Description Details
...This book is perhaps the one that is most difficult to understand with just one reading, because it contains a concentration of all of A. Mercurio’s innovative thought. It is difficult to make a short synthesis of this book, so here we will simply mention some of the papers presented by the Author that the book contains. The book opens with an “Inv...

Full Text Search Details
...traveling from one universe to another Sophia University of Rome 2 Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIV... ...me 2 Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) Creative Commons Licence - Attribution-NonCommercia... ...ipline whose goal is to unite the four fundamental forces that make up the history of humanity, Religion, Philosophy, Science and Art, in a single f... ... * This chapter is taken from a paper presented in a conference in Milan, Italy, in September 1985, at the IV National Congress of the Sophia Unive... ...re those who render what is impossible, possible, in every field in life. During the last millennia, human beings have made an uncountable number of... ...ential Personalistic Anthropology, that are currently spreading throughout Italy and abroad. They offer the knowledge and the practice of the Sophia... ...recent and far back in time (the I and its roots). 21 4) – The I and history, both modern and ancient. The I and science, the I and philosophy... ... Western civilization this passage is entrusted to the period of obligatory military service, in a violent and often stupid way. In some Eastern civ... ...ry beauty, such as Helen, or artistic beauty, such as Achilles’ weapons, or military glory and conquer Troy, or divine beauty, such as the nymph Caly...

Description Details
...“The Odyssey is not an adventure story. It is, rather, a book of wisdom that explains the art of humanity’s journey toward becoming artists of life and of the life of the universe. It tells the tale of a love story that is based on love as a decision and as a project. It is not a tale o...

Full Text Search Details
... 2 Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) Creative Commons Licence -... ...censor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial pu... ...s. The Odyssey is the greatest love story that has ever been told in the history of world literature. It is based not on love and death (like the ... ...- is found in the creation of this supreme type of beauty, and not in the military glory expounded upon by Homer in the Iliad. c. Great courage i... ...n between cosmic and human forces, courage even greater than that shown in military battle; much suffering must be faced and overcome, not as victim... ...nuous transformation of one’s self. d. The struggles that Ulysses faces during his voyage home to Ithaca is a great metaphor that describes, in p... ...ted to be the guarantors of their followers’ immortality. This is human history. So who is Ulysses to say no to the immortality that Circe and ... ...year-old American Nicholas Green while he was traveling with his family in Italy, a potent vibration of new energy and new life shook the whole plan... ...e is very common among those who are faced with pain and powerlessness (In Italy in 2004 there were 58,000 suicides). The second reaction is to d...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: War and Peace: Five by Leo Tolstoy.

Full Text Search Details
...ies Publication War and Peace – Book Five by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...ld add a hair’s breadth to happiness or peace of mind. Can anything in the world make her or me less a prey to evil and death?—death which ends all an... ...rom understanding—how am I to put it?—I am afraid my way of looking at the world is so opposed to yours that we shall not understand one another.” “I ... ... is not founded on reason alone, not on those worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into which intellectual knowledge is divi... ...niverse, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and dangers. During these wanderings, Pierre noticed that he was spoken of now as the “S... ...wn tastes, and the peculiarities of his reserved nature, Boris had managed during his service to place himself very advantageously. He was aide-de-cam... ...the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument brought from Italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to fly upwards. The... ...usterlitz campaign Prince Andrew had firmly re- solved not to continue his military service, and when the war recommenced and everybody had to serve, ...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: War and Peace: Epilogues One and Two by Leo Tolstoy.

