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...Table of Contents: ADVERTISEMENT, ii -- BOOK FIRST INTRODUCTION?CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIME 1 -- BOOK SECOND SCHOOL-TIME (continued), 19 -- BOOK THIRD RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE, 33 -- BOOK FOURTH SUMMER VACATION, 51 -- BOOK FIFTH BOOKS,...

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...Contents The Education of Otis Yeere ............................................................................................................ 4 At the Pit?s Mouth ....................................................................................

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...den Economy 1 Economy W HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a hous... ... a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the la... ...of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am... ...titled by the accident of birth to read the works of genius written in those languages; for these were not written in that Greek or Latin which they k... ...when the several nations of Europe had acquired distinct though rude written languages of their own, sufficient for the purposes of their rising litera... ... books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages, which are themselves but dialects and provincial, we are in da... ...er the shadow of his head at morning and evening, whether he was in Italy or France, and it was particularly conspicuous when the grass was moist with... ...s find some “Symmes’ Hole” by which to get at the inside at last. England and France, Spain and Portugal, Gold Coast and Slave Coast, all front on this...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of what I have to relate can be interesting to th...

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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of... ...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... ...s. Greek and Latin verses I did not write, nor learnt the prosody of those languages. My father, thinking this not worth the time it required, content... ...t to the value of this practice, in giving a thorough knowl edge of these languages, but because there really was not time for it. The verses I was r... ...ational reformers to entertain the ill judged proposal of discarding these languages altogether from general educa tion. If I had been by nature extr... ...er of the fortunate circumstances in my edu cation, a year’s residence in France, to Mr. Bentham’s brother, General Sir Samuel Bentham. I had seen Si... ...t. In 1820 they invited me for a six months’ visit to them in the South of France, which their kindness ultimately prolonged to nearly a twelvemonth. ... ... the foot of the singular mountain of St. Loup. During this resi dence in France I acquired a familiar knowledge of the French language, and acquaint...

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...Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...s and in some ancient, there is great diversity of populations, of varying languages, religions, moral codes, and traditions. From this stand- point, ... ..., nature study, drawing, singing, physics, chem- istry, modern and foreign languages, and so on? Let us recur to two of the points made earlier in our... ...and linguistic studies, which in turn tend to shrink to “the classics,” to languages no longer spoken. For modern languages may evidently be put to us... ...hemat- ics. (See ante, p. 61.) But some of his successors, espe- cially in France in the latter part of the eighteenth cen- tury, carried his doctrine... ...one another. (iii) While this rationalistic philosophy was develop- ing in France, English thought appealed to the intelli- gent self-interest of indi... ...teenth century from the isolated individualism into which it had fallen in France and England. It served also to make the organization of the state mo...

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...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...e it expression. The spirit of Villon is still living in the literature of France. Fat Peg is oddly of a piece with the work of Zola, the Goncourts, a... ...ma, is an affair of method. We have heard a story, indeed, of a painter in France who, 17 Familiar Studies of Men & Books when he wanted to paint a s... ...er if there are neither proof-sheets nor judicious friends in the whole of France, and affects us sometimes with a sickening uneasiness as to what may... ...se Elizabeth can “reply to eight ambassadors in one day in their different languages,” but because she represents for the moment the political fu- tur...