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...city of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He...

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............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. .................................................................. 233 Moral from God based assumptions ................................................... ...e I didn‘t know what I was eating, but it was all delicious. No wonder you people don‘t get fat. You can eat for hours and take in so few calories—al... ...atisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra money to add... ...hey will nearly always opt for a vacation when they could otherwise work. People in the States still believe that money buys happiness. But when peo... ...est hours within OECD economies along with Slovakia with 1,978 hours and Greece with 1,934. ―Ireland provides a good example of the changing ... ...houses with one story next to the street, then multiple stories behind. In Greece houses were not taxed, or were taxed minimally, until they were fin... ...sports that can increase death like boxing, cheerleading, auto racing and marathons? ―Was the worth of Winston Churchill, Mother Theresa or...

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...city of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He...

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... THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING From one of the two most advanced countries of the world to the other. Sing... ...the other. Singaling, just off the Malay Peninsula, tooled its philosophy from its successful island neighbor, Singapore. I had visited Singapore a ... ...r withdrawal pains should their beloved chewy companion be suddenly jerked from their lips. 4 Singaling enjoyed a long economic head start over ... ...d classes of most societies have fewer children. It seems that for a many people the joys and challenges of business, politics, and the professions a... ...dical science has been able to extend the life spans of a great number of people. So we have far more people living, but far fewer working. Many wo... ...ffered three months of salary or $10,000, whichever was greater. Not many people near the 110 level took advantage of this. But by the time you got t... ...age. In Pakistan a woman was stripped and beaten after she organized some marathons in which women could compete with men. President Musharraf then ... ...rime rate goes up. In Spain Latin American gangs are causing problems. In Greece it is the Albanians. In Norway it is the Lithuanians and Pakistanis....

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...000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of its website. Both Sawyer Library and the College Archives m...

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...fe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illustri- ous orators from the lower classes. Ijet me introduce to you the sophomore orator, Mr. ... ...he Geography of France and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the People. ' ' Clark Hall. TUESDAY, MARCH 19 7.30p. m.—Y. M, C. A. elections. ... ...here to thank the various alumni who, unsolicit- ed, have contributed news from time to time. The same prinoiplo obtains in the collection of under- g... ... who have not yet had the ad- vantage of being able to consider tpiestions from an alumni stand point. For the stutleiit, it is a channel thrc.ugh whi... ...unmolested." Hatchet Oration John Donahue Murphy 1907 alias " John Donahue Marathon Murjjhy, " the s] eaker who had al- ready proved his loiig-windedn... ...s Ready-to-Wear Tailor-Hade Barnard & Co. North Adams Williamstown LOTS OF PEOPLE NEVER WORRY ABOUT STYLE, JUST BUY Fownes AND HIT IT RICH New Members... ...e.. New York Cor. Main & Bank^Sts., No. Adams Conklin's rulingPen For busy people. No bother. Fills itself. Cleans itself. No dropper. Nothingtotakeap... ...tics of this country with the simpler organizations in England and ancient Greece. He favored a return to the old-tiuie spirit of sport. Whittemore's ... ...m Milos to Nau- phia, Epidaurus, Uimuium and Aegina, ending at Nathena and Marathon, will be described. The last lecture of the series will be given F...

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...............................26 APPENDIX:.................................................................................................132 EXCERPTS FROM THE POETIC EDDA.............................................................................................................. 132 PART OF THE LAY OF SIGRDRIFA (1).............................................................

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...The V olsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies T ransla... .................................................................132 EXCERPTS FROM THE POETIC EDDA ......................................................... ...ard Wagner’s operatic Ring Cycle is in these. Volsunga Saga, with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda. Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies Origina... ...st of our own history. Among battles, “every schoolboy” knows the story of Marathon or Salamis, while it would be hard indeed to find one who did more... ...he great fights of Hafrsfirth or Sticklestead. The language and history of Greece and Rome, their laws and religions, have been always held part of th... ...cated man, but no trouble has been taken to make him familiar with his own people or their tongue. Even that Englishman who knew Alfred, Bede, Caedmon... ..., Cicero, or Pericles, would be hard bestead were he asked about the great peoples from whom we sprang; the warring of Harold Fairhair or Saint Olaf; ... ...imes has been altered in a thousand ways by foreign influence, even as the peoples and their speech have been by the influx of foreign blood; but Icel... ..., the Faroes, the Orkneys, and Ireland. The whole coast of Europe, even to Greece and the shores of the Black Sea, the northern shores of Africa, and ...