Full Text Search Details
...ion War and Peace – Epilogues One and Two by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...1813-20 CHAPTER I SEVEN YEARS HAD PASSED. The storm-tossed sea of European history had subsided within its shores and seemed to have become calm. But ... ... are unknown to us) continued to operate. Though the surface of the sea of history seemed motionless, the movement of humanity went on as unceasingly ... ...in that case badly. He behaved admirably at the beginning of his reign and during 1812, but acted badly by giving a constitution to Poland, forming th... ...hat we know only the facts— that is, the murders, first in France, then in Italy, in Africa, in Prussia, in Austria, in Spain, and in Russia—and that ... ...nt to Moscow it was necessary: (1) that they should form themselves into a military group of a size able to endure a collision with the warlike milita... ... abandon all established traditions and customs, and (3) that during their military movement they should have at their head a man who could justify to... ...d of the army. The brilliant qualities of the soldiers of the army sent to Italy, his opponents’ reluctance to fight, and his own childish audacity an...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: War and Peace: One by Leo Tolstoy.

Full Text Search Details
...ries Publication War and Peace – Book One by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...though, with the quickness of memory and perception befitting a man of the world, he indi- cated by a movement of the head that he was considering thi... ...e la plus seduisante de Petersbourg,* was also there. She had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did not go to any large gath... ...ho now lay dying in Moscow. The young man had not yet entered ei- ther the military or civil service, as he had only just returned from abroad where h... ...was still quite a young lady, before her nose was broken; how she had aged during the five years he had known her, and how her head had cracked right ... ...sake he is leaving the university and me, his old father, and entering the military service, my dear. And there was a place and everything waiting for... ...y thousand Austrians, with a hundred thousand Russians, were to operate in Italy and on the Rhine; how fifty thousand Russians and as many English wer... ...e is a Lombard bond and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of Suvorov’s wars. Send it to the Academy. Here are some jottings f...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: War and Peace: Two by Leo Tolstoy.

Full Text Search Details
...ries Publication War and Peace – Book Two by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...e mind was engrossed by it, yet his strut seemed to indicate that, besides military matters, social inter- ests and the fair sex occupied no small par... ...ime had passed since Prince Andrew had left Russia, he had changed greatly during that period. In the expression of his face, in his movements, in his... ...r the Russians! Hurrah for Emperor Alexander!” **“And hurrah for the whole world!” 23 Tolstoy lost and will come back in a rage. Will you have coffee... ...emy; and though the big hospi- tals and the houses in Krems converted into military hospitals could no longer accommodate all the sick and wounded, ye... ...Austrians, and of the retreat of the fright- ened Bonaparte. Prince Andrew during the battle had been in attendance on the Austrian General Schmidt, w... ...id Dolokhov. “Qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?”** asked a Frenchman. “It’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it referred to a former war. “The Emp... ... Andrew remembered the story of Suvorov giv- ing his saber to Bagration in Italy, and the recollection was particularly pleasant at that moment. They ...

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: Queen Elizabeth herself, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton....

Full Text Search Details
...Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner and Fragmenta Regalia by Sir Robert Nau... ... A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner, and Fragmenta Rega- l... ...LECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner, and Fragmenta Rega- lia by Sir Robert ... ...t in 1597 on a three years’ tour through Switzerland, France, England, and Italy. After his return to Germany in 1600, he published, at Nuremberg, in ... ...ounded, as all historians agree, by Brutus, who, com- ing from Greece into Italy, thence into Africa, next into France, and last into Britain, chose t... ...e first time he sees and considers them. Fitz-Stephen, a writer of English history, reckoned in his time in London one hundred and twenty-seven parish... ...n, King of France. The Knights of the Garter are strictly chosen for their military virtues, and antiq- uity of family; they are bound by solemn oath ... ...ned with tapestry of gold, silver, and velvet, in some of which were woven history pieces; in others, Turkish and American dresses, all extremely natu... ...y his mother, who was Duchess of Suffolk. He was a great master of the art military, and was sent general into France, and commanded the second army o...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought,...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents I. HISTORY ................................................................................................................................................................. 5 SELF-RELIANCE...........................................

Full Text Search Details
...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson 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... ...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents I. HISTORY ...................................................................... ................................ 315 5 Emerson Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson HISTORY There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all: And whe... ...make more account of them. I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Asia, Italy, Spain and the Islands, —the genius and creative principle of each an... ... want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. ... ...s ability to cope single-handed with the infinite army of enemies. To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Hero- ism. Its rudest for... ...’s condemnation of himself to be maintained in all honor in the Prytaneum, during his life, and Sir Thomas More’s playfulness at the scaffold, are of ... ...table exploit. Yet there stands that fact unrepeated, a high-water mark in military history. Many have at- tempted it since, and not been equal to it....

