...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...ds with no sense of the vile practicalities behind their domesticated state. During his times of stress long ago they had often seemed to Sang Huin as... ...icious just as his country dictated. Right after getting his letter from the military, Sung Ki laid out Sang Huin's blanket in a different room. He ta... ...was what Sung Ki needed so why shouldn't he talk about it? Superiors in the military often beat a man if they felt that he didn't have a girlfriend e... ... Sang Huin lost the address book and key chain from the souvenir shop at the history museum Sung Ki had given to him. He lost both by leaving them in ... ...le, she thought, did not camouflage their barbarity in "goodness." Early in history, except for notable flare- ups, Germans were aware of their barba... ...was still open and she stepped into it. Photographs of Peru, Mexico, Egypt, Italy, and China graced her. Where would she go? Should she take her so... ...om my vantage point but probably not from theirs. What's your impression of Italy so far?" "Well, it is hard to say with so many tourists. If they g...

...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ...em, should I have been allowed to do so by strangers. For it happens that, during the fourteen last years, I have received from many quarters in Engla... ...upposed it—a simple reca- pitulation, or resumé, of the Roman imperatorial history. It moves rapidly over the ground, but still with an exploring eye,... ...ath- ered so thickly over the one solitary road 5 traversing that part of history. Glimpses of moral truth, or suggestions of what may lead to it; in... ...monly called in En- glish) which, amongst the great masters of painting in Italy, surrounded the heads of Christ and of distinguished saints. 5 “The ... ...amount duty to himself, which was three- fold. First, it seems that I owed military allegiant to him, as my commander-in-chief, whenever we “took the ... ... own individual house. From this day, therefore, I obeyed all my brother’s military commands with the utmost docility; and happy it made me that every... ... orderly succession, according to all appearance, the whole vacant area of Italy would be filled with these dismantled stories of Rome, and we should ...

...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to di...

...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the First T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited ... ...es P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William ... ...nteresting and important matter in the journal of the T our in Germany and Italy, which, as it was merely written under Montaigne’s dictation, is in t... ...de Chassaigne, daughter of a councillor in the Parliament of Bordeaux. The history of his early married life vies in obscurity with that of his youth.... ...s eldest brother, resigned his post of Councillor, in or- der to adopt the military profession, while, if we might credit the President Bouhier, he ne... ...e of funeral emblems, that the departed has been engaged in some important military transactions. However it may be as to these conjectures, our autho... ...at journey. As the account which he has left of his travels in Germany and Italy comprises some highly interesting particulars of his life and persona... ...aly comprises some highly interesting particulars of his life and personal history, it seems worth while to furnish a sketch or analysis of it. “The J... ...ter an absence of seventeen months and eight days. We have just seen that, during his absence in Italy, the author of the Essays was elected mayor of ...

Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

............................................................................................................................................. 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ...................................................................................................................................... 9 THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE .....................................................

... Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevens... ... Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and... ...sters, apply pine-apple juice, and you will give me news of it, and I request a specimen of your hand of write five minutes after—the historic moment ... ...ions, perhaps seven, figure therein; two of my old stories, ‘Delafield’ and ‘Shovel,’ are incorporated; it is to be told in the third person, with som... ...ike a dark genteel guest in a Highland shoot- ing-box. Seumanu (opposite Fanny, next G. ) is chief of Apia, a rather big gun in this place, looking li... ...of that? and my advance guard not being at all properly armed, we ad- vanced with great precaution until I was satisfied that I was passing eastward o... ...ror. It is right I should tell you the V aea has a bad name, an Aitu Fafine—female devil of the woods—succubus—haunting it, and doubtless Jack had hea... ...e-bob volume, to bloom unread in shop windows. After that, I’ll 82 Robert Louis Stevenson have a spank at fiction. And rest?I shall rest in the grave... ...refused it (after examination) as too small. It is said this commemorates a time when Malietoa at the head of his army suffered much for want of suppl...

...nd that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife t... ...hree days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every pers... ...little boy their president was half an hour ago.” And his eyes were laughing during the reading of the report. Till two o’clock there would go on with... ...—the relative advantages of classical and of modern education, and universal military service— had not to move out either of them, while Countess Nord... ... hold of the door post and get back into the carriage, when another man in a military overcoat, quite close beside her, stepped between her and the fli... ...ace. If England can point to the most brilliant feats of cavalry in military history, it is simply owing to the fact that she has historically develop... ... And Sergey Ivanovitch carried the subject into the regions of philosophical history where Konstantin Levin could not follow him, and showed him all t... ...y weak,” she said, smiling. And her lips began trembling again. “We’ll go to Italy; you will get strong,” he said. “Can it be possible we could be lik... ...ects in coming back to Russia had been to see her son. From the day she left Italy the thought of it had never ceased to agitate her. And as she got n...

