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...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other Ess... ...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other Essays ... ...IN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...s an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Ma... ...ity’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; Caricature of Mark T wain appearing in Life: 31 January 1907 Copyright © 1999 The Pennsy... ........ 195 What Is Man and Other Essays 4 WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) WHAT IS MAN? I a. a. a. a.... ... 195 What Is Man and Other Essays 4 WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) WHAT IS MAN? I a. a. a. a. a. M... ...e Empress of Austria at Geneva, Septem ber 10, 1898, occurred during Mark Twain’ s Austrian residence. The news came to him at Kaltenleutgeben, a sum... ...ting eight feet, eight and a half, often nine, sometimes even quarter less twain—as _I_ be lieved; but always “no bottom,” as he said. I got the bes...

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...This audiobook is a collection of Mark Twain's anti-imperialist writings (newspaper articles, interviews, speeches, letters, essays and pamphlets). (Summary by Vineshen Pillay)...

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...If you’ve ever studied German (and maybe even if you haven’t), you’re likely to find this short essay to be hilarious. Published as Appendix D from Twain’s 1880 book A Tramp Abroad , this comedic gem outlines the pitfalls one will encounter when trying to wrap one’s mind around the torturous German cases, adjective endings, noun genders, and verb placement. (Summary by K...

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...The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was also published as The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog. In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Ang...

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...A collection of Twain short stories including: The Loves Of Alonzo Fitz Clarence And Rosannah Ethelton On The Decay Of The Art Of Lying About Magnanimous-Incident Literature The Grateful Poodle The Benevolent Author The Grateful Husband Punc...

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...nic Classics Series Publication The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Penn sylvania Sta... ...tronic transmission, in any way. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) , the Pennsylvania State Uni versity, Jim ... ................................................ ........................ 188 Mark Twain iii A MONUMENT TO ADAM ........................................... ........................................... ........................ 188 Mark Twain iii A MONUMENT TO ADAM ................................................ ......................................... ............................... 240 Mark Twain iv 5 Mark Twain THE $30,000 BEQUEST and Other Stories by Mark T... .................................... ............................... 240 Mark Twain iv 5 Mark Twain THE $30,000 BEQUEST and Other Stories by Mark Twain ... ...e—a sort of vague and indefinite uncle or second or third cousin by the 7 Mark Twain name of Tilbury Foster, seventy and a bachelor, reputed well off... ...ort of vague and indefinite uncle or second or third cousin by the 7 Mark Twain name of Tilbury Foster, seventy and a bachelor, reputed well off and ... ...ll about it; the advertise ment is in the Cincinnati paper here.” 9 Mark Twain “Land, thirty thousand for ten—in a year! Let’s jam in the whole capi...

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...This was the last story published by Twain, a few months before he died. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven. It deals with the obsession of souls with the celebrities of heaven, like Adam and Moses, who acco...

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...Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte. De Conte is identified as Joan's page and secretary. For those who've always wanted to get behind the Joan...

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..., as well as to advance the technological and cultural status of the nation in which he finds himself. In the rather un-subtle sub-text of the story, Twain uses The Boss to express a surprisingly pragmatic and frequently contradictory philosophy. The Boss explores the relative merits of Democracy, and Monarchy, he expresses his views on the “Nature v. Nurture” debate, he f...

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...This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1875. Among other sketches, it contains The Jumping Frog in the original English, followed by a French translation (read here by Caroline Mittler) which Twain re-translated into English, showing ho...

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...Following the Equator (American English title) or More Tramps Abroad (English title) is a non-fiction travelogue published by American author Mark Twain in 1897. Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to a failed investment into a revolutionary typesetting machine. In an attempt to extricate himself from debt of $100,000 (equivalent of about $2 million in 2005)...

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...Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by Mark Twain and published in 1884. It is commonly regarded as one of the Great American Novels, and is one of the first major American novels written in the vernacular, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in t...

