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...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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...tion between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbors....

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...arely, or we run our selves a ground, bestirre, bestirre. Exit. Enter Mariners. Botes. Heigh my hearts, cheerely, cheerely my harts: yare, yare: Take in the toppe- sale: Tend to th? Masters whistle: Blow till thou burst thy winde, if roome enough. Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Anthonio, Ferdinando, Gonzalo, and others. Alon. Good Boteswaine have care: where?s the Ma-ster? Play ...

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...s. Heigh my hearts, cheerely, cheerely my harts: 12 yare, yare: Take in the toppe- sale: Tend to th’ Masters 13 whistle: Blow till thou bu... ... giue thankes you haue liu’d so long, and make your 33 selfe readie in your Cabine for the mischance of the 34 houre, if it so hap. Cheer... .... If by your Art (my deerest father) you haue 83 Put the wild waters in this Rore; alay them: 84 The skye it seemes would powre down stink... ... thank your selfe for this great losse, 797 That would not blesse our Europe with your daughter, 798 But rather loose her to an Affrican, 7... ...First Folio 1708 Too much the raigne: the strongest oathes, are straw 1709 To th’ fire ith’ blood: be more abstenious, 1710 Or else good n...

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...e of Somerset. Bedford. Hung be y heavens with black, yield day to night; Comets importing change of Times and States, Brandish your crystall Tresses in the Skie, And with them scourge the bad revolting Stars, That have consented unto Henries death: King Henry the Fift, too famous to live long, England ne?re lost a King of so much worth. Glost. England ne?re had a King unt...

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...orting change of Times and States, 11 Brandish your crystall Tresses in the Skie, 12 And with them scourge the bad reuolting Stars, 13 ... ... He ne’re lift vp his Hand, but conquered. 25 Exe. We mourne in black, why mourn we not in blood? 26 Henry is dead, and neuer shal... ...ommand the Prince and Realme. 48 Thy Wife is prowd, she holdeth thee in awe, 49 More then God or Religious Church- men may. 50 G... ... Souldiers with me I will take, 168 Whose bloody deeds shall make all Europe quake. 169 3.Mess. So you had need, for Orleance is besieg’... ...my Liege. 1708 King. Welcome braue Captaine, and victorious Lord. 1709 When I was young (as yet I am not old) 1710 I doe remember how ...

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...ng West (Making the winde my Post- horse) still unfold The Acts commenced on this Ball of Earth. Upon my Tongue, continuall Slanders ride, The which, in every Language, I pronounce, Stuffing the Eares of them with false Reports: I speake of Peace, while covert Enmitie (Under the smile of Safety) wounds the World: And who but Rumour, who but onely I Make fearfull Musters, a...

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...th. 9 Vpon my Tongue, continuall Slanders ride, 10 The which, in euery Language, I pronounce, 11 Stuffing the Eares of them with fa... ...s Rumour heere? 26 I run before King Harries victory, 27 Who in a bloodie field by Shrewsburie 28 Hath beaten downe yong Hotspurr... ...t can wish: 66 The King is almost wounded to the death: 67 And in the Fortune of my Lord your Sonne, 68 Prince Harrie slaine out- r... ... 912 Iohn with my Brothers and Sister: & Sir 913 Iohn, with all Europe. 914 My Lord, I will steepe this Letter in Sack, and make him ... ...o is 1707 the next? 1708 Shal. Peter Bulcalfe of the Greene. 1709 Falst. Yea marry, let vs see Bulcalfe. 1710 Bul. Heere... ...ly of any indiffe-rencie, 2256 I were simply the most actiue fellow in Europe: 2257 my wombe, my wombe, my wombe vndoes mee. Heere 2258 co...

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...s to Act, And Monarchs to behold the swelling Scene. Then should the Warlike Harry, like himselfe, Assume the Port of Mars, and at his heeles (Leasht in, like Hounds) should Famine, Sword, and Fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, Gentles all: The flat unraysed Spirits, that hath dar?d, On this unworthy Scaffold, to bring forth So great an Object. Can this Cock- Pit hold...

