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...r the strangest of all empires.’ Macauley, 1833 On New Years Eve 1600, that most esteemed of English monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I, read the docu... ... only three years old. Rosita had come to Cornwall some forty years ago from Spain, following her English soldier husband who had been fighting with... ... ‘Breathe in Helen, here she comes!’ Helen was enveloped by the green wet leaves of that ancient English forest of her childhood and Gavin was hold... ...warms of hovering flies. She listened to the cacophony of dialects - overseers instructing their teams in the unloading of the ship, vendors raucous... ...d saw the same stars which twinkled in the firmament over England, but here they seemed brighter. Crickets chirped and bats swooped amongst the mang... ...embering the Begum Shalima’s words of criticism. ‘We keep ourselves segregated in our homes, our clubs and our cantonments, as if we are afraid to b... ... the storm broke, bringing welcome relief from the sultry heat, but causing more problems for the teams clearing the earthquake debris. More rain fe... ...orshipped. There had been many invaders of India but none like the British with their segregated clubs, judicial and administrative institutions, th...

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...bated Am- herst last fall. Troy Concert . ' The management of the inusioal clubs has arranged for a concert to be given in Troy, N, Y., on April 10. T... ... of thn National Child Labor o(jMiinitleo, addreBHed tlio Good Governmen t club in •)«Biip Hall, 'I'liuruday evening, oti "The Child Labor Problem." U... ...on of child labor. This, until five years ago, was considered a distinctly English problem, with which the citizens of this country had nothing to do ... ...- - - - Mass College Barber Shop First class Work Guaranteed.New hand-made English Razors and Strops. J. V. AZIER Next to Morgan Hall Williamstown Col... ...es Banquet Menus Class& Social Stationery- Visiting Cardi Special Rates to Clubs of TEN. Samples on Request BAILEY, BANKS & BIDDLE CO. 1213-20-22 Chei... ...RSPROOF Mass, College Barber Shop First classWork Guaranteed.New hand-made English Razors and Strops. J. V. AZIER Next to Morgan Hall Williamstown Col... ...ub, at Sjjringfield. May 27-8-9—New England In- tercollegiates, atLongwood Cricket club, Brookline. June 1—Cornell, at Ithaoo,N, Y. Juno 8—Amherst, at... ...rnament of the N. E. I. L.T, A. will be held on the courts of tha Longwood Cricket club, Boston, on the three days beginning next Monday. Each college... ... E. I. L. T. A. were played last Tues- day on th« courts of the Long- wood Cricket club, Boston, rain having prevented the play-off of the matches sch...

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...it the small payments that Lacey gave her for ‘her job’. Lacey enrolled in English Lit at the university. She took bridge lessons, and went once a wee... ...he took bridge lessons, and went once a week to the local duplicate bridge club. She joined a Tai Chi class. At Tai Chi, she met a woman who showed he... ... her how to meditate. Her success on the job, at school, and at the bridge club, gradually instilled self- esteem in Lacey’s psyche and allowed her to... ...ere.” “This sucks. I thought maybe when I got to high school I’d be on his teams and in his class and stuff … that maybe I’d see him more. I hate him,... ...aturday, she came home from work and surveyed the house. With Roger’s golf clubs, bowling shoes, skis, curling equipment, snowmobile, skates and campi... ...shore sip- ping wine and chatting with other boaters as the sun went down. Crickets and toads were the loudest things they heard during the nights. Th... ...n surveyed them slowly from 250 SUSAN BRACKEN head to toe. “Can you speak English?” Lacey asked. “No, no puedo,” he said, staring at her. So Lacey he... ...id the older of the two. He leaned closer to Lacey and in heavily accented English repeated, “Lady, you are breaking the law .” Lacey felt like she wo...

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...nce. The Universal symbols of Birth and Infinity are semantically correct in English, and in Mathematics, and in Gender. When you use logic organi... ...s. What is the most highly balanced dynamic in sports? Two equal, opposing teams with an object in-between, which they vie for. What is the dyna... ...e, starving predators who could not be warned off by a few harmless sticks or clubs or spears… Fire saved them from extinction… but it also changed ... ...gration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English is matched with a tectonic plate arriving in the exact same hi... ...ved in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely not a coincidence… ... ...ines how sensitized human awareness can be. You cannot hear birds singing or crickets chirping while driving a car. You do not have to be aware of ... ...he idea of someone being better at using a certain tool, or a certain kind of club; is publicly seen to be so stupid, that this idiotic civilized co... ...onds around you? What is it but a way to focus, and obsess on a way of using clubs as killing implements? Is there anything even remotely athletic... ...dern ball sports like volleyball, tennis, ping-pong, baseball, hockey, soccer, cricket, etc, are intrinsically anti- social for a basic reason: they a...