... had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in ...

...Table of Contents: Part I 1 -- Chapter 1, 1 -- Chapter 2, 3 -- Chapter 3, 6 -- Chapter 4, 9 -- Chapter 5, 13 -- Chapter 6, 20 -- Chapter 7, 23 -- Chapter 8, 24 -- Chapter 9, 27 -- Chapter 10, 32 -- Chapter 11, 38 -- Chapter 12, 42 ...

...inibus Puerisque & Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia 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... ...from your unkindness or blush with shame at your misconduct. Poor girls in Italy turn their painted Madon- nas to the wall: you cannot set aside your ... ...ith an imperfect notion of the child’s character, formed in early years or during the equinoctial gales of youth; to this he adheres, noting only the ... ...he same ideal of manners, caution, and respectability, those characters in history who have most notoriously flown in the face of such precepts are sp... ...e in life. The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are per- fectly irrational and even shocking to the ... ...hot in their locker, and begin the world bankrupt. And the same holds true during all the time a lad is educating himself, or suffering others to edu-... ...to make imaginary allies of the forces of nature; the Roman Empire and its military fortunes, and along with these the 81 Virginibus Puerisque & Othe... ... tions, red-hot in expedition, there would indubitably be some effusion of military blood, and oaths, and a certain crash of glass; and while the chie...

......................... 4 CHAPTER I ? ?VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE?................................................................................ 4 CHAPTER II ? CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH ......................................................................... 38 CHAPTER III ? AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS.......................................................................... 49 CHAPTER ...

...I. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Expl... ...ation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...re characteristic production from his pen was ushered anonymously into the world. This was the “Es- say on Criticism,” a work which he had first writt... ... whole passage is only one of those painful inci- dents which disgrace the history of letters, and prove how much spleen, ingratitude, and baseness of... ...wn grounds to her memory, with a simple but striking inscription in Latin. During this year, he pub- 19 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olum... ...en- tioning that he had some papers of P .T .’s in reference to his family history, which he would shew him. Pope replied by three advertisements in t... ...s to have been the original of a new sort of poem—the pastoral com- edy—in Italy, it cannot so well be considered as a copy of the ancients. Spenser’s... ...:— So pleased at first the towering Alps to try, Fill’d with ideas of fair Italy, The traveller beholds with cheerful eyes The lessening vales, and se... ...Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough, a man distinguished by the rapidity of his military movements—a petty Napoleon. 217 The Poetical Works of Alexander P...

Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan.

...Contents LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE.................................................................................................................................. 6 PREFACE2......................................................................

...Astrological aspects (conjunctions, oppositions, trines, squares, sextiles) between dates of two historical events explain their similar or opposite character. This is illustrated by the example of the Munich Conference (1938) and the birth dates of its participants. Historical repetitions connected with the 60 ye...

...ted with the possible repetitions. Then the correlation between the two words is equal to p/m. For instance, the correlation between the words « Italy » and « Sicily » is 3/5 (one has m=5, n=6 and p=3). The one between the words « Aix » and « Paris » is 2/3 (m=3, n=5, p=2). In any case the correlation remains a purely formally defined quantity. When the resemblance be...

...Preface. Chapter 1. The Chinese horoscope and parallel events. Chapter 2. Comparison between five geographic regions. Names of persons and places of battles. Appendix 1. Beginnings and ends of the years according to the Chinese horoscope. Appendix 2. The Cyrillic alphabet....

...y by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...e present century which we now call “Empire.” Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy i... ...old at T royes, leaving twin sons, who emigrated and were, at the time our history opens, still in foreign parts fol- lowing the fortunes of the house... ...e poetry of this old structure, which still exists. At the moment when our history begins Michu was lean- ing against a mossy parapet on which he had ... ... to warn of danger, the other behind to protect a retreat. Thanks to these military precau- tions, this valuable detachment had at last reached, witho... ... the cavalry, and I was on the Rhine under General Steingel, after that in Italy, and then I followed the First Consul to Egypt. I’ll be a cor- poral ... ...could, he thought, be reinstated in their rank and soon find an opening to military honors. But royalist opinions were now all-powerful at Cinq-Cygne.... ...rn recommended him to Cambaceres, who appointed him at- torney-general for Italy. Unfortunately for him, Lechesneau had a liaison with a great lady in...