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...and 900 year history of English literature, up to the end of the 19th century. Although at times biased and sometimes misguided (as when he dismisses Mark Twain as a humorist noteworthy in his time but not for the ages), his research is sound and his criticism is interesting and quite often very balanced. In addition, the last chapter of each part is Hurst's synopsis of re...

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...rs reveal its faded and lumpy stuffing. The wooden armrests are dark and bear the scratchy marks of little hands. I contemplate these blemishes, se... ...ng his beloved canines, his birthday party, and how he wed his mistress the day before the twain committed suicide. How they were both consumed by ... ...se them. By now the hotel is virtually deserted of its guests and of their echoes. Time is marked by the cheerful banter of the staff, some heated ... ...roats. They gulped the fiery libations, chanting their invocations as they swallowed. With marked anticipation they assumed the better seats around ... ..., cornered appliance. The following morning, at six o'clock, the warden bawled our names, marking those present. Ensconced in dreary blazers, we f... ...hot from the cannon of abuse as unwise missiles do. Course set. Explosive clouds that mark your video destination. Experts interpret, pric...

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... to be exhibited on high days and holidays. It seems now like the boundary mark of the golden days of our boyhood, and unmitigated hopes for one an- o... ...e had filled whole drawing-books with wriggling twists of foliage in B B B marking pencil, and had just been promoted to water-colours; and she was be... ...e, and he had had only such practice as could be attained by shooting at a mark ever since he had been aware of his coming greatness. So he was desiro... ...ristol coach. It contained some pencils I had asked him to get, and a note marked PRIVATE. Here it is— ‘Dear Edward—I am summoned to town. Tooke has n... ...ntact, so to say, between his spirit and external truth, and he thought no mark of respect beyond her deserts. She was a heavy loss to him, for no one... ...uld have been written down, they would have been as unconventional as Mark Twain’s adventures. Rosella went through the whole tour, and left a leg beh...

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..., and now exists only in certain vestiges of antiquity, I beg of you, as a mark of my affection to you, to accept my library: a slender offering, but ... ...“Dear niece, since my earliest acquaintance with thee, I have observed the marks of, great natural goodness in thee; but the services which thou rende... ...o me to be appropriate, as well because it is the work of a gentle- man of mark,—[Meaning Xenophon.]—a man illustrious in war and peace, as because it... ...ng credited when I speak of him, even though I should keep much within the mark of my own actual knowledge. And for this time, Monsieur, I shall conte... ...nd them, say that these stanzas are not only worthy to be presented in the market-place, but, independently of that, as regards beauty and wealth of i... ...o the pub- lic ear.—”Persius, ii. 6.] [See: “Letters To the Earth” by Mark Twain in the story of Abner Schofield, Coal Dealer, Buffalo, N.Y.: for a di...

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...such affection feels For that old room that, when and how, ’Tis strange to mark, it slinks and steals 17 T o get there, and all day conceals. And onc... ...it might be, one Who was her last companion.” Meaning the fawn—the doe you mark - For my bay mare was then a foal, And time has passed since then:- bu... ...of twilight trees, As if the wind were dreaming on its wings? And have you marked their still degrees Of ebbing melody, like the strings Of a silver h... ...gs, And glistenings Of waters and of planets, wild and grand! And have you marked in that still time The chariots of those shining cars Brighten upon ... ...athy of woe. Well divined from day to day Is the swift speech between them twain; For when the bird is scared away, The captive bursts to song again. ... ...diest? Then with thee I die. —See’st thou the angels with their Crown? We twain have reached the sky. THE HEAD OF BRAN THE BLEST I When the Head of B... ...T emple of the T oes, Where twirled the passionate Wili, I saw full many a market rose, And sighed for my village lily. II With cynical Adrian then I ... ..., Not too much taxing mental sloth. 188 VII Cleft like the fated house in twain, One half is, Arm! and one, Retrench! Gambetta’s word on dull MacMaho... ... of children slain! He in one tongue, in another, Alien, I; one blood, yet twain. XII Old Aneurin! droop no longer. That squat ocean-scum, we own, Had...