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... Title: THE SOUL BEARER Author: JONATHAN CROSS Language: English Subject: Fiction, Literature Publisher: World Public Librar... ... dirt path. The night sky was brilliant with stars. He could hear the sounds of crickets and feel the soft dampness in the air. Richard came to a r... ...ns in the suburbs of the Beltway. These were people who were part of a special club, with special privileges: the insiders whose mon­ ey and prestig... ...kipped through pages of Fortune Magazine, the Wall Street Journal and a Sierra Club newsletter before Margaret Aimes ushered him into the inner off... ...n agreed only if the Patron, who spoke five languages fluently, would teach him English, which Aaron knew he would need when he got to America, the ... ...he New World. After three years, Aaron learned the mining business, as well as English, and decided it was time to go to America. Gold had be­ come ... ...sell bomb-grade plutonium to Nations who want to become members of the 'Nuclear Club'. We know that China has sold nuclear technology to Iran; and R... ...from his house. The warm Atlanta night carried a soft breeze, and the sounds of crickets started to sprout. Bailey was pleased with himself, he had... ... designated areas in Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. Once there, it would take the teams less than an hour to secure the plutonium and load it. A piece...

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...hey miss, and one of these bolts comes crashing down on some poor tree or cricket umpire. Lightning, the Hoomans call it. It was on one such night w... ... the denim jacket. The man turned to face them and Theo saw that he wasn’t English, though he had no trace of an accent. His nose was slightly hooked... ...sked, rather impressed. ‘Do you speak French?’ ‘I don’t know that I speak English,’ Bozo replied thoughtfully. ‘I speak Bloon – it just comes out th... ...ds to help and the children behind Theo pushed him on to the bus. ‘Quick! English boy – to the back!’ they hissed, suppressing their giggles. Theo w... ...d, and the clown gave in without a f ght. The driver wanted to talk about cricket and Buntee obliged him. If only to make the time pass. To give in ... ...d to lift his spirits with movies and new toys, encouraged him to use the cricket bat in the garden, and even hinted at a new computer when he start... ...ffers from various social and business organisations – notably the Tigers Club – and are able to offer a reward of £100,000 to anyone who can bring ... ...did you join the force, off cer? Was it the power of carrying a gun and a club? The money? The prestige?’ The hobo’s voice was shaky but fearless. I... ...c that is Manhattan. The cop watched him depart uneasily. He looked at the club in his hand and wondered why he had reacted like that. The bum had pu...

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...Table of Contents: I: Into the Primitive, 1 -- II: The Law of Club and Fang, 9 -- III: The Dominant Primordial Beast, 16 -- IV: Who Has Won to Mastership, 26 -- V: The Toil of Trace and Trail, 33 -- VI: For the Love of a Man, 44 -- VII: The Sounding of the Call, 54...

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...itive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II: The Law of Club and Fang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 III: The ... ...the Raisin Growers’ Association, and the boys were busy organizing an athletic club, on the memorable night of Manuel’s treach ery. No one saw him an... ... savagely against the bars. The man smiled grimly, and brought a hatchet and a club. “You ain’t going to take him out now?” the driver asked. “Sure,” ... ...is time came, in the end, in the form of a little weazened man who spat broken English and many strange and uncouth exclamations which Buck could not ... ...of watching Spitz receive the worst whipping as yet administered to any of the teams. “One devil, dat Spitz,” remarked Perrault. “Some dam day heem ke... ... that dogs should work. All day they swung up and down the main street in long teams, and in the night their jingling bells still went by. They hauled... ... breed took charge of him and his mates, and in company with a dozen other dog teams he started back over the weary trail to Dawson. It was no light r... ...ting out in young buds. Shrubs and vines were putting on fresh garbs of green. Crickets sang in the nights, and in the days all manner of creeping, cr...

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...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. Cove... ...able little man with a per- petual grievance and an endless flow of broken English. 5 Frank Norris “Hello, Bismarck,” said Presley, as Hooven brought... ...erature, shocked her beyond words. His indifference to “style,” to elegant English, was a positive affront. His savage abuse and open ridicule of the ... ...f ploughs had halted upon the instant, and the drivers, unharnessing their teams, had taken them back to the division barns—leav- 99 Frank Norris ing... ...hod, and he had thus been delayed quite five minutes. Nearly all the other teams were harnessed, the drivers on their seats, waiting for the foreman’s... ...d by the park entrance, leaning an el- bow on the fence post, twirling his club. But in the centre of the best business block of the street was a thre... ...one that you don’t do yourself, unless you stand over these loafers with a club. I’m sick of the whole business—and I’ve lost my hat; wish to God I’d ... ...f Bonneville— Annixter having managed to offend the leader of the “Dirigo” Club orchestra, at the very last moment, to such a point that he had refuse... ...the pallid surface of the venerable facade. Not the faintest chirring of a cricket broke the silence. The bees were asleep. In the grasses, in the tre...

