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...(Author to reader)--Reader, loe here a well-meaning Booke. It doth at the first entrance forewarne thee, that in contriving the same I have proposed unto my selfe no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my forces are not capable of any such desseigne....

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... maketh his soule to moove, with a naturall and common motion. Thus saith a plaine Country-man, and thus a seely Woman: Hee never hath other people in his mouth than Coach-makers, Joyners, Coblers, and Masons....

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...rofessor Emeritus Ben R. Schneider, Lawrence University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was firs... ...c domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classics' the first volume was published in 1904, ... ...e World's Classics' the first volume was published in 1904, and reprinted in 1910 and 1924." Additional material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the E... ...Greeke as he seemed to know no other tongue: the other in his travells to Athens and Rhodes had long conversed with the learned Græcians: So he, wri... ...to bring the greatest of two ship-masts before him, which he had seene in Athens, therewith to frame an engine of batterie: This man under colour of ... ...e? Hast thou not seene one of our late Kings slaine in the middest of his sports? and one of his ancestors die miserably by the chocke of an hog? Es... ...hey goe, they trot, they daunce: but no speech of death. All that is good sport. But if she be once come, and on a sudden openly surprise, either th... ...e same steps, that it hath past. I am not purposed to devise you other new sports. http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/montaigne/1xix.htm (13 of 17)4/10/... ...e attempted against them, but they shall have knowledge of it. The Duke of Athens committed many fond oversights in the establishing of his late tyra...

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...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...

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... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...ychological Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...UERING .............................................................................................................................. 45 POWER IN SPO... ...ING .............................................................................................................................. 45 POWER IN SPORTS... ........................................................................................................ 51 POWER, SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ABUSE IN SPORT ... ...e being fulfilled as the motivation for the trashing of values.‖ —―In the same line of thinking, initiations into clubs, fraternities or sport ... ... It was magic. 130 ―Then was experiencing the Sound and Light in Athens... ...30 ―Then was experiencing the Sound and Light in Athens. Sitting on a hill across from the Acropolis I heard Pericles, in pre-Socratic Athens...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair: Volume One (Chapters One through Twenty-five) by W... ...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... ...iss Sharp,” said he, pulling up his shirt-col- lars; “the danger makes the sport only the pleasanter.” He had never been but once at a tiger-hunt, whe... ... he had apart from the rest of the school, who were pursuing their various sports—quite lonely, and almost happy. If people would but leave children t... ...olume One He walked very modestly behind them. He was not willing to spoil sport. About Rebecca and Jos he did not care a fig. But he thought Amelia w... ...avity, and used him as the brilliant fairy Titania did a certain weaver at Athens. I think I have seen such comedies of errors going on in the world. ...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania St... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ,... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ...with the cruets all complete. Uncle Mumford said that Cape Girardeau was the Athens of Missouri, and contained sev eral colleges besides those alread... ...45 Sout Sout Sout Sout Souther her her her hern Spor n Spor n Spor n Spor n Sports ts ts ts ts IN THE N ORTH ONE HEARS THE WA R MENTIONED, in s... ...nd fighting to the last. Evidently there is abundant fascination about this “sport” for such as have had a degree of familiarity with it. I never saw ... ...stion about that; still, it seems a much more respectable and far less cruel sport than fox hunting—for the cocks like it; they experience, as well as...

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...ousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London,... ...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 Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, tra... ...s in- compatible with these sentiments. Incessantly occupied with Rome and Athens, conversing, if I may so express myself with their illustrious heroe... ... common to our years began to corrupt our happy innocence, mingle with our sports, and embitter our amuse- ments. The country itself, losing those swe... ...t every house was filled with joyous festivity, the meadows resounded with sports and revelry, the rivers offered refreshing baths, delicious fish wan... ...is, with his rough voice, was the butt of the company. Pleasing moments of sportive youth, how long since have ye fled! As I shall have no more occasi...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS. [Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, and Attendants.] THESEUS: Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace; four happy days bring in Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow This old...

