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...l the numerical tools needed for modern science to emerge in the West. -- 12. Invaders from the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. -- 13. He Unchained Books-The German goldsmith’s invention frees...

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.... Invaders from the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on t... ... the hidden history of information technologies that preceded the present Age of Cyberspace. My most surprising discovery was that the wedding of ... ...st seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lifting sea levels very gradually for several thousand years.... ...the religious, governmental, educational, and commercial centers of their age. As temple complexes grew into major economic enterprises, many work... ...ch as the one developed in the later Italian Renaissance. Invasions by Vikings, Magyars, and Saracens from east, north, west, and south led to th... ... monks to pray: From the fury of the Norsemen deliver us, O Lord!‖ Vikings forayed across the Atlantic to North America centuries before Colum... ... buyers from the growing literate populace, such as scholars, professors, poets, and mathematicians, would gather to interact in a weeklong, intelle...

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.... Invaders from the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on t... ... the hidden history of information technologies that preceded the present Age of Cyberspace. My most surprising discovery was that the wedding of i... ...st seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lifting sea levels very gradually for several thousand years.... ...the religious, governmental, educational, and commercial centers of their age. As temple complexes grew into major economic enterprises, many worke... ...such as the one developed in the later Italian Renaissance. Invasions by Vikings, Magyars, and Saracens from east, north, west, and south led to th... ...d monks to pray: From the fury of the Norsemen deliver us, O Lord!‖ Vikings forayed across the Atlantic to North America centuries before Colum... ... buyers from the growing literate populace, such as scholars, professors, poets, and mathematicians, would gather to interact in a weeklong, intelle...

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...s many ideas of what we are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philosophers have added to the mix. As have playwrights, poets,... ...e infant's greatest pleasures were found in the mouth, in sucking and eating. This was called the oral stage of sexual development. At around age 1 ... ...d the ‗phallic‘ stage. It is at this stage that Freud believed that the sexual desires first emerged. Freud believed that children, by about age 3,... ...ms. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancient Greek poets ... ...er package.‖ --―Chuck, do you remember when our Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, was chided for dating beautiful women half his age? H... ...Have we always been so violent or are the media pushing us that way? Or is it the weapons that are available? Would Alexander, Genghis or the Viking... ...ove can be based primarily on the knowledge of science, but is tempered by insights and speculations of philosophers, religious thinkers, and poets.... ... of Judgment that Crosses Every Cultural Gap, " Psychology Today, 1968, 2:24-29) 22. Abraham Maslow, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, The Viking...

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...ighest abortion rates in the world at 51 per 1,000 women of child bearing age. Why are they saying one thing while doing something different? Why do... ...out God all things are lawful.‘‖ --―Those ideas are based on the age-old idea that God is the only source of morality. But if we look back ... ...n his autobiography he wrote, ‗Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, 69 accord... ... couldn‘t have foreseen and probably would disapprove. ―One of our poets put it this way: Is there heaven or is there hell? No book nor sage... ...s it terror to have gladiators fight to the death? Was it terror when the Vikings attacked England and Ireland? Was it terror when the Spaniards dec... ... as it did under Caesar? Does Norway control England as it did during the Viking times? Does France still control what it did under Napoleon? Does G...

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...ES. COMPRISING ALSO AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth... ...Teachings of the great philosophers -- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking navigators -- Overrunning Europe, yet in the van of the Crusader... ...APTER XXXVI. Cavendish's voyages around the world. -- Glory of the Elizabethan Age -- The spirit of discovery animates England -- Heroism of Cavendish... ...e had its beginning. We are told that in a very early period of antiquity, the age of which cannot be set down, there existed on the shores of the Red... ...posed by the people but rejected by many distinguished writers of the Augustan Age. Formaleoni claims that the Venetians discovered the West Indies pr... ...ions which are supposed to have sailed westward from Mediterranean shores. THE VIKING NAVIGATORS. The preceding are hardly better than traditions, in ... ...t known and most poetical of all the nautical legends. Novelists have used it, poets have embellished it, dramatists have put it on the boards with al...