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...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. Cove... ...ure of his ac- quaintance. Very much, indeed. And these young gentle- men? English they are. Don’t attempt to deny it. They came up with you, too? Ext... ...is holiday estate had left him. He was a Colleger of the College, speaking English once more. “T urkey, it was immense!” said Stalky, generously. “I d... ...uld be accounted for at any moment. But he had heard McT urk openly deride cricket—even house-matches; Beetle’s views on the honor of the house he kne... ... tell all the other brutes in the Coll. They’d never understand. They play cricket, and say: ‘Yes sir,’ and ‘O, sir,’ and ‘No, sir.’” “Never mind that... ...it was a blazing July afternoon, and as they ought to have been at a house cricket-match, they began to renew their acquaintance, intimate and un- hol... ...ot is quite hard enough even when I back him. Besides, the men at the golf-club heard them sing- ing ‘Aaron and Moses.’ I shall have complaints about ... ...high when a brig went ashore on Braunton Sands; above the roof of the Golf-club, and in Keyte’s win- dow, where a certain kind of striped sweetmeat bo... ...ges near the sea went out; the brilliantly illuminated windows of the Golf-club disappeared, and were followed by the frontages of the two hotels. Sca...

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...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. Cove... ...han if they had been born to cluster round the blazing hearth like so many crickets. Out upon the angry wind! how from sighing, it began to bluster ro... ...ll, the world goes on. As Hamlet says, Hercules may lay about him with his club in every possible direction, but he can’t prevent the cats from making... ...uch circumstances. But, Lord, there’s no dullness at the Dragon! Skittles, cricket, quoits, 68 Martin Chuzzlewit nine-pins, comic songs, choruses, co... ...the degen- eracy of the times; which that particular member of each little club who kept the keys of the nearest church, professionally, always at- tr... ...m; 234 Martin Chuzzlewit and his spirits rose proportionately. There were English people, Irish people, Welsh people, and Scotch people there; all wi... ...ver (under any circumstances worth men- tioning) be breathed by slaves. An English gentleman who was strongly suspected of having run away from a bank... ...he human race into court cards and plain cards, of every denomination—into clubs, diamonds, spades—anything but heart!’ ‘Ah!’ cried the whole family. ... ...to last. Business! Look at the green led- gers with red backs, like strong cricket-balls beaten flat; the court- guides directories, day-books, almana...

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...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. Cove... ...ant of a better term, might be called the quality of the Russian soul. The English reader familiar with the works of Dostoieffsky, Turgenev, and Tolst... ...y Gogolian, peculiarly Russian, and distinct from its author’s Spanish and English masters. Still more profound are the contradictions to be seen in t... ...ce a spectacle of that kind is to the Russian muzhik what a newspaper or a club-meeting is to the German, the ve- hicles soon became the centre of a c... ...aps on the nose forced the skewbald to draw back a little; after which the teams were straightened out and separated. Nevertheless, either sheer obsti... ...even upon a make-shift affair consisting of an ace of diamonds or a two of clubs—as a sacred thing; so sacred that on one occasion two closely related... ...erings as have for their object dining and festivity—to wit, gatherings at clubs or in German-run restaurants. However, on the present occasion, the m... ...eed grain by byres, and drying of seed, and a dividing of the workers into teams. For everything needs to be examined beforehand, and calculations mus... ...s “Pray do not tease him any more”) and the cheerful candle-light, and the cricket chirp- ing in a corner, and the glass door, and the spring night wh...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ... it a foreign grace and interest; but the contours of the land were soft and English. It was not quite England, neither was it quite France; yet like ... ...a gentleman, certainly some- what dark, but of a pleasant warm hue, speaking English with a slight and rather odd foreign accent, every inch a man of ... ...sed by there in old days, at the foot’s pace of oxen, painfully urging their teams, and with no landmark but that unattainable evening 22 Across the ... ...ETICALLY, THE HOUSE was open to all corners; practi- cally, it was a kind of club. The guests protected themselves, and, in so doing, they protected S... ... and are really picturesque effects. In a pleasant book about a school-class club, Colonel Fergusson has recently told a little anecdote. A “Philosoph... ...our particular brand of luminary. We wore them buck- led to the waist upon a cricket belt, and over them, such was the rigour of the game, a buttoned ...

