under Antiochus and his followers had driven Pyrrhonism from the... ...ses show also that the writer had access to some large library. Alexandria, Rome and Athens are the three places the most probable for selection for...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History.

Table of Contents Details
...Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY.......................................................................................................... 12 VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE ...................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn... ...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 French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsyl... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...ylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY ................................................. ...hemist Berthollet too,—on the part of Monseigneur de Chartres. Had not the Academy of Sciences, with its Baillys, Franklins, Lavoisiers, interfered! B... .... “Messieurs!” thus spoke D’Espremenil, “when the victorious Gauls entered Rome, which they had carried by as- sault, the Roman Senators, clothed in t... ...ys a rising man; he used to tell Mercier, “You will see; I shall be in the Academy before you.” (Mercier, Nouveau Paris.) Likely indeed, thou skilfull...

Table of Contents Details
......................... 21 OUR ENGLISH WATERING-PLACE ......................................................................................... 24 OUR FRENCH WATERING-PLACE........................................................................................... 33 BILL-STICKING ..................................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...ge 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ...................................................................... 24 OUR FRENCH WATERING PLACE......................................................... ............................................. ............. 202 A MONUMENT OF FRENCH FOLLY.................................................................. ...kling, heaving, swelling up with life and beauty, this bright morning. OUR FRENCH WATERING PLACE HAVING EARNED, BY MANY YEARS of fidelity, the rig... ... all the Modern Exhibitions every season, and of course I revere the Royal Academy. I stand by its forty Academical ar ticles almost as firmly as I s... ...ar monsters, 73 Charles Dickens every first Monday in May, when the Royal Academy Exhi bition opens.’ ‘You are a critic,’ said I, with an air of def... ...t has haunted me ever since. It glares upon me from the walls of the Royal Academy, (except when MaClise subdues it to his genius,) it fills my soul ...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History (Volume One).

Table of Contents Details
............................................................................................................................ 28 Chapter 1.2.II. Petition in Hieroglyphs. ...................................................................................................................... 34 Chapter 1.2.III. Questionable. ...........................................................

Full Text Search Details
...B B B B BLI LI LI LI LICA CA CA CA CATI TI TI TI TIO O O O ON N N N N The French Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle is a publicatio... ...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 French Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvan... ...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... .................................................................. 245 6 The French Revolution: V ol. One THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS CARL... ...hemist Berthollet too,—on the part of Monseigneur de Chartres. Had not the Academy of Sciences, with its Baillys, Franklins, Lavoisiers, interfered! B... .... “Messieurs!” thus spoke D’Espremenil, “when the victorious Gauls entered Rome, which they had carried by assault, the Roman Senators, clothed in the... ...ys a rising man; he used to tell Mercier, “You will see; I shall be in the Academy before you.” (Mercier, Nouveau Paris.) Likely indeed, thou skilfull...

Description Details
...phiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Latin for "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", often referred to as simply the Principia, is a work in three books by Sir Isaac Newton, first published 5 July 1687. Newton also published two further editions, in 1713 and 1726. The Principia states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics, also ...

Full Text Search Details
...ngere divos. s .A s s 32 Dabam Lodhi, Mar. 28. 1713. E D I- IN neantur EW T o N x A NE philofophiae novam tibi , leffor benevole, di... ...urimum nunc emenda- tam atque autiiorem exhibemus. Quae potiiknum conti- in hoc opere celeberrimo, intelhgere pores ex indicibus adjeAis: quz vel a... ...rporum fingulorum operationes, ignota quadam ratione, pendere voluerunt. In hoc pofira efi fumma do&rinze fcholaiticz, ab ArQTotele & Peri- patetic... ...5” cum latitudine auitra]i 06r. $3’. 7”. . Nov. 18. hora matutina 6. 3~’ Rome (id &, hors 9, 4~’ Lo;i&li) f&wthd%f cometam vidit in -h Ijg’, jo’ cu... ...lute obfcuriore, in calo forran magis fe,reno, cauda Dec. 12, hora 5, 40’ Rome (ob- fervante cPorztkle~) fupra cygni uropygium ad gradus IO fefe ext... ...he PoRhumous Work of the MarquiTs da I’ HoJjita[, Honorary F’eilow of the Academy Royal d Sciences. 4O. IX. Hiiloria CceleItis Britannica, tribus Vo... ...nit@ LCtiers, and a like Number of Tail-Pieces, by gobn Srnrt. Written in French by ~la~da Per- .+rdt, OF the Roy.,4 Academy of Parir, Author of the... ...ces, by gobn Srnrt. Written in French by ~la~da Per- .+rdt, OF the Roy.,4 Academy of Parir, Author of the celebrated Cotlrn~nt on Vitsuvius. Made Et...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of it...