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: It would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexam...

Full Text Search Details
...ns. John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle 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... ...of perhaps a hundred to one. We take in, not Germany alone, but France and Italy; not the Schlegels and Schellings, but the Manzonis and De Staels. Th... ...terary fame in his own country; and even determined his subsequent private history, for they brought him into contact with the Duke of Weimar; in conn... ...owever, was not realized in actual composition till a calmer period of his history. Of this early harsh and crude, yet fervid and genial period, Werte... ...st, impress of it; being written with due fore- thought, at various times, during a period of no less than ten years. Considered as a piece of Art, th... ... and rewrote it. Thus far he had produced but little since his return from Italy. His friendship with Schiller was now to begin, an alli- ance which, ... ...hear the drums, oboes, clarinets, trumpets, and cornets played upon by the military, the city musicians, and whoever else might furnish his tones. The... ...d it be more cumbersome than to my father, who was obliged to take foreign military inhabitants into his scarcely finished house, to open for them his...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...click. “Damn these rotten army typewriters … . Reason … mental deficiency. History of Case … . “ At that moment the re- cruiting sergeant came back. “... ... street.” “Here’s the records, sergeant,” said Fuselli stiffly in his best military manner. “Oh thanks … . There’s nothing else I want,” said the ser-... ...dismiss the company,” said the lieutenant bring- ing his voice back to its military tone. “Companee dis-missed!” said out the sergeant jovially. In gr... ...s of the lieutenant out of the door. Fuselli had a moment of panic terror, during which he went on working methodically, although his hands trembled. ... ...live. The thought came to him of all those who, down the long trag- edy of history, had given themselves smilingly for the integ- rity of their though... ... And he thought of the great, sudden wind of freedom that had blown out of Italy, before which dogmas and slaver- ies had crumbled to dust. In contras... ... “I don’t care. New Rochelle’s not the whole world. They got the movies in Italy, ain’t they?” “Sure. Let’s go to bed.” “All right. Look, you an’ me a...

Full Text Search Details
...the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...s old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in civilized history, until the fame of its grassy meadows and its fish attracted settle... ...allowance. The story is current, at any rate, though I believe that strict history will not bear it out, that the only bridge ever carried away on the... ...man’s Account Current, probably for the fishing sea son of the year 1805, during which months he purchased daily rum and sugar, sugar and rum, N. E. ... ...ncy that they naturally flow and run together. They read as if written for military men, for men of business, there is such a despatch in them. Compar... ...ith more pleasure than the traveller does the fairest scenery of Greece or Italy. Where shall we find a more refined society? That highway down from H... ...ls penetrated into this frith, or up that river of some remote isle! Their military monuments still remain on the hills and under the sod of the valle... ...ed be, soften the rocks with vin egar. For here lie the verdant plains of Italy ready to receive you. Nor shall I be slow on my side to penetrate to ...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill.

Full Text Search Details
...Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill ... ...TUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnis... ... of the primitive condition of humanity; and only the few who have studied history accurately, or have much fre quented the parts of the world occupi... ... faculties of any person in those ages, ex cept a philosopher or a saint. History gives a cruel experience of human nature, in showing how exactly th... ...ational institutions. If people are mostly so little aware how completely, during the greater part of the duration of our species, the law of force wa... ...lectively, against the disabili ties under which they labour. France, and Italy, and Switzerland, and Russia now afford examples of the same thing. H... ...claration, “The powers that be are ordained of God,“ gives his sanction to military despotism, and to that alone, as the Christian form of political g... ...s were built, they never would have been built. We see that, in France and Italy, imitation of the ancient literature stopped the original development... ... human being could excel; and by it men were made, what only political or military distinction now makes them, the companions of sovereigns, and the ...