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...e, 7 Assume the Port of Mars, and at his heeles 8 (Leasht in, like Hounds) should Famine, Sword, and Fire 9 Crouch for employ... ... Agincourt? 16 O pardon: since a crooked Figure may 17 Attest in little place a Million, 18 And let vs, Cyphers to this great Acc... ... - 1 - The Life of Henry the Fift Shakespeare: First Folio 40 Which in th’ eleue[n]th yere of y last Kings reign 41 Was like, and had ind... ... Paris Louer shake for it, 1028 Were it the Mistresse Court of mightie Europe: 1029 And be assur’d, you’le find a diff’rence, 1030 As we h... ...y 1629 Horse haue his due. 1630 Const. It is the best Horse of Europe. 1631 Orleance. Will it neuer be Morning? 1632 Dolph... ...s. 1708 Const. I will not say so, for feare I should be fac’t out 1709 of my way: but I would it were morning, for I would 1710 faine ...

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...rooke retreat, Chear?d up the drouping Army, and himselfe. Lord Clifford and Lord Stafford all abrest Charg?d our maine Battailes Front: and breaking in, Were by the Swords of common Souldiers slaine. Edw. Lord Staffords Father, Duke of Buckingham, Is either slaine or wounded dangerous. I cleft his Beauer with a down- right blow: That this is true (Father) behold his blood...

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...ford all a- brest 13 Charg’d our maine Battailes Front: and breaking in, 14 Were by the Swords of common Souldiers slaine. 15 Ed... ...d so doe I, victorious Prince of Yorke. 27 Before I see thee seated in that Throne, 28 Which now the House of Lancaster vsurpes, 29 ... ...st me then, sweet Warwick, and I will, 34 For hither we haue broken in by force. 35 Norf. Wee’le all assist you: he that flyes, shall... ...h Clifford, boyst’rous Clifford, thou hast slaine 727 The flowre of Europe, for his Cheualrie, 728 And trecherously hast thou vanquisht hi... ...ch grieues my Heart, 1708 And wet my Cheekes with artificiall Teares, 1709 And frame my Face to all occasions. 1710 Ile drowne more Sayler...

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...King. So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Finde we a time for frighted Peace to pant, And breath shortwinded accents of new broils To be commenc?d in Stronds afarre remote: No more the thirsty entrance of this Soile, Shall daube her lippes with her owne childrens blood: No more shall trenching Warre channell her fields, Nor bruise her Flowrets with the Armed hoofes Of h...

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... And breath shortwinded accents of new broils 8 To be commenc’d in Stronds a- farre remote: 9 No more the thirsty entrance of this S... ...5 All of one Nature, of one Substance bred, 16 Did lately meete in the intestine shocke, 17 And furious cloze of ciuill Butchery, 18... ... shocke, 17 And furious cloze of ciuill Butchery, 18 Shall now in mutuall well- beseeming rankes 19 March all one way, and be no mor... ...anger, and reproofe: 1708 But doe not vse it oft, let me entreat you. 1709 Worc. In faith, my Lord, you are too wilfull blame, 1710 An... ...haue bought me Lights as 2048 good cheape, as the dearest Chandlers in Europe. I haue 2049 maintain’d that Salamander of yours with fire, any ...

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...od man, And therefore banish?d) is a Creature, such, As to seeke through the Regions of the Earth For one, his like; there would be something failing In him, that should compare. I do not thinke, So faire an Outward, and such stuffe Within Endowes a man, but hee. You speake him farre. I do extend him (Sir) within himselfe, Crush him together, rather then unfold His measure...

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...arth 28 For one, his like; there would be something failing 29 In him, that should compare. I do not thinke, 30 So faire an Outward,... ...n’d the Sur- addition, Leonatus. 43 And had (besides this Gentleman in question) 44 Two other Sonnes, who in the Warres o’th’ time 45 ... ...ther Sonnes, who in the Warres o’th’ time 45 Dy’de with their Swords in hand. For which, their Father 46 Then old, and fond of yssue, took... ...ew me 1123 If I would loose it for a Reuenew, 1124 Of any Kings in Europe. I do think, 1125 I saw’t this morning: Confident I am. 1126 ... ...doth belye 1708 All corners of the World. Kings, Queenes, and States, 1709 Maides, Matrons, nay the Secrets of the Graue 1710 This viperou...