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...ching this prolonged defile of millionaires. So great was the concourse of teams, that two blocks 8 The Pit distant from the theatre they were oblige... ...bs, an ap- parently inextricable confusion prevailed; policemen with drawn clubs laboured and objurgated: anxious, pre- occupied young men, their oper... ...ot a man from Cincinnati in tow, and they are going to dine at the Calumet Club.” It ended by the two sisters and Mrs. Wessels getting into Mrs. Cress... ... become the wealthy men they were at the moment. They belonged to the same club, lunched together every day at Kinsley’s, and took each other driving ... ...d here and there the intermittent clicking of a key began, like a diligent cricket busking himself in ad- vance of its mates. From the corridors on th... ...d it was during this lull in the morning’s business that the idiocy of the English ultimatum to the Porte melted away. As inexplicably and as suddenly... ...ons of the vertebrae of his neck. He explained the cause of his delay. His English was without accent, but at times suddenly entangled itself in curio... ...you about this morning—five million bushels of it, and I found out from my English agent that I could slam it right into a couple of fellows over ther...

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...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. Cove... ...think of him quite alone in the world. I see he limps.” “ Y es, he’s got a club-foot. It was such a grief to his mother. ” Then Emma came back. They c... ...“Run and give her a kiss.” Philip started to run, awkwardly , trailing his club- foot, and then stopped. Mrs. Carey was a little, shrivelled woman of ... ...aves, who kept house for him, gave up her sec- retaryship of the Maternity Club, which provided the pregnant poor with flannel, baby linen, coals, and... ... their doings during the holidays, where they had been, and what wonderful cricket they had played. A few new boys appeared, and with these presently ... ...answered them all quite willingly. One boy asked him whether he could play cricket. “No,” answered Philip. “I’ve got a club-foot.” The boy looked down... ...offee in the restaurant at Boulogne un- less the waiter had known a little English. Geog- raphy was taught chiefly by making boys draw maps, and this ... ...o or three holidays in France; and he expected to get the Dean’s Prize for English essay; Philip got a good deal of satisfaction in watching his disma... ...He called the waiter and turned to Philip. “Just out from England? See any cricket?” Philip was a little confused at the unexpected question. “Cronsha...

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...r, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literatu... ...nd I, in my turn, intend to feed my reader, with one or two little lunches from the same larder. I shall not mar Garnharn’s translation by meddling wi... ...all not mar Garnharn’s translation by meddling with its English; for the most tooth- 5 A Tramp Abroad some thing about it is its quaint fashion of bu... ...reign lands were very numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The Anglo-Am... ...ached down and got my walking-shoes, then sat up in bed and listened, in order to exactly locate the noise. But I couldn’t do it; it was as unlocatabl... ...ngers, with happy eye, and flying hair, and jolly red face, and offering his card to the old German gentleman while he praised his hack and horses, an... ...considerably; at the same instant I cast my eyes down the side on which I had slipped, and contrived to plant my right foot on a piece of rock as larg... ...e in a cold cup, partake with modera- tion, and keep a wet rag around your head to guard against over-excitement. To Carve Fowls in the German Fashion... ...ong the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it. A FOURTH OF JULY ORATION IN THE GERMAN TONGUE, DELIVERED AT A BANQUET OF THE ANGLO-AM...

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...ut, think of us! He sat down to write them a challenge. He is not the only Englishman who has been impelled by a youthful chivalry to do that. He is p... ...supposing he addressed a body of midshipmen just a little loftily. But the English, when translated, was bald and blunt to the verge of offensiveness.... ...emen of the French Guard, ‘I take up the glove you have tossed us. I am an English- man. That will do for a reason.’ This might possibly pass with th... ...rds us, I would venture to say, the advantages without the seductions of a Club. I rank it next— at a far remove, but next-the church.’ Lord Palmet br... ...r giving the people recreation on a Sunday, my lord?’ ‘T rap-bat and ball, cricket, dancing, military bands, pup- pet-shows, theatres, merry-go-rounds... ...bacco. ‘Old Bask’s the captain of us? Very well, but where do we drive the teams? How many are we? What’s in hand?’ Cecilia threw a hurried glance at ... ...ions of the letter of Commander Beauchamp’s correspondent were read at the Club, under the verandah, and the question put, whether a man who held thos... ...eflected. ‘ And now,’ said he to Palmet, ‘we might be crossing over to the Club if I hadn’t to go about that stupid business to Holdesbury to-morrow m... ...wer. Mr. Romfrey was of those who said to his countrymen, ‘Go yachting; go cricketing; go boat-racing; go shooting; go horseracing, nine months of the...

