...SSICS SERIES PUBLICATION THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...h embraced the whole oichomeni;—the total habitable world as then known to geography , or recognised by the muse of History—than at this day the Briti... ...fore the Roman strength was measured against it. In Macedon, in Achaia, in Syria, in Asia Minor, in Egypt,— every where the members of this empire had... ...rs, operative even where it is not perceived, but like the distinctions of geography—existing to-day, forgotten to-morrow—and abolished by a stroke of... ...fore his time the Orontes (that river which washed the infamous capital of Syria) had mingled its impure waters with those of the Tiber. And a little ... ...tice the rise of one great rebel, the sole civil disturber of his time, in Syria. This was Avidius Cassius, whose descent from Cassius (the noted cons...

...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many...

...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V... ... Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...arble, obtained in the quarries of Upper Egypt, or those of the Libanus in Syria. Indeed, long before the birth of Christ, alabaster was in such gener... ...That the Hebrew style of the coif- fure may probably be collected from the Syrian coins; and, 2. That black hair being admired in Palestine, and the J... ...t Jaffa, perpetrated by Napoleon in coun- cil. 13 In the Saxon, as in the Syrian massacre, the numbers were between four and five thousand; not that ... ... of his own country; where all men had gone astray, he went astray. And in geography, as regarded the Italian movements of Hannibal, he erred with his...

...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...................

...QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...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... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...and the 4th, one; so that, in all, this active navigator, who has enriched geography, I hope, with something of a higher qual- ity than your old muffs... ...onosyllable, is here made a dissyllable. But Thebez, the dissyllable, is a Syrian city. It is true that Causabon deduces from a Syriac word meaning a ... ...dred-gated of Upper Egypt, Thebes the seven-gated of Greece, and Thebes of Syria, had all one origin as regards the name. But this matters not; it is ...

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...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE.....................

...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...nected with his office. He no more undertook to teach morals than to teach geography or cookery. He taught noth- ing. What he undertook was, simply to... ...ng to heaven, as a penitential litany, that same petition which Naaman the Syrian offered to the prophet Elijah as a reason for a personal dispensatio... ...legion of oracles that he should die at Ecbatana. Suffering, therefore, in Syria from a scratch inflicted upon his thigh by his own sabre, whilst angr... ...cy about Ecbatana, when suddenly a horrid discovery was made—that the very Syrian village at his own head-quarters was known by the pompous name of Ec...

...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought ...

... I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................................

...ssics Series Publication Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...throwing upon it the husks of the flowers. ‘Cybele—curse her! The accursed Syria Dea! Does one be- grudge it her? What else is there—?’ Ursula wanted ... ...sked: ‘But do you think he will die?’ It was put almost like a question in geography or science, insistent, as if she would force an admission from th...

... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...e document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ... –Whitman 27 I will acknowledge contemporary lands, I will trail the whole geography of the globe and salute courteously every city large and small,... ...lian boat sculler the musical recitative of old poems, I hear the locusts in Syria as they strike the grain and grass with the showers of their terrib... ...asks! You Jew journeying in your old age through every risk to stand once on Syrian ground! You other Jews waiting in all lands for your Messiah! You ... ...s, the gliding present, all of these and more are in the pageant procession. Geography, the world, is in it, The Great Sea, the brood of islands, Poly... ..., its idioms and men? Have you learn’d the physiology, phrenology, politics, geography, pride, freedom, friendship of the land? its substratums and ob...

...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ion) it was held by those best ac- quainted with the difficult and obscure geography of these pathless steppes—that the loss of this one narrow strait... ...l; that it is spo- ken of prophetically as such; and that historically the Syrian ass is made known to us as having been used in the prosperous ages o... ...- cians Obeah men, throughout Guinea, Negroland, &c.; whilst the Hebrew or Syriac word for the rites of necromancy, was Ob or Obh, at least when ventr... ...Miscellaneous Papers it suggests to a very common error. In some period of Syrian warfare, a large military detach- ment was entering at some point of... ...g, upon any question of philosophy or of science, espe- cially of physical geography,* chemistry, or natural history. He talked satisfactorily, in his... ...rest- lessness with which from morning to night he pursued these *Physical Geography, in opposition to Political. 377 Thomas de Quincey labors of Sis...

........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...

...AGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...hardly be neglected by any one, although merely considering the physi- cal geography of the country. Having crossed the 86 The V oyage of the Beagle ... ...every one. They live *See Humboldt, Fragments Asiatiques, p. 386: Barton’s Geography of Plants: and Malte Brun. In the latter work it is said that the... ...t, herds of fifty or a hundred wer common; and, as I have *The desserts of Syria are characterized, according to Volney (tom. i. p. 351), by woody bus... ...ain Fitz Roy dur- ing the last voyage, is a most remarkable feature in the geography of this, or indeed of any other coun- try: it may be compared to ...

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...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...Where?” interrupted Applebaum, laughing. “Tilletsville; don’t you know any geography?” “Go ahead, tell us about Tilletsville,” said Andrews sooth- ing... ...ssos “I’ll pull through all right, Henny. I’ll probably come to see you in Syria, disguised as an Arab sheik.” Andrews laughed excitedly. “If I though...

...pe A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. 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... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...-path to the left as soon as he had got beyond the houses. Not knowing the geography of the place he did not understand that by taking that path he wa... ...ey homewards. He—the dean—had been delayed in his Eastern travels. Neither Syria or Constantinople had got themselves done as quickly as he had expect...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. How did he get it? ?I can never bring myself to believe it, John,? said Mary Walker the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on behalf of...