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...ORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the ... ...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...................................................... 170 Chapter 1.7.X. The Grand Entries. ............................................................... ................................................... 475 BOOK 3.V . TERROR THE ORDER OF THE DA Y ............................................................ ...t utter Darkness swallow it! The soft young heart adopts orphans, portions meritorious maids, delights to succour the poor,—such poor as come pictures... ...l be, the parent of misery. This land calls itself most Christian, and has crosses and cathedrals; but its High-priest is some Roche- Aymon, some Neck... ...agorean Greek in Wapping, and the city of Glasgow? (Founders of the French Republic (London, 1798), para Valadi.) De Morande from his Courrier de l’Eu... ...unds;’ tough, minatory, standing at bay, as forlorn hope, on the skirts of Poland; intriguing, battling in cabinet and field; roaming far out, obscure...

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.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

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...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...UBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ........................................................................ 114 POLAND REVISITED—1915 ........................................................ ...on which has more to do with life than with letters. Its appeal is made to orderly minds. This, to be frank about it, is a process of tidying up, whic... ...m. His determinism, barren of praise, blame and con- solation, has all the merit of his conscientious art. The worth of every conviction consists prec... ...s to the future as a good prince should be in his public ac- tion. It is a Republican dignity. And M. Anatole France, with his sceptical insight into ... ...raughtsman and a skilful dramatist, each in his art, to a vision of tragic grandeur. And this opening chapter without a name— consisting of two and a ... ...trability to whatever is true in Western thought. Western thought, when it crosses her fron- tier, falls under the spell of her autocracy and be- come...

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...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the ...

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...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...rench invade Lorraine. — Frankfort taken. — Capitulation of Mentz. — Tilly ordered by Maximilian to protect Bavaria. — Gustavus Adolphus passes the Le... ...n destroyed. An interest more intense and more immediate than national ag- grandizement or patriotism, and entirely inde- pendent of private utility, ... ...s of the Loire and the Seine, the succession of the French crown. The Dane crosses the Eider, and the Swede the Baltic, to break the chains which are ... ...he Letter of Majesty erected the Protestant part of Bohemia into a kind of republic. The Estates had learned to feel the power which they gained by pe... ...tle of a chimera, which men have so liberally bestowed upon it; but did it merit that appellation in the second? It had never entered into the head of... ...bsence of the king, had availed himself of Sigismund’s long resi- dence in Poland, and the just displeasure of the states, to ingratiate himself with ...

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...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...xpression on his flat face. He spoke in that re- fined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the gentle, patronizing i... ..., sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disap- point the expectations of those who knew her. The sub- ... ...ched love and forgiveness of injuries— and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another. Adieu, dear and kind friend; may our... ...e, well educated, and good- natured, and the next he’s a wild beast.... In Poland, if 66 War & Peace you please, he nearly killed a Jew.” “Oh, well, ... ... that enabled us to escape him. Buxhowden pursues us—we scuttle. He hardly crosses the river to our side before we recross to the other. At last our e... ...verity to his wife was wrong and that *The Illuminati sought to substitute republican for mo- narchical institutions. 246 War & Peace he was neglecti...

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...S BULBA.............................................................. 13 ST. JOHN?S EVE ......................................................... 130 THE CLOAK ................................................................ 146 HOW THE TWO IVANS QUARRELLED .................. 176 THE MYSTERIOUS PORTRAIT ................................ 223 THE CALASH .........................

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...Contents CHAPTER I OF THE INCONSTANCY OF OUR ACTIONS ...................................................... 5 CHAPTER II OF DRUNKENNESS .............................................................................................. 14 CHAPTER II...

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...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Second T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited... ...Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Second T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1... ...OOD END .................................... 206 CHAPTER XXIV OF THE ROMAN GRANDEUR ..................................................................... ...tely lost, he seeks again. He fluctuates, and is inconsistent in the whole order of life.”—Horace, Ep., i. I, 98.] Our ordinary practice is to follow ... ...o kill himself but the sole compassion of the miserable state of the Roman Republic. Nothing can be added to the beauty of the death of the wife of Fu... ...s of conscience. It seemed to the poor man as if through his visor and the crosses upon his cassock, one would have penetrated into his bosom and read... ... military disci- pline, that he was wonderfully liberal of gifts to men of merit, but that as to the true recompenses of honour he was as sparing; yet... ...hat trade, till he died. George Sechel, chief commander of the peasants of Poland, who committed so many mischiefs under the title of the Crusade, bei...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glori...

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...TH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................................

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T r... ... the death of his father, he went to Scotland to set his family affairs in order, and to redeem his house in Cromarty. But, in spite of another sojour... ...e continuation by Motteux, who was also the translator of Don Quixote, has merits of its own. It is precise, elegant, and very faithful. Urquhart’s, w... ... a marrowbone in his mouth,—the beast of all other, says Plato, lib. 2, de Republica, the most philosophical? If you have seen him, you might have rem... ...re fresh butter down in showers distill’ d: Wherewith when water’d was his grandam, Hey, Aloud he cried, Fish it, sir, I pray y’; Because his beard is... ... sandy sea and by the Sarmates, they have vanquished and overcome Prussia, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, W allachia, T ransylvania, Hungary, Bulgaria, T ... ...end by these large conquests? What shall be the end of so many labours and crosses? Thus it shall be, said Picrochole, that when we are returned we sh...