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...King of Sicilia meanes to pay Bohemia the Visitation, which hee justly owes him. Arch. Wherein our Entertainment shall shame us: we will be justified in our Loves: for indeed--Cam. Beseech you--Arch. Verely I speake it in the freedome of my know-ledge: we cannot with such magnificence--in so rare--I know not what to say--Wee will give you sleepie Drinkes, that your Sences ...

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...h. Wherein our Entertainment shall shame vs: we 12 will be iustified in our Loues: for indeed— 13 Cam. ’Beseech you— 14 Arch... ...eed— 13 Cam. ’Beseech you— 14 Arch. Verely I speake it in the freedome of my know-ledge: 15 we cannot with such magnificence... ... the freedome of my know-ledge: 15 we cannot with such magnificence— in so rare— 16 I know not what to say— Wee will giue you sleepie 17 ... ... 822 Let him haue knowledge who I am. Good Lady, 823 No Court in Europe is too good for thee, 824 What dost thou then in prison? Now go... ...: What 1708 will this sister of mine do with Rice? But my father hath 1709 made her Mistris of the Feast, and she layes it on. Shee 1710 h...

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...ea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf?s right to eat him. He thus addressed him: ?Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.? ?Indeed,? bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, ?I was not then born.? Then said the Wolf, ?You feed in my pasture.? ?No, good sir,? replied the Lamb, ?I have not yet tasted grass.?...

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..................14 THE BEAR AND THE FOX ......................................14 THE SWALLOW AND THE CROW .............................14 THE MOUNTAIN IN LABOR ...................................14 THE ASS, THE FOX, AND THE LION .......................15 THE TORTOISE AND THE EAGLE ...........................15 THE FLIES AND THE HONEY-POT ..........................16 THE MAN...

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.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

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...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltaire was born in the year 1694. He lived un...

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....?ON SIR ISAAC NEWTON?S OPTICS ......................................................................................... 62 LETTER XVII.?ON INFINITES IN GEOMETRY, AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON?S CHRONOLOGY............. 65 LETTER XVIII.?ON TRAGEDY ............................................................................................................................ 71 LETTER XI...

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...pt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Ma...

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............................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II RELATES H...

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKE... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself by William Mak... ...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... ...ere and there in the volume in which my father describes his adventures in Europe, I can well under- stand the extreme devotion with which she regarde... ... but what company was there in which he would not be first? When I went to Europe for my education, and we passed a winter at London with my half-brot... ...pass over as odious and unworthy of credit those reports (which I heard in Europe and was then too young to understand), how this person, having left ... ...s Viscount Castlewood has a shilling. It’s now 1703—I shall come of age in 1709. I shall go back to Castlewood; I shall live at Castlewood; I shall bu... ... with his heart in his hand for the young lady to take. We were now got to 1709. She was near twenty-two years old, and three years at Court, and with...

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............................................................................................................................ 28 Chapter 1.2.II. Petition in Hieroglyphs. ...................................................................................................................... 34 Chapter 1.2.III. Questionable. ...........................................................

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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 French Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle... ...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... ...nceforth pray to, with upturned awestruck eye, not without hope? The white European mocks; but ought rather to consider; and see whether he, at home, ... ...n each bank, and become City of Paris, sometimes boasting to be ‘Athens of Europe,’ and even ‘Capital of the Universe.’ Stone towers frown aloft; long... ...ris, did they even bear to be ‘Printed at Pekin. ’ We have a Courrier de l’Europe in those years, regularly published at London; by a De Morande, whom... ...Bureaus, in the hard winter weather: it is the hardest win- ter seen since 1709; thermometer below zero of Fahren- heit, Seine River frozen over. (Mar...

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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. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an i... ...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... ... WAS born at Lichfield, in Staffordshire, on the 18th of September, N. S., 1709; and his initiation into the Christian Church was not delayed; for his... ...o that, as I once observed to Dr. Johnson, he disputed his passage through Europe. He then came to England, and was employed successively in the capac... ...was the authour of An Enquiry into the present State of polite Learning in Europe, and of The Citizen of the World, a series of letters supposed to be... ...im a saying which somebody had related of an American savage, who, when an European was expatiating on all the advantages of money, put this question:...