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...n by John Florio (1553-1625) Book I. | Book II. | Book III. Note on the e-text: this Renascence Editions text was provided by Professor Emeritu... ...essor Emeritus Ben R. Schneider, Lawrence University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first p... ...e University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classic... ...al material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The Univer... ...er were it you should lose your life, than being taken prisoner, lose your Empire and all.' Then doth she shew the utmost of her power, when for her ... ...wealth is but in hard condition, if none but myselfe hinder thee from the Empire. Thou canst not so much as defend thine owne hous and didst but lat... ... meanes of negotiation by the example of this infidelitie. Soliman of the Ottomans race (a race little regarding the keeping of promises or performa... ...ittle busines I have managed betweene our Princes, amid the divisions and subdivisions which at this day so teare and turmoile us, I have curiously ...
...(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 force...
...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule ...
...elville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...obe are the Nantucketer’s. For the sea is his; he owns it, as Emperors own empires; other seamen having but a right of way through it. Merchant ships ... ...le generally, were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only ... ...erminate fact upon which to ground a radical distinction. It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some depart... ...paltry and base. This it is, that for ever keeps God’s true princes of the Empire from the world’s hustings; and leaves the highest honours that this ... ...covering the flight of his ladies. In truth, this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman, swimming about over the watery world, 377 Herman Melville surroun...
Excerpt: Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville.
...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... ... 1 Loomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2 The Carpet Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3 The... ...3 The Spouter Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4 The Counterpane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 5 Br... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ...obe are the Nantucketer’s. For the sea is his; he owns it, as Emperors own empires; other seamen having but a right of way through it. Merchant ships ... ...ple generally,were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only ... ...erminate fact upon which to ground a radical distinction. It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some depart... ...paltry and base. This is it, that for ever keeps God’s true princes of the Empire from the world’s hustings; and leaves the highest hon ors that this... ... covering the flight of his ladies. In truth, this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman, swimming about over the watery world, surroundingly accompanied by...
...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 o...
...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...
...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...lyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publicat... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...and sequence there is too little. Apart from its multifarious sections and subdivisions, the Work naturally falls into two Parts; a Historical-Descrip... ... have I searched through all the Herald’s Books, in and without the German Empire, and through all manner of Subscriber-Lists (Pranumeranten), Militia... ...ve all Eternity to rest in? ‘ Celestial Nepenthe! though a Pyrrhus conquer empires, and an Alexander sack the world, he finds thee not; and thou hast ... ...propagated offsets from the parent stem, whose minute 198 Sartor Resartus subdivisions, and shades of difference, it were here loss of time to dwell ... ...‘A Dressing-room splendidly furnished; violet-colored curtains, chairs and ottomans of the same hue. Two full- length Mirrors are placed, one on each ...
Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.
... (1915) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...RIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...open and there was a long buff and crimson-striped shape, by day indeed an ottoman, but by night—. Could an ottoman crouch and stir in the flicker of ... ...ld an ottoman crouch and stir in the flicker of a passing candle? Could an ottoman come after you noiselessly, and so close that you could not even tu... ... Wells to oust it. She saw her son a diplomat, a prancing pro-con- sul, an empire builder, a trusted friend of the august, the bold leader of new move... ...of Parliament and abroad. There’s the army, there’s diplomacy. There’s the Empire. You can be a Cecil Rhodes if you like. You can be a Winston….” 47 ... ...st I have decided to divide this vast terri- tory of difficulties into two subdivisions and make one of these Indulgence, meaning thereby pleasurable ...
Excerpt: The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells.
... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...HAPTER IV — CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . .... ...9 CHAPTER VII — MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . ... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ...se have I searched through all the Herald’s Books, in and without the German Empire, and through all manner of Subscriber Lists ( Pr¨ anumeranten), Mi... ... have all Eternity to rest in?’ Celestial Nepenthe! though a Pyrrhus conquer empires, and an Alexander sack the world, he finds thee not; and thou hast... ...ieties; or, at most, propagated off sets from the parent stem, whose minute subdivisions, and shades of difference, it were here loss of time to dwel... ...“ ‘A Dressing room splendidly furnished; violet colored curtains, chairs and ottomans of the same hue. Two full length Mirrors are placed, one on each...
...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more...
...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29...
...VE VOLUMES Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication o... ... Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication of the Penn... ...e Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ng requires another to find a given word—the name of town, river, state or empire—any word, in short, upon the motley and perplexed surface of the cha... ... as I entered the room, and throwing him- self back at full-length upon an ottoman. “I see,” said he, per- ceiving that I could not immediately reconc... ...he Orfeo,” (the first native Ital- ian tragedy,) which lay near me upon an ottoman, I discovered a passage underlined in pencil. It was a passage tow... ...chantment! There was really no end to its windings—to its incomprehensible subdivisions. It was difficult, at any given time, to say with certainty up... ...ere held with my singular namesake. The huge old house, with its countless subdivisions, had sev- eral large chambers communicating with each other, w...
Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two.
...Contents THE PURLOINED LETTER ...................................................................................................................................... 4 THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE..........................
...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A A A A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP... ...UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ON... ...says and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...rom a high doctrinal religion, let us seek an illustration from our Indian empire. The Christian missionaries from home, when first opening their view... ...nfluence for these parties, either dangerous to the supreme section of the empire, or else nugatory for each of themselves. It is a separate considera... ...hemselves more often in a man’s termi- nology, and his antithesis, and his subdivisions, than any- where else. Phil. goes on to make this distinction,... ...the idea of a translation from the old western Rome, and overthrown by the Ottoman T urks in the year 1453. In the fortunes and main stages of this em... ...Byzantine emperor, who was its champion. What were the different sects and subdivisions of Christianity to the barbarian? Monophysite, Monothelite, Eu...
...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FO...
...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...difference ze danger vreatening Russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze Empire as vell as ze sanc- tity of its alliances...” he spoke this last wor... ...e valet came into the room with his coffee, Pierre was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand. He woke up and looked round for a wh... ... is it meant to prove? What? I ask you.” Pierre turned over heavily on the ottoman and opened his mouth, but could not reply. “If you won’t answer, I’... ...ent in Russia, or a Revolution in France and a subsequent dictatorship and Empire, or all the things that 343 Tolstoy produced the French Revolution,... ...ant, and proud sphere, Prince Andrew noticed the following sharply defined subdivisions of and parties: The first party consisted of Pfuel and his adh...