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...All the monarchs of the Norman 5 Sir Walter Scott race had shown the most marked predilection for their Norman subjects; the laws of the chase, and m... ...t, that, although no great historical events, such as war or insurrection, mark the existence of the Anglo-Saxons as a separate people subsequent to t... ...some, though somewhat corpulent person. His countenance bore as little the marks of self-denial, as his habit indicated contempt of worldly splendour.... ...m mid-leg to ankle. Silk and embroi- dery distinguished their dresses, and marked the wealth and importance of their master; forming, at the same time... ...der limbs, small fet- locks, thin manes, and easy springy motion, formed a marked contrast with the large-jointed heavy horsastic vows. Yet so loose w... ...oe. THE BAREFOOTED FRIAR. 1. I’ll give thee, good fellow, a twelvemonth or twain, T o search Europe through, from Byzantium to Spain; But ne’er shall ... ...t part of thy speech, Dennet,” said the Minstrel, “has saved thee a rib or twain.” “T ush, man, I fear him not,” said Dennet; “I am somewhat old and s...

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... was sometimes compared to a spider, and sometimes to a windmill. The only mark of genius lay in his bright and piercing eye. He was sickly in constit... ... Dr Robert Norris on the Frenzy of J.D.” In this, however, he overshot the mark; and Addison signified to him that he was displeased with the spirit o... ...ing go; Launch not beyond your depth, but be discreet, 50 And mark that point where sense and dulness meet. Nature to all things fix’d th... ...sed; 150 Fate urged the shears, and cut the Sylph in twain, (But airy substance soon unites again) The meeting points the sacred... ... In some lone isle, or distant northern land; Where the gilt chariot never marks the way, Where none learn ombre, none e’er taste bohea! There kept my... ...ander Pope – V olume One But trust the Muse—she saw it upward rise, Though mark’d by none but quick, poetic eyes: (So Rome’s great founder to the heav...

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...ero; and, divested of poetry, this was but a little wrinkled old man, pock-marked, and with a great periwig and red heels to make him look tall—a hero... ...ewood—or- phan of his son, ruined by his fidelity, bearing many wounds and marks of bravery, old and in exile—his kinsmen I suppose should be silent; ... ... on the height facing the western court; so that this eastern end bore few marks of demolition, save in the chapel, where the painted windows survivin... ...rovide for the boy. However, in my lady’s presence, my lord showed no such marks of kindness, and affected to treat the lad roughly, and rebuked him s... ...one fellow who put his hand out towards the leading horse’s rein. It was a market-day, and the country-people were all as- sembled with their baskets ... ...his superior; and that he, and not she, ought to be the subordinate of the twain; and in these controversies, I think, lay the cause of my lord’s ange...

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...ons, even those who are innocent, show prophetic signs. Yes, fate sets its mark on the faces of those who are doomed to die a violent death of any kin... ...oble, so flexible, could handle gun or pistol with the ease of a practised marksman. She always wore when out of doors the coquettish little cap with ... ...nder the Consulate. “There is something stirring in the neighborhood,” re- marked Monsieur d’Hauteserre to the abbe. “Malin has been two days at Gondr... ... find a plan showing how to reach this spot. The trees which you will find marked with a red dot on the plan have a black mark at their foot close to ... ... daylight, and find out by the footsteps who went that way.” “I see a hoof-mark,” said Corentin; “let us go to the stables.” “How many horses do you k... ...uld then become of the unity of those beautiful lives, one in heart though twain in body? T o these questionings, passed from one to another as they f...