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... transparencies of most humans were in order--the last of which would be old age and decay but what was written on them was meaningless. His transpare... ...e pool, a sadness at the loss of his friendship with Yang Kwam made him feel age that he did not possess. He watched a couple young men stretch out in... ...ool restored to his euphoria as his father strutted his work talk to men his age seated on other stools. Walking from the mokotong he thought of a sto... ...ing pathetically around all the self-centered members of her family like the Viking orbiter. Peggy had even orbited around Gabriele's parents gregari... ...had found a more internal brooding in the Hokkaido cold. She had feasted on poets and philosophers. She had learnt of Japanese history, art, and trad...

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............ 4 CHAPTER I ? ?VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE?................................................................................ 4 CHAPTER II ? CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH ......................................................................... 38 CHAPTER III ? AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS.......................................................................... 49 CHAPTER IV ? ORDERED ...

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...................................................... 4 CHAPTER II – CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH ................................................................ ... or not to marry. Marriage is terrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age. The friendships of men are vastly agree- able, but they are insecure. ... ..., to reign here and revel. Indeed, if this be love at all, it is plain the poets have been fooling with mankind since the foundation of the world. And... ...al. I have spo- ken with Jesuits and Plymouth Brethren, mathematicians and poets, dogmatic republicans and dear old gentlemen in bird’s-eye neckcloths... ...n years some- what in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the phrase goes, we but hold with an outpost, ... ... All this, and much more of the same sort, accompanied by the eloquence of poets, has gone a great way to put humanity in error; nay, in many philosop... ...rable goes down, my flag will still fly.” And you observe this is no naked Viking in a prehistoric period; but a Scotch mem- ber of Parliament, with a...

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...les from whom we sprang; the warring of Harold Fairhair or Saint Olaf; the Viking (1) kingdoms in these (the British) Western Isles; the settlement of... ...n—combine to make valuable what Iceland holds for us. Not before 1770, (1) Viking (Ice. “Vikingr”; “vik”, a bay or creek, “ingr”, beloning to, (or men... ...lands their road by land was henceforth closed. Then begins the day of the Vikings, who, for two hundred years and more, “held the world at ransom.” U... ...the swift intense feeling and rapidity of passion of the earlier Icelandic poets. They are hot-headed and hot-hearted, warm, impulsive, quick to quarr... ...ir “Corpus”, where those who seek may find. A long and illustrious line of poets kept the old traditions, down even to within a couple centuries, but ... ... beautiful of all 25 The V olsunga Saga the Eddaic poems; a poem that any age or language might count among its most precious possessions. From this ... ...ut off from the land in three ships, all well manned, and have a fair voy- age, and made Gothland late of an evening tide. But that same night came Si... ...evenged that same night. Now Signy and the king had two children of tender age, who played with a golden toy on the floor, and bowled it along the pav...

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...e bungalow. He either chatters senilely, or falls into the long trances of age. In both moods he is useless. If you get angry with him, he refers to s... ... real Sahibs were rare. The khansamah, who was nearly bent double with old age, said so. When I arrived, there was a fitful, undecided rain on the fac... ...omething of it. When next he came to me he was drunk—royally drunk on many poets for the first time revealed to him. His pupils were dilated, his word... ...had she seen them—and launched into his sea dreams. Again I cursed all the poets of England. The plastic mind of the bank-clerk had been overlaid, col... ...e was no virtue in books, he had talked of some desperate adventure of the Vikings, of Thorfin Karlsefne’s sailing to Wineland, which is America, in t... ...e Lord He knows who these may or may not have been— came to trade with the Vikings, and ran away because they were frightened at the bellowing of the ... ...ee-decked Greek one under the black-haired “political man,” and again in a Viking’s open sea-serpent under the man “red as a red bear” who went to Mar...

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...laubert— who imagined himself to be (amongst other things) a descendant of Vikings—might have hovered with amused interest over the decks of a 2000-to... ...dvertised in pamphlets and prospectuses which came aboard in a large pack- age in Victoria Dock, London, just before we started for Rouen, France. And... ...r very well from the first. He took charge of me as if I were not quite of age. I had a delightful boyish feeling of coming home from 28 Some Reminis... ...already for some three years or more, and then in the ninth chapter of its age—was deposited unostentatiously on the writing-table placed be- tween tw... ...iscences Quixote” in abridged editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some French poets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening be...