Full Text Search Details
...ge 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L... ...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... ...e notice. One mild winter day, as he walked along the streets to ward the Academy, which stood upon a small eminence, surrounded by native growth—som... ... tions are always better than his English: “You walk carelessly toward the academy grove, where you will find me with a lightning steed, elegantly equ... ...able notice. One mild winter day as he walked along the streets toward the Academy, which stood upon a small eminence, sur rounded by native growth—s... ...an select words by the sound, or by orthographic aspect. Many of them have French or German or English look, and these are the ones I enslave for the ... ...es where I want to express ap plause or admiration. The fourth word has a French sound, and I think the phrase means “that takes the cake.” During my... ...humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the t...

Full Text Search Details
...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. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pe... ...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... ... fancied her some imperial Medea of the Athenian stage—some V olumnia from Rome, ‘Or ruling bandit’s wife amidst the Grecian isles.’ But catch one gla... ...homas de Quincey and the shattering everywhere given to old systems by the French Revolution, together with the universal energy of mind applied to th... ...in the early ages of Chris- tianity, exposed in the bloody amphitheatre of Rome or Verona, to ‘fight with wild beasts,’ as it was expressed in mockery... ... since used for the basis of more than one narrative, not inac- curate, in French, German and Spanish journals of high au- thority. It is seldom the c... ...erman and Spanish journals of high au- thority. It is seldom the case that French writers err by pro- lixity. They have done so in this case. The pres... ...arity school; and, in the year 1732, removed to the Royal (or Frederician) Academy. Here he studied the Greek and Latin classics, and formed an intima...

Full Text Search Details
...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 Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One, the Pennsylvan... ...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... ... his own hat; so I got a bottle of Bass and a pipe and laid hold of an old French- man of somewhat filthy aspect (fiat experimentum in cor- pore vili)... ... of somewhat filthy aspect (fiat experimentum in cor- pore vili) to try my French upon. I made very heavy weather of it. The Frenchman had a very pret... ...ry heavy weather of it. The Frenchman had a very pretty young wife; but my French always deserted me entirely when I had to answer her, and so she soo... ...last year, and walked in the procession to the new. I blush to own I am an Academy boy; it seems modern, and smacks not of the soil. P.P.S. – I enclos... ...ng Walter I had unearthed ‘a W.S. that I thought would do’ – it was in the Academy Lane, and he questioned me as to the Signet’s qualifications; fourt... ...t was – you were – his religion. I write by this post to Austin and to the Academy. – Y ours most sincerely, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, 299 The Letters ...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing wi...

Full Text Search Details
...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. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an i... ...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... ...ndness for her never ceased, even after her death. He now set up a private academy, for which purpose he hired a large house, well situated near his n... ...s. Johnson was not more satisfied with his situ- ation as the master of an academy, than with that of the usher of a school; we need not won- der, the... ...o get him- self employed in some translation, either from the Latin or the French. Johnson is a very good scholar and poet, and I have great hopes wil... ...what time, or by what means, he had acquired a competent knowledge both of French and Italian, I do not know; but he was so well skilled in them, as t... ...nson. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. Adams. But the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to compil... ...ir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. Adams. But the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to compile their...

Table of Contents Details
...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 CONCEPTS OF G...

Full Text Search Details
... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...ychological Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...UERING .............................................................................................................................. 45 POWER IN SPO... ...ur problems with school shootings in America, but we are seeing the seeds of violence planted more often everywhere today. A 2004 study by the French... ... everywhere today. A 2004 study by the French police found that just under 10% of the mosques were under the control of extremists. Yet 23% of French... ...people do rather foolish things, like suicide bombings, burning books and defacing art—like was done to Michelangelo‘s Pieta in St. Peter‘s in Rome, ... ...age was done to public buildings, a thousand cars were burned and at least one death resulted. So an incorrect perception of truth started the French... ...resses the sex drive it may reappear in the behavior of a second personality. Dual or multiple personalities is the result of this action. The Academ... ... ship to touch down in!‖ —―My mind is flooding with joy filled peak experiences I‘ve had. Seeing Aida in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with a critical preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A....