...Excerpt: The autumn of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy...

...wn as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itse... ...f delightful. Those that I have in mind in be ginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implemen... ... history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English cou... ...etimes had a knife like effect. That hard fineness came out in her deportment during the first hours of her return from America, under circumstances in ... ...ood deal of a vagabond, and she had spent much ingenuity in training it to a military step and teaching it to advance, to halt, to retreat, to perform... ...given it marching orders and it had been trudging over the sandy plains of a history of German Thought. Suddenly she became aware of a step very diffe... ...she was indeed very pretty and that she formed the ornament of those various military stations, chiefly in the unfashionable West, to which, to her dee... ...h, once you get off on the Continent. Annie Climber was asked three times in Italy—poor plain little Annie.” “Well, if Annie Climber wasn’t captured w... ...worst case, I think, is a friend of mine, a countryman of ours, who lives in Italy (where he also was brought before he knew better), and who is one o...

...ew hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implement...

...Table of Contents: CHAPTER 1, 1 -- CHAPTER 2, 10 -- CHAPTER 3, 15 -- CHAPTER 4, 22 -- CHAPTER 5, 28 -- CHAPTER 6, 38 -- CHAPTER 7, 46 -- CHAPTER 8, 54 -- CHAPTER 9, 60 -- CHAPTER 10, 66 -- CHAPTER 11, 77 -- CHAPTER 12, 83 -- CHAPTE...

...don . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind . 126 Book Ninth Residence in France... ...Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 ii The Prelude of 1805 Book First Introduction: Childhood and School time OH, there is ... ...ray, And to the combat, Lu or Whist, led on thick ribbed Army; not as in the world Neglected and ungratefully thrown by Even for the very service they... ...sland where remain’d An old stone Table, and a moulder’d Cave, 65 A Hermit’s history. In such a race, So ended, disappointment could be none, Uneasine... ...the cabinet Of their sensations, and, in voluble phrase, 230 Run through the history and birth of each, As of a single independent thing. Hard task to... ...ure seemed Half sitting, and half standing. I could mark That he was clad in military garb, 415 Though faded yet entire. He was alone, Had no attendan... ...t purpose to retrace That variegated journey step by step; A march it was of military speed, And earth did change her images and forms 430 Before us f... ...and Of travellers, from the Valais we had clomb Along the road that leads to Italy; A length of hours, making of these our guides, 500 Did we advance,... ...on her face, He would exclaim, ‘Julia, how much thine eyes 825 Have cost me! During daytime, when the child Lay in its cradle, by its side he sate, No...

...ing in this gentle breeze, That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! A captive greets thee, coming from a house Of bondage, from yon city?s walls set free, A prison where he hath been long immured. Now I am free, enfranchised and at l...

...Table of Contents: Book First Introduction: Childhood and School-time, 1 -- Book Second Childhood and School-time (Continued), 20 -- Book Third Residence at Cambridge, 34 -- Book Fourth Summer Vacation, 53 -- Book Fifth Books, 67 -...

...ation The Dove In The Eagle’s Nest by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...ance over the other princely families. M. Freytag’s books, and Hegewisch’s History of Maximilian, will, I think, be found fully to bear out the pictur... ...ost her and her duchy, as incurring ridicule by his ill-managed schemes in Italy, and the vast projects that he was always forming with- out either me... ...appears on the breast of Ehrenhold, his constant companion in the metrical history of his career, under the name of Theurdank. The poetry of Theurdank... ...he imperial free towns of Germany had ad- vanced nearly as far as those of Italy in civilization, and had reached a point whence they retrograded grie... ...n civilization, and had reached a point whence they retrograded grievously during the Thirty Years’ War, even to an extent that they have never entire... ...ith the sufferer. The girl’s soul ripened rapidly under the new influences during her bodily decay; and, as the days lengthened, and the stern hold of... ...criticisms of both knight and squire on the bearing of the young Barons in military exercises. T ruly, with no instructor but the rough lanzknecht Hei...

...Introduction: In sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytag?s first series of pictures of German Life: probably, I say, for its first commencement was a dream, dreamt some weeks after reading that most intere...