Full Text Search Details
...ication tion tion tion tion Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...ing armour who have set me free!” Then he let fall the cup and related his history. He was called Spendius. The Carthaginians had taken him in the bat... ...olossal stature, and with short black curly hair. He had retained only his military jacket, the brass plates of which were tearing the purple of the c... ...ot the Mercenaries already possessed Rhegium and other fortified places in Italy? Who is to prevent you? Hamilcar is away; the people execrate the ric... ...foot of the walls, and the townspeople came out to chat with the soldiers. During the whole night fires were seen burning on the ho- rizon in the dire... ... Romans, he had taken advantage of the confusion to fly with the soldiers. During the whole of the march he remained near Matho; he brought him food, ... ... liked both to annihilate it and to dwell in it. But what was there in the Military Harbour defended by a triple wall? Then behind the town, at the ba... ...ans, and said to them: “When the Ligurians, Greeks, Balearians, and men of Italy are paid, they will return. But as for you, you will remain in Africa...

Full Text Search Details
...LICATION Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...register Mrs Warren, whilst leaving Mrs Warren’s pa- trons, especially her military patrons, free to destroy her health and anybody else’s without fea... ... my support if he will introduce this limitation for part of the year, say during Lent, so as to make a close season for that dullest of stock dramati... ...refuse to re- new their license at the end of the year; and nothing in the history of popular art is more amazing than the improve- ment in music-hall... ...no consensus of opinion among responsible classes, such as magistrates and military com- manders, that it is a necessity, no Athenian records of gam- ... ...ild- hood by their father’s profession. These critics must know, too, from history if not from experience, that women as un- scrupulous as Mrs Warren ... ...My curse upon yon caller, whoe’er he be! VIVIE. It’ s Praed. He’s going to Italy and wants to say goodbye. I asked him to call this afternoon. Go and ... ... him in. FRANK. We can continue our conversation after his depar- ture for Italy. I’ll stay him out. [He goes to the door and opens it]. How are you, ...

Full Text Search Details
...Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...or at hotels or railroad stations while I have been waiting for trains, or during the moments that I could spare from my work while at Tuskegee. Witho... ...clearly understand it as another man might. The truth is he had a training during the most impressionable period of his life that was very extraordi- ... ... them. I saw again all the old plantations that I had ever seen; the whole history of the Negro ran through my mind; and the inexpressible pathos of h... ...hinking not of them, but of that long and unhappy chapter in our country’s history which followed the one great structural mistake of the Fathers of t... ...ce. The next day a letter came from two ladies who were then travelling in Italy, saying that they had decided to give us the money for such a chapel ... ... country, and with representatives of foreign governments, as well as with military and civic organizations. The afternoon papers had forecasts of the... ...on were prominent coloured citizens in carriages, as well as several Negro military organizations. I noted that the Exposition offi- cials seemed to g...

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: Nicolo Machiavelli was born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. He was the second son of Bernardo di Nicolo Machiavelli, a lawyer of some repute, and of Bartolommea di Stefano Nelli, his wife. Both parents were members of the old Florentine nobility....

Full Text Search Details
... The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli, trans. W. K. Marriott 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... ...of which singularly enough constitutes a distinct and important era in the history of Florence. His youth was concurrent with the greatness of Florenc... ...ce occurred in 1494, in which year Machiavelli entered the public service. During his official career Florence was free under the government of a Repu... ...to Lorenzo’s grandson that he dedicates “The Prince.” Machiavelli, in his “History of Florence,” gives us a pic- ture of the young men among whom his ... ...g the war against Pisa: this king it was who, in his conduct of affairs in Italy, committed the five capital errors in statecraft summarized in “The P... ...ainst France, and with the assistance of the Swiss drove the French out of Italy, Florence lay at the mercy of the Pope, and had to submit to his term... ... with so much ability of mind and body that, having devoted himself to the military profession, he rose through its ranks to be Praetor of Syracuse. B... ..., as is shown above, not by the favour of any one, but step by step in the military profession, which steps were gained with a thousand troubles and p...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.