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...r Being. A grey Stone Of native rock, left midway in the Square Of our small market Village, was the home 35 And centre of these joys, and when, retur... ...ape, So near that, slipping back into the shade Of a thick hawthorn, I could mark him well, 405 Myself unseen. He was of stature tall, A foot above ma... ...e propped him, and his figure seemed Half sitting, and half standing. I could mark That he was clad in military garb, 415 Though faded yet entire. He w... ... wonder and obscure delight. I know not that herein I shot beyond The common mark of childhood, but I well Remember that among our flock of boys 95 Was... ...h one feeling of delight, An admiration of her modest mien 335 And carriage, marked by unexampled grace. Not unfamiliarly we since that time Have seen... ...in, that from humanity divorced The human form, splitting the race of man In twain, yet leaving the same outward shape. Distress of mind ensued upon t...

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...The tocsin was sounded. Comminges had arrested one of the ringleaders and had ordered him to be hanged near the cross of Du Trahoir; but in attempting... ...gnan might think of it, it was obvious that the citizens had for the night laid aside their usual forbearance, in order to assume a warlike aspect. Fr... ...e, Monsieur d’Artagnan,” said the cardinal; “all goes well in this direction.” D’Artagnan, in the meantime, had taken the head of his detachment witho... ...e opera of `Thisbe,’ `The whole world conspires to break our bonds.’” “You jest, sir!” answered the queen, endeavoring to as- sume something of her fo... ...o know. Wait till he is set out and then, marry, come up, ask, and find out. The half-pistole is ready,” and he put it back again into his pocket. “I ... ...inks?” “Alas! madame, more hopeless than he thinks. His maj- esty has so good a heart that he cannot understand hatred; is so loyal that he does not s...

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...ses the Poems in these volumes will be found distinguished at least by one mark of differ ence, that each of them has a worthy purpose. Not that I m... ...y to prevent me from asserting, that I point my Reader’s attention to this mark of distinction far less for the sake of these particular Poems than fr... ... honeyed sycamore When the bees hummed, and chair by winter fire; When market morning came, the neat attire With which, though bent on haste, my... ... casement peck’d. The suns of twenty summers danced along,— Ah! little marked, how fast they rolled away: Then rose a stately hall our woods amo... ...kes in the north of England are let out to different Fishermen, in parcels marked out by imagi nary lines drawn from rock to rock. 48 LyricalBallads... ... in distress; Old Susan lies a bed in pain, And sorely puzzled are the twain, For what she ails they cannot guess. And Betty’s husband’s at th...

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...word. Nay, not so, said the knight; it is fairer, said the knight, that we twain run more to- gether with sharp spears. I will well, said Arthur, an I... ...PTER VII How a dwarf reproved Balin for the death of Lanceor, and how King Mark of Cornwall found them, and made a tomb over them. N ow go we hence, s... ...alked together, there came a king of Cornwall riding, the which hight King Mark. And when he saw these two bodies dead, and understood how they were d... ...d Sir Tristram. T he meanwhile as this was a-doing, in came Merlin to King Mark, and seeing all his doing, said, Here shall be in this same place the ... ...were Launcelot de Lake, and Tristram. Thou art a marvellous man, said King Mark unto Merlin, that speakest of such marvels, thou art a boistous man an... ...s man and an un- likely to tell of such deeds. What is thy name? said King Mark. At this time, said Merlin, I will not tell, but at that time when Sir... ...ay, and loath was Merlin that any of them both should be slain; but of the twain, he had liefer King Lot had been slain than King Arthur. Now what is ... ... manded them secretly to make ready horse and harness for himself and them twain; for after evensong he would ride on pilgrimage with them two only un... ...warf kept their horses, and one of the three men was higher than the other twain by a foot and an half. Then Sir Gawaine went unto the king and said, ...