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...

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...a State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND .................................................. ... II. OL. II. SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FROM OM OM OM OM THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHURCH OF CH OF CH... ...antime these great disturbances are not understood in England; and chiefly from the differences between the two nations as to the language of their se... ...ginal act of invitation. And yet, in defiance of that notorious fact, some people go so far as to assert, that a call is not good unless where it is s... ... inoperative, is and must be moonshine. Yet be- tween two moonshines, some people, it seems, can tell which is the denser. W e have all heard of Barme... ...ady, who cannot bear to be mixed up in any common charge together with low people, abomi- nates such words as ‘sin,’ and wills that the parson should ... ...e most accurate of travellers, is a soldier; and in reviewing the field of Marathon, of Plataa, and others deriv- ing their interest from later wars, ... ...ut one will be sufficient. The Athenian painter who recorded the battle of Marathon in fresco upon the walls of a portico, was fined for representing ... ...led. [See the Acad. des Inscriptions, about the year 1725.] At the time of Marathon, fought against the Lieutenant of Darius, the Olympic games had ex...

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...f necessity the same must often recur, and in the same sequence. There are people who take a pleasure in mak- ing collections of all such fortuitous o... ... could not shut them soon enough; and of two cities which take their names from the most agree- able odoriferous plants, Ios and Smyrna, the one from ... ...ble odoriferous plants, Ios and Smyrna, the one from a vio- let, the other from myrrh, the poet Homer is reported to have been born in the one, and to... ..., the boldness of Pompey, the success of Sylla, and the power of the Roman people, all to be encountered by one who was a banished man and a stranger ... ...them men born for command, for warfare, and for stratagem; both ban- ished from their countries, and holding command over strangers; both had fortune ... ...who beheld his misfortune, must at the same time recognize his merits. The people also paid him the respect he deserved, and when he came into the the... ...s to claim the command of the expedition, and by carrying the war far from Greece into Persia, to anticipate the designs of the bar- barian. He also w... ...with Anaximenes. This Archias finding Hyperides the orator, Aristonicus of Marathon, and Himeraeus, the brother of Demetrius the Phalerian, in Aegina,... ...ls, wrote to the people of Athens that this victory was “sister to that at Marathon.” And so may this action be very safely termed sister to those of ...

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...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of children, but only Imperial R... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...The Science and Art Department has vanished altogether from the world, and people are forgetting it now with the utmost readiness and generosity. Part... ...What a fuss there would be when some well- trained boy, panting as if from Marathon, appeared with an evening paper! “I say, you chaps, Middlesex all ... ...ce or precision what we felt about that maga- zine. “To the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome.” 67 H G Wells CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPT...

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...to the place? (As Aeschylus expresses it), I found none so fit as him that peopled the beautiful and far-famed city of Athens, to be set in opposition... ...nd of uncer- 6 V olume One tain parentage, had the repute of being sprung from the gods. Both warriors; that by all the world’s allowed. Both of them... ...Until to Athens thou art come again. Pittheus, therefore, taking advantage from the obscurity 7 Plutarch’s Lives of the oracle, prevailed upon him, i... ...cy, and with injunctions to him as much as possible to conceal his journey from every one; for he greatly feared the Pallantidae, who were continually... ...ns, as some imagine, nor of the Mysians, but be- cause they were a warlike people, and used to close fighting, and above all other nations accustomed ... ...they thought, all eq- uity and humanity, though naturally lauded by common people, either out of want of courage to commit injuries or fear to receive... ...ned money, and stamped it with the image of an ox, either in memory of the Marathonian bull, or of T au- rus, whom he vanquished, or else to put his p... ...d a herd of oxen which belonged to Theseus, and was driving them away from Marathon, and, when news was brought that Theseus pursued him in arms, he d... ...hat which is now called Academia was then named Echedemia, and the village Marathon had its name from the other, who, to fulfill some oracle, volun- t...