... ... ... Twenty Years After (The Third Volume of The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Dumas is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Porta... ... a whole city leagued against the minister; as well as from the distant and incessant sounds of guns fir- ing—let off, happily, without other end or a... ...each in his turn. * It is said that Mazarin, who, though a cardinal, had not taken such vows as to prevent it, was secretly married to Anne of Austria... ...bringing the dress demanded. The cardinal, in deep thought and in silence, began to take off the robes of state he had assumed in order to be present ... ...bes of state he had assumed in order to be present at the sitting of parliament, and to attire himself in the military coat, which he wore with a cert... ... then?” Mazarin sank into a chair with the deepest melancholy painted on his countenance. “It is likely,” he replied, “that we shall soon be obliged t... ...ly, as he was stupid enough to be vexed at this change of position, the queen had had him arrested and sent to Vincennes in charge of Guitant, who mad... ...; “we can wait for him; let him come.” “Moreover, he is but a child,” said Aramis. Grimaud rose. “A child!” he exclaimed. “Do you know what he has don...

...Excerpt: The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu. In a splendid chamber of the Palais Royal, formerly styled the Palais Cardinal, a man was sitting in deep reverie, his head supported on his hands, leaning over a gilt and inlaid table which was covered...

... by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of th... ...ania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any ... ...riend Mr. Jones. It would be difficult to say whether I was his right-hand man, or he mine, during the voyage. Thus at table I carved, while he only s... ... these two syllables in the dark- ness of a night at sea. The day dawned fairly enough, and during the early part we had some pleasant hours to improv... ...s, as they would not leave you till you were rooked and beaten. You must enter a hotel with military precautions; for the least you had to apprehend w... ...some pleasure and a certain childish pride in forming part of it. The book I read was about Italy in the early Renaissance, the pageantries and the li... ...or Danube. You may pass the spinal cord of Europe and go down from Alpine glaciers to where Italy extends her marble moles and glasses her marble pala... ... far as Paris to sow his wild oats; and so the cases of father and son mark an epoch in the history of centralisation in France. Not until the latter ... ...y, it will become the ground of science to-morrow. From the mind of childhood there is more history and more philosophy to be fished up than from all ...

... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...H STRANGE BELIEFS OPPOSED TO EXTENDED VOYAGES. COMPRISING ALSO AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its ... ...E HEROIC CHARACTERS, BOLD EXPLORERS AND DAUNTLESS SPIRITS WHO HAVE MADE OCEAN HISTORY AND ESTABLISHED CHRISTIAN SUPREMACY OVER THE MOST SAVAGE LANDS... ...He compels Narvaez to acknowledge submission -- Capture of several vessels and military supplies -- Reorganizes, recruits his army and returns to Mexi... ...co -- Capturing vessels and enlisting their crews -- A vast army and supply of military stores secured - - A plague of smallpox -- Death of the empero... ...d Corsica were Joined by a considerable strip of land, as was also Sicily with Italy, and Negro Ponto with Greece; and accounts have been given of the... ...ence in 1797 and she became a shuttlecock for the battle- doors of Austria and Italy. BELIEF RESPECTING THE EARTH'S SHAPE. But though sails had long w... ...e crew came in sight of the coast of a country nine days' sail from Greenland. During this time the ship was enveloped in such a fog and mist that at,...

...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

...Best of Freshman Writing 1 Best of Freshman Writing Formerly Best of Four Volume 7 Student Voices A Common... ...cy Morrison Associate Editors Liz Wright Suzanne Harper David Russell Best of Freshman Writing is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...lish 004, within the Commonwealth College of the Pensylvania Univer- sity, during the fall semester of 2000, and the essays appear here with the write... ... stories was one that I made up about a couple who lived at the campground during the summer months. The couple spent most of their time riding around... ... to others, but to me they are very special indeed. For me, the molds mean history, family history. From the early 1940s until the late 1960s, my mate... ...e from. Even- tually, I will pass them on to my chil- dren, and the family history will con- tinue. Best of Freshman Writing 7 Adam Shaffer English 4... ...ad chosen to take. My grandfather’s drive to succeed prompted him to leave Italy, the only home he had ever known, to come to America and begin a new ... ...eet new and exciting people. After World War II, he became inactive in the military and learned the trade of a tailor. He was a natural and became ver... ... no enemy center of gravity to provide lucrative targets for United States military might” (B-1). Bin Laden clearly is the “Manson of Af- ghanistan.” ...

...Excerpt: Welcome to the seventh volume of Best of ?. For the past half dozen years we were Best of Four, publishing the best writing in English 004 classes, primarily on the Hazleton campus. Two years ago we began accepting submissions from some of the other Commo...

.................. 18 Anne McBrearty ?When I Grow Up, I Want to Be? .............................................. 21 Patricia J. Popovitch ?Reflections of a City? .......................................................... 24 Jon Robison ?Why Is There Still Terrorism? ......................................................... 26 Anthony R. Souza ?The Designated Hitter Rule? .....