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...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. Cove... ...” turned the pack up: the six of diamonds was the bottom card. “The ace of clubs!” he said and cut again: the bottom card turned out to be the ace of ... ...ed 34 Knock, Knock, Knock and other stories in the end to travel with two teams, each of three stout, sturdy stallions, harnessed to two huge carts. ... ...one had passed by the window ... he listened ... there was nothing. Only a cricket from time to time gave a cautious churr, and a mouse was scratching... ...s a connoisseur of all sorts of instruments, seized upon it at once. “It’s English,” he pronounced, putting it first to one eye and then to the other.... ...you see I have a pledge here, a very fine thing.... First-rate people, the English.” “They say we are going to war with them.” “No,” answered David, “...

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...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. Cove... ......................................................... 194 Chapter 2.1.V . Clubbism. .................................................................... ...ply as thou didst, from the Mill of St. Cast, on Quiberon and the invading English; thou, ‘covered if not with glory yet with meal!’ Fortune was ever ... ...ith and against Feudalism (but not against Nature and her bounty), gave us English a Shakspeare and Era of Shakspeare, and so produced a blossom of Ca... ...ceable signing with ink; but browbeating, bloodshedding, appeal to primary club-law! Against these Bailliages, against this Plenary Court, exasperated... ...ll Patriot Bretons in Paris to assist; agitates itself; becomes the Breton Club, first germ of—the Jacobins’ Society. (A. F. de Bertrand- 73 Thomas C... ... not here, in the Cimmerian World-wreckage, with- out a sign, as the house-cricket might still chirp in the pealing of a Trump of Doom. “Monsieur,” sa... ...; carriages, single, double, and multiplex; such hundredfold miscellany of teams, requisitioned or lawfully owned, making way, hitting together, hinde...

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...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. Cove... ... been the slightest sign of Frederick?” “Now, do call him Rickie, and talk English. I found him here. He had forgotten about us, and was very sorry. N... ...stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one. He was fair and cleanshaven, and his colourless hair was cut r... ...ully and his victim never quite forget their first relations. They meet in clubs and country houses, and clap one an- other on the back; but in both t... ...- over, the Union seemed less intimate. It had a faint flavour of a London club; it marked the undergraduate’s nearest approach to the great world. Am... ... would not start for several hours, but the passengers always used it as a club, and sat in it every now and then during the day. No less than three l... ... Of course it wasn’t comic at all. But down in the village there were both cricket teams, already a little tight, and the mad plumber shouting ‘Rights... ...say you are penniless: I heard from her just before you returned from your cricket. She al- lows you two hundred a-year, I think. But this addi- tiona... ...he reading-room, you could put a plate under the Thompsons’ door, no level cricket-pitch, no allot- ments and no time to work in them, Mrs. Wilbraham’...

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...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. Cove... ... of the upper circles there was an over-fondness for Ger- man, French, and English words. Between them the two friends, by force of their great genius... ...han any mere scholar could be. That letter, unfor- tunately unknown to the English reader, would make ev- ery lover of the classics in this day of the... ...to the whole Cossack community. He was bound to the pillar of shame, and a club was laid beside him, with which each passer-by was bound to deal him a... ...to yourselves; examine all your equipments thoroughly,” he said; “put your teams and your tar-boxes* in order; test your weapons. Take not many clothe... ... this dishonourable act they bound him to a post in the bazaar, and laid a club beside him, in order that every one who passed should, according to th... ...re was not one Zaporozhetz out of them all to be found who would raise the club against him, remembering his former ser- 100 Gogol vices. Such was th... ...ilent grass be- 193 Taras Bulba & Other Tales come more fragrant, and the crickets, unharmonious cava- liers of the night, strike up their rattling s...

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...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. Cove... ... forest. Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of... ...cisely as they meet mine. Then the vaunted dis- tinction between Greek and English, between Classic and Romantic schools, seems superficial and pedant... ... from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, g... ...f exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under! B... ...e Abolition-convention, or the Tem- perance-meeting, or the Transcendental club into the fields and woods, she says to us, ‘So hot? my little Sir.’ We... ...ence between persons is not in wisdom but in art. I knew, in an academical club, a person who always deferred to me; who, seeing my whim for writing, ... ... that we should be her fools and playmates. We may have the sphere for our cricket-ball, but not a berry for our philosophy. Direct strokes she never ... ...will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring. But so will Jock the teamster pass, in some crisis that brings him thither, and find favor, as l...