... Aesop’s Fables translated by George Fyler Townsend is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...rsity. 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... ...harge 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... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Aesop’s Fables translated by George Fyler Townsend , the Penn... ...narration of some of his wise fables, to reconcile the inhabitants of those cities to the administration of their respective rulers Periander and Pis... ...Italian learning, not only translated into Latin the Iliad of Homer and the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, but also the Fables of Aesop. Thes... ...tedly selected. The knowledge of these fables rapidly spread from Italy into Germany, and their popularity was increased by the favor and sanction giv...

...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.?...

..................8 THE BOY HUNTING LOCUSTS ..................................8 THE COCK AND THE JEWEL ....................................8 THE KINGDOM OF THE LION ...................................9 THE WOLF AND THE CRANE ...................................9 THE FISHERMAN PIPING .......................................10 HERCULES AND THE WAGONER ...............................

...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...ig Brerything up to d«te Sfiring Street, WlllUmatown CONSTITUTIONS SIMILAR Germany and the United States Compared by Dr. Hoetzsch IVofesHur Oltci Iloi... ...re are siniilaritips and dis- similarities between the constitu- tioiis of Germany and of the L'liited States. It must be re raeinl)i!red, however, th... ...hat a policy of municipal ownership of street railways is best in American cities." The camiidates are to speak in tlie following order; .VIIirinative... ...at a policy of ninnicipal ownership of street railways is best in American cities,'' which was evi- dently not thoroughly understood by some of the sp... ...s of college activity are re- viewed by themen most prominent in each. The histories of each col- lege year are written respectively by Clarey, Wither...

...ongest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the...

... Ten Years Later– Volume One (The Thr... ... Ten Years Later– Volume One (The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Duma [Pere] is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...uma [Pere] is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. A... ...m Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the... ..., the most devoted of my servants, because he was not a Covenanter; and as the poor martyr, to whom they had offered a favor when dying, had asked tha... ...s XIV. “I never heard anything of all that; I was only told of your embarkation at Brighthelmstone and your landing in Normandy.” “Oh!” exclaimed Char... ... an hotelier of that city. From that moment the musketeer travelled on post-horses. Thanks to this mode of locomotion, he traversed the space separati... ...disdainfully, “a million! What will your majesty do with a million?” “It appears to me, nevertheless —— “ said Louis XIV . “That is not more than is s...

...Excerpt: Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men a...

...ries Publication The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith 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... ...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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State... ...gures shifting up and down the promenade, known and unknown faces, and the histories half known, half woven, weaving fast, which flew their, threads t... ...m exile that very day, thanks to the praiseworthy early hours of brave old Germany. He had swallowed a cup of coffee with a roll of stale bread, in th... ...opped into va- grancy, owing to indiscretions. Lord Fleetwood ran about in Germany repeating his remarks. But the man is really an accomplished violin... ...h He judged of the well-favoured girl that she could steer her way through cities: mouth and brows were a warning to challenger pirate craft of a vess...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Enter Dame Gossip As Chorus. Everybody has heard of the beautiful Countess of Cressett, who was one of the lights of this country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity?s sake to be amused after their tiresome work of slaughter: and ...

...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvan... ... end of the overture; the curtain rises. This is a new beginning-place for histories. To us, the great mass of common Englishmen, who have no place in... ... lassitude and 23 H. G . Wells a contented acquiescence in the rivalry of Germany and the United States for the moral, intellectual and material lead... .... I would as soon put to sea in St. Paul’s Ca- thedral. If I were fighting Germany, I would stow half of them away in the Clyde and half in the Bristo... ...igorous development of the attempts that are already being made, in garden cities, garden suburbs, and the like, to re-house the mass of our populatio... ...us at last even the possibility of planning the extension of our towns and cities. It is only another step upward in scale to plan out new, more toler...

...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and t...

...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................

... William Butler Yeats 1889 1939 Contents LYRICAL 3 CROSSWAYS 5 THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 THE SAD SHEPHERD . . ... ...IAN TO HIS LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 THE FALLING OF THE LEA VES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 EPHEMERA . . . . ... ...EN CHILD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 DOWN BY THE SAL... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN IN PARADISE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 WHO GOES WITH FERGUS? . . . . . . ... ...han changing of night and day, That murmuring and longing came From marble cities loud with tabors of old In dove grey faery lands; From battle banner... ... there To stir the boiling pot? You say that we should still the land Till Germany’s overcome; But who is there to argue that Now Pearse is deaf and d... ...lies; The children learn to cipher and to sing, To study reading books and histories, To cut and sew, be neat in everything In the best modern way — t... ...ng on the door. John Bull has gone to India And all must pay him heed, For histories are there to prove That none of another breed Has had a like inhe...

...Excerpt: THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD; THE woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Grey Truth is now her painted toy; Yet still she turns her restless head: But O, sick children of the world...

...Table of Contents: LYRICAL 3 -- CROSSWAYS 5 -- THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, 5 -- THE SAD SHEPHERD, 6 -- THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, 7 -- ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, 8 -- THE INDIAN UPON GOD, 11 -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- ...

...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... ...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...arch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiment... ...entleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the cou... ... been brought up in English and Swiss Puritanism, fed on meagre Protestant histories and on art chiefly of the hand screen sort; a girl whose ardent na... ...istened with the delight of tenderness and understanding to all the little histories which made up her experience, and would have given her the same s... ...opened the Continent to travellers. Indeed I think it is one among several cities to which an extreme hyperbole has been applied— ‘See Rome and die:’ ... ...ell as pleasantly in Rome—had thought his intention was to remain in South Germany—but begged him to come and dine to morrow, when he could converse m... ... work is all their prize— Without them how could laws, or arts, Or towered cities rise? I n watching effects, if only of an electric battery, it is of...

...Excerpt: Prelude; Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walkin...

...Table of Contents: Book I ?Miss Brooke, 1 -- Prelude, 1 -- Chapter I., 3 -- Chapter II., 10 -- Chapter III., 16 -- Chapter IV., 25 -- Chapter V., 31 -- Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- ...

... Classics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot 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 document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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. Middlemarch by George Eliot, the Pennsylvania State University,... ... been brought up in English and Swiss Puritanism, fed on meagre Protestant histories and on art chiefly of the hand- screen sort; a girl whose ardent ... ...istened with the delight of tenderness and understanding to all the little histories which made up her experience, and would have given her the same s... ...opened the Continent to travellers. Indeed I think it is one among several cities to which an extreme hyperbole has been applied—`See Rome and die:’ b... ...l as pleasantly in Rome—had thought his in- tention was to remain in South Germany—but begged him to come and dine to-morrow, when he could converse m... ...all their prize— Without them how could laws, or arts, Or towered cities rise? IN WATCHING EFFECTS, if only of an electric battery, it is oft...

...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walkin...