Full Text Search Details
... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Univer... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...pray that the pecuniary estimates for the sta tion in which I am placed may during my continuance in it be limited to such actual expenditures as the... ...oath I am now about to take, and in your presence: That if it shall be found during my administration of the Government I have in any instance violate... ...ederacies, the only examples which remain with any detail and preci sion in history, and certainly the only ones which the people at large had ever c... ...f others? Or have we found an gels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. Let us, then, with courage and confidence p... ... of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED S... ...ischarge of the public debts; to keep within the requisite limits a standing military force, always remembering that an armed and trained militia is t... ... of rice in Burma and the planter of wheat in Iowa, the shepherd in southern Italy and the mountaineer in the Andes. It confers a common dignity upon ...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante - Purgatory, Translated by H.F. Cary.

Full Text Search Details
... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante Purgatory , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of t... ...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 i... ...I am thy countryman Sordello.” Each the other then embrac’d. Ah slavish Italy! thou inn of grief, Vessel without a pilot in loud storm, Lady no ... ...lip, The Emperor Rodolph call, who might have heal’d The wounds whereof fair Italy hath died, So that by others she revives but slowly, He, who with k... ... abroad; But that expiring ever in the spleen, That doth unfold it, and this during still And waxing still in splendor, made me question What it might... ...nte often recreated his spirits wearied by severe studies.” See Dr. Burney’s History of Music, vol. ii. c. iv. p. 322. Milton has a fine allusion to t... ...ting angel. v. 94. These three months past.] Since the time of the Jubilee, during which all spirits not condemned to eternal punishment, were suppos... ...o si posa. A line taken by Tasso, G. L. c. x. st. 56. v. 76. Sordello.]The history of Sordello’s life is wrapt in the obscurity of romance. That he ... ...ance, since the time of Charlemagne, by whom Charles was surpassed either in military renown, and prowess, or in the loftiness of his understanding.” ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

Full Text Search Details
...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ... Laurent Valla, Rabelais had retranslated into Latin the first book of the History. That translation unfortunately is lost, as so many other of his sc... ...oets of the Renaissance, who believed themselves bound to imitate them. Is Italy without fault in this respect? Her story-tellers in prose lie open to... ...more than a familiarity with ordinary French. It would have been easier in Italy than anywhere else. Italian, from its flexibility and its analogy to ... ... He is sure that his work was successful, be- cause it was often reprinted during his lifetime; but this en- thusiasm of Jean Paul would hardly carry ... ...t. It is the adventures of Baldo, son of Guy de Montauban, the very lively history of his youth, his trial, imprisonment and deliverance, his journey ... ... the horse at his pleasure without a bridle, for such things are useful in military engagements. Another day he exercised the battle-axe, which he so ... ... blood as may be. And, if possible, by means far more ex- pedient, such as military policy, devices, and stratagems of war, we shall save all the soul...

Full Text Search Details
...cs Series Publication A Room with a View by E.M. Forster 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... ...to rival the solid comfort of a Bloomsbury boarding-house. Was this really Italy? Miss Bartlett was already seated on a tightly stuffed arm-chair, whi... ...e Mr. Beebe had sat. Permission granted, she began to chatter gently about Italy, the plunge it had been to come there, the gratifying success of the ... ...hern Italy, she committed to memory the most important dates of Florentine History. For she was determined to enjoy herself on the morrow. Thus the 1... ...at for the girl to be with any one so clever and so cheer- ful; and a blue military cloak, such as an Italian of- ficer wears, only increased the sens... ... Lucy had followed her with no misgivings. “Lost! lost! My dear Miss Lucy, during our politi- cal diatribes we have taken a wrong turning. How those h... ...t have a word with him!” And in a moment she was away over the Piazza, her military cloak flapping in the wind; nor did she slacken speed till she cau... ...uition, and perhaps this was what Mr. Beebe meant. And Freddy, who ignored history and art, perhaps meant the same when he failed to imagine Cecil wea...