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...harge 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... ...n tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Midsummer Night’s by William Shakespeare , the Pennsylvani... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...iam Shakespeare (written about 1593 1594) DRAMATIS PERSONAE THESEUS: Duke of Athens. EGEUS: father to Hermia. LYSANDER and DEMETRIUS: in love with He... ... attending their King and Queen. Attendants on Theseus and Hippolyta. SCENE: Athens, and a wood near it. 4 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM ACT I SCENE I: ... ...e your grace Consent to marry with Demetrius, I beg the ancient privilege of Athens, As she is mine, I may dispose of her: Which shall be either to th... ...ht’s Dream , Act II, scene i 15 But with thy brawls thou hast disturb’d our sport. Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain, As in revenge, have suc... ...e shallowest thick skin of that barren sort, Who Pyramus presented, in their sport Forsook his scene and enter’d in a brake When I did him at this adv... ...Demetrius to awake. PUCK: Then will two at once woo one; That must needs be sport alone; And those things do best please me That befal preposterously...

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...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Penn- sylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Second trans. Charles Co... ...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... ...erwards, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men; and some there are, who are very liber... ... every corner of his house, in play, drink, all sorts of profusion, making sport in their jun- kets with his vain anger and fruitless parsimony. Every... ...e are what give the piquancy to the sauce. How many very wantonly pleasant sports spring from the most decent and modest language of the works on love... ...ted the time of the advantage, that by favour and injustice he obtained at Athens over the tragic poets, better than himself, having caused his own pl... ... or to what end it was to keep wine in the vat. They conjectured of old at Athens, an aptitude for the mathematics in him they saw ingeniously bavin u... ... pro- testation, promised her to steal them away, and to transport them to Athens, and there commit them to the custody of some faithful friends of hi...

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...Excerpt: ?IT IS VERY KIND in the dear mother.? ?But--what, Rachel? Don?t you like it! She so enjoyed choosing it for you.? ?Oh yes, it is a perfect thing in its way. Don?t say a word to her; but if you are consulted for my next birthday present, Grace...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Penns... ...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... ...ad hunted out the old bowls, much to the delight of the younger ones. This sport lasted a good while, but at last the sisters, who had relaxed their a... ...nto a more budding look, hiding deeper and more overcoming feelings by the sportive action. And as her sister came back, she looked up and shook her h... ...in distinctness. Most kind and helpful he has been, and what began between sport and need to say out one’s mind has come to be a resource for which we... ...WED WED WED “Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.” —Timon of Athens. UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES of the Curtis family, no greater penance co...

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...by us only as an elaborate jest, has also a very serious purpose. It may fairly claim to be the oldest treatise on logic; for that science originates in the misunderstandings which necessarily accompany the first efforts of speculation. Several of the fallacies which are satirized in it reappear in the Sophistici Elenchi of Aristotle and are retained at the end of our manu...

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............................................................................................................................................... 39 Lover in All Shapes. ..................................................................................................................................................... 40 The Goldsmith?s Apprentice. ................................

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...The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Bowring A Penn State Electronic Clas... ...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 Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring, the Pennsylva... ... child’s thoughts. I see ’tis but the ev’ning breeze That with the curtain sports. 1803. 39 Goethe Declaration of War. Oh, would I resembled The coun... ...st to mouth it roves, Then from mouth to hands it flies, And I round him sport the while. And she sees me hov’ring near; T rembling at her lovers ra... ...rets too, Scatter we with gentle hand, Kind young spring-gods to the view, Sporting on an airy band. Zephyr, bear it on the wing, T wine it round my l... ...r finest works are owing.] ONCE a stranger youth to Corinth came, Who in Athens lived, but hoped that he From a certain townsman there might claim, ...

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...?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....

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...arge 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 Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Don Juan by George Byron , the Pennsylvania State University,... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ...master’d by her wisdom or her pride; When Juan spoke, too — it might be in sport— Of this their mutual feeling, she replied— ‘If it should be ... ...ch a strife As if the corn sheaf should oppose the sickle: Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men.’ ... ... his quarto, and demands your praise Death to his publisher, to him ‘t is sport; While Nature, tortured twenty thousand ways, Resigns herself... ...fare? I must, although a favourite ‘plat’ of mine In Spain, and Lucca, Athens, every where: On them and bread ‘t was oft my luck to dine, ...