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...ce of the Moors in India -- Offerings of presents to his majesty -- Exchanging marks of friendship -- Reception by the King -- His appearance and the ... ...ez' situation -- Montezuma seized as a hostage -- Burning of two chiefs in the market place of Mexico -- A raid on the magazine of the capital -- Buil... .... Brandan on the island of Fiends and Phantoms......................... 87 The market place of Mecca................................................ 9... ... that we can scarcely think of an epitaph, to place upon the grave-stones that mark their places of sepulture. And if so many cities and nations have ... ... Cities, which is believed to have been Brazil. There is, indeed, a map in St. Mark's library at Venice, drawn in 1450, whereon Brazil is represented,... ... but the immediate result was the sending out of two ships instead of one, the twain being commanded by Moor and Smith. They wintered about two miles ...

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...lver flame. Pride of flesh from bondage free, Reaping vigour of its waste, Marks her servitors, and she Sanctifies the unembraced. Nought of perilous ... ...is deep; she listens long; Enjoys what music fills the plaintive song; And marks how he, who would be hawk at poise Above the bird, his plaintive song... ...n the Queen of Beauty’s breasts A sword is driven; for those most glorious twain Present her; armed to bless and to constrain. Of this he perishes; no... ...Had come of many a grip in mastery, Which held conjoined the hostile rival twain, And of his bosom made him lord, to keep The starry roof of his unruf... ... her blood-tree throbbing in her grain, Yet skyward branched, with loftier mark and range. No miracle the sprout of wheat from clod, She knows, nor gr... ...y Immortals. So it chanced Amusedly he watched them, and as one The lusty twain were on him and they had him. Breath to us, Powers of air, for laught... ...fering their nature grind; Of rabble passions grow the chieftain Mind. Yet mark where still broad Nile boasts thousands fed, For tens up the safe moun...

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...stronger, swifter, goodlier he than they, More awful, more divine. Yet mark anigh; Some fiery pang hath rent his soul within, Some ho... ...parted Atreides king of men and noble Achilles. Who among the gods set the twain at strife and variance? Apollo, the son of Leto and of Zeus; for he i... ...to me, being sent forth if the white armed god dess Hera, that loveth you twain alike and careth for you. Go to now, cease from strife, and let not t... ...er and said to her: “God dess, needs must a man observe the saying of you twain, even though he be very wroth at heart; for so is the better way. Who... ...reat joy of heart, were they to hear all this tale of strife be tween you twain that are chiefest of the Danaans in counsel and chiefest in battle. N... ... that I aid the Trojans in battle. But do thou now depart again, lest Hera mark aught; and I will take thought for these things to fulfil them. Come n... ... mail clad Achaians. Whenever he found one that was a captain and a man of mark, he stood by his side, and refrained him with gentle words: “Good sir,... ...s to fight him man to man in deadly combat. But when Menelaos dear to Ares marked him coming in the forefront of the multitude with long strides, then... ... in his armour from his chariot to the ground. But when godlike Alexandros marked him appear amid the champions, his heart was smitten, and he shrank ...

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...ch bad as there was good in 13 The High History of the Holy Graal the other twain, and much good was there in them; and these three were his uncles o... ...reat he thought that the King had alighted. The squire thought that the hoof marks on the way had come to an end and so thought that the King had alig... ...y melled together so stoutly that the spears bent without breaking, and both twain are shifted in their saddles and lose their stirrups. They hurtle s... ...she had in her hand a whip wherewith she drove the two steeds. Each of these twain was fairer than the first, but the 33 The High History of the Holy... ... King of Castle Mortal hath in him as much of wickedness and felony as these twain have in them of good, and enough thereof have they. But neither suc... ... of the Moors doth likewise and commandeth his folk not to mell betwixt them twain, for never yet had he found no knight that he had not con quered. ... ...ave yards full of sepulchres, and the tall churches all lying waste, and the markets and exchanges all empty. He rideth amidst the streets, and findet... ...one other, that I will return hither, so I be on live and I see your ship so marked as you say.” “Yea, be you faithful to the end herein, and you shal...