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...d Flaubert—who imagined himself to be (among other things) a descendant of Vikings—might have hovered with amused in- terest over the docks of a 2,000... ...r very well from the first. He took charge of me as if I were not quite of age. I had a delightful boyish feeling of coming home from school when he m... ...already for some three years or more, and then in the ninth chapter of its age—was deposited unostentatiously on the writing-table placed between two ... ...perishable mor- tality that he lives in my memory. I knew, at a very early age, that my granduncle Nicholas B. was a Knight of the Legion of Honour an... ...and “Don Quixote” in abridged editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some French po- ets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening ...

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...iation XXXVII. The Nursery of the Craft XL. The Tremolino XLVI. The Heroic Age CHAPTER I “And shippes by the brinke comen and gon, And in swich forme ... ...oung days, every time he was approaching a coast. Well over fifty years of age when I knew him, short, stout, dignified, per- haps a little pompous, h... ...nd it was in that trade that he obtained his first command at a very early age. It was then that he mentioned to me how, as a young commander, he was ... ...ressive obsequies and of a roomy, generous grave. Such is the king to whom Viking chieftains bowed their heads, and whom the modern and palatial steam... ...tery. The sides of his overcoat bulged out with pocket editions of various poets. When not engaged in reading Virgil, Homer, or Mistral, in parks, res...

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...g forest, your London citizen of good estate has reproached his country’ s poets for not pouring out, succinctly and melodiously, his multitudinous la... ... the tablets of the quotable at festive boards. This he can promise to his poets. As for otherwhere than at the festive, Commerce invoked is a Goddess... ...ing our despot-king of Commerce? In that case, we do not ask our country’s poets to compose a single stanza of eulogy’s rhymes—far from it. Far to the... ...ve Old Veuve: a champagne of a sobered sweetness, of a great year, a great age, counting up to the extremer maturity attained by wines of stilly depth... ... approval sounded on the lips un- certain as a woman is a wine of ticklish age. The gentlemen nodded, and he retired. A second bottle, just as good as... ...f youth, London City could provide near meridian hours for a man of middle age carrying his bottle of champagne, like a guest of an old-fashioned wedd... ...ds of bragging, that they should brandify their wits to imagine themselves Vikings. Nataly interposed. She was vexed with him. He let his eye- lids dr... ...odically invading all English classes as a flush from the undrained lower, Vikings all—to frigid sterile Satire. And truly it is not a fruit-bearing r...

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... a quick rhythmic stride, jerking his free hand occasionally, was either a Viking or a stricken Nelson; the sea-gulls had changed his note. “Ridley, s... ... passengers across, where now he took scarcely any. He seemed to recall an age when his boat, moored among rushes, carried deli- cate feet across to l... ...er who keeps house for him, I believe, but it’s never the same, not at his age.” Both gentlemen nodded sagely as they carved their apples. “There was ... ...es, and my aunts said the piano would come through the floor, but at their age one wouldn’t mind being killed in the night?” she enquired. “I heard fr... ...aid Richard. “I may be treading on dangerous ground; but what I feel about poets and artists in general is this: on your own lines, you can’t be beate... ...assure you I know heaps like that—well, they seem to me really nobler than poets whom every one worships, just because they’re geniuses and die young.... ... books on the table. They lay heaped one upon another. “We shall want some poets too,” he remarked. “Not Gib- bon; no; d’you happen to have Modern Lov...

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...condition in the elegy strain; and he fell to reckoning the English hero’s age—as that he, Lord Ormont, had been a name in the world for the last twen... ...gly, his comrades thought. “Sixty, as you may learn some day, is a serious age, Mat- thew Weyburn.” Matey said he should be happy to reach it with hal... ...ome of the bigger fellows he could tell them positively that Lord Ormont’s age was under fifty-four—the prime of man- hood, and a jolly long way off d... ...uious yet privately excitable tradesmen, sedentary coachmen and cabmen, of Viking descent, were set to think like boys about him: and the boys, the wo... ...t, were set to think like boys about him: and the boys, the women, and the poets formed a tipsy chorea. Jour- nalists, on the whole, were fairly halve... ... it in her desk, understanding well that it was a laugh lost to the world. Poets could reasonably 25 George Meredith feign it to shake the desk inclo...