Full Text Search Details
...T ragedy and Comedy of Life with a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A. A Penn State Elect... ...y and Comedy of Life with a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A. A Penn State Electronic C... ...e Tragedy and Comedy of Life with acritical preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A. is a publication o... ...dy and Comedy of Life with acritical preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A. is a publication of the P... ...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 Penn- sylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tr... ...e Tragedy and Comedy of Life with acritical preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A., the Pennsylvania ... ...dy and Comedy of Life with acritical preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A., the Pennsylvania State U... ...o- ing 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...

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltaire was born in the year 1694. He lived un...

Table of Contents Details
....?ON SIR ISAAC NEWTON?S OPTICS ......................................................................................... 62 LETTER XVII.?ON INFINITES IN GEOMETRY, AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON?S CHRONOLOGY............. 65 LETTER XVIII.?ON TRAGEDY ............................................................................................................................ 71 LETTER XI...

Full Text Search Details
...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. Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet), the Pen... ...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... ...94. He lived until within ten or eleven years of the outbreak of the Great French Revolution, and was a chief leader in the movement of thought that p... ...land minister appears as another Cato in presence of a juvenile, sprightly French graduate, who bawls for a whole morning together in the divinity sch... ...ners, and the rest of the nation kiss the chains they are loaded with. The French are of opinion that the govern- ment of this island is more tempestu... ...ngue, the Elogium of Sir Isaac Newton, which M. de Fontenelle spoke in the Academy of Sciences. M. de Fontenelle presides as judge over philosophers; ... ...cal way of reasoning of the Aristotelians; Mr. Sorin in the Memoirs of the Academy of 1709, and Mr. de Fontenelle in the very eulogium of Sir Isaac Ne... ... LETTER XXIV.—ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND OTHER ACADEMIES T HE ENGLISH had an Academy of Sciences many years before us, but then it is not under such pru...

Excerpt Details
...ached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; and in several instances these versions have been incorporated, after some revision or necessary correction, into the following collection; but on the other hand a large proportion of the contents have been specially translated f...

Full Text Search Details
...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 Pennsylva- nia State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Tran... ...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... ...olphus after the Battle of Leipzig. — Progress of Gustavus Adolphus. — The French invade Lorraine. — Frankfort taken. — Capitulation of Mentz. — Tilly... ...nd. — Death of Richelieu and Louis XIII. — Swedish Victory at Jankowitz. — French defeated at Freyburg. — Battle of Nordlingen gained by Turenne and C... ...ead. Without the exaction of the tenth and the twentieth penny, the See of Rome had never lost the United Netherlands. Princes fought in self-defence ... ...itants of Geneva, for instance, of England, of Germany, or of Holland, the French Calvinist possessed a common point of union which he had not with hi... ...varia, under whose eyes he was instructed and edu- cated by Jesuits at the Academy of Ingolstadt. What principles he was likely to imbibe by his inter... ...nd presented by him to his chancellor, Oxenstiern, who intended it for the Academy of Westerrah, but the vessel in which it was shipped to Sweden foun...

Full Text Search Details
...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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume T wo, the Pennsylv... ...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... ........................................................ 143 EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. ...................................................................... ...mass of smoked gumflowers. Compare for fancy the speeches of Mercutio, in “Romeo and Juliet,” the “Rape of the Lock,” if we would see the difference b... ...cisely such a swing. It was fond of a mixture of strong English sense with French graces and charms of manner; and Pope supplied it. It was fond of ke... ..., encumber’d villainy! 50 Could France or Rome divert our brave designs, With all their brandies, or with all their w... ...hunders all his own! Stood up to dash each vain pretender’s hope, Maul the French tyrant, or pull down the Pope! If there’s a Briton then, true bred a... ...tinuance thereof. The college of the goddess in the city, with her private academy for poets in particular; the gover- nors of it, and the four cardin...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five.

Table of Contents Details
...................................................................................................................................... 47 WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING ...................................................................... 61 BON-BON...............................................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Five A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ........................................................... 47 WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING .......................................... ...—have we lived to see the day when a blaspheming and idolatrous upstart of Rome shall accuse us of appropriating to the appetites of the flesh the mos... ...and led happily ever afterward a new life. 61 V olume Five WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING IT’S ON MY VISITING CARDS sure enough (... ... Sans que mon cœur fit tic ni tac, Présenter du tabac. French Vaudeville THAT PIERRE BON-BON was a restaurateur of uncommon qualif... ...thors at Rouen to assert “that his dicta evinced neither the purity of the Academy, nor the depth of the Lyceum”—al- though, mark me, his doctrines we... ...perceive, the fundamental doctrines in his metaphysics.” “Were you ever at Rome?” asked the restaurateur, as he finished his second bottle of Mousseux...