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...Excerpt: One day--and that day was many years ago now--I received a long, chatty letter from one of my old chums and fellow wanderers in Eastern waters. He was still out there, but settled down, and middle-aged; I imagined him--grown portly in...

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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 26 Knights and Squires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 iv CONTENT... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 iv CONTENTS 27 Knights and Squires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 28 Ahab . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 40 Midnight, Forecastle Harpooneers and sailors. . . . . . . . . . . 172 41 Moby Dick . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...pon it, faintly representing a tall straight jet of misty spray, and these words underneath — “The Spouter Inn: — Peter Coffin.” 22 Chapter 2 The Carp... ... jostle the affrighted ladies. Regent street is not unknown to Lascars and Malays; and at Bombay, in the Apollo Green, live Yankees have often scared ... ...you do, take heed to repent of it like Jonah.” While he was speaking these words, the howling of the shrieking, slanting storm without seemed to add n... ...lowly, with an aspect of the deepest yet manliest humility, he spake these words: “Shipmates, God has laid but one hand upon you; both his hands press... ...wer a blade of grass in the field. No tur baned Turk, no hired Venetian or Malay, could have smote him with more seeming Chapter 41 Moby Dick 181 mal... ...r claim to more solid tribute. Time out of mind the piratical proas of the Malays, lurking among the low shaded coves and islets Chapter 87 The Grand...

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...is strange, Stranger than fiction.? I think it but right that in making my appearance before the public I should at once acquaint them with my titles and name. My card, as I leave it at the houses of the nobility, my friends, is as follows:--...

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...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned oursel...

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...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...e By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...about the nature of knowledge, about the meaning of truth and the value of words, that is to say I found I had to begin by being metaphysical. In writ... ...flict. What is the exact value of these thoughts we are thinking and these words we are us- ing?” He wants to take thought about thought. Those other ... ... imagine they stand on the same ground and mean the same thing by the same words, whereas they stand on slightly different grounds, use different term... ... implications. Yet let me confess that I am greatly attracted by such fine phrases as the Will of God, the Hand of God, the Great 31 H. G . Wells Com... ...ven here, in the remote dawn of navigation, may have come some shipwrecked Malays, or some half-breed woman kid- napped by wandering Phoenicians have ... ...is belief. And naturally he recurs to and refreshes his belief. I write in phrases that the evangelical Christianity of my childhood made familiar to ...

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...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...f language and seem to belong exclu- sively to the painters of genre. What words can picture the alarming zig-zags produced by falling shadows, the fa... ...er to make her happy, is precisely the one who takes me for a fool.” These phrases, divided by eloquent pauses and delivered like shot, after the mann... ... fashion and commerce by colored placards, at the head of which were these words, “Approved by the Institute.” This formula, used for the first time, ... ...of cosmetic the “Paste of Sultans” thus di- vining the magic force of such words in a land where every man hoped to be a sultan as much as every woman... ...ey of commonplaces mixed with maxims and computations served up in flowing phrases mildly put forth, which sounded to the ears of superficial people l... ...l Europe. Macassar oil has not the slightest action upon the hair; but the Malays buy it up for its weight in gold, thinking that it preserves the hai...

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... with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary work that might live, it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such an employment. ?As subsidiary to this preparation, he undertook to record, in verse, the origin and progress of his own powers, as far as he was acquainted w...

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...Table of Contents: ADVERTISEMENT, ii -- BOOK FIRST INTRODUCTION?CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIME 1 -- BOOK SECOND SCHOOL-TIME (continued), 19 -- BOOK THIRD RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE, 33 -- BOOK FOURTH SUMMER VACATION, 51 -- BOOK FIFTH BOOKS, 64 -- BOOK SIXTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS, 81 -- BOOK SEVENTH RESIDEN...

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... The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind; an Autobiographical Poem WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 1805, 1850 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Languag... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii BOOK FIRST INTRODUCTION—CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL TIME 1 BOOK SECOND SCHOOL TIME (continued) . . . . . . . . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 BOOK SIXTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 BOOK SEVENTH RESIDENCE IN LONDON ... ...RANCE (concluded) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 BOOK TWELFTH IMAGINATION AND TASTE, HOW IMPAIRED AND RESTORED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...his return to his own country), are recorded in his Verses, addressed to Mr. Wordsworth, which will be found in the “Sibylline Leaves,” p. 197, ed. 18... ... Again to bend the Sabbath of that time To a servile yoke. What need of many words? 105 A pleasant loitering journey, through three days Continued, br... ...l order, found them sweet For their own ‘sakes’, a passion, and a power; And phrases pleased me chosen for delight, For pomp, or love. Oft, in the pub... ...enchman and the Spaniard; from remote 225 America, the Hunter Indian; Moors, Malays, Lascars, the Tartar, the Chinese, And Negro Ladies in white musli...

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...Excerpt: Book First; Introduction -- Childhood and School-time -- OH, there is blessing in this gentle breeze, That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messeng...