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...h Romance words as were in use in England 4 The Nibelungenlied during the age of the romances of chivalry, and which would help to land a Romance col... ...extent archaic, especially in dialogue, in order to give the impression of age. At the request of the publishers the Introduction Sketch has been shor... ...scussed, as the Nibelungenlied. In its present form it is a product of the age of chivalry, but it reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiq... ... the date of the earliest manuscript. Most of them, however, belong to the Viking period, when Christianity was already beginning to influence the Nor... ... of the poem, as in the “Gudrun” and other M.H.G. epics. Among the courtly poets it also frequently denotes the source, or is the personification of t...

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...beyond his first. And just as the most imbecile production of any literary age gives us sometimes the very clue to comprehension we have sought long a... ...id nothing about them. But Scott’s instinct, the instinct of the man of an age pro- foundly different, taught him otherwise; and, in his work, the ind... ...literary history. He was now, it must be remembered, twenty-seven years of age; he had fought since his early boyhood an obstinate battle against poor... ...g of pain and disappointment, which is surely noble with the nobility of a viking, he would rather stoop to borrow than to accept money for these last... ...vid medium for all that had to do with social life. Hence, whenever Scotch poets left their laborious imitations of bad English verses, and fell back ... ...hrase of one tough verse of the original; and for those who know the Greek poets only by paraphrase, this has the very quality they are accustomed to ... ...ream so deep and easy that I will venture to call him the best of humorous poets. He turns about in the midst to utter a noble sentiment or a trenchan...

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... their sakes Germany stands consecrated as the Holy Land of the capitalist age, just as Italy, for its painters’ sakes, is the Holy Land of the early ... ...the early unvulgarized Renascence; France, for its builders’ sakes, of the age of Christian chivalry and faith; and Greece, for its sculptors’ sakes, ... ...chivalry and faith; and Greece, for its sculptors’ sakes, of the Periclean age. These Holy Lands are my fatherlands: in them alone am I truly at home:... ... life might be, to whom these things are unendurable. If we were a race of poets we would make an end of them before the end of this miserable century... ...material for an effective theatrical tragedy as they did to Ibsen. Ibsen’s Vikings in Helgeland is, in kind, what Siegfied’s Death was originally inte... ...else will. It would be exasperating, if it were not so funny, to see these poets leading their heroes through blood and destruc- tion to the conclusio... ...atrical treatment of the murderous heroine of the Saga. Ibsen’s aim in The Vikings was purely theatrical, and not, as in his later dramas, also philos...

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...ells had in old days played the adventurer and charmed a maid of a certain age into yielding her hand to him; and the lady was the squire of Earlsfont... ...hless man is but a general villain or funny monster, a subject rejected of poets, taking no hue in the flat chronicle of history: but a faithless woma... ...ndly put for the sake of promoting conversation with a companion of unripe age by a gentleman who had whole- somely excited his blood to run. They wer... ...about where we’re going and what we came out of. No wonder they call it an age of despair, when you see the big wigs filing up and down the thoroughfa... ...e smoked this identical pipe. She acknowledged the merits of my whisky, as poets do hearing fine verses, never clapping hands, but with the expressive... ...ntil he was caught by the masterly playing of a sonata by the chief of the poets of sound. He was caught by it, but he took the close of the introduc-... ...a grain of romance. On the wall, just above his shoulder, is a sketch of a Viking putting the lighted brand to his ship in mid sea, and you are to und... ...n mid sea, and you are to understand that his time is come and so should a Viking die: further, if you will, the subject is a 114 Celt and Saxon mode... ...ing die: further, if you will, the subject is a 114 Celt and Saxon modern Viking, ready for the responsibilities of the title. Sketches of our ancien...