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The Village Rector

By: Honoré de Balzac

...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 Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Presco... ...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... ... in which was a Virgin, mutilated during the Revolution. All visitors with archaeological proclivities found traces of the stone sockets used to hold ... ...protects that woman after his death,” said one lady, hearing of these last discoveries, rendered harmless by the criminal’s precautions. “There may be... ...ling. From the formless fetichism of savages to the graceful inventions of Greece, or the profound and metaphysical doctrines of Egypt and In- dia, wh... ...he road to Asia through Egypt or by the Euphrates, made feasible by recent discoveries, will kill England, as in former times the discovery of the Cap...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...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. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ...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... ...f a 12 Thomas de Quincey work so large, costly, and, by its title, merely archaeological, finding its way, at such a period, into the hands of any po... ...ous, race of ancient days, the Pelasgi, that overspread, in early times of Greece, the total Mediterranean,—a race distinguished for beauty and for in... ... world—how much more so, therefore, by comparison with any race in ancient Greece, inevitably rendered effeminate by dependence too generally upon sla... ...e, the Cyclopean race diffused over the Mediterranean in the elder ages of Greece, and certain tribes amongst the Alps, known to Evelyn in his youth (... ...wn local agents. The first, though precipi- tated into action by fortunate discoveries on the part of the government, had been anxiously preconcerted ... ...s named Shearer, men of talent, who eventually suffered for treason. These discoveries were due to treachery of a peculiar sort; not to the treachery ...

...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...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. Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ...onstrous cabinet there is no telling. But a sudden stop was put to further discoveries, by the ship’s being unprecedentedly dragged over sideways to t... ...ng it for his royal master and mistress? What was Poland to the Czar? What Greece to the Turk? What India to England? What at last will Mexico be to t... ... old routine again. Oh! the metempsychosis! Oh! Pythagoras, that in bright Greece, two thousand years ago, did die, so good, so wise, so mild; I saile... ...bitatory and anatomical peculiarities, it now remains to magnify him in an archaeological, fossiliferous, and antediluvian point of view. Applied to a...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...TER TER, ET , ET , ET , ET , ETC. ET C. ET C. ET C. ET C. ETC. C. C. C. C. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION... ...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. Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Qu... ......................................................... 143 143 143 143 143 GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER THE R THE ... ...and now let me ask, how many of these are found in the Heathen religion of Greece and Rome? This is an important question; it being my object to show ... ...When a man pauses for the purpose of attentively reviewing the Pantheon of Greece and Rome, what strikes him at the first with most depth of impressio... ...e have nothing to do with translations. Those are but secondary questions, archaeological and criti- cal, upon which we have a right to consult the Gr... ...ation across the realms of chaos, by the grand illuminations of the Hebrew discoveries. T oo terrifically aus- tere we must presume the Hebrew idea to...

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