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...ercy. Quarter was given to them, but they were all branded with the king’s mark as untrustworthy deserters. The helots probably at this time escaped i... ... 38 A Book of Golden Deeds city, and go to the valley called the Forum or Marketplace to give their votes for the officers of state who were elected ... ...th; they joined the Clusians, and one brother, named Quintus, killed a re- markably large and tall Gallic chief in single combat. Brennus was justly e... ...plaid garment, fashioned into loose trousers, came curiously down into the marketplace, one af- ter another; and each stood silent and transfixed at t... ... sent out, as usual, orders to all the men of the town to meet them in the marketplace; but they were told beforehand, that the chief person in the pl... ... what tap’stry brave Covers its carvings rare! A goodly train—the parents twain, And here the princess two, Here with his pole, George, stout of sou...

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...en there came into the next compartment (third class) an artisan, strongly marked with smallpox, and with sunken, heavy eyes – a face hard and unkind,... ...ter nightfall. The little booths that hucksters set up round the edge were marked each one by its little lamp. There were some fires too; and the ligh... ...r, like a good fellow, and if there’s anything very flagrant send it to me marked. I have no confidence in myself; I feel such an ass. What have I bee... ...th terror, and crying to every one for his ‘Mammy.’ This was about eleven, mark you. People stopped and spoke to him, and then went on, leaving him mo... ...inguishable; my cousin Dora objected that last winter had been pretty well marked. ‘Yes, my dear,’ replied the soothsayeress; ‘but I think you’ll find... ...here will be nothing wanting but the Muse. I think of the verses like Mark Twain; sometimes I wish ful- somely to belaud you; sometimes to insult your...

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...te When the insurrection was defeated, three leaders of it were especially marked down for vengeance: August Roeckel, an old friend of Wagner’s to who... ...t down the old weapons into new ones, and with disrespectful words chop in twain the antiquated constable’s staves in the hands of their elders, the e... ...air. Whilst Brynhild is watching the course of the black thundercloud that marks her sister’s flight, the fires of Loki again flame high round the mou... ...tartled and hastily armed clan, ending with a thundering chorus, the drums marking the time with mighty pulses from dominant to tonic, much as Rossini... ...arthly providence for masses of work- men: he must create towns and govern markets. In the mean- time, Fafair, wallowing in dividends which he has don... ...tradictions in them. As in all men of his type, our manifold nature was so marked in him that he was like several different men rolled into one. When ...

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...The ‘49 Gold Rush helping to finance ―The Eighth Wonder of the World.‖  Mark Twain going bankrupt because he backed a Mergenthaler competitor. Mi... ...49 Gold Rush helping to finance ―The Eighth Wonder of the World.‖  Mark Twain going bankrupt because he backed a Mergenthaler competitor. Michael... ... the advent of literacy, the distance a man could ride a horse in one day marked the physical limit of a kingdom. A king could impose his will on ... ...rds. Cave drawings, notched sticks, tapestries, and the like, however, marked but baby steps beyond the limitations of our first information tech... ...eir main port and trading center, it was extremely costly and was worn as mark of imperial or royal rank. Phoenicians were seafaring traders using... ...ope. Today, we take for granted its spaces between words, punctuation marks, CAPITAL letters, and lowercase letters with ascenders and descender... ...an Revolution and spread democracy around the globe. CHAPTER 17 Mark Twain went bankrupt backing the competitor of the immigrant watchmaker’s L... ... ticket lost to the Democrats‘ ticket that Grover Cleveland headed. Mark Twain backs rival typesetter In 1889, Mergenthaler produced a faster, al... ... inventor of the Paige Compositor. Farnham‘s best-known investor was Mark Twain, whose Tom Sawyer novel had just been published. When the company ...