...IES PUBLICATION Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...reat family of Christ. Considering the extreme frailty of an infant’s life during its two earliest years, to delay would often be to dis- inherit the ... ... the last age would have induced him to make some inquiries concerning the history of his theatrical career, and the anecdotes of his private life.” A... ...estimonies of his preference when founding a family mansion,) such a man’s history, and the personal recollections 17 Thomas de Quincey which cling s... ...al fact. First of all, the very mansion founded by Shakspeare be- came the military headquarters for the queen in 1644, when marching from the eastern... ...rature; or in Christendom, if we except Voltaire, and two dubious cases in Italy. The four or five latter years of his life Shakspeare passed in digni... ...ural result from the opposite practice in the foreign stages of France and Italy. And we may truly say, that were Shakspeare distinguished from them b... ...ld’s uncle domineered as regent of France; and that child’s armies were in military possession of the land. But were they undis- puted masters? No; an...

...Excerpt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he ...

...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICA... ...IC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle 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... ...there was between the Indian and the Western countries, Syria, Egypt, even Italy. It had at one time a population of 100,000; buyers, forwarders of th... ...worthy chiefly of dismissal by us. Mahomet had been wont to retire yearly, during the month Ramadhan, into solitude and silence; as indeed was the Ara... ... The very movements in Dante have something brief; swift, decisive, almost military. It is of the inmost essence of his genius this sort of painting. ... ...peare, wide, placid, far-seeing, as the Sun, the upper light of the world. Italy produced the one world-voice; we English had the honor of producing t... ...arliaments having failed, there remained nothing but the way of Despotism. Military Dictators, each with his district, to coerce the Royalist and othe...

...Excerpt: The text is taken from the printed ?Sterling Edition? of Carlyle?s Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin charact...

............................................................... 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM............................................... 38 LECTURE III. THE HERO AS POET. DANTE: SHAKSPEARE. .............................................. 68 LECTURE IV. THE HERO AS PRIEST. LUT...

...ace by Charles T. Le: 3 0. Introduction: 9 1. Neutrosophy - a new branch of philosophy: 13 2. Neutrosophic Logic - a unifying field in logics: 87 ... ...nifying field in sets: 112 4. Neutrosophic Probability - a generalization of classical and imprecise probabilities - and Neutrosophic Statistics: 11... ...adoxes in literary, artistic, philosophical, scientific creations. 2.3. History: "Paradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian protest against a clo... ...ons with sets 1991 MSC: 00A30, 03-02, 03B50 1.1. Foreword. Because world is full of indeterminacy, a more precise imprecision is required. Th... ...things, with P, I, U _. 0, 1 + 0. The atom's structure holds in the history of any idea. The reasoning is based upon the analysis of positive... ... western ideology, politics, culture, behavior, etc. b) conditioned - by military, ideological, economical imposed forces (in dictatorships, for e... ...ich determine a country or group of people or class to remain neuter in a military, political, ideological, cultural, artistic, scientific, economica... ...he hazard: sickness of players, referee's mistakes, atmospheric conditions during the game). These parameters act on players' psychology. 4.4. Rema... ...France, Sept. 1990. [52] Didero, Daniele, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Italy, http://lgxserver.uniba.it/lei/dionary/dizlink.htm. [53] Dimitrov,...

...It was known to me his setting up in 1980’s of a new literary and artistic avant-garde movement that he called “paradoxism”, because I received some books and papers dealing with it in order to review them for the German journal “Zentralblatt fár Mathematik”. It was an...

...Paradoxism is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations....

...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...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... ...en given, as for the most [Page] part the narratives lie on the surface of history. For the de- scription of the Coliseum, I have, however, been indeb... ...make the situation comprehen- sible, even without knowledge of the general history. This has been done in the hope that these extracts may serve as a ... ...hat the same character sur- vived in a Slesvig family, now extinct. It was during the wars that ranged from 1652 to 1660, between Frederick III of Den... ...- bors after another, and spread their dominion over the cen- tral part of Italy. They were well used to Italian and Etruscan ways of mak- ing war, bu... ...whence they used to come down upon the rich plans 39 Yo n g e of northern Italy for forays, in which they slew and burnt, and drove off cattle, and n... ...hese events happened during an experiment made by the Romans of having six military tribunes instead of two consuls.] Thus he persuaded the whole nati... ...Manlius, that thou wilt be backward to repair the breach thou hast made in military discipline by undergoing the just meed of thine offence. He then p...

...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...