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...ty’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; portrait of Byron from a painting by Thomas Philips, 1814 Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania... ...sion (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version Of his new system to perplex the sages; ‘T i... ... Don Juan “Dedication” 3 You — Gentlemen! by dint of long seclusion From better company, have kept your own At Keswick, and, through still ... ...au, Petion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette, Were French, and famous people, as we know: And there were others, scarce forgotten yet, Jo... ...ly inurn’d; Because the army ‘s grown more popular, At which the naval people are concern’d; Besides, the prince is all for the land service, ... ... named, With virtues equall’d by her wit alone, She made the cleverest people quite ashamed, And even the good with inward envy groan, Fin... ...im a good friend, but bad acquaintance. But something of the spirit of old Greece Flash’d o’er his soul a few heroic rays, Such as lit onward ... ...To ‘do at Rome as Romans do, ’ a piece Of conduct was which he observed in Greece. Thus, usually, when he was ask’d to sing, He gave the diffe... ... Than your sires’ ‘Islands of the Blest.’ The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing the...

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...t know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forge... ...ter of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old no tions and em... ...voc among the revenues of sinecurists, and stripping the thin, tawdry veil from attrac tive superstitions, are working as actively in literature as i... ...t an early period, the seat of frequent immigrations from various parts of Greece. Among the immigrants was Menapolus, the son of Ithagenes. Although... ... were to feed Homers, they would be encumbered with a multitude of useless people.” “From this circumstance,” says the writer, “Melesigenes acquired t... ...s celebrity continued to increase, and many persons ad vised him to visit Greece whither his reputation had now extended. Having, it is said, made so... ... sense). It argued a new way of looking at the old epical treasures of the people, as well as a thirst for new poetical effect; and the men who stood ... ... of his modesty and talent, than of his mere drudging arrangement of other people’s ideas; for, as Grote has finely observed, arguing for the unity of... ...ters wing’d her way; Forsaking Scheria’s ever pleasing shore, The winds to Marathon the virgin bore: Thence, where proud Athens rears her towery head,...

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...llation of the early editions; and in every material instance of departure from the wording of those originals the rejected reading has been subjoined... ...es capriciously. In the very act of transcribing his mind was apt to stray from the work in hand to higher things; he would lose himself in contemplat... ...the spelling of the manuscripts would only have served to divert attention from Shelley’s poetry to my own ingenuity in disgusting the reader accordin... ...esholds. I have conversed with living men of genius. The poetry of ancient Greece and Rome, and mod- ern Italy, and our own country, has been to me, l... ...n of Rome might affix to what he should produce. It was at the period when Greece was led captive and Asia made tributary to the Republic, fast vergin... ... my heart, and bore my steps along. 44 44 44 44 44. ‘How, to that vast and peopled city led, Which was a field of holy warfare then, ... ...ts utmost spring! 30 30 30 30 30. For, before Cythna loved it, had my song Peopled with thoughts the boundless universe, A mighty congregation, which ... ...ible thought, As from the tranquil strength which cradled lay In her smile-peopled rest, my spirit sought _970 Why the deceiv... ...e’s tempestuous dawn Freedom’s splendour burst and shone:— Thermopylae and Marathon Caught like mountains beacon-lighted, ...

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...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...ew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated 4 A Book of Golden Deeds (from Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ th... ...dventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabeth of Siberia, are from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the ... ... from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the British Navy;’ the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Registrer, and that at Ciudad Rodrigo, from the tra- dition... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ...pelled from Thebes by his brother Eteocles, and had been wandering through Greece seeking aid to recover his rights. He had collected an army, and was... ...s in that army with which David was to fulfill the ancient promises to his people. There were his three nephews, Joab, the fero- cious and imperious, ... ... AE AE B.C. 430 B.C. 430 B.C. 430 B.C. 430 B.C. 430 THERE was trembling in Greece. ‘The Great King’, as the Greeks called the chief potentate of the E... ...troops to be signally defeated upon the coast of Attica; but the losses at Marathon had but stimulated the Persian lust of conquest, and the new King ...

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...l show him a startling exhibition of the dyer’s hand, if he is without it. People are ready to surrender themselves to witty thumps on the back, breas... ...ot bleed. The old grey boulder-stone that has finished its peregrina- tion from the rock to the valley, is as easily to be set rolling up again as the... ...mstances in our mortal career strikes a light for them. It is but one step from being agelastic to misogelastic, and the [Greek text which cannot be r... ...tiousness is more abominable than frank filth. An eminent Frenchman judges from the quality of some of the stuff dredged up for the laughter of men an... ...om it!’ as if it could be done: but in the peculiar Paradise of the wilful people who will not see, the exclamation assumes the saving grace. Yet shou... ...crowned by the prize only eight times. The favourite poet with critics, in Greece as in Rome, was Menander; and if some of his rivals here and there s... ...gges- tive domestic themes. Terence forwarded manuscript translations from Greece, that suffered shipwreck; he, who could have restored the trea- sure... ...section of this lecture. Eastward you have total silence of Comedy among a people intensely susceptible to laughter, as the Arabian Nights will testif... ...ter the catastrophe, the poet, who had ever been gazing back at the men of Marathon and Salamis, must have felt that he had foreseen it; and that he w...