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...or slave had toiled, died perhaps, to produce yon pyramid of swarthy sugar marked “Only 6 1/2d.”—That catty box, on which was the epigraph “Strong Fam... ...s he of the treasures confided to him. The crowd passed in Chepe; he never marked it. The sun shone on Chepe; he only asked that it should illu- mine ... ...ood. Life is the Soul’s Nursery. I am a Man, and pine for the Illimitable! Mark you me! Has the Morrow any terrors for me, think ye? Did Socrates falt... ... followed him, wondering. “Y ou are surprised at our system,” said Rafael, marking the evident bewilderment of his friend. “Confess you would call it ... ...oclaimed them) caracoled to- gether. The one, seemingly the younger of the twain, wore a flaunting feather in his barret-cap, and managed a prancing A... ...“She is—well,” Philibert replied; “her sister Anne is the fair- est of the twain, though.” “Her sister Anne was a baby when I embarked for Egypt. A pl... ...f the noblemen were great hamatures of hale and porter. The tablecloth was marked over with brown suckles, made by the pewter-pots on that and the pre... ...word, destroyed thy armies? Who, 197 Burlesques with his pistol, cleft in twain thy nose-ring? Who slew thy gen- erals? Who slew thy elephants? Three... ...passing through the cerebellum and sensorium, had split his nose almost in twain. His mouth foaming—his face almost green—his eyes full of blood—his b...

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...ero; and, divested of poetry, this was but a little wrinkled old man, pock-marked, and with a great periwig and red heels to make him look tall—a hero... ...ewood—or- phan of his son, ruined by his fidelity, bearing many wounds and marks of bravery, old and in exile—his kinsmen I suppose should be silent; ... ... on the height facing the western court; so that this eastern end bore few marks of demolition, save in the chapel, where the painted windows survivin... ...rovide for the boy. However, in my lady’s presence, my lord showed no such marks of kindness, and affected to treat the lad roughly, and rebuked him s... ...one fellow who put his hand out towards the leading horse’s rein. It was a market-day, and the country-people were all as- sembled with their baskets ... ...his superior; and that he, and not she, ought to be the subordinate of the twain; and in these controversies, I think, lay the cause of my lord’s ange...

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...se traits can scarcely be rendered in English; for, as Robert Ferguson re marks: “The English language is not strong in diminutives, and therefore it... ...in eternal freedom.” Wainamoinen thus made answer: “Take thy corn to other markets, Give thy garners to the needy; I have corn in great abundance, Fie... ... a hollow cover; Nowhere see we hammer traces, Nowhere find a single tongs mark.” Thus replied the hostess, Louhi: “Him alone I’ll give my daughter, P... ...at the day break, Grinds a measure fit for eating, Grinds a second for the market, Grinds a third one for the store house. Joyfully the dame of Northl... ... at the day dawn, Grinds a measure fit for eating, Grinds a second for the market, Grinds a third one for the store house. Louhi has the wondrous Samp... ... From the cruel staff of iron; Bites with mighty force the metal, Bites in twain the softer iron, Cannot bite the steel asunder, Opens wide his mouth ... ... utters: “With this broadsword I could quickly 373 The Kalevala Cleave in twain the mount of Pohya, Cut the flinty rocks asunder.” Spake the blacksmi...

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... of new ideas, then might the arrival of Professor Teufelsdr¨ ockh’s Book be marked with chalk in the Editor’s calendar. It is indeed an “extensive V ... ...k Sterne’s words] but as ‘turkeys driven, with a stick and red clout, to the market:’ or if some drivers, as they do in Norfolk, take a dried bladder ... ...fullest insight,” we find—Six considerable PAPER BAGS, carefully sealed, and marked successively, in gilt China ink, with the sym bols of the Six sou... ... a rather eloquent Oration, “On receiving the Doctor’s Hat,” lie wash bills, marked bezahlt (settled). His Travels are indicated by the Street Adverti... ...e, Russian Autocrat, or English Game Preserver, is probably not far from the mark),—what almost prodigious saving may there not be anticipated, as the... ...h, as if it were a firm substance: fool! the Earth is but a film; it cracks in twain, and warrior and war horse sink beyond plummet’s sounding. Plummet’...