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... The Prelude of 1805, in Thirteen Books WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 1805 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Language Reso... ...rces, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents Book First Introduction: Childhood and School time . . . . . . . . . . 1 Book Second Childhood and School ti... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Book Sixth Cambridge and the Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Book Seventh Reside... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Book Tenth Residence in France and French Revolution . . . . . . . . . 176 Book Eleventh Imagination, Ho... ... of my song, Pour out that day my soul in measured strains, Even in the very words which I have here Recorded. To the open fields I told A prophesy; po... ... Again to bend the sabbath of that time To a servile yoke. What need of many words?— A pleasant loitering journey, through two days Continued, brought... ...em sweet For their own sakes—a passion and a power— Book Fifth Books 83 And phrases pleased me, chosen for delight, For pomp, or love. Oft in the pub... ...ncident— And old ones also—by that overprized And dangerous craft of picking phrases out 130 From languages that want the living voice To make of them... ...e Frenchman and the Spaniard; from remote America, the hunter Indian; Moors, Malays, Lascars, the Tartar and Chinese, And Negro ladies in white muslin...

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...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASS... ...N S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...Thomas Carlyle professes, the articles of faith which he will sign and, in words or otherwise, assert; not this wholly, in many cases not this at all.... ...g wholly every notion we form, is a wrappage of traditions, hearsays, mere words. We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud “electric- ity,” and le... ...ence, is awe, devout prostration and humil- ity of soul; worship if not in words, then in silence. But now I remark farther: What in such a time as ou... ...ence, of these dusky millions. Zealous missionaries preach it abroad among Malays, black Papuans, brutal Idolaters;— displacing what is worse, nothing... ...e and strength. He dashes out illumination from him; his smiting idiomatic phrases seem to cleave into the very secret of the matter. Good humor too, ...

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...ing homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line. He occasionally gave a smart nod, as if in confirmation of some opinion, though he was not thinking of anything in particular. An em...

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... Blake more or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of... ...John,’ said the parson. The pedestrian, after another pace or two, halted, and turned round. ‘Now, sir, begging your pardon; we met last market day on... ... begging your pardon; we met last market day on this road about this time, and I zaid “Good night,” and you made reply “Good night, Sir John,” as now.... ... the past, and that would be less commonplace than the original bald stark words. Conning for an hour in the British Museum the pages of works devoted... ...f injuring her. ‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself for using such wicked words!’ cried Tess with spirit, from the top of the hedge into which she ha... ...s too late.’ ‘That’s what every woman says.’ ‘How can you dare to use such words!’ she cried, turning impetuously upon him, her eyes flashing as the la... ...’ she had vigorously moved under the guid ance of sundry gnomic texts and phrases known to her and to the world in general, no doubt she would never ... ...ates — shaping such sad imaginings. She was expressing in her own na tive phrases — assisted a little by her Sixth Standard training — feelings which... ...ring certain weeks of autumn and winter, when, like the inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula, they ran amuck, and made it their purpose to destroy life ...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...lso write on the blackboard any exceptionally difficult but grant- earning words, such as “empyreumatic” or “botryoidal.” Some words in constant use h... ... what I say.” … So it was my father discoursed, if not in those particular words, yet exactly in that manner, as he slouched along the southward road,... ...ude she never spoke to me, never, and for her diary also she could find no phrases. But on a loose half-sheet of notepaper between its pages I find th... ...riptions of the death-beds of prominent infidels with boldly invented last words,—the most unscrupulous lying; there would be the appallingly edifying... ...pos of a map in the library that we were both of us curious why there were Malays in Madagascar, and how the Mecca pilgrims came from the East Indies ... ... been growing in me, slowly, irregularly, assimilat- ing to itself all the phrases and forms of patriotism, diverting my religious impulses, utilising...

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...o 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 much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it necessary to trust to hearsay or probable conjecture. On the other, there is necessarily much more reserve; nor are the results of the actions...

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...mes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth?s credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter months and read Nietzsche and Schopenhaver to rest his brain. When summer came on, he elected to sweat out a hot and dusty existence in the city and to toil inces...

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Excerpt: Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad.

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...................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898.......................................................................................................................... 53 A HAPPY WANDERER?1910 .....................................................................

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...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development and of social...

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...Preface: To explain the present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good de...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the untired Sun-God. He is Eros, the ever young...

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...BARBAZURE. ..................................................................................................................................39 LORDS AND LIVERIES. ..................................................................................................................49 CRINOLINE........................................................................................

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...trong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the practical suggestions have been anticipated by others or by myself. There is novelty, however....

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...er Functions of Representative Bodies............................................................................... 61 Chapter VI Of the Infirmities and Dangers to which Representative Government is Liable ............................. 76 Chapter VII Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority only 92 Chapter VIII Of the Extensio...

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Excerpt: Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence.

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...R I THE EARLY MARRIED LIFE OF THE MORELS ............................................................................ 4 CHAPTER II THE BIRTH OF PAUL, AND ANOTHER BATTLE......................................................................... 31 CHAPTER III THE CASTING OFF OF MOREL?THE TAKING ON OF WILLIAM ....................................... 51 CHAPTER IV THE YOUNG LIFE...

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