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...Excerpt: Prefatory Note: The execution of this version of the Iliad has been entrusted to the three Translators in the following three parts: Each Translator is therefore responsible for his own portion; but the whole has been revised by all three Translators, and the rendering of passages or phrases recurring in more than one portion ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Iliad of Homer, trans. Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernes... ...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... ... forty black ships followed. And they that possessed the goodly citadel of Athens, the domain of Erechtheus the high hearted, whom erst Athene daughte... ...the grain giver, brought him to birth;—and she gave him a resting place in Athens in her own rich sanctuary; and there the sons of the Athenians worsh... ...emnon Atreus’ son, shepherd of the host; and his folk along the sea shore sported with quoits and with casting of javelins and archery; and the horse... ...d, for an evil dream stood above his head that night through the device of Athens. Meanwhile the hardy Odysseus loosed the whole hooved horses, and bo... ...us, never may that man go forth out of T roy land, but here may he be the sport of dogs, who this day wilfully is slack in battle. Nay, come, take th... ...en a boy scatters the sand beside the sea, first making sand buildings for sport in his childish ness, and then again, in his sport, confounding them...

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.................................................................... 20 CANTO VI. Justinian tells of his own life.?The story of the Roman Eagle.?Spirits in the planet Mercury.? Romeo.................................................................................................................................................................... 23 CANTO VII. Discourse of Beat...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy, Volume Three, Paradise [Paradiso] by Dante A... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... my sight the time that is preparing for thee. As Hippolytus departed from Athens, by reason of his pitiless and perfidious step- mother, so out from ... ... fire of true love, that at the second death it was worthy to come to this sport. The other, through grace which distils from a fount so deep that cre... ...s, the Principalities and Archangels circle; the last is wholly of Angelic sports. These orders are all upward gazing, and downward prevail, so that t... ...ch distinct both in brightness and in act. I saw there, smil- ing at their sports and at their songs, a Beauty 8 which was joy in the eyes of all the...

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...Excerpt: They, who to states and governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, wanting such access in a private condition, write that which they foresee may advance the public good; I suppose them, as at the beginning of no mean endeavour, not a little altered and moved inwardly in their minds: some with doubt of what will...

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...arge 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 Stat... ...n tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Five Works of John Milton: Areopagitica, Comus, “L’Alegro,”... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ...ame him who from his private house wrote that discourse to the Parliament of Athens, that persuades them to change the form of democracy which was the... ..., was catched up by our prelates, and hath caught some of our presbyters. In Athens, where books and wits were ever busier than in any other part of G... ...on; insomuch that Basil teaches how some good use may be made of Margites, a sportful poem, not now extant, writ by Homer; and why not then of Morgan... ...athed smiles Such as hang on Hebe’s cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Co... ...es sin, Which these dun shades will ne’er report. Hail, goddess of nocturnal sport, Dark veiled Cotytto, to whom the secret flame Of midnight torches ...

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only...

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...arge 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 St... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell , Translated by H.F. Cary ,... ...ersity’s Electronic Classics Series, to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...te Hell 33 To him my guide exclaim’d: “Perchance thou deem’st The King of Athens here, who, in the world Above, thy death contriv’d. Monster! avaun... ...y grappled him with more than hundred hooks, And shouted: “Cover’d thou must sport thee here; So, if thou canst, in secret mayst thou filch.” E’en thu... ... we may see If singly thou prevail against us all.” Now, reader, of new sport expect to hear! They each one turn’d his eyes to the’ other sh... ...I died, The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell 83 Leads me not here. True is in sport I told him, That I had learn’d to wing my flight in air. And he adm... ...] The constellation Bootes, or Charles’s wain. CANTO XII v. 17. The king of Athens.] Theseus, who was enabled, by the instructions of Ariadne, the si...