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...ve thought of, had my means been limited to the competence which I derived from inher- itance, with the moderate income of a professional situa- tion.... ... getting up a new incognito, after his original visor had been thus dashed from his brow. Hence the personal narrative prefixed to the first work of f... ...as his party-coloured jacket implies, a buffoon or clown, whose mouth, far from being eternally closed, as amongst us, is filled, like that of Touchst... ..., and replied that the secret had now of necessity become known to so many people that I was indifferent on the subject. Lord Meadowbank was thus in- ... ...y their petty squabbles and mutual irritability, the laughing-stock of the people of the world. I resolved, therefore, in this respect to guard my bre... ...d 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 its ancie... ...ommanded a body of troops at the battle of 22 Chronicles of the Canongate Marathon. Sophocles and Euripides were men of rank in Athens when Athens wa... ...oatswain. If there must be a great actor to act Hamlet, there must also be people to act Laertes, the King, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, otherwise a...

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... aware that it was a part she had to play in the composition of a singular people. She did a little mischief by dropping on the stock-markets; in othe... ...that we had ships ready for launching, and certain regiments com- ing home from India; hedges we had, and a spirited body of yeomanry; and we had pluc... ...they positively guaranteed the safety of our virgins and coffers. Then the people, rather ashamed, abused the Press for un- reasonably disturbing them... ...was put to bed again. The Opposition retired into its kennel growling. The People coughed like a man of two minds, doubting whether he has been divine... ...eaves word for you, sir, on your peril to denounce him on another occasion from the magis- terial Bench, for that albeit he is a gentleman of the road... ...succeeds legitimately to that bold Good Robin Hood who fed the poor.—Fresh from this polite encounter, the squire vows money for his per- sonal protec... ...the ordinary condi- tions of the world: these two countries are France and Greece! None other give you the perfect woman, the woman who conquers time,... ...glorious motion, odorous air of sea and herb, exquisite as in the isles of Greece. And the Continental travelling ninnies leave England for health!— r... ...that their task-work was an idle labour. Dr. Shrapnel assisted in fighting Marathon and Salamis over again cor- dially—to shield Great Britain from th...

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...imackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and headlands appear... ...f England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of C ONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have been commence... ...rass ground to Concord farmers, who own the Great Meadows, and get the hay from year to year. “One branch of it,” according to the historian of Concor... ...te so good author ity, “rises in the south part of Hopkinton, and another from a pond and a large cedar swamp in Westborough,” and flow ing between ... ...hich causeth their meadows to lie much covered with water, the which these people, together with their neighbor town, have several times essayed to cu... ... hold but speak not, silently glided past the firm lands of Concord, both peopled cape and lonely summer meadow, with steady sweeps. And yet we did u... ...thenon, of Baiae, and Athens with its sea walls, and Arcadia and Tempe. Greece, who am I that should remember thee, Thy Marathon and thy Thermop... ...d Arcadia and Tempe. Greece, who am I that should remember thee, Thy Marathon and thy Thermopylae? Is my life vulgar, my fate mean, Which ... ...e but I should betake myself in extremi ties to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country’s God. Jehovah, though with us he has acq...

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...acteristic of art, which is simplicity. Most great works receive a new light from a new and original mind. But whether these new lights are true or on... ... After making an ineffectual attempt to obtain a sound definition of his art from Gorgias, Socrates assumes the existence of a universal art of flatte... ... the desire of all is towards the good. That pleasure is to be distinguished from good is proved by the simultaneousness of pleasure and pain, and by ... ...re are two kinds of statesmanship, a higher and a lower that which makes the people better, and that which only flatters them, and he exhorts Callicle... ...oes from city to city displaying his talents, and is celebrated through- out Greece. Like all the Sophists in the dialogues of Plato, he is vain and b... ...g the manner in which the ambitious citizen has to identify himself with the people, he partially recognizes the truth of his words. The Socrates of t... ...s says, the cry of ingratitude is heard, which is most unreasonable; for the people, who have been taught no better, have done what might be expected ... ...les, adding the penalty of exile; and they voted that Miltiades, the hero of Marathon, should be thrown into the pit of death, and he was only saved b...